. >>> the body of saudi arabia's crown prince arrived back in riyadh for a funeral scheduled tuesday.to the saudi throne, the crown prince died three days ago in new york. i think that's only two days ago on sunday. that's raising questions about who is now in line for the top post in the oil-rich kingdom. c cnn's reema joins us. there is a consultation as to who should be the new crown prince. is that right, rima? >> reporter: that's the message, charles, session is what everybody is talking about. now, usual ll lly second sessil. that means after friday it will be announced kings and presidents are pouring in to express condolences. it will take place in four hours and definitely succession is the major question here, charles. >> it's interesting because there does seem to be -- whether it goes through this 35-member allegiance council or whether they take a different view to the king which the king can override, looks like prince nayef who is the interior minister, who is a half brother of king abdullah is the front-runner. what do we know about him as interior minister. >> reporte

in 2007 president ahmadinejad of iran made a state visit to riyadh.d me that the king later said it was a state visit of hypocrisy and ever since there have been many proxy battles, whether it's lebanon, syria, whether it was the uprising in bahrain, that saudi troops helped quell. this was a shia-led uprising in bahrain. so you've seen the rift between the two countries that has taken a sectarian sort of quality, identity to it. really put these two big regional superpowers against each other head-to-head in the region in a battle for influence. but as i said, iran is a shiite country, saudi arabia is a sunni arab kingdom so there are many differences there. >> i've had many conversations with top saudi officials over the years. as worried as the israelis might be about iran's potential to develop a nuclear arsenal, the saudis are probably just as worried. >> that's a great point to make because they do see in saudi arabia the iranian nuclear program and how militarized it becomes, perhaps in the same way israel does. what's interesting, as you may k

they've been described as a comedy as well, all part of an attempt to fuel tension between tehran and riyadh. let's get more on it. i'm joined by the middle east analyst. thanks for joining us. what do you make of this? >> i think it's such a far-fledged plot. at best, it's rogue elements within the quds brigade. even that is such a huge departure for them. they've always been focused on their back yard in iraq and lebanon, so this is a huge departure. >> when you said far-fetched plot, are you suggesting it's not really? >> we have to get the facts. at the moment, it's so sketchy. there's drug cartels and others floating about. it's difficult to jump to conclusions at this stage. >> there's been a reference already from hillary clinton saying we need to further isolate iran. so there is an american interest in pushing this at the moment in one sense. >> sure, there is an argument that this is an effort to galvanize international opposition against iran, and there are a number of things that need to be looked at before jumping to conclusions. >> let's not jump to conclusions, but what you pe

in libya but you can compare it to riyadh square with zuccotti park in new york it's a more a less the same thing and they're fighting for the same freedoms as well this people got to be free which reminds me of those old sixty's songs you know of the young rascals that people has got to be three it's so much an article implicated in that because this blaming the government for all ills on the planet this is so soul soul old i'll give you two examples resume. because of what lula did in the past eight years is starting to become more or less over the last inequal country because of government policies as well and no wonder that lula got eighty seven percent of approval by brazilians because they knew that these policies as imperfect as they were at least listed thirty million if not more brazilians out of extreme poverty in their no lower middle class and in china the compact to be doing the leadership in beijing and one point three billion chinese is very clear as the ok i'm not defending them see what they call back is all about if you don't involve yourselves in political participat

king abdullah who is now eighty seven officials say funeral services will be held in the capital riyadh on tuesday. circus troops reportedly killed forty nine kurdish rebels near the iraqi border as hundreds of soldiers also pursued fighters in northern iraq a clash in turkish cari province came after the government launched a massive anti rebel operation in the area involving ten thousand troops that okies conflict with the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. has killed tens of thousands of people since it began in one thousand eight hundred from. one. so the world update this hour the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for yemeni president ali abdullah saleh to immediately step down it also strongly condemns excessive use of force against anti-government protesters the first mandate since the unrest began in general says the leader must transfer power to his deputy and escalate the violence but it was criticized by human rights activists saying it opened the way to granting immunity for the president the testers claim sali is clinging to power and pushin

from much of the world community after approving more settlements on occupied palestinian territory riyadh months or the palestinian envoy to the un believes this simply demonstrates israel's reluctance to negotiate for peace. this illegal action is that are you the government. or. responding to the international community and to the quartet which i have been asking them to. under international law and that all which calls for the freeze of settlement of. announcing. in these days this illegal. step is an indication that they are not interested in what the court that is proposing or the international community or why didn't the obligation on international law and therefore they are not interested in negotiating peace a law they say they want to negotiate peace without conditions they are imposing all these conditions and their actions speaks louder than the announcement of their desire to negotiate things and i hope there are four of those struggling to make hands meet in the current age of a stare he came from the financial world this week an independent raters revelations went viral afte

individuals will definitely have a resounding impact both in washington but put a little also in tehran and riyadh iran and saudi arabia are bold bitter political enemies in a long running middle eastern conflict that's been fueled by sectarian hostilities the sunni versus shia. what would a raw and game. by targeting a saudi official in the united states i think that's that's a very good question and those of us looking at the news today just taking it all at face value assuming that that these allegations are accurate and that these individuals were working with the iranian government if you work with that thought process it's very hard to understand what went on and what the iranians thought they were going to gain from this remember the u.s. saudi relations have not been great over the course of the arab spring the way we've often found ourselves on opposite sides of a number of the uprisings in the region with the u.s. often either implicitly or explicitly supporting some of the democratic movements and the saudis often working against them so it really boggles the imagination why the iranian

teaching for taco bell wages because they love teaching doctor or soon we should be doctoring to riyadh why don't we see any articles about teachers leaving the profession because they weren't making enough and there's a real problem a lot of the money to good portion of money goes not to teachers now in the classroom and bureaucrats because the teachers union has set up these massive bureaucracies that are sucking up money so you're not spending money on actual teachers or talking to kids it's a bunch of lazy bureaucrats actually teachers who were laid off and a bureaucracy with teaching your apprentices. get laid off nothing there is a for example in the health insurance industry to the private for profit health insurer maybe of the greatest teachers in the world are actually nuns who have taken an oath of poverty so i think it has nothing to do with celery and chastity so if you want to teach america there's a solution and it will if it works great for the children supreme court justice clarence thomas' jigme idea a group of twenty house democrats have called on the department of jus

are unfortunately just innocent bystanders and europe's debt crisis been hitting markets hard in riyadh the jobs crisis here in the u.s. which is fueling fears of corporate losses that i guess it all adds up to grenade he's warning that the economic recovery is close to faltering now if the necessarily needed bernanke you tell us that but anyway let's move on there's a new proposal is being floated around out there and it may seem a little radical but some economists argue that it's the only way to get us out of this mess that proposal is massive that really just think about tens of millions of americans are burdened with mortgages that they can't afford i was well as of course student loan debt and credit card that's where a country that likes to charge and then pay later but since the banks got a bailout for the american people want to discuss this it means anthony director of economic research for the reason foundation i think thanks so much for being here tonight first tartars i mean is it kind of a node when burning he started saying that our recovery just might be faltering i thin

he spends a tremendous amount of time in riyadh and involved in almost every high-level meeting the king is no run of the mill diplomate. he's seen as a right hand man and dee foreign adviser to king abdullah. and that according to jordan makes him a target to some degree. >> thank you very much. >>> now to atlanta to learn more about a large german satellite, which is plunging back to earth. this is the second satellite to fall and hit within the last month which is why i'm wondering what is going on tonight. what are the chances this hits somebody? in. >> erin, it's a big satellite and many pieces will hit the ground. that's what it looks like right now. it won't look like that as it burns up and hits the ground. the risk of it hitting anyone in the world, one in 2,000. multiply that by the population of the world and the chance of you getting hit is one in 13 trillion. this is a big satellite, though. one of the pieces is ceramic and it will not burn up on reentry. it will weigh 1700 pounds that will still leave a mark. erin. >> thank you very much. >>> now the crime docket, ten days

talked about how even though it is based in washington, d.c., he spends a tremendous amount of time in riyadhcy adviser, and that according to jordan makes him a target to some degree. >> muhammad, thank you very much. and now we go to atlanta to learn more about a large german satellite which is plunging back to earth. this is the second satellite to fall and hit within the past month, which is why i'm wondering what's going on. cnn's chad myers is in atlanta tonight. chad, are the chances this hits somebody? >> reporter: well, erin, it's a big satellite and many piece also hit the ground. that's what it looks like right now. the risk of it hitting anyone in the world, 1 in 2,000. multiply that by the population of the world and the population and the chance of you getting hit is 1 in 13 trillion. this one still is a big satellite. in fact, one of the pieces is ceramic and it will not burn up on reentry. it will weigh 1,700 pounds. that will still leave a mark. >> all right. thank you very much. now to the outfront crime docket. ten days into the trial of dr. conrad murray. his defense is sa

king abdullah has arrived at a hospital in riyadh.ery similar to operations he had last year in the u.s. the 87-year-old king has suffered in the past from a debilitating herniated disc that put pressure on his spine. >>> the next republican presidential debate is just two days away in las vegas. seven of the eight candidates plan to be there. my colleague t.j. holmes, cnn deputy political director paul steinhauser and our senior political editor mark preston are all there, poised in front of the venetian, which the debate is going to be taking place. t.j., you got a quick look at inside where the debate is going to be unfolding two days from now. pa paint a picture for us. >> i would first like to say thank you, fredricka, i was sure you were going to refer to us as the new rat pack. thank you for that. we did get a look inside the debate hall. we're looking to put that thing together. but they will tell you and we all know that there is something that stands out to a lot of folks if you start counting the podiums. there is one missi

i have had dinner with him in washington and at his house in riyadh.formed and a guy that knows the united states very well, studied in the united states and spent more adult life in the united states than any other country except saudi arabia at this point. he is very close to king abdullah. he was close to crown prince abdullah. he assumed the monarchy when i visited for the first counterterrorism conference had. fran town send was representing the united states. it was clear that adel al-jubeir was telling crown prince about dull what who the guests were and what they did, guiding him through the basically the people attending the conference. 1:00 one thing, erin that struck me in the indictment, which if you read refers to a restaurant in washington where the attack was supposed to happen. senators were going to be there, 100, 150 people killed potentially. that corresponds to georgetown, where have met ambassador adel al-jubeir on a number of occasions in the past. the universal restaurants in washington where somebody like this would go routinely

. >>> saudi arabia's king abdullah has arrived at a hospital in riyadh.ndergo back surgery. his third back operation within the last year. the 87-year-old king has suffered in the past from a debilitating herniated disk that put pressure on his spine. those are your headlines this hour. now back to the "larry king special" featuring award winning actor johnny depp. >>> johnny depp's personal office. as interesting and unique as the man himself. inside the walls are lined with personal momentos and photos from his life and work. here, a cabinet of curiosities from his movie "sweeney todd." willy wonka's throne from "charlie and the chocolate factory." his walking stick and that golden ticket. one of his guitars. awards and accolades. perhaps one of the most interesting things to see, johnny's self-made portrait from his friend and mine, the legendary marlon brando. >> i had i made this painting of you. you paint? >> another amazing man in johnny's life, hunter s. thompson. he shows us a letter and a check. something he received after thompson lost a bet ov

sectarian tensions in middle east that lessened in 2007 when we saw this visited by ahmadinejad to riyadh are now -- have ratcheted right back up again. you mentioned bahrain. i could mention eastern saudi arabia where there's a sizable shiite mine north, 2 million shiites live in the eastern part of saudi arabia. saudi arabia has said that it will crack down fiercely on these protests by the shiite minority. it does not want this to be a problem in this oil-rich country. there's also lebanon. there's hezbollah. hezbollah has sided with the bahrainian protesters, but for instance sided with the syrian regime. it's difficult not to see this through a sectarian prism. >> iran says it's a fabrication, the united states making this up. iran does not have a great credibility, level of credibility, shall we say, but the question is, you have the law enforcement case, you have the one suspect who has been arrested. the second suspect, as you read through the complaint, and it's like a movie script everybody the second suspect said to be in iran somewhere. account obama administration do? what ca

i have had dinner with him in washington and at his house in riyadh. an extremely intelligent, well informed and a guy that knows the united states very well, studied in the united states and spent more adult life in the united states than any other country except saudi arabia at this point. he is very close to king abdullah. he was close to crown prince abdullah. he assumed the monarchy when i visited for the first counterterrorism conference had. fran town send was representing the united states. it was clear that adel al-jubeir was telling crown prince about dull what who the guests were and what they did, guiding him through the basically the people attending the conference. 1:00 one thing, erin that struck me in the indictment, which if you read refers to a restaurant in washington where the attack was supposed to happen. senators were going to be there, 100, 150 people killed potentially. that corresponds to georgetown, where have met ambassador adel al-jubeir on a number of occasions in the past. the universal restaurants in washington where som

his funeral will take place in riyadh on tuesday. he is survived by 32 kids and multiple wives. arthel. >> arthel: thanks. >> rick: after years of butting heads, u.s. relations with north korea showing some signs of a thaw. they're being allowed to find bodies from the korean war. 5500 thought to be buried in north korea. the move comes days before leaders are to hold bilateral talks on nuclear issues. the recovery efforts are due to begin sometime next year. >> arthel: you could say the occupy wall street protests reaching new heights in new york. one of the demonstrators scaling a tall sculpture this morning near the protesters' home base in lower manhattan. there he is. police moved in to try to get him down. even using a crane to go up to talk to him at eye level. eventually the protester agreed to leave his perch. he was reportedly taken to a local hospital for observation. >> rick: let's talk politics and turning to the 2012 presidential race a forum is underway as we speak in des moines, iowa, featuring a lot of the top gop contenders. among them, congresswoman michelle b

he spends a tremendous amount of time in riyadh and involved in almost every high-level meeting the kingiplomate. he's seen as a right hand man and dee foreign adviser to king abdullah. and that according to jordan makes him a target to some degree. >> thank you very much. >>> now to atlanta to learn more about a large german satellite, which is plunging back to earth. this is the second satellite to fall and hit within the last month which is why i'm wondering what is going on tonight. what are the chances this hits somebody? in. >> erin, it's a big satellite and many pieces will hit the ground. that's what it looks like right now. it won't look like that as it burns up and hits the ground. the risk of it hitting anyone in the world, one in 2,000. multiply that by the population of the world and the chance of you getting hit is one in 13 trillion. this is a big satellite, though. one of the pieces is ceramic and it will not burn up on reentry. it will weigh 1700 pounds that will still leave a mark. erin. >> thank you very much. >>> now the crime docket, ten days in toe this trial of dr.

saudi arabia or libya or anybody else, it is the people of every one of those nations in jetta, in riyadh, in syria, against the perceived, and i would agree with that perception, corrupt government in every last one of those nations. where do you see the power dynamic? in other words, how much of the power is coming from the resistance in the arab spring and how much of it is still really in the hands of kingdoms and the kings and their battle with each other for power. whether it's iran, saudi arabia, or anybody else? >> well, you know, a year ago, if any of us -- if the three of us had this conversation about this map, what it looks like now, we would have said whoever made this map was crazy. whoever had -- was predicting these events was nuts. maybe in one place, but not in so many of these places. you know, not to shoot your map, dylan, but you left off tunisia, where they had their elections there over the weekend. >> shoot away. you are correct. >> what a fantastic story that's happening there. other places, not so fantastic, right? the united states has its presence in bahrain. w

we had a secure line open to riyadh where our senior hill tear commander, general schwarzkopf was. and, you know, you could look back on it later and say, well, we should have done this, we shouldn't have let 'em have helicopters, or there were things we doesn't know at the time. -- we didn't know at the time. but there was a general sense that we'd done what we set out to do. we liberated kuwait, that's what we told the coalition, our troops we were going to do, and i'd promised when i'd gone over there initially to get permission to put u.s. forces into saudi, i also promised 'em as soon as we completed the mission, we'd go home. we were not looking for permanent bases in saudi arabia. so there was a general sense that, now, should we have gone all the way to baghdad then? um, circumstances were pretty dramatically different ten years later after we'd had the e events of 9/11, after we'd seen saddam violate 16 out of 17 u.n. security council resolutions and produce and use weapons of mass destruction against his own people. you know, the world had shifted ten years later. and if

choke off the financing of the terrorists use and have analyst sitting side-by-side in places like riyadh in saudi arabia trying to work on cutting back and eliminating wealthy donors in that country you continue to give money to the taliban into al qaeda. so as we look forward in terms of how this approach is going we are looking at those two big questions because this is all still very much an evolving picture. how is the thread changing and how is the response government makes? how did this all happen? i'm going to to turn it over to thom to tell you the next part of the story. >> i would like to echo the sincere thanks to the miller center and to christine and for all of you for taking time out in your schedule to come and discuss this with you. i would like to say everything important i know in life i have learned from my wife, johnny cash in the united and the unitd states army. [laughter] and as eric and i were casting our eyes back over the past 10 years we were looking for some organizing principles together all of this information in a way that would be digested, and if you know

when they heard that pop singer riyadh that was assaulted by her boyfriend chris brown, we would ask what did she do to force him to hit her. we are able to write off sexual- harassment. still look at claims of sexual harassment and let the woman because that is what we are trained to do. we blame the victim because that is what credible people like police officers and news sources do. why would we not? another significant problem my generation faces is sexual- harassment is we are still not exactly sure what it is. i think this stems back to our attitudes about the feminist movement at large. feminism is no longer a fight against obvious articles. we want roh vs. wade, title and then, the list goes on. it is not about getting rights, it is about preserving them. this is where it becomes complicated for us to be -- to interrogate our values into our daily lives. we may be passionate about fighting injustice is, we may theoretically be able to identify what is acceptable or not, we find it difficult to recognize the same injustices we speak against within the context of our own lives.