he has worked for king abdullah directly. he has worked for the late king. face of king abdullah in the united states with the u.s. government. king abdullah has come down on very hard on bashir's and see syria as one of their key agent and i can tell you right now that the tuz government, intelligence government all keeping a very close eye on iran, how much they are backing bashir al assad and how much they are backing him and the potential successors to him. if the iranians feel that bashir al assad can no longer control his own country, they want a say in who may be succeed him, who may come after bashir al assad because it's crucial to iran's military and international community to keep syria this their ball court and that's something that they don't want to see happen. >> barbara, thank you. ahmadinejad laughed this off and called it a child's story. i want to bring in peter bergen who is now on the phone. the target that we keep talking about is al jaber, the saudi ambassador to the u.s. you know him. >> he's arguably one of the most important people

this is a decision that will be left had up to king abdullah.ew days ago there's been a lot of speculation about his health as well and for a while now, people have wondered what's going to happen when the current generation, these are the sons of the first king of saudi arabia, these current rulers of saudi arabia, become too old to rule, when it will it become the next generation of leaders this ascend the higher a kirk people younger? currently the people appointed king of is saudi arabia have all been sons of the original king, king abdul aziz a lol lot of royal intrigue, power intrigue in saudi arabia, people wound what happened. king abdullah seemed to be progressive, seemed to be more from a more liberal camp in saudi arabia. crown prince sultan and his brother, the second deputy premiere, the interior minister, are seemed to be prom a more conservative wing of the royal family and this power struggle the last few years between the more progressive wing of the royal family and the more conservative wing of the royal family. they are all v

as i point out, very close to king abdullah. he's flying from washington to saudi arabia almost every other week to brief the king personally on the latest developments. let's continue our breaking news coverage right now with our national security contributor, fran townsend. she serves on the external advisory boards of both the cia and homeland security department as well as the former fbi assistant director tom fuentes. i want to get to both of you in just a moment, but i'm just learning that jason carroll is outside the court house in new york where the suspect, manssor arbabsiar, is about to be arraigned in this courthouse. jason, what do we know? >> reporter: let me set the scene for you here, wolf. basically this was a procedural sort of event what we saw at the courthouse here today and we got our first look at manssor arbabsiar. he wore blue jeans, he wore a blue plaid shirt, he was basically looking somewhat relaxed as he entered the courtroom. he spoke briefly with his attorney before the proceeding got under way again

you are going to pay for king abdullah's welfare programs and you're going to pay for king abdullah'sarships. before the unrest in the middle east this year, the saudis calculated that the budgetary needs could be met if oil stayed at or above approximately $68 a barrel. but now according to wikileaks, on the expensive subsidies to pay for, saudi but you only be balanced if the price of oil is at least $88 this year, and $115 i 2015. so you can see the relationship here between arms sales, oil prices, political stability and financial insecurity i in the country such as this. i want to bring my remarks to a close by quoting from a recent article in britain's daily telegraph newspaper which warned my heart. under the headline grabbing banner without history we have own ignorance. [laughter] columnist jenny mccartney noted that in britain today fewer and fewer school students are taking history as a subject. indeed she said they're being actively discouraged from taking a subject that is perceived to be too hard. history is the most inescapable of subjects she bought. we inherited, we m

he is very close to king abdullah. he was close to crown prince abdullah.sumed the monarchy when i visited for the first counterterrorism conference had. fran town send was representing the united states. it was clear that adel al-jubeir was telling crown prince about dull what who the guests were and what they did, guiding him through the basically the people attending the conference. 1:00 one thing, erin that struck me in the indictment, which if you read refers to a restaurant in washington where the attack was supposed to happen. senators were going to be there, 100, 150 people killed potentially. that corresponds to georgetown, where have met ambassador adel al-jubeir on a number of occasions in the past. the universal restaurants in washington where somebody like this would go routinely and they correspond to the indictment really does suggest it is cafe milano in georgetown. >> oh, wow. i want to read out of the complaint the words used when talking about killing. as you said possibly 100 casualties burhanuddin rabbani. if the hundred go with him exp

>> erin, ambassador jordan described how he is close to king abdullah. and talked about how adel al-jubeir is based in washington, d.c. he spends a tremendous amount of time in riyadh and involved in almost every high-level meeting the king has there. it is clear adel al-jubeir is no run of the mill diplomate. he's seen as a right hand man and dee foreign adviser to king abdullah. and that according to jordan makes him a target to some degree. >> thank you very much. >>> now to atlanta to learn more about a large german satellite, which is plunging back to earth. this is the second satellite to fall and hit within the last month which is why i'm wondering what is going on tonight. what are the chances this hits somebody? in. >> erin, it's a big satellite and many pieces will hit the ground. that's what it looks like right now. it won't look like that as it burns up and hits the ground. the risk of it hitting anyone in the world, one in 2,000. multiply that by the population of the world and the chance of you getting hit is one in 13 trillion. this is a bi

he is very close to king abdullah. he was close to crown prince abdullah.for the first counterterrorism conference had. fran town send was representing the united states. it was clear that adel al-jubeir was telling crown prince about dull what who the guests were and what they did, guiding him through the basically the people attending the conference. 1:00 one thing, erin that struck me in the indictment, which if you read refers to a restaurant in washington where the attack was supposed to happen. senators were going to be there, 100, 150 people killed potentially. that corresponds to georgetown, where have met ambassador adel al-jubeir on a number of occasions in the past. the universal restaurants in washington where somebody like this would go routinely and they correspond to the indictment really does suggest it is cafe milano in georgetown. >> oh, wow. i want to read out of the complaint the words used when talking about killing. as you said possibly 100 casualties burhanuddin rabbani. if the hundred go with him expletive them. which is showing how

but king abdullah quickly revoked it.r, there's a cynical way of looking at it and an optimistic way. the cynical way, king abdullah is looking around at the arab spring saying what can we do to appease saudi arabian? far more optimistic, he really is reforming. look at king and his history of reform, trying his very bence against the conservatives with his own government. >> how much pressure was he under in allowing women to vote and you say he acted quickly to save this woman who was charged with driving. was he under pressure to commute his sentence as well? >> under pressure from women, remember, from the more conservative insisting woman should not drive. 's in a saudi arabian woman, they're you're seeing her driving, punishable by lashing. so she is rebelling against the law. up until june of this year, if a woman wanted to buy lingerie, a bra and panties, she would have to buy it from a male sales person. so in joune or july of this yea, king abdullah said at least female associates can sell in stores. reform is c

so for him, this is huge for king abdullah who is seen as a reformer. by quickly revoking the lashings for the woman who was accused of driving and then getting ten lashes, again, it shows he's looking to reform. remember, in 2011, up until june of this year, almost, if a woman walked into a store and wanted to buy a bra and panties, she had to do it from a man sales associate. what he's done is said women can at least sell lingerie to each other. >> okay. now, you said there's a cynical view there and we still have to wait some four years before women can actually vote. but for the most part -- i mean, this is some immediate -- not immediate action, bus it was pretty quick and immediate action by him. >> women feel very much this is a sign things are going to change. he's a little bit between a rock and a hard place. he would like to bring about much more reform. barbara walters interviewed him in around 2005. he said he would like women to be able to drive. he has the opposition within his own government. so we're seeing a big change. but i spoke to a

he is very close to king abdullah. for the first counterterrorism conference that saudi arabia had. fran was there representing the united states. it was very clear when you attended the conference that adel al jubeir was telling the crown prince at the time who the guests were, what they did, really kind of guiding him through the basically the people attending the conference. one thing, erin, that struck me in the indictment. if you read it, it refers to a restaurant in washington where it was suppose today happen. senators were going to be there, 100 to 150 people killed potentially. i think that corresponds -- i've met ambassadors on a number of occasions in the past. so the universe of restaurants in washington where somebody like this would go routinely and correspond pend to the indictment really does suggest it was cafe milan in georgetown. >> for those, peter, just tuning in, read to them out of the complaint. the words used when talking about killing as you said possibly a hundred casualties from. if the hund

>> erin, ambassador jordan described how he is close to king abdullah. l al-jubeir is based in washington, d.c. he spends a tremendous amount of time in riyadh and involved in almost every high-level meeting the king has there. it is clear adel al-jubeir is no run of the mill diplomate. he's seen as a right hand man and dee foreign adviser to king abdullah. and that according to jordan makes him a target to some degree. >> thank you very much. >>> now to atlanta to learn more about a large german satellite, which is plunging back to earth. this is the second satellite to fall and hit within the last month which is why i'm wondering what is going on tonight. what are the chances this hits somebody? in. >> erin, it's a big satellite and many pieces will hit the ground. that's what it looks like right now. it won't look like that as it burns up and hits the ground. the risk of it hitting anyone in the world, one in 2,000. multiply that by the population of the world and the chance of you getting hit is one in 13 trillion. this is a big satellite, though. one

. >> tensions have been high in jordan where king abdullah dismissed his cabinet for a second time thisappointed a new prime minister jordan suffers from high poverty, unemployment, inflation and a large budget deficit. leoni lakhani looks at jordan's most pressing issues today. >> reporter: mirroring the causes of their arab neighbors, jordanians took to the streets in a series of protests this year, calling for the government to tackle corruption and the high cost of living. while the protests have not been on the same scale of other countries in the region, they have forced jordan's king abdullah to dissolve the cabinet twice since january and push for economic reforms. in the heart of amman, life goes on. beneath the surface, there's frustration, the cost of food and fuel are rocketing and the population is heavily reliant on subsidies. 20% of jordan's budge set spent on subsidies, a high price for a country where the government's debt eats up more than half of its gdp. now in a season of revolution, jord jordan, like the rest of the regi region, are under pressure to heed the welfa

who is close to the king abdullah and was a recent guest here on cnn and he's well known behind the scenes. he plays an active role in promoting saudi interest in washington throughout the united states. he goes back to the kingdom all the time to brief the king and top officials of what is going on. he's well known. not a huge surprise that he's somebody that the iranian government, president ahmadinejad would hate, because the saudis and iranians have had a tough relationship over the years. the saudis are deeply concerned about iran's nuclear program and worry that it would endanger the saudi kingdom. there's a huge rivalry between iran and saudi as a result. it's a huge development when you see them make these allegations against the iranian government, that the al quds were directly involved in plotting an assassination against the saudi ambassador to the u.s. brooke? >> i want to run down the counts. conspiracy to murder a foreign official, foreign travel and use of interstate and foreign commerce in the murder-for-hire, to engage in foreign travel and use interstate facilities in th

jubeir not only the saudi ambassador to the united states he's a trusted foreign policy adviser to king abdullah, explain why, why al jubeir? >> there's no question that he was not merely an ambassador which would have been important enough, and certainly sufficient for the crime but his relationship is one that goes back decades, john. and before he was the embassy, he was the national security adviser to the foreign policy to the king and before that, when the king was the crowned prince, he travels on almost every foreign t foreign tripoli with the king, acts as the king's translate somewhere he's not polishing the king's prose to a foreign leader but also managing the message back to the king. he's got tremendous, tremendous influential. and that's not lost. he's been an outspoken on the tension between the saudi and the iranian regimes and iranian misdeeds. he's a very much -- more than just an individual, he's a strategic target because of his close relationship with the saudi king. >> hala, we're having this conversation about a potential terrorist plot -- it is unbelievable if they broug

. >> and king abdullah has named a successor after the death of his brother, the crown prince. last week. >> and now news of a -- we use the word thrilling too often in sports. >> you can use that word with impunity. it was almost the gridiron score, 10- against the texas rangers in game six of baseball's world series. head to win to keep the world series alive. it's 3-3 going into friday's decisive game seven. that's a local boy as well to make the schedule more terrific. queuing massive celebration on philadelphia? . they were down during that game. he said keep it simple. it's a tense moment. he's a local lad. he says remember baseball is a simple game and it's exactly the same game i played when i was a 6-year-old. >> we tied that up. we just kept battling. we have to find our team, the way we kept coming back. we've been doing that for a long time. and -- >> so today 24 hours later than scheduled because it rained so much yesterday and today, winner takes all. >> you are watching "bbc world news" world news. coming up, lifting the curtain after a six-year break. well one o

a key foreign policy adviser to king abdullah and we have the shia/sunni tensions in iran. >> adel al jubeir has been with the king when he was crown prince, he's been his fp director for decades. he travels on every foreign trip and he continues to and he's the king's translator. he's influential beyond being the u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia. on the shia/sunni tensions saudi arabia came to the defense of the bahrain regime. that's really a sunni minority -- a shia majority rising up against the bahraini sunni royal family. and the sunnis -- the sunni royal family in saudi arabia came to their defense. why? because they believe that bahrain is a proxy fight between the sunnis in saudi arabia and the shia of iran. so this will only serve to heighten those tensions right now. and there's a substantial shia majority in the eastern province of saudi arabia. in the 1980s iran and the shia were part of an attempt to overthrow the al sauds as part of the hajj, the royal pilgrimage. that's coming up now. the timing of this is very important in terms of the shia/sunni tensions. >> the stake

says this man was the target, the saudi ambassador, a close aide to king abdullah, sent to washington after see september 11 attacks to help repair the king's image. one of the attackers was arrested last month. officials say he initially cooperated with authorities and made contact with another suspect, now said to be in iran. saudis say the evidence of official iranian responsibility is overwhelming. the gulf cooperation council of regional states has also condemned the plots. tehran has angrily denied the allegations, calling them ridiculous. the foreign ministry says the u.s. is trying to sow discord between iran and saudi arabia. >> let's go live to washington and our correspondent there, max hoffman. americans are saying that the plot goes all the way to the top. what does that mean for american-iranian relations? >> it means that the americans see this as a case of state- sponsored terrorism and that they will try everything to build pressure on the iranian government. that is why vice-president biden said today that all options are on the table, and the speaker of the white ho

the so for him this is huge, for king abdullah who is seen as a reform earp.gain, it shows he's look iingo reform. now remember that in 2011 if a woman walked into -- well, up until june of this year almost, if a woman walked into a store and want ed ed to buy a bra and panties, she had to do it from a man sales associate. the what he's done is said women can at least sell lingerie to each other. >> okay. is this -- you say there's a cynical view there and we still have to wait some four years before women can actually vote. but, for the most part, i mean, this is some immediate -- not immediate action but it was pretty quick action and repetitive action by him. is this a sign of things will change? >> women feel it is a sign things are going to change and that king abdullah, and, again, he's between a rock and a hard place. he would like to bring back more reform. barbara walters interviewed him in 2005. he said he would like women to be able to drive. he has the opposition within his own government. so we're seeing a big change. but i spoke to a muslim right

the royal family and line of secession in saudi arab, the world's top oil exporter. 87-year-old king abdullah left a hospital. but the heir died in a hospital. the cause was believed to be colon cancer. expected to become the new crowned prince and prine nayev, the ultraconservative interior minister who controls the police. a circle of friends is helping some people in poverty move beyond despair. mixed messages from occupy wall street where protesters debate a list of demands, and mitt romney is missing in iowa tonight. still, the republican presidential contender says he'll win over conservatives in the hawkeye state. those stories when the cbs evening news continues. >> nevada republicans gave way today and shifted their presidential caucuses from january 14 back to the original february 4 date. the move had scrambled the election calendar and some of the republican candidates had threatened to boycott the earlier date. iowa is where six of the republican presidential contenders will be tonight for a gathering of the state's christian conservatives, but the leader of the field won't be th

an alleged $1.5 million plot to assassinate saudi arabia's ambassador, a veteran diplomat and king abdullah's right hand man by blowing him up in a washington restaurant and bombing the saudi embassy in washington. u.s. officials tell nbc news a secondary plot was to target israel's embassy in washington. the accused, an iranian-born u.s.-citizen, manssor arbabsiar, was arraigned in manhattan this afternoon. a co-conspirator named in the indictment remains at large. but the administration says iran's government was behind it all. >> the plan alleges this conspiracy was conceived, sponsored and was directed from iran. >> arbabsiar was arrested 12 days ago and has been cooperating ever since. when pressed, even u.s. officials acknowledge it sounds leak a cheap thriller. according to the complaint, since last spring, arbabsiar met in mexico with a man he thought was a member of a drug cartel, trying to hire an assassin to kill the saudi diplomat. but from the start, the mexican was an agent for the u.s. government. the iranian even got $100,000 supposedly wired from iran to the u.s. as a downpay

he was first in line to succeed his half brother king abdullah paving the way for his controversial youngerrother to take the throne. an american diver killed in an apparent great white shark attack in australia. police say it happened near a popular tourist spot off the rottnest island in the west part of the country and the investigators are withholding the identity. the 32-year-old man was diving by himself at the time of the attack. i'm jamie colby, keep is here on fox. back to cavuto on business, see you in 30 minutes for more headlines. headlines. >> well, a dictator goes down, but stocks barely went up on the day he goes down. news of strong man muammar gaddafi hit the streets and he was dead on the streets and wall street not batting an eye. charles payne, you said they're focusing on a different war. >> yeah, the war on success and america is too much. the night before winn casino reported earnings and steve wynn went off and talking about war on achievement in this country and businesses and why the market has been grinding its gear. this is a time when getting gaddafi and would h

between our two countries and on behalf of the american people, i extend my deepest condolences to king abdullah, the royal family, and the people of saudi arabia. >>> and libya's new leaders are preparing to declare liberation tomorrow while thousands spent their saturday in line to see the body of the former dictator and we want to warn you some of the footage is graphic. here's more from libya tonight. >> i a very, very bizarre scene -- >> a very, very bizarre scene. these men and children lining up to go inside this meat locker and cold storm room to see the man, the dictator who ruled them for decades. moammar ghadafi and his son laid aught on a dirty mattress on the floor inside the storm room after being killed on thursday. the people are saying god is great. >> this is the end of this. he ruled us for 42 years and now he's laying here like a mad dog inform oop happy to see that ghadafi is dead. this is the feeling of the libyan people. >> reporter: that have been fighting the regime the past few -- past few months and are pleased with what they see. they're satisfied their country is now

obama's national security advisor tom donelan flew to saudi arabia two weeks ago to inform saudi king abdullah about this assassination attempt on one of his closest advisors and today the treasury department announced new financial sanctions against the islamic revolutionary guard corps. already, of course, the target of heavy sanctions because of their role in the nuclear program. now the u.s. government is targeting five individuals and freezing their assets. >> pelley: norah, thank you. as bob orr mentioned earlier, the plot was allegedly run by the secretive iranian military group called the quds force. we asked liz palmer in london to tell us more. liz? >> reporter: well, scott, the quds force is a sort of subdivision of the iranian revolutionary guard, thought to be about 15,000 men strong. a large part of their mission is to train and support insurgent groups and terrorist groups outside iran. now, we don't have any pictures of them, for obvious rngs they tend to be camera shy, but we can show you some of the results of their operations. in 1994, a bomb destroyed the jewish community c

the time of his death it brings into focus the health of saudi arabia's aging royalty especially king abdullah who is now eighty seven officials say funeral services will be held in the capital riyadh on tuesday. circus troops reportedly killed forty nine kurdish rebels near the iraqi border as hundreds of soldiers also pursued fighters in northern iraq a clash in turkey to cari province came after the government launched a massive anti rebel operation in the area involving ten thousand troops conflict with the kurdistan workers' party or p.k. k. has killed tens of thousands of people since it began in one nine hundred eighty four. the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for yemeni president ali abdullah saleh to immediately step down but also strongly condemns excessive use of force against anti-government protesters the first mandate since the unrest began in general says the leader must transfer power to his deputy and escalating it was criticized by human rights activists say it opened the way to granting immunity for the president to test his playing style i

medical support time this brings into focus the health of saudi arabia's aging royalty especially king abdullah now eighty seven his half brother in a year from next in line even though he is seventy eight years old. euro zone finance ministers have agreed to a new array of belo loan for troubled greece debt stricken country is expected to get in billion euro boost by the end of november once the international monetary fund signs off on the hose on the austerity measures encouraged introduced by athens to secure the loan have led to ongoing violent protests. the u.s. has reached an agreement with north korea allowing it to search for the remains of american soldiers killed during the korean war searches will resume next year after a six year hiatus and tension over the nuclear program there remains of more than two hundred american servicemen were found between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and five before the end of recovery operations. he would security council was unanimously adopted a resolution calling on yemen's president saleh to immediately step down the first resolutio

medical tests at the time it brings into focus the health of saudi arabia's aging royalty especially king abdullah who is now eighty seven. is next in line and even he is seventy eight. hundreds of ethnic serbs in the northern cause of prevented nato peacekeepers from removing their makeshift barricades the troops moved in under the cover of night but were met by serbs who refused to give ground the border dispute in northern cause of it was not been going on for months just days ago nato soldiers used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the serbs are trying to prevent because of our setting up a customs checkpoint. the u.s. has reached an agreement with north korea allowing it to search for the remains of american soldiers killed during the korean war so it will resume next year after a six year hiatus following tension over pyongyang's nuclear program remains of over two hundred american soldiers were found between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and five before the end of recovery operations. thailand's prime minister says the floods causing chaos across the country could take