from the very beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to al-jazeera. pressure mounts on donald trump for virtually exonerating the saudi crown prince over journalist. zero life from a headquarters and. also ahead a change of name in sporting events is among the key issues as millions lined up to vote in taiwan. and. the center of gravity of the u.n. envoy to yemen visits the port city of. secured an agreement paving the way for the

for the rebels to attend. and we'll tell you why thousands of iranians traveling to tourists haven't returned home. hello pressure is growing on the u.s. president to act on intelligence reports suggesting the saudi crown prince ordered the murder of journalist. the democrat tipped to lead the house intelligence committee when the newly elected members take office says donald trump's response will become part of an investigation roslan jordan has more from washington d.c. . it should come as no surprise that democrats say that they're going to investigate the way that the trumpet ministration has been conducting its business once they come to power in the house in early january but when it comes to the murder of jamal khashoggi the incoming chair of the house intelligence committee

adam schiff of california says that it's very important to understand just what the u.s. intelligence community knows about his murder what it still can't verify or answer and what the trump white house has been doing in response to credible evidence schiff says that it is too early to say exactly what legal steps or what policy steps members of the u.s. house can take about the murder in terms of holding people accountable because they don't have all the facts he is hoping that he can not only just call in leaders of the u.s. intelligence community but also members of president trump's team as well to talk about what they know to talk about what they don't know and to try to find out whether the president's own interest in preserving a relationship with saudi arabia perhaps may have influenced his judgment when he recently said that even though this the cia has said that there is probably

a high likelihood that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon was behind the murder. that who really knows to quote the president adam schiff is also telling a sympathetic columnist at the washington post that it's also important to find out whether the u.s. has made any promises to saudi arabia as it's trying to deal with other foreign policy issues the question of the yemeni civil war for example as well as the question of iran's ambitions to have a nuclear weapons program but first and foremost given that there is spend so much public attention placed on the murder of jamal khashoggi adam schiff the. california congressman says that the american public and indeed the international community need defended of answers as quickly as he can muster the hearings to hold them or tony burke only explains how accounts of what happened to the emerged and changed since he was last seen on october the second. it was meant to be

a new beginning for jamal khashoggi a new wife a new home and a new country but turkey was where he died and exiled journalists who dared to question and authoritarian leader his death in the saudi consulate in istanbul could so easily have been missed or even forgotten had it not been for the secret audio recordings from the scene no one really knows exactly how these recordings came about either the turkish security services bugged the consulate or a consular official with a conscience recorded them in the end it doesn't really matter what matters is that they expose the lies and deception surrounding this murder at first the denials are strong on october third the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond denied all knowledge of the killings saying mr casady disappeared after he left the consulate building a lock told with the eight his brother been salomon the saudi ambassador to the u.s. repeated the claim but on october the twelfth according to cia sources they reported

that saudi crown prince asked jared krishna president tom son in law why the outrage is because saudi was a dangerous islamist this anger the turkish authorities and that is when the audio recordings started to be leaked. on october thirteenth eleven days after mr casady was killed the turkish newspaper subba published details of the killing it said they came from a recording from his i watch that was sync to his i phone held by his turkish fiance outside the consulate the i watched part is perhaps not correct but the newspaper said the recording was of the journalist being tortured and then murdered this is when the picture and the response started to change with such a grim and irrefutable evidence it was difficult for this out and out culture of denial to continue and if you're over suspicious or cynical nature this is when you could believe that and agree narrative was beginning to take shape and an element of collusion was starting not just in saudi arabia on october the fifteenth president donald trump introduces the element of rogue killers maybe being

responsible he repeated maybe two days later my comp a of the u.s. secretary of state was dispatched to riyadh where he stressed the strong alliance between the two countries and said we face our challenges together the past the day and tomorrow those challenges then got harder on october the seventeenth the turkish daily yeni shafiq printed more details about the killing revealing the concerns of the saudi consulate general in istanbul he asked the hit team to do it somewhere else the paper reports that he was told to shut up if he wanted to live back in saudi saudi arabia as noted began to change at this point on october the nineteenth the saudi attorney general said the journalist was killed during a fight on october the twenty first the saudi foreign minister adel algae of their followers president trumps line and says mr khashoggi was killed by a rogue elements and insisted the crown prince had nothing to do with it it's interesting to see who these rogue elements are according to the information

available they include some of the most trusted members of mohamed bin salman's personal security team and a forensic expert and they acted under the orders of the deputy head of saudi intelligence in a country where the crown prince exercises such an bride. per hour it's unbelievable to some that such a mission could have been undertaken without his knowledge on october the twenty second the saudis introduced a new version saying that it was an accident that mr kosofsky raised his voice the team panicked moved to restrain him and then had him in a choke hold in which he died on the same day this was dispelled by more audio revelations in the newspaper which revealed new recordings that mr cumshaw ji was either strangled with a belt or is fixated with a plastic bag after cia director gina hospital listened to the recordings in a visit to turkey saudi arabia changed its story once again on october the twenty fifth after more than three weeks of denials and implausible explanations the saudi attorney general finally admitted the murder it was premeditated he later and now

to the death penalty for five of the team but with no further details and stressed that the crown prince was not implicated. on november the sixteenth the cia leak their findings with one official saying it was blindingly obvious who was responsible three days later more audio details released by her newspaper revealing just before the murder exactly how the hit team was going to commit the killing and who would do what the paper said the recordings also detailed nineteen phone calls that were made to riyadh after the killing including one in which the caller said tell the boss the deed is done on the same day habit turk online newspaper reveals more from the consulate audio recordings with mr being grabbed to soon as he walked in and being called a traitor and the man who posed as his double to give the impression the journalist left the consulate saying it is spooky wearing the clothes of a man we killed twenty minutes ago when president trump declared his support for

the saudi crown prince he said there was no direct proof against mohammed bin salmen on november the twenty second harriet made the strongest allegation against the crown prince stating that the cia has an order recording between mohamed bin selman and his brother in washington ordering mystica shaadi to be silenced it hasn't changed the mind of president donald trump it's business as usual with saudi arabia this terrible murder will be remembered for the lies and deception but also the day a u.s. president gave a pardon to a thanksgiving turkey and a virtual pardon to saudi crown prince tony berkeley al-jazeera istanbul. well the u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's convinced her with the rebels to attend peace talks in sweden next month martin griffiths has been visiting the port city of her data and urged all warring sides to maintain peace there it's a crucial gateway for food and aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of famine so the erotic coalition forces have been battling the who these for control of how they died for months but it's important to be here because their day there is the

center of gravity of this war and it's here that we can begin that road people often ask me why we need to race to peace you know better than me that every day that lost in the search for peace means a day the children of yemeni children lose their lives mohamad the dough has more from neighboring djibouti. u.n. special envoy martin has managed to get some farm commitments from both parties in the conflict in yemen to peace talks to be held. in sweden he visited. the management told today the more than seventy percent of the country's imports including. the un want some sort of. role in the management of the. intense pressure over the management of the port.

to get the agreement of the management of the poll to talk about how the un can get. in the management of the port that seems to be. building within the international community for peace talks to be harmed it's the only way it's believed that. hundred ton to peace and also the humanitarian crisis in the country can be resolved the pressure on not only the fighters on the pro-government alliance but also the sodium supporting the government in yemen still ahead on al jazeera a major u.s. government report contradicts president trump's repeated denials of global warming accuse of war crimes in the central african republic the man known as rambo appears before the international criminal court.

international for. pushing into western parts of. western side of france into the southwest approaches of england pushing into wells. to the really heavy rain is now making. it's way across the iberian peninsula so more lively downpours coming through here by saturday that weather weather will swept across southern france snow over the us maybe twenty to thirty centimeters of snow fall some some heavy rain to into parts of northern italy pushing over towards the a vatican push for the race here it is lousy dry but it's pretty cold temperatures around minus three celsius that fall kiev subzero in moscow as well by sunday the cloud in the rain returns to a good part of italy much of the balkans eastern areas generally drive but milder there fullbrook rest of the rabbi celsius well father night seven right there for

london and paris as we go through sunday nights is more wet weather pushing into that western side of the other disturbed weather pushing across spain and portugal will also affect the north of morocco a good part of algeria's well plenty of cloud around here think around twenty to thirty millimeters of rain on the cards for some broad skies come back in as we go on through sunday with some showers pushing into west in libya.

hello again the top stories on the democrat the u.s. house intelligence committee when newly elected members take office says donald trump's response to the murder of john will be investigated adam schiff says it will be covered as part of a probe into the president's financial ties to. the u.n. special envoy. convinced the rebels to attend peace talks next month griffiths has been visiting the port city of. saudi iraq a coalition forces have been battling for control there. voting is underway in

taiwan's local elections which are being seen as a test for president saying when she joined the queues as you can see in taipei to cast her ballot about nineteen million eligible voters will choose more than eleven thousand local officials and decide on ten referendum questions one of them is whether to become the first place in asia to allow gay marriage another one which china is watching closely is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan international sporting events around following the elections joining us from taipei so they're seen as the largest in taiwan some even calling their mid terms adrian how significant are they for the president's future. well i think they could be probably quite significant to the moment where i say a school an elementary school here in the central of taipei which has been turned

into a polling station today and they're along the lines of people voting here this is a place where people don't take democracy for granted i mean voter turnout tends to be very high it was more than seventy percent in the last election and it's expected to be very high today when i'm now joined by russ feingold a political analyst here in taiwan you've been in taiwan for twenty years you follow political developments here very closely how much is this election a referendum on zion when in a way it is in a way it is and because she's already three years into her term so it's certainly not a midterm the way it was in the united states for donald trump and republicans so voters have had a long time to watch her performs and actually the d.p.p. took control of most local governments in two thousand and fourteen during the last local election so the pop the public in the voters fed a long time to evaluate the policies and the execution of those policies and if the d.p.p. does well today that will mean the public has reaffirmed those policies if the

d.p.p. does poorly it could indicate that in the next national election the d.p.p. is going to be very challenge to be as successful as it was in two thousand and sixteen this is an election that's essentially about local issues but there's always one unavoidable issue not of coals is china since simon was elected this side of the public has been squeezed by china both diplomatically and economically what impact is that having well it's a point that candidates from both parties meet but in very different ways so the d.p.p. in their election rallies they do talk about the threat from china they talk about china's meddling in the election via internet hacking or the manipulation of social media so clearly it's a concern for the governing party on the other hand candidates from the k m t that will mean don. they campaign on economic growth and say we need to reestablish better economic relations with china because those relations have deteriorated under the government of tying one because beijing doesn't like her china policies

so is an election about china or is an election about local issues in many ways it's a bit of both trust and truth are also issues in this election as they were in the the us midterms and claims by time in these officials that china has been meddling in these elections in the run up to the election what evidence is there of that it's an excellent question so politicians are talking about it the media here in taiwan is talking about it we know it generally does occur or the t.v. i t experts have pointed to where some of the ip addresses are what we have not seen yet though are prosecutions for violations of the law so if there is evidence that people have engaged in illegal activities for example have received financial assistance from overseas from china or other places in violation of taiwan's electoral laws then it's incumbent on the government to actually prosecute people so we'll see if that happens in the coming days and weeks as of yet it's more talk

it's more political tools to use against one's opponents but we haven't seen prosecutions yet most fine go thank you very much indeed the polling booths here in taiwan will close in less than an hour and we should have results later on saturday night here in taiwan by accident adrian brown thank you. now a parliamentary election is being held there by her reign which the international says is neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups are in taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to effectively ban them. reports. parliamentary elections are held him back rein every four years but in two thousand and fourteen international observers were banned and they won't be allowed in this year either the former british colony is ruled by a sunni monarchy over a majority shia population this imbalance has caused tensions in the past in two thousand and eleven she has protested demanding greater rights but any opposition

was quickly crushed by the government which was backed by tanks from the bring saudi arabia bahrain's assembly consists of an upper house appointed directly by king hamad bin. called the shura council and an elected council of representatives the main lawmaking body each with forty seats but critics say this lower house has no real authority this simply sherman actions they mean nothing but they mean and empowerment for the dictatorship those who give the chemical grown of this parliament following their performance within the last year and this is the body which has authorized military of course to try civilians. almost three hundred sixty six thousand citizens have been declared eligible to vote but not everyone is eligible to run for the election shake out he's a man is one of the most well known opposition figures but he's been sentenced to

life in prison and his political party the largest shia party has been banned human rights watch says this is not unusual we have seen in the years preceding two thousand and eleven the government has taken steps to completely stamp out the opposition to detain and torture dissidents they have banned all opposition political parties and now even all independent media like bahrain is a longstanding ally of the united states and hosts the u.s. fifth fleet but lawmakers in the u.s. united kingdom and europe have declared that these elections lacked legitimacy while locals were paired to go to the polls the elections already created divisions between the ruling royal family and the shia population and the lack of transparency and inclusiveness is likely to widen that gap further door such a party al jazeera a member of parliament in the central african republic and former militia leader

has told the international criminal court that he was tortured after his arrest last month for the exits home also known as rambo was speaking at the start of his war crimes trial in the netherlands where in chalons has more from the hague when al jazeera encountered alford yeah it's omen central african republic it was two thousand and fourteen the country's ethnic and religious conflicts was in its faces stages and yet its own was in charge of a christian militia group fighting predominantly muslim seleka rebels seem filmdom outside the capital bangui on the roads and baking. now he's in very different circumstances appearing for the first time before judges from the international criminal court in the netherlands a preliminary hearing for his forthcoming war crimes and crimes against humanity trial this is the first time that the central african republic has extradited someone to the international criminal court to face charges for their involvement

in the recent conflicts and as such it represents a significant step for the country in dealing with the violence but how he got here is something of an accident late october the militia leader turned m.p. was detained in bangui after firing a gun inside cia ours parliament's only after this on november eleventh did the i.c.c. publishes arrest warrants and he was hastily extradited a week later all this has reaffirmed for some the suspicion that there's a degree of opportunism in how the i.c.c. works i think what we've learned to about the r.c.c. in the last sixteen years is that it's a much less impressive institution than many people hard and it lacks resources it also lacks knowledge of complex conflict zones in africa and as a result of that it can't go after the big fish it can't go after presidents of countries instead it's having to go off to often middle ranking actors and you could tom very much fits that category still groups such as the international

federation for human rights are hailing the prosecution bots hope there are more yes we absolutely call on the prosecutor and her office to proceed with for their arrest warrants against all those or sponsible in the various armed groups involved in the commission of crimes in this conflict and it has to be an inclusive justice inside courts yeah that's almost lawyer said his client had been arbitrarily detained and abused in custody in benghazi before being extradited. it does to a soul on c.d.'s according to his clearance he was tortured and he was beaten with the butt of a kalashnikov he still carries the visual mark on his right foot and he told me that the doctor of the detention center had noticed as the judge said the court would consider these claims if officially submitted in writing and that the next hearing would be on april the thirtieth two thousand and nineteen helen's al-jazeera the hague newborn babies in the democratic republic of congo are being

infected with the ebola virus the world health organization says seven newborns are among thirty six new cases of the outbreak babies don't usually catch the disease but experts suspect it may have been passed from infected parents the ebola outbreak in the d.r. c. is the worst in its history with three hundred forty six confirmed cases including one hundred seventy five deaths serbia says it's reimposing visa restrictions on iran after an estimated twelve thousand tourists travelling from tehran never returned it's believed many of them crossed the border into bosnia the main target for refugees trying to reach western europe david chaytor reports in the town of the. border with serbia. or at night time patrolling by boston is border police the fast flowing waters of the river dream the last barrier for the refugees the majority crossing it now radians the opposite banks in serbia are swept with

infrared heat detectives and night scanning but all killers. but we use battery lamps rotating lights and vehicle headlamps to try and dissuade the migrants from crossing the border. but they're up against highly experienced gangs of human traffickers making a fortune out of the refugees at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising so the refugees are strapping together plastic bottles roping them together and using them as a raft in summer months they can simply wade across but now some of them are drowning their bodies swept onto the bosnian banks of the river which offered them such an illusory freedom. at a refugee camp outside sarajevo we met iranians who survived the perilous journey joining the pakistanis and afghans who thought it was near was just one step away from the freedom of western europe this rainy and kurd didn't want to give us his

name he says his brother was shot dead by special forces in iran fighting a growing protest movement he told us he wants a new life his wife and children bosnia tries to give the refugees a humane welcome but is a country without the resources to cope with this new burden. in the last six months ninety percent of migrants came to us from serbia across the dreamer river with no documents we were worried about the large numbers of iranians coming because serbia introduced a visa free version with five flights weekly from iran so we had a huge influx some four thousand rainy and entered. the headquarters of the bosnian border police another influx of refugees but this time trying to get back into serbia. this iraqi family managed to walk into savina but were handed back to cry out police who beat them up and force them back into bosnia smugglers have taken all their money we drove to the boat. by boat i mean

a. very. good time no good to danny any play you have to play inside the police station i talked to a group of iranians too afraid to appear on camera accountants electrical engineers fruit sellers they said the economy in iran was in a desperate state and feedom was being stifled among the car to car doors i also met three were hidden gem muslims from me and ma their families at all being killed it took them fourteen months to reach the borders of the european union they too were beaten back with truncheons david chaytor al jazeera. the abbas news border with serbia or us government reports as extreme weather disasters are getting worse in america and climate change is to blame it says weather events will cost the u.s. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century the report

contradicts president donald trump has called global warming a hoax jerry yo is a professor of economics and environmental studies at wesleyan university he says drastic action is needed in immediately. we have been saying this in there on a year it's just been getting worse and worse and worse. when it's gotten worse at a rapid freezing rain or the last two or three years and you haven't done anything you waste the fifteen years of finding this one line of shit if you waste another five years it will be even worse and the longer you wait the more expensive response will be response will become it's not a matter of that when and starting now it is certainly the best on the table the us report is a mirror of that right and fact what the i.p.c.c. released in the special report on them on five degrees below weeks ago things are

getting worse. and that the interesting thing about these series or which is difficult to see in the national climate is is near term and parroted. most reports talk about twenty nine hundred twenty one hundred and everybody for the ones it's there. he says you were part of the twenty thirty if only twenty years or twelve years away. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the democrats have to lead the u.s. house intelligence committee when newly elected members take office says donald trump's response to the murder of john will be investigated adam schiff says it will be covered as part of a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia the u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's convinced her with the rebels to attend peace

talks in sweden next month martin griffiths has been visiting the port city of hyundai doubt and urged all warring sides to maintain peace there it's a crucial gateway for food and aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of famine saudi erotic coalition forces have been battling to hold these for control of her for months. but it's important to be here because your day there is the center of gravity of this war and it's here that we can begin that road people often ask me why we need to race to peace you know better than me that every day lost in the search for peace means a day the children of yemeni children lose their lives voting is underway in taiwan's local elections which are being seen as a test for president sighing when she joined the queues in taipei to cast her ballot about nineteen million eligible voters will choose more than eleven thousand local officials and decide on ten referendum questions one of them is whether to become the first place in asia to allow gay marriage another one which china is

watching closely is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan an international sporting events and polls have open them behind. three election which amnesty international says is neither free nor fair because opposition parties are banned activists say the vote is a farce and they are calling for a boycott a us government report says extreme weather disasters are getting worse in america and climate change is to blame it's has weather events will cost the u.s. economy hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century the report frequently contradicts president donald trump was called the global warming hoax. those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story with laura kyle is coming up next they with us. as it breaks an army of volunteers has come together to help with the influx of tens of thousands of

evacuees with detailed coverage but president of the says there's not much that can be done the south china sea is now in china. from around the world. families to return for many are now back in the villages they fled when the worst. of british life sentence for spying in the united arab emirates has friends of. government leaders in london all protests his innocence is it all a major misunderstanding or evidence of a problem of academic freedom in the emirates this story.