some sort of a transition but things do take time in saudi arabia things have been improving for a long time inside saudi arabia by the way but thanks to money and thanks to those soldiers statistic location in the middle east and and it's its capacity to serve the united states and others has helped it maintain a certain stability but in the united states they like stable autocrats their own like reckless feckless autocrats and that's what mohamad is a man proved to be over the last three years what was the relationship like to date between the king and the crown prince and to what degree has this saga dented or damaged or even completely fractured that relationship. that's had a very important question so much so that it actually. it actually has risen a lot of bros around the world people just were astonished why does the king since

the beginning of two thousand and fifteen has giving so much authority to his crown prince beginning with defense ministry and then soon after the crown prince launched the war against him and then crown crown prince then crown prince and in the process the ambitious crown prince mohammed and so on gathered so much authority that he became control of the economy and spoil became control of the military his defense minister became control of the domestic affairs since like the fact the interior minister became in charge of religious affairs hence he's the one who dictated what is and is not islamic in the kingdom and last but really relevant to us and he became the head of intelligence he was in charge and he oversaw. he oversaw everything that to do with intelligence and hence the his the responsibility for the murder of

a command which of your so you could say that king solomon has outsourced his entire authorities to the crown prince a young inexperienced overconfident thirty year old crown prince and that what has amazed people around the world mo and as ever thanks very much we'll talk to you later i'm sure ok we have some new developments as well in the investigation into the let's get more on that from correspondent child who's in jamal what's going on . well peter we understand now that turkish investigators have been questioning fifteen stuff working in the consulate behind me on this on these are the turkish stuff that i've been working or are employees at the consulate not the saudi ones there were reports that's obviously on that they will target stuff where given a surprise day off but when we're looking at the information that has been coming from the investigators which seems to claim that this was

a preplanned operation that maybe the room was already set up the room that's she was dismembered in was set up before or whether there was some sort of planning before it's we do understand jamal himself did go to the consulate several days before that's when he first went so apply for the paperwork needed to get married and then was austin return on that tuesday so there is possibly some sort of information maybe that they're looking out to get from the stuff that they are questioning even though it is understood that they weren't necessarily there on the day or at least during that time and to it so in the past hour or so we have learned that the investigators have been speaking to fifteen employees of the consulates to try to maybe gather some sort of information maybe to continue piecing together what seems to be a very complex. assassination plan that was put into effect as far as

it starts are concerned maybe a few days at least before the arrival of german officials she so with every day peter there are more pieces of information that are coming but the turkish investigators are making sure that they cover all the ground so you know they started with obviously the c.c.t.v. footage that they had outside of the consulate they then went in and search the consulate itself the consul general home they looked at other locations they are looking through such vehicles as well that are registered to the diplomatic mission . and now they're also questioning these people we understand that part of the agreements that was reached between the saudis and the turks if you remember that famous phone call between king solomon and president are the one included questioning also some of the saudi employees but that still hasn't happened jamal thanks very much and we'll keep you right across all the developments of course in real time here on al-jazeera we are staying on air this is the news hour program we've got another forty five minutes to go any more developments coming to us out

of istanbul washington or riyadh we'll bring it to you just as soon as we can we move on to the other top story today people in afghanistan are set to vote in parliamentary elections on saturday but those in the southern province of kandahar will have to wait an extra week now that's because of an attack on thursday which left at least two senior officials dead it happened at a meeting between the most senior u.s. military officer in the country and afghan commanders among the dead is afghan general abdul rosy the taliban has claimed responsibility and is vowing to derail the election and target anyone who votes it is a crucial poll having already been delayed for three years due to security concerns and voter registration reforms the top u.s. commander in afghanistan says he does not believe he was the target of the attack in kandahar general scott miller says afghanistan's security forces are ready for the elections. my assessment is that i was not the target it was a very close confined space but i don't i don't assess if i was

a target we will continue our support my message to the people of afghanistan has been very consistent and you have every right to be proud of your security forces and the preparations that made for this election despite this unfortunate event tragic event down attend our show the palace is our correspondent in kabul that's how the voters feeling given the events of the past twenty four hours not. well it has certainly rational people i mean people knew that the taliban was going to launch attacks of this nature they said they'd do it in the lead up to elections which are kicking off in just over twelve hours here in afghanistan and they said that do it on election day so yesterday's attack did rational people it killed a top police chief in kandahar who was much loved by a lot of people and very well respected by u.s. forces and afghan forces but was also considered somewhat of a hard line against the taliban his funeral was the self to noon and his brother

has replaced him in that position in kandahar a lot of people wondering if they should vote tomorrow in these kind of security attacks really raise the question of how will this affect turnout you've got roughly thirty million afghans about nine million of them reaches six of ours so how many of those people are going to go should be tonight and consider whether or not they should turn out to vote tomorrow we talked to one family here in kabul who decided against pushing because of security. a teenage girl's bedroom void of life this reed cheer is where seventeen year old to study she was top of her class she was killed in an isis suicide attacker to school in august along with thirty four of her classmates this watch was a her brother i did to fight her i missed two of them and it's this that i'm hoping that. if for a life i would make her more. they live in dusty but she says she

a neighborhood in western kabul this year it suffered a series of islip tex but where he was school mosques a sports club and an election regis trenchant seem to be on the one hundred eighty people who dies it's killed their belief in the government my father told me that i am really not interested in this election and i myself i'm really not interested in this election because we have lost our hope from this system from discover and from this from member of parliament. afghanistan's shia minority has been overrepresented in parliament they hold twenty percent of seats and yet they say they feel forgotten and vulnerable some have even creating their own militia i saw is the biggest threat and sure neighborhoods prices have flooded into afghanistan after big differences in iraq. they are trying to kill as many civilians as possible as many of the shia minority here because they want to create

a satiric rift and use that to their advantage that rather keep. them out of them but. if the general turnout specially of us is less it will show that i solicit yes there are families not voting because they lost loved ones but on the other side some people are moving and has suggested candidates to rip present them but for people like him the damage is done and i cannot cry in the homes to the top rooftop i cry so person moment that i come back. the silence echoes from her now empty room to what's become where he was library. in the last six weeks and the top floor of the mosque a four thousand books from fellow shia they say where the government has failed them education will succeed when i came here i feel right i was in here when she wasn't here but i feel she's here politically they will be silent but where he

lives presence is deafening i was sure of his. most talk regime is a regional security analyst he joins us live from kabul. how can they have a vote with so much violence still going on. certainly amand led to set tack on the hot has really changed the complexion although there was a big draw for were among the public candidates that dr new and innovative ways of campaigning the check the internet bit of sense off involvement among the public but these latest security act accessories certainly damaged the the the enthusiasm a bit but still i believe the number of candidates who are running for the office david be pushing that followers to participate in the elections and in major cities you will see people participating but really they have to certainly be faced with

concern among the public about the security while they're working. the reason this vote has been delayed and it's kind of what three three and a half years since the country went into a process of reforming in changing the system that's why if there's violence and if people askin doesn't that mean that even the reform system at some level is failing the voters. well certainly the divorce was delayed because the agreement between the major political parties and groups and individuals that they'd be working towards forming the whole politic the system the sort of the election system unfortunately the dead have been differences among the scene at the government here to ship on the forms that have been proposed to time and again and certainly we see that not much has happened last minute adjustments made by the election commission for example introducing these biometric system at all has created

a bit of chaos and engender the public i said this is he has not been up to the model people are still asking questions about the process and procedures for example that worked at least whether they have to get it best get out of that national id cards certainly there have been challenges from a technical perspective but the security as you all know since two thousand and fourteen it has been dictated aiding a detail about have been that exerting influence in certain areas and they have encroached to a large cities even or the course of last twelve months but in the meantime considering that there is engagement off local people the parliament candidates fundamental action candidates are certainly trying to mobilize your followers and that really contribute to turn out but indeed did remains concern among the public you mentioned the biometric system there what if that biometric system isn't as good as you say it is because people are saying already that in those lying rural areas it simply can't work for a lot of people so you might get to

a situation where because of the biometric system you have the same stalemate you have the same wrangling that defined the off to mass of the last election. what led to the thing is that the system is offline it's going to be offline system not network throughout the country and people can. act many locations at the same time but only after the conciliation of the data and in the tradition of the date that sent the level people can come to know that there have been the same people it working many a time so to quit the quicker technical questions are being that's the usefulness of the system secondly it's transferred to the really more p.d. and father of a d.s.l. five on a sandwich out which is logistically difficult but more than that. transferring of data from those to the us back to kabul will be another challenge certainly there are issues with that then capacity of people to use their system a lot of government and the independent election commission mr. president you said

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continue to follow the story of the saudi journalist including several staff members from the saudi consulate are being questioned by turkish authorities. saturday's vote in afghanistan's kandahar province is suspended a day after the taliban killed two top officials. also ahead the world food program has suspended eight to eight thousand syrian families in lebanon. breaking news this hour turkish investigators are focusing on what exactly happened to the journalist jamal khashoggi after he walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second media says some staff members from the saudi consulate are now being questioned your security sources have told al-jazeera investigators have found the exact location where her show. he was killed within the saudi consulate building they say audio recordings confirm the washington post

writer was attacked by several people moments after he entered the consul's room they then say he was immediately dismembered by a saudi forensic expert we've also just been learning that a number of employees of the saudi consulate in istanbul are currently being questioned by the turkish authorities let's go straight to jamal a child who's in istanbul for us jamal just put this together for us moving very quickly just in the last sixty minutes. yes the latest piece of information peters that the turkish investigators are listening to testimonies or maybe getting information from fifteen at least fifteen employees of the consulate behind me these are the turkish authorities the nuns saudi employees there amongst them the driver the personal driver of the consul general himself obviously this comes just off their christmas is close to the investigation had told i'll just hear of that

the investigators were able to. find or locates the exact location where. she was murdered inside the building behind me this was based on the evidence they say they have the old year old tapes or of what took place but also based on the intense searches they were able to conduct through the forensic experts that have been searching the consulates at least on two separate occasions as well as obviously the consul general's home and through that the old you i wouldn't through the investigations and all the other kind of d.n.a. tests that they've been doing and everything else they've been able not only to not only rather to establish the precise location where she was killed but also the way in which she was killed they say he was dismembered off the he was killed they say that that's happened in a very short period of time and they also speak of the other pieces sample evidence

that they managed to find and we're not sure whether that's blood samples fingerprints d.n.a. or everything all of the above so more information coming and it is coming maybe at a foster pace considering that this case peter has been going on now for over two weeks and it does kind of fall in line with the other statements that have been coming particular from the u.s. officials as well as turkish affiliate fishel as earlier today the foreman is the speaking that's very soon the world will know exactly what's happened to jamal khashoggi jamal for the moment thank you very much kimberly help that in washington for us this kimberly does this increase the pressure on the trumpet ministration to go to the mr trump has gone so far. yeah there's definitely some pressure on the trumpet ministration but there's also some pressure on the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and that is because the reporting seems to indicate. an important deadline has passed and let me explain how that deadline has been calculated you remember that meeting the optics which were criticized very much so here in the

united states and around the world of the u.s. secretary of state sitting down in riyadh with mohammed and some of the crown prince will that meeting wrapped up at about three pm riyadh time and reportedly in that meeting the u.s. secretary of state was very very clear in terms of the timeline moving forward that instructions we understand and that is being reported here in the united states is that my pompei a told the crown prince that he had seventy two hours essentially to own the disaster in other words to come up with an explanation and now that seven two hour timeline has passed if you calculate my pump is returned to the united states roughly it appears that eight am here in new york city washington d.c. eastern standard time as we call it the seventy two hour window is up but of course two notable things about this timeline the first being that we've not heard

anything from the saudis we've not heard anything from the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and second we had very late in the day on thursday the comments from the secretary of state mike pompei i was saying in fact that there needs to now be a few more days in terms of allowing this investigation to proceed not only by turkey but also by saudi arabia so it appears that this arbitrary deadline put in place by the secretary of state has now been extended and you know there certainly are a number of reasons as to why that could be the case certainly from a u.s. standpoint according to the secretary of state it is to try and give the saudis the respect they believe they deserve given the strategic. partnership between the united states and saudi arabia in terms of conducting this investigation does that mean however kimberly that might bump a zero and donald trump a kind of hoping for one thing and refusing to deal with another thing which is you know they seem to be waiting for a credible explanation that says people at the highest levels in riyadh were not

involved in this when all the evidence all the claims all the interpretation of the leaks points in a completely different direction. so you see this a lot in washington where you try to get the facts to fit the story that you're trying to tell and it almost seems like that's what's going on right now sometimes there are the we've talked about the inconvenient truths that get in the way and people will often be selective of the facts in order to make it fit the narrative that they're looking for and it appears that is the strategy a very common public relations strategy not just here in the u.s. but around the world that the white house is taking right now the fact that it's trying to underscore the importance strategic partnership because you have to remember what the united states and what this administration tried to do from the very get go is to sort of use saudi arabia as the foundation for confronting iran

that's what we saw the president's first trip to riyadh when he made his first foreign trip and we now have these sanctions coming in early next month towards iran and the oil exports and the very much the partner in all of this to help supply is saudi arabia so the calculations are there for the white house the problem is in terms of these calculations is that now we have the story involving. and this is something that has an international spotlight so there's no question peter yes the spotlight is on the united states but more so on the trumpet ministration it's not just coming globally from the global condemnation and the growing outcry there but also from the co-equal body of government the u.s. congress not just the senate but also now the house of representatives of bipartisan move to pressure the trumpet ministration to not only put in place sanctions the highest level the saudi government but also to reconsider the relationship as a whole kimberly thanks very much. e.u.

leaders are meeting in brussels to discuss a variety of issues affecting member states but some of the talks of course focusing in on what happened to jamal khashoggi france a suspended political business to saudi arabia and other e.u. leaders have also voiced their concerns live now to brussels and my colleague paul brennan so paul stevens the u.s. treasury secretary not giving explicit reasons but his european counterparts being very explicit as to why they're not going to react. to date on the european leaders have been joined today by twenty one asian leaders as well as the european council meeting of yesterday developed and grew into the meeting the a same summit today the general theme is of global good governance and of a rules based world order and frankly the jamal khashoggi controversy room bubbling along alongside of this this summit really puts into a counterpoint to the difference between you know the alleged murder of

a dissident journalist in an overseas consulate versus what they're talking about here which is to try to set the world to rights essentially you know the the the contrast couldn't be sharper and the language couldn't be more serious either i mean we spoke to the luxembourg prime minister today and he expressed his grave concerns emmanuel macron the french president came out last night and spoke about the importance of a fair transparent and thorough investigation so to donald tusk the president of the european council and now today we've had the u.k. foreign secretary jeremy hunt underlining just why it's so important to get to the facts of the matter. well we have been very yes we want to hear the results of this investigation we want to see if it's credible if it's independent but if the stories that we're reading turn out to be true will that have an effect on our relationship with saudi arabia yes it will because if these

stores are true and it is still and if they would be totally against the values of what we stand for as a country. now these leaders here that they can't base their policy decisions based on leaks from unnamed turkish security sources in the newspapers they have to go on the facts that's why it's important they want to be seen to be wait waiting for the investigation outcome for the report that comes out based on that report they can then decide whether it's saudi arabia as a country that they decide to go after for sanctions or whether it's just individuals who are decided to have been the direct plotters in this particular situation but the facts are important and the pressure to get to those facts from here in brussels is relentless ok paul thanks very much well we've heard these claims in the past hour or so as well that king solomon in effect is trying to reign in the crown prince will try to get to the bottom of that aspect of this story for you when we come back on the other side of this short break.

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