my twitter account was hacked into 2014, and that is even before mohammed bin salman.e are law abiding citizens. we only practice freedom of speech and we have the right to imagine a future of our country. yes, we live in the security of the west, but even that can't be taken for granted. and we asked nobody to give us any extra security, and we just reached the conclusion that if you are in exile, you are in the diaspora and have fled the regime because your life is in danger, then you move to another country. you can't live in fear because it's not worth it. you might as welljust stay at home because the fear would be the same. therefore, brave exiles, men and women, came together to voice their dissent. and also present their ideas about the future of the country. so this fight goes on as far as you're concerned, but it may be a fight you cannot win. it's premature to rule it out, and all change in the whole world, a drastic change starts with an idea. it starts with an idea by brave people who are willing to sacrifice their life and endanger their families who are

you have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of crown prince mohammed bin salman.wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the world economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an investment opportunity for the entire world. what did you make of that? well, it's a familiar image and a familiar trick. saudi arabia has actually got away with murder on several occasions, the last of which was on the 2nd of october, 2018, whenjamal khashoggi was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul. so, i'm not surprised, buti think the pressure is mounting. many activists who are saudi but they are now in exile have put up several platforms and they have mobilised, and i think they have been successful in changing public opinion about the repression that was on in saudi arabia. however, i'm yet to see a change of heart and mind among western governments, especially partners and allies of the saudi regime. i guess that is what lies behind my opening question. the fact is the people that davos inv

and unfortunately i think mohammed bin salman felt as though he could get away with these types of activitiesause he had such a cozy relationship with the trump white house. the biden administration has to let mohammed bin salman, and as you point out so rightly, others throughout the region know that there is a new day if washington right now under the biden administration and if they do things like this, there will be accountability. >> before i have to let you go, what is america's strongest point of leverage over saudi arabia? do we have any leverage over them? >> saudi arabia needs us much more than we need saudi arabia. of course we want them to be a productive force in the region as far as energy, security, other type of things. but the relationship with the united states is critically important to saudi arabia. they know that they live in a dangerous neighborhood. you look at yemen, you look at syria, iraq, iran. the united states is the security guarantor for the kingdom. we will continue to be that. but that doesn't mean they should take the relationship for granted. and that doesn'

the saudi soccer league is named after mohammed bin salman. he idea that the americans could pressure the king of saudi arabia who i'm not sure has been coherent for many years into signing some memo that would then cause mohamed bin salman to slink off the scene i think is unrealistic. >> all right. we are going to have to take a break here. when we come back, stay with us. we'll talk a little bit more about this. but also the biden administration's other big move in the middle east. a strike on iran-backed militias in syria. >>> fareed zakaria gps is sponsored by cleveland clinic. and stay tuned for stories of cleveland clinic's innovations. >>> we're back with nick kristof, tarek mehsud and megan o'sullivan. nick, i want to give you a chance to respond to the previous discussion. we were talking about mohammed bin salman and whether he should personally be held accountable. i think the point was, if you try to play politics in saudi arab yay, it is going to backfire. the guy is very powerful. he's consolidated power. this is a big slap on th

the issue you're raising is what about something more direct with mohammed bin salman, and i would simplyuld be done is to get mohammed bin salman to outline the kind of structural changes that are being taken in the decision—making process within saudi arabia to ensure that nothing like this can ever happen again. i think that's not only important for saudi arabia but it's also important to make it clear that there will be a spotlight shone on all of these kinds of actions — but not only by the saudis, we are seeing the iranians do this, repeatedly, there are indications that turkey has done this, so i think it is important notjust for saudi arabia but for others that there really is a continuing spotlight on this and getting some kind of assurance that the saudis, in fact, are taking specific steps to make ensure nothing like this could happen again. there are many who think that thatis there are many who think that that is not enough. but there are many who think that that is not enough.— that is not enough. but you're effectively _ that is not enough. but you're effectively dealing _

bin salman, in fact, inviting him to the white house. sitting in the oval office, they talked about arms sales. it was that donald trump said he did not want to jeopardize by confronting mohammed bin salman. also, he needed saudi help inside the middle east for confronting iran, and he did not want to upset that delicate balance, but now, joe biden is freezing out mohammed bin salman, dealing directly with the king, but what is interesting is, like the old proverb says, there's many a slip between cup and lip. both biden and trump came under criticism for not taking action directly against bin salman himself. >> there's going to be a lot of attention paid to what the biden administration doesn't in terms of overall sales. you mentioned the weapon's sales made under the trump administration. i believe they are currently being reviewed. >> exactly. tony blinken says this is about recalibrating the entire relationship, and that includes weapon's as well. he was at pains to say the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia is more than just one man. the bumps in the road go back 50 years. 1973 and the oil crisis when saudi arabia essentially embargoed oil. go back to

the decision they took with whether or not to sanction the crown prince mohammed bin salman. viewed that actually, having been on the other site of crafting sanctions regimes and deciding whether or not to target leaders, it is a very big decision. i remember being on the other site of one when we sanctioned the president of syria and it was a very long and deliberate discussion that took months. actually, it was something we waited to do and waited to see how he would behave on certain things. we imposed a round of sanctions and multiple rounds of sentience before we could see if we could change his behavior. finally, when we decided it was the lowest cost is when we imposed those sanctions. sanctions against presidents or leaders of countries is a decision that is taken very heavily by the u.s. government, not just for financial reasons, but also because especially as a country rk with, we are going to continue to work with saudi arabia. this administers and has made it very clear that they are not going to deal with mohammed been someone because they labeled him a very --

a us intelligence report has concluded that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman personally approvedkilled while visiting the saudi consulate in the turkish city of istanbul. the declassified report says the prince approved a plan to either capture or kill khashoggi, who had criticised the saudi regime. this is the first time america has publicly named the crown prince, who denies ordering the murder. our north america corrrespondent nick bryant reports. it was at the saudi consulate in istanbul thatjamal khashoggi met his brutal end. he had been lured there to discuss paperwork for his upcoming wedding, but he was strangled as soon as he entered the building by a team of saudi assassins who then dismembered his body. a saudi dissident, who wrote a column for the washington post, often criticising his country's authoritarian leadership. the motive was to silence him. the damning conclusion of the declassified intelligence report is that saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman, the country's de facto leader, approved an operation in istanbul to capture or kill the saudi journa

she told me she hoped there would be further action taken against crown prince mohammed bin salman.el, of course i welcomed the report, i'm glad that the us administration and assessment is that the crown prince authorised the killing of khashoggi. i'm glad that the 0di was able to play its role in that democratic institution of the united states were able to play their role. i am disappointed by the lack of material information and evidence included in that report, and i will be very disappointed if there is no action taken having recognise the primary role played by the crown prince. when you say lack of evidence, what would you have liked to have seen in there? well, look, the report is basically an assessment based on circumstantial information. it's mirrors very much along the lines of what i have done in my own investigation as a special reporter. looking at what we know about the kingdom and individuals who perpetrated the killings and, you know, the logical inference from a range of information was that the crown prince was heavily implicated. i would have liked to see in th

saudi arabia's crown prince, mohammed bin salman, approved the murder of jamal khashoggi. that's the damming conclusion of a u.s. intelligence report released today. the documents says the crown prince approved the plan to either kill or capture the generalist. this is the first time the u.s. has publicly named bin salman, who has long denied ordering the attack. let's stay with this story, but get a business angle on what we have been covering. brian quinn is in the studio at our business desk. what can you tell us about the economic relationship between saudi arabia and the united states? >> the relationship goes all the way back to the kingdom. as you might expect, it is based on oil. by 1933, standard oil company of california, that we now know as chevron help form an oil company that is now the crown jewel of saudi arabia. these days, america the salaries' -- the saudis'second largest trading partner. oil, of course, not the only commodity changing hands here. there's also, of course, american weapons. the saudi's are america's number one customer for foreign military

bin salman. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration resisted calls to confront saudi arabia citing the value of arms sales and the importance of support in confronting iran and refused to take action against mohammed bin salman. joe biden promised if he won the election he would recalibrate relations with riyadh but again his white house want to take action against mohammed bin salmon directly so what we've done by the actions that we've taken. is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate. to be more in line with our interests and our values and i think that we have to. understand as well that this is this is bigger than any one person the u.s. is also knows what it caused by an imposing visa restrictions on 76 saudis not just those involved in the killing but others who have been involved in threatening dissidents overseas so has dismissed the report calling it negative false and unacceptable the release of this report is an extraordinary rebuke to a man anointed as the next leader of a close u.s. ally but the biden white house will come under increasing pressure from democrats to take direct action against mohammed bin salman because they say his denials of any involvement in the

it accuses saudi arabia's crown prince, mohammed bin salman, of personally approving the operation whichthe murder of the journalist in 2018. it's the first time the us has officially and openly accused the crown prince, who is a key american ally in the middle east. saudi arabia has dismissed the american claims as false and unacceptable. here's nick bryant. it was at the saudi consulate in istanbul that jamal khashoggi met his brutal end. he had been lured there to discuss paperwork for his upcoming wedding but he was strangled as soon as he entered the building by a team of saudi assassins, who then dismembered his body. a saudi dissident who wrote a column for the washington post, often criticising his country's authoritarian leadership — the motive was to silence him. the damning conclusion of the declassified intelligence report is that saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman, the country's de facto leader, approved an operation in istanbul to capture or kill the saudi journalist. the assessment was based on the crown prince's control of decision—making in the kingdom, the

but not against mohamed bin salman. and this does conflict with what joe biden promised and a question i asked in that debate on november 20th, 2019. the msnbc debate when i said that president trump has refused to punish saudi arabia for the killing of khashoggi, and i said would you? and he said yes. he said i believe that bin salman ordered this, in effect, i'm paraphrasing, and he said saudi arabia needs to be held a pariah around the world. is this enough? already some reaction from members of the hill is that it is not enough. but it is certainly more than donald trump ever did. for years, donald trump disputed the cia findings. he and his son-in-law jared kushner will have a i shalled attention on mohamed bin salman, as you well know. had him in the oval office, even before the killing. then went to riyadh in subsequent trips. jared kushner most recently. the treasury secretary was there in january on the day of the insurrection, rushed back from that trip. was there supposedly in his function as outgoing treasur

, saying explicitly the intelligence community assessed, quote, saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman approved an operation in istanbul, turkey, to capture or kill "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. >> while sanctions were imposed on entities and individuals today, one individual who did not receive any punishment, mohammed bin salman despite president biden during the campaign saying that was something he would consider, administration officials telling cnn, quote, it was too complicated and could jeopardize saudi and u.s. relations. as for the saudis, they put out a statement saying they reject the intelligence report entirely, believe it is false and don't believe it is truthful in terms of the conclusions it laid out. wolf? >> we'll have much more on this story coming up. phil mattingly at the white house. thank you so much. ienchts want to go to our chief correspondent manu raju joining us right now. house lawmakers will be voting soon on biden's nearly $2 trillion covid relief plan. >> reporter: there's very little margin for error for house democrats to achieve the p

interesting is that the trumpet ministration which was very close to saudi arabia and very close to mohammed bin salman came under a lot of criticism because they would have seen the details of this report and they decided to take no direct action against mohammed bin salman joe biden promised that he would release this report he has and he's cool though he's taking action against saudi arabia there's no direct action against the crown prince. now the headlines police in maine maariv used tear gas and stun grenades as they try to prevent protesters from gathering the country's united nations ambassador is also appealed to the group to use quote all means necessary to oppose the military coup . iraqi foreign minister arrived in teheran his 2nd trip this month the iranian counterpart serif a day after u.s. airstrikes hit iranian backed militias in eastern syria near the border with iraq. 5 people have been killed and more than 175 injured during protests in in southern iraq the fighting with security forces on friday followed a week of violent protests in the city with protesters demanding the governor b

this as a newly declassified intelligence report officially blames crown prince mohammed bin salman for the gruesome murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. cbs news' holly williams has the details. >> reporter: the report says that crown prince mohammed bin salman approved an operation to capture or kill saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. khashoggi was an outspoken critic of the saudi arabian regime. president biden says he told th. president biden ys hol crowrince's crown prince's father, kingsalman, that "the rules are changing." >> we are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses. it is outrageous what happened. >> reporter: khashoggi went to the saudi consulate in istanbul, turkey, in october 2018 to pick up documents he needed to get married. but he never made it out alive. after denying any involvement in the disappearance for weeks, saudi arabia finally admitted khashoggi had been drugged and killed in the consulate, and his body dismembered, though they've always insisted the crown prince is innocent. what is your opinion when it comes to how damagin

say, mohamed bin salman's father. the fact of the matter is, mohamed bin salman is going to be the next ruler of saudi arabia, and we've done nothing to punish him for the murder of a journalist. >> well, there's very little the united states could do without jeopardizing our own interests. we could -- neil: no, i understand that, but that is what donald trump said, right? secretary, i'm not forgiving one versus the other, but fair and balanced here, there was this the pile-on on president trump when he took this position earlier. why isn't there a pile-on on joe biden taking the exact same position? >> i think there was a pile-on on donald trump for a variety of reasons in addition to saudi arabia. don't forget we had the meeting in helsinki in which the intelligence community had said very clearly that vladimir putin had interfered with the 2016 election. the president said publicly at that time, he said i believe him. so he didn't believe the intelligence community. we know for a fact that he -- neil: well, i know,

. >>> the biden administration is set to release an intelligence report that said mohammed bin salmanost" writer jamal khashoggi in 2018. president biden is expected to call the prince's 85-year-old father before the report is released. that's king salman. he wants to recalibrate the u.s. relationship with the saudis, maintaining ties despite the khashoggi afare. the cia concluded that khashoggi had been brutally murdered at the saudi consulate in istanbul and his body dismembered by a saudi hit squad. working for the powerful crown prince, mohammed bin salman, the de facto leader of the country, whose king has been ailing for years. congress passed a law in 2019 demanding that president trump release that report. he never did. and he then bragged to bob woodward in a book "rage" that he had helped get the crown prince off the hook, saying, "i saved his ass. i was able to get congress to leave him alone and get them to stop." chris murphy from connecticut has been a leader in the fight to get full release of the report and to reorder the relationship with saudi arabia after this khash

we are told in leaks that have come out already that it will very much point a finger at mohammed bin salman, suggesting he was responsible for older that for ordering the death. one senator come after hearing declassified briefing, said if there was a jury then mohammed bin salman would be convicted within 30 minutes. even lindsey graham, big supporter of donald trump and supporter of saudi arabia said it would mean is essentially redrawing the rules between saudi arabia and the united states. it is that significant and we expect it -- we expect to get that unredacted dossier at sometime in the next 24 hours and it could have implications for long-term u.s.-saudi relations. anchor: guinea has launched an ebola vaccination campaign. the country is desperate to stop the virus which reemerged for the first time there since 2016. at least five people have dd in the latest outbreak. reporter: health workers vaccinate people against ebola in southeast guinea. a new outbreak was discovered near here two weeks ago. >> i'm very proud to be vaccinated. it is a joy to me to see the population get vacc

there's pressure to sanction mohammed bin salman, the crown prince, since the intelligence assessment he was responsible for this killing. that is very sensitive, because he is the defective ruler of a key u.s. ally and could become the official ruler at any time if his father would pass away. so far, we have not had any indication that's going to happen but the administration has taken some steps to punish those around him announced this afternoon. anchor: what out the likelihood that saudi arabia will also take some action? there were some names put forward in the report. will it be on saudi arabia to be seen to be taking some form of action? they are key allies and they both have key, crucial regional priorities in the middle east. guest: that would be one way to respond, for the kingdom to take further steps. what it has said up until now is that it has done everything it could. it tried 11 individuals said were responsible and jailed eight of them. it sat five senior government officials that had some connection to the killing, but did not jail any of them. we will see if they ta

that report is expected to conclude that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, known as mbs, ordered the brutal attack. and tonight news coming in that president biden has spoken with the saudi king. our senior white house correspondent mary bruce. >> reporter: journalist jamal khashoggi was last seen alive walking into the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018 before being assassinated by a saudi hit squad, his body dismembered. now tonight, washington is awaiting the release of an intelligence report expected to cnclude that the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, approved the brutal execution. the saudi government denies the crown prince was involved. president biden today speaking with his father, the saudi king, but the official white house readout makes no mention of the khashoggi killing being discussed. the question now, will the biden administration hold the saudis accountable as promised. the white house has said biden won't hold back. >> will he be following up this talk with action or sanctions? >> i think there are a range of actions that are on the table. our adminis

murdered and his body dismembered by a saudi hit squad working for the powerful crown prince mohammed bin salman. the de facto leader of saudi arabia whose king has been ailing for years. congress passed a law in 2019 demanding that president trump release that report, but he never did. and bragged to bob woodward he had helped get the crown prince off the hook saying, "i saved his [ bleep ] i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop." now that's about to change. >> the murder of jamal khashoggi, it was a horrific crime. the administration is prepared to release an unclassified report with full transparency for congress. thislaw. we will follow the law. >> reporter: president biden approving the declassification of the report say three sources, holding bin salman, widely known as mbs, largely responsible for the murder. >> have you read the jamal khashoggi report yet -- >> yes, i have. >> reporter: president biden is expected to call the crown prince's 85-year-old father today to explain he wants to recalibrate the u.s. relationship with the saudis. maintaining

i was there as ambassador, i brought up a number of human rights issues with the king, with mohammed bin salman bin nayef was the crown prince at the time, and i would know that a strong ambassador and strong embassy and leadership in washington meant that none of the things that you've heard about — the ritz—carlton, the human human rights arrests, the khashoggi murder and all these other things — all of these events took place after we left office, when there was no ambassador for two years. there is a balance here to be struck, surely? the release of the khashoggi report might show that mohammad bin salman, the crown prince, was responsible for that killing. but on the other hand, he may, at any point, become the king, the leader of saudi arabia, and therefore, surely mr biden will want to keep a door open to him for direct dialogue? as he does with putin in russia and other world leaders in china and turkey and other places where we have strong issues concerning their human rights violations, but the president is pretty savvy about this and he understands that — as you said in the beginning

why the biden administration won't punish mohammed bin salman. airstrikes: president biden's first military action dropping seven bombs on iranian targets in the middle east. the new details tonight. devastated by disaster-- president biden visits texas as the state struggles to recover from those winter storms. new stimulus checks? how soon could those checks arrive in the mail. >> i needed this stimulus last year. >> reporter: royal revelation, prince harry opens up to cbs' james corden on why he stepped back from his royal duties, calling the british press, "toxic." >> it was destroying my mental health. >> o'donnell: the power of kindness, how viewers responded to our reports on military families struggling to eat. enormous fire burns in los angeles. tonight, what the inferno destroyed. and steve hartman's "on the road" with how the rescue dog became the rescuer. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on th

but they were but what the assessment of the intelligence community was that mohamed bin salman authorized the capture or kill of. so yes this could happen going forward i tend to think it's less likely but this is a regime that violates human rights quite broadly you know in a lot of different ways not just for journalists but for other outspoken people inside saudi arabia thank you very much john don the chair of the national press club press freedom. thank you. mean was ambassador to the united nations has made an emotional a pale need to national community to take the strongest possible action against the ruling gen to he made his plea at a u.n. general assembly meeting to discuss the military coup and subsequent crackdown on protests across the country kalmoe tun said he was speaking for the elected civilian government led by and sang see cheney is now being detained for almost 4 weeks he said no country should recognize the new government. he has. that's the political and civilised society. now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes agai

with respect to the sanctions, i think what this indicates is the difficulty of actually mohammed bin salmancult to sort out what is his and what is, you know, generally the property or resources of the kingdom, and -- and, you know, the administration is admittedly a difficult place here. they are complying with the law, doing the right thing, naming and shaming mbs officially although this is not a startling revelation. it's more confirmation of what was surmised at the time, so there's a balancing act here that the administration is going to have to contend with. >> so, i mean, as of 3:40 this afternoon, that balancing act appears to be calling out the crown prince but not punishing him. >> well, that's the dilemma. i think there is -- it's important that he be named and shamed, but there's a needle to be threaded here because you have to acknowledge the importance of saudi strategically. its economic impact. it can be a force for good in terms of instituting a legal regime to prevent a recurrence. reform in terms of rights of women could a saudi be influential with the taliban, for examp

. >> to not -- the biden administration that sent the message to mohammed bin salman that he has impunity, it's the trump administration that did that. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> i'm pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this sunday. you're live in the cnn newsroom. and we have breaking news tonight. americans now have three covid-19 vaccines available in the fight of coronavirus. the cdc director has given the all clear which means any minute now, the single-dose johnson & johnson vaccine will be loaded on trucks to be distributed to millions of americans over the age of 18. now let me bring in jacqueline howard for more on this. bottom line, jacqueline, how soon until people start getting this shot? >> pamela, that all depends on how quickly the shots can get to their locations. now, what just came in, the white house says that distribution of the vaccine will begin tonight. and so as the shots get distributed, we could see them start being administered as early as tomorrow in some places or tuesday or later in t

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intelligence report today concluding that the king's son, crown prince mohammed bin salman approved the 2018 journalist jamal khashoggi. that report will be released this afternoon. admiral john kirby is a retired admiral and joins me now. thank you very much. you've had a busy trip and a busy day. the pentagon's decisionmaking, the timing on this action against these iranian-backed militias. >> as you might expect, andrea, whenever you're going to conduct an operation like this, you want to make sure that it's done as the secretary said at a time and a police and in the manner of our choosing. so, you know, this was based -- this particular strike was based on intelligence that we had and that our iraqi and kurdish partners helped develop about the types of facilities that were being used by we believe the two groups that were responsible for these recent attacks. so it was a concerted team effort to develop the kind of intelligence to go after a target that was relevant to these groups and to their recent attacks but also proportionate. >> what are you hearing in terms of the casualti

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the state department has just declassified a report asserting that saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman approved the murder of "washington post" journalist and american resident jamal khashoggi. right now also the fda vaccine advisory board is meeting to discuss the approval of the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine. their recommendation could come at any moment. and right now, president biden is about to tour an emergency operations center in texas, where more than a million are still without drinking water. while democrats back in washington make a major move on the president's first major piece of legislation. the house is expected to pass the massive covid-19 relief bill today and it is significant. a $2 trillion plan that includes $1,400 for direct payments, billions in aid to government and businesses and they had hoped a $15 minimum wage. but that wage hike is as of right now doa. last night the senate parliamentarian ruled that congress cannot make that move through reconciliation. meaning it will not be a part of the final bill. some democrats like ilhan omar have called for co

and mohammed bin salman is an autocrat. there's no opposition to him inside the country.e that could possibly remove him is under house arrest or under arrest. and biden has figured out, hey, there's nothing we can do about this. so policy reverts back to what it's always been going back to the '60s. >> let's be honest they're sanctioning lower level officials, right, the unit that actually went in and did this horrific dismemberment. but ultimately they're doing what president trump did. they're doing business with the crown prince. you cut to the chase isn't this the reality here? this consistent policy with trump? >> go ahead, susan. >> it's consistent with u.s. policy over long decades i think as bob pointed out. donald trump is a different matter. donald trump was practically acting like the defense attorney for the saudi royal family at times during this entire mess as was his secretary of state mike pompeo who appears to have misrepresented in a way what the u.s. intelligence findings were at various points in this controversy. these sanctions trump could have impo

intelligence report says saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman approved, personally approved the operation the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. so, alex, walk us through the evidence that they released. >> well, wolf there's nothing in the way of new evidence in this report that directly ties the crown prince mohammed bin salman to ordering this murder. essentially what they're saying, the thrust of their argument is this crown prince known as mbs is so powerful this murder could not have happened without his say so. i want to read you part of their assessment right at the beginning of this report. the director of national intelligence, her office writes that since 2017 the crown prince has had absolute control of the kingdom's security and intelligence organizations, making it highly unlikely that saudi officials would have carried out an operation of this nature without the crown prince's authorization. the report goes onto say that his aides would have been too afraid to question him. some of the evidence they offer they highlight the fact that some of the 15 members of this hit sq

the report is expected to say the murder was likely ordered by the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salmanestphal was the united states ambassador to saudi arabia under president barack 0bama. hejoins us now. thank you he joins us now. thank you for joining us. administrations sometimes start by seeing we will make human rights our priority, then things get difficult, they have to get around to alliance building, that takes priority. irefill around to alliance building, that takes priority. will that ha - en that takes priority. will that happen here? _ that takes priority. will that happen here? i _ that takes priority. will that happen here? i don't - that takes priority. will that happen here? i don't think. that takes priority. will that i happen here? i don't think so. i think they can do both. a think the president has a very, very experienced foreign policy team around him with tony blanket at state and a number of people in the white house. he will likely put an ambassador into the kingdom as soon as possible, somebody who will have a direct connection to him, much like i had with

the death of journalist jamal khashoggi a confidential report is made public showing prince mohammed bin salman likely approved his killing. and there is hope for holiday makers europe's leaders agree on a vaccine passport to ease travel restrictions as he could be in place by this summer . hello i'm claire richardson welcome to the show we start in nigeria where gunmen have released some 40 people who were kidnapped last week attackers wearing military uniforms raided a school in the current district of niger state killing one student and removing other children staff members and their families no group has yet claimed responsibility for the abduction. and to get more on the recent kidnappings in nigeria let's bring in g.w.'s always to address who is in the nigerian capital or so what else can you tell us about the release of a group of students today. this group of students and some members of the top of the school that were abducted on must do with. day i now to see been treatment facility in may not even be full been driven to mean i did receive a kind of a health treatment to facility in m