condemned the gunman among the number. one attack a designated his suicide vest killing two policeman the police killed the other two attackers before they could enter the consulate premises we're glad that all the consulate staff a safe the government says chinese consulate staff had to move to a safe location that security forces have the area under control however there braced for more attacks from people who feel china is transforming their impoverished region but not giving them a fair share of the benefits victoria gates and be out there. jaspal is a professor at quite is university he says the group behind the attack is actively seeking the separation of stan did things that this town apocalyptic army called it all because licking go out of court with the shank always it would be a glue between the blue to start with and the rest of the park scotland international community so basically it's that they are empty parked on horses and

that's why they are targeting china parks on economic legal i think that the chinese are weird since the very beginning when they are not this project that this project is not acceptable to grant by force of pakistan but i'd say of type chinese our own regional and international security come pretty to my understanding is that india is comfortable with this project americans are not cooperating with this project the other pair you can say stakeholders are not whatever with this project so early childhood over what are the challenges in this and if you see that immediately after the attack the chinese it's possible very constructive and they said that this kind of these kind of the activities or attacks are not in a position to spoil our relations with pakistan. in a separate attack in northwest pakistan an explosion in a crowded market killed at least thirty five people including children dozens were injured in the are sky districts it recently merged with khyber pass province after decades of direct rule from islamabad no one has claimed responsibility yet for

that attack and in afghanistan there's been a blasts in. afghanistan where at least fifteen people have been killed the attack happened in the city of khost at least twenty others were wounded as they attended friday prayers at a mosque in a military base base. see the head on al-jazeera another setback for sure because newly appointed prime minister. us. back breaking work on the fields but with rewards why iraq and some foreign industry is thriving despite u.s. actions. the new norm for the middle east says sunshine and showers longer spells of rain looking rather disturbed once again across much of the middle east actually we've got the cloud of rain pushing into the levant syria lebanon jordan all the way down

into israel seeing some bits and pieces of rather wet weather possibility of further flooding eastern areas of iraq still seeing some heavy downpours pushing into the west of iran and you can follow that line of right right there way up into the western himalayas where it turns white readily to snow clearing away here as we go on through sunday more weather coming across eastern iraq into western iran kuwait will see further flooding big downpours continuing i feel a little dry and brighter just around that eastern side of the mediterranean so inevitably that cloud that we have around kuwait that will make its way to northeastern parts of saudi arabia can expect a few showers to just around the red sea sinking further south was for sunday thing here in qatar we could see somewhat weather more so sunday into monday but the cloud on the right not too far away on the other side of the gulf we will see some flooding into western parts of iran some showers too now coming back in. a little clutch of storms in place here there will be some wet weather in the forecast but

largely dry for south africa. investigating a murder by the indonesian military in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine. hundred step function takes us on a personal journey back to east timor recalling memories which impacted deeply on her chosen career the life and the lives of others now nearly two decades later she goes face to face with those responsible trail of murder indonesia's bloody retreat on al jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories take a should investigate as i've told her that the matter of saudi journalist. was planned twelve days in advance they're analyzing phone calls made between the saudi consul general in istanbul and leading member of the hit squad and a top aide to saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman a third voice can be heard on one of the calls and they are yet to identify pakistan's prime minister has ordered an inquiry into an attack at the chinese consulate in karachi seven people were killed including two police officers and the gunmen a separatist group called the baluchistan liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack and i knew alliance has been formed in the race to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo two leading candidates have agreed to put forward. katie from the new p.d.s. party a long delayed election is due to take place on december twenty third. at the un

special envoy to yemen is in the port city of her data he has been in the data after holding talks with healthy rebels in the capital sanaa pro-government forces . backed by the coalition have been trying to seize hold data from the rebels for months now peace talks are planned for next month in sweden mamadou has more from nearby djibouti on more. about more on what the special envoys visit has achieved so far. u.n. special envoy. to get some commitment from the conflict in yemen to peace talks to be held. in. seven countries. including. the u.s. . in the management of the. intense pressure. to get

the. agreement of the management of the port to talk about how. the management of the port now seems to be. building around within the international community peace talks to be held it's the only way it's believed. to peace and also the humanitarian crisis in the country. only. on the pro-government alliance but also the sodium supporting the government in yemen. the u.n. resident coordinator for yemen says malnutrition especially among children is getting worse. the people of today have been struggling since june because of the conflict you and your teammates about thirty percent of the people who are still

working in the city are barely holding on and that's why we have welcomed the park now there have been outbreaks of fighting and every one of those. now apparently. can't think in humanitarian terms twenty five percent of all of the children. are suffering from an attrition we are. not helping. the united nations. that we are providing to people in the port in the city. flash floods have killed at least seven people including four children in northern iraq the mayor of chicago says the floods caused by unusually heavy rains have left three thousand people homeless more rain is expected in the region in the coming days. spain is warning

it will veto the u.k.'s departure from the european union if it doesn't agree with how it affects gibraltar gibraltar has been a british share torrie for more than three hundred years since it was captured from spain during a war but the spanish government still lays claim to it and prince prime minister. says spain must approve any divorce between the european union and britain because of its impact on the territory. the united arab emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a british students jailed for life for spying the u.s. ambassador to the u.k. has defended the judge's decision matthew hedges was arrested our dubai airport in may while on a research trip for his university thesis his family says he was forced to sign a confession in arabic which he doesn't understand mr hedges family have made a request for clemency and the government is studying that request british foreign secretary jeremy hunt had a good composition with our foreign minister i also met him yesterday privately

as mr hunt we have an extremely close partnership with the u.k. because of the strength the relationship we are hopeful that an amicable solution can be abused. a politician and former militia leader accused of war crimes in central african republic has appeared at the international criminal court in the hague out fredricka tom also known as rumble was a senior leader within the mostly christian movement its fighters attacks muslim celica rebels will seize power in two thousand and thirteen here khatami is accused of killing civilians rape and recruiting child soldiers rory chalons reports from the hague. well alfred's yeah it's omes first appearance at the international criminal court here in the hague was short some procedural just thirty minutes or so long the three judges confirmed the suspects identity they also

established the language in which he is to understand proceedings as they are old and state outlines the charges against him he specifically accused of being involved in murder cruel treatments mutilation intentional attacks against the civilian population intentional attacks against buildings dedicated to religion in this mints of child soldiers and displacement of the civilian population this is a step of some significance for the central african republic it's the first time that anyone involved in the recent conflict has ended up here to face charges it's going to be some time before the actual trial proper gets underway the judge said that it wouldn't be until april thirtieth of two thousand and nineteen that things really will swing into full action here at the i.c.c. a feel croc is an africa analyst and author of distance justice the impact of the

international criminal court on african politics he says the i.c.c. isn't actually doing a good job at bringing high profile suspects to court. yes it's all me is in effect a middle ranking actor in the violence in central african republic there's no doubt that he's charged with extremely serious crimes but but within central african republic he's not considered one of the big fish and so the suspicion around his case is that we're seeing something that we've seen with many of the other icy seas callouses across africa which is that the court is going off to suspects who are available rather than those who are potentially the most responsible for these crimes in fact the i.c.c. only issued an arrest warrant for you when he fired this rifle in the palm and he was then arrested by the car government so he was in jail and therefore he became a viable and then we saw the i.c.c. issued this arrest warrant it's not clear that the i.c.c. has been focused on him for

a long time it seems like he might have turned up in the hague more by accident rather than design i.c.c. in many ways is a very weak institution it has very few resources it also has very little expert to use about the african societies where it's conducting these investigations so this means that the i.c.c. is really struggling to go are often the most important cases the the high ranking government officials the highest ranking or rebel leaders who are responsible for atrocities instead it's having to go off to these kind of middlemen activists and yack yack it's always very much in that category babies in the democratic republic of congo are now being infected with the bone a virus according to the world health organization the u.n. health agency says that out of thirty six new cases seven of them are new borns all infants experts suspect they may have caught it from infected patterns break in the d.r. c. is the worst in its history with three hundred forty six confirmed cases including one hundred seventy five deaths. ensure lanka m.p.

supporting the disputed prime minister minder rajapaksa have walked out of parliament for the second time this week they accuse the speak of favoritism punches were thrown last week when m.p.'s pass a no confidence motion against rajapaksa both he and running a victim a singer who was silenced by the president last month say they are the lawful prime minister minal fernandez has more from colombo. another day and another board here in sri lanka's parliament this time for a committee a sort of an umbrella committee which oversees and does all the appointments for all the committees a select committee is kid in july because parliament both sides doctorow prime minister minded rajapaksa and ousted prime minister brown and become a singer wanted to control that committee of selections now the speaker just at the outset of the parliament sitting this morning said that he was allocating five seats to the rajapaksa faction and seven obviously to the ousted prime minister the

rajapaksa faction rejected that allocation the accuse the speaker of the biased and partial and then they staged a walk out of the chamber the speaker continued the proceedings had called for a vote basically what was different in recent days there was an electronic vote and the results of that electronic vote the atsic prime minister garnered hundred and twenty one of the two hundred twenty five votes thereby showing his majority it was symbolic in that the consumer was able to demonstrate basically the support he has in the house as you can see the business of parliament on the floor of the host progressing and it's basically a matter of who accepts these proceedings as being the official proceedings of the house. the reimposition of u.s. sanctions on the iranian oil exports are threatening various fonts are iranian society but one business sector in particular believes it's freshly sanctioned

proves he has a story. the men and women in this room take suffering very seriously at a conference hosted by the university of toronto bakery experts are discussing risks and challenges to the industry rising market demand climate change and of course the one thing every iranian business worries about american sanctions. you know when you and i know we're the main producer and exporter in the world there's no alternative sanctions have no impact on this industry the world needs so they need to buy our products by legal or illegal means we're certain our products will be exported saffron doesn't need much water to grow so traders are encouraging farmers dealing with nearly a decade of drought to swap crops the farm to table process can be labor intensive delicate work but in the end it's a lucrative. ninety percent of iran saffron is exported and

a kilogram can sell for around fifteen hundred dollars the spices a key ingredient in cosmetics perf human food and medicine the international demand is high and people who wanted will usually find a way to get it seller say that makes u.s. sanctions a buyers problem. and. no this year fortunately even sanctions have had an impact it's actually better because the price has gone up. packed into these little boxes is the culmination of hours of manual labor by dozens of people and that's why this sought after spice is so expensive so can safir on save or runs economy technically it is possible but there is a problem of scale iran does not make enough saffron accounts for less than one percent of iran's overall revenue from exports. still it's big business in small town iran and profits are up. though for some it can be

backbreaking thankless work. the harvest season lasts only a month and pickers are out from dawn to dusk. they see the minimum wage is not enough and they want a bigger share of growing profits but the key to them with the long one we live in poverty we come here early in the morning and sometimes when i come home my child complains saying i don't see you we're not even often fridays in the middle of winter when everyone sits next to a heater we're in this freezing cold with force to do this otherwise we wouldn't do it help us while the government has poured money into helping the saffron sector thrive the benefits have yet to trickle all the way down is in basra the older zero four but i heard the rear. so again i'm fully back to all with the headlines on al-jazeera turkish

investigators have told us that the murder of saudi journalist. was planned twelve days in advance they are analyzing phone calls made between the saudi consul general a leading member of the hit squad and a top aide to solder arabia's crown prince that third voice can be heard on one of the calls and they are yet to identify has more from ankara during the phone talks between the three and saudi. security officials here identified a third voice so when saw that catherine is speaking to metry he was also spink speaking to a second person in his room and transferring the information that he got from a military pool was telling about what happened and how they completed this process as it was reported before in the media a turkish official strongly believe that the third was that is that is in. the news

room and probably might belong to the crown prince mohamed bin some money. a new alliance has been formed in the race to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo two leading candidates have agreed to put forward phillips she said katie from the u. p.d.s. party the long delayed election is due to take place on december twenty third pakistan's prime minister imran khan has ordering an inquiry into an attack at the chinese consulate in karachi seven people were killed including two police officers and three gunmen a separatist group called the baluchistan liberation army has claimed responsibility meanwhile in northwest pakistan children were among thirty five people killed by an explosion in a crowded market dozens were injured in our sky districts no one has claimed responsibility for that attack the un special envoy to yemen has urged all warring sides to maintain peace in who data the port city is crucial for supply of aid for

millions of the a many who are on the brink of famine pro-government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition have been trying to seize who data from who's the rebels for months now much more news as always on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on there coming up next it's inside story i hope you do stay with us thanks so much. a british life sentence for spying in the united arab emirates as for. government leaders in london all protests his innocence is it all a major misunderstanding or evidence of a launch a problem of academic freedom emirates this story.

oh they're welcome to the program. matthew hedges has spent the last seven months in prison in the u.a.e. now he faces the prospect of staying there for the university graduate student who was given a life sentence on wednesday for spine say he made a full confession his family says the document was an arabic and he didn't understand it the government leaders in abu dhabi say they're considering a request from his wife for clemency like the u.k. the u.a.e. is a country with an independent judiciary the government does not dictate. to the court matthew hale was not convicted after

a five minute short trial some have reported over the course of one month three judges evaluated compelling evidence and three hearings. their conclusion after a proper process. this was an extremely serious case we live in a dangerous neighborhood and national security must be a top priority this was also an unusual case many researchers visit the u.a.e. freely every year without breaking our laws. and the law everyone has the right to appeal for after conviction and everyone come to questa pardon from our president mr hedges family have made a request for clemency and the government is that the ink that the request i had as a student at dime university in northern england he flew to the emirates to research the security policies after the arab spring paul brennan has more from

london on the government response they call the ambassador in to the foreign office in london on thursday evening the foreign secretary jeremy hunt then tweeted on social media after that meeting he said that the the i believe and trust that the foreign minister is working hard to resolve the situation a s a p and daniella to harbor who is matthew had his wife also had a meeting at the foreign office on thursday afternoon in which she softened her criticism earlier criticism and said to cheat to believe that the diplomatic wheels really were turning now and that appears to be the glimmer of hope moving forward a face saving exercise appears to be taking shape where the u.a.e. say that under its strict laws matthew had was guilty as charged but at the same time they probably will accept that he was not having any malicious intent he certainly was not a spy in the words of daniella to huldah who gave

a very brief statement after that. statement on friday morning she said we will wait and see paul brennan inside story. well matthew had his wife daniella has been describing the scene in court on wednesday when his brief hearing ended in a life sentence. see him shaping force after being handed a life sentence and then being made to leave was beyond heartbreaking we didn't even got to say goodbye. i really appreciate the foreign secretary taking the time to meet me at this crucial country mine and mt life he has assured me that he and his team are doing everything in their power to get my map free and return him home to me. this is not a fight i can win alone can thank the foreign office and the british public who are now standing up for one of their self and.

well hedges story highlights an issue that has arisen repeatedly in different forms on one side what some see as the ara's narrow and conservative approach to security and public morality set against the open and tolerant image that the generally and dubai in particular seeks to project to the wider world let's bring in our guests now and joining me here in the studio mark owen jones assistant professor of middle east studies at howard been in university he was formerly at x. university and is a friend of mine he hedges in london them or try to harvey's an intelligence analyst and writes on security issues and joining us from kuala lumpur via skype rather sterling founder and c.e.o. of detained in dubai if i wore welcome to all of you mark we're talking here about a thirty one year old student on a two week research trip what was matthew hedges doing in the u.a.e. not you had just like many ph d.

students was taking a short trip away from durham university to conduct interviews and this is a very common practice among the ph d. students during political science or security studies he would have had ethical approval from durham university to carry out the strip and within that process is the determination that what matthew is doing is is is kosher on a. of broad and above all things safe and secure so that's what matthew would have been doing arranging interviews with key people who would have been able to answer his approved research question what were his research questions what was the nature of the research specifically well as with many ph d.'s and his ph d. students will know the questions the broad so overall he was looking at the impact of the arab spring and u.a.e. and u.s. security policy in particular and this would not be an unusual topic given the circumstances and factors many people looking at security and many people are looking at arabian gulf countries and how they have reacted to the arab spring is very conventional so it would have been looking at changes in policy how the u.a.e.

for example might be safeguarding against similar events that happened in behind happening in the u.a.e. not unusual and not controversial depending on the nature of access there could be sensitive issues discussed but those issues would have been discussed and as i said before they would have been approved by the ethics committee dharm university ok campbell why would feel concerned when it comes to this sort of research i mean how sensitive is this. he said i mean it is the security of the country itself and i think that if anything hedges suffered from being too good he knows the emirates he had lived he had worked there his area of specialization this is an economic issue that he is doing here is actually are asking about the most sensitive part of a country's defense mechanism and i think that because he is obviously a very bright fellow the nature of his questions were far too penetrating the

emirates themselves at the start of this year a decided to revamp what grade their intelligence and the nature of the conflict there on dispute currently were qatar together with the saudis makes anything about the nature of their operation very very concerning and obviously. they don't know whether the iranians have some influence over them you have to see it from their point of view or not quite frankly when people are asking the supreme penetrating questions that he did in emory taubes those are the sorts of things that a spy would do. runs a substance give us an idea of how strict national security laws are especially as if them and says that they have been upgraded how might he have stepped over the line and broken a law if he was simply asking questions that are being cleared by as university on

a research trip from what we've seen over the past few years is the u.a.e. has increased their clampdown on essentially anything that could be seen as to some it treats the government so if his research was in fact going to disclose any information that the u.a.e. would consider defamatory he would be subject to arrest the. been extremely sensitive in other cases and just two years ago they arrested two british men accused of spying also they were plain spoke says and they were hoping it's taking . an airport in the u.a.e. they were held against at least four months before being finally at least the u.a.e. has been arresting anyone lawyers activists. human rights and individuals and and jailing them essentially for saying anything that could be can't considered negative so this may not even come down to the security issues so much as they

don't appreciate any research that is defaming the country ok i mean mark would would matthew not of being fully aware of this given that he has been in and out of the country since he was nine years old and indeed knowing full well about the current climate well i think the two sides to this i think matthew would have been very aware of any sensitivities to his research but at the same time having grown up that we're having spent a lot of his life there with his family he would also felt familiar and relatively comfortable doing what he was doing because according to you matthew it's clear that he loved the u.a.e. very much and it wasn't in his nature to criticize the u.a.e. necessarily and if he did it was it was usually fact criticism so i think he would even be surprised at the response that this is created and i think what's really important to bear in mind when i take on board what glenmore saying and i don't doubt that matthew's questions would have been penetrating and incisive what the

problem is is when you have a situation as we've seen now in the u.a.e. post arab uprisings they're at war in yemen or naturally they're going to be more paranoid and suspicious but what you see when you have a broadening of law or security lourdes is that i mentioned and in general anti terror laws these do not discriminate based on someone asking very particular and discreet incisive questions the whole nature of anti terror laws is to broaden the breadth of law. and it's application to border crimes so adamant in the people who are gendered jailed for plants there is a tendency when countries become paranoid in and revamp their antics our laws to cast a wider net in anything that we deem suspicious so i think this is the fundamental of the problem is that the state has become a paranoid and the laws of subsequently become more broad and are plied more readily ok and lemme give you a argues that there was a free and transparent trial and indeed that they have compelling evidence proving their case they say that there was espionage material found on the laptop i mean

what might that look like as i say that it could be for example as part of the revamp of the emirate service that. he had to ask about well who are you recruiting who are getting a new people as i understand it the emirates have been recruiting from one particular tribe now if he has knowledge of that when you start asking these questions the people you are still questions of suddenly sake gosh you know that this is very sensitive how does he know about that i go back i think probably it is the nature of his thorough innes's diligence has upset the security service because the people who have placed these charges i would suggest oh possibly not as bright as hedges sutton who said well

how does a strap know all of these questions to ask so he would be very diligent in keeping is notes where would he keep his lochie would keep his notes of those who laptop so go away when they look at his laptop they see these aren't they heavens. really does know a great deal about our strategy. he knows. what relationship the emirates have with this saudi intelligence services and they are appropriate law for it a moment so the combination is a fairly secure one of the things that the description is or him as a spy and the been several commentators so he suppressed ish barges or worked for the british intelligence services absolutely not. you could not imagine a british intelligence officer behaving in the fashion that he has. just give us an

idea of whether the where the m i six a person tells that service would ever consider using an academic to do spy work in somewhere like the usa that it has good relations with. no first and foremost any intelligence gathering that. the secret intelligence service m i six do is far more subtle a awful lot of it would be through electronic surveillance monitoring the digital signatures of material coming out of those friends and hostile people and at the moment the need to know precisely what is happening in regard to the conflict in the yemen the continuing dispute with qatar. is the sort of information that we want to know it seems to me that he was

absolutely overt in both the people that he went to meet with the question said he was asking now had he just completed his studies come back. have written his doctoral thesis then maybe what not just maybe a number of intelligence services would like to see a coffee of that published paper because he is quite literally looking at the emirates security strategy overall come here in just a moment to talk about the jail and the trial conditions that has will make us want to get an idea of how common it might be for members of intelligence service the bush government to want a deeply from someone working in the region in the area of academics i mean i think is somewhat of a contradiction in saying that it would be unusual for britain to say spy on it now

i like the truth to say that intelligence officers would be very interested in finding out what information someone like matthew had to have so i do think they would be interested because there is a lot going on now obviously with regards to not just the u.a.e. in yemen and months out of but also. you know potential commercial deals that might be happening in the u.a.e. which might be of interest for example to british companies so i think there is always that interest in what is going on again i think it would be rather. said to suggest that matthew was working over before for the intelligence services when you don't just go around asking questions and sensitive nature and have a very poor cover story as matthew did have you found any red lines when you've been conducting all field research in this region well i mean i think the for me this is a familiar territory but usually the procedure is somewhat different so i myself cannot go back to the terrain and some are groping and where the most my research on we know that the u.a.e. has previously banned entry to academics before such as dr christine oryx and his

now at rice university so what is very common if people thought to be critical of the u.a.e. or maybe even discussing the way in sense it was sensitive information to the u.a.e. they tend not to let them in or also in the gulf it's the same as what happened to christian as happened with myself so i think it's very interesting that they've decided to. actually arrest matthew hold him in solitary confinement and i think that's unprecedented i mean as we've seen we've seen other people being arrested for for crimes against sort of morality and in some cases spying but i think this is a step change in the u.a.e. doing especially that was a foreign national and that's why i want to bring roger back into the conversation because we know that he's been held for around about seven months months and solitary confinement for some of that period his family has even said that he has been given a regular cocktail of drugs while still in jail i just want to get an idea if in your if these are the sorts of stories and conditions that you've heard before

about jails in the u.a.e. . certainly i mean we've dealt with in excess of ten thousand cases over the past decade what we say about this case is it's not really unusual except that it's very high profile and extremely risky for diplomatic relations and also the private sector in the academic community it's certainly sending a clear message but over the past ten years we have seen numerous examples of arbitrary arrests and arrests on the basis of suspicion or hearsay one person's word with absolutely zero evidence and we've seen the u.a.e. authorities are not even following their own constitution their own legal process their own statutes and that means that they shouldn't be holding people for in excess of one year for example as they have done many times before to british nationals without even charging them without giving them due process and matthew has already been there for many months and now has only received

a judgment day again after five minutes which is not unusual most trials lasting anyway between sort of five and fifteen minutes and this is obviously an unacceptable ration for anyone to stand a chance of proving their innocence. the united kingdom will not extradite anyone to the u.a.e. based on the true risk of. their trials discrimination corruption in the legal system human rights violate since and even torture so if the u.k. doesn't trust their legal system to extradite criminals even people that they believe to be guilty then obviously there's a problem with the u.a.e. system back i mean of course you may need to jump in there forever because of course the way insists that it has followed the legal system to the left turn it's now at the point where the family has asked for clemency which again it says whether it is within the judicial system and that this is something that is now

considering at the highest level is that also common procedure. it is common procedure it's become more common in the past six to twelve months for the u.a.e. to make an allegation against someone and in times past when there was a diplomatic incident like this the rule is would step in and release that person and almost apologize for having to times that was not evidence in the first place now what we're saying is a different passive where they would prefer to convict that person say that they have evidence again so person and then offer them a pardon so that the u.a.e. looks better in front of the international media and the evidence that they apparently had is not contested and in this case the u.a.e. has said that they have this science can fit in in our experience false confessions are the norm in the u.a.e. and inefficiency assigned in arabic without a translator so we can't take them seriously either. come or there is something of

a very blurry red line hair isn't there i mean on the one hand we've got the emirates painting itself as an open free society that warmly welcomed or will foreigners west as it were frequently hearing of foreigners being locked up for various different offenses how difficult is it to know when one has stepped over the line when i exceedingly so of the thing that i've been thinking about is journalist by definition you go and ask questions and if they are to get is you know. not satisfactory you probe further that often results in the person who is being questioned taking offense and if he is a national or and fishel of that country it is quite easy. to take umbrage trying to convert that into some sort of allegation and the thing is

that any journalist or any businessman. bang into a market will ask questions they will conduct jute diligence they will want to find out and as i say i think in the case of pages getting in the most sensitive off areas of the security strategy of a country who as a country feel that their country under threat because they're in page one to new yemen and because of the conflict they have with qatar. in a sense is just too good as a straw poll. well this is a warning isn't it to academics even if you won't even a means it is certainly going to get many people pause for thought would you feel happy going to the u.a.e. to conduct research that went no i certainly wouldn't and i know a number of my colleagues many of whom study the gulf in various disciplines also feel the same way they are feeling increasingly reluctant about going to the united

arab emirates and as you said the intention here isn't important regardless of whether matthew is released and i think he will be. he's still been in prison for five to six months much of which has been in solitary confinement in appalling conditions without proper due process so regardless of whether this is resolved in a way that is the best possible outcome now he is still had to ensure psychological trauma for such a large amount of time that that is enough to intimidate anyone wishing to do research on the u.a.e. whether they're an academic or even a journalist i knew as got a number of foreign universities a links to foreign universities hasn't i mean it's seemed to have encouraged academic freedoms well i mean what's interesting about the united arab emirates is prior to the matthew hedges issues blowing up for example birmingham university in the u.k. was opening a campus now those people in bombing them are going to walk out in protest against the creation of a birmingham campus because of the bathroom hedges although prior to that they were also concerned that the rights of l.g.b. to students wouldn't be guaranteed because of the the nationals in that country so

there have been these tensions before between western universities in the united arab emirates and there have been other issues where free speech has or the lack of free speech has been criticized on these campuses so it is a delicate issue for you know new york university for example and when you see birmingham about how they. negotiate their relationship with countries that obviously don't adhere to the same standards of academic freedom. do you do you share the optimism that hedges will be released in the signs pointing towards that . it's seems in my experience that when there is so much international press pressure there is there's certainly concern amongst the private sector and the governments even in the u.k. in the united states and and our allies i think that the you really has no choice but to reach a diplomatic solution and hopefully hedges will be home soon. just touching

on one freedom that freedom i mean his academic research is akin to a journalist and freedom of speech the u.a.e. brings extremely low in the. the annual rankings of freedom of press and most journalists who work in the country and able to ask questions that could be considered in any way detrimental to the country and the same goes for research and so it's certainly sending a message that the u.a.e. is much more strict than we would imagine our ally to be a fascinating very interesting indeed thank you very much to all of you for joining us for the discussion today mark owen jones. tray trainer harvey and rod has. and thank you to very much for watching you can see this program again any time to buy this thing a website that's out of there at www dot com and of others gotten to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story you heard on the conversation on twitter handle it at a.j.

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and i'm fully back to go this is a news hour live from my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes more evidence that the killing of jamal has showed he was premeditated turkish investigators say it was planned twelve days in advance. to meeting candidates join forces in the presidential. race in the democratic republic of congo also this hour the man known as romber accused of war crimes in the central african republic appears that the international criminal court. and all of you disturb it with all the base voters croatia drew first blood in the davis cup final against france in that story and coming up later this news and. thank you for joining us more details are emerging of turkey's investigation into the killing of jamal khashoggi al-jazeera has learned the saudi journalist's murder

was planned twelve days in advance turkish investigators are analyzing phone calls made between the saudi consul general in istanbul a leading member of the hit squad and a top aide to sound gerry b s crown prince let's bring in c.n.n. concealable in ankara for associate and what do we what information are we hearing about this phone call allegedly that happened. well fully the phone calls are very important details of this investigation because besides the voice recordings we know that nine hundred form calls what was held by my head up till as is that in the three who is the close security guard of mohamed bin sandman and a court to get it according to what we have learned from the prosecutor's investigation file is that he had four of four phone talks with saudi downey who is a private aid of the crown prince but in one of those calls we learn that there is

a third person in the phone call so when i hear. talking to sell that catherine e is a said a third person is in the same room with cats and cast down e is thought to be transferring all the information that he got from to the third person and we know that was was telling him what happened or how did they handle the situation so now the security sources are tricky sources believe that. this third voice in south africa danny's room next to him might probably be i'm sorry might probably be the crown prince mohamed bin so mum but i have to underline that technical analysis are still ongoing and turkey is still trying to investigate more however since through all those phone calls through saudi mobile phone a saudi line then the turkish security and police needs actually some technical

assistance from the united states to rule will who the third person is or whether it is mohamed bin sandman or somebody else but in ankara there is a strong believe that it is mohamed been someone but of course we have to wait until the technical analysis conclude the same results indeed what else are we learning from the turkish investigators investigation stand him. well there are some new details as i said for instance the consul general mohamed el al t.v. has been named as the prime suspect of this investigation file because he was directly involved now we learned that there are three other saudi national consulate employees who are named as prime suspects as well and they are all in all four including the consul general are directly involved in to murder the investigation says and again according to the file consul general had three form

talks with some of the catatonically plus exchange one e-mail with him but as i said since the technical analysis or ongoing the content of this e-mail is that known and when we spoke to it when i spoke to the official sources they told me that all this information was gathered by the digital footprints digital findings plus the movements of those fifteen men in the square saw they are doing a very deep research they are and their allies analyzing every detail that they have but i'm told that when the consul general was speaking to south the cast tell me the conversation included some cold sick with names and etc so it is a bit difficult for the troops to analyze what they are really talking about because they have been using some codes and one more detail is that another cell the employee in the consulate who is known to be saudi intelligence units member.

also had formed talks with us i'm sorry he exchanged voice messages on whatsapp with new troop and cats army so as the investigation file goes deeper and we are hearing more about analysis the links to the private office and to other addresses are getting more clear for you. synonym for a sin. meanwhile the turkish foreign minister has accused european leaders and the united states of not doing enough to bring the perpetrators to justice. has cause has accused the us president of turning a blind eye to the murder by refusing to take action against all those involved. there are a number of questions that have not been answered the whole world wants answers to these questions the explanations given by mr trump saying i will turn whatever

happens is only acceptable before everything else we have to remember that there was a life lost here sige arabia's crown prince is making his first foreign trip since a global outcry over. his in the united arab emirates and will visit other middle eastern countries before heading to argentina for the g twenty summit in a symbolic move lawyers in tunisia filing a legal challenge to prevent the saudi crown prince from visiting the country it comes amid a growing call from opposition parties for the government to take strong action in the wake of. the condo gonzalez is it an issue based journalist and he says the noises are aware of the challenges involved for the case to succeed. so this is a group that is goal yes. goals i'm against were but you. know there are. no you there were when we were. in so there's no reason to move nate. and the court trying to prevent. oh.

well we. don't need they will wonder where. they're. maybe eight. years. and that he was responsible for it they face right. in other world news i knew alliance has been formed in the race to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo more on that in just a moment but first here's some background on what's been happening in the d r c outgoing president joseph kabila has been in power since two thousand and one is backing his former interior minister emmanuel dari to replace said several opposition leaders have been brought from running for president they include the

former vice president who's just been acquitted by the international criminal court for war crimes committed in central african republic opposition parties had agreed to unite behind a single candidate businessman matter but the deal collapsed after two key opposition leaders pulled out now those two politicians are the talc comedy and felix keddie they've signed an agreement forming an alliance to make the katie from the e.u. p.d.'s party their candidate. voted tickets. it is to go to get our two elections as you know the trade the december of the zero we must win the people must win and now we decided today with one ticket i decides. and the people i see me i decide today. to support mr

to security is the president of congo. katherine so he has more now on felix she said the new presidential candidates. after his father eighty and she said katie died in february last year felix she sick a d. to go over the reins of the largest opposition party the union for democracy and social progress. his father had come second in the twenty eleven presidential election and the young like to see katie hopes to copy two lies on that legacy and popularity himself and his father then favoring the same flack street cop. but unlike the older she said katie who had decades of experience both in government and the opposition his son was until recently not in the thick of congress politics he lived in belgium for many years as a political newcomer some have criticized his lack of experience there twenty one

presidential candidates for the past and to bits is a man diary president joseph kabila successor it will be a single round contest opposition leaders and civil society groups have raised concern about an electronic voting system to be used for the first time in the country and the inclusion of some ten thousand voters who they say should be struck out because of irregularities they're worried that the election will not be free and fair. forty six million congolese i expected to go to the paul's supporters of the opposition believe this is a chance for their leaders to show a united front after years of divisions and that it makes the sick heavy as a man to lead them to victory catherine sawi al-jazeera. or less speaks more to jonathan or for a answer who is a publisher of africa raising a magazine aimed at africans at home and abroad his live from london thank you very much for being with us so what do you make of this move by a phalanx it is

a. camera to join forces now especially when they're initially back for you know is this a strategy that will pay off in your opinion. yeah. it's rather a shame that she's a kiddie and. that guy pulled out of that yes yes pulled out at a loss ready to go sight in. lack of support or disagreements from the supporters so with the breakdown of the petition coalition you know it appears you know the. way to pierce the election would be so silly and for a couple let's use a candidate's. diary in front of the government during coalition has gone nuts for us to say that's. for you loose the country to see these contests you

know would you rather easy easy for them and ok felix just to katie though he is the son of a t.n.t. security and longtime opposition.