i did visit many west bank arabs. they were middle-class arabs. reasonably educated on the west bank. the last thing they want to have is to have people from gaza moving to the west bank. bethey consider them to egyptian palestinians. they speak a slightly different language. they are different cultural backgrounds. they are entirely different from the people of the west bank. my second point has to do with cultural matters. there is the position of women in our society. you see this by the fact that anyone was a about martyr. he has 10 brothers and sisters. but, the future do you see for a palestinian state? >> is a multifaceted question. there is a difference between creating a state in creating a nation. one of them you alluded to, the lack of empathy -- empathy, it is clue, the gaza population is historically like this. there are sent there by muhammad ali. >> aggregate, it is optical. as for women, i think this is a much broader question. it goes to the heart of the middle eastern malaise. i believe it is the question of women's rights and wo

by that time, more arab land had been taken. israel had already begun to expand its borders. >> the main effect on the population was to create a great deal of panic and fear. the population for the most part was unarmed. they were confronting a well-organized and well armed invasion. as a result, when the events like the massacre in april of 1948 occurred panic spread , through the population. 1947ulation which was in and continuing into the spring organizeds not well and had no political center to it. as a result, the principal and the main impulse of people was to run. to get as far away from the fighting, from the terror as possible. ♪ >> by december 1948, half of the population of palestine had fled. the following year, the united a work established agency for palestinian refugees. their mandate, to provide registered refugees with food rations and shelter health care , and basic education. it was to be and still he is -- and still is financed from voluntary contributions. when work got underway, an estimated 500,000 people

the arabs recognize that and put the plo forward. so you find the carter administration comes in immediately on day one with two absolute firm convictions. one is that the palestinian self-determination is the core of the conflict, and number two, we have to bring the soviets in and we will work with them, and we will have a general conference and the two of us will solve this. >> amen. [laughter] >> we will have time for the gentleman in the blue jacket. >> my question, sort of moving past the 1967 war and looking forward today, things i think are a lot different. we have israel as sort of a regional power militarily, economically, still a democracy, and then you have the trump administration and iran. so if we could sort of look forward now, what is the global strategic view? mike, if you could address that? >> why don't we do a speed round is our final question before everyone goes? mike, would you like to kick off the speed round? i do mean speed round. i am giving you 45 seconds. he is going to get a minute and a half. took some

>> zahara: [ speaking in arabic ] give him more of the spicy sauce.ing to have to shift away from oil towards other industries. how would you like to prepare your daughters for the future? >> zahara: [ speaking in arabic ] well, now we live, we live in our golden days, thanks to sultan qaboos, bless him. >> samiha: [ speaking in arabic ] god help him to recover from his illness, and bless him with longer life. >> zahara: [ speaking in arabic ] thank god almighty. we live in our golden age, but we have to be prepared for the future. >> anthony: what do the young ladies, when they reach adulthood what are your hopes and dreams? >> girl in white and gold: [ speaking in arabic ] i want to be satisfied with myself and achieve my goals. i want to be a business woman. >> anthony: and the other young lady? >> girl wearing red: (in arabic) i want to be a teacher, and mom wants me to study at the university and become the president of the university. >> anthony: strong women in this family. >> samiha: very strong ones! ♪ ♪ (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost

there was to be one jewish and one arab state.orthe jews, most scarred life from the jewish atrocities in europe, this was cause for joyful celebration. to the arabs, any purchase does any partition was unacceptable. fighting in skirmishes continued. state 14, 1948, a jewish supper kind itself under the name israel. there was a nexus of refugees. sentboring air of states troops into palestine to establish lot order. it became full-scale war. numerous u.n. efforts to negotiate a truce or fruitless. the chief mediator was shot and killed in jerusalem by a jewish extremist group. --y in the spring of 19 70 1969 was -- israel had begun to expand its borders. >> the main effect on the population was to create a great deal of family and fear. the population for the most part was unarmed. they were confronting a well-organized and well armed invasion. the events like the massacre in april of 1948, panic spread through the population. springtinuing into the of 1948 was not well-organized and had no political center to it. the main impulse

and the arab states did attack. israel survived to survive the arab war of 1948 but israel's survival did not mean peace. for the next 19 years, the arab states continued to reject any peace with israel and attacked it whenever and wherever possible. principally terrorists, cross border attacks. but their ultimate aim was to destroy israel completely, to finish as they put it the business of '48, to remove the shame of '48. still until '67 that aim remained unfulfilled and was not attempted. it was thought to require a grand coalition of arab armies such as has been put together in 1948. only then could israel's arab enemies launch a full-scale attack and achieve their ultimate goals. but until '67, these conditions were not achieved. and could not be. the most important reason was that the army of egypt, the largest arab army, could not be deployed to israel's borders. it could not be because of the outcome of war in 1956, a war in which israel was allied with britain and france against egypt. the armistice that en

the arabs did attack. israel managed to avoid the war in 1948, by israel's survival did not mean peace. for the next ten years the arab states continued to reject any status with the israel and attacked it wherefore possible. but they're ultimate ending freelily announced was to destroy israel completely, to finish as they put it, the business of '48, to remove the same of '48. until '67 that aim remained unfull filled and was not attempted. it was thought to unite a grand coalition of arab armys such has having put together in 1948. only then could israel's enemies launch a terror attack and achieve the ultimate goals. until '67 these conditions were not achieved and could not be. the most important reason was that the army of egypt, the largest arab army could not be deapplied to israel's boarders. it could not be because of the outcome of war in 1956, a war in which israel was alive with britain and france against egypt. the i know of that war provided for the partial de -- peace keeping force that acte

for them an arab is an arab.september 2000 the palestinians started to shoot through the jewish neighborhoods, and the authorities had to protect the kindergarten over here, and they put up this wall put up by the neighborhood council. but nevertheless, it's quite ugly. but if they shoot from the other side toward the kindergarten, what other measure you can take in order to protect the children? >> before returning home we went to visit a palestinian farmer whose life was devastated when half of his land was taken by the israeli army to accommodate the bending of the wall. -- the building of the wall. >> the majority of his land and the better part of his land is beyond that fence. all these walls he built by breaking this sporn land with his wife and his children and all his hard work is gone. he cannot go down and tend to his trees or cultivate it. ♪ >> i feel like i haven't found any anchor for the light at the end of the tunnel. is there any chance for people to believe that there is something else? >> i use

predominantly sisince the 2011 arab spring. wewe see them providing g a lotf supporort and a safe space for grgroups l like the muslslim brotherhood and the iamamist movemement in gaza. alalso for the group's leader. he h been n stationed there for a number of ars. there isis a great deal of substance to o be said for ththe saududi claims s of provididing support for certain n groups. some of f the other playersrs ae bahraiain and meddlining a acroe region.. there is some substance to what is being said. >> simon reporting there and giving his analysis. >> we are talking about a tiny kingdom, qatar is a hugely powerful nation and one that has a lot of wealth but that could be all at stake. these gulf and african states aren't just breaking up diplomatic ties with qatar. they are their borders. some are also cutting transport links. it could hit the local economy heart and frustrated travelers. >> the skies of qatar are about to get quieter. from tuesday, several regional airlines will nono longeger be flying t tand from t the c

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it's not all muslims and arabs and not all arabs or muslims. yeah. not trying to be condescending when i say that. i suffered from that when was owing. i didn't know. i had a friend, she was a palestinian. she's like, i'm a christian. you're an arab christian, what, did you convert? she's like, no, my family is all christian. i'm like, your family's all christian, how did that happen? she's like, because jesus is from the middle east. oh, yeah. good point. that's right. he was, was he? yeah, yeah, yeah. my name is w. kamau bell. as a comedian i found a living making humor in parts of america i don't understand and now i'm challenging myself to dig deeper. i'm on a mission to reach out and experience all the cultures and beliefs that add color to this crazy country. this is "the united shades of america." whether america as a whole wants to talk about it or not, america has always had heros who are muslims. muhammad ali, kareem abdul-jabbar, and malcolm x are examples of the best of us. they've been held up as quintessential americans. how quintessent

so i don't think that arabs could have done it. >> thank you. let me -- i'll call on you in just a second. let me ask about, you've already hinted in your issue of sources. talk about the sources that went into, that you consulted for this book, and perhaps also talk about what are some of the areas where the evidence is still very fragmentary where, you know, we're on thin ice, perhaps in. >> okay. so i regret the fact that i didn't have mossad or general security documents because those would have been valuable. don't think i'll ever see them. i think that they're waiting to be declassified, and when the date arrived, they simply shred them. that's what i was told. i didn't have access to syrian or egyptian archives. you can mitigate the fact for egyptian archives by the fact that people in egypt, like other countries, they take documents back home with them after they finish their role or their function. and they used it for political purposes. later, they published them. so i had the protocol, the full protocol of the meeting between the egy

for example, they are still sending gas through the dolphin pipeline to the united arab emirates.ot taken any action on redeploying assets. they've not expeued redeploying assets. they've not expelled any citizens of other gulf countries or the hundreds of thousands of egyptian migrant workers who are in qatar. if they decided to fight back, there would bea2— decided to fight back, there would be a 2— way impact on the other countries want to avoid this, they wa nt to countries want to avoid this, they want to click concession. if it does escalate in qatar decides to fight back, what the implications? your mac there is a real break in the gulf. 0ther mac there is a real break in the gulf. other countries must take sides. for example, shipping lines would have to do is —— shipping lines would have to decide if they brought cargo into doha or into the uae. they may —— they might not allowed to do both. given the gulf cooperation council has spent the last several decades trying to improve economic integration, plenty of gulf citizens intermarry and live in each other‘s countries, th

as turkish, as armenians, as supported jews, and as syrian arabs. one of the sticky notes was that each of these categories was understood as racial category in u.s. immigration law, so that sort of created a new hierarchy whereby syrians were understood to be fundamentally different from the rest of the ottoman subjects coming to the united states, and this meant that there were certain -- there was a certain hierarchy, and that guided access to united states citizenship or not. >> how did the start of world war i impact these groups? >> the united states did not into the war until april of 1917, and when the united states entered the war they declared , war on germany, but not on germany plus principal ally, the ottoman empire, so technically, the ottoman entire and united states were never in a state of war. they were in a state of neutrality, but that still meant that ottoman nationals were sort of marked as a potentially problematic or politically subversive population. there were two impulses. the was to sort of police and first surveying and

against the arabs, against leftists, against the media, against the supreme court. challenge. and we have to deal with it. and i believe we are able to. isaac herzog, formerly labour party, now of zionist union, he coined this extraordinary word, calling it the "fascistisation" of israel under netanyahu. it sounds like you are almost agree with him. certain elements are going this direction, and i worry about it. you would use that phrase, fascistisation, would you ? you know, in certain parties, yes. some politicians are going this way — racism, facism. this is not the vast majority of politicians. but it is — unfortunately, it is not stopped by the prime minister, and that's why i have too many disputes with him. i am very, very puzzled as to how you can sit in cabinet as, i think, deputy premier, for three orfour years, and then as defence secretary, the senior security post in the cabinet, for, what, more than three years, serving as a loyal ally of benjamin netanyahu, and then you fall out with him after seven years of service, and come out saying that he is fo

we can win the arabs without your help.we want you to sit aside, say nothing, but the crucial thing is if the soviets try to intervene, you would move to neutralize them. and that happened on the very last hours of the war because people in moscow are livid that the israeli army is about to mash of damask and there's a message to the white house saying we will tack any measure to stop this, including military. including military? so you take the sixth navy and move towards the met tarean. the eastern mediterranean. nothing came out of it eventually, all the sides backed off. but washington kept its side of the deal. >> i was wondering. >> produce yourself. >> i was wondering whether you could say a little bit more about the soviet side in particular also about the journal the junior allies so a little bit more about that. >> and russ johnson right behind. >> ross johnson. the runup to the war in israel was there a thought, assumption, that the outcome would be a large israel and was there postwar planning, a thought about w

our real interest is the arabs, let's accept the reality. without anybody asking the question, with the new reality be stable? ,ou open the straits of tehran but if egypt has six divisions on israel's border, nassar would have been highly successful, with the pressure not have built to actually do something about this, to fulfill what he said on may 29th about avenging? anyway, that's not asked. now, johnson, even though he is missing in action, when the war takes place, he reverts to his own instincts. there is no pressure on israelis to stop until june 10, when there is a perception that maybe they are moving towards damascus. even then, the pressure comes up only because we get a message hotline,soviets on the whatever it is called. they warned that they might have to act unilaterally. we see this again in 73, but it happens on june 10. we moved forces close to 50 miles from syria in response to this, to deter them from acting. they sickly, there's no pressure on the israelis to do anything, to the idea that they should stop. secondly, he

those who still use the terms the israeli — arab conflict are irrelevant because we share the commonng as you continue to refuse to contemplate a two—state solution. we don't refuse! and give the palestinians a dream of statehood. i will tell you what happened with them. we tried to convince them to come in and generate these kind of political process. they rejected it. why? the palestinian issue is not in the first priority. there are the other challenges, iran is the main challenge. it is about the shia—sunni conflict, global jihad and so forth. when we told them to come into the process, and they rejected to come in. do you know that the only sunni party today ready to spend money on the palestinian issue is qatar? the saudis didn't spend a dollar. the egyptians you can talk with... seriously, they are not ready to invest in the palestinian issue! it might be easy if trump can convince them and we would be more than happy--- them and we would be more than happy... you don't see a watershed moment of diplomatic opportunity for israel. what you see is more of the same. more of the s

relations must and and the arab league must take a stance.eporter: that stance may not be the one hoped for. the arab league secretary-general calling for differences to be overcome in a common front against threats. china, russia, the united states, and turkey all took a similar line, wanting to fight against terror and regional security. "neighbors are permanent; joggers and can be changed. coercion is never the solution. dialogue is imperative." tehran have long considered a thorn in saudi arabia's side. a recent visit from u.s. president donald trump. >> they probably felt like they were in a position of strength and had endorsement from the u.s. around some of these issues such that they can use these as an opening to qatar to come more in line with some of their policy positions. reporter: qatar has denied funding the terrorist groups, accusations saudi arabia has been receiving from certain quarters, too. laura: we have an expert on middle eastern politics. first of all, what are the consequences for qatar? it's a tiny country which no

this meant there were syrian arabs. overwhelmingly, the syrian population in the u.s. was christian at this time. they actually went to court to try to get a legal distinction for themselves as syrians is posted turks. they got this, and he gave them access to u.s. citizenship. in 1917, that law was expanded in order to make it so we could draft large numbers of syrians and lebanese by calling them something other than ottomans, even though legally, they were still ottoman nationals. the result of this is that 10,000 ethnic syrians are listed in the u.s. army and were ultimately deployed. >> can you speak to how they were treated in the army or overseas once they were deployed? >> i could speak to what they felt or what they thought. many of the people, many of the syrians who fought in the u.s. army believed they were doing this as a new americans, and in 1918, many were given instantaneous u.s. citizenship as sort of -- in thanks for their efforts, right? they are new americans and are proud of being americans, but there is simultaneous emergence of being proud of be

six arab states, including saudi arabia, bahrain, the united arab emirates and egypt, have cut diplomaticar, accusing it of supporting terrorism. qatari diplomats are being expelled from neighbouring countries, while the airlines, etihad and emirates, are suspending flights to the qatari capital doha. the qatari foreign ministry says the measures are "unjustified" and based on "unfounded allegations. " our security correspondent, frank gardner, has more. saudi tv today, airing a very public quarrel between some of the world's richest nations. saudi arabia, bahrain, the uae as well as egypt have all cut diplomatic ties to qatar. they've imposed an air, land and sea embargo on the country, causing some panic buying. they're accusing the gas—rich gulf state of funding terrorists and helping iran destabilise the region. qatar strongly denies it. it was president trump's recent visit to riyadh that emboldened the saudis. its leaders now feel they've got the green light from washington to get tough on their rivals and adversaries. but qatar hosts us central command's airbase for the entire midd

jalaba is the name of the arab. to explain to us, why do you not see them as human beings when you are on the battlefield, fighting? you see them as being just the enemy, the oppressor. because of experience. one time i saw my mother beaten in front of me and got humiliated and then my uncle tried to stop and then he was beaten as well. that time as a kid, ijumped to bite one of the soldier's foot. and then, he pressed my neck and then i blacked out. and so then, remembering that and seeing my mum humiliated in front of me and our food got taken by force and one of the soldiers saying, it is god's will. that these people are going to be slaves and they have started a rebel movement, they will never win. these were seeds that were planted in my head. that these were terrible people. i did not have a word to put in now, but now i could say i was bitter and had a hatred for that time. so that is what went on in your head when you were killing the enemy? all these thoughts would come cascading back? you use these though

qatar response to demands put to it by four arab states.ladimir putin accused of meddling in the us president. and theresa may has been told her brexit offered at four eu citizens in the uk is not enough. -- far. my first impression is that the offer is below our expectations, and it risks the situation of citizens. hello and welcome to bbc news. 800 households are being evacuated from five tower blocks in camden in north london, so that urgent fire safety work can be carried out. the buildings have the same type of cladding that contributed to a huge blaze last week at grenfell tower, in the west of the capital. at least 79 people are known to be dead or missing after the blaze, and authorities are now looking at criminal offences including manslaughter. tom symonds reports. there was no warning, just a request. we need you to move out because we can't be sure you are safe. i just don't want to go now. i feel bad to just suddenly i have to leave my flat. tonight, camden council's mobilising its staff, block booking hotels, opening a rest c

so now is not the time to undermine what of our critical allies in the arab world by disapproving heart of it on sales package that will improve saudi capabilities. >> mr. president, i take the floor today strenuously argue against the proposition being pushed by senator paul and murphy and others to deny arms sales of about $500 million to the kingdom of saudi arabia. the package that they're trying to exclude the $110 billion farm bill is precision guided munitions that would be used by the f-15s, the package of joint direct attack munitions, pave laserguided bombs. the bottom line, the package we're talking about, the precision weapons that the saudi air force and military could use in operations against iran's proxy in yemen and other threats that the kingdom faces. the flaws of the saudi government are real. they are known to me, but my friends on the other side, particularly senator paul, constantly put saudi arabia and iran on the same thing. i think that is a very unwise analysis to suggest that saudi arabia is as bad as i ran. it is just missing the point big-time. the iranian

we complain about our arab allies not doing enough when they want to do more the same note to them. coll is an unreliable partner. you say one thing and you do another. all i can say to my democratic partners is that you are okay to help president obama increase the capability of the saudi army at a time that was in our national security interest, what has changed between september t the 21st and today? what geopolitical situation hasf changed so that all of a sudden iran is no longer a threat to an saudi arabia is less reliable. nothing other than the election of donald trump. i have been a critic of donald trump, president trump when i thought it was necessary for tht good of the country and all i can say is this wholesale by democrats really is disturbing, it is undermining our national security interest when it comes to containing iran and it is sending the worst possiblee signal, we could be sending to arab allies at a time when we need them the most and i don't question people's motives, i question your judgment and here's my problem. i had no problem helping president obama b

guest: well, actually, doug was leak of hacked e-mails from the ambassador of the united arab emirates to washington. i'm elected to get it -- i'm reluctant to get into discussions about hacked e-mails . we had the expense extreme of seeing these things, whether they are true or not true, exactly what the relationships kind ofreally is immaterial to what is going on in the region. president talking atut the middle east friday a news conference with the president of romania. [video clip] president trump: a unique meeting in the history of relations were two groups agree to stop supporting terrorists, whether it be financial, military, or even moral support. the nation of qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism and a very high level. in the wake of the conference, nations came together and spoke to me about confronting qatar over its behavior. position -- we had a decision to make. do we take the easy road or the hard but necessary action? we have to stop the funding of terrorism. host: that was the president on friday afternoon 90 minutes before -- and 90 minut

the ground were killed during their touch so they were not all killed in action many of the syrian arab army soldiers were murdered was slaughtered as prisoners of war their bodies were then clearly dismembered and mutilated and this white helmet operates we've seen clambering over the bodies of the syrian arab army soldiers this is not the first time that this is being seen and has been for you to grow up and has been questioned as regards their moral and their their ethics. in neighboring iraq suicide bombers have killed at least three people in mosul shopping district the area was recaptured from isel several months ago the country's prime minister said the total liberation of the city will come within days but for now the heavy fighting that is affecting thousands of civilians who remain trapped. he doesn't. get the goods i don't. have even i don't know if you have a lot of coffee a lot of. political a helicopter the whole of the. law but at least part of their god and if you had. found it kind of joining the joy in a coveted because. you couldn't do it i've gone nowhere but up. mea

. >> arab nations cutting ties and isolating their neighbor qatar. saudi arabia, united arab emirates, egypt, and others are suspending diplomatic and economic relations with qatar. >> we would encourage the parties to sit down and address the differences, and if there is any role we can play in terms of helping them. >> as the u.s. pushes greater coordination to combat extremism, the diplomatic campaign against qatar potentially complicates the fight against isis. coalition forces launched attacks from a qatari air brace. -- air base. the air force as the combined air operations center provides command-and-control operation throughout iraq, syria, 17 other nations. qatar is the forward headquarters of u.s. central command. nearby bahrain hosts the u.s. fifth fleet. also cut ties with qatar. >> qatar has long charted an independent foreign policy compared to the other gulf monarchies. for the last two decades, it tried to be somewhat independent of saudi arabia. part of that has been building cozy relationships with extremist or even terrorist groups

get some arabic, but she tells really good jokes in english.u want to hear one? yes i said this yesterday in the movie. she went to her mama said, mommy, why did the little boy ate his homework? which said why, because the teacher told him it's a piece of cake. [laughter] and she is five. she is smarter than me. >> we've counsel her toward medical. >> never. no. that is a death sentence. why medical? why? but if she wants to do it, she can do whatever she wants. because i'm a debt that does not stand in the way of for daughter. >> during the last presidential election season you traveled the country. you did a series for fusion. i think we would be curious to know what did you learn about us and traveling to the country you saw things that a lot of us don't see. >> why didn't learn anything new, because as a big follower of american politics. visit george w bush two-point oh, but much worse. the same record but what is new this time that i came from a place where everybody is also living in his own echo chamber. they refused to deal with facts

arabia, and the united arab emirates broke diplomatic, and commercial ties, citing financial support of terrorism. isolation in reaction to a false news report planted by cyber attackers on may 23. the story attributed false remarks, and questioned whether president trump would last in office. the fbi has confirmed the hack may have resulted in fake news sharing, and that russia is a suspect. >> part of russia's activity is to drive a wedge between the u.s. and our allies. >> reporter: cbs news cannot let the incident undermine its relationship with qatar, which hosts the largest american military base in the middle east. >> u.s. president in qatar is so critical for our campaign against isis, and our aerial campaign in the region. >> reporter: the secretaries of state and defense have tried to deescalate the crisis, but yesterday the president appeared to take credit for the arab state decision. he wrote his trip to the middle east was already paying off, and extremism funding was pointing to qatar. the state department spokeswoman tried to down play the significance of the tweet. >

the arab states on the outs with guitar issues the country a list of demands to meet in order to drop its blockade guitar confirmed last friday it received a list artie's simone there was aria were ports on one of those demands is sending shock waves through media and human rights communities. saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and bahrain recently cut off qatar accusing it of funding terrorism in the region now in order to lift the diplomatic and economic sanctions the gulf states gave the country a list of thirteen demands from scaling down diplomatic ties with iran to kicking turkey's military out of the country to severing ties with the likes of the muslim brotherhood dyess al qaida and hezbollah the four arab states say all of these demands must be met within ten days but two in particular are sparking outcry among media members and human rights activists the countries have ordered qatar to shut down the state funded al-jazeera network and its affiliates and close all other news outlets funded either directly or indirectly by the state al-jazeera first launched in one th

stands, it seems to be emboldening some gulf arab countries in terms of taking on iran. a question of whether or not the united states will become much more of a force for policy in this region and whether this opens the door to other players including russia. >> hadley, thank you very much for that. >>> let's stay in the region. let's look at oil prices. they're some what higher. that's benefiting the energy sector across europe. brent crude at 48.45. wti crude up to 46.05. this is as we're seeing a large build up in long positions in oil. the physical oil markets still remain bloated. we saw the baker hughes numbers that showed new drilling occurred for a record 21 weeks. >>> the saudi energy minister has weighed in on the dispute in qatar as well. he told cnbc over the weekend it's up to the qatari government to find a solution. he also addressed last month's deal between opec and non-opec producers to cut oil production. we asked if he thinks the deal needs to be reviewed. >> it's too soon. when we made that decision to extend, it wasn't arbitrary. it was based on in

second, the remarks on the limited capacity of the arab states for offensive war. can you speak a little bit about the potential for falls of relying on israeli military. because we know it will fail spectacularly six years later. >> thank you. i will start with your third question. i wasn't relying only on israeli intelligence sources. i said that the israelis knew very well what was going on but the whole recreation of events while i told you about arab military doctrine, is something that egyptian general telnet memoirs. they say that it just shouldn't have even planned for an offensive that was a complete folly on our side to even think about it. we had a good plan. it is called the conqueror. we had a good plan. had we stayed where we were supposed to stay, if we did not try to block - which never appeared in a contingency plan we had a fair chance to hold her own against the israelis. so when i said was not based on the on israeli sources. he said about the israelis fail spectacularly, that is the thing you have to assume. israel intelligence always great abo

egypt and the united arab arab emirates have suspended ties.said they will suspend air and sea travel. joining us is tracy alloway. shift from dramatic earlier. talk to me about the situation that is beginning to unfold. how significant is the cutting ties?s russian mark -- unprecedented diplomatic risk. we have seen a bit of a diplomatic spat with countries withdrawing ambassadors. we have not seen anything like this before. the land and air links are cut off and the land links are a big the citizens here are the countryto leave within two weeks and that will give you a sense of how serious this has become and i have to say that there are lots of financial workers who are surpriseg a sense of about escalation. iran into a salesperson who shows got off the airplane and he covered and said that he did not know what he was supposed to do with himself now. >> there are many bankers who travel to and from and do business with a lot of money managed. remind us how this all started and the word that was pervasive in our stories was iran. >> we will b

the united arab emirates ministry of tolerance -- what does it do? but we're kicking things off in northern iraq, where millions of refugees have fled the terror of i.s. people who belong to religious minorities fall victim to discrimination in many parts of the world. the christian organization that issues the world watch list says around 200 million members of the faith are persecuted globally. in egypt, for instance, members of the coptic orthodox minority are regularly subjected to violent attacks. churches are burned, and copts are often murdered. and christians are not the only targets. in myanmar, the government is accused of persecuting the rohingya, a muslim minority. in northern iraq in 2014, terror organization islamic state seized control of areas inhabited by yazidis, a religious community. the group's holiest site is located in the lalisch valley. the peacock is an important symbol to yazidis. it represents the angel melek taus, who for them acts as an intermediary between god and the faithful. yazidism has about a million adherents wor