and riyadh was someone that he had and was as not to go to the summit and he went actually from riyadh straight to istanbul and open defiance to the regional pressure on the issue of jerusalem and he maintained his position that jerusalem will not compromising control rosalynn we will always maintain our position on that so i think jordan which traditionally by the way was always part of this. moderate alliance the prologue with pro-american alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem and the ultimate position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudis subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not paid for jordan and there's also what's called the oil a grant from saudi arabia that also joe daniels to receive in the past has not been received either so the jordan not subscribing to this ultimate deal of alliance stories. the politics of the region. in jerusalem has definitely caused jordan you know this issue and that's why i call it th

king abdullah has refused to be part of this king abdullah was someone to riyadh just before the fall i see. of islamic cooperation summit in istanbul in riyadh was someone that we had on was as not the goal of this summit and he went actually from riyadh still it was the ball in an open defiance to the regional pressure on the issue of jerusalem and he maintained his position that jerusalem we have not compromising on jerusalem we will.

king abdullah has refused to be part of this king abdullah was someone to riyadh just before the fall i see. of islamic cooperation summit in istanbul in riyadh was someone that we had on was as not the goal of this summit and he went actually from riyadh still it was the ball in an open defiance to the regional pressure on the issue of jerusalem and he maintained his position that jerusalem we have not compromising controls on them we will always meant in our position on that so i think jordan which traditionally by the way was always. of this. alliance the pool with pro america alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem the ultimate position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudi subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not for jordan and there is also what's called the only grant from saudi arabia that also jordan used to receive in the past has not been busy you've either saw the jordan not subscribing to this altima deal or l

you're watching history being made it's finally twelve in riyadh saudi arabia it's the twenty fourth of june. to drive you would watch me drive to my father's house and then i'll take you to a tour. that. well women's efforts to overturn the ban go back nearly three decades in one thousand nine hundred forty women drove the cars in riyadh the first public demonstration against the ban in two thousand and seven activists submitted a petition to the van king abdullah asking for the right to drive the next year one of those activists. made a film of herself driving and posted it online dozens of women followed suit over the next few years last september king solomon finally gave orders for the band to be lifted as part of the crown prince's reform drive but in the last few weeks many prominent women's rights activists have been arrested. middle east consultant to a non-governmental organization equality now she says there are still challenges ahead for female try this and this is important for a woman at the beginning that at least they can exercise their rights to do their freedom of m

two worlds collide here in riyadh. saudi design week is underway western style events like this one are a fairly recent development. they tracked the wealthy upper classes. to her has dropped polly she's sticking to the rules this time and has changed out of the trousers into an empire. and she's very taken with the spots of bias she spotted. so how am i going to be in the streets exercising if i don't have the right here so her decide to make the transition you know the evolution of woman development to be present in public area you know when you see the video there in public areas i know so to move forward to the next step of. the local press is more interested in princes rema been to fund our own salute she's the first female president of the saudi federation for community sports a government body. that is a sports authority we're very proud to not only include women as athletes but also as a woman the facilitator of the athletes might say to me if you see the designers that you brought in the freedom that i use to

say their severing diplomatic relations with qatar riyadh a single shot was fired a full blown war of words was engaged. to store the other the most see a world of magic. flight accusations and counter-accusations this claim this encounter claims were made by. the media served as the main battleground. on monday the fifth of june two thousand and seventeen crain state television read a statement from its government in the men look at their. father not. a short time later saudi arabia followed suit. the message well. i thought of. the year when. the u.a.e. and egypt announced they were cutting ties with qatar. the coordinated move by the four countries has caused the greatest rift in years between some of the most powerful arab states the largest country. followed by what it's. see dependent foreign policy as a threat. to their narrative their consensus there were. only one which is totally unacceptable qatar was accused of harboring a multitude of terrorist and sectarian groups creating instability in the region the restrictions did not only target because of the government but also i

at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one e-mail bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by qatar and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they deny but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and his

king abdullah has refused to be part of this king abdullah was someone to riyadh just before the fall i see. of islamic cooperation summit in istanbul in riyadh was someone that we had on was as not to go to the summit and he went actually from riyadh there to istanbul in an open defiance to the regional pressure on the issue of jerusalem and he maintained his position that jerusalem we have not compromising on jerusalem we will always meant in our position on that so i think jordan which traditionally by the way was always. of this. alliance the pool with pro america alliance but we started to see these differences appear on the jordan position especially on jerusalem the ultimate deal position we have seen actually the. saudi and the investment in jerusalem. the last three years actually the saudis subsidy of one hundred million one hundred eighty million dollars were not for jordan and there is also what's called the oil a grant from saudi arabia that also jordan used to receive in the past has not been busy you've either saw the jordan not subscribing to this altima deal or lion s

at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one e-mail bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by cutter and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they deny but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and his

just after midnight in riyadh, a piece of history is about to be made. a perfectly normal act in every other country in the world, but until now, not in saudi arabia. ujdeen al—ateek takes the wheel of the family car and drives into the street. all i can think about it, i can still do my own stuff. i do not have to ask about anyone to take me around. it is very important for us to drive. ok, maybe, a lot of us do not need to drive. but for me, i used to drive, i used to do my own stuff, i'm not used to being driven around. enjoying the freedom of the city, this change has been a long time coming. some activists have been demanding the right to drive for decades. back in 2013, this woman took the wheel in defiance of the law. some were punished for doing the same thing. change is under way in saudi arabia. cinemas have been allowed to open, along with the same music concerts and the first fashion week. it is all part of a modernisation drive led by the crown prince, mahmoud bin salman. but while some restrictions are easing, saudi women are still not free

nato troops or something to garvey's facilities from just drawn from have them from anybody else riyadh and given what we're discussing today his desire to take and maintain control of this oil crescent with the potential economic impact of that you've already talked about what happens if the oil crescent becomes another it doesn't burn it doesn't seem to have much strategic importance but then what happens a burner becomes another benghazi. yeah i mean i mean i think first i'd just like to address a point as well made by that that as he's outlined you know you have to has gone from being this essentially warlord renegade to now being a figure who is attending these high level state meetings and one of the key factors and able to him to gain this international legitimacy was his control of the oil questioned as soon as he took control and have the leverage that that gave him the fact that he kept your question open he kept the ports operating that gave him a great deal of international legitimacy and he's been able to use that to great effect since then so the orcas in that sense just a

saudi arabia's a defense forces say they've intercepted a ballistic missile over the capital riyadh yemen's who's the rebel say they launched rockets targeting the defense ministry in the saudi capital of stepped up messiah attacks in retaliation for as strikes by the saudi led coalition. we're now if he is again criticised for not taking in a rescue ship with more than two hundred thirty refugees and migrants on board the m.v. lifeline is currently in limbo in the mediterranean after both italy in malta refused to permission to dock the german vessel picked up the migrants between libya and the italian island of lampedusa or on thursday it's a new government has been rescue ships from docking at its ports and called on multitude take the boat in but malta are saying it's not responsible meanwhile spain's coast guard has rescued nearly eight hundred refugees and migrants over the weekend and the spanish and joe proactive open arms. say they've also received seven or eight calls alerting them to boats in distress off libya they estimate there to be up to a thousand people on board the italia

as opposed to riyadh going to the rest of the world. well sooner or later they will need the words to deal with them and help them the diversification program you referred to is not going to achieve much shortly when you talk about saudi aramco which is the main source of income for saudi arabia they are talking about the i.p.o. which is the initial public offering of selling five per cent of saudi arabi cannot be productive assets of oil but different assets four hundred billion dollars that is not going to happen and i will tell you why because the saudis have valued the i.p.o. at more than hundred billion dollars that cannot be right because based on the proven reserves of oil they have. many organizations including ords three general and the world bank and many other analysts said that the value could be based on smaller proven reserves saudi arabia say's it has proven there's two hundred sixty eight billion barrels my research shows that that is between eighty and ninety billion and many other experts also agree with that so if you

at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from brodie a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one email bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by cutter and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they deny but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and his

at the time many believe the saudis fawning treatment of him in riyadh played a part but we now know thanks to e-mails leaked to the associated press that the push to get the president to side with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates began months before the emails are from elliot rudy a big time republican fundraiser according to the a.p. he was working with george nader who said he was close to both of the crown princes from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. broady reportedly lobbied the president and later received hundreds of millions of dollars worth of defense deals from the u.a.e. in one email bertie boasted about his role writing trumps vocal support of saudi arabia at this summit quote is a direct result of the campaign we have led over the past two months to highlight the funding of terrorism by qatar and the muslim brotherhood brody is suing cutter he says they hacked his e-mails a charge they deny but cutters facing more scrutiny because of another court case prominent guitars are being sued by rapper ice cube he says they didn't pay him as promised in a business deal and

how do you put on a headscarf it's my first time in saudi arabia in riyadh wearing a headscarf is mandatory it's a tie off it's the thirty five degrees outside as if you've got just that right yeah yeah this is really you know it's really hard. this is going to work a recruitment company for saudi when. there is no gender in socks as it says right here at a little work but the strict segregation of gender is one of the biggest challenges to overcome even here at a global it females cannot mix with the opposite sex you see here men in one room and women are separated in another room. the founder of go work tells me separate places are set up for women to respect their privacy but he says greater interaction would actually improve the output the only thing lacking is the social barrier to communication gap between men and women once that's over then we'll start seeing more integration of women into the labor market the agency is defer stopped for international visitors wanting to be women here probably name some foreign politicians this is frank. came to our office two years we have john mcca

can now might not be the only plan saudi arabia has for the border area some reports suggest that riyadh adding insult to injury intends to build a military base on the side of the canal that's closer to qatar while also using parts of that side as a nuclear waste dump so in this way they're just trying to launch even more escalation saudi arabia the u.a.e. along with their allies this time it's not just political but i think it's physical or geographic or way of truth for that i salute but again i don't think that this would be a very successful as world war i don't think the saudis are right to use it would achieve their goals because copper the house and other allies in the region first and foremost turkey and also iran so i think this would only further lead to divisions within the gulf it softly even amongst g.c.c. countries i don't think good call on necessarily a view of it such a hostile way like the u.a.e. and saudi arabia does the saudis apparently aiming for the troll of the year award are hoping for the canal to be operational as soon as next year as for cancer it can't do mu

can now might not be the only plan saudi arabia has for the border area some reports suggest that riyadh adding insult to injury intends to build a military base on the side of the canal that's closer to qatar while also using parts of that side as a nuclear waste dump so in this way they're just trying to launch even more escalation saudi arabia the u.a.e. along with their allies this time it's not just political but i think it's physical or geographic a way to further isolate qatar but again i don't think that this would be a very successful as world war i don't think the societies that are right to use it would achieve their goals because copper house and other allies in the region first and foremost turkey and also iran so i think this would have only further lead to divisions within the gulf it's often even amongst g.c.c. countries i don't think you have to call a. necessarily a view of it such a hostile way like the u.a.e. and saudi arabia does the saudis apparently aiming for the troll of the year award are hoping for the canal to be operational as soon as next year as for cancer

invited to compete for the project but the deadline on monday now reports say that it could cost riyadh as much as seven hundred fifty million dollars the government though has never officially confirmed the plan because donald has the details. the saudis are not settling down for anything but the best your dinner inas and beach front resorts are said to be built along the canal after all tourism promotion is how officials explain the project cutters opinion of all the commotion on its border is on no but is a list of concerns does the construction of the canal contradict international law decide to rebid have the right to wreck the military base there does it have the right to install a nuclear reactor there and organize a nuclear waste dump of course it has a ten thousand percent right to do so that sovereignty in its full sense. and it's difficult to see this canal as anything else a bud saudi arabia having your tea nother dig at its neighbor in june last year the gulf kingdom and its best buddies announced a full blockade to qatar accusing it of sponsoring terrorism then they confro

the saudi arabian traffic department releases a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars have was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown began on the fifteenth of may. security forces then swept up blogger eman and nuff journ activist and professor as easy use of human rights lawyer abraham moved a mic and one of the kingdom's early feminists. she took part in in one thousand nine hundred can paint to lift the driving ban they could face up to twenty years in prison the saudi state news agency did confirm wrists on the eighteenth of may saying seven suspects were charged as foreign agents reporting they did to violate the country's religious and national pillows and last week the saudi public prosecutor reported coordinated moves to undermine the security of the kingdom seventeen people had been arrested eight were released. the government has not said what threat to security the activists p

as opposed to riyadh going to the rest of the world. well sooner or later they will need the words to deal with them and help them the diversification programme you referred to is not going to achieve much shortly when you talk about saudi aramco which is the main source of income for saudi arabia they are talking about the i.p.o. which is the initial public offering of selling five per cent of saudi arabi cannot be productive assets of oil but different assets for one hundred billion dollars that is not going to happen and i will tell you why because the saudis have valued the i.p.o. at more than hundred billion dollars that cannot be right because based on the proven reserves of oil they have. many organisations including ords three general and the world bank and many other analysts said that the value could be based on smaller proven reserves saudi arabia ses it has proven there's two hundred sixty eight billion barrels my research shows that that is between eighty and ninety billion and many other experts also agree with that so if

one none a difficulty down the dictaphone line number mcdonnell building i got in riyadh and make a name in mind of what they. did in the name of wouldn't it. going to become a building in. several hundred islands have already been evacuated and today the refugees crowd on to larger and better protected islands such as. the capitol. already overcrowded new houses are being crammed together. but in another bitter irony of the sand wars new construction require ever more sand. we have been in the middle of the indian ocean. we have it in the history that goes but. you can't just stop. far from the mild deaves beautiful threatened beaches. greed and speculation drive the global markets for sand and show no signs of slowing down. bombay is not an isolated case there's never been so much construction but at the same time housing has never been less affordable. one third of urban populations now live in slums while go cities and empty apartments are being built all over the world. in china sixty five million flats are empty yet the construction industry is flora xing swallowing up one quarter

as opposed to riyadh going to the rest of the world. well sooner or later they will need the words to deal with them and help them the diversification program you referred to is not going to achieve much shortly when you talk about saudi aramco which is the main source of income for saudi arabia they are talking about the i.p.o. which is the initial public offering aid of selling five per cent of saudi arabi cannot be productive assets of oil but different assets four hundred billion dollars that is not going to happen and i will tell you why because the saudis have valued the i.p.o. at more than hundred billion dollars that cannot be right because based on the proven reserves of oil they have. many organisations including ords three general and the world bank and many other analysts said that the value could be based on smaller proven reserves saudi arabia say's it has proven reserves of two hundred sixty eight billion barrels my research shows that that is between eighty and ninety billion and many other experts also agree with that s

from riyadh 0rla guerin reports.hich would be perfectly normal anywhere else in the world, but not here in saudi arabia, because there's a woman behind the wheel. we are at the campus of the princess nourah university outside riyadh, and driving instructors tell us there's a waiting list of women who want to come for tuition. they are so keen to finally be able to drive in their own country. there is plenty of empty road here, just a few speed bumps here and there, but it's a safe environment to learn to drive. the ban on women driving has been lifted by the crown prince, mohammad bin salman. he's introduced other changes in recent months — cinemas have opened for the first time in more than 30 years, and women can now go to sporting events. many women we've spoken to here tell us that this is a moment of freedom, that they will now be able to do things for themselves. they feel that other changes will follow. the process of change here is very tightly controlled, it's directed from the top, and it's the authorities

from riyadh, orla guerin reports.ays, it is our turn now. and plenty of support along the way. come morning, more women were taking to the road. teacher kareema seen off by her daughters. in six months it will be your turn. the only hazard she faced, male drivers. there is a stop sign, we have to stop. he did not want to stop. oh, my god. kareema has been taking us for a spin around the neighbourhood. today, she and other saudi women are finally behind the wheel. it has been a long time coming, and many women here are hoping there will be more changes ahead. watch us. in a few years you will see that saudi society is different, and the community, mainly. people will be more open, they will be more tolerant. really, a couple of years, five years maximum, saudi arabia will change a lot, for the better. but some saudi women are not free to drive today. this is lujain al—hathloul, who has challenged the ban for years. instead of celebrating, she is now behind bars, along with other leading activists rounded up last month.

from riyadh orla guerin reports. normal anywhere else in the world, but not here in saudi arabia, because there's a woman behind the wheel. we're at the campus of the princess nourah university, outside riyadh. the driving instructors here tell us there is a waiting list of women who want to come for tuition here. they are so keen to finally be able to drive in their own country. there's plenty of empty road here, just a few speed bumps here and there but it's a safe environment to learn to drive. the ban on women driving has been lifted by the crown prince, mohammed bin salman. he's introduced other changes in recent months. cinemas have opened for the first time in more than 30 years, women can now go to sporting events, and many women we've spoken to here tell us this is a moment of freedom. that they will now be able to do things for themselves, they feel that other changes will follow. but the process of change here is very tightly controlled, it's directed from the top, and it's the authorities who set the pace

ministry but according to what we can what we can guess is that it might mean turkey will accept riyadh smits the refugees that are stems back from germany or other e.u. member states but not greece but considering that most of the refugees first settled down and greece as the first destination on their way to europe and this is a critical issue and we are expecting an official statement by the foreign ministry very or assume thanks very much indeed the latest there from istanbul. still to come here on the program we'll be live in washington where the japanese prime minister is making his case to the u.s. president ahead of next week's historic summit with north korea. and afghanistan announces a temporary ceasefire with the taliban to coincide with the end of ramadan. hello it remains particularly wet in southern china is still going to mainz of a tropical depression which was briefly a stormy sea the circulation has went to high now and and is on its way up into for john however as a matter of rainfall two hundred fifty members is on record for high now and about eighty two currently

from riyadh, 0rla guerin reports. so, we have a roundabout up ahead. in the driving seat, at last. the open road. this tutor, who has spent years in the uk, provides plenty of reassurance. everyone is terrified from roundabouts. do you remember? yeah. you were terrified, now you can do it. it's easy. this is a very new image of saudi arabia having women at the wheel. and it's a picture the authorities are happy for the world to see. but change here is tightly controlled, it's directed from the top and it's the authorities who set the pace. especially the saudi crown prince, mohammed bin salman, whose image is hard to miss here. he's a self—styled reformer, but critics say hidden from view, there's a darker picture. leading women's rights activists have recently been jailed, including loujain al—hathloul, a public face of the driving campaign. she's seen here in 2014, daring to defy the ban. this should have been a moment of celebration. instead, it is a bittersweet moment for the women's rights activists who have been fighting for this reform for almost three decades now. they rema