well, russia is not necessarily interested in the middle east because of the middle east, per say. what russian president vladimir putin is after is to weaken the united states in the west, and the middle east is adjacent to europe. and the united states has been the major actor in the region. so by intervening in syria and rescuing bashar assad, he made an impression on other leaders in the region. in contrast to the way in which they viewed president obama's actions when there was an uprising in egypt, in which after just a few days, the president, i say, started talking about america's 30 year ally in egypt about a transition from power for a hosni mubarak. that difference where the days supported asada not made an impression on the leaders and the major powers in the region that the russians were competent, non ideological, and making a play for leadership in the region that undoubtedly, undoubtedly those actions made the russians seem a more attractive option than the united states, and suddenly the russians are selling more weaponry to the egyptians than they have since the e

, the chinese has an impact on the middle east. now, it seems that the chinese view the middle east and the region as a primary region competition for the united states. so china is entering that with the middle east, military bases, trying to get to the military embassy. they see a vacuum, and american vacuum. now, a lot of the stuff in the obama administration, this current administration, will vehemently deny, but it should be noted -- and sort of, you know, that the youth actually exist, for the first time. but underground, people see the middle east. they feel that the united states has withdrawn. they feel that there is a rebalancing, and the same with iran, right? in syria, it doesn't help. lebanon is less than the iranians. and in iran, they have an iran- backed militia. so it is important. after world war ii, they were pillars. saudi arabia, iran, georgia, all of these are components of the structure that they have decided is the right security, architecture for the region. the united states, where have they gone? we all l

china to get a monopoly on the middle east energy trade. china is also an attractive partner to dictators in the region who are looking for more tools of repression and civilis that the chinese have perfected as a world leading human rights and democracy defended u.s. should push back on the spread of these tools of oppression. but at the same time a hope this hearing considers whether it's worthwhile to approach every middle east issue through a lens of u.s.-china competition. for example, china's recent sale of armed drones to saudi arabia does not mean that we should rush to provide those drones are cells that the saudis have a clear record of miss using such weapons yemen and we are right to distance ourselves from these abuses. chinese investment into the vanity projects shiny new cities for egypt president sisi and the saudi crown prince was questionable returns for investors. there's no compelling reason why the united states should be seeking to counter china's investment any projects with our own funny. there are limited areas wher

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not only the middle east. there are two billion muslim people all over the world.e and western _ worlds in particular. they have a feeling there, about 90% of the people i of the muslim world believe freedom of expression is practised _ only to insult muslims. you know, you have a problem with cartoons offensive - towards the prophet mohammed and now these satanic verses _ are blasphemous completely and it's offensive. _ salman rushdie, he was very cruel when he talked - about the prophet muhammad and his wives and to talk- about the wives of the prophet is really very dangerous. - people, i believe 95% of the people never read the satanic verses. - i was here when it was published in this country 40 years ago. - there were demonstrations all over the muslim world and many people | were killed and again- with the cartoons, offensive cartoons, again there was a huge - demonstration against this and many people were killed again. so it is a dilemma here. people are asking why - there are people and there was in particular specialising in offending the 2 billion - mus

s. foreign policy in the middle east. i want to plead guilty 100 times because in west the united states pulls out of afghanistan and iraq until they stop drone strikes in somalia, pakistan and yemen, and stop attacking muslim lands. we will attack the united states and be out to get them. it's a war and i am a part of it. and while the u. s. bombing campaigns have since been reduced, the government installed by the us have proved that they are unable to exist without constant us support. that was, of course, the case in afghanistan were the nato back government fell in a matter of just 10 days. the u. s. then turn it back on the country, replacing billions of dollars in aid with crushing sanctions, will lead to a devastating humanitarian crisis. and most notably the same group that was defined as a terrorist organization and targeted for 20 years by the u. s. is now back in charge . the war on terror came full circle when the afghan government fled and the taliban took control of the nation's capital. they had washington

that the middle east is really on the edge i of starvation.uption, - they have currencies falling down, the prices going up, energy prices going up, . food prices going up, i everything is going up and people are suffering there. so the name of the game is it. could be arab food spring very sooi'i. maria, you mentioned that there are various proposals for capping energy prices, and the british labour party, the opposition, sir keir starmer, came up with one that he said would have an impact on inflation and the experts seemed to agree it would, but only a six—month plan. again it's a short—term plan, and then a longer—term plan is the labour party plan to connect a minimum wage to the cost of living, which seems a very reasonable thing to do, but we definitely need a longer—term strategy and you were saying, henry, about the inflation reduction bill being partly under climate change, but the green new deal, which is again part of the labour party here's plan, seems to be a more sustainable in both senses way of going forward with this. i'm not

i think obama had a revolutionary vision for the middle east. i don't know that biden shares that vision. you certainly do not see those kinds of quotes coming from president biden. to what extent does the circle of advisors that they share half that revolutionary view? what helps us understand the approach, it was interesting because this i saw as the jcpoa was being negotiated, you would hear this much more explicitly from european countries than you would from the u.s. administration i think because of political digestibility of it. the approach was, you lay out the terms of the jcpoa to a neutral audience or an audience that is learning about it for the first time and they actually cannot believe it. you lay it out and you often are met with skepticism. how is it possible that they agreed to do this? >> thanks. andrea, back to you. i put words in your mouth a minute ago when i was talking to rob and i said that you said this was the capping the iaea. this i mean the concessions regarding the possible military dimensions of the program that h

still has a strong relationship with countries in the middle east? or could this perceived kowtow to saudi arabia actually heard it, particularly in the eyes of strategic rivals and adversaries. it's definitely so that saudi arabia has arabia actually heard it, particularly in the eyes of strategic a close has close ties with with with the u s. still there very much dependent on weapons deliveries and their contracts long running contracts. i mean there is no way that saudi arabia could say we we don't want to have anything to do with us any longer or vice versa. so it's more about strategic demonstrate a demonstration of a strategic move the u. s. is making here they want to show to iran to russia. um we are still in we are still having a leverage here um the it was also a sign that the times when uh saudi arabia was isolated because of the murder of john g. that this this chapter is closed now so um so but this has a price and the price is um showing showing that that this close cooperation is still in place and it's a deal. i mean they also get qu

they're all over the middle east. they're now in west africa, south of the sahara, east africa, some parts of south asia. so it will kill a leader. but that tends to help these groups continue to grow and, and get support isn't the problem is not the groups. are the leaders or the strategies of the west? necessarily. the problem is that you have millions and millions, tens or hundreds of millions of people living in an acceptable conditions of poverty of destitution, authoritarian governments, and they have no hope. and it's inevitable that some of them break often create these kinds of groups and there's going to be more at least a splintering of these groups taking place. and they adapt of god that has adapted after the death of in latin and after the death of the 2 other successors including the son. and now after the death of swati, they keep adapting and they join local groups like in yellow, northern syria that become part of the local landscape with a try to. and they will keep trying to do that. the level beco

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as her young reporter, my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's, they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. when we speak about bay roads golden age as dismissal under the middle east. we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is they're offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel distr

i think obama had a revolutionary vision for the middle east. i do not know that biden shares that revolutionary vision. you do not see those kinds of quotes coming from president biden. to what extent does the circle of advisors that they share have -- shared that revolutionary view? i think it also helps understand the approach. it was interesting because this i saw as the jcpoa was being negotiated, and justified after. you would hear this much more explicitly from european countries then you would from the u.s. administration. i think because of political digestibility of it the approach was, you lay on the terms of the jcpoa to a neutral audience or an audience that is learning that for the first time. they actually cannot believe it. you laid out and you are met with skepticism. how is it possible that they agreed to do this? they say why would you do this. what the europeans would tell you is, that this is supposed to be eight solution. by engaging our on -- iran diplomatically eventually they see the light. as we heard, joined the commun

what's going on in the middle east?ean israel and the islamic jihad between the palestinian authority . palestine palestinian autonomy in our country we recognize them so that in this sense the official name is palestinian autonomy i knew that i just wanted you to say it for our viewers and now the question is please tell me how much explosive situation precisely in the region, because yesterday there was information that from 20:00 the truce was supposed to take place, it took a little longer and then it started, then confirmed this icelandic jihad, it started already at 23 with a penny but it started then they started to appear to appear i apologize for the information about the fact that the shelling is still taking place, please tell me the region a-a now there is an explosive situation if we talk about this particular operation, i do not see it developing into something more the matter is because other palestinian factions, starting primarily with hamas, which has all the power in the gaza strip, distanced themselv

one of them is in the north-south direction from the ports of the middle east to europe through russias important for the economy. all participants and in moscow pay close attention to its implementation. together with colleagues from other countries, we are going to work on testing and developing the infrastructure of the north-south corridor, passing from port through india and the wounds of the middle east through the territory jaws of the territory of azerbaijan turkmenistan and kazakhstan in russia and further to european countries 91 routes along highways the amount of investment in the new corridor north, south tens of millions of dollars in the program for updating railway construction, roads and border points , and here the theory is immediately transferred to practice at the conference venue, following the results of three dozen bilateral meetings, several agreements were signed, contracts for the implementation of which will be violated in the near future evgeny ochirochkina ivan lavrikov news, turkmenistan russian doctors have arrived in hospitals of the republic have alrea

and throughout the terrorism community in the middle east, trey yingst joins us now from the middleion? any early reaction? >> yes, that evening. the leader of al qaeda killed in a u.s. drone strike according to american officials, the successor to usama bin laden and the man the americans have been hunting for the last decade. significant because the strike reportedly took place in kabul, afghanistan, on the cusp of the one year anniversary of the takeover. and warned that the u.s. capability to fight terrorism around the globe specifically in afghanistan could be hindered by the takeover, but that's over there were horizons strike the first of its kind since the takeover is a significant development. especially targeting the leader of al qaeda. this is a man who is responsible in part for a variety of terror attacks over the last two decades including 9/11 and also a variety of other things like the attack on the uss cole off of the coast of yemen and also the bombings in sub-saharan africa, and someone who joined al qaeda in 1998 and was a longtime deputy of usama bin laden a man

- it's shipping with corn in the tripoli port actually, and how many companies from africa, the middle eaststered to cover this event, so ukraine really remains extremely an important exporter, ukraine remains a savior in this situation from a really real food crisis in the middle east, including igor , you recently said that there is a criminal system in the world that contributes to the transportation of stolen grain from ukraine , we are talking about 87 such vessels, it is possible that only now there are more . by the russian occupation forces and russian business and of course from the other side er these are syrians who also provide their ships among those er 87 kings also three syrian ships and they try to transport er grain and flour from the crimea at the same time they exclude all isi that is, everyone transponders have rivers, they are loaded in sevastopol, they are loaded in feodosia, and they are loaded in kerch, but they show the port of departure , maybe it can be in the caucasus, rostov, etc. in this way, they cover their tracks for about 10 days, they do not turn on their

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. or the palestinian presidency of called on the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on gaza and to provide protection to people that hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people. have garza pensions have been high in the west bank of the month, arrayed by israeli security forces, correspondence. abraham having the past and in presidency, has condemned the installation, calling a dangerous calling upon the international community to intervene to stop what they called it. these rainy exclamation also we heard from the palestinian prime minister, how much the you talking about the escalation saying, it's israel that started this week, people to enter my la, go out in the throughout the protest, calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation engineering in the north will be occupied with bank. this is we're excited to senior plumbing. she had b. there was a

on the un special coordinator for the middle east has warmed the security council. the ceasefire garza between israel, palestinian islamic john rufus, fragile tor winans lamps, and any resumption of vicinities would be devastated. the european union has tabled a final text as talks over reviving b. 2015 iran nuclear dio wrap up in vienna. talk you diplomat. jasa barrios said a monday, what can't be negotiated. husband negotiated. united states says it's ready to conclude an agreement quickly based on the text. but it rom says it needs a comprehensive review or treat a policies from the quincy institute. he says, there been compromises on both sides. i think we are more aware of the issues. where do you run years? have back down, for instance. they are no longer insist sting on the vanya revolutionary carter quotes to be taken off. the u. s. is terrorists less. they have also indicated that they are now satisfied with the assurances that they will be given to us, will not be withdrawn from the deal. again, however, it does not seem to be a particularly strong assuran

russia and china and turkey taking the whole middle east control? we have moved to contain the west of the situation and turkey's giving a great hand in order to, to preserve and not the world to fall decay us. i think that if it goes to that turkey will be kicked out of nature. but what this term may talk without jerky it's then it means that it's without middle east. if it's, you know, it's loses, it's one of the core forces they are listening. water aired or gun has to say, if, oh, air to con wants to make a filament and sweden to collapse from his side. he can do it. he has all the tools to do it. and, and it's interesting that we are, for the situation that to northern countries are, in the rule of anchor, it's highly connected that these are blocking the nature oh, coming to russian, northern borders. and what's happening now in armine are sprites on, in the black sea, it's all connected. what's happening in crane. malaysia's ex prime minister is to make one last effort to overthrow a court ruling that found him guilty of corruption. thus bann

, you know that recently a special representative was appointed to the countries africa, the middle east, maxim soup, and this means that we are really trying to communicate now and focus on very problematic regions where the war with russia is still interpreted in different ways, but our position is always to comply with our obligations to supply from grain, it will always be a very serious political argument mr. yurii well, regarding the support of the country you represent , where do you currently represent ukrainian interests? what else is being discussed? dollars for support and to solve the problem of the shortage of grain warehouses in ukraine, so the excitement here is really a very serious problem and not very recently the world bank allocated 150 million dollars to lebanon for the purchase of grain and this means that obviously a large part of this grain lebanon will buy from ukraine, we have a collection of very good business relations with lebanon, possibly because we also have a lot of them. more than 12,000 graduates of ukrainian universities are lebanese who studied with u

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the 1960 the decade of change across the middle east and north africa. in the 2nd of a 3 part series al jazeera world explores the explosion of arts and culture. intellectuals were building new dreams and ideas because the revolutions of the 1960s were not political but all the mine. from music to tv, the poetry of protest and revolutionary film making the 60s in the arab world. culture, oh, now jazeera examining the impact of today's headline is that both hotline is what then happens setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. oh, likely is of that ukraine is actually going to get the lead building support that it me. international filmmakers and warcraft journalists. bring programs to inspire you i all think i can return to my life any more. thought is eroding. some of it's almost 5 freedoms on al jazeera heats continues to be the big story across the middle east. hello everyone. here's a snapshot on tuesday. those temperature is yep, we still have readings in the fifty's box dead into kuwait. we had all this sand and dust swirling around here as we

the russian federation, being the world leader in grain exports, annually supplied to the middle eastth africa over 20 tons of grain crops and about eleven. e twenty million tons of grain crops, and about 11 million tons of fertilizers in the first place egypt libya saudi arabia and syria at present. this is impossible due to the sanctions imposed by the west on russia. in addition, western countries that have refused to import russian energy resources seek to replace them with supplies from other states, thereby endangering the energy security of the middle eastern african countries importing hydrocarbons, forced to purchase them at inflated prices. thus , the growing factors of instability in the middle east and north africa are primarily due to the destructive activities of the united states and its ally, while the americans are obsessed with the idea of ​​exclusivity and the desire to maintain its global dominance in the implementation of aggressive plans does not take into account the interests of other countries for the sake of maintaining their hegemony, they exert large-scale

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. egypt who various media is saying that there is a delegation from egypt that has come or is coming to israel to try and to try mediate between the israeli government and islamic jihad and try and stop this before escalates. still further. let's go to jordan live in washington, d. c. and tell us about the white house in response to this. the bind administration's response is pretty much what you would expect. it is as standing by israel's right to defend itself from attacks, from aggressors. but it also has been calling on all sides to exercise restraint to exercise calm, to stop the violence, to avoid escalations. and we have heard not just from the national security council spokesperson john kirby, but also from the u. s. ambassador to israel tom knights, that they are reaching out to us all interested parties, although we would presume that they are not talking to anyone from islamic jihad or from hamas, which is in control of the g

i was there onhe assignment andv living in the middle east but the work was starting in iraq and thoseucky enough to witness a part of history, we were in iraq for a very long time. for 20 years, this war on terror has continued. i don't want to talk about foreign policy or american mistakes or successes. i wrote the book not to do any of that, i wrote the book to correct what i saw as a glaring omission over the last 20 years. as someone who grew up knowing a lot about our allies in world war ii, i could talk about the warsaw uprising, french resistance fighters and we all probably know one or two of the stories, we knew who was fighting alongside of us and in the war on terror, americans and mostos journalists really havent spent enough time trying to figure out who those people were. baguette, i hope it helps feel that void and put iraqis back as in characters in their own modern history because if you follow foreign policy or know anything about iraq, you know there are shelves and shelves of books written by amazing american generals and servicemen and women about their time spent

i would say agreements within the middle east.they are trying to oust the united states from the region, and this is clearly happening in reality. well, let's remember that the united states itself withdrew to a certain extent from the region and this happened even before trump and it happened under obama and argued that we cannot be responsible for everything there, we need to focus on the intra-american agenda and you, please . the journalist is good. okay, the united states imposed sanctions on saudi arabia, its closest ally, and the countries of the region found themselves in an unusual situation when their main security partner refused them . the usual security services, let's call it that. and they faced all those who fire missiles at the airport of the capital of saudi arabia or destroy the oil infrastructure of the united arab emirates, when ports are bombed, when iranian drones carry out a complex multi-layered attack by drones, the largest of which is in the oil field of saudi arabia companies in the morning, so mr. pres

, in fact they need hunger from one side from the other the image of the saviors of the middle east, well, in general uhu so what if you uh-uh, they already announced there during these two laurel tour and video conference with arab countries, they announced themselves as saviors, then after this one we did not fulfill it, now we will watch some kind of provocations. who will swallow and how will he react, i.e. on the fifth of august, putin will meet us in sochi . they will also talk about this, and they will also prepare something. i expect some kind of provocation with ships on the eve of the meeting, for example, they can announce that they are accompanying them and send ships of the black sea fleet of the russian federation to these grain carriers. tell me please, mr. sergey, after sergey lavrov, the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation, visited egypt, there were very strange news about the fact that egypt is canceling previous agreements with ukraine for the export of large quantities grain yes and this and this is actually a few ships in fact a huge amount yes