appreciate your thoughts on this as always rami corey in beirut thanks very much all right to other news now and the united nations wants access to yemeni prisons run by the united arab emirates where it says a number of prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers witnesses showed the associated press news agency drawings smuggled out of prisons last month they show threats and beatings over him qatari is a yemen analyst based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in emma rotty run prisons in yemen. the torture by the us united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing

let's turn now to rami corey is he's a senior fellow a professor at american university in beirut we've been talking to him on this issue so rami. just getting back to where jordan stands in all of this and how they are trying to address this growing problem on their border with syria. jordan has been through this you know half a dozen or a dozen times in the last forty fifty years in the middle east being a kind of a shock absorber in between these big countries that are battling with each other or internal civil wars having to accept refugee flows that sometimes contribute elements to their countries sometimes create great new pressures they know exactly what they're doing what they want is to make sure that any refugee flows are accompanied by huge amounts of international financial aid that allow the country to address those needs without taking away things from jordan they want to make sure that any refugee presence in the country does not diminish the opportunities for jordanians in terms of water access jobs and things of that nature and they want to expand their strategic capabi

jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwestern syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the she

jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwest and syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the sh

going to get we weren't involved and we're not going to get involved in the actual syrian civil war rami corey in beirut what options now are there for president assad in southern syria if he tells iranian backed forces to leave the area as part of this deal where does that leave him in his relationship with iran. i think this issue of iranian forces near the israeli occupied golan heights. reflects a lot of the bizarre approach that israel and zionism have to our region and this is just another example of israel saying its sovereignty its security are more important than the sovereignty and security of its neighbors they can do anything it wants in lebanon and syria and and gaza and it can kill it could shoot it and destroy things and it does this all the time i mean the idea that israel hasn't been involved in the syrian war is a little bit fantastic and they've been attacking targets regularly that have in one way. hurt the syrian government or has below or the alliance between them and iran so hezbollah syria and iran are really one unit that haven't worked together since the early one nin

jerusalem we're joined by robi sable a professor at the hebrew university of jerusalem and from beirut rami corey a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the american university of beirut and welcome to you all rami if we can start with you some context here first to what extent does southwest and syria's pivotal location mean that any military offensive in that region would have had stakes the transcends syria's civil war. that's a very strategic area in terms of the relationship between lebanon and hezbollah and syria and israel and jordan and iran all together they are interested in this area and the russians of course behind the syrian government the russians are trying to prevent wars regionally but all these other actors or involved in confrontations and have been involved in wars over the years it's a very strategic area and the golan itself the border area the go on has become even more important now because historically it was southern lebanon and northern israel that was the where fighting used to take place all the time between hezbollah and israel it shifted in recent years to the sh