We are coming to you live from sin dalla island, the very windy island in saudi arabia on the red sea where it is 1 00 thursday morning tonight exclusive indepth interview with one of the most powerful people in the world. Saudi arabias de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman relation with the kingdom. Iran nuclear ambitions, negotiations with israel. Saudi oil policy. The murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the crown princes message to families of victims of the 9 11 attacks. This is the first time he has done an interview completely in english. Usually on Special Report roadshows. This is the time we bring you other headlines in the u. S. And Around The World. But tonight, there are so many headlines coming out of this interview. We do not want to delay. Here is his Royal Highness, the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman. Bret this is the island of sin dalla, the first project in neom, your version 2030 it is beautiful. A lot of people h
Singapore, youre watching bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore and 1am here in london where the british Prime Minister theresa may has ordered a Public Inquiry into the fire that devastated a residential block of flats in west london. 17 people are now known to have died. Many residents are missing, with whole families unaccounted for. Heres the latest from our home editor, mark easton, and i must warn you, there are some distressing details in his report. Slowly, inch by painstaking inch, Fire Officers continue their grim and dangerous work. Amid the soot blackened shell of what was once home to hundreds are some who did not make it out. Exactly how many, we dont know, but police today said they hoped the final death toll would not be in three figures. The scale of this tragedy is yet to become clear. Sadly, i can confirm the number of people who have died is now 17. We do believe that that number will sadly increase. There are 37 people receiving treatment,
And later, my conversation with senator Kiersten Gillibrand. But first we are following a wave of breaking news. Rudy giuliani tells the New York Times and nbc news Robert Mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by September 1st. So far we have not heard anything from the Special Counsel ourselves. Robert costa from the Washington Post reports an important asterisk. That deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. At the same time, President Trump ordering the Justice Department to investigate an if in Fib Informant who was used in the early stages of the russia probe. The president tweeting, quote, i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. As for the president using the power of his office to intervene in an ongoing Justice Department
investigation, maybe we shouldnt be too surprised.
Investigation that july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack Hillary Clintons email, something for the first time they did five hours later, correct . Correct. And you also found that on august 2nd, mr. Manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence. Mr. Kilimnik gave him internal Campaign Strategy aware that russia was intending to do a misinformation social media campaign. Correct . Not certain of the time. But the fact that that meeting. The meeting took place is accurate. And your investigation as i understand it, also found that in late summer of 2016, the Trump Campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wiki leaks releases of materials that were stolen from the Democratic National committee, correct is it. Is that from the report . Yes, its according to mr. Gates. Yes. Thank you. You also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation that in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. Had email communications with wiki leaks now ind
The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead, and 22 others have been rescued from a shipwreck off Djibouti on a popular route to Yemen.