i want to send them a message you'll never be able to do that as long as we have a king called solomon bin of the losses or the crown prince called mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia or the turkish president name. it's been more than three weeks since ashaji 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 there the one their first conversation since the killing the two reportedly discussed how to quote shed light on the case. the white house has promised to find those responsible for sending suspected explosive devices to a number of high profile democratic politicians saying that these are terrorizing acts law enforcement officials the scabbard suspected explosives addressed to the homes of hillary and bill clinton and former president 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 of air strikes by the same. the led coalition have tar

well the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon's rapid political rise to the international community by surprise in the past eighteen months has consolidated power and tried to project himself as a reformer and a modernizing bops the to search the cases when the spotlight's on top of the policies he's led to his dosage bari. since is debut on the world stage it's been a rapid rise for saudi crown prince mohammed bin samon in two thousand and fifteen seemingly out of nowhere the twenty nine year old favorite son of saudi arabia's king solomon been up to lizzie's was appointed defense minister he became chief architect of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen a campaign of aerial bombardment that has helped create what the un calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world human rights organizations accuse the saudi led coalition of bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and schools in saudi arabia where most of the population is under thirty been so man has been heralded as a man who would bring much needed economic and social reforms but that's changed in recent months h

were fifteen men involved in this operation four of which we understand are top part of mohammed bin solomon's bodyguard this man matt tripp who we understand it very close to mamet bin solomon who is filmed coming into this country filmed going into the consulate on the morning that crucial she disappeared leaving the consulate and only literally you know an hour or so later getting seemingly getting on a plane and leaving the country we've also heard according to these leaked reports of allegations of of a bone sold being used and yesterday we heard evidence according again to these transcripts that shows she was attacked immediately on going in to the embassy i think the bully's very much now as it has been arguably since this crisis started with the turks let's not forget the turks have their own investigation ongoing they have vowed to find or just to continue searching for a body there is an obvious major hole in this latest saudi narrative when we're hearing from them that they say the crucial as he died in this brawl well way to go . yes a major change in the narrative but so many more

it's also business as usual for mohamed bin solomon is that he has to as i pointed out this is a future. investment initiative he needs to try to deflect as much as i mean this is sort of a master class and deflection of address the question do you think and now look at how great the region didn't look at how great the country is doing and everyone applauds for him. absolutely what would have been really good had he come up with a regional plan we for this conference to succeed it needs some big ideas big regional ideas starting by the conciliation of certain issues offering developmental opportunities and i hope this is what they will be discussing in details later on south america for now thank you very much we're just looking at pictures from the future investment initiative in riyadh the conference where we have seen and heard for the first time the crown prince of saudi arabia mohammed been some address the issue of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he talked about it and just to reiterate again for those of you just joining us he talked about it being painful and unjustified an

i personally don't doubt the sincerity of the custodian of the two holy mosques king solomon bin abdulla says on the other hand it is very important that such a critical investigation about a murder is carried out by is truly a biased and fair delegation with no doubt about their connections are to god referred to king sound man with respect to his much awaited speech on tuesday where he was supposed to unveil what he called the naked truth about the murder of turkey's president did provide some new details and investigation like the presence of a third saudi team that scouted a forest a day before he was killed but overall turkey's president was a politician he criticized saudi arabia for not fully cooperating with the investigation but was careful not to burn all bridges with riyadh. the people were expecting. what happened to the body. which was amounts of with the dismemberment of the body have been the video recording the older recording these are all questions. but turkey says it has enough evidence to prove what it has been saying from the start that the murder was premeditated an

all main suspects from those fifteen those four main suspects have associations with mohammed bin solomon the crown prince one of them in particular is muhammad. zs but trib he is has a good record in terms of intelligence work he was the first secretary at the saudi embassy in london and pictures of him have been distributed published in one particular pro-government newspaper with time buntin photographs from c.c.t.v. which show him clearly arriving in istanbul and going into the consulate well ahead of jamal khashoggi himself and then the refer the photographs from the c.c.t.v. of him actually going into a hotel with a large suitcase going out of it and leaving the country this man in particular with that sort of evidence is a prime suspect. all right answer seventy five press in istanbul andrew thank you. the new york times is reporting the rulers of saudi arabia may be considering blaming a top intelligence official close to crown prince mohammed bin solomon for this killing the report says that general the syrian advisor to the crown prince could be cited as being responsible for th

all of this has put the spotlight on saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon who was appointed last year that was a surprise move that sidelined his cousin the previous crown prince who was relieved of all duties but mohammed bin solomon's influence of a policy began in two thousand and fifteen when his father became king the now thirty three year old has attempted to project himself as a reformer on a modernization and in the past eighteen months he's consolidated his power he is understood to be responsible for the blockade of council saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut ties with doha in june last year in november there was the mysterious detention of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri in riyadh he announced his resignation on saudi television but withdrew it after returning to lebanon the crown prince is a major driver of the saudi embassy coalition's war in yemen its actions of drawn international condemnation including in august when it s. strike killed a bus full of school children and finally he's spearheaded a so-called anti corrupti

and understand is being arrested this man south of qatar and he is a senior advisor to mohammed bin solomon and so that suggests that even the saudis have had to take on all of these these allegations that there were people close to mohammed bin salma and there has. been obviously no further indication from the saudis that solomon knew about this but as you say the evidence suggests the contrary you speak to saudi experts and they say he's inconceivable that such a major operation involving fifteen men sent across to a foreign country to to to participate in this operation one of whom as i say this man met him a trip who is one of we understand one of the saudi princes crown prince's private bodyguards a man who was on c.c.t.v. is going into the embassy on the day that because she went inside appearing a few hours later and then literally only about over an hour or so off to leaving the consulate appearing at the airport this is very very strong evidence that has been leaked to the media by the. and as you say everybody is saying that it does seem completely unbelievable that the saudi prin

young people they're the same age they like each other i believe he went on to talk about muhammad bin solomon saying he's a very strong person he has very good control. key been basically saying that's a positive thing and so we're looking at jared kushner in all of this because jared muhammad bin solomon have struck up a solid relationship and dared cushion or has the profile of the middle east peace and he's made it clear he thinks that that can only happen with the cooperation of saudi arabia now the president might want to cooperate with saudi arabia right now in a whole host of issues but we're seeing calls from members of congress as mike hanna reported saying that they have to simply be shunned in till there are big changes a very key ally for president senator lindsey graham immediately came out after the story broke and said that there needs to be regime change in saudi arabia so very strong language we see the president sending the message that he would like. to find some middle ground is i want to get rid of arms deals he wants to continue the relationship with saudi but at the sam

those who are trying to defend saudi arabia saying he's going to be a good crown prince mohammed bin solomon he's just very young and interestingly in that article that interview with the washington post the president kind of echoed that sentiment in the quote that they just released tonight he said talking about khaled bin solomon and jared kush they're his son in law and also senior advisor they're just two young guys dears doesn't know him well. anything there just two young people they're the same age they like each other i believe so what we're seeing here is the president getting pressure from within his inner circle there are those like his national security advisor is sudden law that are saying this will pass you cannot lose saudi arabia it's key to him in iran and then there are on the outside even the president's closest advisers who are said in the message if you don't do something congress will and you will in the end look weak you know the one thing the president hates it's weakness absolutely but within the last couple of weeks or so i mean president trump has vacillating somew

on saudi arabia and any involvement its leaders may have had in the murder crown prince mohamed bin solomon resurfaced in public today for a key business meeting take a look. satisfied was the word crown prince mohammed bin solomon used to describe his mood at the high profile future investment initiative conference in riyadh. despite the prince's smile there was tension in the air. some forty companies and investors boycotted the forum over the killing of dissident j.b. you know we are go through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very good actor. incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justify it or explain. before arriving been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writings. back in istanbul the scene of the alleged crime turkish authorities continue to search for clues and for a body. in a speech to parliament turkish president at a one said push up she's killing was clearly a planned operation he called on riyadh to address all the facts and said the saudi government knows more than it admits to. being a victim is blaming some in

and i want to send a message you will never be able to do that as long as we have a king called solomon bin of the losses of the crown prince called mohammed bin so . in saudi arabia a turkish president named. well it shows his body still hasn't been found more than three weeks since he was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given permission to search a well in the saudi consul general's residence meanwhile u.s. president donald trump is piled on the pressure calling it the worst cover up in the history of cover ups and that the ultimate responsibility for death could lie with the crown prince well turkish officials say that shortly before the saudi crown prince left for the investment conference he spoke to turkey's president thatcher type head to head on the phone their first conversation since the killing at the height is the man i think that saudi arabia extradite those responsible to face trial in turkey. we are determined not to allow a cover up of this murder and to make sure all those responsible from those who ordered it to those who ca

the late washington post columnist jamal khashoggi an influential critic of saudi ruler mohamed bin solomon now there is mounting evidence that after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey he was rendered unconscious and then dismembered by a special team sent from riyadh that included a number of bin solomon's personal bodyguards u.s. president trump says it is too early to draw any conclusions the white house has requested turkey delivered the audio and video it says it has on the last moments of the show she's life. cheat and disappeared death by decree that's our topic today we're focusing on that with rick no act he's a foreign affairs reporter for the washington post for which she also worked as a commentator recovers europe and international security issues and says politically motivated kidnappings or killings in the key to a new level of foreign policy assertiveness especially on the west likes leadership in defending human rights. dylan is an editor for the german daily newspaper de velde here his fields of interest are turkey in the middle east and he says in a polarized

john bolton and white house aides jared questionnaire have all asked saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for more information about this appearance president trump says he's also had conversations at the very highest level with the saudis he's planning to meet fiance at the white house. his wife wrote us a letter. addressed it to my work for myself and we're in contact with her and. we want to bring her to the world as it's a very sad situation it's a very bad situation and we want to get to the bottom of it. i don't want to make i don't want to say that i hope it's not. what i have to find out who did it but. people saw him go in but they didn't see him come out as they understand it we're going to take a very serious look at it it's a terrible thing. i'd rather not say but the answer is yes. but we have correspondence monitoring events at the white house the u.s. state department and that is stumble let's start with the white house and speak of correspondent there kimberly halkett. has now been missing for over a week and even though the president had mentioned it perhaps not in a stro

new pictures emerge of the bodyguards of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon at the center ofthe jamal khashoggi case. that evidence is found inside the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul as questions are still being asked about the missing journalist. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up e.u. leaders rule out a special summit on bragg's it next month citing a lack of progress a possible deal with the u.k. . a special al-jazeera investigation into cricket match fixing leads to a confession from one of pakistan's former top players. it's been more than two weeks now since journalist. walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul and didn't come out during those two weeks of uncertainty we've been following this story closely the latest information we have is that turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to his disappearance have completed searching two of saudi arabia's diplomats. buildings in istanbul they spent more than twelve hours looking through both the consulate and the consul general zod residence sources have told

been sacked one is the will call to advise saudi cuts on the he is very close advisor to mohammed bin solomon and also the deputy chief of intelligence but a series he's a very large figure within the royal household in the sense that he is the face of the wall the war in yemen against the youth is in giving all the spokesman performances in that regard now what is also the case is that this reform which the king has announced will main that all of a whole pile of of changes will be made whole made by a man who appointed intelligence chiefs in the first place and that's mohammed bin solomon and so therefore. very poignant in all of this is a statement made by an official a saudi officials the reuters news agency who said there were no orders for these people to kill or even kidnap and he said that mohammed bin someone had no knowledge of this specific operation and certainly did not order any form of action it was being aware of the general instruction to tell people to come back that's to get dissident. but to saudi arabia he also said that on the issue of where mr show gays body is right no

like saudi authorities to show the same sensitivity to this murder that saudi king solomon and the crown prince mohammed bin solomon have met members of jamal khashoggi his family in riyadh including his son salah engine market shakuri case our man has promised to hold to account anyone found responsible for the journalists death whoever they may be shortly after that meeting the crown prince briefly attended a conference to attract foreign investment in saudi arabia i had been sound man said he was satisfied with the summit despite dozens of business executives and government leaders canceling plans to attend. russia has accused donald trump though taking a dangerous position by threatening to ramp up production of nuclear missiles u.s. for national security adviser john bolton met president vladimir putin in moscow to discuss a cold war treaty which limits missiles the us president says he'll withdraw from the treaty those are the headlines to stay with us on our jazeera the cure revisited is coming up next thanks watching by for now. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across t

specifically wants to deal not just with saudi arabia they specifically want to deal with mohamed bin solomon it's not just about the relationship between the kingdom and the u.s. of course it is precisely this mohammed bin said man has done in the middle east issues what no saudi prince who had before him has ever done mohammed bin nayef or these other princes or king for before him king abdullah would never have conducted themselves in the palestine or is it israel issue the way mama been simone has done and i think the proof is also that my pumping of blue twelve hours from the u.s. to saudi arabia for a fifteen minute meeting with king sent men and about a forty five minute with mohammed bin. importers of mohammed bin said man was such that that twelve hour journey going and thought well journey coming back was so important so i think with the u.s. has been trying to pull the stops not only that but here in the turks who have released their american pastor as a sign of goodwill to the u.s. and despite that donald trump yesterday with the day before if memory serves me correct question the

samantha power she says the notion that mohammed bin solomon one of the most controlling leaders in the middle east didn't know his government was sending fifteen goons to turkey to abduct a saudi critic is absurd. and there's increasing criticism of the saudi crown prince by senior members of congress democrat senator chris murphy who serves on the foreign relations committee had this to say in a washington post opinion piece as the new crown prince sing gauges in increasingly reckless behavior more and more of us are wondering whether our allies actions are in our own best interests the lists are for erratic actions from mohamed bin solomon is long the jailing of royal family members the detention of the lebanese prime minister a nonsensical feud with cutter the growing internal repression of political speech and the disastrous war in yemen and a tangible response to the growing climate of criticism the elaborate national day celebrations at the saudi embassy this week have been canceled mike hanna al-jazeera washington well still ahead an hour disappear and flooding in southern franc

american soldiers relations the second is american relations with saudi arabia through mohammed bin solomon you see america likes reliable allies trump likes reliable autocrats he likes she likes putin he likes all kinds of autocrats. but he doesn't like under liable autocrats he'd like to know what to do what to do you know you want to silence isn't you silence them you don't make it into an international scandal you want to launch a war in your neighbor yemen you launch a war but you end it you finish it you win it you don't kill countless of people and says continue your way of debris might become our city is not to hold the prime minister of lebanon hostage or country you are way over resulting in a dispute with your neighbor qatar is not to blockade it and to threaten to invade it your idea of opening it is not to rest women who want to drive your economic reform shouldn't be marching businessmen into the rich and give them a good beating this does not make for a reliable ally this makes for a fretless reckless. let's remind you who the men were at the center of this mysterious jamal k

saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomons rapid ascent to the international community but by surprise and in the past eighteen months he has consolidated power and attempted to project himself as a reformer modernize them but the case has swung the spotlight on to other policies that he has led. as more. since his debut on the world stage it's been a rapid rise for saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on in two thousand and fifteen seemingly out of nowhere the twenty nine year old favorite son of saudi arabia's king solomon been up to lizzie's was appointed defense minister he became chief architect of saudi arabia's military intervention in yemen a campaign of aerial bombardment that has helped create what the u.n. calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world human rights organizations accuse the saudi led coalition of bombing civilian targets such as hospitals and schools. in saudi arabia where most of the population is under thirty been so man has been heralded as a man who would bring much needed economic and social reforms but that's changed in recent months however no hell o

the hands of the secretary of state mike pump aoe again speaking with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon we understand the crux of this call was to request information and to press for a transparent investigation now sarah center saying that there is still ongoing efforts for more information and that the press will be updated when those details become available for the moment though she is saying that in fact the white house continues to monitor the situation what do you think of the sort of level of talk that there has been or appears to have been kimberly because i think there was a lot of concern in the lead up to this that because the white house because don't trump a particular wall so close to the saudis that he actually wouldn't be critical enough . certainly there is that concern and it's not just this white house the sort of level of. relationship between the u.s. government and the saudi kingdom dates back decades and it's deteriorated somewhat under barack obama but you're right under donald trump there was a reset push when he had his first foreign trip in selective riyad as

are you're not say so this could be a message to these people a warning sign we've seen mohamed bin solomon getting harsher more authoritarian. we see in what he's doing in yemen we see what he did with the qatari blockade in the g.c.c. crisis he's supporting the why. he's so he's an arab spring guy he's tried to suppress the arab spring in egypt in many other countries as well so yeah i mean this is definitely a reason for him a motivation for him to want to quiet dissidents in stamboul as in the stand we've got. to really c.c.t.v. footage that might actually shed some light on what transpired. what you make of that. what the turkey's now refusing to release t.v. footage there's saw a formal investigation going on in they don't want to show their hand until the formal investigation is done i'm assuming it's going to be wrapped up in a day or two according to what turkish media is reporting but you would think that it would be in the saudi's best interest if they have any footage of him leaving to release it instantly because the amount of bad press this is causing for the saudis is incredi

arabia may be considering blaming a top intelligence official close to the crown prince mohammed bin solomon for the killing the report says that general allah sciri an advisor to the crown prince could be cited as being responsible for the murder due to a misunderstanding over instructions the general services spokesman for the saudi led military coalition in yemen let's take a look at the man who's at the center of all of this criticize saudi arabia's monarchy after a.

you will never be able to do that as long as we have a king called solomon been up the losses of the cramped. unschooled mohammed bin solomon in saudi arabia a turkish president named. alessio g.'s body still hasn't been found more than three weeks since he was last seen at the saudi consulate in istanbul turkish investigators have now been given from mission to search a well in the saudi consul general's residence meanwhile the u.k.'s prime minister to reason may has told saudi arabia's king solomon that riyadh's explanation for the house beth lacked credibility and that saudi officials must cooperate with turkey well turkish officials a say that shortly before the saudi crown prince left for the investment conference he spoke to turkey's president friendship i patted him on the phone their first conversation since the killing and the hunt is the man thing that saudi arabia extradite those responsible to face trial in turkey. you know it's interesting to note that mr we are determined not to allow a cover up of this murder and to make sure all those responsible from those who ordered it to those who carried it out

secretary of state met with king solomon before sitting down with crown prince mohammed bin salman the man the turks believe ordered an operation against journalist and u.s. resident jamal khashoggi he made no public comment but the state department issued what's called the readout of the meeting afterward seeing the secretary and the crown prince agreed on the importance of a thorough transparent and timely investigation that provides answer is because i don't want to be understood as details began to emerge about what the turks believe happened to the writer donald trump tweeted just spoke with the crown prince of saudi arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in the turkish consulate he was with secretary of state might pompey or during the call and told me that he's already started and will rapidly expand the full and complete investigation into this matter answers will be forthcoming shortly in an interview with an american t.v. channel the president says there will be problems if the saudi leadership was aware of the operation in istanbul and it depends whether

of being that crown prince mohammed bin solomon did not order this assassination nor was he aware of it but as well as u.s. congressmen and senators see that's a lie the president urged onesies on tuesday in truth is true feel not only prove crucial to this murder case but could potentially have an impact on the political future of saudi arabia. stumble on the murder has gripped the world the accounts vary but turkish prosecutors have told on jazeera their evidence indicates his killing was planned. the country accused of his murder has changed his stance several times since october second today has shogi walked into the saudi consulate to collect routine paperwork but never walked out according to officials voile court advise a saudi attorney and saudis deputy head of intelligence siri were responsible for sending a fifteen member hit squad to turkey that group was sent to meet hush what has happened next in turkey goes as follows jamal khashoggi entered the consulate there was an argument and some screaming members of the hit squad trying to silence him they choked him he died pani

some sort of consequences new thing that we're seeing on twitter or politicians saying if mohammed bin solomon and saudi arabia are proven to have any connection to this and there are consequences will the everyone across the globe will be emboldened to continue attacking journalists and dissidents so that's the message from capitol hill but again president really from the beginning of this has been looking for a reason to believe the saudis. u.s. president donald trump spent the day checking out america's most advanced weapons of war and as he sat down to talk to defense contractors this is what mattered most even as saudi arabia admitted killing u.s. resident and journalist jamal khashoggi they wanted four hundred fifty billion dollars it's never been anything like you know just the last thing i want to do is say we're not going to you know we're not going to supply you with those numbers are actually not true the white house cannot point to any evidence that saudi arabia is actually spending anywhere close to that amount of money for many members of congress they say it's not about the mone

for example lots of them about praise mohammed bin solomon at a time when he's coming under a lot of criticism so one of the hashtags was a message of love from have been so none we all have faith in we haven't been summoned now very few of these hashtags have actually been about the disappearance of jamal which is incredibly shocking given that he is a saudi citizen and more has also pointed out that twitter is taking action it has suspended the saudi twenty four account a news channel that he says was responsible for the most prolific use of automated accounts in the arab and that account is a longer available online i guess is the disappearance of jamal khashoggi other arab journalists and activists have been expressing fears all their own safety some flooding this online to make them all and their presence but also addressing concerns given the political developments but daddy is the president of the co-op keeping a foundation think tank in norway he says he received death threats and has sought advice on the authorities adding any one of us could be next and a human rights defen

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are here now working there still is western representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to see business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and mid

of controversial tromp prince mohammed bin solomon has been put in charge of overhauling saudi arabia's spy agency. saudi arabia has admitted journalist jamal khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in istanbul the information was announced in the middle of the night on saudi state television seventeen days after her she walked into the consulate building riyadh now says that there was a brawl inside and that they died during the fight five top saudi officials have been sacked among them a senior intelligence officer and an adviser to the royal court eighteen others have been arrested u.s. president donald trump says that saudi arabia's announcement seems credible but others in washington a far from convinced shortly we'll be live in istanbul we'll also get full reaction from washington but first i was there as andrew simmons reports on all the latest developments. images played out relentlessly worldwide as saudi arabia denied jamal khashoggi had been killed but this was the last anyone would see of him alive and it was the beginning of a crisis that shaken the saudi royal household

is american so did relations the second is american relations with saudi arabia through mohammed bin solomon you see america likes reliable are lies. trump likes reliable autocrats he likes she likes putin he loves all kinds of autocrats but he doesn't like under liable autocrats he like an autocrat to do what autocrats do you know you want to silence is and you silence them you don't make it into an international scandal you want to launch a war in your neighbor you launch a war but you end it you finish it you win it you don't kill countless of people and still continue your way of diplomatic niceties is not to hold the prime minister of lebanon hostage or country your way of resolving a dispute with your neighbor qatar is not to block it it and to threaten to invade it your idea of such an opening is not to arrest women who want to to drive your economic reform should it be marching businessmen into the ritz and give them a good beating this does not make for a reliable ally this makes for a fretless reckless ally but given the fact you mentioned all those things and in some cases yemen t

pump aoe not only did he meet with king cell mon but he also met with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and also the foreign minister adel al g. of beer so this was a very extensive meeting we've seen the first pictures of that and we know that this trip doesn't just have one stop sami that it goes from riyadh to potentially also is stamboul as approved by donald trump the u.s. president but in terms of the content of this meeting we understand it is being widely reported as we've been talking here on al-jazeera that we are expecting some sort of imminent statement in the coming hours coming days from saudi arabia that will essentially have two parts not only will the first part be in contrast to the prior statements that were made by saudi arabia now in fact explaining that the death. was in fact an interrogation that went wrong but also potentially that those that were involved in that terror interrogation will be held accountable no one other interesting note in all of this that we're hearing here in washington is that u.s. investigators stateside here domestically have been very int

moving into day the western mainstream media has gosh that about the liberal reformer mohammad bin solomon i think thomas friedman great literally love with him and wanted to come out and so he really is sticking by his dreams into theater which i've seen recently and now you know. not one of them can really admit that they were wrong in their their serve on oil you know white washing of muhammad bin solomon in saudi arabia i mean we're talking about a country that regularly they behead people like every day they cut the heads off of women they claim are witches and dissidents all over the place they conduct assassinations of dissidents all over the world. and we're starting like going to act shocked because the child the interesting thing for me glenn is that you know i on this program we have talked about the nature of the saudi regime quite openly and regularly particularly when we were discussing syria over the last years. but it seems that only belatedly. because the river years in the spotlight the people are beginning to talk a little bit more about yemen which we've profiled very o

i like i said earlier i i think it's too far gone i think mohammed bin solomon is baked i don't think anyone's going to see him in a different light you know no amount of p.r. is going to put him in another light again is going to resuscitate his emmet and i mean this guy has created so many problems in saudi arabia as you know we have ten fingers and thumbs we don't have enough fingers to put in the dikes you know all the water that's spilling out of saudi arabia you know from from yemen to syria to even iraq to domestic things to that around cairo the failed around co i.p.o. and then. you know saudi arabia is running out of money there is you know these kind of domestic disputes and imprisonments etc going on and i mean i think you know i hope after we made you can have a chance right let me jump in here we're going to go to a hard break and after that break we'll continue our discussion on saudi arabia state with arkie. when i was told small seemed wrong. but old old just told. me you get to shape out disdain and become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find the

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are here now working there still is west representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to see business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and middle

pressure on the trumpet ministration but there's also some pressure on the crown prince mohammed bin solomon and that is because the reporting seems to indicate. an important deadline has passed and let me explain how that deadline has been calculated you remember that meeting the optics which were criticized very much so here in the united states and around the world of the u.s. secretary of state sitting down in riyadh with mohammed and some of the crown prince will that meeting wrapped up at about three pm riyadh time and reportedly in that meeting the u.s. secretary of state was very very clear in terms of the timeline moving forward that instructions we understand and that is being reported here in the united states is that my pompei a told the crown prince that he had seventy two hours essentially to own the disaster in other words to come up with an explanation and now that seven two hour timeline has passed if you calculate my pump is returned to the united states roughly it appears that eight am here in new york city washington d.c. eastern standard time as we call it the seventy tw

is determining the full truth about the coup shoji murder and holding its likely author mohammed bin solomon fully accountable for the vice president joe biden seemed to agree the rest of the world is watching the united states of america we have let the world and they're wondering where the hell are we what's become of us and now m.b.'s saudi arabia you lied no my lord he's making excuses by the way you know that all expression some people bring a gun to a knife fight well you don't bring long saws to flights the anger shows no signs of abating this is the straw that broke the camel's back as far as the united states is concerned that these other incidents i think he's gotten a pass on. he's not going to get a pass on this. it seems the biggest question in washington now how big of a price could saudi have to pay one more indication of the president's thinking could be changing is we haven't seen jared kushner his senior advisor and son in law anywhere near him during these days where the story has dominated the headlines question or obviously has a close relationship with mohammed bin psal

investment event which began on tuesday despite the brave face put on by crown prince mohammed bin solomon these are difficult days for the saudis. we are going through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very good actor or an incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justify it or explain it. earlier saudi media released extraordinary images the crown prince and king solomon meeting face to face with brother and son independent sources say the same son has been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writing and money directly linking the crown prince with the general staff. chief among the kingdom's critics the turkish president. he told parliament that turkey has strong evidence the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul was premeditated and savage he called for the highest ranking of those responsible to face justice. and for more let's bring in correspondent dorian jones who is standing by in istanbul dorian as we just heard president once said that the killing was premeditated that they have strong evidence to support that why di

by the time crown prince mohammed bin solomon turned up at the future investment initiative summit in riyadh a day after it started saudi arabia had already signed deals worth fifty billion dollars another six billion was added by the time the event closed the murder of jamal khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul cast a dark shadow over the conference but it's not stopped business being done of its people are hearing outworking there still is western representation there are bankers there are people you know investors looking to the business they're just not always up to the highest level as they were last year and it's clear from talking to many of them that some of them are frustrated that their c.e.o.'s and their top executives are pulled out also missing from the summit was senior politicians from mainly western countries who withdrew his outrage over his murder group but there were plenty of others who did attend perhaps not as easily able to resist the financial clout of the world's biggest oil producer there were government delegations from china russia and african and m

president spoke with the saudi crown prince about the missing journalist says mohamed bin solomon has denied any knowledge of what took place inside the consulate and as promised he will expand the investigation the pressure is mounting on trump who sent secretary of state might pompei o to riyadh republican senator lindsey graham is vowing action against saudi arabia over the missing journalist g seven foreign ministers are demanding those responsible for his disappearance be held to account they're also calling for more turkish saudi collaboration has the latest from istanbul. yes more twists and turns in the case of jamal khashoggi on tuesday the saudi consul general who was the most senior saudi diplomat in istanbul the second most senior saudi diplomats in turkey the man who was responsible for the building behind me when he entered two weeks ago the man who told you could come to this building and process his paperwork decided to leave turkey believed to have fled the country this was just moments before turkish investigators were due to go into his home as part of search part o

i think the future of the relationship between king solomon and president trump it's going to depend about the future of his crown prince mohammed bin solomon and i would add just for the heck of it it would also involve eventually what would happen to jared cushion or mr trump's son in law who apparently was complicit with inhabitants the man on most of what the crown prince did the last couple of years including that jailing. of a lot of people around him within the regime including him becoming the crown prince and certainly in terms of the war in yemen ok when you talk about people being jailed i think you're referring them owen to people being held against their will we assume in the ritz carlton in riyadh just picking up on one of those points though the bottom line for trump is it human rights an individual's human rights or is it the dollar and off the back of that another point if he manages to kick this done in the long grass to one hundred nineteen days he's got to do something about within one hundred twenty days what happens at that point to donald trump. well look let's start with the latter i think what president trum

is determining the full truth about the coup shoji murder and holding its likely author mohammed bin solomon fully accountable for the vice president joe biden seemed to agree the rest of the world is watching the united states of america we have let the world and they're wondering where the hell are we what's become of us and now m.b.'s saudi arabia lied oh my lord he's making excuses by the way you know that all expression some people bring a gun to a knife right where you don't bring bomb saws to flights the anger shows no signs of abating this is the straw that broke the camel's back as far as the united states is concerned that these other incidents i think he's gotten a pass on. he's not going to get a pass on this. it seems the biggest question in washington now how big of a price could saudi have to pay one more indication of the president's thinking could be changing is we haven't seen jared kushner his senior advisor and son in law anywhere near him during these days where the story has dominated the headlines question or obviously has a close relationship with mohammed bin psalm o

arabia may be considering blaming a top intelligence official close to the crown prince mohammed bin solomon for the killing the report says that general siri an advisor to the crown prince could be cited as being responsible for the murder due to a misunderstanding over and struction and the general services spokesman for the saudi led military coalition and yemen let's take a look at the man who's at the center of all of this criticize saudi arabia's monarchy after mohamed vents on monday came the center of power and the kingdom last year because he accused the thirty three year old crown prince of introducing a new era of fear and arrests and public shaming fearing for his safety fled to the u.s. in september of last year when he wrote a regular column for the washington post before his career as a journalist he was close to the saudi royal family and served as an advisor to senior saudi officials clear on is executor executive director of the arab center of washington and joins us via skype from fairfax virginia we appreciate your time very much so. what are you hearing now when you hear