in saudi oil output, but the authorities in riyadh say they aim to reverse a third of the losses by monday. the european union says the attacks are a real threat to security in the middle east. iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the attacks. nina nanji reports. an increasingly bitter war of words between iran and the united states over who is to blame for the attacks on the heart of saudi arabia s economy. the saudis say half of their oil production has been knocked out after drone strikes on two oilfacilities. houthi rebels in yemen say they were behind the attacks. but the us secretary of state dismissed this, saying there was no evidence the drones came from yemen. in a tweet, he said that tehran is behind nearly 100 attacks on saudi arabia, while iran s president rouhani and foreign minister zarif pretend to engage in diplomacy. iran immediately hit back, scathing of trump administration s methods. foreign media reports say the attacks could have a sig
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where the republicans have lost control of the lower chamber of congress the house of representatives. that means the democrats can now try to frustrate mr trump s agenda. but the republicans have strengthened their hold on the senate. all 435 seats in the house of representatives were contested. some results are still being counted but democrats have gained 27 seats, meaning they take control, while the republicans have lost the same number. it s a different story in the senate, the upper chamber where just over a third of seats were up for grabs. let s go to steven sackur in washington dc. hello, and a very warm welcome to the us capitol in washington, dc. i have got special coverage of the us mid term elections. after months of bitter campaigning, americans have passed americans have cast their votes in these key elections. republicans have made gains in the senate, with the president claiming tremendous success, but in the most significant result at all, the democrat
apparently were looking for some crucial information in his mobile phone and there was some when they couldn t find his mobile find it was revealed later that a hustler before he got into the building he left two mobile phones with his fiance had junkies and when you look with this one together with some of the statements made by some of the activists in different parts of the world particularly one of them called obama i believe as he s based in qatar. he said that he was told his phone was hacked by sandy arabia and that his contacts was copied his phone calls were is jaw and that he was concerned some of the phone conversations he had with jamal khashoggi and some players they had together to help activists is saudi arabia landed in the saudi intelligence of this could explain why the saudis were really desperate for more information from mobile phone or. ok thanks for the update. in istanbul always developments in the story on both small and big late in official we bring
washington journal continues. host: ken starr that with his new book, about his work as the independent counsel to the whitewater and lewinsky investigations which is been titled the memoir of the clinton investigation. you begin and end that book by thanking the people in the independent counsel office with you, one of those people was brett kavanaugh. i wonder your thoughts this morning on this hearing that will be happening on monday where we will hear from that kavanaugh and his accuser brett kavanaugh and his accuser. i don t know the accuser but i do know brett kavanaugh and i have been reaffirmed in my firm hisef in brett kavanaugh, integrity and his character by the outpouring of support from those who have known him. not just people of worked with him, the people who grew up with him, including a lot of women who say this is not the brett kavanaugh who we knew and went to school with. i hope there will be a balance in the ultimate judgment, that we have this long