from any arab government no condemnation from the arab media what's behind the silence this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program iran can intelligence leaks to the media about missing saudi journalist jamal khashoggi a pe on almost a daily basis now reports are emerging about evidence proving he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul and that his smartwatch could potentially help solve the mystery the turkish newspaper subba quoting security sources says the journalist may have even recorded his own death the audio of the moments when it's reported was interrogated tortured and killed were apparently recorded by the smartwatch he was wearing and sent to both his phone and i cloud is finds are with his fiance who was waiting outside the consulate on the day he went missing the second of october reports a saudi arabia has sent a hit scored fifteen men to techie the saudi interior minister says allegations their orders to kill ji are baseless lies meanwhile u.s. president don't trump has vowed to saudi arabia will face of a punishment if it's responsible for the j

it is not springtime in the arab world. however, energy could be seen as an enabler to move things forward between our two parts of the world and also within each part of our world. energy development can add to human development, in education, health, communication, transportation, water systems, security and more. energy is a source for people all over the world. historically, it has added much to the people of the united states and the arab world. for instance, consider the united states in 1860, before electricity was setup and even a small grid, and then 1920, then 1950 and now. energy has moved this country forward. now consider saudi arabia in 1920, before the discovery of oil. the king of saudi arabia's treasury could have been fit into a camel bag and his palace was a mud hut -- well, a rather large mud hut. now consider the uae of the 1950s compared to now. consider egypt in 1900 compared to now and how energy development has moved them forward. now consider syria. now consider yemen. now consider libya. energy is

being as the defense attache in riyadh as an arab and arabic speaker i usually when i go to see the defense headquarters and in an official car and driver and all of that. i try to shy from speaking in arabic with the guard posts i let the driver do all the talking. once the saudi guard came to my side i decided to oblige him and talk to him. greeting him. and all of that. they asked what's the purpose for the visit. i said the united states defense attache has a meeting with the chief of defense, saudi chief of defense. he looked at me and said you are the translator, where is the attache? [ laughter ] so for me it is been an interesting time being an arab-american working the last 15 years in the gulf and the middle east area. it is been enjoyable. unfortunately it is coming to a close. anyhow, i would like to talk about defense cooperation basically from an economic dimension. and also at the end identify a couple of regional infliction points that led to the implementation of this military element of power, military element of the regional let me set the stage by what jimmy carter said

/arab relationship. i hope today's luncheon and the conference, i hope you enjoy every minute of it. it's always a challenge to put these things together. i thought the morning was terrific. and i'm look iing forward to th it afternoon and tomorrow. please enjoy your lunch. we'll talk later. thank you. >>> we have been bringing you live coverage of the 27th annual arab policy is makers conference here in washington, d.c. live coverage continuing here when they resume on c-span 3. >> ladies and gentlemen, good morning. welcome on behalf of the board of directors of the national staff and national council on u.s.-arab relations, i'm honored to welcome you to the 27th annual washington policymakers conference. the national council was founded in 1983 as an american nonprofit educational organization dedicated to improving american knowledge and understanding of the arab world. we are grateful for the generous and enduring support of our sponsors. you can see here they are listed on the program guide and beh

>> zahara: [ speaking in arabic ] give him more of the spicy sauce.e economy is going 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! ♪ ♪ are we there yet? you d

the federal national council of the united arab emirates. the united arab emirates we're all in it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next time . you. move. simply have to renew if you will proceed. with the showing of the sky. do you think it should be your proceed slowly. slowly to have shipping. both. the books and your book much still. i don't know what the rule of. thumb. was the latest news in the us. boise you write the show you have put it this was going to. move. through the summer. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for and let it be an arms race often. spearing dramatic developing the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. so you don't accept the slow drivers will destroy the right to be a little bit it's. easy. to tell just like. i almost thought i would love me. while i'm somebody how does know it's a mask you never know what's happening and whether they're shooting whether it's your. mistrus

/arab relations? most of you probably don't know one of my first jobs was to work in a nuclear laboratory. so i know a little bit about the complexity of nuclear production and how it connects with nuclear weapons. many people don't know that there's a huge leap between nuclear production and the production of nuclear weapons. but i would say the best way to manage this is carefully and smartly, like my former student adid for the uae. set issing up a one, two, three agreement with the united states. and was a complicated moment for him and for us. but the politics of u.s./saudi relations now are very complicated because of recent events, which i will not get. into that everyone in this room knows about and also long-term prejudices that still are inherent. carefully and quietly, intellectually so forth, keep the press out of this until the decisions are made. i know that's difficult in this situation that we live in with information moving at a million miles an hour. but as i said in my speech, i rea

not just been in the arab world but but but as a whole. good question. what at i.p.i. what we feel is the disappearance and alleged murder of mr jamal khashoggi is a clear message from a g.m. which does not tolerate any kind of criticism that with impunity they will go down and silence critics and if this happens and this is a for the says we will see other targeted in the genes following the same path and the western world remaining silent because of the business deals they have with saudi arabia and these are targeted in judging so it's a very scary message that has come across but we also hope that because of this incident and as you correctly said in the introduction that people are looking forward to getting more information people are eager to know and this pressure so building on saudi arabia as well as the united states which is a close ally of prince moment bin salomon. that is a hope and a hot start this will help us promote press freedom that will be some reaction to this and we'll be able to build a country in by we can ensure that press freedom is expanded

the federal national council of the united arab emirates. the united arab emirates well that is it for this edition of so i will see you next time. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. few sit down and talk. this is. a church secret indeed priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it literally. to call this the solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out the priest is a perpetrator is simply moved him to a different spot were the previous. highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice doesn't do that and it is as old as the eye and then i include at tuesday's out in the. you know world big part of. a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on t

the united arab emirates growing economic and political influence is being felt everywhere in the middle east but will the quagmire of the war in yemen sink the new ambition of the tiny nation talk to the president of the emirates federal national council the most senior a female politician of the arab world dr amal. economic presence felt from egypt to somalia. trying on the role of a regional. in the middle east. dr ahmad a president of the federal national council of the united arab emirates welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us i hope you are enjoying your stay in st peter's work so let's start with your personal experience you are they highest ranking female politician in the arab world first woman to head a national assembly of an arab state i mean obviously that means that this world is very male centric how does that complicate your work how do you make men listen to you. thank you for hosting me i think. using our talent as women. being able to face challenges and at the same time to transcend to all of our potential it makes possible for us to be able to off

good def you took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with your friends in the area the man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision anymore. isolated and overlooked gadaffi would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight. wish the world innovation summit for health one community of two thousand health care experts innovators and policymakers from one hundred countries. one experience sharing best practices and innovative ideas. one goal the whole thier world through global collaboration. apply now to attend the twenty eighteen wish summit. an ancient disease that continues to put half of the world's population if we do have a vaccine in tools and out of the process of moving the disease in many parts of the world al-jazeera travels to tanzania and follows medical profession through on the frontline of the battle against malaria and that case just a few thousand mosquitoes in there all trying to save the life efficient way to do this lifelines the en

and our ib arab partners. it is going to help our partners achieve and sustain economic ability and prosperity in three areas. political cooperation, security cooperation, and economic cooperation. and of course energy plays a critical role. obviously built upon political security, political security is built upon economic security, and economic security, we think s built upon energy security. the bureau of energy resources a the state department, in cooperation with the u.s. department of energy, is leading this effort to make energy cooperation the bedrock of cooperation throughout the roip as part of this msa initiative. our discussion so far with our partners focused on five years, regional energy infrastructure integration, energy sector investment structural reform, critical energy infrastructure protection and resilience, diversification of supply, and sustainable resource development and use. this initiative is teaming to up crease jobs, lower the cost of energy production, and of course create the fou

arabs need something similar. "the new york times" and the post took joint ownership of the tribune newspaper which became a platform for voices from around the world. >> the post has taken the initiative to translate my pieces and publish it in arab. they need to read it so they can fully understand and discuss the various implications of democracy in the united states and the west. he goes on to write with an egyptian reads an article exposing the costs of a cob construction project in washington, he would be able to better understand the implications of similar projects in his community. >> the arab world needs a modern version so citizens can be informed about global events. we need to provide a platform for arab voices. we suffer from poverty, mismanagement. through the creation of a forum isolated from national governments spreading hate, ordinary people would be able to address the structural problems their societies face. that's it. submitted the day before he disappeared. >> every one of his words, he tho

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

new president of the federal national council of the united arab. emirates well that is it for this edition of so i will see you next time. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. that you'd like to be first to see what the full story of the more people. understood falls in the waters of. their city. i've been saying the numbers mean some matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten color orange each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be rich with six percent market songs thirty percent of your film with four hundred to five hundred three for shark. and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember in one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. this is gaza's current status it's one of the most overpopulated places on earth and on the brink of collapse. with troops forces in two thousand

kurdish arabic militias arctic air and attack. these recruits are here to liberate the last areas in syria held by islamic state in just a few days the young men from the syrian democratic forces will be transferred to the front about thirty kilometers away. marching shooting practice and tactics the u.s. estimates that up to two thousand i.a.s. fighters are still entrenched in hygiene but. the twenty four year old commander of the kurdish arab militia is rallying his troops for the bloody battle ahead. i've lost so many friends so many i can't count one died in my arms and another right next to me there were so many. the u.s. invited to visit the s.d.f. as part of the press trip with the group is us commander of the special operations forces in iraq and syria major general robertson since twenty fifteen the u.s. led coalition has been supporting the kurdish arab militias in their fight against the so-called islamic studies with the air raids weapons vehicles and training. the offensive against the last i a stronghold operation ro

had betrayed the arab cause and he is the champion of the articles. and. it is that is a possibility. i mean the outside of this area is that. it is that. is so that's why he starts supporting a lot of the movements in different parts of the world he was accused of supporting so many different there is when i was asian or from. irene in the u.k. to brigades in italy or monday learned south africa at the time when it was all the good that me and people like him and castro and yes i actually talked about mandela negative was a different and supported him. get their fee might have seen himself as a champion for global and struggle but for much of the west he was a supporter of worldwide terror. and then in december one thousand nine hundred five similar thing is attacks on airports in rome and vienna claimed the lives of one thousand civilians including five americans. the following year a west berlin nightclub was bombed killing three people two were american servicemen why do some german president of united states european intelligence agencies suggest

it was written by arab social scientists. they concluded in 2002, and i'm the one that broke the story of that report, that the arab world suffered from a deficit of knowledge, a deficit of freedom, and a deficit of women's empowerment. and if it did not rapidly move to reverse those deficits, it was going to face terrible problems. and unfortunately, what you just read, christiane, was just proof of how those deficits, all three of them, have only gotten deeper and deeper. and what jamal was saying, he was really saying, folks, if we don't reverse these deficits, we are doomed. and i really fear, now i despair for that part of the world. there's so many people there i like and admire. i fear, christiane, that it is doomed. >> well, you know, you're very, very, very firm on that, so i need to ask you one last question. do you believe that there is any way that there has been a rogue operation or that the crown prince did not know what was going to take place despite all the things that the turkish authorities have leaked, inc

not just in in the arab world but but but as a whole. good question. what what we feel is the disappearance and alleged murder of mr jamal khashoggi is a clear message from a gene which does not tolerate any kind of criticism that with impunity they will go down and silence critics and if this happens and this is the for the says that we will see other authoritarian regimes following the same path and the western world remaining silent because of the business deals they have with the saudi arabia and these are targeted in judging so it's a very scary message that has come across but we also hope that because of this incident and as you correctly said in the introduction that people are looking forward to getting more information people are eager to know and this pressure so building on saudi arabia as well as the united states which is a close ally of prince moment bin salomon. that is a hope and a hot start this will help promote press freedom that will be some reaction to this and we'll be able to build a country in right we can ensure that press fre

discrimination commit i mean and tied to arab anti-discrimination committee apologies. the work that they did also check shaheen the late media studies scholar pushing back against what disney was doing they did get a lyric to be changed in the v.h.s. release but now disney is making a live action remake of that film in one thousand nine hundred two and because of how they've had enough time to look at what that film has done the damage that is done they don't want to repeat those mistakes i mean what are you seeing right now where you're seeing this is not representing me. well i think for me black obviously and muslim and i think that it goes back to what malcolm used to talk about like the original discussion about black muslims who are black in america and the definition that even being from muslims who are black and you know being called black muslims so there's a way that even when you see representations of black muslims are muslims who are black they are not a part of the whole conversation of muslims so we're sort of other it in that and that is because i think

countries and not just arab countries.r countries have bad human rights records and oppressing their people and dealing with massive corruptions and things of that nature. the tragedy is that for the last 40, 50 years, certainly in my lifetime and i have been covering this as a journalist in the middle east, every single effort by arab civil society group that is try to promote freedom and equality and dignity and the rule of law has been either only symbolically or not at all supported by western governments particularly the united states beyond lip service. so it's very hard to break through those walls that are facing us. >> thank you for joining us and your analysis. senior fellow and professor at american university of beirut. >> very lucky to have him on today. and robin. >> it's really important for you like us thinking of jamal khashoggi as we should be, remember there are people like that all the world and in the middle east who are under arrest, who disappear, who are tortured and who are jailed just for asking f

gadhafi took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with your friends in the area the man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision anymore. isolated and overlooked. would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly a historic apology for one of british intelligence his darkest episodes it was a growing agreement of that the libyans could be quite useful to the west seven years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. gadhafi rendition and the west on al-jazeera. journeys of personal discovery more american here and then more air india al-jazeera correspondents tell their passengers stories that have marked their lives i feel sad that they have to endure a difficult time. for your town like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave. al-jazeera correspondent coming soon if inscribed in the wild

good defeat took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with your friends in the area and man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision any more isolated and overlooked gadaffi would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight. an ancient disease that continues to put half of the world's population if we have a vaccine into and out of the process of moving the disease in many parts of the world al-jazeera travels to tanzania and follows medical profession on the frontline of the battle against malaria and ask just three thousand mosquitoes in a mall trying to save a life in future to do this lifeline the end game on now to zero. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elections we'll be talking to the american people looking at key issues for voters from immigration to economic struggles the health care system to greece's and women's rights join us throughout oktober for special coverage and analysis of the u.s. midterms on al-jazeera the cricket world isn't o

would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight. china used to take half the world's recyclable rubbish but not anymore with garbage generated by one point four billion people they've got enough of their own but where does it go when he slips the lid on china's war on waste and out his era. al-jazeera where ever. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera more than seven decades ago a country was split into a bit of what did going in and now the time come on ben when shown to be involved all it took was a pan a map of the collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood. hello i'm barbara starr in london these are the top stories on our era turkish security sources have told al jazeera they have definite evidence that saudi journalist. was murdered he was last seen entering the sau

good then few took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with few friends in the area the man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision any more isolated and overlooked the good than a free would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight. where on line for humanity has been taken out of its goals as if we're talking about numbers on a spreadsheet or if you join us. i guarantee no one else has a back story like yours this is a dialogue and i'm just tired of seeing the negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice this ferguson that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the south join the global conversation. whether someone telling. the truth it's how you approach. it is a certain way of doing. there's the designation state sponsor of terrorism tell us what that designation means is that will slow down. the sudanese foreign minister. mohammed ahmed talks to al jazeera. in the lead up to the u.s. midterm elect

we take you live to the arab center, holding a discussion on the implications of jamal khashoggi. onwell as the implications press freedom and the impact on u.s.-saudi relations. that is underway. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] on manylt with him occasions here and in washington when he visited the states. and in the kingdom of saudi arabia during my frequent visits into riyadh and other places in the kingdom. gentleman, aays a keen analyst on middle east and islamic affairs, articulate early interested in u.s.-saudi bilateral relations, which we discussed almost every time we met. and, equally important, if not more important, a consistent advocate are basic freedoms and human rights, not only in saudi arabia, but throughout the arab world. podiume from this very on the 17th of november, 2017 when we hosted him after arrival to disk country, seeking refuge from threats back home -- arrival to this country, seeking refug

the in the arab world they call it electronic insects false stories falsely. people try to take you down to trying to denigrate you completely opposite immediately surrounds anything that you put up and they and it's designed absolutely designed to mislead for instance when i originally put my story of. not being dragged out of the. consul general's office with the consul there this is before i'd heard the tapes. and the comments that he made of please go into it somewhere else. what happened was a whole number of counter stories a pitts in other mainstream publications sank menace all rubbish i know the true man is alive and well and he's in riyadh and you will again soon be extremely stupid you know it explodes extremely city because it's actually not attacks absolutely convinced that he never emerged from the building alive and they've been saying that really from day one so that's that's the atmosphere what you've got is governments that openly do not believe in free speech or in democracy say they are was not ready for it and they say it is absolutely pub

it was not done in the arab world. this was, i believe, one of the secrets, in addition to the fact that the people who were recruited, recruited really the best ones from all over, in the arab countries and in the west, as well. many arab journalists were living in the west. now, al jazeera started the first of november, 1996. and made a big, a big something in the arab world. years later, years later, the x ex-president of egypt, hosni mubarak, visited doha and came to visit al jazeera. everybody at that time came to visit al jazeera. and when he entered al jazeera, a friend of mine was actually the guide, was senior producer there. he was the guide. he was showing him around. when he came to the newsroom, he looked and said, i want to see al jazeera. they said, well, this is al jazeera. he looked and he said, this is the matchbox that started all this fire? now, this is an interesting statement, because if hosni mubarak was a supporter of free professional media, he would have something like, is this the little that

which is liberty or freedom socialism and an arab unity. and also he wants to the same thing that he deliberately destroyed of course the citizen it's with the libyan people and also the same time he had to do since i was a very simple person that he would go and he would sit with his students at the university and he would drive his own car so here's a person he's from them he is from among them so we get a lot of support at the time what are your personal recollections of what he was like he was a doctor which of course said very simple and he came with no ideology he found what the street wanted and he had a lot of love i remember he came to the university with discussing with him the law of the of the student union and he came with the military forty. so one of the students told him hey you know that's envy in the universities business nation you're not supposed to come in with this kind of uniform so he took his volkswagen went back to his place changed and came and spent the night with us till three o'clock in the morning and we ate t

dokhi: thank you very much thank you khalil and the arab center. i am pleased to be here with everybody. let me start out by saying that freedom house has called for an international investigation into the crime that has taken place. we are also calling for swift sanctions against all of those that have any role in his killing. the murder of jamal khashoggi has shocked the world, but for those of us who have been following saudi arabia's trajectory, it should not, as a huge surprise. under the crown prince, we have seen a crackdown at home, and we have seen him launch a brutal war in yemen. he has been bullying countries around the world. and extraterritorial hit against a perceived opponent is not something that seems completely unlikely. to be clear, before mbs rose through the ranks and saudi arabia, the country was no beacon of freedom. freedom house has been researching saudi arabia's record and it has been categorized as among the worst of the worst countries in terms of political right and civil liberties. for nearly 30 years, it has receive

you know, in 2011 when there was the brief arab spring, i think he saw like a lot of people that arabs different than anybody else. they want the dignity of freedom, they want to express themselves. until then, there's this mix of oh, the arab don't want democracy. of course, everybody wants that dignity. when the arab string collapsed, he began to think especially last year, talked to us and others about creating some kind of platform where these voices could be heard. some way that we could reach people in these countries where their own press is not allowed to speak with a diverse debate. >> shepard: fred hiatt from "the washington post." the thoughts of us are here with you and yours at the post. thanks for coming. >> thanks, shepard. >> shepard: president trump says he may sends troops to shut down the border with mexico. he's warning by twitter and what it's really all about still to come. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need c

president of the federal national council of the united arab emirates. crisis and the united arab emirates we're all in it that is it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next time. this is. a church secret indeed priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous. highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice so listen to that end of that's known as the i and then i included tuesdays out and. it. is filled with. i've been saying the numbers means they matter us is over one trillion dollars and . more than ten dollars. timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealthy loans to the rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a

not just in in the arab world but but but as a whole. good question. what what we feel is the disappearance and alleged murder of mr jamal khashoggi is a clear message from a gene which does not tolerate any kind of criticism that with impunity they will go down and silence critics and if this happens and this is a for the says that we will see other targeted in the genes following the same path and the western world remaining silent because of the business deals they have with saudi arabia and these are targeted and regime so it's a very scary message that has come across but we also hope that because of this incident and as you correctly said in the introduction that people are looking forward to getting more information people are eager to know and there's pressure so building on saudi arabia as well as the united states which is a close ally of prince moment been so adamant. that there's a hope and a hot start this will help us promote press freedom that will be some reaction to this and we'll be able to build a come clean but we can ensure that pr

or not said the united arab emirates growing economic and political influences brain cells everywhere in the middle east but will the quagmire of the war in yemen sink the new ambition of the tiny nation talk to the president of the emirates federal national council the most senior a female politician of the arab world dr amal. with its muscle being tested in the war and its economic presence felt from egypt to somalia the united arab emirates is trying on the role of a regional power but does the small stage have a staying power to sustain its ambitions managed to step out of the shadows of its powerful neighbors and. the great game in the middle east. by say president of the federal national council of the united arab emirates welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us i hope you are enjoying your stay in st peter's.

exists now in the country so how does the emirate support for the separatists go along with the united arab emirates military backing of press and how does government in the fight against the rebels how can they support what is called the legitimate government and at the same time a rebel group which is fighting against it. i think basically this is that affliction unfortunately of the lack of direction of both the transitional council and the government because basically the government and the transitional council know that the second problem. is majority of the people who are who live on that. it's not a blockade only if you look at the situation in yemen what's making it to us is that. most of the government employees in the country have not received studies or marginal part of their salaries for the last two years this had really to the starvation added to the humanitarian crisis and. this has nothing to really to do with the blockade it is to do with the management of the countries it is or says by both the un saw the light in the north and by the government in the south so this outlet

because it's canceled its production of the famous story because it was thought to be anti arabic. it has been brought to our attention the disney's aladdin junior has historically been criticized for its inaccurate negative stereotyping of arabic culture after careful consideration and with him perform the perspectives of teachers parents and community members we decided that this production is not the best fit for our community. in the play arabs are described as barbaric those are the exact words they used and the actual play was very controversial apparently in the early ninety's it's not the first time the supposed barbarism of aladdin has provoked anger a year after the release of the disney film the lyrics of the opening song were actually changed the original version included a line about cutting off is and it was replaced with a description of the desert although not everybody sees offense in the story and some parents have criticised the school's cancellation of the play they're saying we're a community but yet they didn't even ask anyone they just made this decision by t

is the republican congressional candidates in the chicago area is trying to appeal to voters in the arab community with anti israeli and anti-gay rhetoric after jones placed a campaign advertisement in an arab american newspaper although he didn't quite get the reaction he wanted. you know the holocaust is a fact you know it's real. ridiculous . our white superior blacks. know course of all that you know that's racist. you know that's true but i consider myself a wait. a second this week involving in the. clashes erupted between support his. head of the. french forces and. police were forced into the news to gas to separate the french and italian supporters and fans from each side to set and being involved three were injured to the italian media reports of the tens of cia fans were dressed in black carrying knives and will say this my to have a violent far right fringe of support. it's the match ended in a three one victory lap. washing out international still ahead for you this hour school in the u.s. has pulled it stage adaptation of aladdin after parents announce the play is anti arab

newspaper releases last opinion piece in which he wrote about the silencing of journalists in the arab world. and this is. also coming up no progress in brussels as e.u. leaders meet to discuss the irish border still the biggest obstacle to a deal. at least nineteen people die in a gun and bomb attack by a teenage student at a college in crimea. investigators have left the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul after nine hours searching for clues into the disappearance of journalist. in the u.s. there is growing pressure on donald trump to take action against the saudis despite his refusal to condemn riyadh over the affair well we have correspondents in turkey and the u.s. following the latest developments under simmons is in istanbul outside the consulate and mike hanna is in washington d.c. we'll speak to both of them in a few moments but first the latest on the investigation from jamal. on wednesday turkish investigators turned their attention to the saudi consul donal's home after finally being given permission to enter it's a team of forensic experts some police headed by t

discrimination commit i mean and tied to arab anti-discrimination committee apologies. the work that they did also check shaheen the late media studies scholar pushing back against what disney was doing they did get the lyric to be changed in the v.h.s. release but now disney is making a live action remake of that film in one thousand nine hundred two and because of how they've had enough time to look at what that film has done the damage that is done they don't want to repeat those mistakes i mean what are you seeing right now where you're seeing this is not representing me. well i think for me black obviously and muslim and i think that it goes back to what malcolm used to talk about like the original discussion about black muslims who are black in america and the definition that even being from muslims who are black and you know being called black muslims so there's a way that even when you see representations of black muslims are muslims who are black they are not a part of the whole conversation of muslims so we're sort of other it in that and that is because i thi