three patriot antimissile batteries have reportedly been withdrawn including one from a base in saudi arabiaden has pledged to recalibrate u.s.-saudi ties since taking office in january, including freezing the sale of some weapons used by the kingdom and the war in yemen. his administration says it does not want to destroy the relationship. it says it will still continue to help the kingdom defend itself against increasing attacks from yemen and the rack. saudi officials have not commented on this, and why the american say the decision was taken to meet military needs elsewhere. we will bring in our panel shortly to discuss this further, but first, let's take a closer look at the u.s. military presence in the gulf.gl as of late last year, there were about 15,000 american troops across the region and that is down from 90,000 at the height of donald trump's administration. in october 2019, the u.s. floyd nearly 3000 troops to saudi arabia, but now with the possible removal of the batteries and aircraft carriers, up to several thousand military personnel could also leave soon. ♪ hashem: let's b

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah here there are thousands of it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one forest to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues le

east to our partners in the middle east and that also means help to self-help it also means that saudi arabia has to take care of its own security its own defense military aid will be provided to do that and we see the saudi military when there is one branch that is good in the saudi military actually operational and effective is actually the air defense of ballistic defense units of the saudi armed forces which have been trained and supported by the u.s. military and at the same time it's about you know burden sharing and meaning that the u.s. will no longer carry the burden for defense of the gulf and that's the message that's been sent to partners in the gulf all throughout the obama administration but also kind of through the trauma administration despite some rhetoric if you look at action on the ground it meant the united states no longer look at the middle east as strategically most as this duty the most important region of operations and that means local partners have to adopt more of that burden has same but this is the problem with the a strategic review of force placements around t

these farmers 11 are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to are not that it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebanon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every here one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has a lon

there are media reports of direct diplomatic meetings between iran and saudi arabia to cut diplomatic ties 5 years ago in 2016 after saudi arabia's execution of a shia cleric sparked violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq in early april and the reported to have included discussions about reining in back who 3 rebel attacks from yemen into saudi arabia sources quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's growing political vacuum the statements also talks about growing along from gulf arab states over the expanding role of lebanon's iran backed hezbollah movement in the region mark fitzpatrick is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state he says biden's retreat from the middle east is pushing saudi arabia to take matters into its own hands. well this is a very good step you know the saudis have been wanting the united states to carry their water for them they've been demanding a seat at the table in the talks with iran to restore the j.c. way but now they have their own table set directly with iran and you know i don'

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia. both colleagues and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in compare a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. and he says like many kenyans his mother's deaf or runs a cigar felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser beer. with a pandemic income from ke

we're providing geopolitical cover for saudi arabia. to end it. so it's a quite horrible geopolitical dynamic that the u.s. is in right now, and we're calling for the biden administration to unilaterally withdraw all support for the saudi coalition. >> trevor: your film has showcased a really interesting aspect of what is happening in yemen. and the film is entitled "hunger ward." and you take us through the journey, primarily through lens of two healthcare givers, two nurses and doctors who are looking after people in yemen who have nothing and they're trying to keep them alive. i mean, it's truly the most against-all-odds story you can come across. but you're there and you're filming these stories and talking to these people. the first part of my question is how are you getting this access? nobody can really number yemen? secondly, why do you choose to tell this story? >> yeah, well, you know, to answer that first one, i thank you for doing a segment on yemen here because part of the super bowl there's not enough focus on it, frankly.

his majesty's airports while he was saudi arabia this means there. are politically speaking or diplomatically speaking there is no proof that the saudis might be interested in such issue otherwise i think there are all the law wouldn't have been addressed in this way prince hamza spoke of poor and incompetent governance in that video without naming the king but could this be the remark of a bitter half brother deprived of his status as crown prince or is there truth behind really saying. well it's not new that he left. his death as a crown prince it's more than 15 years now that he's not a crown prince so basically i don't see direct link between that specie that he after that he had a lot of very famous letter saying that he has no desire for governance and he would understand this then he appeared in recent years morse lee engaging in domestic issues so it's not it's something unusual surprising to see that these words which is common and boredom i though it recently in public opinion there's very high criticism toward the public the food let's say

couple interesting things here with tony blinken, for example, showing a willingness to work with saudi arabiate the reservations they have in yemen and jamal khashoggi and also in the saudi tv interview the crown prince softening his approach overall to the middle east and trying to rebuild bridges with the united states. soft language, a softer tone when it comes to iran. they actually ended the economic embargo with qatar in january before the biden administration took office. you can see this move here with the united states despite the finger pointing on the cia report, they say we have 90% in terms of common ground in terms of relations with the united states and he is eager to work on the final 10%. let's take a listen. >> translator: we are all working to promote our interests with all countries of the world to serve us and serve them. also the matters that we disagree about are less than 10%. we are working to find solutions to them in order to determine the danger in our two countries. u.s.a. is without a doubt a strategic partner of saudi arabia. the partnership started 80 years ago

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and nanny in saudi arabia. both kelly and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in compare a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. and how he says like many kenyans his mother's death runs a cigar felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew tree. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser here. with a pandemic income from

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and effectively blamed saudi arabia, saying it is saudi arabia's fault opec-plus is not raising productionickly as india would like. we are getting to the point where the people in the companies that do not benefit from rising commodity prices are starting to speak out. that could be something that puts downward pressure on them. oil has been flat for the last five to six weeks. part of that is because imports are under strain. jonathan: -- tom: thank you so much. paul wallace, bloomberg's editor for middle east and north africa as well. lisa abramowicz, what we focus on? lisa: today i'm curious about chair powell and how he will tow the line between earnings and inflationary pressure and the idea we have the tools to keep it in check. i am also very interested to see what apple and facebook have to say and what apple will do with all of that cash. tom: i will go to use of cash. i do not know what they will do with it. there's a lot of speculation and rumors on it. our team will assist on that. i will dovetail them into the boom we see in big technology and among the prospects that the pre

when the who seized control of its capital sanaa eventually forcing president sort of to flee to saudi arabia since then the country has become a regional battleground with a saudi led coalition bolstered by the u.s. the u.k. and france intervening on behalf of heads internationally recognized government it's widely believed iran is arming the hutus although to her on continues to deny the accusation 6 years into the conflict yemen is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world millions are on the brink of famine and roughly one yemeni child dies every 75 seconds the u.n. has also warned of a deadly resurgence of $1000.00 cases is yemen doing to regional power struggles and foreign intervention and what will it take to bring relief to the millions of people suffering and joining me to debate this are from lansing mi. anti-war advocate an assistant professor of education at michigan state university and from new york peter styles barry senior analyst for yemen at the crisis group thank you both for joining me in the arena peter i want to start with you that the war in yemen has ofte

the discovery of 5300000 captagon pills in saudi arabia was the latest drug bust coming from lebanon on the timing of the ban has raised the question if politics is at play this disengagement strategy that saudi arabia as well as the broader gulf has adopted views of 11 on is slowly turning into a more us engagement than a negative engagement strategy in that case the pressure on the lebanese government saudi arabia whose influence in lebanon has waned in recent years is angered by what many see as the iranian backed hezbollah's control and influence in the country lebanon's leaders ordered the security services to crack down on drug smuggling and those behind it. decisions are not in the hands of the lebanese government but in the hands of hezbollah the smuggling routes are under its control and so is the airport on the pole there is no state in lebanon there is a lot of uncertainty saudi arabia wants guarantees that what it calls a systematic smuggling operations and few here believe it will be easy to control the drug trade center. beirut. the un is launching another round of talk

mark jacobson is a former advisor to the us secretary of defense he says it's a reminder to saudi arabia that it's not an indispensable u.s. ally in the middle east. i actually think that this is a fairly routine matter even though it's understandable that the saudis may see this or interpret this as being some sort of signal by the administration and frankly the u.s. central command the middle east i think a very steady vision of what they would like in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defense of course we you know we saw these issues with the iranian shooting medium range missiles in recent years i think that might be more of a driver of the lack of u.s. short. range air defense capability in that need to move those patriot batteries out if you reduce your force structure in the face of. less tensions in that region it allows you to ramp back up again rather than on a day to day basis flyi

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new nations saudi arabia and turkey are sending emergency aid to india and the 1st batch of russia's sputnik vaccine will reach india on saturday will also send 1000000 packs of the. vital drugs by the end of may and doctors in india fear the worst is yet to come elizabeth put on them reports from new delhi. india may be experiencing the world's worst outbreak of cholera the 19 but millions of people still turned out to elect to regional leaders in the state of west bengal on monday it's one of 5 states that has held elections in recent weeks despite the drastically rising number of infections that. hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of beds and oxygen the u.s. and u.k. have responded by sending life saving medical supplies to india we want to try them all the support because their close friends increasingly important partners but also we need this kind of international collaboration if we're going to get through the pandemic we don't can be safe until we're all safe. once the aid arrives armed police are deployed to escort the precious cargo that says region

his majesty's efforts while he was saudi arabia this means there. are politically speaking or diplomatically speaking there is no proof that the saudis might be interested in such issue otherwise i think there are all the law wouldn't have been addressed in this way what could the problem be not a potential enemy but a definite and confirm friend of thinking of the united states here which recently announced an agreement which would allow the free entry of american troops out of the kingdom's territory could that be a factor somehow some resentment about that. well this is interesting but to be honest this kind of military cooperation and agreement has been all over the years so there's nothing new in there that might lead for a new event let's say or to be a trigger for a new movement i doubt that this is linked. to any of these issues i think it's more domestic issues. crowd prince. you know the presence of. a decently like a man or in the last 3 years prison terms there has been a bit active social media tweeting criticizing the situation recently

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and saudi arabia are among those who have expressed support jordan security forces say investigations into prince hamza are ongoing for more i am now joined by reporter. who specializes on the middle and far east the government says the prince the former crown prince was essentially putting the country's security instability at risk were there any signs that this was coming. good morning to you michael well i think one can't emphasize enough how this feels like it's coming out of nowhere i mean jordan is a country that is you know it's in a tough neighborhood bordering saudi arabia iraq syria has a long border with israel and also the west bank and it's often seen as kind of an outlier in the region that is often unfortunately plagued with instability however if you zoom in a little bit into the internal situation i think one can see clues as to what is going on here so the country has really suffered under the code in 1000 hand demick economically and it has also had to go you know how to undergo some very very serious austerity measures that are starting to be really really painful

huge questions over saudi arabia, human rights abuses, the dreadful, brutal murder of the saudi journalistountry aboutjust the last few years in this country about just why does the last few years in this country aboutjust why does the uk it seemed so keen to bend over backwards to keep saudi arabia happy? we know that some of the arms that we�*ve sold to saudi arabia in the past have been used with gradual humanitarian consequences. in libya, for example. i think very serious questions about saudi arabia is human rights. articulate in the conservative party we saw those photos of david cameron in the desert with mohammed bin solomon sort of a over the last couple of days as well. why are they so keen on building a relationship with this country given what we know about how it�*s conducted itself in world affairs and the terrible human rights abuses that we see there? given that there is an allegation made p. m. lobbied by saudi prince we found the rest of the story that the mail does give the government side. i�*ll get a the mail does give the government side. i�*ll geta read the mail doe

saudi arabia so this is a well known fact as well so how can he. he's also he's and he's a go between between the king and the conference and is accused of plotting with a former top prince of joint and right i don't mind. it or any is the king is really. let me say is this about a feud within the royal family or perhaps a sign of wider disc on st discontent excuse me in jordanian society. it's more if you would within the jordan and her family because then full. crown prince and his mother queen. noor feel that they're this that this is the promised land should the former company should have been the country's jordan and that it was taken away from them and so this is part of the he would have been subjected by their i mean jewish fictions not decisions of the movement but they've been stripped of many of their bridges and positions. like he used to be just stripped of one of his major. army you know all of the family shootings others are all in the army. and his research ship the fish started not his actual numbers should go there are ok this 2nd

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia.both colleagues and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in complera a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. i'm home he says like many kenyans his mother stuffer runs a cigarette felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of a family life. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old tree. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser here. with a pandemic income

is really graphic representation and evidence that american economy is very similar to that of saudi arabia writing but not pumping oil they pump cash they pump money out of the free money printing machine down the federal reserve banks they don't need workers they don't need labor and labor has no rights and workers don't get anything the people who are pumping the money down there the fed and their friends they just get more and more of a percentage of the g.d.p. and a strong buy we have that all of arks of america they've got the princes they've got a certain philosophy about life and liberties such as america it's called advertising and rachel maddow well of course you do as we recently covered yet too many elite and you see that in saudi arabia with you know people like prince are. being hung from his feet and the ritz allegedly and his fortune taken the same thing as essentially going on versus fox versus m.s.m. b.c. they're fighting for the decreasing remnants of of an empire like what they get exorbitant privilege but you know in 2000 is quite important because of course we want the

is the biggest exporter saudi arabia is the biggest in puerto hardly a big surprise. the usa is the biggest military spender my report looks at the global military spending and of course usa spending $778000000000.00 it's indeed they're the largest spender by far in the world this is followed by china the 2nd largest spender in the world saudi arabia actually has seen its bush spending for the last year by 10 percent are only the 6th largest spent in the world do you think that trend will continue. we see that the general increase in global spending is something that possibly can continue in the years to come given that militia spending often is seen as having a strong inertia so many of these top spenders are implementing very long term and hugely expensive military modernization and procurement programs and of course this last all the way into the 2030s in china 2040 s. and in the u.s. from its nuclear program to 25 to 20 fifties so indeed if you look at these largest spending countries continue to increase it would be if we tried the global trend to continue to inc