the journalist who vanished after entering the site of the consulate and the pictures shows jamal khashoggi assad he said so and a critic of the country's royal family walking into riyadh consulate in istanbul a week ago has not been seen since turkish authorities pointed the finger at the site of government suggesting a fifteen month a hit squad may have been sent from the kingdom to the to the reporter riyadh denies allegations. on tuesday sidey authorities granted permission for turkey to search the consulate and cry has launched an investigation into his disappearance fifty nine year old cars shocking a left side of a pit for the u.s. last year. he wrote for the washington post and had his own column critical of the saudi regime to show he was visiting the consulate to obtain wedding documents donald trump says he will question the ad on the. prison. but i will be. at some point when i know nothing really to know what everybody else knows now the issue though is wearing growing numbers of politicians on capitol hill a number of u.s. senators have already blamed saudi arabia for the incident a

jamal khashoggi the u.s. treasury department has hit iran with with a new round of sanctions is accusing a faction of iran's military of recruiting child soldiers to fight the bashar al assad's regime in syria the latest u.s. measures primarily target the resistance force an arm of the revolutionary guard washington also impose sanctions on a network of businesses that it says were financing the machines including iran's militant bank as well as money foreign companies was in jordan reports from washington d.c. . the sanctions that are due to be re-imposed in november it would be the second tranche there was an initial reimposition of sanctions earlier in the year by the united states against iran after the trumpet ministration decided that it was going to pull out of the iran nuclear deal because it said that this deal was not going to prevent to han from trying to continue to develop nuclear weapons the u.s. has interest in iran isn't just about nuclear weapons it's also about trying to cut off its influence particularly across the middle east and trying to make certain that it's not engaging in what the u.s. says are egregious human rights abuses including as part of this

assad. stamboul was politically motivated. our security and intelligence services are still analyzing the info they have it's already clear that the murder of jamal khashoggi was drowned since this is a political assassination also cause the inclusion of possible foreign accomplices . of the saudi royal family has met with the saudis son and brother to express condolences the journalist's eldest son was pictured shaking hands with the saudi crown prince who is suspected of orchestrating the killing of his father he later left saudi arabia for washington according to sources the us president this week condemned the cover up of of the murder but still stressed the importance of continued weapons sales to riyadh. cover-up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. so he really has been a really great ally they said one of the biggest investors maybe the biggest investor in our country. they are doing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investments and you know so many jobs so many jobs thousands and thousands of jobs they've been fun to go a lot of things were from statement that was met with huge criticism by some. refusing to cancel multi-billio

jamal khashoggi was killed by saudi arabia. >> our moral credibility, our ability to all putin a murderer because he is, our ability to call assaduse he is, our ability to confront maduro in venezuela or human rights atrocities like we see in china, all of that is compromised if we decide because an ally who is important did, that we're not going to call it out. >>> as calls for north korea to denuclearize with varying degrees of success, president trump opened up about the trustworthiness of the north korean dictator. >> do you trust him? >> i do trust him, yeah. >> why would you trust him? >> if i didn't trust him, i wouldn't say that to you. the fact is i do trust him. but we'll see what happens. >> they may even be building more me feissiles. >> they're closing up sites. nobody really knows. people are saying that. i've actually said that. >> what if they're still building more missiles? >> we don't really know. let's say the answer is yes, okay? >> top u.s. officials including john bolton have said previously that kim's regime continues to produce nuclear fuel at secret sites and is actively trying to deceive the internatio

jamal khashoggi is no longer alive. a turkish official tells cnn his body was cut into pieces after his death. this disturbing news comes after cnn news reported that the assad reese were prepar -- saudis were prepared to add miss that khashoggi was killed by accident. moments ago the president of the united states tweeted out he spoke with the crown prince of arabia, mbs, who denies any knowledge of what took place at the turkish consulate. the tweet comes hours after republican senator lindsey graham said this. >> i've been their biggest defender on the floor of the united states senate. this guy is a wrecking ball. he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey. to expect me to ignore it, i feel used and abused. i was on the floor every time defending saudi arabia. there's a difference between a country and an individual. the mbs figure is to me toxic. he can never be a world leader on the world stage. saudi arabia, if you're listening, there are a lot of good people you can choose but mbs has tainted your country and tainted yourself. >> let's go to john defterios. john, you see there tweet from trump. he is reiterating the denials from the saudis and