on the dollar but the cold lead nowhere. the phone. as we speak today. into live shows under notice jill no nobody will dare to speak and criticize that informed life saudi intelligence was closely monitoring her show she and his movements and briefing the new crown prince and heir to the throne of the one who are and of the world. i mean. the saudis trying to tempt the journalist to return a source close to her show she said that the adviser to the roll call. contacted him twice by phone. he allegedly said that mohammed bin salmond trusted implicitly and that the doors of the rule court were open to him whenever he chose to return. the same source said that the saudi government maintained communication

with. a made him several offices including managing a prominent saudi funded media network. also so good you read it when he has been there he has been serving in the embassy in london the saudi embassy in washington was there carol von weapons verba and i think his knowledge of the regime added credibility to this abortion as a journalist when he spoke out. shows he kept up his criticism of bin salmoni and the washington post demanded spoke to me through this before because many of them that he is working with friends to establish a foundation for democracy in the art of wall promoting back out of them quasi among slow move people and also fear thing some form of society after consideration . according to a political science researcher in istanbul shows she was involved in projects aimed at countering saudi digital like to vittie. the program produces contacted

some of his assistants on one project but they were reluctant to talk in detail they said they didn't want to jeopardize the future of the new work. meanwhile back in the saudi capital riyadh a small cell was formed to decide what to do about jim oh. it weighed up different options and as new information became available it formulated a course of action. it would silence a show she. permanently. on the evening of the 9th of september 28th seen her show she left the us for what would be the last time he took turkish airlines t k 8 from washington to istanbul where he arrived on the. evening of the 10th of september. he planned to stay until the 17th of october as he had

a major personal event to plan for his marriage to the turkish ph d. student. the couple had 1st met at a conference in istanbul in may 2018 they kept in touch met again in july 28th and then jamal proposed to her t.j. and she accepted. because he is about to get married he wanted to establish new life and they were still remember the flat that he bought the furniture to put in the flare and the fact that the scope of the consulate to get some bitter months and they joked with him and they said you are younger. than i have seen before because you have a story. and then he said you know we may continue our struggle for. generation and i thoroughly.

'd secure in. my show she made an injury in trip to london and returned to a stumble on friday the 28th of september landing at 4 o 7 am. 924 the same morning shows she and her teacher went to the municipal office in the fatah district of a stumble to check what paperwork they needed. to be. picked by the everybody did. the like of the bialek muscle and they are probably they really. let it go bust they are like the bush on the on the tank out all of the high levels of the you know modern is part of chart.

so jamal and her t.j. took a taxi to the saudi consulate. therefore want to get a couple of active in all my love for the father issue one should get a video listen up. back to be. a child or 2 and it's called each other the way it is. for mr chicken i wonder if that. ban the help of them all the talk about the we will all know each of them 30 that. during his 90 minute visit to show she was told the necessary documents would be processed in the next few days. that same evening show she flew back to london having spent. less than a day in his stumble. i was one of the last people to meet him before he disappeared he was here with me in this office we spent the day together we had

lunch together and then he went to the airport i followed him the following they threw away some old cause he was forced to appear on my t.v. show. but by the time i arrived in the summer he was gone and i can tell you that when we met here. seemed so quite comfortable and excited about the prospects of marriage we discussed. a project to hear how the mind and that is to set up a website to publish translations of reports an author calls and analysts is on the economic situation so in india and the region. in london show she called the saudi consulate in istanbul but they told him his papers were ready at that she should collect them on tuesday the 2nd of october 1 30 pm. so how she left london

again for a stumble is fateful final journey. listening to show she did not stay in istanbul hotel but in the place he bought for him and her teacher to live after the wedding. a teacher had been busy putting in furniture and supplies. only a few items remained and jamal planned to buy them after his return from the consulate. but he never did. the couple had breakfast at the restaurant inside the residential complex and there was a lot to talk about mainly the wedding. up made. organisation have neither. the arc of us or with a chart of them before but that he opted almost. didn't.

take the job the day or the arc of the job by the time of the mumbai listen a bit about getting me. for the guy did not believe the mother. nature of the. good old out of the way. call for. meanwhile what was effectively the saudi hit squad began arriving in istanbul in the early hours of the same morning. free of mohammed bin salma the special protection unit came on a commercial flight from cairo. to private jets from riyadh landed an hour apart on the private runway. h. said s k one landed at 3 30 am carrying the head of the assassination team. trip

and 8 other men including 2 of the key players. the team checked into 2 hotels near the saudi called. surveillance cameras in both hotels showed the men leaving at 940 and 10 50 am and cameras at the consulate monitored their arrival there. is no say leaked all the recordings that 2 planes came from so they are via the. airport of other 2 and 15 men. checked in a hotel in istanbul and before. arrived to consummate they entered the. car we did feel that even though that you cannot see inside the fact that our team

arrived in turkey the circumstances of what they actually did the timing is concerned and also the composition of those people in terms of forensic expertise that ranking one at least is alleged to be a very senior ranking intelligence officer and the fact that it's also claimed that at least 7 of that team are extremely close in terms of the security in a circle of the crown prince himself all of this is very strong circumstantial evidence it all suggests that not only were these people implicated in the whatever how has happened. it also suggests that what the intention actually was. at 1 14 pm so the cameras showed her show z. entering the consulate. he gave her t.j.

his mobile phone and left her waiting for him outside. she has been missing for 5 days out they also reported his disappearance to turkish going shopping in washington very concerned about the whereabouts of running a prominent commentator on target journalist was lawfully in answering his country's consulate in istanbul on tuesday and have until march since a t.j. continued to wait but as the time pursed she became increasingly concerned and contacted some of jamal's friend whose. side would stand for much done for love as the going to be done beats me the wish that the germans. will become sort of us all members of the former caucus here in the making to me either because of its off or back to come other will that i'd like to there although on the mitchell this to me on in all the largest army can come on the roof and i'm going to say of

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michigan there. ya go. how about. if you. can from year. 7 that's about where you want to be mother. as international speculation about her shoulders he grew one theory was that he'd been kidnapped as part of an illegal operation to take him back to saudi arabia. the turkish government broke its silence the day after her showed his disappearance on wednesday the 3rd of october when it made this statement be they could be literalists wanted to. do what some bush will accuse you of color that i was stunned he stumbled on the while president urged the one 1st commented

publicly on sunday the 7th of october on dirt on somebody the soldier with the you know usually the boy given the that investigation was led by the turkish intelligence service who suggested that they had audio and even video evidence of what had happened inside the consulate. but publicly the turkish government played a longer game. seemingly as a way of avoiding any allegations against crown prince mohammed bin salma. it also helped distance king solomon from the case. it was a drip drip strategy in which the turks used leaks as a way of responding to the initial saudi statements. and of dealing with the us government when it began to comment under increasing internal political pressure.

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into. the saudi journal he. left his native country in june 27th. he went to the united states and began writing for the washington post where he was critical of saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin sell money in particular. in october 28th he visited the saudi consulate in istanbul to collect some papers which would enable him to marry his turkish feel safe. but he never accepted the building the saudi government initially denied any involvement or responsibility but the turkish authorities cleverly drip fed leaks of the evidence they've collected inside the consulate. of course where reliance upon what they are leaking or claiming elements within the turkish

security establishment and official and no doubt they have their own reasons for. that may depend on geopolitical reasons in terms of undoubtedly it would appear to people such as myself anyway some kind of ongoing behind the scenes negotiation with the saudis and the americans and secondly of course in terms of perhaps not wanting to hear some future prosecution. the turkish foreign ministry summoned the saudi ambassador demanding clarification of the incident. this triggered the 1st official saudi statement issued by the saudi consul general in istanbul on wednesday the 3rd of october it said that the consulate was monitoring media reports of the disappearance of the saudi citizen. after he left the saudi consulate in istanbul. said the consulate was also following up and coordinating with the turkish authorities. to

discover the circumstances of her show she's disappearance. the bloomberg news agency published a statement by mohammed bin salmoni on wednesday the 3rd of october before the official saudi press agency followed suit 3 days later. m.b.'s said quote my understanding is he entered and he got out after a few minutes or maybe one hour adding that showed he was not inside the consulate and that quote if he's in saudi arabia i would know it listen all of our couples like me don't want me to. actually look at all the bacon i made the army tick. tick i could not swallow me some money then why didn't i get it thanks for the service or took them out by me but i thought my god. the bomb was for the thought of course like me back to jim i didn't call forth on

whether to. be adequate to duty and floating near they were scared to return or. at the very 1st beginning of the event has been happen mr advani or when the said on nurse kingdom also there are be an authority clearly show that he has left because late all the responsibilities belong to the so there are no tortillas and. you know that so they are. and their social media. army started to promote around. and this is a very detailed plan and action after intelligence agencies they are trying to blame. the other such kind of ridiculous story fabricated stories.

the 5th day after his disappearance saw the 1st news story about. a turkish official told reuters that the police's initial assessment was that he showed she had been intentionally murdered at the consulate and that his body had been moved abroad. the saudi government issued a denial an official source at the saudi consulate in istanbul also denied the reuters story that quoted turkish officials saying that her show she had been killed at the consulate he denounced the source of what she called these quote unfounded accusations. but i could. not and you want to consider you were left. out of use for india.

on saturday the 6th of october. invited reuter's to the consulate and took them on a tour simply to show that he was not in the building he denied that he had been killed insisting that he left but admitting he couldn't prove it because the consulate surveillance cameras hadn't saved the images. of why he would have a c.c.t.v. system. doesn't record. the only reason why you have a recording system is a lack of money and this isn't something that afflicts. the shore. under the 8th of october u.s. president donald trump made his 1st public statement about the case. at the same time the saudi ambassador to the us prince khalid bin selma inabilities stated

publicly that allegations that he had been killed or detained by the saudi authorities were completely faults and unfounded. he then left for saudi arabia on the pretext of cities clarification. for the king of saudi arabia the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know made me i don't want to get it is fine but it sounded to me like maybe i should have been. here. from the photos they. wanted to give an example from i would have of course we know just formed by and of themselves and we know that from started speaking about him before even the saudi government with us so he wanted to give them the exit therefore they can use it to cover. this unfortunately was going

on from the station. talking with. the american. with all the american that the. only bit. i mean it's going to make them want to chant. come on in sympathy because i'm watching. them all that are going to get. a medical act within are not. going to cure bus coming i did. on monday the 8th of october the turkish newspaper. reported that the intelligence services while on the lines in the movement of 26 cause owned by the saudi consulate in istanbul it said they wanted to determine their whereabouts on. the day for show she went missing.

c.c.t.v. cameras close to the saudi consulate showed 2 cars a black mercedes vito 34 c c 1865 and another miss a d salute 34 c c u 248 driving to the saudi consuls house an hour and 15 minutes after her show she had gone into the consulate. they were parked in the garage there for 3 days. on the 4th day they were taken to the car wash near the consulate where they were kept in. the program producers obtained these pictures from inside the car wash itself showing the 2 vehicles being fairly clean. turkish investigators believe that dismembered body was taken from the consulate to the consul's house in the sadie's vito. the c.c.t.v. image shows the veto outside the house before turkish police searched it. and

on tuesday the 9th of october the washington post published the now famous c.c.t.v. video of jamal khashoggi entering the consulate 1 pm on tuesday the 2nd of october . the 10th of october the b.b.c. reported that the turkish media had published pictures and names of those they said were members of the hit squad. the new york times also ran the story reporting that her show she had been cut with a bone saw 2 hours after death and that the orders to assassinate him had been issued from the highest level in saudi arabia. so more pictures and i don't. know as guys are really members of the. monster as a bodyguard for. let's 11 days after her show she's disappearance on c.b.s.'s

60 minutes donald trump was still insisting that the crown prince denied any knowledge of what had happened. but warned saudi arabia of serious repercussions if it were proved to her she had been killed. this is something you'll be surprised in the say that there's something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case so we're going to have to see we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment if they go on to claim that these people were acting without the authority of the saudi government and of course they can prove that by. relinquishing the diplomatic immunity of these people and actually writing a few turkey for trial but if that happens of course there is a very big risk that those people who are put on trial for his capital offense will name the people that made the decisions and that may not be convenient of course to the saudi government. on the same day as the c.b.s.

trump interview the british french and german foreign ministers issued a joint statement calling for an independent investigation force the governments in britain america would like to draw a line of that arrest and pretend it hasn't happened but i think public pressure is enforcing the media to then force the governments in the west to actually at least in the short term appear to be taking action i'm out of course is in our judgment from the saudi perspective. of course we have to increase the thought because of the pressure. because the media because of the republicans and the democrats in the congress but they've made a serious rocky ride to find an exit even if you increase that it. so from. found himself very pressed imagine he is secretary of state. to riyadh. korea you want to learn your realities they say so but i am not really sure whether he went in order to investigate what has

happened inside the king the most through the year of b.-a or to fabricate a story. the fallout from the her shows case reverberated around the saudi stock exchange with its index falling 7 percent when trading began on sunday the 14th of october 28th seem. a saudi statement was released freshening to retaliate firmly against any action taken against the country. on that same sunday king cell mund broke his silence on the case for the 1st time when the saudi press agency reported that the king had spoken to turkish president over the one on the phone and quote thanked the president for welcoming the kingdom's proposal to form a joint working group to discuss the disappearance of the saudi citizen jamal khashoggi. the king quote stressed the kingdom's keenness to protect its

relations with ankara. the next day the saudi press agency reported that the king of spoken to donald trump who had quote praised the progress in saudi turkish joint cooperation in investigating the disappearance of our shows you. again on monday the 15th of october saudi and turkish officials entered the consulate a joint team led by the deputy general prosecutor in his stumble and agents from the turkish counterterrorism directorate. that evening the forensic investigation team arrived. they worked 9 hours through the night until dawn on tuesday the 68th of october.

the forensic teams left carrying samples of soil and a metal door from the consulate guard. media attention then quickly switched to the consul's house next for forensic inspection. while the saudi consul general himself mohamed el a table departed is stumble amid rumors of his impending arrest by turkish police. meanwhile the turkish government ramped up its pressure on the saudis. after all those friends each investigation. made a couple of telephone calls international leaders including the king solomon of king the more so they are and after that. it realized that the fabricated story of question has left the consulate is incredible so they accepted that

mr question has been killed inside the calls that the film crew was able to monitor the movement of saudi security stuff between the consulate and the consuls house from friday the 12th to wednesday the 17th of october. the program produces later established that this included chemical expert abdel aziz alger newbie and toxicologist khalid yards of ronnie. this was the group that was reported as having deliberately destroyed evidence of the consulate and the consuls house it is possible to fully clean up premises of forensic evidence but what you don't leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned and therefore that also again is can be used and often is used as circumstantial evidence against the accused person. on saturday the 20th of october after repeated denials saudi arabia finally

admitted that her show she was dead. a statement by the saudi public prosecutor announced the arrest of 18 saudis for questioning and suggested that the murder had occurred as a result of a quarrel. the lismore that act into law from the up to that. then what do you know they've. been in on the. then it was. on sunday the 21st of october. and the crown prince made 2 phone calls to. jamal's son to offer their condolences then on tuesday the 23rd of october they

summoned him and his uncle. and used it as a photo opportunity. then the turkish government strategy of leaking evidence finally brought to the saudi attorney general. to turkey to coordinate the operation of his investigators. he arrived in istanbul on monday the 29th of october by private plane. he held 2 meetings with his stumbles chief public prosecutor for done after which his office made a formal statement. and said that there was no tangible outcome from these 2 meetings quote despite all our efforts and good intentions to reveal the truth about the killing of her in his country's consulate. the statement went on to say that immediately after entering the consulate the sharjah

had been strangled as part of a premeditated plan and that his body had been cut up and disposed of. the public prosecutor's statement crystalized each of the 3 main countries positions. the turkish authorities stood by their story. saudi arabia continued to counter the leaks by the turkish government. and the us government continued to defend crown prince mohammed bin salma anxious to protect american commercial interests. some members of the u.s. house of representatives and senate took a more robust position criticizing trump's action and demanding that saudi arabia and m.b.'s be held to account. other arab countries commented very little. and that the ballot round cracked morter harder fighting and harder on your own.

shop and armor to hand out an accounting of how to write or just bomb you have frank have found you can respond to our crack addict i think that. the audio recordings shared strategically by turkish intelligence turned out to be graphic and incriminating. they were authenticated by the united nations investigation which published its findings in june 29th teens. the recordings have her shortly entering the consulate or 1 15 pm on the 2nd of october and going to the consul general's office where mohamed el a table was with trip an officer from the saudi foreign ministry and the special god to mohammed bin salma they questioned her about his intentions of returning to saudi arabia and he said he did want to return in the future then they said they

would have to take him back but that there was an interpol order to that effect and that they were coming to get him. to show she said that there was no case against him and that he had people waiting for him outside. the recordings then have a short fight followed by a conversation among the hit squad is here sleep he's raising his head keep pushing bushehr don't remove your hand pusher. according to the u.n. investigation her show she was then injected with a sedative and then suffocated with a plastic bag. then a doctor in the team cellar ultra baby started cutting up to show she's body. about 2 hours later the recordings pick up 3 different voices on the stairs. one ordered the visa lounge to be closed another appearing to be a technician transferred c.c.t.v. data and reset the surveillance cameras. the 3rd was most to file

murder any dressed as a jamal khashoggi lookalike of jamal khashoggi was a premeditated murder and they are now telling c.n.n. that they even believe the saudis went to the extent of sending body double here to pull out all murder any appeared to complain about wearing who shows she's clothes shouting it's scary wearing the clothes of someone who was killed 20 minutes ago. or shows his shoes didn't fit him properly so the team leaders allowed him to keep his running shoes on. our money was told to walk along for streets before taking a taxi to the sultan our district where he disposed of her charges clothes. on the 19th of june 29th teen the un special rapporteur on arbitrary executions and yes kalama published her investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi it included

a direct indictment of the saudi or for it is for their involvement in what it called extra dudish of the execution. now said that there was credible evidence requiring further investigation into the involvement in the crime of high level saudi officials including crown prince mohammed bin salma himself we are i do don't know mr i believe that you we take on. i hope. the fact that you execution will never be repeated including by the state of saudi arabia to which she was so attached. although a year has now passed since her soldier is murdered the question remains as to where his body is. didn't trip carry it in his diplomatic luggage when he flew on one of the private jets that took the assassination group to cairo and dubai the following evening. was the body bear

a dirty yellow villa which was inspected several times by turkish police. or was it scattered in the belgrade forest where the saudi military attack our commander. was seen before the assassination. or was it dissolved in acid and disposed of at the consul's house mom feels she was killed she is body to the fire ruby has denied any involvement in the disappearance of her shirt however in a c.b.s. interview on the 29th of september 2019 mohammed bin solomon was asked a direct question about. did you order the murder. absolutely not this was a heinous crime like this but i take full responsibility as a leader in saudi arabia especially since it was committed by individuals working

for the saudi government. in exposing. and. this won't be one. in judgment. on mean but.

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from south to the north we will see. as we head through friday but notice a cold day in christchurch 17 degrees celsius the cooler up into all cleaned and the little bit cooler also on saturday into christchurch and see some snow here just on the mountain tops that we had up towards japan on the korean peninsula as we know what this storm system tropical storm that has brought flooding rains across southern portions of south korea by friday is working its way quite rapidly across central and out of the picture by saturday. rewind returns with a new series. and brand new updates on the best about using these documentaries think that. these young people is doing. it to remind continues with uncomfortably you know this is gaza central jail and this is the

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to his office directly so he can address their demands is also sacked more 1000 government employees in a crackdown on corruption and although the protests appear to be spontaneous and without clear leadership they're driven by common concerns there is a chronic lack of basic services like electricity and water and in the 29000 budget only 8 percent has been allocated for education reconstruction and health sectors combined that's compared to 14 percent on oil and 20 percent on security on top of that many people are struggling to find jobs 13 percent of all adults are unemployed and that goes up to more than a quarter for young people of working age and the issues are not just being felt in the capital them astray sions of spread across several provinces most of the deaths have been in southern iraq in cities like nasser ear and ammara imran khan reports . they defied the curfew imposed by iraq's security forces.

and for not following soldiers orders bullets were fired at the. anti government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days have also spread to other cities such as bus are necessary yet and ammara as the violence escalated security forces blocked major roads and the internet is also blocked in most parts to sever social media i protesters are demanding a change of government as well as more jobs less corruption and an end to religious discrimination you know i don't want. despite the curfew we are going out to call for our rights we want to change the vice dream thank you rested our people thank don thanks to our people they didn't even do to i say they beat them up and humiliated them all 5 ing live gunfire what did we do we suicide bombers we're here to call for our bikes. the number of dead has risen steadily and over a 1000 have been injured since the defeat of ice or protests to say nothing has

changed them despite the promises of politicians. what yellow they are not even with the curfew i swear to god we will not retreat we're demanding a simplest rights the simplest rights to be honest for you know what we separate ourselves for our country to be sacrificed for iraq our people come out not for yourselves but for your children. iraqis are also unhappy with the abrupt dismissal of. the counterterrorism forces in the fight against i sold out of they say the government's reaction to the protests is a dangerous escalation iraq's fragile security relies on managing deep sectarian fault lines as well as a threat from the remnants of isolate ourselves and buck judged at the start of the people are being rolled the people are begging on the street there is no word. you come to protest and they fire at you. iran has close to border crossings

delaying plans by millions of iranian programs to visit iraq for a religious ritual iraq's u.s. allies and the united nations are appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint promised the mahdi and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how he can stop the outpour of anger against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to negotiate with. iran or desire by god. joining me now is below journalist for the gulf matters he's reported extensively from the middle east since 2002 thanks for coming to talk to us so that clearly our number of grievances is a get in the rational streets what would you say is the primary concern for people well i think the primary concern is jobs. corruption and really a failure to deliver on basic services electricity clean water and it's kind of become it's very much the power of the street it's interesting that these protests

don't seem to have a political focus that is there's no one plate particular political unit that's pushing people out of the streets it's been quite spontaneous from the ground up and interestingly i'm told a lot of professionals who are unemployed doctors teachers engineers lawyers are out there along with unemployed youth and of course the youth unemployment rate in iraq is approaching 20 percent when you when you put all these things together and you look at what the money the government has accomplished in one year which is very little the frustration level is high so you know how surprised were you that people would tend to find a curfew in baghdad for example you know i think that that did surprise me somewhat because these people are really putting the their lives at risk i think the the the death count as as gone above 30 now but i think it's a measure of just how deeply frustrated how angry people are at the promises of

this of this government and really the failed to deal with these issues that they promised they would at least get a start dealing with i mean the prime minister said that people should address the grievances directly to the gun how realistic a cool is that at this stage what. i don't know how people can do that other than to go in the streets and say look you've got to fix this you need to you need to be showing us that you really take our concerns seriously interest him in total solder who of course is a very powerful political figure he tweeted. about 22 hours ago and he said keep it peaceful. on both sides he urged the security in a place to keep it peaceful and he said he wasn't going to send his people out in the streets because he didn't want to politicize now if you wanted to he could send literally millions of people he's chosen not to do that so again this speaks to this grassroots nature now ma they can say come and talk to me but how how are

people supposed to do that they can only do it through street protests so not only you mention that professionals are involved this time is that something that hasn't happened in the past in the generally commissions kind of stayed out of street demonstrations and you think that might be a game changer in that unfortunately they might be taken more seriously than the others i don't know what it may be i mean a thing is that previously these protests have been more politicized various religious parties from put from put people into the streets various elements of people in the streets this time perhaps the professionals you know give it a different a different sense perhaps that underlines just how serious this crisis is and that the challenge now for this government is how to deal with it and we're seeing that thus far they're not dealing with a very well of a bill thank you very much indeed for coming thank you. now in the us leading democrats have accused president donald trump of breaching his oath of office by asking foreign leaders to probe his political opponents the

us president openly called on ukraine and china to investigate democratic election rival and former vice president joe biden a similar request made during a phone call with ukraine's president in july is already triggered an impeachment inquiry and congress. they should investigate that because that is a company that's really formed well these companies you look at by the way like white china just started to get into the buy because what happened to john is just about as bad as what happened with. with ukraine so i would say that president. if it were me i would recommend that they start an investigation into the bike because nobody has any doubt that they were broken well as his former u.s. special envoy to ukraine testified in 3 committees as part of that impeachment inquiry

he's the 1st official to give testimony as investigations into trump's dealings with ukraine ramp up while fisher is that life 1st in washington d.c. so what kind of reaction has there been to trump's latest define comments on this. oh well 1st of all it's important to point out that donald trump is again accuse the bidens of corruption of being crooked and offering no evidence to support any of these claims critics are certainly surprised by what donald trump is doing here he is at the white house in front of all the cameras essentially doing what started the impeachment inquiry which was asking if foreign government to get involved in u.s. elections by investigating a political rival and donald trump prefaced his remarks by saying that he had a lot of options with china and then called on them to investigate the bidens as well you'll know at the moment there is a trade war ongoing between the united states and china in fact the chinese trade

delegation is expected in washington next week obviously donald trump could put pressure on them by saying well there's a lot of tariffs on your goods i could start taking them off if you start this investigation or the chinese could show up and say you know what we think you should start taking off those type of send them perhaps we could maybe a look at an investigation into joe biden this is not what the founding fathers of the united states said it is very clear that they don't want outside influences in u.s. elections they particularly don't want governments getting involved so this makes it harder for donald trump to defend this isn't it whistle blower an edited transcript the idea that someone was picking up information that he then got wrong this is donald trump standing in front of the white house calling on china to investigate a political opponent and alan in the meantime this seems to be an agreement to have the missiles between us and the u.s.

and ukraine tell us more about that. well this links back again to the call with president saleh of ukraine back in june you'll remember that during that phone call president asked for more javelin missiles to be sent from the united states know what donald trump was on the call about was separate military aid which had been held up but today we find out that the javelins have been approved you remember that during that conversation back in june when selenski asked about being able to buy more javelin missiles donald trump then said yeah but i want you to do is a favor which was to investigate joe biden the so at the moment for donald trump all roads are leading back to the phone call in june but also the impeachment proceedings so it looks as if these javelin missiles will go through this sale will go through they've got congressional approval the state department of said.