many in the gulf see a long terram train where the u.s. seems to be in there if you disengaging from the region gradually and actually that's been corman to both the obama and the trump presidencies obama talked about pivoting to asia but didn't cite increased defense sales to the gulf trump meanwhile was talked about more defensive always engaging more he speaks the ghost language or in iran but there's not much sense that he wants to change the ports and america first does with present quite a big constituency in the us that is not really sure why they have these deployments in the middle east i don't think the us is pulling back from the region a toll but the perception is there and that is partly why we see leaders courting russia as well as the asian states that they are increasingly doing business with and corneas pose in a briefly if you will because this is a unique region with its unique problems there could be unique solutions that could be exciting right where there could be unique solutions and i think they're all on to somethi

and gulf countries it is really different from countries like egypt or tunisia because the gulf countries don't need i.m.f. money so the i.m.f. value is more technical advice trying to persuade them and also i guess something that seems like a good reviews of the i.m.f. is kind of baggage that brings co-incidence storm international investors when they're trying to buy date i go nick lee in the case of saudi arabia if anything the i.m.f. seems to have suggested that the recent rains of austerity went a little too far and that fiscal consolidation cards and public sector pay which were later with fairest dampened growth prospects korea may you don't believe that this is a destructive i mean what is it that it has raised at the moment we've seen the sort of report before but i'm just wondering why it's so alarmist now. well i don't actually think it's alarmist it just states a few facts and i totally agree with jane it's a different relationship with the gulf countries and the i.m.f. can give some level some degree of confidence and i think it comes this this report comes actually at a very

what is a gulf bloc and iraq is overlooking the gulf isnt it. so. that's why saddam hussein attacked and destroyed some of the gulf countries this is a different story iraq is a gulf country. we are not poor countries we are not begging it is. true fact iraq is overlooking the gulf including iraq the gulf bloc should be a political representation of as geographical fact. and you are welcome in the bloc however it is feel that it is fred mantid now this. was respect to the question on the embassy decision has been made in the past that an embassy will be open and ambassador be appointed however due to these circumstances. recently. the issue was made by. difficulties however there are clear directives from his royal highness the emir to immediately the embassy and appoint an ambassador and we hope as we spoke at the beginning of this press conference that the minister's visit to qatar will usher. in our bilateral relations. i have two questions the first of the qatari foreign minister the king of bahrain days ago threatened with and he'll package of

and the president and chief executive of ge gulf, responsible for strategy here in the gulf. with you. you have a great insight into where trade is coming from and where it is going to. what does the data tell you about how it is changing? global trade has been consistently growing steadily since world war two. the past few decades have seen a real exponential growth. the last 60 yea rs has exponential growth. the last 60 years has led to this, and low transportation cost. everything you touch from when you wake up in the morning, a cup of coffee, going to bed, it has come from somewhere else in the world. that has given rise to value chains. everything consumed in one country, parts of it or all of it is usually made elsewhere. we think of trade in terms of containers and goods being shipped around the world. many people know ge as the company that makes commercialjet engines. and also shipping people around the world. where is the demand forjet engines telling us about where people want to be in the world? if you look at the way the economy has evolved, 40 years ago when ge

. - air gulf states got together and formed the gulf cooperation council. in large part, because of the concern about the iranian islamic revolution and the potential of exporting their revolution to their countries. (tranquil guitar music) - [narrator] the house of saud has ruled saudi arabia since before the birth of the modern nation in 1932. the royal family now has an estimated 15,000 members. - saudi arabia is basically named after the house of saud which basically you can call it a tribe or a clan. so now, they built a modern state based on very traditional concept of governance. - loyalty, of course, begins with the tribe because it is the expanded form of a family. - your job is to be part of this tribe, to work hard, because you carry the last name, that is so crucial in our arab culture. your last name means a lot. - we americans are as yet ill at ease with tribes. we see them as backward, we see them as illiberal, we see them as unprogressive. they are anything but what the stereotype is. they are in many ways the social glue that certainly hold

h.r. 2615, a bill to authorize the exchange of certain land located in gulf islands national seashore, jackson county, mississippi, between the national park service and the veterans of foreign wars, nd for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from colorado, mr. tipton, and the gentlewoman from california, mrs. torres, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado. mr. tipton: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman. -- the gentleman is recognized. mr. tipton: h.r. 2615, introduced by mr. palazzo of national park ks service be given to the veterans of foreign awars in gulf islands national seashore in jackson county, mississippi. this bill benefits both the v.f.w. post and the park service. it provides the v.f.w. post with permanent access to their buildings via a long driveway currently ow

are you in a way it was a welcome to the program i'm adrian finnigan it's been five months since the gulf diplomatic rift began but as amir says it's no closer to being resolved shaked i mean been hammered out on e address the country's advisory council on tuesday saying that saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain don't want to reach a solution the so-called arab quartet began its land and sea blockade of council in june repeated attempts of mediation by q.h. the u.s. france and others of all failed over the past five months so what's next we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first reports. qatar's leader remains defiant describing the blockade imposed as unfair and violating diplomatic norms checked i mean been hammered than he says qatar is willing to start talks but national sovereignty is a red line. as you are all aware has been subjected to an unjust an unlawful measures that violate all the values and norms established not only among friendly countries but also among enemy by nature of the measures taken and the rhetoric and conduct adopted it has become ev

the gulf islands national seashore has been a part of the mississippi gulf coast community since congress established the park in 1971. since that establishment, the gulf island national seashore has worked closely with the veterans of foreign wars post 5699. in fact, the post has served a road with the seashore for the better part of the last 30 years. the gulf island national seashore land exchange act would make permanent a 30-year easementes that provided an access road and driveway for the v.f.w. in exchange, the v.f.w. will -- the national islands gulf islands national seashore some of the land. they strongly support this land exchange but the department of interior needs congressional approval before it can make the land exchange official. that is why, mr. speaker, i encourage the house to pass this bill as a suspension vote and i will also like to thank the subcommittee chairman, mr. mcclintock, as well as chairman bishop and the committee on natural resources for their support and help in bringing this bill to the floor. this is also a noncontroversial bill, and i urge the senate

it went down there in the gulf of mexico.y's body was recovered from the plane, found upside down and in pieces in the water there. the 40-year-old pitched for the phillies for four seasons including a cy young winning season. a big loss. >>>#l1có glenn "hurricane" schw. is joining us live in philadelphia. it's part of severe winter weather week. >> we can hear the rain coming down where you are. >> it's gotten heavier in the last five minutes than it was a little while ago. you can see the puddles in the parking lot is cold. temperatures across the area is in the 40s. but even in the 30s in the lehigh valley with heavy rain falling. just a little bit of a dusting in the poconos. you can see the back edge. so things should be drying out by tomorrow morning. the rain is going to be moving o out. it will allow the temperature to go down. it will be in the 30s in parts of the area during the day tomorrow. and then thursday, a little bit of sunshine. friday, though, we have some really cold air. our first hard freeze the season c

in the gulf news, record yearfor graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online graphics.gulf news, record yearfor online sales, graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online sales, following black friday, and we had singles day not long ago in china, incredible, record—breaking, black friday went really well, high expectations for cyber monday today. how important are these days and how important have they become for retailers? very important for retailers considering especially in the uk, you know, the wea k especially in the uk, you know, the weak economic situation, these are really important days and it seems to be, you know, black friday, then monday, and people then stop shopping. you would think that for retailers, they are having to mark down things so much and try to cut everybody else out of the market, like amazon is being extremely aggressive this year, but you do wonder how much money these poor retailers are going to make in terms of profit. absolutely, it is going to hurt their margins. it must do. so how has it come to the bottom line? black friday is

says its neighbors have no desire to end the gulf crisis saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt seven ties with cats in june and imposed a land sea and blockade. spoke at a session of cats as parliamentary advisory body. why now. i'm talking to you with all transparency we mean what we say when we say we are ready for agreements through dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitment but on the other hand we know that the indications we receive say seach countries don't want to solution these countries with this attitude have opened a new stage in the relations between gulf countries we have benefited from this experience it brought out the best from the people we contributed to shaping its national identity and reinforced the national unity with the leadership of al jazeera correspondent joins us now in the studio to tell us more about his message basically you know this piece marking the opening session of the council is always a key note which basically addresses domestic issues and also foreign policy but this time you can tell that the gulf dispute wa

in the in different religious catalyze amir says his country's neighbors have no desire to end the gulf crisis try to member in the middle fun he says the blockade in countries underestimate the will of the cattery people saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt severed ties with cattle in june and imposed a land sea and air blockade has the latest. qatar's leader remains defiant describing the blockade imposed as unfair and violating diplomatic norms checked i mean been hammered then he says qatar is willing to start talks but national sovereignty is a red line. as you are all aware has been subjected to an unjust and unlawful measures that violate all the values and norms established not only among friendly countries but also among enemy by nature of the measures taken and the rhetoric and conduct adopted it has become evident that the blockading countries are not aiming for a solution or settlement it's all started in june when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bihari in and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade they accused qatar of pr

protecting laborers making it the first gulf country to do so. according to a bubble is due to rule on whether to grant bail to an american woman who's accused of insulting president robert mugabe on twitter mothra donovan faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted of referring to a gabi as a sick man she's denied the allegations against her as baseless and malicious the u.s. state department has called for transparency in saudi arabia's anticorruption drive dozens of prominent saudi businessmen and princes were detained over the weekend as part of an investigation led by crown prince mohammed bin sultan more news for you here on al-jazeera right after inside story next. some say he's in a rush to take power from his father others argue mohamed been so money is on a path to reform saudi arabia but what risks is the crown prince running and kenny meet the many challenges he faces both at home and in the region this is inside story. with. with. their welcome to the program i'm jane dothan the erased in saudi arabia have spurred days of specula

thehis cable is about second tonkin gulf attack. there was one on august 2. it is the august 4 that this cable refers to. maddox was the american ship believed to have been under torpedo attack by the north vietnamese. in the first cable, he said they tremendous torpedo attack. in the second table he is , expressing doubt about that and said the weather effects on radar and overeager sonar men may have accounted for many reports. secretary robert mcnamara did not report the captain's doubts to the president. so the president and others , believed there had been a second attack. and it was after the second attack that the tonkin gulf resolution was passed which gave president johnson almost unlimited war powers. >> your exhibit has the actual document, the gulf of tonkin, resolution as introduced in the senate august 5, 1964. was this unanimously accepted by congress? was it unanimously passed? >> it was accepted almost unanimously. there were two who voted against it, senator morris and senator gruening. and we have the tally sheet. you can see that as well.

crisis i see that it's not there's a crisis gulf challenge whatever you know i guess that's also goes to i was a ghost is in a situation the not necessarily me of the crisis but it is really saudi arabia is not happy with what's happening if qatar's i there is egypt and egypt is not part of the gulf but it is certainly. an important region as it relates to the national interests and national security what is i think the current situation is that there is a concerns on the part of the four arab countries egypt saudi arabia emirates and the bahrain as relates to policies of qatar that have to be addressed that have had a very adverse impact on the national security that has caused directly and indirectly a great deal of. a lot of security and instability in the region of this situation has to end the minister we have to take a very short break now but we will be back in just a few moments they tend. welcome back to well the part that one minister and the minister just to pick up on the point where a laugh concerning the gulf disappeared now has had its fair share of tensions with other

one of the biggest flaws of saudi arabia is that it is one of the most corrupt rented systems in the gulf a no go of that the rent a state in itself is by western standards a corrupt system so how can you go around and say we're going to chop this head but we're going to leave this one in power you know if you spend one hundred million dollars and more on a on a summer holiday in morocco or six hundred million dollars on a private yard as as the king and his crown prince have done over the summer so i mean this is there is some sort of inconsistency here with the implication of the term. corruption and i think it's it is more about consolidation over political power economic power and military power of the security sector at large because this is what the rest of metal was all about it's about controlling the entire security sector of saudi arabia nicholas no i mean really is the stuff of movies isn't i mean that dramatic a helicopter is missing missing people swoop of princes it doesn't matter who you are jailed in the ritz carlton i mean how has this been viewed from where you are how i

countries have no desire to end a five month old gulf crisis and they're underestimating the will of the country people i mean been hammered all funny says is willing to start talks but it won't be dictated to or surrender sovereignty. syria more than sixty people have been killed in airstrikes in a rebel held town in the north people say there were no fighters or weapons in the neighborhood targeted by russian or syrian jets the bombings happened as the leaders of turkey and russia discussed the syrian call. take us out of an job that has more from god. syria border. in the hands of dust and debris rescuers trying to make sense of what happened. here strikes leveled almost an entire block of homes. was a young boy is safe from the remains of his about but. not that i know how good this rescuer says there were three airstrikes by russian warplanes on the crowded market i thought of a city wiped helmet rescuers try to help the. majority of the casualties were children as is the case in many attacks. during the war kids head all are home are children died our house is destroyed we lost

institute for gulf affairs based in washington d.c. thank you very much indeed he was chief in bragg's negotiators giving the u.k. a two week ultimatum to make concessions on a divorce agreement if talks are to proceed to the next round michel barnier says it's vital for the u.k. to increase its offer on an exit bill which some you officials say could be as much as seventy billion dollars shop reports from london time does appear to be running out for the british negotiators as the e.u. representative fielding this question at the end of the second day of talks in brussels. to confirm for me that you will need. clarification's or concessions whichever you prefer from the u.k. within two weeks in order to move on to the second phase in december. posture week my response says michel barnier is yes in december either leaders in brussels will decide whether sufficient progress has been made the two sides are to move on to discuss important future trade deals we remain ready and willing to engage as often and as quickly as needed to secure

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living in the gulf we have so many venues in europe. we have so many lebanese living anywhere. they attach themselves to attach ourselves to search to the regional policy what's going to happen to this lebanese. i was principle to lebanese everywhere. i am responsible for them given his every word. i say premier. as a prime minister. of course does love but they're not going to love it more than. you said the settlement the most the parties in lebanon. didn't end yet and you. holding on to it. we see today it's not only a coup against you even constitutionally that is different we are in different. old a constitutional steps. have to yes i'm going to go back to beirut to confirm my resignation then we start negotiating again. i think with all the political parties. discussions and if we want it. if i have to take my resignation back we have to respect these to keep ourselves above the differences. and the feeling and other problems level i can take that are you going to consider yourself i can then it for position of prime minister. is it a government without hezbollah and at a

of all the resignation has a profound structural geopolitical reason which is the decision of the gulf states of saudi arabia and the emirates to embark in a confrontation with iran over lebanon but the second thing which is more tied to the saudi internal domestic turmoil that that that's occurring i mean the fire stations and accept the resignation happened the same day it could have happened another time and the mere fact that the interrogations are still floating about the fate of saddam ideally if he is confined in custody if he is forestation. them true or not the mere fact that they are floated and that they are becoming the talk of international i mean the subject of international statements is by itself worrying and i would say is not very well. for the image of saudi arabia itself because it is giving the image and idea that this is a country where some opaque things are or currying and this is not the exactly i think this country would like to give of itself that was of course to assist by hutto visiting scholar at colleague's middle east program speaking on the really situa

elections to the council have been delayed for the past nine years carter's leader we to rater the gulf crisis won't deter his country from pursuing political and economic reforms. catcher as a mere says its neighbors have no desire to end the crisis that's after those countries severed those ties in. myanmar as military has cleared itself of committing any atrocities against the rehang minority in rakhine state rangar refugees accuse me and maher security forces of massacres rape and burning of villages but the military says it carried out its own investigation found no wrongdoing the army crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand people to flee to bangladesh scott died more from a mass capital naypyidaw. released on the myanmar commander in chief's facebook page late on monday the investigation an internal investigation carried out by the military here on its actions in the reconstitute over the last couple of months has exonerated itself saying that those who carried out this operation this anti-terrorist operation as they coined it in the western recon state say that they had

loss of former phillies pitcher roy halladay who died this afternoon when his plane crashed in the gulf of mexico.& thank for joining us tonight at 6:00. i'm iain page. lucy is off tonight. roy halladay played few seasons with the phillies but he left major impact on the city. here's what we know right now. it was just afternoon today when the pasco county sheriff's office near tampa the marine unit got call that small plane went down in the shallow water in the gulf of mexico. halladay was the only person on that plane and investigators say he never made a may day call. the ntssb will lead recovery operation and investigation into the crash. and while talking about the crash, pasco county sheriff got visibly upset calling halladay a wonderful family man and friend. >> but i can speak as somebody who knew him, he was a part of our sheriff's office. his kids went to school with some of our kids. he was there whenever we needed him. he was probably one of the most humble human beings you'll ever meet. >> the sheriff went on to talk more about halladay's relationship with the department ev

they send money back home will they be kicked out of the gulf countries investments will stop so this is what people are concerned about the economy here is also struggling and yes there's also concern about some sort of military strike because they believe saudi arabia is working with israel and the united states to not only curb hezbollah but curb its patron iran across the region and one as has been the saying about one of the cena. well in a few hours we're going to hear from the secretary general has on here already spoke a few days ago he really questioned the publicly where is the prime minister and he actually said just that that he believes the prime minister was being held against his will but at the same time he called for calm and he said that they're going to avoid political escalation actually what we're seeing in lebanon today lebanon is a deeply divided country in a deeply divided reaches you have a process saudi camp you have a pro iranian camp but now the word you hear time and time again is unity we need unity there calling for calm in fact in one way or another it

they don't ask what else of christian is a middle east analyst and writes if a gulf news he joins me live from beirut said hi there joseph good to have your company what do you think he's most likely to say well he's probably going to explain what he has not done during the past week namely to tell the world why he resigned from the position of prime minister he has in his previous groundsman said that his life was in danger presumably he knows something that the rest of the world does not know that in fact his life wasn't danger and that he's left the country in order to protect himself first and foremost that's one option the second option he will probably reveal is to to tell us whether or not there were circumstances that led him to make the decision that he has made what to us are we don't know we're all speculating what may have pushed him to do this but i would just like to remind everyone that's complaining about the fact that this man has been away and he was kidnapped and all that's kind of things that in fact. when he was forced to resign for the first time in twelve gener

protecting laborers the first gulf country to do so from geneva jamaal shelve reports. and on market day for workers' rights at the international labor organization in geneva on wednesday the united nations body roll can do what it described as major progress by qatar in hunting its labor laws there had been under investigation accused of failing in its responsibilities towards migrant workers however now that i have low ses that qatar has engaged positively with its inspectors and officials i think it's fair to describe today's events as a landmark of all because we have the rifle to point today we've done two things we've closed a complaint that was open against the state of qatar in respect of international labor conventions it's ratified it's finished and we've moved on to a new process of cooperation on the new laws set up by the qatari government a minimum wage will now be introduced something previously unheard of among gulf countries it will now be illegal for employers to prevents workers from leaving the country in strict penalties will be imposed on those who

pasco sheriff's office marine unit got a call hallada halladay's small two seater went down in the gulf of mexico. they say halladay never made a may day call. the ntsb is now on the way to the scene of that crash to recover debris and initiate their investigation. and while talking about the crash, pasco county sheriff chris knock company got visibly upset calling halladay a wonderful family man and friend. >> many know roy as a cy young winner. future hall of famer. one of the guest pitchers ever pitched in the game of baseball. we know roy as person as a caring husband who loved his wife randy. he loved his two boys tremendo tremendously. he coached their baseball teams. i can tell when you he spoke of his family he spoke of pride. >> the sheriff went on to talk about his relationship with that department saying he was there whenever they needed him even buying them a police dog named k9doc. doc of course being halladay '96 name kristen rodgers is here. what a loss. >> iain, philadelphia is heart broken right now. roy halladay was a treasured part of the phillies organization for fou

against lebanon or against those who who support hezbollah in lebanon the saudi state minister for gulf affairs actually tweeting and saying that they expect escalatory measures but they're not saying what measures they're going to take against lebanon it has to be made clear that the saudi the resignation of saddam had it it was a saudi move against hezbollah and saudi officials have made it very clear to lebanese officials either you curb hezbollah's influence and you are on our side or you will be considered an enemy so very uncertain times in lebanon. well the french president says he's been in contact with her and will discuss his case with the saudi crown prince during a visit to riyadh on thursday but my call is denying hariri has formally requested to go to france earlier hereis office said he'd met the french ambassador to saudi arabia in riyadh. the global leaks website has also released what appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destabilize qatar's economy and jeopardize its hosting of the twenty twenty two football world cup the plan was found in hacked e-mails

minister just to pick up on the point where real laugh concerning the gulf disappeared now has had its fair share of tensions with other neighbors for example saddam the work was sometimes perhaps unfairly accused of supporting various insurgent groups but i think your diplomacy has long refrained from very sharp rhetoric and really tried to avoid making saddam into an obvious and explicit enemy why is it different with qatar why did did those differences have to be brought out into the open rather than being resolved quietly diplomatically behind closed doors well this is issues that have been outstanding for maybe two decades no one i think that the degree of the security that has been generated the degree of direct impact the loss of life of them and direct threat. to the stability of the countries whether individually or collectively the general out of national security is water into the more direct and more impactful managed to deal with this issue this issues cannot be disassociated from the harboring of terrorism the. providing resources to terrorist organizations and this is a

arabia is not happy with what's happening if qatar's i there is egypt and egypt is not part of the gulf but it is certainly. an important region as it relates to the national interest and national security what is i think the current situation is that there is a concerns on the part of the four arab countries egypt saudi arabia emirates the bahrain as relates to policies of qatar that have to be addressed that have had a very adverse impact on the national security that has caused directly and indirectly a great deal of. a lot of security and instability in the region of this situation has to end the minister we have to take a very short break now but we will be back in just a few moments they tend. crypto currency doesn't need to replace the us dollar replace the euro it just needs to survive while those. collapse under their own way and that's when the top and it's going to go. she'll begin. that still dependent mile from the independent. for that date with. the counselor that. we will meet today. with a set of my lemon who speculate him to me or the now with jamie as a hunk on the ro

it will consent to monthly audits and ally itself with other gulf and arab countries. now, i realize some people think that's over the top and some people think that qatar would give up its foreign policy. i uh-uh i i i don't say that i agree with maybe all of those but i do agree that i thought that was a pretty good construct of which to sit down and i believe it's a construct today. i believe it's well within the rights of people that we agreed at that summit, there was an agreement that there was going to be an effort to have a 100% you cutoff of the funding of radical islamic terrorism and i believe our allies in that region, uae, egypt, and saudi arabia not only agreed to that, they were the drivers of that. >> and you think that they are as drivers implementing it firmly whereas not implementing the mechanisms that will stop terrorist financing? >> what do you mean? >> saudi arabia, uae, you think that they are no longer doing anything that can be construed as supporting any radical islamic groups. we know that the uae runs a major anti-extremism effort. but the

the arabs of the gulf really appreciate your analysis joining us there from washington d.c. thank you. so has all the sound is there in the u.n. issues a stark warning for yemen seven million people face famine and a further twenty million are in desperate. i mean you main situation aid workers describe conditions inside australia's not us island detention center where deaths and illness are inevitable. that is what defined hong kong football fans but china's national anthem will have the details coming up a little later in the program. first the syrian army says it's now in control of the eastern city of albo after myself i says withdraw the border city was one of the last remaining pockets of territory and syria held by the group. of eight has more now on the turkish syrian border. these are syrian in iraq the fighters from iran backed shia militias celebrating the defeat of bison and. the city was the last urban stronghold on the syrian side of the self declared islamic state the syrian military claimed victory but with the acknowledgement of help from its partners the de

>> we are talking with over 20 airlines globally, there is tremendous interest in the gulf.e are ideally positioned to build eight -- build a supersonic hub here. yousef: when you talk to these airlines, what is the main concern at this stage? that the technology is not refined, or the cost, or the shift from the traditional fleet? >> i will tell you what it is not, it is not interest. passengers want to get there faster and airplanes are flying airplanes that look about the same. there is tremendous interest in something different and compelling, that will increase the rate of travel because you make the world more accessible. yousef: what about issues from a regulatory perspective? surely airlines are concerned about that, issues like noise. that is sensitive in some markets like the u.k. >> people are concerned about aircraft noise, that one of the -- but one of the things about supersonic, it got a bad rap 50 years ago. our aircraft is quite enough to land in london at night. yousef: what about funding and making sure you continue to test according to plan, any current s

he was just 40 years old when his plane b went down into the gulf. he was a flying enthusiast after he retired from major league baseball in 2013. halladay's bold body was recovered from the gulf. he was the only person on board. police still have not figured out why it went down. just over an hour ago, the sheriff talked about halladay's impact on the community as a player, husband and father. >> he was a personal friend of our sheriffs office. right now, we're going to be working with this family to provide any assistance we can. he loved his family tremendously. he coached his boys' baseball team. >> halladay pitched four seasons with the phillies, but quickly became a legend after a cy young award a perfect game and no-h no-hitter in his first playoff game ever. live in the breaking news center, drey clark, nbc 10 nouz. >>> our coverage continues with nbc sports john clark. >> this is just heartbreaking news. >> kenny chesney tweet ed a picture of him saying he lost a good friend. my thoughts and heart are with randi and the boys. future hall of

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can we see that request from gulf citizens to leave lebanon through the same prism? >> i think lebanon is a very dangerous arena to start trying to come if they're trying to stir things up. i don't think it would be a clear-cut resolution in any way. and i mean, even now the israelis almost acknowledge that they are not willing, to at least yet, start a conflict, what is going to take action against what they see as hezbollah. on the other hand, perhaps it means it's easier for the saudi government or other gulf governments to actually say, look, there's even lesser kind of an anti-hezbollah function in lebanon and that they're tryino may be long-term say the lebanese government basically is hezbollah influenced, even more so than it was by removing one of the more anti-hezbollah antih factions. but again that seems to have backfired at least in the beginning were lebanese have now rallied around and said families, and we can talk about this. so again i don't think it's produced the results that were necessarily expected two weeks ago and i could be why there's a deg

. >>> witnesses say former pitcher roy halladay was flying his plane low over the gulf of mexico shortly before the deadly crash. >>> president trump appears alongside the chinese president overnight and sounds a different tone than on the campaign trail. >> it's colder than what you were used to. let's go over to matt pellman and david murphy. >> reporter: i liked what we were used to before. >> reporter: we're looking at a drop in temperatures and the uptick in the wind. tomorrow we have a possibility of sunshine i do think there will be cloud cover working up from the southwest as we go through the day. the showers stay to the south and later in the afternoon in particular there's a chance of a brief shower popping through maybe in the evening, as well. temperatures are cool, in someplaces down right cold. 34 in reading. 33 in allentown. northern bucks and montco highlighted in the darker shade of blue are cold. 46 in trenton 48 in millville. as we go through the day it will be a chilly one, but a little bit better than yesterday, a good day to get stuff done ahead of tomorrow. noon,

the future is to build a new gulf gcc summit? thank you. >> well, regarding the mediation effort by the mayor of kuwait, we are very thankful for his efforts and we have been in touch with -- with our brothers there in kuwait in order to find a solution for this. but, as just the secretary of state mentioned if there is two parties to the conflict and one of them is not willing to solve the problem, then even if anyone will come to the dialogue he will never come with good faith. so for us the kuwaitty communication will remain the leadership of all the efforts which is trying to restore this relation together between the gulf states. but, right now they cannot -- the kuwait -- neither the kuwait tys or any of the international community can force others to come and soflt problem or even if they will come they will come in good faith. so we cannot -- now, the kuwaitty initialtive f kuwaitty initiative for success still alive and we believe if there's anything to be carried out the willing led by them and kuwait. the gcc it's a ve

now from our correspondent in beirut zain the whole does the first of all let's start with the these gulf countries telling their citizens to leave lebanon this must be adding to a real sense of anxiety that. yes undoubtedly such statements just heightened tensions it causes further instability we have to remember of course this is not the first time gulf countries have issued such statements telling their nationals to leave the country immediately not to travel to lebanon so the lebanese people have heard these statements before but they are worried because lebanon really is and tangled in this saudi iranian rivalry which is playing out across the region and the question that many people here ask is what is next the saudi arabia has already brought down the government following the resignation of saddam had a government saudi arabia considered too close to iran so the question is what are they going to do next are they going to put economic pressure on this country financial pressure there are tens of thousands of lebanese who work in the gulf are they going to force these people to go b

the rival parties together but this is not just a lebanese internal matter the saudi minister for gulf affairs ephemera upon says lebanon will no longer be the same after heady days resignation he says lebanese leaders have to choose between peace and terror in other words they have to move away from hezbollah a party that has allies members in government and parliament as well as an armed wing the risk of an open ended political crisis is real and with that lebanon risks again being a battleground for others wars senator al jazeera beirut. well the pentagon has come out in support of saudi arabia mike hanna joins me now from washington d.c. it's an interesting statement but perhaps allows us to join the dots past of the way saudi arabia has been acting in recent days. well certainly that statement from the pentagon coming out to saying that it praised saudi arabia for what it called exposing saudi's role in yemen it also went tired of its way as well to say that saudi arabia was a much valued ally in attempts to stop what it called the iranian destabilization of the region so this is

context of what's going on and the goal of more widely i mean reformist taken place in all of the gulf countries most of the time consensually as in qatar more or less consensually in the u.a.e. but also quite radical in the u.a.e. and now absolutely revolutionary in saudi arabia and i think what amount of insulin is trying to do is trying to emulate mama bin zeid push for centralized power in the united arab emirates that we've seen over the last decade and he's trying to do this not over a decade but he's trying to do that within a few months in a system that is a lot more backwards than the united arab emirates so the measure lead might endanger us more as their next joseph so not as positive as you. in the suffer in this pageant this outcome whatever you want to call it i do not deny that we are in dangerous times and that serious concerns must be expressed in what's going on but let's not exaggerate and let's not go on hyperboles left and right the end of the world has not started there is not going to be war three tomorrow so i think it's important for people to realize that ther