which qatar denies. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson currently in australia urged cooperation. >> we would encourage the parties to sit down together, address these differences. if there is any role we can play in terms of helping them address those, we think it is important that the gcc remain unified. >> just two weeks ago, donald trump visited the middle east. the middle east was already divided before his trip. they must leave the countries within 48 hours. the citizens within two weeks. the emirates are letting to pause flights to and from it. >> our international relations expert from britain told us that the charges in the arab governments -- charges the arab governments are making against qatar are unfounded in his view. >> there is a lot of substance behind them, there has been a lot of tension between qatar and the saudi's. other states in the region as well. predominantly since the 2011 arab spring. we see them providing a lot of support and a safe space for groups like the muslim bro

qatar has denied the charges. also, coming up, germany is a step away from withdrawing troops from a turkish airbase. we will l find out what his next as already tense relations between the two nato allies worsened. as london's mandates a vigil, the victims of saturday's attack, british names to of the killers, one of them was known to the authorities but was not thought to be an immediate threat. >> a major diplomatic rift is opening up in the gulf region, six arab governments led by saudi arabia and egypt have cut diplomatic ties with qatar. the accused the small gulf state of terrorism and destabilizing the region. the government is lining up against qatar, libya, egypt, bahrain, united arab emirates and yemen. al jazeera has been closed, it is funded by qatar. they have cut land, sea and air links with qatar. much to the concern of some people there. >> supermarkets and qatar have been filled with residents stocking up on groceries. the rush came after several countries declared they are cutting ties with qata

airwaysied qatar overflight rights, close their airspace to qatar. this is an extreme the serious economic speculation that is going on right now with qatar. host: in order to understand the region, you have to understand at least one alliance. gulf called the gcc, cooperative council, formed in 1981. what is it, and why is it a factor in what we are seeing today? gcc is an alliance of the six gulf countries -- saudi arabia, kuwait, bahrain, qatar, united arab emirates, and oman. as you said, it has been in existence since the end of the iranian revolution in 1979, and that triggered, provoked a response on the arab side of the gulf to band together for a common defense and security needs. years, last 30-plus these countries have been working together. but there is a misconception about the gcc, that these are monolithic, that they all share ,he same political security, and economic views of the world. and that is a little bit of a misunderstanding, because in fact, they are different, and they do have different perspectives. but the bottom line is t

iran's relationship with qatar is primarily aced on the shared massive gas field which qatar qatartheorth doled, and calls subparts. int relationship is measured that gas field. iran will try to replace some of that relationship that saudi and the emirates is stepping back from and turkey will, as well. took sent troops as you know. but i don't think that is sustainable long-term. this is not the divide that's between qatar and the uae and the emirates. it's not over iran. and kuwait has closer ties them qatar does. saw president trump doubling down on his criticism of qatar on friday, saying the country is a funder of terrorism at a very high level. how do you square the u.s.-qatari relationship right now, given that it is home to one of the u.s. is biggest military bases? guest: president trump has a tendency to be trigger-happy with his statements and he doesn't think through a lot of what he says. u.s. position on qatar has always been complicated because as you mentioned, central command for many years is based out of qatar, and air base used for forward operations in syria and i

they say qatar supports them. secondly, they say qatar supports hamas. thirdly, they say qatar supports iran and some of its behavior which they don't approve. those are just some of the items that they listed as to why i you are not on board with isolating iran and on board with supporting terrorism. >> who is isolating iran in the gulf, and we don't isolate did they close the diplomatic tie with iran that they requested in the gcc and we oppose that? they did not bring it to the gcc to close the embassy, their embassy in iran or close the embassies of iran from the gcc. >> rose: gcc, gulf countries council. >> yeah. >> nobody brings any kind of even thinking, by closing the embassy. if they bring it, let somebody suggest it in the gcc and we'll be part of the gcc. but that's not happening. in fact, they did it with qatar. and when you are talking about islamic brotherhood and egypt, islamic brotherhood, it is a big name, with-- of islamic brotherhood, some of them, they are part of the nation, everywhere. and the parliament, in some countries. and some

has 10,000 troops in qatar.he state department has offered a resolution but it has not been , accepted. joining us is sheikh hamad bin jassim bin jaber al-thani, the former prime minister of qatar, and a close friend of the president and his father. i am pleased to have him at the table. welcome. the president of the united states visits saudi arabia, announces he fully supports saudi arabia and the emirates, and others efforts to isolate iran. several days later, we have an announcement that these arab states want to isolate qatar. they connected? what's going on? sheikh hamad al-thani: simply, we have been caught by surprise. conferencent to the and i think we had a good meeting with the president. there are always issues between our two countries are other countries, and it has been solved through the right channels. for us, isolating iran, or isolating qatar, they are now saying we have a very special relation and sympathy with iran and terrorism, and financing terrorism. first of all with iran, if you take

qatar says the move is unjustified. more protests in venezuela as president maduro sets a date on his controversial assembly. several people have been killed in unrest of their since april. -- in unrest there since april. ♪ laura: first, british police men named two of the three who drove the van into pedestrians on london bridge saturday night before knifing people in nearby restaurants. they been named as 27-year-old khuram butt and 31-year-old rachid redouane. the third is not known. all three were shot dead by police. seven people were killed and 36 recovering in hospital, 18 in critical condition. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, joint people for a book -- joined people for memorial at the scene. one frenchman was killed and several french nationals injured according to the french foreign minister. reporter: security forces raided homes in the eastern london boroughs of newham and earlynt -- and dagenham monday morning. police have named two of the suspects as khuram shazad butt and rachid redouane. >> you would ap

effort to isolate qatar.hat has been the impact? they knowad al-thani: that emir was honest and sincere and tried to build an with neighbors, and by doing this they did not give him the chance, and disappointed although people of qatar and the majority of the gcc people did not agree with that act. there is a constitution in the gcc. did they use the constitution? did they meet and accuse qatar of something? did we see the secretary-general of the gcc say something? charlie: they did not have those. sheikh hamad al-thani: nothing has been done. we cannot rely on the gcc in the future if the big countries have a difference with somebody, and they will do what they need to do without the gcc. -- thect king someone we respect saudi arabia, and we will always continue to respect them, but this act has changed a lot of situations among all the gcc members. charlie: in what way? sheikh hamad al-thani: in a way that this could have been any reason. if anyone -- any leader wakes up in the morning and decides he relat

qatar is diplomatically in a spot, just as qatar airways is in a spot. several problems. you could try and break some of the unity of the u.s. airlines against gulf carries. you can get a voice in washington to talk about the visa restrictions that are a problems were gulf carriers and buff up the image of qatar a bit. >> is it going to work? david: ha! i suspect not. you saw those comments from doug parker. they are pretty tough. a potential major shareholder. misread the mood. american airlines does not attract -- want to attract a twitter thunderbolts from donald trump. it doesn't want to attract from its pilots union. growth.s benefiting from a we had some air traffic control privatization which is in the airlines wants. thos laptop and visa bans, are the same things that u.s. airlines want. >> coming up next on "with all due respect"," china has been pouring money into israel. we will take a look at where it has been going. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> welcome back to>> "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." chinese investment into israel has jumped t

will qatar come to heal? i don't know. big political crisis. >> thank you for the extra perspective. let's bring back our special guest from this morning. -- we could see a quite a bit of weakness up to the latest developments. for investigators -- investors have cash out. companiesns to qatari in stocks now? it is a very integrated part of the world. >> i think the easiest thing to say is the markets will be down today. that is the short-term implication. they longer-term remains to be seen. i think what this is done this highlight the geopolitical risk in this region. 1.5% insee oil is up asian trading. next on the best of the number markets middle east, the decision of president donald trump to withdraw from the paris accord dominated the headlines. bloomberg -- this is bloomberg. >> welcome back to the best of bloomberg markets. the decision of president donald trump to withdraw from the paris accord dominated headlines at the st. petersburg international economic forum. as bloomberg reports, some of the big names wait

own carrier qatar airways. there long to saudi arabia, offain, and egypt is now the table for the airline. this could mean a 30% done in the company's revenue and a disruption for passengers. >> i had a travel reservation to italy. should i change my flight, collect my ticket? that airways told me whoever has a trip in the next three days can either get a refund for the price of a take it or be transferred to another airline. their routesd of pass through saudi airspace. from flights go to and cities and countries such as the u.s., south africa, and australia. all of these flights will have to be diverted or grounded. avoiding egyptian and bahraini airspace will only add to the troubles. is still open. it is the last thing the airline needs after a tough start, following a laptop band from donald trump. >> we have seen a dip in the traffic between airports ,nvolving the ban in the u.s. so there is an influence in traffic, obviously. >> two other airlines in the region will also find their sales hit by the diplo

ties to qatar. they are moving the oil market, but it's really more of an lng story. which commodities do you want to watch closely? >> it's an interesting story. qatar is very relevant to lng, but not so relevant to oil. the first instinctive markets was to go, oh, there's tension in the middle east, that might disrupt supply, and oil prices ticked up. impactterm, there is an in the fractious relationship of whichec relationship, means they may find it harder to enforce compliance. it might be a negative for oil ultimately. but there is no serious sign yet lng i know of that qatar's supply will be cut off to the main market. but that is definitely something to watch going forward. guy: interesting to see how doha response. joining us from the mliv team. smart analysis throughout the day, you get this rolling blog. the other thing to mention, there is a tliv surrounding what is going on in the gulf. you can get specific news related to what's happening with the qatar story. there is one that covers

manus: let's return to one of our lead stories around qatar and qatar airways.comes after saudi arabia and its allies cut ties air and seablocking transport and also closing the tiny island nation's only land border. this was yesterday. good to see you this morning. the main impact especially on qatar, this is physical as well as such a logical -- psychological, is that? absolutely. the physical impact is being seen with flights from the immediate neighboring countries being suspended and canceled. with the flights by qatar airways over saudi territory, in particular being blocked so you're going to see a lot of flights being rerouted. and i think psychologically for -- living in doha it must be disconcerting to know that these regular routes, these common routes, frequent flights are being cut off for them right now. i suspect there is a lot of rerouting done, also shipping constructionod and materials that would cross the saudi border which is now blocked. it is a busy time for those worried about supplies to qatar. anna: good morning. people are thinking abou

neighbor qatar. saudi arabia, united arab emirates, egypt, and others are suspending diplomatic and economic relations with qatar. >> we would encourage the parties to sit down and address the differences, and if there is any role we can play in terms of helping them. >> as the u.s. pushes greater coordination to combat extremism, the diplomatic campaign against qatar potentially complicates the fight against isis. coalition forces launched attacks from a qatari air brace. -- air base. the air force as the combined air operations center provides command-and-control operation throughout iraq, syria, 17 other nations. qatar is the forward headquarters of u.s. central command. nearby bahrain hosts the u.s. fifth fleet. also cut ties with qatar. >> qatar has long charted an independent foreign policy compared to the other gulf monarchies. for the last two decades, it tried to be somewhat independent of saudi arabia. part of that has been building cozy relationships with extremist or even terrorist groups

qatar is completely food independent.the dairy and more of it is shipped through ports controlled by dubai, for example. if we then lurk at the impact on the air sector. in advance of the 2022 world cup. if we look at how migrant workers will be affected. it's an extremely serious impact. for those reasons alone, do you think qatar will have to give ground here? at the moment, it is not doing so. it's a question of who is going blink first. it is. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and egypt are throwing everything they can as this, forcing qatar to concede quickly. political and economic pressure is being piled on. there has never been a break like this in the gulf. there was a crisis in 2014 which was nothing like this. they want them to concede quickly. qatar at the moment has decided not to fight back. for example, they are still sending gas through the dolphin pipeline to the united arab emirates. the sovereign wealth fund has not taken any action on redeploying assets. they've not expeued redeploying assets.

papers in qatar are quite outraged by the situation. here is a cartoon that shows a raised fist in the cartoon, and on that you will see the flag of qatar. the fist is being raised at the symbol of the gulf cooperation council, which is facing a crisis here. cnn has some exclusive information that suggests russian hackers may have been behind it. >> and is an incredible scoop. it says u.s. investigators believe russian hackers breached agency andte news planted a fake news report that contributed to the crisis. according to the report, it happened two weeks ago, a news report appeared on the news agency that contributed false remarks to the qatar ruler that appeared friendly to iran and israel. cnn, thisto snowballed into this crisis we are seeing. the fbi sent a team of investigators to delhi to help the qatari government investigate this alleged attack. according to u.s. officials, they say the russian goal is to cause rifts between the u.s. and allies. genie: in the u.s., donald trump raised eyebrows with his response to this. he see

. >>> and the diplomatic crisis in qatar. several diplomatic ties with the ally, accusing them of funding terrorism at a high level. >>> we begin here at home in a dramatic move. attorney general jeff sessions says he will testify before the committee. in a closed door hearing, after james comey's testimony, they suggested a possible third undisclosed meeting between ambassador kislyak and senator sessions back in 2015. sessions has recused himself from that investigation after it emerged he met with kislyak twice last year despite testifying he had not had any contact with russian officials. sessions' recusal caused a lot of tension between him and his boss, trump, and even came to the attorney general offering to resign at one point. how his testimony on tuesday could affect his relationship with the white house, in particular president trump. diane feinstein indicating this morning that sessions' testimony should not be exclusive to the intelligence committee. >> i challenge the jurisdiction to some extent. i'm on both com

officials coming out and saying that they are grateful for qatar's role. qatar is a close u.s. ally. of course deep ties between both countries as you know more than 11,000 u.s. troops are based here just outside of doha. and, you know, we hear u.s. officials saying that they are grateful for this, that they want to see this crisis resolved and then all of a sudden the president of the united states a couple of weeks ago during his visit to saudi shook hands with qatar, called him a friend and then coming out with a tweet taking credit for this move by the regional countries to isolate qatar. there is this feeling here that that visit by president trump to saudi arabia emboldened these countries, that they are using this call for fighting extremist funding as a pretext to settle regional scores and differences here. so there's a lot of questions about where the u.s. really stands in all of this, dave. >> now the state department once again left trying to reassure our allies. thank you. >>> that possible russian interference in qatar isn't affects middle east politics it's movin

the blockade is hurting qatar.ad international airport a range of regional flights had to international airport a range of regionalflights had to be international airport a range of regional flights had to be cancelled to saudi arabia, each of another country is now blocking them. qatar a ways can get planes are to other parts of the world but they are only flying around, airspace closed to them. those critical of the blockade and donald trump say it's an approach which counter—productive.” do believe if the weight to go about foreign policy in the region is to fight terrorism, and to focus on that particular element, what is happening right now is not helping. facing the scale of this blockade, you might think this country must soon capitulate but even though the campaign against qatar is led by no less tha n campaign against qatar is led by no less than donald trump himself, the people here emphasise that they are resilient. they think they are in the right that they can withstand whatever is thrown at them. sall

it is time for wiser counsel to prevail in qatar.ng qatar's fingerprints which is all over the place, does not serve them. what serves them more and serves the region is to address the issues that are besmirching qatar's reputation and that are effecting qatar's place in its natural habitat, which is the arabian gulf. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. a jury in minnesota has acquitted the police officer who fatally shot an african—american. philando castile's dying moments during a traffic stop were captured on a facebook video in a case which shocked america. jeronimo yanez was found not guilty on three charges, including second—degree manslaughter. the german chancellor angela merkel has led tributes to one of her predecessors, helmut kohl, who has died at the age of eighty—seven. she said mr kohl had brought about the two greatest achievements in german politics of recent decades national reunification and european unity. the policeman who died confronting the westminster attacker in march, pc keith p

qatar has had its rating cut.ank has asked commercial banks to provide it with details and frequent updates on their foreign exchange trading. lots of people scrabbling to get hold of us dollars. we are also hearing anecdotal evidence ofjust quite how this rift is affecting people. we have heard women the last half—hour that the emirates postal service is stopping all post a qatar, and says if the posters midway there it will come back. —— all post—to qatar. let's remind you how market are doing in europe, trading has been underway for nearly 15 minutes. pretty flat really. rent crude up nearly 8%, but at $48.43 a barrel. the ftse100 nearly 8%, but at $48.43 a barrel. the ftse 100 fairly flat. keep an eye on the pound, tomorrow, in the wa ke eye on the pound, tomorrow, in the wake of the vote of the uk general election. and now let's get the inside track on coding — an industry that's often faced accusations of sexism. it is very male dominated. therese tucker runs a financial software firm — black line — and is o

that is qatar and saudi arabia.here are other countries such as china, what has their position been? andrew: to follow a little on becausea was saying, saudi and the uae went from zero to 60 overnight, this takes are really high. there is not much more they could do to turn the screws on qatar, unless they decide to take military action and in force a blockade. the longer that this goes on, you then start to see some sort of geopolitical realignment in the region. bitre seeing that a little already with turkey and its announcement on accelerating the troop deployment. you could see qatar vivid more to iran. vivid moreqatar towards iran. uncertainty now, and to allow it to prolong means you are objecting more uncertainty into the region. we are at a global geopolitical inflection point, which goes way beyond the borders of the gulf and qatar specifically. in terms of scenario, we have drawn out some of those. what do we look at? andrew: we are looking at the huge escalation which should be met with military action. i

leaders pointing to qatar. he is taking credit for this development sp s development which now appears to have been the result of russian hacking into the qatar news service. >> well i will let you ask him why he can d that. when they start doing this and we respond based on false information, this is a dangerous situation for everyone around the world. if it can happen to qatar, the same thing could be going on with germany or one of our other allies be with uk. this something the president with his team -- before we respond that we know their facts. >> seems to be going on all over the place. but i assume, you're a member of the foreign affairs committee, it deeply concerns you what is going on right now. >> sure. >> all it takes is for misinformation out there for someone to react. that's what we don't want. we need to go slowly, cautiously, and i'm sure president trump has a good reason why he did that but let's make sure it is accurate before we respond to it. >> does it kefrn you that the president is twe

has its main base in qatar. >> so does the muslim brotherhood. they went to qatar.khs that entice and sanction terrorism, and convince young people that they go and blow up some people that they go to heaven reside there. they are opening support who mass and openly side with iran. all the intelligence services have enough material that show money in cash that has been delivered to these people. why isn't anybody coming up with evidence because of exactly what you were saying. because the richest and the oil reserves. but i as a person don't give a damn about that. maria: what do you want to see in order to reverse your position here? naguid sawiris: i want to see them going out and stop hosting terrorists in their countries. i want them to declare -- first they need to say the truth. they need to come straight and say we did that in the past for several reasons. but that they are going to stop doing that. they have blood on their hands. they have blood. why is qatar the on country in the world that no incident of terrorism happened there. why? maria: what happens t

specifically about qatar he says qatar konsz to finance terrorism within its borders.error funding a gray area for qatar? >> it is not a gray area for cut everier. qatar. we -- this issue is not subject only to qatar this terror financing is across the whole globe. we as a government of qatar are doing our utmost in combatting terrorism along with our allies. there are laws that prevent terror financing in our country. >> when when he said they're able to operate openly in qatar, you say that's not true? >> well, if there are any proof that there are terror financing going on in qatar and we have been approached with evidence, we will act on them. >> so one of those cases was a designate designated. i poke to him. at the time he was a spokesperson for a campaign when al qaeda supporters were encouraged to donate to. he used images of the planes hitting the world trade center world trade center in a speed. >> when we asked why he used a picture of the planes hitting the world trade center he says it's everywhere. >> he says that photo is all over the internet. >> after

, which qatar denies.e edge of collapse-- political upheaval and economic despair send venezuelans into the streets in a violent clash between protesters and the government. >> behind us is a sea of angry venezuelans who have been taking to the streets since early april, protesting the government and its handling of this country's deepening crisis.

, which qatar denies. then, on the edge of collapse-- political upheaval and economic despair send venezuelans into the streets in a violent clash between protesters and the government. >> behind us is a sea of angry venezuelans who have been taking to the streets since early april, protesting the government and its handling of this country's deepening crisis. >> woodruff: also ahead, our politics monday team is here to talk about the new storm president trump has kicked up over his proposed travel ban and its fate in the courts. all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like y

they're saying that qatar should the extremistt groups. qatar is a major investor in the u.k.. is a major transport of saudi arabia. the absence of this, the mixed messages means this could continue for a bit longer. onwe don't see any pressure that aligned, it means that this will continue along for a little bit. ,> speaking to one of the ceos he said he wants trusted in the gcc, it is broken. what is the next milestone? the foreign minister is also bring his visit to some of his peers to a close. everybody is watching what this is up to next. been talks in the uae and talks and qatar. there are still negotiations. what they said yesterday is we haven't received a demand yet. we're notes that really near a solution that qatar would consider acceptable. from the foreign minister and the finance minister, it is a message of defiance. unless kuwait comes up with a solution that said qatar, qatar seems to be gearing to a prolonged feed. >> they are assessing how the isolation of facts the economy. that followed a downgrade from the snp last week. this is the founder of lighthouse

and qatar. we have invited the qatari foreign minister to have equal time on "special report." >>> a six-month delay before transgender people can be allowed to enlist. the defense will go to defense secretary mat advertise. the army and air force wanted two year wait. transgender have been able to serve openly in the military since last year. the president suggests a special counsel may be less than fully impartial and gives a big vote of confidence to former friend nancy pelosi. the panel tackles all that and more when we come back. >> we're getting word now that some democrats even want nancy pelosi to step down. >> first of all i hope she doesn't step down. i think that it would be a very, very sad day for republicans if she steps down. i would be very, very disappoint ed if she did. i would like to keep her right where she is because her record is extraordinary against her. they are right now obstruction ists. they just want to try to object instruct. i honestly think they do better at the

qatar, of course, a vital u.s.when it comes to military cooperation. the united states has 11,000 personnel here just outside of doha, and the united states military's central command headquarters are based here in doha. so there's a lot of concern about this relationship. so you had u.s. officials, senior officials in the past few days coming out saying they want to see this crisis resolved and grateful for the cooperation with qatar and then president trump with those tweets we saw yesterday pretty much taking credit for regional countries here, isolating qatar and also pretty much in his tweets describing qatar as a afinanci of terror. so a lot of confusion here about where the u.s. stands when it comes to this crisis. >> thank you. >>> amazon launches its latest move in the ecommerce battle with walmart. the two titans go at it and could mean lower prices for millions of shoppers. [vo] what made secretariat the greatest racehorse who ever lived? of course he was strong... ...intelligent. ...explosive. but the t

some are saying that it began a series of qatar-bashing articles after qatar's imir suggested that qatar had a tense relationship with president trump. >> yes, well, there was one particular report that the leader was talking about, the idea that trump might not much longer be in power and that was complaining about the u.s.' increased hostility to iran under trump. this really outraged people on the other side of this divide and the saudi arabian camp. now we understand that the fbi has determined that that worp rass a fake which is what they said all along thark they were hacked and that these remarks were not actually made. now we just have learned today that the fbi believes that that is not the case. that it was faked. >> is there a sense among the people that you talked to in the middle east that they will solve this, that somebody show will find the middle ground so that qatar may stop doing some things that offend the saudis and others at the same time not everything that they are intending to do will reach freuician? >> well there are really two camps among the analysts and obse

qatar has. experienced such a similar problems before back in two thousand and fourteen they've been able to it is all going differences i have a feeling that despite the intensity and the. harsh loud talk about the different parties over this crisis that. will be will be a problem by the states. of the two of this crisis and on the positive note we'll leave it former turkish ambassador to the us also been far too close to you thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. now a major gas pipeline project between russia and turkey has entered a new phase in the black sea president putin was on board especially high playing ship to see the work for himself and also on board was a very air india for trenka. i just came back from a gigantic vessel called the pioneering spirit imagine the size of four football fields well that is how big it is what is the pioneering spirit in the black sea well it is here for the toughest job in gas pop like construction deep underwater stages of the turkish st

the second thing is the qatar relationship with iran.nd these been longstanding tensions bubbling under the surface but with the purported comphercht by sheikh hamid last week where he was alleged to have said positive things about iran and other states, that was seen as an opportunity for the other powerful gulf states, saudi arabia, emirates, to actually clamp down on qatar. they could easily have fought this narrative that qatar's main media that covered this story had been hacked but they chose not to. they chose now as a chance to really clamp down. and i think that reflects their growing strength and belief that president trump is firmly on their side. >> and i guess it's also about the growing proxy war as you said between the shiites and saudis in that region. how would it affect some of the proxy wars being fought, for example in yemen or syria? >> look, i'm really conscious not to boil this down purely to religion. religion, of course is an important factor in this but this is a political struggle between the saudis and the ira

eleven thousand troops by qatar twenty four and funded by qatar so i mean this whole situation with qatar and saudi arabia has really changed the game from what the alliances were drawn during syria so during syria you had a whole set of alliances between assad russia iran against saudi arabia qatar turkey etc and now with this recent spat with this with this conflict between saudi arabia qatar everything has turned upside down if you don't have turkey and iran siding with qatar you have russia trying to mediate but leaning a little more towards the qatari side you have the united states and trump tweeting about how saudi arabia should be supported qatar is the enemy and cetera but giving twelve billion in money and weapons to them so you have a whole different dynamic now which is just really been a tectonic shift from what syria was to work with and these two countries are nominally american allies. well i think what we're seeing now is a breakdown a very long tradition in the western media would have been hearing for i think about sixty years do more chrissy don't fight each othe

how much could this hurt qatar?tainly a very wealthy country. >> well, look, natalie, one of the main problems that qatar has faced is that it shares one lag border with saudi arabia. it relied on that for importing food. qatar does not produce its own food. they found a way around it. that is also part of qatar's foreign policies, that you've seen them get around what they describe as this illegal blockade with countries like iran and turkey flying in and shipping food stuff to try to help them out. also there's that humanitarian aspect. gulf states are very interlinked. families across the gulf in different countries and this crisis is really tearing families apart. >> jomana karadsheh for us. thank you, jomana. >>> hundreds of civilians out of the old city of msul. iraqi troops are battling to take the remaining district from isis, mounting a last stand in what has been their strong hold. the u.n. has voiced alarm at the rising civilian death toll. >>> a third journalist has also died from wounds in a mine blast

qatar strongly denies it.t trump's recent visit to riyadh that emboldened the saudis. its leaders now feel they've got the green light from washington to get tough on their rivals and adversaries. but qatar hosts us central command's airbase for the entire middle east and the us needs this spat to be resolved quickly. what we are witnessing is a growing list of some irritants in the region that have been there for some time. obviously now they have bubbled up to a level that countries have decided they needed to take action in an effort to have those differences addressed. we certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. six arab nations have lined up to accuse qatar and its ruling emir of supporting the muslim brotherhood and hamas to promote an islamist agenda across the region. of supporting violent jihadists in syria, something the saudis are also suspected of. and of hosting the al—jazeera tv channel, a constant thorn in the side of arab rulers. so how far will

qatar denies the allegations. russia is calling for open dialogue. >> washington's decision in all this is not clear. qatar has been a long-standing ally to the united states, especially in the fight against terrorism. but president trump sent a harsher message. it even differed from his own secretary of state. >> the blockade is also impairing u.s. and other international business activities in the region and has created a hardship on the people of qatar and the people whose livelihoods depend on commerce with qatar. the blockade is hindering u.s. military actions in the region and the campaign against isis. >> the time had come to call on qatar to end its funding. they have to end that funding. and its extremist nideology in terms of funding. i want to call on all of the nations to stop immediately supporting terrorism. >> the blockade led by saudi arabia started about a week ago, restricting access to neighboring air space and land borders. that forced many qataris to stock up on food in case of shortages. let'