they have been done in the united arab emirates.st who have identified and seen this. and it has been done over there. and they are not only done, they are taught and memorised by people over there. i will ask you before we end about something very current and relevant for you being in the uk. you put on a performance at a big manchester arts festival, a musical performance. you are doing it only weeks after a man of libyan origin, a young man, a militant, appearing to be loyal in his own way to so—called islamic state, he put a bomb inside an ariana grande concert, killing women and children. do you believe your music and your message about the bridge building and the cultural cross—fertilisation that can happen through music, do you think about, right now, can make a difference to the thinking of people in a city like manchester? not by itself. i mean, it has been said you must love one another or die. he meant it. we have two options. we have a serious issue with violence erupting throughout the world. some of it is linked to ext

to what extent these days are you as an arab american feel that you as an arab american feel that you use your art to explore politics? well, i think an interest in statecraft and politics has been something that has defined by work. for many years. i think that when a politician comes on the show, they are basically coming to sell something and they are asking people to give them something — power. and an artist is doing something that is very different from that. they are offering ideas and insight into the internal human condition and societies are human beings multiplied... offering ideas all delivering polemics and various specific critiques. just looking at recent things, the dictator ‘s wife, which you put on a washington, dc just before the trump in duration seem to be a direct message about authoritarian corruption that might be taken as a your feeling, warwick, about donald trump coming to the white house. of course but i think that the thing about this, kennedy had a great way of putting this, if donald trump was in the white house during the cuban missile crisis i probably

however, the october war had instilled a new sense of pride tilde arabs. -- to the arabs.n the occupied west bank, this was expressed in more and more demonstrations against the military authorities and against jewish settlers on arab land. the result was tightened security, numerous arrest, and for some, it resulted in deportation. from 1977 until now, -- 1967 until now, this bridge has become the road to exile. >> at 12:00 noon to the bridge, where they reached a hump on the bridge and a told me from here, you can go but you cannot come back. i said, someday, i will come back to my country because it is my country. >> we never thought they would treat us the way they treated the people, demolishing houses, villages, treating people were there treating them. that will create more hatred from the arabs toward the jews. that is why they are still in the camps. they are working in the camps. they are raising their kids in the camps because they know someday we are going back. i want to go back, not as a visit, i want to live in my hometown. my pharmacy closed. i cannot open

we need to differentiate between aljazeera english and arabic. let's talk about arabic.uts about poison. are you insisting it be closed down? we are insisting that, effectively should be closed down as an editorial that says, hate the west, hate the shia, hate the outsider, the christian, thejew. yes, that must stop. the economist makes the point that it is an extraordinary territorialist form of free speech, it was as if china ordered britain to close down the bbc. i don't think there is a narrative between the two. this is a request to stop poisoning people with an extremist narrative. now, the henry jackson. .. isn't just a fleece for free flow of ideas? no. one of the things about aljazeera is that they are incredibly effective. somebody said to me, there are whole channels that have the same narrative. the problem is that aljazeera is so effective and appealing that it pulls people in. essentially, they are extremely effective... so it should still close? it should change to the extent that it cannot be recognised as aljazeera today, aljazeera arabic. aljazeera engl

since the sort of return of the state in the middle east, following the very next outcome of arab uprisings. i mean, before the arab uprising went wrong, turkey presented itself as a model for a secular model. that was far from being offensive and on the contrary. it was very idealist entrance of what it set for the region as a whole, and, of course, the return of those. [inaudible] made that not possible and, in fact, i would say may be the last speaker would disagree with me, the fact that turkish democracy itself is increasingly -- reflects very much the influence that the region has on turkey. i mean, i know no one wants to sort of make a connection between turkey and the return of the state but at the same time it seems to be that there's enough evidence to show that the influence between turkey and the rest of the middle east go both ways and not necessarily in one direction. thank you. >> we will take a couple more questions. you and you. >> thanthank you very much. i just want to ask a specific question and probably this would be in the first instance in the category come in the are

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

we need to differentiate between aljazeera english and arabic. talking about arabic.about poison. are you insisting it be closed down? we say it effectively should be closed down as an editorial that says, hate the west, hate the shia, hate the outsider, the christian, thejew. it is an extraordinary territorialist form of free speech, it was as if china ordered britain to close down the bbc. i don't think there is a narrative between the two. this is a request to stop poisoning people with an extremist narrative. the henryjackson... is it notjust a free flow of ideas? one of the things about aljazeera is that they are incredibly effective. somebody said to me recently, there are whole channels have the same narrative. the problem is that aljazeera is so effective and appealing that it pulls people in. essentially, they are an extremely effective... it should still close? it should change to the extent that it cannot be recognised as aljazeera today, yes, the aljazeera arabic. aljazeera english is in this because it acts as a figleaf, because those journalists who do n

an alliance that includes arabs, but is led by the kurds.ards the centre of raqqa. islamic state fighters are holed up in the old city, just a few hundred metres away. everyone is on edge. a sound overhead signals the presence of an attack drone. what's happening is we've just driven down these narrow side streets. suddenly there's gunfire overhead, everyone‘s looking up in the sky, searching for these is drones. this is urban warfare. there are no realfront lines. the kurdish led sdf are not on their own in this fight. the americans have quietly built up a presence on the ground here in northern syria, providing weapons, training and firepower. with us help they've chased islamic state out of traditionally kurdish areas and beyond. expanding their control across the euphrates and into mainly arab territory to the west. this is manbij. the syrian democratic forces took the city last august, after two and a half years under is rule. this building was their courthouse. here, islamic state would sit in judgment over people they deemed to have b

emirates and to the views of saudi arabia and to the views of other sunni arab states? is that essentially the conflict that iran is exporting their revolution to other places, and you want to stop them because you want to make sure they don't dominate the region. >> not only that iran export the revolution, it is in their constitution, it is the only country in the world where enshrined in their constitution is the concept of promoting and exporting their revolution. and they have done it with great success in places like iraq, syria, lebanon and now yemen. even reached as far as afghanistan. so our concern is the expansionist policy of iran, is the hedge mondayic behavior of eye iran, and as a diplomat that represents a country that has three of it's lands occupied by iran, until today, since 1971, there is not theoretical. we see iranian footprints everywhere in the region. and if you are to map out 15 years ago where iran's influence, iran's footprint was and would you do the same math today, that area would be much, much larger. they have a much stronger influence

translated into classical arabic, it will be brought to life by singers from bahrain.there won't be any puppets this time, but it's thematically similar to his previous work, debunking the myth of the knight in shining armor. >> arab people singing in arabic tradition and music, some words that is really, really violence. but if you know that all this text is originally coming from the european christian history, i think this will make some way or ability for us to make some new analysis. >> before the singers arrive, the final touches are put to the set design. it recreates medieval aleppo, baghdad, and constantinople, with the meticulous detail that is wael shawky's trademark. his work frames contemporary culture through the lens of historical tradition and vice versa. >> are we able to change or to fix because of the history? i don't know. can we see the connections and the relationship between what happened a thousand years ago and what happens today? yes, of course, and using art, it is the myth for sure. >> wael shawky, an artist whose works travel between the pa

arab terrorists attacking opec, the headquarters of oil power.and three wounded. >> there is no certainty, but there is plenty of speculation, that one of those terrorists who raided the opec meeting in vienna be europe's most wanted fugitive, carlos sanchez martinez, also known as the jackal. >> this is the clearest news film of carlos that so far exists. that's him breaking away, answering a call from near the plane. >> carlos the jackal i think had an enormous flare for publicity, becoming arguably the best-known terrorist of that era. >> but who is this man known to police as carlos ramirez sanchez? who was paying him? what is he after? and how many members in his group of terror? >> carlos is thought to be a venezuelan in his late 20s, moscow trained, politically motivated, and wanted by france, holland, britain, and now austria. >> he crossed frontiers on six forged passports, used ten different names, spoke spanish, french, russian and arabic. >> this is a face for international terrorism. here's a venezuelan working with the palestinians,

so this is the arab world i grew up in. i really -- if you buy the book -- i hope you buy it -- i would really suggest you read the introduction, people don't like to read introduction but it does put it in a context. now, as i mentioned that my parents came from a very very different background. my mother came from money, my father came from a middle class. my father was very neat, very clean, very quiet, intellectual. he want to read books. my father was noisy, she loved life, she loved to travel, and she -- i don't think she even enjoyed bag mother, you know. it wasn't her. so, just to give you a sense of my parents, i came home one time -- they never lived happily ever after. came home one time from school. we used to go to school and at lunch you go home to have lunch, and my father was home, and he and my mother were at each other throat, yelling at each other, screaming at each other, and i stood in the corner, not daring to come in the hallway and then my father saw me and he saw me and wents' slammed the door and s

but then the hedy's arabic station. but compared to damascus. the people in in jerusalem were not as grand. and to have two daughters. so life was great. and then they became a refugee. so that another since me and my sister out of damascus because they were fighting and wanted us to be saved. and in every summer we would go to damascus to the summer house but then every time my mother wanted to deliver the baby she would go to her family. and and that is how she would regain her full power. but then she had a fight with my dad so we would spend a lot of time in damascus. so but damascus is this city of ritual. it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. if they want but my grandfather his kids and every friday. and now was a particular reading at their grandfather's house. everybody knows if you come on monday but then as a refund of who was getting very gore who was getting divorced. so this was my grandfather's house. so my grandfather was born in the house. and then they also might three other siblings. so when the 1855 we wer

there was on the one handy think a recognition of the value of the sanctions by arab states, arab leagues took action against syria and had arab league sanctions on syria. there was also kind of the tail end of the global financial crisis and the impact it had on -- i would say in the uae i saw in particular where you had kind of a consolidation of foreign policy in the abu dhabi that was more security minded. the uae benefitted from inflows after the financial crisis, as a result of the arab spring that kind of got its economy back running. c coupled with that the security mindedness and the money flowing through the uae was an awareness that, you know, it was great to have it but if you didn't know where it was coming from it could be proceeds of narcotic trafficking or it could be heads bo hezbollah companies working on procurement more broadly in the region. the other thing i think was somewhat relating is de-krriski and what you saw is the idea of global banks for a number of reasons because of large enforcement actions were pulling back from jurisdictions or lines of business saw pe

they want additional responses to come from the other arab nations.n the middle east and asia affect the markets? well, it affects the oil price. and gas is part of this. qatar is a significant producer of gas. in the uk we take quite a bit of qatar gas. gas is certainly within that — coil obviously as well. when you wake up to the headlines this morning, it makes you want to go back to bed —— oil. especially at 3am. it isn't saved out there. arab news talking about that meeting, massive story in the least with huge ramifications and focusing on turkey as well. that's just as march nearing the finish line. there is always discontent in just about every country. this is significant, isn't it? the discontent in turkey has been rising and falling for the last few years. many would say suppressed as well. and this is a point. we have to say that erdogan is a democratically elected president, however there are accusations it is becoming autocratic, erdogan becoming autocratic, erdogan becoming autocratic. with respect to the referendum which gave him more

emirates, saudi arabia, and other sunni arab states?at essentially the conflict that iran is exporting their revolution to other places? and you want to stop them, because you want to make sure they do not dominate the region? yousef: not only does iran export the revolution it is in , their constitution. it is only country in the world, where enshrined in their constitution, is the idea of promoting and exporting their revolution. they have done it with great success in places like iraq, syria, lebanon, and now yemen. they have even reached afghanistan. our concern is the expansionist policy of iran, the hegemonic policy of iran. i am telling you this as a diplomat that represents a country that has three of its islands operated by iran until today this is not theoretical. , 1971. we see iranian footprints everywhere in the region. if you were to map out 15 years ago where iran's influence was and you would do the same map today, that area would be much larger. they have a much stronger influence in iraq, syria, and lebanon. part of th

if you speak arabic, there is coverage of that story cbbc arabic .com. in between north and south korea. the proposed talks could begin as early as this friday, a move seen as a mean end all acts of hostility along the military demarcation line. the timing is significant, two weeks after yong yang tested what experts believe was its first intercontinental ballistic missile which could reach the united states. it also comesjust which could reach the united states. it also comes just two months into a new presidency. president mona has said that he would try to reopen talks with the north as part of a new dialogue which is different from the past ten years. he keeps the pressure up with sanctions and also tries to re—engage. what can we expect from the talks? we will see confidence building measures being discussed, in particular, the possible seizing of those propaganda broadcasts which get lead through loudspeakers across the border. but there is the possibility that the capital of been north may also call foran capital of been north may also call for an

demanding that there should be a broad arab world, arab country land, as promised by the brits. so they had different objectives. and the colonial powers had their own interests. the colonial powers basically said, look, these countries are not yet ready for independence. they need tutoring, and britain and france will have mandates to tutor them through the process. even though the language of sykes-picot, the term sykes-picot, is used mostly for colonial deception. it is a cliche of sorts. if you look at the border today, between the countries, that is not that line. the borders were set later on. , again, peoplers like to say these borders where thrown up by colonial powers. two straight lines. but these borders, for the most part, were based on ottoman administrative lines. they did not come out of nowhere. those borders have proved remarkably resilient. there has never been a movement to unite syria and iraq. there has been a movement to get lebanon and syria put back together, because they were thought more of the same. on the whole, the borders have proved resilient right

league and the arab world and within that of course a. process that would resolve eventually the israeli policy in conflict which is in the interests of both the arab world the palestinians and first and foremost israel well mr sherry if there is one country benefiting from the saudi caetera spot it's definitely iran i wonder what do you think is the reigning secret it seems that the rainiest have a knack for turning the failures of their geo political foes into their favor. is it the radiance who are so smart that adversaries who are not smart enough it's basically both because what we see is a very shrewd and clever iran playing. very good cards and a not too coherent international policy. by the united states is of the iran they are clearly very. very much a source of concern to most of the free world the western world i believe that president trump sorts of quite early in his first term to do is these problems as unpredictable and unexpected as he is on the all the issues but at least we see that in the first quarter of his first term

know, in the conference in riyadh, saudi arabia, and some of the arab state allies, asked the unitedtates to join them in isolating iran. so, they believe you are engaged in these activities that the united states suggests you are. >> i just wanted to ask you, who are behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks? individuals? or was this an attack by saudi arabia? whence we certainly know that 15 of the attackers came from there. >> the wahhabi -- 2001 tillcheck from now, or even from 1998, till now, almost 44% if not more of terrorism throughout the world has been instigated or perpetrated by people belonging to that school of thought, the official ideology of saudi arabia and promoted by billions of billions of petrodollars across the globe, spreading extremism everywhere. we believe that we need to have good relationships with our neighbors and we want to. but they need to decide their policy. unfortunately for the united states, the yardstick is not which country -- whether a country supports terrorism or not, but whether they are buying beautiful -- that beautiful military equipment from t

coming up, we talk about cutter and its arab neighbors. back in moment. stay with us. ♪ ♪ several on june 5, middle eastern states severed relationships with qatar accused of supporting terrorism and their enemy, iran. it has thrown an unstable region into deeper turmoil. is the united arab emirates ambassador to the united states since 2008 here it he has been called the most influential ambassador in washington. and we have acting director of the cia we are deeply grateful. let me begin with you. what is the problem with the qataris? what are they doing that it so offends you? a first, is this philosophical or diplomatic disagreement. saudi, what kind of middle east they want to see 10 years from now, it will be fundamentally opposed to what qatar wants to see now. what we want to see is more secular, stable, prosperous, empowered, strong government. what we have seen qatar do for the last 10 to 15 years, support groups like the muslim other islamist militias in syria and libya, the exact opposite direction we think our area needs to go. our disagreemen

uprisings,arab turkey presented itself as a model for a secular democracy. that was far from being defensive and realist. it was very idealist in terms of what it said for the region as a whole, and of course, the return of those authoritarian states maybe that's not possible, and in fact, i would say, maybe the last speaker would disagree with me, the fact that turkish democracy itself is increasingly authoritarian reflects very much the influence the region has -- has on turkey. i know no one wants to make a connection between turkey and the return of this authoritarian state. at the same time, it seems to me there is enough evidence to prove that the influence between of theand the rest region is going both ways, and not necessarily in one direction. thank you. >> we will take a couple more questions. >> thank you very much. i just wanted to ask a very specific question, and probably this would be in the first -- thee in the category area of ambassador jeffrey, others may have a comment. why hasn't the u.s. extradited gulen? killseems to be a very your is

it has an shia killing sunni, sunni kills shea, turks killing arabs, arabs killing persians.what we see today is something we have seen in the 16th 16th century and 17th 17th century. russian czars and turkish assaultans and okay cia kraifs and they're battling each other, and they battled in the 16th 16th and 17th century, history is not over. history just return. >> thank you for being here and thank you for you service. i'm wondering how you think we should approach the problem of the spread of the radical ideology. you hear that a lot of the spread of wahabiism in belgium and france and europe. >> yes. >> how do we go bat actually combating this kind of radical ideology which is it's more issue rational and based upon some kind consecutive radicalization and radical interpretation of the religion. >> i'd like to use radical wahabi. that's something we have seen since 1979. since the took the mosque in mecca as hostage. the saudis think they need to do smog to indicater to the extreme elements in the society and create an alliance between the religious and the house of sau

four arab states cut ties with them alleging they support terrorism.the majority of americans, or even the chinese, most japanese don't consider being an entrepreneur a good career choice. the government is trying to change that to be with me is the bbc‘s mariko oi. you have gone to japan for a series of reports on this. usually, entrepreneurship has the challenge of starting with enough money. in japan, there challenge of starting with enough money. injapan, there is plenty available. the government has been offering a lot of subsidies. that is because entrepreneurship in general creates jobs and activities in the economy. when it was at its peak, japan's economy, the start—up rate was more than double what it is today, when we saw walkman and bullet trains and so on. we haven't seen bullet trains and so on. we haven't seen much since then. the government is trying to encourage it. the cultural issue is one of the reasons it has in one of the lowest in the world. i went home to meet four young entrepreneurs all under the age of 30. we will take a look

it was not our decision, but an arab decision.ecision that they took, they invited them to go and so they -- and asked them to leave, so they did. i represent iran and no other country. i believe we are there in order to help people fight terrorism. but, you see, these arguments have been negated time and time -- time and again. and people do not observe that. kyrgyzstan, is it shia territory? is it part of the shia crescent? within hours was of occupying erbir. charlie: and very close to baghdad. mr. javad sharif: yes, we went to the aid of both. charlie: we went to the aid of both by doing what? mr. javad sharif: by sending out advisors. charlie: they were more than advisors, were they not? mr. javad sharif: general suleimani was there with weapons and advisers. it is the people of iraq who are fighting the terrorists. it was the kurdish people who fought the terrorists. they needed support and help, and they needed people who knew how to organize them. we were there within two hours of president barzani calling us to go to thei

this is a very important entity in the arab world. this is what we want to happen, resolve this problem. we cannot resolve this problem if they do not come to the table. we are asking them to come to the table to leave their grievances and let's discuss. if there is anything based on fact we will deal with it. >> so turkey has moved some .roops to doha any time anybody moves troops somewhere, what are the chances this could become a military conflict? is that even something that you are worried about right now or something that you are considering? >> i'm not worried about that. >> what do you see as the reason for turkey moving these troops? >> the presence of turkey in qatar is part of the military cooperation agreement, in the larger context -- again, turkey is a nato country. ishave cooperation, and that part of the agreement. by the way, that agreement was way before this happened. >> so you don't anticipate. i know there's a limit on the number of troops that can come from turkey, as there is a limit on a number of troops coming

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

speaking arabic. when they speak arabic they really mean i speak latin and french. they speak to things. a standard language than what they learned on their mother's day is something so different that it is, although often the speakers feel funny being put this way because of cultural unity. it's a different language. the moroccan the language they heard at home is like french. then they went to school and is something like moroccan. a moroccan will say i learned moroccan and then arabic. any arabic speaker you know is like that. the idea that egypt should arabic is a threat know, as i mention this last week it addresses it at beautiful length. this article is going to run five minutes but it actually dwells in standard arabic if it's anything it's the other way around. black english is the same thing. black english speakers are going to be to tongue. this is not just made of for black people in the united states, this is people speaking all over the world. the idea that you learn something on your mo

this is a very important entity, in the arab world. want to happen. we want to resolve this problem. we cannot resolve this problem if they are not coming to the table. we're asking them to come to the table, put their grievances on the table, let's discuss, and if there's anything based on facts, we will deal with it. >> so turkey has moved some troops to doha. anytime anyone moves troops anywhere, everybody thinks, what are the chance that this could become a military conflict? is that even something you are worried about right now? is it something you are considering? mr. al-thani: i am not worried about that. >> so what do you see is the reason for turkey moving these -- as the reason for turkey moving these troops? mr. al-thani: the presence of turkey and qatar is part of a military corporation agreement. again, turkey is a nato country. cooperation, and that is part of the agreement. by the way, that agreement was way before this happened. >> ok. so it is not -- you don't anticipate -- i know there is a limit on the number of troops can come fro