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this is the da the news lawyer from burning the cia concludes the order to kill jamal khashoggi came from the top the u.s. intelligence agency reportedly pins the dissident journalist death on powerful saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan that this is washington warns it will hold his killers accountable also coming up recovery teams press on with their search for the remains of those missing in california swan funds we'll get the latest from one of the devastated communities. and thousands of central american migrants who
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ping to enter the u.s. arrive in the mexican border town of to quanah but the math there warns they might soon wear out their welcome. find a home free you could join me the washington post newspaper is reporting that the cia has concluded saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond ordered the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul last month he was fine president mike pence is vowing repercussions for anyone involved in his killing spree at has repeatedly said the prince was not involved in his day she disappeared off the entering the saudi consulate to obtain marriage documents his body has not been found. none for more we're joined now by istanbul correspondent junia han. i'm chris said all along
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that the saudi government must be responsible is there a sense of vindication there in turkey now. well one word of caution here and that's what the washington post also writes in in their report the cia has not officially confirmed this report they have been speaking to officials on the condition of nimitz he who have been discussing this intelligence information with the washington post a journalist but this is the cia officials i have given is the most definite so far linking saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the murder of the jamal for the turkish government for the turkish investigation this is good news we have no official reaction yet but president add on is expected to speak later today we managed to talk to one official who has been talking on the condition often on limiting to us here in turkey and he said if this report is indeed true it is good
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news for turkey it's what the turks wanted all along you know they've been pressing to get to the bottom of this and if the cia really reached this conclusion the turks are ready to collaborate and a shed further light on this story meanwhile you know what's the latest on the investigation there into what happened to kushnick she's already. well many people here have actually given up hope that his body or the remains of his body will ever be found yesterday there was a funeral prayer here in istanbul in absentia for jamal. the turkish authorities investigators say he was killed his body dismembered and they're looking into the possibility that the remains of his body were. so it's very unlikely the body will provide further inside but according to this latest washington post report cia officials have been looking at various sources of
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intelligence information including phone calls and an audio recording the turks have been providing them it's an order recording from inside the saudi consulate the turks had placed according to people familiar with the matter a listening device there and they have been handing over this tape not only to the americans to other international partners as well but these old you recording so far have not been made public this is an important piece of the puzzle and many of us are waiting for this piece to be published as well indeed our correspondent. who is from istanbul thank you. let's get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world. one woman has died and more than a dozen injured in an accident during protests against rising fuel prices in france the so-called yellow vests a demonstration against president calls reform policies which include higher diesel and gasoline taxes drive is
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a vow and to block the roads across the country. argentina's navy has found a missing submarine one year after it disappeared with forty four crew men on board the sun one seen here in archive footage was detected a hundred meters deep in the atlantic in waters off patagonia according to the navy the submarine suffered an on board explosion in november last year when. an unmanned cargo rockets blasted off from the u.s. state of virginia is carrying much needed supplies for the international space station and comes hours after a shipment by the russian space agency now in october the last man mission had to perform an emergency landing and was unable to send supplies. fears are growing that far more people may have died in california's raging wildfires that are remains of more than seventy people have so far been identified but the list of those still missing has soared beyond one thousand names displaced
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residents are expecting a visit from president donald trump today as california also struggles with toxic. with the fire comes a new danger smoke. and it has reached san francisco where air pollution levels now rank among the highest in the world health warnings prompted widespread school closings even the city's main tourist attractions was shut. the smokes are jenna's some three hundred kilometers to the north the town of paradise has been reduced to ashes it's the epicenter of california's deadliest ever wildfire and the death toll is likely to rise. search and rescue workers are trying to find any sort of remains that could help identify those missing. where you've fuel terrible for these people and devastating for them
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like couldn't imagine coming back here this is my home. your hope is that we see if there are missing people we can find them and bring some closure to people that need that. those affected are in desperate need of assistance some hope denounce a visit by u.s. president donald trump will increase attention to their plight. we're going to present to bring to congress we're going to take a look at this. part or are you more airplanes are still going no time to relax if you want to understand what we're going through out here you got to be here and it's not something you can just see on t.v. you know others us get to kill off the president's intentions. i think is just showboating to come in and try to take credit freeze and salted to firefighters. police the military handicap women. the campfire is only one of several blazes still ravaging the state scientists believe the growing frequency and
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intensity of such wildfires is due to a prolonged drought which is symptomatic of climate change. well for more let's bring in journalist mike de walt he joins us from santa rosa an area ravaged by the wildfires mike the number of missing people's now soared to over a thousand of these people feared dead. there's a lot of uncertainty with that number and we saw a big jump in a tonight county sheriff mean announcement today telling residents not to get too tied to that number as it's very much a moving target some of those names could be duplicates some of them could have come from old man one calls and of course some of them may not just be reunited yet with their loved ones that said they're still very much some concern about that number as high as it is and the population in paradise dealing with mostly seniors over sixty five they could be disabled in mobile and that's really the trend we've seen in some of the names that they were in the seventy one names that
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they've released so far that they found might we understand that the the first residents are returning to their homes how are they coping with the aftermath of the wildfires. there's really a sense of uncertainty in going back to your home. and taking stock of what you have or don't. you know residents have to go back and. see see what their living conditions are i mean some people may be returning to the only home on their block and that's becomes a very new reality for them and you know even those who made it through the fear that this could happen again still lives with you beyond that so it's really uncertain time for those people who are coming back to their homes. meanwhile off firefights is at the military hopeful that they'll be able to put out the remaining wildfires any time soon. we've really seen significant progress in the past twenty
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four hours. the fires in southern california are just about taking care of northern california they reached fifty percent containment on the camp fire today fire crews are working mostly in areas that are uninhabited forest land areas now really trying to push the flames in that direction they will catch a break this week as very high probability of rain coming in on wednesday which all of californians are really wishing for and it's long overdue for this area absolutely everyone hoping for that might do well to aid santa rosa california thank you very much indeed i thought it. tensions are on the rise at the border between the u.s. and mexico with the arrival of a so-called migrant caravan thousands of people from central america a gathering in the northern mexican border town of to juana where they can officially apply for asylum in the united states but tensions between migrants and some local residents are rising us to juana struggles to cope with the influx which
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is expected to continue for months. kareena is exhausted but she and her five children have arrived into one of the city's shelters are already full so they have to sleep on the street. getting we are children are tired from all the walking we had to do. and because we didn't have anything to eat. we asked for someplace to stay but we ended up having to sleep on the street they said a place to stay would cost twenty pesos around of a day pass for the first four hundred migrants who arrived in want to set up camp on the beach alongside the border fence they're happy to have reached their destination but are surprised by the walls height and the us police presence on the other side of the migrants are waiting for the rest of the large group to arrive. they made the decision together and we will continue to stick together we can go it
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alone we set out together and if someone wants to resort to force then i have to leave our group we want harmony and peace. violence broke out the night before after some mexican locals threw stones at the migrants one of them claudia who's here with her granddaughter says they were only acting in self defense. a group of mexicans attacked us. they threw stones at us and insulted us. we told them police but they didn't do anything about it so. this is their country where in. we in the we fled violence and now we're encountering more of it here. many fled to the sports stadium nearby that was being turned into a shelter for arresting. the hit on family were denied entry that evening and had to sleep outside. was horrible we had slept outside before but not like that under
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the open sky and in such cold weather and last night people who did not like us came to the beach nothing like that has ever happened to us before and when. the speed of the migrants progress the last two days clearly took the mexican authorities by surprise the stadium was not ready to accommodate them until thursday and processing at the entrance was slow. the provisions were also less than satisfying for many there was barely any food and water for people who have been marching for more than a month. so sports news now and in tennis gemini's an exam as it has advanced to the final four of the a.t.p. finals their twenty one year old defeated john is now to set up a semi final showdown with roger federer in the prestigious end of season tournament. it was a taut opening set between alexander sterve and johnny with mia centimeters
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determining each game. but sara prevailed in a tie break to take the first set seven six. five the german then broke isn't a serve in the second set to pave the way to victory. and an unforced error a sense vera through to the semifinals where he'll now face roger. played so many times again should be my short career he's leading with one win over me and i hope i can try to change that to them obviously it's going to be a very tough match but i hope i'll be ready for. two wins from five showdowns with federer bodes well for third of who is aiming to become the first german to win the tournament since bars back up. you're watching news from by leymah got plenty more coming up here at the top of the hour of course you can
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