then in austria where the government too has withdrawn its support program and has more from the capital vienna. in vienna and across central europe the traditional christmas markets are well underway the symbolic of a christian heritage and a sense of european cultural identity twenty sixteen european nations led the campaign for a global solution to the migration crisis but a string of populist election victories since then means the u. n. compact which emerged from that crisis is being disowned by its architects first to go was hungary. we see that coming into the field of national sovereignty certainly trying to make a migration to human right which if you take a closer look is opening pandora's box that's a perspective though that the united nations insists is just plain wrong the u.n. says that the compact is not legally binding and does not create any new human

rights furthermore it says national sovereignty or migration is a specific protected in the document so long as it complies with international law it's caviar just like that which have been pounced upon by europe's new nationalists with austria leading the way. research is point to a new generation of politicians across europe who understand that migration can sway elections it seems that migration is one of the only remaining topics where somehow nation states are seeing how they can make a point this is always one of control and sovereignty and certainly it's also related to more and more polarized public. after austria followed hungary more fell like dominoes slovakia italy bug area czech republic poland and switzerland of all either withdrawn or suspended their participation why because

according to one academic by starting from a pro migration stance the un compact underestimated and ignored the concerns of individual citizens there are no kind of conditions with the limit of migration right there is no kind of it it completely ignores the potential cultural aspects which i think i increasingly important for most europeans and i think what we see in in most countries is right it's not so much the economic side the people a voice about migration i think it's kind of the fear of loss of cultural identity the numbers of refugees entering europe has dropped sharply since the height of the migrant crisis in twenty fifteen but the challenge of how to address future crises remains n.g.o.s a warning that nationalism cannot solve global problems not signing a compact. not participating in a solution being not barb in the solution of the global challenge and want to. challenge seriously then they have to be part of the global community.

christmas is a season of goodwill where families gather and exchange gifts in europe's increasingly nationalistic political landscape their charity begins and ends at home. brennan al-jazeera vienna we've got a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including turnaround in tanzania but up what cost critics expressed concern that tactics the president is using against the media. hello get a welcome back to the national weather forecast we're here across europe we have seen quite a bit of activity dealing with a very strong winds here across the western and the northern part of europe over the last several days now the good news is the winds are going to start to decrease over the next several days but here on monday we still think that it is going to be

quite windy across northern germany parts of denmark as well better conditions across northern france where those winds are really whipping up but as we go towards tuesday we could be watching the system coming out of the atlantic and that is going to be bring some winds as well over here towards parts of ireland northern ireland then we think as we go towards tuesday night into parts of england scotland as well over here towards another part of africa though we are looking at some winds in the clouds really affecting parts of libya as well as coastal parts of egypt would you think that we're going to be seeing mostly cloudy conditions for benghazi maybe a rain shower or two but we don't think that's going to be too heavy at all maybe twenty degrees for you in the forecast over here towards cairo twenty two degrees there and then as we go towards tuesday well more winds are going to be coming off the mediterranean so we'll be watching that very carefully now here cross the eastern med though we're going to be seeing bore rain showers in the forecast that is going to bring some are cooler temperatures as well but for cairo rain could be in your forecast by the time we get to tuesday night with a temperature of twenty two.

xenophobe violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's boss describing. and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine the pen's national. generation hate. one with a special two pot investigation on al-jazeera. time to remind you of the top stories here at al-jazeera it's been seventeen days

since the t.j. jen just last saw her fiance the saudi journalist alive outside his country's consulate in istanbul in an exclusive interview with al-jazeera his fiancee says she'll fight to ensure everyone who's responsible for his death is brought to justice. the french presidency to address the nation after meeting unions and protest groups to try to ease the sacred yellow vests movement the demonstrations were initially of the taxes on fuel but they've now broadened to include many aspects of life in france today and many are calling for president to resign. the army is leader is promising an economic revolution after an election that has consolidated his power nicole and led mass protests in april wishful sout the party that had ruled for almost twenty years his my step movement is leading the vote with a huge margin and as robin foote s.c.a.

walker reports from the capital. even in a suit and tie. acted like the ordinary guy just checking in at his local polling station the person young are you looking for your name on the list a family man is looking for my name or where you are voting as well today with your father. but this is armenia is revolutionary leader on a mission. i can say that we would have preached already general. and it is really free transparent and democratic elections and democracy it's all general to reach and i think we have all of the deal reached out and all our general. for future peace to strengthen institutionally democracy. demanded free and fair

elections when he began a protest march more than six months ago that march ended twenty years of unpopular one party rule but he then needed a mandate to govern he's promised to end corruption and cronyism lift armenians out of poverty and resolve conflict with armenians neighbors this has been the finishing touch of nicole passion yan's velvet revolution that started with a war and a mass movement and found its logical conclusion at the ballot box turnout was down from previous elections but so too were reports of cheating the joke has been doing the rounds that people are complaining nobody bribed them this time to get out and vote. everything is called nine students this election has been legacy liberation i was very happy i was very proud. for the democratic system. things have improved but everything will be clearer after the elections. this is

the man who was ousted in the spring says. casting his vote for his once all powerful republican party a party now facing annihilation nicko passion yan's my step alliance looks set to take this country into a new era of democracy but the hardest part delivering on all those promises lies ahead are let's go live now to robin who is still in ghana fan and robin so. nicole passion yan has been given this enormous mandate to continue with his velvet revolution what does a and armenia under him look like. we're going to find out what we do know now is that he has more than seventy percent of total votes cost and a couple of other parties got over the five percent threshold. six hundred percent

awarded to prosperous armenia and bright armenian one of those parties is pro european that's bright tom he has a kind of ally of the compassion and anyway and the other one is prosperous armenia . run by a wealthy armenian businessman who had sort of a strong support in rural areas he's got seats. but now the compassion you know has what he describes as the revolutionary majority. and it's an extraordinary accomplishment when you consider that the republican party the party of government for the last two decades failed to pick up it seems even a single seat and in fact they sabotaged their own possibility of clinging on to here and being a still a viable political force when he the capacity to try to introduce electoral reforms that would have reduced the threshold they blocked him if they hadn't blocked him

they would still potentially have some seats in this parliament but we've means now that armenia really is in a new place the question is can he deliver on those those reforms those changes which are going to be extremely challenging think about the fact that armenia is surrounded by two hostile neighbors on the one side as a pie john to the east with the ongoing conflict over the power back nagorno-karabakh region to the west with turkey which has closed its borders to armenia for that ongoing to spew with us about john russia is the lifeline to the north. and i mean it will stay. continue to depend on russia for its security iran to the south with the americans now of course to restrict the with new sanctions that's a problem for me i mean he actually had quite good ties with iran so this little

country faces many foreign policy challenges those are the kinds of things that question you know now is going to have to deal with as well as of course sorting out the poverty in the corruption in the domestic front rather than for us able to live in the armenian capital yerevan thank you. the leaders of gulf nations have been meeting in riyadh for the gulf cooperation council summit but the meeting has merely exposed the increasing divisions between the six members to miles shall ripples from 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 instead opting to send the junior minister of 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. that were. witnesses. that we all know we face to 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. ended while the blockading nations leaders refused to show up and despite failing to solve the g.c.c. crisis a mere 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 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 aspirations of a single currency nato style dolph defense force and

a 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 and of itself. just you know who eats the saudi u.a.e. coalition that's fighting in yemen says it's seed seventeen permits to allow for ships with food and fuel to enter pull us aid is desperately needed in the country was the un's described as facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis meanwhile for the first time in two years government delegates and representatives meeting at talks in sweden the actually met face to face the warring parties discussed a planned prisoner swap one of several confidence building measures that are aimed at ending the three and a half year conflict. the terms of the as president as vote radical change to the

country since he came to power three years ago john magaw fully has introduced ways to save money he's waged a war on corruption and he's got rid of so-called government ghost workers about a clamp down on other areas from politics to media and even sexual morality is gaining him many critics catherine saw a report from doris salam. massoud keep expresses his art through caricature his political messages as subtle but provocative he has drone through three governments but it's this one of president john mark foley that he says worries him the most the platform is more that. we are being followed. because. sometimes when you send a clone to. the editor who tells openly that you know before we have to be careful we cannot publish this model fully has been in power for three years in tanzania

some call him the bulldozer coming up now and your voice has been credited for his fight against corruption which has been a problem here for years he has carried on on civil service expenditure and he's overseeing major projects like the construction of this really that will link different cities the stories we've. focused to make sure that turns on the uncertain the development we want but it is the style is also to change some of the mistakes of part of the past but critics of the president say he's a dictator last stand for the political space and curtailed freedom of expression and media if he decide on something he does it and go with it all the way but at the same time very autocratic. so you have a way that you don't have a feedback mechanism you know to improve the decisions that are that have been taken and that's why you have a situation when the country everybody is in fear however he does enjoy popularity

amongst some president john mcgrath for you has been described as a populist he often says what ordinary people in tanzania want to hear and mostly act on this take this fish market for example was on your evening walk in october stop here talk to the traders about the problems and give them money to build an office cooking area and trading sheds market trader a miriama chooses where the office is being built. i have been here for about two years but i have never seen a president. to be poorer than before he started with us on a wooden benches i may be a decent many people in tanzania say the president has proved himself a symbol off decisiveness and integrity but some also see his autocratic style of leadership could only have tanzania's democracy catherine saw al-jazeera. they are

so top causes jus to rule on whether britain's parliament has the right to cancel breck's it without asking the other members of the european union for the british prime minister to resign may has reiterated that she will push ahead with her deal to leave the bloc ahead of tuesday's vote in parliament some protesters are demanding a second referendum a so-called people's vote to resume a under increasing pressure from m.p.'s to renegotiate or even scrap the agreement . these are the top stories here at al-jazeera the field say of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi is demanding his body be returned to his family and then the exclusive interview with al-jazeera d.j. gender's also said she'll fight to ensure everyone who's responsible for his death is brought to justice because she was killed in october in the saudi consulate in

istanbul. and i want to expose the details of this horrific crime identify the perpetrators and put those who carried out the killing on a fee trial including those who ordered the hit so they get the punishment they deserve on behalf of jamal's relatives and loved ones and i say this is i'm one of them we need to know the whereabouts of his body this is a basic human rights the french president is due to address the nation after meeting unions and protest groups to try to ease the so-called yellow vests movement the demonstrations were initially over taxes on feel but they've now broadened to include many aspects of life in france today and many are calling for president to resign armenia's leader is promising an economic revolution after an election that has consolidated his power nicole led mass protests in april which forced out the party that had ruled the country for almost twenty years. who our way has rejected allegations that it breached u.s.

sanctions against iran the chinese telecoms giant says it communicated with the u.s. government agencies on a daily basis to obtain guidelines it follows the arrest of one of its top executives among one june in canada. as europe's top court is set to rule on whether britain's parliament has the right to cancel bracks it without asking the other members of the european union the british prime minister there has reiterated that she'll push ahead with a deal to leave the bloc ahead of tuesday's vote in parliament some protests as a demanding a second referendum a save people's vote to resume a is under increasing pressure from some m.p.'s to renegotiate or even scrap the agreement right up to date coming up next inside story. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing the realities of the pain starts from the very beginning of the burning school year

providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera at an easy gathering the g.c.c. has met in saudi arabia but the blockade of the war in yemen but a journalist's murder 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 and 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 that overshadowing the event there was a plea however from leaders to work together. how would you know if. the gulf cooperation council states is working for the prosperity and solidarity and cohesion of the sea trade is true of this country is 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. i don't ever there and 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 as stand firm and we need to be able to face the challenges in our region where there was one notable absentee at the meeting the emir of qatar shake to mean bin hamad al 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 having been home at 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 ship in terms of the reports of them detaining kidnapping essentially a head of state previously prime minister satisfied e.d. 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 as a solid job 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 gaza 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 to 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 ahmed 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 cent 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 bit helps 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 thousand eight hundred one i think the contrary is the met the member countries are actually now having very different entrance and are having very different 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 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 threats 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 a police to three different groups within the g.c.c. now qatar and 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.h. on one side or the crown prince of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and their policies. well it's the clash of projects the essence of a law and the alliance still 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 undermines 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. crisis 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 and 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 on the various and the future but slava should 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 will lucian 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 null you know a failure actually because of that iran a phobia has now changed into a solidly fulvia because of the inexperienced policies exercised by the house of so in the last couple of years all from the case to to the blockade of the tower to the war on yemen and to the massacre of the civilian population in eastern sol the arabia the world can very readily see that the arabia is exercising hawkish and provocative policies that could end up in wars in the region so the solow of the leaders are discrediting themselves they are weakening and all affiliated group beings and bodies in the region that are led by the soul these orders so these have. the 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 colleagues are stated between the two groups of fall fronts 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 they're 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 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 resolved 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 says the ascendance of france mohammad pencil man since he became crown prince in two with and two thousand and seventy. and i think the saudis this out with the saudis this 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. 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 tehran 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 a monarchies under 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. you and q. wait for the regional grouping which perhaps brings in iran and turkey to. thank you for 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 going to out of all the semantic of all the persian aryan government talking about the arab gulf states the us for the states and not for the gulf. than the 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 that 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 one 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 of an ization 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 trump 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 you try to solve. this dispute that has been going on for too long and as hero some game that's really weakening all part. involved and strengthening our adversities so i hope call ahead and brushing the lead 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 this group ing what impact has

the g.c.c. had on iran in terms of politics the economy security 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 rate 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 organization you know if it loses its members it would be

weakened more than before and it's all because of these 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 of 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 solve 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. havel and they cannot 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 ha has pushed the hawk to or 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 few you see see or whether you call it more one couple and some some pretty controversial statements and that on so do you 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 iran is also sending money and weapons to militant groups in syria and iraq and and in yemen iran is interfering in the and if areas of the most of most of the countries in the region. at the g.c.c. was established and the fair system and the fists of the first place because of the best option of iranian threat and we must look at the small gulf countries on the eastern shore as of the any and you can actually come there between iran as a big asian one additional power and the region and the small countries and iran is

not actually giving any assurances to these conti's in order to try to defuse the tension that is all about the that these are the they are 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 me and 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 either 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 on the other frayed no one. professor. shady and the stuff but he thanks for being with us on today's inside story as always thank you for watching don't forget you can see the

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a journalist was. getting to the truth as an eyewitness that's what this jobs bill . speaks exclusively to al-jazeera will than two months after his manner she demands to know where his remains are. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha and it's also coming up after four weeks of protests in france president will meet union and business leaders before addressing the nation. a landslide for nicole passion yani in armenia voters give him an emphatic mandate to continue his

velvet revolution. and efforts made to prevent scenes like this but countries are already pulling out of an international pothole safe migration before a deal is even signed. has been seventy days since had. her fiance the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi alive outside his country's consulate in istanbul he was there to collect papers for their upcoming marriage but instead he walked into a death trap saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon is being accused of ordering his murder in an exclusive interview with al jazeera says she'll fight to ensure everyone who is responsible for his death is brought to justice. i don't often do

this sort of i want to expose the details of this horrific crime identify the perpetrators and put those who carried out the killing on a fee trial including those who ordered the hit so they get the punishment they deserve on behalf of jamal's relatives and loved ones and i say this is i'm one of them we need to know the whereabouts of his body this is a basic human rights. issue and why you know. i was convinced he was still alive i never imagined such a crime could happen in a consulate and a simple normal person can never imagine what happened near jamal never committed any crimes and never did wrong in any way and all he did was in turkey consulate to get hold of legal papers to get married we were on the right track him and i he wanted to build a new life and as you know he was excelled and he was in so much pain over it so to be honest i never imagined the day i'd be in this position to be honest it still

hasn't sunk in yes you see me sitting and talking and talking about what happened but a human can't the words fail me. live now to our correspondent mohammed val who's in this mohammed you're outside the very building where this crime was committed and we've also been hearing have we from senior saudi officials that's right martin turkey has been waiting for saudi response to their request a few days ago. arrest warrant that was requested by the prosecutor general here in turkey and now we have apparently a. cut to go to call it a fuels over from the saudi side expressed yesterday by the saudi. foreign minister . take a listen. with regards to with regards to their rez we will not hand any of our citizens to turkey even the

turkish constitution prohibits extradition of their own citizens so why should we turkey has not provided us with information that we need on the investigation the legal way somehow made more than two months after the death of jamal khashoggi in that building behind you there are still so many questions that remain unanswered. that's right so many questions including the ones that he's just raised she said justice has to be. and on top of everything that he manes argument how should she have to be disclosed by the saudi side we know that at least one or two of those fifteen men who were sent here on october second to kill him out how should she have been put in charge of disposing of his body the question remains whether they have after they have dissected the body and cut it to pieces whether they have brought the body to saudi arabia or whether they have handed it to someone here the

saudis said they handed the body to a local collaborator but they failed to give details about the identity of that collaborator so those are very serious questions that have to be answered in the turkish side have been collecting every bit of information that they were able to find that recordings and testimonies and all of that they said they handed also everything that they found out to the saudi side in terms of those a few few days of cooperation or seeming apparent cooperation between the two sides but they complain that the saudis have failed to produce any type of. information or clues to the turkish side. and now other questions are also what's said what's the identity of this collaborator who gave the order to kill. and that's a question that has been discussed even in the american circles the congress is working on it americans are eager particularly the congress senators eager to know the facts putting pressure on president donald trump trying to even table as

solution that will be of course advanced this week or so submitted this week to the point point to respond the person responsible for the killings of some and the turkish are collaborating with this they are giving every piece of evidence as i said that they have they're still working on it analyzing the information they have waiting for the saudis to answer to those questions understand that the turkish president if you go to meet today with the head of into. just a few days after he returned from washington and after the briefing he gave to congress senators in the u.s. about. giving them the information about the turkish side has about the killing so the turkish side as i said are working day and night apparently going to not to reveal all their cards at once because there are phases to this as i understand if the saudis continue to refuse to hand over the suspect sent to cooperate there is talk here in turkey but probably the next step will be to. to seek an international

investigation and also to seek the help of interpol for the arrest of those eighteen suspects including some of the tiny and. if saudi arabia feels so hand them over if ever they travel outside saudi arabia maybe turkey will seek their arrest by interpol and also they said work with you and on international investigation no this isn't has yet to be taken into this but it seems that the turkish side the natural step forward ahead is for them to seek those situations to be. conducted. live in istanbul thank you very much indeed. right because of breaking news now coming from the european union's top court which has ruled that britain's parliament has the right to cancel bret's it unilaterally without asking other members of the european union this is news just coming in. excuse me and it's

a confirmation of an earlier indication that we got from the court just a few days ago the prime minister of britain though to resume a she's reiterating that it's going to push ahead with her deal on trying to leave the european union on cheese day the vote is sure to take place in parliament let's go live to our correspondent now who's at westminster in front of the houses of parliament and jonah first of all as i mentioned i mean this is confirmation is a of an earlier indication that the european court of justice was going to support britain's union actual ability to leave the process if it wanted to. yes widely expected much in the advocate general gave his opinion last week the a full panel of judges at b.c.g. have confirmed that opinion this morning the united kingdom can as you say unilaterally now withdraw revoke article fifty that pause a very short paragraph it is in the e.u.

treaties the din visages the exits of a member state but doesn't really give very much detail about how that's to take place or indeed whether it can be revoked simply because they never really in visits to anybody trying to do it it's a case that was brought by some and tiebreaks of m.p.'s and campaigners that was opposed by the british government who said look it's a purely hypothetical situation it shouldn't be shouldn't be looked at by a court at this level the european commission sent in lawyers saying that they opposed it is well that shouldn't be a unilateral right on the part of the united kingdom it should be endorsed by all twenty seven of the other parliaments where the judges have spoken it's a decision that has some important consequences more widely perhaps it is the decision that suggests on top of other decisions yet more fervently now that britain simply conte trip binds me into a no deal exit from the european union should all else fails on march the twenty ninth and that's because there is now the right to revoke simply at the last minute

eleventh hour article fifty and cancel the whole thing and we know that there is no big georgie in parliament for a no deal exit apart from that twenty four hours now before that crucial vote to reason may do to take place in parliament on tuesday night it gives her in these final hours of the huge coalescing that she's going to have to do to watch her m.p.'s a small weapon an additional small weapon in terms of being able to say well she can no longer threaten no deal plausibly but she can now threaten to them that if they don't support her deal they might end up with no brakes it so it might be something that helps the government. a little bit but it's got a long long way to go absolutely so maybe it. might help her case just a little bit as you say but i mean puppet opinion is that by every which way you look at this she has a massive opposition to what is considered to be her deal that's been forged with the european union and there are many. hoping to maybe force her to go back to

brussels in order to try to renegotiate a different kind of deal yes i think you know she's spent the last week two weeks really doing everything she can and the party party whips a number ten downing street putting all the force of government behind a huge effort to try and change opinion but opinion has not apparently changed in fact it slid if anything ever more in the opposite direction more than one hundred m.p.'s in her own party opposed her deal this deal that she has staked so much of her self upon and that's to say nothing of the opposition parties as well i think the concern now is no longer the fact of defeat but the scale of defeat because if she were to lose this vote on tuesday by a triple figure margin well there are many who think that that might be the end of her premiership but she could no longer stand a full authority would simply be shot but if she can somehow try and close that gap .