so touching twenty one kuwait city temperature picking up to here in doha getting up to around twenty five degrees a little bit of cloud still a possibility of course that western side of saudi arabia for a time as we go on into friday as you can see there harkening up to twenty seven degrees lots of lot of dry across a good part of southern africa but still a few showers to the east. a face can tell a story without uttering a single had. a simple time. inform us. the un convention manatee apply witness through the lens of the human nine. is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera a reminder the top stories this hour the self-proclaimed leader of venezuela one has joined thousands of protests calling on the military to stop supporting president because we're there when there has war in the united states city wrists creating a vietnam in latin america. united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten hoofy training camps outside the key port city of data on wednesday renewed fighting there is threatening a cease fire de

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in the yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether they're way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen of the un's human rights office has criticized saudi arabia's handling of the case prosecutors in the kingdom seeking the death penalty for five of the eleven suspects mike hanna has more from the united nations in new york. well the un making very clear that it once an independent international investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a spokesperson for the high commissioner for human rights insisting that it's impossible to adjudicate on the impartiality of the process underway in riyadh the trial there of the eleven suspects in the murder beginning this week the spokes person had this t

for a family funeral which has been following developments for us from kuwait city so he's not going to be going there now but. overall i mean let's talk about the de meetings in saudi arabia. we mentioned there did the war in yemen but presumably did the own going investigation into the murder of jim is something that would have come up there in those discussions. well you would assume however a publically speaking and through the statements thoughts were pushed out both by the saudi embassy in. rather sorry the american embassy in saudi arabia and the state department there was no mention of the shock she case the murder of that saudi journalist over a hundred days ago widely believed to be at the hands of or at least rather the order of crown prince mohamed bin someone hasn't if we say that there were three important issues that people are looking at when it comes to saudi arabia namely the war in yemen the human rights abuses connected to all sold the ongoing investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and three the blockade on the part in the g.c.c. crisis from the public s

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the u.s. his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether they're way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen. as you heard there pompei a will also be seeking to reassure allies after president trumps announcement to withdraw u.s. troops from syria a state he's a former u.s. state department official who acted as a foreign policy adviser for a obama and hillary clinton presidential campaigns he says sudden decision on syria is this worst foreign policy decision so far. the priority will obviously be walking back president trump's announcement of a withdrawal from syria we basically are seeing something between either a considerable slowdown of this so-called withdrawal or a complete cancellation of it with

so touching twenty one kuwait city temperature picking up to here in doha getting up to around twenty five degrees a little bit of cloud still a possibility of course that western side of saudi arabia for a time as we go on into friday as you can see there harkening up to twenty seven degrees largely fought a dry across a good part of southern africa but still a few showers to the east. whether online. when you're for them. or if you join us on the set all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue talking about. you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including a funnel and some people. everyone has a voice send us your thoughts here twitter and you could be on the story and join the global conversation. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera international bringing the news and current affirms that matter to. al-jazeera. just as in venezuela fill the streets to call for president maduro to step down and to show their support for

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be sane. members of the religious minority community pleading with the u.s. to not withdraw their forces from northern syria a report by the three years e.d. foundation is warning if washington doesn't leave syria before i sill is fully defeated the un group will make a comeback the report also requests a no fly zone to be set up over northern syria to prevent if attentional turkish assault on kurdish strongholds mohammed joins us live now from the turkey syria border so mohammed give us a sense here as to how exposed potentially the years edis of feeling up with this prospect of a u.s. pullout. well it's not j

so touching twenty one kuwait city temps picking up to here in doha getting up to around twenty five degrees a little bit of cloud still a possibility of course that western side of saudi arabia for a time as we go wanted to friday as you can see there hot getting up to twenty seven decrease life on a dry course a good part of southern africa but still a few showers to the east. the weather sponsored by countdown and. weather on line. with the difference here for them not to. joining us on the set all of us have been calling for some fashion is that diana. you have seen what it can do to people using multiple drugs including and some people. everyone has a. join the. amount is iraq. the self-proclaimed leader of venezuela has joined thousands of protesters calling on the military to stop supporting president if it's. has warned the u.s. creating a vietnam america. the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten training camps outside the people city data wednesday. is threatening a cease fire deal struck in sweden last month. that his own intelligen

beginning his middle east tour in jordan and will visit at least eight capitals including cairo riyadh kuwait city and doha. that look to start the president to sit withdraw our folks are serious in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only are diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may these are simple asks we ask the public of iraq to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday and just in the last half hour general anthony zinni has resigned from his position with the state department's the former head of u.s. central command had been working as an for the trumpet ministration to resolve a dispute with cats harm he's the latest four star general to exit the administration stephanie tucker has more from amman. so the message from the u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero is clear that the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will not hinder its fight against eisel and it will also not affect i

for a family funeral let's bring in jamal shiloh's following developments for us in kuwait city. just arriving now in amman tell us about what was achieved what was discussed during his stop in riyadh. well in terms of what was discussed even though initially the statements that come out from the u.s. embassy in riyadh as well as the state department tweets or retreats even though they didn't mention anything with regards to some of the key issues that people have been following closely views of the south the u.s. relationships namely the murder of jamal khashoggi and the g.c.c. crisis news lines have dropped in the past half an hour or so through what i understand is some sort of a press conference or briefing that the secretary of state gave obviously unfortunately al-jazeera is banned from reporting in saudi arabia which many rights organizations have criticized the kingdom for its lack of media freedom and therefore in terms of getting the information that's why sometimes it's a bit different in terms of timing but in those statements you had. talking about how he stressed in

beginning his middle east tour in jordan and will visit at least eight capitals including car riyadh kuwait city and doha. well shortly we'll go inside syria and speak to sin and cos you know who's in the northern town that stephanie decca meanwhile is monitoring mike pompei movements in amman first though let's go to turkey's capital where we have jamal szabo and jamal so the u.s. says that talks in turkey on u.s. withdrawal have been productive but it's a different story for president. indeed i mean even the statement actually nic to be fair that came from the u.s. side if you read into it and understand the kind of diplo talk or linguistics used in its indicate that they weren't as productive as they would like people to believe to quote parts of it so that the both parties have identified areas that require further discussion is essentially translated into both parties could not agree on some sort of at the or let's break it down essentially on the turkish side you've got turkey that has identified kurdish fighters belonging to the y p g operates in the eastern parts of syria bordering with

system makes its way down here towards the southeast and it will be passing quite close to parts of kuwait city where we are expecting to see seem rain up here towards iran though it could be snow in the higher elevations and we're also watching what is happening out here towards the west very heavy rain continues for syria parts of lebanon as well as into jordan over the next few days well for the gulf not looking too bad for most areas actually temperatures are going to be on the rise here in doha twenty four degrees is our expected high as we end the day here on sunday but by the time we go towards monday it is going to go up to about twenty six over towards twenty seven and not looking too bad for down here to a slow with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly we are looking at some very heavy rain across parts of madagascar over the next few days the forecast map all along the east coast is green showing very heavy rain there and as we go towards monday the increase and flooding risk continues for them. water an essential resource for all humankind across

that's bringing a child who's been following developments for us from kuwait city jim out on bail has met with the crown prince of saudi arabia do we know what's come out of their discussions. well father according to the u.s. embassy in saudi arabia tweeted in the past forty minutes or so quoting the circular st mark my papa saying that he had a very good meeting with king saddam and that they discussed many issues he said including yemen iran and afghanistan and was grateful for saudi arabia support for the political process both in yemen and. shortly tweeted another one saying that he met with the crown prince mohammed bin said monday prime suspect in the murder of jamal khashoggi but no mention in this tweet about the assassination of the saudi journalist and said he said on yemen the greed for the need of continued deescalation and an adherence to the sweden agreement sweden obviously has been the place where the. peace talks have been taking place and that there needs to be redeployment for in the data the port city that has seen maybe some of the fiercest fighting so is expecte

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda. for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in the yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen but on friday the u.n. human rights office criticized saudi arabia's handling of the case prosecutors in the kingdom are seeking the death penalty for five of the eleven suspects mike hanna has more from the u.n. in new york. well the un making very clear that one independent international investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi a spokesperson for the high commissioner for human rights insisting that it's impossible to adjudicate on the impartiality of the process under way in riyadh the trial there are eleven suspects in the murder beginning this week the spokes person had this to say we

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen members of the religious minority community up pleading with the u.s. not to withdraw troops from northern syria a report by the free izzie foundation is warning that if washington leaves syria before i saw is defeated the armed group will make a comeback the report also request an establishment of a no fly zone of a northern syria to prevent type potential turkish assault on cota strongholds one of the data joins us live now from gaziantep on the turkey syria border mohammed so the clearly very worried about u.s. troops being pulled from syria how real of those concerns. well quite thrilled out and no

happy about a very interesting thank you so much for that jamal and child reporting there live from kuwait city still ahead on al-jazeera nearly forty years on the run comes to an end for any tanya ahmed revolutionary the arrest. and in a country prone to earthquakes say there is concern at the lack of disaster training for children in indonesia. i know that the weather isn't quite chilly across the northern parts of asia the moment at least as we head through the day on tuesday the winds are firing down from the northwest so although it will be cold in beijing with top temperature of minus one at least the air quality won't be too bad with the air coming from a rather clean direction but does change for wednesday though the winds are more likely to be coming from the west and so the temperatures will be rising but there will be formal pollution in the air as well we will towards the east as a little bit more action in the weather here more in the way of cloud if you outbreaks of snow for many of us across japan tokyo making it to double figures there we should make it up to ten degrees for the

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen. members of the religious minority the z.t. community pleading with the u.s. to not withdraw troops from northern syria a report from the tree foundation is warning if washington doesn't leave syria before eisel is fully defeated the on group will make a comeback or for false or request the establishment of a no fly zone over northern syria to prevent potential turkish assaults on kurdish strongholds. thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years has left one person dead as rain wind and surging sea water levels uprooted trees and brought down power lines is now we can to a tropical depression but the

groupke with the deputy ceo from kuwait city. >> fourth quarter is basically a continuation of the strongmance of full during the quarter, we reported net profit of $324 million. that is 17% growth compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. the context of the full year, which i mentioned earlier, so performance. our profit reached $1.2 billion. this is record level. that balance sheet as well. grew by 5.4%. overotal is $90 billion, billion. and loan and advances declines increased by 6.9%, which is $51 billion. 4.1% --deposit as well, >> we see all those numbers on the press release. we want to know where the biggest growth momentum is for you and where you see that coming? how is saudi arabia coming? we will circle back to kuwait numbers in a moment. talk about growth and the other markets. >> basically, the driving factors for the growth and for stability is basically our diversification and corey committees. activities.- core 9.4%.come grew by 29%rnational accounted for in 2018. and our islamic bank contributed by 9%. key factors of the contribution , ourr stability growth operation in th

system makes its way down here towards the southeast and it will be passing quite close to parts of kuwait city we are expecting to see seem rain up here towards iran though it could be snow in the higher elevations and we're also watching what is happening out here towards the west very heavy rain continues for syria parts of lebanon as well as into jordan over the next few days well for the gulf not looking too bad for most areas actually temperatures are going to be on the rise here in doha twenty four degrees is our expected high as we end the day here on sunday but by the time we go towards monday it is going to go up to about twenty six over towards twenty seven in elegy too bad for down here to a slow with attempt a few about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly we are looking at some very heavy rain across parts of madagascar over the next few days the forecast map all along the east coast is green showing very heavy rain there and as we go towards monday the increase and flooding risk continues for them. called the muslim which is saying has now been held in pretrial dete

is following developments for us from kuwait city joins us now live jamal how hard can we expect the u.s. secretary of state to present saudis on jamal. hard would probably not be the best way to describe it in terms of the intensity or pressure the pumper will be putting on the saudis remember the secretary of state was dispatched by the president's very early on in the early days after jamal kushal she went missing inside the consulate and then became known that he was killed in many. observers viewed his visit to riyadh was one to maybe coordinate response more than it was to try and put any sort of pressure on the saudis the trumpet ministrations way in which it has been dealing with the saudis in particular with crown prince mohammed bin sideman has been business before. so to speak or at least that's what critics have been describing it as not least those who worked with jamal khashoggi in the washington post and therefore it's very difficult to see how compare would be going to riyadh with anything significant considering that according to the u.s. is only intelligence they be

through but i think for the most part it will be fine and sefl nineteen celsius in baghdad and in kuwait city back cloud coming down across iraq into the far north of saudi arabia but not really making too much progress as we go on through the next couple of days meanwhile further east is find at it strike rest sunshine in kabul's had just hit at around three degrees celsius twenty three celsius the full karate and further north we're getting up to around minus three and matty we're going to have twenty four here in doha some lovely pleasant sunshine coming through over the next couple of days just a gentle breeze as well so really will feel quite nice thursday added the going on into friday that cloud further north not really causing any problems if anything something to thin and break as we head towards the weekend temperatures here picking up to around twenty four celsius that a bit of cloud down towards the gulf of aden might just be just one of two light showers. the weather sponsored by cateye race. in centennial twenty seventeen the people of the kurdish region of northern iraq voted i

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past. here especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether their way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be seen members of the religious minority community pleading with the u.s. to not withdraw troops from northern syria a report from the free years e.d. foundation is warning if washington leave syria before i still is fully defeated the armed group will make a comeback the report also requests a no fly zone to be set up in northern syria to prevent a potential turkish assault on kurdish strongholds mohamad joins us live now from the turkey syria border mohammed is it just the use edis who have fears and worries about this u.s. plan with all. know just is the these other religious minorities like the christians

system makes its way down here towards the southeast and it will be passing quite close to parts of kuwait city where expectancy seem rain up here towards iran though it could be snow in the higher elevations and we're also watching what is happening out here towards the west very heavy rain continues for syria parts of lebanon as well as into jordan over the next few days well for the gulf not looking too bad for most areas actually temperatures are going to be on the rise here in doha twenty four degrees is our expected high as we end the day here on sunday but by the time we go towards monday it is going to go up to about twenty six over towards twenty seven and now looking to bad for down here to a slow with attempt a few of about twenty seven degrees as well and then very quickly we are looking at some very heavy rain across parts of madagascar over the next few days the forecast map all along the east coast is green showing very heavy rain there and as we go towards monday the increase in flooding risk continues for them. the weather sponsored by cats on race. bigger and potentially more

states as well where appropriate as speaks jim on a child who is following developments for us from kuwait city jamal was just that was that just talk from my company or can we really expect him to push the saudis hard on the matter of demolishor g. well i mean there were say the proof is in the pudding fully in the sense that you need to see what the actions that the white house and the trumpet ministration will be taking so far the most significant. reaction that has come as a consequence of the murder of john carroll she has really been mainly from the congress in the senate in terms of how they have been trying to level some sort of accountability through the saudis the big question for me that a lot of people are asking is the whereabouts of the one of the key aides true crown prince will have been some months old bunny so an advisor to him somebody who in the past couple of days american media has exposed to have been part of. a personally overlooking torture of some of the female prisoners in saudi arabia even threatening to rape them and somebody who the u.s. itself has put on a sanctio

also going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues with officials in doha and officials in kuwait city and he is going to be looking at a number of other key issues that really have been on the us his foreign policy agenda for the past year especially the ongoing war in syria the ongoing war in afghanistan the ongoing war in yemen a lot to pack and a lot to discuss but whether they're way to come up with anything concrete at the end of this eight day trip is really what remains to be same time for a short break here at al-jazeera when we come back a showdown over immigration in one of australia's biggest cities. and shoppers in turkey face extra charges of them till we tell you why stay with us. hello again and welcome back well here in china we are seeing some moisture being pumped up from our tropical storm public here off just off the coast of thailand notice all the clouds right there on our sunday map we are going to see a few showers in the region as well but by the time we get to monday it's going to extend up more towards the northeast and we may see a shower or two over here t

efforts to put pressure on iran as the first stop of an eight day trip that will include cairo riyadh kuwait city and doha that it continues our presence decision to withdraw our folks from syria in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that and you'll see the coming days and weeks we are redoubling not only our diplomatic but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in may these are simple asks we ask of the islamic republic of iran to behave like a normal nation and the coalition is just as committed to it today as it was yesterday. north korean leader kim jong un is making his fourth visit to beijing in a year for talks with the chinese president xi jinping south korea's welcoming news hopeful it will help efforts the denuclearization and peace. sidney's president while bush has condemned the ongoing demonstrations against his rule while speaking at a military parade in atbara the protests have been going on for three weeks filled by i'll go over rising food prices and government corruption which is as the protests on destabilizing

says when i was sixteen i got pregnant for the first time though my husband and i moved to the city of para kuwait but we couldn't live with anyone and his family. so i stayed with a friend of hers yeah my husband was violent right from the start he scolded humiliated and physically abused me even when i was pregnant. where home you'd be when jean even beat me the day before i gave birth. when the baby was born there were marks on his body where my husband had beaten me. you could see the imprint of his hands the baby was in great pain as soon as you touched him he'd start to scream. let me down maybe i don't know much you know much a midwife felt really sorry for me but what she told my mother to go to the police because she knew how much she had suffered because of the few. that my mother said she couldn't do that. because it would lead to a divorce and that would ruin everything. i. doubt. that it. they did that yeah yeah right i was i was. sad. but that will be crucial in the book in the book of genesis chapter two verse twenty four it says that god first created man and called him adam. then