of the long game this strategy doesn't look like it started off well if they had hoped to divide lebannon and move those in the process of the camp closer they've had the opposite effect what we see is perhaps that this might be initially at least in the short term somewhat reckless and i think also it perhaps a lot says to the lack of understanding or the young willingness by the young crown prince to know the region understand its history and how complex actions are within the region to clean relation to domino effect whether they're played out in lebannon or yemen or syria or iraq or libya i mean i could go on about it would you agree with that analysis that margaret bin salman m.b.'s to be known in the region as perhaps underestimated what could be achieved or overestimated rather what could be achieved in lebanon in terms of destabilizing it or indeed. undermining hezbollah it's obviously counterfire it's the whole initiative that they took to destabilize lebanon or the threat that we heard in the past month of their skill ation a turn against the sudanese because to learn in lebanon

right then of course i mean we've heard that there is a growing tension between saudi arabia and lebannon the anticorruption crackdown in saudi arabia weighed on shares heavily yesterday i mean how is the oil price holding up amid all this. yes saudi arabia is very much money at the moment you met you mentioned those corruption cases now on the other hand there is war tension between saudi arabia and lieberman because of this we have seen the oil price also going up it's right now at a level of sixty four dollars just when you compare this for example to june by that time barrel of oil was still at the level of forty four dollars so all this attention right now is really giving the oil price. in frankfurt thank you so much for this. and now we get to that finger story sumi mentioned earlier a grocery store on the outskirts of london is giving customers the finger and that is giving them the option of using finger scanning technology to pay for their shopping but not everyone is ready to leave their cash and credit cards at home. just pop your finger on to the scanner to purchase your item

tensions are growing in the arabian peninsula saudi arabia is now accusing lebannon of declaring war following a missile fired at the capitol meanwhile lebanese prime minister saad hariri shocks the country with an abrupt resignation artie's trinity chavez has more. saudi arabia has accused the lebanese government of declaring war against it following attacks on the kingdom by the lebanese shiite group has bulla saudi gulf affairs minister mair also bond told all arabia t.v. that lebanese prime minister saad hariri had been told that acts of quote aggression by is below were quote considered acts of declaration of war against saudi arabia by lebanon and by the lebanese party of the devil saad hariri who was the son of former prime minister of lebanon refeed career who was assassinated in two thousand and five abruptly resigned from his post in a television address to from riyadh he went on to say a vicious rant against iran and the hezbollah group for what he said was their meddling in arab affairs however hassan nasrallah hezbollah's secretary general accused saudi arabia of draftin

lebannon demands the return of its prime minister from saudi arabia with more international pressure to add to the political crisis. bugs the hell are you watching i was there a life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes we'll do it without you that's the message from the pacific rim countries to donald trump as they move forward on a new free trade deal without the u.s. also a new deadline set for refugees refusing to leave minus island out by monday all police will move in plus. then he did what he wanted to do to me i lived with a lot of anger and pain and i was crying women are fighting back in the democratic republic of congo a country with some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world. welcome to our view company the u.s. has joined the un in wading into lebanon's political crisis calling for stability after the shock resignation of prime minister saad hariri hariri announced he was stepping down while in riyadh last saturday blaming interference from iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah but hezbollah's leader says hariri quit the duress h

they will go with is anyone's guess i don't see these these gestures today as being too significant lebannon is not a threat hezbollah is not an imminent threat to iran and to the saudis in any way it's just purely manufactured consent and i might add a lot of the media i mean ninety five percent of the media in the region which is controlled more or less by the saudi is going along with that baptism of disinformation in terms of iran what role does it play in the region in the situation what kind of influence does it have. well i mean iran the real problem is. iran and particularly hezbollah in the last few years have grown too strong and this is something that's been voiced in the past you know by the saudis and their allies in the region you know what do you do with hezbollah that has got how does that battle experience in syria. iran also is a growing economy now you know which which is a relatively recent thing so so they you've got this problem not only of geopolitics but also the economics in the region and that's really what's the the it has the edge of this is the saudis that they'v

president call invited to stay for a few days but his exact arrival date has not yet been announced lebannon had accused saudi arabia of holding her very hostage following his shock resignation earlier this month saudi arabia has denied those allegations and says harry is free to travel to paris at any time. and anonymous buyer a spent a record samana work by the renaissance painter leonardo da vinci it's an astounding price for a painting once thought to be by one of his students previously the work that changed hands for just a few thousand dollars at christie's in new york it was a different story. i have thoroughly ladies and gentlemen we move to. change the subject of mourning the masterpiece fallen out of christ the savior previous in the collections of three kings of england savior of the world courtrai to jesus christ one of fewer than twenty paintings known to exist by the renesas muster ninety minute looking for ninety five in house christie said the presale estimates at one hundred million dollars but that was soon exceeded ninety five and i gave one third over it why not instead

weeks ago in saudi arabia her out it has been in paris meeting with french president emmanuel mccraw lebannon has claimed the saudis were keeping her out in saudi arabia against his will harare has denied this but his sudden resignation sparks fears of a political crisis in lebanon. french security forces on high alert for an important guest outgoing lebanese prime minister saad hariri he denies he's in exile rather he's visiting friends in paris french president emanuel welcomed him to the elysee palace offering support and difficult times hariri has remained abroad since his shock resignation announcement two weeks ago in saudi arabia but following the talks he had good news for his supporters. i will return to beirut in the coming days i will participate in the celebration of our independence and i will make known my position on the subject after meeting with president. lebanon's president refused to accept to release resignation he's accused saudi arabia of holding harry reid against his will and forcing him to step down following harry reid's closer ties with the program raney and hezbol

lebanese government believes hariri is being held against his will his surprise resignation has plunged lebannon into a political crisis and made it the new focus of the long running power struggle between saudi arabia and iran. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world reporters in iraq have found what they believe to be a mass grave used by so-called islamic state to dispose of their victims according to witnesses the militants forced people to line up at the edge of the sinkhole near mosul before killing them if confirmed it would be the largest mass grave in syria and iraq. u.s. and south korean warships are conducting naval drills in the western pacific the four day exercise is spearheaded by three american aircraft carriers the largest of their type in the world officials in seoul say the show of military might is intended as a deterrent to any provocation from north korea. voting is underway in the second round of slovenia's presidential election opinion polls puts incumbent forward on course to secure a second term his nearest rival is my own side which also see

he had described saudi foreign policy in lebannon as a quote political adventurism and implied that hariri was being forcibly held in saudi arabia riyadh called gabriele's remarks outrageous and unjustified. well here in berlin a last ditch coalition talks to forge a government have ended after another day that failed to reach an agreement time is running out for chancellor angela merkel to produce a breakthrough party negotiators are now hoping to reach a deal by sunday night miracles conservatives are seeking a coalition with the pro-business free democrats along with the greens that's unprecedented at a federal level in germany. with the talks faltering german president frank weighed in with an urgent warning about the risks of calling fresh elections and he called on the parties to respect the decision of the voters. expect that all sides are aware of their responsibility and facing up to that responsibility means not handing the mandate back to the voters free democrat leader christian little arrived at the talks earlier on saturday and made it clear that he was beginning to run out o

to harry reid to stay for of the new days but his exact arrival date has not yet been announced lebannon had accused saudi arabia of holding hari hostage following his shock resignation earlier this month saudi arabia has denied the allegations and says hariri is free to travel to paris at any time. now to some other stories making headlines around the world russia has vetoed a u.n. security council resolution to extend the probe of chemical weapons attacks in syria the mandate for the inquiry expired at midnight on thursday the un has blamed the assad regime for using the nerve gas sarin in attacks in the past in the us the republican controlled house of representatives has passed a broad package of tax cuts with a vote of two hundred twenty seven to two hundred five the proposed overhaul of the tax system as a major policy goal of the trump administration it will need to pass the u.s. senate before it can be implemented and in barcelona thousands of people have protested against the police for detaining two leaders of colonias pro independence movement the demonstrators held candles an

in riyadh that he is free to travel as he wishes in response to claims from so many lebannon that he was being held against his will he announced his resignation in saudi arabia last sashay saying he feared there was a postie to kill him but he hinted in his latest remarks he might rescind his resignation. at least six people have been killed in iran and one in iraq after a powerful earthquake struck the country's northern border and memory measurements suggest the strength of seven point three at the epicenter was around thirty kilometers from the iraqi city of. iranian reports say at least fourteen provinces are affected. the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy is on his first visit to catalonia since dismissing its succession of government he's offering a stark choice kick at that persists and next month snap elections or there will be drastic consequences a rives in the region just hours after hundreds of thousands of pro independence demonstrators took to the streets of barcelona getting them to change their minds will be an uphill battle. it's a difficult yet inevitable trip f

to play out as more to mention saudi arabia is unhappy with the strengthening of has billard in lebannon group sponsored by iran and tensions between riyadh and tehran have been rising for a while with mounting concern a direct confrontation could break out soon as the explained recently barely a day seems to go by without saudi arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to it's arch enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis see iran's evil influence. those who the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire a rocket riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy and aggression. iran's role and its direct command of his hooty proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression the coalition's c'mon considers this a blatant active military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia the saudis also ready to throw that allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minis

so it's all mixed together and we see lemon lebannon also caught up in the bigger conflict between saudi arabia and iran and frankly that can be seen in the number of countries in the region we've just been talking about the missile that was launched from yemen yemen has been of course engulfed in civil war for two years now and then that case we have saudi arabia the support of the government that was ousted back then whereas iran backs the who's the rebels who are fighting very government and of course last saturday's missile was fired by the yemeni rebels at the saudi capital so all of that is just intertwined and that you can also be seen in syria as well saudi arabia is. where is iran this. and we just have all these proxy wars and conflicts happening outside not direct conflict but it's very concerning that this could actually push them into direct conflict as everything escalates and so no word from harry in the last few hours either is that that's dzakovic i think it's going to be in the studio let's return now to our guest martin jay a beirut based journalist martin i don't know

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the same page when it comes to intensifying our efforts we hail france primarily on the issue of lebannon and achieving stability in syria we've been hearing from various analysts over the past couple of hours saying that the key no takeaway point on what may or may not come out of these discussions is basically that the french seem to have a lot more leverage when it comes to the relationship with saudi arabia as a springboard into sorting some of the biggest fears in the region more leverage certainly than donald trump the u.s. president we've got that french translation lined up for you let's go back to riyadh these meetings. rated this france's. with respect to this belletti and dependence. of lebanon from any foreign intervention so there is spect all. faith and sects in lebanon. so we're concerned that efforts must be made to restore things as they were following that is a nation of these lebanese prime minister roughage how did we also discussed the humanitarian situation. and the measures that must be taken to allow humanitarian aid into yemen and the. saudi led coalition must tak

many other countries are doing it too i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong international relations professor jamal wakim believes saudi arabia used hariri to put more pressure on iran i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received severe blow specially the liberal news public think prime minister probably was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact that. his father roughly how do you leave. for a long time representatives or saudi influence in lebanon under it is a widespread believe in lebanon and how do you was forced to designate a muslim so none at the time where the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. spike in suicides among french police officers this year has intensified concern about the stress caused by overwork and the country's high terror threat levels try to do bensky has been to me one officer who's made not one but two attempts to take her own life. i was considered

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affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure sad how you really want to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong. to ask their relations professor jamal wakim told us he believes the saudis are using their riri to advance their own wee general agenda. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot he had received as blow specially the lebanese public thinks the prime minister how did he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact . his father murphy ideally. a long time but it isn't that the of the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and how did he was forced to his ignition by prominent southern man at the time when the crown prince also the idea. is trying to increase the tension in. especially in lebanon after they lost that influence in iraq. and syria thanks for staying with us and i know whole kids are watching on t.v. time live from moscow we're back in just over half an hour for more news from around the world states you. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's full

these affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure somebody wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong. international relations professor jamal wakim told us he believes the saudis are using hariri to advance their own regional agenda. i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received as severe blow special leave the lebanese public think prime minister how did he was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact . his father of three hundred eighty where for. a long time to present the tubes all sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon that soft hearted he was forced to designation by some of them so not at the time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon after they lost that influence in iraq. and syria has come up to six thirty am here in moscow watching all the international ondine hawkins win back next hour for more global headlines see that. rice is was it to buy down americans buy these right unfortunately the b

minister of saudi arabia just tweeted right meaning it's really coordinated in terms of putting lebannon in the context of regional competition one of our viewers here early on on facebook says it's all part of the plot to attack iran to agree that that would that will they go as far as that well look i mean i because i've heard the arguments this afternoon about the proxy wars with. iran you and i have discussed it over the last few months and years the proxy between saudi arabia and iran iran and riyadh fighting it out in lebanon and yemen and syria and iraq and so on and so forth. i think the important thing is the timing right and why the timing meaning is on the one hand so you're a bit feeling so defensive because of the iranian expansion of the influence that it is taking on the offensive as best defense. acting in yemen acting in the gulf qatar unsold so forth and now acting in lebanon or on the other hand is iran that has really expanded its influence into iraq and syria wants to cement its victories by making sure that lebannon becomes part and parcel of its influence and that

and everything to change this come and light of future sanction from the american against against lebannon certain threat coming from israel and escalation by this it would be i think the prime minister probably cave ins of the demand of the sunni and he declared his the resignation from the wood yeah rabia this does not rest very well with stability in lebanon and i'm sure there is something planning for for the coming forty eight hours we have to wait and see but everybody is on alert on lebannon for anything that could be a major escalation that probably threaten the stability of the country your contention that this was a coup from from saudi arabia what do you base that on basically the demand came from one of the minister of saudi arabia who's in charge of the middle east he actually declared that within the few days you can hear something that the prime minister was summoned to saudi arabia. two times and basically if you look at the face of the prime minister it seems that he is forced to do this resignation the tone that we saw in lebanon on that communication that we saw in leban

take lebannon into a new regional equation because we the lebanese we are happy and we're not going to and we certainly not even going to go down to the streets so all in all an attempt by the lebanese hezbollah leader not to escalate the situation further thank you very much on scene. honest marwan rashard joining us from doha going to bring you much more on this story at the top of the next hour we'll have more on all of our top stories and of course if you want to get the latest analysis that takes you behind the headlines a great deal happening right now particularly in the past twenty four hours our web site is the place to go out there at dot com you can watch us live there as well that's it for now but we have much more coming up at the top of the hour as i was saying want to wanny starts now but we will be back with all the latest on our top stories including developments in lebanon and of course a very important cabinet shakeup in saudi arabia as well. they may be in their seventh but these are. the pressure to have children is so great that elderly childless women are turning

terms of backing religious zealots however with the intervention of russia and iran and hezbollah of lebannon these forces defeated the so-called islamic state defeated the religious zealots and therefore u.s. policy is now scrambling to try to find an alternative to this failed policy and there was a lot of hand-wringing in washington yesterday about the meeting in sochi between the president of iran and turkey and russia and i dare say that that meeting which obviously led to a gigantic step forward in terms of resolving the syrian crisis led to this phone call today from mr trump to president juan so what can we expect to hear from the kurds if anything i mean they're not going to take this lightly are they. the kurds are in a corner you know in so-called iraqi kurdistan they had a referendum on independence that led to a ninety percent plus verdict in favor of independence by those voting over baghdad the central government in iraq reacted very negatively to this and it does not seem as if kurdistan will be moving towards independence likewise president reacted very badly to this referend

more than one reason it's the ability and to maintain what they're calling the internal balance lebannon system of government said they balance there's a sectarian system of government the prime minister should be a sunday muslim and the sunni community here consider saddam how to be their leader the very fact that he is no longer here they feel marginalized even further it is a community who over the years feels that hezbollah of course with its patron iran has a grip on lebanon and it is in control of the country so this will really upset the balance of power so the senate community worry that this is this political crisis is not new saudi iranian rivalry has played out in lebanon for many many years now there have been attempts in the past to curb hezbollah but they have all failed so right now all sides are avoiding political escalation because the situation is so tense in the past the political crises like this have led to security incidents so a lot of uncertainty for now there is rare unity where consensus but could this be just short lived it is a question many fear especially si

affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure sign how you read wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong. and international relations professor jamal wakim told us he believes the saudis are using hariri to advance their own regional agenda i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received as severe blow specially the lebanese public thinks prime minister prodi was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit the fact. that he and his father of the ideally where. a long time representatives or sold the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon and how did he was forced to his ignition by a muslim so man at a time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon after they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. well that's all for me for now about holkins or what's in the weekly all of the international to join us again at the top of next hour for more headlines see that one. home. everybody i'm stephen both got to ask hollywood guy usual suspect

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liberties affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong so i feel that he professes side today explain to us how lebanon has become ground zero for a political standoff in the region there are two alliances emerging in saudi arabia some gulf states without. pushing a game is iran and again this has been law on the other hand you have syria. news person not the prime minister and hezbollah again is this alliance and so you have this polarization the saudis feel that one way to pop in on the mind the power of. hezbollah is to create a political crisis in this way you will be able to create havoc a storm inside the political system to clash with hezbollah or at least neutralize it for not intervening in syria again or doing anything and in this way you will be cutting the hand of iran. international thanks being with us tonight our programs continue after the break. to. see the good capitalist american and min davis doesn't charge for gun owners don't be such a shot communist loving

you may not be perfect but they still are prime minister does this mean that lebannon now has staved staved off a political crisis at least in the short term. i think the call for national dialogue that both president and tyree recall toward today. is maybe an indication that all players are realize that hariri is after all the best person to handle the current political minefield both nationally and internationally. and i would not be surprised if i restate. temporarily in the no interest until these scheduled elections for me next year i have really heard any reaction from the law because they of course also play a very prominent role in lebanon and did not accept his resignation either i haven't heard anything yet but i would be surprised. if they have issued a statement it would have been along the lines that they are relieved and are happy to present and are a police supporting national dialogue and aren't supposed to supporting the campaign and frank alberts reporting from lebanon thank you. all right i want to take you to zimbabwe now where former vice president emerson gaga h

affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure assad have you really wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong international relations professor gemma wacking believes saudi arabia used to reread to put more pressure on iran i believe that his figure got damaged a lot here received as severe blow specially the lebanese public think prime minister probably was humiliated in saudi arabia we need to admit that. his father really ideally. for a long time but it wasn't that of soul the influence in lebanon and that is a widespread belief in lebanon that sort how did he was forced to as ignition by so known at the time when the crown prince of saudi arabia. is trying to increase the tension in iran especially in lebanon they lost their influence in iraq. and syria. the most on monday that google's parent company is working on d. ranking stories from r.t. and the sputnik news agency in web searches the move would make articles hard to find basically elphaba boss eric schmidt's comments came at a security forum in canada when he was asked abo

lebanese affairs many other countries are doing it too i'm sure saad hariri wants to help his country lebannon i think that the way saudi arabia treated him is very wrong but it's clear already these twenty days have so. just how dangerous the battle of the power between saudi arabia and iran would go and now this little middle eastern country that suffered a lot in wars and conflicts may be losing peace again. from beirut lebanon sociology professor cites a deck explain to us how lebanon has become a battlefield for a political standoff in the region there are two alliances emerging in the area saudi arabia some gulf states without. pushing a game is iran and again this has been law on the other hand you have syria. news person not the prime minister and hezbollah and iran again is this alliance and saw you have this polarization the saudis feel that one way. or on their mind the power of. hezbollah is to create a political crisis in this way you will be able to create havoc a storm inside the political system to clash with hezbollah or at least neutralize it for not intervening in syria agai

ally a client names out there harry and that in the end of the day they will continue to pressure lebannon not to take sides with iran or with syria's assad and cleanest if they're not going to support saudi a position towards iran they're going to have to stay neutral all right thank you very much senior political analyst marwan bashara in doha we can now he joins anucha is in the lebanese capital beirut center if you give us a sense of how harry speech his interview will be received and that. well the aim of this interview really is trying to convince the majority of the lebanese that he is not a hostage that he is he has the freedom of movement and he is not being dictated to the saudi arabians are not dictating to him what to say or what to do but i think he has sort of explained what it will take to resolve this political crisis when he said that i am ready to withdraw my resignation if this association policy is respected now lebanon adopted the disassociation policy a few years ago this policy so that lebanon does not get involved in regional conflicts particularly in neighboring sy

the arab region but i'm not sure it's going to be elevated to the level where saudi arabia hopes lebannon must condemn hezbollah and the arab countries must come in line was so it would be a. proxy war if you will against iran in the region so there will be statements there will be words there will be a watered down communique but in the end of the day we will not have anything serious or actionable coming out of the arab league whereby it will shake down iran has one law or for that matter their supporters in moscow or other places or a small one with the latest meeting taking place in cairo thank you police in kenya have fired tear gas to break up a demonstration by supporters of the opposition leader. the protests broke out in nairobi after a number of people were shot dead overnight davis says at least thirty one of his supporters have been killed by police and militia since he returned to the country on friday. or kenya's supreme court is expected to decide on monday if president elect you who are kenyatta will be sworn in for his second term or if new elections will be held can you

well barbara indeed when the announcement was first made an awful lot of shock right across lebannon many people stunned and certainly those who were close to the prime minister saad hariri those in his inner circle if you will they told al-jazeera they had no inclination that this was coming but they had no idea that the prime minister was thinking of stepping down let alone was going to announce his resignation but there we have it we have now this resignation from mr hariri while he's in saudi arabia this is his second visit to the saudi capital in the past five days and many people are looking at not only his resignation but the location of this resignation and view this as saudi arabia trying to influence the politics of lebanon now that in itself is not something new saudi arabia is of course a major player within the region but for a long time has had a very dominant force politically here in lebanon not only with mr hariri but also with his father the koreas we saw in that report who was assassinated in two thousand and five but is this issue of the fascination which many peo

destabilizing the region for quote meddling in arab affairs whatever the case here politically in lebannon many politicians have been saying that they question the timing of this they question the location of this and have been quite withering in their criticisms of mr hariri effectively describing him as a quote stooge of saudi arabia there of course is supporters of mr hariri most notably those belonging to his future bloc and those political parties who are also allied with saudi arabia saying that they were aware of the credible threats to mr hariri is life of course his father were feet career he was assassinated in two thousand and five here in beirut but interesting we should say that we have been reaching out to the various intelligence agencies here in lebanon we've received this statement from the internal security service here in lebanon and they've given us a very delicately worded statement a statement in which they said that they were not the quote source of any intelligence that would suggest that mr hariri his life was under threat stopping short of saying that there is no

yes this is the position in lebannon saddle how did he need to return to lebanon submitters resignation and in person and hold discussions with the president because they believe that he didn't even write his resignation speech that is the feeling here and even the french president said that he will be receiving the prime minister today at the elysee palace as a prime minister because his country does not accept his resignation so what is going to happen next we don't even know if and when heidi will be returning to beirut there have been reports that he is coming to beirut mccrone himself saying he might come in days and weeks i mean we were expecting him to arrive in lebanon and days now there is a question that he could be here in weeks there's also reports that he could tour arab capitals before coming to beirut and what happens when he comes to beirut is he going to insist on stepping down or is he going to insist on withdrawing his resignations and attaching conditions to that like hezbollah you know disarming hezbollah disengaging itself from regional conflicts and that is not go

resigning i think that the problem is the law is deeply entrenched in the politics and culture of lebannon that will not be changing anytime soon the saudis would like to induce a joint is really us attack finance by saudi arabia on iran and possibly on lebanon but i think that that would be a disaster it would open the gates of hell as you probably know lebanon has thousands of missiles it's been storing for years now you may also recall that in two thousand and six lebanon in lebanon and in israel that hezbollah bought the is really used to a virtual standstill they were incredibly strengthened a decade later and i trust and i hope that the israelis will not rise to the bait offered by the saudis. thank you so much for your time and your insight on this story today author and historian gerald horne. an anti-racist group in the u.k. has accused the european union of criminalizing people who help refugees cross borders the institute of race relations claims that governments are taking advantage of people trafficking laws to punish humanitarian efforts one person mentioned in the document i

like you mentioned earlier the french president made a sudden a surprise trip to saudi arabia so lebannon you know stepping up contacts to try to understand the fate of the prime minister his well being and his whereabouts all right zain the harder for now thank you very much indeed. live from the lebanese capital beirut. now the u.s. president on trump has already addressed apec leaders at the summit taking place in vietnam in his address he told leaders that he won't let the u.s. be taken advantage of on trade and mr trump says he will not tolerate unfair trade relations but he also told a pit leaders that he wanted to maintain strong relationships with their countries we have been friends partners and allies in the indo-pacific for a long long time and we will be friends partners and allies for a long time to come i am here to offer a renewed partnership with america to work together to strengthen the bonds of friendship and commerce between all of the nations of the indo-pacific and together to promote our prosperity and security at the core of this partnership we seek robust trade re