he wanted to build a new middle east. after the victory in iraq, he sought to make the persian gulf whose oil wealth made it particularly strategic region. more secure for american interests. but to achieve his goal, bush 1st needed to resolve the israeli, palestinian conflict threatening the stability of the entire middle east. the process was launched with a peace conference in madrid in his efforts to impose his pox americana on the gulf. president bush invited any one with any potential influence on the arab israeli conflict. got up with them. you may know some europeans were the soviets, with leaders of the ma grip and the middle east. all attended. russell created that national swimming. only one country was missing the islamic republic of iran. the visceral answer for why iran was not invited is the hangover from the hostage taking it's still with us today. ah, hatred of iran for the 979 hostage thing that is behind us policy today. more than anybody thinks or believes is a part of every moment of every thought abo

a new middle east was taking shape. nothing would ever be the same again. karen's ambitions and interests were on a collision course with washington and televi. a great clash was looming. ah, on this day, nearly 90000 israeli soldiers, 1300 tanks and 1500 personnel carriers, invaded lebanon, a country seemingly unconnected to the emerging confrontation between iran, israel and the united states. torn apart by civil war for many years, lebanon had become a regional battleground, syria occupied a part of the country to the east. but in the south, especially the p. a low was all powerful. the palestinian organisation had made the area it's operational base for instigating deadly rates against israel. on june 6th, 1982 tel aviv launched operation piece for galilee. the objective was spelled out loud and clear to seize control of southern lebanon, and thus put an end to the gorilla operations launched by arafat fed again with him here full fight and destroy those organizations that have been killing and murdering all people

a revolution in the name of shiite is long a new era was about to begin in the middle east. he ah, ah, ah, a year before for manney's return, an uprising began in tehran in early 1978. hundreds of thousands of iranians took to the streets to challenge their ruler. ah, demonstrators had had enough of a ruler who bent on making iran a great power, sought to impose western style, modernity on them, either willingly or by force. they viewed it as an unfair and corrupt system that failed to meet the most basic needs of the population. ah, ah, ah. and 2 countries had come to embody the imperialism condemned by the demonstrators. 2 countries that supported the shots regime, the united states and israel. today, it is difficult to imagine those 2 countries where the iranian states closest allies yet only to hush over ferocity local thereon was arguably almost important partner off to the united states in terms of economic intricacies . as we undertook some crammed portraits with them back in the 1950s, israel had made overtures to the shaw, isolated in an arab world that refused to a

the middle east. , joining me now from washington dc is dr anna borshchevskaya. fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. thanks forjoining us. what did you read into president putin's am today because when first you need to looking bigger picture at the bottom of peace and understood relief from the very beginning of ukraine that food was going to be a powerful weapon that he could use in this war to pressure the west to try to break western unity and that is why we saw russia deliberately attacking cultural fields, russia deliberately attacking culturalfields, that russia deliberately attacking cultural fields, that is why they are holding a book eight in the black sea and this is another piece of this strategy. putin understands very well that if he starts the middle east and north africa then they will very well be another refugee wave into europe so that his piece one but also if he take space place of supplier that is also a way for him to position himself as a counterweight to the west. the food shortages of veal and already causing huge prob

and, now the conduct of american foreign policy in the middle east. get in return for basically making a two billion dollar investment in his fund? because as you pointed out before, the saudi economic advisers who have are viewed jerry kushner's investment management said that it was, quote unquote, unsatisfactory in all respects. combined of the fact that mbs said that he quote had jared kushner in his pocket, we have to wonder, did jerry kushner share intelligence information with the saudis? did he try to influence the foreign policy so we look the other way with regard to human rights abuses in yemen as well as our cat crackdown on dissidents in saudi arabia? and finally the brutal assassination of jamal khashoggi. these are all questions. and also, when he made a promise with regard to future foreign policy, should his father-in-law be back in the white house. >> this is what doubly complicates this. this might have been payback. some have alleged that. payback for what happened of the trump administration, despite the fact that saudi arabia sho

so biden's 1st trip has us pressed into the middle east with include saudi arabia. after all, he's looking to reset the relationship at a time when he needs help from the oil, mich kingdom, to alleviate high petrol prices, the white house correspondents, kimberly hawk. it reports. it's a reversal of his pledge he made before becoming president to isolate the kingdom of saudi arabia. we run in fact make them pay the price and make them in fact, the pariah that they are. but now after weeks of speculation, the white house confirms us president joe biden will make a trip next month to saudi arabia to sit down with its leaders. officially biden's trip is to improve us saudi relations. but the president is under pressure to convince gulf leaders to pump more oil to help bring down spiking us gas prices. given saudi arabia's poor human rights record. the president is being criticized by members of his own democratic party for ignoring human rights in favor of economics. this is someone who butchered on american resident a cut him up into pieces in the most terrible and pr

also on the show, germany's vice chancellor is in the middle east where he hopes to broker major energy deals are correspond, it is on his trail. and in spain, a wine maker is taking his breads and whites to hold new depths. by harnessing the power of the sea, tourists are taking out and flocking in for vineyard tours by boat. i'm christy plats and this is dw business. the world bank has flashed its growth estimate for the global economy. it now forecasts 2.9 percent for 2022. that's significantly lower than the 4 point one percent the bank predicted. in january. the war in ukraine is compounding the damage done by lockdown. some china supply chain disruptions and rising inflation according to the bank. growth is expected to remain sluggish in 2023. now the world bank warns that many countries could fall into a recession with poor nations hit the hardest. we go now to francisco own saga in london. she is manager of the prospects group at the world bank. now francisco, the previous forecast in january this was before russia invaded ukraine. can you tell us, how is the war factoring into

also coming up us president joe biden ad saudi arabia to his upcoming middle east trip and about face to seek relief from high oil prices. survivors of masika in between a facet 10 of being left, displaced on defenseless ann jubilation for costa rica, who beat new zealand to claim the final spot of this. he has cut off well written supposed deportation. flight of asylum seekers to rolanda didn't get off the ground after lost my intervention by the european court of human rights. be controversial. see has been criticized as being in humane and has been legally challenged by the government. and this is necessary to stop dangerous attempts to enter the u. k. letting bother reports from london. waiting to depart for a wonder, but even with the plain in position at an air base in western england. the legal challenges continued. lawyers for a handful of asylum seekers still do to be flown to ca, golly, asked the european court of human rights to get them off. the deportation list. it did, and suddenly the flight was called off. on monday, the court of appeal had ruled the flight. could go a

thank you. germany's economy and climate minister robert havoc is in the middle east. he's looking to secure new sources of energy as russia's war, and ukraine continues to cast a shadow over europe. speaking in israel yesterday, he praised the country suggestion of working with egypt to bring gas to europe in may, you leaders agreed to drastic cuts in the reliance on russian gas? dw correspondent julia saw deli, has been following the german economy mess minister on his trip through the region . she sent us her assessment. energy is at the center of this trip to the middle east by german economy in climate, minnesota. but hubig, now germany is in quite urgent need to substitute russian gas because of the worn ukraine, and he's looking for other sources of the fossil fuel. now israel has a big stock of this gas and fields that have been found around 10 years ago, off the coast of israel, and is ready to export this gas. but for the moment, infrastructure to bring the gas to europe is not there. there are plans to build pipelines across the mediterranean, their plans to

the still almost 6000000 syrian refugees in the middle east. i've just come back from bangladesh where in a tiny and very fragile area of the country. 1000000 refugees from member of the ro hinge community have been living for the past few years, and the list is very, very long. so the size, the complexity, the difficulty of finding solutions, all of this illustrates the, the, the nature of the problem we're dealing with. now syria and suffering from the world's largest displacement crisis, more than 13000000 people of either fled the country or have been displaced within its borders since the war began 11 years ago. was anecdotal reports mostly in poverty and without any guarantee of security. colored up dollar is a victim of serious war. more than 13000000 people. that's half the population before the war are in a similar situation. either forced to flee the country or are displaced within its borders. an alarm the sundays and the more i am 70 years old, i prefer to die than. ready in poverty in misery, and without my children who are now sca

joe biden will include saudi arabia on the itinerary of his 1st middle east trip as u. s. president, something to reset the relationship at a time when the u. s. wishes for more oil to be pumped to reduce high petrol prices . ukraine says it's military is trying to get the last remaining civilians out of scary on yet. russia is getting closer to taking over the eastern. so is it tightened its grip and the dumbass region. authorities and northern india, or being accused of ordering the demolition of people's homes for protesting against is i'm a phobia, a state government of ot pradesh says the homes were built illegally. it happened soon after an angry response to senior members of the governing at b. j. p making offensive remarks about the prophet mohammed has limited reports from silent book. ah mama, that he cries in pain, he says his arm is broken as he leads for mercy. he was recently arrested for allegedly taking part in a protest. his mother says the accusations of false and authorities are threatening to demolish her family's home by view. godaddy do it no more

and 60 percent of india, oil or energy comes from the middle east and of and i didn't find them. it was very the recording from the onslaught of the funds to make it be a simply cannot afford to lose this kind of business and create connectivity with the middle east. we recently find a fee that agreement with the us. we are in the goal with the guns corp counsel for a free period agreement. and so when you look at it, this is a very, very important message. you find the topic if it is in the middle east, stop banding, indian products that are in the countries, i think going to be a deep probably. so this is, this is a crunch time for india. the leaders that we have to take a step against the those guilty and reach out to these countries and tell them that that will not be repeated in future. and printing vaccine will be taken against inflation in the united states has had a 40 year hive. consumer prices jumped 8.6 percent in may compared to last year, even more than economists had expected solar in petrol. prices have been blame with demand colliding with persistence supply short

but the protection christians and orthodox in particular, this task is relevant not only for the middle east north africa; it is relevant for europe. another important task of society is the return of the monasteries that were lost. in soviet times, negotiations were underway on the alexander compound, not far from the church of the holy sepulcher of st. sergius. the yard has already been returned. now there is preparing for the opening, the first officially registered russian museum in jerusalem anastasia litvinova anton kosimovich. vitya the united states violated its international obligations when announced the delivery of four russian mi-17 helicopters to ukraine , the russian foreign ministry made such a statement this evening. as noted by the department, russia transferred the machines to washington for operation exclusively in afghanistan and without its consent . demanded clarification, but did not receive a clear answer, but she is already looking forward to new arms supplies to ukraine. moreover, the plans are being built by everyone from zelensky's inner circle to illegal arms dea

and interestingly enough, could have very drastically percussion precisely in the middle east, where certainly in the past spiking full feud price, prices have caused political unrest against that backdrop. can you imagine our to one actually being the one to unlock this? or that would be the hope and that it shouldn't. and needn't come only from add one, you speak of and one holding the west potentially hostage with this blockage of grain exports. putin is holding billions of people around the world who are food insecure hostage, especially in the middle east and africa. in parts of asia facing droughts and crop failures. this crisis will become a global crisis, and the casualties of russia's invasion of ukraine will explode into the millions through the indirect costs of this hunger crisis. and my hope really there would be to see more voices from the global south, more countries and more leaders across africa, across asia and latin america in the middle east, standing up and saying, don't hold our people hostage, let the grain out and to put together, perhaps a flotilla of non nat

and the middle east could be one of them. man, one, why is that? why is he, why is he falling, as he said, in the footsteps of tom, given that in his core constituency? unlike perhaps trump, there are voices. there is the sanction of progressives, of democrats who actually do care about what's going on there and want to see the palestinian israeli conflict refocused in the prism of human rights and equal rights for all that's. that's exactly why he sounds like a progressive. but if he manages foreign policy, as a centrist kind of, you know, hard core are almost called world liberal as it where, you know, it's that wasn't me that said that the, i'm the 1st christian zionist i, he's, he's a scientist. i mean that's what he is. he's actually a radical zionist in so many ways. he supports israel and condition that he, he just said that that once and again. and i think he's trying to do in the overall policy towards them, at least including the gov. egypt, iraq and jordan, what trump tried to do diplomatically, he's trying to do strategically now. so i

caller: can your guest tell us which country was the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the middle east? and which middle eastern country today is still refusing to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty? it is certainly not ron. have a follow-up question, if i may. guest: the color -- caller is pretty well informed about the proliferation situation. israel acquired nuclear weapons around 1968, 1969. it does not acknowledge it has a nuclear arsenal. it is believed to have around 100 to 150 nuclear weapons. it's not a member of the treaty. it would be a dangerous situation if we had two countries in the middle east region with nuclear weapons, particularly two countries with particularly bad relations. host: in the follow-up? guest: the follow-up question, i'm sure your guest is aware of what the amendment is. it states that any country that possesses nuclear weapons without having signed a nuclear nonproliferation treaty, shall not receive united states foreign aid. the largest recipient of it at -- of united states foreign aid is israel. how does it get away with this? i will take th

is holding billions of people around the world who are food insecure hostage, especially in the middle east and africa. in parts of asia facing droughts and crop failures. this crisis will become a global crisis, and the casualties of russia's invasion of ukraine will explode into the millions through the indirect costs of this hunger crisis. and my hope really there would be to see more voices from the global self more countries and more leaders across africa, across asia and latin america in the middle east, standing up and saying, don't hold our people hostage, let the grain out and to put together, perhaps a flotilla of non nato members who are not parties to the conflict in any way to enable the grain to be transported safely out. and if russia blocks this, if russia does not allow the grain to be exported peacefully, then that says everything you need to know. and any of the russian propaganda that's trying to pin the food crisis on ukraine, on the west, would be shown to be completely bollocks. daniel, very briefly. that's very interesting. and on. and why do people in the so called

if they do go to other middle east in oil producing countries, i should beg expect to get the same reply. thank you for inviting me. and i was surprised that something that happened over the phone between chef, how much decided of the u. i. e and mac out on has been transpired publicly and on the, on the city. and that is very astonishing. but i don't know if the, if the you eve does print half spare capacity or capacity. that doesn't mean that middle eastern or other opic lot going to do is they don't. we all know that saudi arabia has a total capacity of $12000000.00 barrels. that a day. now we are producing $10.00. so there is around 1500000 barrels, that a day spare capacity that we can use if and only if opec loss has the side. decided to, to do that. and how have large oil producing countries in the middle east been reacting to the spike in energy prices around the world. sparking energy prices is not a problem, as long as there is a balance in the market between supply and demand. and we have seen that, and last, actually as a technical body has always studied the market and they

is holding billions of people around the world who are food insecure hostage especially in the middle east and africa in parts of asia facing droughts and crop failures. this crisis will become a global crisis and the casualties of russia's invasion of ukraine will explode into the millions. through the indirect costs of this hunger crisis. and my hope really there would be to see more voices from the global south, more countries and more leaders across africa across asia and latin america and the middle east standing up and saying, don't hold our people hostage, let the grain out and to put together perhaps a flotilla of non nato members who are not parties to the conflict in any way to enable the grain to be transported safely out. and if russia blocks this, if russia does not allow the grain to be exported peacefully, then that says everything you need to know. and any of the russian propaganda that's trying to pin the food crisis on ukraine and the west would be shown to be completely bollocks daniel very briefly that's a very interesting phenomenon. why do people in the so called glob

migration, we are now entering a period of unprecedented food crisis, since the countries of the middle east and africa are very dependent on the issue of providing their population with food that is grown in ukraine and in russia, this situation will lead to dire consequences and can be sure of massive political consequences in in the countries i mentioned in europe, the echoes of the future are already being felt not only due to places, empty counters. this concerns flour and sunflower oil , are italian producers afraid that they will disappear? maybe pasta is already obvious that it will definitely rise in price, but build a mercado market and our sector. in particular, they are going through hard times. small businesses are suffering more than large businesses that have had the time and opportunity to prepare for upcoming events. now the forecast for the market is pessimistic, prices will rise again, and instability will remain with the world's main producer. chips canada crop failure in 2020 due to heat french fields in spring 21 froze, then these plants were attacked by insects . the p

and joe biden is set to visit the middle east within - to visit the middle east within weeks and possibly saudi arabia given the controversies there. ukrainian situation is forcing some uneasy new partnerships to be resurrected. it’s uneasy new partnerships to be resurrected.— resurrected. it's classic of the a . ree resurrected. it's classic of the agree that — resurrected. it's classic of the agree that this _ resurrected. it's classic of the agree that this demonstrates | resurrected. it's classic of the i agree that this demonstrates the difficulties that we have an international politics and geopolitical realities of energy means that such things must occur if we are to keep the lights on and unfortunately, this isjust taking we are to keep the lights on and unfortunately, this is just taking a paracetamol, this is not stopping the cause of the headache. fin paracetamol, this is not stopping the cause of the headache. on that analou , the cause of the headache. on that analogy. i'll— the cause of the headache. on that analogy, i'll leave _ the cause of the headache. on that analogy, i

as country prepares to host an estimated 1000000 fans 1st world cup in the middle east. security is paramount. the country size. it's 1st time hosting a mega sports event and the compact nature of 8 stadiums presents specific challenges. but the c e o of the international center for sport security says cutter has been preparing homework than a decade and has a track record a posting smaller tournaments such as the asian cup. i don't the weakest state that the worker will happen in a counter to which is an unprepared in managing. that's a exceptional, a situation. and the, in my view, paul body deem de successfully the man thought the strife of catalog is that the, the war copping. katara, he's a part of a of a bigger. it's a vision cut out has been staging simulations and conducting training exercises for security forces. it's also partnering with countries including britain, spain, and turkey, to provide assistance ranging from proud control to counter terrorism measures. turkey is sending a team of more than $2200.00 people, including police officers and doctors. new y

now joe biden will include saudi arabia on the itinerary, his 1st middle east trip as u. s. president, he's looking to reset the relationship at a time when the u. s. is pushing for more oil to be pumped, reduce high petrol prices and ukraine. sanchez military is trying to get the last remaining civilians out of savannah don. yet russia is getting closer to taking over the eastern city the titans at script on the don bus region. no anger is growing in india after government officials demolished homes of muslims who took part in protest against 8 speech. the state government of hooked up radish says the homes were built illegally. these demolitions allowed rallies against offensive comments made by senior members of the governing b. j. p. about the prophet mohammed, i'm to match our reports from sahara and poor. oh mama that he cries in pain. he says his arm is broken as he leads from mercy. he was recently arrested for allegedly taking part in the protest. his mother says the accusations of falls and authorities are threatening to demolish families home for a bobby godadd

there are from the middle east and indian depends heavily on the, on the, on the west. if you get this on, the gulf can be for in a g, r for a maintenance, those and almost 9000000 of our people do work there. so this is a very defender arm of game altogether, but as you can actually pointed out, i think it is fine for mr. morley to come out, and that was the nation. and there sure are the, the of 200000000 or 14 percent off in the us. what connection are mostly so of that, that there brought would not be identical to the and that, that they will be able to live in peace and harmony in this country. for international audience, who just talk a little bit about this relationship between india and the gulf and remittances at a cent, from the gulf into india. they are hugely important, hugely beneficial to a large proportion of the population as well as to the indian exchequer. if i just so paraphrase this in 2008, when we had the financial crash, i was in india at the time, i saw lots of indian exports coming back because they lost their jobs. now we're seeing indian produ

and mike, what's he likely to do with his middle east trip? so why count? so that being scrambling to clarify the situation following a report a few days ago that he was going to visit saudi arabia and israel at the end of the month following his meetings in europe. but now whitehouse sources are saying that he's going to do 2 separate trips, one to europe, and then later next month to the middle east, not president by didn't himself, won't be drawn on whether or not he is going to saudi arabia saying that it might be among the countries that he visits alongside with israel, he was expected to attend or meet saudi arabia off to the gulf corporation conference of which saw the is the head. but at this stage now an attempt to clarify things. whitehouse sources are making very clear that president biden is now planning to go to the middle east next months in which a meeting with saudi arabia may take place. 3 but clearly there's been a lot of behind the scenes new brings, particularly with some of the criticism that has come precedent, violence way. one says r

such a capacity, we invite him, at least not the first, the first questions will not concern the middle easts in the occupied or half-occupied, half-occupied kherson oblast . it's clear, that's all, mr. serhiy, you can hear us, yes, i do. i wish you good health, mr. serhiy. so , i still didn't understand you. where are you and what do you see around? oh , i'm in kyiv, and in kyiv. i have i was supposed to meet my contacts on february 24th, but i didn't have time to get there. the road was already blocked. but you have some contacts with kherson oblast. there was such an attempt at a counter-offensive or counter-offensive actions, then they talked about it, then they stopped talking about it , so i didn’t understand where i was. what’s going on with the front line? okay, in the kherson region. that’s how to say. i'm going to a military colleague, i hear a lot of voices on the air, it's very difficult for me to answer the host's questions, i'm sorry. that is, what kind of studios are there? sorry, can you improve a little ? will it be strengthened or can it stand and can become the basis for t

from the middle east and africa and the falkland islands as well to go commemorate the battle of coronel. and the in the class between the german and british fleets out out in the middle of the south atlantic. um when he went to these places did people get in do they sort of say what are you doing here? what really there was a war here. we didn't even know we had no clue about them. yeah, that's that that this true for for the african countries and the middle east and and many of of the the countries outside europe, but the falkland islands is is the falklands is different because because they had two major historic even taking place there. so they remember both of them the 1914 and later when yeah british there was actually there was there was something yeah, like sort of came with rick came with all that so they have the battle. they they commemorated every year in december with with the with the british army that is stationed on the islands. so they take it very seriously. so generally i can say that all the anglo-saxon countries are very serious about the commemorations of the first

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