Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a familiar trick. Saudi arabia ha
shortly before entering that facility. as the investigation proceeds the politics of gun control rise again to the surface. emotional cries for new legislation and those who encyst more laws will not prevent these kind of tragedies from happening. we will cover it all tonight from all angles. we begin with correspondent jeff paul in uvalde. good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. tonight we are learning from authorities that 30 minutes before the shooting the suspect apparently sent some messages on social media. we don t nowhere they went and who they went to and when they opened them up. but two of those messages, according to officials, talked about shooting his grandmother. talked about wanting to go to an elementary school to shoot it up. authorities did confirm that after shooting his grandmother, the suspect then drove away from that scene crashing his pickup truck near robb elementary school. we are told there was an armed school police officer on campus but didn t stop the
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. Theresa may is preparing to meet donald trump in the white house in a few hours time, the first foreign leader to visit since mr trump became president. Global security and a trade deal after brexit are likely to be high on the agenda. In a speech to us republicans last night, mrs may said the uk and america could not return to failed Military Interventions to try to remake the world. Her visit comes amid ongoing controversy over President Trumps support for the waterboarding of Terror Suspects and his war of words with mexico over the building of a border wall. Heres our correspondent richard lister. Shell hope the blustery conditions are not portend for the meeting to come. Washington has rolled out the red carpet for mrs may but the Prime Minister will have to tread carefully with the commercial president who is used to getting his own way. Our priority is to lay the groundwork for a trade deal to counterbalance britains departure