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biala guest. tonight is seeing double new details emerge in the killing of salty journalist. as the kingdom doubles down and denies that the crown prince had any involvement turkey's president is tightening the screws and promising to reveal how. in a much anticipated speech tomorrow also coming up. u.s.
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national security advisor john bolton is in moscow for talks image fears of a new arms race washington saying it is ready to pull out of a historic treaty on intermediate range nuclear missile. it's good to have you with us tonight senior white house adviser jared is calling on saudi arabia to come clean on what happened to exiled journalist. countries istanbul consulate saying quote the world is watching as riyadh continues to change its story turkish officials say that because showbiz killing was savagely playing on turkey's president one is expected to lay his country's evidence out for everyone to see tomorrow with his spokesman saying that quote nothing will remain
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secret. hand in hand for the last time this recently released c.c.t.v. footage shows jamal khashoggi and his fiance at the residence on the morning of october second. and then walking to the saudi consulate in istanbul from which he never emerged. in the weeks since the journalist death turkish media have leaked new details almost daily of how authorities say he was killed and how the suspects tried to cover it up. newly revealed footage obtained by c.n.n. shows a suspect apparently dressed in clothes leaving the consulate to tourist ambuhl. a turkish official told c.n.n. the body double was likely meant to convince investigators that her show she left the consulate alive as the saudi government originally insisted he had. but turkey
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has claimed since the beginning that he was killed in cold blood one. that is. facing a situation that has been monstrously planned and later vastly tried to be covered up when we look at it from this point of view it is a very complicated murder. riyadh has changed its story and now says that for shock she was killed by a rogue group of interrogators acting quote outside the scope of their authority in recent days the saudis tonus turn from indignant to apologetic both the saudi king and crown prince been solomon telephone for shock she son to express their condolences but international pressure is mounting on the kingdom as its allies demand answers and turkish officials may have more to reveal. president regift i have added one has promised in an upcoming speech to parliament to divulge the full details of what happened on october second in the saudi consulate.
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well i'm joined tonight by karen and cea she is global opinions editor at the washington post and she edited the last piece that mr shogi wrote for the newspaper and she worked with him for the past year and it's good to have you on the program we appreciate you taking the time to talk with we know that. the last article that mr shaw you wrote he ever speak to you about the hatred that was directed at him by the saudis. sure so you know obviously when he first twenty first sort of found him and last year and he wrote his first piece for us he expressed to me in an email saying you know that it was painful for him to talk about what was happening in saudi arabia that saudi arabia was always you know a place of you know a level of repression but that it had been unbearable and become unbearable for him
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and so you know the idea that someone who was that close to the royal family and was so prominent in saudi arabia felt that it was so unsafe that he needed to come here to washington to live just to know how personally sort of under pressure that he was feeling and you know as far as our conversations he in particular. sadness and depression over particularly his family. saudi authorities that travel restrictions and bans on his children i'm shortly after he began writing for us and yeah he told me that. that authorities members of the family would reach out to him and say you know why are you writing for the washington post and you can do what you want but why are you writing for the post so he definitely was facing a lot more scrutiny and pressure for what he was writing for us but he said he felt
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he had to do it so he had no choice and he just wanted to be able to express himself let me ask you about what has emerged today with the video images showing what looks like a body double which suggests that there was an attempt a premeditated temped to cover up the killing of mr. we we see that we know that the international community has no trust in the soltys coming clean with what happened. we understand that the turkish president says he will tell the truth about the situation to morrow do you have faith in turkey to deliver a thorough investigation and do you even do you have faith in the u.s. administration to do so if turkey doesn't. sure so i thing obviously you know the saudis have completely. shot or destroyed any any hint of credibility in this in this case we already knew that there was
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a plot to capture jamal specifically that u.s. intelligence officials intercepted now as far as turkey's role you know we are here sitting hoping that they do fully release everything that they have because so far they've put saudi arabia on the back foot with leaking these details and at the very least these details are nuff for the saudis to sort of have to backtrack and deny and change their stories so you know. was was a friend of airlines his is why or was to be why fiance was turkish he had contacts within the turkish government they knew him so you know we're hoping that they will do the right thing and tell the world what happened to our colleague as far as the u.s. officials same thing you know cia officials have seen evidence we need to press for as much as possible full you know answers full accountability and.
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just whatever we do sends a message to journalists around the world about whether or not regimes can get away with murdering them in cold blood and whether or not the you know the u.s. the leader of the so-called free world will stand by and do anything about it you will let me pick up on that today and the columbia journalism review there is an article about trent and the death of mr b. and in this the author writes now we know the truth trent could not care less about journalism which means a dead journalist or the five who died at the capitol because that news room earlier this year in maryland has more or less value to him than anyone else there is news symbolism here in the greater threat for those of us in this business the situation is more dire than we thought. has the murder of mr fischer.
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shown a u.s. president who doesn't care if someone like me or you was killed because we try to report the truth. feels that way i think we hope against hope that you know luckily it's not just the president who has a say in this it is also congress imposing consequences in this particular case for saudi arabia whether it be human rights sanctions on individuals who are found to be guilty of this or who is in arms sales like germany have banning arms sales to saudi arabia like germany has in suspending suspending those sales but yeah it's scary it's scary to think that if you know if you heard me or anyone else you know were to disappear that. you know would have an administration that would
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put a price tag on our lives would say that we would question whether or not we were citizens or not or what religious beliefs we had this case has you know shock wave level implications for the safety and the ability of journalists and really anybody with an opinion contrary to those in power. it sends a message you know what are our lives worth compared to you know what we try to do for society which is try to expose wrongdoings try to speak about. putting our societies and countries on a better path in the way we see it i think this is a it's a it's a real serious test case and i'm just hoping and praying that especially united states will pass it all right. the washington post global opinions editor they are can we should your time tonight thank you.
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with the us is national security advisor john bolton is in russia where he's held talks with senior government officials the visit comes as the trump administration has announced that it could pull out of a cold war arms deal bolton met russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow earlier today he gave an interview to a local broadcaster and denied that washington's threat to leave the i.n.f. treaty is an attempt to blackmail russia bolton reportedly also said that the u.s. had not taken the decision to deploy missiles in europe targeting moscow if the i.n.f. treaty is scrapped we're here at the big table with me now is on the whole she is on the board of i can germany i can germany is the german army of i can which is dedicated to a
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a world without nuclear weapons we appreciate you taking the time to come in with us tonight we've got the trumpet ministrations saying that for the past four years at least there is evidence that russia has been in violation of the i n f treaty is that true. well only the u.s. know the answer to that because they haven't been telling anybody what the information is that they have that actually proves that's and so nobody in europe has actually said we know that to be a fact and at the same time the russians have also been saying that the u.s. are in violation violation of the same treaty so it's very hard to know what going on here what we do know is that this is a kind of blame game that they're both are trying to say that the other is at fault if this treaty falls apart but there's never a cute problem or crisis right now is there so it begs the question why would trump want to you know pull the cord now what do you think is going on oh i think it's
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a lot to do with his meeting earlier in the year with me of putin that people saw him as being some kind of yes to to putin and just doing what he was told and so there was a lot of pro problems about that so he's probably trying to show some himself as being much stronger we've got the midterm elections the coming year and so i think there's more to do with that and that there is actually any different situation than there was say as you say a few years ago this is the treaty stems from a period a bygone period the cold war it would make sense then to maybe amended the treaty i mean if the cold war is over maybe the treaty needs to be overhauled would that solve the problem here well i think this is the i think that it would do a lot of good to actually look at the treaty again and actually talk about does this cover the the weapons that they're. thinking of actually developing and
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also does it cover the all the countries that have those weapons because at the moment we only have the u.s. and russia china india pakistan they're outside of the treaty and they have these weapons to. so it certainly was looking at again whether or not renegotiate it but the thing it's all together is definitely not the onset do you think that we will ever see putin being able to sit down and negotiate the way the world soul gorbachev and roll reagan do in one nine hundred eighty seven they're very different people and i have to say that gorbachev was completely convinced and break into the idea that we could get rid of nuclear weapons altogether i don't see this with trump and putin they really believe very strongly that we need nuclear weapons in this world and they want to continue this new kid to terence this is not the way that we want to go. with germany and so we appreciate you
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