muslim have a very briefly whatever he had in mind about the middle east do you think that the idea is death. and they're going to be relevant shelves forever given the developments on the ground bridge actions among key players even key players in the region i think what we have known so far have been started trying for two and a half years he is in to this mindset of one of the contract tricks who comes up with very controversial decisions but he never shows a plan b. so once dude is a resistance in the middle is then you he will take us somewhere else so we're not going to revisit this issues because he know that the out and diplomatic and it is no way to have them implemented so he is not a man who can resist the resistance coming the other way mr so how is mr black mr holy good to have you on the show and it's always interesting to listen to your insights and thank you too for watching you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also

but what's on the ramifications of this book for the middle east on trump's presidency this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. there's so much demand for a new book on donald trump keep up with demand is published to release it early after the president's lawyers to sue them and the former white house adviser steve bannon the book is britain by michael wolff draws a picture of the chaotic first year in office trump has slammed it as phony but what will be the impact of wolf's work we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first than reports from washington d.c. . crowd swarmed this washington bookstore at midnight friday snatching up copies of fire and fury inside the trump white house present the chrysler i can't take your order of the phone politics and prose opened it ten am within thirty minutes eager buyers had nabbed all thirty copies the store had i'm super excited to read this i went to a couple different bookstores even midnight last night there was another bookstore selling this they sold out in twenty minutes why are you so interested in this book why wou

you had a middle east that was in chaos. was flushst regime in with money due to the iranian nuclear deal. there were problems in yemen and funding groups like hezbollah and defacto control of baghdad in iraq. you had the emergence and growth of the terrorist group isis that happened after american troops pulled out of iraq in 2012 and of course the deepening conflicts in syria and yemen. and really israel isolated in the world stage in part by u.s. actions such as the obama's administration pursuing u.n. resolution 2234 at the end of the administration, which really, the u.n. -- i don't know what they do other than afack israel. they did 24 resolutions and 20 of them were against israel. by the u.n.'s very low standard, resolution 2334 was a disgrace and said that even things like the western wall were considered occupied arab territory and that would have been something that i think almost any administration would have vetoed. and so the obama approach was first and foremost empower iran. they believed in reproachment and

is that your top concern for 2018 for the middle east?line geopolitical risk perspective, we don't think that risk is priced into markets. you have a very clear signal out of the united states from the white house that there will be no signing of the next waiver in 120 days of these sanctions waiver. to haveobviously going a great impact in terms of the likelihood of the continuity and viability of the iran nuclear deal going forward. thisf: that is it for "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." ahead in the region, and we will be right here sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. in the united arab emirates on bloomberg television. i am yousef gamal el-din. do join me then. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> "brilliant ideas, powered by hyundai motors. ♪ ♪ narrator: im heung-soon is a south korean filmmaker. his films are complex, sometimes dark and unsettling. he focus is on the marginalized and overlooked, and his video work overlooks big scenes like poverty and depression. the museum of modern and

we see it in the middle east with rising temperatures and rising water issues among others. we are in the middle of a change of climate of globalization. was interconnected to a world that is hyperconnected to a world that is now interdependent. an interdependent world is a different world from an american point of view. in an interdependent world, your friends can kill you faster than your enemies, so if some big european banking systems were to go bankrupt tomorrow, that would affect me in america very much. in europe, they are allies, yet your friends can kill you faster than your enemies in an interdependent world. and secondly, you get a geopolitical inversion in an interdependent world where your rival's falling become more dangerous than your rival's rising. in america, china takes six more islands in the south china sea. i cannot care less. if china loses 6% growth, my goodness, this room will be basically empty. that is a climate change and you move from an interconnected world into an interdependent world. lastly, we are seeing a change in the climate of technology.

the middle east is at the center of this growth.a role of ownership in business jets in the united states. is that trend continuing come and how are you working around or with that? >> there is a market of 7000 airplanes in our market. it is the long-range, business market. we see a trend around the world that boards won't approve a $40 million aircraft purchase and put it on the balance sheet. now, we offered that availability, guaranteed availability exactly like ownership. a very strong micro trend. we don't see reverse on that. it is not only the u.s. it is here, and asia, in europe, everywhere. that is driving the growth away from ownership and full ownership. yousef: what about higher energy prices? it is a very different brent crude price now than it was in 2017. if it goes further, it has an impact not just on some of the more public aviation companies, but also smaller, privately run companies like yourself. >> the oil price is a pass-through. we are not affected by that. it is a fraction of the overall cost. we don't see i

the middle east has been extremely strong.ubscription business model that is guaranteeing availability. have more new subscription clients in this region. in august, when i was here, the growth in the united states has accelerated. -- growthy strong go around the world. >> in terms of what is likely to outperform, what would be the geography? where might it be a little bit challenging because of a changing external one and some of the domestic challenges as well? >> the tech sector in the u.s. on the west coast has prices. when we have a global infrastructure, we can do the transpacific flight. we saw strong growth. our goal is to be market leader in every single region around the world. ami, 70% and be reached within an eight hour flight. the middle east is at the center of this growth. >> you have seen a falling role of ownership in business jets in the united states. is the trend still continuing? airplanes,et of 7000 which is the long-range business market. we see a trundle around the world that boards don't want to prove

the winds of change can only be witnessed across the middle east. long-standing enemies are becoming partners. old photos are finding new grounds for cooperation, and the descendents of isaac and ishmael are coming together in common cause as never before. last year in saudi arabia president trump announced a gathering of leaders for more than 50 nations that the islamic american summit. he challenged people to work ever closer together to recognize shared opportunities and confront challenges and the president urged all who called the middle east their home in his words to meet history's greatest test and conquer extremism and vanquish the forces of terrorism together. [applause] radical islamic trigger some knows no borders targeting america, israel, nations across the middle east and the wider world. it respects no creed, stealing the lives of jews, christians and especially muslims and radical islamic terrorism understands no reality of the brute force. together with our allies we will continue to bring the full force of our life to drive radica

the middle east has been strong., our key product is the program where customers subscribe. we have a subscription business model. we have guaranteed availability jets anytime, anywhere in the world. taking the middle east, we have over 50% of more new subscription clients in this region. united states is a key highlight for us. the growth in the united states has accelerated. we see strong growth all around the world. the united states, middle east, and asia are the highlights. yousef: in terms of what is likely to outperform when you look at those markets, what will be one geography you would say this is going to be key for 2018? where might it be challenging , either because of a changing external environment or because of some of the domestic challenges? thomas: in every single region in the world, certainly the that certainly the tech sector in the u.s. has surprised us. because of the growth we have, we can also now do transpacific flying. we saw strong growth, west coast u.s., numbers up 40% in the united stat

is that your top concern for 018 for the middle east? headline geopolitical risk perspective, we don't think that risk is priced into markets. you have a very clear signal out of the united states from the white house that there will be no signing of the next waiver in 120 days of these sanctions aiver. that is obviously going to have a great impact in terms of the likelihood of the continuity and viability of the iran nuclear deal going forward. yousef: that is it for this "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." a busy week ahead in the region, and we will be right here sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. in the united arab emirates on bloomberg television. i am yousef gamal el-din. do join me then. this is bloomberg. ♪ we use our phones and computers the same way these days. so why do we pay to have a phone connected when we're already paying for internet? shouldn't it all just be one thing? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you can get 5 lines of talk and text included at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. choose b

to all the middle east and the world. the united states of america will never allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. [applause] vice pres. pence: beyond the nuclear deal, we will also no longer tolerate iran's support of terrorism or the brutal attempts to suppress its own people. administration tripled the number of sanctions targeting iran and its leaders. tough new sanctions. but i have another message today. a better message. from the people of america to the proud and great people of iran. we are your friends. and the day is coming when you will be free from the evil regime that suffocates your dreams and buries her hopes. [applause] and when your day of liberation finally comes, we say to the good people of iran, the friendship between our peoples will blossom once again. [applause] at times, itnce: may seem hard to see. it those that call the middle east their home have more that unites them then divides them. only a common thread it but in the common hope for security and prosperity and peace. ancestry ofommon fa

♪ >> welcome to the "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." major stories driving headlines from the region this week. , 11 people are detained following a protest in this audi capital. why did they so brazenly risk their freedom? the head of saudi arabia market regulator runs us through the role changes they are bringing in as the king looks to spur for investment. high asn a three-year u.s. stockpiles plunge. why are rising prices worrying the iranian oil minister? newseek began with the that 11 princes had been arrested in saudi arabia for staging -- staging a sit in. the royal family members were protesting the government's decision to stop paying their electricity and water bills. reaction --y gut got reaction and more on the story. >> we don't know a lot of details about this. what we know from reports, as you said, they are protesting utility bills. what it clearly shows, it shows there is rising discontent within the ruling family after that crackdown. after -- obvious a, there is grumbling. what happened is that according to the repor

those three, he was supposed to meet during his visit to the middle east. we understand, he will meet today with the egyptian president and afterwards have a dinner with him. that's it. then he goes to aman, jordan, where he is going to meet with the jordanian king abdullah before going to jerusalem for two full days of meetings there. over the last year, what we see is a dog's breakfast of confused american policies in the middle east. the trump administration wants its cake and eat it, too. for instance, it wants an anti-american alliance on one hand, but alienating arab allies by the decision to recognize jerusalem as the capitol of israel. if the first year is anything to go by, the second year of the trump administration will be interesting, to say the least. natalie? >> thank you, ben. live for us in cairo. now to you, ian, in jerusalem. they are angry over the move by mr. trump. now they say the u.s. won't be involved in peace talks. the issue is where it goes from here. certainly, the vice president will be welcomed by mr. netanyahu. >> that's right

is that your top concern for 2018 for the middle east?dline geopolitical risk perspective, we don't think that risk is priced into markets. you have a very clear signal out of the united states from the white house that there will be no signing of the next waiver in 120 days of these sanctions waiver. that is obviously going to have a great impact in terms of the likelihood of the continuity and viability of the iran nuclear deal going forward. yousef: that is it for this "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." a busy week ahead in the region, and we will be right here sunday morning at 8:00 a.m. in the united arab emirates on bloomberg television. i am yousef gamal el-din. do join me then. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ >> coming up on "bloomberg best," the week and conversation from the world economic forum in davos leaders in business, economics, politics and finance share their insight and outlook on critical global issues. >> you have markets in global high but we know that these things do not go in a straight line. >> it feels stupid to o

benefiting iranian position within the middle east the invasion of iraq kind of. the rise of isis and so on and of course it is not only about the iranian policy it is also about kind of miscalculations and wrong policies of the ukrainian primarily here we're talking about saudi arabia but the situation is changing a little bit now we have a president in the white house who has a very kind of narrow iran centric kind of understanding of the region according to his kind of naive perspective all the problems in the middle east all the instabilities in the middle east all of the sudden can be resolved if he could confront iran and the best way he thinks that he could confront iran is to kind of undermine this historic deal and now increasingly there is more evidence to suggest that maybe within the next three or four months we going to see the end of this very important security deal and if that happens it can create some serious new problems for for the region so iran should not take account of its recent victories in the region for granted because the situation is

foreign policy in the middle east but one year in what this administration thinks its policies in the region will ultimately achieve remains unclear. beirut. ford is a former u.s. ambassador to syria and a senior fellow at the middle east institute in washington he's joining us now from greenville thanks very much indeed for being with us is there a word or a short phrase that you could use to sum up the first year of middle east policy of the trumpet ministration. the shortest expression would be slow to take off. in terms of being slow to take off what have been the highlights or the key points that you would say have marked this first year of middle east policy. well when i say slow for example the administration has said that it is going to put on the table a trump administration plan for middle east peace but we haven't seen such a plan yet. seen an announcement about recognition of jerusalem officially as israel's capital but it's an isolated announcement it's not part of a larger package part of a larger plan. with respect to syria the other big crisis going on now in the middl

he speaks in terms of defending the christians of the middle east while christians of the middle east refused to meet with him he talks about the sons of abraham's while inciting for war against iran in fact he was already on the record support of israel attacking iran their own eyes in various people in the region but what is so frustrating what is so aggravating. soil is the fact that this sort of a speech by an american leader is totally moron ik yet it is great in moral language it's quite frustrating to analyze a person who speaks in terms of wanting peace while at the same time demolishing the entirety of entire basis for peace and the entire speech and entire sermon goes on without for once mentioning that the palestinians have been either forced into refugees or under occupation for the last fifty to seventy years he's there in jerusalem in occupied east jerusalem refusing to reject the simplest facts of life that palestinians have been on that occupation for fifty years so really it's quite frustrating for a political analyst to be able to do underlies that this kind of

♪ >> welcome to the best of bloomberg markets, middle east. i'm tracy alloway.cross the we come antigovernment protests sweep across iran. inviting threats of sanctions from the u.s.. oil prices surged to three-year highs on fears of supply disruption as u.s. stockpiles fall. as the u.s. convex a turkish banker of helping evaders iran sanctions. relations between the two bank countries hit a new low. story.to the weeks top we spoke to our reporter intel ran about the wave of protests and how the government is dealing with them. why thenk the reason head of the irgc regard cannot yesterday and made that statement saying, declaring yesterday that the protests of come to an end is because they were actually dwindling down. by tuesday, if you people are in the streets. by what we can see on social media, and there were no reporters -- reported deaths. maybe there was one other death that had added to the tall, bringing it up to 21 people. what theight now, government is doing and what the authorities are doing, they are consolidating, they are seeing what this will

this is "bloomberg markets: middle east."is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: we are 90 minutes away from the market open in the emirates. the u.s. dollar index in focus. currently up, but giving away some gains. i want to talk about airbus and this part of the world. , now a gadflylier columnist putting things in airbus isho says playing chicken with one of its biggest customers. that airbus share price would increase, but the fundamental takeaway is both companies still believe there is a future. it is conceivable that air traffic can keep compounding 380 finding a bigger market. it is really who foots the bill to keep the program alive. expect a high-stakes blinking contest to continue. airbus down in the last trading session. let's now check in on business flash headlines. investigators are trying to work out why a mezzanine stockof the jakarta exchange collapsed, injuring 72 people. students on a field trip was on that balcony. police say they found no trace of explosives. $70t crude has gone through for the first time in the three g

there is a lot of demand for middle east and gcc paper. who is going to come to markets first, because ultimately the fed is raising rates. environments might not be as conducive. who is going to jump the gun? matthew: the roadshow has started. them on will be the first one out of the track. following that, we have already reported qatar is close to making decisions around issuance. we should see the qataris coming soon. saudi arabia, they also have a big budget deficit. needs to be filled, so we should see the saudi's come quickly. as we say, abu dhabi is it -- is a likely contender. it is going to keep things busy. yousef: we talked about the sovereign space. there is also quite a bit of demand in terms of corporate paper. how is that likely to fare? based on the conversations you have had? you spent a lot of time on the story. how is that likely to fare? matthew: last year, i think corporate issuance probably disappointed a lot of people. we had around $25 billion worth. sorry, $35 billion worth coming out of the corporates and banks. i

we're fortunate to have with us today two of the most distinguished conservative experts on the middle east. i'll introduce them in turn. our first speaker is elliott abrams. he's a senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the council on relations here in washington, d.c. he's carved out a long and distinguished career in the public service serving as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security of adviser in the administration of president george w. bush where he supervised u.s. middle east policy and the democracy human rights and international organization directorates of the national security council. he was assistant secretary of state in the reagan administration and received the secretary of state's distinguished service award from secretary of state george schultz. in 2012, the washington snunt for near east policy gave him its scholar statesman award. he was educated at harvard, the london school of economics and harvard law school. and before joining the bush administration, he was the president of a think tank here in washington, the ethics and public policy

agenda isent, today's the situation in the middle east. i wish to express china's principal position on this agenda. recent developments in certain parts of the middle east are worrying. some countries are going through pot and conflicts, hot issues are complicated and intertwined and influencing one another. terrorist forces are rampant and spreading, which poses serious challenges to international keys and security. china hopes that the countries in the region will work should improve along with the international community to improve the situation in the middle east and seek a fundamental resolution to achieve international these, stability and development. for a political resolution to the issues in the region. all sides should play constructive roles and persistently promote dialogue and consultation and reach a sustained solution taking into account the interests of all parties. resolutelyshould combat terrorism, persist in uniform standards, employing all kinds of means to eliminate the root causes that breed terrorism. the principle

let's have a substantive country havee middle east -- let's a substantive discussion on the middle east peace process. we should have meetings of the security council after ferguson, missouri, or after the dispersal by force of the occupy wall street movement. perhaps we should have a meeting with a wave of demonstrations occurs in some western country. we should look to history to offer examples of ,hat shortsighted moves accompanied with interference in internal affairs, may lead to. the attempt to replace undesirable regimes. due to various violations and neglect of the founding principles of the charterovergn equality of states, peaceful resolution of dispute, many countries that were stable until recently have become horrible. undercupation of iraq is stilllse pretexts being heavily felt by the people of that country. the first manipulation of the mandate of the security council that led to chaos and theruction in libya, methodological incitement in fanning the flames of warfare in syria, the flirting with terrorists, the war in yemen -- all of these will remind us of the destructi

economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east. new year for european friends with. the chief global economist a. dangerous idea. at this time.

all over the middle east. and everybody was having town meetings, and, you know, it would be beautiful. wouldn't it? that's not what we're going to wind up with. the best case is that we wind up with something marginally worse than what we have. the worst case is that we wind up with groups like the muslim brotherhood and other islamic extremists taking power, people who hate us, and, yeah, the israel issue is important. but sometimes that's all people talk about. it is not just israel. they hate us. they hate the united states. and from our self-interest, we don't want to have these people take power. even if they're democratically elected i don't care. , you know, it's going to be bad for us. when oil goes to $200 a barrel, when we have war breaking out in the middle east, when you have the iranians furthering their hegemony in that region, and when they get nuclear weapons, we're going to be facing a lot worse problem than we have today. so it's wonderful that people want to have self-rule and democracy and

people spending all the money elsewhere in the middle east. it sort of made iran great again. >> one of the main slowing -- slogans in every city not gaza, lebanon, to i dedicate myself to die for iran. what we have to remember what iran is doing now is similar to the shah's policy before the revolution which was very similar to the israeli foreign policy which was promoted by ben-gurion, that you have to support and have good relations with other states in order to keep the enemy away from your borders and you have to take the, you have to have alliances with other states and why israel has good relations with ethiopia, iran, other countries, in order to contain their surrounding areas. so iran has been somehow following that idea. and also iran intervened in other countries affairs before the revolution as well, but, the problem is the fact that the way that they are doing that, the bragging about these interventions is very different from the shah's time. the fact that people are poor, people are unemployed, people do not have, one point, o

president donald trump's first year in office says his middle east policy was focused on getting saudi arabia israel and egypt to unite against iran michael wolff spoke was released on friday it also says trump took credit for saudi arabia's political shakeup last year. the turkish president has told his french counterpart his people are tired of waiting to join the european union it's reza typo's one's first visit to france since the failed coup in twenty sixteen the battle because the turkey's crackdown on dissent is blocking progress on its entry into the block. the assad arabia has intercepted a ballistic missile fired from yemen by hoofy rebels the missile was shot down over the draw on a regent street. in the kingdom southern border before it could hit his intended target riyadh says the attack is proof that iran is supporting the who sees a claim that tehran denies it's the fourth such attack since november. the u.n. aid chief says yeah but could become the worst humanitarian disaster in fifty years the war is having a devastating impact with widespread food shortages of the maj

and toward the middle east. you know a dialogue where we measure success by closing the human dignity deficit in the middle east where we measure winning by the number of jobs created, the number of opportunities and productive innovations and not just by political influence so i really think it's time for us to get off of this crisis and conflict that we've been on for a long time and i think the people in the middle east are looking forward to that. now we've soon how countries and whole economies are built on those ideas and we see how a single ideology can destroy countries and we've come a long way defeating isis and i'm very happy about that but i don't necessarily feel much safer because the fertile ground of stability and hopelessness that breeds these kinds of groups is still unfortunately there and we are very happy that in the global counterterrorism war the united states has been a very important player and they've helped us defeat isis but now is not the time to disengage from the middle east becaus

to the region i think now an unprecedented situation with regards to the middle east where israel is no longer the number one enemy i think rim unprecedented territory website strong and leaders are terrified of this but there's also one thing that i want to say with regard to this period that the people might rise up i think trump called for through some of the capital was so well crime that all peoples heard all of the people's anger was used up in the arab spring people are tired now seem to be shocked about how do we and you got a nice big scene massive prism an opponent being kicked out and the fact is government was used up and then why in my opinion and even though that was politically announcing during some of the capital was a must to stroke politically for the u.s. and europe ok myself i can see you shaking your head that unfortunately we have run out of time the we do have to finish our discussion today many thanks to all of you for joining us sami hunting the stuff about j.c. and nikolai in the sun. and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by

it's the only country in the middle east with defined borders, the only one in the middle east that has been at war with anybody for 400 years except the iraqi invasion in the 1990s. so, we have no problem with anybody. the problem we have is because we want to make the rest of the middle east communist. what problems do we have with the us? none at all. we do not share a border, we do not compete over market or access to raw material. we have no problem. we have 2 million iranians living in the united states. we have good relations with them and we have become the number one enemy of the united states because of the revolutionary side. israel has been our friends for ever, in since we freed thejewish people from babylonian slavery 2500 years ago, and i never, you know, heard anybody say anything bad aboutjewish people in iran. there is no anti—semitism in iran. and now we are anti—israeli? if iran can come back as a nation with its culture and its history, its population, it will be fantastic for everybody. i know, i can sense there will be enormous twitter debate around this but thank

when it comes to the middle east, in syria, he was defeated.the upper hand in syria and most of the middle east, so when we talk about his latest move to actually to move the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, it has creating huge problems in the middle east. so the american image is actually very, very, very damaged by this move. so internally, maybe he actually reduces the unemployment rates, maybe he improves the economy, but outside as america as a superpower, i believe it is losing a lot under trump. yeah, i think that is true. even though i am jewish and i'm a supporter of israel, i thought that was an absolutely gratuitous gesture, the idea of moving the embassy tojerusalem — especially as he said as it cannot happen for a couple of years anyway, we would have to construct a new embassy. and i thought, what on earth is the point of that? the only point it seems, to me, is it isjust to do with the political strategy over iran. because iran is the chief sponsor of hezbollah and hamas in the middle east, and the anti—israeli force

where once it was dependent on the middle east for much of its energy, the us is now producing more of its own, allowing it to potentially forge a new foreign policy. a geopolitics of oil. next, on great decisions. (trumpeting music) - [narrator] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhouse coopers, llp. - [narrator] nations have always been in competition with each other. often, it's in the search for natural resources like oil and gas. a steady supply of energy is needed to fuel the country's economy and military. - [sachs] typically, american foreign policy like british imperial foreign policy before it, paid a tremendous amount of attention to securing oil for the economy. that includes who we have befriended, but it has also included us launching wars; stationing military bases; engaging in coups and orienting a massive amount of our foreign policy around oil. - [mcnally] by world war one, oil was transitioning to becoming the lifeblood of modern civilization. if electr

let's get back to our top story for the middle east.resident trump has called for change in iran as street protests turned fatal. he said the country is failing on every level and announced the nuclear deal signed with the west. the president wrote the people of iran have been repressed for years and are hungry for food and freedom. let's ring on jodie snyder for more on this story. what is the crux of the trumps message on iran? is it -- trump's message on iran? is it any different? >> this is the same message, using the protest to make the case he is unhappy with the deal that his predecessor president passed to an congress again,ly try to have -- he is making the point he is not happy with this and there should be sanctions, but he does not seem to go beyond that in terms of what the u.s. could do or what he would do about the deal. tracy: let me press you on that deal. does this imply any change in the nuclear agreement on the u.s. side? the president has you know over the past year has said he is unhappy with the deal. when he was

quite a stir we'll examine the author's claims about the white house and its policy towards the middle east. and already grim situation in yemen worsens with preventable diseases and a lack of basic necessities causing more taft's. plus the u.s. says not so fast to those ready to enjoy recreational marijuana in the states that have legalized the drug. it's good to have you with us here on the al-jazeera news i first we start at the u.n. security council that's wrapped up a special special session about the recent protests in iran with the u.s. accusing teheran of stifling the voices of the people now it's ambassador told the council that the u.s. stands firm and in solidarity with the protesters. once again the people of iran are rising up they are asking for something that no government can legitimately deny them their human rights and fundamental freedoms they are calling out think of us if the founding principles of this institution mean anything we will not only hear their cry we will finally answer it the iranian regime is now on notice the world will be watching what you do now the u.

on counting the cost we'll look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east's second largest economy plus new year new rules for european finance but that's not all we'll ask the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea cosima cost this time zero. does egypt support donald trump's decision on jewish law and leaks suggest leaders in cairo danger objects to u.s. recognition of the city as israel's capital and saudi arabia stands accused of secret support what does the apparent shift mean for the future of jerusalem this is inside story. i am i mean. i know they're welcome to the program i'm laura kyle after u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital the condemnation from the arab world was swift and strong but is everyone on board the new york times reports that the gyptian media has been pressured to play down opposition to trump's decision and leaked phone recordings a senior intelligence officer reportedly told leading t.v. talk show hosts to influence their view as to back the decision contrary to widespread condemnation amongst m