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this is. the united states of the pressure on saudi arabia to come clean about what happened to journalists. at the consulate. i am not satisfied with whatever president says that he has spoken with. prince mohammed bin turkey is preparing to lay out its evidence and saying killing was savagely plain and also coming out the president says that thousands of central american migrants marching towards the u.s.
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border are a national emergency he says he's putting the u.s. military and border guards on the floor. it's good to have you with us tonight u.s. president donald trump says he is not yet satisfied with what he is hearing from saudi arabia is referring to the saudi account of what happened to journalists. in the consulate in istanbul as riyadh continues to change that story turkish officials are now saying killing was savagely planned turkish president. is expected to lay out his country's evidence tomorrow with a spokesman saying that quote nothing will remain secret hand in hand for the last time. this recently released c.c.t.v.
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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 she's 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 shock she left the consulate alive as the saudi government originally insisted he had. but turkey has claimed since the beginning that he was killed in cold blood. and that we are facing a situation that it's been monstrously planned with an attempt at
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a vast cover up. when we look at it from this point of view it's a very complicated matter complicated. riyadh has changed its story and now says that 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 you have everyone has promised in an upcoming speech to parliament to divulge the full details of what happened on october second in the saudi consulate. well i'm joined tonight by karen and see if she is global opinions editor at the washington post and she edited the last piece that mr show he wrote for the
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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 that you had it it was about freedom of expression in the arab world and we know that his opinions were not well received by saudi authorities did he ever speak to you about the hatred that was directed at him by the soltys. 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 a place of you know a level of repression but that it had been unbearable become unbearable for him and
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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 you 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 travel restrictions and bans on his children i'm shortly after he began writing for us and he told me that. that authority 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 he had to do it so he had no choice and he just wanted to be able to express
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himself let me ask you about what has emerged today. video images showing what looks like a body double which suggests that there was an attempt a premeditated tempt to cover all 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 think obviously you know the saudis have completely. shot or destroyed any any hint of credibility you know in this in this case we already knew that there was a plot to capture jamal specifically that u.s.
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intelligence officials intercepted you know as far as turkey's role you know we're 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 not off for the saudis to sort of have to backtrack and deny and change their story so you know jamal was was a friend of it on his wife or was to be wife fiance was turkish he had contacts within the turkish government they knew him so you know we're hoping that 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 first much as possible full answers full accountability and.
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it's 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 all right karen is here with the washington post post global opinions editor there can we present your time tonight thank you. u.s. national security advisor john bolton is in russia talking nukes now it comes as the top administration has announced that it plans to pull out of a cold war arms deal that limits an entire class of nuclear ballistic missiles alter net to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow earlier today he reportedly denied that washington is threatening to leave the i.n.f. treaty in order to blackmail russia bolton emphasized that the u.s.
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says not planning to deploy missiles in europe targeting moscow if the treaty is indeed scrapped. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world britain's prime minister to recently has told parliament that ninety five percent of the brights it withdrawal agreement with the european union is now several may said there might be circumstances in which a planned transition period is extended beyond twenty twenty something which has angered both pro and anti e.u. factions in her conservative party officials in colombia say at least nine people have died after a mudslide swept through a town in. in the past two weeks more than twenty people have been killed as a result of landslides and river overflows in different parts of the country. the president of cameroon paul b. has been reelected with more than seventy percent of the vote the win means that
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eighty five year old be it will serve a seventh term in office his victory comes amid claims from opposition candidates that the vote was fraudulent. u.s. president on the trump says that a caravan of central american migrants heading towards the country's southern border is a national emergency and he has put the military in border guards on alert he's also threatening to cut foreign aid to the region thousands of mostly honduran migrants fleeing violence and poverty have reached southern mexico and could trek to the u.s. border within a month. they feel safer traveling in a large group they say they're in their thousands men women children many are suffering from dehydration stomach infections and foot injuries from their long journey. but most have one goal in mind to reach the united states for a chance at a brighter future. and you get
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a better mexico should let is true and support us. but we're not coming here we want to go here. we need transportation if we go without food for three days it's not a problem the united states should open its doors to let us work even if it's just for six years and that's it. in the southern mexican town of tapachula on sunday sympathetic villagers offered exhausted migrants food water and clothing. the migrants had walked thirty kilometers in the blazing sun from the guatemalan border many of them without any provisions hundreds of locals driving vans and trucks stopped to let them climb aboard. the mexican authorities have been urging the migrants to apply for asylum in mexico and offered to bus them to shelters set up by immigration officials but most refused fearing they would be deported. since the convoy formed last week u.s.
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president donald trump has been threatening to call in the military to close the border with mexico and we have the military stationed there not coming into this country in a tweet trump send the migrants should apply for asylum in mexico first otherwise the u.s. would turn them away he also threatened to cut off aid to one duras guatemala and el salvador. but the migrants are undeterred whatever hardships they may face along their journey many say that the life back home is much worse with rampant violence poverty and hopelessness. for cristiana rinaldo has spoken publicly for the first time since being accused of rape the event his players says that his lawyers are convinced of his innocence he spoke out ahead of tuesday's champions league clash with his former club meant just
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to united his accuser filed a civil lawsuit last month saying that were not the rape her in two thousand dollars he denies the allegation. now to ethiopia for use a lesson made headlines at the rio olympics back in twenty sixteen now for the silver medal that he won for his country in the marathon but for the gesture that he made at the finish line the athlete crossed his arms to protest government violence in the east african nation and he's been in exile in the united states ever since but after the recent reforms in ethiopia he can now finally go home. the handcuffed gesture that forced lee les into exile in two thousand and sixteen he did it to show solidarity with his a romo tribe who protested ethiopia's government's plan to reallocate foreign land during a period of civil unrest in the country protests grew violent. and hundreds lost
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their lives in the process although violence has it completely subdued the less is returned home is a sign some things have changed. my life and i knew this day was coming. because i knew the blood of all these people wasn't going to be spilled in vain. i knew the dictator government would eventually fall to my political point i was expecting this day but i didn't know if it was going to be today or tomorrow. but i had clearly in my mind that i would go back to my father's legacy alive they find if it can be. and ethiopia's new prime minister has pursued a reconciliation strategy to ease tensions in the region and the lesson plans to return to his profession rani.
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