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turkey state media report that saudi arabia's consul in turkey has left the country pressure over the case of a missing saudi journalistic grows he went after turkish investigators and i'm saying which searched his residence raising speculation that the diplomat was flat also on the program. here since their own investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb police charged three men. but critics say the people who ordered the
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attack is still at large and being protected. us twelve million people in yemen could soon be on the brink of starvation on children a pain the highest price. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program turkish police tonight searching the home of the saudi consul in istanbul but the man himself is reported to have left the country the search as poss of the investigation into the whereabouts of missing journalist over the case saudi arabia has come under intense international pressure to explain what has happened to the missing journalist. u.s. secretary of state might pump aoe travel to riyadh for crisis talks with king solomon and other saudi leaders the kingdom faces mounting pressure to explain the
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fate of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi who was last seen walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul two weeks ago turkish officials believe he was murdered and dismembered by his. turkish investigators were allowed to search the building on monday but only after saudi officials and a team of cleaners armed with mops had been let in. turkey's president wretch of time aired a one cent police were examining different types of evidence. you cannot believe my hope is that we can reach conclusions that will give us a reasonable opinion a soon as possible because the investigation is looking into many things such as toxic materials and those materials being removed by painting them over. turkish investigators say they'll continue their probe on tuesday expanding their search to include the residence of the saudi consul as well as consulate vehicles
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riyadh has been denying any involvement in the journalist disappearance but a number of u.s. media sources say the saudis are preparing to admit that because she died during an interrogation at the consulate that went wrong. hong joins us from. istanbul she told us about his sudden departure. well yes phil it suddenly got very crowded here in front of the residence of the saudi consul this is the latest development in this story that is getting more confusing more crazy as many would say a by the day so the saudi consul. o.b.d. reportedly left his residence and went on a plane to the kingdom of saudi arabia all of this happened just hours before his home his residence was expected to be searched by police by investigators so now as
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we see at the very moment the first investigators have apparently arrived i hope you can see what i'm talking about there at the entrance so a lot of media attention right now over there and the fact that the consul is not here anymore is of course raising many questions for example did he escape why did he do so is he simply afraid of what investigators might find one say really gets into the residence and start searching the building. it's really hard reporting from istanbul for a year since most has passed knowing investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb police charged three men with that kind of water but critics believe the people who ordered the attack large they're being protected the government denies any wrongdoing in the investigation but some politicians have lost faith in the
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country's leaders the w.c. melanie quote about reports from malta. remembering her hero one year after her murder activist meant the journalist definite current. on the activities of the corrupt and criminal. why did she have to die she did not die because she lied she died because she told the truth and she was uncovering too many uncomfortable truths for too many people this is the spot where carroll was assassinated just after three pm on the sixteenth of october twenty seventeen she was driving down this hill when a remote controlled bomb detonated under her seat the explosion through her off the road and into this field this memorial at the side of the nation pays tribute to the journalist asked the powerful of this country difficult questions questions.
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government corruption and the breakdown of the rule of law these questions haven't gone away and neither has the question who wanted. that in the first place. police were quick to arrest three man suspected of planting the bomb. still no closer to finding the ringleaders those who ordered. to kill the journalist concerns are growing over the rule of law. parliamentarians mangold visited the island on a fact finding mission for brussels after all what happened i have of course no trust in the multi-cell forward to use the real murderer. and i have not been found and we learned during the delegation that some evidence. used for the had made many powerful enemies some suspect that they are now storing the investigation into her death important to have not been followed and in another
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setback the majesty. in charge of the investigation was promoted and taken off the case this minister of justice insists that everything is being done. no no no do police is doing it such most do it to solve this rainiest murder and i have to congratulate him for doing it for testing clearly they are doing. outside the ministry of justice is one of many activists who say that there is a conspiracy of silence around the investigation they have brought over our flowers and candles and we have laid them at the symmetry of freedom of speech this is where freedom of speech has come to die the activists say that they will keep on fighting until those responsible for the matter of definition. are found and brought to justice. in the trial of german journalist i'm told who received in turkey today she and her husband to face charges of publishing terrorist propaganda
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and being members of a terrorist group there amongst the tens of thousands of people detained following his failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen after spending seven months in a turkish prison she was allowed to return to germany but her husband was required to stay in turkey. narratives of the other stories making news around the world european council president donald demanded british prime minister theresa may make concrete proposals for ending the breadth of. this is most cabinet has been meeting in london to prepare for the two day summit of the a huge twenty eight leaders which begins on wednesday in brussels. french police have raided the headquarters of the far right party of france power in the apartment of its leader sean. the party is being investigated for alleged misuse of european parliamentary funds and its presidential campaign accounts speaking on facebook during the rights militia condemn the most politically motivated. you
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could. the war in yemen has produced a major humanitarian disaster and today the united nations warned that the crisis is getting worse they say the number of yemenis on the brink of famine could rise to as many as twelve million forty percent of the population more than eight million already need emergency food assistance so for many it's too late. she's only eight years old and one of millions of victims of a war that seemingly unending. and issa has been taken to hospital in aden doctors say he waits is that of a two year old and they're not optimistic about her future. we hope that it is see my new vision they have found here he says he did for subsists and more likely to that these lesions on the most likely to death do you think asian ten point one
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says he must be fifteen. and his and her mother are among the hundreds of thousands of civilians who fled the fighting around the city of her data. just a few days ago at least fifteen people fleeing the escalating conflict were killed when a sound led coalition air strike hit two buses near a security checkpoint. with. the data has become the center of yemen's conflict the port city is the entry point for seventy percent of the country's food imports sounding led coalition forces and allied ground troops are fighting to do three rebels controlling it some and sketching through the distribution centers are filled with people desperate for food and there isn't enough for everyone the u.n. is calling it the world's worst humanitarian crisis as of late twenty seventeen there were eight point four million severely food insecure people who need emergency food assistance every month to survive judy economic decline including
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depreciation of the currency humanitarian partners estimate that this population could rise up to five million people the un's world food program says it's scaling up its efforts for many it will be too late but for some of the children who've made it to hospital there might still be some hung. the world health summit is taking place in berlin one of the issues under discussion is the treatment of age hiv aids in africa the picture differs depending on the country south africa is seeing improvements after spending millions on fighting the condition but patients in the central african republic are unlikely to receive the help they need. sub-saharan africa alone accounts for nearly seventy percent of all people worldwide living with h id that's despite major progress in treatment for example in south africa which was once at the center of the aids epidemic the government there is investing billions in fighting the disease. today more than three million
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south africans that's around half of all h. hiv patients have access to effective drugs the number of aids related deaths has also fallen drastically just a few years ago nearly half of all deaths were linked to aids now it's around thirty percent but it's a very different picture in the central african republic religious and ethnic conflicts have kept the country in violent turmoil for years. the aid group doctors without borders has become the primary health care provider as the country's own health system has all but collapsed hardly any hiv infected people have access to lifesaving treatment in the central african republic even though the cost of h.l.v. treatment is lower than ever before mentioned around one hundred eighty euros per patient per year. today marks fifty years since american athletes
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tommy smith and john karr last gave a black power salute on the medal podium of the massacre of impacts their civil rights protests led to their expulsion from the games and their ostracism by they sporting community today many see them as heroes but john carlos thinks progress is still too slow. john carlos takes off a cap which says it's all an image that needs no words his black power salute along with fellow american tommy smith at the nine hundred sixty eight olympics shocked the world and largely ended their athletics careers now carlos has returned to mexico city to reminisce about the civil rights protest despite much being achieved since carlos remains troubled. her words. there are far. from here. for the first.
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following calling cappa next taken a protest the n.f.l. player cannot find a team in the league says he's not being cast out because of his civil rights action but in a recent nike ad that happen nick said he'd sacrificed everything for something he believed in. converse les told me smith was forced to turn to american football after his ban for the salute which followed winning the two hundred meters gold in mexico he told d.w. news earlier this year that sport can continue to be a legitimate form of protest young folks c.f.a. says as role models they see athletes as actors and i think the athletes zero zero zero. zero pm needed due to the people who are watching them and trying to take on a role such as them smith and carlos paid heavily for their protest but they became role models for an entire generation. of that i'll have
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