we are in riyadh the capital of saudi arabia one of the most conservative countries in the world. we take a look at zain umps daily life. restrictions on women are still on the present. even at the hair salon the cameramen has to stay outside only women are allowed to film here. and yet showing footage of care is forbidden. still saudi arabia has started to change. the idea of the table my name is doctors in a year today i'm signing my novel it's about two generations shaha a mother and her daughter haya. just cry. problem saudi women face and it's about the relationship between men and women that see at the end. that is enough first novel hajar criticise a spoiled mess within our society and between different generations but only between the lines. that if i really like what you face and the way you write it's charming but this has that did you also take the other book it's new. as a catholic in that. i think men and women men go here at the book fair in riyadh a place where conservative and modern world views. how much has saudi arabia changed. i see an absence for books at seve

we are in riyadh saudi arabia one of the most conservative countries in the world. and we take a look at daily life. restrictions on women. still on the present. even at the hair salon the cameraman has to stay outside. only women are allowed to film here. and yet showing footage of care is forbidden. still saudi arabia has started to change. it not a lot of money at me and i. paid the kind of thing of. the way the idea of the table my name is doctors in a year today i'm signing my novel it's about two generations share our mother and her daughter haya. it describes problems saudi women face and it's about the relationship between men and women that play at it and. that is enough first novel hajar criticizes dogmatists within her society and between different generations but only between the uk it's new york. is that if you look at the collapse. if you are young men and women and then go here at the book fair in riyadh a place where conservative and modern world views. how much has saudi arabia changed. i was saying of science or books at several steps so. this. is.

targeting the defense ministry in riyadh. one of the stories we're following demonstrations in the central african republic of late some of the bodies of those killed in recent violence outside the u.n. mission building in the capital bangui at least twenty one people were killed during a u.n. operation in the mainly muslim p.k. five neighborhood so peacekeepers and the army target groups mohamed a dog reports. once again the people of central african republic a witnessing renewed violence at the headquarters of the un peacekeeping mission in the capital bangui hundreds of hundred demonstrators laid out the bodies of what list sixteen people they say they were killed in violence between armed groups and un peacekeepers in the p.k. five neighborhood a muslim district in the majority christian city. population will think if i. didn't know what's going on exactly who i thought they knew that the they're going to attack force but they are attacking everyone so people react to it and they start fighting back within it and. that ni

who these say that were targeting the defense ministry in riyadh there are no reports of any damage meanwhile saudi air defenses also say they've shot down two on man the yemeni drones in southern saudi arabia one of the drones was targeting the international airport the second was in g.'s on province who the rebels said they were targeting saudi arabia's oil facilities well just in broke is a research fellow of air power and technology here in london he said such a such activity from the who these is meant to reinforce their strong presence and manpower in the region. i think the timing is potentially more about keeping up a steady drumbeat of missile attacks to show you send a message to saudi arabia but also to other actors who are watching in the region and beyond that the threat isn't going away that they are not being militarily defeated. and probably hoping to send the sort of message start a wait and starve them out approach isn't working so perhaps the time history you know time has come for something else i believe from the perspective maybe dialogue . i'm not sure that's

here in moscow is decidedly mutual my guest this week is russia's deputy foreign minister sergei riyadh cup one of the shows is a call to this current slide in the east west relations always the worst the current. what's even more german annoying spanish tynecastle. the brandenburg gate. or the rhine river. sausages. processed me him a piece of cultural identity the evolution of a national common area treasure. sixty minutes. late you're smart t.v. smarter than g.w. bush much. what you want when you want it. to do extraordinary. to decide what songs find out more than just come smart t.v. . it's no secret that the west is angry with russia on a whole range of issues but the feeling here in moscow is decidedly mutual my guest this week is russia's deputy foreign minister sergei riyadh what are the chances of halting this current slide in east west relations or is there worse to come.

saudi state media say security forces have shot down an an identified small drone in the capital riyadh it was hovering in a neighborhood where boyle palaces are located online video showed gunfire sparking fears of on rest officials say king solomon was not at his palace in riyadh at the time of the incident. he. fear opinion and mexico have reached a preliminary agreement on a new free trade deal it updates in accord from two decades ago a focus on industrial goods and joint statement european commissioners and the mexican economy minister said they hope to resolve remaining issues soon. the basque separatist group is expected to announce its dissolution next month the group carried out a four decade long armed campaign for the basque regions independence some to accept. it still has supporters here thousands gathered in b. vowed to demand the government move the last edit prisoners to jails closer to their homes the militant group recently asked its victims for forgiveness marking the end of an era for many here. is pretty much considered we hope we can finally end the conflict in th

here in moscow is decidedly mutual my guest this week is russia's deputy foreign minister sergei riyadh cuffe what are the chances of halting this current slide in east west relations or is there worse to come. said going to have gone.

saudi state media says security forces have shot down an identified small drone in the capital riyadh it was hovering in a neighborhood where royal palaces are located online video showed gunfire sparking fears of unrest officials say king solomon was not at his palace in riyadh at the time of the incident the basque separatist group is expected to announce next month the group carried out of four decade long armed campaign for the basque regions independence from france and spain it sees its violent activity in two thousand and eleven but just a day ago adds asked of civilian victims for forgiveness but that's proving difficult for some to accept. still has supporters here thousands gathered in b. vowed to demand the government move the last edit prisoners to jails closer to their homes the militant group recently asked its victims for forgiveness marking the end of an era for many here. it's pretty much considered a hope we can finally end the conflict in the basque region that got ashen within the predicament on friday published a statement apologizing to nonpartizan victims who we

justice thurgood marshall and housing director robert weaver to riyadh u.s. army rolled up behind the white house just before the sun went down. the president ordered the soldiers not to ring the white house. that would be left to government police in hopes of using the impact overseas. it was the saddest day of the johnson presidency since that in 1963, when he returned to washington from dallas. dan rather, cbs news, the white house. >> washington bore the front of the daytime violence. but chicago claimed the fearful distinction as night fell. there, 6000 national guardsmen were called to duty as fires raged for a 16-block area. garfield park, known as a bleak negro ghetto. looting vandalism and burning beginning the afternoon as thousands of schoolchildren lest left of their classes. by late afternoon, as national guardsmen were being alerted, the trouble reached alarming proportions and these fires were started. the looting went largely unchallenged. the scenes are all too familiar. too, ofwomen, children all ages, caring articles of all description, tel

escalation on both sides whether it's you know the who thinks firing their ballistic missiles into riyadh and so on. it's on the other hand it's more of the same weddings funerals hospitals schools have been bombed repeatedly in the past. as reaction has been similar in the sense that it said you know it will investigate . so you know the despite the fact that it will make a difference doesn't it investigate if it is your own kind well exactly it's investigating its own actions and in the past these investigations have been questionable in terms of process and transparency and they've they've tended to deflect responsibility onto their yemeni military allies inside yemen i think that you know the the message here from the last three days is despite the fact that you know there's this rhetoric about the peace process and the importance of the peace process and engaging the heavy government and and the u.n. . both parties seem to think that you know the military solution is the only solution to this conflict isn't taking out. the who the second in command what sort of impact is it going to

joe weigh in on that there because it is you know is this policy being driven by television riyadh well certainly riyadh and other gulf states from the very beginning and turkey wanted the overthrow of saud and that brings me to the point that whether you agree or like the assad government or not it's a fact that they were been on the defensive this is an uprising this was an attempt to overthrow a government so you're on the defensive so to invite iran in and russia to help them defend themselves is a natural act of a government trying to survive this was not iran or russia invading syria the iranians would have come in if there were no attempt to overthrow the government so they they have every right as you pointed out to invite whoever they are any friends they had to help them survive this is natural and any government would do that now the israelis i mean hezbollah by the way i think is defending lebanon even lebanese christians and they don't know who would agree with as much as they hate they may hate that well they may not like them but they.

going to take you live now to riyadh where u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is speaking as well along side saudi foreign minister adding to bear there he is listening. in your second country the kingdom of saudi arabia as you all know the u.s. and saudi arabia has long and deep strategic relations for so many years and on the so many domains like security military commercial and traded occasional domains and spheres. and the most contrary that has to them from saudi arabia to study in the us is the united states of america and we have so many ties and relations with the u.s. and we have given some privileges to the investors. the custodian of the two holy mosques to. the crown prince of. encouraging the ties between both countries the meetings of years that they were very fruitful. to support and those. between the two countries will also have gone through all the challenges in the region the situation in iraq the iranian. we have you are in the region the situation in yemen . how to support the. contras on the african goes an

joe weigh in on that there because it is you know is this policy being driven by tell of even riyadh. well certainly riyadh and other gulf states from the very beginning and turkey wanted the overthrow of saud and that brings me to the point that whether you agree or like the assad government or not it's a fact that they were been on the defensive this is an uprising this was an attempt to overthrow a government so you're on the defensive so to invite iran n. and russia to help them defend themselves is a natural act of a government trying to survive this was not iran or russia invading syria of the iranians wouldn't come in if there were no attempt to overthrow the government so they they have every right as you pointed out to invite whoever they are any friends they had to help them survive this is not true and any government would do that now the israelis i mean hezbollah by the way i think is defending lebanon even lebanese christians and they don't know who would agree with much as they hate they may hate that well they may not like them but they realize that the lebanese army is

that it's hard to interpret it differently given what's been said by both in belgium then in riyadh now in jerusalem presumably his next stop a man as well this very much seems to be if not definitive does preemption of a decision to pull away from the iran nuclear deal at least a very clear warning shots fired across iran's bows certainly as you say the u.s. is maintaining that no decision has been yet made the new national security advisor john bolton was on the airwaves in the states this morning u.s. time saying that that decision had yet to be taken but the indications from pompei o have been pretty clear that unless something really unexpectedly major happens in the intervening couple of weeks less than two weeks by the may the twelfth deadline that the united states is very ready to walk away from it and that is something that of course benjamin netanyahu is welcoming hugely you heard that language there in that last clause about how if people thought the nuclear deal would moderate iran's behavior that they were so disappointed that is very much the same language that was using

saudi arabia has intercepted a hissy ballistic missile fired from yemen over the capital riyadh the hoofy say they were targeting the defense ministry in riyadh there are no reports of damage algeria has announced three days of mourning after a military plane crashed killing two hundred fifty seven people it went down shortly after taking off from military airport near the capital is still to be out syria's worst ever adds hasta on the well the deadliest plane crash in two thousand and fourteen. so the national politician voice says he's proud of his war crimes after being sentenced to ten years in jail was initially acquitted by a u.n. court of crimes against known serbs during the balkan wars that's now been partially overturned in the hague on appeal. of the top stories more news coming up in twenty five minutes time off to witness which is next. you. know. but i think. if you don't know how to balance it a little bit down a bit. it below the. knee. because of this idea that's not just a new person i believe it's fatally because i didn't really see it it wanted to do this and i studied

in riyadh iran nuclear deal the war in syria yemen and gulf relations all on the agenda we'll have a live report and analysis also on the great they've made it to the u.s. border but their troubles off awful ball for several hundred migrants who fed. already in central america are seeking political asylum in the u.s. but president trump has made it clear that not while tough and a very messy crisis china says it will stop accepting shipments of foreign garbage because of environmental concerns now countries like australia say they have nowhere to send their waste will take a look at what this means for the global recycling industry. a far right politician turned cia director and mel secretary of state questions remain about my pump ale's views of muslims us who visits the middle east i mean to suppose sinister comest route the show using it's a new spirit. led with the news gridlock on and streaming online for you to facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us mike pompei always making his first overseas. straight as america's top diplomat the new u.s. secretary

now in response riyadh said it is taking the report very seriously and will fully investigate as it claims to have done in the past with very similar incidents the saudi led coalition intervened in yemen almost three years ago to counter who the opposition fighters riyadh considers them as terrorists seeking to overthrow the yemeni government and the u.n. has described the conflict as the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history and we spoke to the former head of the red cross in yemen who explained just how much needs to be done in that country there is a problem with a structural collapse of the system in yemen you have problems of water you have problems of sanitation we the international red cross we try to fix those problems otherwise there would have been maybe not be any running water and so on anymore so there is no doubt that what is coming into the country at the moment is not enough and more should be done you money to and aid is to some extent allowed in but the problem is that more is needed to ensure a decent level of life for the population i am afraid that this is becomi

that supports the murderous assad regime as well compares arrival in riyadh followed a barrage of eight ballistic missiles fired into saudi territory by hooty fighters in yemen the u.s. and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran who are commanded to cut and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. emba

last stronghold after aleppo and it led so i think that that is really zation in the capitals of riyadh and certainly in washington that this was the last and by the rebels themselves this was the last chance if they were going to try to reverse this tide so the rebels needed to bring the u.s. into it which is why it seems like they may very well have been behind and russia by the way behind this attack on russia warned by the way three weeks ago that this could very this could happen that there was a false flag chemical attack in the works i don't know if that's what happened but i certainly don't know that the syrian government did it but that doesn't seem to matter to people at nikki haley's syria did it and now we're going to see an attempt maybe by the united states to get deeply involved in this to reverse the tide and this is the last chance before the syrian government wins this war which they are on the verge of doing richard what national interest does syria hold because i mean you know when trump came almost exactly a year ago there was an alleged chemical incident and then h

ashley: they intercepted the missile over riyadh.d reported two or three explosions or blasts in the city. where those missiles came from we don't know. in the past they have come from yemen with rebel forces backed by air in. not sure what is going on this time but tensions are rising. stuart: military action and the missile flying over the capital cities military action and we expect more to come and we don't know when it will happen or what form it will take. the president did put out that we telling the russians the missiles are coming. there are all kinds of moving parts going on. the dow industrials dropping a little more, this is the saudi news, the missile over riyadh having its effect, we are down 170 points and oil continues its rise up $67 per barrel as we speak. a lot going on. it is 11:00 am almost on new york city, 8:00 in california. we are doing things different today because we have a series of big-time stories we are going at starting with mark zuckerberg testifying as of right now. we are monitoring the hearing thr

all compensate the victims oxfam condemned the attack and called for an investigation in response riyadh said that it is taking that report very seriously and that it will fully investigate as it claims have done in the past with similar incidents sounded a coalition intervened in yemen almost three years ago it was the council who theall position fighters riyadh considers them to be terrorists who is seeking to overthrow the yemeni government the un has described the conflict as being the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in history he spoke to the former head of the red cross in yemen to explain just how much needs to be done to help the country. there is a problem with the structural collapse of the system in yemen you have problems of water you have problems of sanitation we in the international red cross we try to fix those problems otherwise there would maybe not be any running water and so on anymore so there is no girl that what is coming into the country at the moment is not enough and more should be done humanitarian aid is to some to a large extent allowed in but the problem i

decided that intervention in yemen began almost three years ago to counter his the opposition fighters riyadh considers them terrorists seeking to overthrow the government the u.n. has described the conflict as the worst manmade humanitarian crisis in modern history spoke with the former head of the red cross in yemen who explains just how much needs to be done to help the country. there is a problem with a structural collapse of the system you have problems of water you have problems of sanitation we the international red cross we try to fix those problems otherwise there would maybe not be any running water and so on anymore so there is no doubt that what is coming into the country at the moment is not enough and more should be done humanitarian aid is to some to a large extent allowed in but the problem is that more is needed to ensure a decent level of life for the population i am afraid that this is becoming a feature of some of the conflicts you know some of the conflict where i work at the beginning of my career were very poor country there were poor before the war poor doing the war u

women will finally be removed later this year our reporter friday for char traveled to the capital riyadh and to jeddah to look at what this vision for the future really means for the country riyadh is an international city third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall come they once enjoyed is starting to fade. saudis first know that the saudi government splatted to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire non saudis will have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example who do restricted to saudis only. for a nurse will be banned from at least jobs based music stores selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson. how does ation is a good idea there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and a lot of saudis return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners in their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudi

will finally be removed later this year while our reporter for the charge traveled to the capital riyadh and to jeddah to look at what this vision for the future really means for the country riyadh is an international city a third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the welcome they once enjoyed is starting to fade. saudis first know that the saudi government's plan to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire non saudis will have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example they do restricted to saudi sullenly. foreigners will be banned from at least twelve jobs they snoozing store selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson male or. saudis asian is a good idea there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and a lot of saudis return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners at their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should ben

up so liverpool trash rumah tonight the football world's attention turns to munich as buy and host riyadh madrid in sunday's final number two we bring you the latest. the first christopher joins me and chinese drivers are becoming ever more sophisticated in their tastes and they love their s.u.v.s christophe. the foreshore which is kicking off which is kicked off in the chinese capital that is that comes as the skyrocketing growth of new car sales appears to be slowing for the first time still chinese consumers drove more than twenty nine million new vehicles off the lots around the people's republic last year chinese drivers do a lot there as your reason mentioned it which made up around forty percent of new car sales but electric cars are also booming their sales jumped by more than fifty percent last year to seven hundred eighty thousand units now that may be a fraction of total new car sales but it still makes china the world leader in the business and with beijing's plan to quote us for electric cars says unlikely to increase further german manufacturers do want a piece of that pie a

secretary of state when he was in riyadh this must be music to the ears of the israeli prime minister. very much so i mean this is not just preaching to the choir it's preaching to the priest if you will benjamin netanyahu has been talking about iran in these terms for many years now and especially since the signing three years ago of the j.c. the iran nuclear deal has been wildly critical of it saying that it totally underestimates the future threat from iran and that morning is to be done to combat as you heard both men say the current situation of what netanyahu says is a spreading of missiles or any missiles into syrian territory into lebanon and thereby being a potential existential threat to israel something that he would not allow happen so when he hears the u.s. secretary of state and not just a u.s. secretary of state but a very different one from his predecessor rex tillerson who was in a state of semi detachment at best from the white house for most of his tenure as someone so close to donald trump especially on this iran issue speaking in these sorts of terms that's a majo

secretary of state he underlined not only here in amman but also in tel aviv and earlier in riyadh that actually still hasn't been to his office but he came on this mideast through the overarching the most important i think when it comes to the americans at the moment is to have a united front among the gulf countries when it comes to iran and i think he had very stern messages there towards saudi arabia and the u.a.e. saying you have to solve the issue with qatar and then the second main issue being of course syria and it sounds biased his words at least at least the way he's putting it that the israeli palestinian conflict might not be as important as the at the moment as it is for example for de jordanian and did my pump i mean he spoke about iran growing influence in the region what's the jordanian assessment on iran. well it certainly. doesn't speak very much. when it comes to iran that has the same worries it is aligned with saudi arabia so certainly those concerns out there those concerns are there all throughout the middle east that actually iran is gaining more and more territo

riyadh is an international city third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall come they once enjoyed starting to think. saudis first know that the saudi government splatted to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire none so days they have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example would be restricted to saudis only. for a nurse will be banned from at least twelve jobs this music store selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson male. how does ation is a good idea but there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. and a lot of saudis return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners of their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the south pacific it's a tough area most of the people here are four and are. going to hear this from bangladesh derives a month ago to work

palestinians as far as the palestinians are concerned their stance remains unchanged after the summit in riyadh last year and that's the position whereby the palestinian conflict has to be addressed and solved first before any normalization of relations with israel that remains the case so if he did say it the palestinians don't really want to talk about it it seems good to get your thoughts or herefore to special microphone my friends in ramallah. nigerian president mohammad dubai hari has arrived at the white house for messing with the u.s. president on trump security corruption and china's financial presence in africa are all expected to be on the agenda but hari who we seeking reelection next year is the first sub-saharan african beat it to meet strummed alan fischer is live for us at the white house is standing by for a joint press conference alex the president's merican president has made some very disparaging comments about nigerians are indeed african nations how much do you think that is going to upset the tone of his discussions between the two leaders. i think we'll probably move on