A documentary titled "The Saudi Crown Prince" was broadcast on BBC News about the rise of Mohammed bin Salman and his sentence a year after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul.
In the documentary, journalist Martin Smith published for the first time a transcript of an unpublished meeting brought by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a motorsport last December, asking him for his responsibility for the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
In response to the journalist's questions, bin Salman said he was responsible for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi because he was under his administration, adding that he did not want to say he did not do it or anything else.
The following is part of the dialogue between the parties:
Journalist: How can crime happen without your knowledge?
- Bin Salman: "Accidents happen, can you imagine? We have twenty million people, and we have three million government employees, not Google or a supercomputer to monitor more than three million people."
Journalist: I asked him, can they use one of your planes?
- Bin Salman: "I have officials and ministers to follow things, and they bear responsibility, they have the authority to do so."
Journalist: I asked him, but during the process Qahtani was sending you emails?
- Bin Salman: "Yes, he sends me messages on a daily basis."
Where is Al Qahtani?
Meanwhile, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir refused to talk about the whereabouts of Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to the crown prince, one of those charged with the murder of Khashoggi.
The Saudi Attorney General was concerned about that.
Al-Jubeir's interviewer faced an earlier statement to Fox News that Jamal Khashoggi's killers were not from the close circle of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, before Saudi authorities later admitted otherwise.
The following dialogue took place between the parties:
Journalist: You say you did not know that the people involved in the killing of Khashoggi were close to the Crown Prince at the time I said this?
Al-Jubair: There are many people close to the Crown Prince and surrounding him, who take pictures with him.
Journalist: But Al-Qahtani was not just one of many people.
- Jubeir: You ask many questions.
Journalist: He was very close to the Crown Prince, where is he now?
- Jubeir: You have to ask the prosecutor.
Journalist: The prosecutor did not respond to us.
- Jubeir: So .. then you have to speak again.