senate passed a resolution in december holding the crown prince mohammed bin responsible for the murder just last week saudi arabia said eleven people it's believed were behind the killing have gone on trial but for least no name. let's go live now to jamal shell in istanbul and just tell us what's happening that small one hundred days. well there are a small gathering go of human rights activists gathered outside there were led by amnesty international who one of the representatives read out a statement essentially to mark the one hundred days but also to remind the world the justice is still not being served through the perpetrators of that murder it's very important for remember that. with all the outrage. spillover that's happened in occurred as a result of this murder there were reports that the crown prince himself the key suspect in this was advised by members of the trumpet ministration that you'd be able to weather the storm that's you know it would only last for two or three months maximum and after that people would forgets about it and that's why one hundred days since the m

at the same time, a reflects mohammed bin salman's wish to consolidate all l por in his country and toakake it clear o civil society, to the public, thatat the lifting of the drivig ban is not because [indiscernible] but because he decided it. it is a clear signal to the saudi public not to get any ideas, n not to think k that jut becaususe he lifted d this drivg ban thahat it had anything to do with what the public is demanding and that he will severely punish the saudi public who make any demands on him. in a sense, he is signaling we will act with absolute authority, absolute monarch. amy: let's go to another clip from the censored episode of "patot act" on silic valley's lalationip w witsaudii arabia. >> since 2016, m h has iesteted on the11 billion in silinn lleyey, king s sdi arabia the largest single funding source for u. startups. me on, silicon vley. u'u' supuppod to be antitiapitalist. you take money fm m saud aria? so you're against slaughterhouses unless they are in yemen? , you aretney radsch talking about this earlier. >> i think this is a really critical point that might

secretary of state is in riyadh for talks with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin . mike pompei or says he wants accountability for the met a journalist jamal khashoggi. visited qatar uncooled on gulf countries to end their dispute. today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have important work continue to do together and united states of the parties involved will see once again the benefits of cooperation and taking actions necessary to rebuild unity in their ranks a united g.c.c. is essential to the sense of the middle east region alliance which we hope will include the g.c.c. egypt and jordan police and through dawn have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters in khartoum they're calling for president omar al bashir to step down international rights groups say at least forty people have

suttle cottony was a top aide to the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman he was fired in october just days after the murder of khashoggi came to light he was among seventeen saudis sanctioned by the us government over the murder also played a central role in efforts to bring exiled critics like ji back to the country we saw her little josh on earlier executive director of the arab center of washington who tell us the apparent disappearance of the nie is likely part of a saudi strategy of keeping mohamed bin salman insulated from the murder of casualty as a matter of fact it's a kind of natural progression of the investigation particularly the saudi version of the investigation they have sheltered some of the keep personalities that were involved or accused of being involved whether by turkey or by the international community or even by saudi arabia as in this case solid oak lakhani is a very visible person very close to the crown prince and with the intention of the saudi campaign right now to keep the crown prince clear from any accusations with regards to the murder of questionably

the latest leg of his middle east tour mike pompei will be holding talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman pompei left qatar a few hours ago after calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it's gone on for far too long. has more. mike from paling qatar where the message to the gulf countries and their dispute the west political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaped i mean been hammered out fanny greeted bomb peo after discussions with qatar's foreign minister said mohammed but i'll get a man out of fannie both countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and military cooperation that includes expanding the largest u.s. military base in the middle east dade near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the issues of interest for our country's regional issues starting with the gulf cooperation council a

he does not believe that mohamed bin solomon had a role in the killing often at the saudi consulate in istanbul despite the cia coming up with evidence and conclusions that there was some sort of involvement by the saudi leadership including muhammad bin salim on so that is one of the issues which will further improve ties between the united states and turkey which was a mandate that lindsey graham came with this is the second visit by a high placed u.s. official to turkey after the announcement of the two could drawn from the turkish syrian border by the u.s. president and that was the other important issue that was discussed between us but between the u.s. senator and dish officials the troop withdrawal and what lindsey graham is hoping for is a phased withdrawal rather than abrupt pullout where u.s. forces are in the. the syrian territory for enough time that i said is defeated his view is different again from the u.s. president who thinks that iceland has been defeated u.s. senator lindsey graham is important because he sits on three very influential committees including defense

soley on saudi arabia particularly the crown prince mohammed bin samana and his alleged involvement in killing we actually have a clip from the episode if you haven't seen it take a look just a few months ago crown prince mohammed bin some on a k n b s was hailed as the reformer of the arab world needed but the revelations about to show these killing have shattered that image and blows my mind that it took the killing of a washington post journalist for everyone to go oh oh i guess he's really not a reformer meanwhile every muslim person you know was like yeah you know. he's the crown prince of saudi arabia. yeah ok why wouldn't they and he didn't find that funny the saudis didn't like it the country's communications watchdog brant they've basically forced netflix to remove this episode in saudi arabia so you can't see it there when news of that got out people around the world were not happy they saw this as censorship and now here's what some people were saying at least on twitter this is the executive director of human rights watch in the middle east she says netflix's claim to suppo

diplomat there and mohammed bin salman.ecretary of state mike pompeo is in the region to shore up support for u.s. policies. he will likely focus on iran and syria, but he's been dogged by questions about the murder of journalist jamal kashoggi. >> he has vowed to raise the issue with saudi officials and says u.s. policy has been consistent. now, that is despite the white house questioning intelligence reports, saying the crown prince was behind the killing. >> and the other major item on the secretary of state's plate, the agenda that he will have, the war in syria. he's reassuring allies in the region that the u.s. withdrawal will not create more chaos. now some equipment is leaving syria, but the 2,000 or so military personnel there will remain. >> president trump tweeted about the withdrawal sunday along with this message for turkey. don't attack the kurds. mr. trump says the u.s. will devastate turkey economically if it doesn't comply. >> keeping in mind turkey considers some kurdish groups to be terrorists. the presid

salman in their forthcoming pompeo's words to mohammed bin salman in theirforthcoming meeting?mike pompeo has a very top foreign affairs orderfrom this pompeo has a very top foreign affairs order from this trip ending that blockade on qatar, countering iranians ruins in the region, there's yemen on the table, but he is saying the right things that they are concerned about the murder of khashoggi and that not enough has been done to investigate who exactly was responsible. now it has to be said that now with the changing dynamics in washington, democratically controlled congress and also in the senate, the hand is being forced and they will have to deal with yemen more forcefully with the saudis and also the khashoggi murder. canady meanwhile has been taking a very different but a very bold stands —— canada. publicly and locally criticising saudi arabia on human rights issues and of course most notably in recent days giving asylu m most notably in recent days giving asylum to the saudi teenager who locked herself in a bangkok hotel room saying she feared her family was going to

so ji disappeared from this point on which evidence began to mount linking saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the murder now in may don't tell you but the saudis finally admitted that he was killed but said it was a result of the brule roll call advisor patani and deputy intelligence chief siri was sacked and eighteen saudis arrested but taken says it was a premeditated murder and on november tenth it said recordings from inside the consulate with several countries including the saudis the us senate passed a resolution in december holding crown prince mohammed bin someone responsible for the murder and last week saudi arabia said eleven people it believes were behind the killing of going on trial no names were released shelled as the latest now from istanbul human rights activists gathered outside there were that by amnesty international who one of the representatives read out a statement essentially to mark the one hundred days but also to remind the wall that justice is still not being served through the perpetrators of murder it's very important for remember that. with all the o

will be holding talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma qatar a few hours ago after calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it had gone on for far too long has more. mike bomb paling qatar where the message to the gulf countries and their dispute the west political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaped i mean been hammered out than he greeted bomb peo after discussions with qatar's foreign minister said mohamed but i'll get a fanny both countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and military cooperation that includes expanding the largest u.s. military base in the middle east and the date near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the issues of interest for our countries regional issues starting with the gulf cooperation council and the peace process in the middle east as well as the rec

unanimous vote in the senate holding saudi arabia accountable and saying that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon must accept responsibility for the murder now that was never taken up in the house which was at that stage controlled by the republicans but now you have a democratic majority in the house this may well change and we've heard from members of that democrat controlled house that yes they will be seeking forms of legislation to hold saudi arabia and to hold the crown prince him self responsible for the murder that would most likely then be taken up in the senate the senate has already made very clear that on this case there is bipartisan agreement on holding saudi arabia responsible so certainly one can expect legislation emerging from congress in the weeks or maybe months ahead the question is what will president trump do how will he respond to it will he attempt to veto it's going to be a very very strong pressure put on him by congress mike hanna live in washington thank you and air france is to suspend its flights in saudi arabia from next month apparently due to the ritz poo

he will speak to crown prince mohammed bin salman about the killing when they meet. >> this was an outragesct. we're determined to get at the facts as quickly as comprehensively as we can. >> reporter: the "washington post" reported in november that the cia had concludede ehad hisisor afrrange the ilin the crown prince has denied any role. despite international outrage the white house has continued to show support for the prince. and for now it's clear pompeo considered him an ally. >> and we'll talk about all the important things we do with the kingdom of saudi arabia and all the support they provide. >> reporter:ina cbs news, londo. >> we may soon learn more about the motive. the suspect is going to be in court tomorrow. in wisconsin tonight. >> reporter: they say jake thomas patterson planned the abduction of closs. the 21-year-old acted alone, even shaved his head to avoid leaving evidence at the closs home. >> we don't believe the suspect had any connection with the closs family. and the million dollar question is why and we need find that out. >> reporter: jayme's parents were shot to

the latest leg of his middle east tour by pompei will be holding talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma payless qatar on sunday after calling on countries in the gulf to end their dispute saying it's gone on for far too long. has more. mike bomb paling qatar where the message to the gulf countries and their dispute the west political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaped i mean been hammered out fanny greeted on peo after discussions with qatar's foreign minister said mohammed bin al the fannie both countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and military cooperation that includes expanding the largest u.s. military base in the middle east dade near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the issues of interest for our country's regional issues starting with the gulf cooperation council and the peace process in the m

a backbench meeting on brics that could decide the future of this county arabia's crown prince mohammed bin so montel the first of two meetings with british prime minister to resume a red carpet has been rolled down early at the prince had lunch with britain's queen elizabeth at buckingham palace and. during his three day visit the editor that he threatened what meets with all the senior royals and dine with the queen son and grandson that's the way even chinese t.v. covered razor maze arguable genuflection to someone she know appears to be labeling a murderer a mind you this is the kind of questioning u.k. state mandated media presented its questions to journalist jamal khashoggi when he was alive apologies for the quality robin solomon seems to be saying. i know we have to transform ourselves we have to modernize we have to change and i will be that agent of change your course of an autocrat here compared him to protean on saddam and others but surely the message of the last few years is that the best. arab nation like saudi arabia has a leader or is prepared to us has power for genuine r

video news agency ripley was among those killed mohamed bin being contributing to replace the twenty sixty one producer on thirty stories for the agency his colleagues describe him as a courageous untalented journalist he survived by his wife and seven month old daughter here some of the last images he captured during his reporting along with a recount of recent offense in tripoli. this is us. well. ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin khalifa who lost his life during clashes in tripoli over the past three years he worked with us to deliver high quality reports in difficult circumstances we send our deepest condolences to his family. venezuela's embattled president is facing fresh challenges to his authority his second term in office on wednesday a group of exiled military officers called for nicolas maduro his overthrow saying the army must reject his leadership in the wake of last may's disputed election they force their support for the opposition leader. he also has washington's from backing and says his party is ready to form a government with more

and is expected to meet the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan in riyadh in the coming hours. the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of. syria's government has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the suburbs of the city as he was forces get ready to leave her considers the kurdish y.p. which is backed by the u.s. to be a terrorist group. called the growing for a recount of votes in democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election opposition leader martin for you to victory has been stolen from them is accusing the declared winner and his rival felix she scared of making a deal with the outgoing president joseph kabila also the influential regional body known as sonic is adding to calls by catholic church leaders for an invest. occasion in two elections. we have states are phrases on shake because the people have decided and the wishes of the people will come true i am a man of face. covering events from. what people think of christians here in the catholic and the catholic church is a huge influence yes

ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin khalifa who lost his life during clashes in tripoli over the past three years he worked with us to deliver high quality reports in difficult circumstances we send our deepest condolences to his family. as i said has extended their deepest regrets to call the first family you're watching the international i have more news at the top the hour. we've reached terminal debt. that no amount of economic activity going forward will ever provide the tax revenues sufficient to pay down the step we're past the point of no return we've gone through the debt looking glass this means only one outcome the central banks will continue to print to keep the interest going on this insurmountable debt pile which means wealth and income gap are guaranteed to increase which means the g.l.a. show movement is going global and the global insurrection is upon us and that's a guarantee. but there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct. the drug is the cause like some fear depression. because it literally need h

talked about the war in yemen and the threat posed by iran in meetings with crown prince mohammed bin man they agreed as well on the importance of deescalating operations in yemen and sticking to the ceasefire agreed to last month on players canceled his kuwaiti leg of the trip to return to the u.s. for a family funeral which has been following developments for us from kuwait city so he's not going to be going there now but. overall i mean let's talk about the de meetings in saudi arabia. we mentioned there did the war in yemen but presumably did the own going investigation into the murder of jim is something that would have come up there in those discussions. well you would assume however a publically speaking and through the statements thoughts were pushed out both by the saudi embassy in. rather sorry the american embassy in saudi arabia and the state department there was no mention of the shock she case the murder of that saudi journalist over a hundred days ago widely believed to be at the hands of or at least rather the order of crown prince mohamed bin someone hasn't if we say

and one of his first episodes it focused solely on saudi arabia particularly the crown prince mohammed bin samana and his alleged involvement in killing we actually have a clip from the episode if you haven't seen it take a look just a few months ago from prince mohammed bin salon a k n b s was hailed as the reformer of the arab world needed but the revelations about to show his killing have shattered that image and blows my mind that it took the killing of a washington post journalist for everyone to go on. i guess he's really not a reformer meanwhile every muslim person you know was like yeah you know. he's the crown prince of saudi arabia. yeah ok why would he filed and he didn't find that funny the saudis didn't like it the country's communications watchdog brant they basically forced network netflix to remove this episode in saudi arabia as you can't see it there when news of that got out people around the world were not happy they saw this as censorship and then here's what some people were saying at least on twitter this is the executive director of human rights watch in the middle

senate has passed a resolution claiming crown prince mohammed bin salon for the murder of jamal khashoggi let's just check in with white house correspondent can be helped it who's in d.c. of course all change in american politics they can really both houses i mean before the christmas break we saw the senate make a very clear position on jamal khashoggi case now a new house of representatives and a democratic rule will have its say and potentially the president under more pressure. certainly there is going to be more pressure on the president with respect to this issue with democrats in control of the house of representatives convening today for the one hundred sixteenth congress as you pointed out there were not one but two measures that were passed in december by the u.s. senate and they certainly did rebuke trump for his handling of the case of the so far specifically the fact that he has disregarded the assessment of the cia concluding that the saudi crown prince was responsible for ordering the killing of . so not only did we see that rebuke with respect to the murder but also we saw

the latest leg of his middle east tour micron peo will be holding talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound than they are left for riyadh from cata which has been blockaded by saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt since june twenty seventeen he called on the countries to end their disputes saying it's gone on for far too long. has will. mike bomb paling qatar where the message to the gulf countries and their dispute the west political crisis in decades for the gulf cooperation council president and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests the emir of qatar shaped i mean been hammered out than he greeted bomb peo after discussions with qatar's foreign minister said mohammed been a little fanny both countries say they are keen to consolidate trade and military cooperation that includes expanding the largest u.s. military base in the middle east dade near the capital doha is home to the forward operating base of u.s. central command. and then we have discussed all the iss

as part of a so-called hit squad it's included former diplomats and close aides to crown prince mohammed bin sandman and although intelligence agencies such as the cia have said they're fairly confident inside man was behind the murder of the journalist the kingdom has always denied his involvement instead claiming the crown prince's advisor saddam funny and general ahmed. the saudis say justice will be delivered but it'll be in their own way. that's way seems is through having secret court hearings that are closed to the media and international human rights groups where the accused on to name him to death penalties are sought seemingly arbitrarily it is one of the reasons why the turkish government sees the culprits should face trial in istanbul and valves they will be tried in absentia even if saudi arabia refuses to hand them over all of them one issue instead of a subdued yanni according to turkish war because saudi arabia has not cooperated the suspect can be tried in absentia but without issuing a final verdict it turkey can also defer the case to the united nations or other internatio

ankara where he's been meeting turkish president recipe one graeme's been fiercely critical of mohammed bin some other kucing are being complicit in the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. start sanctioning those involved with the killing that mr shogi will make a definitive statement that m.b.a.'s will that it and is responsible for it and come up with a series of sanctions to make sure that others understand this is not what you do if you're an ally of the united states senator graham also discussed the plan would draw all of us troops from syria saying he hopes it doesn't happen until i sell is destroyed once and for all the former u.s. envoy to the anti eisel coalitions as there's no chance of that warning the pull out will only give the our group new life or a summer binge of it has the latest from. the syrian border. this is not the first time u.s. senator lindsey graham has voiced his opinion about how he feels the killing of journalist jamal to shuggie was carried out and who he thinks is responsible in the past he's called saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon a wrecking ba

president donald trump as well who sees still mohammed bin solomon as a close ally of the united states policy in the middle east the so-called dean of the century all of it on a very key role that saudi arabia needs to play and the u.s. president has been standing by it but this is in contrast to what the u.s. president has been saying but in line with what the turkish president has been saying the turkish government believes that the orders for the killing of journalist amal to shakti came directly from the top and it believes that the at the lawns of power including the crown prince are involved and not only syria policy and the withdrawal of u.s. troops that had been announced by trump concerns senator graham has always said so what is he trying to achieve by visiting ankara at this moment. well it was a very clear message one of the things that he said in this news conference in ankara today was that if americans want to feel safe at home they need to deal with what is happening in syria he talked about various things including the influence of iran and how immediate pullout will e

a backbench meeting on brics that could decide the future or this saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed binso monk helped the first of two meetings with british prime minister teresa may the red carpet has been rolled out earlier the prince had lunch with britain's queen elizabeth at buckingham palace and during his three day visit they exit the only throne what meets with all the senior royals and dine with the queen someone and grandson that's the way he.

of the main advisor true crown prince mohammed bin someone who is apparently meant to be under investigation but the reports are that he still has a lot of sway in riyadh was actually one of the people who was overlooking and overseeing personally the torture and even through use of rape against political detainees namely women detainees in saudi arabia so comparison that he spoke about that as well what people will be wondering well is that's how he would be insisting on the main suspect in the murder of. who have been some. how will be insisting through him but some sort of due process be taking place considering that the cia and intelligence agencies in the united states believe that it is the crown prince who ordered or at least had a very big role in killing him what about on the g.c.c. crisis jamal he has cancelled now the stop in kuwait which was supposed to be the last leg on his on his tour of the region what does that suggest as far as resolving the dispute between qatar and the countries that are blockading it well obviously the symbolism in kuwait of for.

secretary of state is in saudi arabia for talks with saudi crown prince mohammed bin he says he will bring up the matter of journalist jamal khashoggi he called on gulf nations to unite and end the blockade against qatar. the foreign ministers of iran and iraq have met in baghdad they discussed u.s. sanctions against iran and the normalization of relations with syria. chinese exports have suffered their biggest monthly drop in two years as pressure builds over a trade war with the us china's december exports fell four point four percent on the previous year affected by slowing sales and most of its major markets imports for the month also saw a shock drop of seven point six percent that's the biggest monthly decline since july twenty sixth bazza beijing still maintained a wreck or trade surplus with washington in twenty eighteen of more than three hundred twenty three billion dollars china's trade surplus has been a sore point for the u.s. and prompted tit for tat terrorists last year christopher balding is an associate professor at fulbright university in vietnam he joins us now on

the us senate has blamed the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, for the murder.r washington correspondent, barbara plett usher, live from riyadh. he said he would be bringing up the murder, where are we on that? he said he would be bringing up the murder, where are we on that7m he said he would be bringing up the murder, where are we on that? it is something that mr pompeo says is an outrage, the killing and the united states wa nts outrage, the killing and the united states wants to see and get more fa cts states wants to see and get more facts about what happened and also to make sure that those responsible are held fully accountable. he has said there is no direct reporting about a link between mohammed bin saud mine and the murder, but he equally wants to raise the issue of making sure those who did carry it out will be punished and the reporting has been included from intelligence agencies that those in the crown prince's centre circle we re the crown prince's centre circle were involved, so i think these are the things he will be asking the crown prince and

secretary of state is in riyadh for talks with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin selma micron payors says he wants accountability for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. visited castle and called on gulf countries to end their dispute. today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have important work to continue to do together in the united states of the parties involved will see once again the benefits of cooperation and taking actions necessary to rebuild unity in their ranks a united g.c.c. is essential to the south of the middle east region alliance which we hope will include the g.c.c. egypt and jordan some breaking news and we're hearing of a plane crash in iran the falls news agency says ten people have been killed near tehran we'll have more here and tell you as we get it police since you don't have fired tear gas to dis

he has a lot to talk about with crown prince mohammed bin salman, including the wars in syria and yemen the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: secretary of state mike pompeo's politically- sensitive visit to saudi arabia today comes as the kingdom continues to face scrutiny over the brutal murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. pompeo told "face the nation" he will speak with crown prince mohammed bin salman about the killing when they meet. >> this was an outrageous act, an unacceptable murder. and those who were responsible will be held accountable by the united states of america. we're determined to do that. we're determined to get at the facts just as quickly as comprehensively as we can. >> reporter: "the washington post" reported in november that the c.i.a. had concluded bin salman had his advisor arrange the killing. khashoggi was murdered and dismembered while visiting the saudi consulate in istanbul in october. the crown prince has denied any role. despite international outrage, the white house has continued to show support for the prin

secretary of state mike pompeo will meet with saudi crown prince mohamed bin salman on sunday.will address the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. on saturday, he told reporters u.s. cooperation with saudi arabia is very important. he also says america will hold khashoggi's killer responsible. >>> a white house official confirms to cnn the trump administration is preparing for six more weeks, six more weeks of partial government shutdown. it is already the longest shutdown in u.s. history. some 800,000 federal employees are now into their fourth week of working without pay. >> kind of a showdown as well, because people are expressing their understandable frustration. it is the start of a new week, but the partial shutdown and bombshell headlines about the u.s. president will set the agenda. here is how it played out last week. on monday, press trump digs in on his threat to declare a national emergency, which would take money from disaster funds to build his border wall. >> it is against this backdrop he addressed the nation from the oval office on tuesday. despite the

just a few months ago crown prince mohammed bin some on a k n b s was hailed as the reformer of the arab world needed but the revelations about to show his killing have shattered that image in a blows my mind that it took the killing of the washington post journalist for everyone to go on. i guess he's really not a reformer meanwhile every muslim person you know was like yeah you know. he's the crown prince of saudi arabia. ok well apparently the saudis didn't think that was very funny and surprise surprise and the country's communications watchdog they basically forced netflix to take that episode down in saudi arabia when news of that got out people were not very happy about it in fact here's some of what people were saying this is the executive director of human rights watch in the middle east and she says that netflix is claim just a court artistic freedom means nothing if it bows to demands of government officials who believe in no freedom for their citizens not artistic not political and not comedic even jamal khashoggi former editor of the washington post speaking out here and she

the us senate has blamed the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, for the murder.aise the issue. well, our washington correspondent, barbara plett usher, is in riyadh. earlier she explained mr pompeo would be bringing up the khashoggi case. it's something that mr pompeo says is an outrage, the killing, and the united states wants to see, get more facts about what happened, and also to make sure that those responsible are held fully accountable. now he has said there is no direct reporting about a link between mohammed bin salman and the murder, but he equally wants to raise the issue of making sure those who did carry it out will be punished, and the reporting has been, including from intelligence agents, that those in the crown prince's inner circle were involved. so i think these are the kinds of things he's going to be asking the crown prince and pressing him and other saudi officials to say, we want to see that those, that you're serious about punishing the people involved, that we also want to get more facts about what happened, because the state department ha

secretary of state arrived in the saudi capital riyadh where he's due to meet the crown prince mohammed bin salon they're expected to discuss the murder of jon lester shoji at the saudi consulates in istanbul last year compare is on a tour of the middle east he traveled to riyadh from castle where he said the rift between gulf countries is gone on for too long and urged him to end that dispute today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have important work continue to do together and the united states hopes the parties involved will see once again the benefits of cooperation to take actions necessary to rebuild unity in their ranks a united jews is essential to the sense of the middle eastern alliance which we hope will include the g.c.c. egypt and jordan and all the headlines and bob why has more than doubled the price of fuel of the nigh

cia's conclusion that the saudi crown prince ordered the killing president donald trump defended mohammed bin salman saying we may never know all of the facts the u.s. senate passed a resolution last month holding mohammed been someone responsible songe arabia said it put eleven suspects on trial last week but didn't name them techies latest say the culprits should stand trial in istanbul and if the saudis refused to hand them over they'll be tried in absentia. well let's bring in our panel now from istanbul matthew brize a senior fellow at the atlantic council a former u.s. ambassador to azerbaijan and former white house official in beirut we have rami kouri professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard university and from cornwall in the u.k. on skype david haye human rights lawyer and co-founder of the legal consultancy sterling hay and detained international welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story ronnie corey. was your friend has anything positive come about in the last one hundred days that make you hopeful that just

and if those individuals are connected directly to mohammed bin salim on as we believe they they are then of course that does change the picture although it effectively clarifies information that we already have that he was murdered that this was not a rogue operation and it is highly likely that it reaches the highest elements of the saudi royal family ok well look a little bit more about the investigation or later in this discussion and the role that these sort of pictures could play in that same i'm just interested to get an idea as to why turkey has released these particular pictures now is a continuation is that of this trip leaking of information that we've been seeing the past three months. well actually it does informations as i said earlier was also included in the book as well and turkey is conducting gives him an investigation but also trying to give chance to be out to reveal itself however so far we haven't seen any corporation attempts for him decide yet of us so turkey is releasing its information leaked by leaked and trying to. show that the case is still continue des

every aren't at the moment saudi arabia does not possess any nuclear weapons but crown prince mohammed bin salman has previously expressed his desire to obtain them to counter what he calls threats from iran. to sudan where more protests are planned on thursday against president omar bashir as he reaches out for support from our allies on wednesday bashir met qatar as a man i mean bin hamad out funny in doha it was russia's first trip abroad since the demonstrations started last month let's speak to mohammed yvonne who is in khartoum for some odd more demonstrations expected today tell us about the momentum that's growing around these protests and what we can expect from today's demonstrations fully momentum is the word the organizers of these protests trying to keep and create more of it today they haven't asked they have called for seventeen locations in where protests should take place and thus a modest number of locations since the beginning of these several weeks of protests against the government also in all major cities in sudan today expected more protests i mean the word as you sa

sound in ca danny and ahmed the last cd to recently dismissed officials linked to crown prince mohammed bin some men. and resumes new president jalal bolts or not has begun his first week in office with a purge of government contractors seen as sympathetic to previous left wing administrations also held his first full cabinet meeting since he was sworn in two days ago he's already unveiled plans to step up privatizations toughen prison sentencing guidelines and hand control over indigenous land claims to the powerful agriculture ministry john homan has more from brazilian. puerto rico. now his president. can begin making good on his election promises he'll face some big challenges. crime is number one more than sixty thousand brazilians were killed in two thousand and seventeen alone novel solution giving more people access to guns and police more license to kill you're going to. have ways to defend themselves will honor and respect those who sacrifice their lives for safety. but brazilian officers already killed thousands most of them young black it's been questioned if an even harder line

well saddle qahtani was a top aide to saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man he was fired in october just days after the murder of came to light he was among seventeen saudis sanctioned by the u.s. government over the murder qahtani also played a central role in efforts to bring exile critics like ashaji back to the country. now a delegation of u.s. officials is in china for talks aimed at resolving a trade war the us president says he's optimistic about a new round of negotiations early last year the u.s. imposed tariffs on two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods and beijing retaliated and hit the u.s. with one hundred ten billion dollars of tariffs well america's farmers the car industry and small manufacturers have been particularly hurt by the levies both sides have agreed to a ninety day truce on imposing new tariffs which will expire in march pauline newman is managing director of asia analytic where she covers china's political economy she doesn't expect an agreement between china and the u.s. before march. well basically i think the americans are under less p

the latest leg of his middle east war he's scheduled to hold talks with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon was expected to discuss jamal khashoggi smudger and the blockade of qatar. what's more on this let's now speak to you brian fayyad who's an associate professor of conflict resolution of the doha institute for graduate studies thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera abraham now even the americans are saying that the g.c.c. crisis has gone on for too long and that the blockade of khattala must and will pump pale. back this with action where the saudi's enemy right is we actually push them to end the blockade not serious action for the moment i think the could of the status quo is helping the united states is in the interest of the united as it's making arm sales for both sides of the crisis so the united states is not in a rush to in the skies i however but what they're talking about is military force regional military for exact count tehran's influenza is it really in their interest that there are divisions within the exact the saw the change in the in the status qu