to vote for the washington post a man who openly criticized the rule of the saudi royal family one year ago today he became a man murdered in cold blood and earlier this week mohamed bin selman the saudi crown prince took responsibility for the killing but he insists there's no blood on his hands most of the world does not believe him the u.s. president apparently does and when you were the saudi crown prince apparently that's all that matters i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. i still seek justice i want to know what happened to eve but unfortunately you're off of the. general purpose of jail we're in the exactly the same place we were a year ago i want. to come for david actually just for a case such as he's going to take time he was

a gloomy voice calling for freedom of expression and more accountability of the state who gave the orders for them that he was responsible where jamal khashoggi remains a still on that. also coming up tonight and taking back the wives and children of his well as most european countries don't want them back tonight an exclusive report from the country that does kosovo. we are human we have people if someone makes a mistake one time we shouldn't just leave them and it's not the children's full time that said we should help them. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the days still waiting for any semblance of justice in the murder case of journalist jamal khashoggi who

so she made a name for himself as an outspoken critic of human rights violations in his home country saudi arabia he was also a man in love about to marry his fiance from turkey well that wedding never happened one year ago today so she was brutally murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia has put people on trial in connection with the killing but an investigation by the united nations concluded that death was ordered by the kingdom of saudi arabia and that evidence points all the way to the crown prince of the crown prince has denied any involvement today at the memorial service in istanbul because so she's fiance cold for those in power to be held accountable the w.'s julia han has more tonight from istanbul. we've seen an emotional ceremony here today for jamal khashoggi it started shortly after 1 pm local time marking the moment he walks into this building right behind me the saudi consulate here in

istanbul a year ago and we all know he never reemerged today his friends human rights activists his fiance and also jeff bezos the c.e.o. of amazon and also the owner of the washington post which was a regular contributor gathered here to commemorate his life and his work and to the mob justice and also to have what they call a moment of unsigned because that's what his kill is one to say to silence a man a journalist who would always refused to be silent to openly criticize human rights violations in saudi arabia and that's probably one of the key messages of the day that critical minds critical voices like mr should never be intimidated into silence that his murder actually turned him into a biggest symbol for press freedom and freedom of opinion worldwide.

reporting from. i'm joined now by stephen executive director with the project on middle east democracy stephen has testified before us congressional committees our human rights and democracy in the middle east and he has written extensively on policy u.s. policy in the middle east steve it's good to have you on the show. i just want to start our talk if i can by reminding our viewers what the u.s. president said almost a year ago about this killing take a look. we have $450000000000.00 worth of things ordered from a very rich country so to arabia. 600000 jobs maybe more than the. and it would be very hurtful to this country if we said oh we're not going to sell it to you so the us president says we may never know all the facts surrounding the

murder of mr bush would it be accurate stephen to add to that sentence as long as donald trump is u.s. president well in a sense if the we here is the white house and the u.s. executive branch and ministration then president trump oversees the yes in a sense that's true the reality is that many of us do know sufficient facts the world really does know that this was. a murder carried out by the saudi regime on behalf of its crown prince mohammed when some on it was. criticism of mohamed been some on directly and of his policies in the region and domestically that made him a target this attack was coordinated overseen by one of them in silence hoess advice advisors a saudi qahtani it's simply not possible to anyone familiar with the saudi regime

or the way it operates that this would happen with the conferences knowledge and in all likelihood it was instigated and ordered by the crown prince yeah and then a conclusion was also reached by the u. winds top a person from for investigating extrajudicial killings she spoke with us earlier today that is to much to take a listen to what she said the belt's mohamed bin sultan in his role in the killing . when. mohammed bin send men we cook nice easy response said b.t.s. kweisi head of state so m.p.c. m.p. kishen we cook nice that the killing of mr k. should be was the state killing something that so far the authorities that systematically refuse then criticize me for finding that the state of saudi arabia was responsible for the killing so that's what she said today stephen earlier this week the crown prince said that he takes responsibility for the

killing but that he was not involved in any way new blood on his he adds what did you think when you heard that. it's a contradiction he's a should take responsibility. but you know him as the head of the saudi state that's responsible for this crime does have blood on his hands that and i would also add that he has blood on his hands beyond just your all her show jemaah was is the most sort internationally recognized and prominent victim of the saudi state but there have been many other saudi citizens that have been silenced imprisoned tortured and also killed by the saudi state and all of these crimes of these abuses have increased since mom and until mom came to power as crown prince. what about turkey turkey has pledged to bring justice because the murder took place on the turkish territory in your opinion has turkey done enough to walk the talk and to

back up that promise. well. on one hand turkey has helped provide evidence of the crime. you know a lot of the evidence a lot of the facts that we know of this crime because it took place last stand will have been provided by turkish government intelligence services on the other hand they sort of use this evidence try to use this as leverage trying to leak it out slowly and it's also important to remember that walter. has played i would say overall a positive role with regard to this crime it's its own hands are not clean with regard to a journalist and free expression turkey is actually also one of the leading jailers of journalist worldwide. is so it's clear that the president. is motivated more by you know some of the tensions that he has in the less than friendly relationship with mohammad and some on the saudi regime then any sort of principled dedication

to justice for journalists you bring up a good point there turkey. turkey has more journalists in prison than china does what would you say. are the lessons that rulers in the middle east can take from the murder on this one year anniversary is that lesson the fact that they can kill with impunity and that they can get away with murder. in a says yes that's the last and i mean i think to a degree. they have seen other leaders have seen. enormous amount of international media attention and comments that this murder has drawn which contrast with many other crimes that are carried out by the saudi regime and other authoritarian regimes in the region silently so but having said that there have been no real tangible consequences from have been some all been some on or his grip

on power. to a degree that may have learned the lesson that when committing crimes such as this they should be a little bit more cautious in terms of the way that it's carried out. and not to provide evidence they could be used by by an unfriendly government such as turkey but certainly they also see the sort of shelling in silencing effect that this kind of crime does have on kind of potential dissident voices dissenting voices including those who are based abroad outside the country stephen meccania with the project on middle east democracy joining us tonight from washington steve as always we appreciate your time and your insights thank you. thank you for having me where you're watching the day still to come as europe grapples with what to do with the winds and children of the islamic state 5 years we ask does kosovo have an

answer that is coming up in just a few moments. in the united states the impeachment inquiry is moving forward quickly despite by the u.s. president to discredit the whistleblower and lawmakers who are leading the investigations today tweeted that the impeachment is quote b.s. well that drew a firm response from hell speaker nancy pelosi. it's unworthy of the constitution and say to do what he did and that call and he did it to me that it's perfect you know it's not that it's wrong a and b. that contending with the plywood is a very very important important. climate that we have who we are concerned that the white house will attempt to stonewall our decision much as they install world other committees in the past. it's why i say the way has these don't understand that any action like that. that forces us to litigate or ever consider

litigation will be considered further evidence of instruction justice for the u.s. presidents is on a collision course with congress facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg thinks he is as well and all the a recording of a conversation with zuckerberg has been leaked and it reveals want really things about efforts by lawmakers and would be presidents to regulate and even break up big tech companies. like it was. the right answer is to break up with somebody you know that your president. will have a little challenge and i'm going to go. yeah i know. you're there are other governments are you sure you want. that want to work with our government you're good. but look at you they're going to try to write something . that. well definitely

a confident mark zuckerberg bear markets weighted towards real here at the big table meyer yeah i mean you know the true colors of their being revealed if only for a couple of seconds what is the problem with big tech in the eyes of us regulators so when we talk about big tech we're generally talking about what are known as the big 5 that's google facebook apple amazon and microsoft these companies they touch every aspect of our lives every day all day and that's part of the problem they have so much power and there's very little regulation or accountability right now because the laws just kind of haven't caught up to where society and these companies have now essentially become monopolies they generate they generate more than $100000000000.00 u.s. dollars a year that's more than the economy saudi arabia for reference amazon recently surpassed the u.s. retailer wal-mart as the biggest retailer in the world according to forbes wal-mart is actually losing $1000000000.00 u.s. dollars a year trying to compete with amazon and even if you try to look for alternatives

to these companies to try to live your life separate from them you really can't there was a reporter who her article went viral earlier this year she tried to disconnect completely from using any one of these companies and any of the little subsidiaries that they own and she just couldn't she couldn't do her job she couldn't live her life it just goes to show how inextricable they are from how we live now and where we heard mark zuckerberg there talking about the democratic presidential candidate elizabeth. and warren what is exactly is she proposing to lose warren is known as being very left leaning and throughout her career even before she was a politician she was known as being very anti-corporate very anti big business so this is what zuckerberg is reacting to he's reacting to a post that her team and she made earlier this year proposing to break up not just facebook but all big tech monopolies saying quote i want to make sure everyone is paying playing by the rules and that the next generation of tech companies has an opportunity to flourish and this is happening at the same time not only is there

this rising leftwing sentiment in the u.s. but we are seeing not just facebook but facebook really is the flagship here that is weathering scandal after scandal having to go through the hacking cambridge analytic misinformation data privacy questions so it's really for the 2 sides of one coin and the wind is not blowing in facebook's favor that's true the public image of especially of facebook is not good right now is there public support for what elizabeth warren would like to see happen so not only is there public support but it's public support that cuts across demographics which is what was most surprising to me it's there was a poll from you gov data for progress that show that nearly 2 thirds of americans across education lines party age gender support breaking up these big tech companies and more and is not the only candidate who's talking about this we've also heard bernie sanders who's another strong left wing candidate talking about the way facebook and google have caused major turmoil in the journalism industry

and how he would regulate those companies if he were president there's also a growing contingent of silicon valley donors who are supporting elizabeth warren indicating perhaps that there may even be some internal support for what she's a suggestion is interesting too because i mean i remember going to congress saying that he's willing to work with lawmakers if they want to regulate the industry so much for that so watch or not hard money is where there is always my thank you. should we let them come back do they deserve to come home the european countries including germany france and britain are struggling with what to do with their citizens who joined so-called islamic state in syria lawmakers remain reluctant to allow a homecoming for former fighters saying that this could create new domestic security risks but in april kosovo took back 110 of its citizens mainly the wives and children of islamic state fighters they have been detained in kurdish camps in

northern syria after the collapse of islamic states territory so are they being successfully integrated back into civilian society are they a returning today a security threat tomorrow the to be news asked one of those allowed to come back up until about half a year ago and i was still living with the so-called islamic state in syria she stayed on till i s lost its last holdout bugaboos in the military strike we meet and i had a lake outside because it was capital pristina she lives under house arrest awaiting trial like all returnees and that is the 1st cause of our attorney to speak on camera about her experience we wanted to know what she thought about the beheadings and other reported crimes against humanity committed in the name of the islamic state but anna avoided our questions and focused instead on her own suffering the asterix when they came they just destroyed a house

a big building there were children there there were women mothers everything and i was. anna tells us she didn't know what she was getting herself into when she followed her husband to syria in 2014 he died in battle she married another fighter his fate remains unclear and i says that being back and possible after almost 5 years feels like she has been given a new lease on life she cannot understand why other european countries like germany are refusing to take their citizens back. we are human we have people if someone makes a mistake one time we shouldn't just leave them. the women past are sensitive and it's not the children's fault either so we should help them. help them like our own country kosovo hopes to do in april in an operation assisted by the united states possible brought back 32 women 74 children and 4 male fighters the cause of

our approach is unique so far no other european government has undertaken similar steps while the men were sent to prison the authorities are closely monitoring the women and children and giving them counselling they didn't see any resistance from bond to be part of our progress and maybe this also is that due to the thought that they know all that was because of a orators who took the decision to the pottery in kosovo otherwise they would have remained calm things on the concept is based on the belief that back home under official observation the returnees pose less of a security risk than if their remains are brought the aim is to reintegrate all of them into society eventually including the men on the streets people are supportive of the measure. and he got in they made mistakes. we have to help

them reintegrate into our society. they are our people. and told me a couple it was a good decision to bring them back and i support this initiative and among all of the chunks these people have not come back to do harm here like they did there that is why we should not exclude them. around 90 percent of the almost $2000000.00 cars of ours are muslims but largely secular in outlook despite that more than $400.00 young cause of ours joined extremist groups in syria and iraq between 20122017 that's the highest rate per head in europe some were easy prey for religious extremists unemployment in the country is high and prospects for the future are not good. and i wants to put our time in syria behind her she says she feels accepted by her family neighborhood no one talks about her

time with islamic state but and i says she understands why she's under house arrest we came from a place of war it's normal they're investigating us but in the end they will understand that it's not her fault we didn't do anything maybe our mistake is that we were there that we left there anna is still convinced that she didn't do anything wrong that's now up to casa both authorities to judge. well i'm now joined by w.'s investigative reporter mike hears from hunt who was part of the team filing this story my teams it's good to have you back here in the studio so why in the world kosovo what is kosovo have or do that the rest of europe is not doing. its only guess work that i can do here for one kosovo has not suffered attack and islamist terror attacks so unlike germany unlike france and belgium on

like great britain who had great losses you know there's no negative sentiment in that respect in kosovo 2nd the kosovo is the main major muslim country so 95 percent of the population is muslim you know they are following islam but they are following a very liberal version of islam very much unlike salafism is not what we see in saudi arabia when you it's a super secular country i live in bonn and in bonn i see more people with head scarves and fully veal than i saw on the streets of pushed you know and then but that is really pure speculation and then there might have been some pressure from the u.s. but i do you said you said in your report that the u.s. was crucial in facilitating the return of these returning back in april what did the u.s. to well what what officials that we talked to confirmed was that the u.s.

was crucial in the luggage sticks so the u.s. probably i think with the military planes they ferried those 110 returnees out of northern syria to turkish port from when they were ferried off on a chartered plane back to kosovo but i think moreover. it has been very important that president trump has called for countries to take back their citizens in and you have to knows it. kosovo is i think the most u.s. friendly country at least in europe maybe in the world i've i've never been in any country where i saw as many u.s. flags flying i walked through the streets of the capital and they walked past by a big statue of bill clinton and a small step group of madeline albright and i think because a cause of us know that the state wouldn't exist without us i think even the hint

from the u.s. ambassador that they would like to have them repatriate citizens would have encouraged to to do so i want to ask you about on who we saw in this report the thing that struck me is there at the end of the report we hear that ana is not sorry for what she did anything she did for going to syria and for being married to an islamic state find her. that has to doesn't that trouble people in kosovo knowing that she doesn't really see that she did anything wrong or was connected to anything wrong well the people we talked to. they were positive about brings people back i mean it was you know we only talked to i don't know maybe 2 handful of people so it's by no means like a poll or something but those were overwhelmingly positive. some of them more differentiating than others saying you know i'm glad we brought them home but we

have to set. money aside to take care of them to money told them to deal with them psychologically but it was the director of public security himself who confirmed to us that the public opinion in kosovo is divided so obviously there are people who think that that there is a security risk in these people being back in the country but he is 100 always mathias deceived excellent reporting thank you. well the day is almost gone but the conversation continues online to find us on twitter either d.w. news or you can follow me aboard golf t.v. don't get used to hash tag good day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day to see the book.

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