pre-meditated there are two questions main two questions now about mr soldier's body where was he remains disposed of those two theories one that he was dismembered in the saudi consulate in istanbul and his remains were. put in an acid bath and disposed of that way or he was dismembered and then put in black suitcases which were purchased by members of the saudi consulate on the morning of the murder and then taken out of turkey in bags with diplomatic privilege so they don't know which one it is they've asked the saudis for cooperation they complain that they're not getting any cooperation because the saudis are holding people accountable they say five are facing the death penalty but the turkish authorities are concerned because they don't have any information about where the body and you know and they don't have any information that if it wasn't the crown prince who was responsible for altering the hit then who was it and they want information at the moment the saudis are not helping them out or attorney with the latest there from those searches at his residence in of

a thank you or let's continue with the another part actually our protection best acacia into the murder of jamal who shot it we can join us in coffee or she's in turkish capital ankara and sinan what more have you been learning in the last couple hours about some of the suspects. well estonia already explained a situation in the in the crime scene investigation teams as he said there are two investigations into vilas into both of them belong to a very famous is saudi businessman one of them is. a company and the other one belongs to al for some company owned by mohamed el falls on the important details is that the saudi turkish prosecutor had a press statement saying that the saudi intelligence men. abu hussein who is one of the members of the fifteen is squad fifteen hit squad has called

the longer of. a full sun one day before damascus shook his murder and especially according to the turkish prosecutor's office and the turkish police as soon as a monster or spawn of hussein arrived in turkey one day before damascus should just murder on october the first at four pm thirteen past four pm he immediately began talking with mohamed metaphor sounds to employees and team members in turkey and. the turkish police actually followed up the digital footprint standard telephone the movements and the servers and everything and according to the airport placards these papers show the highlighted blue points blue lines show that months are all small i arrived in turkey on october the first at around four pm and he left turkey on for on october the second on the day job

after ship two was murdered at nine forty five pm a special today said go again on al-jazeera we have reported that a saudi employee is saudi consulate employee whose name to be a work working in working with the saudi intelligence have actually what's up voice messages exchanged with some of the danny and. in my head up to the. name to be the coordinator of this hits acquired so each day every day as a turkish investigation teams and police are working there is a new relation coming up between those hit men and the saudi royal prince an important detail actually is that these two villas where tony is actually reporting from these are registered under saudi companies not under saudi individuals and an

interesting detail for instance with some company where this where the police was doing the search during all day today it was founded in two thousand twelve in yellow are not is not in istanbul and all accounts were actually in active so there was nothing in terms of income or revenue no records show that this company was already trading also the other a villa which belongs to omari food company it was founded one day one year ago and it again is. sent in active company but the police records show that months or months or old man abu hussein has a very long and very active a communication with him ahmed ahmed al four sons men moment is the owner of that the turkish police has been searching gold a really interesting stuff first and thank you so head's all on the program

president donald trump describes asylum seekers trying to cross into the u.s. from mexico as stone cold criminals on it is threatening to close the border. the film world says goodbye to bernardo bertolucci on a cinema of most daring voices responsible for films like the dream and sounds. and paradox and. how low the weather is lousy set fabric cross sentiment southern parts of china a little bit of cloud down towards the southeast and colder that's going to be the main focus for the disturbed weather as because through the next day or so but if it's tuesday it's settled and sunny few showers but whether they're just coming into taiwan or easing the southeastern corner of china hong kong could see a little bit damp weather then as we go into wednesday further north it's five and

dry blue skies coming for some heavy showers there you know just to central parts of the southern areas of course still feeling the impact of the recent tropical storm front a dry course a good parts of south asia the showers do continue across southern india possible see some showers there into sri lanka as well little cloud just rolling in across pakistan towards the far northwest of india as we go on through chews day sinking further south which as we go on into wednesday possibility of a few spots of rain but it should be lousy dry shall is there a setting on the cause for flag to colombo at about thirty degrees celsius they we should have seen the last of the showers across iraq in place now for that side based a little bit of cloud up towards more than parts of saudi arabia could see a little bit of wet weather here showers to diminishing around the gulf of aden towards the southern betsy. on counting the cost breaking the rules italy wants to spend its way out of an

economic slump but it's up to its eyes in debt big cryptocurrency sell off and a rock star c.e.o. finds himself behind bars counting the cost on a. welcome back counter millions of the top stories here on al-jazeera eukaryotes president signed a creature. of to russia followed all the and captured three ukrainian naval ships

in the black sea on sunday now has to be agreed hanumant. meanwhile the un security council is also missing in emergency session in new york to discuss the flare up in tensions between russia and ukraine. turkish police investigating the murder of jamal has showed she had been searching two villages in the northwest of the country journalists have not been found almost two months after he was killed. a turkish military helicopter has crashed in istanbul killing four soldiers as it hit the roof of a four story apartment building as it tried to make an emergency landing in the east of the city no civilians were injured but a fifth soldier on board was taken to intensive care they've been carrying out a training exercise from a nearby at base on investigation into the cause of the crash is underway. a british student accused of spying in the united arab emirates has been granted a presidential pardon and is expected to fly home to the u.k.

later on one day but he had researching his ph d. when he was arrested back in may last week he was sentenced to life imprisonment a surprise that expose which threatened to create a serious diplomatic rift between the u.a.e. and the u.k. as paul brennan reports seven months after his arrest matthew had just going home his wife daniella was the first to react in a radio interview to be honest i wasn't expecting. it taken me by surprise just so there really. really incredulous that this is all happening finally being an absolute nightmare ish six seven months already and i can't wait to have him back the announcement of the presidential pardon came as an early morning news conference in the u.a.e. capital abu dhabi.

really it is all of this in the. piece. that's being seen as a diplomatic compromise the u.a.e. stands by the court's conviction for espionage based on the postgraduate students research work on the u.a.e. security strategies the british government disagrees but witnessed the hedges freedom the compromise is something london is prepared to live with we've made it very clear for a number of months now that we see no basis in these allegations they reflect on that they've taken the action of they can which means that matthew hedges is going to be reunited with his family analysts say the outcome enables both sides to save face but lessons must be learnt i hope that behind the scenes and very careful thought is given to how such things can be involved in the future proper safeguards in the legal process to review things an earlier date so it doesn't get down to the

issues of pardons and clemency and the diplomatic fallout because nobody really wants to see that there's something all sides in this diplomatic route do want to see and that's matthew hedges back in the u.k. within hours paul brennan al-jazeera london. british prime minister to resign may has been addressing parliament where she's trying to convince m.p.'s across the political divide to back her bracks it deal she says the only alternative to that of all steel agreed with the european union on sunday is uncertainty but for many politicians the issue of a backstop for the irish border remains a crucial one mr speaker i know some members remain concerned that we could find ourselves stuck in this backstop so let me address this directly first this is an insurance policy that no one wants to use both the u.k. and the e.u. are fully committed. both the u.k. and the e.u. are fully committed to having our future relationship in place by the first of january twenty twenty one and the withdrawal agreement has

a legal duty on both sides to use best endeavors to avoid the back story of a coming into force as there is lawrence lee joins us now live from central london lawrence has taken what two years of hard negotiations to get this deal agreed with the e.u. so why is it so unpopular back here in the u k. it is curious in a way isn't it because you know you could argue that trees a maze interpretation of bricks in the deal that she's got is actually quite similar to the reasons why people voted early to leave which was to stop immigration and to take back the money from europe and the rule of law in that thing but and things to the customs union of the backstop were not mentioned at all during the referendum and yet now that that the customs union is now being used to stick to beat stories and may with all these politicians really like people have been told are going to get a racing car for christmas and instead they've got a rusty bicycle with stabilisers on it and they're saying well we're going to ride around in that thing and freeze and they say well you got no choice because there's

no other presence and you have to get on it and get used to riding it around but at the moment frankly they're going to vote the thing down she's going to go around the country the next two weeks trying to persuade the electorate across the country that it is the only deal in the hope she can persuade people to to change their minds but if she loses the vote we are really in political no man's land. you know i mean it takes too long to explain exactly what will happen if that vote doesn't get the go ahead from parliament but it leaves the country if she doesn't get by go ahead it leaves the country in. chaos and uncertainty. that there are at least six different options i won't go through them all but the default position is no deal forming out economic chaos people not knowing what's going on i think i think that there's so much opposition so that it really is going to fall of the next fortnight so all the opposition parties mostly the labor party which has a vague position still in brics it's to try to find an alternative strategy that

could mean a second referendum it could mean suspending the process that i think is the most likely of all options or to go back to the european union and even try to have yet another votes if they can get it honestly if they see we could we could still be here talking about this before we retire. that's quite some time to come as well and thank you. well the supreme court has counseled former president mohamed nasheed thirteen year jail sentence for terrorism the court said the island nation's first democratically elected leader was wrongfully charged and his case should not have proceeded to trial and she has been living in exile in sri lanka for the last two years in september the party he previously led unexpectedly won the general election president donald trump has dismissed asylum seekers trying to cross into the us from mexico as stone cold criminals and is threatening to close the border to stop them getting through the sunny side for a border crossing in california was shot temporarily until gas fired at the asylum

seekers on monday as they try to jump over a fence from the mexican city of tijuana more than five thousand central american asylum seekers have fled to the border in recent weeks saying they're trying to escape violence and poverty the u.s. car manufacturing giant general motors is slashing up to eight thousand jobs in north america it will also close down three assembly plants in ohio michigan and in ontario in canada the company says it plans to cut production of slow selling models and shift more investment to electric and autonomous vehicles restructuring is expected to save the company around six billion dollars india is marking the tenth anniversary of the deadly mumbai attacks ceremonies have been held across the city to commemorate the one hundred sixty six people killed over three days in two thousand and eight ten gunmen from the pakistan based group lashkar e tayyiba attacked hospitals hotels public buildings and the jewish center one

hundred forty five whales have died after being stranded on a remote beach in southern new zealand a hiker discovered the pilot whales on stewart island seventy five were already dead the others were put to sleep by vets because of their poor health. the film world is mourning the loss of an italian master but not openly bertolucci whose dazzling visuals and provocative storylines sent him cinemas highest accolades has died in rome at the age of seventy seven. spock his life. was. sold. to.

him lauded as a luminary of european cinema. who created dazzling complex worlds. such as the last emperor a biopic of the chinese and propos ye the first western feature film to gain commissioned to shoot in beijing's forbid in the city it won him nine a cad to me awards in one nine hundred eighty eight zero. while he worked with a list american and international stars but she was fiercely protective of his own filmmaking style he railed against what he said was the pressure of the u.s. film industry and it drove his critical successes but she also fell foul of film senses for his more sexually provocative work. most famously for the last time go

in paris starring marlon brando and maria schneider the controversy from one nine hundred seventy two was reignited two years ago when it was revealed that schneider was not prepared for the film's notorious rape scene it left schneider traumatized the years and was a precursor to the me two campaign that has since march hollywood but these films were awash with his own psychoanalytical experiences a director whose first love was poetry the cannes film festival paid tribute to him calling him a giant of italian filmmaking part of the pantheon of cinematic greats so did i go . undermind of the top stories here on al-jazeera ukraine's president has signed a decree detailing his plans to impose temporary martial law the proposal now has to be agreed by the parliament which is gathering in kiev it follows

a naval clash between ukrainian and russian vessels in the black sea on sunday where chalons has more from moscow. his view and he's articulated this to the nation with a televised address is to the parliament as well is that essentially ukraine is a country that is under assault of the moments that it has. to defend itself and defend its interests against russian aggression and therefore this martial law proposal resumption is necessary to safeguard national security. the u.n. security council is also missing in emergency session in new york to discuss the flare up in tensions as a meeting was called by both ukraine and russia. turkish police investigating the murder of the saudi journalist jamal who have been searching two villages in the northwest of the country offices using dogs and

a drone have scoured the properties and one hundred kilometers from istanbul the shorties remains have still not been found most two months after he was killed in cite the saudi consulate a turkish military helicopter has crashed in istanbul killing four soldiers it hit the roof of a four story apartment building as it tried to make an emergency landing in the east of the city so civilians were injured but a fifth soldier on board was taken to intensive care. a british academic accused of spying in the united arab emirates has been granted a peasant presidential pardon and is expected fly home to the u.k. later on monday hedges had been researching his ph d. when he was arrested at dubai airport in may last week he was sentenced to life in prison for spying. the british prime minister has told m.p.'s the u.k. would be thrust into the unknown if parliament rejects her bricks it deal to raise about has been speaking in westminster trying to win over critics from within her own party as well as the opposition that it was approved by the e.u.

parliament on sunday. has headlines here on al-jazeera counting the cost is coming next thanks for watching. as i'm seeking this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics italy wants to spend its way out of an economic slump but it's breaking european rules by doing it. also this week tales from the crypt oh why prices of digital currencies like bitcoin f.

area and report are collapsing. plus a dramatic fall from grace for rockstar c.e.o. shifts a key alliance in the auto industry into reverse. by economic drama is playing out between italy and the european union italy has broken easy budget rules and now the message from the european commission is clear the euro zone's third biggest economy won't be getting away with its largely has more from brussels. rome may be the eternal city but it's looking like someone needs to give it some attention the social as well as physical fabric of italy has been unraveling for years with high unemployment and the persistently stagnant economy. rather than pointing to the endemic corruption in italy has always suffered the populist coalition government has squarely blames austerity imposed by the european union on its problems but their vows to break hardline spending rules from brussels

has led inevitably to an all out confrontation with the european commission which has said it will impose sanctions and fines honestly if it doesn't change its budgets strace the situation in italy is of common concern euro area countries are in the same team and should be playing by the same rules the response to all that from opponents of austerity would be look what happened to greece which eventually agreed to european demands and suffered years of economic hardship from which is still barely recovering the most important politician in italy the hard rights interior minister matteo salvini said he was ready for a fight. the letter from brussels has arrived i was expecting one from santa claus as well we will respond politely as we always did but i will not back down the obvious political risk for the european commission in trying to beat italy into submission is that it's a political tool for people like salvini who will say it only proves how

undemocratic european institutions are asserting solving rights will be a key thing for populists not just in italy but across the continent before european elections next may if the european commission doesn't get its way by then the european parliament could look very different if he looks determined to change the direction of europe's economic strategy the consequences could be destabilizing . with joining me now from london is simon french chief economist with pan you gordon thanks very much for being with us so what are the scenarios here if italy doesn't budge on its budget has the european commission going to respond well we're already seeing indications from the european commission that they're not prepared to tolerate what's are some fairly ambitious growth targets from the timing government and a budget deficit the at this point in the cycle is not consistent with getting

their debt burden which is about one hundred thirty percent of g.d.p. under control and this all stems back to the stability and growth pact which underpins the euro zone it is the sort of the fiscal discipline and to your question what i think the commission against do is look to get the italian government come in with more realistic expectations of or can be done over the near term in terms of fiscal stimulus but also balancing the long term sustainability of their finances and what about the fear that this could escalate into a wider debt crisis that could hurt the rest of the block out how real is that fear i don't think it's so real in terms of the near term or is the contagion risk around the earth zone is is fairly limited particularly with the european central bank still in buyer bond buying for spawn buying program i think the issue is much more idiosyncratic to italy rather than presenting a a structural risk of the type that we saw in twenty eleven twelve so are we seeing

kind of a slow burning crisis here then in terms of the markets up to this to this point haven't reacted too much to this but is that something that could change further down the line i think that is the question a slow burning crisis of what i would describe as democratic legitimacy of the euro zone project in italy. and the being a member of the euro remains very popular amongst the italian electorate about two thirds of them still support ongoing membership but what they are uncomfortable with is the obligations that come with the let's call it the privilege of being in the euro zone the obligations are to be relatively all stare in terms of their fiscal outlook and something that successive italian governments have been fairly poor doing they've run an average deficit of about three percent of g.d.p. of the last twenty years so to be asked to pare back at this time towards two

percent at the same point as they've elected a coalition government to want to be much more expansionary comes with its democratic challenges rather than its financial challenges just picking up on that idea of being expansionary italian government are obviously convinced that this is the right thing to do for their economy to spend their way out of it what's what's your view on that well the problem is that having gone down the road of the last twenty years of euro zone membership with the economic policy prescription we've had italian growth has been less than one percent year on year over a twenty year period now that simply isn't sustainable and of course there is madness in trying the same policy prescription over and over again expecting a different result i think what you need to see to break this impasse is the italian government saying look we want to be more expansionary on the fiscal side

but we're also going to do a lot more on the structural reforms side to raise the trend rates of growth in italy because ultimately that is what all sides of this one of the discussion but the europeans and the italians want to see a higher rate of trend growth but there are some painful decisions that come with that that might be to trade that they have to do to get through this level of deficit spending would you say europe is more worried about what's happening with it to lead then then brags it right now. i think brics it is the the the near term risk so it depends on your time horizon in terms of what is going to impact euro zone growth the outlook confidence over the next couple of quarters i think bret's it sits front and center is the most important risk for the european union in the euro zone to manage having said that beyond a withdrawal letter transition a new economic arrangement the longer term question is whether countries like italy

but there are others on the periphery who are happy with their membership but are not happy with the implications in terms of control over fiscal policy how we come to a position of agreement on that we've seen comments from john claude younker the commission president and also from mario draghi on the fact that requires more europe and yet this is a time when popularist claiming electoral victories on the mandate of less europe that is the circle that needs to be closed all right good to speak with you simon french thanks for being with us my pleasure now as of this month u.s. sanctions on iran have slapped back into place and they're aimed right at the heart of the islamic republic's economy and oil but one business in particular believes it is virtually sanction proof the growers and traders of saffron samus ravi reports from top but it had that in northeastern iran. saffron doesn't need much

water to grow so traders are encouraging farmers dealing with nearly a decade of drought to swap crops the farm to table process can be labor intensive delicate work but in the end it's a lucrative. ninety percent of iran saffron is exported and a kilogram can sell her around fifteen hundred dollars the spices a key ingredient in cosmetics perf human food and medicine the international demand is high and people who wanted will usually find a way to get it. sellers say that makes us sanctions a buyers problem. fortunately not even sanctions have had an impact it's actually better because the prices going up. packed into these little boxes is the culmination of hours of manual labor by dozens of people and that's why this sought after spice is so expensive so can safir on save or runs economy technically it is

possible but there is a problem of scale iran does not make enough saffron accounts for less than one percent of iran's overall revenue from exports. still it's big business in small town iran and profits are up. though for some it can be backbreaking thankless work. the harvest season lasts only a month and pickers are out from dawn to dusk they say the minimum wage is not enough to them what we live in poverty we come here early in the morning and sometimes when i come home my child complains saying i don't see you we're not even off on fridays government has poured money into helping the saffron sector thrive the benefits have yet to trickle all the way down. now still to come on counting the cost and catherine saw in a warehouse in south in tanzania i'll be telling you about costs in that crisis

that has forced the government to step in and deploy the military to take charge. first he was so famous in japan he even had his own comic book series a color scones arrest and firing this week from this and motors has been splashed across the world's financial pages is charged with underreporting his income and misuse of company funds gun was also the driving force behind the. mitsubishi alive and there's now a leadership vacuum in the operation which sold ten point six million cars last year that's actually going to name has more carlos gono was an auto industry leader respected by many in japan now he's in jail and fired as chairman of nissan we're going to hole. it is not desirable that the foundations of the company are shaken by the arrest of gone but we are going to work hard so that it works in

favor of the alliance. prosecutors say a whistleblower alerted them that going conspired to under-report his salary by about forty five million dollars at nissan's money to finance homes from brazil to beirut. i'm very surprised that this happened to the leader of the company that makes the car i drive i really hope this is some kind of mistake. go on has been credited with reviving nissan and forging a formidable alliance with mitsubishi and reno there are a lot of people on the board of all these companies and i know how to run a car company but the problem is his job was to knit together all these different interests and try and you know forge ahead with this kind of integrated global carmaker without him there is hard to see that happening news of his arrest reverberated in france where the country own a fifteen percent stake in reno the gets you know the state doesn't.