without any knowledge at the higher level levels in the saudi arabian government knowing what was happening. the french president facing a barrage of criticism over plans to create an official first lady role for his wife as despite the money or micro having lawmakers were employing their spouses mr paul as decision could be a real big mistake the main reason for that is that he thinks as an american legion signs all took and moves up planning up to prove that mr merkel is more and more out of touch with french reality to be critical to simply trying to the french in the most years with a hand on his hearts that he probably saw on american movies but this kind of religious values are to discomfit own french an explanation for this love of america that he has been supported like french to lead by the way by the young leaders of the french american foundation whose aim is to strengthen the links between france and the u.s. . a petition against the proposals now gathered over a hundred ninety thousand signatures once it hits two hundred thousand it'll be presented to president mccall himself i

without any knowledge of the higher level you know levels in the saudi arabian government knowing what was happening. the french president is facing a barrage of criticism over plans he's got to create an official first lady role for his wife if despite their money or mccrone having banned lawmakers from employing vers spouses in france the president's wife doesn't have an official status as such and plays a courtesy role according to the plan bridget mccrone would have our own office if it went ahead at number of staff and security guards but a particular bone of contention is the idea of allocating a separate budget for the president's spouse we talk to one french publisher and journalist who says the president's becoming an french and coping is american counterpart. mr kroll this decision could be a real big mistake the main reason for that is that he thinks as an american little signs all took and moves are piling up to prove that mr macro is more and more out of touch with french reality when becoming prison for instance each time to the french you might see years with a head on h

would like to see released but what we've seen so far show is that money was going through the saudi arabian embassy in washington d.c. and being funneled out to california to some of the hijackers prior to the attacks well they said no high ranking officials which leaves the entire lower level ranking officials possibly involved in the attacks and we do have evidence that shows that they were and the reason we need to get this into a courtroom and have it all eric is it's highly unlikely these lower level agents were working without any knowledge of the higher level you know levels in the saudi arabian government knowing what was happening comes. french president is facing a barrage of criticism over plans to create an official first lady role for his wife it's despite though my remark on having banned that lawmakers were employing their spouses we talked to a french publisher a journalist who says the president's becoming whether i'm french copying his american counterpart mrs merkel as decision could be a real big mistake the main reason for that is that he thinks as an american legion si

the war couldn't be more whensized when you look at sis came into iraq with the backing of the saudi arabian overnment. the convoy was two miles long. the united states government was part of this. are completely manufactured, they have no whatsoever, we are creating nothing, but mayhem, from classified documents hillary clinton and i'm a democrat, show that these are completely il illegitimate. we are going after adversaries arabian regime. this has nothing to >> gao says $21 billion spent on fighting isis. gao found the government lacks a strategy to fight the extremism that isis is part of. tell us more about that piece of it. >> the u.s. does have a strategy -- >> after you've eaten a real it's nap time. i'm excited about this afternoon, i was excited about this morning, and me

oil, that we also refine saudi arabian --+++ refine saudi arabian and other country's oil. >> what isning now is that we, for a long time, have kind of been the refiner for the world. so, we have seen a lot of our product moved into south america and mexico. now, it is going to be a little more of our former customer being our competitor for europe. vonnie: tina davis, you are doing fantastic work. thank you. let's check in now on the first word news with emma chandra. emma: harvey is now louisiana's problem should the store made landfall in the southwest portion of the state today. it will be continuing to move north. about 18 people have died in more than 13,000 had to be rescued. floodwaters are still rising in parts of southeast texas. president trump pitches tax reform. if the bill passes, it may benefit high earners the most. he will go to missouri today to push tax cuts for the middle class and small business. still, it is congress who will actually write the legislation. kim jong-un ones that the latest missile launch might just be the start. he says that the test of the missi

the saudi arabian against the deal is now louder. >> in november, 2014, there was a final negotiation they had a deadline. they had not extended it and not they couldn't. the iranian narrative is they claim close to a deal. the foreign minister said he was discussing a press release with the german foreign minister. he took a break and went to the airport and met in the private airplane of the foreign minister and he came back and they said it was a complete change and he was back down on what he had said earlier on. the american narrative is different. as one of the u.s. negotiator said they looked at a meeting and it was two plus two and they made five. they are convinced what happened was because the saudi arabians intervenes. >> i would just like to ask you to comment further on the internal reprecussions within iran if trump decides to -- if trump walks away from the agreement. >> one thing i think it is important to understand is if the u.s. walks out of this deal is what this would do for any future opportunities to be able to get any negotiations going between the united state

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is it's horrible we have to bring democracy back to venezuela while we hold hands with brutal saudi arabian monarchies well could our ruling elite be prosecuted for any of these war crimes or past crimes don't be silly that never happens ask tony blair just this week the high court in the u.k. blocked the prosecution of the former prime minister for his role in the war crimes in iraq you know it's really not fair it takes a white guy five times as long to get convicted of as many war crimes as black guys we wise guys are discriminated against. we are. in fact since the inception of the international criminal court more than a decade ago only africans have been brought to trial why guys gender are. pretty damn quick right but i am a comedy shows coming up in seattle and washington d.c. just email redacted tonight or to america dot tv pretty tales and guess what did i back. kaiser for my guide to financial survival this is a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just. totally destabilize the global economy you

the war couldn't be more whensized when you look at sis came into iraq with the backing of the saudi arabian overnment. the convoy was two miles long. the united states government was part of this. are completely manufactured, they have no whatsoever, we are creating nothing, but mayhem, from classified documents hillary clinton and i'm a democrat, show that these are completely il illegitimate. we are going after adversaries arabian regime. this has nothing to do with american security, nothing more gigantic money grab and global ion of all democracy. host: mr. johnson. guest: that is not something we report, we look at oversight over billions of providing to combat isis. we didn't look at the other issues you point out. is your team to put this research together? guest: in this effort, we homelanda lot of team, security, focus on those particular areas, the defense team, nd international roughly i think 11 different roducts resulted in 14 recommendations, somewhere 15 to period. over -- host: washington examiner, gao ays 21 billion spent on fighting isis and when you look at the story, it

one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world yet we don't see them calling out the saudi arabian kingdom as dictatorial and sanctioning the king and all the princes there is differing degrees of democracy in the world and how they are seen but when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states. the week i'm a jew global study was conducted into which country people fear the most despite what some of you believe it doesn't start with we're goes to school with vetoes. the world is a frightening place disasters wars terror and paul the t. make us a fearful people but fear can be measured who would you say people are most afraid of the usual suspects. who chaney but no none of the people in the thirty eight countries that polled feel most threatened by the united states this is pew research one of the most respected pollsters in the world i guess this has to do with the tone of our political change and that doesn't surprise me it's very disturbing it's concerning it's scary sort of our image now are a lot lo

a civil war has devastated many cities and a blockade imposed by a saudi arabian—led international coalitions preventing food supplies from reaching those in need. the american secretary of state, rex tillerson, has played down president trump's assertions on monday that the united states will win the war in afghanistan. mr tillerson told reporters in washington that the us might not win a military victory over the taliban, but the militants couldn't win either. charges including murder have been filed against two of the suspected islamists captured after last week's attacks in and around barcelona. a third suspect is being held for another 72 hours for questioning, while another has been released while another has been released while investigations go on. it has just gone to 30 a.m. . now on bbc news, it's time for hardtalk. —— 2:30am. welcome to hardtalk. . i am stephen sackur. politicians and civil serva nts sackur. politicians and civil servants usually abandon their offices in the dog days of august, but not this year in london, where brexit is now an overwhelming political priority. th

including three saudi arabian princes who disappeared in europe in the past two years. big crowds became bigger as the time of the funeral approached. as the lines of fans became longer, the police prepared for a hugejob of crowd control. idi amin, uganda's brutalformer dictator, has died at the age of 80. he's been buried in saudi arabia, where he lived in exile since being overthrown in 1979. two billion people around the world have seen the last total eclipse of the sun to take place in this millenium. it began itsjourney off the coast of canada, ending three hours later when the sun set over the bay of bengal. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: mudslides and floods in sierra leone are now known to have killed more than 300 people in the capital, freetown. thousands have been forced from their homes. north korea's president has been briefed on plans to launch missiles near the us pacific territory of guam, but said he would watch american actions before deciding whether to order a launch. three princes from saudi arabia who have been critical of the kingdom's ru

one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world yet we don't see them calling out the saudi arabian kingdom as dictatorial and sanctioning the king and all the princes there is differing degrees of democracy in the world and how they are seen but when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states it's at least trying to stop people traffickers in the but it's radio but cohn rescue charities on board to that hope will tell you more about the break you can to. seem. just don't. get to see. the activity. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again several a groups of carrying out migrant rescue missions in the mediterranean are refusing to sign up to a so-called code of conduct has been drafted by italy first it obliges rescue missions to allow police officers on board it also prevents aid boats from transferring refugees to other vessels insisting they take migrants to ports themselves and it bans phone calls or flares from n.g.o.s ills

one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world yet we don't see them calling out the saudi arabian kingdom as dictatorial and sanctioning the king and all the princes there is differing degrees of democracy in the world and how they are seen but when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a friend or a foe of the united states right ahead please try to stop people traffickers in the mediterranean but can't get rescue charities on board to help i'll tell you was the weekly continues after this quick break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media the voters elected to run this country business equals. bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to be this is what the three of the more. interesting. several aid groups are carrying out migrant rescue missions in the mediterranean or

a civil war has devastated many cities and a blockade imposed by a saudi arabian—led international coalitionayed down president trump's assertions on monday that the united states will win the war in afghanistan. mr tillerson told reporters in washington that the us might not win a military victory over the taliban, but the militants couldn't win either. charges including murder have been filed against two of the suspected islamists captured after last week's attacks in and around barcelona. a third suspect is being held for another 72 hours for questioning, while another has been released while another has been released while investigations go on. it has just gone to 30 a.m.

deal which includes related to the poor and services along with the jets will reportedly help saudi arabian pilots learn to fly the euro fighter type jet the country already ordered from the company more and more that b.a. systems contract meant for ordinary arabs in a moment but mainstream media continues to avoid mentioning that maybe forty thousand civilians were killed in the u.k. deployed be a systems war planes in iraq perhaps no surprise given that this is what teresa mayes government released to the public complete with accompanying music. followed by silence maybe to mourn be a systems being excluded from the development of a new french german warplane in the. silence that just as there is silence about veteran journalist patrick coben claiming forty thousand civilian deaths in the u.k. campaign from mosul but there is less silence now even from some mainstream media sources that have campaigned for isis linked so-called rebels in syria about being a systems involvement in yemen over those contracts with saudi arabia we heard about earlier. dozens have been killed in as strikes on

forty people have been confirmed through a saudi arabian air strike at a hotel near yemen's capital that's according to local officials and those are images of the hotel in question as you can see it's pretty much being reduced to rubble has been conducting air strikes in yemen for more than two years now says that the militia which will take control of the capital sanaa pose a threat to riyadh borders many humanitarian groups blame the saudi coalition for causing numerous civilian deaths. meanwhile r.t. has been to visit a yemeni boy twelve who's already had almost two dozen operations after falling victim to clashes in his country i must warn you you may find these images coming up now disturbing. i mean it's father told all to say about the heartbreaking suffering his son has already been through in his short life. community even a slight cough affects him badly he's very weak his elbow has been damaged by frequent falls as you can see his neck is egypt as well these tragedies come from war the boy spent a month in intensive care before regaining consciousness he's undergone surgery man

deal which includes related to the poor and services along with the jets will reportedly help saudi arabian pilots learn to fly the euro fighter typhoon jet the country already ordered from the company more and more that b.a. systems contract meant for ordinary arabs in a moment but mainstream media continues to avoid mentioning that maybe forty thousand civilians were killed in the u.k. deployed be a systems war planes in iraq perhaps no surprise given that this is what teresa mayes government released to the public complete with accompanying music. followed by silence maybe to mourn systems being excluded from the development of a new french german war plane in the pipeline. silence that just as there is silence about veteran journalist patrick coben claiming forty thousand civilian deaths in the u.k. campaign from mosul but there is this silence now even from some mainstream media sources that have campaigned for isis linked so-called rebels in syria about being a systems involvement in yemen over those contracts with saudi arabia we heard about earlier. dozens have been killed in as str

projected path of sunday night included an even bigger refinery in port arthur texas owned by saudi arabian oil co. and produces 600,000 barrels of fuel a day. it isn't clear how long they could stay close. harvey knocked down almost 15% of u.s. refinery capacity out of commission, which threatens to boost fuel prices across the country. cheryl: a lot of shipments coming out of the port of houston got the east coast. that's what we see the effects. what about travel? >> we are looking at 5000 flights affected. flights have been granted about that houston's busy airports, bush continental distracting airline schedules all weekend. nation wide had granted about 1800 sites. many preemptively on saturday. more than 1400 cancellations extended into today and another 450 nt tomorrow. u.s. airlines are waiving change fees for travelers to get ticketed flights to the region in areas such as corpus christi. nearly all flights were already crowded since friday. transfer airlines are letting you change your flight way outside of time which is changing. these things are heavy and continuing. talking 50

i will say this, nasdaq is trying to say that they have a relationship with the saudi arabian stock marketto them so that gives them an end. i still hear and this is from my banks sources that are working this deal that the two -- the two leaders to getting this deal is the new york stock exchange and the loaned open -- london stock exchange. give slight edge to new york. i don't think they want to be in the sort of money centers u.s. or london. charlie: that could hurt them. that's what we have right now. we have largely a competition people say between new york and london. new york may be in the lead slightly but london may get a big push, nasdaq a distant third on this and this will be a huge listing when this happens. this is going to be a big deal. if you don't know anything about saudi-owned oil company, they do the infrastructure projects. what they are looking to do is modernize. they understand people are going to use less automobiles. but oil will be used for pet row chemicals, for other issues, aviation, oil will still be in demand less so. they have to diversify into technology

a 14—year—old boy has been arrested for dancing the macarena in a busy saudi arabian street.ed on twitter and quickly went viral — but now he's been accused of "improper public behaviour." it is not clear if he will be formally charged by the public prosecutor. he has got some moves. he is good. a hospital in shropshire has turned down a charity donation of 2,500 pounds because it was raised by men dressed as nurses. the head of the nhs trust which runs the ludlow community hospital said the behaviour was insulting and demeaning to staff. the money was raised to help buy new x—ray equipment. soa so a 14—year—old boy is arrested for doing the mac arena and money that is needed for x—ray machines is turned down. —— macarena. a funny old world. a list of the top 100 comedy films of all time has been released by bbc culture, who has polled over 250 film critics from 52 countries. the 1959 classic some like it hot came out on top, followed by dr strangelove. the top 20 films are all english—language with the exception of french film playtime, but despite similarities in the top ch

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including the two biggest, a saudi arabian company and port arthur and exxon mobil's facility.han 30% of more the u.s. refining capacity. more than 3 million barrels a day of refining capacity in texas remains shut on monday morning. shattered refineries -- said thatrefineries they were planning to start again. thatoes for houston warned they will be close for a while. so for thea set u.s.. a flotilla of european fuel tankers will sail to the u.s. in the wake of harvey as oil traders scramble to replace the petrol knocked out by the worst storm in 50 years. ship brokers in london said 40 cargoes of petrol were being negotiated. well up on the usual volume. traders were asking for flexibility to deliver to the atlantic seaboard or gulf coast depending on when ports reopen. that on the oil sector. on the cost of hurricane harvey and the tropical storm, rain ceases, misery remains. that is the front page of "usa today." their headline, harvey could be the costliest u.s. disaster. compare that to hurricane katrina in 2005. $50 billion. hurricane andrew in 1992, 24 billion dollars.

but bigger concern for the opec cartel is increase in saudi arabian production, which according to the last report went above 10 million barrels a day. do you think they're sending a message to the rest of the guys at this meeting? hey, guys, look what we can do. you need to comply or we'll bury you. i think a subtle message from saudi arabia today. the market took notice but bounced back on hopes maybe they can get some kind of a deal done. >> we hope, to add all that, phil, i hate to say this, summer driving season coming to an end. boo-hoo. >> it is. gas prices don't know it. they have gone up eight weeks in a row. >> i noticed on my beach trips. phil, thank you. >> take one more shot here. the dow once again at record high. the ninth straight record close. the 52nd record close since election day. you have to honor at least a little bit the trump presidency for doing all of this. now you have got profits beating politics. you had stocks soaring, new record highs despite all the roadblocks in washington, thank you congress. 3% of s&p 500 -- 83% of companies reported results and 68%

seeing happening in saudi arabia well then there's an issue between the canadian government and the saudi arabian government what can canada do we either have to stop our military exports altogether to saudi arabia and another thing that canada is doing chrystia freeland in particular she's talking to our allies people in the european union we know back in two thousand and sixteen the european union did a non-binding agreement with the in the european parliament weapons and bargo basically toward saudi arabia say we can't sell the weapons because of the yemen situation now this is the saudis killing people in their own country their own civilians so this is a step up at least in the eyes of canada and this is something that did we're looking at very seriously and hopefully a lot of people are open a lot of politicians a lot of human rights groups there were to stop selling arms to these countries that are causing these type of human rights violations and killing their own people to the bottom line why do they think they're going to do with all those tanks alex . i mean i don't i sure that's my qu

who confirm drops of the report released last week according to reuters the draft report said a saudi arabian led coalition killed more than six hundred eighty children since it started airstrikes against hutu fighters in yemen twenty fifteen well the u.s. supplied ordinance for the air strikes in yemen as ongoing civil war u.n. representative said the report will come out next month. coming up next on our team of the u.s. and south korea conduct mabel drills as tensions in the region reaches a boiling point it got expert analysis on the ongoing feud coming up after this short break and. all the world. and all the news companies merely players but what kind of partners are anti american play party america. are to america. many ways to use landscape just like you really big that. you could never your all. the market all the world all the world all the world's a stage we are. people of got to know whether or not fair presenter support american people deserve to know what difference at this point does it make you must guard against the military industrial. we shall never go again cannot be. or s

palestinians and after monday's decision in london his britain's multi-billion military support the saudi arabian destruction in yemen. coins saul's for trust it's a mathematical formula. think about all the institutions in your life that require trust you trust people on the road are going to be not crashing into you doctor is professional and you trust the hospital is working and you trust third parties all day long point is the first international currency that doesn't require trust it just requires consensus. every ten minutes the protocol and why would you not be buying a protocol if you're getting fabulously wealthy or watching central banks collapse . wealth comes and goes and watching central banks crawl into their p. themselves and try. welcome back joining me now to go through some of this week's headlines is abdel bari atwan editor in chief of arabic news outlets thanks so much abdel for going back we're going to have two palestinian stars on later in the show i should say it's eleven years as well and they're well aid to the u.s. and u.k. by the tree forces in the fight against as wel

monday's high court decision in london is britain's multi-billion dollar military support the saudi arabian destruction in yemen all but assured. me but to i'm going underground. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. here at us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it's one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to. speak to us there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream. has met its make. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with we curriculum is that needed austerity policy is if you are in a situation of flow bloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work

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get off the ground, 100 billion dollars fund that softbank has been putting together with the saudi arabianse -- you may recall, in trump tower this year you had a meeting with president trump saying going to put 50 billion dollars of that money into united states there haven't been major investments but looking at companies like we work said he wants money in either lyft or uber that is something to watch as well. maria: are a lot of money, sidelines looking for places to go. >> i was distracted by chocolate doughnut watermelon. >> a break when we come back retail in focus on wall street macy shares are down now they started off up. after delivering a double beat but now the stock is turned lower down 3 1/2% what it means fiercest industry and macy's clothes without stepping into an office, mortgages are taking a step go digital, stay with us. stay with me, mr. parker. when a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. stay with me, mr. parker. the at&t network is helping first responders connect with medical teams in near real time... stay with me, mr

a 14—year—old boy has been arrested for dancing the macarena in a busy saudi arabian street.rmance was posted on twitter and quickly went viral — but now he's been accused of "improper public behaviour". it is not clear if he will be formally charged by the public prosecutor. a labour frontbencher has said women only train carriages could combat the rise in sexual offences on public transport. shadow prime minister chris williamson said it would be worth consulting on the policy, after such crimes doubled in the past year. jeremy corbyn first suggested the policy during his leadership election campaign in 2015. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. lots of people getting in touch with us lots of people getting in touch with us about identity theft. philip dunne twitter says people need to wa ke dunne twitter says people need to wake up to the fact that their identity can be stolen. keep your comments coming. do get in touch with us throughout the morning — use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. let's

and we report for the first time this morning that they also approached eed saudi arabian developer andrabia as well. >> yeah. by the way, it is 666 5th avenue, something that of course makes it a bit more ominous. a big ghost busters movie. >> 666. >> so but you write about some other countries that they've gone to trying to get money. >> yeah. they went to saudi arabia, they went to south korea, they went to france's richest man, bernard arnaud, he runs lbmh. they were hoping because he's into luxury brands and they wanted to build this huge mall at the base of a new tower he'd be interested. >> all nose. >> all the way around. that's the fascinating thing here, even though there's this broad concern about buying abscea access to the white house, nobody's really biting on this troubled project. >> too hot. >> all the way around the world. >> mika? >> does he go back to new york and get to work on his company or stay in the white house? what's he doing in the white house? >> that is a very interesting question, mika. and i don't think caleb -- >> i'm curious. >> for the table. >> for t

stuart: should we stop flow of money to the wahhabis, saudi arabians? y. >> just stop it? >> absolutely i think you could do that. we should do that they responded, i'm a little on the spot because i didn't look at this particular statistic, i think saudis responded attacks in germany, offering to build 200 more wahhabi mosques. that is crazy. you shouldn't accept that sort of thing. stuart: you have a relationship, i want to go back to the beginning here for just a second. you had a relationship with khalid sheikh mohammed. you waterboarded him a couple hundred times i think? >> come on. stuart: i don't know the number. what is it? >> that is okay. it wasn't a couple hundred times. stuart: how many was it? >> well, he was waterboarded for two weeks. there were 183 individual applications of the water but most of those applications lasted less than eight seconds. so you know. stuart: you did have a relationship with him you sat down and discussed these things at length? >> yeah. very much at length. you know, we were trying to understand, like in my book

and it's like steve schwartzman going on the council and getting the saudi arabian deal. blatant pay-to-play. >> it's always pay-to-play, it's just always pay-to-play. it's cruder now. >> but it was hidden. you at least had the decency to hide it. >> but i'm saying it's more crude now. i know trump, nobody else knows trump. come through me, i'll get you to trump. >> but the joke in the end is actually the playbook is not that complicated. what's happening now is the traditional la aal lobbyists ar realizing, wait a second, if i come to the president and say i have jobs and i'll give you credit publicly, you can sell anything. so the people who thought their only play was i know how trump thinks, it turns out the playbook is pretty simple. >> this sort of feeds into what your concern has been from the very beginning, sort of autocratic rule. if you're the two or three people that know the autocrat, you control. >> it's not just domestic, it's foreign. we've seen this with trump tower moscow and all entanglements that makes us question something we shouldn't have to questio

so al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is obviously the islamist militant group and they are mainly focusing on yemen and saudi arabia now these two regional offshoots first came together in two thousand and nine but since the civil war began in two thousand and eleven they have really spread in the southern part of the country due to all of the infighting taking place in the north so there's a vacuum in the south they've completely taken over that area that's where this fight is going on and of course all of the fighting in the north is between the who the rebels who are backing the former ousted president ali abdullah saleh who was ousted in two thousand and eleven and they are fighting against the saudi led coalition including the americans who are backing the internationally recognized president. now he his term ended legally in twenty fifteen but the international community is still supporting him so that's really what this war is that's what they're trying to reinstate him to power and as i said in my report the cia considers to be the worst branch of al qaeda and fact they've taken responsibility for at

civics though the arabian and the taliban nobles went to war with each other although originally supported by the saudis as part of their competition in the defined day taliban but now we are seeing signs with the new york times article that i suspect what of the reasons the areas for the tremendous amount of pressure on the iraqi government and they did not agree to that status forces agreement to allow them to be in iraq because the areas to not want to see american troops anywhere near its borders. that the afghan government did sign the agreement in part of that i recalculation is because that cover the does have a decent relationship to allow the united states to stay there and they were talking about doing regime change it did not want to see u.s. troops on its borders so that there currently suffering between the rivalry of the united states. >> one of the things that was repeated a lot during the weeks and months leading up to these successful iranian deal with the above administration that the russians were a big help of the negotiations was something that john kerry was saying. it seems that i

saudi arabia that particular time. it was just considered to be the arabian peninsula. >> thank you. >> what advice would you give -- >>ury history -- i went blank. ago.s 200 some of years >> what would you say to people who live in rural areas regarding extremism? that's the questionnaire asking. as opposed to urban. what would you say to people who live in rural areas? i would take the context in terms of what we talked about previously, there seems to be a confluence of people enroll areas that subscribe more to a hate of muslims and people who live in the city because there is more interaction. i guess that's what they are asking. >> i will answer this question. i will not say anything to the people who live in rural areas. anything different than what i would say to anyone else. that is get to know a muslim. we do not have the ability to change the social engineering of the people of this country. the reality is that the media's generally controlled by five or six channels, if you will. we don't have the ability to thattively challenge broader social engineering. we do have the ability -- and i muslimy this to my