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you're watching al-jazeera with some special coverage of the meetings taking place in saudi arabia feel we're bringing you live pictures now from mecca in saudi arabia where the leaders of the various countries who've gathered for this summit have just arrived. with me now to discuss there was a rival's it was quite remarkable the pictures that we've just been watching all the different heads of the nation states participating in the g.c.c. and arab summit have been a rifle and they're gathering nigh for the family photo but interestingly the one of the last to arrive was the foreign the prime minister rather of qatar qatar of course under a blockade by many of these countries just talk us through your impressions of that

meeting because it was rather striking wasn't it we've seen some remarkable moments the handshake between the prime minister. along with the saudi king. abdullah says and we saw the emir of kuwait. reintroducing the promise of qatar once again to the king of saudi arabia in attempt to continue what he has started 2 years ago which is mediating and to the political impasse that has crippled the g.c.c. but when you look at those pictures that we're seeing live now from. you don't see really that much of interaction between the qataris the abilities the bahraini not only in particular which gives you an indication that the crisis that continues over to heal the wounds is definitely going to take quite some time and this is quite crucial moment for saudi arabia in particular they would like to show that the g.c.c. house is united you know we all know that the g.c.c. has been disarray sister 1017 was a book

a. it was imposed this is their qatari prime minister it was if you look at his face even when he shook the hands of a king solomon of saudi arabia he did not look happy walking away from that and i have to say this is this is quite a this is a crucial moment and also we have to remind our viewers this is what we're seeing here now that with a bit of a with the king of behind. this is quite a remarkable moment in the says that he's trying to reach out to adversities that imposing a blockade land and sea blockade on qatar one of the very rare instances when you see a senior government official in qatar reaching out and talking to. leaders of the neighboring countries some of those aber and countries in 2017 impose a series of sanctions a blockade accusing qatar of. supporting extremism accusations strongly denied by.

and therefore they have been saying ever since the blockade will continue for as long as it takes until qatar made a list of demands made by those countries today we could see something different and attempt maybe by the kuwaitis to try to bridge the gap between qatar on one hand and the other neighboring countries saudi arabia the u.a.e. in particular will it work. we have to wait and see what happens on the sidelines of the meetings particularly if the qatari prime minister manages to have some one on one with the saudi king and the crown prince mohammed bin so man but when you look at the choreography itself look at this particular moment this is the emir of kuwait reintroducing the qatari prime ministers of the king so members of his trying to say in a way or another being the only mediator so far of the crisis don't you think it's about time to heal the wounds it remains to be seen whether that is going to be

echoing through of this crucial meeting which is about to start they were the seas are the live pictures of that summits everyone taking their places but it was fascinating choreography watching those arrivals and watching those those underlying tensions between many of the key players at this meeting they seem very much in force how is this going to affect the aims of these meetings the saudi arabia clearly wants to put on a united front obviously they're dealing with tensions with iran at the moment there are questions around regional security around tensions with iran but when you have these divisions among the participants in this meeting it doesn't auger well does it well. a police over the last 2 days we've seen of i mean from the official side is saudi arabia turning down the rhetoric when it comes to qatar because they do understand that if they want to have to build a semblance of unity against iran they have to have everyone on board but the irony

here is how can you move forward towards any push against iran when you are not able to solve your own problems the g.c.c. is now undertaking undertaking the mammoth task of putting more pressure on the most powerful country in the region which is iran at the same time they are struggling to mend fences between each other they still impose on him a blockade. that blockade has put the whole establishment in disarray the g.c.c. which is now going to tackle one of the most crucial challenges it faces is widely considered by even people in the g.c.c. as one of the most inefficient organizations in the world completely sidelined when it came to the crisis how can you move towards a bigger picture when you're not even able to solve the problem that has crippled the political life in the g.c.c. for the last 3 years but they do understand at the same time that if this summit

fails there's absolutely no way they would be able to put up a strong. robust position when it comes to iran any time in the near future this explains where the americas over the last 48 hours have been insisted the unity of the g.c.c. something very question for them is there an incentive for the countries who are taking part to mend those fences because the book aids cats are still under blockade in still paying the price for wild accusations which the qataris have robustly deny it was the incentive for cathcart it's too soon to mend fences and build bridges if this book is to remain. exactly the only ones to get in this whole story is that iran has allowed ways to fly over its space when it's not allowed to fly over the space of countries like saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain so. it brings back the issue of how would you like to have

a united front when you are not united as far as your concerns concerned as members of the g.c.c. i have to say that the kuwaiti emir has been trying very hard over the last few. months to narrow those differences between the rocketing countries the americans have tried in the past but failed to narrow those differences because particularly . the saudis have been insisting that qatar must meet a list of demands we remember our viewers which include shutting down a turkish military base. closing down all just the lowering diplomatic ties with iran and. the al jazeera channel some of those. some of those demands were widely ridiculed by the international community as completely out of touch with. with reality and also rebuked by many leaders all over the world. ok and where let's listen in because we

are starting to hear the speeches and this is king someone who is. giving a speech welcome you in your 2nd home kingdom of saudi arabia. and thank you for. accepting the invitation to come to the emergency meeting in nefesh of the challenges that are facing regionally and internationally. we have. planed in the past. the explain the threat on the stability and safety and the. attack on our us. social and economic. stability and we will face these challenges dear.

brothers the iranian. regime interfere in our internal affairs and develop in ballistic and nuclear weapons and effect in international i never gave and the international oil this is a. naked aggression against our instability and the international. security. they also. supported terrorism over 4 decades which. affected the stability and security this is with the intention to accept and this. affects adversely the internationalist ability and security. and.

of course they also attacked for. tankers in the. image at the united arab emirates and they are the oil. the oil fields there this requires us to work very hard in order to preserve the gains of the g.c.c. . appear to have lost that life feed for no but we are so listening in for you were listening to king saw a man with his opening remarks about. leveling some fairly heavy charges at iran he accused iran of interfering in saudis internal affairs of developing nuclear weapons and also laying the blame squarely at iran's store for the

attack on the 4 tankers in the u.a.e. and the oil pipeline were reestablishing that feeds for you just as soon as we get that translation will be back to mexico where that is taking place but certainly we are hearing quite the charge there from king some words from the saudi king solomon been abdulaziz about iran reiterating what the kingdom has been saying in the past some of the statements by other countries particularly the united arab emirates and saying that iran is a state sponsor of terrorism that iran has been destabilizing the region using proxies like in places like syria iraq and in yemen and trying to promote a radical form of shia islam in the region and it remains to be seen how and what would be the saudi vision when it comes to how to contain iran's growing influence and this is going to be. this is now

a lot if as the only who is the ok we have the translation but let's step back in and hear more opening statements very dear to the king. and king of the kingdom of saudi. arabia the chairman of the. your highness and your majesty may peace be upon you. i it gives me an honor to welcome you and to bring it to your highness's and the citizens of the g.c.c. i would like to congratulate you on the 38th anniversary of the establishment of the g.c.c. this huge. toilet. that has been listed on the 25th of may. 1981 this is to embody the.

common. interests and the aspirations of our countries and in order to preserve its security and safety and the best to preserve this aspirations of its citizens i would also like to. took a tribute to this meeting during the last 10 days of ramadan in the holy met the. the. one and a half 1000000000 muslims and the those places of kink sunland and abdel aziz who with his wisdom and shrewd. foresight and. good intentions preserve in the g.c.c. and you would like to thank you and praise your good

intentions and the keenness to preserve the g.c.c. and to intensify its cooperation may god help you with your efforts because the g.c.c. . by your efforts will be strong to me and face all the challenges with good will and waiver in a resolute resolve. your majesty and your highness's this emergency meeting is held within a very complex and complicated situation in the region and within the challenges that requires us to be vigilant and careful and cautious and also it needs solidarity and the cooperation in order to preserve the peace and the stability of the area and to preserve its achievements and successes against.

your attendance is a confirmation of your resolve to preserve. the collective security to this area within and in the face of this provocations that we. face and what the area has seen. of attacks on the oil fields and the. again the ships outside the united arab emirates and to oil fields and in. at saudi arabia and the attack with ballistic missiles at the target in mecca and other places in the kingdom. because of all this the initiative of the custodian of the holy places to hold this meeting in

order to face these challenges and to take. affective and positive stance to preserve the security and safety and stability of this area and to preserve its a strategic. stance within the international trade and to export energy to the whole world and investment and because of its regional geographic importance and regional importance and i would take the opportunity in this holy month of ramadan that may god give you health and protect you and maybe long you live long may you live and i hope this work of this says some and i hope that you. end up with

making good decisions that will bring the flourishing and the stability and peace for the here and may god bless you thank you. i would like to. ask you your. majesty the meeting to be closed closed meeting. ok well they have not gone for equals session any more discussions will take place behind closed doors let's just get your thoughts really on what we have been hearing from those opening speeches from both king solomon islands the secretary general of the g.c.c. who was speaking were basically king some members of lizzie's explaining exactly the motives behind the emergencies you see why the saudis have been calling for it and why they are calling it the summit of firmness they say that basically iran has been using aggression in the region has been promoting terrorism was behind the

attacks targeting the oil tankers and also the attacks targeting an oil pipeline which is not far from saudi capital of riyadh and that iran continues to. pose a serious threat to international stability and i think by that it's quite obvious that the saudis are definitely were willing to move for a strong. stance against iran they won't be able to do it on their neither were the g.c.c. because you're talking about the most powerful country in the region which is iran but the but the definitely we need international support particularly from the americans the same stuff has been reiterated by the secretary general of the g.c.c. our belief is the only talking about the need to stop iran from its activity is no these concerns dates back to many years ago when the saudis who pride themselves on being the protesters of cities land have been saying that the biggest problem in

the region is what they consider to be iran's growing influence they say that the iranians are present in syria they have proxies in iraq or does they have proxies in yemen and that they provide these boxes and and hezbollah in lebanon and that is really the reason why they having these proxies. to further promote their own radical ideology as they say and control the region and this has been more pronounced today the only problem with the species that we've been listening to is they are trying to look into an issue that would unify the g.c.c. which is containing iran's growing influence without addressing the core issues that they face themselves and they've been grappling with and one of the is the g.c.c. crisis the absolutely no mention of the g.c.c. crisis is going to be an opportunity for them to be able to sit together on the sidelines of this summit come up with some sense of last minute agreements about

easing the tension in the region about. and in the locate let's wait and see if that happens it could be really conducive to some sort of a unified stance if the if that does not happen i don't think the summit will be able to go won't be able to go anywhere near putting more pressure on iran absolutely because it is very clear from the comments that they're saying that we need this firm and united stance against iran we need to stop them meddling and other countries international affairs but it's ironic really that they're making this call for unity when the g.c.c. doesn't appear all that united right now indeed because when you look at the representation is within the g.c.c. summit today you have. been who is the top adviser to the sort of kabul's of armor historically speaking has been trying to distance itself from any. aggressive stance towards iran and they were crucial in in brokering the

landmarked nuclear deal in 2015 because most of the secret talks took place in oman so the amount is absolutely no way they would pursue an aggressive stance against iran the kuwaitis have always been pushing for a very wise approach to dealing with. with with with iran engaging talking to the iranians qatar shares its most important gas filled with iran and when it will it's still continues to face this blockade the iranians are allowing. space we're putting the parties in a very very awkward situation if you continue pushing for a strong stance against iran without solving the problems that you face and i think this explains the mammoth task signs eurabia faces as we speak because today they're starting with the g.c.c. meeting which will be followed by the arab league meeting then followed by the oh i see a meeting they want to tell the international community that they have the backing of 1500000000 muslims and they have leaders from all the way from walker to

duck sinegal to indonesia standing united behind the saudis but when you look of the other problems if you like the saudis political clout in the region is eroding for different reasons it's obvious that this there's lots of leaders who are there we watch the arrivals coming in certainly a very interesting. event and watch recent arriving who looked happy to see each other but there were other arab leaders seif decided not to take part in those talks in the significance of that. for different reasons. king of morocco is not attending is a key ally to saudi arabia to the u.s. but also a key ally to qatar and has been trying with it since the start of the 2 of the g. . quizes to remediate. the libyans are not attending because they consider

the u.a.e. to be strongly supporting the renegade general hell if i have to particularly his latest push to take over tripoli the algerians they were the most effective peace brokers in the seventy's and the eighty's they don't seem to be really impressed with what is happening in the region they're sending a low delegation for liberties and the iraqis although this sending senior level delegations but these are sort of no way they would sanction any resolution that comes out of this meeting that is going to be seen as against iran because of their strong relations with iran is and i think the saudis do understand that their political the symbolic political influence they had over 50 years for 2 reasons religious because they have the holy shrines back at the busy area 2nd is financial because of the other wealthiest nation in this part of the world is starting to deplete because of the crisis because of the killing of. because of many problems

because of the war in yemen and because some countries don't see sense in some of the orientations made by the saudis over the last few years and they do understand that and this explains why the called for those emergency meetings now the venue and the timing are quite crucial from a saudi perspective it's mecca islam's holiest site and islam of an islamic holy month they would like to convey the message of the muslims by the way if you join us against the iranians you're joining a religious duty to defend us and this explains why they are making reference to the. missiles launched by the houthi over the last few months. they save us some of the missiles were targeting. as they were intercepted now these were those were denied by the host is themselves said there's absolutely no way we're going to target. but this gives you an indication about how this is going to be a crucial moment for saudi arabia if they succeed in bringing all the other muslim

leaders together they will continue saying that you know what we're really stand for what we are the protectors of sunni islam and muslims if they fail is going to be a massive embarrassment for the kingdom and so they were fortunate said there are many 2nd points here that the main sticking point to this unity the site is clearly want to present this unified front everyone coming together and rallying behind the central issue that they need to confront iran and to rein in influence heads on but you've outlined some of the main sticking points there one of which is of course this blockade of qatar and the. the the disunity within the g.c.c. and within regional partners. do you think there is an effort or a willingness from saudi arabia to admit ok we have made missteps in certain areas perhaps we will. correct these in order to present this unity or how do you see

this playing a i mean the invitation sent by kings analyses that the emir of qatar to attend the summit is widely seen by many people that this is could be an indication of thawing of relations between the 2 countries the handshake with that we saw today is quite significant despite all the what followed is quite significant because i mean against the backdrop of 2 years of accusations counter-accusations the rhetoric that we've seen of the us collation the mounting tension but we've seen a handshake and this is quite a crucial moment in since the start of the juices equalizes. the kuwaitis remain the only country that has the potential to mediate the crisis they've tried hard over the last few months the americans tried but they failed the americans were widely seen as somehow siding more with the embarrasses of the saudis with particular the start of of a crisis the kuwaitis have more credibility but they still unable to narrow the differences between qatar and saudi arabia and the united arab emirates of the of

the other hand if on the sidelines of these meetings we see some breakthrough it could be also conducive to an end to the crisis and you could help the g.c.c. show a semblance of the unity to move forward when it comes to when it comes to tackling iran but i have to say this is something which is definitely going to take some time healing the wounds is definitely going to take many many years yes indeed and those winds certainly running particularly deep at the moment from our house. thank you very much indeed let's get more analysis from marwan bashar al jazeera a senior political analyst he's been listening in to see those opening remarks and joins us now live from london martin let's let's talk about katter us involvement in this in these conferences we saw the prime minister arriving we saw about handshake albeit briefly both hit this is so significant that cats on

a set the prime minister to attend. it is significant and i think the they end up sending him this time or are not in previous times when they were invited because perhaps there is something in there perhaps on the sidelines of this summit something. well come up we will see. hopefully saudi arabia has learnt from the last 2 years that there is no point of this crisis that it manufactured along with the united arab emirates and that according to every. agency or capital including washington london and paris this has been manufactured a crisis totally and utterly fabricated by abu dhabi and riyadh against their

partner in the g.c.c. 3 years later qatar continues to prosper but the blockade continues and i think if we want to live that learn the lessons now we will see how long it will take to resolve it we will see how they would go about it but my sense my sense is that if this will be resolved there has to be some sort of an american perhaps european mediation going on i think for the time being washington has benefited from the division within the g.c.c. it up selling more arms and basically blackmailing each and every party separately the arabs and the gulf countries are but they're united unfortunately they have been divided and for the last 2 years the gulf which for the last 4 decades have been more or less united now is divided like that us of the arab world what sort of role do you think the americans could play in trying to to mediate this crisis

given. the trumpet ministrations push to up the pressure significantly on iran. well you would have expected that to happen already from last year when the trump administration announced that it was going to up the ante against iran and yet. it didn't give way to the kind of unity you would have expected in the g.c.c. and as i said clearly the united states like every other superpower in pastimes and its dealings with the arab world it benefits more from division than from unity and clearly the so-called divide than rule rule continues up today and i think since the trump administration doesn't exactly want to you know mount a war against iran and wants to simply continue with the sanctions against iran i

think that's certainly succeeding and as trump said earlier today and yesterday the sanctions are crippling iran and you don't need kuwait and qatar and even saudi arabia for that because in the end of the day the united states was able to leverage its power against even the strongest of ah lies and nemesis whether it is the europeans or the chinese so in the end of the day when the united states throws its weight around it's able to put huge pressure on iran the question once again why didn't use its leverage with the riyadh and i would not be to mend fences in the gulf region knowing all too well that this was a frederick it crisis once again underlined that fabricated crisis this is not a conflict based on some kind of historic this or national that this was a fabricated crisis 2 years ago washington knows that cia a has

underlined it and yet the trump administration is not using this leverage. well we will see perhaps this time around he did what book perhaps will know qatar has been has been brought in that has attended this meeting how do you see relations playing it because qatar is obviously in a very difficult position because qatar is so under blockades the pressure is being placed on iran. cats are. completely block area to iran given that it is under pressure from its immediate neighbors so how do you see how do you see that playing out. look it's absolutely an uncomfortable situation for qatar to be blockaded by its neighbors there's no doubt about that but i wouldn't say it's in trouble at all if anything the last 2 years prove to be that the cut out economy

is doing better than the saudi and they have never had an economy or certainly the egyptian economy but that has been doing but that over the last 2 years it even rolled around with the crisis and used it to its advantage but that is not more they united with their own ex-pat community is than ever before there's certainly more so for alliant than ever before they've rebuilt their defenses they need to built their national unity even their national industries for a small city state like qatar to be able to get away with all of that and to outperform its neighbors certainly is a sign that it has a broke out of a blockade as it were and that's why i think the saudis the way they reinvited once and again cut out are now the way the qataris are will be received in saudi arabia is basically. the saudis eating their words it's basically qatar has won the day or

over the last 2 years and as i said it still remains of course on confortable for a small state to be blockaded that way but because the blockade has failed it is now up to the saudis to start. giving signs of some positive overtures towards qatar for example. stopping the aerial blockade and other sorts of initiatives now having said all of that and i don't want to speak too long about this but having said that i think it's important also to note that once cut that is back in the g.c.c. . meetings doesn't mean that qatar now would accept so did dick that's doesn't me. that got that will accept the germany within the g.c.c. and certainly doesn't mean that qatar or for that matter oman or kuwait will accept this so would your position on iran because i think qatar oman and certainly

a whole number of other countries like iraq like jordan and many others would love to see the escalation in the gulf region they probably would sympathize with saudi arabia if it's tankers are at that or if it's pipelines that attack but they don't want to see escalation towards war in the region ok. we'll have to leave it there but thank you very much indeed for bringing us your analysis there live from london. now an iranian member of parliament says the u.s. has been using mediators to send messages to his governments he says the americans have also asked to hold negotiations with tehran contradicting their own actions the u.s. blames iran for sabotaging for oil tankers off the u.a.e. coast earlier this month to her and denies this and has accused the americans of

trying to start a war. because there is consensus among executive officials that negotiating with the united states is absolutely not advised not just negotiating with the current government the obama administration was not fundamentally different from the current government it had a different appearance but the same nature we won't be deceived by u.s. tricks. well samus ravi has more now from tehran. pca is a senior m.p. and the chairman of the national security and foreign policy commission of iranian parliament he's the same man the tweeted 2 weeks ago that iran of the united states need a table somewhere in the region to sit down and discuss ways of deescalating the tension over ongoing u.s. economic sanctions against iran as well as the recent u.s. military buildup in the region he suggested countries like iraq and qatar that both enjoy a good relationship with the united states as well as iran since then japan and pakistan have also offered to mediate tensions between tehran and washington mr follow her comments today seem to indicate what those 3rd parties might actually be

discussing when they sit down to have talks here's some of what he said these 3rd party countries explicitly told america not to talk to iran from the position of war because a war with to one practically speaking won't have any winners these 3rd parties have told americans that the islamic republic of iran can handle war time challenges very well so they cannot confront iran in this way now mr comments came a day after supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei in a speech from his residence in tehran speaking to students and academics said that iran's government all of the establishment speaks in one voice when it comes to talks with the united states going to mention it is going to there is consensus among executive officials that negotiating with the united states is absolutely not advised not just negotiating with the current government the obama administration was not fundamentally different from the current government it had a different appearance but the same nature we won't be deceived by us tricks. on

thursday u.s. president donald trump said that iran is a weakening country and that it is looking for some kind of deal with the united states and that is exactly the kind of taking over of the narrative that iran's government is keen to avoid it has to be said that when it comes to the big picture of resisting america's maximum pressure campaign on iran all of iran's leaders do tend to agree on how to go about resisting the u.s. campaign in terms of sanctions and in terms of the military buildup but what mr follow her comments tell us is there may be some daylight between what iran's government shares in terms of public policy stated public policy about no talks with the united states and the practical steps the measures that iranian leaders are taking to try to deescalate tensions in the region was bring you some more news from around the world on less than 2 months after its last election israel is

gearing up for another after benjamin netanyahu fails to form a coalition governments parliaments for said to dissolve itself after the deadline passed midnight's on weapons say the country will return to the polls in september netanyahu has meanwhile met with senior white house adviser jared kirshner see discuss trumps peace plan for the middle east are a false it has more from west jerusalem. well the day after those incredibly dramatic events at the israeli parliament the knesset the recriminations of flying in israel is preparing itself reluctantly i think for another round of elections none precedented series of events 2 elections within the space of the same year avigdor lieberman continues the former defense minister who refused to join the government unless his demands were met he continues to blame the good party of benjamin netanyahu to see the too much policy ground to the ultra-orthodox parties

his is a secularist party and it is worried about israel it says becoming a religious state instead of a secular jewish state benjamin netanyahu after those events in the knesset came out and blamed lieberman in the most personal terms you can imagine saying that he would deliberately misled his own voters and acted to bring down a right wing government and now this man who has throughout his career been one of the furthest right members of mainstream israeli politics he's benjamin using him of being a leftist in disguise so netanyahu will go into these elections still in a relatively strong position there is a good chance that he could win the power again but what it does do is it really hampers his efforts to try to secure some kind of immunity legislatively from the impending indictments that pending hearings over 3 separate corruption cases

efforts as well to try to ensure that the supreme court could overturn any such immunity all of that is under threat because of this delay and as well as that there are wider implications to the u.s. administration's peace plan. jarrad. donald trump's envoy on that plan has been in jerusalem on thursday he's met netanyahu netanyahu referred to a little. that had taken place the previous evening but if the us puts off the political roll out of that plan yet again to accommodate israeli elections that delays it well into what will become a real us presidential election season certain really does have a major impact potentially on the rollout of that peace plan on the the edge of abraham rather has more now from ramallah palestinians have stopped engaging with the u.s. administration ever since the us president donald trump said that he's willing to

move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which he eventually did last year the palestinian officials would tell you that the americans have become part of the problem and not part of the solution and not only do they to jack the u.s. peace plan but also the sword mediation of america in the peace process to the economic workshop that is due to be held in the next month but just in ian's it's a date that they haven't been consulted in that conference and they're not going to be joining that position has been due today that by palestinian president mahmoud abbas who has met a special envoy by the bahamian king yesterday he told him that the palestinians are not going to be joining in response the invoice said that the shooting is simply hosting the conference and not organizing it palestinian officials have repeatedly said this is that the solution to the palestinian cause is not just economic it's political they talk about the end of occupation as well as having is jerusalem as the capital of the future palestinian state. and are criticizing you

can keep up the saints with all the news on our web sites our just 0 dot com but to keep it here on al-jazeera we're going to take a very quick break and i'll be back with a new star in just a few moments time don't go away. however remains cold in victoria is in new south wales the wind coming up from the

south has certainly made things feel very wintry in tasmania who prospects in temperature just about double think is same is true in now when at this dose significant rain here which is disappointing for this whole area southeast australia further west it's warmer cloudy in perth that $23.00 degrees with a hint of a little rain may be coming in but again not a huge amount it's not been good for the wet season anyway to be honest and there's nothing more coming even though now entering nicely into winter but the picture in new zealand's a little bit different has been rather more in the way of rain of course now in the southern alps particularly for the south island you can see the band of clouds more that's just us and these moving cloud there's the static bit that's where the cloud comes up and then just blows off the mountain like a flag like a banner well the picture is a wet one for friday the temperatures don't as a reflect any cold nature of course up in the back city feel that way but 116 often not much there that much different the green is rain if you see

a bit of white in there that of course is snow for the mountains so the next 2 days . pose fairly mistral. the a. this is al jazeera. our. this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. arab leaders meets in saudi arabia to discuss regional security as tensions between iran

the united states and its gulf allies escalate. qatar's prime minister is at the summits the 1st time a level meeting with leaders of saudi arabia and other nations since they began a blockade of qatar 2 years ago. i've done a very weak if they. want to make a deal of. the u.s. president says sanctions are forcing a run to the negotiating table last rescues crews end bit of past lose hope of finding any more survivors after a tourist boat sinks killing at least 7 people. but we begin this news hour with saudi arabia where king saul man has addressed an emergency meeting of gulf leaders he has accused iran of developing nuclear and

ballistic missiles which are a threats to regional and global security the kingdom is hosting a series of high level meetings of the gulf cooperation council and. the arab league know this comes during a time of escalating tensions between iran and the united states and its goal follows. the iranian regime interfered in our internal affairs and develop ballistic and nucular weapons it affects navigation in international oil this is a naked aggression against our stability and international security. well among those attending the meeting in mecca is qatar's prime minister says the 1st high level meeting between qatari leaders with nations who and pulls impose that blockade on the country nearly 2 years ago the talks in mecca are also focusing on the situation in yemen and recent attacks on sides events. riyadh's and washington accuse iran of the attacks earlier this month and the u.s.

has deployed additional troops and warships to the gulf along with and stay saudi arabia's foreign minister cold on muslim nations to confront iran with what they call force and firmness. well ashleigh has covered this story extensively for us and he joins me now live in the studio. we saw those arrivals we saw some tensions as leaders of the various nations are acting together what exactly do you think saudi arabia is hoping to achieve with these meetings they would like the g.c.c. to come out with one voice saying they stand with saudi arabia in its push to contain iran's growing influence in the region for the highlights i think has been of the meeting between the qatari prime minister the saudi king although they've been trying to portray this whole thing as about iran but suddenly has to bow down with

the issue of how to mend fences between the different countries within the g.c.c. this expose working so a member of the disease has been very critical of iran referring to is and says when. he said iran has been attacking the vessels and also attacking the oil pipeline. over the last few weeks and for that from a saudi perspective this is an indication that there needs to be a tougher stance against iran and this is why they have been calling this summit the summit of firmness you get every sober cattery prime minister coming away from that handshake with what my mother would describe as a face like thunder. but what does that say about the fact that cats are is sending its prime minister to this meeting this is of course the 1st high level meeting between that say many analysts are looking into this hoping for some sign of rapprochement between. the blockading nations i think there's so a wiggle room for what could be potentially a major breakthrough with

a letter of invitation sent by the saudi king some of the qatari emir. to me in. joining the summit. of course it didn't show up because of the crisis continues but however this sent the prime minister and by sending the prime minister of our policy he's sending a message to the although the problem still continue but we are committed to join the g.c.c. the world to tackle the challenges they face in the region and you never know this could be conducive to other breakthroughs in the coming hours or days particular when it comes to the blockade because i think one of the problems that the saudis will continue to face there's absolutely no way they would be able to build a united stance either of the arab league or of the g.c.c. without solving that this is a crisis 1st of all absolutely no there is an awful lot on the agenda there at these at this meeting for cats are what will they be hoping to get to get out of

this summit do you think there will be efforts on the sidelines to try and and work towards ending this blockade certainly we saw the representatives there from from kuwait very keen to make sure that there is this rapprochement a thing from the perspective those pictures which will be. living rooms in the g.c.c. as we zoom into the other world starting from today in the coming days about the handshake between. the prime minister which we've seen right now and the king abdullah's is where cordial moment in a region beset by uncertainty and instability against the backdrop of that is a crisis from a cathartic perspective it's a diplomatic victory because these countries the saudis in particular. were just a few weeks ago lashing out at qatar accusing qatar's of all sorts of problems in the region today the shaken hands with the qatari prime minister it's

a way of saying well qatar is a neighbor for us to be able to move forward and to tackle the big picture which is iran. it's about time to move forward and set aside those differences are all the blockade in countries all the same bays i don't think so because if you look at the choreography today. the prime minister of qatar shook hands with the saudi king saudi crown prince and with her any with me. king but not with the emma rotty crown prince 100 pounds 8 yes and that explains it shows you you know where another that the tension between the 2. are still really high and this could be an obstacle to any attempt in the near future to mend fences between all the countries of the g.c.c. kuwait on the other hand he's determined it's about time to turn that chapter and move forward absolutely it was interesting here is that how do you think there is

some tension between these book aiding nations about how to move forward with this could be read as the saudis are looking for some kind of all of branch where they need to move things forward they're keeping an eye on perhaps a wider threat but you're saying they're. clearly not keen at all to engage in this in any way given the same kind of. discord between these between these nations there is a general sentiment in the region the chrome the the companies of the u.a.e. . was the architects of the locate right and there's also a general sentiment that he was trying to words a gap between the qataris and the saudis and that's ultimately it will be if any move by the saudis to mend fences if you could further strained relations between the saudi arabia and the united because historically speaking there were never united about many issues suddenly we saw them united about imposing the blockade on

gaza but this is by all standards i mean this is quite a crucial moment that we saw tonight coming out from from it absolutely was thank you very much hashem there talking us through the arrivals to that summit. barbuda is a research or specializing in gulf and middle east affairs he says disagreements over iran have split the gulf region making it weaker. is flawed from the state's flawed because in one sense. they don't want to talk to iran iran has asked for a dialogue and they don't want to sit on the table and talk to your own and sort out all the issues that we have of iran on the other hand they are instead of uniting and unifying the gulf region to stand as a block a solid block they're actually dividing it into different countries they are this integrating. regional organization that you see there

a conflict within between the g.c.c. member states the blockade against scott are but there is also all conflict within the arabian peninsula there's a war in yemen there is issues with syria or iraq and libya and so on so you can't have one group standing against your own if you want to push back in one sense and this and this group is this united and this is this fragment that well let's stay with this thomas pickering is a former united states undersecretary of state for political affairs he also served as u.s. ambassador ambassador to the united nations jordan and israel he joins us now from washington d.c. thank you so much after speaking to us here on al-jazeera thomas pickering will the unite the united states be viewing this missing which is currently underway in mecca the u.s. will clearly want to see some form or for profit more and some form of. sense that

the gulf nations are coming together. i think they will and they have in the past made efforts to try to mend the breach those were resisted i think quite strongly by both saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their own reasons but the invitation from king solomon to the prime minister of qatar has opened the door i think more than just a little bit is presence there and the handshake i think has a sign that for saudi arabia at least at this moment unity in the gulf cooperation council and that unity spreading over into the meeting on the arab league will be very important in bowstring their sense that they must face iran with a united effort and that iran is of course the specs of that looms large over this beat saying the citee king saying very clearly that in his opening remarks he wants

to see provides a united front in the face of radiant aggression but just how you nice it is the g.c.c. which is say it is the u.s. what is in any way that this united front will not submerge. i think that the u.s. would like to see the united front the merge but for some of the reasons that your distinguished previous speaker husham had made with respect to this it may be a hard and very serious and perhaps longer term struggle to bring it back i think there is no question at all that would like to be back but not in invidious terms not in terms of the numerous requirements that have middle levied on it in the past that required almost that it capitulate on every in every area and so we'll see whether in fact arab diplomacy can bring that about at the moment the g.c.c. is not just.