bin solomon the journalist was killed at the saudi consulate in istanbul almost four months ago now but his body or remains have never been recovered and the murder case remains unsolved turkey's not satisfied with the saudis own investigations and wants a full international investigation but it's got an end the pendent investigation led by the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions agnes calm are entertainer in turkey for a week long mission she also wants to visit saudi arabia telmarc said on thursday that the three member legal and forensic panel would seek to establish state and individuals responsibilities for the killing i conceive of this and for it to be a necessary step among a number of others toward crucial truth telling about and formal accountability for the gruesome killing of mr. hell marc who had requested information from other authorities including the united states hopes this will help ensure accountability and transparency in this case and may open new avenues for the prevention and protection of the right to life and other cases including a charnel us

made a clear distinction between the king of saudi arabia. and his son and although he blamed the son to some extent for being responsible for this for this killing he has he made it clear that he had nothing but told to respect to the king and was very. attempting to reconcile with saudi arabia as a state so the point being even there we are talking about a a brutal murder there are still politics and a lot of things involved that have to be managed and joggled ok that's all right so kora let me ask you let's talk about the particulars of what this process is going to be now what can you kind of walk us through now that there is a u.n. wrapper tour involved asking to see the crime scene etc etc how how will this actually play out. that's a good question as it's going to be dependent on a i'm a number of factors so they un system of protection has a number of what's called thematic mandates for a special ruppel terms so i was revoted discuss the un special rapporteur on actually judicial killing it has commenced this investigation so a number

led by saudi arabia and the united arab and. aid agencies say millions are close to starvation it's estimated eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition some hope the worst is over. god willing we will see a better future the end of the crisis and peace in the region in particular. i don't. expect that in twenty nineteen for yemen to stop and peace or political reconciliation. in the sun are to the north of to ease more devastation but here too among the destroyed buildings some optimism. and we hope the aggression will stop and the economy and life will improve so tied. back in who data not everyone is convinced the ceasefire will hold. decision is justin compay her we haven't seen any results yet reality in her data is contrary to what we expected. at the dawn of a new year there are glimmers of hope for the people of yemen but no one can be sure how long that hope might last rob patterson. taliban fighters of killed at least twenty one afghan security personnel during several attacks on military posts in proven

it's not just the saudis. the report goes far beyond the cliches we've been locked into and viewing the role of islam. so if we're talking about iran, for example, you know, even though there aren't, you know, actors sort of nonstate actors in iran that are on social media to the degree the sunnis are advancing an anti-sunni message the iranians are masters of what this report is talking about which is religious soft power. and they've been at this game really since the revolution. for them it's not something new. they've taken to it an art form and i will just use iraq as an example of where we are in iraq today. the iranians became very entrenched in iraq even though there are centuries of religious ties between the clerical center in iraq and the clerical center in iran so there was a long history of religious connections. but after the 2003 invasion, iran very, very cleverly began creating religious schools in iraq. they began this kind of soft power that now what's happened in iraq and i think that, you k

when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the ninety seventy nine there was a clear position by the g.c.c. countries to combat iranian intervention and

its arms sales to saudi arabia and. the case has drawn global attention district guardianship laws that require saudi women to get a male guardians permission to travel or escape is said to have inspired other saudi women rajoub mohamed. mock my god is going to start a revolution in saudi arabia go on social media now and watch the accounts off so many young saudis see you have shown us that we can do this refused to see her father and brother who traveled to bangkok to seek or return in the end it might have been noon savvy use of social media that led her to a new life in canada. the saudi official reportedly told the timing authorities who seized her passport i wish they'd taken her phone instead john hendren. a fuel truck explosion in nigeria is feared to have killed dozens of bystanders police in cross river state confirm at least twelve people dead it's feared the eventual total could be as high as sixty a crowd was gathering fuel from the overturned tank when it exploded similar blasts have killed hundreds of the

justin 2017 the saudi crown prince talked about being committed to returning saudi arabia to moderate islam. what did he mean by that? >> i think this very intriguing pronouncement by the crown prince and 2017 was in my view broadly misunderstood, particularly among his audience in the west who i think wanted to take it as an indication that saudi arabia would back away from the very ultraconservative left wrist interpretation of islam with this conservative establishment. >> there are some groups that might have been associated with some terrorist activities especially after 9/11. >> i think that is a separate question, certainly in the way we treated in the report. our report is not focused on support to saudi state for a particular militant groups. that certainly is an instrument in the saudi toolkit. and saudi arabia, along with a wide range of other governments in the region, iran, certainly as well as the united arab emirates have over the year particularly in recent years have provided plenty of support to particular militant groups in countries of the region that are in confli

saudi arabia's saudi arabia's position. thank you chris been but i will point out that of course we do not share the view about sales and that's actually one of the strengths i think of why it's important to have the cross party support of this panel and the liberal democrats think that the government has not been strong enough however that's why it's so important for the saudi arabians to engage with us because we have the whole range of the views here and the fact is if they did allow me to go and interview the detainees and seek this evidence it would be well received by britain and other liberal democracies this would not be a seen as any kind of stitch up this is very much a cross party effort and the focus remains on international human rights will regardless of we know what other geopolitical considerations saudi arabia may well be involved in at them and. between from got in as i understand you wrote to the saudi embassy here and you've is it correct you hear nothing in. what we know. we're not for it we're not form

saudi arabia for talks with saudi crown prince mohamad and solomon says he will bring up the murder of journalist. earlier he called on gulf nations to unite and in the blockade against qatar. iran's foreign minister has met his counterpart in baghdad and discussed u.s. sanctions against iran and the normalization of relations with syria zimbabwe has more than doubled the price of fuel over night but the move has failed to ease the nationwide petrol and diesel shortage. petrol stations in some cases for several days. at a funeral for a single senior rebel commander an indian administered kashmir as government forces try to block mourners from attending or ship ari has the latest. paying their respects thousands defied barriers and roadblocks to gather in the hometown of rebel commanders in actual islam he was one of the two men killed in a gun battle with government troops late on saturday. was a. zenith a list. almost a pious muslim and one of the greatest fighters what compulsion made zenit to pick up arms these young men are taking up arms because of the ongoing oppression from indi

administration away from saudi including over yemen their ministration is in bed with saudi arabia because it wants regime change in iran and until you give up that policy of regime change in iran saudi arabia still has a leverage with the trump an illustration of like if congress or anyone else tries to push too hard a scholar might let me bring that up because we all i think it was you specifically that said that donald trump has bit at odds with his intelligence community just this week the leaders in the intelligence community testified that iran is still complying with video even though donald trump backed it up where is this coming from. ripped it up hard to remember them for those intelligence services though which the cia the office of national intelligence they're coming at it from just a sheer assessment of what iran is doing but in that same administration you have a secretary of state might pompei o a national security advisor john bolton who are committed to they will call it this but they are committed to regime change in iran after shredding that nuclear deal so you've got a

the bombardment of yemen has continued by saudi coalition forces, which really is primarily saudi arabia and the uae at this point. there continues to be an extreme humaninitarian disaster, man-mae cacatastrophe inin t country leading s starvionn contions for millns of peopl of crse, ovethis past year, the u.s. media in their british media in particular have fininay fofocused on the devastation caused by this war. with respect to the u.s. role in this war, the united states continues to provide intelligcece andarargeting assistance come although t this yeyear under pressure e from the american pubublic from the amamerican congress, president trump announced they would disband the refueling of saudi aircraft and him are ready aircraft of their planes. ironically, refueling of hundreds of billions of dollars that the saudis and emirates never paid for.. of c course they claim that sasi and uae are now able to refuel their own planes, but in fact, nermeen: can you talk about more broadly censorship in saudi arabia and how many journalists and also activist are imprisoned in the kingdom? >>

and i think it's because of the economic weight that saudi arabia has saudi arabia still the largest and biggest importer of weapons in the world that means the worth of big business and so there is this counting saudi pressure because of the economic stakes play here but i think you know some are took a very brave move it may cost us some financial relations with the saudis but i would say that most needs are frankly point willing to pay those costs to be on the right side of history and i can't say that's the case for many countries around the world . well it's been a pleasure talking to all of you we've run out of time but a great to get your perspectives on this important story thanks very much indeed thank you to our guests now i will here in the studio where mani and i my job and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to all facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and of course you can also take the conversation on twitter. a.j. inside story from a nick log

saudi arabia is key to that. outrage over the recent saudi murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi has complicated the relationship. a senior us official said the americans wanted the saudis to give a more credible explanation of what happened and do more to punish the killers and mr pompeo would press them on this point. barbara plett usher, bbc news, riyadh. parts of germany, austria and sweden are suffering exceptional amounts of snow which have already killed seven people in the past week. bethany bell reports now from annaberg in the austrian alps. the little town of annaberg is blanketed in white. like many mountain regions in germany and austria, it's experiencing unusually heavy falls of snow. these sensors are there to protect houses from avalanches. the authorities are struggling to remove the snow. these volunteer firefighters are working to clear the roof of annaberg's primary school. stefan obermeister from the lower austrian fire brigade says they need to ensure the building is safe enough for chil

made a clear distinction between the king of saudi arabia. and his son and although he blamed the son to some extent for being responsible for this for this killing he has he made it clear that he had nothing but talk to respect to the king and was very. attempting to reconcile with saudi arabia as a state so the point being even there we are talking about a a brutal murder there are still politics and a lot of things involved that have to be managed and joggled ok that's all right so kora let me ask you let's talk about the particulars of what this process is going to be now what can you kind of walk us through now that there is a u.n. wrapper tour involved asking to see the crime scene etc etc how will this actually play out. that's a good question as it's going to be dependent on a m a number of factors so they u.n. system of protection has a number of what's called thematic mandates for its special ruppel terms so i was revoted discuss the un special rapporteur on actually judicial killing it has commenced this investigation so a number o

the saudi u.a.e. coalition and who the rebels and yemen are both being accused of stealing food aid the un food agency is threatening to suspend aid shipments unless more is done to stop corruption the world food program says about two thirds of a deliver to the control strongholds is being stolen by armed groups the associated press also saw documents suggesting that russians intended for families in there is being stolen by armed units working with the saudi emirate coalition forces. hong kong's new year's day pro-democracy rally is and you will event but this year activists say they're facing unprecedented demand government officials told organizers to prevent protesters from displaying pro independence symbols outside the government's courters the civil human rights front little comply with describes demands as a threat to freedom of expression let's cross over to hong kong and give you a good part and we're seeing live pictures to fear of those crowds slowly marching along the streets how do you

i was in saudi arabia, i was there primarily see an official saudi's. i would start with one general observation. a point that barbara made about ,uestioning where the u.s. is it's something that comes through both in my trips to abu dhabi and dubai and saudi arabia and israel. i would even casted a little bit differently. the questions i got actually really, maybe trump is not an exception, trump seems a lot like obama to us. in terms of not wanting to be in the region, not equating the two, but saying that basically, we wonder what the u.s. really wants to be in the middle east whether what we're seeing now is the new normal. as theust put that out kind of reality that you get when you are in the region. withudi arabia itself, and the saudi's i spoke to both prior to being there and then when i got there, right now is a kind of interesting mood. initially when i was first seeing saudi's in the emirates, they were quite shaken by the effect of khashoggi, the international reaction to it, there was desire to sort of get out from under this, there was a

it leads directly to mohammed bin solomon or some other person senior official within within the the saudi authorities it will establish responsibility i think is also just to just to comment briefly on the previous point was you know whether this release of information by the turkish authorities is helpful or whether it's going to change anything i don't think it's helpful and i don't think it will change anything i completely agree with both speakers that it's not if it's not compelling the saudi authorities to do anything and they're not going to not in their interest to to cooperate and it's not in the interest to to disclose that information so we have to have a very clear. chain of events so that we can actually determine responsibility but then that's all leading towards which i'm sure is going to be one of the next points where do we go from there where do we take it what what court of laura's actually going to hear this and whether this is ever going to be in front of a court of law that's of course a bigger question that they are as you say we'll get to that in just a them does w

the saudi u.a.e. coalition and turkey rebels and yemen are both being accused of stealing food aid the u.n. food agency is threatening to suspend some aid shipments unless more is being done to stop corruption the world food program says about two thirds of aid delivered tissue think controlled strongholds such as sanaa and saga is being stolen by armed groups the associated press also saw documents suggesting that russians intended for families and tie is being stolen by armed units working with the saudi emirates the coalition forces now most aid into yemen goes through the port city of her data where people say shelling is continuing despite a un batch truce the fighters agreed to hand over control of the port to a local coast guard to be overseen by the un as part of a recent deal but the government says that he is on to biting by the truce mohamed reports in her data optimism however cautious it may have been has turned into confusion despite a u.n. back to truce there are reports shelling is sti

it's not just the saudis. the report goes far beyond the kind of cliches that we have been locked into and viewing the role of islam. if we're talking about iran, for example, you know, even though there aren't actors sort of -- non-state actors in iran on social media to the degree that the sunnis are, advancing an anti-sunni message, the iranians are masters at what this report is talking about, which is religious soft power. they have been at this game since the revolution. for them, it's not something new. they have taken it to an art form. i will use iraq as an example. the iranians became very entrenched in iran, even though there are centuries of religious ties between the clerical center in iraq and the clerical center in iran. there was a long history of religious connections. after the 2003 invasion, iran very, very cleverly began creating religious schools in iraq. they began this kind of soft power that now, what's happened in iraq -- i think the study doesn't really focus that much on iraq. i thin

from berlin tonight a saudi woman is safe in thailand she will not be sent back home saying her would be in danger they. will be allowed to apply for asylum in a third country within days earlier today she barricaded herself in a hotel room in bangkok airport saying she was fleeing abuse from her family also coming up with the actor kevin spacey appears in a u.s. court to face charges of sexual assault and accuser says that speccy groped him two years ago when he was eighteen years old. it's good to have you with us tyee authorities tonight say that a saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse will be allowed to stay in the country until she can apply for asylum elsewhere united nations officials are aiding. noon in her bid to find a safe destination to apply for a song of the eighteen year old barricaded herself today in a hotel in bangkok until today's breakthrough with the u.n. was reached. a sign of hope for a half mohammed. these pictures show the young saudi woman leaving the airport in bangkok together with officials from the un refugee agency the u.n.h.c.r. will assess whether she can

and of course saudi has also made friends with this man yes she jinping sent his people to the saudi investment conference just as vladimir putin did but if saudi realignment is a piece of cake well to some bricks it is something else entirely threatening not only saying italian membership of the but the very existence of the united kingdom joining me now is former first minister with all the knowledge and current ulster unionist party chairman wouldn't be would have the. welcome to going underground if we leave aside the party politics of the ninety two it's to committee how is the union this movement called it's of involved with the policy is bricks and negotiations and i know this is the deal being or do you agree. banks in negotiations that are arguably threatening to break up the union well my party recommended remain vote reluctantly but on the basis that there were two major issues one was the border because we didn't even when we went to see former prime minister cameron before the campaign we didn't get the impression that number ten firmly understood the implications for th

kill soon after entering the saudi consulates on october the second. it was it's been three months since the murder of. and his body still hasn't been found but this video could throw more light on the sequence of events after he was killed the pictures appear to show members of the saudi head team carrying bags thought to contain his remains into the saudi consul general residence you can't believe these things happened in embassies all consul general's things but but of course they are controllable that controllable in that they are saudi property saudi land the local police can't really do very much about it and of course they wouldn't the maj until one minute the were actually listening to what was going on inside the saudi journalist entered the consulate hoping to pick up documents that would allow him to start a new life with his fiance he never came out alive saudi arabia blamed his death on rogue agents but turkey's president says it was a premeditated murder orchestrated by riyadh. these pictures only add another layer of complexity to the in

into the saudi consul general residence you can't believe these things happen in embassies or consul generals things but but of course they are control of all they are that controllable in that they are saudi property saudi land the local police can't really do very much about it and of course they wouldn't imagine for one minute the were actually listening to what was down on inside the saudi journalist entered the consulate hoping to pick up documents that would allow him to start a new life with his fiance he never came out alive saudi arabia blamed his death on rogue agents but turkey's president says it was a premeditated murder orchestrated by riad these pictures only add another layer of complexity to the investigation now we have direct evidence showing members of the killing team unloading body bags or black bags of some sort so it leaves the impression. body ended up at the consular. residence and that's where the investigation should focus not what happened today a few weeks after hushovd disappearance a team of turkish investigators found traces of acid during a search of

murder with saudi officials when he meets with them in the coming days they made it very clear during their briefing with reporters that the saudi government has not been as fully transparent as the u.s. wants it to be it has not done everything that the u.s. thinks ought to be done in terms of holding those accountable who are murder accountable and they basically made it plain that the saudi government has much more to do in order to wos satisfy the international community that those responsible for jamal because so she's murder will be held accountable and certainly they did say that the secretary of state my client pale is going to press those very points while he is meeting with saudi officials this in the coming days ok as inching isn't it because in the u.s. the senate possible solution which held the saudi crown prince responsible for what we haven't seen any further action halfway from congress or indeed from the white house. that's right and it's frankly because of the government shutdown laura there isn't even any briefing scheduled or any hearing scheduled before the senat

yes, for years, saudi women have been trying to escape. sadly, some of them failed, some of them were killed, some of them, we never heard from. i mean, just two years ago, a young women failed in her attempt to seek asylum and was dragged home after her uncles bound her mouth shut, taped her mouth shut, bound her arms and legs and dragged her onto a plane back to saudi arabia from manila. but i know that there are many saudi women who want to leave, and i'm in touch with several of them who are already living for asylum in various countries across the world. so i think what we have to remember, celebrating rahaf‘s victory, is that this young woman has imposed on the global consciousness what it's like to be a saudi woman today, living under the guardianship system, which is this system that upholds an extreme form of patriarchy that i called gender apartheid, that controls almost every aspect of a saudi woman's life. and this is why rahaf left and this is why so many other saudi women leave, and that's why it must be ended because saudi

arabia for the very first time now the saudi prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for five of the accused because our she was last seen alive or tobar the second he entered the saudi consulate in istanbul and was never seen again the next day turkish security sources said they had information that he'd been killed inside the consulate and his body dismembered saudi arabia rejected the claim as lies then turkish media published images of a fifteen member saudi team that arrived in istanbul on the same day that kosher g. disappeared and said the group was at the consulate building when the journalist arrived from this point onwards evidence linking not only saudi arabia but the crown prince mohammed bin psalm on to g.'s death has been piling up in mid october the saudis finally admitted he'd been killed but said it was accidental turkey insists it was murder and on november the tenth it shared recordings from inside the consulate with britain france germany the us and the saudis five days later we had charged eleven suspects for the killing our correspondents are covering all angles

saudi women. paris police fire water cannon on tear gas to break up a night saturday of yellow vest protests. we begin in the democratic republic of congo where the runner up presidential candidates most in fire has asked the constitutional court to order a recount in the disputed elections fire who is challenging the victory declared to his opposition rival felix just a k.d. saying vote counting by catholic church election observers shows he is the winner of electoral commission president has said that if the results aren't accepted the vote votes will be a null to keep him president joseph kabila in power until another election is held while the official results of the presidential election gay felix the security thirty eight percent of the vote four percent ahead of who says his own figures show he actually got sixty one percent of she's a katy just eighteen percent and now the electoral commission says president kabila is ruling coalition has won a large majority of national assembly seats und

into the saudi consul general residence you can't believe these things happen in embassies or consul generals things but but of course they are control of all they are that controllable in that they are saudi property saudi land the local police can't really do very much about it and of course they wouldn't imagine for one minute the were actually listening to what was down on inside the saudi journalist entered the consulate hoping to pick up documents that would allow him to start a new life with his fiance he never came out alive saudi arabia blamed his death on rogue agents but turkey's president says it was a premeditated murder orchestrated by riad these pictures only add another layer of complexity to the investigation now we have direct evidence showing members of the killing team unloading body bags or black bags of some sort so it leaves the impression. body ended up at the consular. residence and that's where the investigation should focus not what happened today a few weeks after hushovd disappearance a team of turkish investigators found traces of acid during a search of

saudi it was almost overnight the saudi government was made a pariah out cussed directly accused of killing of the cruelly one man saudi government denies it's complicit saying it was done by root elements and suddenly suddenly everyone remembers the war in yemen congress are beginning to catch on to the nature of this regime likely they are not telling us the truth about what happened. why would we believe them to. intentionally hitting civilians inside yemen this really needs to alter our relationship we need to bring an end to the conflict in yemen make no mistake what's happening in yemen is awful one of the worst humanitarian crises currently happening in the world. it could be that the media the bulk of it now realizes how awful things are in yemen or it could be that they using it for different ends president from taking a stunningly dismissive tone about any possible saudi leadership role why he's going so far out this way to cover for the country. specifically the ruler that carried out this killing for president trump it doesn't seem to matter whether the facts support wha

after the murder of the show she came to light he was among seventeen saudis sanctioned by the u.s. government over the murder khatami also played a central role in efforts to bring exiled critics like you totally back to the country. as executive director of the arab center of washington and was a friend of democracy he says saudi arabia is working to protect those accused of being involved in the murder they have sheltered some of the key personalities that were involved or accused of being involved whether by turkey or by the international community or even by saudi arabia as in this case solid oak on the. very principle person very close to the crown prince and with the intention of the saudi campaign right now to keep the crown prince clear from any accusations with regards to the murder of questionable three i think his disappearance is not true as president on a triumphal visit the mexican border on thursday internet attempt to pressure to macwrite opponents in congress to end the partial government shutdown avoiding south he will address the nation on immigration and the bor

s is not modernizing saudi arabia the only thing is modernizing saudi dictatorship well the audience may have found it funny but the saudi government certainly wasn't laughing because netflix received a complaint alleging the episode violated the kingdom cyber crime law now and the episode has one man has criticized his crown prince muhammad bin solomon over the killing of journalists in the saudi consulate that was back in october in istanbul and the kingdom's cozy relationship with the us was also criticized as well as the imprisonment of political activists including female drivers and saudis involvement in the war in yemen now the streaming service defended its decision saying we strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only remove this episode in saudi arabia after we received a valid legal request and to comply with local law but using the artistic freedom card didn't go down too well with human rights watch in fact it's middle east and africa executive director that sarah leah whitson she tweeted that netflix claim to support artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to

its arms sales to saudi arabia and. the case has drawn global attention district guardianship laws that require saudi women to get a male guardians permission to travel or escape is said to have inspired other saudi women rajoub mohamed. mock my god is going to start a revolution in saudi arabia go on social media now and watch the accounts off so many young saudis see rob you have shown us that we can do this noone refused to see her father and brother who traveled to bangkok to seek or return in the end it might have been noon savvy use of social media that led her to a new life in canada as saudi official reportedly told the thai authorities who seized her passport i wish they'd taken her phone instead john hendren al jazeera. four israeli settlers are under house arrest in connection with the killing of a palestinian woman three months ago of fifteen age is in police custody i should be died after a rock was thrown through the windscreen of her car and as harry force that reports from the west bank recent figures su

tonight, a saudi woman is safe in thailand. she will not be sent back home, saying her life would be in danger. thai authorities say that rahaf mohammed alqunun will be allowed to apply for asylum in a third country within days. earlier today, she barricaded herself in a hotel room at bangkok airport, saying that she was fleeing abuse from her family. also coming up, security forces in gabon round up the rebels behind a failed coup attempt. earlier, a group of soldiers seized a public radio station in the country. and actor kevin spacey appears in a u.s. court to face charges of sexual assault. an accuser says that spacey groped him two years ago when he was 18 years old. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, authorities in thailand say that a saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse will be allowed to stay in the country until she can apply for asylum elsewhere. united nations officials are aiding rahaf mohammed alqunun in her bid to find a safe destination. the 18-year-old barricaded herself in a bangkok

s and lawmakers saying that they want to visit saudi to discuss and meet with human rights activists sort of tell us about the mood in western nations about how policymakers for example want to deal with the kingdom. this tells us that the the friends and allies of saudi arabia are taking the humorous situation in the country increasingly seriously and they're starting to take action and it would be in saudi arabia's interest to really to work with them and to engage with them to to advance the human rights situation in the country because of course as mentioned just by that british m.p. there was this notion of an enlightened saudi with statements being made about women driving and cinemas being established i mean is this all sort of window dressing in the reality of what's really going on day to day in the kingdom for ordinary saudi citizens. that we have to work with the facts that are given to us that are that are evidence that the research shows in the research shows that indeed the evidence indicates that that there are very serious human rights cities allegations. in the count

will be holding talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma qatar a few hours ago after calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it had gone on for far too long has more. mike bomb paling qatar where the message to the gulf countries and their dispute the west political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaped i mean been hammered out than he greeted bomb peo after discussions with qatar's foreign minister said mohamed but i'll get a fanny both countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and military cooperation that includes expanding the largest u.s. military base in the middle east and the date near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the issues of interest for our countries regional issues starting with the gulf cooperation council and the peace process in the middle east as well as the rec

rather this is grandiose on into a saudi teenager leaving her family. from blowing a hole in the winds to an inch hole and that's it riis. hello again welcome back we are cross china we are looking at better weather than what we had seen earlier in the week where we had seen a lot of rain and even some snow up towards the north we're going to be seeing over the next few days though is basically clear conditions down along the coast for hong kong you can be seen about twenty five degrees for joe not a bad day for you as well at twenty but it is going to be in the single digits anywhere up towards shanghai as we go towards sunday though we are going to be seeing more clouds in the forecast there a possible shower for shanghai with a temperature of eleven degrees well as i make our way down here toward south asia we're going to be still quite wet down here towards the south really not looking too bad up here towards the north we may sing a passing show over here towards men attempt a few of about thirty four degrees and very humid well up towards manila th

and i think it's because of the economic weight that saudi arabia as saudi arabia still the largest and. biggest importer of weapons in the world that means the worth of big business and so there is this counting saudi pressure because of the economic stakes play here but i think you know time it took a very brave move it may cost us some financial relations with the saudis but i would say that most meetings are frankly quite willing to pay those costs to be on the right side of history and i can't say that's the case for many countries around the world well it's been a pleasure talking to all of you we've run out of time but to great to get your perspectives on this important story thanks very much indeed thank you to our guests. here in the studio business my money and my job thank you too for watching you can see. the program again any time by visiting our web site al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story and of course you can also take the conversation on twitter handle is a.j. inside story from en

italian saudi arabia. but the government that they've essentially change their strategy they used to fly the bombs out now the ships. we knew that this was the best place from which to take photos of the secret operations with no ban on cameras. from here we recorded what actually happened because we don't usually eighteen containers a month were loaded up with one thousand to one thousand five hundred bombs. but i said let me get your question to all the. fundamental right that they were mainly transported by saudi arabian ships three or four belonging to the battery shipping company that was a dock and load up the saudis evidently decided to run the transport themselves additional funding for. the military coalition in yemen needs a lot of bombs by the end of twenty seventeen saudi arabia and its allies had flown more than fifteen thousand air raids according to international experts almost a third of those raids it civilian targets. it's a profitable war even for small investors with shares in germany's

this is the end of the news live from berlin flights to freedom the saudi woman who fled her family is on her way to canada mohamed outcome new no made global headlines after barricading herself in a hotel room and bangkok airport now she's been given asylum in canada also on the program. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential elections says he will challenge the result in court the disputed result to spark unrest with five deaths reported so far. and heavy snow sweeps into the balkans after burying much of southern germany and austria the military has been called out in some areas and more snow is forecast. i'm still going to welcome to the program a new chapter has begun for the saudi teenager fleeing alleged abuse by her family time officials have confirmed she is now on her way to canada mohamed al canoe made global headlines earlier this week after barricading himself inside a hotel room at bangkok airport she'd been stopped on route to australia and threatened with deportation she launched a social media campaign to draw attention to her plight. speaking

murdered by saudi officials. the saudi officials always said this was a rogue team that carried out the executions, they weren't, as the cia believes, directed to do so by the saudi crown prince. she has not received any answer from the saudi authorities whether she will be allowed into the consulate in istanbul. she apparently, was asked to meet the saudi ambassador. no word on whether that meeting is going to happen. she will be in turkey for five days, the intention or plan is to travel to saudi arabia to collect further indication. there's no indication whether the saudi authorities will actually let her into the country. in the meantime, saudi arabia is conducting a trial of 11 individuals it says were involved in the murder. the prosecutor asked for the death sentence for five of those individuals, however, interestingly, the saudi authorities have not said who these 11 people on trial are. so, it will be interesting to see how this trip pans out, but certainly, given the hesitance of the saudis to lay out

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there are saudi women in this situation. it has caused a bit of a social conversation in the kingdom and i don't think the government wins on trying to make her out to be a villain in this and certainly host to marcus shoji, it is well advised to remain silent. —— post khashoggi. will "women to make more of a risk? —— take. post khashoggi. will "women to make more of a risk? -- take. she is in a domestic violence situation. that is how legitimacy as an asylum seeker here in canada. not all countries accept that the commission but we do. in the case of other women, many of the organisers of women's movement inside saudi arabia are in prison. the hierarchy or infrastructure for women's movement are infrastructure for women's movement a re really infrastructure for women's movement are really quite damaged at the moment inside the country but i do think that there will be more women who will try this. they need to get outside the country to get on a plane because they can't do it from within saudi arabia. there may inde

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has left this country because a few i left my wife because of the oppression more and more of saudis will leave the kingdom because of you you will destroy the country iran's foreign minister has been in iraq for talks just days after the us secretary of states mike one pair made a surprise stop in baghdad on his regional tour jabbered serif met with iraqi foreign minister mohammad ali al hakim to talk about a wide range of issues including u.s. sanctions against iran they also discussed allowing syria back into the arab league . having to work. we talked about regional issues the necessity of bringing back sovereignty to all regions of syria and combating terrorism and supporting the syrian government we welcome the iraqi government's efforts so normalizing relations between syria's government and the arab community . whether is next but still ahead on al-jazeera police used tear gas to disperse protesters in sudan who are refusing to back down from their demands. and we'll have reaction to the dramatic arrest of a senior venezuelan opposition leader. hello again welcome back we're

a saudi woman found herself stranded and trapped in bangkok today she says that she was trying to flee theory that her parents would kill her for no longer being a muslim and tonight thanks to a twitter account and a log on her hotel room door she is in the safe company of un refugee officials but her plight and that of all salty women all that remains as for curious as ever i bring golf in berlin this is the day. that. i am around and the plane took off and i'm still at the hotel i need any country that can protect me as soon as possible i need to find the key thing is that she should not be sent back to saudi arabia i'm not leaving my group until i see if you and. i run to asylum should not be sent back into harm's way i mean we are the land of smiles but we will not send anyone to that dead. also coming up tonight into a no deal breaks it is looking more likely by the day and britain is preparing if not expecting the worst so we are being a bit balanced to mail a state cannot expect next be unexpected power cuts frequently have more rationing of power much like the seventy's where t

arabia but the top passport seized by a saudi diplomat. initially thailand said it would deport her because she didn't meet visa requirements. the eighteen year old then barricaded herself in an airport hotel room she drew attention to her plight on social media quickly gathering tens of thousands of followers she said she feared for her life after her family threatened her for announcing islam and cutting her hair i'm not leaving my own until i see you an h c i i want. to tie oath or to seem to perform a dramatic about face and promising not to deport. love i doubt we have caught on time we will talk to her and do whatever she requests. trouble to seek help and we are the land of smiles but we will not send anyone to that. we want to do that by we will not hear so human rights. principles under the rules which would not by that meet come. thailand is not a signatory to the un refugee convention and provides no legal protection to asylum seekers books the united nations says it will do everything in its power to help. well i'm joined tonig