All were critical of the saudi government, and there is evidence they were abducted and flown to saudi arabia. In the penthouse of this luxury hotel, a saudi prince is preparing to visit the powerful relatives. It is a meeting that will change his life forever. Sultan bin turki bin abdulaziz has been publicly criticising the saudi royal family. Now he has been invited for a conversation. Early in the morning, Prince Sultan is driven to a palace on the outskirts of geneva. It belongs to his uncle, king fahd of saudi arabia. Prince abdulaziz bin fahd is the kings favourite son. He has invited his cousin to breakfast. They are joined by Sheikh Saleh Al sheikh, the saudi minister of islamic affairs. Abdulaziz asks sultan to return to saudi arabia. He says he will be protected and everything will be resolved. Sultan refuses. Abdulaziz excuses himself to make a phone call. Then, al sheikh also leaves the room. Sultan is left alone. Suddenly masked men rush in. They beat sultan and handcuff h
Calls that a prince, and certainly in so doing i definitely picked up on the fact that there were members of the regime, the royal family, who were very very much against what he was doing. Sultan said the saudis had frozen his assets so he could not pay his hotel bill or his staff. Then came the meeting on the 12th ofjune. Everybody was awake. Prince sultan was as well. The tension started to ramp up, you could feel it in the air, it felt very much like it was going to be a make or break situation. Eddie had no idea this would be the last time he would see sultan who was about to be abducted and flown back to riyadh. Seven months later, injanuary 2004, the prince resurfaced. In a call to an arabic news channel, he said he was under house arrest. He described his experiences and named those he had held responsible. Years later, sultan approached clyde bergstresser, a lawyer in boston, and told him his story. It belies any credit to see that this was anything other than the abduction de
Thats a summary of the news, newsday is coming up at midnight. Now on bbc news its time for newsnight. Theresa mays been in switzerland. Most of westminsters on holiday. But tonight the governments brexit position, finally, starts to take shape. In something that looks a lot like the Customs Union, but with britain able to negotiate Free Trade Agreements with the rest of the world. We ask whether the proposed transitional arrangement is possible or even desirable. And finally, two days after the event. Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the kkk, neo nazis, White Supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Trump this evening disavowed the racists but will this be enough to stem the tide of criticism of how he handled events in charlottesville . Also tonight, after one of the most exciting Opening Weekends in its 25 year history, we ask one of the Premier Leagues architects whether
Neither tweets, no, im not on instagram, im not on that does not now, im sure many of you but youve got other people who understand social media, that are part of that in the department of justice . Yes, no, absolutely. Though its not you. But also, they dont particularly recommend that im highly on social media when youre in this role because we do the terrorists and also spies under our mandate. And i think youve heard so, just to kind of do you i mean, ive read a little bit about your division. Do we need a domestic terror statute in the u. S. . I think its something that so or tell us what that is, kind of shortform. I think theres been a discussion. When you have a group, if theres an International Terrorist group, theres a clean statute that says that if its a designated International Terrorist group, then you can prosecute someone for providing support to that International Terrorist group. But by design, we do not have a statute that says you can designate some group inside the
Ideology it would be nice to think we can bring them back in an ideological struggle. Im somewhat skeptical of that. I think for those who are truly committed this is a fight. As colonel price correctly points out, i dont know how many nazis were left in germany in terms of the mindset at the end of world war ii, but it lacked the military capacity to inflict that on other nations, so it was defeated. In so far as these particular adversaries not accepting that defeat, whether they accept it or not, what we want to do is blunt their capacity to impose it on others. With regard to the various models of u. S. Intervention, i dont think under any circumstances, however exquisite our counterterrorism strategies are, u. S. Troops in a foreign country killing local people is not going to be a winning formula. It may be absolutely necessary at times to conduct limited operations, but we ought to avoid that as much as possible. First of all, its difficult to sustain in terms of american politi