teaching villagers to drill for well means or something just so happens in afghanistan is the saudi arabia of libya and every conceivable precious metal that you can imagine that a friend of mine one time said what would have been the chances of our invading iraq if their main export had been progress we have to stop repeating these wonderful tropes and throw isn't about how they're defending the world and somehow maintaining peace but here's a question you asked me if we were to leave let's just next year or less you say we just sat right there is our syria figured out why. what happened how what our oh and our in the united states how our or anybody else's national security because it's just so happens there are some pipe or here it's about gaps it's about getting straight to the mediterranean and rusty he reminding us that the frank capra wonderful idea is you know we're going to spread liberty or never i mean this is your 2020 where we're past. ok well you know how big laurie but it seems to me i mean we have to remember what obama's watch was the catastrophe in libya and i see the same kind of

and bahrain which clearly are some of saudi arabia's closest partners and normally aligned their foreign policies very closely very little mention of syria and libya just a quick mention at the end and clearly of things that were not mentioned that you pretty much knew the king was going to talk about but the ongoing siege of qatar the death of jamal khashoggi almost 2 years ago which is certainly affected the perception of saudi arabia in the international community and repression at home in saudi arabia including the imprisonment of mohammed bin nayef the former crown prince deposed by the king's own son who is now the the crown prince mohammed bin saw a man no mention of him he said to be important ok joining us there from united nations thanks very much that's going to have a man. she is a former u.s. state department official and the c.e.o. of the political risk consulting strategy she joins us now from mclean in virginia just outside washington d.c. good to have you with us hilary do you agree with james there when really no surprises in the saudi king's speech that it was rather just a reiteration of saudi policy touching on all the main pr

libya's warring sides meeting in morocco delegations from tripoli's un bags government and the eastern based parliament to holding talks south of rabat ahead of a larger meeting in geneva on monday. saudi arabia says it has intercepted and destroyed an explosive laden drone from yemen the spokesman says several drones was sent to attack saudi arabia's airport in response to an increase in saudi air strikes in yemen. and there fears the number of people killed by the corona virus in mexico is far higher than previously thought the health ministry has recorded 123000 excess deaths during the pounds i make that's nearly double the official toll which is already the world's 4th highest police in the u.s. city of portland of arrests of more than 50 people during demonstrations against racism and police brutality on saturday those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after a.j. selects. frank assessments what are you seeing any of this into 6 percent disapproval of police you like still being true if this is true and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. so i'm trying to sites no no no i don't really identify because it's really really confus