NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 10/22/2018

                    (UPDATES, EDITING, EXPANSION UNTIL 8 AM EASTERN)

A high-ranking Saudi Arabian official is now calling Jamal Khashoggi's death "murder".

The word "murder" was used by Foreign Minister Adel el-Jubeir in a Fox News interview Sunday where he also said that those responsible for the murder will be held accountable.  El-Jubeir also described what happened as a "tremendous mistake".

This new characterization by the Saudis comes after President Trump expressed the view that Saudi Arabia has not yet done enough about Khashoggi's death.   

Turkey president is set to reveal more details of  the murder investigation into Khashoggi's killing tomorrow.    The murder took place at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd.

A Turkish news agency reports that President Trump has spoken with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the Khashoggi murder and that both agree the matter needs to be cleared up.

A commentary in the pro-government Turkish newspaper "Yeni Safak" says Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia must be dethroned and that there is a threat of US seizure of hundreds of billions of dollars in Saudi assets.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she supports an embargo on arms sales to Saudi Arabia because of the Khashoggi murder.  Germany sells a limited amount of weaponry to the Saudis.

The top Chinese official in the Macau Territory, a former Portuguese colony, is dead after he fell from a tall building.

Zheng Xiaosong, 59, was said by an official Chinese statement to have been suffering from depression.

While there's nothing official about whether "anti-corruption authorities" were investigating Zheng, its been unofficially said that hundreds of officials in China have died by suicide in recent years.

The Central American migrants who were able to make it into southern Mexico after Mexican authorities impeded their crossing of the border are continuing to move slowly northward through southern Mexico with the United States as their ultimate destination.

The Associated Press said the number of migrants on the move was around 2-thousand.

Six were shot with three critically wounded in a drive-by shooting a half mile from the stadium in Jacksonville where an NFL game was being played.  Authorities in Jacksonville believe the Sunday afternoon shooting was gang related.

The retrial of Tommy Robinson is set to resume in London tomorrow morning at 9am.  It was stopped almost as soon as it began with a large crowd of supporters outside the Old Bailey.

Robinson is accused of contempt of court for video streaming outside the trial of 29 people accused of child sex abuse in one of numerous cases of "grooming" involving Muslim defendants.

Ezra Levant of The Rebel Media says the UK government's dragging out of the case against Robinson is because:

"...they're trying to break Tommy psychologically, physically and financially.."

Levant is crowdfunding four reporters to be present to cover events inside and outside the courtroom.

Also in London pro-Theresa May MP's defending the Prime Minister after comments were published in pro-government newspapers amid widespread public and political disgust with her Brexit position.

The possibility of a move within the Conservative Party to replace her is actively being discussed in some circles including online forums and websites.

One of the comments involved the notion that a knife is ready to be twisted into her and the other about "bringing her own noose" to a meeting later this week.

The defenders of May called the comments reported in pro-government newspapers as "vile" and "violent".

Russia says it will respond to the US decision to withdrawal from the INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces) treaty signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

President Trump announced the withdrawal over the weekend in Nevada telling a crowd at a campaign rally he wondered former President Obama hadn't taken the action because Russia was violating the treaty.

Obama had criticized Russia for violating the agreement in 2014 but did not pull out at that time with European countries concerned about such a move.

US National Security Adviser John Bolton is now in Moscow where he will deliver his own message about the situation to Russian officials.

Russian Senator Mikhail Bochkaryov returned to Moscow over the weekend after being released from jail in Norway.

He was arrested last month at Oslo's airport where he was leaving after his participation in an international conference.

Norweigan authorities accused  him of spying at the conference, but a judge ordered Bochkaryov's release.

He spoke with the media after his release and said:

"I knew that everything will be fine because I am absolutely innocent"

The United States says it attacked a mosque in eastern Syria that was being used as an Islamic State base after reports of civilian deaths.

Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin said ISIS had taken 700 hostages and was putting some of them to death and he wondered why nothing was being done about it by "our partners".

The latest word from the Russian deconfliction operation in Syria is that Al Qaeda jihadists have moved chemical weapons in their possession further northwest in Idlib Province away from the area covered by a joint Russian-Turkish administered demilitarized zone.

Russia has been consistently warning for weeks of a false flag chemical attack by jihadists that will be blamed on the Syrian government and justify Western military intervention.

Meanwhile, the Russians say there have been shelling attacks in violation of the cease-fire in the north of Syria by militant opposition forces opposed to the Assad government.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison today apologized for the sexual abuse suffered by thousands of Australians in various institutions.

In his formal apology Morrison said to the victims:

"I simply say, I believe you, we believe you, your country believes you"

He was joined by the Leader of the Opposition in Australia, Bill Shorten of the Labor Party, who also apologized.

At around 2am Eastern US time, the first of three strong earthquakes occurred in the Pacific Ocean some 115 miles from the northern side of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.   They were 6.5, 6.8 and 6.5.   There was also a 4.4. aftershock but no damage is reported and there is no tsunami threat.

Also in Canada, there are 24-hour rotating strikes underway in selected cities by workers of Canada Post.   The postal workers union decided to strike after ten months of negotiations failed to reach agreement.

No mail pickup or delivery today in Windsor, Ontario, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Edmonton, Alberta and Victoria, British Columbia.

Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonsaro said Sunday he would deploy the army on the streets of Brazil to fight crime.

Polls show Bolsonaro, the candidate of the "Right", almost 20 points ahead of leftist Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad.    The runoff election between the two candidates is set for next Sunday.

Thousands rallied in support of Bolsonaro on Sunday across the country while on Saturday red shirted left-wing protesters took to the streets in a number of Brazilian cities in opposition to him.

President Trump is on the campaign trail in Texas today for Senator Ted Cruz's re-election.  Hundreds began lining up outside the arena in Houston yesterday.  Trump and Cruz were bitter rivals in the 2016 primary season, but now both are on the same team as Cruz faces a challenge from Democat Beto O'Rourke in the mid-term election.