yeah i mean many senate they don't like saudi arabia but before they couldn't actually find a so clear case of saudi committing a crime. in front of the entire entire awards and it was. when they killed the jamal khashoggi and the relation between the united states and saudi arabia is based on money and we remember that trump has said many time in his mid election and media lection the us say that we protect saudi arabia saudi arabia cannot last for two weeks i mean they have to pay they have to pay the saudi has not given a single clear stronger response to cry two from the statement and the other how do you see them they too they took really serious steps against canada this show you that what you what trump has actually said it was really that the existence of saudi arabia is cannot continue only with the help of the united states and i'm going to just tell you that here in yemen actually we think that from we can say one of the best president of the united states because all the previous president for example they have started wars in afghanistan and iraq and syria and libya. obama

moon and and took america and to iran so what i'm saying is essential and don't get excited about saudi arabia so out of arabia is not the villain or the country that you can go the we can't live without you have i because i was out mccrone we can live without without a resume and we can do that with the state but we're going to respect our allies ok and continue with. that however we're not going to put all our eggs in the last car and on when you've got thank you very much catherine real quick and then i want to go back to saying yeah i just want to ask a question because akhmed assisting in a way out i would like to know how long do you think we just have five by criticizing your precious muhammad and someone because you call because we didn't say what you say at face value because you think you know we haven't you might be. hot well now if you met me this is not about one another tidbit maybe forty forty five years from now you're going to live forty another forty five years with m.b.a.'s trust me you're going to live with them for a long time my idea when he's becoming a human ok let's go

saudi arabia has with the. assassination of jamal khashoggi that probably the trouble is capitalizing on this because the saudi regime of the moment is in the most vulnerable position probably since two thousand and one since september eleventh so sound at a bit of this at this moment is not able to engage in this. struggle in the region because again it's its image of consideration as to how to end this political crisis which by the way a charm but mr shin has used very well with that in terms of. trying to build relations and build deals and make autumn sales and supporting does the saudi regime so the saudi him is vulnerable but i don't think that this is going to reach to a point where. it is willing to finance a huge task like that he financing of the reconstruction in syria so for the. even if they want they don't have the money to do with a nickel at this stage with russia playing such an outsized role in syria any reconstruction effort that goes ahead would have to be coordinated closely with the russian

with regard to mbs >> with regard to mbs and saudi arabia, the decision-making process in saudi arabia, not only is murky, it's always been murky, it's harder than the kremlin, a more complex puzzle, the dearth of good information and knowledgeable sources, et cetera, makes it almost a fool's game. i do think, though, we can be sure of two things. number one, mbs, young, audacious, et cetera, has an enormous amount of power. the degree to which the changes that he has overseen in the past two years constitute a self-coup, which i've been calling it from the beginning since the ritz-carlton thing. it can't be overstated. the old system of saudi arabia, which was a monarch and modern f futilism and checks and balances in the royal family, all that is pretty much wrecked and there's been a tremendous concentration of power around the crown prince. it also needs to be said that the authority for all of this comes from the king, you know. in other words the king is a non-controversial figure relatively in saudi arabia. his authority is uncontested, his right to be king is uncontested, his a

saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest hussein. and suddenly he's a yemeni journalist in riyadh we have made it bram he is a us sodhi relations expert and in brighton we crossed to katherine shocked she is a senior analyst with bio on center all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate command let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. senate was quite strong unanimous when it came to close shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role your countries led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead in riyadh. well definitely peter as you know with the saudi arabia. news they actually denounce what the congress have done the congress itself you know too many people does doesn't understand they always have these kinds of symbolic agreement of doing things but that doesn't mean that it'

saudi arabia condemns the u.s. senate for kucing the crown prince of jamal khashoggi she's murdered. also act now rights group accuses nigerian security services of failing to prevent violence between herders and farmers. and thousands rally in sri lanka as a show of support for the reinstated prime minister. today in custody of the u.s. border patrol it's better than a life back at home the grim story of a central american asylum seeker. and i'm peter stammered with all your support liverpool drop by in munich at some of europe's biggest clubs around able to avoid being drawn against the children champions league last sixteen i'll have a full door for you later this news hour. welcome to the news hour saudi arabia has issued an unusually strong rebuke of the united states senate rejecting its resolution that blames the crown prince for murder the journalist was. killed by what's been described as a saudi hit squad inside the kingdom's stumble consular office in october in a lengthy statement riyadh said the resolu

said many time in his election and media lection the us say that we protect saudi arabia saudi arabia cannot last for two weeks i mean they have to pay they have to pay the saudi has not given a single clear stronger response to. the statement and the other hand we see them they thought they took really a serious step i got guns canada this show you that what you were thrown by has actually said it was really that the existence of saudi arabia cannot continue only with the help of the united states and i'm going to just tell you that here in yemen actually we think that trump can say one of the best president of the united states because all the previous president for example they have started the war in afghanistan in iraq in syria in libya. obama. raised in this war against yemen and why we think that is the best because he actually exposed the united states is not about the value is not about spreading democracy is not about the freedom of speech is about who's going to pay trump is likely he's now leading the largest medicine at a army in the world and clearly that you pay him he

the current relationship with saudi arabia isn't working for america. they have been strategic allies and could be in the future but right now it's more of a burden than an asset. this country has been a wrecking ball and this instant is one of many o that the most egregious d people can understand why they are upset. i think more is expected not less. if you want to integrate your economy towers there are certain things you have to accept what the rule of law and if you want to buy a weapon you have to accept certain things. how to use them matters. i want everybody in the region to know if you are thinking about doing what they did and you want to have a relationship with the united states, good luck it's not going to happen. i think the president is right about having been a strategic ally. they could be in the future but i think you are wrong about what is going on here. the reason i'm supporting the approach next year is i'm never going to let this go until things change in saudi arabia. this is coming from the biggest supporter of the relationship

number one priority yemen is saudi arabia's war it's not the case in syria for saudi arabia to pay for yemen it becomes more of a creative syria which is not the case here and as he's talking about a nickel a let me go to you i saw you nodding along as ibrahim was talking about the economic situation in saudi arabia and whether or not saudi arabia would actually have the money to pay for reconstruction in syria what are your views on that. well i agree that the price of the reconstruction will be huge at least two hundred billion dollars and that will require participation of many countries. well the saudi participation will be definitely welcome but will well the europeans will have to participate well the iranians will have to participate the russians everybody who is engaged in this conflict will have to invest in the future of syria otherwise the country will remain in ruins so my expectation is that this eldest will provide some money but not even. well unlike it's unlikely that they will give more than ten billion dollars and they have other destinations not only yemen but also t

saudi arabia is our ally. but when your ally jumps into a pool of sharks, you aren't obligated to follow them. there is a line that saudi arabia crossed. i would argue long ago. and unfortunately it is now up to the united states congress to try to make clear what this relationship can be and has to be, going into the future. yemen is one of the symptoms and unfortunately it is the most disastrous of them. 85,000 kids under the age of 5 have died from starvation and disease. all the evidence points to the fact that many times the saudis are using our bombs to deliberately target either civilians or civilian infrastructure. but as senator graham mentioned from the blockaid of qatar to -- blockade of qatar to the kidnapping of the lebanese prime minister, saudi arabia's foreign policy went off the rails. some time ago. and we are still the senior partner in this relationship. sometimes it seems as if the united states is the junior partner. we are fat. and we can use our sanctions, we can use our military suppor

the world in to spend a point but get and let joshua joshua let me thing with you here but is saudi arabia a good alliance partner for the united states be seen with kushal with the rise of sellafield jihadism with with militias in syria and iraq being funded by saudis and this has turned into a real frankenstein in a way in a sense you know. the saudis of the seventy's so forth was a fairly benign power and political power within the kingdom was distributed amongst the brothers and there was a colleague. fairly benign rule today and b s has gathered power into his his hands he's alienated his brothers he's using increasing amount of force to intimidate them to shake them down and we're seeing a set arabia that we that we don't really recognize it's becoming more and more fragile the world is condemning it after the show we saw this this really nasty face come out and it is you know turkey has been playing on this and turkey in a sense is is is torturing america and saudi arabia by saying don't put all your eggs in the saudi basket we are here look to turkey and is saying you know we can h

saudi arabia has condemned a u.s. enate resolution that holds the crown prince accountable for the murder of john this jamal khashoggi the saudi foreign ministry calls it a blatant interference in the kingdom's internal affairs on thursday the republican controlled senate voted to hold mohammed bin sound man responsible for the saudi jan this murder canada's prime minister says his country is looking for a way to back out of an arms deal with saudi arabia just in two days demanding answers calling the murder of jamal khashoggi on it cept of all he said canada is trying to see if they can no longer export on the trucks as part of an eleven billion dollar deal made by the previous government relations between also a riyadh have been tense since a diplomatic dispute over human rights in the kingdom so kind as ambassador expelled earlier this year. the murder of a journalist is absolutely unacceptable that's why canada from the very beginning has been demanding answers and solutions on that secondly we inherited actually a

it is a direct challenge to saudi arabia, which presents itself as the logical leader. on the grounds of history, geography, custodianship of the holy sanctuary. and this has been a vision since the beginning of the third saudi state in the 20's that only saudi arabia has appeared islamic system that relies on the karate and not any kind of written constitution -- the quran and not any kind of written word. i would not try to characterize the way turkey sees its own foreign policy, because i'm not an expert in turkey. i think it is also very hard, my colleagues will do this. it has become very difficult, at least for me, to see where turkish national interest, as they are defined by the state, and, and the political interest of president erdogan begin. it seems to me a fuzzy line. maybe our colleagues can educate us, but for me, that makes it a bit difficult. but describing the situation from a saudi perspective, i will tell you how riyadh looks at turkey. first of all, i will think saudi arabia sees turkey as a rival. another large state in the region with allies and st

congress in fact we were expecting something to come out from saudi arabia because this is where he was the most challenging the more serious crisis the relationship between the saudis and the americans saudi arabia and the united states in fact and even its more even more worse than disciplined by eleven attacks on. the twin towers. fifteen years ago so actually this is something that it's really serious and is really big in the relationship between the two countries i saw with these they may have not actually anticipated this at the very beginning of the thought that this will just go away as time passes because the strategy was buying as much time as possible so that this case might just go away or diet or the media actually sees focusing on this issue about saudi arabia has in fact become part of this conflict the mess the conflict in the united states between the u.s. administration that mistaken on one hand and the congress on the other hand and i think that is something the saudis they did not actually realize at the very beginning this is why it's becoming very serious well i me

so turkey and saudi arabia may eventually understand each other better. owever, it is certain that saudi distances from anti-saudi physiciansÃas anti-qatar positions. thinking more academically, speaking of geopolitics, what i see is geo political crimes committed by all sides. and i believe that the choices now between continuing to commit these geopolitical crimes for survival at home, keeping the powers domestic hold on power, or a little bit of sacrifice toward common ground for addressing the crisis. this is all that i am going to say for now. thank you. >> anymore cards? >> first, i would like to thank everyone for good presentations and i think it would be good if we could come out of this meeting with some ideas for the future of american policy. so, we might begin an issue that was touched on but maybe not covered enough, which would be this, when turkey and saudi arabia both look at the international system and look at maybe declining american power and influence the commitment and engagement after the, certainly over the last 10 or 15 years, and

let me state right over as of uss, even for those who have been critics of saudi arabia, saudi arabia is a very orphaned ally for the united states, it is an important partner for stability in the region. engage ine to intelligence sharing with saudi arabia. they has helped us crackdown some very bad people. -- we haveelped us helped them crackdown some really bad people. is important to note something we take for granted in the region. detente that has existed between the gulf states and israel, something that did not used to be something that you could rely on. one of the most serious foreign-policy debates that this senate ever had was back in the 1980's, and the objection then was that by empowering saudi arabia, you were hurting israel and israeli security. argumentuld make that state, because saudi arabia has been a good partner in figuring tensions inalm the the region and of course how to provide some balance in the with the iranian regime on the other side continuing, to this day, to use inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric about the future of r israel. this is an important pa

leaders from both parties introduced a resolution that definitively blames the crown prince of saudi arabia for the murder of jamal khashoggi the measure which could be scheduled for a vote as soon as monday condemns kesho g.'s murder demands that the saudi arabian government negotiate an end to the war in yemen and an end to the political dispute with could talk and release saudi blogger rife by dolly and other political prisoners they have now linked old at least that belies ng actions that m b s says they starting with yemen passing by the sharks the murder on took up on any other level it is the latest bipartisan rebuke of the saudi crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabian oil and not look at the kingdom the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell it's sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the cons

leaders from both parties introduced a resolution that definitively blames the crown prince of saudi arabia for the murder of jamal khashoggi the measure which could be scheduled for a vote as soon as monday condemns kesho g.'s murder demands that the saudi arabian government negotiate an end to the war in yemen and an end to the political dispute with could talk and release saudi blogger rice by dolly and other political prisoners they have now linked old at least that realizing actions that m.d.'s says they starting with yemen passing by the fish orgy murder on took up on any other level it is the latest bipartisan rebuke of the saudi crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabia no not look at the king of the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the consent and dir

has never rebuked saudi arabia there's been almost no criticism of saudi arabia and so this actually is more significant than it may appear to be simply because they're trying to send a clear message that they do not agree with the way the saudis are conducting the war though we can be pessimistic or cynical about well that really isn't. the fact the outcome came of us mari if the us then can't do it and the united nations are trying their hardest but there's a long way to go is there any other partner any other honest peace broker that may be able to significantly change the outcome of the war in yemen or and bring about an end to. the us can't help stop the war and the idea is not to have our congress and senate vote for it in the u.s. to step aside and forgetting that it's one of the reasons why this war is happening in the first place or are a reason that it was prolonged so the idea of nothing the us have a boat and i'm done with my right it's to put pressure on saudi arabia which your us can do put pressure on saudi arabia to eason. it's a tax i meant to come to a peace deal an

and its assistance to saudi arabia for the war in yemen. and in a separate resolution blamed the death of a journalist jamal khashoggi on the saudi crown prince. the vote on that resolution was unanimous. both measures would have to be approved by the house for them to go to the president but the house blocked the measure from getting a vote. here is part of the senate debate on the yemen bill. we begin with vermont senator bernie sanders who sponsored the bill with senator mike lee from utah. this is two and a half hours. >> mr. president, i come to the floor today to talk about one of the great humanitarian crises facing our planet and that is the horrific war in yemen. 2015, under the leadership of mohammad bin salman who was then the saudi andia and defense minister is now the crown prince, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates intervened in yemen's ongoing civil war. the saudi-uae intervention, yemen is now experiencing the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. nations, to the united yemen is at risk of the most severe famine in

from its involvement in this war in terms of the practical effect on the ground will it reduce saudi arabia's in the saudi coalition's bombardment of yemen that remains to be seen and we'll have the next few months to see if the ceasefire doesn't hold whether that reduces the civilian suffering now even though the dow does revealing assistance the united states is still providing some help with the targeting and it is actually selling bombs to both i think the saudi and the m.r.i. the militaries do you want those to be stopped or do you perhaps see that as a way off if not the restraining down at least keeping close tabs on the saudis and that three chin no absolutely from the very beginning when we started documenting the pattern of indiscriminate bombardment of yemeni civilian targets in the country we have urged the international community including the united states to stop supplying arms to the saudi coalition and we've called on the united states to end its participation in the war through the targeting assistance because clearly that targeting assistance has not produced positive resul

crazy and he's also made the point that saudi arabia is not in b.s. this is one some of the dollar trump was trying to stitch together and hold together i think the question is for trump is is it politically damaging for me to continue to stand by this man he is looking now at his run for a second term and i think that's what he's probably weighing up and if i don't trump decides that mom been someone is going to do him damage in any serious way he will cut him loose and if that happens then i think in some man is in very very serious trouble and in terms of saudi arabia itself they would have been hoping by now this story would have gone away or died down at least and it hasn't what are the options for them i mean they've so far they've they've put some on back out in the in the public domain he's been the g. twenty there's been no sign of apparently kind of keeping his wings or anything what do they do next on the basis of these sentences and then you think yeah i think that the whole one as a g. twenty move was was quite a bold statement because mo

congress in fact we were expecting something to come out from saudi arabia because this is where he was the most challenging the more serious crisis the relationship between the saudis and the americans saudi arabia and the united states in fact and even its more even more worse than discipline but eleven attacks on on. that twenty hours. fifteen years ago so actually this is something that it's really serious and is really big in the relationship between the two countries i saw with these the may have not actually anticipated this at the very beginning of the thought that this will just go away as time passes because the saudis you was buying as much time as possible so that this case might just go away or diet or the media actually sees focusing on this issue about saudi arabia has in fact become part of this conflict domestic conflict in the united states between the u.s. administration that mistake on one hand and the congress on the other hand and i think that is something that's are with these they did not actually realize at the very beginning this is why it's becoming a very ser

saudi arabia and the u.a.e. opposing qatar it had a knock on effect in yemen. and disagreements between factions members previous affiliation of surface. in october twenty seventeen the other one a bus brigade reached the peak of their international fame the us saudi arabia other u.a.e. put the group on a terror watch lists they justified their decision by saying that the brigades were giving support to al qaeda. you know very but again it is strange for an entity to be classified as a terrorist group while being funded by voters who classified it as such. brigades also claim that being branded terrorists didn't affect their deals with the saudi led coalition. nothing happened. the group was invited to a meeting in saudi arabia with the leaders of ties. things changed. the ones in financial support are still the same as before. it seems increasingly clear that weapons bought for one country's armed forces are being passed on to other parties for political reasons most of these weapons come from western countries

leaders from both parties introduced a resolution that definitively blames the crown prince of saudi arabia for the murder of jamal khashoggi the measure which could be scheduled for a vote as soon as monday condemns kesho g.'s murder demands that the saudi arabian government negotiate an end to the war in yemen and an end to the political dispute with could talk and release saudi blogger rife by dolly and other political prisoners they have linked old at least that belies ng actions that m.b.a.'s as they starting with yemen passing by the sharks the murder on took up on any other level it is the latest bipartisan rebuke of the saudi crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabian oil and not look at the king of the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and matters were misleading us knew that there was no way this merger happened without the consent and

saudi arabia of the u.a.e. did not respond to repeated attempts to contact them but a senior yemeni official confirmed that the arab coalition knew its weapons were being passed on. look at that location was started by the coalition about the leakage of a weapon that was handed over to a resistance faction ties that was linked to al qaida in aden this is confirmed by the coalition. we have transparency in the coalition to say yes although it is partial and not influential. the yemeni situation is stressful and there are clashes between parties and tribes. there are parties allied with the coalition who deal with the who fees in one way or another. but the situation is almost completely under control. but even. in twenty eighteen germany approved four hundred million euros worth of arms sales to saudi arabia but has now put the exports on hold. in june belgium announced the withdrawal of the license from a belgian company to export to saudi arabia. international human rights organizations have welcomed the moves

you just heard a close ally, lindsey graham said he wants to come down like a ton of bricks on saudi arabia. this is someone close with the saudi kingdom for sometime. rep democrats are trying to coal essay legislative response. we spoke with senator bob corker and the chairman of the foreign relations committee who is part of the effort to try to target saudi arabia. he made it clear based on what he saw the crown prince is guilty of murder. >> there is no direct evidence of this. how do you square the two briefings? >> let me put it this way. if the crown prince went in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes. >> of murder? >> yes. >> why isn't the resolution something that has teeth one of the right ways to try to punish saudi arabia? the yemen resolution. >> the yemen resolution gets into a war power situation and the administration can turn around and they were not refueling their equipment. >> there is some debate about how to respond to what they saw here. saudi's involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi and whether or not to get behind an effort on capitol hill to p