and their families from a hole and other displaced persons caps. also working to keep pace with evolving threats, including access is expanding efforts across sub saharan africa. and i just correspond are 86 number coalition. lease has ministry, a better focus than equipped to continue the mission to eradicate isis the united states and saudi arabia, both is bilateral partners and through the gcc, are working closely together to address several other challenges in the region. and you have it on the present button. took office or it was raging, the country was experiencing, arguably the worst, the monitoring crisis in the world. now, we're working intensively with saudi arabia and other partners to further consolidate what has been a 14 month long truce that we helped to achieve. this was a central issue in my discussions with the saudi crown prince and with the foreign minister. and today i had an opportunity as well to meet with him as president, lead me to discuss the passport. our objectives are durable,

ceasefire and an inclusive young me lead process mediated by the un one that meets families, calls for justice for accountability for re dressed for abuses and ultimately leads to a political resolution of differences in human. our special language to wonder king will continue to work with the parties and partners in the region. in the days and weeks, they had to resolve issues, standing in the way of a less than piece united states of saudi arabia, together with the gcc, are also focused on iraq, the stabilizing influence in the region, including its support for terrorism and violent militia groups. the seizure of tankers transiting international waters and nuclear escalation, united states continues to believe the diplomacy backed by economic pressure by the insurance and by strong defense cooperation, is the best way to counter these dangerous actions. we support efforts by saudi arabia to de escalate tension and stabilize relations. the united states fargo partners are working closely on the crisis incident. our 2 countries,

united states and saudi arabia had been leading an intensive diplomatic campaign to get the 2 sides to agree to and comply with the cease fire and to allow you monitoring systems to reach the people to sedan. we will keep working toward a durable cessation of hostilities and this with formation of the civilian but transitional government, together with our partners in the gulf, in africa and with the united nations. i also discussed with gcc partners, increasing our joint efforts to combat elicit synthetic drugs like half the gum, which is having a devastating impact on young people throughout this region. just as fentanyl and other synthetic hope, yards are doing the same in the united states. this partnership will be an important part of our diplomacy to strengthen global cooperation on the growing challenge posed by elicit synthetic drugs alongside by dc and the i gave since i also met with the if you open deputy prime minister according to review the ongoing implementation of the november to section of hospitalized agreement that the

agreement ended the horrific crisis into great profuse to endure. the parties must acknowledge the trustees committed and pursue accountability together with reconciliation. united states will continue to partner with you as it builds incredible transitional justice process to break the cycle of navigating political violence. the discrepancy of you and prevented from reaching its potential for far too long. us partnership with saudi arabia in the gulf extends far beyond addressing challenges and crises in the region. it is critical to expanding opportunity and driving progress for our people. and for people around the world. through the partnership for global and destruction, investment united states and saudi arabia working together to deliver quality, sustainable infrastructure to benefit people in low and middle income countries. we're expanding digital productivity, including by using new mobile, telecommunicating, telecommuters, and technology like open cloud based video access networks that are both secure and

affordable for you. a secretary of state and to me blinking speaking the alongside . he's found the counterpart face of being 5 or hon, after his 3 day visits to re add, which is ending i the, to speaking about the state of the relationship between the 2 countries in other countries in the region. the us secretary of state saying that the us partnership with saudi arabia and gulf countries is a stable and strong one. he says that both sides, the us and sides uribe. i were working together to address several challenges in the region, including the war in yemen. he said they were working together to consolidate the 14 months, choose any government, and are working on a permanent ceasefire. he also said they were working on the crisis into don to get our working towards a durable cessation of hostilities say and, and to me blinking, adding that to the us and gcc countries were working together to combat elicit

drugs in the region like cop to gone that's bringing our senior political analyst, my one bushera who is joining us live from powers. and to me blinking outlining the some of the issues and challenges of the 2 sides, the us to saudi arabia and other gcc countries are working together on before we get into the issues, i just want to ask you for us about the state of this relationship today between the us and sounds you review how strong is that, how stable is that? as clearly it is uh, not as strong as it was uh say 5 or 6 years ago. it has gone through some difficult phases. uh, the last couple of years that notably under uh or something by then, but also began to wash and under president trump. when so gabriel was attacked by the image proxies and washington that not step in to defend it as it where as i started you it'd be, it has been, you know, quite cool when it comes to relationship. but in the last several months,

they've been several visits by american officials, including national security adviser, including the c i, a director, now the secretary of state, or within a couple of months or more, they keep trying more about the relationships. now what are they asked whether they succeeded or not? it's really what it means to be sure. totally. second at the lincoln is trying to what i did face on it to quite come directory, right? positive underlining. got yourself that outlining all the positive things that the page. i would be curious to know what mr center and mr. burns achieved when they were. and so we'll get a, b, c, i a director message security one very important question such as good, big disagreements with syria, the big disagreements on china. and when you're on, as all the americans right now in saudi arabia, in a very different landscape, from what they're used to, i mean things have considerably change in the region with their approach. one of

the reasons i publish mom between saturated and yvonne, which was broken by the chinese can a when back some of this influence that they seem to have lost my one you know it's, it's really, it's conditional on how americans that shift its policies or how it can take but the command of its assets in the region because as you said, it has been for the last 30 years at the remains to be the dominant solar and forced within the gotta con within them. at least that's large, right? but it certainly has been contracting. it has been devolving, gets into ones, has disappeared in the large sense, not only in countries like so there may be aware that it has been, you know, quoting relationship now it's been has major assets in the region, especially in the gulf con, in kuwait. and they're not the payment it's, i'll give you that. so on, so forth. but china is increasing. it's considered once within the region. so

really, for the time being uh, the united states started to have more than tactics. now getting, we'll start with it a bit more than that, you know, on this issue. and that issue, or trying to be appeasing to the problem. chris, they need to come off with a microsecond you the serious personal by then as he said, he's not going to allow for a for you to give you show by showing that rush, i knew on what i might have gotten just to probably behave differently and probably more hands on that. yes. so the or maybe it has been acting independently. i started doing that. it's not going to go back to that. these are 32019 or 32013. i clearly started the audio. yeah. life. 31 tact independent. yeah. and i was going to ask you about the saudis, my one what, what is the bedrock foundation of car and found the foreign policy and how does it fit with china and even current us policy in the region? let's,

let's just start with the idea that since the water you're going to start to, it's expected that the main producing countries pop off, uniform and gas would have a surplus of $1.00 trillion dollars. so you can imagine that a king so much so you are a, the clarity day at the ideal value in a carpet and like, and no cheese are hot, you're going to have certain limited time in the future with that please, that's just different yet. so they're trying to take advantage of what they have now and the leverage they have on the board and gas market as well. so we, where we stand today for me is that the united states, since the russian and vision news, so you're ready to be more than start with the needs the united states. this has especially have been the case that are several months because so the idea of color hardly intelligently been normalized relationships with you on ends that danger from that side is no longer so it seemed to reduce tensions that is basically

trying to solve the problem in the image or the ward, any image, right? i put me, they think they're, they're image since the hosting's there. so they saw what do you use? don't need washington as much as washington needs today, in order to reduce the only process in order to get the cornish against russia and so on, so forth. so in this as a significant relationships, the saudis have the advantage and the americans need to act in a strategic clever, new way in order to read contain, if the model. so the other part there's, but this going to have to start by mutual respect and mutual interest, not treating them as dependent when they can human the age of 21. thank you very much for your analysis. as always, modeling bashar as our senior political analyst to our let's turn our attention to all the world. news out and slides have been disrupted in the northeastern united states after a declare of smoke from canada blanket in the region. some inbound flights to both

new york and philadelphia were paused, leading thousands of passengers stranded at quantity sailors have been issued in 15 us states because of the smoke from was fires in canada. let's go live to washington. d. c and fishes. there i see a wearing a mass common. what's it like out there? i remember when we were wearing masks and doors and when the moat doors well has been completely flipped over the last few days because of the air quality. if you look done this mind made canyon all the way down into a capital hill. normally the, the tomb would be pretty clear. but you can see it's a milky horizon simply because of the pollution and the caused by the small can. you can feel it in your throat as well, and everyone around here more, more people i see is be passed by throughout the day of wearing masks. no air pollution is normally measured on a scale from 0 to more than $300.00. under 50 things are pretty good if they're

over 200, that's when the scientists say things are beginning to get dangerous. alas, for the here in freedom plaza, in the heart of washington, dc was 317. so you can see why the scientists, the experts are telling us that things are pretty dangerous. and if you cannot be a doors event to be a doors to be in fact, the national park service. and remember, just the other side of the building. see if you have the, the national mall, which stretches from the lincoln memorial past the washington monument, which can really see, because of this new case all the way down into the capital. that's all a national park and the rangers are suggesting to people that they go to the smithsonian institute, spend this money in museums nearby. just go in door rather than spend to be out of doors and as far as twice are concerned, there's a concern that the 3 main airports around the washington area could well be hit by some of the delays. right. and even the growing store because of the receipts both in philadelphia and in new york, just the last couple of hours. and there's been disruptions already because of,

of flights being delayed in philadelphia and your that's right. i some have actually been canceled, which makes travel plans obviously difficult. the flight stop in in la guardia, lost it for less than an hour, but then there are delays is built in delays and a lot of flights have been delayed by running to on average, about 75 minutes, but some as much as 57 minutes. so you can see how that would impact on travelers, particularly in the night. it stays with a lot of people. i'm just going to one destination to catch and connections to another destination. but there's still people out here you're exercising and running. even though the scientist say that's a really bad idea. and in schools in the area all the way up these course produced are still in school. recess break time outside has essentially been canceled. and a lot of post school activities have been canceled. in fact, in new york, last night, a number of theater shoes were cancelled. and those talk of the possibility of that

happening here in washington. essentially, what new york go yesterday is missing is we don't, these cost is going to philadelphia baltimore. washington go as far, perhaps as north carolina and then perhaps stripped out to see. and this situation is going to be like this for at least the next couple of days according to the experts. but the united states is doing something to help defend more than $600.00 firefighters and support staff to canada to help combat the fires and the whole, the destruction, and the air pollution that's being caused will start to ease in the coming days as well. and thank you very much for that island fisher reporting a line from washington dc. the ukraine and russia are accusing each other of hampering f as these accurate people from the flooded kasan region. shelling and casualties have been reported on both sides. emergency teams are

searching areas flooded to the nova kafka down bleached on tuesday. operations have continued in ukrainian and russian control territory, despite 1st of all, to re fire ukrainian pricing voted mean savanski has visited cassandra inspect evacuation operations and visit the injured and hospital. semanski says emergency f as a and discussing the discussing, getting clean water and other released supplies into the disaster. so john swat for these in keys in keystone rather with the late evacuation, if it's hearing care. so on, on going, we're seeing a steady stream of boats going out into the flooded effect today, or is bringing people out. we will sell on a boat earlier today. and so some of what you'll sort use here tell us around a 1000 people that are either trapped or refusing to leave. they, they say that's a rule for levels. hey, all relatively similar to have say well, yesterday,

but certainly in some areas we have seen what we believe to be a rise in that level. there are serious concerns about getting fresh drinking water to people still trapped inside. and there are also concerns about showing we've heard a lot more shilling today that we have done in the last 48 hours or so. we understand that the majority of that shilling was ukrainian outgoing, but certainly the military increasingly novice that that could be shedding from russian focuses on the russian okey fine side of the river. but as you can see, it's still the vast areas of the city and the surrounding region that he's on the water. and many people still refusing to be evacuated or trapped inside. it's all stuff without a 0. give so meanwhile, russia is defense. many 3 says another ukrainian offensive has been pushed back as

spring in jealous julia chapel of oliver in moscow who usually of what more of the russian saying about this electorate offensive. so yeah, we've just had from the, the russian defense minister and the survey shy goose and that's on the 9th of june . the 8th, the armed forces of ukraine made an attempts to break through the russian defences . defense lines in the zip perot. as you get this direction, according to him, large numbers of um, with vehicles of the ukrainian armed forces participated in that talk in full direction instead. but according to him, the enemy withdrew with heavy losses. uh, showing good claims that as a result of that to our basile, the, the armed forces of ukraine last assess the tongues 11 infantry slicing vehicles and up to $300.00 and fix it, pass to now and also the russian appointed authorities in zipper or she claims that

so that's a leveling on a says the group of ukrainian soldiers on tongues attentive and offensive in the zip for ocean regions. but that topic was repulsed, the russian troops seized all single re and several at cross in the boss. so meanwhile inbox marriage, b armed forces of ukraine. we're trying to find the weak points in the russian defenses, but the situation is under control that according to russian appointed that with force, he's the city remains and the russians control and they're showing it was reported with town of should back to know in the boulder region of belle grove, road and on june the 7th and the ukrainian ministry find more than 300 units, a virus and munition, and they should back in the oven district according to govern a logical of some submit an infrastructure was damaged. so all that shows quite significant developments on the front front lines right now that okay, thank you. yeah. for that you yeah, shop of our live there in moscow. let's get the get the view from keith. now

ukraine's capital. jonah, how is the for, is jonah any more details from where you are about this offenses? the russians, i say they've pushed back of the i think the point to be made here is that there are not 2 channels of information at the moment on these increased numbers of attacks happening across the front line in the east and the south. most of what we hear that contributes to a picture of increased ukrainian activity that some hope pointed to as a possible beginning of the counter offensive comes from the russian side, from the russian ministry, from the ministry of defense and from russian block, as it is essentially russia at an official level, at least saying the counter offensive has begun and giving the impression that it is repelling those ukrainian attacks at every attempt and inspecting heavy losses. as it does have no independent confirmation about any of those he's coming to us. and especially no comment from the ukraine inside,

no surprise the they've made it pretty clear the last week or so that they will not be giving running commentary of what may well be the preparatory phases of a counter offensive. they will not give up the element of surprise, but we do have a comments at a very senior level made within the last 24 hours from alexi, daniel of peace, the head of the national defense and security council. he's a senior adviser to president savanski denying slide out the counter offensive has begun saying, let's be patient and wait. we will not have to wait long. he said it's stock will be obvious to everyone suggesting that when it happens it will happen with a bang. so to speak, so what is going on? well, military analysts will give the view as they have done. so these are so called shaping operations pro, being attacks at various points along the front line testing russian defense is looking for russian week. this is essentially keeping russia guessing. thank you, jonah, for that john, how live there in cave and finds at least 4 children and an adult has been

injured in a knife attack. it happened in the town of on sea, and the french helps. the children are all around 3 years old, and 2 of them are in a life threatening condition. present in money in my coal has called the attack, an act of absolute cowardice. please say the attacker is a syrian refugee with legal status in france and he's been arrested along to a local prosecutor says the attack is not care related. preliminary report shows no sign of service motive. there is an evaluation taken place as part of a procedure from the anti terror department, but at this stage, dar no elements that prove that this is a terror attack. the inquiry points to an assassination attempt. we have 6 victims for minors and 2 adults, all 4 minors are a critical condition. ok then that tasha butler has more from powers? well this is the parents night. my mind stopping children in a playground. please say the

a time happens at around 9 45 in the morning. no cool french time in the lakeside, alpine town of odyssey, one eye witness describes seeing him on climb over the fence of the playground that was in the park and stopped lunging at children. well, she said she thought this man was trying to play with the children, but then she heard terrible screams. she said, i'm people running away. will police later arrested a suspect? they some police witnesses say that he is a syrian asylum seeker in his thirty's or in his forties, but with no track record with police, no, no, to police. well, as you can imagine, this news as close terrible shellcare in frost, mainly because of course it involves children such a young children as well. some of them are 3 years old, some even younger. one of my witness describing the mind also attacking children in problems. the french present to model mind call us cool. this a cowardly attack was actually butler. i'll do 0 power as a bomb, as exploded

a ne stuff down the sun at a funeral for a tiny beneficial at least 11 people have been killed at a mosque and by the shine during the memorial service for the deputy governor who was killed 2 days earlier in a blast came claimed by i saw or in so don the army and the rapids support forces are battling for control of a large weapon factory in the south of the car to it's cause a major fire nearby fuel depot. the power military boot says it's inside. the facility by the army says the finding is still going on. residents in the area say they heard planes bombing and onto at least twice. they worried about a possible explosion because of the proximity of gas and fuel storage facilities. the smoke military complex is in southern costume. it house is a big weapons factory that produces arms for assuming these ami smoke from the fire at the fuel depot can be seen from on to mine and out of cities here. but morgan

has more from them demonic cost and i from cost to the slicing has once again resumed between the sudanese army and the power military rapids support forces in the southern parts of the capital of cartoon. in the early hours of thursday, we were able to see anson of planes flying from the city of on demand to what the southern parts of the capital were fighting has been concentrated around to your look weapons manufacturing company. now that's a company that manufacturers weapons for the sudanese army and which the rapids support forces on late wednesday said that they are in control of. now we spoke to army sources to ask them what the situation was on the ground and the see that's while the rapid support forces were able to enter the facility, they were not able to gain complete control of the entire facility, which is one of the largest in africa residency that they're quite concerned about, the escalation of the fighting between the recess. and this is denise army in the southern parts of the capital. now the southern part has been relatively comp compared to the rest of the capital. people sweat from the northern parts of the

capital, from the city of on demand to what's the southern parts of talk to them when they were not able to make it outside the state for safety. but now residents who we spoke to said that the past 48 hours have been the worst they've lived through since the thoughts of the conflict 8 weeks ago, a fire broke out in a few example less than half a mile away from the weapons manufacturing company and residents who we spoke to say that over nights they were able to hear a loud explosion. and that on thursday morning and into the afternoon, they were able to hear the exchange of gunfire. the heavy artillery and the s. wrecks being launched by this with the new army as they tried to dislodge the rapids support forces. they all concerned that's now the southern parts of the capital has become engulfed in this conflict. and we've, it's coming into the conflict citizens say that they're not sure where in the capital is safe for them to go to keep them oregon onto 0 on their mind. well, hundreds of thousands of people are afraid. the violin seems to don neighboring, chatter steak and in the largest number of refugees. many off from west off for the

sight of years of conflict in atrocities against beans zane bizarre. they have a force from a hospital and not drink tristan chide. in the town of andre, this is the only general hospital that surfaces not only the local community, but scores of refugees that are fleeing the violent sense, who then most of them who are arriving. and in fact, all of them, by and large are from dar for the chief of medicine here, tells us that they are beginning to feel overwhelmed. that there are no more beds for any additional patients. and what they need immediately is more assistance dealing with the medical needs of those that are arriving here at the maternity ward. doctors have delivered several babies born to refugees that are arrived under incredibly stressful conditions. now if we walk a little further and we begin to see what it looks like when a hospital of the size of a small hospital, a humble one, for a small town by all accounts. when they begin to get overwhelmed. this is what

happens. overflow is being overseen by doctors without borders in these tense. these tense are basically make shift recovery wards for people who have been treated who have arrived with injuries broken phone sprained ankles. but what we have seen a lot of in our time here is many people with bullet wounds. the chief of medicine has said that if this continues much longer, they are going to struggle to provide the care that many of the people here need. and the most of those that are currently residing in this hospital, most of the patients that have checked in and are being treated around 75 percent of them, the vast bolt, our student, and these people fleeing the conflict in dar for medical professionals. we've spoken to here say that what they want to see is a meaningful intervention by the international community. not just in terms of dealing with the humanitarian fall out of what's happening. but also in trying to bring an end to the conflict into the the same bus route. the older 0 address in

eastern to, to general is among several policy names injured by is really forces in ramallah in the occupied westbank. is there any forces where demolishing the home of a man accused of carrying out to bomb attacks? hundreds of people gather to protest against the demolition soldiers opened fire at the crowd during they say they were targeted we as palestinians are use experiences like this is not the 1st home and it will not be the last. the demolition activities are all about how much these right? the army ates us. it wasn't only a demolition incinerated. it's completely a need to. abraham has moved from outside the demolished home in vermont. we don't often see. is there any forces? demolishing homes and drama loved mostly, we've been seeing the attackers coming in from different cities in the occupied

westbank, mostly in nablus. and in janine so the rates are often design munition hasn't been as frequently as so is where the forces wave this area around drama look at just elizabeth before midnight. they've brought in the engineers and a lot of soldiers that ended up blowing up the house of slammed. this is kind of the building where the family was planning to live in with his sisters. now they tell us that they've petitioned the is really poured to kind of close down the home of a slam. instead of a blowing it up, they said that the board has refused that which is it is really policy to demolish . the news that is read like use is killing bolt. francis is recovering from a domino surgery in rome. the vatican says they were no complications,

but the pontiff is expected to stay in hospital for several days. hours before being admitted, the head of the roman catholic church appeared in gooseberry steering his general audience in st. peter's square, the 86th sail called past property increasing health issues over the past year area in 2021. he underwent colon surgery. i mean the headlines on algae 0. it is our regional secuity oil prices and human rights have dominated the agenda during a visit by the us secretary of state antony blinking to saudi arabia. he met his saudi counterpart face of been.