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Convicted of murder. authorities came out and said that their demands were unlawful, and asked them to leave. when the princes refused, at that point, authorities came in and arrested the princes saying that they were disrupting public order and security. this, of course, we cannot independently verify. this apparently took place on thursday. but the saudi arabia attorney general came out with a statement last night saying that this is what had taken place. and all of this, of course, is coming at an interesting time for saudi arabia. in november, we saw hundreds of royals, business men as wel...

Protesting what i just mentioned. so there is still a lot that we don't know. what we do know at this point is that the context of these arrests is about how -- how this interesting time that saudi arabia is going through. over the last couple of months, we have seen that there have been social and financial reforms that saudi arabia has been trying to implement. and in november, as you mentioned earlier, there was a huge crackdown under the umbrella of corruption sweep that ensnared royals, business men, as well as senior government officials. and the shake-up in saudi arabia is thought to be...

Saudi arabia as we see crown prince mohammad bin salman as the driving force behind a lot of social and financial changes in the kingdom, as well as heading this huge corruption sweep that ensnared hundreds of -- as i said, royals, business men, senior government officials. and this really is a very unprecedented time for saudi arabia, and critics say that what crown prince mohammad bin salman is doing is trying to consolidate his power and to basically eradicate any challenger that may put any sort of pressure on the power that he is trying to consolidate, george. >> gul, following the story ...

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