tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera September 17, 2019 2:00am-3:01am +03
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thousands refugees to syria these people are now livin in peace in their own land they are send their children to discos and they are taking benefit of the health services we are providing. it is obvious that turkey cannot carry the whole responsibility of their project we cannot tolerate another in plugs of refugees this is impossible from now on the refugees should. should go back to their countries voluntarily. and in the north of a freighters peace cern the safe zone will be a safe haven for the refugees. the $2000000.00 syrian refugees in our country could be moved to the area where and even. and we're thinking that maybe we can stretch this area to or even to rucka and we
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can make this number to reach 3000000 by this way especially turkey. and why this way all the refugees syrian refugees can go back to their country and would not be a burden to any country especially turkey. and with the support of international community we could build a new accommodation and residence residence for these refugees we are ready to take all the responsibility with russia and with iran and the other members of international community. we want to work on the return of the refugees to syria we have taken steps recently on base with iraq and jordan. so we. we initiated
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a international conference on the return of the refugees syrian refugees we are accepting our friends to join this with these thoughts. i hate uncursed summits will bring peace and. prosperity to back to syria again and hopefully on make them it will be. following month. in iran and i'd like to thank mr rouhani and i'd like to give the floor to mr rouhani smooth monitoring him. god will feed. us for a meeting and there constructive meeting we have today. hosted by turkey and is excited to see mr sharon's. and dismay think
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we had an opportunity to once again. support as their activities within the astonished by consensus to once again take a stock of them. as far as political developments and there are places in the field i can send or also assess fortunately there are 3 countries. and in most of the problems of syria we are the 3 countries all right bring on then. when it comes to the integrity and the territorial integrity of the country we agree and that aspect with each other. we all also. agreed that there should not be any interference boy any for. those who are
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interfering without then retain of this in government. very clear example of which is the americans the americans have either been assisting the terrorists or they have been interfering in syria are. unnecessarily. and they have been. they have been pursuing dangerous goals in syria their thinking partition partitioning syria which is not acceptable to any country in the region specifically the 3 countries of the region. bad intentions of the americans are clear of can be found in the fact that part of syria that golan heights have been given to.
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power. this is a strange thing that. one country is granting part of. an occupied part of a country to another aggressive country without. legal permissions. this is clear that they neither states. as far a city on the syrian people as the syrian and then the country of syria is consent americans have bad intentions. their daily interference in by the israelis which by bombarding the innocent people of syria and destroying the infrastructure of syria. this is a gain this is an introduction to where the national sovereignty of syria are we all believe in the national sovereignty of syria and the territorial integrity of syria and also. the 3 leaders of
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these 3 great countries of the region also believe that the fighting terrorism should continue. as a sterile and under the control of the terrorists and unfortunately over the last few months the presence of terrorists including the. front has even increase until when should the syrian people. wait. to see the annihilation of terrorists. and wait for. and see the people becoming different just not as 9 years not sufficient for the now last 9 years the syrians have been suffering from the presence of terrorists and we know who is financing these terrorists and who is giving them the finances and who is giving them weapons and who has
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a kept them and find us them and the result of which is so many innocent people have been killed in syria. it is necessary that we fight the terrorists including an adlib and we have the syrian government and also when it comes to the east off your freights antenna which is controlled by the americans. and a group of terrorists are also there. the 2nd issue to which prison or they can also refer to say fast as the safe return of refugees they would like to return to their own homes. we know both in the 8 years war in the year war. saddam hussein with saddam hussein made many people the fugitives and also in afghanistan many people became refugees or we have been hosting 3000000 afghan refugees over the last 40 years in the wrong
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for 40 years we have been witnessing 3000000 different refugees afghans if you 2 are our guests and we know what becoming it a few g. is. all refugees would like to return to their own homes and would like to. farm on their own lands on farms and would like to. plan their own families. who we should secure the whole office area so that the people of syria can do 10 whole. and take part and reconstruction and we should also help with the construction of syria. the humanitarian. aspect as far as that is concerned we should also we all should help the syrian people are suffering so much once again would like to. present are they gone as the government for
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hosting these meetings and i'm very happy to see that the start of process is continuing. the constitution committee has become a completed now and we hope that this political development. amendment to the graph the constitution the for me of the constitution should take place and i would like to welcome their participation of the government of syria and lebanon as observers of our start up process and i hope that 6 out of the meetings take place in iran we will be whole think our 2 their countries russia and turkey god willing. wouldn't. one day but the. presidents the our colleagues. there is a gentleman yet this next meeting of the has days of this kind of process. casting a serious settlement has been conducted in an efficient productive way access to
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a. joint communiqué visit here and. set out to destroy the work in favor of the stable and viable peace in syrian arab republic we're convinced it is only possible through the political diplomatic means in compliance with the resolution 2254 of the un security council. as a guarantor buston our process our 3 countries they advocate in support of the severing of the independence and territorial integrity of syria and mom the primary task we see the promotion of the into syrian political dialogue. in these for this purpose is the practice of the conduct of regular expert meetings will be continued with a participation of the guarantor countries of the syrian parties and also un and original observers the next 14th round of such consultations will be held in
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october in north pole time. well i think i support and to help syrians to define themselves the parameters of this state structure of their country i want to remind you all for these purposes at the last congress of the syrian national dialogue in sochi it was a great to set our constitutional committee the diplomats of 3 countries conduct of the early power meticulous work to determine. what to do to determine the candidates by the syrian government all the candidates also the main parameters of its functioning the list of the members of the committee has been fully coordinated with the active participation of the grantor countries now it's important that the 2 full committee as soon as possible started activity in geneva russia turkey and iran are ready in all possible ways to contribute to it. while the us down a format will have the leading role in this syrian settlement we hope that the
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successful development of the into syria political process will contribute to the interest of strength the ring of security in syria the south and the nereus as a whole it will help to further normalize the relationship of damascus with the arab countries to restore the membership of the countries in the arab states of course when the time was that discussed do fighting terrorism in and on syria much concern is caused by the said situation and it lives on is the biggest concern the control over which has been seized in fact but a related to al qaeda radical factions. we are. cannot of course pete put up with this so with that we agreed with mr agama mr mr rouhani to continue the joint work in the interest of the final removal of the tension in the area on our part russia is ready to support the syrian army in his conduct i was
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local operations aimed and. to stopping the terrorist threat where it arises moreover and their wish him all the cessation of the has to let this whenever spread to to the terrorists while all of us no doubt we should do everything possible to prove them. annie harm to the civilian population of course we're concerned about situation and the northeast of syria where the sleeping cells with their activating we assume that to secure this safety in this area is also possible on condition of which to return to the control of this legitimate government russia with support of turkey and iran does a lot concerning commentary message assistance to the syrian syrian people from july in 2018 more than 33390000 people returned to syria and more than 1000000 people with the people who within the country they managed to return to their homes
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correct was it all created. of the level of full violence is the creasing there the restoration of the object of a social and economic infrastructure has started but the scale of the problems with the syrian state encounters are so huge so that the resolve is required the support of the current economical developed countries that clash are going to zation if they really are sincerely interested. that the refugees return to their homes but not in you kind of using them on those people for there is resolution of some political tasks also in the possible future voting on the key issues of the development of the country we naturally conducted meetings with the takesh and with iranian colleagues missed that. the gun we consider the then is use of the russian
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takesh cooperation which in our joint you are america label being in different directions. much attention on it is a traditional pay to the economic cooperation last here the tunnel between our $2.00 countries and chris reach more than $25000000000.00 the strategic goals you pour in projects are being implemented in energies here in the construction of big big powers. stations also military ties also with the pending contract for the supply of the armed forces of turkey with a complex as $400.00 is also carried out and they're cautious on you perspective arms contacts saying improving in the humanitarian syria in russia turkey there are cultural years of counter being conducted of tourism incidentally this year has been one more record more than 6000000 russian citizens have been
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recorded in the turkey at the meeting where they are iranian now later we discuss the case use of the russian iranian cooperation in the energies fear in a trance could at the interest is fear it was agreed to continue the implementation of the huge project them to and activate the work of the. direct settlements with the use of national currencies while exchanging our views on them on the agenda at the focus or was of course on the preservation of the joint comprehensive plan of action on the iranian nuclear program we think of a plan of action in spite of the withdrawal from it i would rather states. i remain to be viable. and in this respect other suppressed about nuclear deal agree with us i want to stress with all the difficulties which exist with this implementation there is no reasonable tathata this russia does everything possible to pass it so that the action plan continues to be implemented in full we conduct active contacts
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. with those parts to suppose with united states and of course we support and all levels of the political dialogue with iran and finally i'd like to thank mr had the gun and mr. rouhani all of the turkish and iranian partners for this comprehensive and no doubt no doubt affected negotiations and i'm convinced they're the results of this summit will work contribute to the final restoration of peace and stability in syria. their friends. at the moments of. without political order 1st of all the. iranian and members of the press. will give the
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rights for question. and then they russian press and then at last. one going to take questions from us. let's take the questions from the iranian press the. question is. about the constitution committee which is going to be very effective in a civilization of syria i would like to know. what is your pathetic prediction is a prediction is that. what it's going to implement his decision is basically also my question is to. respect our president of russia mr pretend. with regards to the presence of the military military presence of americans in syria what's your
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assessment of that presence there thank you. more just on a process. that. we also we pursue both security developments and also humanitarian they will up as our return of refugees . reconstruction and also political developments and political developments there are 2 fundamental issues important issues one is the. amendment of the constitution. as to how the committee of the constitution after the vacation of the car situation should be
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formed that have been many discussions. prosit us start the din such their can try you've been a watching their a news conference side of ankara are in turkey where they lead is of iran of russia and turkey have been eating over the war in syria this is their 5th meeting to try to secure a lasting truce in northwest in syria ollie leaders is have described their talks in ankara today as productive a focus of their discussions has been that last rebel stronghold of edge labor in northwest syria turkey is president or a ship type bread on a saying that they've taken important decisions for its political process to syria's crisis and mound sing that it constitutional committee for syria well start immediately why have plenty more on this on the al-jazeera news are in under a half an hour's time do stay with us here coming up next it's inside stored
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the welcome to the program. saudi arabia is trying to reassure the world that it will quickly recover from saturday's attacks on his oil plants of the reassurance fail to stop oil prices soaring 19 percent the highest ever increase in 30 years prices have since concerns remain about the 50 percent current for the world's biggest crude exporter especially because hertha fighters in yemen are vowing more attacks to quit his economy you know satellite photos of the damage have been released and donald trump war the u.s. is locked and loaded to respond and ready to release emergency oil reserves if needed while iran but jackets u.s. accusations that it's involved. let's have a look at who has the biggest reserves of oil or member states of the international energy agency have 90 days of emergency stockpiles in case of crisis the us holds
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the world's largest to teach it betrayal reserve followed by china japan and south korea almost 80 percent of the world's proven oil reserves are in opec member countries saudi arabia but as well are and iran top the list. now over to our panel in amman. and nanny jordan's former deputy prime minister as well as foreign minister he's also an economist in burn switzerland cornelia mayer an economist as well as an oil and gas specialist at the financial advisor firm mayer resources in london bill or journalist and i notice on gulf affairs welcome to you or mr and any of the increase in oil prices which was about 19 percent was perhaps the biggest percent to percentage spike in 3 decades is this an indication of a panic. or
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a deeper economic crisis here well i think that it is mostly panic because there was no reason for oil prices and the normal circumstances that increase that fast in one day so it was a complete response to the act. of the bomb being of the of the facilities well facilities in saudi arabia. and despite all the. ideas and their pronouncements of president. trump and as well as the minister of and secretary of energy in the states to come to market and also in saudi arabia is the collaboration they want to use their reserves but people still panicked because they don't know how much time it would take the saudis to repair those facilities and how much to what would happen to their actual usage of reserves if not for
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strategic reserves so they are in their way if there is complex there is a complete absence of specific information or is speculative. is it mostly because of the absence of further information from the saudi government as. it was saying about the scope of the of the damage the whether saudi arabia will be able to get its act together resume output in a time so that is creating the panic that we're seeing across the global markets. i think it's 2 things it's 1st of all markets always overshoot they always overshoot and. and then people didn't do the numbers when you look at how many reserves we have and yet also how many strategic how many resorts saudi aramco have saudi aramco can between 30 and 45 days of saudi production they have reserves across the globe so people weren't really doing the numbers and i think now what will be really important is how fast can call you know get the.
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cake processing plant back up and let's mind that let's be clear prosecco processing plants are not like like switches it will take time to get it up so we have information need and then we need to differentiate their eastley current shortfall because of the of the of the attacks and then there is also suddenly analysts realised oh there is a risk premium and geopolitical risk premium that had been all but gold and so in that sense we have to see how that will pan out but in the end all markets still you know up until saturday everybody said oh we're so over supplied and once one steel plant is out the get up and running again we're still basically oversupplied bill reconsider the risk premium for future deals is this something that is just related to this particular incident of their things is something which is going to
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be taken into account for a longer term. i think that the response to her is not simply related to this particular incident as severe as it is the risk factor will will build in the fact that the saudis shown themselves incapable of protecting their most crucial and valuable asset and after all this attack hit the heart of the saudi aramco it was a pinpoint attack it was very destructive we don't know how long it's going to take to get that facility up to speed again and and as your other commentators have noted that is a huge question because the longer it takes the more damaging it will be to the saudis and most particularly to the saudi economy so there's a lot of a reason for people to be concerned and i would think that the appetite for example for the around go i.p.o. will be weaning somewhat certainly on the international front because of this
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attack. the hostess said that the flu 10 jones to can last this daring attack of the heart of saudi arabia do you think of this is something that could potentially change the dynamics to have shaped global energy markets well until we come to grips with the fact that the horse is it was the horses who did it probably there may have technically and logistically helped by other forces of all the outside forces like iran but still that means that we are you know we have turned the page and this is a new phase in the war so in a way the question remains in as far as future tensions are concerned whether the saudis and their allies would retaliate in order to restore the what we call might call a deterrence balance order or they might. if they don't do that then they feel that they have a go shifting position has been weakened so in
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a way while they are worried about. further retaliation by the whole with is. aiming at their oil facilities which would aggravate the situation saudi arabia i think that because of the surgical precision with which the 1st of the last one the friday morning raid was carried i think that now we have a new dimensions to contend with and i believe that. the saudis will retaliate eventually and that may invite further retaliations or counter rivetted televisions from the horses and there if that continues without an interference and trying to bring that to all parties to the table to sit down and discuss then we may be in for a big and the along. with the fact that the war that only god
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knows how it will end clearly it's either the same. bodies have been consumed treating their processing plants in one particular area and this explains why after the attack almost a half of their output has been severed do you think this is something that will take the saudis will or weeks and weeks in the future to be able to contain well you did this thing is it is in one in one part because the largest oil field you know it's in the eastern province where the oil is so obviously the biggest processing plant is where the oil is so in that sense but i think we've responded to the former prime minister i totally agree with him and one of the things we need to look at this also what lessons has steve sowed the defense apparatus learned because clearly saudi's to 3rd largest procurer of. weaponry of arms so in that sense you know day to day we'll need to proof that they will really
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look at their at that that they can it's not that they're not just going off to after airplanes but also off the drone so day will need to prove that they have to they have to equipment they have will have to prove that they know very well how to use that equipment bill will it when you look at the this particular case which is the attack targeting the oil fields in saudi arabia i think it's exposer underscores in a way or another the vulnerability of the oil production facilities in the middle is this something of the should be taken into consideration by key players in the future. oh yes i think so to do it he usually underscores the vulnerability and you'll recall that the who he said previously hit the oil pipelines doing really minor damage this this particular hit as i said straining at the heart of saudi aramco will send shock waves i think throughout the middle east for whom most particularly in saudi arabia because after all it's not just they have
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a structure of saudi aramco that is potentially vulnerable it is also. desalination plants that could potentially be civilian targets really this this new technology that either the who these or those who are assisting the who these are suggestions these attacks may have come from iraq from the us to xabi the shia militias in retaliation for an israeli attack in august that that that this kind of situation can can rapidly escalate and and i think as as as the former prime minister said it could lead to something that could be potentially a war of enormous and really quite. horrible consequences so what we're seeing now analysts talking about and and governments also raising the issue of tapping into cities ixtoc bias to be able to mitigate the risks and also stop in a further spike in oil prices is this one i agree with that i just go
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is this because of the confusion which has been spreading all over the world about what's happening is saudi arabia. no i think you know at the beginning i agree with carol with the with cornelia that at the beginning you know there were there was completely people will believe yes there's a detailed information of 1st of all you know saudi arabia itself is a large consumer of oil production but saudi arabia right now is producing $10000000.00 barrels roughly of which $4000000.00 they use at all so in a way their capacity to export is about 6000000 barrels a day if they lose 5.7 that means that does not leave them with much oil to export so in a way the saudis need to do something that will impact their budget and also impact their g.d.p. growth and their diversification program on the other hand i think that if they do
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off 4 for 40 television and order to change the whole thing is not to repeat the same experience without severe consequences then they have to do it to hit back and mostly that will be many civilian casualties such casualties will cause a great deal of of panic but the word like only like. said has yes has for about 4100000000 barrels of reserves these are these are the statistics from the international energy. agency the i.a.e.a. and accordingly and the united states has $727000000.00 barrels which belong which are for the government in saudi arabia their reserves are about bit of a range between 180000000 to 200000000 those are distributed all over the world but also consumer can large consumer countries have all of their own reserves but they
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don't like to see their origin to drop to critical limits so they're eventually they may use probably 40. percent or 50 percent of them but then if they think that this war is going to rock they will have to start by need new sources of supply and we cannot rely on reserves and on so. for this particular reason why are we southerly particular over the last 24 hours in all these talk about the need to tap into emergency oil inventor is to maintain stability. well i think part of it is you know donald trump is not a detail man right so he did probably didn't do quite the numbers before that so before he made his point his is point and it is part of you know we want to calm the markets people want to calm the markets because you saw at the beginning off today it was 20 percent up the oil price now it's about between 8 and 9 percent up so it came down considerably so so this is may need to to come to markets and to
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say look there's enough there's enough oil there bad them as as both woman said it's really the issue is where from here and this is not just saudi arabia it is also do you a you know the u.a.e. is also in that coalition against the who is this and then the u.a.e. i mean you know they have also processing plants so so the whole region it did t.c.c. it's always been that that island of stability in that sea of unrest and strife that is the middle east so this brings this brings to cheese sisi and especially saudi arabia one step closer to the ramifications of that strife and it will be very important i think for everybody that cooler heads prevail because if we have too much tit for tat then he can really get out of control bill if you look at the map of the region you have 2 hot spots here you have war in yemen and then we saw
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the aftermath of the war basically attacks targeting oil facilities in saudi arabia but at the same time you have the showdown between the iranians and the american over the straits of homeowners potentially we're talking about what could potentially become a huge crisis in the world if suddenly you have a disruption in the strait of hormuz and then you have a disruption in saudi arabia. yes and we shouldn't forget also that iraq the war in iraq against isis to die is not over and in fact that remains a threat iraq is still a very fragile in a very fragile situation and you're right i mean there are a couple of things that could go simply wrong that could lead to a major confrontation that's the concern and and it is important that everyone step back and calm down i mean it's interesting don't truck was taking a lot of flack from american commentators because of the that tweet in which he
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said i'm waiting to hear from the saudis before i decide what to do why is as some wags of said why is the saudi crown prince dictating american foreign policy and whether we're whether or not we go to war but the fact is that i have to say that that probably is a sensible thing to say because the last thing that we need now is any further escalation of the rain ians are playing a very clever game here they're pushing and pushing will they have the sense to draw back i don't think they will but if the americans for example did hit this did hit iran that would take this thing in a whole new orbit and a very dangerous orbit so i think we do need to have this locus pause and the fact is that oprah says did drop quite dramatically as when he said that they when they started 20 percent they're now down below 10 percent so there is that calming factor at play so what does this crisis mean full big importers
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china india japan and other countries. well you know it means that they probably would like to diversify their sources of oil in the future and 2nd i think it may. invite also other issues like using pipelines instead of shipping because shipping into the war as gary is and continues gets brought directed i think the. marine shipment of oil might be the 1st victim of such of such a development so therefore the cost of insurance the cost of transportation of oil will become an important factor in determining how far prices could go so in a way i look at the future and i say that probably they may look for other sources and they may also resort to constructing long. pipelines the
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2nd issue is that you know vulnerability of china and india in particular because each imports about $10000000.00 barrels of oil every day and they constitute about 20 percent of total world demand so in a way that that that is a very important thing for them to take into account as busy an interruption of oil would mean that their economic growth will be even even squeezed further so i believe that you know here if saudi arabia speaks them to careful about maintaining the same supplies and having the same contracts with both countries japan and south korea as well in order to guarantee that those clients would not seek other alternatives and would continue to deal with saudi arabia clearly are we talking about the geopolitical implications or implications of a crisis but then let's talk
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a little bit about the impact of this crisis average people of of the world because usually spike it all. prices are more about people having to pay more at gas bombs decline in spending and decline in economic growth is this something that is going to take some time or is just going to be a shorter term impact of the crisis that we see in. well it's a shorter term impact of the crisis and what height always notice instead whenever the oil price goes up it see me to pass through to day to day to the consumer however when it goes down it's not that immediately passed through to the consumer which is so which is which is how if you're an amount every if you're an international oil company you make your money or part of your money the thing to do to really be clear here yes it will pass through and we will have to see where we go but let's not forget the backdrop up until friday night last week we were all worried about oversupply and ever fording oil prices still pick and
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it's 10 allied to nations opec plus took $1200000.00 barrels out of the system we thought we needed to put in in december when they meet again take out another 1000000000 barrel or 500000 barrels so in that sense let's look against the backdrop yes there is a spike it has come down but we really need to look a little bit at a how quickly how quickly this facility comes up again you know how saudi arabia is able to a swatch the analysts and the global markets and let's give it 2 weeks to see really how much did the consumer is going to be hit at the pump ok bill sunday arabia has been using for almost 60 or 70 years to for its political and financial leverage worldwide not people are saying that this minnow longer be the case because even if they go for the initial offering public offering for our own cause
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there's absolutely no way they're going to get any closer to $1.00 trillion dollars they were hoping to achieve does saudi arabia have to redefine his ferocity in the near future given the strings of attacks he has faced over the last few months. well i think this is represents a huge setback for mountain some on the crown prince as you say he wanted to do this i.p.o. this sale of shares of saudi aramco initially it announced it was going to happen in 2019 it was postponed why because buyers are saying well if you're going to sell you've got to be transparent you've got to tell us open up the books and show us where the money is going well of course it's something the world family the ruling family the house out does not want to do because a big chunk of that money goes directly into their pockets and there are many many pockets to be lined the saudis have reshuffled for example they replace the energy minister a highly respected minister and of and have put in brother half brother mama been
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solomonic to to run and to run the strip down situation around go they put someone else in charge as a chairman of around cause a big shift going on just at the point that this attack hits and and as i said investors are looking at this and thinking well you know is this really a safe bet because there is a huge risk factor here and and who's to say that the saudis showing themselves really incapable of that of preventing such a terrific terrific and powerful attack who's to say another one couldn't happen again so we have lots of questions that our lives are non is facing he needs this money from the the i.p.o. i don't think he's going to get it and as i say the longer this thing stretches out the more damaging it is to him the more damaging the saudi economy the less he's able to fulfill some of his dreams of altering the way in which that economy
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functions in full force or through how to leave it there because we're running to me just say one think please very briefly if you don't mind me just say one thing please. very briefly very briefly dick did new oil minister prince scepter lessees he may be a half brother had but he has for the last 30 years been a fixture in the oil ministry and in iran course one of the most highly respected people in pick so i ate it he didn't just put. aside and took some nobody in there that guy really is speed if he is to to a large part mr oil in saudi arabia absolutely no doubt that they were talking about extraordinary times delicate choices facing the saudi government in the near future canaria manzo out our nanny below thank you very much indeed for your contribution to the program and thank you too for watching you can see the program
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and corral hoping to find a political solution to the country's ongoing war. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london with the top stories from europe including. was. the british prime minister is booed after holding rex it talks in luxembourg and councils a joint media briefing due to protests. about his limited all day sport a fever backed investigation finds that hundreds of sporting events i'll be. pirated out of saudi arabia. thank you very much for joining us to blame game is intensifying over the attacks on saudi arabia's main oil facilities the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen says they were carried out using iranian weapons and did not originate from yemen
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iran denies involvement and in the past few minutes president hassan rouhani has said the attacks were a reciprocal response to the aggression in yemen need jets the us will watch as far as a drones attacks are concerned i think the question here is mainly a biased issues i would personally want to emphasize more on the security and stability of the region rather than oil but this all started from aggression in yemen why did they on a daily basis key bomb been to people in yemen yemenis are being killed they have the right to resist against this aggression. now exactly how long it will take to fix damage to the world's largest processing plant is yet to be revealed reuters news agency is reporting it could take months for saudi oil production to return to normal already saudi arabia has been forced to shut down one pipeline to bahrain the uncertainty has caused a surge in the price of oil spiking at 19 percent the biggest single day increase on records when monday trading began there since settle slightly but are still up
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around 12 percent and this all could dampen investor confidence of course in saudi arabia's. upcoming public listing which the kingdom hoped would generate about $100000000000.00 and there are reports saudi authorities are considering delaying the i.p.o. we'll get more reaction to these developments shortly but 1st here's roy talent's reports. the u.s. government says it's already knows who did this but iran denies it was behind the attacks on saudi oil infrastructure claims by yemen's who see rebels. we reject these types of statements and projections the islamic republic of iran has clearly declared that it supports the people of yemen and their rights but to accuse the islamic republic of iran of these attacks and defensive measures is in line with the united states maximum falsehood policy. the state owned oil company saudi am co says the fires knocked out more than half of its entire day the output
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close to 6000000 barrels of oil according to the saudi military the weapons were not yemeni and nor was the territory they were launched from those kind of being used in that is that i have to see they are going to go out and we have more right now to the point of those attacks we know that they are claiming that they have been have conducted that that but we know the. initial assessment and also would be physical evidence wasn't donald trump warned iran that the u.s. is locked and loaded to respond to the strikes on up cake but other countries urging caution which is how. the who for years have taken responsibility for these attacks if at the moment we are analyzing along with our partners who is responsible for this attack and how it could happen if we need to do so with the
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necessary call and i want to read all your when we have noticed the relevant reports pondering who is to blame in the absence of a conclusive investigation i think is in itself not very responsible china's position is that we oppose any moves to expand or intensify conflict. the impact of an estimated 5 percent dip in global supplies sent or oil prices on a wild ride up 20 percent before coming back down some investors and analysts were also initially spooked but by the time european markets opened assurances from the us and countries like russia that reserves would be freed up that helps settle nerves well though some european markets open down a little contagion from this attack does appear to be limited for the moment but as donald trump's bellicose tweets highlights this is a volatile situation and how long it takes for saudi to get production back on track plus the next moves from washington and tehran are all things to watch out
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for rory chalons al-jazeera london well u.s. resin donald trump has again tweeted about iran's involvement recall in the shooting of a u.s. drone by iran in june he said remember when iran shot down a drone saying knowingly that it was in there as praise when in fact it was nowhere close they stuck strongly to that story knowing that it was a very big lie he added now they say that they had nothing to do with the attack on saudi arabia we'll see live to mike hanna in washington d.c. for us so mike another tweet from the u.s. president what kind of response then can we expect from the trumpet ministration. oh yes indeed we've seen the numerous tweets from president trump on the subject dealing with other issues as well in the course of the day but the most striking tweet perhaps one of his initial ones following the attack locked and loaded said president trump but there has been political fallout in terms of the president's
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reaction in particular his statement in a tweet that he was basically waiting to hear from saudi arabia before deciding what action to take now that is virtually unprecedented a head of state having in the directions of his military give them by a nother state in this case saudi arabia and certainly there's been a lot of comment in the media here from politicians as well saying that president trump is now relying on saudi arabia for information and for decision whether or not to deploy forces in the wake of this attack is there a sense in washington. of whether there's still room for diplomacy here because just a few weeks ago there was talk of the iranian leader and president trying possibly meeting at the u.n. general assembly in new york in just a few weeks in just a week now is that still likely to happen is that option you know still being considered in d.c. . well as observers point out the whole situation is complicated by what would
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appear to be the most erratic behavior by the white house now one remembers a couple of months ago president tom trump tweeted that yes he would be prepared to meet the iranian president without preconditions however in the course of the day he's not been tweeting that a report by the new york times to this effect was fake news despite the fact that he actually did say it so this sort of situation is complicated as i said because there is no way to predict how the trumpet ministration is going to react in what way the trumpet administration is going now we had heard repeatedly that he's prepared to negotiate with the iranian leader and in fact wants to do so but in the wake of this attack and in the wake of the tempo and the contained in president trump's tweets it would appear that any diplomatic move at this particular point would be out of the question but once again as i said we are dealing with a trumpet ministration which is impossible to predict thank you for that my cannot
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lie for us in washington d.c. as you heard iran continues to deny involvement in the attack on the oil facilities there is dr barry has more on that from tehran. latest reaction to this events that have unfolded is that the iranian foreign ministry spokesperson outpost mousavi has reiterated the country's position and that is that these accusations are baseless and it's not the 1st time that iran has received such accusations from the u.s. government the foreign ministry spokesperson up us who said he said that the yemeni people have the right to defend themselves and the arabians are not supplying weapons to the who see fighters there but that it is saudi arabia who is the aggressor and iran will continue to push for some kind of a peaceful resolution in yemen they've offered in the past to negotiate dialogue between all the parties involved they've stressed that the situation is yemen is critical to the stability of this region but when it comes to the blame that they
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are being accused of launching these attacks the iranians say that they have had nothing to do with it and that the accusations are baseless they have yet to the american government has yet to provide any kind of solid evidence or proof that iran was behind such an attack the analysts that we've spoken to here say that these latest accusations from the u.s. come at a time when the u.s. president donald trump is eager to have a meeting with iran's president hassan rouhani of the united nations later this month when the 2 will be there but the rain in some said that that will never happen until the united states lifts the sanctions that it's imposed on iran since they withdrew from the nuclear deal and the attacks have been discussed at the united nations where the u.n. envoy for yemen was given the schedule briefing on the conflicts diplomatic editor james spader's has more from u.n. headquarters in new york. normally this monthly meeting deals with the grim reality of life inside yemen but it was overtaken by events on the other side of the saudi
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border one thing we can be certain and that is this extremely serious incident like the tribal sins of a regional conflict that much higher and more. with yemen in some way or other linked none of that. is good for you. and this is pretty terrifying in just her 2nd appearance in the security council the new u.s. ambassador made it clear washington believes his views didn't stage this attack on their own claims of responsibility have been made but as secretary of state my comp aoe has clearly stated there is no evidence that the attacks came from yemen. emerging information indicates that responsibility lies with iran are the u.s. allies still party to the nuclear deal with iran did not apportion blame at the moment we're still assessing what happened and who is responsible for the attorneys
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once this is been stablished we will discuss with our partners how to proceed in a responsible manner we hope the united international response to these awful attacks in recent days there have been talk when world leaders gather here for the u.n. general assembly next week of a meeting between president trump and president rouhani now there's the specter of war things could go either way expect a week of fast moving developments and roller coaster diplomacy james bows out jazeera at the united nations the war in syria now and turkey's president. says there's been progress towards a political solution to the conflict has been hell seeing russian and ukrainian leaders in ankara for talks focusing on that's the last rebel have province in northwest syria which is under attack from syrian government forces and russian warplanes.
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