they must be very very angry in riyadh because nothing like this is ever been so. about saudi arabia at this level of high politics in the united states so it's a first yes i think it's good that the senate has taken this stand even though it is only about. this case only after the killing of jamal. as your guest said without said i don't believe that this could reach a final decision either from the congress or from from because from they still have the power to veto any resolution but what the what is good about this senate resolution is that they have actually confirmed that mama diesel man is behind directly behind the killing of jamal. as well when they say that to stop the support for the saudi arabia war on yemen this mean that united states is admitting that they are supporting this war and they are part of. this war to be honest this is not an incident this is a killing of a journalist who worked with the washington post in and doesn't matter if it was an embassy or not but the main problem with saudi arabia at the beginning they kept denying everything th

and i always appreciate a comment let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. senate was quite strong unanimous when it came to close shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role your countries led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead and riyadh. well definitely peter as you know with the saudi arabia. news they actually denounce what the congress have done the congress itself you know too many people does doesn't understand they always have these kinds of symbolic agreement of doing things but that doesn't mean that it's decisive because it has to be run down to the to the house and then from the house the president have to sign off of it yes it is a problem yes it is symbolic but saudi arabia refuse anybody actually take the measures in order to interfere with their internal issues saudi arabia has played on a bigger role. regarding the were on the emend that saudi arabia the first cou

across psyching saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest hussein insaan the he's a yemeni journalist in riyadh we have made it bram he is a u.s. relations expert and in brighton we cross to catherine shocked she is a senior analyst with bio on center all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate them and let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. senate was quite strong unanimous when it came to close shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role in your country's led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead and riyadh. well definitely peter as you know with the saudi arabia. news they actually denounce what the congress have done the congress itself you know too many people does doesn't understand they always have these kinds of symbolic agreement of doing things but that doesn't mean that it's decisive because it has to be run down to the t

go back to riyadh i notice you were disagreeing with catherine so please reply. torie katherine all the facts are wrong i mean i wish you could say half of this one but told us i do actually killed more than five hundred thousand people on the actually the displaced ten million syrians but that's the way that it could be you know i don't i don't have personally very nice guy but i saw what happened on the show to a vietnam thing was you know you. got it right this is you know what he said what the m.p.'s has done for the for the country and for the world nobody says what saudi arabia has done for the whole world you guys sitting there you know all it was it like there hey how does it go you know what it's like somebody here and the saudi. congress talking about lindsey graham say you know what lindsey graham you did to step down this is not going to happen the more people at that m.p.'s the more support is going to get internally and his talks and his rating is at best believe me whether you've got to like it or die and the problem you know thinking you is at the

now everybody talks about the strategic importance of this relationship between riyadh and washington and yet you've seen various outspoken senators particularly lindsey graham of course actually saying point blank that the dependence is on the part of riyadh in that riyadh needs washington much more than the other way round what exactly is the nature of the relationship i mean there is this sort of strategic relationship between the two economies but this strategic relation all saw coming. is subject to change if you can board if we can build that relationship to lift twenty or thirty years ago it was in might be in a much more strategic than it is now why because the united states was very much dependent on saudi oil on oil coming from the gulf region today the united states is the biggest we have the largest oil producer in the world is it even produces more all those saudi arabia itself so saudi arabia is not actually because of oil is becoming really important to the americans it's because of other things maybe. because maybe for your arm because of the peace process in the middl

in london to riyadh we have some breaking news coming to you. we have third-quarter numbers coming through, third-quarter -- nine months first, who have that is upbeat there on the nine-month a bit the. 3.1 billion euros on the bit.-month i well to a beat their as read there are looking at nine-month net income of 2.4 4 billion euros, versus the estimate of 2.4 million year-on-year. analysts wereat looking for, they were looking for reassurance on second-quarter guidance to riyadh we will see if any moments come through -- any comments come through on that. but at the moment, beating the nine-month figures to riyadh looking at markets overnight, we are getting positivity coming some quite riyadh significant gains on the industries in the asian sessions. nasdaq futures are higher. s counter onnew china and auto tariffs but had an impact on the u.s. session. before we continue with the market, let us look at news on credit squeeze best credit suisse. confirming,isse that it is approving its 2019 buyback of up to 1.5 billion swiss francs, crossing

and qatar is said to be skipping today's meeting in riyadh despite indications from the saudi king. we take a look at what it could mean for markets. ♪ >> 8:00 a.m. across the emirates, i'm yousef gamal el-din in dubai. what a week it has been for u.s. stocks, the worst week since march. let's get you a quick recap. tech stocks were in focus, along with trade tensions. the latest batch of economic the adding to concerns, position toward equities has moved from by to sell. opec is delivering bigger than expected oil production cuts and it will be interesting to see how it ripples around the globe, especially in emerging markets. 2.85,0 year yields at numbers came in slightly softer, bank of america forecasting 10 year yields. the bloomberg dollar index, jobs haven in thee current scheme of things but lower. still, fairly resilient throughout the week. let's check in on the first word news with christine burke. >> thanks. the white house chief of staff will step down toward the end of the year. white house advisers believe that vice presidents chief of staff will be named acting chi

in modern times we've seen two career diplomats to riyadh, jim and hugh. the saudis didn't like either of them. both served a tour. what they don't want in the kingdom is someone with the background and skills to make say the politics of the royal family a little less opaque than they are. >> right. >> because opaque is what they want. >> okay. i don't think john is a fluent arabic speaker but he knows the kingdom and region. let's see how he does out there. obviously this will be the worst possible time for the saudis to take issue with who we send to riyadh. he has had [ inaudible ] but so did hugh until they found out how deeply he could get into their society. again, not to get lost in the weeds, but, you know, i think what we've done here is to convince ourselves of how important these relationships are and that we've got a lot to work with as well as against, but then that just puts us back on the -- the overarching question, you can't do any of this without a policy. >> can i just say, i mean i think from -- from a u.s. leadership would be most welc

by only sending its state minister to riyadh. well you know last year the blockading countries attempted to overthrow the emir of qatar and so i think it was unrealistic to expect the called hers to decide that their head of state would attend this meeting i think qatar sending the message that at least on paper it's going to remain in the g.c.c. but i think this was sort of a swipe at saudi arabia that needs to be seen as well as the other blockading countries that needs to be seen within the context of this crisis that has been very emotional it's lasted a little over a year and a half and has really been seen enough from the qatari perspective as a nexus sensual threat do you think realistically the blockade is going to be given much time discuss and at the table that. that to be discussed i think from the standpoint of both sides of this dispute there's a belief that they can sustain themselves in the status quo and i don't think either side wants to make the concessions that would be necessary to overcome this crisis the lea

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 afterwards from the united nations i think those grades demand for this case to be handled through international investigation from the special committee however it took it does not want to be the i think took it does not want at this moment to be the leading force in this. i mean also said today that there is an international demand to forage for an intra and international investigation i mean tookie has been very patient in th

were being abandoned as people drifted away to seek work elsewhere riyadh she responded by inviting refugees to stay in the town to do up the houses and to reopen the bakeries it was truly a fresh start for everybody involved until that is the populist interior minister matteo saudi report riyadh shares mayor under house arrest and ordered hundreds of refugees to get out of town now the mayor of kemeny fears that he's going to face the same treatment. just zip i found no is worried about his village he's worried that he'll soon be greeting only widows and retired people again but like many communities in southern italy kemeny is zero risk of dying out because of unemployment immigration and an aging population until now his solution was refugees and migrants there been aquarian. like a few other mayors he invited families from west africa bangladesh syria iraq and many other countries to set up a provisional home in the village. but i want to work you can see the transformation before our school only had nine or ten children now they're almost fifty. some of the men have learned how

twenty i think they are regime of riyadh reckons that he is the man for the new challenge which is bring back the business and investments in a saudi arabia is going to make all sorts of changes in order not to make that one needed essential change which is mohamed missile none and since mr mann is the one who is making the changes since he is the de facto ruler apparently in saudi arabia not his father certainly he wasn't about to change himself and this region in the middle east region the arab world is in such deep trouble is in such blunder that it seems more and more of that you know what's happening in saudi arabia is relatively more of the same that we see in egypt in iraq in syria in sudan in other places so you know welcome to the club as it were rami koori is journalism professor at the american university of beirut and a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school he says the reshuffle is merely an image make over. it's really hard to tell right now like so many things in the decisionmaking or so the arabia is like the soviet union in the one nine hundred sixty s. you really d

and it is a mess in riyadh for the gulf cooperation council summit that the meeting has. between. as heads of states and leaders from the gulf cooperation council met in riyadh for their annual summit a notable absence he was the emir of qatar doha instead opting to send a junior minister qatar remains under a land air and sea blockade imposed by fellow council member saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates eighteen months ago it's a crisis that has brought into question the very existence of the g.c.c. nevertheless the saudi king said fail to even mention it during his opening remarks instead choosing to focus on iran and other issues. when his witnesses. that we all know we faced a resume and iranian policy we also need to stop these countries from it to fearing into the fares of a country this is the second summit to take place since the blockade on qatar began the last one was held in kuwait which is the leading mediation between the two sides on that's occasion. tended while the blockading nations leaders refused to show up and despite failing to solve the g.c.c. cr

yemen war that message has been received in riyadh and up with it which also helps explain why we're now seeing a new momentum to accelerate to these peace talks so good you speak about this momentum and developments over the last few weeks would you classify the incident as one of those developments and just how has that changed the playing field here in yemen. it has absolutely changed the playing field because it's understood now in washington first of all what happened. and how the events leading up to that transpired that's the first aspect and after those details became in american foreign policy issues that his generated intense scrutiny from the media and from lawmakers the debate then shifted to the humanitarian catastrophe that yemen has now become so all the sudden these two issues have been interconnected which again it's to this momentum will say that i'm wondering we've seen various different developments over the course of the generation of this conflict is this a watershed moment for yemen or should we be treating it with cautious optimism we should always cautious op

s reported refusal to text message his son in riyadh and tell him not to worry if he didn't hear from him for a while as a fuller picture of the killing emerges the pressure continues to grow on saudi arabia last week the king reshuffled his cabinet hoping to deflect international criticism but the saudi side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case and 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. killing paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. let's cross over to our correspondents and who is in istanbul and sent in really the video is out there has been there for some time but really quote closer scrutiny of it now and those images really highlight the complexity of that plan to murder and really puts more pressure on riyadh to name and potentially hand over those suspects to ankara. well so actually his handing over the suspects song remains a big question because saw these didn't even mention the

without all the latest on the election in armenia while the gulf cooperation council has been meeting in riyadh with divisions between the six members more and more exposed saudi arabia's king someone opened the talks in the capital he did not address the ongoing blockade of cattle by three g. c. c. members bahrain the u.a.e. and for saudi arabia but the emir of kuwait has been part of mediation efforts call for an end to regional to spirits. i don't ever there and though we have faced a lot of challenges and on top of them there are the differences between our g.c.c. nations we need not to risk the interests of our peoples the peoples of the g.c.c. council states the g.c.c. must not be hesitant we need to keep our situation firm stand firm and we need to be able to face the challenges in our region. has more now from kuwait city. the kuwaiti i mean was somebody who has always been leading attempts to try and find a mediation in fact the last summit took place here in kuwait and qatar sent its amir as a sign of respect or maybe encouragement or support for these mediation efforts however the sa

saudi military incursion in yemen sentences pasta resolution demanding washington to hold sales to riyadh by fifty six votes to forty one members of congress passed and that actually delays any vote on the matter until at least next year a cold the agriculture improvement act it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the yemeni conflict but it included a last minute amendment blocking any vote on limiting american involvement had twenty nineteen republican house speaker paul ryan one of the amendments strongest supporters was slammed by democrats who had hoped for an early vote on the issue. this is why people hate congress speaker ryan is not allowing a vote on my resolution to stop the war in yemen because many republicans will vote with us and he will lose the vote he is disgraceful in article one of the constitution and as a result more yemeni children will die some democrats found themselves in hot water as well for supporting the amendment to the agricultural improvement act among them collin peterson was questioned by a washington post reporter over the phone. can you explai

as heads of states and leaders from the gulf cooperation council met riyadh for their annual summit a notable absence he was the emir of qatar doha instead opting to send a junior minister qatar remains under a land air and sea blockade imposed by fellow council member saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates eighteen months ago it's a crisis that has brought into question the very existence of the g.c.c. . nevertheless the saudi king said fail to even mention it during his opening remarks instead choosing to focus on iran and other issues. when as witnesses. that we all know we faced a resume and iranian policy we also need to stop these come from it to feeling into that in the affairs of our country this is the second summit to take place since the blockade on qatar began the last one was held in kuwait which is the leading mediation between the two sides on that's occasion shift i mean but how much tended while the blockading nations leaders refused to show up and despite failing to solve the g.c.c. crisis amir it seems has not given up i don't know if we have faced a lot

challenge the door trumps policies on saudi arabia and his refusal to scale back military ties with riyadh they would recent months there have been some conflicting signals coming from the ministration. we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone this we won't give you a pass just so you understand about make america great again it's about america first we're going to say we're saudi arabia we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other sorry ministries who we suspect to have been involved in mr to show you death whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble and they should be in big trouble to remind you then jamal khashoggi was a u.s. resident who wrote for the washington post he disappeared on the second of october after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey points the finger at saudi arabia or riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved. of the terrorist who killed three people at a christmas market in strass

the second after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey points the finger of saudi arabia riyadh strongly denies the crown prince was involved in any way. with the christmas nearly upon us the festive spirit is in full swing however in sweden one department stores holiday offering received but a frosty reception. come . on come. on. come. on. please. who is celebrating the winter. reading to read about winter eve. are you waiting to open winter presents under the wind to treat. her. and asked her to stop short of the latest our global affairs here on international on this friday we return in twenty five minutes i hope you can join us that. lol. yeah there is a saying. i think that one of the chief justice and then who went through all the countries from let's get the idea is really their right to call you a scum bag he said if you give them everything they have to buy screwed. to this country. this is what we don't understand. in such. a. similar. to the place. you have to see. the. movie. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle may survive a

so to journalists to the united nations turkey's foreign minister has said ankara has demanded that riyadh share its findings on the case with the international community was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul nearly three months ago . at least thirty people have been killed in a coordinated sack in the afghan capital kabul hundreds were trapped when gunmen stormed a government building and began moving from floor to floor targeting employees marianna hong reports. as the sun starts to go down across the afghan capital kabul fires still burning and the attack on the government building was coordinated and went on for hour was a suicide bomber. explosives packed into a crowd before gunmen stormed the building and systematically moved through it firing on employees. it was a frightening sound from the explosion we got scared an escaped people were very upset and everyone was running away police evacuated more than three hundred fifty government workers others reported themselves in their offices. but many more were caught happen an attack that reportedly went on. for eight hours.

is currently under a blockade by four arab countries led by saudi arabia the flag could be seen in riyadh ahead of the summit well my job's wary is the director of the gulf study center at capital university and told us that the saudis may try to focus on a possible end to the war in yemen to deflect attention from the murder of janice jamal khashoggi no i think riyadh will try to bring to bring that again and saying look we want. to move on we need peaceful negotiation we need the war to be and i think that is a message to washington this is serious i think that is to reduce the level of pressure on them and hush of the case so that it's appearing on different cards on the same table meanwhile iran's president has called donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions against his country economic terrorism the oil and financial sanctions came into force a month ago off to trample out of the two hundred fifty nuclear deal in may speaking at a conference on regional cooperation hassen rouhani warned the measures would deprive iran of the benefits of international trade and energy security. i

as heads of states in leaders from the gulf cooperation council met in riyadh for their annual summit and notable absentee was the emir of qatar doha instead opting to send a junior minister qatar remains under a land air and sea blockade imposed by fellow council member saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates eighteen months ago it's a crisis that has brought into question the very existence of the g.c.c. nevertheless the saudi king said mongan optimizes fail to even mention it during his opening remarks instead choosing to focus on iran and other issues. i do know some were a tad yeah you know when our region is witness a huge challenges that we all know we face to resume and iranian policy we also need to stop these countries from interfering into the terminal affairs of our country this is the second summit to take place since the blockade on qatar began the last one was held in kuwait which has been leading mediation between the two. sides on that occasion shift i mean but how middle fania tended while the blockading nation's leaders refused to show up and despite faili

of his to be apprehended but this hasn't happened so far i'm sure he will say if you travel back to riyadh but the fact that he does have this internet the international exposure isn't really a punishment given what happened inside his country on turkey we understand turning to ukraine now which is one of the big crises being. discussed that russian president vladimir putin met with french president emmanuel mccall showed him a map of the kurds peninsula and try to justify russia's actions do you think he has any chance of persuading the french leaders well at least he used the paper to . illustrate the incident and not demarcate zones of influence i think that's a good sign what this shows is that he's actually at the highest level is trying to make the case and we also don't know what exactly happened with it before these ships and the state of as of so what he's trying to do is to talk to one of the leaders of the normandy form that. he will meet in the course of today he will make the case but what is important is that at the end of this summit there is some kind of a solution to this

there has been blowback that riyadh has had to deal with many unintended consequences some of them very destabilizing for the region when we're talking about the u.s. saudi alliance from trump's perspective let's keep in mind that his administration has really three key goals in the middle east number one is to confront iran in to counter iranian ascendancy in the region second to secure lucrative contracts for american entities public and private sector in third to protect the state of israel as much as possible trump sees saudi arabia playing an incredibly important role in terms of all three of these objectives from this white house's perspective it is the conduct of iran that poses the biggest threats to u.s. interests in the interests of u.s. allies in the region and i think the administration believes that it's not realistic to it envision washington successfully countering iran without unifying sunni arab states together and clearly they see saudi arabia as being so central to this agenda well it's interesting because then it looks like the united states is the junior partner in

twenty i think they are regime of riyadh reckons that he is the man for the new challenge which is bring back the business and investments in a saudi arabia is going to make all sorts of changes in order not to make that one needed essential change which is mohamed missile none and since one habit mr man is the one who is making the changes since he is the de facto ruler apparently in saudi arabia not his father certainly he wasn't about to change himself and this region in the middle east region the arab world is in such deep trouble is in such blunder that it seems more and more of that you know what's happening in saudi arabia is relatively more of the same that we see in egypt in iraq in syria in sudan in other places so you know welcome to the club as it were. the country following president announced it accusing him of violating iraq's sovereignty and not meet any of the country's leadership on his three hour trip. and invited him to the white house and. back to. the u.s. president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit last in just three hours on wednesday nig

across liking saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest hussein in sun the he's a yemeni journalist in riyadh we have made it bram he is a us sodhi relations expert and in brighton we cross to catherine schachter she is a senior analyst with bio on center all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate your command let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. senate was quite strong unanimous when it came to close shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role your countries led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead and riyadh well definitely.

mohammed bin salim what does this say about the future of relations between washington and moscow and riyadh i think both leaders both foreign leaders they have experienced a volatile trump a president who changes his mind from one day to another just a week ago so he issued a statement in strong support of the saudi crown prince meeting just the day before so i think these two leaders they're still trying to make out what they can get from this relationship with the united states they have invested a lot in it and right now it seems that saudi arabia is still strong but the russian u.s. relationship has been shaky over the past months and president putin would have wanted to talk to present trump but it hasn't happened. many people are watching the saudi prince mohammed bin salomon who seems to be shunned to a certain extent in buenos aires by their leaders is that fair and is he being punished for the murder of her mouth showed gina study writing writer well not being given a shake of hands is not the form of punishment for what he may have done or he seems to have done no it's true that f

source the transcript suggests tribe is updating someone who turkish officials say was in riyadh with almost step by step details of what is taking place that's a line from the c.n.n. report not only that but it. is doing so in a very calm manner not suggesting that anything has gone awry that something has got out of hand so that's very interesting the other interesting part of this new development from c.n.n. is that they put this to the saudi authorities and the only comment they got was this the relevant saudi security officials had reviewed the transcript and tape materials through turkish security channels and nowhere in them is there any reference or indication of a call being made that's that's the only thing that the saudis a coup. earing there was no phone call made while this gruesome killing and dismemberment was underway the saudi statement goes on if there is additional information turkish authorities have that we are unaware of we would welcome it being officially handed over to us for review which we have requested numerous times and are still requesting and up until n

but after the incident in riyadh the mayor feels this integration project is under threat you know. the interior minister and riley wants to house these people in big detention centers that without school or without training. or state wants to save money in this way. when he wants to make life less pleasant for refugees and migrants put on a wonderfully put a plan if it's to villages like ours in italy but. still money that the interior minister and. he's also the head of the right wing populist legal party his new security decree clamp down on immigration and asylum rights the plan is to deport more migrants from italy that includes those in the villages. that the geo i think that it's a strategy to put a stop to what is a good. something that is a chance to build a better wound. and a better life for people. and not only for those who flee war on poverty but also for us for our country. but most days there but in not that. the project for integrating refugees and migrants in kaminey has had a visible impact many houses have been renovated. and there is work again. some of the migr

says but trouble is updating someone who turkish officials say was in riyadh with a very calm step by step sense of detail about what is taking place is no panicking going on this is very very calm seen and put this to the saudis and their only query was that in the transcript they've seen and the information that they've had from the turks there's no mention of a cool that's the only thing that they're clearing about this information but the information does appear according to c.n.n. exactly the sort of information that those on call in congress have been hearing from the cia and others and that perhaps explains why lindsey graham remains so angry as he was on the sunday talk shows if it weren't for the united states said be speaking farsi in about a week in saudi arabia their military can't fight it out of a paper bag they give us nine percent of our all imports we need them a lot less than they need. this you've got to hook up to murderous regime. america from iran quite the opposite i think hooking up with him we heard our ability to govern the region and we are expecting congres