his death stephen hawking makes waves with the release of his final full. welcome to the news our souls from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera that they found evidence that missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi she was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators finally got to spend hours in the building thirteen days after the show she's disappearance earlier a saudi team entered the compound in what's being billed as a joint investigation al-jazeera has learned that the investigation results will be announced in two to three days u.s. media reports say saudi arabia is weighing whether to release a statement that shows she was killed as a result of an interrogation that went wrong the saudis reportedly planned to say that the operation was carried out without official sanction. saudi media says the kingdom will interview those who are mentioned in turkish media as suspects in the case but all this comes as the u.s. secretary of state. is on his way to riyadh to discuss the show she's disappearance with the saudi king from general shell. it took turkish investigators thirteen days to finally be given permission by saudi authorities to enter their consulate in istanbul but just a few hours for them to uncover more evidence they say proves that journalist was killed after entering get. the turkish attorney general's office exclusively telling al-jazeera that its team of investigators were able to not only recover evidence from the crime scene but also that there had been a clear attempt to tamper with it. earlier on monday a team of cleaners arrived at the diplomatic mission a bizarre occurrence considering the circumstances they were then followed by saudi investigators who are part of what's been billed as a joint task force with questions being raised as to how the main suspects in a crime can have a lead role in the investigation itself. there are still so many questions that need on cers why did saudi arabia essendon all topsy experts if as some of its media outlets have been claiming the plan was only to question. how did the saudi government's nuts know of the operation when it's apparently involved two of crown prince mohammed bin son man's personal bodyguards and where is jamal khashoggi is body a full investigation would look at all of the cars that left the consulate from the time that shogi entered up until even now and presumably it's the personnel on the consulate and you'd want to look at their homes and their cars often one can find d.n.a. evidence of incredibly minute amounts but telling in vehicles well after intervent occurred so i would look at that i would look actually at presumably the saudis have cleaned everything weirds. 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 the case has forced multinational corporations like ford virgin and j.p. morgan to withdraw from an upcoming investment conference in saudi arabia the kingdom stock exchange suffered big losses on sunday truth all of this coupled with the fact that the interests of regional and super powers are stake could mean that we may never know the answers. it's why people will be monitoring closely to see what's evidence turkish authorities will reveal to the public once they complete their investigations tuesday marks two weeks since democracy is believed to have been murdered those who killed him appear to have wanted to silence him instead however their crime has triggered criticism and outrage from around the world much of it's directed towards the saudi government's. istanbul. is president trying to suggest of the job market for she was murdered by bro killers following a phone conversation with king salon but many politicians and for me u.s. officials are rejecting that explanation like hannah has more from washington d.c. . president trump arrived in florida to view hurrican damage and at the same time reports began to pull to route to power to solve the admission but the journalist was killed by mistake in an unsanctioned abduction attempt that the president take knowledge hearing about the reports we were getting very close with saudi arabia and with germany and they will be again to figure out what happened and they want to know what happened also so a lot of people are working on it with a lot of people and will be bound very much by that will say i heard everything but nobody knows it's an official report so far just the rule of the rule reporting something you had earlier in the day president trump floated the theory of what may have happened at the saudi consulate it sounded to me like maybe but if it was hillary oh no we're going to try getting to the bottom of this very this narrative also pushed by some saudi media was greeted with anger by members of congress the democratic senator from maryland sent out this tweet president trump suggestion that elaborately planned to murder in the saudis own consulate was orchestrated by road killers defies reality says chris van hollen orders must have come from the top the u.s. must not be complicit in an effort to cover up this heinous crime his skepticism also expressed by a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. samantha power she says the notion that mohammed bin solomon one of the most controlling leaders in the middle east didn't know his government was sending fifteen goons to turkey to abduct a saudi critic is absurd. and there's increasing criticism of the saudi crown prince by senior members of congress democrat senator chris murphy who serves on the foreign relations committee had this to say in a washington post opinion piece as the new crown prince sing gauges in increasingly reckless behavior more and more of us are wondering whether our allies actions are in our own best interests the lists are for erratic actions from mohamed bin solomon is long the jailing of royal family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister a nonsensical feud with cutter the growing internal repression of political speech and the disastrous war in yemen and a tangible response to the growing climate of criticism the elaborate national day celebrations at the saudi embassy this week have been canceled mike hanna al-jazeera washington david hurst is the editor of middle east or he says the narrative put out by side arabia is proving false. i think it's confirming what we originally wrote that jim our incident was ushered into the consul general office with the consul general that two men entered the room he was dragged out they used foul language they were screaming heard afterwards and then a silence we think is generated by a lethal substance what's happening is that the saudi story is crumbling. and is crumbling very very quickly. and now there's an intensity of the fire wall around mohamed bin salomon and the king and say that this was a rogue operation all this was an interrogation gone wrong the idea that an interrogation wrong really doesn't hold water why is this so-called interrogation happening stream quickly according to the audiotape. and in fact the whole operation i was over within two hours of jamal stepping in and that is there's two hour gap between him stepping into the consul and the first convoy of cars leaving and the second point is go back to who these fifteen people were none of them were professional interrogators they were special forces they were special guards and there was a man as we all know was an expert in catching up orders and this is not the team that you send to interrogate or even kidnap someone. well in the past few minutes because she's family has issued this statement and they say as we await definitive answers and facts from multiple ongoing investigations we believe it's imperative to launch an independent impartial and internationally recognized investigation in order to provide a sandy many who loved him with much needed clarity and resolution and with the very latest now with mike hanna our correspondent in and washington d.c. and we just heard david has there saying that a fire wall is being created now to protect the saudis is it a case that a fire wall also has to be erected around president tom trump to protect him from the growing chorus of criticism that he's now facing across the political spectrum in terms of his stance in the way that he's dealing with this scenario. indeed yes there has been very sharp criticism from members of congress particularly with regard to the latest statement by president trump attribute seeing the action to road elements now this says has been pointed out by a number of members of congress as part of the saudi narrative that has been pushed in the saudi media we had another tweet from senator chris murphy that member of the senate relations committee and he said it's absolutely extraordinary they were able to enlist the president of the united states as their p.r. agent to float this idea so there is certainly a great deal of anger among many members of congress the fact that president of the united states is seen as supporting or possibly supporting a message being put out in a mode to kind of kill the situation to hide exactly what did happen among the obviously we've got my pump a zero heading towards now what we're expecting out of this apparent fact finding mission is it is a chastisement of the saudis or is it a way of trying to find a solution out of this crisis. well that's a very good question so it's not quite clear exactly what mike from payors brief is we've heard from the president that might bump aoe can go wherever and speak to whomever he wants to as part of finding out of getting to the bottom of exactly what happened it would appear that pump aoe is making up is an itinerary as he goes along we've got no real indication about that but certainly president trump sending him there to attempt to express the concern of his administration for what is happening sending his top diplomat out to get to the bottom of things as president trump would say so there is an awareness from the white house that the situation is dire that it has to get ahead of the criticism that continues to pour in criticism to not just stop the president but also of saudi arabia in particular the crown prince you've had in the past few days three lobbying firms in washington giving up the account you've got as i mentioned as well the cancellation of the national day celebrations at the saudi embassy all of these build up into a picture of massive criticism from within congress and from without criticism that it's impossible for president trump to ignore indeed for the moment that our thanks very much let's bring in one cole in philadelphia he's a professor of history at the university of michigan good to have you with the mystical can just follow on from what our correspondent mike hanna was talking about in the question i posed about the pending arrival of my pompei in riyadh and what his visit will achieve because certainly the international community beyond the united states is voicing its concern canada germany the united kingdom be interesting to see what statements are made out of riyadh and whether he goes to turkey on alt. yes well this incident this this grisly death of to mark a show to you has closed in jeopardy all of my palm heroes plans for the middle east if the relationship with saudi arabia is downgraded then the attempt to marshal countries in the region against iran will fail and so it's crucial for pompei or to try to shore up this case in terms of the politicians back at home. taking listening to what president trying pass to say he seems to quite happily pick up a phone and speak to the saudi king and believe what the king says above and beyond what his own intelligence agencies are advising him or informing him of what actually happened. well trump is erratic and this is a man who says he's in love with the dictator of north korea some months after having more of us threaten to nuke north korea he jumps here and there are there's one thing that's fairly stable which is that when an accusation is made against a woman or someone who's poor and weak as with the central park five trump is very eager to believe that they are guilty whereas when it accusation is made against anyone from the elite class trump will defend that person in terms of where we go next we are expecting some form of chastisement of saudi because trump has said that if found guilty there would be serious repercussions what can you envisage that being considering he doesn't want to jeopardize an arms. an arms deal that he's got how can america punish saudi arabia without saudi arabia getting upset about it. but i don't think there is a way i think the saudis have shown that this particular regime in saudi arabia is extremely thin skinned they. withdrew one hundred thousand students and canceled contracts from canada for a tweet by the ambassador mildly criticizing their human rights record so i think there will be a two track approach trump world will attempt to get out of having to do anything to saudi arabia and will push this line that it was rogue killers but congress may well placed sanctions on saudi arabia and perhaps even on the crown prince some self worth congress to go democrat in the midterm elections and where they to be able to garner some support from elements from the republican party such as rand paul in the libertarian side they might even be able to. overrule a presidential veto on this matter so i think the in a way congress may take up foreign policy cudgels of some importance here when cold is always good speech thanks very much for your insight ted let's cross over to washington d.c. now where the bill and reza joins me now is the director and senior associate for the turkey project at the center for strategic and international studies good to have you with us on the program we spoke to you just a few days ago about this case and i'm sure you've been following it just like we have i mean the turks were let into that concealer off a sunday it's been suggested that saudi arabia is looking for a credible way out where can everyone keep face in this particular case without losing you might say their own personal reputations or is that just blown out of the water right now. well there was and the alleged crime in a very serious crime and it occurred in turkey and the actions of the turkish government and specifically the attorney general's office. who was in contact with your correspondent there that will actually help determine the trend of events now there was a conversation between president. and king solomon and. clearly there are contacts between the turkish government and the saudi government there was a saudi team in in istanbul apparently called creating whatever that means with with the turkish authorities and my compare was due to go through and the stand after having been period so as president trump said the ball is now in the turkish court and we'll see how they play it well how important is it for turkey to actually come up with a credible conclusion without to all intents and purposes upsetting the united states all putting saudi arabia's nose out of joint because now the international focus is on ankara and. to come up with an answer. right is clearly going to this one side or the other and in this equation it's impossible for turkish diplomacy no matter how deft it proves to be in the next week days to satisfy everyone one point to be made about the. president trump is that he has recently been saying nice things about turkey because of the release of pasta brunson. a but he's also very reluctant to act he did say if the few days ago that if a crime was committed there was not. in fact he actually said if murder was committed it was on american soil but in turkey and similar to his position on russia where he said that he trusts that prison put in and his assurances with respect to interference and the us elections he says he's trusts king saddam on that the saudi government was done involved so which we'll see how this this crisis will unfold but clearly it's going to be difficult for the turkish government through to satisfy everybody involved indeed there is a suggestion that might finish his visit in saudi and head to ankara i mean what can he say to the turks that except perhaps office aleutians perhaps. well i think what he will say you know in-car will depend what he will have heard from from the saudis i think pump air is instructions from trump use the somehow calm the waters you know the reference through through the rogue element that your correspondent talked about that may be responsible for the crime you know that may be something that they pump air will bring through and then it will be. after all the crime was committed on turkish soil to actually decide how to proceed and that actionable will help determine where this crisis goes or as i said we'll see what does up a billion dollars it's a thanks for joining us from washington d.c. . plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including australia's prime minister says he's open to relocating the embassy in israel to jerusalem by critics say it's a ploy to influence voters in a crucial election also one year on from the killing of maltese journalist duffy in a family inquiry into finding out if the state had any role in her death and a great night for england in spain in the nation's lee will be here with that story . now in other news yemen's president. the prime minister. will face an investigation of the country's economic crisis the yemeni currency has plummeted in recent months ending thousands of people out protesting into the streets food and fuel prices have skyrocketed due to the ongoing conflict. the largest armed group in syria's rebel held it led provinces yet to withdraw its fighters from the region despite a deadline set by turkey and russia. shahr more not previously said whether except so rejects the terms of a such agreement has more from neighboring lebanon. a de villota rhizome is being created around syria's live 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 that leadership 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 to hit a sham 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. all million of all we all know that you know what are they moved 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. 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 will eventually return to state can . all that russia and turkey have so far been the decision makers the deals sponsors need each other in the post-war phase i think it says 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 actually try and to deconstruct 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 upheld the deadline was missed but syria's main power brokers seem committed to keeping the deal a life that. they built a border crossing between syria and jordan has opened for the first time in three years territory in the in the seed crossing was recaptured from rebels by syrian government forces in july cib used to be a busy route for goods and people before it was closed during a major battle during the civil war the control crossing between the israeli occupied golan heights and syria was also reopened on monday it's a result of a deal between israel syria and the united nations and it will allow un peacekeepers to monitor the region and the foreign ministers of syria and iraq are held a joint press conference in damascus flaring that the crossing between their countries will soon open iraq recently deployed its forces on the border with syria to try to stem the flow of weapons and i saw fighters joshua landis is the director of the center for mentally studies at the university of oklahoma joins me now via skype from baghdad have you with us so far syria is concerned or that it's open for business and regional neighbors think so too. hello joshua can you hear me i can hear you fellows are just repeat that question again if that's ok i mean so far syria seems to think that it's now open for business and its regional neighbors think so too. yes indeed a seat crossing has been opened between jordan and damascus this is a very important. two billion dollars worth of trade before the civil war klein along that road hundreds of trucks it kept many people employed at lots of stores particularly down at the crossing supermarkets cafes so all of them devastated during the war a free trade zone of course closed down all the shops and factories closed down so people are dying to get back to business this is a big day for syria getting back to business bringing life back to some sort of normality but the country is far from at peace with that sort of potential clash simmering in it didn't it province if the flares up or elsewhere in the country these routes could be in jeopardy. you know they might be but in libya's course way in the north tucked up underneath turkey if there is fighting in it led it's unlikely that the jordanians or the israelis who also opened a crossing on the golan heights will close their will close their borders the jordanians are very eager to have this trade going that jordanian economy as we know it's been it has been sagging under the weight of all these wars and there's been a big demonstration so the jordanian government is very eager to get jobs back to ordinary jordanians and also jordan has been a refuge for many syrians so if you look at the reverse i suppose really jordan would like to offload its syrian refugees or displaced back to the country that they belong to and suppose it benefits jordan in that way as well. absolutely because you know jordan is eager of course to get rid of this million something refugees who've taken who've taken safety found safety in jordan and and getting jobs back is one of the primary things of course security is number one but number two is economic security people have to have someplace to go to and be able to feed themselves so it's very important to get this road open and to have economic life being blown slowly back into this devastated country is the softening of the approach to syria from jordan just a one off for all the other countries that are thinking about it will doing something about it you know if there's been a little cascade a mini cascade of countries embracing syria and that embrace was shown only a week ago with the foreign minister of the team a small country but an important one and they met with lots of cameras rolling this was a staged event in which will lead what i love the foreign minister of syria game a big bear hug to the foreign minister about rain. gave a very warm interview with a kuwaiti newspaper in which he thanked the quaid he's very generously for standing by syria throughout the war so increasingly the gulf countries have been embracing syria syria is asking the arab league to reintegrate of course lebanon iraq are have close relations with the assad regime and turkey increasingly is backing away from its very hostile position and is cooperating with russia and syria and they all hope to squeeze the americans out of north syria eventually which is the what does happen is always good to get your analysis so joshua landis the in a climate that few times the. still ahead here on al-jazeera harvard faces quarter of discriminating against some high achievers who want to study at the prestigious university and its board one of cricket's greatest players accused of obstructing an anti corruption investigation paul will have that story and sports. from the clear blue sky of the doha morning. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of light. a daily fifty reaches of rain is easily cope with actually in most of china and that's been the case just recently that see much in the cloud there were that great streak is more or less where we've seen fifty millimeters in twenty four hours it might stretch across to reach hong kong the whole lot really is i think i think the last gasp of the rain band going slowly south and then things should dry out but the some rain to come in the immediate future we see the showers returning to the philippines as well they've been absent recently in the heaviest rain has been around southern rock certainly northern borneo in general it's still looking like it is there a little less vicious maybe in sumatra and sutton time and place your malaysia but it certainly isn't dry in the showers are certainly here in the forecast and the coming back to the philippines is still in borneo the student sort of lazy and they haven't yet reached java but of course they might get there sometime soon the receding monsoon having generated is too cyclons is now looking quite quiet you still got cloud under the dash down in kerala need mr lanka but it's not particularly vicious looking not particularly where there'll be a few more share of the next specially carola crosses are the arabian sea there is rain to come we'll talk of that in a while. the weather sponsored by catto and grace. after a three year delay afghanistan is finally preparing to hold parliamentary elections told by constant violence and continually influenced by foreign powers many afghans are hoping for a real change what direction will the country take for give you an in-depth coverage of the afghanistan elections i'll just era. if you are in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when miss was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and going to run the world while the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china part one on a jersey. i'm. not you know. some of the like. welcome back you're watching are just a reminder of our top stories this news our source from the turkish attorney general's office has told al jazeera they found evidence of a missing saudi journalist remark shows she was murdered inside the saudi consulate turkish investigators were finally allowed into the building thirteen days after the journalists disappearance us media reporting that saudi arabia is weighing whether to release a statement that shows she was killed as a result of an interrogation that went wrong the saudis reportedly planned to say this was done without official sanction and the u.s. president says rogue elements from inside saudi arabia could have been responsible for the show's use disappearance he said secretary of state mike pompei are to saudi arabia to discuss the issue with king salon payor is also expected to visit turkey. feel strongly that hundreds of people are preparing to march to demand the australian government we settle refugees commonly in prison camps on the pacific islands of the route and managed to get the very latest from andrew thomas who joins me now from the capital canberra and the demonstration i think has just ended has it not. that's right there was a march from what i call old parliament house in canberra to the new one where the politicians are currently sitting about five hundred people have been covering these sorts of protests for a few years and this is actually a fairly sizeable one and the momentum does seem to be slowly moving in the direction of these people now what they say is that australia began its policy of sending refugees who tried to get shores by boat to remote pacific islands off the rue and man it's more than five years ago now and the families have now been held of potentially captive on the roof particularly for more than five years and that is seriously damaging them and physical health and they've got a lot of support organizations like doctors without borders they say in the last year alone seventy eight people on nauru have been treated for the self harm or attempted suicide that organization is just being kicked off the reduction was the state of affairs that the united nations high commission of refugees this week called on australia's government to close the prison camps the head of the international organization for the red cross is also in canberra calling for the site mentioned does seem to be on the side of people here slowly even some m.p.'s in the governing liberal party which has been hard line about keeping people in these prison camps for years now three of them have now broken ranks and said at least the children eighty of them on the route should be brought to australia and then there is the context of a very important by actually coming up this weekend in sydney on usually the issue of refugees and the time that they've been spending on the roof well that is front and center about by election campaign and it's an important one because the government in the building behind me only has a one seat majority if they lose that on saturday it could be significant another issue revolving not by election pouncing directly a comments being made by the prime minister about moving its embassy in israel and that could have been in direct effect of what's going on where you are. absolutely i mean this was a surprise announcement by australia's prime minister he's only been prime minister for a few weeks he took over from malcolm turnbull in a coup essentially in august malcolm turnbull had always ruled out following donald trump's example and moving australia's embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem scott morrison the new prime minister on tuesday said that he is considering such a move now there's a long way between considering something that is actually happening nevertheless this would be a significant change in australia's foreign policy and it comes in the context of this fight action on saturday it's in the sydney state that has a very high jewish population twelve an awful sense of people in that constituency all jewish so maybe he's trying to get votes there he denies that he denies as well that this has anything to do with donald trump's move rather unbelievably he says this is the name the pendent position that he has come to while talking to m.p.'s in his party he says it's got nothing to do with the by election all donald trump's move but obviously a lot of skepticism here if it happens of course it will be significant australia only the second country off the united states to move its embassy for the moment hundred thank you facebook says it's removed a number of pages and to counselling to the meanwhile military that were being used to spread propaganda follows a new york times report that found military personnel were using social media to target the muslim or hindu minority human rights groups say the campaign played a key role in the crackdown on the waiting game in rakhine state last year. twenty four people have died to contract in india bola virus in the democratic republic of congo in the last week during that time the health ministry has confirmed thirty three cases of the deadly fever in total more than one hundred thirty people have died from a bowler since no break began in the country in july. in multan the family of a journalist killed in a car bombing one year ago wants to know if the government had any role in her death they've demanded an official inquiry into daphne. was exposing corruption in business government and the police need parker has more from the capital for latin. dufty khurana go the see is death shocked a nation to many she was a fearless anti corruption crusader but she was also accused of scathing even defamatory journalism and of being politically partisan or how widely read blog a year after she was killed in a car bombing the reasons for her death are still unclear. and her family wants a public inquiry free from all political interference the focus of that inquiry unlike the current processes is to look into whether death needs nice could have been saved so that would mean looking into possible state failure to protect and possible state complicity in the assassination this is where daphne car honestly see it was killed she left her home in a village just up the hill in a least car the blast was so powerful it scattered parts of the vehicle in surrounding fields some of her remains were found eighty meters away from here this isn't the first car bomb in malta they have been six since the start of two thousand and sixteen but it's the first time the victim hasn't been a criminal three men are on trial for murder question surrounding a motive a yet to be answered. claim to have uncovered corruption at the highest levels in a maltese bank the police and the government she believed officials were granting residency and passports in return for bribes from shady individuals trying to access the european union. she also linked to maltese politicians including the prime minister joseph muscat with offshore tax havens he denies the allegations. but as family believe there's been a deliberate attempt to control the narrative surrounding her death to make it look like she was investigating criminal gangs alone and not the government the prime minister declined our request for an interview. since carolina khaleesi is dead colleagues say bolton's media office which is over directly by political parties has lacked an important voice it was nothing like her before and there's been nothing since her bravery i imagine would inspire others in the years to come locally she opened many people's eyes to what. journalism could be this is what's left of a once large makeshift memorial to the journalist opposite multis law courts it's tended to by activists who say it's regularly torn down even in death they say she continues to be silenced neve barkha al-jazeera valetta malta. flooding has killed at least ten people in southwest france in some places river levels rose to their highest in more than one hundred years. flood water gushed through towns and villages sweeping up cars and 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 but the much of the job of it was terrifying because all of our neighbors were in the same situation i called the pastor as it happened so fast that by the time they responded there's a way that came towards our door almost the other seventy monday 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. but it was just a very heavy precipitation occurred in the region during the night and again in the 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 local officials have 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. al-jazeera paris. one of the world's best known universities is being sued by a group of asian americans who are accusing it of discriminating against them in admissions harvard is denying the allegation the result of the legal battle could influence admissions to u.s. universities for years to come i did your castro as well. 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 they like getting into college daniel lu is 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 whatever bloom a white conservative and founder 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 al-jazeera the debate has split the asian american community some accuse blum of using them as a tool to push his real agenda of helping white students while others say harvard is using affirmative action as a past to discriminate against asian americans they don't look at the reality that if you're going to do that 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 that they are being used as a racial wedge the case is final outcome will likely be decided by the u.s. supreme court heidi joe castro al jazeera cambridge massachusetts now the co-founder of microsoft paul allen has died at the age of sixty five he was suffering from cancer alan was also a prominent philanthropist who invested in conservation space travel and professional sports for solved see. his contributions were indispensable the final writings of world famous physicist stephen hawking have been compiled in a book in brief answers to the big questions walking looks at our origins of the planet and the controversial role of genetics and the threat of artificial intelligence catherine stansell was that it's law in london at the science museum. how do we do it sure. where did we go is there anyone out there he has unraveled some of the greatest mysteries of the universe and in his final book stephen hawking takes on ideas larger than the universe itself brief answers to the big questions brings together some of his final writing before his death in march its launch was celebrated at the science museum in london where he received a fellowship on his seventieth birthday hawking in thrall of the world with his groundbreaking work on black holes and cosmology and in his final months he wrote how science and technology can both revolutionize and destroy our lives this is very much a book of predictions and that stephen hawking says that humans will soon colonize other planets that machines will overtake humans when it comes to intelligence and perhaps most controversial of all the two medic modification will lead to a dangerous brace of super humans. his children tim and lucy helped the book come to fruition and they say it was a chance for their father to such out his views and his own words and leave an engaging perspective for people in a rapidly changing world my father's ultimate goal in writing this book is to. give us a call to unity he was very very concerned that as a society become more and more divided that we were finding more and more things to put between ourselves and other human beings and i think it's a reflection of his essential humanity and his belief in human beings that he wanted to put out this call to say look we are one planet we are one human race the challenges we face are global climate change all these other issues that you see here him reference we need to come together we need to cooperate i'm going to look probably despite his warnings over the calamity that things like climate change or unchecked artificial intelligence could bring he leaves the reader with a final message so remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. catherine stansell al jazeera london. but. he has. a has. he has. his. thank you very much world cup semifinalists england have sprung a surprise on spain in the u.a.e. for nations league they won three two in severe first competitive defeat for the spanish on home soil since two thousand and three spain had beaten the english in london in the first round of games but to write home sterling strikes either side of marcus rush for its goal put the visitors three up at half time francesco. got the hosts back into the game but it was too little too late for spain well six other matches were also played on the night switzerland one to one in iceland while they were home wins for finland luxemburg as well as bosnia and herzegovina also a high scoring draw between stony and hungary a time olympic champion same 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 the 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 drunken view working to become a footballer but look at this. homo good a good joke this today oh not even a provisional thought while it fiercely so are the leader you saw one might get a jug of it are the same for club it to third yo are detour that i'm really really tough to get this. 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 in two thousand and sixteen the seventy eight year old was one of four out of seven who didn't turn up to court . 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 won the one 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 hadn't yet commented on monday. which has replaced roger federer as the number two runs tennis player in the world extended his winning streak to eighteen matches as he won the shanghai masters on sunday if he wins the paris masters he'll be back at number one new york times tennis writer christopher clary told us the serbs struggles in twenty seventeen with just a blip. you know what has to get is that i think it's actually stranger than he ever was first because you play now in kind of a logical way compared to the way you're playing with three years 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 but i think frankly i think he was burned out and the guy was a lot of it i think was hard to sustain the focus and concentration that kind of dominates and he had the prisoner was you who he was with his elbow with rubber cement a minor thing with. a surgical intervention earlier this year and we let it go for a while so it's a combination of factors that are going to grow he said you know as me based on the down and down and what he going to pull up was there he had one. or slams in a row one about two thousand six hundred french open and that was when he was you know back. when you can be in a sentence really. one count of your grand slam and it's not a little out of the question you can do it again you've got to move in the u.s. open he's going into his strongest tournaments at the grandstand which is yes well you know put on hard courts and his rivals are you playing back from in yuri's or getting older or not yet fully developed like hundreds very. well some of the younger players on tour so i think he is going to be the big favorite of. superbikes right at jonathan right how sets a record by winning ten races in a row he was back in seventh place in argentina but battled his wife through the failed and into the lead the northern irishman has already clinched the world title and that up finishing three seconds clear it's the fifth straight weekend he's won both races on his car psyche it's a run that started back in june. this is dreamy you know ten races on the bines it's it's really not normal it's his mind you know so i just want to go and joyous moment on sunday make that long flight home our international olympic committee members have held a memorial service for one of their members patrick by a woman who died suddenly from a heart attack during the youth olympics games. bauman who was fifty one was the secretary general of basketball's world governing body faber he was instrumental in getting three x. ray basketball on the olympic program the sport will make its debut in tokyo in twenty twenty and memorial was held at the three x. three courts in buenos aires. we are grateful for recent years. if you really did. you know mark us. all from. the ground. we carry you see if you think you show you the future. you know great. we. can't sporting a set to make its summer olympic debut at the paris games in two thousand and twenty four after being approved earlier this year we got a taste of what's to come in buenos aires after some bad weather fans finally got to enjoy the action at the youth games the dominican republic story corps nail took the men's gold in what's known as i k a twin tip racing. well it's lisa's fear thomas sonia who is the world on the european junior champion at sixteen won the women's event in the same category. or the last day of tennis at the youth olympics or slovenia's chi you run up against french opponent kwara bureau in the women's final when you've won was leading by a set and four games to two she appeared to roll her ankle on the clay threatening her push for gold or she was on the ground again four games later but this time it was to celebrate when she added this gold the one she got in the women's doubles on saturday. meanwhile there was joy for home fans as the argentinian pairing of sebastian basan for congo diaz acosta won the men's doubles in straight sets. egypt's ahmed el gandhi made its double gold for his country and the modern pentathlon the eighteen year old clinched victory in the men's competition adding to the arts of his compatriot salma sood who won the women's title. now can you imagine swimming cycling and running for eight hours or while worrying about whether your partner will agree to marry you well that's what happened at the ironman world championship event in hawaii where the winner patrick lang of germany was in such a hurry to see his girlfriend that he ended up breaking the course record and somehow still managed to get down on one knee to pop the vital question. sorry sport for now we'll have more later on. thanks very much paul of course you can follow all of the stories that we're covering here by logging on to our web site is there a top commuting watching al-jazeera news on that means a whole ramadan jordan's up with another full half hour on the other side of the break until and for me on the team thanks for your time and your company. you don't know where public service stops and private interest begins what's at stake is the very essence of democracy and we have never had a president so brazenly treating the oval office as an opportunity. like follows the money investigating whether donald trump is profiting from the presidency and asking what the cost will be for democracy the usa and the president's profits on al-jazeera. for nine hundred forty six to nine hundred fifty eight the united states detonated dozens of atomic bombs in the marshall islands when the u.s. was getting ready to clean up and leave and leave one nine hundred seventy s. they picked the pit that had been left by one of the smaller atomic explosions and dumped a lot of this cutrone and other radioactive waste into the pit the bottom of the dome it's permeable soil there was nowhere for her to line it and therefore the seawater is is inside the dome when this dome was built there was no factoring in sea level rises caused by climate change now every day when the tide rolls out radioactive isotopes from underneath the die roll out with it if it really were not tolerant just the marshall islands we're talking the whole smoosh. millions of people across india miss out on medical care but a hospital train is delivering doctors and hope to those most in need. when he's boards indios lifeline express. an al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every you. turkish investigators have evidence that missing journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside the saudi consulate. the saudis are to consider issuing a statement that he was killed in error during an interrogation gone wrong that's according to u.s. media. hello i'm daryn jordan this is live from coming up the 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