many pieces of information this absolute discredit to the bahraini regime with heard about killings we've heard about torturing repression and all kinds of revelations so that in itself is a positive step forward that that has happened but i think it does really open the wider question as to whether the government this is commission such a peace is really willing to address all the systemic problems that that report reveals and also to go wider than that and to really address the concerns that the protesters were actually raising the. issues of democracy it's very interesting if i go to you michel is this report written for external consumption was it written for europe was written for the americans because there is the go she should it's going on with the royal family of brain in the united states for a fifty three million dollars military aid bill that's going through congress i mean quite a few things they do is very coincidental because if the if the recommendations and there seems to be no me within the report to make sure that these recommendations of reconciliation are brought abou

we are all bahrainis. we have to walk together to build a better bahrain, a better future for our people, to em power our people. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the president of yemen is said to be ready to sign a bill to relinquish power to his deputy. it will come after months of violent protests in yemen. mr. saleh has been in power for more than 30 years. he previously backed out of signing the deal three times. two leaders in khmer rouge in trial for genocide -- said the prosecution case relied on accounts from newspapers. the former foreign minister said he received a royal pardon, social not be on trial. researchers are warning that taking slightly too much day after day could lead to a fatal overdose. specialist in scotland say they've seen more than 150 cases of what they called staggered overdoses at one of the city's hospitals. contact has finally been made with the russians troubled mars commission. it p

>> peter, i think everybody is expecting this report to be fairly critical of the bahraini government, of the way that it behaved during and after the crack down on protests here in february and march. but the devil is in the details. what people here are waiting to see is in the wording of the report, whether it says that torture was used in a wide spread and systematic fashion by the authorities when they arrested hundreds of people and interrogated them during the period where torture was used systematically. it's really the word systematic that people are waiting to hear, particularly in the shia community, the shia majority community here, which most of the people were from the shia community. if the report is highly critical and the words systematic abuse is used, it may help to play indicate the shia community. if it's not used, then i think we could find there will be more protests and more violence here. but even if the report is very critical, i think we're then going to have to see what the government does, what the king and says what actions are taken by the bahraini gover

protesters from saudi arabia and saudi arabia and bahraini government attacks failed protect the protesters in yemen it failed to prevent the attacks nato and some arab countries on libya. i can't think of anything that the league is done successfully representing europe interest since its creation. at the end of world war two and when you agree that it saps actually representing us interests rather than our of interests absolutely i think they should change their name. interesting to see that they're actually meeting now in cairo where of course we're seeing this latest violent crackdown on protests is there just how conspicuous cries absence is the fact that they're not discussing syria and they're not discussing egypt and indeed discussing syria. it's true. they would do the. image and everyone else in the world is totally stupid. too far off i mean there was a lot of oh. and if they can do it again in syria or and. everywhere else. when will they operate everything from who will stand up against. these. conservative. terrorists in america well just briefly finally we know that you've li

protesters from saudi arabia the saudi arabian and bahraini government but taxes failed protect the protesters in yemen it failed to prevent the attacks nato and severe countries on libya i can't think of anything that the urban league has done successfully representing europe in true since its creation in. the end of world war two. and you round of violence has flared up on the course of all serbia border with nato troops using tear gas whilst dismantling barricades put up by local serbs opposed to border checkpoints their representatives claim that the nato command in the breakaway province has broken agreements with them after promising on wednesday not to take unilateral action or troops in riot gear attempted to remove concrete barriers and put up a barbed wire fence to restore control of the area belgrade has condemned the nato move and urged the peacekeepers to act according to the un mandate to protect civilians political analyst nicola tenacity says nato force in kosovo for can't fulfill this mission and that's why local serbs stay at the barricades there is no doubt nato h

clearly the bahrainis are willing and although they keep on telling us nobody has seen the report yet, they have seen the report. and i think that it is not a good report. the point, since i'm running out of time here, the point is the fact that the bahraini monarchy reacted to the unrest, not by moving towards the process of reform but by calling in the peninsula shield force which means that the saudi troops and the moroccan cherubs, few were from other countries, are now in the country trying to maintain over -- order and so on. by doing all of this the monarchy has lost a lot of its legitimacy and has lost the capacity to introduce reforms from the top. because they think at this point, the kind of reform it will require to pacify the shia population would be reforms that the monarchy probably cannot accept. it will amount to the demise of the ruling family. let me stop here. >> thank you arena for giving very good context to what monarchies can do with their time and the challenges of reform from above. a country like a reign which is clearly missed the boat as it were. thank you

how we do intend to hold the more bahraini government accountable to secure a lasting reform. we also have a candid conversations with others in the neighborhood like saudi arabia, a country that is key to stability and peace. our view that democratic avant -- advancement is not just possible, but a necessary part of preparing for the future. fundamentally, there is their right side to history. we want to be on it. without exception, we want our partners in the region to reform so they are on it as well. we don't expect countries to do this overnight, but with their reforms we are convinced their challenges will only grow. it is in their interest to begin now. these questions about our interest and consistency to merge in a third a difficult question. how will america respond if and when democracy breaks to power people and parties would disagree with. we hear these questions most often when it comes to his longest religious parties. of course, i hasten to add that not all islamist are alike. turkey and iran bank are both govern by -- their attitudes are different. there are p

dropped out the southern flank of the russian gears of war drums which are being pushed from the bahraini airbase interrupt and subject changing which of course kills almost thirty thousand russian youths every year something about a minister of on of a said obviously has been protesting to a nato in afghanistan saying that they have to do it in their power to stop this drug influx into russia and actually have the drug trade with afghanistan something of the nato alliance of the boucher americans who are who said no to saudi and the trouble unfortunately is on this international game fortunately this game in his case has come to an end and tied together a lot of very disparate things there but why do you think the extradition has raised questions from the start with russia tike ort refused to give him away on two occasions and then suddenly change its mind why do you see that being the case with that. high court making that change well actually in the case of the case against her to move in thailand to russia to do so should the further surgery which was made by the regret of the first i

within days, bahraini forces drove all the protestors out of the roundabout, using bulldozers to clear the area, and even tore down the landmark pearl monument itself. a state of emergency was lifted in june, but political deadlock and sporadic protests continued. in july, king hamad bin isa al khalifa ordered an independent inquiry into the events in february and march and the months that followed. leading the investigation was egyptian-american law professor cherif bassiouni, a veteran of united nations human rights investigations. today, his bahrain independent commission of inquiry released its 500 page report into the events that have resulted in the deaths of 35 people. among the key findings: in response, the king said today: "you have identified serious shortcomings on the part of some organs of our government, particularly in failing to prevent instances of excessive force and the mistreatment of persons placed under arrest." he promised further review and corrective action. in washington today, state department spokesman mark toner commended the monarchy for authorizing such

but the bahraini's are very worried. they have seen the report. it is not a good report. they reacted to the unrest by calling in the shield force, saudi tropps and iraqi troops -- saudi troops, helping to maintain order. the monarchy has lost a lot of its legitimacy and the capacity to introduce reform from the top. the kind of reform that would be required would be reform that the market probably -- it would amount to the demise of the ruling family in bahrain. let me stop here. >> thank you, marina, for giving good context and giving an example of a country like morocco or the king seems to be meeting with reform and perhaps staying ahead of political change, and a country like bahrain which clearly has missed the boat, as it were. i turn to our commentator, jon. >> thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be here at carnegie. i want to commend carnegie for looking at this. we got lazy. the last time we fall the marquee in the middle east was 30 years ago. will have a sense that these problems have been solved. what we're seeing in the past year has caused us to reinve

and the king's task is a fundamentally political task of researching his role as the arbiter of bahrainipolitics is a cautionary tale for how politics divide societies with your new role, security services, which is what we see in jordan and other places in the region. thank you. >> thank you for that rich set of comments and insight. we have about a half an hour for q&a. there's microphones on different parts. so please raise your hand and step up, please, sir. synapse of the microphone comes and introduced a few >> i am ross danziger, adviser to aipac. with a follow-up to what jon said, and jordan you have a serious imbalance on the one hand that minority of palestinians who have most of the money. and a minority of these jordanians have most of the power. the question is how can the government go about repairing this imbalance? second question is not directly related to the topic but i think i'd have an effect in the future. could you comment on the move by the monarchy to have some kind of an overture to hamas and relate to that as he visited the king to ramallah. >> let's take a few

and we do intend to hold the bahraini government to these commitments and to encourage the opposition to respond constructively to secure lasting reform. we also have candid conversations with others in the neighborhood, like saudi arabia--a country that is key to stability and peace -- about our view that democratic advancement is not just possible but a necessary part of preparing for the future. fundamentally, there is a right side of history. and we want to be on it. and--without exception--we want our partners in the region to reform so that they are on it as well. now, we don't expect countries to do this overnight, but without reforms, we are convinced their challenges will only grow. so it is in their interest to begin now. these questions about our interests and consistency merge in a third difficult question: how will america respond if and when democracy brings to power people and parties we disagree with? we hear these questions most often when it comes to islamist religious parties. now, of course, i hasten to add that not all islamists are alike. turkey and iran are both

meaningful reform and equal treatment for all of bahrainis interests while the and less unrest benefits iran and extremists. the government has recognized the need for dialogue, reconciliation and concrete reforms and the of committed to provide access to human rights groups, to allow peaceful protest and to ensure those who crossed lines in responding to civil unrest or held accountable. he calls for an independent commission of inquiry, which will issue its report soon, and we do intend to hold the bahrain government to these commitments and encourage the opposition to respond constructively to secure a lasting reform. we also have the candid conversations with others in the neighborhood like saudi arabia, a country that is key to stability and peace about our view that space advancement is not just possible, but a necessary part of preparing for the future. fundamentally, there is a right side of history, and we want to be honest. and without exception, we want our partners in the region to reform so that they are honest as well. we don't expect countries to do this overnight. but wi

clearly, the bahrainis are worried. no one has seen the report yet. i think it is not a good report. the point is, the thing that faces the bahrain monarchy, by honing in saudi troops and troops from other countries are now in the country have failed to maintain all this, by doing this the monarchy has lost a lot of its legitimacy and has lost its capacity to introduce informed reform. the kind of reform by the sheer population will be different. let me stop here, and then we can open it up. >> thank you for giving context to what monarches can do with their time, and giving an example of a country like morocco where the king seems to be leading with reform from above and perhaps political change and a consumer -- country like bahrain that has clearly missed the boat, as it were. i turn it over now to jon alterman. >> thank you very much. it is very nice to be mere at carnegie. i want to commend carnegie for looking at this. we got lazy because the last time we had the fall of the monarchy in the middle east was more than 40 years ago, and we all had