consulate in istanbul it's at this point some experts argue that saudi arabia tried to use back data to extort based oss and to influence articles in the washington post some of his private messages and photos were published by an american tabloid newspaper bezos issued a statement accusing that paper of politically motivated extortion he also drew a connection between the publisher's owner and saudi arabia the kingdom however denies it all you know. how can you help and. here's this is colorful is ridiculous and it's. in there if you know article it doesn't have any facts and nothing is substantiated in the report that it was based on that was supposed to have an unbiased runs its expert is that experts say the report is compelling but isn't outright proof of saudi arabia's guilt but it's been enough to convince the un it now wants washington to investigate these going to be if you know including by any i assume all of the government is absolutely unacceptable should not be tolerated the u.s. president donald trump has been notably absent from this discussion he's faced criticism fo

is going to saudi arabia is like. i don't know who they are they are a colony of the us or as the us economy and saudi arabia but they have. many many politicians on the payroll and they. cross by vast amounts of u.s. weapons in order to kill people and yemen and do whether or things will go down that let's go down that rabbit hole just a little bit un experts are calling on the u.s. to immediately investigate the hack of jeff bezos is fine you say that that is. a joke that that will never happen but let's say that they do if the u.s. does go ahead and investigate could this further complicate washington's relations with saudi arabia and how sell well yes well i would like to see their relations become more complicated so that the u.s. is not selling them all these weapons that would be that would be a great thing if. there are there are course private groups the united states that could investigate this and i think you know from i mean obviously beezus and his people think this is what happened to him and they immedi

troops are 1st sell but that they're being essentially sold to saudi arabia and saudi arabia has already paid $1000000000.00 that this is just that blows where martin hurts me in so many different levels how is they tell me that someone has actually responded to this in any kind of official men women how is congress responded to trump's claim of a $1000000000.00 for u.s. troops to saudi arabia one fortunately the majority of congress has been very silent whenever it comes to this but in the past they have tried to step up at least a little bit when it comes to trump's relationship with saudi arabia but at the same time they haven't really put a stop to all of these arms deals or to the united states working with saudi arabia when it comes to the brutal war in yemen however independent congressman justin amash did speak out and he called out for you know standing up and claiming that he's going to end the endless wars and then essentially doing the opposite and he spoke out and he said about quote he's moving troops back into iraq he's moving other troops into saudi arabia and using our f

we're sending more to saudi arabia and saudi arabia is paying us for it you know we're doing something that nobody's ever done i said to sit here and live a very good relationship with saudi arabia said listen you're a very rich country you want more troops i'm going to send them to you but you've got to pay us to paying this they've already just positive $1000000000.00 in the bank. so that is quite the claim from trump not only that u.s. troops are 1st sell but that they're being essentially sold to saudi arabia and saudi arabia has already paid $1000000000.00 that this is just that blows where martin hurts me in so many different levels how is they tell me that someone has actually responded to this in any kind of official men were going to how is congress responded to trump's claim of a 1000000000 dollars for u.s. troops to saudi arabia one fortunately the majority of congress has been very silent whenever it comes to this but in the past they have tried to step up at least a little bit when it comes to terms relationship with saudi arabia but at the same time they haven't really pu

jeff bezos' phone was hacked by saudi arabia. the guardian reports an investigation ordered by bezos blames the hacking on a personal message that apparently came from saudi crown prirns mo hamad bin salman. >> according to the financial times the hacks roots trace back to bezos and bin salman exchanging phone numbers in los angeles. weeks later says britain's the guard man paper, bezos and the brown prince from engaged in a seamingly friendly whatsapp engage when bin salman sent an unsolicited malware infected file. stun clear what information was then taken. >> trevor: whoa. they're saying the crown prince of saudi arabia personally hacked jeff bezos' phone. if that's true that would be very hands on for the ruler of a country. like normally people have someone else do that for them. although i guess it musting hard to hire a hacker in a country where everyone is also a billionaire prince. yeah, it is like as your prince i command you to hack jeff bezos. >> well, as your prince i command you to get me some potatoe chips. >> oka

that the phone of jeff bezos was hacked via the messenger application known as whatsapp now saudi arabia denies that that's the case now it's important to note that not only is jeff bezos very wealthy a billionaire in the united states but he's also the owner of the washington post and the washington post was the employer of jamal khashoggi folks will recall jamal khashoggi as brutal killing so at this point that raises some interesting concerns this is what has been presented about the possible hacking the information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the crown prince in surveillance of mr bezos in an effort to influence if not sign it's the washington post reporting on saudi arabia these allegations around of and as well to own growing evaluation of claims about the chrome prince's involvement in the 2900 muddle of saudi and washington post showing this. now in october of 28 teen jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in istanbul and he never came out of the of the embassy he was dismantled within it cut into pieces and at that point there was a lot of internatio

that the phone of jeff bezos was hacked via the messenger application known as whatsapp now saudi arabia denies that that's the case now it's important to note that not only is jeff bezos very wealthy a billionaire in the united states but he's also the owner of the washington post and the washington post was the employer of jamal khashoggi folks will recall jamal khashoggi was brutal killing so at this point that raises some interesting concerns this is what has been presented about the possible hacking the information we have received suggests the possible involvement of the crown prince in surveillance of mr bezos in an effort to influence if not sign it's the washington post reporting on saudi arabia these allegations around of and as well to own growing evaluation of claims about the chrome prince's involvement in the 2900 muddle of saudi and washington post showing this. now in october of 28 teen jamal khashoggi visited the saudi embassy in istanbul and he never came out of the of the embassy he was dismantled within it cut into pieces and at that point there was a lot of internati

one of those close allies, saudi arabia, calling, echoing those calls for restraint. just how concerned is riyadh that the trump administration seems to be upping the ante instead of showing any sense of de-escalation at this point? >> yeah. i think there is concern here because one of the sort of longer concerns about being so closely supported of president trump, but not having knowingly having a huge amount of influence over him is that while saudi arabia and the united states are aligned at the moment in their view of iran as a destabilizing influence spreading instability throughout the region, that's certainly saudi arabia's view and been on the front line of iran's anger and attacking the oil refineries

backed saudi arabia would also be a disaster for his country.in the wide ranging interview with d w editor in chief eunice pull. his position on 2 places currently experiencing significant turmoil pakistan's neighbor iran is vying for influence in the gulf with saudi arabia tensions between the 2 have been simmering for years the assassination of the top iranian commander cassim saw the money this month by the us brought the region to the brink of conflict conses pakistan would be called between the 2 countries if iran and saudi arabia went to war. we live in a tough neighborhood we have issues balancing act because. we have for instance saudi arabia which is one of pakistan's creators friends always been a friend in need for us then we have iran which is a neighbor and we've always had a good relationship with iran so the conflict between saudi arabia and iran is something which. which for pakistan would be disastrous if it. went into some sort of military conflict. also spoke about pakistan's relations with india which of worsened over the pas

from saudia time arabia. u.s. has keeping the shipping line save is not import into its own country but the stability of the market. handling is the market u.s. and iran tension? guest: it is quite remarkable. there has not been much of a reaction. there was a knee-jerk reaction after the assassination of soleimani and another spike after the retaliation by iran. the knee-jerk reaction at the market come down. this is the second time we saw this happen. back in september of last year, saudi's facility was targeted by iran. this was the largest facility. saudi a major hit to supply. the market took it in stride the second time. seismic events in the middle east, things that in the past would have caused prices to jump and created a shock, today, not much of a reaction. host: you said the u.s. is concerned about the stability of the oil market and that is why the u.s. gets involved with keeping the shipping lanes open out of the middle east. guest: historically, yes. what we are hearing from washington is very diffe

saudi arabia. iran so he tries to balance the conflict but no he didn't offer any deeper into it i mean what about the geography i mean the pakistan is in a tough neighborhood we know that it's got afghanistan as a as you know a problematic neighbor be what kind of role does concept for his country in that region throughout he wants peace as peaceful as possible and we know that pakistan is pretty close bonds to the taliban so he wants the taliban to be a played a role bigger role therefore he held the u.s. conducting the so-called peace talks with the taliban having in his head or in his mind of the taliban have some pala that would be good for him and you could you feel like he was the he is legitimate the on the open up about that the taliban or people we can do business with and trust i mean sure. he wanted to step back a little bit and i asked him directly so how close are you with the taliban and i don't want to get out of this and said well we did all it do we help the americans but i mean i

they are entrenched about taking money from saudi arabia . >> many amican companies see saudi arabia as a growing market opportunity. we have seen hotel companies like marriott starting deals. weave seen construction companies signing deals. we see hi-tech companies showing interest in investing -- industrial infrastr. l share many of those are going in. capital has no liinherent mo. individuals make these decisions on where to invest and who to take money from. at this point there is very little evidence that anyone is saying we should not be doing business with a saudi arabia . >> not only to take ney from it also will to take direction the saudi's own aboard seed on huber. -- uber. >> i mentioned penske media they took $200 mifrom saudi arabia in 2018. the saudi investme still there. it looks like it is part of the kingdom's effort to control the >> you mention also an endeavor. they dig give the money back o úkilling. mal khashoggi whatwe know at this point about the mechanics on how this is carried out? >> they examined the iphone of jeff bezos. they could say with 100% confiden

europe so the arabia they were true bring a girl regime in syria down. we don't have time to reprosecute the circle all i'm saying is the. has been heavily involved in a very bloody and brutal war in syria helping bashar al assad kill a lot of people including the us some silly money was involved and supported illegal that are meant to prevent regime change by the focus on to let terrorists let me bring in let me bring in market how do you feel mark about the fact that the u.s. government killed general hossam silly money a man who for all the litany of things bad things he did which you mentioned at the start of the show helped the us defeat in iraq how do you feel about the fact that i selectively celebrated the u.s. killing of possibly money well i think we've also got to acknowledge the car some sort of money had been extraordinarily helpful to us since the early days of our operations inside of afghanistan. but i would just simply ask the $600.00 plus families that have lost a father a son. a brother an uncle who died because of the military operati

really changing or is it purely for a show with them a lot of programs on saudi arabia. primarily because of the anti western campaign against iran and the genocidal war being waged against yemen what about saudi arabia go ahead marcus saudi arabia is an autocratic states and its official creed wahhabism is not just weak it's not just deprived it's is obscene therefore based on those 2 realities it is impossible for saudi arabia sort of course it's no different to saying for example christianity per se capitalism or say communism i say the not evil but evil deeds have been done in the name all capitalism christianity and communism but what is that all you need to do is read about the principles the tenets of what happens and you see that this is an evil ideology and we have an equal ideology in place in our country entrenched in palace but it is simply a market threat marcus you never hear that in the mainstream media saudi arabia is a valued ally in the middle east like israel they put them there on par ok i mean but what does that say about the consciousness of public

our top stories: suspect the crown prince of saudi arabia was involved in hacking the phone ofjeff arabiao's, arabia was involved in hacking the phone ofjeff beto's, the head of amazon and the owner of the washington post. the aircraft the lack democrats begin present in their argument —— the democrats present the argument for peach mint. coming up in the next hour, while all news channels are fixated on the historic impeachment trial, america's working classes, there are bigger issues for why they elected president trump. we'll find out why they are talking about. 17 develin died from a virus in china. we are expecting an update from the who in this hour —— 17 people confirmed died. we are into day 2 in washington of president trump's impeachment trial — accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress, which he denies. today, democrats are presenting their case to support the charges. they have 2a hours to do this over three days. the defence lawyers will then get to respond to the democratic case, also 2a hours over three days. then there will be a question—and—answer period, wher

experts demand an investigation into evidence that saudi arabia hacked into the phone of the washington post's and amazon owner jeff bezos. play watching al-jazeera life among local headquarters in doha fully back t. ball also coming out he personally asked the foreign government to investigate his opponent opening arguments in president trump's impeachment trial the lead democratic prosecutor makes a case for mary for removing the president from his office. honestly we have a world of material they don't have the material the president in davos is defiant but democrats say he has been bragging about withholding evidence and old soul the stuff our china holds flies and trains out of the city of the center of a fire is outbreak that's killed 17 people so far. here those are all good sisterhood that's why the us was corrupt government was to look up we're also in beirut where protests rejecting lebanon's new government descended into quiet sense street battles. thank you for joining us u.n. human rights experts are calling for an investigation into new allegations that saudi arabia's crow

saudi arabia faces new allegations that it hacked into the fall of the washington post. and i'm sure the supporters naomi osaka loses her cool at the australian open the defending champion still emerging victorious to set up a mouthful ringside against 15 year old coco goff. we want to take you straight to lebanon where protesters are back on the streets again just hours after the brand new government held its 1st cabinet meeting president michel aoun told them the government must address the deteriorating economic situation and regain the people's confidence the creation of a new government led by promise us and as it did months of political deadlock we go now to our correspondents we're standing by in zone is a lot of action right where you are tell us what you're saying. to look at. well you can see behind me is a battleground outside our living building very. confrontational is betraying not 50 pounds i established the protesters who are trying to storm the parliament building we've been here for 37 days but never have we seen such scenes is starting earlier than usu

s phone, this exclusive investigation by the guardian suggests that his phone was hacked by saudi arabiazos, justin pickett for us. this actually happened back 2018 and i don't think it is just a warning for a few you want to be friends with because apparently they were having a friendly chat with the crown prince of arabia and geoff pazo ‘s. they were having a friendly chap on what's up and then a video was sent on the what's up message which was somehow infected, this is what the story says and they were then able to tap into the conversations of what bezos was conversing using his phone with others. a bit alarming but it seems to me that there is something far more political under here. the guardian later goes on in this article to say that bezos, who bought the washington post some yea rs bought the washington post some years ago and still owns the washington post of course the khashogi journalist was reporting for the washington post and they read a lot of articles about saudi arabia. as usual, there are some very political things happening here behind the scenes that's the actual i

as for saudi arabia no direct evidence linking riyadh to the plotters ever came to light. never hear. the secrets of the assassination of abraham hamdi remain a mystery 40 years on there are few witnesses still alive and his family is still seeking justice had he survived yemen might have steered a different path with different outcomes cut short by murder able him or humvees vision was unfulfilled. we got more showers in the forecast for that flood hit parts of brazil just to the north of our area you can see this little area of cloud here ahead of the the showers that we will see over the next day or so we have still got plenty of them and pretty awful conditions there on the ground the showers say are going to return as we go on through the remainder of the way to stay quite a rash ash as you can see spread right across the amazon southeastern prost fos outpaced brazil also seeing some about whether we should just spilling out to paraquat as we go into thursday it should turn little dry here it gets up to around $36.00 degrees celsius the wetter weather will be down tow

saudi arabia, these will be used.st producer of crude oil around the world, and we are hearing from the likes of a prominent american economist, saying that this is exactly the sort of risk and oil—price shock that could tip the world into a global recession. he is talking about stagflation, a persistently high state of inflation coupled with high unemployment. it means you get stag na nt unemployment. it means you get stagnant demand across countries. this is what the united states or in 1973 and 1979 and 1990. this is particularly bad news for the likes of the big countries that import oil, because it will be more expensive for them, particularly if they have large trade and current account deficits, places like india. fuel prices are directly linked to what goes on with international markets for oil, and we are already seeing spikes in fuel prices in india for both petrol and diesel. it is likely that we will see this happening across the world. this is just the beginning of the year. not all the markets are open.

the close ties between al homsi and saudi arabia. breaking the news to the yemeni people that their president had been killed was a task that fell to al hunt his official spokesman. he was summoned to the office of all hashmi the recently installed president and asked to draft a statement the result was an announcement that was high on emotion and low on details. i would never do. east usually in mono you know. who know if you have certain her. and they get collagen emotional and then i will look at the how difficult work and library warholian if you look at who has had it who are who literally. badly look to go for can. have a fever. they work they are highly. consider that she said at the event that she had this look you had that the crew had a swoop like that can come and tipped over so we're going to like that i guess how october this would go into the neck i was in the. bad bad. 7 now back to gilligan and we love. you i shall be here many ok. now what the peabody came out and i'm going to go with. the coverage all morning it. ha

>> so they -- the number-one exporter is, of course, saudi arabia. then you have exports from kuwait, exports from the uae, going almost entirely to northeast asia, japan, particularly. iran, of course, a fairly large producer -- large exporter -- until it was hit by sanctioned. it was hit by sanctions twice under the obama administration, the negotiation, agreement of the jcpoa. again be i the truy the trump administration, november two years ago. the escalation in may when washington removed the sanctions waivers that allowed some countries keep importing at lower levels than in the past, still at significant levels. since may, exports by iran have been a trickle compared to what they used to be. >> by comparison, you said saudi arabia is the largest producer. you're talking about 12 million barrels a day according to "forbes" versus 4.7 million for iran. 4.6 for iraq. uae around 4 million. kuwait, 3 million. qatar, almost 2 million. >> correct. yeah. except that iran is now at 2.4 million, 2.3 million production and probably be less than half a mi

there is nothing against you from me or saudi arabia.he man leading the investigation also published some details of it in the daily online.which you can find he said he had high confidence saudi arabia had access to hisiv phone to gain e information over some months. let's hear from the author of that report. >> i ut is clear right now that they were in jeff bezos' phone from may 2018 and we february of 2019.ued in fact, i think mohammed and solomon was not very careful about revealing it becauseex he diange messages with jeff bezos that indicaie -- that co information that he could not have otherwise known. ros: jeff bezos is best known for amazon, but he is also the ner of the washington post. and saudi journalists jamal khashoggmurdered by the udi's was a columnist for the post. suggestions irelations soured after mr. because sochi wed murd and dismembered in his temple in 2018 -- after jamal khashoggi was murdered. it was written that saudi arabia was responsible for the premeditated executi of mr. jamal khashoggi and coverage of hi

president donald trump was to the middle east to visit saudi arabia so at this point one wonders what will happen next the killing of jamal khashoggi certainly sparked outrage not only around the world but with the in the united states however now this new revelation about the hacking of jeff bezos phone is also sparking some new outrage and reopening some of the old wounds and outrage from the case of the killing of jamal khashoggi it's important to note however saudi arabia is 1st certainly not the 1st country to have hacked into the data of someone in a foreign country so outrage continues we'll see what happens next. thanks for bringing us up to date on that our to open in new york. german chancellor angela merkel is calling on the world to include china in the pursuit of common goals not return to cold war era exclusion. of course we also have to build up fairness of course we have to practice multilateralism so the rules apply to everyone but i believe for us not to fall into new bipolarity but rather that we try was the results of experience we have to include a country like ch

officials now have called for a full investigation into allegations that saudi arabia's crown prince was behind the hacking of amazon chief jeff bezos as phone it follows reports that a whatsapp message from the personal account of muhammad and some on was implicated in the data breach it had previously been claimed that the hack was linked to the murder of washington post writer jamal khashoggi and the saudi consulate in istanbul and 2018 and my colleague alex force whiting is here where to begin this it reads like a film script so some really serious allegations involving 2 of the world's richest men and the head of a state as well phone hacking even murder. yeah i mean when you're this is it let's start from the beginning and start with jeff bezos now we know that t. bones which is the huge retailer is worth a lot of money now back in february last year he claimed at the u.s. tabloid the national enquirer. he accused him of extortion and blackmail because published intimate text messages in details between him and his girlfriend now his head of security carried out an investigatio

saudi arabia is an autocratic states and its official create wahhabism is not just weak it's not just deprived it sees sitting there for posts on those 2 realities it is impossible for saudi arabia sort of course it's no different to saying for example christianity per se capitalism per se communism let's say a not evil but evil deeds have been done in the name all capitalism christianity and communism but what is that all you need to do is read about the principles the tenets of wapas and you will see that this is an evil ideology and we have an evil ideology in place in our country entrenched in palace but it is simply a market threat marcus you never hear that in the mainstream media saudi arabia is a valued ally in the middle east like israel they put them there on par ok i mean but what does that say about the consciousness of public the political elites in the west. politicians in britain and american journalists in britain and america whether they are liberal or conservative have no moral compunction with a lawyer themselves with any governments with any organization with any g

withdrew his support for the demonstrations israelis can visit saudi arabia for religious or business trips under a new directive from the government does not have diplomatic relations with israel and doesn't allow israeli passport holders to visit saudi unless on a muslim pilgrimage. or turkey's president has accused the international community of failing the libyan people. made the comments during a news conference in our geas where he is meeting president abdul budget to brune now the turkey turkey is set to deploy more troops to support the un backed government in tripoli european and regional powers are trying to broker a ceasefire. the view that the developments unfolding in libya are having a direct impact on the jury as a neighboring country we have always have to size that we now reiterate that a military solution is not the right appropriate solution to the crisis in libya we are conducting intense communications with libya's neighbors together with other international players in order to put an end to the bloodbath and to maintain a permanent lasting cease fire to bring the