it. around says is determined to reduce its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal just hours after the u.s. imposes a new round of sanctions a maximum pressure u.s. national security advisor john bolton says he believes it's the only way to get iran to the negotiating table. hello again i'm out indonesia without you there live from doha also coming out. palestinians boycott a u.s. led investment conference for the middle east saying their dignity cannot people.

a prime minister and his ethiopians mourn the loss of military leaders killed during saturday's failed rebellion in the north. now iran remains defiant after the u.s. place new sanctions targeting its top leadership including the supreme leader ayatollah ali how many terror and says it will go ahead with its plan to reduce its commitment to the 2050 nuclear deal and that is despite of the increased pressure coming from washington the u.s. national security adviser john bolton he warns that all options remain on the table if iran continues to perceive what he called its nuclear ambitions but iran is saying that monday's sanctions of now permanently closed all avenues d for diplomacy is calling them outrageous and if he also can diffuse his washington. of

the line and then there's russia russia's accuse the us of being reckless moscow is warning of a dangerous scenario if tend to meet in washington and iran continues to mount and france says it's working with britain and germany to deescalate the crisis. he has more from the iranian capital tehran. in his 1st public appearance since iran shot down a u.s. surveillance drone last week president hassan rouhani did not hold back he said the latest sanctions targeting iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei are the irrational actions of a confused government didn't know it they are suffering from mental disability the white house is afflicted with mental retardation and doesn't know what to do. the supreme leader occupies such a protected position in public life that in iran insulting him is illegal in the u.s. applying pariah status to someone so highly revered has angered leaders into her own right but it only you know on my end

a lobbyist not me he is not only the leader of iran and he is the leader of iran and those who love the revolution and all muslims shia and non sheo all around the world iran's leader doesn't only belong terror on many people in lebanon syria iraq afghanistan pakistan kuwait and everywhere shia and non shia love him follow him and obey him and someone who has lost his mind does such a stupid and strange thing and for washington. iran is under such sweeping sanctions that the latest american move is entirely symbolic but later this week washington has said it will add iran's foreign minister zarif to the sanctions list attacking the country's top diplomat is something to her and says permanently close is the path to diplomacy mccain i mean we go if you're being honest and want to negotiate simultaneously do you want to impose sanctions on the foreign minister so it is clear that you are low. as the u.s.

continues its pressure campaign russia has vowed to help iran counter new u.s. sanctions. iran has been and remains our ally and partner and we consistently develop our relations both bilateral and multilateral which means any attempt to portray tehran as a main threat to regional security or to bring it into line with isis or other terrorist groups is unacceptable to us. but some u.s. officials remain undeterred the president has held the door open to real negotiations to completely and verifiably eliminate iran's nuclear weapons program its pursuit of ballistic missile delivery systems its support for international terrorism and its other malign behavior worldwide all that iran needs to do is to walk through that open door on tuesday foreign minister zarif said once again

iran's religious views mean it will never pursue a nuclear weapon and he also reminded people that america is the only nation to ever drop nuclear bombs on another country world leaders want cooler heads to prevail and washington keeps saying that it wants to calm things down through dialogue but the decision to sanction iran's supreme leader is something so insulting that for to one it might make a negotiated solution nearly impossible. to harangue. well the mounting tension over iran has been high on the agenda at a meeting between russia israel and the u.s. taking place in west jerusalem that russia's security council secretary told reporters that any attempt to present terror as a threat to international security and except of all moscow says its military intelligence shows the american drone. within the iranian air space when it was shut down and this myth has more now from west jerusalem this has been something of

a diplomatic coup for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to get 2 of the most significant players in middle east politics that's the u.s. and russia sitting around the same table here in jerusalem discussing mainly iran and syria and the ambitions certainly for the israelis and the americans is to impress on the russians the threat that they believe iran is to stability in the middle east iran's provocations which also include threats to and attacks upon american personnel and assets in the middle east are the extra manifestations of the central threat that iran poses namely its continued pursuit of deliverable nuclear weapons but the russians are making it clear they're not prepared to accept the u.s. view on iran's role in the middle east in comments to russian media before this trilateral meeting got going russia's national security secretary nick like

a true shove he told russian media that 1st of all it was not enough evidence yet to say who was conclusively behind those attacks on the 2 tankers in the gulf and he's also said that the drone that was shot down the u.s. drone that was shot down by the iranians was in the rainy and as space and not outside of iranian airspace as the americans say was. right the conference that we've been talking about is getting underway in bahrain the live shot is available now this is an economic meeting for the most part to talk about what is the u.s. hatched plan for palestine as well as other countries in the region it's been put together by jared of course senior white house advisor who is also president trump's son in law this is part of what is called overall by donald trump the deal of the century and this is the economic part of the plan and central to it is the

proposal of $50000000000.00 worth of investments as i say in the region that to take place over 10 years now this is a conference that is as i say designed to get the investors interested we've already seen shots of christine lagarde the managing director of the i.m.f. there. former prime minister of the u.k. who now runs a global consultancy as well as the various dignitaries from the region now this is something that we're going to be following live as soon as the event really gets underway before the meeting jared kushner spoke to al-jazeera and told us a bit more about what is economic proposal was all about right now from unama we're focused on the economic aspects of what could be possible if there is a resolution but what i will say is that you know all of the people i speak to you know they talk about the arab peace initiative and again it was a it was

a great effort but if that was where a deal was going to be made a deal would be made a long time ago i think we ought to recognize that if there ever is a deal it's not going to be along the lines of the arab peace initiative will be somewhere between the arab peace initiative and somewhere between the israeli position. and just minutes ago the senior political leader of hamas is mild near spoke at a gathering in girls and he's calling this meeting in bahrain a fast that will continue to push an agenda that will occupy palestinian land the conference. held at the moment. is a political conference with an economic cover up it is a totally political. event with the financial and economic turmoil simply for the reason that this conference the d.

. called the deal of the century aims at achieving the following 1st to lay. the foundation for terminating the palestinian cause certain giving the green lie to the zionist enemy to extend its occupation and control over the entire west bank well the palestinians in gaza have been staging protests there's a general strike as well and they'll be more of them to come in the coming days across the palestinian territory demonstrators say the billions of dollars and a 1000000 jobs seem to be on offer from jared krishna's plan mean little if there's no political solution to this decades old conflict. is in the hall in bahrain is

expected to unveil as i say what is called the economic part of his middle east peace plan and we're expecting that to get underway in just a few minutes or so and of course we'll bring you that live as it happens but let's get more from rob matheson now. it's estimated there are 2000000 people living in gaza at the moment that's about 5600 every square kilometer but the streets of gaza city are quieter this tuesday morning because there's a general strike which is opposed to the economic part of the u.s. plan to george find a solution to the israeli palestinian crisis according to palestinian official figures in 201852 percent of gazans didn't have jobs gaza's infrastructure is struggling on tuesday morning israel said it wasn't sending any fuel to gaza's only power plant and they said it was because gazans had been flying balloons carrying flares into israel in the hopes of setting fires. under the u.s.

plan with gaza would be entitled to a share of about $28000000000.00 in investment that would be designed to rebuild the infrastructure and it hopes to create about a 1000000 jobs but people here in gaza say that's not the point the main priority for them is a political solution gazans say that the u.s. plan is designed to distract from the main political objectives the right to return to land which they say is theirs and the removal of controls put on them by mainly the israelis now the israelis say those controls are necessary to stop weapons coming to gaza that could be used against them but the gazans say those controls at least in part responsible for the poor state of gaza's economy they say to remove the controls and the economy will improve for the people of gaza the important point is to find a political solution to this crisis and only then will they start talking about the money. live now to that investment conference getting

underway in bahrain day you see jarrad senior white house advisor. proceedings this isn't in his majesty king to mob his royal highness prince oman and his excellency shakes oman i want to thank the kingdom of bahrain and the people of bahrain for being such gracious hosts when i came and visited with you and your father about a couple months ago in february and presented to him the way we were thinking about solving this conflict in the vision he said this is great this is exactly the thinking that we need in this region and asked that we come back here and try to assemble a bunch of leaders to talk this through when to start framing it and we've been very very overwhelmed by the reaction we've received so i really want to thank you i was. i also want to thank president trump for his vision and leadership and commitment to bring peace to the middle east and also to throughout the entire world i want to

thank secretary minucci and for leading president trumps delegation to this workshop and for all the amazing work that you and your team have done to help us make this a reality i also want to thank everyone for joining us here today the people in this room are not people who shy away from hard problems and everyone here would like to see us bring an end to this new israeli palestinian conflict the fact that so many global leaders and experts on investment came from all around the world shows that there is a serious interest appetite and willingness by the global community to help the palestinian people if the right context can be created for too long the palestinian people have been trapped in an inefficient framework of the past the priest to prosperity vision is a modern framework for a brighter and more prosperous future it is a vision of what is possible with peace. the conventional wisdom about the fate of the palestinians is remarkably consistent in meeting after meeting and conference

after conference i hear the same broken record of negativity about why progress is not possible when i asked my counterparts why they continue to repeat the same tired talking points despite no evidence that they lead to progress they say but we've always said these things and we so when we've always done things this way while politicians pay lip service the world moves forward and the palestinian people continue to be left behind we all agree on the following goals we want to see peace security and prosperity for pals stilling palestinians israelis and everyone else throughout the world we want the freedom for people to worship without persecution we want people to live together with dignity and respect and we want to create better lives for their children and for future generations we do not need to spend a lot of time discussing how we got here we all know how we got here over the past

decades there have been many stops and starts in the palestinian economy numerous well intended programs investments and plans have been derailed by violence political instability and the lack of a resolution to the longstanding core issues of this conflict to be clear economic growth and prosperity for the palestinian people are not possible without an enduring and fair political solution to the conflict one that guarantees israel's security and respects the dignity of the palestinian people however today is not about the political issues we'll get to those at the right time. the goal of this workshop is to begin thinking about these challenges in a new way let's try to view this conflict and the potential of the entire region through a different lens and work together to develop a concrete plan to try and achieve it for a moment imagine a new reality in the middle east imagine a bustling commercial and tourist center and gaza and the west bank where

international businesses come together and thrive imagine the west bank as a blossoming economy full of entrepreneurs engineers scientists and business leaders imagine people and goods flowing quickly and securely throughout the region as economics become more integrated and people become more prosperous this isn't a stretch this is actually the historical legacy of the middle east specifically of gaza and the west bank it is a legacy of great cultures coming together as a center of commerce innovation and prosperity at its apex the commercial traffic on the desert routes through arabia culminating in gaza was so dense that historians compared it to an army on the march but in recent years for must of much of the middle east and longer for the palestinians the only armies on the march have been armies but in recent years instead of building on

a history of innovation and entrepreneurship the palestinians became the highest per capita donor aid recipients in the world with no plan and no end in sight i might be in the minority but i believe that this can change president trump ran on a very straightforward platform to keep people safe and to create the opportunity for prosperity in america and throughout the world the last 2 years have been a lot of hard work but by implementing his policies president trump has created the best economy that america has seen in a very long time perhaps even the best we've ever had. prosperity is not something that is given to people prosperity is something that is earned with smart planning determination and fortitude the palestinian people have these qualities intelligence strength of perseverance courage and great supply let's harness these strengths and create the opportunity for them to succeed my direct message to the

palestinian people is that despite what those who have let you down in the past tell you president trump and america have not given up on you this workshop is for you the vision we developed and released if executed correctly will lead to a better future for the palestinian people a future of dignity prosperity and opportunity you can change your course for the positive if we are willing to try new things and think outside of the traditional box peace can only be achieved if it comes with a pathway for people to improve their lives one who is more hopeful and sees opportunity for his or her family will put energy into pursuing opportunity instead of blaming others for their current misfortune that is why agreeing on an economic pathway forward is a necessary precondition to resolving what is a previously unsolvable political situation and enormous amounts of money have been

wasted on corruption you nations in conflict in this region imagine if that money was invested in infrastructure education workforce training and health care when we reached out to one middle eastern investment fund to attend this workshop they politely recall replied that they didn't think they should attend because they don't invest in this region that was exactly our point we want people to be thinking about how we can create the condition to invest in this region we need to bring change so that rich this region can become investable and as a center of opportunity as opposed to an area that is written often overlooked. so how do we begin to make this change we need the right plan and we need to create the right environment what we endeavored to create the framework the hope from this workshop is that we will be able to freely and constructively discuss the different ideas get peer feedback modify and then ultimately finalize a vision as a globally supported plan we are joined here today by representatives from the

world's leading institutions we're very fortunate to have with us the president of the world bank david malpass we're very fortunate to have the chairman of the i.m.f. christine legarde major donor countries the largest companies investment funds from all over the world builders innovators job creators capital allocators and you'll be hearing from a lot of them over the next couple days i want to thank you all for being here and for expressing an interest in using your knowledge and capital not just to create returns but also to drive change in the real world for real people this group has the ability to work together to create a historic opportunity for the palestinian people and the people of this region some people have mockingly call this effort the deal of the century but at its core it is not just about making a deal in fact this effort is better referred to as the opportunity of the century if leadership has the courage to pursue it this is about creating opportunity for

the palestinian people this is about creating opportunity for the people throughout the middle east. if implemented correctly and competently the economic plan i will go through now will lead to growth and better lives to create this vision we have drawn from the lessons of the most successful economic transformations of the last 75 years we studied along with the world's leading experts and thinkers and economists singapore south korea japan peru poland china and america we took the elements that we thought could apply and we tried to avoid the areas where we've seen mistakes and other attempts that people took over the years to try to implement these reforms. what we have developed is the most comprehensive economic plan that has ever been created specifically for the palestinians and for the broader middle east we can turn this region from a victim of past conflicts into a model for commerce advancement throughout the world over the next 2 days i want

to sort of keep in mind the following question should we find reason to stay with the status quo a broken system that say that favors few at the expense of many or should we push together to find new solutions and fight for a brighter future filled with opportunity and hope i know which one i want to choose i appreciate you all embracing this challenge with me the united states and president trump are committed to fighting a better future for the palestinians for the israelis and for the entire middle east by working together we can reach our ultimate goal which is a real peace that leads to prosperity thank you. so that my dad. with his long awaited introduction to the 1st part of this. to day conference and as he mentioned there are quite some. in very significant dignitaries in attendance the head of the bank is with the head of the i.m.f.

as well as finance minister is another investment spence and of matheson is a correspondent in. who rob matheson is our correspondent using garza and has been listening to this with the same group of course a purpose in your reaction to this announcement of their being an economic phase to this so-called deal of the century the economic phrase they've rejected out of hand saying that there can be no economic plan for revival of of palestinian territory without there being a political solution put forward for us. well jeanne that's absolutely right and that's something that's been made clear by palestinian leaders ever since the details of this plan came out we heard just a question of saying stressing the fact that what was needed was a change of thinking that ideas for a political solution in the past had been tried and failed in different variations had been put forward but none could be accepted and now it was time to as he put it think outside of the box he said at one point we will get to the political issues

at the right time but as far as the palestinians are concerned the right time is ahead of any discussion about the economic impact of any plan that might be put forward in terms of rebuilding the palestinians lifestyles and in rebuilding the structures particularly here in gaza and also creating trade in business and the promise of courses you mentioned earlier of about 1000000 jobs for the 2000000 people here in gaza but we also heard that really referred to by ismail haniya you played a clip of earlier he's leader of the hamas group which controls gaza and in his speech which him which he did where he was speaking eliot he described this as a poisoned money that was going to undermine the palestinian cause he said the buffing conference does not decide the fate of palestinians. because it carries the seeds of the bombing conference has been born dead so that's really unequivocally

as far as certainly the hamas leader is concerned this particular conference is going nowhere one interesting point in his speech he had did make overtures to the leadership of the fatah group the other political group which have been a longer heads with hamas for the last 13 years since hamas took over the gaza strip he made over choose to them saying now is the time to be unified now is the time to talk about having a unified palestinian government and he opened made an offer to the leaders of fatah to come and have discussions whenever and wherever they want to. in order to be able to stand firm to be able to represent honest indians in unity all right rob thank you for that mare and she going to go back to bahrain now where we see that george bush is still on the sage these that g.m. veiling in the moody town about what he's prepared to lead so then just dip in and listen to him maybe on the power to show you what we did if you go to the west bank

and gaza right now the west bank gets about 99 percent of their electricity from outside so they're not really power dependent you have the ability to develop an eco system they don't have the ability to power generation if you go on gaza they have one diesel plant which right now doesn't even have the ability to get in the goods that it needs to operate this would be about building new power infrastructure we would convert the diesel plants natural gas we'd figure out how to get pipelines to get the necessary gas in and we would figure out how to make them much more self-reliant would also build out the power grid now again a lot of these investments people are unwilling to make as people don't want to put good money after bad money they've seen in the past they've made these investments they've tried to help out the palestinian people and then all of a sudden there's some conflict that breaks out and a lot of this infrastructure gets destroyed so what we have here is very detailed plans and these are things that we can phase in over time assuming there is a real cease fire a real peace and there is the opportunity for people to start making these investments. so the next one is empowering the people having great infrastructure

doesn't matter as much if you don't have the people to do the jobs we want to be matching the people with the jobs that are available today and the jobs will be available the future is so the palestinian people as you'll hear from one of the speakers tomorrow one of the highest literacy rates in the world that's due to a lot of the aid that's been done over the years which has been good but we want to enhance the education services to teach them a lot more skill based training that will help them have better careers and better jobs a lot of the employers in the region are actually not able to find the qualified workforce that they're seeking to do the jobs in investments they want to make so we want to strengthen workforce development invest in health care and also improve the quality of life that's part of the plan so again these are the 3 components and i'll focus right now just on the educational quality but each of these elements if you go into the website which saw the bottom you'll be able to see that we have a very detailed plan build out for each one but you have to do all these things at the same time you need stem education we focus on youth and women workforce training but focus just on the educational quality these are different programs

we've identified in the investments needed in order to help them catapult us as 2 to a next level so that they can have a skilled workforce that's qualified to take on the jobs will be created from all this investment. the 1st of the 3rd pillar is enhanced in the palestinian governance tomorrow we'll be talking a little bit about property rights which is a very essential component for being people being able to get loans for people being able to have investments but we need a better business environment and you know people are very quick in the middle east you know for the last 70 years the unifying feature has been to blame israel for a lot of people's problems but a lot of the problems really should be looking at governance and the fact that people leaders have often deflected blame on israel for a lot of the own shortcomings from within the countries if we can create a better business environment there that will it will make it investable so there's 2 major components that need to happen if people want to see better lives we need to figure out how do we make it a safe environment then we can actually have people willing to invest goods going in people flowing in and out and then we need an environment where people know that

if they're investing then there won't be as much corruption the money actually can trickle down to the people and when people have property rights then it actually works that way and we'll talk about that more extensively tomorrow. one thing that i get asked a lot from people want to share this program for them is they say well ok who's going to implement this right you know we haven't seen a lot of ability to implement something like this and this is a major scale program that's something we've studied very very carefully and if you look at the last 25 years we have some very good examples not just here but in other places of where big programs have worked and been implemented we've studied those and we've tried to create a mechanism that's in line with those and then we've also had 25 years of experience to see how money can be wasted stolen all different kinds of bad things which we do not want to see happen so we've invision creating a master fund that then can govern this and we would release it in in traunch is one of the things i like to say maybe this is from my previous life in business as opposed to being in government is we like to reward results we don't like to reward efforts and i think that that's a very important component so we would have vision is that we would get commitments

for this we would make it in tranche is that as you achieve different milestones of reform then the next tranche is will be released. this is one slide that really thought was very interesting which shows that we're actually starting from a pretty strong place relative to peers and i showed this to people they're actually quite surprised if you on the right side you'll see that you have the west bank and gaza with a g.d.p. per capita about $3000.00 per person if you go to the west bank which is more government right now about $3800.00 per capita if you compare that to egypt it's 2500 jordan's 4000 lebanon 8500 morocco is 3000 and tunisia is 3500 if you go to debt to g.d.p. you know you have egypt at 100 percent jordan 94 percent west bank and gaza are at less than half of that so starting from a relatively strong place that if we can start doing these investments create a peace environment you know create a good security apparatus there is a ton of potential for people to really start rising in a very very quick way. finally we constructed this in a way where we thought we can just try to stimulate gaza in the west bank you know

obviously we want to create a very prosperous global regional environment israel's has a thriving economy imagine if silicon valley was cut off from the rest of california that's kind of what we have right now in the middle east so obviously some form of peace would create prosperity i think for israel but also for everyone else throughout the region but what we did is we put the majority of the projects in gaza in the west bank but then we also figured out what projects can we do in jordan egypt and lebanon to also figure out how to get those economies to start rising and better integrated as well so we see tremendous potential again people on this file try to be very skeptical if you want me to come up with the reasons why this is hard i can probably give you a longer reason list of reasons than anybody else but again our goal has been to try to come up with what is the best pathway forward how can we break this deadlock that's been here for too long and how can we focus on helping people make their lives and that really is what one president comes the office every day he's focused on the american people how can he help the american people improve their lives and

we took the same approach with the israelis and the palestinian people the politicians tend to talk about political things but we try to focus on our what are the things that will help people live better lives help their families have better futures help them pay their mortgages help them be better providers and we think that this plan can really accomplish that. so the last slide is just showing you the breakdown and all the different industries again all of these details on the website and i want people to review it very carefully but it shows that the money that we'd be investing is fairly well distributed obviously transportation mobility infrastructure with power and water digital services those are about half of it and that's very very critical there's still government support right now the government runs a deficit but over time they should be able to raise their tax base to be to be self-sustaining and then you know education terrorism natural resources health care home ownership agriculture manufacturing quality of life these are all components that you have to do at the same time so i just want to thank everyone on the team will help make this possible i think that.