the murder trial of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is set to begin in turkey 20 saudi nationals are being tried in their absence. hello there i'm laura kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up china says it will retaliate if the u.s. orders banks to block business with officials connected to hong kong's new security law. the u.s. president praises better employment figures but plenty of americans are still without jobs and. presidents on the

remote easter island celebrate 100 days without a case of coronavirus. hello and welcome to the program the trial of south 20 saudi nationals accused of killing journalist jamal khashoggi to start in taki this is a live shot of the court in istanbul province the main court where proceedings are expected to get under way in about half an hour's time that's $1030.00 local time she's death at the saudi consulate in istanbul drew widespread condemnation including from the un special rapporteur who spent months investigating the case to this day jamal khashoggi is remains have never been found child strafford has more . this is the last moment jamal khashoggi was seen alive it's october the 2nd

2018 the journalist who wrote for the washington post newspaper had gone to the saudi consulate in istanbul to get documents he needed for his wedding his turkish fiance had e.g. ching is waited for him outside turkish prosecutors say he was murdered his body dismembered and the remains never found 20 sandy's indicted for murder to be tried in their absence in a court in istanbul police a security camera video and photographs show the saudi suspects arriving to stumble on the day who shows he was killed other video evidence shows them checking into a hotel going to the consulate before returning to the airport and leaving that night you stumble prosecutors accuse former deputy head of saudi general intelligence officer and a lone sorry former royal advisor sorrowed l. qahtani of instigating murder with monstrous intent the 18 other defendants include

this man who may have moved tribe who frequently traveled with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin soma on the show she's murdered caused widespread revulsion around the world he'd been self-imposed exile for around a year because he was afraid of being arrested if he returned home he formally being close to the saudi royal family but in recent years became a vocal critic of the saudi crown prince some western governments and the cia said they believe muhammad bin solomon ordered the killing the kingdom in ones that. last december a saudi called sentenced 5 men to dance and 3 to jail after a long and secretive trial. the un's special rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions in his column who completed a 6 month investigation into crucial he's murder said the saudi trial made a mockery of justice none of the guilty were officially named last may the sons

said they forgave the murderers but rights groups said the pardon had been forced to sit it was another saudi example of a parody of justice turkey accuses the saudi government of obstructing the murder investigation the saudis say the istanbul prosecutor didn't comply with requests to share information the saudi crown prince has denied ordering the murder but admitted bearing responsibility is the kingdom's effective leader stand again for aging can some on the shows he's feeling say how do you teaching says she hopes the trial will at least shed light on where his body is chance transferred al-jazeera. let's go live now to some because oakley who is outside the court in istanbul and some talk us through the proceedings we expect them to happen today.

while lore of this trial is a trial in absentia for the 20 suspect as you have also said and the cold playing and who filed the complaint for the prosecutors is. just turkish fiance had to judge and guess you know his family rejected to file any calls for any course of court proceedings in saudi arabia and today and that if this is the 1st trial and they went to suspects in us a sense you know will be that they are going to be identified basically the 1st trial is going to be about a procedural accusations and identification and today at the press is not allowed inside because of a pattern that may coronavirus the person. cuter of the 11th the station who is taking care of this case is very sensitive about that that's why we're all outside but. just fiance had inside and today the u.n. reporter at this column i will also be with her and they are expected to give

a press a press or a press statement after the court proceeding in a couple of hours this is what we expect of course this was a crime but if after a while after the prosecutor's office in istanbul discovered how many people were involved in the case and they are linked to the very top officials in saudi arabia it's kind of it turned into a political case laura and that's why many many a lot of people say that the trial may take quite a while of course it's not going and nothing is going to come up in one trial or maybe even a few trials but this is seen as us back to seek justice for jamal. because a here in absentia here there are it's went to suspects but in saudi arabia only 11 of them were tried and the top people like so that catalonia and our city they were able to skip the procedure and that's why in turkey many people believe politicians

people who were close to jamal they all believe that the courts are sitting in saudi arabia will not provide any justice that's why there is another one here of course. since the crime was committed in turkey turkey wants to shed the light on the situation and. are not so easy on the crime taking place on the turkish territory despite this fight it was in a consulate building back and now that the belief is that even though they're not able to charge people here personally i think it's an international pressure could be imposed on those people who were in walls of the crime. these red bulletins may be issued and those people may not get out of saudi arabia at these this isolation for that would be a punishment this fight a real punishment in turkey will not be that possible. this case is.

huge a most emotive attention when it happened 18 months ago but how much attention is it getting today inside turkey. well the tension in between saudi arabia and turkey became a visible off the edge of mouth but she's a murderer but i have to say that there was that tension before which we didn't see that much because especially when it came to regional politics when it came to syria turkey and saudi arabia were on different pages as specially. turkey's support for the muslim brotherhood which saudi arabia didn't have. it wasn't positive about it plus saudi every bit as support for the syrian congress fighters in syria which turkey believes those fighters are organically linked to the output could is that workers party in turkey and there was a tension already and jamal khashoggi being murdered inside turkey was actually the

last drop. last rob ford's attention to become visible yes the tension is ongoing but it is and i have to say that it is not as popular time tension as it used to be before about the church he respects the royal king and however took you once all responsible people to pay for what they have and but one thing that i have to say you know turkish officials were not made to direct the naming mohammed bin sorry man the crown prince but they were they were hinting them in a very open way now we hear we don't hear people in tin mohamed been sent that much it seems turkey also will be patient especially through this trial and wants to wants to have justice on an international platform but the tension is still there. mike on a lower level system calls are joining us courts in istanbul for

a moment thanks very much of course one of jamal covered the story from assembling the early days of the investigation he joins us now here on set good to have you with us and. with that when she day off today outside that concert in the weeks after the murder of jamal khashoggi now 18 months on what is this trial expected to achieve well in terms of actual delivering justice very little and that's just because of the fact that between turkey and saudi arabia there isn't any by law trucks tradition treaties there isn't any framework that with allow for you know those who are accused of his murder or who are being sued tried in absentia to actually have any verdict delivered on to them or executed on to them and that's considering if turkey and saudi arabia were on good terms i did so the fact that they don't have this extradition treaty they're not even on good terms and therefore it means that any sort of tangible outcome of a trial like this is far more symbolic and political than it is actually in terms

of delivering some sort of justice as far as talk is concerned it wants to show that it continues to try and seek some sort of justice for a case in a story that garnered so much international attention but obviously it's trying to find some sort of leverage after it seemed that it used up a lot of what it did have in terms of leverage i.e. those recordings which establish the fact that this was an assassination operation by saudi operatives and something that went all the way to the very top so aside from political kind of point scoring or maybe trying to create that leverage it's difficult to see what tangible outcome i'm out of this i mean of course it is a political trial but let's not forget that the complaint was brought by a teacher jang as she's feeling say for her it's a very personal trial do you think she can expect any form of closure from today it's very difficult because even if and we expect to see the courts come out and

they with all the evidence that the talks have and pronounce them guilty and exert some sorts of sentences on these people the people are still roaming free and. it's about those who we know well there isn't anybody in the defendant's lists of those who have the political responsibility which is also criminal actually for ordering this murder as much as the saudis would like to deny it has been established as well as from the cia but also the. un special rapporteur on judicial killings that it's most likely the order was given by the very top i.e. the crown prince of saudi arabia muhammad bin some months so closure from her respect isn't something that is so likely but again what we're looking at here especially if a trial starts now it takes several months to build up obviously we're not sure how the world would look like in terms of by september but once you look at september and you look at the u.n. general assembly that's meant to take place and other international events where

you will have key leaders gathering like how it is a man like right up to iran and so forth if there is a case like this which is wrapping up and a verdict that is taking place this could create some sort of. leverage for the turks to then use for other political kind of feeling as if this trial is much about keeping up in the mental and keeping the issue in the spotlight in the global spotlight say that it doesn't just step away indeed and the turks have also wanted to establish that this isn't just an issue of them trying to get the political leverage i mentioned but as you say that this is something that they believe in from a idea. from a principled perspective that this is something to do with. international law being broken by killing somebody in a consulate that this is something to do with press freedom the fact that jamal khashoggi was a journalist and therefore that momentum over trying to establish justice will be served is something that will shoot them all in terms of the image of turkey but as

you mentioned it's important beyond all of this politics just to focus on the fact that to remember that this was a civilian journalist. 2 went into a consulate to finish paperwork never to come out again sort of child like this even if it is just symbolic. respects for a lot of people does hold a lot of significance and importance because in a world where there is very little justice being executed this is at least some sort of sign that people haven't forgotten this case absolutely ok we're expecting the trial to get underway in about 15 minutes we're keeping a close eye on it will talk to you again thank you. now china has threatened to retaliate after the u.s. congress unanimously approved sanctions against beijing over its new security law in hong kong the bill which still needs to be approved by the president would penalize banks doing business with chinese officials behind the new legislation beijing said this to us move as grossly interfered in china's internal affairs and

seriously violated international law as well as the basic norms governing international relations if the us side is bent on going down the wrong path china will resolutely respond with all necessary counter measures from hong kong sarah clarke has more on china's reaction has been swift to respond it's of these sanctions or move by the united states to interfere in china's internal affairs that's a move by the united states to contain or restrain china's progress and development and that's as national security is a basic prerequisite a precondition for existence and the development of a nation and these laws have widespread support not just in china and hong kong this is obviously a statement from the chinese government and strongly urged washington to pretty much back off and stay out of hong kong and china as a phase that said if the states continues to go down what it's described as the wrong path then obviously china says it will take the necessary response of certainly some threats coming from china and a swift response and condemnation of the of china's introduction of the by 6 ago

the national security laws in hong kong. india's prime minister has made a surprise visit to the border region at the center of a tense disputes with china where intimate he was accompanied by defense officials during the trip where he spoke with army members tensions came to a boiling point last month when 20 indian soldiers were killed during fighting with chinese troops in a remote valley both sides traded blame for the incident but have since sat down for talks to deescalate the situation. still ahead on al-jazeera yemen's humanitarian crisis deepens as it battles a coronavirus death rate 5 times the global average. and we report on the mysteries surrounding the deaths of nearly $300.00 elephants imports wanna.

hello there rather unsettled picture still across much of the northwest of europe plaintive cry really streaming through many northern areas and also across areas towards the east a scattering of thunderstorms into more southern areas of also slightly warmer air in place there and some very nice sunny skies in through says a look at this so that they have a cat above are they having a few showers as for rain that is the warm and sunny so people really do what they can it to cool off now having said that the challenge is still fairly high throughout much of central italy but there is the rain developing through friday northern areas pushing down towards the central areas as well and then the next line of rain really moving very very slowly eastward so this is where through friday we could see some rather heavy rain particularly caring out of batteries but really across into western as ukraine and down into remain here but all the while very unsettled cross the northwest to scandinavia really keeping things a feeling a little bit cool not really like july temperatures and suffered a similar scenario the winds are pretty strong as well coming in from the west in

across much of the u.k. sunny warm across the southwest generally fine throughout the mediterranean again once you shows through will southern areas of italy but this is what i mean about things feeling cool also on saturday just 15 degrees the average in july is 22 degrees it stays well below average for the next few days meanwhile in the southeast book arrest gets up to 37 on monday. infamous dictator may be long gone but inequality fueled by his new liberal economic reforms still plagues the nation. and dissent is still quashed by a heavy handed state apparatus. the people in power examines whether forging a new constitution can turn the page in the most unequal of the world's 30 wealthiest nations. in a chaise legacy. or

again you're watching out of there as a reminder of our top stories this hour the trial of 20 saudi nationals accused of killing jealous jamal khashoggi is tossing and tacky he was murdered and dismembered at the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago. china is threatening countermeasures after the u.s. congress approves sanctions against beijing over its new security nor in hong kong the bill would penalize banks doing business with chinese officials behind the new legislation. the united nations says one in 4 people who contract coronavirus in yemen dies of

a talented wait that's 5 times the global average cash strapped agencies have stepped up their response as they also deal with outbreaks of cholera diptheria and other diseases last month the u.n. held an aids conference but donors only offered hauffe of what is needed. this leaves more than a $1000000000.00 with only $558000000.00 provided for ratios only reach your last and we're going to fill their pledges immediately those who have not. now north korea's leader has said his country needs to be on maximum alert coronavirus state media says kim jong un has warned complacency could lead to unimaginable crisis is yet to report a single case of the virus health experts say a major outbreak that would have severe consequences because of the lack of proper health facilities. present donald trump has praised the latest employment data as proof his country is back on track in the 5000000 americans went back to work in

june but overall only a 3rd of the 22000000 jobs that were lost during the pandemic have been restored this comes as the u.s. red says another daily record in new coronavirus cases reports. and early morning chance to pat himself on the back u.s. president donald trump told reporters at the point house the economy is surviving the covert 900 pandemic new government statistics say nearly 5000000 people start working again in june this is the largest monthly jobs gain in the history of our country today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back trumps democratic rival for the fight house said the president was celebrating too soon to daisy ford's positive news and i'm thankful for for real and make no mistake. we're still in deep deep job hole because dollars trump has so badly bungled the response to coronavirus economists say trump's description was not accurate they say the

figure is how many people were turned to their old jobs more than 3 months after the u.s. economy when it's a quarantine one way to think about that is we have a 9 inch knife stuck in our back the knife has been pulled out about 3 inches that doesn't mean that the economy is now healthy really want to thank him for being a friend to the state of florida but that didn't stop the vice president from visiting florida to praise the governor for his handling of the crisis and the economy i also want to say governor that that we fully support your prudent steps. in in in working to slow the spread and the rising cases that are impacting florida today but more than 10000 floridians fell ill on thursday 50000 people nationwide a new one day record and in this state and in others dependent on holiday makers money beaches bars and restaurants are closed get again thanks to a surge in virus cases this is the livelihood of my father who started with nothing

came into this country with nothing and i cannot it just it's too hard to let it go even so the president is adamant to show the world the u.s. crisis is over he heads to mt rushmore in south dakota on friday to set off a holiday fireworks a desire to celebrate the u.s. is national day even as the numbers of the sick and the dead keep rising rosalyn jordan al-jazeera. hundreds of nurses in southern california are demanding more personal protection equipment and better working conditions they protested in front of a hospital in riverside outside los angeles as part of a 10 day strike nurses say the influx of coronavirus patients means they have to work longer shifts without breaks they want a union and hospitals to agree better work in terms of u.s. federal prosecutors are trying to seize more than

a 1000000 barrels of gasoline which iran is trying to ship to venezuela a lawsuit alleges the sale was raised by a businessman with ties to iran's revolutionary guard it alleges profits will support the revolutionary guard which the u.s. has designated as a terrorist organization iran says such action would be considered piracy and anti-government protesters been held in mali's capital bamako marking $100.00 days since the opposition leader was kidnapped so mayor c.s.a. disappeared days before the parliamentary election in march says his family has accused the government of not moving quickly enough to rescue him demonstrators are calling for president cater to stand down and with claims of corruption and escalating violence an investigation has begun into the mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants in botswana nearly 300 carcasses were discovered. in the delta over the past few months but a solid bet as reports is believed that the number of dead elephants could be much

higher. aerial photos reveal alison's collapsed on the sides face down in the. butts one as government says they started dying mysteriously monch this count whose 275 caucus is. the mission puc risk you see is the actual number of did elephants could be moved in $400.00 whenever they went out there were they would see more and more elephants dead and also. once a record you know ill and. walking around. about apparently. and it seemed they were even dying you know very suddenly and some of the cases carcasses were edibles that had fallen down while walking with the tusks intact but swan is government says there is no evidence of poaching the conservationists moon against ruling anything out including covered one thing we haven't ruled out that

it was poisoned late so they're certainly not being shot but it's also better see that as some form there's also a possibility that it's a natural talks and something occurring in the soil 'd of the water or that it's a disease or some form until those results come back with otherwise. botswana's conservation ministry says it has sent samples from the elephants to laboratories in zimbabwe south africa and canada and says field visionary ns will also cease clinically ill and did elephants critics want to know why it is taking so long to get answers reports are coming in. 2 or 3 months ago. so something's happening and it's clearly needed africa's overrule elephant population is declining jews are poaching but imports juana numbers have been growing particularly in the arc of vango delta it is bad news for farmers whose crops are increasingly destroyed by herds and lead to the reintroduction of big game hunting

courses this year hunting was suspended due to corona virus but then the mysterious deaths began. one 3rd. of this having a truly catastrophic impact of the population very real conservationists say they have recorded did elephants or who ages and sixes they say many more appear confused to walk and appear. who should in the death toll may still rise shallot dallas which is near. chile has one of the highest rates of coronavirus infection in the world with more than 280000 cases and their least 6000 deaths but as lockdowns are re-imposed and parts of the country residents of one remote corner of celebrating a return to normal are latin america as the sentiment has more the this is a weapon we better known as an easter island famous for its mysterious stone

statues called more lives. at one of the polynesian islands for schools and who is under way a ceremony to mark more than $100.00 days without a single case of coronavirus and the way that they're celebrating is not by reopening hotels restaurants or tourism on which the island depends but rather its schools i ask the merrow why their little message because returning to class sends a powerful message to our entire society of the return to freedom of being able to stop being locked up that's the most important thing for a human being it gives us all hope. after months of korean teens and stood curfews secondary school students are the 1st going back to class. is anxious to finally be able to rejoin his classmate bethel and we're excited because it's an opportunity that has been given only to us and we have to know how to take advantage of it because on the constant as you know it's not been possible to

return to class because of the pandemic. easter island is in the middle of the pacific ocean it belongs to chile but it's 3500 kilometers from the mainland and here on the mainland schools have been close and sports the 16th and no one can say when if they or anything else will reopen any time soon after 3 and a half months of lock downs and cross use infections continue unabated and it's impossible to tell at this point when chile will reach its peak well that's why parents on the mainland are ending their counterparts in chile's most remote province and i mean who massing yelling for me it's important to be able to generate positivity in our mental health in order to repel this virus it's important that the children that our young people return to school and not us and when that. easter island still faces a normas challenges 80 percent of the population is out of work because there's no

tourism nor will there be for a long time to come but making do with what they have is nothing new for the people on this remote island they say they'll go back to teaching their children to fish in plant as they had for centuries. another good reason for them to go back to school. you see in human al-jazeera. there without is there are these are all top stories the trial of 20 saudi nationals accused of killing journalist jamal khashoggi is starting in turkey or so she was murdered and dismembered at the saudi consulate in istanbul 2 years ago our correspondent has more from outside the courtroom. now the belief is that even though they're not able to charge people here personally at least an international pressure could be imposed on those people who were involved in the crime at these

red bulletins maybe issued and those people may not get out of saudi arabia at least this isolation would be a punishment this fight a real punishment in turkey will not be that possible china is threatening countermeasures after the u.s. congress approves sanctions against over its new security law in hong kong the bill would penalize banks doing business with chinese officials behind the new legislation india's prime minister has made a surprise visit to the border region at the center of a dispute with china tensions come to a came to a boiling point last month when 20 indian soldiers were killed during fighting with chinese troops in the remote valley both sides traded blame for the incidents but have since sat down for talks to deescalate the situation the united nations says one in 4 people who contract coronavirus in yemen dies of a toilet rate 5 times the global average cash strapped agencies have stepped up

their response as they also deal with outbreaks of cholera diptheria and other diseases last month the un held an aids conference but donors only offered hoff of what's needed. north korea's leader says his country needs to be on maximum alert against coronavirus north korea has yet to report a single case of the virus health experts say a major outbreak there would have severe consequences because of a lack of proper health facilities and antigovernment protests has been held in mali's capital bamako marking 100 days as the opposition leader was kidnapped. disappeared days before the parliamentary election in march he says family has accused the government of not moving quickly enough to rescue him york state now with all the headlines we're back with more news here on al-jazeera that's off the inside story stay with us. as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take

a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the fall follow the u.s. elections on a. once a cathedral then a mosque now a museum. at the cost of a legal battle to convert its stumbles emblematic monument back into a mosque but why now what purpose would it and how political is the decision this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm laura it's an ancient monument revered by different ideologies the centuries i associate and he one of the world's most contested buildings is creating culture.