briefings but many remain concerned trump might be using his leverage to shield sodje crown prince mohammed bin samantha from facing international isolation of course the white house wants to control information and what it considers classified information or operations of the cia that's not that is not surprising but the congress has a legal rights and obligations as a co equal branch of the united states government with or with the president to exercise oversight of the intelligence process part of that includes being briefed on the most sensitive matters been said meanwhile has started his first following since it was. in the soggy consulate in istanbul last month the trip is widely seen as an attempt by the saudi crown prince to repair his reputation which has been badly damaged by his suspected involvement in the. house of.

john james a former senior congressional advisor he says it would be unusual if the head of the cia didn't attend the briefing or it is a departure of protocol to not have someone and if a top ranking official from the intelligence community not testify at this briefing and when you look at mr ball in his comments today it's obvious that he is pretty comfortable with the status of the u.s. saudi relationship and he's not inclined to support a change in that relationship and he probably feels commenting on the specific tape would that be of any help in terms of adjusting his position in any way whatsoever but at some point in time the trump administration is going to have to decide if they are going to fish or cut bait when it comes to the question. of course and has launched an investigation into

a complaint to kissing saudi crown saudi arabia's crown prince of human rights violations hundreds of people protested against visit to tunis the latest leg of his middle east and africa tour and says first trip abroad says jamal khashoggi was mad as nearly two months ago well saudi arabia's crown prince has now left syria. and is heading to argentina for the g. twenty meeting as demolish all reports will have been some months visit led to protests on the streets of tunis. you are not welcome that is the message to prime prince mohammed bin from hotels stores in chinese u.s. capital they gathered in the center of the city with banners and talk college the nonsense of visits of the saudi royal amount they believe to be a war criminal and an enemy of democracy with the murder of journalist ramallah for sure she's still fresh in people's minds and the war in yemen putting people almost on a daily basis hundreds of chinese young say they felt the need to demonstrate against

bin some. say we are against mohammed bin so mom's visit to referee sheraton isea to free tunisia to democratic tennessee and he has deprived his people of democracy he's a murderer no just that he's a butcher he kills his people he speaks for the palestinian cause and he kills human rights he simply some women activists and really just scholars he's not welcome. many people in tunisia feel the purpose of this research is to help legitimize the crown prince after he appeared to be isolated by charge of the international community after official g.'s murder images like this arguably stronger than the chance of the protesters the message from those protesters is louder here are not only are they fighting against the brotherhood of the crimes for the but also against the men of this want to protect him you don't want your money that's was you know now there's a woman and child. and devastated the country i was there to listen for just that

they also hear themselves in the whites of one of the millions of our across the region who are now. our friends. because of the lack of freedom. the previous three stops and been seven months to or were egypt behind and the united arab emirates cairo is viewed by many as a military dictatorship while manana and bobby are also criticized by human rights groups for cracking down on freedoms and not long public protests. to newseum may not be the only bad publicity for the crown prince on tuesday human rights watch announced it had filed a submission with a federal prosecutor in argentina where he's expected to attend the g. twenty summit in a couple of days the submission requests that the court's investigate been some amount for war crimes and his role in the murder treaty signed by such a claim can indeed be pursued just as the crown prince is trying to prove that he

isn't isolated internationally his critics are doing everything they can to ensure he's got two accounts even if it's only in the court of public opinion. and as i came to live pictures there we are of one us airways new arrival of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed and salam in the argentinian city it's the first part of the first tour that he's made a bold since the matter of time out because she nearly two months ago as possible still ahead on this including the woman who said she'd happily take a front for the public hanging winning a cease and the u.s. senate. people in georgia voting in a runoff presidential election as seen as crucial for the governing party. and as for the big wave jewels challenge alive lives up to its name in hawaii.

and best arises in indonesia say the budget airline plane that plunged into the sea last month killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board should not have been flying line a boeing seven three seven max had experienced technical problems on the on a flight a day before the reports from to casa. it was in a nice just second worst disaster the lion in a boeing seven three seven crashed into the java sea just thirteen minutes after takeoff from jakarta airport of the one hundred eighty nine passengers and crew on board the bodies of sixty four have yet to be recovered. by eliminating the results showed at the same plane had previously experienced faulty data readings investigators say the pilots who flew the plane from bali the night before the crash should have a board to death flight the flight for all but only. because. we're

sure. because they're worth. in this way. but the pilot continued to trip to jack after and managed to land safely after turning off the automatic anti stalling system or m.c.s. a feature on the new seven three seven max eight planes the pilot on the flight that crashed the next day did not do that the voice recorder which has yet to be found will have to give more clarity about his decisions. lion air's rapid expansion in indonesia's fast growing airline industry has put huge pressure on pilots who have complained about long working days and even violating regulations on flying hours a lot of questions not only for boeing about technical the facts on their new mex eight planes but also for lie in air the budget airline has the largest fleet in

southeast asia and is now on the road a lot of pressure to improve its safety culture this will be too late for ariadne's husband if. the body of the thirty five year old father of two has yet to be recovered only his driver's license was found at a yanni has lost confidence in lyon air. they need to be closed down because they don't prioritize safety if they would prior to safety then they will make sure everything is checked to properly calls for sanctions or even the closure of the airlines are also forced in parliament if they can guarantee passenger safety and if they don't want to attend i told them we need to just close them down lion air sas it will comply with all the recommendations from the transport safety commission one of the recommendations is to give more training for pilots boeing has issued an advisory about the anti stalling system after pilots complained they

were not well enough informed about how it works the final result about what happened to j t s six one zero is not expected until sometime next year step fasten al-jazeera jack after. the afghan president has announced a road map for peace negotiations with the taliban speaking as an international conference in geneva ashraf ghani said he formed a twelve person team to negotiate with the armed group is a presidential elections in the spring were an important part of the process ghani warns that it would take at least five years to implement a peace deal after several months of intensive consultation with our citizens across the country we formulated a roadmap for peace negotiations we formed the required bodies in mechanisms to pursue a peace agreement where now moving ahead into the next chapter of the peace process we seek a peace agreement in which to have one taliban would be included in

a democratic inclusive society russia turkey and iran holding two days of talks on syria and the cause that capital delegations of the syrian government and the opposition are expected to attend the negotiations will not lead to an internationally backed political deal but russia is pushing for a breakthrough on a un constitutional committee so how to report from a stana. another meeting on syria in the capital asked to know a negotiating track shaped by russia iran and turkey it has become a forum for the main power brokers in the syrian conflict who use their influence over the warring sides to make deals the latest was a prisoner exchange between the syrian government and the opposition it's hoped that the detainees file will see progress during the talks but they haven't been as effective when tackling of the main political issues supposed to be resolved in the geneva based un led process to having so many players and just having one sort of

side of the actors in there isn't enough to come to some sort of comprehensive peace deal there was an attempt to expand the asked in a format to include members of the so-called small group during a meeting in istanbul last month's russia and turkey brought the leaders of france and germany to the table but there was no commitment for a second summit instead the europeans insisted a un committee should start work on rewriting the syrian constitution before the end of the year. i. had. the. on their. site. but russia's believed to be pushing for some kind of achievement that it can sell to the west damascus has so far refused to cooperate with the u.s. led diplomatic efforts president vladimir putin sent his special envoy alexander

labyrinth you have to damascus reportedly to remove obstacles in the way of forming the committee for the kremlin asked in a is where breakthroughs in russian diplomacy must be made an agreement on a constitutional committee would be just that it will however need the backing of the united nations the u.n. says it must be credible inclusive and balanced its special envoy stefan the mistura is here in what appears to be his last diplomatic mission before leaving office creating the committee may be the easy part the opposition which now has little leverage wants a new constitution that will curtail presidential powers and lead to free elections the syrian government says the committee's task is to review the existing charter not come up with a new one it's quite clear going to. negotiate a way. they're not going to give that up.

prepared to. it's not going to be enough for players like. the west wants damascus to first engage in the u.n. political process before it discusses money for reconstruction russia wants to move to the post-war stage but it knows concessions will have to be made. joins us live now from. this comes just a month after a meeting in istanbul also on syria what are the chances of brokering a settlement in the conflict. well really the main stumbling block is that un constitutional committee europe the west they want this committee to be created as soon as possible they want this committee to start work to rewrite the syrian constitution in other words to really change the system of government in syria to curtail the presidential powers damascus has been resisting

it has not been for example accepting the list that has been drawn up by the united nations of people who are going to sit down and this committee it's not even accepting the fact that the united nations is going to lead this committee it's also questioning the mandate of the u.n. constitutional council saying it cannot rewrite the constitution all it has to do is to revise certain articles now russia understands that it needs to make concessions it needs to offer something to the west if it wants to move forward if it wants any political settlement to have international backing to have international legitimacy so how much will russia give what we understand from our sources here is that there has been about behind the scenes negotiations between the u.n. special envoys the father mistura who is here in aston a and the russian delegations they are discussing the names on that u.n. list now whether or not an agreement will be reached that is very difficult to say the opposition at the same time believes that this this should happen because refugees cannot return to syria reconstruction money will not poor in the country

look at the end of the day the syrian government controls sixty percent of the country they control the main cities but it is the northeast of the country where the economy of syria is based the agriculture the oil and who controls that area it is the kurdish groups along with the u.s. government so basically they are going to need the support of the international community if it is going to reconstruct the country but to do that it has to make concessions dana many thanks. i don't just dream i was will have all the weather with and then still ahead head on out of there up off to one month on the road we catch up with central american asylum seekers who now have one more reason to reach the united states. through trying to rape in kenya. and free to use

and if any should go into. yet another storm system late springs top systems rolled through new south wales and the holes southeastern corner of the of australia and focused on sydney giving me a month's worth of rain in one day and the result was it inevitable flooding now of course it caused delays there forty trees time because with the rain we had fairly strong winds as well. maybe you shouldn't address the fact that police car that was stopped now the rain has almost stopped this thing has bowled through and gone off shore is just the latest in what's been a series of storms in unusual late springs also brought a large number of fires early in the season the other story that only just dying now is the temperature that we saw for the north. go offshore and the cold front brought maybe less hot weather we have seen within the tropics in cairns tension

excessive force degrees where you don't get forty's in the tropics you don't get forty's in cairns to be honest so if you recorded once that's in the summer of one thousand nine hundred three never been recorded in the vendor at all now it is slightly cooler today and there are big showers around indeed the whole who will story is quieter than it was. the weather sponsored by the time place. went on line for you looking at wildlife and. come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to be long term for that or if you join a sunset if you could take me around the content well you don't have to set up here experiment for your experiment in the universe this is a dialogue everyone has a voice you actually raise several interesting point there that some of our community members are going to join the global conversation on now to zero the important thing if you're walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. gunshots i was the first one to feed the whole to.

the battle lasted three days and three nights and there were no prisoners in control of the under control of the region around that's why it was such a bloody battle an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil beirut holiday. hotels on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera has a mind of our top stories this hour saudi arabia's crown prince has landed in argentina as cops hold one of the areas for the g twenty summit in not sports as

far as a legal complaint in and it wants an investigation and hundreds on one's alleged role and. in the saudi consulate in istanbul and the war in yemen. the director of the cia will reportedly not take pause and the u.s. senate briefing on the murder of the jamal khashoggi the secretaries of state and defense will brief senators on wednesday on the saudi journalists killing. and russia says it is planning to deploy more s. four hundred surface to air missiles the crimean peninsula ten regions in ukraine are under martial law for the next few days after russia. and seize ukrainian naval boats in the black sea. i'm just taking you back to now you can see mom had been. french just disembarking from his plane which landed a few moments ago on the tarmac of the cuff from argentina. for

the g. twenty meeting of global leaders which starts on the. it's all part of my first tour abroad since the murder of the journalist. just around about two months ago now even friendly countries the us the middle east but also then to june of zero where he met some protests human rights in order to meet in sting summit for him here in argentina potentially awkward photo opportunities for him as the global condemnation over the murder of jamal khashoggi just about two months ago. the saudi consulate in istanbul. continuously denied involvement we know that u.s. president donald trump took his presence. are planning to meet on the sidelines of

the conference but we are hearing from a top security aide is not planning to meet the saudi prince there is getting into his convoy in. preparing for that g twenty summit which is set to start on friday let's bring you more now on the growing tensions between ukraine and russia and we can talk to andrew symonds who is live for us in. the ukraine is response to all this so far has been to impose martial law which came into effect just over three hours ago now what's petro poroshenko been saying about. well this is all coincided this martial law starting which is the first time we've had martial law in ukraine since twenty fourteen away and crimea was seized by russia annexed that then turned into a martial law situation but did not last now we've got nearly half of the country

under martial law it means a curfew it means less freedom for people it means also. is sure that he will be able to improve defenses and what he's saying right now is he's warning that there could be a full scale war he thinks russia is preparing for war on it he says that they've massed tanks on the borders and now we've had this move it isn't coincidental of the s four hundred extra battalion going to be deployed on the crimean peninsula before the end of the year it would seem so all the escalation is pointing in one direction and you've just been referring to the g twenty summit well it would appear that certainly the u.s. president donald trump is considering not having a meeting with vladimir putin the russian president he said in the washington post that he was considering calling off that meeting not sure yet but what's really

cutting to the chase on poroshenko what he's trying to do is get some food action some action instead of rhetoric from his allies particularly the united states against russia and i russia has a siege mentality is used to this situation it's not really flinching much it's expecting perhaps more than that in the way of sanctions continues to warn that ukraine is effectively. really trying to push the situation and benefit the existing president who faces elections at the. end of march next year and so they're really saying that this is provocation but pershing co is insisting that this is a serious situation now a major escalation and he says he will prove that he did inform not him personally but his commanders did inform the russians that their three boats were approaching

the straits and they were wanting permission to pass through under the curch bridge before they were attacked and he will prove that with audiotapes if necessary so this is not going away it is escalating laura and it is indeed ok at the moment thanks very much as. a military analyst and columnist for the via get that and joins us from moscow what's russia's response been to kiev imposing martial law on much of its country amid its warnings of all out war. alone russia has being of course condemning ukrainian what it calls provocations and saying that you create this is a move by a part a friend to help you to power in the coming march presidential elections that this is internally motivated by

a crane and of course russia is sending signals that it is reinforcing its troops in the region and specific where announced the sending and the battery or in russia it's called division the rest four hundred to reinforce the those that are already in crimea so that now they're going to be four divisions which more or less is a kind of two regiments of s.l. corps hundreds and that's not really against the very small ukrainian air force that's to keep the west away right ok because there's no i mean this martial law is not really a provocation is that it's a response to russia's provocation of seizing three ukrainian base in the car straight old that course that hasn't seen from here from the ukrainian point of view in moscow actually not only the government but i think most of the population believes that it's ukrainians at fault so both

sides are kind of digging in their heels right now and that yes there is a real threat based desk away to into a regional confrontation maybe even a war in the coming weeks that is a possibility of russia. by its. apparently they were seen as they got give maybe threatening this crimean bridge which is very important. because the standoff near the bridge lasted for quite a number of hours and when the ukrainians decided to go back to a desk they were given russians were given orders to chase them and stop them using force to most likely to search the boats to see if there was any kind of equipment there to attack the bridge and also of course moscow is very much right now afraid that maybe a greenie and plans to stab wish naval base in the. beer downs i mean we

do nato ships coming in for a friend with visits and that would be a russian nightmare nato in the us of course because. says that the school for permission to pause the cuss trait to pulse the bridge and it isn't is a fact that russian forces have been restricting commercial traffic to ukrainian ports in this area for some time and is having quite a detrimental impact on the ukrainian economy. well there there's a treaty of two thousand and three that russia says is active which made the ass of the church straights join sovereignty zones of russia and ukraine so yes ukrainian ships had the right to pass through russia and actually say russian officials that they would allow them but they made something wrong in the paperwork didn't make an application and time which is of course

a very weak excuse to explain why they shot him in nation and wounded people because they didn't do the paperwork right but of course this is not this is about control of the eyes of see which russia she sees as very strategically important and of course in moscow almost everyone at least in the government believes that america and the european union are behind the ukrainians that the ukrainians are just the front that this is a proxy confrontation where russia sees it also syria as a proxy confrontation with the west and with america ok. very very interesting indeed to speak to thanks taking time to join us there from the. people in georgia voting for the president for the last time to form a foreign ministers are in the run off poll and neither one majority and it's fast around the country is transitioning to a parliamentary system future presidents will be chosen by members of parliament and will have reduced powers have been forced to walk or has this update from the

council to d.c. . selami really is the government's choice for presidents she's french all and a former diplomat and she has enjoyed significant financial backing in this campaign from the country's richest man with xena initially who also is the chairman of the governing party despite that despite having that backing behind her she has struggled to connect with voters largely over remarks that she made earlier this year in which she said that georgia should take responsibility for its war with russia back in two thousand and eight that really upset a lot of children's and mr. grig old who was her opponent has been able to capitalize on that so it's going to be a very close race both candidates in the last rounds were virtually neck and neck

and we have the second round runoff because they weren't able to get more than fifty percent of the vote the first time around now what we're hearing is that if mr if i should say when he has promised to bring back members of the former government including you which is. a former president because saakashvili went into exile after being charged with abuse of power if mr saakashvili were to be repatriated to georgia and an opposition party president then that could really inject. turbulence into georgia's political system this vote is being seen really as a vote of confidence in the current government and an important dress rehearsal for parliamentary elections in twenty twenty. the last senate seat that was still up

for grabs in the u.s. went to elections has been decided after a close and controversial race in mississippi we have a consent to hide so that's when it comes despite a series of racially charged comments during the campaign including telling supporters see what except an invitation to public hanging john hendren reports in jackson mississippi. in the last senate election of twenty eighteen cindy hyde smith made history could graduate i should enter m.l. senator and send a state. appointed temporarily in april she is now the first elected female senator from mississippi the reason we won is because mississippi and know me and they know my heart and thank you for stepping out mississippi. she did it by rallying her base in a reliably republican state and by blocking democrat mike espy from making history himself he would have been the first african-american senator from mississippi

since the nineteenth century do you know that we built the largest grassroots organization al state has ever seen in the generation. smith had to recover from a series of self-inflicted wounds telling his supporters she would accept an invitation to a public hanging and sit in the front row it was a major gaffe in a state where five thousand black men were lynched following the american civil war she posed in a confederate civil war cap here where that conflict still holds the power to divide and she joked about voter suppression here where african-americans claim they have been wrongfully stripped of their voting rights here in the birthplace of elvis presley it was all too much for big campaign donors including wal-mart and major league baseball who demanded their money back donald trump made an election eve swing to save the republicans campaign we win tomorrow will be at fifty three forty seven which is substantially more than we. hear in the republican deep south

. the math was always with tide smith no democrat has won statewide election here since nineteen eighty two president trump won here in two thousand and sixteen by eight hundred percentage points and now voters have doubled down choosing a candidate who not only has the president's face on her campaign bus but who has voted with him one hundred percent of the time espy inspired more hope among democrats in mississippi than any member of his party in years but in the end his candidacy reveals the limits of the democratic wave of twenty eight dean and the strength of republicans hold on the u.s. senate john hendren al-jazeera jackson mississippi a three weeks ago al jazeera spends a day on the road with a family who joined a large group of people trying to get the united states at that point that just crossed into mexico and had a long journey ahead of them now twenty five days later and four thousand kilometers on tunnel and caught up with them where the u.s. border.