in stamboul consulate but the royal family denied the crown prince was involved in any way mohamed bin selman made his first public remarks on the case today while attending a high profile riyadh business conference. it was supposed to attract investors to the kingdom instead the crown prince was forced to say he denounced the murder of writes i'm journalist. the crime was really painful to all saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime that cannot be justified today saudi arabia is carrying out all legal. things to finalize the investigation is to work with the cooperate with the turkish government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their . judgement. he also said they will be no break in relations with istanbul. it is mohammed in sound man's first public appearance since she disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in the turkish capital earlier this month his words seem to come unk you washington says that the crown prince bans owed so much responsibility. he also spoke with turkish president's rhetoric time on the phone w

riyadh to ankara to stumble and do such kind of a thing and go bag be dubbed the knowledge of mohamed bin selman and they're trying to manage the process of course we don't know what will be he will be bringing trunk or from saudi arabia but what mr. holder the turkish foreign minister said today is that you know there is a claim that it was happened by accident during an interrogation the turkish foreign minister said that it is not a place to enter a gate to consulates are not the are not courts and it is not a place of interest and that five first of all we need to see what mr poynter will bring in with ten from riyadh but they're trying to find and a way between the realities over there which is a murder and the american interest and to keep mohammed in someone in the game i think would you agree with that john jones is about keeping mohammed bin salman the crown prince in the game as a guest rancorous at. no i think one can look at that as being part of the explanation but when you look at it the u.s. saudi relationship is a relationship that goes back seven decades and is bigger than any o

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. arabia is also turning out this case that they the saudi arabia itself is the wisdom of the demand case the disappearance of. the saudi economy the main stock market index in riyadh fell by seven percent on sunday moving billions of dollars it had made since the start of the year a large rebel group in syria's province says it will maintain its position as the deadline arrives for rebels to withdraw from a buffer zone to her h.s. did not say whether it agreed or rejected last month's deal between russia and turkey to set up a demilitarized area the buffer is centered around the western region of lib syria's last major rebel stronghold now according to the green is the buffer was meant to be free of heavy weapons by october the tenth and of rebels by the fifteenth but isn't that regular violent broken up anti-government pr

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. ery b. a is also turning out this case that they are the saudi arabia itself is the whisked him. to case despite an offer by crown prince mohammed bin still man the saudis still have turkish investigators into their compound but the consulate is still conducting business and shell reports from istanbul opposite the salad you consulates there is a company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage that muslims make to mecca in saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperwork by going to the consulates building albeit they have to answer from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since the disappearanc

became a high profile critic of saudi arabia's government after mohamed bin selman was named as crown prince the journalist accuse the thirty three year old of introducing what he called a new era of fear intimidation arrests and public shaming feeding for his safety he fled to the u.s. in september last year when he wrote a regular column for the washington post but before his career as a journalist shoji was close to the royal family serving as an advisor. well joining me now on set here in doha is muhammadiyah hooty he's a professor of conflict resolution george mason university thank you very much for being with us what do you think is going on in amongst the power the corridors of power if you like in saudi arabia at the moment apparently the royal leadership area has tried to construct a narrative that may have some reason and in the west by talking about an investigation also the process of restructuring the intelligence about this and said the arabia one name is on the blacklist now that the pretty ominous is the deputy head of this intelligence or the saudi cia for like we ca

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. the arabia is also turning out this case that they the saudi arabia itself is the week to. case. still haven't turkish investigators into that compound and the consulate is still conducting business reports from istanbul opposite the saudi consulates the company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage that muslims make to saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperworks by going to the consulates building albeit they have to answer from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since the disappearance of jamal khashoggi however there hasn't been any turkish police and the only people who've been goin

important to all three of those objectives i think the trumpet ministration has been trying to give mohammed bin selman quite a bit of the benefit of the doubt and i think the saudis are going to try to drag on this investigation i'm not expecting the trumpet ministration to be so keen to pressure the saudis to come clean but the possibility of more democrats coming to power as a consequence of the midterm election might result in more domestic pressure on trying to change course viz a viz the kingdom. and as for the investigation itself mr coffey had a turkish that was the latest line is they have told us that istanbul's chief prosecutor's office was left not at all happy off to that meeting with some of these top prosecutor what do you think the turks will do now. it's pretty clear that turkey has its position and saudi arabia has its position regarding jurisdiction of the trial for these eighteen suspects it's going to be pretty difficult in my opinion for either governments to back down from their position you know especially in the middle east issues such as sovereignty are ones that are so sensit

riyadh to ankara to stumble and do such kind of a thing and go bag the dog the knowledge of mohamed bin selman and they're trying to manage the process of course we don't know what will be he will be bringing trunk are from saudi arabia but what mr total the turkish foreign minister said today is that you know there is a claim that it was happened by accident during an interrogation the turkish foreign minister said that it is not a place to enter a gate to consulates are not the are not courts and it is not a place of interest and that five first of all we need to see what mr poynter will bring him with term from riyadh but they are trying to find and a way between the realities over there which is a murder and the american interest and to keep mohammed in someone in the game i think. would you agree with that john jones is about keeping mohammed bin salman the crown prince in the game as a guest rancorous at. no i think one can look at that as being part of the explanation but when you look at it the u.s. saudi relationship is a relationship that goes back seven decades and is bigger than an

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. every via is also turning out this case that they are the saudi arabia itself is the week to. case well despite an offer by crown prince mohammed bin salaam the saudis still haven't allowed turkish investigators into their compound but the consulate is still conducting business jamal a shell reports now from istanbul opposite the salad you consulates there is a company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage that muslims make to mecca in saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperworks by going to the consulates building albeit they have to enter from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since t

saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman has described the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi as quote a heinous crime after coming under intense international pressure riyadh has acknowledged that to show he was killed inside the country's in stamboul consulate two weeks ago but the royal family continues to deny that the crown prince was involved in any way well today mohamed bin solomon made his first public remarks on the murder while attending a high profile riyadh business conference it was supposed to attract investors to the kingdom instead the crown prince was forced to say he denounced the murder of writer and journalist. the crime was really painful to all saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime that cannot be justified today saudi arabia is carrying out all legal. things to finalize the investigation is to work with the cooperate with the turkish government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their . judgement. he also said there will be no break in relations with istanbul. it is mohammed bin

jamal khashoggi in the past he's pointed the finger specifically at the saudi crown prince mohammed bin selman this time he wasn't quite as explicit but obviously he believes that although eighteen people are currently being held in saudi arabia someone much higher up the diplomatic the food chain for want of a better phrase is responsible for actually ordering the killing so where are we between saudi arabia and turkish cooperation well when they met on monday the saudis said that they wanted all audio and video recordings that the trucks allegedly have from inside the building at the time jamal khashoggi was killed the turks time that don't they said they were still putting together an indictment against the people that they believe were responsible also that crosses in to the idea of revealing how turkey got that information gets into intelligence gathering not something that i'm sure they want to show to us in return they said that they wanted the statements of these eighteen people currently being held in so do rabia initially so they are. bia said no but when the chief prosecutor went ba

they don't want it appears to have the investigation goes to the level where where it touches mohammed bin selman and so congress is going to get additionally frustrated and look for measures and ways to put pressure on the white house to take some real actual concrete action was joe review why is the white house seemingly so wedded to the crown prince. they really have invested their middle east policy in the bilateral relationship with saudi arabia a bit as the previous speaker was saying related to iran and the desire to have a loyal that would cover the losses from iran when iran sanctions kick in in about a week or two isolate iran more through gulf partnerships as well as looking to saudi arabia to put pressure on the palestinians related to middle east peace and so there is a significant investment we also don't know what is happening behind the scenes with jericho shinar and other senior officials in the white house and certainly if the democrats take a chamber of congress they're going to look into that but right now the white house has leverage deeply into the relationship with saudi ar

a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal that mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really as saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own while household andrew simmons al-jazeera is temple the us president says the arrests are a great first step but he wants to speak further with the crown prince many u.s. senators from both parties according to the u.s. to carry out its own investigation and not to accept saudi arabia's conclusions meanwhile the u.k. says that it's considering its next steps and the president of the european parliament and dutch prime minister a calling for an urgent investigation. that been several attacks on polling stations in afghanistan as people vote in the first parliamentary elections that since twenty ten at least three people have been killed and explosions in kabul and some l

the saudi monarchy but later became critical of policies of the de facto leader crown prince mohammed bin selman who shall get also drawn attention to saudi women's rights and the war in yemen entered the saudi consulate in istanbul want tobe with the second to pick up a document for his upcoming wedding shortly after his disappearance turkey announced it had audio recordings of the journalists alleged killing by a saudi hit team is artie's down cohen with more. king solomon has fired five top officials and arrested eighteen people among those fired our current crown prince mohammed bin solomons advisor sowed ok to any and deputy intel intelligence chief major general ahmed all of siri they're being investigated about the case. the white white house press secretary sara sanders has released a statement saying these are the exact words the united states acknowledges the announcement from the kingdom of saudi arabia that its investigation into the fate of jemaah hausherr ji is progressing and that it has taken action against the suspects it has identified thus far we will continue to closely follo

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. ery be a is also turning out this case that they are the saudi arabia itself is the wish to. case. saudis still have an investigation into their compound and the consulate is still conducting business as to reports from istanbul opposite the saudi consulates the company that deals with issuing visas that's the larger and smaller pilgrimage that muslims make to saudi arabia now this company as well as a few others that are scattered around the building say that they are still able to process those paperworks by going to the consulates building albeit they have to answer from in the back there is a road parallel to this building behind now this consulate has essentially been a crime scene now for several days since the disappearance of jamal khashoggi however there hasn't been any turkish police and the only people who've b

saying that cell giri reza recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that's they are standing by saudi arabia. a large rebel group in syria says it will continue to fight after a deadline for rebels to withdraw from the buffer zone. did not say whether they agreed or directed last month's deal between russia and turkey to set up a demilitarized area. around the northwestern region of syria's last major rebel stronghold it's also where president bashar al assad's government has halted a planned offensive for now according to agreement the buffer was meant to be free of heavy weapons by the tenth of october and by the fifteenth. antigovernment protests in the capital managua protests as a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups calling for an end to president. since april the country has been gripped by crisis and instability. the. disagreement over the irish border remains a key obstacle to a deal despite intensified discussions with

head a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal the mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own well household andrew simmons al-jazeera is temple or do you accept some been released of one of jamal khashoggi final interviews the discussion with a newsweek reporter was originally confidential as a shock she said that he feared for his life here's some of that recording. do you want to be any form of. evidence to the public opinion why not. transparent process where where you have been easy. to use the rule of law and due process and then defending the people would be on his side if he would do that it could even fight him in an old fashioned rivalry leader well i haven't this kind of life doesn't mean that but a good for because it was limited. it does sort of tel

secretary of state mike pompei o amid mounting international pressure prince mohammed bin selman denied knowing what happened to the missing saudi journalist. of to the talks pompei i said he was satisfied with the kingdom's efforts to uncover the truth. i stressed the importance of them conducting a complete investigation of this disappearance of jamal khashoggi and they made a commitment they said they would do that they said it would be a thorough complete and transparent investigation his remarks echoing president donald trump who said in an interview that the saudi royals were being blamed unfairly in turkey and to expect some and his own republican party point the finger squarely at the crown prince known by his initials m.b.'s country this guy is a wrecking ball he had this guy murdered this guy's gotta go sorry but if you're listening there are a lot of good people you can choose but has tainted your country and tainted him so mike pompei zero is now traveling to turkey to meet the country's foreign minister he said ankara is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. we ha

consulate in istanbul might have been jamal khashoggi who wrote articles critical of crown prince mohammed bin selman has not been heard from since visiting the consulate on choose day his fiance said he went there to get the necessary documents for his upcoming marriage let's bring in bill lol who's a journalist and director of the gulf matters web site thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us so turkish authorities are saying they believe jamal khashoggi was killed inside the consulate though we don't have details on how they believe he might have been murdered what are your initial thoughts on these reports . well i think at this stage we don't know i'm i'm hoping brought against hope that these reports are wrong that the mauser she is still alive and i was told earlier that he had been taken out of the consulate and floor to saudi arabia. held in a jail in jeddah that was earlier today this report now suggesting that he he was killed at the consulate it's very shocking they were shocking to think that he would have been kidnapped to think that he possibly has been killed in the cons

head a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal the mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi his death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where the remains of general because i'm more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own will household and drew simmons al-jazeera is temple. fiance had teach has tweeted a tribute to him following saudi arabia's latest statement new video has emerged as well of what may be the pair entering his apartment in istanbul on the day he was killed so he went to the consulate to get paperwork for his marriage to changes are dramatic say as outside the saudi consulate in istanbul for such a man after days of denials and shifting stories from saudi arabia we now have this announcement that was made very late at night middle eastern time what are we to make of this turnaround. well there's very little to make in terms of actual truth it would appear when

prince mohammed bin selman has described the killing of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi as quote a heinous crime and after coming under intense international pressure riyadh has acknowledged that show you was killed inside the country's is stamboul consulate two weeks ago but the royal family denies that the crown prince was involved in any way. it was supposed to attract investors to the kingdom instead the crown prince was forced to say he denounced the murder of writer and journalist. the crime was really painful to all saudis. and i believe it is painful to every human in the world it is a heinous crime the cannot be justified today saudi arabia is carrying out all legal. things to finalize the investigations to work with the cooperate with the turkish government and to present the perpetrators to the court and take their. judgement. he also said there will be no break in relations with the stand. it is mohammed bin sound man's first public address since he disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in the turkish capital earlier this month his words seemed to come on cue

media that don't trump has told a number of close friends that he isn't actually that close to mohammed bin selman the chrome prince of saudi arabia even though he has appraised him in the past he's talked about his close relationship with the saudi leadership including m.b.'s is no one and also king solomon himself one other interesting thing is that there were american media reports suggesting that might prompt doing his trip to turkey which you remember he took just a couple of days ago or is shorn video and audio of the moments when jamal khashoggi was killed might pompei or has the night that and just in the last hour or so we've seen a tweet from donald trump who said that that did not happen and he is branding the news but he is very keen that this is brought to a conclusion having. said that there are plenty of people in congress who are watching to see what is next movies and from both sides there are just the americans to be as strong as they possibly can not to make a mess of this decision so there's external pressure on donald trump and internal pressure as well thank you very much for

relations the key gathering point of the foreign policy establishment in washington stating that mohammed bin selman and saudi arabia have to be separated and we have to preserve the relationship with saudi arabia by punishing been selman in order to continue pressuring iran and now steve minucci in the treasury secretary is on his way to riyadh to do just that to preserve this relationship and to save it and before meeting with mohammed bin solomon he met with the leader of the iran war party benjamin netanyahu he's going to send a strong signal in riyadh that the trump administration is prioritizing its. agenda to economically assault and possibly military assault iran over the killing of this permanent resident of the u.s. remember this is the trump administration there's a new normal he's not playing by the old rules or one could have asked for some serious concessions all the way to extraditing for too low glenn anything's possible i bet you early on got something special from the trump administration in order to dissipate in a cover up but nevertheless we have to remember that while we're cons

a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal that mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own while household andrew simmons al-jazeera is temple audio excerpts have been released of jamal khashoggi last interview he was talking to a newsweek reporter and the discussion was originally going to remain confidential as khashoggi said he feared for his life he's asked about crown prince mohammed bin sultan. do you want to be any form of. evidence to the public opinion why not. transparent process where where you have been easy. to use the rule of law and due process and then defending the people would be on his side if he would do that it could even fight him in an old fashion and i believe a leader like my comment this can live doesn't see that but a good for becau

is one of the harsher remarks are than made on the case and he named both king solomon and mohamed bin selman the calm prince of saudi arabia i think the toning off the toning in the language he used was significant in today's speech he was definitely harsher he said the explanations so far made by saudi arabia were childish and he demanded more concrete and consistent answers from saudi arabia so if we look at our drawn speech on tuesday. and the day after he made this was a morse more sturdy and definitely more an attempt to basically corner saudi arabia and demand some substantial answers from them one of the issues that he highlighted is that who is the killer and who order the the incident basically so this these two he answered he questioned the m.p.'s as he's known mohammed and the king solomon himself as well but he also brought to to the table the domestic collaborator that initially saw you prosecutors have said about someone from from turkey being collaborating the eighteen or the fifteen people from saudi arabia so this they have to answer he said as well but i think one of the mo

being very strong again we know that he has spoken to mohammed bin salman just in the last few days there was an impression given by mohammed bin selman that things had been slightly smoothed over certainly. with his most recent public comments one on saturday and then again today president at the one is definitely saying that there is a problem the saudis are being open and transparent and he thinks the reason they're doing that is to protect someone back in saudi arabia the person who may well have given the order to kill jamal khashoggi for the moment we'll leave it there and thank you. the prime minister. has spoken to protesters who've gathered outside his residence that he's been refusing to leave since the president decided to replace him and it's with is our correspondent he joins us live now from colombo burned what seems to be going on behind you. well so the end of the street behind me is where ousted prime minister randell wickramasinghe has been holed up is the official prime minister's residence and he's been refusing to leave this is the what is ending now is a very large protest many many thousands of people here in co

and look no further than saudi arabia which has seen a people, the rise of the young prince mohammed bin selman in a power school and in no small measure that is due to the pressure low oil prices are putting on and low oil prices are in many ways a function of the sheer amount of oil being produced as a result of fracking. whether this is a good thing or bad thing i will come back to. as for my second up session, who wouldn't be abscess with aubrey mcclendon, former ceo of chesapeake, love him or hate him, a lot of those sentiments are out there, he is one of those remarkable characters that make business stories read like novels, one of those characters that prove the old adage truth is stranger than fiction over and over again. you couldn't invent a guy like this if you tried. like many of these great characters in the business world he is a mix of her markable positive attributes with really negative dangerous ones as well. i finished my first story for "vanity fair" with a quote from calvin and hobbes. calvin says you believe in the devil? a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation,

s this appearance is shown on a spotlight on saudi crown prince mohammed bin selman or n.b.s. and he's often known the thirty three year old outmaneuvered his rivals to become heir apparent and de facto leader in july last year he was hailed around the world for economic and social reforms like for example lifting the ban on women driving but that was accompanied by a crackdown on the said more than a dozen even women's rights activists who campaigned for the ban to be lifted were themselves of arrested since may he also the tane hundreds of the country's richest people accusing them of corruption and holding them in the luxurious ritz carlton hotel it was the bizarre suspected kidnapping of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri who unexpectedly announced his resignation while in the saudi capital and m.b.a.'s is considered the driving force behind saudi arabia's decision to go to war in yemen in two thousand and fifteen while he was the fence minister since then at least ten thousand people have been killed in the country is now on the brink of famine well earlier republican s

sincerity which means that he takes king solomon as a counterpart but not the crown prince mohammed bin selman and he said while he was mentioning king salmon he repeated twice cardinal had a main the protector of the two holy cities so he gives a responsibility to king solomon to uncover the truth of the smirk and maybe to take care of his son the crown prince mohamed and so man it's for sure there are negotiations between saudi arabia turkey included united states because turkey is hosting a very special guest today to cia director but of course turkey doesn't want to burn bridges with saudi arabia right away but turkey says whatever it takes turkey will be after the real truth and and turkey wants this investigation to be closed in a real and factual way ok so there were many thanks for that from what i heard us go live now to shell his consulate building and istanbul surge all is said and said as all steroid questions but the the real question is how long is he prepared to wait for the answers. well that is a good question i mean three weeks now when the turks seem to be patient as ever an

saying that saudi arabia has a recent reforms actually which are mainly led by the crown prince mohammed bin selman were being targeted also we have heard mahmoud abbas from palestine and jordan and united arab emirates is saying that they are standing by saudi arabia mainly sell. gary b. a is also turning out this case that they are the saudi arabia itself is the week to the gym our case shares in saudi arabian companies have closed as the fallout of a cheese disappearance deepens the main stock market index in riyadh fell by as much as seven percent on sunday with billions of dollars wiped off the market value a large rebel group ins a residual a province says it will continue to fight hours after a deadline for rebels to withdraw from a buffer zone the more he cheers did not say whether they agreed or rejected last month's deal between russia and turkey to set up a demilitarized area the buffer is centered around the northwestern region of it clipped syria's last major rebel stronghold according to the agreement the buffer was meant to be free of heavy weapons by october the tenth then of rebels

do that as long as we have a king called solomon been abilities for the crown prince called mohammed bin selman in saudi arabia a turkish president named. well it's been more than three weeks since she was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given permission to search a well in the consul general's garden turkish officials say the crown prince also spoke to turkey's president try to play better the one the first conversation since the killing the two reportedly discussed how to quote shed light on the case. in other news the white house has promised to find those responsible for sending suspected explosive devices twenty number of high profile democratic politicians saying that these are terrorizing acts law enforcement officials the scabbard suspected explosives addressed to the home of hillary and bill clinton and barack obama the time warner building in new york which is home to c.n.n. was also evacuated after a bomb was found in a package at the lab in iraq they has been sworn in as iraq's new prime minister parliament has been voting on his prop

they don't want it appears to have the investigation goes to the level where where it touches mohammed bin selman and so congress is going to get additionally frustrated and look for measures and ways to put pressure on the white house to take some real actual concrete action was joe review why is the white house seemingly so wedded to the crown prince. they really have invested their middle east policy in the bilateral relationship with saudi arabia a bit as the previous speaker was saying related to iran and the desire to have a loyal that would cover the losses from iran when iran sanctions kick in and about a week or two isolate iran more through gulf partnerships as well as looking to saudi arabia to put pressure on the palestinians related to middle east peace and so there's a significant investment we also don't know what is happening behind the scenes with jericho shinar and other senior officials in the white house and certainly if the democrats take a chamber of congress they're going to look into that but right now the white house has leverage deeply into the relationship with saudi ar

s disappearance has shown a spotlight on crown prince mohammed bin selman o.m.b.'s as he's known is saudi arabia's to facto leader the thirty three year old outmaneuvered his rivals to become heir apparent in july last year he was hailed around the world for economic and social reforms like lifting the ban on women driving that was accompanied by a crackdown on dissent more than a dozen women's rights activists who campaigned for the ban to be lifted have been arrested since may he also detained hundreds of the country's richest people accusing them of corruption and holding him the luxury of ritz carlton hotel well that was the bizarre suspected kidnapping of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri who unexpectedly announced his resignation while in the saudi capital and the us is considered the driving force behind saudi arabia's decision to go to war in yemen in two thousand and fifteen while he was defense minister and he's understood to be responsible for the blockade of cash up saudi arabia along with the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha in june last

the issue to die quickly because it has mutual interests not just with saudi arabia but with mohamed bin selman specifically let's remember that might have been cement is an intense player in jericho his deal of the century in applying unprecedented arab pressure on the palestinians to accept impossible israeli conditions and have a businessman is the supposed bulwark against iran and saudi arabia king said man is desperate to save his son who in recent days has looked susceptible to a coup mystically let's remember that compare when he visited the area according to some reports he essentially told him a big man in his very straight talking manner that your future as king is under threat and this is what leads me to believe that the statement that comes out from saudi arabia was not necessarily done in liaising lives on with the us or indeed with turkey i think this statement is a last gasp from. all chips on the table a do or die approach gambling with everything the reason why i say this is because one of the said man has thrown his closest aides his closest allies under the bus through some

. >> treasury secretary steve mnuchin meeting with mohammed bin selman overnight, discussing the financialnship and an international mystery surrounding jamal khashoggi. gina flying to turkey is new details are expected in the investigation. >> we have tremendously talented people who do this very well. i'm not satisfied with whatever. >> the turkish president is revealing, quote, the naked truth today, saudis admitted jamal khashoggi died in their consulate claiming it happened during the fight. >> the fbi investigating after explosive devices found in george soros's home. an employee at the house discovering a suspicious package inside the mailbox throwing it into the woods until police arrived, authorities blowing of the device saying there is no longer a threat to the public. nobody was hurt, soros was not home at the time. >> at fenway park before game one of the world series, boston red sox looking for the first championship, the los angeles dodgers hoping for the first since 1988. first pitch for game one of the best of 7 series at 8:00 eastern time. every game can be seen on fox. a

difference really is now the international attention ok now as you mentioned the crown prince mohammed bin salah selman had positioned himself as a reformer he was wanted to be seen as a modernizer of saudi arabia could killing now cost him his position and his or thorazine at home that's a very interesting question and i think the the answer is. on the one hand yes there has been a lot of internal dissent unhappiness notably within the row family part of which was of course incarcerated last autumn and winter on the other hand of course all the rivals have been sidelined so dramatically that it's unclear whether he will actually be able to weather the storm and i think here. the international reaction will be quite important i think if the media keep asking what has happened to her so she and if they keep insisting that this kind of author a tarion rule is impossible then perhaps there's a chance for change within the royal family not general turned to democracy or something like this i think they can fight it out from the lightness center from what an oriental studies thank you so much for joining us

minister and yet also we understand he has a very good working relationship with the crown prince mohammed bin selman but does there come a point however when somebody someplace in washington has to say look ok we haven't found the silver bullet we haven't got a criminal case that's been prosecuted through the courts but those relationships are too toxic to even let them carry on functioning in the shallowest of ways. yeah you know you're absolutely right and members of congress with increasing days we heard of mechanics report the house members who are coming forward we've had that on the heels of the senators who are coming forward pressuring this white house to block arm sales to sanction to even rethink the whole military support for saudi arabia there's no question that the relationship between jared cushion or the crown prince mohammed bin solomon is being seen increasingly as somewhat of an embarrassment to the united states the fact that not only did he have negative press earlier a few months ago when mohamed been solved and boasted of having shared or in his pocket so to speak but the fact

in saudi arabia state media says mohammed bin selman met with jamal khashoggi as brother and son. licking and pronounced -- crown prince expect their condolences and jamal khashoggi's family expressed thanks for consolation though the associated press reports a friend of jamal khashoggi said his son was born -- barred from the country. the criticism of the government. shannon: top presidential advisor john bolton met with vladimir pilsen -- putin with a lengthy discussion with nuclear arms treaty to a strong message election meddling. garrett tenney has that report tonight. >> reporter: the us isn't backing down in a plan to terminate the landmark intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. that was part of the message john bolton delivered to vladimir putin. bolton said there is no chance to salvage the 1987 agreement because russia has been violating it for years. >> the american position that russia's violation, russia's position they are not a violation so one has to ask how you convince the russians to come back to compliance with obligations they don't think they are violating

saudis did it they should pay a price but not the larger price, to go ahead and push aside mohammed bin selmanconvinced it was but even if it was this is not something that outweighs the alliance we formed with them, they are helping us against iran, to stop extremism, funding a lot of the bad guys in saudi arabia. we need to make them understand this is not something you can do but we are not going to blow up an important alliance over this. rob: assuming this is not a conspiracy by the turks, that they didn't send in a fit -- a hit squad. what of the optics of the president denying what seems to be a lot of evidence in his face about this? a lot of people are criticizing but he always seems to defend these harsh dictator tight leaders? >> the president is doing what he did in the brett kavanaugh case, can we have presumption of innocence, wait until the facts -- there hasn't been an investigation, the only information on this case has come from unreliable sources. let's find out what happened and then figure out what to do. tracey: what are your thoughts on the crown prince? a 33-year-old gu

ally even though he's been in office now for almost two years so the senior diplomat spoke to mohammed bin selman the crown prince mohammed bin salman according to u.s. reports said he wanted to speak to jericho this is the man who is the president's son in law but also a close adviser to the president and it was reported six months ago that mohammed bin someone had been bragging to his friends in the middle east that he had jared in his back pocket he said he wanted to speak to only john bolton the national security advisor jumped on to that call that might be significant when the history of this incident has come to comes to be written excellent stuff alan fisher is live in washington d.c. with that update we're off to is stan bill now and stephanie decker while we've been focusing so much stephanie on u.s. reaction what's actually been happening there at the saudi consulate. was. well not very much in the sense that we were expecting terrorists investigators to go in just to go back on that point where you had the american president. u.s. investigators were on the ground and involved while int

just in the region but around the world is interesting as well that during this speech that mohammed bin selman made in riyadh on wednesday he also said that they were pressing ahead with their crackdown on extremism and their crackdown on terrorist funding that was a clear message to the united states luke we are an ally here we need your support we know what you've been seeing recently particularly what donald trump has said in the last twenty four hours and he was hoping there to keep the united states on side but his first priority is to try and breach this rift that he high's with turkey the turks obviously nor all that went on inside the consulate there know trying to put together a picture and they will continue to use that as leverage in this situation in the coming weeks months and even the coming years. al jazeera alan fischer reporting live from istanbul and many thanks let's take you now to washington al-jazeera as mike hanna has more on what action some u.s. lawmakers are proposing against riyadh. what proposed legislation has been introduced in the house of representatives it's co

a restructuring of the general intelligence agency the announcements appear to signal that mohammed bin selman is being absolved of blame for jamal khashoggi death as the turkish inquiry continues the actions of saudi arabia leave more questions than answers among them where the remains of general. and more than anything else was this really is saudi arabia portrays some sort of accident or a rogue operation from within its own oil household andrew simmons al-jazeera is stamboul let's go live now to the consulate in istanbul of zero stratford is there what are we to make charles of this abrupt dead of the night turn around this whole explanation from saudi arabia stands in stark contrast to what the turks have previously said. yes it does certainly according to these leaks that. government and indeed the prosecutor's office have been leaking to the press in recent days they scums as you say that is in stark contrast to this announcement by the saudis that the died in what it describes of brule very interesting really the new york times has as a piece that is quoting so it says a saudi official

crown prince mohammed bin selman made his first public appearance since the killing at the kingdom's key investment event which has been boycotted by many western c.e.o.'s despite the prince's smile these are difficult days for the saudis. we are going through. a crisis of short resulted from a. very. good actor or an incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justify it or explain. a claim and chorale refutes turkish president retch up tie up after one said the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul was carefully planned he vowed not to let those responsible escape justice. in washington president donald trump blunt words. there deal should have never been thought of. somebody really messed up and they had the worst cover up ever. and word should a start is at the deal standpoint where they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble that was his strongest criticism yet of saudi arabia killing off jamal khashoggi well from my perspective i think we'd have to first get the member states together put a declaration then decide in c