our investigation found that generation identity has infiltrated other parts of marine le pen's national front national rugby as it is now known. as your own leg legal or illegal immigration is no longer tenable. a meeting of the old friends regional council in lille. philip emery head of the national front of the council is talking to. the head of parish g.o.i. who was also working for the national from. two senses that is. going to. last he is one of a number of g.i. activists to work for le pen's party has since left his job. in a statement marine le pen denied that her party had any links with generation

identity and that already in the hassle. at work for the national front. david harrison i'll just. watch the full documentary by our investigative unit again and generation hate it on al-jazeera starting at twenty g.m.t. on sunday coming up. on the other side of the break china calls the u.s. ambassador in for a heated chat over the arrest of a business executive. and tanzania and keep an eye on a rumbling volcano called the mountain of god. hello there we've got a fair amount of unsettled weather still with us across the middle east in the last few weeks have also brought us some very heavy rain is the next to two systems then

the first one is making its way across the east coast of the mediterranean there it up through parts of turkey and then there's another one following it for the western parts of turkey day all of that sweeps its way eastwards you can see yet more heavy downpours are expected and over the mountains a lot of that will still be turning to snow ahead of it it's fine for now force in baghdad a maximum getting to around twenty their planes pleasant in the sunshine and then to run not so will will be getting to around thirteen but the arabian peninsula the winds here in doha are feeding down from the north so we're getting to around twenty six degrees at the moment which is fairly pleasant it is warmer in flower a twenty nine and there's a bit more cloud around the red sea that might just bring us a few showers around the coast at times most of that will be sleeping its way southwards as we head into choose day for the southern parts of africa is pretty active the weather here at the moment you can see the huge trailing area of cloud that's working its way southwards for some of us in mozambique we've seen around fifty or sixty millimeters of rain from this system and is still with us so plenty of work weather during the day on monday and even further west they'll be

a fair few breaks of rain forcing cape town it should be dry. in countries like mine people have been killed to be really united states privatized the old public told me this was a deal with saudi arabia things would be different the saudis and other arabs when they came to britain would be held to the possible moves due to low fuel rumsfeld was meeting saddam is an interesting. shadow coming soon.

roger let's recap the top stories for you right now france's president has to meet with the unions and protest groups on monday as pressure builds on the men to bring an end to the so-called yellow vest crisis the demonstration for were initially over fuel tax hikes but they have become an anti-government mass movement of calls from across to resign. gathered in london demanding what they call a people's vote on a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. with an option to remain in the block and the g. seven summit has finished in saudi arabia with no firm agreement on how to resolve severing disagreements between member states. china has summoned the u.s. ambassador in beijing to protest the detention of an executive from chinese tech giant wall way they want joe was arrested in canada last week at the request of the us which accuses her of breaking sanctions against iran the canadian courts are

deciding on whether to extradite her while u.s. republican party senator marco rubio says he plans to reintroduce legislation that could ban chinese companies and their products from america so i think both weiwei and multiple the chinese companies pose a threat to our national interests our national economic interests and our national security interests and the why we case what they're accused of here what she's accused of is violating the iran sanctions so at a minimum we should be doing to them what we did to z. t.-e. when they violated the sanctions law and which included not having access to american suppliers and i hope that will happen those who are encouraging the administration to do as soon as possible. castro who is live for us in washington d.c. so this is clearly an escalation every day. that's right previously china had already summoned the canadian ambassador and today it took one step further and seven the us ambassador to protest this arrest of men she

was arrested on monday rather on december first as she was transiting through the vancouver airport for the rest happen at the behest of u.s. officials who want to charge her under u.s. law a fraud and what they're accusing her of doing is misrepresenting to banks that have u.s. operations that were doing business with huawei she claimed that there was nothing to do with iran in those transactions when in fact according to prosecutors while way was doing business in run you through an unofficial of sit subsidiary that was based in hong kong so now maine is facing another bail hearing on monday prosecutors are asking for her to be held without bail canada does have an extradition agreement with the u.s. but if china appeals that has as it has indicated it will do this process could take months if not years if the u.s.

does manage to extradite men back to new york where she would be held for trial she could be convicted and face up to thirty years in prison or shell ok so how does this affect trade talks between the u.s. and china. will the u.s. happen it just happens that it happened when donald trump u.s. president was sitting down with the chinese president seizing for dinner at the g. twenty summit trump and his team now say he had no idea this was happening until after the fact but it is seen as a national embarrassment for presidency and for the chinese public reaction to her arrest has been scathing and swift men was not only the chief financial officer of huawei which is china's preeminent telecommunications company but she is the daughter of that company's founder considered corporate real in a sense in china and now there is more pressure on presidency to resist making

concessions to the u.s. in these ongoing trade talks meanwhile the u.s. has men in its custody or will soon if the extradition process goes through and they seek to use her as a further bargaining chip in those trade negotiations or shelly castro live in washington thank you. this year's joint nobel peace prize winners have spoken also ahead of tomorrow's award ceremony congolese dr dennis. activists not morag were jointly awarded the prize in october when they received the honor for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war they were asked how governments can help bring it to an end. until the summer when there is an international humanitarian law what we're here to do is to make sure that the floor exist is respected and that those actions are punished we need an impartial application of the law the problem we have in the democratic

republic of congo is a problem with the police complex situations we have warlords at the head of state at very high levels and no justice has been served after this conflict of charges. not a single i still find to has been brought to court we haven't seen this perhaps it will be a different group that commits these crimes if there is no justice we will continue to see this injustice in the world if this is not dealt with now polls have closed in armenia's first parliamentary elections since mass demonstrations earlier this year and in that case of one party rule a landslide victory is expected for the acting prime minister nicole who came to power in may after weeks of popular protests against corruption and what became known as the velvet revolution is stepped down in october asking for a stronger mandate to govern robin forrester walker said this is update from the capital year of on. that will be no. polling exit polls so we don't know at this stage how things have gone but certainly nobody

expects it to go in any other way than for nicole passion and that alliance. school is an outright victory. he's expected to potentially pick up as much as sixty seventy five even eighty percent of the vote and if that happens that will give him the majority that he needed the mandate to govern to make big changes here that he has pledged to the armenian people back in the spring with his mass protest movement and the so-called velvet revolution the republican party that you mentioned there that was so unpopular and was outed earlier this year although yes they've held on in parliament they look as if they could be absolutely decimated in today's election and so they will need to be some form of of an opposition to challenge the my step alliance.

but it's not clear yet who that would be there are several parties including the republicans that may pick up a few seats but the passion and with an overall majority will be able to bring through those reforms but on the downside of course ironically is that armenian democracy. certainly will have a new shape in another one party government but at least he'll be able to go ahead with those changes or at least he will try to deliver on those promises that he made things like dealing with the economy bringing in more foreign investment and he's also going to have to tackle head on some really tall issues like the nagorno-karabakh conflict without the by john and close to the with turkey if they can get those. who is going to and i would really change the dynamic a nice resume to those of serious challenges and some of the fastest turnovers in

u.s. presidential history and now another of senior aides is leaving donald trump's white house chief of staff john kelly is stepping down at the end of the year they were tired marine general has been on the job for about sixteen months and he is one of a series of resignations as the white house prepares to take on a new democratic led house of representatives. activists have marched in the polish city of quetta where a two week u.n. climate summit is happening they want governments to do more about global warming the tour again reports the. protest has delivered a message to delegates meeting in poland the u.n. climate change tool stone is caught between do we need to do something now we need action right now not tomorrow not in eleven years that's not delegates from around two hundred countries are hoping to negotiate a way of implementing the twenty fifteen parent if i'm at a code its goal is to keep global warming below two degrees celsius but saudi

arabia kuwait russia and the united states have refused to endorse the key scientific study it's dismayed and angered most elegant yes. i will not deny that i'm very disappointed with this result this was important work done by experts and delegates on this issue i have heard your positions positions of all of the parties and i hear strong voices in the room which feel that the report of the i.p.c.c. on the one point five degrees is very important yet we have not achieved consensus on how to respond but energy experts say the targets all insufficient and nations is still squabbling over who will pay for it there is also unease that this meeting is in a country where line coal the polish government is planning to increase coal production to cut in cool us we have to shut down all fired electricity but there is no place to the great world never mind a one point five degree while ago fired electricity and any plant that you decide

to build now will be a stranded asset. or. blow right through the two degrees limit. protests to say the scale of the threat posed by rising temperatures hasn't been fully grasped by politicians after the last some of the droughts and the heavy rains. otherwise most of the citizens realize that climate change is treating them personally but it's the governments that are just protecting the business interests of their local companies or multinationals so that's where the problem is. it's coped with the food ends its first week delegates continue to work on establishing common rules for measuring reporting and verifying greenhouse gas emissions i do this from around the room to travel to ca to see progress has to be made and the tory gayton be algis there in libya state oil company in a sea has to announce what it called the occupation of an oil field by protesters

tribesmen are threatening to shut down the l sharara field which produces three hundred fifteen thousand barrels a day they're demanding financial assistance for their community and ses says the oil is still flowing and warned of catastrophic consequences if the field is closed a volcano in northeastern tanzania known to the messiah tribe as the mountain of god is showing signs that mayor robert it's the only known active volcano with the type of lava that can move faster than a person. reports from the foothills it's now threatening nearby villages and three sites where very early humans once lived. towering above everything else around the lake natural area in north in tanzania although new length stands at more than seven thousand feet the local mosque community call it the mountain of god for the last two years it's been rumbling geologists are mourning tearing its activity more intently because of the reasons care an eruption was imminent that threat level has

since diminished but scientists say nothing can be left to chance hansen is professor at the university of the ressa lums geology department he says tanzania needs a working observatory center to be able to keep a closer eye on the mountain itself rather than getting information from other countries experts has been unfortunate that even the self can tell you people from germany europe they have no information because they have been working there at the moment and the new do disguise the know much more scientifically than what we have. because they have money this is the wild only active volcano that bulges out of black love a rich with a type of rock called cup on a tight when it comes to contact with it turns white. corruptions have been recorded here since eight hundred eighty three the largest deposited ash hundred kilometers away and that's a concern because

a mountain is also close to important ancient historic sites like this one on the southern shores of lake notch on named the dance floor. more than human footprints left between five and nine hundred thousand years ago and preserved by debris and from the volcano. those who live on the foothills of the mountain have watched and fear the mountain of god route to life this mountain last erupted in two thousand and seven those who live here say it had loudly rumble for months before and when it finally spewed its love they ran for cover no one died but some lost their cattle and grazing grounds were destroyed the recycling says it sounded like a thunderstorm and describes the flowing love of a scary. i was afraid at first i thought i choked to death it was like a fire then it cooled down and became white the dust settled on our cattle and when we tried to get it off the animals it would peel off the skin. he told us

immediately it happened he knew what to do in line with the culture of his community and. the elders and i took up on top of the mountain that same day god listen to us and they love us stopped i don't know what we have done. communities here believe these folk a know is sokrates they say they're not worried because like their ancestors they know just what to do when the mountain of god rules again. in the foothills of. the headlines on al-jazeera france's president has to meet with unions and protest groups on monday as pressure builds one man will not wrong to bring an end to the so-called yellow vest crisis the demonstrations were initially over fuel tax hikes but they have become an anti-government mass movement with calls for mccrone to

resign while france's foreign minister has told the u.s. president to stay out of french politics after donald trump blamed the violent protests on the paris climate agreement i say this to donald trump and the french president said it to we do not take domestic american politics into account leave our nation the crowds have gathered in london demanding what they call a people's vote on brics a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. with an option to remain inside the bloc tuesday will be crucial in the bronx that process u.k. parliament will decide whether to approve prime minister teresa mayes withdraw until. the g.c.c. summit has finished in saudi arabia with no firm agreement on how to resolve simmering disagreements between member states murder of saudi journalists and the saudi led blockade on qatar two of the issues that are or shadowed the meeting or so now i don't know if. we have faced

a lot of challenges and on top of the of the different. between g.c.c. nations we need not to risk the interests of our peoples the peoples of the g.c.c. council states the g.c.c. must not be hesitant we need to keep our situation firm stand firm and we need to be able to face the challenges in our region china has summoned the u.s. ambassador in beijing to protest the detention of an executive from chinese tech giant weiwei language oh was arrested in canada last week at the request of the us which accuses her of violating sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding whether to extradite her also closed in armenia's first parliamentary elections a landslide victory is expected for the acting prime minister nicolle the shinya it came to power in may after what was known as the delegate revolution he stepped down in october asking for a stronger mandate to govern so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more

to come inside story is next. on the easy gathering the g.c.c. has met in saudi arabia but the blockade of the war in yemen at a journalist's moda overshadowed the summit can this powerful six nation block survive what does the future hold this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan leaders of officials from six gulf nations of met in the saudi capital riyadh to discuss cooperation from the economy

to security but its regional disunity that's hanging over the summit in his opening address saudi arabia's king solomon didn't mention the blockade of cost by his country and to other g.c.c. member states but it's that dispute the war in yemen and the diplomatic crisis surrounding the murder of the saudi journalist the overshadowing the event there was a plea however from leaders to work together. i would you know if. the gulf cooperation council states is working for the prosperity and solidarity and cohesion of this is see. through this countries all the ambitions will be achieved and we need all to work hard in order to keep and in. these great solidarity cohesion

and synergy. you know i don't know we have faced a lot of challenges and on top of them there are other differences between our g.c.c. nations we need not to risk the interests of our peoples the peoples of the g.c.c. council states the g.c.c. must not be hesitant we need to keep our situation firm has stand firm and we need to be able to face the challenges in our region well there was one notable absentee at the meeting the amir of qatar shake to mean been how it all funny. explains why . i thought of treason to send a low ranking official there and obviously there are several reasons behind it so the from a macro perspective let's say that you are talking about the crisis still ongoing that is the blockade imposed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates i'm behind now for almost two years and specifically speaking however if this summit was to

take place let's say in amman or as it did last year in kuwait so very much likely that's what i would have sent the head of state to shift. sunday however the fact that this has taken place in the yard and there's been a lot of let's say. unconventional policies to put it in a diplomatic term pursued by this how do you need to shift in terms of the reports of them detaining kidnapping essentially a head of state previously prime minister satisfied eighty all of lebanon in the sense that there have been reports that the saudis together with our allies in fact tried to orchestrate some sort of cool inside ohio defense very surprising that the company leadership did not feel truly well confidence in sending. head of state there let's hear now from al-jazeera some a binge of it who's on cattles border with saudi arabia. if this was made two thousand and seventeen we would have been standing in the middle of a very busy traffic lane where people would have been moving from cover to words

saudi arabia this is the only land border this country has which has been blockaded by saudi arabia the united arab emirates and behind three of the six members of the gulf cooperation council who are meeting in riyadh they have been discussing various ways of corporation and try to keep this huge alive a very rare success story between these members of the middle east that has been ongoing since one nine hundred eighty one but has been facing a lot of difficulties since the blockade of pather began it is also happening on the backdrop where journalists jamal khashoggi was murdered by agents of the saudi government where saudi arabia is also facing internal and external pressure and at the backdrop of qatar leaving the oil producing club opec as well but are insisting that its decision was based on wanting to explore more gas than any politics but the future of the g.c.c.

still continues to hang in the balance of where the blockading nations saying that they are confident that this this crisis is not going to change the future of this six member cooperation council but everyone else looking at it from the outside thinks that this is going to be very difficult for them to be able to keep this face on while three of their members are blockading one nation some of the al-jazeera at the blue some are a border for inside story. well the gulf cooperation council is a political and economic alliance made up of six countries saudi arabia kuwait the united arab emirates oman qatar and bahrain established in one nine hundred eighty one its aim was to provide regional national security at that time the islamic revolution in iran was taking place also the iran iraq war the g.c.c. countries are among the wealthiest in the world their primary exports being oil and gas but in june last year there was a big fall out saudi arabia led

a blockade which also included the u.a.e. and bahrain against cattle in december the summit in kuwait was cut short after the three book aiding countries sent lower level delegations instead of heads of state and this year's gathering comes amid a diplomatic crisis following the murder of the saudi journalist. with many people saying that the saudi crown prince is to blame had been solomon has also been criticized for his role in the war in yemen where thousands of civilians have been killed. well let's bring in our guests for today's discussion joining me here in doha is mo one couple and head of policy analysis of the arab sense of the research and policy studies from kuwait city we're joined by a. professor of political science at kuwait university and from tehran moustapha. journalist and political commentator gentlemen welcome to you all. will start with

you given the dysfunctional relationships that exist and tension between its members does the g.c.c. have any relevance today was sunday's meeting a waste of time. well i think many people are questioning the very future of the g.c.c. indeed i mean this is not the first crisis the g.c.c. is facing great have seen many other crises before most important bear hops was the one nine hundred eighty six clash between qatar and bahrain of our border dispute but perhaps this is this is the more serious crisis since the establishment of the g.c.c. in one nine hundred eighty one i think the contrary is the met the member countries are actually now having very different entrance and are having very different threat perception in one thousand eighty one it was established and is said as you said as a security as a collective security umbrella to defend the security of the member countries

against iran as we are not in iran they are not evolution nine hundred seventy nine at the time expressed its intention to explore the revolution to neighboring countries so this that was the key reason why at the g.c.c. well established but today actually we see that some members are facing a threat from other members within the same bloc so now i doubt that we that we have many many blocks within this one bloc we can actually deal you need at least three different groups within the g.c.c. now qatar doorman on one hand we have saudi arabia emirates and body on the other hand and we have quit trying to mediate between the two so i think the summit to the end riyadh is merely. it seems to many people actually as only sort of a. summit because nobody actually want to pronounce the g.c.c.

dates everybody wanted to be alive but without as you said having a very important role to play for the time being professor in kuwait who's responsible for the current state of the g.c.c. is it cats are a man and q eight on one side or the crown prince of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and their policies. alist the clash of projects the essence of a law and the alliance is to have a unanimous view and door to a hash out their troubles and their differences from within the organization itself and not to let it fester on and at undermined the whole establishment the whole organization now all parties are suffering that there is a serious zero sum game that is and irrationality in tackling these disputes i just

published a book on the g.c.c. crises and i argue that the main reason behind such crises is that we lack at the lack of a unified vision and the lack of who is the adversity and this is the most serious dispute that has erupted over the last thirty seven years of the existence of this mall was one of the most formidable and the most successful regional out of integration organization now the illness has bee fallen disorganization like all other arab illness and symptoms and because of that there is an urgent need to help this organization from within because this is a very damaging dispute that is undermining the very existence of the various and the future mustapha hush hush what's the iranian view of the current state of the

g.c.c. it was after all a regional grouping that was designed to counter iranian policies. well you know p. g.c.c. is of one of those products of the united states iran the full be a policy that started after these lawmakers aleutian in iran and through a misuse of some slogans and mulattoes and causes of the islamic revolution that was stated by iranian officials that's why some arab states especially slowly arabia and you know its allies in the out of war supported saddam hussein against iran in that war are the same climate was a spreading in the region all throughout the last several decades thanks to the united states israel and saudi arabia that have been trying to use of regional capacities and potentials against iran to harness iran to actually stop iran's

growth and strike at iran's economy and political dominance and influence in the region but the p. g.c.c. is. you know a failure actually because of that iran a phobia has now changed into a solidly full bia because of the inexperienced policies exercised by the house of soul in the last couple of years of from the case to to the blockade of tire to the war on yemen and to the massacre of the civilian population in eastern seoul the arabia the war can very readily see that the arabia is exist sizing hawkish and provocative policies that could end up in wars in the region so the solow the leaders are discrediting themselves they are weakening and all affiliated group beings and bodies in the region that are led

by the sole of these orders so these have. major say in them they are also weakening accordingly and the p. g.c.c. is no exception to this fact and that's only one of the reasons the other one is the rift as my call existed between the two groups of of france within the p. g.c.c. though what the rift between qatar and kuwait on one side in the u.a.e. about rain in seoul the arabia the rift between these two groups have never been why there are then present and p. g.c.c. is now believed to be a failure that would somehow be replaced by new groupings in future as you know could be seen readily mo one couple on the last gulf crisis in twenty fourteen came to an end because g.c.c. states felt they needed to show unity in the face of

a make substantial threat from islamic states which at that time had taken over huge swathe of territory in their own backyard the u.s. of course wants to see a unified g.c.c. now to act as a counterweight to iran in the region but the current gulf crisis as we've reported shows little sign of being result is that because i mean basically some g.c.c. countries don't perceive iran to be a threat in the way that the u.s. and saudi arabia. the absolutely right i think the saudis they had been pursuing a very damaging from policy in my opinion especially over the past two years since the ascendancy of france mohammad pencil man since he became competence in on two thousand and seventy. and i think the saudis this out with the saudis this for this foreign policy actually is in might be in backfiring because at that time when they are actually saying that they want to cut through contact. policies and the region and yemen and syria and iraq and and lebanon everywhere they are in fact as i said

best selling a very damaging foreign policy because they. policy led in fact to dividing. the air it also actually led to increasing iranian influence somehow and and the region by actually forcing qatar to. get closer to iran and you know qatar in fact has withdrawn its ambassador from thailand in two thousand in early two thousand and sixteen during the crisis of. the storming of the of the saudi embassy in tehran and the saudi consulate in so the saudis maybe need to to rethink their foreign policy if they want really to counter act iran but i don't agree with with that with the statement that in two thousand and fourteen it was they need to show unity i think it was ended in two thousand and fourteen because their vote with there was no much support and sympathy by the

obama administration with the saudis that immoderate these and me is the obama administration was not in fact at that time willing to go as far as this administration and supporting the saudis that in monarchies and the behind the ears and the blockade against against qatar that is the key factor in my opinion which has led to that two thousand and fourteen the end of the crisis in two thousand and fourteen in my opinion that was a truce more than ending the crisis because it was a new mood again and two thousand and seventeen professor. the g.c.c. long ago abandoned its role of building closer ties between member states why continue with it saudi arabia and the u.a.e. already have an economic and military partnership why don't. a q eight form the regional grouping which perhaps brings in iran and turkey to. thank you for your alarm is just a bottle to our guests from iran i hope you will quit using the.

p. g.c.c. it's not feed you see see the it's called the other gulf states here is for the states their heritage their race and not for the persian saw that there is really a for be where they are any ends they keep saying. g.c.c. so please quit say using that term we're not disputing now we're not done a lot of what the semantic of our diversion are indian government talking about the arab gulf states the us for the states and not for the gulf. then to god in the fall the it's not only on it was also saddam hussein regarding the g.c.c. i think there is a need for this organization to keep going on yes it's limping yes it's lingering but at the end of the day g.c.c. is used to be or has been the most successful integration organization there

is a need for it to stay even the meeting today the summit that have right now and the ob and saudi arabia as all gulf leaders have argued very convincingly that we need the g.c.c. organization to keep going and just holding the annual summit on an annual basis on a regular basis uninterrupted since nine hundred eighty one of the testament to the resilience of this organization yes and the alliance will have troubles and the alliance will have disputes but the it's not unsurmountable it could be solved but that has to be a political a political will among the g.c.c. leaders because there is a much needed need for this organization to continue to face all the challenges and the troubles that is emanating from iran from from a fractured iraq from a terrorist organization and there is

a need also at the worst also though i would love to see a united g.c.c. president from the talks about the may set the middle east certificate alliance how could you have that alliance when you have a major dispute like the the g.c.c. crisis and result you cannot talk about. the luxury of forming a formidable military alliance to stand up to the all the challenges facing our region and you don't even discuss or your try to solve. this dispute that has been going on for too long and as hero some game that's clearly weakening all part. involved and strengthening a lot of adversities so i hope call ahead and brushing the leds would prevail and we will have to sort out this crisis that we have withstood so many crises before including the iran iraq war including the the nine eleven attacks including the

disputes among did you see see themselves but this is the most critical and because of that there is an urgent need does retire is all that before a long stuff. i want to get bogged down about a in this discussion about about what to call this group ing what impact has the g.c.c. had on iran in terms of politics the economy secures he has it been held in check regionally by the g.c.c. . not at all actually you know iran has always reiterated that it is once the best relations with the regional states including the arab states on the southern whims of the persian gulf and you know this is been the sole these that have been you know starting this provocative policy against the iran and its allies so this all these have been marginalized right now in that in political equations in syria and in iraq now let's get back to the opec where qatar has been

also bothered and know it by the soul of the policies and it's threatened to leave opec to weaken the organisation you know if it loses its members it would be weakened more than before and it's all because of the saudis over supplying the market they tried to sabotage the market to bring down the prices through their over supply but because they are totally dependent on oil revenues they sustain the harms more than anyone else so the solow these inexperienced hawkish policies and the against iran to prove that they could lead the front against iran they have caused much harm not just to others but also to themselves they might go bankrupt after a rich country like sell the arabia had somewhere around one hundred billion dollars of budget deficit last year the saudis are paying in the saudi people are paying

for these naive policies and kept our has various smartly i believe this thing itself from seoul the arabia in the war in yemen they change sides after a while very smartly now we can see the saudi arabia cannot even when no one you know not just the whole war but also a single battle in order to win the upper hand in the negotiations they have failed in whole they the port city. battle and they can not get out of this quagmire this since itself after the riff under sold is intended to punish them of a but they failed and this hawkish policy in saudi arabia towards door hop has pushed the hook to are still ran more than ever oman has not changed sides it has remained so it is in good terms with iran and with the opposite sides both but it has not distance from tehran so as you see the roofs of widening and there are clear i know you're

short of time but let me get through with this one sentence that there are clear indications that kept our iraq iran turkey and oman are starting some or are we willing to start a new grouping to replace the p. g.c.c. or whether you call it more one couple and some some pretty controversial statements and that on sunday what do you want to go to counter those i think it's really important to i mean to state it differently iran is not innocent as your guest from the han is trying to do birthrate in iran is also sending money and weapons to militant groups in syria and iraq and and yemen iran is interfering in the end if areas of the most of most of the countries in the region . at the g.c.c. was established in the first system and the fists of the first place because of the best option of iranian threat and we must look at these small gulf countries on the

eastern shores of the ne b.m.p. and you can actually combat between iran as a big asian one additional power and that asian and these small countries and iran is not actually giving any assurances to these conti's in order to at the right to defuse the tension that is all about the that these are ideas they have and so. i'm just i'm just trying actually to to make this spawns between between what the saudis are. doing and what they are doing and in fact most of us here in the region are stuck in between are caught in this crossfire between between the iranians and us are with these because because of this conflict between the iranians and so on and i can see actually the attitude of the saudis and the iranians not very much from from each other i said it's looking across across the region and we need maybe to see an end to this conflict so it's not one side or. a threat or.

or something like ok we need we need to you know we're out of time and i'm afraid no one couple on professor. shady understand the question but he thanks indeed for being with us on today's inside story as always thank you for watching don't forget you can see the program at any time just by going to the web site of al-jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page that's at facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can join the conversation on twitter our handle at a.j. inside story for me avery and sort of the whole team here thanks for watching we'll see you again.

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a revolution which down the unpopular government now armenia's prime minister looks to consolidate his power at the ballot box. and with all your sports we're about ninety minutes away from south america's biggest club football final and it's taking place in madrid even the spanish capital news over. the french president is to meet with unions and protest groups on monday as he looks for solutions to what have become known as the yellow vests protest around mark owen has been largely silent after the fourth saturday of protests across the country the demonstrations were initially over fuel tax hikes but they become an anti-government mass movement with calls from our own to resign the. french foreign minister has told the u.s. president to stay out of french politics after donald trump blamed the violent

protests on the paris climate agreements. i say this to donald trump and the french president said it to we do not take domestic american politics into account leave our nation be dominant hand has more from paris on the fallout from the protests. with all of the evidence of violence in paris cleared up now the question many people in france opposing is what can president mccone do to show that he is addressing the concerns of the yellow vest protesters but also of wider society question for him is is there a concession that is the right that will placate people here because the violence the evidence of violence is gone but the mace the political mess certainly lingers on that point on monday at the summer an s n l the building behind me the french parliament organized political opposition to mr merkel will be manifest in the form of a motion of no confidence in his government being put to the some innocent by the opposition

by the left wing opposition there's little chance that will get passed when the vote is held on wednesday because of the absolute majority of mr macaws government of his party that he could become march that the republic on the move the problem for him is that the newspaper headlines this weekend have been calling hope week of the republic in flames he has to deal with that but his opinion poll ratings are very low twenty four percent so for him when he speaks to the nation when he speaks to the unions this week he has to address the concerns that have been expressed not just on the streets but also in wider society the french finance minister says the protests have been catastrophic for the economy or it's my past and speaking to some of the workers affected. that the only businesses that have seen profits go up because of the yellow vest protests along with more than seventy percent of french people the owner of this window putting. company is sympathetic to the protesters motives to citizenship their anger is legitimate it would be nice if mr michael

could enable employers to give bonuses free of tax to their employees so that everyone is better off at the end of the month but i also understand the government's position saying besiege it's not easy to deal with to find solutions would you go there was this restaurant in central paris stayed open on a saturday but takings were down ninety percent. would be really bad if the situation persisted and got worse however it is nothing compared to the wave of terror attacks from three years ago when tourists asserted paris yesterday there were futurists but it will be a lot of considerations no matter what hotels will be the most impacted but restaurants like mine will suffer as well because in fact they won't come. with the power turned off in the city of light in the shops boarded up the cost of the economy is estimated to have been at least one and a half billion dollars for the protesters who took the place of christmas shoppers in central paris have succeeded in forcing the government of president emmanuel

macron to agree to their main demand and abandon a hike in fuel taxes we must now urgently work together to find a path to dialogue to provide answers to all of those french people overwhelmed by the level of taxes and even through their work and can manage to get by but this can only be done in peace in dialogue and certainly not with violence. scrapping the draw is close a five billion dollar hole in the government's budget or the protesters want tax cuts they want but the pensions benefits and they want a higher minimum wage demands president is going to find difficult to meet with as little money to pay for but it's with al-jazeera powers crowds have gathered in london demanding what they call a people's vote on brocks it's a second referendum on the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. tuesday will be crucial in the process and u.k. parliament will decide whether to approve president i mean prime minister that is

teresa mayes and you withdraw all deal now earlier prober exit demonstrators including far right groups marched to denounce prime minister may end her deal saying it will leave britain trapped in the e.u. ivy league well she got the white. house she. was the site. finish we got was actually going to. leave barker has more from london. this is a cross-section of britain's political right there are some hardline ultra nationalists here we've even seen some white supremacist flags but also nationalists to members of the u.k. independence party ukip played such an instrumental role in pushing for an e.u. referendum in the first place but they are united in their anger and frustration that the british government is not prepared to deliver the kind of break so that

these people overwhelmingly voted for many of them by breaks it because they believe that the borders have been open for far too long and they believe that mass immigration has put a strain on the national health service and the british economy as well though i'm in london i'm on now living don't you know one living don't stay in the west country not because i love to say because i call live in my own town they did it for the bloody immigrants and it's got nothing nothing about right it's about the fact that i want to live with my own people there taken out job's the taking our fish and all we've got to do is this to read to my bicycle he's committing treason we come from all our and we have many different opinions on many different things but any base in our opposition to this you can still be unified. while you wearing the donald trump. because we live in

a country where you know people are so divided he believes in the nation state you know he's even said before he's a nationalist. and then ushered in a big enough stillest has been turned into a dirty word for some reason but being a nationalist you know i'm a nationalist. nations in just before international interests can choose to british m.p.'s will vote in parliament on whether to accept or reject to rescind may's breaks it plans to resume a though says that if a plan is not supported in the key vote on q say in parliament then we will be in this country in uncharted waters she said on sunday but her plan that was seen as a compromise aimed at united seeing this divided country only seems to be dividing people even further they gulf cooperation council has met in riyadh with divisions between the six members encreasing lee exposed the mayor of kuwait shakes.

addressed the deterioration and relations head on used to speech to call for an end to the disputes and deepening hostility through media campaigns course out was an obvious reference to the by kate of qatar by three g.c.c. members saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain all of these are t.v. and newspaper outlets to criticize qatar to the point of demonization kuwait is also in this fight with saudi arabia over revenues from a shared oil field then there's the war in yemen qatar no mater not involved walkway in bahrain's roles are limited and that too is made it difficult for the g.c.c. to present a united front saudi arabia is the largest country in the block and has traditionally been able to drive the g.c.c. agenda the differences between the six member nations has weakened its position reports on kuwait. as heads of states and leaders from the gulf cooperation council met in riyadh for their annual summit a notable absence he was the emir of qatar doha instead opting to send

a junior minister qatar remains under a land air and sea blockade imposed by fellow council members saudi arabia bahrain and the united arab emirates eighteen months ago it's a crisis that has brought into question the very existence of the g.c.c. nevertheless the saudi king said fail to even mention it during his opening remarks instead choosing to focus on iran and other issues. when his witnesses. that we all know we faced a resume and iranian policy we also need to stop these come from at the feeling into the affairs of our country this is the second summit to take place since the blockade on qatar began the last one was held in kuwait which has been the leading mediation between the two sides on that's occasion shift i mean but how much tended while the blockading nations leaders refused to show up and despite failing to solve the g.c.c. crisis amir it seems has not given up i don't know if we have faced

a lot of challenges and on top of them or of the differences between our g.c.c. nations we need not to risk the interests of our peoples the peoples of the g.c.c. council states the g.c.c. must not be hesitant we need to keep our situation firm. and we need to be able to face the challenges in our region. a core reason for the success of the g.c.c. has been in its provision of free movement of people and goods between member states with the embargo and ohio on the council's inability to resolve the crisis there are those that question the future of the organization i don't think we can say confidently that the g.c.c. is dead i think it's more realistic to say that the g.c.c. is dormant right now possibly. down the road when circumstances in the region change you have different leaders in these countries possibly the g.c.c. will return to being a relevant institution in the middle east although that's certainly not possible

right now given the culture crisis for the average person in the g.c.c. very little will change as a result of this summits the huge aspiration of themselves a single currency nato style dolphin defense force in the railway network connecting member states that were once on the agenda of meetings like these seem like distant memories now instead it would appear that simply being able to hold such a summit is seen by saudi arabia and others as an achievement in an over itself amount i'll show you just you know who waits on the saudi foreign minister spoke on the sidelines of the summit about murder saturday analysts was killed in the kingdom's istanbul consulate an october by a saudi had seen a delegate there.