he was one of the 3 who didn't vote for him had been some man to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stent. he was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. as the most senior 3 and. actually overseas for many years came back. ears ago to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family prince wade's return to the kingdom in 2018 came weeks after he appeared to criticize the saudi leadership during a protest in london against the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen one of my you know what does the whole of the al saud family have to do with this there are certain individuals responsible in the king to try and prince and others in the state. prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king so

challenge there are reports of an attempted coup though some analysts believe crown prince mohammed bin solomon is further consolidating his power mohamed bin solomon known as n.b.'s has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him he replaced been naive as to the throne and 27 tane forcing him into effective house arrest n.b.s. his uncle prince ahmed was said to be concerned by the crown prince's grip on power one of a small group who voted against m.p.'s taking over. this is something extraordinary and saudi politics prince armored by the past rules of saudi politics should have enjoyed immunity even if he was publicly a little critical of some policy but that immunity is god there is no immunity in saudi arabia mohammed bin solomon can get you no matter who you are that's the message. and 2017 dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen around our pen detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti-corruption drive rights groups disagreed one year later mohammed bin solomon's international profile was further tarnished af

he was one of the 3 who didn't vote for him had been summoned to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stand. she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. who is the most senior that's really and. actually overseas for many years came back. ears ago to to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family the prince of wales return to the kingdom in 2018 came weeks after he appeared to criticize the saudi leadership during a protest in london against the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen one of my it is you know what does the whole of the al saud family have to do with this there are certain individuals responsible in the king to try and prince and others in the state. prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef or both seen as possible rivals to the throne

the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef as a to the throne and 27 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seeing him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes that there is term order within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessman were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti corruption dr rights groups disagreed hundreds of activists including women's rights campaigner illusional have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a call he doesn't want any inde

right after that saudi arabia offered up to a $10.00 discount per barrel just because i guess mohamed bin solomon got a little bit upset and threw a temper tantrum so that's what happened there but you know that seismic sell off a 30 percent and then followed by a like 101213 percent rise and boom bust and boom bust i thought this was an interesting tweet to kind of look at the whole situation is from roy said that we mentioned that in the last episode and he was so prescient about this pandemic situation when he predicted sort of a pandemic basically that negative rates were signaling that he predicted that last june or july he says i think we have just witnessed the end of the petrodollar system non us countries will soon see a new unit of account medium of exchange and store of value a new bretton woods that will not be decided in america or by americans right well all the key players necessary for that are involved right now saudi arabia russia states so the petro dollar of course was established in the early 1907 days with america and saudi arabia when america defaulted on its sovereign debt

so that we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin solomon has detained some of the most high profile members of his royal family that includes form a crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as a prince had been i've been a saudi that's younger brother of the saudi king report suggests that they've both been accused of treason so to gods have also arrested one of them had been nice brought this. lightly to be under the threat of life imprisonment all possible ask you should both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the throne if king solomon died without serious senior correspondent jim wallace shell explains what these detentions mean for the kingdom and the impact on saudi politics. in terms of his significance it's huge because we're talking about true of the most senior members of the saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been seen as supporters of crown prince may have been someone in the direction that he's been taking the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy what's printed it is very difficult to ascertain nee

challenge there are reports of an attempted coup though some analysts believe crown prince mohammed bin solomon is further consolidating his power mohamed bin solomon known as m.b.a.'s has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him he replaced been naive as to the throne and 27 tane forcing him into effective house arrest n.b.s. his uncle prince ahmed was said to be concerned by the crown prince's grip on power one of a small group who voted against m.p.'s taking over this is something extraordinary and politics. by the past rules of saudi politics should have enjoyed immunity even if he was publicly a little critical of some policy but that immunity is gone there is no immunity in saudi arabia mohammed bin solomon can get you no matter who you are that's the message. in $27.00 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen around our pen detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti-corruption drive rights groups disagreed one year later mohammed bin solomons international profile was further tarnished after the killi

he was one of the 3 who didn't vote for him had been summoned to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stand to show she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and eva found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. who is the most senior that's really and. actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death. brian al jazeera. lebanon's top leaders say the country shouldn't rip a $1200000000.00 worth of debt that still on monday the prime minister president and central bank governor of agreed to back any decision that the government makes to manage the de

russia also put this into context mohammed bin solomon has overthrew an uncle or cousin he's got like 5000 uncles and cousins who are princes and so he's got to keep that economy stable because he's got 5000 people and his family wanted to overthrow him and replace them just as he had overthrown somebody else i think he's in the process of executing 4 of his cousins around close at the moment you know it's so he has a situation that's precarious there and he has a huge population that needs to be fed so you've got that situation and lots of debt in russia you've got loads of 4 x. reserves loads of national wealth resurface loads of gold and loads of resources and you know saudi arabia relies on 87 percent of their imports are our exports sorry are our oil and about 53 percent and russia is oil and energy related so they're a little bit my more diverse it should probably be more diverse but in terms of the u.s. and all of this debt like we could we could have thrown it we didn't get a free ride ok we got a lot of free stuff. but at the cost of manufacturing and you know instead of buil

its longer term visions of getting off of oil and expanding its economy under the vision of mohamed bin solomon so it's really people have to look at this as a sense of it these are not just necessarily coincidences in my point of view because the ruble was strengthening last year russia. has been on a de dollarization platform in order to diversify away from dollar reliance in part to fight sanctions thrown against it as well as its partners but also to strengthen its own ambitions to have its currency the currency of its allies really rival if. it's the 47 year old petro dollar standard which is the effective monopoly globally with regard to oil or gas pricing so there's a lot of you know it's a game of chicken really funny scenes there's a lot who is going to be able to see exactly and there's a lot of moving parts of the as you've just explained here a couple is go to you in beirut here i mean what. i'd please explain to me why saudi arabia thinks that russia for example is going to blink 1st now its lifting costs are very very low but it's budgetary constraints are extraordinary considerin

happening in the geo political oil space lattimer putin dumps saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon to start a war on america's shale oil industry that's bloomberg take i responded with the red queen was at war with shale long before this headline oh right i should mention that as part of the social distancing that we're practicing in the pandemic we've built a studio in an actual treehouse slash studio and you might hear a couple of birds tweeting in the background because we're living with the birds in a tree have to practice good social distancing during the pandemic hearing them as a good sign because this is a sign that spring is here and perhaps we don't know but then perhaps the couvade 19 coronavirus could disappear. yeah so with the shell industry in the us like i pointed out recently you know there's no reason why russia should subsidize american shale industry if there were russia's been saying now for 20 years you know let's be friends let's do business let's grow together and about america needed a scapegoat for the hillary loss in 2016 and everything that's gone wrong

what's behind this latest wave of arrests and i'll turn 1st to you david hurst if i may is mohamed bin solomon n.b.s. as he's more commonly known of course on the verge of seizing full power in saudi arabia. i think he is yes. there are indications. that he is. i think that he wants to finish the job that was started when he ousted the cousin mohammed bin nayef. from from the post of crown prince i think things have been going badly for him ever since if you remember back in those days. the the crown prince was a new crown prince was at the height of his popularity. he was. a the the the fresh young thing the who's who's who's coming in blowing in and a new wave of reform even people like my late friend jamal how should she thought he was the new groom that was needed back in those days since and he's lost a lot of his popularity virtually nothing is going right to him certainly not the war in yemen not the i.p.o. of around co the oil prices going down and now you've got coronavirus as well and restricting or cutting and possibly also the house too so he's under a lot of pressure and i think h

the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef as edge of the throne and $27.00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes identities term born within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with masks security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti corruption drive rights groups disagreed. hundreds of activists including women's rights campaign illusional have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a call he doesn't want any

he was one of the 3 who didn't vote for him had been some man to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stent. she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and the of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. who is the most senior that's really and. actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death elixir brian al jazeera. joining us down the street here the troops wary who's director of the gulf study center cattle university what's your take on what's going on i think it's important to put things in a context what we. see today is actually has a

i don't know clark and all the top stories here on al-jazeera saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has detained high profile members of the royal family thanks to form a crown prince mohammed bin knife and the youngest brother of the saudi king report suggests that they have both been accused of treason others are a scene across bunch of mullah shell explains what these detentions mean for the kingdom and the impact on saudi policy. in terms of its significance it's sure it's because we're talking about true of the most senior members of the sort of saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been seen as supporters of compromise from harbin some on in the direction that he's been taking the country both domestically.

mohammed bin reports suggest they have been accused of treason and could face life imprisonment or the death penalty both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin salman for the throne when king solomon dies saudi gods have also arrested one of mohammed bin nayef brothers well al jazeera senior correspondent alex planes just what these detentions mean for the kingdom and the impact on saudi politics. in terms of his significance it's huge because we're talking about true of the most senior members of the saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been seen as supporters of crown prince may have been someone in the direction that he's been taking the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy what's printed it is very difficult to ascertain needless to say because saudis are very close culture in terms of back of transparency and no media freedom there but also what's peculiar about it is that these are 2 figures who have they've been under house arrest they haven't been able to move freely for a very long time so the idea that maybe they were trying to hatch some sort of coup is very far fetched and difficult to see considering the restraints they were under

over you watch out 0 reminder about top stories the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon just attain high profile members of the royal family include former crown prince mohammed bin nayef and the youngest brother of the saudi king report suggests that they have both been accused of treason. the number of cases of coronavirus worldwide has surpassed the 100000 mark more than 3000 people have lost their lives in china is now reporting 28 jets flying. in the us president donald trump has signed a bill providing more than 8000000000 dollars in emergency funding to fight the outbreak the number killed by the virus has risen to 15 that. for the 1st time in 3 months there have been no strikes or shelling in syria's it live province a cease fire agreement brokered by turkey and by russia on thursday appears to be holding but there have been reports of some finding in southern parts of the province between syrian government forces and a section of the opposition botts many syrians believe the fragile truce may not last for long. and yet i saw my supposed to believe there's a truce if i'm lis