more power positioning from saudi arabia's crown prince who has gathered dozens of nations now into a so-called arab nato we profile the middle eastern royal who swiftly moves reforming the region it's. coming up as more pressure on the u.s. from turkey over its arms supplies to syrian kurds with ankara reminding president trump that he apparently agreed to cut the flow of weapons. the face of team russia the twenty eighteen winter olympics is still in the balance as we speak this morning struggling for clarity the face of a possible blanket ban we speak to the chiefs of the world anti-doping agency on the scandal. most of the other evidence it was clear that the watch would

look into the claims it doesn't prove no one to. give them some time. good morning it's a monday the twenty seventh of november live from artie's main studios here in moscow kevin owen with you for this thirty minute live news update and we start with saudi arabia it's hosted an islamic counterterrorism summit which is already being described as a meeting of an arab nato it was opened by the saudi crown prince who underlined that he sees the importance of this alliance. but for the last few use terrorism was at large in all our countries and most of these groups have been working in several countries at a time without there being a strong coordination between muslim countries but now we have this alliance. so let's look more closely at the alliance this coalition consists of forty one states and it's same did uniting them in fighting terrorism and arab countries however all

the members have sunni muslim dominated government so there are suspicions that it's really an alliance against iran crucially the regional shia muslim leader of course now the coalition is led by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone himself who is also the country's defense minister must be noted he has already made the headlines being described as a revolutionary politician and the new hope for saudi arabia is a young guy to he's even in the frame this year to be time magazine's person of the year which is announced next month next the morgue as the of profiles the man behind the saudi arabia's rapidly shifting sands these days. he is the herald of the saudi arab spring the leading candidate for the person of the year on time's magazine's website a new hope for saudi arabia the callon prince. and he said in

many occasions that. saudis should be deemed big and there is no will and limits for it ellen and percent the saudi crown prince is one of the very few people who could take hold of the religious conservatives in saudi arabia mohamed bin some on the crown prince has a plan to transform not just the saudi economy but the saudi society of course the media has a history of forming over incoming saudi kings take the new york times nine hundred fifty three saudi arabia's new king is progressive bloggers autocratic because his father they write ten years later and mighty hills he's success as a social reformist though he did great things lifted a ban on television real liberal revolution nineteen eighty two new king new praise from the n.y.t. a leading figure in the progressive modernizing faction he then promptly blew the

entire budget on guns and jailed the critics can't please everyone fast forward to two thousand and seventeen and the new york times delivers it's always been cited is a young leader who is driving religious and economic reform again moderate maybe by saudi standards king solomon with his young crown prince a thirty two year old leader pushing against his anti-corruption drive it did raise some eyebrows because in the same weekend they introduced the anti-corruption committee he came down like a hammer again. some prominent business people three weeks ago he arrested eleven princes four former ministers and dozens and dozens of other well to do over corruption or maybe corruption regardless they've now agreed or maybe

agreed to give up one hundred billion gotten gains some say is in a rush to take power from his father others ozzy and i haven't been summoned isn't a path to reform saudi arabia if reform means jailing everyone until they give you one hundred billion dollars this guy's a real liberal champ it won't have won him many friends in this way embarrassing so many powerful people and his promise of reform won't make the very religious majority happy either he's caught between a bunch of religious zealots and a bunch of humiliated elites but if he treats his countrymen like this what hope is there for his neighbors. let's not forget this same moderate prince launched an invasion of yemen which has killed and is killing thousands and thousands of innocents causing untold suffering he's all but

lost in syria proof saudi jihad is there outmatched well they goof around to perhaps get the region's new hitler see is called iran's supreme leader pundits are now claiming that he'll either win the everything will fail spectacularly or he could do what every single previous king did which is not a lot like uncle like father like son. reporting at the same time saudi arabia's passed a new counterterrorism law to talk about that human rights watch is worried that this law is definition of terrorism is simply too vague for example betraying a king or crown prince in quote a manner that brings religion or justice into disrepute could lead a person in jail for ten years gregory copley from international strategic studies association says the saudi royals might not be the reformer that they're appearing

to be here. because i've been someone is not what you call a moderate leader crown prince mohammed is not any more or less extreme his father king solomon is on the human and on the issues in syria and iraq and so on he knows that he has to move very very quickly if he is to save saudi arabia from its impending economic and strategic disaster so he will not be moderate he cannot afford to be moderate the question is will his plan the work and will he or will you aspire in fact. a degree of backlash which might topple his grasp for the the throne itself and we also he wrote you survive that in more of the headlines this monday morning turkey says it's high time the u.s. stopped arming kurdish forces in syria the group considered to be terrorist by ankara has been fighting islamic state in the region but with ice and all but

defeated there the presidents of the u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed to end support for going to the kurds on friday. that was our friend and ally told us every time that it was not an option but an obligation since eisel has now been eliminated this obligation has disappeared while if washington finally does cut its military supplies going to the kurds it will go some way to easing the current tension between turkey and the us that issue's been a long term stumbling block in relations between the two nato allies with ankara claiming the us is arming one terror group to fight another but next to samir a can explain is there a clear differences between kurdish groups in the middle east. kurds the largest stateless minority in the world the kurdish population is in turkey iraq and syria and it seems for the us it's more about where they are rather than who they are.

let's start with turkey on one side and cora washington's regional and nato ally on the other and cars sworn enemy the rebellious kurdistan workers party. we want to believe that our allies would choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations. as well the choice is obvious and the us lists the p.k. k. as a terrorist group support turkey in the first fight against chair and terror groups like isis and the p.k. k. . over in iraq the kurdish peshmerga were crucial when the us fight against the islamic state washington put up money and provided all the weapons they needed but with most of the fighting over so is america's benevolence iraqi kurds are losing the oil wells they fought out of terrorist control and the reserves are now going back under government control the us ability and baghdad.

the kurdish push for independence has also received the cold shoulder with secretary tillerson stating that the referendum and its results lacked legitimacy and the u.s. supports a united iraq disappointment is very good. although we have a long and negative experience with america wrong size the sand talk to our body through they have a strong. position against that encouraged by the iraqi government to come source strongly be in a position that they think they can even cancel or illuminate status of for there is a man called the stand. off to neighboring syria where the kurdish y p g also got everything they needed from the u.s. in their fight against eisel money weapons training and maybe we should leave using

. the. region to be the best leaders really proved to be the most really do it we should be working with them. but they managed to hang on to the oil fields that they liberated with no questions from their american pals. washington claims that it seeks a unified and sovereign syria but it also wants a syria without assad i think the united states will continue to support the kurds we heard general mattis and secretary of defense say only a few days ago that the united states would remain in northern syria in order to give traction to the geneva process and that means that the united states wants leverage they want leverage against us against russia and it gets to iran and of course the kurdish troops that the united states has been arming now only about twenty five percent of syria's territory in the north end somewhere around fifty

percent of all the oil and gas in syria so this gives the kurds quite a bit of leverage well that's unless turkey gets its way with. mr trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide the white p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. good. morning still not clear what the future holds for the iran nuclear deal with u.s. leaders enthusiasm very much on the way in living in ca you are pushing to try and keep it afloat instantly in r.t. sophie and co next hour on this channel a former iranian foreign minister talks about the agreement chances now. new position of the united states e.u. from one side and russia and china from the other side they and nouns they have different positions towards the united states' reaction to the deal

till now what the european union and now is supporting that the. supporting did the has two different parts one side is encouraging iran to be committed to the de. and the second part is they have commitments to. leave sanctions. the sports news this morning the olympic international committee could be a bird to extend its ban on russian athletes based on the results of more than twenty of leads facing doping allegations their fate is going to be decided on the fifth of december in what's been a lengthy doping scandal for team russia back in twenty sixteen the mclaren report claimed that moscow was running a state sponsored doping scheme something that russians firmly denied now in the

last month six russian skiers have been banned for life from competing at those international forthcoming events with new information being put forward claiming to prove systematic cheating here in russia there's been renewed teams calls for the whole team russia to be given a blanket ban from the twenty eighteen winter olympics next peter all of a speaks to the athletics chiefs and also the head of the world anti-doping agency about the allegations and russia's chances now of indy competing. here up the play the game conference in the netherlands the great and good from sports administration and was tackled with stopping drug cheats have gathered to discuss the future of the fight against doping in sport russia has been widely accused of running a state sponsored don't ping program but even the head of the world anti-doping agency told me that the smoking gun evidence for that still is yet to be put forward saying there was no state sponsored guilty and the other or most of the

other evidence in which claims. were not instant claims it doesn't prove no want to. give them some time for a fish quite proof that proof is there in. terms of reference were to do so for those there was an institutionalized conspiracy and birch what he did. to produce details are not to go with rules violations. evidence subsequently appeal then it make it it might make it much more difficult electorate much easier for the international federation to decide to go ahead against particular. russian athletes continue to face bonds for doping just recently a two a suspended for life from competing at the olympics i also caught up with the former vice president of the international olympic committee and former head of water dick pound i asked him why there was so much focus on russia and were

individual sporting federations perhaps responsible for turning a blind eye to other dopers it's unprecedented to see this level of scrutiny certainly what i've seen on a country like russia when you have another scandal in kenya when you have allegations a lot of people in british cycling are involved in. there's not the focus on those groups like there is on russia why is that it will here we have. clear evidence of cheating in a state sponsored basis that's anathema to the spice questions being raised about the mclaren report you would still say despite having no strong evidence you would state that this was state sponsored doping yes it is and i think there was lots of evidence there does seem to be though a real political element in decisions making made in sport what would you say to that i would say that probably not at least in this case it has nothing to do with

with supporting country x. vs country y. but with less than three months to go before the winter olympics kicks off in south korea russian athletes are becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of clarity of whether they'll even be able to compete in chan peter oliver r.t. the netherlands. brother of a british jihadi fighters set up a support group for the families of extremists he says this stigmatized and they face isolation in the u.k. while also at the same time grieving for their loss by name of michael evans and i know the pain of losing a loved one to a stream of a i lost my brother. in twenty fifteen when he was killed in kenya. and i know from experience that there is no support their family if i want to make sure that change of well safe is needed pendent support service for those struggling to come to terms with losing loved ones to terror it's launched a helpline to provide emotional support and information for families there they can

share their experiences of being damaged by extremist ideology without the fear of being judged when you look at the stuff seems more than eight hundred british citizens have gone to iraq and syria to fight alongside radical groups it's estimated around half of them of return now to the u.k. the largest number in europe and the first how to handle those who return a colleague discussed how divisive an issue it is now. perfectly free to set such a group up however my question would be that when you're talking about what should be widely supported i think frankly we should be thinking an awful lot more about the victims of isis rather than of the of the families of those who have committed those atrocities it's important to understand that family members of victims to some degree i think they have gone through a lot of emotional psychological and social trauma and isolation and every right to

set up such groups to support one another to through this process of grieving and hardship what a by thieves fighters or indeed sympathizers to return to your country should they be reunited with their families i prefer the more the danish model is not ideal and the danish model is a you allow them to come back and we integrate back to society and provide the fact logical support because legally speaking they have not actually committed a crime on the in this land besides being a part of a prescribe group which is a crime in of itself if we are to give a free pass to people who have build that returning then what we also do is we send out completely the wrong message to all those who might be tempted by such things in the future so i think you know where the fire has been committed then the law needs to be enforced properly and to prosecute those crimes first and then you

think about the ways in which you can do awful lot more in terms of counter radicalisation and stopping these things from happening in the future but you have to have the rule of law first. the charred remains of the grumble tower block in west london is a grim reminder of the community torn apart there and who feel indeed to this day that the system let them down seventy one people died when fire ripped through the building in june but the survivors and those left homeless say that the tragedies energize them too are taking a stand no investigative documentary team from red fish has compiled their stories and the film airs next week on this channel. it was my hope for twenty five years the fire for each you know hold in our world. now that was the most heartbreaking thing i've ever seen in my life it was such it was beyond traumatic you know we will felt by the state before and after the. good

food changed everything we talk politics now and how we can take power. if we continue to stand and make a noise and people out we can change this community. we need to realize that collectively we have real power with real real power to shape our destinies and to be. so we need to seize these opportunities and move in as much as. thousands of business protesters have faced off with pakistani police for a second day sunday with officers responding for firing tear gas back at the.

i. i. tests is surrounded the offices of punjab's regions law minister demanding his resignation after he removed the reference to the prophet muhammad and intellectual life protests initially turned violent on saturday six were killed and hundreds were injured including police officers more than one hundred arrests were made in the capital islam his party activists of blockading the roads there for weeks now the government's planning to deploy troops to quell any further just. interesting story the world's very first and biggest cryptocurrency bitcoins hit record high value peaking at one thousand three hundred u.s. dollars the digital currency is mind by computers of course which then generates sophisticated algorithms to make the purchase now with bitcoins value continue to

rise like that more and more people are buying into it and that all takes electricity you hear me right it's resulted in the energy used in the so-called mining of the online currency going up by thirty percent in october alone so the box in say if bitcoin continues to grow at this rate is going to absorb all of the world's energy by the twenty twenty we discussed because future without is financial show host max keiser. we're seeing the latter currencies are in a hyper inflationary collapse against bitcoin i think we'll see a major price correction somewhere at the twenty five thousand dollars per bit coin level up until that price is achieved it looks like we'll see a pretty strong one interesting scenario that we have to consider is that bitcoin become something of a financial black hole and all cash that is currently invested in stocks and bonds

is moved over into a bit coin and we have a stock market or bond market crash or both as we see the price of bitcoin move into the twenty five thousand dollar range and that's something that no central bank or or country will be able to stop and it's becoming a real a real scenario a real threat energy required to mine bitcoin is quite significant and that gives you the underlying value of bitcoin it cost about two thousand dollars to mine a bit going it has real intrinsic value that gives you an indication that we're not talking about something that has no intrinsic value it does at the energy cost being part of the intrinsic value scenario and as the demand for big going rises the energy will be there to meet that demand that's the way capitalism works. in west opponents and five for renting a phone from welcoming and provocative sign at his entrance it is says the entry is

forbidden to jews commies and traitors of poland all schools run for the internationalists who was sentenced to three months house arrest earlier this year for burning an effigy of a jewish person during an anti migrant demo now the local authorities are looking into whether or not to charge him with incitement because of the banner here's what some of the hostiles neighbors make of it. ladies it was well this is his opinion some day he will be hanged for things like this banner. i oppose such ban is as i'm not a racist i reject such propaganda anyone can place was over the ones on the fence but it's an ethical and not the way for people to behave one can do such things when this. was a time when the it i think we should be tolerant you cannot ban certain groups of people from entering and no one may come to our village the main thing is that they behave well and respect the law. the world jewish congress made it clear accusing

polish authorities a failing to prosecute the hotel owner is really jewish studies professor jeffrey wolfe told us there is a worrying rise in anti semitism in poland right now. the jewish population is very very concerned they find it very worrying i spoke to a number represented a number of representatives of the community today. but on the other hand they know how much good work that has been done and is ongoing between the jewish community in warsaw and and elsewhere krakow and the jewish community and the general community for example the the fact of the matter is that rabbis are now teaching about israel in judaism in the public schools not just not just informally so you're talking about a very mixed actuation but this is definitely a throwback and the rise of published nationalism appears to be going together with . an increase over. which was

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