i think where we're seeing the g.c.c. being relegated to the same fate as the arab league it's talking shop where nobody's consistent anymore where people don't participate and people go their separate ways and i think the saudi u.a.e. allies that we see now is the end of the g.c.c. they will create their own lines and i think the riff that is going to the gulf in the arab world is between the revolutionaries and the counter-revolutionaries and this will continue and that's something that will divide the g.c.c. for the years to come and risk greg gloats of honey up there as a whole thank you very much indeed for your contribution to the program and thank you too for watching you can see the program again and it's on by visiting a website just dot com for discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter al hunt it is a.j. inside a story for me about on the whole team here by phone to. travel often. by trying to use the forecasts broadly. civ

this argument between friends and allies instead they're saying it is really up to the arabs in the g.c.c. to sort this out for themselves an official live in washington thank you very much now we've got some breaking news coming out of the u.s. and for this we're going to get to another of our correspondents who's in washington this room has now all the news of a high school shooting in southern maryland and there are reports of injuries roseville as our correspondent rolls what more do we know. well this is what we know at this hour martine this happened at a public high school called great mill senior high school in mary's county maryland it's on the very southern portion of the state near the naval air station patuxent river where they test the f. thirty five fighter jet this is a school of about sixteen hundred students a few days ago they had participated in the walk out to march one month since students were shot and killed at marjorie stoneham douglas high school in florida they were getting ready for this coming weekend protest march on the national mall here in washington accord

qatari emir shift to me but how much of that he has been talking about the latest developments of the g.c.c. crisis but also about regional issues as you know qatar and the key players in the conflict of syria for example on the share similar views about how to move forward and what kind of world should the opposite syrian opposition play in the future with nature the qataris have signed an agreement paving the way for nato to pass they'll to. get into qatar used a qatari military base of date will for nato is operations enough god is said but also in their. push against i self in the region and that's quite significant because as you remember back in june when sandy arabia these are lies start of the embargo on. the accused qatar for sponsoring extremism accusations strongly denied by qatar had now this partnership with no don't have a qatari perspective is clear indication they are able not only to break the embargo but also to break any attempt by the saudis to put more isolation. or qatar now this comes against the backdrop warning crees tension in the region and the rising rhetoric par

you remember the last meeting of the g.c.c. in kuwait it wasn't the chrome prince and senior figures from saudi arabia or the emirates that attended there were relatively junior officials so there is some concern from the united states that this is going on and involves a number of the allies in the region but there seems to have been a change in approach there's no of that pressure anymore from the white house to bring this to a conclusion very quickly you remember as well there was a split really in the approach between the white house and the state department with donald trump being fairly critical of qatar whereas rex tillerson the secretary of state was saying look all parties need to come together and as we know nor rex tillerson is on his way out i think he's only got a week left it at foggy bottom at the headquarters of state department and it won't be taking making many public statements if any on the g.c.c. crisis is really being left by the americans for everyone to sort out for themselves all right thanks alan alan f

relations with qatar and the region it's clear that the united states seems to want to resolve the g.c.c. crisis i think there's no doubt about that it's also clear that they haven't been able to use their influence to get that done with the kuwaitis so this is very strange in many ways and i think it's a show of the with the new face of the united states in the middle east that is it uses military power well when it just wants to do something in the in syria or in iraq or in yemen or or drones all over the place but otherwise when it gets into sophisticated diplomacy it either lies down and rolls over and doesn't do very much or in the case of say jericho or on the allegedly arab israeli peace plan that is coming up with they just take the israeli side and go that and hope that it works so this is not a good sign of the united states as middle east policy has been somewhat of a train wreck ever since it started and there's very very very very few signs of progress or positive developments that the united states can point to in the middle east the only conclusion we can draw is that this

budget but it turned out his biggest challenge trying to be on the same page as his boss during the g.c.c. crisis he called for an end to the blockade only to have president donald trump contradict him just about an hour later his first attempt at shuttle diplomacy failed to move the g.c.c. crisis to resolution and when it came to north korea he once again seemed out of step while tillerson expressed hope that the crisis could be handled diplomatically his boss promised fire and fears they will be met with fire fury and frankly power and the discord continued when tillerson announced the u.s. was speaking directly to north korean officials the president tweeted that tillerson was wasting his time writing save your energy rex will do what has to be done. but the clearest break came after the president seemed to equate white supremacists with the protesters fighting back against their message of bigotry in charlottesville virginia asked about it on a talk show tillerson gave this unprecedented response from a cabinet secretary. i don't believe anyone doubts the american people's values or t

shift i mean been hammered family of the emir of qatar talked about to the latest developments on the g.c.c. crisis but we also spoke about the regional issues with the far enough as chief third to come and also with the e.u. commission president jiang clued. have been also talking about issues like syria because you know the qatar and the e.u. have been key players in the syrian conflict both having similar views about how to move forward and what kind of all the opposition should play in the future now with nato it's been quite a significant development qatar has assigned an agreement with data that paves the way for the nature to deploy its personnel in the type particularly of the day's military base along with their gear which they're going to use in their operations in afghanistan and in their fight against isis you know that with the start of the d.c. quizes in june these are the retarded rabia and his allies were basically trying to further isolate qatar by saying that qatar is supporting extremism now by this deal with nato they are trying hard ties are trying to say you know what

qatari emir shift to me but how much of that he has been talking about the latest developments on the g.c.c. crisis but also about regional issues as you know qatar and the key players in the conflict of syria for example on the share similar views about how to move forward and what kind of well sure the opposite syrian opposition play in the future with nato the qataris have signed an agreement paving the way for nato a personnel to. get into qatar used a qatari military base of date will for nato as operations in afghanistan but also in their. push against i self in the region and that's quite significant because as you remember back in june when saudi arabia these are lies started the embargo on. the accused qatar for sponsoring extremism accusations strongly denied by qatar had now this partnership with no don't have a target perspective is clear indication of the able not only to break the embargo but also to break any attempt by the saudis to put more isolation. or qatar now this comes against the back to warning crees tension in the region and rising rhetoric particular from saudi ar

provided an opportunity to make progress on a range of issues including syria and its sponsor, yemen, the g.c.c., and our israeli-palestinian peace efforts. today we were able to engage with saudi leaders to increase coordination on regional issues, shared objectives and develop new channels and capabilities to institutionalize these interactions. this afternoon the president also met -- will also meet with top law enforcement officials, members of congress, and administration leaders to discuss the threats of lawless sanctuary cities. sanctuary jurisdictions release thousands out of our prisons and jails back into our communities. such pomcies threaten the safety and security of our people. every american family deserves to live in a safe -- live in safety and security in their home and neighborhood. sanctuary cities make that goal much more difficult to achieve and the president is committed to restoring the rule of law in these communities. we're also continuing to monitor the situation both in austin, texas, and in maryland, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims involved in these si

second visit here in just over two years but of course with the g.c.c. crisis the context of all of this and the wider middle east has changed significantly in that time and i can speak to someone who knows all about this now yuri barmen who's a middle east expert for the russian international affairs council how should we be looking at this particular visit from the qatari emir at the moment. i think because i think this visit is important in terms of political messaging strategizing and that certainly could tare mears looking to position himself better year russia following the saudi kings visit to moscow and in a cover two thousand and seventeen so we're looking a lot of sort of russia has you know re reemerge in the middle east as a key strategic player so obviously everybody in the in the gist is he's looking to improve their ties with russia to sort of position them better themselves better of his of the russia so this is kind of geopolitical justin is it to get russia's ear to get its attention and strong work out whether rushers on qatar side or s

relations in qatar and the region it's clear that the united states seems to want to resolve the g.c.c. crisis i think there's no doubt about that it's also clear that they haven't been able to use their influence to get that done with the kuwaitis so this is very strange in many ways in recent weeks more details have emerged on how a concerted effort was being made from the middle east to get rid of rex tillerson this man businessman george nader has been questioned about his ties to the emirate the government and his meetings with white house officials nader is reported to have links with another u.s. businessman but you a you ties and you get prodi according to a leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. rudy reportedly lobbied against secretary of state rex tillerson because he opposed the blockade against cutter really wanted trump to hold secret talks with the u.s. crown prince and throw his support behind the blockade in countries. tillerson also disagreed with the current administration's backing of the saudi government a major weapons importer he criticized saudi arabia for its me

priority of the changes is making at home what the early word vision of addition was to focus on the g.c.c. and the unite to unite basically the front against iran and we have a new day there because that sense i think of the saudis or the lesson with obama after the arab spring the iran do you so they they pushed for to forge in relation with the strabane stray should that to be in their interest to know they are succeeding you have a drop as a person relation with. the you have the u.s. establishment basically trying to resist the cozy us saudi relations where you have a larger u.s. interest in the region so i'm not sure i mean. the charm offensive as you said in your introduction. but i'm not sure to what extent they can achieve together on the on the international stage and in relation to the bilateral relations but this strike basically to forge versus first goal is to cement position to the sea as the new ruler it was your struggle with mission of this. second he wants to basically a promote his id or regional policy for the us foreign policy how it was to align with the saudis. look

budget but it turned out his biggest challenge trying to be on the same page as his boss during the g.c.c. crisis he called for an end to the blockade only to have president donald trump contradict him just about an hour later his first attempt at shuttle diplomacy failed to move the g.c.c. crisis to resolution and when it came to north korea he once again seemed out of step while tillerson expressed hope that the crisis could be handled diplomatically his boss promised fire and fury they will be met with fire fury and frankly power and the discord continued when tillerson announced the u.s. was speaking directly to north korean officials the president tweeted that tillerson was wasting his time writing save your energy rex will do what has to be done. but the clearest break came after the president seemed to equate white supremacists with the protesters fighting back against their message of bigotry in charlottesville virginia asked about it on a talk show tillerson gave this unprecedented response from a cabinet secretary. i don't believe anyone doubts the american people's values or th

international monetary fund says the financial impact caused by a rift in the g.c.c. is easing its latest figures show that the gulf crisis has acted as a catalyst a cattery self-reliance carter has kickstarted its twenty thirty vision of self-sufficiency in response to a blockade imposed by saudi arabia bahrain the u.a.e. and egypt last june sorry kyra reports from doha. but. out of a crisis comes opportunity and for twenty three year old abdullah it's this a new machine to make it cottons made from recycled paper it can produce as many as one hundred thousand of them a day meeting outdoor low be able to meet a boom in local egg production since the blockade after the gulf crisis last of all our main costs almost because they are mainly from saudi arabia and u.a.e. but we never gave up on our business and we continued searching another new way to run our factory also way the owns the only paper recycling factory in kotla which has four times as many customers since the blockade started in june and the factory exports eighty percent of its recycled paper to the likes o

in the midst of all this reporting that's going on especially in light of the g.c.c. crisis well i'm sure there is as i said before the real problem is whether there's anything here or not we have to be suspicious right. from what i've heard. has pushed business deals in the middle of a conversation about policy as he's traveled through the region and i think it's just a great problem for you america that we have a man who has been mixing these things up because you have to assume the worst if you're another country. bruce gerrard kirshner divested himself from only a small portion of christian or companies before he started working at the white house but he's retained substantial substantial ownership still what i'd like to know is how different is that what he did in comparison to what other officials who were entering government work for the white house did to divest themselves from their businesses well i think it was standard practice up until the trumpet administration that someone coming into the administration would put their serious assets in a blind trust and

of backing away from that over the last twenty four hours essentially no seeing this really up to the g.c.c. to sort out its problems internally and he of course would give them the full support to do that they're going to talk about yemen we're told that donald trump will arched the saudis to open ports in yemen. aid and this is happening is some congressional senators some senators a discussing how the united states is still involved in operations in yemen with no congressional approval saying that that is against the constitution what else are they going to talk about what they're going to talk about iran obviously simply because donald trump doesn't like the iran deal he's made that clear he's not going to recertify it says he wants to see it renegotiated and he wants to build an alliance with saudi arabia and the emirates to try and restrict iran's influence in the region and they're also going to talk about other things including saudi arabia who wants a domestic nuclear power program and really needs the american where with all knowledge and real approval to go ahead with that so the

relations in qatar and the region it's clear that the united states seems to want to resolve the g.c.c. crisis i think there's no doubt about that it's also clear that they haven't been able to use their influence to get that done with the kuwaitis so this is very strange in many ways in recent weeks more details have emerged on how a concerted effort was being made from the middle east to get rid of rex tillerson this man businessman george nader has been questioned about his ties to the m. iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials nader is reported to have links with another u.s. businessman but u.a.e. ties and get brody according to a leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. brody reportedly lobbied against secretary of state ricks tennyson because he opposed the blockade against cutter really wanted trump to hold secret talks with the u.s. crown prince and throw his support behind the blockade in countries. tillerson also disagreed with the current administration's backing of the saudi government a major weapons importer he criticized saudi arabia for its meddling i

far when you're looking at the one year ban that has killed so many people when you're looking at the g.c.c. crisis and blockading another u.k. ally like qatar by land air and sea for over seven months now and when you're looking at the rounding gap of honan's within the country and everything else seems cosmetic so to speak so the idea of promise of an island woman to drive for some is far too little far too late and it still hasn't happened as well and therefore they're what they're saying it's ok it's great that there is a young person here in power but what they're looking for is the maybe progressive liberal elements that youth that is usually associated with youth and not the rash irrational. elements that is also associated with young politicians and as far as his critics are concerned so far all they've seen is a younger irrational man who's in a hurry to make a name for himself regardless of the collateral damage it's cause and jamal as ever many thanks. to the u.s. president donald trump says north korea seems quote sincere in its apparent willingness to negotiate with the u.s. on

comfortably reelected last week the talks are expected to focus on economic ties the blockade against qatar by other g.c.c. countries and the war in syria. voting is underway in egypt in the presidential election widely expected to return the incumbent of those other seats power opponents have called for a boycott of the vote after all serious challenges to sisi withdrew saying they faced intimidation cc's only rival is. a former supporter who the opposition says is a dummy candide it jamal a shell looks that ccs first four years in office. although opted for the has he was only named president in june two thousand and fourteen the former army general has been in control of egypt since july the previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected president mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in any digital fleet i call in all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential viole

international monetary fund says the financial impact caused by a rift in the g.c.c. is easing its a suspect just think show that the gulf crisis has acted as a catalyst for qatari self-reliance qatar has kickstarts its twenty thirty vision of self-sufficiency in response to a blockade in polls by saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt last saturday reports from doha. but. out of a crisis comes opportunity and for twenty three year old abdullah it's this a new machine to make it cottons made from recycled paper it can produce as many as one hundred thousand of them a day meeting outdoor low be able to meet a boom in low tech production since the blockade after the gulf crisis we lost all our main customers because they are mainly from saudi arabia by land and u.a.e. but we never gave up on our business and we continued searching another new way to run our factory also way the owns the only paper recycling factory in kotla which has four times as many customers since the blockade started in june and the factory exports eighty percent of its recycled paper to the likes of chi

was comfortably reelected last week the talks are expected to focus on economic ties the blockade against cattle by g.c.c. countries and the war in syria israeli police have questioned prime minister benjamin netanyahu over dealings with a disaster israel's largest telecommunications company is accused of giving regulatory benefits in exchange for favorable coverage on its news website former cattle and present charges puja is expected to appear in a court in germany he was arrested on sunday after travelling through finland and denmark he faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain and repossessed as in barcelona called for pujols release. south korea secured an exemption from have to u.s. steel tariffs in exchange for revising the country's free trade agreement under the changes u.s. automakers will be allowed to double the number of cars they can import into south korea and south korea will now have to comply with a quota which cut steel imports to the u.s. by about thirty percent those are the headlines the news hour is next in thirty minutes with laura karr next on al-jazeera it's witness to st

in just over two years of course in that time the landscape of the middle east has shifted with the g.c.c. crisis and here to give a bit of context about all of this is to me to follow ski who is a russian middle eastern experts an analyst can you give us a little bit of an idea about how we should be looking at this visit from the qatari man he'll be coming here to talk about well i think it's important to look at the general. gist picture from the perspective from the entire middle east more than happened here for about a year first of all the russian role in the middle east has expanded dramatically in the same time got there has got through successfully to block eight and right now is secure stronger than before in the same russia time russia was somehow enjoyed the support and caught there was in this for this blockade it's a right now it's a good time to show sort of off the top there are sort of in russia right now continue was negligent in trust for relations in the same time to acknowledge that russia's role in the middle east and outlined the russia the qataris role in the world

broadly to push for the removal of secretary of state rex tillerson seen as too even handed in the coming g.c.c. dispute influencing a person like donald trump is a unique. to the people within the administration to members of congress to you know to his friends and advisers and also to foreign governments nobody really knows exactly you know how to how to get their way with this guy neither is currently assisting special counsel robert miller's investigation into possible foreign influence on the trump campaign and administration the report in the new york times comes as the crown prince continues his three week public relations blitz in the united states and we could then make some business leaders as well as top level executives from the tech and movie industries but there are no plans to face the media to answer allegations that the saudis on the united arab emirates use money and business deals to influence white house policy alan fischer al jazeera washington. is defense secretary james madison's urging saudi arabia's crown prince to help find a political solution to the war and yemen mat

broadly to push for the removal of secretary of state rex tillerson seen as too even handed in the coming g.c.c. dispute influencing. person like donald trump is a unique challenge to the people within the administration to members of congress to you know to his friends and advisers and also to foreign governments nobody really knows exactly. how to how to get their way with this guy neither is currently assisting special counsel robert miller's investigation into possible foreign influence on the trump campaign and administration the report in the new york times comes as the crown prince continues his three week public relations blitz in the united states academics and business leaders as well as top level executives from the tech and movie industries but there are no plans to face the media to answer allegations that the saudis and the united arab emirates use money and business deals to influence white house policy alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the us defense secretary james mattis is urging crown prince to help find a political solution to the war in yemen has been hosting the moment

comfortably reelected last week now the talks are expected to focus on economic ties the blockade against qatar by g.c.c. countries and the war in syria former catalan president charles boojum all is pointed to here in court in germany he was arrested on sunday after traveling through finland and denmark faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain stemming from last year's session vote in catalonia. the united states and south korea have agreed to revise a trade pact sharply criticized by president trump it'll be in south korea cutting its steel exports to the u.s. by thirty percent but it will avoid the have to terrorists being imposed on other countries those were the headlines board news in thirty minutes with laura col next on al-jazeera it shelter do stay with us. raise your right hand and repeat after me i say your name was this only swear. support to. cause a church in the united states. against all enemies. foreign and domestic. according to regulations. and the uniform code of military justice. salmi job. so i've got the adventure of using drugs or shoals he served in the ring corps for on