it was used in an attack on a military parade on thursday. the partial government shutdown in the us is now the longest in history at twenty two days with no end in sight president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall but teeth still demanding congress to approve more than five billion dollars for the project he called on democrats many of whom have now left washington for the weekend to come back and voters but i'd rather not do it because this is something that congress should usually do this is something that the democrats should do and i want to give an easy way out of something as simple as this not only simple it's easy and it's going to shoot europe you know we have a country that is under siege you could actually you know a lot of people don't like the word invasion we have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs and we're going to stop it

so i want the democrats to come back to washington and vote. caster has more from washington d.c. . reports indicate that some of jonell trump's closest advisers including his son in law jared questioner have been cautioning him against declaring a national emergency to get funding for the border wall it is seen as possibly setting a bad precedent and critics say a step toward authoritarianism if he were to issue that declaration also if he does it there's still no real understanding of where the money would come from trump wants five point seven billion dollars to construct the border wall between the u.s. and mexico and right now reporting indicates that that money may come from money set aside for disaster relief in the future which may be an idea that the american public is not so wild about trump himself has indicated that if he were to move

forward with a declaration he'll likely immediately face court challenges that he says he would likely lose in the lower and appellate levels but all of that said this president who has wavered so much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle. weather is next about still ahead on al-jazeera. i arrive an attack by israel effective on

palestinian then the occupied west bank. and south africa's ruling african national congress prepares for elections as its popularity appears to be on the way. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast with more snow is on the way here for central parts of europe where we're dealing with snow all week long it has been deadly in some locations because of the avalanche threat which will continue to stay quite high over the next you days but i want to show you what you can expect to see through the weekend because by the time we get to sunday that is when we are expecting to see our next really big shot of snow across much of the area here up to the north you see the rain but that is going to turn to snow as it makes its way down here towards the south across much of the elves that is going to

add at least another sixty to ninety centimeters of snow on top of what has already fallen so a very dangerous situation there down towards the southeast watching area of low pressure and that is going to make anywhere across the eastern part of the med very very unstable over the next few days here on saturday we are looking at that area of low pressure bringing some rain here to tripoli as well as over here towards been gusty winds are going to be a problem as well and then as we go towards sunday that storm makes its way more towards the east three more heavy rain across parts of the lebanon as well as syria a lot of the refugee camps have been flooded because of the situation here across northern parts of egypt it is going to be windy as well benghazi you'll continue to see more rain in your forecast and tunis it's cloudy day for you with a temperature of fourteen. russian filmmaker. troubles across his homeland to discover what life is like on to putin the russian economy is in question. unstable oil prices fluctuation cards

half of the country struggles to make ends meet in soviet times doctors were in charge economists everything we don't want to think what will happen when the bank takes a. big search of putin's russia. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election has about to challenge the results in court not in favor lewis says he won with a landslide voters of more than sixty percent citing catholic church and that. the

u.s. government shutdown has become the longest in history now in its twenty second day president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall still demanding congress to approve more than five billion dollars to the project. syrian state media says israel has fired several missiles towards its capital damascus unconfirmed reports suggest the strike hits near the city's airport syria says some of them were shot down by ed offenses. a saudi teenager who fled saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada. and was granted asylum after gaining global attention when she barricaded herself in an airport hotel room in bangkok in order to avoid being sent back john hendren has. in a desperate plea from a barricaded hotel room noone urged the world to come to her rescue i'm still and.

i have no choice. they said i have to go to model and. no one can have been right now on friday she got her wish and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world the canadian prime minister's announcement ended a weeklong drama that drew worldwide attention the eighteen year old fled saudi arabia accusing her family of physical and psychological abuse but was detained by the authorities in bangkok who at one point threatened to send her back she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room appealing to the united nations high commission on refugees saying she would be killed if she returned i'm not leaving my own until i see it. i want. the

un agreed in turn to canada saudi arabia already faces international scrutiny over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october that prompted canada to review its arms sales to saudi arabia and. the case has drawn global attention district guardianship laws that require saudi women to get a male guardians permission to travel or escape is said to have inspired other saudi women rajoub mohamed. mock my god is going to start a revolution in saudi arabia go on social media now and watch the accounts off so many young saudis see rob you have shown us that we can do this noone refused to see her father and brother who traveled to bangkok to seek or return in the end it might have been noon savvy use of social media that led her to

a new life in canada as saudi official reportedly told the thai authorities who seized her passport i wish they'd taken her phone instead john hendren al jazeera. four israeli settlers are under house arrest in connection with the killing of a palestinian woman three months ago of fifteen age is in police custody i should be died after a rock was thrown through the windscreen of her car and as harry force that reports from the west bank recent figures suggest the number of violent crimes against palestinians carried out by set is really steep last year. robbie is finding comfort where he can mainly it comes from his family he and his wife i raised eight children together he says they always planned once the kids had finished their schooling to devote more time to each other to travel together about future was shattered in october last year when driving home past an illegal settlement outposts in the occupied west bank their car came under

a hail of rocks and stones enough said. there was a huge explosion in the car the glass fell in my wife and i have been talking in the rocket on the side of her head she fell on me blood came out from her ears and nose my daughter was screaming i didn't know what to do the car was swerving right and left it was the longest three seconds of my life three months on the israeli security services have arrested five students from a religious school at the outpost in connection with a shower robbie's death saying that they collected evidence of extremist and anti zionist religious ideology consistent with what's referred to in the israeli media as jewish tara the suspects are reported to be from the illegal settlement of yitzhar near the palestinian city of nablus for all the attention is raised this attack is not an isolated one it's part of a patent a surge according to recently published figures of attacks by settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank in july twenty fifteen a husband wife and their toddler son were killed in the fire bombing of a palestinian home in the west bank village of duma

a crackdown by israel's security services saw a reduction in settler violence but last year the numbers rose sharply again it's reported there were four hundred eighty two and the palestinian crimes are three fold increase on the previous year the incidents include assaults vandalism of vehicles and property as well as threatening graffiti israeli human rights group ph d. and recorded twenty five such incidents in just one day last month after two israeli soldiers and one baby were killed in palestinian attacks it says too many settler crimes against palestinians go unpunished we've had about over twelve hundred investigation files that we've documented and want to turd since two thousand. five in eight percent of those indictments were served and in a mere three percent were any convictions served we also noted that eighty two percent of investigation files are closed in circumstances that suggest police investigate a failure to israeli police call those figures misleading and incorrect your google

robbie says he is finding some solace in the fact that suspects have been arrested in connection with his wife's killing he hopes that any eventual punishment will act as a deterrent to others but whether the freed or jailed for one hundred years he says nothing will bring back his wife hari force at al-jazeera in the occupied west bank . opponents of venezuela's president are challenging his right to a second term protesters rallied at the office of the organization of american states in the capital caracas after nicolas maduro started another six year term on thursday countries throughout the americas are refusing to recognize the legitimacy of. south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has launched its campaign for this year's general election with a message of unity it's being seen as a test of the group's popularity after years of scandal and division under former ousted president jacob zuma kmita miller reports from. these community members

sing outside a courtroom lousy in the city of durban are seeking justice appearing in court an african national congress councillor accused of killing another councilor from the party it's been three months and sputum up more was shot and killed. his family says he was targeted because of factional infighting within the party we sort of the truth is we live in fear because we don't know what's happening we can see now there are two factions in the organisation. the government says forty councillors have been killed in the past seven years mainly because of power struggles and greed of a government contracts so that ricans are due at the polls in the coming months to vote for provincial representatives as well as a new president president it's all is important for political parties the province has the second highest number of voters but it's also where the ruling a.n.c. which is riddled by disunity faces one of its biggest challenges president jacob

zuma resigned last year after a long running corruption scandal and was replaced by civil remark. but zuma despite the allegations continues to enjoy significant support in his home of course a little adding to concerns of a split within the party the a.n.c. leadership had a message of unity touring the party's one hundred seventh birthday celebrations this week. we have all this here where you with all of all of this is there another i slowly and yes really you need to see that both of the things you can see from a person his first general election as president of the a.n.c. is trying to solidify his position in the party ways approved appears to be split between him and his peter says a jacob zuma so that some of the biggest regions of the cross the country are in caves and so it's very important to understand that if your candidate is weak

divide it has possibility to divide or to cause massive rifts within the city and of course this is the. most. cause in a towel is form a stronghold of opposition the inkatha freedom party there are concerns that a lack of unity within the a.n.c. allegations of corruption and poor delivery of services could see the party lose some of its support to its rival. was in a town. it's been nearly three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami destroyed parts of the indonesian island of still away thousands of survivors are still living in tents aid has been pouring into the region but there are complaints that a lack of coordination is hampering distribution and relocation has been slow step bason reports from. the name of this small fishing boat sums up the mood and tragedy survived the waves as high as palm trees on september twenty eight well

many other boats were destroyed like the one owned by hamidi for months he has not been able to earn a living. because my boat and nets i cannot work and just sit here doing nothing i'm disappointed but i can only wait and see what the government will do for me. others are not so patient has started to rebuild his house right by the sea after his village was destroyed his community moved to the hills many now have returned to restart their business selling dried fish despite a government plan to relocate them to safer areas. when i'm in the hills i can only eat and sleep here because screeches already been coming in i have to work. the government plans to build temporary houses for fifteen hundred families but survivors complain the construction process is too slow after living in tents for months of. growing impatient extreme heat and the rainy season making it unbearable

to live here despite the outpouring of help survivors say it's taking too long for their life story. aid from all over the world has reached the area but some promise donations have yet to arrive a government adviser was in charge of rebuilding after the indian ocean tsunami in two thousand and four blames a lack of coordination and too many regulations. like this. because. something wrong. but the government denies that rebuilding is slow and says it's very capable of dealing with the aftermath of the disaster in contrast from the relief efforts after the tsunami and this one is relying less on foreign aid

organizations and is trying to involve local communities as much as possible in this case we were only asked to support them with support services in terms of logistics base camp support. this is somewhat new for us because we have many other services that we could provide but a stronger the national society the more they will shift towards the support services. new approach shows that it has come a long way since previous disasters and his neighbors say they are beginning to restart their lives with or without help from the government stop fast and al-jazeera. and these are the top stories the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election has vowed to challenge the results in court most unfairly

says he won with a landslide vote of more than sixty percent citing catholic church and action observers. the u.s. government shutdown has become the longest in history now in its twenty second day president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his border war but he's still demanding congress approve more than five billion dollars for the project. syrian state media says israel has fired several missiles towards its capital damascus unconfirmed reports suggest the strikes hit near the city's airport syria says some of them were shot down by its edge offense's mohammed a doctor has more this is all the force talk all such time that israel is among to mom syria over the pows to use mounted over two hundred of such a tugs all of these to try to keep him. influence of course of the moment pull watching president bush out of the us at the last march to to the elves

possible block from the city i'm a position groups on these letus all togged comes also to harm when the us troops in c.b.l. have saved this begun with brutal week the u.s. secretary of state says the united states will continue to support its allies in the fight against i still despite its military withdrawal from syria mike pump aoe is in the united arab emirates on the latest leg of his tour of the middle east a saudi teenager who fled saying she feared her family would kill her is on her way to canada half mohammed was granted asylum after gaining global attention when she barricaded herself in an airport hotel room in bangkok in order to avoid being sent back opponents of venezuela's president challenging his right to a second term protesters rallied at the office of the organization of american states in the capital caracas after nicolas maduro started another six year term on

thursday countries throughout the americas are refusing to recognize as a tennessee to rule those are the headlines next up inside story. headlines warned the streets of melbourne australia are by next to its citizens under threat but after a good game. but how real it is clear. one east investigates. remembering jamal khashoggi a hundred days after his marriage to turkey wants a saudi suspects to stand trial in istanbul will justice seven be served or will diplomatic and trade links overall human rights principles this is inside story. at the at it. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully back to one hundred days

since the murder of jamal high shoji friends politicians and human rights activists have all been honoring the saudi journalist they organized a vigil at the saudi consulate in istanbul where he was killed three months ago and a memorial service was held in the u.s. congress in washington some members are pressuring president trying to evaluate relations with saudi arabia and its crown prince mohammed bin solomon who is widely suspected of ordering the killing if we decide the commercial interest should override the statements that we make in the actions that we take then we must admit that we have lost all moral authority to talk about any atrocities anywhere any time we must carry a mission to defend the free press our strongest boerewors against injustice and friends and former colleagues are. stepping up their demands for justice.

story is not just about the murder of one innocent journalist to mauls killing is part of an escalating attack against press freedom that's being waged by tyrants around the world and that's why we can't just let jamal story fade away his assassination in many ways i believe is a red line it's a threshold where those who believe in human rights and those who believe in free speech must stand firm against those who would callously snuff them out. well let's look back at the main events in the murder investigation high shoji was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second eight days later take issue investigators identified nineteen saudi suspects they included a so-called hit squad the tech to say the fifteen man team killed her shoji and dismembered his body in november the u.s. treasury impose sanctions on seventeen saudis among them the royal court advisor

tiny a few days later u.s. media reported the cia's conclusion that the saudi crown prince ordered the killing president donald trump defended mohammed bin salman saying we may never know all of the facts the u.s. senate passed a resolution last month holding mohammed been someone responsible songe arabia said it put eleven suspects on trial last week but didn't name them techies leaders say the culprits should stand trial in istanbul and if the saudis refused to hand them over they'll be tried in absentia elu. well let's bring in our panel now from istanbul matthew brize a senior fellow at the atlantic council a former u.s. ambassador to azerbaijan and former white house official in beirut we have rami kouri professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard university and from cornwall in the u.k.

on skype david haye human rights lawyer and co-founder of the legal consultancy sterling hay and detained international welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story ronnie corey. was your friend has anything positive come about in the last one hundred days that make you whole for all that justice will be served for tomorrow i would say yes there are some hopeful signs as well as some negative ones the most interesting i think and significant thing is the incredible brit called. annuity of serious international concern about what happened to her about the behavior of the so the government the apparent connections with the crown prince his office clearly him possibly and the lying that the saudis did for a month or two about this the cover up these things have generated tremendous pushback internationally in the media and civil society some businesses and

government actions in some cases postponing weapons deals and things like that so the intrusion into the governance system and the actions of the saudi government at the highest level of the crown prince levy of the crown prince affectively runs the country at the very highest level this intrusion is unprecedented it's continuing and it's going to probably get more intense when the american congress fully expresses itself with legislation in the coming weeks probably matthew brize any stumble your thoughts has anything concrete being done to bring justice to this gruesome murder. well nothing in the sense of a legal case that's seen the light of day in actual prosecution that's true one step that could be taken would be to renew calls for an international investigation an international tribunal to try those the perpetrators of this murder but the political winds have shifted i think quite dramatically in washington again that's not bringing justice to to the murderer murderers but that is changing the climate

dramatically we've already seen in the u.s. senate a bipartisan vote fifty six to forty one condemning the murder and been solomon crown prince. and i think what we've seen a precipitous drop in foreign direct investment into saudi arabia since. death so there are consequences but still not justice you say the political winds have shifted matthew but my compare the u.s. secretary of state delivered a speech in cairo on u.s. foreign policy on thursday with zero mention of jamal khashoggi the u.s. senate as you say pass a resolution holding the conference responsible and yet we have seen nothing else since so do you expect any further action from the white house or from congress i don't expect anything from the white house i expect the white house to resist this tooth and nail and try to sweep it all under the rug which is essentially what

secretary pompei owes a speech in cairo tried to do but at the same time i definitely expect more action in congress as i said a moment ago that resolution enjoyed bipartisan support many republicans president trumps closest ally in the senate lindsey graham has been one of the most outspoken critics of muhammad been silent for many things especially the murder of jamal so i think we'll see the house of representatives vote on that resolution in fact that was passed by the senate now that the democrats have taken over and i i think we may see further steps beyond what the congress voted in december two. to stop us aid deliveries for the war in yemen we made a we made our stop u.s. action in yemen sorry we may see an actual end of the weapons deliveries voted in by the congress right david haye in cornwall as matthew says there are growing calls for an international investigation this international inside says the only thing that will guarantee justice is an international investigation under the auspices of the united nations what needs to happen for the u.s.

to get involved is it just up to turkey or are other western countries also needing to be involved at the stage. and i mean i agree with that i think it's we only need to look at the fun of it phrases and even in international the game of thrones if you like of politics and commercial interests even in one country the us we see the president on one side the senate the cia on the other and when we then look at that and compare it to the legal side i agree that the united nations and some form of special tribunal involving turkey perhaps similar to the tribe you know used in lebanon is the way forward because clearly what is happening in saudi isn't hasn't been set up in accordance with international principles of justice and also when we look at turkey it's clear that saudi will not send the people to turkey so in terms of real justice but i'm out holding court and hearing this in either

country where the others are either never going to be extradited or on the present isn't going to get real justice so you believe that a trial in absentia that turkey is calling for right now is not going to achieve anything. well it will it will achieve no doubt convictions against the individuals but the individuals who are main insanity now that you may be able to have you know holds on that travel but if they don't intend to travel what justice is that to jim out let's bring back into the conversation rami on turkey's role here turkey many people will say has a responsibility to continue putting the pressure on the international community for justice to be achieved. for jamal khashoggi what is turkey in the current geopolitical context still willing to put that pressure is turkey still willing to be at the forefront of the quest for justice for jamal. it's not clear if turkey is

going to keep the pressure up and if it's gonna keep demanding justice for. or if it's going to make deals with the united states and the saudis and others for things like containment of the kurdish militias or other issues but turkey is not on trial here the saudi killers and liars uncover uppers and assassins and butchers and body dissolving and acid there's those of the people who are on trial and this is really the central question that we have to keep our focus on and i would just add one point. the beginning you had a clip showing the people in the united states talking about press freedom and press freedom this is way beyond press freedom and jamelle of knowledge of his life he was a journalist but this is about the dignity of four hundred million arab people men and women all over the arab world who simply want to live a decent normal dignified life not to be lied to and not to be threatened not to be

curtailed in their human ambitions to live a normal decent life and the media is just one dimension of this and free expression but it goes way beyond that it's a question of decent citizenship in arab countries and this is a huge battle and one of the reasons that people are fighting back in saudi arabia and the emirates and behind and egypt and other places in the arab world they're pushing back against this is because they don't want to have normal citizenship for their people they want to maintain an autocratic authoritarian system of rule and there they have a law allies and netanyahu and israel and trump and the united states so this is a battle that's going to go on for some time throughout the region in the world a battle that's going to go on for some time rami khouri says matthew what do you see a standing in the way of an international independent investigation. well the main thing is a lack of leadership by the executive branch of the united states government and i

think meeting president trump himself he is never going to show that leadership obviously he's going to do everything ass he possibly can to as i said to to hide the facts he is at war with the free press he calls it fake news he despises the washington post where jamal had his column so you get no leadership out of the white house if the congress does what i was predicting it will do as i said before that will generate some momentum and perhaps then perhaps turkey will feel that it's got sufficient political cover to to take a risk of further antagonizing saudi arabia with which it has poor relations and as we just heard with which it is likely maybe to be able to do something for the united states quote unquote in terms of helping to contain iran and so i think turkey would probably be the most likely candidate to call for that investigation if there's some u.s. leadership that it need some to say any of that turkey has been somewhat dialing

back because of perhaps a deal made between trump and adeline what are your thoughts on this. yeah i see no evidence of that it's certainly possible i think equally plausible is that turkey has been president barack obama and his intelligence services and said are law enforcement agencies they've run out of salacious details i mean if it wasn't for the turkish government's leak of the details of this horrendous crime we probably still wouldn't know them so i think i've always been thinking at some point they they run out of things to leak and then turkey's leverage is gone so i think now turkey has to decide does it want to try to recreate some more leverage by virtue of calling for this international tribunal david hey just coming back to the legal aspect for a moment there is a trial that's underway in saudi arabia a saudi arabia said this week last week that eleven of the suspects were brought before a judge in the first criminal court of riyadh but none of the suspects were named very little detail of what was actually happening in that courtroom is

a even anyone who believes that the saudis a serious about achieving justice. i think it's fairly clear and the united nations already indicated that those hearings not been held in accordance with international principles and i think it's fairly clear that this is nothing more than a show trial. in a want to get it right bad p.r. stunt essentially to try and cover up what's happened and it's it's not going to work but that they are also going to pursue that they are actually going to one would imagine come to a conclusion that people are guilty of jamal's murder and they will then i would imagine trying to sweep that under the carpet you will then i imagine also then i have to keep pursuing action and the reality is we said earlier is that the the only body i believe that's able to actually have some effect will be some form a special tribunal set up with turkey and the u.n. and the international community were in it but i know as you know is also

politicized to some extent i mean will a u.n. let investigation really bring the real perpetrator than those who ordered the crime to justice. well that's the issue that i was going to raise with we were also looking at the individuals that carried out these unspeakable acts but it's also about the people that all that them now obviously took in the west is pointing at the crown prince did it go higher did it go to the king and. how can we hold those people to account and bring them to justice which amount is the u.n. able to do that it's a it's a it's a question which is very difficult to answer. rami khouri your thoughts on the un's role here will they be able to bring the perpetrators to justice if indeed this case was referred to the u.n. . experience shows that the u.n. can do nothing if one of the five members of the security council permanent members doesn't want it done in issues of veto it seems like the united states will under trump is going to continue opposing any serious international investigation into

this murder unless something happens to change that trump position which is unlikely but we can't completely rule it out it's possible something might happen and and trump might realize that he just simply has to go along with an international investigation but i doubt that we're going to get anything out of the united nations it's interesting that the main sources of pressure on the saudis for the last hundred days have been a civil society the media all over the world and some political personalities individually rather than large political groupings with a couple of governments coming in here and there so i think we should expect that kind of diverse the fuse pressure to keep persisting and pressuring the saudis as much as possible matthew in istanbul is not just a key it's not it's just the u.s. even though the u.s. has a big role in this of course what about the rest of the international community western countries germany the u.k. ken can you know can we count on support from some of these countries or have trade

and diplomatic relations basically overruled any human rights principles that. i think we should be relying on them i think going back to those comments about. about the arab world and its dignity this is an issue that transcends any geographic boundaries as i was saying about president trumps war on the free media this is about the fundamental values of all democracies anywhere on earth so where the japanese where the french where are the brits where the germans i mean they should i hope the dutch for example will all be. building momentum for a case like this to be to be taken to the united nations i don't think therefore that they're simply bought off by the commercial interests i mean that's part of what keeps them quiet of course but none of them i think are as certainly not as brazen in their comments and probably not in their thoughts as president trump was when he when he said openly that we've got all these arms deals we have to worry

about preserving and therefore we have to ignore our values i don't think that the leaders of western europe or of japan think in those terms so hopefully we'll see them become more vocal and yet they haven't that mean it's been three months now over one hundred days and they haven't become more vocal how do you explain that romney. i explain it by saying that there are issues related to sovereignty and some cases that simply cannot be overcome the saudis are a sovereign country they do a lot of things that the world criticizes that i criticize the jamelle criticised but they are in the end a sovereign country that can circle the wagons and refuse to deal with any of these external investigations as a lot of people in the world who think that the president of the united states is a dangerous person for the world on things like climate change and other issues and trade but they can't demand that the american president change his secretary of

state or change his vice president so the sovereignty issue really comes into play here and this is an obstacle that the world has endured over the last forty fifty years in trying to push the arab countries towards more pluralistic tolerant and can a consultative and accountable government systems and has had zero impact in doing this was only there but uprisings that pushed one country tunisia into a democratic transformation so this is a real problem you know if a country refuses to do something that is related to its internal behavior and this is what the saudis see this as then it's sometimes impossible to make them change and less intense pain can be brought to bear if the entire world the said decides no longer to trade with saudi arabia which is not going to happen but something really intense or the saudi leadership wants to make official visits and the other countries say we refuse to meet with you unless you show us from have to show she's

body. this is unless something like that happens there may be a point at which the world can say look we can't do anymore david haye i mean there is some form of justice that has that has kicked off i mean this trial in saudi arabia even if you know a lot of people are not hopeful about what it wanted a possible verdict also in turkey in absentia and. then what what else do you see happening here as far as justice is consent like that i think i think the un is is is perhaps the that the most favored option but as we've seen in in the case of in argentina now the crown prince travels widely and if trump and the un don't come to the right conclusions then there are ways and means in which you need using universal jurisdiction and various other aspects other countries can at the very least make it very difficult on the crown prince to travel. and and going forward and i think it's

a very interesting area to be in at the moment because as i said at the beginning you've got so many commercial interests and other vested interests. and they are also affecting the justice that to our see right matthew in istanbul istanbul is of course where this horrible crime was committed one hundred days on what would you say the dust has settled on this case. i don't think it's settled inside the turkish government based on the senior leaders i know but in a metaphorical sense unfortunately it has i mean there hasn't been much coverage about it not not even here on al-jazeera you guys really kept the flame alive longer than anybody. this one hundred days and every street helps but i'm afraid you're right that the dust has settled too to a certain degree notwithstanding the civil society activity that rami mentioned but i think i think we're in grave danger of that justice never being paid because there's not

a strong power in the world right now you often played the role the play by the u.s. that's willing to get everybody organized and get pushing so i worry that this will fade away and you know what everybody considers justice who was listened to with the cia's conclusion is that there would be consequences personally for the crown prince whether it be a legal verdict or political pain or embarrassment or people who were dreaming that maybe he loses his crown prince status that's not going to happen i think how we define justice in this case it is importance of the of course we would like those full legal consequences and political consequences to be meted out rami who are in beirut on ask you give you the last word matthew says he worries that this will fade how do we keep the flame live how do we ensure that western governments are accountable and that there we ensure that they're not giving the green light for such an action to happen again. it's very hard to come up with

a strategy to ensure that justice will be done but i think in this case we have a few pointers that we might look at for one thing so does society as a society that unlike all arab societies and most societies in the world but particularly the so it is they put a lot of importance on honor their national honor if the honor of saudi arabia is besieged vis bisbee smirched and and and hurt by constant international attention to what they have done a lot of saudis may feel intensely angry and humiliated by what's going on and possibly there may be internal pressure and so the raby the other thing is the international experience with the anti apartheid movement against south africa the international movement now for the b.d.s. legislation to protest the israeli colonization and policies if international intense pressure keeps building up building up building up it's possible that that also could at some point trigger

a slow change within saudi arabia we're not going to see a fast change where the king suddenly changes the crown prince but you might see a whittling away of his powers possibly you might see other people starting to speak up and so dear abid the problem is they're all afraid they're all afraid of being chopped up with a with a bone saw and having their body parts dissolved and acid as happened to gemma who should do so perhaps some television station around the world or some civil society group will do a simulation of what happens when you chop up a body and put it in acid and of course just a real simulation not the real thing and this would have been great great anger to so does and shame to a lot of so it is in lot of muslims and arabs around the world and this something things like that possibly might come up one day and creates a shock and that herm's athletes will don't forget about jamal khashoggi thank you so much gentlemen for a very interesting discussion matthew brize a ronnie koori and david haye and thank you as well for watching you can always watch this program again. any time by visiting our website at www dot com for

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not looking to do right now is the national emergency president trying rules out taking executive action over his border wall as the government shutdown becomes the longest in u.s. history. he will always stand up for human rights and women's rights around the world. canada grants asylum to a saudi teenager fleeing have family in a move likely to further strain relations between the two countries. and survivors of indonesia's recent quake and tsunami still trying to rebuild their lives three months after the disaster. the runner up in the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is. challenging the results in court most unfair to says he won with a landslide sixty one percent of the voters citing catholic church election observers he claims the declared winner rival opposition candidate philip to sic

eddie got just eighteen percent the congolese catholic church and french government both dispute the result saying it doesn't match what was seen on the ground the united nations secretary general has called for calm in the d.l.c. as rising violence fuels fears of a wider breakdown our diplomatic editor james bay is reports from un headquarters in new york. the security council finds itself in a most difficult position its members have long been keen to see the back of the could be led government but now it's been defeated they face intellectual dispute between rival opposition candidates they will for now rally around the message of the head of the u.n. peacekeeping force in congo must go a call to avoid further conflict i deplore all such acts of violence and appeal to the congolese people and security forces alike to exist size and restraint in this critical period the security council tried to discover if the

provisional election result was an accurate reflection of the will of the people the head of the electoral commission briefing the council from can chart admitted the election was not perfect and had been conducted in an atmosphere of mistrust but he stood by the result he's announced. the african union and the regional body the south african development community which had observer teams on the ground both broadly back that assessment but then came the testimony of archbishop who temby his catholic church organization senko have fielded by far the largest number of observers nearly forty thousand correspondence the results is published did not match the data collected by our own observation mission we have a recommendation to publish it quickly as possible all the records and minutes from the counting and polling stations to allow candidates to compare notes but the head

of the electoral commission said he would only hand over that data to the constitutional court for now the security council is focusing on the stability of the democratic republic of the congo but as the electoral dispute continues maintaining calm and avoiding violence will become harder and harder james bows out his era of the united nations. is alive in the capital kinshasa how are you outside the constitutional court what's likely to happen there today or muzzle plainly is adamant he hated absolutely sure that he won the election you think if he has evidence evidently planned to be sent to judges here at the constitutional court now it's likely the judge will take a couple of days to go through the information he's going to present to them if they decide or rule that he has no case then they will officially declare the cavy as president elect and he should be sworn in by january eighteenth but how is there

a concern about broader continuing on rest until this is all sorted out and how long might that take. yes absolutely right now it's a waiting game all people can really do is wait until they hear from these judges if martin for you isn't happy with the outcome if they for example decide to drop the case and say it has no merits could he then inside his supporters to go on to the street if he does that will listen to him and if that happens generally in this country people do go on the seas police are normally deployed some of them use live ammunition to disperse posts in pa some people have been killed so there's a fear that could be violence not just in kinshasa but elsewhere in the country especially in his stronghold is a lot of people are saying to people try and keep calm wait for this outcome see what happens next but i can tell you people are concerned they could be violent if certain kinds of unhappy with the outcome from the court ruling right now it is caught in most parts of the country not hearing any major incidents of as of

yesterday and today but again it's still early days people always see what happens at the courts and independent of these judges going to be out of there as her image has a life for us in contrast thanks carrie. syrian state media says israeli forces have fired several missiles at targets in damascus including the capital's airport syrian air defenses are reported to have intercepted some missiles but one of them damaged an airport warehouse while u.s. and kurdish forces are attacking the last remaining stronghold faisel fighters in syria strikes have increased on the town of hadrian for remnants of ice so hold up there a two to three month fight to the death is expected mohammed today reports. heavy fighting in this town city. the last sleep over long remaining within isis control. the cut its lead city and democratic forces

as i in a final push to all eyes still fighters from their last remaining stronghold in this town city. it's difficult to say they're making some progress by u.s. strikes which have been stepped up since donald trump announced the withdrawal of american troops from city problem of this storage is full of weapons and ammunition we took from i saw fighters after days of fighting here. is the final chapter of a conflict that began more than four years ago when the group says parts of it up on city undeclared one hundred. it up to government forces declared victory over i still in december two thousand and seventeen. despite an a-list say their ideology is also very much alive in the region he truly believes it was. your logic. the shoe need complaints they have been totally run

over anybody. that you should be still ready. and therefore radicalism. has eat roots and they should. it has been totally illegal the fighting between the s.t.'s and i still is centered around the town of hygiene on the banks of the euphrates river close to the syrian border with iraq the hygiene area was once home to sixty thousand people most fled to live in make shift comes for the displaced as renewed fighting intensifies more people are joining them here dozens of the newly displaced wait for tents and blankets in the bitter cold some say they fled on foot because they heard the u.s. coalition warplanes bumping vehicles. on the frontlines as their fighters are preparing for long still they estimate the fighting hygiene will last

two to three months dark may seem like a surprisingly one time given the size of but any of them dealing with arson how cities with populations three times greater fell within days the difference is that in both bottles arson fighters threaten to can retreat to troops and from one of their positions in order to close for a day to. this time the retreat is not on the. one hundred on the wall just doesn't. but america's top diplomat has landed in the united arab emirates on the latest leg of his middle east tour mike compares aiming to reassure arab allies of continuing u.s. support for the fight against i select stream as and despite donald trump's order to withdraw troops from syria president jordan has more from washington. one thing is clear the u.s. military may be ending its direct mission in syria but it's not going to stop the

fight against eisel on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that u.s. aircraft would be prepared to target and to kill eisel fighters if they try to retake any territory either in syria or in iraq meantime the pentagon is confirming that some equipment that the u.s. military had been relying on while deployed in syria is now being moved out of the country but for security reasons they are not saying how quickly this some two thousand u.s. troops in syria are going to be leaving where they will be based after they leave syria or how long the drawdown is going to take one thing is certain the u.s. is taking great pains right now to try to remind its allies that it's not abandoning them in terms of security cooperation there is also still the ongoing problem of the u.s. his departure and the status of kurdish fighters in syria there is

a very real concern that turkey may go in not to go after a group such as eisel but to try to get rid of the kurdish fighters who belong to the wife e.g. because turkey considers them an affiliate of the p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and mike on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. the partial government shutdown in the u.s. is now the longest in history at twenty two days with no end in sight president trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial border wall but he's still demanding

congress approved more than five billion dollars for the project he called on democrats many of whom have now left washington for the weekend to come back and vote. has more from washington d.c. . reports indicate that some of jonell trump's closest advisers including his son in law journal questioner have been cautioning him against declaring a national emergency to get funding for the border wall it is seen as possibly setting a bad precedent and critics say a step toward authoritarianism if he were to issue that declaration also if he does it there's still no real understanding of where the money would come from trump wants five point seven billion dollars to construct the border wall between the u.s. and mexico and right now reporting indicates that that money made come from money set aside for disaster relief in the.