. >> saud, if we come to you, your view of the challenge that carlos has laid out for us, the debate over the direction that essentially a civilization should take is fairly pronounced in some parts of the world that you operate in. i mean, how is it affecting the way that you and your company make investment decisions, think about customers and look at opportunities? >> well, for us, i think we look at markets, the first thing we look at is the demographic in terms of the younger population and how quickly the population is growing. i think urban rule is very important for us and we look at those sorts of numbers and the barrier to entry and there is an opportunity we go in, but i'll give you some examples. for example, afghanistan has a population of 30 million. its population is set to grow by 2016. it will be the 16th largest country in the world. pakistan's population is 180 million and set to grow to 400 million people by the year 2050. and even if you have a bad government and high unemployment the economy still continues to grow and what's allowed people like us and carlos an

the saud i led coalition has launched a third night of air strikes against yemen meanwhile two pilots ejected from their planes because of technical problems. >>> dozen people killed and dozens of others have been injured, in a hotel in mogadishu. al shabaab fighters have taken some people hostage. >> the suspicion that andreas lubitz was hiding an illness before the crash that killed over 150 people. >>> air strikes in yemen yemen yemen's prime minister? iran's position this a complicated coming flict. >> reporter: my enemy's enemy is my friend. an ancient conflict, but still explains the alliances in the middle east, in yemen an ongoing military operation led by saudi arabia, one of the u.s.'s closest allies, against houthis a group that now control large parts of the country and that has close links with iran. yet turned to iraq, and iran and the u.s. find themselves on the same sides iran iranian units are fighting i.s.i.l. alongside iraqi forces while u.s. planes simultaneously bomb i.s.i.l. forces. >>> iranians provide direct military assistance to president bashar al-assad whil

and the porns of the issue for the saudis i think the americans felt they could not say no to the saud yits and we see a similar dynamic with moroccans and others. >> thank you for your insight. robert grenier, a former counterterrorism official at the c.i.a. more from washington d.c. and alan fisher joins us live from there. interesting. robert grenier was saying that perhaps the u.s. felt they could not say though to saudi arabia's perhaps. yes, and while the u.s. is saying look we are involved in logistical support, and intelligence, almost trying to put a bit of distance from the military operation. it will not be seen as that in many parts of the world, as the americans stepping back it will be seen as the americans involved yet again in the middle east. they can stand at the pod um as they will in the next few hours saying all we can provide is what the saudis ask for, logistical but it will be seen as more than that and will be seen here with a mixed view. here the u.s. will support the saudis as they attack iranian proxies. it's over two weeks since binyamin netanyahu as he was

. >> now the saud state news agency has released a joint statement by saudi arabia, qatar, the uae kuwait and bahrain. it reads the military operations in yemen will continue in order to achieve its objectives. >>> the crisis in yemen has been many months in the making. houthi rebels overtook the capital sa nsa in -- sanaa in september. the situation deteriorated in december when the houthis rejected a draft proposal, forced hadi to resign in what is called a coup. escaped to the southern port city of aden, rejected the houthis and maintained he was the legitimate president of yemen. backed an intervention to stop houthi fighters. omar al sala is here in the nud roox withnewsroom with us. what objectives are there? >> i think mainly to degrade and weaken the houthis their weapons. when the houthis overtook sanaa in september of last year they took control of almost all the military bases in the capital and they took all the weapons in those military bases. now some of those military bases were already in the hands of forces that were loyal to the president so they didn't take those paces.

this comes after saud media reports that amend was in the country a day before the allies launched the attacks against yemen, willing to turn against the houthis if international sanctions against him are lifted. but the saudis apparently no longer trust saleh. accused of concluding with the houthis to destabilize the region. hashem ahelbarra. al jazeera. >> as niz arena el shamaleh reports. >> yemen is nowhere close to jordan's borders but that hasn't stopped haman from joining the houthi rebels there. the reason given to refor territorial integrity having seen to be violated by iran. jordan is a country of sunni muslim and doesn't tolerate groups backed by iran and the sentiment is strong. >> houthis have nothing to do with islam they follow iran and we are against iran destroying any arab country. we are sunnis and houthis are killing sunnis. >> few people here need convincing of jordan's military role in yemen unlike its role in the international coalition against the islamic state of iraq and the levant. it wasn't until i.s.i.l. burned a jordanian air force pilot alive that people

prince turki bin faisal al saud has been speaking to our correspondent.ed whether a nuclear deal with iran would make the region a safer place. >> not necessarily. because the danger is not exclusively from iran's nuclear weapons ambitions. iran is already a disruptive player in various scenes in the arab world. whether in yemen, in syria, in iraq, in lebanon, in palestine, in bahrain, and so, ending the fear of iran developing weapons of mass destruction is not going to be the end of the troubles that we are having with iran. >> speaking of those troubles, the americans seem to be accepting iranian backing for the iraqi ground forces fighting isis. is there an alternative? >> there is. the iraqi people. there is a record of that, of course, during the american occupation of iraq, it was the arab tribes, the sunni tribes that managed to get through. so that's where it should be going. >> but do you think more should be done to get iran out of the picture in terms of the fight against isis? >> now it seems that iran is expanding its occupation of iraq and

how saudi arabia could help with that, how they could help saud rsh, and they are on - their own challenge with the tourist in the north and south. and on the north with d.a.e.s.h., and the south with al qaeda and the houthis. >> is there an element of starting to restore the balance, if you like in the region the relationship that saudi arabia has about gulf states other arab states the rising force. all about, sort of calming things down a little bit in the region. >> that's true. we needed egypt. they were absent from the scene for many years, and that really is around the age and the reason, and the return of egypt and hopefully al jazeera to that alliance would really help in balancing the power - the balance in the region especially with iran. and maybe it's not a coincidence that there is a visit at the salt. let's hope that something will come out of this coincidence, and maybe a meeting with the two leaders in trying to solve issues like the issues and hopefully qatar will join in and there'll be a broader agreement on issues. >> very interesting. thank you. it has been a year sen

saud i would like to come to you, if i may. what's the big shift that's happened in the last couple of years in terms of your view of the world's emerging markets? >> well we're on the frontier markets because we've invested in very different countries and in new york and london and elsewhere would totally ignore people like us five, six years ago in looking at us and approaching us because i think they see limitations in the previous emerging markets and the frontier markets provide another opportunity and some of the markets we're in are growing 20% to 30% per annum which is the media sector. so i think there's a lot more interest and a lot more money and of course, there's the appetite for risk nowadays. >> and the kind of risk that you have to take on has also changed. as a person who is a direct investor in these market what's your perception of how that risk has changed in latin america? >> i think more than talk about risk, we need to talk about change. we are living in a new civilization, the civilization of services an

. >> saud lirks jets took off about 100 hours after american advisers were forced to evacuate under the cover of night. here rebels and muse -- on the one hand they're working on the other. in iraq the u.s. is is giving back the air support. in switzerland it's talking with iran. in yemen, the u.s. left the fight with the rebels and in syria they're supporting iran and their allie and with iran with isis. >> the end result is that we do not seem to be to the people f of the region and the american people pursuing and presenting at strategy that will defeat the bad forces. >> the suni states are going their own way because they believe that this administration cannot be relied on with what they see as the real enemy iran. leaders in egypt today called for the united standing of the army. it would stand against iran. there's a proxy war under way that's big and expanding with other sauni nations and the administration is trying and failing to play both sides of it and cobnfusing the friends. richard with nbc news. >> i am joined with the saudi ambassador for the united states. welcome. >>

goodman, a columnist with the huffington post and comedian june ha-saud who co-produced the documentary are coming." >> first of all, was it funny? >> it was funny. and i actually thought it was great, there was a pointed sat satire on isis. and they did a great job. >> h.a. goodman? >> my huffington post article says it all. it was funny because mel brooks has similar type of comedy in the history of the world and "to be or not to be." second reason is because there's a one in 20 million chance of getting killed as an american in a terrorist attack. this was in the washington post. and the third reason is isis has two marketing departments. one is its own where it commits atrocities, and then videotapes the atrocity to frighten millions of people. and the other is fox news and bill o'reilly and sean hannity and all the people who tell you that you must be afraid of isis. the snl skit they should go ahead and do that type of isis skit every single week. and i applaud them. i think every comedian should go ahead and have an isis routine because you're not going to get your head cut off b

police are telling us three men in ban -- dash bandanas and overcoats broke into the saud yovisual storehave a live report on details. >>> a woman killed in a shootout with arizona police over weekend has been positively identified as one of the suspects in the murder of a penngrove woman. investigators believe that 37- year-old stephanie hill was one of three people involved in the killing of 84-year-old olga dinali last thursday. hill was also being investigated for a burglary in fairfax last month in which five guns and some prescription pills were stolen. she was found tied to a chair and had been shot in the head in her home which was ransacked. investigators say she did not know the three suspects. they were hill along with victor silva and john martinez. they were both 27 years old. hill was killed on saturday in a police shootout. silva was arrested in the confrontation. martinez who was arrested in the bay area appeared in court yesterday on charges of being an accessory to murder. >>> your time now is 8:03. oakland police are searching for the shooter who killed a man who had j

the associated press saud they specifically did it so they didn't have to be transparent as other state in the government that it was specifically intended to stop the media from being able to get freedom of information requests. >> against regulation. >> so you have the associated press that is thinking about suing. gawker actually has been in the news because they asked for basic things. they asked questions of felipe rains, her spokesperson and protector and made a request to the state department for felipe rains' e-mails and response came back, there was no such thing. that it turned up no records. when the guy e-mails all the time. >> this is a serious story with real questions and the answer that we get is an insult to the intelligence of the american people. here's emily spokeswoman on "hard ball" last night trying tonessto answer. >> no offense, small offense? >> every secretary of state prior to hillary clinton used a private account for their e-mails. i think more importantly, can you possibly imagine any american family at any kitchen table across the country sitting down and