and special wrap up your column our says his words mean nothing without actions. easer crown prince of saudi arabia so clearly everything at printing in saudi arabia or related to saudi arabia is our printing and our use watch i you know i haven't found the statement as riveting as maybe some people may find it. i also thing that. acts speak louder than words and as far as i know he has not returned an apology to the family he has not to return an apology to the feel c. of mr cash he has not demanded an investigation into the chain of command and the mastermind behind the. killing and the one person that has been repeatedly mentioned by the saudi prosecutor in relation to

the killing meaning mr sauer that catalonia advisor to mohammed bin salman that that person has not been charged and he's not facing trial so those words don't mean much for me now the u.s. is proposing to cut the number of refugees to its lowest level ever if the plan is adopted the number of allowed in over the next 12 months will be limited 218000 that's down from 30000 or let's take a closer look at how this proposal would work officials say 5000 people filling religious persecution would be resettled that also be a large number from iraq and central america the balance would be people from other countries the new limit would apply from tuesday which is the beginning of the new financial year but to go ahead as more now from washington d.c. . the u.s. president donald trump has made this a key campaign issue he wants to send a message to his core supporters that he is cracking down on immigration this goes

a step further this will be the lowest number of refugees allowed into the u.s. since the law passed in the refugee program in 1980 look at just 18000 refugees and really restricting where those come from to 3 different areas iraqis who helped the u.s. during the invasion about 1500 central american migrants and 5000 people facing religious persecution so the president has sent this number he had to do it before october 1st the beginning of the fiscal year now under the law he has to consult with congress he hasn't done that in the past it doesn't appear he's done that now now congress could take steps to try and rein in the president on this issue we've seen in the democratically controlled house they've passed legislation that would increase this number but it's highly unlikely that it would get through the republican controlled senate controlled by the president's own party now we could see human rights groups try to file lawsuits try and block this very low number just to put in perspective barack obama had about 110000 refugees now going down

218000 the courts have been unwilling in most cases to take up these sorts of cases because the president is seen when it comes to this issue is having broad latitude . break here on al-jazeera when we come back britain's prime minister has suffered another political blow it was a tries to push ahead with budget. on turning on the hope in mexico some of his weight the answer is 5 years after the disappearance of dozens of students more on that stay with us. and i think we can safely say we've got it all across the united states and up into canada sunny skies some hate thunderstorms and also some snow now all this can see here in the north this is snow working its way through the canadian rockies and actually pushing further south into northern sections of the united states on

saturday and then we have this line of rain showers with severe thunderstorms really developing as we go through saturday so we could thompson severe storms always with those threat of tornadoes you've got that dividing line the cooler behind this line of rain and much warm moist to have a look at this snow really beginning to push in even up that into the pacific northwest of the mountain ranges we'll see some snow fall and then ahead of this on a rain it is warm 32 in atlanta and 31 celsius in washington then pushing further to the south across into the caribbean widespread showers areas of cloud thunderstorms as well no actual tropical weather at the moment by which of course i mean tropical storms karen is pushed well out of the way into the atlantic but some fairly heavy rain into central america in particular friday into saturday we will see some enhanced rain chiles come in from this little disturbance that is sitting off the west coast of mexico so that rain becoming widespread on saturday although mostly dry in mexico city with a high of 24 degrees. as

president prepares to exit the e.u. people in power investigates disturbing allegations about the tactics used by the winningly campaign we know that the law was broken and we know that campaigns over spent we know that russia tried to build a relationship with one of the key campaigns who paid for breaks it people in power on al-jazeera. welcome back to remind of our top stories here on al-jazeera u.s.

democrats are accusing president trump of a cover up after a sense of version of the whistleblowers complaint was made public the memo details out from try to persuade his ukrainian counterpart to investigate his wife or joe biden. the pentagon's deploying a battery of patriot missiles for radar systems and $200.00 troops to saudi arabia in order to bolster the kingdom's defenses comes in the wake of an attack earlier this month on an oil refinery. in saudi arabia's foreign minister as the international community at the u.n. general assembly to ban together to combat the rot riyad holds terror on a sponsor for that attack and it's all the same says an accusation the terror denies. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has threatened to terminate all signed agreements with israel if an ex is a key part of the west bank it comes after israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced plans for more illegal settlements in the occupied west bank speaking at the un general assembly about us urged the international community to

help end what he called israeli aggression in palestine. through i'm. a week before the israeli elections prime minister netanyahu came out to arrogantly announce that should he prevail in the elections he would end next and apply israeli sovereignty to the jordan valley northern dead sea and israel's colonial settlements despite the fact that all of these areas. palestinian territory we reject this plan entirely all responses if the israeli government is to proceed with this plan all signed agreements with the government of the occupation and any obligations will be terminated. or us democratic senator has criticized the egyptian government's crackdown after last week's protests chris murphy has called on the government in cairo to allow demonstrations egyptian rights groups say security forces have arrested nearly 2000 people more protests are planned for friday. president trump has been you know an absolute disaster for global democracy

causes he is empowered autocrats all over the world at the top of that list is president al sisi the congress is going to be watching what happens is these protests unfold tomorrow we have seen what sisi has done over the past week or so locking up hundreds of dissidents disappearing many we're going to be watching we expect these protests to be able to be held we are going to hold the egyptians to account if they once again respond with force and indiscriminate attention to the syrian government did use chlorine as a chemical weapon in its battle to italy and that's the finding of a u.s. investigation secretary state might pump aoe has condemned damascus saying the white house has been working on preventing such attacks against civilians president bashar al assad's regime has been accused of several chemical weapon attacks against syrian people during the country's 8 year long civil war. trade talks

between the u.s. and china will resume in 2 weeks that's according to u.s. media reports it's believed the meeting will take place in beijing on october the 10th u.s. officials had said they expected talks to his you next month the trade war between the u.s. and china has softened slightly over the past few weeks the lifting of some tariffs with hong kong protests now in the 16th week the city as leader has opened talks with the public for the 1st time that many involved in the so-called dialogue session it was a chance to voice their anger at the government. they were the 150 people selected by a lottery to go face to face with hong kong chief executive kerry lamb in a so-called town hall meeting her 1st direct interaction with the people of this divided city she controls after nearly 4 months of protests that were sparked when a bill allowing extradition to mainland china was presented. lam later shelled the legislation permanently but it was too late for the protesters they expanded their

demands focusing on alleged police mistreatment of protesters and less control from the g.m. . no matter how difficult it is my colleagues and i think that it's time to start a direct dialogue because in the last 3 months i'm sure no matter what political stance one holds they must be feeling very sad and worried or angry but empathy was met with blunt to statements from some participants a young lawyer like i will say you know younger it is you because you're useless at governing i say listen you're responsible for what has happened in the protests you must step down. as the to our dialogue continued inside the hundreds of protesters out front continued with their chanting and their demands for carry land and her government. they listened on their phones as they swarmed the street in front of the meeting venue. this political observer sees the dialogue as too little too late

i think it's more political show and it all looks a bit of it fosco these days because she talked about engaging in dialogue and since august 18th the massive variety of $1700000.00 people in half the rain but after more than one monteux what people see land made one announcement during the meeting the authorities will end the controversy a practice of taking a rest of protesters to a detention center near the border with mainland china but the concession appeared to have little impact on the focus of the protest movement with many events planned for the next few days it's got harder al-jazeera hong kong a landslide that an illegal gold mine in the central african country of chad has killed around 30 people the defense minister says the incident happened in the north west near the border with libya illegal mining in the area has grown rapidly in recent years it's feared more victims are still very under the rubble. protests

sever the disappearance of dozens of students 5 years ago and in mexico. this believe the 43 students were abducted by gang members with the help of corrupt security forces nobody has yet been convicted demonstrators marched in mexico city demanding justice. says she has hope her son is still alive even today 5 years since he went missing along with 42 other students from the town of. every year when it's my son's birthday i miss him and want to give him a hug is the love i have for him that keeps me going and i won't rest until i find 10. other parents have been the driving force behind the constant protests to pressure the government for answers but they fear that those truly responsible for their children's disappearance may never face justice there have

been a 142 arrests made in connection to the disappearance of the $43.00 students but the investigation found that much of the evidence presented to prosecutors was obtained illegally. a handful of the accused were found to have been tortured in order to obtain false confessions as a result as many as $53.00 of the $142.00 detained have been released this includes that of the locals the leader of the so-called good ladles needles the group believed to be responsible for the disappearance of the students. this is an example of the miserable rot that spreading through the country's justice system and it smells rotten was. after years of misleading narratives the official investigation continues to drag on. the linking complexity of this specific case has become emblematic of mexico's problem with impunity and by the end this is

a country with 42. 1000 missing persons what makes this case especially relevant is that high level far things are under investigation along with members of federal and local police the military and former mayors and governors. mexican president and respond well lopez over the us has vowed to parents of the students his government will get to the bottom of the case even if it requires starting a new investigation. but for the parents of the you'll see napa 43 that could mean an even longer wait for answers when i went up a little dizzy to mexico city. britain's prime minister has been delivered another blow in his push for an early election the house of commons speaker says under current rules it wouldn't be possible to go to the polls before october 31st that's when britain is shechem to leave the e.u. charlie angela has more from london. following one of the most serious debate in british parliamentary history an

attempt by the speaker of the house to restore some dignity to politics. yesterday. the house did extol no credit. there was. an atmosphere in the chamber. worse than any i've known in my 22 years in the house on both sides passions were inflamed angry words were uttered for culture. was toxic roll of the promised to unite the culture there are calls for boris johnson to apologize are dismissed pleas from lawmakers to tone down his divisive language and said the best way to honor the memory of murdered m.p. joe cox was to get breaks it down cox who back to remain in the e.u. referendum was killed by a far right sympathizer but there was no apology fueling concern that this is part

of the prime minister's plan to pit the people against parliament ever directed the use of language yesterday and over the past few weeks such as the surrender bill such as invoking the war so just talking about the trial and treachery it has clearly been tested workshopped and worked and it is entirely designed to inflame hatred. only hours after her statement the offices of m.p. jess phillips were attacked by a man calling her a fascist. meanwhile in brussels the european parliament steering group met to discuss the current state of play insisting they're still waiting for the u.k. to put forward a workable alternative deal. because a solution would mean 1st finding compromise with european union then. building compromise in westminster to pass an agreement so maybe strategies and also one

belief he has been all along is to provoke no break on friday the u.k. directed minister to join the table for more talk so the mood is. back in parliament lawmakers voted down the government's request for a recess during next week's conservative party conference schedule. this is now a parliament of point scoring but trust has broken down and only consensus can bring it back but there's no indication that is the prime minister's plan with just 5 weeks to go before the u.k. is due to crash out with no deal unless an extension is secured or deal passed charlie and. zimbabwe's long time ruler robert mugabe will be buried in his home district of instead of at the national shrine as previously planned there's been a feud between the government and the garveys family over his final resting place.

for 37 years until of ousted by the military in 2017 he died in a singapore hospital earlier this month former french leader jacques chirac has died his lengthy career at the pinnacle of french public life included 2 terms as president and prime minister during that time he became a champion of the european single currency and a vocal opponent of the u.s. led war in iraq where people queued in the courtyard of the emmys a palace in paris to pay their respects by signing a book of condolences france will hold a national day of mourning on monday. talk a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. democrats are accusing president trump of a cover up after a censored version of a whistle the complaint was made public. the memo details how trump tried to persuade his ukrainian counterpart to investigate his rival joe biden the chairman

of the house intelligence committee adam schiff is accused of sacrificing national security for personal gain yesterday we were presented with the most graphic evidence yet that the president the united states has betrayed his oath of office betrayed his oath to defend our national security and betrayed his oath to defend our constitution for yesterday we were presented with a record of a call between the president of the united states and the president of ukraine in which the president our president sacrificed our national security and our constitution for his personal political benefit the pentagon is deploying a battery of patriot missiles for radar systems and $200.00 troops to saudi arabia in order to bolster the kingdom's defenses it comes in the wake of an attack earlier this month on a saudi old processing facility yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility

for those airstrikes but washington and riyadh blame iran tehran denies this. and saudi arabia's foreign minister as the international community to band together to combat iran speaking at the un general assembly in new york ibrahim al assad said iran is a bloodthirsty regime menacing the world. also speaking on the sidelines of the un general assembly iran's president says his country would of course engage in talks with the u.s. but only if sanctions are lifted but house and rouhani reiterated that the trumpet ministrations coming tactics are not working. protests over the disappearance of dozens of students 5 years ago have turned violent in mexico. it's believed the 43 students were abducted by gang members with the help of corrupt security forces nobody's yet been convicted demonstrators marched in mexico city demanding justice . well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people

in power who paid for briggs it stage and thanks for watching. there was a lot of dad in this community and that is what he lived on the way when they were going to look 14 yet on the commission want to win this is our man she worked with local women to solve the main problems plaguing their community was not always a key problem auction plan had been bought us a player the team and led the way in transforming a difficulty into a success so i'm following a woman for me is standing economies. women make change on al-jazeera. in june 26th the u.k. decided to leave the european union in the aftermath amid acrimonious debate on the exact terms of britain's departure questions surfaced about the legitimacy of the referendum that began it all we asked journalist polish ma to investigate now with

the brics it saga still mired in divisive political wrangling was showing his report again. last. october 28th seen hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through central london one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the u.k. in years i aim to get in the 2nd child's to rethink britain's proposed exit from the european union or to leave only way to come politics to cover their own behind

by giving us the people's vote because we cannot decide on the one last. a lot of us think that remaining is a much better idea and trying to reform the european union make that better rather than running a highly went brit britain where. britain's prime minister might say the same thing but a truce of my not quitting has meant staying faithful to the small majority that voted to leave the 2 years ago whatever the cost yet what if that vote was tainted what if instead of being a free and fair reflection of the people's will the referendum was one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on british democracy in any other election if fraud of they slava had been uncovered then we have the legislation that puts aside the results and we have the election again as the deadline for

britain's exit from the e.u. draws near there are still too many troubling questions about the vote that breaks it underway about its fairness and its legitimacy about who was behind it who paid for it and the motives of many of those involved. my name is dr paul lashmar i'm an older and deputy head of journalism at city university of london. breaks it is a watershed moment for the u.k. like everyone else my students will be directly affected and look at the mess they could be one of the most important political events of their lives so i've been looking for answers what i've heard is a story so complex and murky it almost defies belief. thank you it only began in 2030 to placate a wing of his party that had long being antagonistic to the prime minister david

cameron was taking the biggest gamble of his career we will give the british people a referendum with a very simple. choice. like all ballots in the u.k. the referendum was to be overseen by the electoral commission. so anyone could take part in the public debate the commission designated 2 official campaign poll g's. one of favorite maybe in the e.u. one for leavin and gave each a fixed spending limit of $7000000.00 pounds. only british registered donors were allowed to contribute to those campaigns. david cameron became the public face of the pro e.u. campaign better off we are safer in a reformed european union vote leave was fronted by the p.m.'s cabinet colleagues boris johnson and michael go i think we should take the chance now as

a country to take back control the probe breaks its side have the backing of another unofficial campaign leave you its most prominent figure was nigel farrar of the u.k. independence party but cameron's plan backfired against all the odds the u.k. opted for the exit the u.k. has no teats to leave the european union. you know history. in the road and. the shock on the remains side was profound early hopes of an easy victory dashed how had it gone so horribly wrong. as the post-mortems got underway attention began focusing on the role played by social media a powerful tool for sway in public opinion to find out more i went to see one of my

university colleagues would be looking at a bracks of debate for a very long time dr marco bastos is a specialist in communications of this is what we call a network graph or a plot if he showed me a graph of twitter activity during the referendum strange patterns emerged we noticed a drop in the number of users that we were monitoring it was a significant drop i hadn't seen anything that big up to a point and they turned out that there. he had very much to very much so we're like features thoughts of computer generated accounts program to automatically push messages online. what's happening here is that this box is between a range of real world users this is a single message in all likelihood that was what we did several times by this very same bot marco explained that while bots were used by the remaining campaign it was the leave site that made the most of them that there were more bots for leave out

of the campaign for sure. the figure was of quite clear some of my colleagues have looked into similar data and they have come to the conclusion that these accounts war at least a portion of them were operated by that research agency in russia based in some petersburg the internet research agency for. is a troll for an organization created expressly to sow discord in this information on the web it was identified by american intelligence as having played a key role in manipulating the 2016 election of president donald trump though no one knew it at the time it now seems that they are also played a role in bricks it. on the death of my friend we found a marked change in behavior so accounts have been intervent tweeting brax it suddenly started to. edinburgh university research dr clearly well and has examined millions of tweets that were posted prior to the referendum many of them

it turns out from the same suspect internet research agency accounts the tweets often at the same format which was that hash tag many u.r.l. and they were using that to manage trending topic so that a lot of people saw them mation and that they were trying to access that's just. what we have here is trolls so it's human people writing tweet what they flicked was being. the true scale of the russian twitter activity on breaks it only came to light by accident because the company passed the data to a u.s. congressional investigation into the trump election that probe another key social media player facebook was already playing a starring role in this year's i covered what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in

identifying the russian information operations in 2016 and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry what no one yet fully understands is the role that facebook may have also played in bricks if the company says it has found almost no evidence of russian interference and repeated that claim in a statement to this program but research was skeptical but facebook is basically a black box so we don't really know what's going on inside facebook. and that's not just facebook that's or their instagram what a number of other platforms operated by facebook. the fact that doubts persist is jus in parts of the company's connection to another murky affair. in early 20 the guardian newspaper revealed that 87000000 personal facebook accounts had been illegally harvested by a u.k. based strategic communications business called cambridge analytical work because of the presidential campaign and had ties to leave the go and offshoot of

a larger company called s c l which had an alleged background in military decision from ation cambridge analytic as promised was that it could target people with messages to modify their voting choices so for a highly erratic and conscientious audience you're going to need a message that is rational and fear based or emotionally based the cambridge analytical scandal would eventually wind almost $120000000000.00 off of facebook's market value and raise serious questions about the vulnerability of western democracies to manipulation. to find out more i went to meet the journalist behind the guardian's cambridge alice a can scoop her account walter told me how she 1st began to pull the threads together it started when in order to confirm the data company's links that leave you you she contacted the campaign group spokesman and you went more andy right

back and he said happy to clarify came originally did the work for us but we never paid them they were happy to do it for free and. there's definitely something interesting here say because this looks like a donation to me and donations need to be declared. champion for art in front of the golden left and he's the person who took that photo. and in the face of the more he's in one as well the bad boys it breaks it and breaks it he said it was like a petri dish for the chum campaign. you know it was like a test case carol's revelations led to the biggest data protection investigation ever held on both sides of the atlantic we started a conversation with mr zuckerberg came a journal that i can start to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and work to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people chris wiley

a former director of cambridge analytic turned whistleblower gave evidence to the u.s. senate and a british parliamentary committee that began taking an interest in the brakes at referendum and fake news the definition for conversion so we're going to say that i had to do these institutions not sheeted you could send the outcome of the referendum might have been different i think it is completely reasonable to say that there could be a difference in the referendum. you know had there not been in my view cheating there needs to be a deeper investigation of the of fake accounts and a group of facebook groups being used to propagate information conservative m.p. damian collins is the chairman of the british parliamentary committee without evidence from facebook we feel that we should hear from mark zuckerberg because he buys into mr he's the person who decides what happens at facebook there are still big concerns are faced with not enough to investigate the role of fake accounts that no.