come saud, an economist, a non resident fellow at the middle east institute. thank you so much for your time . so rushes invasion of ukraine has uprooted millions of people from their homes, kind of access to its ports and disrupted, forming more than a 3rd of the nation's budget is being spent on battling russian forces. the economy shrank by more than 30 percent last year. that's the largest decline since ukraine declared independence from the soviet union in 1991 tens of billions of dollars and international aid has helped the government to continue to provide services. the u . s. has provided nearly $50000000000.00 and military financial on humanitarian aid to cave. almost half of that went to the military. several e institutions provided more than $35000000000.80 ukraine. the majority of that amount was allocated for financial help. united kingdom was the fed, highest contributes of aid to ukraine, with more than $7000000000.00. pledge between january and november. the arm f says you quite needs at least $3000000000.00 a month to finance. it's war time ec

amna: that is the founding director of the middle east institute's turkey program joining us, thank youhanks for having me. ♪ geoff: now to the continuing concerns over a major chemical spill in eastern ohio caused by a train derailment. another train derailed outside of detroit. one of the cars that went off the tracks did ve hazardous materials, but chemicals did not leak out. in ohio, anger and anxiety are running high after two weeks after the incident there. frustration, fear and unanswered questions in east palestine, ohio. >> i think most people are concerned they are going to sweep this under the rug. we have dead fish in the streams. there are a lot of reports of pets and animals dying. we just want to make sure we are taken care of here. geoff: residents worried about the danger of returning to their homes given the potential long-term effect of toxic chemicals in the air, soil and water following the fiery train derailment. no one was injured in the derailment, but as the cleanup continues, there are more questions about the chemicals relieved into the environment, including

come saud and economist and non resident fellow at the middle east institute. thank you so much for your time. so, russia's invasion of ukraine has upper you said millions of people from their homes, cut off, access to its ports, and disrupted, forming more than a 3rd of the nation's budget is being spent on battling russian forces. the economy shrank by more than 30 percent last year. that's the largest decline since ukraine declared independence from the soviet union in 1991 tens of billions of dollars and international aid has helped the government to continue to provide services. the u . s. has provided nearly $50000000000.00 and military financial on humanitarian aid to keep almost half if that went to the military. several you institutions provided more than $35000000000.80 ukraine. the majority of that amount was allocated for financial help. the united kingdom was the fed, highest contributes of aid to ukraine, with more than $7000000000.00 pledged between january and november. the i'm f says ukraine needs at least $3000000000.00 a month to finance. it'

in arlington virginia, a senior fellow at the middle east institute and the author of wind spot, america and the palestinians. a warm welcome to you all. let me start with you, david. during his visit last month, the u.s. secretary of state gus the importance of a two state solution with top israeli and palestinian officials. this is nothing new. we hear this rhetoric from u.s. administrations all the time. many analysts have said the biden administration does not really want to engage in this conflict any longer. what would the u.s. have to do to actually move the needle on this front? guest: the u.s. obviously does want to engage with this conflict and secretary blinken's visit was one sign of that along with the visits in the same week of national security advisor jake sullivan and cia director bill burns. so i would start by taking strong issue with the idea the biden administration has given up on this conflict or for some reason does not want to deal with anymore. the second point, to answer your question more directly, what the u.s. would have to do is to have to work with both si

institute for near east policy. he's a former senior adviser to the broader middle east and the state department. in brooklyn, new york, beth miller, a political director at the jewish voice for peace action. and in arlington, virginia. again, d, a senior fellow at the middle east institute is the author of blind spot america and the palestinians from ball 4 to trump warm welcome to on thanks so much for joining us today on inside story david, let me start with you today. during his visit to israel in the occupied west bank last month, u. s. secretary of state lincoln, discuss the importance of a 2 state solution with top israeli and palestinian officials. of course this is nothing new. we hear this rhetoric from us administrations all the time. many analysts have said that the biden administration doesn't really want to engage in this conflict any longer. what would the us have to do in order to actually move the needle on this front? well, the us obviously does want to gauge with this conflict. and secretary lincoln's visit was one along with it in the same week of national security advisor, a d

she is the founder and president and ngo dedicate her -- abraham is a senior fellow at the middle east institute and a founding member of the syria nine dollars movement -- nonviolent movement. finally, an alumna at the national endowment for democracy. she was trending and partnership coordinator where she worked events in civil society capacities to play a vital role in democratic transition to strengthen his political presentation. before we start, i would like to let you all know q&a is available. we will have an ipad out later and you can ask q&a online. when we think about iran, we think about the murder as a ticking point but when you look back there's a number of things that led to a point of no return whether it was the shootdown of ukrainian airliner with 76 on board. iranian -- and a buddy protests -- bloody protests. author of your countries have faced tyrants but there was a tipping point. what led to that point of no return for your respective country? >> in venezuela, 2017. the point of no return was when the supreme court issued two rulings, having the power of the branch to the

even before the earthquake, the middle east institute estimates that 65% of basic infrastructure in theernational community was well aware of the vulnerability and desperation faced in the region after a dozen years of a brutal war. but few weighed the risks of such a powerful earthquake causing so many more suffering. the reality is there will be more earthquakes. more hurricanes, more pandemics. as neil ferguson writes in his book "doom", history could seem like one disaster after another. and before this earthquake struck, covid-19 was the freshest disaster on our minds and the biggest of our lifetime. according to the international federation of the red cross, no earthquake drought or hurricane in recorded history has claimed more lives than the covid-19 pandemic. taiwan, south korea and singapore were all effective in their approach to the coronavirus in large part because they have learned from past experiences with other infectious diseases like sars and merz and influenza. and a catastrophe lays bare, ferguson said in his book. it is a moment of revelation, exposing some as frag

. >> khaled elgindy is a senior fellow with the middle east institute.e says settler violence in the west bank isn't new but has become more radical. >> this is happening within the context of israeli politics that have steadily moved more and more to the right. when you have this convergence of the state power, combined with the very strong ideological extremism of settlers on the ground, it is a recipe for escalating violence. >> israel's ultra-nationalist public security minier itamar ben-gvir called today for an end to vigilantism. a settler himself, he spoke during the eviction of settlers from an illegal outpost on the occupied west bank . >> i understand the hard feelings, but this isn't the way. you can't take the law into our hands. israel's government, the state of israel, idf, the security forces, they are the ones who need to crush our enemies. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu echoed those same sentiments yesterday. >> i ask that even when the blood is boiling and the spirit is hot, not to take the law into your hands. i would lik

a former nato supreme allied commander and now a distinguished chair at the middle east institute.od to have you here. thanks for being here. i know that they appreciated your testimony there yesterday. we live in very searious times when it comes to this threat from china. i want to start by asking you, what did you think of president biden's response to that and how he says that he told president xi, you know, we're in a competition but we're not looking for a conflict with you? >> i think it's important that all of our leaders to include our president make it very clear with mr. xi and others where we're going to stand and what we're not going to stand for, this is a great example to begin to examine what we stand for in this business. how far back did we see this balloon? who was informed when, what decisions were made at which time and why we let it fly over our most sensitive areas as it transited and shot it after its mission was done. these are all things that we have to dig in to. >> you said in that testimony that ten my is conditioning the u.s. population in a way that i

he is a senior fellow and director of the countering terrorismnd extreme program at the middle east institutepart of your sunday morning with us. let's start with syrian president bashar al asad saying sanctions are preventing western resources from entering syria. critics in the west say this isn't about sanctions. what's really preventing aid from getting in? >> first off, thank you for having me. you are absolutely right. there is no correlation between sanctions from the united states and other like-minded partners around the world and the delivery of humanitarian aid. sanctions are explicitly designed not to have an effect. more importantly, the united nations maintains a multibillion-dollar a year aid program coordinated through the syrian capital damascus controlled and influenced by the regime. 91% is controlled by sanctioning entities, including the united states. there would be no aid otherwise. the real obstacles are political. the regime, of course, as distasteful and evil as has been maintains the status as a sovereign government. within the united nations it has a great deal of

jane: charles lister is a senior fellow at the middle east institute, a think-tank. after the earthquake, syria was willing to see aid delivered only through damascus, and not through the un-approved border crossing from turkiye. charles: while the regime says that it would like and is happy to provide cross line assistance to all syrians, includg opposition areas, its track record of doing so is appalling. jane: back in kahramanmarus, some look around and wonder why the destruction has been so widespread. murat believes the building his brother and nephew died in was like many others here -- unsafe for a quake zone. murat: it's not only this building. in kahranmanmaras many new buildings had cracks before people even moved in. many buildings had crack spared -- crack's. many buildings collapsed. we are not only killed by the earthquake, we are killed by poor safety standards. jane: the number of new buildings that came down in the earthquake has raised questions about their building standards. government has overseen a massive expansion in housing development and co

we are going to speak now to the director of syria and counterterrorism programmes at the middle east instituteank you for having me. lets look at _ coming on the programme. thank you for having me. lets look at some i coming on the programme. thank you for having me. lets look at some of. for having me. lets look at some of the dilemmas. _ for having me. lets look at some of the dilemmas, i _ for having me. lets look at some of the dilemmas, i suppose, - for having me. lets look at some of the dilemmas, i suppose, on i for having me. lets look at some of the dilemmas, i suppose, on the i the dilemmas, i suppose, on the international aid community. many countries around the world will want to get help into northern syria. what are the considerations? it’s what are the considerations? it's hard to what are the considerations? it�*s hard to know where to start because the humanitarian access situation in northern syria is already so complicated. over the last two or three years, the russian government has used its retail to limit the extent to which the international community can continue to pro

joining me is the founding director of the turkey program at the middle east institute. her book "erdogan's war: strong man's struggle at home and in syria" came out last fall. i want to talk about the response in just a moment. first, i want to talk about your family. you were actually in turkey at the time of the earthquake. are you okay? tell us what that was like. >> well, i am okay, thank you. i was a few hour drive from one of the worst hit areas in the country with my family. we had cracks in the building that we were staying in, but we received a phone call from my sister's husband, saying that the city had been leveled to the ground. and his entire family had been trapped under the rubble. >> and i read that he had actually initially found his father who was alive at the time, right? >> that's right. he went to his childhood home, and the building had been -- had collapsed, but he got his father out of the rubble with his bare hands, but his legs were stuck under a large concrete block, and he waited and waited and waited for hours, 48 hours before the rescue wo

northern aleppo and charles lister, director of syria and counter terrorism programmes at the middle east institute you both. tell me, you're sitting there in a stable trend in humanitarian aid across the border. what is the situation on that one route into the northwest part of the country? {iii route into the northwest part of the count ? , ., ., , country? of the situation is, as you cu s country? of the situation is, as you guys know. — country? of the situation is, as you guys know. turkey _ country? of the situation is, as you guys know, turkey has _ country? of the situation is, as you guys know, turkey has been - country? of the situation is, as you guys know, turkey has been hit - guys know, turkey has been hit and victims of these catastrophic earthquakes and so, that is disrupted humanitarian aid into the entrance and the crossing is also close right now and entry into syria right now, the humanitarian aid is a very difficult situation. . right now, the humanitarian aid is a very difficult situation.— very difficult situation. , chevy heavy lifting — very difficult situation. , chevy hea

and now we are joined by ilyia kusa, an expert on international politics and the middle east of the ukrainian institute of the future, to talk about these attacks of drones that happened on saturday night in iran and the consequences that they may have for the world in general and the middle east region in particular, thank you for the invitation, that's not the course , my first question is that we can at least try to answer the question who did these steps and what will be the consequences i have on attention to drone attacks. i think that the answer is quite simple. first of all, the western media wrote it correctly, because they say that these drone attacks were launched from israel. i do not think that this is some kind of accident. i think that such stages are not the last, we understand what kind of relations iran and israel have been in for many years, in particular around 2018 , when the usa signed the nuclear agreement, and what caused the actual escalation of the conflict between iran and israel, and therefore i think that this is such a manifestation of this secret secret war between iran a

are joined by charles lister, director of syria and the counter terrorism programmes at the middle east instituteus. i want to focus on what's happening in northern syria, and in particular what this means in terms of the relations the syrian government has with the western world, given now the reliance that the western world has with syria to get the aid in. what difference does it make to how syria is viewed globally? first what difference does it make to how syria is viewed globally?— syria is viewed globally? first off, thanks for having _ syria is viewed globally? first off, thanks for having me. _ syria is viewed globally? first off, thanks for having me. to - syria is viewed globally? first off, thanks for having me. to your - thanks for having me. to your question, to put it bluntly, the un chose to be reliant on the syrian government and syrian regime to make this decision. the syrian regime does not control any of the border crossings in northern syria, and the un could quite easily and legally have made the decision to provide aid across those other crossings eight days ago. in fact, s

let's speak now to doctor karam shaar, political economist and scholar at the middle east institute. the uprising which started in 2011 and over for hundred thousand casualties but even now, with the natural disasters, you can see what a method is to claim all humans are equal. not even when it comes to the most vulnerable people who are the syrians here, they are not receiving equal attention. when you look at western companies who have the capacity to send help, the vast majority are only sending help to turkey only. the un could not even access north—west syria. that is more than 72 hours since the earthquake began and the chances are no one is still alive under the rubble, 72 hours after the beginning of the earthquake. you look at the uk and the eu, the us and mexico, australia, india, all sent search and rescue teams to turkey which is admittedly hit a bit harder than syria but they could have crossed to syria. but no one cares. are you sure it is that no one cares or because of the safety risk in what is still a just cannot take the risk without the un they to broker the agree

middle east asia. we also know that there doesn't have financial institutions inside russia. and we also know in terms of particular sectors, is the defense industry as well as the tact in industry. and i was, you further go down, that's the metals as well as the mining sector. and just to point out as well, in terms of support when it comes to defense support, you mentioned that to 1000000000 in defense support. that's in addition to the 30000000000 that has previously been pledged by the united states. all right, thank you very much. my house, kimberly elk it the united nations security counts has been meeting to night. the anniversary is awhile, marcia's un ambassador interrupted a minute silence, called for by the craning foreign minister saying i should be honoring all victims, not just ukrainians. i kindly ask every one to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the aggression. i think mister president with loving garago, the representative of the russian federation has asked for the floor to make a statement. was put into the general sales to watch toda

batumi and yerevan, moreover, the danish geological institute recorded distant echoes of the earthquake even in greenland , let alone the middle eastey felt the shock without any instruments. here is another one of our compatriots who reports that levan will be elected from the fact that she trembles. and the walls began to walk in parallel with the fact that an earthquake was felt and a hellish thunderstorm was right from the earth. thunder lightning. we were on the twentieth floor, so we have a very it was very cold, and we could not stand upright. we crawling would we managed to get out of the room of the building. it walked like this under the rubble in turkey and syria, there are still people who are conscious, who have mobile phones at hand, calling for help under another. until now, there are people, a friend of his children lives in my apartment. rescued from the top floor, his daughter broke her arm. unknown. what happened to the residents on the lower floors is the salvation of everyone to rejoice. like another victory over death, here in syria , the house has taken shape. so under the covers voids remain. they have sever

middle east money went into this fund? i know you have a close relationship with a lot of the institutions here. natalie:'s. been very similar to a lot of the other opportunistic funds that we have raised in the past. we have a mix of global investors across asia pac, middle east, and north america as well as europe. north america traditionally has been our largest region from a fundraising perspective. we have had a great mix from institutional investors as well as increasing private wealth and family office. across the board, a lot of interest. dani: i knows a lot of the things that you do our long-term power contracts. this world has seen so much volatility in energy prices, corporate margins are getting squeezed. how much have you seen corporate behavior change in trying to head some of the energy exposure? natalie: great question, it has been a huge trend for us. a lot of our renewable energy in the past has been contracted under long-term contracts with governments or utilities. we have seen increasing demand from our corporate ppa segment of our business. you have built up this capability within our

involves specialists from nine countries of the middle east iran israel palestine usa germany they work together. the same story is with the joint institute for nuclear research. i arrived there in dubna, and it’s nice, nevertheless, as a consequence of the russian the operation became quite a powerful wave in the west in an attempt to block. it turned out that it is not so easy to establish scientific cultural humanitarian relations with russia from rome vera shcherbakova the sisters yulia and olesya savitsky arrived in florence from belarus in just 5 years, their cultural salons dedicated to painting, poetry, theater of music gained fame and popularity, their small cozy gallery is located in the heart of the city of arts, a stone's throw from the cathedral of florence santa maria delfiore in the historical complex of the xiv century. they joke that the spirit wanders here, philippine, linden of the beloved student obtechelli, who, as the legend says , was buried at the local church. culture. it unites people, it does not separate culture either. it enriches people because our cultureless society ceases to be a society. here we have an i

specialists from nine countries of the middle east, iran, israel, and the united states, germany, they work together. it's the same story with the association. of the instituteresearch in dubna, i arrived there, and it’s nice, nevertheless, as a consequence of the russian the operation was a rather powerful wave in the west in an attempt to block scientific cultural humanitarian ties with russia it turned out that it was not so easy from rome fame and popularity of their small cozy gallery is located in the heart of the city of arts , a stone's throw from the cathedral of florence santa maria delfiore in the historical complex of the xiv century. they joke about what's going on here the spirit of philippine lipia obtechelli's beloved disciple, who, according to legend, was buried at the local church. culture. it unites people, it does not separate culture either. it enriches people because our cultureless society ceases to be a society. here we have an international audience, and the french come and people move from germany and there are many visitors from america, and from japan from china from turkey they also come from russia and uh, a little bit from bel

middle east iran israel epic usa germany they work together. it's the same story with the association. i arrived there at the institute in dubna. that's nice, nevertheless, the result of the russian operation was a rather powerful wave in the west in an attempt to block scientific cultural humanitarian ties with russia, it turned out that it was not so easy from rome their cultural salons dedicated to painting poetry to the theater of music gained fame and popularity of their a small cozy gallery is located in the very center of the city of arts, a stone's throw from the cathedral of florence santa maria delfiore in the historical complex of the xiv century, and they don’t joke that the spirit of the philippine, linden of the beloved student of obtelli roams here, which, according to legend, was buried at the local churches. culture. it unites people, it does not separate culture either. it enriches people, because our society without culture ceases to be a society. here we have an international audience, and the french come and from germany, people come from there are many visitors to america, and from japan , from c

in north africa in the middle east as well as the intensification of cooperation between russia and mauritania. for the first time in the world, specialists from the joint instituter nuclear research have obtained five new isotopes of superheavy elements. they conducted a series of experiments in order to synthesize. so far unknown element 120 of the periodic table, the academician, scientific director of the laboratory of nuclear reactions, told more about new research named after fluorov yuri oganesyan well , the most important thing for us is that what was forbidden also works. we have practically reached already the parameters that essentially take place in honor. that's why we can insert experiments. which were previously unavailable. it's just that now it's possible new equipment, but you accelerator have heavy items. what's next? well, naturally. further that further it is necessary to explore deep into the distance. we need it, because at least you can accelerate such ionic ones as the titans watch on our channel today on the day of russian science after 10:00 am moscow time. russian scientists have developed new antibacterial drugs, according to medics ,

batumi and yerevan ; moreover, the danish geological institute recorded distant echoes of the earthquake even in greenland, let alone the middle easthe shock was felt there without any instruments. here is another one of our compatriots who reports that levan will be elected on the basis of the fact that the hotel was started. and the walls began to walk in parallel with the fact that the earthquake was felt and right in the earth was infernal thunderstorm. thunder lightning. we were on the twentieth floor, so we had a lot of root problems, and we couldn't stand upright. we push would we managed to get out of the room of the building. this is how it went online discussing the prophetic tweet of the dutch seismologist frank hugertz , who predicted a catastrophe in 3 days with an exact indication of the magnitude and the area sooner or later in this region south-central turkey jordan syria lebanon will experience an earthquake of magnitude 7.5. and in syria and turkey they still get the living all new messages, saved men and women saved children. many. at least outwardly, the footage that gives hope does not even look particularly af

countries worldwide using the stockholm research institutes data base we saw in 2020 and 20021, 12 countries, buyers in asia, africa and the middle eastkistan remains china's largest purchaser by a wide margin. the second question posed to me were the drivers and authorities behind prc arms sales. i'm going to address these two separately. for china's arms sales there are both supply and demand side drivers. there is now a larger inventory available for exports. for example, aviation industry corporation of china is now selling a wide variety of remote vehicles for exports. recent aircraft sales include the uav, helicopters, trainers. ship building is likely to remain an area of growth. countries such as pakistan and bangladesh, have purchased naval craft and submarines. chinese ship builders are providing radar propulsion and weapons capabilities for these vessels. in terms of demand side drivers. arms affordability remains the most important determinant of prc military sales selling older variants to weapons systems is often more realistic for middle and lower income countries where price is the key constraint. under mou the prc did

middle east construction. we've also learned the university of delaware like the university of pennsylvania made a ton of money from china after jill biden opened a fake institutea source tells fox news the fbi recently search the university of delaware twice for classified documents, the fbi is still assessing whether there were any classified documents there. peter schweizer is probably the most talented digger into information like this in the united states, he is the president of the government accountability institute, thank you for coming on. what do you make of this? >> it's very important, if you look at the nexus of these financial ties the bidens have with china, you have to go back to the chinese state and you also have to go back to chinese intelligence. let's keep in mind hunter biden got three big deals in china, some of that money he shared with james biden who potentially went to other family members. if you look at all three of the businessman who made those deals happen, those ties are they are. the first one was a guy named chae thank you, he hunter biden on that private equity deal that netted hunter perhaps $20 million based on estimates. w

institutions back to bosnia and kosovo. you know, let's see liberal reform in the middle east, liberal in that sense, still has kind of a positive ring to it. so there we go. despite my fear of running over, i've i've left us with some time, so i'm happy to take questions. if you do have a question, put your hand up and we'll come over with a microphone. but you may not have questions. it's quarter seven. you may just be eager to get home. one question. yeah, yeah. wait for the mic. yeah. so outside of the monica lewinsky scandal, like what would he be most known for? like, would it be his humanitarian work or like something more of his like, policies? well, i think clinton's known for a lot of different things today. i don't know that there is a single legacy. what i do most like i catching right. i mean, with nixon we can say watergate. with reagan, we can say again, depending on how much credit one wants to, given the end of the cold war. but again, with reagan you also say, well, reaganomics, budget deficits, you know, this change in the economic orientation. i think with clinton, you know, in a way monica lewinsky thing bec

disparities and institutional racism that a scene united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors pop 2 on al jazeera. hello, the weather set fair across. so southern parts of the middle east over the next couple days, and it will gradually warm up even here in kata fab. it more cloud further north that cloud thick enough to reduce them, outbreaks of cloud and rain through iraq into iran. we'll see some wet weather some when she weather coming through here quite getting up to round 24 celsius and not too bad. a 24 here in dough. horace. well in this we go on into monday. we could touch 28 degrees with some pleasant sunshine returning to the region, but further north thinks to cool off quite a ram 19 celsius. some snow coming into western pass on iraq. motor sciences, some snow, just creep in their way into northern areas of to care by monday. i think by the middle of the week we could see snow returning across a good part of the care may be pushing down towards northern areas as syria ahead of that it does stay dry. and of course, it will stay cold, particularly at night for the frosts in the forecast here for the forseeable future, one or 2 showers across the far north of