actually it is both because colonel prince mohammed bin sandman wanted to enter his his air of being a king with the successes in hand and that means basically he wanted as my colleagues were mentioning he presented an amazing expectation and he was aiming or hoping maybe hoping that some of this expectation will be achieved while he can out of prince crown prince and then while after that of you he becomes a prince a king you know he will have some achievements in hand as we see as we see the situation the whole thing is coming to from the gate of political change i mean they wanted the political change that political change has two main pillars one is the size of the storm in yemen which we saw the consequences of that and how much it's costing and we show the other pillar what's basically the economy changes inside saudi arabia let's remember the two main pillars is being decided top down basically the these are not a decision which should lie on a popular demands of course there was some anger against iran and yemen maybe people they wanted the. economy to form but i'm not sure t

doing this anymore >> well, as i said, mohammed bin salman is trying to switch the way business and politics are done in saudi arabia that is fwhb a way, somewhat destabilizing. over the course of many years, there's been an elaborate consensus process within saudi arabia much of which is done behind closed doors bin salman has essentially thrown out that model and is now seeking to accumulate as much power as possible. this has created dissent and fissures within the royal family some of which you see creeping out. >> steven -- >> some of which you don't it's a country that we often think of as stable, but i think we should think of more in terms of relative instability. >> the question i have is you have a man in power who has talked about transforming the country, who goes on "60 minutes" says women are going to drive. has talked with all business leaders in the country blackstone's taking money from

in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin simon wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as a ram co such divestment would open up the company's finances to independence auditors but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to do that officially they saudi government says the offer has been postponed not counseled roberts' model nikki is a senior analyst at the group it's a consultancy an advocacy organization he says saudi arabia has economic outlook is improving. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were

actually it is both because colonel prince mohammed bin sandman wanted to enter his his era of being a king with the successes in hand and that means basically he wanted as my colleagues were mentioning he presented an amazing expectation and he was aiming or hoping maybe hoping that some of this expect ation will be achieved while he can out of prince crown prince and then while after that of you he becomes a prince a king you know he will have some achievements in hand as we as we see the situation the whole thing is coming to from the gate of political change i mean they wanted the political change that political change has two main pillars one is the size of the storm in yemen which we saw the consequences of that and how much it's costing and we show the other bell or what's basically the economy changes inside saudi arabia let's remember the two main pillars has been decided top down basically the these are not a decision which should lie on a popular demands of course there was some anger against iran and yemen maybe people they wanted the. economy to form but i'm not sure the

savvy campaign in order to ensure that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone is able to take full credit for the reforms that these women have been championing for years. let me ask you does this does this you know crack down and also this rift now with canada does this have a risk at all of backfiring on crown prince mohammed bin some from either inside or outside the kingdom. well to me the truth i mean how can it not back piled on him unfortunately this is. an almost irrational action i mean it's just an emotional impulse and he acted on it i don't think that the makes his case any better domestically or internationally for what he says you know he's trying to you know to to kingdom that basically on the cusp of modernization or that i don't think that modernization comes by arresting woman or any civil society activists what anybody for that matter so i really doubt that this is going to help the saudi cause at all so time does the fact that canada granted citizenship in early july to an soft hi there who is the wife of jailed saudi blogger and activist that i have by the way

for the sudanese so i do argue that ludovic is you a lead let's also remember that saudi prince mohammed bin the man has benefited much from passable to silage oh i haven't been knighted is reported or believed that his rise was very much orchestrates is or assisted by hamad bin laden i would not be you even the lobbying efforts in washington they did the lobbying efforts in europe and they provided him with a plan by which he could out his cousin was been there who was crown prince at that particular time so i agree with your statement i do believe that if you he led coalition in the end then much that will upset many of my saudi brant is insinuating that initiative against the kind of blockade much of that would also upset my saudi friends but you are probably right that somehow they are joining us from london to talk to that story thank you very much. we're going to take a look at some other stories making news around the world this friday and a pro russian rebel leader alexanders like a chunk of has been killed in an explosion in eastern ukraine this is coming from the russian news agenc

savvy campaign in order to ensure that the saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone is able to take full credit for the reforms that these women have been championing for years. let me ask you does this does this you know crack down and also this rift now with canada does this have a risk at all of backfiring on the crown prince mohammed bin so much from either inside or outside the king. well to me the truth i mean how can it not back piled on him unfortunately this is. an almost irrational action i mean it's just an emotional impulse and he acted on it i don't think that the reading makes his case any better domestically or internationally for what he says you know he's trying to you know to to kingdom that basically on the cusp of modernization or that i don't think that modernization comes by arresting woman or any civil society activists what anybody for that matter so i really doubt that this is going to help the saudi cause at all so time does the fact that canada granted citizenship in early july to and soft hi there who is the wife of jailed saudi blogger and activist that i hav

actually it is both because colonel prince mohammed bin sandman wanted to enter his his era of being a king with the successes in hand and that means basically he wanted as my colleagues were mentioning he presented an amazing expectation and he was aiming or hoping maybe hoping that some of this expect ation will be achieved while he can out of prince crown prince and then while after that of you he becomes a prince a king you know he will have some achievements in hand as we see as we see the situation the whole thing is coming to from the gate of political change i mean they wanted the political change that political change has two main pillars one is the size of the storm in yemen which we saw the consequences of that and how much it's costing and we show the other bell or what's basically the economy changes inside saudi arabia let's remember the two main pillars has been decided top down basically the these are not a decision which should lie on a popular demands of course there was some anger against iran and yemen maybe people they wanted the. economy to form but i'm not sure

in a system of what can deliver or cannot so james do you think that what mohamed describing is mohamed bin sol months later said style being. is it naive is it hubris what how would you describe it. well i think it's not thought through let me just say a couple of things which in response to what was just said by both speakers this much job is going to allow me i want to just fine tune what he said mohammed bin some is about economic and social change in saudi arabia not about political change and he's about geo political change in the region i think one of the problems with the approach and in the sense pointed out been some on this that there's a difference between seen on c.s. bankers fund managers willing to come in and people who are direct foreign direct investments we've seen very little of the latter and much of what has been so man wants to achieve depends not only on funding but also on foreign direct investment the third point i'd like to make is that while we're talking about the do lay of the of an i.p.o. an i.p.o. is not the only alternative or the only option available to th

solomon of saudi arabia and mohammed bin. rashid of. u.a.e. they have they have all all teary or motives in doing this just like and yet they get nikki haley obviously she has no as you say admitted civilian casualties in yemen do you expect a change in the u.s. how that chewed to its long standing ally saudi arabia. unfortunately i do not because i think the saudis have bought off the united states. it's just that simple. and that's why we have a far greater defense budget right now and why we have much greater on a much greater employment particularly in the defense sector because the saudis have basically bought off the united states and you don't hear too much criticism i mean what she said today was very very limp. when we should be condemning what's been going on and she should have been out there months ago condemning what the the the humanitarian catastrophe that's occurring in yemen it's just you just you just cannot be nice about this any longer or or just overlook it because it's gone on for too long and too many p

put the company's value at more than two trillion dollars the plan was central to crown prince mohammed bin songlines economic reform program and it was aimed at raising funds to reduce saudi arabia's dependence on oil well manisha tacon is an oil analyst and he believes that the company's close links with the government could be one of several reasons why the flotation has been called off. one could be just purely technical being a government the state oil company its books have to be completely open and yet it is very much intertwined so it would go as it has its oil operations have been its finances intertwined with the saudi government for example it does provide welfare to schools and hospitals and also on various projects of saudi basic industries and sources financial sources do come from saudi aramco and these are difficult to recall inside but the purity shares to be sold. in marci there on songs to cheese losing another international award for refusing to condemn the violence against slim's and rakhine state a city will be stripped off her freedom of edinburgh honor and that's a d

in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin still man wants to sell five percent of the company though aramco officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been perceived and not canceled. the united states says it will vigorously defend and iranian legal challenge the un's highest court iran wants the international court of justice to suspend the unilateral u.s. sanctions imposed three weeks ago they were put in place after u.s. pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal to hand accuses the u.s. of plotting economic strangulation lawrence lee has been following the proceedings from the hague. the iranian side spends its three hours of court time here on monday trying to do two things in front of the judges first of all to explain how very damaging the american sanctions were everything from issues to do with renewable energy projects aircraft parts car manufacturers who now couldn't invest in iran. sports going down the debasing of the iranian economy all of these things a direct result of the american sanctions progr

to be privatized as such crown prince mohammed bin solomon announced the privatization as part of his ambitious vision twenty thirty scheme to modernize the kingdom's economy and society has been summoned is hoping to reduce the kingdom's dependency on oil revenue but the kingdom's finances may be too tied up into its oil economy to untangle being a government state owned company its books have to be completely open and yet it is very much into twined soured at amoco as it has its oil operations have been its finances intertwined with the saudi government for is that he does provide welfare to schools and hospitals been summons attempt to take the state oil company public would have also put saudi arabia under closer scrutiny not only financially but it would have to be more accountable for its human rights record an inability to ensure citizens the freedoms of expression and assembly of publicly traded company would have to be transparent and accountable it's not really the saudi way i've only been here is that would be a good thing to do so to be full disclosure it's not a situation

is a cornerstone of crown prince mohammed bin salmond's pledged to diversify the economy my reducing its dependence on oil but there are signs in the plan say a lie not be quite as lucrative as expected. it was said to be the world's biggest ever i.p.o. now there are doubts over whether iran co is to be floated all a report by the reuters news agency suggests that saudi arabia is pulling out of the stock offering amid fears that the sale could prove less lucrative than expected. the saudi government announced plans to sell five percent of the oil company back in twenty sixteen at the time it believed around coal would be valued at two trillion dollars or more. but several experts have since called that estimate into question and the financial advisers working on the proposed listing have reportedly been relieved of their duties. so these energy minister and incidentally also the chairman of saudi aramco denied reports that the i.p.o. was off thing in a statement the government remains committed to the initial public offering of saudi aramco in accordance with the appropriate circumst

put the company's value at more than two trillion dollars the plan was central to crown prince mohammed bin some months economic reform program russian president vladimir putin has called a new set of u.s. sanctions against moscow counterproductive and senseless the sanctions which ban certain exports to russia which include electronic devices are in response to the poisoning of a former spy in the u.k. that's been widely blamed on moscow. donald trump's national security adviser says the u.s. will ramp up pressure on iran the site sanctions but did not elaborate any further john bolton was speaking at the end of a three day visit to israel he said the regime change was not washington's goal but the u.s. does want to quote a massive change in the regime's behavior well those are the headlines stay with us now for a witness that's the program that. at home. watching it live. such luck . lead. layer. plain. luck or . political will of a. window hustle. ok. if. you don't do this often the plunder you torch will some go to war he doesn't want to be familiar. again and then took over us with the

contracts in the kingdom following criticism of reacts human rights record saudi crown prince mohammed bin salomon wants to modernize his country but he doesn't appear to take too well to criticism relations with germany of cooled off considerably since former german foreign minister zygmunt gabriele publicly expressed his thoughts on saudi foreign policy in november twenty seventh teen referring to saudi arabia's foreign policy gabrielle said europe has to give a united signal that we are no longer prepared to accept the adventurism which has spread there in recent months without saying anything. many german companies are now afraid that they'll lose business in saudi arabia and the gulf kingdom itself there's a sense of optimism the saudi government is implementing social reforms and there are large scale construction projects underway but nervousness is growing among german companies with concerns that saudi business tenders are not considering german firms up to now the oil rich desert monarchy has been an important trading partner in twenty seventeen germany exported goods worth more

in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin solomon wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as i am called one of the requirements of a deal like that says that financial regulators will be able to examine around close finances. the u.s. says it's putting pressure on saudi arabia to reduce the number of civilians being killed in the war in yemen the pentagon says a senior u.s. military general delivered a message of concern to saudi leaders last week the u.s. provides intelligence just tickle support for this idea that coalition which is fighting hutu rebels backed by iran earlier this month a school bus was bombed dozens of children were killed the japanese government says north korea still presents a serious threat and has not taken steps to remove its nuclear weapons and research programs japan's been carried out in the new review its own military capabilities it also says japan needs to boost its domestic missile defense systems. those are the headlines the news continues here the knowledge of off to the st

international stock listing of its state oil giant aramco the plan was central to saudi crown prince mohammed bin someone's raft of reforms aimed at restructuring the kingdom's economy and reducing dependence on oil. and ugandan popstar has become a major opposition leader is due to appear in front of a military court on thursday but he was arrested last week led to violent demonstrations and battles with police his supporters say he's been severely beaten in custody. we'll take you back to our top story now the growing present for he was accused of hush payments by its former personal lawyer we spoke to sam nunberg a little bit earlier former come campaign sorry trump campaign adviser now working to stave bannan actually he says the november midterm elections could be make or break for the u.s. president in terms of whether or not that this whether or not this is an actual violation remember michael cohn supplied guilty to eight charges yesterday six of them involved his personal finances tax fraud bank loan fraud and and so i than other financial impropriety then he pled guilty to two separate

international stock listings of its state oil giant around co the plan was central to crown prince mohammed bin solomon's raft of reforms aimed at restructuring the kingdom's economy and reducing its dependence on oil. zimbabwe's supreme court has started hearing the opposition's challenge to last month's presidential election result opposition leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of president emerson who won with just over fifty percent of the vote and ugandan pop star who's become a major opposition leader is due to appear before a military court but the winds arrest last week led to violent demonstrations and battles with police a strain is prime minister malcolm turnbull's been told by his ministers he no longer has the support of his own party they will party members of call for another leadership vote saying they believe turnbull's rival peter dutton is the best person to lead them down and narrowly lost to turn bellew this week as i put out my wife started earlier early this morning i called the prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of

have put the company's value it more than two trillion dollars plan was central to crown prince mohammed bin solomons economic reform program. russian president vladimir putin has called a new set of u.s. sanctions against moscow counterproductive and senseless the sanctions which ban certain exports to russia including electronic devices are in response to the poisoning of a former spy in the united kingdom which is being widely blamed on moscow donald trump's national security adviser says the u.s. will ramp up pressure on iran besides sanctions but did not elaborate any further john bolton was speaking at the end of a three day visit to israel he said that regime change was not washington's goal. all right up to date with all the stories on our desire to stay with his history is coming right up i feel. i have any ok imo it could be last year in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today please go out and rest and jailing of a popular musician in uganda how will the arrest of bobby wine impact ugandan politics join us with your comments and questions. through his music and political

through cinema licenses the government hopes to earn up to a billion dollars a year crown prince mohammed bin salman wants to make the country less dependent on income from oil. the population is under thirty young people are demanding more job opportunities. saudi women are also gaining greater freedoms they're now permitted to drive for example saudi arabia is opening up. all one till recently this was forbidden. joanna twenty years old from jeddah learning to shoot movies setting up cameras lighting set design all this in a country where for decades the guardians of public morals held cinema for the devil's work three to one action of the hated image you know when people get to see a woman outdoors filming or shooting something with their camera it was taken as something that's weird or or not very usual to see but nowadays everything has become more open and people are more accepting and it's a good step. if at university named joanna's course digital and visual production the word film was not allowed to be used otherwise the university would not have been able to get a state license. bu

in history the plan has been central to saudi crown prince mohammed bin some months series of planned reforms to raise funds aimed at restructuring the community economy and reducing its dependence on oil. zimbabwe's top court will decide on friday whether to overturn or uphold president non-god was not relection when in july opposition leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of the president who won with just over fifty percent as more from iraq yes there was. some political analysts are calling it the most important court battle in zimbabwe since morgan sank an iced cheese and trial more than ten years ago the main opposition leader nelson chamisa is challenging president in a synagogue was election when at the constitutional court people who went inside court watched the proceedings from home and restaurants all the results show that when it got to won by a narrow margin opposition supporters are hoping the judges will declare chamisa the winner i'm hoping the will go through the evidence as a necessity and given what's just all come from all over your families are

by the saudi government that they are trying to liberalize the company the country more under mohammed bin some men. it's absolutely ridiculous that the saudi authorities can i'm the one hand come through with some sun limited reforms like the lifting of the driving ban but on the other hand or rest of very same women who helped to bring about this reform since may we've seen more than a dozen women's rights activists arrested in what is an unprecedented crackdown we have never seen women's rights activists over rested in this manner in which there's been a smear campaign against them and which has been under lent ng as has been said in that the campaign of for arrest has continued only last week we have seen the most prominent women's rights defender summer by the we being arrested despite the fact that she is internationally renowned and also despite the fact that she herself has been fairly quiet in the last few months so it is not just about whether or not you have been considered to be active in the moment but your past women's rights activism is in itself something that the assad you

charges are against him but other clerics have been arrested for being critical of the crown prince mohammed bin. three attackers thought to be behind a bombing in jordan have been killed in a police raid security forces stormed this building in salt where several suspects were hiding they vengefully blew up the building four police officers were also killed and five other suspects were arrested the explosion in northern syria has killed at least eighteen people a five story building collapsed in samarra in the province because of the blast is unclear but opposition activists suspect a rebel arms depo was detonated it's been six hundred days since al jazeera journalist mahmud hussein was arrested and jailed in egypt without charge the same is accused of broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions here and al-jazeera strongly denied the allegations and the network is demanding his release in afghanistan taliban fighters are pushing to take control over the police headquarters in two days after they stormed the city security checks are being conducted on the ka

mohamed bin simon doesn't know how to do foreign policy and we cannot blame his age because the north korean leader is about the same age and he's doing much better than he is so overall i think this idea of the saudis needing some sort of military alliance is not really going to happen seriously you know the arab league has had a military division for many years and they haven't been able to meet the basis for throughout their history so i don't think these ideas should be taken that says john mark if this alliance were to actually be created could you envision any kind of a scenario where gulf countries would could actually take on iran militarily. well i think if that would materialize and the big if i doubt it the first theater of rishon would be would be yemen because if you if you have a similar article or article five the saudis could claim to have been attacking the territory and that would trigger a collective response of its allies meaning that the us would have to be coming in much more than they are now not just providing intelligence but they would have to provide probabl

modernising the hajj is a key gambit of crown prince mohammed bin salman.of pilgrims to double in the next decade. in a sign of changing times, this year, for the first time, pilgrims will see saudi women driving in the city streets. but the crown prince's reforms have been double—edged, with dissent — both from religious hardliners and liberal reformists — being harshly repressed. north and south korea have marched together behind the korean unification flag at the opening ceremony of the 2018 asian games. it's the second such symbolic gesture this year by the two koreas, who also walked together at the pyeongchang winter olympics in february. a warning — andrew plant's report contains some flashing images. the final part of the journey for the flame as the month—long buildup came to an end and the 2018 asian games began. the fireworks in the indonesian capital lasted long into the evening. this, one of the venues that will host 17,000 athletes and tens of thousands of spectators. wonderful. well organised. it was really loud. but it was well organised, ve

modernising the hajj is a key gambit of crown prince mohammed bin salman.e next decade. in a sign of changing times, this year, for the first time, pilgrims will see saudi women driving in the city streets. but the crown prince's reforms have been double—edged, with dissent — both from religious hardliners and liberal reformists — being harshly repressed. it has taken years of work and billions of pounds, people living in northern finland are turning skiing into a summer sport, swapping the slopes for a swamp, and mountains for mud. swamp—skiing might be less well—known than its winter counterpart but what it lacks in snow it makes up for in style. georgina smyth reports. swapping the snow for the swamp. this is northern finland in the summer, and this is what the locals do for fun. crossing 30 metres of swamp on skis in nothing other than suits, tea dresses and heels. translation: it is an insanely lovely idea to ski the swamp in high heels. finnish performance artist kari is the man behind the unconventional race, and this niche sport certainly has quite

in history plans been central to saudi crown prince mohammed bin sound man series of reforms he's looking to raise money for restructuring the kingdom's economy and reducing its dependence on oil. lots more still to come here not just here including a legal challenge to zimbabwe's presidential election result. and a desperate journey across the border but thousands of venezuelans crossing over to brazil are not welcome to stay with us. however we still have plenty of hot sunshine across the middle east tells of one of two shallows yes over towards the eastern side of the region just around the himalayas much catch wanted to showers over towards is back to stand a chance of one of two showers just around the black sea around the caspian sea as well want to try for the most part that let's concentrate on the settle in sunny weather by road looking lovely over the next couple of days thirty one celsius here getting up into the forty's once you get into baghdad and into kuwait as you go on into friday they will change in conditions a thirty two there for couple thirty one thirty two for by ro

, the us secretary of state, mike pompeo, has been discussing with saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin salman, syria's worsening humanitarian and security situation. a european charity that runs a rescue ship in the mediterranean, has again called on eu governments to let it dock. it wants to allow mi migrants to disembark. italy and malta have blocked their ports to the aquarius since it took the migrants on board on friday. mali's opposition looks set to reject the results of sunday's presidential run—off, because of allegations of fraud. president ibrahim boubacar keita, who won more than 40% in the first round, is widely expected to win the election. hundreds of polling stations failed to open. romania has opened an inquiry into allegations of police violence at a mass anti—corru ption protest that left hundreds injured on friday. police used water cannon, tear gas, pepper spray and batons to disperse the crowd, many of them romanian expats from across europe. they want the government to resign. afghan government forces are trying to drive taliban militants out of ghazni, where fig

insisted it will quote happen at an appropriate time now the saudis and de facto leader crown prince mohammed binsolomon or m.b.a.'s are turning to international lenders to provide the capital that was expected to come from that i.p.o. those funds in turn will stand simply finance m.b.a.'s as so-called vision twenty thirty project to reform and diversify saudi arabia the economy and address the nation's overwhelming dependence upon oil and as a programming note we'll have more next. i'm on the aramco i.p.o. and oil prices. and heading down under now to update a situation we touched on earlier this week australian prime minister malcolm turnbull has been deposed opposed by rivals within his own party that comes in the wake of a bruising battle on climate and energy policy that reported the pm abandon efforts on those policies monday under pressure from his right flank on wednesday he abandoned a tax cut bill after a defeat in the australian senate he seemed to be tossing things overboard an effort to stay politically afloat mr turnbull then lost a vote on within his leadership party to be conserva

supposed to happen this year but it's now been put off indefinitely it was a key part of crown prince mohammed bin sandman's saudi twenty thirty economic development plan but the reuters report says the king doesn't want to open up the books to regulate this robert maginnis he is a senior analyst at the seaward group a consultancy and advocacy organization he says saudi arabia's economic outlook has changed. we have to remember back when this i.p.o. was announced it was early two thousand and sixteen the economic context was very different than it is now saudi arabia was coming off of a year where their budget deficit reached close to one hundred billion dollars the price of oil was still low there were a lot of reforms that were on the agenda but had yet to be implemented and i think we have to remember that that's the context within which the i.p.o. idea came about now. after the enthusiasm around that i.p.o. has subsided we see a very different economic context in saudi arabia the i.m.f. issued relatively positive consultation that they concluded in july we saw growth non-royal growth reaching

but very national oil company basically government company to be privatized as such crown prince mohammed bin some announced the privatization as part of his ambitious vision twenty thirty scheme to modernize the kingdom's economy and society has been some and is hoping to reduce the kingdom's dependency on oil revenue but the kingdom's finances may be too tied up into its oil economy to untangle being a government state owned company its books have to become police the open and yet it is very much intertwined saudi aramco as it has its oil operations have been its finances intertwined with the saudi government for is that he does provide welfare to schools and hospitals been summons attempt to take the state oil company public would have also put saudi arabia under closer scrutiny not only financially but it would have to be more accountable for its human rights record an inability to ensure citizens the freedoms of expression and assembly of publicly traded company would have to be transparent and accountable it's not really the saudi way i've only been here is that would be a good thing to

modernising the hajj is a key gambit of crown prince mohammed bin sulman. double in the next decade. in a sign of changing times, this year, for the first time, pilgrims will see saudi women driving in the city streets. but the crown prince's reforms have in double—edged, with dissent, both from religious hardliners and liberal reformers, being harshly repressed. there mightjust be something in the water at a hospital in the us state of arizona, where 16 nurses have found out that they're all pregnant at the same time. that's10% of the nursing staff in the intensive care unit. max gorden, a reporter from the local tv station, has the story. it wasn't like they planned it, and they sure weren't counting on this. 0ne after another after another.- intensive—care unit 0ne after another after another.- intensive—ca re unit nurses 0ne after another after another.- intensive—care unit nurses out this hospital in maister or pregnant at the same time. the boon of burgeoning bellis has increased trips to the cafeteria. and it has some patients are little confused. he

deal in history the plan has been central to saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond series of planned reforms to raise funds aimed at restructuring the kingpins economy and reducing its dependence on oil ugandan pop star who's become an opposition party leader is preparing to appear before a military court on thursday but the winds arrest last week sparked violent demonstrations and so reports from the ganders capital kampala. a special master up a chunk popularly known by his musical stage name. has been in military detention for a week after killers broke out in the north end town of a rule where president yoweri was seven his convoy was attacked in local election campaigns striver was shot and killed another politician is in intensive care in hospital and several people who were also arrested have been charged with treason winds family and lawyers say he was tortured by the military due to the tournament . when i was kid in was busted they've never done a c.t. scan to. which was bleeding through the years. to the bones of the. stomach maybe even the other side of the kidney. i want

comes after plans to list at state owned oil company aramco the stock market was delayed prince mohammed bin sorry mom was looking to use the new revenue to launch economic reforms including investing in high tech companies like tesla aramco is thought to be the world's largest oil company but a drop in oil prices and the war in yemen have affected solve these economy well let's get more on this now we're joined by mom the salami international oil economist and author of over a barrel and he's joining us live from london islam a very good to have you with us on algis the us to saudi arabia borrowing money i mean how much trouble is the economy in. audience are you asking me yes mr may can you hear me this is elizabeth for i can hear you go for you as. well let me out outside of the question then. saudi at a.b.n. it was reported to have withdrawn v.o.i.p. and or of saudi out on call that out of two major reasons why it withdrew it the furthest one is that is over and many can really keep geisha and the second one is question marks about saudi proven reserves and devaluation of the ip old as f

from issuing shares to the public his son prince mohammed bin silverman wants to sell five percent of the company known as a ram co officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been perspire and not canceled in washington d.c. the u.s. flag is. at the white house has been lowered once again to half mast to honor the late senator john mccain the flag had initially been lowered on news of mccain's death and raised together monday which goes against a long standing tradition typically the flag should stay lowered until the senators burial this led to criticism against president trump who later all of the flag to be lowered again became was a longtime critic of the president and had requested the trouble not attend his funeral those were the headlines back with more news in half an hour next its inside story to stay with us. damming the river nile ethiopia's prime minister questions whether the largest hydroelectric project in africa will ever see the light of day is years away from opening because of controversy and construction delays and what about water shortages feared in neig