wait for more facts many in congress say it's time to act the outrage in the united states is mounting the circumstances here are horrifying and the pressure from congress is going to be very great particularly now with the election coming up members of congress are going to fall all over each other trying to be the toughest in the loudest in saying we have got to do something we've got to punish the saudis the president is reluctant to do that but he may be cornered the president has signaled that he wants to wait would rather not punish saudi arabia with severe sanctions but if congress disagrees it's likely the president will not have the final say. al-jazeera washington or any of the world's major newspapers a critical of saudi arabia's version of events the times of london describes the admission as the greatest embarrassment of saudi arabia's modern history the new york times raises questions about saudi arabia's various explanations about what happened to. pointing out that they initially said that he'd left the consulate alive and well

the washington post which a shock she wrote for says the new account may do little to ease international demands for the kingdom to be held accountable and the u.k.'s guardian newspaper in reporting the alleged fights and arrests says the saudi government appears to be trying to insulate crown prince mohammed and his son protect his position. well have much more coverage shortly and the rest of the day's news including afghans closing it nationwide for the first time in eight years defying threats of attacks by the taliban. the police in india calling it a freak accident the speeding train clowns into people at a religious festival. and we've got some severe weather with us i reports of europe at the moment the

heaviest of the rains have been in the eastern parts of spain were out of this area of cloud hey they've given us relentless downpours incredibly heavy and we have seen some flooding now as we head through the day on saturday actually the east dries up a bit instead we're going to see some particularly heavy downpours in the south so that's where the most risk of flooding then as we head into sunday actually the rain breaks up a little bit it shouldn't be quite as heavy but there's still going to be some very lively downpours there at times elsewhere across europe we've got predominantly dry weather lots of thawing weather to be found but not for all of us of course we've got one weather system that's making its way up towards norway the heavy rain there force on sunday we've also got increasing areas of cloud in the eastern parts of europe giving some fairly shop showers here particularly on sunday and now for the northern parts of africa in the east it's largely fine and dry but in the west we're also being affected by that area of wet weather the parts of spain so expect some very heavy downpours over parts of morocco again on saturday sunday looking like a brighter day as the main area of that wet weather moves away towards the north

but still a good deal of cloud is still a risk of one or two showers and a top temperature in robot of a twenty two. the cricket world isn't about match fixing i mean you have to think why would you give me the guess ten million comedians it's a big fan base. al-jazeera is investigative unit reveals explosive new ad the documentary confirms to my analysis of a very hard profile figure in match fixing international cricket even though this al-jazeera investigation cricket match fixing the manola files.

get the main news on out zero more than two weeks after he went missing saudi arabia has confirmed the journalist. was killed inside its consulate in istanbul it says that his death happened during a fight and that eighteen saudi nationals have been arrested five top saudi officials have been dismissed among them a senior intelligence officer a close advisor to crown prince muhammad and salma. the us president says the arrests are a great first step but he wants to speak further with the crown prince donald trump says that what happened was unacceptable but he thinks the latest saudi version of events is credible we've also had reaction from the united nations secretary general antonio put out a statement saying that he's deeply troubled by the confirmation of her child she's

death that extends his condolences to his family and friends he stresses the need for a prompt thorough and transparent investigation into the circumstances of her death and full accountability for those responsible. with me in the studio a couple who's a director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies in doha what do you make about this this dead of the night announcement from saudi arabia this admission that yes indeed jamal khashoggi did die in a scuffle at the consulate in istanbul i think this is the exit the way out i believe which have been. subject of negotiations i believe between the saudis. but mr asian this is why we have the president today coming up with this statement that the saudis story is credible although nobody is actually believing it. but at the end of the day i mean the admitted that he was in the saudi consulate and there

are people who are responsible for that we believe that those people have been selected because they don't want to go and hide out of one higher level down than that but we still need to see whether the turks are going to accept that and we still need to see how the u.s. congress will be handling the situation how that amount of pressure that they are going to put on the administration in order to take some serious measures against the saudi leadership as you say this all hinges on how the turks react to this and how the u.s. congress reacts to it because no but let's face it nobody else believes this this explanation doesn't find it credible at all the fact that donald trump says he does find it credible what does that do for the credibility of him and his ability well i think he knows it's very difficult it's going to be very difficult for him to sell this i mean to the public to the congress to almost everybody although i mean he seems to be behaving the way actually for accepting this saudi story but i guess

it's not going to be the easy for for him he will be taking he will be for some at some point today further measures in order to convince his critics that he's taking this. seriously serious seriously enough. what about the role of crown prince in all of this the king solomon in saudi arabia has his son with reorganizing the country's intelligence agencies that. discuss doubts actually on the credibility of i mean the saudi leadership in actually bringing this matter into account and seeing convincing and of course i mean putting mohammed bin segment in charge of because if you look at the statement of the saudis. earlier today it was very much like holding the general intelligence responsible for the whole for the whole story and putting an exhilarating prince mohammed bin so man from an

irresponsibility that was a key objective here and putting him in charge actually of restructuring the general intelligence of that that you know directorate of intelligence is something actually that doesn't give in my opinion a signal that the saudis are dealing with this. in a serious money serious money to of the people closest to the crown prince pollard been selman among the five people who've been dismissed is it conceivable that with two people that close to him he could have known nothing about this operation istanbul well if you look at the saudi statement actually it says that he wasn't actually. he didn't know about the details as or the amount of violence that have been you was actually against. there were all those actually hops to bring the man back to saudi arabia but. it tense was incredible in itself

is absolutely rendition absolutely but that but this is but this is something the saudis they had been doing it for for many years now and over the past year alone we nor there that we know of three but this is from the royal family as you have been kidnapped from other countries and brought into saudia to saudi arabia so this is something that is we all know that the saudis they do but this one actually the it went i mean i mean it was a big failure they say went possibly wrong absolutely absolutely absolutely and in my opinion it also weakened the position of muhammad is a man to a great extent and nothing it might bring in in the next and the next stage will be . actually. clearing his image and how how miserably i mean this operation was executed well one always good to talk to you but effective for being with us on the program. let's move to the rest of the day's news style there's been several attacks on polling stations in afghanistan as people vote in

the first parliamentary elections since twenty ten the taliban had vowed to target anyone who showed up more than fifty two thousand members of the security forces have been deployed to protect people in kandahar province on thursday two top afghan officials were killed responding voting by a week al-jazeera. has been to a polling station in kabul. we are in machree and polling station in central kabul and as you can see the process is underway these are the observers very flying the list of the voters and then you can see behind me women are lining up to cast their vote so this is an act of defiance despite the threats by the taliban to disrupt the voting process the taliban has issued misstatements in the past saying that there will target polling stations across the country but however as you can see these women are pretty much excited to cast their vote for many afghans this is

a crucial moment they would like to see in new parliament that would tackle many problems that afghanistan faces elections in afghanistan were always marred by widespread allegations of fraud and this explains why people are hoping to see it genuine change a new parliament willing to tackle the wide range of issues that are going to stand faces war with the taliban instability reconstruction and economy all the homework i sort of i will vote for someone who would work for afghanistan and serve the nation we need patriots who care about the country these people that deserve to be elected to parliament it would cause them i have to say i am exercising my democratic right i want to choose the right person who will fight for my rights in the rights of women and women vote in large numbers their voices will be heard. we are in a polling station in was an area that has been hit many times by suicide bombing attacks security forces have sealed off the whole area with roadblocks and

checkpoints and this is quite a crucial moment for the afghan government who would like to ensure small of elections particularly after the election in the province of kandahar was suspended following the killing of senior local officials. let's go live out of kabul and as it was shown that palace is also in the afghan capital shot at the taliban threatened what it said that they were going to disrupt their selection they've already been attacks how is the security situation across the country. not in a very good state we're getting a lot of various attacks in provinces across the country we've confirmed detects in seven separate provinces everything from mortar rounds hitting schools at a polling stations to polling stations being burnt down explosions rocket attacks. in all saying all of this very few casualties here in kabul we have confirmed three

separate explosions and one rocket attack in this we have only confirmed today it's in seven people were wounded while they were lining up to vote out side of a mosque so the casualties at this point a very limited but the taliban solution leave very active across the country in trying to disrupt these elections they said they would they put out a statement two weeks ago saying that they detect polling seem to use and that people would be taking their lives in their hands by by coming out to vote in the following through on that today and president danny coming out this morning trying to reassure people he was the first person to voyage and he tried to reassure people at that time that that security forces would be upholding seem to some would protect them the country has introduced a new voting systems for this election are they coping so far. we're getting reports that there are a lot of issues the election watchdog the transparent election foundation of afghanistan they are the biggest in afghanistan they've just put out

a report in the last twenty minutes stationing what it what it's like on the ground across the country they say in the first ninety minutes they talk to two hundred fifty of their observers inside these polling stations they say ninety eight percent of the polling centers this five thousand and ninety eight the seams have security forces present eighty five percent the biometric machines are not working this is a new initiative just pushed in at the last minute they arrived two weeks ago eighty five percent of those not working twenty two percent didn't allow service in and seventy percent didn't open on time and at ten am three hours after these polls opened eighteenth the st still weren't open so we have heard of long lines of queues of people people being very frustrated trying to voters and trying to negotiate these issues when the names might be not be on a registration list so there might be ballot papers missing or the biometric machine just might not be working john many thanks dude i was in a show about us that live in kabul

a feast fifty nine people have been killed in the indian state of punjab when a train traveling at high speed run into a large crowd of people had gathered for a religious festival in the city of amritsar paul chodas jan reports. police in india are calling this a freak accident a train plows into a large crowd watching the burning of enough a-g. at a religious celebration. without god no other the do nothing witnesses say the overflow of people pushed some onto the railway truck the noise from fireworks prevented people from hearing the approaching train. it was a major hindu festival the railway track is close to it and the crowd was huge suddenly some movement happened and the train crossed at that time. survivors covered the body parts of their loved ones others waited for those injured to be treated at nearby hospitals before. the crowd was at

a hindu festival called celebrating the triumph of good over evil they had just set ablaze the effigy of a ten headed demon from the hindu at the karama ya know i am at the moment not a radical easing on his. being next to the invitation but the administration should have entered a bit and we would expect when i go again tomorrow and as the investigation begins the chief minister of the state has declared a day of mourning he has ordered all stated situations to be closed in his real system has a record of safety. twenty three million people use the network the system was build during colonial rule but it is underfunded paul chatterjee on al-jazeera the united states and south korea have suspended planned military drills the pentagon says that it's putting exercises for december on hold to give diplomatic

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a new york times report quoting saudi sources. this source then says that as crucial as he walked into the building a fight ensued and shows he was put into a neck hold and was choked to death and this is very interesting according to this source says that after he was killed the team then gave the body to what the source says was a local collaborator to dispose of maybe the saudis have no way i have no idea where the body is it could be very interesting in the coming hours to see what all the leaks the turkish government these turkish government sources leaked to the media five senior saudi officials have been dismissed over the case among them a senior intelligence officer a close aide to the crown prince president trump said those arrests are a great first step but that he wants to talk with crown prince mohammed bin solomon he says that what happened was unacceptable but that he thinks the saudi version of

events is credible kohei and is in washington from the beginning of this it is been all about the weapons deals he's talking about saudi arabia being a strong ally and that the things that this investigation is a good first step that they're getting close to having a resolution that they need saudi arabia in the region but then he keeps coming back to the deals and i think it's important to point out he is extremely in the minority here if you look at the cable news channels of you look at twitter and all the politicians feeds pretty much every member of congress that is talking about this they're saying this story is insane it doesn't make sense it doesn't seem to add up on its face also making news this hour parliamentary elections in afghanistan have opened with a wave of attacks by the taliban polling stations in the southern province of kandahar people will have to wait another week to vote was an attack which killed two senior officials on thursday. there's the headlines what do you see him down to

zero after today's inside story next. the latest news as it breaks the turkish security officials to the we're treating disappearance as a murder investigation. with detailed coverage the area here was the preschool people thought it would be a safe place to run to the grounds beneath them and swallowed them up from around the well to the local government has been trying to clean up to everyone but the more humane the more danger i think the cons to those who live around here. for the first time since jamal khashoggi disappeared the u.s. president says he believes the saudis did congress is turning up the heat on the white house to get tough on saudi arabia so what will this mean for u.s. saudi toys this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program on iran come on president donald trump has for the first time acknowledged jamal khashoggi may have been killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul he's warned of severe consequences if the saudi leadership is involved the shift in tone comes following his secretary of state visits to riyadh and earlier this week the president is now on the mounting pressure to take action members of the house of representatives have sent him a letter calling for sanctions against saudi arabia we'll bring in our guests in a moment but first this report from mike hanna in washington. it was a somber president trump who for the first time publicly acknowledged the possibility that jamal khashoggi is dead it certainly looks that way to me it's

very sad certainly much he says he still waiting for the results of various investigations but if this is. evidence there will be serious consequences for saudi arabia have to be very severe i mean it's a bad beds. but we'll see what happens trump's comments follow the meeting with the secretary of state might pump aoe who briefed the president on his meetings with saudi and turkish leaders there are lots of stories out there about what has happened we just you're going to allow the process to move forward. while the facts to unfold and as they unfold as we make a determination for ourselves about what happened there based on the facts that are presented to us the united states will determine what the appropriate response is memory and significantly straight after the meeting it was confirmed that treasury secretary steve newton had canceled a trip to an investment conference in riyadh later this month the first tangible sign of any action against saudi arabia by the trump administration and yet another

bipartisan call from congress for the president to determine accountability and impose sanctions against those found responsible this in a letter from more than forty house members which also said additionally we are such you promptly disclose whether the united states intercepted communications among saudi officials discussing plans to detain mystical shogi and advise what actions were taken to warn him of any attack. mike out of. washington. let's bring in our guests joining us from skype from new york kenneth roth executive director of human rights watch and in paris is george welborn a middle east reporter live figure i welcome to you all want to bring in we have you kenneth in new york president donald trump has said that he thinks that jamal khashoggi may be dead but there seems to be

a disconnect between some members of congress some members of the senate and what they would like to do which is sanctions against saudi arabia and what the white house would like to do which seems to be taking a conciliatory some would say sympathetic tone towards this whole affair what's with the disconnect why the disconnect well i mean trump is nate quite clear that what he really cares about is the saudi money you know he was. purchased. because that generates an error so be able or our position is very clear it doesn't matter that the saudi crown prince is. in starvation or how it was yet any civilians it doesn't matter that he rushed civil society inside it doesn't matter that it has gone very possibly him or her the disappearance and very likely murder and cannot be sure she joselyn to rust so that

you know that's restarts from at the same time he's not in. there recently or punished if it is proven and you know we still haven't heard the audiotape. but it's quite clear that. saudi consulate is not all you know hurt you know by all accounts he concedes that murder guess we still have to see some of this evidence but you know we weren't certain riyadh saudi. given the tight control gains overall security numbers that we are like route that anybody would have freelance it's sasha's visibility without his approval rating it probably or you know translated into by your question our foreign countries but i think that the spine we are all by saudi conduct i wish they'd been a call earlier people they should pick your let's pick you up on that point human

rights watch has long been a critic of human rights records in saudi arabia you've written many reports on all of this hey you are you have a moment now where people are talking about human rights in saudi arabia how will you take advantage of that well i mean just yesterday. a news conference at the u.n. maybe you're pushing turkey to ask u.n. secretary general to turn to terror has taught a formal investigation it is recognized that trish president. is reluctant to. accuse the that's why he's been using so reserved here what's going on but there has been a formal report because the church turkish economy is in trouble and iran doesn't want. but you know what human rights watch has been pushing for for some time in fact it didn't take shoji like we've heard as here we've been pushing for most chicana arms sales and in doing that. the repeated bombing of yemeni.

markets heracles. the blockade obedient quarter no result they were near starvation millions of people that's enough and now the congress did to its credit west congress adopt legislation saying that these aren't just could not perform or if the u.s. secretary of state pay are even certify that saudi arabia was hurt in its attacks and you know pop they are fast again issued a certification so the arms are. now because. there are agents what seems to happen. there may well be new legislation. that will be trying to instructional i went through it jane or so we're hoping to. see let's take the view from europe and bruno you've been covering the region for a very long time u.s. saudi ties have been lockstep for seven decades now however right now

what we're seeing is a resetting of the relationship to a much more personal one between the u.s. president his son in law and the king and the crown prince of saudi arabia. where does europe take a look at all of this where does europe land on this relationship that seems you much more personal what's europe's view. i think europeans are waiting the reserves of the investigation i met on monday evening president mccraw and he was very cautious when i asked him about consequences it would take if responsible of the disappearance of jamal khashoggi on wednesday morning prison mccraw asked is finance minister not to go to a to riyadh to attend the next week conference and as you notice yesterday from

sukey and germany decided to freeze any visit to saudi arabia i think they are still waiting but there they are they would like to see king solomon taking bigger role in this crisis and i think also that they would like to see krum prince mohammed bin sultan man marginalized a little bit. after this crisis because the relations between crumb princella man for example and imagine back or there were there is no chemistry between them probably i told you previously the first meeting between the two leaders at the area their ports in november. two thousand and seventy of war was bad a few weeks later president mccraw and two rescue. blocked in in riyadh so there would like to that this crisis could have at least one advantage one positive if i can say that effect is to see the power of crown prince.

man reduced inside the the architecture of of the saudi regime that you see that something quite an easy for the french to be able to say however when it comes to europe generally you still have the u.k. which has very close ties historical close ties to the saudi. and has cells so them possibly as much weapons. in certain in terms of ratio as the americans do so where did the brits fit into all of this they are in a much more of a tighter bind when it comes to saudi arabia and it's true that the british are very important a role to play specially in the saudi aircraft there is a huge corporation between london and riyadh in the field but we noticed all four that the u.k. was quite tough even before france to react after

a few days of the disappearance of jamal khashoggi but there is also this new rule we have to take into consideration that if you criticize if any foreign country criticizes saudi arabia. or bahrain they have to face now global consequences weaves within that this summer with the canadian ambassador was been expelled in in in riyadh so i think now the europeans want to also to give a global a collective unser to this crisis of course it's not easy to to get what they would like to do get that is. a reduction of the power of crown prince sultan because u.k. is a huge partner of saudi arabia france a little bit less brazen macro was supposed to go in november in saudi arabia it has been postponed i'm not sure that it will go sure so we have contracts the

negotiations we have a diplomatic convergence against iran diplomatic convergence in syria so they have to balance but for sure they would live king fell man to take over the situation and brown drew a crown prince. had been sound man getting him down in the in the iraqi of the power in in saudi arabia. let me bring kenneth roth here reportedly charged up the president's son in law has said. he's what he's told the crown prince if you can get away with the murder of schoolchildren on a bus in yemen you can get away with the murder of a journalist these are allegedly remarks that he's made what do you make of that what do you make of that kind of coming coming from that kind of individual within the trumpet ministration surely just emboldens the saudis when the other things are christians or. is. this will just blow over

in a way that people will forget the way they forgot the school i think where this is different and you can absolutely lang's prints for the bombing. in yemen or the repeated sitting targets in a different order to make amends if it doesn't happen but obviously it's unfair to suggest it's targeted schools but few people the operations such as the apparent murder or janata should hate would have happened without the crown prince opposition. current cover story or maybe just authorized. and this one or i bet that's not much of a sense since you know it's easy to imagine. murders. so i think of what we see there is a moral you know that he just doesn't care or any of it and that frankly for tom's

junes all business but trump it these years interior weight is piers not to public opinion and there is genuine public outrage our enemies i mean let me bring in galloped l.a. from london here he's a visiting scholar at the university of oxford research director at the shot for an unknown resident fellow at the brookings institution welcome to the show you heard our other guest talk about the european reaction the u.s. or. action but saudi arabia is one of the u.s. is key allies when it comes to sanctions against iran it's a key part of the strategy when it comes to iran what kind of impact will the affair have on that strategy sanctions against iran and will it have one of the iranians thinking right now what iran you should be very happy in the first place because right now one of the things that has been increasing iran's regional role is particularly its competitors blunders its competitors their mistakes is

competitors crimes in a sense that has been one of the major asset of iran and one of them is obviously is saudi arabia if you're iran look at the how saudi arabia has been a great asset for you for your regional role you have the crown prince who has a completely criminal war in yemen that is causing like a massive humanitarian disaster and that christe you that gives you a very significant leverage over a very sick not portion of the yemenis and gives the influence in to in yemen and then you how like saudi arabia who is putting a blanket over qatar and as a result of it what qatar does is like you know being getting a bit more closer to iran once again you have a major major political victory even without anything and what now look what it did it with. killing a journalist in a diplomatic mission in turkey if there was in

a prospect of turkey saudi reproach ones because turkey up on the lower house tried to make a distinction between it's more. explicit criticism of united arab emirates when i was there not that explicit critism of saudi arabia because if you want to keep some modest vender with saudi arabia normally but now turkey cannot simply turkey simply will not be able to do the way that it did. before and this is another major win for iran so i don't i have time for on this on the logic in washington if you they want to like if they want to let's elect in a confined iran in a regional poll they've actually the saudi arabia is not the best is not the best bet to go with i mean i'm just going to bring in kenneth roth. understand we have to lose you as a guest shortly budges want to ask you very quickly you had a guest from london talk about iran and turkey again from a human rights perspective you've been very critical of human rights which has been very critical of both of those countries when it comes to human rights is there an

opportunity here to pressure both of those countries and the u.s. and saudi arabia and push them on human rights in the wake of this case is there something of an opportunity here for somebody like you i mean absolutely i was just in opera a couple of weeks ago and you know on the one hand tricky is trying to play a possible role in a say in syria i'm blocking or the potential. problems by iraq a syrian forces there is greater whole refugees absent congress or here or in you know dripping out bits and pieces that it's happened general showed there is a certain irony that yes they are standing up for. sure but president era is in prison in dozens of kind doesn't. dare criticize his government there is a contradiction here this is an opportunity to push him to be

a bit more consistent in a similarly trucks suddenly just talking about human rights you know saying in china there are detention not words of the one million we must be very appropriate for him to talk about that he doesn't know much credibility barrel if you close your eyes to serious human rights abuses by his allies aren't ready so you don't generally always pushing for more principled. governments have the resented it shows but they don't have heard earlier. and sometimes governments decided that . unity i think the question number. two group there is a single in saudi arabia they want to. be around jodi they've got to address are addressed or. country so this is you know i'm only marching to get what. pushes her to canada to try to get agreements across the board let me bring in gallup delahaye from london why has the turkish strategy been this slow drip feed

of leaks to the media why not just come straight out with the evidence at the beginning and put pressure on the crown prince and the king to do something about it why this slow slow drip of leaks i think there are three factors one of them particularly at the outset because for quite some time circa was not authorized to enter the consulate and are to enter the chancellor house and what i see the priority for what i see one of the strategy for turkey was first true or to provide the legal basis and then to come with the political basis because if from the start turkey has adopted a very strong political language the side they will say well without having any is serious evidences you are politicizing the issue secondly i think turkey by by by basically sharing drip by drip is it is trying to kind of like keep the

international pressure get intelligent focus on the issue or a period of time so therefore the mohamed bin cement or others will not get their way with their previous scenario which was basically deny everything clean no responsibility and a third i think turkey does not want to make this as a bilateral issue between turkey and saudi arabia which it is. by letter issue but it's more than it's an international issue therefore let you know that in tennessee communities part space. in this issue is essential for turkey and the us particularly us coming up with a strong stance on side to side there of your party on the met is a mum because here we can make a distinction between the saw the us in relation or the saw the western relation and the moment ins and months what's the relation i mean it's understandable that the west or the that the us wants to keep relation with saudi arabia but it doesn't have to the relation with our very best does not have to be just two more minutes

a month moment besom i think the west right now should make it clear that the mohamed bin so much is not a partner. for or for themselves and moment because imo is not only bad for the regional stability it's also bad for the western interests as well truth so how can how your interests will be ensured if your partner is reckless. is if you're part of there is a very old dishes and it's not very predictable just look at what he did with many brain and bring ok i saw you agreeing with some of the points i was making in london let's just talk about the wider impact of all of this when it comes to europe say for example it's proved beyond a doubt that the crown prince was involved in the alleged murder of jamal khashoggi sanctions are put in place by the americans against saudi arabia what is the european response to that looking just ahead to the future say that scenario happens what does europe to yes it can be in yemen in the war against the union

then where the europeans the u.k. and france are partners with the arabia and the united arab emirates these war is not at all popular in u.k. for sure in france or saw the french government than the british government don't feel comfortable with the way with which the saudi arabia is is driving the fifth wars. so it can be one of the earth backed that the france u.k. and germany breasts have put pressure. noted to to get a compromise on yemen after the the weapons these. not sure that the that there will be an immediate short term effect because this is business and that as you know all of the the relations are all of the out also of i told you that. the europeans don't think that

man is involved in this operation so they want to protect the relation with saudi arabia driven by by king solomon but they would aggregate let's broaden canada because that's a very important point i don't making let's bring in kenneth roth here. it's business as usual that relationship is crucial you've mentioned it yourself when it comes down to it it's all about money however you seem to be quite confident that there's an opportunity here to push the human rights agenda however is that a realistic way of thinking surely when this amount of money is involved human rights takes human rights takes a backseat and there are a number of things that can read first but this idea that you know you have to distinguish from the crown prince i think that that doesn't work because nobody really. is it is calling the shots and indeed there are reports that the crown prince. is correct in even his seeming to try to recover from.

that it's not in control and you know it's at this point the focus really is prints be on cutting up arms because there are a number were targeted. if you take for example riches into europe and the united states is targeted say to the. us so that means you know freezing personal. we do not travel rights to particular people another thing that could be done with your image after the leadership of the trial is invites the international criminal court examiner war crimes again that's something that you were asked written in france could push toward security council we are surprised if russia were trying to stand in the way so these are targeted ways that go after beijing's responsible without dropping this or will they ship the ships between saudi arabia so we thank you very much we are running out of time kenneth roth in new york get

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that again this is al jazeera live from doha with full coverage of saudi arabia's admission about the killing of the journalist. the kingdom says it's fired several intelligence officials at arrested eighteen suspects over the death. controversial crown prince mohammed bin has been put in charge of overhauling saudi arabia's spy agency. the. saudi arabia has admitted that the journalist she was killed inside its consulate in istanbul the information was announced in the middle of the night on saturday state television seventeen days after she walked into the consulate building riyadh now says that there was a brawl inside and that he died during the fight five top saudi officials have been

sacked among them a senior intelligence officer and an adviser to the royal court eighteen others have been arrested u.s. president donald trump says that saudi arabia's announcement seems credible but others in washington a far from convinced. shortly we'll be live in istanbul we'll also get some reaction from washington but first anderson's reports on all the latest developments images played out relentlessly worldwide as saudi arabia denied jamal khashoggi had been killed but this was the last anyone would see of him alive and it was the beginning of a crisis that shaken the saudi royal household to its foundations to the despair of sixty year old fiance had t.j. . who had waited in vain for him to leave the consulate the saudis initially said he wasn't in the building. now they finally admitted that sixty year old is dead and this statement has been issued from the public prosecutor at the cotton

a while ago at the as an attorney about i'ma the first investigation into the disappearance of saudi citizen jamal khashoggi and shows that there was an argument and quarrel between him and the people he met at the saudi consulate in istanbul the quote lead to his death but the announcement from saudi arabia cuts against what turkish investigators say happened inside this building it all boils down to an eleven minute ot a recording of events in which they say within minutes i was attacked and he died in a most gruesome way his body being cut up and handed part by part to other saudi officials inside the building your man once and i entered the building he met for a few minutes with the consul general to discuss his papers that he needed and he was immediately attacked by a gang of killers that were signed specifically to stumble to

actually liquidate him it wasn't an accident of death it wasn't a fist fight to the point where the consul general on tape is allegedly screaming please do not do it here you are getting me in trouble the saudi statement announced the detention of suspects those arrested named but may well include what the turks say was a fifteen member team at least four of them officials close to the royal household including this man mohamad tree an intelligence official who the turks a lead the operational the ground tracked by c.c.t.v. cameras entering the consulate ahead of his death and later leaving the country. and at least five high ranking officials have been sacked a trusted advisor to mohammed bin salman is among them so did al kut sunny also ackman alice siri deputy chief of intelligence and former spokesman for the saudi

u.a.e. led coalition in the war in yemen the crown prince will now head a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal the mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi his death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where are the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own while household and drew simmons al-jazeera is temple we don't play for you know some audio of jamal has shown she's lost interview the discussion with a newsweek reporter was originally confidential as a shock she had said that he feared for his life is some of that recording he wants to be reformist why not bring evidence to the public opinion why not bring

transparent process where where you have briefly. introduced the rule of law and due process and reading and the people will be on his side if he would do that it could be a good fight if it all starts in the real leader like i am it doesn't matter. because it's been limited. certainly not. i didn't want that i didn't see the need for that so sometime i see that you want to think. of postal order in a two year silicon valley and that is a think i do want also to do more like how can the rules. doesn't work you don't have a good way. you also have it both ways can you have it both ways can you call your

can you. i don't think you can. but if but if they don't i'll tell you suppose there is no political movement in soviet. russia have number one and all will agree with him do you see anybody that many covers a chip. going in or. i'm sure the radicals are not going to oblige your pressure problem with. a list like a true credit have because saudi arabia as we reported earlier the us president seems happy with saudi arabia's explanation but others in washington including members of his own party are far from convinced his elders in his party call him. u.s. president donald trump spent the day checking out america's most advanced weapons of war and as he sat down to talk to defense contractors this is what mattered most

even as saudi arabia admitted killing u.s. resident and journalist jamal khashoggi they wanted four hundred fifty billion dollars there's never been anything like you know just the last thing i want to do was say we're not going to you know we're not going to supply you with those numbers are actually not true the white house cannot point to any evidence that saudi arabia is actually spending anywhere close to that amount of money for many members of congress they say it's not about the money they say the saudi story just doesn't add up their story doesn't pass the smell test and i think it's high time for congress to recalibrate our relationship with saudi arabia close advisor to the president to senator lindsey graham seemed to point the finger at mohammed bin solomon in this tweet writing first we were told mr khashoggi supposedly left the consulate and there was a blanket denial of any saudi involvement now a fight breaks out and he's killed in the consulate all without knowledge of crown

prince the president has made clear he wants to talk to the crown prince he wants to wait for more facts many in congress say it's time to act the outrage in the united states is mounting the circumstances here are horrifying and the pressure from congress is going to be very great particularly now with the election coming up members of congress going to fall over each other trying to be the toughest in the loudest in saying we have got to do something we've got to punish the saudis the president is reluctant to do that but he may be cornered the president has signaled that he wants to wait would rather not punish saudi arabia with severe sanctions but if congress disagrees it's likely the president will not have the final say political gain al-jazeera launching too many of the world's major newspapers a critical of saudi arabia's version of events the times of london describes the admission as the grave system barrus ment's of saudi arabia's modern history. the new york times raises questions about saudi arabia's various

explanations about what happened to show she pointing out that they initially said that it left the consulate alive and well the washington post which has shoji road force says the new account may do little to ease international demands for the kingdom to be held accountable and the u.k.'s guardian newspaper in reporting the alleged fights and arrests says the saudi government appears to be trying to protect the crown prince's position let's just remind you for a moment who jamal khashoggi was about his career he became a high profile critic of saudi arabia's government after the haven't been solomon was named as crown prince the journalist accused the thirty three year old of introducing what he called a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming fearing for his safety he fled to the u.s. in september last year where he wrote a regular column for the washington post but before his career as a journalist ashaji was close to the royal family serving as an advisor. we were

hoping to take you live to istanbul but we have a one of the electrical storms to the one above us in the hall which is affecting our satellite communication so with us here in the studio one couple on who's the director of policy analysts analysis at the arab sense of the research and policy studies in doha what do you make of saudi arabia's abrupt dead of the night about turn on its explanation i think in contrast to what they were saying previously about having him having left the consulate alive and well well i think i think they were very miserable in my opinion leading themselves to disguise and they were even more miserable in actually trying to manage the crisis so we're having to i mean two problems here the with themselves and the first place and this and this problem and they don't know how to get out of it but i think with the help of their friends in washington i'm talking here about president from who is trying

actually to provide them with an exit with a way out. overnight i think they may think that the close to closing this at this case but i don't think so because many. it will very much depends on whether the turks are going to accept this story. that the turks are having the or the other there on their journey of this what happened in the consulate and of course we have the u.s. congress we have the world media which in the first place with tremendous pressure on president on the saudis in order to come up with this admission which had been actually a few hours ago of course i mean the story will not be convincing to many people. we all know now the details of what happened in the consulate is very difficult to believe that fifty in the head squad actually which arrived in istanbul came actually to have a discussion.