istanbul with his nominee who is a politics news editor of the daily star an english language daily in turkey thank you for joining us. so what is turkey trying to achieve here putting out arrest warrants for two men who are probably never going to be arrested. yeah of course this is you know a symbolic move however i think for the sake of keeping the investigation alive and the case itself alive in the eyes of the international community i think it has a great impact on making sure that the pressure continues on riyadh on revealing who the actual and the ultimate decision maker is this brutal murder yes it is a it is a signal symbolic move when it comes to what can be done to do to d's two senior figures however if the investigation and the arrest warrants. some as somewhat they are somewhat coordinated with interpol eventually i think it may lead to something that riyadh would not desire however i think that today's move from the prosecutor's office is also important when we when we analyze it through looking at with what is happening in the united states and also what came afterw

top storey istanbul's chief prosecutor's office has filed an application for arrest warrants for two senior saudi officials over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors strongly suspect the former deputy intelligence chief made a cd and the royal court advisor of tiny were involved in the planning of the murder in october meanwhile turkey's foreign minister has backed calls for an international investigation and those that it was going to shoot as we are in communication with our peers in different countries and we won't hesitate to go for an international investigation going on with our business related to your goods and then this is a murder that is premeditated planned and we have a duty for the sake of humanity to investigate it we have two correspondents covering this story mohammed viles in istanbul but first let's go to natasha buckler who's in brussels where the turkish foreign minister has just been talking in the last hour or so and sasha what's your reading of those comments there from the foreign minister. that's right the turkish foreign minister speaking here at nato

turkey has said it won't let the world forget about the murder of journalist on what is the istanbul chief prosecutor filed a request with the penal court to issue an arrest warrant for two former senior aides to saudi crown prince mohammed bin said his top advisor saudi bonnie and deputy chief of intelligence ahmed siri were removed from their posts by kinks a man in connection to the murder of. the turkish judiciary now wants them extradited to stand trial in turkey a similar request has already been made for the fifteen members of the hit squad that killed the journalist at the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second saudi arabia said it wouldn't hand them over before. until now we have patiently requested information about an investigation in saudi arabia but unfortunately we couldn't get any information in saudi arabia always asks to get information from us so it's their rights we always share information with them but saudi arabia needs to be transparent to us and to the international community they need to share the findings of these investigations but instead we see con

terry pointing for us from istanbul thank you so much. france's budget deficit is set to rise to over three percent of g.d.p. as a result of president in modern macross promise to boost wages for low income workers he made the pledge following weeks of protests the demonstrations were originally spock's by anger over a planned fuel tax hike and response not cos crap to the tax increase the minimum wage of one hundred euros a month the total cost of those concessions could be up to fifteen billion euros here in concerns of unsustainable debt. meanwhile italy's government has agreed on the basis of a new budget aimed at avoiding disciplinary action from the european union the move comes after the country's original spending plans were found to be in breach of fiscal rules italy's leaders wanted to increase welfare payments cuts taxes and reduce the retirement age but the e.u. says those plans will raise the country's deficit beyond acceptable levels the details of the revised budget i'm not yet know. i'm on that i'm joined by our financial

also i have to underline that there is an important detail when selby prosecutor came to istanbul to meet with his turkish counterpart about the about the details of the investigation in turkey i was told by the officials that. they had used to call him a very often very frequent the saw that the turks perceived it as if all the lives of it was manipulating the saudi prosecutor and trying to. even more even more than the justice minister so for now we know that the turkish response to this at least for now is positive but of course he's now appointed as a state minister in charge of foreign affairs we are going to see what this means for saudi arabia but i also have to underline that turkey's foreign minister that had this speech just fifteen minutes ago he again down the line that is solid it. has no collaboration with turkey there is an independent investigation ongoing in saudi arabia to which goes which goes for jamaal has shifted but the turkish minister says they share no evidence they share no name so we are going to see if the new cabinet is going to be a collaborative. merge

to me, it sounds fairly directive there was communication going on between the killers in istanbul and the office of the crown prince in saudi arabia. here is the question that the media has missed. sayingand mattis keeps that there is no evidence. they are answering a question they want to answer. not the real question. if the cia has look at all of this information and says with a high degree of probability that we think the crown prince is involved. and secretary pompeo and secretary mattis disagree with that conclusion. reporter: did you ask them? is that ifmy guess they are honest they will tell you that they do not disagree with the conclusions. that the compilation of the facts are that he was involved but we are playing a game of words. no direct evidence. no smoking gun. that is open to argument. i think if there was direct communication -- the media has reported that the brother of the crown prince directly communicated with jamal khashoggi and that there were communications going from istanbul to the office of the crown prince at the time the killing. i would want to know mo

murder carrying a large bag shortly after the journalist was last seen at his company's consulate in istanbul. bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina his party wins a third in a row following an election marred by violence and eighteen deaths with your position allegations of vote rigging. violence to the democratic republic of congo's election of long queues of broken machines missing voter lists disrupting the polling. also ahead of another event for the u.s. president donald trump will look the bottom line is in store for him in twenty nineteen. our top story al jazeera has obtained pictures showing the saudi hit in the killed the journalist jamal carrying a large bag shortly after he was last seen alive suspected of carrying his remains which have never been found the video shows the arrival of the team's members at the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul then in the corner of the video you can see one of them carrying a large black bag into the building a shell she was murdered inside the saudi consulate on october second seen them to sort of joins us live on the line fr

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 european countries who are promoting the freedom of media for freedom of expression are closing their eyes and this country and the politicians you know you see this statement putting some sanctions on the people who are already in prison who will never be visiting dos countries calls are now growing louder for an international investigation what we have said since the beginning is it's absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to the punishment of those that were killed turkey has recently said there are discussions about opening an international investigation because a lack of cooperation from saudi arabia is blocking progress present are the one doesn't know that tha

and then the media's also reporting that there's communications in istanbul going to the crown prince's office at the time of the killing. i would want to know more about that to help me make a conclusion. but the definition of the deep state is rank and file people are excluded from oversight. i can have no oversight, and the deep state simply means that intelligence community has too much power. too much power that's independent of representative oversight. it has nothing to do with which president there is. i'd say the same whether it was a democrat president or a republican. [inaudible conversations] >> specific information here might be that the secretary of state and secretary of defense can come and speak broadly about it, sure, that's not problem. but to get into the specifics is a whole different scenario. >> right. i think there are reasons why you wouldn't want to get into the specifics of, you know, who listens to who on the phone. the only reason i'm saying it is not because i heard -- i haven't been in the intelligence briefing to hear that. i read it in the newspaper. now

let's bring in our guests now in istanbul. bison professor of history at evin handle university in selma nia irene assistant professor of world history at the american university of iraq so money and london saad jabar international lawyer and political commentator welcome to the program thank you all for joining us of bebee i'm going to start with you. what do you think going back to the beginning the goal of erdogan has been. well actually the sims is quite persistent on this issue and actually followed the same policy from day one. as you also call to at the beginning on his way to part ago after g twenty summit in argentina he was chatting with journalist journalists and he said that actually we're getting enough is enough because he complained bitterly that the saudis are not really corporate in and not really supporting a war or rather presenting a supporting evidence anything in no corporation and he says if necessary we would like to take it to another level the u.n. investigation and also involve some international org

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ladies and gentlemen, as you know there was a murder committed in the saudi consulate in istanbul. in the past few weeks, it has occupied a big place in the world agenda. a saudi arabia and citizen, andl khashoggi was murdered this really became a test of the whole world. since that law, ethics and conscience has been -- have been the principles that turkey has observed. ever since we learned about this incident, we mobilized all of our resources in order to help solve the murder. the saudi regime first denied it and then tried to distort the facts and then finally admitted to the murder. and turkey has adopted a very determined attitude which has helped disclose the issue. we have never seen this as a political issue and we shall never do so. prius, it is a her rent us act of murder and will remain so. us, it -- for us, it is a horrendous act of murder and will remain so. received the required support from the saudi officials. the crown prince has stated that we cannot blame anyone unless the crime is proven. we do know that 15 people have arrived in istanbul on two separate aircr

killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul in october democratic lawmakers in the house of representatives may press to hold the crown prince accountable even though the royal palace has denied it this is the f.b.i. continues its investigation into trump's alleged campaign ties to foreign governments for. that investigation has already netted his former campaign manager deputy campaign manager and former national security advisor among others. another meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and trump is also in the works white house officials have indicated it could happen as early as february last june the two men made history in their first meeting in singapore. but since then pyongyang has reportedly built up its nuclear program contrary to what trumpet hoped the white house is also expected to unveil its peace plan to help resolve the dispute between israel and the palestinians given the israeli elections in twenty nineteen the trump administration is said to be in discussions with israeli officials on the best time to unveil the proposals kimberley health at al-jazeera the whi

the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul put turkey at the heart of a story about a shocking abuse of power and a total disregard for human rights. turkey was the accuser, saudi arabia the accused. and yet for all of its appeals to the international community, the turkish government itself faces condemnation for violations of basic human rights. my guest today is gulnur aybet, senior adviser to president erdogan. when it comes to respect for universal rights and norms, how much authority does turkey have? theme music plays gulnur aybet, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. let us start with the case, the shocking, horrible case of jamal khashoggi. is there more that turkey intends to say and to do to getjustice forjamal khashoggi? well, there's an investigation that's still going on and the turkish authorities have stated that as more evidence becomes available, as the investigation continues, they're prepared to share it with the rest of the world, including the saudi authorities. and they've shared all the evidence they have had so far from the

ok we'll leave it alone for us in istanbul thanks very much little time ago the u.n. human rights chief reiterated her calls for an international investigation into the killing of jamal khashoggi. we don't have the mandate to do a criminal investigation so we ask we mentioned to the to the to the secretary general that we thought it was needed in this to get an international investigation and he needs to but there's also some it's not in its personal observation it needs a member state to ask for i mean there is some methodology that needs to be done with member states and the security council so i do believe that is really needed in terms of ensuring what really happened and who are responsible for that awful killing let's talk to my colleague marwan bashara he is our senior political analyst so we have twelve american politicians a closed door briefing but you know house bill she's heard the tapes she knows what happened they all come out pretty much to a man and say we know who organized this how much pressure does that put on the trumpet ministration it's going to

by the senate it would officially condemn mohammad been found for killing in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october but the resolution doesn't end there it also holds been sound unaccountable for. atrocities committed during the war in yemen which saudi arabia entered in twenty fifteen the saudi u.a.e. alliance says they don't more than eight hundred thousand air raids part of a war which has killed tens of thousands of civilians the resolution also calls on the kingdom to end the blockade imposed by with three other arab states on cattle in june last year the senate has won the release two of braga rafer dawi when its rights activists and other detained political prisoners for more on this john hendren joins us live from washington d.c. john tell us more about this resolution and just how significant is it. this does here this is an extraordinary rebuke by the u.s. senate of a longtime american ally it takes them just six pages to save it in their account by account they accuse the crown prince of saudi arabia of being in charge of the security forces at the time jamal khashoggi was mur

thing in istanbul has brought the rebellion and most probably still in the residence building. joining us now is husain el tayyab he's co-director of just foreign policy and national advocacy group that played a key role in efforts by the u.s. congress to try and end the war in yemen he joins us from boston house and what do we learn from these new pictures well i think reaffirms what we already knew in saudi arabia the royal family and mohamed bin solomon are complicit in the murder. and it's obviously just horrible tragic and you know it seems like the international pressure is just growing on the saudi family do you think there will be a political reaction or a political dynamic to this because the the makeup of the u.s. congress is just about to change. yes so right now we have democrats taking the house of representatives republicans are going to control the senate and obviously president donald trump is in the white house another and. if your viewers might remember on the center thirteenth the senate actually voted to and saudi arabia's war on yes or u.s. involvement saud

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 through freedom of expression are closing their eyes and this country and the politicians you know you see this statement putting some sanctions on the people who are already in prison who will never be visiting dos countries the calls are now growing louder for an international investigation 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 killed turkey has recently said there are discussions about opening an international investigation because a lack of cooperation from saudi arabia is blocking progress present are the one doesn't know that that does not that he can't do to someone he does need the backing up and the full force of the internation

one of the few western officials to have heard audio recordings from inside the saudi consulate in istanbul where she was killed let's go live now to john hendren who's in washington for us so how big a development is this. possible brief senators on this. this is massive and it's just what lawmakers on capitol hill both republicans and democrats have been asking for they got a briefing last week from secretary of state mike pompei owing the defense secretary jim mattis and both of them essentially said there is no smoking gun that mohamed bin some on the crown prince of saudi arabia personally ordered the murder of khashoggi while lawmakers were not satisfied for a number of reasons for one reason there is rarely a smoking gun in u.s. intelligence reports but the cia has reportedly concluded with a high degree of certainty that that murder was carried out on the orders of the crown prince and that's what lawmakers want to hear about they believe that gina has bill has more information on that and that she is more inclined to give them direct intelligence and other members of the administra

all right muhammad ali for us in istanbul nona thank you. spoken to al jazeera about her fight for justice it has been seventy days since her . last saw the journalist alive outside his country's consulate in istanbul he was there to collect papers for their upcoming marriage but instead walked into a death trap saudi crown prince mohammed bin sama is being accused of ordering his murder i don't know if i'm to the sort of i want to expose the details of this horrific crime identify the perpetrators and put those who carried out the killing on a fee trial including those who ordered the hit so they get the punishment. on behalf of jamal's relatives and loved ones and i say this is i'm one of them we need to know the whereabouts of his body this is a basic human right. to call just. human rights activists have been jointly presented with this year's nobel peace prize and they were chosen for their efforts to put an end to rape as a weapon of war and her speech said the international community has failed to protect the city women and the only w

airport and also the saudi consulate in istanbul where the journalist died shallop militants more. walking through istanbul airport dressed casually dragging suitcases the suspected saudi hit team arrived for the mission new photos leaked to turkish media showed them arriving at the saudi consul general residence in istanbul the faucheux time stamped eleven away on the second of october the day jamal khashoggi was killed at the same time others into the consulate this is from the same camera that captured the final images of. the saudi journalist entered through the same doors two hours later at one fourteen pm there is about three thousand five hundred hours of footage that the investigators are actually looking into saw due to the fact that this is taking time and there is new evidence come in notes we get these leaks was no while. within days the world learned khashoggi had been murdered and dismembered inside the consulate over weeks who was mounted for justice and accountability he was put on the cover of time magazine as person of the year saudi prosecutors responded with cri

turkey has said it won't let the world forget about the murder of journalist on what is the istanbul chief prosecutor filed a request with the penal court to issue an arrest warrant for two former senior aides to saudi crown prince mohammed bin said his top advisor saudi bonnie and deputy chief of intelligence ahmed siri were removed from their posts by king said man in connection to the murder of. the turkish judiciary now wants them extradited to stand trial in turkey a similar request has already been made for the fifteen members of the hit squad that killed the journalist at the saudi consulate in istanbul on october second saudi arabia said it wouldn't hand them over before. until now we have patiently requested information about the investigation in saudi arabia but unfortunately we couldn't get any information in saudi arabia always asks to get information from us it's their rights we always share information with them but saudi arabia needs to be transparent to us and to the international community they need to share the findings of these investigations but instead we see con

killed in the saudi embassy in istanbul in october democratic lawmakers in the house of representatives may press to hold the crown prince accountable even though the royal palace has denied it this is the f.b.i. continues its investigation into trump's alleged campaign ties to foreign governments. but that investigation has already netted his former campaign manager deputy campaign manager and former national security advisor among others. another meeting between north korean leader kim jong un and trump is also in the works white house officials have indicated it could happen as early as february last june the two men made history in their first meeting in singapore. but since then pyongyang has reportedly built up its nuclear program contrary to what trumpet hope the white house is also expected to unveil its peace plan to help resolve the dispute between israel and the palestinians given the israeli elections in twenty nineteen the trump administration is said to be in discussions with israeli officials on the best time to unveil the proposals kimberley health at al-jazeera the whit

seen him because he has more from istanbul. remember the turkish investigation teams that looked the police they did two searches in the conflict building and they did one search in the residence and just to remind our viewers when they were doing this in the residence the turkish team found a well they wanted to make it search and. to do a proper search actually backed the saudis told them that it owns the people who are on the list and can do the search no fire brigade can enter so that the police was able to get some water and according to the technical analysis there was no d.n.a. or blood in that water sample but of course the turkish team said that we have to do a proper search a second and made a second request to search that well inside the residence we don't know. where exactly they might have kept the but the remains but this is a very strong possibility that democracy to who has been brutally killed by the saudi officials in a consulate building in istanbul has by the rebellion and most probably killed in the residen

and there were communications with istanbul going to the crown prince's office, i would want to know more about that to help me make a conclusion. but the definition of the deep state is rank and file people are excluded from oversight. i can have no oversight in the deep state simply means that intelligence community has too much power. too much power that's independent of representative oversight. has nothing to do with which president there is. i say the same whether it was a democratic president or a republican. >> the specific information here may be the secretary of state and secretary of defense can speak broadly about it but to get into the specifics is a whole different scenario. >> sen. paul: i think there are reasons you wouldn't want to get into the specifics of who listens to who on the phone. the only reason i'm say it is because i haven't been in the intelligence briefing to hear that i read it in the newspaper. you can argue why that shouldn't be presented because it reveals our abilities to eavesdrop. i would say the information is out there and the conclusion should

in istanbul and never came out and then days later to reach the saudis admitted that he was killed so anything in between we don't have much details the look of details are not in the international media they base the news on turkish officials but we don't know who they are we don't have the purpose of great report yet so official announcement in the sort of. let me ask you about that point that we just brought up it do you think that the way he was received at the g twenty the fact that he just basically went about business as usual i'm talking about mohamed insolvency you think that that is indicative of what will actually end up happening that that saudi can just keep pushing forward as if nothing happened and and just there in a hope that at some point it'll just fade away. well in international diplomacy usually governments don't like to be nasty to each other but whatever niceties you saw of the g. twenty there was really a very cold the reception by the there was heads of state but any member of the european parliament have the star now used to really prefer to position the kep

the freedom of the press was at stake following the brutal murder of the saudi journalist in istanbul in october. many european countries who are promoting the freedom of media through freedom of expression are closing their eyes and this country and the politicians you know you see this statement putting some sanctions on the people who are already in prison who will never be visiting those countries. well now the sudanese president omar al bashir has met with syria's president in the capital damascus he was warmly greeted by bashar assad at the airport upon arrival but here is the first arab leader to visit since the start of the syrian war in twenty eleven the leaders held talks in the presidential palace about developments in the region and also inside syria a sad said his country would remain committed to its arab identity despite many other arab nations distancing themselves from the syrian leader since the revolution in two thousand and eleven the arab league suspended syria seat in response to the government's attack on pro-democracy protesters well now thousands of hunger are

inside saudi consulate in istanbul it shows clearly what time they entered in istanbul airports with their private jets what time they entered inside the consulate what time they moved from const late to the consulate residence which is a very close to the consulate building itself and there is there are actually the pictures have been released before but now we have some new pictures from the same venue from the same place from exact the same timing with some other angles and with other members of the hit square and the pictures seem to be much clearer of course these pictures these pictures have been and a lot have been analyzed by the turkish security officials since jamal khashoggi was killed on october the second then according to the information given by the same mistake medion of the légion see there were one hundred forty seven security cameras in aid to different points across stumble where those people actually traveled moved to those days were examined by the technical analysts and the duration of the recordings was actually three thousand five hundred hours so turkish se

first major reshuffle of leadership positions, after the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in october. at least eight people have been killed and more than two dozen injured after a bus crashed into a ravine in peru. the bus was carrying 55 passengers when it went off a highway and turned over, early on thursday. emergency workers rushed survivors to nearby hospitals. according to local media the vehicle was travelling to the capital lima. five monks have been attacked during a church robbery in the austrian capital vienna. the assailants reportedly entered the catholic church with a gun, forcing the monks to the ground and assaulting them before fleeing the scene.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera istanbul's chief prosecutor's office has filed an application for arrest warrants for two senior saudi officials over the killing of jamal khashoggi prosecutors strongly suspect former deputy intelligence chief siri and oil court advisor tiny were involved in the planning of the med. meanwhile senior senators in the u.s. have called for action against conference over jamal khashoggi scaling they gave their assessment briefing on the cia director general hospital and yemen's hoofy rebels have arrived in sweden for talks to end the conflict the saudi banksia many government is also taking parts early efforts to bring the two sides together broke down in september. when our top story and the killing of. want to go the u.n. human rights chief have reiterated our call for an international investigation into the journalist. we don't have the mandate to do a criminal investigation so we ask we mentioned to the to the to the secretary general though we thought it was needed a crime in mr geisha an international investigation and he needs to but there's

go ahead ok thank you for that mohammed reporting live from istanbul while the winds come right after senior senators in the u.s. said the time had come for the trump administration to condemn saudi arabia for the met. or congress will act it follows a briefing by the cia chief do you know how to senate leaders mike hanna has our report from washington the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited all of moved in plea agreement about one basic fact. i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitoring the killing knew exactly what was happening planned it in advance if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that saudi arabian in the search to different entities. if the saudi government is going to. be in the hands of this man. for a long time to come up and it very difficult to be able to do business because i think he's

we hahave jomana karadsheh liven istanbul with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dave. we understand a turkish court issued the arrest warrants for the two senior officials. members of the inner circle of the crown prince mohammed bin salman. the two individuals, the former head, deputy head of the intelligence service for saudi arabia. also a senior adviser to the crown prince. according to the chief prosecutor in istanbul, the reason they issued these arrest warrants, they say great suspicion those two were involved in the planning of the events that took place here at the building behind me at the saudi consulate here in istanbul back in october. this is coming after the saudis back in october saying these two individuals were fired from their positions and they announced several other measures against the senior adviser, including a travel ban. the feeling among turkish officials is no real meaningful action is taken by the saudis and in the words of the senior turkish official telling cnn this move by the chief prosecu

eighteen saudi suspects extradited to istanbul to stand trial and says he's determined to find out who gave the order to kill believing it came from the highest levels of the saudi government. as time goes by the office the case might be. the fallout from casualties made has been felt in different parts of the world saudi arabia has revamped its intelligence services and fired two senior officials with al asiri and south africa tunney who are accused of being behind the fifteen man hit squad sent to istanbul both were close to mohammed bin some none of the u.s. senate last week blamed the crown prince for the murder off the cia reportedly concluded he ordered that the united states which has provided military support for the coalition fighting the war in yemen has the kingdom to end hostilities them and earlier this month a ceasefire was agreed between the yemeni government and who think rebels in the port of her data thank you with end the discussion and joining us here on inside story to do so from anchorage we have no can buy a bureau chief for the daily sabah in london sami handy a

pictures emerge of the suspected saudi hit team that was sent to kill journalist amounts to show in istanbul. south africa issues and arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe. a hard landing for softbank japan's biggest ever stock market float sinks on day one. campaigning for sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been suspended in the capital kinshasa this means a rally planned for later on wednesday by opposition leader martin for you to is now considered eagle is one of several candidates seeking to replace president joseph kabila opposition parties picked for you a former oil executive to be the unity candidate also vying for the top job is the man known as in force up emanuel. he is a former interior minister and candidates of the ruling people's party for reconstruction and democracy. felix chick assaidi was until recently part of the opposition alliance the supported for you lou but he backed out of that deal and is now running for president. for the first time electronic voting machines will be used in those elections but as kather

entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. how the violence of the weather in australia has gone away to settle down to some degree it is a big tropical showers of mistily but this is just cloud in the south disappointment though does rain considering it's early summer the temperatures around about the twenty one mark for melbourne if you're in camera was a bit of a heat wave really that won't this come out of the interior of the spring it is still hovering around the forty mark and perth is doing well at twenty seven now we do get some late day showers spring up through queens and bits of new south wales up in northern territory but otherwise it's a fairly dry picture but the wind direction still wrong it's cold down a bit was i get to friday anywhere from adelaide right around the corner congress even got this chill by this time twenty degrees not so in brisbane enjoy your thirty seven enjoy the queensland coast which is considerably less wet than it was now a wet weather further sized is going across tasmania reaches new ze

one of the few western officials to have heard audio recordings from inside the saudi consulate in istanbul where she was killed senators who emerged from the meeting seemed unified in their assessment of what she had to say saudi crown prince mohammed bin soundman ordered hushovd his murder and must be held to account of nikken senator bob corker chaired that session he says there must be a price to pay for the killing mike hanna reports the cia director paused on her way in paying respects to president george h.w. bush lying in state in the capitol the briefing took place behind closed doors only a small group of eight senators invited. all in. agreement about one basic fact i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince n.b.s. ordered the killing monitor to killing knew exactly what was happening planned in advance if he was in front of a jury you would be convicted in thirty minutes guilty. so. the question is what we do about that i want to make sure that saudi arabia is put on notice that business as usual has come to an end for me oh not look at the kingdom the same way that i

highest levels of power in riyadh were responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in the saudi consulate there in october so this is part and parcel of the very friendly attitude towards the saudi regime and now asking saudi arabia to step up and pay some of the money that he thinks it should pay for the region. ellen wald as a senior fellow at the atlantic council and the author of saudi arabian kingdom's pursuit of profit and power she says president trump is defending u.s. a strategic partnership with the kingdom. here's what i think the trumpet ministration thinks about this they see saudi arabia as a strategic partner in the region and trumpet certainly gone out maybe on the fence to defend that strategic partners ship and now he's saying look we are still committed to you now you've got to step up and do what needs to be done and it it's definitely been clear from tom's policy that they would like saudi arabia to really serve as an effective counterpoint in the region to iran and this is his way of saying look if we are going to be strategic partners then you

correspondents dorian jones in istanbul and stefan in washington hello to you both stefan let's start with you have there been any reactions to the statement in the u.s. no not so far as to say crickets as far as i can tell i'm told now that might change during the course of the day but so far we haven't heard anything is very unlikely that we hear anything today as the president or the same president will as we reported now has allegedly told mr ed wong that the u.s. is working on extradition has told the press here in november just about a month ago that no such plans and actions are taken at the moment or considered dorian can you explain for us why this extradition of glenn is so important for the turkish government. to some turkish ministers they are calling him turkey's osama bin laden and that gives in on the idea of how important a man chrissy's in getting him back to turkey and the reason why he's not only blamed for being a mastermind for his network will follow it for the twenty sixteen failed coup attempt which killed two hundred fifty people but he's also believed to be s

the saudi citizen in istanbul so here to be has been in trouble it's a major blunder and the way they handled it afterwards for several weeks we've had saudi arabia embarrassing. behavior one day after another losing credibility when the n.f.l. another and set in losing legitimacy in the eyes of its own partners especially in the west whereby there was no more trust that three odd could in fact do go with business as usual so it was clear that something got to give it could be regime change because it is what it is in saudi arabia and the crown prince is in charge and he is the one who is god fathering any change in the kingdom. and yet he needs to do something so it is far less than regime change but it is more than cosmetics in the sense that i think saudi arabia has to be responsive to the international community especially to the international business community because if so you're a b a wants to go on with the plans two thousand and thirty and so on so forth that the crown prince championed for the last three years then it had to do some changes now it got rid of bad record alge

mr khashoggi, a us resident and columnist for the washington post died inside the saudi consulate in istanbul in october. senator lindsey graham, a leading critic of mbs, as he is known, said the briefing confirmed his view that mohammed bin salman was culpable. there is not a smoking gun, there is a smoking sort. you have to be wilfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organised by people under the command of mohammed bin salman and that he was intricately involved in the demise of mr khashoggi. the saudis have charged 11 people but denied the crown prince was involved. the us secretary of state insists there is no direct evidence to connect mohammed bin salman to the death of mr khashoggi. donald trump says the cia's findings are not conclusive and he has refused to condemn the saudi crown prince. the administration is looking increasingly isolated in its view. i have zero question in my mind that the crown prince, mohammed bin salman, ordered the killing, monitored the killing, knew exactly what was happening and planted in advance. if he were in front of

but senior republicans condemning the pullout as up from the chair and costly mistake we're live in istanbul also coming up. back to earth the international space station's three man crew makes a safer turn after more than six months in orbit. and the award winning photographs of luke was going to make uncomfortable viewing for chinese officials they zhang has now confirmed that luke wong has been put under wraps. and in the german bundesliga by in munich continue to put pressure on dortmund at the top of the table it wasn't pretty though with two red cards the binah fought their way to a tightly contested one though victory over leipsic. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the decision by president trump to withdraw american forces from syria has been met with surprise in washington leading republicans have been criticizing the move calling it. a premature and costly mistake one that would benefit iran and russia but the move is expected to be welcomed by turkey which opposes american support for kurdish militias dug in in northern syria and. if president trump gets his way the