well let's dig into this with rami khouri he is the senior public policy fellow at the american university of beirut and he joins us now live from there mr corey always good to have you on al-jazeera let's start today with these reports of this alleged crude how much weight do you give them. i give very little weight to the idea of a cool being plot it is very difficult to do that with the immense direct and brutal control that i had been so man the crown prince now has over all of the security agencies in saudi arabia so the core idea is probably not very good realistic option but i think this is a sign more of the nervousness of the crown prince and the people around him who also rabia because they probably expect the the king will either abdicate or pass away soon and they expect there might be some kind of challenge to the succession even though he is the crown prince but the most critical thing about this i believe is that this is the the final affirmative confirmation the seal. taking over the mantle of the arab autocrats that used to be held by people like saddam hussein. and the mum of that

king mohammed bin i well i spoke to rami corey he's a senior public policy fellow at the american university of beirut he says there's an ongoing effort to stamp out dissent within saudi arabia. i think this is a sign more of the nervousness of the crown prince and the people around him who also do rabia because they probably expect that the king will either abdicate or pass away soon and they expect there might be some kind of challenge to the succession even though he is the crown prince but the most the critical thing about this i believe is that this is the the final affirmative confirmation the seal. taking over the mantle of the arab autocrats that used to be held by people like saddam hussein and the mum of that duffy hafez less this very tough military man who ruled the country with an iron fist and that mantle has now passed on to. him and said he's not worried about people trying to make a cool he doesn't want any independent voices that don't agree with him and it's noteworthy that i am a been abdulaziz woman's of 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the suc

arabian peninsula well let's speak to rami khouri who is a professor of journalism at the american university of beirutand also a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school he joins us now on skype from beirut rami always good to have you on al-jazeera let's start with where the war is right now they do appear to have strengthened their position in recent weeks are we any closer to any kind of a resolution. i think we're probably getting close to the point where the saudis are that i recognize that they're just losing more and more and creating more animosity towards them all around the world and certainly in yemen. will probably figure out how to ratchet up the behind the scenes talks that have been going on for some months and to get into a serious discussion of how to handle war and the so disk and withdrawal of grace from there as gracefully as possible after the catastrophe that they and their minorities are created so i would guess that the continued fighting is and doesn't have much more to go because nothing more can be achieved. rami obviously the only way that a conflict continues if there a

of american missionaries that moved to beirut. spread mission basis but also hospitals and schools, most famously american university in beirut. at princeton, he went on to teaching dartmouth before accepting the presidency of the college in 1946. eddie was a man of protestant confidence who envisioned a new world order constructed out of enchanting crude. in 1940, while traveling and recruiting for financial support for his school, he lectured on quote, the power of god in the secular world, which implored laypeople to be the quote, shock troops of the church, and raise up each sector of the globe. you and i, he declared, who believe in christendom are not doomed to weakness. we serve the only totalitarian king. we who follow christ need to cover ourselves with tolerance, reverence, and charity. and then wherever we walk, we shall find ourselves standing on holy ground. within months, eddie was acting on this imperative. serving as an officer for the office of strategic services. eventually of course the cia, to survey arabia for subsurface crude, gain knowledge of its people and their faith in a law and bringing the u.s. to u