but certainly you would raise the question of the amount of weapons being supplied to the gulf cooperation council states not just saudi arabia but we've noted the united arab emirates as a as a major importer recently as two others also talking about increasing their systems pose for the fence with regard to the fence systems and with comedy aircraft that have long straight capabilities so i suppose you know you would be worried if you were in iran surrounded in that neighborhood to determine if i could go to you in oxford i gave the example ariel in one nine hundred seventy nine when the shar was overthrown in iran and left an enormous amount of american military material behind . and you know god forbid we see you know so much instability that we see that the military being used sold weapons to the middle east over the last thirty years but that does kind of make you think that if one country can fall that has enormous arsenals it can be used for other purposes we we've seen this in iran i mean it could happen again considering the instability that we see today. absolutely i mean there's there'

the gulf cooperation council has held an extraordinary meeting in manama on thursday. the four ministers of six gulf arab states pledged political economic insecurity for bahrain and rejected foreign interference in the country's affairs. concerns are rising in other gulf nations, including saudi arabia and kuwait that the protests may inflame their own minority shia populations or that shia-ruled iran could interfere in the affairs of arab states in turmoil. >>> japan's economy trade and industry minister banri kaieda. he will closely monitor the impact of anti-government demonstrations on oil production in the middle east. he expressed concern saying crude oil prices are rising because of the unrest. >> translator: i think we won't be able to avoid a democratization of the middle east. it's important that the situation stabilizes to ensure a steady supply of oil. >>> a volcano in southwestern japan has shown renewed activity following four days of relative calm. mt. shinmoe has been making headlines every since it blasted its way back into the news last month. the fri

. >> brown: there was a meeting, in fact of, of the gcc, the gulf gulf cooperation council. there was a meeting-- saudi arabia. you say they are putting pressure on the bahraini government? >> i think so. they called as soon as the these broke out, the demonstrations, they called an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers in bahrain itself and they came there, up-- bahrain is tied to saudi arabia almost like annum bill call cord. there is a causeway that runs across from the eastern province of saudi arabia where all of the oil is and runs over to bahrain which is a 70% shi'a population. as it happens, the population of the eastern province of saudi arabia is also shi'a, dominantly. and i think the saudies are really frightened that the kinship relationships between the shi'a in bahrain is going to spill over that causeway and affect the shi'a in their country. i think they're offering bahrain anything that they need to put a stop to this opinions so when you think now about the potential effectiveness of these new strong arm active-- tactics, i guess the question is how