based journalist martin j. martin quite frankly i'm really surprised by these developments why saudi arabia and kuwait started warning their citizens to leave lebanon. ok looks like we may have lost the connection with martin and we was able to hear me just a few moments ago just try again following saudis lead him in kuwait is very subservient to saudi arabia and what we're seeing now what we're actually witnessing since the weekend. yeah i apologize martin it seems like we've got some problems or horrific time to let you go ahead.

ok we will be goodbye. to the that we have a new saudi king emerging mohammed bin solomon the crown prince is now really preparing the ground to take the leadership. ok and we will we will wrap things up there is pretty clear to me that we had an extremely lengthy time delay for if you did know that in advance of drug it mountainbike or at least have a chat with him off air bring his thoughts to you a little later short break now in a moment. to

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welcome back in german opposition parties considering legal action against the commander in charge of policing the g twenty summit in the summer claims that he broke german law by permitting the use of combat weapons when drugs broke out peter all of it takes a closer look at the client. where the g. twenty goes riots do tend to follow the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year and humbard have been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they're not allowed to. was. was was going to was this is the bit of kit in question the m

p one multi-purpose pistol during rioting that started on the sixth of july and run through till the eighth this particular weapon was used fifteen times to fire a rubber bullets and sixty seven times to disperse tear gas canisters the police say it's a pistol and therefore they are allowed to use it however government documents that were leaked to the press here in germany seem to show that it is classified as a combat weapon and therefore shouldn't be deployed at public events the h.k. sixty nine an h k one sixty nine are considered grenades which are classified as war weapons by the war weapons list the company that manufactures it also doesn't classify it as a pistol when contacted by r.t. humbard police doubled down on their insistence that they were well within their

rights to use the m. said p. one the facts have not changed and remain as follows there is a pistol in the cordons both sides who eighteen part four of security in order act the operation was carried out in full compliance with the existing hamburg regulations it was understood before the summit the police hadn't intended to use rubber bullets or tear gas but after rioting raged out of cars. troll they changed tack the decision to employ the m. said p. one has seen lawmakers from the opposition left party consider legal action against the hamburg police chief for breaching the more weapons act there is strong regulations what can be instant. and what cannot be used. when we see that. it was vocalise or. against the german. to use it. and i think it

is an abuse which. is not really. repercussions from the violence seen at this year's g. twenty continue to rumble on long after many have forgotten what world leaders actually gathered at the g twenty to discuss in the first place peace rule of r.t. berlin. ok let's go back to our story of kuwait having just told its citizens to leave lebanon following on from what saudi arabia had said pretty much in the same vein and we can speak i'm pleased to say with marvin gaye i believe we fixed the problems on the line to tell you about martin and i was asking you were earlier saying that i was really surprised by these developments saudi arabia and kuwait telling the sit ins to get out of lebanon what is the problem what's the danger. well there's a new strategy there's a new game being played in town which is the saudis have they have gained some

confidence in iran agenda using now. they're creating a chaos if you like a crisis which doesn't exist in lebanon and moving ahead with with a new plan to destabilize lebanon to to hit back at iran what we're witnessing now neal is the making of a new saudi king deputy crown prince. salman is now preparing himself to take over the throne in saudi arabia probably in the next few weeks or couple of months he's very much like donald trump he was created by the americans and israelis together so he was he was placed on the cross on the throne by the israelis and the americans he doesn't feel very confident about himself and so what we're seeing from the week since the weekend is a sort of a crackdown on anybody who represents any sort of rifle to him anybody who can criticize him we've seen this. corruption drive the auspices of anticorruption

driver should say which is shown itself to be a round up of the usual suspects of leading political and business people in saudi arabia who could create problems for him and now if we what's the link you might be ask yourself to lebanon well saad hariri a lot of people don't know is also a saudi citizen spent most of his life in saudi arabia and is considered to be a sort of a saudi pawn to put it bluntly so they they pulled mystery over back to saudi arabia in a sort of panic last week a couple of times and basically forced him to resign as lebanese premier that's part of a bigger longer term plan to try and destabilize lebanon to shake tiny lebanon so as to make a point to hezbollah and to the region that there's a new there's a new guy in town a new leader in saudi arabia who's got a new agenda to play out it was a double whammy i mean there was also some talk about mr hariri his connections

with some of these leading businessmen who have been arrested so it was a two in one for the saudis feel like you get about the prime minister of lebanon may quitting. blamed around and as but large said they were sowing conflict that is there any connection to iran and has below or is this a smokescreen. now it's smoke and mirrors it's a sort of a theater being played out i mean you know it's very much to the saudis. objective on israel's objective because the meetings between the crown prince donald trump something will. last week three nights in a row that says a lot about what's been going on and who's pulling the strings you know there is an agenda to to try and destabilize iran and to and to create some sort of tension in the region and these are the first steps today ordering saudis are which was a somewhat of a futile gesture given that are hardly any saudis in eleven of the movements but

there are a few kuwaitis quite a few kuwaiti tourists so i think that is also but that's also part of the plan but you know the answer question no there really isn't anything in it i mean you know if you could remember that the saudis have lost a lot of self-respect in the last few years they believe that their policy in yemen is a complete disaster they lost the war in syria by backing extremists and now you know when from a year ago when lebanon elected a new pro hezbollah christian president to sell for the saudis it was the ultimate slap in the face so this is a sort of gesture this is a statement a bold statement if you like that they want to create some sort of momentum of change but where how far they will go with is anyone's guess i don't see these these gestures today as being too significant lebannon is not a threat hezbollah is not an imminent threat to iran and to the saudis in any way

it's just purely manufactured consent and i might add a lot of the media i mean ninety five percent of the media in the region which is controlled more or less by the saudi is going along with that baptism of disinformation in terms of iran what role does it play in the region in the situation what kind of influence does it have. well i mean iran the real problem is. iran and particularly hezbollah in the last few years have grown too strong and this is something that's been voiced in the past you know by the saudis and their allies in the region you know what do you do with hezbollah that has got how does that battle experience in syria. iran also is a growing economy now you know which which is a relatively recent thing so so they you've got this problem not only of geopolitics but also the economics in the region and that's really what's the the it has the edge of this is the saudis that they've lost

a lot geo politically but also their working in in times where they don't have the clout that they used to have when when all prices were so much higher so you this this this. is great to get you back and unfortunately we could we came and said we've run out of times i left to wrap things up there we got some great answers from you much appreciated martin jack. and i will indeed have to wrap it up see the top of the hour of a. prescribed medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything with ash and my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide watch or who was made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do you know we were being responsible and what the real side

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