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Today in Focus

The rehabilitation of Mohammed bin Salman

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov discusses how the Saudi crown prince has been re-embraced on the world stage, four years after the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.0

Today, Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman was shunned by the west after the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

0:15.0

But is all that starting to change?

0:18.0

It's been four years since the brutal killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an event that shocked the world.

0:35.0

After a fortnight of denials, Saudi Arabia has admitted that the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi died during his visit to the country's consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.

0:45.0

The word saw is a clear referral that they are using a saw to dismember his body right on the spot.

0:54.0

CNN can now reveal Jamal Khashoggi's lost words. I can't breathe. I can't breathe.

1:02.0

And one with huge ramifications for one man in particular, Muhammad bin Salman, the crown prince, an effective leader of Saudi Arabia.

1:11.0

Everywhere he has turned every move he has made, Khashoggi has learned large over him.

1:17.0

The new CIA assessment finds that Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the killing.

1:22.0

He was shunned by world leaders.

1:24.0

You were running in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are.

1:30.0

But in the last few months, as Middle East correspondent Martin Shulov has watched on, it's clear that something has started to change.

1:37.0

Or this is very much a reintroduction of Muhammad bin Salman onto the world stage.

1:43.0

It's a moment that he's been waiting for for quite some time for up to four years.

1:48.0

Thank you Mr. President. I'm very glad to be in Greece.

1:51.0

Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman is visiting Turkey for the first time.

1:55.0

President Biden touched down in Jedis Saudi Arabia Friday after a storm.

2:00.0

MBS is traveling again, back on the world stage.

2:03.0

And this week the US State Department approved the sale of billions of dollars of weapons to the kingdom.

2:15.0

For a young leader in waiting, still learning how the world works.

2:18.0

He's re-embraced by the same countries that called him a pariah only a few years ago.

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