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than expected. it's good to have you with us. of the killing of. admitted that he died in its consulate off of a fistfight with unnamed for more than two weeks the saudis have denied he was dead . this is a moment that jamal khashoggi and at the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again because shock his disappearance sparked an international outcry over and over saudi arabia said he'd left the building alive. weeks late they conceded that's false the critical journalist died at their hands. they fought with

prosecutors first investigation into the disappearance of the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi hassan to discussion between him and the people he met while he was at the saudi consulate in istanbul next to an argument and scrabble with her charges which cost his death. the statement is a break from two weeks of silence and denial from riyadh even this incriminating evidence mounted. days after the end of the consulate turkish officials leaked information that the journalist was killed inside the building. next they released these images purportedly showing a hit squad arriving in istanbul airport shortly before construction and at the consulate turkish officials also claimed to have already recordings proving that the shock she was tortured and his body in dismembered. even after saudi arabia's

latest concessions the journalist body still hasn't been found and it is unclear who ordered kushal she's killing. we want justice for gemma. you want. murder will be punished all they ever want carnage meant not only poor at the eighteen men but also party alterity that gave the order saudi arabia now claims it has responded to the killing by sucking senior officials including general ahmed siri a close confidant of mohammad. raising yet more questions about the role of saudi arabia's de facto ruler in the death of the dissident journalist. of amman there's a we're joined by another. debate another thanks so much for coming in first of all that how credible is it that these officials acted without any instruction. i don't think it's very credible because as we heard in the report that

a cd is very close friend or a close advisor. hamad bin son and the crown prince was actually decided to king or the defacto ruler of saudi arabia and the other official qahtani he's also very close advisor to the royal family so for me it seems like the royal family the saudi. government had been synonymous his father king some men were searching for maybe you would say scapegoat to find a solution that they have been denying fourteen days long that jamal khashoggi has been killed or is even dead and now they have a problem to explain how he died and the thing that he died in hell yeah and in the fight in a fistfight is not really credible as well is that how it's being viewed in the wider world as well i've been looking at social media and what friends and family

and people saying about this last statement from the saudi officials that he jamal khashoggi died in a fistfight and everybody is joking about it actually people are being cynical. and about it they say how can somebody die in a fistfight in in an embassy or consulate in a suit arabia with fifteen other people i mean what do these fifteen other people do in the in the embassy and what is their role and what happened in the first place with his body why don't we know that so there is a lot of criticism and it seems that people are saying so to rebias trying to explain what's happened but they just making everything worse. jamal khashoggi be remembered but. in the region and the wider world well we have to know that he wasn't really a dissident or wasn't always a dissident he was close to the royal family. in the past and he was he knew.

or move quite a lot of other a family in the he was a more well known journalist in saudi arabia but after mohamed bin son came to power after his father king someone came to power. i think he had some some kind of conflict with the royal family and he saw that so rabiah is moving in a direction that is not going to be good in his in in his. opinion it was a crackdown of massive crackdown on the opposition on freedom of speech and on journalists so i think he will be remembered now after we know what happened to him as an icon of freedom of speech in saudi arabia in their board as general general another loves. thanks very much for that. us was a bumble has going to face fifteen people in kabul as of guns went to the polls to elect a new parliament the deputy was rocked by several blasts vowed to disrupt the vote and several candidates were killed in the lead up to the election almost nine

million people by a legible to cost a ballot just by the fear of attacks done on those larger than expected but long queues forming at many holding stations. these people are risking their lives to vote the threat of violence from the taliban and so-called islamic state hangs over every polling station almost nine million people are registered in the poll for the lower house of parliament ordinary afghans have expressed cautious hope. but i hope that it's their right to vote today i came out here and voted for my favorite candidate and did my part for the future of afghanistan. on the phone i had. a chance which happened more income flanks and now i've come here to invite for peasant he should want to bring security to the country i ask people to come and fight for prosperity in afghanistan not. it's a major step that these elections are happening at all they were originally

scheduled to be held three years ago but ongoing instability has forced many delays a string of ten candidates have been assassinated then just this past week an attack in kandahar province killed the chief of police and wounded the provincial governor leading to further delays in the province. a senior american general avoided injury in the attack he encouraged afghans not to be discouraged. present to the people of afghanistan as very consistent you have every right to be proud of your security forces and the preparations that made for this election despite this unfortunate event tragic event down to ten are. if turnout is strong it shows that the country indeed has functioning institutions bolstering the government's legitimacy in the eyes of the people but the actual electoral results won't be known for several weeks. and joining us to do it all there was the president knows him from did abuse of the best of us up thanks so

much for coming in but the many logistical problems and all the security incidents abused in all that aside to afghans really have faith that these elections will deliver on their hopes and dreams well bearish nobody expected these elections to be free from fraud or violence and in fact the violence that we saw today a lot of people expected this. but what the afghans did today was to show again that they want democracy they're resilient and they want representatives who are actually representing them and not only their own interests but when it comes to the options the field of candidates if you like from which they need to pick and they need to choose what options do they really have well of course we have the old parliamentarians that are running for reelection and there are also a number of candidates that are related to wall arts and power brokers and they're actually pictures on social media that are warning people to not give their votes to these candidates but we also have i mean and that is maybe there's one that's

the positive thing about having the election so late is that we had a lot of time for the younger generation to develop and now we have over sixty percent of candidates that are below the age of forty according to the independent election commission we also have a high number of female candidates did a very certainly encouraging numbers but when it comes to the overall situation in afghanistan can they've really be easy in that country without a political settlement with the bali bomb certainly not because we know that the taliban are controlling a very large portion of the country fishley they are in control of thirty percent of the country other numbers suggest fifty percent so high a large number it is certainly a large number so we need to see a political solution with the taliban and they need to bring the taliban to the discussion table but how far is that going that effort to bring them to the table how successful is that would mean we know that the united. states representatives met them in qatar last week but beyond that what text well we can certainly say

that the afghan government has not come so far there have been talks with other parties with the u.s. with russia china but the afghan government itself it's not been there successful in bringing the taliban to the table what is the role of the other western governments of a number of other western governments involved with the united states we also have germany how to of gone through their involvement positively because they think they believe in the western allies and they believe that they are capable of helping them course there are some countries like germany afghans have more trust in because of the very strong connection to germany so yeah it remains to be seen what will happen one can only wait and see well enough when there's a new family that was off and so much for coming in the kidnapped incident billionaire moama d.o.j. has been released and is back home it is not clear whether a ransom was paid he was seized ten days ago by unidentified gunmen outside

a luxury hotel in the city of daraa forty three year old do g. is africa's youngest billionaire with a reported fortune of one and a half billion dollars police chief has released details of the car sort of the kidnapping. this is the toyota surf at that particular time this car was picked up by the hotel c.c.t.v. cameras and looks black but it's actually dark blue. journalist daniel keogh joins us from dallas daniel had the police provided more details on what led to deduce release. hello unfortunately the police did not reveal much with regards to how he was released all we know is that at night he was taken to area in town and left him there and spread away but we don't they left weapons left three handguns and one eight hundred forty seven with bullets we also know

that they are tempted to torch the car so the insides of the car were burnt the police insist that this search is not over and they're continuing to find the culprits they say they're working very closely with him to pour in neighboring countries to make sure that it cannot be the culprit don't excrete and yeah behind it so the police are not revealing exactly the move. was behind this there were some rumors that the suspects in this case could be foreign yes or you know allegedly their kidnappers were foreign and also that car number plates were not as indian foreign police as well what is done your mama did you saying about his release and the conditions in the circumstances in which it was kept. well he spoke for the first time only the morning when he got to his house and members of the press of police were there he said kidnap and did not physically hurt him although he had a few bruises from the handcuffs because he was handcuffed most of the time he sent a fed him all his meals and even when he gets out to not eat this or force fed him

and he just thank the president thank the police forces also the tasmanians and everybody across the world were praying for him he did not reveal if very much was he seemed to be in a state of shock and just wanted to be perhaps to arrest them and then be left alone that in a cage or from the asylum thank you so much for that update sports news now and time to look at some of the results from saturday's born this new guy action now reigning champions by a minute different to vote sparred with different trouble robert leaven dusky scored two goals and homers rodriguez added another to give by and to three one win over the wolves. but the ninety gold from jade and sun chill and the scoring continued the final school for one. of the weekend's results so far. there is a much needed win against a. massive victory over stuttgart elsewhere went down to hoffenheim.

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