again with the gulf states. we have done this several times. >> if we have no memory, it is always a fresh idea. (laughs) >> next question. >> what are the most effective strategies for combating iranian backed groups in the middle east, such as hamas and the forces in iraq? >> since we haven't seen one yet, it is hard to know what the strategy will be. can i just say simply in one sentence, doing our best to fix the problem so you dry up the swamp in which they dwell. in other words, if you try to deal with them directly, they know their turf, they know how to survive in that turf. progress on the palestinian issue, i don't even know how to deal with iraq. i couldn't begin to suggest. >> iraq is an interesting case, because iranians have gotten a lot of power in iraq. iranians are not well liked in iraq. americans often make the mistake of thinking that somehow they are close to the iranians. they forget that eight years of the iran, iraq war with thousands killed. the foot shoulders the foot soldiers were most

about the military balance and how gulf states change that. the short answer is very little. these are fundamentally weak states. fundamentally aware of their weakness. the uae has made a real effort to expand the quality of its military and to some extent has succeeded and shown a certain ability to use it effectively. the saudi military has shown very poorly. it went into yemen and has really done badly. it reminded me of when they went something my father said to me when the russians -- the soviets -- every afghanistan country is entitled to the vietnam of its choice. [laughter] i think the saudi's found theirs. first of all, they are economically powerful, militarily weak. -- aten tend to exaggerate lot of the buildup of supply is so they don't have to use it. i remember reading once that there was a technique of writing their camels in a circle to stir up the dust so the enemy would be frightened by the size of the force and you would not have to fight them. there is some part of that still going on, i think. have in our missed oil refine

particularly about the military balance and how the buildup of gulf states changes that. the short answer is very little. these are fundamentally weak states. who are very aware of the weakness, although the sound is got a little carried away. but the uae has made a real effort to expand the quality of its military to some extent i think has succeeded and shown a certain ability for power projection effectively. the saudi militaryt has shown very poorly. it went into yemen and it has really done badly. it reminded me when he went into something my father said to me years ago when the russians went, the soviets went into afghanistan that every country is entitled to the vietnam of its choice. [laughing] i think the saudis found theirs. but first of all, they are economically powerful and militarily weak, and we often tend to exaggerate and the one it exaggerate. they want a build up of supply so they don't have to use it. i remember reading once that the was a technique of writing your camels in a circle to stir up the dust so that the enemy would be frightened by the size

june 2017 the 3 boycotting gulf states have sent their football teams however to play in the ongoing arabian gulf golf cup here in doha they siding to take on at the last minute now this invitation though came as a 2 sides faceoff at the international court of justice. egypt and bahrain closed a space to qantas national airline. space restrictions violate international law and qatar has made a number of complaints to the courts after the gulf states in polls to bill kate let's bring in jamal who joins us now live from the hague where it was day 2 of the proceedings jamal i believe talk us through what happened today. well finally this was the chance for qatar to respond to the statements made by the blockading nations on the opening session yesterday monday where they try to justify why they believe the international court of justice should intervene after the international council or international civil aviation organization had. decided in favor of qatar saying that the blockade in countries should cease they are prevention of qatari errors aircraft from flying over there are space

on hold in june the court of appeal said they were unlawful and made without assessing it if the gulf state had if the gulf state had violated humanitarian law in yemen government is expected to appeal the decision in the supreme court saudi arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who the rebels who they say are terrorists however the level of civilian casualties in the conflict have caused global or. ruth tanner went on to tell us there is clear evidence riyadh has committed human rights violations in yemen and that the u.k. must stop selling arms to the saudis. the evidence is really i have a well meaning. that there's been consistent violations of international law and and as you say the case was really clear that. the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about that there was a pattern of violation and that violation was clear so i find that height that will be a pal and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have to have try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons to bein

alyson are many things fear or time and opinions alexander bruno my guest unless the gulf state and thelitter box thank you. moscow has denied it's been unwilling to cooperate with german or thirty's over an investigation into the murder of a georgian national in berlin in august that's after berlin expelled 2 russian diplomats wednesday live in moscow hasn't been forthcoming enough foreign minister sergei lavrov told r.t. it appears moscow will again be blamed for a crime it was never involved. the federal foreign office today declared to employees of the russian embassy in berlin to be persona non grata with this step with the federal government reacts the fact that the russian authorities despite repeated high level and in fact it requests did not sufficiently participate in the investigation of the murder of tony k.k. in berlin zoo. they said we did not cooperate enough this is groundless some countries today recalled the tragedy of m.h. 17 my dutch counterpart said we didn't do enough then we supplied them with all the necessary information with data from our radars and so on we ga

emirates along with egypt imposed an air land and sea blockade on qatar in june 20173 boycotting gulf states have also sent their football teams to play in the ongoing arabian gulf cup in qatar. a top european human rights official is demanding the immediate closure of a makeshift camp on bosnia herzegovina as border with croatia hundreds of refugees and migrants a stranded there in freezing conditions and there are fears of a humanitarian crisis nicol a gauge of guilt. inside this temporary camp near the bulls me in town of. migrants huddle around a fire to keep warm with temperatures dropping they're facing freezing conditions little food and an uncertain future for people very. big problem there are barely any facilities for the hundreds of people who've been here since the camp was set up in june. the conditions have most and since snowy started to full with tents giving way to the elements he says. we can expect an increase in diseases in the coming few days these people need to be taken care of all of their rights are violated here. it's led to protests in the camp with people now refu

emirates along with egypt imposed an air land and sea blockade of qatar in june 2017 the 3 boycotting gulf states have sent their football teams however to play in the ongoing arabian gulf cup here in doha deciding to take part at the last minute this invitation to the summit comes as the 2 sides face off at the international court of justice in the hague the u.a.e. saudi arabia egypt 10 bahrain closed their airspace to qatar national airline qatar airways qatar says airspace restrictions violate international law doha has made a number of complaints to the court after the gulf states simple as a blockade china has more on the hearings from the hague. day 2 of the proceedings so qatar to respond to these statements made by the 4 blockading countries on monday saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and behind the cut that he council dismissed those statements saying that they were merely a smokescreen to detract from what really was at the center of this case the use of airspace by those 4 blockading countries to enforce certain political measures that the 4 countries wanted to adhere to as f

their airspace to qatar the national airline has made a number of claims to the court after the gulf states imposed a land air and sea blockade more than 2 years ago. malta's prime minister joseph muscat says he will stand down in january he's in golfed in a scandal surrounding his government's handling of the murder of a journalist 2 years ago and now the latest un climate talks have officially opened in spain where world leaders will face the stark warning that the world is fast approaching the point of no return chilean politician carolyn a schmidt's took her place as president of cop 25 in madrid on monday the event was meant to have been held in chile but weeks of violent street protests forced the government to move the talks well those are the headlines join me for more news here on al-jazeera after upfront stay with us. h.i.v. aids is still a major killer and african nations are struggling with the highest infection rate thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to exchange ideas and work out how to confront one of the world's most serious health challenges special coverage on al-jaz

john king she knows from university they had a similar childhood living with their families in the gulf states for a long time because the situation was so insecure in lebanon. this is quite typical there are thought to be about 14000000 lebanese people living abroad and only about 6000000 in lebanon itself. or not all. i actually really want to be. like i saw myself. continuing my life abroad and there's like this newfound newfound love for 11 odd and i think. in the past few weeks i've grown more attached to it than i ever have but. there is chaos but this time it's caused by the protesters they have chosen to demonstrate on the national holiday to show the government how much support they have. the middle classes are rising up against politicians who have failed to keep the state from going bankrupt. the frustration has been bubbling for decades but if i'm not mistaken it was because of all the unnecessary thinking that started the term make some expert in the dark saying. things like cigarettes. the protestors are also angry about widespread corruption. this entire district in central beir

state all giant the most valuable publicly listed company in the world even if interest outside the gulf states was much lower than the saudi leadership had hoped for the record breaking out provides the oil rich kingdom with urgently needed cash. this is what it looks like to launch the world's most valuable company on the stock exchange for the 1st time. saudi aramco pride and joy of the saudi arabian royal family kingdom has gone public to made its long awaited market debut in riyadh on wednesday to much fanfare in any pre-treating the shares reached $9.39 each that was enough to hit the 10 percent cap on day the price rises devalues the company it's almost $1.00 trillion dollars short of crown prince mohammed bin salmond's targets 2 trillion but nevertheless seen as a cause for celebration. today the kingdom of saudi arabia is. no longer the only shareholder of the company. more than 5000000 shareholders have joined including citizens and residents in this kingdom and other c.c.c. countries in addition to saudi regional and international investment institutions this is a day when everyone i

liverpool have certainly brought some very british weather with them here to the gulf state of qatarclub world cup. their semi—final against the concacaf, the north american and central american champions from mexico, monterey, thatis champions from mexico, monterey, that is on wednesday. it has been such a fantastic season for liverpool. we had at length from jurgen klopp about what this means to liverpool, to him, and to his players, coming straight in the middle of what has been a fantastic season middle of what has been a fantastic season for them so far —— heard. middle of what has been a fantastic season for them so far —— heardm you had asked me beforehand if i think there should be a club world cup in the middle of our season, they would say no, that is my honest opinion. but we speak about this co nsta ntly, opinion. but we speak about this constantly, this kind of fixture, we are here so it is the most important opposition in the world forests at this moment. so here we are. so it is all about playing. and it be an even bigger tournament in the future? i don't know. as long

state in america. what we've done since we've gotten there, we've shored up our relationship with israel, with saudi, jordan, egypt, the gulf countries and tried to strengthen those relationships. number two is, we've worked very hard to not allow iran, which is the number one state sponsor of terror, to have access to all the resources they've had. if you think about the houthis in yemen, their funding has gone down dramatically and they're getting closer to making a deal. a lot of it was driven by a fact that iran sent a missile into saudi arabia. you look at hezbollah, you look at hamas, much more weakened because of the restraints we've put on iran's money. we believe iran was a big cause of a lot of the issues in the region and so our view is we're going to work to make it as good as possible. i will tell you this, i would hear people say the big divide in the middle east is between the shias and others. but i think it's a divide between leaders who want to use traditional religious excuses to try to destabilize and radicalize people. if we can give people an alternative path which is one where you should be looking to

iraq was egyptian inspired leading to the overthrow and very quickly came to saudi arabia of the gulf statesthe entire region would fall into the hands of nasser in a matter of days unless america did something. his brother john foster dulles said if it falls to nasser if all to international communism and the middle east and the world's oil supplies will be in the hands of the soviet people. all of this was baloney. first of all it wasn't at all clear that coup was egyptian inspired although he did take arms from the soviet union eisenhower panicked and it's very interesting to read his memoirs because he said do something. the hero of d-day the greatest american general was smart enough to realize unlike some of the successors invading iraq is a really hard thing to do but invading lebanon is really easy because the united states has a large fleet in the eastern mediterranean when 2000 marines went ashore july 15 they were backed up by 70 ships including three carrier battles and the battlefield. and by invading lebanon to go to the defense the united states was doing something to sweep th

overthrow of the lebanese government and very quickly to overthrow saudi arabia and kuwait and the gulf statesn that entire region to fall into the hands of nasser within a matter of days unless nasser did something his brother said if it falls to nasser falls to international communism in the middle east and the world's oil supplies will be in the hands of the soviets. all of this first of all it wasn't at all clear the coup in iraq was egyptian inspired and although he did take arms is not exactly so eisenhower panicked and it's very interesting to read his memoirs because he says i felt like i had to do something. now eisenhower the hero of the day the greatest year of the 20h century was smart enough to realize unlike the successors that while invading iraq it's a really hard thing to do but invading lebanon is easy to do because united states has a large fleet in the eastern mediterranean so when those 2000 marines went ashore they were backed up by 70 ships including three carrier battle groups. it was goliath and a midget battlefield. by invading lebanon and going to the defense of cami

gulf. there have been attacks on facilities that were set up as contingency measures by the various states the gulf to ensure they could -- even if they closed the strait of hormuz. there's been the attacks, of course. all of this done by way of the iranian iranians. no civilian casualties. no significant environmental damage. there has been no damage to the economic facilities. it hasn't been relatively easily reparable. but even includes one city, where clearly they could have raised the entire comepound which would have knocked out significant volumes of oil from global markets for a long time. but what they chose to do was to pinprick attack a number of facilities in a way that the saudis could repair but could also understand that the iranians had the ability to carry out a highly sophisticated attack. this all succeeded, i think, from the iranian perspective. they've gotten a variety of new initiatives on the table from the japanese, the french. there are interlocutors working across the board. a number of gulf states, the swiss. everyone trying to inject some possibility of a resolu

a number of gulf states. the swiss. everyone trying to inject some possibility of a resolution, the trump administration has, in fact, gone public. the president on a number of occasions saying he'd love to sit across the table. we know of this effort during the united nations general assembly to, in fact, broker a meeting with president ro mauha which fell short. it's clear from the rairanian side, what they've been able to do is produce more diplomacy to create some new opportunities to begin to apparently persuade some of their adversaries in the gulf, the emiratis and the saudis, in particular, to begin to back off a little bit of their hostility. that's all gravy, that's all upside. but what they haven't done actually get access to their cash and that's what they need. what i see, as maziar said, this is a regime that's now emboldened but also unsatisfied and from that calculation, i think that and the fact that there has been no significant retaliation on the part of the trump administration and president trump ha

let's start off by going south to the gulf states.have tornado watches and warnings in louisiana, mississippi, alabama, parts of tennessee, as well. by midnight or so, things will start the calm down a bit for you. but until then, keep your eye on the sky. the northern tier of this system is about the frozen precip, and we do have winter weather advisories anywhere from nebraska all the way into massachusetts. as this storm system pushes toward the eastern seaboard, it is going to be transitioning. here's the problem: it's not going to be just snow. it's going to switch over to some ice and some sleet, as well. the way we see it working out, this is 7:00 a.m., you got the look, norah, at that pink color. that shows you icing anywhere from rhode island into connecticut and into portions of new york and new jersey, and by lunch time, some of the same areas are still dealing with ice. it could be like a skating rink out there. norah, let's go over to you. >> o'donnell: lonnie, thank you. this is going to be an historic week, and the pres

arabia on hold the court of appeals said they were on lawful and made without assessing whether the gulf state violated humanitarian law in yemen it's expected that the government's going to appeal that decision in the supreme court so he arabia's intervention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who the rebels who they see as terrorists however it's the level of civilian casualties in the conflict that the major cause of concern. i'm told us there's clear evidence of violations in yemen and says the u.k. must stop selling arms to the saudis. dairies hoffa's many more weapons been sold off to the arms trade treaty to saudi and the kindest upon is that was before i think this is sake know that the u.k. from kind of living up to the treaty and the word is that treaty the evidence is really i have a well meaning that there has been consistent violations of international law and the case was really clear that the government was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about what that there was a pattern of violation in that violation it was clear that so i very much hype that decision be

government, and very quickly in time sooner or later to overthrow of saudi arabia and kuwait and the gulf statesthe entire region would fall into the hands of nasser within a matter of days, unless america quote did something. his brother john foster dulles then chimed in and said if it's -- if it falls to nasser, that means it falls to international communism. and the middle east and the world's oil supplies would be in the hands of the soviet union. all of this was baloney. first of all, it wasn't at all clear that the coup in iraq was egyptian inspired. and nasser, , while they did tae arms from the soviet union, is not exactly a client of the soviet union. eisenhower panicked, in short. it's very interesting to read his memoirs because he said i felt i had to, quote, to something. now, eisenhower, the hero of the day, maybe the greatest american general of the 20th century, was smart enough to realize, unlike some of his successors, that in invading iraq is really, really hard thing to do. but invading the lebanon is really, really easy to do because the united states has a large fleet in th

the gulf state analytics i was on the bruno believes incident shows the fight against terrorism is still far from over another attack like this deep inside the united states let alone an important military base. certainly suggest that the fight is not over it gives all manner of political excuses to. to continue the war now you know it's also convenient from another point of view because we've had so many shootings this year. random shootings in schools and other public places claiming terrorism also deflects from the argument on gun control so it has. from a bureaucratic point of view a very convenient purpose. france a scene yet another day of demonstrations they spilled over from a one day national strike on thursday one of the biggest in the country years protesters are angry at the government's plan to overhaul the pension system. most of demonstrations were right across the country on the almost. clashes between riot police and protesters the largest trade union says 1500000 people marched in support the interior ministry claims the think is that this is used to gas to disperse the