and saudi arabia. the absolutely right i think the saudis they had been pursuing a very damaging from policy in my opinion especially over the past two years says the ascendance of france mohammad pencil man since he became crown prince in two with and two thousand and seventy. and i think the saudis this out with the saudis this this foreign policy actually is in might be in backfiring because at that time when they are actually saying that they want to cut through. policies and the region and yemen and syria and iraq and and lebanon everywhere they are in fact as i said best selling a very damaging foreign policy because they. policy led in fact to dividing. the air it also actually led to increasing iranian influence somehow and and the region by actually forcing qatar to. get closer to iran and you know qatar in fact has withdrawn its ambassador from tehran in two thousand in early two thousand and sixteen during the crisis of. the storming of the of the saudi embassy in tehran and the saudi consul

arabia it comes to be turkey because a saudi arabia will never ever copulate and around of those people considering that they are part and parcel of the illness here or of mohammed the settlement with the crown prince and it's impossible impossible for any inquiry not to find that there was a link between the perpetrators of this horrendous crime who use the means of state who used all the or the or or the or the means available to the state in order to commit this crime it couldn't have happened without the knowledge and the order of the supreme leader in that country namely. the but in the competence one of the some very often and best occasions the public doesn't know everything that the best gaiters know they tend to hold something close to the vest and in it would you would think that that would be the case for turkey as well but it seems that the way are they gonna speaking publicly that they have hit some sort of brick wall and that there are still a lot of things they just don't know about us troop one point to bear in mind is that the turkish prosecutor has not concluded the tu

crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabian oil and not look at the king of the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and matters were misleading us knew that there was no way this merger happened without the consent and direction of m.p.'s of the senate is already considering an unprecedented bill to invoke the never before used one thousand nine hundred seventy three war powers act to force an end to u.s. aid to saudi war efforts and yemen. this six page measure would record the view of the senate that mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and it urges the u.s. and the international community to hold him and anyone else involved in the killing responsible and a joint statement democratic senator ed markey calls the crown prince a fuck up and republican senator lindsey graham calls him a wrecking ball rare harsh words

has never rebuked saudi arabia there's been almost no criticism of saudi arabia and so this actually is more significant than it may appear to be simply because they're trying to send a clear message that they do not agree with the way the saudis are conducting the war though we can be pessimistic or cynical about well that really isn't. the fact the outcome came of us mari if the us then can't do it and the united nations are trying their hardest but there's a long way to go is there any other partner any other honest peace broker that may be able to significantly change the outcome of the war in yemen or and bring about an end to. the us can't help stop the war and the idea is not to have our congress and senate vote for it in the u.s. to step aside and forgetting that it's one of the reasons why this war is happening in the first place or are a reason that it was prolonged so the idea of nothing the us have a boat and i'm done with my right it's to put pressure on saudi arabia which your us can do put pressure on saudi arabia to eason. it's a tax i meant to come to a peace deal an

arabia increased its all production and i think that now the sacrifice the saudi arabia is supposed to be making is not really any kind of a sacrifice because it increases all production by quite a bit yet this year and so when you take that from a base to cut back from that base is not that much of a sacrifice i think that when i look at the history of opec. i can tell you that i don't think that this decision will do very much opec has never been able to. not sheep to be able to stick together and now we're really talking more about not just opec but opec including not opec so i don't think this will have that much of an effect on prices i think what's much much more important in this room of things is the state of the world economy if in fact what happens to the money i think right now is the key where you are in the u.s. has a nascar what about the trump factor in all of this and we know we know the u.s. president has been tweeting about and wanting to keep prices low yet the saudi arabia's energy minister. said that this decision was made out of economic necessity and in his words

saudi arabia into riyadh some of which of indiscriminately targeted residential areas killed saudi citizens killed an egyptian laborer how is that not a war crime to target civilian areas in a neighboring country no matter what they're doing to you let me correct it to you it's one hundred ninety two rockets and the more not hundred took so you're proud of the rockets you fired into saudi arabia oh yes we defend our country if you would go to the start of this war the first two year we did not fire anything we just were waiting to stop this crazy war then we did not find any response from the world so we started defending our country by not shooting some brackets to that country no no. or that you meant that about some saudis who were hit or that egyptian citizen what's the number give it to me and i tell you that they killed fifty thousand person in our country that injured more than that number and then the minister we've all heard about him on this show there to roaming so you know whether. that is a result of one comparing two wrongs don't make a right minister i'm not defending the sau

front i mean what what kind of options to saudi arabia have. been in salon in particular well i you know as some senators reflected this is an important relationship that it has and as a pillar of of u.s. gulf relations i think that the error here by the truck administration you know is is not using this incident to try to gain leverage over saudi arabia to be much more transparent. you know it's perhaps bury the hatchet with a cutter to try to drive towards a cease fire in yemen so you know this this should have provided them perhaps still can provide leverage for the united states to force you know saudi arabia to do things that are important in the relationship but there's no question that there was a crown prince's relationship the united states has been severely damaged here who are very very difficult you know to go back to business as usual i don't think that is actually going now p.j. crowley thank you very much indeed to feel so especially a time when one. let's go to turkey now table joins us from outside the saudi consulate in istanb

arabia saying enough is enough we need to stop this then saudi arabia has more than a p.r. problem in the u.s. senate does that mean that donald trump will be held to account or won't be held to account not wishing to use loaded language in this conversation alan but you know if you've got people who are that influential in effect saying look we cannot be complicit in war crimes we cannot be complicit in human rights abuses he can presumably then just say well crown prince mohammed bin solomon's a very powerful guy and we have to work with him. well it all then boils down into technicalities is the u.s. actually involved in the war in yemen there is a say the republicans and certain people in the white house are saying that is not the case when they were supplying fuel air to air refueling aircraft then yes you could argue that they were involved mitch mcconnell has said and he is the leader of the republicans in the senate if you want to pick a fight on the authorization of force on the congress's war act this isn't the fight so there are technical ways that donald trump c

saudi arabia denounces u.s. senators for interference after they blamed the crown prince for the matter of journalists. try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to saudi arabia canada's leader cites a killing and yemen's war as he tries to cancel a multi-billion dollar military deal. hello welcome to our jazeera life and i'm martin that is also coming up in the program a show of support five thousand turn out to rally in sri lanka for the reinstated prime minister. x. now a rights group accuses nigerian security services of failing to prevent violence between herders and farmers. but first saudi arabia has issued an unusually strong rebuke of the u.s. senate rejecting its resolution that blames the crown prince for jamal khashoggi now the journalist was killed by what's being described as a saudi hit squad inside the kingdom's istanbul consulate in october and in a lengthy statement saudi arabia said the resolution interferes in its internal affairs and that is based on unsubstantiated

and also the economy of saudi arabia is also. declining because of the costly war and yemen elizabeth kendall what are you expecting to come out of these talks then. well i think you're right to be very cautious i'm certainly not expecting the long piece deals again to come out of these talks but i think it is very significant already that we have both of the major warring sides together in the same place in the same location at the same time to face each other that is already a huge amount of progress but will it actually move beyond confidence building measures we've already seen some of these confidence building measures what we want now is some time to pull talks haps not to sort out all of the elements problems that the two most urgent matters that we must hope come out of the talks are a ceasefire and some kind of agreement to prop up the economy that's in meltdown because both of these situations the ongoing conflict the lack of a ceasefire and the spiraling out of control economy exacerbates in this appalling humanitarian

saudi arabia denounces u.s. senators for interference after they blame the crown prince for the murder of journalists. try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles just saudi arabia. and that is the leader signs the killing of yemen's war as he tries to cancel a multi-billion dollar military deal. it's all right when you want your observer life my headquarters here in doha also coming up thousands rally in sri lanka as a show of support for the reinstated prime minister. and central american asylum seekers tell how a day in u.s. custody is better than a life back home. welcome to the program saudi arabia has issued an unusually strong rebuke of the u.s. senate rejecting its resolution that blames the crown prince for jamal khashoggi is murder the journalist was killed by what's being described as a saudi hit squad inside the kingdom's stumble consular office in october now in a lengthy statement saudi said the resolution had just fears that its internal affairs and is based on substantiate

in the yemeni government which is backed by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. blame each other for repeatedly breaking a cease fire which has been in place in her data since december the eighteenth the city is a key port on the route for yemen's much needed supplies of medicines food and fuel millions are said to be close to starvation it's estimated as many as eighty five thousand children have died from malnutrition but the. next year we hope the city will enjoy peace and security we also hope that services such as transportation an oil will be available. delegates of wednesday's meeting are said to have agreed on a process for withdrawing pro-government troops from her data and handing control to a local committee they're also reported to have agreed to stop fighting in and around the city the u.n. representative for monitoring the cease fire retired dutch general patrick come out says the meeting on wednesday has made progress but until the gun battles and the bombings and peace in her data still hangs in the balance rob matheson odyssey israeli fruit veget

obviously important that kind of our pick is essentially managed by saudi arabia and saudi arabia and qatar have been involved in the. last year but within the context of business arrangements in this region the reality is the kind of saw does do business with certain countries that all the certain countries are not happy about so people will perceive this inevitably will not charlotte's through the prism of the blockade of kaesong driven of course by the saudis. i think that what we have to say in the qatari trying very hard to make sure that people. have suspected that this is simply a business decision i think we do not want to politicize. the minister of state energy faith is still going to go to our pick. and participate in the making of the scene but the sixth he said you know really we just we just want to pivot towards gas we don't have much potential. we don't have much growth he said this does not mean though that they are getting out of oil they are still going to continue to develop oil fields and that they're going to focus more on developing oil fields in places like bra

arabia and say look it's up to you along for science to come to relations with saudi arabia completely don't let things that they're unique to this level but why don't you take action they can try to do something ok out of the so this way it's a tricky matter but that's their only option otherwise congress is going to drop the hammer on them if not now certainly in mid january maybe i want to get a final thought from you about yemen because you are deputy chief of mission in yemen who think they're ready to discuss a peace deal how do you see the talks in sweden playing out given all this increased pressure on saudi arabia of ashaji well the one result of the brochure is there the saudis have allowed these talks to have been essentially they were holding them hostage just sign because it is not allowed. to take out their wanted to be treated in all manner they now allow. you and playing to take them and therefore the whole of these have in fact arrived today in sweden a couple members of the road delegation are very close to a medical shooty there they're all role either so we know the

saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a blockade on the country for such a bari has this reports. the annual national day festivities took off in the usual grand style and this year. after eighteen months of a land sea and air blockade by former arab states qatari celebrated not only their leader but also their culture. because all. the. signs of patriotism wrong show everywhere as was a sense of national unity and pride as well as the fire ants. saudi arabia the u.a.e. reign in egypt cut diplomatic relations and impose their blockade on qatar in june of last year doha strongly refutes their allegations that it supports terrorism a resolution to the regional crisis looks no closer to a meeting of the gulf cooperation council in riyadh last week made no progress people celebrating on tuesday appeared not to care and credited the amir come in. overcoming the isolation today is the day that we all even citizens kotori as we all serbs. are we all so how much will of qatar we all share what is good or. not th

and saudi arabia has denounced a resolution by the u.s. senate accusing the saudi crown prince of ordering the murder of journalists. in a statement released by the saudi press agency the kingdom's foreign ministry said the senate's position is blatant interference in its internal affairs. and meanwhile germany's former foreign minister has told al jazeera that more countries should fall germany's example by ending their arms trade with saudi arabia sigma gabrial is a member of parliament made the comments at the door for him when asked about the murder of jamal. we stopped for example or delivering of defense of defense materials and capabilities after the case when you look at the investigation hasn't even accounted for a journalist body is after he's gone in a consulate many people say that's simply not an acceptable course it's not acceptable and i mean it's also a tragedy we should not forget their relatives because she had a family and i mean the killing of mr. a catastrophe but it's for the family and the relatives is. a very bad si

arabia about what we hear from the turkish officials is that saudi arabia doesn't even give out the names that they have arrested that they have questioned in riyadh and they said no information regarding the interviews of those suspects and these people are the prime suspects in an investigation ongoing in turkey so since that there is a lack of cooperation between riyadh and ankara on this murder case everything was stopped and turkey said this is the time for an internet international investigation to be launched and turkey urge international community and a third parties. to launch an investigation into a national investigation minister of the united nations but as i sad turkey was complaining that the saudis haven't named their local color breakers and they haven't even given out the name who ordered the smirk there and turkey has always claimed that the person who gave the order is among the senior officers in saudi arabia so now there's a whole crowd that this new picture this new footage can also urge the international community more and maybe a push for more corporation ove

by conducted by the saudi arabia was not sufficient. and the the turkish foreign minister must have. shown you know more details about the case of what is your comment on what details have you been. disclosed which has been disclosed to you and what the saudis. what detail the saudis have and what have you seen so far is better than except those that is well known by the media so that's my source of information is the media. and edition to these what we have said since the beginning is it's absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were guilty. so i want to know what is the delay in the united nations declaring family in yemen. the declaration of famine is a technical declaration that relates to a number of indicators. and sometimes people think that affect that feminism not that it doesn't means that people are not suffering no there is a high level of hunger in yemen we are supporting eight million people with food in yemen and we assume that if the humanitarian situation does not i

and not realize that i think is a mistake nine percent of our all imports come from saudi arabia will find moral here and other places to make up for that and when it comes to military assistance if you think russia and china is going to provide you better protection than the united states against iran and other common enemies in go down that road if you like so i just believe that the relationship qual valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as m.b.'s is around. don't think it will ever be normal again . oh. oh. oh oh oh you're in the wrong. oh. well. you know there. are. many here you know. well look first of all there are those who believe that this resolution that senator murphy and senator sanders and lee have been pushing would never get there and it's going to be a vote on this today and i think it's going to be a very robust vote. so that's an example secondly you know i have used my leverage whenever i can as a ranking member so i have stop saudi arms sales by virtue of the comedy that exists in the committee where the chair and the ranking can stop a

aid to saudi arabia in yemen the u.s. is refueling planes there saudi planes that are involved in the war there this would stop that activity now it's a long way from passing although a lot of senators sixty three to seven agreed to move this bill forward it's not clear they will all support it in the end it would not pass the the house right now which is still in republican hands it will be in democratic hands in january but there is also a must pass spending measure that senators are considering tying this to so this is the administration trying to quell that effort before it builds up and takes the issue out of donald trump's hands or into john hendren there live for us from washington d.c. john let's bring in glenn kahl he's a former cia officer joins us live via skype from boston glenn good to have you back on the program how surprised are you that cia director gina hospital will now appear before the senate when she was supposed to be prevented by the white house in doing so last week. well i'm not surprised that sh

to tell saudi arabia enough is enough the cia says saudi arabia directed killing and dismemberment inside its consulate in istanbul something the kingdom first denied maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes the resolution to withdraw u.s. military support must still clear the house republicans there moved wednesday to make that more difficult and a final signature from president donald trump who is publicly back to saudi arabia is unlikely president continues to proclaim his love that affection for the crowd and the saudi regime but that is not have. in my view the american people feel it may be a long time before the message from u.s. capitol hill turns into action but the important thing supporters say is that the u.s. is sending a message at all heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington meanwhile the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the united nations says saudi arabia w

in terms of putting pressure on saudi arabia how does that dynamic work so you know . well turkey was hoping that president trump would take action that president trump would have put pressure on saudi arabia to cooperate instead what we saw happen was the trumpet ministration embraced mohamed bin salomon and said that there wasn't any direct evidence linking him to the murder even though the lawmakers the senate they all believe that following a briefing by the cia director mohamed bin so a man was involved in the order to kill the saudi journalist so they were hoping that the u.s. administration would take more more of a tougher response like you mentioned there's only so much turkey can do is specially if it wants to maintain a relationship with saudi arabia even the president himself has repeatedly said this is not about a relationship with the saudi arabians it's not even about their relationship with the royal family it is about crime we are seeking the truth now there's a lot of talk now about the possibility of a u.n. investigation but the biggest question is t

in it even with the kingdom of saudi arabia which is hosting the third you know and summit of the g c c the supreme council and it's my pleasure to send my best wishes to. his majesty. and heard his country will preside the council also i'd like to express my thanks. to the ship. of the state of kuwait for his door in which during presiding over the last. session i'm also like to thank of the secretary general for the efforts in following up the works of the council and or through their brothers your majesty's your highness's your excellences. the gulf cooperation council states is working for the prosperity and solidarity and cohesion of the g.c.c. countries and through this country as all the ambitions will be achieved and we need all to work hard in order to keep and maintain these great solidarity go here and synergy almighty has given our country as human souls as a result of the natural sources of the souls and businesses it taitz from all of us to work hard for the services to be offered to the people as of the states of the states in a time where the region is witnessing huge

aid to saudi arabia military aid would be kept the u.s. would withdraw any form of support for that ongoing war in yemen now that is tabled for debate could be able to be this week but now you're going to have some senators wanting to enlarge on that legislation they want to have the prince a name that will certainly have to loose lindsey graham does they will want to and identified and they will also want to be sanctions confirmed against the crown prince and the others who were responsible for jamal khashoggi murder now these sanctions would be informed in terms. of the global magnitsky act now that is an act which has already been invoked by the senate in a letter to the president which demands that within one hundred twenty days of the president investigate the murder of jamal khashoggi and impose sanctions against those responsible now that is many data really it is something that the president is required by law. to do so that is the board and with that the senators will go the question is precisely what kind of would think they are

side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case relieve saudi arabia from pressure by the turks and the international community looking for some answers the new details are also likely to add to growing calls that saudi arabia names and indicts those behind jamal killing paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. well let's bring in our panel now and joining us from istanbul via skype shaman politics of the daily newspaper in belgrade toby kaplan and sascha human rights lawyer and co-founder of thirty seven and justice chambers and also via skype from taunton in the u.k. is forma intelligence officer and national security analyst if i will welcome to all of you to the program let's start with these rather chilling picture says these black bags being carried into the residence of the consul general all days are these the biggest clue guess as to what happened to jamal khashoggi body. well these banks were also mentioned in the book as well that you mentioned the diplomatic extras does beck's show us that house of you was actually dismembered and was carried from the cou

military support to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. will go to the house next but faces a possible veto by president trump the second vote held a saudi arabian prince the crown prince mohammed bin salon was sponsible killing there's been reaction from around the world including turkey where the journalist was murdered in october for god. as you know yesterday there was a vote in the american senate this will develop more because we shared all the information with the american intelligence the english asked for it we gave it to them the germans asked for it we gave it the saudis asked for it we gave it to them the french asked for and we gave it to them whoever requests this information we are ready to share why because justice is the foundation of the state we want justice to be pursued. well in a moment we'll have the latest on turkey's response from mohammed valve who's standing by in istanbul but first let's cross over to kimberly hellcats in washington d.c. kimberly is a historic vote then a symbolic one at the same time that needs

saudi arabia has denounced the resolution by the u.s. senate accusing its crown prince of ordering the murder of journalists. in a statement released by the saudi press agency the kingdom's foreign ministry called it blatant interference in its internal affairs it is crimes the killing of jamal khashoggi as a crime that doesn't reflect saudi policy and turkey has accused european countries of turning a blind eye to the murder of the saudi journalist was killed inside the kingdom's istanbul consulate on october second the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has renewed his call for saadi rabia to investigate the murder properly zina harder reports from istanbul. it's been almost three months since she was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey continues to accuse saudi arabia of trying to cover up the crime because of its lack of transparency in the investigation turkey is also frustrated with what it sees as an action on the part of the west many european countries who are promoting the freedom of media for freedom of ex

to take firm action against saudi arabia a report in a u.s. newspaper the wall street journal claims to seen details of eleven messages the saudi royal sent his closest adviser who oversaw the so-called hit team in istanbul the newspaper says this led the cia the america's intelligence agency to conclude mohammed bin someone likely. but america's secretary of state says they still stand by the crime prince i have read every piece of intelligence that is in the possession of the united states government and when it is done when you complete that analysis there is no direct evidence linking him to the murder of the thirty crime prince was never going to be ignored or shunned i think gathering of the world's twenty largest economies their diplomatic niceties to be. the real test will be in weeks to come as countries reexamine their relationship with saudi arabia and the man who is effectively in charge. at the g twenty. one has been solomon's next stop is more attorney where the opposition is denouncing the visit saying the crown prince is damage

arabia and qatar which has not been the case since june last year when saudi arabia the main and the united arab emirates imposed a blockade on this country this is far out as you can go at the only land crossing that has and the animosity that has been shown by the blockading countries has been to an extent where an advisor of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon danny had been saying something along the lines of cutting but there is a line and ties completely drawing a canard between saudi arabia and qatar so that goes to show how a bitter this blockade has been in terms of its political fallout in terms of economic fallout well there was just with saudi arabia there was a bilateral trade of almost seventy million dollars a month which is stopped ever since the blockade and this was one of the main areas where all of that trade used to happen from and on the social front the fabric of society which brought together not just these countries these boundaries that have been created in the last few decades but centuries old traditions of into marriages of communication and coordin

now a saudi dissident in canada has filed a lawsuit accusing saudi arabia of using spyware from an israeli software company to hack into his communications with jamal khashoggi newly released private messages between the journalist and abilities a pitch fear of mohammed bin salmond the t.v. network c.n.n. has seen exchanges between the two men where he described the saudi crown prince as a beast who would devour all in his path discussed creating an online movement to document human rights abuses in saudi arabia and hold leaders to account we arguing that technology group has developed. or still selling to dictatorship states like saudi arabia is being used by the states in order to spy after activists for human rights journalist like jamal khashoggi village of our culture was a. proven. by using this technology saudi arabia succeeded to follow after. his interactions with. omar abdel aziz who is a claimant in a lawsuit anybody has more from istanbul. n.s.o. is an israeli company which supplies high grade military spy ware around the world mr abdul aziz maintains an alleges that this spy w

arabia away from that each of the saudi authorities maybe they will speak out and they will say who really gave them the order to kill and they think that if this doesn't work and if saudi arabia continues to procrastinate or even to refuse to ask the three main questions one of them is about. who gave the order to come from out of the other is about the remains of. self and the third point is about the request to extradite those people and the collaborate on the saudis talked about if these points are not also then the next natural step for turkey is to step up a little bit outside of turkey and hand this file to a united nations international inquiry about the matter now delegates from yemen saudi backed government all my way to sweden to take part in talks aimed at ending the civil war the delegation sent by the hoof the rebels arrived on choose state of the travelling there with the u.n. envoy griffiths well as the situation on the ground becomes increasingly desperate many yemenis are hoping that a go she asians will end the world's worst humanitarian disaster speaks out zero.

whether it be saudi arabia's relationship with cats off whether it be saudi arabia's relationship with the u.s. and it's all becoming more internet than ever before. with t.f.c. there in london thank you very much. to reuters journalists among those named time magazine's person of the year were arrested in myanmar exactly a year ago calls for their release are growing louder on this the first anniversary . chore so who were investigating reports of a massacre of villages when they were arrested florence louis has the story. chits to win is bringing up her three year old daughter without her husband journalist charles so one of two reuters reporters imprisoned in myanmar having met all cleared up our daughter started to ask why doesn't that he love us why isn't he living with us so i tell her he loved the phone much that's why he's working at the prison it was quietly while lone is also in jail and missed his wife giving birth to their child so i miss him there are just a lot of things i miss about him all the time and everywhere both reporters were arrested last december they were sent

saudi arabia because of their concerns about the stability of been summoned and so i think there's a long long way to go before there's going to be any any significant improvement and the price of oil is sitting at about fifty dollars a barrel now the saudis need over seventy dollars a barrel he needs a bargain someone needs this foreign investment in order to get his is a remake of a saudi economy and the society society of vision twenty thirty kickstart again it's really stuttering along so it's important for him so you mention in passing that the crackdown of some of the people who actually go to new jobs were people who were arrested in the crackdown against corruption what's the message being sent with that do you think is that is that a kind of that actually the recognition of the crown prince may have overstepped in that instance or what is that yeah i think i think that is a part it's a reprimand in a way that he had gone too far and this is this again is that was a rowing back and if you look at people like it dramatic stuff and others who were arrested i mean he got away he

doing things for saudi arabia relating to images and that he is responsible from killing. u.s. democratic senator ben cardin a says america needs to strike a balance between holding those responsible for her show g.'s murder accountable and maintaining a strong relationship with riyadh. there is no doubt in my mind that the crown prince understood what was happening in turkey and was very much involved in that we cannot allow that type of conduct to go unchallenged our strength american foreign policy the values that we stand for and what happened to turkey just. affects all of our core beliefs the united states has to have a pretty strong position on it and we have to demand that there be accountability that does not mean we can't continue to have a strategic relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia they need america it's more important for that relationship from the from the saudis point of view and we must make it clear that can't go unchallenged israeli police say they have enough evidence to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife on bribery charges they

policy on saudi arabia. well it basically just toughened because now you have two resolutions in the space of just a few minutes after a rather contentious few weeks here on capitol hill both saying that things need to change i'm taking a look at the resolution that was introduced by senator bob corker earlier on thursday afternoon the first stop point did note that. according to this resolution the senate believes and i'm quoting here that crown prince mohammed bin sol man is responsible for the murder of jamal it makes no to the fact that the u.s. government has already sanctioned seventeen saudi nationals for their roles in mr death and then goes on to talk about calling on the saudi government to release political prisoners including right by dolly including the women who have been agitating for increased civil rights and equality for women in saudi arabia warns that the government of increasing purchases of military equipment from russia and china is challenging the strength and integrity of the long st

as an angel as a defender of of freedom of speech and reform in saudi arabia to somebody who. is still within that framework of operating within that particular world and i think this article is very interesting because it shows a shift in the public attitude towards the case let's remember the only reason it was on the table for so long is because of the turkey leaks because turkey was so insistent on going after one hundred percent but when you look at the bigger picture no one would be so many got his public hi-fi from vladimir putin when he went to the g. twenty in turkey has come out of isolation trump is now we're drawing from syria and turkey now has the green light to go after the wipe e.g. in northern syria and there is a definite warming of relations between us and washington and again convince trump . his suit he superceded john bolton's advice truck took editors advice over john bolton's advice with regards to syria in terms of turkey politically it's out of isolation it's got what it wants in syria mohammed bin so learned his reforms have been damaged and again st

president donald trump's policy to stand by saudi arabia no matter what the u.s. senate has passed a resolution symbolically ending all u.s. military support for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war the war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that

s of course had been sound on the crown prince of saudi arabia will certainly get back in just a moment to what turkey does next right now their role but i want to get an idea of to the extent you feel the issue has slipped off the agenda of world leaders well i read through. president of the united states perspective as being a world leader is it took forever to get any traction you know donald trump talked about the situation or the whole garon almost that the coverage just. it wasn't good enough and that the saudi officials should be ashamed that they were able to hide any involvement better than they did these other movements by the united states. withdrawing you know support for the yemen war i mean that's been going that were going on for years and just now they're interested in having a discussion about u.s. involvement in it seemed to do with the r.c.l. so saudi arabia you know connecting this back to this journalist murder you know it's becoming a distraction point donald trump doesn't want this to go any further we don't know what information is going to come out about what th

in the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia has faced international backlash including from the u.s. congress who said crown prince mohammed bin son man was responsible for murder during a regional summit earlier this month to be a deny the crown prince's involvement and see this with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish citizens to be a was appointed foreign minister by king solomon and twenty fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen is strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling hooty fighters backed by iran and stage the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis he's also ever seen turmoil within the g.c.c. including assad he laid ear land and sea blockade of qatar for the past eighteen months or moves that have stalled controversy around the kingdom something his successor last if no one here it's by having brought him last of who was an he's a veteran he served as a minister of finance for twenty years from one ni

chief with another call for saudi arabia to bring to justice everyone responsible for the murder of journalist. protestors demonstrate against new legislation in hungary they call the slave law we'll explain. and al-jazeera investigation finds links between members of france's main political parties and a far right movement of course for expelling muslims. victims of war now for decades on victims of a new immigration policy the threat to thousands of vietnamese living in the u.s. . a turkey has accused the european countries of turning a blind eye to the murder of jamal khashoggi saudi journalist was killed inside the kingdom's istanbul consulate on october second the u.n. chief renewed his call for saudi arabia to investigate the murder properly saying a hoarder has the latest from istanbul. it's been almost three months since she was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey continues to accuse saudi arabia of trying to cover up the crime because of its lack of transparency in the investigation turkey is also frustrated with what it sees as an action on the part of the west many

relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is that. it was betrayed told up front al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. jordan this is the out as they were news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes signs of progress that u.s. and chinese presidents chew over their trade war to high stakes. as the g. twenty summit wraps up turkey's president tries to keep up the pressure on saudi arabia with the murder of the journalist. also ahead. of paris another weekend of protests spirals into street battles. and mexico's new president promises to end centuries of poverty and marginalisation among indigenous people after being sworn into office. the u.s. and china have reportedly agreed to hold off on new trade tariffs on each other after a working dinner between donald trump and she being chinese media say the two presidents decided not to impose tariffs after john reid the first when the u.s. was planning another two hundred billion dollars worth of levies well the white house hasn't confirmed this but a senior advisor is quoted as saying

arabia prosecuting saudi arabia announced that. seventeen men or eighteen men were detained now we know that some got funding from the journal is still out and about in the pollies still coordinating activities of the crown prince and he has not been detained all right porting from istanbul thank you the new united nations human rights chief has told al-jazeera it's time for the u.n. to investigate these death michelle was speaking to our diplomatic editor james bays as part of our talk to al-jazeera program. almost two months after jamal khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the saudi consulate in istanbul the saudi and turkish investigations remained separate and seem to be going nowhere saudi arabia is refusing to hand over the suspects it's arrested and it hasn't given the turkish authorities any idea of the whereabouts of the journalists body and now in an interview for talked to al jazeera the new high commissioner for human rights michel bashir lay says the time has come for an international investigation when the boat.

summit in saudi arabia but serious divisions look off from results. president to meet french unions as paris cleans up after a fall from weekend of protests and violence and the acting prime minister enjoying a commanding lead as the votes are counted in on me as a lot mock election. as in doha with madrid is hosting so america's biggest club football game the place and boca juniors are fighting it out for this year's couple of limited orders title will be live in the spanish capital. the fiance of murdered saudi journalist spoken exclusively to al-jazeera detailing her desire for those responsible to be brought to justice in her first interview since u.s. senators were briefed by the cia chief jane a hospital a teacher ginger has also said locating her fiance's body was a basic human right i don't know if i want to expose the details of this horrific crime i did defy the perpetrators and put those who carried it out on a fair trial including those who ordered the hit so they can receive the justice they deserve and on behalf of jamal's relatives and

arabia but the special relationship with the saudis and the arms sales and the u.s. support really have been called into question the trumpeters station though says it remains firm in its support for the saudi government she ever turns the outer zero washington. a senior aide to the saudi crown prince who is accused of masterminding murder personally oversaw the torture of at least one detained female activists earlier this year according to reuters allegations include sexual harassment electrocution and flogging of the saudi woman and at least three others on the saudi and qahtani supervision saudi official denies they were mistreated or you can not get in touch with us we want to hear from you on this some all of our other stories you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter just use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english and we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine this is news grid and if you're wa