and a real threat to some of the sunnis who came to egypt, jordan, saudi arabia. it stood for challenge to american and israeli in the region. it was a popular movement, a populist movement, and openness about social justice. you had stagnant regimes in saudi arabia and egypt and jordan and elsewhere that will collaborate with the americans, collaborating with the israelis. this was causing them legitimacy. they had to undermine hezbollah and hamas also so they played a shia card. they will convert to shi'ism. the saudis controlled production of culture and media in the arab world, unfortunate. they have been working very hard on spreading this fear of shia throughout the arab world. lebanon was susceptible to that because you have a very strong shia military force. hezbollah. and a sunni population that just lawsuits prime minister, billionaire son of corrupt, and sunni population felt very weak. and yet al qaeda guys from iraq who were majorly defeated in 2006-2007, beginning to come into a lebanon and a division of the week state and the lack of law and order o

and signals from saudi arabia saying americans leave, they will come in to protect you. one more example. in summer of 2006, in western baghdad, the majority shia with a large sunni minority. other tribes north of baghdad. in summer of 2006, in collaboration with the iraqi army, it was like bosnia. thousands of people in a convoy leaving the neighborhood while americans were watching. in western baghdad the iraqi army used to going to people's homes especially sunni homes and arrest the husband that ran them and force women to have sex with them to release their husbands. i don't want to make it sound like only shiites are brutal. others were shattering at a higher rate. they had the american military and the iraqi army and the body army. they had numbers to defeat the sunnis. in 2006 or even earlier the americans came to the realization three years too late that the occupation was the problem. the american commander began to describe the american occupation as a problem and our presence is creating antibodies. that was certainly true when the main struggle in iraq, we h

saudi arabia and turkey have sunnis and was formed with saudi money and a turkish invasion. turkey helped create and there was pressure coming from different countries funding some of the sunni parties not to compromise or sellout but there were going to sold eventually because he was never going to give up power said it was better to be in the tent, however lyndon johnson said it. i don't think it is that big of a threat. i do think you do want them in the government. this is a group when they were marginalized they were pushed to violence but since the fonted to be part of the system. what they were presented with isn't a strong ideology. it's more anchor in the 50's and 60's this caught the people back to communist. in the 90's following the american occupation,. but they were poor angry people, and i and occupation, and a federalist, anti-establishment, but occupation these days is more or less gone. it's hard to find their can skilling if you want to. you can't be anti-establishment, part of the establishment since 2005 to with what have we delivered for your people? no

last but certainly not least there is saudi arabia. saudi arabia is a little different. saudi arabia is nominal and in some ways an ally of the that the states, but it is also true that some of the revenues from oil that accrue to saudi arabia find their way into the hands of terrorist groups, including the group that attacked the united states on september 11th 2001. all of the money that we pay to saudi arabia and other countries pay to saudi arabia for its auto in the to united states is waging a war against terrorism and funding. so if you think, as i say, about the major problems we have in the world they are all fueled by oil revenue and therefore the most important thing we can do to further our interest in the world and reduce the major threat that we face is to deprive some of our adversaries of the resources that they used to oppose us, and the way to do that is to consume less loyal. tickets in less will globally, to be sure, but consuming less will globally it begins with the united states because we are the largest consumer. the way to consume less oil is to

he went to saudi arabia.he caretaker president has promised widespread realm and urged tunisians to unite. >> b.p. signed an agreement to exploit oil and gas in the russian shelf. the agreement will see the firm's expertise in exploring the region. it is the first deal since the deep water horizon spill in the gulf last year. and from there daniel sanford reports. >> even if you're a chief executive of b.p., one of the biggest oil companies, people keep you waiting. but this is worth waiting for. vast reserves of oil and gas under the seas of the arctic. >> the russian prime minister of -- vladimir putin said the work would require 10s of billions of investments and the latest technology. >> the arctic shelf of russia has great potential. it is in the very early days. you're right about the need to develop technology -- technology centers for both -- technology developing in the arctic but the great care that this work will need. >> some of the world's biggest oil and gas reserves are believed to be under the

it has the same rating as kuwait, saudi arabia and china. >> our level of confidence of the ability of the government to carry through with fiscal consolidation had evaporated to a point where we thought we needed to lower the rating. >> the rating firm says japan's fiscal health is the worth among industrialized nation. s&p said it will consider an upgrade if the government takes steps to reduce the debts. it cited japan's net foreign assets, which are the largest in the world. the yen's role has a major reserve currency. >> japan's cumulative national debt is nearly 200% of its gross domestic product. japan's finance ministry estimates its national debt will swell to more than $997 trillion yen or $12 trillion at the end of march 2012. social security and tax reforms are high on the agenda of naoto kan. he is aiming to improve the country's fiscal health with no debate with the opposition party scheduled. he has no specific plans for achieving those goals. >>> the international monetary fund has urged japan and the u.s. to speed up fiscal reconstruction. in a fiscal monitor report re

guest: on egypt and saudi arabia, neither country is free. they are listed as not free. egypt has terrible parliamentary elections that were much worse than those in 2005. i think we see continued disregard by the egyptian government for the will of the egyptian people. we also now see growing tensions between christians and muslims in egypt including a terrible terrorist attack on new year's eve of a christian church. israel is a real concern for many who are trying to see egypt moved in made more democratic agenda -- direction. saudi arabia's one of the worst as far as human rights oppression. there is no question. the caller and i would agree on israel. there are problems in israel. i don't mean to suggest that israel is a plus democracy. it has a system in place were the leaders are elected by a population where there is a lively debate in israel and a lively parliament. those things are also very important for looking at the situation. i take the caller's point that the situation for palestinians living in israel is not good at all. that is something we also try to

tunisia issued an international unrest warrant for the president who fled to saudi arabia. after the floods, the tax. the australian government's effort to fund rebuilding work. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast in the u.k. and around the world. america's record debt. a new report says the deficit is set to hit $1.5 trillion. marching for the right to choose a coca leaves legally. >> riot police in the egyptian capital had used teargas to disperse thousands of people who were taking part in a second day of protests. the demonstrations have been declared illegal but some protesters have vowed to stay on the streets. protesters set fire to a government building. the u.s. has called for the egyptian government to implement social reform. our correspondent spent the day in cairo. >> the second day of violent confrontations right in the center of power. today is chaotic. as protesters tried to gather, the thought -- the police fired tear gas. many demonstrators were arrested. earlier in the day the government announced protests were illegal. the police left little doubt. ha

tony sipp is using an international arrest warrant for the ousted former president to has fled to saudi arabia -- too easy. people are killed at a coal mine -- in tunisia. people were killed in a coal mine note in colombia. coming up for you later, america's record dead. a new report says the deficit is set to hit $1.50 trillion. >> the voice of london goes around the world 24 hours a day. >> and big cuts at the bbc world service. five language services are to be cut, and hundreds of jobs will be lost. hello. riot police in the egyptian capital of khyber have used tear gas to disperse thousands of people who were taking part in a second day of protests against the government -- the egyptian capital of cairo. they have vowed to stay on the streets until the government falls. they set fire to a government building in one town. there are calls for the egyptian government to implement economic and social reforms. our correspondents spent the day in cairo, jon leyne. >> a second day of violent confrontation. but today, it was more chaotic. as protesters tried to gather, the police fired tear gas wi

is that the israelis flying over saudi arabia to attack iran and over paris and elsewhere? the americans are also soft targets in iraq. we still have 40,000 americans there. obviously in afghanistan yet many americans that i ran could hit. they could disrupt oil in the region and halts shipping and they can activate shia groups in bahrain and kuwait. i think what you see though is a preemptive israeli strike on hezbollah and israel would take advantage of this to strike hezbollah. certainly, sunni regimes in the gulf and kuwait and bahrain and saudi arabia would actively crack down on their shia population more than they are to have and we have seen that in a raid already which would only increase shia anger and i think a tremendous increase in june aco -- shia violence. iraq would be uncomfortable with it because the iraqi regime might not be iranian but the sunnis have a good relationship with iran. so i think it would be a catastrophe. if the iranian military attack the iraqi military it would not stand down. millions of people in iran are hoping that the government is d

but analysts say saudi arabia and the emirates have no tradition of street protest and their economies are much stronger. georgetown university professor samer shehata in egypt, 40% of the country gets by on close to or less than $2 a day. >> the levels of income in saudi arabia and many of these other gulf states are three, four times what they are in egypt and yemen, for example, so economic difficulties certainly, high levels of unemployment, youth marginalization, but nothing close to countries like egypt. >> reporter: analysts expect the egyptian military will remain in control of egypt and vital shipping in the suez canal will not be affected. but egyptians, governments in the middle east and investors around the world are nervously watching what many believe are the last days of mubarak's rule. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> tom: as we mentioned, the u.s. economy picked up steam as 2010 came to a close with much of the gains coming on a pick-up in consumer spending. g.d.p. grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the fourth quarter, up strongly from the previou

the new domestic season which gets under way in around six weeks' time her opponents were from saudi arabia and both teams are competing to try and win the match will had a chance to open schooling but it wasn't until just after the hour mark that the deadlock responded breaking season like the free kick given some pittsburgh side delayed by the keeper left completely wrong footed there were just ten men later on i think allows a big central. to pay for that as deep into stoppage time you're out on the way for a fantastic free pass to the stepmother you have sent me into a penalty shootout and should've called mysteries and it was left to a so i was going to see a victory for the taking in saudi arabia. in england birmingham city will play arsenal in the final of the carling league cup after the blues overcame ice time off the extra time in the second leg of their semi final trying to one from the first like the pressure was certainly on birmingham but it was the visit is enjoyed the better start and they will reward it on the hof our mark thanks to that excellent striking poll which put we

i was going to see a victory for the taking in saudi arabia. and england city will play arsenal in the final of the carling league cup after the blues overcame west ham off the extra time in the second leg of their semi final trying to one from the first leg the pressure was certainly on birmingham but it was the visit is enjoyed the better start and they will reward it on the hof our mark thanks to that extent strife and carlton cole would put west ham three one up and down to get the blues david silva lifeline one midway through the second half is a boyish strike from the back of the net after the harmison failed to clear a more germs and then sent the game into wrecks the times he made it three three on aggregate. on the hind side. victory. thanks to craig gardner's long range for a fantastic comeback from silver tide and for one when i get through to the final but there are some. let's go to the k. . have snapped their three game losing streak thanks to an overtime win over the saving at the same pittsburgh start believing it's matching the

and i was left a wasi to see a victory it seemed and saudi arabia. start with burning city or play are small in the final of england's league cup blues overcame west ham after extra time in the second leg of their semifinal were trailing a two one from the first leg the pressure was certainly on birmingham but as a visitors from georgia better start and they were rewarded on the half hour mark thanks to the excellent strike from canton cole it was time for the one up on aggregate worth another look. blues gave themselves a lifeline midway through the second half. and lead bowyer strike on the back of a net after the how does it feel to clear that corner roger johnson ben sent the game into in extra time as he made it for a free on aggregate. victory in that extra period thanks craig on his long range strike a fantastic comeback from birmingham and see all the time for free on aggregate and i move through to the final where they'll miss arsenal. on avenues trip or told a france champion alberto contador says he's been handed a one year ban after faili

well there is a lot of football to talk about saudi arabia have been knocked out of the asia cup after losing one nil to jordan a second successive group stage defeat for the three time asian champions the saudis have already fired their coach after losing the opener to syria and this was a must win game for them but forty two minutes in the show go looked like a cross from. but it falls right into the net the saudi arabia is had a lot of chances. with the best of them coming through i think this is a job well he said jordan holding on to time a memorable one when they moved to the top of the group big standing i. could retake the lead in the group but losing at the moment one nil japan that game coming into the final minutes that. time world player of the year on the new had returned home after completing his move from ac milan the thirty year old was presented as a flamingo player in rio de janeiro and look at the crowd about twenty thousand fans showed up to meet the hero who has signed a forty two month contract with the rio club ending a ten year stint in european football he says

forty five percent of the popular vote and it was done with a huge the bench and or money from saudi arabia and with a full turnout was the sunnis in other words the political base sitter i had always objected if i may you know it's been a national finish and all you know now is go ahead finish up ouster it's been it's all been narrow but the basis i want to come back to because after what we've just heard from tony but brian is wrong. lebanon has never had a government in the way in which the west and states have a government it is a power sharing arrangement it is not a government by which one sect one group dominates and has germany over the others its if you like a four legged race in which the main four sects are tied at the ankle together and struggle as best they can towards the finishing line now what happens and what has happened recently has been that one group has tried to if you like use a western style view that there is an absolute mandate for anyone who has a majority in parliament to use against other sectarian groups and there's been naturally a very strong reaction against

said about the elections is incredibly skewed and misleading i mean yeah there were money from saudi arabia like there wasn't money from iran and there wasn't money from qatar and elsewhere i mean let's not let's not joke ourselves here and the other thing is with regards to the percentage of the population where the electorate election happened i mean mr neglects to tell you that for instance in in areas in south lebanon where hezbollah won there has not been even a contestant from the march fourteenth. coalition so there has not been a popular turn ups to begin with so i mean the entire pick. sure that he paints is incredibly misleading but be that as it may the notion that somehow has been as a large group it's the group that has the largest weapons in the country it's an armed group that has attacked other people sort of leave that aside and describe it as some sort of a legitimate political party like everybody else some sort of a civil society n.-g. o. is incredibly misleading ok patrick how do you. follow up on what tony had to say here because i hear this all the time in the mainstr

this was the king of saudi arabia. and who is he saying it to? >> [inaudible] >> no, this was the king of saudi arabia saying it to the british foreign ministry. an official protest of 90 minutes which i quote completely in the book. >> [inaudible] >> that year was 1937.

this was the king of saudi arabia. and who is he saying it to? no. this was the king of saudi arabia saying it to the british foreign ministry in official protest of 90 minutes which i quote complet

he was sent to saudi arabia turkey chronicles his journey from boot camp to season combatant and reflects on his time spent station in the desert. the gulf war began on january 16, 1991.>> i.. 25 minutes and then i'll open it up for questions. jarhead like many memoires is especially sod detective in nature and there are four or five different nart tifs that i work with throughout the book and the first of them is really the moment of composition of the book, the beginning moment for me and then there's much of the desert action happens in a present tense narrative of being in the desert on the sand in the sand. there's some flash back to some childhood moments as well flash forward to a few post-war episodes and there's also a good bit of narrative where i'm dealing with marine myth and specific training both prior to the war prior to being deprived for desert shield in august of 90 and as well throughout the buildup to combat. i go to the basement and open my rubbing. the basement is in iowa after a long hard winter and deep in the ruk i still feel the cold of february. i kept my desert

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[applause] ♪ these three pieces are from the gulf region of the arab world, which is saudi arabia, yemend oman. kate is wearing a heavier velvet dress with embroidery on the top and kind of going down through the arms. sama this is more toward the saudi, yemen region of the gulf. susan is wearing a traditional yemeni dress from a mountain region. this is a traditional form of a tire -- attire. ♪ ♪ >> this is the last part of our show. this is the part of the show that features lebanon, jordan. she is wearing traditional garb from damascus. i do not know if you can tell but there is a lot of handstitched detail at the top. lena is wearing a traditional jordanian start out with handstitched work. these stars represent different countries. this dress is more of a jordanian style. this is a palestinian dress with hand importers from the top to bottom. -- embroidery from the top to bottom. this is all handstitched. could the other models join the girls on the floor? [applause] >> let's have another round of applause for the models. thank you for participating and showing not only the diversit

why saudi arabia cannot have nuclear weapons while israel can. there's a lot of, uh, a lot of issues out there tied up with national prestige, security and the quest for power which make it very difficult to prevent states from wanting to have those things. >> and all of which end up affecting u.s. national security in the end because they're either allies or enemies of the united states. marc lynch, foreign policy magazine and george washington university - thanks for being with us. and malou innocent of the cato institute, thank you for being with us on great decisions. thank you as well for joining us on this program and special thanks to our group in nevada. if you'd like to join a great decisions group in your area visit greatdecisions.org we'll see you next week. i'm ralph begleiter. >> to order a dvd of this series, visit shoppbs.org or call 1-800-play-pbs. >> great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association, inspiring americans to learn more about the world. great decisions is produced in association with the university of de

would pay pakistan to have pakistan bought some of its nuclear weapons from saudi arabia as a deterrent to iran and that would fused together the crises in south asia with crises in the middle east so that shi'ite iran and sunni arab, israel, fused together in a web work of crises with muslim pakistan and largely hindu india. that is one outcome. iran is building a big pork near to the entrance to the persian gulf. india is paying afghanistan to pave roads so afghanistan will be less dependent on pakistan and more dependent on iran. india wants to buy more hydrocarbons from iran. india is trying to head iran against pakistan and once you have nuclear weapons it becomes even more frightfully insecure. but let me say that iran with a few tactical nuclear weapons of uncertain quality with an uncertain delivery system, with an early warning system that could be penetrated at will by israel and the united states might theoretically be containable even in a nuclear iran. so i am not advocating a strike against iran. but it will -- it will further militarize this whole indian ocean system. mil

it's possible that saudi arabia would pay pakistan to have pakistan park some of its nuclear weapons in saudi saudi arabia as a deterrence to iran, and that would fuse together the crisis in south asia with the crisis in the middle east so that, you know, shiite iran and israel are fused together in a web work of crisis with muslim pakistan and largely hindu india, so that's one outcome. you would have, you know, iran is building a big port on -- near to the entrance of the persian gulf. they are paying afghanistan to build roads linking it with iran so they are more dependent on iran. india wants to buy more and more hydrocarbons from iran to use that as a hedge against pakistan. once there's nuclear weapons in this area, it's more frightfully insecure, but let me say that an iran with a few tactical nuclear weapons of uncertain quality with an uncertain delivery system with an early warning system that could be penetrated at will by israel or the united states might theoretically be containable, even a nuclear iran that is, so i'm not here advocating a strike against iran, but it w

al qaeda of course has had a presence in yemen in saudi arabia for well over a decade. for its part al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is a hybrid of old guard operatives with a close tie with osama bin laden, as well as new generation elements of al qaeda who have embraced bin laden's mandate to attack the united states and the west. it was al qaeda operatives in yemen to attack the the uss cole in 2000, and a french oil tanker in 2000 do. some of the individuals responsible for the attack on the cole and escaped prison as part of a larger prison break in 2006 and will go on to form the leadership of the al qaeda or even potential franchise. in saudi arabia the al qaeda affiliate derek conducted a series of attacks begin in 2003 that over the next few years killed 13 americans, including an attack of u.s. consulate in 2004. the campaign against this group waged by the saudi government has been largely successful, capturing or killing most of the group's leadership in saudi arabia by 2007 at however the remnants of that network fled the kingdom. many of them going to yem

[applause] ♪ these three pieces are from the gulf region of the arab world, which is saudi arabia, yemend oman. kate is wearing a heavier velvet dress with embroidery on the top and kind of going down through the arms. sama this is more toward the saudi, yemen region of the gulf. susan is wearing a traditional yemeni dress from a mountain region. this is a traditional form of a tire -- attire. ♪ ♪

the active president has arrived in saudi arabia. this follows the worst violence in decades. dozens of people have died in recent weeks. this goes with food price rises and corruption. the people have been offered a democratic elections. in the last few hours, more violence has been reported. >> despite those brutal measures to suppress demonstrations, young people decided that today was the chance to overthrow a corrupt government. after weeks of sickening violence by police, the protest reaches a crescendo. the day had started with a peaceful demonstration at the ministry of the interior building. they promised concessions allowing greater freedom of speech. they demanded that he leave. >> we should not let this go. are we have to make this happen. >> people want change and i guess changes happening. >> security forces were ordered to show restraint. the grip was backfiring. >> this was a very public demonstration. the president said he was going to open up the democratic space. dozens of people have gathered outside the home and are protesting. in four weeks of protests, d

could they figure it out that, perhaps, saudi arabia is tul of wahhabis? you didn't need 60 or $70 billion to tell you that. did you need to know, did that tell you that 15 out of 19 hijackers on 9/11 were saudis? no, no, you didn't need it for that either. do you, perhaps, need it o o tell you that every of arab government supports the causes for which 9/11 was perpetrated? no, you don't need it for that either. so what do you need them for? well, you need them to tell you about the whereabouts of minor players in afghanistan. or in iraq. but, gee, why do you need that? suppose you killed all of those minor players. would that bring you peace? would that bring you the peace that you want? the no. so why are you spending all of of that money, all of that effort for that? let me put in a little parenthesis here. they don't do a very good job of that either. because you, i'm sure, remember that last december 30th a man walked into a meeting of our advanced base, cia pace in pakistan -- base in pakistan. i'm sorry, afghanistan. and blew himself up together wi

after north korea is iran, afghanistan, saudi arabia, and somalia. >> worldwide, worst place is primarily in the muslim world. >> christian persecution increased significant in places like iraq jumping to no. 8 up from 17 last year. >> iraq has jumped specifically because of the inteional targeting of the christian community of extremist of the factionsof iraq. al-qaeda indicated on its websites, christians were quote, legitimate targets for their holy warriors. >> just before christmas, muslim waged attas including a massacre at a baghdad church. >> we are labelling it religiouside, they want to exterminate all christians from the country of iraq. >> the obama administration is condemning e attacks. state department is deeply concerned about what appears to be a rising number of attacks on christians in middle east and africa. ephram aham the cbn news. >>> christians in egypare cryinout. egyptian officials blame al-qaeda. egypt christians say the government does nothing to protect them. heather sells has more. >> reporter: they are trying to determine if home grown islamic radicals were

once iran, egypt, saudi arabia, turkey have weapons within the next 10 years, dynamic stability of the indian ocean is going to change dramatically. and what's going to be? >> if iran gets a few tactical nuclear -- tactical level nuclear weapons, if possible that saudi arabia would pay pakistan to have pakistan