money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to a red carpet welcome from pakistan s prime minister imran khan. the saudi royal reviewed a military on a go before moving on to cannes residents to confirm the final details of seven separate agreements and memorandums of understanding worth twenty billion dollars. but also because. of friends. we did for. a friend in need which is why. the two day visit to pakistan comes amid high tensions in the region india and saudi arabia s arch rival iran both bordering pakistan have accused islamabad of
a year after hosting the winter olympics young china is practically a ghost town what happens to all the empty venues when the games move on. i m melissa chan thank you for joining the program it s good to have you with us saudi arabia has pledged to invest twenty billion dollars in cash hungry pakistan it s a boost for islam a body which faces a mounting debt crisis and tensions with neighboring india and it s a p.r. boon for saudi arabia as well after international criticism over the killing of u.s. based saudi journalist jamal khashoggi last year. pakistan needs money and saudi arabia needs friends to that end saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon began his trip to asia on sunday night touching down to
now he is the crown prince, the heir to the throne. since khashoggi s killing, we report that he has continued these messaging conversations with mohammed bin solomon, and some of the advice he has given is unclear, but it s understanding that he has been advicing him to settle some of his problems in the region within the kingdom, avoid mistakes that clearly the killing of khashoggi was more than a mistake, but he sees nbs as someone who is the future, and i think an important ally of the united states. president trump is obviously criticized for his lack of response to khashoggi s death. is jared kushner part of the calculus this administration is making? you are on understanding, certainly, is that jared kushner has argued since the killing basically that this relationship is important. it needs to survive, and in
mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder, we expect a determination within 130 days of the original request, this is a bipartisan request to the president to be clear about what you think about the crown prince s involvement. one of the things we have to be careful of is the fallacy of the false choice in all of this. we need to have sanctions in terms of the murder and we need to be able to deal with other things in the region like iran and yemen. the real leadership quality for the 21st century is how do you deal with allies and alliances? how do you go against people in certain issues but align with them on others? we see that with russia and china. we are going to compete against them when it comes to freedom, election tampering, copyright infringement and all those things but they are critical allies dealing with north korea. we see the same thing in europe. we will compete on trade and tariffs but we need to align with them on human rights and a host of other things s
immediately but i think stopping the war stopping the fighting the bombardment and providing humanitarian assistance that s the first power to you then you can discuss and you put it through one single solution ok right now all we have are signals coming through unfortunately we re also hearing that the flooding is playing up again in her day the signal from saudi arabia came in a speech day by king solomon his speech there was of his first since the killing of that journalist jamal khashoggi by saudi agents he made no direct mention in his speech of the murder or allegations that it was ordered by saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon also known as m.b. s this as germany imposes entry bans on eighteen saudi citizens believed to be connected to the shorties killing let s listen to what germany s foreign minister had to say. in the past few days we ve worked very closely with our french and british friends. and we ve decided that germany will register a ban on entry on eighteen saudi