liberating kuwait. so he and i and some others seize upon the idea of trying to get a resolution authorizing use of force against iraq and that had never happened before except in the korean war when the soviets walked out and there was a un resolution authorizing the korean war but there was a big push back against it saying don't go to the un you will get all wrapped around the axle and you won't get it done and we said no were going to try it were not going to bring it to a vote unless we know we have of us, we did and we got that authority from the security council to take iraq out of kuwait to use force so we could go up on the hill and say to a senator you're not going to support the president in this and it was really quite offensive but we also in order to blunt the barbs on how much this was going to cost us and our social programs we elected, we decided we needed to go out and talk to the people who we were going to help and get some financial assistance. i tell people this was a textbook exam

as was the coalition that he put together in kuwait. people forget that this president had one term, many things happened of real consequence, but he was a president with a democratic house and a democratic senate the entire time. he never once had a republican house or a republican senate. when we started talking about liberating kuwait, we were beat up pretty severely. i had to go up and do the testifying, and i still have the bruises to show for it. [laughter] mr. secretary, how many lives is it worth to do what you want to do? give us a casualty estimate? what social programs are you going to cut to go to war in the middle east and all of that. i finally went back to the president and said, heffy, we have a problem. and we need to figure out what we are going to do about it. because i do not think we can get the congress to vote for going into kuwait. so he and i and brent and others seized upon the idea of trying to get a un security council resolution, authorizing use of force against iraq and u.n. member states. that had never ha

block the strait of hormuz the world's lifeline of all from all gulf countries including saudi arabia kuwait and iraq around a million barrels of iranian oil is shipped through the strait of hormuz every day particularly to china india south korea japan and turkey those cells are in jeopardy as the u.s. warns it will no longer give sanction waivers to those countries the u.s. reimpose sanctions on iranian also as last year after donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal e.q. says the iranians are being state sponsors of terrorism and destabilizing the middle east roselyn jordan has the details from washington. the u.s. says its efforts to impose a worldwide embargo on iranian oil is already working in the last eleven months the trumpet ministration says iran has lost about ten billion dollars in oil revenue all this says washington to punish the han for what it calls the government's quote aligned ways the top administration and our allies are determined to sustain and expand the maximum economic pressure campaign against iran to end the regimes destabilizing activity threatening the

of the world's oil consumption coming from places like iran obviously but up here in iraq and in kuwait as well further down you've got cutter of course which is the largest exporter of l.n.g. liquefied natural gas in the world it's exporters have to go through the straits as well you go down into the united arab emirates into dubai and here you've got jebel ali the largest port in the middle east which handles up to nineteen and a half million shipping containers a year they all go through the strait of hormuz and don't forget as well if we come further west again based here in bahrain in this little bay here you've got the u.s. fifth fleet america's naval presence in the gulf which can be deployed in the case of any heightened tensions. i so let's introduce so our panel today starting in tehran with mohamed islam who is a political research or and columnist in london minutiae tacky and independent oil and energy consultant and on skype from lancaster in the u.k. it is simon mobile and senior lecturer in international studies at and i guess the university gentleman thank you time welco

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tehran about fourteen degrees there baghdad is going to be seeing into the mid to high twenty's in kuwait city and about twenty seven degrees as well here on wednesday but by the time we get to thursday those temperatures do come up when be seeing quite city at about twenty nine agrees down towards crutch though it is going to be about thirty three well across the gulf we're still dealing with winds and those winds are bring some dust conditions at times across much of the area things will get better as we go towards the end of the week but until we probably get till friday we're going to be seeing some gusty conditions so here in doha twenty nine degrees on wednesday by the time we get to say thursday we do expect to see about thirty degrees but much warmer across much of the central areas over towards mecca we could expect to see about height of thirty nine degrees there and the rain is going to still be a problem for one more day here across parts of south africa we have seen some flooding across much of the area but by the time we get to thursday things start to ease durban will see a

also qatar and even kuwait i too are and will remain major arms we ship units and i think that raises some real questions about what these arms are supposed to do in the region are they going to contribute to further war such as we've seen in yemen or maybe a bit further away and in in libya too can they contribute to third attentions which you shouldn't forget that iran has a very different position it doesn't import so much it has a different way of fighting its warts how do these weapons really contribute to stability in the region or they do or do to do the opposite what are the risks involved and here it's important that the exporting states whether they are the u.s. from the u.k. but also russia china how they actually embedded arms exports into sound foreign and security popal policies and how they explain what they are ok on to do . in the region glenn you spoke. previously about how geo political considerations pay you spot in the decision making process how it comes to yemen it was crucial for the american policy in the past because of the presence of al-qaeda in the pensive

i think they are willing to extend saudi arabia, kuwait will extend will russia support that that's theon. >> do you think russia's overall commitment is starting to wane >> i think the commitment of all non-opec partners is starting to wane it's always at these kinds of levels that we see general compliance start to fall off and compliance with non-opec members in particular. i think there's a bit of reckoning to be had between saudi arabia and russia. that's a giant geopolitical conversation to have i think that's the question that's unanswered right now going into the jmmc. >> very interesting. >>> can i also ask you about iran this seems to be a wild card for the market what do you think the u.s. president is going to do when it comes to the sanctions and weighing the extensions? >> here we are with donald trump already contemplating what the path looks like to the next presidential election. the question he faces in everybody's minds, do you really want higher gasoline prices? there's a lot of spark to do that is he willing to have high gasoline prices? is he willing to look a litt

persian gulf region again and that this would be directed at saudi arabia the united arab emirates but kuwait. iraq iran they can export import but because mohamed bin samana said he's going to take the war to run and because of the terrorist attacks that took place and the iranian intelligence believes that this all. they have determined that the saudis and them are ati's are behind it the iranians believe that they are it would be justified to restock start the stop and searches and that would could be directed at cargo ships as well as tankers that coming go through u.a.e. or so the port and that while there would still be exports and imports but there could be a decline because of the slowdown of one or two million or three million barrels a day from these two countries iran has its options in the iranians know that the united states is definitely not looking for a military conflict so if the americans want to push hard the iranians have many options to push back and i don't think that anyone is going to blame iran because obviously it is trump and his people along with his allies like mo

the twenty nine will be our maximum on thursday marks in the temperatures that we're expecting in kuwaitcity but here there will also be some time developing as well as this next system begins to snake its way across parts of iran don't want to south and here in doha the temperatures are rising we're back with the sunshine so it's not really a surprise thirty five when we are maximum on wednesday and matching the temperatures we're expecting on thursday to the south of us well muscat thirty degrees will be our maximum here it is a good deal more humid for the southern parts of africa we are seeing some showers in the northern parts of a good deal of cloud and maybe the odd outbreak of rain in the south. weather sponsored by catalona. weather online. went to the answer for them. therefore if you join us on a saturday all of us have been colonized in some form or some fashion this is a dialogue we are talking about a legal front and you have seen what it can do to somebody people are using multiple drugs including the phone and some people you know everyone has a voice and that's your boss

it's the twenty nine will be our maximum of the day my in the temperatures that we're expecting in kuwait city but here there will also be some clam developing as well as this next system begins to snake its way across parts of iran don't want to south and here in doha the temperatures are rising we're back with the sunshine so it's not really a surprise thirty five we are maximum on wednesday and matching the temperatures we're expecting on thursday so the south of us where muscat thirty degrees will be our maximum here it is a good deal more humid for the southern parts of africa we are seeing some showers in the northern parts of but a good deal of cloud and maybe the odd outbreak of rain in the south. talk to. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. shelling of libya's capital kills at least five people as a french group is stopped at the border carrying weapons and diplomatic passports. back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead. president looks for another term in the elections that after it hit him again sir for my genera

out of kuwait in khartoum after chants of the revolution go viral. when it comes to media personalities and stories about the news and journalism there are few that come bigger than julian assange and. wiki leaks and this past week there have been developments after nearly seven years at the ecuadorian embassy in london was dragged out of the building by british police in response to an extradition request from the united states a sand stands charged with a conspiracy to commit computer intrusion we will be speaking with the wiki leaks editor christian robson in a few moments but first some details on the charges and the timing of julian assange just arrest. this arrest was a long time coming. for years julian assange said that washington was building a case against working towards his extradition to the u.s. for publishing classified defense department documents on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. and state department documents and the so-called diplomatic cables that exposed the ugly side of american foreign policy this past week was proven wrong.

the capital riyadh the checkpoint is on a highway that connects the eastern province to bahrain and kuwait to others linked to the attack have also been arrested the u.s. secretary of homeland security kirsten nielsen is out donald trump announced that she'd be leaving her position on twitter and while nelson says she resigned it's clear that in less than happy of late with how the southern border is being handled culhane takes a look at her legacy. it's fair to say that cures didn't elson will go down in history as the most controversial secretary in the history of the young department of homeland security she put in place what many saw as draconian policies under her watch thousands of children were ripped from their parents trying to cross the southern border many housed in crowded camps until a federal judge stepped in and demanded the families be reunited she leaves office with potentially thousands of children misplaced separated from their families and the government now says it could take up to two years to reunite them all because for many they didn't keep appropriate paperwork he

the time, and he described a secret meeting at the white house right after the iraqi invasion of kuwaithe had never disclosed this before, and it was to discuss with the american president what he was going to do about the invasion of kuwait. barbara bush was there and he told us ambassador afterward that barbara bush was there because when george bush was making the most consequential decisions of his presidency, he wanted to know what she thought. brian: speaking of george bush, he gave you the last interview he did in his life. susan: the last interview with a journalist. what a privilege that was. brian: what was the last interview like? susan: it was difficult. he was suffering from a form of parkinson's and it made it difficult for him to speak more than a word or two at a time. so i had to pose questions that have short answers. but we had a good conversation. i said, the you remember the first time he saw her bush -- barbara bush? he said he did, and then he said, she was so beautiful. brian: at the end of the book, you discuss a lot with her about dying. what was her position -

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there are a few showers still possible as you can see temperature and terrence up to twenty bring kuwait it's up to thirty one in baghdad middle twenty's been hovering around that in the low thirty's and the same sort of situation extended to sunday but the chance of showers or at least rain for ching further south through israel possibly even touching northern egypt is certainly there but that is basically if you have to the size of that though there is still a chance of a shower or two in saudi arabia the main focus is going to be further south more or less we're talking about westerns not a year in the high ground once more regular daily showers thunderstorms big downpours tense disappear overnight but they reappear during the day and is a chance for showers here in kuwait or qatar on sunday. i enjoy bringing my neighbor's children so they can see and get more comfortable five children are at the heart of america's love affair with fact that their mom makes a real stand there for a new machine and it's fun but the new generation y. can fire with the reason you're fighting for voices t

also qatar and even kuwait i too are and will remain major arms we sippin it's and i think that raises some real questions about what these arms are supposed to do in the region are they going to contribute to further war such as we've seen in yemen or maybe a bit further away and in in libya to convey contribute to third attentions which you shouldn't forget that iran has a very different position it doesn't import so much it has a different way of fighting its warts how do these weapons really contribute to stability in the region or they do or do to do the opposite what are the risks involved and here it's important that the exporting states whether they are the us from the u.k. but also russia china how they actually embedded sits arms exports into sound foreign and security popal policies and how they explain what they ok want to do as arms in the region glenn you spoke. previously about how geo political considerations pay you spot in the decision making process how it comes to yemen it was crucial for the american policy in the past because of the presence of al-qaeda in the pen

block the strait of hormuz the world's lifeline of all from old gulf countries including saudi arabia kuwait and iraq around a million barrels of iranian oil is shipped through the strait of hormuz every day particularly to china india south korea japan and turkey those cells are in jeopardy as the u.s. warns it will no longer give sanction waivers to those countries the u.s. re-impose sanctions on iranian all cells last year after donald trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal he says the iranians are being state sponsors of terrorism and destabilizing the middle east roselyn jordan has the details from washington. the u.s. says its efforts to impose a worldwide embargo on iranian oil is already working in the last eleven months the trumpet ministration says iran has lost about ten billion dollars in oil revenue all this as washington to punish the han for what it calls the government's quote maligned ways the trumpet ministration and our allies are determined to sustain and expand the maximum economic pressure campaign against iran to end the regimes destabilizing activity threatening th

us navy was taking the oil tankers that came out of kuwait to make sure the flow of oil kept coming toes and the iranians were harassing those ships. the boghammer speedboats that the iranians were using, they would round robin the ships while they are shooting, trying to catch it on fire. so ourjob was kind of like a police force, if you will. the team i was with was combat camera group. i'm videotaping the whole time. and i caught a ride with the uss vincennes, a cruiser, a billion—dollar boat, state—of—the—art at the time. as we were sailing back to bahrain, we got into battle with iranian speedboats. all hands manning battle stations. during a gunboat battle, we were thinking they were going to come at us with whatever they have now, and that would have been their airforce. the year before, 1987, the uss stark got hit by an exocet missile that was launched by iraq. we were always reminded, remember the stark, remember the stark. about five minutes went by and they said there was a target that had left bandar abbas, the iranian airfield. the military and civilian airport, to my know

of the world's oil consumption coming from places like iran obviously but up here in iraq and in kuwait as well further down you've got cutter of course which is the largest exporter of l.n.g. liquefied natural gas in the world it's exporters have to go through the straits as well you go down into the united arab emirates into dubai and here you've got general alley the largest port in the middle east which handles up to nineteen and a half million shipping containers a year they all go through the strait of hormuz and don't forget as well if we come further west again based here in bahrain in this little bay here you've got the u.s. fifth fleet america's naval presence in the gulf which can be deployed in the case of any heightened tensions. so let's introduce our panel today starting in tehran with mohamed islamiyah who is a political research or and columnist in london minissha tacky and independent oil and energy consultant and on skype from lancaster in the u.k. it is simon mobile and senior lecturer in international studies at and i guess a university gentleman thank you time welc

five months ago sat in the same started this cruel war against kuwait the night the battle has been joined. around one thousand nine hundred ninety one i was a regular teenager was someone who was struggling with concepts of identity really was i british was i muslim was an asian was a pakistani as i started to think about my options for the future it was then but the gulf war broke out many muslims of watch the developments in the gulf with growing dismay some muslims see the present conflict as a war against islam. i had been beaten up by racist skinheads i've been told numerous times from school on words from second race school never in the jewish school that i went to go home how do i call myself british when there are organizations like the british movement who tell me that i'm not british. everybody wants to be part of something and so part of my journey would be finding belonging in a ghetto finding belonging in my father's tales of old india trying to be black speaking with a part while accent and so there was a whole process of trying to find where i fit and eventually i came at t

also qatar and even kuwait i too are and will remain major arms we sippin it's and i think that raises some real questions about what these arms are supposed to do in the region are they going to contribute to further war such as we've seen in yemen or are maybe a bit further away and in in libya to convey contribute to third attentions which you shouldn't forget that iran has a very different position it doesn't import so much it has a different way of fighting its warts how do these weapons really contribute to stability in the region or they do or do to do x. the opposite what are the risks involved and here it's important that the exporting states whether they are the us from the u.k. but also russia china how they actually embedded sits arms exports into sound foreign and security popal policies and how they explain what they ok want to do is arms in the region glenn you spoke. previously about how geo political considerations pay huge part in the decision making process how it comes to yemen it was crucial for the american policy in the past because of the presence of al qaeda in

persian gulf region again and that this would be directed at saudi arabia the united arab emirates but kuwait at-at of iraq iran they can export import but because mohamed bin samana said he's going to take the war to run and because of the terrorist attacks that took place and the iranian intelligence believes that this all. they have determined that the saudis and their ati's are behind it the iranians believe that they are it would be justified to restock start the stop and searches and that would could be directed at cargo ships as well as tankers that coming go through u.a.e. or so the port and that while there would still be exports and imports but there could be a decline because of the slowdown of one or two million or three million barrels a day from these two countries iran has its options in the iranians know that the united states is definitely not looking for a military conflict so if the americans want to push hard the iranians have many options to push back and i don't think that anyone is going to blame iran because obviously it is trump and his people along with his allies li

five months ago sat in the same started this cruel war against kuwait the night the battle has been joined . around one thousand nine hundred ninety one i was a regular teenager was someone who was struggling with concepts of identity really was i british was i muslim was an asian was a pakistani as i started to think about my options for the future it was then that the gulf war broke up many muslims of watch the developments in the gulf with a growing dismay of some muslims see the present conflict as a war against islam. i had been beaten up by racists skinheads being told numerous times from school on words from secularist cool never in the jewish school that i went to go home how do i call myself british when there are organizations like the british movement who tell me that i'm not british. everybody wants to be part of something and so part of my journey would be finding belonging in a ghetto finding belonging in my father's tales of old india trying to be black speaking with a accent and so there was a whole process of trying to find where i fit and eventually i came at the end of t

support for kuwait during the gulf war it turned out that no year zero was actually the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador and her story could not be verified and furthermore she had arranged to testify without taking an oath making it illegal for her to lie yes when it comes time to push for a certain agenda the media seems to ignore rather inconvenient facts but remember behind every face is a story a little up on r.t. new york. the number of people killed in flash floods in the southwest of iran has risen to sixty two the deluge which started two weeks ago has destroyed key infrastructure local aid. dorgan isolation say sanctions are preventing five poor help from getting three. through their helicopter as we try to move people from the . area to the safe areas actually be set up the camps and we distribute that the tents for the poor temporarily sheltering of the people and affected people they run their cars on society they have their partner one hundred ninety one national society that our partner and somehow we receive some candle answers from them and in some cases like gen marg

it would impact kuwait iraq so there is a number of countries that would have a lot at stake here in terms of revenue that would be cut off at least temporarily . some mycobacteria this entire complex right now is between basically the u.s. and iran however there are so many other casualties involved the other countries that previously were exempted under the sanctions and this includes the biggest customers china and india this further complicates the relationship between china and the u.s. so how is china reacting to this and could all of this impact and affect the trade or negotiations i think it's going to have a cascading impact not only on trade but overall relationships because of the dependency the china has had on iranian oil you just cannot switch and as i said if if the straits are cut off even temporarily it will have a dramatic impact on any flow of oil and that doesn't include and it's more than just oil we're talking about general commerce of all of these middle east countries that would be impacted by the way the straits are twenty one miles wide but the navigate navi

look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds here making its way over saudi arabia through kuwait and up into iran so giving a great deal of what weather at the moment but it's intensify and as it works its way up towards afghanistan and monday we're going to see some heavier rain and some snow still over the high ground and that will gradually pull away as we head into choose day towards the west it should be a bit calmer force here twenty four the maximum temperature in beirut i mean further towards the south and here we've had a lot of travel quite a bit of rain really in doha are over the past a few days all of that's now clearing though and the temperatures will be rising that way back up as they should be at this time of year more to thirty four thirty five degrees for the south of muscat thirty one will be our maximum temperature and it will still be rather humid down towards the southern parts of africa of course we've got what's left of our cyclamen kenneth just as massive thundery downpours in the northern parts of mozambique and this is what it looks like at the moment

support for kuwait during the gulf war it turned out that no year zero was actually the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador and her story could not be verified and furthermore she had arranged to testify without taking an oath making it illegal for her to lie yes when it comes time to push for a certain agenda the media seems to ignore rather inconvenient facts but remember behind every face is a story a little up and r.t. new york. meanwhile but as well as have been organizing themselves against a possible u.s. backed military intervention redfish investigative project has released a new documentary on the country's people's militia here's a quick preview. little will be a good thing. to look at the beauty with the job but if you didn't. feel like it was a good job at. home you'll know the enemy and all the way to that and so when you know it's going to keep their son you know and you know it's going to sway them in some respects reckons the promo gets another thing yeah and i'm on the first oh no sandy i don't stammer. get it same day maybe that evidence showing up a little so that i'm

support for kuwait during the gulf war it turned out that no year zero was actually the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador and her story could not be verified and furthermore she had arranged to testify without taking an oath making it illegal for her to lie yes when it comes time to push for a certain agenda the media seems to ignore rather inconvenient facts but remember behind every face is a story a little up and r.t. new york that is just one of the reasons why we say. question more i'll be back with updates on our top stories in just over thirty minutes to see that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of know from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all or not if you think. i'm going to talk about football not for you or else you think i was going to go. by the way ways of that slide here. or there was a crack seems to do crack when i was a locate my dad he was like a bust at th

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relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt qatar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars. there is dosage of barry has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister up to the as a arrived in tehran where he was received by waning president hassan rouhani at the palace now the two day visit comes as the two countries pledge to further ties between the two sides in terms of the country's economy and their defense and the political strategies that they share of course iran and iraq have really become much closer in the past few years the iranian president hassan rouhani stressing the country's commitment to strengthen economic ties currently iraq is the number one importer of reunion goods that in two thousand and eighteen of about nine billion dollars the iranian president said they hope to increase trade to about twenty billion in the coming year now the iraqi prime minister also stressed that according to iraq's constitution they will not allow the

support for kuwait during the gulf war it turned out that no year zero was actually the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador and her story could not be verified and furthermore she had arranged to testify without taking an oath making it illegal for her to lie yes when it comes time to push for a certain agenda the media seems to ignore rather inconvenient facts but remember behind every face is a story up on r.t. new york. western women who wear when they visit iran are insulting the nation according to a prominent iranian women's rights activist she says regarding the part of it raining in culture goes against the hard work of activists like a self who are trying to abolish the compelled three head covering they say that this is a co-host issue we're very rich out of respect to the culture of iran calling it discriminated law as part of our culture this is an insult to a nation iran is mandatory have happened over choirs old women to wear it in public the activist condemnation of western women has stirred mixed reactions online. while women in the media has to fight for their freedom fr

relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt qatar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars. he has more now from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived into iran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south that's a bad palace in the capital there to help meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger to.