negotiation with all concerned to be able to bring this convoy is again it is. a small a makeshift arrangement that they're trying to put in place for this camp but then we need to find more permanent solution and we cannot be left in this dire state as they are now everything is needed in that camp we have bringing in for example. not just the food but also there are students who are stuck in there we are bringing educational material for them their children who have not had vaccinations last time we did vaccination for five thousand children this time they are going to do x. in addition for ten thousand children now we are bringing basic things like the dignity kits be call it even sanitary nupkins from him and there are not there we're trying to bring in chuck loads of winter clothes regular clothes we're also going to talk to people to find out they tension to relocate to their places back home because most of them would like to move out of this dreadful situation that they're stranded in right now the palestinian authority has stopped paying salaries to

thousands of employees in the gaza strip that affects employees loyal to hamas islamic jihad and those close to oust a part how leader mohamed dahlan decision also impacts families of prisoners and wounded palestinians wages have become a symbol of the bitter power struggle between hamas with the power base and gaza and the western backed palestinian authority led by they in ramallah qatar's offer to pay wages in november was refused by hamas a body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane which was carrying cardiff city football or merely on a solid light aircraft crashed into the english channel body has been sent to a morgue in the u.k. for identification the playing with flying from france to carter. the former president always a nazi a little a disembowel has been convicted in a second corruption case he's been given an additional thirteen years in prison for a case involving a farm house in sao paulo state court found him guilty of allowing construction

firms to renovate the property in exchange for contracts with the state oil company such a process. brazil's president is recovering in the hospital after undergoing abdominal surgery and sao paulo sarah paulson or use social media to date followers about his condition saying he was getting better every day that he was walking into him breathing exercises the sixty three year old underwent surgery last week to reverse a cost me performed after he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year. rescue teams in turkey have pulled out thirteen survivors from the rubble of a building that collapsed and istanbul the apartment block came down on wednesday evening at least three people have been confirmed dead it's believed others are still trapped stephanie decorous more from istanbul. rescue workers have been working meticulously sifting through the rubble to this heavy machinery here that is if you've been lifting he says of war we've seen pieces lifted out of the city

with one thing that we still need to be a kitchen sink attached to it there needs to be around fourteen apartments in this building they did manage to pull out a four year old girl from the rubble a lawyer earlier on thursday but there are people still missing there are relatives here waiting for news of their loved ones and this is what one gentleman had to tell us. you know we are you can see from really so she's still in the second floor of the building we're all feeling real real close to some this is the pitching section. child. roof still ripping if she will be ok this was an eight story building in officials there saying that three of those stories were built illegally the moment of this building coming down on wednesday afternoon it was actually caught on c.c.t.v. footage and you can see the building imploding and you can see the parts of the line here scuffling away with officials are saying that there is now an

investigation into what exactly went wrong here this is a densely populated area is down bull that it highlights the concern about the health and safety and the structural soundness of these building. pick up the headlines right now on al jazeera and as well as president nicolas maduro says he supports dialogue and the political and humanitarian crisis comes out of a meeting in europe by a by a newly formed an international group that is working to resolve the situation. i rather thought the subtleties of the more t.v. deals mechanism integrated rather mexico fourteen countries of the caribbean i believe is proposing. to speak in the process of solving. national agenda off agreements peace and understanding the us president is accusing the democrats of

presidential harassment just a day after the democrat controlled house intelligence committee voted to provide special counsel robert mueller with confidential testimonies is looking into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. the president of the european commission has told britain's prime minister theresa may that the brics a deal she negotiated with the e.u. cannot be renegotiated but younger and may will be meeting next month they have agreed to do so or testers created may a share arrived in brussels for you to leave the european union on the twenty ninth of march the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland that is still the main sticking point. one of the largest a convoy since the start of syria's war has reached a remote refugee camp on the border with jordan where the one hundred trucks bought food and medical supplies to thousands of syrians stranded on camp aid workers will also provide emergency bax

a nation campaign for ten thousand children their campus home to more than forty thousand people who last received a in november the palestinian authority has stopped paying salaries to thousands of employees in the gaza strip at effects employees loyal to hamas islamic jihad and those close to oust of fatah leader mohammed dahlan but he has had become a symbol of a bitter power struggle between hamas with its power base and gaza and the western backed palestinian authority by the fatah group and ramallah so the headlines keep it here much more news on al-jazeera the stream that next. from sun. to sunset cross asia. pacific explain. to me stories when i want.

ok i really could be here in the stream today a political promise made a good but does arming resilience make the country safer in december then present. took to twitter to declare his commitment to give brazilians greater access to guns then on generated sixteenth just weeks after taking office he made good on that probably spice tying it to create a relaxing gun ownership laws and response resilience have taken to twitter to share both their opposition to and support of the change two key hashtags emerge on both sides of the issue some women who oppose the change are using if he had been armed to share their experiences with violence and what bay thing would have happened if their abuser had been armed daniela. my father had been armed i would have been murdered in childhood mind you tweets about an ex partner who followed her to a different state broke into her home and assaulted her she says that if he had

been armed she would have died in august twenty fourth teen or on the other side are supporters of the law who are using the hash tag if she had been armed men while explains how she could use a gun protection the only thing that can match my physical strength to that of a man is a weapon soon warroad treats women have died of stab wounds punches kicks clubbed and will continue to die if she had been armed would have been a much better defense now you can i'm going to start my shooting course those are just a taste of this opposing sentiments online but we want your thoughts as well send them to us with you tube or twitter so joining us to. scarse these changes in brazil's gun laws in sao paolo we have roughly zero hour to party he's external fellow at the cardiff crime and security research institute and fall associate at the brazilian forum on public security also in sao paolo paolo brilliance is a police officer and firearms instructor and in lisbon portugal near our bertie an

international journalist who's been extensively covering this issue good to have him here everybody i wish it was under better circumstances mir. milligan just went through a whole list of stories and experiences i'm just wondering of i think this anecdotal people have bad luck or the actual solid stats to back up the fact that it is very dangerous to live in brazil. it is very dangerous to leave in brazil especially if you are woman brazil has one of the higher highest rates of femicide in the world so it is comprehensible in my view that we men who have been victims of domestic violence and of men are not all of these stories are worried about what can happen to them with these new gun laws so brazil is not place to leave in general i mean i live there and a lot of foreign people leave there with no problems and even brazilians but it is a problem a country which has

a big problem with violent crime with gun crime and with violence against women. you know this probably better than that most of our guest is you our police officer if you are candidly describing to the rest of the world and your work that you do it all the time what would you say yeah i totally agree with the brazil has a history of violence against women and as she said violence is not perpetrated only by weapons it's perpetrated by and chairs and knifes. the truth is if you're a victim of violence in brazil that you have a big chance of not fighting back because we have a history of taking guns away from our society and thanks to bill so narrowing thanks to the changes in the legislation. from this year ford we have a chance of getting more guns back by the way here it is that about it being

violent and the types of weapons that people use are varied i want to bring our audience's attention to this headline we talked about it on the show when the campaign was in full swing and i are both in our own knife attack stabbing throws brazil's election into confusion and this was during the height of the campaigning for the presidency when he was attacked of course he's ok he spent some. i'm in the hospital this is what people online are bringing hard tension though one person writes in portuguese the most ironic thing about this attack is that he wouldn't be alive and if his attacker had used a firearm and stead of a knife that these people don't seem to learn and to use is one of those hashtags we mentioned at the top of the show rafael i'll give this one to you talk to us about how indicative this was in your view indicative or not indicative of what brazil society is like right now. well my points of view i do understand people who want to have to freedom to have a weapon what does give them to have again i also wonder sense that seeing the

problems that brazil face nowadays is violent crime with the rise people think that they can solve and solve the problem if they have again or i don't want to dispute discuss the specific case of will so narrow because my point of view it's very difficult to judge because it would depend on how how a cure for aids would be the person who would be shooting against him so i don't think it's a parade to be a no that's it could be much worse than it was but not the facts are very complicated but having said that i was the first one in favor for reducing gun laws in brazil if fines had grooviest because science has always against the common sense that having more guns in the country you we would have less crime but when you see scientists doing proper doing these things research that goes against the common sense of people they show that the more for them are guns that have been the society the more suicides are going to have in the society as well the more homey

sides are going to have in a society united states for example. yes sorry to interrupt you but also in brazil almost seventy percent of all homicides were pepper perpetrated by gun thinks not and that they were perpetrated by ego guns not in the hands of law abiding citizens in the end yeah but there you go you have more difficult ones though they were they had a third of the others were jiggles ones. i mean i really believe that whatever satisfy the goal and the legal ones so for example from all of the guns that police confiscated in twenty seventeen which were around one hundred thousand one hundred twenty thousand and ninety four percent were not registered which does not mean they were illegal but just those around us register do you ok then you think you know better than i do twelve percent of all of those guns were actual what actually

legal guns who were stolen or they were lost by people who had the right people because they were intending simulink yes that's that's what i'm saying that there are a lot of illegal guns which is the biggest part of the problem but that almost seventy percent of the homicides happen by gun illegal or or legal this just goes to show that it's not only the intent to kill but only also the intent and the means to kill with a gun that may be increased the homicide rate in the country. we have just let her say i was once a bolt through it is that big guns most of the guns that are used by criminals they were legal ones that best the question is the games are very good that's what seinfeld at work is that this so the question the matter of the fact is that you have again and again is a very very good but they're not very good for the ferry said oh my friend although

he goes every day also on the streets of some polo and he has to go to a horrible crime scenes where pretty far from where very well treated were shot dead even if they were very well printed and they had to go and they were not able to defend themselves and don't believe that we fell for foreseeable heads mainly because oh well go to the head of the criminals i think that's the point so that feel empowered just pause for a moment as i feel you mentioned a horrible crime scene one that powell has to go to how has an impressive instagram account a lot of followers i want to show you this picture but i want you to wait there's blood on this page to save your very sensitive you may not want to see this picture there isn't a body but there was lots of blood we translated now you can have a look now that you're ready this is what paolo said and we translated it from portuguese to another family destroyed by the socialist doctrine take guns away from law abiding citizen he will then be a victim of criminals from rubble and defined defenses that's how socialism grows stronger we need to fight for the right to self defense an armed citizen never bows

not to the criminal not to the state politics here palo this is a political statement not just a reality check but a political statement so let's just give a little bit of context here but still has had a lot of socialist administrations now they have a more conservative one and people voted for the current president they wanted a more conservative approach in guns to. yes people won the right to defend themselves people want to be able to defend their houses against criminals they're entering it to rob it to kill it we have this we made this choice when we elected bush so now that was one of his promises before the election and given that . dr huff i was perfectly right when he says that you have to train you have to have. a gun for self defense but most of all you have to have to right the right

to defend its yourself your life the right to to be alive is a right in the constitution if you don't have the means to protect your life you don't have the right of you to your. yourself your heard like i think most of the people who i talk to during the campaign specially amongst balsa not his supporters and this was paramount not only to paulson our supporters but also people on the left is that brazilian people are truly afraid most of the people i talk to in the most people i know in brazil have been think tim's of an assault of a certain crime and some of them you know most robberies or a house robberies or carjackings involve a gun so people are afraid i would say that a lot of people who voted for horses will for not oh found the gun promise is some of the most entice in promises i don't say that the the majority of brazilians.

agree with further with loosening gun laws because the last time there was a public consultation is the last time there was a referendum let's say the majority of resilience were against gun laws that don't matter at the restaurant of the night it was orders. now the words around or was it was misinterpreted people defended the right to keep arms in the referendum and the state forced people to lose the right to have to have it and to to carry guns and streets that overhead i mean i want to jump in here with this because i want to i want to bring in the perspective of someone who is in support of this law this is bruno who says this is why we're in support of the law we're tired of seeing criminals being treated better than the good people we just want to work to have our things until safe to be in our homes or to walk in peace in the streets or that's one anecdote there but on the other side are people who feel like they will

be less safe with this law that it's from a video comment we got probably a brazilian who's out of the country now his name is thomas to play to some better and this is a community he says we should be worried about have a listen i think that the implications of certain policies or on gun ownership in brazil would be terrible to people if you look at brazil we're already looking at a country that is twenty seven four hundred forty five dollars to do pilates and that represents a thirty percent decrease from twenty six so that means that one else particular person is killed every ninety hours. so if you combine that with having a problem a walk slowly presidents like say people so we can see tragic consequences in the plea cases that we're different because this is so if you're really committed to ending those crimes as they should be excluded very clear and accessible as particular policies and regulations protections that you know just system so me and

this is just one community who has cause for concern they say what are other communities talking to you about. why not women l g b t q indigenous communities and people in more or in more poor communities let's say for example in some of their fellow communities in brazil that. i think what's interesting is that both are not you know promises to give guns to the good citizens bad nothing no one . promises what a good citizen is so he might be a father all of you know father of three he might be a priest we don't know what he can do we did gun and in most cases in these cases against like to my set resume is a huge of trends are in killings of these people in in domestic violence i mean most of the perpetrators most of the aggressors are people who already know the victims are their loved ones their husbands boyfriends and what have what i think

the question is people aren't safe but will guns be safer what if these people have guns instead of having their knives or using their hands i think that's what concerns most of the people in these communities and it's the hash tag what if you had a gun and the hashtag what if she had a gun it's valid as well because she can defend she or he can defend himself from the aggressor but i think it would mean that if some someone points a gun on you you say can you just hold a minute and let me reach for my gun and defend myself so i think like like like a fair also that it's much difficult much more difficult for the victim to the fan themselves with a gun than for an aggressor to get up in the first time and start the aggression process let's say this. paula this is a class a this is a classic debate about having a gun and whether it creates more violence or whether it stops violence ahead yeah

i think that people need to have deep choice if you don't have a choice you are your last if you give the choice to people have a gun to fit in with yours you know have training or ice they can kill me who don't want to have the choice of have a gun that's the only probably i believe in battle might be saved if people this is forty thousand people voted in their greed and you can look at a lot of it offended but the question is that's do them obedient after the population has changed their last couple of polls and in most of the newspaper herschel that sixty percent of the proceedings against the go go. so it seems very deserving of all that and i think most people are the same for let me let me just having a rabbit you have the guns but they only get one silly goes down in perspective in that poll ok that poll says that eighty four percent of people agree that the criminal age for being charged with the crime in brazil should be reduced from eighteen to sixty so eighty four percent of the people said that they want more

people in jail they want more criminals arrested that's what they want they want guns to feel safe they don't want guns in the hands of criminals they want to choice to defend themselves if you interpret that of the. age of the criminal age to be charged with a crime you realize that what people actually want is the right to defend themselves and their right to work if i don't i think you know what is the logical about it it's all about interpretation we will leave that policy that they put aside we've had only different versions of that and when these are two perspectives here on twitter that i want to share with you pablo says i'm really happy happy about it i don't want a dime but it's still safer with the population and with it neighborhoods will be even more safer. and we don't want to wait for the cops for protection we could manage it ourselves and guns in the hands of people are the best against any dictator so one perspective there on the other hand though is a point raised by

a couple of people this is just one who says low income people support the release of weapons with the promise of defending their families but the high values for possessing a weapon will make it impossible for them to have it thus only people of high purchasing power will indeed have the conditions to have a weapon how low do you want to take those on. a gun is cheaper than a cell phone we have more cell phones in brazil than people so you can have plenty of other how much is the cell phone a cost in brazil thanks very expensive how many expensive but around three thousand four thousand here it will cost you a thousand dollars to get a legal phone to get a legal gun but not all of the illegal five years list and the. last four you know work for your daily life and probably something very important and i'm a lot of people cannot afford to not have one but and weapon is considered a luxury luxury for

a lot of people and also the problem of the illegal guns would continue even weed. having more access to guns with people having more access to guns the ones like you said the people who use guns for crime are the criminals and those people use illegal guns so having more guns to the legal citizens some people said that that won't improve safety for these people because those who are carrying the guns are clearly knows so they have just left to do also. sorry for interrupting you but the other point i think it's important debate is that if i had i know was a criminal that you know how was the reason then it makes me more likely to invade the house because it came in for dollars and i can get the gun for myself at that point she's a good you know i don't i can i can i don't have to jump in there well for example to raise their dollars but they can away to the person who's the owner of the out who has no good is a thing that i was in the case against the special didn't go inside the house the

point is again i would be totally in favor of guns in society if science had proven me and science had prove that's going to society would be helpful you caroms of reducing crime rates reducing suicides i have no problem with that and you think you know exactly if you people also are unable to drive they cannot even drive because they're unable to drive a car you know safe manner imagine those be more guns is just as something that is something that's outside of the realms of a country and what's popular and you have this situation is going to get worse and worse and worse in terms of wildness ok you know what asio is referring to is that there are places in brazil where people have. vehicles because they're scared of being shot at by people with weapons i want to show you one version of how brazil might be in the future this is joyce house woman she's part of the post party she's a former conservative journalist and she posted

a video they made january about how life might be now that women can illegally have guns in their home and they don't have to give a reason to have a gun in the house have a look at has. just to summarize you with boston are is to create you can have up to four guns in your home you don't have to give a reason for why you are buying a gun you can just buy

a gun and have it in your home you can open carry it you can have it out in the street but you can definitely have it in your house what difference could this possibly make. well the thing is you have to be twenty five years old of age to be able to buy it you have to do psychological tasks you have to do technical tasks you have to do glue practical tests it's very complicated but you can and that's the really good choice it's not a matter of being resolving crime you see we don't want people to have guns so you can lower criminal statistics no we want people to have guns so they can defend themselves leave try to the police we can do our job supposed to not going to see how it's possible as really interesting he said it's possible that more people will die i have more homicide homicides because people in the homes are potentially telling the people who are invading the so it's not about keeping the moderate none it's about making people feel ok but the murder rate is not

a perfect indicator of safety in a country the murder rate is connected to criminal organizations to drug lords to drug war so it's not a perfect thing that picture that you showed earlier that picture is something that could be different if the person inside that house had the right to own a gun and had a gun at their house maybe they would have spared three people in the family so you are talking that it is a bar to reducing crime but then you are saying that it's not about it's not a five hundred thousand rank reducing crime is a job for the state is a job for the police people should only guns to defend themselves women should own guns to defend themselves they l g b t community should own guns to defend themselves and every single human being should have the right to defend themselves that's the biggest thing you know if you see that right if you say you do not have

the right to defend yourself then. what are you going to do you're going to be a victim that's all you can do i want to bring them to comments from. what i bring into comments online that pick up on what was saying there the first live on you tube more weapons on the street brings more violence train and armed police with high caliber weapons and provide high tech surveillance to deal with gun crime that's one comment on you tube you can see it there in the next it's from someone on twitter who says what i predicted based on what happened southern madagascar are better armed brazilians even better armed resilient criminals an astronomical rise in deaths caused by irresponsible gun owners but everyone will say it's worth it because sometimes the dead guy is a criminal let me. thank you so much guests for being part of this conversation. and to me as well and. if you have an idea for a show we would love to hear it so you can tweet us at all the live chat.

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a huge reconstruction job in mosul which was destroyed by us and hundreds of young people in india a protesting on the streets and online against the lack of jobs i'm here in the hundreds to just read the show use the hash tag aging his bet. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in it al jazeera dot com and we're less than an hour away from talks aimed at ending venezuela's crisis a group of e.u. and latin american ministers meeting in europe wise capital montevideo but what chance of a breakthrough this political standoff has been going on for a month already that was ever since president nicolas maduro was sworn in for a second term two weeks later the opposition leader aung declared himself to be the interim leader why don't calls madeira a dictator accuses him of wrecking the economy the government describes why though as a us puppet so as you can see findings the middle ground is going to be difficult for

these leaders meeting in europe why all this playing out of course while the venezuelan people are becoming increasingly desperate inflation is hitting ten million percent there is a dire need for food and medicine we're going to look at that humanitarian crisis a little later but let's start with daniel schorr he is at the talks in montevideo talk us through first of all who is actually coming. well the delegates from eighty european union countries five countries around latin america they've arrived at this building behind me where you can probably see a few pro dickless mcgrory demonstrators waiting outside trying to have their voices heard they're hoping that they can present a united front with a whole spectrum of opinions on the venezuela crisis we have seven of the eight european countries have expressed their support for why it all only italy so far has not has not done that of the latin american nations we have bolivia here very

firmly behind nicolas maduro all while europe why the hosts of mexico have remained neutral so that they're hoping they can present a united front and come up with a plan which will be acceptable to both sides to both the opposition led by the way though and the incumbent government of nicolas dawdle by representing all these divergent opinions on the crisis so that's that's their aim here they're about to start talking in the next few minutes ten minutes or so they've given themselves ninety days if they don't have any kind of resolution in ninety days they let it to disband the organization what they're hoping to do is present a coherent plan to the united nations for a peaceful way forward for elections in venezuela as a road as a exit from the current crisis you suspect daniel they may they may need every one of those ninety days because one of the problems there are many problems but one of them is that the two men at the top why go and so strong personalities neither

looking like backing down particularly machismo nicolas maduro who is still officially the president. well nicolas maduro has said he's keeping a close eye on these talks that he does want a peaceful resolutions of the problem that he is willing to talk. much the same way he is suggested that nicolas maduro only wants to talk as a way of buying time as a way of negotiating manipulating the situation so that he can remain in power the longer people talk though the longer it takes for any kind of firm resolution any kind of action on the ground the longer he can stay in power so one way though it's very suspicious very skeptical although he said he's willing to talk of course he wants a peaceful solution to the problem but he's very skeptical of nicolas maduro those attitudes to these talks so yeah there is a great deal of space still between them but as i say the divergent opinions here they hope the delegates here hope will provide that way forward at least to find

some common ground create the conditions for the two sides to sit down and at least begin negotiating it is important obviously for venezuela sake to find a solution here but i suspect daniel this is an important latin american issue the crisis we call it venezuela's crisis but it has spread colombia particularly has had to deal with a lot of people coming there and other latin american countries. well that's right come out right across latin america i mean millions i mean it's very difficult to put a firm figure on it but the estimates range from anything between two and a half million to three million perhaps more venice walen migrants escaping poverty escaping the crime rate that rampant inflation that you talked about they've gone yes as you mentioned colombia there also tens of thousands in brazil peru ecuador all over the continents initially they were fairly warmly received by the over the local populations they were helping them they were providing food in the

combination the situation is changing in many parts as the numbers increase some people are leaving with a little bit of money behind them they're finding work others are leaving with next to nothing and umbrella proving to be a burden on the already societies which are already struggling so we have seen some resentment we have seen some violence in in a few countries that situation is only likely to get worse as long as the situation on this the crisis continues in venezuela so of course all the countries in the region very keen to put an end to that as soon as possible to prevent more migrants but also so that some of these venezuelans these millions who have come to latin america if the situation improves back in their homeland some of them many of them may well go back so that would everyone will be happy with that thank you daniel that is dennis from there in montevideo and we were hoping to speak to theresa bowen our northern venezuela we've had some connection problems but i have actually had an e-mail from a telling us about some of the situations there she's described

a dramatic situation a hospital packed with babies and sick children. they talk about a water treatment plant which is broken due to a lack of investment a hospital with no medicines to treat the children there are food you know these pictures are from two thousand but this is carried on queues for food because of these incredible shortages of food and medicine as well so it is just this incredibly dire situation and it's very pointed out the children really being affected as well. you can't get the medical treatment that they need so that's just a little bit of a flavor of what teresa bo's been telling us from northern venezuela so as the story develops on thursday you do well to check in with the latest updates page our online team ready to a great job on these pages to keep you across fos moving stories just search for venezuela latest updates at al-jazeera dot com we're going to washington d.c. now a news conference happening actually outside the white house held by the c.p.g.

the committee for protecting journalists looking for justice in the murder of jamal khashoggi. or holding her show she's murders to account so on november twentieth senators corker and menendez such as second letter this time requesting the administration specifically investigate involvement by the crown prince tomorrow feb eighth will mark that one hundred twentieth day deadline for the administration to provide the committee with a full and final report we want to make sure this happens and the committee to protect journalists our colleagues from reporters without borders from the justice for jamal campaign from pan american and the thousands of other people around the world who are demanding justice want the administration to take this deadline seriously and issue an unclassified report that details the administration's

findings on jamal's murder including involvement by the saudi crown prince and whether the administration will impose further sanctions we are also calling for transparency because according to news reports and u.s. senators who were briefed by the cia the cia has concluded with high certainty high confidence rather that the crown prince ordered the assassination there are also strong indications that the u.s. government had information that about the threats to jamal prior to his murder so given the international importance of this case and its implications for press freedom the need for answers far outweighs any justification for secrecy that is why the committee to protect journalists and the night institute filed a freedom of information act request to obtain information from the u.s.

government related to jamal's case and it is why in the app. since of action from the administration congress should compel the executive branch to release all intelligence by ols related to what the administration knew about the saudi plans to harm them all and what intelligence agencies have learned about the murder. and the proper response to a situation of this magnitude requires knowledge about what caused the situation and what could happen done to prevent it. the committee to protect journalists also continues to urge the u.n. secretary general to conduct an international criminal investigation the current inquiry into her sixties murder led by the u.n. special rapper to war on actually due to shall summary an arbitrary executions as an important first step and is a welcome development but it is not

a replacement for a high level criminal investigation the most chilling message sent by the murder of jamal. is that no one is safe from saudi arabia's brutal reach. but this need not be true a strong response from the u.s. government and from president trump himself and other governments would send a message to the saudi authorities that acts such as the murder of jamal his show. will not be tolerated that they will be met with the full measure of justice we demand the trumpet ministration pursue true justice. and provide the public with an accounting of what the u.s. government knew about this hideous crime thank you. good morning my. dear. the president

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