exist it is vital that the different groups in society are able to express their views their opinions in order to allow the democratic process and eventually voters to cast their vote talking about the democratic process are you concerned that the attempt to kind of shut down the flow of information from outside the army headquarters where the protesters are gathering is perhaps a very negative sign on how authorities may be planning to now deal with the protesters camped out there exercising their democratic right you were talking about indeed indeed where we were in about that and we're even more who worried about the fact that to t.m. c.s.l. may do lose credibility that it needs in order to serve as a as a as a credible as a trust a leader in the coming months so this is a very negative sign and we are about to issue a call on the g.m.'s feet to reverse this decision immediately because it is

entirely unacceptable all to find and a view of the international community or i thank you so much for your thoughts and comments on that thank you very much. still ahead of al jazeera on father's search for justice 10 years after his son was killed in sri lanka's civil war. and what's behind the u.k. surge and racial crimes against children. hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of south asia we have seen plenty of rain showers particularly afternoon satellite showing those rain showers really popping up during the heating of the day we are seeing some very nice weather down here across parts of jakarta also over here towards the island of bali as well that's going to stay like that we're going to see most of the moisture

up here towards the north for bangkok it is going to be mostly cloudy for you maybe some rain showers pushing through with the temps there about $34.00 degrees staying like that but most of the rain down here across parts of sumatra where temperatures are reaching into the low twenty's there well it's not the low twenty's it's going to be cooler there cross parts of tasmania the reason being as a front has pushed through and we are going to see that air pushing in from the southwest so over the next few days it could be quite windy as well you see those isobars those lines fairly close together that means we tend to see windy conditions across much of the area we do have a front that's going to make its way through perth we don't expect to see much in terms of rain just some clouds pushing through at their 24 degrees which is a little bit of average for this time of year but alice springs you are below average for the time to them of 15 degrees up towards normal for this time of year into the low thirty's for you as we go over here towards brisbane though it is going to be some rain in the forecast at $22.00 and a nice day for a city with a temperature of 20.

in the philippines the black market for gold is with hundreds of millions but not everyone is reaping the rewards to sound the pain ultimate price when i want to investigate why people like dying for gold on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. welcome back you're watching out to syria time to recap headlines iran has rejected

accusations that the salaries of arab nations it's a regional threat to global security the gulf cooperation council and the arab league all meeting in saudi arabia to discuss recent tensions gaza's prime minister attended the talks and the 1st high level meeting since the 2017 blockade the saudi foreign minister says there may be a solution to the crisis if qatar comes back to what he calls the right path sudan's military council has declared the protests in the capital khartoum a danger to the country the army has ordered al jazeera as office to close without giving any reach them. mexico's president wants talks with washington after donald trump said he'll impose tariffs on goods from mexico unless it stops illegal immigration the u.s. president posted this video on twitter which appears to show 1000 migrants trying

to cross the border trump says the 5 percent tariff will be enforced from june the 10th and will be increased every month until something is done basically as president responded in a letter to trump warning against the use of coercive measures and that it's money well of for example a door wrote the slogan america 1st is a fallacy because until the end of time across national borders universal justice and fraternity will prevail i do joe castro has the details from washington d.c. . the threat and terror of mexican goods would jump to 25 percent by october if according to the trump administration mexico has not complied with this demand to deport more central american migrants now that would have a catastrophic effect on the economy on both sides of the border mexico export of $346000000000.00 of goods to the united states last year half of that was accounted

by auto parts and machinery which are both vital to the manufacturing sector of u.s. workers which trump has said he wants to support it start owning that on this day when the white house sent to the congress a plan to ratify the new nafta agreement now called the us mexico canada agreement which took years of negotiations to work out that it appears the white house also unilaterally on the single day may be tearing up that work with these threatened tariffs which ironically that trilateral agreement is working to curb so the real question is whether or not these tariffs truly will happen whether this is an empty threat or realistic it's the same question we asked ourselves a few months ago when trump had threatened to close the entire southern border in response to the migrant crisis he never did that rather he claimed without providing evidence that mexico had stepped up in its immigration enforcement

against central americans and it is telling that in this renewed threat of tariffs on mexico there is nothing in the ultimatum that says to mexico what it needs to accomplish to avoid these tariffs so it opens the door again for the trump administration to claim a victory while in essence still avoiding the tariffs if it so chooses and in the process scoring political points with the base. more now a lot of top story the summit's and saudi arabia. president mahmoud abbas has called an arab states to support the palestinian cause he's once again rejected u.s. president trumps peace plan. we call for an end today israeli occupation of palestine and the stablish meant of a palestinian independent state on the borders of $967.00 with east jerusalem as its capital i would like to also reaffirm our absolute stance against american

attempts to undermine international law with what is called the deal of the century to abolish the principle of a 2 state solution. israel police say they've killed the palestinian man after here tank 2 people with a knife in the east jerusalem on friday the attacks happened in the old city one israeli man is in critical condition another suffered minor injuries israeli police have increased security across east and west jerusalem during the fasting month of ramadan several people are reported to have been killed in a series of explosions in northern iraq more than a dozen others are said to been injured in the blast in the city of could cook the military says several improvised explosive devices when taft is no immediate claim of responsibility the afghan taliban has carried out a car bombing in kabul killing 4 people 7 others were wounded including 4 u.s. service members the bomb targeted a military convoy in the city's western was the

a district it's been 10 years since the end assure lanka's devastating civil war around 100000 civilians and fighters from both sides were killed among them a group of 5 tamil students allegedly executed on a beach the case of the drinker 5 is one of the most widely known of the war in this still being heard in court father of one of the victims is vowing to find justice. i am. father of late son to go 5. i like to produce my son son's murder 2006 general it's. really very quiet son is the coach of table tennis association is going to be

a doctor but everything is spotted on the boys as healthy help me help us help us like that then suddenly the open file after that i heard in my own message there were 2 boys safely and the other 5. lost their life. will. this. when there are certain visit to the hospital they will. want to. open the door for bodies my son's body in sri lanka can't get the proper justice. i want a hybrid quote the international criminal court in it that i've never dressed this along and some of the daggers i am about were there any repeat think brady from sri

lanka i wanted justice only. i only international justice with my son's case otherwise i am not a father of ready. $69.00 containers full of rubbish have been loaded onto a cargo ship in the philippines to be returned to canada the philippine government says the garbage was shipped illegally in 20132014 is labeled as plastics meant for recycling caravan had missed the may 15th deadline to take it back to a diplomatic standoff with asia results applying to send tons of waste back to western countries tens of thousands of students and teachers in brazil of rally the game's plans to cut spending on education there were protests in more than 80 cities the government is also tightened the budget for university hospitals

research grants and high schools it's the 2nd round of demonstrations by students against brazil's new government a new effort is underway to identify more than 100 victims from a 992 mass killing during the bosnian war they call it charlie cliffs massacre saw more than $200.00 civilians shot dead and dumped in a ravine by a bosnian serb police unit taking their we 3 decades to uncover many of the remains returned them to their families for proper burial paul brennan reports. in the garden of his home in term napoleon 78 year old martin passes his retirement in silence his 2 sons emin emir were in their early twenties when they were both killed that could a chinese cliffs after 27 years has now been told there remains have finally been found we were very real to the knowledge and the jawbone was found 10 or 12 years ago but they didn't know which of them it belonged to now the full remains were

found in that musgrave. i mean and they were exempt from ascites known as the stone mass grave the corpses were hidden under a thick layer of rocks in august 1902 a group of more than 200 bosniak men were transported to the edge of the ravine made to kneel and then shot dead by police the corpses are only now being recovered their dens father ferritin was one of the victims who have now been identified he will be buried in july. of the most part it's all about who was found and who wasn't have the people responsible for the crimes being prosecuted why some didn't get more prison time those sorts of things haunt us taylor fix faces having to say goodbye to his brother all over again he already buried some of his bones found at car a china cliffs now a significant portion of the rest of the skeleton has been identified yet. it is not easy but this time around is stronger still i thought i was done with this 5

years ago i guess this time i'll get actual closure. on 6 umed the bones off forensically examined at this center 112 sets of remains are currently awaiting final identification here the final number of newly identified victims will reach 18180 people whose relatives have spent nearly 3 decades wondering. what their thought will be we have here remains of slain sons and their parents siblings neighbors or kept it together this is in the way a unique situation you could say that this was a family mass grave. each victim has a story who is a senator was a teacher. teaches senator was killed by one of his former students and there was another one of his old students who found his remains committed the crime and the other one did a good deed. in 2004 the leader of the police unit which carried out the massacre

was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 17 years in prison but it's only now that these victims can be properly buried that their families can have closure paul brennan al-jazeera hungary's prime minister viktor orban says he wants a thorough investigation into a boat accident on the danube on wednesday at least 20 people are missing and feared drowned at least 7 others are confirmed to have died police detained the captain of the largest ship that hit the sightseeing sightseeing boat a new report from a prominent british charity says race hate crimes against children are on the rise in the u.k. the children's charity found some as young as 10 are trying to change their appearance to avoid being subjected to racial abuse nieve parker has more from london so here. this is in one of their chats somehow this one get punched you know there are things experienced in childhood to the can

scoff a life 16 year old christo chris cough was beaten in a racially motivated attack and verbal abuse for being an immigrant of both gary and descent. the incident was filmed and shared on social media by the attackers all of them children. punched about. about 12 times but. maybe because i was there for ideas in some way the assaults left christo questioning his right to be british he's even considered changing his name. an investigation by the u.k.'s national society for the prevention of cruelty to children the n.-s. p.c.c. has found that similar racially motivated crimes against children have escalated to a 3 year high that's an average of $29.00 incidents a day some have to experience any kind of racial abuse and.

they can feel isolated thank you feel a sense that they just don't have a sense of identity struggle to cope they might feel like they're not wanted at school not want to the families and communities like an internal. investigation has found that some children suffer racist abuse even before they're old enough to understand the hatred was being told at them we're talking about toddlers we're talking about babies some children have been so profoundly affected by racist slurs or even using makeup to disguise their appearance. racist insults were sprayed on the front door of a family home in manchester this year the 10 year old boy living here was traumatised the incident shared on twitter led to public outcry when the culprit was caught by police he said bricks it was playing on his mind. britain's departure

from the e.u. has turbo charged the public debate over immigration. a spate of attacks 2 years ago in london a man just have a crude prejudice towards ethnic minorities muslims difference. p.c.c. hopes the findings will draw attention to a culture of casual racism that starts with adults who filters down to children these are racially charged times british tolerance is being put to the test. london . it's time to take a look at the headlines here in al-jazeera now iran has rejected accusations made this is somebody. that is a threat to regional and global security the gulf cooperation council and the arab league largely backed saudi arabia's condemnation of iran but iraq said it didn't

agree with the group's final statement. you have. in the midst of this tense time and rapidly changing developments in a regional and international environment full of tension edge threats we are watching before our eyes the escalation of a regional and international crisis which can turn anti-war if they're willing to offer us all if the crisis is not managed well then we will be faced with the danger of a regional and international confrontation which will bring tragedy to our countries . cutter's prime minister attended the talks it was the 1st high level meeting since saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a blockade saudi arabia's foreign minister indicated his country's position hasn't changed. the qatar participated in previous summits so it is not new it is true this time they were represented by the prime minister of the saudi

stance like the other countries is that we are looking for a solution for the cause of the problems and the crisis between these countries in qatar hopefully there will be a solution if it comes back to the right path. sudan's military council has declared a protest in the capital khartoum a danger to the country demonstrators have been staging a sit in outside the military headquarters for weeks the army has also ordered out to syria's office to close giving the reason. mexico's president wants talks with washington after dark trump said he'll impose tariffs on goods from mexico unless it stops illegal immigration the u.s. president says the 5 percent tariff will be enforced from june the 10th it will be increased every month until something is done those are your headlines the news continues here now the after

a stay with us. on june the 4th 1989 a chinese state crackdown on pro-democracy protesters led to the tiananmen square massacre we'll be talking to those who were there and looking at what's changed in china since then join us on al-jazeera coverage of. 30 years on. this a gold rush in the philippines with hundreds of millions of dollars but no one wants you to know about it still. might if you can see them by the night in the annual in the mission don't you know. this illegal industry is leaving a trail of misery for its workers was very few fame. you could look at them and their families. will be putting it in the bottom of the bag the last.

one i wene 50 investigates why people in the philippines a dying for gold. on the pacific coast 350 kilometers east of manila is the town of paris. it's also known as gold town hardly. call for unity in the month of the now but i mean you do not need to. come for britain long are it's going to wind up on the nothingness that they remain look at in the area you know. why i'm willing to give this gold a gent's tells us that the sleepy town is home to a highly profitable illegal gold industry once normal high grade $100.00 on you suddenly plummet what one room one sort of thing going to be from what i

mean you know you are going numb going to try to live in stone in stone brilliant. jeremy millen is a miner in an illegal gold mine it's all he's ever known a con man coming. out of season. 4. quite a long time for. a while but bought a little more than 6 little dimple from the top was good when a bone of another. the. boy got me. 6 days a week he makes these 30 minute journey to convert me back. here he did in the cover of the mangrove swamp and illegal gold mining saudis in operation besides

supply gold for the black market trade. they showed up because of fog of war but of course i didn't. mine is like jeremy i'm known as players they work at these mines without any of the necessary permits. here the play is practice compressed in mining the most dangerous form of gold mining in the world. it's also illegal in the philippines miners have to work underwater for long hours to get the gold buried deep underground. they breathe through a narrow rubber tube that's connected to a compressor because then i'm going to feed. them just what we're doing with the ukraine because the only. real. world a little bit pits a dog close to

a river so they fill up with water as soon as the mine is. going to love. not just what not only. are you going to. say been over 6. despite the dangers the miners have only the most basic equipment to work with them or not for the fun of playing a. lot of climb up finding the pattern people must undergo. becoming pulled out. of. a long day for. their thoughts on the fight. with the. police or make the phone going to die it's not me saying i think i'm. going up

where. i am for it's own place it's. a valid point the bottom of. it's almost pitch black and it's cold. i don't want to call for a 2nd and then i'm done well i mean. it means i get out and funnily enough i look for the money in the. middle of the white and. then by white i'm looking for something. better for me that luckily i will hold on.

at the bottom jeremy's only able to feel he's playing around with his hands. he digs for rocks and puts them into a bag which is then dragged up the shaft with a rope by his friend on the surface. but rocks are inspected and the ones with gold i kept aside. income fluctuates from day to day fund so. this may be. a haven for long. but in fact i think we have a i mean we need somebody with i mean several of the wandering family will. go inside one up with another you're not going to know if i'm going to. play is like

jeremy or at the very bottom rung of an elaborate illegal network they answer to the people who fund these shadowy operations the finances of the program we call to say sorry you got pulled i'm just that's are going to be the surveillance if. you. don't think of or not you know that it's a business if we're going. to finance. work behind the scenes and are willing to break the law to keep their business going i shall leave you to use of me money. not legal. for an investment of about a $1000.00 to set up an illegal and the finances can expect to double their investment or more if they strike gold. wanted to. do the bulk of dollars will be

going to delete the offer to. let. let let me get to me because i believed in. the media but you. never hear about this but there are hardly. rock mayo's of the next link in the black market gold tried. in paris he didn't behind a small bike workshop we find in a legal rock mining operation. finances bring their rocks to places like these where workers like but not separate the gold from the rocks. when upal to follow what i mean bottle it up with.

a boiling. and wonderful but no hold off and i mean no. direct contact with mercury can lead to toxic poison. but the workers here seem to underestimate the danger it's. don't get me going i'm going to get a full plate of. bad pull out i mean labs. leveled a 1000000. for. someone you know what. i mean by. the next step of the process is equally dangerous work as he helped me to separate

the rule gold from the minute curing. i'm going on for you will show you was. only a goodie before and. i was one of them but i was a muslim on muslim money and i thought i was. without any safety precautions were kids here risk respiratory failure oh for as little as $5.00 a day. went by. when . i have a boy and i'm going to play some put it on. his face i'm not open about global warming and didn't get. to some the cost of extracting the small amount of gold on the surface it was years later and it's a huge cost. jerry

francis has been working in illegal gold mines in power col a for the past 20 years but for the last 3 months he hasn't been able to work. to do. a. good enough. i don't need but when i laugh at my shadow a boy. did the end of. my simple mind i will begin by. him from behind. the curtain. and it's time for us to. see. if. it's really true when really

really you're in this or the. post where the shoe sitting room and. who you are going to be for her good looks from. you the fight over who. has he says israel has experienced mixed with the. coaches make sure this isn't related to my family duties to refer you to this right here larry tonight was these are young men you know you are doing. now and then when. they exposed r r vers. the toughest part to kind of keep you from is you know it's. not going to force her to understand in the scene i know who is who can receive an answer. and her and her are there who are. part of. conceiving and i couldn't come because since my.

conniving is like a chicken. which. is what i believe but allow me for a long time i have a lovely quote when you put one up all in one thing in a line up in my voice before my mouth bought it will still. on the way level one more than all those i wonder why don't. they want to know where i want to. know what i'm boycotting but on my knuckle my bottom will. let you know they. are doing enough for me must go on. and on when i'm going to hire new. people who want to go home. to buy a new career not. really really but the. bottom

line is deal with the impact on the health agencies who active middlemen between finances and buy is a profit making. money law school you can offer. you some by. force some want to draw on more to produce extra pairs of. i'm going off. now another to bring this. class in i'm going. to pin this and i'm gonna be alone. because did the general jones going to honey know about the move to move work to meet. the agents get the role gold processed before it can

be sold. the gold is refined by trained chemists in illegal processing inside. st louis was. one point to long. haul you off for far as your. the good gold needs to be refined to remove impurities. to be cool want to feel that it will hold on the. machine. really quickly. divorce.

and start it screening. almost 24 karat gold. the refined gold is now ready to be salt. lake shops affronts the trading in illegally mines goals. the board you know your money. should not the. people of the agent with hidden cameras to see where he sells his gold and giving them a show. on their computer shop longs. or in the munition i'm going. to get nothing by anything that i don't know some of. them a little hanging. about. him gosh.

so you're going to be on the money and you know. i'm no man on the cards i'm good. well players at the bottom of the hierarchy make a little more than $4.00 a day the agents can make more than 10 times that amount in a single transaction. because i got up early and put up a little bit of a little bit on. the last thing i'm buying in the nest. or in the.

bylaw local gold produces in the philippines must sell it gold to the central bank . but many prefer to do their business here at this black market in binondo manila chinatown. we set up an undercover operation to talk to a buyer at the black market. to get ready we are ready. is it filming now yet. we spot a man standing around suspiciously. posing as interested gold sellers as we approach him. let them.

eat he turns out to be a gold agent. black market dealers here routinely buy refined gold without asking for documentation to verify its source. of the old. boy. well. the agent off is to introduce us to his boss a big time gold buyer. but. then i think one of the one of.

his bosses waiting in a quiet corner behind a row of legitimate jewelry shops. i don't have time for a lot of. busy people. and i hope they don't. busy allow all of that. all. busy that anybody is i need. a lot of vision and. i actually. like the lonely but all. but i doubt it but we have a wonderful. table that in. the

by a becomes suspicious and ends the deal abruptly we decide to leave before our cover is blown. it's estimated that in 201290 percent of the gold from small scale mining in the philippines was traded on the black market and sold over the sea. the demand for gold has devastated their lives for ever like julian drawing. a gun in the room for 21. 25 well i say i mean the immediately and i got. subbed in this awful. thing in. the. head not on the inside not. so in the view of the one on

my side on the. meaning of the side and if i mean you know he. then. me looks the most and the one human on the court. on monday less than a cut in. that often or in the mindset baring guy pollen as collapsed killing julie's husband and 3 other miners who were working underground. in. the goodness in the suburbs or. the moon long wind blowing up out of. the financier of the illegal mind offered julie cash in exchange for his silence. so i believe this happened within the pattern and in the $100.00. 1 of the.

battle. inside of the dust. i only need to. look up a satellite them by the when the throw. with no other means to support her family julie accepted the money it wasn't an easy decision we got it the whole go i know. the one thing us how. bad our 100000 bad us a boy you know south pole a sucky this even i don't know what god called him in the night. and yet in the. world the authorities attempted to track down the financier of the mine but he was never found and nobody was held accountable for the accident. today julie is still

haunted by the tragedy. in the on the musical at the limits of the moon i'm not counting son minutes a month it's not going to be the love the look of the song that finds. the cup in the. little bit of that little. no win the ashes the blue moon. and. this tragedy prompted a major investigation into the dangers of compressing mining. it resulted in the philippine senate passing a nationwide ban on small scale gold mining. but in paris cali illegal gold mining continues.

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iran has hit back at accusations made by arab leaders that it's a threat to global security to describe their condemnation as baseless. and said that saudi arabia was dividing the entire region the leaders attended emergency summit in mecca where saudi king solomon called for arab states to confront iran iraq refused to sign a separate communique urging action on terror ron warning aggressive rhetoric could make the situation worse the palestinian plight was also on the agenda with president mahmoud abbas calling on the leaders to reject president donald trump's proposed peace deal with israel. we called for an end to days israeli occupation of palestine under stablish meant to abolish the an independent state on the borders of 1987 with east jerusalem as its capital i would like to also reaffirm our absolute stance against american attempts to undermine

international law with what is called the deal of the century to abolish the principle of a 2 state solution and qatar's prime minister attended the talks it was the 1st high level meeting since the 2017 blockade on his nation began andrew simmons reports. this is the 1st high level contact between cattle in saudi arabia for nearly 2 years the qatari prime minister shaikh abdullah bin nasa being funny and saudi king salamander bin abdel-aziz the saudis are trying to show they have wider backing in their effort to counter what they say is iran's growing influence the qatari prime minister here briefly shaking hands with the king of bahrain kuwait zimmy or trying to encourage some dialogue as he has done since 2017 he's been attempting to mediate in the dispute between cats and the blockading countries of saudi arabia bahrain the united arab emirates and egypt. what the

saudis want to do is to try to project a united front to 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. but iraq objected to a communique attacking iran issued later which supported the rights of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to defend their interests following what they say were attacks on shipping and oil installations and i quote any future when you have as in what proper what are my brothers in the midst of this tense time and the quick developments and a tense regional and international environment full of threats we are watching before our eyes the escalation of a regional and international crisis which can turn into a war that will engulf assault. the saudis may have the support of the united states but some observers think their tactics are high risk when the g.c.c.

is so divided instead of uniting and unifying the gulf region to stand as a bloc a solid block they are actually dividing it into different countries they are this integrating. regional organization that you see a reference there to the blockade of catarrh after allegations made by saudi the u.a.e. bahrain in egypt but the country backs terrorism accusations firmly denied by category leaders saudi arabia isn't giving the impression any breakthrough is imminent. cats are participated in previous summits so it is not new it is true this time they were represented by the prime minister of the saudi stance like the other countries is that we are looking for a solution for the cause of the problems and the crisis between these countries and qatar hopefully there will be a solution if qatar comes back to the right path. but the issue of iran dominates

the thinking and talking saudi arabia may regard support from the g.c.c. and the arab league as a diplomatic advantage but with opposition led by iraq the message isn't one of all arab unity andrew symonds. let's talk to 2 of our correspondents covering this still developing story rob matheson is in baghdad for us and will update us on iraq's concerns about the criticism of iran but 1st let's go live to tech ronn iran's capital al-jazeera same bus ravi is with us so zain what's been the the reaction there in tehran to the summit well we've heard strong remarks from iran's government here in teheran iran's foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said that he regretted how saudi arabia was using the opportunity to host the organization of islamic countries and to host

these meetings as a platform for what he said were divisive policies if course condemned and rejected all of the allegations against iran in response to saudi arabia accusing iran of fomenting tensions in the region and he said that the saudi arabians iran knows that saudi arabia does not necessarily speak for all the countries in the g.c.c. no doubt as a nod to iran's friends in the region like iraq and qatar and kuwait and oman there are obvious differences of opinion among the arab leaders of iran how iran's leaders like you to read those divisions. well here in terre han there is little doubt that the divisions that seem to be there between the arab countries will come as a positive signal to iran is government in so far as policies towards iran that have been very very strained in aggressive from countries like saudi arabia and the

u.a.e. leaders who will no doubt be taking some solace in the fact that there are countries that still support her on that aren't following the saudi narrative of iran being behind the tensions in the region but at the same time it is international codes day to day the day that iranians and people around the world rally in support of palestinian statehood in support of the palestinian people and to that end iranian leaders have been saying that what saudi arabia should be doing instead of preaching divisive policies that only help the israeli agenda by dividing leaders of the muslim world and making israel able to continue to oppress the palestinian people iranian leaders have been saying especially ahead of the oh i see meeting coming up in the next few hours that saudi arabia should be pushing in support of the palestinian cause instead of trying to divide the leaders of islamic countries are the same for the moment many thanks let's go live now to baghdad bob matheson

is in the iraqi capital rub iraq not at all happy with painting iran as the bogeyman is a threat to the region why. well it's really not a surprise that iraq would take this position because iraq has had years of good trading and cultural and religious relations with neighboring iran they're both shia dominated countries but also they are iran has been making a tremendous amount of investment in iraq as well they are ronnie in excuse me the iranian foreign minister mohamad as that if i was here just a few days ago and at that time the iraqi foreign minister mohammad al hakim said that iraq was opposed to one sided action by the united states and it was a rash it was opposed to u.s. sanctions on iran so that message fairly clear as far as where it comes to iraq standing with regard to iran but of course iraq also needs troops and support from

the united states and other foreign countries when we're dealing with the ongoing threat from my soul so once again iraq is finding itself in the middle of this very tense situation between the united states and its allies and iran is iraq it's all concerned that that position being at all this with saudi arabia and the u.s. could damage its relations with them both. i think that central to its concern i mean the principal concern is actually the fact that if there is any conflict between the united states and its allies and iran that iraq will be caught in the middle of it but certainly it is also concerned that there is going to be an enormous amount of pressure put on the on iraq in order to try to be encouraged to move away from one side or the other let me give you an example and the only part of april saudi arabia has done deals with iraq and put some of those deals included like $1000000000.00 worth of development loans to iraq and also

promised to give $500000000.00 in aid to be able to help iraq's exports it also promised to build for free 100000 seater sports stadium just outside baghdad these are all significant investments and there are there are other countries around the world who are making similar types of investment and those countries are also from the gulf region as well and iraq is going to be very concerned that unless it is seen to make a move away from iran that leverage could be amused by using the economic pressures to actually try to force it to move away from it so the agencies to run it really does not want to be in this position of having to take sides in this tension rob many thanks rob madison live in baghdad well g.c.c. and arab leaders in saudi arabia are now turning their attention to the organization of islamic cooperation with its 57 member countries spread over 4 continents the allies see is the 2nd largest organization after the united nations

it was established 16 years ago to end its words safeguard and protect the interests of the muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace but critics say it's failed to achieve its goals because of divisions among some of its members. joining me now in the studio sultan baraka who is the director of the doha institute's center of a conflict and humanitarian studies always good to have you with us salt on saudi arabia wanted to project a united front against iran at this these summits it hasn't got that has it no not really. no one disagrees with saudi arabia that iran has over the years been interfering in regional affairs iran has been causing trouble. it is very obviously like syria iraq is they sure is really whether there is enough substance to convince the world the muslim countries on that up can trees.