and previously worked for saudi arabia's general sports authority well rami khouri is a senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut he says the saudi government's policies are the fundamental problem. the problem that the saudis have is that they don't have much credibility because of their policies not because of the people they appoint and princes rima is probably a very qualified intelligent amiable and articulate woman but she will have no chance to do anything if the policies of the saudi government in yemen internally in saudi arabia dealing with the her should be killing aftermath if those policies don't change then she will just find herself in the same situation as i had little bear before her former ambassador from former foreign minister whose reputation was really tarnished very badly because he was caught up in the web of lies that came up after the her shoji killing the congress is particularly hostile including senior republican members of congress who in the congress sent a reform of the request to the presidency to deal with the holding accountabl

demoted that much this is a very important position that he holds so we'll see how he responds rami khouri thank you very much indeed for your time. now in a few moments we'll have the weather with rob mccallum but still ahead here on al-jazeera what's got religious groups up in arms at a vote on cuba as new constitution. saving the planet for setting a price on climate change being used to divide us democrats and support them a messy rescues barcelona mooches and occur in the process. yesterday was not a good day down domination coast particularly for croatia where those seasonal winds the burra was closer to the interiors and northerly and can easily regulate gusts over one hundred ks made a record as you can see the damage is quite extensive considering this is a wind out of the interior you don't normally think of them as particularly strong but as i said this was very damaging chordal structure dollars brought to electricity pylons or the sea it brought down trees and things are a little bit better now the strength the winds actually were a record breaking in the town of splits we had

following procedures for things like nonproliferation which can have a serious global security threat rami khouri talking to us live from beirut thank you but the united nations is offered to break a top between india and pakistan that's after last week's car bombing in the disputed kashmir region thursday's blasts killed forty one indian soldiers of his own prime minister has offered to cooperate in the investigations but has also warned of retaliation if india attacks now pakistan based armed group jaish e mohammed claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing well we've been speaking to pakistan's ambassador to the united nations malea lodhi and she appealed for the u.n. secretary general to step in. i met the u.n. secretary general this afternoon and before that i met the president of the un security council and to both of them i emphasized the need for the u.n. to play its role and live up to its obligations i told the secretary general that he had put prevention at the very heart of his agenda this is the time for him to act because the situation between pakistan and india is deteriorating