in the awakening, as a saudi journalist he spent time with bin laden in afghanistan, saudi arabia, and how was osama bin laden influenced by the muslim brotherhood? >> he started with the muslim brotherhood in saudi arabia. he was very much influenced. >> the muslim brotherhood was born in egypt, and again and again, bin laden is influenced by egyptian ideas, egyptian political organizations, and egyptian people, and they tend to move him in a more radical and militant direction over time. >> reporter: this man, syed qutb, was an inspiration for the muslim brotherhood. he was executed in 1966 for what many believe was a trumped-up charge for attempting to overthrow the egyptian government. his book, "milestones," was must reading for jihadists and still is today. it challenges the long-accepted belief that holy war should only be waged in response to an attack. qutb justifies something new, holy war that attacks the enemy first. >> all these things are now coming together for bin laden, the islamic awakening, the fact that he's joined the muslim brotherhood, the fact that he's reading

to create civil war in syria so the saudis have a lot of problems at the moment now the saudis being america's key allies in the region do certainly play a significant role in the effecting events in bahrain not least by helping the brutal suppression of the revolt last year how much of this really comes down to bahrain just looking for more help. this is basically for the survival of the dictatorship in bahrain because the dictatorship the king is immensely unpopular the vast majority of the people of bahrain want to go over throw of the regime but unfortunately the west supports the saudis and the iranian dictatorship and even turkey which the turkish government has a very hypocritical role because on the one hand they support so-called revolution in syria but they've been very silent about it but i mean so they give arms to create. bloodshed in syria but. all these powers allow the bahraini regime to crush the local population but this is very interesting that the people about here in despite of this this small country has put up so much resistance and i think this show itself sho

saudi arabia. jordan or iraq because they are taking a different position than saudi arabia in iran and somehow. one how you see that it's trying to support the syrian regime and saleh a the foreign minister recently said that any political change in syria should come within a framework and they are not they don't want to see the regime is removed from day to day support them literally apparently. and that's really twenty five basis the network of military bases all around the world forms the new empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in for us our bases of a lot of the noise is our noise of those ball to us at all because they're ou

ground right now but for sure the powers the power of reaction is extremely strong we can look at saudi arabia we can look at qatar these are major players and they are not for these arab spring values not by a long shot well you can look at the united arab emirates which arguably is the most western facing nation in the gulf to has this sort of first anniversary of the spring decided to make sure that citizens and expatriates know that it is not looking for the power of the arab spring movement to reach this country and it has started cutting back on. rights groups to democratic groups even its own citizens who had sort of freely operated under under the system here which had been more permissive okmulgee what do you come out on this in los angeles here where is the arab spring going is it is it freezing up. well it i so it's important question to answer your question first i would like to put arab countries governments monarchs and regimes into three different categories under one hand we have those arab governments who've faced citizen revolves our pricing citizens who are seeking ri

gerald path and what they've actually said to dinosaurs there was this was this was this saudi donor submission that was put by the law is not put in intervention in as well as what is the meaning of a judicial authority now. we argued in the doors argued that a judicial authority meant a proper jobs or a court of law because it's a centuries old principle of english law that you cannot be a judge in your own case and the prosecutor in sweden is going to try this crisis therefore the person also the person requesting extradition so it was an independent call actually referring to an extraordinary joint judgment in my view which was that the original you framework decision used the french word go forward you do to show which had a wide variety of meanings including a prosecutor so although our own parliament and our own government minister believes a judicial authority means a proper core or a proper judge that was overturned and it was the saudi that the french or the wording of the sorry the meaning of the word in french was actually what mattered and therefore they threw out the su

stop but the supporting of united states of america and saudi arabia supporting guns to the. everything will be finished within two months but if they want to continue supporting them they want to. in the region trading amongst the rubble as people. in what is one of damascus is poor its neighborhoods there's a real sense of a revolution spinning out of control was there is uprising began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement that has splintered into a confusing mix of various groups political a nonpolitical. and the continued instability here has left the country wide open to attacks like this taking place. it's a plug problem it's a dilemma for the syrians that their policy a very easy provided the chance for everyone to end the world to interfere and this. either by providing. providing for sounds providing fighters and soldiers. and troops as people are left to bury their dead and with the hospitals full the syrian people are once again trying to rebuild their homes and their lives and the focus has once again turned the on going peace mission which is looking more wolf by

there from london dan why is bahrain's government so enthusiastic about this union with saudi arabia. well i think bahrain's government is enthusiastic for the very reason that the bahraini people are an enthusiastic because it's going to legitimize and systematize the saudi involvement in crushing the bahraini revolution drowning the bahraini revolution in in blood the bahraini government of course the al khalifa ruling family are happy about it for that exact reason because they fear that the wave the revolutionary wave are sweeping bahrain will threaten their centuries long rule of the country. and they are you have to remember with bahrain and saudi arabia this is the idea that they will have their policy dictated by a bigger foreign power is nothing new for the khalifas they worked as a servant of british imperialism servants of british imperialism for one hundred fifty years then servants of u.s. imperialism for the last forty years so being now taking orders from the u.s. in directly via saudi arabia particular big deal for them i don't think this is a family that has much sham

the regime's crackdown on growing demonstrations fueled by the ruling family plans for unity with saudi arabia. with the top stories of the week today this is the weekly on the with me wrong. streets flooded with protesters chicago is greeting world leaders congregating there for the nato summit thousands are rallying against the block. walls demonstrations that have already received a harsh response from police i would details in our. throughout the last couple of days we have seen groups of protesters taking the streets of chicago different actions taking place we've seen about a thousand protesters walk the streets of the city they were chanting there were in fact clashes with police police took out with taunts we are hearing that one activist was run over by a police van we saw a woman protester with her face bleeding definitely clashes it was quite an intense several hours of marching and protesting and at least a thousand people walking through the city hundreds of police officers everywhere people coming out on the streets of all walks of life to protest the nato summit taking pl

iran calls for demonstrations against the country's plans for an official economic and military with saudi arabia . and the syrian regime says al qaeda militants are behind attacks in the country as damascus releases the names of foreign terrorists it claims it has in custody. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. say the survival of europe's single currency and the shock waves from his possible break up will inevitably dominate a meeting of the world's top eight political heavyweights the g eight leaders are gathering in the u.s. right now that's where they'll also discuss the situation in syria and pulling out troops from afghanistan and the host president obama will also be balancing the small matter of his ongoing election campaign. and he said now reports. there are several challenges for this year's g. eight summit one is facing its host obama has his hands tied with an election coming up in november a lot of focus for him on trying to stay in the white house so he's going to have to balance domestic and international considerations at this camp david summit

that was to her efforts women are being hired in saudi arabia network in shops. the change marks a major step forward for women's reits in this traditional society. >> translator: i used to be a housewife but now i dream of opening my own shop. >> reporter: the internet played a major role to bring democracy to the middle east. now social networks have helped to give women in saudi arabia a way for their voices to be heard. >>> unsettled weather in the south of japan, let's go get the world weather forecast. >> good morning. that's right. a tropical storm is traveling towards the north and could it affect the islands by saturday local time. right now a tropical storm that could become less severe tropical storm. no direct impact on mainland japan is in the forecast but, of course, rough seas are expected along the pacific coast as the system approaches. so we'll keep you posted on its progress. meanwhile, a high pressure system is dominating much of japan bringing sunny weather but tomorrow unstable weather is in the forecast across western and central japan as w

the saudi monarchy.t's not often you see israel and saudi arabia agree on policy, but the two share a general fear of the upheavals in the arab world. so much so in the saudi's case that they hosted a conference last week to bolster the very opposite of modern democracy. monarchies. five saudis were invited to riyadh. each is a monarchy, and each a member of the group called the gcc or the gulf cooperation council. the saudi's hope is to turn that group into a more closely knit federation, something like the european union, they say. they feel a union of monarchies would serve as a bull worth against the region's turmoil and democracy. but it turned out that for now the gcc agreed to disagree. you see, many of the small members fear saudi domination. what were the saudis thinking? well, riyadh has a complicated role in the arab spring. on the one hand it is arming syria's opposition, but one could argue that intervention is driven by sectarian concerns. it wants to support a sunni opposition fighting a l

of bashir activists in bahrain spreading into saudi know because of the saudis are very influential in the united states in europe they have. the for the interests of united states for the interest of the many european countries for the autumn save for different off the all year for their mutual interest which many countries seen it has more priority than the human rights of the bahraini for example this image united states which ask a question not the same for syria they are sitting on so what i mean is that is that meant by that a president to defend medic and a president that even though you might consul saying that he would not talk about behind decision because biden is improving itself and it did doing that but that whether people that hasn't gotten to you a few hours ago one man died because of tear gas we have daily basis people are dying it is iran fueling the really forces this is what i want a government saying this is what the americans maybe try to buy that but that does not know of none of their division in the group did i read a cable at the time of the bahraini protests

, right after 9/11 you had senior saudi officials denying for at least a year or two that any saudies on the plane that took down the twin towers, hit the pentagon. there's been a sea change and all of that has been because al-qaeda made the decision to start going off other muslim targets. they had a kind of implicit political backing of much of the arab leadership when they were blowing up israelis targets or blowing up targets in the united states. then they started slaughtering shiites and pakistanis, and the we are the beneficiary of this intelligence cooperation with the saudis, because al-qaeda start today threaten them. >> paul: how big of a problem is it, matt, that the details of this that have leaked out? mike rogers on the house intelligence committee said basically look we need an investigation here and you heard the defense secretary-- >> i agree. >> paul: democrats aren't disagreeing either. so the operational details here were extensive and troubling to somebody who says we want this to keep going. >> and they got this too early. they had to pull the saudi double agent

you see, many of the small members fear saudi domination. so, what were the saudis thinking?h has a complicated role in the arab spring. on the one hand, it is arming syria's opposition, but one could argue that intervention is driven by sectarian concerns. it wants to support a sunni opposition fighting an allawite leader. it's basically shia. that leader is also supported by iran, the great shia rival to saudi arabia. in most other instances, riyadh has essentially used its deep pockets to try to contain the arab state. in bahrain, it sent thousands of troops to help crush a rebellion. in jordan and morocco, there are reports it is bribing the kings to make fewer concessions to democracy. for fear of the example they would set to other monarchies. at home, the saudis dole out patronage to gain support. they have given tens of billions of dollars in assistance to the unemployed. they've increased salaries of soldiers and public servants. gasoline costs some 50 cents a gallon there, one-eighth of what americans pay. the saudi stories, of course, are more nuanced than carrots

crude oil overseas benchmark in europe and saudi arabia sour so it should be priced higher than our oil our own is basically becoming just not respected this market is not respect our oil is getting completely dissed on these world markets basically now what about the airlines that are obviously impacted by oil what's going on with them more of them are starting to heads so what they do is they try to they try to hedge so that they get paid when fuel prices go up to get paid out a certain amount of money that will offset what they're losing in china ok but when the oil when these airlines go to the hedging business and they're hedging against these markets that are fabricated or they're not actually responding to real supply and demand they end up actually into the law of wall street then just captive of wall street because wall street comes as we get these hedging products and now like all these corporations in america they're reliant on their their their cash desk their their their money market desks driving their profits and revenues more than their underlying airline business right

he is originally from saudi arabia and he's ruthless.cide bomb attack against a member of the saudi royal family. he is believed to be the man behind three attempts to blow up airliners headed for the united states. the first was the 2009 christmas day plot by the so-called underwear bomber. in 2010 he hid bombs inside printer cartridges, you may remember this, he tried to get them on cargo planes bound for chicago. they were found before they could be detonated. and this week's plot, that bomb in the hands of the fbi. it's similar to the one used by the underwear bomber but much more sophisticated. that's why intelligence officials are so worried. they say he is smart and adaptable, but the biggest worry of all is that he's still on the loose and they know that he is working on making bombs and training others to make bombs and perhaps even speeding all of that up because he's worried he could be killed. outfront tonight, alex berenson author and reporter for "the new york times" and fran townsend, cnn's national security commissioner.

allegations that saudi arabia is going well beyond the call of duty in its support for syrian militants with suicide bombers apparently being shouldn't go off to join the rebels. and speculation over reports washington parachuted into north korea incites a fresh wave of tension and distrust on the peninsula. is a pleasure to have you with us today here on r.t. . life in moscow the supreme court has dismissed wiki leaks founder julian assange has appealed against extradition to sweden he's wanted for questioning of alleged sex crimes sara furthur was outside the courthouse in london. julian assange was in in court today when the judgment was pos rejecting his appeal against the extradition to sweden and now it's not over yet he's now got a fourteen day extradition for a while still legal to gain going to be appealing against some of the points that were raised in the judgment they will the case reopened saying they haven't had a child to respond to some of the basic points that were raised thirty after that if that fails you could see julian the son john of the day being sent sweden to f

why did the saudis stop pricing in it and what significance does the saudis had been complaining for a long time privately about speculators running amok as we know where prices went to over one hundred forty seven dollars in two thousand and then later in two thousand a very went to almost thirty dollars and if your stock the saudis or anybody you're producing oil you're like we just want to stable price for this you know we don't want to be you know hundred fifty and thirty and then who knows what it's going to be they're heavily reliant on oil so they decided enough and they decided not to price it against west texas intermediate which the u.s. benchmark and now they're pricing against our guest index of sour kurds and so they kind of threw it away. iraq also said yeah we're going to do that so you know we're going to do that and wall street said well if nobody cares about the benchmark anywhere we're going to start picking everything to brant because it's higher price and the airlines finally figured out it was going on last year when they got seriously screwed on their hedges th

sits right next door to saudi arabia for that ever since the bombing of the u.s.s. cole al qaeda has made it clear that it wants to establish a base inside yemen to attack the saudi oil fields right next door and anything that they can do to alienate the yemeni people from the central authority and the west this is the united states caused this and this is a this is a this is a great victory for them it's a very bad decision by the united states coming up on r t i a life apart. one palestinian family cut off by the israeli barrier separating them from their community and livelihood. for the first time in decades mexican immigrants no longer wish to go to the united states and maybe something many americans have wanted for a long time but soon they might start regretting it we'll tell you one. thing these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for each and throughout the day. here with our two it's six minutes past the hour and the euro is on shaky ground as greece assembles a caretaker government to last until next month'

channel so why did saudis troops into into bahrain and that's really i mean and this is something the whole world has to speak out and have to condemn to what happened but we see in the invasion of saudis to my country with complete silence now the same government sending troops to leave. to fight their g.m. and now that i give this to syria and i said which they have to be maybe but when it comes to bahrain they will complete silence was always in the floorboard where they scared. of the sheer act of us here in bahrain spreading into saudi no because it does our very influential united states in europe have. the for the interest of united states for the interest of the many european countries for the autumn save for the different of the all year for their mutual interest which many countries seen it as more priority than the human rights of the bahraini for example this image united states which ask a question not the same for syria they are sitting on so what i mean is that is that meant by did a president to defend medic and the president even though you might consul saying that he

and the dictatorship but what ron is concerned about is that the saudi regime will attempt to annex behind because the dictator is immensely unpopular he is unable to keep control and in order. to lucian. allowed saudi forces to effectively occupy the country it's very interesting that the people about i mean despite all this this small country has put up so much resistance and i think this itself shows the immense weakness that lies behind the saudi regime but the iranians believe that the fact that the united states supports the balcony in saudi dictatorships also makes them responsible for the both the bloodshed as well as the current situation a large. well there we are closely following the situation in bahrain online just had a head over to our web site r.t. dot com you can get the latest updates there for example the dining out of the ruler of bahrain decides to abandon his kingdom torn by protests just so he can attend the queen's jubilee lunch at buckingham palace. fisherman for sale north korea demands two hundred thousand dollars for the return of twenty nine chinese men

behind few miles from the border which means going to have impact niggas in saudi arabia that's why saudi cinda troops about having to take part in the crackdown and killing people detaining people and did the if they can but that bloody crackdown would be complete silence all from the international community. would you don't want democracy years cut out of would she want to promote democracy in syria and other parts of the ward but they don't want democracy and you have to ask people you have to cheer what you have to share the wealth and those government will not accept that to happen. yes i remember. during the heat of the egyptian revolution sui man the head of domestic intelligence in egypt was proposed by joseph biden by the state department by hillary clinton to be a sort of replacement figure for barak a compromise figure and we released many cables about him and his position in relation to israel and relationship i states and being a sort of torture in chief but very quickly after it was apparent that it was not going to succeed. you saw hillary clinton turn around and start to p

and in saudi arabia. and this video represents that.he also takes it upon herself to go to the security inside the shopping mall and have them intervene. a brave move for a woman in saudi arabia. >> yeah, the security guard could have said listen to what they say and know your place. >> you can see in this video clearly that the security guards pull the religious police aside. >> also, she says, in the video, i'm filming you guys, too. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> and then she goes on to say, and i'm going to put this on facebook and twitter, and people will see this. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> what did these religious police expect this woman to do, just leave the mall and take her nail polish off right there? >> people are saying this woman is, you know, representing what women could possibly become in saudi arabia. now they're allowed to work in certain fields. maybe she is the new kind of women's rights advocate. >> she could be the elizabeth katie stanton of saudi arabia, or the simone de bubwa. >>> at number eight