that the saudis. have bombarded hospitals on school buses no there are at least fourteen million people facing. starvation. thousands of people have been killed so the american administration would like probably to. not to do war. in order to lessen the pressure on the on the saudis and also qatari blockade must must also be on the agenda in the months to come but we have to wait until the american. elections not enough behind undone i understand that they will be dealing with it there will be a new reassessment of the situation on the part of the american presidency. in order to. to deal with it they will but as regards turkish relations.

meanwhile the washington post reports saudi arabia's.

about torturing in saudi arabia. a very post also talked about sexual harassment to male prisoners threatening them to sexually harassed their families outside of the jail yeah so this is not just an issue against women it's against all detainees that are held in saudi arabia how unusual is it for women to be detained and facing the sort of treatment one say also but of course when you talk about women need to look at that depends how much physical it will start at the moment we talk about women in their regime and look at this and then the women are like. but i think i think i think it's very difficult to generalize because you have a dramatic says within the saudi leadership today you have some friends who are actually adopting the doctrine you are either with me read against me. so i was at the prison because they had any despite the fact that those women have never expressed or demanded the fathers they only demanded everything. right they've been targeted to danger and they've been subjected to sexual harassment

saudi relations the u.s. secretary of state might pay you and secretary of defense jim mattis to brief u.s. senators on wednesday and the latest developments relating to saudi arabia both democratic and republican politicians have expressed concerns about the killing of the saudi journalist. at the saudi consulate in turkey last month there's also been growing condemnation of the riyadh's involvement in the war in yemen which has created a humanitarian crisis but mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so section of state might come pale and defense secondly james mattis would do this joint briefing to the senate why is it happening and what are we expecting them to say mike. well there's a couple of unanswered questions here firstly are they going to be briefing the entire senate or just the intelligence committee secondly is the director of the cia going to be present because some senators are insistent that it's all very well for the secretary of state and the defense secretary to come and b

yes so they have been using saudi arabia the americans have been using saudi arabia as a proxy if you will to essentially confront iran nevertheless this hasn't been very successful on under donald trump yet rather than isolating iran they have actually ice of the themselves when they decided to leave the nuclear deal aside from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and israel virtually the entire international community was against this move and nearly the entire international community is supporting you on and the nuclear deal to stay in place so it hasn't been very successful also i think we have to consider did the downsides of supporting the saudis now when mohammed bin samon came into power we have to remember that killing cautious he wasn't the first reckless behavior from them i mean he started to arrest his political opponents in the ritz carlton hotel the american state side and they didn't do anything they implemented a blog on qatar they didn't do anything they kidnapped a lebanese prime minister and forced him to resign still the americans gave them a free pass and even with canada whe

ei want you to know that saudi arabia has not always been as it is. we saudis deserve better. jamal you deserved better too. today on the one-month anniversary of jamal's murder and international day to end impunities and crimes against journalists we demand mohammad sal mon end extrajudicial killings torture and life-long prison sentences for journalists we demand justice for jamal, thank you. [applause] >> good morning. had my name is daniel ballsen and i'm advocacy directorrer director at amnesty usa. i'd like to thank you for having me here. unlike many people in this room i did not personally know jamal. over the past weeks i've been fortunate to speak with many people who have, and what's clear to me is that we're gathered here to remember the legacy of a remarkable man. a man who cared deeply about his country, human rights, ideas, and about the place of all three of these things in the world today. in his loss is a profound loss. it will reverb rate far beyond this room and far beyond the lives of the people who sit here today. i'd like to speak about the broader human

even a well an hour ago donald trump said we rely on the saudis for business we rely on the saudis for jobs which indicates that he's not going to take any notice of this so no the reason why this has been leaked to the media is precisely because the cia knows it cannot get official backing at this point from the trumpet ministration for its conclusion that was going to be precisely my next question is take it to glenda and say. why have we seen this leaked out and apparently within an hour to many media sources to your mind glenn is someone who knows how the cia woods what does that tell you of the cia's thinking. well i mean to observe asians and i don't know the answer of course i'm basing this on my my past experience but normally leaks on intelligence matters come from capitol hill from congress and in particular from staffers to elected officials far more frequently than from the cia itself it is true i think although i can't prove this that the very top level of the cia will leak sometimes. so i would still suspect that people on the hill who have been briefed are the more likel

s and the saudi government here in washington d.c. well if we want to perpetuate a good relationship that lasts longer and for the best interest of both parties we should do that with these people with the saudi institutions if one individual was impulsive one is really dangerous there are many alternatives we have seen that even within the royal family there are so many royals who could or could understand the reformist agenda the real reformist agenda could allow for a margin of freedom for the people could could protect the basic rights of the saudi people so what's the n b n b a said gender and the his team is it producing is actually the environment they're establishing that could establish. an environment for terrorists or flourish and to live up to the louder we'll have to leave it there thank you so much for joining me on that front that's our show up front will be back next week. across europe immigration is high on the agenda and in hungary it's presented as a pressing issue we don't have immigrants at all zero immigration b

the saudi arabia never been a beacon of the for. of speech and freedom of expression but i think that the saudi crown prince has taken things to the next level there is no tolerance for any kind of deflection from the regime or from the regime's narrative and the regime stories a lot of arab regimes in the region including the saudi ruling the egyptian regime including is the syrian regime have used this whole logic of keeping stability we're trying to preserve stability we're trying to keep you safe and this is a way of trying to keep control of the people and to keep them in check and to halt any form of opposition or freedom of expression. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers will yong will starting with israel in its latest assault on gaza it has gone after palestinian media and has done so on apologetically yes last monday night israeli warplanes destroyed the headquarters of the t.v. which is run by hamas and is located in a densely populated neighborhood. there were no

interests as we become more interested in saudi regional behavior, saudi human rights and the saudi promoting extremism. what i would suggest in order to recalibrate the u.s. saudi relationship while at the same time insuring saudi arabia is held responsible for khashoggi's murder would be for things. first our bilateral relationship needs to expand the conversation. it can be about security and economics. human rights and extremism need to be a core part of a discussion we're having. otherwise the relationship and conversation doesn't coincide with the full gamut of u.s. interests involved. second, we need to disentangle from the war in yemen. the risen concerning funding and supporting this war and now is the opportunity we can step back either through restrict in arms sales or other types of support including refueling and intelligence. third i think we need to avoid the temptation to expand what has been a guarantee, i.e. protect saudi arabia from external threats to an internal guarantee. the u.s. does not have an interest in protecting saudi arabia for nonviolent movements within his ow

leverage to get some type of negotiations over the yemeni civil war and also some type of pressure on saudi arabia to ease the blockade and maybe even lifted on qatar what about the white house though scott do you expect the white house to try and resist any pressure from congress absolutely i mean the white house for example for months resisted sanctions against russia given donald trump's affinity for a lot of reports on but they did finally have to give way the white house will probably counter brief counter spend against the us and say that they're not convinced or that the intelligence is not rock solid but then you've got the power struggle within the agencies that is glenn it has mention has been there since the start of the trump administration so it's really going to be a question of i don't think getting donald trump on line you'll never get donald trump in line but more rather whether you can get all the agencies together whether you can get support from congress and you contain donald trump and you contain jared kirshner and you try to get some sensible way forward on american f

with the saudi institutions, saudi royal family, with the saudi system itself. you talk of risk, but what of the risk on the flipside of that? what of the risk of seeing mbs undermined, seeing power in saudi arabia slip away from the ruling family and, in so away from the ruling family and, in so doing, see a rainy and interests in the region strengthened, whether it be in lebanon, whether it be in yemen, whether it be in the gulf itself? that seems to be the perspective donald trump and his associates in the white house have, frankly they need saudi arabia as a regional partner and they see mbs as a powerful representative of the anti— iranian interest. there's a consensus within the saudi institutions and the saudi royal family and the saudi people that iran could not... could pose a threat in the region and should be held accountable for any crimes committed, and to be stopped from interfering in syria or elsewhere. but, at the same time, it's not wise and it's not in the national interest... it's not a strategic interest... it's not a strategic interest to

now even if it's in the hands of saudis so saudis the do not want illegal she did sedition now up except if they if that united states is serious and they want to kill then just thought this and come to the negotiating table so does that show these you know from each side of course they are willing they are willing because it would be actually it would be i think to be four hundred feet is to go hit it even go hit it solution because now it is for yes and saudi arabia wanted it to be in four days or so this is why it would be a victory for of the and this is why saudi does not want this to happen that's a good message out of their insanity the u.s. economic embargo of cuba has been overwhelmingly condemned by the united nations the cuban sponsored resolution to the u.n. general assembly passed one hundred eighty nine to two with no abstentions cuba's foreign minister says the u.s. embargo is held back his country for generations new sanctions on venezuela's gold industry have been imposed by the u.s. which says the sector has been used to finance criminal groups national security adviser

after we started using missile attacks and we started to target saudi forces near the border saudi arabia is now portraying its aggression on yemen as if it is just a response to our border attacks via for today steep imes to once again clarify our position. we also announce that we are ready to stop all operations at all fronts to show the world who was doing what and to give peace a chance we want to prove to the world that we want peace but hell the rebels are still preparing to battle in the vital port city of data even though pro-government forces say they have paused fighting ahead of peace negotiations in sweden and to allow in humanitarian aid this just in case the sodium rotty coalition ignores the . two and the tux well the wall is. a chance to the so be. they really want to e.c.m. island into the so they will actually accept it because many times you have similar . still this only and not to. international pressure has been mounting on yemen's warring parties to end the us killed thousands of people and pushed the country to the verge of starvation the threat from diseases grow

president donald trump stands firmly behind saudi arabia despite claims a cia report says it's quote blindingly obvious the murder of jamal khashoggi was ordered by the crown prince mohammed bin salomon. al-jazeera live from london also coming up at least fifty dead and more than eighty wounded in a suicide attack in kabul. protesting against illegal israeli settlements abyan b. says it will remove listings of properties on occupied palestinian lands plus. control to me. remembering humanity's most ambitious space oddity twenty years after it took its place among the stars. and her donald trump says he's not going to ruin the world's economy by being tough on saudi arabia as political pressure grows over the murder of journalist. the us president has admitted that the saudi crown prince could have known about a plot to kill cut but that he's not going to take any more measures against riyadh earlier the state department official said a cia report had called it blindingly obvious that prince mohammed bin sandman ordered. trump has defended america's alliance with saudi arabia saying i

the saudi m.r.c. led coalition in yemen has sent thousands of troops nears the crucial port city of quick data it follows calls from the us in the un to end hostilities the united nations is backing the resumption of a political process to end the fighting between the who thing rebels and saudi backed forces u.s. led talks with the saudi led coalition and who things will be held in sweden this month. the special envoy will continue to work with all parties to agree on tangible steps to spare all yemenis the disastrous consequences of further conflict and urgently address the political security and humanitarian crisis in yemen he urges all concerned parties to seize this opportunity to engage constructively with the current efforts to swiftly resume political consultations to agree on a framework for political negotiations and confidence building measures in particular and had seen the capacities of the central bank of yemen the exchange of prisoners and the reopening of the airport. stopping the war i

asked about the saudi money much of which goes to research or scholarships for saudi students many university said it would be wrong to deprive deserving students of an education as for george washington university it says it regularly reviews programs with saudi arabia to make sure they are consistent with their educational mission giving no indication that they plan to change the relationship any time soon. washington the coalition in yemen. in the capital sanaa that it has been used to launch missiles and drones a t.v. channel linked to the rebels reported. the u.n. special envoys in yemen is relaunching talks to try to end the war as the coalition deploys thousands of soldiers to the main port city of. well. as all reports. is the latest military buildup near the besieged port city of data even as calls grow louder to end the hostilities reports of the saudi coalition in yemen has sent thousands of extra troops to the area come after the united nations announced its backing the resumption of a political process to end the fighting. the special envoy will continue to work with all parties

saudi arabia's foreign minister calls jim death an unfortunate accident as trump reiterate his support for. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . save the children estimates that extreme hunger or disease have killed almost eighty five thousand under fives in yemen since the war began in two thousand and fifteen one more border to cross central american migrants who traveled across mexico faced their final hurdle plus we see. the country. the e.u. moves the punisher rome for breaking the rules with a budget that would push if you lead deeper into debt. an unfortunate accident that south saudi arabia's foreign minister is the scribing the premeditated killing of journalist jamal ashaji bear has given a defiant interview to a u.s. network reiterating that the crown prince was not involved in this fight the cia's assessment that he ordered of the murder and he said there's no question of mohamed bin sunline being sidelined the leadership of sundry been present to the king in the problems of redlined the saudi man or woman the country is total

as muslims around the world pray for saudi journalists. a new audio recording reportedly shows his motive was premeditated. and i'm the club this is your life from london also coming up in the program with the humanitarian situation in yemen was and the u.n. envoy says the warring parties have agreed to attend peace talks in sweden. president trump says he's given written nonces to questions for the murder investigation into russian election mentally. scientists weigh up the future of one key mental would explain why that decision was. so that it takes precedence he says ress at a time when a new u.s. president donald trump have agreed in a phone call that no aspect of jamal khashoggi is mudda should be left on covet the turkish newspaper who yet says that he has an already a recording of a saudi team discussing how to mud of the journalist before he entered the consulate in istanbul that suggest the killing was premeditated tony but he has the latest now from istanbul. well the turkish authorities will see these comments in this agreement

this moment saudi the coalition is gathered in tens of thousands fight us and send a new. vehicle south of where they does so they are preparing for a major attack on the data and i think. this could be the biggest attack that will be conducted in the data in the same time we see the statement about peace in yemen in the last forty years every time someone either from the united nation or u.k. or u.s. come release a statement about peace in yemen on folks on ceasefire we see a major attack that will take place straight after the invasion of aden and it came during a cease fire attacks on some areas on. the border of yemen was during the cease fire that they when they talk. it was do it in this type of statement so it's all covered and we will see the link in the coming days when the saudis that coalition war will start that attack and are they that then we're going to see the united nations will ask again. to all the sides to cease fire just to to keep the saudi that coalition safe in this area that they have controlled ok liz i just want to bring eric answered this eric h

with the saudi institutions, saudi royalfamily, with the saudi system itself. you talk of risk, but what of the risk on the flipside of that? what of the risk of seeing mbs undermined, seeing power in saudi arabia slip away from the ruling family and, in so doing, see a rainy and interests in the region —— in so doing, see iranian interests in the region strengthened — whether it be in lebanon, whether it be in yemen, whether it be in the gulf itself? that seems to be the perspective donald trump and his associates in the white house have, frankly they need saudi arabia as a regional partner and they see mbs as a powerful representative of the anti—iranian interest. there's a consensus within the saudi institutions, and the saudi royal family and the saudi people that iran could not... could pose a threat in the region and should be held accountable for any crimes committed, and to be stopped from interfering in syria or elsewhere. but, at the same time, it's not wise and it's not in the national interest... it's not a strategic interest to build a rela

that saudi arabia will not there won't be a fair and transparent trial in saudi arabia even she's fiance in an. opinion piece she referred to the position of the us administration just one of her sentences the trumpet ministration in this tragedy the position is devoid of moral foundation we will continue to push the u.s. administration to help find justice so the message here is that saudi arabia needs to cooperate more the trumpet ministration needs to pressure saudi arabia so what the next move will be and who will carry out their next move we have to wait and see all right for the moment for us in istanbul or as in i was just saying fiance has written an opinion piece for the guardian newspaper in the u.k. teach a change is says the perpetrators should know that they can never erase his vision his beloved country they have only him bold and it it is now left to the international community to bring the perpetrators to justice of all nations the united states should be leading the way to trumpet ministration has taken a position that is devoid of moral foundation some in washington are

the saudi authorities and. i just hope that it happens. but you need to find somebody needs to find his his body yes. i believe that the search is ongoing and would he be hopeful about that well the case is remaining high on the u.s. political agenda for more on this rob reynolds joins us live now from washington d.c. rob secretary of state mike pompei o has been speaking about the case to u.s. media what's he been saying well he's been trying to sort of thread the needle if you will bear in saying that the u.s. is demanding answers and accountability for those responsible for murdering jamal khashoggi but at the same time saying that the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia a relationship that dates back to the one nine hundred forty s. still has to be preserved here's what the secretary of state and others had to say earlier today. more than a month after jamal khashoggi killing at the saudi consulate in istanbul u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe had a mixed message punish the journalists killers but maintain busin

tapes as divisions deepen within the republican party over relations with saudi arabia. yemen the rebels say they're ready for a broad a ceasefire if the saudi led coalition wants peace. israel's prime minister rejects calls for an early election and warns allies against pulling out from his government. women in bosnia and herzegovina raising their voice to save their rivers. u.s. president donald trump says he doesn't want to listen to a recording of the murder of saudi journalist. he described it he described the recording given to the u.s. by turkey as very violent and very vicious made the comments on fox news in an interview recorded before the cia briefed the trumpet ministration on the murder and its belief that saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman ordered it wasn't in jordan reports i did not know for the first time u.s. president donald trump says he knows exactly what's in the audiotape surrounding the death of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi it's a suffering tape it's a terrible tape i've been fully briefed on it there's no reason for me to hear it in

intervention of course but he is the the face of the saudi intervention of the saudi in bishan. to win this war militarily and he has announced this many times and recently he had said give us a few more months and we will finish off the who these militia that we are fighting but saudi arabia is not making it's not advancing well we have the port in her data we have the area of which is between the closer to the saudi border and they're not they're not making the inroads they were expecting to and i think when as that face saving solution it might give them an opportunity to withdraw and to find a let's say engage in a political deal provide humanitarian assistance that doesn't mean that they have to withdraw from yemen of course but at least stop the bombardments what about a political solution because there is a un resolution there's a they're trying to get together some some peace talks coming up in sweden. if the warring parties were to say ok let's sit down and talk about a deal what might a political solution look like in the you know this is really regret that i can't tel

president has admitted that the saudi crown prince could have known about a plot to kill saudi journalist jamal khashoggi but says he is not going to take any more action against riyadh earlier a cia report supposedly concluded that the crown prince ordered the killing. donald trump's comments have been widely condemned in the united states with former top officials accusing him of giving him a green light to commit murder republican congressman lindsey graham a staunch trump ally said there strong support in congress to impose serious sanctions against saudi arabia. afghanistan has declared a day of national mourning after at least fifty people were killed in a suicide attack in the capital kabul the explosion targeted a meeting of islamic scholars at a wedding venue. let's get more now top story. is the executive director of the arab center in washington d.c. and was a friend of jamal khashoggi he says trump has effectively ignored the intelligence community and pardoned the crown prince. i think it was somewhat of a strange event on the one hand this is the same president. only on sund

about torturing and saudi arabia. a very post also talked about sexual harassment to male prisoners threatening them to sexually harassed their families outside of the jail yeah so this is not just an issue against women it's against all detainees that are held in saudi arabia how unusual is it for women to be detained and facing the sort of treatment one say also but of course when you talk about women need to look at that depends how much physical it will start at the moment we talk about women in their regime and look at this and then the women might. but i think i think i think it's very difficult to generalize because you have a dramatic sense within the saudi leadership today you have some friends who are actually adopting the doctrine you are either with me read against me. so i asked at the briefing said any despite the fact that those women have never expressed or demanded the fathers they only demanded. demands they've been targeted ought to be changed and they've been subjected to sexual harassment and tort

secretary of state says sanctions are being prepared against saudis involved in the killing of the saudi leaders of so far resisted international pressure to reveal who ordered the journalist murder aides to crown prince mohammed bin man or implicated fine lines in some areas of pakistan have been cut by the government to try and stop two days of protests over a blasphemy verdict supreme court judges sparked outrage when they acquitted a christian woman sentenced to death for insulting islam eight years ago. of the murder of jamal khashoggi has brought more attention to the dangers facing journalists friday is the un's international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists many of them are killed for doing their jobs and those targets in them escape punishment jonah ho reports. anticorruption journalist daphne cairo on a year killed when a bomb exploded under her car in malta one year ago yes a. palestinian photographer shot by israeli forces during a mass demonstration along the gaza border in april and at least eight journalists murdered in mexico so far this year their profe

to negotiate according to the saudi story to negotiate with the to return to saudi arabia that is not true according to these revelations they show that the moment he entered the consulate the consulate foreman received him there in section a the visas are normally processed and one of them grabbed his hand and pulled him to the section b. was the office of the concert is located and he. tried to this is that and told the man leave me alone who do you think you are and the response of the man who is said according to the recordings to be. one of this special advice special security aide to mohammed the same as the crown prince he shouted at him insulting him and he said traitor your day of reckoning has come and then they took him to the office of the consul and that's when the recording. revealed shouts and screaming and pain from torture cries. and that was apparently the beginning of the operation germany's to hang action against the people suspected of being involved in jamal khashoggi matter it's imposing travel bans on eighteen saudi nationals so they won't be allowed to enter t

it was the seriousness of the series of crimes committed by saudi the saudi say is under international law and this is not to be discussed because this is irrevocably the rule is in easily small siebel in terms of civil. responsibility in other words compensation for the victims but the saudi government is a disposable in terms of what happened and without reaching to the highest level imagine if one hundred percent of the director of a company or an institution or the fact that that current war crimes happened and that his watch if he knew he would have resigned if he didn't know he would have resigned in both come stances that guy shouldn't be there shaking hands or meeting with the international leaders that's why the first preliminary step is for the world community led by the united states which is the biggest democracy in the world in terms of values with the united states freedom of the press protection of journalists and. other constitutional safeguards for journalists and other democratic values these should never ever appease one hundred percent in the least we should both co

as wall because while the saudi attorney spokesperson said that these people were sent to the saudi slate to extort to provide extradition. by force or the will it again now they are contradicting with their state ritual rick which was it was a premeditated murder and this premeditated murder was spoken out by the top saudi officials a couple of weeks ago so now we're seeing again solid officials are seem to be in panic and they are contradicting their own statements but from turkish side from ancora we're expecting huge reaction is mainly the first from foreign minister and maybe prisms add on will be speaking about that because he has been the defender of the scariest thing me and he has been stating that he is that he is. aside in this case so. and also a justice justice minister's statement is expected as well however i must state that for cherokee now everything has changed turkey is knots and willing to cope is actually has lost its hopes from a corporation so called cooperation with saudi arabia and turkey wants to care of this tell gen international level to international pu

it's with the seriousness of the series of crimes committed by saudi the saudi say is under international law and this is not to be discussed because this is a evil company the rule is easily sponsible in terms of civil. responsibility in other words compensation for the victims but the saudi government is it is also able in terms of what happened and without reaching to the highest level imagine if one hundred percent of the director of a company or an institution the fact that that current war crimes happened and that his watch if he knew he would have resigned if he didn't know he would have resigned in both come stances that the guy shouldn't be there shaking hands or meeting with the international leaders that's why the first preliminary step is for the world community led by the united states which is the biggest democracy in the world in tariff of values with the united states freedom of the press protection of journalists and. other constitutional safeguards for journalists and other democratic values these should never ever appease one hundred percent in the least we should both

the saudi journalist disappeared a month ago in istanbul after two weeks of denials saudi leaders eventually admitted the journalist was accidently killed then we pete earley changed their account of what we really happened saudi allies are worried about further repercussions of the international outcry and for the first time israel has commented on the killing voicing its concern about possible destabilisation of the kingdom and the region what happened is the book consulate was horrendous and should be doing. that at the same time i say. it's very important for the stability. of the region and of do that saudi arabia remain stable and i think that a way must be found to achieve but. just murder has solved relations between turkey and saudi arabia frustrated over what they describe as evasive saudi attitudes the turks are keeping up the diplomatic pressure on the kingdom. at a memorial service in washington d.c. her disease end is hostilities fiance is grappling with the loss even though a month has passed since jamal's murder his body has still not been given to his loved ones and his fune

saudi arabia right now. i think that rhetoric is actually more plausible to the world, to the locals, to the saudi's. a lot of saudi's are looking for such plausible rhetoric that jamal was pushing and supported. you're not can i have an instability in the region because of saudi arabia. not protected by the states. i think that rhetoric is what made him à >> why was he such a threat? >> i agree, for decades the Ãb presented the populations with this completely false choice between between them repressive regimes essentially Ãbsaddam hussein, echoes back for a long time. between them and radical islam. terrorism, chaos. >> that's alternative. >> that's what they say. it's either us or radical islam. the arabs bring arab uprisings i would say kind of showed that that was a bit of a lie. obviously to develop democracy in countries that have been under oppression for long time and can be very difficult process as Ãbas finding out. as the aborted attempt in egypt demonstrates.very very difficult. but it's a

and saudi arabia i think it's not just because they're using saudi arabia against iran and saudi arabia's very willingly going along with that they don't need much persuasion there are two other big factors one of course is the arms sales huge billion dollar sales of american weapons to saudi arabia which helps the american economy but the very big issue in israel the question of israel of course is already they want to do up there is now being called normalization which is to get the arab countries to start normalizing they're going to actions with israel first on a commercial basis its tenets and sharing than political and diplomatic to allow israel to have a much freer hand in the middle east and the view we have been reports of on the table contacts between the saudi intelligence people and the israeli intelligence people whom we've seen. who went to oman recently in their other contacts with arab countries as well in the gulf so that's really it's a huge thing if they could get saddam going to come out openly declare that israel was a normal states and they could have diplomatic rela

saudi relations. we also have a great ally in saudi arabia they give us a lot of jobs that give us a lot of business a lot of economic development they are they have been truly spectacular ally in terms of jobs and i'm a good element and i also take that you know i'm president i have to take a lot of things that you can generate well as gastritis you have returns in washington d.c. and she has told us more about what the cia has said and what the state department to say. right and we should be clear head the cia is just one branch of the administration or one you know it's not the definitive conclusion just because the cia has reached this conclusion with high confidence it doesn't necessarily mean that the whole of the we should mean that that we should take that to mean that the administration takes that as its conclusions and clearly that's what we hear in the state department saying as you mentioned recent reports indicating that the u.s. government has made a final conclusion or an accurate there

the future saudi. arabia. is. the armature does britain europe the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week the saudi operative linked to the khashoggi killing and the lengths he went to to suppress journalism in the kingdom of the koreas the unique genre that is defector t.v. . it was no accident israel tries to take down gases al aksa t.v. and a low everyone in an english artificial intelligence some newsreaders can seem artificial in that respect this guy is the real deal ai anchors on the air in china we begin though with saudi arabia and the methods the kingdom still uses to silence its critics sometimes permanently it's been more than a month now since the murder of john malkovich. riyad reaffirmed this past week that it was a rogue operation but its story keeps changing and news has surfaced of another saudi journalist to a key al just jailed eight months ago since tortured to death i'll just surround what he thought was an anonymous account on twitter a platform that

carrying some of the saudi agents shogi walks through the front gate of the saudi consulate at thirteen fourteen the last time he has ever seen alive to president richard says he is a tech tsunami tortured killed and then dismembered reuters news agency says this man sowed. a top aide to saudi prince mohammed bin cell man supervises the killing virus sky cool for days after disappearance saudi officials insist he left the building surveillance footage shows those behind his murder wanted to make it look that way one member of the team dresses in casual g.'s clothes even wears a false bid but tellingly his own shoes he walks out of the consulate throwback exit to make it look like chris. she left about two hours after the consulate vented from the consulate to the nearby residents of the saudi consul. seen there at sixteen fifty three all the time on say is waiting outside the saudi consulate the teacher alerts authorities and turkish intelligence and security agents rushed to added to a port according to sources they searched at least one of the private jets and baggage too but after tw

backing for the saudi campaign in yemen. this is the controversial saudi crown prince who, reportedly in the assessment of the cia, ordered the killing of n urnalist jamal khashoggi. mohammad bin salmarived in argentina ahead of the g20 summit, but on capitol hill, a chorus of senato demanded saudi arabia face consequences for violating human rights. the u.s.ecretary of state had to defend a crucial ally. sec. pompeo: there is no direct reporting connting the crown prince to the order to murder jamal khashoggi. selfa: the president h said in a " washington post" interview once again that maybe mohammad bin salman did know about the killing, maybe he didn't come and the trump administration argues that saudi arabia is a crucial partner. but u.s. senators saygnmerica cannote murder. >> when we do not send a message to a country like saudi arabia, we tell an ally you can kill with impunity simply because you have some other interest with us, then we sent a global message that is frightening and one that does not serve u.s. nati

i mean this is the problem the saudis this is not new i mean the way that the saudis have been using an iron fist to control not only their kingdom. domestically but also elements of their kingdom abroad this is this is not this is not new jamal to show he was not an american citizen he was you know a contributor to a american newspaper this didn't occur on the united states soil it was a it was in a foreign country let us also be aware that turkey under president reagan has absolutely number of civil war a human rights violations being charged against him as well so let's also not dismiss the apparent hypocrisy and humor going on with that so back to the saudi situation this is not new this is i mean i don't know if this is buyer's remorse among some members of the senate again a lot of their their operation has been financed with american dollars because of our dependence on their oil but. you know yes m.b.a.'s was heralded as a reformer and has been pushing the number of domestic reforms that would help bring his kingdom into the twenty first century quite honestly but is anybody

and saudi arabia i think it's not just because they're using saudi arabia against iran and saudi arabia's very willingly going along with that they don't need much persuasion there are two other big factors one of course is the arms sales huge billion dollar sales of american weapons to saudi arabia which helps the american economy but the very big issue in israel the question of israel of course is already they want to do what there is now being called normalization which is to get the arab countries to start normalizing they're going to actions with israel first on a commercial basis its tenets and sharing than political and diplomatic to allow israel to have a much freer hand in the middle east and the view we have been reports of on the table contacts between the saudi intelligence people and the israeli intelligence people whom we've seen. you know who went to oman recently in there as a contacts with arab countries as well in the gulf so that's really it's a huge thing if they could get saddam going to come out openly declare that israel was a normal states and they could have diplo

saudi leadership. but in some ways it is what they would expect, and itheonfirms whatsaid from day one even before the trump presidency began, that president trump would be a loyal ally ana very usted friend of the kingdom no matter what.it now seems even siding with the kingdom over what is reported to have been the assessment of his own intelligence agencies. the president did mention and saudis know that there will be pressu from members of the ths. congress who don't want the president to tak kind of standa, -- stand, and there will be continuing criticism from human rights groups and pressure from other countries who will continue to d greater clarity. since i have been here in the kingdom, so many saudis have expressed to me how upset they are by what they call a deicable act. many don't believe that the crown ince himself personally ordered the assassination. but they ait that his big question and this dark cloud is going to hang ov not just the kingdom but over those t individuals, are are many

likely hit saudi where it hurts. i mean here it's very it's very important that we try to differentiate between the authorities and the competences of the different u.s. institutions so for instance those thirty's like the pentagon have already taken some steps which are significant as we know day have decided to stop refueling saudi jets hitting in yemen and that's absolutely crucial for if you if you have a look at you know military cup abilities in saudi arabia and how fundamental that pentagon support was so that's you know very significant and the same time the state department has similar room for maneuver but i'm a bit more doubtful that actually measures that are truly i'm in full in the sense that could be also perceived as damaging to quote unquote strategic interests could be pasta in the congress especially because they require a two thirds majority and you know that's why i was referring to the fact that the statement that came out of the white house was very well received in riyadh because the statement

senators introduce a bill seeking suspension of weapons sales to saudi arabia meanwhile saudi arabia says it's seeking the death penalty for the alleged killers of cash but ankara says the announcement falls short of expectations. watching all these are a lie from headquarters in doha i'm dead you know also ahead an embattled prime minister of tourism a defends her draft deal after resignations by two cabinet ministers and staying where they are bangladesh holds the repatriation of revenge or refugees to me and following protests. hello u.s. senators are proposing sanctions on saudi arabia over the murder of journalists. on the war in yemen the bill supported by both republicans and democrats seeks to block arms sales and prevent saudi warplanes from refueling at u.s. bases mike hanna reports from washington iraq is today to call for an end to the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen well the issue after it was not on the senate to gender today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global mix in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and

have money from saudi arabia i've done thing to do with saudi arabia i couldn't care less and i will tell you what is most of you know being president has cost me a fortune and that's ok with me i knew that a long time ago but being president has cost me a fortune a tremendous fortune like you've never seen before but it's some day i'll tell you what that is but and i do that a long time ago because i don't do deals i don't see all i do is focus on this country and making great deals for this country i don't focus on making great deals for myself because i don't care anymore so saudi arabia has nothing to do with me what does have to do with me is putting america first through the head wait wait wait. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this country if i say we don't want to take your business if i say we're going to cut it off they will get the equipment military equipment and other things from russia and china russia and china would be very very happy because right now we're doing very well against china we're doing very well against everybody includ

saudi relationship because the congress is now moving forward with imposing sanctions on to saudi government including potentially on prince mohammed himself but do you think it strange that doesn't fully absolve mohammed bin solomon of involvement in this matter when he says it could very well be that the crown prince had knowledge of this tragic event that he's still very much sitting on the fence isn't he. i think that he is the liberally seeking to be big u.s. about it because on one hand his intelligence services namely to cia has concluded that this murder was ordered by the highest levels of the saudi government on the other hand the entire us foreign policy establishment understands that the eighty year old strategic alliance to it saudi arabia must continue even though saudi arabia has now committed to screw some murder so what president trump asus and chile trying to do is to balance these two things with his trump ian style and his classic rhetoric which is off putting to a lot of people obviously but it's silva just what is left of the us saudi relationship why do you think obama

out what happened to the remains of the saudi journalist after he was killed inside the saudi consulate last month is tony berkley. the search centered on a large villa near the town of yellow over an hour's drive south of istanbul the forty strong team including police with sniffer dogs security forces and forensic investigators spent all monday at the villa which is said to be owned by a rich saudi businessman turkish media reported that he has links to crown prince mohammed bin sandman portraits of the saudi king and crown prince could be seen hanging in the hallway turkish investigators were acting on phone records of calls made from the saudi consulate in istanbul before he was murdered one is said to have been made to the villa by a saudi national he's been named as left tenant colonel mansoor othman abu hussein who was a member of the so-called hit squad which carried out the killing it's thought that colonel abu hussein is in the saudi civil defense force and to serve the crown prince the turkish prosecutor has issued a statement saying the call was made a day before the killing

this will embarrass the united states and saudi arabia and great britain most the saudis clearly because they wanted this the united states because it's a major it is the major support of saudi arabia and also the united kingdom because they supplied along with the united states the arms that saudi arabia uses in its activities in yemen and places but i think this moment why this moment is that the leaders of the world are getting together they're talking about the end of the first world war the hundredth anniversary and he's going to put pressure on them to get what he wants because this is a time that if they don't do anything they don't get on the world seat so this is winds big is i think is clearly all along has played a very smart. what he wants to get out of this protect the other following i think in the case of the united states he wants to get any sanctions lifted and he also wants america's support these are the saudi arabia. he also wants to get money out of saudi arabia because i think the saudis are known there's some countries who fight the saudis try to buy everything and

the saudi journalist disappeared a month ago in istanbul after two weeks of denials saudi leaders eventually admitted the journalist was accidently killed then we pete earley changed their account of what we really happened saudi allies are worried about further repercussions of the international outcry and for the first time israel has commented on the killing voicing its concerned about possible destabilization of the kingdom and the region what happened. in book consulate was horrendous and should be doing. the same time i say. it's very important for the stability. of the region and of new that saudi arabia remains stable and i think that a way must be found to achieve both. hushovd just murder has solved relations between turkey and saudi arabia. frustrated over what they describe as evasive saudi attitudes the turks are keeping the diplomatic pressure on the kingdom. that's a memorial service in washington d.c. . is hostilities fiance is grappling with the loss even though a month has passed since jamal's murder his body has still not been given to his loved ones and his funeral prayer

i want you to know that saudi arabia has not always been as it is. we saudi's deserve better. jamal, you deserve better, to appear today on the one-month anniversary of the murder and the international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists, we demand that crown prince mohammed bin salman and the climate of impunity at the judicial killings, torture and life long prison sentences for journalists. we demand justice for jamal. thank you. [applause] >> good morning. my name is dana name is tina wells said in name is dana wilson and ipads director at amnesty international u.s.a. and am deeply honored for the opportunity to be here today and i'd like to sincerely thank justice for jamal campaign for having me here. unlike many people in this room i did not personally know jamal khashoggi, but over the past several weeks have been deeply fortunate to speak with many people who have and what is clear to me is that we are gathered here to remember the legacy of a remarkable man. a man who care deeply about his country, about human rights, about ideas and about the place of