well the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon's rapid political rise to the international community by surprise in the past eighteen months has consolidated power and tried to project himself as a reformer and a modernizing bops the to search the cases when the spotlight's on top of the policies he's led to his dosage bari. since is debut on the world stage it's been a rapid rise for saudi crown prince mohammed bin samon in two thousand and fifteen seemingly out of nowhere the twenty nine year old favorite son of saudi arabia's king solomon been up to lizzie's was appointed defense minister he became chief architect of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen a campaign of aerial bombardment that has helped create what the un calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world human rights organizations accuse the saudi led coalition of bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and schools in saudi arabia where most of the population is under thirty been so man has been heralded as a man who would bring much needed economic and social reforms but that's changed in recent months h

all of this has put the spotlight on saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon who was appointed last year that was a surprise move that sidelined his cousin the previous crown prince who was relieved of all duties but mohammed bin solomon's influence of a policy began in two thousand and fifteen when his father became king the now thirty three year old has attempted to project himself as a reformer on a modernization and in the past eighteen months he's consolidated his power he is understood to be responsible for the blockade of council saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha in june last year in november there was the mysterious detention of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri in riyadh he announced his resignation on saudi television but withdrew it after returning to lebanon the crown prince is a major driver of the saudi embassy coalition's war in yemen its actions of drawn international condemnation including in august when it s. strike killed a bus full of school children and finally he's spearheaded a so-called anti corrupti

sacked and understand is being arrested this man south of qatar and he is a senior advisor to mohammed bin solomon and so that suggests that even the saudis have had to take on all of these these allegations that there were people close to mohammed bin salma and there has. been obviously no further indication from the saudis that solomon knew about this but as you say the evidence suggests the contrary you speak to saudi experts and they say he's inconceivable that such a major operation involving fifteen men sent across to a foreign country to to to participate in this operation one of whom as i say this man met him a trip who is one of we understand one of the saudi princes crown prince's private bodyguards a man who was on c.c.t.v. is going into the embassy on the day that because she went inside appearing a few hours later and then literally only about over an hour or so off to leaving the consulate appearing at the airport this is very very strong evidence that has been leaked to the media by the. and as you say everybody is saying that it does seem completely unbelievable that the saudi prin

eyes on saudi arabia and any involvement its leaders may have had in the murder crown prince mohamed bin solomon resurfaced in public today for a key business meeting take a look. satisfied was the word crown prince mohammed bin solomon used to describe his mood at the high profile future investment initiative conference in riyadh. despite the prince's smile there was tension in the air. some forty companies and investors boycotted the forum over the killing of dissident j.b. you know we are go through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very good actor. incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justify it or explain. before arriving been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writings. back in istanbul the scene of the alleged crime turkish authorities continue to search for clues and for a body. in a speech to parliament turkish president at a one said push up she's killing was clearly a planned operation he called on riyadh to address all the facts and said the saudi government knows more than it admits to. being a victim is blaming some in

some sort of consequences new thing that we're seeing on twitter for politicians saying if mohammed bin solomon and saudi arabia are proven to have any connection to this and there are consequences well the everyone across the globe will be emboldened to continue attacking journalists and dissidents so that's the message from capitol hill but again president really.

all main suspects from those fifteen those four main suspects have associations with mohammed bin solomon the crown prince one of them in particular is muhammad. zs but trib he is has a good record in terms of intelligence work he was the first secretary at the saudi embassy in london and pictures of him have been distributed published in one particular pro-government newspaper with time buntin photographs from c.c.t.v. which show him clearly arriving in istanbul and going into the consulate well ahead of jamal khashoggi himself and then the refer the photographs from the c.c.t.v. of him actually going into a hotel with a large suitcase going out of it and leaving the country this man in particular with that sort of evidence is a prime suspect. all right answer seventy five press in istanbul andrew thank you. the new york times is reporting the rulers of saudi arabia may be considering blaming a top intelligence official close to crown prince mohammed bin solomon for this killing the report says that general the syrian advisor to the crown prince could be cited as being responsible for th

had his telephone calls being made to high level saudi officials including the crown prince mohammed bin solomon made by the national security adviser john bolton and also by his son in law jared cushion or we also know from an interview that was released on wednesday recorded on tuesday with vice president mike pence that the issue for this administration is the concern about press freedom given the fact that this is a missing journalist that contributed to the washington post newspaper located just some blocks here from the white house it's a story that is impossible to ignore as we've often seen this white house try to sort of sweep under the rug some of the more difficult truths that have occurred in recent weeks and months with regard to the kingdom take for example the saudi led coalition effort in yemen that the fact that there was an attack of airstrikes on a school bus that left dozens of children dead this white house was largely silent about that incident it has been largely.

think it sounds credible whatever the case is there been any actual proof that does connect mohamed bin solomon to what happened in that consulate. will turn the clock back to october the second when she actually went into the concerts to get a divorce paper in order to marry his his fiance what happened was within minutes according to the turkish investigation he was killed his fingers were seven he was beaten he was injected at one point apparently there's even a report that he was beheaded and then his body was cut up and there were officials ordered to wrap up the body parts this is according to the the the recording the audio recording there's also a video evidence of the key players for people again close to these figures i mentioned who have been sacked for who we assume are amongst the eighteen who have been arrested and detained there's evidence of the moving around the city there's evidence of them arriving at the consulate ahead of because shoji actually going in there's also evidence about their actions the blood samples in the building their own d.n.a. matches there is a case here

message you'll never be able to do that as long as we have a king called solomon bin of the losses of the crown prince called mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia or the turkish president or one. well he still hasn't been found more than three weeks since he was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given permission to search a well in the saudi consul general's residence meanwhile u.s. president donald trump us piled on the pressure calling it the worst cover up in the history of cover ups and that the ultimate responsibility for his show g.'s that could lie with the crown prince. well turkish officials say that shortly before the saudi crown prince left for the investment conference he spoke to turkey's president thresher type at the one on the phone the first conversation since the killing at the un is the man thing that saudi arabia extradite those responsible to face trial in turkey. you know it's interesting to note that messina we are determined not to allow a cover up of this murder and to make sure all those responsible from those who ordered it to those who carried

samantha power she says the notion that mohammed bin solomon one of the most controlling leaders in the middle east didn't know his government was sending fifteen goons to turkey to abduct a saudi critic is absurd. and there's increasing criticism of the saudi crown prince by senior members of congress democrat senator chris murphy who serves on the foreign relations committee had this to say in a washington post opinion piece as the new crown prince sing gauges in increasingly reckless behavior more and more of us are wondering whether our allies actions are in our own best interests the lists are for erratic actions from mohamed bin solomon is long the jailing of royal family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister a nonsensical feud with cutter the growing internal repression of political speech and the disastrous war in yemen and a tangible response to the growing climate of criticism the elaborate national day celebrations at the saudi embassy this week have been canceled mike hanna al-jazeera washington well still ahead an hour disappear and flooding in southern franc

specifically wants to deal not just with saudi arabia they specifically want to deal with mohamed bin solomon it's not just about the relationship between the kingdom and the u.s. of course it is precisely this mohammed bin said man has done in the middle east issues what no saudi prince who had before him has ever done mohammed bin nayef or these other princes or king for before him king abdullah would never have conducted themselves in the palestine or is it israel issue the way mama been simone has done and i think the proof is also that my pumping of blue twelve hours from the u.s. to saudi arabia for a fifteen minute meeting with king sent men and about a forty five minute with mohammed bin. importers of mohammed bin said man was such that that twelve hour journey going and thought well journey coming back was so important so i think with the u.s. has been trying to pull the stops not only that but here in the turks who have released their american pastor as a sign of goodwill to the u.s. and despite that donald trump yesterday with the day before if memory serves me correct question the

the saudi government called it an anti-corruption purge but analysts said that this was mohamed bin solomon's way of removing people who could potentially pose a threat to his power and also a way to raise much needed funds for a struggling economy. later that same month saudi forces detained lebanese prime minister saad hariri on a visit to the kingdom it took weeks before he was released in march of this year mohammed bin solomon visited the united states the whirlwind tour and charm offensive led to largely favorable coverage in the international media helping the crown prince sell his image as a reformer who would open saudi arabia up to innovation and investment since then a range of other civil society activists and clerics have been jailed observers say saudi arabia strategic relationship with western powers is a delicate one to balance i think the problem that the white house has and indeed what a lot of european allies have is that there are a lot of cases going on in the region a lot of crises in which saudi arabia is a major player and is required to be a major ally this includes i

saudi arabia's king and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon have offered their condolences to the slain journalist jamal family. has called a grave mistake but despite international outcry the crate kingdom has given contradictory. as to the killing inside its consulate in istanbul. president. reveal all details of his investigation into. death. to his u.s. counterpart donald trump on the phone and the two agreed on the need for clarity in the case. that the polls have closed it closed in afghanistan's parliamentary elections by violence and. at least forty five people were killed in attacks during the first day of voting and less than half of the country's eligible voters actually ballots in the two days of polling according to a preliminary tally more now from charlotte balances in the capital kabul which saw the largest turnout. afghans queue outside this polling center in kabul patiently waiting for a chance to vote it's the second time the tries. of the nearly five thousand polling same says four hundred was slated to open a day late after a host of logistical issues because of sec

there have been two telephone calls by the trumpet ministration to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon the first call both we understand took place on tuesday but we are now just learning the details of these calls the first call took place between the national security adviser john bolton and also the president's son in law jared cushion or we do know that jared does have a relationship with the crown prince dating back many many months when they met here at the white house as part of mohamed bin solomon's goodwill tour here in the united states and presumably he is now using exerting that friendship in a relationship in an effort to try and get more details the second phone call with the white house is calling a follow up call took place at the hands of the secretary of state mike pump aoe again speaking with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon we understand the crux of this call was to request information and to press for a transparent investigation now sarah center saying that there is still ongoing efforts for more information and that the press will be updated when those detail

saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomons rapid ascent to the international community but by surprise and in the past eighteen months he has consolidated power and attempted to project himself as a reformer modernize them but the case has swung the spotlight on to other policies that he has led. as more. since his debut on the world stage it's been a rapid rise for saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on in two thousand and fifteen seemingly out of nowhere the twenty nine year old favorite son of saudi arabia's king solomon been up to lizzie's was appointed defense minister he became chief architect of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen a campaign of aerial bombardment that has helped create what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world human rights organizations accuse the saudi led coalition of bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and schools. in saudi arabia where most of the population is under thirty been so man has been heralded as a man who would bring much needed economic and social reforms but that's changed in recent months however no hell o

reportedly suggest showed he was attacked and killed inside the consulate saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has denied any knowledge of what happened but al jazeera has learned that one of his bodyguards. the operation which involved fifteen men and more political and business leaders are distancing themselves from saudi arabia is treasury secretary the finance ministers from france the u.k. and the netherlands are all the latest to pull out of that major investment conference that was supposed to happen later this month we have correspondents in turkey and the us following the latest developments andrew symonds is outside the saudi consulate in istanbul and mike hanna is in washington d.c. we will talk to them in just a moment first alan fischer begins our coverage with this report. he's been briefed by his secretary of state and the furious intelligence reports leaves donald trump to believe jamal khashoggi is there and certainly looks that way to me it's very sad journalist like so he says he'll wait for the results of various investigations but if the evidence is there there will be con

police four hours later when jamal was nowhere to be seen saudi officials say his state of mohammed bin solomon mainly the crown prince but he wasn't even really a very harsh critic he was moderate opposition moderate critic maybe he got a little more air time because he was working for the washington post he was in the united states but i think this if he was murdered if we have to use the word if here this is very important if he was murdered i think this was more a message now there are a lot of dissidents from middle eastern g.c.c. countries and also egypt living in them will and i think if he was murdered this is more a message to the dissidents from the saudi regime saying hey we can get you anywhere wherever you are you're not say so this could be a message to these people a warning sign we've seen mohamed bin solomon getting harsher more authoritarian. we see in what he's doing in yemen we see what he did with the qatari blockade in the g.c.c. crisis he's supporting the why. he's so he's an arab spring guy he's tried to suppress the arab spring in egypt in many other countries as well s

of being that crown prince mohammed bin solomon did not order this assassination nor was he aware of it but as well as u.s. congressmen and senators see that's a lie the president urged onesies on tuesday in truth is true feel not only prove crucial to this murder case but could potentially have an impact on the political future of saudi arabia. stumble on the murder has gripped the world the accounts vary but turkish prosecutors have told on jazeera their evidence indicates his killing was planned. the country accused of his murder has changed his stance several times since october second today has shogi walked into the saudi consulate to collect routine paperwork but never walked out according to officials voile court advise a saudi attorney and saudis deputy head of intelligence siri were responsible for sending a fifteen member hit squad to turkey that group was sent to meet hush what has happened next in turkey goes as follows jamal khashoggi entered the consulate there was an argument and some screaming members of the hit squad trying to silence him they choked him he died pani

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are here now working there still is western representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to see business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and mid

i like i said earlier i i think it's too far gone i think mohammed bin solomon is baked i don't think anyone's going to see him in a different light you know no amount of p.r. is going to put him in another light again is going to resuscitate his emmet and i mean this guy has created so many problems in saudi arabia as you know we have ten fingers and thumbs we don't have enough fingers to put in the dikes you know all the water that's spilling out of saudi arabia you know from from yemen to syria to even iraq to domestic things to that around cairo the failed around co i.p.o. and then. you know saudi arabia is running out of money there is you know these kind of domestic disputes and imprisonments etc going on and i mean i think you know i hope after we made you can have a chance right let me jump in here we're going to go to a hard break and after that break we'll continue our discussion on saudi arabia state with arkie. when i was told small seemed wrong. but old old just told. me you get to shape out disdain and become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find the

is the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi an influential critic of saudi ruler mohamed bin solomon now there is mounting evidence that after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey he was rendered unconscious and then dismembered by a special team sent from riyadh that included a number of bin solomon's personal bodyguards u.s. president trump says it is too early to draw any conclusions the white house has requested turkey delivered the audio and video it says it has on the last moments of the show she's life. cheat and disappeared death by decree that's our topic today we're focusing on that with rick no act he's a foreign affairs reporter for the washington post for which she also worked as a commentator recovers europe and international security issues and says politically motivated kidnappings or killings in the key to a new level of foreign policy assertiveness especially on the west likes leadership in defending human rights. dylan is an editor for the german daily newspaper de velde here his fields of interest are turkey in the middle east and he says in a polarized

of controversial tromp prince mohammed bin solomon has been put in charge of overhauling saudi arabia's spy agency. saudi arabia has admitted journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in istanbul the information was announced in the middle of the night on saudi state television seventeen days after her she walked into the consulate building riyadh now says that there was a brawl inside and that they died during the fight five top saudi officials have been sacked among them a senior intelligence officer and an adviser to the royal court eighteen others have been arrested u.s. president donald trump says that saudi arabia's announcement seems credible but others in washington a far from convinced shortly we'll be live in istanbul we'll also get full reaction from washington but first i was there as andrew simmons reports on all the latest developments. images played out relentlessly worldwide as saudi arabia denied jamal khashoggi had been killed but this was the last anyone would see of him alive and it was the beginning of a crisis that shaken the saudi royal household

unschooled mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia a turkish president named. alessio g.'s body still hasn't been found more than three weeks since he was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given from mission to search a well in the saudi consul general's residence meanwhile the u.k.'s prime minister to reason may has told saudi arabia's king solomon that riyadh's explanation for the house beth lacked credibility and that saudi officials must cooperate with turkey well turkish officials a say that shortly before the saudi crown prince left for the investment conference he spoke to turkey's president friendship i patted him on the phone their first conversation since the killing and the hunt is the man thing that saudi arabia extradite those responsible to face trial in turkey. you know it's interesting to note that mr we are determined not to allow a cover up of this murder and to make sure all those responsible from those who ordered it to those who carried it out it will not be allowed to avoid justice this is not only our re

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are here now working there still is west representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to see business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and middle

some pressure on the trumpet ministration but there's also some pressure on the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and that is because the reporting seems to indicate. an important deadline has passed and let me explain how that deadline has been calculated you remember that meeting the optics which were criticized very much so here in the united states and around the world of the u.s. secretary of state sitting down in riyadh with mohammed and some of the crown prince will that meeting wrapped up at about three pm riyadh time and reportedly in that meeting the u.s. secretary of state was very very clear in terms of the timeline moving forward that instructions we understand and that is being reported here in the united states is that my pompei a told the crown prince that he had seventy two hours essentially to own the disaster in other words to come up with an explanation and now that seven two hour timeline has passed if you calculate my pump is returned to the united states roughly it appears that eight am here in new york city washington d.c. eastern standard time as we call it the seventy tw

deceptions and there's been wise he was asked if it's possible that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon could be involved and to that he said nobody has told me he's responsible nobody has told me he's not responsible we haven't reached that point i haven't heard either way now this comes after days of relentless pounding from critics and people within his own party that are demanding that president trump do more. trying to campaign on the west coast u.s. president donald trump couldn't get away from the questions about jamal khashoggi is murder it was pretty much all reporters asked about as for the saudi explanation the president had this response well i'm not satisfied until we find the answer but it was a big first step was a good first step but i want to get to the ends he says that could come by tuesday but he again insisted that what is most important to him the money that saudi arabia spends in the u.s. the amounts of been changing over time one hundred ten billion four hundred fifty billion hits four hundred fifty thousand jobs four hundred fifty billion dollars six hundred tho

what many people consider was quite a restrained speech he didn't target the crown prince mohammed bin solomon by name that will be a relief to washington in particular but the same time we see now the trunk does appear to be moving closer to uncle stance he's talking about this being the worst cover up he said that people should be held to a. i'm doing the interview with the wall street journal on choose stay for the first time he indicated the idea that he mohammed bin some of the crown prince could have been involved in the killing that will be seen as very significant on cross so i this is a long term plan on korea's play of isolating reality getting washington on its side and post and also seeing the benefits of. crushing the building closer ties with washington at the same time watching uncle really believe in the driving seat at the moment dorian jones in istanbul with the very latest thank you. and let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world hurricane wilma has hit the pacific coast of mexico as a category three storm packing winds of nearly two hundr

one is american so did relations the second is american relations with saudi arabia through mohammed bin solomon you see america likes reliable are lies. trump likes reliable autocrats he likes she likes putin he loves all kinds of autocrats but he doesn't like under liable autocrats he like an autocrat to do what autocrats do you know you want to silence is and you silence them you don't make it into an international scandal you want to launch a war in your neighbor you launch a war but you end it you finish it you win it you don't kill countless of people and still continue your way of diplomatic niceties is not to hold the prime minister of lebanon hostage or country your way of resolving a dispute with your neighbor qatar is not to block it it and to threaten to invade it your idea of such an opening is not to arrest women who want to to drive your economic reform should it be marching businessmen into the ritz and give them a good beating this does not make for a reliable ally this makes for a fretless reckless ally but given the fact you mentioned all those things and in some cases yemen t

my pump aoe not only did he meet with king cell mon but he also met with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and also the foreign minister adel al g. of beer so this was a very extensive meeting we've seen the first pictures of that and we know that this trip doesn't just have one stop sami that it goes from riyadh to potentially also is stamboul as approved by donald trump the u.s. president but in terms of the content of this meeting we understand it is being widely reported as we've been talking here on al-jazeera that we are expecting some sort of imminent statement in the coming hours coming days from saudi arabia that will essentially have two parts not only will the first part be in contrast to the prior statements that were made by saudi arabia now in fact explaining that the death. was in fact an interrogation that went wrong but also potentially that those that were involved in that terror interrogation will be held accountable no one other interesting note in all of this that we're hearing here in washington is that u.s. investigators stateside here domestically have been very int

new pictures emerge of the bodyguards of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon at the center ofthe jamal khashoggi case. that evidence is found inside the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul as questions are still being asked about the missing journalist. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up e.u. leaders rule out a special summit on bragg's it next month citing a lack of progress a possible deal with the u.k. . a special al-jazeera investigation into cricket match fixing leads to a confession from one of pakistan's former top players. it's been more than two weeks now since journalist. walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul and didn't come out during those two weeks of uncertainty we've been following this story closely the latest information we have is that turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to his disappearance have completed searching two of saudi arabia's diplomats. buildings in istanbul they spent more than twelve hours looking through both the consulate and the consul general zod residence sources have told

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are hearing outworking there still is western representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to the business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and m

saudi arabia may be considering blaming a top intelligence official close to the crown prince mohammed bin solomon for the killing the report says that general siri an advisor to the crown prince could be cited as being responsible for the murder due to a misunderstanding over and struction and the general services spokesman for the saudi led military coalition and yemen let's take a look at the man who's at the center of all of this criticize saudi arabia's monarchy after mohamed vents on monday came the center of power and the kingdom last year because he accused the thirty three year old crown prince of introducing a new era of fear and arrests and public shaming fearing for his safety fled to the u.s. in september of last year when he wrote a regular column for the washington post before his career as a journalist he was close to the saudi royal family and served as an advisor to senior saudi officials clear on is executor executive director of the arab center of washington and joins us via skype from fairfax virginia we appreciate your time very much so. what are you hearing now when you hear

deceptions and there's been wise he was asked if it's possible that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon could be involved and to that he said nobody has told me he's responsible nobody has told me he's not responsible we haven't reached that point i haven't heard either way now this comes after days of relentless pounding from critics and people within his own party that are demanding that president trump do more. trying to campaign on the west coast u.s. president donald trump couldn't get away from the questions about jamal khashoggi is murder it was pretty much all reporters asked about as for the saudi explanation the president had this response well i'm not satisfied until we find the answer but it was a big first step it was a good first step but i want to get to the answer he says that could come by tuesday but he again insisted that what is most important to him the money that saudi arabia spends in the u.s. the amounts of been changing over time one hundred ten billion four hundred fifty billion hits four hundred fifty thousand jobs four hundred fifty billion dollars six hundre

saudi king solomon in the crown prince mohammed bin have met members of his family in riyadh including his song bin jamal khashoggi king solomon has promised to hold to account anyone found responsible for the journalist death whoever they may be. and the international outcry over casualties killing has overshadowed the start of saudi arabia's investment conference in riyadh saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman attended the event and despite accusations that he might have ordered casualties death or at least knew about it dozens of top business executives government leaders and media companies pulled out after the jenna's disappeared three weeks ago the saudi crown prince has projected himself as a reformer and modernize it but the shoulder cases shine a spotlight on the policies he's led since coming to power i mean been someone is considered the driving force behind the blockade of qatar saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha in june last year it was the mysterious detention of a lebanese prime minister in riyadh in november saad harir

message you'll never be able to do that as long as we have a king called solomon bin of the losses or the crown prince called mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia or the turkish president name. it's been more than three weeks since ashaji was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given permission to search a well in the consul general's garden turkish officials say the crown prince also spoke to turkey's president there the one their first conversation since the killing the two reportedly discussed how to quote shed light on the case. the white house has promised to find those responsible for sending suspected explosive devices to a number of high profile democratic politicians saying that these are terrorizing acts law enforcement officials the scabbard suspected explosives addressed to the homes of hillary and bill clinton and former president barack obama the time warner building in new york which is home to c.n.n. was also evacuated after a bomb was found in a package of air strikes by the same. the led coalition have targeted a farmer's market in yemen's whole day the p

responsibility for all of this lie crown prince mohammed bin solomon is not only heir to the throne and de facto leader he's also minister of the economy minister of defense and chairman of the council of political and security affairs which the general intelligence agency reports to so with all of these portfolios there is an undeniable responsibility on the crown prince then there are the sacked officials we mentioned earlier alcatel mian al a series with close aides to bin sound man and by their own admission they didn't act on their own they take their orders directly from the crown prince now for the first time u.s. president donald trump has cast doubt over saudi arabia's explanation of how was killed he spoke to his turkish counterpart roger tire better on just a short while ago on the need for more clarity in this case now because shoji is murder is increasingly becoming a bipartisan issue in washington with members of congress strongly condemning saudi's latest admission and pressing for action here's mike hanna. in his element on the campaign trail but president trump cannot g

of this global story jamal khashoggi criticized saudi arabia's mauna kea the crown prince mohammed bin solomon became the center of power in the kingdom last year ashaji is accused the thirty three year old crown prince of introducing a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming fearing face safety he fled to the u.s. in september last year where he wrote a regular column for the washington post but before his career as a journalist was close to the saudi royal family and served as an advisor to senior saudi officials. we got a weather update thanks to our offices here then why afghanistan's shia majority sees saturday's election as an opportunity to get a bigger say in politics. hello get a welcome back here in a national weather forecast well plenty of nice weather here across central parts of europe high pressure is going to dominate that means a lot of clear skies a little bit of a moderate temperatures but where we are seeing the weather is out here towards of the western med now we have had some problems with rain across parts of northern africa as well as this area of low p

mohammed been so man would have to be that person so i think the future of the relationship between king solomon and president trump it's going to depend about the future of his crown prince mohammed bin solomon and i would add just for the heck of it it would also involve eventually what would happen to jared cushion or mr trump's son in law who apparently was complicit with inhabitants the man on most of what the crown prince did the last couple of years including that jailing. of a lot of people around him within the regime including him becoming the crown prince and certainly in terms of the war in yemen ok when you talk about people being jailed i think you're referring them owen to people being held against their will we assume in the ritz carlton in riyadh just picking up on one of those points though the bottom line for trump is it human rights an individual's human rights or is it the dollar and off the back of that another point if he manages to kick this done in the long grass to one hundred nineteen days he's got to do something about within one hundred twenty days what happens at that point to donald trump. well look let's start with the latter i think what president trum

this hour on al-jazeera new pictures of a version of a bodyguard to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon who's suspected of being involved in the jamal khashoggi case investigators attention to the fifteen member saudi hit squad who think that they may have killed him. turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the saudi journalist of completed searching two saudi diplomatic buildings in istanbul turkey sources have told al jazeera that important samples been found. more now on the jamal khashoggi case the suspected killing of the saudi journalist it's now fifteen days since he entered saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul turkey as investigators suspect a fifteen man hit squad killed him rob matheson has more on some of the saudi men that have been identified by the media. these other fifteen men turkish media say are linked to the disappearance of saudi journalists as. their regional line up was first published in the turkish pro-government newspaper new york times says it's identified that some of them may have links to saudi prince muhammad bin salma kno

very close links that the alleged perpetrators of this crime have with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon of we've seen the c c c c c t v footage all of the members of the team headed by we are led to believe this man may have more trip who one of them have been someone's private bodyguards coming into the consulate on the day that could show he disappeared and leaving all the same day we understand also that this investigation has so government sources have told us samples that were found in the consul general zone that match samples that were found here in the consulate as well i think it's safe to say that they say he is very keen to get to get this information out but he's very much taking its time and the longer this investigation goes on that the more pressure they are and the more leaks we're going to hear. just many thanks i was it was child struck for their life in istanbul. there's been several attacks at polling stations in afghanistan as people vote in the first parliamentary elections there since two thousand and ten the taliban had vowed to target anyone who showed up at lea

after he had been psalm on was named crown prince the journalistic use accuse the accused mohammed bin solomon of introducing what he called a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming fairing for his safety khashoggi fled to the u.s. in september last year when he wrote a regular column the washington post but before his career as a journalist because he was close to the saudi royal family serving as an advisor and contacts for the media. still ahead here on al-jazeera donald trump looks towards china as he announces plans to increase the united states stockpile of nuclear weapons. we should see the weather quieting down into western parts of spain over the next day or so we've had some really heavy showers laundry downpours around malaga of course we've seen some extensive flooding but he was certainly a possibility once you get into southern areas of italy over towards greece or area clad here we saw some violent storms here within the last twenty four hours or so that west of weather is now sinking further south of surprises coming back into twenty three celsius let's look fu

riyadh to do just that to preserve this relationship and to save it and before meeting with mohammed bin solomon he met with the key leader of the iran war party benjamin netanyahu he's going to send a strong signal in riyadh that the trump administration is prioritizing its. agenda to economically assault and possibly military assault iran over the killing of this permanent resident of the u.s. absolutely i mean it's been been pointed out time and time again that sad to say that the actual killing of the men of this saudi jenice is critical voice haven't resident of the united states is likely to be completely subsea and by great. political interest. so what do you believe then do you believe that president trump is is actually much more concerned on policy towards iran just next month they're expected to slap on a new round of sanctions on iran is that going to take precedence over what has actually happened to this poor geneses been murdered in an assemble absolutely and that's really the saudi's ace card is their close relationship with israel which is also which also runs through abu dhabi

that they have no idea where she is body is they have said repeatedly that crown prince mohammed bin solomon had. no role in this in this murder but of course these eighteen people who were arrested fifteen of whom we believe of the fifteen that were here in that came to turkey on the day that she died. on the day that she was killed went into the embassy certainly a number of them did and they left the country almost the same day the evidence is certainly mounting. as we've been seeing over recent days despite the kind of p.r. disaster that saudi arabia is suffering over this crisis. and the fact that it is changed its narrative so much we saw a very seemingly very confident crown prince mohammed bin solomon at that investment conference a couple of days ago. desperately trying to bash away these these this constant pressure from the turks and from the international community thank you very much charles strafford with all the latest fan out in istanbul. now federal authorities in the u.s. say they have arrested a person in connection with a dozen possible bomb sent a high profile critics of

that interview now and they say that the president is explaining that jared cushion or and mohammed bin solomon are just basically simply very young this is the quote their two young guys chair doesn't know him well or anything they're just two young people they're the same age they like each other i believe he went on to talk about muhammad bin solomon saying he's a very strong person he has very good control. key been basically saying that's a positive thing and so we're looking at jared kushner in all of this because jared muhammad bin solomon have struck up a solid relationship and dared cushion or has the profile of the middle east peace and he's made it clear he thinks that that can only happen with the cooperation of saudi arabia now the president might want to cooperate with saudi arabia right now in a whole host of issues but we're seeing calls from members of congress as mike hanna reported saying that they have to simply be shunned in till there are big changes a very key ally for president senator lindsey graham immediately came out after the story broke and said that there needs to

that first stage we're still at that stage i think where accuracy deciding how vulnerable mohammed bin solomon is they're looking at other parts of the world and interestingly enough not just the u.s. not just europe but remember most arab countries have backed the saudis it's not just u.a.e. it's countries like jordan and egypt so if everyone makes a move in the region he's got to make sure that those countries won't come fully to the defense of the saudis if he isn't deciding on a confrontation and you've been reporting on this story for a while now the saudi prosecutor met his take his counterparts the first meeting certainly the say at least was disappointing the second meeting allowed them to get access to the statements from the eighteen suspects what's the next move what did that what's the next kind of investigative diplomatic move between the saudi state prosecutor and his turkish counterpart do you think. well. on the surface it would look like the next move is found maybe but turkey is very keen on having me the eighteen suspects repatriated to turkey where they would stand trial an

bottom of what happened here to show he met with both the saudi king and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in riyadh alan fischer as more. smiles and handshakes as mike from peer arrived in saudi arabia to begin a series of high profile meetings u.s. secretary of state met with king solomon before sitting down with crown prince mohammed bin salman the man the turks believe ordered an operation against journalist and u.s. resident jamal khashoggi he made no public comment but the state department issued what's called the readout of the meeting afterward seeing the secretary and the crown prince agreed on the importance of a thorough transparent and timely investigation that provides an answer is because i don't want to be understood as details began to emerge about what the turks believe happened to the writer donald trump tweeted just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate he was with secretary of state might pompey or during the call and told me that he's already started and will rapidly expand a full and co