s policy of arming riyadh is because of the brutal conflict taking place in yemen at the moment where saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's conducting an strikes against the rebels in yemen and saudi arabia's been accused of violating humanitarian law there in that conflict and also they've been accused of targeting civilians indiscriminately and they've been doing that with a lot of british equipment the u.k.'s licensed over three billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen and to give you an idea about the sorts of customers saudi arabia iraq the saudi military has doubled the number of british made warplanes than the brits have themselves so in light of this conflict in yemen many politicians have public opinion has become increasingly concerned about this policy of arming riyadh take a listen to what some m.p.'s here in parliament have had to say about it. here is a speaker thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen including a large number by the air force i think on the dumb not using british built planes

they came out of the riyadh conference as united opposition to iran.resident has spoken to it since then. what is the basic split and basic fear of iran? is it that they are supporting terrorism, and supporting groups that are in opposition to the views of the united arab emirates, saudi arabia, and other sunni arab states? is that essentially the conflict that iran is exporting their revolution to other places? and you want to stop them, because you want to make sure they do not dominate the region? yousef: not only does iran export the revolution it is in , their constitution. it is only country in the world, where enshrined in their constitution, is the idea of promoting and exporting their revolution. they have done it with great success in places like iraq, syria, lebanon, and now yemen. they have even reached afghanistan. our concern is the expansionist policy of iran, the hegemonic policy of iran. i am telling you this as a diplomat that represents a country that has three of its islands operated by iran until today this is not theoretical. , 19

november 2014 the late king abdullah hosted a meeting in riyadh and hosted all the gcc leaders and had a very, very open conversation, we'll call it a very honest airing of his grieveances with the qatari leader. and at the end of that meeting, there was a document that was signed and we called it the riyadh agreement. and i brought a copy with me. it is right here and it has the signature of the imir of qatar it was over the exact same set of issues. and qatar promised to stop supporting the groups and individuals that were giving us a hard time. unfortunately, everything that has been signed into this agreement has been violated for the last three years. so the collective frustration with the four countries today is at a new level. so the demands while they are more specific, they are still in tari signed up to in 2014. we are ready to sit down with qatar tomorrow and negotiate the 13 demands. if the qataris are willing to say that they are willing to negotiate. so far they haven't been able to say that. but we want a solution. and the slawtion has to be a diplomatic solution. but th

s policy of arming riyadh is because of the brutal conflict taking place in yemen at the moment where saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's conducting as strikes against the rebels in yemen and saudi arabia's been accused of violating humanitarian law there in that conflict and also they've been accused of targeting civilians indiscriminately and they've been doing that with british equipment to raise licensed over three billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen and to give you an idea about the sorts of customers saudi arabia iraq the saudi military has doubled the number of british made warplanes than the brits have themselves so in light of this conflict in yemen many politicians have public opinion has become increasingly concerned about this policy of arming riyadh take a listen to what some m.p.'s here in parliament have had to say about it. the speaker thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen including a large number of the air force i assure you i'm not using british built planes there was a part of

the first attache was sent out and was in abu dhabi with a depp any in riyadh shortly after. it was augmented i think around 2010, the position in riyadh was made a full attache and the position in abu dhabi took on covering kuwait and qatar as well. then in 2013, which was when i arrived, i was responsible for the gcc minus saudis. and with the deputy in abu dhabi, when i left there was an attache placed in doha with responsibility for qatar and kuwait, which is something i pushed for, you know, since a lot of the value of having someone forward deployed is the ability to be available and follow up. and it was, yeah, a lot of travel over a couple of years, even though those are short flights. the one to doha was because you land technically before you take off coming from abu dhabi. it is a 45-minute flight. nonetheless, the value in having someone there a lot of times is the ability to be available and to develop, you know, rapport with the counterpart and to the conference on technical issues. i would say throughout the gulf we've had very good relationships with our count

this meant a lot to me, riyadh last year was a job. the achievement of what it was, meaning a lotto retain the achievement of what it was, meaning a lot to retain their title. to get the world championship back, in london, to come here from always going to be special for me. are you looking back on this race in a positive way. everything you wanted it to be hearing in mind everything that has happened? so happy i got the medal i wanted. that is all i came here to do. i knew i was in good form, did not know how good until the heats. i knewl good form, did not know how good until the heats. i knew i was onto something insane. is the world re cord something insane. is the world record always on the back of your mind, asa record always on the back of your mind, as a sprinter? particularly the rivalry have the holder? that world record is not going to stand for very long. they don't understand the very long. the thing that does stand for a long time his medals, what we get to look back on, keeping oui’ what we get to look back on, keeping o

we want a solution, a diplomatic solution, but the willingness to find a solution lies not in riyadh, in abu dhabi, -- charlie: this took place in what year? yousef: november 2014. charlie: three years ago? so not because of the visit of president trump to react and the arab summit? yousef: no. this is like a pot that has been sitting on the stove a very long it has boiled. once, three years ago and today it has actually gotten worse. we got to a point where we said we can't live like this anymore. you can't sit around the table with us and support the groups threatening to kill us and kill our children. you cannot be inside the tent was a porting groups undermining our security. if you want to continue that foreign policy, you are more than welcome to. they have every right to come back tomorrow and say we reject these demands and we don't want to negotiate. charlie: what happens if they do that? yousef: we are within our rights to say we don't want a relationship with you. it is hard for you to, and horse upon any country -- and force upon any country to have a relationship where th

s license more than three billion pounds of arms sales to riyadh and to give you about an idea about the sorts of customers that saudi arabia are they've got twice the number of british made warplanes in saudi arabia than the british military has here and that trading relationship with riyadh has become increasingly controversial because of the bloody conflict taking place in yemen and the saudis there are leading a military coalition against the goofy red bulls and there's been accusations of them violating human rights since two thousand and fifteen when the conflict began thousands of yemeni civilians have been killed and we have been accused of being rather indiscriminate in terms of how it carries out its as strikes in yemen because of these concerns this trading relationship the fact that they're using british weapons to carry out these strikes means that there have been increasing concerns and calls for independent investigations there been parliamentary committees here in the u.k. that have recommended that britain suspend its arms sales until these accusations of human right

and we called it the riyadh graiment. and i brought a copy with me.er the exact same set of issues. and qatar promised to stop supporting the groups and the individuals that were giving us a hard time. unfortunately, everything that has been signed into this ageement has been violated for the last three years. so the collective frustration with the four countries today is at a new level. so the demands, while they're more specific, they are still in line with exactly what the qataris signed up to in 2014. >> rose: so this didn't just happen because of the visit of president trump to riyadh and the arab summit conference. >> absolutely not. this has been-- this is leak a pot that has been sitting on the stove for a really long time and it's finally boiled over, except it boiled over twice. once three years ago, it was resolved, but these commitments were never lived up to. and today it's actually gotten worse. we have gotten to a point, charlie, where we've said we can't live like this anymore. you can't sit around the table with us and support the gro

western countries must understand it's not just stability in the region that's at stake and urged riyadh at the united arab emirates as critical actors to find a way out of the crisis the saudi led coalition is battling the rebels in yemen who controlled most of the northern part of the country meanwhile a special un investigation has concluded that the coalition was most likely responsible for an attack on a migrant boat trying to flee yemen back in march it claimed riyadh's forces were the only ones in the area at the time but they used helicopters to attack the vessel however the coalition denies that it conducted the air strike and with me now is peter mauer who's the president of the international committee of the red cross he joins us on the phone now welcome to program mr moussa so as we heard your it in western countries to influence all those who are party to the conflict in yemen what can the international community realistically do if they haven't done anything already. i think we. visit. straight. we have many other conflicts of. our. but on the other hand all that makes sens

we have been part of the riyadh summit where it was a successful summit. we participated in it. we have signed on the establishment of counter terrorism center. none of the countries the summit raised any concerns with us. so we are still puzzled on the real motivations. but i tried to talk about this to analyze their -- from their speeches what exactly their motive is. could be also that qatar is trying to promote a policy that is based on mediation and mutual understanding versus a policy of confrontation. so, again, they have not give us any clear answer for why they did that. >> have you thought at all about possible economic motivations? for example, your natural gas deal with iran, which may be a threat to saudi arabia. >> before i go into answering the question, maybe it is useful to give a background information on what you just mentioned, our deal with iran. the relation with iran is in line of the corporation counsel. so, in fact, uae has more relations with iran than we do. 96.7% of the trade is with uae. what we have with the iran is we share the natural gas fields.

the president said in riyadh we , have to defeat evil ideologies like jihadist them because they areodern , version of the totalitarianism of the past. i think our foreign-policy jails -- gels much more with the original foreign policy of the united states during and after world war ii than the last 16 years of the bush administration and obama administration. charlie: you don't think president obama saw isis as evil? sebastian: if he did, he never said it, and they talked about violent extremism and local grievances, mumbo-jumbo from the social science world, which in fact seemed to predicate that the terrorist was the victim. we don't think terrorists are victims. terrorists are evil and they must be killed or captured. that is very much on america saw the world during world war ii, and the cold war and that is how , president trump sees the world today. charlie: you can agree that there are a number of ways to fight terrorism. you need both hard power and soft power. sebastian: i jettison the idea that joe and i came up with, the dichotomous concept that there is just soft or hard

charlie: as you know at the , the summitn riyadh in riyadh, saudi arabia and some of the arab state allieshe united states to join them in isolating iran. they believe you engaged in these activities that the united states adjusts you as well. mr. javad zarif: i want to ask you who was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks? charlie: individuals or the state of saudi arabia? mr. javad zarif: we know individuals came from saudi arabia. 15 of them. we also note the ideology came from saudi arabia. the wahabi ideology. if you check from 2001 until now or even 1998 to now, almost 94% if not more of terrorist incidents throughout the world have been instigated and perpetrated by people belonging to that school of thought, which is the official ideology of saudi arabia and promoted across the globe, spreading extremism everywhere. yousef: coming up, abu dhabi's national oil company has picked a team of banks to sell off its service stations units. an ipo which could bring $14 billion. we have the details next. this is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: welcome back to the "best of bloomberg markets: middle east."

it was then augmented, i think, around 2010, the position in riyadh was made as a full attache and the position in abu dhabi took on covering kuwait and qatar as well. then in 2013, which was when i arrived, i was responsible for the gcc minus saudi and with the deputy in an bu dhabi there wasn attache placed in qatar and kuwait which was something i pushed for. the value of having someone deployed is to be able to have the ability to follow up. it was a lot of travel over a couple of years, even though those are short flights. the one to dohi i always liked because you land technically before you take off coming from abu dhabi since it's a 45-minute flight. nonetheless the value in having someone there a lot of times is the ability to be available and to develop, you know, rapport with the counterparts and to concentrate on technical issues. i would say throughout the gulf we have had good relationships with our counterparts in finance ministries and in central banks and can really connect on those technical levels. the attaches work on policy matters, sanctions implementation, promot

charlie: that is the saudi's riyadh. -- that is the saudi's. javad: >> exactly.do not want to engage in constant battle. ♪ ♪ youlie: let me just asked about the idea of a shia crest. it has been said that the forces, leader of the you can help me understand, he is very much interested in having clear route from iran to lebanon to support hezbollah. is that true? and therefore includes syria, iran, as a way to be able to reach them. it is easy to make this constant material allegation. charlie: these are arguments presented by -- at the top levels of american intelligence. javad zarif: conspiracy theory is that a monopoly of the region of united states, once in a while everyone becomes a victim of conspiracy theory. charlie: you have some of your own. javad zarif: of course, our region is the best place to find conspiracy theories. was first setthis by king abdulla, he was really talking about the religious crescent, and now he is talking about more of a political crescent. 2004 1arif: i think, in king abdulla made that statement, and it is interesting that he mad

across the southern border, if you look at the 25 stock market records that have been broken, the riyadhh, it's basically a reassertion of american leadership globally. ronald reagan had a simple platform -- get us out of the economic malaise of the carter years and revitalize the american sense of self and win the cold war against the soviet union. president trump has a similar three legates tool. wall,e economy, held the and defeat isis. osul,the liberation of lom we have gone a great way already. charlie: what has been the biggest frustration for you and steve bannon and president trump? sebastian: this is a man who doesn't given to frustration, and other does steve. it's disappointment, i think. the biggest disappointment business event has make -- fa miasma of collusion that doesn't exist. you heard jared give his public statement. he released a public statement to "the hell" before he went -- to "the hill" before he went. we want to talk about fixing getting rid of obamacare, what has to be done with provisions on health in the united states, but is the obsession of the chattering

including one of his tweets, "great to be in riyadh, saudi arabia.ad." ( laughter ) they even put up one of his tweets on the welcome sign. "welcome to riyadh. rosie o'donnell is a fat pig." ( laughter ) surprised they did that. it's not halal. that sign is not halal now. and they projected his face five stories high onto the wall of his hotel. that way-- no, no, you have to-- because that way, if he gets lost, he could find his way back. ( laughter ) now, back when obama made the same trip, trump tweeted, "many people are saying it was wonderful that mrs. obama refused to wear a scarf in saudi arabia, but they were insulted. we have 'eee-noof' enemies." ( laughter ) eee-noof. ( laughter ) so, it was something of a surprise when melania emerged from air force one also without a scarf. but she cleverly drew attention away from her head by wearing one of her husband's w.w.e. belts. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) oh, she'll-- atomic. she'll atomic drop you. boom! diamond cutter! ( applause ) and then of course there's the bow. somehow, the saudi king alway

the diplomatic standoff began soon after president trump met saudi king salman in riyadh.e'll have more on the diplomatic crisis in the gulf later in the broadcast. in a rock, u.s. backed desk in backed in iraq, u.s. iraqi forces are continuing to fight isis in a few remaining neighborhoods of mosul. iraqi military officials say they expect to seize control of the entire city of mosul by the end of the week. the fighting has forced hundreds of thousands to flee the city, while u.s. led airstrikes backing the ground offensive have reportedly killed hundreds of civilians. in lebanon, two separate fires tore through syrian refugee camps in recent days, killing at least one girl and injuring nearly two dozen others. on sunday, a fire burned the camp housing hundreds of refugees in lebanon's bekaa valley to the ground. another fire broke out tuesday at a nearby camp. meanwhile, the lebanese army raided two syrian refugee camps near the border with syria friday. suicide bombers attacked the army during the raid. at least one small girl was killed in the conflict. in brazil, poli

of course, they were very plead- very pleased with what president trump said in riyadh and they do feel they have the president's support. if you look at the readouts of phone calls nat the president has had with the crown prince of abu dhabi who is influential in this, or with the egyptian president i didn', he says the t supports it but countering terrorism should be the first priority, that suggests to to the people in the region that actually the president is more supportive of the saudi emirati side in this conflict than the qatari side. >> glor: are the saudis and emiratis overestimating how much the united states is willing to do to put pressure on qatar given first and foremost the importance of the u.s. base in qatar? >> i think the saudis and emiratis miscalculated. i think they believed the qataris would cave relatively quickly and not have options, and the qataris proved, first of all, they have vast resources. this is the wealthiest country on the per capita basis in the world. they have vast resources at their disposal. there is the fact of the air base which is incredibly

found yemen or was under the saudi arabia can only be stopped when sales to riyadh halted. the ongoing war is very much a part of the problem and need to add and we basically are calling for a cease fire and then of course we calling for the stuff. to to saudi arabia to be youth in yemen bumbling is not the solution it's that you can't. country into into into pieces or whatever the aim is basically the parties need to come together and reach a peace agreement and the conflict and at least for now and give us. and the international community the u.n. and the government the time an opportunity to respond to the cole right crisis. the media has been obsessing over the looks style and mannerisms of donald trump ever since the billionaire businessman made his bid for the white house how important is a style over substance jacqueline has been trying to find out america's commander in chief is meant to be a representation of the country as a whole and it's no use and what does america project self on if not diversity we believe our diversity our differences when joined together by

riyadh said they were extending the ultimatum for 40 hours.an see on this front page, a paper based in london, but it's very much pro-cqatar. they say it's not working because they have a strong economy and in particular a strong financial sector. if you want to know more about why al jazeera bothers saudi arabia and other nations, you can see this interesting article in the french catholic paper. it points out al jazeera is somewhat of a shield for qutar, and one of the first, to give voice to political opponents particularly during arab spring. this is russell trailers -- this has ruffled feathers and saudi arabia. >> the french president give a speech to both houses of parliament at the same time. cron. outlined his battle plan for five years >> papers said it was a long speech. if you look at the front page, they talk about how it was a long speech that was also very vague. they are talking about a twist on an expression in france, essentially "style and content." they say there was a lot of style, not much content. and the content was qui

one came out of the riyadh summit which was agreement to set up a terror finance tracking center. there's no meat on the bones yet. if you look at the treasury statements, they have lots of great ideas. i've spoken to the people who wrote the statements. they're aspirational, but there's great foundation upon which we could build. and i've pointed to that as something as we could use as a face saving gesture to move forward out of this crisis. >> i think that's a great idea. we should appeal to all of these countries to join us in combatting specifics on how we would fight terrorism financing, and i personally want to thank secretary tillerson for entering in with his entire effort to personally try to solve this. we're talking about allies. we need to get together. and i'm not aware of any other country that wants to host the u.s. military. i just recall being invited to leave one country very quickly. we were told to leave saudi arabia, and i'm not aware that any other country in the region wants to host a u.s. military. are you aware of any other country that wants us to come i

at the riyadh summit. we have created something called the terror finance tracking center. there's no meat on those bones yet. no one knows including the secretary or the treasury, no one knows what that's going to be yet. it's a potential structure. we could put some meat on those bones, that's a gcc-wide effort. we should be acting and demanding participation from all the gcc countries. these are problems happening within all of them. even if qatar and kuwait are the biggest problems right now. >> thank you, madam chair. there's a real battle in the world going on stability and instability. criminals participating in murder and extortion and kidnapping and trying to promote extremism and ideology. it's individuals as you're pointing out that we need to target. thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> now we turn to mr. issa of california. >> thank you, madam chair. >> just for the record briefly, mr. shanzleer, last time were you in the administration? >> ten years ago. bush, right? >> leavitt, last time? >> bush. >> mr. goldenberg? state department, when? >> 2014. >> okay so ver

at the riyadh summit we created something called a terrorism tracking center. no meat is on those bones yet. no one knows, including the secretary of the treasury who testified about it, no one knows what it will be yet. but it is positive ten hal structure that we could put meat on those bones. that's a gcc wide effort and we should be acting and demanding participation from all of the gcc countries because these are problems happening in all of them, even if qatar and kuwait are the biggest problems right now. >> thank you, madam chair. you know, the real battle in the world is going on between stability and instability. it is not necessarily ideology, but criminals participating in murder, extortion, kidnapping and drug dealing and trying to promote extremism ideology. it is not a group but individuals as you are pointing out we need to target. thank you. >> thank you, sir. now we turn to mr. issa of california. >> thank you, madam chair. let me just for the record briefly, mr. shandler, the last time you were in the administration -- >> ten years ago. >> te

president donald trump was prevented therefore from staying there because of riyadh's booking has finally found a place away from some of the other g. twenty participants let's check that out it's going to be his home for the next few days it's this to see nineteenth century building in the past is welcome high ranking guests such as former u.s. second state henry kissinger and the dalai lama some reports say this villainous territory was previously transformed into a high security area and that's what's helped make the switch if for the american president to choose that location but it's not the only reason the media thinks trump picked it as jacqueline bogut reports. c.n.n. learning just moments ago that president and russian president vladimir putin. have now been upgraded it will now be a full fledged bilateral meeting while it's official lot of where putin and donald trump are finally meeting in person sending the media into overdrive and they're billing this as nothing less than a historic encounter that will shape the world face to face meeting with putin will likely get the most a

exile them into riyadh and just have this discussion and you know how it is we you know are saying in the region is that when you give me advice in front of the public you're condoning me so it seems to me that we can but exactly this is one or more people getting involved. go ahead mr alamo him i guess you guys you know this is what i have adult both of you you both obviously agreed in this fight against terrorism and you've both been very dim diplomatic but we can't ignore the fact that saudi itself has been accused of sponsoring terrorism so some may view again these extreme public demands of come from the saudi led group as being rather hypocritical. so i think i think it is yours as you're trying not to mention of those who are going to go out. i mentioned there were happy aspect of this and i think this is something that we are finally confronting in the kingdom and i still think it's a problem with all of the doctrine of the issues and how it connects with isis and what have you but fundamentally saudi arabia has been the leader against since the nine eleven attacks and includi

that we've seen coming out of town and riyadh. this is a turning into a full scale catastrophe for them and it was of their own making go ahead out of. well israel is complaining about iran in syria as you say but what about the fact that israel has illegally occupied syria since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven we don't hear about that now do we what we have just now from the very beginning of this cease fire that america and russia with jordan reached in respect of the southwestern frontiers of syria the litmus test for its success or failure was always going to be the israeli reaction now israel is moaning and netanyahu moaned in france he's moaning from the hilltops he's moaning so loud he probably can't even hear the gunfire and the stones being thrown in the bodies being hold on to the pavement in jerusalem right now as we speak but there's simply worried about syria exercising its sovereign right to have relations with any partner it wants israel is a rogue state israel is a country that not only moans about other coun

keep poking at qatar with claims that harbors and sponsors terrorists al-qaeda to be precise the riyadh has now added eighteen more groups and individuals to the list of terrorists allegedly sponsored by qatar but these claims are based on all documents which begs the question why weren't they released earlier let's go back a bit the could tars sponsors terror attack line was intended to make doha given to the saudi demands some of which included closing down the al jazeera news network cutting ties with iran shutting down a turkish base making it next to impossible for qatar to comply but the saudis aren't backing down just yet a couple of days ago n.b.c. four in washington d.c. began airing commercials that claim qatar is sponsoring terror and destabilizing u.s. allies in the region and guess what the thirty second ads were paid for by none other than the saudi american public relation of ferrous committee the biggest saudi lobbying firm in the united states now all of this is happening despite the fact that the saudis main ally the u.s. has been singing quite a different tune about q

over the last couple of years we can clearly see that the standards of living have deteriorated in riyadh. when those conflicts were in. still is all when they can not have been prevented the united nations did not voice concerns no i think you see it worsen public concern and doing something to my mind are two different things do we need to do board yes do newt need to do it better yes but. from there to believe that. all diplomacy all activity should become doctrine in the limelight i think perhaps may not be correct you know recently we had a situation in the gambia which i think where. the president who had who had lost the election was refusing to leave and i think in cooperation with the african union in cooperation with the regional countries particularly synagogue we were able to find a good solution and as you see it on the stoop that one country were such good solution could not be found is syria and i know that the united nations throughout the syrian conflict has been nurturing some contingency plans for syria some countries wanted and were active here in all some countries wa