s cannot afford to have mohamed deny it who has supporters in washington. free and even alive bring that up in a moment what what what will ordinary saudis be making of the student. but i think many saudis are happy that basically they say these people we had both sides so let them duke it out and you know there was quietly you know jubilant if anybody goes down it's just because it's a natural when you have a despotic regime people are happy when the despotic fight oh it's actually you mentioned prince mohammed bin return to bring you in here to talk about. for others to talk about the international reaction he's a former interior minister close to u.s. intelligence services well known abroad you've also got saudi arabia now very much under scrutiny for its role in yemen the ruinous war the rudeness for yemen that is that goes on and on and on the spotlight of course still very much on the murder of tomorrow show b.g. which many people believe was ordered by mohammed bin some how does he explain away what's going on here to his international allies do they

he wants to finish the job that was started when he ousted the cousin mohammed bin nayef. from from the post of crown prince i think things have been going badly for him ever since if you remember back in those days. the the crown prince was a new crown prince was at the height of his popularity. he was. a the the the fresh young thing the who's who's who's coming in blowing in and a new wave of reform even people like my late friend jamal how should she thought he was the new groom that was needed back in those days since and he's lost a lot of his popularity virtually nothing is going right to him certainly not the war in yemen not the i.p.o. of around co the oil prices going down and now you've got coronavirus as well and restricting or cutting and possibly also the house too so he's under a lot of pressure and i think he feels he needs to finish the job and so the need to crack down roxanne let me bring you in here what is the real threat to and b s is it a reputational threat essentially as david was outlining there or is there more to it all certainly i agree that ma

bin for the throne when king solomon dies saudi gods of also arrested one of mohammed bin nayef brothers out of their senior correspondent alex planes what these detentions mean for the kingdom and their impact on saudi politics. in terms of his significance it's huge because we're talking about true of the most senior members of the saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been seen as supporters of crown prince may have been someone in the direction that he's been taking the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy what's printed it is very difficult to ascertain needless to say because saudis are very close culture in terms of back of transparency and no media freedom there but also what's peculiar about it is that these are 2 figures who have they've been under house arrest they haven't been able to move freely for a very long time so the idea that maybe they were trying to hatch some sort of coup is very far fetched and difficult to see considering the restraints they were under already more likely than not what's a lot of analysts are talking about is

cylon in a palace coup in 2017 and then mohammed bin nayef half brother prince now off the 9th said to be accused of attempting a coup the wall street journal is also saying security forces detained dozens of interior ministry officials senior army officers and all of a suspected of supporting an alleged plot and o'brien reports. the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef his age to the throne and $27.00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seeing him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes there is term or within the family in the form of criticism that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass security forces coming to their roles and yanking your out of their private residences mohamed been so mundane as m.b.a.'s has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family

arabia a number of high profile members the role fabry have been to taint including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef. macleod this is uncertain life and turn up the program. it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation new concerns about the coronavirus off of the number of cases worldwide tops 100000. 24 hours of uneasy calm is a ceasefire in serious into that still holds. a new generation of thai protesters will tell you about the backlash following the ban on opposition party. so that we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin solomon has detained some of the most high profile members of his royal family that includes form a crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as a prince had been i've been a saudi that's younger brother of the saudi king report suggests that they've both been accused of treason so to gods have also arrested one of them had been nice brought this. lightly to be under the threat of life imprisonment all possible ask you should both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin solomon to the throne if king solomon died without serious

prince it said legibly planning a coup against the country's ruler saying kluge former crown prince mohammed bin sought will talk to our reporter to see what's behind the arrests. a michael ok welcome to the program. turkish president received tell you have early one has ordered his country's coast guard to stop migrants from making dangerous at gnc crossings meanwhile greek prime minister curiosus mr tuck is says the migration deal between the e.u. and turkey is dead he accused ankara of using migrants to create a crisis at its border with his country this morning greek border police once again used tear gas to repel an attempt by migrants to push through the border from turkey the european union has warned migrants they will not be allowed to enter. the greek army fire as it was a cannon along this poss of the texas border but still the migrants push on trying to find a gap to cross into europe. further along the greek police bring in reinforcements. more tear gas is fired between police and migrants gathered at this border fence. amid growing tensions turkish police are also seen firing t

number of high profile members of the royal family have been detained including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef. ironically this is a live from doha also coming up. it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation and you concerns about the coronavirus off the number of cases worldwide tops 100000. long lines in south korea as the government regulates how many mosques you can find protection against the virus. 24 hours of an easy calm as a ceasefire in syria is a good lives still hold. but so we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin solomon has detained some of the most high profile members of the royal family and that includes form a crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as a prince of bin abdul aziz al saud the younger brother of the saudi king report suggests that they have both been accused of treason so many gods have also arrested one of my haven't been brothers and now likely to be under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin salim to throw in if king solomon dies out 0 senior cor

the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef is age of the throne and $27.00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes dead terrorist or more within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin soma known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption dr rights groups disagreed. hundreds of activists including women's rights campaign allusion i'll have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a call he doesn't want any

to that breaking news out of riyadh the saudi capital according to media reports saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound detained some the most high profile members of the rule family they include former crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as prince ahmed bin abdulaziz outside the younger brother of the saudi king reports suggest they've both been accused of treason saudi guards have also arrested one of mom had been knifed brothers they're now likely under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution both could have rival the crown prince mohammed bin sound man to the throne if king solomon were to die it let's bring in jamal and sally johns is live on set jamal so what do you think has prompted this move by the saudi crown prince mom been psalm on how significant is it in terms of significance that we can say with 100 percent confidence it's huge because of the positioning of these 2 figures within the royal family their seniority both in terms of lineage but also in terms of positions held some form of denial of being the former crown prince being head of the intelligence befor

sheikh mohammed has said that the judgment has only given one side of the story. frank gardner has been telling us more about this case. this is a very bad news story for sheikh mohammad shaikh maktoum and not a good story for dubai either, because it cast him in a very negative light. remember, this is a british court, the high court, that has taken ten months to gather all the statements, and hear both sides of the story. whatever the sheik says, it has heard both sides of the story. he chose not to represent himself in court. he hired very expensive lawyers, as did his former wife, princess haya, and the court has come down on her side of events, which is to basically make public the very serious allegations that he, sheikh mohammed, kidnapped or abducted and rendered back to dubai his own daughters, one of whom was then subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, as we saw on the video that was played in court and used a testimony. so it is a pretty serious allegation. is it going to bring criminal charges because my i doubt it. he is head of state, a briti

mohamed: that is a great question. as of last week, which is when this settled in for most people, 29% of employees said their employer was cutting jobs, reducing hours, or freezing hiring. that has been rising, and we will be reporting on the latest data as they come in. upexpect that number to come . 52% of the employees say their financial system -- financial situation has been affected by cutbacks at work. that being said, americans are overwhelmingly currently in support of the rescue package that was passed over the weekend. most small businesses tried to figure out how to take advantage of that. 77% of americans approved by the package that was support by bipartisan support, which is higher than most rescue packages we have seen in the past. francine: do you and citizens actually blame authorities for deaths? in italy we saw a couple of should haveg people dealt with this before. inl we have similar reaction the u.s. and will that be against president trump? mohamed: that is a great question and that is what we

if you look at sheikh mohammed al—maktoum and crown prince mohammed al—maktoum and crown prince mohammed bin salman of saudi arabia, these are people who western governments fell in love with in the sense they are on paper, enlightened, open—minded, liberal, western thinking progressive leaders and rulers who are trying to take the country is forward and if you go to dubai it's an incredible place. likewise, saudi arabia is advancing but behind the walls, it's the same old patriarchal autocracy. thank you, frank. i've been speaking to david haigh, a human rights lawyer who runs the freelatifa campaign, and to tiina jauhianen, princess latifa's best friend, who tried to help her escape and was also captured and imprisoned. she'd been fighting to prove. i'm very, very pleased with the news. i'm happy that the reporting restrictions were finally lifted. and the whole world is now hearing the news that sheikh mohammed al—maktoum did indeed kidnap two of his daughters, latifah and shamsa and this is not official and no longer an allegation. and of course this is something that you saw up

loyalty to him and many were expected to tweet or to e-mail him and show that they were behind him mohamed bin solomon knowing his abs has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him he replaced been naive as heir to the throne and 27 tane forcing him into effective house arrest n.b.s. his uncle prince ahmed was said to be concerned by the crown prince's grip on power one of a small group who voted against m.p.'s taking over. this is something extraordinary and saudi politics prince armored by the all past rules of saudi politics should have enjoyed immunity even if he was publicly a little critical of some policy but that immunity is god there is no immunity in saudi arabia mohammed bin solomon can get you no matter who you are that's the message. and 2017 dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen around our panda taint at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti-corruption drive rights groups disagreed one year later mohammed bin salmond's international profile was further tarnished after the killing of saudi journalist

saudi arabia's crown prince's had a controversial rise to power in just 3 years mohamed bin salmond has silenced nearly all voices of dissent at home critics of being jailed or even killed and he appears to be tightening his grip on power even further media.

if he didn't fall mohammed would get very angry. this happened once when a senior official came to visit the president. obama took aim and fired the man looked at him and smiled he looked at his grandfather and asked why he didn't die. the president of the demand and said why didn't you die lie down you're dead and the more. the president and his grandson were playing. the president. was playing his escape. and the plaything the influence his name could carry throughout. with a weapon. in the late eighty's began expanding into partnerships that many businessmen regarded as dubious the most but again in. the 2nd there was no reference to his name in any of these partnerships. the acceptable form of word was to call him facilitator. as he had the ability to influence ministers to facilitate the work. he. made. some of the stories in egypt about business conducted by mubarak's sons became a law firm matter and there is in fact a famous joke an owner of a cafe had photos up on the wall of the 3 presidents talk to. a guy walks into the c

the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin muhammad bin nayef is age the throne and $27.00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes that there is term war within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass security forces coming to their own lives and yanking year out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as m.b.a.'s has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire business men were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti corruption drive rights groups disagreed. hundreds of activists including women's rights campaigner luzhin i'll have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a cool he d

number of high profile members of the world family have been detained including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef. it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation and you concerns about the coronavirus of the number of cases around the world tops 100000. 24 hours of an easy calm as the ceasefire in syria is it still holds. and anti-government protesters return to the streets of chile's capital venting their anger over rising inequality. we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin samana has detained some of the most high profile members of the rule family that includes former crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as prince ahmed but not the less he's outside would the youngest brother the saudi king reports such as they've both been accused of treason saudi guards of all her arrested one of mohammed bin nayef brothers they are now likely under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution or tomato salad joins me live on set you now jamal so what do you think prompted this move by mohamed bin solemn on the saudi crown prince and how significant is

the other senior prince detained, mohammed mohammed din may have was next in line before he was replaced three years ago. there's been immediate come permission or denial of the story but palace affairs in saudi arabia are often shrouded in secrecy. frank gardner mud bbc news. —— muhammad bin nayef. it is time to get a nswe rs —— muhammad bin nayef. it is time to get answers to some of your questions on the coronavirus and joining me to answer them is professor sally bloomfield from the london school of hygiene & tropical medicine in our bristol newsroom. thank you forjoining us. we have quite a few questions to get through. let me start with the first one from james who asks: at what point after exposure to coronavirus can you transmit the virus to someone else? the problem is that we don't know when we are exposed. we only know when we are showing symptoms. so i think the answer to thatis symptoms. so i think the answer to that is we all have to assume. it is unlikely. but we all need to assume now that we are infected, and that's why it is so important we all practice respirat

now, it's paradoxical, this, because sheikh mohammed is hugely popular in his own country. he's built massively successful global entrepreneur which is dubai, it is a popular destination, it is in arab terms a pretty freewheeling liberal place. yet clearly when it comes to his own family, he is an old—style patriarchal autocrat. let's return to the effect the coronavirus is having on our shopping. we talked now to a supermarket analyst. she joins shopping. we talked now to a supermarket analyst. shejoins me from kent. thank you for speaking to us. what supermarkets have been ready for something like this? they are all prepared for some things. the dry run was really brexit, where they were worried they would get delays, their lorry and suit coming into the country but this is something different. they will have seen it creeping up the horizon and be aware that. products they really have been on pressure for have been a hygiene ones. at ethics canisters well supermarkets. we know a lot of what goes on with supply chains is last—minute deliveries, is there a chance superm

a revolution initiated by this man king mohammed the 6th the royal family's very own son king. in keeping with his wishes morocco will soon be harvesting 40 percent of its electricity from solar and wind power making the country a pioneer in africa. the solar farm and where says that also boasts over half a 1000000 parabolic curved mirrors the technology is expensive but morocco's authorities are convinced the transition will pay off in the long term. meanwhile showed is back on the road in the high atlas mountains. today he's traveling to 10 months to service solem audios there. the village is part of the nationwide green mosques program the idea is to use solar power generators for mosques to generate their own electricity. if everyone goes to the mosque men women children. and if you think about how many mosques we have here. ideal ways to sensitize the contrary to everything solar energy has to offer he. was. was. the midday call to prayer 4. oh. a few years ago the villagers rallied to build this new place of worship the green moss. the. 16 solar panels adorn the rooftop.

sidelines former leader mohammed whose ruling coalition collapsed last week i had to resigned as premier after his besides who party which is led by me signaled it could work with the united malays national organization or not their party governed malaysia for more than 60 years until it was forced from power by my had he has coalition and 2018 all know is the party of disgraced former leader browse uk who is on trial for corruption accused of looting millions of dollars from the state found one e m d b o u dean was kicked out of all no in 2015 but it rallied behind him this week he was sacked for raising the issues of corruption when m b b but now in a sort of wrangling that's happened in the last week or so in malaysia he's joined forces with the same person in the same party that he was sacked from and issues he stood up for now he seems to be making alliances with many believe the latest crisis was also part of a tussle for power between mohamed and his longtime rival and while abraham analysts say their coalition was torn apart by infighting over who should succeed mahathir who at 9

prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death brian al jazeera well as now speak to simon mabon who's a senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university joins us by skype simon so lots of speculation out there is what's your take on. well you know i think what we have that there was is really way through all of this speculation all of the room as all of the conjecture and figure out what we actually know here and we know that a number of troubling meant saudi prince says with close ties to the royal family as your package has just documented have been arrested now the reasons for the arrest are not clear the justifications for those arrests are not clear but we know that that these arrests have not taken place in a vacuum that there have been a range of other things going on inside the kingdom predominantly the longstanding efforts from the crown prince mohammed bin solomon to seize power and ensure that he has no pull of inte

the former crown prince mohammed bin nayef who had himself not just been for a crown prince but also a former minister of the interior wildly respected within saudi arabia's political elite for heading the counterterrorism forces against al-qaeda in the early 2000 and also someone who has close ties to american intelligence. it's important to remember that these attentions of actually not yet been officially announced by saudi arabia various media have reached out to saudi diplomats and have not gotten responses so the reason behind these detentions remains quite unclear but many analysts have been quick to name this you know another crackdown on. saudi royal family members by their relatives and just as essentially a government crackdown why would these particular princes be targeted well you know this can be seen as a move by the current crop. prince mohammed bin soundman who is 34 known for the ambitious reforms that he's been trying to implement in saudi arabia to consolidate his power i mean just last week saudi arabia announced that it would halt all pilgrimage to the holy site

we had a judge ruled that sheikh mohammed, who had a wonderful repution in the u 2. over the trying to be involved in racing, local media, but when this action happened, when he conventions against humanw, rights, it is fantastic to see a judge say thate did that. that may lead to criminal actions ainst him in the ited kingdom. he is in a difficult situation at the moment. at least at this point, princess haya and her children are safe now we have to look at what this judgment means in tes of princess latifa, and her sister who was also abducted. whatill thatean for them?are they going to be released ? ishe uae going to grant th united nations access to visit them and check on their welfare? are they eventually going to have that freedom that they wanted? >> thank you very much for joining us. from the group, detained in dubai. a rinder of our lead story, concerf the coronavirus, which continues to grow. rtthe first re case in bosnia, south africa. in italy, there's been a dramatic shift in the death toll from 100 to close to 150. inmerica, a state of emergency has b

mohammed razor's father had prepared him for this moment from a young age his crown prince. he always had a special role among his siblings his father chose his son's playmates and sent him to an elite swiss boarding school to receive a western education. he also dictated who he would marry. the egyptian princess. a union that ultimately would end in divorce razor sharp wanted this arranged marriage between the 2 ruling families to strengthen the power of the past love the dentist in iraq. and he was of very very powerful charismatic figure who completely dominates the son's life. 300 kilometers southwest of the capital tehran lies the away says city of hama and the youngest of 6 children ruhollah khomeini was born here in 1902 in a house on the outskirts of the city. his father was murdered when he was just 5 years old. the case was officially never solved but khomeini always held razor sharp responsible. until the end of his days at a love from a new thought that there is a shop a surly had intervened and to save the bird this was the bitterness lived in him because in his

mohammed bin nayef he's the he was the former crown prince was it not just their former crown prince he was described as washington's man in the reality he was the united states from policy depended on him so much so that that supports him or talking about the different situations that you need to be the royal in charge was so significant but the fact them hum have been some man managed to convince the u.s. administration to do away with its ally of decades is testament to just how close that relationship is now between m.b.'s as he's known have been some of the crown prince and this current white house administration all right thank you very much for your thoughts and insights let's bring in david mack he's a scholar at the middle east institute he was deputy assistant secretary for him in that has and joins us on the phone from washington d.c. david mack so what do you think has prompted this move by the crown prince why is the timing significant. i don't know why the timing might be significant i think the timing is a bit of a risk on the part of can sell man and mama been cell ma

as fund its longer term visions of getting off of oil and expanding its economy under the vision of mohamed bin solomon so it's really people have to look at this as a sense of it these are not just necessarily coincidences in my point of view because the ruble was strengthening last year russia. has been on a de dollarization platform in order to diversify away from dollar reliance in part to fight sanctions thrown against it as well as its partners but also to strengthen its own ambitions to have its currency the currency of its allies really rival if not it's the 47 year old petro dollar standard which is the ascent effective monopoly globally with regard to oil or gas pricing so there's a lot of you know it's a game of chicken really funny scenes there's a lot who is going to be able to see exactly and there's a lot of moving parts of the as you've just explained here a couple is go to you in beirut here i mean what. please explain to me why saudi arabia thinks that russia for example is going to blink 1st now its lifting costs are very very low but its budgetary constraints are extraor

who areme of his sons half brothers of mohammed. i never met mohammed bin salman. his reputation in washington remains a pretty checkered reputation. anchor: david, we have to leave it there. thank you for your thoughts. the number of cases of coronavirus worldwide is believed to have reached 100,000. more than 3000 people have lost their lives, most of them in china. italy has the second-highest number of deaths, followed by iran. the global economy is feeling the pinch. reporter: the global infection total since the start of the coronavirus outbreak has soared past the 100,000 mark. while there are positive signs in china and south korea, elsewhere it is speeding up. i ran recorded a dramatic rise of 1000 cases with the authorities said to be preparing travel restrictions to add to widespread cool closures. 3300 livesore than lost around the world so far, most have been among the elderly. france, where new infections jumped on friday, president macron visited a retirement facility. i am asking all fellow citizens to act responsibly, to make the sacrifice. i know