al-jazeera has now examined the different theories about the assassination and the reasons behind calls for a new investigation into the conviction of her han nearly fifty years ago. quite bright a lot of evidence was destroyed a lot of evidence was scandalous or endless. in the case that they were in any murder case to destroy evidence the way they used earth or and. you know i can't speak for the l.a.p.d. and why you know they didn't do a better job investigating the case why they destroyed some evidence i don't know.

all the evidence was destroyed after the trial but they had a legal obligation to save the evidence because sir hand was going to file an appeal or his attorney's work so that evidence under the law should have been preserved for the next for the appeal. and according to the l.a. police department they just didn't have the space to store it. several commentators and witnesses have said the l.a.p.d. lost or he'd evidence or that there was a second gunman. books have been written and different conspiracy theories examined . documents have gone missing and people have tolerated taking their evidence with them. and says iraq has gone back to the events of the fifth of june at nine hundred sixty eight and you heard from i would. says and from journalists who've

looked into the case for ten years. it's also examined audio and visual evidence which may not have been giving enough credence at the time. it's not possible to return to the actual scene of the crime. the ambassador hotel was demolished in two thousand and six and the robert f. kennedy community schools opened on the site in twenty ten. the schools and memorials now stand near where robert kennedy was assassinated on the evening of the fifth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty. eight just won the primary election to be the kind of fornia democratic party's nomination for a u.s. president. there was a last minute decision to take a back route out from the main hole through a small kitchen where he was shocked. i saucer hand

prior to senator coming down. but i first saw him i thought it was another dishwasher. that person. didn't seem unusual to me. he didn't appear out of the ordinary he was just start making small talk with me asking me how long do you think this speech is going to last is it almost over and i just said i don't know. mike thanks to all of you in arms on to chicago in an event. his speech i could

hear the applause and i saw him and his entourage begin walking toward me. the first time i saw a certain hand as we entered the room. where there was a tray stacker here. which was sixty eight inches above the ground search ham was on a very tall person so he was standing on top of that there were a bunch of trays but you could still stand on it. so he could see above everybody and could see as the center was progressing. bob was moving on at that point so i was about six feet behind. the senator would have been to my left and i would have been almost parallel to him. walking toward the cooling all room. i was nailing probably about two steps ahead of senator kennedy at that time. i was standing literally within three feet of

this senator carl was pulling senator kennedy. i believe by his left hand which made it awkward for the senator because he was shaking with his right hand and curl was grabbing his left pulling him this way vincent di pietro was very near to kennedy when he was shot but his testimony differs from the other eyewitnesses so bob was shaking hands and after after he came in i followed him and he started shaking hands with a super as and and. and water america romero was a hotel worker in the crush of people around kennedy as he moved through the kitchen i was able to shake his hand they need to go out of a step forward to go step by step and i have.

and i saw certain hand with the gun in his hand coming up around karl you for and as he came up he was his hand was outstretched totally outstretched. eyewitnesses say that sirhan raised his right hand holding an i.v. or johnson twenty two caliber revolver. her pointed at kennedy the seats are high on fire two shots. when i heard the first pop. shot which i believe was a shot the first i thought was a firecracker i turned toward my left at that point i saw her hands her hand immediately to my left no one between he and myself holding

a gun shooting into the crowd the crowd of people shooting into the direction where i last seen senator kennedy. co euchre is a terrific witness he was there closest of anybody he said sir hand came the gun was close to his face sar hand got two shots off and he grabbed him and put the hand on steam table inserted and continued to fire the gun. first it was bang bang and then and then i looked back over there and there were there were commotion going on. i'm not. and never heard the other there's a recession. and that's when witnesses told the place we heard two shots a pause and then a flurry of shots and that's pretty much what i heard too. and either

johnson kid at twenty two can hold up to eight bullets so after firing the first two shots sirhan had six left. in the. robot like pulling the trigger until he fired the other six shots. but he had no control over the bullets went over to us. after the shooting he was surrounded by about twenty people that were trying to kill him. and that's why i mean he was in custody by all these guys until the police arrived. back and i custody now that we do not know who he is he had no identification even is

a to make a statement of any kind that he can understand english. a gun it. is in our custody it's a twenty two caliber eight shot and i eight shots were attacked and according to the any p.d. report one bullet went through kennedy's coat without any trading his body it scratched old streets head as he stood right behind kennedy the police found that bullet at the crime scene i got shot not knowing i'd been shot i thought i was being electrocuted too as she was shaking when i went down and so i didn't see bob get shot got shot. actually he didn't at that point. another bullet hit robert kennedy behind his right ear and that was the fatal shot. one more hit him under his right armpit and exited through the top of his shoulder that bullet energy can hit the ceiling but the police never found it.

a fourth bullet also hit kennedy under his right armpit and settled in his spine and under his neck so that was four bullets serhiy had four more remaining. a fifth bullet hit iraq goldstein in his left side and large there. and a sixth bullet hit irwin strong in his left leg. and his seventh bullet hit william weisel in the stomach and remained there. according to the police report the eighth and final bullet was fired at the ceiling bouncing back and hitting elizabeth evans in the head. and the police found this sport as well. first two bullets shooting of

missing kennedy sure amy the one two and going westward two goldstein two shots one through his pant leg and want and do his but one and strolls like that one and two evans forehead that's seven bullets out of a shot revolver how could he have shot robert kennedy four times. on top of charades point evidence offered by two f.b.i. investigators william bailey and duwayne wilford needs taking into account. bailey and wolf are attended the crime scene as soon as the assassination took place. they discovered two more bullets that were not mentioned in the l.a.p.d. report. the next day william daley an f.b.i. agent at the scene is in front is on the front page of all the newspapers pointing

to a door frame and in one thousand seven hundred sixty given a sworn statement that he saw two bullet holes in the door frame. if a second gun is not firing there cannot be any bullet holes in the wooden door frames so the police tape those door frames down and they bring them the police station to do work on them to turns out there too many of these bullets represent too many bullets star hands gun holds eight bullets more recent forensic analysis also supports the view that more bullets were fired at the scene than is her hand could have had in his gun but the l.a.p.d. does not appear to have taken that on board then in two thousand and five further evidence. kennedy's victory speech in the manhole of the hotel was recorded by a polish journalist studies life prison ski. when kennedy's group took that back

route out brzezinski followed them but inadvertently carried on recording. this distorted audio was recorded just outside the kitchen. the it's a very poor quality recording which meant for many years people didn't really analyze it properly so it was only when phil van praag came along and start analyzing in two thousand and five that you know he made a number of very interesting discoveries. the most important of which were there are thirteen shot sounds on the recording. and there were two instances of double shots which means two shots fired so close together they couldn't have come from the same gun. the only way it is was that there was a second god been in a position behind get a word that the prosecution never proved that saran was behind kennedy or is able

to shoot him point blank. thomas knew gucci was the chief medical examiner and coroner for los angeles county and performed the autopsy on robert kennedy he submitted a detailed report on the bullets that hit kennedy this is that report and the evidence he gave in court. gunshot number one direction right to left slightly back to front up or gunshot wound number two entry right accelerator region direction right to left back to front up or gunshot wound number three direction right to left back to front of the autopsy report is probably the most decisive evidence that sir am physically could not shocked senate they've got three shots into the senator one shot went through his shoulder pad. all came from behind a senator

a point range all shot from the right side an upward angle between thirty and thirty five degrees. which meant that the shooter was actually dealing down behind property and. when he was firing his gun. however none of the eyewitnesses said that sirhan was low down. furthermore thomas' new report said that the muzzle of the gun that fired the shot that killed kennedy was a maximum of three inches or seven centimeters away from him. at how their burn rate. notes so your viewers understand what powder burns ranges it means the gun was pressed strongly up against either the body or in

case of the fatal shot. yes and about an inch behind the ear karl euchre he said the saucer had coming out came very close to him and that gun so had a gun was two feet from kennedy not so had two feet but sir handgun being two feet and that was confirmed by edmund a z. in another assistant right today who was right behind them at that point. so there were different i would use accounts of where's her hand was when he shot kennedy his distance from the senator the number of bullets fired and the coroner's report well either dignity is wrong or the eyewitnesses said it was two feet away or and yet more evidence emerged to cast doubt on the scene officer hands conviction and then bullets a swapped and then evidence was destroyed. i eat can't make up something like this

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that finding premature. it should never have happened and we'll be having a very full report over the next two days in the meantime we're doing things to some people that we know for a fact were involved and we're being very tough on a lot of people with this sort of we're going to come up with a report as to what we think the overall impact was and who caused it and who did it you talk about a killing we're not talking about anything else we're talking about it killing so who did it fighting has resumed in yemen's key port city of her data placing hundreds of thousands of people in immediate danger according to the u.n. the saudi emirate the coalition is trying to retake it from who the rebels the who these now control most of the country leaders at the apec summit have failed to agree on a final statement after two days of meetings in papua new guinea canada's prime minister blame disputes between member nations over trade tension between the u.s. and china dominates discussions on saturday china's president xi jinping took aim

at u.s. protectionism while the u.s. vice president said that washington won't cut tariffs until beijing quote changes its ways. we had a broad consensus on a wide range of issues the apec gathering is one of different countries from a similar region with very different approaches on governance and governments but there was broad agreement on how we need to support our our citizens and work forward towards better cooperation. but i don't think it'll come as a huge surprise that there are differing visions on particular elements in regards to trade and those prevented there from being a full consensus on the communique document a member of parliament in the central african republic has been extradited to the netherlands to stand trial for war crimes alfred jacket tom is also known as rambo is also accused of crimes against humanity and torture of muslims prosecutors say

he led the mostly christian anti baloch a militia which for muslim seleka rebels. now let's get you back to al-jazeera world. senator robert kennedy was fatally shot on the fifth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty eight after winning the california nomination to be the democratic candidate for president. a jordanian palestinian said hansei hahn was tried and jailed for his murder but since the nine hundred seventy s. there have been calls for a new investigation based on differing eyewitness accounts the number of shots fired and distance of sirhan from kennedy when he fired. there seemed to be particular discrepancies between eyewitness vincent de pierre a steady money and the report of los angeles county medical examiner and coroner

thomas new gucci they've done itself was maybe three or four inches from the head. but certainly was about three approximately three feet away i mean yeah i didn't measure them but it was an estimate but the court record of vincent de pierre astaire's timony sets i saw those two go off and after the second one i couldn't see because i had blood all over my face the police and a lot of witnesses it said sarhan was standing four five six feet in front of bobby kennedy and that didn't quite match up with what. we found well you that if you choose wrong or the eyewitnesses that said he was two feet away or. back. what. movie cameras captured scenes in the kitchen immediately after the assassination but arguably the most significant pictures were taken by an amateur photographer and kennedy follower there was a teenager scott in york in the pantry that night he had

a thirty six millimeter camera. yeah roll film in there for thirty six exposures he was taking pictures. any art took pictures before during and after an assassination. the los angeles police. took his camera and film to their labs. they later returned pictures to any art but only those taken before and after the assassination. those n.r. took during the assassination we never turned what happened to those photos. why didn't he just and steve asked a new never asked for the number of bullets found the angles they'd been shot from and yards disappearing photos all combined to cast reasonable doubt as to whether

serhiy was the only gunman in their investigation. also reported that the type of bullets fired was compatible with their hans gun. and then they say we can prove this because the bullet and and kennedy's shoulder matched the saran gun. and they were wrong about that but they were live they were lying about that as well they say the bullet went into his head which is a fragment. tiny fragment nearly the whole bullet they say that matched the so handgun two. we saw striking asians on that fragment. which is crazy because there are no stray ations on that fragment they can't prove it but that's what they did. before they get before the jury they

even lied about that whole charade lisa pease and laurie dusek all cast doubt on the police findings because they couldn't match the bullets to certain handgun the bullets were switched so that a match could be made and the problem was they couldn't ease their hands gun to make matching bullets because surgeons gun had been given to the grand jury. and then bullets were swapped and then evidence was destroyed. i.e. can't make up something like this medical examiner thomas knew he was never asked to identify the bullets. he only has maintained that the fatal shot was fired at close range while most eyewitnesses setser han was further away. there is a suspicion of it was that was substituted. and that it would have revealed that. at first there was

a movement to try to discredit new coochie and that he did say that he had done an incompetent. autopsy well that didn't work because negotiate refused to step down and in and said he would fight them in court once they realize they're going to have a fight with the karner they switch positions are now said oh well tom the gucci said that the bullets were fired from an inch away so it must be all the witnesses that were wrong so they they switch horses in the middle of the race you know they got rid of him and was not going to play ball their way because he's an honest man . and he call things the way he saw them. and used very very upset with the whole my view all the way the proceedings when. the question remained as to the number of bullets fired at the scene but also as to why the l.a.p.d. didn't question anyone other than her hand as potential suspects. the police didn't

follow any of the leads that that would point to a second gun no one has seen the second shoot we have no eyewitnesses for that how is that possible right there close face everybody there all these eyewitnesses that are so reliable when it comes to describing what syrian did suddenly fail to be reliable for the second shooter who was right there two inches away from him everyone missed that. thing eugene cesar was on the door he was on different doors but. right before the shooting he was on the the the door leading into the kitchen pantry area. he followed kennedy ended with us dot supposed to do it was against orders from from a person who. was supervising a guard for the for the for the hotel us must stay away one as the security guard who was standing behind senator kennedy to his right which is where the shots came from and he did have his gun drawn that night and he also did own

a twenty two caliber pistol with the same rifling characterise it's a serpent spun. many researchers believe that fain caesar shot kennedy he was certainly in the right position he was close enough so i don't think that he he shot the senator but i think he might have seen something he has been the traditional suspect i'm not convinced that he was the gunman but. it certainly is worth scrutiny. to other figures who are seen in or near the kitchen one michael wayne was initially detained but then released. he was later seen leaving the hotel with a girl wearing epoc at the truss. the other suspect is a tall or a dark skinned man who resembles her hand in some respects but was taller than he

was who was seen in the pantry and then seen in the pantry with the gun and earlier it's been in the pantry and this search hand in this man we're looking at each other. that man was seen with a gun and there's at least one witness that said he saw that man shooting a kennedy from behind and that man was seen running from the pantry with the gun and then was seen running away with the girl the polka dot dress down the stairs and out through the parking. lot was the girl in the polka dot dress kennedy campaign. worker valerie schultz or elaine whose husband cleaned to have worked for the cia. you have sandy serrano who saw the polka dot dress girl and this guy coming down the stairways and the girl in the polka dot dress the same we shot it we shot him and serrano looks and she goes who did you shoot and she said

we shot senator kennedy and runs off into the darkness of the back side of the hotel. these people knew kennedy had been shot before anyone around them had known candy had been shot. ok to put it out address the woman in a poke at that address. and any other anomaly you want to find in any particular event of of epic proportions like this somebody famous a big political event like an assassination there are going to be lots of little anomalies that become pregnant with meaning because we're looking for something meaningful and you can always find something that sticks out that no one knows has any of it was that person the woman in the poke it out of who knows who knows the prep probably nothing. this woman spent the

day with a local chemical sense man who was at the ambassador to save them chemicals for the hotel she was afraid and she was looking for help for somebody to help her get a passport. to get out of the country the next day she predicted the killing with accuracy she said they're going to take care of mr kennedy tonight at the winning reception. as a prediction hours before the event occurred. at esperanza hearing in march twenty seventh sarah has her hands account of events was generally quite clear until the actual moment of the shooting. and i remember it would have to agree to get some coffee because i just to make

sure that when i brought all that up although there's a lot of chairs that i could so remember that were good yes element remember i want to get some coffee get out of the chute yes it will remember that i did it i remember being. being. tackled by people very very almost choked me to death. and fortunately here just this this thing would have been right it i didn't see bobby kennedy i don't i don't know what we responded because they hit me on the table and i think that i came to or be cared began to to to to feel guilty sense what was going on so i would use that when they were choking you know and they would say don't kill it or something so you heard that and i remember some sort of words like they're ok we're going to get happened i didn't i didn't i didn't want them. illegitimately did not remember

those critical moments in twenty leavening sirhan sirhan defense team consulted hypnosis expert dr daniel p. brown to test the theory that he may have been hypnotize. i used to carry out the kennedy assassination. we had bob the brown from orange and over seventy hours with sir and he is one of the world's leading experts on a mind control and conditioning and that ron after all is all him with sir that is of the mind that he was clearly program. about ten five ten percent of the population is just naturally highly hypnotic they can enter trance states block out feelings and so he clearly was one of these

people. sirhan sirhan defense team use the hypnosis theory as the basis of his final federal appeal in twenty thirteen. but the court rejected the appeal with the judge calling the psychological test results quote of negligible weight he said they were intriguing but fell short of the quote demonstrating that her hon was subjected to mind control. one other detail of the sassy nation should not be overlooked the last minute decision to change the route taken by kennedy out of the main hall. he was asked to go to the press room through the back kitchen but who knew about the change of plan did so hon. i don't know how how why at how anybody knew

that because of that he said. nobody knew what was the plan i was says change that the last minute. it's important to try to understand all the facts related to what you are going to try and is it was it just a coincidence that it would i think not. only because coincidences that lead to assassinations of this sort are or my view very suspect. who made that decision and why. what explains her han's presence there. was there enough security was so hard working with another individual there were a lot of election parties that night i mean went to one of them at

a different location and then you know one stop party was finished you know somebody there told them hey there's a big party that you want to do you want to check it out so he went down there to check it out. and then he went back to his car apparently he got his gun and he went back in search of coffee today how was syrian able to get into the pantry with a gun that's an excellent question because there were two a scarves one at each end who are supposed to be making sure that only people who are credential with kenedy credentials were allowed into the kitchen so how did surveying get past them well you know the obvious answer is maybe he had helpers maybe there was somebody who took him and said he's with me maybe it was somebody with a p t one zero nine sirhan sirhan defense attorney was the los angeles criminal lawyer grant b cooper. the basis of the defense case that cooper argued was that her hind had committed the crime because he was mentally ill and that he had acted alone. cooper was criticised at the time for the way he dealt

with her hands personal writings being used by the prosecution in court. that notebook should not have been allowed into evidence at the trial because it was taken from the house without a search warrant and the defense team never raised that issue they should have hired a private handwriting expert to look into that. there have been many obstacles in the way mainly his own defense counsel frankly early of early on grant cooper we agreed to all the projects before this is a scandal how this could be allowed to proceed. in a court of law is a scandal but it did was his lawyer told the top of the jury right at the outset we're not going to try to prove his innocence we believe he's guilty this is the

feds of relieved which is what we're here to try to save his life sirhan sirhan is defense faced other problems. there have been suggestions that pressure was put on some eyewitnesses to change their stories as in the case of sandra serrano. this audio recording was released long after the trial along with other documents as late as nine hundred eighty eight. she just reported to police what she saw and yet they treated her like

a criminal after weeks of bullying or finally she gave up and said i don't know what i saw i testified under oath and unlike the chair protest that i saw the private address she said now you never saw this for and he kept drilling it's my head that i was wrong that i didn't seen that i didn't see what i was off to the the light checked he turned it off. and you saying look he didn't see the girl in the polka dot dress. why he wanted me to greeted that i do not know but i did see the girl with the program address which was valerie sheltie which i did identify in court. they were battering deep to change the story in a in face tape of hank earn and is doing these interrogation he himself is you putting words in my mouth prior part of the problem with police

investigations is they too are subject to cognitive biases they think we know who did it and we're only going to pursue this particular case we don't care about all this other stuff they narrow their focus down to like one person they think that did it and then you know so this goes in support of your case that well maybe they're ignoring you know somebody else that might have been relevant to the case yes that does happen you don't need to have everybody involved in it all you needed the one man that is controlling the investigation because he decides who's going to be interviewed what's going to be buried what is going to be fabricated. and they did it. i sympathize with sam bashara sirhan that he took the rap. unfairly unjustly and does honestly on the bed on the part of the prosecution and that story has to be told we have

a very strong case based upon not theory not conspiracies but based upon the prosecution's own hard evidence which they tried to destroy a lot of it but they some of it they didn't destroy and that's going to be useful. he should've been eligible for parole in one thousand nine hundred and he should be released he meets all the qualifications on the california brawl and we have a palestinian the sussan with all all that means to american voters and to the paula politicians who would weigh in oh. i would weigh their decision making in terms of whether they really want to alienate the jewish voters in america or whatever by their support being seen to support a palestinian assassin i actually don't believe sir hand understood the role he was playing i truly believe from years twenty five years of research that certain hand

had been hypnotized by others who wanted to use him as a pawn in their plot. it's just a question of not giving up once you get involved and you see injustice prevailing you still stay on until you try to do is much as you can and some point you may have to say that's it i can do no more and james earl ray died in prison sirhan sirhan is in prison and if we're not successful than he. will also die. sirhan sirhan was convicted on the seventeenth of april nine hundred sixty nine his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment three years later. defense lawyers have been trying to get him

a new trial since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but have so far failed her han has a parole hearing every five years. this was his fourteenth in march twenty eleven and parole was denied again in twenty sixteen or. the public outpouring of grief after robert kennedy's death was a sign that they had lost a principled politician as senator from new york who cared about poverty in the south and racial segregation everywhere. even if the case is reopened the exact truth of what happened over fifty years ago may now never been. born in palestine under british rule. educate in america.

a controversial professor in new york. he realized he was the voice. of the people al-jazeera while explores what made him an influential writer. and champion of the palestinian cause in the west and what's out of place. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello and welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across parts of

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a killing we're not talking about anything else we're talking about a killing so who did it as pressure builds president on will trump says the u.s. will determine who murdered jamal in the next two days. a first for the apec summit the meeting ends in disagreements dominated by u.s. china trade tensions. facing the current in the balkans we meet the women taking a stand against the business giant to stop rivers running dry. in spork. england in europe this year's world cup semifinal this time at the same a meeting in a decisive game in the european nations like. the u.s. government is expected to decide who ordered the murder of saudi journalist in the next two days u.s. media reports say the cia has concluded that saudi mohammed bin sultan is response is responsible but president donald trump has said it's too early to say i'll just

have returns he reports from washington. while touring the devastation caused by the california wildfires donald trump claimed the cia had not assessed anything yet that it was too early but that a judgment would come soon we're going to come up with a report as to what we think the overall impact was and who caused it and who did it a state department earlier released this statement recent reports indicating that the u.s. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate there remain numerous unanswered questions with respect to the murder of mr chaudry the state department will continue to seek all relevant facts and we will do that while maintaining the important strategic relationship between the united states and saudi arabia but according to several reports not only has the cia reached a conclusion it has high confidence in its assessment that because it was killed by an order of the saudi crown prince the cia reached out assessment having examined

communication intercepts and analyzing the power structure of saudi arabia but there's still no direct evidence confirming muhammad bin salman ordered the hit and that may be all the leeway the president needs to avoid reaching the same definitive conclusion congressional leaders have been briefed by the cia some members of congress are demanding action me senator richard blumenthal tweeted this trump must accept for once his intelligence experts in controversial conclusion crown prince m.b.'s is culpable for casualties monstrous murder this brazen killing must have consequences sanctions prosecution removal of m.p.'s and others not continued cover up enabled by trump and the president is not willing to take those decisions the congress of the united states when it comes back. and reconvenes in washington will take decisions itself and the president might not like those decisions so he better get out in front of this oncoming train according to reports

even the cia accepts that mohamed bin sounds position is secure but there are suggestions that the u.s. may attempt to use evidence of a. crown prince's culpability in to show g.'s murder as leverage on yemen the blockade of qatar where the incarceration of dissidents even as some in congress see the murder of democracy as a moment to reevaluate the entire relationship between saudi arabia and the us others see it more as an opportunity to clip the wings of a volatile crown prince while still relying on him to advance the trumpet ministrations agenda in the middle east she has returned to the al-jazeera washington steven erlanger is the chief diplomatic correspondent in europe for the new york times he says that whatever the cia analysis suggests president trump is unlikely to blame the saudi crown prince for. the inside man is very important to the white house policy i mean jerrod question or the son in law's embrace the crown prince. the crown prince is well so have been reckless there's no

question there are rumors that his power has been constrained a bit in saudi arabia but the cia now believes he will survive in the job so here's the future of saudi arabia at least for now which is why it matters to the united states not just president trump but the united states as a whole they made an analysis. apparently there is no direct it's voice. in some mom ordering this murder her or him at all on tape so the president could if he chooses it will his analysis a slightly different from the analysis the cia has made a conclusion present may have a slightly different conclusion or may put a different shape. on that conclusion as you know but there are lots of ways to skin a cat but i'd be very surprised very very surprised if president trump him so blames

the crown prince mohammed bin so mom for this murder a top white house official who's responsible for american policy toward saudi arabia has quit that's according to u.s. media the resignation has raised speculation that there could be a split within the trumpet ministration on how to respond to riyadh to a shock she steps for more on that let's speak with seriousness and jordan who joins us live now from washington d.c. so rose. who is this official why did she resign. well her name is curiouser and fontanne rose she was the official on the national security council who dealt with policy regarding saudi arabia we don't know why she resigned but according to the new york times she did offer her resignation on friday night that was also reported by the washington post but it noted that ms fontanne rose had been placed on administrative leave at some point before she left the white house on friday night now both the newspapers are also reporting that

because of the incident involving the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi journalist the obviously this was something that was going to be endless fountain roses real house that she it's reported that she went to riyadh to meet with officials there in the early days after his disappearance and murder and she was the one who recommended to her colleagues that the advisor to the saudi crown prince a man named tani should be added to the list of those sanctioned under the global ski act that did happen in recent days now we don't know why she was placed on administrative leave we don't know why she resigned or whether this was her way of being a vote of avoiding being fired certainly that is something that has a lots of people raising their eyebrows but adrian this simply indicates that it's

a confirmation of the display of the dispute really within the trumpet ministration on how to hold saudi arabia or those persons inside saudi arabia of accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi there's a real sense among many in the u.s. government that if another country can go out and set out to kill someone who has been critical of the government or who is perceived as a threat to the government that the u.s. can't stand for that. that it would undermine the u.s. is moral authority there are others including the president himself who have argued that there needs to be a very careful way of dealing with this situation because saudi arabia not only is a key economic partner but the trumpet ministration is relying on saudi arabia as one of its bulwarks as it were to try to isolate iran the other major player in the middle east many thanks to serious roseland in washington. s.

strikes have resumed over her data in yemen the main port for food and medical supplies for the country the saudi m.r.c. coalition is trying to retake it from two thousand rebels the united nations says the war has pushed some eight million people to the brink of starvation as mohamed atta reports from across the red sea in djibouti. after a brief pause in fighting a few days ago the besieged city of her days again in flames both if i tells us a top target that industrial complex on the outskirts with rockets and artillery because it was a base for the pro-government alliance backed by so did. its forces took control of these parts of the eastern suburbs a few days ago philthy commanders say the resent people ceasefire is simply a ploy to allow their allies to the group. the military escalation must be met with a similar escalation once the balance of power is gained over they are in possession of advanced technologies sophisticated weapons in addition to the

logistic support from the usa then a political solution can be acceptable to them if we remain weak they will dictate their own terms. the two day lolling fighting earlier this week seems all but shouted on the residents of the city are bracing themselves for more fight. video posted on the internet by the pro-government giant's brigade shows troops advancing toward a neighborhood south of near the city's airport. who data has been under attack for months dolphins' it is aimed at cutting controlled areas from their main supply route. the u.n. and the international red cross say the resumption of fighting is and then do the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in that densely populated city . the head of the world food program was just visited today the ses yemenis are only months away from full scale. we asked the leaders of this country to give us

the access that we need the support that we need unimpeded exit so that we can be engaged doing what we do this saving lives in changing the port of her day that is a lifeline for millions of yemenis up to eighty percent of humanitarian supplies fuel and goods on which they depend docked here aid workers. is still a possibility something that could put at risk more than fourteen million a dependent yemenis on the fighting is said to continue as both sides try to gain more territory ahead of peace talks due to be held on the end of the year is sweden . djibouti the u.s. envoy for afghanistan says that he's hoping for a peace deal with the taliban by april i'll make a little sad has had three days of talks in castle where the taliban has a political office a u.s. led coalition force the taliban from power seventeen years ago following the

september eleventh attacks on new york and washington but the taliban still controls almost half of afghanistan and frequently attacks security forces and government targets it's refused to negotiate directly with the internationally recognized afghan government calling it an illegitimate regime put into place by foreign powers michael semple is a professor at queen's university belfast and former deputy e.u. special representative to afghanistan who's negotiated with the taliban he joins us now via skype from dublin good to have you with us professor these talks in doha what they routine or significant. definitely they are significant really as you know remarkable the boys from his is now saying that he hopes to get a deal by april because until now public.