iran's influence in the region from yemen to syria lebanon and iraq compares visits included eight arab countries jordan iraq egypt bahrain u.a.e. qatar saudi arabia and mon and he had this warning the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country well pump as said the arab coalition would include g.c.c. countries as well as egypt and jordan but he raise concerns that the rift between four of the countries and kata would affect the alliance his effectiveness and he called for an end to the dispute. today in our conversations i stressed the importance of unity among the gulf cooperation council members president trump and i both believe the ongoing dispute in the region has dragged on too long and the dispute benefits adversaries and harms our mutual interests our nations do important work and we have i

i mean, starting off with arabs, right, because arab and muslim isn't synonymous.had danny thomas and jamie farr. we were these great comedic figures. post 9/11, we became caricatures of terrorists and nothing more and so that was something that i was really concerned about shifting and giving arabs the opportunity to be seen on screen as something other than a taxidriver or a terrorist. but also, being a person of colour is a challenge and arab is considered a person of colour, so you have to break through that barrier. but...i was going to say, couldn't it be an advantage? 0ne arab actor said recently that when he complained about being depicted as a terrorist and saying that this was racial profiling, he was told, "you're lucky and you can use your ethnicity as a play card in an industry where white actors are overlooked." it can be an advantage, can't it? that's an obscene comment, that people even consider that being a minority in hollywood is a good thing. it's not. we're still completely outnumbered. but you do quite well. it's notjust...i mean 0mar sharif,

the mathematics of songs and the development of algebra the term algebra can be traced back to the arabic word algebra which has its roots in the manuscript written around eight twenty during the time i refer to was the golden age of science this was the period between the ninth from fourteenth centuries when scholars in the islamic world first applied the principles of mathematics to science and jamal could be a british professor of theoretical physics but born in baghdad i'm going to look at how the mathematical underpinnings of science apply today and trace their roots back to this golden age. aviation is one of the most remarkable achievements of modern science and in order to be sure that the planes we've built stay in the sky we've needed to master the mathematics of flying. this is we come on the and be green who's a jet pilot and a mathematician. we are straight. and you have the mathematics background so you understand more the most the mathematics involved in aviation and flying absolutely it's it is a great way to be able to understand how to fly an airplane to understand the d

they were jewish scholars or those under the auspices of the islamic empire being translated into arabic many of these scholars came from all sorts of religions all working together in this one big movement. translation was central to the early work of the house of wisdom dr peter starr has studied this translation movements extensively. i think the translations are very central to the flourishing of sciences in islam one finds that the entire corporate of scientific literature finds its way into arabic so they were translating essentially from greek mainly from greek but also the languages are important as well from persian at least from sanskrit when did this start so the end of the century we find the translations really picking up that this is the bastard yes here above all be a bastard period the earliest translations tend to be in those subjects which will serve the empire most medicine astronomy philosophy mathematics so without this remarkable translation movement that went on for two centuries there wouldn't have been a golden age at all i think that puts a very well. the house

i think arab societies have really, arab uprisings, have stepped up to the plate and forced this kind of enormous shift that we are seeing in have states do with islamists, how to deal with the trying to control the islamist message. because before the arab uprising, particularly if you look back at the making '90s, state and egypt as a perfect example of this were pretty inept at doing this. they try to license moss. they could do that. they try to license imams. there was no control over the religious message and there's also eyed the emphasis on the role that religion played in arab society. i think one of the great contributions of this report is to a very nuanced, comp credit and detailed manner to teach us the boards of religion in arab society, which people i think are many decades particularly in the west have always tried to minimize. that religion, there was always an excuse for the role that religion seem to play in arab societies. the collapse of secularism, collapse of nationalism. the absence of any other ideology. religion was never measured, understood or studied on it

as a result i actually don't think that most arabs, particularly the further westward you go in the arab, that most arabs really do share this deep antipathy to shiaism. i think that this kind of sectarian conflict is not destined to shape arab politics, and the u.s., we have to be very careful to not adopt this sectarian discourse. when you hear republican politicians talking about the shia crescent and adopting this kind of very sectarian arab discourse, i think that's not what the u.s. should be doing. >> martin, what about the other part of the president's middle east strategy, which we haven't heard from much, but jared kushner was going to bring peace to the middle east. he was going to -- he was going to present a peace plan, palestinians, israelis, this is something that they had talked about privately for a long time. where is it? >> well, it's actually an interesting contrast between obama's speech ten years ago in which he promised that he would make a major effort to resolve the israeli/palestinian conflict and spent a good third of his speech on that subject, and the one sen

league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them the qatari and we are lebanon attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade that saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break the siege imposed on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who stayed away of course are allied to the united states and the united states the strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world there's been an explosion at an army checkpoint in syria's capital damascus there were no casualties in the car bomb blast the syrian army controls all areas around the capital which has been relatively untouched by the. now

pan-arabism has its limits. if you talk about this secular socialist, i think we are well beyond that being particularly appealing for a number of reasons. when it comes to islam, there's this interesting question of w how -- domestic security -- these countries, they care about regime security and regime survival. so for them, if islam is resident in the public's sphere, if you don't have your own particular approach to islam, then you are leaving an ideological vacuum that domestic challengers can take advantage of. that really becomes a question fundamentally of regime survival. if you are president sisi, you can't afford to do that. you have to engage on these very foundational questions of islam's role in public life and islam's relationship to the state. if you don't, others will. this actually gets to i think something which is quite worrying from my perspective, which is that because islam is so inherently political and public for these regimes and also for many citizens of the countries, private acts of

because it comes a originally from india arabic because it came by the islamic world and scholars in baghdad like me transmitted it first. and then to the rest of the world everywhere today we use this decimal system one to nine and the zero and we forget how difficult it was before it existed should go so imagine if i wanted to add up my bill but not using the decimal system using roman numerals instead let's see how awkward that would be if i first write these numbers down using hindu arabic numerals forty two sixteen and fourteen now i can add these up very easily the sixteen and fourteen makes thirty plus the forty to seventy two. in roman numerals forty two would be x l r. sixteen is x v. fourteen is x v. i have to break this down now how many x. is forty so that actually four x. is. and then. and then i have another. we are. going to have an. and four. ok so now i have six x. x. x. x. . then i have a v. . and then i have one two three four seven so that's not a v. . they give me another x. so finally one two three four five six seven that. which is seventy two so i've got the r

a lot of these moments began evolving separately in arab countries and arab societies long before the iranian resolution even though that was the catalyst that caused a very, very seismic shift in how these moments operated vis-a-vis iran. >> can i ask you what you mean when you say that even though it appears that states may be taking charge, sort of taking ownership of how islam is practiced, you're saying that no matter how much they do that, there's always going to be ideological vacuums here and there and you're saying that's because over the last 30, 40 years islam has become democraticized in a sense? >> yes, because there are multiple interpretations of the message. that can't be controlled. and i'm speaking primarily about sunni islam, not shia islam. so as the reason and so we're sort of coming full circle. the reason that states have become far more sophisticated as the study explains, in dealing with trying to control and take ownership of religion in their own societies and in the region in general the reason this is happening is because they have seen explosion and a dem

call them is in the arab world are struggling so how come the summit held with the divisions among arab countries. exactly a lot of divisions among arab states some arab countries imposing a boycott blockade on on other arab countries the qatari emir one of the one of the heads of state to present at this summit the lebanese media it has been described as a country qatar of course under siege or under a blockade by a saudi alliance comes to lebanon to break the blockade imposed by by the same countries so there is no cooperation real cooperation you talked about sudan earlier the protests there the dire living conditions levanon there is a protest taking place not very far from here lebanon was hoping that this summit would be an economic lifeline that the arab world would pump in more money but they are not going to do that as long as this country stays allied with iran and the syrian government the death is high unemployment rate is high so really these divisions in the arab world means that these summits these arab league summit do not come up with any meaningful results they say no

he was a musician and i think the part here he talks about he's got a disk with the arabic alphabet and he talks about towns in the number a particular symbol appears kindi figures out the idea or frequency analysis that when a letter appears a certain number of times it's more common than other letters you can work out what it is can these text is the earliest known description of frequency analysis but that text was only discovered in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven before that we had no idea that this supposedly modern technique for studying cryptic messages was in use over a thousand years ago now one of the oldest and most simplest ways to encrypt a message to make it secret is simply by substituting each letter by a different one let me show you. imagine we have a simple sentence al-kindi was a famous scholar now provided we have the key. key which is also called the cipher which by the way comes from the arabic word which means zero with i represent each letter with a different one so by looking at the table i would see that a corresponds to l. and l. corresponds to k.

league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them the qatari and we are lebanon attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break the siege imposed on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who stayed away of course are allied to the united states and the united states the strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world to some but you know you coalition has launched a series of asteroids and yemen's capital some who see a military base some drone facility which. it's a first on the coalition's count and strikes in the capital since yemen's warr

there is an arab summit in march next year.geria, tunisia and other countries are working to break the isolation of syria and invite assad to the coming arab summit. so it will be different because he was kicked out in november 2011. so it could be a turning point here. what i find interesting is that a lot of speculation is from western commentators, is that because assad was propped up in the bad days by iran and now you have all these arab nations, what does this mean? the turks immediately after trump said he was pulling out, did not consult with his secretary of defense which is why he resigned. the kurds, who did the heavy lifting turning back isis, are suddenly now threatened by the turks. in the last 24 hours, they invited assad to send troops to northern syria. it's to protect them. and bari brought up israel, what you have is this complete mess. i don't think there is any clarity because iran is strengthened all the way to the mediterranean by assad consolidating power. israel has had elections. an election in april.

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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

but beef before the arab uprising, when you look back at 1990, states in egypt as a first example we are pretty inept at doing this. i mean they tried to license mosques, they could do that. they tried to license imams. there was no control of the religious message and there was also a deemphasis on the role that the real role religion played in society. so i think one of the great contributions of this report is to come a very nuanced complicated and detailed manner is to teach the importance of religion and in arab societies which i think for many decades particularly in the west, religion is always next excuse for the role that religion seems to play in arab society. the collapse of secularism, the collapse of nationalism, the absence of any ideology. and religions was never measured or understood on its own terms. so i think that is the first value that is very sophisticated in the nuance report and i think that the other value, broadly speaking, is that it shows us how states have recovered from the arab uprisings. even in states where there wasn't an uprising such as saudi arab

league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them the qatari and we are lebanon attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break this to impose on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who stayed away of course are allied to the united states and the united states a strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world. the u.s. coalition is launched a series of airstrikes in yemen's capital sana'a the military base drone facility with songs did it's the first time the coalition has carried out strikes in the capital since yemen's warring sides met

>> okay first of all [ speaking arabic ] good morning . if you're wondering why both of us are sitting like this it's because these tears are meant for 6'7" tall folks, people like myself don't fit into these kinds of chairs, so it's not a super excited way to pounce on you. so thank you all for coming so early and hopefully it's a youthful and productive conversation. faith without activism with is deficient. in fact, there's even a theological question in early islam which people are still debating. you have faith if you're doesn't impact your actions? that's actually a theological question. is it enough to merely believe without at least impacting yourself, if not others, and that is a very, very profound question. and the majority of our tradition has said no, belief entails at least activity on yourself. in other words, forgot to show in your own life something has to change. you know, in our tradition we have the story of you know, satan himself and theoretically, technically, he believes, but he is not a believer. he's not a muslim,

ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean sense. since maybe the ninety seventy nine there was a clear position by the g.t.c. countries to combat iranian intervention and was what was called at the time exporting that evolution there on the end of illusion across the borders of the iran and certainly there are different positions in the gulf according to how serious are these threats to various companies you have saudi arabia and bahrain and the way they see a hard line position of course the way to changing positions there in the last couple of years as you know their biggest trading partner of iran in the region was and still is actually the united arab emirates and specially if it were dubai or the saudi in the behind it positions completely different there was always been into my animosity between the saudis and any one side and the iranians on the other side but i think a position has always bee

league they were pushing for this and there are still no arab returns to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them. on attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break this imposed on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who say the way of course our ally to the united states and the united states a strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world. five hospitals in the gaza strip are facing closure because of fuel shortages hospitals rely on diesel generators because of blackouts from gaza's only power station reports now from girls. has suffered kidney problems. which in year old needs dialysis treatment full times a week. food

arab terrorists attacking opec, the headquarters of oil power. men were killed 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 flair 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 passport on planes, spoke spanish, russian, french, and arabic. >> this is a face for international terrorism. here's a venezuelan working with the palestinians, a

of knowledge of his life he was a journalist but this is about the dignity of four hundred million arab people men and women all over the arab world who simply want to live a decent normal dignified life not to be lied to and not to be threatened not to be curtailed in their human ambitions to live a normal decent life and the media is just one dimension of this and free expression but it goes way beyond that it's a question of decent citizenship in arab countries and this is a huge battle and one of the reasons that people are fighting back in saudi arabia and the emirates and behind and egypt and other places in the arab world they're pushing back against this is because they don't want to have normal citizenship for their people they want to maintain an autocratic authoritarian system of rule and they're they have a law allies and netanyahu and israel and trump and the united states so this is a battle that's going to go on for some time throughout the region in the world a battle that's going to go on for some time rami khouri says matthew what do you see a standing in the way of an

league they were pushing for this and there is still no arab consensus to return syria and to the arab cold syria's membership we have to remember was suspended back in two thousand and eleven because of its violent crackdown on anti-government protesters so two heads of state attending one of them the qatari and we are lebanon attaching a lot of importance to his presence because qatar is a country under blockade that saudi arabia and its allies impose the siege on qatar so the lebanese media is really describing his decision his last minute decision to attempt as qatar trying to break this to impose on lebanon lebanon expected to come under more pressure the arab countries who say the way of course our ally to the united states and the united states a strategy in the arab world is to exert pressure on iran and try to contain its influence in the arab world. rallied calling for the release of an iranian state television unquote when he's been jailed in the united states american born he was detained in st louis eight days ago as a material witness in an undisclosed investigation fifty

sentiment as possible towards despair and let's make good of any alliance with some arab states against iran and turn around into an enemy and the united states with some lobbying inside the administration would probably want that to happen but at the end of the day the main issue is that the united states feels that its influence may be dwindling that it could be its allies traditional allies maybe looking eastwards at the moment towards the likes of russia and china on that point i would definitely agree with you here joshua the issue between the united states and turkey in northern syria beads would be the kurds has not been resolved and this i really felt american media and western media in general they don't look at the other actors in the other players in all of this because i don't want to really bet a lot on seeing his policy become super wishin and if he doesn't know what the u.s. is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right

but what's really fascinating compare this text written in arabic. with this one is an identical one but written in latin and what's fascinating is the letters labeling the points followed the arabic alphabet not the latin alphabet so. a b g d clearly whoever through this knew about two c's work and that was a couple where the man who drew this was kind of this so this is copernicus who came up with the idea that rather than the earth being the center of the whole system it was the sun senator and all the planets including the earth revolved around revolved around it and that's the picture that we have today copernicus was and is regarded as the father of modern science because of this great revolution and yet what's so fascinating is that this was built on two she's ideas yes so it shows the continuity of science copernicus owes this debt to these medieval astronomers from the goldeneye. islam itself was a significant reason behind many of the early explorations and discoveries in astronomy during the golden age there was a need to know the accurate

and arab relations. now a discussion on u.s. policy toward asia with former luisi and he -- louisiana congressman charles boutsany. they joined in looking at the upcoming president summit with north korean leader kim kim -- kim jong un, and this 90 minute event was hosted by sasakawa peace foundation

in a very small and it's a camp that's very divided because the gulf arabs and israel which of course america is trying to bring the two together to face off against iran. divided and we see between qatar and saudi arabia but none of the gulf arabs really trust each other they're not ready to really combine and it's a mess the middle east is a mess today and the united states doesn't really know what to do with it you know sabra it's go back to london i mean we went when trump made his announcement the original announcement in december of last year of withdrawing from syria it was quickly followed up by. lowering the number of troops in afghanistan after trump made his trip to iraq not going through the diplomatic procedures which obviously annoyed the iraqi government they too says he said it's time for american troops or some of them to leave here i mean we do have an exit is of one form or another and it's all of these countries want america to leave it's interesting a pompei is that we only go where we're asked to go and we leave when we're told to leave which is this patently unt

it's from the trumpeter previous to is the united states attempt to create what so called the arab nato a number of other countries with israel and maybe others it to confront iran that that does two things at the same time does the first thing which says we might withdraw our own troops but we will remain engaged with others to provide their troops and second iran is the number one enemy and that least bump a zero on the top administration to this idea of creating an arab nato with in this case israel plus out of control how difficult is it going to be they for pompei to sell this message i mean how believing are these countries going to be have his message what we've already had this morning coming out saying we're still hearing mixed messages from the trumpet ministration well you know just if we can broaden it the bit we're not only receiving mixed messages from the top administration arabs in the region have been receiving mixed messages from washington because being in the shoes of those in jordan it took the obama administration's four years to convince them that iran is not an i

players aiming to reassure arab allies of continuing u.s. support for the fight against i sell extremism despite donald trump's order to withdraw troops from syria president jordan has more from washington. one thing is clear the u.s. military may be ending its direct mission in syria but it's not going to stop the fight against eisel on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that u.s. aircraft would be for paired to target and to kill eisel fighters if they try to retake any territory either in syria or in iraq meantime the pentagon is confirming that some equipment that the u.s. military had been relying on while deployed in syria is now being moved out of the country but for security reasons they are not saying how quickly this some two thousand u.s. troops in syria are going to be leaving where they will be based after they leave

saudi arabic over the company and the state on al-jazeera. keeping the nuclear deal alive the e.u. announces a plan to bypass u.s. sanctions and keep trading with iran. sam is a dam this is al jazeera live from also coming up piling on the pressure thousands of protesters across venezuela called on president nicolas maduro to step down. politicians in the u.s. renew their push to end support for the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen plus. i'm wayne hay in myanmar where thousands of come out to mark seventy years since a rebel group took up arms against the government a cease fire is in place that will tell you why a permanent peace seems to be drifting further away. a you countries have devised a new payment system that would allow them to trade with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions their hope is to save the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal the president donald trump pulled out of last year to iran says the mechanism is a first step plan would allow e.u. companies to trade with iran through a european payment channel created by france germany and britain last year president tru

saudi arab. the company and the state on al-jazeera. from the arab spring and. now. of the most of you and other tens of thousands of. cars. in the city that become a. priest said the country. hello i'm richard gere's berlin you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week egypt on january twenty fifth the anniversary of the arab spring most famous day we examine what's left of journalism there and look at some of the talk show hosts who safeguard the cult of personality that surrounds president. and nicaraguan journalist flees the country was he trying to avoid the same fate his father faced in the one nine hundred seventy s. plus the israeli military gives its neighbors a lesson in geography the twitter sphere then escalates it to an all out mean war. it's been eight years since the fall of hosni mubarak and the uprising that briefly liberated egyptians and their media from life under one man rule fast forward to the present day and president. government is doubling down tripling down on controlling the news media measures th

tour mike compares aiming to reassure arab allies of continuing u.s. support for the fight against i select stream as and despite donald trump's order to withdraw troops from syria president jordan has more from washington. one thing is clear the u.s. military may be ending its direct mission in syria but it's not going to stop the fight against eisel on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that u.s. aircraft would be prepared to target and to kill eisel fighters if they try to retake any territory either in syria or in iraq meantime the pentagon is confirming that some equipment that the u.s. military had been relying on while deployed in syria is now being moved out of the country but for security reasons they are not saying how quickly this some two thousand u.s. troops in syria are going to be leaving where they will be based after they leave syria or how long the drawdown is going to take one thing is certain the u.s. is taking great pains right now to try to remind its allies that it's not abandoning them in terms of security cooper

the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has struck ten training camps outside to keep the city of the data on wednesday renewed fighting there is threatening a cease fire deal struck in sweden last month. donald trump has lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs calling them naive and wrong of the threat posed by iran the u.s. president suggested they go back to school after officials contradicted his claims on key national security. the united nations is warning that refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean sea losing their lives alarming rate new figures released by the un's refugee agency shows six people died on average every day last year it estimates more than two thousand two hundred migrants died or went missing one attempting the crossing the routes was particularly deadly for boats leaving from libya where one pilot hasn't died at sea for every fourteen there arrived in europe that's despite a major drop in the number of refugees reaching europe one hundred thirty nine thousand arrived in two thousand and eighteen which is the lowest number i

/arab relations, and for the generous invitation to be here today. and d, i want to thank all of you for taking the time to be with us. i really appreciate your time and i hope we might have a genuinely enlightening discussions on these important issues. john, sometimes your voice and writings are almost alone in supporting our world. articulating reasons and pointing out errors. thank you. thank you for being such an unwavering member of our family. and it in the every single gcc summit since its inception. that is not to say that you do not hesitate from time to time to correct or upgrade us, if you feel we deserve it. that is also appreciated. on this, unvarnished advice from trusted friends is always welcomed. ladies and gentlemen, of course any vision for the future must be rooted in the reality of today's challenges. and in the region, these geopolitical challenges are both well-known and exceptionally complex. there is yemen, syria, libya, iraq, lebanon, a country steered by hezbollah militia, and iran on the region. the needs of refugees and

he is an arab. he is a saudi. yet, the most precious thing to him was freedom of the press in particular. what this tells us is that this is a universal value. he loved america because it embodied freedom. we need to show that we will support him in his fight to bring freedom to his own people. thank you all for coming. [applause] >> the government shutdown is now in its 23rd day. making it the longest in u.s. history. watch the house on monday. the senate, life at 3:00 p.m. on c-span two. aboututdown is affecting 800,000 federal workers across several agencies and thousands of contractors. on friday, several senators talked about the shutdown, fromding representatives hawaii and tammy baldwin. hostage situation. for the past three weeks, donald trump has held 800,000 federal workers, tens of thousands of federal contractors, and thousands of small businesses

it is related to the arab world.f the growing danger of iran, more and more i would say virtually all the arab countries no longer see israel as their enemy, but as their vital ally in countering the threat of militant islam. that we are united in stopping the greatest radical islamic threat of all, which is iran. so, there has been, out of this curse comes a blessing. the blessing is this extraordinary relationship between us, and i think that ultimately we might be able to shift the ground. i don't think it's readily available right now, but i don't discount that it could happen. we used to say if we make peace with the palestinians we'll break out and normalize our relations with the arab world. i think that actually may work the other way around. we normalize our relations with the arab world to help change the perception of palestinians. david: so the relationship israel has now with the sunni-arab world is better than you've ever seen it before, is that fair? pm netanyahu: unbelievable. and we work on it. david

saudi arabic over the company and the state on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has promised support to the leader of venezuela one why the two men spoke on the phone water a joint thousands of people on the streets of caracas for another day of protests. the united arab emirates says the saudi led coalition in yemen has hit ten training camps outside the key port city of data on wednesday. is threatening a cease fire deal struck in sweden last month the u.n. is mourning the refugees and migrants crossing the mediterranean sea are losing their lives at an alarming rate you figures show six people died on average every day last year. more now on the crisis in venezuela president maduro has indicated he is ready to talk to the opposition but with certain conditions or latin america editor lucy newman reports now from caracas. thousands of in israel and sam took the call to hold a midday protest carrying signs that read we all have reasons. they're demanding the president