justice found out all month he didn't run then. moved out of boxes full of drugs. witness personal documentaries not photo deception on al-jazeera. 0. hello i'm maryam namazie a watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes u.s. intelligence report says saudi crown prince robert been approved the operation to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi. anger in nigeria zamfara state after gunmen kidnap more than 300 schoolgirls in a nighttime raid. a 1000000 miles own ambassador to the u.n.

urges the world to act as police disperse and he could protesters in yangon. use any reads. against the mom and. call the people knew my. son in school one of the alleged abuse victims of former u.s. gymnastics coach john gets his reacted to his suicide sara klein saw him get it as a skate justice and said he is on life was an admission of guilt so. welcome to the program u.s. intelligence officials believe the saudi crown prince approved the operation to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi in 2018 that's according to a long awaited report just declassified by the biden administration it says mohamed

bin soundman was in absolute control of the came in kingdom's intelligence and security services meaning that such an operation would not have been carried out without his authorization it notes that the crown prince saw her shoji as a threat and broady back to violence if it was needed to silence him the report also less 21 individuals u.s. intelligence has high confidence were complicit or sponsible for casualties deaths in the saudi called. in istanbul they include 7 members of the crown prince's elite personal protective detail who among a team of 15 that flew into istanbul before the murder of a saudi foreign ministry says it rejects the report's findings but the u.s. has announced a ban on 76 saudi nationals a visa restriction policy on individuals it says are involved in counter decision activities on behalf of a foreign government let's cross now to allan fisher is in washington following the story and so on and how much bipartisan pressure has that been for president biden

to take action on this. well certainly joe biden said during the campaign that he was going to declassify this report he actually said during one of the debates it was his intention to turn so dear arabia into a pariah state because of what happened to jamal khashoggi we knew that this was going to be released at some point it was always the intention and it was always going to follow a phone call between joe biden and king solomon of saudi arabia that phone call took place on thursday the 4 page report was declassified on friday no there's no indication of how the intelligence was reached we nor that the turks had recordings inside the consulate in istanbul but much more than that we don't know and certainly what the americans are saying that with a high degree of certainty they believe that mohammed bin selman was responsible for sending the team to istanbul 1st of all to capture or kill jamal khashoggi now you remember that he walked into the consulate in istanbul on the 2nd of october in

2018 his intention was to pick up some paperwork to loan to go ahead with an upcoming marriage but he was never seen alive again and we know that the saudis cut up his body and then disposed of it to this day they still haven't declared what they did with the body mohamed bin solomon in an interview with american television a few months ago said that if there was any intelligence that suggested he was responsible he would like to see it made public while it has been a number of senior democrats are saying that he must know face sanctions for what he did one senior democrat saying his denials of involvement are simply not credible to risky for the president to do that. certainly we know this because shortly by one which is going to be implemented by the state department which is essentially restricting visas to $76.00 so the nationals is unlikely to include mohammed ben solomon it will impact the families

of the 76 though and certainly we're told that the treasury has been considering possible financial sanctions but no it's going to be a mom had been summoned being isolated by joe biden we've seen that we know that in the trump white house he was the main point of contact with the saudi government he was very close to jericho he spoke regularly to donald trump he was even in the oval office that's simply not going to happen no joe biden has said he wants to recalibrate his relationship with saudi arabia this is just a 1st step but what you have to remember is that there's been many occasions in the past were saudi arabia and the united states have fallen out you go back to 1983 and the fuel crisis when so dear abia imposed an oil embargo on the united states you think about 911 were 15 of the hijackers came from saudi arabia and you think of the killing of u.s. resident jamal khashoggi and all of the time the u.s. have said well they have to rethink their strategic relationship with saudi arabia

but in the end very little has changed and it seems although there's a lot of words coming out of the biden white house many democrats wanted to see what exactly will mean joe biden says recalibration thanks very much alan fischer in washington. well in this column on the u.n. investigator into casualties killing as the united states to take the lead in ensuring justice for his murder. fiance had to changes was waiting for him outside the saudi consulate the day he was murdered after the report was released she tweeted this image of him with the words hash tag justice that your model sent us here is in istanbul where the authorities findings helped lead to some of the report's conclusions. the support actually isn't a shock for the turkish authorities because since the killing of a saudi journalist in after shuki turkish authorities who have been involved in this investigation including the turkish police stumble chief persecutors office

and a turkish intelligence assessment was the same this killing must have been ordered by someone at a very high place in the royal kingdom and the officers never named the crown prince mohamed bin salam but every time the authorities spoke including turkish president don he pointed out to mohammad been someone because he says his aides he was involved in this hit lots of came to kill them our ship to violently inside saudi consulate building in istanbul they came 2 days before and all those talkings them all of them inside the consulate on the day of the killing was actually recorded through some bugs that have been planted by the turkish intelligence inside the consulate building actually those voice recordings that were leaked to media was a game changer in this investigation and those recordings were partially shared

with some counterparts by the turkish intelligence and as far as i learned from my sources and ankara all recordings all of the recordings on the day of the killing were shared with the u.s. in teligent when cia director this is how spell visited the turkish capital ankara with a delegation of to went to one people and apparently is the evidence that was gathered by the troops is actually one of the important bases of this report and this is an important step because now the united states can openly point out that the crown prince is responsible and to mark a ship just killing. well p.j. crowley is the former united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs and author of red line american foreign policy in a time a fractured politics and failing state joins me now by skype from alexandria virginia so the suggestion from washington is that now is the time for

a reassessment possibly if we can oppression of the when a ship with riyadh what. what are the options for the pine and biden administration on this. it's going to be a difficult needle to thread on the one hand the essential bill is essential business in the relationship you know will continue and there are of course there are many shared objectives including you know confronting iran in the region on the other hand that business will be done through the normal channels and those channels will not necessarily include mohamed but salma you know president biden syndicated he will speak to the king when he needs to now mohamed bin solomon is also the minister of defense so there there will be communication with him but obviously i think the. the united states is sending a signal that going forward assuming that mohammed solomon will be king some day you know he's going to have to prove his mettle in the relationship prove that he

could take actions consistent with not only shared interest but shared values if he's going to rebuild the relationship with the united states what are your thoughts on the possibility of sanctions against the crown prince in that case as it unrealistic to expect them to. i think. the sanctions will take the form of of an arm's length which is significant you know as you reported earlier you know mohammed and solomon was frequently welcomed at the white house you will not be welcome in the biden white house. and that sends an important signal even though obviously i don't think he'll be the subject of direct sanctions the white house i think fairly consider that was going a bridge too far. he won't be welcomed in the white house but of course he is the heir in success there to his father. that's and that's not going to we're not going

to see any pressure from the byington administration for that change. well i think it's fair to say that that you know who rule saudi arabia is up to the house of south not up to the united states. you know that said i think the chanter of the relationship you know will certainly change and i would drop parallel for example to to egypt. you know during the obama administration president sisi was not welcome to the white house he was through the trump of ministration i would be surprised if president sisi you know will be at the white house a time soon you know that said again essential business it will be done you know we are these are important partnerships but but in terms of kill what you might call diplomatic group hugs you know we're not going to see that anytime soon i take i take your point about the way in which the u.s. might approach this but of course m.e.'s is positioning it as crown prince was

opposed by certain faith has within the royal family in and side saudi arabia itself some of whom have. also applies ties with the u.s. how then how then is the relationship going to be different to the one we saw under president trump. well clearly the biden astray she is going to put human rights as a more central element of u.s. diplomacy so and this is are i where i think the you know the next step and our next steps is really up to saudi arabia you know you know mohamed bin solomon has championed himself as a reformer within the kingdom and in fact he has taken some important steps you know but i think what the united states will be will be testing him going forward you know if you're a former prove it and a genuine reformer you know doesn't seek out political adversaries either to be kidnapped or dismembered you know and and a genuine progressive you know does not throw you know women in jail who are who

are activists simply for the the role of being able to drive in the kingdom so you know if he's going to take a reformist approach going forward if he's going to rebuild his relationship with the united states the united states we're watching to see what he does not just what he says thank you p.j. crowley joining us on the news on a from a genuine thank you you're welcome. so i had for you on this news out from london honesty international says that soldiers from eritrea killed hundreds of people in a massacre in the ethiopian city of acts some. opposition supporters from the streets of armenia's capital blocking a major road and demanding the prime minister resigned. and in sport we'll have reaction to the stand out toward football 0 police and you'll be here's a story. police

in northwestern nigeria say 317 girls have been kidnapped by armed attackers who carried out a nighttime raid on their school it happened in the town of. far a state where police say they want to search and rescue operation officials say gunmen stormed the government gul science secondary school shortly after midnight firing sporadically before taking girls there believed to have been to then move them into the forest it comes just over a week after at least 42 people most of them students were abducted from a boys' school in gestate when a security guard working at the school described the moment the gunman stormed in the cheetah. as we tried to get out so we were overwhelmed so when we fired at they fired back as we continue to fight them and all of a sudden they retreated one of them left his motorcycle to escape and that's when we thought we were going to sleep and we were told to go home and now as i speak to you soldiers are in the bush fighting with them though i'm going to dresses in

a forest and says that the authorities are really in a race against time to locate the children. i must've operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the terrain is under way in i don't get me and the port of surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before sunset the at least rescue these students 317 of them or pinpoint the exact location before they abductors move farther away from the community also today shortly after the abduction government officials attempted to go to join get to assess the situation civilian officials actually and they were typed in among them of course in the convoy wired journalists who went to cover the story and eventually some of them were. injured in the attack you know these calls to question the latest abduction calls to question these them for

a state government. program or project to negotiate with bae and it's to convince them to submit their arms or surrender their arms only yes today just hours before the kidnapping a group of these so-called band is submitted or surrender their weapons and ammunition to the police and government officials in goose i was in for a state and then this abduction happened we this is coming just 9 days after a number of students were also taken from one of the boarding schools boarding school in they bring niger state 9 days after that is no word as to when that will be will so this is becoming more and more complex as security forces struggle to deal with the situation it looks like a quote when you ask many nigerians they will tell you that it looks like this quarter forces are not able to deal with the situation and that is fear spreading in the land as this criminal activity has spread farther inland from the northwest down to the center of the country and down south. well kidnapping is

a common tactic used by armed groups in criminal gangs in nigeria just over a month ago con men abducted 8 children and 2 adults from an orphanage in nigeria's capital abuja they will free to weeks later in december more than 300 boys were kidnapped from a secondary school and kind of car in the north or they were released off to 6 days said they were behind that kidnapping the group also abducted more than 100 girls from a boarding school in the northeastern town of depp she in 20185 of the girls died and most of the others were released after a week but it was the kidnapping of more than 270 schoolgirls in the town of chill book in 2014 that really threw the spotlight on nigeria security problems it sparked international outrage and the bring back our girls campaign but around $100.00 of them are still missing. so following this latest kidnapping a local governor has ordered that all boarding schools for secondary students be closed across the state. was clear this is good you know there are no those who.

grew up or who grew up relatives that could be. moved here who are going 1. 103 under the agreement of the other. and is always good. to learn. well let's go live now to a budget where we can speak to bookie shani bar a she's the executive director of the advocacy advocacy group invictus africa as part of the bring back our girls movement and of course it is important to remember that 100 of those girls still missing that was in 2014 but in the last few months we've seen now with what has just happened in far this is now the 3rd mass abduction of children since december. the 3 kidnappings that have happened over the past few months are they is it your view that they might be linked have being

carried out by the same sort of corpse. i think that's the more weight on claimed and when we look at the must. so our doctrines that are sticking at least since december came to $22.00 are now dead or. touched in our state and back off and they too and gotten that out on the fence nicely that they meant just people bombs that fallen state may happen not western media the natwest imaging of manchurian and kalak family it's what we now call bandit but the subtle major abductions are paul newman mark east and want to some form of me just a girl mode you call too long is it better the game or so if we look around you not just to get to the soccer am people that are coming out in subduction no one can see that while no one hands that's a book or i'm so formal you just heard your logic out. aspect to the order at least

can even add best and you get to tell the truth or how the creative abductions are because. of government's failure. but does it perhaps mean that that commission that the fact that they're being used for ransom does that make it perhaps easier in some ways for the children to be freed to be released if the government is prepared to negotiate with these groups. that seems to be a deterrent we are seeing and we sent tanks if you look at the abduction of the children go sandy that you go through to export to that state to see if this place the one a good answer to your going to that's the best feeling that dutch and we are going to hear them back but the research direction they are going between 2020 and december are now we seem to be hardening. wheats all of this to gain a specially when go mate who part of lager ships are period and so on and we can decode with the sure there are national variation of these that the options so it's

gone from being the situation in 2014 where it was a very clear ideological extremist book group conducting these kidnappings to now criminal gangs carrying them out is there evidence that the 2 and mixing that we're seeing joining forces with the gangs. absolutely we cannot disassociate works of grain in networks nigeria in terms of what we now call dandy in the kremlin disassociate to all the terrorism that we see a point where i'm coming from denmark it's not character but name given to this seems to being. their modus operandi might be different or might be different but there seems to explain 2nd thing setting things there and that means something need lots belong to the events of these things there that are when once

a week we can't separate them and there is a quantum leap the qualities does not hold the creation of a lot of employing many of those on that development we have huge margin on export muties and the police are scant from instance on we need well most folks looking so all of us who know you basis will defend me when i read only name or book when i am i don't need more than dictate to keep communal parking fine and didn't waste and to make money off arable the big tax that the all the d.c. in mongolia. just briefly can i ask how concerned are you about the impact on the education of girls and all the children if minister if the government's going to close schools in response to this. we literally moved out is the parent that we've removed so much sim games as it relates to go child education and we send trans am we've had morning movements that can't mulching exacerbated existing inequality but of fortune it's me with all of you subduction zones school

age children as well as parents are having to make the choice between where they are going to school all spin and larry if grouped in school again they'd kitchenmaid been abducted be sexually abused and be cured then it only makes sense for people to die and make their choice not not not to go to school i think what is important is for big love need to develop or not that will help image job security and safety at school not forgetting that lead us. to the search school declare mission and with that we expect some even more stand out some early warning system on the activity or sponsor initiative to make sure that will be known as interesting indeed thank you very much for explaining that to us so clearly from a budget book a shiny bar joining us there thank you and starting. our train soldiers have been accused of killing hundreds of ethiopian civilians in

a 24 hour and massacre late last year amnesty international is saying the attack on the city of axum came as if european federal forces they took the capital of the tigre a region after a deadly battle and as malcolm webb reports they killing as might amount to a crime against humanity. eritrean an ethiopian forces began their attack on the town of axum with indiscriminate shelling according to rights group amnesty international. it's released these videos and the report says on the 28th of november last year the grain militia and civilians tried to fight back. some of them armed with only sticks and stones attacking eritrean soldiers on this hill it says the militia failed and the reprisals were brutal. according to dozens of testimonies amnesty says eritrean troops came into the town

and executed hundreds of civilian men and teenage boys this video shows the body of one of them all describe. people running into each other and. being you know no one behind the other end exists it is. very trained soldiers. eritrea's government didn't respond to our requests for comment it was previously denied its troops were in ethiopia ethiopia's government in a statement question the accuracy of amnesty sources and said it was committed to undertake investigations. in early november prime minister federal forces into the t. gray region he said it was a law enforcement operation to topple the thick gray and people's liberation front that dominated the m.p.'s politics and military for nearly 3 decades before abbey came to power. when government troops took control of the regional capital

abbey declared the operations over but the rippin reports of low level fighting ever since researchers say the satellite images taken last week show hundreds of structures destroyed by fire in the town of kids yet. to realty is it work in progress but there is no doubt the situation keeps improving along could be a 3rd one tough month and operations except for a few pockets areas where there is sporadic shooting by this are imminent. as to the conflict areas has been heavily restricted information about what happened into gray in recent months steadily seep south and with it a growing number of reports over trustees by floyd markham web al jazeera. a judge has ruled that

a terrorism trial of the man who inspired the film hotel rwanda can be held in the country judge rejected a poll was sent by guinness argument that the court can't try him because he's no longer a citizen is lawyer says he will appeal. has argued he is a belgian citizen who was kidnapped and taken to rwanda a country he left in 1906 his family says he's been targeted for being a critic of the president almost 4 weeks after a military coup that toppled the elected civilian government meehan maher police have been trying to disperse the ongoing demonstrations still taking place across the country protesters gathered in the city of yangon they were hit with rubber bullets and stun grenades there are also reports the military has moved to oust a leader unsung suchi to an undisclosed location she was under house arrest in the capital native door but sources in her party say that she was taken 6 days ago and they no longer know where she is meanwhile me and was ambassador to united nations

has made a dramatic appeal to the international community to use any means necessary to take action against his country's military and diplomatic editor james bays reports on this now from u.n. headquarters in new york it was a dramatic moment in the u.n. general assembly hall the ambassador of using his speech to speak out strongly against the events in his own country myanmar military has become the existential threat for myanmar a super lity and civilized society his voice was trembling as he continued and strong support from the international community is imperative for the begone. in our 5 against the military regime as he finished his speech he gave a 3 hoping good salute the message of defiance that's become a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him

for his courageous stand for among them the brand new u.s. ambassador linda thomas greene failed in her 1st full day in her job we urge every member state here today to use any channel available to tell the me or my military that violence against the people of myanmar will not be tolerated together we all show the people of myanmar that the world is watching we hear them and we stand with them at the un special envoy christine shauna bergan or has been trying to visit myanmar but she said permission for the trip has not been granted regrettably the current regime has so far asked me to almost all n.b.c. it seems they want to continue making large scale arrests and have been for some people to testify against and what he thought or meant he says is cruel and inhuman such a powerful session in the general assembly now puts pressure on the part of the un

that has real teeth the security council is a character but it's worth remembering one of the permanent members of the council is china it has veto power and the chinese ambassador in the general assembly meeting said that his country largely sees the situation in myanmar as an internal matter james out of the united nations. still ahead on the news out from london president biden flies to texas to find out how the state is recovering from last week's rand devastating bring to storm. is there life after trump all americans conservatives keep in family at the center of that political projects. and then in support defending champions make a winning start a new season.

we've got high pressure dominating the weather across europe at the moment lots of dry weather but it is turning somewhat cooler because this cold front sliding across germany poland all the way down to ward's france there's that 6 for the south was we will find cooler air just beginning to tuck in there's of areas of high pressure so not too much right on this but there will be some nevertheless go back to thursday thursday afternoon in berlin temperature getting up to 20 degrees celsius that he's getting squeezed further southwards 11 degrees celsius for a friday 20 in belgrade you notice this we go on into saturday we're looking at 13 in belgrade just 8 degrees celsius there for berlin so there's that cool air setting it we got some rain some sleet and snow some patchy outbreaks of rain sleet and snow sinking further south was as we go through the next couple of days drier skies coming back in behind and by the time we come to sunday that wetter weather

that wintry weather just making its way down across the black sea into northern parts of turkey belgrade at that stage around 10 degrees celsius might even see a shower or to into the med will see wanted to show was there into parts of southern greece wanted to show was to make in the way across northern parts of iraq or over the next couple of days and turning dry brighter. mount vesuvius is one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world. but not everyone feels living in its shadow. but if forces were not isn't there or something like that about the soviets the people who don't live in the most of the . world goes to the red so near naples. to understand this unusual love of. living with a volcano on al-jazeera. a

tamil journalist in search of a missing colleague stops at nothing to bring his story to the public. in sri lanka press freedoms are under threat. and some stories can only be told by those who will not compromise on the truth. news from jaffna part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. the you. you're. welcome back you with the news hour recap of the headlines now. the u.s.

has announced visa bans for $76.00 saudis this after declassifying intelligence report that says saudi crown prince mohammed bin so money approved the operation to capture or kill journalist jamal khashoggi. in our other top stories search and rescue operations are underway to locate 317 girls kidnapped from a school in northern nigeria officials say common stormed the school in zamfara state shortly after midnight and took the peoples into a forest. and in manaus biggest city protest is in yangon have been hit with rubber bullets and stun grenades by police and rallies against the military code comes as the country's own ambassador to the united nations dramatically urged the international community to take action against the generals. well in all the stories we're following the white house says that u.s. as strikes targeting an iranian backed militia group in syria sends an unambiguous message that president biden will act to protect americans an official from the group says one fighter was killed and several others injured in the strike the main

target of the president's 1st military action was the imaam early military base. which is close to syria's border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq and again spokesman john kirby said the purpose of the strikes was twofold to try to. make an impact on these groups and their ability to conduct. future attacks. and. into to send a very clear signal. that the united states is going to protect its people and it's going to protect our interests and screw protect those of our. of our partners in the region. this was that these targets were chosen carefully very deliberately and struck in exactly the same manner. oh president joe biden is in texas so we come to

the state was bashed by a deadly winter storm he has told food banks in houston a met with volunteers assisting with recovery efforts at least 2 dozen people were killed off to subzero temperatures left millions of people without power or water for days president biden approved emergency federal funds for the state is leadership has come under criticism for its handling of the crisis joined now by castro in houston how tell us more about how the state is recovering. maybe that the snow and the ice have melted here in texas but the aftermath of that disaster is still ongoing why because even though people have their power back well those days of 7 sustained days of below freezing temperatures and taxes those were unprecedented and the infrastructure of the power grid as well as the water delivery infrastructure and the pipes with them people's homes well none of it

withstood that extreme weather and so these are people who had burst pipes in their homes and they have flooding in their homes even now they still do not have water and i'm outside of the houston food bank where president biden was touring a few minutes ago this is an operation that even before this natural disaster was giving away thousands of meals a day because of coalwood pandemic and now those lines for families who are not able to get food or water in any other way now because of the storm they have been stretching on for blocks president biden also was briefed by an emergency operations center earlier in the day in this evening we're expecting him to give remarks at a vaccination stadium in in houston that it just opened up and that will vaccinate 6000 people a day so a lot of hardship poor. has the fall in texas president biden's presence here

though is really as that of consoler in chief. yes because they've had a very difficult time we're talking about not only just the fatalities but the way in which people were affected by this storm millions without clean water for days without power electricity there must be a great deal of anger and frustration towards the state of because of the way they've handled infrastructure in the the lack of investment in that what sort of reception has president biden get. well he was greeted warmly by the leaders upon his arrival here in houston this is a democratically led state as a city so that was came as no surprise as far as the fallout from the storm you're very right there has been a reckoning in this state that's long been led by republicans in the state capital and there have been a series of investigations and hearings going on about just how this could have

happened 20000000000 dollars worth of damage in the infrastructure that is the most costly natural disaster the state has ever seen and this is a state that's regularly pummeled by tropical hurricanes they never believe that an arctic storm like the one that was here last week could reach such havoc and of course those lives lost dozens in the total count is still pending because of autopsy reports but i've spoken with the attorney of victims who had an 11 year old boy who went to bed in his freezing home and never woke the next morning and 86 year old woman who died of hypothermia in her home those stories shocking to texans who live in one of the wealthiest states in this country and it's a state that's very conservative that voted for. donald trump in the last election and so we've seen a smattering of pro trump supporters protesting the presence of joe biden here as

well saying that he is not doing any good by his visit here and that texas should stand alone but it's interesting mary and because the fact that texas is standing alone in its independent energy grid that was a major reason for this disaster given that texas has enough resources normally to support its the energy needs it was not connected to the surrounding states otherwise they had provided a backup system when just falls out the way it did here. well. for this as far as whether it's independent streak of anti elation was really worth all this risk. all right thank you very much how did your castroneves stand. in all the developments the u.s. justice department has charge more than $300.00 people with taking part in the storming of the capitol building by supporters of former president donald trump another $280.00 people have been arrested acting deputy attorney general john

carlin told reporters the investigation is moving at an unprecedented speed and scale he promised those responsible will be held to account. elsewhere american conservatives have gathered to discuss the future of the movement around donald trump with a reminder of his pandemic response when they were asked to wear masks i know i know it's not the most fun. you have the right. the announcement was met by a boos at the conservative political action conference in florida it's being held in person indoors despite the pandemic discussions are likely to center around what direction the republican party should take following trauma. removal. let's cross to john hendren who's in orlando forests tell us about the shadow that donald trump is costing over this event. well it's

a long one if you were to come here to see pac and walk through the halls of that convention you could be forgiven for thinking that donald trump was still in the white house and not 240 kilometers away at his mar-a lago resort that's because his name is on everything that maggot heads make america great again hats they are our masks that say trump on it there's even a golden statue being carried around the room of trump and you would also be forgiven for thinking that the republican party wasn't undergoing a kind of civil war right now between the moderate wing of the party and the america 1st trunk wing and that's because really see back is dominated by true pro trump forces you had josh holly a republican senator from missouri talking about the need to break up big tech companies the bat is something donald trump has long talked about it's not really the traditional pro business republican party we had ted cruz talking earlier today

the senator from texas saying that donald trump will be around for a long time and he has indeed dominated the early proceedings here and of course then there is the next generation of trump's there are bets going on whether or donald trump jr will be the 1st members of that next generation of the trump family to run for public office donald trump jr spoke just a short while ago here's a little bit of what he had to say. i'm looking forward to sunday i am magine i. have magic it will not be what we call a low energy speech. and i assure you that it will solidify donald trump and all of your feelings about the boggle movement as the future of the republican party. so that was donald trump jr talking about how he's looking forward to sunday in venice because his father

will be the keynote speaker on sunday coming here and what is expected to be a fully packed crowd talking about his own plans for the future one thing he's made no secret of is that donald trump wants to pick his own brand of republicans these are american 1st types to run against some of the more traditional moderate republicans from the right we spoke to one yesterday who is running against morkel rubio the florida republican senators are there is a kind of civil war going on here but this conference is definitely dominated by the former president who will indeed speak on sunday thank you very much from orlando john hendren thanks don. well the developers are following in the u.s. the democrat controlled house of representatives is set to push through president biden's $1.00 trillion dollar coronavirus aid package in the coming hours this includes a direct system of payments of $1400.00 to most americans but it's not going to

include a rise in the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour that was blocked by the senate in the u.s. is the coronavirus has taken hold it stole much of the economy and kill half a 1000000 americans and another 2417 deaths reported on thursday after russia where the opposition politician alexina valley has been moved to the penal colony where he's expected to see a 2 and a half year sentence prison service wouldn't confirm where exactly is and his lawyer described it as an undisclosed location outside of the capital moscow he was sentenced to more than 3 years for a parole violation but this was shortened for time already spent under house arrest he was jailed for breaching his probation by traveling to germany after being poisoned with a nerve agent he says the russian government was behind the attack the kremlin has denied any involvement. a day after armenia's prime minister accused the military of an attempted coup thousands of protesters have gathered in the capital demanding

he resign opposition supporters have set up camp in the f parliament and blocked a major road on thursday top military leaders demanded nichol passion and leave office stooges handling of the war armenia lost to azerbaijan but the prime minister refused telling a rally of 20000 of his supporters that only the people could decide his future the president has yet to approve sacking of a top army general robin farseer walker brings us more now from yerevan. this is. this is the heart of government over to my right we've got the pollard's you can see a security presence outside. this where you go because huge new court your loot crowds the presidential administration so the opposition that are here now they've come here. taking you now to the state department where secretary of state antony blinken is speaking about the report reveals

a pariah state for what is a dark. well and can i just also ask about saudi arabia's reaction now the foreign ministry saying they reject the negative false and unacceptable assessment in the report. on the i think the report speech speaks for itself and i think you've seen today a number of very important steps to recalibrate the relationship 1st of all the release of the report itself and the transparency that provides this is a report that. that. in a sense is not fresh off the printing press it's been there we released it we were determined to bring transparency to this issue and to share with the american people. what we know and again i think that report speech speaks for itself but beyond that you've seen a number today a very concrete steps that are both looking at past conduct but as

importantly looking to the future to prevent future conduct the department of treasury is sanctioning former saudi deputy head of general intelligence. siri for his direct role in the stempel operation that murdered mr castro you were also designating the saudi rapid intervention force as an entity under the global image you see after its participation in this in this murder we've taken action pursuant to what we're calling the ban to impose visa restrictions on 76 saudi individuals believed to have been engaged in threatening dissidents overseas including but not limited to the show you killing and importantly we have introduced and announced a new policy that will apply the state department's ability to restrict and revoke fees as to any individual believed to be involved in extraterritorial activities

targeting perceived dissidents or journalists trying to harass them surveil them. harm them or their families because this practice this conduct whether it's by saudi arabia or anyone else is totally unacceptable and we now have a new tool to push back against that. more broadly. i would say the relationship with saudi arabia is an important one we have significant ongoing interests we remain committed to the defense of the kingdom. but we also want to make sure and this is what the president said from the outset that the relationship better reflects our interests and our values and so what we've done by the actions that we've taken. is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate. to be more in line with our interests and our values and i think that we have to. understand as well that this is

this is bigger than any one person this recalibration goes to the policies that saudi arabia is pursuing and the actions it has taken and i would just add and conclude with this we are already seeing some results from this recalibration we're seeing results in our own efforts and joined i hope by saudi arabia to end the war in yemen. we're seeing the new policy approach we've taken to arms transfers and getting back to regular order with with congress. and. i think that overall. we are doing what the president said we should do which was to review the relationship in its totality and to make sure that it goes forward in a way that better reflects our interests and values. and affects their own i want to follow up on under this question he talked about future

preventing future actions and you have unveiled a new ban on japan but you have fallen short of punishing the very person that d.n.i. has said is responsible for this so how are you because of this lack of accountability how is that not counter to your actions to ensure accountant accountability elsewhere in the future isn't this counterproductive and also on the arms sales. what is the u.s. thinking in light of this report to arm sales to saudi arabia i know that there is their view but how can you justify going ahead with those arms sales after this report thank you 1st with regard ourselves are exactly right there's an ongoing review and there is a very important distinction between our commitment to not engage or not support the office of activities and in operations. in yemen including

through the provision of office of weapons and the legitimate needs of the king of saudi arabia in terms of its own defense something as i said we remain committed to so we're reviewing these ourselves and we're making sure that going forward what we do provide goes to the defense of the kingdom not its ability to prosecute office of operations and the other thing that's very important about this is that as we go forward on to do so in full consultation with congress something that. had been we. gotten away from in in the past and so we're going to get back to regular order not just with saudi arabia but with with any country with whom we were engaged and are selling arms to and providing security assistance to so that i think is very important as to us to accountability again i think this report speaks for

itself and the fact that we have provided the transparency necessary to shine a bright light on what happened through the assessment not just of the media as important. as you are but the united states government is in and of itself. i think significant action and beyond that. for mr shogi. not to have been murdered totally in vain. we now have in place a new policy that applies not just to saudi arabia but across the board and that gives us i think and a greater ability to deter the kinds of egregious actions that were taken against him and against other dissidents opponents. and others speaking out or their families going forward. and that i hope will be in some small measure.

an important legacy i don't want. one thing out there can the u.s. still do business with them and then on syria. what message do you help iran get out of the u.s. strike in syria yesterday. as i said earlier the relationship with saudi arabia is bigger than any one individual the president engaged as you know with king solomon i've spoken to my counterpart the foreign minister. and secretary austin has spoken to his counterpart who happens to be mohamed than someone with regard to . to the strike in syria. we had on multiple occasions in the last 10 days or so attacks on our

people our position our interests. that took lives. and and injured others and so we had both to respond to those attacks but also to an ongoing threat. that was very clear and so we took this action that i think was focused proportionate. but also effective in degrading some of the capacity that the militia in question had to perpetrate new attacks. and also to be very very clear notably to iran that they cannot act with impunity against our people our partners our our interests and i think and i expect that that message was clearly received. thank you very much. writes actually a seance

a bang lincoln speaking there at the state department had to pass the calling has been following this for us but he was pressed by reporters to trying to find out the relationship with riyadh might change the suggestion from lincoln there was that the release of this declassified report into the killing was deterrent enough against something like this happening again so perhaps biden administration doesn't take any further action. you know it doesn't appear that they're going to it seems if they were they would do it now because now they're on the defensive because remember during the campaign president biden said that he would turn saudi arabia into a pariah state and so you saw all the questions there mostly about the relationship with crown prince mohammed bin psalm on there trying to send the message that this report is enough now how is that possible when everything was in the media that we was in the report we've known all of this for months if not more than a year well he's saying it has the stamp of the u.s. government and that's one thing that we've seen from saudi officials they say look the truth of ministration said the crown prince was not responsible for this so the

biden minister chanson in the message that the government believes that in fact he was hoping that that sends enough of a message but they're going to get a lot of criticism because the promises they made were so very different than what we're actually seeing them do paper. in action after this report thank you very much patty calling following those developments at the state the bomb for us thank you very much patty well that's it for the news hour but i'll be back with a full bulletin and just a couple of minutes time at $2200.00 g.m.t. but of course as you say which is hearing from yesterday's day and blinken being asked about how there might be a shift in the relationship with riyadh following the release of this declassified report into the killing of janice jamal khashoggi the suggestion from anthony blame can that be on the travel strictures that have been posed on 76 saudis and the sanctions that are currently in place as well as the importance into release this report that probably no action will be taken but we'll get more on this story in a couple of minutes time much more reaction from washington coming up in

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