more power positioning from saudi arabia's crown prince has got the dozens of nations into a so-called arab nato we profile the middle eastern royal who moves are reforming the region. because more pressure on the us from turkey supplies to syrian kurds reminding president that he apparently agreed to cut the flow of weapons. and keep russia's fate of the twenty eighteen winter olympics is still in the balance struggling for clarity in the face of a possible blanket ban we hear the latest verdict on the doping scandal from sports chiefs. claims it doesn't prove no one to. give the.

start of a new week here in. moscow world news headlines saudi arabia has hosted an islamic counter-terrorism summit which is already being described as a meeting of arab nato it was opened by the saudi crown prince who underlined what he sees as the importance of the alliance. so 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. and that coalition consists of forty one states and it aimed at uniting them in fighting terrorism in arab countries however all of those 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 the coalition is led by this

man saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman now he's already been making headlines described as a revolutionary politician and the new hope for saudi arabia he's even leading the race to top time magazine's person of the year reader's poll next more against the profiles the man behind saudi arabia's rapidly shifting sand. he is the herald of the saudi arab spring that the people who could take home the sieve notas autocratic ten years later things lifted a ban on their leaders it's always how young leader who is driving form 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 against 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 regardless they have 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 given how many been some 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 he's killing thousands and thousands of innocents causing untold suffering he's all but lost in syria saudi jihad is there. outmatched well we goof around too or perhaps still target the region's new hitler as she is called iran's supreme leader pundit now claiming that he'll either win everything or fail spectacularly or he could do what every single previous king did which is not a lot like uncle like father like son at 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 patrolling a king or crown prince in quote

a man of the bring religion or justice into disrepute could land a person in jail for ten years gregory copley from the international strategic studies association says the saudi royal might not be the reformer he appears to be proved to have been salman 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 the question is will his plan work and will he or will he expire in fact. a degree of backlash which might topple his grasp for the throne itself and we also hear of you survive that.

turkey says it's high time the united states 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 all but defeated there the presidents of the u.s. and turkey seemingly agreed on friday to end support for the kurds. 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 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 giants with i'm correct claiming the us is arming one terror group to fight another however america seems to have its own definitions to describe the various couldst groups in the region as american 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 fight against the dash terrorist organisation should not be left with another terror organization we want to believe that our allies would choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations well the choice is obvious and the us lists the p.k. k. as a terrorist group we support turkey the us a b. d. 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 the point is very good although we have a long and negative experience with america wrong size the sand talking

to our body so they have a strong. position against. encouraged by the iraqi government. source strongly. in a position that they think they can even cancel or even. start us off for there is a man called the start. 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 we should be using we should be going to kurdish region to be that is. really proving 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 of 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 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 with. mr trump clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide the white b.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 denies those allegations and the world anti-doping agency seemingly backed that up when it cleared a one thousand five after me due to insufficient proof yet water still requires russia to publicly admit the findings of the mclaren report based on the same data six outlets were given lifetime bans from all take a vent since then new information is reportedly being put forward it said to prove systematic cheating by a lab in moscow and has renewed calls for team russia to be given a blanket ban from the twenty eighteen winter olympics peter all of us being 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 be head of the world anti-doping agency told me that the smoking gun evidence for that still is yet to be put forward keep saying there was no state sponsored bill paying and the other or most of the other evidence in clear. would not hinson it claims it doesn't prove it or 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 virtually did. to produce details on the road rules violations if evidence subsequently appears then

it may keep 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 at the. 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 on a state sponsored basis that's anathema to the spice questions being raised about

the with 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. 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're even be able to complete and chant peter all over the netherlands a support group spin set up in britain to help the relatives of extremists and it's proving divisive we're going to take a look at that next and also the deeply unwelcoming sign outside opponents hostile the could land the owner in big trouble. it's.

what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. somehow i want to be that's. going to be close it's like i'm up for six three in the morning and people are. interested always in the waters in the. first six weeks.

i got the brother of a british jihadi fighters 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 the last one i am of march eleventh and i know the pain of losing a loved one to extremism i lost my brother to us about twenty fifteen when he was killed in kenya. and i know from experience that there is no support out there for families and i want to make sure that changes. safe is an independent support service for those struggling to come to terms with losing their 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 fear of being judged and more than eight hundred british citizens have gone to iraq and syria to fight alongside radical groups and it's estimated that about half of them have already returned to the u.k. the largest number in europe as for how to handle those who return and their families you know neil's been discussing just 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 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 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 fica 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 crime 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 kinds of radicalization and stopping these things from

happening in the future but you have to have the rule of law first. world first and biggest cryptocurrency bitcoin has had record high values peaking at nine thousand three hundred us dollars apiece the digital currency is mind by computers which generate sophisticated algorithms to make the purchase and the amount of energy being used in the on. currencies production could cause a global power cup by twenty twenty and on cobra alone the electricity used to mine bitcoin went up by thirty percent on the financial host max keiser says it won't slow down anytime soon either as investors turn their hard cash digital we're seeing the latter. are in 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 is 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 and 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 bitcoin rises the

energy will be there to meet that demand that's the way capitalism works. hostel in western poland's under fire for erecting a far from welcoming and provocative sign of its entrance it says that entry is forbidden to jews commies and traitors of poland it's a hostile that is run 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 now the local authorities are looking into whether to charge him with incitement because of that banner here's what some of the hostiles neighbors make of it. what it is it was then well this is his opinion someday he will be hanged for things like this 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 a metaphysical and not the way for people to behave one can do such things in this

. poll was a total knowledge i think we should be tolerant you can advance 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 of 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 there's a worrying riot in anti-semitism in poland the jewish population is very very concerned they find it very worrying i spoke to a number representing a number of the.