sex in the street sometimes but the people they trust the most. saudi arabia admits that missing in journalist jamal khashoggi was killed in a fight inside a consulate in. riyadh now faces a 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. protest in direct action against our pension reform. if you do. we ask a question. for the minister has no friends

to back up his claim. and. it's eleven o'clock here in moscow you're watching all to international live from our studio with me. 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 riyadh has already sacked two senior officials and arrested eighteen others linked to the case but german chancellor angela merkel is demanding further clarification from the saudis over what happened press freedom group reporters without borders is also calling for sustained international pressure to establish. 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 he claims that khashoggi 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 donald trump 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 this stumble by the suspects did not go as required and developed in a negative way led 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 society monarchy but was later critical of crown prince mohammed in salman's policy because shoghi had also drawn attention to saudi women's rights and the war in yemen he entered the cloudy consulate in istanbul on the second of october to pick up a document for his upcoming wedding shortly after his disappearance turkey had video and audio records of the journalist alleged killing by a saudi hit that still hasn't been made public when the case first garnered global attention president trunk threatened riyadh with severe punishment but that appears not to include scrapping the multi-billion dollar arms contracts between the gulf and washington. saudi arabia has been

a great ally but what happened is not acceptable but i would prefer that we don't use retribution canceling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work they are ordering military equipment everybody in the world one of that order 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 equipment or things that create jobs like jobs and others for this country columnist for the israeli newspaper ha'aretz gideon levy says the saudis and weak explanation is irrelevant. one single lonely person we know he entered the consulate by himself nobody in company team he was not armed so the whole story is so far fetched i don't think

one can take this seriously but what worries me much more is the american reaction i mean the president accepts it and that's the power or often arm the loaf one hundred ten billion dollars one hundred ten billion dollars can buy any troops can say i'm not sure that there's going to be any price for the word these farkle cynical. parties going underground has. to a friend of jamal khashoggi he says the journalist expected to be invested. the market actually 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 its future that's why he wrote what he wrote of he was never a member of the opposition he knew if he were back. he would have been arrested and probably sent behind bars like the like some of his other friends. now 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. securely so after the police to the police motorcycle units from the comfort of

brussels is reinforcement video you saw me feel that all of them called in disabled obviously as we found out the prime minister even had a long way to building. a . little bit of the gold the police are severely understaffed and we've been talking about that for many months now the interior minister is also in mulling reform that plague actually be an attack on the status of police officers on the. beach so long just recently another police officer was killed in the. last week and two more were badly injured in

a shootout the people didn't hesitate to open the foreign lord horseman officer. because you can still show me that if we ask a question or spit we don't get on so they say we're lazy and distribution secretly with the minister has no facts to back up the cry he will feel that happens all the time and we shake inside of it. and. afghan capital gains saturday's parliamentary election now called generalists all time highs he has that intense in couple. it was quite tense day for afghan security because 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 two 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 north part of the city and killed over a dozen people including police forces more stuff 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 and 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 that's why they claim that this is a puppet government and people should not. justify to empower the process that is according to the taleban is an american or a western process 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 people were hopeful 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. staff were not visible. many hours in many polling stations that's why. you know during the large time we many people actually went home. seriously requesting the un investigate us led coalition airstrikes in the country that reportedly killed dozens of civilians the latest round of strikes reportedly targeted two villages in a province in the last twenty four hours the state run news agency says sixty two people were left dead and dozens more injured another incident took place on wednesday when american jets reportedly had an allied kurdish unit along with a number of civilians the u.s. military says it's currently looking into that incident. well to discuss this further let's bring in our mark walker the director of a british think tank care focusing on the syrian crisis thanks for coming on to the

program or this official information about these latest strikes in syria what do you know of what's been reported so far. we understand from numerous sources. it was a mosque that was targeted on a friday prayer time and apparently a lot of people up to seventy people are dead and many others are wounded many of the dead are still under the rubble. so this is the information we have on the attack that took place yesterday friday on the buba drowned village east of the euphrates which is under dire issued a video we saw people from the village. they describe what happened and the mosque is in total devastation basically so this is the information we have so far yeah i mean you know the pentagon has officially apologized when civilians have been hit

before but the situation is obviously repeated itself by the looks of things would u.n. investigation change anything concerning how the u.s. coalition operates. i think the question should be would the u.n. investigation take place at all i don't think it would. a year and a half ago almost or a little bit more the american warplanes did very much the same pretty much the same thing in a village called jean in northwestern syria and again the mosque was targeted near the. prayers the evening prayers. of the day someone is taking decisions someone is making the decision or giving the go ahead for an operation but is it asking. a mosque in a village probably the only mosque in the village. the friday time prayers in what

were they thinking obviously everybody knows that a lot of people pretty much civilians would be gathered in that mosque so i don't think this is a mistake this is obviously friday it says on their calendar this is a friday it's noon time in the local locality the local area and everybody should be there in the mosque and again it might be this is a small village we're talking about maybe the only mosque in the village. we've been monitoring the social media reactions and this really looks like like a recruitment exercise for dash across the arab and islamic world everybody's in fear of being. and there is a certain comparison that is taking place with regards to the world in the public opinion of the world up in arms because of the death of a religious death of. the the the saudi. notable journalist in the consulate in istanbul and then seventy or seventy five

people killed by american war planes nobody really reporting this thing so again to back to your question would an investigation take place and if it does then the whole everything that you know repeating what happened a year and a half ago in genie probably the americans say sorry a mistake we move on yeah i mean that justification washington says that justification is that troops are in syria to fight eisel in your opinion is that the only reason if if it isn't the only reason what could the other goals be why are they there. well no what we understand is that the americans are currently preoccupied in establishing a zone in northeastern syria under the control of kurdish militia they're arming them heavily there are convoys that are crossing the border every day. or probably being airlifted as well three hundred the last we heard last week was like three

hundred trucks bringing a.p.c.'s and what have you. and all that stuff so they're preparing them for a big fight. using diet obviously as a as a number of their justifying gruffly or very vaguely their presence there but to be more specific about the current area that they're. currently attacking we've seen redeploy humans so what is happening at the moment is taking place in the eastern of the free eighty's so if you look at the map it's the right size of the river on the left side of the river this is an area that is liberated by the syrian army units allies and we've seen redeployment in that area of allied forces and we've also heard that there were some russian forces heading that way and there were meetings and so on and so forth clearly those people are expecting. apparently

some breakthrough from dies so it could be argued that the americans are using diet to break through that area and cause havoc on the on the western side of the euphrates so that is being used so apart from the big strategic project that the americans are trying to do with the kurdish forces that is also being used as a tool to record havoc on other areas that are now under government control are starting to return back story to normality so it's not really benign what is happening over there ok kathleen a lot of time there director of british think tank focusing on the syrian crisis thank you so much for coming on to the program. thank you very much jaime is still trying to come to terms with the shooting at a college the story after this break. so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only mostly and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. i did the war planning for the principal force provider command in the united states military or 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 call here on that we lie when we say that we write blatantly lie when we say that moreover we know we're lying.

welcome back to the program in crimea grieving friends and relatives have said their final goodbyes to the twenty fifth timbs of a gunman who opened fire on fellow students at a college in the city of catch but amid the pain stories have emerged of heroic quick thinking actions which prevented more deaths. courage is a quiet place a small seaside town kind of place where in 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 with catastrophic injuries and killing dozens upon dozens. of people sparking panic and his styria as teenagers and stuff fled for their lives . in that chaos heroes when they. just my friend meaning fiend was there he helped his friend corner 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 where teenagers barely older than children acted as few adults ever could but about the good of course if you're going to they were personally is students when this happened these guys were thrown 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 is the time some to help the girls these four boys are dead now you're. sitting here i sir girl i knew among the wounded i tried to save her i carried her to the ambulance i have. her there and went to help the others i saw a lot of people leaving land on benches it was awful. about. immutability times 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 looks he couldn't walk so i dragged him all the way to

the fans and. the mushy it is now you will never know every act 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 just to get more of. 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 start 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. solved resolution in order to help others. live. once again even. evil. for good.

to central london now where over six hundred thousand and he brags that protesters have gathered to demand a second referendum vote in march was organized by the people's vote campaign who say this protest could be the biggest anti breaks it action yet some people have traveled all from all over the country to take part in the rally a separate program that rally has held in her a gate in the north of england there by former ukip leader nigel farage british prime minister theresa may has dismissed calls for a second referendum on bragg's it however some m.p.'s have voiced support for the protests the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. by a narrow margin in twenty sixteen with the deadline for london's official divorce from brussels set for march next year. now an upmarket british grocery chain has apologized for selling a supposedly sexist sandwich waitress is now renaming it after complaints it appeared to be

a men only snack. i never knew sandwiches were gender specific i'm female but thankfully we chose let me preach is the sunny way. it. is there for our intention to cause if and when we are planning to change the name of the sandwich soon. or would madam prefer unisex relish. i know the new apples with gender specific but frankly waitrose ledwith just something way to apple so anyway.

as our top stories don't forget to check out all the line of thought he'll call and of course across social media i'll be back at the top of the next hour but first here a lot to internationalise time for documentary black lies to liberty. being . a. season like. it. or. not. not.

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