that legion now we have to pay all of our people whether in saudi arabia. or egypt in yemen and we all have to pay the price of this interesting that up and how to do that then it's just water so i think it was a photo it is just another big there. who is being invaded by outside forces ahamed wasn't this going to be evident which is a man has a reform as crown prince of saudi arabia the religious establishment is the most powerful and ultimately of the the clash was going to be an evident one day on another. well hashem i'd like to be the advocate of the devil if you will but they want is if he's trying to do this kind of reform he is doing what his previous services used to do like this kind of clashes between the royal family and the religious establishment it was a kind of a catholic marriage to some extent but on the other hand behind the scenes you would have this kind of conflict but they were dealing with it in a subtle cautious majors in order not to anger the religious establishment because there's still so m flew until on the ground but now what

the legion now we even have to pay all of our people whether in saudi arabia. or egypt in yemen and we all have to pay the price of this interesting that up and how to do that then it's just water so i think it was a photo it is just another big there. who is being invaded by outside forces ahamed was in this going to be evident which is a man has a reform as crown prince of saudi arabia the religious establishment is the most powerful and ultimately of the the clash was going to be an evident one day on another. well hashem i'd like to be the advocate of the devil if you will but the mind is if he is trying to do this kind of reform he is doing what his previous services used to do like this kind of clashes between the royal family and the religious establishment it was a kind of a catholic marriage to some extent but on the other hand behind the scenes you would have this kind of conflict but they were dealing with it in a subtle cautious measures in order not to anger the religious establishment because there's still so m flew until on the ground but now wha

come to the negotiate the bill so they are using their at facts on the this of their areas of saudi arabia and u.a.e. and it was to put pressure on the saudi government. in washington potentially what could this do to the oil price. i think definitely we should expect that oil prices continue to increase we've seen under the trump administration over a fourth of july weekend that oil prices got the prices at the pump for american citizens were the highest they have been in for years and for whatever reason the trump administration allows mohammed bin salon and saudi arabia to act very aggressively in the region completely untried and shacked or in fact with u.s. support as we know the who are backed by iran and saudi arabia has blocked this important strait which raises the question of whether or not iran will then block the strait of hormuz in a retaliatory effort the strait of hormuz is extremely significant because over twenty percent of the world's entire oil flows through that and it is the opening from the persian gulf out into the sea was not the question in tehran security the who

legion now we even have to be all over people whether in saudi arabia. in egypt or in yemen we all have to pay the price of this interesting that up and how to do that then it's just water so i think it was a photo it is just another big there. who is being invaded by outside force ahamed wasn't this going to be evident which is a man has a reform as crown prince of saudi arabia the religious establishment is the most powerful and ultimately of the the clash was going to be an evident one day on another. well hashem i'd like to be the advocate of the devil if you will but they mind is if he's trying to do this kind of reform he is doing what his previous services used to do like this kind of clashes between the royal family and the religious establishment it was a kind of a catholic marriage to some extent but on the other hand behind the scenes you would have this kind of conflict but they were dealing with it in a subtle cautious measures in order not to anger the religious establishment because there's still so m flew until on the ground but now what

saudi arabia maybe affluent but poverty exists here to. some or all rashid is a project manager with an aid organization called al not. today she and a social worker of visiting a family that the project supports. so. she is in her late forty's and lives with her two daughters and two nieces. and. for the interview they're all wearing veils in general the less privileged women in saudi arabia are the more likely they are to abide by conventions. tempi. she her is a single mother. without help she would be penniless the father of her children abandoned her she says. she'll feel a man. my husband said it's enough you're a burden. i already had one daughter and i was pregnant with my second she didn't even know that. i mean that he told me i needed to take responsibility for myself and my daughter. and she was really into. it. share her and her family are now supported financially by the on the after foundation it found them an apartment gives them money and clothes and helps pay for the children's schooling single mothers in saudi arabia oft

feel in saudi arabia are familiar with these rock carvings the men listen intently as she explains what they represent. historically saudi women's rights weren't always as restricted as they later became i don't feel like i care you know we lost it for a while and now we're going back again. back in the capital reality and it tories the conservative city. we have food t.v. reporters from germany all women whenever we take a taxi the driver tells us we need to sit in the back. it's a tight squeeze that's we're not allowed to sit next to the driver he's a stranger and a man said we have to keep our distance. in public the women are almost always waved in black abayas a strict dress code that has long been enforced. there are parts of the city where women tend not to go this suits in the old town for example. the. people in riyadh love rummaging around these markets on the weekend. but that women are conspicuous by their absence. including the i'm sure women can come here no problem but if they want to buy something we men died for them or even clothes. women have their own stores this mar

again, saudi arabia a prime example. but if you don't accept the rules of the game, then we do everything in our power to weaken, destabilize and overthrow. so is there a policy, is there a strategy? no. and you don't have to take my word for it. beyond regime change, no. career u.s. government officials tell me there is no policy coherence, there is no strategy. they're throwing jell-o at the wall to see what will stick. there are disagreements inside the administration about what the policy should be and how to go about it. so it's dangerous on all the levels that my esteemed colleagues to my right were outlining previously, and it's going to be incredibly difficult, incredibly difficult for any successor to the trump administration to put humpty-dumpty back together. i'm deeply skeptical as to whether or not they can. there will be tremendous damage inside iran and the region that results from this needless and unnecessary abandonment of diplomacy. we're back to this paradigm where instead of talking to eu, we're talk

saudi arabia, prime example. but if you do not accept those roles, we do everything we can to weaken, destabilize, overthrow. so is our policy? is our strategy? no. don't take i word for it. career u.s. government officials tell me there is no policy coherence. there is no strategy. they are throwing jell-o at the wall to see what will fit in stick. there is dissension about what the policy will be. it is dangerous on all of the levels mike steamed colleagues were outlining and it is going to be incredibly difficult for any successor to the trump administration to put humpty dumpty back together. i'm deeply skeptical as to whether or not they can. there will be a tremendous andnt of damage inside iran the results of this needless and unnecessary abandonment of diplomacy, all right? we are back to this paradigm where instead of talking to a .an we are talking about iran that produces no positive results whether it is republicans or democrats. that paradigm has no tangible benefits whatsoever. >> to pick up on a co

pressure on a prosecution against saudi arabia or the company if it is based in saudi arabia. it's a really good question i mean people still haven't confirmed exactly. but this is just in that there is a saudi interest. in this project and it would change the landscape all considerably twenty billion dollars or so that is that is really really money and then we are also ways that the relationship that. the president has been building with saudi arabia to. take the open sports minister over there. so these things are all in conflict with the. court acted in saudi arabia on the one hand while courting the saudi government on the other hand apart from the legal ramifications of all of this what is the technical side one assumes that the signals are already scrambled somehow anyway so that they're limited to a number of subscribers and yet somebody has been able to take those signals broad rebroadcast them and in a very professional manner how do you how do the broadcasters try to get the jump the gun as it were and try and get ahead of that. some are having a really difficult tim

military contingent in saudi arabia either. said that there's only a few military u.k. military personnel but other reports i've read side the figure of over seven thousand u.k. military personnel in this mission which is effectively directing the war against the hutus and against the civilians in yemen. what this is it this is a over three years of genocide this is affecting the state sanctioned killing of of kids one small in the middle east. and the british government as jeremy called and said back in march is colluding and the u.n. has evidence of war crimes and that makes treason may a war criminal this is no good no question about that in my mind she's one of a long list obviously of u.k. prime ministers there has colluded with the radical islamists of the middle east the muslim brotherhood the there were hardly fanatics in saudi arabia so this doesn't surprise me at all what does surprise me is that the they've been very lax so coy with their figures and they're saying there's just a few military personnel there almost like if it's only a few war crimes it's not

the legion now we even have to pay all of our people whether in saudi arabia. or egypt in yemen and we all have to pay the price of this interesting that up and operate in that then it's just water so i think it was a photo it is just another big there. who is being invaded by outside force wasn't this going to be evident too which is a man has a reform as crown prince of saudi arabia the religious establishment is the most powerful and ultimately of the the clash was going to be an evident one day on another. well hashem i'd like to be the advocate of the devil if you will but they mind is if he is trying to do this kind of reform he is doing what his previous services used to do like this kind of clashes between the royal family and the religious establishment it was a kind of a catholic marriage to some extent but on the other hand behind the scenes you would have this kind of conflict but they were dealing with it in a subtle cautious measures in order not to anger the religious establishment because there's still so m flew until on the ground but now what

their shooting missiles over into saudi arabia. it's delusional. the people of yemen are suffering because saudi arabia has been relentlessly bombing in impoverished and defenseless country for years with u.s. help. it approaches deliberate starvation. this is our fault in the golf arab state fault. this kind of absurd politicking and throwing crazy accusations around is not pointedly to some kind of jcp oa 2.0 or future diplomacy along the line. that's a signal that trump isn't interested in negotiations. so for the u.s. options, i think there's a question, is an effective sanctions regime necessary for the united states pursue whatever this goal actually is. what is the mood among european officials, what is the mood, what is the reaction? i know was just reported that blocking mechanisms were approved to attempt to protect european companies from u.s. sanctions snapping back. what is the mood, how effective will european pushing back against this, how effective is the united states going to be in actually ramming these through and how will that

citizens of saudi arabia and this is the problem that you know every arab leader has made we wish we should watch jordan now if they start doing serious reforms morocco possibly algeria possibly there are there all you know good prospects for reforms that have to be done in egypt decided to didn't want to reform but so i had been so man i think is is a genuine reform minded person who doesn't know how to form and he didn't say he's not going to show him how to do that ok say tell you the same fear that without going into profound changes of the saudi society itself we're not going to see and hear what his stance in the near future if he continues down this path when i do not believe that and i'm nervous a lot of the foremost anaesthetist in the service because before him we hear that king i'm not one to be homeless but we saw we saw nothing before him during the end of the lot so i think it is a lot of the faith yes it's coming in a sense but he's also giving advice i think he is made to them by. christ as an american by since. i think he has he has succeeded for example in pacifying

fox news comes on the heels of a tweet he issued yesterday in which he claimed that the king of saudi arabia king solomon had promised him during a call or had agreed rather to increase saudi arabian oil production by as much as two million barrels a day the white house though quickly back pedaled on that assertion following trump's tweet with a clarifying statement saying that saudi arabia had only indicated that it can raise or production if needed further contrast ng trumps claim is saudi arabia statement itself which made no mention of any increase in production amount but the fact that trump is still increasing the public pressure on saudi arabia u.s. ally to increase its oil production is a sign that he will continue with this straw man strategy as trump feels the pressure from of the american voters to lower gas prices at home. well iran is the world's fourth largest proven oil reserves or export earnings or a major part of the iranian economy iranian leaders say that allow private companies to begin exporting to get around u.s. sanctions iran earned more than fifty billion dollars in

in the gulf malaysia announced it was withdrawing its soldiers from saudi arabia these other troops that were participating in the saudi led coalition that's been bombarding yemen for almost three years now why did you take the decision to bring back was a little hope to be friendly with all countries not to be but the speed in any war except for peacekeeping. troops had there last says he believed for training. saudi at war with yemen we don't want to be involved in other people's war are you know worried though about the saudi reaction and the reason why i ask is because saudi arabia according to neutral observers is being led in let's say a nontraditional way. there have been several reports that the saudis who control islam's holiest sites namely mecca on the card use touch the muslim pilgrimage on visa allocation as leverage to blackmail muslim majority countries into doing what they want and obviously here it's a it's a big thing are you not worried that the saudis would use that against you or have they tried true has there been any reaction from riyadh with regard to your dec

saudi arabia is similar. they are not tied down by existing infrastructure.ater of any kind in saudi arabia was an imax theater at a science center. i think saudi arabia eventually could have 500 screens, maybe 1,000 screens. now because we have exclusive zones and what not, i don't know what the number could be. but i think it could be between 50 and 100. maria: you had a great second quarter. it was the best ever for movie going at the box office? >> it was the highest domestic box office ever. tierks max tide our -- imax tied our record. eyeimax's box office was up. we concentrate and blockbusters and concentrate on global. maria: ways happening the tradition -- what is happening with the traditional movie companies. how do you think things change. disney is on the doorstep of acquiring fox 21st century assets. >> i think you will see more blockbusters. i think that's one of the things that attracted disney to fox. disney realizes you can't advertise the cost of some of these things over a theatrical release. sequels, airplanes, international merchandising

ensure saudi arabia's political success in iraq iran will be watching what is negotiated with saudi arabia closely. iraq is racing to find a short term deal that can bring economic and energy relief to the southern districts and by doing so it hopes that it can quell the protest movement before it turns into a nationwide movement that could topple the government. leaders of iraq and an enormous go to person. case of war corruption and infrastructure to collect means a long term multibillion effort is needed to find a long term solution imran khan how does it like that who the rebels in yemen say they have attacked an oil refinery in the saudi capital using a drone drone targeted the state refinery in riyadh the oil company said it's contained a small fire which is due to an operational incidence the iranian aligned rebels say the drone attack marks a start of a new stage in deterring aggression. and who these leaders has told a french newspaper he is ready to hand control of had a dust port to the un if saudi backed troops and their offensive the red sea port has been controlled by t

president trump, after visiting saudi arabia, quickly joined president trump, after visiting saudi arabiayjoined in the attack. for its part, qatar denies any support for terrorism. you can spread false news very quickly but the longer it goes on, where is the link between qatar and isis. telling the truth is for difficult than ever. translation: the arab audience is becoming more confused. they no longer know which tv news to believe. just after midnight, the attack begins. much of the population is asleep but the official qatar newsagency website is streaming around the clock, as usual. then something strange happens, at the bottom of the screen, the speech is quoted a p pa re ntly screen, the speech is quoted apparently by the india of qatar —— lobbyist emir. he appears to be supporting iran, saying... the emir supposedly that flatly contradicted the us, it considers iran to be a sponsor the us, it considers iran to be a sponsor of terrorism. that was not all. according to the ticker, emir the also said... it was an extraordinary statement. qatari support for hamas would be a challenge

fox news comes on the heels of a tweet he issued yesterday in which he claimed that the king of saudi arabia king solomon had promised him during a call or had agreed rather to increase saudi arabian oil production by as much as two million barrels a day the white house though quickly back pedaled on that assertion following trump's tweet with a clarifying statement saying that saudi arabia had only indicated that it can raise or production if needed further contrast ng trumps claim is saudi arabia statement itself which made no mention of any increase in production amount but the fact that trump is still increasing the public pressure on saudi arabia u.s. ally to increase its oil production is a sign that he will continue with this straw man strategy as trump feels the pressure from of the american voters to lower gas prices at home or i will take a quick break now but when we come back on al-jazeera the u.n. secretary general visits bangladesh for a firsthand look at the range of crisis. and in northern thailand the search goes on for a group of teenagers trapped in a flooded k. hello ther

has the biggest oil is that is sions in the eastern part of saudi arabia on the gulf so any sub with fashion bought a ticket in the us and nora the biggest loading to be in india world would impact very effectively on saudi exports to add to that and remember that most of the gulf countries have no other that they have but to use the set of formulas with the exception of the united arab emirate it which has built three years ago its on oil pipeline from abu dhabi to fujairah thus bypassing the state of total miles all of the out as have to pass with their export through the strait of hormuz saudi arabia has a bit of usa in having and and in the oil pipeline from the east on part of dual jamba are on their red sea which was built with iraqi money during the iraq iran war it had a capacity of two million barrels a day but i understand that this out is a quietly increasing capacity to four billion that would still be around fifty per cent or less of saudi oil exports so all in all the threat should be taken seriously and. phases of the world should try to deal with victimizes and that t

i believe that such a visit by the iraqi side to saudi arabia is a very important one because saudi arabia has expressed keenness and readiness to supply iraq and not only with electricity but to help in other several sectors such as housing projects and transport on the level of spreading its political influence on iraq because saudi arabia has implemented a rather new approach the success of saudi arabia on the economic level will definitely ensure saudi arabia's political success and iraq. iran will be watching what is negotiated with saudi arabia closely iraq is racing to find a short term deal that can bring economic and energy relief to the southern district and by doing so it hopes that it can quell the protest movement before it turns into a nationwide movement that could topple the government. government leaders in iraq are under an enormous amount of pressure. decades of war corruption and infrastructure neglect means a long term multibillion effort is needed to find a long term solution imran khan al-jazeera the baghdad. who the rebels in yemen say that attacked and oil refinery

they try to get legal representation in saudi arabia where they. say they represent and the reason they want to do it in saudi arabia of course is the fact that the heat is going through that time arab satellite mission company which is based in riyadh of course they can only take action in saudi arabia quite as you know way. if you can't get a lawyer if you can't take legal action you're not going to get it this is been going on there for the best part of the year this is not something that in their bedroom it seems this is a very sophisticated operation. as well part of their broker they have been able to stream this on the internet and as we're talking about now through a staff like bait this costs millions of dollars. and it is fairly complicated they must. beat the competition and it seems like it's not just in sports channels that it's like there are other other other sports right. and it seems they feel they can do whatever they like because they've been able what are they like. russia has long to respond to the expulsion of two of its diplo

arms sales to saudi arabia for their operation in yemen it once reassurances from saudi arabia that it will do everything to end the yemeni civil war and eliminate civilian deaths but explains there are ways around the policy. now at first glance it actually looks like washington is starting to distance itself from saudi arabia's war in yemen as washington scrambles over amendments to the new defense bill the secretary of state would have to certify to congress that the saudi coalition is undertaking efforts to end the civil war and reduce the risk of harm to civilians. without the set's vacation the united states would be banned from refueling saudi coalition aircraft for missions exclusively focused on the civil war some media outlets are all over it but listen to the language undertaking efforts to end the civil war now that's a clever way of shielding themselves from criticism and allowing any real efforts to measure their progress now the saudis have been saying the same thing for some time now that they are taking measures to cease the conflict and they've also been playing the m

we'll do a sickly it's part of what he's trying to do in order to convince the people in these in saudi arabia he always needs to find this kind of external threat that targeting the sunni muslim and they you know what iran is doing that business quite well for him he is portraying iran as the you know like the monster of the region the over expansionist policy of iran in the region whether in yemen in syria in sioux in everywhere in the gulf countries as well but the problem is that counter policy that he is using to deter this kind of journal me is completely reckless and useless he's doing nothing to prevent what iran is doing on the ground and he is trying to tell the people on the ground in saudi arabia that what iran is doing is the main more t.v. behind his actions against these salafist which doesn't make any sense like it's a very provocative irony when it when you compare these young people who are looking up to these scholars and they think that they are they you know like a son who are of the awakening movement who are calling for more democratic measures on the ground who did noth

specifically saudi arabia and the u.s. . i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump very north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and earlier this month he met russian president vladimir putin in all sinking at a top level summit it'll be interesting to watch the reaction to donald trump's offer when barack obama was in the white house and said he'd be willing to meet the iranian president he was heavily criticized by republicans democrats and by many right wing commentators who know largely support donald trump. one additional problem might be who would broker a summit with iran or south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president emanuel mccraw had arjun donald trump not to walk away from the iran deal during a state visit to washington is links with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels that are voices senior people in this white house have been very critical of the iranian government and calle

s link to this very bloody conflict germany has suspended arms sales to saudi arabia but british arms sales of sharply increased and british military advisors are directing the war it cannot be right that her government this is cannot be right that her government is colluding in one of the united nations is evidence of war crimes but the u.k. government has been adamant all along that its involvement in the yemeni conflict alongside saudi arabia is both proportionate necessary and legal in order to protect saudi civilians from ballistic missile attacks by the who thiis the self-defense law and of course also taken by the saudi arabian government britain supports saudi arabia its right to defend its security against missile attacks from yemen many of which have targeted the kingdom cities including riyadh. any solution to the conflict must ensure that saudi arabia no longer faces this cross border security threat now or after the first direct admission it may see more of u.k. military personnel being present in those saudi military control rooms questions will remain one what exactly t

referring to his recent trip to saudi arabia, he said that, amidst all the pomp and ceremony, the kingkle the funding of extremists. and the finger was pointing squarely at qatar. trump's support for the saudis only made the crisis worse. qatar's neighbours then move to isolate it. air, land and sea routes were either closed or disrupted. the economic impact on a small gulf state, sandwiched between now hostile neighbours, was initially devastating. diplomatic and business ties were cut and qataris were told to leave saudi arabia, the uae and bahrain. while president trump was tweeting, there was another computer hack, this time the target was the uae. a group called globalleaks released hacked e—mails from the account of yousef al otaiba, the uae ambassador to washington. soon after, in august, 2017, an online investigative magazine, called the intercept, published a long article based on the e—mails. the hacking war has continued into 2018. e—mails embarrassing to both qatar and the uae have been released in recent months. so how did relations in the gulf drop to such a low point? th

saudi arabia says it will temporarily stop transporting oil through the bab al manned strait it says who the fighters have attacked two tankers carrying crude oil one set of being likely damaged the straits located between yemen on the arabian peninsula and djibouti and at a trailer in the horn of africa the coalition says it's trying to protect shipping routes such as the gulf of aden and red sea which are being used to bring middle eastern oil and goods from asia through the suez canal to europe if oil can't transmit through an important channel like the bubble mind even for a short time it could lead to a substantial supply delay and higher shipping costs that could push up energy prices worldwide saudi arabia and its coalition. sunni muslim allies have been fighting in yemen for three years against the goofy's the rebels have been linked to iran during that time the u.s. has issued several warnings to its commercial ships about using the route between attacks on u.s. turkish and society and iraqi coalition boats. but in the most recent incident who the media isn't mentioning an o

and in agreement with saudi arabia that if the u.a.e. got involved in yemen they do so to advance their own national interests which are not necessarily the same as the saudi interest because yemen never really posed a direct threat to the united arab emirates neither did the who these for the for the emer artie's yemen is an axis point to the indian ocean it is an access point to the horn of africa and if you see the different string is there's a string of pearl emerging and yemen is in many ways the the crown jewel in this string of pearl of of pills that the u.a.e. have lined up across the horn of africa as they have bases in somalia in eritrea and in yemen so it's really about consolidating control over this strait of the bubble mendip. some of iran's biggest oil customers appear to be succumbing to u.s. pressure after withdrawing from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal president trump urged impulses of iranian oil to find alternatives and now there are signs many a cussing bag mariana honda reports. iran exported little more than a mil