eight happiness at the center of political policy inspiring the u.n. to pass a resolution urging other nations to follow the times' example but how do you base your it. it's a nice happiness but when shoots if it is quantifiable by simply turning its pursuit into policy bhutan has done what no other country has. pressure mounts on donald trump over the murder of. democrats valois a full investigation into how the us president has handled the case. looking at his iran life from a headquarters in doha i'm danny not paid also ahead of both without an opposition activists say behinds parliamentary election as

a farce. should taiwan change its name for the olympic games a yes vote in local elections risks inflaming tensions with china. at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising we join our bosnian border patrol on the watch for refugees who are risking their lives for a better future. hello the us president donald trump's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of journalist. murder is expected to be part of an intense congressional investigation early next year the democrats hope to lead the house intelligence committee says there are plans to uncover trump's possible financial ties with the kingdom but u.s. presidents in a series of statements has cast doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agency that crown prince mohammed bin sandman ordered killing were also in jordan

has been following those developments 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 definitive answers as quickly as he can muster the hearings to hold them are tobar second that's when he was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul and since then many different accounts of what exactly happened to the journalist have emerged tony brutally 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 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 an october the eighth his brother bin salman the saudi ambassador to the u.s. repeated the claim but on october the twelfth according to cia sources reported saudi crown prince asked jared krishna president tom son in law why the outrage was 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 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 consular 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 solomons 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 listen to the recordings in a visit to turkey saudi arabia changed its story once again on october 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 shah ji 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. demonstrators are facing off with police in paris right now over the rising costs of fuel you're looking at live pictures from the french capital where thousands of police officers have been deployed across the country in fact to contain the protests drivers have been putting up road block aides saying they are determined to bring this city to a standstill this is the second weekend of so-called yellow vests protest drawing a quarter of a million people just last week and it's posing huge challenges to the government of president in. the taxes on diesel and petrol were introduced. so you're looking at live pictures from paris and we will continue to follow the story in the coming hours right here. for all the latest developments and updates. her it is holding its parliamentary election which human rights group says say is

neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups are taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to ban them prominent members of dominated opposition parties are serving long prison sentences this is the second election since antigovernment demonstrations began in twenty eleven. is the researcher at human rights watch she says political freedom has been curtailed in the country. most opposition candidates are effectively disqualified from running in two thousand and sixteen parliament are not parliament the bahamian authorities forcibly closed and dissolved the lanes largest religious opposition movement or group i will fuck so all of its members are now banned from running for the elections and to run and twenty seventeen in your 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 i had of the elections there would be some confidence building measures but unfortunately the repression in the country has continued unabated a lot of the opposition groups tend to be shut out but the government has imprisoned 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's an purely sectarian nature but of course due to. the nature of the ruling party and the majority being shot most of the oppression has unfortunately been directed towards the shihab party it's still ahead on al-jazeera. ever to be here because your day there is the center of gravity of this for you and the envoy in yemen pleads for peace and an end to the killing of children. and workers and demands from us as retailers compete for

stuff and that made up for the holiday. hello again we're here across north asia we are seeing some brightening conditions across japan over the next few days a little bit of clouds are pushing through parts of the korean peninsula and that means on sunday some of those clouds will be affecting the central and northern part of japan temperatures into the mid teens for many locations in diet twelve tokyo at fifteen degrees but as we go towards monday most of that weather is going to be pushing into the pacific and we are looking at brightest skies for much of the region for a sucker though unfortunately partly cloudy to mostly cloudy day for you with a temperature of about sixteen degrees what here across china really not looking too bad for much of the area we are going to see probably some rain showers in the forecast down towards the south this is all due to that storm in the south china

sea making its way towards vietnam and the clouds are going to be affecting that southern portion of china over the next few days when we even see some showers here for hong kong with some cooler conditions there up towards the north though we are going to see shanghai mostly cloudy at about nineteen and down here towards the south well we're going to be watching vietnam very carefully as that storm system makes its way on shore but it is going to be weakening by the time we get to sunday evening down to a tropical storm but unfortunately the amount of rain coming out the storm is going to be quite intense we could be see well over two hundred millimeters of rain so the potential for localized flooding is in the forecasts. well if we cannot have probably seen my government was certainly not allow britain to control the french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows. over a century ago britain and france made this secret deal that changed the shape of the middle east and so. now we can during the.

psych's pekoe lines in the sun on all just. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera democrats to lead the u.s. house intelligence committee when newly elected members take office says donald trump's response to the murder she will be investigated says it will be covered as part of a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia. a parliamentary election is being held in behind rain which rights groups say is neither free nor fair the

two main opposition groups aren't taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to effectively. antigovernment protesters are facing off with police in the french capital paris right now they're angry about the rising costs a few policies of president. or polls have closed in taiwan's mature and local elections they're regarded as a test for the island's ruling pro independence party voters are also deciding on ten referendums including whether to allow same sex marriage another one which china is watching closely is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan and international sporting events adrian brown reports in the capital taipei. 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 alongside it are about local issues but there's another

unavoidable one china whose leaders regard. as part of their territory. without any dependence. we taiwanese the future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. 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 cooperate. 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. ministration they are trying to. use if you will or split the relationship between the central government and local governments and

very much. the contradictions and divides that exists within the society so as to undermine its. ability to present its all a united front against. 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 the athletes competing in future sporting events should do so under the name. it's dividing the sporting world here with protest 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 adrian brown al jazeera taipei. the u.n. special envoy. says he's convinced who the rebels to attend political talks in sweden next month martin griffiths visited the port city of data it's a crucial gateway for food and aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of famine so the iraqi coalition forces have been battling the fees for control of her data for months griffith says the policies have agreed to hold discussions about the u.n. taking a supervisory role in the ports 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 that lost in the search for peace means a day the children of yemeni children lose their lives iraq's prime minister is urging help for victims of flash floods that these seven people have been killed in

the northern province of salaheddine thousands are homeless some had to use boats to escape their submerged houses and farms britain's prime minister is preparing to head to brussels for what's being billed as a landmark summit to finalize bracks it's to reserve may and the e.u. leaders are set to sign the deal finalizing the terms of the u.k.'s withdrawal spain is threatening to recommence of grueling negotiations because the future of gibraltar the british territory on the spanish coast and serbia says its reimposing visa restrictions on iran after an estimated twelve thousand tourists travelling from to iran never returned it's believed many of them crossed the border into bosnia the main target for refugees trying to reach western europe david schaper reports of autonomy on bosnia the border with serbia. and nighttime patrolling glad bo's'n is to police the fast flowing waters of the river adreno the last barrier

for the refugees. the majority crossing it now are iranians the opposite banks in serbia are swept with infrared heat detectors and night scanning binoculars. but we use battery lamps rotating lights and vehicle headlamps to try and dissuade the migrants from crossing the border. but they are up against a 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 wait 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 a radiant 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. 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 servia 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. by for. a. very. good time no good to. any of you have to wait 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 feed him was being stifled among the crowded corridors i also met three were hidden gem muslims from me and mom 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 bosnia's border with serbia around three hundred supporters of hardline religious party leader in pakistan have been detained hours after harden hossain rizvi was arrested

that led to protests across the country rizvi is or has organized violent rallies after a christian woman on death row for blasphemy was acquitted he's called for even more protests in islamabad on sunday. then ian's living in lebanon are appealing to sell the arabia to resume issuing visas the kingdom has stopped giving the visas to those who hold refugee travel documents the move affectively bars nearly one hundred seventy thousand palestinians from visiting the two most important religious sites for muslims then one hundred reports. travel agencies offer special packages for the has and 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 granting visas to palestinian refugees in lebanon who hold travel documents that means that more than one hundred and seventy thousand refugees among them. are affected by the

new restrictions. housing is a religious duty for all muslims some one of the five pillars of islam we asked saudi arabia to reverse its position. officials in 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 that. 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 canada has a travel document of. 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 obtain passports they're 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 and 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 for their beirut. babies in the democratic republic of congo are being infected with the bowl of virus the world health organization says seven newborns are among thirty six new cases dr suspect their parents have passed that on the worst ever outbreak has killed one hundred seventy five people and infected three hundred forty six. police in haiti fired tear gas on protesters after nearly a week of demonstrations. there demanding the resignation of the president and they want a two billion dollar corruption scandal investigated at least eleven haitians have

been killed during a general strike which has shut schools and government offices. it's called black friday one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the u.s. the good deals in stores often overwhelm some bargain hunters and shop assistants. if this happens in the state of tennessee that's where it seems a good sweater is hard to find and these were originally ninety five dollars or more down to thirty five but the real number two digests americans will spend as much as six billion dollars in just twenty four hours. well american retailers are banking on doing plenty of business in the lead up to christmas and this series however seasonal workers are in more demand than any hot products and salumi reports from new york. tis the season for shopping and while american

consumers are expected to spend more on julie's electronics and other holiday gifts this year it is workers that retailers are in the market for about seven hundred thousand of them by some estimates a significant increase in hiring over last year's holiday season consumer confidence as an eighteen year high or in the longest expansion in american history and it means that consumers have extra money in their pockets this year and major retailers are expecting it's going to be spent in their stores but the workers have been hard to come by thanks to low unemployment and competition for jobs. desperate for holiday how retailers have had to offer incentives to attract additional workers perks like gift cards and deep discounts not to mention higher wages amazon the online retail giant increase the competition for workers earlier this year when it decided to raise its minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour but the retail action network claims the industry continues avoiding what most workers

really want a full time job with benefits their choices almost always go to bringing in people part time. in order to they say have a lot more flexibility with how they fill the gaps but in reality when you poll most retail workers they would prefer to take on full time hours they would work a full day or a nine hour shifts but there's an avoidance of paying out benefits and guaranteeing some of the security that comes with being a full time workforce some experts predict the competition will cut into profits for retailers but for the u.s. labor force it's a gift they hope. keep on giving christian salumi al-jazeera new york. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the democrat who is 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 he plans to launch a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia antigovernment protesters are facing off with police in the french capital paris they're angry about the rising costs of fuel economic policies a president in. a parliamentary election is being held in by her ain which rights groups say is neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups aren't taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to effectively ban them holes of clothes in taiwan's midterm elections voters are also deciding on ten referendums including whether to allow same sex marriage another one is about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan in international sporting events the u.n. special envoy to yemen says he's convinced who the rebels to attend political talks in sweden next month martin griffiths visited the port city of her data that's

a crucial gateway for food aid for millions of yemenis saudi erotic coalition forces have been battling the whole thing is for control of the city 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 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 that children that yemeni children lose their lives. britain's prime minister is for parents who had to brussels for what's being billed as a landmark summit to finalize. to reason may be. finalizing the terms of droll including the future off her head to our web site al jazeera dot com for all the latest news and all the latest developments for now it's inside story coming up next right here on al-jazeera stay

with us. a british. spying in the united arab emirates as for. protests his innocence is it all. evidence. and this story.