A rocket attack for tuesdays blast as an angry public blames political divisions and corruption. In the u. S. Imposes sanctions on hong kongs leader kerry lamb and 10 other officials. And only willing to do. The Champions League family returns and that means Unfinished Business from Manchester City while madrid with the english probably doomed from the 1st leg that was played back in march. Now the u. S. State department has called a former top saudi intelligence official sadal jobbery a valued partner it comes a day after it was revealed that algebra filed a lawsuit and washington d. C. Accusing Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin salmond of sending his men to canada to try to kill him the state Department Says its concerned by those allegations and also says any persecution of his family members back in saudi arabia is unacceptable mike hanna reports crown prince muhammad has in the white house but now in papers before washington d. C. Court used alleged to have ordered death squads to torture and opponents. The case has been brought by a former saudi Intelligence Officer saad are japery who alleges the crown prince sent a team called the tiger squad to canada to kill him the Court Papers Say the men were denied entry by suspicious Canadian Border guards this detailed flow chart submitted to the court identifies key members of the assassination squad and others involved including what are described as forensic technicians skilled in criminal evidence removal and their image of the hit squad that is believed to have murdered and dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in istanbul in 2018 i know that there are women. All over the world in germany in france somebody notice. Basically a runaway from sort of group because there. Are questions from the government which is. One of them is omar up the legacy is also resident in canada mentioned in the court filing as another potential target of assassination and who posted this video in reaction to the news the case has been brought in terms of legislation that allows non us citizens to take action in federal courts against foreign individuals who have committed torture and or extra judicial killings in addition sired algebra he argues that the hit squad assembled in the United States before attempting to enter canada saddle japanese children now aged 20. 21 are being held at an undisclosed location in saudi arabia as what he describes as human bait to draw him out of hiding last month for senators sent a letter to President Trump saying the u. S. Had a moral obligation to press saudi authorities for their release. The past is made clear that regardless of the allegations of Human Rights Violations against the Saudi Crown Prince is probably mohammed when someone remains a valued ally and friend. Well for more now lets speak to mike hanna who is in washington d. C. Mike this is presumably not going to help relations between washington and riyadh. Certainly not 10 congress has been pleading for a period of time now to get the release of a doctor children who are being held in riyadh as i mentioned in that particular report now the situation here has developed some want because a number of senators wrote a letter asking for this to happen and there has now been a response from the state department which says in a letter to senator Patrick Leahy who actually wrote the original letter that gifts sort of firey is a valued ally of the United States he was according to the court papers the point person for counterterrorism activities between the United States and saudi arabia up until 2015 shortly before he left to riyadh and took refuge in canada but this letter from the state department is very strong it says it has repeatedly approach saudi arabia about the fate of his children saying that its for saudi arabia to persecute members of his family is absolutely unacceptable it adds to in the letter that saudi arabia has been accused of holding a number of other u. S. Citizens as well so this is ratcheting up this whole affair very strongly with this letter from state department coming firmly down on the side of those who want to see at the very least their children returned to their family why cant they with all the latest from washington d. C. Thank you very much mike. Now an Air India Express flight with 191. 00 people on board has skidded off the runway while landing in cold and careless state at least 14 people have died that includes the pilot and the copilot airport Officials Say he couldnt see the runway clearly due to heavy rain the crash caused the plane to split into 2 but it did not catch fire local media is saying that dozens of passengers are injured but we can now speak to our correspondent elizabeth purana who speaking to us on the phone from new delhi is weve been watching the death toll rise over the last few hours since this incident can you talk us through just what we know at this stage. Hunt got just the latest were hearing and this is from the director general of civilization he says that 16 people have been killed and local media is reporting that includes both of the playing hide and that around 100 people have been injured now there are 190 people on board including 6 crew members on the boeing 707 plane that was traveling following dubai to the code it was a patch thats doing International Commercial flights and there. Were hearing that around a 100 people are in hospital and that rescue operation is now. Weve also got some more information about the plane demand then what were hearing is that the flight radar shows it wasnt able to last the 1st top you tried that one had 2nd attend that the air and it skidded off the runway and fell all the edge of the runway the Civil Aviation minister says that it fell into was about 35 feet so i guess that well. And broke into 2 parts. As they say malaysian minister saying if it did fall this is acadia very hilly area that can you talk to us or about the terrain were dealing with. Very valley area the stuff here and the type of runway its called a table top runway and surrounded by floyd now again the director general of Civil Aviation said that the president traveling believe the landing that it overshot the runway and the head of the National Disaster response there will. Be on the same their doctors the medics there that involved in the rescue effort the head of the National Disaster response ford said that because of the fact of the plane pulling off the wrong way most people on the injured. They have ordered the Civil Aviation ministry has ordered an inquiry you know that they have been very heavy monsoon rains and cattle all day and that is because it was because there was really bad visibility that come along quietly skidded off the runway and then the problem that india correspondent on the phone from new delhi with all the latest thank you very much live well we can now also speak to todd curtis hes a former Airline Safety engineer for boeing and also the c. E. O. S. A. s dot com he joins us now from boston i do want to begin with what liz was saying heavy rain and carola and even caused a landslide earlier in the day and there were deaths in that landslide do we know yet why the plane was even trying to land if the visibility wasnt ideal should the pilot have been even trying to do so or. Or 1st thanks for having me and as far as the conditions are at the airport thats something i will have to come out through the investigation because it is not only a function of what the pilots were thinking in their decisions but also air Traffic Controllers and even the Weather Forecasters are one thing i did find interesting and possibly relevant to this event is the Weather Forecast both immediately before to really after the incident didnt indicate a heavy rain but rather what rain but more importantly the winds were reportedly coming from a direction such that it was coming from the rear plane as it landed in typically for both takeoff and where the pilots would prefer to take off the wind because it helps with the slowing the plane down when youre on here helps with generating lived or were speeder to go so one question i would have is what decision was made by the crew to land with apparently a pure wind. And you also mentioned air Traffic Control that there have been a number of incidents at this particular airport calicos International Airport several of them also taking place as a plane was landing one of the considerations here when you are landing on such a a tabletop s trip. Well thats always a consideration be the condition of the airport that is the temporary conditions weather and also the way the airplane at the airport rather is constructed heavy a tabletop runway or rather a runway where theres a certain dropoff troyer to the room which is not unusual i lived for several years in seattle and the main airport here has one of those or tabletop situations that is if an airplane were to run off runway very few 100 meters after running off the runway there is a rather steep drop off in that case an airplane like the 7 through 7800. 00 is not really designed to withstand falling off a steep slope like that so its not surprising that there was a severe breakup of the fuselage. There have been a number of incidents like this i remember where planes of skidded off runways and then broken into pieces there was that pegasus crash back in 2018 but i also recall there were no casualties then so whats so different this time around. With every event every accident every incident the conditions point will determine how much damage or how many injuries or deaths now in the case of the pegasus or on which area whole world was rather dramatically it was a very steep slope but from what i understand from the investigation those are fairly low speed but one of the side of the airport its unclear how fast this airplane was traveling when to exit the runway but that would certainly determine how much damage would happen to their well and express who are running this flight is a low cost carrier what do we know about their Safety Record so far. Well coincidentally the air new express which is to control bay or india they had a previous crash 10 years ago lol so the party. In a similar situation it is a crash on land now of course it was a decade ago completely different set of circumstances some similarities so i wouldnt draw a conclusion between 2002 days ago but this is an Airline Air India as a whole which has had several fatal events only about for the last 40 years or so perhaps the most romantic was the bombing in 1005. 00 of the air india 747 coming out of canada. Well they will clearly be an investigation into this tucker says that a former Airline Safety engineer from boeing and the c. E. O. Of air safe dot com great to get your insights here on out there thanks for being with us talk thanks again for having me. Now moving on and lebanons president has raised the possibility of external interference in tuesdays port prostin barriers michel aoun addressed the nation a few hours ago vowing an investigation into whether the blast was caused by negligence an accident or even a rocket or bomb but the government is facing widespread anger amid accusations of mismanagement and corruption 157 people have now been confirmed dead Bennett Smith reports from beirut. Armies of volunteers are on the streets of beirut. Sweeping clearing digging. Theyre filling the gap left by the state. Which is conspicuous by its absence. We had an i. T. Company here times were tough before tuesdays explosion now she says she cant see any future here. I am in. The. First. I see im 30. And both come. From 25 years. I work here outside this is the 1st time i. I see Something Like that. Lebanons president michel own says an investigation into the explosion will look at whether it was caused by negligence or external interference through a rocket or bomb or other act whatever it was in beirut they want to know why 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate was stored in an urban area. When the Ammonium Nitrate ignited the shock wave instantly crossed the city leaving beirut looking like a place but after just 5 seconds of support from the years of conflict. Frustration and anger boiled over on thursday night and there were some small protests near lebanons parliament. But most people here have been focused on cleaning up for now the government says reconstruction costs will run to at least 15000000000. 00. This is a country that was already on its knees because of a deep economic crisis and a currency that has lost 80 percent of its value in less than a year we dont have a government to look after us and doing the least either we donate food oaklawn blood even our apartment. Were trying to see people if they need help within our street thats the least we can do the government is incapable of helping us so we the people are coming here to do to help our comrades and levanon and were coming from the north all of us were like 78 people were coming from 90 kilometers north north of. Here just to stand by the people the blast has left at least 300000 people homeless many will rely on relatives or friends to take them in. More than 150 people have been killed and there are many missing foreign search teams are leading the delicate task of trying to find survivors under the rubble. More than 5000 people have been injured. 19 people have been arrested in the investigation into the warehouse explosion including the beirut airport manager but for many in this city the finger of blame is pointed at the very top of government. Bernard smith aljazeera favorites well lets get more now from our correspondents anahata who is in beirut for us as i know we did hear from the leader of hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah just in the last couple of hours or so and he does seem to be distancing himself from the political leadership. Well yes hezbollah the Lebanese Group that controls political power along with their allies they control the government they control the parliament their military wing is stronger than the army he in his speech today repeated time and time again that hezbollah had nothing to do with the its highly explosive material that was stored at one of the warehouses of beirut port behind me what to believe a fire a fire started and its caused this this massive blast that destroyed many parts of the city so he was this the thing himself but at the same time without explicitly saying it he dismissed outright the possibility of an International Investigation because calls are growing louder that there is a need for International Investigators to be involved because the lebanese many lebanese have little faith in the government and they question the membership the committee that was formed to look into this disaster it is made up of politicians ministers as well as heads of security agencies people who are in charge they believe these people should not be questioning others but they should be questioned. And send the i would like to emphasize that hezbollah categorically refutes and rejects that we have materials seaport not a single bullet weapon ammunition or a bomb nothing at all belongs to hezbollah even the materials the Ammonium Nitrate that does not belong to hezbollah and. I believe that there is a consensus amongst all lebanese that a complete comprehensive transparent and fair investigation must take place and those responsible will be firmly justly and swiftly penalized. And its now been nearly 3 days since the blast and youre on the ground there how a search and rescue operation is going now. Well yes its been 3 days many people remain missing and many of them are believed to have been Court Employees they were working at the ports when this massive explosion happened as well as firefighters who were the 1st responders when the fire 1st erupted at the ports before the blast that you can see behind me the Lights International rescue teams have now joined the operation because the lebanese Civil Defense the red cross they didnt have the right equipment to do this alone theyre pulling out body parts and corpses from underneath the rubble really theres little hope of finding survivors but families theyve been gathering outside the ports entrance in the hope of getting any news about their loved ones so this search continues while many wounded remain that hospital many of them in Critical Condition the death toll now stands at 154 and in the streets people are still trying to make sense of what exactly happened there is a lot of anger there is a lot of rage they believe that this accident if indeed it was an accident was a manmade and could have been avoided but they are blaming the authorities for being negligent incompetent and accusing them of corruption zana one of their with all the latest from the streets of beirut will continue bringing you all the latest here on their thank yous and. The United Nations envoy to yemen has condemned and strike which killed at least 9 children on thursday march and griffiths is calling for an investigation into that strike in al jawf which also left 12 women and children injured the saudi u. A. E. Coalition has been blamed for carrying out that