penalty would be if you don't but you are supposed to say that scott morrison who is under quite a bit of pressure. in this election the opinion polls suggesting that his conservative coalition a likely to lose there is casting his. bill shorten the leader of the labor party seems to have a lead in many of the opinion polls and he's distinguishing himself and his past his campaign with pledges quite radical pledges in the australian context towards improving the environment which is quite a big issue of course for australia and australians says it had a series of. emergencies if you can if you can describe them in such floodings and extreme heat and drought affecting the country this is a quite high up in the minds of straight is so should we leave scott morrison there

seems very to actually leave him there scott morrison the australian prime minister casting his vote in these elections. now representatives from the u.n. the african union the united states and european powers of course on sudan's military to resume talks immediately at a meeting in washington they also expressed concern about the violence the military and protests eases in sudan had been expected to reach a deal earlier this week but dialogue was suspended for 72 hours after protesters extended their roadblocks across the capital khartoum a year on what has become the accepted demonstration site has been morgan has more now from the city's capital. protesters in front of the army headquarters and are saying that they're waiting for the military headquarters to let them know what will happen after the 2 hour deadline expires now that deadline expires on saturday at midnight and they're waiting to know if the military council will extend an invitation to the opposition to resume talks or whether they will continue with

their sit in to put pressure for a civilian independent transitional government to be formed now the 2 sides still have a lot of things to sort out including the sovereign council which effectively will be the presidential body the military council wants to be the one chairing that council as well as either equal or more presentation than civilians meanwhile the opposition are saying that it has to be an independent council with mostly civilians and military representation so that is the last hurdle they have to sort out before they can announce a transitional government is formed in the meantime protesters are saying that they will be in front of the army headquarters they will not be deterred by violence from the from the military and the rapid support forces and nothing will stop them and less this the an independent civilian transitional government being formed and accountability for those who have committed crimes over the past 30 years lots of demands but lots of high hopes and expectations that will be sorted out once the 72 hour deadline passes from the military council lots more to come here at al-jazeera including a senior iranian politician appears to test the waters for talks with the u.s.

as tensions escalate searching for answers hundreds of wives and mothers in sri lanka demanding justice for the relatives they haven't seen since the civil war. the west sponsored by qatar airways. fine weather dry weather brought weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean but a few showers into parts of the middle east iran could see one or 2 shells just bring up. over the next couple of days some showers still in play there for afghanistan over towards to make that money stan tab just getting up to around $24.00 degrees there in kabul you can see that cloud just draped across central south western parts of iran this is out of the med there we go $24.00 celsius of

beirut $25.00 interests limbs that is as we go on into sunday some of us a little cooler in baghdad temperatures about 38 celsius and warm enough that's 100 in fan high still be a few showers there into couple at around 22 degrees possibility of one or 2 showers into the eastern side of the arabian peninsula over the next day or so is a little cooler see more humid here in doha temperatures around $3435.00 degrees right today to come on sunday a strong price across much of southern africa we have got a little bit of cloud just creeping towards the western cape towards the southern capers we make our way through sunday before much of the region and he is sunshine to come to be a few showers into that eastern side of zambia but the west the weather will be across southern parts of tanzania this weekend. the weather sponsored by qatar airways just a few months after journalist ramallah shocked she was killed another arab dissident was under threat norwegian security officials had to take him from his

home in oslo to a secure location after attempts at the saudis were targeting him. human rights activist. towns is iraq. take a look at the top stories here it out zira an airstrike by the syrian government on it live provinces killed several civilians the attack was carried out as the u.n. aid chief was warning in new york that his worst fears are being realized in the

northwest in syria the government and its allies are retaking the last rebel stronghold. things on the way in australia in elections that could deliver a 6th prime minister in as many years opinion polls suggest the conservative governing coalition of scott morrison you can see in your picture niall will lose to the center left labor party. president trump has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove us tiris from seal and alum in europe the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying the new trilateral trade deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement. where hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been back out on the streets of algeria for the 13th friday. in a row 6 weeks after forcing out their longtime president protests to say they'll stop only after the end top political elite is her place tara gave him the reports

. for months protesters have gathered outside the iconic grampus building in the capital j is demanding political change. but on friday morning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters tried to push their way through at 1st security forces responded with tear gas but outnumbered and under attack. i they eventually pulled out of the area it's the 13th consecutive week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials to say seated with the regime of alstom president abdul aziz beautifully kept cutting the similar mix somebody from the they want to destroy us but they want we demand lates only we reject their stories of beings we are the ones who choose who represents us not the only many protesters day believe that interim president up till caught up and salah is the

right person to run the country at this critical moment presidential elections are scheduled for july the protest is not just in the capital but across algeria unrelenting in that demands but complete regime change i did such a project elections under this president can only lead to a fraudulent government but we is the one who fix $6000000.00 forms for bootlicker but weasel actions are rigged and valid and we will not take part in that and we say no to the elections. someone on the chief of staff my guide salah to step in and remove the political elite but he's wounded against what he says are attempts to create a power vacuum so i see despite such warnings anti-government protesters seem determined to continue their rallies until the political establishment. he's going to be touring again to be al jazeera. and hundreds of people have protested in the libyan capital tripoli against the warlord who leave for half his offensive on the city they want to have to his men to lay down their arms after is allied with the 2

group based government in the east of the country and the head of that administration adel al thani has told us media that they're prepared to negotiate with the u.n. backed government in tripoli but won't accept preconditions. to iran or a senior politician has suggested that talks be held between his country and the u.s. after weeks of escalating tensions hash mark tool or fall are hard to push she is chairman of the arabian parliament's actual security and foreign policy commission and he tweeted the highest a rainy and american officials have rejected the war option that there are 3rd parties who are rushing to destroy a large part of the world there must be a table in iraq or qatar where the 2 sides can meet in order to end this tension but he doesn't have major influence on iran's foreign policy is a neighbor's ravi explains from tehran. mr fellow is a senior m.p.

he's an elected member of iran's parliament there is power is distributed between the parliament the presidency in the judiciary with the supreme leader of course sitting on top of all of these institutions and at the end of the day what the supreme leader says that is what is actually actionable so mr fuller how as a senior m.p. and the chairman of the iranian parliamentary commission on foreign policy and national security does hold a great deal of sway this body is has the capacity to call on the foreign ministry to call on the presidency to question senior leaders but in terms of actual state policy it doesn't necessarily have the authority to influence the making of those decisions a foreign policy of diplomacy of military strategy and in response to this tweet the supreme national security council actually issued

a statement saying as much saying that the personal opinions of individuals aren't shouldn't be taken as as the policy of the state and so there seems to be some disagreement between him as a member of parliament no doubt a senior member of parliament and the government the supreme national security council whose chairman is president hassan rouhani and self. iran's foreign minister meanwhile is in china a signatory to the 25th deal and the big. oil adrian brown reports from beijing. both china and iran are involved in worsening dispute with the united states for china the issues trade for iran it's the threat of war iranian foreign minister zarif was last here 12 months ago just after the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear agreement that china helped broker it was meant to curb iran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief china and other

nations roll out to keep buying iranian oil. china is one of the most important partners of this logic republic of iran it is also a political partner or a very close economic partner and also one of the remaining members of the nuclear deal monday during this new stage it is important to have close consultations with the chinese but earlier this month donald trump canceled the exemptions that had permitted such purchases just before raising tariffs on $200000000000.00 worth of chinese goods these recent developments pose a dilemma for china's leaders the relationship between china and iran has been affecting a lot by the sanctions from america especially the recent escalating big nami sanctions and the military threat this cause a very big challenge and uncertainty in relations between china and the around creating added diplomatic pressure for china china's leaders are in

a bind they still appear committed to the iran nuclear deal and maintaining trade ties but so far as we know china is not imported any iranian oil since the beginning of may a sign perhaps the china is reluctantly going along with the sanctions it publicly opposes so does china still have iran's back. no not at this point. and the other reason is that china is really not in a position to back here on right now the only the only party that can back here on is the europeans and they have 60 days to decide that about they probably have done everything they could and for china it's the best strategy for china actress stay out and maybe boys some support quietly. china has already begun to pay a heavy price for its relationship with their own money the c.f.o. of war way is awaiting extradition from canada to the united states on charges of

conspiring to violate u.s. sanctions on iran 2 years ago another chinese telecommunications company paid the us government a fine of more than a $1000000000.00 after admitting trading with iran. the question now is whether china's leaders will be prepared to defy trump over iran and risk further diplomatic and economic fallout given the state of that relationship though they may well feel they have nothing to lose adrian brown al jazeera beijing. that saturday marks 10 years since your lanka's long civil war ended tamil tiger rebels made their last stand against the government on a narrow strip of coastline along with 300000 civilians sheltering from the final battles both sides have since face allegations of war crimes and rights abuses we

know for them this report now from kill a nazi where victims' families say is still waiting for justice. the pain never stops for jacob. armando laurean now at the end it ended as mothers were dying every day and we had children bring them up as good human beings for a good life we think of our children 24 hours a day and i and again her eldest son yogin did and was shot dead in 2006 her 2nd son kojo even killed by a shell in the last month of the war she was separated from another son martin than as the final battle raged and thought he was dead until she saw a picture showing him in a government rehabilitation center but after 10 years of searching she's never found him. then we don't know where he is but he's not that he's alive i believe what is my child situation the government has to give us an answer we're asking to give our children back let them go or else give us an answer what did they do with

our children say publicly. after the civil war government troops battled the tamil tigers who were fighting for a separate homeland following years of discrimination by the majority singhalese population in 2006 then president by in the rajapaksa backed his brother the defense secretary to launch an all out assault on the tigers in the final stages almost 300000 civilians were trapped in the middle many died in the crossfire sri lankan troops work used of deliberately shelling no fire zones a charge they denied the tigers used to villains as human shields. and they're no longer believe there are only after the war the suffering continues hundreds of wives and mothers have spent the last 10 years visiting all branches of the police the military government and attended every protest demonstration and vigil.

they've tried to raise their plight with international figures from the u.n. but nothing. subtle just of a child and who has worked with many of these women says the vulnerable bear of getting income is same porton for them. for survival north or their. thinking. and even then they go out to have their livelihood to work. even if they go and work in the how work raises their fears head us mind because they had the everybody knew the never. the present government came to power in 2015 promising change setting up an office of missing persons has been a key achievement but an office of reparations and truth and justice mechanisms are still pending a fact the senior most government official in the north admit i think of government

representing both paper brief time i do not bring anyone is fully happy of obvious humans we all would say yes we should do more and we could have done more that admission is of little comfort to j. kemarre and hundreds like who just want justice 10 years after the end of the war there's still a lot of work to be done many families depend on widows and they're struggling to make ends meet find employment and rebuild their lives hope that this government would help them find answers is fading and patience is running thin but yet the we are desperate for any scrap of information about their loved ones enough and then there's al jazeera killed in a chain. terrorist attack of the top stories here are an airstrike by the syrian government has killed

several civilians tack was carried out just as the u.n. aid was warning of his worst fears being realized in northwestern syria where the government and its allies retaking the last rebel stronghold. and explosions have been heard in the capital damascus state media reporting quote luminous objects were coming from the direction of israel and they have been shot down israel hasn't commented but in the past it's forces of attack sites in syria that it says connected to iran and hezbollah. the votes are now in from both major leaders in the australian federal election conservative prime minister scott morrison has voted within the last half hour or so and opinion polls are suggesting the his governing coalition will lose to the center left labor party. president trump has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove u.s. tires from steel and alum in human polls the move could put the 3 countries

a step closer to ratifying the new trilateral trade deal that would replace the north american free trade agreement. venezuela's president nicolas maduro says talks in norway which involved his government and the opposition sprawled quote a peaceful agenda the discussions of the finnis with representatives of the opposition leader one day having left the country. representatives from the un the african union the u.s. and european powers of chordal in sudan's military to resume talks immediately at a meeting in washington they also expressed concern about the violence the military and greatest leaders in sudan had been expected to reach a deal earlier this week but dialogue was suspended for 72 hours after protests is extended their roadblocks across the capital beyond what has become the accepted demonstration site right there is of the latest headlines from us here at

al-jazeera coming up let's talk to our jazeera. with bret's it's still unresolved the u.k. will join the other $27.00 member states to vote in the upcoming european parliamentary elections but the far right populist parties make huge gains as predicted and if so would that change the very nature of the european union get the latest on al-jazeera did you see. just months after journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul another arab dissident says his life he's also in danger he backed down he is a pro-democracy activist and strong critic of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man the u.k.'s guardian newspaper reported that norwegian officials took him from his home in 00 to a secure location there he was told the cia had warned norway's government that the saudis had him in their crosshairs baghdadi gained popularity during the arab

spring when he posted pro human rights messages on social media the palestinian activist was granted asylum in norway 4 years ago after being expelled from the united arab emirates for his criticism of middle eastern regimes i'm joined in oslo in an exclusive interview baghdad it discusses an unlikely friendship with the murdered washington post journalist jamal for saudi and have continuing his work has brought him into the crosshairs of the saudi government human rights campaigner el baghdadi talks to al-jazeera. a daily thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you so much for having me i'd like to go back a couple of weeks now to the 25th of april when you 1st got the knock on your door here in oslo telling you that there was a threat against you how did you react how did it happen. well to be honest i

wasn't that surprised that. they showed up. and i believe the 1st thing i said to them once they introduced themselves told me their badges was something like what took you so long. i remember on that day you know from the corner of my eye i could see some activity outside i could see that i think they were standing there for a while. it seemed to me that they secured the area before asking me to go with them norwegian the norwegian security the norway we call them the p.s.t. they're kind of a combination of norway's you know kind of cia f.b.i. and security you know. special service you can see so they also provide security for politicians and dignitaries. and they're known to be you know highly professional highly competent. so. at the time of course they were in plain clothes and what did they tell you. they didn't tell me any details on the spot they simply asked me to go with them they didn't give you any sense of why there was

a threat against you or where information had come from they only did that once i was safe and secure in that specialist secure location or national would do this and they simply sat me down and then they told me that they received a tip from a partner intelligence agency indicating that i've been the target of a threat and you now believe that to be the cia and the threat to be coming from the time i had a good i had a good. idea that it was the cia but i wasn't 100 percent sure i believe i only this only was completely confirmed when the guardian did you know the work to confirm it and in the absence of real evidence to support this notion of a threat what gives you pause to think that it is credible that there is a real threat out there well to start i think the you know whether whatever you think about this from a moral point of view i believe everyone would agree that there are competent. so i

don't believe that this would have passed. if there wasn't something behind it. but i should also mention that i started to become concerned about my security as far back as october you know shortly after the murder which was murder on october 15th i received a friendly tip from a saudi source indicating that you know i'm being discussed and that i should be concerned about my security. you mentioned other names as well and you know i also inform them. but i didn't take any drastic action back then. in february while i was working with the business as investigation team i became i mean i started to understand how sensitive that matter is and i started to feel i mean revisiting a lot of my old sources etc. i started to feel that i mean i don't want

to be too dramatic but i felt like you know i have i probably have cross hairs on my back. and i did indicate my concern to a number of norwegian friends you know and in an e-mail that went around asking them for advice you know what you know someone who is in this kind of situation what do you do where do you go. in march i filed a police report with the police with the local police which is the normal procedure when you want to know when to and want to indicate something like that but i believe it was over a month over a month had passed before. the p.s.t. came to my door so it was october last year the same month that was killed that you began to feel somewhat under threat yourself and you were friends with him where you know. and you work together well yeah i mean initially of course i mean i tell people that someone like them all and i are not supposed to be friends we're

not supposed to be friends the reason is for the longest time was one of the elites of saudi arabia he was a figure who was deeply loyal he continued to be deeply loyal to the saudi state to the idea of saudi arabia. and for the longest time i mean within my team we had a lot of frustration we had rants about about who should be you know like the guy who almost gets it the guy who would say 10 things 10 positive 10 things about democracy and human rights and free expression 9 of them would be things that you would absolutely you know agree with and the 10th would walk it all back you know. and so i was always skeptical about until that moment when he chose exile. and something really amazing happened after that which was that one was unshackled from having to be concerned about his security and about you know his

his safety once he was safe reasonably in the united states. he could have gone in any direction he could have gone to words you know he could have one of his dreams was to start his own t.v. station or could have done that he could have you know gotten a pretty decent position at a think tank for example in d.c. . eventually he chose 2 things 1st journalism his 1st you know his 1st identity and he gravitated towards activists was used to some kind of normal politics he was used to the old saudi arabia which had some kind of norms and some kind of traditions of how things happen. as completely destroyed that and the end of normal politics eventually meant that you have to seek other ways of seeking influence. and i think that's how he that's when he started to gravitate towards activism n.b.s. . of course the crown prince in saudi arabia. eventually you found common cause

with jamal khashoggi. do you think that it was your association with him. the 1st put you on the radar of the saudi authorities to attempt to answer your question. we did a risk assessment and we identified 6 or 7 reasons of 6 or 7 things that i've been working on you and he not with jamal i mean generally i mean 3 of these are 2 of these were but the rest were basically other initiatives that were highly sensitive and i believe from my own informed opinion would have been highly you know of concern let's see if to the saudis well you knew you knew that what you were doing had the potential to get you in trouble you tweeted if they don't want to kill me then i'm not doing my job is the risk the danger something that you accept as simply being an inherent in what you do it is something that i accept i

mean this is i mean it's not the easiest life but it is the life that i built and it's the life that i chose so let's talk about the period then after jamal khashoggi death in the saudi consulate in istanbul last october you took on along with these who's also been warned at the same time as you he lives in canada that there's another individual who lives in the united states also warned by security services of a threat the 3 of you took on jamal's work and tried to carry it on and that's what brought you into contact with the i was in founder jeff bezos give me a sense of of how events unfolded after june miles death and how they involved your work so the man was very concerned about the state of free expression the main medium of free expression. in the arab world post 2011 was social media particularly twitter i think the nature of twitter. the fact that twitter is this

unfiltered you know there's no algorithm or the algorithm is very light. and the fact that twitter became very very popular in saudi arabia i think saudi arabia and certain and certain. certain surveys tops the world when it comes to an attrition rate went up supporter. jamal himself was a twitter influencer as you know i mean he had i think 1600000 for something like that as we saw a 1000000 followers i mean i'm nowhere near his influence on twitter i mean under that keep in mind also that he's influential in the arabic language which is the language that for safety i avoided even though i enjoy speaking i mean and communicating in arabic it just happens that there were far more aggressive with arabic speakers because they wanted to control the arab public sphere ok so you identified twitter as the sort of main battleground it was the main battleground the main i mean i remember as far back as 2011 someone called twitter the parliament of the arabs it is where arabs go to express their opinion it is where

arabs go to to get informed. likely exactly so take me on. in how you went about picking up where jamal left off trying to finish what it was he'd started. you might be aware of the project that omar abdel aziz was working on and of course was a project that was structured in association was about actually. and the idea behind it is you know these guys the saudi regime they weaponize twitter they manipulate the media they manipulate the platform in order to do really dark things and to just to fight really dark things why don't we do the same but in the in the opposite direction in other words why don't we also manipulate twitter to push our own narratives which are basically you know pro freedom pro pro freedom of expression pro-human rights etc. so that was one line of attack and i would i would mention here that i have a certain philosophical difference let's say with this approach of course i was not

involved in that project at all but i have this philosophical difference because i think maybe fighting fire with fire is not the best strategy because they simply have so much more fire. the 2nd approach i mean there's 3 approaches i prefer not to mention the 3rd approach at least for the meanwhile because it's very much a work in progress and it's highly sensitive and it's starting to bear fruit. but i would mention the 2nd one with the 2nd one basically was. jamal's desire to create. what we eventually came to describe as an arab state media watchdog so he actually gave me a call i believe it was if i'm not mistaken it was august 7th. and this was after after we had communicated about the 3rd project after i had made

some connections that that team needed. but in that conversation he he summarized the idea he said you know these guys push a lot of propaganda a lot of it is outrageous and a lot of it they get away with it because they say it in the arabic language and there isn't enough awareness in the world that you know this is actually happening so he's like why don't we create this project that actually exposes the so what they do is that they segment the audience so they send a message in english there's another message in arabic why don't we cross translate so that people can see that this is what's happening and we can actually keep an eye a spotlight on their propaganda efforts what they're doing what they're saying etc and he said like some some of it would be funny. in a dark kind of way like like look how you know ridiculous the serbs and some of it would be incredibly important incredibly important for you know for understanding you know these regimes and of course he talked about this not only to me but also

to the 3rd unnamed. person in the united states in the united states and of course i understood from my conduct like from my subsequent you know work on this i understood that twitter is an integral part of such a project so it wasn't it doesn't have to be simply t.v. and press twitter is an enormous it's actually the primary propaganda tool for you know when it comes to saudi arabia. to spend a lot of time a lot of money and they actually spilled a lot of blood to maintain to create that kind of control which actually they're very proud of and we have a lot of evidence that the very proud of their degree of control that they have over arabic twitter what do you mean they spilled a lot of blood i mean that there are people and i mean i can't mention names here but i think soon enough this this will be this this will come out 1st of all a lot of the people who were arrested as early as september 27th teen. of course they had a profile as intellectuals some of the more scholars and so troubled i think it's

also important to note that there also were. twitter influencers in fact we tabulated i mean we can you are talking about the saudi authorities decided 30 killing people who had become influential on twitter i mean jamal was one of them but there were there are cases that we're aware of people who are tortured to death and not going to be but tortured to death and we cannot find anything that they were doing other than twitter and this is evidence backed. unfortunately yes and we don't have as i mentioned we don't we don't want to reveal the names yet you know until we have something official we're expecting that maybe there will be an official. college went off of this at some point but there has been reporting on it ok so twitter is your battle ground in which you and people like you operate to counter the problem gander of regimes among them saudi arabia. jamal

khashoggi is killed you and 2 others take on projects that you were working with together. bring me then up to the point where you working with jeff bezos and you begin to feel vulnerable. yes so the general idea or the general methodology. off the 2nd project is something that we had an idea about what would we never had a target like we never tried it out in a real life investigation. this of course kind of changed when the business blackmail scandal became public the founder of amazon so the founder of amazon and also interestingly importantly the owner of the washington post owner of the employer of the sort of his phone was tapped allegedly embarrassing tweets e-mails. it's made mainly you know pictures and messages that were lifted

off his phone. and i i mean i don't want to get into details that probably i should not mention i mean there's a lot i can i know about the case that that i should not be. i should not be speaking publicly about them. but the short story here is that. after the murder of washington post journalist i was in a bit of a bind because this is a man who has has extensive business interests in saudi arabia he had by then a personal relationship with m.p.'s had met him several times yes. but he was also the owner of the washington post and m.b.'s just killed one of his journalists. and he was in this kind of situation where it was clear it was it became clear to us even even more you know with the investigation that m.p.'s expected basis to side with him over the washington post and to say you know you know my business comes

1st. and you know i have this personal relationship with this man and he expected him to curb the washington post coverage. that of course not happen and jeff bezos basically when he bought the washington post and 2013 he had a good faith agreement that i'm not going to interfere in editorial policy at all i'm not going to enter the boardroom and he ordered that and this was something sadly this was something exactly this was something that m.b.a.'s so as betrayal and so you were called in to help identify the source of the leaks my role was basically aiding the investigation team in. first of all exposing the degree and the the the saudi campaigns against jeff bezos. but also the timing of a lot of these things that happened. and of course it fell upon jeff this is investigation team to actually go in and find out exactly what happened and it was

conclusive. that was there i mean according i mean to quote them to paraphrase they concluded with a high degree of certainty that's what that's that's according to them that the saudis had access to a source for so there's a lot of work going on here. on your behalf. and the other individuals in the united states following on from jamal's who are aiming to point the figure finger not just at the saudi authorities but n.b.s. himself the crown prince himself one thing that seems to be lacking in indeed also lacking in pointing the finger at n.b.s. in the death of jamal khashoggi he's. categorical undeniable evidence direct evidence he's in of all of us yet you take it as read you speak as though it is a fact based. thing. if there is no direct evidence must accept that there is the possibility that n.b.s.

in fact did not have any direct role when knowledge that's that's really these things i mean that's that's a really interesting question i mean some people misunderstand circumstantial evidence so that the actual idea of circumstantial evidence i mean if i walk out if i'm out in outside and you're sitting inside and i walk in and i have you can see that i'm wet you can assume that it was raining outside and i have an umbrella for example you can assume that it was raining but that was not direct evidence is circumstantial it doesn't mean that it's weak evidence it simply means that it's not direct in a case of as they said before a highly pick regime which has control over information it is very rare that you will actually find direct evidence maybe it could be years before you find direct evidence and this is something they know and this is something the use to as i said you know drum loops around us really i mean they can't they can basically be months or running years ahead of us. which unfortunately in many cases they have they have been i would point out however that in

a country like saudi arabia with which is ruled by an absolute monarch and he's and he's absolutely probably i don't think there's another country in the world in which. one person. has such direct control over everything in the state. it is simply impossible to think that. such such a thing as a miles murder could have been done without his knowledge and this was in fact the conclusion of the. to a medium to high level of probability absolutely with i mean what our argument the us is that it is almost impossible for something like this to happen without us as knowledge and yet all of this said and with all the cumulative work that you and others continue to do. it remains an unassailable fact that m.b.a.'s at this point mom have been summoned the crown prince retains the. support

of president trump and. the banks and the investors who pulled away from saudi arabia very publicly in the months following 2 miles murder have trickled back there are simply too much money there for them not to the spotlight shifts inexorably to saudi arabia's iran in the arab world. and so it is unlikely or seems unlikely that n.b.s. is ever going to go the way of the. mubarak's or the good office or the moral the shoes of this world is that true do you think i mean i think that the chances of a popular uprising in saudi arabia is not as as you mentioned is not. doesn't have a history of popular uprisings but then again i mean libya for example didn't have on. syria until recent recently i mean didn't have one. so i would caution against you know being complacent about about you know

what is that point at which the people simply say enough however i completely agree with you and everything else the fact that. the administration in the in this world that is most capable of reining in m.b.'s is currently his biggest enabler i'm talking about trump but also importantly jarrett questioner. i mean my own sources indicate that u.s. institutions including intel including you know congress obviously are very much aware that n.b.s. is bad news but then there's the other angle which is that saudi arabia is verifiable absolutely an important country it will continue to be an important country so this presents a very interesting policy really to the world which is that we need saudi arabia. it's an interesting market it's also an important country for such strategic reasons. dynamic young population you know traumatized probably after after the recent events but still important but then we also have this guy who is bad news

what do we do about it i mean this is this is absolutely a conundrum your current situation at the moment under threat you're aware of a threat how do you proceed now undeterred or cautiously. well on the one hand it's clear i mean the fact that there's been this threat and you mentioned you quoted me earlier saying you know if they don't want to kill me then i'm not doing my job. in a way when they come after you that's when you know that you're being effective you know that you hit a nerve in other words. you know the. of course again i mean they went after a lot of people that were a lot more accessible to them such as people who are living in saudi arabia and these people of course. you know i have the highest respect for their courage but also the biggest the most concern for their safety. but knowing that you have a certain effectiveness that would prompt them to try to deter you and to stop you

really is validation it's validation and it's basically a message saying that you know i need to double down my efforts. but. that's all the time we have thank you so much for talking to others if thank you. he added to. the passion the success and the popularity. and van he gave. for the love of his homeland. rebels into the realm of footballing legend rashid look through free. will of the algerian national liberation front with the. feet rashid mcclean feet and the f.l.n. teeth on al-jazeera. they call this bleeding the tree. first substance the world is addicted to now at the center

of a global trade war. it's latex in its purest form found in tires phones toothbrushes satellites or mattresses it is an essential element to daily life and so deep in the ivorian forest where you get a book goes from tree to tree scarring them for the precious liquid trump is imposing $200000000000.00 in tariffs on china the world's largest manufacturer of rubber goods china in response imposes tariffs on synthetic rubber the west produces while in the short term this is bad for african producers in the long run some hope the continent could benefit from this trade war but aware of the global trade war and despite falling prices at calls rubber white gold at least for now. in a 2 part series. 0 observes the lives of 2 children.

over 20 years. where insights into circumstances that shaped lives. in a rapidly changing world. 20 years of me continues with good morning groups in young on how to 0. west fear is now coming true. the u.n. aid chief warns of a humanitarian nightmare in northwestern syria where the last rebel stronghold is being bombarded by government forces. hello welcome to our desire in life and i'm 19 and it's also coming our. way back

in the strike and we're asking a strategy to attack us today. australia's conservative prime minister puts on a brave face but the polls are the opposition to head in federal elections. but as well a foreign minister talks to al-jazeera and says the opposition's proposal should be based on the cold situation and not on american demands. plus the unique west african lake community is existence is under threat. the u.n. aid chief has warned his worst fears are being realized in northwestern syria where the government and its allies are fighting to retake the lost rebel stronghold mark local says the offensive in province could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy

of the 21st century diplomatic editor james bays reports. the russian ambassador vasily depends under pressure in the security council last year russia was one of 2 countries with turkey that guaranteed it live as a safe now it stands accused of unleashing with its syrian allies a campaign of bombardment on the province since late april this escalation in violence has reportedly killed and injured over 100 civilians and further displaced 180000. the aerial bombardment is alarming including the use of barrel bombs in populated areas. with 18 medical facilities and 17 schools destroyed or damaged in just 3 weeks there were even more powerful words from the un's most senior humanitarian official when i briefed you here on 18 september i

said a full scale military onslaught could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century. despite our warnings our west phase and now coming true mr local revealed the un had shared the precise coordinates of humanitarian facilities with all warring parties so they wouldn't be hit but the u.k. ambassador then asked if they'd actually been deliberately targeted as a result mr president it would be absolutely grotesque if n.g.o.s and health workers providing coordinates to a mechanism they believe is there to assure their safety but finding themselves being the authors of their own destruction because if deliberate targeting by the regime when it was time for russian ambassador benazir to speak he accused the council of double standards ignoring civilian deaths during the us bombardment of the eisel stronghold of russia but he denied his country's air force was currently

targeting medical facilities for you but it's that we categorically reject accusations of by a lady in international humanitarian law neither the syrian army nor the russian space and air force is conducting has delivered against civilians or civilian infrastructure or you bombing hospitals in there. were no outside the chamber but in his speech to the council the syrian ambassador bashar jaffrey said military operations were being carried out against what he said were terrorists they were he said operations that will continue it seems this meeting has failed to stop the devastating bombardment of it lebron james plays out his era at the united nations while the un security council was hearing that warning in new york of the airstrike in killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter many more people were injured. and explosions have

been heard in the capital damascus state media reported that what it described as luminous objects coming from the direction of israel that they have been shut down israel hasn't commented but in the past its forces have attacked sites in syria that it says connected to iran and the lebanese group hezbollah are now voting is underway in australia in elections that could deliver a 6 prime minister in as many years opinion polls suggest the conservative governing coalition will lose to the center left labor party the opposition leader bill shorten has committed to more ambitious environmental targets he's also promised to bring stability after years that have seen both sides of politics watching prime ministers in backroom coups. we'll be ready to hit the ground from tomorrow we'll be ready to start straight away and we'll start straight away my 1st cabinet meeting the 1st order of business. submission to the independent umpire to

get the why age is moving again for millions of our fellow australians my 1st legislation would reverse the cuts to penalty rights we will convene the parliament as soon as possible to start action on climate change the rest of the world's fighting climate change astray years been missing this is not the aussie way to go missing in the big fights the world will know that if labor gets elected astray is back in the fight against climate change and prime minister scott morrison who voted within the past hour says he's not giving up despite the the polls favoring his opponent. we're backing a strike and we're asking astride the ins to back us to die and so it's been a great honor and privilege to go through the course of this campaign because tonight the votes will be carried up and i will see what the outcome is i mike i make no assumptions about tonight. i respect this process it's did to my heart the

democracy of our country presumptions i don't take anyone support in this country for granted we have worked hard to win that support over the course particularly of this campaign i think on the stridency know very full will what it is that was saying in terms of keeping our economy strong keeping a budget under control investing in the services the distractions rely on keeping us try and siphon secure ensuring that we create another one and a quarter 1000000 new jobs this is our plan for a stronger astride the plan i talked about when i launched the campaign 5 and a half weeks ago as i stood in the prime minister's courtyard and to die is strivings of making the choice it's their choice it's absolutely up to them the u.s. has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its terrorists and sail and dalmeny i'm the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying the deal that would replace the north american free

trade agreement in agreement will eliminate u.s. metal terrorists and canada's retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including polk beef and bev and. obviously these continued tariffs on steel and aluminum and our countermeasures i represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new now. now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with you my united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks patty culhane has more from washington. it's been a sticking point in the relationship between the united states canada and mexico the president including those countries on his tariff list for steel and aluminum 25 and 10 percent he's now heralding that those tariffs will be removed there's some context here that it all goes back to renegotiate in the north american free

trade agreement the president campaigned on this he said it was the worst deal the united states ever made and basically he renegotiated it now there's not many huge changes but still he needs to be able to tell his base before the election that he kept his promise it is facing stiff opposition in congress and a very influential senator chuck grassley of the state of iowa had said he would not put that for a vote that he wouldn't get a vote on this new nafta deal until he got rid of the steel and aluminum tariffs so the president's people have been pushing on capitol hill they want to see a vote on this new trade agreement and now because those tariffs have been removed they have a better shot than they did before. venezuela's president nicolas maduro says the talks in no way between these government and the opposition explored a peaceful agenda those discussions of now finish with representatives of the opposition the having left the country there had been hope the meetings would help end the months long power struggle between. the daughter of. well the former

minister of venezuela his has been speaking to al jazeera about those talks he told our last in america editor lucien human the proposals from the opposition will only be considered if they respect venezuela's constitution those when they also look at things again they are asking for all those things because the united states is demanding it and we will sit at a table for talks and also or anywhere else or as all initiatives are possible with our constitution on the table not with a pistol not with an imperial order but with our constitution on the options that they are proposing are not in the constitution dumbass and then the way down and open to them soon. do you believe that there is a real credible threat of u.s. military intervention in minnesota or is it a bluff those are going to like us have learned no with those hawks in the white house there is no bluff you always have to be careful and be prepared for all scenarios it was president trump who in august $27000.00 said that he would

consider a military option in venezuela it wasn't bolton or pompei oh it was trump bolton has said it thousands of times pompei o has said it pence has said it that all options are on the table including the military one we are prepared for all scenarios. there are representatives from the un the african union the united states and european powers of cold on sudan's military to resume talks immediately and amazing in washington they also expressed concern about the violence the military and prayed to see this incident had been expected to reach a deal this week but dialogue was suspended for 72 hours after protests has extended their roadblocks across the capital beyond what has become the accepted demonstration site. the hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protests have been back out on to the streets of algeria for the 13th friday in a row and 6 weeks after forcing out their longtime president protests a say they'll only stop after the in top political elite is replaced interrogates

in the reports. for months protesters have gathered outside the iconic grampus building in the capital algiers demanding political change. but on friday morning they arrived to find the area barricaded by police officers. tens of thousands of protesters tried to push their way through at 1st security forces responded with tear gas but outnumbered and under attack. i they eventually pulled out of the area it's the 13th consecutive week protesters have gathered in the main square to demand the removal of politicians and officials associated with the regime of alstom president abdelaziz bouteflika i think the similar mix of people know that they want to destroy us but they want we demand lates only we reject their stories of beings we are the ones who choose who represents us not for the only many protests.