breaking news here on r.g.p. international saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing and more than two weeks ago died in a fight in the saudi consulate. the russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections through social media. fields are held in crimea for some of the twenty people shot and killed by a student at a technical college survivors recall that tragic day. yesterday separate from. the other one. the bones of.

the poly one. by broadcasting live direct from our studios and also this is our international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us and we start with breaking news this hour saudi arabia claims that he journalist who went missing two and a half weeks ago in turkey died in a fight inside the consulate in istanbul u.s. president donald trump has just given his reaction to the saudi statement he said that whatever action is taken by washington it will not include scrapping a multibillion dollar arms deal. saudi arabia has been a great ally but what happened is unacceptable we are going to see they. they've arrested just for the people at the table a large number of people having to do with the event that took place in turkey and the consulate the saudi consulate and. it's

a big first step to only a first step but it's a big first step but i would prefer that we don't use as retribution cancelling one hundred ten billion dollars worth of work which means six hundred thousand jobs are to stand cohen is in washington d.c. with more on saudi arabia's explanation for the death of the journalist in istanbul . the saudis have confirmed that. gee the saudi national in washington post columnist who disappeared on october second is dead they say an argument turned into a quote fistfight led to his death the consummate came also from a tweet from the saudi foreign ministry king solomon has fired five top officials and arrested eighteen people among those fired or crown prince mohammed bin solomons advisor saudi to any and deputy intel intelligence chief major general

ahmed allah sciri they're being investigated about the case the white white house press secretary sara sanders has released a statement saying these are the exact words the united states acknowledges the announcement from the kingdom of saudi arabia that its investigation into the fate of gemma hall shoji is progressing and that it has taken action against the suspects it has identified thus far we will continue to closely follow the international investigations so the saudi version that we are hearing tonight about a fistfight that led to his death is very different from what the turks have been leaking through the international press turkish intelligence have been claiming that a saudi hit team of fifteen people killed within just a matter of minutes after hall shoji arrived at the saudi embassy in istanbul they claim to have video and audio recording showing the saudi team listening to music

through headphones as they cut fingers off beheaded him and dismembered his body with a bone saw president trump has called on the turkey to release the audio and video if it exists this is led to unprecedented scrutiny of saudi arabia and its relationship with the trumpet ministration. president trump had been saying previously that it was probably dead but he didn't have confirmation he's also said he doesn't want the case to interfere with large arms deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars and that he didn't want u.s. companies like lockheed martin boeing and raytheon to suffer as a result much of the outrage has been specifically directed at the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed bin sound man we've seen protests outside the white house here in washington and democrats are seizing on the trump administration's

relationship with saudi arabia as midterm elections near. and we are now joined live by robert naiman who is the director of just foreign policy thank you for being with us here on our team international so trump says that the death of g. is unacceptable but that he does not want to scrap any arms deals with the saudis. what you make of that you know this new test huge lower zone saudi arabia first of all it could end u.s. support or the saudi war and yemen u.s. not just supplying weapons into ruling the saudi and u.a.e. warplanes in the middle of bombing runs twenty targeting information and providing diplomatic cover and the united nations the united states together with britain prince block u.n. security council resolution or ceasefire. so there's no question that

united states has levers these numbers about the arms deals are inflated in any event this is not to trump congress can reject these. arms deals i think the real story here is what is congress going to do congress was already close to cutting off the arms deals over the saudi war in yemen. senator sanders has pledged to bring back in november next month. his resolution invoking the war powers resolution to end unconstitutional u.s. participation in the saudi war in yemen which was created deliberately created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world saudi arabia's deliberately starving civilians in yemen has been deliberately bombing civilians robert in yemen united states could stop this crime and that would be an obvious way to punish assad

regime that's what the united states should do anyway i want to touch on that just a little bit we seem global outrage for the past two and a half weeks of the death of this one journalist i as a journalist think that that is important and there should be outrage about it. but there is nothing like that same concern for the saudi bombing of yemen yemen for example the strike on a school bus that killed forty children not that long ago why do you think there's such a discrepancy these humanitarian issues when it comes to dealing with saudi arabia . well i think it's a number of things first of all there was outrage about the. bombing of the kids on the bus actually that was before this event. you know there was something that most americans found out about was reported in u.s. media i think a big part of the reason there has been more outrage in the west is that the saudi war in yemen hasn't been largely reported in the u.s.

once been reported it been intermittent and the u.s. role has not been fully reported in the united states it's been covered up. by the united states government and substantially by the us media but nonetheless outraged about the war and famine in yemen led by saudi arabia backed by the us is in. creasing and then of course this event. the killing of the journalist was so blatant so brutal so crude so not just you know it was premeditated it involves torture this guy somebody who is a washington post columnist who is known to members of congress and members of the elite in washington does some number of things about it made it extremely difficult

for people in the elite in washington to ignore it to their credit you know this is become like the drop that overflow the cops and the washington post has finally you know really crusaded on this and other media have proceeded on it and the turks the turkish government. has. said media interest by you know the drip drip of these macabre ports i think there's you know after the september eleventh attack in the united states there was a kind of recognition in the u.s. government u.s. to lead a quiet recognition that the saudi regime was really psycho but the deep sea in the united states felt to entangle with the saudi regime to make a break and so they covered up saudi complicity in the nine eleven attacks

and sought to kind of ride the tiger. and now there's a you know people are there's no one president or question the united states it's it's the congress it's the media it's cultural institutions like museums questioning you know their relations and lobbying foreign think tanks are finally you know the saudis have been a tremendous influence buying came campaign or states boeing and lockheed martin raytheon but it's also think tanks in washington like brookings and the middle east institute and the center for strategic international studies and the center for american progress very close in the democratic party so this is been a bipartisan relationship between the blog the foreign policy blog in washington and the saudi regime and there's been a sequence of crimes right the genocide emerged and the coup in egypt the the

invasion of bahrain the what happened with hariri. you know the list goes on and on so much that we could talk about in fact and in fact as the. this. current situation unravels i'm sure that we're going to have you on to talk about it more robert naiman director of the just foreign policy thank you for being with us and here in our international it's a mass that's for sure good to be with you. all right now turkey claims to have a recording proving if it was murdered earlier president trump denied that his secretary of state might bump a zero was given that recording artie's but trying to take a closer look. a quick look at the calendar back here was when jamal khashoggi was last seen alive days past and only that was the point when the us president had this response to the question is mr him dead it certainly

looks that way to me it's very sad certainly but we're waiting for the results. about three different investigations and we should be able to get to the bottom fairly soon but it'll have to be very severe have it. but we'll see what happens here we are that rather obvious one for many took sixteen days even though a crystal ball wasn't exactly needed to know something atrocious had likely happened to the journalist but what exactly he calls for arab nations to allow freedom of the press freedom for which he apparently died fighting a turkish official tells c.n.n. that his body was cut into pieces after his death whether the alleged killers dismembered body here and spread it around the country plenty of t.v. attention and speculation zero public comments from this man for two and

a half weeks just for your information jeff bezos own the newspaper mr hashad you wrote for the washington post believe it or not he's had nothing to say on the probable death of his employee for now maybe he just didn't want to there's been a suspicious silence from a number of important people who you'd usually expect to roar when a journalist goes missing for so long or not that's suspicious when the fingers are being pointed at someone as special as those in charge of saudi arabia so those who do speak out sound rather well hear for yourself i just want to. the temper of those who screaming for the saudis these people or allies there's clearly a downside here there's clearly an upside and i thought it was worth investing a little hope in the upside i don't think on this issue that we've had to pull

sanctions i just think it's a mistake we've been an arms dealer with everybody all of the piece this one quarter of the one hundred ninety dollars is huge and it will make a lot of little below a lot of money coming to our coffers let's leave america where the lived and worked side for a bit the e.u. must have a few strong words on journalist abuse or a likely murder our position. on this matter but you seem to the saudis are still pulsar to release the system so easy to use your freedom and. that's it but bear in mind that some big leaders haven't said a thing on the mystery it seems riyadh would have to be renamed to let's say moscow to really turn into one big evil attention grabber with donald trump saying i

have to be very severe have it bad. but we'll see what happens tide could have turned but just for contrast think of all the cases when russia's had a telling off whatever's wrong with the world the rebuke comes momentarily that someone say two and a half weeks. u.s. a justice department has filed criminal charges against a russian national for allegedly trying to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections russian embassy in washington says the claims are unfounded charges came up as more . the u.s. department of justice has indicted a woman who is forty four years old and accountant living in st petersburg now she is the first person to be indicted and it is alleged that she was meddling in the upcoming midterm congressional elections in the united states she's being charged by the u.s. department of justice with conspiracy to defraud the united states it's alleged

that she had millions of dollars invested into social media activity that was intended to quote so division and discord in the u.s. political system in july we heard from christopher ray he's the director of the f.b.i. and he says that no evidence of such a plot by russia actually had been discovered so far we haven't yet seen an effort to target specific election infrastructure at this point it's not alleged that any voting machines were targeted it's not alleged any voter registration records or any election infrastructure was in any way targeted now this comes in the aftermath of twitter releasing a collection of tweets it says came from russian trolls and quite a large number of tweets and the report itself actually admits that these tweets their influence was rather negligible they really didn't have much of an impact on the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen strangely enough you know these tweets are not

only directed against hillary clinton but also directed against donald trump and in fact they were more effective when they were targeting trump so the allegation that there was some sort of russian conspiracy to get donald trump in the white house doesn't exactly add up if that were the case why would these russian bots and trolls be working to hurt donald trump rather than help him and why would they be working for the benefit of hillary clinton the other point it's raised is it's alleged that these these tweets are associated with the internet research agency which is connected to a businessman who said to be connected to vladimir putin the russian president also alleged that this woman in question works with this businessman. and he is connected with latimer putin it's quite a stretch it's not clearly established how the russian government is responsible for the activities of a private company the questions still remain they're alleging that she is friends with this man who owns the internet research agency and then he is friends with the russian president it's kind of a long chain of separation that they're making it's also important to note that

we've heard donald trump speak up and says that the woman in question has absolutely nothing to do with his campaign she has been named in previous indictments from the u.s. department of justice in the bob muller investigation regarding the twenty sixteen election she was named however at this point we're now seeing her named and charged in connection to alleged meddling in the twenty eight thousand elections which have not yet taken place which are coming up in november or daniel mcadams executive director of the wrong paul institute for peace and prosperity believes the case raises worrying implications for freedom of speach. we don't have freedom of speech to talk about that whether we have freedom of speech to talk about very difficult issues i thought that's what a democracy that's what a free debate of ideas was about is it illegal for a russian to comment or to take out an ad or to discuss issues in american society is it illegal for other people to even write or comment about internal american

affairs it's it strikes me as an absolutely bizarre almost a stall in this to view of the world that no one outside no private citizen outside is allowed to comment on american internal topics it's some kind of insane mentality the heart of ocracy is so weak that even bringing up these issues can undermine the faith and democracy than our problem is a lot more serious than a couple of russians taking out facebook ads. three days of mourning are being held in crimea for the victims of wednesday's college massacre a student killed twenty people before turning the gun on himself our senior correspondent what i've got is in the city of courage where a public ceremony for the victims has been held. thousands and thousands of locals of turned up for this ceremony a final chance to say goodbye farewell to all those whose lives were cut short in this horrific massacre and just the stress most of the victims were teenagers aged

sixteen to nineteen making their loss so much more acute so much more painful as a lot of grief here people as well as top officials the governor and up to offer words of support to the families understand one relative felt so aggrieved so poorly that she needed medical attention a little earlier but the governor and others wish them strength to deal with this tragic loss nevertheless hoops and prayers here with those still in hospitals many people fighting for their lives in critical condition on life support battling severe injuries as i reported earlier there was nothing spontaneous about this massacre and it was cold calculated and preplanned. but. it

was here on the thirteenth of october that vladislav surkov the suspected shooter began to turn his platen for mass murder into reality here we should have means with the the commune game you probably you can actually. hear you but i hope when you play to put on couldn't be on a beach with one hundred and fifty shotgun shells were only for the second part of his atrocity. four days later he waited until his mother left this house dressed in black and carrying a bag of ammo. let. for college on the other side of town. first he detonated an improvised explosive device. to put up with sickle on us to stop the police the bomb filled as it was with lethal shrapnel was set and

triggered in the cafeteria on the foot us through exactly at lunchtime when it would be packed with faculty and students. these was no crime of passion this was planned with cold calculation given the effort needed to learn how to and to actually build a bomb with a time a detonator the aim was clear to kill and maim as many as possible as quickly as possible in the ensuing chaos. as panic and confusion took hold the gunman began his killing spree he started on the second floor making his way downstairs to the devastated cafeteria killing anyone he met stuff with students.

few. more shots more victims. critique you can stash a symbol of them you know but they don't do it until but there most of them teenagers they try to run to hide they did desperate things. as i knew. the mushy i didn't know you. had to say i'll go to someone and i get his rampage last the just fifteen minutes before he killed himself in the library on the second floor fifteen minutes but his victims are in the hundreds for every child. left dead a family was torn apart for every teacher killed generations of graduates left stunned friends that teaches neighbors and countryman all shocked and. since the early hours of the morning they've come here bringing

more and more and more flowers candles toys in tears mourning a loss of tragedy that they can scarce comprehend what's worse the tragedy parents without cause or reason. one palestinian official and several other people have been injured during a protest in the west bank israeli officers were seen using force against the demonstrators. oh by. the way locals were opposing plans to demolish the village around fifty two families rejected an offer to relocate to another area israel says that the village was built illegally and dangerously close to a highway. meanwhile on the israel gaza border one hundred fifteen palestinians including twenty five children were injured in the latest riots this according to

the palestinian health ministry crowds have been gathering at the border fence every friday since march demanding the right to reclaim ancestral lands from israel protesters placed burning tires along the frontier and threw rocks at israeli soldiers who fought back with a life fire since the unrest began seven months ago more than two hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli soldiers local journalist. is in gaza with the latest. today marks the thirtieth friday in the great march every terry as we can see hundreds of palestinian protesters have gathered here is used to protest today palestinian protesters have started burning tires in an attempt to block the vision on the israeli snipers division in front of these really forces are these really snipers is almost totally blocked but yet they are firing live ammunition in gas cans trees at the palestinian protesters gathering as israeli. forces are

firing gas canisters on the palestinian protesters. there are numbers of injuries that have been taken by paramedics to the ambulances as you can see in the area it's full of protesters from all sectors men women and children. we have paramedics we have a lot of press we have also palestinian volunteers who have come here in order to save the other protesters we have seven injuries four shot for life shooting until now and people are chalking because of old a gas that has been try your done then you have another injury i know there is injury. in the eye. another injury in b.o.i. . and. as you can see there are still a number of injuries that are coming in every now and then.

meanwhile the israeli military says it was forced to to respond on friday after terrorists in gaza launched several incendiary balloons into israel. switching gears now a former f.b.i. agent who worked in the u.s. state of minnesota has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information to the media or he's done it hawkins picks up the story for us. a veteran of the agency an impeccable service record three years from retirement now charged tried and found guilty for whistle blowing the only black asian to the f.b.i. as minneapolis field office to a real war he grew uneasy over his seventeen year career he says he saw discrimination racial profiling rule bending and abuse of power by the agency he felt the public needed to know i truly wanted to make a difference and never intended to put anyone in danger the f.b.i. and court saw things differently tried under the espionage act he was branded

a traitor who put national security at risk he isn't the first whistleblower to face the wrath of author or tease edward snowden chelsea manning are two of the best known in recent years but this case was slightly different terry allbery was charged with the leak of just two documents to the media and retaining another focusing on methods used by the f.b.i. supporters claim the only damage caused was not to national security but the egos of all thora t's the u.s. attorney general has made things clear amongst the crackdown on leaks and whistleblowers the risk of exposing perceived wrongdoing and injustice is higher than ever we are conducting perhaps the most aggressive campaign against leaks in department history crimes like the one committed by the defendant in this case will not be tolerated they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and punished and it seems for now whatever the motive alleged racism or spying law

breaking or corruption whistleblowers call bori will face the tough choice of trusting their conscience or risking everything what is happening with mr arbor is the only chill in of their throughout the entire. in their third of the their if you really you are going to go to prison and you've got to go to britain for a very long time. any type of harsh punishment oh it is but exist others in a similar situation think twice before they had the question is. is the action of the f.b.i. in this current troubled ministration going to be something that people can be quiet about all the. other federal bureaucracies are they going to be able to be silent given the large amount of corruption that is going on with.

it caravan now of at least three thousand migrants has attempted to breach of the border from guatemala to mexico on their way to the united states these are the latest pictures from the guatemalan side of the border many of the migrants managed to breach of the fence and were arrested by mexican police the caravan started out from honduras last weekend and the migrants say that they are fleeing poverty and insecurity in their own country. president donald trump has taken a harsh stance on the immigrants saying that they will not be allowed to enter the u.s. . there are very good relationship with mexico i said look i hope you're not going to let these people come through your country and march a thousand miles up through your country and come through our borders because many of those people a percentage a big really big percentage of those people. are criminals. and they want to come into our country and they're criminals and it's not happening on.