another concern is the state of saudi oil reserves. now, in february of this year wikileaks revealed that a senior saudi oil company official had tipped off u.s. diplomats in riyadh to the fact that the kingdom's reserves of crude oil may have been overstated by as much as 30 billion barrels a day, a billion barrels, i'm sorry, or by 40%. 40% of their reserves could be overstated. he said that the saudis had overstated their reserves to encourage foreign investment. he might also have added that the saudis understand their oil reserves are the asset that guarantees u.s. protection and reliance on saw petrol power. you take that away, and what shared interests do the two countries have? not much. for that reason it has always been in the interests of the persian gulf oil producers, especially the saudis, to discourage energy conservation in the united states. and this is done by making sure oil prices don't get so high that they encourage energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy products and resources that might make th

it's saudi arabia defining its own national interest it's saudi arabia and iran which are competing with each other for some type of regional hegemon e on the other side of the middle east you have egypt and turkey as well and there has been this kind of miniature great game which is unfolded between these countries as they try to find their own national security interests their objectives and basically to stand on their own two feet in this way and you can see that the obama administration was. i wouldn't say necessarily red faced but the obama administration looked at the situation both in bahrain and saudi arabia and essentially didn't give them necessarily a green light but did want them to sort out their own issues which is why i'm to come back to it the report is a very positive step forward it's behove a nice sorting out of the whole range situation ok i want to if you can i'd like to go to you the last one in the program here do you still see that the. could still blow up because nothing is really resolved with this report. yes i think that that's certainly the case it's my view

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arabia and those tensions are rising and iran mean now either you can jack in on saudi arabia's behalf which i think would be a mistake for israel to pursue we're being caught up in the crossfire of what i fear would be a nuclear brinkmanship between a nuclear i study arabia and a nuclear ice rot so in the sorts i'm in the short term you're saying that you don't see any chances of israel actually acting on some of the heat of that rhetoric when it comes. to launching some kind of an air strike or some plan that's a private it's not on iran's nuclear facilities and you have to wonder is this something israel would deal on its own without the approval of america our of some of its european allies i think it's a lot less likely if the saudis aren't going to cooperate. give israel sense that it's strategic plans are going to be somewhat covered i think the united states would desperately prefer to avoid this outcome as were china and russia. i think at the end of the day israel makes that choice for itself but it is a huge enabling factor if saudi arabia feel so threatened by iran's contin

foreign policy in the muslim world because of its support for israel because of its support for the saudi police state because of its presence on the arab peninsula and until we accept that until americans can say to each other whether you support aid to israel or not our relationship with israel is causing this war we are not going to be able to defeat this enemy in israel itself as a country is not the problem the real problem margin is the leaders of the jewish american community in the united states who influence and corrupt our congress to support israel when we have no interest there imply that these three lobby is dragging the united states into all the wars in absolute. they're absolutely dragging us in iraq was a war that was proffered or was called for mainly don't let me ask you this the situation in the region in the wake of all these revolutions in the middle east and north africa yes you can pretty much describe it as turmoil. turmoil is no good for israel isn't there a contradiction to what you're saying well the the american political establishment is caught between two th

arabia and in from one revolution on the persian and insula to the extent that saudi arabia gets more and more nervous and would prefer israel to act on its behalf that's what i think is the key enabling age and i don't think the west or particularly the united states opinion on this is going to matter all that much to israel that's on this really quickly. that i really says these poor reports rather frequently are all the time and a lot of time they go by without any real fanfare except for i guess the crowd that studies this constantly so why is it getting so much attention now you know we we have other powers we have china you have rush all stepping in and please urging you know a little bit of leniency here too from both sides. you know i can't speak to the so that the agencies timing in terms of the report i think this is are just gend out on a regular basis it will activate a lot of the anti arraigning hawks in the united states and certainly in israel it'll raise a lot of concern in saudi arabia for for all the usual reasons but from a strategic perspective and this is a simula

anti western anti israel in its focus i frankly think this is all about its long term rivalry with saudi arabia and that iran remains simply a mix of the will scapegoat for this activity whipping boy if you will and i think we're seeing similar dynamic from the turks in terms of their reorientation these in the west i believe an anticipated when iran gets the bomb and turkey has a step forward with some sort of three spots of its own to maintain its own momentum that in its long term reach for a kind of a regional leadership so i mean when i look at it from a western perspective you have the turks making a bid for regional leadership they may end up reaching for nukes as part of this process a lay can be included in this dialogue that i ultimately think's going to unfold once around gets the bomb but i think because the turks represent the west's best option when you think about iran versus saudi arabia and those tensions are rising and iran being and i either do gain jacking on saudi arabia's behalf which i think would be a mistake for israel to pursue or being caught up in the crossfir

i think it's saudi arabia saudi and i think you have in effect i think foreign minister lavrov was absolutely correct. in a fact right now have in syria a proxy sunni shia sectarian war underway and i think king abdullah could really put a stop to it even though he may want. president bashar assad out there the ramifications of this continuing are far greater they could actually creep into saudi arabia itself this is clearly saudi arabia against iran using. syria as a as one of the battlegrounds and battle lines right now but i think. really needs to be much more assertive in trying to placate this and try to bring the sides together and and i think that turkey even though it's sunni as well really it has a major role to play in terms of. its no no problem foreign policy to bring sides together to bring this to a much more peaceful outcome. i think that we're going to be seen much more. chaos in the streets in that this this tends to not be the waters in terms of what the real issues are here and i think that this is really. a battleground for saudi arabia at this point to try and make to try

basically how you get on some you know international interest and the saudi government to. take on a life of a syria it takes a lot is it ok if i can go to you what do you think about the international dimension i mean if you know saudi arabia is gleeful about this and then we have the i.a.e.a. report on iran we have israel. to attack iran i mean and then syria is right in the middle of all of this. you know syria i mean i think this is great i mean for if you're a saudi you're looking at this and think this is ok this is going to tie up iran this is going to move their focus instead of being our primary you know rival in the persian gulf but i think iran has a lot to lose here in syria falls and they lose their access to his ball in lebanon that really hurts their foreign policy in the region so i think everybody's looking at this point and you know yasser is right i mean this started with a bunch of kids and darrell but it did take on a life of its own and that's how it started really now is irrelevant because this is now in the forefront and now you've got all these othe

but questions the role that say saudi arabia might play questions the role that iran or israel or even the united states might play well let's listen to the words and let's talk about the intervention here yasser how do you feel about an outside intervention and we already have sanctions here which will punish the middle class it doesn't necessarily punish the the regime itself but in other issues. well i mean that's what a lot of people are saying ok also i mean sanctions usually go on for more attempts on me where my my question is how would you feel about the military and for intervention are the libyan scenario. look i think the situation in syria is such that you know the entire world has made it clear that they're not ready for any military intervention right now and we syrians have come to recognize and realize very bitterly that if we have to do this. namely toppling the regime and three in a free democratic civil police realistic syria we're going to have to do it on our own more or less with the support perhaps with of some friends and some actors now i think that we need to

you know syria i mean i think this is a great i mean for if you're a saudi you're looking at this and think this is ok this is going to tie up iran is going to move their focus instead of being our primary you know rival in the persian gulf but i think iran has a lot to lose here in syria falls and they lose their access to his ball in lebanon that really hurts their foreign policy in the region so i think everybody's looking at this man and you know yasser is right i mean this story with a bunch of kids and arab but it did take on a life of its own and that's how it started really now is irrelevant because it's this is now in the forefront and now you've got all these other countries looking at what's going to happen there and syria much more important in libya it ties in you've got nato to the north you know with with turkey being a member state you've got the israelis to the south lebanon to the north of his ball and of course iran sitting over there much of the east ok sam if i go to you in washington. i was going to supernews you make and how who benefits from all the chaos your

in places like bahrain we found that the saudis were more than willing to send their own troops into bahrain to actually push against demonstrators from this sort of arab spring so the idea that we talk about democracy and the need for people to have a voice to turn around and do things just like this which undercuts that very same claim and you can really highlights this question of america if you talk or see certainly true the unfortunate i think of us probably makes it very clear where we stand and terms of democratic uprisings and supporting them in bahrain now that we're just going to continue working with them militarily and only strengthen those ties or saudi arabia as well but you know i want to read to you since you're talking about the way the way that we try to sell this are going to a quote from secretary of state hillary clinton in regards to this and she said that we will have a robust continuing presence throughout the region which is proof of our ongoing commitment to iraq and the future of that region which holds such promise and should be freed from outside interfer

asked me if i've been to saudi arabia and i thought this was a typical politician and. said what's your legitimacy. doesn't matter if i've been to saudi arabia what's your legitimacy and yesterday and i said what's your legitimacy and they got into my face trying to get me to shut up at that point i had some words with him outside as i left he grabbed my arm at one point and then i got a letter saying that i was suspended from the press club for two weeks and what was the reason you were given for the way centrist behavior i was guilty of boisterous and unseemly behavior as best as i can determine and the so-called ethics committee is not telling me about other cases everything's confidential to the press club which is supposed to be this monument to the first amendment. to all of its ethics probes in secret apparently and i've just been speaking about to other members it's apparently stuff that people who swear at the bar have been charged with occasionally and never as far as i can tell going to apply to a journalistic situation so boisterous behavior do you think is

so i try to ask a question about the role of the saudi regime. invaded the rain there at the center of kind of revolutions in the middle east it's a massage in a stupor a dream obviously suppressing its own people so people are asking questions about the legitimacy of the syrian regime i thought it was only fair to ask for about the legitimacy of the saudi regime and so and then you were and what happened after that what the executive director got into my face because the prince as he likes to call own self. asked me and i've been to saudi arabia and i thought that this was a typical politician and. i said what's your legitimacy and i think it doesn't matter if i've been to saudi arabia what's your legitimacy yes again i said what's your legitimacy in the second director got into my face trying to get me to shut up at that point at some words with him outside as i left he grabbed my arm at one point and then i got a letter saying that i was suspended from the press club for two weeks and what was the reason you were given for the way centrist beh

arabia is backing them we're hearing intelligence sources saying that the saudis are sending in arms otherwise how is it that syrian troops are being killed so many syrian troops are being killed by these seemingly civilian protesters we don't get so much of the mobile footage of those sure so yes but then again is assad really in control of syria it's a question i often asked when i was in syria because the way the syrian government works it is quite risky areas and we all know that he has been to slow the reforms that he's kept promising but it's up to other forces in the syrian regime to realize that they are fighting a grand game of opponents here and they better come up with a proper strategy rather than thinking the status quo will succeed you're saying he's been slow in those reforms he's made indications and indeed the arab league that he is trying to make some sort of change there but with his position. any change you make is it not going to be too late and we will see a sad just briefly. i don't think we are going to go in the short term and always a dangerous thing to make

oil we would be crazy to find its second saudi arabia and do the same thing. jim hanson at nasa or foremost climatologist said tab heavily -- tap heavly into that tar sand deposit and it's and i quote essentially game over for the climate. >> stephen: game over for the climate? >> there will still be a climate. we'll just change what it's made of. it will be there, as a matter of fact matter of fact, we will be able to see it more. we'll be more aware of the climate. you are looking at the glass half empty. i'm saying it's half full of carbon. >> it will be-- and it will be half full of water because we'll see the flooding that we've seen around the world including in my home state of vermont the last couple of years absolutely record off the charts. just increasing more and more and more all the time. >> stephen: are you from vermont. >> yes. >> stephen: did you ride your bicycle down here, drive ox cart, how did you get down here, or dow have a vehicle that ones on hypocrisy, how did you get down here. >> there is to doubt that, you know, i'm a hypocrite. i'

and certainly in the news we've seen incidences in saudi arabia of women from indonesia headed to saudibia to work as domestic workers. >> abuse is not only an international problem it's also an issue in u.s. >> there have been several cases in the media of women who weren slaved by their employers not allowed to leave forced to endure physical punishment for whatever the employer felt that wrong had been done to them. and many of the u.s. laws that would protect employees, do not apply to domestic workers for a variety of reasons, including again, being undocumented, working in a inforral setting that is not subject to normal civil rights laws and regulations. >> the u.s. helped pushed for the treaty but has not sign on. 128 countries agreed to the terms. finch says this is a big step in protecting women and girls even in countries that have not ratified the treaty. >> there have been several insurance and differences that have been highlighted in the global news, and i think that this treatly will serve to shine a light on some of the abuse and set out best practices. so that countrie

let them go as long as we're side by side with the with the saudis and with the israelis we're stuck in the middle east in america will continue to bleed. thanks for the interview yes ma'am. the lose the substance. abuse. seems. to. want. her. the close up team has been to the region where technological breakthroughs save human lives. now are she goes to the see. her unusual ways to protect new trucks where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. and where future developments depend on the way. the search is glasgow's commercial close up on our. old. technology innovation all the latest developments around russia we've gone through huge earth coverage. welcome back this is all see the headlines. russia rejects as an acceptable calls have thought the sanctions against iran in the wake of the joint atomic watch dog group which claims that tehran is building nuclear weapons president ahmadinejad has ridiculed allegations saying his country's nuclear program is peaceful but sophia these studies just a pretext to the time by the u.s. and israel. thousands of students ha

. >>> saudi arabia has a new crown prince, an heir to the thrown. he's in his late 70s and will remain the interior minister, a position he's held since 197 aand will become deputy premier, a classified publication describes him as a conservative. king abdullah has been pushing a pricey economic agenda. could economic policy differ under the new to the thrown? leona lakhani takes a look. >> reporter: many people that oil producers face less economic pressure because of their enormous wealth but even in an oil-rich country like saudi arabia, the high cost of living and unemployment are still pressing issues. regardless of the politics, the economic needs in saudi arabia are urgent and king abdullah and his successor are aware they have to address them. otherwise it could result in political turmoil. saudi arabia is the gulf's most populous country but 70% of its population is under the age of 29. unemployment amongst the youth is at about 25%. that's a huge number. the government needs to create jobs to absorb all those people entering the work force

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