saudi arabia, being a big, importing country, and the only major arab state still standing, saudi arabiaill be a big part of that regional coalition. host: aside from the obvious oil reserves, what does saudi arabia offer the united states, versus other arab countries in the region? guest: in the abstract, it is the energy issue. saudi arabia has the postage. the saudi king is the custodian of islam's two holiest places. when president biden entered the oval office and surveyed the region, the middle east out the time, he would have found that egypt had turned inward. iraq still suffering after the american invasion almost 2 decades ago. united arab emirates are a very small country. jordan, also very couple, but small -- capable, but small. saudi arabia is the only interlocutor for the united states when it comes to issues of whether it's oil security, geopolitical issues, and and lansing american interests. -- and advancing american interests. host: what is happening with the war in yemen and american weapons sales? guest: the war is complicated. when saudi arabia intervened in yemen,

as need for oil from saudi arabia. now the u. s. is a major producer itself, but still that saudi oil is very important to the u. s. economy. and president fighter knows that at some stage he is going to have to reset that relationship with the saudi arabia to improve it in some way, given that it has been pretty bad between his administration and the saudi authorities, particularly as president biden has avoided having anything to do with the crown prince, rather doing any negotiations or discussing through king solomon. so the situation is that it does appear now that president biden as recognised a reality, or whose as is people with members, as ministrations, has persuaded him that. so he will go to saudi arabia. he will in all likelihood, meet the crown prince. but in addition, he's going to make it into a middle eastern trip. it won't just be a saudi trip. that will be a visit to israel, perhaps some other countries within the middle east, but very much a dilemma for president biden, wanting to insure a flow of oil into the un

golf gets shaken up as a rival competition backed by saudi arabia.et us turn to ukraine.o -z- you may have seen this picture of 16-year-old valerie and her prom dress next to her bombed out school. students in her class were determined to go ahead with graduation. valeriepoke to the bbc earlier. >> i wanted the whole world to pay attention that our country and my hometown is goingn.now the building where civilians live are it was the idea of my classmates and leave ukrainian military helped us to do this. as for the photograph of me, i wondered to show the contest between my school and me situaty country. >> this is outside source. our top story -- russia denying that its invasion has caused a crisis. it'foreign minister in turkey to discuss a proposed sea corridor to move ukrainian grain.lf undergoing a shakeup 'n' to millions of dollars from saudi arabia. the first live eve start here in u. on thursday. it is controversi for a number of reasons. ros: thank golf tournament funded by saudi arabia is asking how the sport is run and what if anything, t

saudi arabia, being a big, importing country, and the only major arab state still standing, saudi arabia will be a big part of that regional coalition. host: aside from the obvious oil reserves, what does saudi arabia offer the united states, versus other arab countries in the region? guest: in the abstract, it is the energy issue. saudi arabia has the postage. the saudi king is the custodian of islam's two holiest places. when president biden entered the oval office and surveyed the region, the middle east out the time, he would have found that egypt had turned inward. iraq still suffering after the american invasion almost 2 decades ago. united arab emirates are a very small country. jordan, also very couple, but small -- capable, but small. saudi arabia is the only interlocutor for the united states when it comes to issues of whether it's oil security, geopolitical issues, and and lansing american interests. -- and advancing american interests. host: what is happening with the war in yemen and american weapons sales? guest: the war is complicated. when saudi arabia intervened in yemen

he wants vows to make saudi arabia a pariah state. after the murder of journalist john casualty, i'm not going to be with them. yes, i'm going to do is actually, if you're going to be part of it, that's like there were people part of the stuff in the day. let's talk about the strip of gregory galaxies, department headed professor of international affairs at texas a and m university. he's joining us vice guy from college station that's also in texas. welcome to al jazeera sir. why do you think that the president is downplaying his upcoming trip to saudi arabia? i think that he's climbing down from some, a pretty tough campaign. rhetoric, calling for the ground friends for saying he was going to isolate him. and you know, the fact is that he's going to be in the same room with them. and i'm not sure why he'd be going to saudi arabia except to talk to him. but obviously he's got, he's got to work the domestic side of this and, and, and back away from some very strong language he used during the campaign. right. and what do you think the

arabia for a favor.pace there's also a china policy has been incredibly soft. tcp what is her things on by the administration i gave it to them. china initiatives for they want to take paris out there obviously bending to them in terms of investing a chinese company with the ccp as well. >> yes the chinese have been pretty clear their own internal communications they think they have the united states over a barrel. because of inflation come because the bad economy because of stock shortages in the grocery stores in the department stores with each icing thing kinda get with anything they want right now. and present biden will lift the sanctions no matter what because once looked like he is doing something but i think in both of these cases whether it's in the saudi's or whether it is with the chinese or even with the russians i think present biden's always looking for scapegoats. with this set is left to go to saudi arabia doesn't quite get what he wants and he can say i tried. it's the saudi's fault it i

>> if he goes saudi arabia and doesn't meet with the crown prince, it is a failure. the crown prince rules that country. king salman is not running the country. he's aged, he's indiindissupose. they can dress this up as much as they like. because biden painted himself into a corner with the pariah statement, but the rude fact is that oil prices are high, he's going to the world's largest oil producer, he needs them to open the taps and there is only one man who can do that, crown prince mohammad. >> pariah states don't get foreign visits. with oil prices rising, one of the open questions has been will opec and saudi in particular either increase its production or can it alleviate some oil prices by redirecting its assets. they refuse to do so. and some people think that's because of political concerns. not only biden's criticism of mbs, but the trump administration's previous refusal to ever criticize the saudi government, particularly in the wake of khashoggi. that seems to be getting press over those campaign promises. >> and they have announced, opec plus announce

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ambassador to saudi arabia, he is the author of desert diplomat, inside saudi arabia following 9/11.with me. let's start here, you support the president's trip to saudi arabia. why? >> diplomacy is always a good thing, victor. this is a situation that has gotten almost out of hand. we are almost ships passing in the night here at a time when the world needs a steady hand, a calm hand to assess where our interests lie and where they don't. we're not going to agree with the saudis. doesn't mean we shouldn't talk to them. but there are so many opportunities that we have right now. look at the abraham accords where the united arab emirates and others have joined in recognizing israel. the saudis, i think, are on the verge of this. diplomacy is the only way we're going to get over the finish line. this is something that's very much in the secure interest of israel and also in the interest of the united states. >> you know, of course, a lot of the controversy about this trip is about the president when he was a candidate said that he would make saudi arabia a pariah after the u.s. intel co

biden and the royal family in saudi arabia step senior economist at wells fargo. me talk about fully employed america. which america is fully employed? >> when you look at what part of america's fully employed, the job demand we are seeing is brought based. we see it across various sectors whether is the professional services and in terms of some of the lower paying service sectors where we have seen the hours got an overall, we look at the unemployment rate which is broader and includes those part-time time for economic reasons. that is near record lows as well so by and large, i think you are seeing a tight labor market right now. tom: i'm getting told by people that the chairman of the reserve once the unemployment rate to go up. who in america should lose their job so the unemployment rate goes up? >> that's why it's politically sensitive and wife fed officials will never out and say it. they do need the labor market to cool and that will probably cool the unemployment rate and cool some of the inflation pressures. we will get an update on labor service trends

karen, what does saudi arabia get out of this? is it a sound investment or just a vanity project of the conference? i think saudi arabia would say that they're getting something completely different in the sense that the country wants greater exposure. it wants to present itself as an alternative to the likes of hire and do buy as a tourism center. it also wants to become a hub in respect to worlds for. so we've seen attempts in respect of big, big for me to one tournament is taking place. we've had tennis, we've had even the spanish through pick up and boxing match is taking place in saudi. and it has the benefit to being able to pay the top dollar to attract those people. so saudi arabia would claim that it's not a fantasy project. and the critics would say that it's purely being motivated by money. and also accusations in respect to sports, watching how risky is this venture? we saw a recent, i've started league and football cause problems in that sport. well, i don't think that will be a problem for the, the participants. they

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this isn't even the 1st time that this has been alleged against saudi arabia recently. actually bought new castle, united to premier full club at the end of 2021 invested heavily in new coaches and new players. a lot of people saying, hey, this is a smokescreen, especially given the numerous human rights violations allegations against that going on in the country chief among which was the murder of jamal shogi in 2021. so people are saying that this is a smokescreen essentially. okay, well, okay, talking smokescreen here. i mean, also sounds like it's potentially quite risky. i mean, i have to think of the european super league and how that went down is that maybe possible here as well, was 1st, is worth putting out your european simply failed because of a backlash of fans. they said hey, tradition and integrity of our school is being taken away here. so they put stopped with, well, this hasn't happened with live. they actually had their 1st invitational last week with a whopping $4000000.00 purse one by the victor. they're the pga of come out saying that they're bannin

relationship with saudi arabia.m the 2018 murder of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. this after then candidate biden campaigned on being tough on saudi arabia. listen. >> we were going to in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact the pariah that they are. there's very little social redeeming value in the present government in saudi arabia. >> let's bring in cnn's natasha bertrand. is this really just about convincing saudi arabia to lower global oil prices? >> well, pam, oil is not the only thing at issue here, but there's no denying that it is one of the key driving factors of the administration's desire to have this reset with saudi arabia. especially amid the kind of global glut of oil that we have been experiencing after so many countries have tried to cut off russia's exports of oil to the rest of the world. so this is obviously a key priority for the biden administration and something that biden advisers have said openly, energy secretary jennifer granholm was on cnn earlier this week a

so saudi arabia is a major partner, it's a very, it's office, very many a critic deal, a, it opens up new markets. and of course there's always that argument that because between 2 major missing countries, cooperation is always possible and you can always move on. and i think that that argument for both opinions from both countries is one that they will capitalize on and work on in order to move the relations in a new direction and in a more positive direction. obviously, given the, the economy climate at the moment, just to expand on something you said earlier, saudi officials say the visits goal is to coordinate views in the region. but to those 3 countries ahead of jo biden's visit to saudi arabian next month. why do you think we're seeing such an initiative coming from re out well, i think, 1st and foremost, given the, at the state of the energy market. i think many of the major oil producers in saudi arabia is obviously one of the biggest in actually the, the shift there is a shift in around the negotiating table. countries such as saudi arabia, how far more leverage, given the p

campaigned will hold saudi arabia accountable. biden is going to saudi arabia in july.nd more like trump. he has got to talk to him. the media was silent over that when they a attacked trump over that. >> it's a different world. the reason president is talking to saudi arabia despite what they tell you is all about oil. liz, you and i know president biden is in a fight for his political life. he knows the reason his approval ratings are so bad because gasoline prices are so high. the american public blames him and rightly so because they know his energy policies, this green energy transition are why as high as they are. not just saudi arabia, liz. they're reaching out to iran again believe it or not. the state department today came out and said you know what? we might be able to get a deal with iran. get rid of extraneous issues. maybe get a deal there. they have released oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. they are doing everything about it. elizabeth: the white house is downplaying the president's trip to saudi arabia claiming it is not about oil and gas. watch

take good to see you at turkey, doesn't exactly have the friendliest of relations with saudi arabia, neither of those egypt or jordan. so what is the crime prince thinking here on is the time you coincidence ahead of that coming meeting with joe biden. the line is very bad, but roughly speaking i think m b s as he is known, is actually seeing that there is a great shift regional shift, mainly due to the war between russia and ukraine. and i think the, the impact that it's had on energy market for a country such as saudi arabia means that it has to review its entire strategy, its entire foreign policy. in particular, as it has failed to be on the right side of this political spectrum over the past 10 years, in particular, on the case of syria. now syria has been a major. i saw point for the region because obviously all countries regionally scored badly on that mainly turkey. everyone assumed that asset with, for everyone assumed syria would collapse. and all the predatory countries would come in and sort of collect the scores that hasn't happened. and so many countries, many arab coun

and in order also to have so much trip to saudi arabia. and now as we can see, americans aren't supporting disorders again in this war. and they asked us to for a cease fire. so my opinion that the saudis will try to diversify do strategic partnerships between the americans and the, and the russians in disregard. yeah, i don't think what a difference a year or 2 next, because as you've been going through, mister biden had vowed to make the kingdom pariah. but now he's praising ria, he's initiating talk. heidi rates, jewel biden's chances of success to work with these talks. actually, joe biden is going to saudi arabia to persuade mohammed ben solomon in terms of the war on, in ukraine, the political position of, sorry to be and also to you to increase the production of the oil. i think he has a little chance to pursue it. has been said, man, in terms of increasing the oil production in a dramatic way that i can the prices go back to the know to, to 50 or $70.00, right. in my opinion, the sororities and the mirror is in particular, they are

we currently have a report suggesting saudi arabia may well increase production.is ahead of today's opec meeting. they grapple with how much russian crude may disappear as a result of sanctions. there we go. oil very much at the floor. we've got oil derivatives in the mix. >> the ones that go into the cars. we have a metric which mazars -- measures the average. i don't really need to tell you that it's quite high right now when you look at gas prices in the u.s.. which takes you into inventories heading into the busiest part, driving season. that's where we are, the orange line. five-year average. that's the range. extremely statistically outlier, 2022 is. it doesn't seem we will get the inventory. that's when you see inventory. the world needs more oil. do we get it? >> that's why you have the u.s. speaking with saudi arabia. a way of taming inflation to try to get this saudi's to pump more. let's bring in our oils market reporter on the drop that we are seeing in oil. do you see the saudi's dipping into their spare capacity enough to make up for those lost barre

my question is, what does saudi arabia want?rom the u.s. >> remember that saudi arabia has been treated by this administration or at least they've felt treated by this administration as if they are what president biden labeled them on the rye, pariah. the united states seems to be running headlong into trying to restart a relationship with iran, which the saudis see as the major miscreant in their region. so i think the saudis would definitely like the reset to involve the united states being much more committed to limiting iranian ambitions in the region, but i think basically the saudis want to, as much of a reset with this relationship as the americans do, and they want the u.s. to talk about saudi arabia as an ally and to deepen the ties with that country. >> and finally, can the saudis deliver on what biden wants? can they pump out what's called the largest producer in the world and opportunity to production? >> he has better access to economic advisers than i do but the fact of the matter is there are a lot of reasons why

weapons-backed saudi arabia bombing of yemen?st to be clear, the lawsuit is a lawsuit that dawn is brought in its own capacity and jamaal's fiancÉ is a coplaintiff. we are joining together in this lawsuit will stop we know mohammed bin salman has demanded the biden administration interfere in our lawsuit to grant immunity. that is not going happen. it is not happen so far but if he since to become king, he will have sovereign immunity. the other lawsuit will remain and we are waiting for a verdict on the court for the motion to dismiss our lawsui we intend to prevail and hope we will prevail. today we will be commemorating the murder of jamaal khashoggi by mohammed bin salman by unveiling a new street side and front of the saudi industry at 1:00 p.m. i think that is the most important active accountability at exists to date a permanent street side in front of the saudi embassy reminding the whole world of who was responsible for ts heinous crime. that's face it, this is a face-saving exit for their futile war that is caused nothi

the de facto leader of saudi arabia should be isolated. some of the things he pointed to where it's human rights record, the continuing warren yemen, and the brutal killing of jamal for should you, which you'll remember, the c i a and other intelligence services said it was ordered by mohammed bin salman. but the real politic of the situation is that with oil prices rising and the cost of filling up a car here in the united states, jewel biden's political fortunes really hung on what saudi arabia was doing with oil. and they wanted to make sure that because of the. busy war in ukraine, that saudi arabia would produce more oil. but over the last few weeks, the saudis have refused to take the calls from joe biden to argue them to produce more oil. busy so what happened was, there was some diplomatic, it moves with people leaving from here in washington, going to saudi arabia, talking about the potential of a meeting. because these things don't just happened to leaders get together. and then the unknown something and all that is planned very

i wouldn't do business with saudi arabia. the cia concluded that he made that order. is joe going to bring this up as he's on his hands and knees begging saudi arabia to produce more oil because he won't do it domestically? >> sean, i don't know if he's going to bring it up. the remarks he made were foolish and i think absolutely naive. they have been an important security partner for the united states of america. they have delivered good outcomes for us. the murder of jamal khashoggi was something the trump administration dealt with, we sanctioned a dozen plus officials from the kingdom. they have been someone who supported our efforts to build the abraham accords, the historic piece arrangements between the united states and israel. the president is going to go there. i hope you'll use it as a opportunity to build out peace and civility and reduce the risk that we ever have to send americans to fight in those places. the history too many times, we ought to get this right, ought to get this relationship right, it's important we work on human rights. this is important

everything coming out from saudi arabia and also the e.u.a.gested they weren't returning, they were going to very much stick with their plan to only gradually increase production. whenever they were asked about russia they said russia's infleution in opec plus was absolutely vital for their interests and -- but something seems to have changed in the past few days or the past week and it seems as if based on that f.t. report and an earlier one from wawj and what bloomberg is reporting this morning about joe biden likely heading to riyadh late they are month it seems the americans are making progress on convincing the saudis to do something on production. dani: what sort of political hurdles would be needed to overcome in order for bide ton be able to go to the saudis and have this materialize, more oil being put on the parkt? paul: this is a fascinating question. there's probably quite a lot that needs to be done. one thing the saudis and emiratis have been telling americans for a while now is they want some kind of security guarantee or at lea

back to your question earlier ab saudi arabia.e with a country is not a bad thing. you find ways to engage. that's a different proposal than them going to a summit that's designed for democracies. if this was a prison, we'd focus on democracies and the challenges that democracies in the region are facing. >> let's go to a democracy that has been a merging democracy which has been under threat. of course, that is ukraine. the war there ongoing. under threat by the russians and a food crisis is happening, soaring energy prices. has russia's unprovoked war weaponized putin energy? >> mr. putin weaponized food. we are working hard in the national community in the u.n. to find ways to get that grain out there and on the market where it belongs. but this is another example of the brutality with which mr. putin is prosecuting this war. he is finding a way to weaponize grain shipment. >> what is your concern about the feelings here in the u.s.? >> we understand this is going to have a global impanel. it's going to have an impact on the eu

my question to you is what does saudi arabia want?bly, there are some that they need to get from the u.s. >> remember that saudi arabia has been treated by this administration, or they have at least felt like, they are pariah. what they are very concerned with is the fact that the united states seems to be running headlong to try to restart a relationship with iran which they see as the major in their region. they would definitely like the reset to involve the united states being much more committed to limiting ambitions in the region. i think basically they want as much of a reset as the americans do. and to deepen the ties with that country. >> finally, can the saudis deliver? they are the largest swing producer in the world. >> certainly, president biden has access to much better than i do. there a lot of reasons why oil prices are high right now. the agency says that russian oil production is going to decline by 3 million barrels a day by july. so, every little bit helps. i'm not sure the entirety of the solution problem lies. i'm

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and saudi arabia is a very important regional our efforts to just isolate the conference. we're never going to really succeed, not by the us or anyone else. so as much as there might be a reservation across different issues. what everyone i think will do is approach the relationship with saudi arabia in a much more pragmatic way. and then understanding that they just cannot break that relationship with saudi to important no way around m b. i says i am common middle east researcher at your age group. thank you so much. thank you. drastically shifting gears now a new bio pig telling the story of elvis presley hits movie theater is this week. presley scandalized the us with his swinging hips and 1957 and became an overnight sensation in the process. take a look at what's in store. ladies and gentlemen, how badly austin butler is elvis. the young actor went to great lengths to get his portrayal rights. so was just being a sponge in a reading every book that i can get my lawn watching everything. and every image that are costly, fine treating and like a detective, and then also

government needs to speak to saudi arabia about.has intelligence chairman adam schiff discussing the balance between those human rights concerns and the oil concerns on another network this morning, take a look. >> until saudi arabia makes a radical change in terms of its human rights, i wouldn't want anything to do with them. now, i understand the degree to which saudi arabia controls oil prices. i think that's a compelling argument for us to wean ourselves off of the reliance on foreign oil and on oil more globally. so we don't have despots and murderers calling the shots. >> oil production and those high gas prices certainly as one major topic the biden administration wants to meet with the saudis on, as they have been applauding this recent decision by opec to increase energy production in the next few months. but the other big issue that biden brings up every single time he's asked about the saudi arabia trip is that he wants to do what he can to bring about civility and peace in the middle east, particular lead to when it come

this isn't even the 1st time that it has been alleged against saudi arabia recently. actually bought new castle united premium club at the end of 2021 invested heavily in new coaches and new players. a lot of people saying, hey, this is a smokescreen especially given the numerous human rights violations allegations against that going on in the country. chief among which was the murder of jamal shogi in 2021. so people are saying that this is smokescreen essentially. okay, well, okay, talking smokescreen here. i mean, this also sounds like it's potentially quite risky. i mean, i have to think of the european super league and how that went down is that maybe possible here as well, was 1st, is worth putting out your european simply failed because of backlash of fans. they said, hey, tradition and integrity of our sport is being taken away here. so they put stop to it. well, this hasn't happened with live. they actually had their 1st invitational last week with a whopping $4000000.00 purse one by the victor. they're the pga of come out saying that they're banning all the

millions of people on the verge of starvation because saudi arabia backs one side and saudi arabia the other. >> is there going to be a deal? do you think that you and saudi arabia will be able to come to a deal to permanently end that conflict? >> we-- with regards to yemen and developments we have always been on the positive side and we believe that all the parties, all the yemeni parties that should play the role in the future of the event, not just one faction or one current or one group. of course, allies in the capital in yemen, over the past years, they have been able to stand against aggression and somehow establish the safest regions against terrorists, in the south, they were facing a lot of terrorists attacks. in the very beginning, we thought that dd-- we declared that the should be removed, all the yemeni parties they should sit around the table and decide for the future of their country. we do welcome the continuation of the cease-fire and progress, yes. >> and let me ask you about a report that's been out recently about something that happened 20 years ago in iran, but i

guest: with turkey or with saudi arabia? monte: saudi arabia, pardon me?uest: well, i think what this shows is that the u.s. and saudi relationship is very, very deep and strategic. it is not simply about oil, this is about security, oil security, energy security, but also about combating terrorism, about combating other relevant factors in the region. so the strategy -- other malevolent factors in the region. the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states is very deep. personally i don't find it very surprising that there is an interest-based approach here by the united states because it has always been that way between saudi arabia and the united states. monte: ok, we will have to leave it there aziz alghashian , it lecturer at essex. thank you so much for your time. now turn northeastern bangladesh, where floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people. storms over the weekend have killed dozens in both bangladesh and neighboring india. some villagers made their escape on rafts, making their way to refugee camps. experts say that rais

now i understand the, the degree to which a saudi arabia controls oil prices. i think that's a compelling argument for us to win ourselves off a reliance on foreign oil and on oil more globally. so we don't have despots and murderers calling the shots. montana has more on this now from washington dc. white house also said ben scrambling to clarify the situation following a report a few days ago that he was going to visit saudi arabia and israel at the end of the month following his meetings in europe. but now whitehouse sources are saying that he is going to do 2 separate trips, one to europe, and then later next month to the middle east. not precedent by didn't himself, won't be drawn on whether or not he is going to saudi arabia saying that it might be among the countries that he visits alongside with israel. he was expected to attend or meet saudi arabia off to the gulf corporation conference of which saudi is the head. but at this stage now an attempt to clarify things. whitehouse sources are making very clear that president biden is now planning to go to t