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this is deja news live from berlin saudi arabia admits jamal khashoggi is stange after two weeks off denials the saudi state t.v. save the dissident journalist was killed in a fistfight inside his istanbul consulate the full western allies of the saudi government find their explanation convincing also on the program. hundreds of thousands of protein approaches just take to the streets of central london to demand a fresh prince at referendum as the prospect of a hard grips of looms there all growing fear is that the british economy could
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suffer for years to come. and several explosions rocked afghanistan killing more than a jazz and people as bush's defiant terror threats to cause their ballots in parliamentary elections polling stations were kept open longer to close but the larger than expected to announce. the winner. i'm christine it's good to have you with us. turkey's ses it will not allow a cover up of the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi saudi arabia has now admitted that he died and it's a stumble consulate they say off to a fist fight with several on armed men for more than two weeks the saudis have denied. this is a moment that she and that the saudi consulate in istanbul never to be seen again. kashyap his disappearance sparked an international outcry over and over saudi
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arabia said he'd left the building alive weeks late they conceded that's false the critical journalist died at their hands. prosecutors first investigation into the disappearance of the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi has found a discussion between him and the people he met while he was at the saudi consulate in a stumble led to an argument and scrabble with her charge in 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 kushal key and at 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 audio recordings proving that
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construction he was tortured and his body in dismembered. even office saudi arabia's latest concessions the journalist body still hasn't been found and it is unclear who ordered cut short his killing. we want justice for gemma. you want your mother's murders will be punished oh ever you want punishment not only for eighteen men but also poured the author did that gave the orders saudi arabia now claims it has responded to the killing by sucking senior officials including general 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 discipline journalist. or at least being indeed every correspondent or engines he's standing by in istanbul for us dorian what's the reaction it take each is saudi arabia's claim that could should
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she died in a fistfight well turkish president type heard one and said nothing this is being characteristic of this crisis of the president has taken a very low profile but his spokesman of his ruling party m h l lake who is very close to the president gave a very unequivocal statement he said that they are determined to continue with this investigation to find out the truth he said this is a matter of honor for turkey and said they will share their findings with the rest of the world this will be a concern for riyadh because it's on course dog approach and pursuance of this investigation that has kept pressure on riyadh and the leaking drip by drip to the international media of their findings has helped to build up this diplomatic pressure that has seen riyadh been put in this uncharacteristically crisis position on top of that and washington too will be concerned with this statement i think those would be a hope in both washington and riyadh they could be putting an end to this crisis but with. the final statement that he will continue with this investigation that
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many people will be probably asking but from riyadh in washington what will anchor want to fall into line is a growing feeling that this crisis is far beyond just the killing of a journalist this is much about power politics between these two regional powers of saudi arabia and turkey story coming back to that investigation what's the latest on that. well of the investigation is focusing on finding the body of jamal khashoggi they have been continuing search for a forest in nearby istanbul and. in a nearby city now that is following the movements of this alleged fifteen member saudi hit squad investigators have been scouring hundreds of hours of c.c.t.v. t.v. footage to find their movements and what they believe will be their final a successful attempt of finding the body of this journalist they say they are very close to finding it and this is very important this is very important for the investigation because if they find the remains of the of the journalists they will
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be used to confirm their version of events that he was indeed tortured this was a premeditated murder not the riyadh narrative and this will add to growing concern but its version of events will be increasingly challenged by that story and jones reporting for us in istanbul now to some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of migrants have faced off against riot police on a bridge crossing at the mexican border some people jumped into the water along the border to escape they are part of a group of thousands who set off from duras in last weekend and are heading towards the united states in taiwan thousands of people have demonstrated on the streets of the capital taipei calling for a formal declaration of independence from china it is the first large scale protest calling for an outright referendum on the issue since taiwan first became a democracy more than twenty years ago. now hundreds of thousands of pro e.u.
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demonstrators have taken to the streets of london to call for a fresh breaks that referendum but prime minister treason may has already ruled out holding a state converge now with just over five months until britain is due to leave the block the country has been unable to seal a future deal with the european union and a recent opinion polls have seen a slight shift in favor of remaining in the e.u. . they're loud they're determined they want to be heard and they turned out in masses the demonstration was a signal to to reason made government people want to take fate into their own hands hundreds of thousands have come to london for the biggest anti briggs a demonstration so far they're sick of political infighting as the prospect of a hard break that looms in the distance he seems to be ignoring us completely at name and it's. just a disgrace got nice to see if maybe are any chance at the name and it's just
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determined to steam it rose simo it three the government has completely failed the opposition has completely failed they're playing politics as if it's just a normal event it's no it's in my view it's a great day to try and stay fit save the country the march was spearheaded by the young who want to have a say in their future in the last referendum in june two thousand and sixteen many of them didn't vote so far to reason may oppose the idea of a second vote. as a young person i feel like our people i often think that the only way to shake up. the march ended in front of parliament where many of them hope it will make a lasting impression. always he's in afghanistan say a suicide bomber has killed fifteen people in kabul the attack was the most serious of many because dozens of casualties during the country's parliamentary elections now almost nine million people were eligible to cost but it's despite the fear of
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violence turnout was knowledge of than expected with long queues forming at many polling stations. dozens of people died across the country and more than one hundred ninety attacks on saturday as people went to the polls on the first day of voting a suicide bombing in front of a polling station in the capital kabul may have been the deadliest our doctor said that three people were killed there and six wounded but government sources say fifteen died both the local islamic state affiliate and the taliban have threatened violence during the elections. oh despite the threats many people seem eager to vote almost nine million are registered to cast their ballots in the election for the lower house of parliament ordinary afghans have expressed cautious hope. it is their right to vote today i came out here and voted for my favorite comes out and did my part for the future of afghanistan. on the phone i had from the time
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when it happened war income flanks and now i've come here to avoid for a peasant he said which bring security to the country i ask people to come and fight for prosperity in afghanistan nah. 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 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 elections there are planned for next week the main target in that attack could well have been the us commander in afghanistan general scott miller although he denies it he escaped injury and encouraged afghans not to be intimidated message to the people of afghanistan has been very consistent and 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
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are voters are choosing representatives for the two hundred forty nine seat lower house a strong turnout could well indicate that functioning institutions work bolstering the government's legitimacy in the eyes of the people voting continues on sunday at a number of other polling stations the final electoral results won't be known for at least a week in taiwan thousands of people have demonstrated to cool for formal independence from china the rally in taipei is a challenge to the island's already embattled government it's the first large scale push his calling for an outright independence that since taiwan fist became a democracy well then twenty years ago. taiwanese so government that china considers the island as part of its territory in the past year china has ramped up pressure on taiwan conducting air and sea military exercises around the island. one day but we think there should be a referendum to make taiwan
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a normal country. we need to come here together as one nation to really project one voice get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese that's it it's very simple these protesters are not satisfied with the current government they asked for a tougher stance on china however according to a recent poll there are less than forty percent of tar winnie's the port in independence is since china's economic and military pressure on taiwan has its effect. protesters calling for a referendum face another obstacle currently voting on topics relating to taiwan's name and constitution illegally by. all right we'll take you back to afghanistan now because we have a freelance journalist for us in kabul now mr mr levy it's you know it's almost midnight where you are and we know that voting stations closed
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a few hours ago we've heard of chaotic scenes today how did you experience the vote and the election today. so i might my vote he can see i'm a singer my vote went pretty quickly that the biggest issue and the center that i was in was. the sorting out of the names because everyone was basically where you registered was where you had to vote this time so that took a little bit of time but that was the biggest issue that i think personally but as the day went on what we saw was that millions of people face massive issues once they got to the polling centers their polling centers that just weren't open when they got there their polling centers that when they got there they didn't how about the prison how ballot boxes or they didn't have the ballot papers through the cocina matic tried to get their own specific ballots so this created a lot of problems for people where they were kept waiting outside of these voting centers for sometimes hours at
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a time and that leaves them susceptible to tall of on threat because we've seen you know the taliban vowed before the election that they would target these these polls and they have throughout the day we we've heard reports of instances of rockets explosions of the taliban trying to ransack the voting centers of them closing down major roads throughout the country and we even saw one that in the evening in kabul at six or seven in the evening a polling center was attacked ad that resulted in at least ten deaths including a child ali and that poll that i want i want to ask you this really quickly because we do have to wrap up but a lot of people turned out despite the violence that they would potentially have experienced why does a selection mean so much to people in afghanistan because people are fed up with the parliament and they feel like the parliament is corrupt and it's progeny and it doesn't serve them so they were hoping that a new parliament would actually be into serve them all right reporting for us in
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