impact will be on the region my job thank you very much for being with us my job so larry from qatar university now looking at the legacy of sultan couple cellmate leader of hamas our sultan qaboos was also very involved in trying to end the war in yemen that speak to our correspondent in sana'a tom some of it how is sultan couples being remembered in yemen. yes he will always be remembered as a person who was. taken over as a no 2 to bring peace to yemen especially then now we have heard the. top negotiator of the host these have expressed has expressed his condolences to the. royal family of saeed and also to the omani people in. in the knowledge them and through the forces that have been exerted by time couples inside especially to bring to negotiating table the warring sides in yemen and closing the whole of these and the internationally recognized government and this also. he will always be remembered for for for the also for for how he peacefully resolve resolve the settlement on the disagreements between yemen and oman over the borders between the both countries with the former regime. a

joining me in doha you surf one professor of political science and international relations at qatar university in tripoli now embody any member of the tripoli based house of representatives the former minister of higher education of the 1st transitional government of libya from 2011 to 2012 in rome cloudier got senior senior libya analysis of the international crisis group and the former policy advisor to us and salome who served as head of the u.n. support mission in libya welcome to all let's start use of by the. growing concern about the foreign intervention in libya this is not something you have started with 2011 but why people are now walking than ever about the foreign intervention obviously because there are some new players on the ground as you say libya has been the theater of vention since 2011 and obviously with half the pushing on tripoli plane to take over the country takeover of the oil installations the stakes are extremely high obviously the government of fighters a large the legitimate government before it's a large is. from outside powers we see that turkey has sent troops i

gave thank you for staying with us where is the director of the center at qatar university and he's here with us in the studio. there continues to be so much to talk about what i find fascinating is that we have this division in narratives and i wonder if you can just reflect upon whether this is how we're going to see the explanation of what happened here play out so we have the one narrative that says evil bad guy got what he deserved and the other side about the said no this this man was a was a hero to people he was revered and he was necessary he was a pillar of militaries social civil infrastructure if you like is that how we're going to try to see this story being played you know in 2013 there was an. article published a new yorker and the title was the should do of the commanders and that was basically focus on custom sort of money and how this guy was responsible of most of the wars in the region that tells you it's such a character such an individual will be as it is the vision over his role because basically he was given a lot of authority from the iranian government own when

thanks very much indeed well yes of course joining us now is a professor of political science at qatar university thank you very much for being with us and i want to talk about the possibility of a cease fire given the circumstances that are on the ground in libya at the moment just a few days ago that any sort of cease fire any sort of relaxation in the fighting seemed impossible what's changed when i think i think that the cease fire is most likely at the moment specialist's is due to mumbo to mean buckles for the 2. parties have to do should the government include police. gloster on the one hand until you're on the other hand for political. cease fire who the fuck that have to has been. trying to cop to tripoli for the last 4 or 8 months or so mo has gone to italy to meet with the brutal blood minister the. for a ceasefire the fact that turkish troops are on the ground at the moment is kind of a counterbalance to the power of how it seems that ceasefire is much more likely to happen mainly for 2 reasons the 1st one is the oil supply to europe especially given what's happenin. and obviously the

yourself one dell is a professor of political science at qatar university he says that a truce is possible the fact that half there has been. up to triple the full blast for 8 months or so mouse going to italy to meet with will tell you blood minister the call did fall a ceasefire the fact that the troops are on the glow of the moment is kind of counterbalance to the power of how it seems that ceasefire is much more likely to happen. the 1st one is the oil supply used to europe especially given what's happened in. and obviously it is all places my shut up in the next couple of weeks if that situation deteriorates in libya and too is the issue of. immigrants because italy is just a few 100 kilometers away from libya and germany has been calling for a conference for a ceasefire and to stop. and he'll be in libya because malta 50 percent of immigrants in europe and in germany and if i have to as i said before was not necessarily interested in any ceasefire because he fell on the globe and he could win the bottom eventually with the backing of those countries no i think the balance of power on

when my job so where is the director of golf studies and sense a qatar university and he's here with us in the studio good to have you with us there's so much that we could talk about i see that you've got scribbles on your piece of paper i've got about 10 pieces of paper here. where do we start what are the questions that we should be asking right now. basically what is what is what is the trigger what is what makes the united states makes the decision now to targets us and so they manage that i think that is the important of course i believe i probably say it's intelligence right yes you know we know we know for a fact that he was targeted and he was the target for years to the united states at least in the last 15 years and we know that many times he was targeted even by the israelis inside iran and the last attempt was the last october 2090 so basically he was the target he was the the golden target for for israel and the united states but i think what happened in the last few days i can summarize it in 3 points one what happened in the embassy in iraq was a crucial if you look a

tripoli thank you very much indeed for yourself one there is a professor of political science at qatar university he says a truce in libya is possible the fact that after has been. true to tripoli for the last 4 months or so mo has gone to italy to meet with the brutal blood minister the corded for a ceasefire to fogdog the troops on the globe and at the moment it's kind of come to the balance to the power of half the and it seems that ceasefire is much more likely to happen. to do since the 1st one is the oil supply you through europe especially given what's happened in. and obviously all places my shut up in the next couple of weeks if the situation deteriorates in libya and too is the issue of . immigrants because italy is just a few 100 kilometers away from libya and germany has been calling for a conference for cease fire and to stop stabilize the ability because malta 50 percent of immigrants in europe and up in germany after as i said before was not necessarily interested in any ceasefire because he felt on the blown that he could win the bottom eventually with the backing of those countri

let's speak to dr mahjoob zweiri — he's the director of gulf studies at the university of qatar and an what do you think the impact of this assassination is going to be? i think the confrontation which started between washington and tehran after the american withdrawal from the deal is likely to increase. there is no doubt that what happened yesterday isn't evidence that the two countries, washington and tehran, have a lot of mistrust and doubts between both countries. i think the decision made by trump to assassinate qassem suleimani increased the chance of war between two countries. it is likely to see more war of words between both sides, however, ido more war of words between both sides, however, i do believe that the iranians reaction will be calculated. and what sort of response would you expect in that case? there are three measures i think iran will take into consideration as a response. one, they want to make sure that the united states is hurt and i think that will lead, maybe, doing number of casualties as a result of that consequence and response. the other measure i think

to talk more about this is until most seen who's an assistant professor at northwestern university here in qatar is research interests include development and environment thank you so much for being with us on this news hour they've been warnings about jakarta sinking since the my 990 s. now what factors have contributed to making indonesia's capital so vulnerable a number of factors one is the excessive groundwater pumping to meet the needs of about 40 percent of the residents water supply there are 2 semi private companies who are working with state owned company to supply water. even after a few decades of operating they've only managed to supply only to 60 percent of the residents so excessive underground pumping and. the fact that jakarta has been expanding rapidly and. what used to be swampy areas in many parts of the city are now covered by houses roads concrete basically who can't absorb rainwater i understand that 20 kilometers of sea walls have been thrown up around jakarta bay in the past 3 years to fortify the city basically why is that not sufficient and. what else do you think shou

to mr barghouti head of the palestinian national initiative party and dr mordechai qatar from the center at bar university they have gave us their reactions to what's called the deal of this country. it's not even an american plan it's actually an israeli written plan an american envelope the reality is killing the possibility of 2 state solution by substituting the potential palestinian state with clusters of ghettos the panel stands as you can see in the map that mr trump has published it creates a situation of domination of one nation over another that ignores 1st of all historical facts ignores the rights of the palestinian people ignores the emotional feeling of all the people in this region joslyn was never any capital of any arab islamic state so why do they need also then why can they have a mullah or will our bodies you know the parliament of the palestinians is all of the built in our bodies so why shouldn't i will these be the capital if they want the capital but they want george to live only to extract the jewish heart the palestinians have and this is the p.l.o. flag they want to establish a

and director of the sins of international and regional studies at georgetown university's school of foreign service in qatar america very warm welcome to the program as we were just saying while we were all for the so much we could talk about what i find particularly stock is that we have these 2 competing narratives of sort of mommy in the state say he's top top as a villain a terrorist a man who deserved what he got and yet we see these pictures today in iran and they seem to suggest a country of course that has taken this attack very personally but there's also a sense of isolation i feel looking at those pictures. and certainly the this assassination brings home the maximum pressure that donald trump has talked about in a very stark and emotional way in a very very surreal way iranians are now feeling the heavy hand of the united states in terms of the nuclear deal of course the u.s. decided to go its own way and we've heard statements out of europe today saying that they're very sad indeed iran's decision not to go along with some of the articles that are in it but that was this just inevitable that th

qatar. students at one of india's most prestigious universities say the police helped a mob to attack them injuring more than 30 people the raid at the narrow university in delhi has been blamed on the students' union which is closely linked the prime minister there on the rim of these party it comes as nationwide protests continue against the controversial citizenship law reports now from new delhi. and we only hear that very very much. a girl seen covered in blood in this video after she says she was beaten by a mob of jamal gayle university in new delhi is the one now under investigation. the police have registered a legal complaint against her and 26 others accusing them of vandalism on the university campus the day before the attack. but only one complained on a crowd of 50 see him hitting the students with on bars. this student says he was also beaten up but doesn't want to bury his parents by believing his identity. when i called the police they asked me what is. really is that they didn't help us. instead they facilitated the exit of the government. some people including loyal mungle are no

qatar a u.s. ally both sides agreed that deescalation was the only way forward. all right let's get some analysis now from the julie norm. of the department of political science at the university college of london a very good day thank you for joining us we're witnessing these remarkable scenes of defiance of playing out on the streets of tehran. can this government survive this. well that's certainly a big question right now and as we've seen these protests have been carrying on for several days now starting saturday night continuing all through yesterday and then continuing on today these aren't just a response to to the handling of the crash of course protests were on moving very strongly in iran back in november as well and were crushed played quite severely by the regime at that time so we've seen this challenge to this state building for a while the grievances that were there several months ago are still there and if it's only more intensified so there is going to be incredibly increasing pressure on the state and there are some calls for the supreme leader to step down others are calling for something a bit more moderate just calling for some kind of accountability to t

qatar. we are joined now by jeannine zakaria, former jerusalem bureau chief and middle east correspondent for "the washington post," who these days wisely teaches journalism at stanford university the great state of california. jeanine, where do your thoughts go given your life's work and experience in the region on a night when you hear of a volley of ballistic missiles from iran, headed to u.s. targets in iraq? >> well, it's obviously very anxiety provoking day, brian, but let me say two things. president trump is trying to establish some deterrence with iran after the provocations that we saw once he with drew from the nuclear deal, when we saw the attacks on the saudi oil fields that were unanswered. he went in this way that nobody expected in killing qassem soleimani, but he doesn't want a war with iran. likewise now the iranians want to have retaliation. they want retribution, but they don't want a war with the united states. so if there's any comfort there, it's we both -- the united states and iran don't want to go to war. so how do we square those two things? i think that the iranians, you know, i covered many suicide bombings that they sponsored in israel in particula