ization efforts we think all of them for their help and we urge them to continue united states has also helped liberate areas as an important means of preventing the callup a caliphate from reemerging we've provided two and a half billion dollars in humanitarian assistance to iraq since two thousand and fourteen and our churches and non-profits do good work there every day as well we and our allies generated nearly thirty billion in grants and financing support to iraq's reconstruction during the quake reconstruction conference just this past year i think about the people who are helping last year i hosted the first ever ministerial to advance religious freedom in washington at that conference our ambassador at large recounted his trip to iraq there he met u.c.d. women who had been sold into bondage whose children had been ripped out of their arms life under isis was real hell

a living hell on earth today those areas are liberated thanks to our coalition's power and my commitment i recall a line from your late nobel laureate and i gave my food quote good is achieving victory every day it may even be that evil is weaker than we imagine let's turn to iran. president trump has reversed our willful blindness to the danger of the regime and withdrew from the failed nuclear deal with its false promises the us we imposed sanctions the should never have been lifted we embarked on a new pressure campaign to cut off the revenues the regime uses to spread terror and destruction throughout the world we joined to the iranian people in calling for freedom and accountability. and important we fostered a common understanding with our allies of the need to counteract the iran regimes

revolutionary genda countries can increasingly understand that we must confront the ayatollah not coddle them nations are rallying to our side to confront the regime like never before egypt oman kuwait and jordan have all been instrumental in thorning iran's efforts to evade sanctions the u.a.e. has cancelled its imports of iranian condensate following the reimposition of american sanctions bahrain has exposed the revolutionary guard proxies that are active in its country and which and work is working to stop iran's illicit maritime activities in its region saudi arabia to has worked with us to counterweight in expansion and regional influence we the united states command each of these efforts and we sicked for all nations to continue the work to constrain the fullaway array of the regimes malign activity the work to curb the regime's deadly ambitious isn't confined to the middle east america's friends and pollard partners from south korea

to poland have joined our effort to stop iran's a wave of regional destruction and global campaigns of terror countries across the cross the globe have got a reigning oil imports to zero and are working towards that goal private companies in france germany britain and elsewhere have all calculated that enriching themselves through work with the regime is bad for business and bad for the people of their own countries and yemen we've assisted our coalition partners as they take the lead in preventing integrating expansion that would be disastrous for world trade and regional security as is always the case with america our engagement has also been coupled with robust humanitarian aid we've supported the us un talks to put yemen on the path to peace. in lebanon hezbollah remains a major presence but we want to accept the status quo our aggressive sanctions campaign against iran is also directed at the terror group and its leaders

including the son of one through hasan nasrallah the head of hezbollah. now let's talk about america's efforts to build coalition the trumpet ministration has moved quickly to rebuild links the monks are old friends and nurture new partnerships my very first trip in this job included stops in israel jordan and saudi arabia in fact after being sworn in as secretary of state i visit these countries before i ever went to my office in washington d.c. and i welcome your leaders to my office often as i did with foreign minister shukri in august of last year coalition building for america is natural but in past years we've neglected it this administration has enjoyed for relationships in the middle east for hundreds of years but we must keep them and work to keep them look our ties stem back a long ways with morocco and oman back to seven hundred seventy seven and eight

hundred thirty three and our friendship with the country in which we are today egypt stems back generations indeed this year marks the seventieth anniversary of our diplomatic relations with jordan we're building out a healthy dialogue with the government of iraq a thriving and young democracy we're also building relationships for our shared prosperity it is time for all derive relief to end for the sake of the greater good of the region the trumpet ministrations also working to establish the middle east to teaching alliance to confront the region's most serious threat and bolster energy an economic cooperation this effort is bringing together members of the gulf cooperation council as well as egypt and jordan today we ask each of those countries to make take the next step and help us a little by mesa. we're also seeing remarkable change new bonds are taking

root there were unimaginable until very recently who could have believed a few years ago that israeli prime minister would visit muscat or that new ties would emerge between saudi arabia and iraq where the roman catholic pope would visit this city to meet with muslim the moms and the head of the coptic faith in october of last year the israeli national anthem played as an israeli judo champion was crowned the winner of a tournament in the united arab emirates it was the first time the first time that israeli delegation was allowed to participate under its own national flag it was also the first time that integrate reilley culture and sports minister attended a sports event in the gulf she said and i quote it is a dream come true for two years we have talks in order to reach this moment it was hard for her to stop the tears i want to thank the authorities in abu dhabi and our host here who received us an example in

a manner she could not have been happier these steps towards rup raj bhavan are necessary for greater security in the face of our shared threats and they also hand at a much brighter future for the region of course our work together is not finished. it's almost never america's work alone the u.s. knows that we can't and shouldn't fight every fight or sustain every economy no nation wants to be dependent on another our aim our aim is to partner with our friends and vigorously oppose our enemies because a strong secure and economically vibrant middle east is in our national interest and it's in yours as well let me be clear america will not retreat until the terrified is over we will labor tire's lead us on side you to

defeat isis a kite that and other jihad us that threaten our security in yours. president trump has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we always do and now is the time but this isn't a change of mission we were meant committed to the complete dismantling of isis the isis threat and the ongoing fight against radical islam islam in all of its forms but it's present trungpa said and we're looking to our partners to do more and in this effort we will do so going forward together for our part airstrikes in the region will continue as targets arise we will keep working with our partners in the coalition to defeat isis we will continue to hunt down terrorists who seek a safe havens in libya and in yemen we strongly support egypt's efforts to destroy isis in the sinai we strongly support israel's efforts to stop tehran from turning syria into the next lebanon and as the fighting continues we will continue to

assist our partners in efforts to guard borders prosecute terrorists screening travelers assist refugees and more but assists is the key phrase we ask every peace loving nation of the middle east to shoulder new responsibilities for defeating islamic extremism or ever we find it it is important to know also that we will not ease our campaign to stop iran's malevolent influence and actions against this region in the world the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course february eleventh will mark forty years since the oppression of regime came to power in tehran america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like

a normal country the twelve demands that we stated it may remain in force because the regimes threat to the region endures. in syria the united states will use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last iranian boot and work through the un led process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people there will be no u.s. reconstruction assistance for areas of syria held by assad until iran and its proxy forces withdraw until we see irreversible progress towards a political resolution in eleven not the united states will work to reduce the threat of his law as well as missile arsenal which is aimed at israel and can reach all points inside of that country many of these rockets are equipped with advance guided systems courtesy of iran and that's unacceptable. iran may think it owns lebanon iran is wrong in iraq the united states will help our partners build

a nation free of iranian influence this past may iraqis rejected sectarianism in a national election and we will support that wholeheartedly the people there refused to be cowered by iranian backed ugs and armed groups iraqis have strengthen ties with arab neighbors peacefully resume cooperation between the kurdish region of baghdad and ever knew of their focus on fighting corruption and in yemen we will continue to work for a lasting peace and i think this is clear but it is worth reiterating the united states fully supports israel's right to defend itself against the iranian regime's aggressive adventurism we will continue ensure that israel has the military capacity to do so decisively the trump administration will also continue to press for a real and lasting peace between israel and the palestinians again we have it here

to our word president from campaigned on the promise to recognize jerusalem the seat of his rose government as the nation's capital in may we moved our embassy there. these decisions honor a bipartisan congressional congressional resolution for more than two decades ago president trump acted on this commitment the united states also is working to keep our bilateral relationship strong over the next few days hold in-depth discussions with leaders of bahrain the u.a.e. qatar saudi arabia oman and kuwait will talk about our shared goals just as i did in jordan and iraq this week and as i did today with president c.c. and foreign minister shukri and as we seek an even stronger partnership with edge egypt we encourage presidency to unleash the creative energy of egypt's people unfetter the economy and promote a free and open exchange of ideas the progress made to date can continue

i also applaud presidencies efforts to promote religious freedom which stands as an example for all leaders and all peoples of the middle east i was happy to see that our citizens wrongly convicted of of improperly operating n.g.o.s here finally be acquitted and we strongly support president ceases initiative to amend egyptian law so that this does not happen again more work certainly needs to be done to maximize the potential of the gypsy nation and its people i'm glad that america will be a partner in those efforts let me close here with a couple of final thoughts first it's never easy to recognize truth but when we see it we must speak it america has been criticized for doing too much in the middle east and we've been criticized for doing too little but one thing we've never been is an empire builder or an oppressor just look at our history together history

which i've recounted today look at our fights against common enemies look at our coalition building. and finally just look around you at this university which is existed down for a century it's not a coincidence that many other american universities like this one thrive all across the middle east from beirut to solomon here. these are symbols of america's innate goodness of our hopes for you and of the better future we desire for all nations of the middle east or thank you all for being here today to make the world less each and every one of you thank you. thank you. thank you thank. you for the iraqi history is here a secular state might have a leg out president donald trump's middle east policy calling it

a real new beginning was given of course ten years after former president barack obama gave his address to the muslim world again from cairo let's speak now to bashar is our senior political analyst and he's with us here in the studio simone what do you make of it how convincing was the pay as leds you know just in terms of the arc of speech writing right i'm not sure who wrote the speech but this is the kind of speech you would deliver on a conference call with the region's leaders i mean if you have person c. c compass may have a missile mind can go jordan. and crown prince of u.a.e. and others and you had them all around and you would tell them look we are a force of good or bomber screwed up we're going to fix everything we will take care of business we will support you don't tory we will not leave you alone we always put our words. obama made a lot of mistakes but president from is committed for your security for your sort

of survival and for our combined joint coalition our lines against evil iran. works good conference call let's not start talking about it do it is this a speech to the arab people from the american university of cairo to an audience is a speech to an audience what from the art of speechmaking if we say obama is here we're talking here in terms of approaching the arab people in term and terms of providing a vision it to him as being positive humble engaging. diverse in the way you approach and you understand the arab and muslim world their sensitivity their history president obama started with a bit of an apology with being humble and so on so forth while while secretary pompei all started was saying america is

a force for good in the middle east period. i think that's that's kind of. a i would call it arrogant approach to the middle east telling it's people who suffered millions of casualties from america's war since one thousand eighty last year alone forty thousand people were killed in afghanistan a war to have that has gone on now for seventeen eighteen years not to talk about the war in iraq and other things sort for secretary on paper to start and end with the idea that america is only a force of good in the middle east period that does not strike people in the middle east as something of a humble engaging approach one thing that struck me was the scant mention of yemen it got one maybe even hoffa line on a page i mean that is extraordinary given that is one of the key issues in this

region of our time absolutely and i mean to tell you how low is the bar of partly but yet many is should be very happy because palestine was not even mentioned what yes so you know you're likely to get mentioned have a sentence but yet but let's i mean let's let's keep it in context that the united states is the main provider of saudi military assistance aid and support in the war in yemen so the the united states is not an objective observer of the war of yemen it's an accomplice in the water of yemen it supports saudi arabia and it actually declares it on its boasts of it and there's no there's nothing there to hide so when they speak of yemen clearly after the murder of. and after the debacle of yemen and the united nations an international human rights organization spoke about that because yemen the u.s. had had to say look we need to start now wrapping up this war in yemen on the question of palestine as i said zero right if anything secretary pompei you espouse

showing that. bleeders to normalize relations with israel and why it is and continues to be an occupying power after five decades of more of the same and seven decades of policy in this possession so no word again on the international. coalition against iran and i was a key points of this speech one thing that he didn't mention all of these coalitions and relations new relationships that the u.s. has fomented is the israeli saudi relationship yes that's what if that's what who really wants he would like so would eurabia to be visited by another you know as he did muskrat as he mentioned in the speech but let me let me sort of make this comparison contrast now that is actually coming coming out in a very pronounced way between what obama said and did and between what trump is saying and doing and actually so very interesting contrast obama from day one

including from his cairo speech have set the motion or have set things in motion whereby his engagement or future gauge met with iran and reaching a nuclear deal would be a priority would be a priority above everything else in terms of you a spotless in the middle east so much so that both iraq syria and people in the region suffered because of america's insistence of being on the side of you on until that deal is done so we had maliki we had in iraq we had the rise of the i so and we had the maintenance of the syrian regime why because obama did not want to go into any kind of major confrontation with iran here we have exactly the opposite we have the trump and mr ation making iran a priority not for engagement but for conflict and putting everything in the region . and that test even sacrificing a lot of things in the region and pushing for all sorts of things in the region in

order to make sure that you have the middle east lions against you one. key wasn't it thanks very much for joining us to discuss the policy speech for the middle east from the u.s. secretary of state mike home payer that's it for us news grid is next in half an hour's time. headlines war in the streets of melbourne australia are. good citizens and. good game. but how real a discreet. one east invest. for me ok in your in the stream today how can architects change the world for the better how to think about this not only are they responsible for the zion ad structure of built surroundings but they also have an incredible impact on

communities the environment and even on culture literally shape our world you can see that back here with some of the world's most iconic buildings now we are asked you our stream community to share some images of how architecture has impacted your world and i bet on covert shares these photographs and she says that this office buildings in the center of prague and it was designed by my friend's father huge positive is a combination of nature with the urban features we need more buildings like this ideally as eco add sustainable as possible sure lodging shows images from rock island thank you sean he's in illinois and he says these two community projects are part of efforts to improve rundown and exacting park property while depicting how to teach one more from h.g. for its sharing this building in camden in london and he shows us how environmentally sustainable design can also be aesthetically pleasing absolutely

now in today's program you'll meet some very influential architects who work at the intersection of building design and social justice and here are the thoughts of one architect who doesn't sadly that donna sink. i am most excited about architecture right now is that we're finally getting rid of the idea of the architect a solitary genius architecture and other design disciplines are getting sort of fuzzy and are woven as we start to see how connected the ideas of social justice are to work built environment architecture planning transit urban land use policy even economics of delivery in public health these things are all connected in creating a fair and equitable society and the built environment has enormous influence on all of those issues we're finally starting to see the architecture discipline embrace the idea that the hero's journey may not be about stark texture but maybe about doing a quiet community collaborative service in your world. joining us from lagos nigeria can lay out a yemeni is an architect designer a researcher is also the founder and principal of n l e in niamey in the g.m.

and i am commodity is an architect he's also founder and principal of that mass on need she was a founding member of united for design that's a global collective working on projects in the u.s. afghanistan and cher and yes men laurie is an architect she's also co-founded c.e.o. of the heritage foundation of pakistan she's also pakistan's first woman architect it is so good to have you all here everybody our audience has got a very specific idea of what an architect should do for instance our mower our like says architectural design should be good to comedy modern day disaster management equipment to fostering peaceful coexistence and meeting the needs of all. james in areas where there are heavy rains for many months houses should be designed to keep the rain out without having to put up plastic sheets to protect the home so the public is thinking about this in a very practical way yasmin from your perspective what is the role of an architect

. well you see i really believe in kind of barefoot architecture is very different from what we see normally and i sometimes call it also i'm not an architect but it is something that you know we i believe that need to use their expertise to perhaps you know lift people out of poverty this is what i try to do and that means that we have to democratize architecture and also that you know we need to provide social and also ecological justice as well as i think the comments that we just saw about climate change the impact and how do we deal with disasters these are all issues that are really relevant to us today what is democratized architecture actually meaning reality well it means that you have to design so that it relates to the world the majority that lives in many of asian and african countries and that we make sure that these are low cost that is you know carbon and you know waste because we have to think of the planet and to make sure that we don't deplete the

resources of that it so that is what it means that it would be for everybody that has to be pro quo it has to deal with you know majority of the people that live in very impoverished conditions man i want to show our audience one of the designs that they used on in this and it's really striking what was it that made you want to be an architect. actually i wanted to be our get a long time before i actually became one because a second career from used to be a software developer for many years. but i just could not shake the desire you know to do architecture and the thing that actually allowed me to make that plunge with this realization and i think this is what everybody on the here can relate to that is really this realization that would architecture you can have such a powerful impact in people's environments and in their circumstance and in their economics as was just said then it's that ecological responsibility that comes with

all the materials there's an issue of identity of culture all of these things and those are all issues that i was seeing as being really salient and important and just. were guiding everything in the environment i grew up and coming from such a poor country and so all of a sudden i just realized that you know more than just the design that creates which was my initial reason for doing architecture i could actually make a small contribution towards working on a lot of the issues i was seeing in my own home country so that really encouraged me to just take the plunge can a fashion school at a yemeni. people whenever you talk to people they always ask you about the flesh and school of the cult of what it is that you know heat building do you think is is that the one that will always be identified with you wherever you go.

i think. we want. to do a lot of other projects. it certainly is one that. i have quite a lot of impact. i don't. get most of my work. good thing or bad thing for you i think it's a good thing. if you like to make the pages of your favorite song over and over and over again and that's something twenty years ago when you still have to play it because that shit. people want people like. we always we were constantly making on the. happy. so i guess i want to be honest about this architects do have

a reputation for being somewhat aloof where do you think that might come from. the tech have a reputation of being somewhat aloof where do you think that might come. i mean i think that that's probably because our. profession that sense of focus within our. within the small community. sometimes we you know we're in the sort of dream world of what we think ideal and i think. the issues that actually determine development in the world much more complex. require an architect think more outside domain of architecture. think work with other collaborators. address challenges that are beyond just show i want to

tell our audience about an architect called michael arad michael arad to you may know is the designer of the memorial for the nine eleven victims he's here on my laptop hey you can see the memorial in the background more recently he designed this which is. a memorial for another tragic event which is the emanuel nine the morial to commemorate the charleston church shootings you may remember a gunman went into the church and killed people in the church so michael spoke to us a little bit earlier and told us what he felt was the role of the responsibility of an architect have a listen to him here i believe our character has a very important role to play in. our public place. our collection of who we are as. we make them and they in turn make. in these public places bring us together as a community as a group. and i think that is one of the most important things we can do they can

affirm our sense of identity it's part of the collection. and drive the dialogue. you know we're more than. our individual. yes me what i find fascinating about your career is that you changed at some point from designing grand buildings designing very practical buildings what happened to you why did you fifty psi that you needed to make an impact on the people in the house seeing in the way people lived in pakistan. with me basically of course pakistan is a really a poor country and we have an enormous sort of high poverty levels and now i work with people who are barefoot they have no shoes so i you know we're designing something we call barefoot social architecture which is to see that we can change the minds and transform their mindset it's like social engineering but with

a dimension of culture in it because what we do is to try to see what has been there when that clip tradition and to try to incorporate that in everything that we do it has to be something that has to be a participatory process where people themselves are able to build themselves and we had them to build better because the problem in my country in many countries of africa is that people suffer from enormous deficits of basic needs i mean they have no shelter they may not have any attorney if there is no what. there is no cooking facilities so all these are basic needs and also plantation so what we are trying to do is to really implement now these holistic models will people themselves begin to take pride in what they do and they have understand their own self worth and that is the challenge and asking what we were showing just them was an elevated building because those people know so much flooding in pakistan jeanne the monsoon season so the building is elevated it's so simple so that when the rains come

people don't have to leave their homes they're not displaced people in their own land and then there's everything all of the living can happen above the flood water and then that means that that changes their lives so that social impact right. here and in the dome to get displaced because that's the worst thing that happens when any flooding takes place or earthquakes happen then you know obviously you are displaced and this is what we have to now guard against we have to really have disaster preparedness everywhere so everything that is built is safe so i have to tell you that i only was bamboo mud and lime i don't know whether you know that or not i do not. with any cement that is normative that we was meant might have high carbon emissions so that is something that's not very important for the future to think and it is something that people are used to they can work with those materials themselves and so they can actually raise above it was city by themselves and that is what we need to do is to give them the tools where they're become self-reliant and this is what the attempted that in all of the work that i did

today i am there is this this debate going on within the architecture profession which is about purpose and then also about beauty and art lady standing in that debate tell us about the work that will doing that that straddles that us. i don't really see them are necessarily you know two separate things or to compare canuck where exists and i think as architecture and a function one of the functions of design is you know beauty it is it is a com component and i think it goes often. opposition there is broad between you know good thing for good or making something that is for me be the most people have the least means and building from computer for as do you cannot do both let's get let's give you one example i want to see the market that you know you designs are going to show the market and you can tell us what are they singing it.

essentially we made this market in a rule village in the air and it used to be a weekly market that was just made out of reach and straw and basically that they had to rebuilt roughly every six months and essentially the village was very interested in developing a local economy this used to be a weekly market so they could only really be ignorant. and sell it selling their goods every week and so the idea was to create displaced that would be you know whimsical and beautiful and provide all these playful little canopies where children could play around and maybe feel as though it was this really mess of playground and parents and you know sellers and whoever customers could just sort of sort of and just want to hang out not just about commerce not just about anything else in order to really get kind of sense of what pride sense of place that you want to be instance of beauty because no matter what your income is no matter where you are sometimes there's i don't see why we should say bad just

because something it's opposed to before. a village or you know some of the least rich area that it should not have beauty so we really try in all of our projects to find ways in which to inject something that can make you dream something that's playful something that maybe you've never seen before and i can transport you outside of yourself and maybe even sometimes as a sort of condition psychologic you things matter i really believe can i let me put this tweet somewhere i'm a victim he says architect should allow members of the community to have a voice in the design design should it be technocratic as economic. describes into any of the experts track human she designs as policy said each one is affected differently i have seen you what with the local community it is a fascinating process how do you do it how to get saying this is my design i'm the architect but also i'm doing it for you. well i actually don't.

think we typically go into a community or go into. the condition where there's a need for service and have conversations with people who need to talk talk to them understand problems understand their challenges but also more importantly the opportunities. it doesn't matter how difficult condition is always ultimately. and that's what we look out for since time is not you know academy because the consequences of that a little tell me how you how you came through that process. so the black crime like had any projects and in a very remote village in khorat to kind of been there and we worked with the local partners and the founder to understand what the material or kind of material resources on the building type ologies and. bricks where.

common commonly used. work in the community there to develop a way of creating spaces an architecture that was simple but was also also had. something that solve the problems and also created an identity for the school itself yasmina said anything do you want to ask money. about the want to talk to them because you pining even danish when they when they were still at school. starchild well i think that would be really interesting because i eagerly with. what they said in terms of good design because i think that's needed in people who are very poor they will appreciate good design and where there is deficit you need more design rather than less to really support who needs the services of good architects but i would say that i'd be really interested to see if

francis really could really designed something in bamboo his writings that could be involved bamboo rather than wood or muddy and could design her world and you know rather than one brick if that could be mud brick and we could pass on the information about how to use lime because lime is an amazing material it makes it absolutely waterproof and that's what i do in all our modern buildings we actually mix lime and it's through villages the soil and it makes really very strong bricks so i would really like to see good architecture getting involved in humanitarian was because that's what they're really needed urgently because i might just explain to you that there's a whole barefoot eco system i believe where people are you know there's a multi-day which is like for the barefoot market where transgressions can take place and if you can train these people how to be able to help to build better that is the best thing that we can do if i may just give you an example here of our

pakistan chula i don't know whether you have an image of that or not which is a story with an urgent job in the platform to direct compliance floodwaters on the sex trade and yet there they are and i designed it as an urban platform with really this particular kind of you know two story with angel and i give them the but i feel that my work is like you know creating a canvas on which they then begin to innovate and they you know produce something that after the extraordinary out of these forty thousand jewellers and we just heard that we got this world happy thought it was for pakistan for the audience to each one is a unique project to see. so that's where we do them if you allow them the possibility of. our audience is very concerned about the sustainability of architecture in a new buildings and jamal says that the world needs more sustainable architecture it's our responsibility to build create a green and clean smart cities and then peter here talks about architecture on the

positive side has been critical in recycling waste an example of construction of buildings using recycled material in los angeles you're also doing something very similar in the share tell us your take on marble for instance where should marble be used and why should marble not be used i think it might just wake people up just a little bit. well i mean i think really when it comes to materials you use what you have right and so the climate and the geology of the place you're in usually would determine that if there's no marble in and i have to import it from italy we have a bit of a problem right especially because country we're far away from italy it would be unbelievably bitters and that's the least sustainable thing you can possibly do if you're in a village in italy that cory's marble then by all means you know include the marble it's not a problem and so in the just for example we have let's write the soil that's

amazing and we make our projects making these earth breaks and unfired and we just use. a press to to to make them stronger and. draw the raw material that we use. in the direction but also even the metal that we use is a true recycled metal we have in the jar has this great. ability and a bunch of people who have really really high skills in transfer from metal scrap metal that didn't melt down and turned back into tubes and. sheet metal which is not structural but it's wonderful for doing for example the kind of piece that we made in the project that you just showed and so we end up recycling these things over and over again and turn them into something else and then harnessing the local skills to do the necessary the skills of the people who live there but do the skills of then all the workers that can transcend with there used to doing which is

also something that's incredibly important in terms of reedy furthering the skills are already there and putting forth challenges and providing new designs and new kind of ways of putting together the things that they already know how to do which ends up for us creating a situation where at the end of a project we always have the construction workers or the metal workers who always comment about the fact that oh my gosh i've never done something like this before and when you do. i thought it was absolutely crazy but oh ok you know i'm happy with that and for us that's an absolutely most gratifying thing that we can possibly have in our work. convey i'm thinking about the future generations of architects i know that you already inspiring if you could tell them one tip for how to do architecture that actually changes people's life what would it be. well i think. mari express rocket but.

it's a wonder are on and so require a lot of on go our. person of the tree and. i like not a sprint in the marathon i want to show a little clip from a film the day yasmin helped us make it easier some years ago it's called rebel architects and you'll teach chick you're teaching a class i don't think there's a woman who comes apart from yourself but you have a mission in mind and i want to share this with everybody this is from rebel architects and this is yasmin just a few years ago teaching about architecture have. more if you have more to say yeah i'm not really anything relating to me because i have to find if i'm going to be something i don't believe in the only one thing that i am feeling a bit out of

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and live from studio fourteen zero headquarters and. welcome to the news grid the u.s. secretary of state insists that america is a force for good and not an occupying power in the middle east opposing iran and its proxies is front and center as my pompei lays out the administration's vision for the region and you know it's speech in cairo and nicolas maduro about to be sworn in for a second term as venezuela's president after winning an election widely described as a farce that's despite an economic crisis that's led to an inflation rate in the millions and venezuelans to find better lives in neighboring countries we'll be live in. opposition felix declared the winner of the presidential election in the. congo but another opposition contender is alleging fraud in the catholic church have echoed his concern. being accused of putting a backroom deal with outgoing president joseph kabila.

lines on events. on wednesday find out how. to get the message across. nor the news could rely on our streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com as well will the u.s. secretary of state my home pale has laid out the administration's vision for american policy in the middle east so he spoke of american leadership as a positive force in the region and of the meat's afford strong alliances to contain iran peo repudiated the policies of the obama era saying the us has never been the cause of the problems facing the middle east. the good news is this the age of self-inflicted american shame is over and so are the policies that produce

so much needless suffering now comes the real new beginning in just twenty four months actually less than two years the united states under president has reasserted its traditional role as a force for good in this region we've learned from our mistakes we've rediscovered our voice we've rebuilt our relationships we've rejected false overtures from our enemies look at what we've accomplished look at what we've accomplished together under new leadership america has confronted the ugly reality of radical islam isn't a president from some very first trip abroad to this region he called on muslim majority nations to quote meet history's greatest test to conquer extremism and vanquish the forces of terrorism. zero senior political analyst not on the solder joining us here so you said earlier that you'd be looking to see if he's clear on

what the u.s. strategy is for the middle east was he well look i mean at least we know that the number one priority for the united states under the administration is second forcing everything at the altar of confronting iran so everything basically is going to take a secondary or just not a priority for the top administration because the main issue is going to be confronting iran how much do you think that iran featured in that speech i think it i think it's fitch or it's featured centrally to the speech but the problem is that there wasn't really much else i mean to actually focus on other than that america is a force of good and that obama is horrible for us. of course you know because that's the best the whole point really that's why they made this speech from cairo basically what he's saying is i mean really to make a long story short the speech says obama's horrible trump is great and iran is evil that's basically the three things that come through the problem with it is is who

who who have written it why they've written it and why is it delivered at the university because there's nothing about it that educational and there's nothing about it that's visionary there's nothing about it that is engaging because when you start by saying evangelical christian and i'm telling you america is a force of good period and a student of history and if student of the history of the middle east of the arab world anyone who lived through the iraq war the afghan war and the seven different arab countries where the u.s. continued to bomb and to deploy knows that well america might be a great country but america's policy in the middle east is not good in fact that's exactly what president obama said in his cairo speech ten years ago who said look we made mistakes we did unseat a democratically elected regime in iran during the cold war we have done something

terrible we've done things that are terrible but we try our best and we want to open a new page with you here in the case of secretary pompei oh he's doing exactly what the opposite what obama did obama wanted to do everything as i said earlier maybe even sacrifice in iraq and syria but for the sake of engaging iran here we have sacrificed in palestine yemen even egyptian democracy if you will. alter of confronting your own to what extent is he going to be able to convince people and i say people whoever he's speaking to in that speech that he's speaking on behalf of the president of the united states at the same time a president that's known to be unpredictable. this is not exactly i mean don't take it as a conspiracy theory right but i have a theory here. i think this speech is so poor because apparently if you want to stay at the in the trump administration you cannot deliver the liver a speech better than the speeches that president tom makes which are usually poor

because he cannot read a trump prompter on songs of course i think this speech by might by you is made especially so if that person from peers it but also it is kind the kind of speech that you give in the beginning of a conference call between an american leader and a few of the leader a few of the region's dictators or thought of him since also this is a great piece of rhetoric to be delivered in a conference call between the american president hu second state with few of the region's leaders to tell them look we are remaining in the region we're going to stay engaged we're going to fight eisel we will support you we will support you even against your own people we would support you against iran let's all get together especially with israel don't forget israel we need to normalize relations with israel in order to create this new middle eastern alliance under the and the sponsorship of the united states against iraq what about what he said about syria

because he said this is that president trump has made the decision to bring our troops home from syria we always do and now is the time but this isn't a change off misson is he trying to convince the leaders of the region ally their fears about the u.s. pulling out of syria absolutely because his trip like that of john bolton before him to the region is meant to be in part for damage control that much came from where the damage came from president trump speaking to president of the one and saying right after that look we're pulling out of syria for three days six days too much three months and then his lieutenants bolton pompei another saying mr president we cannot do that we have commitments to the kurds we have the commitment against isis isis not defeated we have commitment all our ally israel the israelis are upset we simply cannot leave the region syria. turkey so it was a switch of the priorities if you will or all of that now with what secular pumpers thing look we are still saying or doing what the president said will drawing

a lot forces from syria but that does not mean that we will not be as engaged diplomatically economically distressed digitally in the region against i so did he succeed in the damage control i am not sure maybe he did or was able to as you said the fears of the like netanyahu and sisi and others but in terms of the people in the middle east i don't think there's much clarity as to what the administration wants to do in the region ok i want to thank you so as we mentioned compay i gave his speech from that same city cairo where the former president barack obama delivered one of his major policy statements in two thousand and nine in a speech in titled a new beginning obama attempted to hit the reset button on relations with majority muslim countries he acknowledged the history of mistrust between the west and many muslims around the world obama said the iraq war had taught america to look more to diplomacy and less to armed intervention he

condemned illegal israeli settlements on the blockade of gaza he also denounced violence by palestinian armed groups and called for a two state solution obama also said the u.s. was willing to talk to iran without preconditions in order to reach a deal over its nuclear ambitions let's bring in joe rubin from washington d.c. he served as deputy assistant secretary of state under president obama he's now the president of the consulting firm washington strategy group joe ruben good to have you with us many people said that this would be the obama cairo speech is that how you see it. well it certainly was and he obama and it was shamefully so it was shamefully part as in it was a historic and it lacked a real vision and essentially was just a checklist of one off comments that was meandering and contradictory and very

disappointing frankly for an american secretary of state to go to a foreign capital and to attack his predecessor an american president it's not something that we should be doing and it's certainly not something that a sitting secretary of state should do if you're a really wants to represent the whole of the united states abroad who do you think that he was speaking to what's audience that he have a mind well of prior to the speech i was hoping he would have an audience of three the american people the arab people leaders in the region but i really think it was just an audience of one it was just president trump there were good sound bites there occasionally one or two that were good quotable moments for a tweet but really it didn't seem like he was speaking to any of the most important audience is the people directly affected by american policy in the middle east really if president trump tuned in he might have been happy and i think that's you secretary pompei was speaking to so so what is the sort of takeaway message you

would say that you got that from pompei o. speech. at this stage the core argument that secretary pump is making is that the united states is going to move mountains essentially to confront iran and. subvert all other priorities in that direction so he was complimentary to egypt despite the repression in egypt he never mentioned jamal khashoggi he didn't say the word palestine or speak about the palestinians or offer solutions to the war in yemen or the refugee crisis from syria he really did put all of the sort of regional issues into the frame of countering iran and that really makes american policy weak because we have a variety of interests in the region not just one we have to deal with iran with eyes wide open but that's the frame right now and it is an incoherent one because as we know and as you've discussed earlier the president's views on syria are we.