(tranquil guitar music) - [narrator] the house of saud has ruled saudi arabia since before the birth of the modern nation in 1932. the royal family now has an estimated 15,000 members. - saudi arabia is basically named after the house of saud which basically you can call it a tribe or a clan. so now, they built a modern state based on very traditional concept of governance. - loyalty, of course, begins with the tribe because it is the expanded form of a family. - your job is to be part of this tribe, to work hard, because you carry the last name, that is so crucial in our arab culture. your last name means a lot. - we americans are as yet ill at ease with tribes. we see them as backward, we see them as illiberal, we see them as unprogressive. they are anything but what the stereotype is. they are in many ways the social glue that certainly holds saudi arabia together. - [narrator] saudi arabia is known for its adherence to wahhabism, a religious branch of sunni islam known for its fundamentalist interpretation of the quran. - in order for a tribe to rule, they need, especially in the

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intombi saud what trains as hard as anyone and. i feel so good i feel french i punch this side and this side like this and like that i really love i don't like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and they take their training very seriously. don't you feel a little bit more energetic the female alive. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth of that i would love for this job. hello again on this in doha these are the top stories here at al-jazeera european countries that helped to bring to the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal a calling on the u.s. to reaffirm its support the e.u. foreign policy chief and the foreign ministers of britain france and germany met an iranian delegation in brussels the agreement needs to be signed off every ninety days in the u.s. president has until friday to decide if hill reimpose sanctions. here opinion remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreements including to make sure that the lifting of nuclear related sanct

i want to saud something here, talking about chris steele as a british intelligence professional who knows russia, came forward, called time-out, went to the fbi. i also want to point out another intelligence professional here, that's dianne feinstein. don't forget she chairs the senate intelligence committee. i personally met with her personally, briefed the committee, briefed her. she gets the intelligence from russia. i think in part the reason why she released this transcript was because she knows how deeply damaging the russian threat can be. she needed the public to see it. she was extremely frustrated with her colleagues in not being able to release it absolutely. i think she of all people would understand. according to glen simpson's lawyer, someone's already been killed as a result of the publication of those dossier and those involved didn't want to see harm come to anyone else. she also met with dealing with a colleague on the other side of the aisle doing things like lindsey graham did this weekend on "meet the press." this is lindsey graham again reiterating who he wants

and brin continue t to supply t the sauds withth billions d dolla wororth of w weapons. the u.s.lso provides logistical military support to saudi arabia. the saudi air campaign has killed more than 10,000 civilians in yemen, which is the air worldld poorest country, and displaced more than million. threeamy: in december, doctors without borders said it suspected an outbreak of diphtheria in the country for the first time since 1982, with 28 deaths reported since august. meanwhile, the international committee of the red cross said the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached 1 million, making itit the worst cholera epidemic on record, and the united nations is warning over 8 million people are a step away from famine. more than 80% of yemenis now lack food, fuel, water and access to healthcare. well, recently nermeen shaikh and i spoke to journalist iona craig, who was based in sana'a from 2010 0 to 2015 as thehe yen cocorrespondent for the timemesf london. she wawas awarded ththe 2016 orl prizize for her reporting on yemen. i started by asking her what the world nee

three years of civil war between the internationally recognized government of president obama and saud had the back by saudi arabia and the iran allied who sees. in pakistan thousands of opposition supporters are expected to rally in the city of the whole demonstration is being led by members of the pakistan army to have faulty still seeking justice for activists killed in clashes with police in two thousand and fourteen it's going to come out highways lie for us from that rally in the hall so how things shaping up there come on. where tell me i can tell you. that a larger role forged by the combined opposition parties who have rallied behind title three a mainstream political party the budget people's party. led by out if i need their diary. conj. lobby all major political party for the lawmen. you can see the road. i did by far the largest show i died in a year and by the opposition richard rarely agreed to even did. this particular case they're all united and they're demanding for the resignation of the provincial energy vendor relative robin to. me. thanks so much come out higher t

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i'll say mostly some words about saud by arabia, but just a word about oman. won't say much about oman in the sense that we were there over a weekend. we had an opportunity to meet a wide variety of officials and see in a physical and up front sense the uniqueness and stru structural differentiation between oman and riyhad. where you sit determines where you stand. and the omani foreign policy, which is starkly different than the foreign policy of its neighbors was quite evident from conversations with senior officials, and their openness to all regional partners. and their middleman role with the iranians, we can get into that a little later on. just one final preparatory word, in case anyone is wondering, this trip was financed by the washington institute, other than a few delicious meals that were provided -- this was on our dime. not any local officials, and the purpose of the trip was really to decide for ourselves a specialist, and the lay leaders of the washington institute, how real and serious are the prospects of change in these countries. how real a

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as saud said mario testino and bruce weber, strenuously deny this.uite sexually suggestive, in some cases. yes, stuart whiteman, burberry, michael corrs, raffle lauren, says they will not work with anyone, including con, de nast saying they will no longer work with people they believe have abused their position of power in the world of fashion. as i said, bruce weber deny the claims. mario, testono's lawyers say his accuser cannot be considered reliable sources. this morning we've been asking how we get to grips with the huge pressure the nhs is under this winter. over the last few weeks you'll have seen reports of over—crowded a&es, a lack of beds and queues of ambulances stacked up outside unable to hand over their patients. on top of that as the nhs approaches its 70th birthday, it's having to deal with a growing and ageing population adding more pressure to its services. last week on this programme conservative mp nick boles argued that money from national insurance should go to the nhs. i believe that if people knew that when they looked at thei