in yemen, saudi arabia's western allies have not turned a blind eye actively supported saudi arabia,uae and others as they pursue a ruthless war against the huthis in a blockade that has led to a humanitarian catastrophe . now however, the past 18 months since trump entered the white house, the complicity of the us and the saudi arabia's abuses has become evenstarker . the signals from washington in the face of mounting saudi oppression at home support for repression abroad have been more or less you can do whatever you please as long as you align with our interests on business on a ran on and israel. it's no idle speculation to suggest the reason the saudi's may have thought they could get away with the killing of jamal khashoggi in that consulate in istanbul is because of the signals of unconditional support coming from the trump white house and the rest of the us elite . if the us government turned a blind eye when mbs's henchmen abducted a prominent women's rights activists and through her in prison back home, if washington, paris and london continue to sell arms and if the penta

saudi arabia right now.y more plausible to the world, to the locals, to the saudi's. a lot of saudi's are looking for such plausible rhetoric that jamal was pushing and supported. you're not can i have an instability in the region because of saudi arabia. not protected by the states. i think that rhetoric is what made him à >> why was he such a threat? >> i agree, for decades the Ãb presented the populations with this completely false choice between between them repressive regimes essentially Ãbsaddam hussein, echoes back for a long time. between them and radical islam. terrorism, chaos. >> that's alternative. >> that's what they say. it's either us or radical islam. the arabs bring arab uprisings i would say kind of showed that that was a bit of a lie. obviously to develop democracy in countries that have been under oppression for long time and can be very difficult process as Ãbas finding out. as the aborted attempt in egypt demonstrates.very very difficult. but it's a lie to suggest that the only alternat

saudi arabia will not there won't be a fair and transparent trial in saudi arabia even she's fiance in an. opinion piece she referred to the position of the us administration just one of her sentences the trumpet ministration in this tragedy the position is devoid of moral foundation we will continue to push the u.s. administration to help find justice so the message here is that saudi arabia needs to cooperate more the trumpet ministration needs to pressure saudi arabia so what the next move will be and who will carry out their next move we have to wait and see all right for the moment for us in istanbul or as in i was just saying fiance has written an opinion piece for the guardian newspaper in the u.k. teach a change is says the perpetrators should know that they can never erase his vision his beloved country they have only him bold and it it is now left to the international community to bring the perpetrators to justice of all nations the united states should be leading the way to trumpet ministration has taken a position that is devoid of moral foundation some in washington are ho

he was told at one time that he should go back to saudi arabia. put your mind back to saudi arabia.k to saudi arabia. put your mind back to before october two, would you have been willing to walk into a saudi diplomatic will become or would you have been too fearful to do it? i would hesitate, would you have been too fearful to do it? iwould hesitate, but ifi was, andi do it? iwould hesitate, but ifi was, and i had connections that jamal khashoggi had and all of the relationships and the hopes, i might have hoped for it. so it is very natural for someone have hoped for it. so it is very naturalfor someone like have hoped for it. so it is very natural for someone like jamal khashoggi and his relationship and how he was received once by the saudi ambassador here are in dc and how he was treated and once an official called and offered him a job and he was given hopes at different points, it is very possible that i would fall for it, yeah. right now, much of the focus is on to which the degree it will be possible to trace a line of responsibility for this murder directly to the de facto

a few years ago, saudi arabia on 70% of major -- saudi arabia on and 70% of major media. journalists are going to be willing to cover sensitive issues, or even in sensitive issues. i remember working at a saudi-owned station and i knew we were not going to cover women's rights in saudi arabia or human rights in the gulf. but nonetheless, i was kicked out of the country about an article i wrote about safety andlems within airlines that is not even crossing the line. >> another example is fascism. -- another example is a journalist. [indiscernible] purge against corruption in saudi arabia, during that time, he made remarks on saudi tv. and he pointed fingers to the royal court. thatrevious royal court was being brought up on corruption charges and said we should investigate this corruption and corruption allegations. and we should investigate that. a lot of people are looking for the state -- >> what happened to him? >> he was arrested a few hours after making that remark. he is still in jail right now. he will be in court on terrorist charges. >> this is really important.

have money from saudi arabia i've done thing to do with saudi arabia i couldn't care less and i will tell you what is most of you know being president has cost me a fortune and that's ok with me i knew that a long time ago but being president has cost me a fortune a tremendous fortune like you've never seen before but it's some day i'll tell you what that is but and i do that a long time ago because i don't do deals i don't see all i do is focus on this country and making great deals for this country i don't focus on making great deals for myself because i don't care anymore so saudi arabia has nothing to do with me what does have to do with me is putting america first through the head wait wait wait. they're buying hundreds of billions of dollars worth of things from this country if i say we don't want to take your business if i say we're going to cut it off they will get the equipment military equipment and other things from russia and china russia and china would be very very happy because right now we're doing very well against china we're doing very well against everybody includ

and saudi arabia i think it's not just because they're using saudi arabia against iran and saudi arabia's very willingly going along with that they don't need much persuasion there are two other big factors one of course is the arms sales huge billion dollar sales of american weapons to saudi arabia which helps the american economy but the very big issue in israel the question of israel of course is already they want to do up there is now being called normalization which is to get the arab countries to start normalizing they're going to actions with israel first on a commercial basis its tenets and sharing than political and diplomatic to allow israel to have a much freer hand in the middle east and the view we have been reports of on the table contacts between the saudi intelligence people and the israeli intelligence people whom we've seen. who went to oman recently in their other contacts with arab countries as well in the gulf so that's really it's a huge thing if they could get saddam going to come out openly declare that israel was a normal states and they could have diplomatic rela

we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and a sometime port a country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after the u.s. secretaries of state and defense gave a classified briefing to senators they again tried to protect the crown prince i do believe i've read every piece of intelligence in the last few hours i think i read it all there is no direct report connecting it to the worst murderers of all this should really have no smoking gun that the crown prince would involve many senators say they disagree and they wanted to hear directly from the cia director but senators say the white house refused to let her come to the capitol prompting this highly charged threat from a usual ally of the president not going to be denied the ability to be briefed by the cia that we have oversight. about whether or not their assessment supports my belief that this could not have happened without m.b.'s knowing. and if the briefing reinforces the conclusion that i already have tentatively

is little faith in saudi arabia and the goodwill of saudi arabia in this investigation and the message here really is we are not going to let this go all right dana thanks for that live for us in istanbul we want to let you know our one hour special on the hush agi murder awaiting justice as later on friday at twelve g.m.t. right here on al-jazeera. i'm peter darby here in istanbul a little later we'll have a live special news our program for you one month on from the death of jamal khashoggi more than four weeks since he walked into that building behind me there are still three questions which have yet to be answered who killed him who ordered his killing and where is the body of jamal khashoggi. special with live coverage from istanbul from twelve hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. following the spotlights turned to how much money saudi arabia spans in the u.s. trying to buy influence in both politics and education some universities are now considering whether to cut ties with. reports from washington. this is the university of new haven in the state of connecticut not the most scenic

yes so they have been using saudi arabia the americans have been using saudi arabia as a proxy if you will to essentially confront iran nevertheless this hasn't been very successful on under donald trump yet rather than isolating iran they have actually ice of the themselves when they decided to leave the nuclear deal aside from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and israel virtually the entire international community was against this move and nearly the entire international community is supporting you on and the nuclear deal to stay in place so it hasn't been very successful also i think we have to consider did the downsides of supporting the saudis now when mohammed bin samon came into power we have to remember that killing cautious he wasn't the first reckless behavior from them i mean he started to arrest his political opponents in the ritz carlton hotel the american state side and they didn't do anything they implemented a blog on qatar they didn't do anything they kidnapped a lebanese prime minister and forced him to resign still the americans gave them a free pass and even with canada whe

with the kingdom of saudi arabia to fight. the king of saudi arabia is born in yemen. i wish it didn't have to come to that but that has gotten a lot of people's attention are you today. so. i think the important thing for the first procedural vote that might come up is to get on the floor. and . generally speaking. i prefer more debate to last and generally speaking i welcome the idea of amendment i'm aware of nothing that would preclude us from considering amendments once we brought this up and it's my belief that amendments could pass by a simple majority. like you said that i think you very much. senator mike lee is actually one of the co-sponsors of this whole process along with senator bernie sanders who we heard a little bit earlier if you're just joining us on al-jazeera this is continuing coverage of the aftermath i guess we would call it of a senate hearing today with regards to america's relationship with saudi arabia in light of the war in yemen and also in light of the murder of jamal khashoggi just keeping an eye we've got live cameras there as the senate

saudi arabia germany france the u.k. all those countries you just named how much is this likely then to put yet more pressure on the international community and the u.s. of course to take stronger action against riyadh. i think it's going to put the extreme pressure i think lygon is clearly all along has played a very smart. what he wants to get out of this with turkey on the following night i think in the case of the united states he wants to get any sanctions lifted and he also wants america's support these are the saudi arabia. he also wants to get money out of saudi arabia because i think the saudis are known that some countries will fight the saudis tried to buy everything and so he knows that he can get a large loan donation whatever you want to call it from saudi arabia if the economy is in trouble and thirdly what he wants to do is to be in support because. all along been very supportive organise their bomb and as you know batteries have a base that's in that town which is manned by the turks and so he wants to d

do you want to see an end to arms sales to saudi arabia?h the saudi people, with the saudi institutions, and that's much more important and more... i mean easier than any other measure. it's building relationships with the saudi people, with the saudi royal institutions, with the majority of the royal... with the saudi royal family. if people thought, well, you are against the state, it's not true. we are against the royal family, it's not true. we are against the saudi people, i am one of the saudi people and in many times have represented the saudi people in different ways. we are just against one, you know, individual who has all the... who, you know, behaves in a way that destabilised saudi arabia itself. it's in the best interests of saudi arabia, the region and the us to establish a long—term relationship again. i want to end by bringing it back to the personal, because your father faces those charges which could lead to his execution. i salute your preparedness to come on this show had a very difficult time, but what do you think is

president donald trump stands firmly behind saudi arabia despite claims a cia report says it's quote blindingly obvious the murder of jamal khashoggi was ordered by the crown prince mohammed bin salomon. al-jazeera live from london also coming up at least fifty dead and more than eighty wounded in a suicide attack in kabul. protesting against illegal israeli settlements abyan b. says it will remove listings of properties on occupied palestinian lands plus. control to me. remembering humanity's most ambitious space oddity twenty years after it took its place among the stars. and her donald trump says he's not going to ruin the world's economy by being tough on saudi arabia as political pressure grows over the murder of journalist. the us president has admitted that the saudi crown prince could have known about a plot to kill cut but that he's not going to take any more measures against riyadh earlier the state department official said a cia report had called it blindingly obvious that prince mohammed bin sandman ordered. trump has defended america's alliance with saudi arabia saying i

just letting saudi arabia get by with this. of course the world is also looking at trump the world is thinking well if the u.s. is leading the way in these moral standards well maybe other countries might also follow in his footsteps that this is a very dangerous path that the world is going through so it's really important to stick to those western morals and western standards western democracy standards to make sure that. the human rights are protected and we've seen domestically some opposition from the u.s. congress they said that there will be consequences some of the lawmakers there we've also had turkey attacks trump stance that you know certain diplomats have called that comic in fact they want to take this murder case to the united nations without the u.s. backing how difficult. it would be difficult but at the same time turkey is in a very tricky position here so turkey is trying to also keep a good relationship with us there are many reasons for this there's a comic ties there's you know the the war in syria but also

what do we need, strong saudi arabia or do we need a weak saudi arabia if we need a weak saudi arabiao challenge iran and to challenge other enemies in the regions, then guess what, mbs is your man but if you want a strong saudi arabia, mbs has to go. mbs has no credibility on the world stage. mbs has no credibility in congress mbs has no credibility with the media. and there is nothing the iranians would like than to challenge saudi arabia, headed by apers by a person in the middle east called him mr. bone saw. >> right, and another thing he wrote apparently is some people say khashoggi was an enemy of the state. that's an interesting line for the president of the united states to insert what it does here, it says representatives of saudi arabia say jamal khashoggi was an enemy of the state and member of the muslim brotherhood but my decision is in no way based on that just to insert it in here, the president sending a message to anybody critic of the government or so-called enemy of the united states, you won't get protection from the united states. >> it's more dangerous, ali, beca

relationship with saudi arabia and would not be putting put america first. right you know in that statement where you read or perhaps a little bit later the president writes after the united states saudi arabia is the largest oil producing nation in the world and they have worked closely with us and been very responsive to my requests keeping oil prices that reasonable levels well what happened just a couple of weeks ago come out we had the iran sanctions targeting oil exports there were concerns about rising prices something that the president doesn't want for his base particularly working class americans who might be struggling to fill up the gas tank and don't want to see those prices spike saudi arabia allows the president the confidence to know that those prices can remain somewhat stable so it's interesting that the president is on the one hand saying to congress look you can go in another direction but in the next breath saying but be careful about those oil prices you've got constituents of voters who will be concerned about this too it's a very prov

policy toward saudi arabia and yemen. and demand meaningful accountability for the murder of jamal khashoggi. with that, mr. president, i will yield the floor and i also note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lee: mr. president, i stood before this body in march of this year to protest our country's unconstitutional intervention in saudi arabia's blood did i war -- bloody war in yemen. i was proud to stand with my colleagues, senator sanders and senator murphy, to file a discharge motion of our resolution, s.j. res. 54, that would remove u.s. armed forces from yemen. at that time members of the foreign relations committee requested additional time to study the issue and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from te

because saudi arabia is fulfilling the u.s. is foreign policy shall we say in the region. not only fulfilling but is the foundation you have to remember we've just had these very strict iran oil export sanctions that have been put in place just the day before the u.s. had its mid-term congressional election vote that is pivotal in terms of the u.s. saudi relationship because saudi arabia is the reason that the united states is able to do this in terms of. supply but the other thing is that this is really where the united states has invested its countering iran in so many realms throughout the middle east so there is that aspect to the relationship the other aspect is the arms sales you've got to remember donald trump is a jobs president he was elected to create jobs to maintain jobs to underscore the importance of the ordinary americans need for a job and this weapons program in the military industrial complex has been a jobs program in the united states for decades there's no question donald trump is not going to in any way pu

staying with saudi arabia., so everybody, i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia, couldn't care less. [indiscernible] -- president trump: no, no. no, no. this is about america first. they are paying us $400 billion plus to purchase and invest in our country, that is probably the biggest amount ever paid to the united states. this is over a long period of time. it means hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars of investment and product and if you think i'm going to let russia have that money or those things, if you think i will let china make the military equipment, hey, china and russia would love to make 100 billion dollars worth of military equipment from saudi arabia. we have the contracts. they wanted those contracts. that would be a big, fat beautiful gift to russia and china. they will not get that gift, just so you understand. it is about make america great again, it's about america first. we'll stay with saudi arabia. the other thing, saudi arabia probably the second biggest oil produ

>> it seems clear saudi arabia is responsible.s well known at this point there have been a series of fabrications by governmental authorities to explain what happened. now initial stuff to do some punishment for some level of officials. findt only need to individuals who actually carried out the murder, but identified the mastermind. who ordered the murder to happen ? holding him or her or them responsible. know be clear what we about saudi arabia. there has been a consolidation of power. there has been a massive crackdown on the press. on human rights, despite this attempt to manipulate the public image spending literally millions of dollars on lobbyists and pr firms to make it seem like he is a great performer, frankly the fact women can now drive, it is 2018. that is not a success. >> accountability. who specifically? saudi arabia admitted they are behind the killing. who specifically? the crown prince? >> the fact is we don't know. there's a lot of suggestions that bit in that direction. that is why an independent inquiry inve

to get some type of negotiations over the yemeni civil war and also some type of pressure on saudi arabia to ease the blockade and maybe even lifted on qatar what about the white house though scott do you expect the white house to try and resist any pressure from congress absolutely i mean the white house for example for months resisted sanctions against russia given donald trump's affinity for a lot of reports on but they did finally have to give way the white house will probably counter brief counter spend against the us and say that they're not convinced or that the intelligence is not rock solid but then you've got the power struggle within the agencies that is glenn it has mention has been there since the start of the trump administration so it's really going to be a question of i don't think getting donald trump on line you'll never get donald trump in line but more rather whether you can get all the agencies together whether you can get support from congress and you contain donald trump and you contain jared kirshner and you try to get some sensible way forward on american foreign

the spotlight also is on how much money saudi arabia spends in the u.s. trying to buy influence in both politics and education some universities are now considering whether to cut ties with riyadh as a serious political hay and reports from washington. this is the university of new haven in the state of connecticut not the most scenic campus or the most well known but it is now drawing nationwide media attention for its relationship to saudi arabia it has a partnership to train saudi arabia security officers executive director of the middle east crisis committee stanley heller says his group protested when the deal was announced two years ago we were appalled that any u.s. college would be helping the saudi regime in any way but especially to help police college. since we know the appalling situation of the of the justice system they were ignored then but are hoping now that saudi arabia has admitted to murdering journalist jamal khashoggi increased pressure will force the university to reconsider the prestigious university the massachusetts institute of

this could be titled giving saudi arabia a pass. if you look at the first and the last line, it completely sums it up. he starts talking about the country of iran and talks about america first. it's clear that the importance, the priority for the white house or this president is entirely on financial and strategic national security interests and not about a foreigner who was killed in a foreign country. they are saying that the money is more important here than the morals. the president highlights the arms deals that saudi struck with the united states. they are mentioning that it's $110 billion deal, but only $14.5 billion have come through so far. this is a classic statement from president trump. >> it's almost like a tweet in a way. to be clear, this is an actual statement coming out and it almost feels like he stole a typewriter and sent it out with without a netting. >> we heard this all before. the king and crown prince vigorously denied. he he lighted the fact that they denied it and said that saudi called jamal khashoggi an

saudi arabia's foreign minister calls death an unfortunate accident a strong creator rates his support for. a lower barbarous area watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. save the children estimates that extreme hunger and disease have killed almost eighty five thousand under fives and yemen since the war began british ph d. student matthew hedges is jailed for life in the united arab emirates for spying last. we see. a country sleepwalking into instability the e.u. moves to punish rome for breaking the rules with a budget that would push italy deeper into debt. an unfortunate accident that's outside the arabian foreign minister is describing the premeditated killing of a journalist from a shot at their leisure bear has given at the fi an interview to a u.s. network reiterating that the crown prince was not involved the spy the cia's assessment that he ordered the murder and the foreign minister also said there's no question of mohammed bin solomon being sidelined the leadership of sundry been presented in the king in the province is a red line for the saudi man or woman t

talking there very emotional interview he is actually from saudi arabia he was allowed out of saudi arabia to go to the united states to be with the rest of his family in washington d.c. his brother was with him his book dollar actually said even the way we grieve is completely confusing we've tried to follow every turn of this of all the disputed facts and the lies on television news and they just really while they held them selves together in that interview which was deeply moving also said that he felt that his father had been misunderstood and intentionally misrepresented for political reasons he described his father was a genuine happy person and an amazing father so their grief goes on and this mystery of the whereabouts of the body parts or the remains of goes on with more rhetoric or more accusations being made by both sides in this crisis thank you for that andrew symonds live for us in istanbul the toughest sanctions today's that's what the u.s. is calling the latest measures against iran it's targeting the country's oil and financial sectors but he wants president has some rouha

saudi arabia's foreign minister calls jim death an unfortunate accident as trump reiterate his support for. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up . save the children estimates that extreme hunger or disease have killed almost eighty five thousand under fives in yemen since the war began in two thousand and fifteen one more border to cross central american migrants who traveled across mexico faced their final hurdle plus we see. the country. the e.u. moves the punisher rome for breaking the rules with a budget that would push if you lead deeper into debt. an unfortunate accident that south saudi arabia's foreign minister is the scribing the premeditated killing of journalist jamal ashaji bear has given a defiant interview to a u.s. network reiterating that the crown prince was not involved in this fight the cia's assessment that he ordered of the murder and he said there's no question of mohamed bin sunline being sidelined the leadership of sundry been present to the king in the problems of redlined the saudi man or woman the country is total

do to really punish saudi arabia if it wants to. well you know it depends on who you're talking about inside inside the u.s. i mean right now what we have to keep in mind is that the u.s. government is very polarized and not just between republicans and democrats but you know there there's very much a division in terms of the relationship with with saudi arabia and the affair so you know donald trump is trying to go on you know business as usual he wants to sweep all this on under the rug he's hoping that that statement will will do the trick meanwhile you have these representatives and senators who are very troubled by by what's happened happening and i think that we're still in the very early stages of a prolonged kind of power struggle and i think it's going to intensify once the democrats take former conformal control of the house of representatives and a couple of months ok so no clear paul as yet from within america things here what pressure can forces outside america particular perhaps the e.u. other countries bring to bear o

we are with saudi arabia, we are staying with saudi arabia. and by the way, just so everybody -- i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia. couldn't care less. >> are you letting the saudis get away with murder? pres. trump: no, no, no, no. this is about america first. they are paying us $400 billion plus to purchase and invest in our country. that is probably the biggest amount ever paid to the united states. this is over a long period of time. it means hundreds of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars of investment and product. and if you think i'm going to let russia have that money or those things, if you think i'm going to let china make the military equipment -- hey, china and russia would love to make $100 billion worth of military equipment for saudi arabia. we have the contracts. they wanted those contracts. that would be a big, fat, beautiful gift to russia and to china. they are not going to get that gift. just so you understand, it is about make america great again, it is about america first. we're going to stay with saudi a

saudi arabia's top diplomat declares the kingdom is united around its leadership denying a report that. could trigger changes at the top. hello i'm a start the attack and this is al jazeera live from dire also coming up almost eighty five. as in babies and children killed by starvation and disease the catastrophic human cost of yemen's war. the moves to punish overspending but rome remains defiant. all third unless it for how south sudan is banking on pumping much more oil. saudi arabia's foreign minister says the kingdom is united around its leadership as he angrily rejected reports about a change in the line of succession but reuters news agency says it stands by its story which that members of the royal family want to see crown prince mohammed bin salma blocked from the throne after the matter of journalist jamal khashoggi the trumpet ministration meanwhile is standing by a saudis realize as she had her tansey reports from washington d.c. . even as the saudi foreign minister insisted investigations were ongoing into the death of jamal khashoggi it was clear one possibility was not t

still friends donald trump is willing to save america's polish ship with sandy arabia despite accepting that riyadh may have known about plans to kill dissident journalist jamal khashoggi back in october. a suicide bomb attack against religious gatherings on an islamic holiday in if leaving over fifty people dead in the country's capital. oh. protests over the french president's tax reforms on fuel leave one person and five hundred others injured including dozens of police officers. and flying high and for twenty years the international space station celebrates two decades of pioneering research we go behind the scenes and take a look at it since both in a bit and on a. it's an eleven o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all t. international live with me to do that you to welcome to the program. white house appears to have given sandy arabia the benefit of the doubt as washington acts to continue its partnership with the gulf state despite a statement saying riyadh could have been aware of a plan to brutally murder this jamal khashoggi he went missing after entering the saudi consul

between saudi arabia and its neighbors. about the role of the king and the crown prince in the kingdom, about how the royal family makes decisions, about brutality within the kingdom and policies currently being pursued by that kingdom especially in places like qatar and, of course, tragically in yemen. so if the purpose was to silence a moderate critic, the consequences are an unraveling of a whole set of policies for saudi arabia that may lead to all kinds of changes. and ironically, that will be jamal's legacy. i call upon president trump to speak clearly and up equivocally -- unequivocally about what has happened and about what the united states is prepared to do by way of response. not balancing a death of one man brutally in the consulate of another country in another country against military interests. this is no time for that kind of balancing act. this is a time to speak morally for once. the murder of an honorable man must be remembered, must be honored. and this is a, many a sense, a simple moment, not a complex

about torturing in saudi arabia. a very post also talked about sexual harassment to male prisoners threatening them to sexually harassed their families outside of the jail yeah so this is not just an issue against women it's against all detainees that are held in saudi arabia how unusual is it for women to be detained and facing the sort of treatment one say also but of course when you talk about women need to look at that depends how much physical it will start at the moment we talk about women in their regime and look at this and then the women are like. but i think i think i think it's very difficult to generalize because you have a dramatic says within the saudi leadership today you have some friends who are actually adopting the doctrine you are either with me read against me. so i was at the prison because they had any despite the fact that those women have never expressed or demanded the fathers they only demanded everything. right they've been targeted to danger and they've been subjected to sexual harassment

reports that some members of saudi arabia's ruling family are working to block the crown prince from becoming king that self to the saudi foreign minister dismissed this story as outrageous and totally unacceptable should have written reports. even as the saudi foreign minister insisted investigations were ongoing into the death of jamal khashoggi it was clear one possibility was not to be considered but the journalist was killed at the order of the highest levels of the saudi government which has led admitting that this was an operation that was that went wrong or people exceeded their authorities did something they're not supposed to do we have made it very clear that we're investigating that those who committed this crime will be protestants and that procedures will be reviewed in which to make sure it doesn't happen again you also dismissed a reuters report that some members of the saudi ruling family wanted to block crown prince mohammed bin salman from assuming the throne he so outrageous comments that are being made are totally unacceptable and the kingdom of saudi arabia is u

we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabia ever by the way just so everybody i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia couldn't care less. it is do or die time for teresa mayes brags it deal the e.u. was set to vote on a finalized plan on sunday so she is now scrambling for concessions that will make it more palatable at home and address some looming issues like britain's future relations with the e.u. on wednesday she was in brussels negotiating with european commission president john could younker and here's what she had to say after that meeting we had a very good meeting this evening we've made further progress doesn't result we've given sufficient direction to our negotiators i hope for them to be able to resolve the remaining issues and that work will start immediately i now plan to return to further meetings including with president on saturday to discuss how we can bring to a conclusion this process and bring it to a conclusion in the interests of all our people so theresa may will be back in brussels on saturday but get some analysis on these developments

saudi arabia is important. we got to reinject some balance, some leverage and some reciprocity into this relationship. so bottom line mbs is literally his most significant policy achievement, has been the bamboozling of donald trump. i think this statement reflects the fact that the president is determined no matter what the saudis do to maintain this relationship. >> so will congress be bamboozled. julie, if this president isn't going to do anything, will congress? >> i think there's good reason to think that they will. it was interesting in the last paragraph of the statement, he said something along the lines of if others disagree with me and he obviously means congress, well, they can go their own way. what that would look like is something that would stand in his way. he presents it as we'll agree to disagree on this. i think this is okay with me. if others disagree, they are free to have their own opinion. if the republicans on capitol hill, some of the republicans in the senate like lindsey graham, a clo

says it will be several weeks before any decision on sanctions against saudi arabia over the killing of the journey. alone down in jordan this is an jazeera live from doha also coming up. we will not allow our generosity to be abused by those who would break our laws donald trump promises a crackdown on immigration saying asylum seekers could be detained in tent cities a call for sri lanka's suspended parliament to reconvene to resolve a crisis triggered when the president saw the prime minister. there's no question that it's the right thing to do and walking out on google thousands of employees around the world protest of a sexual harassment and workplace inequality. you know a sector of state might pompei o says it will be several weeks before any decision is made on sanctioning saudi arabia for the killing of a journalist. he was murdered at the kingdom's consulate in istanbul a month ago pompei outlined the u.s. position in a rare interview. we have deep and long term strategic relationships with the kingdom of saudi arabia and the same time the murder of jamal khashoggi in the c

from multiple angles in terms of what it is doing in the region it puts pressure on saudi arabia as i mentioned before to try to join up or support the talks which we expect at the end of the month on the yemen crisis it puts pressure on saudi arabia to try to stop the split within the gulf countries it puts pressure on the u.a.e. as well as saudi to ease back on a hard line and it boosts the turks as they try to get more of a regional influence including fencing over things such as the syrian crisis however there is one cab yet to this because the saudis have one card to play against this attempt to contain both m.b.'s and contain both their policy and that is as long as the u.s. is committed to regime change in iran the saudis have got leverage back against washington because they could always for example threaten to cut their oil output and therefore you might see a price spike which would undermine the american strategy against iran at this point then what do you think the consent go ahead if i could just jump in and i think. to that i agree with everything that scott said i do

standing with saudi arabia the title of donald trump statement says it all the u.s. president admits mohamed bin selman may have known about the plan to murder john this jamal khashoggi the cia says the crown prince actually ordered it but trump's contradicted his intelligence agency saying that's not a definitive determination and in any case he says it would be foolish to take action against riyadh that would threaten lucrative weapons deals he says and push up the price of oil very simple said trump it's america fast but it might not be that simple all eyes are now on the u.s. congress to see what it will do and will join our guests in just a moment after this report from she ever tansey and washington. i here by the way you. are the white house thanksgiving tradition of the president pardoning a turkey took on a grim significance this year a short time earlier donald trump and made it clear he was giving the saudi crown prince a pass in the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in an eight paragraph statement filled with the rhetorical flourishes the exclam

is stepping up the pressure on saudi arabia hired to castrate ripples from washington d.c. . the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions against saudi arabia for the killing of jamal khashoggi are likely coming to take us. probably have four more weeks before we have enough evidence to actually put those sanctions in place but i'm i think we'll be able to get there we're going to find the fact that a president said we will demand accountability for those who are involved in the commission of this i described sanctions would not be the only repercussion from the u.s. more than a week ago the state department revoked the visas of twenty one saudi nationals identified as involved in the operation to kill. secretary michael impale said of the time those penalties would not be the last word even as the u.s. continued to gather facts that included cia director gina haskell traveling to turkey and reportedly listening to the audio recording of killing turkey is leading the investigation it says she was strangled almost immediately after entering the saudi consulate on october second.

so peaceful activism is an act of terrorism in saudi arabia.the same exact attorney general who went to turkey to investigate the murder of jamal khashoggi who was murdered because of his peaceful activism and journalism is actually seeking to penalty against my father for similar activism. the same attorney general who is the long friend of jamal and various punishments is actually investigating jamal's murder. of how these rogue operatives are still operating within the system, -- if we may say. if these people are doing the same exact thing, that means we never found the perpetrators of jamal's mother. we should find them and we should try them and we should seek justice for jamal and for all. thank you so much. [applause] >> greetings of peace to all. i just wanted to remember her jamal and some lessons and some words of our prophet peace be upon him because jamal meant so much for so many people across the world. when we're taught that the most honorable form of jihads, struggle, is to say a word of truth in front of a tyrant and we're tau

we are with h saudi arabia.. by the way, just everybody knows, i have no business whatsoever with saudi arabia. amy: president trump doubles down on his support for saudi arabia in the crown prince despite overwhelming evidence that journalist jamal khashoggi was assassinated at the direct order of crown prince mohammed bin salman. "the new york times" reports that top saudi officials considered using private companies to assassinate enemies order of crown prince mohammed a year before khashoggi's death. we speak with one of the reporters who broke the story, ronen bergman, author of "rise and kill first: the secret history of israel's targeted assassinations," a stunning book israeli intelligence officials tried to stop him from writing. >> this is a book about clandestine operations which focuses on targeted killings. in many other countries, this would be seen as illegal or e en if a country employs these tactics, people would be ashamed or embarrassed to talk about it. in israeael, people are proud ty took th

the capital ankara but let's begin with alan fischer at the consulate building itself allan saudi arabiahad the key legal person in the country that relationship seems to not be going in the right direction what do we think they can possibly do next. for those undoubtedly a frustration from the turkish side that saudi arabians have said openly and repeatedly that they will cooperate with international inquiries company being held by the tartars and also by the united states but on the turkey side they feel that those are what's not being backed up by actions for a number of reasons it's hard to believe that it's exactly a month and two hours ago the jamal khashoggi walked through that door and was immediately set upon by a group of fifteen men he was killed within minutes according to the turkish presidency and just in the last hour or so we're hearing from a very close aide to the turkish president saying that he believes the body what's this all all that is really what the focus of the inquiry is no there is no doubt that from very early on the turks had intelligence that pointed to th

the united states will continue to have a relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia.an important partner of ours. we will do that with the kingdom of saudi arabia, its people, that is the commitment that the president made today. thank you very much, everybody. today, president trump was taking part in a presidential tradition, pardoning the turkey before thanksgiving. but away from the cameras, critics say he has been making excuses for saudi arabia, granting the country something approaching forgiveness. the washington post, which employed jamal khashoggi as a columnist, said president trump's response was a betrayal of american values and that surrendering to what they called a state—ordered murder only made this world more dangerous. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. earlier, i spoke to karen attiah, the global opinions editor of the washington post. i asked her if the murder ofjamal khashoggi has to take a back seat to president trump's platform of america first, and the importance of the american economy and security. she worked with jamal khashoggi. i mean,

support it will be difficult for turkey to get answers from saudi arabia about who really ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi turkey's position actually stool we need to get an answer or let's say a conclusive answer from this saudi arabia state because most probably. united states the european union. that there will not push this problem in a further turkey this is not just a political economic issue it's also a criminal one a murder has been committed and they want to investigate it and solve it but they say that investigation is being hampered by a lack of saudi cooperation. the turks are demanding details about the day mr kosofsky was murdered they have asked the saudis who if not the crown prince gave the order they want the men accused tried in a turkish court and they want to know where mr remains are but turkey can't force this alone it has to be in international investigation under the powers of the un secretary-general. so it has to be an investigation where there is an experienced investigative team with the power to go anywhere they need to go to interview witnesses to