opportunities in the middle east in these sectors. am glad that even though we get difficult years, still these businesses are operating well. so differently it is based on opportunities and the sectors' long-term growth potential. francine: where do you see the most growth coming from? which portfolio, which part will do better than others? mohamed: the food is operating well and is in the region as a whole, especially with the food delivery business. that's another story. i would say our real estate business is still flying really strong. last year we grew about 28% in the region as a whole. our e-commerce business is something that is very, very interesting. we have got an amazing team looking at it, that is also growing quite fast. even with this growth, one has to be realistic as well. you look at this growth and you look at what's going on in this growth, look at what is going on in the middle east, government policies, the world economy, what changes might take place. so we have to be alert at all times. francine: what does tha

in the middle east, it's middle east. includes our neighbors and problems. everything keeps very shaky and unpredictable. it's maybe more right vision. everything unpredictable. we don't know what will be with gaza, we don't what the future for palestinians in jordan and somalia and what happened in -- with arab league. the problems that everything in the middle east it's like connected vessels. the leaders of the arab world, they are in yemen, with -- the sinai, egypt, islamic state, and to hope that it's possible only in this smile part of the middle east, israel and palestinians to achieve real stable peace like france and germany, france and sitly or -- italy or switzerland and italy. it's a very naive approach. we need to achieve this strategic breakthrough with arab world, strong leadership. when sadat visit palestine jerusalem, so both site sides very charismatic leaders, and begin, sadat. 112 members of knesset voted in support of this agreement between israel and egypt. i don't remember any other vote was so huge majority. 112 people. and the suppor

for all of the people living in the middle east. the idea of the jcpoa, as a strategic pillar of stability in the middle east, was captured perfectly by john kerry when he said, quote, i know the middle east that is on fire is going to be more manageable with this deal. end of quote. query whether the middle east is more manageable today than it was when they embarked on the jcpoa. lebanon is even more comfortable home for hezbollah today. than it was when we embarked on the jcpoa. hezbollah is now armed to the teeth by iran and has its sight set on israel. thanks to iran, hezbollah provides the ground forces for the military expedition in syria. the rogc has propped up the murderous assad regime and help make that country 71,000-square miles of kill zone. iran perpetuates a conflict, it has displaced more than six million syrians and caused over five million to seek refuge outside of its borders. these refugees include foreign fighters who have crossed into europe and threatened terrorist attacks in those countries. in iraq, iran s

yeah i mean but this middle east pressure cookers been building out for decades and. you know the prognosis there is quite terrifying but live is that potentially trump could be pulling out of u.s. military and south korea as part of a global kind of retrenchment of the pentagon and a lot of posturing going on in the middle east could also bring a prelude to a deescalation of military spending because a he's not a guy who likes to waste money even though it's the bank of the few times he knows why waste money i mean i think those are valid points however i think trump's inherent. antagonism towards iran is very personal and very real not just that there's jared cushier influence there is the fact that we're trying to go on his first official state visit visit saudi arabia where he might come peo just going as first visit saudi arabia so this to me this is this is a much bigger thing and no i think the trump legitimately and for a variety of personal reasons as well feels feels as if iran needs to be essentially taken out or neutered in the middle east because for the

iran must end support to middle east terrorist groups bug middle east hezbollah, hamas and palestinian-islamic jihad. iran must respect the sovereignty of the iraqi government and permit remobilization and reintegration of shia militias. and must end support of the houthi militia and work for a peaceful settlement in yemen. iran must withdraw all forces under iranian command throughout the entirety of syria. iran, too, must end support for the taliban and other terrorist groups in the region and cease harboring senior al qaeda leaders. iran, too, must end the rig forces for terrorists and militant partners around the world and, too, iran must end its threatening behavior against its neighbors, many of whom are u.s. allies,this includes are the threats to israel and missiles in the united arab emirates and end cyber attacks. the list is pretty long, but if you look at it these are 12 basic requirements the length of the list is simply the scope of the maligning behavior of iran. we didn't create the list, they did. from my conversations with european friends, i know that they broadly share thes

middle east.trump stops speaking in order to give his response. give his response. watching in the region once donald trump has made his announcement? trump has made his announcement? kind of thing you are watching already. already. worried about rising tensions on israel's border. israel's border. —— hezbollah. . would they strike now? now? unchartered waters we are entering now. now. speak to the government academic professor. professor mohammad marandi. what do you think will be the view is president trump pulls out? is president trump pulls out? mostly blame the united states for any escalation. any escalation. down a large segment of the nuclear programme. programme. the western media that iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. pursuing nuclear weapons. agreement was not pursuing a nuclear weapon. weapon. not pursue nuclear weapons after the agreement. agreement. the nuclear deal iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapons. pursuing a nuclear weapons. completely almost completely wrecked. wrecked. pr

and i've never seen the middle east closer to the brink of war confrontation of sorts than it is today a serious not since two thousand and five when the bush administration went against iraq and was trying to go after iran i think walking away from the deal is walking closer to the on the brink of war certainly confrontation in the region certainly with iran certainly with our allies in the region whether it's in syria in iraq in yemen and lebannon in palestine and so on so forth this is a call for an. all out confrontation with iran because that i should not behind walking out of the deal is not just because the deal is the warst ever it's badly negotiated deal because iran cannot be trusted because iran is the biggest destabilizing force in the region because iran is the biggest sponsor of terror around the world and you know the united states consider those who host the terrorist or supports terrorists to be terrorists themselves the second important point here is that this is a total embrace of netanyahu whole of israel's logic for the middle east that the now just facts or

now we know the only country in the middle east at this point to have nuclear weapons is israel but he referred to the possibility of some kind of future arms race in the hypothetical situation of iran getting nuclear weapons he also did refer to iran's ballistic missile program now this is iran's program of ballistic missiles that it uses for self-defense or according to donald trump these ballistic missiles could be armed with nuclear weapons potentially if iran were to develop and carry out nuclear proliferation so based on that he announced that the usa will with. draw from the nuclear deal and that the usa would be reinstating the nuclear sanctions against iran and it would be the highest level of international sanctions now this is certainly a huge turn from what we saw under the obama administration where the deal was signed a huge amount of sanctions on iran were lifted so donald trump is fulfilling his campaign promise it appears that he did announce that he is indeed ripping up the iran nuclear deal as he said he would do many times on the campaign trail now it'll be i

we have also consulted with our friends from across the middle east. we are unified in our understanding of the threat. and in our conviction that iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon. after these consultations, it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an iranian nuclear bomb, under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. the iran deal is defective at its core. if we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. in just a short period of time the world's leading state sponsor of terror will be on the cusp of acquiring the world's most dangerous weapons. therefore, i am announcing today that the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. in a few moments i will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating u.s. nuclear sanctions on the iranian regime. we will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. any nation that helps iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the united states. america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. we will not allow american cit

and we see the middle east very divided today in the north or russia and iran are supreme syria lebanon iran even turkey has turned towards russia because it cannot ignore the realities in the south though the united states is still so green saudi arabia the gulf egypt north africa so that's the that's the new power disposition of course president trump who has many pro israeli backers who've given him millions of dollars for his campaign he is playing to the money and he's playing to a world which is black and white that's his preferred way of seeing things and i think that's what's happening here so what's what's the next development then if everybody's fine for position in the middle east i mean are you expecting great attention then in syria in an escalation of the war there. you know i don't believe there will be a real escalation i think the power between israel and syria is so skewed in israel's favor that there really is very little that syria or iran can do in syria to hurt israel we just have seen over the last few months a number of attempts by israel and iran by excu

can and should europe counter trump and the middle east and your role for europe that's our topic and these are our guests it's a pleasure to welcome laura miller she is executive director of international affairs at the curb foundation and she says after trump's decisions in the middle east the europeans must do damage control and very glad to have on the program shiny rosanna's she was born in israel is a producer and middle east analyst here at d w and she says too divided and self-involved europe is systematically failing to fill the void left by american policy and finally very glad to have back on the program alan posner he's an author for the. newspaper here in germany event and he says europe and america are strong when they act together when they don't americans weekend and europe becomes invisible. so alan more than fifty deaths twenty four hundred people injured on monday on this program you vigorously defended the u.s. decision to requote case the embassy at the end of last year the decision taken then and i'm wondering do you abide by that opinion in the face of this

but we are going to do about the iranians have behavior in the middle east. the foreign secretary should tell us now what's going on in the house. >> i said several times i will do the economic steps we will be taking and i've been very clear about the many things going in the constrained activities of iran. >> would my right honorable friend agree that the iranian interference in syria, lebanon, bahrain and elsewhere has a legitimate voice for concern. will he agree with me that this is a very forward decision by the president and apply a thin direct converse from his people and from his most loyal americans and allies. but will he work in trying to sustain this to ensure that the inspection, what i call the end of the day the crown jewels of what this is will still apply. >> i'm grateful to my right honorable friend. of course the work to ensure it continues. there have been about 400 inspections since jcpoa began and they have all found that iran was in compliance. as i say, except to the united states now to come forward with a plan. if they have military

starting with the middle east.ght now, israeli military striking dozens of iranian military sites inside of syria in response to rocket fire from them. israel and iran be headed for all-out war? we'll have latest developments. >>> we now know the date and the place. we told y

iran appeals to israel to avoid new tensions in the middle east, both sides have launched air—strikesst targets around the golan heights. the british government apologises for its role in the detention and torture of a libyan man and his wife, after theirforced return to tripoli. ahead of national elections in iraq, we have a special report from mosul, former stronghold of the islamic state group. and, the mountains of abandoned hire bikes springing up across china as commuters switch to cycle sharing apps. hello. a date has been set for the historic summit between president trump and the north korean leader, kim jong—un. the two men will meet on the 12th ofjune, in singapore. just before that announcement, the us president welcomed home three americans who'd been detained in north korea — their release apparently a gesture of goodwill ahead of the summit. this from the bbc‘s nick bryant in washington. it is full speed ahead in negotiating a new nuclear deal with north korea and after alienating close european allies, his administration is forging an improbable relationship with one o

our effort is to strangle his economic capacity to do harm to the middle east into the world. so mike compare that highlighting kassim sali money now he's the iranian army chief who's responsible for extra territorial campaigns so what might pump a zero here is doing is he's accusing western companies and western governments of putting money into the pocket of the iranian military and that's why he says sanctions a so important to cut off that supply which is helping iran to cause trouble in its neighbor i mean that's quite an indictment to make and apparently the europeans they don't agree with them because they are fighting to use an elven see if the iran's nuclear deal that's right i mean they see that if this deal doesn't stick then that gives more leverage to the people who were anti american anti western in the first place in iran now of course the europeans have plenty of business opportunities in here we've seen the likes of tal all of the women's mask and so on invest billions all they've they've laid out their plans they've started pouring that money into iran now be

decisionsfter trump's in the middle east, europeans must do damage control. i am proud to have on the program shoddy results. -- shani rozanes. she works at dw. to says they are failing fill the void left by american policy. very glad to have back on the program, alan posener. he works on the newspaper in germany,ora: -- in "die welt." when europe and the u.s. do not work together, europe becomes invisible. 2400 people injured on monday. you vigorously defended the u.s. decision to relocate the embassy at the end of last year. do you abide by that opinion in the face of this bloodshed? more thanlutely, ever. this has nothing to do with the moving of the embassy. this bloodshed was planned by hamas and its iranian backers for over a year. ,his march of return re-conquering israel, was planned for over a year. it is to mark what they call nakba day, the day of catastrophe, the day israel was founded and many palestinians lost their homes. they have been wanting these martyrs for months and months. they planned towards that. there would have been violence at the

the biggest destabilizing factor in the middle east.ook out for our national security and region's stability we have to en sanctions. >> iran was trying to take over the middle east. now that will not happen. i mention john bolton. here is his interview from cnn on sunday. >> the consequences of american sanctions go well beyond goods shipped by american company. >> the u.s. going to impose sackss on european companies >> i did give the answer the it's possible. it depends on the conduct of other governments. >> bill: european companies listen to your administration? >> i think we agreed with our european allies. we want to make sure iran doesn't achieve nuclear weapon. our broad goals are saird but we need to use the full capacity of sanctions power to make sure investment powers don't go to fund that regime and their bad activities. iran was under a very hard economic sanctions regime prior to this deal and why they came to the table in the first place. we know the maximum pressure campaign does work. and i think you see the president

japan is concerned that the move could make the peace process in the middle east even more difficult or escalate tension across the middle east to a ten year old more i believe that the current us president does not have the ability to differentiate and judge about the long term consequences of his actions . you know we're getting a lot of reaction on this we put together a panel of guests to discuss what the latest bloodshed means for both israel and the occupied palestinian territories only yearly misery some people around us want us to expose polar runs through those who declare that they want to kill us who declare that they want to get into it by booby traps by clutching called by it are you fools poor that they're just you know at the regional high limit our other one of these are the exact diagrams that got her on to some years later in that has only to for for eleven years you're the one who initiated this you initiated this you thought you know well the only your start up steadily is what policy has brought to where would you tell where you have anything resides raising chil

called tossion was discuss the issue of violence in the middle east. concerned. the united states deplores the loss of human life. there is a lot of violence throughout the region. the double standard is all too common in this chamber and working overtime today. iranian forces last week positions byeli launching rockets from syria. this was a reckless provocation and an escalation that must be stopped. of regionalmple violence that should occupy our attention in the security council. also last week, iranian proxy forces in yemen launched missiles into saudi arabia. it was not the first time. is also regional violence that should occupy our attention in the security council. in recent days, hamas terrorists, backed by iran, have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure. also occupye should our attention. the common thread is the destabilizing conduct of the iranian regime, a regime that insists on promoting violence throughout the middle east while depriving its own people of basic human rights. the united states welcomes a discussion of

and they're all across the middle east of course. but in very different ways and in different places scarcity is built in very acute or less acute where it is so for instance scarcity in jordan also mandated not let me let's not blame climate change were guarded mother nature it's it's a drug or the world jordan just doesn't have a lot of water resources to begin with. but if on top of that you've got population influxes two to war from you know first originally from palestine and the creation of the state of israel and then from iraq and now syria then the pressure is not much greater on water resources that exist in jordan they were already scarce at the same time in jordan and in other places around the grounds the middle east were were were mismanaging water in the sense they were growing for instance. crops in the desert with the little bit of water that we that exists in some of the places means that it should be used for its most valuable resource mainly for drinking water. and not so much to grow crops that are now and export

can and should europe counter trump and the middle east any role for europe that's our topic and these are our guests it's a pleasure to welcome nora miller she is executive director of international affairs at the curva foundation and she says after trump's decisions in the middle east the europeans must do damage control i'm very glad to have on the program shani rosen as she was born in israel is a producer and middle east analyst here at d w and she said. as to divided and self-involved europe is systematically failing to fill the void left by american policy and finally very glad to have back on the program allan poe's europe becomes invisible. so alan more than fifty deaths twenty four hundred people injured on monday on this program you vigorously defended the u.s. decision to requote case the embassy at the end of last year the decision taken then and i'm wondering do you abide by that opinion in the face of this but absolutely more than ever look this bloodshed has nothing to do with the moving of the embassy this bloodshed was planned by hamas and its uranium backers fo

what more can you tell us about the ripple effect this could cause in the middle east? >> reporter: the ripple effect is very, very serious, you have already got a very, very tense situation between israel and iran, you know, the collapse of the nuclear deal will send jitters through israel, israel is already worried about iran's activities on its border in syria and in lebanon, so this will only, you know, destabilize the middle east further, and that's one thing the europeans are deeply worried about, right now the leaders of france, germany and britain are speaking on the phone. they presumably know what the decision is, certainly president macron has spoken by phone with president trump. and they are deeply worried. this was a deal, as you said right at the beginning, katie, this is not a deal between the u.s. and iran, this is an international treaty, and the european allies were deeply invested in it. the leaders of france and germany, went hat in hand to the white house to try to persuade donald trump to stick with it, and he has turned his back on them. so if he

but only if you would like to look at what's happening in the middle east with syria. with yemen with all of the places they're involved it's bedlam and. israel launches a series of strikes on a radian targets in syria claiming it's in response to iran's assault of the golan heights. british prime minister to resign may apologizes to a libyan dissident and his wife after government actions contributed to their detention transfer to libya and torture. and yemeni officials report at least six people including children have been killed in an alleged saudi led air strike near the rebel held capital so no. before those stories go to our dot com my colleague rory sushi joins you next hour with a full rundown of the day's news while next here on r.t. it's the latest cryptocurrency buzz on the kaiser report. max keiser this is the kaiser report coming to you a way that only we can do get ready yeah stacy max i'm going to show you an image and please don't go preserve the hey because this guy is scary looking. exclusive charlie monger compares trading bitcoin to trading freshly

we have also consulted with our friends from across the middle east. we are unified in our understanding of the threat, and in our conviction that iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon. after these consultations, it is clear to me that we cannot prevent an iranian nuclear bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement. the iran deal is defective at its core. if we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. in a short period of time, the world's state leading sponsor of terror is on the cusp of acquiring the world's most dangerous weapon. therefore, i am announcing today that the united states with withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. in a few moments, i will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating u.s. nuclear sanctions on the iranian regime. we will be instituting the highest level of economic sanctions. any nation that helps iran in its quest for nuclear weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the united states. america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. we will not allow american cities to be

to achieve a nuclear weapon we also want them to stop the terrorism and the violence across the middle east we want them to stop violating the human rights of their own people and these are all reasonable demands so i think that we've become desensitized to a lot of what iran has been doing over these last many decades we've gotten used to it in some ways and we need to change that paradigm we really need to get iran to join a more civilized sort of community of nations and it has been we've seen over these last many years u.s. secretary of state my point he has said today in his speech that the u.s. is would like to continue cooperating with its allies however we have to say that some of these allies including germany would like to save the existing iran nuclear deal and there is actually a meeting of g twenty foreign ministers meeting taking place in argentina and may not taking part in this meeting instead he gave this speech today sending maybe a message that you know the u.s. is ready to move forward with all its consulates talking to its allies you know the secretary has actually alre

policies are pushing the middle east to the brink of a new war. hello and welcome across these are considered i'm peter lavelle is the middle east stumbling towards a region wide war it sure looks like it trumps decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal set into play a cascade of events difficult to manage and control does anyone game from this impending cataclysm. cross-like in the middle east i'm joined by my guest joe laurie. in washington he's the editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost my hillary clinton with the forward by julian assange also in washington we have joe he is a fellow at the arab center washington d.c. and in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator originally cross-like rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joe lauria let me go to you first in washington i'm titling this program stumbling into war you know the more i think about the events that are unfolding in front of us are so many different angles to look at how

is part of the problem, not part of the solution in the middle east. the embassy has no legal validity and that is key because it is a close ally. it's worth pointing out that trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tried to build momentum over the move and tried to get other countries to recognize jerusalem as capital of israel. so far only two countries have agreed to do so. those are two countries with large evangelical populations. >> thank you very much. let's go to jeff zeleny. we are waiting to hear from the president. this will be a prerecorded message. do you have a sense of what he is going to say following through on major promises on the campaign trail and early days of his presidency? >> that is what the president is expected to say. he is expected to hail this as a great day and the fulfillment of a campaign pledge. at the same time it is worth pointing out that it is also going to make the second pledge much harder. he pledged to also try to restore peace in the middle east without question as they have been saying makes it m

and russia are on many topics especially in the middle east on both sides of the aisle if you will when lawrence called why now. well i think the really and first of all it's important to keep in mind when we say the second fleet not any more ships they're just putting a headquarters staff there the number of ships will not increase until like twenty twenty one or so and then you're talking about a long term build up so what this basically says is we're going to put a group of staffers a couple hundred people there that will focus on that area of the world which we have not focused on since really since the end of the cold war and then we see in sometimes when we deploy ships rawdon and sending to the sixth fleet in the mediterranean this way to bahrain that will send more patrols off to the to the north of the land and the reason we are doing it as secretary matt has been pointed out secretary mattis that we focus so much on counterterrorism we forgot about great power competition the russians are increasing their military they took over crimea for for for example they basically are ha

the middle east just cries out for it, there's a lot of snooker interest in the middle east, lots of tables in their homes and we know we've been there before but what i want is the one defining event in the middle east. were in conversations with three different parties at the moment to try to produce something that's on another level. if it happens at all, because supply and demand comes in, we don't need another tournament, we've got a very full calendar as it is, but we're quite happy to utilise the spare dates should be opportunity be too difficult to resist and i think there are people in the middle east who would want to really put their country on the map by doing something quite defining. use a different parties, is that different countries or one particular country and different promoters? different countries, we don't speak so much with promoters these days, we deal with promoters these days, we deal with government heads and things like that. when you look around and you see the really keys sports properties, they're generally financed by government because they wa nt to

policy in the middle east is or what the u.s. policy towards iran is and that's been partially because trump's theme favorite team wasn't in place but today we have the national security national security trio pompei o at the state department mattis at the defense department and bolton the national security adviser of these three agree that america needs to be aggressive towards iran while they might differ especially mattis about the practicality of the nuclear deal but all three agree that the united states views iran with a lot of hostility let's all remember that from the very beginning traum believed that iran is the greatest destabilizing force in the middle east and the biggest sponsor of terror in the world when you think of a country like that and it is a main country in the middle east you don't footsie around with this country we know and eventually there will be a decision coming down. are you suggesting that it's not about diplomatic aggression but about something more tangible than that that's very true but not in t