more power positioning from saudi arabia's crown prince who's gathered dozens of nations into a so-called arab nato we profile the middle eastern royal who moves are reforming the region. there's more pressure on the u.s. from turkey over exam supplies to syrian kurds with ankara reminding president trump that he apparently agreed to cut the flow of weapons. team russia's fate of the twenty eighteen winter olympics is still in the balance with athletes struggling for clarity in the face of a possible blanket ban we hear the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports teams. in. claims it doesn't prove i want to. give them some time.

away from me in the team here at r.t. h.q. in moscow monday morning at ten here in the russian capital this is your world news starting in saudi arabia which is hosted an islamic counterterrorism summit that's already being described as a meeting of an arab nato it was opened by the saudi crown prince who underlined what he sees as the importance of the alliance. 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. well the coalition consists of forty one states and is aimed at uniting them in fighting terrorism in arab countries however all the members have sunni muslim dominated governments and that's leading to suspicions that it's really an alliance against iran which is the regional shere muslim leader coalitions led by the saudi crown

prince mohammed bin selma now he's already been making the headlines being described as a revolutionary politician and a new hope for saudi arabia he's even in the frame to be time magazine's person of the year that gets announced next month next to more against the of profiles the man behind saudi arabia's rapidly shifting sands. 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's how does she deemed big and that is nil and limits flat out 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 conned 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 of pushiness 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 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 the same time saudi arabia has passed a new counter-terrorism law but human rights watch is worried that the law's definition of terrorism is too vague for example portraying a king or crown prince in quote a manner that brings religion or justice into disrepute could land a person in jail for ten years gregory cropley who is from the international studies association says the saudi royal might not be the reformer he 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 only 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 so the question is will his plan will work and will he or will use fire in fact. agree a backlash which might topple his grasp for the the throne itself and we also he wrote you survive that. he says it's high time the united states stopped arming kurdish forces in syria the group considered to be terrorists by ankara's been fighting islamic state in the region but with lysol but defeated there the presidents of the u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed to end support 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 i still has now been eliminated this obligation has disappeared. 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 however america seemingly defines the various kodesh groups in the region in its own way samir khan explains. 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 on 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 a bt 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. encouraged by the iraqi government to source strongly we in our position they think they can even cancer lauralee minute status of federalism and 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 we should be. driven 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 that you need a 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 that 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. 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 will be decided on the fifth of december in what's been a lengthy doping scandal for team russia last year's mclaren report claimed moscow was running a state sponsored doping scheme russia has admitted that it has problems with doping but firmly denies large scale government control violations it claims dr richard mclaren report also lacks conclusive evidence but despite these objections team russia has already faced a number of setbacks. in the last month 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 for team russia to be given a blanket ban from the twenty eighteen winter olympics peter all of has been in quizzing athletics chiefs and the head of the world anti-doping agency about the allegations and russia's chances of competing. here the play the game conference in the netherlands the great and good from sports administration and values 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 these keep saying there was no state sponsored guilty and the other or most of the other evidence in which claims. would not hinson it claims it doesn't prove no want to. give them some time for a fish quite proof proof is there in. terms of reference were to do so for those there was an institutionalized conspiracy and what he did. to produce details are not to go with rules violations if evidence subsequently appeal 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 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 work 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. this is not the focus on those groups like there is on russia why is that it will here we have. clear evidence of cheating on a state sponsored basis that's and the thumb to the spice questions being raised

about the with the mclaren ripple you would still say despite having no strong evidence you would state that this was state sponsored doping test and it and i think there was lots of evidence there still is seem to be a real political element in decisions making made in sport what would you say to those i would say probably not at least in this case it has nothing to do with with supporting country x. versus country walk but with less than three months to go before the winter olympics kicks off in south korea russia not flee to becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of clarity of the weather though even be able to compete and chant. the netherlands a support group spain set up in britain to have the relatives of extremists and it's proving divisive will take a look at that next and also deeply unwelcoming sign outside a politician tell the could land the ana and big trouble so i had.

applied for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the superman to kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game great chance for. the base.

all come back the brother of a british jihadi fighter has set up a support group for the families of extremists he says they're being stigmatized in face isolation in the u.k. while also 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 their 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 almost a helpline to help provide emotional support and information for families there they can share their experience 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 and it's estimated that around half of those have returned to the u.k. the largest number in europe as for how to handle those who do return you know neal discuss just how divisive that issue is. they're 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 also 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 isel sympathizers who 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 a logical support because legally speaking they are 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 in stopping these from things from happening in the future but you have to have the rule of law first. next to

hostel in western poland is under fire for erecting a far from welcoming and provocative sign it is entrance it says that it's a forbidding. for jews commies and traitors of poland to enter as a hostile drum by an ultra nationalist who was sentenced to three months house arrest earlier this year for burning an effigy of a jewish person during an anti migrant demo well now the local authorities are looking into whether to charge him with incitement because of the banner here's what some of the hostiles neighbors make of it. it is it was well this is his opinion some day he will be hung for things like his banner. yes unfortunately 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 do such things in this. poll was it i would have to live 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 has made it clear accusing the polish authorities of failing to prosecute the hotel owner israeli jewish studies professor jeffrey wolf told us that there's a worrying rise in anti semitism in poland. 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 in krakow and the jewish community and the 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 mix that you ation but this is definitely

a throwback and the rise of polish nationalism appears to be going together with. an increase or. reduce a rebirth of of anti-semitic feelings and. actions. the world's very first and biggest cryptocurrency bitcoin has had a record high value peaking at nine thousand three hundred u.s. dollars the digital currency is mined by computers which generate sophisticated algorithms to make a purchase and the amount of energy being used in the online currencies production could cause a global power cup by twenty twenty and this october alone the electricity used to mine bitcoin went up by thirty percent financial show house max keiser says it won't slow down anytime soon either as investors tend to hog cash digital. we're seeing the latter theater and seas 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 foot 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 is currently invested in stocks and bonds is moved over incipit 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 costs about two thousand dollars to mine

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u.k. international development secretary pretty bad tell us what the future of the tory party is coming up on the show. was correct resenting the two hundred thousand workers tells this program about plans for unions to unite in strike action against the policies of u.k. minority government leaders to raise in may and ahead of tomorrow's berlin security conference addressed by e.u. directive negotiator bonnie what about the personal security of british m.p.'s we speak to the u.k. justice select committees john howell about death threats plus the art of war on terror with this month marking nine years since the u.s. as strike on a wedding in afghanistan killed thirty seven civilians we speak draw artists from all around the world who reflect major nation atrocities in their work tell us of all coming up on today's going underground but first reverberations from the budgets of the chancellor continue to resonate around the united kingdom more than fifty thousand children will reportedly have no money from dres amaze new universal

credit welfare scheme before christmas and thousands of poor mothers have been denied three pound or four dollar milk vouchers amidst the austerity we caught up with. representing hundreds of thousands of u.k. workers as leader of the p.c.'s public and commercial services. and union on the green outside the palace of westminster representing one hundred eighty thousand workers around the country now is mark so walk of the p.c.'s union mark thanks so much for coming out on the green before we get to the main points of the budget driverless cars and some p.c.'s are involved in the actual dispute with the paying kiddish the driving instructors your members yes we have industrial action backed by eighty four percent of our members who are driving instructors examiners not because the new driving test is being introduced in a way that we think a reduces our members terms and conditions and be raises serious health and safety

questions so currently on the day the new test is due to be launched our members will be taking industrial action unless the government instructs its officials to recommence negotiations in the next few days now already the chance of of halogen signals of this public paying sector cap was over anyway so what are you complaining about what i think this has to be the most underwhelming disappointing budget in many many years the burning issue for everyone before this budget what everyone is talking about was public sector pay would he wouldn't he told the ministers openly saying the copper to go and that money out to people in an incredibly the chancellor didn't even mention public sector pay he didn't do anything to say he was putting extra money into the public sector doing anything about the eight year cutting living standards of public sector workers have hired under this government and that is completely unacceptable i'm from his own staff's point of view p.c.s. members who work for the government ninety nine percent of them in a ballot last month voted to say they wanted to decent pay rise and eight out of

ten of them said they'd go on strike if they didn't get it so this budget completely and utterly let all of those people down and we now intend to plan a campaign of action with other unions to challenge what the government's doing cermak colvin's labor party going very big on the paradise papers and. tax george ng the tories keep on making the point that tax collection is up just by the numbers of your members going down in the c. revenue collection how do you explain that disparity. when i think what i think i said of the budget is this is here today gone tomorrow chancellor it seems to me he may well be sacked that this budget did not talk about the huge questions whether it's about the tax gap of over one hundred twenty billion whether it's about public sector pay whether it's by the future of our public services and i think the reason is talk about the public services it needs and the n.h.s. was a great institution.