cultures across the world that's what we. kind of for that matter. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the game this is that he was live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes iran says that it started and rich in uranium up to 20 percent in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal also. free julian. free the press. free us all. a u.k. course rejects extradition to the us for wiki leaks founder julian assange on mental

health grounds. it's back to school for students in kenya despite the objection of teachers concerned about the spread of covert by teen. i did a read development employees of a major tech company form a union workers now have a greater voice of google. i'm generous with the sport as a cricket test positive for corona virus on arrival and maybe now you will self isolate for the next 10 days as teammates and. to match test series. iran says that it's taken the initial steps to start the process of enriching uranium up to 20 percent of another ground nuclear facility to iran's move is likely to escalate the already heightened tension with the u.s. in the last few weeks of donald. trump's presidency the level of uranium enrichment

is a significant step away from the limits outlined in the 2015 iran nuclear deal but well below the 90 percent required to build a nuclear weapon the european union has described it as a considerable departure from the 2015 deal at israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and this country will not allow that to happen well iran's foreign minister has tweeted saying quote we resumed 20 percent enrichment as legislated by our parliament the i.a.e.a. has been duly notified of our remedial action conforms fully with power $36.00 of the j c p a after years of noncompliance by several other j c p o a participants on measures are fully reversable upon full compliance by all our series harry forces are standing by in west jerusalem to take us through the israeli reaction to this and hi joe castro is live for us in washington d.c.

but 1st his daughter jabari in iran's capital tehran. well it's certainly important given the current political climate iran finds itself in mainly the rhetoric that's been coming out of tehran towards washington and their behavior in the region as iran puts it it's seriously significant because it shows that iran is actually fed up with this nuclear deal and there was supposed to be a grace period of 2 months from early december until early february when this law was passed in parliament demanding that iran's atomic energy agency resume 20 percent enrichment levels as a result of the united states leaving the nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on iran this bill was called sanctions relief bill so since that hasn't happened the problem and terence who are very conservative voice in the country had said that iran needs to take further steps president hassan rouhani did completely agree with

it but it appears now he has actually decided to go ahead with this because legally he's bound to but the iranians have told the i am december 30th that he intended to do this but they hadn't given the time we understood it to mean that iran was giving the incoming u.s. administration of president elect joe biden a grace period to see what he would do in terms of returning to the nuclear deal of 2015 before they took this step now it's important to note that iran was enriching at this level prior to that 2015 nuclear deal that's going to air a force upon his and western reserve harry what is prime minister netanyahu saying about this. well as you might expect his reaction was swift and pretty condemnatory saying that iran's actions cannot be explained in any other way than the further realisation of its plans to develop a military nuclear program and he reiterated his off repeated warning that israel

would never allow iran to produce a nuclear weapon now of course this is been a major theme of his premiership constantly warning the israeli public and the wider world about the implications of iran potentially getting a nuclear weapon in the future he lobbied very hard the trump administration to pull out of the j.c. the iran nuclear deal and indeed it did so in 2018 last year in the some of those a series of explosions in iran the biggest of which almost consequential at than a ton its iranian nuclear site severe damage reported to the centrifuge facility there israel didn't admit or claimed to have carried that out but certainly some of its ministers hinted in that direction and then there was the assassination of the head of the really nuclear program most in fact resided in november again in iran blaming israel for that now if these were actions were aimed

at trying to derail iran's nuclear program will deter iran from carrying on in a way that israel was against then the short term consequences at least haven't proved to be successful not direction with this resumption of 20 percent uranium enrichment that presents as an yahoo with a significant foreign policy challenge as it does the incoming biden ministration al-jazeera sorry for said reporting live from west jerusalem harry many thanks how does your caster is live for us in washington any response yet from the trumpet ministration of one of the implications of this for president elect biden. adrian that's there's still conspicuous silence from u.s. officials at all levels likely the state department waiting to take a cue from president trump who has been busy on twitter today trying to overturn his election defeat from president elect joe biden's transition team there is also

been silenced in the past they've said it's one president at a time they tried not to comment on foreign affairs yesterday though we did hear from the incoming national security advisor to the biden administration saying that if the u.s. is to come back to the table for the iranian nuclear deal that iran would also have to come back into compliance and that ballistic missiles would need to be on the table that is something that has been resoundingly rejected by iran but the more immediate reaction though in the 16 days left of the trump administration at a time when the president has been behaving more erratic clee in terms of domestic public political concerns there is concern that that may bleed into how he responds to iran's enrichment of uranium to 20 percent we know yesterday's decision by the pentagon to keep a u.s. warship in the region that came from president trump and it was just 3 days after the pentagon had ordered that ship to return to the united states fired his defense

secretary in early november soon after that was asking his advisors for military options to do a preemptive strike against an iranian nuclear facility all tamil he was talked down from that but again with just 2 weeks and some change left to his administration with his presidency embroiled in domestic chaos over his political concerns here domestically there's no telling how he may respond to iran knowing that this is a president who does not like to shy away from a fight and who likes to leave a lasting mark there is hard to live at washington the height of anything. mexico says that it's ready to offer asylum to julian assange president andress manuel lopez obrador says that he supports a decision by a u.k. court not to extradite the wiki leaks founder to the u.s. and that he'd give him protection.

songs or supporters celebrated the ruling outside the british courts are soldiers wanted on espionage charges for publishing thousands of secret american military documents in 2010 and 11 u.s. authorities are expected to appeal the decision the judge denied the request over concerns over a source is mental health and a suicide risk. is standing by in mexico city with more on the president's comments there but 1st let's bring in may have baka who's been following the court proceedings in london so leave the extradition request was denied not only legal but on health grounds. yeah that's right and obviously for massages supporters those who have stood by him for many years this is as we've seen there something to celebrate but his defense team has always asserted that the case against him was a political case that essentially this is

a case about human rights about freedom of speech and the right for journalists to hold the powerful to account but one by warm the presiding judge looking at this case not down these assertions allowing the extradition request to be overturned at least for the time being on the grounds that asylum issues are very serious risk of self harm a razor blade have been found that is solid 2019 he had been telling medical staff that he contemplated suicide and as a result the thought of him possibly being extradited to the united states with a view to him if he's found guilty ending up in a maximum security prison possibly in solitary confinement was not one 'd that the judge could considerably go ahead with the result has been welcomed as a said by supporters along with stella morris who was formerly

a member of his legal council now is fiance and also the mother of 2 of his sons who is fathered budget innocent whilst he was holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here's what morris had to say. i call on the president of the united states to end this now. mr president tear down these prison walls. let our little boys have their father. free julian. free the press free us all. where the united states have already said that they are going to appeal this result they have 14 days in which to do it and the other interesting development is that according to asylum just defense team they will apply for bail as early as 10 am g.m.t. on wednesday if bail is granted and given of course that the court is very aware of

the state of his mental health and he could well gets a taste of freedom temporary perhaps very soon how does there isn't a barca life for us in london many thanks naif muddled up one of them is in mexico city what's the connection between julian assange in mexico. many were surprised that there is any connection at all surprise to those announcements made by the mexican president during his monday morning press conference where he has now instructed mexico's foreign secretary to file the necessary paperwork with the united kingdom to formally. formally offer asylum to julian assange let's take a listen to what the mexican president had to say earlier this morning is really a far more i'm in favor of pardoning a songe and not only that i'm going to ask the foreign relations secretary do the corresponding formalities to request the government the possibility that the songes

free and the mexico option political asylum with all the rights that this entails. so the mexican president calling the decision by this u.k. court not to extradite julian a songe to the united states calling it a triumph of justice as you can imagine here in mexico the reaction from many has been divided especially on social media on one hand you have some people calling it an extravagant gesture by the mexican president to be offering political asylum at a time when the country is still struggling during its worst days of the pope at 19 outbreak here in the country on another hand there are critics of the president who have been quick to point out a hypocrisy saying that the president has shown of bias toward high profile controversial figures in international politics like mr assad but also pointing to point out is the former bolivian president who was received here in mexico in 2000

in 1000 following the political crisis in his country but what many are saying on social media here in mexico is something that the president himself said during his morning address where he said that he is merely following a long tradition that mexico has had of having an open door policy to international political asylum seekers something that dates back to the years of the spanish civil war so nonetheless many here are anxious to see how this all plays out al-jazeera. reporting live from mexico so they meant well but i think. this is that still to come on the program. it is no exaggeration to say that i am more concerned about the situation we face now than i have been at any time since march last year lockdown in scotland after a fast spreading covert 19 variant drives up the number of infections that. rebel fighters in the central african republic advance towards the capital ahead of initial presidential election results being declared. the problem is the n.f.l.

playoffs for the 1st time in 19 years here from their game winning quarterback a little later in the sport but. the united kingdom has reported another record number of new corona virus infections with over $58000.00 cases confirmed on monday at the same time it's become the 1st country to roll out the oxford astra zeneca vaccine that's the 2nd shot being used there as the government races to get a handle on a crippling 2nd wave prompted by a dangerous new strain of the virus andrew symonds reports from london. a shot in the arm of the oxford university astra zeneca vaccine 1st for the u.k. but any fanfare for the rollout of the initial half a 1000000 doses of the vaccine was lost and replaced by a realisation that the spread of covert in the u.k.

is out of control i think it's a really critical moment we. at the point of being overwhelmed by this disease so i think it gives us a bit of hope but i think we've got some tough weeks ahead of the u.k. prime minister boris johnson flagged the need for tougher restrictions with infection rates still climbing beyond the levels of the 1st wave and the number dead now at 75000 well i'm i'm going to. ask you to wait and we will be pretty. producing everything that we think is necessary to keep people from spreading the virus if you think about it we've already got a lot of the country in interior force on the interior 3 what we've been waiting for is to see the the impact to the tier 4 measures on the on the virus within a few hours of johnson speaking the 1st minister of scotland was on her feet before her devolved parliament announcing a full lockdown which will run for the whole of january we have to say to introduce

from midnight tonight for the generation of january a legal requirement to stay at home except for essential part the seas this is similar to the lockdown of march last year next came an announcement that boris johnson will make a televised address later on monday he'll announce new restrictions for england and parliament will be recalled on wednesday to vote on what he proposes and there's another worrying development a u.k. government side to pick advisor is reported as saying that he's concerned the vaccines won't be as effective against a south african variant of covert furthermore might hang up the u.k. health secretary says he is concerned because the south african variance seems to be more infectious than the u.k. strain as the u.k. braces itself for tougher restrictions the warnings for more courses in this crisis are more stark than at any stage since the pandemic began hospitals are on the brink of being overrun andrew symonds al-jazeera lunde. dr marcus pleshette is the

chief medical officer at the association of state and territorial health officials he joins us now live via skype from charlotte north carolina in the united states good to have you with us dr there are reports that say that the u.s. is floating the idea of splitting doses of the vaccine to use perhaps the pfizer one that the one from astra zeneca to reach more people so it might be a i think is actually being trials right now in the u.k. is that a good idea or not. it's difficult to say yeah i think anything that would allow us to increase the we of the vaccine would be helpful but. you know any kind of changes like that and help the vaccine is used for health and those are allocated would have to be approved by the drug administration these vaccines are supposed to be given in 2 doses. there's also talk now of particularly

in the u.k. of delaying the 2nd dose for up to 3 months instead of that the $21.00 days is is that a good idea to i mean would you still have immunity to the virus if you have that that 3 month gap between jobs. well the problem with that is that we don't have a lot of evidence of how that would impact the impact of just the vaccine the information we have is from the trials that the vaccine manufacturers did and they did those trials with this very specific period between the 1st those and the 2nd dose so they can start would be that if you delay a 2nd that is substantially like that it might mean that then be able to get immunity is it isn't that the fact is that is what we have seen it in the trials so it's you know i guess it and just being a balance or trade off between trying to create

a situation where we'll have more of the back saying so that more people at least test some protection but i think we want to be cautious that we don't undermine the true facts of the vaccine which is very good and which is one of the things that's really were you know you could this new variant causing problems in the u.k. it's a fire burning very in scotland is going to lock down and chances are that england will follow suit in the next few hours when the prime minister speaks there's also a new strain in africa that's causing some concern if the virus mutates could it avoids. the effects the impact of vaccines all together could it could it make that that the vaccine is useless. right now we don't think there's a great danger of viral mutations resulting in the back same being ineffective or even less effective if the bassim is designed to recognize a fairly large piece of the virus called spinal protein and that you have to have

a pretty substantial mutations for that to change so much that the vaccine wouldn't be effective anymore so you know we continue to monitor this very closely but right now there's really a lot of confidence at least in what we're saying so far that the vaccine should work just fine with these variants as well ok what about. problems with the rollout of vaccines in that. people and getting the vaccine them nearly enough to give the community any kind of protection in that that the vaccine is is still going to be out there how many people do we need before. we've beaten the virus. well with you know the exact number to reach what we refer to as for immunity we really have things completely under control that it's still the subject of some speculation but it's probably somewhere between 60 and 80

percent but keep in mind that as we have more and more of the population vaccinated bats that many less people who can spread the back seems mr the so i think that as we begin to administer the back to help more people who have it and particularly basename people who are at it higher risk 'd more likely to pass the action like health care workers we won't begin to see some benefits from that i think you know even what we start to get up to around 20 percent specs makes records it's been really good stewards many thanks indeed to thing with us dr marcus pleasure that in charlotte north carolina. breaking news now on the gulf crisis and the blockade of council by 4 arab nations on the eve of the g.c.c. summit in riyadh kuwait as just released a statement saying that the leaders of council saudi arabia and kuwait of been

talking and that an agreement has been reached to open the airspace land and sea borders with cats as of the seething january 4th local time here in casaus a little after just 23 minutes past 9 in the evening so the border the only land border that castle has with saudi arabia will be open according to that statement from the seething planes from catalyst national airline council railways will be allowed to fly over the airspace of the blockading nations well at least as far as we understand it from that statement certainly saudi arabia. that will ease. problems for the airline quite a lot of also ports a lot of freight that came into council before the blockade had to go via places like dubai and abu dhabi of course since the blockade council has managed to find

a way of getting its own freight shipped in to a special port here in qatar avoiding abu dhabi and dubai. so once again that breaking news that we've got here a statement from kuwait ahead of the g.c.c. summit. tomorrow is that the leaders of. egypt in talking agreement has been reached to open the airspace land and sea borders with counsel all of tonight january the 4th. of course a provocation. the air space land and sea borders just with saudi arabia are approaching let's bring it out as a shot of shall who is all that i can tell us more about this job or what have you heard so this is very significant in the sense that it's paving the way

to the announcement which many people being anticipating would take place during the 41st speeches he summits that's scheduled to take place in saudi arabia in less than 24 hours one of the preconditions that the parties have had to go out this crisis is not to be made no sense to discuss or sign an agreement so long as the country remains under a blockade blockade that baseball to be unjust and illegal on that it's challenge that in many different courts around the world there was great expectation that the g.c.c. summit would see the presence all the miracles the head of state in saudi arabia to bobo almost demonstrate. for personify just how far the mediation efforts have been successful headed by kuwait and obviously supported by the united states but that was not going to happen unless the borders were open obviously in terms of the significance in terms of how much

a part of depends on those borders now maybe less in terms of the fact that it's been able as you mentioned there to find alternative means to gird some provisions that have come out and through other areas however the political significance of it is extremely important when you look at the wording that came from the kuwaiti statements it's interesting to look at some antics because they do pay a big role in issues like this the kuwaiti statement said that it was based on the recommendation of his highness the emir of kuwait that the land and sea borders were to be lifted or terra were to be opened. even in obviously. it will be framed in that way because kuwait is the main force or the main drive behind the mediation efforts that have been going on for several years now but the reality is that this shows to a certain extent that the blockade has failed to change things in terms of

a clock with us policies have been and it's something that countries will take a great deal of encouragement from it's being reported jamal the white house senior adviser jared kirschner helped negotiate this deal and they will attend. the ceremony ceremony in riyadh along with 2 other officials as quoting a senior trumpet ministration official what has as cattle had to give in return of course to book a nation's made all sorts of demands of council which it said was unacceptable and infringed upon its sovereignty. it had to give in return for this this. i mean that's a very interesting question there were 13 demands they were very clear all the moms included things like shutting the turkish military base here cutting off pipes burst iran and even shutting down the tunnel that we're reporting for now others here obviously none of those the moms has met what i understand from speaking to

several sources around the negotiations is that the announcements that will be made tomorrow will focus more on the units here or if you will look towards reestablishing the mechanisms that exist already for conflict resolution within that block or 6 nation and will not include things like concessions in and of itself is something that's very important because what many people were looking at particularly from. analysts point of view when they were looking at this crisis from the beginning was the sudden escalation that took place almost overnight or literally overnight because of. ok it was announced in the early hours of the morning and not something that again when people come to assess it from a win lose perspective with no clear concessions being made by the parties that

will be seen as a victory for them it would be interesting to see how the saudis and the other book a tingle of the other quartet members of the quartet are going to set it so that people obviously mention the europe question and the significance of the u.s. administration there shouldn't be lost duck the initial blockade was actually done by the blessing all the u.s. in fact donald trump himself took credit for which in a press conference where he said that this was something that he had pushed for obviously after a couple of years of realizing the disunity not really working in favor of american foreign policy there seems to be a shift in that to we have been told and i was speaking to sources inside saudi arabia as you mentioned that the u.s. embassy had there was a lot of movement over the past 24 hours in terms of welcoming a senior official whether that was going to be there question or sex or comparable wasn't confirmed it seems more likely that it would be a question or this would be something that he would like to take credit for particularly considering it was after his shuttle visits last month to both the

house and reality that a breakthrough was finally announced by equated but it shouldn't be lost on the fact that although u.s. pressure has been put on this ultimately it was the insistence of the kuwaitis from the very beginning to 1st of virt this crisis transforming into a military one and then secondly to try and find some sort of all a political dialogue up with pave the way to allow for a resolution which it seems we are on the eve of hearing at the summit tomorrow just down the line for me but i just want to remind you of the timeline of events. let me remind you saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain. and egypt imposed a blockade on cast in june of 2017 as your mall was saying a few moments ago they accuse councils government of spreading instability of supporting terrorism which doha has strongly denied as part of the embargo saudi

arabia closed casaus only land border. access to the air by sea lion sea lanes were also restricted and locating countries close to space to 0 cats reregistered aircraft forcing the national airline to make long and expensive detour was a traditionally stepped in to mediate the trumpet ministration has renewed those efforts in a last ditch attempt to resolve the issue before president trump leaves office. back then to our correspondent jim olive child who's on the line at the moment across develop us take us through how all of this broke in the last hour or so joe we had to get rumors of a statement that would be issued by kuwait and of course the g.c.c. meeting is is due to get underway in riyadh in saudi arabia tomorrow of course initially rader's important to note that these upcoming summit was actually scheduled to take place in behind it was only moved to saudi arabia once the

initial breakthrough in finding a solution was made and that was after the visits all to question our present time senior adviser last month and the reason for that is saudi arabia being the largest member of the g.c.c. and the fact that this is one of what i noticed was described as a safe precinct safe saving face saving record. kind of steps that the saudis can take and that they will be seen as those who hosted a declaration or a an agreement that resolves the crisis but for the courteous to agree to attend it was always a condition of this both the foreign minister should not have been on the frontline and said from the very beginning of the crisis is that they wouldn't be able to travel to saudi arabia whilst the blockade was imposed on their people saw them because the people consequent so long as good comical it wouldn't make any sense

for the leadership to go so it would appear. the kuwaitis in a bit string sure the highest level possible of representation or at least if it's not the head of state and maybe the deputy i mean for that for them to be present more some it's a push needed to be made to lift the blockade that these partially when we're talking about land and sea their space is still something where we're waiting for confrontational b.c. in the age of covert that may not necessarily be us true to the significance of the others but there was a catch 22 because i respect him to some sources over the past couple of days and they were saying well the agreements that will be made at the summit in saudi arabia will announce the lifting of the book trade however in order to ensure countries attendance that needed to be lifted before so the question is what comes 1st kind of thing and in terms of the issue and it seems that maybe the fact that they they held back on announcing the opening of other passages or borders or the clarification of the airspace that's being reserved until tomorrow's announcements

in order to save something at least for for that sum and for all that average not to be lost but another important thing we are talking here is that the size of the companies have said from the beginning of this latest round of breakthroughs that their discussions have been directly with saudi arabia on the other idea was representing the core test but very clear is that the 4 brocade in countries haven't been as united recently as they have been in 2017 there are clear differences between the policies being pursued by the i will be for example and mamma compared to what he called in to some extent egypt whether the saudis are going to ensure be able to make sure that the other 3 countries fall in line will wait and see most likely they will be in the sense that no. country amongst those 4 would like to be left in the cold with regards to a deal like this and obviously all of this is coming on the evolve president elect

joe biden's. no gration just in a few weeks' time and the shift in policy that is expected from the white house and the state department towards the g.c.c. particularly towards saudi arabia is another factor which is. catapulted these discussions into a much more positive direction than they were in let's say 6 months ago the media in the blockading nations and certainly users of social media demonized cats i was made out to be. some villain i mean that that has continued until very recently as you say how the blockading nation's going to sell this to the public having spawn. so many bad stories painted cast on such a bad light to the public's it's definitely going to be. a balancing act

that maybe we haven't seen in a while that being said it is easier for saudi arabia actually than it is for other countries because saudi arabia ultimately still the home is still home to the 2 holiest shrines for the muslim world and it will always use that as. a way to justify things so that it is trying to unite them assume all that it is trying to be the bigger the bigger person that is trying to ensure that there is a lack of division between these countries and it will be easier from their perspective to push it from the other countries particular when you're looking at the united arab emirates and egypt and soccer. as you mentioned there has been for years and even prior to the blockade. been a lot of demonizing qatar and a lot of the policies that it's been pursuing and suddenly you see photo ops all

those heads of state with qataris in. is going to be something that's strange one of the interesting things by the way that it's totally coincidental but it's going to be very interesting is that actually the finance minister is expected to travel to egypt in the next couple days which will be the 1st visits of a senior official from qatar to egypt in a long time it's coincidental because it's to unveil a project of the countries have been busting in from back in 2006 but the fact is this will coincide with the announcement that is taking place tomorrow will on the one hand proved to be promising for those who are looking for some sort of a diplomatic solution to the fractured region but on the other hand will definitely prove to be a challenge for the governments of those rocketing countries who are wrong you was caught out as the villain here to justify their own policies or great extent to divert attention from their own failings domestically jamal

just one quick question here it is june 27th seen in saudi arabia the nizar it's back reign and egypt imposed a blockade on castle. what spock's is. their justification was initially statements that's where allegedly made by the thought which turned out to be fake and it turned out that the got the news agency was hacked and those who hacked this were tracked to have checked it from. within saudi arabia in the united arab emirates after investigation by intelligence organizations and they thomas. once they had king was established then the discussion then became about sponsoring terrorism. didn't seem to be any evidence presented by the blockading countries and that's why we sold several international players be it from straw man united states even in terms of the former texas that

wrecked innocent the united kingdom refusing to chew. supports the blockade on qatar because of the lack of evidence the reality is that there is a division politically between where the united arab emirates saudi arabia and egypt stand in terms of the future of the world and where the parties form a. very simple factual perspective those are countries who have supported military dictatorships or military intervention in the region so when you look at the coup in egypt when you look at a renegade general of the house that in libya when you look at even to such an extensive bashar al assad in syria. those regimes have been supported by those 3 countries on the other hand its foreign policy has been directed more to what you could describe as a poor to stick approach whereby it would be open to discussions to engage with all players within the arab world that is something particularly after the 2011

uprising that was seen as an existential stretch to absolute monarchy use and regimes within the region because crude ism is the 1st major step towards democracy . would lead to freedom and obviously the threats to the system that exists. in that kind of this would say is the core of the issue to have states that support those movements or at least engage with those movements something about. where they may have tolerated previously but. the changes on the arab street that pose a much more direct threat towards them and the tolerance level went to 0 and the actions that were taken against the jamal many thanks jim marshall online and we're going to hear from joel again now with his report on again i mean

more money this talking about just a few moments ago how we actually got here. for decades rivalry and differences in foreign policy have divided the gulf states but when that worsened in 2017 few expected the region would be thrown into crisis and a land air and sea blockade imposed on qatar on june the 5th 2017 the country woke up to find its had been cut off from much of the world saudi arabia had shut but that's only land border cutting imports and it's food and medicine supply chain behind the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt closed their airspace to qatari aircrafts grounding hundreds of qatar airways planes the blockading countries also shut their embassies in doha and expelled qatari diplomats they said they were retaliating against threats to their security from what they called the high supporting for terrorism and allegation qatari government has long rejected the issued

a list of 13 demands they said doha must meet including severing ties with iran closing a turkish military base in qatar paying an unspecified amount of compensation to each country and shutting down the al jazeera news channel but are sold the disputes as an attempt to overthrow its government and dismissed the demands as an attempt to strip its of its sovereignty those fears were confirmed when kuwait slate's amir ships obama to salaam mentioned in a news conference in washington that he was relieved his country's diplomacy had managed to avert a possible invasion of qatar but the hostilities didn't and the u.a.e. through its 1st double double bank then tried to devalue the pottery reale and in the media there were false reports of revolutions in doha against its leadership and the iranian military being deployed in qatar streets both saudi arabia and the u.a.e. presents a different members of the qatari royal family is alternative rulers even put someone under house arrest when he objective. throughout this kuwait tried to

mediate between both sides there's great expectation that a deal to end the crisis will be announced during the upcoming g.c.c. summit what that agreement entails though is still not clear but for it to succeed the blockade in qatar will have to be lifted the impact the crisis has had on the gulf cooperation council is unquestionable and whilst differences remain the hope is that moving forward they will be resolved through dialogue ushering in a period of stability in a region that remains volatile. qatar airways cut his national airline is currently seeking compensation of at least $5000000000.00 from the 4 arab countries for losses sustained after they close their airspace to the airline the dispute began as you've heard in 2017 when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut ties with barring its aircraft from entering the airspace so how cold it needs national civil aviation organization to the clear the air

blockade illegal but the countries said that the u.n. agency didn't have jurisdiction to handle the disappears in 2018 the agency rejected that claim insisting that it does have jurisdiction of move in favor but the blockading nations appealed to the international court of justice and still that court ruled in favor once again and pave the way for doha to sue for compensation will find other ways to end the blockade the reports we're getting suggests that. in returning for lifting the blockade of casado how we'll have to drop all related lawsuits that a quote coming from a cd a trump administration official as i said the details of the moment of this we don't fully know the still fairly sketchy we may have to wait until the g.c.c. summit gets underway to morrow to get the full details of what's been agreed but in

the past few hours that appears to be a breakthrough in the dispute between saudi arabia and other countries 'd an agreement aimed at ending the rift is jus to be signed on tuesday that's the reuters news agency quoting an unnamed senior. trumpet ministration official jared krishna the president's son in law and seanie advise and help to negotiate the deal apparently will attend the ceremony with 2 other officials. again according to senior trump official under the agreement as i was just saying. for the return of lifting the blockade cassava doha will have to drop related lawsuits so they go in breaking news in the past. 1520 minutes on out to sarah we've learned that saudi arabia is to open its

land border as space to council that announcement being made by officials in kuwait kuwait having played the role of mediator throughout the blockade which began in june all of 2017 cattles leadership said. it had been invited by saudi arabia's king to attend the g.c.c. summit in riyadh that there was no way really they could get that with. space being closed to craft. and so. 'd possibly before. a full end to the blockade saudi arabia has opened its land border. it's aspace and. sea lions around the the regions to. once again jealous

child is back with us on the line he's covered the blockade extensively throughout the past 3 years as a momentous once again. how this this announcement the same thing came about the involvement of the white house and jared cushion and what we can expect of tomorrow's g.c.c. the summit. so there's been negotiations that are being taken place as you mentioned there in kuwait for the best part of the year ever since really the crisis began they did reach several roadblocks or do you on around 6 or 9 months ago there seemed to be some sort of a breakthrough between. saudi arabia however they also fell through it was only off the recent visits of krishna to the region which also coincided

it became clear that his father in law in the sense of us who he's a senior advisor to wasn't going to serve as a 2nd for a 2nd term as u.s. president that's a real breakthrough was made the break who was announced by the coates he is as the main player who has been trying to defuse the situation initially when it started and find a way out of its sticking iraq as far as the caucuses were concerned from the beginning was that they had said they were happy to discuss the grievances or concerns of the quartet however could only do the. once the blockade was lifted it made no sense as far as the companies were concerned to go into a deal where a they were being essentially besieged or at least commercially so. by land and sea this is a huge breakthrough because from the beginning the blockading countries accept that

they wouldn't lift a blockade unless the mom's woman those 13 demands included play a paying reparations of an unspecified amount for the alleged damage which was not very clear that qatar had caused all 4 countries over the past 20 years including the closure of the turkish military base included the shutting down of the al jazeera media network included cutting ties with iran which for example the united arab emirates enjoys a 10 fold greater economic ties with iran than doha does. but it seems that despite its qatar not succumbing to those 13 the moms the saudis at least have agreed to lift the blockade this will be seen tied down to the upcoming p.c.c. summit which is due to take place in less than 24 hours. and the condition that the companies had to have their head of state some of them some of the money represents

them at the summit was for the blockade to be lifted he himself had spoken very clearly as well as his former minister throughout the past 3 years that they would not be going through any of the blockading countries even if it was for an international summit unless the blockade was lifted particularly saudi arabia because their journeys you know obviously it is. host to the to hold u.s. sites in islam over the past few years qataris and residents in qatar have not been able to form form any type of program which there are so for the head of state to go there was the people would have loved to have gone many people wait for this train. a lifetime to go there was something that didn't sit well with them so this is a major breakthrough not only to ensure the success of this. summit coming but also shows that there is some sort of old political resolution to a crisis which often was on the brink of turning into

a military one. jamal many thanks indeed if you just joined us breaking news here on al-jazeera curates foreign minister said that saudi arabia plans to open its as sea and land borders with casa on monday evening local time now it's just coming up to 10 pm this is just hours before a summit kicks off in the kingdom in riyadh is that announcement by kuwait's foreign minister i did also have a symbol that the kuwaiti mir made calls with counters emir and the saudi crown prince based on what the kuwaiti amir his highness shaikh now awful also proposed an agreement was reached to open the land and maritime borders between the kingdom of saudi arabia and the state of qatar starting tonight. expressed his gratitude because of the holy sites the saudi king for all the efforts he is making to ensure the summit will be successful. let's pray and just how does your castro who's in washington d.c. what did washington have to do with with this development.

well the news agency reuters is reporting that jared cush turner the son in law of president trump and a senior white house adviser was crucial in working these negotiations reportedly he was on the phone until the wee hours of monday here in washington to try to get this deal done and that he is now headed toward the ceremony in saudi arabia will be present at the signing of this deal ending the gulf council rift we know that this has been something the trouble ministration has been working on over trump's term in office pursuing what he has called the deal of the century ultimately peace in the middle east to this gets him a little bit closer to that goal we saw a series of accord signed in the past few months of arab nations normalizing their relations with israel and this is yet another win that the trouble ministration

will surely add under the column there in the waning days of the trouble ministration all right how do many thanks indeed how does your castro the live for us in washington just confirming that according to the reuters news agency jarrett who had a lot to do with the go seizing this deal has traveled to riyadh and will attend the summit. so once again kuwait's foreign minister saying. in the past hour that saudi arabia plans to open its sea and land borders with casa on monday evening local time it's just coming up to 10 o'clock here in this is just hours before a golf summit the g.c.c. summit kicks off in riyadh. on tuesday. this off to. saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt

imposed a blockade on kasa in 2017 they accused cattles government at that time of spreading instability of supporting terrorism which has vehemently denied part of the embargo saudi arabia closed only land border and access to nearby sea lanes was also restricted the locating countries also closed space toward country registered aircrafts forcing a cut us national airline to make very long and expensive de tools. q. ways initially stepped in to mediate between the 4 blockading nations and casa and the trumpet ministration as we were hearing has renewed those efforts and it's launched last ditch attempt to resolve the issue before trust president trump

leaves office later this month. so as far as we know it's not. an announcement of the end of the blockade at the moment this is just saudi arabia saying that it plans to open its sea and land borders with cassava the king of saudi arabia had invited cutler's emir to attend the g.c.c. summit in riyadh and of course the leadership in doha pointed out that there is no way of them getting there with air space closed to any. cattery registered aircraft. and so i think this is. a goodwill gesture ahead of that g.c.c. summit where we may well find given the attendance of of jared krishna the blockade will be being brought to an end. demonized

by. media in the floor blockading nations since june 27th tina the various attacks on social media against caste still ongoing those attacks quite nasty in nature too as our correspondent who was saying a few moments ago. it will be interesting to see how the 4 blockading nations sell. the ending of a blockade on cats. to the public. as far as we know. in return for the lifting of the reopening of its airspace. has had to agreed to drop all lawsuits against the for book aiding nations as we said catherine always. has been prevented from flying or using the airspace of the 4 blockading nations since june 27th teen

and has been seeking compensation of at least $5000000000.00 from 4 arab from the 4 arab nations for losses sustained by the closure of all of that as space to the airline. called on the international civil aviation organization to the crowd that blockade illegal. a but then the blockading nation said that the un agency didn't have the jurisdiction to handle the dispute but then in 2018 the agency rejected that claim insisting that it does have jurisdiction to move in castro's favor but the blockading nations again appealed this time to the international court of justice and the international court of justice ruled in council's favor and pave the way for doha to sue for compensation or find other ways to end the abd located it now seems that qatar airways will be required to drop

that demand for compensation if the reports are correct of course we. read it we still know very very little about what's actually happened here all we know is that saudi arabia will reopen its airspace and cat has only land border once again from tonight local time it's just approaching 10 o'clock here in qatar. and. this is happening ahead of. the g.c.c. summit which is due to happen to get underway tomorrow tuesday the 5th of january in saudi arabia's capital riyadh. saudi arabia's king it invited casaus amir to attend and

a corresponding was telling us a few moments ago that. category leadership of pointed out there was no way of us getting here because we don't get across the border because that's closed and u.s. space is close to a cancer aircraft so at least the space will be will be open and that we assume will mean that doesn't mean there will be. attending. the g.c.c. summit. jared kirshner president trumps son in law and senior advisor is reported. by the reuters news agency and who are quoting a senior trump administration official. that. helped to negotiate the deal. and indeed has flown to saudi arabia and will attend a ceremony with 2 other trump administration officials what that ceremony will be

of course we don't know. but we will find out in the coming hours stay with us for continuing coverage of the latest developments in the gulf crisis here on al-jazeera we're going to have it out to my corey colleague warren in london. agent thank you much very much and if you're just joining us we'll start with that breaking news there's been a breakthrough in a 3 year dispute between cata and 3 i have a arab nations saudi arabia has agreed to reopen its airspace and land and sea border to qatar from monday ending the blockade on the state kuwait which has been the main mediator in the dispute made the announcement on the eve of a gulf cooperation council summit in riyadh saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain imposed a blockade on qatar and 2017 accusing it of supporting terrorism cuts.