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already. digital. storage number twenty two w. . this is that data will be a news line from berlin the cia concludes the order to kill jamal khashoggi shock she came from the top of the saudi establishment the us intelligence agency reportedly pains the dissident journalist death on powerful saudi crown prince mohamed bin selma's this is washington norms will hold his killers accountable also coming out. protests in france turned deadly one woman dies and dozens others are injured as thousands blocked roads to demonstrate against rising fuel costs. and recovery crews press on with their search as more than
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a thousand people are now reported missing in california's wildfires president donald trump is currently on his way to visit the region. i'm rebecca races welcome to the program the cia believes saudi arabia is powerful crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi that's according to a report in the washington post siding sources familiar with the matter the u.s. has vowed that those found responsible will be held accountable he was president donald trump says he's not yet been briefed on the cia cia findings. he has consistently denied having any involvement but now mohammed bin salomon is firmly in the spotlight of blame the washington post says the cia has concluded saudi
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arabia's de facto ruler is directly tied to the killing. and is briefing the u.s. government about his involvement calling him volatile and arrogant. a critic of the saudi government and columnist for the washington post was killed at the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second when he went there to pick up documents he needed for his marriage to a turkish woman. the crown prince of so far evaded direct accusations and vowed to bring the killers to justice. first of all the crime was really painful to all saudis believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a humorous crime that cannot be justified. but these latest developments put his position in doubt the washington post says that the cia reached its conclusions after examining sources of intelligence including a phone call that the prince's brother the lead bin selman made to cause short she
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on mohammed command in the phone call her lead to the saudi ambassador to the u.s. is said to have encouraged to go to the consulate with assurances he would be safe to do so leaders vehemently denied any such claims on twitter he said i never talked to him by phone and certainly never suggested he go to turkey for any reason . she's visit to the consulate and in his death but the washington post says it isn't clear whether knew he would be killed the developments are likely to complicate president trump's efforts to preserve ties with his key ally trump has so far resisted pinning the blame for the killing on mohammed bin solomon he might not be able to hold to that if the cia's position is that the crown prince himself ordered a murder. joined by instead correspondent. you near ankara said all along that the saudi government must be responsible is there
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a sense of vindication there in turkey now. well let's remember the cia has so far not officially confirmed these media reports that might be one of the reasons why we haven't heard of any official reactions here in turkey yet president out on may comment on the matter later but i think it's safe to assume that for this is a good news they have been trying to internationalize the whole investigation getting other countries on board a turkish president out on himself said that this is a murder premeditated murder was ordered out to quote the highest level of highest levels of the saudi government but he fell short of directly blaming crown prince mohammed bin son man now the cia findings as cited by the washington post all the most direct u.s. assessment to date linking the crown prince with the midst of a murder that's directly contradicting the saudi narrative the saudis still maintain that the crown prince had absolutely nothing to do with it now the new
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findings the report seem to play into the turkish government's hands yesterday there was a phone call between president adeline and u.s. president trump and according to this they agreed to make sure that they get to the bottom of this murder so how they come to some kind of understanding it's going to be really interesting how this will play out how the u.s. president trump will react because as you mentioned so far he did not directly blame the crown prince in order to protect relations with saudi arabia a close u.s. ally right and what's the latest on the investigation there into what's happened to body. well many here have given up hope that the body or remains of the body will ever be found yesterday there was a funeral prayer here at a mosque in istanbul in absentia to honor the slain saudi rider turkish
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authorities investigators say he was killed dismembered and they're also looking into the possibility that his body was dissolved in acid so not much hope left that they will ever find the body and just briefly the turkish government doesn't normally provoke promote press freedom why as i came to uncover the truth in this case well you're right according to n.g.o.s turkey has a terrible record when it comes to press freedom freedom of opinion in general but treating this case as a completely different matter to them it's also a violation of territorial integrity a team of saudi agents came to murder a journalist a saudi national inside the saudi consulate here in turkey so that's why they're really pressing and pushing for this investigation to go forward and it's also about regional power dynamics let's remember turkey and saudi arabia have a number of problems the qatar blockade being one of them so this is also about
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leadership in the region. certainly sounds like a lot more to be uncovered in this case you leon in istanbul thanks very much. in france more than one hundred thousand people have taken to the streets to protest against the rising cost of fuel one protester was killed earlier today by accident when she was run over by a car to demonstrate as a wearing trademark yellow safety vests is a symbol of opposition to president mccain's reform policies which include higher taxes on gasoline and diesel drivers of blocking k. roads across the country france's interior minister says there are protests of more than one thousand locations. well let's bring in david will report to me an essay if he's been following this story for us i mean so this is one of the biggest sort of demonstrations against black holes policy president policies what's the story behind this one it's actually it's pretty fascinating story because it was it
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was organized almost exclusively on social media i mean it's no big party no big labor union was behind this which is kind of odd in france and it's a very popular protest as well one of the first moments was a facebook video that was posted by just move all posted to facebook complaining about the rise in gas prices let me call in calling for protests this got six million views and counting and it kind of got a conversation started online the next video camera and this is where this idea of the yellow vests became the symbol of this movement a guy from now he's a worker he video himself he posted a video himself to facebook just saying calling on people to wear the yellow vests in solidarity with the movement we can take a look at that now. we can play the video you know. who support this movement maybe you're at work maybe you can. look we'll
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have a yellow safety vest in our cause throw it on the dashboard so everyone can see it the whole week until the seventeenth a little color code to show that you're with the movement who's in and who's not so that will motivate people that will say wow this yellow vests everywhere it's a sign this might actually be big it's not just talk. you know this this video got five million views and counting and it kind of only days later another facebook group went up online and a lot of people joined in this is where the protests got actually organized as you say this was an organized by a union or anything labor party didn't happen completely spontaneously no different one spontaneous there's a lot of organization that went into it after the facebook group formed people even met in person and they created a map that's interactive using google maps it's kind of crowd source so that you can zoom in on an area and see where people are going to be protesting in your area
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and if you can see these yellow dots are actually that. which is the yellow vest and that's the symbol of the movement. and it took a lot of work actually to put together a map like this but like you said there are not any big unions and big political parties behind this the far right and the far left have shown their support for these and against my call but that actually pose a problem of responsibility as we said there was a woman tilled and nobody can really be held responsible for these protests for the death because there was nobody really behind it yeah really being driven by social media as you say days how the people are reacting to us on social media today about these protests it's trending on twitter several hundred thousand tweets on twitter a lot of them in support like i said it's a very popular protest there's also a lot of facebook post people showing solidarity by posting pictures from their area friends one of my favorite is actually this guy who posted the video from his car who's been termed. he posted a video he posted
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a photo and you can see just hundreds of people mistreating his reaction is total surprise wow what he said. yeah and. what what's next for the movement is the big question now because it was all organized around november seventeenth which is today and we're not really sure where this is going to go with no political organization i'm a bit of a watch and wait watch and say that they don't. thanks so much for coming in. fears are growing that more people may have died in california's wildfires the remains of more than seventy people have so far been identified but the list of those still missing has soared beyond one thousand displaced residents are expecting a visit from president donald trump shortly as california also struggles with toxic air pollution. with the fire comes a new danger smoke. and it has reached san francisco where air pollution levels
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now rank among the highest in the world health warnings prompted widespread school closings even the city's main tourist attractions was shut. the smokes are generous some three hundred kilometers to the north the town of paradise has been reduced to ashes it's the epicenter of california's deadliest ever wildfire and the death toll is likely to rise. search and rescue workers are trying to find any sort of remains that could help identify those missing. where you've you feel terrible for these people it's been devastating for them and i couldn't imagine coming back here this is my home. here our hope is that we if there are missing people we can find them and bring some closure to people that need that. those affected are in desperate need of assistance some hope denounce visit by u.s. president donald trump will increase attention to their plight. we're going to
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present to bring to congress we're going to take a look at the. park or a few more points are still going no time to relax if you want to understand what we're going through out here you got to be here and it's not something you can just see on t.v. you know others us get to kill off the president's intentions. i think is just showboating will come in and try to take credit for his insult to the firefighters . the police the military handicap women. the campfire is only one of several blazes still ravaging the state scientists believe the growing frequency and intensity of such wildfires is due to a prolonged drought which is symptomatic of climate change. now to some of the other stories making news around the world tension between the u.s. and china has overshadowed the asia pacific economic summit in pump and you gave me
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the summit has become the latest stage for disputes between the two countries of the trade and regional security washington warned members that china's plans for a new trade route threaten their sovereignty. tain is navy has found a missing submarine one year after it disappeared with forty four crewmen on board the san juans saying here an archive footage was detected nearly a thousand meters deep in waters off patagonia according to the navy these fit in on board explosion and imploded in the last year. and unmanned cargo rocket has blasted off from the u.s. state of virginia it carries much needed supplies from the international space station and comes just hours after a shipment by the russian space agency in october the last manned mission had to perform an emergency landing and was unable to deliver supplies supplies. good live . and don't forget you can always get data be in use on the go just download our
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