with me is our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. where does this crisis go from here? opposing sides, both softly spoken, well spoken and diplomats, both taking the political and moral high ground. that is what the stand—off looks like. that is the stand—off looks like. that is the face of this worst golf crisis in decades. neither side. and down, neither side wants to be seen to be standing down. —— neither side will standing down. —— neither side will stand down. how do you cope with the aljazeera television stand down. how do you cope with the al jazeera television channel which qatar says it will not shut down‘s you could get a new editorial board, and that has been discussed. what about the bigger question is? what kind of foreign policy does qatar want? an independent foreign policy, they think it is an attack on their sovereignty. this is an existential crisis. it will not be resolved easily. saudi arabia and their allies refrained from slumping further sanctions on qatar. they chose not to do that. what is going on there? it was very interesting. i have just re

our chief international correspondent lyse doucet has been following the story.—off and what we heard from both sides, well spoken diplomats, the saudi foreign minister on one side and the foreign minister on one side and the foreign minister from minister on one side and the foreign ministerfrom qatar on minister on one side and the foreign minister from qatar on the other, both of them taking the moral and political high ground, levelling allegations. from cairo we have seen allegations. from cairo we have seen a holding position, no new steps but warning of new sanctions, warning about these measures and accusing qatar of a callous approach to mediation. the foreign minister said today that he is open for dialogue so today that he is open for dialogue so they are talking past each other while many watch on. what is happening with the american view of what is going on? we thought this may be had been encouraged by donald trump but where is he now with it? his first three on the matter, and this is how we measure him these days, he almost seemed to take credit —

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