w. a z d w news live from berlin another shock resignation from the trumpet ministration this time its u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley she met with president trump at the white house to confirm her departure and would leave at the end of the year also on the program the rape and murder of a television journalist in both areas has sparked international concern over press safety in the corruption prone country. and saudi arabia says it will allow turkish authorities to search its consulates in istanbul a week after the disappearance of

a dissident journalist c.c.t.v. images taken outside the building is thought to be the last public sighting of jamal khashoggi now missing without a trace. i'm phil gale welcome to the program the trump administration has been hit by yet another resignation this time u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley she appeared alongside president trump at the white house to confirm the move but gave little away about the reasons behind her decision was haley is one of only a few of original trump appointees left and he's team she'll step down at the end of the year. the u.s. ambassador's resignation took many by surprise. nikki haley and u.s. president donald trump haven't always seen eye to eye but addressing the price after the announcement the two were singing each other's praises nikki haley

ambassador to the united nations has been very special to me she's done an incredible job she's a fantastic person after he was appointed to the u.n. post in november two thousand and sixteen prior to that she was the first female governor of south carolina. the forty six year old was seen as one of the more central figures in the trump administration last month the forty six year old coordinated the president's second trip to the united nations including his first time chairing the security council. highly said serving had been an honor but now it was time to go i was governor for six years and we dealt with a hurricane a thousand year flood a church using escorted and then they come in and give two years to russia and iran and north korea it's been eight years of intense time and i'm a believer in terms have to be self was enough to know when you step on someone else to be president trump made no indication as to who may replace haley in the

role and but he said he would make a decision in the coming weeks. let's get more from washington correspondent. how important. this administration. well one hand she's been one of the very few prominent visible women in the administration and ministration that has not really been renowned for being very progressive on women's issues and on the other hand she's also been one of the few women in just the foreign policy scene for the u.s. she's also one of the few moderate republicans who was not a trump acolyte from the beginning who was part of the establishment and we heard that she was a governor for six years before joining the trump team and she was really also a moderating voice within the administration so she was someone who had year of the president they have a very close relationship as you can see in the courts and she was someone who

could really speak her mind to the president and temper his more hardline impulses and make it more palatable for an international community that. seems to have taken it all by surprise. most definitely the senior staff didn't know this was coming and even her own staff apparently was unaware until this morning when she told them just before the announcement was made she did indicate that she had told the president some six months ago that she was thinking about stepping down by the end of the year saying i've done my two years and now is the time to move on but she has been very scathing about the exact reasons why she wanted to step down we know that she did clash with the president on several key issues one of those being sexual assault and sexual misconduct another one of those being russia the whole story of russia and the alleged connections to russia the trump campaign may or may

not have had she taken a much more hard line against russia at the trump administration how well let's talk about the timing is that significant. well it is interesting timing giving that the u.s. just wrapped up its month of being the president of the u.n. security council as well as the u.s. administration getting through this very bruising fight over a supreme court nomination that very much involves sexual misconduct allegations of sexual misconduct it's also less than one month until the u.s. midterm elections and these elections are going to be very very pivotal pivotal for the direction that the country is going to take and another administration official stepping down so close to these elections doesn't make of the administration look as stable as it might want to march in washington thank you. let's look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s.

supreme court's newest justice a brett kavanaugh was promised to be impartial and a team player after being sworn into office of the white house it went on to say that he had no bitterness about his contentious confirmation process earlier presidents trump apologized to justice covered up for what he called the terrible pain and suffering he and his family and your family. a former vice president of guatemala is being jailed for more than fifty years for corruption roxana betty and twelve others were found guilty of organizing a fortune and government contract a u.n. backed anti corruption commission assisted guatemalan prosecutors that he still faces further charges. a suspected taliban suicide bomber in afghanistan has killed a candidate isn't forthcoming parliamentary elections as well as seven other people it's the latest in a series of attacks blamed on taliban insurgents opposed to the elections. and police in vogue area are investigating the rape and murder of t.v. presenter victoria marin over so far there is no evidence to link her death to her

investigations into the alleged misuse of e.u. funds in the country the tory of marriage over is the third journalist investigating corruption to be killed in the european union in less than a year old garrett is facing intense international scrutiny over her death. more mourners honoring murdered journalist victoria marian over outside a church in the capital sofia. in the journalist's home town bruce a hundreds turned out laying flowers and lighting candles in her memory. mary novas body was left in a park near the river danube after she'd been brutally beaten raped and strangled last your brain from anger and so many most and i can't explain it it's so confusing how someone could go out for jogging never come back course is

very young on one. hand he's. mature and. it was this was the last time the thirty year old appeared on t.v. a show featured interviews with investigative journalists who reported on alleged corruption in infrastructure projects involving european union funds authorities say there's nothing to link her death to her work. release mention a school trauma need we're not excluding a spontaneous assault and we're not excluding a premeditated assault so one thing is clear the murder was committed with great brutality and cruelty to pull of the stock but with bulgaria currently ranked the lowest of all e.u. members when it comes to press freedom someone has here are convinced the act was politically motivated the european commission says it expects a thorough investigation into marrying over its killing.

so you're watching live from berlin saudi arabia says it will allow turkish investigators inside its consulate in istanbul as they search for missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the building a week ago the moment to captured by a surveillance camera once an adviser to the royal to the saudi royal family was to show the hunt for an out of favor with the government and last year went into self-imposed exile in turkey from there the fifty nine year old wrote articles critical of the saudi government for international news outlets including the washington post turkish officials say he was murdered inside the consulate a claim that riyadh denies. sharif mom saw as a middle east middle east and north africa program coordinator for the committee to protect journalists he joins us from washington studio i welcome to you why you might saudi authorities want jamal khashoggi dead. there are so many of these on

the fly john marshall would be one of them is that he is one of the very few people that speak up and who have already correct the size and sound man his crackdown showed a lot of contradiction of what he sees publicly what he promotes international audience presence to what happens on the ground in very day in saudi the also could be sending a message that people cannot bear to cosign is the government of saudi officials even those who are outside of saudi border which would be a great escalation we have seen in the government. not just streaming businessman even. reduce leader and in many ways they have

tried to justify and explain what they've been doing couldn't understand community and getting away with it and i think the war that could happen here that we never find out what happens to. and that would be a. chilling effect to anyone inside saudi who would dare to criticize the government or even ask a question about what happened to him. and he would not be the first saudi journalist to have disappeared since a purge began about a year ago. we in our analysis in for the year for. the committee to protect journalists have produced a list of seven journalists that we knew off that were held because of their work by saddam the thirty's that number have at least doubled since the crackdown of the

crown prince some months targeted against journalists. many of those witnesses will disappear for weeks and sometimes for months where their family didn't know where they were held they didn't have access to lawyers or legal defense and in some of those cases even family members didn't want to speak about this feeling for themselves than for. joining us who are being helped. in some ways it's just an indication of how intolerable this government is for the sense and how the act was complete impunity against anyone who has given the hostile environment that you talk about there in saudi arabia it does seem ironic that turkey which has locked up so many journalists and closed down so many news outlets since the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen turkey

is the country protesting most vigorously about the fate of a missing journalist. turkey has been and. a lot of tensions with saudi arabia but these ten want to maintain friendly relationship and i have seen the comments coming out from turkish officials some of the evidence that they have shown and the information that they have shared with the media and was international policy makers of the issue and i think their investigation should include every possible information piece of testimony that they can provide in order to tell the story for happening to them but also i am warning that the wooden chair much of what they've talked about in the past and attempt to continue have a for indian nation ship with the saudi government that's why we think the u.s.

other international. policymakers including the u.s. need to press the turkish officials and saudi officials to provide a full account of what happened. good talking to you thank you so much for joining us sharif mom saw one saw from the committee to protect journalists thank you for having the stones remind you of our top story this hour u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley is to step down president trump confirmed that he had accepted her resignation that she would leave at the end of the year she's been u.s. ambassador to the u.s. since he took office in early twenty seventy. a week after the disappearance of dissidents journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the building i took his officials believe he was murdered there.

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