summit in kuwait city. has been mediating the dispute which began when saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with qatar in june qatar and kuwait are the only nations which had heads of state attending the summit the others were represented by ministers or deputy prime ministers. and joins us live so how significant was that difference in terms of who was attending. well extremely significant because there was up some ism in the build up to the summits i mean a few weeks a bike back nobody would have thought the summit itself would have taken place but when the official invitations were sent out by coates and the member states all accepted that they would be attending suddenly there was some sort of hope that this six month old crisis could suddenly or finally find a way out through mediation through this discussion sitting around the table as the new all summits however people were then surprised that despite assurances by the king of saudi arabia king solomon and others that maybe they would be repre

developed in kuwait city well joining me here on the set in doha is that he's an assistant professor of politics at qatar university good to have you with us on the program again this really is a case of sort of if and walt who turns up if. they can actually achieve because of the moment this is very uncertain territory yeah i mean actually we know in the i mean this is going we know that maybe the king solomon of so little is going but so far we don't know if the foreign minister will be attending the meeting the lists are actually taking place. now. of course it will be a lot of difference if the king go in or the crown prince are going i mean this will give them an idea of how important they can see that is going to be this meeting in order to solve the crisis or how important is it that the g.c.c. has actually met because some of the previous meetings were perspire and there was real concern that if this did if this meeting didn't go ahead in whatever form it does go ahead to the next few days. it could mean the end of the gulf cooperation council and therefore a much more larger

let's go live now to kuwait city and we can rejoin the g.c.c. summit that is just about to get underway there you see the cattery emir arriving to take part in this summit we're not entirely sure how long this summit is likely to last our correspondent earlier suggesting that a slight amount of disappointment on the part of some of the countries mean that it might just last for one day rather than the two days as was originally shared joad but there you see shaikh tamim arriving in kuwait city. returning then to the story the story of the u.s. president who is apparently considering moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem this is calls all sorts of messages of opprobrium from around the muslim world harry forces has been gauging what the mood is in jerusalem itself. changing the status of this consulate here in jerusalem to an embassy was one of the key campaign pledges as far as donald trump's foreign policy went during his presidential campaign it has though butted up against the realities of the political situation here as he also

is following events while the meeting in kuwait city was expected to be overshadowed by events in yemen and the death of the ousted president i mean what's the reaction been there over night. well so officially there have been no statements made by any of the delegates here it is important to note that each of the six member states are only represented by their foreign ministers except that is the united arab emirates somebody in with decided to send either the assistant foreign minister says you or he's concerned or deputy in terms of battling therefore it could be that maybe they're reserving statements with regards to what's happened to our left on the part of the ongoing unfolding developments in yemen told their leaders arrive and that's expected in the next few hours or it could very well be that they have not been able to discuss this yet in a way in which they can come up with some sort of unified statement it's important to note here as a whole that yemen is a divisive issue within the g.c.c. saudi arabia which has been extremely aggressive in its push to find a milita

let's take you straight now to kuwait city where gulf it is holding a news conference at the end of that summit let's listen in now sick of it sick of the generals the decisions have been taken. in order to. consolidate our. approach our process and the progress that. the supreme council has emphasized that the rule of the g.c.c. in order to maintain all the. gains and to further gains. and it is important to maintain security and safety regionally and internationally the leaders have also emphasized that. emphasize that commitment and implementation of the resolutions of the supreme council. as they are very important to keep the security of the member states and the safety and to maintain the interests of its people. and to consolidate the prosperity of the citizens economically and socially. but. also all the effort. must be made by all of the different departments of the g.c.c. and also to support the custodian of the holy places the. council have also. made the effort to complete the defense. didn't france establishment in order to help all the come to all the member states to. face

al-jazeera kuwait city. crews president petro publications he has survived an impeachment vote in congress over corruption allegations for twelve hours of debates vocations he is accused of receiving an illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant breasts he denies any wrongdoing bret's has been at the center of a massive bribery scandal there's cause political upheaval across latin america find a sanchez has more from lima. this was certainly not the expected outcome for four days now analysts have been saying all along that it was very possible that precedence in two thousand would be removed from office but the main promoter of this impeachment of popular force party did not get was eight votes short of the eighty seven goals needed to impeach the president said about a local teens. in part i think is because one faction of the left wing party that have promoted the motion to impeach the president had changed. is changed around in the last few days and now they were saying that this was in fact

be a mayor of kuwait has called for a blueprint to resolve the gulf crisis during the g.c.c. summit in quite city katter and kuwait are the only gulf nations to have sent heads of state to the summit others were represented by ministers or deputy prime ministers it follows a regional dispute which began when saudi arabia bahrain in the u.a.e. cut ties with cattle in june. i would like to point out the reason for this summit jordan is very sensitive time regionally and internationally and that is the wisdom and the good judgment of all the leaders of the g.c.c. and their belief of the importance of this organization under any circumstance. jamal michel joins us now from kuwait and nothing concrete seems to have emerged jamal has anything been achieved by this summit that. well not much i mean aside from the fact that they managed to prove that the g.c.c. is store able to convene a summit albeit a very short one that only lasted a few hours and one that lacked any real representation for several of the member countries as you mentioned saudi arabia the united arab emirates opting to send a degree l

he's there at the start of the summit in kuwait city give us an idea of how how events are likely to unfold we know the foreign ministers a jew to meet first in a couple of hours from now. well it's a pretty strange situation we find ourselves in martin because usually these summits for the g.c.c. and even the arab league are one of monotonous kind of gatherings of world leaders where people know exactly what's going to happen they could probably write the conclusion statements and just copy paste what was declared the year before about this time around we find ourselves in a position where we don't even know who exactly is going to attend and what exactly will be discussed and that is precisely because of the crisis that you gave an overview about a crisis that has really struck to the core of the g.c.c. an organization as you said that was set up to increase corporation from both from trade and security is something that abolished the borders between the countries in the sense that it gave free movements for d.c.c. citizens and even residents to a certain extent as well as a fact s

reports from kuwait city which the road to the world cup finals in twenty two and two is proving a bumpy one off the qatar won the right to host football's biggest tournament after failing to qualify for the showpiece twenty eighteen event in russia critics have been questioned in the tiny gulf states football credentials qatar will become the first nation since it to be in monte thirty four to host the world cup without ever having taken part in the finals a lot of the twenty twenty two organizers are spending millions on stadiums and infrastructure they're also investing heavily in grassroots football they're hoping in five years time to cut three national team will make an impact on the field. qatar football association aspire cademy are working really hard to develop a team. does well and twenty twenty two we see a lot of young kids coming up the ranks that are extremely skilled we see that there is a big change in for the football and that's thanks goes to do it goes to. as well as aspire academy and you know we're all really hopeful that that dream comes a reality. the gold cup but

live in kuwait city at that g.c.c. conference is getting underway there but we've been speaking to hussein. his appraising yemeni geneses base in the capital sanaa and he gave us his version of events leading up to his death. that was. like a lot of the hours before his death. the legation i thought there was trying to get the law solid two hundred insult to the heart of the whole scene by the time being the mediation was still going on. and some of the little surprised that i am the most honest has left the convent area relieved. his car. was found in the high. in color lab rifle. a stick for an eye and it's a hard pill reported because look people go to get. through cars if you would they refuse. a checkpoint in that area i was going to report the best to look for needs late into madison because cullen has a border with a lot of the region which under the control. of the forty of them are solid and it seems to be that he has a. gunshot in the head. in a different area of his body right here in the studio with me he's

group a match on monday where the winner can virtually secure a place in the semi finals also in kuwait city on monday the host nation will face oman both teams lost their opening fixtures but a victory can go a long way towards keeping them in semifinal contention. conversation than the two matches on monday the saudis and the m.r. adi's kicking off the day's action and then in the late game the hosts kuwait face on mars. defending champions cats are getting ready to face iraq on choose day for their second round match this is their first major football tournaments and failing to qualify for next year's world cup and the global difficulties over cats are hosting the gulf cup have created concerns over its ability to be the hosts of the twenty twenty two world cup reports from kuwait city which the road to the world cup finals in twenty twenty two is proving a bumpy one after qatar won the right to host football's biggest tournament after failing to qualify for the showpiece twenty eighteen event in russia critics have been questioned in the tiny gulf states football credentials qatar will b

in front a second group a fixture also at the international stadium in kuwait city it was the united. arab emirates who emerged victorious by one goal to nil over oman they couldn't do it in open play though they needed a penalty in order to secure the victory and the action will continue on saturday as defending champions qatar kick off group b. against yemen iraq will meet bahrain in the days second fixture. over in spain the countdown is on to one of the biggest games in club football with barcelona and real madrid preparing to do battle in el classico it's estimated six hundred fifty million people in one hundred eighty countries watch the last league encounter and with this one having an earlier kickoff of twelve g.m.t. on saturday the spanish league is hoping to better that heading into the two hundred and thirty sixth edition of the fixture on the pitch the pressure is all well and truly on rail they currently set just fourth in the league standings and trail leaders boss by eleven points the clash also pits two of the world's best footballers against each other in christiania

summit in kuwait city some a model job or a suburb has been mediating the dispute which began when saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. cut ties with qatar in june carter and kuwait are the only nations which had heads of state attending the summit kuwait's foreign minister has addressed to the summit . i would like to point out that the reason for this summit. during this very sensitive times regionally and internationally would call upon the wisdom the good judgment of all the leaders of the g.c.c. . and their belief that of the importance of this organization and that any circumstances. is there and joins us live so what if anything did this summit achieve. well i mean it really depends on what type of person you are and if you are one of those optimists that kind of sees the good in everything then you would say well the summit the fact that it actually took place is a success considering that the leaders or at least representatives of this city countries have been laying siege to qatar for the past six months of always vowed never to sit around the same table the country they've accu

unity to the region through what's always been called the beautiful game sun hummus all to syria kuwait city and there's bad news for kuwait supporters the hosts are eliminated after just two games losing to oman also in group a saudi arabia and of u.a.e. a group known oil manchester city boss pep guardiola says the english premier league leaders mustn't dwell on the busy christmas schedule as they look to pick up more points fifty leave the table by thirteen points and face newcastle on wednesday in a run that's the thing play three games in nine days what we have done and that is with has to do i want to tell them when newcastle easter day when it was when was come was in the moment and the result. in focus in newcastle so that is the best thing so focus would have to do on the pitch defense a little face lift you would really like a group that is the only way to be focusing would you have to do forget about it to get a little bit scared all the table. just to the edges of his work. sixteen teams in action on boxing day second place manchester united will be trying to close the gap on runa

so we told the marines, go, and burst right to the forces and were headed into kuwait city before wee left hook. david: the war is over and you decide to write a book about your life, my american journey. all of a sudden when you are doing your book tour people were saying this man should be president of the united states. colin: it had never occurred to me and suddenly the book came out and it caught media attention. lots of people were coming to me saying, you need to run. i did not think of running, and i have no passion to run. i felt an obligation to consider the matter, and so i did. i tried to do what i think is right. most of the republican party did not want me to run as republican. they even put out statement saying they did not want me in the party. david: you were to moderate? colin: i was to moderate. david: any regrets about not having run? colin: no. why? [laughter] david: some people say it is a great job. colin: prove it. david: you stayed in the private sector. george w. bush is elected president and calls you and says, i would like you to be secretary of state. col

ended off to a few hours we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first mama june reports from kuwait city. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might end the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been hammered acehnese issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir shifts about how the with us obama and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c. then saudi arabia the u.a.e. and decided not to send their respective leaders to kuwait it could be that it is embarrassing for some of the leadership of

staged a walkout to protest the presence of qatar media including al-jazeera someone who is in kuwait city for us this was a political football tournaments from the beginning the news conference held on the eve of the gulf cup that became a story itself when the saudi and imagine team sort of walked out leaving hundreds of media members confused. after a long exchange with the kuwaiti media organized the reason behind the walkout was revealed the presence of qatar based news channels including al-jazeera. the saudis and in marti's are part of a blockade of qatar that's been in force for more than six months they accuse qatar of sponsoring terrorism accusations vinci denies just a few weeks ago it looked like at this year's edition of the gulf cup wouldn't go ahead a tool but hey in saudi arabia and emirates were threatening to boycott the banned neural event i'm in the regions of worth diplomatic crisis in years the gulf crisis saw the competition moved from qatar to kuwait. the host nation where themselves are banned from international football by fifa until just two weeks ago they're hop

summit getting underway in kuwait city here in this year with me is measured by larry who is a professor in modern contemporary history of the middle east at university at the end of this deal maker of yemen the fact that it doesn't bring an end to the fighting any close it will be hugely distressing and depressing in fact for the millions of people continuing to suffer every day in yemen absolutely i mean it is a historical differ yemenis for those who spent days on different streets since two thousand and eleven the mystery thing i guess that abdullah saleh i think this is a story called there for those people reminding them of another who actually leaving the political scene of a. regime as as a person leading authoritarian regime. of course you know the killing of five dollars doesn't mean that the end of the story in yemen it's actually opening a new a new era of which is i would say hard to do to predict how things will go and in yemen i think it could open the door before more regional influence in yemen it will open a real conflict more in yemen especially with the with the absen

members who are currently meeting in kuwait city what what sort of impact is this likely to have on the involvement of saudi arabia. and indeed of of iran yes i think this summit tomorrow is going to be very interesting also because of the ongoing crisis and you know a lot of people expected yesterday with being been somewhat reinstalled as the as the president of yemen the fact that this would have been a way out for the u.a.e. and saudi out of a crisis that kind of keeps them busy which would have meant that the u.a.e. and saudi could have and could have gone to kuwait with a lot more relaxation and with a free mind to actually person possibly enter negotiations or put more pressure now they are in a situation where you know the yemen war is more unpredictable than it has ever been for the last two years and there's definitely no easy way out of it and you know have been sort of looking for save face saving measures to get out of the crisis now this is this is now been more complicated than before which means they have more things on their head entering into the g.c.c. summit and prob

agreed upon by regional powers in two thousand and fourteen let's bring in our panel joining us in kuwait city professor of political science university from oxford in the u.k. . from the london middle east institute of the school of oriental and african studies and in london also. a writer columnist and editor of alcott's newspaper welcome to all of us thought by asking dr abdullah shows you this we've seen an uptick in the launch of ballistic missiles to word salad eurabia for you is this an indication of the escalation in this conflict well thank you. my greetings to all of the other panelists the viewers. this is no this was predictable i mean this war has been going on today for a thousand days since the launching of operation decisive stormed back in the twenty fifth of march twenty fifteen and it is a well it's a tough war it's a difficult war because it's a war that has been in gauged within the mentality and the environment of a cold war atmosphere between two major rivals saudi arabia led g.c.c. unfortunately it now with more fragmented then it was when the war was launched and on th

week so too did any hopes of a breakthrough in the blocks biggest crisis in decades the meeting in kuwait city was the first since saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt cut their trade and diplomatic ties with qatar in june a period which as you'll see in this week's program has affected not just diplomatic ties but economic ones too more on that after this report from. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been hammered acehnese issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off divisions were very much on display first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and mil

other regional issues including the blockade on cutter mamma jem jhoom has more from the summit in kuwait city. will news out of yemen further complicate an already complicated scenario at this year's g.c.c. summit in kuwait now there was a meeting several hours ago attended by foreign ministers of the g.c.c. countries in fact not all foreign ministers of the g.c.c. countries where the foreign minister of the u.a.e. and the foreign minister of beheading were not in attendance lower level ministers from both those countries were there in their stead know if ishall statement was issued after that meeting especially in regard to yemen but clearly the issue of yemen after the killing of abdullah saleh the former president of yemen that must certainly be on the minds of all those in attendance here because it brings more volatility into a region that is already extremely volatile and especially in light of the g.c.c. crisis that embargo against but that has lasted now six months that was supposed to be the thing that was really at the forefront of these talks in fact there had been some hopes that

standoff between three member states of qatar the box was dispute says its creation of reports from kuwait city. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been handed a thani issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c. then saudi arabia the u.a.e. and decided not to send their respective leaders to kuwait it could be that it is embarrassing for some of the leadership of the country is the quartet work i thin

well let's hear now from shell has more from kuwait city. on monday the foreign ministers of each of qatar saudi arabia the united arab emirates behind in on mon and kuwait will meet to set the agenda for the summit itself which will be convened or is meant to be convened by the leaders of all those countries however there is doubt whether for example king solomon of saudi arabia was and or the leader of the united arab emirates anything short of the deputy leaders of those countries so mohamed bin sandman of saudi arabia or mohamed inside of the united arab emirates if there if those countries decide to truce to send somebody more junior them there. and that would be seen as far as the core it is are concerned is an insult to them that would also cost even more doubt in terms of the future of the g.c.c. and what it would mean is that even though the g.c.c. summit does indeed take place it wouldn't really be a full or a proper g.c.c. summit as expected because those leaders wouldn't be present. india has opened a new trade route to afghanista

south little bit of cloud or northern portions of the gulf so you could see some close at times in kuwait city but otherwise it's dry it's generally dry run the eastern side of the mediterranean with highs there of nineteen degrees expected in beirut heading further south into the arabian peninsula a little bit more cloud around the gulf states generally at the moment but winds generally and from the south so temperatures maybe just rising slightly twenty four's a maximum here in doha should be quite pleasant thirty in mecca so move the forecast on into saturday and see mecca there coming at twenty two but the risk in more southern portions of the gulf begins to increase in the dark abu dhabi could see some showers and that really goes across this whole region later on saturday and into sunday that could be some heavy rain maybe even the risk of some flooding into southern portions of africa plenty of showers across angola through into b. and zimbabwe but if you come further south it's largely dry and fine we'll show in johannesburg but finding cape town heis here twenty four. the world's larg

be rooted twenty three degrees dropping by slightly as we head on through into wednesday stage kuwait city coming up nineteen degrees there if a quarter of british wind blowing down through the gulf over the last few days still there a little bit on shoes there but it's on its way out so as we head on into wednesday will find those winds really much lighter and it will feel woman twenty. five degrees as in my some here am from abu dhabi house where we're looking at the saudi woman conditions for macas usual a maximum of thirty two degrees and twenty eight in medina across into southern portions of africa plenty of showers across angola through zambia and into zimbabwe and mozambique so that's expected to new through tuesday but lusaka seen some heavy downpours but further towards the south fine across much of the mid be a fine across the bulk of south africa is one of two showers towards the eastern cape and then through into wednesday could be off as a breeze picks up the cape town highs of eighteen and we could just see wanted to share a threatening johannesburg heise here of twenty four

stability and cats are on kuwait where the only gulf nations would sent heads of state to the summit in kuwait city others were represented by ministers or by deputy prime ministers this is the first summit after saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. imposed a blockade on cats are in june june reports. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might be in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday but that is a mere shift i mean been hamath then he issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off the divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c.

twenty three degrees in kuwait city further towards the east we have got the threat of snow elevation but otherwise fine couple there in afghanistan ten degrees around the eastern side of the mediterranean weather generally is looking pretty good beirut coming at twenty four we got a southerly flow that's what it is in fact twenty five really quite exceptional at this time of the year so heading down into the arabian peninsula on the western side we've got fine conditions there meca looking at thirty three degrees or very quiet around the gulf states we've got light winds and temperatures into the mid twenty's lovely here at the moment and likely to stay that way as you move on through into the start of the weekend let's head down into southern portions of africa where it's looking a bit unsettling places obviously got showers across angola and zimbabwe much as you'd expect some heavy downpours likely in harare elsewhere we've got some showers affecting parts of botswana extending into south africa moving through towards friday that area moves further towards the east and it should br