if there is any concern about russia being back in the middle east or china making roads into the middle east, even if the only economic at this time. is that global june political competition relevant in the middle east? >> master, thanks. let's take a look at what russia is doing in the middle east right now. it is certainly not a force for good. it's meddling in regional conflicts and look what it has been doing in syria it kept the murder and power. it has been very unhelpful in libya, i just all press reports as amusing russia equipment, advisors, and march on tripoli. that is not helpful. i cannot imagine that if you are a citizen in any country in the region they look at russia as a model for good. i think it is destabilizing, unhelpful, i think one of the largest areas of concern is the issue of military sales. we see partners turning to russia for equipment including outside the region. the issue of trickiest purchases. focus on the hill have concerned about that. we have been engaged in key partners about the risk that they face if they pursue russian military sales. i would ar

long time at dod, worked for five secretaries of defense, a number of positions, including on the middle east. have tim pollack. anybody who has been following the east -- middle east and paying attention to the think tank scholars for the last 20 years know exactly who he is. his the resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. he was previously a senior fellow at the berkman center. -- brookings center. he has worked on various middle east issues. finally, right next to me we , a visitingatz fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. he was previously the director and policy in the middle east office. he has spent years in the intelligence community. like i said, i could not imagine three people better equipped to talk about these challenges, especially since they have already deeply on this question of working with partners and engaging in the middle east. before we get into the next and crannies of the report, i want to start with a general question that sort of overlies everything in the region. i would like for you guys to be able to answer this. our report

the one problem i would raise is the middle east is one area, they have -- from the middle east.the indian army, liberated the middle east and their indian war senators all over. there is a historic stake in that region of the world and particularly worried about china's encroachment into the bay of bengal, its cooperation with pakistan and that is why india is working with iran to develop a big base that offsets, the china has built for pakistan. the chinese face a problem and sooner or later india may start flexing its muscle and something they have to worry about, they have to worry about china, japan playing a stronger role in the east china seas. they didn't have a free ride. not particularly popular. i didn't worry about russia or china at this moment to the point that i see something vital or strategic. >> a few quick thoughts. on china these are countries that need capital fusions and rebuilding and america is not offering either of those things, would be wise to let that happen and even if in some cases creates chinese influence, we have to comfortable with a little bit

the middle east. we can't give those up, and how do we think about those, and how do you think about the overall region and how you try to protect american interests in this environment where there's a lot of debate about pulling back. >> thanks for having me. and thanks for everyone who came out today. i think we're talking about the middle east. we can probably start as you already referenced, the national defense strategy, which as you know came from the national security strategy, the next year we had the nds, it does, as you mention prioritize russia and china as our near peer competitors, north korea and iran as rogue actors lastly our priority is counter terrorism. it's not the first time we've tried to pull away from the middle east and counter terrorism, 2001 obviously before the 9/11 attacks, and 211. but that's the priorities, we are committed to implementing in that order. when it comes to the pleeft, russia and china play an active part in the middle east part of the dialogue we're trying

in europe, east asia in the middle east. and it has returned because three important countries, one in each of the regions has embarked on policy designed to give it dominance in the region using force. in europe, russia invaded and occupied ukraine. in east asia, china has claimed virtually all of the western pacific contrary to international law, has built artificial islands in the western pacific and has installed military facilities on them. and in the middle east, i run has paramilitary groups who expand and influence throughout the region and has pursued nuclear weapons. now, the heart of the rise and fall of peace on earth is three chapters that describe and explain how and why peace came and disappeared from each of these three regions. it is a complicated story in each case. but all three cases have one thing in common. for each of these countries that have disturbed the peace, the aggressive foreign-policy that ended the piece had a domestic cause. each of the three governments is a dictatorship. so each of them de

i think since 9/11, a huge preoccupation with the middle east.ght. but again, i think addressing the question of pushing back against certain chinese practises is only one part of a sensible strategy. the other part is to make common cause with other countries who share some of those concerns, and to create an architecture in which you create incentives and disincentives for china, as well. that would've the virtue to the transpacific partnership, knitting together a0%. .. which donald trump chose to walk away from. what we see in china today is grand ambition. the president said he wants china to be a global leader in terms of comprehensive national strength and international influence. we see the belton road policy, we see the 5g and hi—tech commitment which is making china a world leader, which worries the us more than any other nation. what we don't see it america responding with a similar outward looking global tech driven vision. where's the american belton road? the challenge here, and this would've been what the transpacific partnership w

that compared to now so before when the us was in the middle east there was criticism that why the troops are there now the trumpet in recession has with their own troops from a lot of troops from syria again there is a criticism why they're doing that and so i think i think it's there's all of the united states in the day so islam is late in the middle east in general this is able now that under obama is it more unstable or less or equal. it's not as something like you can really measure quite sure you can like sure you can sure you can ok i wanted moving the american ambassador to see rosalee area that that is something you can you can quantify very easily ok the reaction globally is very very very negative ok so that makes the region more unstable it makes having any kind of settling we're palestinians more difficult so i would say it's kind of more unstable go ahead keep going in burbank. i don't i mean when i look at syria i don't think it's more unstable compared to the obama administration . the civil war has toned down i mean it's if you look i mean people are returning

hundred american soldiers, so you can have peace and you can't have stability and security in the middle east without weakening the islamic revolutionary guard corps and that is what our sanctions are aimed at doing. we are confident, this increased pressure will save american lives and create more stability, more peace and security throughout the middle east. >> bret: you know the iraqi forces, the militias are tight with the iraqi army. u.s. troops obviously work with both of them frankly. how will they distinguish and will this become a complicated problem? >> it was a complicated problem one obama entered that disaster is deal. we had a long conversation when i was the director of the cia, it was complicated long before this morning. what we are trying to do is reduce the complexity and takedown this malign activity that the clerical crypto grants are engaged in to change their behavior in such a fundamental way and we can be safe all across the world uncertainly and iraq and the middle east. >> the head of the irg c, he has by all accounts a bad character and has led all kinds of attacks

its ambitions checked in the middle east. we are taking a new approach to this of sustained economic pressure to deny them of the revenue it needs to conduct its foreign policy. we know the irgc has been a principal architect and enforcer of iran's foreign policy since 1979, the way the ayatollah designed the regime. they are trying to shape the middle east in their favor, working as a powerbroker and military force. they assassinate rivals not only in the middle east, but in europe. they organize, train, and equip the militias in the middle east. as we saw in syria, they direct a network of militant groups. and in the case of iraq, they kill over 600 american servicemen. we think it is important that they are adding a layer of additional sanctions on the irgc to make radioactive those sectors of iran's economy that are influenced or controlled by the irgc. >> i am not talking about threats to the u.s. forces or diplomats from iran but from potential u.s. prosecution for violating sanctions, by doing something that may be con

from the middle east that can spill over into other parts of the world including europe and i think it's very important that an organization like ours that has given refugees millions of refugees of palestine refugees the possibility to choose to remain in the middle east to seek to preserve their opportunities and a bit of their personal horizons is something that is definitely worth doing and that's what we stand for and that's also one of the messages we give is a humanitarian organization but we do also contribute to regional stability talking about political solutions israel's prime you're benjamin netanyahu seems to have won the elections in israel what does that mean for the situation of the palestinians in the refugee comes you know i think the emotional context is extremely high in the region especially last year following the announcement on jerusalem the funding cuts to annorah so it's in everybody's interest i think sincerely set in the region to see a bit more courage displayed at political levels at the international level in reengaging in the search of a political sol

states in the middle east in general this is a bull now that under obama is it more unstable or less or equal. it's not a something like you can really measure quite sure you can but sure you can sure you can ok i'm going to be moving the american ambassador to see rosalia that that is something you can you can quantify very easily ok the reaction globally is very very very negative ok so that makes the region more unstable it makes having any kind of subtle and we have palestinians more difficult so i would say it's kind of more unstable go ahead keep going in burbank. i don't i mean when i look at syria i don't think it's more unstable compared to the obama administration. the civil war has toned down i mean it's if you look i mean people are returning to their homes and i think it's not the united. players i mean mostly iran actually that really intensifying the tension in the region ok but also they you know what i have to tell you i mean every government's not the united states every go many were. very very pleased with their national it's really refreshing to hear it's always a

become an ideological battleground and this is going on all over the world now as well as in the middle east it's very obvious governments have control most of the media in most of the middle eastern countries not just the arab countries iran turkey israel as well there's a massive move by governments to boy or influence or control media and this is one of the reasons where why is social media has become such an important turn at of to people's news but the governments are cracking down on social media and if somebody says something on social media that the government isn't like there are no laws in all countries that allow the government to detain somebody put them in jail just because they were accused of demeaning the leader or ruining the country's reputation vague stings like that which of course the government decides and it's the courts that it controls decides how to. so there is a huge problem in terms of why individual journalists are having more and more difficulty getting their work done and that's why so many of the best ones leave the middle east and go overseas where they can

selina: the middle east strategy is part of twitter's broader strategy.me ubiquitous for a place of what is happening now, they in eachque content region that makes it feel local. in the middle east they are striking deals with the biggest entertainment and sports companies in the region. we have seen them do that in the u.s., across asia. in japan they have been successful at video content. it is twitter's second-largest market. woman look at live video in general, the video category is extremely important to twitter. it is the largest ad format and the fastest-growing one as well. advertisers love being able to brand themselves with content. emily: what is the significance of twitter focusing on the middle east and north africa given all of the other priorities the company has and pressing issues around hate speech, harassment, violence on the platform in addition to the need to grow? grow, andy have to this is a great ways to do it. they can't disregard political speech challenges. the company knows they are real and has been handling them their than s

and never has its ambitions checked in the middle east. we are taking an entirely new approach that is significant and sustained economic pressure to deny the irgc and the iranian regime of the revenue it needs to conduct its foreign policy. and we know that the irgc has been a principal architect and enforcer of iran's foreign policy since around 1979, the way the ayotolla designed the regime, and they are trying to reshape the middle east working as a power broker and military force. they assassinate rivals not only in the middle east but europe. they organize, train, and equip militias. in syria, they direct a network of militant groups and in the case of iraq, they have killed ver 600 american servicemen. we think it's important to in this case today, we are adding a layer of additional sanctions on the irgc to make radioactive those sectors of iran's economy that are influenced or controlled by the irgc. i'll let nathan answer your second question. reporter: i just want to make sure, i am not talking about u.s. threats but threats to

they assassinate drivers not only in the middle east, but in europe. equiprganize, train, and the militias in the middle east. they assign a network of militant groups. they killed over six -- we think it is important that layer ofadding a additional sanctions on the irgc to make radioactive those sectors of iran's economy that are influence or controlled by the irgc. >> i am not talking about threats to the u.s. forces or diplomats from iran but from potential u.s. prosecution for violating sanctions, by doing that may be construed as providing material support to an irgc affiliate or associate. >> we are not going to answer hypotheticals about various cases that could be conjured up in the future. we simply do not have anything to say on that. what i can tell you is the united states has a strong interest in any iraqi government that is strong and stable and sovereign and free from malign external influence. the record of iranian involvement in the region is not a promising one. look at syria. look at yemen. look at yemen on -- lebanon. we want to ma

and its operatives has worked to destabilize the middle east. with this designation, the trump administration is simply recognizing a basic reality. the it will take its rightful place with the terrorist groups, hezbollah, islamic jihad, among others, already designated as foreign terrorists organizations. along list is a.m. will justification for today's decision. i want to give you a handful of examples. last september, federal court in the united states found iran responsible for the 1996 khobart towers bombing which killed 19 american service members. in 2011, united states found that the qods force right here in washington, d.c., to bomb a restaurant and the attempt was united the ambassador to states. outside the united states, just as active. they were planning to attack israeli targets in turkey. two other qods forces were arrested while they dected a bomb attack that targeted israeli diplomats. as recently as january 2018, german authorities uncovered qods forces active in their country. it supports palestinian terror groups that target

foreign policy across the gulf across the broader middle east how did we get to where we are today. well actually the crowds foreign policy entails so little political iowan is now or this month or talking about what the amount to the clear. in an economic war on iran by pushing for a zero export of iranian oil at the same time the trump administration is hand in a peace hand or more in a shot in the peace and to the taliban that was blacklisted for the last twenty years so i think if we since went to him to talk about the god of israel the policy in question and all the middle east didn't de lima's i think there is a common thread that combines them here and they would call it the luck of a trumps grand strategy. what we have seen so far is mixed reactions to different incidents different case studies if you like his approach to the iranian has nothing to do with his approach would target one as i mentioned earlier at the same time his approach to the golan heights question differs from all the claims of being a broker of peace between the parties scenes and the israelis so there a

in terms of the middle east, the brand of twitter is super strong in that region.u know, when i look at the big picture, jack dorsey has always had this vision twitter was in some ways ultimately a media distribution platform. it is not the way we typically think of it. we think of a place you tweet and we kind of forget a lot of those tweets are linked to media, but it is becoming a media platform, video platform for the smartphone age. and when i heard heard about what they did today, i was quite impressed and feel like this is the kind of thing that could really take twitter to a new level of respect and consistency of results. certainly a globalizing company. are investors excited? >> twitter has to be a globalizing company. growth has been stagnant in the u.s. for several quarters. have double-digit growth in inne international markets, so they have to. it is good for twitter, but what they did in the middle east they did do in the u.s. we did see it impact daily active usage to some extent, but monthly active users still stagnant despite content deals. around

middle east peace plan as unfair to palestine. the new zealand is appealing for the whereabouts of a nurse kidnapped along with two drivers in syria almost six years ago louise a cull the was working for the red cross delivering aid to it live when she was taken it's believed she's being held by eisel along with the two syrian drivers a car his kidnapping was kept secret for fear her life may be at risk then a holder has more from beirut. the i.c.r.c. ending its silence appealing for any information on the whereabouts of its members two of the syrian nationals their fate is not known but the i.c.r.c. believes that. is possibly alive and they have information that she was still alive just a few weeks ago there is no doubt that the i.c.r.c. is gathering information from those who used to live under those rules territorial defeated a few weeks ago fighters wives and children are now thousands of them are now in a camp in northeast syria so it is trying to gather information. members are not the only ones who were kidnapped. missing y

as we both know, the middle east is the land of where stuff happens. things happen, you can escalate very quickly. we have been all fortunate in the last 2 1/2 years in this administration the united states has not faced a prolonged international crisis. i never served in the administration where you went that long without a prolonged international crisis. but i worry about the incoherence that karim mingesed between the president and some of his senior advise -- mentioned between the president and some of his senior advisors. if you assume the agreement is still living and breathing, you know, in january, 2001, and you have a different administration, it would make sense to do two things. first, to resume, you know, our compliance with the jcpoa to rejoin it, but simultaneously you would have to start, you know, a serious negotiation, a kind of follow-on negotiation which, you know, i've always experienced any arms control process that i've been involved in which would deal with some of the obvious challenges in the jcpoa. some of the provisions in th

foreign policy across the gulf across the broader middle east how did we get to where we are today. well actually the crowd's foreign policy entails so little political i only is now or this month or talking about what the amount to the clear. in an economic war on iran by pushing for a zero export of iranian oil at the same time the trump administration is hand in a peace hand or more in a shot in the peace and to the taliban that was blacklisted for the last twenty years so i think if we since we want to hit talk about the god of israel the policy in question and all the middle east in de lima's i think there is a common thread that combines them here and they would call it the luck of a trumps grand strategy. what we have seen so far is mixed reactions to different incidents different case studies if you like his approach of the iranian has nothing to do with his approach would target one as i mentioned earlier at the same time his approach to the golan heights question differs from all the claims of being a broker of peace between the potus scenes and the israelis so there are s

hellova there's quite a bit of cloud still over policy of the middle east if we look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud work its way over parts of iraq towards iran as bringing us a few thunderstorms who are also noticing this huge area of cloud that's making its way through parts of afghanistan and up towards the north it is this one that's more active we see more wet weather out of this but even this one is beginning to ease as we head through wednesday or wednesday instead we'll see some shoppers showers every part of turkey the western parts will see some very lively downpours will also see some further towards the east as well and those will gradually filter into the northern parts of iraq as we head into thursday there's also a good deal of cloud over the arabian peninsula at the moment too and that's still sticking around for wednesday and thursday so there's still the risk of seeing a few showers some of them could turn out to be a little bit lively i think mostly for doha the biggest risk is for wednesday we head down towards a cell in parts of africa or lo

foreign policy across the gulf across the broader middle east how did we get to where we are today. well actually the problems foreign policy entails several political ironies now or this month or talking about what the without amount to declare in an economic war on iran by pushing for a zero export of iranian oil at the same time the trump administration is hand in a peace hand or more in a shot in the peace and to the taliban that was blacklisted for the last twenty years so i think if we since went to him to talk about the god of israel the palestinian question and all the middle east in de lima's i think there is a common thread that combines them have and they would call it the luck of a trumps grand strategy. what we have seen so far is mixed reactions to different incidents different case studies if you like his approach to the iranian has nothing to do with his approach with taliban as i mentioned earlier at the same time his approach to the golan heights question differs from all the claims of being a broker of peace between the potus scenes and the israelis so there are s

the other three were in the middle east. part of this negotiation process was basically the australians and new zealand for that matter when the japanese became manifest, what did they bring home from the middle east and the british wanted them to say because they were a linchpin of the middle east. the eventual agreement was we sent american troops out and new zealanders left the second new zealand division and it would remain in the mediterranean region for the whole rest of the war. the australians brought two of the three divisions home. they left a ninth division in the middle east which stayed until 1942. so, when i talk about that negotiation, what was involved with keeping australians and new zealanders fighting in the middle east the way the british wanted. >> rich, thank you for great opener. [ applause ] >>> friday night on american history tv on c-span three, our american artifact series, the tour of the baseball americana exhibit at the library of congress. susan rayburn shows us the earliest mentions of basebal

everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around spread death destruction and chaos behind every problem is array and the world's leading state sponsor of terror of iran's leaders so. death. and destruction. now it's important to note that a number of members of iran's revolutionary guard corps have actually died in the fight against the i still terrorist organization in syria so it's important to note at this point an organization that was very key in the fight against the ice still terrorist menace at this point that organization has been designated itself as terrorist by the u.s. state department. kenneth thanks for bringing us up to speed on the latest on the nazis caleb maupin speaking to us live from new york now let's bring in a gas and it's going on this side of the stuff the host chesham now welcome to the program great to have you with us now it does seem that this move has been planned for some time so what do you make of the timing of donald trump's declaration. hello and thanks for having me well you know the i.r.g.c. has been a main party income batting terror

the middle east is changing.ld. this is the danger. we don't usually agree on these questions but i think that the election result, which has actually had very little attention outside the region, really because it wasn't a story that the western media was hoping for or expecting which was that benjamin netanyahu having his career ended. but i think his victory is a tragedy and a possible catastrophe because the attempt to unseat him was a manifestation of another israel, the others real which can through its military and civil society can see that the benjamin netanyahu how you —— die—hard approach is leading israel to a very dangerous place. i think there is a case for saying that the trump plan, can then broker deals elsewhere in the region. but i think people will be disappointed. it is ideal hatched together by the american ambassador to israel and donald trump's son—in—law. it will create a backlash which will have serious consequences indeed. can i bring analisa in. it would be helpful for our viewers to h

and also how much a problem cyberbullying is for journalists in the middle east. yes both of those things are her earnest show and just a fan who hadn't said which i agree with completely was that we really need to understand how this started and my sense having lived through it and watched it all in the last forty fifty years it really started with the satcher reagan revolution where they decided that free market capitalism really is the mechanism to rule the world that all people should live in free market economies and therefore everything becomes commodified everything is a commodity to buy and sell then the market rules everything and this is what's happened to media all over the world started in england and in the us and now is spread everywhere the media has been broken up into hundreds and hundreds of small little groups and politicized as well as being out of my eyes at the same time so we don't have many centrist reliable news sources that would like we used to when i was in college and i had to sixty's and seventy's you could rely on the centrist major

personnel in the middle east, for our installation, for our allies in the middle east, and going to close the straight of hormuz if need be, and the designation came and nothing really could have happened, and nothing did happen. they had to change from top-down because they have lost credibility. wasday before jafari sacked, he himself fired gerald was the head of internal security of the irgc, very unceremoniously. had chosenced jafari a new director for security, and those two events came days back to back and shows the amount of issue they were facing. ri is the one debating rumors, that me he might have -- he might have defected to the u.s. embassy. true or not, that shows his firing the day or before changing the top commander is a show of instability, of confusion, and all the problems that the irgc has with the designation will be multiplied. i agree with michael that now u.s.al command, the central command forces, the commander's underground, on the sea have more authority to deal with provocations coming from personnel andirgc the she a militia -- shia militia. another thing --

we have seen this particularly throughout the middle east. likely that you are going to see history repeating itself, not least because this individual has formed alliances and patronage with the saudis and the russians and even the egyptians and he was originally set out as someone who was combating islamic extremism and that made him popular because he was our enemy's enemy. he is prepared to find alliances with anyone just to get himself in position. he was originally a gaddafi loyalist and then became a cia asset, so we're not talking about there, we're not talking about aetiology there, we are talking about a for power. and when he decided not to intervene, syria kept its dictator. assad is the survivor in that region, which is a bit tragic. bernard's point, the cia asset,... we talked at the beginning about you and cut, saying that everyone put down your arms. is there a role for the us, as a former superpower, world policeman, to come in and say, collect everybody. is that a given that the trump presidency does not play in libya? i don

become an ideological battleground and this is going on all over the world now as well as in the middle east it's very obvious governments have control most of the media in most of the middle eastern countries not just the arab countries iran turkey israel as well there's a massive move by governments to boy or influence or control media and this is one of the reasons where why a social media has become such an important alternative to people's news but the governments are cracking down on social media and if somebody says something on social media that the government isn't like there are now laws in all countries that allow the government to detain somebody put them in jail just because they were accused of demeaning the leader or ruining the country's reputation vague stings like that which of course the government decides and it's the courts that it controls decides how to. interpret that so there is a huge problem in terms of why individual journalists are having more and more difficulty getting their work done and that's why so many of the best ones leave the middle east and go overseas

it will make middle east more or less stable. christian whiten is back welcome back. >> good to see you. >> let's talk about the guy in charge of the guard. sole manny called -- sulemany called one of most powerful people in the world, you don't hear his name a lot, tell me about his and his involvement. >> you have to be careful with analogies this is a -- you look at irgc like the ss, political army, that foe goes alongside yr regular army. the main bulwark of the regime. >> they have a lot of money to do that. >> an economic force. kennedy: this is not an optimistic caliphate that selling body parts in dirty oil, they have a lot more money now thanks to obama administration. and you have a lot of instability middle east that iran is trying to capitalized on, people like the joint chief chair joe dunford saying that this could be dangerous for american men and women who wear uniform in middle east. what do you think about general dunford pushing back on this. >> this argument has been around for a while. i think they are wrong,

forces in the middle east to. there was too well explaining the new policy u.s. secretary of state might pump a said the us wanted to exert maximum pressure on iran for forty years the islamic republic's revolutionary guard corps has actively engaged in terrorism and created supported and directed other terrorist groups the r.g.c. masquerade as a legitimate military organization but none of us should be fooled it regularly violates the laws of armed conflict it plans organize and execute terror campaigns all around the world that was mike pump a u.s. secretary of state speaking earlier today to israel now a day before the country's general election prime minister benjamin netanyahu he has made a controversial last minute campaign promise he says he will annex jewish settlements in the occupied west bank if he's reelected and he's facing a stiff challenge from a former general the centrist benny gantz with a tight race ahead our middle east correspondent tanya kramer said mrs report on what voters are saying on the eve of the election. benyamin netanyahu slick cou

and we're often working out in the middle east bringing some of our companies from london to trade in the region and we think this is just excellent news for the region so is it a good thing as i suggested to see the likes of in this case soft bank and saudi arabia which have backing to be making these sorts of moves because these are moves which have been dominated by the big tech players recently tech players which i mean are owning you know seventy five percent plus of the advertising market and i just wonder if you think this is a good thing that we're seeing. well i definitely think it's a good thing that kareem has been set up by entrepreneurs backed by angels and by institutional capital and has now scaled successfully and. and been executed over i think this is a it's a it's a great move and i don't think that. anyone would argue against that more widely is that a concern when you've got the the googles and the amazons and the facebook's the usual suspects which we name but when we see them making all the investments they're making on the consolidations and with this huge g

what appeals to the middle east and audience?ey have global prevalence, celebrities, journalists are on the world that use the service. the middle east is no different in that sense and clearly by creating this first-ever new front, media distribution partnership. 16 of them in the middle east. they are responding to that consumer did. twitter has had mixed success. fromhave a lot to learn their success in japan where it is actually the only region where twitter is ahead of facebook and instagram. it is more ubiquitous in japan. we are seeing that twitter needs to invest more and lean into this international growth because u.s. users are stagnating and the need to find new growth entry points. emily: thank you so much. ramy, back to you. ramy: that is bloomberg technology global link.do not miss her technology 7 a.m. in sydney, 5 a.m. in hong kong, and 5 p.m. in new york. up next rate year, don't go away. the eu claims a win in its parts for china to push fairer economic policies. that is after the two sides and their summit in b

in in in the middle east principally saudi arabia. she knew what they were doing. so she knew about the source of jihadism when i asked was at its height and she was then secretary of state and she organized. the biggest arms deal in history in selling arms american arms to saudi arabia. but it made her a de facto ally of jihad isn't in the middle east what that has to do with embarrassment i don't know if anyone's barassi i would have thought she is or ought to be and her superiors and her underlings in washington it's a ridiculous way of characterizing it let's get involved seven the largest cia leak in history via wiki leaks important about the revelations of malware in oil our mobile phones and making hacks appear as if they're from china or in russia edward snowden has explained all this your phone can spy on us it really infuriated. the cia and that's very understandable because it told us what they're up to it told us the the intensity and sophistication of their surveillance and so much of this and i mentioned earlier about for almost everything has to do w

high ranking european politicians are signed an open letter urging european nations to reject any middle east peace plan unveiled by the white house that's unfair to palestinians the u.s. is preparing to announce what it calls the deal of the century those who signed the letter say it's a critical moment in the middle east and europe they accuse the white house of departing from longstanding u.s. policy and established international law by recognizing only one side's claim to jerusalem they say the u.s. has demonstrated quote a disturbing indifference to israeli settlement expansion the letter goes on urging european nations to back a plan requiring the creation of a palestinian state alongside israel with east jerusalem as its capital they say that any plan that reduces palestinian statehood to an entity devoid of sovereignty territorial and contiguity and economic viability would fatally damage the cause of a durable peace for palestinians and israelis alike while the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization says europe needs to act to implement existing un resolutions. th

middle. east is the hour around the hospital in gaza city. the facility has been his hunted by the israeli blockade of the gaza strip and also by hamas mismanagement. the conditions here are miserable for the patients for the medical staff like don't just get el masry. the rooms are overcrowded and the and conditioning doesn't work. there's a deep sense of frustration. you see the air conditioner set off. with right tourists as you know. gets off got. today the hospital laundry can't provide fresh bed sheets this woman has stomach cancer and can't get the medicine she needs. to feel village we were. running out of morphine and all kinds of other pain killers the food for the most special things is the hospital's pediatric ward many of the children here suffer from leukemia but they can't be properly treated that's enormously frustrating for the parents. knew in the us comes out was good but also for the spiral of the disease would be to successfully what would do to a shortage of being supplied to from any we have. such fear in the suv that i