oh much money does a receipt you get those people you would think. in german and i'm rocking the new german. al-jazeera. pressure mounts on donald trump over the murder of jamal khashoggi democrats promise a full investigation into how the u.s. president has handled the case. i'm. live from london also coming up french police used water cannon and tear gas to disperse protesters as i know it wraps on the streets of paris over

a proposed fuel tax rise. taiwan's president resigns as leader of her ruling party after it suffers a major defeat in local elections widely seen as a test of its proven dependent stocks. and we join a bosnian border patrol on the lookout for refugees risking their lives for a better future. hello the us president's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of the murder of journalist. is expected to face a congressional investigation early next year adam schiff the democrat tipped to lead the house intelligence committee says don't trust response will be part of a probe into his possible financial ties with the kingdom trump has cast doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agency the cia the crown prince mohammed bin sound man is implicated in killing. first in washington d.c.

so it actually looks like a clash over president trump's handling of. border ties or saudi arabia could actually happen. it could happen soon or could it wait until the democrats take back control of the house of representatives that happens very early in january but this is really been bipartisan from both chambers both congressmen members and senators democrats republicans they have widely condemned the president's handling of the murder of jamal khashoggi and the response and now the question is why is the president going to such dramatic steps to try and shield the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin psalm on the problem for the president is he hasn't faced this before he said no checks on his presidential power for the last two years with his party in control of both the house and the senate that changes in january so right now you have the case where the president can simply

say well the cia has reached any conclusions that's their feeling about things although the cia never bases anything on a feeling so no what you have and you will have in january is the democrats can call the director of the cia the director of national intelligence can call them to testify before them under oath in front of the cameras and say so how do you feel about this tell me your evidence tell me how confident you are and that could just lead to increased public pressure on the president to do more and if they conclude that the president's interests have influenced his judgment on the. foreign policy issues like the war in yemen what happens then. well it really depends on just how intended to his foreign policy his personal dealings are with his foreign policy you know the president likes to say i don't have any financial dealings with saudi arabia that was a very different story when he was on the campaign trail he bragged often about how many millions of dollars he's gotten from saudi arabia and saudi arabia officials

so now he's saying that he has no business ties i think there's a big question of whether or not that's true there are also questions about his son in law jared kushner and some of his financial issues where he's getting some financing for some of his land projects all of that though now is going to be fair game because the house democrats have the power of the subpoena they can demand to see bank records they can demand to see tax returns not just from the president but from his innermost circle and then they're going to have a little bit more knowledge of exactly what sort of business ties the president has with saudi arabia because remember unlike every modern president american history he never released his tax returns so nobody has any idea how to kind thank you very much indeed when he tells continue to manage about the major. two months off to his death the most recent comes from turkish investigate is analyzing the phone calls and movements of the suspects and they say the operation to kill him was planned twelve days in advance in the recordings

a third voice his head which security sources say might be that of the saudi crown prince twenty but he takes a look at the very accounts of what exactly happened to the journalist on 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 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 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 khaled bin 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 jerrod krishna president trump 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 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 that a 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 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 unbridled such. 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 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 salman 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 salman 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. thousands of people have descended on paris to protest against rising fuel costs and every outbreaks of violence with this firing tear gas to disperse the crowds

these are live pictures here from paris where there has been a degree of violence and actually a french government there asking it to say that eighty one thousand yellow vests as they call been demonstrated on saturday and let's hear more from catherine stance on how the day went about. a wave of yellow in the french capital the anger fueled by a proposed tax rise. for the second successive weekend the so-called yellow vests created roadblocks and organized protests demanding that president emanuel not cross scrap the tax. riot police stopped thousands of demonstrators on the main avenue the seans how these a from breaking through a cordon protecting the palace the president's official residence. the price of diesel has risen by twenty three percent over the past year to about a dollar seventy one per liter. across decision to impose

a further increase of six point five cents starting on the first of january is the final straw for many here. the government takes everything from us they steal from us we have to pay for everything we are overtaxed and we hope that the protests will change things. the rising cost of fuel is going to trigger a civil war. like most of the citizens we are already. we're fed up with paying so much all the time it's become the new normal but paying so much it's just not possible anymore was the president blames rising oil prices worldwide and says the tax is necessary for more investment in cream and renewable energy social media has primarily been used to mobilize the yellow fasts they say they have no leader or political affiliation police are concerned that far right

extremists may infiltrate the demonstrations and provoke violence three thousand officers have been mobilized in paris i. nearly three hundred thousand people took part in similar nationwide protests last saturday she people were killed and hundreds of others injured. france already has some of the highest road fuel taxes in europe because vowing to face down any protests and press ahead with his policy no matter how unpopular happens doubtful al-jazeera. or no good close is a university researcher in paris he says french people are blaming the president for keeping his promises. emmanuel markov announced revolution it's the title of the book that the man mehmet whole wrote during the campaign he was talking about repairing from but also it did the promise of the big revolution in france a fiscal one who distributed her distribution and those people are actually joined

by something which is income and they don't see the chance in the daily lives they feel a lot of frustration they believe that they pay too much starts but at the same time they don't get enough and you know one very important point in france is consultant to pay tax but we see since recently that the consumption of to pay taxes is declining french people don't consider and many people consider that they have too many tax when at the same time the public. expenditure goes down so people are wondering why do they pay so much tax when they announce deficit reduction or less public expenditure ups it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and you and michael still to come. a setback to peace efforts in yemen as the saudi backed government projects a un proposal part of the data. and they may have cashed in on black friday but u.s. retailers are struggling to entice one key demographic workers. hello

again and welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across parts of china we're looking fairly good right now but there's some clouds down here towards the south all dealing with a typhoon that's going to be turning to a tropical storm but those feeder bands are still going to bring bring some clouds as it makes its way towards the north so here on sunday we're going to be seeing those showers make their way towards hong kong so conditions are going to deteriorate we don't think the rain is going to be that heavy but we will be seeing the clouds starting to decrease as well as more rain in the forecast there over here towards taipei maybe twenty six degrees and some rain in your forecast as well for india well we did have a lot of problems earlier in the week with a lot of rain down here towards the south the clouds are beginning to break up so

we are going to see mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions maybe a few on and off showers there but nothing is heavy as what we had seen earlier up towards the north though it is going to be partly cloudy to clear conditions where temperatures into the high twenty's and then very quickly over here across parts of the arabian peninsula we are going to be seeing showers particularly of poor parts of kuwait as well as into the northeast in saudi arabia as well as into a run of some of those showers are going to be very intense at times doha is going to be seeing a shower or two here on sunday but then as we go to miss monday things are going to be clearing out at twenty five with abu dhabi twenty seven. impoverished excluded and on dirt track roma communities are paying the price of heightened nationalism in a country at war with itself. people in power investigates the surgeon hate crimes at the hands of far right groups.

ukrainian repression on al jazeera. and i'm going to top stories here now jazeera president trump's handling of murder and his broader ties to saudi arabia are coming under increasing scrutiny in the u.s. senate republicans are demanding answers all democrats promise herring's once they take control of the house in january. police in paris have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters demonstrating for a second week against rising fuel prices. taiwan's ruling party

has suffered a major defeat in mid-term local elections after hearing the results president sighing when resigned as head of her democratic progressive party although she will remain as president elections have been taking place alongside no fewer than ten referendums on issues ranging from same sex marriage to changing the nation's name and sporting events from chinese taipei to taiwan asian brown this morning events for us in the capital taipei. well it's probably too early to write president zine wins political obituary but there's no doubt that the results of saturday's election. via setback for her democratic progressive party she has offered to resign as chairwoman of her party that's another indication that her power over the party is beginning to weaken and remember the next presidential elections are just over a year away and a big question now as to whether she will be the d.p.

peace candidate in the next presidential election the d.p.p. have lost control of taiwan second and third largest cities that third largest city is showing in the south a city that the d.p.p. had held for more than twenty years the problem for zion when is that china really resents or they are angered by the fact that she refuses to endorse the one china policy whereby there is but one china and taiwan is a part of it so as a result china has been tightening the economic and diplomatic noose around taiwan we've seen a huge drop off in mainland tourists coming to taiwan and also a number of diplomatic allies have defected to beijing and that has been a real humiliation for taiwan now it seems that voters are going back to the k m t party the party that once dominated politics here in taiwan

a party it has to be said that had a much better relationship with china than xining when did we saw i think on saturday another reminder that taiwan's democracy is vibrant and free there were long queues outside many polling stations suggesting that the voter turnout was going to be very very high indeed it was more than seventy percent in the last election and again very high this time that's proof that the democracy here in taiwan is working it's alive and kicking. yemen's saudi backed government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of a crucial port on friday special envoy martin griffiths held talks with senior hoofy rebels who agreed to open a dialogue on the un's role in running the key port city of her data the rebels occur in control of the site but saudi that coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is due to meet government leaders in riyadh on sunday in

a push for dialogue ahead of peace talks in sweden next month. manager has more from nearby djibouti. before he left some special envoy get off with expressed his happiness with how things when during his trip in yemen he said he was contented with consultations he had hard with the movies and those views were also expressed by the leader of the supreme revolutionary council of the. who's the who said that they were hopping with the steps the special envoy has taken so far and the hope he will succeed in talks. with the government of the president of the rebel months will hardly but one thing that is proving controversial is the issue of a role for the e.u. and in the marriage went over the port of the day does something griffiths maintains more strictly be for humanitarian purposes griffiths had announced on friday that he had gotten the go ahead to negotiations with the

over a role for the u. and to ensure the aid coming through the port is coming in and getting to where it is needed the most but the government a lot of good almost too hard to say schools negotiations over the management of the port take place in their absence and they would not agree on the role for the wealthiest not only other poor but also in the city which sort of shows the kind of what most for. the special envoy might have during talks with the government that is exiled in riyadh parliamentary elections are being held in bahrain which have been described as a fast by activists the two main opposition groups aren't taking part after m.p.'s measured earlier this year to abandon a crackdown on dissent the government assist the elections are democratic second election since anti-government demonstrations began in twenty eleven. jess's intern

is here calling on government leaders to cancel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince due to his suspected involvement in the journey. but the cash strapped government is warning such a move could stop much needed financial aid from the kingdom which will have our ports. to dizzy and activists are calling for mass protests against the proposed visit by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin said man is on his first two or aboard since the killing of journalist jamal hustle some to his ians a worry his arrival could undermine their newfound freedom and liberty but with. the crown prince is tainted by the killing of her late colleague jamal khashoggi and the arrest of dozens of saudi activists for these reasons we consider his visit a provocation and an insult to the values of the tunisian revolution and our

democracy tennessee i was the focal point of the pro-democracy protests in two thousand and eleven that galvanized the arab world and start of the revolution known as the arab spring lawyers and human rights activists in tunisia a mounting a legal challenge to stop the visit but it's unlikely to happen cinesias cash strapped government is desperate for financial aid to tackle poverty instability and unemployment government leaders are concerned protests might alienate saudi leaders at a critical moment for the house of. serbia has reimposing 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 a main route for refugees trying to reach western europe they mature to report on the terrace warneke bosnia's border with serbia. or at night time patrolling by

boston is border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain are 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 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 is a 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 rest of g.'s a humane welcome but it's a country without the resources to cope with this new deal even in the last six months ninety percent of migrants came to us from serbia across the drian a 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 sabine year 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 crossed over to vote. by boat and they you know we've been. you know 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 i'm on 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 for nick the abbas news

border with serbia that was a us economy booming billions of dollars have just changed hands on black friday and nation's biggest shopping day of the year shoppers traditionally open their wallets on the day after thursday's thanksgiving holiday with retailers offering special offers but as christians only reports new york etc a different type of shortage. 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 will keep on giving kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. to fit you can catch up in time with the last stories on our website it just that is dot com. for months now the top stories on our jazeera the u.s. president's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of the murder of journalist. is expected to face a congressional investigation early next year adam schiff the democrat tipped to leave the house intelligence committee says donald trump's response will be part of a probe into his possible financial ties with saudi arabia has cast doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agency the cia the crown prince mohammed bin

soundman is implicated in her killing mexico has more from washington d.c. five hundred it could happen soon or could it wait until the democrats take back control of the house of representatives that happens very early in january but this is really been bipartisan from both chambers both congressmen members and senators democrats republicans they have widely condemned the president's handling of the murder of jamal khashoggi and the response. thousands of people have been rallying in the french capital against rising fuel costs have been outbreaks of violence he's approach and live pictures now with the police having to fire tear gas to disperse crowds the price of diesel the most commonly used fuel in france has risen by around twenty three percent over the past twelve months and police say around eighty one thousand the french government should say that eighty one thousand get it best to treat it on something. taiwan is writing party has suffered a major defeat in the midterm local elections after hearing the results president

when resigned as head of a democratic progressive party or the shall remain as president elections will take place in the side ten referendums. yemen's government has rejected a u.n. offer to manage the running of the crew a crucial port on friday special envoy martin griffiths held talks with senior hoofy rebels who preach open a dialogue on the un's role in running the key port city of her data who's the rebels a current named controller of the site but sounded at coalition forces have been battling to retake it for months griffiths is using the government leaders in riyadh on sunday in a push for dialogue at a peace talks in sweden next month. on metric actions are being held in bahrain which have been described as a faucet by activists the two main opposition groups on taking part. new this year to ban them in a crackdown on dissent. is the headline stay stay with al-jazeera people power is up next more news for you after that likes watching.

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