scott you can ski the speaker out as a surprise but. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm on team denis coming up in the next sixty minutes pressure mounts on donald trump over the murder of jamal khashoggi democrats a full investigation into how the u.s. president has handled the case. and vote without an opposition activists say bahrain's parliamentary election is a false. at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the

waters are rising. we join a bowls me and border patrol on the watch for refugees who are risking their lives for a better future. i'm joining us cope with the sports taiwan or chinese taipei a vote on which name to use at the olympics is complicated by politics. u.s. president donald trump's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of journalist jamal khashoggi is murda is expected to be part of an intense congressional investigation early next year the democrats tipped to lead the house intelligence committee says there are plans to cover trump's possible financial ties with the kingdom the us president in a series of statements as calls doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agency that crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered his killing rolls than joe

biden has been following developments in 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. the second that's when jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul and since then many different accounts of what exactly happened to the journalists have emerged tony betty explains. 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 an exiled journalist 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 but first the denials are strong on october third the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman denied all knowledge of the killings saying mr casady disappeared after he left the consulate building an october the eighth his brother khaled bin salman 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 grim and irrefutable evidence it was difficult for this out and out culture of denial to continue and if your over suspicious or cynical nature of this is when you could believe that and agree now it it 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 algy 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 solomon'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 unbridled power 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 corsan ji raised his voice the team panicked moved to restrain him and then had him in

a chokehold in which he died on the same day this was dispelled by more audio revelations in the newspaper. which revealed new recordings that mystical shaadi 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 it's the death penalty for five of the team but with no further details and stress 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 have a 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 berkely al-jazeera istanbul. bahrain is holding its parliamentary election which human rights groups say is neither free nor fair the three main opposition groups are taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to ban them prominent members of the shia dominated opposition parties are serving long prison sentences it's a second election since anti government demonstrations began in twenty eleven lower burden money takes a look at just how democratic bahrain is and how it compares with the other arab gulf countries. bahrain is holding parliamentary elections but just how democratic are they and does it fit the script when it comes to rest of the gulf states or bahrain is a constitutional monarchy and it's ruled by king hamad bin isa. he shows some power with his uncle who had been summoned. with reputation as

a hardliner he's the longest serving prime minister in the world remaining in the position for almost five decades but during the two thousand and eleven popular uprisings protesters demanded he be replaced with an elected official now much of the lawmaking power goes to the national assembly and that's divided into a lower house the general public will elect forty people into this and bahrain's upper house the shura council members are selected by the king and they can block lower house decisions but the big catch is the government has banned all opposition parties so how does bahrain fare against the other countries in the gulf region kuwait is considered to be the most democratic it's a constitutional monarchy and has the oldest directly elected parliament like many gulf states it has a constitutional monarchy but unlike many its parliament has the authority to serve as a genuine counterbalance to the monic war just the south we have that's also making

waves in pushing democracy it's also a constitutional monarchy with the head of state the amir shaikh to mean been hammered out then a cutter has a sure council which is made up of just thirty members and as of next year these are expected to be elected by the popular vote the other fifteen a chosen by the amir a man is a monarchy that's ruled by sorts of boost he's also the prime minister minister of defense foreign affairs and finance and parliament is divided between two councils that are elected by the sultan and. the general public or the u.a.e. has a federal system made up of seven emirates which form the federal supreme council it's made up of the elected members and those handpicked by the leaders but critics say the parliament has too little power and finally saudi arabia is an absolute

monarchy with no political parties and all members of the shura council are selected by king solomon his son crown prince mohammed bin salman also enjoys nearly absolute power over economic military foreign and domestic policy. research or of human rights watch and she's joining us live from beirut thanks for talking to us what's your overall impression then of this exercise in an election taking place in bahrain today when you have saudi arabia one and in terms of the democratic stakes and kuwait at the other in terms of the gulf sure. well with all opposition leaders jailed or disqualified from running for elections no independent media operating in the country and scores of independent activists journalists and human rights defenders are imprisoned and many of whom have alleged

torture during their detention it's unlikely that today's elections will result in a parliament that's truly diverse and representative of the wide range of views that exist and bad in the society right well the government counters that by saying that whilst the political party is a bad and political associations are allowed and there are sixteen of them women cannot only vote but there are also women who are enabled to stand as candid. sure well the voting system itself well the election system itself is discriminatory perhaps most significantly i think in june the king amended the law on the exercise of political rights and has amendment effectively bans any individual who belonged to a dissolved opposition party or opposition group from running for the elections and also bans anybody who has served a sentence of six months or more in prison from running for the elections what this

means is that most opposition candidates are effectively disqualified from running in twenty sixteen parliament sorry not parliament to be hidden yes or a t's forcibly closed and dissolved by hanes largest religious opposition movement or group fuck so all of its members are now banned from running for the elections and two and twenty seventeen storage is also forcibly dissolved the last secular party or group in the country and wired so all of its members also can't run for elections. and we were hoping that despite all of these issues that the head of the elections there would be some confidence building measures but unfortunately the repression in the country has continued unabated on nov thirteenth a member of a former member of parliament was arrested for treating about boycotting the election this member of parliament now faces up to six months in prison and

a fine of one thousand behave any dinars just a couple of weeks before that. i was able to get are also hearing what is the nature of political division in bahrain given that the country is ruled by a sunni role family and associated elite in the vast majority of the people are of sheer denomination is it a sectarian division that translates into political opposition. i wouldn't necessarily define at n.p.r. really sectarian terms because the ruling party is sunni and most of the population as shout a lot of the opposition groups tend to be shia but the government hasn't present any human rights defenders and activists who pose any challenge to the authority of the ruling family no matter what their what their or sectarian background is so i wouldn't define it to purely sectarian nature but of course due to. the nature of

the ruling party and the majority being sure our last of the oppression has unfortunately been directed towards the shihab parties. of human rights watch thank you very much. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including. it's important to be here because you're daters the center of gravity of this war. the un's envoy pleads for calm to allow yemen's vital port city to function. joining forces in the d.l.c. with just a month to go a new opposition alliance enters the race for the presidency. and rail madrid hit back at the claims one of their star players failed a drugs test joe we'll have the details in sports. and the u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's convince the rebels to attend political talks in

sweden next month martin griffiths visited the port city of her data it's a crucial gateway for food and aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of famine saudi a morality coalition forces have been battling the who is the control of her data for months now mr griffiths says the who fears of agreed to hold discussions about the u.n. taking a supervisory role in the port but it's important to be here because your data is the center of gravity of this and it's here that we can begin that right 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 the yemeni children lose their lives. the polls have closed in taiwan's midterm local elections are regarded as a test for the anons ruling pro independence fati voters are also deciding on ten different referendum issues including whether to allow same sex marriage adrian

brown has been at a polling station in the capital taipei through the day he's joining us live from there and adrian the inevitable question is how much of a of a shadow is china casting on the proceedings in. i won today. well martine i think the shadow of china always looms over an election in taiwan whether it's a local election legislative elections or a presidential election now dying when was elected leader of this country the republic almost three years ago and ever since then there has been a real deterioration in relationships between taiwan and china the reason when refuses to accept that taiwan is part of china the so-called one china policy as a result china has been showing its displeasure by squeezing taiwan both economically

and diplomatically we've seen a huge drop off in chinese tourists during the past two years two million less coming here now than in two thousand and sixteen china has been peeling away the number of countries that have diplomatic relations with taiwan its last five allies in the last two years taiwan is now excluded from a number of international organizations the world health assembly as well as interpol this is a local election but of course it is so much more. in taiwan they don't take their democracy for granted voter turnout in the last election was more than seventy percent this election and the referendums happening along sided are about local issues but there's another unavoidable one china whose leaders regard taiwan as part of their territory. without without a wraparound a man independence we taiwanese decide our own future we are always taiwanese and

unlike us they are chinese goods and fine with a referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support maintaining the status quo and the governments of both sides should copy. this election serves as a report card on president zine when who was elected three years ago china's leaders promptly cut off communications with her last month she accused china of meddling in the election campaign by spreading disinformation they are trying to undermine the reputation of the. administration they are trying to. use if you will or split the relationship between central government and local governments very much. and widen the contradictions and divides that exists within taiwanese society so as to undermine its cohesion and ability to present its all a united front against against china these voters are also casting ballots in ten

referendums five of them related to same sex marriage but the most controversial referendum is to do with a name change where athletes competing in future sporting events should do so under the name. it's dividing the sporting world here with protests by supporters and opponents of the name change the international olympic committee has warned that if it happens taiwan could be excluded from the olympics. this showcase of democracy is happening on china's doorstep and at a time of heightened tensions between leaders in beijing and washington with taiwan now part of the feud which is why leaders in both capitals will be watching the outcome of this election very closely. well behind me is one of the one hundred fifty thousand polling stations where votes are now being counted in this election and it's worth remembering martine that this is the only

place taiwan in greater china where they have true democracy by going to china i include of course macau and hong kong they take their democracy very seriously here voter turnout in the last election was more than seventy percent and we understand voter turnout in this election has also been very high. adrian brown live in taipei thank you very much indeed and a little bit later on past thirty minutes or so joe will have much more on that referendum with regard to taiwan's possible name change to the twenty twenty tokyo olympics as i say as in about thirty minutes from now britain's prime minister is preparing to go to brussels for what's being billed as a landmark summit to finalize breck said to resume a and the e.u. leaders are set to sign the deal finalizing the terms of the u.k.'s withdrawal spain is threatening to wreck months of grueling negotiations because of the future

of gibraltar the british territory on the spanish coast police in paris are trying to contain on going protests against rising taxes on fuel. to fire tear gas and water cannon the demonstrators who are angry at president macro economic policies organizers of the demonstrations say they want to bring paris to a standstill and put up roadblocks. serbia says it is really imposing visa restrictions on iran after an estimated twelve thousand tourists traveling from tehran never returned it's believed that many of them crossed the border into bosnia the main target for refugees trying to reach western europe david chase a reporter from the town or vor nic that some bosnia's border with serbia. for a night time patrolling by bosnia's border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain are the last barrier for the refugees the majority crossing it now

radians the opposite banks in serbia are swept with infrared heat detectors and night scanning but oculus. 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 it's a country without the resources to cope with this new burden really. 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 back at 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 for some back into bosnia smugglers have taken their money grow. a nearly three. hundred go to. any play you have to play inside the police station i talked to a group of the iranians too afraid to appear on camera accounts and nears fruit sellers they said the economy in iran was in a desperate state and feedom was being stifled among the. three were hidden gem muslims from. 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. the border with.

the right. to the contours of the east. well it was just last week we're watching tropical storm to roger make landfall in vietnam and we're watching a nother storm this is a typhoon usagi it is could be making landfall tomorrow a little bit south of where we saw the previous typhoon but still this storm is expected to bring some very heavy rain and an area that's already has been flooded

just in the last two weeks so this is something going to be watching very carefully we do think that we're going to be seeing a landfall on sunday afternoon local time their time this is equivalent to particular category one hurricane if it was in the atlantic so this is the track that we expect to see making landfall very very close to holtzmann city then making its way across parts of cambodia now we do think that the storm is going to be weakening quite quickly but the heaviest rain is going to be just to the north up up the coastline and that is the area that we have seen some of the deadliest flooding over the last nine to ten days i want to show you what we can expect to see in terms of precept over the next few days the heavy rain up along that coast you notice over cambodia and laos not too much rain over the next few days but it is going to be anywhere between two hundred to three hundred millimeters of rain we do expect to see over the next few days here's your chin relation forecast as we go to the next seventy two hours that you can see all the way up the coast that is where we expected see localized flooding mudslides as well as landslides. the winds

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psychs pekoe lines in the sand on on just. time for us to take a look at the top stories here in the news hour the democratic to lead the new u.s. house intelligence committee says donald trump's response to the murder of jamal khashoggi will be investigated adam schiff says it will be covered as part of a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia. a parliamentary elections being held in bahrain which rights groups say is neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to effectively ban the. u.n.

special envoy to yemen says he's convinced to the rebels to attend peace talks in sweden next month asking griffiths visited the port city of his data and urged all sides to maintain peace it's a crucial gateway for food and aid for millions of yemenis who are on the brink of famine. now a new alliance has been formed in the race to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo's election next month feliks just acadia has joined forces with another opposition leader little come a day the outgoing president is constitutionally barred from running for a term he's backed his former interior minister emanuel shadow one of fifteen congolese figures who've been sanctioned by the e.u. for alleged human rights crimes several opposition figures have been blocked from running they include the former vice president. who's just been acquitted by the international war crimes the international criminal court for war crimes opposition

parties had tried to unite behind a single candidate the businessman martin failing but that deal collapsed after the and his new running mate hold out maybe on a whole new now takes a look at whether these new contenders can unite a fractured opposition. jubilation and kinshasa with a presidential vote just a month away many had given up hope that an opposition candidate might win the only man they felt had any chance was felix to see katie now would that not only is he going to run but another top of position leader will stand beside him. for the positive this is so positive only d's two leaders can win the elections coming here has forty five percent of voters in the east and they both have almost fifty five percent of voters in the middle of the country so we are sure a victory now good news for some but the announcement draws attention to a fractured opposition sivan opposition leaders had hoped to result in geneva

earlier this month agreeing to back martin fire. but just security and retail come a hay pulled out saying there wasn't grassroots support for him now the pier at a run on a joint ticket and say the door is open for others in. the opposition to unite behind to them. my brother and me tell camaron i are going to work hard to bring sustainable peace to congo we will reconcile the differences among the congolese people it will not be a witch hunt we will install a state of law quickly to protect our citizens we will fight the corruption that is destroying our society we're fighting words intended to inspire but the country he hopes to lead has been revathi by decades of interests that conflict and detects by armed groups that long term ruler president joseph kabila has himself failed to address and i'm like to see katie's father security who was

a titan of the opposition his son is a relative newcomer to politics he's standing against emanuel. a former interior minister and kabila as hand-picked successor he's already been on the campaign trail more than four and a half million people in the mineral rich nation have been displaced by conflict the united nations describes it as a forgotten crisis. to security and committee have vowed to run congo differently and to finally bring peace but to do that they must heal divisions within the opposition and when the vote need go to month to make that happen me down the hall and al jazeera. right harry of the who haven't is a professor at georgetown university here in cass and he's the author of why comrades go to war liberation politics and the outbreak of africa's deadliest conflict harry says it's now a three way race basically in the d.l.c. we have could be manned shadowy and now we have two separate opposition forces does

that necessarily weaken the opposition not necessarily i mean this new ticket the security witold ticket is i think sufficiently strong and very importantly brings together both eastern congo and western congo is just this great historical divide that exists within the country together because rich is a key should be able to deliver can shasta and two very important regions in the west and of course it'll come marries a man from the east as great popular appeal there and so the ability of the opposition of this particular ticket to bring together these two very different constituencies should lead to as a teacher shown up at the original intention at the meeting in geneva was for all seven opposition blocs to rally behind one figure they came out with martin for you live was that a mistake did they did they get their strategy wrong not necessarily means understandable at the time that they would try to rally behind for you live with both for security and veto come or have far greater name recognition a far deeper financial pockets of their sailor was a mistake well i think it was on the other side understandable at the time that

that decision was taken but i think if you can go for this i think this is much better at least from the opposition's standpoint of having a real chance at scaring the presidential majority and it's scaring president could be low he would actually it is cause to actually be removed from power so in that sense i think this is very serious i think many people in kinshasa around the president will be very worried about him particularly at this trans regional and trans ethnic appeal that these guys represent to the president and our eyes we've got geographical spread we've got great name recognition with this new ticket but logistically we're still talking about the vastness of d.l.c. and not to mention these huge problems problems. the second largest outbreak of ebola in the s. and of course ongoing conflict attack violent attacks by carried out by armed groups in parts of the country that's very true of course the legacy of more than twenty years of rule by father and son could be has been devastating i mean the very weakness of the state to both the inability but also the unwillingness of the

congolese or leads to deliver security across the territory to deliver public services gravely we can perhaps fatally weaken the ability of the state to also organize credible elections and this is my worry that regardless of the outcome of this election there will be violence either the presidential majority will not accept the verdict and computer will be very afraid that the loss in the election will lead to him being persecuted or having to leave the country and so he will try to stage some violent incidents that essentially stop that in their tracks all the opposition will take to the streets and say we will do not recognize the legitimacy of an election that was only a conducted in some parts of the territory even there only partially free and fair and so they too will probably resort to violence so i'm actually quite pessimistic about where we go from here because either way whatever the outcome of this of this ballot i'm afraid more violence is in store and very active is problematic in itself isn't it insofar as there are so many doubts being cast about the use of

these electronic voting machines south korea made some in the opposition are talking about trying to get back to paper ballots yes absolutely so there's a number of technological and very practical logistical challenges there's as i said during questions about the outrunning me of the local authorities who have to implement and their willingness to fair due to allow free and fair elections across the territory as you rightly said there's the palm of security even if voters do manage to turn up even if they do manage to cast their their ballot will be able to safely do so to leave the polling station etc those are very great questions that we continue to have and that's the reason why so many people including congress people of this must have ever heard of and thank you very much thank you. now around three hundred supporters of a hardline religious party leader in pakistan are being detained just hours after her dream hussein rizvi was arrested and that led to protests across the country rizvi organized violent rallies after a christian woman on death row for blasphemy was acquitted he's even called for

more protests in islamabad to take place on sunday so palestinians living in lebanon are appealing to saudi arabia to resume issuing pilgrimage visas the kingdom has stopped giving the visas to those who hold refugee travel documents that the movie effectively one hundred seventy thousand palestinians from visiting the two most important religious sites for muslims then a holder of reports travel agencies offer special packages for the has end of the most important pilgrimage for muslims but for some time now they haven't been able to serve clients saudi arabia is no longer granted visas to palestinian refugees in lebanon who hold travel documents that means the more than one hundred and seventy thousand refugees among them. are affected by the new restrictions. how it is a religious duty for all muslims it's among the five pillars of islam we asked

saudi arabia to reverse its position. officials of the palestinian authority embassy in beirut have been seeking answers from riyadh so for saudi officials are not publicly confirming the travel ban but the palestinians are aware of the new measures through an official channels like this of. the palestinian ambassador contacted the saudi ambassador who said he wasn't aware of the decision but in reality any palestinian who wants to go to omer or hard can. travel documents. many fear the saudi decision is political and linked to u.s. president donald trump so-called deal of the century between israel and the palestinians the details of which are still to be announced. when palestinians. there are no longer refugees it changes the palestinian refugee law which is linked to the palestinian cause. israel wants refugees resettled

integrated in this is they live in many palestinians believe saudi arabia is working with the u.s. and israel. the right to return is at the heart of the palestinian struggle many refugees fear that israel wants it off the negotiating table and recent decisions by the trumpet ministration like recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and cutting funding to the un relief and works agency for palestinian refugees are ways to pressure palestinian officials to agree to israel's terms for peace. palestinians in the kingdom are also under pressure palestinian officials say saudi authorities are demanding they obtain passports if they want their work permits bridge newt. a lot of people are approaching us to obtain a palestinian passport just so they can travel make their lives easier we don't want to encourage this. preserving the palestinian identity means preserving the status quo giving up their refugee status is giving up the right to return to the

homes their families lost when israel became a state it's something palestinians don't want to do but increasing pressures may not give them a choice to know what their paid root. a u.s. government report says extreme weather events a getting worse in america and climate change is to blame now it frequently contradicts president trump who's called global warming a hoax mike hanna reports from washington. the report makes clear that the wave of wildfires that's hit the u.s. is just one direct consequence of climate change the most recent devastating areas of california a part of a system of global warming that is going to get even worse in the years ahead. the ferocious hurrican sort of hit parts of the u.s. and regions around it all similarly part of this disturbing pattern the report continues no area of human activity will go untouched in increasing heat for

example key crops such as wheat and corn will see declining yields which could result in. downturn greater poverty even starvation the report is mandated by congress and it will debate the findings that should also form the basis of government planning in coming years. but this is a government very different from those of the past president trump has publicly described the concept of climate change as a hoax and that was one of his reasons for wanting to withdraw the us from the paris climate accord the paris climate accord is simply the latest example of why shinton entering into an agreement that disadvantages the united states and only this week the president tweeted with obvious sarcasm brutal an extended cold blast could shatter all records whatever happened to global warming this confusion between daily weather fluctuations and long term climate trends regarded by the

president's critics as yet another display of ignorance but he has the power to bury the report in its recommendations and it will be a long hard fight for congress to attempt to resurrect it mike hanna al-jazeera washington has called black friday one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the united states and the deals installs often overwhelmed some bargain hunters and even the shop assistants. the three that was the scene in the state of tennessee where these jumpers were originally ninety five dollars they were marked down to thirty five but the real number to digest is americans will spend as much as six billion dollars in just twenty four hours. nonetheless some workers in europe who make sure

shoppers get their gold say they've been turned into robots staff at the online retailer amazon walked out to condemn what they call inhuman working conditions and the hayward reports from one of amazon's biggest warehouses in england who joined colleagues protesting in germany italy and spain. it is a twenty four hour operation which only pauses when the ship changes packing and preparing parcels did with a simple click i don't plan for a day with discounted prices at the online retailer staff at amazon busier than ever with a. well. known was outside this distribution center not far from london a defiant cry from members of the g.m.b. union they claim conditions inside are inhuman and the stock are treated like robots and don't even have time to go to the toilet. when you go and work in

a warehouse you do expect the monotony you expect to be a bit like a coal mine and to be in the dark for twelve hours you don't expect to be treated like you don't expect to be just driven and driven and driven and expected to perform unfeasibly. all the time. the general manager at this amazon site told us his staff were treated fairly warehousing operations for twenty years and i believe that what we ask people to do is absolutely. the union also alleges that all muslims workplaces are unsafe claiming ambulances have been called out six hundred times to fourteen warehouses during the last three financial years amazon told us the sites were safe and had fewer injuries on average compared to other similar companies there were protests about conditions in other parts of europe too with most stop at one site in spain walking out the

company's certainly has changed the way many people around the world shop here in the u.k. well amazon's star has risen during the past two decades traditional shopping areas have been struggling to compete on black friday the retailer was even opening a pop up shop in a trendy area of london amazon though has long been seen as a symbol by some of corporate greed paying as little tax in the u.k. as legally possible and while the conveyor belt so moving its profits continue to rise there's no getting away from the fact that amazon is a huge machine at this site and i employ that thousand people with hundreds more during the busiest times of yet. amazon calls its distribution sites fulfillment centers exactly how fulfilling they are to work in is a matter of opinion and he would al-jazeera to milton keynes.

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convention that gives a platform to a global dialogue on critical challenges facing our world a new two part documentary that reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade december on al-jazeera. as promised it is time for the schools used now with joe thank you once you've been hearing voting is taking place in taiwan among the decisions being made by citizens is want to cool the team sports events currently athletes compete as chinese taipei which is a country that doesn't really exist it's

a name agreed more than three decades ago by taiwan china and the international olympic committee that seem all so much as behind the emblem of their olympic committee and not the official flag well joining me now from the taiwanese capital taipei is mitzy taney who is one of the top swimmers in her country mitzi thank you for joining us why are you campaigning to change the name from chinese taipei to taiwan. for many taiwanese people including myself and especially in my generation we see ourselves as how many people and we call our country taiwan and i believe many foreigners they know and they are aware of what taiwan where taiwan is and the taiwanese people are not the only people who are questioning the name of chinese taipei as chinese high pay this name is a degree to our country and chinese taipei cannot represent our country taiwan some

athletes don't agree with you very some are worried about what will happen if you if they change that name why is that. well the taiwanese athletes are not. we all like the name taiwan the only thing that taiwanese athletes are afraid of is not being able to compete at the olympics or other sporting events the chinese taipei olympic committee the c t o t. they are the c.t.o. see sorry they have been threatening the athletes in taiwan claiming that if the referendum passes we won't be able to compete at the olympics but this is not true because the referendum itself is we also are convinced that the c.t.o. see have been misleading the international committee. as our referendum has been highly misunderstood because the content of the referendum is saying that if we

want to apply if we agree to apply for the name change not changing selves and we believe that many after leads are under the pressure of c.t.o. o.c. and other sports organizations as these organizations have high pressure have high . power over our fleets as they can even interfere with the olympic team selection so i think many athletes they are not aware of what the truth is because of what the chinese taipei olympic committee have been telling all the ok so what do you expect the international committee to do if this referendum passes and this decision is made to change the name to taiwan. if the referendum passes we do hope that the international unpick committee and other sporting organizations can take in our requests requests as taiwan is the only place in the world that cannot use our own name our own flag or even play our

own anthem at the olympic games we do hope that we can have our own name back all right mitzi tang there in taipei thank you very much for speaking to us that one of the faces right darby's in world football will be played on the biggest stages argentinian giants group play to take a genius for the couple about the trophy on saturday but could trained in front of fifty thousand of their fans this week they'll take the field on the other side of one a side as rivers l.-a monument tell stadium later for the second leg of their final it was two two in the first leg two weeks ago our team will be there live at fifteen hundred g.m.t. . now spanish football giants real madrid have denied allegations that their captain sergio ramos failed a drugs test ahead of the champions league final in twenty seventeen german magazine der spiegel has claimed that this same defendant tested positive for an

anti-inflammatory drug which is banned if test is a not informed of its use the magazine added that the european football governing body wafer had accepted an apology from ramos and the player blamed the club's doctor for the incidents the statement read said here imus has never breached anti doping regulations u.a. for requested specific information and immediately close the case as is usual in such cases following tests carried out by experts from the world anti-doping agency and you a for itself. injured golden state warriors star steph curry has been worrying the team again the n.b.a. champion was in a car crash on his way to training in oakland on friday curry emerged unhurt and stood in the rain waiting for the police after his porsche was in a collision with two other cars neither of those drivers were hurt either curry has been out since november the eighth as he continues his recovery from injury he did make it to training though after this and he also took

a seat for the game as well no worse for wear as you can see golden state trying to snap a four game losing run and they did it in style kevin durant's leading the drive here. he ended up with thirty two points as they beat the portland trail blazers one hundred twenty five to ninety seven. croatia are on the verge of winning the davis cup for a second time that's after born to charge it and not in chile which won their singles matches on friday to put them to live up over hosts and defending champions france while number seven chill it's had little trouble getting past j. wilfred tsonga son has been out of action through injury for much of twenty eighteen and that showed here chill it's closing out a six three seven five six four victory to put croatia firmly in control earlier charge it scot croatia off to a flying start with another straight sets win the world number twelve beating jeremy shockey six two seven five six four croatia now need to win just one of the

remaining three match it's. well it was billed as a dramatic jewel between two former world number one golfers over a nine million dollar prize in the end though the match between tiger woods and phil mickelson divided opinion for those who were able to watch it just seven hundred invited guests were allowed on the course everyone else had to pay twenty dollars to see gold's first pay per view broadcast which lacked sporting quality and was marred by technical problems for some when it came down to it the two go first who had nineteen mage's between them couldn't be separated until the fourth extra hole woods had this parts to extend the match under temporary lights but he missed it so it was mickelson who tapped it in the foot birdie the big money. all right that is so useful for now i'll have more for you later marty joe thank you very much indeed don't go away because daryn will be in this chair in just

a minute or two with much more of the day's news stay with us. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is that journalistic integrity and then to that in this case it was betrayed totally up from its own

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