moscow time headlining the smaller more power positioning from saudi arabia's crown prince who's gathered dozens of nations into a so-called arab nato we profile this hour the middle eastern royal who swift moves are reforming with. add to this more pressure on the u.s. from turkey over its arms supplies to syrian kurds with ankara reminding president but he apparently agreed to cut the flow of weapons. and. he rushes fates of the twenty eighteen winter olympics is still in the balance with athletes struggling for clarity in the face of a possible blanket ban still we hear the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chief. most of the other evidence it claims but the watch

would not consider claims it doesn't prove you want to. give them some time. by good morning life marty's main studios here in moscow kevin owen with this latest live thirty minute update and first that saudi arabia has hosted an islamic counter-terrorism summit which is already being described as a meeting of arab nato that it was opened by the saudi crown prince underlined what he sees as the importance of this new alliance. what for the last few years 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 a bit more about this coalition it consists of forty one member states it's aimed

at uniting them in fighting terrorism in arab countries however all the members key note here sunni muslim dominated government and that's leading to suspicions then that really it's an alliance against iran the regional shia muslim leader this coalition is led by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman as we've already said he's already made big headlines he's been described as a revolutionary politician and a new brave hope for saudi arabia he's even in the frame to be time magazine's person of the year two which is announced next month more against the of next that profiles the man behind 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 it saudis should be deemed big and it is nil and limits foot

l.a. and 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 is his father they write ten years later and mighty hills he's success as a social reformist so 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 seventy 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 on 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 he's in

a rush to take power from his father others ali 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 will 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 jihad is there outmatched where we 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 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. well gadgety of there at the same time saudi arabia's passed a new counter-terrorism law but human rights watch is worried that the laws definition of terrorism is too vague for example for patrolling a king or crown prince in quote a man of the brings religion or justice into disrepute could land a person in jail for ten years gregory copley from international strategic studies association says the saudi royal might not be the reform a appears to be proved to have 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 yemen 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 will work and will he or will use fire in fact. a degree of backlash which might topple his grasp for the the throne itself and we also see rove you survived it. as for this 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 a little bit defeated there the presidents of the u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed to when support going to the kurds on friday. there was

that 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 well if washington finally does cut its military supplies going to the kurds it'll 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 simply against a fight for another however america seemingly defines the various kurdish groups in the region in its own way as american reports. 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.t.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 a p d n 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 it although we have long a negative experience with america wrong size the sand talk to our body through they have a strong. position against. encouraged by the government to source strongly be in a position that they think they can even cancellara illuminate the status of federalism and called the stand. off to neighboring syria where the kurdish y p g also got everything they needed from the us in their fight against eisel money weapons training and we should be using we should be going to be

proven to be the smartest 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 the secretary of defense say only a few days ago that the united states would remain in northern syria or 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 against iran and of course the kurdish troops that the united states has been arm now own about twenty five percent of syria's territory in the north and 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. mr trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide the way p.g. with arms and that this nonsense should have ended long ago. the international olympic committee could be about to extend its ban on russian athletes based on the results of more than twenty competitors who are facing doping allegations their fate said 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 russia's admitted that it did have problems with doping but firmly denies the large scale government control violations it claims dr richard mclaren's report also lacks conclusive evidence but despite those objections team russia has already faced a number of setbacks of course in the last month only six russian skiers were banned for life from competing at international events with new information being

put forward claiming to prove systematic cheating in russia there's been renewed calls know for the whole team russia to be given a blanket ban from the forthcoming twenty eighteen winter olympics peter oliver has been quizzing athletics chiefs and the head of the world anti-doping agency about these allegations and russia's chances now of competing. bere the play the game conference in the netherlands the great and good from sports administration and by it 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 bill paying and the other or most of the other evidence in which clearly means that the war would not hinson it 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 he did. to produce details on a road with rule violations if evidence subsequently appears then it me it might make it much more difficult electorate much easier for the international to decide to go ahead against particular. russian athletes continue to face bombs for doping just recently a to 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 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 a real political element in decisions making made in sport what would you say to that i would say. probably not at least in this case it has nothing to do with with supporting country x. versus 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 chan peter oliver r.t. the netherlands. is still not clear what the future holds for the iran nuclear deal with the us leaders enthusiasm very much on the way leaving its e.u. allies pushing to try and keep it all afloat that cover in the later this selfie unco talks the former iranian foreign minister 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 announce they have different positions towards the united states reaction to the deal till now what the european union and nouns is supporting that the. supporting did the has two different

parts one side is encouraging iran to be committed for a good deal. and the second part is they have commie men's to. leave sanctions. much more ahead this monday morning hoping stay with me kevin i would hear about international how coming up on a support group spain set up in britain to help the relatives of extremists and it's proving divisive will take a look at the plus to the deeply and welcoming sign outside one polish hotel that could the owner of big trouble. i says was it to. americans by the. unfortunate

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back in ninety minutes past nine moscow time now next the 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 extremism i lost my brother to our in twenty fifteen when he was killed in kenya and i know from experience that there is no support out there for family and i want to make sure that change of safe is an independent 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 more than eight hundred british citizens have gone to iraq and syria to fight alongside radical groups over the last few years and indeed it's estimated

around half of them never turn back again to the u.k. that's the largest number in europe as for how to handle those who return a collagen of aneel discussed how divisive an issue it is. 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 frank 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 done 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 quiet 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 a 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. thousands of business protesters are faced off with pakistani police for

a second day on sunday with officers responded by firing tear gas on. protesters surrounded the offices of the punjab region's law minister demanding his resignation they cues it was blasphemy after he removed the reference to the prophet mohammed in an electoral oath protest initially turned violent on saturday six were killed and hundreds injured including police officers although one hundred arrests were made in the capital is that his party activists have been blockading key roads for weeks to the government's planning now to deploy troops to quell any further disorder. world's very first and biggest cryptocurrency bitcoin has hit record high value peaking at nine thousand three hundred us dollars the digital

currency is mind of course by computers which generate sophisticated algorithms to make the purchase now with coins valuing continue to rise and more people are buying into it and this is resulted in the rate for it electricity used in the so-called mining of the online currency going up by thirty percent in october alone so you don't think about too often if big coins energy consumption continues to grow at that rate then it could cause a global power cut by twenty twenty we discussed because parky future with the energy issue around it with artie's financial host max. 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 move but one interesting scenario that we have to consider is

that bitcoin become something of a financial black hole and all cash that's currently invested in stocks and bonds is moved over into bitcoin 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 bit quite rises the energy will be there to meet that demand that's the way capitalism works.

and what you do with the next story this morning a hostel in western poland is under fire for erecting a far from welcoming and provocative sign and its entrance. it says that entries for a bid to jews khomeini's and trade of poland the hostiles run by notre nationalists who was sentenced to three months house arrest earlier this year for butting in 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 this ban or he's hung out here's what some of the hostiles neighbors make of it. what is it was that well this is his opinion some day he will be hung for things like his banner. yes absolutely i oppose such banners as i'm not a racist i reject such propaganda anyone can place was over the ones on the fence but it's unethical and not the way for people to behave one can't do such things when this. poll was attacked with 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 has been coming from the world jewish congress it's made it clear accusing polish authorities of failing to prosecute this hotel owner israeli jewish studies professor jeffrey wolf told us there's 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 across cough and the jewish community and the and the general community for example. 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 polish nationalism appears to be going together with. an increase over. which was a rebirth of of anti-semitic feelings and and actions. you want you know it's international facebook are up to call mine of course bulletins across the day from moscow all life you many ways to keep in contact with what's going on for us but now my name is kevin i mean the rest of the team thanks for watching.

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