website w. dot com. 2 multis government ministers and the prime minister's chief of staff of resigned as the investigation into the suspected contract killing of an investigative journalist gas price of any kind i want to give it was looking into corruption linked to the government and was killed by a car bombing 2017 a family accuses the government of protecting the people who ordered her death so why have these men resigned i'm filled this is the day. a little young once the investigation is over in the coming hours or days i will give a full account of my actions. not in the current. thinking this is so he did it but he's playing it's got to be justice i will do whatever is

necessary. to destroy it just. depends on ensuring that there's no contamination politics but it looks impossible. we should leave the investigators to do their job and i have full faith in the investigators. also coming up the mounting human cost of turkey's offensive in northern syria a special report on kurds living in fear in ankara so called safe. i saw an airplane over our house we wanted to flee and then a turkish plane bombed us with civilians not military and we were at home at home. a mole to has seen a day of high profile political resignations as the widening scandal of the 27000 murder of an investigator. journalist gathers pace early on tuesday prime minister

joseph most cats announce the departure of his chief of staff keith schembri this was followed by the resignation of the country's tourist minister conrad mitzi journalist cat daphne want to kill its year was murdered in a car bomb attack on the island 2017 and a reputation for exposing corruption of the country's political and business in the us and that named mr shepley and mr big seeking reports last week police investigating the killing arresting prominent multiset businessman york and fenech on board his yacht while he was apparently trying to leave the country 3 men are already facing trial for misc i want to kill it is coming but the person or people who ordered it have not yet been identified today's resignations represent the biggest political fallout from the murder so far it's a prime minister joseph muscat you know. completely who this is the only it

the country needs stability that plays the moment place on this topic and on my mandate my actions and decisions in the coming hours and days will be aimed to ensure that stability is maintained that the. institutions continue to work serenely down india move down. in the new who will also heed the advice of various people who have told me not to make statements while an investigation is still active. in the city on the tivo let's get more on this with keith micallef is a journalist with the times of moulton joins us from the capital the latter welcome to the day why do you think these 3 man of resigned. their position has become untenable you cannot have the chief of staff and he was no ordinary chief of staff it was a very trusted person by the prime minister who was

a chief political strategist and many people even in cabinet who would say he was the one calling the shots at times and the most trusted minister former energy minister let's not forget it was the minister who was in charge of the power station contract was on which there were allegations of bribes being under investigation regarding this contract killing even the economist there was called for worshipping a couple of days ago and their position had become untenable ok so a vase people implicated in this death can't stay in government public on the investigation in civil killing itself i wonder what you make of the deals being done or negotiated because way we have the alleged middleman in the plot by being granted a presidential pardon in exchange for information which would be information that he provided was quickly followed by the arrest of a multi specimen this this is mr gorgon phatic now mr fedak is reported to be

requesting immunity in exchange for information so what do you make of this wheeling and dealing. well of course mr finnick has been at least for the last 2 days asking for presidential immunity today it was revealed that mr bush can be the chief of staff was in direct contact with mr finnick to world a police investigation so that mr infinite was being kept abreast of the details of the investigation presumably mr finn a close knows much more about the political connections of this know the including mr stanbury dr miti and possibly even the economy minister. now it's up to the prime minister to recall man where there mr fennis should have. presidential by law we call it a presidential pardon but according to our constitution is the prime minister will come and presumably on the advice of the attorney general. we have 3 people

awaiting trial for setting the bomb that killed afaik i don't want to kill it's 2 years ago at the police have mr phatic a significant person of interest in custody what is your view of a investigation so far. in the investigation for many months seem to have been stalled delaying the name of mr finn it could be said just that in the media built a month ago in an attempt to make the 2 to pile up pressure on the government to take action in the last few days there is in the clear indications that the link there are clear political links something which the prime minister used to refuse to accept in in the past month the prime minister always used to say there is no criminal connection with the politicians he never used to comment on the political implications but no seems that upward from political responsibility there seems to be actual criminal links between politicians and the underworld to hide this case

this all has emerged in the last few days and possibly more could emerge in the coming hours when mr fenech will be arraigned is he this is a really interesting part of every tragic story we have this investigative journalist that afaik i don't want to get it's here uncovering apparently a lot of corruption linking a crime to the government one wonders how those investigations died with. know because we know that she had received a large stage of emails of documents at one point months before she had been killed and you know that their e-mail is they're still being kept by the death of the project and they're looking and combing through to see what further evidence they can unearth and it's and it's not excluded in the coming weeks and the coming months more evidence is on it it from the largest issue of documentation she had received good so this is a very opening story thank you so much for joining us kate micallef from the times

of malta. the residents of the town of kabbani in northeastern syria say they are scared about the imminent arrival of turkish troops the turkish military and to be area when u.s. troops withdrew in october kabbani is inside the northern syria buffer zone the turkish established so his president's rhetoric type heard once as a son will be used to resettle syrian refugees currently living in his country but syrians in the area say it's a turkish invasion and point to the growing number of civilians killed or injured by turkish troops as proof. you can see turkey from here in the syrian town of kabbani the turkish troops haven't made it to kabbani yet and that's the way it should stay says ramsey as the owner of a shoe shop 5 years ago he says when islamic state was murdering people in plundering this town turkey watched from the other side of the border but took no

action now i-s. is gone and turkish troops have moved into syria patrolling what they're calling a safe saying. you know. what are they talking about it's not a safe zone they've come to drive us away to steal our homes and plunder our lands they're here to displace millions of people how can that be a safe zone. this footage from the kurdish led syrian democratic forces reportedly shows fighting between kurdish fighters and turkish backed forces in i am issa the town of ion is maybe 80 kilometers a what. i saw an airplane over a house we were packing our belongings into our car we wanted to flee and then a turkish plane bombed those were civilians not military and we were at home at home. from the kurds point of view everything started going wrong the moment the

u.s. pulled its troops out of north eastern syria the americans presence had prevented any turkish offensive u.s. troops did return but only to guard syria's oil fields against the islamic state they're not here to protect kurdish civilians anymore and that's why the kurds feel betrayed and why as well as fighting back militarily they're also boy causing all turkish products. every little we spend on turkish goods will be invested in bullets used to kill our sons. ramsey the owner of the shoe shop in kabbani says he hardly sells any shoes made in turkey anymore but he says he understands why. we're scared they're coming here to drive us out or kill us we just want them to go to get out of the whole region or ramsay's turnover has fallen by 2 thirds people aren't spending money anymore he says because they're certain they'll soon have to

flee from a turkish attack. more on this correspondent dorian jones in a stumble welcome dorrian al kurds in kabbani right to be worried about a turkish attack. well syrian kurdish forces are accusing turkey and the militias it is supporting of seeking to expand the areas under its control in 3 different areas now why anchor and now strongly denies that it says its forces are only we acting in self-defense but why the kurds in kabbani and for out this area are so concerned is that turkey initially sought to control an area 400 kilometers long and 30 kilometers deep as a key to his objective of returning up to 2000000 syrians currently under turkish military control is a strip of only 100 kilometers and that is seen as well short of the area needed to return these refugees and one of the key urban locations is called bani in part of turkish parents to resettle large amounts of syrians currently living in turkey and

that's why the kurds are so nervous in this area ok so it's a last week to turkey accuse the u.s. and russia of doing nothing to ensure that kurdish forces are withdrawing from this this order region today russia you serious kurds are failing to abide by their russia turkey deal so what are kurdish troops in the area doing. it was really very hard to verify what actually is going on on the ground independent reporting is very difficult but what it appears to be seeing is that moscow is losing patience with the kurds because since america now sees the walking back its initial declaration of pulling out of the area this seems to be emboldening the kurds and possibly holding out from pressure from moscow for it to finally join up with the massacres and fall on to damascus control and that is the key objective of moscow in its long term goal of bringing new bringing stability to syria now they see that the with the kurds possibly are becoming more restive they

all possibly looking to uncle and its military forces to put pressure on the kurds to fall into line. you mention in passing that a another strange element in a very complicated. conflict and these are these reports that u.s. troops backed a backed up by syrian kurdish fighters are once again carrying out large scale operations against islamic state fighters so how's that going to be viewed in ankara. what i think is going to be viewed with a great deal of shock and anger you have to realize. been accusing washington of supporting a terrorist organization which he considers this kurdish militia linked to a decades long kurdish insurgency inside turkey now they are euphoric at the decision to pull out its support of these kurdish forces they saw this as an opportunity for resetting turkish u.s. relations now again they see washington walking back home what trump has promised

to do and this will fill in. the narrative whereby turkey believe that they have a friend in trump. being thwarted by those around him and this latest. resumption of fighting with the u.s. forces and the kurdish forces will certainly strengthen that view in ankara. of course making mischief if we have the foreign minister sergei lavrov warning the kurds are aligning themselves with the u.s. will do them no good. accusing them of ignoring the russia turkey deal what do you think russia is trying to achieve. well i think the russia does see an opportunity here because now though to the americans do appear to be walking back from its initial promise to pull out and possibly offering a reset in turkish u.s. relations now the us a back on the scene moscow seems to be siding with turkey as a bid for further effort to drag turkey away from the united states they see this is a new opportunity to sow bigger divisions between turkey and the u.s.

both are nato partners and this has been an ultimate goal of moscow to ultimately bring turkey out of the nato relationship and away from the u.s. and closer to moscow this has been a key objective for many years and they now see this latest u.s. stepping back into syria as an opportunity and there you will expect again moscow to be siding fully behind in its concerns over what washington is doing in the region meanwhile we have a car bomb exploding on tuesday in the village of. i which is inside turkey so-called safe zone 20 deaths 17 their injuries were reported so who is likely to be responsible well on cruise clear they say that this is part of the syrian kurdish militia which they call terrorists they say this is the latest example of their terrorist activities now the syrian kurdish forces tonight any part in this bombing but there will be suspicions of the kurds in some way or link behind this because this will be seen as an effort to serve

a destabilizes region and to undermine turkey's efforts of creating a saves over which will allow syrians syrians living in turkey to return back if there is further insecurity and instability it will be very hard for turkey to persuade syrians in turkey to go back to syria during jones in istanbul thank you. now to the palestinian territory of gaza where daily life is often a struggle the continuing blockade by israel and egypt makes a medical care especially problematic for cancer patients the only choice is often to travel to israel which means leaving home and family then jumping through arduous administrative hoops it's a symptom of the decades long conflict in the region affects people's everyday lives they've followed one teenager who had to cross borders for a chance at a future. mahmoud is 13 years old he was diagnosed with bone cancer 18 months ago before that he was

a talented soccer player who loved singing. his father manages to keep the family going with odd jobs but he has no idea how he'll ever manage to pay for his son's treatment to imagine what it's like you have a son he's happy healthy boy he plays soccer he's always having fun even one of the best players then comes the shock of your life. my dad was standing outside our house when i found out that i had cancer he didn't want to come in i saw him crying and i said to him dad you mustn't give up i don't want to see a single tear. but it's hard to find hope here in the overcrowded oncology unit at the hospital in gaza city there's a shortage of most things medicines painkillers and medical equipment a diagnosis like goods can resemble a death sentence. doctor knew immediately he wouldn't be able to help mahmoud under

such conditions and that his best chance for survival would be through treatment outside of the gaza strip the doctor refers him to a clinic in east jerusalem he knows that will mean an unpredictable journey for mom . because even a sick palestinian child cannot easily enter israel. mahmoud has become quieter over the course of his onus he hasn't been to school for a year his father doesn't want him to lose contact with his friends so as often as possible he takes them to an aid organization that has afternoon care for kids. here. meanwhile mahmoud's father has to apply for his son's travel to east jerusalem hundreds of relatives of seriously ill patients are waiting for the travel permit 1st the palestinian national authority has to agree to the trip and then the israeli government has to approve it. the permit finally arrives

and the trip is set to begin in the early morning. but mahmoud doesn't want to leave he doesn't want to be away from his siblings or his parents. he wants to stay at home and he's terrified of dying. and. finally his parents managed to convince him to go with his grandmother at his side . then at the border there's another surprise his grandmother is not allowed to leave gaza and no reason is given instead mahmoud's mother will now accompany her son but they have to leave immediately. then it finally happens mahmoud and his mother enter israel together. to victoria hospital is on the mount of olives in east jerusalem. it's

treatment this time lasts 4 hours. from now of course i think about dying we read verses from the koran we pray more we ask god to help us on the run. now over the course of several months mahmoud has had 30 chemo sessions in east jerusalem. and he's doing well. the doctors say he is cured and that one day he may even be able to play soccer again. and ukrainian filmmaker office finally picked up the european union's top human rights prize he was serving a 20 year jail sentence on terror charges in russia when he was awarded the same prize last year it was set free in september in a prisoner swap with ukraine. sense of spent 5 years in

a russian prison camp in the arctic circle russian investigators accused the ukrainian filmmaker of planning terrorist attacks in 2015 cents off was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he had publicly protested against the russian occupation of crimea international observers called it a show trial now free he has traveled to the european parliament to accept the sakharov prize which he was awarded a year ago during his detention. i do not accept this award as a personal one but as a tribute to old ukrainians who are political prisoners in russian prisons. in september a sense of was freed after a prisoner exchange between russia and ukraine he has long campaigned for human rights in his home country and was a key figure in the ukrainian revolution of 2014 for over 30 years the european

parliament has been awarding the prize to individuals and organizations which fight for human rights this is award will go to see the we go human rights activist who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by china in a recent 2 day trial. now violence is played cameroon's english speaking regions after separatists that declared independence thousands have been killed and half a 1000000 a fled the unrest but in a major under foreign city one dedicated comedian refuses to be consumed by the hate and anger gripping the country. for boyda called meek. it is his 1st performance here in the under foot city of boyer for more than a year. the city has been gripped by tension because of a standoff between english and french because income rude or more is determined to change the mood. is important because.

people just need to calm down for a little bit and focus on other things other than what i've done he creates or that . it's pitch to me i think there's a reason why it's important where laughs. he's not the only one the sure we all must love has brought together over 20 comedians and musicians to projects in a mix of teaching french and english many criticize politicians for their rule in the current crisis with one particular target is the president who has been in power for nearly 4 tickets. just from. my. ex

so. why. don't you. hold. that and. it's a rare moment of relief for many. 24 year old marco mumble is able to load off steam tonight for a short while least. a lot has happened during these crises people are dead whilst in a lot of blog was seen a lot of injuries. was heard people cry so if this shore comes up and people who make other people love a movie love so loud it is a very great platform and i am so happy i am here the show is great nothing more i do think it was the one thing. this is what matters not what little. jerks like d.c. how like police how dustman

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