for jordan and king abdullah, this is a personal fight. the islamic state has declared war. they had a pilot who is captured alive in a cage. from hosting 1.2 million syrian refugees. so this has survival at stake. they need to maintain stability. >> i know the u.s. has also called for an increased alliance between the united states and that area of the country or that area of the world. absolutely. it u.s. leadership is critical. >> thank you for joining us. when we return, how darpa is fighting cyber warfare from the battlefield. >> welcome back to defense news. darfur,e programs at plan ask. >> can you tell us a little bit about what the program is? a cyber operations platform for the military. we really wanted to think about the military having a way to think about cyber. the way we would be able to accomplish this, we did a lot of early experimentation and over several years, got to the point where we have a functional platform we are taking to a couple exercises this year. goal is to simplify cyber security for users. >> the first thing you will see is what we call mis

now we're talking about people like king abdullah or somebody like the mayor. those people, we know who they are, where they stand. so those are the quote/unquote exceptions that he's talking about. if we don't know who an individual is who is trying to come into this country, no paperwork, no way to identify their intentions, those people need to undergo an additional process of evaluation. >> when he made the initial statement, it wasn't just with an immigration policy. it was all muslims including tourists. >> i would highly suggest you go back to the original statement that he read from and the statement that was sent out to every single media outlet in the subject line it says immigration. that's the policy banner. >> so he never meant that tourists would be banned from coming to the united states? is that what you're now saying? >> what i'm saying is, it was an immigration policy it never included every single muslim but we have to take a step back f we know who those individuals are, that's a completely different story. >> was there a ban on muslim touri

. >> i've spoken with king abdullah of jordan who is a close friend of the united states and other moderateeaders in the muslim world -- >> and a good person and good friend. >> the queen -- >> they are friends of my daughter ivanka. >> when they hear you talk p like that they get upset. they're muslims. >> i don't know. we have a problem. we have a really big problem where we're letting in thousands and thousands of people supposedly from syria but we have no idea where they're coming from. the migration is a disaster. they don't have documentation, paperwork, nobody knows who they are, where they come from -- >> so you're sticking with this temporary ban. >> until we figure out what's going on. we have to be very tough, we have could be very vigilant. yes. >> what about another sensitive issue, japan and south korea. you suggested maybe it's -- >> it's not sensitive. it's not a sensitive issue. >> let them develop their own nuclear arsenal and get the u.s. out of there. >> to me that's not a sensitive issue. i have great relations with south korea, i have buildings in south korea, i have

that is the personal envoy of king abdullah the second. rish? coming up, closing on a golden moment for the first time since 2014. the golden cross moment. the details coming up when ♪ rishaad: in sydney, 90 minutes of trading left. biggest gainer in the asia-pacific. ♪ rishaad: thinking big, saudi aramco sets to ramp up production ahead of a possible ipo. manus: scientists support brent note reaches a price point seen since the slide in 2014. a loophole,sing india renegotiate the financial treaty with investors using it as a tax shelter. 12:30 in hong kong. i'm rishaad salamat. manus: eight: 30 a.m. in dubai. i manus cranny. 8:30 a.m. in dubai. i'm manus cranny. reporter: good morning, rish and manus. manus, when we take over at 6:00 and "countdown" takes the airwaves, we will have a host of earnings coming through. we have a lot of german companies reporting this moment. any company specializing in delivery these days needs to work out how much it can offset weakness. key things the cfo will have to speak about when he speaks later on this mor

>> i have spoken with a lot of muslim leaders, king abdullah, close friend of the united states and other moderate muslim leaders in the arab world. >> good person, good man. >> he is a very good man. >> friends of my daughter. >> when they hear you talk like that, they get upset. they are muslims. # >> i don't know. look, we have a problem. i tell you, we have a big problem where we let in thousands and thousands of people supposedly from syria, but have no idea where they're coming from, we have no idea. migration is a disaster. we are letting in thousands of people, they don't have documentation. they don't have paperwork. nobody knows who they are, where they come from, and they're coming into the country. >> you're with the temporary ban? >> until we figure out what's going on, we have to be tough, we have to be vigilant, yes. >> another issue, japan, south korea. >> not sensitive. not a sensitive issue. >> let them develop their own nuclear arsenal and get the u.s. out. >> why isn't that a sensitive issue? >> i have great relationships with south korea, i have buildings there, and i

if you want to send a message to one of the hardest anti-jihadi's in the region it is him and king abdullahdan that are the front line of this war against the jihadi's you want this plane to go down in egyptian airspace, you don't wanted to disappear like the malaysians at, you want to send a message. if this is jihadi terrorism they would have waited until they sent a message to the government in cairo. >> you make an excellent point, 6700 airframes, good reliability. i have flown myself, most of these seem to be international events. you mention western standards. what are the biggest things they should be doing to mitigate these problems? >> where to begin? we had recent reports in egypt itself, somebody paying $20 to get through all the security checkpoints, it wasn't screened. the question is access to the airframe and ground staff. that is usually important. we check manifests. we have a terrorist id checklist of manifests in europe and the us but it is the grounds crew that is a giant black hole. if you are landing in africa, what guarantee do you have that the person bringing the co

--lso expect prince abdullah one of the sons of the king -- i expect him to also still be there.here is going to be a lot of continuity in terms of how the delegation is composed. so anyone who views this change of guard as price bullish can find themselves burned ahead of the next opec meeting. david: i wonder about the leadership. i wonder whether -- and i would like your view on this -- is this really a message from the deputy crown prince that he is in charge, he is putting his people in place? >> i do not necessarily know about that. there have been a lot of different changes of minister. there was an unusual circumstance where it was quite tense between iran and saudi arabia and the iranian minister was replaced and they sent in the minister of's -- the minister of sports in order to be a temporary placeholder for the ministry of oil. that was quite precarious and sending a bit of -- that was quite precarious and it was sending a bit of a message for it i do not think that is what this is here. i think this is more continuity, and you can expect that the saudi stance is not