international airport in riyadh but you for hearing is director of the gulf studies center at qatar university and joins me now here on set a significant turn in events just your initial reaction to start with before we get into this detail of how when what and where this was basically changing the namik of the whole confrontation between so these and whole thesis basically in the last few weeks the focus on drones now they are using cross missiles and basically it's a heavy missiles and they can target easily a lot of headquarters you know reports important pieces military bases so basically that is a changing dynamic of the this kind of go in war in yemen in terms of the on going targeting of southern saudi arabia from northern yemen we've seen the who tease continually trying to target strategic locations mainly airports is this just another he shot or is this a change in the sophistication of the weapons that they house. is important to put things in a context of the end of the day who. are an under state actors that they are not behaving as a state despite the fact that they are kidnappin

have to leave it there for now but thank you very much indeed my pleasure mushers reddy from qatar university well let's head to our other top story this hour hong kong police have moved in on a fire isn't of protesters who are surrounding the legislative karen so the police have used tear gas and pepper spray on demonstrators in the area in a bedsit to clear them but a protest as are opposed to a proposed extradition law that could see suspects sent to mainland china to stand trial well these were the scenes just a couple of hours earlier this large crowd of protesters were able to delay a debate on the proposed law by blocking politicians from entering the legislature building they say they represent the voice of hong kong's youth. oh yes i am. saying. what is happening from. russia. well hong kong's police commissioner has blamed protesters for the violence into media i want to condemn the irresponsible and violent behavior of the protesters and i want to urge other residents not to go near their protest area if we do not use appropriate force to protect ourselves then the protesters can u

is a professor of media studies at qatar university says the military needs to listen to the protesters and activists the parts of the constitution that give power to the people. the president announced that you know to around the elections and to have a new president elected he failed so no he has to continue deity's like an extension of his tad more fees $90.00 days in order to you know to organize the next elections but the question is you have millions of protesting in the streets for every friday now it's the 15th right you are going to toward the 6 you for this 100 days so the issue here has been salah has to listen to the protesters you know they have to get out of the remnants of the president did the present government and they did they have to have a new council to organize this election's and that to me is you know we have to have a new election lol ok and like it 3 persons or. 3 or 4 persons you know to take over and prepared these elections this is very important because we have the actual government that we've been and been do we did this in a way that the algerians who wi

international airport in riyadh swell measurable sway very is the director of the gulf studies center at qatar university he joins us now live on set . what would you say this this recent escalation shows does it show a ramping up and tensions between the saudis and the kitties this is. going conflict this is another incident where the hotel is trying to send a message to the saudis by saying we did. you know promised that we would be retaliate on what you know what have you done in yemen and killing all of the yemenis and the yemeni hold his they did announce that they have 3 a list of 300 targets and those targets basically includes military bases airports you know. companies like arm call of bases and other things so it's already announced war it's already declared they are declaring the war again so the idea of actually not a new i think what's new today is about using the cruise missile actually and previously we witnessed the using of the drone and mortar targeted a small target now they are targeting you know using crows which have more impact and more and also it has a political message you know

i joining us now here in the studio in doha my job is where he has a direct study center at qatar university thank you majid for coming in at such short notice within of course getting various reactions to news a lot of morsels death what are your initial thoughts i mean it's important to remind the viewers of 3 main facts that this is the 1st the makati president of egypt number 2 he was kidnapped from his office when he was a president he was taken he was isolated he was taken and for the last 5 years of peace he was basically banned of seeing his family he was banned of the basic health. you know what he needed for his health he was he was basically disconnected with the world so these are 3 facts happening. in the 21st century we're modern world or try to define democracy and and liberal and the values and this is a president who was basically who won the 1st election the democratic election of egypt so he's out of here was a ration it's important to him to remember them and say this is the president he was also died while he was in court right and here is quite interesting that we didn'

let's speak some more about this not to mahmoud care otto is a professor of media studies at qatar university is on the news with us thank you so much for being with us on al-jazeera this was expected this cancellation of the vote on july 4th because there was no candidate really to run in the election where does this leave now the transition period this delay what happens no the president announced that you know to around the elections and to have a new president elected. so you know he has to continue to do it is like an extension of his. 90 days in order to you know to organize the next elections but the question is you have millions of. industry it's for every friday now it's the 15th you are going to the world to 6 you for this 100 days saw the issue he. has to listen to the protests you know they have to get out of the remnants of the president did the president the government and did they have to have a new council to organize this elections. and that to me is you know we have to have a new election lol. and like it to be persons or. persons you know to take over and prepared these ele

you for joining us on set now is measures where he's director of the gulf studies center at qatar university so we have this extraordinary report in the new york times that president trump authorized these strikes on iran then stood down the mission before any missiles were fired i mean what do you make of it why would trump of counseling i think it's important to remember that iran was on the list of a list and the elections as an election matter as an item so he wants to please his base basically this is an allegedly action camp absolutely and he has done what actually makes him happy he he would draw from the deal he imposed sanctions he basically make the economy of iran really falling apart so basically he has done everything he promised his base everything happening after that basically is calculated to trump trump the main focus is the 2nd if any action if any military action against iran will affect this badly he would never make it and i think the military action i mean it's not submitted to strike iran is actually what would happen after this strike basically occurred but but the f

injured let's speak now to new channel is a car he's an assistant professor of gulf politics at qatar university and joins us now via skype from brussels thanks very much for being with us so if we just take a step back from all of this for a moment is there is there. a kind of is there a part of a negotiated solution to all of this what is what is the end game what is the u.s. endgame in all of this. well actually it's very difficult to know what is the. objective of the you know we know that the maxim brisker has been accepted and they said that they don't want to reach our problems that don't want to have a war that we're producing castro is in in your own recently that this is the room for diplomacy how were is this difficult to understand what kind of diplomacy can be implemented with iran when the unit is. showing a military mark or in the region there will be there are iranians also interested in not going in a gust will be on the american side but i can say that or i think both our interests feel in having some kind of negotiation and prevent. any bigger problem by going on the other sid

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lecturer in the department of politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she says by diversifying trade links qatarhas largely been able to withstand the challenges of the blockade certainly a mediately reestablished stronger relations with turkey which had been one of the requirements for. in terms of how saudi approached saudi qatar is need to adapt to this saudi requirement so it's qataris reestablish really strong relationships there it's had a very good run in terms of relationships with iran and it has diversified its trade which was very important for all of the the gulf states which are not self-sufficient on the international scale it has certainly been able to continue independently but as an observer it seems to me that it has definitely reduced some of the activities that it had become so well known for conducting prior to this so many of its encouragement to various different players to come in and meet each other within this out of the country platform and some of the real challenge that al-jazeera presented in the arab world have all been reduced somewhat to a war even keel. the trum