a key armed group with a draw from syria's last rebel held province. this is the time for calm heads to prevail and britain's prime minister says a break that there is still a chiva bill despite the breakdown and the latest talks with the e.u. non-porous with all your sports it's neck and neck in the race to reach baseball's world series as the boston red sox squirt things up against defending champion stan asteroids. the probe into the disappearance of jamal khashoggi is picking up pace after days of stalling and a seeming lack of progress monday has seen a number of new developments in the case of the missing the journalists turkish investigators have finally been given access to the sa the consulate in istanbul. some dressed in forensic suits the kingdom of agreed to this break with diplomatic norms after days of increasing international pressure about an hour early a saudi delegation entered the compound it's been thirteen days since bush was last seen there getting paperwork for his marriage u.s. secretary of state mike pompei is on his way to v.o.r. to discuss the case with the saudi king and he's also expected to travel to turkey well shortly will cost a committee help in washington d.c. for more reaction from the trumpet ministration but first let's go to our correspondent and. is joining us live from there so jamal what has been going on has been a very busy few hours outside the consulate. indeed well as you mentioned there the past couple of hours saw the arrival of turkish investigators finally after they had been requesting entry into the consulate building now for over ten days it has been thirteen days we're going to the fourteenth on tuesday since time out of control she was disappeared they actually came on to. the first arrived around seven thirty pm or rather some fifteen pm local time we saw a convoy of vehicles that was headed first by one of the police trucks which is used for serious crimes here in turkey usually murder scenes and other serious crimes and they were behind it had several other vehicles amongst them was the deputy prosecutor general of istanbul as well as a deputy state prosecutor here in turkey with several police investigators as well around them now were off to that's a second arrived this time and had three vans and several other police vehicles with its a lot of equipment was being unloaded from the vans you had these police investigators or forensic experts and overrules white overalls as well as obviously the police there we wind a little bit elizabeth so before the turkish investigators came by about two hours the saudi team arrived there were about a dozen of them interestingly these are meant to be part of the joint task force but there's nothing joined in the timing that the that they chose to write they came several hours before the charges did which raised a few eyebrows or questions amongst people watching what was more surprising is if we rewind a few hours before that bizarrely you had a cleaning company arrive with dozens of. boxes in them what appeared to be bleach bottles as well as other cleaning equipment arriving at the consulate that was literally minutes ofter the saudis have finally given permission for the turkish forensic. experts and investigators so when so now obviously many people could be and it could very well be the case that this was just a routine cleaning of the consulates not that they were coming to clean any evidence but the fact remains that this is an active crime scene so any sort of tampering in it would be frowned upon if this was a let's say a serious car crash that allowed that that resulted in people dying or anything else that had some sort of suspicion you wouldn't be allowed to cross the police barriers that would usually be set up within minutes or if not maybe a few hours of a crime happening not thirteen days after it's an old of that it's making people wonder what exactly can the turks establish from entering a building so that scene days after somebody went missing that's the saudis who are the key suspects in it have had filtered access to its throughout that period and has now since seen serious cleaning taking place since they have been a lot of things that have happened over the last thirteen days jamal that have raised a lot of eyebrows including before this investigating team was allowed into the sabi consulate we've had the saudi officials in turkey diplomats in talking to the government rather than you know this team that's in istanbul. indeed i mean look we need to try and maybe. split the tracks here right so there is a crime that's taken place there is meant to be a criminal investigation and it's as far as we understand from the criminal investigation the information we have is either from unnamed sources who speak on condition of anonymity who say that they are confident one hundred percent these are circumstances but she was murdered inside the consulate and that they have evidence so that effect we've seen now the investigators who are that's the crime track of it then there is the diplomatic or political track and that's what we have seen a lot of politicking taking place so initially the turks were keeping their cards close to their chest they said that they would favor quiet diplomacy they didn't want a huge fallout with saudi arabia which is a key ally as far as they're concerned despite maybe the cold nature between the two in terms of their relationship as a result of the blockade on qatar in the g.c.c. crisis we've seen that diplomatic track then grow with the u.s. coming out saying that their intelligence community has been made privy of the evidence and that the u.s. would take extreme action against saudi arabia if indeed it is proven it murdered. the invoking of the magnitsky act a human rights act by the congressman on all of that and then we saw the sleet it grow even further with the europeans coming out on sunday with the tripartite kind of statement from france the united kingdom and germany so all of that has been maybe taking a front seats with the criminal investigation taking a backseat especially as you mention the turkish the legation that arrived arrived in ankara the political capital headed by prince kind of the faisal who is the governor of mecca as well as the chief advisor to king solomon it wasn't headed by an intelligence official the head of the saudi intelligence we only understood on monday had arrived should sarky and therefore it does seem that unfortunately this won't be dealt with or at least unfortunately as far as those who are so seeking the truth into what's happened to this. this is not being dealt with simply as a criminal matter there is a lot at stake a lot more in terms of international diplomacy in terms of economy we saw the impact it's had on the saudi markets all of that is going to influence the official outcome of what is going to be said but let's not forget that ultimately this is a human story about a journalist who went to this building with his fiance waiting outside so that you could bring the paperwork needed for him to marry her and that journalist that fiance you it never came out or nobody has seen him since jamal thank you very much for that is just keeping across all the developments outside the consulate in istanbul. now earlier president suggested that quote road kill is may have been responsible for the alleged murder of jamal khashoggi alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . leaving for florida president trump reveals the school contain the saudi king in a twenty minute call to go to saudi denial that anything to do with the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. both thinking of saudi arabia. the knowledge of what took place with regard few hundred eyes she shared for forty raids citizen thieves that he firmly theme i have for sure you say. if you want me to get on a plane go to saudi arabia to feast with such a denial the president floated a theory of what may have happened the saudi consulate another to push by some so the media which sounded to me like maybe you should have been a row hillary would know you were going to try getting to the bottom of a very it is not acceptable as of a number of politicians on both sides have criticized the president's position former democratic vice presidential candidate tim kaine tweeted president trump's response to jamal khashoggi his disappearance reveals a man more willing to trust authoritarian leaders than reliable intelligence when middle east analyst says the president is performing a difficult balancing act blaming it on another element such as some sort of quote unquote rogue element would enable the saudi leadership to avoid being held accountable if the public is going to buy this or not is another question when it comes to the future the seems to be more questions than answers the saudis are still pressing ahead with a large investment conference in the kingdom next month even though a growing number of high profile figures are boycotting the event after richard branson and the head of super announced they were out last week now the head of j.p. morgan chase bank top international finance figure jamie dimon and the chairman of the ford motor company bill ford say they won't be growing. u.s. secretary of state mike promptly who is known as we to saudi arabia what he asks and what he's told we will dictate what america does next al-jazeera washington. let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly hellcat now she is joining us live from d.c. and i want to ask you can really why is the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o traveling to saudi arabia over the disappearance of a journalist when president travels says that he believes the king's denial of knowledge or involvement. well presumably it is to get the whole story and so that is something that the president has made him for a few days now that he's interested in doing that he wanted to get information he wanted to get the facts i think it's notable though that what we're hearing from the president is that he has had a conversation with king solomon but not the crown prince who we know has been calling all of the shots now the question will be whether or not pay zero also has some of that expanded meeting the president said only he was meeting with the king so certainly we'll be watching that very closely we can also confirm the white house saying in fact that mike pompei o. the u.s. secretary of state will also be traveling to turkey after he visits riyadh so officially this is about trying to get more information but i think it is notable those comments that we heard in al of fisher's report there about the president sort of adding the possibility that many on capitol hill think is nothing short of absurd that rogue killers are responsible for the disappearance of the missing journalist is certainly something that is of no given the fact that the president is essentially parsing language and that is not going to play very well with a lot of americans is not going to play very well with members on capitol hill who really see this as a turning point in u.s. saudi relations and we have seen that already with the u.s. senators using the magnitsky act to court for an investigation and possibly even sanctions against if there's been a gross violation of human drives but you're talking about the american people now committee and their reaction to this how would you know how do they factor in especially with those midterm elections coming up with what trump does here. right it seems that the president in his mind believes that he has to preserve this relationship between the united states and saudi arabia that's been in place since diplomatic relations were put in place in nine hundred thirty three he seems to think that because there are significant arms deals weapons sales that are ongoing for the next ten years and this is a major driver of jobs and he's promised that to the american people as well he's also considering the price at the gas pump he doesn't want to see the price of oil rise of saudi arabia perhaps retaliate in any way to sanctions that are put in place tough sanctions the highest level as one senator put it so the president's got this is his mind because we've got these elections coming up to determine control of congress in just three weeks time but what the white house maybe miscalculated is the fact that americans don't want to look like their own government their own president their own white house is beholden to a foreign entity in this case saudi arabia so well the president seems to be thinking about these congressional elections trying to please the american public his strategy is not playing well here with ordinary americans with each passing hour and again we go back to those some of those very strong statements that were made from senior senators on capitol hill in recent days for example even lindsey graham saying that there could be an economic price to pay but also there could be a shift in the relationship it seems that the senators with this magnitsky act now have the clock ticking for this white house one hundred twenty days and counting they have to come back with a report potentially put in place tough sanctions if the white house doesn't do that the u.s. senate could act unilaterally committee thank you very much for that as committee how can the nations from washington d.c. collar the former deputy national intelligence officer for transactional threats a transnational threats at the cia and he says even if any evidence was destroyed of the pos thirteen days they are ways that forensic scientists can find out what happened. my colleagues in the f.b.i. and imagine the turkish equivalents are experts in this and can induce stunning investigations you first have to find the body is someplace or it was someplace if not in the embassy then it was taken away somehow so a full investigation would look at all of the cars that left the consulate from the time that shogi entered up until even not and presumably it's the personnel on the consulate and you want to look at their homes and their cars often one can find d.n.a. evidence of you credibly minute amounts but telling in vehicles well after an event occurred so i would look at that i would look actually that presumably the saudis have cleaned everything with. chlorine or who knows what but i would i would look at the the drainpipes and i look at all of the belongings of the members of the staff who have come in and come out let's get more on this now with a senior political analyst. joining us live from london my one i as hopeful that there could be a credible investigation into the middle of a man and a journalist now that took investigators have finally been allowed into the consulate. yes there could be a credible investigation the question is what do you do with your conclusions and if there's any culpability towards any one of high ranking. in a state like saudi arabia what do you do then do you issue a warrant arrests do you boycott a kingdom like saudi arabia or one of the richest twenty countries in the world i think these are their own questions but it seems to me it is all in all it's as if for the last couple of weeks we've been really living a mystery of sorts it's like a life imitating fiction it's like a thriller with certain horror scenes in it and international thriller it's like a novel that we are reading together we are going through its chapter by chapter and i would say that the last chapter has not been written yet it's even the last several chapters are yet to be written and i would tell you that he in the media here. in europe in the middle east and in the united states are not only covering the story we are helping write its last few chapters because by shedding light on it by demanding answers from politicians by pressuring the public. the decision makers. we are forcing them into a corner and that's why we have the second decision of the united states going to saudi arabia that's why we have the likes of jamie dimon as we've heard just heard the head of j.p. morgan one of the most important banks in the world boycotting a conference in riyadh it's because the media continues to shut the light to demand an investigation to demand the truth and to question those in power so as we cover the story we are also hoping its last few chapters what will these chapters be it remains to be seen in the sense whether the politicians will go the cynical way to make a deal against on the back of a victim like jamal or the back of victimizing the truth or whether they actually come out with the whole truth and then make their deals afterward and what do you think that turkey will do we are asking the questions and they you know there is some information coming out while the story remains in the headlines at one to always so how is turkey going to deal with the situation the measures that it could take that you mentioned want to be willing to take them. ok so here the important part about what turkey or the or the united states would do. would need to be looked at in the context that this is no longer a normal crime scene this is not this is not just a crime this is an international crime scene and those are involved now are not individuals even though a person do on a person trump and and king solomon on individuals but what we have here are states and states and sovereignties and for the turks to go into the turkish consulate in istanbul that's one sovereignty taking the permission to go to another people sovereignty within their own consulate so here we are entering a whole new mystery of sort decipher thing it does not simply you know require a colombo of sort where that with his raincoat this is now states acting according to their interests so what that will what will the turks do what the turks will do what is in the best interest of turkey and if the truth or coming out with the truth is in the best interest of the good they would do that judging from the last couple of days with king solomon of saudi arabia calling president to on and then putting out a press release about appreciating the turkish president's appreciation of saudi appreciation of turkey then now we're talking about a possible opening over up wish mom between riyadh and uncle that we haven't seen before certainly not since two thousand and fifteen when the crown prince took over as a as a defense minister and even since last march when the crown prince of saudi arabia called turkey part of a triangle of evil that includes iran and the muslim brotherhood so here we have a new opening between turkey and saudi arabia and perhaps the turks would look not just for the truth but would also look beyond that to see what will saudi arabia do what is it ready to do in order to destabilize the region about yemen about cuts. about the buyout that wrote that. i think washington will probably be doing something similar before we have to deal with arms as an investment but they will also be looking for their interest aside from the truth the stakes certainly high thank you as always for your analysis that is our senior political analyst madeleine bashara live in london we have plenty more ahead on the news all including a school was out in yemen how millions of kids are missing class because of the war . flooding in southern france is more than three months of rain falls in just one night stands or one of the greatest players accused of obstructing an anti corruption investigation will be here with more on. the largest group in syria's rebel held provinces yet to withdraw its fighters from a buffer zone despite a deadline set by turkey and russia i asked the. h.t.s. hasn't said whether it accepts or rejects the terms of the salty agreement the deal set off a demilitarize area around the northwestern region surrounding province was meant to be cleared of heavy weapons by the tenth and of rebel fighters now saying the hold the rebel reports from neighboring lebanon. a de villota rhizome is being created around syria as it lives province a twenty kilometer deep strip of territory is now free of heavy weapons by october fifteenth it should have also been free of fighters considered terrorists by the international community the so-called radical groups didn't pull back but hours before the deadline. the largest military alliance that controls much of the buffer area and the rest of the province signaled that it will comply in its statement. said it appreciated efforts by those inside and outside which is believed to be a reference to turkey to prevent an invasion and wide scale killing it also made reference to the foreign fighters saying we won't forget to the group maybe trying to keep unity and prevent betrayal among its ranks that is why an explicit acceptance of the deal would worsen divisions or rejection would risk a military confrontation with turkey which has said it is ready to use force against those who do not comply. quietly met the deadline to withdraw heavy weapons from his own last week it's not the first time the group has shown pragmatism the buffer zone deal does not call for a surrender or reconciliation with the syrian government it created a new front line that protects regime strongholds and russian military assets but many syrians of the rebel controlled province remain skeptical. of the one million hole in that i don't know what are they move the heavy weapons back sometime kilometers or so but i don't support this it just makes it easier for the regime and russia to advance into a loop you cannot trust the regime and russia. yes this is all a game the aim is to cause division among rebel ranks that will lead to infighting that way it becomes easier for the regime to take the area everyone is lying to us . the syrian government has repeatedly said it liberal eventually return to state control but russia and turkey have so far been the decision makers the deals sponsors need each other in the post war phase but i think it serves the interests of both parties so this is why i believe that this agreement will hold for for the time being and the turks will be giving more time in order to try and do. the whole complexity of this situation inside it live for the next few weeks and months a few days ago russia said that it could accept a brief delay if it meant the spirit of the agreement was still apparelled the deadline was missed but syria's main power brokers seem committed to keeping the deal alive. beirut. buttons promised us as a day for the ok so when the draw from the e.u. is still within range tourism a while speaking to parliament after breaks at negotiations again broke down without agreement despite her optimism bush civil servants have begun preparing for the country to crash out of the block without a deal reports are you confident of a deal by by wednesday prime minister are you expecting a cabinet meeting or a very british prime minister to resign may find herself fighting for a break deal on multiple fronts this was her message to parliament on monday so much of these negotiations are necessarily technical but the reason this all matters is because it affects the future of our country it affects jobs and livelihoods in every community it is about what kind of country we are and our face in our democracy of course it is frustrating that almost all of the remaining points of disagreement are focused on how we manage a signal. aria which both sides hope should never come to pass and which if it does will only be temporary we cannot let this disagreement derail the prospects of a good deal and leave us with the no deal outcome that no one wants on sunday talks with the e.u. had seemed close to agreement on the terms of britain's exit but largely over attempts to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland they collapsed mrs may's plan to keep the whole u.k. inside the e.u. customs union for the duration of talks on a future trade deal met opposition from progresses ministers and factions in her own party who complain it would limit britain's ability to strike trade deals outside the e.u. . the e.u. meanwhile insists the u.k. honor its earlier commitment to keep the territory of northern ireland inside the single market as a backstop should trade talks fail. to resume a's unionist partners in northern ireland responded by threatening to withdraw their support for her minority government. it was always going to be a difficult week for to resume a in the british government but it's become much harder hard to see how she could achieve any sort of unity within her own cabinet with senior ministers said to be considering their positions over the latest hard to see how she can achieve much at all with e.u. leaders in brussels on wednesday night and hard to see frankly how any meaningful deal can emerge at all in present circumstances between the u.k. and the e.u. . and there's increasing talk of a no deal scenario britain crashing out of the e.u. with nothing but world trade organization rules to govern future relations time to panic about you a little worried. your patient ok the patient not yet according to the e. hughes chief briggs negotiator perhaps all is not lost jonah holt al-jazeera london . now flooding has killed at least ten people in the southwest some places are the highest in more than one hundred years. has more. flood water gushed through towns and villages sweeping up cars and nearly everything in its path roads crumbled and homes were submerged three months worth of rain fell in five hours in southwestern france on sunday night causing the old river to burst its banks residents were left in shock thank you so much it's just that it was terrifying because all of our neighbors were in the same situation i caught the faster as it happened so fast that by the time they responded there's a way that came towards our door. at two in the morning we could hear heavy rain i tried to switch on the light but it didn't work when i got out of bed i stepped into water when i opened the kitchen door i found myself up to my waist in water. as it was just a very heavy precipitation in the region during the night and again india. early morning resulting in considerable material and human losses. with many roads inaccessible emergency workers used boats to reach people who were stranded others had to be woods to safety thousands of people have been evacuated little if issues of closed schools and advise people not to travel experts say it's the worst flooding in order in a century and the danger may not be over the river could continue to rise and cause more damage in a region where so many people have already been affected with al-jazeera paris to germany now which chancellor angela merkel is vowing to regain the trust of voters after her political allies suffered major losses in sunday's state election in bavaria the christian social union had its worst election results for sixty eight years and some party members blamed discontent over miracles refugee policy the result threatens to deepen divisions within her fragile coalition government in berlin. the governor of a province in eastern yemen has called for help after flooding left around fifty families stranded on rooftops he wants this hour the erratic coalition to help airlift people to safety. the city of gay they're washing away bridges and forth and government offices and schools to close they have been widespread power outages across the city. now this hour the iraq war and yemen is making it difficult for children to get an education at least two million are going to school for those that are able to get to the classroom or bay are prepared to do what ever it takes to stay there and the second part of our series on education and war zones bernard smith reports. these children shouldn't be anywhere near what's left of their school. ceilings of a long way that could give way to any minute. but the concentration in their faces shows how much they want to try to learn since twenty fifteen the school in ties in southwestern yemen has been hit by air strikes artillery and gunfire. our schools have been destroyed because of these barbaric groups who came from the silence of history and corrupted or learned what brought them here and what do they want look at our school this is their mark they did not come distributing books or supporting students or to praise teachers they came with destruction with slogans of that those people. and. the school is stuck in the middle of a relentless battle for territory between rebels and the saudi u.a.e. led coalition that backs the yemeni government has asked way mad that the education is the basis to rebuild the state knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness and we want to tell the government and private and affiliated parties that we are tired of promises and progress nation we want to go back to work not words we want to turn our values into action and into reality if there are no classes to go to the boys according to the united nations children's fund risk being recruited as child soldiers. almost half yemen's girls if not in school. in the school got hit we studied at home some of our teachers were killed and some students our friends also died it angered us and it saddened us our school was big so now it's just destroyed the playground has been turned into a battleground. two million children will be out of school this year in yemen that's according to unicef and another four million primary school children risk losing access to education because seventy percent of the teachers haven't been paid in the last two years and they're being forced to find work elsewhere bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. still ahead on the news our holiday faces quarter closed of discriminating against some high achievers want to study at the prestigious university carriage trawlers of the culture of seven dollars are in danger in the traditional way of life and sport or hear from the man who is breaking records in the superbike championship that's coming up of course. i know that we've seen a fair amount of wet weather across the middle east recently fact we look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud here is it worked its way through parts of iraq and eventually into parts of iran and that gave us some very wet weather in fact for some of us we've reported over sixty millimeters of rain it around just from this cloud alone now further north there's also this but of wet weather but this isn't only giving us some rain is also giving us some wintery weather as well this picture from marty showing the snow that we've seen there there's more still to come to you so if you choose day do expect more in the way of wintery weather searching from our multi all the way southward into parts of afghanistan and some of that snow is likely to be rather heavy as we head into wednesday it should clear away but because it's staying quite cool now marty any snow on the ground should stick around for a while i mean for the towards the south and here in doha it's quite pleasant really thirty five degrees is our maximum but to the south of us there's more in the way of cloud and rain there's been some flash flooding in the eastern parts of yemen thanks to the cycle and the hits and it's now disintegrating as it works its way north woods still a few outbreaks of rain there perhaps in the southern parts of saudi as we head through the day on wednesday for the southern parts of africa plenty of dry weather here as you would expect but we have been watching a little bit of cloud just drift its way eastwards that clears away more for tuesday twenty and. we're. i have dedicated almost my entire professional life to the bench and fight against corruption and what i have learned is that we need champions 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signed last month. now a book of renowned scientists stephen hawking's last essays and articles has some controversy with its warnings of superhumans and genetic engineering hawkins children have compiled and published the book seven months after the physicists death it presents the possibility that gene editing could lead to a race of what he called designing beings who code wipe out humans well let's get more on this now we're joined by a senior research fellow at the university of oxford future of humanity institute and he's joining us live from oxford very good to have you with us on al jazeera so a lot of headlines today about professor hawking's warnings you know so-called warnings from the grave but how imminent would you say the threats uncontrollable official intelligence or gene editing you know leading to superhuman. they're not there imminent although we know we can't predict the progress of artificial intelligence but. however given the very hard problems we need to start working on them now the human generation time is fairly long and parents are fairly conservative so i think the thing is going to be a lesser issue bone the care of the occasional machine learning so when you say machine learning what do you mean by that once upon a time we always program by writing commands to the computers we are learning how to data tables for machines what to do and ideally they should be able to figure out what we want them to do from the data the problem is of course this creates a great deal of i'll call them yeah and quite often but leads to trouble and this is what stephen hawking talked about before his death then we'll talk about talks about in this book the fact that we don't know what artificial intelligence can do yet and it couldn't do good but it can do harm to its very much like fire it can warn you of the camper and you and the more powerful the fire is the more you need to be careful about that and i think got official intelligence is probably one of the biggest fires you can imagine ok so that is artificial intelligence but i do want to talk a little bit more about gene editing because just in the last week japan issued a draft guidelines on the use of gene editing tools in human embryos how will this be used and and how do you legislate the science and is the science moving faster than the regulations legislating it even though you don't think this is something then is super imminent right now we can mostly use you know getting in order to prevent various diseases especially diseases that have one party claim you tension behind them it's going to be trickier to use you know the thing to improve health along everybody in general but it's a very likely outcome in the long run. and i think generally we in the philosophy departments have been talking about this for a long time but when the technology arrives people start thinking about it in different ways. and despite all of this necessarily but i know that you're very optimistic about the future tell as well. overall in the very history of humanity has actually been quite possible despite all the wars of the sources we have become more knowledgeable we have all leverage become richer more peaceful and i think most people are decent that is a good reason because all our bridge are going to make us much better off there are tools to give us a hope of future this is it is good to get your thoughts on the understand they're joining us live from oxford thank you. now one of the world's other best known universities is being sued for discriminating against applicants who are asian american harvard in the united states is denying the allegation but the result of the legal battle could influence admissions to u.s. universities for years to come i did show castro has more. it's tough to get into harvard fewer than five percent of students who apply are successful that is unless the applicant is asian american then it's even harder according to a lawsuit which accuses harvard intentionally discriminates against asian americans in order to keep their and roman numbers down if not most of them are marked down subjectively i have admission officers without ever meeting them harvard's internal admissions documents tell of a score system that according to the lawsuit penalizes asian americans in the personality category though they tend to score higher in academic performance and extra curricular activities their personality score based on descriptors like likability and courageousness is lower than that of any other racial group the lawsuit accuses harvard of engaging in racial balancing resulting in more or less the same breakdown of racial groups year after year twenty per cent now the undergraduate body are asian americans we spoke to some of those students who said they support harvard's admissions practices it does suck if you think that. college admissions are on fair but i think for us fairness means a lot more like getting into college daniel lewis studying physics and philosophy at harvard the son of chinese immigrants he says harvard should further investigate the complaints of discrimination against asian americans but preserve that legally sanctioned practice of favoring black and hispanic applicants known as affirmative action the plaintiffs really are just making a big mistake in completing. the constitutionality of affirmative action on the one hand with discrimination or potential legit discrimination against asian americans where the highway first lever blume a white conservative and rebounder of the anti affirmative action group students for fair admissions recruited the unnamed asian americans who are so. doing harvard he declined an interview with zero the debate has split the asian american community some accused of using them as a tool to push his religion of helping white students while others say harvard is using affirmative action as a pass to discriminate against asian americans they don't look at the reality that humans are being discriminated against they just write you off meanwhile the trumpet ministration has jumped in to oppose harvard saying no american should be denied admission to school because of their race the politicization of the case is further evidence for many asian americans they are being used as a racial wedge the case is final outcome will likely be decided by the u.s. supreme court. castro al jazeera cambridge massachusetts the chairman of south korea's largest airline has been charged with embezzling eighteen million dollars char yang hose also accused of unfairly awarding contracts to companies controlled by his family the prosecutions for the boss of korean air are the latest in a series of scandals one of his daughters was jailed four years ago for forced on a jumbo jet to abandon takeoff after throwing a tantrum over the way she was served knots in first class. now in new guinea the government's decision to buy luxury cars as provoking calls for a nationwide strike in protest forty mazza writers were flown in from italy last week as limousines for leaders at a regional summit the government plans to recoup the cost by selling them after the apec summit next month but critics say the money should have been spent on aiding polio and earthquake victims and not on fancy cars. now it's walled third way back to vent to highlight hunger and food security around the world in some places there isn't enough food because of climate change or conflict but in senegal overfishing and plastic pollution a being blamed for low safe food stocks and high prices. it is a tradition talked to him by his father passed from one generation to the other. rather than said nets in the water and calls out to the ocean for fish chanting what you eat i eat what i eat you eat. shortly after the ocean responds to his car it's a red tuna. unaware but he's about to kill an endangered species. he catches another. then nothing. hours go by still nothing. we used to catch lots you could fill your boat with fish now if we're lucky on a good day i catch ten fish the ocean is not the same it's not like before. more pollution fewer fish according to scientists the equivalent of a truck full of plastic is dumped into the ocean worldwide every minute environmentalists warn it this is killing sea life with several endangered species facing extinction. desperate a group of fishermen indycar have put up an artificial reef to try to attract fish back to their natural habitat. it's down to human greed we local fishermen are partly to blame but it's also our government's fault allocating fishing rights to foreign industrial they act like pirates pillaging our oceans resources this needs to stop. out of sight are industrial fishing trawlers their nets scraped the ocean floor hauling in the equivalent of a football field in a matter of minutes destroying aquatic life precious for fish reproduction most are european vessels their cats are not sold to africans according to the development agency o.d.i. there are two billion dollars worth of fish missing in west african markets each year here in senegal there's a shortage of fish prices have doubled and what was once a staple food is now a luxury few can afford. it is a small meal and jay will share with his family and neighbors his children say they don't want to take up fishing it's not worth it anymore. with the ocean it no longer responding to this fisherman's call an age old tradition is slowly disappearing nicholas honk the car. we have this. extraordinary figure. told have. it's time for sports now here's paul was thanks very much we start with baseball and it's a very tight race to get to the world series the milwaukee brewers and los angeles dodgers will be on the field to break that deadlock in a few hours time on sunday the boston red sox leveled things up one one against the defending champion houston astros boston have lost game one for at fenway park and it wasn't looking good in game two volleys gonzalez is to. put the astros forty two ahead to let the red sox turn it round thanks to jackie bradley jr it's a three run double off the wall known as the green monster that put the sox into the leaves and they went on to win seven to five so all square in both championships heading towards a place in the world series on october twenty eighth. if he started to get there we go on to the series like you said tied one one. and you know we really compete. i think everybody is going to enjoy themselves and just keep trying to take it one game and it's on the u.i. for nations lee continues on monday with the headline fixture featuring former world champions spain and england that one kicked off just a few minutes ago so it's still school us in seville the spaniards one two one one the sides met in london a little over a month ago six other matches have also just kicked off world cup quarter final list switzerland are facing iceland while the likes of northern ireland hungary and greece are also in action. got to the last sixteen sorry eight time olympic champion is saying bolt isn't too happy with australia's anti doping authority he's questioning why he's being drug tested when he's no longer a professional athlete sprinter is trying to get a contract to play as a footballer with elite club the central coast mariners despite scoring two goals last week he's yet to announce a full time role with them for growth i retired from drug a few working to become a footballer but look at this. home oh good a good joke this today oh i'm not even a provisional for a while it seriously so i asked the lady you saw one i get a jug of that are the same for club and she said yo are detour that i'm really that it's all to get this thing is queued kenya's two time olympic champion runner kip keino was doing court in nairobi on monday to answer charges of corruption but he didn't show and now must turn himself in by thursday or face arrest kaino is accused of being part of a group of seven officials misappropriated more than half a million dollars the money was part of five million dollars given by the government to fund kenyan athletes at the rio olympics and twenty sixteen year old was one of four out of the seven who didn't turn up in courts now one of the great players of modern day cricket sanath jayasuriya has been charged under the world governing bodies anti corruption code the man whose aggressive batting one may nine hundred ninety six world cup for sri lanka has been given fourteen days to answer the charges he's accused of refusing to cooperate with an anti corruption investigation and tampering with evidence while a selector for the national team jayasuriya hasn't yet commented. now t twenty cricket is all about scoring runs as fast as you can and a short space of time so clearing the boundary by hitting sixes is pretty important to show us how it's done step forward how. turning out for carr ball against bulk legends in the afghanistan premier league he hits every ball of the over for six he's only the third batsman in t twenty history to hit six sixes in an over at the professional level as i also equalled chris gayle a new virus sings t twenty record of reaching a half century of just twelve balls. mazari was the unfortunate bowler they might not mind too much since couple fell twenty one run short of the victory target. novak djokovic has a pretty officially replaced roger federer as the number two runs tennis player in the world with victory at the shanghai musters on sunday his winning streak has been extended to eighteen matches and he's also won each of his last twenty six sets if you win the paris masters he'll be back at number one new york times tennis writer christopher clary told us the serb struggles in twenty seventeen with just a blip. no the way i was to get is it i think it's actually stranger that he ever fell off was this person because he's playing now in kind of a logical way compared to the way he was playing for two or three years you know heading into a slump so i mean this is what he can do so i think he's recovered from his you know mental issues i think frankly i think he just burned out i think i was a lot of it i think it just was hard to sustain the focus concentration and i kind of dominate and he had the physical issues with his with his elbows obviously minimizing was part of a surgical intervention earlier this year and we let it go for a while so the combination of factors but really has really should be now he has made based on his count and thousands and when he was going to pull off his first there he had won. four slams in a row on back to the two thousand and sixteen french open and that was when he was you know that was when you can be in minutes then it's really. one count of your grand slam and it's not at all out of the question you can do it again you've got to move on in the u.s. open is going into it was actually strongest tournaments at the grandstand which is the australian open on hard courts and his rivals are you playing back home in your ease or getting older or not yet fully developed like alexander is very rare for some of the younger players on tour so i think he was going to be the big favorite if you see as well. well another man on a roll is superbikes rider jonathan wright whose want to record ten races in a row was back in seventh place in argentina but bottled his way through the field and into the lead the northern irishman who's already clinched the world title and that finishing three seconds clear as the fifth straight weekend he's won both races on his it's a run that started back in june. this is dreamy and ten races on the bines it's it's really not normal it's his mind you know so i just want to go enjoy his moment on those early make that long flight home was while international olympic committee members have held a memorial service for all of their members patrick by a woman who died suddenly from a heart attack during the games by a woman who was fifty one was the secretary general of basketball's world governing body favor he was instrumental in getting three x. three basketball on the olympic program sport will make its debut in tokyo in twenty twenty memorial was held at the three x. ray court in buenos aires we are grateful for recent years. it's. all for. the wrong. you see if you think you have a future. you know. now can you imagine swimming cycling and running for eight hours all while worrying about whether your partner will agree to marry you that's what happened at the iron man world championship event in hawaii where the winner patrick lang out was in such a hurry to see his girlfriend that he broke the course record somehow still managing to get down on one knee. to pop the question. of the not much choice that you really think that. it's cool that you very much for that now does it for the al-jazeera news alba do stay with us on al-jazeera because london will 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