mohammed bin solomons next stop is pakistan's neighbor india his visit comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over the disputed region of kashmir so how fine a diplomatic line is it for the prince to walk i put that question to assad has seen a journalist based in islamabad. i think that's a particularly good question and right now it's unclear as to how this is going to play out given the timing of the visit and how it's happened right literally a day after the pull warm attack which has led to obviously an increased heightening of tensions between india and pakistan currently tensions in the middle c. are extremely high and there is discussion on the indian side if even some sort of military action against pakistan who they blame for allowing such an attack to happen now obviously the crown prince has spent the last two days or is currently still in islamabad and we have heard from pakistani authorities as well their version of events and i'm sure that they will be pushing him to try and convey that to the indian side there is obviously very limited contac

involvement despite international calls for an investigation into crown prince mohammed bin solomon's role in the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi the us president says relationships with saudi arabia that's not the undermined and trump has ignored a one hundred twenty day deadline for a report on his murder requested by the senate a member of the iranian foreign minister he has weighed in on the debate in a tweet he said first to dismember journalists now illicit sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia ever abia fully exposed u.s. hypocrisy. now the leader of pakistan administered kashmir has told al jazeera that he fears there's a risk of war with india after last week's attack in the disputed region forty one indian paramilitary soldiers were killed in the suicide bombing the pakistan based group jaish e mohammed claimed responsibility our correspondent has a whole bara sat down with mustard can just a short while ago. we reject the allegations that the indian government has made and we all saw denounced the kind of frenzy that indian ruling party and the extremist group

up letter to the senate asa president to specifically investigate any role the crown prince mohammed bin solomon or m.p.'s may have played in the murder in b.s. the crown prince is a wrecking ball and he gets complicit in the murder mystery because shogi think he's crazy to. think he is dangerous and he has put their relationship at risk but president trump has steadfastly insisted the us saw the relationship is more important than establishing accountability for murder it's all about america first we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia china and everybody else have a it's all about from a very simple it's america first saudi arabia's senior diplomat continues to deny any involvement by the kingdom's leaders in the murder refusing to react to a new york times report that the crown prince is on record as saying he would use a bullet on jamal khashoggi. the report dismissed as based on unknown sources and the following tweet posted on the saudi foreign ministry account we will hold who are responsible for the death of her showed she to account the quest

saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has arrived in china after previously visiting pakistan and india five months after the killing of journalists in a saudi consulate and continuing criticism from the west the tourist seen as a way to present himself as a political leader who still has international partners. a formal airport welcome in china's capital beijing no one here will confront the saudi crown prince with criticism and human rights issues the prince is packing investment promises in his luggage the saudi oil company a ram co the world's largest exporter of crude oil wants to build two refineries in china and replace russia as its most important oil supplier china on the other hand is striving for closer economic relations saudi arabia is an important sales market for chinese products ranging from electronics to weapons the expansion of economic relations was also high on the saudi princes agenda during his previous stops in pakistan and india. i think that the opportunities in india are worth more than one hundred billion dollars. and we want to make investments that are bene

pakistan needs money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to a red carpet welcome from pakistan's prime minister imran khan. the saudi royal review the military before moving on to cannes residents to confirm the final details of seven separate agreements and memorandums of understanding worth twenty billion dollars. but also because. the french. needed france. as a friend elite which is why so much pakistan faces a serious balance of payments crisis and hopes the deals will bring its economy back from the brink in recent months saudi arabia has helped keep pakistan's economy afloat by propping up its foreign exchange reserves with a six billion dollar loan that gives islam about breathing room as it negotiates a bailout with the international monetary fund the two day visit to pakistan comes amid high tensions in the region india and saudi arabia's arch rival iran both bordering pakistan have accused islamabad of backing militant groups which have carried out bloody suicide attacks on the

melissa chana thank you for joining the program great to have you with us saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has been on an asia trip all week it's seen as a diplomatic pivot away for the prince to prove that life goes on even after western countries started shunning him following the murder of writer jamal khashoggi last year his first stop had been to pakistan a country saudi arabia has a close relationship with and where he pledged she invest almost eighteen billion euros he visited india next where he announced his country is ready to share intelligence with new delhi in the fight. against terrorism he stopped short of making direct reference to last week's terror attack in kashmir he has had a fine line to walk between pakistan and india and now been solomons on the final stop of his trip to china where he signed a deal to build in oil refinery saudi arabia is one of china's top crude oil suppliers second only to russia now the house of saud has long presented itself as the defender of muslims around the world given that islam is to hold the sites medina and mecca are there but during t

and saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has begun a tour of asia and the pakistani capital islamabad after his arrival he signed investment agreements worth some twenty billion dollars pakistan hopes the deals will provide a welcome relief for its troubled economy prince mohammed will continue his trip and china and it. and search teams in zimbabwe have recovered twenty four bodies from a mind that was flooded after heavy rains eight people were rescued from the tunnels near the town of douma west of the capital harare rescuers are continuing their search saying up to seventy gold miners were trapped after a dam wall collapsed. alexander von humboldt was a scientific super star the great germans of explorers expeditions famously took him to south america and the galapagos islands in the pacific now germany's president frank valter steinmeyer is following in his footsteps as part of a tour of the region sean maher used the occasion to draw attention to plastic pollution which is threatening the unique and fragile ecosystems on the islands. the volunteers searching for plastic garbage

house's refusal to meet a congressional deadline to definitively conclude whether crown prince mohammed bin solomon was responsible for the killing a new york times report that revealed u.s. intelligence had intercepted a phone call in which the crown prince threatened to put a bullet into the journalist reports that despite having been officially fired as a result of his role in the killing of south alcatel he remains a close aide of the crown prince and the report that u.s. weapons supplied to saudi arabia have ended up in the hands of al qaeda fighters in yemen but it was seen as a split between conservative and progressive democrats the republicans did manage to get bipartisan support for an amendment to the bill allowing the president to continue what it calls appropriate information sharing with the saudis last year a similar resolution was passed in the republican controlled senate an unprecedented assertion of congressional authority limiting the powers of a president to make war under the war powers act the resolution sponsors are hopeful it will pass again in the senate however without a

the saudi oil giant aramco failed to hit the two trillion dollar value set by crown prince mohammed bin solomon so last year the kingdom cancelled a talk listing al-jazeera investigates the reasons behind the failure of the ambitious offering. home to the muslim worlds holiest sites saudi arabia's real source of power comes from oil and saudi aramco turns that black gold into dollars and results a company which is never to be noted independently was the crown jewel of the so-called vision twenty thirty there is no doubt that iran co is one of the key pillars to this vision to the growth of our economy and to the progress of the entire kingdom of saudi arabia. to put the company which funds saudi arabia's budget never appeared on any stock market and the kingdom's economy has tanked since then al-jazeera has investigated the ideas behind vision twenty thirty the politics of the kingdom which revolve around oil money and the reasons why the proposed sell off did not work the secretive company has never had to declare its financial reports as a massive transformation had gone public one of the maj

up letter to the senate asa president to specifically investigate any role the crown prince mohammed bin solomon o.m.b.'s may have played in the murder in b.s. the crown prince is a wrecking ball. they get complicit in the murder mystery shogi think he's crazy. i think he is dangerous and he has put the relationship at risk but president trump has steadfastly insisted the us solve the relationship is more important than establishing accountability for murder it's all about america first we're not going to give up hundreds of billions of dollars in orders and let russia china and everybody else have a it's all about for me very simple it's america first saudi arabia's senior diplomat continues to deny any involvement by the kingdom's leaders in the murder refusing to react to a new york times report that the crown prince is on record as saying he would use a bullet on jamal khashoggi the report dismissed as based on unknown sources and the following tweet posted on the saudi foreign ministry account we will hold who are responsible for the death the push to account the question is what happens no

trump administration to investigate specifically the possible involvement of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so this once again heightening this ongoing struggle between congress and the trumpet ministration into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and the comfortability for that particular death being attributed perhaps to senior saudi leaders. to film is telling the little long stories of people who risked their lives to report crimes against humanity are being shown at the berlin film festival one deals with the nazi occupation of poland and the other with a manmade famine in the soviet union under former leader joseph stalin and the. very twenty third. i left the street looks like ali is news. everywhere you go you see is an entry from emmanuel ringle bloom's diary he was instrumental in jews hiding a huge cache of documentation in the warsaw ghetto during the nazi occupation. to write. the largely young told story forms the basis of who will write our history showing at the berlin film festival. this documentary mixes contemporary interv

next saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomons a royal india and pakistan fears of a military confrontation may be between the two neighbors. we demand to pakistan stops misleading the international community and takes all of the terrorists and terror groups operating from areas under their control. if you think you will launch any kind of attack in pakistan will think about retaliation and after that with things going we all know it's easy to start a war and one can start with the easily it is hard to stop a war sub then with things will go only god knows us on the territory of the flare up took place last thursday in the rest of region of kashmir a pakistani suicide bomber attacked a bus killing more than forty indian paramilitary police officers the pakistani militant group mohammad claimed responsibility then on monday a gun fight erupted in the same region that left nine dead including both indian servicemen and suspected pakistani militants. this me has been a disputed area since india's petition of in one hundred forty seven it is claimed in its entirety by both countri

get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has praised his country's relations with china as quote troublefree the crown prince on a trade visit to beijing faces intense pressure in the united states and elsewhere following the killing of the journalist jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul last year. india says that it is building dams to block its waters from the indus river from flowing into pakistan the move is a bid to punish pakistan following a suicide attack in india administered kashmir that killed over forty indian soldiers last week and a powerful earthquake has hit ecuador about two hundred twenty kilometers from on bato on the peru ecuador border witnesses eyewitnesses said that the seven point five magnitude quake shook the surrounding area but there are no initial reports of casualties or damage officials also ruled out a tsunami warning gay and lesbian activists in kenya say that they are disappointed at the high court's decision to delay a ruling on decriminalizing homosexuality the judge deferred

mohammed bin solomon's aim was to reorient the saudi economy away from oil and reassure investors that saudi arabia is stable and progressive. a lot has changed since the prince's international public relations drugs the efforts to convince businessmen to feel comfortable working in the kingdom also faced a blow when top saudi business kingpins were put under arrest in an opaque anti corruption drug and as a cascading effect there has been flight of capital reduced foreign investment increased saudi borrowing and a halt saudi aramco its i.p.o. . the increase in internal repression inside the kingdom you know locking up of folks inside the ritz carlton a lot of those were heads of family businesses or large companies or big conglomerates you know that gives foreign investors pause. the murder of one journalist has washed away the veneer of change and quashed investor confidence in the north. sea i'm asking for people to be allowed to speak for them we need to make. the interest of a stakeholder never get priority over the kingdom the privatization process would mean saudi oil reserves w

trump administration to investigate specifically the possible involvement of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so this once again heightening this ongoing struggle between congress and the trumpet ministration into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and the comfortability for that particular death being attributed perhaps to senior saudi leaders. hundreds of i still fight and surrendered to syrian democratic forces in the eastern region of dam and that's where kurdish fighters have launched a final push against the group in the village of but the area is the last territory that i still controls in syria mean all thousands of the been by dues and fled to s.t.l. positions to escape the violence yes d.m. has been sorting civilian men from women i still fight as hiding amongst the airman khan has moved on the turkey syria border. those patrols between the russians and the turkish forces began on thursday president of the one the turkish president has actually spoken and said that as a sort of corp russia and turkey to agree to start joint patrols

and meanwhile saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon m.b.'s continues to make news on his tour of south asia after visiting pakistan we told you about that and in king economic deals with president imran khan mr bhansali mr bin solomon has called upon indian prime minister narendra modi the two leaders met in new delhi earlier today inside five agreements five of them involving cooperation on energy housing tourism and anti-terrorism the chair of the saudi india busiest council said the general strategic cooperation between the two leaders puts india in a very small group telling online business publication business today quote this type of high cooperation council exists with only the u.s. and china. the day after the state of california officially joined a lawsuit challenging president trump's declaration of a suppose it emergency and crack open the federal piggy bank without congressional approval. for his famous border wall between the u.s. and mexico the trump department of transportation announced their choice to terminate a nine hundre

electric under scrutiny as well question his ongoing relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon. and central to the report longtime trump supporter and one time national security advisor michael flynn who the report says was deeply involved in pushing a nuclear plan for saudi arabia that included the construction of as many as forty saudi nuclear plants the report says michael flynn was a paid advisor to a company known as i p three international during the presidential campaign through the transition period and even while serving as national security advisor the report ends on february the twelfth that is last week president trump participated in a white house meeting with private nuclear power developers initiated by i p three international and as a democrat led oversight committee commences a large scale investigation the question is whether house republicans will commit to it as well mike hanna al-jazeera washington well you know we spoke to roger shanahan who is a research fellow at the lowy institute for international policy he says the allegations give an idea of where th

and we recently told you about a new saudi initiative announced by crown prince mohammed bin solomon m.b.'s and infrastructure plan dependent upon four hundred twenty seven billion dollars of investment from foreign service sources we discussed some of the initial issues that may cause companies to think twice about making an investment you know killing people and that now comes word that the government has collected assets worth more than one hundred million dollars from get this the richest and most powerful people in the kingdom who prince m.b.a.'s has rounded up and locked away back in twenty seventeen as part of his crackdown on purported corruption here with more on who was held and how long and what impact all of this might have on m.b.'s as modernization attempt is our friend steve malzberg hey steve thank you so much for being with us so remind us take us back in the time machine for what happened to these folks back in twenty seventeen and how do we find out about these assets being seized or shook and down from the folks. well here's what happened good to good to be i love

a deadline to report to the senate on whether the white house believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the killing meanwhile saudi arabia says it doesn't know where jamal khashoggi its body is in an interview on u.s. salivation the minister of state for foreign affairs says the kingdom is still investigating there also accuse turkey of not sharing intelligence where is jamal khashoggi body we don't know what do you mean you don't know we don't know they said that the prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact we have asked for evidence from turkey and he asked them several times formally through formal legal channels to provide evidence we are still waiting to receive any evidence they may have football or. be is expected to get a hero's welcome when he lands in his adopted home australia after bahrain dropped its extradition request the twenty five year old was freed from jail in thailand following an international outcry wayne hay has a report from bangkok. after arriving in thailand for his honeymoon eleven weeks ago hakim al-arabiya is finally able to return to aus

international organization united nations saying that this is the prime suspect is the crown prince mohammed bin solomon because until now everybody has thought that the order must have come from a very very top officials and yes the naacp i after this meeting said that because the order came from the very top people inside the royal king them if the judicial process is not is not performing well because that person who has ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi has the power has the leverage to interfere all inside all these institutions within the state itself of course miscalibrated the u.n. independent reporter has been in turkey for a while and almost for a week and she has been meeting with turkey's for if she has met with turkish foreign minister turkey's intil chief and she has met with journalists stumble chief prosecutor's office who has been leading this investigation this is this is another investigation a visit i have to remind that this is a research visit just enough also has underlined that because. until now turkey hasn't made an official request to the united nations to allow. an inter

company of national enquirer published a glossy magazine promoting saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin solomoncontaining the adverts at the time the saudis denied any connection as far as i'm aware and i believe i would be aware we have an absolutely nothing to do with this . we maybe some of our citizens read the national enquirer when they're in the united states citizens watch the soap opera hold on television but that's it right so there's someone like him the world's richest person is on able to stand up to such actions and who come there whether you have a legal case may depend on jurisdiction in states that use blackmail and extortion combined together it will likely be a case because you're requesting that someone by way of threatening them if you don't do this then i'll do that and then it would come under that under one of those statutes however if it's in a state or jurisdiction that is only saying money has to be involved then it doesn't come under the statute because there's no request for you know and there's no requests for money complicating matters is practiced immunity deal w

further request that the president rule on the accountability or otherwise off the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so very much an up tick in the ongoing power struggle between congress and the trump administration on that investigation into jamal khashoggi is death and the apportioning of accountability for it mike thanks for that mike hanna in washington . egypt's parliament has overwhelmingly approved constitutional changes removing term limits for president abdel fattah his sisi until twenty thirty four the changes still have to go through several stages of approval before being put to a national referendum the c.c. was due to stand down in twenty twenty two when his second four year term and we've got plenty more ahead on this news out. to the protesters in haiti keep up the pressure on the president to step down over the rising cost of living and corruption plus. tomatoes onions and plans almost ever sort of legible is that thirty per cent more expensive than turkey is that a year ago the government has brought in some measures to bring food inflation down bu

and besting you know so much in the country and especially at a time when the crown prince mohammed bin solomon has been has received so much criticism condemnation scrutiny following the murder of south asia in this jamal khashoggi at the end of last year. but indeed the day has been going to dribble to criticism about how her show gays are dead and about that incident that was just god's anger that you read by one thing that much be understood that the relations between the two countries transcends beyond books anality and the saudis also warned by august on as a partner because they feel threatened and their regional gone take also north would see that the crown prince going to be going to china august on is becoming a major conduit and quarter door or china trade and of course that going to give all but unities for saudi arabia to guard a distance and an orchard to connect to the giant up august on the economic order dollars so there's a red win situation for both countries however buggered sun has made it clear that it will not become a party to the conflict within the godhead wants to pla

intelligence agencies those intelligence agencies believe for example that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the death of jamal the soldier the journalist last october so he doesn't have or trump doesn't have the support of his own personnel and i think also trump faces and washington press which thinks that he is weak in the combination of his general witness in front of the truck russia investigation the recent government shutdown and the washington press a specific concern over saudi activities after the death of associate i think that means that this is probably the best opportunity that congress has to check executive power and the u.s. intervention in yemen and and i'd be interested in your feedback on some of those and points that scott made it to to say that he thinks this might be the right time for this do you agree with that analysis. i mean to a large extent you're a invigorate democratic majority in the house and for that matter when you add that to the fact that the said it was able to pass a bill prior to the elections they feel like i to some extent they st

trump administration to investigate specifically the possible involvement of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so this once again heightening this ongoing struggle between congress and the trumpet ministration into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and the comfortability for that particular death being attributed perhaps to senior saudi leaders. lots more still to come here on the news hour including an explosion targeting a military convoy in the indian administered kashmir kills at least thirty nine people. in sport history for slovakia the world championships in sweden that's all still to come. to rival meetings addressing instability in the middle east have wrapped up in europe in sochi russia president hosted turkish and iranian leaders for talks on how to end the war in syria and what comes next while in poland the u.s. stepped up its efforts to isolate iran at a conference attended by sixty nations well israel's prime minister was the only foreign head of state to attend with many european countries sending low level representatives we

saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon threatened to go after jamal khashoggi in twenty seventeen more than a year before he was murdered according to the new york times newspaper the report says been told an aide he would in his words use a bullet against the journalist if he did not return home and end his criticism of saudi arabia the conversation was intercepted by u.s. intelligence. was murdered inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october last year. turkey's foreign minister says the u.n. last launch a full investigation into the murder this a day after the u.n. human rights and boy looking into it said it was a brutal premeditated killing planned and perpetrated by saudi officials a special rapporteur spent a week in turkey to examine evidence where saudi minister of state for foreign affairs has urged the u.s. not to impose sanctions on saudi arabia over the. speaking in washington adela said the killing had been a rogue operation and a huge mistake yes president donald trump has until midnight to tell congress if sanctions will be imposed on saudi arabia over her murder u

actually threatened to go off to jamal khashoggi back in twenty seventeen according to the report mohammed bin solomon told an aide he would quote use of bullets against the journalist if he did not return home and his criticism of the kingdom that conversation intercepted by a u.s. intelligence agencies we spoke to are not that hashmi about this the middle east analyst at the university of denver who told us the crown prince has a tendency to display erratic behavior. well i think that psychiatry just would have a field day interviewing the saudi crown prince he clearly has a fondness for bullets he clearly has a think a psychopathic personality and these are very bad days for the saudi crown prince within twenty four hours there has been two damning sort of developments the u.n. special investigator sort of is pointing the finger to the saudi crown prince but of course the new york times report that you mentioned suggests that according to american intercepts a year before jamal khashoggi was murdered he was talking about putting a bullet in his head and so these are difficult days for the saudi cro

intelligence mohammed bin solomon is heard saying that he'd use a bullet against. the sister of thailand's king has been declared a leading candidate for prime minister in the upcoming elections the army chief who is the current prime minister will also run a senior white house advisor jarrett kirschner is expected to travel to the middle east later this month donald trump's son in law will present part of his peace plan for the region during his visit krishna will brief diplomats on the economic sanction economic section of the u.s. proposal for peace between israel and the palestinians his tour will take him to amman bahrain saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar at least two people have been killed fourteen police officers injured in protests in haiti's capital. demonstrated in port au prince against rampant inflation and corruption they are calling on the president to step down. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after today's edition of the stream next. as venezuela is on the brink. with two men facing off for power. one of the self-procl

electric under scrutiny as well question his ongoing relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon. and central to the report longtime trump supporter and one time national security advisor michael flynn who the report says was deeply involved in pushing a nuclear plan for saudi arabia that included the construction not as many as forty saudi nuclear plants the report says michael flynn was a paid advisor to a company known as i p three international during the presidential campaign through the transition period and even while serving as national security advisor the report ends on february the twelfth that is last week president trump participated in a white house meeting with private nuclear power developers initiated by i p three international and as a democrat led oversight committee commences a large scale investigation the question is whether house republicans will commit to it as well mike hanna al-jazeera washington the iranian foreign minister mean miles denounce the alleged bed by the u.s. to sell nuclear technology to riyadh the homage of and zarif tweeted first to disme

trump administration to investigate specifically the possible involvement of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon in the murder of jamal khashoggi so this once again heightening this ongoing struggle between congress and the trump administration into the investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi and the comfortability for that particular death being attributed perhaps to senior saudi leaders. the youth vote is likely to play a major part in nigeria's presidential and parliamentary elections on saturday jobs are increasingly scarce and the cost of living is rising. met young people in the capital are birger who are looking for change. absolutely mohammed says he's voting for the first time in saturday's election but he is frustrated the twenty year old from his school and can't find work to try and survive he sells water on the street taking the lot of them are like here i want the government to look after the poor and give us jobs i also want to pull titian's to deal with insecurity in the country. when president mohammad you bihari won the election four years ago he promised to fix nigeri

mohammed bin solomon's aim was to reorient the saudi economy away from oil and reassure investors that saudi arabia is stable and progressive. a lot has changed since the prince's international public relations drive the efforts to convince businessmen to feel comfortable working in the kingdom also faced a blow when top saudi business kingpins were put under arrest in an opaque anti corruption drug and as a cascading effect there has been flight of capital reduced foreign investment increased saudi borrowing and a halt saudi aramco its i.p.o. . the increase in internal repression inside the kingdom in a locking up of folks inside the the ritz carlton a lot of those were heads of family businesses or large companies or big conglomerates you know that gives foreign investors pause. the murder of one journalist has washed away the veneer of change and quashed investor confidence in the north. sea i'm asking for people to be allowed to speak. we need to make. the interest of a stakeholder never get priority over the kingdom the privatization process would mean saudi oil reserves will be u