the saudi foreign minister of course he was saying that there is a collaboration there was a collaborator to dispose of the body of this is the saudi version of course the body of mr hersh has still not been found who said well if there is a collaborator who is he where is he what is his name if you know that he also mentioned the saudi crown prince mohammed of inside man saying that initially his version was that jamal khashoggi had left the consulate he said now we know that those two things were laws so he also called for those fifteen men the fifteen saudi nationals that flew into is on the day of the murder he said these are the perpetrators we need to know who they are and of course turkey has already requested their extradition but the saudis are conducting their own investigation nobody knows who the men are that they have indicted eleven men have been indicted five of those facing the death penalty but it is a very opaque process now all of this comes just as she is the u.n. special officer for extradition has wrapped up her visit here in turkey she's

really the first independent person looking at this because of course it is such a politically loaded story all the countries yes they want to put pressure on saudi arabia but the same time no one really seems to be willing to go that extra mile to break relationships with the kingdom so for months still no body and certainly a big question as well as to who ordered the killing of a high profile journalist in the saudi diplomatic mission here in istanbul. pearson is a former u.s. ambassador to turkey he says it is unlikely the u.s. will change its position on the. i think it really expresses mr airline's frustration eat and been able to do more in what has happened all of the countries with an interest in saudi arabia pro and con now more or less taking their positions and now to mr everyone's opinion it seems clear that that's not sufficient i am a little puzzled why he decided to take on the us again over there because by to go

six weeks maybe at most when he invited president trump to turkey who had official visit in twenty nineteen and but we for that mr trump tried to give mr irwin exactly what was there going to ask for in syria and so it's a puzzling reaction when i decided to make us an enemy again but perhaps for domestic reasons that you sort of you know i don't think the u.s. position is the one thing could change here with expect to saudi arabia mr trump seems to be fairly well fixed in his view of how to deal with saudi arabia mr paoli been there and i don't think that mr brown statements are likely to change is that position for a man in el salvador is currently leading the presidential election that's according to early results from the electoral tribunals and as the book a lady has campaign with an anti establishment message all four candidates have promised to

improve the economy security and stamp out corruption victory for became a would be significant because he's not from either of the two parties which have dominated politics for decades a japanese comic in a sense has scrapped plans to build its new generation s.u.v.s in britain the extra was going to be manufactured in the northern english city of sunderland and says it will now make the vehicles at its plant in japan and send had warned the continued uncertainty of a braise it was making it hard to plan for the future for brennan has more from london. now this announcement from the sun we think was due to come out on monday but because of leaks in the media it's been rushed out and the letter has been issued by. ficci now he doesn't specifically say that bracks it is this is the actual reason he says there are wider issues in the car industry at the moment they're having to invest

a lot in to deal with new emissions rules that have sweep that have swept across europe but he says that the uncertainty over the way breakfast is going to pan out has certainly weighed on the minds of the decision to the company's decision to make investments in the north of england now the extra oil was due to be made both in japan and the north of england what they're going to do is consolidate production just in japan he also says though that there shouldn't be an impact on jobs at that massive plant in something and at least not in the short term because the other models that are made there for example the very successful eco model called the leaf that will still continue to be made in the in the hundreds of thousands of units at sunderland plenty more ahead on this news hour including why this thirty five year old photo use threatening to end the career of a rising political star in the united states. the fear behind a withdrawal why many afghan women think u.s.

deal with the taliban will limit their rights. as the expected when a fades there's a new name at the top of the ski jumping podium peter will be here to explain that in school. so all that still ahead but first pope francis has landed in the u.a.e. for the first visit by a catholic pontiff to the arabian peninsula his three day trip will see him visit the crown prince meet with muslim elders and attend. and interreligious meeting before returning home on tuesday the pope will make a private visit to st joseph's cathedral in abu dhabi afterwards he will hold a catholic holy mass the u.a.e. is home to around one million roman catholics mostly from the philippines or india i'm a similar friend jolie is a professor of theology and religious studies of villanova university joins us via

skype now from pennsylvania. from philadelphia pennsylvania thanks very much for being with us so let me ask you first of all this this is quite significant isn't it the first time a pope is visiting the arabian peninsula what do you make of that. story is it because. it really represents the kind of message what stresses now it was a. global war all there is much more than it used to be the catholic church is really acting as a messenger of the area for eternity and also facing a significant headwinds not just google or all but also with the only other church were people francis is sometimes in is today a logical to do too much if you manage to go north enough so i would even when i

was in the just explaining just explain what what i mean. well if you got a church there he is in the western world especially in north america especially there is this really it around what kind of catholicism the pope should interpret and there is ease efforts in reaching out especially the tourists muslims in muslim countries that are not really understood or taken as a sign of weakness of his colleague identity and so this is basically it again of course for the for the between the church and the muslim world and the middle east but the there's also some. internal effects and there are all of the internal life of the current church as we've been reporting the united arab emirates is deeply involved in in the war in yam union and pope francis has already

spoken about this as you would expect him to do but while he is while he is visiting the emirates how far is he is expected to take that message to to leaders there. well. we will see if the message will be delivered also publicly or only priority there's no question that the pope will use this visit to a message in private to those and invited him we. the papers the and the kind of church always have to walk a very fine line between the need to be clear on the message of. the respect of human rights. and of international laws of war or any of this in time to be very pragmatic are about what

can be said in order to build a relationship that the future can are allowed to be more honest and more there at a more safe or this is a beginning and so were the people said and the angelus. on sunday morning was very important i believe there is a dark will kind of language one public and one that has to be more more pragmatic. and has to follow channels that are not always public. how far will the pope's visit go do you think in improving relations between muslims and christians in the region including perhaps by making a difference in in neighboring saudi arabia where there is less religious tolerance . right so this is history is

a beginning but it's not a weird. moment with iraq because the current secretary our save the number two of about again was even in abu dhabi four years ago to consecrate a church last year and a very important car and all that was in it even. in saudi arabia to have talks with the top leaders of the of the country about. the freedom of religion for christians in arabia so that there's something going on these three it is a very important moment is not the beginning of this dialogue. here of course into the dobie and the emirates are the most favorable point that image from which this is their low can begin the right there is.

a very long path from tolerance to. religious freedom we are to two different things that francis has been indicted for a year of tolerance. we know that there is a difference the between tolerance for for minorities and religious liberty that is. it will take many many years to develop these that are right appreciate talking to assam a simo f i generally joining us there from philadelphia thank you. now the democratic governor of the u.s. state of the ginia is refusing to step down despite growing calls for his resignation the controversy began when a photo emerged of two students in costume one in black face the other as a member of the klu klux klan it is alleged that one of them is ralph northam but

after initially apologizing for it he now says it wasn't him she had written c. reports from washington this is the first year that caused the outrage but appeared on now governor of northern is medical school yearbook page in one thousand nine hundred four on friday the governor apologized but on saturday he said it wasn't him to rule reason he so sure the time he did with blackface my belief that i did not wear that costume or attend that party stamps in part from my clear memory of other mistakes i made in the same period of my life. that same year i did participate in a dance contest in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson asked that explanation proved too much particularly for members of his own policy the democrats the party's senior leadership both nationally and in his state are urging them to resign a message repeated by democrats on the sunday talk shows i think he should resign

now he then can contribute to the style log but he as i said he should do it as privates and as i think this country hasn't dealt well with the issues of race i mean we have a president who is a racist the democrats have to capitalize on donald trump on the republican policies handling of race a recent poll found that sixty three percent of americans disapprove of crumbs handling of the issue but the control is in virginia is a reminder of the democrats' poor record on race so that you get to know them to step down as quickly as possible but you know like all the southern states has a long history of democratic party racism just a few weeks ago the state's african-american lieutenant governor just in fairfax who would succeed governor and all of them if he does resign walked out of the state senate rather than preside over a tribute to confederate general robot elite will briefly be at least. in twenty sixteen then democratic party presidential nominee hillary clinton had to apologize for statements like this that seem to d.q. minimize but communities the kinds of kids that are concept of predatory no

conscience no empathy at the time then president bill clinton was signing legislation that led to record african-american incarceration and that's also an issue that's likely to hold true biden if he runs in twenty twenty not only does he take credit for such legislation he was against desegregation in the seventy's we made so much rock norm appears to believe he can ride this control was throughout but perhaps things have changed which may be problematic for democratic politicians who in the past of turned a blind eye or even pandered to white voters for electoral gain. the upsurge of racist violence and rhetoric since donald trump's integration how's that to a renewed sense among a radicalized younger democratic base that racism will not be tolerated in their party shihab rattansi al-jazeera. having jones to weaver is a diversity and inclusion consultant she says ralph wilson is unlikely to survive this controversy what happened at that time in his life was actually indicative of

the fringing of that day and unfortunately i would argue in many ways still indicative of the virginia of today it is never excusable at any age and particularly as a twenty five year old adult to make the decision to either don the outfits of a domestic terrorist organization that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of african-americans or to put on a black face which is also insulting and demeaning the citizens of the state that you are trying to lead i don't care if this happened thirty five years ago or yesterday it's unacceptable he should have known better at the age of twenty five and just as he claims to know better now he has no moral authority to lead at this point he is going to try to preside over a legislature where the majority of the people in that legislature have no respect for him really at this point and he can choose to stay but i would not be surprised if some level of impeachment opportunities might start to pop up in the state of

preaching and just to remove him. it is unfortunate that he has chosen to preference his own ambition his own will to hold on to power over what is right for the people of virginia what's right for his political party and specifically what's right for african-americans who have been aggrieved in this way it's time for him to put other people's feelings over his own ambitions and step aside. all right still ahead on al-jazeera why many north and south koreans believe they'd be stronger working together. senegal's president macky sall kicks off a reelection bid as rivals accuse him of clamping down on the opposition. and it's a black day at the sydney seven zero rugby tournament the tail of the action in sport.

hello the skies allow us to clear across southern parts of china we're approaching the new year of course think linq out into central areas could produce some longer spells of rain as we go on through the next day old say that a fair amount of dry weather as well as scent of the cases that go through monday go on into tuesday that cloud does thicken up enough for some rather heavy spells of right from time to time shanghai gets up to about eleven degrees celsius hong kong gets up to around twenty three degrees because a lot of dry weather and that's why we're stretching down across a good parts of the philippines plenty of sunshine and then as sunshine is fantasy much of malaysia down into indonesia well as a little further south will see some very heavy to impose pushing into southern parts of borneo but we simply shows that java will see some very wet weather just

around smart to thailand stays generally set to go on through monday but choose to could see some showers just pushing into the gulf of thailand from time to time as some showers also pushing towards shore lanka at the moment you see some cloud showing up him up just south asia that's fine and dry some pleasant sunshine coming through but i think mccloud up towards mobile piles of pakistan some snow but over the high ground it is slowly but surely making its way further east. the weather sponsored by cats are always. february on al-jazeera we investigate the toxic legacy of south africa's mining industry and examine exactly what is hiding beneath old is toxic waste africa's largest democracy heads to the polls join us for live coverage as nigeria votes al-jazeera world showcases the best of the networks documentaries with powerful untold stories from the middle

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president donald trump has told a u.s. t.v. network that sending the military to venezuela is an option he's also said he's turned down a meeting with venezuelan president nicolas maduro. turkey's president has called the saudi crown prince and the former foreign minister liars over their handling of the murder of journalist. he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october. the leader of the roman catholic church has arrived in abu dhabi his first papal visit to the arabian peninsula pope francis will be in the region for two days during which he'll meet leading muslim clerics and hold an open air mass for some one hundred thirty five thousand catholics. right now the annual american football championship the super bowl is playing out in atlanta the game sees the new england patriots face the los angeles rams in the u.s. the game is almost always the most watched television event of the year and for

that reason adds shown during a broadcast kamandi norma sams this year the price tag is five point two five million dollars for a thirty second spot estimates suggest a million people have traveled to atlanta for the event with around one hundred million expected to watch with those kind of numbers watching the game advertising at the super bowl creates a platform for large scale commercial promotion and political activists. mark hanna's joins us now via skype now from washington he is the co-founder of progressive shop an online platform to provide status to consumers on the political contributions of some popular brands thanks very much for being with us so this is really kind of the holy grail for advertisers isn't it the super bowl because of the huge audience that it commands so what kind of an opportunity does it present for advertising that that promotes social consciousness as well will for all

advertising it promotes it's the largest audience will ever have one time not only by size but by diversity they can reach every different subcategory as opposed to hoping people watch different channels so this is the prime time the year that every advertiser tries to share their brand share their message in our polling is that those brands and values are also playing politics and we want people to know how those brands are playing in politics so give us some examples then of the ads that that enbrel cost to you tonight in the u.s. and the impact that they're having sure so some of these ads for example oil of olay which is owned by procter and gamble did a revival of the t.v. of a horror movie called scream with sarah michelle gellar and she was making sure she was looking ok so people thought that was funny however their audience which is

more and more women every year don't like tooker carlson of fox news who's a big massage and so we try to let them know that the same brand that they just saw is also supporting one of the biggest massage honest sun air and what sort of impact does this what you're going to zation. do what what sort of a difference does it make. well i think there's two pieces one is the companies are getting more and more scrutiny scrutiny about making sure they're consistent with their brand so they can't separate what they do on the superbowl and what they do every other time and we also track how much money they give to politics so both n.f.l. teams were example the owners each gave a million dollars to donald trump's inauguration so they can't claim that they're outside of the political arena when they're inside of the stadium and so we make people know about this and to make sure that they are aligning their shopping with their values and has as any of this forced any of these companies to change their

behavior. it's still too soon to say each year more and more people are online and social media so all these brands even though as you said are spending five million dollars on thirty seconds their plan their strategy is to get many more news cycles so all of them are hoping to be the talk to more morning and more nights and the following week as people talk about this on twitter on facebook on instagram and then on the regular news establishment so they they make an investment for a long term benefits and we want to make sure that that is aligned with people's values good to speak with you mark hanna say joining us there from washington how the u.s. special envoy on north korea is in seoul ways expected to a range the details of donald trump and kim jong un's next summit and many businessmen hope the meeting can help revive joint economic projects between the north and south rob mcbride reports from seoul south korea business leaders

anticipate what a second summits between kim jong un and donald trump might mean for the economies of both koreas they only have to look to the case only industrial complex to appreciate both the opportunities and the risks. it was shut down three years ago when relations were near their lowest point. and many factory owners believe after the past year of reconciliation led by south korean president moon j.n. it's time to restart it. along must we endure this agony of the way team the reason we have not raised our voices before was because we believed when jane's commitment to enter korean economic corporation. opened in two thousand and two just on the northern side of the border between the two careers the complex brought together south korean management and investment with north korean labor to offer a glimpse of what

a unified economy might look like it's an intriguing prospect south korea is one of asia's richest economies north korea is one of its poorest in recent years south korean investment has increasingly flowed to other asian countries but given the chance north korea would seem to be the more obvious destination. of clear terms of distance ok song is less than an hour away which is nothing compared to china and vietnam there in a tariffs and we are the same nation for many to have workers from both careers working alongside each other is the true reward of moving closer together if we are the same nation we speak the same language activating k. song would also help create jobs in the south and if the success of case song could be recreated elsewhere so the argument goes that imagine what a unified korea might be capable of public pride al-jazeera sold. us president

donald trump says he wants to withdraw his country's troops from afghanistan after seventeen years there and representatives for the u.s. and the taliban agreed on a framework for peace but while afghans are encouraged by talk of the war ending many fear deal with the taliban could limit women's rights because they gave me reports. need a reason owns a coffee shop in the afghan capital kabul she's one of millions of women whose lives have been transformed since the u.s. led coalition removed the taliban from power business. i think freedom for post taliban women is a big achievement and if we once again go backwards there will be a big step back and a very heavy price for us. many afghan women are worried about a peace deal between the united states and the taliban they don't want to go back to a time when their rights were limited. i won't accept a pace that asks me to go back and sit at home i will raise my voice and never be

ready to accept a peace that costs me my freedom restricts me and makes me wear a burka and puts me in a cage. it's been nearly two decades since the taliban was toppled from power since then of the eight million schoolchildren in afghanistan more than two point five million are girls in two thousand and four women were able to vote for the first time in decades more than a quarter of the seats in parliament are reserved for women and they make up nearly a fifth of the workforce but rights campaigners say all that progress is at risk obviously we all want peace afghan women part want peace the afghan people want peace we have heard of the two are but i think when it happens this trashed and when we are not included and we are not being talked to we are not being consulted in terms of what we are worried about what we want from this group that's going to come back and giant joined the government then we are worried that we are going to lose tribes the taliban say they've moderated their approach to women's rights but

there are no women involved in the peace negotiations and many say they have too much to lose to take the taliban at its word victoria gate and be there or. israel has begun and building a new barrier along its border with gaza when finished the fence will be sixty five kilometers long and six meters high are a force that has more from west jerusalem. well this is confirmation that work has now begun on what has been a longstanding plan by the israelis to build a much more substantial much higher much stronger border fence along the israel gaza border it will run along the same course as the underground barrier which israel has also been constructing to prevent tunnels from gaza territory into israeli territory and it is accompanied by a warning from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that despite the fact that elections are upcoming in israel ninth of april is the date for those

elections to take place that israel would take any military action that it deemed necessary unless hamas continued to ensure that quiet prevails along the border of course the protests have been going on on that border for ten months now there are also efforts underway by the egyptians and the qataris to try to ensure that quiet prevails the political leader of hamas which controls the gaza strip is melania is in cairo there is an understanding that the egyptians are saying that they will maintain the opening of the rough our border crossing if hamas continues or does more to restrain the border protests but the fact that the these protests and the situation on the border is extremely tense and could lead towards an escalation has been evidenced again today sunday with the publication of a video which showed what took place on the twenty second of january when an israeli soldier was struck in the helmet by a bullet fired from gaza and territory islamic jihad claiming that that was their

action shooting that israeli soldier after he himself had been firing into a crowd of protesters the fact that his helmet protected him from significant injury or even death could be really the line between what might have been a major escalation and which what and what actually took place which was an israeli tank firing on a hamas border post killing. one palestinian so it does remain extremely delicate situation and on top of the fact that already according to the united nations last week we have seen two hundred ninety five palestinians killed in these ten months of protests six thousand injured by live fire twenty nine thousand injured altogether allies of egypt's president and the fact that his sisi are calling for constitutional changes that would allow him to stay in power once his second term ends in twenty twenty two current laws limit presidents to two consecutive four

year terms politicians are hoping the proposed changes would allow sisi to run two more times after his second term expires they also want to create a second chamber parliament and appoint one or more deputy presidents their requests follows demands from sections of the public for presidential term limits a former head of nato has criticized the decision by the us and russia to withdraw from a decades old nuclear treaty on saturday russia's president announced it was suspending its obligations under the agreement to develop new types of weapons washington pulled out a day earlier choosing moscow violating the deal media range nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty was signed in one nine hundred eighty seven banning all land based missiles within a fixed range of six million voters will head to the polls in senegal later this month to choose their new president the current president macky sall will run for

a second term but is facing accusations of unfairly clamping down on potential opposition candidates nicolas sarkozy ports from the campaign has begun candidate mike you sell on national television addressing this illegally to give him a second mandate calling himself the candidate for all. more than a political slogan but a message his supporters will now be spreading. of. course and of course we are very confident we will win because we have the best candidate the one who has brought economic cultural and political stability like no other but this stability for the opposition comes at a cost the leader of the senegalese democratic party karim wanted it is in exile and convicted on corruption charges while the popular former mayor of the car khalifa zone remains in jail the opposition accuses cells government of using the courts to clamp down on political opponents nonsense says former prime minister

today this has nothing to do with. politics it's about mismanagement of public funding and i think in his program as a country the president made it very clear that he would like to make progress on fighting corruption with the two leading figures of the opposition out of the race it seems there's no stopping myself he's been opening one infrastructure project after another jump starting in our booming economy. this is the latest infrastructure project in our greeted by president mikey sol it's a building for government officials and ministers a building helps to be in charge of if you wins a second mandate because the challenge for sol is to translate his economic success into votes. while the economy is booming political freedom is shrinking warns amnesty international police band several opposition protests the four other candidates.