Friday, November 2, 2018



One month after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi there are still more questions than answers, and Google workers protest the company's payouts over sexual abuse allegations.

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Friday, November 2nd.

One month on, where is Jamal Khashoggi's body?

It's been a month today since Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Istanbul by a hit squad sent from Riyadh.

His body has not yet been found.

Turkey wants Saudi authorities to hand over the culprits, including whoever ordered the killing.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting that Israel and Egypt are calling on the US to continue supporting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Several members of the hit squad had links to the crown prince.

Release of Asia Bibi apparently delayed

The release of a woman in Pakistan after the Supreme Court overturned her death sentence for blaspheming Islam has been delayed. That's according to the Associated Press.

Asia Bibi had been on death row since 2010.

She's now being held in an undisclosed detention facility.

Hardliners are blocking roads and calling for the death of the judges who overturned her conviction.

Turkish, US troops begin joint patrols in Manbij

Turkish and US troops have begun joint patrols in and near the northern Syrian city of Manbij.

The NATO allies are backing different sides in Syria's war.

But they're cooperating over Manbij in a bid to rid the region of terror groups.

Bolsonaro says will move Brazil's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro says he's planning to move Brazil's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the move.

If Brazil follows through, it will join the US and Guatemala as the only countries with their embassies in the city.

Google workers protest against harassment

And finally,

Thousands of Google employees around the world staged a brief walkout Thursday to protest the company's treatment of some executives accused of sexual misconduct.

Google says it's fired 48 employees in the past two years over allegations of sexual abuse.

But it's also paid out some of those leaving, including a $90 million package for one senior staffer.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Thursday, November 1, 2018



Indonesian divers recover one black box from the crashed Lion Air jet, and oceans may be warming far faster than previously predicted.

NEWSREADER INTRO: This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Thursday, November 1st.

Black box recovered from crashed Lion Air plane

We begin with Indonesia, where divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java sea on Monday with 189 people on board.

Finding the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder will be critical to the investigation into the crash of the fairly new Boeing 737 MAX.

Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered - Istanbul prosecutor

The Istanbul prosecutor's office has issued a statement saying Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered.

It was the first official word on what happened to the prominent Saudi critic after a hit squad sent from Riyadh killed him in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

Turkey is demanding that Saudi Arabia disclose what its agents did with the body, and send the culprits to Istanbul for trial.

Sri Lanka's president reconvenes parliament amid crisis

Sri Lanka's president says parliament will reconvene on Monday amid a power struggle between rival leaders.

The president sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe earlier this week. He replaced him with a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

But the sacked PM has refused to accept the move and is holed up in the prime minister's residence in the capital Colombo, backed by hundreds of supporters.

Cricket Australia chair resigns over cheating scandal

Cricket Australia's chair David Peever has quit in more fallout over the cheating scandal in South Africa last year.

Australian players were caught ball tampering at a Test match in Cape Town.

Peever was reappointed to a new three-year term just last week.

But an independent report published on Monday slammed the sport's governing body down under.

Warming oceans amid global warming

And finally,

A new scientific report says oceans could be warming much faster than previously thought.

The journal Nature published the findings that suggest climate change is likely much worse than earlier predicted.

And evidence is already emerging that fish are migrating to escape the heat.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Thursday, November 1, 2018



Indonesian divers recover one black box from the crashed Lion Air jet, and oceans may be warming far faster than previously predicted.

NEWSREADER INTRO: This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Thursday, November 1st.

Black box recovered from crashed Lion Air plane

We begin with Indonesia, where divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java sea on Monday with 189 people on board.

Finding the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder will be critical to the investigation into the crash of the fairly new Boeing 737 MAX.

Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered - Istanbul prosecutor

The Istanbul prosecutor's office has issued a statement saying Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered.

It was the first official word on what happened to the prominent Saudi critic after a hit squad sent from Riyadh killed him in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

Turkey is demanding that Saudi Arabia disclose what its agents did with the body, and send the culprits to Istanbul for trial.

Sri Lanka's president reconvenes parliament amid crisis

Sri Lanka's president says parliament will reconvene on Monday amid a power struggle between rival leaders.

The president sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe earlier this week. He replaced him with a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

But the sacked PM has refused to accept the move and is holed up in the prime minister's residence in the capital Colombo, backed by hundreds of supporters.

Cricket Australia chair resigns over cheating scandal

Cricket Australia's chair David Peever has quit in more fallout over the cheating scandal in South Africa last year.

Australian players were caught ball tampering at a Test match in Cape Town.

Peever was reappointed to a new three-year term just last week.

But an independent report published on Monday slammed the sport's governing body down under.

Warming oceans amid global warming

And finally,

A new scientific report says oceans could be warming much faster than previously thought.

The journal Nature published the findings that suggest climate change is likely much worse than earlier predicted.

And evidence is already emerging that fish are migrating to escape the heat.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Thursday, November 1, 2018



Indonesian divers recover one black box from the crashed Lion Air jet, and oceans may be warming far faster than previously predicted.

NEWSREADER INTRO: This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Thursday, November 1st.

Black box recovered from crashed Lion Air plane

We begin with Indonesia, where divers have retrieved a black box from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java sea on Monday with 189 people on board.

Finding the flight data recorder or the cockpit voice recorder will be critical to the investigation into the crash of the fairly new Boeing 737 MAX.

Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered - Istanbul prosecutor

The Istanbul prosecutor's office has issued a statement saying Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered.

It was the first official word on what happened to the prominent Saudi critic after a hit squad sent from Riyadh killed him in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.

Turkey is demanding that Saudi Arabia disclose what its agents did with the body, and send the culprits to Istanbul for trial.

Sri Lanka's president reconvenes parliament amid crisis

Sri Lanka's president says parliament will reconvene on Monday amid a power struggle between rival leaders.

The president sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe earlier this week. He replaced him with a former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

But the sacked PM has refused to accept the move and is holed up in the prime minister's residence in the capital Colombo, backed by hundreds of supporters.

Cricket Australia chair resigns over cheating scandal

Cricket Australia's chair David Peever has quit in more fallout over the cheating scandal in South Africa last year.

Australian players were caught ball tampering at a Test match in Cape Town.

Peever was reappointed to a new three-year term just last week.

But an independent report published on Monday slammed the sport's governing body down under.

Warming oceans amid global warming

And finally,

A new scientific report says oceans could be warming much faster than previously thought.

The journal Nature published the findings that suggest climate change is likely much worse than earlier predicted.

And evidence is already emerging that fish are migrating to escape the heat.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Wednesday, October 31, 2018



Pakistan's top court overturns a controversial blasphemy conviction, and the WWF says we're eating everything to death.

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Wednesday, October 31st.

Pakistan's top court overturns blasphemy conviction

The Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a woman sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy against Islam.

Asia Bibi, a christian and mother of four, denied the original charges stemming from a row in her village with several muslims.

Tensions are running high over the ruling in Pakistan where critics of the top court's order have taken to the streets in major cities.

Indonesia says it may have found Lion Air fuselage

The fuselage of a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jetliner may have been found.

That's according to Indonesia's top military commander whose troops are assisting the search operation.

The Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the sea on Monday with 189 people on board. They are all presumed dead.

Afghan army helicopter crashes

An Afghan army helicopter crashed in the southwest of the country early today, killing 25 crew and passengers. That's according to provincial officials.

The Taliban said it shot down the aircraft.

Separately, a suicide attack outside the country's largest prison in the capital Kabul killed at least seven people.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for that attack.

Trump visits Pittsburgh following synagogue assault

Despite calls from critics to stay away, the US president on Tuesday visited the synagogue and site of a deadly attack in Pittsburgh.

Eleven jews died in the assault on Saturday, blamed on an anti-semite armed with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Trump's critics say his divisiveness is part of the problem leading to acts of violence like this.

The visit came a week before midterm congressional elections that Trump is treating as a referendum on his agenda.

World Wildlife Fund says we're eating the planet to death

And finally,

The WWF is warning that humans are killing and eating the planet's animals, and we might not survive our own appetites.

The conservation group says we've already wiped out 60 percent of all animals with a backbone, and that's just in the last 50 years.

The finding echoes another dataset that suggests a mass extinction event may be underway.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Wednesday, October 31, 2018



Pakistan's top court overturns a controversial blasphemy conviction, and the WWF says we're eating everything to death.

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Wednesday, October 31st.

Pakistan's top court overturns blasphemy conviction

The Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a woman sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy against Islam.

Asia Bibi, a christian and mother of four, denied the original charges stemming from a row in her village with several muslims.

Tensions are running high over the ruling in Pakistan where critics of the top court's order have taken to the streets in major cities.

Indonesia says it may have found Lion Air fuselage

The fuselage of a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jetliner may have been found.

That's according to Indonesia's top military commander whose troops are assisting the search operation.

The Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the sea on Monday with 189 people on board. They are all presumed dead.

Afghan army helicopter crashes

An Afghan army helicopter crashed in the southwest of the country early today, killing 25 crew and passengers. That's according to provincial officials.

The Taliban said it shot down the aircraft.

Separately, a suicide attack outside the country's largest prison in the capital Kabul killed at least seven people.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for that attack.

Trump visits Pittsburgh following synagogue assault

Despite calls from critics to stay away, the US president on Tuesday visited the synagogue and site of a deadly attack in Pittsburgh.

Eleven jews died in the assault on Saturday, blamed on an anti-semite armed with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Trump's critics say his divisiveness is part of the problem leading to acts of violence like this.

The visit came a week before midterm congressional elections that Trump is treating as a referendum on his agenda.

World Wildlife Fund says we're eating the planet to death

And finally,

The WWF is warning that humans are killing and eating the planet's animals, and we might not survive our own appetites.

The conservation group says we've already wiped out 60 percent of all animals with a backbone, and that's just in the last 50 years.

The finding echoes another dataset that suggests a mass extinction event may be underway.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Wednesday, October 31, 2018



Pakistan's top court overturns a controversial blasphemy conviction, and the WWF says we're eating everything to death.

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Wednesday, October 31st.

Pakistan's top court overturns blasphemy conviction

The Supreme Court in Pakistan has ordered the release of a woman sentenced to death in 2010 for blasphemy against Islam.

Asia Bibi, a christian and mother of four, denied the original charges stemming from a row in her village with several muslims.

Tensions are running high over the ruling in Pakistan where critics of the top court's order have taken to the streets in major cities.

Indonesia says it may have found Lion Air fuselage

The fuselage of a crashed Indonesian Lion Air jetliner may have been found.

That's according to Indonesia's top military commander whose troops are assisting the search operation.

The Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the sea on Monday with 189 people on board. They are all presumed dead.

Afghan army helicopter crashes

An Afghan army helicopter crashed in the southwest of the country early today, killing 25 crew and passengers. That's according to provincial officials.

The Taliban said it shot down the aircraft.

Separately, a suicide attack outside the country's largest prison in the capital Kabul killed at least seven people.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for that attack.

Trump visits Pittsburgh following synagogue assault

Despite calls from critics to stay away, the US president on Tuesday visited the synagogue and site of a deadly attack in Pittsburgh.

Eleven jews died in the assault on Saturday, blamed on an anti-semite armed with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Trump's critics say his divisiveness is part of the problem leading to acts of violence like this.

The visit came a week before midterm congressional elections that Trump is treating as a referendum on his agenda.

World Wildlife Fund says we're eating the planet to death

And finally,

The WWF is warning that humans are killing and eating the planet's animals, and we might not survive our own appetites.

The conservation group says we've already wiped out 60 percent of all animals with a backbone, and that's just in the last 50 years.

The finding echoes another dataset that suggests a mass extinction event may be underway.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Tuesday, October 30, 2018



Speculation mounts over the cause of the Lion Air crash, and is Ecuador about to eject Julian Assange from its London embassy?

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Tuesday, October 30th.

Investigators seek reason for Lion Air crash

A day after a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea off Indonesia, there is still no clear idea of what went wrong.

Any clues could come from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, but they have not been found.

The 189 people on board are all presumed dead.

US troops head for Mexico border

The Pentagon is deploying over 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border in a show of force as a migrant caravan continues its long trek north.

President Trump denies that the deployment has anything to do with US midterm elections next week.

The caravan of mostly poor migrants is still hundreds of kilometres from the border, and could take days if not weeks to even get close.

Another suspicious package addressed to CNN intercepted

Meanwhile, the arrest of the man who sent multiple pipe bombs to leading Democrats last week has not stopped the packages.

Authorities in Atlanta intercepted a fifteenth device on Monday, the third one aimed at CNN.

Julian Assange says he fears extradition to the US

And finally,

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Ecuador wants to kick him out of its embassy in London.

The Australian hacker has been living there for six years, after he fled Swedish rape charges - since dropped - and WikiLeaks dumped sensitive US government documents onto the internet.

Assange fears he will be extradited to the US.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Tuesday, October 30, 2018



Speculation mounts over the cause of the Lion Air crash, and is Ecuador about to eject Julian Assange from its London embassy?

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Tuesday, October 30th.

Investigators seek reason for Lion Air crash

A day after a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea off Indonesia, there is still no clear idea of what went wrong.

Any clues could come from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, but they have not been found.

The 189 people on board are all presumed dead.

US troops head for Mexico border

The Pentagon is deploying over 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border in a show of force as a migrant caravan continues its long trek north.

President Trump denies that the deployment has anything to do with US midterm elections next week.

The caravan of mostly poor migrants is still hundreds of kilometres from the border, and could take days if not weeks to even get close.

Another suspicious package addressed to CNN intercepted

Meanwhile, the arrest of the man who sent multiple pipe bombs to leading Democrats last week has not stopped the packages.

Authorities in Atlanta intercepted a fifteenth device on Monday, the third one aimed at CNN.

Julian Assange says he fears extradition to the US

And finally,

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Ecuador wants to kick him out of its embassy in London.

The Australian hacker has been living there for six years, after he fled Swedish rape charges - since dropped - and WikiLeaks dumped sensitive US government documents onto the internet.

Assange fears he will be extradited to the US.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com

Tuesday, October 30, 2018



Speculation mounts over the cause of the Lion Air crash, and is Ecuador about to eject Julian Assange from its London embassy?

This is TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Tuesday, October 30th.

Investigators seek reason for Lion Air crash

A day after a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea off Indonesia, there is still no clear idea of what went wrong.

Any clues could come from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, but they have not been found.

The 189 people on board are all presumed dead.

US troops head for Mexico border

The Pentagon is deploying over 5,000 troops to the US-Mexico border in a show of force as a migrant caravan continues its long trek north.

President Trump denies that the deployment has anything to do with US midterm elections next week.

The caravan of mostly poor migrants is still hundreds of kilometres from the border, and could take days if not weeks to even get close.

Another suspicious package addressed to CNN intercepted

Meanwhile, the arrest of the man who sent multiple pipe bombs to leading Democrats last week has not stopped the packages.

Authorities in Atlanta intercepted a fifteenth device on Monday, the third one aimed at CNN.

Julian Assange says he fears extradition to the US

And finally,

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Ecuador wants to kick him out of its embassy in London.

The Australian hacker has been living there for six years, after he fled Swedish rape charges - since dropped - and WikiLeaks dumped sensitive US government documents onto the internet.

Assange fears he will be extradited to the US.

And that’s your daily news brief from TRT World... For more, head to TRTWORLD.com