young saudis have no work ethic. they quit right away. >> a growing population of young people and unemployment rate that just keeps rising, saudi arabia is srting to find that its oil riches may not be enough tohield it fro social unrest. . >> like the government, young saudis are unconcerned about the growing burden on the welfare system. in fact, they're demanding even higher unemployment benefits. >>> naylon is a major fashion trend around the world. one is a cut above the rest. as you see, the company makes it's precision tools by sticking with tried and true traditional craftsmanship. >> nail art can be as beautiful and colorful as walking through an art gallery. japan's largest nail art expo was held in may in tokyo. many professional manicurists cams to learn the latest techniqu techniques. an special tool for the manicurist, there's a long tradition behind the creation of nail clippers. the clippers are used in almost all japanese nail salons. >> translator: they cut beautifully, so i can work quickly and ge

peter tatchell explained his opposition to including saudi arabia in the summer games. >> saudi womenes are required to be accompanied at all times by mail guardians. in iran, segregated by basis of gender. women are required to address had it towed to cover their bodies. in more than 150 countries, it would be impossible for an openly gay athlete to be selected to their olympics squad because of the prevailing prejudice. for all of these reasons, we believe the international olympic committee should enforce the olympic charter and ban countries the perpetrate discrimination. >> the controversy over the saudi athletes is just one of the many ways in which women athletes and gender issues have come into focus in the olympics. about 45% of the 10,500 athletes competing are women, and for the first time in history, each of the participating country's teams include women. also for the first time, the u.s. olympic team is comprised of more female athletes than male athletes. but in rapinoe, a star of the u.s. women's soccer team that won last night, publicly announced that she was a lesbia

it seems young saudis are not keen on working. >> reporter: in april saudi arabia held its first ever job fair. organized by the government, it featured 60 saudi companies in a range of fields from construction to private security. >> translator: we intend to use all means available to give young people opportunities to find work. >> reporter: but it's not that simple for the government. although 15,000 young saudis attend a job fair, few of them are seriously looking for employment. >> translator: i'm looking for work as an accountant, but there it aren't many openings. >> translator: i want an office job where i can sit in a nice, air-conditioned room. >> reporter: life is easy for the citizens of oil-rich saudi arabia. they don't pay taxes or medical expenses, and the education is also free. this means that many young people don't have to work. they just live off their parents' wealth. however, the population is growing fast, and now 60% are under the age of 30. if more and more of these young saudis are not working, then the current system, depending on oil revenues, may collapse.

the saudis were phoning with sending people. for instance. in the. netherlands in daughters and three or four after another for fear of ungar the dutch security. money or the missing clerics in the netherlands and. deformed that seventy sixty to seventy percent of them were unable to understand read speak dutch so very clearly they cannot be a factor of integration they cannot they cannot understand the society in which deliver and in which to follow us. they cannot tell them what was good advice because they don't know and most of them coming from outside the. gulf states with no knowledge of the language of no knowledge of the society or yourself or were in the french intelligence service before did you or those in your forties not see this coming whether or not signs coming from saudi arabia on a detail it was true for the french intelligence for the us and for all the western intelligence we were not very new. interested in both cases the begin to me was soviet union and coming as we saw we had no real interest or money so your idea it was someth

iran, a shiite stronghold, has long been saudi arabia's fiercest rival in the region. tehran and riyadh are both struggling to gain an upper hand. their conflicting interests have taken center stage in syria. the shia crescent describes the influence on the middle east. i have circled that reaches from iran and iraq from syria and into lebanon. >> iran does not want to see this shiite access destroyed. syria is iran's most of for the arab world. so to iran does not want a change in government there. >> saudi arabia and qatar are supplying the syrian rebels with money and weapons and cooperating with turkey and the united states. washington, too, has repeatedly called for assad to resign, a step that would be a major blow to iran. >> the west and its allies are hoping that a new regime will take over in this area that promotes pro-western policies and alliance itself more with saudi arabia. but russia and china does not want to do the west a favor by giving up on bashar assad and watching syria go to the west, so to speak. >> the intense saudi arabia and rivalry makes m

-saudi interests? >> the history of belt that has been they have tried to take advantage of bullets or are going through political change. or chaos. we'll see what they do in iraq. we have seen them in malta and yemen because of the political problems there. the syrian opposition has come out in a big way because they are concerned and they have said they will not allow al- qaeda to take advantage of the situation there. what we have to be mindful of his bed al qaeda is a worldwide enterprise and they will be looking for opportunities to exploit. >> how does the funding model currently in operation -- it seems that could contradict your policies. the u.s. and the west are not really involved with funding the yemenis. could that be self-defeating? >> there are a number of things in support of the opera -- opposition. i will not go into all the details but there is a lot of humanitarian assistance going in there. we want to make sure of that we understand exactly who will be the recipients of any type wh

thanks to fatima's efforts, more women are being hired in saudi arabia to work in shops. the change marks a major step forward for woman's rights in this traditional society. >> i used to be a housewife, but now i dream of opening my own shop. >> reporter: it played a major role in the arab supreme movement to bring democracy to the middle east. now social networks have helped to give woman in saudi arabia a way for their voices to be heard. nhk world, jeddah. >> we have been tracking a storm in eastern china. it's weakening after batterle the area with strong winds. we get the latest from our weather desk. >> it is weakening. we now have a tropical depression where we have a few afternoon just a few days ago. however, that just means that the winds have died down. we're still seeing a very potent system in terms of the rainfall. some places have seen up to 300 millimeters of rain. almost 300 millimeters of rain the last 24 hours. we're going to be seeing an additional maybe 100 to 200 millimeters of rain over kwooi quite a wide area in the next 24 to 48 hours. we're stil

saudi resistance was only broken down when the i.o.c.tened to ban its entire team unless the women were included. like sarah attar's run, progress is slow, but like her, the hope is that they'll get there in the end. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> schieffer: a tree grew in brooklyn, and now broccoli is sprouting up in milwaukee. that's next. here's my morning routine. gotta start the day off right. wardrobe. cute. then new activia breakfast blend. a great way to help start the day. mmm... creamy lowfat yogurt with grains in yummy breakfast flavors, like apple cinnamon. its hearty, with twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt and helps regulate your digestive system. our morning routines are important, aren't they? new activia breakfast blend. there are more than two million farms in this country covering 920 million acres. two of those acres are in an unlikely place, and the man who's farming them, well he's on a mission? byron pitts now with his story. >> it's all about the soil, the nutrients in the soil. >> reporter: wilallen'

and sectarian violence is escalating in the gulf states a teenage protest has been shot dead in saudi arabia and dozens injured in bahrain . from russia eleven pm moscow time this is r.t. it's kevin zero in with you this hour with our top stories the mid fresh violence in the syrian capital forty eight pilgrims from around have been kidnapped in damascus with the rain in diplomats blaming terrorist groups there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions xander boyd who reports now from damascus. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be of ducks in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on the pilgrimage to the sayed as they not which is one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter it was after they visited the mock the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take them to the air

outside in saudi arabia, i was seeing the complete opposite. and so i learned at that age, at 15, that there were many different types of islam, because the islam i was taught was, "you and your brother are equal, y andour other must go to university, you and your brother have to perform at this very high level that we expect of you." but outside, on the streets of saudi arabia, women were absent, and it was a very misogynistic interpretation of islam. so it was a real culture shock for me. >> hinojosa: and actually, you write about, at that point, going into a depression. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: what was the source of that depression, and what did you do as a, you know, muslim teenager depressed in saudi arabia? >> i think the source of the depression now, when i look at it, you know, with much introspection and reflection and time, you know, between then and now, was this great culture shock that i experienced because, you know, teenage girls anywhere have a hard time-- teenagers anywhere, you know, raging hormones, you're moving from childhood

thanks to fatima's efforts, more women are being hired in saudi arabia to work in shops. the change marks a major step forward for women's rights in this traditional society. >> translator: i used to be a housewife, but now i dream of opening by own shop. >> reporter: the internet played a major role in the movement to bring democracy to the middle east. now social networks have helped to give women in saudi arabia a way for their voices to be heard. keenan mousa, nhk world, jeddah. >>> a hot, sunny day in tokyo but it looks like some rain in the forecast. robert speta is here with more. >> yes, it has been rather sunny all week but now, unfortunately it does look like throughout the weekend some severe weather could be popping up across much of japan. it's really due to some cold air drifting in from the north here. it's going to be cloudy with warm air allowing the western periphery of the high pressure there off towards the east. and this collision of air masses is going to be resulting in severe weather across much of japan. specifically in western japan, large hail,

will saudi women be sitting pretty if they get their own city? they are set to open a female urban -- female only urban area in riad. a group of saudi business women, yes, they exist joe, came up with the idea and the government had to suggest the businesses. restrictions on women's lives and productivity there are so extreme that the saudi women need a male guardian's permission and the country is in affect letting a potentially huge sector of the productive economy sit idle. and couple that with the fact that 50% are women and 78% are unemployed, and it is well -- welcome to lady town, y'all. how about the dog only town in rhode island? >> keep your eyes on the road. >> that can't be right. we can't show that. that's illegal. >> if we don't know who gave us the video, we have to post-it and have a good time. >> if you say so. you are the legal issue. joe, separate but still equal on this city, good idea or great idea? >> well, i think it is -- strange to say it is a good thing that this would happen. on behalf of saudi women we can say let's gi

you were concerned the saudi woman would be killed. >> that's a good point. it could happen. >> are they allowed to tbrab for that -- can they grab that garment at that point? maybe that's part of the rules. i don't know if they can or can't. >> in judo can't you grab -- >> you are always grabbing the back of the head. maybe that is just the movies i watch. >> somebody will go like this and she will go ah and fall down and give up. >> why because she is a woman? >> because she is completely ill-equiped to fight against these people at this level because i did my research on the story. >> these people? these people? >> really? you are really reaching for everything that you could possibly get tonight. >> you are just making a fool of yourself. >> dennis, you brought up the fact that saudi arabia wouldn't bow to their wishes if she didn't want to wear a head scarf. it would be one thing if she was in a free society, but she is living in a country where she doesn't have a choice. is that the olympic spirit? >> that's why i brought it up. >> that's why i seconded

he is a hugely influential saudi by vice president king abdullah in saudi arabia. naseef was iodine, the late father. mr. abedin move from kalamazoo, michigan. was about to at the time. her mother, dr. salle of map mode abedin up as an academic and word take the journal of her when her father died in 1993. she remains its editor to this day. the brother, hasan, another academic is an associate editor at the journal. not long after the journal started, naseef became the secretary-general of the muslim world league. as the "washington post" has noted, the muslim world league was launched by the muslim brotherhood with the financial background of the saudi royal background. it's often referred to as a charity, but really a global population enterprise, the brotherhood's anti-western brand of islamist ideology, very much including the united states. in the brotherhood circles. in fact, one of the founders was cited from the don, the founder of the muslim brotherhood. the muslim world league as part of the foundation of the grand jihad, with the brotherhood calls civili

but now they are trying to change the lives of saudi women, and what are they doing?are creating a city for women only. nic robertson explains. >> the project that the government agency is funding and in the east of saudi arabia is valueded at $130 million, and it could create as many as 5,000 jobs for women, and something they hope to replicate in as many as 40 other cities across the country. why are they doing this? why are they creating women-only environments? well, they say that the strictures of shia law, and islamic law in the country mean that men and women cannot work side by side, and until now, the many female graduates of the country that has been producing have been going into the education sector, and what the government is trying to do here is to open up other business sectors, textiles, food processing and such like. and also, saudi arabia realizes it is falling behind the region in the number of women or the percentage of women in the country employed in saudi arabia is only 15% of the women represented in the workforce in a country like united arab

and i have found, only support coming from saudi arabia and the other senior saudi officials for humanto continue along this path. as i mentioned in my remarks, yemen has a history of a vibrant , civil society. political opposition party -- they have political parties there, bathurst and others that have been there for quite some time. so now moving into this new phase for, what the saudis want to do is make sure that yemen is able to take advantage of the foundation it has already in to make sure it evolves in a peaceful way and one that is, i think, consistent with what the region is trying to accomplish. >> their agenda was more than getting rid of president saleh. >> oh, absolutely. and, you know, president saleh agreed to step down before his term was up. he agreed to the gcc agreement allowing that alexis take place and president hadi to assume office. the saudis realized that getting him out of the position was not in itself a remarkable achievement. it was an achievement, but in order for yemen to go along the path of progress if it needed a much broader effort underway. >> i w

with saudi arabia being a u.s. ally in the persian gulf the theory has been is if we maintain good relations with all of these countries specially saudi arabia as we saw during the gulf war ninety one the idea is they will maintain stability of their own oil fields all exports the whole region the persian gulf is one of the largest producers. of information relating to everything that's going on in the world so you know right now everything that we're doing has to do with all the issues relating to what we need to do or the world on energy and. also beyond that the united arab emirates i mean beyond excuse me beyond saudi arabia we have the united arab emirates and oem and they're also a top part of the park as there is also in this region what is the significance of this and in terms of iran these countries being in close proximity to iran i think that's one of the key issues as you look at the geopolitical chess match going on right now the iranians are really being isolated more and more i don't believe that i b

from saudi arabia.saudi former head of intelligence here just within the past year or so saying if iran gets the weapon, then maybe saudi arabia should be building one as well. it's a very, very real concern. and you have the other gulf states present here spending hugely along with saudi arabia on weapons systems, defensive measures to defend against or prepare for a potential showdown in this region. it is the perhaps bigger push button issue here, those tensions, wolf. >> because the whole saudi-iranian relationship is unique. i think it's fair to say on the surface they try to project a relevance of a normal relationship. but it wasn't that long ago, you remember this, there was an accusation that iran try today assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states at a restaurant here in washington. i wonder if that's at all creating any awkward nature in the reception of the iranian official who is have come to saudi arabia for this conference. >> reporter: undoubtedly that will create tensions. i

a second report saying saudi arabia will intercept any jets trying to reach iran through saudi air spaceeport that the saudis used the u.s. that will eliminate one potential flight path. k.f. macfarland is host of fox news live. what do you make of the reports regarding the saudi air space? >> it was intended to be a message to israel, which is don't do anything. this is very complicated with a lot of different moving parts. think of this as a three-man race. one of the runners is israel. israel says we are going to make sure that we stop any iranian attempt to get nuclear weapons. the main runner is iran with nuclear weapons. can they get to the finish line before israel stops them or the american election? the third runner is the administration. the united states. will the election happen before there is another war in the middle east? because people don't want another war in the middle east. and once it starts lit drag the united states in no matter who starts it because if israel starts it it can't finish it. the united states has to finish it. shannon: where do you think saudi's big

saudi leaders encouraged other oic members to suspend syria's membership. the oic's secretary-general says the group cannot condone the assad government's attacks on syrians and the destruction of cities. >> translator: this is a very strong message for the syrian regime telling them that the islamic world cannot accept a system that kills its people. the islamic world supports the political, peaceful solution and does not want any more bloodshed. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad argued isolating the assad regime would not resolve the problem. his country has been a longtime ally of syria. but the leaders of saudi arabia, qatar and other nations rejected what he had to say and criticized assad. however, even though the majority of oic members want the syrian government to fall, they are not prepared to back outside military intervention. that's something members of the syrian opposition would support. but for now, they are happy with the oic's political decision. >> translator: we welcome this decision. it was a step to further isolate ass

and protesters in bahrain and saudi arabia are set for mass rallies in their countries united in the call against discrimination by the ruling elites. however a good if you watch in the weekly or an r.t. around about the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin and it's now nine pm here in moscow and first the heavy fighting raging in syria's second city of aleppo between government and rebel forces could prove decisive in the eighteen month conflict the syrian army sending thousands more troops and artillery to the front line in damascus the government says it's pushed rebels from the last stronghold but sporadic clashes are ongoing on saturday forty eight and raining pilgrims were kidnapped in the syrian capital video shown by the other a beer news channel allegedly shows men identified as the abducted rainy and surrounded by rebel fighters international peace efforts to were thrown into turmoil this last week after chief mediator kofi annan quit the un then voted overwhelmingly to condemn the syria violence but moscow called it biased for only pressuring the regime to act

it's a saudi solution to a saudi problem, if you will.y have a track record of kind of, if you will, throwing money at problems. rather than trying to integ rate and find a way to get women into the workplace alongside men, sort of dual factories or that kind of thing, they will spend the money, projecting perhaps another 40 other business cities like this for women, employing up to maybe 5,000 women, they will spend the money, $130 million on this one project alone to create this separate environment. it does create this parallel structure but it's a way that the leadership in saudi arabia avoids the criticism of the ultraconservatives who right now women can't drive in the country. even the female saudi athlete who competed in judo was accused of being a -- so you have this conservative country. it's that kind of workaround the government is putting into place. >> i guess the interesting thing, nic, it's richard, how do women in saudi arabia feel about this? this would never work here. everybody is supposed to be able to work together.

the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems for jordan where we have our own extremists although they're far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped to escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. ordinarily escaped the wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place bash caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in policy r t r three refugee camp on th

try and resolve everything morsi suggests involving egypt iran turkey and saudi arabia after my dinner jacket suggests egypt iran and venezuela which one do you fancy the most when you look at the first i mean you've got three countries saudi arabia egypt and turkey who actually want regime change in syria so they can argue on each broca's they actually don't want an only solution to this a peaceful compromise solution so i don't think anything that involves saudi rape or turkey is on the cards really i think the second one is better but i think as i said earlier i think i think it doesn't matter what media groups we set up which countries are on the key player in all of this is the u.s. the u.s. is that wants to open this up the u.s. has to change its policies and to let syrians sort out their own futures back out of syria then we can get some peace and dialogue now as you say so washington of the u.s. is the big player here perhaps behind closed doors a higher behind the felted curtains are washington has said that the whole of nonaligned movement summit isn't worthy of any high leve

and sectarian violence escalates in the gulf states of teenage protesters being shot dead in saudi arabia and dozens injured in bahrain. hello thanks for being with r.t. this hour it's midnight now here in moscow my name's kevin ollie and our top story amid fresh violence in the syrian capital forty eight pilgrims from iran have been kidnapped in damascus which radiant diplomats are blaming tonight on terrorist groups there are media reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions of his exam the boy reports now from damascus. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be abducted in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on their pilgrimage to the site yet as they not reaches one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter it was after they visited the mosque the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take the

gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and a teenage protester shot dead in saudi arabia. welcome back you're watching our t.v. it's four am here in the russian capital and you're with me lucy caffein of our top story now amid fresh violence in the syrian capital gunmen snatched forty seven iranian pilgrims just outside of damascus on saturday there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind these abductions are six on a boy who reports from the capital. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be abducted in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on their pilgrimage to the sayed as they not which is one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter and it was after they visited the mosque the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take them to the airport and on the way to the ai

back to the saudi arabia thing, one woman if there. is saudi arabia trying to say we are in the game, trying to change women's rights? >>chris: well, honestly, i don't have a chew because i didn't know the saudis had a woman let alone she competed. probably a little bit. but if the question is dramatic reform for women's rights in saudi arabia? i don't know about that. >>trace: more on chris this weekend on fox news sunday and he sits down with david axelrod and the tea party backed senate candidate, ted cruz. that is on fox news sunday. to more days until the most ambitious mars mission in history hits the red planet. the biggest challenge is the landing. they will try to keep the $2.5 billion experiment from smashing to bits. >>trace: we will learn more about the potential if life on mars when they land the rover late sunday night. here is what a model of the rover looks like. curiosity is the largest machine anyone has ever sent to mars. it is the size of a mini cooper. it weighs more than a ton. there are six metal wheels and a rob

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saudi arabia has said we must suspend the country. ahmadinejad is in mecca for the conference which in itself is giving the appearance of giving diplomacy a try in the syria crisis. >> you have got the shia and the sunni. how does this impact the region when you see something like this breaking apart in syria? how does it influence those countries like iran and saudi arabia on opposite sides? >> in syria right now what we're seeing according to many and many analysts will agree with me on this is it is starting to become a full-fledged proxy war between iran and saudi arabia. when iran is talking about syria, it also mentions an important other arab spring country if you will and that is bahrain. bahrain is a majority shia population ruled by a royal family. if every one of the hot spots you're seeing that battle between the two major powers in the middle east, saudi arabia and the gulf countries who are sunni and iran which is shia. >> let's talk about china. they have been against any kind of out right action to get rid of assad. we

in the middle east not just in syria but also between iran with the radical shiites and then the saudis the radical sunni's but there's also an ideological conflict that's going on within the islamic world between the islam is that one shari'a based governance and then the non islamize who want to bring their world into a more twenty first century type outlook and that's more democratic and peaceful and nature ok george what do you think about that i mean there's i don't hear any history there go ahead george. there is i don't find that the analysis is quite right i don't because i don't think that these sectarian conflicts are innate i think these sectarian conflicts have been willed into existence and i think that what has happened has been the west chiefly the united states has gone out of its way to foster disorder and out of disorder comes terror in islam because what happens when you demonize and then destroy a government is that there is a use society would disintegrate people rally around where i was going to defend them whether it's tribal leaders or. local warlords or gangster