Sebastian kurtz has delivered a surprising result in the australian election, a clear victory. He will be working with the far right again though, because they lost a great deal of their support. The greens delivered their best result in a general election. We will report from vienna. The bbc reverses its decision to partially uphold a complaint against its presenter Naga Munchetty. Well have all the details. A United Nations Investigation Team has gained access to covert recordings of the moment that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, and theyve described in detail what they heard to the bbc. Mr khashoggi was a writer and critic of saudi arabias government. He was murdered in the countrys consulate in istanbul exactly a year ago this week. Saudis Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is suspected of personally targeting mr khashoggi. Hes just given his first interview with western media since the murder, this is what he said when he was asked if hed ordered the murder. Translation abso
Hill conference work our topic today is the United States saudi arabia and relationship. Over the last 40 years, many of us have supported this relationship from deepening counterterrorism and deepening womens rights. The challenge on each side has been to remain faithful to two very different value systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military cooperation, human rights violations, addressing demand change. These issues are right for informed passionate review and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to delve into the approach to saudi arabia while, relationship and its future. However, before i turned to todays program i would like to say a few words about the middle east counsel. The council was established in 1981 for the was of promoting dialogue and education including in the United States in the countries of the middle east there are three flagship grams. Quarterly
The audio is courtesy of timberlane media. Next remarks by policy experts and former diplomats about the current state of relations between the u. S. And saudi arabia. Held by the policy counsel, this is two hours. Good morning, everyone. I am gina abercrombie. Vice chairman of the board of the policy counsel. I am pleased to welcome you to this our 97th quarterly capitol hill conference work our topic today is the United States saudi arabia and relationship. Over the last 40 years, many of us have supported this relationship from deepening counterterrorism and deepening womens rights. The challenge on each side has been to remain faithful to two very different value systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military cooperation, human rights violations, addressing demand change. These issues are right for informed passionate review and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to
Boris Johnsons Conservative Party with a working majority of just one seat. For joining us. Statess is withdrawing from the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty. In 1987 byluded ronald reagan. Was with the goal of limiting conventional and nuclear intermediate range missiles. S. This is withdrawing saying saying moscow did not respect it anyway. The u. N. Secretaryggeneral has called it a dangerous step. I asked philip from our International Affairs desk why the deal has fallen apart. If you go to 1987 when the treaty was summoned the first time, there was enthusiasm to limit the range of these weapons when it came to them being fired into europe by the then president of the soviet union, mikael gorbachev. End. Period has come to an those two leaders workrking to reduce arms. Now we are in a different period, where you have the russian leader, the u. S. Areident, and china, which all keen to develop Nuclear Weapons capacity. That explains why this deal has fallen through. Nato has
Will not ask the Citizenship Question on the census, but there is question about how the process came about and secretary ross, why he decided to ask about citizenship. They dont buy his answers and dont think he has provided enough documents. Chair how does the effort host how does the effort fit into the broader effort by House Democrats to investigate the Trump Administration . Matthew it is part of their broader scrutiny of the administration. He has said he is going to fight all these subpoenas, and there is a tug of war going on between democrats and the president on all kinds of things, whether the investigation with special counsel mueller or the census question. Even though the courts have resolved it, kratz want to pursue this contempt proceeding. Host another issue that we will see come up next week, and it came up a bit during the Defense Authorization the bait in the past week, the house is taking up a resolution next week that would block u. S. Arms sales to saudi arabia.