activity attracted regional international and internal palestinian attention. that. is not. the. heck a. paper that the. to do evil of the gods feed the palestinian authority decided to do an exclusive deal with the british gas. it would have been normal business a practice to invite international tenders to encourage competition and to get the best deal for gaza and the palestinians. say. i asked why he thought the palestinian authority decided to do the british gas deal. that i

walked in on that. cannot be and yet there were days. when a home to him. while he was on and her and looked up with. my own father started. the project known as gaza marine took this unusual do diction right to from the start what's more it emerged that in public it's made him miss how. to negotiate with the british guests. but behind the scenes other palestinian authority members were holding separate secret negotiations with the same company but under different conditions. that i had no. back then the friend. that we had

batted home method yet for now we are forward but i like to have an. economic yanni who would get. well before. they have a shot at all or. on the 19th of october 1909 the palestinian authority there be a signed a contract with the british gas. but the deal terms it contain for all 4 signatories were quite controversial. the contract said that the british guys would receive 60 percent of the gasoline use verb the consolidated contractors' companies would get 30 percent but verver palestine investment fund would get only 10 percent.

the palestinian authority also gave the developers exclusive frights for the discovery exhibition and marketing of the oil and gas in the gaza offshore area. what the 3 got further can to oversee was another close. which said that the palestinians were obliged to inform israel of any oil and gas exploration and production in the palestinian territories. this contract was never submitted to the palestinian legislative council or published in local newspapers. but yasser arafat signed the contract. as did my head of mustardy then minister of economy and iterate and how to be some sort of in a chairman of the palestinian petroleum authority. i don't. act. i

called both model muscly and had to be some sort to ask for more details. but. we did send a text message but unfortunately he didn't reply. or not we're not. on the bus what. sort of. a letter would that sort of. mean.

at the solar to let you put a hot minute of how loud it british gas is now owned by israel. and asked them to comment on the negotiations and contract with the b. this is the chill could not advice on our questions above that in 2018 it had reached an agreement with the palestine investment fund the p.i.a.f. to divest its entire interests and operate a ship in the gaza marine license offshore palestine. then we are called has been working at the middle east since to 2014 when i was working on this investigation 2015 the palestinian authority didn't seem to want to talk to me about this topic and i called up several different places i called up the palestinian vestment fund and i tried to figure out who was in charge of this file even i i had trouble even finding out who was in charge of the gas strategy my sense of why they didn't want

to talk to me as a couple of sources told me this topic is very sensitive you know it's very touchy don't touch it nobody's going to want to talk to you about it. but. over the course of reporting this story i didn't really get the sense that actually it was it was sensitive it was more that i don't think anybody actually knew what the strategy was and therefore nobody wanted to take responsibility on the record for what they were or weren't doing in relation to marry. the man at the head that i'm. with the poppy and i think. the. layout of shape. was out of the because of the war on. bobby let alone for he was about to behead the. law might have he said. some of the men had a detrimental young and had that particular sadness to occur is that i'm a sailor he said of mohamed morsi. while the her.

this is my mother she also known as her. his name is in the british gas contract as the only representative of the palestinian authority. this is clause in the contract says that rashid who was the economic adviser to yasser arafat was the only person who could act on behalf of the palestinian authority on anything relating to the guy's agreement for the duration of the contract. the developers were also blushed to cuba she didn't formed of their activities. giving muhammad though she the ex occlusal fry to handle everything in the contract was controversial. there'd be a accuses him of wasting millions of dollars money laundering and him busy link public funds while he was head of the palestine investment fund and if then the

fact the political party means that the she does know a close ally of the deposed leader mohammed dahlan who lives in abu dhabi. in february $29000.00 the arab interior minister's council issued an international arrest warrant for mohammed the sheet but he still moves of freely between b. and k. . i asked her i mean abdul both mohammed rashid and the split in fact. there are number you know what i have them her mother she had another world does not know her mother she but the earth use a lot of color for that and i feel that a lady had what i have. left but you know what a birth. and i don't have a deadline or in order to have that and. i said betsy a c.e.o. has so much of the a lot of you know how deep and well how the facade how p.t. one act and that was so what in the other my left that the that what i had thought

that her mother she had left what and when i cut the deficit a little for us the new year when war money there and at the end of a lot of you also get a lot of. english to try to conduct muhammad rashid inviting him to respond to the allegations made by the palestinian authority it during his time in charge of the palestine investment fund. she didn't reply to our message. however he did the response to the arabic version of this phone on a palestinian news website. he denied what he called the false allegations made by you. he said. i challenge anyone to prove there was a new corruption that guys are going to deal i was the negotiator and no one else of a concert at the palestinian governments and their international organizations couldn't find a single corruption point and the deal. israel was not

a signatory to the contract but seems to have been if it is from it considered a pretty elusive place of course we have a duty for electing one aircraft how to. sharpen for the stinney how the. look to solve the your what you want to have a little economic repeating it difficult year in an animal yet don't keep a list of shelf can must can you spot and you. can even in the near philistine your hardest with callao off well come on in italy. soon after the contract was signed there were negotiations between british gas and israel about buying gaza from the gaza marine project. israeli guys and energy expert i meet more was among those who advise the israeli government over 30. am to develop gaza

. that was 336 kilometers offshore gaza gaza city. in what the death of 650 meters was to develop a subsidy but when pipeline. to ask along is there any there is area of a lot of very large area. british girls plan to do girls didn't facility in ashkelon and they feel could have been remotely controlled for. gas is measured in d.c. and billions of a cubic meters it is important to no. forward. viable development of them again a market of fretless to p.c.m. period should be. should be developed so because otherwise. there was no thoughts such a comic the ability to develop this field no such

a market does not exist in the palestinian authority the market even. today the palestinian authority is very very small very very limited maybe half a b.c.m. of perspective power station engineering in other words. 0 point one p.c.m. for a power station in gaza all together it can sum up to about one c.m. of gas so the market for this gas is basically is. on the 27th of september 2000 palestinian president yasser arafat gave the green light for drilling to start of the gaza cost. the next day the right wing israeli politician ariel sharon's approve accretive visit to the aqsa mosque compound it triggered violence which he quickly lit to the 2nd intifada. 5 months later sharon was elected the prime minister and the next few years so

there's really palestinian relationship deteriorate badly the peace process is stalled completely. but the gears of continued behind closed doors. the palestinian the regime minister as a michele one held secret talks with his israeli counterparts yousif but it's. a show as currently chairman of the palace then when a tree authority. i tried to contact him but he refused to talk about his role in gaza money. and he was not and. all the palestinians i contacted whose names came up in research into the gaza marina project declined to be interviewed for this approach. however we did manage to speak to the

former israeli minister for infrastructure and energy does it but it's. he spoke about his secret negotiations with as. i had negotiated in the suv with mr ayers on the show or from the family from the tribe a show of very prominent known in gaza he actually risked his life to negotiate with be honest at the high base of the intifada he came to jerusalem east jerusalem but then at least we consider it as one city to negotiate with me and to keep on developing the field because he thought that it was good politically for him. i'm telling you he risked his life i have no doubt i i was know it for effect because we have to guard him not from us from extremist in the arab world in the palestinian world and he did whatever he could in order to develop.

but it's good eliza's how sensitive this whole subject is for palestinians. we said that we had it right to speak to us from a show where mohammad and other be a figures but that they had all refused to be interviewed i think they are free fall from extremists that would extend those to expose the story and i think they are afraid. after 7 the rounds of secret negotiations israel and that be a reach an initial deal gas for electricity. i reached a deal with the policy or authority mind you at that time goes i was ruled by fatah not by hamas and i reached a deal with the we the israeli we shall not pay money for the gas to them we shall use their share a. to reduce the debt they owed the israeli electric company they

owed a lot of money i think they still do. for delivery of electricity n b what we will do is we shall be able to substation near the border of gaza and against the gas will supply electricity. there be a agree to the israeli temps even though they didn't favor the palestinians after all the guys was in their waters but sharon rejected the deal because the palestinians he claimed might use that even you to support what he called terrorism . the british guys realize the deal with the israelis would not be easy. in 2003 a british gas announced that israel was love the only player of the table and that it was also talking to egypt about the transporting gaza from gaza through its

ports. but egypt was also holding its own secret talks of the same time with other companies about selling egyptian gas that was there all. the results and egypt israel does the. aria shot on than a blocked all means for the palestinians to extract gus in the gaza met in person but. this is a challenge to follow the. koran corruption is so full that. this is the only way to do. a course of a minister a keenest a european judge tasked with imposing or a new order and a trial testing the nose of a newly formed nation. witnessed. highway on al-jazeera after decades. program with instruction data agree computers can only.

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st petersburg those are the headlines it's back to al-jazeera world next then it's the news hour see you then by. in 1900 yards was discovered in the eastern mediterranean of the coast of gaza. the palestinian authority that be signed the contract with the british gas for the company to exploit and sell their gas in a project called gaza money. untamable miss how to fill jazeera arabic and i'm asking why this gas has not been exploited for 20 years and why the subject has hardly had any international coverage. one possible market for the guys was israel but the prime minister ariel sharon it looked the deal because he was

concerned about the palestinians making it even you out of it. vinod good more complicated. it british guys to try to do a deal with egypt to distribute the gaza gus via pipelines. not knowing that egypt was doing a separate deal to sell its own guys to israel be in gyptian deal quote unquote was presented as a one time deal the prices were very low and the quantities were actually unlimited which was. looked unrealistic at at 1st place. mobile it was a little vessel for us leni. a sort of if not had he allowed really on many the fold of can with. masai possibly to as they are south of the e.u. and in general you saw even a home for him feel very can look at mumbai the office the new obama not offered

only in one act the will bomb a candle i'll be more plain yaml he opposed the advance of philistine electors of a teddy bear. i miss a lot of television as bucky happy. to mystify them and. it was now that the british guys and the v.a. realized that they had gas that they couldn't sell. if you don't have as long as you don't have markets for these gov so the value of these guards is nearly is almost 0 and the fact is that we are sitting you know 18 years following their discovery and this field was not discovered. a minute in the wall of water that was this is the dome of all of that would probably be that you can pick them up for the meeting. in january 2006 and a shot on suffered a stroke and went into a coma. you had olmert became acting israeli prime minister.

meanwhile i must warn the palestinian legislative council elections and form the government this complicated things on the international stage. how mass was asked to recognize the state of israel and all the peace deals done by the. but how mass refused and israel and egypt and both sanctions on the peace in the west bank and gaza. and there was a previously a palestinian unity government in gaza and the east back from march to june 2007. use a film and see was communications minister and i asked him if he was told about the guess the. law. it was a lot. and

. more to the. let me also have a year ready. were you could know. the palestinian unity government ended in a split in the in june 2007 and how mass took full control of gaza. and israel huge almost popularity fell as israeli prime minister but on the gaza front he decided to hold his own negotiations with the british gas without any involvement of the palestinian authority. in the u.k. british gas was experiencing its only frustration with the gaza project it was

entitle to a 60. percent share of revenue and its deal with the period but was not it extracting any gas and israel had no plan execute a sheen of the gas field you almost irish talks with the british gas for the u.k. government under tony blair. but the talks failed and the british gaza closed down its offices in israel. when the british and us thought of he says that israel has the palestinians to run some have been on the gaza many universes that would have meant there was a freedom of information act that was submitted with their u.k. government by an organization i think tank called a shop aca which is a palestinian virtual think tank the freedom of information documents that have come out actually showed that israel had commercial reasons and it said that they

would not allow palestinians to access their resources until the palestinians can guarantee that they would sell gas to israel at about a 3rd of the price of gas on the international markets so they were essentially seeking or trying to force a passage about $2.00 per and b.t.u. rather than $65.00 to $7.00 which is where was the price of gas at the time and for b.g. which is a private company that wouldn't have been profitable so essentially there was no commercial. viability for the project anymore because of the restrictions that israel put on. with a change of government in egypt in 22 of its borders with gaza would open this enabled how must reform its 2nd government and revisit the gaza guys project. these pictures which are made public for the 1st time. in 22 by

a local gaza company attacks applauding the guys feet using the list of liberty of technology. divers spotted this under the sea but. the believed they were from the gas field so samples were taken for further examination. he was involved in this a project and says that the local company could told of maps and other data about possible new guy's feats of gas but this was why this really gyptian blockade of the 30 was tightening. most of.

ringback us around. but. almost all the. rubbish. story in. the community and. what american. this was the equipment used to try and tap into the gas field. service suggested that gas lay at around 600 meters below the sea but it. has no more clout than of a. dude in kenya to do the job or that was he. couldn't she couldn't afford for soccer. stop

on. the caribbean. it was the most wonderful for me automated. and a couple of hours. could it hurt at all of course we. had. these attempts only lasted for a few months as israel and egypt tighten the blockade on gaza even further. a mother is. the one who had the worst going to 3 of the. iraq war. to get

a bunch of. brother nor that an affair and. that look in her. business and what not only. the matter and no. more recent research suggests that the number of gas fields and the quantity of gas in the gaza field could be greater than the official figures. as i asked then if she thought there might be more fields than those in the original gaza marina project. so you're asking is it only the 2 hours yet no it's possible there could be many other wells i've read in places from experts that it could be up to $88.00 wells and the pattern is that the area can't be explored

at this point given the the limits that the israelis put on the maritime territory for the palestinians. looked at ibrahim's safe is a former jordanian minister for energy and mineral resources. he was a member of the official team that helped talks with the palestinian authority about buying and importing into jordan. and had the fear i asked him if he thought there were more gas fields waiting to be discovered because it can really afford the time and i'm going to be have. a new team is. probably plagiarism and i like to show. you love so much a matter with the need to be labeled as a player. would have to survive in the heat of

a few months of my it to me to have it on the field should it get out of here and work that. would have been lucky. because. it can feel it was the 2nd or. so you know not there are at least 8 gas fields of gaza but no one knows the exact number. is there as currently takes all the guys available and the international community appears to take no action. there is evidence that by 2012 israel extract its 42000000000 cubic meters from the muddy b. fields leaving it severely depleted. that would have supplied the palestinians with enough gas for 15 years in may 2017 the center for social multi-national corporations saw more based in

amsterdam published a report about the activities of noble in a regime called beneath the troubled waters. noble in the regime is based in houston texas and is extensively involved in the development and exploration of israeli licensed off shore gas fields in the eastern mediterranean very port is extremely detailed but one of its conclusions is that the company has potentially contributed to a violation of the collective right of self-determination of palestinian actual gas was indeed drained from the border field due to gas extraction from the noah field it could be argued that noble energy participated in an act of pillage in violation of international humanitarian and criminal law which could also incur criminal liability. or ask nobody in the regime to respond to these

allegations. very blight saying their very operations comply with their own code of conduct and the laws of the united states and the governments where they operate. we are confident we have not extracted gas from outside our israel easy license areas or had an adverse impact on the ability of others to develop their resources . what kind of report. i can give you any report you all very well and. you know why by the way. nope you look at the geological lier. now let's assume here is geological layer ok full with gas now i pump here this is my territory and the palestinians are here now when i pump here of course the layer begins to dissolve now gas begins to move from this side

to that side because if i pump here then this side is getting deployed do i pump. palestinian gas or at the gas good question depends who we are asking depends what kind of answer you want. if you're a palestinians of course it's another part of the of the occupation of the terrible things in the horrible atrocities we committed against them if you're an israeli of cause you don't peoples geological layers do not know borders borders do not exist in geological layers i mean you play you play geologic you play geology and geology is you know they don't know borders. this map was a drawn by jim sister in the department of international affairs at the trinity washington university in the us. it shows the authority of the waters of the coast

of gaza and israel. since 1909 the palestinians have only been allowed to explore the small the green area. is the current argues that the international maritime you know gives the palestinians that i took the border they're much bigger area and that. this potentially contains further gas fields which would be of huge benefit to the palestinians if they were allowed to exploit them. the mary b. field is an example of why it is important for the palestinians to take steps to declare an exclusive economic zone it isn't that could possibly allow it within the palestinian exclusive economic zone. however because the palestinians did not make a claim to it israel was able to start production and essentially deplete the field if the palestinians do not take steps to claim an easy it's possible that other

areas of enormous economic value could be innocence claimed by israel. and once the resources are gone they're not coming back. coming from so many being. part of the electorate one thing and one completely mine at the now as well i mean . if you're. even going. there's a philistine i'll. speak to cam in a minute and they will do a lot for us then you have to have to shovel for the thing if you had a bit of a levy is there will be a 2nd coming. and so i mean you have to hold a vessel for this we needed to be a shuttle for the really think about was that had been going on but what it had done became you could get a shovel full of any well you models and probably have a ship. or a shovel for the fleet if you could. live in sin is a large natural gas field in the military of the coast of israel it due to come

online later in $29.00. and what would have been an extraordinary deed in the $24000.00 the palestinian authority announced a plan to buy gas from. so back in 20152014 before the p.a. had agreed to buy gas israeli gas from leviathan which was an interesting prospect given the gas that was already in gaza marine and the deal was eventually called off under i think i believe under pressure from from the b.d.s. movement who were quite upset that the palestinians would buy israeli gas when they had their own gas just sitting off the coast. i think it was something that the p.a. decided decided against because politically it just wasn't palatable and it put them in a bad light and other the jordanians did and find catherine a riot and so and why did why did it happen i think public say that he was under

pressure from the israelis to buy at what it was it called after b.d.s. movement pushed against it. i think the issue is very sensitive. for the palestinians to discuss. i think it's. in the hands of. of. and he's the head of the palestinian investment fund so none of the. politicians always of the professionals in palestine are willing to discuss the issue it is a sensitive issue in this respect. in february 26th the real dutch shell the british gas and so technically became the new developer of the 2 gaza marine gas fields. but in marshy 2018 announced it was giving up its stake in the undeveloped gas field of gaza.

i tried to get an interview with someone from sion to ask why they had pulled out from the gaza money indeed. but chil declined my request. so what next for the girls feel discriminated to continue 28000000000 cubic meters that's the total consumption of frisbee in for an entire here. so it's my understanding that shell had a 55 percent stake in gaza marine so now the palestinians are left trying to find a company to pick up this 55 percent of the guys in marine park. is a kind of like as to why did he do it when i don't know. what i would to do list of .

what i did i'm just a local supermarket all of your. friendly. out of it i'm telling you was over there when you were saying than i care to. share the. liberal book or go on me at least picture for a while is to give them is to really value. you want to be have. or and you want a pound of women shake out of the hard work to do while taking over deliver us from our family that we have it when can we want you to have a few more because if you have them. this is a palestinian government the comment dated june 2015. it gives the minister of foreign affairs the power to contact the russian and the chinese companies to blur the guns feed. the un in committed the freedom to contact. them to keep them while the hasn't done enough to dip in more men must live or must

live on but then after that and topped off with the left defeated has to have a 2nd coming to a fall from a lot of. michael merely kabir. and that they would let them get a sham if you don't want to who are shocked. shocked that for this to mean so what went on with them and at the moment of foresight. personally for the past and ends in gaza if you look at the past 2 decades if that's any anything to tell us what the future is going to be like i think we're in a waiting in a waiting period where people in gaza are going to be in the dark looking out into the ocean at gas flames coming from from the fields that they could be producing on and they're not and that's purely because i don't think that this gas will be produced until there is a political agreement between the israelis and palestinians and between hamas and

fatah. various between fatah and hamas shows no sign of being resolved. as for israeli palestinian politics the picture is no brighter. in average 2019 a coalition led by binyamin netanyahu the right wing likud party won the israeli parliament 3 elections this is not good news for the palestinians. have a better life now is the us with the advisors their approach to the region are based on what we have seen so far. it's hard to see how the dormant in the resource in the east room with the theory and can't benefit the palestinians in the near future anymore than it has in the past 20 years.

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security forces yes said the man had recently returned home after being in exile for years but was ordered to leave a week ago by the ruling john tom gunshots rang out again in khartoum for the 3rd successive day the death toll since monday's attack on protesters outside the military headquarters is now at least 60 that's according to a doctor's group on may the 30th the military ordered the immediate closure of al-jazeera is office in hard to without giving a reason and sudanese media outlets were also closed a spokesman for the military later warned the protest site was becoming unsafe and was a threat to national security the internet has also been severely restricted inside the country all of this happening the u.n. security council meanwhile has failed to reach a consensus on any action and a u.s. undersecretary of state has spoken on the phone with the saudi dip deputy defense minister about sudan all this coming up in

a moment but we begin our coverage with alexy o'brian. they're being called barricades of anger at the latest effort by protestors to pressure the ruling military council to hand over power to civilians. the these prayers not only mocking the muslim aid holiday but also remembering those who cannot join them the victims of what protesters say was a brutal massacre witnesses described finding bodies burnt in tents after an attack by security forces on the camp in khartoum their protest as saw as a shrine to their revolution they say some of the dead were taken by armed forces and others dumped in the river this video which can't be verified shows crowds gathering as bodies pulled from the water. the military's being accused of trying to stop the violence being documented and shared by confiscating mobile phones.

next week will begin our civil disobedience the military council has cut off the internet they cut off the telecommunication networks to cover their crimes we promise we'll unveil the military's crimes committed on the streets from killing to rape to humiliate to fear we will continue this revolution the crackdown appears to be continuing activists report raids by a paramilitary group on hospitals looking for injured protesters and the medical workers treating them. and one of the rapid support forces came in and attacked me and he hit me here and over here as well may god punish them the doctors union says the savage beating suffered by patients and their colleagues 6 a part of a wider campaign of violence yesterday we have not looked as a be raped. since women have been raped in one of the nearby. neighborhoods to the headquarters of the military council this it which and cannot carry on. the military judge has apologized for the violence and says it

will investigate its called for elections within 9 months something the opposition has rejected when we consider it a statement of a coup and a counter attack on the people's revolution and we refused to do all from its beginning to the end we refused to call for an early election and we consider the statement of the military council conforms with the counter-revolution and is linked to the interests of the old regime who just weeks ago protesters gathered full of hope that talks with the military council were on the verge of a breakthrough. now that hype has turned to anger and protesters say they won't back down alexei o'brian al jazeera let's bring in martin ploughed he's a senior research fellow at the institute of common law studies is joining us our from london so there have been a few developments over the past couple of hours i mean 1st ask you about this arrest of the deputy head of the sudan people's liberation movement north rebel

group what do you make of his arrest. well i've met him several times i know very well he's. a fine man and somebody who does represent a considerable portion of the of of. and it's a great pity that they've done that i thought that his return to sudan was a measure of hope was an indication that perhaps at least he thought there was genuine movement so it is a real step backwards that they've arrested him and i just hope that he's well. and we also know martin that there has been a phone call between the u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs who's reached out to the saudi deputy defense minister now we know that the saudis do have leverage over the military council in sudan how do you expect them to use that leverage going forward. well i think that what they're going to try and do is you say they do have leverage

they have a couple of $1000000000.00 worth of aid that they have promised to sudan and that's absolutely vital for the sudanese to keep going because of the dire comic situation there is in sudan they really need the aid and you know it does seem to have begun to produce some kind of movement the head of the army now talking as you said in your report about apologizing for the killings which just is extraordinary when you know these with this it wasn't just something that happened randomly was clearly a planned act but nonetheless he has apologized it may mean that they are beginning to move back from the position and perhaps reopen the discussions with the protesters but something else that has happened is that the head of the african union says that his delegation is in. how to he they are negotiations in touch with all parties and they're expecting to have a report in the next day in the for the peace and security council of the african

union to meet perhaps tomorrow if that takes place and you begin to see a bit of movement from the sudanese military perhaps who pressure from society well then maybe you're beginning to get somewhere but exactly where that is i think it's far too early to tell but what about. protests protests what about the protesters and pressure on them because i'm just reading now and this is according to the reuters news agency that's reporting that the sudanese opposition leader has said we do not accept the military council's invitation to dialogue so what are the likely scenarios going forward in is this the right strategy by the protesters. well i think that that is something you can really probably only judge on the ground i mean you know i would hate to try and call it from from london or even from doha you know these people have sacrificed an enormous amount many of their friends and relatives will be either did or injured and you know they have to make

the call as to whether they think they are have sufficient strength to keep going on the streets to resist the military and to resist the security forces because i mean clearly it's not just the military it's the security forces that have been involved in the crackdown and not just in khartoum because of course this is a nationwide protest not if they feel that they're strong enough then probably it is right that they should hold out until the military really back down from the position that they've taken are and that they reopen the internet i mean that in itself would be an enormously positive step if they allowed the internet to reopen allow the journalists from abroad to come in and report and for it to stop the restrictions on people like al jazeera from reporting live from khartoum now if that happened then i think the situation would be the tension would begin to ease and perhaps they'd be a possibility for the military and the opposition to begin to come together but

something has to give and cannot be just on the side of the protesters there has to be a movement from the government to the world ok and martin platt thank you very much for giving us your analysis in egypt an attack is reported to have killed at least 8 security force members in northern sinai commanders say it happened at a checkpoint in the city of 5 eastern morning prayers no one has claimed responsibility previous attacks in the sinai have been blamed on what the government described as a terrorist group linked to i saw. russia's president vladimir putin says ties with china are at an unprecedented level so he welcomed the chinese president xi jinping as he arrived for a 3 day state visit to russia the leaders met in moscow ahead of talks which are likely to focus on the korean peninsula syria and venezuela the trip coincides with an economic forum in st petersburg stuff is joining us from moscow so the 2 countries have supported each other in the past on the international political

arena but the focus of this particular trip seems to be on their growing economic relationship. that's right there also the international topics are also high on the agenda but trade between russia and china has reached unprecedented levels as president putin has pointed out it has reach more than $100000000000.00 u.s. dollars last year and with this visit of course they want to increase that level to an even higher there will be trade deal signed and had a 3 day state visit president teaching thing called the press and put to take closest and most reliable friends among all the foreign leaders which is quite there a blunt and very. remarkable statement to make so this meeting is still ongoing and the trade relations are of course high on the agenda that we'll talk about gas and oil but also about the space car factory that could be open to hear

moscow and we will wait for their statements in the next hour or so and so what is the expected outcome and off the street a state visit. well they will talk about the international issues that they have very similar positions about like north korea both countries russia and china or want to emphasize that diplomatic relations and the diplomatic course needs to be. russia has mentioned before putting that the he wants to revive the 6 party talks and also that's something that china is very much in favor of the nuclear deal. about iran is also high on the agenda both nations also are in favor of holding that deal serious also on the china but as it's also about trade and putting this to a very next level but instead.