the journalist vanishes in turkey with reports that he's being killed inside the saudi. moscow dismisses dutch claims that russia tried to. chemical weapons. back in april saying that it was just a routine visit. being a special operation by russian military. breaking mixed martial arts champion. returns home to a hero's welcome in russia republic of dagestan. a class that was marred

by. international. mystery surrounds the fate of a prominent saudi journalist who's been highly critical of the kingdom's world family he's been missing for almost a week now after entering a saudi consulate in turkey there's been conflicting reports over what happened on the world's media has been whipped into a frenzy over the story that he has more on the journalist disappearance. where is journalist. what happened to him. for an entire week nobody has been able to answer that question and vesta gaiters on the ground who might be the closest to solving the riddle believe he could have been brutally murdered behind the walls of the saudi consulate and stamboul alleged

details of how it was done and clued sending over a fifteen man hit squad from the kingdom to make sure the man's dead anchor was shocked something so horrendous could have happened in istanbul a prosecutor in istanbul is investigating the issue there is both a security investigation and an intelligence one it is extremely third inning that this incident took place in a country i knew jumo for a long time so i still hold out hope god willing we will not find ourselves in a situation we do not want and still hope riyadh says it's got nothing to do with it all the claims are absolute blogs and official at the consulate general of the kingdom of saudi arabia in istanbul dismissed the report by reuters which cited turkish officials the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi was killed in the consulate in istanbul he fishel strongly denounce these baseless allegations and express his

down to that they came from turkish officials they were informed of the investigation or authorized to comment on the issue the saudi kingdom is transparency record has been poor to say the least but in a rare display of openness there officials even invited warders on a tour around the consulate. jamal khashoggi lives and works in the u.s. but to obtain a license to get married he had to see saudi officials has definitely been to the consulate twice on september the twenty eighth and last tuesday that was when he disappeared now here's why. it's crucial mr who writes about the saudi government and it's not exactly glowing actually had been worried something bad could happen to him before the second visit to the consulate the journalists left his cell phone with his fiance with instructions on what to do if he didn't come out soon the

woman called turkish police four hours later when jamal was nowhere to be seen saudi officials say his state of mohammed bin solomon mainly the crown prince but he wasn't even really a very harsh critic he was moderate opposition moderate critic maybe he got a little more air time because he was working for the washington post he was in the united states but i think this if he was murdered if we have to use the word if here this is very important if he was murdered i think this was more a message now there are a lot of dissidents from middle eastern g.c.c. countries and also egypt living in them will and i think if he was murdered this is more a message to the dissidents from the saudi regime saying hey we can get you anywhere wherever you are you're not say so this could be a message to these people

a warning sign we've seen mohamed bin solomon getting harsher more authoritarian. we see in what he's doing in yemen we see what he did with the qatari blockade in the g.c.c. crisis he's supporting the why. he's so he's an arab spring guy he's tried to suppress the arab spring in egypt in many other countries as well so yeah i mean this is definitely a reason for him a motivation for him to want to quiet dissidents in stamboul as in the stand we've got. to really c.c.t.v. footage that might actually shed some light on what transpired. what you make of that. what the turkey's now refusing to release t.v. footage there's saw a formal investigation going on in they don't want to show their hand until the formal investigation is done i'm assuming it's going to be wrapped up in a day or two according to what turkish media is reporting but you would think that

it would be in the saudi's best interest if they have any footage of him leaving to release it instantly because the amount of bad press this is causing for the saudis is incredible and you would think they'd want to clear their name i mean if i was in their situation that's what i would want to do yeah it's an absolute mr is said and everyone's waiting to find out what the outcome is going to be many thanks for your analysis that's a use a very my guest political analyst thank you thank you. moscow has responded to dutch allegations that russian spies tried to hack the international chemical weapons watchdog with foreign minister sergey lavrov noting that the claims were designed to attract maximum attention my colleagues discuss this incident with artie's medina culture of. the real incident took place vaca in april last year but let me tell you that the reels gandel unraveled last week when the government held a press conference that actually arranged into some kind of

a high profile event and that particular press conference of the defense minister accused of russian citizens of an attempted cyber attack on the organization for the clock admission of chemical weapons the minister even had a name for what happened back in april and called in a g.r.u. operation well if you have been following the news in the past couple of months well you already know that g r u has become some kind of a word to the worst thirteenth of april this year. carried out an operation to disrupt. operation targeting the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons b. c w. there was nothing secret about the visit by the russian technical experts it was a completely transparent and routine business visit well right after that particular incident the russian foreign ministry actually published

a statement with the fool explanation of what happened let me just give you some details from that statement now of the ministry explicitly said that there was nothing extraordinary that the russian delegation checked in at the in marriott hotel which is located very close to the o.p.c. w. had quarters the statement the ministry statement said that the hotel has been used by the russian delegations for decades as it is located just five hundred five hundred meters away from the russian embassy and that also explains the fact why there were so many russian cars parked outside also it was mentioned and that statement that the dutch so. it was very well aware of all these facts presented in that statement but still all has been portrayed as something from a spine movie really now as you mentioned this has all been going on since april

was there any reaction back then well back then actually there was no reaction from any side the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov even said today that back then it all looked like a misunderstanding. russians that were explored from weren't given any explanations or any opportunity to contact their representatives in or embassy in the netherlands and were asked to leave it will look like a misunderstanding especially given the back when there were no protests or warnings to us neither in moscow nor in the hague again the russian foreign affairs minister sergei lavrov said that the situation surrounding the so-called russian spies on the netherlands is a deceptive maneuver and that the story was made public especially i had a needle needing between minister is so that the timing is not at all accidental. mixed martial arts star might get me out of has just returned home to

a hero's welcome in russia's republic of dagestan after bidding qana mcgregor in las vegas in the fight of the year sports correspondent danny armstrong was at the stadium where thousands of her boobs devoted fans came to greet the world champions . it's awfully fun sas take as you can see behind me at the stands a full as if it were a much they hear and she arena they're all here to see one man could be an amalgam out of you out that victory over quantum of god already expected him to dominate quantum mcgregor as he did and submit him in the fall found by rene could show a lot of been done a lot been said and got on to the fight and especially from the side of quantum mcgregor could be as usual he was his cob collects itself in the press conferences and on the media but in the ring he was absolutely explosive keep economy gregg many said he would beat him in a standup game would be to be is but on the night would be shelled to ease as good

a shot has probably anybody in the school at the certainly in the light weight division and that's where the difference was close on the ground in a physical round seat so it might break it down and kind of beat the fight out of him so everybody was watching not his there was thousands hacking out the movie fitz's. and they were all cheering on them and there was a great when the referee finally stopped the fight and i carried on in see the early hours of the morning and on the streets about his villa and now here. we've had jones you had a caucus and we've got judicial dances on the pitch at the moment we're all waiting for her people. the fight itself ended in scandal though when having to spot the huge brawl often leaping the aisle to going to confront conus coach taunting him call his also into bill him self after video emerged a few punching teammates abuse father and coach who met him at the airport gave his reaction to events. they say on

a scale from one to five the fight was four plus but his jump out of the organ cannot be assessed in any way. you know the discipline must come first i think i should punch him from the right or the left straight to the airport and say what did we teach you. tactically the fight conforms to what we expected in the first round in the very first minute we managed to control mcgregor to pin him impose the fight speed that worked him out in the second round we managed to carry out that plan. and this was the scene not long ago at the airport in the dagestani carpet or as it landed and come to greet his family and read. your report notes an appalling increase in the number of civilian civilian

casualties in afghanistan victims from bombings using improvised explosive devices or ids have risen twenty one percent in just the last year deaths from suicide attacks there are even worse forty six percent report shares the story of a teenager who was injured in one such attack. i was taking part in a cricket match at the time after the game some of the guests were to give speeches but before those got underway i heard an explosion and saw smoke i saw my blood and realize i've been injured i started running there was a second explosion and i fell to the ground and lost consciousness it's inhuman to attack players of the game this seventeen years since the start of the u.s. invasion of afghanistan despite the war the taliban's increased its influence and now controls almost half the country the director of the u.k.'s crisis research institute says washington doesn't want to admit defeat in a failed invasion. well we're seeing the radicalization of afghanistan on almost

the syrian model if you like ironically as the civil war in syria has wound down there's been an increase in violence in afghanistan and now it's probably the most violent of these conflicts in the world at the moment the use of these kinds of attacks is way both spectacular it's also very unsettling because what it does it shows that the afghan government and its allies the americans and british and so on can't really control the situations of britain and america from afghanistan recently through syria and libya and should have shown we're very good at destroying things smashing up our own but we don't we don't do reconstruction any more just look at the fate of mosul in iraq or rock or in syria that have divided councils in washington i think probably trump would like to disengage from any of these wars which are costly both money and men for the americans and not particularly successful on the other hand the pentagon doesn't want to admit defeat and the taliban of course sensing that perhaps it's getting close to the victory on its turfs doesn't feel the need to talk to the americans but the taliban also may feel that talking to russia or talking to the neighbors or afghanistan in moscow

will help to create a situation where. in the post war settlement in afghanistan will be acceptable to the neighbors. and investigative journalist probing misuse of e.u. funds has been found dead in a horrific attack in bulgaria our correspondent peter all of a brings us up to date on this murder. thirty year old reporter victoria martin over was raped and murdered in the northern bulgarian city of heroes or prosecutors say that she died following being beaten to the head and suffocated now the interior minister of bulgaria has been on the scene in northern bulgaria he said that ms martin of his death had nothing to do with her work as an investigative journalist however if we look back at claims made by ms madden of a prior to her death she had major issues with the state. investigative journalism

in a country that the image of investigative journalism in bulgaria is very contradictory stronger women in corporate pressure are media owners and i want immediate insults more and more banned subjects' systematically sidelining investigative journalist friends timmons the first vice president of the european commission has said that there must be a full investigation into the slaying of miss madden over he described her as a campaigner for clarity a fighter for freedom and someone who fought against corruption in journalism. she becomes though the third journalist in the e.u. to have been killed in the last twelve months a car bombing last october in malta claimed the life of daphne corona. while in february of this year the slovak journalist chick was shot to death here in germany the government of angular merkel has echoed what was said by mr timmons that the investigation must be full and they want to get to the bottom of what led to the

slaying of miss martin over. a controversial right winger dubbed the trump of the tropics has won the first round of brazil's presidential election and by a large margin but desirable scenario failed to secure the fifty percent needed to avoid a second round runoff and supporters have taken to the streets there claiming fraud as this high stakes election start their heat up or if a national has more. yes brazilians cast their ballots but we're going to see a second round as none of the candidates was able to get their fifteen percent needed to win outright it is yet to early to say who will rule the country next but many predict victory will go to the current favorite they winner of the first round the most controversial candidate the so-called tropical trump mr paulson r o people have grown tired after twenty years of left wing government so narrow is not

corrupt he is for family values and ethics these are only hope and that is why i'm here because you only one who is going to rein in take care of her country will handle corruption improve our education system if she doesn't win i don't know what really happened i am here to celebrate and i'm here because i'm hoping for a new and better brazil so who's both sonar and why did he become so popular it would be fair to call him a new face in brazil's political life confronting traditional approaches with fresh ideas and far right congressman former army captain both another is not affiliated to any major political power in brazil he's also famous for his hard stance on lor issues including a tougher punishment for offenders and controversial. they're both of you who thought go too far with your growth. doffing with poor.

students and all of the new and old guard to fit. your view of the world. to understand the popularity of mr controller see let's take a look at brazil ahead of the election widespread nationwide corruption has become the biggest concern with former presidents jailed impeached and the current president under. investigation following fraught scandals many thought enough is enough next security with the murder rate at an all time high seven people were killed every hour last year economic challenges were just as serious with thirteen million people unemployed and latin america's largest economy coming out of a dramatic and prolonged recession people went to polling stations frustrated angry and tired both us that there have been so many thieves and people cheating us

and our country that's a disappointment to me no spaces and we need to brazil those better than those if not for us for the sake of our children. people know what's going on and they feel unsafe even to walk on the street how can they be comfortable knowing they can be easily most all would be most well sonora has ridden public criticism of the streets performance from former police officers though many kids. i think it's unfortunate that we're not letting kids and juveniles high school students adolescents for not letting them grow up kids are the easiest ones a play off their emotions today's youth is an army or the suture to an actor and them with beliefs that just are it's accurate and we're forcing them were and doc churning them into being us soldiers into either conservative or liberal side and i think this is just the effect of falsified information and emotions that are

pouring gasoline on emotions and letting them run while they're mashed nation's poor kids they're being brainwashed they're being set into false that's all the incentive you need oil is in the youth it make the youth work for you i do want them to be more held accountable. thanks stay with us here on alt international of days for you in half an hour.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle washington's ambassador to nato threatens to take out russian missiles and the u.s. interior secretary threatens a naval blockade of russia is the trump doctrine finally being revealed.

cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dimitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with spoke make international and we have these and he is a professor at the higher school of economics.