bad for global economies alan fischer al-jazeera washington germany france and britain have launched a new payment system with iran which bypasses u.s. sanctions the move is aimed at saving the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal that u.s. president donald trump pulled out of last year the tasha butler has walked from paris . it was on the sidelines of the european union foreign ministers meeting in bucharest that france britain and germany launched a new e.u. payment mechanism to allow european companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions ministers hope the initiative will safeguard the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal and help ensure regional stability and good example of that or at least we are making clear that we are not only talking about keeping the nuclear agreement live but we are now creating a possibility to do business transactions that is a prerequisite for us so we can deliver on our obligations and in return be able to ask you rather not to develop enrich uranium for military use the e.u.'s foreign

policy chief who is one of the twenty fifteen deals may negotiators work on the trade system called instax the establishment of special purpose vehicle is i believe the mechanism that would allow for legitimate trade without continue as for c.n.n. in the interview of the missile for support from our side there you payment system will avoid transfers in dollars it will be based in paris overseen by a banking manager in germany and supervised by a board in the united kingdom in the beginning it will be for trade in things like medicine food and some humanitarian items but the idea is that it could be expanded to trade in other areas the mechanism will help mainly small and medium businesses but it may not be enough to persuade european multinationals such as french oil giant total german car maker dana to resume trade with iran and risk u.s. penalties but some analysts say its symbolism is important because it sends two

clear messages one to tehran that the e.u. is serious about maintaining the nuclear deal and the other to washington washington is the method it sends about the future as well here and the europeans that thing are signaling that if the u.s. continues this already you and all. an inch of that secondary sanctions policy that the europeans can really begin to build up something bigger in response to it and that this special purpose vehicle is just the first step donald trump says he hopes that u.s. sanctions will force tehran into a new deal so file irena leaders say they won't really go sheet but they welcomed the e.u. payment plan those here will hope that the mechanism will save the nuclear agreement because if it collapses it could deal a blow to europe's efforts and credibility the al-jazeera paris all right still ahead when we come back. celebrations in lebanon as

political factions and months of deadlock to form a new government. must brazil's indigenous communities protest president also now those policies which they say threaten genocide. hello again we're here cross north america we have been talking about the polar vortex for the last couple of days and it's easily seen here on the satellite all of this white that the satellite is picking up is the cold air from the polar vortex now the next few days we're going to slowly start to see those temperatures come back up no longer are we going to be seeing minus twenty five to minus thirty when a pig minus sixty if you hear on friday chicago minus five tronto minus ten still very cold temperatures but not as bad as what we have seen over the last forty two

to forty eight hours across much of that area as we go towards saturday a little bit better across the region new york you're finally getting above freezing at about three degrees there down towards atlanta we do expect to see about eighteen degrees in your forecast well here across the caribbean we see a lot of spotty showers across much of the area anywhere for. parts of kim kuhn up towards cuba even up towards the bahamas we do expect to see some rain in your forte as for the bombs though we do expect that rain to continue things getting a little bit better here across much of the yucatan but down across parts of south america well we are going to be seeing some hot temperatures here across parts of one as odd as at thirty four that is start to get down as we go towards the weekend with the time to there of twenty six but a sense here on a very hot day at forty one. the weather sponsored by catalonia. believe the unsold lands. a place like no other.

generation stomped by the sun later. but the discovery. of the salt threatens to change the way of life for as a. witness sallade our knowledge as eva. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela's opposition leader one has accused security forces loyal to president nicolas maduro of threatening his family and former military officers have also been arrested for allegedly plotting to

overthrow. the u.s. senators back to measure opposing president trump's plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says pulling out could allow i saw an al qaeda to regroup and destabilize both countries. the u.s. and china says progress has been made in trade talks to ease tensions between the two nations but donald trump says no deal will be finalized until he meets chinese president xi jinping. at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in northeastern syria over the past two months hypothermia is being blamed for most of the deaths more than twenty three thousand people mostly women and children escaping fighting have arrived at the whole camp since the end of november the world health organization says many families made the journey on foot in freezing conditions the saudi oil giant aramco has been valued at two trillion

dollars pumping more than ten million barrels of oil a day last year the kingdom cancelled the firm's stock listing and is into investigates the reasons behind the ambitious offering. home to the muslim worlds holiest sites saudi arabia's real source of power comes from oil and saudi aramco turns that black gold into dollars and results a company which is never to be noted independently was the crown jewel of the so-called vision twenty thirty there is no doubt that iran co is one of the key pillars to this vision to the growth of our economy and to the progress of the entire kingdom of saudi arabia. to put the company which funds saudi arabia's budget never appeared on any stock market and the kingdom's economy has tanked since then al-jazeera has investigated the ideas behind vision twenty thirty the politics of the kingdom which revolve around oil money and the reasons why the proposed saudi aramco sell off did not work the secretive company has never had to

declare its financial reports as a massive transformation had gone public one of the major objections by people in the kingdom was their fear of the money would go into the pockets of the royal family the other issue is the nearly constant oil build saudi arabia has claimed to own since it took over from american big oil firms which founded iran called looking at their reserves figures makes if you look too closely at it you start. scratching your head you wonder how it can stay roughly constant from year to year when they're there producing an export and so much oil every year five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars the spinach for you to increase to the crown prince spent millions of dollars to build an image of change and progress but the public relations drive abroad as well as any

improvements at home have not proceeded as planned but i see that as a much bigger backlash that even the religious or conservative people is really unemployment saudis not taking jobs the biggest setbacks to shake investor confidence. this came after the confinement of top saudi businessmen the imprisonment of rights activists and economists and find the key the fallout from the killing of saudi journalist jamal to shrug and you can sort of michael see i'm asking for people to be allowed to speak i'm asking for the minimum killing of the saudi journalist that has put them in the spotlight and if they come forward and tell the whole truth of what happened if not. they may be faced with harsh. economic sanctions. and if that's the case the market. seems to be saying well saudi arabia's economy is going

to fall off a cliff. and you can watch this al-jazeera news special iran co the company and the state on friday at twenty hundred g.m.t. a supporters of lebanon's prime minister celebrating the formation of a new government while i. sat heidi will head a new cabinet ending a nine month deadlock which destabilized lebanon's economy through coming off the rival factions worked out a compromise allowing representation of sunny lawmakers backed by the shia group hezbollah. the heavy air we are facing financial and economic challenges as well as social and administrative ones other than the challenges that we know of in the region and the situation on our border and the israeli threats this means that the cooperation between the ministerial team is a must to be up for the challenges and for the government to succeed. has more news

from beirut. the political deadlock is now over nine months of political wrangling lebannon has and now a government it's never an easy process in this country rival politicians agreeing on the distribution of seats simply because of lebannon sectarian based power sharing agreement so rival politicians agreeing on a new cabinet why now well many observers believe france played a role france a former colonial power a country which has influence here in lebanon their work consultations in recent weeks in the french capital a number of lebanese politicians are visiting paris and paris of course having some sort of leverage over iran we have to remember the united the european union is agreeing to business dealings with iran skirting u.s. sanctions so transfers have leverage over you run and iran of course its allies

hezbollah they hold political power in this country all sides made concessions but it was a demand by hezbollah that it's suddenly ally hezbollah being of course the shia party it's suddenly ally be given a ministerial portfolio hezbollah has had a more conciliatory. attitude in the past a few days so a new government parliament is going to me to give it a vote of confidence that is expected to happen but the political power the balance of power does not changed hezbollah and its allies control or control the parliament they can try. political power in this country and by extension that means iran and its ally the syrian government are are who really have influence over lebanon the un security council i agree it has agreed to the possible easing of an arms embargo on central african republic a review of the northeast into the ban imposed five years ago when the president

was overthrown shallop ballasts reports. was government supporters marched through benghazi hoping to pressure diplomats in new york central african republic is under an international embargo to stop it from buying albums and ammunition for its military and police just so. i am angry for my country we want the immediate left to the arms embargo to give power to our armed forces to start working on bringing peace to our country i imposed by the un five years ago after a coup that led to months of violence was meant to bring stability to a country that seen years of fighting now the government says it needs the weapons to fight rebels who control nearly eighty percent of the nation. which was how can we say that the embargo is a good thing for our country while our national army doesn't have a weapons and the rebels are arming themselves every day. yet. he needed the daily

good can lady there is a lock that's needs to be opened what is that luck it's the one that's impacting our security forces. but the u.n. isn't convinced that more guns are a good idea russia received an exemption to the embargo and provided light arms to government forces and sent military trainers last year. a un panel found that russia's intervention created an arms race with the rebels pushing them to increase their own stockpiles. they were also peace talks rebel leaders met government representatives last week in sudan there's a lot to discuss fourteen different rebel groups fighting each other pitting muslim and christian communities against each other to control a country rich in minerals diamonds and gold a norwegian refugee council has warned of a catastrophe if the talks file. a un

peacekeeping force of nearly fifteen thousand is on the ground and the government wants to take charge and says it needs guns to do that challenge ballast al-jazeera . in brazil hundreds of indigenous people have been demonstrating against president jalal sanada they say his government is taking control of their ancestral lands daniel charlotte was at a protest in sao paolo. representatives from some of the nine hundred thousand or so indigenous people scattered across brazil have come to south paolo the biggest city in the country by this far away from those communities as they could possibly be but they're hoping they hear their voices will be heard anything from the sound we hear to protest against a government that wants to remove some of the rights we have in the queue to decrease on by the president and generally the first is going to harm the indigenous people names we want to get this document to know that he's while we are demonstrating in different parts the country today they are these are people who have been persecuted they say for more than five hundred years ever since the

arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is that it's never been given the policies of the recently installed president job on sanaa pulls them out all during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land will be dumber demarcated as he did to his territory he also asked why it won't that's the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. so they can get some much of that land was host to mineral wealth. looking territory that land should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns this is was really upset the indigenous community they fear a relaxation of the rules protecting their status within the constitution that any protection they once enjoyed under the law has been curtailed and they must now unify gather the support of as many non-indigenous brazilians as possible to try to

fight against what they feel is a hostile government at least eight people have died in the us from a once in a generation cold snap it's left thousands of people without power and many more travelers stranded john henry reports from chicago. the big chill that swept down from the arctic into the american midwest made chicago colder than the north pole and parts of mars this is not unusual situation it's unusual therefore we have to do things and remind people both for their personal well being the well being of their residents the well being of their home and their property what you have to do take the precautions so nothing bad happens more than eighty percent of americans have felt below zero temperatures. froze over the town of hell michigan that is in chicago it was even colder with wind chills making it feel like minus forty five degrees celsius. you don't want to do

that nearby rockville hit its lowest temperature ever at minus thirty four the polar vortex canceled thousands of flights and trains layers with me just in case it was called but there's not enough layers for this county called unless you're prepared to go to the arctic the u.s. postal service has suspended deliveries in eleven states as the once in a generation freeze brought white out conditions in iowa and crashed cars across the midwestern u.s. thousands were left without power or heat. now midwest residents prepare for weather whiplash with weekend temperatures expected to climb as high as ten celsius from polar vortex to spring like fall john hendren chicago.

all right it's going to top stories now opposition. forces loyal to president nicolas maduro and threatening his family military officers have also been arrested accused of plotting to overthrow. so i say to the gentleman of the pious pollies here you are with my wife my daughter you my house and they will hold you responsible for any threat to my baby who is only twenty months all it's what they do to this whole country and i say from here leave my home the u.s. and china say progress has been made in trade talks and it easing tensions between the two but donald trump says no deal will be finalized until he meets chinese president xi jinping. the u.s. senate has backed the measure opposing president trumps plan to withdraw troops from syria and afghanistan it says pulling out could allow i saw an al qaeda to

regroup and destabilize both countries it is a rare rebuke of charms foreign policy by the republican controlled senate at least twenty nine children and babies have died in a refugee camp in north eastern syria over the past two months i prefer mia is being blamed for most of the deaths of more than twenty three thousand people mostly women and children escaping fighting have arrived at the whole camp since the end of november for. supporters of lebanon's prime minister celebrating the formation of a new government sad that had evil head a cabinet ending a nine month deadlock that destabilized lebanon's economy the breakthrough coming after rival factions worked out a compromise allowing representation of sunni lawmakers backed by the powerful shia group hezbollah at least eight people have died in the us from a once in a generation cold snap it's left thousands of people without power many more

travelers stranded in some parts of the midwest and northeast temperatures plunged to minus thirty degrees celsius those are the headlines right now on al-jazeera it's inside story. congress and u.s. involvement in the war in yemen group of senators say they have enough votes to do so they say help for the saudis u.a.e. coalition must stop but even if the resolution is passed it's not clear if donald trump will back it this is inside story.

hello welcome to the program i'm richelle carey for the past four years much of yemen has been at war united states has firmly back the saudi coalition which has been fighting who the rebels but peter does hacks on civilians by the coalition has drawn widespread international condemnation and has contributed to the world's worst humanitarian crisis now things could be about to change if of u.s. senators as fishing to end washington support of the conflict the group of democrats and republicans led by senator bernie sanders plans to resubmit a draft resolution the senate passed and december but the house of representatives rejected sanders has issued a warning over america's continued role in the war bring in our gas in a moment first here's more of what the senator from vermont act to say late last year i had the opportunity to meet was several very brave human rights activists

from yemen. urging congress to put a stop to this war and they told me very clearly when yemenis see made in us a on the bombs that are killing them it tells them that the united states of america is responsible for this war this is not a message the united states should be sending to the world the united states should not be supporting a catastrophic war led by a despotic saudi regime with a dangerous and irresponsible military policy so let's take a closer look at the u.s. involvement in yemen washington began supporting this saudi u.a.e. coalition back in two thousand and fifteen and until recently much of that assistance was in the form of and flight refueling for saudi jets which ended in november by mutual agreement but the u.s. still provides intelligence and is the top arms supplier to saudi arabia and the

u.a.e. it says its officers advise on potential targets to minimize civilian civilian that is casualties yet saudi strikes have killed thousands of civilians including dozens of children on a school bus and sought a province last august. let's bring in our guests in london adam baron visiting fellow at the european council on foreign relations adam is also a journalist formerly based and yemen's capital saana joining us via skype from birmingham scott lucas professor of international politics at university of birmingham an editor of a world view a website specializing in news coverage and analysis of the middle east and in berlin catherine shacked m. who has consulted the un security council on yemen as a researcher at the alibi and center for strategic studies so i'll come to all of you scott i want to start with you is the timing right for u.s. congress to pass this resolution ending support for this war. well you

believe something like this should have been done back in two thousand and fifteen before the saudi led intervention escalated of the deaths and yemen but politically what you have right now is a donald trump who has weakened on a number of fronts democrats have taken control the house of representatives that means that sort of the house republicans who have held off previous congressional attempts to kobach american intervention in yemen well that is now shifted donald trump is at war with the own intelligence agencies those intelligence agencies believe for example that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the death of jamal associate the journalist last october so he doesn't have or trump doesn't have the support of his own personnel and i think also trump faces and washington press which thinks that he is weak in the combination of his general

witness in front of the truck russia investigation the recent government shutdown and the washington press a specific concern over saudi activities after the death of associate i think that means that this is probably the best opportunity that congress has to check executive power and the u.s. intervention in yemen and i met be interested in your feedback on some of those and points that scott made it to to say that he thinks this might be the right time for this do you agree with that analysis. i mean to a large extent you're a invigorate democratic majority in the house and for that matter when you add that to the fact that the senate was able to pass a bill prior to the elections they feel like i to some extent they stay small blood on the water when it comes to linking trump to saudi arabia. and they see yemen as it as a key potential opportunity for that that being said you know as someone who focuses more on domestic politics in yemen and the domestic politics in the states i think there really is a danger within seeing yemen over the through the eyes of me through seeing all

of this through the eyes of yemen's domestic versus the united states is domestic politics ok so in a lot of ways there's there's a we're there's a worry of what is an extremely calm complicated conflict in yemen being being used for for political hits in many regards ok and i think that's actually a great point we will we will definitely come back to that point catherine same question to you though do you think this is the right time to get some sort of action on this. you know i do i do i think i agree with scott's i mean critically now is to time you know to to address the yemeni issue that i also agree with adam in this sound stuff yemen is indeed very complicated and i don't think anyone in washington not even democrats are actually willing to to drop so do. you know as far as a point their foreign policy is concerned will still be a key ally in the region for the u.s.

but i think that now we moving forward to have a different formulation of foreign policy as far as the saudi are concerned and the kind of position that would be given moving forward and i think that you know we are seeing these these a break now occurring you know away from mohammed bin someone policies because he has failed not just in yemen but in regards to many other duties and i think that this will be reflected and it's maybe a signal from washington maybe these a need for a change of the guard in riyadh and that even though the u.s. is still willing to of course to support the saudi for very obvious geopolitical reason that this support will be very different and i mean we have to remember too that the many war crimes committed committed in yemen on a daily basis by the saudi and of course the u.a.e. are actually on account of your u.s. intelligence and so questions needs to be answered and i think that the u.s. doesn't want to get to that point where the war ends and questions are being leveled at washington i don't think that anyone wants to be in that position and of

course we're moving towards you know election time the presidential election will i mean the race will begin quite soon so i think that people want to position themselves and try to use their man is kind of you know a political called. scott why their reluctance on the part of donald trump to. to push the kingdom to push saudi arabia. is it can it really just be about money. that's part of it we know there were discussions between people around trump with the saudis and with the u.a.e. just before trump took office and just afterwards in terms of the took office around various projects we know that specifically donald trump's son in law jared commissioner who has sort of been designated the unofficial middle east envoy for the ministration is very close to the saudis including the mahomedan solomon we know that that's one reason why trump has tried to resist his intelligence agencies over the affair and why donald trump has gone so far as to support saudi arabia

against its gulf neighbor qatar when the saudis put the blockade on in may of two thousand and seventeen and trump said oh it must be because the qataris support terrorist so all of that is in the mix but i think the main thing here is is that donald trump actually knows very little about what is going on within yemen and the fact is is that no one has clean hands here the americans don't have clean hands the saudis don't have clean hands the u.a.e. doesn't have clean hands iran doesn't have clean hands and the real question here is whether this u.s. congressional initiative not only might restrict some american arms that go toward saudi arabia but in some sop small way linking up with the yemeni domestic space that i'm not so well with but open up some type of move towards political talks we had a flutter of that at the end of november but it sort of came and it's gone will those talks be revived so that we can get everyone out of the conflict and reduce the death toll that is affected millions of young unease and adam right before we

brought you on that brought you into the conversation we played a little bit of some comments from senator bernie sanders where he said that you know in many ways see weapons there that have you know made in the u.s. there and and they say that america is playing a big role and killing in many ways you know you many you know you many politics what how is the u.s. perceived there. i mean to be honest when you're in it when it comes to the opinion of the u.s. and yemen they can't really win of it's and it's a difficult position in the sense that you're in even to the extent that you have many people even that are that are pro coalition that are somewhat frustrated with the u.s. role feeling that they haven't been giving even enough. even enough effort of support to the saudis but i think at the end of the day there is widespread acknowledgement that not just the united states but you know your sort of coordination between the u.s. and other key powers is what's going to be essential. to bringing this conflict some sort of resolution you have seen that sort of flutter of activity particularly

secretary not as we've seen is rather key in terms of the work behind the scenes that ended up leading to the signing of an agreement in sweden late at the end of last year even before that you did have efforts albeit in the obama administration coming from secretary kerry. to to sort of push things forward when it comes to when it comes to a potential solution in yemen but i think really when you look at u.s. policy in yemen even beyond the issue of of airstrikes or of discipline support the coalition there is really a sense particularly now that not us has has left the administration that there is a real vacancy no one is taking the lead on yemen within the trumpet ministrations so let me lead to better going what we we are sort of the no that's not but i was going to get you there because i am it is it is it just enough the that politicians want to disengage i mean what it's got to be more than that what else should the u.s. be doing besides just disengaging that's not better that may help obviously in the

immediate sea but what does that really do to solve the bigger issue of yemen. oh yeah exactly i mean something like ending airstrikes maybe or excuse me adding direct u.s. support to the coalition may be something that could be symbolically used as a victory for some people but it's something that absence of a wider political process may well have very little effect and indeed may end up actually helping the who is so absent the real key more than anything is you need i think a degree of greater united states leadership particularly in cord nation with american allies in europe and involving greater and more more productive channels with with the gulf states and other regional actors. what yemen needs is a political process and you've seen the inklings of a beginning of a political process here that it least for now it's it's something that really does need a key power like for example the united states where particularly the u.s. and at the u.k. really pushing things along further scott is that going to happen well i think that

there are a couple problems here one is that the u.k. is almost paralyzed right now because of braga and the mess that's happening to must apply so even though they have been the penholder for yemen i think they are sort of being pushed off to the side i think there's a question about where the european union goes if it intervenes but i think beyond this is this could be a un led process and it has been a u.s. led process through gryphus for example to get those talks at the end of november but what you have to have is first of all an incentive for the yemeni government come to come to the table and i think that only comes if they feel like that saudi isn't going to come to their aid in any point and that's where this pressure is important so if they feel like they have to come to talk because saudi arabia can't just simply cover them that's on one side but the other question is. what makes the hutus come to the table what makes the hutu insurgency come to the table and i think that means they have to feel like they can't count on iran to give them cover to continue to refrain from going into talks it's only when all external powers

sort of pull back that i think the u.s. gets the real space to start to work with local groups within yemen to get a meaningful political process catherine what could saudi arabia possibly say that they have been accomplishing in yemen besides killing thousands of people and destroying that country. not much quite frankly i mean i understand that so durable when in to try to to kind of. you know it's a gemini in the region and actually ensure that whatever transition of power whatever you know yes yemen's political landscape would actually be in its favor and that riyadh would continue to to exert great pressure on the yemenis future political future but they haven't they haven't manifested that at all if anything i think they exploded yemen even more so i mean it was already a very fragmented very tribal country its infrastructure had to have been completely destroyed and that would lead to further instability you know poverty

will drive people maybe tragedies ation so there's a real issue where you know yemen is i would say kind of landscape has been completely exploded and it will take decades to actually fix that so we're not in terms of the kind of future this idea can hope for in yemen or the footprint that we will have will be very difficult i don't think that the yemeni will forgive anytime soon what has happened to them civilians have suffered tremendously under saudia this matriarchy patients and i mean one of the matriculation we have to remember that i den is still under occupation it's going to be very difficult how do you move forward in formulate peace when tensions and i think angle has you know has risen to such an extent that people would want to seek revenge and i don't think that you know relations will be very positive in diffused so we would need definitely to have different regional power to come into you know yemen and try to to formulate a peaceful constructive peace but i don't think that the saudi have achieved

anything i don't think that they will achieve anything if they continue to to think in terms of politics in terms of belligerence and this is what is coming out of riyadh systematically imagine themself in sanctions and in military intervention ism which is not good it's not good for the regions that it's not good you know in any case or any way shape or form i don't thing. anyway so this is going to be quite difficult but i do think however that this saudi to down just on the only way forward now would be to have a peace and this needs to happen politically how this is going to happen i think is going to be very difficult because they're going to need to acknowledge the fact for example that the unsubtle our movement is not going anywhere and they will have to contend with them. like for you to weigh in on that. yeah i mean i i would push back on at the assertion that this out of the coalition hasn't accomplished anything i mean when we look at it when the coalition's intervention began that was his are on the verge of of controlling the entire country at this

point there with these have been in retraction they've lost control of god and they've lost not to both parts of ties they're currently under pressure and who data you know there have been military gains has it been you know the grand victory that i think many people were expecting of course it's a different story but to say to deny the fact that there have been military gains. and it was a bit complicated when it comes to the saudi role in yemen i think this is also something that's kind of complicates this kind of congressional action on on from the from the u.s. as well let's not forget that regardless of the situation now at the end of the day saudi arabia and yemen are neighbors yemen's longer term stability is something that's a key interest for saudi arabia so the question is how will you bring you don't pull open these sort of development rebuilding contacts and keep these channels open because at the end of the day this is going to be a key thing moving forward i think even yemenis that i speak to that are broadly opposed to saudi arabia's current military intervention in the country when it

comes to the idea of there being a saudi role in rebuilding which are let's be honest you're already seeing the saudis engage in a bit of rebuilding in areas like not have in the south of the country etc addict a decent degree of development and humanitarian aid going in albeit while the bombing is contained were exactly they're still bombing so i mean it's a balance but i'm saying it's kind of a it's kind of a mixed bag and i think you've seen this kind of from the reactions from many many yemenis to this congressional action yemenis or are deeply divided with regards to how how they view this so i think moving forward it's really crucial to keep in mind the sort of the deep complications of how yemenis view not just this conflict but also international international reactions to it all right scott i know you're there and i'm going to come back to you but i see this look on catherine's face so i i want her to be able to respond to what adam was saying. not all i would say is

that i mean when adam is talking about the humanitarian existence yes i know that the claiming that you know they're trying to help rebuild patenting that's really the case i think that the main goal here you know when you mention matter for example is actually to gain access and control over yemen natural resources and to try to control you know the what ways this is why it's and was actually ok it is to have an opening on to on to the sea in to ensure that the world all root is actually protected so i don't think interested in rebuilding yemen in any way shape or form other than securing access to natural resources and of course the waterways to kind of you know offer a buffer to to iran's influence in the region and i think this is not this is not the way to to to go about it because then you completely denying the fact that there are actual people in yemen millions of them and that those people we need to to have a future secure for them you know if we're talking about regional stability so i think these denial that people are actually then the completely exploded the social

fabric the political social fabric of yemen you know we lead to you know a greater issues moving forward this saudi again are a completely checked into the fact that yemen has a very you know has a political reality and people have likes and desires and wants that might conflict with those of saudi arabia but it doesn't mean that they know then that we should not respect them and i disagree with people but at the end of the day i think that political set of determination is the only way to promote a viable democracy in this needs to happen in yemen ok this is what needs again to to come to terms that let me bring scott into this so scott you know as we said the u.s. has been supporting saudi in this since two thousand and fifteen proceeding donald trump this goes back to the obama administration what has the u.s. policy and thinking been towards yemen generally speaking. well in many ways and your previous just have brought this up young is just

a playground for wider interest it is a deadly playground not only for saudi goals in the region but for mohamed bin saw bowman's personal rise it's been a playground for the u.a.e. often overbooked and the hum of inside it's been a playground for the iranians in their contests regional influence and it's been a bit of a playground for the americans in the sense that yemen itself doesn't matter as much as what do you do with saudi arabia what do you do with saudi arabia when you have a split amongst the gulf states and clytie between saudi arabia and qatar and most importantly and this i think does limit on how far congress can push the administration away from saudi including over yemen there ministration is in bed with saudi arabia because it wants regime change in iran and until you give up that policy of regime change in iran saudi arabia still has a leverage with the trumpet ministration effect if congress or anyone else tries to push too hard let me bring that up because we all i think it was you specifically that said that donald trump has bit at odds with his intelligence community just

this week the leaders in the intelligence community testified that iran is still complying with video even though donald trump backed it up where is this coming from. ripped it up hard yell spill remember number those intelligence services though which the cia the office of national intelligence they're coming at it from just a sheer assessment of what iran is doing but in that same administration you have a secretary of state might pump a zero and a national security advisor john bolton who are committed to they won't call it this but they are committed to regime change in iran after shredding that nuclear deal so you've got a not only divided but a two faced administration and one face might be going towards a more realistic policy with saudi intelligence services but as long as you've got john bolton and mike pompei o driving the idea that iran has to change then you don't have a consistent u.s. policy on iran on saudi arabia or on yemen so if this measure does get out of

congress bottom line scott do you think that donald trump will just will veto it will squash it and it will all have been for not. i think doesn't actually question because donald trump is so we can politically how many fights does he want to have i think it turns a lot on what jared cushion or says in his ear i think it turns a lot on what the national security advisor john bolton turns on presses him on but i think no i think if it's a limited congressional measure which says the u.s. pulls back on some of its assistance he doesn't veto but if it's a war powers measure in which it says congress has the right rather than the president to dictate what should happen i think he will veto that because that's a challenge to his authority catherine your take on this how do you think this is going to play out out. i would agree with them i think it's going to be very difficult i really don't see i mean it really depends because i think if trump's can actually convince mohammed bin sudden monday he's a veto would come with a heavy price like you might actually go along with it that being said i don't

think any kind of food politically to antagonize congress for the mall you know especially given that we just came out a government shutdown and that there's still the possibility of another so i don't see him doing that again we getting closer to the next presidential elections and he's going to need to think about getting reelected so he's going to have to pick his fight and whether or not he can actually win that one some no i'm not until i was sure but that being said i think that this. has such lesser it in washington it is a possibility but i think that default would be so grand full president trump that he might not want to step on that one but again i mean if anything he has been consistent and being very rational in his position so it is very very difficult to predict so that was a very unfair question in some ways for me to put to you all but thank you very much for the discussion i appreciate it and we will continue this discussion thank you to our gas adam bear and scott lucas and katherine checked out and thank you

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