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and leaders on a controversial trip to saudi arabia. ah, i'm on inside, this is our desert life. and doha also coming up sher lanka. speaker kicks off the process to choose a new leader. people in garza wake up to sounds of explosions as israel and palestinian group, hamas exchange world wire and parts of europe swelter. under a searing heat wave sparkling wildfires and prompting evacuations. ah, gulf leaders and other regional heads of state o at a summit in saudi arabia, where u. s. president joe biden is laying out his strategy. the middle east. he's been

having talks with leaders on the sidelines of the meeting, including his m rossi counterpart. shake mohammed been zeit, i'll nissan. later delegates will be discussing issues from security, cooperation to food and energy. will biden us bogged criticism at home soon after his arrival in saudi arabia on friday, by bumping fists with the saudi crown. prince whitehouse correspond kimmy holcombe reports us president joe biden arrived in saudi arabia to a subdued reception that may have been because of his past comments about the kingdom . we would run in fact make them pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are applied. she made as a presidential candidate after a cia report suggested the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon may have ordered the 2018 killing of journalists, jamal could,

shall g. the president's goal is to reset relations and convinced the kingdom to pump more oil to bring down fuel prices in the united states. i'm doing all i can to increased supply for the united states of america, which i expect to happen. but strain ties have made that a challenge, evident is biting. arrived at the saudi palace, offering the crown prince just a fist bump, a moment not well receive back in the united states. cuz shock geez, publisher. fred ryan, of the washington post, calling it shameful. delivering m b as the redemption, he was desperately seeking and cause charges fiance, warning biden, that the blood of any future victim will be on his hands. i'm sorry, she feels her way. i was straightforward. back then i was straight forward to day. basically said that he was not personally responsible for our final one was

earlier and biden's meeting with the crown prince. the press confronted both men drove off with all the dog, i believe was the response of the crown prince. he appeared to smirk a serious question left unanswered with reporters. then i shirt out. joining me now here and i'll die. haul headquarters as our white house correspondent, kimmy holcombe. kimberly a president button. he's had a number of bilateral meetings this morning with arab lead us to we know if anything's come out of those. yeah, there have been a number of meetings that have taken place. years president has been meeting with the leaders of both the u. e. l. rock egypt and it's been pretty productive for the

president. he has been able to kind of re establish some of the relationships that have been in place for some time. but the president really believes there's value in face to face conversations. and so, given the fact, particularly when it comes to egypt and when it comes to iraq, especially there are strong security partnerships. and so, oh, he has sort of re establish some of those relationships, particularly with house to combating iceland or rock. ah, there are still a u. s. president of some 2500 soldiers on the ground in iraq. so in fact, that is something that the u. s. president wanted to talk about. and so that is one of the conversations that took place in addition to talking about some of the secure, ready, i understand is that take place with egypt. so that is behind him. now. now we know that we just saw the president walking, in fact, with the again, the saudi current principle had been selman to the broader meaning that will take place the g. c. c plus 3. this is the gulf cooperation council that also includes

iraq, jordan, egypt, and what we expect we'll see is all of these leaders lining up for likely what they call the family photo. yeah. yeah, i think we we were looking. we were looking at those pictures just a minute ago. these alive pictures coming from jetta. there we go. ah, that is what we think is going to be the family 1st. are all the leaders coming together? ah, kimberly. we're reaching the end of the strip biden. heads home, back to the u. s. and in a few hours time. what does he really have to show for this trip? well, the problem for the president is the biggest agenda item has not been accomplished . that was of domestic in nature, he needed to push the saudis to pump more oil to bring down energy prices in the united states back well has not been accomplished. having said that,

the u. s. president does believe that there are other goals that are a value, it's just that they aren't going to really reap the benefit for some time. now, the president says that the groundwork has been laid for some of those goals. for example, he believes that the price of fuel in the united states may come down in the coming weeks. as a result of these conversations, he believes there will be some actions as a result of opec making announcements in the coming weeks. he also believes that there will be improved cooperation, for example, between israel and it's a arab neighbors. in the future, there will be increased economic productivity. there will be increased security cooperation. but these are things that are going to be seen in the near term. these are things that will bear fruit in the long term. so in terms of quick political winds, the president is going back to the united states empty handed. ok,

thank you for that. our white house correspondent, kimmy hawkins. the israeli military says it's carried out an air strike on a hamas target. in garza, off to raucous were fired towards israel. the army says it hit a weapons manufacturing site. it says ally, a least 2 rockets were fired from garza. the southern is ready, city of ashland, one was intercepted bites at different system. let's go to a corresponding human outside his life for us in gaza city. what more can you tell us about the strikes? yes, so early today, saturday, the early hours of joe and israeli strikes shook different areas in the gaza strip, targeting a couple of military sites for the fighting groups who are in god's their rates were very violent. lots of material damage was close to in the areas around the

military sites. of course, one of the material damage was in one of their essential homes, a supermarket, gas station and other land. the, the raids were very violent. we woke up on the sound of the explosion and the, the light of the flyer that happened because of the explosion as the military israeli military said that this was very close to the 2 rockets that were land to earlier from because the strip towards a sh cologne, southern of israel, and during the raids to other israeli to other policies, rockets are rockets from gaza when nancy towards and also the cities of israel. but they were said that they fell in empty area is that they did not even found the

sy reasons. no casualties where reported on either side you know, the rocket fire came just hours after us president joe biden flew from israel to saudi arabia, which was his 1st middle east trip is president. what does this say about attitudes to eds biden's visit? well, according to the analysts and experts he regards that we've spoken to, they see that this are, these are launching of rockets resembles the rejection or refusal off of the palestinian factions or of fighting groups to the biden visit to, to israel, the support the at that it has given to, to israel and the and justice that it has shown the palestinian people, especially also the rejection to their jerusalem declaration that was assigned

between the american government and the american administration. and these really government all this shows a true injustice to the policy and people and to their legitimate rights. and this, a firing of brock had a right now in this time it's not an attempt of an escalation. that's why they did not fire the rockets according to experts. why biden was still in the israel. but while he is still in the middle is while he is still in saudi arabia to show their refusal and rejection to the and just is re, uh, american got a policy towards the policy and people you've now played efferson, gaza city. thank you. now or production is set to resume and libya to legal barrier was removed. the announcement followed a decision by travel groups to end their blockade of oil fields and export terminals, which is stole production for months. i've been calling for fara,

distribution of oil revenues, slang as parliament has become the process of choosing the next president and a brief session form at present got to buy a bunch of boxes resignation letter was wet out. the prime minister, ronald become a singer, is serving as acting president until a new leader in place should happen within the next 7 days. they can sing that was sworn in on friday, fall 8 months of protests, of the most severe economic downturn in decades. ok, well we'll come back to shore lanka later in the program. let's i have listened to you as president biden, who is speaking at the g. c summit in my classroom this year, eliminating the mirror versus darian operation just this week. taking out another key liter vices really continue on counterterrorism efforts. working with a broad coalition of countries including everyone around this table. and we will

turn our attention and our resources to support in our partners, strengthening our alliances, and building coalitions to solve the problems facing this region the world in the world today. united states is clear eyed about challenges in the least in about where we have a great capacity to help drive positive outcomes. our objectives are focused on our, are focused, realistic and achievable so that we can target our resources, rebuild trust, and deliver real results. and we will operate in the context of the middle east as it is today, a region more united and has been in years. the gcc is a prime example of that. former rivals reestablish diplomatic and economic times memberships to be forged. and increasingly, the world a c in the middle east,

the middle east, to the lens of opening an opportunity. let me state clearly that the united states is going to remain an active, engage partner in the middle east. as a world grows more competitive and the challenges we face more complex is only becoming clear to me. that how close the inner woven america's interest are with the successes in the middle east will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china. russia were ran. we'll seek to bill on this moment with active principle, american leadership. our new framework for the middle east has 5 key principles, like to very briefly share them with you. first, united states will support and strengthen partnerships with countries that subscribe to the rules based international order. and we will make sure that these,

those countries can defend themselves against foreign threads. united states in each of the countries around this table are in the central part of that order. because or reject the use of brute force to change borders. an entire g, c, c plus egypt, and jordan voted in the united nations general assembly to condemn russian invasion, the grain. it was a watershed moment. it show that the core values of sovereignty and territorial integrity are truly universal. and i want to be clear supporting the rules based order doesn't mean we always have to agree on every issue. but it does mean we ally and around core principles allow us to work together on those pressing global challenges. for example, on food security, we're collectively committing millions of dollars, maybe a to crisis here in the region. with more than $1000000000.00 coming from the

united states on energy security. we're good to ensure adequate supplies to meet global needs. energy producers have already increased production and look forward to seeing what's coming in the coming months on the climate crisis. we're collectively investing hundreds of billions of dollars, clean energy initiatives, increasing our climate in vision, and working together diverse by supply change, and invest in critical infrastructure. and we're looking for each of the new a host in the next 2 major un climate conferences. second, united states will not allow, will not allow foreigner regional power to jeopardize freedom of navigation through the middle east waterways, including the straits of our most and bob l. mom, not laura will tolerate efforts of any country to dominate another in the region

through military build ups incursions and or threats. free flow of commerce. you may sources in the middle east is the life blood of the global economy. as to today's event has been for decades. and when nations adhered to international rules, it works. so my administration major priority to protect those vital waterways. we've established your new naval task force to work in partnership with many of your neighbors to help secure the red sea. that includes the 1st naval task force to use multi man surface vessels and artificial intelligence technology to enhance marie maritime awareness. we're also integrating air defenses and early warning system to ensure that we can defeat airborne threads for united states will not just aim to deter threads, regional,

regional stability. we will work to reduce tensions deescalate and conflicts wherever possible. this approach is already reaping dividends. as was mentioned in amman, working closely with saudi arabia, monte u e and the un before, as a truce, is known as 15th week. we've welcome the leadership racket prime minister economy to bring countries from the navy, from the neighbor, from the region together or talks and bag thanks. 2 months of quiet, persistent diplomacy. we help finalize that agreement to remove the national peacekeepers from john island, the red sea, and transform an area that once sparked wars into a future have a peaceful tourism in economic development. and as we continue to work closely with many of you to count the threat posed by close of the region by iran were also

pursuing diplomacy to return constraints on a raised nuclear program. but no matter what united states is committed to ensuring that iran never gets a nuclear weapon forth. united states will build political economic insecurity. connections between the united states, between the u. s. partners wherever possible, while respecting each country sovereignty independent choices, integration, interconnection. those are the underlying themes of our meeting today. i have, we've been trying to connect to racks, electricity, to re, to the gc, the g c. c grades. i remember being brief. on in 192016 when i was vice president united states. i said, let's get it done. well today, finally, after years of failed, efferson fall starts. thanks to the effort to so many around this table. it's done

your projects relating to region, no free trade deal investments between neighbors, like the saudi investments in egypt and jordan. and more in the world bill, these connections more will see the benefits that return to our peoples and will grow. 5th, united states will always flow human rights in the values and shine a new and charter foundation of freedoms. are foundational who we are as americans join our dna as also because we know it's true that the future will be one or the countries in a lease to full potential populations. where women can exercise equal rights and contribute to build the stronger economies. resume societies. and more modern and capable, military or citizens can question and criticize leaders out here prize. i've gotten plenty of criticism over the years. it's not fun, but the ability to speak openly,

exchange ideas freely, is what on locks innovation counter most accountable institutions that are free from corruption act, transparently respect. your role are the best way to deliver growth, respond to people's needs, and i believe ensure justice. no country gets it right all the time, even most the time, including the united states. but our people, our strengths, are countries with the confidence to learn from the mistakes grow stronger. so let me conclude by somebody all this up in one sense. united states is invested in building a positive future in the region. partnership with all of you and united states is not going anywhere. this is a table full of problems. problem solvers are

a lot of the, there's a lot of good we can do if we do it together. thank you again for inviting me to participate in the summit today. and thank you. the many years of partnership between your countries and united states. god protector, truce. you president verified in using a summit of arab nations in saudi arabia to lay out his strategy for the middle east as he closes the final leg, a 4 day trip, which was meant to bolster us relationships in the region. joining me now here on sat is out, is there a senior political analyst? my under sarah moran, a president, buttons visits has been criticized for not offering up anything specific, anything tangible to be lead, anything new from this particular speech, what we certainly have a good number over headlines, right? clearly, he's not going in to details about what is it he's and the reason for. but i think

some of the things that we've heard him say before he came to the region. he's kind of detailing a little bit. i think it's important to underline once again, the 3 things he mentioned again and again. and just now in the speech diplomacy, america is going to continue with diplomacy. it's going to also do so with deterrence, deterring huron from getting nuclear weapons on and de escalation. and he once again commended the idea that there is a ceasefire in your mind that this might move forward. so aside from these 3 days, i think he went on to speak about, i think what is really important. so there's a geo politics, but there's the geo cannot mix. and in the geo comics you spoke about infrastructure, even electricity and so so he just went into the door there. so there's an infrastructure and there's investment and there is connecting the various countries of the region together. and i think in this g a comics approach, he is clearly not mentioning the elephant in the room,

which is china. and again that's the 2nd reason why he's there. the 1st is security global security geo politics. but the 2nd is g o, a cannot mix, and united states is rattled by the fact that china has infiltrated the region not only in the wine and such places, but also in gulf states themselves. and would that be in israel and so on, so forth. so i think it's very important for him to have mentioned that as well. and i was kind of amused, but not in a funny, funny kind of way that he did talk about accountability, questioning, authority and the question of democracy. and i think although he did not mean it, but clearly this does come to us as an answer to what the crown prince of saudi arabia said. just earlier. when he said, we respect your values, expect a respect our values, while the managers are saying these are universal values and not just our values. democracy respective human rights, not only is good 4 good governance is also important to, ah,

unleash as he puts it, i think the idea of a talent and, and get that capacity of the citizen once. once. we've talked a lot about how he is going to go back home to america, and or at least domestically he doesn't seem to have one any favor from this visit . but in terms of his relationship and terms of bringing together saudi arabia and israel. would you say that's the most tangible thing that we are seeing from this visit and to what extent is the u. s. responsible for bringing them together? yes, i think i think this, i would say that more of the beginning of a process clear there's, there's been a, been a bit of an exchange here with american mediation. i think saudi arabia is going to see the 2 islands it got from egypt cleared out for the it's on investments there. and i think israel gut it's open, sky flame oversold your area. but i think this are not big steps. i think the leg

in saudi arabia is, is proving to be far more important than that one in israel because the one in israel basically got nowhere on the question of palestine 0 zilch. nothing just words, words, words and some humanitarian gestures, but nothing political. of course, the alliance with israel remains and ears and strong and so on, so forth. what's new is what's happening with. so julie been, i think that i just mentioned all these. i think there are the ours that we didn't get to yet. as a newly al corta peak, what by dentist setting is a new reality. you can still think of not only to the region setting to them, americans back at home. and these are again, on 3, ours re asserting american influence. this is our backyard, even if it's not geographically close. this is our area of influence, not russia is not china's not euro. this is ours. america's so he's re asserting american influence in the region to i think he's re collaborating,

the idea that we have priorities and we are not going anywhere. he said that right at the end of the speech, we are not going anywhere. we're staying in the region, and i think the idea that re establishing alliances or reinforcing, reinforcing the lives of such as with saudi arabia, the u. e, as well as with egypt and others at the expense of human rights. that's happening because most of the people sitting there don't actually have a huge respect to human rights or democracy so so forth. but as president biden said, once again, this is going to be a relationship based on mutual responsibility and mutual interest, mutual interest and michel responsibility, meaning no free riders except perhaps israel. but that's ok. otherwise, everyone else in the region is going to have to chip in ok, my want shara senior, physical and the algebra. thank

let's go back to shoreline canal and find out a little more about the human cost of the crisis burst fast than is in columbia for us. yes, these are crippling fuel shortages are really paralyzing the country. as you can imagine. many sectors are effect that you can see the long queues people are standing in the queue for days up to 35 days, but especially medical work as the health workers. i seriously effective, effective and this is leading now to a near for lapse of the house to them on saturdays. the government has now given priority to health workers to get fuels. so instead of being at the hospitals, doctors, nurses, health workers are now in a queue to get fuel. but this priority is not working well at all, because doctors are also still standing in a queue without being given priority. one of the doctors is meeting us here. it's

doctor ross, i'm so sorry. and he is the spokesperson for the medical offices association and also medical doctor yourself. where is your car? now my call is 5155. let me do it from the filling station. so it's really unfortunate when the people i put up the fuel, the basic need of somebody. so not only that order civilians and family and all the help of rain, i can be at their work not being able to help patients when they don't have any fuel. actually, it does affect it in many ways. the number one, the got to some thought on which to collapse new to the sort of drugs i basically narcotic drugs. and so the consumer does. and 2nd things are due to the fuel sizes . so now the fuel prices mosley in country 3 factors. the ambulance, i have no fuel in order to transport one patient from one another. and so

basically the patient has affected about that while fuel prices and the implement. this is the pockets on the time table. but during this period, the hospitals with the paula through the generators so that you're unable to get to us because of the people that are unable to run 20 for the summit ration so being canceled. people who are in the emergency situation can be help. yes, most of the building walks i didn't phosphor and pretty good the routing clinics and surgery's been postponed, but still we are managing to have them again. and also our top in engaging in the major emergency surgeries and urgent surgeries. so we are doing up for the purpose of saving the lives of the patients. but unfortunately the people are the patients was.