of the g.c.c. brok as.it is an important element for the collective security of the region we need other sametime to. that these. these. for certain relations have to be within the international relations and we are not divided as we can. with the twenty six thousand people who have been displaced in the easy way we need to open.

and part of the g.c.c. here but legitimacy only does not solve a problem it needs power because it's easy for russia and the season for the partners saudi arabia qatar and others to see nor took away it but it's not it's not easy for them to say no to russia or to the united states so what's what can be russia do given these circumstances i think can provide power. to the legitimacy of that brings i think with a combination of power and legitimacy it can be an influence or of an impact can be made here especially that the u.s. again the vision on the position of the of their position on the crisis has weakened the mediation so this is something that russia can do. of stoneman support think they log the solution and the gulf crisis and i think this is something that the us is unable to do that much i can contribute significantly to last call what role does this visit play if any in resolving the current g.c.c. crisis well again i don't think it has very much to do with it at all because as it's just been poi

the defense secretary has now withdrawn any efforts to basically hold joint g.c.c.military exercises but at the same time holding a military exercise with the country armed forces this week or last week so you know this is kind of there's a lot of messaging going on at the moment with a lot of pressure but to be honest you know as long as they say and he said this again now in this press conference and the kuwaiti amir will take the lead on any mediation effort as long as this is the case i don't think they will be able to get out of this quite mire that they're in and they need to find. this letter to to allow the saudi and the u.a.e. in particular to climb down the tree and do and sell this as a victory face saving methods at the moment i don't think this face saving measure has been found but let's quickly talk about the u.s. and why it's playing an important role in trying to end the gulf crisis u.s. secular state rex tillerson visited the region in july but left without a breakthrough although a memorandum of understanding of combating and financing terrorism w

well you know one has to ask about the g.c.c. effectiveness overall certainly the g.c.c. and many of the countries or several of them at least played a role in what is going on in yemen right now whether everyone views that that the g.c.c. also played a role in quassia the uprising in bahrain in two thousand and eleven certainly the certainties in the emirates seas and the concert were on board as well but the g.c.c. really is limited in how effective it is so and of course after the crisis after what has happened between qatar saudi arabia bahrain and so on i think it's going to be very difficult to have any kind of restoration of trust between the parties particularly the countries towards the certainties in the amorality s. in the coming period so the g.c.c. has been shall we say significantly damaged as a result of this regardless of the mayor's comments on u.s. television on sunday night particularly when he was addressing sovereignty and what he said was the desire of the book aiding nations to see regime change. castro well i was a fascinating interview i mean i th

now need the g.c.c. as much as the g.c.c. needs the u.s. so you know there's only that much they can do really and what do you think about president trump and secretary of state tell us then are they in harmony now about the policies that they are producing they are pursuing rather in the middle east because we've seen this sort of differentials in the past you think there are actually as one now not as one exactly i mean we have seen matters until us and they know qatar they know how other countries work there and understand the country's foreign and security policy they understand the country concerns and on the other hand you have the white house is not just donald trump is also his close advisors in particular questioner who himself you know because of his background has quite a critical view towards can't i you know he's coming out of a pro israel anti qatar n.t. hamas kind of environment and he's pushing back a little bit but nonetheless trump said and he has realized there why does this realize that if they want to move forward again

of the g.c.c. brok as. it is an important element for the collective security of the region we need other same time to. that is. for certain relations have to be within the international relations and we are not divided. we cannot. with the twenty six thousand people who have been placed in the easy way we need to open more fronts to spend money they spend the money of the people. they spend the money of the peoples on other issues the spread lies. they need normalization of ties this is not true if they are ready to do that if they want to normalize relations they have to start it properly and in a transparent way they should not do that they should stop interfering in the internal affairs of the set of the emir of kuwait it's very highly appreciated and. everything is what gleaned from the side of these blockading countries thank you very much thank you. ok so there you have it it's now wound up that press conference between the country foreign minister and the u.s. secretary state rex tillerson talking o

from all that has been the staple for the last eighty years or so then the other countries in the g.c.c. . really you were saudi arabia as a harbinger to try to implement such a such prototype an hour or so because even in kuwait and even and other g.c.c. countries that have been talking about diversifying the economy for the last thirty years but we have not really succeeded in doing so so because of that saudi and it has to be very careful to instill confidence the investors are us and believe that this mega projects that have been right a.k.a we can't we come back to us once again but the absolutely right and so coming to you jane then now mohamed bin solomon this young crown prince who rather controversially took the post or. moving aside his uncle to take this position he's being is depicted in some parts of the world as being a bellicose hothead who is rather aggressive and and doesn't take the time to think things through is this the man therefore that is likely to be successful in attracting all this investment this foreign investment that is actually the critical to this projec

you cannot really have this huge make up project with instability may have wars a blockades and in g.c.c. fighting that has really to be i hope this will be a catalyst for the saudi lot leadership and the four countries that isolate and qatar to recalculate that they have calculus. to proceed because investors are shot when it comes to instability so they have abs bogged down and two and a half years of war and yemen and today the crown prince himself stated that when a continual the campaign and yemen in order to prevent the whole with ease from becoming another his will law on our southern borders and he may be a little d. the crisis with qatar saying it has a really minute and very minute pact on our investment i mean i think this is a really very simplistic approach that has really to be settling down of all these crises in order to hope for saudi arabia to live to its potential as not only because this ambition is part of the saudi arabia i mean that this may go projects that have been announced by the crown prince are very ambitious and therefore if there were succeed there were re

unhealed if you will or went on without really convening one year since the g.c.c. came about in the early eighty's what will this be the president or world washington and kuwait be able to bring the parties together to sit down before beginning december because as i said this is becoming an important global issues for the united states and its policies and a greater middle east they want to bring cut they want to bring iraq and saudi arabia closer together in order to limit iranian influence in baghdad but they also want to resolve the qatar crisis in order to unite the gulf countries around a more. united policy around stability and the containment of influence as well of course as the fight against terror and as far as that the u.s. is concerned where does the blame for for this the deadlock in the to the diplomatic crisis where where does the blame lies with saudi arabia or the u.a.e. . you know we're there's more and more reports coming out in washington over the last several weeks to explain the crisis that took place over the last several months four plus mon

proposal to engage in dialogue including the proposal by the emir of qatar when he was the chair of the g.c.c. and the proposal by demeter of kuwait when he sent his foreign minister to iran representing the disease you see so that has been our policy ever since on your first. point. it is a matter of historical fact whose policies have been conducive to regional stability and whose policies have supported instability it was an iran that recognized the taliban as the legitimate government of afghanistan it was saudi arabia and the u.a.e. the only two countries that recognize taliban other than pakistan were saudi arabia and the u.a.e. it wasn't iran that undermined the government democratic government of iraq it was saudi arabia we recognized the governing council we sent our ambassador to iraq immediately after the new establishments in two thousand and three saudi arabia paid to send an ambassador to iraq for at least eleven years it wasn't the iran that supported de terrorist extremist groups in syria it wasn't saudi arabia that came to the help of iraq is in erbil and then baghdad when is

secretary of state calls on g.c.c. countries to find a solution to the gulf crisis but warns they're not ready to talk yet. they relax it's now the japanese prime minister ways to say he has sufficient support to reform the pacifist constitution. the world health organization backtracks on its appointment as the ball boys president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. and hero or tyrant a fresh examination of the legacy of the french leader the podium. in sport lewis hamilton moves with insights of a force f one world title hamilton winning the us with his championship rival sebastian vettel finishing second. u.s. secretary of state. talks to resolve the gulf crisis remain unlikely after missing the cattery foreign minister in doha he called on gulf cooperation council countries to minimize the rhetoric and deescalate the tensions to listen flew from saudi arabia where he'd had talks with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin he also met the iraqi prime minister. as as he wants to counsel iranian influence in iraq on

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so the secretary of state is there focusing his attention on this g.c.c. crisis what else did he have to say from the from the exit that we we've already mentioned it was quite clear about who he thought was to blame for it. let's try to learn to sing gave this interview martine to bloomberg news in which it was marked a change in tone from the u.s. secretary of state you know back in july we heard optimism from tillerson as he went into his last round of meetings in the middle east he was practicing shuttle diplomacy between qatar and saudi arabia he expressed hope that the resolution would be reached very soon but that with three months ago and there has been very little progress to show and so today his statements to bloomberg expressed that frustration that tillers and has and in the words of the secretary of state laid the blame for this stagnation in talks at the feet of these walk hating nations or team and these was come of course just before he comes to the region first stop we understand to be riyadh you know they're becoming to. that's right and

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summit i mean that's quite significant as far not g.c.c. is the host as you know the summit is in december and the hosting country is kuwait kuwait already said there is a possibility to delay the whole the whole the whole summit what's interest what's more interesting is the whole we have three countries actually facing the three countries we have so that it merits and bahrain facing qatar kuwait and on that let's say there are to see now is one. of the summit in kuwait that the countries they don't want to attend which basically saw the images and so the you know summits that the scenario is to move the summit to other countries to basically whether to riyadh order or manama or to a body this means that that that will not attend go it will not attend because will be upset of moving the summit from kuwait and a man as. actually it's likely to not attend the whole summit so basically i think we they are freezing what's already frozen the whole g.c.c. is a frozen actually yeah i mean nobody's budging i mean the mere you know supporting al ja

and part of the g.c.c. here but legitimacy only does not solve a problem it needs power because it's easy for russia and it's easy for the partners saudi arabia qatar and others to see nor took away it but it's not it's not easy for them to say no to russia or to the united states so what's what can be russia do given these circumstances i think can provide power. to the legitimacy of that brings i think with a combination of power and legitimacy it can be an influence or of an impact can be made here especially that the u.s. again the vision on the position of the of their position on the crisis has weakened the mediation so this is something that russia can do. of strongly support think they log the solution and the gulf crisis and i think this is something that the us is unable to do that but i can contribute significantly to a lost cause what role does this visit play if any in resolving the current g.c.c. crisis well again i don't think it has very much to do with it at all because as it's just been po

a press conference here where we do expect the g.c.c. crisis will be much more of a focus than it was in saudi arabia obviously this is an area of great disconnect between the u.s. and saudi arabia when secretary tony snow was getting ready to make this trip changed course and he changed tactics and he started explicitly blaming what he called the saudi led coalition for not being willing to talk to qatar saying cutter's completely willing to talk he did not take that tough tone while he was in saudi arabia so we're going to be watching it here in qatar to see if perhaps he gets a little more aggressive with the saudis and the indications even before he left on the trip was that he wasn't terribly beach was the about. the signs of progress. well and that was the confusing part if you look back at all secretaries of state they didn't get on a plane for as long as i've been watching them they didn't get on a plane unless they thought when they landed they would have what they call deliverables basically here's the progress we've made so we

sees a meeting of the g.c.c. will constitute a golden chance in order to start the dialogue in the civilized way according to the civilized diplomatic well known charlie was. one of ten hour from political hay in our correspondent who was at that news conference in doha. somewhat unusual many were expecting a much different tone from u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson when he arrived in the region that's because he gave an interview before he left where he basically changed things up he pointed at the saudi led coalition and said they are the reason for the impasse that cookie cutter was happy to negotiate but they were simply refusing so when he got here to saudi arabia he really didn't suddenly start strong signals and then when he came to qatar it was much of the same he said that they asked the saudis to please sit down and negotiate but that they didn't think they were ready he said if they feel like they're ready they're ready to sit down and talk well then the u.s. would be happy to have them all come t

secretary of state rex tillerson is in saudi arabia as part of the renewed effort to end the g.c.c. crisis he's also going to discuss iraq and tensions with iran. as the war in syria continues a growing number of children are being forced to find work to support their families now tens of thousands of children are missing out on an education alba reports now from a tie in southern turkey. ham show is from a town in northern homes the area has been besieged for almost four years by government forces. but collects plastic waste not to resell for recycling but to burn during cold days so that his family can survive harsh winter conditions . i want to go to school and become a teacher or maybe a doctor i just want to be with my friends. mohammed is a street vendor his the family's breadwinner mohammed and many thousands of children across syria dropped out of school so they can help their families in a country ravaged by war. war planes destroyed buildings i can't go to school i sell clothes so that i can help my parents and my brothers and sisters. has shattered lives in syria and dest

has tweeted bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit unless qatar meets the demands of the blockading nations the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down masoud barzani was the driving force behind last month's referendum to secede from iraq the parliament voted to distribute these powers between itself the government and the judiciary. kenya's opposition leader raila odinga has branded the presidential election rerun . he's calling for a new poll within three months the vote was marred by violence and a low turnout and just forty three percent kenya's deputy president says his government is willing to hold talks its inside story next stay with us here on in al-jazeera. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. his dreams of a kurdish homeland dashed a super zani a stepping down as president of iraq's kurdish region but does that in the current struggle for independence and was it ever a possibility this is inside story.

qatar is ready for dialogue to solve the g.c.c. crisis there are no winners in this we are all brothers and all musing out and so qatar is open to dialogue as long as demands and expectations are medicine for all parties involved and everyone sovereignty is respect and. not to combat the nuclear threat from north korea south korea as looking to strengthen its defense system south korean president. as he outlined plans to boost the country's military exports but as quickly some reports the president's first job is to vote out corruption which he says has been limiting growth in the sector. there is really a better time to sell weapons in south korea at a time of regional instability almost every military need was catered for at the international aerospace and defense exhibition providing an opportunity for local developers to show their wares. we cannot say their harness weapon systems are the world's best however performance compared to the price is us and in particular we can provide solutions to each country's needs was many of t

that authority well why listen to him in the first place let's take a couple of examples first the g.c.c. crisis tillerson in this building came out and said the embargo needs to stop the blockade to stop more than just about an hour later the president basically sided again with the blockade in countries we believe that after that episode tillerson had a bit of a meltdown and since then we have not heard the president on the g.c.c. issue rebuke his secretary of state which is called for negotiations north korea has been a huge issue consistently we see the secretary of state say he wants diplomacy to work that it can work he came out just over the weekend on a visit to china and said that the u.s. was in fact speaking with officials in north korea only to have the president come out in a series of tweets saying that he's wasting his time he should save his energy so it's not clear how successful he can be a secretary of state if he doesn't speak for the president and on many issues now we've seen that he simply isn't on the same page as his boss thank you. well now aid organizations are

is had everyone knows this is a big financial impact on all the people involved in this g.c.c. crisis and yet say cats are now is as we speak building cow farms in the desert because they can afford to do it but you're smiling but it's true they brought in they brought in the resources from the irish republic they've got a cow farm that's going to be there they're going to be self-sustaining in dairy products in a year or two so you get that sense that that's kind of working to keep the whole thing going but we can take the hit i think if i think we have three issues here first this is a crisis by choice this is not a crisis by necessity so there was a specific choice made to they deceive and then trying to pressure her into a very specific direction in terms of foreign policy internal politics. that was met by significant resistance but also in many ways it is liberating in many ways in terms of self-sufficiency in terms of fighting old finding alternative. for transport in terms of more or less an independence from specifically from saudi arabia because by the imperatives of

has tweeted bahrain it won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit unless cuts to meet the demands of blockading nations meanwhile state media is reporting politicians and businessmen are meeting to discuss setting up an economic zone in a town in iraq and state mean mars but military claims peace and stability has returned to the region at least six hundred thousand people from the minority community have fled since august government ministers told local media is likely one hundred fifty rangar will now be repatriated every day kenya's opposition leader has branded the presidential election rerun. he's calling for a new poll within three months. it's outfront next on al-jazeera stay with us. on counting the cost to italy's wealthy northern region safe seats and more autonomy but who are the forces reshaping european politics how might china's new leadership line up the fact the economy plus why traders are hong kong stock exchange is saying bye bye to the back country because at this time on al-jazeera one hundred years since the british gove

more closely on these issues given that it was one of the complaints from the other members of the g.c.c. and egypt they say that this was something that really was to reaffirm qatar support and just recently the secretary of state indicated that he thought that this him oh you with qatar was working well so to have this joint announcement today really does seem to indicate that the united states and all of its gulf partners are on the same page because they support i so because for the united states the main concern is global terrorism and that no yemeni or no whatever dies or ice or al qaida eventually carries an attack in a western city or in an american city but for the gulf for the arabs the main concern is the war in syria the war in libya the water newman the war in iraq they distribute it in the middle east the divisions in the middle east it's kind of fascinating that arab leaders are incapable of taking any single serious initiative that concerns their safety the safety of their citizens that would being of their countries without america an american agenda bringing them togeth

order hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt. here the story. on talk to how does it. at this time. i really feel liberated as a journalist was to get into the truth was that i would that's what this job. time to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera scuffles are broken out between spanish police and vases in catalonia secession referendum one twitter video shows an elderly vented taking on the police paramedics are now treating people outside polling stations have been injured in the scuffles elsewhere people accosting their ballots in some polling station. the mayor of put a rico's capital sign while his accusing u.s. government of killing people through inefficiency much of the u.s. territories infrastructure was destroyed almost two weeks ago but. on wednesday the white house appointed an army general to oversee relief operations. the u.s. secretary of state has tried to ease tension on the korean peninsula by saying the trump of ministration has no plans to force regime change in pyongyang rex

attention to it recently about the disappointment that the nations haven't been able to solve the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they will we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet. has more from washington d.c. clarkson's comments in an interview with bloomberg news marked a significant change in tone gone was the optimism we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in. progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on this gulf crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s. president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership in initiating this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump's

cats are as ready for dialogue to solve the g.c.c. crisis there are no winners in this we are all brothers and all losing out and so qatar is open to dialogue as long as demands and expectations are meds for all parties involved everyone sovereignty is respected spain has warned it will take the unprecedented step of seeking to suspend catalonia as autonomy if the region's leader doesn't abandon his secession beds this spanish government says madrid would trigger article one fifty five us spain's constitution and never before used measure allowing it today to take direct control over catalonia spain's prime minister appealed to the castle on leader to quote act sensibly thursday deadline approaches. the only thing i'm asking is to put is that he acts with saturn balance and that he puts the interests of all citizens best all spaniards and all catalans this is simple it is not difficult to answer the question have you declared catalonia his independence or not because if we understand that he has declared that the government is obliged

will be a clarion call for regional conflicts which will have a detrimental repercussions on all the g.c.c. states let it be known to all that kuwait's mediation in the gulf crisis is not a typical role played by a third party we are not a third party we are a party concerned a party keen on cementing our gulf domestic front to endure and prosper history will never forgive those causing all those fanning the dispute the gulf cooperation council is the beam of light amid the dark times our arab world is living and i call on all my fellow citizens to adopt the same course of action aiming at conciliation and unity. military police in brazil have shot and killed a spanish tourist in rio de janiero the police opened fire on the woman's car when it drove past a checkpoint maria esperanza jimenez rulers was taken to a hospital but died from her injuries investigators say those responsible will face justice what would you study what is what you tourists that were visiting rio de janeiro were shot and killed by a bullet this is unacceptable but you're going to work to identify and jail the person

gulf cooperation council holligan ahmed al khalifa has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit unless cata meets the demands of bahrain and the three other nations the president of the kurdish regional government in iraq is stepping down. was the driving force behind last month's referendum to secede from iraq the parliament voted to distribute his powers but itself the government and the judiciary hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona to call for spain to stay united is the biggest show of force yet from the so-called silent majority who don't support catalonia bid for independence some are even demanding the arrest of. somalia's police and intelligence chiefs have been sacked after two suicide bomb attacks in mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which has been claimed by the group. most of those killed were security forces it's the second attack in the capital in two weeks kenya's main opposition leader raul odinga has called the presidential election a rerun sham he's demanding a new vote within ninety days the poll was

has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. some is unless qatar meets the demands of bahrain and the three other blockading nations somalia's police and intelligence chiefs have been fired after the latest suicide bomb attacks in mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which was claimed by the group al-shabaab most of those killed were security forces it's the second attack in the capital in two weeks. kenya has made opposition leader raila odinga has called the presidential election rerun a sham he's demanding a new vote within ninety days the poll was marred by violence of the turnout of just forty three percent at australia's former deputy prime minister started his campaign to be reelected to parliament barnaby joyce met people in his rural new south wales constituency on friday the high court expelled him from parliament because he held dual citizenship when he was elected choices renounced his new zealand citizenship and is expected to regain his seat in a byelection in december those are the hea

qatar is ready for dialogue to solve the g.c.c. crisis there are no winners in this we are all brothers and all losing out and so qatar is open to dialogue as long as demands and expectations are meds for all parties and everyone sovereignty is respected. time again imo is a problem and the headlines on al-jazeera international concern of the treatment of the population is increasing the un human rights chief says perpetrators of crimes against the hinge a must face charges and if they don't he wants the security council to act meanwhile across party group of u.s. politicians has written to the secretary of state calling for meaningful steps to be taken against me the world bank is promising billions of dollars to the philippines to help rebuild the southern city of middleway the extent of the damage was visible on thursday two days after president of the terror they declared it liberated after a five man. battle against isolated fighters the philippines will receive an estimated two point nine billion dollars to help with reconstr

yes i heard the g.c.c. crisis has always been in the background here today even during the economy discussions during the singapore qatar photo that has just concluded its activities right where i am the minister of commerce has talked about the fact that after one hundred twenty days of blockade qatar has become stronger and qatar has become much more of an opportunity for other trade partners like singapore he has called on singapore and other nations to seize the opportunity saying that few years from now people will look back and say wow that was a great opportunity qatar has now has opened its doors for more nations we know that the ties between kind of ties between singapore and qatar amount to three point four billion dollars that's as lost as you know last year and now it is growing many more companies are coming the qataris are investing more in in singapore and vice versa so the g.c.c. crisis is very much at the core of what's happening here because qatar like singapore and remember the two are sm

has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the upcoming g.c.c. summit unless qatar meets the demands of but rain and the three other blockading nations. hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona to call for spain to stay united is the biggest force yet from the so-called silent majority who don't support castle and his bid for independence. some are even demanding the arrest of the sacked caton a leader. somalia's police and intelligence chiefs have been sacked after two suicide bomb attacks in mogadishu at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which has been claimed by the armed group al-shabaab most of those killed were security forces is the second attack in the capital in just two weeks. kenya's main opposition leader rhino dingo has called the presidential election rerun a sham he's demanding a new vote within ninety days the poll was ma bad violence and a turnout of just forty three percent and puerto rico's power company says a three hundred million dollar deal to restore electricity to the island was not ille

and security studies at the university of exeter let's kick off with the g.c.c. what can mr tillotson bring to this debate today that's that's unique perhaps i think the stance that he took before arriving saying that on one and part that he's willing to compromise in negotiations on the other hand for countries are not this is a bit of a strong signal there i think what he will be bringing is perhaps more pressure than compared to do lie where things were not very clear between the state and the white house at that time and now it seems to me that at least you have a united united united states at this point in time zvi this particular crisis and on the other hand the urgency of trying to reach a compromise with the escalation happening in iraq that point with the situation deteriorating in yemen with the whole this is this is this is becoming the core region that is relatively stable compared to all what's happening around it and the last thing the us foreign policy needs at the moment is another crisis in this whole region with a lot of its interests military

cats are as ready for dialogue to solve the g.c.c. crisis there are no winners in this we are all brothers and all losing out and so qatar is open to dialogue as long as demands and expectations are met for all parties involved and everyone sovereignty is respected. in malta this son of a journalist killed in a car bomb has branded the country as a mafia states. was one of the best known journalists for her blog highlighting alleged corruption amongst politicians on the island florence li reports. had said milton was being run by crooks those morning who agree. that gathered outside the law court in the capital of a letter the center of the investigation the journalist family has already succeeded in getting the head of that investigation changed she had herself been a target of his work. it is our obligation to ask the state to defenders the state did not defend the state did not do anything. whose car was blown to pieces had alleged widespread corruption and links between state actors the betting industry and the matthew in malta we

council we think this is an important milestone in restoring relationship between iraq and the go the g.c.c. countries and saudi arabia is going to lead to very important economic development in iraq as well one day more than three thousand kilometers all to send a message to the people here in the region and back home that america is committed to staying in the fight both of them political hay in doha well tell us is calls for uranium backed militias to leave iraq are a sign of the changing landscape covered be in the middle east and that's according to the c.e.o. so consulting almost some of he said washington is worried about was my fill the vacuum of power left by i still. the u.s. administration is using diplomatic political tools after a lot of rhetoric on war and military operations in action that has been taken and as we see the end of i.c.l. as we have known it so far i think that the americans are very concerned about how the jew political science and of the region was is going to shift and what kind of new alliance are going to emerge in the middle east and especially given the v

will be a clarion call for regional conflicts which will have detrimental repercussions on all the g.c.c. states let it be known to all that mediation in the gulf crisis is not a typical role played by a third party we are not a third party we are a party concerned a party keen on cementing our gulf domestic front to endure and prosper history will never forgive those causing all those fanning the dispute the gulf cooperation council is the beam of light amid the dark times our arab world is living and i call on all my fellow citizens to adopt the same course of action aiming at conciliation and unity to activists imprisoned in hong kong over protests pushing for a more open democracy have been released on bail joshua wang and nathan law were jailed in august for six months and eight months respectively they were found guilty of leading demonstrations in twenty fourteen of what became known as the umbrella movement both have appealed their sentences. to women accused of killing the half brother of north korea's leader have been taken back to where he died as part of the trial the suspect

khaled bin ahmed al khalifa has tweeted that bahrain won't attend the forthcoming g.c.c. summit unless cattle meets the demands of the blockading nations. meanwhile state media is reporting that politicians and businessmen a meeting to discuss setting up an economic zone in rakhine state mean mars army claimed peace and stability had returned to the region six hundred thousand people from the minority range of community have fled rakhine since august after a military crackdown and then in bangladesh i mean ma government minister told local media it's likely that one hundred fifty ranger will now be repatriated every day florence louis has more from god. the government is keen to portray that a sense of normalcy has returned to northern rakhine state now this is the state owned media global new light of myanmar and its lead article says entrepreneurs to develop rakhine this follows a meeting on sunday between local politicians and business men to talk about set setting up new industries in hmong door as well as an economic zone there and this is the area that's been hardes