let's get the latest now from mike hanna who is live in washington and mike as stephanie was explaining we have a situation here where elite israeli forces entered gaza the southern city of khan yunis she was saying that six palestinians have been killed but among them a senior hamas commander donald trump also in paris like the israeli prime minister but might we get some sort of reaction from the u.s. illness in the coming hours. well there's likely to be something from state department in the coming hours no formal statement from them as yet there is a senior u.s. official in israel at the moment brian who keeps a special representative for iran who travel to the region for talks on common pursuit against to the iranian government is also on his way the it is believed the special representative for the region jason greenblatt now he was in london earlier this week and he was reportedly said that president trump's peace plan will be released in the coming days now back in september president trumpet said after a meeting with benjamin netanyahu that he would have his peace plan put tog

bases mike hanna reports from washington iraq is today to call for an end to the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen well the issue after it was not on the senate to gender today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global mix in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and while the move has been welcomed senators on both sides of the aisle insist it does not go far enough. senator rand paul is one of those who insist the saudi crown prince should be among those sanctioned maintaining muhammad in selman at least knew of the murder and probably ordered it he said in a tweet the united states needs to project strength when dealing with saudi arabia putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads you think they care they are pretending to do something and doing nothing. of view echoed by senator bob corker the administration today sent out notice that they were sanctioning seventeen of individuals that were involved hopefully additional steps were made up asked for a

mike hanna is monitoring developments out of washington d.c. will be speaking to him shortly but first let's go to our cost. is live for us in west jerusalem and what more have we learned about the attacks. well this was a deadly military confrontation which certainly leaves the risk at least more to follow as you've been saying the israelis have now confirmed that one officer one israeli officer was killed in this operation another was wounded that they did carry out a military operation inside gaza rejecting earlier reports that any of the troops were abducted and saying that all were taken back to the israeli side of the gaza border fence and also saying that as in the aftermath of all this ten projectiles at least were fired from gaza into israeli territory two of them intercepted by the iron dome anti-missile system no injuries or fatalities on the israeli side from those as for how marse from their perspective they are saying that this was a special forces mission three kilometers inside gaza territory that the israeli soldiers were trave

bases the bill has support from members of both the democratic and republican parties as mike hanna reports arrives today to call for an end to the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen well the issue after it was not on the senate to gender today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global magnitsky act in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and while the move has been welcomed senators on both sides of the aisle insist it does not go far enough. senator rand paul is one of those who insist the saudi crown prince should be among those sanctioned maintaining muhammad bin solomon at least knew of the murder and probably ordered it he said in a tweet the united states needs to project strength when dealing with saudi arabia putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads you think they care they are pretending to do something and doing nothing of you echoed by senator bob corker the administration today sent out notice that they were sanctioning seventeen of individuals that were invol

of its explanation of what will act against saudi arabia she every term c o two zero washington mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. mike dows your best comments were very much in line with the trumpet ministration as it stands by saudi arabia israel is yes indeed it does appear various stages is being noted very close similarities between the saudi position and that of the trumpet ministration the saudi foreign minister there repeating the insinuation that there was no involvement whatsoever from the highest levels of saudi leadership but president trump went even further in his bizarre statement basically drawing a line under the whole matter the washington post publisher has not published a editorial fred ryan says and points out that president trump refers to jamal khashoggi as an enemy of the state something that not even the saudis have publicly done so president trump pushing it to the limit making very clear he believes this matter is over but certainly congress at this stage are not going to let him get away with that it would appear mike it seems pressure is building on

mike hanna al-jazeera washington thank you. now to our panel we have joining our sin boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps o

this claim they're going live to enter cements and stop on just a few minutes first let's go to mike hanna and washington d.c. so this this demand from the conferences brother that the u.s. release whatever other information that they have mike as a reason to think that they will the cia certainly seems to want this information out well the washington post originally reported the c n n a cia findings but this was followed very quickly by a large number of other news organizations all of which were quoting sources familiar with the situation now it would appear that there is some sort of leak all that this information has been intentionally put out to public certainly in recent days that congress has been heated in its dumond's that the crown prince be held accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi the issue is now whether president trump himself has been briefed on these cia finding should they indeed be accurate and if so what action is he going to take is he going to backtrack away from his stated position that he does not want to impose any form of punitive action against either the

defense chief and secretary of state who warned against downgrading ties with the kingdom mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the senate has voted by an overwhelming majority to move the proposal to investigate the war with the relationship with saudi arabia and the war in yemen to move that forward for debate on the senate floor in all likelihood that will happen next week but it's significant that among those who voted in favor of the opening debate were fourteen republicans now to give you some idea of what a massive turnaround this has been back in march a similar proposal was defeated fifty five senators voted against going ahead with further debate this is just a very clear indication as to how the murder of jamal khashoggi has gone over my eyes to the senate into investigating the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia and drilling down on the involvement of the crown prince in the death of jamal this is something that is likely to be debated when the legislation goes on the senate floor ukraine's president petro poroshenko has warned of a full scale war with russia after

mike hanna joins us live from washington d.c. on the details of their latest sanctions imposed by the u.s. treasury. well the sanctions were imposed by the global magnitsky act which was established by a letter from the senate to president trump about a month ago asking that the global minutes be be invoked in this particular case what that is is an act that provides for global to come to billet for any human rights atrocities so now what you have is these sanctions imposed on the seventeen individuals in terms of the global magnitsky act it means that any funds that they might have in the u.s. will be frozen that means to that no u.s. citizen will be allowed to do any financial dealings with these men and republican senator rand paul has said the saudi crown prince at least knew about the killing if not ordered it what can you tell us about that well indeed yes he reiterated those comments in an interview with a u.s. network saying that at the very least the crown prince knew about it and probably ordered it but significant that

symonds is the sunday embassy in istanbul will talk to them both in just a few minutes but first mike hanna begins our coverage with this report in recent days a number of members of congress have demanded that mohammed been silent be held accountable either by way of tweets or in the case of senator bob corker during a debate about yemen in the senate i asked for our level briefing with matters pompei oh and you know i asked for the comment assumes we get back to share with us what is happening with saudi arabia on both fronts both yemen and what is happening as it relates to the journalist who was assassinated in my opinion at the direction of the crown prince of saudi arabia us now the washington post reports the cia has concluded that the saudi crown prince ordered the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi the sit says according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity the report says in reaching its conclusions the cia examined multiple sources of intelligence including a phone call that the crown prince's brother and ambassador to the u.s. had w

patty callahan has more on james mattis and mike pompei as discussions with senators but first mike hanna reports on why they failed to stop or abuse by the senate of the trumpet ministration. the yeas are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was the senate and good fourteen republican senators joined all forty nine democrats in recommending that the bull should be discussed on the senate floor in all probability a debate that will happen next week it's a direct repudiation of the white house which it sent both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense to persuade senators to vote against the proposal the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy senators furious to a reports that the white house had instructed the cia director not to attend the classified briefing this despite repeated demands that gina has pulled brief the senate on the khashoggi killing and the level of involvement of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon as to whether the crown prince was involved in this

anderson more on that from istanbul in a moment but first mike hanna reports from washington. arrived today to call for an end to the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen while the issue after mile course georgie it was not on the senate to gender today it was very much on the minds of senators it was the senate that invoked the global magnitsky act in terms of which the sanctions have been imposed and while the move has been welcomed senators on both sides of the aisle insist it does not go far enough senator rand paul is one of those who insist the saudi crown prince should be among those sanctioned maintaining muhammad in salamon at least knew of the murder and probably ordered it he said in a tweet the united states needs to project strength when dealing with saudi arabia putting sanctions on people who are already in jail means nothing these individuals might lose their heads you think they care who are pretending to do something and doing nothing of you echoed by senator bob corker the administration today sent out notice that they were sanctioning seventeen of individua

mike hanna joins us live now from washington so mike we are still awaiting this for reports that president trump has been talking about on on what the u.s. believes happened here but is it likely to be any different from what we've already heard what we've heard president trump say he's going to have a decision or reach a conclusion the next day or the following week or the next two days on a number of occasions now he says he will be receiving this report on tuesday we're not quite sure where that report is coming from should receive it one must assume it is a cia report on friday there were leaks in multiple media outlets which would appear to have come from the cia saying that it had reached a conclusion and its conclusion was that crown prince mohammed bin solomon had ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi now president trump has continued to push back on this most recently sunday saying that he's spoken to the crown prince in at least five occasions and has been assured on at least five occasions that the crown prince said nothing to do with the murder of president trump in buying that

in the past all right thank you for now stephanie decker in occupied east jerusalem that's go to mike hanna is live for us in washington and mike given that it's the weekend is that likely to be any reaction that you're in the u.s. from the state department. well there's been no reaction as yet from the state department obviously we would imagine the situation being monitored but no formal statement has come from state department at this particular stage there is a u.s. official in israel he was there on an unrelated matter brian hawk he's a special representative for iran he was there in israel for talks with his counterparts on the situation concerning iran but certainly this is something that may come as a bit of a shock to the trumpet ministration in recent days there has been a lot of movement in terms of what president trump says is his new peace initiative it's understood that this may be being made public and coming weeks back in september president trump after meeting with benjamin netanyahu said that he would have the plan ready for produce all between two to four months that woul

tested yet again this time to see whether they can come out with the same result let's speak to mike hanna his joining us from washington d.c. so can we assume that the u.s. would have known about this ground operation in gaza therefore we should not expect any reaction from the trumpet ministration. well that spirit speculation at the moment we are not even aware whether mr netanyahu it was aware of this ground operation but certainly the u.s. would be keeping a very close eye on events there particularly as president trump's representative his negotiator as he calls him jason greenblatt was in israel just a week ago he helped talks with president netanyahu and among the issues discussed was the issue of gaza that was discussed very closely also discussed obviously was the peace initiative that president trump says he wants to introduce now back in september president trump said he would introduce that initiative within two to four months that would bring us to the beginning of december jason greenblatt also during a trip to london last week said told the meeting there that the initiative

saudi leadership even more strongly to the killing let's get more on the joined by cost content mike hanna has live for us and washington d.c. following the story and that optical congress is returning tomorrow mike is a new congress likely to put more pressure on the administration. very much so the new house of representatives is a very different one controlled by the democrats and the chairman of the intelligence committee of the house adam shift has made very clear that one of the first things he's going to do is a launch an investigation into the murder and to hold those responsible a directly accountable he says to that he will bring pressure to bear on the white house to take a decision and to act in terms of the act that the senate has invoked that is the global magnitsky act in which terms of which president trump has to come to a decision and then impose sanctions against those accountable so certainly this is a bipartisan issue there will be pressure coming from both houses of congress from republicans and democrats on president trump and what about the cia mike because we've he

algis there as mike hanna now joins us live from washington d.c. so mike that was quite the statement from president what more did he have to say well a truly extraordinary statement on his critics contend that it makes very clear what are the priorities of the trump administration economic development at the expense of the critics contend of any form of moral center to the administration whatsoever certainly even by president trump standards as a remarkable documents of the number of exclamation marks that she has pointed out the tone of the statement very clearly aping as it were the style that he uses in his tweets but basically what he is making very clear there as was pointed out is that he simply doesn't care whether or not to the crown prince was responsible for the journalist death insisting that the economic relationship of the u.s. with saudi arabia is absolutely the most vital matter and in the light of that then the murder of a journalist can simply be brushed aside mike i imagine reactions coming thick and fast from us led to spaces wha

now mike hanna is joining us from there how talking about the efforts being taken by the united nations by israel in trying to calm tensions by egypt rather than trying to calm tensions between israel and hamas but this attack is also coming at a time mike that the u.s. was thought to be close to revealing its peace initiative for israel and hamas and palestine. here's indeed there's been indication in recent days that president trump is about to unveil his so-called peace initiative back in september following a meeting with benjamin netanyahu president trump said that he would release the initiative in two to four months is what he said then that would bring it up to around the beginning of december in the last week the representative for the region president trump's representative jason green blatt told the meeting in london that the initiative was about to be made public so clearly they were contemplating making whatever the initiative is a one drawn up it's believed by jared cushion of the president's son in law that they were going to make it public in coming days or weeks as it m

pressure the trump white house to act kimberly helped get al-jazeera the white house is going to have mike hanna in washington d.c. so they all wait to see this report to trump has talked about. well that's difficult to say we'll see it when we see it essentially yes resoldering can be how could species said repeatedly that he will make him be making some kind of statement the next day or the next week or the next two days now he says that he should be coming to some conclusion by tuesday or receiving the report by tuesday where the he makes that report public another question completely but what does appear to be the sequence of events is that the cia conclusion that the crown prince was responsible for corker showing his death was leaked to a large number of media outlets and what very much appeared to be a coordinated leak campaign. some surmised could be an attempt to bring pressure to bear on president trump to release the details of that particular report but one must mention too that president trump in the past has been at odds with this intelligence agencies not only about the murder but

in istanbul we're going live to enter simmons' in istanbul in just a few minutes first to go to mike hanna and washington d.c. so mike this information was leaked to the washington post but there are other media outlets that are also confirming this information now indeed yes the cia has been the lead u.s. body in investigating the murder of jamal khashoggi that style rick to gina helpful went to turkey had meetings with the turkish counterparts but according to the washington post report this is just a little bit of the information that the cia has gleaned using multiple information sources to paint a picture that the washington post reports indicates that very strongly that the crown prince ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi now this was followed as you say by a number of news outlets a rip repeating this report but also quoting their own anonymous sources confirming it so certainly this was a massive story in terms of the u.s. media and certainly the number of sources reporting it would appear to indicate its veracity. in recent days a number of members of congress have demanded that

mike hanna al-jazeera washington thank you. now to our panel we have joining our sin boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just the cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone ta

yet that they want to punish saudi arabia for its role in the matter of janice jamal khashoggi mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the yeas are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was the senate and good fourteen republican senators joined all forty nine democrats in recommending that the bullshit be discussed on the senate floor in all probability a debate that will happen next week it's a direct repudiation of the white house which it sent both the secretary of state and the secretary of defense to persuade senators to vote against the proposal the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy senators furious to a report that the white house had instructed the cia director not to attend the classified briefing this despite repeated demands that gina has pulled brief the senate on the khashoggi killing and the level of involvement of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon as to whether the crown prince was involved in this killing it's my belief that he was it's my belief that he orde

president donald trump has for the first time in days spoken about the murder let's go right out of mike hanna who is for us in washington d.c. so mike tell us more about what the president had to say. well it was a week ago that president trump had what he said were critical meetings with his director of the cia with the secretary of state it so was then he was waiting for the information about what exactly happened before taking a decision about what to do next well since then there's been silence from the white house just a single statement coming out saying that the matter was still being considered but finally president trump had this to say in the course of today. president trumper of days of silence on jamal khashoggi death after being on asked whether he felt betrayed by the salvi denial of responsibility for it not a great you know i just hope that it all works out we have a lot of back we have a lot of things that we've been with you that there betrayed me maybe they betrayed themselves love to see how it all turned. the national security adviser also having his say as we expect ther

murderers and countries that have things that trump things we need let's go now to our correspondent mike hanna he's joining us live from washington d.c. and republicans and democrats united in their opposition to trump statement mike indeed yes it's an absolutely bipartisan reaction an absolute anger among members of congress they are adamant that they will seek legislation in the senate and in the house to impose sanctions in saudi arabia and are adamant to that they want the investigation into the murder of shogi continued president trump appeared to wave it away its implication was that the investigation it ended with the statement but members of congress are absolutely adamant they will not let it go they are going to push for further action to be taken. and what would they like better action to be mike as well as the sort of sanctions that we've heard spoken about we also heard that they want the cia to declassify this document and make the findings public how likely is that. well once again that is something that's a bit more difficult the cia can only do so under the instructions of the

political spectrum to take action against saudi arabia mike hanna reports from washington. president trumper of days of silence on jamal khashoggi death after being asked whether he felt betrayed by the saudi denial of responsibility for it up a grade b. now i just hope that it all works out we have a lot of back we have a lot of things that we've been with you that they're betrayed me maybe they betrayed themselves love to see our doctrine. the national security adviser also having his say as we expect there to be accountability for what happened which was which was criminal without any question and they have promised to do that and they have gone a long way already and we'll see what the next steps are and more pressure from congress for tangible action to be taken a group of republican senators to send to letter to the president demanding that civilian nuclear talks with saudi arabia be suspended the senate has already sent the president a formal letter invoking the global magnitsky act this insists that the president investigate the murder and impose sanctions should ac

mike hanna is also following the story and joins us live from washington d.c. mike tell us more about the wider implications of cohen's admission for the miller investigation and the president trying. well michael cohen statement is absolutely critical because he says in the court papers that he lied to congress in order not to publicly contradict an individual named as individual one in the court papers subsequently identified as donald trump the reason for this is that donald trump throughout the presidential campaign continually insisted publicly that he had no building business dealings in russia whatsoever michael cohen severance that negotiations continued for trump properties operations in russia until at least june one thousand nine hundred sixteen by that time president trump was a candidate in an election still conducting business deals that would appear with russian figures having been warned by intelligence agencies that there were some russian actions against the electoral process so certain this very very damning evidence given by michael cohen pre

on mike hanna joins us live now from washington so might once again it's flaw or at the heart of some control to see now that they have decided to have a recount how difficult might this be to resolve well very difficult indeed this is a fairly unprecedented we heard the report that the recount eighteen years ago which eventually was halted by the supreme court never completed but in this particular case what is happening is that it is a statewide recount for governor or senator for agricultural commissioner this is actually unprecedented in terms of an electoral process so it's an immensely complicated process now every one of the sixty seven counties is going back and checking on the count any a difference between point two five percent would then go to a manual recount so this is an incredibly complex exercise and as remarked there is well creating immense amount of disquiet despondency and in many cases and it and my what about the argument that recounts don't tend to change the course of statewide races how what might we see unfold now in the coming days and weeks. well that's a

attempting to shield the crown prince and the saudi government as a whole from further sanction ok mike hanna live for us in washington thank you. josh an is executive director at the arab center in washington d.c. he says the cia's conclusion or for the crown prince's involvement is unprecedented for the agency. well i think all indications over the past few weeks indeed you know after the first week. of the end so the. sheen all indications were pointing and direction although it is very important it's very significant that what the washington post in new york times. c m b c n n other outlets over the past three hours have reported that the cia internal assessment now is pointing straight years. in so much as having ordered this operation this has never happened before it's in control diction with the assessment of the saudi government that in its own contradiction which is more important with the assessment of the white house that's not what we have heard thus far from the president of the united states or from his national security adviser bolton who actually released information that's t

washington mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike there's growing controversy over this recount there in florida tell us what's been happening well it is such a close call particularly in the senate race the margin of difference is less than point one five percent now what this means legally is that the votes may have to be counted by hand now we are not just talking about one county we are talking about sixty seven counties it's the first time in florida that there has been a statewide recount for the senate for the governor the position and for the administration the group agriculture commissioner so certainly this is a massive exercise that it just sticks absolutely mind boggling and illegally as well the recount is supposed to be completed by thursday so it's a tense situation there the results too close to call and now you're going to have tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of votes being counted by hand and mike historically the recounts don't tend to change the initial results but could they be flipped this time aroun

is simple we have two correspondents following this story for us mike hanna is in washington d.c. with the latest from the trumpet ministration but first let's go live to istanbul and a series alan fischer is there so on and some grim details about how shocked she died have emerged what are we to make though about the timing of their release by turkey . well it certainly wasn't coincidental they released it as the chief prosecutor from saudi arabia was about to leave the country it seems that was a statement from turkey to see they were unhappy with the cooperation they were receiving from saudi arabia saudi arabia has from the stars said that they were going to cooperate with the turkish authorities that it would be an open and transparent investigation that is a pledge that the king and also the crown prince mohammed bin salman made to donald trump and also made to president but after two days in istanbul the turks were feeling that the chief prosecutor wasn't entirely forthcoming need to push to get statements from the thousand people that are currently being held in saudi arab

mike hanna al-jazeera washington thank you. now to our panel we have joining our sin boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the transnational threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps or

a two thirds majority vote which with congress in its present angry mood is a real possibility mike hanna al-jazeera washington. saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one male now indicted for the killing of jamal khashoggi they're not named and the account of what happened once again differs from what turkish prosecutors say they found so far.

well mike hanna joins us now from washington and my john bolton was press not just by but also all the journalists in the room on that point about the audio recordings and he was very dismissive about the the purpose of listening to those tapes what else did he have to say well he did he was very dismissive insisting that it's quite possible to read a transcript but failing to get the point to off the questioning there which was the question off the recipe off reports about the death of jamal khashoggi the expectation would be that if there is evidence out there every step would be taken by the trumpet ministration to ascertain the exact sequence of events clearly by not listening to the tape that would imply or indicate that the national security adviser is not going the full length in terms of getting to the bottom of the matter most specifically to attain whether there was a direct involvement by the crown prince mohammed bin solomon. and mike we also heard about plans for the u.s. delegation at the upcoming g. twenty summit in argentina as you were saying bolton was asked about whe

let's head now from mike hanna who has more from washington. in recent days a number of members of congress have demanded that muhammad have been silent be held accountable either by way of tweets or in the case of senator bob corker during a debate about yemen in the senate i asked for our level briefing with madness pompei o n g i asked for the comment assumes we get back to share with us what is happening with saudi arabia on both fronts both yemen and what is happening as it relates to the journalist who was assassinated in my opinion at the direction of the crown prince of saudi arabia us now the washington post reports the cia has concluded that the saudi crown prince ordered the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi the sit says according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity the report says in reaching his conclusions the cia examined multiple sources of intelligence including a phone call that the crown prince's brother and ambassador to the u.s. had with the journalist before his murder khale

al-jazeera is tumble dryer shadows outside the saudi consulate in istanbul what first let's go to mike hanna with the reaction in washington at today's events so mike what more can you tell us about those latest sanctions imposed by the u.s. treasury. well the sanctions have been imposed in terms of the global magnitsky act which provides for accountability for human rights violations anywhere in the world now in terms of this act and the list of seventeen names that is now being mentioned by treasury they have all their financial press. any financial with things they have in the u.s. are completely frozen u.s. citizens are forbidden from doing any form of business with them now that list of seventeen names include a very close aide to the crown prince saud al qahtani as well as the consul general from in stumble of muhammad out of tabor so these names of similar or identical to the seventeen names that the saudis initially listed as being responsible for this killing certainly the state department has just had a briefing describing this as a very important first step the supposition being t

condemnation of the riyadh's involvement in the war in yemen which has created a humanitarian crisis but mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. mike so section of state might come pale and defense secondly james mattis would do this joint briefing to the senate why is it happening and what are we expecting them to say mike. well there's a couple of unanswered questions here firstly are they going to be briefing the entire senate or just the intelligence committee secondly is the director of the cia going to be present because some senators are insistent that it's all very well for the secretary of state and the defense secretary to come and brief the senate but they also want to hear from the director of the cia jeana as possible now the cia doesn't comment on the movements of the director however senators insistent that they want to hear a briefing from her particularly on the circumstances that led to the death of jamal khashoggi as well as who should be held accountable for the death and specifically senator lindsey graham and service was the crown prince mohammed bin solomon responsi

yet that they want to punish saudi arabia for its role in the matter of janice jamal khashoggi mike hanna reports from washington d.c. the a's are sixty three the nays are thirty seven this was the.

has also without sanctions on seventeen of the saudis involved in the killing mike hanna our correspondent joins us now from washington d.c. let's just start with our breaking news real political pressure now on the white house coming from a bipartisan selection of politicians. indeed yes this bill has now been introduced in the senate called the comprehensive saudi arabia accountability and given act it deals with yemen and saudi its role in the war there and in particular strikes said to us support for those ongoing operations but it brings in as well the murder of jamal khashoggi insisting that those responsible be held accountable in the course of the day senators reacted to the u.s. sanctions being placed on seventeen individuals welcoming the action but most senators insisting that it simply does not go far enough now this act being introduced in the senate certainly putting pressure to bear on the white house the key question here first of all whether it gets passed and secondly the strength with which it is passed because a president trump is able to veto legislation coming out of

a two thirds majority vote which with congress in its present angry mood is a real possibility mike hanna al-jazeera washington. saudi arabia's prosecution spokesman announcing the death penalty is being sought for five out of twenty one main now indicted for the killing of jamal khashoggi they're not named and the account of what happened once again differs from what turkish prosecutors say they found so far. also you know to do with many in the war in iraq was a brawl fighting and injecting him with a large dose of a serious of substance that caused his death the person who ordered this crime was arrested with another four operatives and it was a total of five the body after his death was dismembered and transported outside the consulate building those five people took the remains out the person who delivered the body to the contractor was a single person a sketch of the contractor was drafted based on the description given by the person who handed over the remains the new saudi version of events repeats the assertion that it was some sort of extraction operation ordered by akhmed alice

seeing the things that we said would happen and they're happening in real time let's start with mike hanna looking at this report for us from washington d.c. it's an old political trick isn't it mike drop the bad news when everyone else is busy with something else. well indeed yes it's actually failed remarkably given that this is now received extensive coverage within the us on a day when not to very much else news is happening so certainly the reporters are only due out in about a month's time administration officials saying it was decided to release it at this particular stage because of the number of international climate conferences that are coming up in coming weeks there is another body of opinion as well that believes that the drafters of the report may have decided to slip it out early to bring pressure to bear on the white house all sorts of interpretations of the timing of the particular report but whatever it is it's devastating certainly in terms of its breadth and its impact this is thirteen agencies of government looking at it it's the basis it's the science on which the gov