healthy. the german aids foundation is supporting dream in mozambique. you can do something to. give a baby a future without aids. make it a nation safe a life. this is date of leaders live from berlin they struggle for middle east dominance heats up conflicts across the region saudi arabia seeks to reinforce its prominence in the region and the world by rolling back iran's influence in yemen unleavened on our much more dangerous could this rivalry become also on the program president

trump arrives at the asia pacific forum in vietnam in feisty mood in a scolding speech the u.s. leader tells the region's business elites of the united states would not tolerate the unfair trade practices his previously accused china. and out american city cleans up its act to climate negotiations can now look to pittsburgh as a model for green jobs and renewable energy. all. i'm phil dale welcome to the program. with tensions higher between a son a saudi arabia and shiite iran france's president paid a surprise visit to the saudi capital riyadh on friday emmanuel macro said he wanted to talk with crown prince mohammed bin sultan about the saudi led war in yemen and saudi arabia's tensions with iran president macro as previously blamed

for a recent missile attack launched by yemen shiite rebels against a saudi air force the conflict between saudi arabia and iran has also spilled over into lebanon now accusations regarding the fate of that country's former prime minister threatened to strained relations to breaking apart. a saudi state run television and one thing that the country is ordering its citizens out of lebanon neighboring kuwait quickly followed suit. it was a reaction to political turmoil the never known and comes amid a deepening regional crisis lebanese prime minister saad hariri is currently in saudi arabia from where he announced his shell crabs ignition last weekend. members of harry's political party say saudi arabia is holding him hostage and are demanding his return now that you are looking at the return of our national leader prime minister saad hariri is necessary to recover respect for lebanon's internal

and external powers in the framework of full respect for lebanese legitimacy and our constitution. kerry took office last year as the head of a coalition grouping most lebanese parties including iran backed militant group hezbollah. now accusations are flying that riyadh is trying to wreck the unity deal as part of its regional power play with tehran. this instability is worrying not only for the people of lebanon but also for international powers. look at this from a flight august director of the. oriental studies in balad welcome to d w. what's going on here what's really behind this apparent conflict between iran and saudi arabia well the various power struggles there's a power struggle in the region there's

a power struggle over the. if you like of the islamic world and there's of course the international alignment and the struggle for example for alliance with the us which the saudis felt was breaking away with the iran nuclear deal and so it's often we see this characterized as. soon as versus is it that simple it's not that simple that obviously plays into the whole thing obviously the lebanon crisis for example or the yemen crisis or both linked to shia i groups within those countries but i think it's much more a power struggle a struggle over leadership a struggle over economic resources and. dominance ok so we see this going on in saudi arabia. as a player in what's going on in yemen and now in lebanon how dangerous is this likely to be is this likely to sort of escalate beyond a regional conflict oh i think it can escalate very easily for

a number of reasons i mean one is it's not just those two come two countries it's also syria there are there's talk about attempts by the saudis to destabilize iran using factions in pakistan notably in baluchistan so there's a lot going on far beyond the more narrow region and i think each of these various areas has of course their very own internal dynamics levanon is quite different from yemen etc so each of these internal dynamics can also spiral into beyond control of either of the big players in the latest news from from the prime minister has resigned and made this this statement from saudi arabia there is talk of the problem structure being held hostage while it wouldn't be the first time the yemeni president has also denied return to yemen at the moment so this is one of the various tactics and apparently there's talk of the saudis trying to get a brother of the current prime minister to potentially take over in lebanon so.

this is not entirely plausible and it's made more complicated because the hariri is also very active as saudi business as businessmen in saudi arabia and therefore the saudis also have a leverage over there in economic terms over them so this is this is a complicated situation that the closer you look at it the more complicated it gets because again taking the simplistic view saudi arabia as has been fighting on the side of the yemeni government so why would they take. that allies leader hostage well that's a very puzzling question it seems that this might be a concession to the the to. emirates interest because apparently the emirates have now denounced hedi and are more backing an independence movement in the southern part of yemen but that's to some extent speculation so is this

a new phenomenon or is this are we just now seeing what has been simmering away for for decades bursting out into public view well a lot of this has been simmering but. in a sense at the moment it's exacerbated because the u.s. seem to be to some extent changing their positions to some extent don't seem to take a very decisive stance anywhere in the region and therefore new powers including the regional powers are setting themselves in a much stronger way ok of affright i think we i think we have scratched the surface over an extremely large and complicated situation i thank you for guiding us through it thank you thank you so some of the other stories making news around the world britain's prime minister has unveiled legislation specifying the date and time the country will leave the european union it says press it will take place at eleven p.m. local time on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth this is may says the move shows the government's determination to see the present process through. afghan

officials are one place that has been killed in two wounded in a suicide car bomb in the target is the police compound assessing go bomb of course the blast in the southern helmand province no group has claimed responsibility but helmand is in the taliban is in taliban heartland. protectionism versus globalization that is the clash of visions at the apec summit of asia pacific leaders in vietnam and one quarter u.s. president donald trump with his america first message lashing out at what he called a chronic trade abuses that in some countries huge surpluses in the other corner china's president xi jinping calling for multilateralism you know there. from this day forward we will compete on a fair and equal basis we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore i am always going to put america first the same way that i expect

all of you in this room to put your country's first woman to marry or we are seeing a profound change in economic globalization. over the last few decades economic globalization has contributed significantly to global growth indeed it has become an irreversible historical trend. american jones is going to explore those differing visions for global trade indeed business update and later in this half hour now all this week data has been reporting from the u.n. climate summit in bonn the big topic is how to cut carbon dioxide emissions united states has long been one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases but an american city once known for its monkey skies is showing that it is possible to cut pollution pittsburgh pennsylvania is undergoing a transformation as t w correspondent cotton phenomena reports. this is the old

image of pittsburgh a city of steel and coal where the chimney stacks never stop smoke and west read lights had to be left on twenty four hours a day because of the smog blocked out the sun but today's reality is a different one the city has cleaned up its act and instead of heavy industry banks and high tech companies are now providing jobs for a growing population more than thirteen thousand pittsburghers are employed in the clean energy sector alone in companies such as ever power which operates wind farms in pennsylvania new york and is developing projects in other states too for co-founder and best ski pittsburgh is the perfect place for innovative businesses i think it's the people you know it's great town pool here young people from some of the best universities in the country. also from a cultural standpoint you know there's a lot to offer we have three professional teams we had the l.a.

we had the symphony we have the opera so many things that can draw great talent. pittsburgh's transformation as the result of a concerted effort by the city government to attract startups and other businesses while at the same. time keeping an eye on environmental and social issues one of the people working on pittsburgh's turnaround is development analyst sarah yeager. to take a holistic approach as how can we improve pittsburgh well this is creating more jobs more low income housing access to public transportation fossil fuel free vehicles so electrifying our fleet access to more bike lanes i really how can we improve the quality of life for everybody in pittsburgh. another key factor in the city's formula for success is pittsburgh's colleges like carnegie mellon university many who started here at cmu have established themselves in the new economy

founding startups in the vicinity of the campus and turning them into vibrant enterprises professor jean yang a specialist for programming languages is full of praise for the almost symbiotic relationship between scientists and tech companies here for instance do a lingo was started by lease on and he had this actual office for a long time before he left for doing go all together and so a lot of the tooling of people involved with cmu they come back here to listen to talks to speak. and everything is quite close so the people are companies they'll show up to talks here people here they'll spend some time at the company's jean yang grew up in pittsburgh when it was still a byword for the american rust belt as soon as she finished school she moved away like so many other talents and young people at the time and expected never to return now she's back in her hometown and enjoys not only great working conditions but also a new quality of life in her old neighborhood these are places where it was pretty

sketchy to walk outside there after dark and i was just way inside for my parents to pick me up i wouldn't go outside on my own and when i came back i realize that wow there are all these bars there now there are restaurants. the buildings are outside they still look pretty much the same but what's going on inside really it's like night and day so pittsburgh clearly is on the way up again with young people flocking to the city at the prospect of even better times ahead for the next generation. take a look at some sports intense few days well cup qualifying continues tonight and many will be watching and wondering whether the european powerhouse of the past italy has what it takes to sneak into next summer's big total and the four time world cup champions haven't missed a tournament finals in almost sixty yes but these days i say to a fallen on hard times and they're fighting for a place. they've come to stockholm as friends arena desperate not to lose

and maybe that's part of the problem for the italians so used to winning that they've made every world cup final since one thousand nine hundred fifty eight and one for the same number as germany sixty nine year old coach jump year old ventura has struggled to get the most out of a squad thin on top shelf talent ventura replace master tactician antonio conti and if his team does lose to sweden the journeyman coaches brief tenure will likely be over but. the team should be decisive they should be calm and they should be convinced that they can reach this goal that is what they need to feel inside the words i say are not that important if they have that feeling they'll go in and achieve it but you jump out i got your digital. in the other dugout swedens young anderson says the pressure seems really to be on the italians on the hill clear told me it was friends who played well pretty good football so so you can do

that to morals and never get a result and i was here when crystal to bring with us i'm deeply among friends arena will provide a friendly atmosphere for the swedes they know if the italians are playing for their world cup lives the return match in italy will be. in a much more difficult atmosphere. it's time to remind you of our top story this hour saudi arabia kuwait and bahrain of all of their citizens to leave lebanon and discourage future travel and meanwhile officials in beirut have demanded the return from saudi arabia of lebanon's former prime minister a suspect is being held there after his surprise resignation last week. on the judge with your business update is on the way of the day. where i come from we had to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. channel and a few news papers with official information as attorneys i had walked off the

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