. >> bahrain sentenced an opposition leader to jail. he was arrested 16 december for holding a rally against general election he is. he faces four years in prison. bahrain is facing growing pressure to give shia muslims a greater role in the country. >> nigeria's women's club is one of three african teams in the tournament yet the women say they face major discrimination in the game the world calls football. we have more. >> she place for the football club and is excited that the national team, the enter tall consist are currently in canada playing at the fifa women's world cup but she and her teammates face many challenges developing their own careers. they say women's football doesn't get enough support from the football federation. >> what they give the guys, the girls are not even getting one third of it. >> she played for the national team at the world cup twice in the 1990s and has coached the under 17 national squad. >> there's a change in terms of >> follow the money pictures emerge of the cash australia allegedly paid to people

we've seen it in bahrain. now we see it in kuwait. it's a remarkable swath of territory. >> would it be overly optimistic to say this has turned in a middle eastern warfare in the middle east. they're killing each other. they're going to have less focus on spectacular terrorist attacks against western targets in the west et cetera. >> it sounds like fareed you live my live at the cia for 25 years. when terror leaders of organizations like al qaeda or isis in yemen or al qaeda in iraq are either focused on fighteding the government for example, al assad or each other. the likelihood that they spend energy on washington or new york or paris declines. the problem with the argument is that the world is changing. the number of foreign fighters in places like syria and iraq is so substantial that to believe none will bleed out back to western europe or north america is short-sighted. i think we'll see implications in north america but i think most of the energy of the groups will be against each other. >> we're so lucky to have you, phil. >

you think the ukrainians respect us or polls, saudis, bahrain. the king of bahrain was supposed to come to camp david with the president of the united states he stiffs the president and foreign ministry of bahrain issues a statement saying on that day, where was the king? at a horse show in england. now if that's a sign of respecting with we've got problems. >> and israel as well. >> that goes without -- look at egypt. where did the president of egypt go several months ago? first time in 40 years he goes to moscow looking for weapons. we had a monopoly in that area of influence p. that is not only gone and dissipated but there's been a revulsion against the united states because we have checked out under obama. and these allies have been on us for so longer finding themselves left hanging in the wind. >> now, we can see it you, me, maest factor viewers who live in new york chicago, baltimore, we can see it right before our eyes. emmanuel re-elected despite all of the dead bodies. he hasn't improved it one iota he is re-elected. president obama, e

bahrain is a close u.s. ally in the gulf, home to the u.s. navy's fifth fleet. in the central african nation of chad, attacks by suicide bombers have killed at least 27 people including four suspected fighters from the nigerian islamist group boko haram. it's believed the group may have carried out the attacks in retaliation for chad's leading role in the offensive against boko haram. it's the first attack of its kind to hit the chadian capital . the oil giant shell is on its way to the arctic but not before , a final showdown with environmental activists in kayaks. on tuesday, dozens of "kayak-tivists" were arrested after paddling up to a shell drilling rig and preventing it from leaving the port of seattle. we'll have more on the protest with one of the participants later in the broadcast. in central nicaragua, thousands of people gathered over the weekend for the latest protest against a chinese firm's construction of a canal linking the atlantic and pacific oceans. the $50 billion project will be larger than the panama canal and could displace up to 120,000

children being caught up in the yemen conflict and let's move on to leading opposition seeker in bahrain been sentenced to four years in jail. ali-salman who leads the political group charged with inciting unrest in the sunni ruled golf kingdom and guilty of seeking to over throw the monarchy and political system. a train crash in tunisia killed 60 and others injured and it collided with a truck southwest of the capitol tunis during the rush hour and he says the death toll could rise. more than 23,000 syrian refugees have fled to turkey in the past few days mostly escaping fighting between kurdish forces and i.s.i.l. u.n. says that those figures also includes more than 2000 iraqis from the cities of mosul, ramadi and fallujah. let's get more from bernard smith who is on the turkish side of the border. inter tell us more about refugees and how is turkey coping with the influx? >> well, turkey is hosting 1.7 million syrian refugees those extra 23,000 that have come in the last about within the last couple of weeks will be hosted in already existing some of the existing refugee camps but mo

. >> and >>> talk about the woman in bahrain. >> she's not engaged ever, she's a family woman, doctorn started in bahrain, there was a call for doctors down to where all the protests were taking place because people were being injured. so she went down to take place in helping people. >> let's take a look at the clip from the show. >> i will sleep with my husband and my kids in the bedrooms. there are about two dozens of masked men fully armed and they told my husband, we're here to take her. and the first two months i was in solitary confinement. i was beaten all the time kicked at spit at. after the two months i was released. >> so what happens after she's released? >> so she decides that she realizes that what happened to her was torture and all the people that she talked to about being under arrest also the same thing happened. she decides to start a program to help people come to terms with what happened and get over the psychological effects, the trauma that they had been through. so she's helping victims of torture. and very much so in a way that she feels like helping people t

. >>> four years after a deadly crack down on antigovernment protests in bahrain in place since those demonstrations, the state department said today bahrain has made enough progress on the issue of human rights abuses for security assistance to resume. officials stress though that more human rights reforms are still needed. >>> in egyptian today a road side bomb killed one of the country's most prominent jirnl figures. judicial figures. be be hisham barakat. so far no group has claimed responsibility for the attack . be al jazeera's abdullah al-shami has more on the bombing. >> this is the aftermath of the bombing that killed hisham barakat. he was killed after leaving his home on monday morning. the blast in the upscale neighborhood left a half dozen and five others were injured. be barakat was appointed to the position of jucial general in 2013. egypt's courts described by human rights groups as highly split sized and commonly used as a force of all stripes, hundreds have been extensioned to death or life imprisonment as part of a crack down on supporters of the muslim brotherhood.

according to officials in bahrain, the bomber landed in bahrain international airport first from saudig kuwait. isis claimed responsibility for the attack. >> ian lee got access inside the mosque and spoke to survivors of the attack there. we must warn you you may find some of the images in his report disturbing. >> reporter: carnage frozen in time, pieces of lives lost. an isis suicide bomber terrorizing a house of worship. >> we did not do anything to instigate this. god, we were just praying, for god's sake. >> reporter: video shows the chaos seconds after the explosion that killed at least 27 and injured more than 200. the perpetrator, named as this man, a saudi national. despite multiple arrests, many people uneasy. >> how am i supposed to convince my son, my 13-year-old son, to come to friday -- to come to the mosque next time? seriously? what guarantees do i have to give him? >> reporter: among the rubble of the mosque we find a man praying. the isis bomber killed four of his closest friends. police show where the explosion ripped through the mosque. this doctor aided the victim

as you mentioned we've seen it in bahrain. now for the first time we sigh see it in kuwait. >> would it will overly optimistic of me though to say this has turned into an hell of a warfare in the middle east? they're killing each other, they're going to have less focus on western targets in the west et cetera. >> you lived my life at the cia for 25 years. when terror leaders of organizations like al qaeda or isis in yemen or al qaeda in iraq are either focused on fighting the government for example, assad or focused on fighting each other, the likelihood they expend a lot of energy on washington new york, or europe, declines. the number of foreign fighters is so substantial that to believe that none of them will bleed out back to western europe or north america i think is shortsighted. i think we're going to see implications of this in europe and america. most of the energy of these groups is going to be against each other. >> incredibly complicated. >> it is complicated. >> so lucky to have you, phil. >>> next on gps, at the

away from its peak tourist season and the country is finding itself a hard sell as a safe tourist >> bahrain is facing growing pressure to give shia muslims a role in the muslim led country. >> team u.s.a. plays tonight. the women face major discrimination in the game the word calls football. >> the team is currently in canada playing for the fifa world cup. she and her teammate face major challenges developing their own crease. they say women's football doesn't get enough support from nigeria's football federation. >> what they give the guys, the girls are not even getting one third of it. >> she played for the national team at the world cup twice in the 1990s and has coached the under 17 national squad. >> there's a change in terms of the -- >> the biggest challenge is the lack of sponsor ship. many potential sponsors don't see the sport at profitable. >> so they don't invest and clubs have to rely heavily on private funding donors to survive. nigeria's football federation said the government needs to spend $8 million a year on the women's game, but the total national budget is less than $

. >>> officials in bahrain say this man landed at bahrain international airport first before flying to kuwait. isis has claimed responsibility for the attack. >>> captured fugitive david sweat is now in critical condition at a new york hospital. he was shot twice in the torso on sunday after being spotted near the canadian border. he had been on the run for three weeks after he and richard matt broke out of a maximum security prison. >>> back to one of our main stories this evening, the greek crisis took a dramatic downturn over the weekend when prime minister tsipras called for a referendum on the bailout. >> reporter: among antique vases, porcelain statues and paintings of old, tourists bargain for a piece of the greek past. it's a flea market full of history with tales to match it. yanis has been selling wears here for over 50 years and he never thought it would get to this. i have never seen a situation like this he says not even back in the 1960s when the country had just come out of civil war. we used to have work then. the greek public doesn't want any more adventures. we are ti

i'm wondering if you look back on the last year, you had some problems in bahrain. egypt is another issue with a close ally. i'm wondering if you can reflect on the past year and whether these political important national security relationship make it difficult for you to be able to advance human rights in the way that a human rights defender, such as yourself looks at these issues. tom malinowski: sure. these are difficult issues. and they require difficult choices. if it was easy, i wouldn't be interested in having this job. it would be really boring. even people who are deeply committed to the defense of human rights around the world often disagree about the best way to do it. as you mentioned, i have been here for one year now. i have been in all the discussions and conversations and involved in virtually all the decisions we have made on those issues. i can tell you that the objective of defending human rights that the secretary just spoke about, they are front and center in everything we had tried to do. look at how we launched our campaign against isil, by se

gcc, a political and economic union comprising of itself, qatar, oman, kuwait, and .he rain -- and bahrain saudi economy has grown 16% so far this year. it couldes to plan join the msci emerging market index as soon as 2017, accounting for 4% of the total gate. away, you get carried only institutional investors with at least 5 billion dollars under management are allowed to invest directly. onlythen, each cart holds 10% of the overall market value. moremore, you can't hold than 5% of any company and together foreign investors cannot own a majority. oil the world's largest producer needed diversify from black gold, investors >> it is 7:30 here in hong kong. monday morning, the first trading day of the week. a protest with thousands of people joining in march in hong .ong it was far short of the 50,000 particular week. we are 30 minutes away from the open of trading in australia, japan, and south korea. you are watching "first up." ♪ the top stories this hour. the euro has fallen after conversations between greece and creditors collapsed. the talks ended in no change between what creditors a

with respect to egypt in bahrain to countries in the middle of regions in turmoil or we have important interest in partnering with governments in the fight against terrorism we have still cap this issue front and center. we have not gone back to exactly the same military relationship that we had with egypt before all of this started and encouraged as you know strongly, the release of an individual and were happy to see that happen and will continue to press for the release of the other activists, opposition nonviolent activists, opposition, nonviolent opposition figures to remain in prison. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you everyone. [inaudible conversations] lecture is what is happening on c-span2. congress passed the ban after russia annexed crimea last year but now the pentagon says it needs more russian engines for a few more years. in the morning a house armed services subcommittee is holding a hearing on with the chairman says his us dependence on russian rocket engines and what we are doing to change that. [inaudible conversations] >> the

qatar's interest in hosting a race late last year when neighboring bahrain held a planned project toring f 1 race to go qatar. >>> well we spoke to simon chadwick professor of sports science. he said qatar owning formula one makes sense. >> i think it's highly likely we'll see formula one racing in qatar. they're investing heavily in sport. they've invested before and this is a growing portfolio. but qatar has a presence in sports through the international rallying in qatar and i'm sure you know people in qatar love cars and love motorsports. this is an opportunity for him to cash in his chips and walk away. it's been threatening for some time that there would be various buyouts of formula one. the other issue there have been issue about the governance of formula one. the fact that berni is set to walk away may herald in a new era. >> in sport roberto firmino. the 33-year-old becomes the most expensive player in the club's history. he has four goals in nine internationals including the winning goal on sunday. now players have been in chile for copa america. but >> ten teams from sout

one person confirmed to have mers, had recently traveled to saudi arabia, the uae, qatar and bahrain, of course this originating, this virus, disease in the middle east. why has the it taken so long for an jut break to occur? did saudi arabia, where it originated do something right in containing it? or just that new? >> no, i think -- we don't know kind of where it came from at this moment in time. what we do know is this individual did come over. has been extremely sick. which means typically are shedding a lot of the virus when they are. we know family members tend to take a lot of the nursing responsibilities over. when family members who are very inexperienced with infection control practices start treating someone who is very sick it can really lead to things that cause catastrophic outcomes like an outbreak of a dangerous disease. >> another issue we want to talk about, you have had a lot of experience with this, the anthrax, the case of shipping live anthrax within a number of states in the usa and other countries. talk to us about how that can happen and how it cannot happen a

david but the president of the united states he stiffs the president and the foreign ministry of bahraines a statement saying that on that day where was the king? at a horse show in england. physical that's a sign of respect we have got problems. >> to some extreme weather now. rain pounding down on the east coast. this morning ten states under flood warnings effecting 45 million americans. >> here in newark new jersey overflowing ponds and rivers literally sending fish swimming fish right into thestreet. >> catching them with a net there. down the coast to washington, d.c. gusting winds thunder litening pounding the area for hours a storm snapping trees and littering the roads. >> maria molina is in the weather center tracking this for us. >> incredible there would be fish on the streets out there. we have the same storm system that has been responsible for flash flooding in new jersey and other areas of the northeast still on the move. it is a very slow mover. we are seeing rain across similar areas parts of the northeast and down into the atlantic. the rainfall accumulation into later

the interest in hosting the formula 1 was highlighted when neighbouring bahrain vetoed a project to bring f1 racing to qatar. that is all the sport for now. >> thank you very much indeed. do stay with us on al jazeera. i'll be back with another full bulletin of news. >>> heritage under threat - i.s.i.l. destroys two historical shrines close do the ancient syrian city of palmyra >>> helling there, you are watching al jazeera. also ahead - anger in france after whistle blowing website wikileaks says the u.n. n.s.a. spied on the last three french presidents. >>> failing to keep everyone cool - pakistani's government leaders criticized over the heatwave which killed over 70

kuwait being one of those opinion the others being bahrain saudi where we have seen attacks on shia mosquesrror strategy against this militant group is not working. what happens next? >> well you know becky, i think we thing there is a magical wand. to really deal with this particular ideology. you cannot deal with this ideology by using over mill tarization. it's a traveling ideology. anyone whether you're talking about in tunis or lyon or even in london write hope never happens, could be inspired or motivated by ideology. you need the motivation the will and the arms. you can do a great deal of damage. yes, you're correct. this particular strategy is not working for the simple reason because you cannot deal with this particular ideology militarily. you need to mobilize civil society. you need to really bring -- construct a complex political and social strategy to deal with in ideology. take tunis. if you tell me what it needs today, it needs a complex political strategy. it doesn't have capacity. you need to help tunis to have the capacity to employ the people that are unemployed. you're

to 16. 160 south koreans have been infected linked to a man who returned from a business trip to bahrain, saudi arabia >>> the fight against ebola is far from over, according to doctors without borders. they have seen a spike in cases in guinea and sierra leone. the medical workers warning there's the potential for it to spread again. some areas declared free are inquected again. more -- n effected again. more than 15,000 have been affected >>> a city in connecticut was paid $17,000 over ebola fears saying she could not go to school because she travelled to nigeria. they have not had confirmed cases. the school wrongfully believed she was exposed to ebola >>> if you sell umbrellas, the place you may want to be is texas. >> that's right, we have a break from all the rain that we saw in may. record-blacking rain. things are about to change as we go to the next 72 hours. i want to show you hear the amount of rain could exceed anywhere between 8 and possibly even 10 inches of rain. we are talking about houston, as well as areas south of dallas and into the central parts. same areas that saw

qatar's interest in hosting an f1 race were highlighted last lately year when neighboring bahrain vetoed a planned project to bring f1 racing to qatar. >> to the fifa women's world cup now where japan's coach apologized to team fans for a stressful experience after the defending champions nail biting victory over the netherlands which saw them into the quarter finals. scored late in the second half to put japan 2-0 up. in stoppage time, kirstin pulled the goal back for the dutch and in three minutes offed ad time, they kept japan's keeper on her toes. japan holding on to win 2-1 to go through to the last eight. netherlands missed the chance to qualify automatically for next year's rio olympics but could make it through with the european playoffs. >> the finals on friday with germany against france inmont team before china face the u.s.a. japan take on australia. the final game in the quarter finals will see england take on canada in vancouver. >> the first of the quarter finals kick off in chile wednesday. the european star player could miss the match. his father was involved in a fatal

but there's more freedom of press in iran than in other allied countries such as bahrain or even qatar and places like that. there is more freedom for the press to criticize the government. and there are certain red lines that cannot be crossed by the media. but you have a system that seems complicated and i think president obama realized. now, the supreme leader being supreme generally doesn't talk to anybody. and he has not left iran since he became president in 1989. since he became supreme leader. sorry. he was president before. one time he was a president. since 1989 he has not left iran. he thinks being the supreme leader, that people have to come to him. and there's actually a book out right now by a couple of ex-u.s. intelligence people who are suggesting that's exactly what obama should do. is actually go to tehran. they titled the book with the "going to tehran." so he doesn't ordinarily meet with people. he doesn't meet with foreign politicians. he does occasionally meet with heads of state from muslim countries or african countries developing countries who com to tehran. he

we saw a similar graph in to nietzsche, bahrain, syria and egypt. you actually noticed the first budget is not the arab spring. the first budget is this making wheat prices in 2008-2009. when we come around the arab spring egyptians are registering something is going very wrong in their world their economy, their expectations but not a lot of people were picking up on it. to show you is that it is not just the middle east phenomenon, several high hitting countries in terms of instability throughout the region and what we saw look at ukraine at that at atlantic council, gdp per capita in ukraine, look how ukrainians had been raiding their lives. so you see there is certainly something there. i am not claiming this is a predictor for instability or that there is any causal relationship between stability or the variables just the something is going on and there are a lot more metrics we have learned to follow very closely beyond top line gdp or other rankings we're used to. to give you a positive example on the positive side, columbia, the desired outc

a vehicle containing explosives in may was seized after it was driven across the road linking bahrain to saudi arabia >>> a proposal that would have given voters in hong kong an opportunity to elect a leader in 2017 has been rejected. they would have been restricted to picking candidates approved by beijing. many call it undemocratic. china reacted with did not. adrian brown is in hong kong. >> the clean-up is beginning outside the legislative assembly. the numbers of protesters are thinning out. it's been a good day for the pro-democracy groups. they ensured a government proposal to broaden democratic reform in hong kong would not and has not passed. in a sense, it's an irony having democrats spending their lives and careers calling for democracy, voting down a proposal to do that. they had to because what was offered was, in a sense, a fake democracy. it ended quickly and chaotically. i think the pro-government parties realized that the vote would be a formality. they knew they didn't have the numbers, they knew they'd lose and walked out of the chamber before the vote. ensuring tha

in 2011, revolution spreads through the arab world from bahrain to algeria to yemen.anding next in a very unlikely place, libya. citizens there live under one of the longest-ruling dictators in the world, colonel moammar gadhafi, who's held power for 42 years. >> libya was one of those countries people never imagined it would see the revolution spread to. because gadhafi was so in control. but i'm a revolution junkie, and it succeeded in tunisia. it succeeded in egypt. i wanted it to succeed everywhere. >> for decades gadhafi was one of the world's most eccentric leaders, known for his flamboyant outfits and his all-female bodyguards. but he was also an open supporter of international terrorism, with links to the lockerbie bombers, the i.r.a., and other militant groups. >> he kept libya under very, very tight wraps. he would disappear people. there was no freedom of any kind. massacres in prison. so he was a horrendous, horrible, brutal dictator. >> anyone who spoke out against him at all would be arrested immediately, sometimes tortured, sometimes killed. >> tracy sh

think that could be further from the truth, especially when you look at, for example, the king of bahrainping this most recent meeting he set up to go to a horse show. this is the country that hosts our fifth fleet. tony. >> saudis going to moscow for help and not washington, d.c. if you look at the entire middle east, all of our friends don't think we're on our side and all of our friends think we have serious vulnerabilities because this president has not been able to negotiate and leverage american power where other presidents have. look at the end of george w. bush administration, albeit much more engagement in iraq and afghanistan we had much better security and global security. we understood our role in the world. we were not afraid of using our power. but now we are and. the president is making this dubious claims as part after legacy project. he wants to remember the guy creating a kumbayah moment for the united states. mean while he has not solved any of our world problems. melissa: ambassador bolton, the point in all seriousness he is trying to make, we're working in our partner

the problems in kuwait problems in bahrain, these are very real. the failure of nicheinitiatives to bring the gulf cooperation counsel together into an effective security body to deal with these issues initiatives that king abdulla took, these are continued. now, i've been listening to good ideas raised since the early 1980s. and to the extent i've seen efforts in integration that went into the security structure, they've largely been a technocratic failure and a waste of money. some extraordinarily expensive in character. so, the problem for the saudi leadership is a lot broader and we keep talking about u.s. saudi tensions. but the tensions locally are bad enough. one area where i see an operation is is dealing with the syrian opposition and i hope that continues, but it's still now a high risk because you're talking, so, exactly, what is the relationship between saudi arabia and syria or iraq and lebanon? not as soon as we can ignore safely the palestinian and israeli issues, which don't lead me to that conclusion. so, i get worried about the id

puppet state in iran way they have been able to do in lebanon through hezbollah and trying to do in bahrainyria. >> kind of their own caliphate. >> they definitely want to be regional dominant player. no doubt about it. >> something you know a lot about immigration crisis and stunning number of dangerous illegal immigrants with criminal records sprung loose on to american streets. get this homeland security reportedly could have kept most of them detained but chose to release them. how does that happen? what can be done to fix this? ♪ >> this is what we told you we would be watching for and awaiting today. the announcement from former texas governor rick perry that he is getting in and expected to launch his 2016 presidential campaign any minute. this is at the airport in addison, texas. we'll watch this and bring you that when the former governor actually steps to the lecturn there. meanwhile one of the big issues no doubt facing former texas governor and all of the candidates is illegal immigration. this nation needs to deal with people coming across our borders illegally as well as figur

i don't know if you remember -- they went to bahrain.ifficult to imagine how formula one would get organized though some might disagree without bernie. has been the alpha and omega of formula one from the beginning. the idea is that in an operational sense, he would stay there as long as he wants. anna: thank you very much. ryan chilcote with the formula one story. sticking with the theme of autos and bringing in philippe. you heard him running through the headlines as it unfolds. . phillippe: it is sort of underdeveloped in america, and it is very important and it hasn't developed the u.s. angle. anna: would oppose a significant growth opportunities? philippe: there are a number of places where it could take place. anna: on a different note, we were going to talk to you this morning about a new release from alfa romeo. you say expectations are quite low -- ways that? philippe: we have thought of turning it around and it has been disappointing. the technical choices made behind the cars in the past were a bit of a veneer and the quality

we saw a similar graph in bahrain, tunisia, and here in egypt.st dip is the spike in wheat prices. when we come around the arab spring, egyptians are already read it -- registering that something is going very wrong in their world. not a lot of people were picking up on it. just to show you that it is not just a middle east phenomenon. i mentioned several of the high heating countries in terms of instability throughout the region. let's look at ukraine. gdp per capita in ukraine, let's look at how ukrainians have been rating their lives. there is certainly something there. i need to be clear. i am not claiming that this is a predictor for ability or any causal relationship between stability of these variables or the valuables -- variables in each other. i'm just saying there is something going on. to give you a positive example, here is columbia -- colombia. this is the desired outcome for many countries i think. just for context, and he did leading up to 2011, the only people whose lives -- life evaluation were thriving were in the top 10 percen

the political and ethanol get -- economic union with kuwait and bahrain, not only the biggest it is also fastest growing. the economy has grown a 16% so far this year, so if all goes to plan, it could join the emerging market index as soon as 2017 accounting for 4% of the total, but before you get carried away only institutional investors with at least $5 billion under management are allowed to invest directly and even then, each cannot hold more than 10% of the overall market value. what is more calm you cannot hold more than 5% of any company, and together, foreign investors cannot own a majority but with a rolled largest oil producer eager to diverse, they can try their luck trading in the kingdom. anna: now, later, mark barton will be joining us live from dubai for a special edition of bloomberg agenda, focusing in on the middle east and the opening of the saudi stock market. that will be at 11:00 london time. 2:00 if you are watching in dubai. and coming up later on the pulse, we will be speaking to the ceo of the saudi stock exchange. don't miss that interview. that will be at 10:1

they have withheld e military equipment from egypt, bahrain, and qatar, while asking them to join in the fight against isis. they have criticized saub for acting in yemen while providing the saudis military assistance for the same operations. there is a lot of cross currents here that are difficult for some of us to string together. in iraq, iraqi leaders are increasingly turning to iranian backed militias in the fight against isis. and perhaps most tragically in syria thousands continue to die at the hands of assad and his iranian backers while the administration implements a strategy consisting of the ineffective use of military force to be used only against isis itself. and i think you may have seen a communique that came from one of the leaders of the syrian opposition where they were asked to sign a statement saying they would only -- they're being trained and equipped by the united states but they can only use that potential against isis and not against assad. i know they sent out a communication saying that they were going to stop the training and not participate. i understand

destruction of israel and asked them to strike isis and syria and withheld military equipment to egypt, bahrain and qatar and criticized saudi arabia and providing them military assistance for the same operation so there is a lot of cross currents here that are difficult for some of us to string together. in iraq, leaders are turning to iranian backed militias in the fight against isis and in syria, thousands continue to die at the hand of assad and his backers while the striegs implements a strategy consisting of the ineffective use of milt force to be used only against isis itself and i think you saw a communication that came from one of the leaders of the syrian opposition where they were saying they are being trained and equipped by the united states but can only use that potential against isis and not against assad. i know they sent out a communication saying they were going to stop the training and not participate and that is a negotiating point but somewhat alarming. as iran deepers the influence from baghdad to dam as cass and beirut to sannia, the perspective is that the air force in i

but there's more freedom of press in iran than in other allied countries such as bahrain or even qatar and places like that. there is more freedom for the press to criticize the government. and there are certain red lines that cannot be crossed by the media. but you have a system that seems complicated and i think president obama realized. the supreme leader being supreme generally doesn't talk to anybody. and he has not left iran since he became president in 1989. since he became supreme leader. sorry. he was president before. one time he was a president. since 1989 he has not left iran. he thinks being the supreme leader, that people have to come to him. and there's actually a book out right now by a couple of ex-u.s. intelligence people who are suggesting that's exactly what obama should do. is actually go to tehran. they titled the book with the"going to tehran." so he doesn't ordinarily meet with people. he doesn't meet with foreign politicians. he does occasionally meet with heads of state from muslim countries or african countries developing countries who come to tehran. he will

nuclear agreement, so for deeper insight into the complicated web, we turn to former ambassador to bahrainairaline. mr. ambassador appreciate you joining us here. trying to figure out all of this could take a few hours, maybe a few days to put it in perspective. but help us understand broad picture, why does yemen matter to america? >> let's start with geography. as you know yemen is at the strait of hormuz -- sorry, the baba mendez. so every ship that goes through the suez canal also goes through a narrow sea lane of about 50 miles or less between egypt and yemen. that is a choke point for international commerce that's number one. number two, think of it like the united states and mexico saudi arabia and yemen have a 1,000-mile border. >> we get a lot of oil from saudi arabia. >> well the entire security of the gulf depends on saudi arabia. it's the largest country in terms of geography, it's the richest country, and it's the most populous country. so if the united states had a civil war in a country on its southern border in mexico and mexicans were attacking the united states we'd be pr

we saw this almost similar graph in tunisia, in bahrain, in syria, and of course here in egypt.actually notice that the first dip is not the arab spring the first dip is what? a spike in wheat prices in 2008-2009. so when we come around the arab spring egyptians are already registering that something is going very wrong in their world on their economy, on their expectations. but not a lot of people were picking up on it. just to show you that it's not just the middle east phenomenon, so i mentioned sort of several of the high-hitting countries in terms of instability throughout the region and what we saw. let's look at ukraine. i thought this would be particularly interesting because we're of course at the atlantic council. gdp per capita in ukraine. let's look at how cranians have been rating their lives. so you see that there is certainly something there. now, i need to be very clear. i'm not claiming this is a predictor for instability and i'm not claiming there is any cause sal relationship between the variables, we're just saying something is going on. and there are a lot m

but there's more freedom of press in iran than in other allied countries such as bahrain or even qatar and places like that. there is more freedom for the press to criticize the government. and there are certain red lines that cannot be crossed by the media. but you have a system that seems complicated and i think president obama realized. now, the supreme leader being supreme generally doesn't talk to anybody. and he has not left iran since he became president in 1989. since he became supreme leader. sorry. he was president before. one time he was a president. since 1989 he has not left iran. he thinks being the supreme leader, that people have to come to him. and there's actually a book out right now by a couple of ex-u.s. intelligence people who are suggesting that's exactly what obama should do. is actually go to tehran. they titled the book with the "going to tehran." so he doesn't ordinarily meet with people. he doesn't meet with foreign politicians. he does occasionally meet with heads of state from muslim countries or african countries developing countries who com to tehran. he

the king of bahrain was supposed to come to the summit at camp david.e stiffs the president and the foreign ministry issued a statement that on that day where was the king? at a horse show in england. if that's a sign of respect we have problems. >> absolutely. it comes down to our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us. >> do you blame them? >> no, absolutely not. >> given the circumstances and lack of leadership, it is no surprise. >> as we toss to heather. today i won't have any awkward tosses. >> he's been practicing. >> this is -- >> this is awkward right now. >> hopefully it will be better when i say this. i always typical of the president's marks he has to take america down a peg. it's important to notice america -- important for america to realize it's not perfect either. you tell us every day we're not perfect. do you have to tell the whole world that you think that we know we're not perfect. >> we got the memo we signed for the package. >> talk about perfect, here is heather nauert. she is perfect just the way you are. >>

had the honor to be able to negotiate agreements with various countries and one was oman, one was bahrain one was saudi arabia. in all three cases we were able to make great progress in that case of boy -- boycotts of israel by telling those countries if you want to do business request -- with the united states and have a free trade agreement with us, then you've got to treat all nations favorably. you treat countries fairly and don't discriminate. initially, they would say no, gosh politically that's too hard for us but after discussions and with the united states standing tall with israel, we were able to succeed in all three agreements. so i know it works. i've seen it. and, again that's in the legislation that was passed today here on the floor of this senate. i'm proud of us because we're actually doing some of this work on a bipartisan basis to help our country to help our workers to help our service providers, our farmers but also to ensure that these rules of trade are fair globally. finally, mr. president, i will say that we're not done. there is another bill that we were told wo

pro-iranian militant groups and other malign activities in places such as iraq, syria lebanon, gaza, bahrain and yemen. yemen has collapsed as a shia insurgency with ties to the iranian regime has toppled the u.s.-backed government in sanaa. al qaeda continues to use parts of the country to plan attacks against the west, the u.s. embassy has been evacuated and a u.s.-backed coalition of arab nations has intervened militarily to -- militarily to reverse the gains of the huthi insurgency. libya has become a failed state. beset by civil war and a growing presence of transnational terrorist groups, such as al qaeda and isil, similar to afghanistan in 2001. in asia, north korea continues to develop its nuclear arsenal and ever more capable ballistic missiles and late last year it committed the most destructive cyber attack ever on u.s. territory. china is increasingly taking coercive actions to assert expansive territorial claims that unilaterally change the status quo in the south and east china seas and raise tends with u.s. allies and partners all the while continuing to expand and modernize i

they have withheld military equipment from egypt, bahrain and qatar while asking them to join in the fight against basis. they have criticized saudi arabia for acting in yemen while providing the saudis military assistance for the same operation. so there's a lot of cross currents that are difficult for some of us to string together. in iraq regulars are increasingly turning to iranian backed militias and the fight against isis. and perhaps most tragically inserted, thousands of syrians continue to die at the hands of assad and his iranian backers wanted administration implements a strategy consisting of the ineffective use of military force to be used only against isis itself. i think you may have seen a communiquÉ that came from one of the leaders of the syrian opposition whether asked to sign a statement saying they would only, they're being trained and equipped by the united states but they can only use that potential against isis and not against assad. under they sent out a communications center going to stop the train and operatives they. understand sometimes that's negotiating