us his main middle eastern allies is saudi arabia and it's well known that the saudi arabian will be our ideology is the ideology upon which isis and other terrorist groups feeds upon so whichever way you look at it the u.s. . at the very least we can say is not doing much for the feet of terrorism when you look at the fact that it one of its closest allies saudi arabia and its one hundred ism is the main the ilo ideology which is adopted by these groups i think that in addition to that fact the mirror the fact that or the holding of these drills the participation of american troops in these drills for the first time we see a serious such a scenario i think this shows that indeed america has begun with a new strategy which was announced by the new u.s. envoy to syria james jeffrey when he said that now u.s. prison u.s. troops will stay in there for. plea and then we have a goal which is to take iran out of syria and i think that the statements of james jeffrey are very much linked to these maneuvers which were carried out by these american troops so we have the first translation of t

forces and saudi arabian forces are not on the ground in this particular region now what it showed is that military vehicle in the background and what's really interesting about this is that the french government the french military has never acknowledged that it has french troops on the ground in this particular area of syria now we do know that this area is where the u.s. backed fighters have been battling against the harvests and we also know that france has been part of a u.s. led coalition which has been cut ducting operations over syrian airspace over the last three years but in particular it's been aiding could dish forces on the ground as they fight against isis all forces now we know that france has pledged in the past full support to syrian kurds on the ground the president should the syrian democratic forces and the french support in particular for the stabilization of the security zone in the north east of syria within the framework of an inclusive and balanced governance to prevent any resurgence of i saw while seeking for political salute. to the syrian conflict well tha

forces and saudi arabian forces are not on the ground. in this particular region now what it showed is that a military physical in the background of what's really interesting about this is that the french government the french military has never acknowledged that it has french troops on the ground in this particular area of syria now we do know that this area is where the u.s. backed fight is have been battling against the hardest in this area and we also know that france has been part of a u.s. led coalition which has been cut ducting operations over syria in space the last three years but in particular it's been aiding forces on the ground as they fight against isis forces now we know that france has pledged in the past full support to syria on the ground. the president should the syrian democratic forces that the french support in particular for the stabilization of the security. and you tube's move to hit popular users before conservative users especially president is draining the time we want to be bold enough to make it a movie yah.

at least eight saudi arabian soldiers have been killed in fighting with yemen's hooty rebels that's according to saudi use agencies the kingdom's military says that it falls an attack along its southern border and that its forces captured a high ranking huth ecomog. china's president is expected to announce a plan for billions of dollars of aid in advancement in african countries later on monday president xi jinping is due to speak at the launch of a two day summit in beijing he's been welcoming fifty two leaders including his sudanese counterpart obama al bashir and south africa's president civil rights poza she's trillion dollar belton road infrastructure plan is set to top the agenda but there are concerns that the project is overloading poor countries with debt well it's not just trade and investment which has been growing between china and africa hundreds of thousands of people have relocated in recent years a million chinese now live in africa while the number of africans in china is thought to be around half that adrian brown reports now on the cultural impact that the change is having

the saudi arabian embassy in a man refused to comment but palestinians off furious i don't live in a very good joke the decision represents no respect us the latest on a conference any reason to petition for such a decision. more than two million palestinians live in jordan and the hashemite kingdom has become their second homeland it's long been believed that israel would like to make the state permanent hoping palestinians would then forfeit their so-called right to return to palestine but that are not out of trouble this is a decision by trauma it's an absolute american decision amos to give the jordanian citizenship to the palestinians this is just the latest in a series of u.s. setbacks the palestinians including moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem palestinians say the eastern part of the city should be the capital of their future state and the u.s. government stopping hundreds of millions of dollars for palestinian refugees from the united nations relief and works agency. whatever saudi arabia's reasoning many palestinians and others say they should be allowe

been honored for exposing abuse of power and prosecuting corruption in guatemala three imprisoned saudi arabian rights activists are also among the laureates. it mohamad. valid carry on out for the efforts to reform the taliban political system in saudi arabia they're all currently in jail for a friend says that include disobeying the ruler and harming the reputation of the state by communicating with international organizations. far more from book enough to receive the award for turning barren land into forest and demonstrating how farmers can regenerate this soil using local knowledge he's known as the man who stopped the death and the australian to only do is recognise by the jury for his work fighting deforestation and. in africa's region. let's all take a close look at tony he has pioneered a simple but effective solution to deforestation that has earned him the nickname the forest make a renowned technique involves growing trees from existing groups systems which are often still intact by choosing the right plants and by pruning and protecting them in a certain way they can grow into crea

. >>> it seems to have been a big year for saudi arabian reforms. held the first coed concept. in april the first movie theater in a generation opened. in june the kingdom finally allowed women to drive. so is saudi arabia on a new path? one of the strong of the voices is calling for saudi arabian reform. she was jailed years ago for driving in saudi arabia and wrote a book about her experiences called daring to dr drive. someone asked you what is your reaction. you live in sydney, far away from saudi arabia, but you must have watched this last year with great interest. what was your reaction when you heard the crown prince announced the series of reforms he has been announcing whether it's the speeches or the statements or interview on american television on 60 minutes. what was your reaction? >> i was excited. i was very hopeful that we have a young lead who believes in reforms and not only economic reforms, but we were hoping there will be political reforms and especially the religious establishment or extremist islamists in saudi arabia. the pow

surrounding this specific incident specifically from the united states was really heavy that the saudi arabians had to come out and say that this is in fact their mistake and it is in fact important that they hold themselves accountable to international standards of law it's a first step to making sure that now that we are starting to claim accidents that saudi arabia ideally would have a commission created of outside parties meaning those who have nothing to do with the conflict investigate what went wrong in this case how did they end up targeting civilians and then to put penalties in place to make sure that in the future you don't target schools you don't target hospitals you do not target historical sites and you make sure that those who are damaged and hurt specially those who are children woman that their families receive the reparations they need. often nearly seventy years the united states has cut all funding to keep the u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian refugees it is accuse the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed of the palestinian lea

economic ties , there are whispers on the street that the main goal was to snag a loan from the saudi arabianso boost pakistan's economy. they say in this article that the goal was also to show pakistan's loyalty to saudi arabia, as india has also forged a relationship with the kingdom. genie: what kind of reaction in the saudi press? >> royal saudi, welcome, that is what the arab news says on its front page. to show he can make good on his electoral promises of change, reform, and fighting corruption, all the more important given how strong the saudi relationship is with pakistan. he has left saudi arabia for the emirates and is in other dobby, which rolled out the red confit bi other dobby -- abu dha rolled out the red carpet. they want to understand better how to strike a balance when dealing with the u.s. and china. given pakistan's situation, both countries are of crucial diplomatic performance -- importance. genie: china's most favorite -- famous actress has been missing for two months now. >> she is china's most famous actress and international star as well. she has not been seen for tw

the saudi arabian embassy and a man refused to comment but palestinians off furious i don't live in a very good joke the decision represents no respect tell us the latest on a conference any reason to petition for such a decision. more than two million palestinians live in jordan and the hashemite kingdom has become their second homeland it's long been believed that israel would like to make the state permanent hoping palestinians would then forfeit their so-called right to return to palestine but are not out of trouble this is a decision by trauma it's an absolute american decision amos to give the jordanian citizenship to the palestinians this is just the latest in a series of u.s. setbacks the palestinians including moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem palestinians say the eastern part of the city should be the capital of their future state and the u.s. government stopping hundreds of millions of dollars for palestinian refugees from the united nations relief and works agency. whatever saudi arabia's reasoning many palestinians and others say they should be allowe

nations is calling on all sides to abide by a previously agreed cease fire deal at least eight saudi arabian soldiers have been killed in fighting with yemen's hooty rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that it followed a who theah tackle on its southern border videos from saudi media show captured hooty fighters including what they say is a high ranking commander nearly four months after iraq's election eleven political groups have come together to form the largest bloc in parliament and includes groups loyal to the shia cleric. and prime minister hietala body parliament will convene on monday and a process of forming a government will begin not hashmi is the director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the new coalition gives him reason to be optimistic. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is

for the opening of the airport santa the whole of the space above the yemen is controlled by the saudi arabian led coalition in this war so that will be a significant concession by the saudi side if he could manage to do that but this is all speculation at the moment the rebel delegation is still on the ground in the yemen capital they still haven't got the permission to leave they're still asking for pre-conditions they want to take that. civilian or rebel fighter casualties to oman for medical treatment they also want to bring back those who've already been treated back to sun and now these preconditions were not . actually mentioned by the special envoy before he said there were no preconditions so it seems that these were conditions laid down at the very last moment by the rebel delegation but they are waiting for the efforts by both the united states by the americans and of course by the special envoy himself to try and square these very complicated diplomatic circles but in the end he said that he still has hope that this can continue heard from the spokeswoman from the united nations sa

a military unification it has been unable to improve economic living conditions at least eight saudi arabian soldiers have been killed in fighting with yemen's hooty rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says the need for huth the attack along its southern border videos from saudi media show captured who think fighters including what they say is a high ranking commander human rights watch wants an end to all weapons sales to saudi arabia following the bombing of a school bus in yemen last month the rights group called the attack an apparent war crime on saturday the saudi embassy coalition admitted that mistakes were made during the airstrike that killed forty children inside a province one hour from al-jazeera is alan fischer who's in djibouti. human rights watch uses very strong language to condemn the saudi led coalition operation in northeast yemen at the beginning of august which killed forty children and eleven adults they say it just adds to the gruesome record of killing civilians in yemen now you remember at the time the saudi said that this was a leg

what should we in saudi arabian government do in churches? i have attended the mormon church when i was in saudi. there are congregations going on within, but the problem is if they allow somebody to build a church, most people working in saudi arabia are migrant workers. they're there for two, three, four years and gone. when they're gone, who will maintain the church? it's a legitimate question. why do you put a building out there that is not maintained if you disappear? there are enou if there are enough citizens who are christians, it makes sense. however, i think the saudi king was talking with the catholic church to do something about it. so that is the part of the church. government should not do anything. let people build it themselves if they want to, and there are congress g congregations. i have attended catholic and mormon that were in saudi when i was there. >> you can't publicly have a public church? you can't build a church, can't build a synagogue. >> there are so many things that we perceive to be illegal. number one were movi

been on live for exposing abuse of power and prosecuting corruption in guatemala three imprisoned saudi arabian rights activists also among the laureates. mohamed qahtani and volleyed care are known for the efforts to reform the two italian political system in saudi arabia the oil currently in jail for offenses that include disobeying the rule and harming the reputation of the state by communicating with international organizations. a farmer from burkina faso receive the award for turning barren land into forest and demonstrating how farmers can regenerate this soil using looking knowledge he's known as the man who stopped the death and the australian. a tony rondo is recognized by the jury for his work fighting deforestation and desert if occasion in africa. region. now let's take a closer look at one of the when as i just mentioned tony is an alto he spiny a simple but effective solution to deforestation that is earned him the nickname the forest make a run out of technique involves growing up trees from existing ruth systems which are often still intact by choosing the right plants and by pr

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three saudi arabian men jailed for disobeying the ruler and the man who stopped the desert and parking afonso we look at some of the winners of the right livelihood awards the alternative to the nobel prize. and pope francis pays tribute to victims of oppression in the baltic countries in lithuania he honors those who suffered under the mob scene and soviet occupation. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor on a macro has apologized to the public for being out of touch with voters or coalition has been embroiled in a dispute about a controversy all domestic intelligence chief there was a public outcry after he was fired and then promoted with a hefty pay increase here's what the chancellor had to say earlier today so i gave him some of that since let me be clear last tuesday's decision was unconvincing when i asked myself why. poppy and last tuesday's decision i was too focused on the workings of the interior ministry and gave too little consideration to what people think rightly when they hear that someone is getting promoted. i deepl

checking her stupid question is a spokesman for new york's mass says the flight stopped in the saudi arabian city of mecca which is experiencing a flu outbreak the plane a double decker bus three eighteen landed in new york around nine in the morning local time and was immediately taken to an area away from the terminal as passengers disembarked that temperature was taken somebody is temperatures higher. astable some of the election my temperature is not more than ninety nine. i was asked to do something to confirm that in response to the sickness on board the dubai based and mine tweeted emirates can confirm that about ten passengers on ek two zero three from dubai to new york were taken ill. on arrival as a precaution they were attended to by local health authorities it later emerged that seven out of the ten people taken to hospital were crew members passengers say the experience was surreal to sit at the customs. so even the people had been helping with luggage they wear masks and gloves and then the bus we had the passengers no one offered us at the airport and that's so that was made o

united nations nikki haley all the time we hear from the trump administration we hear it from the saudi arabian monarchy that iran is providing arms and money to the rebels but there's no evidence of it and the reality is that actually yemen has the most prior to the start of this war had the most weapons in the world in that country except it's only second to the united states so when the coup things took over certain areas there were huge amounts of weapons that the saudis had actually left there so that's where these arms are coming from where it does seem as it's not as if they're getting these if if iran was handing out these or put it giving them weapons you think they would be better and not so far out of date as we've seen which sort of leads that these were left over from previous incursions by saudi arabia exactly i mean there's not the rebels don't have the you know this incredible technology that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have that have been brought from you know washington from. from this country and so they have somewhat limited weaponry but they've been able to us

at least eight saudi arabian soldiers have been killed excuse me in fighting with yemen's huth the rebels that's according to saudi news agencies the kingdom's military says that it for old who theah tak along its southern border videos from saudi media show captured who think fighters including what they say is a high ranking commander yemen's president man so hardy is preparing to travel to the united states for medical treatment how he's been treated for heart conditions since two thousand and eleven he's been living in exile in saudi arabia since iran back to the rebels took control of yemen's capital sana'a in twenty fifteen. pakistan says the three hundred million dollars of military support that the u.s. plans to scrap is reimbursement that it's owed and not aid its foreign minister says that the money is to meet pakistan's expenses in supporting the so-called us war on terror. ratio. he says that he will bring up the issue with secretary of state michael paya when he arrives in islamabad on wednesday the u.s. accuses pakistan of failing to take action against armed groups and prov

outside of those, saudi arabian clubs were the next biggest spenders $152m, closely followed by china investment bank lehman brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. it was the largest bankruptcy in us history — and signalled the start of a global financial crisis whose effects are still being felt today. to end our week long series on the crisis — our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani has been finding out how people in asia were affected. looking back at memories from a different life. ten years ago declan thought he had fought was a dream job, working for lehman brothers in london but then the bank collapsed, in dramatic fashion. it was a sense of shock, that this happened, will be closed down, will be get bored, what will we do? declan survived a pivoting to a new career path entirely, he now runs a chain of successful furniture stores across asia. and while it's true that the uncertainty from the global financial crisis spread to asia and wasn't as bad as it was in the west. 0ut here in singapore is financial district banks were also affected by their exposure to the g

but he says this was not corruption he says these monies were a donation that he received from a saudi arabian member of the royal family and he says he's received most of that money he's returned most of that money so we believe that is going to be the crux of the not just defense argument ok i mean this is a huge pro business who else is being investigated in this one d.b. scandal. well malaysian police have issued an arrest warrant for a man called low take joe he's also known as joe now many investigators believe that he is a key figure some say even the mosque in mind of this complex scheme to steal at least four and a half billion dollars from one and this is what u.s. department of justice officials allege jolo was known for its extremely lavish lifestyle investigators say he bought obscene the expensive presents that he showered on friends he threw wild parties for hollywood celebrities malaysian authorities recently took possession of a multi-million luxury your that they believe jolo had bought using money that he had stolen from one and d.b. those whereabouts are not known some rela

surrounding this specific incident specifically from the united states was really heavy that the saudi arabians had to come out and say that this is in fact their mistakes now are hoping that in fact this is the former specially that now they will go to geneva and participate in the talks starting september third that's what i was going to say actually more leaning towards the latter unfortunately is that with the peace talks coming up maybe the timing of this was crucial to show that there is some. ability to as you said begin the process of apologizing and reparations before the peace talks. well the most important thing is that the saudis do not behave in this conflict the same way that rebel militias acting on the ground and it is in fact important that they hold themselves accountable to international standards of law and to prevent those who are civilians in this conflict of course we know this is not the first time that the saudis of attack civilians but it is important it's a first step to making sure that now that we are starting to claim accidents that saudi arabia ideally would have

lead to the possibility of war crimes but they see that would be for a court to decide so for the saudi arabian coalition to come out and say this at this point is very interesting but we do know there's been a lot of pressure on the saudis from the united states and they were told that that was a bomb that was used in the attack on the marketplace and so the saudis may well have responded to that pressure by coming out with this record in the last few hours allan session djibouti for us thank you. after nearly seventy years the united states has cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian refugees it's accuse the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed of the palestinian leadership is calling it a flagrant assault on its people are a force that has more from raw in the occupied west bank. just this week in the face of its funding crisis on row was celebrating the start of the academic year at the reopening of its schools girls' arriving for class in a jealous zone refugee camp in the occupied west bank welcomed by the agency's chief on

nobody checking each question is a spokesman for new york's mass says the flight stopped in the saudi arabian city of mecca which is experiencing a flu outbreak the plane a double decker bus three eighteen landed in new york at around nine in the morning local time and was immediately taken to an area away from the terminal as passengers disembarked that temperature was taken somebody is temperatures higher than astable some of the election my temperature is not more than ninety nine. was asked to come to the germans in response to the sickness on board the dubai based as mine tweeted emirates can confirm that about ten passengers on ek two zero three from dubai to new york were taken ill on arrival as a precaution they were attended to by local health authorities it later emerged that seven out of the ten people taken to hospital were crew members passengers say the experience was surreal to see at the customs those ships even the people had to help you with luggage they. must send the logs and enough supplies we had the passengers no one of us at the airport and so that must mean about the.

that they took just two weeks ago this comes as there is international mounting pressure on the saudi arabian led coalition because of a number of incidents in yemen itself one of those of course was the bus attack you when it was revealed that our u.s. missile may well have been involved and there were loud calls in the u.s. to reassess its position backing the saudi led coalition in yemen and then we find out from human rights watch that they issued a report just this week saying that they believe that when this commission was involved in investigating incidents that happened in yemen they were doing to international standards that they weren't transparent as they weren't clear on what they were doing in many times they suggested there was a whitewash of the results so obviously we expect to get some more information coming out of saudi arabia in the next few hours but this seems like a remarkable u. turn from the saudis who is a c says that when the bus was hit this was a legitimate military operation no they're saying there was something seriously wrong with the way this operation was car

surrounding this specific incident specifically from the united states was really heavy that the saudi arabians had to come out and say that this is in fact their mistake and it is in fact important that they hold themselves accountable to international standards of law it's a first step to making sure that now that we are starting to claim accidents that saudi arabia ideally would have a commission created of outside parties meaning those who have nothing to do with the conflict investigate what went wrong in this case how did they end up targeting civilians and then to put penalties in place to make sure that in the future you don't target schools you don't target hospitals you do not target historical sites and you make sure that those who are damaged and hurt specially those who are children woman that their families receive the reparations they need. after nearly seventy years the united states has cut all funding to a key u.n. agency that supports millions of palestinian or fiji and accuses the united nations relief and works agency of being irredeemably flawed and the palestinian leaders

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a military spokesman says that the attackers were connected to a saudi arabian terror group. >>> secretaryfor iran saying the country will be held accountable for any attacks on u.s. forces even by proxy forces. he sat down with cnn's elise labbot. >> we have told the islamic republic of iran that using a proxy force to attack an american interest will not prevent us from responding against the prime actor. >> reporter: a direct threat from the secretary of state against iran after a pair of rocket attacks hit u.s. facilities in iraq allegedly by iranian-backed initial as. >> we will not -- initimilitias. >> we will not let iran using a proxy force to attack american interests. iran will be held accountable for those incidents. >> reporter: even military? >> they'll be held accountable. if they're responsible for the arming and training of these militias, we're going to go to the source. >> reporter: pompeo doubled down on his for meeting with iranian officials and counseling them on a strategy. until president trump pulled out of a nuclear teal with aran. >> how is this jeopardizing your

checking the stupid question is a spokesman for new york's mass says the flight stopped in the saudi arabian city of mecca which is experiencing a flu outbreak the plane a double decker three eighteen landed in new york at around nine in the morning local time and was immediately taken to an area away from the time and as passengers disembarked that temperature was taken somebody is temperatures higher than astable some of the detection my temperature is not more than ninety nine. i was asked to come to confirm in response to the sickness on board the dubai based as mine tweeted emirates can confirm that about ten passengers on ek two zero three from dubai to new york were taken ill on arrival as a precaution they were attended to by local health authorities it later emerged that seven out of the ten people taken to hospital were crew members passengers say the experience was surreal to see. that the customs. even the people had to peel of luggage they. must send the logs and enough plus we had the passengers no one else at the airport and so that must mean about the leadership. health offic

the hundreds of millions of dollars he received into his bank account came from a member of the saudi arabian royal family and that it was a donation now prosecutors have also are also investigating a man known as low take joe or joe low in fact malaysian police had issued an arrest warrant for him he's alleged to be a key figure behind the one and corruption scandal as well. jubilant crowds have greeted pakistan's former prime minister nawaz sharif as he was freed from his ten year prison sentence is dumb about the high court ordered his release on bail along with his daughter and son in law until their appeals heard. right let's go live now . they say the chancellor of the austrian south less about the end. to give a little we've got to avoid a hard breck's it. without going to discussions of an informal nature here among the twenty seven above us we agreed that we would use october to finalize the negotiations and then. in november we would put a final line under the negotiations because in addition we talked about migration. we managed to change the trend for the first time in june by foc