goes into exile and is targeted with assassination it sounds like what happened to journalist jamal khashoggi who was murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018 but this is the story of a former top saudi intelligence official saw the algebra he says not long after killing the crown prince sent the same so-called hit squad to kill him in canada he's suing mohammed bin solomon in a u.s. court and jobbery has a warning for other saudi dissidents abroad we'll bring in our guests in a moment but 1st this report from mike hanna in washington d.c. . crown prince mohammed bin solomon has been feted in the white house but now in papers before a washington d.c. court he's alleged to have ordered death squads to torture and assessed in 8 opponents the case has been brought by a former saudi intelligence officer sardar japery who alleges the crown prince sent a team called the tigers squad to canada to kill him the court papers say the men were denied entry by suspicious canadian border guards this detailed flow chart submitted to the court identifies key members of the assassination squad and

there are several others that have the same names as in the case of jamal khashoggi.e persons are residents of the united states. and that will be dangerous for him. hasrter: the u.s. president stood by his middle east ally despite the cia's conclusion. four senators have written to the state department. the department responded by calling him a valued partner to the us government and request have been made to the saudi government about the whereabouts of his son and daughter. the saudi government has not issued a response. it is becoming difficult for donald trump to defend the next in line saudi king. isthis bad behavior affecting the american side. you can see the shift in the american political mood against the saudis. reporter: he says interpol rejected saudi -- of being corrupted. the court case is involving more murder allegations which will not bode well to the successor of the saudi throne. least 19 people have been killed after an armed group attacked several villages in the democratic republic of congo. fighters from the political and religious sect known a

intelligence overwhelmingly concluded that mohammed bin salman ordered the killing of jamal khashoggienadministration has defending those denials. congress and even members of the president's own party overwhelmingly have a different view. what we have seen is this concern from congress about the saudi record when it comes to human rights. at the same time, this administration has a loyalty so strong they have defied congress repeatedly. for example, the president used his veto power to reject legislation that would have ended u.s. the part for the saudi led conflict in yemen. the president later vetoed legislation to block a weapons sale to saudi arabia. therehis administration, is an unwavering defense of saudi arabia, even as the u.s. congress is infuriated by these actions. anchor: thank you very much. un-authoring and a specialist on middle eastern golf issues joins me via washington. do you anticipate congress will continue to put pressure on the white house to do more over the al-jabri case, despite the incoherence of the u.s. response overall, as kimberly was describing? and i

and the implication your company was somehow involved in the training of those who murdered jamal khashoggi and you're telling us here today you at first you said noud no recollection of it, and you said there was maybe something. would you like to clarify this matter? i find it incredibly hard to believe that a five person board of this company would not have had a fire drill when this allegation arose. >> yeah, senator, listen, you know, to be absolutely clear on the issue i just don't recall the specifics about it. i'm not trying to hide any investigation that we may have done or not done. understanding how we approach these sort of things has me sort of thinking that it's very likely that we did do some form of investigation, likely even had a discussion at the board level. i can go back and look at the details on that andbroid that to both you and senator kaine in full disclosure. it's just, you know, i'm involved in a lot of different corporate matters, a lot of different boards. in that particular instance i cannot recall the specifics about it. >> thank you, and i know senator kaine

washington the hit men were allegedly sent by mohammed bin sound money just days after janis jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018. is seeking damages from the crown prince for allegedly orchestrating an attempted extrajudicial killing and for violating international law might can or is following the story from washington and joins us now what does that also claim mike. well it's an extensive lawsuit over $106.00 pages lays down to the argument from the fact that the saudi crown prince was responsible for the skewed squad sent them to the united states together before attempting to enter canada to carry out the killing side our job breeze arguing very strongly as well that the crown prince was in communication with him after he left saudi arabia and took up residence in canada he received a number of messages from the saudi crown prince at 1st asking him to return to aid with the transition following the departure of the previous crown prince but then he started getting threatening messages messages saying as well that he was going to be dealt wi

the hit men were allegedly sent by muhammad and son just days after journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul and october 28th now they failed to get past the borders toronto's airport but also alleges that algebra is life remains in di apparel. seeking damages from the crown prince for allegedly orchestrating an attempted judicial killing and for violating international law well for more let's now speak to our correspondent mike hanna who's in washington d.c. mike just what do we know about what's in the store cers. well along with what you said in the introduction there the case has been issued here in the district court in d.c. sought out job 3 was believed to have had strong connections to u.s. intelligence he served as a senior official in saudi arabia for a long period of time and then left that country back in may 2800 and went to turkey 1st and then canada where he took up residence in october as you mentioned he received warnings it is said that a saudi hit squad was after him this is at the same time as jamal khashoggi was murdered in istanbul

that tier one group trained saudis were involved in the assassination of jamal khashoggi. it would seem like that would be the kind of public news that might make an organization say we should at least check and see whether this is true. but i just want to be clear about it, as of today, you do not know whether the tier one group has conducted any investigation to determine whether there's any truth to these multiple public reports? >> senator, i will give you my commitment to go back and check the record op on this. -- record on this. it is my recollection that we may have not. i may be mistaken. we have a culture at compliance in cerberus. that culture is pushed down into our portfolio companies. as i think about it in real-time, i think it is probably likely we did do some sort of investigation. i don't recall the specifics on that. i will come back to you with more full answer. >> i would ask for the record there was an investigation and what was disclosed. thank you, mr. chair, i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you for being here. one to follow up on some o

ciad ignatius warnenethe and other groups that tier one employees may have trained some of jamal khashoggi's killers. on senator tim kaine asked thursday, bremer about the allegations. nationalsned saudi and other nations as well, but i have no knowledge of that. >> until today, you had not been aware that an allegation had been made that a country does company on which you sit as a inector had been involved training sallies who were participants in the murdeder of jamal khashoggi. >> i do not t have any recognitn of that -- recollection of that. amy: meanwhilelea former top saudi intelligence official exiled in canada said in a lawsuit filed thursday that crown prince mohammed bin salman sent a hit squad to toronto to hunt him down and kill him. the 106-page complaint was filed by saad aljabri in u.s. civil court. it claims prince bin salman tried to hide his corrupt busisiness deaealings by orderig aljabri'i's assassination. president trump has issued two sweeping executive orders thatat would ban n the use o of the che ,wnedd apps s tikt and we chat citing national security reasons. or th

by mohammed bin selma and just days after jenna's jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018 the attorneys general of new york and washington d.c. of announce a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the national rifle association there accusing the organizations lead as a financial mismanagement the n.r.a. is described the lawsuit as a baseless premeditated attack and is countersuing the new york attorney general if he should james for violating their right to free speech and the number of covert 1000 cases in africa suppose 1000075 percent of the continent's infections are from just 5 countries as concern that many cases are going on recorded because of a lack of testing i want to when he says coming up next investigating the forces at play in russia's brutal mixed martial arts scene. 3 tensions could cause economic growth by $700000000000.00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the government in a shift of focus from saving lives to saving the economy. counting the cost on al-jazeera. in russia and him a

happened the plan to can kill saddam jobbery around the time of the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi what will what sort of questions is this going to raise i think what i think the real question that we're seeing here is that this is most likely that you didn't really explain for why saudi arabia severed the. yes i can hear your meat but what i mean yeah yeah we can we can still hear you sorry for that i think there might have been a bit of interference in the show please continue. yes i was saying that when canada and saudi arabia had their biggest diplomatic crisis it was supposedly over the canadian ambassador's criticism of human rights violations and. saudi arabia but i think that the real story that we're seeing emerging now is that side of arabia severed relations were counted out because canada foiled a plot to kill all jobber in canada and i think that that's the real story going forward and how is that likely to plan out. well i think that here in the united states it has already been established what kind of an actor side arabia under a prince mohammed is and we know but

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sagal jobbery says that the home had been solomon sent the same so-called hit squad the murder jamal khashoggi to kill him in canada in a rare rebuke of the kingdom the state department praised and demanded answers about the safety of his children who went missing in saudi arabia in march it's the latest test of president donald trump staunch support for been salmond al-jazeera as mike hanna reports from washington. patrick leahy was one of 4 senators who sent a letter to the white house last month in the letter the senators express their concern about what they call the abduction in saudi arabia of sadat jobbery son and daughter. in his court filing our jobbery said his children now aged 20 and 21 were being held as what he called human bait to lure him out of hiding the state department has now responded to the senator's concerns in a letter to senator leahy it describes jobbery as a valued partner to the u.s. government working closely with the u.s. to ensure the safety of americans and saudis it also states that any persecution of family members is unacceptable adding that it has made repe

intelligence as you should let's talk every man about the 2018 murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi operatives in istanbul with the 15 that trump decided to stand by the saudi leadership and even wrote their excuse for them suggesting it was a rogue operation but it wasn't a rogue operation was a. well you know i'm not going to get into. the intelligence that the united states had on that i can say the president decided that he was going to stand by the saudis and. because of the importance of the relationship. that position i think was. was in a way verified by vladimir putin in a conversation i had with him in moscow he said but you don't want to sell weapons to the saudis you don't have to i'd be happy to sell it is that what it really comes down to who is going to be able to sell weapons to whom you gave a free pass to a government that brazenly chops up its political opponents in other people's countries not just to the saudis but to every other state the u.s. does big business with but tortures and murders its own people doesn't that worry you. well you know is when c

that the team targetting dr al—jabri was part of a squad of agents that two weeks earlier killed jamal khashoggi commented. india has become the third country in the world to surpass two million confirmed coronavirus infections, after the us and brazil. more than 41,000 people have died. the government argues that the fatality rate in india is among the lowest in the world and the recovery rate is more than 65%. hong kong police have arrested 25 activists, who took part in a banned vigil to mark the anniversary of china's tiananmen square crackdown. democracy campaigners joshua wong andjimmy lai were charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly. authorities cancelled the event, citing coronavirus concerns, just before beijing imposed a new security law on hong kong. we're joined now by our correspondent in hong kong, danny vincent. just bring us up—to—date with the latest, what is happening there? every single year in hong kong thousands of hong kong is take to victoria park to essentially pay their respects to the people who died in the 1989 crackdown. according to the authorities, thousand

intelligence as you should let's talk if we may about the 2800 murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi operatives in istanbul october the 15th decided to stand by the saudi leadership and even wrote their excuse for them suggesting it was a rogue operation but it wasn't a rogue operation was a. well you know i'm not going to get into. the intelligence that the united states had on that i can say the president decided that he was going to stand by the saudis and. because of the importance of the relationship. that position i think was. it was in a way verified by vladimir putin in a conversation i had with him in moscow he said brooke you don't want to sell weapons to the saudis you don't have to i'd be happy to sell it is that what it really comes down to who is going to be able to sell weapons to whom you gave a free pass to a government that brazenly chops up its political opponents and other people's countries not just to the saudis but to every other state the u.s. does big business with but does its own people doesn't that worry you. well you know as when it in churchill

let's talk if we may about the 2800 murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi operatives in istanbul october the 15th that decided to stand by the saudi leadership and even wrote their excuse for them suggesting it was a rogue operation but it wasn't a rogue operation was a. well you know i'm not going to get into. the intelligence that the united states had on that i can say that the president decided that he was going to stand by the saudis and. because of the importance of the relationship. that position i think. it was in a way verified by vladimir putin in a conversation i had with him in moscow he said look you don't want to sell weapons to the saudis you don't have to i'd be happy to sell it is that what it really comes down to who is going to be able to sell weapons to whom you gave a free pass to a government that brazenly chops up its political opponents and other people's countries not just to the saudis but to every other state the u.s. does big business with but there's its own people doesn't that worry you. well you know i was once the churchill said if. the

that the team targetting dr aljabri was part of a squad of agents that two weeks earlier killed jamal khashoggi not yet commented. sri lanka's president, gota baya raja pa ksa, has secured a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary election. results so far suggest he's close to a two—thirds majority as he seeks to formally install his elder brother as prime minister. 0ur correspondent, anbarasan ethirajan, has the details. president gota baya rajapa ksa's sri lanka people's front has won a landslide victory in parliament elections. the results so far indicate that mr rajapaksa, seen here during his campaign, has taken his party close to a two—thirds majority. he wants to install his elder brother, mahinda, as prime minister. we were very certain about this great win, but however we can see that people have placed a lot of confidence on us because they have accepted the future plan we have placed before them in our manifesto. the opposition has been routed — they had no answers to the rajapa ksa juggernaut. the majority of singular masses, if you look at the southern province, more than

let's talk if we may about the 2800 murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi operatives in istanbul october the 15th that decided to stand by the saudi leadership and even wrote their excuse for them suggesting it was a rogue operation but it wasn't a rogue operation was a. well you know i'm not going to get into. the intelligence that the united states had on that i can say that the president decided that he was going to stand by the saudis and. because of the importance of the relationship. that position i think wins. in a way verified by vladimir putin in a conversation i had with him in moscow he said look you don't want to sell weapons to the saudis you don't have to i'd be happy to sell it is that what it really comes down to who's going to be able to sell weapons to whom you gave a free pass to a government that brazenly chops up its political opponents and other people's countries and not just to the saudis but to every other state the u.s. does big business with but tortures and murders its own people doesn't that worry you. well you know is when it in churchill

a crime scene so this very similar almost a mirror image of the operation in which journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in istanbul so extensive detail. within these court papers pointing directly to the crown prince as being allegedly responsible given the fact that the target was a was in there the alleged target i should say was in canada at the time why is this lawsuit being brought in the united states. firstly because there is legislation in the united states that allows a non us citizen to bring a legal action against a foreign national who is accused of torture and or extrajudicial executions so that is one reason the legislation is in place but also in his court papers sardar chabria insists that the hit team did gather in the united states before attempting to enter canada and then the last point which is very important as well in the court papers i'll jump free says that his son and daughter have been detained in saudi arabia by saudi authorities in what he describes as a form of hunger bait bait to lure him out of hiding now this has been an issue here in d.c. s

and their image of the hit squad that is believed to have murdered and dismembered journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in 2018 i know that there are women. all over the world in germany and france and be noticing character. really basic run away from sort of because there. are questions from the government which is. one of them is omar up the legacy is also resident in canada mentioned in the court filing as another potential target of assassination and who posted this video in reaction to the news the case has been brought in terms of legislation that allows non us citizens to take action in federal courts against foreign individuals who have committed torture and or extra judicial killings in addition side algebra he argues that the hit squad assembled in the united states before attempting to enter canada saddle japanese children now aged $20.21 are being held at an undisclosed location in saudi arabia as what he describes as human bait to draw him out of hiding last month 4 senators sent a letter to president trump saying the u.s. had a moral obligation to press saudi authorities for t

individuals opponents to the crown prince and could also have been involved in the murder of jamal khashoggi in the 20 $1018.00 so exhaustive detail in terms of the crown prince's activities dr saeed algebra he was also a intelligence official within saudi arabia he served the previous crown prince mohammed bin nayef and says in the court papers that he left saudi arabia becoming concerned that a coup was being planned indeed that then happened and bamber been selman subsequently sent him a series of text messages which are contained in the court papers asking him to come back to saudi arabia to assist with the transition and then increasingly threatening him with assassination if he did not return so certainly this is the most exhaustive and detailed claims against the crown prince yet made. so those the allegations just tell us briefly why the case was filed in the u.s. rather than canada. well the our number of u.s. laws that enable this to happen of the torture victims protection act for example which this case is brought under allows for non-u.s. individuals to bring civil action agains

kill a dissident of cool so should saudi activists in exile be warry they risk the same fate as jamal khashoggi this is a story. hello and welcome to the program on the wrong can a man with close ties to the saudi royal family falls out with the crown prince and goes into exile and he's targeted with assassination it sounds like.

a dissident a group so should saudi activists in exile be worried they risk the same fate as jamal khashoggihere isn't so story. hello and welcome to the program on imran khan a man with close ties to the saudi royal family falls out with the crown prince and goes into exile.

kill a dissident abroad so should saudi activists in exile be worried they risk the same fate as jamal khashoggi is it's a story. hello and welcome to the program on the wrong amount of the.

let's talk if we may about the 2800 murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi operatives in istanbul october the 15th that decided to stand by the saudi leadership and even wrote their excuse for them suggesting it was a rogue operation but it wasn't a rogue operation was a. well you know i'm not going to get into. the intelligence that the united states had on that i can say that the president decided that he was going to stand by the saudis and. because of the importance of the relationship. that position i think when he. was in a way verified by vladimir putin in a conversation i had with him in moscow he said but you don't want to sell weapons to the saudis you don't have to i'd be happy to sell it is that what it really comes down to who's going to be able to sell weapons to whom you gave a free pass to a government that brazenly chops up its political opponents a lot of people's countries not just to the saudis but to every other state the u.s. does big business with but tortures and murders its own people doesn't that worry you. well you know i was once the churchi

officials in canada the hit man who reportedly sent by mohammed bin some money just days after janice jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018 jobbery is seeking damages from the crown prince for allegedly orchestrating an attempted extrajudicial killing and for violating international law the attorneys general of new york and washington d.c. of announced a lawsuit saying that dissolving the national rifle association or accusing the organizations leaders of financial misconduct and undermining its ability to operate as a nonprofit group the n.r.a. has described the lawsuit as a baseless premeditated attack while u.s. president donald trump has also slammed the move. that's a very. terrible thing that just happened i think the n.r.a. should move to texas. and lead a very good as beautiful life. and i've told them that for a long time i think they should move to texas texas would be a great place for it to another state of their choosing without a better use the president there is saying that several u.s. nationals have been detained in the run up to the coun

and their image of the hit squad that is believed to have murdered and dismembered journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in 2018 i know that there are women. all over the world in germany in france somebody notice character. basic run away from sort of area because there. are questions from the government which is. one of them is omar up the legacy is also resident in canada mentioned in the court filing as another potential target of assassination and who posted this video in reaction to the news the case has been brought in terms of legislation that allows non us citizens to take action in federal courts against foreign individuals who have committed torture and or extra judicial killings in addition side algebra he argues that the hit squad assembled in the united states before attempting to enter canada saddle japanese children now aged $20.21 are being held at an undisclosed location in saudi arabia as what he describes as human bait to draw him out of hiding last month 4 senators sent a letter to president trump saying the u.s. had a moral obligation to press saudi authorities for thei

brian washington it men were allegedly sent by mohammed bin so money just days after journalist jamal khashoggi was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october 2018 jobbery is seeking damages from the crown prince for allegedly orchestrating an attempted extrajudicial killing and for violating international law my counter is for following the story from washington and joins us now tell us more about the claims within the lawsuit. well it's $106.00 pages in this particular lawsuit a that goes into extensive detail about the composition of the celeb hit squad the names of the individuals involved and the links between mohamed have been solved and the crown prince and those who allegedly was sent to assassinate side are jobbery he also speaks about a number of text messages that were sent from the crown prince to him which started off by asking him to return to saudi arabia to ease the transition between himself and the former crown prince and then it escalated into a series of threat saying that. would be dealt with in one way or another so it is exhaustive detail in terms of this

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