do you or. any toy to wear. wu said. this is d w news live from berlin saudi arabia mr mulcair shelby is dead after two weeks of denials saudi state t.v. said the dissident journalist was killed in a fistfight inside its istanbul consulate but will western allies of the saudi government to find the explanation convincing. also coming up multiple blasts

rocked kabul as election voting stations open across much of afghanistan on the country's voters now have to decide whether to stay at home or cost the ballots and risk the violence of the hands of the taliban will get the latest from kabul. and the last off too much agree a joint european and japanese space probe has successfully launched and is on its way to explore our solar system smallest and least understood planet. i'm manuscripts mackinnon thanks so much for joining us more than two weeks off to the dissident journalist jamal khashoggi was seen for the last time in istanbul saudi arabia has now admitted that he was killed inside that consulate in. the

turkish capsule saudi state t.v. says a preliminary investigation revealed that an argument broke out between the washington post journalist and a group of men inside the consulate it claims he was accidentally strangled juror in a brawl saudi authorities say they've arrested a seen people over the case the saudi king has also sacked several top officials and called for reform of the kingdom's intelligence agency and the saudis explanation leaves questions unanswered first and foremost what happened to his body but u.s. president donald trump says he's encouraged the kingdom has now admitted to shocking is jet deaths well i think it's a good first step it's a big step for a lot of people a lot of people involved and i think it's a great first step. would be has been a great ally but what happened is not acceptable. d.w. correspondent dora jones is reporting for us from istanbul thanks for joining us dorian how credibly would turkish investigators view saudi arabia's new version of

events i think that they will see a mission here as a vindication of their claims of from the very beginning they insisted. she was indeed murdered the consulate so that there will be saying yes we were right in spite of all these insistent denials from riyadh we are being proven correct now the big question is will they accept this version of events that it was some kind of accident or her that occurred during some sort of mandate the position of investigators who on normal sources are indicating that they believe that this was a premeditated murder attempt in fact they call the claim a fifteen member team was brought in the pacific aim of killing these journalists so there will be a major point of difference there and i think of a key factor is will be satisfied with this explanation that it was rogue elements senior level officials are saying without will not knowledge of the crown prince mohammed bin this will be a key question and i think everyone will be looking to see how on correct so that.

now the obvious question why now why have saudi authorities acknowledged his killing now nearly three weeks after he vanished. well that is a question and in fact there is some speculation possibly that he was preparing to release what they claim was a video that actually showed the last minutes of the death of the saudi journalist that would have totally confirm all of their or their allegations of the last week or so but i think that the probably the real explanation is that there's been this constant drip drip drip by leaks coming from this investigation which has driven the growing international outcry and the growing diplomatic pressure on riyadh i think there were those in riyadh that were hoping that this crisis a venture we would start to die down of the way turkey has handled this in managing this and disseminating information as in fact for this crisis has continued to escalate and it's reached the point i think where washington possibly has intervened and said riyadh you have to change your story you have to be seen to be

acting. during has there been any turkish political reaction to this saudi admission yeah i mean we understand the saudi and the turkish leaders spoke late last night. you know that's right kings are months spoke at length with the turkish president. no one really knows what the nature of the conversation was but there is speculation that the king was briefing the president on what they were about to do and where they would plan to take the investigation forward have been statements saying that both sides have agreed to place the work and continue to work together the key question i think that the saudis will be looking to is will the president be satisfied with this and if he is there will be question what have riyadh offered him possibly in exchange for turkey's corp there are deep rivalries between the two countries particularly one such parent a dislike of the crown prince and his belief that he's a destabilizing force will longer be demanding that he be reined in or possibly ultimately replaced in the future and on top of that on probe we'll be looking for

concessions from washington is corporations many ways people see on course the big winner in this diplomatic crisis all right doreen janes in istanbul thanks so much for your reporting. afghanistan's capital kabul has been rocked by multiple explosions as polls open across the country the parliamentary elections have long been delayed by deep security concerns well in seventy thousand security forces are in place to protect the voting stations almost nine million people are eligible to vote the fighting is ongoing in as many as twenty of the thirty four provinces and the taliban had vowed to disrupt the election on thursday a powerful tool east chief was killed by the taliban in kandahar province and violence ahead of the poll has cost at least ten candidates their life's. for more we're joined by ality fi

a freelance journalist in kabul hi thanks for joining us tell us about the security situation right now there's been reports of multiple explosions at polling stations in kabul. oh the ocean where near bone or near polling stations that are in different neighborhoods if there are still no reports of casualties or injuries from the. book in the meter issue right now it's probable and in any put city is just a factor of this there are there are so many patients but people are saying they're falling into the. election as an. election observers for different ends up where basically there's waiting outside entrance to get out of this is becoming a major issue for the. given the circumstances of these elections have any chance of delivering a credible result. will have to see right now has spoken to several candidates and

they're all really upset because you like people are being applied to express right to vote because of the fact all these were just issues are going on and the thing is that everything should have been pointing to the election commission everything should have already been sent to the centers our earlier and he in fact asked week i was traveling through three provinces he said under no longer ok we start police and military getting ready. setting up checkpoints so really what people are wondering is how is it that they're still it's basically just the issue that even people from both. alley why do today's elections matter so much what makes them so significant. so it's a parliamentary election the parliamentary election has delayed more than three years because of. security issues and also a political issues around before having to do with the elections just throws in the

media but this action taking place the second issue is that it's the first election and after the two thousand and fourteen until election which was a. widespread gun just brought so now this really has to if reforms took place and if either options complete and for the for all especially now that there are in line by all measure the bases at the voting centers. in kabul thanks so much for your reporting. and we apologize for the quality of that sound let's have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world around sixty people are dead after a high speed commuter train ran into a large crowd at a festival near the northern indian city of amritsar according to local media police had people had gathered to celebrate an annual hindu festival but failed to hit the train approaching over the sound of firecrackers. hundreds of migrants have

faced off against riot police on a bridge crossing the mexican border some people jumped into the water below along the border to escape that part of a group of thousands who set off from honduras last week and heading towards the united states. sweden is to prosecute a twenty one year old student who tried to prevent the deportation of an afghan asylum seeker and an heiress and refused to sit down on a plane that was due to depart from gothenburg she made international headlines by broadcasting her protest live on facebook. macedonia's parliament has voted in favor of changing the country's name resulting a decades long dispute with greece lawmakers backs a proposal to amend the constitution despite opposition from conservatives the procedure will see the country renamed the republic of north macedonia.

and julian assange is to launch legal action against the government of ecuador accusing it's a violation his fundamental rights and freedoms according to his lawyer new terms of asylum in the country's london embassy require him to pay for medical bills phone calls and to clean up after his pet kept. now the bed he colombo spacecraft has lifted off from the european space agency's port in french guyana this is the e.s.a. his new mission to explore the planet curie. one european and one japanese it will release them into orbit around the smallest of the rocky planets that they'll spend at least a year mapping and analyzing the sun's closest planetary neighbor scientists hope

it will help them learn more about the conditions in the center of the solar system was in four billion years ago. and. is one of the european space agency's most complex missions the probe will fly by the earth venus and mercury a total of nine times using the gravity of those planets to decelerate and avoid being drawn to its due by the sun's huge gravitational pull it will finally end to orbit around mercury in december two thousand and twenty five when it will release its two research satellites. it's a complicated trajectory we have to follow to get to mercury it's not actually getting there that's difficult but it is very difficult to maneuver into orbit that's what makes this flight path complicated and that has to do with the fact that mercury is so close to the sun. a simple straight flight path would send the craft hurtling directly into the sun our home stars huge mass would make entering

orbit around mercury impossible. so close to the sun temperatures are extreme baby columbo will have to withstand conditions of up to four hundred fifty degrees celsius but parts of the planet that never see the sun can be as cold as minus one hundred eighty degrees. part of baby colombo's mission is to find out what the planet is made of and how it might have formed that will give scientists a much better idea of the conditions close to the sun four and a half billion years ago when our solar system was taking shape. one of the two satellites on the twin mission will measure mercury's magnetic field to try to solve some of these puzzles meanwhile its sibling satellite will examine mercury's rocky surface taken together all this information will give scientists new insights into the birth of our solar systems in the planets at the german aerospace center researches heat to rest real rocks to the kind of temperatures reached on mercury

they want to find out how rocks behave under such extreme conditions the results will help them interpret the findings harvested from baby colombo's cameras and spectrometers and finally reveal mercury secrets yeah feely. we've had a lot of theories and models for the origin of mercury. but now we know that none of them really work. so now we have an almost clean slate a blank page and we hope to answer all those questions. colombo has at least enough fuel to keep it going for one year but scientists hope it could last a lot longer than that. a reminder of the top story we're following for you today saudi arabia is admitting that jamal khashoggi died inside its istanbul consulate off to two weeks of denials

saudi state t.v. said the distant journalist entered the building and was killed in a fistfight. you're watching the news of live from berlin there's more coming for you at the top of the hour and don't forget you can you can get all the lakes as news and information around the clock on our website at steve thanks so much for joining the an. employee spall consuming conflict fortunately for our contributor. thirteen year.