omar saif ghobash is one of the uae's top diplomats. ountry guilty of hypocrisy, and what do they hope to achieve by isolating qatar? omar saif ghobash, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. 13 demands replaced with six principles. what has changed? well, the 13 demands were actually presented in a confidential manner to the mediator, the emir of kuwait. they were never meant for publication. it was qataris who, i think, within an hour of receiving the list, publicised that. and so, we really feel that that was kind of undermining the mediation efforts of the emir. the principles upon which those demands are based are what we have now come up with. and presenting that to the qataris and to the world in a public manner. is it a toning down of these demands? i don't think it it is a toning down, no, the principles are precisely the same. it may be a question of how they are then worked out in reality. so, there is no... i don't think there is dispute about the need globally to prevent the funding of extremism and terrorism. no, these were specif

guest today is from one of those four countries, omarsaif is from one of those four countries, omar saif ghobasho is one of the uae's top diplomat. is his country guilty of copper —— hypocrisy and what have they achieved by isolating qatar? omar saif ghobash, welcome to hardtalk thank you. 13 demands replaced with six principles. what has changed ? replaced with six principles. what has changed? well, the 13 demands we re has changed? well, the 13 demands were actually presented in a confidential manner to the mediator to the mayor of kuwait. they were never meant for publication. it was qatar who within an hour of receiving the least publicised that. and so we really feel that that was kind of undermining the mediation efforts. the principles on which of those demands are based on what we have now come up with. and presenting that to qatar underworld ina public presenting that to qatar underworld in a public manner. is it a toning down of the demands?” in a public manner. is it a toning down of the demands? i don't think it isa down of the demands? i don't think it is a toning down, no, the pri

omar saif ghobash, thank you very much for coming on hardtalk. thank you very much.have just started their long summer break but i'm afraid right on cue we have low pressure bringing disturbed weather rather than the big area of high—pressure settling things down nicely, encouraging you to get away to the seaside or out into the fresh air. what does that low pressure mean? first up it means a wet and windy start across the western side of the british isles. further east it's not a cold start, but a dry and fine one, with sunshine for the east of england and the north of scotland. but right from the word go in the south—west of england the winds will be really quite noticeable. gusts inland could push towards 30—110 mph and there will be showers, if not longer spells of rain. drier further east, right up to the eastern side of the pennines. not wall—to—wall sunshine, but a good deal drier. northern ireland, an atrocious start if you're out on the roads. an awful lot of surface water and spray around and a fair breeze as well. the north of scotland, having had such a w