abdulla al-khalifa have you ever been to uae or bahrain? >> i've extended an invitation.ant to pick up on something that was said. if you look at who supported the abraham accords and who posted it does a lot about where the region is. the only states in the r region that oppose it was iraq and it's obvious why because we are all their enemies. or they regard us as their enemies.or the palestinian authority supposed in the reason was they saw that they had power over israel's relationship with an arab state andra the courage of the leaders of both uae and bahrain is about telling the palestinians you don't have that veto power over progress in the region and that was very important. another power with turkey remarkably opposed them and threatened and maybe you set can speak to this they threaten to remove their ambassador from the emirates over this accord. david you might know this i'm sure you do they had diplomatic relations for 70 or so they had an embassy in israel and we have an embassy in turkey yet they were threatening that they were going to recall their ambassa

exoplanets that are out there those are fun to think about but but there's there's what kind of world abdulla have the power to create for ourselves. what kind of world are we not to what are the risks but i'm not but what are the risks by taking this path instead of that path into our future are we to shepherds of the of of the planet that we need to be so that our descendants will be proud of us rather than embarrassed by what we have done to this world so it's optimistic and do you know and think pandemic so and the microbial resistance will finish yet as a species. yeah. i hope not a virus is not going to render a 60 but you would hope that pandemics force us to that we pass through some kind of portal and we look around and say we're now on the other side of the gate and that was a tough gate to pass through that do we have the right research going into anti-viral . research programs do we have it for cancers for for the pestilence for all these things that the that pandemic is forcing us to rethink do we have the wisdom to actually rethink things so that we come out the other side a bet

ali abdulla lives in baghdad. >> (anslated ): they claim that they have democracy for their own people but it's only a theater. it doesn't exist. esey try to show a false image about arab countsaying that we are disorganized. look at them! chifrin: in the end, u.s democracy was delayed, not denied. the world will soon have a new american president.am buica at itsest has always been a beacon on the hill. and for allies and adversaries, that light, has been dimmed. for the pbs newshourm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, publisher simon and the virus killed nearly 4,000 people nationwide on wednesday.i rnia had more than 1,000 deaths over 48 hours.em overall, dr was the deadliest month yet, and health officials warn at january could be worse still. president-elect joe biden formally introduced his pick for attorney general today. federal president-elect joe biden introduced his pick for attorney general: federal appeals court judge merrick garland. the judge promised to restore integrity to the department after the turbulent trump years. mr. biden vowed his attorney gen

our first is ambassador, his excellency abdulla al-khalifa who is the ambassador from bahrain, the kingdom of bahrain andhe has been the ambassador here since 2017 . then yousef al otaiba, ambassador his excellency yousef al otaiba, he's been ambassador since 2000 and one longest-serving ambassadors now in washington dc also ambassador from israel, the ambassador from israel, ron dermer who's been here since 2013 so welcome all three of you. i'm going to have an interesting conversation with you in a moment and let me make a few preliminary announcements. i like to recognize our sponsors, title sponsor of bank of america , oularry, thank you for doing that. emerging leaders sponsors pwc terry clements, senior partner of pwc i like to thank her for her leadership in that effort and siemens usa barbara this ceo, thank you again bank of america. our corporate partners are on the screen and you can see them thank you for all the corporate partners . two events i would to announce coming up, later this week we have the ceo of johnson and johnson alex gorski to hear about covid vaccines and othe