what will he say will he openly blame the saudis of murder he has so far refrained from doing so or will he as some theories go adopt the narrative of the rogue operation the saudis are trying to establish in exchange for some kind of deal and the spokesperson of his party yet today denied these claims that there are some kind of negotiations going on between turkey and saudi arabia but of course all eyes on turkey tomorrow all eyes on the south they are in the driver seat at the moment in the story here leon reporting from istanbul thank you. now u.s. national security advisor john bolton is in moscow for what are expected to be tough talks on arms control that s after the trumpet ministration announced it would pull out of a nuclear arms deal with russia dating back to the cold war president trump has accused moscow are violating the treaty russia s foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned of consequences we just have to see it was teachers but you know i just
really on the saudis right now to produce some credible plausible says views you leon reporting for us from istanbul thank you very much. more on the story now with i have come out ahead of eurasia groups middle east and north africa research team in london he joins us on the line now my pump a.o. as we ve said is holding talks is he going to get answers on this case well i think he s doing a lot more than talking i think that the u.s. effort here is to contain what is a really important or dangerous diplomatic crisis not only on the u.s. front but also just turkey so i think it s less about questions and more about finding a way out of this a way that is containable getting the investigation to produce results but in a way that does not create a diplomatic crisis for everyone involved for onkar we are going to washington that s something that they must ration does not want and i think we are closer to two results actually resulted in mystic asian today than it we were in the past so
a bloodbath today he is as you already mentioned concerned about another influx of refugees considering the fact that his country is already hosting so many people we have gone beyond our limits he said and he s not only worried about civilians seeking aid or shelter in case of such an offensive but also about jihad is fighters thousands of them are believed to be inside it live they could potentially hide among civilians and cross into turkey. that was due to abuse you leon reporting from a for us earlier from istanbul. where germany has all americans in the french city of more say for talks with president call to are discussing key european issues like migration euro zone reform and. both leaders are facing political pressure at home on a number of fronts mcallen is relying on merkel support for his ambitious proposals to reform the eurozone which have met with stiff resistance and other new states as
germans are still in detention on political charges how likely is it that the german foreign minister will be able to secure their release. well he repeatedly said he would openly talk about humanitarian human rights issues pardon with his turkish counterpart and he also said that he talked with them. about the release of the german nationals but of course turkey on the other hand is always emphasizing the independence of its judiciary system and germany is walking a thin line there is trying to you know balance between pressuring for the release of these german nationals and not impeding the independence of the turkish judicial system so no major news on that issue of service iaa think there might be some developments but of course nothing that would be openly announced on a press conference did abuse you leon reporting from istanbul thank you. and i m
worsens the catholic church has called on the faithful to pray for three days. facebook and twitter faced a grilling today in washington as the social media giants try to convince u.s. lawmakers that they re serious about stopping abuse and foreign interference on their platforms in our social media editor jared reed has been following the high profile hearing for us always good to have you here with us in person gerri first things first what was this hearing about basically it was billed as a way for sheryl sandberg from facebook and jack dorsey from tweeted to convince the politicians that they re ready for the upcoming midterms which are in two months time and that they re proactively trying to do everything they can to stop election interference from overseas because of the experience from russia in twenty sixteen and its use of social media to try and sell once the presidential election executives were contrite and said look we you know we didn t work fast enough at