me. missing a journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul riyadh now faces backlash for the explanation of how he died. and violence laws election day in afghanistan as deadly attacks target polling stations during saturday's nationwide parliamentary vote. and police in belgium. protesting direct action against extra hours and tension. we ask questions we don't get on. with the minister has no front.

that happens all the time and we're sick and tired of this. former f.b.i. agent is sentenced to four years in prison for leaking classified information. says he had hoped his revelations would make a difference. it's eight o'clock here in moscow and you're watching altie international live with me in a day or two to a very warm welcome to the program. saudi arabia has finally admitted that a journalist who went missing over a fortnight ago in turkey died in what they describe as a fistfight inside its consulate in istanbul we had a has already sacked two senior officials of the arrested eighteen others linked to the case but german chancellor angela merkel is demanding further clarification from the scientists over what happened press freedom group reporters without

borders is also calling for sustained international pressure to establish how the incident played out the explanation provided by riyadh was swiftly dismissed as improbable and sparked an intense backlash from journalists and politicians as well it also contradicts earlier saudi claims that she left the consulate shortly after arriving there there are calls now for the gulf monarchy to bear full responsibility for what happened u.s. president says he is satisfied with the latest account. the discussions that took place with the citizen jamal khashoggi during his presence in the consulates of the kingdom in istanbul by the suspects did not go as required and developed in a negative way to a fight in the coral between some of them and the citizen jamal khashoggi yet liberal aggravated to lead to his death and their attempt to conceal and cover what happened. i do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't really sure we

view or investigation. i think it's a very important first step and it happened sooner than people thought it would happen. fifty nine year old jamal khashoggi had lived in the u.s. for the past year working as a washington post columnist is thought years prior he had been close to the side of the monarchy but was later critical of crown prince mohammed in salman's policies. had also drawn attention to saudi women's rights and yemen he entered the site of consulate in istanbul on october the second to pick up a document for his upcoming wedding shortly after his disappearance turkey announced it had video and audio records of the journalists alleged killing by a saudi team that still hasn't been made public when the case of first garnered global attention president trump threatened riyadh with severe punishment but that appears not to include scrapping the multi-billion dollar arms contracts between

the gulf monarchy and washington. cheri would be really great ally but what happened is it acceptable but i would prefer that we don't you. hundred billion dollars worth of work they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of the border russia wanted it china wanted it we wanted it we got it and we are all of it every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military what the. things that create jobs like jobs. for this country columnist for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz gideon levy says the saudis weak explanation is irrelevant. one single lonely person we know here in the. lower the income bony team he was not armed so the

whole story is so far fetched i don't think that anyone can take this seriously but what worries me much more is the american reaction i mean then the except see it and that's the power of an arm below one hundred ten billion dollars one hundred ten billion dollars can buy any troops kinsale any lie i'm not sure that's going to pay any price for it the world is far too cynical. artie's going underground host afshin rattansi spoke to a friend of jamal khashoggi who says the journalist expected to be arrested. jamal tragically always insisted until the day he died and i had a discussion with him only hours before he disappeared he insisted he wasn't an opposition member against the royal family he was just a critic of some of the policies adopted by the crown prince he was very anxious

that the country was taking a turn into what is worse he was he was afraid or he was concerned about his future that's why he wrote what he wrote that he was never a member of the opposition he knew if he went back. he would have been arrested and probably sent behind bars like the like some of his other friends. reports say doesn't have been killed and hundreds injured in several blasts that rocked the afghan capital during saturday's parliamentary election and we're going to discuss this further now with a local journalists will tell pfizer who is in kabul for us. the sultan there's been reports of multiple blasts can you update us on what's happened and the latest casualty figures. yes the minister of interior said earlier that hundred and ninety two attacks carried out by militants across

the country that killed dozens of people including civilians and police forces also afghan national army members the deadliest was in kabul as well as in north and battle on province in kabul a suicide bomber targeted at polling center in northen part of the city and killed over a dozen people including police forces so it was one of the. deadliest day for kabul people as you know the taliban already have warned people not to participate in this process they have already by caught it and warned teachers and university lecturers not to participate because that the majority of the stuff for the voting process or the teachers

of the schools and the locations that the voters. cast their votes who are these schools and mosques and so it was quite tense day for afghan security because two of provinces. they were highly attacked and there have been. one thousand eight hundred security threats many of them have been prevented by afghan security forces we still have to wait and see what will happen next because the election process has been extended by the independent election commission for the next day which is tomorrow. three hundred seventy. one polling stations. actually were closed that is a very. specific. let's see sure for this process that people are

really concerned about because people were hopeful and they had a very big turnout early in the morning became an hour before the election started but later after a couple of hours when there was a delay there were several technical issues and the presents of the. election. stuff were not visible. many hours in many polling stations that's why. you know during the large time we witnessed that many people actually went home. you mentioned the taliban have they i just want to clarify have they claimed responsibility for this attack. so can you clarify that first soltani. yes exactly most of

the attacks were actually not very very big they were magnetic bombs planted explosives. especially a dig a tz or nearby the polling stations and taliban did claim responsibility saying that they have carried out over four hundred attacks across the country as i said before they separately sent three statements during the past two weeks early this morning i got a statement from the taliban giving their last warning for the people not to participate and to buy called the elections because they have been saying that the afghan government is not a legitimate government so they do not recognize the afghan government as a legitimate government dusts why they claim that this is a puppet government and people should not. justify to empowered to

process that is according to the taleban is an american or a western process that's why people are actually now however the turnout was around more than one dot five million across the country of around nine million but it was quite a significant number however. the this process had lots of lots of challenges as bio metric devices were not working order less off the voters actually were not filtered well or they were not registered in many places voters had complaints and there. many many of them many of them actually complained about the process and left the polling stations but the

afghan government especially the independent election commission is optimistic to actually finish this process however it has extended as an unusual process which has no history in the afghan. democracy but we have to see and wait what will happen to morrow because it will be a very challenging you know the extension will be actually quite challenging because many people how truly have lost a whole to go back and take risk and vote for their candidates. sounds like a very problematic system at the moment and we will have to wait and see what happens tomorrow local journalist sultan fison thanks very much for updating us on the story. around fifteen hundred belgian police officers have called in sick on mass there protesting having to work extra hours caused by staff shortages as well as reforms to their pensions.

to the police to the police motorcycle users from. brussels as reinforcements to the u.s. to solve this all of them called in disabled obviously as we found out the prime minister even had to go with the army. to get to the gold to the police or severely understaffed fuel and we've been talking about that for many. the interior minister is also mulling reform exactly. that is a police officer. just

recently another police officer was killed in the town. last week was badly injured in a shootout people didn't hesitate to open. we ask questions but we don't get. they say we're lazy and. that the minister had facts to back up. the time and we're sick inside. central london now where over six hundred thousand anti brags that protesters have

gathered to demand a second referendum vote the march was organized by the people's vote campaign who say this protest could be the biggest anti brags that action yet some people have traveled from all around the country to take part in the rally a separate programs that rally was held in heritage in the north of england led by former ukip leader nigel farage british prime minister theresa may has dismissed calls for a second referendum on bragg's it however so m.p.'s have boys support for the protests the u.k. voted to leave by a narrow margin in twenty sixteen with the deadline for london's official divorce from brussels set for march next year. crimea is still trying to come to terms with the deadly mass shooting at a college there the story and more after this break.

i did the war planning for the principal force provider command in the united states military for years i've worked on this region for years i do not understand this saudi arabia is the greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the world still today and yet we all here on that we lie when we say that we right blatantly lie when we say that and moreover we know where do i.

welcome back to the program in crimea grieving friends and relatives have sent their final goodbyes to the twenty victims of a gunman who opened fire on fellow students at a college in the city of catch but a meant the pain stories have emerged of heroic quick thinking actions which prevented more deaths. is a quiet place a small seaside town kind of place where the neighborhoods everyone knows everyone

it is one of the last. places in the world where you would expect a school or college shooting or thought they did but some hatreds evidently buried too deep because i stalk you it's so common music very common tragedy our town is really small everyone knows each other the blast and the following rampage were catastrophic injuring and killing dozens upon dozens of. people sparking panic and his styria as teenagers and staff fled for their lives. in that chaos heroes were made was just my friend when scene was there he helped his friend cornell who was injured in the blast he covered him to shield him from the bullets they're both in hospital now has a shopping wound and winning team is paralyzed nobody knows whether he will be able

to walk again but from the horrors of this massacre some good has emerged selflessness sacrifice courage and bravery teenagers barely older than children acted as few adults ever called it got the better of course if you're going to they were first year students when this happened these guys were throwing rocks a good sign they were trying to distract him because behind his back there was a group of kids mostly girls trying to escape so the boys decided to divert the suit to suit time to help the girls these four boys are dead now. so you can hear i sir girl i knew him on the wounded i tried to save her i carried her to the ambulance i left her there and went to help the others i saw a lot of people bleeding land on benches it was awful. for. being here in mines i saw a guy being attacked i try to help him but it was too late then i saw my friend

something was wrong with his leg. he couldn't walk so i tracked him all the way to . the mushy it is now you will never know every x. of heroism and kindness that took place last now in the confusion the adrenaline the modesty and in death but it wasn't just the students it was also bystanders volunteers and good samaritans. who said i work nearby when i heard what happened i came here to help anyone i could see there were people without limbs just lying on the street everyone tried to help more so. when the wounded began to overwhelm local clinics the medical students jumped in to help. them but when it happened we were at our

medical college we were in class when a teacher stormed in and said they need people to help with the injured so we rushed to the hospital we had no time to even put our lab coats on we started to take people out of the ambulances for emergency help people just kept on coming for several hours it's fair to say that when the killer struck the staff the students were utterly unprepared it's also fair to say that no amount of readiness in the world would prepare any sort of school for an explosion that size in the cafeteria or mania blitzing through the car doors but even amidst all the confusion the panic the fear there were those who set aside self-preservation in order to help others risking life and leave proving once again even in acts of overwhelming evil there is space for good.

a former f.b.i. agent who worked in the u.s. state of minnesota has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the media he says he wanted to make a difference but the court found his leaks about alleged abuse of power a threat to national security. explains. a veteran of the agency an impeccable service record three years from retirement now charged tried and found guilty for whistle blowing the only black asians in the f.b.i. as minneapolis field office to a real war he grew uneasy over his seventeen year career he says he saw discrimination racial profiling rule bending and abuse of power by the agency he felt the public needed to know i truly wanted to make a difference and never intended to put anyone in danger the f.b.i. and caught saw things differently tried under the espionage act he was branded

a traitor who put national security at risk he isn't the first whistleblower to face the wrath of war thora te's edward snowden chelsea manning are two of the best known in recent years but this case was slightly different terry allbery was charged with the leak of just two documents to the media and retaining another focusing on methods used by the f.b.i. supporters claim the only damage caused was not to national security but the egos of all thora g.'s the u.s. attorney general has made things clear amongst the crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers the risk of exposing perceived wrongdoing and injustice is higher than ever we are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in department history crimes like the one committed by the defendant in this case will not be tolerated they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and punished and it seems for now whatever the motive alleged racism or spying

lawbreaking or corruption whistleblowers call bori will face the tough choice of trusting their conscience or risking everything. what is happening with mr allbery isn't a chilling effect throughout the entire. throughout the entire federal bureaucracy that if you believe you are going to go to prison and you've got to go to prison for a very long time any type of harsh punishment is. others in a similar situation twice before they. question is. is the action of the. troubled by this regime going to be some people can be quiet about all the actions and other federal bureaucracies are going to be able to be. given the large amount of corruption that

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it is as weakest point since the q one of two thousand and nine the gross domestic product came in at six point five. that's two tenths of a drop from the previous quarter of six point seven percent last year's china annual g.d.p. was six point eight percent and in twenty ten the rate was a whopping ten point six percent by the way almost every nation on earth would be pleased with the g.d.p. of china's six point five percent save india i suppose which had in two thousand and seventeen a g.d.p. rate of seven point seven point three percent and that's expected to grow to seven point three or seven point four percent and twenty eight hundred twenty nineteen. russian president vladimir putin has said there is no reason to take any steps to worsen relations with saudi arabia in light of the disappearance of and most people assume earlier of washington both journalist jamal khashoggi who is.