terry said for other international partners to also contribute the show to your abuse defense. the secretary of defense continued to insist iran was responsible for the attacks on saudi oil installations last weekend brushing off repeated iranian denials of involvement but at the same time confirming that the u.s. forensic team working with saudi experts had stalled not concluded its investigation. news of the deployment closely followed president trumps decision to impose new sanctions on iran at the end of the day as president trump hosts a dinner for the prime minister of australia it appears that the u.s. economic pressure will be buttressed by a show of military force even if at this stage it is declared to be of a defensive nature mike hanna al-jazeera washington let's speak to our correspondent in tehran our big asset how will iran be viewing this u.s. decision to send more troops to saudi arabia.

well the united states did announce back in july that they would be sending $500.00 troops to saudi arabia and iran's position has always been the same that is that the presence of the united states military in the region is a destabilizing factor iran has always said that they're willing to talk to the neighbors and the countries in the region are able to provide security and stability so iran has said that the united states presence isn't helpful to anybody but already the states has the naval coalition which is strange the united kingdom but her reign and i have you. are a part of a new united states as that is to protect freedom navigation through the strait of hormuz so the buildup of the military is concerning for iran but also for other countries around the world because it increases the possibility of a miscalculation and a possible conflict and what's been the reaction to these new u.s. sanctions on iran central bank and to other major financial institutions how much

is this going to hurt iran more. well iran's banking sector or the industry are already going to under sanctions and the economy has been struggling but the thought that the central bank and the foreign minister has said that this these sanctions aren't anything new they're just part of the u.s. has just put a new face on them in fact the foreign ministry has said that iran has all this found its way forward and has been able to develop an even expand its sovereignty they called economic terrorism and said that the us are struggling to find ways to deal with differences that they have with other countries so these sanctions are not anything new they may not have a big practice practical step but they are a warning to other countries that do deal with iran and have trade with iran because the united states could impose financial penalties against them but also it's a hindrance to the french european led. french european led negotiations

at the general united nations general assembly and they're trying to escalate tensions between the united states and iran and find a negotiated negotiation and find some sort of solution to this crisis since the united states unilaterally put out the 2015 nuclear deal thank you very much for that as a correspondent in tehran. meanwhile yemen's houthi rebels have offered to stop all attacks on saudi arabia as part of a peace plan. said fighters would stop targeting the kingdom but only if the saudis reciprocated in yemen a healthy is claimed responsibility for the attack on saudi arabia's oil facilities a week ago the leg people be asked we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative the continuation of this war will not benefit any side on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more

are the enemy nation odds state ahead on al-jazeera we examine airline says and divisions in afghanistan in the run up to the presidential election. again i will come back to you in a national weather forecast here across europe it is kind of cool out here towards eastern it's very nice out here towards the west but things are about to change let me show you what is going on right now we have an area of low pressure that's been spinning bring a lot of clouds in cooler all the way down towards the black sea now temperatures are going to be in the teens but that's not for long as we go to the weekend and into sunday and monday tempers will be coming up across that region here across the west though looking quite nice we're looking at paris 28 degrees but notice the clouds out here in the atlantic well that is another front and once that comes on board that is really going to bring a lot more clouds and rain across the region we're not going to see the

temperatures drop yet but we're going to be seeing a lot of rain coming into place all the sun you saw on saturday that is going to go away we're going to be seeing clouds as well as winds clouds are also going to be a big problem here across parts of north western africa and in those clouds we could be seeing some embedded showers as well we're talking morocco algeria so in those areas expect to see often on rain showers we don't expect to see much of accumulation at all but. a bit more towards east it is going to be nice to play at 30 degrees there and as we go towards sunday cairo we do expect to see some winds coming out of the north attempt a view of $33.00 and down the nile for us one it is going to be a sunny day with a dry day at $41.00 degrees. al-jazeera will meet 2 arab women with roots in the middle east the successful knights of rule over the last 5 years i've achieved a great deal of partnership with the country's leading families but never forgot

where they came from. i tried to deal with it different takes the stereotypical image of muslim women arabs aboard the business woman in the council on al-jazeera . you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories thousands of people have been protesting across egypt calling on president up to see to resign their reports one person has been killed in the northern city of months after suffocating from tear gas the u.s. is set to deploy more troops and military equipment to sob in response to the

attacks on saudi oil facilities last week washington has blamed it on iran allegations that tehran has rejected it and yemen's with the rebels have offered to stop targeting saudi territory as long as the kingdom also holds its campaign the group has taken credit for the attacks on saudi oil passed last week and they have warned that the kingdom will suffer more tox if the war continues. 9 on kong pro china supporters have toned down posters put up by anti-government demonstrators it is raising fears a further conflict between the rival size that conservatives had created around $100.00 so-called men and walls named after the john lennon wall in the former colonies controlled city of prague covered in notes for political reform and criticizing beijing swallowing influence the protests started in june over legislation allowing people to be sent to mainland china for a trial and they've since been legislation has since been withdrawn by the

demonstrations continue. now with only 7 days to go before the presidential election in afghanistan the taliban up its attacks to disrupt the process. provide greater stability others it could make for. this election not physical limits of afghanistan's ethnic diversity testing allegiances and divisions at a time of growing instability i the front runner is the incumbent president. a pashtoon from the country's largest ethnic group. but like the other 16 candidates in this race he's carefully picked running mates to get support from other ethnic groups. that's why they're scared of the unity of this team scared of our plans for government gandhi's vice presidential running mate is a prominent tajik who he hopes will take votes away from his biggest rival dr

abdullah abdullah. he's served in all afghan governments since the overthrow of the taliban in 2001 at this rally received backing from one of the major pashtoon tribes. our main purposes we use the selection and this campaign as an opportunity to share different voices different hopes different visions with afghans a former warlord abdul rashid dostum from the community is also backing up to. this election is a reminder of the country's decades old conflict with another former prime minister and warlords standing for election day in hekmatyar but playing on so many fault lines this election has the potential to worsen an already precarious situation. still it offers the chance of a new start. there were many purposes we use this election in this campaign the

sniper trinity to share different voices different hopes different vision with us as a former head of afghanistan's spy agency drama tool an appeal is a fierce critic of the government's endemic corruption and also accuses gandhi of misusing official results is to help him campaign in spite of his unpopularity he has the advantage of being in power and can take credit for what little progress over the past 5 years able to bring together probably more groups than most in this diverse country many say he's the only choice at a time but few options robert bright al-jazeera couple. and millions across the globe have taken part in the biggest climate change protest on record to young people to the need demanding goffin stillmore to curb emissions and week long campaign aims to step up the pressure on while leaders gathering in new york for

the united nations general assembly. the young people are fed up and took to the streets of new york to say it's time for adults i don't need to acknowledge climate change but instead to do something about it you're only 17 years old why is it important for you to be here today this whole movement is you slide in we're the ones who are going to be affected the most by climate change because we have the longest time ahead of us and we're the ones who by traditional means don't have much political power actions like this show that we have a voice in our futures here i've written 0 hour in red lipstick oh it means that this is really like your hour like no more time left to act on climate change because people around the world are already being affected they are taking their message straight to older people in positions of power like it disclaim it strike in washington d.c. but in america new york is the focal point. on thursday

a giant melting glacier was projected on the side of the united nations headquarters as well as words scroll down the side demanding action on climate change world leaders are gathering at the u.n. next week for the annual general assembly. but it was the noise on the streets friday and to make those world leaders take notice he's only hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating through the streets of new york city right now mostly young people this is happening in over a 1000 different cities throughout the united states but not only here locally as well. across the pacific islands many of which are already experiencing the impact of rising sea levels a pledge to fight climate change there are protests in australia were several $100000.00 people skipped school college or work to take part and in india more

demonstrations and a groundswell of global existent passion for action also seen in south africa all told demonstrations in more than $150.00 countries. even experienced activists say they are learning from the youth i have to say they can communicate much better that maybe up us they have creativity innovation and the way they have energized the numbers of young people that are coming every country have been. in the last 6 months i've been so inspired they're now saying it's no longer a matter of trying to bring attention to climate change but rather what to do about it gabriel is on doe al-jazeera new york. the protests were sponsored by teenage climate activists gretta fund bird she says it's clear people want to see action from world leaders. and this monday world leaders are going to be gathered here in new york city for the united nations climate action summit.

the eyes of the world that will be on them they have a chance to prove that they too are united behind the science they have a chance to take leadership to prove they actually hear us do you think they hear us. we will make them hear us. and we have a new show here at al-jazeera which will concentrate on the climate emergency and the impact on all of our lives planet s.o.'s will debut this saturday at 1730 g.m.t. and here's a taste of what's to come our planet is feeling the heat of the climate an ecological emergency the world's leading scientists are warning of an existential crisis in the face of irreversible changes to the earth's climate al-jazeera brings you a new weekly show planet s.o.s.

will set up the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet's climate has so us at this time on now to sarah. as scientists in jordan are developing techniques that could help repopulate coral reefs destroyed by my speeching and other catastrophic events red sea coral is showing a remarkable resistance to the effects of global warming increasing water temperatures and ocean acidification and the chapelle reports from a couple in jordan. when dr fouad enters the wet lab at the marine science station he knows that the future of the world's corals is not guaranteed so experiments are carried out in these tanks that take advantage of quality spawn in the red sea where nearly 200 species of hard coral have flourished this is that is a lot of us for that is the old what we have done so far is so soft something meets . the we call them blue books for me and you put out

a one method involves coral engineering combining fragments of different species of coral each resistant to a different type of disease or other stress factor within a few years they fused together into one creature that stronger than any one part a small miracle of nature all the learning and experimentation here begins with the basic lesson for us all many people and there will be do not be allies what is the nature of. some people think that those on the stones present in the sea as some of those they think they are the plants and they don't know how much they are. and that's why in many cases they can harm them without even knowing that killing those beaches jordan only has 27 kilometers of coastline along the red sea waters of its commercial hub are shared by israel egypt and saudi arabia along with ferries fishermen and hundreds of thousands of visitors every year these clear waters are

the main reason why tourists come to the gulf of aqaba and the researchers here are preparing for the worst they're growing corals even breezing and storing them just in case climate change wipes out threaten populations. this yellow turban area is much bigger than any human gliding past it bigger corals are found here but this one is about 5 centuries old some day it's hoped the cultured corals will outlast us all red sea varieties are proving to be resilient to climate change and warming seas the scientists practically boast they'll be the last to die back in the lab maysoon and her colleagues constantly monitor the reefs health ensuring that pollutants along the coastline are not adding stress to the creatures below too often development comes with an ecological cost there is hives filters that it's all good on christie to be in contact with coral i will they are in contact with coral. tourists which is why scientists say it's crucial to keep them at ease

especially since the reefs are home to a quarter of all marine life and are schapelle al-jazeera. u.k. and e.u. negotiators say they're optimistic following brest breck's it talks in brussels u.k. bret's it minister stephen bach he says there's a common purpose between the 2 sides as they seek a deal ahead of a deadline at the end of october the top south been focused on the contentious irish border issue and at least one person had died during the latest mass protests in haiti. where riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital port au prince as seen days of protests demanding that resignation of president of anomalies is accused of widespread corruption and failing to resolve worsening shortages of petrol and other essentials. i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera thousands of people have been

protesting across egypt calling on president abdel fatah sisi to resign their reports one person has been killed in the northern city of months after suffocating from tear gas the u.s. is said to deploy more troops and military equipment to assad eurabia in response to the attacks on saudi oil facilities last week washington has brain dead on iran allegations tehran has rejected yemen's who the rebels meanwhile have offered to stop targeting saudi territory as long as the kingdom also holds its campaign the group took credit for the attack on saudi oil plants last week they have warned that the kingdom will suffer more tax if the war in yemen continuous. we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative the continuation of this war we're not going to put any sort on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more are the enemy nation.

millions across the globe have taken part in the biggest climate change protest on records young people want governments to do more. to curb emissions before damage to the planet is irreversible at least one person has died during the latest mass protests in haiti. where. riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital port au prince which has seen days of mass protests against the president juvenile mores they accuse him of overseeing widespread corruption and failing to solve worsening shortages of petrol. and pro china supporters in hong kong have torn down so-called lennon walls named after the beatles john lennon and his songs of p.c. attacks on posters calling for political reform and reduce influence from beijing raises fears a further conflict between rival groups a 16 says the successive weekend of protests is sponsored by demonstrators

demanding change those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year since i story stay with us. as world leaders gather eagle un secretary general until you get to hold a climate action summit to sound familiar. but will countries heed the warnings and deliver concrete plans to reduce emissions to avoid a climate catastrophe. get the updates as they come on al-jazeera. explain tehran for the attack on saudi oil facilities now the u.s. says it's building a coalition against iran but can that guarantee security in the gulf region or would diplomacy be a better choice this is inside story. below

into the program i mean iran current the gulf region is on the edge who's responsible for last week's attacks on saudi oil infrastructure which have led to accusations from all of the different sides the u.s. and saudi arabia say iran is behind the iran card strikes but they who thiis in yemen say they are responsible and they've warned of more to come the u.s. secretary of state visited allies in saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to hold talks with their leaders micah pompei rose said washington was seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis but blamed iran for seeking an all out war iran's foreign minister says the u.s. is preparing to use iran co-incidence as an excuse to attack his country and that her own ready to defend itself. there will be more sanctions were we we have set about a course of action to deny iran the capacity and the wealth so that they can conduct their terror said to provoke to prevent them from conducting their terror

campaigns and you can see from the events of last week there's still more work to do we're going to continue to drive towards that end. you cannot fail to see the failed policy of giving money to this regime but what happened. saudi arabia iran's foreign minister has responded criticizing americans involvement in the war in yemen mohammad javad zarif tweeted a list of crimes he accused the saudi led and u.s. backed coalition of committing in yemen saying 4 years of bombing has left $100000.00 yemenis dead millions at mt nourished and suffering from cholera but when yemen carries out retaliatory strikes on saudi oil tankers the u.s. calls it an unacceptable act of war in another tweet zarif says iran has been more responsible calling for peace and security in the gulf and putting forward peace plans for yemen and syria. let's bring in our guests and now that hashmi is the director of the center for

middle east studies at the university of denver he's joining us here in doha mohammad marandi is professor of american studies at the university of tehran and he joins us from tehran and adolfo franco is a republican strategist former adviser to senator john mccain he joins us from washington d.c. a welcome to you all i'd like to begin in d.c. 1st with adult franco now what we're seeing right now is a fairly impotent reaction from washington to these attacks on the facilities we're seeing a lot of the blame game going on it's being blamed on the iranians that he say it was actually them but no real reactions that has been some sort of sanctions the u.s. has always prided itself on securing oil out of the gulf it's been a 30 year relationship that way has that now changed now not at all and i do not believe it's been

a weak response and i don't think the full response has yet to be heard the president obviously has been briefed in fact extensively yesterday and today will actually be presented with a a series of options and those. options range from frankly fallout military strike in retaliation against iran to we were everything to additional and more strengthened sanctions you're absolutely right we have a longstanding stand a decades old policy of alliances with the gulf states and will continue to protect their assets their security there's no question about doing so however the united states will not act unilaterally without consultations as secretary pump beo has done precisely with those allies to see the scope of what they deem to be an appropriate response this is clear aggression by iran we know the origin of these come from the north northwest that's not the geography that would point to yemen

and even if it were yemen which it is not of course that would be iranian sponsored and controlled as is the situation in hezbollah and other places where they use their proxies so this is clearly iran in every shape way and form the response of the united states is yet to be heard there are u.s. senators calling for a very strong military reaction toward iran and the president has said everything's on the table and as he has said the other day we're locked and loaded meaning he's prepared to do a military response as necessary and i haven't run in teheran the u.s. has looked and loaded it clearly blames iran for all of this is iran so we're supposed to believe that a swarm of drones and missiles either crossed the persian gulf or came from the north of the persian gulf all the way down. across of passing by u.s. military bases. mabel ships and the huge military presence the western

countries have across the persian gulf region and then the saudis with hundreds of billions of dollars of american weapons base of all over the place and all of them directed more most of them directed towards iran because that's how the saudis have spent their money over the last few decades yet none of these drones were detected none of these missiles were detected i don't think anyone here takes that very seriously when the americans sent a 200000000 dollar drone into iranian air space as a few months ago minutes after it entered the iranian airspace it was downed by an iranian made surface to air missile so perhaps the saudis should buy iranian made products instead of american made products and then there is the other argument that until now whenever drone strikes were carried out by the yemeni resistance and the many armed forces them western pundits would say that these weapons came from

iran and they were sent to yemen and yet that narrative suddenly has disappeared in this attack so while the strikes have become more and more impressive over the last few months deeper inside saudi take territory. with greater personal precision suddenly there they no longer make that claim about yemen so no one here believes the american argument and we know how the americans falsify information for the sake of their own foreign policy agenda but if the americans make and america it is it is true that the americans are allies of saudi arabia they've been allies when they helped create. when they haue and then the blowback was 911 they've been allies when the saudis have been spreading extremism across the world because it was in the interest of the united states them they've been allies for a very long time that's absolutely correct let me bring in a deal for frank there is this idea that the saudis are very embarrassed that the

he's managed to mount an attack such as this and this is convenient to blame iran that's what we're hearing from the iranian side certainly there's something illogical about my colleague's rationale he just said that it was implausible that something could tact so drones could attack saudi fields because they're armed to the teeth and the sophistication and this is just impossible yet. they can be coming from yemen and somehow that's plausible either it's implausible and this was all a set up by saudi arabia in the united states which you know if you believe conspiracy theories ok but the evidence is otherwise since the material that has been examined is iran and that's not what i said so if if the if the draw if the drones can be and you just said that that plausible to believe that that saudi you were a little uneasy would not be protected by surface to you i'm going to just

interrupt you there. that is not how many and he said actually what he said was the no one no one of the american forces that were based on there's a lot of them in the region notice these swarm of drones coming over let's just leave it there for a 2nd we bring in another hostile. clearly there is big differences on both sides when it comes to the narrative here is there a political way out of this or are we at the stage where somebody is going to have to attack somebody else somebody else's capital while there is a political way out of it and just and it speaks to the point that was just discussed with your other 2 guests. what we need right now is a international independent u.n. led commission of inquiry to determine culpability and then accountability for the attack on the saudi oil facilities now it would be good to hear from the government of saudi arabia as though whether they would support such a un led independent inquiry because when it comes to un led independent inquiries

in the context of the war in yemen they've strongly opposed those independent inquiries and the islamic republic of iran has also had a horrific track record when it comes to pursuing in accepting the results of u.n. lead independent inquiries with respect to regional destabilization i'm talking about what the u.n. has said and done with respect to iran terrific involvement in syria so i think that's one way of resolving this issue that's the way forward. in terms of the broader political conflict that we see unfolding right now that has brought this region to the precipice i think we're in desperate need of diplomacy the problem is that there's very few options that we have that we can pursue with respect to a diplomatic settlement the united states and iran don't talk to one another. donald trump has surrounded himself with a bunch of war hawks that have been very reluctant to preach suit diplomacy although donald trump and i hate to say this but donald trump to his credit has

opened the door to a dialogue with iran unfortunately the authoritarian leaders in tehran have no interest in pursuing dialogue so i think this this is i think the sticking point that needs to be resolved if we want to get away from a disastrous war that we're on the precipice of franco would a u.n. inquiry satisfy this u.s. and ministration. i would be all in favor of that i can't imagine the administration wouldn't as well but there's only one problem with that. and principle that sounds nice theoretic through the theory theoretical point of view the point is this i think iran as it is in the past would just reject it so what this is at the at the end of the the at the end of the day un so therefore i don't know how long that inquiry would take it would be contested there's no question the results of it that's not somebody that everybody would they would automatically. be in the un a body that anyone would necessarily respect and what would be the remedy afterwards so say after this long it would take a while there's

a long inquiry iran actually was the culprit then what happens in terms of do we have a military strike 6 months from now and retaliation so that's one problem but but the comment made about diplomacy is an important one it's foreign minister serif who has taken diplomacy and the ayatollah khamenei has taken them off the table when the instructions have been given to speak to no american official president trump as never said that he said just no american official including the visuals in new york there are some in our in washington who have advocated to revoke the visas for if the iranian delegation to even travel to the u.n. meetings tomorrow or next week in new york and that was rejected by president trump i think president trouble is open to the dialogue the problem is you're iran but at the end of the day the culprit in the region for the instability is iran we know that whether it's in syria or lebanon or yemen this is this regime that has been

exporting terrorism and as a consequence a very tough sanctions which are now going to be stiffen iran is lashing out i understand it from a standpoint of global politics that iran has few options since it's been able to break through the sanctions with european allies to do resort to military threats to say this is what's going to happen to these tensions continue but the culprit for all of the for all of these activities beyond this incident is iran you have in america your reaction please. well i disagree with both of your guests 1st of all with regards to syria the un did nothing until 2013 and when you run actually entered syria was when there always already tens of thousands of foreign fighters were funded and brought into the country if it wasn't for iran we'd have black flags flying both over damascus and absolutely correct and it's well that's it just has a whole lot and it's absolutely true and hezbollah actually entered syria in the middle

of 2000 ron has been supporting us for news a war and stop showing how many who were silent about that look at the intelligence agency document of 2012 which big belongs to your own government have a bit of probability glenn and this is my meaning us the syrians are going to be backing a war criminal record i would have of your government off behind your any human rights document 1012 intelligence agency we honor them and they want to read if you're if you don't allow me to talk with this is reflective of the regime in washington's behavior how it silences any sort of critique your audience have no voice anywhere they can't have 5 minutes on al-jazeera then that's really say they don't have it in their own country either because you don't have all of your viewers so go and read the law that says you are that's let's i mean how much of these are your. now yes if he won't let me talk to us i advise your viewers to read the u.s.

defense intelligence agency document of 2012 where the united states and that organization was the lead of by general flynn michael flynn and he he also on al-jazeera stated that the united states allowed the extremists they allowed their allies in the region to support the street extremists and the extremists had the upper hand in the fighting and they according to the document were trying to create a salafist city between syria and iraq this was early on in the fighting in iran came well after that but with regards to when we talk about the u.n. let's look at yemen the u.n. only had the saudi regime on their black list for 72 hours and then they removed it so when we talk about the u.n. we're not talking about an unbiased body of the u.n. when saddam hussein invaded iran they never condemned the grass or during the war and when they used chemical weapons in iraq survive to chemical attacks and friends of mine didn't when that went chemical weapons were used in iran the u.n.

security council never condemned the united states or saddam hussein or any of the european countries who supported them but the real story here is the war in yemen which is is quite obvious the most horrific story in the 21st century this war has to come to an end the sody regime if they do not want to their assets to be targeted the only way forward is for them to stop bombing schools stop bombing hospitals funerals where the school buses and and starving the country with the help of the united states and others any support that the iranians have given to the people of b.m. in their resistance against the saudi aggression is nothing compared to what the united states and its allies in the region and its allies in europe have done for so. and i will get here in just a 2nd i want to bring in. in. you heard what i guess into their own and

randy had to say it's about yemen this is where we're at and this is what needs to change however you seem to have some strong opinions i would agree with him that the war in yemen is horrific and it is destabilize the region and it is led to a huge humanitarian catastrophe but so has the war in syria which mohammad marandi is defending in terms of iranian participation that has killed you know roughly half a 1000000 people in iran has very bloody hands for what he has been doing in yemen so there's a lot of regional instability that's taking place nowhere and i think if you want to be darting that if you want to be objective see warning of what he has to be able to attribute blame to all of the destabilizing actors that saudi arabia that's the islam republic of iran that we do i mean real government and that's also the united states government absolutely see the difference between mohammad marandi and i is that i'm not a an apologist for the united states government in fact i'm very critical of u.s. foreign policy both in the past in the present now unlike him who's

a cross apologist for everything that comes out of the mouth of the hominy let's bring in adolfo franco what you're trying to do you know the language that you use reflects the way who you are let's let's keep this civilized. it's very difficult for the iranians to come to the negotiating table if you keep putting sanctions on them if you sanction the senior leadership it becomes very difficult for them to actually sell it to their people and come back to the negotiating table what's the way out for the u.s. while this. well number one you're absolutely right and this is precisely why iran launched this attack my opinion against saudi arabia it's to demonstrate that they have no options but to flex their muscles in the region and send a warning shot which was heard in saudi arabia and the and the gulf states that this could mean all out war which the saudi arabia and its and the u.s. does not does not want so the way the way out of the but here's the bigger problem

for the united states and i really respect that the other guest who i disagree with and doa because he is right he is critical to us but he's also critical of the other side so i have a different view but i give him a lot of credit for for his honesty. let me say this from our standpoint we have very hard options this is not an easy way out the problem is we're how we got here which i do not want to repeat the history of the failed policies of the previous american administration and frankly even other administration for a week on iran that iran we are is is now on the cusp and has been on the cusp of course of becoming a nuclear power that's that is from my perspective what drives our policy the problem is and i think the president was right he's saying we're not going to feel good for 5 or 6 years of buying security and then and then actually license to almost have under the agreement the ability to develop nuclear weapons in in

a few years so he bit the bullet meaning the president by that expression i mean he decided very directly to say this is not going to happen we're going to put pressure on iran through sanctions to change its policy and to really call it what it is which it which is a terrorist state the problem with or the problem or the challenge for us right now is i think there will be stiffer. sanctions coming but the options become more difficult there's question of. the iran will really come through with its threats and escalate and continue to do these types of activities have been engaged in and then frankly lead to a confrontation or whether iran will come to its senses after it does this types of antics and decide. because of sanctions but but by scoring some points to have the west come and suggest discussions and agree to those i would hope would be the

latter but the president is not going to change course on sanctions that is for sure and in fact there might be some military response if our allies are aligned ultimately our goal is to change the iranian regime's behavior and that is our goal and our goal is to keep it from becoming a nuclear power in the region at all frank thank you very much i want to bring in mohammed. comes in as well and you know just me but we all running out it's very quickly we haven't run the it's the sanctions the real issue here if the sanctions are lifted the iranians will come back to the negotiating table is that the upshot of it. no it's not at all that it's us aggression in this region just like in syria as we know and we can weeks the united states use saudi arabia was supporting isis and they were destroying syria and the they hide the reality unlike your 2 guests to and i also disagree that trump is did not your guess and go ahead trump open the

door for negotiations that's nonsense the united states is engaging in economic warfare against ordinary iranians the iranians were sitting with the united states at the negotiating table and that was the united states that left the table after tearing up the agreement the iranians signed the nuclear agreement in order to create stability in this region and they gave significant concessions to get there but the but trump toward that agreement the iranians have said that the us goes back to the deal that they will accept a new state of affairs meaning negotiations can take place so it's up to the united states not to be not the iranians iran's not going to appease the united states and finally saudi arabia is heading towards a cliff and so is the united arab emirates whether your guests like it or not they cannot continue this war with it with yemen and get away with it the yemenis are going are getting stronger the saudis are getting weaker the saudis have are able to protect themselves us by spending hundreds of billions of dollars wasting their money giving them to the united states and the united states has shown nothing for

all its presence in the region they the united states is only creating instability and you will believe you me that if the war in iraq there had to be all morning outside well you do want to come to that house and he said well i'm not going to have to stop you there this is a once again all about the politics of this is sanctions it's about the regional players saudi arabia it's about iran it's about the u.s. role saudi arabia seems to be reliant on the u.s. often it's been said that saudi arabia will fight anymore and he will to the last american is not a bad policy is that a failed. should things change for saudi arabia well saudi arabia the house of saud they're not getting much sleep these days because they were hoping that donald trump would be their savior so they're in a state of shock right now that on 2 occasions when trump had the opportunity to strike at iran that they haven't so there's going to be a lot of soul searching in saudi arabia about his relationship with the united

states i don't think they have many good options but these are difficult days for the dictators in riyadh but more broadly speaking i think in terms of diplomacy next week is a unique opportunity when all of the heads of state of the members of the u.n. will be in new york the french proposal which we haven't talked about which looked like it had some legs which looked like it could sort of be perhaps a way out of this conundrum needs to be revived and you know a manual marker all the french president will be there as well rouhani will be there so will trump let's hope that cooler heads prevail and there can be a way out of this disastrous conflict that's the responsibility of all of the a dictators in authoritarian regimes in the middle east including the international players led by the united states which you know has to bear a lot of responsibility for this and it's right and we are out of time i want to thank all of guests another house for me i'm having randy and adolfo franco and thank you too for watching you can see the program any time by visiting

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ahead the u.s. is sending additional troops and military equipment to saddam arabia and the u.a.e. in the aftermath of the attacks on saudi oil facilities yemen's hope the rebels offer to end hostilities with saudi arabia but warn that the kingdom will suffer the greatest damage if it continues the war and we meet the irish families worried that their livelihoods want survive pricks. thousands of egyptians have joined red nationwide protests demanding the resignation of president. they accuse him and other military leaders of corruption al jazeera is banned from covering use inside egypt's fred they are reports that. several arrests were made in the capital cairo charlotte bennett says monitoring developments. from cairo to alexandria to men sora anger and resentment filled egypt's streets people protested against president absent father el sissy calling

for him to resign following corruption allegations and area sites they flooded into cairo's to his square before police dispersed the crowd arresting some the square was made famous in 20 livin during the egyptian revolution that toppled former president hosni mubarak the fact that people have been able to actually enter to harry square is in itself an incredible achievement for the people in order to try to protest against sisi so it seems that there is this what will go to the growing this tension that is growing and it seems that momentum is increasing at minute by minute egyptians are frustrated about corruption but it was a businessman in spain that storks the fire calling for the protests muhammad ali started posting videos on you tube and facebook and early september he leaked cissie and his military wasted millions of dollars of public money on palaces and hotels he said he knew because he built them i wonder why spend

a huge amount of money building these houses i never understood his decision the problem was that these wife didn't want to sleep in the same home with mubarak's wife stayed taken low level corruption to a new label i built 5 villas for theses a palace for the president and a military camp in cairo the slap to the one week ago speaking at a youth summit in cairo president says he did not directly address the accusations of corruption against him and his army but he did say this. how much do you think a day of operations in sinai costs we don't talk about this then we see someone daring to come out and defame the army someone who wants to shock you panic you someone who dares to try to despise. ridge the great value of our great army when sissy little military coup of president mohammed morsi and 2013 he our lord all on authorized protests a government crackdown followers with tens of thousands of egyptians arrested

including journalists like al-jazeera is own mahmoud hussein who is now being imprisoned more than 1000. egyptian government. crushed any group has ruthlessly this sort of like a people are prepared to take to the streets tonight i think speaks to the enormous frustration the enormous anger that ordinary egyptians to work. from an egyptian whistleblower posting you tube videos the internet has galvanized egyptians frustrations and now move to the streets ballasts. are responding to the protests human rights watch issued a warning saying president r.c.c. security agencies have time and again use brutal force to crush peaceful protests if thought is should recognize that the world is watching and take all necessary steps to avoid a repetition of past atrocities now back in 27 activists on the streets of egypt

sought to change the course of the country's history the january 25th revolution forced longtime leader hosni mubarak to step down the fall of mubarak paved the way for the muslim brotherhood's mahmoud morsi to become egypt's 1st democratically elected president in 2012 but a year later mass protests took place against morsi and he was overthrown in a military coup led by general abdel fattah el-sisi went on to become president while morsi died in june this year bastone in trial since strengthened his great won power journalists have been arrested including those working for this network rights groups accuse security forces of frequent abuses as a crackdown on dissent when i speak to moment about this is chair of the media and journalism program at the doha institute for graduates. that is very good to have you with us again mom it's the egyptian government as we heard in charlotte bennett says report has cracked down on protests. in the past just how significant is it that we're seeing people taking to the streets again people in

tahrir square and elsewhere and how far do you think this can go i think it's significant i think if nothing else egyptians have broken a very significant barrier of fear we have to keep in mind that many hundreds of egyptians have been have been gunned down point blank range by security forces simply for protesting in the streets many others have been arrested there are probably 60000 or more political prisoners in egypt are subject to routine torture including rape so the fact that people would quite literally risk their livelihoods their lives by going out into the street and protesting is meaningful we haven't seen anything like this in the last several years and surprisingly yesterday friday we didn't see the violent crackdown from security forces that were used to seeing when these demonstrations happened what does that suggest here you know i'm going to be a little more cautious than some analysts are being right now some are saying that

this means or might mean that the security forces or at least those in charge of the security forces are sympathetic with the protesters in the street that is a possibility i do think that there are fractures winsome inside the power apparatus in egypt however i also want to kind of remain cautious this was the 1st day we have to see how things play out in the coming it is still early days to have been concerns about corruption in egypt is a great deal of poverty of course and a deteriorating economic situation and we recently had this military contractor and businessman wanted posting these videos on on social media kucing the gyptian government and presidencies in particular of wasting millions of dollars accusing him of corruption again these corruption allegations are not new why they resonate . more with people now and why is what mohammed ali has said transfixing people so much want to so i think a couple of things 1st of all you're right this is nothing new egyptians know that their government has long been corrupt about muhammad ali is an insider so that's

one reason why this is so significant he worked with the military for about 15 years so that's that's one reason why this is important also you have to remember that this is all coming out at a time when poverty is really hitting a lot of egyptians poverty rates are rising about one 3rd of egyptians live on about a $1.50 a day and according to the world bank about 60 percent of egyptians live in poverty or are vulnerable the c.c. government has issued a lot of sort of economic austerity measures they've cut subsidies and egyptians are finding it difficult to commute to work to pay for health care and even put food on the table so when they hear news that the government is spending tens of millions of dollars on things that are of benefit only to the president and his wife and family and immediate confidants it's obviously a concern and a source of anger the president has now left. in new york for the united nations general assembly and reports suggest that he left egypt then scheduled what could

this mean i know we're speculating here but it's quite interesting isn't it that he would leave and these protests happen as he it's interesting and speculations about and i try not to do too much speculating some people are saying that this might mean that he's very concerned and that's why he needed to to leave so early for the general assembly other people are saying exactly the opposite that the fact that he left the country at all suggests that he feels that he's quite secure i'm more inclined to sort of wait and see and and watch how things play out over the next couple of days in particular would be interesting to see if they are more protests in the coming days thank you so much monitor mastery for speaking to us about this thank you. let's turn our attention to other world news now and the united states is sending more troops to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to boost defenses in the face of what he calls even aggression the deployment follows the attack on key oil facilities in saudi arabia which the u.s.

has blamed on tehran mike hanna reports some washington. it was a hastily arranged news conference at the pentagon following a meeting of the national security council the secretary of defense announced the further deployment of u.s. forces to the middle east the intention he said to bolster the defense systems of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the president has approved the deployment of u.s. forces which will be defensive in nature and primarily focused on air and missile defense we will also work to accelerate the delivery of military equipment to the kingdom of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to enhance their ability to defend themselves it's not clear how many troops the u.s. will provide but the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff emphasize this was a defensive deployment and indicated the u.s. would ask its allies to offer this support we're contributing to saudi arabia as the french we would be looking as the secretary said for other international

partners to also contribute to show your abuse defense. the secretary of defense continued to insist iran was responsible for the attacks on saudi oil installations last weekend brushing off repeated iranian denials of involvement but at the same time confirming that the u.s. forensic team working with saudi experts had still not concluded its investigation . news of the deployment closely followed president trump's decision to impose new sanctions on iran. at the end of the day as president trump hosts a dinner for the prime minister of australia it appears that the u.s. economic pressure will be buttressed by a show of military force even if the stage is declared to be of a defensive nature mike hanna al-jazeera washington meanwhile yemen's hope the rebels have offered to stop all attacks on sarge arabia as part of a peace plan their political office leader. said fighters would stop targeting the

kingdom but only if the saudis reciprocated in yemen who fees claimed responsibility for the attack on saudi arabia's oil facilities a week ago we were equally as we reserve the right to respond if they fail to reciprocate positively to this initiative the continuation of this war will not benefit any side on the contrary it could lead to dangerous developments which we do not wish to take place we say this knowing that the ones who would suffer more are the enemy nation and the whole fees are celebrating the 5th anniversary of their takeover of yemen's capital a rally was held in sanaa on friday on the eve of the so-called september 21st revolution thousands more are expected to fill the streets on saturday and now the news hundreds of protesters are marching towards government offices in hong kong the demonstration comes ahead of a larger government protests in the city center planned in a few hours time is early ronnie.