not just a matter of deciding how many diplomats should be hired or how many facilities should be remodeled in the coming fiscal year the secretary of state also took questions on a number of foreign policy concerns including the investigation into the murder of . a saudi journalist who had been living and working in the united states this is what my pompei o told the committee on wednesday we are continuing all across the government certainly and overt means and all the tools that we have in our capacity to learn more facts about this president. has made very clear that we will continue to work to identify those who are responsible for murder and hold them accountable we will i stand by that today because representatives are interested in a number of foreign policy concerns including israel palestine venezuela and north korea there hasn't been much follow up when having pale before them on precisely how the u.s. is holding saudi officials responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi but that

aside members of congress are still very much interested in trying to hold all those responsible including the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon they've already passed a number of resolutions and legislation that would cite him and hold him personally responsible but the full force of congressional anger has yet to be brought on to this matter and certainly their efforts to try to get more information from the trumpet ministration continue some for a short break here and i'll just say that when we come back a desperate journey changes course as refugees hijack that rescue ship on the.

hello there we've still got our violent weather system with us across the middle east at the moment if we take a look at the satellite picture we can see the huge area of cloud that's given us all flooding in parts of iran and stretching all the way up towards the northeastern parts of our map now that system still going to be with us as we head through the day on says day still a few poky outbreaks of rain but it really gets going again as we head through friday friday looks like that what weather really will be quite heavy for some of us in afghanistan and could cause quite a few problems towards the west on friday we're also going to see another weather system push in here so for some of us in turkey and syria will be a lot of rain and some of that will still be turning to snow even further towards the south in the cloud that we've seen over the arabian peninsula is now here for thursday so that is over parts of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. just about stretching into as well as we head into friday that system breaks up so most of us returning to the sunshine doha well we're getting up to a pleasant twenty eight degrees at the moment which is eighty two in fahrenheit i mean for the towards the south of the many of us in the southern parts of africa

the weather is not causing us too many additional problems now we see a few showers there over parts of madagascar there's a stretching out through tons of me and across towards the west for some of us and angola looks like it will be over today on friday. a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. witness on al-jazeera it's facing a separatist push in the east russians in crimea and major economic challenges now ukraine is getting ready to elect a new leader from thirty nine candidates what course will the country take join us for special coverage of the ukrainian presidential election announces the era.

welcome back i'm out of the top stories here al-jazeera the british parliament has failed to agree on an alternative to prime minister to resign most prigs a plan on wednesday m.p.'s to control the process for leaving the e.u. is promising to step down with a back of the. ruling f.l.n. party is backing the army's call the president of the disease but a freak out to be declared unfit for office on monday the army chief suggested that an article from the constitution could be triggered which could force bush if he could to step down on grounds for health. syrian state news reporting a member of the strikes of an old in city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says there were an israeli attack inflame a series a defense is going to stop to several of the sides. but it's only in malta say

migrants have hijacked a merchant ship that rescued them it happened off the coast of libya the ship is believed to be heading towards malta hundred night migrants are picked up by the cargo ship and i believe to seize control after they realize it was taking them back to libya my head has been following developments from tripoli. italy's interior minister salvini accuses the migrants of hijacking the tanker tanker picked up the migrants in the international waters and according to a sylvania it was loaded with the migrants and was sent back to the libyan capital tripoli we understand that the international waters were the migrants were picked up or risk you'd. patrolled by libya's coast guard and libya's coast guard officials say it's their right to their may grants and send them back

to libya because they believe that the migrants have violated libya's sovereignty by first of all entering libya illegally and second by sailing of libya insurers also illegally according to salvini the tanker was sent back to tripoli but when it was about six no tickle my eyes away from the capital tripoli changes its calls and turned it back through to the north and we understand that the migrants my. fear being sent back to tripoli because they're afraid that the in my face the same violations they usually face at the hands of people or smugglers and that includes extortion beating and in some cases killing

rape the u.s. energy secretary has authorized several companies to sell nuclear power technology to saudi arabia that's according to media reports the reuters news agency says the company is a request of the deals be kept secret russia south korea and the u.s. are all competing to strike a deal with the kingdom which is planning to build at least two nuclear plants are concerns it could fuel a nuclear arms race in the middle east or will set a trend is a nuclear security specialist he says saudi arabia cannot be trusted with any type of nuclear technology. there's a pretty big difference between the iran nuclear deal and the trumpet ministrations attempts to sell nuclear technology to the saudi arabians the nuclear technology that we want to sell to saudi arabia is civilian it's for their civilian energy program which is a big difference than what we suspected that iran was trying to do so the concern now is that saudi arabia might go down the same path that they might use this

technology that they would be acquiring for their civilian nuclear energy program for development of a weapons program down the line but a year ago mohamed bin solomon the crown prince of saudi arabia when it's all on national television he told reporters that if iran were to develop a nuclear weapon that saudi arabia would also develop a nuclear weapon full stop no ambiguity there whatsoever the problem is now that the united states has decided that it wants to withdraw from the j c p a way of the nuclear deal that we had with iran preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon that has become a more likely scenario going back to that discussion that was happening in the united states congress a month ago brad sherman made the point he's a congressman brad sherman made the point that if we can't trust mohammad bin solomon with a bone saw how can we trust him with nuclear technology now that's

a completely fair point and it's a valid concern. if even if we can get to this type of one two three agreement that guarantees that saudi arabia won't develop a nuclear weapon can we really rely on them to keep their word if the u.s. federal aviation administration sends it some smoothly confident boeing seven three seven saying to croft is safe following two decent crashes to lift three hundred forty six people did the f.a.a. administrator spoke at a congressional hearing that's looking into its oversight of boeing the company also says it doesn't see a need to overhaul the way it develops and thanks. court in chile has over the roman catholic church to pay compensation to three victims of the country's most notorious paedophile priest the appeals court ruling means the church will pay a hundred fifty thousand dollars to each of the men or the judge dismissed criminal charges against the priest fernando. because the statute of limitations has expired

. a man who drove his car into protesters during a white matchless rally in the u.s. in twenty seventeen has been guilty to twenty nine of thirty federal hate charges james fields avoided pleading guilty to one count that could have led to the death penalty he was convicted of murder for deliberately driving his vehicle into protesters in charlottesville virginia one person was killed in the attack and seven injured. ukrainians are preparing to vote on sunday in a tightly fought presidential election more than forty candidates are running but it's essentially a three horse race president petro poroshenko is seeking reelection for the first time since coming to power in twenty fourteen he's up against opposition leader yulia tymoshenko former prime minister popular among older voters she's promising a three fold increase in pensions the wildcard is this man a lot of the landscape is a comedian who plays a fictional president in

a popular t.v. series he's tapped into a growing discontent over corruption and appears to be leading in the polls the winning candidate will need at least fifty percent of the votes to avoid a runoff. but all this is happening against the backdrop of the conflict in the east with russian backed fighters now in its fifth year the war has drained public resources and exhausted voters and there's no end in sight out of there was journal reports in the city of mariupol but the conflict is never far away. in ukraine's war zone a new breed of entrepreneurs. alexi used his disability payout as an injured veteran to set up a pizza business. being given a month of it people are happy to spend their money rather than save it because they know anything can happen at any moment. he's not particularly enthusiastic about the upcoming presidential election or have a. back. because of their spinelessness it took volunteers to protect this country

where the leadership was too weak to protect it at all soldiers like alexi from the port city of mariupol formed the hours of but tally and in two thousand and fourteen famous for preventing russian backed separatists from extending their territorial gains in the donbass region all the way to the sea but mario poll has paid a heavy price its once busy port sits idle empty of the cargo ships that carried steel and coal produced here to international markets russia's efforts to disrupt sea traffic off the annexed crimea peninsula include illegal cargo inspections and a bridge built across the curch strait that's too low for larger vessels heading for mariupol to pass beneath you more but if. they can forgive us that our country is in the band until zenda stands that ukraine is a free and democratic country unfortunately it will be hard to establish these.

then late last year an unprovoked russian attack on three ukrainian navy boats twenty four captured ukrainian sailors are still being held in moscow and international shipping is far less frequently seen in these waters since last november's attacks on those ukrainian naval vessel suggested russia had new territorial designs by strangling traded ukraine's two main force on the sea of as of russia has taken effective control of this inland sea off the coast of crimea. in response president petro poroshenko declared martial law in the east if he thought that would win him votes he was wrong with more than thirteen thousand dead this country is no longer united behind a war it can't win anna knows that despite losing her brother on the front line in two thousand and fifteen she says it's time for peace. he

died for ukraine to be trained for the ukrainian language to be spoken and the crane to be an equal strong european country that hope of a bright future has begun to fade on the shores and battlefields of eastern ukraine join a whole al-jazeera. mozambique has confirmed cases of cholera in the city of barrow which was badly damaged by site. of arches haven't been able to provide clean water and sanitation since the storm hit two weeks ago it killed more than four hundred sixty people in mozambique and left one point eight million in urgent need of help the world health organization has warned of a second disaster if water borne diseases are allowed to spread. a u.s. jury has awarded eighty million dollars to a man who says his cancer was caused by exposure to a popular weed killer called roundup edwin hardman sued the german pharmaceutical company bayer which is found liable for not warning customers about the products health risks brought monsanto the make of roundup last year for sixty three billion

dollars more than eleven thousand lawsuits involving the we have been filed and are set to go to trial in the u.s. . the u.s. education secretary is facing a backlash after posing to cut funding for the special olympics divorce argues the organization doesn't need federal funding there's a can successfully raise private contributions the proposed budget would eliminate twenty nine programs saving around six billion dollars divorce has criticized the media saying it's spinning facts to claim the department doesn't support students with disabilities. scientists and health care professionals have written a letter to the u.n. calling for an international ban on so-called killer robots although they don't exist yet campaigners say they're just a year or two away twenty eight countries have signed up so far but the u.s. and russia are among those who are resisting our science and technology editor marion hawn as more. mention killer robots and many of us saying. of

this i'm ashamed able to think feel and kill we have no way of knowing whether the kind of artificial general intelligence needed to create a scene tiant robot like this will ever be possible but here's what we already have sameeh autonomous machines dryers tanks aircraft robots big and small machines that can be wittman ised even programmed to find targets but the final decision of whether to take a life lies with us so-called killer robots fully autonomous weapons that can select and kill without human intervention well they don't exist. here we don't want to see killing outsourced to machines on the battlefield or in policing or in border control an obvious circumstances this is why we call for a preemptive ban on the development production and use of killer robots as soon as possible we already have facial recognition technology to unlock hellfire and they

could be used by a fully autonomous weapon and trying say to identify and then attack a target without a human heavy in the final say but what if it kills the wrong person or the machine malfunctions and continues to hunt and kill long after a conflict has been resolved whose responsibility is it when a fully autonomous weapon gets it wrong so everybody's got their experience with computers not working with barnes and i pads failing. and that's an inconvenience at best imagine that when you have the weapon system which is failing which is failing to turn off killer robots could be hacked and then used by your enemy forces against you and against your population and that they could be programmed to target a popular part of the population to go out there and to seek all military age males . you know her and determined them to be legitimate targets and fire upon them

sixty one percent of people polled in twenty six countries last year oppose fully autonomous weapons twenty eight countries have signed up to a ban take companies scientists researchers and engineers and their thousands have over the years pledged not to knowingly create killer robots but plenty a lot of those are embracing artificial intelligence and warfare and states like israel russia south korea and the united states are among those resisting the ban countries may agree we're all better off without killer robots but no one wants to be left behind on the battlefield. dr quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the british parliament has failed to agree on an alternative department start to resume these birds of plan on wednesday m.p.'s took control of the process for me from the e.u. maize promising to step down with a bad deal but in has the latest from westminster. nobody expected that any of the

base at this early stage would get a clear majority there will be another votes round on monday of next week that was already part of the process that the m.p.'s wrote into it when they seized control of this seven window of opportunity today so they're going to have another go on monday i think what's interesting is the margins that we're looking at here and the idea that the customs union for example was only beaten by a majority of eight votes now that's very tight indeed when you consider that the government's own bricks it deal was last put before parliament and was defeated by one hundred forty nine votes you can see that actually you know the customs union came a lot closer to securing a majority than the government's. deal did. our jurors ruling f.l.n. party is backing the army's call for president abdelaziz bouteflika to be declared

unfit for office on monday the army chief suggested that an article from the constitution could be triggered which could force beautifully to step down on grounds of ill health meanwhile there are reports at least eleven private jets carrying businessmen and their families have been prevented from taking off from algiers airport. it's me in malta same arguments of hijacked a merchant ship that rescued them happened off the coast of libya ships believed to be heading towards malta hundred eight migrants are picked up by the cargo ship and are believed to seize control after they realized it was taking them back to libya syrian state news is reporting a number of air strikes have hit the northern city of aleppo the syrian arab news agency says they were an israeli attack and claim that syria's air defenses intercepted several missiles of course in chile has ordered the roman catholic church to pay compensation to three victims of the country's most notorious paedophile priest ruling means the church will pay one hundred fifty thousand

dollars to each of the men well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statements are so much. a three year investigation into the pro-gun lobby we've been employing it was making sure you got to really kind of . reveal secrets see one point put messaging out there will be people outraged you know mad and connection some don't want exposed many in legacy media love the last shooting. darkness with night al-jazeera investigations how to sell a massacre on al-jazeera.

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