very special call with friends prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel and questioned prince mohammed bin laden the united arab emirates. where they agreed to file on is a historical peace agreement. everybody said this would be impossible. and as you know it is one of the great leaders of the middle east after 49 years israel and the united arab emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations they will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation across the board and order a broad range of areas including tourism education health care trade and security. president trumps middle east plan served as a basis for 2 days of stuart peace from israel in the us are 2 of the most advanced countries in the world together we would transform the region and forge an even better future for our people this is a future of peace the future of security and the future of prosperity i've always believed that we could establish peace would be our mood and i've been working towards that lofty goal for decades. now as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says there let's take the story out

a very special call with 2 friends prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel and crown prince mohammed bin laden the united arab emirates where they agreed to finalize a historical peace agreement. everybody said this would be impossible. and as you know mohamed is one of the great leaders of the middle east after 49 years that israel and the united arab emirates will fully normalize their diplomatic relations they will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation across the border and or a broad range of areas including tourism education health care trade and security. this is a truly historic moment not just the israel jordan peace treaty was signed more than 25 years ago has so much progress been made towards peace in the middle east by uniting 2 of america's closest and most capable partners in the region something which could not be done this deal is a significant step towards building a more peaceful secure and prosperous middle east israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has not given up pursuing plans to annex occupied palestinian land. the political interim presid

since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince. another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide turn deborah davis al-jazeera london so that's the story from our investigative unit here is how the cypriot interior minister reacted. well yes they're going to use the media have now or the interior ministry has investigated all the information al-jazeera has given to the public and all the names brought up by the investigation have been looked into when they applied for the visas there were 100 percent entitled to it was no criminal record in their home countries and with there were living we investigated and there were no complaints against them from any

since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. well ever davies is live for us now in london deborah at this press conference where the government reaction to your investigation i believe has just finished what else did we hear from les. well the one line that we've heard from him is an allegation by the interior minister i think he said this is not investigative journalism this is propaganda well as an investigative journalist i can tell you i prefer facts to conspiracy it's and the facts are that our investigation which is taken as months to mind these thousands of documents has confirmed all the criti

since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide turn deborah davis al-jazeera london well on thursday will air the 5th and final report on the cyprus papers after a week of revelations about the serious flaws in the cyprus and beslan scheme the passports will also have an exclusive interview with the european union's commission of justice to the iranians will react to our findings from 10 g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. in belarus auto workers have joined a general strike demanding new elections. hundreds of people gathered near the capital in stars part of a wave of industrial action against president alexande

since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. deborah davis al-jazeera london. the cypriot government insists that it carried out the necessary checks and didn't break any rules. that are going to wouldn't produce the mediator or the interior ministry has investigated all the informational dizzier has given to the public and all the names brought up by the investigation have been looked into when they applied for the visas there were 100 percent entitled to it was no criminal record in their home countries and with there were living we investigated and there were no complaints against them from any othe

since the rise of crown prince mohammed bin salmond like china he announced a crackdown on corruption which critics say only targets his political enemies one member of the bin laden family holds a cyprus passport their business empire has been effectively confiscated by the crown prince. another is a relative of one of the hundreds of wealthy saudis detained in 2017 at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh without charge until they paid for their release there's also a broker of the saudi foreign investment deals although still well connected a cypriot passport provides a potential refuge should the political tide. davis joins us now live from london as ever this is the 4th day in a row of revelations from your investigation many of them have been quite embarrassing for the separate governments have they given any response yet well as i understand it there is a press conference i'm getting at the moment starting to get minutes ago from the cypriot minister beach area what we've had up to now is a reaction that basically says well we've made lots of changes over the years so what's the problem the problem according to the critics is that these schemes inherently attrac