on june fourth leaked e-mails from the u.a.e. and besa to the us reveal what appears to be a long running effort to discredit kata and that brings us to june fifth when diplomatic ties are cut and an economic embargo is imposed now to understand the impact of the gulf crisis it helps if you can see how the region's laid out the four blockading nations that egypt saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates they accuse qatar on this peninsula here of spreading instability and supporting terrorism claims doha strongly denies on june fifth saudi arabia causes causes only land border causing a run on the supermarkets and forcing alternative suppliers to be found excess to the say is restricted as well to bypass the blockade has had to ship directly through ports and i mom and air routes will also close to pushing to make major detours kasuri families with relatives in other countries and vice versa are torn

apart at this point calls for dialogue and that's taken up by the emir of kuwait weeks later the four countries released a list of demands they include wanting to scale back its diplomatic ties with iran and close a turkish military base here they pressured to cut all ties with what they call terrorist organizations including the muslim brotherhood and they called for the shutting down of the al-jazeera news channel as well as other media outlets funded by the qatari government. right so that's how we got to this point but a year on the diplomatic stalemate continues carter and its people are still under a blockade but what has changed is that the country's made a giant leap towards self-sufficiency and through some friendly overtures cemented its relations with its allies. explains now it has not been an easy year for qatar but for now from all over the world philip store shelves cranes other

most visible sign of the huge push to build mega projects in time for football's world cup in twenty twenty two but a year ago on the fifth of june during the fasting month of ramadan qatar is work up to an unprecedented crisis saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind rain and egypt cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and embargo the blockade in countries accuse the qatari government of sponsoring terrorism accusations doha strongly deny it a terms by the emir of kuwait and regional leaders to and the diplomatic feud have made no progress so far unfortunately we don't see any credible indicate there was to suggest that there will be a solution in the near future i think there have been attempts in the past serious

efforts invested to broker this crisis and to reach an agreement but unfortunately the parties are still stuck in their positions and unable to move forward with a solution. for arab countries were hoping to see the blockade isolate internationally but what was a qatari diplomatic offensive led by the shit i mean been hammered thirty who met world leaders his countries signed major arms deals with friends it's ali. the u.k. and an agreement with the u.s. to combat terrorism financing. in april the emir met president donald trump in washington d.c. the u.s. leader hailed qatar as a force of stability in the region and trump who also met saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin around the same time he expressed concerns about the fallout

from the crisis it's a very unstable region and the gulf has always been the most stable part of an unstable region and this crisis has kind of thrown this region into a quagmire that they didn't have to be in and i think the truck ministration realizes that you know at least we have to provide one pall of stability and the center of gravity of the arab world in general has been the gulf in recent years so why the region there it crisis there is something that that had to be avoided at all cost. trump has invited the g.c.c. leaders to meet in the u.s. in the hope of finding a political solution but that invitation has been delayed the blockade in countries insist no talks will take place until qatar meets their demands. is iraq and that's not going to happen we've heard that directly from cutter's foreign minister mohammed bin me he told samizdat and that qatar will not back down from plans to buy a russian anti missile system despite reports that saudi arabia is threatening

military action if it did so french media has been reporting that saudi arabia is threatening that military action first formed just with us make it very clear that the purchase of. any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is nor legitimately believe this behind this letter and threatening to cut them and violating the international laws by writing all the international norms and. the most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an any attack against each other so we believe that this letter has nor any legal basis to justify. any action we have been subject to a unilateral measure which was taken by by the saudis unfortunately as reckless behavior does cut the need to take any defensive military steps in light of this

reported through we are going to take the all the necessary action to defend our country but it's like well what do you count was this is first of all this is not there is nor any serious military threat out of this but it's the way it's been used to justify it. or to create any disturbance in the region is just unacceptable so. is going to treat this. the same way they have we have treated their legal blockade we are going to seek or the international forum to make sure that this behavior is not repeated. right so it's about here in doha we're starting at qatar of the cultural village here in doha with our reporter stephanie hi stephanie how would you describe the mood of people not just there but the mood of people in the country these days one year after the blockade began.

people are just starting to trickle in here it is of course if we're seeing a couple of people arriving notice full as it will be in a couple of hours but the people we have spoken to many of them actually not aware that this is the one year anniversary but of course everyone aware of this blockade the mood in the country as we both know is one of defiance one of the girls said you know we will remain strong you know the impact of it the consequence of it is that this country really rallied behind its leadership behind the america behind the government cut that he's an ex-pat so like this is a country of a majority population who are ex-pats you have sketches a famous now sketch of the profile of the emir on buildings on cars whether it's qatari or of the ex-pats so there is a real feeling of unity but there's also a feeling of anger of course because these countries have made it so personal it's not a political crisis in the sense that diplomatic ties have been called the withdrawal of a no with these countries have done have stopped the citizens from traveling to saudi

arabia for example to the emirates this is a culture the g.c.c. you know there's intermarriage there's families so this is deeply personal it's affecting families seeing each other it's affecting students who are stuck in a so that is something that people here feel deeply upset about but the general mood is one that has come out on top of her that it has taken the moral high ground and everyone still remaining very very strongly behind their leadership and certainly don't want this government to concede anything that is stephanie decker at the qatari cultural village here in doha thank you stephanie. well after the blockade began it was revealed the blockading countries didn't just want to isolate carter diplomatically there were reports solve a possible invasion of carter even suggestions of regime change mohamed valise finds that this portrait of the amir of qatar shift to mean but hamad advantage has become one of the most potent symbols of nationalism here in qatar it was born from the crisis that shook this nation a year ago to the day and that's for a reason it took the blockading countries several weeks to make any demands of

qatar and the list of demands that finally emerged didn't include what was later known to be the most shocking part of those countries plan to overthrow cottle's government their primary option was a military invasion that's according to the emir of kuwait who made the revelation in september during a visit to the white house he said his peacemaking efforts had helped avoid a war between qatar and its gulf neighbors during the early stages of the crisis qatar accepted what may have been a timely turkish offer of military assistance with the war option put aside saudi arabia u.a.e. behind and egypt began to try other methods to destabilize catalyst government here tried every possible means in order to these to destabilize the government or at least change the pomposity of this of this country but i think to have backfired. and they got the exactly the exact opposite results here i think the qataris they

managed to say a combined all these things by signing an agreement on combating the finest off terrorism with the united states. saudi and you east fonso the media outlets openly called for a coup in the house and began to incite cutty's to rise against the emea they also began a series of attempts to promote an alternative leadership from within qatar screwing al thani family saudi media broadcast photos of what they said was a meeting between man and she highly been are the advantage a senior member of the ruling family but with no role in government it gave rise to speculation and rumors about his alleged aspirations for power but months later chef abdullah appeared in a video to announce that he was being held against his will inside the palace in the united arab emirates a thirty quest of mohammed bin zayed the crown prince of abu dhabi in a similarly desperate move saudi funded and hired

a newspaper featured on its first page a nonexistent advantage dissident whom it gave the name sowed but using financial incentives and promises of influence the saudis also try to buy the allegiance of certain tribes that straddle the border with qatar but the qataris say that process to undermine their leadership had the opposite effect bottom and. they expected us to support a blockade or a country to give up sooner to stand against their own government but none of that happened of course as you see we stand behind our emir and we are more united than before the last set of accius axially and their plot has backfired because it doesn't make sense for us to undermine our own country we support our enemy in every step that he takes. the immune response rate painted by a local artist turned into a powerful symbol of national unity plastering the facades of high rise buildings becoming almost only present across the country are the symbols against the

blockade have also been created. the fifth of june in which there was a foreign plot against its sovereignty its leadership and its economic development is now set in stone here and commemorated through this feat of modern engineering the message is not only wanted the plot that was meant to bring about its demise but it's also become stronger because of. mohamed of all reporting there from what's now known as the five slash six interchange here into how the fifth of june isn't right much of our answer is with us here professor of political sociology at cantor university i've lost track of the number of times you and i have sat in the studio and talked about this but it's been a few over the past year hasn't it. do you feel we've progressed any further as far as resolution i mean it was good that you put that in there because i was going to say it has got our progress certainly has got a progressed in this year rapidly on many fronts but when it comes to the crisis it

is very clear that the locating countries plus egypt find themselves in a situation where a continued crisis is better than a solution that could result in. losing you know as we say in arabic the faces water if you will so using the faces what it means basically meaning being embarrassed and it's and this term has been used a lot during the crisis to describe how this crisis and come to a solution which is basically the same as saying saving face saving face but what are they getting out of it what are those four countries getting out of at the moment they were hoping to get a lot of it from the beginning of the crisis now we all know that that did not happen now it is what they could lose in the crisis and they have an emotional attachment to the crisis now they have a very politically oriented media. about the crisis that they cannot take back any solution to the crisis at the moment will seem like a defeat which is something that they don't do not want to do so as with the other crisis they are involved in like yemen libya and other places the only reason the

only way forward is to basically go forward and hope that there is a change in the climate in the future that could allow them to claim a second victory let's rewind a year seeing as we are reflecting on the incident itself if you like when this all happened a year ago to think this all could have actually turned out very differently if i hadn't stood up and showed some resilience and if the population hadn't said united the way they did that this could have all turned out very very differently certainly i mean if you look back at the two thousand and thirteen crisis. which actually exulted in an agreement between all the countries after that has tried to cater to the locating country than in many ways supporting their efforts in yemen to some extent lessening. media criticism of their positions on various issues all of that of course it does even help in mitigating the situation does

help in making the looking countries look favorably. now it is very clear that the only solution with these countries is to basically set independence a set so venti and move forward away from the country there is no solution where we can see going back again into concessions to these countries it's a pleasure always talking to you thank you for coming in thank you. so let's talk more about these efforts to end the crisis kuwait has been a key mediator it's in the. job of al sabah it's been urging gulf unity but so far you'd have to say his efforts haven't really paid off live to kuwait city now and our correspondent jim i'll sail welcome oh yes the those are for us as you say some people say they haven't achieved their ultimate aim which is bringing about an end to this crisis a crisis that has not only deeply affected the country's directly involved namely a cut in the three nations blockading gets but also for i think the very fabric the

very future of the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council which for decades many have seen as the main source of stability in an extremely unstable region but what's been significant over the past few months is that although the kuwaitis have managed to achieve certain milestones like preventing this crisis from transforming into a military one transforming from a diplomatic one to a military one there is a growing sense amongst certain sections of society actually that they could be targeted by these same hawkish petitions and political figures in the united arab emirates and saudi arabia those who have been going out after qatar and spearing qatar as they believe in terms of the p.r. campaigns there are some here in kuwait who have similar fears having said that the government is adamant that it will continue to try and find a solution through this crisis and we spoke to some of the members of society here as well as politicians to find out a bit more that's almost ninety years old she. is the oldest leader in the g.c.c.

he's nicknamed the wise man of the gulf it was no surprise then that when half of the gulf council members decided to impose a land air and sea blockade on qatar throwing the region into chaos and threatening the g.c.c. as very existence that it was him and his government who stepped in to try and solve the crisis. from the beginning kuwait has also side arabia the united arab emirates and behind to sit down and discuss their concerns with qatar and whilst doha has repeatedly expressed its willingness for unconditional dialogue the three blockading nations have rejected kuwait's call that doesn't mean however that kuwait's efforts have not come to fruition a few months after the blockade on qatar was announced chiefs of all revealed during his visit to washington that he had managed to prevent the crisis from escalating into a military one. suddenly dispute came into existence thank god now

what is important is that we have stopped any military action adamant not to allow the crisis to deepen even more kuwait went ahead with hosting the annual g.c.c. summits in december. optimists were hoping that it would provide a breakthrough while the pessimists thought the summit itself would never convene ultimately it did and the fact that coates managed to pull it off albeit with saudi the u.a.e. rain sending junior representation was considered a success our beloved is a professor of political science at kuwait university and while the current crisis has provided him with great teaching material for his classes he believes the g.c.c. is facing its most dangerous phase in its history that we have instability we have threat from. state actors from non-state actors you have terrorism and you do not have really the the luxury of the reeling with all these threats on an individual basis or with a fragmented g.c.c.

so we hope that color heads and rational heads would prevail despite the attempts to mediate an insistence from the country's leadership to maintain neutrality many in kuwait believe that the u.a.e. and saudi arabia could turn on them true little did the blockading nations have not demonstrated any willingness to solve this crisis after kuwait managed to foil their military plans these countries were betting on time hoping the siege would succeed but that too has failed those currently in office including this lawmaker who was head of the parliament's foreign affairs committee when the crisis began last year tells me that's a solution can and will be found in can let me up there are efforts that continue behind the scenes i'm confident and optimistic that we shall see a solution in the near future my hope is that we all focus on the positives and not dwell on the negatives this is the biggest crisis facing the gulf cooperation council since one thousand nine hundred back then kuwait was being invaded and its

independence under threat many believe it is the memory of those dark days that continues to push the leadership here to try and find a solution to this crisis and was that. solution remains elusive problem since the blockade on proper began the fact of the matter is we're not proper way to mediation efforts this crisis could have been a lot worth. al-jazeera. unpack it for us what were you hearing what were you seeing whether on line horrendous things humans are just so there's absolutely no doubt about that or if you join us on the sat a lot of the major countries in the commonwealth have far bigger fish to fry and ships to eat this is a dialogue to us about some of this success if perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decision to join the

colobus conversation amount is iraq june nineteenth sixty seven sixty as they redrew the map of the middle east this week my record of victory of the israeli army in that war was the greatest tragedy in the history of islam al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which is still felt today we tried everything went to the united nations and tried to make you contact through different countries and it was clear that all this was to do in the war in june on al-jazeera. alone down in jordan doha with a quick reminder the top stories here on al jazeera israel's prime minister says iran's announcement that it's increasing its capacity to enrich uranium proves the

nuclear agreement has done nothing to moderate its behavior binyamin netanyahu thinks economic sanctions will eventually collapse the deal he made the comments in paris after meeting the french president. i didn't ask france to withdraw from the just because i think the jews who is basically going to be dissolved by. the way do have economic forces but i think that there are two possibilities are there you are dismantles its nuclear who would use your marginally under this pressure or there may be in the future of negotiations for better. a better deal new evacuations are taking place near guatemala as a volcano off to fresh lava started flowing down the mountainside at least seventy two people are known to have died so far and many more are missing following sunday's explosion well now from al jazeera david myself. there's a couple of metres of ash that have covered this entire town and it's very hot you

feel it coming up through the soles of your feet if you don't have proper boots on it can really it can really lead to a lot of heat blisters and things like that so they've got these hot conditions we're down near the coast of guatemala or in the tropics of course there's the sun and the general heat they're having to contend with and then there are these other explosions so you know you just start getting work working on getting a house dug out and suddenly you hear well so you have to run out and hop in a car and drive down to the highway so that's certainly hampering issues and then mexico says it will levy fifteen to twenty five percent tariffs on u.s. steel and agricultural goods in response to donald trump's decision to remove duty exemptions on its allies the white house also says it may pull out of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement. has won a confidence vote in. the government by political. and

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america's position has been confusing. but to me. a year ago president donald trump took sides in the dispute between cutter and its neighbors the nation of qatar on fortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level so we had

a decision to make do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action. we have to stop the funding of terrorism. this was secretary of state mike bomb pale in saudi arabia a few weeks ago both unity is necessary we need to achieve it the trumpet ministrations policy shift on the cutter blockade may will clear cut but it's not after trump indorse the blockade the secretary of state at the time rex tillerson and defense secretary jim mattis had to convince the president to soften his position. why long running diplomatic and military ties including ten thousand u.s. troops at the dade air base the u.s. was also on the verge of making a twelve billion dollars deal with qatar for a new fleet of f. fifteen fighter jets what's more washington had asked doha to host taliban and

hamas offices in order to facilitate long term peace talks with their enemies. finally tillerson and maddest thought the blockade could harm the u.s. as war against eisel as well as let iran expand its influence in the region experts say they succeeded by convincing the president he had fallen into a trap set by the saudis and. it was recognized that would present trump coming into office surrounding himself by. non-experts and people who had been. not to have been in government or in the diplomatic service that this would be an opportunity to score a long term grievance washington's goal from then on support kuwait's efforts to broker an end to the crisis mr president we have a problem with our neighbors and in both phone calls and meetings a demand that all parties in the cutter dispute solved their differences the united states withdrew from the iran agreement and there is an understanding in order to

roll back iran's regional quest for head. many arab states our friends and partners in the region need to cooperate the saudis and m. roxy's haven't stopped trying to undermine doha status in washington but u.s. officials are pushing for the blockade to end before the u.s. summit now scheduled for september because in their view the rift is more trouble than it's worth. jordan al-jazeera washington. let's look at carter's finances now because when this crisis began a year ago the monetary impact was immediate and harsh anecdotally first of all there were massive queues at foreign exchanges and there was a shortage of u.s. dollars at that point as well but it's the numbers that tell the real story about twenty three billion dollars left the country in the first two months as worried investors and experts moved their money to safety it led the qatari government to inject thirty eight and a half billion dollars into the economy

a lot of it going into the financial sector and into imports to make sure that food and supplies could get into the country mostly by speaking of the aviation sector and everything related to it took a hit to the number of flights into cars or decrease the big carriers like emirates and saudi has stopped flying into doha it led to a drop in visitor arrivals we're now talking november at this point and it's figures like that which lead to carter's non hydrocarbon growth that is the economy outside of oil and natural gas falling to four percent in twenty seven it was five point six percent the previous year what's surprising though after hearing all that is that carter's economy is now recovering and proving resilient these numbers come from the i.m.f. which is expecting growth of two point six percent this year three percent in twenty nine thousand which isn't bad for a country where the only land border has been closed for an entire year cut has had to spend a lot to keep its head above water since june of twenty seventeen but so far it

seems to be working well joining us here in the studio now we have a specialist in monetary policy and political economy out of central bank a pleasure having you with us here and you know i've just seen from the fitch ratings agency that they are revising carter's outlook to stable from negative i mean that's a good start does that show that qatar has weathered this past year and is actually improving where the expected to begin with the reason for that it was a political teachin in the beginning to begin with the beginning of the crisis along with the. prices and squeezed budgets so these folks that i've known are improving so all of this is expected to be good to begin with and let me first start with a comment on what you reported this is why it's not you know regarding capital flight this is we're not talking here about capital flight in the norm of the since mostly this was a deliberate deposit withdrawal by the blockading country in. the context of a general more general economic warfare against cons are to destabilize the

currency and to go for the capital floor with the potential consequences of high inflation and draining. and destabilize the economy with the final objective of. economic collapse and the regime collapse so i'm not totally surprised. me is that resilient as you mentioned in your report and. study it is no good shape actually. almost a year ago i was in your apartment. i was talking about this and they said this blockade is ineffective and distant to fade and would be surprised to see otherwise and there are two reasons for that khalid thank you so much college. talking finances with us in this last year thank you so much. we're going to talk a v.a. should now that as part of the financial story carter is a one airline nation that airline is the railways and it's massively important to

the country especially with as we've pointed out the land board is now closed we go to have an international airport in doha in our correspondent it's not going to. come out qatar airways has not released its twenty seventeen earnings or passenger data but the c.e.o. acknowledges its bottom line has taken a big hit for starters it lost access to eight hundred cities some passengers have grumbled about a rise in ticket prices and a more restrictive frequent flyer pro. the c.e.o. says this is part of a business plan to bring qatar airways in line with its competitors one thing is certain the state owned airline is fighting to mitigate the impact of this blockade . qatar airways seems to be adhering to an arab proverb that says write the bad things in sand the good things on a piece of marble the state owned airline says despite the challenges of the year

old blockade it received numerous industry accolades including best airline of twenty seventeen at that impact us that increased a lot of flying time it put pressure on my operational cost but it did not stop the will and the determination of us to keep on a path of growth qatar airways says it's still auditing its books from last year and can't say exactly how much money the blockade has cost the airline but it says the losses are quote substantial. prior to the blockade its profits were soaring in two thousand and sixteen it earned more than five hundred million dollars a historic high and flew twenty percent more passengers than the year before. qatar airways says it's defeating the blockade by.