Turkish consular consulate of erbil was sitting inside walked in he had guns in both hands and began shooting he hit the employee of the turkish consular or consulate and 2 others then according to the witnesses we spoke to a total of 3 men left the coffee shop the implication being that one person was inside casing the coffee shop prior to what appears to be a targeted hit a total of 3 men were killed the turkish employee has been identified as often cosi. He died immediately his funeral his body was flown back to on korea and his funeral is expected sometime this afternoon he leaves 2 children behind now 2 others were killed the they are iraqi kurds and were told they are customers who simply became Collateral Damage tributes are pouring out to these young men on social media sasha still no claim of responsibility where is the investigation going on this one so it turning up. Well as you said no claims of responsibility no suspects arrested as of yet plenty of condemnation from the turkish government and the Kurdistan Regional government but one thing to point out that within hours of this attack on wednesday a spokesman with the p. K. K. Or Kurdistan Workers Party denied involvement in this attack a bit of background about the p. K. K. It is a pro Kurdish Armed group it is deemed a terrorist group by turkey the United States and the you are the e. U. Rather to name a few in the past the p. K. K. Has been given by some critics a bit of a safe haven here in Northern Iraq its a mountainous region that borders turkey and as a result there have been tensions here and there between the Kurdistan Regional government and turkey but as of late the federal government in iraq has been cooperating with the turkish government to conduct what it describes as counterterrorism raids it includes targeting the p p p k k as part of these operations on wednesday prior to this targeted hit the Turkish Military had conducted air strikes it says that it had quote neutralized 7 p. K. K. Terrorists this morning turkey conducted another airstrike here in Northern Iraq so while there is no claim of responsibility there is definitely suspicion that has shifted to the p. K. K. Its worth noting the p. K. K. Is not necessarily a unified centralized group so right now again the Kurdistan Regional government is cooperating with purpose officials the intelligence chief of turkey arrived in erbil last evening he has a team of investigators at its disposal and the Kurdistan Regional government is saying that its doing its best to prevent another attack here in or. All right thanks so much because of one name that. Plenty more still ahead on the news hour including the u. S. Congress defies donald trump and approves a bill banning the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia Police in the philippines put out their figures on how many of died in the war on drugs but not everyone is convinced. And it will hear what this boxing legend had to say when his latest rival compared him to what diana saw. The un special rapporteur on human rights in may and mass says team is not getting access to whats happening on the ground more violence is being reported meanwhile american state yankee lease says villages have been burnt down in recent days and shes been prevented from gathering information the question is. Did the government of myanmar impose the internet than to inflict more time on the People Living in rakhine. The internet blackout has also prevented individuals wanting to engage with me from being able to make contact it is challenging to get information on what is happening on the ground under these circumstances but i have been told that 3 villages in rakhine have been burned down by that and i dont in the last 2 weeks. Muhammad joins us now here on the set whos covered the writing of crosses extensively how its quite disturbing to hear the u. N. Special report all talking about how the military is still bulldozing villages now 2019 after all this toll can the sanctions youre absolutely right so i mean this is coming nearly 2 years since the military in myanmar was accused of ethnic cleansing against against the rainbow and now these past few months there have been numerous reports of potential atrocities being committed in iraq and state in chance stayed in these 9 townships in that part of me anymore where there is there is this internet blockage at the moment so its very difficult to get Accurate Information but they are nothing is having impacts in terms of the international when it comes to me and more as a military there is no real pressure that is being brought to bear i mean these sanctions that were imposed the announcement of them yesterday by the u. S. Against these 4 top military leaders and me and more we still have not even heard a response from me and more to those sanctions and many of the officials that have spoken about it and many activists who spoke about a say they dont go far enough in fact at the end of this press conference by special reparatory on the leaf she said that those sanctions dont go far enough that its not enough just to impose a travel ban on these officials and they need to go much farther than that before me and more as military will be will change their tactics Going Forward meanwhile this report so fighting in records that was going on that such a complicated situation its an extremely complicated matter you have many armed ethnic groups in that area you have a conflict thats been going on since late 2018 between the top macdowell which is me and mars military and the ira khan army now this conflict has essentially caught many many thousands of civilians in the crossfire there and. Thats not the real no the arahant army is a separatist group its an armed. With the draws mainly on ethnic buddhists who are resentful of the government having basically having control of the area and so they want to separate but there are rowing that have ties and have had ties in the past to that group the era can army attacks against me and mars military in 2017 is what the me and more military says precipitated their crackdown on the rowing up but its a very complicated matter there are a lot of different ethnic groups up there this conflict has been raging for months and now you have this internet outage thats going on there and because of that activists that ive been speaking with refugees have been saying that they are fearful that the top mcdowell is in gauging in the kinds of atrocities against civilians in that area now that they engaged in against the rohingya in 2017 this is no coincidence is over stay with us for a 2nd mohammed im going to get your folds on another issue what kind of relate to the un special rapporteur on human rights and then also is accusing as you might know leaders there of diplomatic maneuvering aimed at obstructing her investigations it is of great concern to me that memo appears to be increasing pressure and engaging the governments of neighboring countries in its efforts to violate rights and avoid scrutiny this includes obstructing me in carrying out my mandate while i was in thailand i had to abort part of my visit due to interference this is very serious and not to be taken lightly. Its again want to say i mean the massacre is a going on and here is a senior u. N. Official saying theyre even interfering with her work and yet this fos goes on so i mean this was stunning to hear this is the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in myanmar now she has been banned from going to me and more since december of 2017 shes been highly critical of the regime in myanmar for some time now she has to go to neighboring countries to interview refugees and just to get the information just to get the imam interfering with her well now she says today they are interfering and interfering in such a way that she had to cut h. Trip short in thailand because potentially there was danger to some of her sources she didnt go into a real detail specifics as far as what the threats were but she talked about the fact that because of this interference she had to cut a trip short that is part of her mandate from the United Nations and she said that increasingly mean more as government is interfering putting pressure on neighboring countries to not allow her and other investigators to carry out their mandates that is very disturbing to hear from. You have to wonder whether any of this is going to lead to a tougher international sounds like so much that can come of coming in now be a bowl al break in the eastern democratic republic of congo is now a Public Health emergency of International Concern thats the exact the announcement being made by the World Health Organization came just days after the virus spread to the city of goma a major regional hub on the border with rwanda it has claimed at least 1600 lives in the region in the past year Catherine Sawyer reports now from nairobi. After hours of deliberations by the margin see kmita of the World Health Organization over the status of the born in the democratic republic of congo members have decided it requires a vigorous International Response there is concern about spreading them from mom to get away. Theres so far no cases were a newly infected in d. C. These days appointment that there has been a recurrence of intense transmission in beijing says that the geographical expansion is now from 500 kilometers. Or define to Going Forward for you know. The meeting was called off top preacher who traveled to bhutan book about 200 kilometers north of the city of goma to pray for the sick tested positive on his arrival back he died this week. At the border between goma and rhonda Health Workers taking no chances rhonda has already told citizens to avoid traveling to go. The w. H. O. Committee has warned against closing buddhas and district trades. Darcey government Officials Say many of those who came in contact with the preacher have been vaccinated and its unlikely will spread fatah but asked still consigns is a key city. I cant afford to be afraid because if im scared of carrying someone ill get no clients and that means no money so warshel i eat. What will be do now should be children because of this im very watered. More than a 1000000 people leave and sitting at the teep of lake its easy to travel to other countries in the region as well as other parts of the. Vaccinations in affected areas have intensified this is benny in north kivu province where there is concern that more people are getting sick theres also concern about the disease spreading to uganda Health Workers in south west uganda vaccinating people who could have come in contact with the companys woman who visited the bees in ponder market to trade a few days ago she died of a bullet when she returned home the government says she did not cross a formal border point where shed have been screened this is the same region where a child tested positive for a boy last month after his mother took him back to darcy to bury his father the child later died adding to a death toll of more than 1600 in the past year catherine sawing aljazeera now in. The u. S. House of representatives has rebuked the president by voting to block the sale of some arms to saudi arabia a similar measure was passed by the Senate Last MonthPresident Donald Trump is expected to veto the resolutions mike hanna reports from washington d. C. The joint resolution is. The house passes 3 bills expressing disapproval of sales to saudi arabia 238 vote in favor 190 against the 1st bill dealt with the sale of precision guided missiles the 2nd with the export of smart bombs and the 3rd was aimed at blocking the sale of hughess needed to arm and detonate the missiles and bombs the bulls had earlier been passed in the senate and will now go to the white house but President Trump has made clear hell exercise is veto and it appears neither house nor senate could raise the 2 thirds majority that would be needed to reject the veto and pass a laws without president ial signature. Yet this bipartisan move by congress will have an impact this Moment Congress is clearly not interested in excel or reading american support for saudi arabia in its war in yemen and does not like having its authority usurped by the executive branch when it comes to approving arms sales its making a statement its laying down a marker it understands that the president will ultimately get his way but over time it can wear down the opposition and potentially even override a veto. There are layers of reasons for congresss anger about President Trumps relationship with saudi arabia earlier this year the president vetoed a bipartisan bill demanding an end to u. S. Support for saudis war in yemen. Then he invoked emergency legislation citing a threat from iran to override a congregational ban on weapon sales and thirdly this still intense and gain congress that the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the steadfast refusal of President Trump to hold the saudi leadership accountable but even if or when the president vetoes the latest round of legislation there will be more to come in particular a bull demanding a report from the u. S. Intelligence community about the murder that has been included in the house version of the Defense Authorization bill 2020 that was passed by a resoundingly vote of 405 to 7. Mike hanna al jazeera washington. Well in a few moments well have all the way though weve kavin but still ahead here on aljazeera. Accused of treason some journalists in pakistan say theyre being targeted by the government will tell you well lebanons Palestinian Refugees are protesting about and its called the young stars of oslo and pressed against by a new unit called back to the United States all the action going on. Were following Tropical Storm dennis right now as it makes its way from really the northern part of the philippines up across through islands and into the East China Sea now you can see the clouds right here the storm is just to the west of okinawa right now bring some very heavy rain across much of those islands right now those winds are 74 Kilometers Per Hour 74 Kilometers Per Hour winds gusting up to about 93 still moving to the north at a fairly good clip it is expected to strengthen over the next 24 hours and the big thing with this particular storm is going to be the amount of rain that it drops on areas that have already seen quite a bit of flooding over the last several weeks and want to go closer in as we go from friday as well as into saturday because saturday is really going to be the day that we see most of the activity even though the storm is weakening to a tropical depression notice where the heavy rain is across parts of q schoo over parts of the record islands and also for the southern part of south korea now in this particular area were going to be seeing storm surge dangerous rip tides in the amount accumulation is going to be anywhere between 200. 00 to over 250. 00 millimeters of rain across much of this area and as i mentioned this southern part of japan has already seen widespread flooding in the ground is already saturated across much. 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You know watching out 0 time to recap the headlines turkey has called on the u. S. Decision to suspend it from the f. 35. 00 Fighter Program jabbas unfair saying it will harm relations washington acted after turkey accepted delivery of russias as 400 defense system. The body of the Turkish Deputy consul. General shot dead in the Northern Iraqi city of an appeal on wednesday hes being taken back home he and 2 Iraqi Kurdish civilians were killed in an attack at a restaurant. The un special rapporteur on human rights in may and maher says the persecution of the rangar there is still going on she says villages have been burned down in recent days shes been prevented from getting information on. By spring you know are some breaking news just coming in we have reports that irans revolutionary guards this is according to state television have seized an oil tanker lets find out more and head over to dos jabara joins us on the line from tehran anything we know about why this tanker was seized and its identity. Well chani its. Fairly early to speculate but what the revolutionary guard co