of the middle east and live. and thanks to strike while i'm sitting in the black sea, that's bringing some very wintery weather to the north east of turkey, and we are expecting more snow to full. he has some disruption as well. and those wintery features stretched from the black sea towards the caspian. we're expecting this one that snow to fall in to run as we go into monday. now, temperatures have been about 10 degrees below the average close parts of the 11th and that cold that is set to defend its weight for the cell later in the week. dropping the temperature in places like it could tell we could see some rain on monday. they'll be more in the way of wind that picks up on tuesday and remains very windy across the north of africa with temperatures have also been below average. we've got some warnings out for the strong winds in libya as well as out curious what the weather is set to develop across most central areas here on monday, it's one of the south around the gulf of guinea that listing west of the thunder storms stretching their way diagonally across the southern parts of africa with some areas of low pressure bringing a very

the policy an issue back on the right track and achieve lusting piece in the middle east to the city of australia of turkey, russia and others issued similar comments on wednesday, saudi arabia's for a ministry post at the statement saying, saudi arabia would continue efforts to establish an independent palestinian state. it codes previous similar statements from other are nations that the 2 state solution was the prerequisite for these countries to establish diplomatic relations with israel. let's explore this with laura blumenfeld, who was a middle east list at johns hopkins university. she's also a former advisor to the us state department is really palestinian negotiating thing . so welcome to the w. is there any world in which you can save this time getting off the ground as well? i think the one thing that's true across the world last night is we all lost sleep . there are 2 approaches. i'm going to try to analyze this reasonably, even though it was quite unreasonable while we witness last night. the president was easy there, bonkers or bluffing, right? he's either serious and means what he says, or

cold as it could be, the snow falling on the high ground of east in 30, otherwise each writing rating for greece. not so much in the south of turkey, but certainly me trust to syria and lebanon that significant, right, and on shore breeze means an increase in the likelihood of cat or shells from egypt all the way down, all the way around. 11 times charged that walls. that's going on the spare codes eventually and towards north in the wrong this line here, down to the middle of a rock into saudi arabia's sitting. it was cloud and slow moving sheriff's light. brakes of light is right, which are not going to go away this week. if anything, they're going to drift slowly eastwards across, cover catching uri and out through q 8 as well, leaving dry weather behind. but it's rain all the same, so it on usually event significant summarized, still folding in south africa in fact, old country, south of the christ. and there has been a focus really in zambia, zimbabwe, and dine to was the, the eastern cape. but i think even further west where it kind of needs is dry, it will be with the, the latest news as it breaks the spot, deceased by agre

of the middle east. so what is trump's plan for the 1.8 million with humanitarian hearts, and there are many of them and i think other countries will accept also. egypt, saudi arabia and turkeyout of retirement to go there, the foreign office says its first feline diplomat photos, and, of course, the photos are of cute animals. that's us for tonight, have a good one. hello and welcome to sportsday. is still on, as eddie howe's side cruise past arsenal categories of sports. from now on a women's sports will be only for women. and we look at how players from the city and suburbs of paris are breaking the tradition of rugby union in france. welcome along to the programme. wait for a major domestic trophy. in the english league cup final in wembley, where they will

other parts of the world. turkey wants to play an important role diplomatically in many parts of the world, whether it's in africa, obviously that borders would see area and the broader middle east. but to the north, that conflict plays an important role for them diplomatically economically in many different ways. turkey is, is, wants to re establish itself as a clique player and looking at historic terms. it's in the process has been for several years now. but, but this, the ukraine conflict presents turkey one another opportunity to really, to grow diplomatically into the car itself out as an important position in the new world order that's been developing recent years. appreciate your perspective, monica, and thanks for that to have more coverage. and so, you know, speaking to us that from london, thank you. the, the a team of is writing negotiates is, is in colorado to discuss the ongoing implementation of the goal is to cease fire agreement, including the entry of mobile homes and full days is, which is rarely is blocking the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his government is under mounting us pressure to start told us on the phase 2 of the deal with more than 70 percent

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destruction iran wreaked upon middle east imagine under the umbrella of nuclear weapon imagine reaction across the middle east if iran tests a nuke then you have saudi turkey uae others, that may want their own nuclear weapon we have a nuclear arms race in the middle east. so when you know, when my fellow americans say why does this matter to us? that prospect should terrify the entire world tt president trump determine to stop it prevent it from happening. maria: china in the backdrop what would be your recommendation in terms of the proper policy to keep china in check michael? because the undermining of america lon andeep from ccp propaganda surveillance theft intellectual property and beyond. >> well, president trump is determined to rebuild our great military, secretary hegseth as you can see, has it foested on lethality winning war hiring recruiting the best of the best for great military that is the he discernment force has to be in place but the real strength of the united states, is our economy, and our markets, that is why he is so determined when governor doug burgum the energy czar an using strength of the united states, our mining our refining

connect to jordan, which is the gate of the arab gulf countries, as well as a link to turkey, which is the gate to europe. not to mention the link connecting the sea to the east . for the creation of syria and for people to be able to move around, you're going to need a proper gordon for structure, how, how long it might take to put it all back to get a lot of heavy deals and then cause the jo is as a team that may have done more for you regarding release, more than 60 percent of the network is destroyed. some parts of it can't be repaired, and they are old and, and suitable for foss strings. some parts of the natural cooperation or from the 3rd day after the liberation offline for the re way is to transport passengers and goods. once we import new trains and engines, willow to import rate of calls the regularly between a level titles and damascus is ready. we need to build new tracks to connect cities and link the country with to key and jordan. this requires coordination with neighboring countries, and we'll cost billions, syria as a strategic location. and in the future, syria, we've gained its significance as a link between asia and africa. and have you d

east. if we take a closer look, we still got that wintery mix stretching across the eastern part. lots of turkey are bringing west the weather. saw the south behind that cold air that's dropped temperatures, but actually go in to friday. you can see that move its way pretty quickly out east leaving behind dry us guys most settled weather with sunshine. we could see some wet weather, however, lingering across the gulf of the next few days. we already had some scattered showers in kotob. well, that band of rain sticks around, bringing heavier rang to saudi arabia. we could see the chance of those showers on saturday, potentially even sunday. and it could be more rain to come across the north of africa. well, the referral jerry on 1st day. it pushes its way further east on friday, bringing some of their showers to libya. that'll be some improvement for the northwest. it is a laundry, dry picture across the much of the north of africa with some west to whether it working into that west coast is not as well as what we seeing across a southern africa. we go biggest thunderstorms across much of the reg

of us foreign policy in the region for decades. he was most recently the us special envoy for middle east humanitarian issues under president biden. he's also served as a us ambassador to turkey. welcome, always good to have you with us on bbc. president trump has now doubled down on the idea of the us taking control of gaza. happen? no, ido no, i do not. the president is quite right to draw attention to the hell that is the situation, the humanitarian situation, the physical situation in gaza, it is absolute misery. but the majority of the palestinians resident in gaza will not leave voluntarily. whatever desperate character their existence there may have right now, they are not going to give up they ndt gning it.) give up they as net geing it.) give up they as their net geing te give up they as their home, nor i regard as their home, nor i would assess is israel or any other force going to, at gunpoint, deport them. the question would come to wear. evenif question would come to wear. even if the palestinians wish even if the pelestinierne wish leave, even if the pelestinierhe wish leave, which even if the pelestinierhs wish leave, which we assess they to leave, which we ass

and as the ambassador of turkey, you have charles kushner, jared kushner's father for france. um, and and steve witkoff, envoy to the middle east it's these, these people who are in the room with him. i mean, the one thing that, you know, i think we've all learned so it's whoever's in the room with him influencing how he's thinking about something, you know, influencing how you know, just talking about with, with foreign leaders, but also with those advisers who are around him day in, day out and helping shape this policy, both domestic and foreign. according to wall street, people looking out for the economy, i see this from what i can tell in polling, as well as being something that is not at all going to detract from donald trump's popularity among those who who have voted for him, you know, if you look at some of the polling that we've seen initially at elon musk�*s influence in the us treasury department that that's maybe something that could prove to be a bit more unpopular among american voters. but the, you know, the the billionaire class that he's built around him is also what donald trump promised to do, right, is to

of its clients in syria. well, turkish is turkey is all ready and searching power in the middle east. it has intervened and libya in 2020. it has intervened in the eastern mediterranean with the gas fields. it has intervened in the caucuses, and it has intervened in north any rock and in north and syria. turkey is clearly an insurgent, paula, looking for some kind of regional apollo status and with its influence that it will have on the syrian government this uh, this strategy is uh is to some extent successful accept that or the country is economically and in dire straits. so it's, it's a, if i was sure i'd be saying, okay, so what have you done for me lately? what can you do for me next? yeah, well, that's the problem. that's the problem in the middle east. that's all the, all the potential regimen, monique powers, a somewhat weak iran is weakened by, by the war against israel. saudi arabia's week because it's because it's military, it's not worth anything. the way ease is weak because it only has a 1000000 inhabitants, and turkey is weak because of its populace spending. and in rec

of the middle east there. they also spoke about at length actually of course, the ukraine conflict, which was obviously at the top of the agenda of their meeting. and that's important . understand because of course, turkey, let's not forget, it was one of the parties that stepped into, earliest after russia launched its military operation to try and mediate some sort of peace agreement between russia and ukraine inside and live. rob spoke quite a bit about that. at the press conference you said that russia's position is that they're not going to put up with just another ceasefire that's going to be used by the west and ukraine to buy more time to build, rebuild up the ukranian government's military capacity just so that they can go back and resume fighting russia at a later date. he said that russia was deceived back when it's uh, held negotiations with the ukrainian side back in april of 2022. which by the way, took place uh in uh, eastern bowl in turkey. he said that the ukrainians and the russians had agreed on peace terms that were actually put forward mostly by the ukrainians. and they had already agreed on that the gradients had agreed to sign off on that deal and as a gesture of good face ukraini

of people in line for free eggs. question could turkey's eggs offer some relief? cnn this morning starts right now. we're beginning this morning with breaking news out of the middle east. five of six israeli hostages have been released from gaza this morning, and we're standing by for the final hostage to be released at another location soon. they're the final living captives that both israel and hamas agreed would be released in phase one of the cease fire. four of the six hostages were kidnaped during the october 7th attacks. the other two walked into gaza more than a decade ago, and the remains of another hostage, shiri bibas, arrived in tel aviv friday night. her remains were supposed to have been released on thursday, with the remains of her sons, but forensic tests showed the body was not hers. israeli officials were outraged. they promised revenge. but now, as phase one of the cease fire comes to an end, hamas has signaled that they are ready to release all remaining hostages in exchange for israel's full withdrawal from gaza. cnn's nic robertson is live in tel aviv. nic, is this the scheduling that's expected? you know, usually by the time we come on at 6 a.m.

he was the founder of modern turkey after world war i and in many ways against the wishes of the victorious powers, and he created the first ethnic nationstate in the middle east. second, in the 20th century, by far the most part asian country was japan. and yet there's no individual japanese leader represent the among the eight titans of the 20th century, and the reason is that i couldn't find an individual who stood out. this is a collective society and although i have found a japanese titan for the second-half of the 20th century, who was prime minister for most of 1945 to 1953, i didn't find a comparable japanese titan which means that as a history of the 20th century, "the titans of the twentieth century" is in that sense incomplete. the third obvious left out was stalin. stalin constructed the institutions of the soviet union that the chinese imitated and that the cubans, japanese and other communist countries duplicated. and stalin was also the commander-in-chief of the red army of world war ii, and the red army more than any other army won the war because it took much higher casualties than opposing the germans did. why did i leave out stalin? well, in

sweden, so the east, so that it is looking more, settled, some sunshine coming through the very northeast, but as the wintery weather clinging on to the black sea. so nobody scenarios of turkey seeing that snow and no strong go wins. now here's the picture on choose day, the west of the wet wet a moving across into front. we can see some flooding from that, some snow on the outs as well. it is looking quiet, however, for the south east across the balkans. this is where we're going to see things will not pay over the next few days. 12 degrees in belgrade on choose day the connecting community. what would you like to see happen for a new syria to emerge is no way we could nip into country again where i see it is for displacement is part of our presence. opening up the conversation representation methods. we haven't had the best representation of african so for us it's about solving that putting to representation for our kids. with fresh perspectives from less are heard. voices the stream, explores the key issues of our time on algebra. as temperatures rise due to climate change, morocco is experiencing at the system. trent centers on the same level as on in the ancient traditi

east majority have hotly resisted mr. trump's attacks to cajole them into taking palestinians during the reconstruction of gaza. it adds that head of the meeting between benjamin netanyahu and the president, foreign ministers of egypt and turkey, and turkey, another country involved in brokering an end to the conflict, released a joint statement rejecting any proposal to displace or resettle palestinians to "countries outside the palestinian territories, either for short-term or long-term purposes. -- purposes." elizabeth, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. my view is trump is insane. he would like to remove the palestinian people, put them in egypt or jordan, and as you just said, jordan rejected that. he would like to cleanse the palestinian people, which is ethnic cleansing, racist and will destroy all the palestinian people. he sees palestine and gaza as a tourist destination. he would like to send u.s. troops into gaza. why u.s. troops? u.s. does not belong in the middle east at all. especially not in gaza. let the palestinian people live. they would like to stay in gaza, they would like to live their lives and rebuild palestine, let them stay in palestine and let us help with aid. that is what

so the east, so that it is looking more, settled, some sunshine coming through the very northeast. but as the wintery weather clinging on to the black sea, so nobody scenarios of turkey seeing that snow and no strong go wins. now here's the picture on choose day, the west of the wet wet a. moving across into front. we can see some flooding from that, some snow on the outs as well. it is looking quiet, however, for the southeast across the balkans. this is where we're going to see things will not pay over the next few days. 12 degrees in belgrade on choose day. the connecting community, what would you like to see happen for a new series.

east majority have hotly resisted mr. trump's attacks to cajole them into taking palestinians during the reconstruction of gaza. it adds that head of the meeting between benjamin netanyahu and the president, foreign ministers of egypt and turkey, and turkey, another country involved in brokering an end to the conflict, released a joint statement rejecting any proposal to displace or resettle palestinians to "countries outside the palestinian territories, either for short-term or long-term purposes. -- purposes." elizabeth, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. my view is trump is insane. he would like to remove the palestinian people, put them in egypt or jordan, and as you just said, jordan rejected that. he would like to cleanse the palestinian people, which is ethnic cleansing, racist and will destroy all the palestinian people. he sees palestine and gaza as a tourist destination. he would like to send u.s. troops into gaza. why u.s. troops? u.s. does not belong in the middle east at all. especially not in gaza. let the palestinian people live. they would like to stay in gaza, they would like to live their lives and rebuild palestine, let them stay in palestine and let us help with aid. that is what

zelenskyy himself is in the middle east as well, where he is meeting with officials in the united arab emirates, turkey and saudi arabia. now, speaking over the weekend, secretary ofte rubio said ukraine will eventually be a part of the negotiations if peace talks advance. europe and ukraine have raised concerns that president trump will be tempted to strike a deal with the kremlin over their heads amid the flurry of diplomatic activity. french president emmanuel macron convened a meeting of european heads of government yesterday. macron and president donald trump spoke via telephone for nearly 30 minutes prior to that gathering, with a u.s. official calling the conversation friendly. as the u.s. and russian delegations meet this morning. there are a few major sticking points. ukrainian land now occupied by russia and ukraine's desire to join nato. both the u.s. and russia has underscored the importance that place of the talks could take, which could lay the groundwork for a trump-putin summit. for now, i'm ashley strohmier. we'll send y programing. already in progress. >> topic i start thinking about i've got maybe four minutes and i've got to start thinking abou

east. [ laughter ] we could make it the vegas of somalia! and the everyone will love it! [ laughter ] this "plan" to develop and repopulate gaza, it's never going to happen. the leaders of egypt, saudi arabia, qatar, jordan, turkeyfrance, germany, spain, the uk, have all forcefully rejected it. the only thing the united nations and the taliban have in common is that they both think this is a terrible idea. [ laughter ] but trump says he spoke to the leaders and everybody loves it. [ laughter ] all this was apparently news to trump's new secretary of state, marco rubio, i guess isn't in the loop because he reportedly first learned about it when trump announced it on tv. [ laughter ] this is good. look at this reaction from his chief of staff, susie wiles, who is usually so calls her "the ice maiden." that's his nickname. [ laughter ] that what you're seeing there, that is the face of a woman whose soul just exited her body at the speed of light. [ laughter ] speaker of the house and human squirrel mike johnson said trump's little project in gaza is a quote "bold move," and majority whip tom emmer used it to make the claim that democrats are anti-semitic. >> the far-left's continued embrace of vicious attacks agai

east as it is in the. us or. >> latin america. and so we've been investing a lot of money. and i. >> think the simple example, for. >> example, was turkeyn. >> the first. >> quarter where we'd come. under pressure for the situation. >> in the middle east, but we really invested money in demonstrating how local the business was and how made in turkey. the business was, and that helped. >> us rebound and pull it off. so i think. it's this strange. >> combination of being truly global. >> but also very profoundly. local and. >> letting people know that's true. that they're supporting local jobs, helps us manage. >> our way. >> through some of these geopolitical issues. >> james, i was mentioning earlier that if you just look at the long term in terms of coke's dividend yield, that's now around 3% relative to the overall market. it's as high as it's ever been. it's obviously kind of always been an important kind of retail owned stock. is there any way that you've changed your thought in terms of how allocating capital, sharing cash with shareholders, by whatever means at this point? >> look, we. >> have over 60 years. >> of an. >> annual di

east majority have hotly resisted mr. trump's attacks to cajole them into taking palestinians during the reconstruction of gaza. it adds that head of the meeting between benjamin netanyahu and the president, foreign ministers of egypt and turkeyand turkey, another country involved in brokering an end to the conflict, released a joint statement rejecting any proposal to displace or resettle palestinians to "countries outside the palestinian territories, either for short-term or long-term purposes. -- purposes." elizabeth, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. my view is trump is insane. he would like to remove the palestinian people, put them in egypt or jordan, and as you just said, jordan rejected that. he would like to cleanse the palestinian people, which is ethnic cleansing, racist and will destroy all the palestinian people. he sees palestine and gaza as a tourist destination. he would like to send u.s. troops into gaza. why u.s. troops? u.s. does not belong in the middle east at all. especially not in gaza. let the palestinian people live. they would like to stay in gaza, they would like to live their lives and rebuild palestine, let them stay in palestine and let us help with aid. that is what t