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this is the story of a power struggle between 3 princes 3 rulers who all came to power between 20302015 in the richest oil monarchies of the world saudi arabia qatar and the united arab emirates. a generation with unbridled ambition and dreams of shaping the future of the arab world. these are people who think that this power is given to them forever it's clear that these powerful men are just like spoiled children. the rivalry between these 3 men has plunged the gulf region into

a crisis like no other. at 30 full mohammed bin son or m.p.'s is the youngest he rules saudi arabia his favorite pastime is 1st person. shooter video games. mama been so money he's someone who lives in this old tyria world where you know you can control the entire game with a joystick you're the master of death and live. i think in the us what's remarkable about him is each shoot 1st you know and asks questions later . hailed as a reformer by the west rio its new strongman demonstrated his brutality as soon as he assumed power by declaring

a war and yemen. the conflict has already claimed the lives of tens of thousands of. lives. on the arabian peninsula on the borders of the saudi kingdom mohammed bin someone has found a useful ally mohammed bin zayed or m b's a. is the crown prince of abu dhabi and rules the united arab emirates. mohammed bin. zayed is a military man his mindset is very militaristic he uses the army as a means to gain more power. lobbies and particular has paranoia about being surrounded by people he cannot trust. but limit

the tanks. to establish their dominance in the middle east m.b.'s and m.b. said identified an enemy that needed to be defeated. by this unpopular neighbors accused of collusion with islamist groups and having close relations with iran. but one of the biggest grievances with tom in fanny the emyr of qatar is how his have a shadow at the other 2 by staging the next football world cup in qatar. because the princes of the gold states know each other well there is this clash of ambitions that partly explains the crisis in relations between qatar and certain of its neighbors. in the gulf criticizing the royal family is considered treason punishable by prison or even death. no one has dared to send saudi journalist john

mark a shot he was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul. his crime publicly criticizing m.p.'s the crown prince of saudi arabia. today only foreign observers are able to freely discuss these personal quarrels which often evolve into state affairs and upsets the geopolitical balance. of the gulf is far away from most for most europeans geographically but since the arab spring with the old powerhouses of egypt syria libya and also iraq obviously earlier collapsing and disintegrating and disappearing the new powerhouses of the arab world are on the gulf.

scott pelley from you heard the ruling families of the gulf are in fact tribes who gradually rose to power in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries to the end of intersect these families were living as bedouins and essentially nomadic existence with little other than small scale farming and fishing that it. really shows us the wealth and prosperity of any businessman was measured by the number of camels he had a place that he did that called the song. look with. the whole something that all the gulf countries have in common is the fact that up until the 1st oil crisis in 973 that they remain relatively poor with this before the. change obviously came quite quickly and almost brutally i would say. in the new leaders who rose to power in the 20 ten's represented

a generational shift as unlike their fathers they had no memory of the harsh lives their families had led in the desert they were born into a life of wealth and opulence. they extravagant crown prince of saudi arabia is rumored to have bought the most expensive painting in the world to solve it on monday by leonardo da vinci. $400000000.00 is the period that this is so. it was allegedly a gift for his friend and ally m.b. said the crown prince of abu dhabi who opened his own louvre museum designed by the architect of. the same french architect was commissioned by qatar as well family to design the brand new national museum in doha.

there is a sort of political one upmanship in terms of which emirate will invest the most in museums for example or other cultural endeavors in the end this rivalry between these emirates is to determine who is more committed to efforts to modernize. the states know very well that one day the oil will run out and that they now need to attract capital advertising and tourists. for a fein need to have the city with the tallest building in the world or the most expensive all the curious place you. yeah it's a childish race to be the biggest and the best. without fail we're dealing with monarchs who are driven by a need for power who have an enormous amount of hubris that kind of pride.

and a country that is so small and yet so rich must spend vast amounts of money to attract the spotlight's. and so in 2013 when tommy came to power in cattle then the facing 3 year old sports enthusiast inherited the task of staging the world's most watched sports event. we're very proud that we're going to be hosting the world cup in. 2022 this world cup is for all the arabs and for them. they will be successful we said that this whole world cup is for goldwater and that's why we're successful that's a big challenge. thanks to its wealth from oil and natural gas at the pub these football club and some of the world's most expensive play is to boost the

reputation of this country with just 2600000 inhabitants. who support the want as a way for qatar is to gain unparalleled publicity. and was everyone loves sport it's broadcast 24 hours a day all over the world investing in sport is investing in visibility it's the way to get fast recognition for me. to. those decisions are not questioned on the streets of delhi nor are the scandals that accompany the sport based diplomacy the accusations of corruption and the many deaths on the building sites of the world cup stadiums. we are in the other steps that each other a little know something special you know the 1st arab country and you know it's qatar you don't care because historic like saudi but he is the 1st to take this

sort of result for the world cup so. we would be jealous. at the end of the last world cup a saudi newspaper printed a very telling headline 2018 world cup is over see you for the next one in 2026. because what's implied is that the 2022 world cup doesn't exist this anecdote shows that it's hard to swallow for the. political elites see. pretty. any of. the realism of the neighboring countries could no longer stand to watch matches on qatari channels so they decided to attack one of the flagships. sports enterprise. and all of a sudden a ghost channel appeared a broadcaster no one had heard of until then that's called

a q. it's a mocking of the name of being so is the opposite of being is be out to me is that simple and they had a q. on the end to represent the guitar so be out can talk ok with you this is so you see the school through your media for channel 232 seconds and 6 seconds. for you to take should be. looking for the. suits. does it. seem to you quite see the n.b.a. the n.f.l. the super bowl final every sport you can think of is being pirated we don't exactly know who's behind it but it's a saudi entity so the it is pirated from saudi arabia be in is claiming $1000000000.00 euros in damages plus interest and qatar has filed a complaint with the world trade organization.

this is piracy on an unseen scale and it's by no means harmless it reveals the rifts in the gulf and the conflict that has been destabilizing an entire region. for us to better understand this tension between tom email funny on the one side and mohamed bin salman and mohammed bin zayed on the other we have to go back several years. for the real split in the region stems from the arab spring. no you know. it's not for some people prefer a princes came to power after the start of the arab spring. funny in 2030. but. didn't $24.00 team and mohammed bin simon in 2015 did you all of these rulers

included the arab spring in their political strategies. many of the details. of when the arab spring began the 1st reaction of the 3 countries saudi arabia qatar and the u.a.e. was to increase the salaries of all civil servants. i think for the gulf monarchies . certainly for m.b.a.'s and friend busy they're horrified by by the arab spring it's like. man they're coming for us and we've got it we've got a real. good on the sequester cuts i didn't feel threatened by the arab spring mainly because it's the smallest of the 3 countries in terms of population there are simply not enough people to form an organized opposition in. syria it's the least populated of the 3 countries but also the richest qatar has

one of the highest g.d.p. per capita on the planet. so the motivation to challenge the power of the unfunny family is extremely low or even nonexistent it's. in existence. the emir of qatar and the royal family there their reaction the arab spring is very different in some ways it's like more sophisticated they thought you know we've got to this is a big wave come in and we've got to get on the web and write it you know and that's the only way we're going to survive because we can't fight. and chris hill has its own unique way of influencing the course of history the most watched news channel in the arab world. i think without al-jazeera the arab spring wouldn't have run as smoothly let's put it that way. al-jazeera is an entity that is obviously state owned it was

set up in 1906 as part of the vision of the older media to cause someone to liberalize civil society in the arab world it was all about you know allowing people to speak up against or for terror and oppression for example across the region al jazeera was obviously giving a voice to anyone and al-jazeera you could be a shia radical and you could speak there you could be a sunni radical you could speak that. i'm going to go well you lou. i live here. this is for you for. this cold to murder the libyan dictator was made by one of the leaders of the muslim brotherhood a political refugee and. so the feeling was that al-jazeera was increasingly trying to give voice to opponents of the arab world in particular to the muslim brotherhood was. the guitar is have also financed and

islamist movements in libya and syria and internees and egypt have contributed to the electoral victories of the muslim brotherhood. saudis and in iraq he's have seen how they worst enemies gain power and do everything to overthrow them. the 2 countries staked everything on the return of the military in order to eliminate the muslim brotherhood. in egypt they chose to support general el-sisi and guarantee him financial aid. under his command the egyptian army staged a coup that ended in a bloodbath. the

egyptian regime took revenge on by sentencing a team of al jazeera reports his 23 years in prison. and that's how the rift deepened on the arabian peninsula between qatar on the one hand and saudi arabia and united arab emirates on the other. it was a hole in the united arab emirates there's a live stream concentration of power in the hands of the crown prince of abu dhabi who has reigned in all his brothers. mohammed bin zayed 1st project was to create

a credible army and to focus all its military strategy around the protection of its borders but it's one of the last. 100 bins and attended centers the prestigious goodish military academy as a producer like side to his personality he's very determined. mohammed things ayat has always been fascinated by new military technology and every 2 years he organizes what is now the largest worldwide. production solo side of this arms fair really is n.b.c.'s baby moore is which is why he always goes there without fail and visit each of the stats showing just how much he is in his element in this environment. using his checkbook to play him and see the crown prince himself a former helicopter pilot has managed to attract plenty of western sympathy. the

united arab emirates has become one of the most militarized countries per capita on the planet spending billions of euros each year. was in the in the emirates there is one battle tank for $2100.00 people in france there is one battle tank per $250000.00 people. the prince likes to present his arsenal in displays of power the goal is to impress governments around the world. this. is.

the true face of n.b.c. as a prince who wants to extend his influence beyond the borders of his country he wants to become a charismatic leader in the arab muslim world. or the world cup. mohammed bin ziad wants to become the western world's most important ally in the fight against islamist terror. in this effort to court west and how is he profits from his nation's image as a tax haven and a major tourist destination. to buy has become famous for its artificial islands its luxury hotels and its tolerant lifestyle.

during state visits the crown prince always puts on an impressive show with a military parade in the colors of the on it guest. with under the cloak of modernity and liberalism mohammed had welcomed the pope with all the pomp and ceremony that one would expect and it was the 1st time that a country on the arabian peninsula had host. his holiness this display was of course meant to demonstrate that the u.a.e. was open to the world and all its religions and dreams none of this stops n.b.c. from really is a kingdom with an iron fist. as ambitious as m.p.'s that is he's always known his country is too small to play in the major league he needed an ally and he found it in saudi arabia.

mohamed bin sayed so mohammed bin sons rise to power as an amazing opportunity because the ruler shad the same political goal as the u.a.e. namely and autocratic modernization. because he wants saudi life to become more liberal to reduce the role of religion in society and to modernize the country's economic infrastructure could it be. that . saudi arabia has a population of $30000000.00 and is completely dependent on its oil exports a resource which is diminishing year after year. the country needs to diversify and m.p.'s is ready to face the challenge.

he's a big guy he's very dynamic he walks into the room everybody stops talking. streaming . what that would eat and part of that i asked. most often add up to the now that. he's a modern charismatic guy. with women in the. shakes their hands. are. drac and that's a very that's a thing that westerners. you met all these venture big venture capitalists and saw the valley. on his trip to the united states he just kind of the out everybody. he's been portrayed as a hothead he's impulsive need he's not very strategic in his decisions he's very childish sometimes and that definitely applies to mob in salon.

that just 29 years of age m.b.a.'s became the world's youngest defense minister and immediately his focus turned towards the old enemy. for the saudis the existential threat in the region is a real. and the more you see the. other what you see in the even though at the smaller concert here. so what i mean you get the kind of the reception. in the event there is a very strong rivalry between iran and saudi arabia who both opposes the 2 great powers of the gulf. so what really disturbs saudi arabia is the expansionism of revolutionary she is the u.s. . but that they feel totally surrounded by iran who has a heavy presence in iraq in lebanon on syria.

and of course in yemen and with the who teens. and early 2015 m.p.'s took over the reins as commander in chief of the saudi military at the same time those who thiessen local shiite and probably ran militia seized yemen's capital sana'a. cut them out. of the. the crown prince 2 things to me that are banned recent affectively a presence at the southern border of the saudi kingdom. come mohammed bin simon this one my man big sam nunn decided to intervene in yemen the idea was to signal his arrival in power by showing that under his rule saudi arabia was not a country to mess with. your general must be a chicken or the believe comet but kind of in the spirit of the mikalah be i love

served your country the idea is that even the. plaza no one dome has to have. not must finish the 3rd go through a slot of. m.p.'s near he could count on the suppose of his ally m.b. he said and his well equipped army to support him in this needed declared war. but there will sure be any rotty intervention in yemen allowed them to exhibit that military power on the wild stage as usual just. when the emraan is wanted to yemen it was a quite a quite impressive and i know it impressed a lot of people and i know there are like you know wow. i'm on his way and. very impressive operation maybe this won't be so bad i think that all changed very

quickly. was. oh. no no no the both of you they are killing soldiers civilians policemen many common people they are targeting universities many molo the saudi regime is killing students. they are the terrorists. then the system if you want they can bomb to kingdom come we will never surrender in arsenals on our most islam. the war in yemen is going terribly wrong. the massive humanitarian crisis of cholera in your family it's a nice. scene mixed up it's

a terrible mess the saudis and their emulating allies are really burnt down in it it's a bit like their vietnam war. it is anti iranian obsession of the saudis is not necessarily shared by the other monarchies of the arabian peninsula the country said we don't want to get involved in yemen or the country military did is they will move to southern yemen to to help the saudis protect their with the southern border but they didn't get involved in the air war and putting boots on the ground in the same way that the ever ati's or the saudis did. you can as a result qatar is considered by saudi arabia and abu dhabi as being too close to tehran. that they all. look at the video. does iran share an offshore gas field in northern qatar in the persian gulf. if in if there were more inevitably that requires a certain amount of cooperation with iran is going to qatar cancel. the breakdown

in relations with iran as it would be against its own financial interest. these disagreements over iran were added to by the tensions rising from the arab spring. in the gulf. found itself increasingly isolated what that has done is basically carter diametrically opposed to you. and so that his lights up this kind of really intense regional conflict basically he's out. and that's that's that's. and these tensions between the 3 princes were brought to a head as a new figure entered the fray.

their economic relations between donald trump and the pro se camp we know that donald trump has a golf course in the u.a.e. . is in the news that the united arab emirates had a remarkable intuition that donald trump was a man with a rather basic understanding of geopolitics and that there was an opportunity for them to shape his vision of the region so many foreign policy advisers and think tanks in the united states have received money from the united arab emirates in an effort to influence the trumpet ministrations key decisions concerning the middle east. and washington and saudi lobbyists have targeted the president's entourage and one man in particular. there's

a middleman between the u.s. and saudi is jarett cushnie donald trump's son in law a 30 something and totally inexperienced in middle eastern affairs as sin that he is the perfect ally for m.p.'s and m b c it's really a match made in hell. right after you know your issue so january 2007 right after your question was put in charge of the middle east that's your portfolio. i think leap in this region the traditional partners who is being saudi arabia and the united arab emirates it is in dollar they really do everything we can to strengthen those 2 pillars so the whole strategy in the middle east was was was to go hard against iran and that was absolutely it was the same exact thing that m.b.a.'s and n.b.c.

wanted more than anything. so president trump decides with jared our 1st trip abroad is going to be to saudi arabia. the saudis basically just you know open their checkbook and like you know well out of it as they spent something like. $68000000.00 it was this kind of utterly grandiose looks like you know was fake is. sort of the it's a win win situation in inverted commas that they have worked out between themselves and the up and something the president from didn't try to hide even showing pictures of doing shopping because some of the things that have been approved on are currently under construction and will be delivered to saudi arabia very soon and that's for their protection but if you look in terms of dollars 3000000000

dollars 533000000 dollars 525000000 dollars there's peanuts for you. the discussion at the time was look qatar is a problem they're funding groups across the region that we don't like they have a close relationship with iran which we don't like and you don't like either what shall we do about this trying not knowing what was going on was basically saying oh well if you can take care of it as loosely as it was and taking care of it was seen as a green light by mohammed's armaan it will have been sad at the time to take action on qatar. has a good outcome of the gulf crisis began a quarter past midnight on may the 24th 2017 at that exact moment an article appeared on the website of the qatari official news agency q. and a agency q. and a enough to the article claimed that emmy had tommy muffin he had made remarks in

a speech at a graduation ceremony for officer cadets that went against all acceptable diplomatic rhetoric in the gulf dramatic don't go. if the article was fake it was the result of a cyber attack just came to light a few weeks. when the cia sent computer experts to doha doha why were they made because that was supposed to be a prelude to a much bigger campaign to steer up dissidents and in qatar and diligent allies in the america in the eye of the domestic audience in qatar but also in the eye of a global audience. who are out in welcome to tonight's broadcast focusing on the recent quotes from the emir of qatar shake. me and then. well it won't.

be for 2 weeks there was a constant bashing of carter on pro saudi media. the media. plus can i. get on has always been a problem in charge of the gulf. other countries in the region in that respect the rule of law and historical links that bind them are trying to point it in the right direction i am pincus but qatar has shown its true self a source of funding for terrorist organizations. the pressure was mounting and then on june the 5th there was a complete breakdown of diplomatic and economic relations with qatar look at that. the only land border that qatar has with the arabian peninsula is with saudi arabia and then go to being closed not just for individual traffic but particularly for for import and export of goods going in or out of qatar.

the airspace for any aircraft going in to cut our coming from qatar is closed in the u.a.e. and saudi arabia any vessel heading towards cops or coming from qatar is no longer allowed to dock in the u.a.e. . everything was done to isolate can time as much as possible if you look at international law this is something. that you could interpret as an act of war. when saudi arabia and the emirates announce that walker i can tell you for sure that in the pentagon there were wazza for years that this was a career with the invasion that there is that these guys won't work. the problem was that at the time trying to strongly supported saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in these accusations. the nation of qatar unfortunately

has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level nations came together. and spoke to me. about confronting kyoto are over it's behaved. so we had a decision to make. do we take the easy road or do we finally take the hard work necessary action. these statements provoke panic within the us administration. it found out about them on live t.v. secretary of state rex tillerson had to intervene. sun tell us and explain to trump who hasa billy hadn't realised that the united states had their largest military base of the region in qatar. trump at that time didn't know that airbase which is the most important base for the for the us military in the entire region all the operations in pakistan

afghanistan and against isis of flowing from that you didn't know it was in qatar you actually thought it was in the u.a.e. . the u.s. certainly couldn't start taking sides in this dispute especially not against guitar which donald trump eventually understood. plans for an invasion was suspended but there was an embargo in place a cold war in the gulf have begun. to be i think much come out i wish i'd been a. i don't want. to be there that's what i do a coffee shop and property. or bush economic. what he wants to. washington fighter planes and bombers in such large quantities that today qatar has

an air force that's totally disproportionate to the number of fighter pilots at its disposal. looks. people stood 100 percent behind him his portrait was everywhere on the streets of doha and in people's cars this all happened in a rather and usually spontaneous manner. to december go has made him into a truly national figurehead and his statement this this presents a better failure for abu dhabi and riyadh. to mean authentic a massive the crisis in a stronger position in the role of victim. he promised neither the embargo nor the accusations of exploiting workers would stop his country from staging the 2022 world cup. for

m.p.'s and m.p.'s said this offensive against became a fiasco and the war in yemen became a quagmire. it was in this context that in october 28th seen the jamal khashoggi affair made the headlines. m.b.'s was accused of ordering the saudi journalist to be assassinated and he became a pariah on the international stage at the g 20 you can see the crown prince was a little isolated senator. it's true that everyone snubbed him to some extent. diplomatically religions are unchanged saudi arabia storefront but i think the reality is like march last year i can't imagine time in the future when i'm going to be able to come to the united states and show his face in public and people will not immediately say that's the man. who have come off the show.

then all of a sudden a vitamin or putin approached m.b.'s with a now infamous high 5 handshake. which was extremely popular in saudi arabia so we did. there's a very good relationship between putin's russia king solomon's arabia and the united arab emirates of n.b.c. that. in the game of international diplomacy the princes of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. are increasingly turning towards russia and china. these 2 countries are less strict about human rights violations and war crimes this is an unprecedented move for these traditional western allies. this new generation of rulers are as powerful as they are unpredictable and threaten to further destabilize

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