in 2014, the three countries, bahrain, saudi arabia, and u.a.e. withdrew their ambassador from qatar over smor this conflict of support of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. suddenly sort st of exploded on the scene again after the trump visit, after this show of unity, the american support for the saudi line suddenly on iran. ey want a united front, they wanted american support. they've been unhappy with obama on that front. now they have trump's support on it. and they see qatar sort of not toing the line, not being in line with their thinking. on iran. >> and this was all over some statements that appeared on the qatari website. that's been removed. what trigger is this? they are blaming it on hackers. how reliable is what they're aying right now? they said it was hackers, these statements were critical of the policy that was espoused in saudi arabia. the qataris saying these were hackers seem sob distancing hemselves from that. the reaction from saudi arabia is mainly in the newspapers. the u.a.e. minister was the first to come out and say offici

a link cable alleges that the crown prince of the u.a.e. asked the united states to bomb al-jazeera prior to the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the diplomatic cable which was released by wiki leaks documents a conversation between the prince and a u.s. diplomat in which the prince suggests like a tar based television network be arraigned and r.t. the alex mahal of a joins us in rancho with more on this alex given some of the details about the wiki leaks really most of the people we're talking about are u.s. diplomat richard house as well as the crown prince sheikh mohammed bin ziad of the u.a.e. now interesting conversation here starting off by as i have basically telling the u.s. diplomat you need to rein in al jazeera first of all you need to take control of the media and we would suggest also that you did not have embedded journalist with your troops were during the afghanistan invasion just because the repercussions would be backlash from arab communities around the world when they see what's actually going on there on the gr

you know us sponsored torture like we saw when tom the mole in the black sites this is basically the u.a.e. . you know the yemeni government forces just torturing people they think are involved with al qaeda these secret prisons are apparently allegedly all over southern yemen they're inside military bases the reports there at an airport private billows. you know they're even the night clubs. there are even a nightclub apparently and some detainees that we've been flown to a member of the brace across the red sea in your trip to the main one of the main detention complexes or at the ryanair rearm airport in the southern city you will call a former inmates described they heard described being crammed into shipping containers smeared with feces blindfolded for weeks on and they said they were beaten up trust up on that grill i told you about that were basically cooked over a fire and sexually assaulted which isn't the first time we've heard reports of things like i mean this is more we've heard pieces and the allegations sort of go away and they saw that would never happen that would never h

most of those because why why do you think the u.a.e. foreign minister was so upset about the publication they called to leak all these demands i mean what is there to highlight. if thou to questing get something from a sovereign nation. some of those demands may be reasonable in so far as the relationship between. these other upon trees. they may be reasonable demands but i think you know the. draw doc to be a paradise on transparency. i think they have to put on the table love what they are expecting. to do or. qatar has. experienced such a similar problems before back in two thousand and fourteen they've been able to it is all going differences i have a feeling that despite the intensity and the. harsh loud talk about the different parties over this crisis that. will be will be a problem by the states. of the two of this crisis and on the positive note we'll leave it former turkish ambassador to the us also been far too close to you thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. now a major gas pipeline project between russia and

backed saudi led coalition that is backing the ousted government in the country's civil war now the u.a.e. is government has denied the allegations and issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that there are no secret detention centers and no torture of prisoners is done during interrogations the same kind of comments coming out of the united states where the chief spokesperson for the u.s. defense department said and again i'm quoting we always said here to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct we would not turn a blind eye because we are obligated to report any violations of human rights. professor a specialist in human rights and humanitarian law believes a simple denial is difficult to believe based on previous experience i think we've seen in the past. these are very serious things that they're not just credible they cannot be waved away by by mere denials and. you know unfortunately we've seen this kind of things happening in iraq and also it seems in afghanistan if you want legitimacy at the international stage any country has to really make sure the

every one of these governments-- saudi arabia, the u.a.e., qatar-- have flooded the zone, as some say, into washington to meet secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, meet press. and these countries have so much influence in washington through investments and think tanks, through lobbying firms, just through their business and defense contracts that it's-- it's a very much a conflict that's playing out here, as much as it is in the gulf. and each side has real equities that they bring, and i think that's part of the reason you've seen such mixed messages from the trump administration. and i also think they're here because they don't really know what the trump position is because he's said things that on the surface appear at odds with his secretary of state, and his defense secretary. >> sreenivasan: so the secretary of state has tried to kind of calm the temperature down. but then the president says what he says. >> secretary tillerson has been working the phones aggressively over the past week and meeting with foreign ministers from these countries, basically saying this economic sie

backed saudi led coalition that is backing the ousted government in the country's civil war now the u.a.e is government has denied the allegations and issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that there are no secret detention centers and no torture of prisoners is done during interrogations the same kind of comments coming out of the united states where the chief spokesperson for the u.s. defense department said and again i'm quoting we always said here to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct we would not turn a blind eye big. as we are obligated to report any violations of human rights. well to discuss this issue further are now joined by ahmed bench m c from human rights watch at we thank you very much indeed for joining me i mean we heard from paula there i mean we've got the reports i mean the u.s. officials have anonymously admitted we have to say anonymously that the american forces they are interrogating prisoners but they're denying any human rights abuses there i mean let's look over history can we trust them considering that the previous denials

arabia, egypt, the u.a.e., doha just 10 days to comply with 13 demands. the closure of the al-jazeera news channel. continuing their investigation, say thates in the u.k. a faulty freezer unit sparked tower, int a london which at least 79 people lost their lives. >> good evening. we begin in brussels, where e.u. leaders have been gathering for been dominatede by the issues of migration security and the u.k.'s departure from the bloc. this one year to the day since the brexit vote. the british prime minister theresa may made a proposal to those present that e.u. citizens the u.k. residing in will be allowed to remain. but the proposal was given a lukewarm reception. officials said that a lot of work needs to be done on the process.on the german chancellor angela merkel called may's proposal a good beginning but not a breakthrough. on the issue of the distribution of migrants and refugees who come to european europe, no progress has been made at all. >> on the issue of the migrant borders, wexternal fully agree. although unfortunately, no progress has been m

backed saudi led coalition that is backing the ousted government in the country's civil war now the u.a.e. is government has denied the allegations and issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that there are no secret detention centers and no torture of prisoners is done during interrogations the same kind of comments coming out of the united states where the chief spokesperson for the u.s. defense department said and again i'm quoting we always said here to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct we would not turn a blind eye because we are obligated to report any violations of human rights. to use poor asli of their reporting from from tel aviv. let's cross to professor law from the royal wallenberg institute of human rights and humanitarian law to get some more insight on this thanks for joining us the u.s. officials have anonymously admitted that american forces are interrogating prisoners but they deny any knowledge of torture of human rights abuses at these locations though how i mean how can we actually trust them considering all previous denials resul

allies the u.a.e. while the us are arming u.a.e. forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite a bit experience in torture as well but questions are being raised over whether information forcibly deemed by those incarcerated in these camps is being used to bomb yemen where the most recent attack overseen by the new crown prince of saudi arabia killed twenty five civilians in a market one of the companies who supplies weapons to the saudis is be a systems you know the guys who brought you cluster bombs and wrap the drones they've been taking advantage of the u.k.'s lax export rules by sending over more than just killing machines to repressive regimes freedom of information request discovered that massive valence technology powerful enough to spy on entire countries and track people through their mobile phones is being exported to countries such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar so next week make sure to wrap up warm and take an umbrella because we're expecting a downpour of this information. sebastian back of their o

off of the moms were published in the media the foreign minister of the u.a.e. you accuse qatar of leading them to the press. and it's up to undermine serious mediation or yet another sign of what he called us policy there's also been reaction from those mentioned in the mobs as well al-jazeera international. news channel called the gulf states demand for the closure nothing but an attempt to silence the freedom of expression in the region in response to a demand towards qatar to abolish turkey's military presence in the country turkey's defense minister said that would be an intervention in the country's bilateral relations with the turkish base in qatar is a guarantee of security in the gulf and demands for its closure represented interference in its ties with. political commentators say it must think such tough demands have been made by gulf states to strip qatar of its most powerful geopolitical assets raise some maximum demands in order to empty the hands of. the merits and winning aces that it had that maybe. we wait like its ties with the muslim brotherhoo

it is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding carter's alleged support for terrorism or they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries now the next day the us secretary of state rex tillerson issued a statement saying that a list of such demands has been prepared he added that he hoped that the demands would be reasonable and actionable saying that we understand that this list is being prepared it's being coordinated by the saudis the iraq tease each option is and the bahrainis and we hope that it will be presented to qatar with and will be treated as reasonable and actionable now the list includes thirteen demands in total here are some of them first and foremost to curb all diplomatic ties with iran the list and trade and commerce with iran that complies with the u.s. and international sanctions will be permitted now the two states share the biggest natural gas field so that could be a proble

would never happen that would never happen the course everyone involved is the buying the torture the u.a.e. the u.s. i would say we don't know what it what those torture really are we are even there and ray we were there i mean we didn't participate. is the story now of u.s. involvement which is where the problem i mean while we'll be able to war which really was a very much a cia war right i was the whole point was that we were operating these drone strikes we always sing all kind operatives are there so it actually makes perfect sense that they would be but we discovered this torture programs probably very much a cia operation of its own right out of the so that we've given past history that's the thing they lost that credibility to take the base value with everything they tell us now right and now you have this new young upstart cain possible future king in you know in saudi arabia how much of that is all part of. this whole thing one cares what those walk us through the u.s. involvement like what are they said. what what's being alleged. how is all this break down with the u.s. so you

saudi arabia, bahrain, the u.a.e. egypt, among others, broke off diplomatic contact and suspended commercial ties with the qatari government. for more on these dramatic developments i'm joined by joyce karam, the washington bureau chief of "al-hayat," an international arabic daily newspaper. joyce, thank you very much for being with us. why did this happen? >> well, as you said, judy, this is a very dramatic escalation. we have been covering tense relations between qatar and saudi arabia and the u.a.e. for a while, but it's never gotten to the point where they're not only closing embassies, sealing off the border, blocking airspace and maritime access to qatar. qatar, as you know, is a country smaller than the state of connecticut. it's a completely dependent for its food supplies -- for 40% of its food splice come from saudi arabia. so this is dramatic, unprecedented escalation. it comes at a time wit when we e told both the saudis and the emirateys have had enough. almost every alignment in the region, there are two

backed saudi led coalition that is backing the ousted government in the country's civil war now the u.a.e. is government has denied the allegations and issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that there are no secret detention centers and no torture of prisoners is done during interrogations the same kind of comments coming out of the united states where the chief spokesperson for the u.s. defense department said and again i'm quoting we always said here to the highest standards of personal and professional conduct we would not turn a blind eye big. off you go to a port any violations of human rights. it's being called america's most toxic place a top energy department official is sounding the alarm at the hand for a nuclear site and warns of future accidental leaks if immediate action isn't taken now the hanford site considered the largest u.s. nuclear weapons production of waste dumps is located in washington state not far from populated cities like seattle portland and spokane alexy has the update on that. the hanford nuclear facility in washington state is often described

tries to identify al qaida militants and the u.a.e. is one of america's closest counterterrorism allies according to a.p. american defense officials confirm to them that u.s. forces have interrogated some of these detainees in yemen but deny any participation or knowledge of human rights abuses the u.s. does provide questions to us and gets the transcripts of this interrogation apparently no torture took place while americans are present but this american connection alone raises concerns of international law violations because even obtaining intelligence that other parties extracted by torture is a violation in itself and now you have lawmakers coming forward following this investigative report asking the trumpet ministration to take these claims serious and investigate noting that even if americans were not present during torture they're still complicit if information is used senator john mccain saying it hurts our own national security calling these allegations deeply disturbing mccain of course is a victim himself of torture he was

arabia, egypt, the u.a.e., doha just 10 days to comply with 13 demands. the closure of the al-jazeera news channel. continuing their investigation, say thates in the u.k. a faulty freezer unit sparked tower, int a london

internal affairs so in other words to stop all contacts with the political opposition in saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and the rain to hand over all files that detail qatar's prior contacts with and support for these opposition groups it also talks about paying reparations for loss of life and other losses that have been caused by qatar's policies now. the sum will be determined in coordination with qatar so thomas also consent to regular order for the next ten years the list says that it needs to be agreement to all demands within ten days or the list becomes invalid now the document does not specify what the countries will do if qatar refuses to comply so of course it remains to be seen whether qatar will view these demands as either reasonable or actionable and shortly after the demands were published in the media the foreign minister of the united arab emirates accused of leaking them to the press he said it's either an attempt to undermine serious mediation or yet another sign of what he called callous policy now there's also been reaction from those mentioned in the demands al-jazeera for

sign a piece of paper saying they would not speak publicly about it well and so we understand that the u.a.eruns these prisons so how is the u.s. involved. well first off the united arab emirates is one of the united states' closest allies when it comes to fighting terrorism and apparently torture is being taken place where the u.a.e. is interrogating these suspects trying to find out if they are al qaeda fighters according to the associated press american defense officials confirm that u.s. forces have in fact gone into these prisons and interrogated some of these detainees in yemen but they deny any knowledge or participation in any human rights abuses now according to this yossi to press it's clear that the american forces apparently took no part in the torture that they were never present when this torture was happening but this american connection alone to this network of secret prisons raises concerns of international law violations because even obtaining intelligence that other parties are able to extract because of torture is a violation in itself very interesting and so we know amer

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries thought the time had come to call. on could two are to ended spawning. they have to end that fund. and its extremist. ideology in terms of funding the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. but even trying him self spain sending mixed messages is he sold twelve billion dollars worth of fighter jets just five days after lashing out to doha tera funding well to discuss this further i'm not enjoying life by saying choppy spokesperson for the bahrain freedom movement so i thank you very much indeed for joining us to discuss this particular issue i mean what do you make of these conflicting signals coming out from the u.s. what with president trump saying one thing and then another then the u.s. state department less than a coupl

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries. the time had come to call. on could two are to end its funding they have to end that fund. and its extremist. already ali g. in terms of fund the nation of qatar or unfortunately has historically been a funder of jurors. but even trump himself spain sending mixed messages is ministration approved selling twelve billion dollars worth of fighter jets to a country just days before the trunk claimed was a terrorist supporter. well let's discuss all of this with anthony kara's political science professor emeritus at not to dime university thank you very much indeed for joining us this afternoon what do you make of the conflicting signals from the u.s. with trump say one thing then the state department saying the opposite. yes it just looks for the simple you know

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or were they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries qatar has not been given long to think about its response a seven day deadline to carry out the demands has been set paul asli reporting while a former turkish ambassador to the u.s. to list the moms are on reasonable and that the qatar crisis could take a turn for the worse and look at a big big list of demands. i would rather refer to it as an alternate on. a touch to to it. with total states. the amount should be reasonable and actionable not mud the reasonable not archibold so we are looking at the situation across the even worse. well we continue without because the ramifications all valid guitar prices are in focus in crosstalk coming up in a few moments. when i almost show seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me old but yet to shape out t

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries qatar has not been given long to think about its response a seven day deadline to carry out the demands has been set so where is it going to go a former us to the u.s. told us the demands are unreasonable that the cuts across this may indeed take it to him for the worst. look it's a big big list of demands. but rather refer to it as an alternate on. the toilet. while u.s. secretary of state said ten or sudden. that these amounts should be reasonable and actionable the reasonable not actionable so we are looking at this situation a crisis the big get even worse. stories twenty four seven a cause thanks for being with us this morning about the next live update thirty four minutes from now the big names told to us next talking breaks it security in europe a good

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or war they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries. the time had come to call. on could two are to end its funding. they have to end that fund. and its extremist. ideology in terms of funding the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. but even trump himself spain sending mixed messages his administration approved selling twelve billion dollars worth of fighter jets to the country trunk just days before claimed was a terrorist supporter a spokesperson for the bahrain freedom movement saeed chan harby believes the u.s. is simply trying to capitalize on the spots between the gulf states just seems to me they're trying to administration is there to be. a part of what. we've got. there we work out what it really and we're going to. be. here because nothing to do and we're goi

qatar the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding cutter's alleged support for terrorism or they about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries thought the time had come to call. on kids who are too ended spawning. they have to end that fund. and its extremist ideology in terms of funding the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism. but even trump himself speaking sending mixed messages he sold twelve billion dollars worth of fighter jets just five days after lashing out at doha alleged funding of terror while earlier we heard from shade shalvey spokesperson for the bahrain freedom movement and he believes the u.s. is simply trying to capitalize on the spot between the gulf states just seems to me that the situation is there to be nourished every possible route to go murder you know some of your figures so i was pretty good about we've got great. reviews for where we

internal affairs so in other words to stop all contacts with the political opposition in saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain to hand over all files that detail qatar's prior contacts with and support for these opposition groups it also talks about paying reparations for loss of life and other losses that have been caused by qatar policies now. the sum will be determined in coordination with qatar so qatar must also consent to regular order for the next ten years the list says that there needs to be agreement to all demands within ten days or the list becomes invalid now the document does not specify what the countries will do if qatar refuses to comply so of course it remains to be seen whether qatar will view these demands as either reasonable or actionable or shortly after the demands were published in the media the foreign minister of the usa you choose qatar leaking them to the press you said it's either an attempt to undermine serious mediation or yet another sign what you called callous policy. zero has also reacted to the gulf states demands of its closure calling such condition a

shut down al-jazeera and links to iran if it wants to end economic warfare from saudi arabia egypt the u.a.e. and bahrain as nato nation turkey continues to pour troops into which is now importing supplies from iran even donald trump secretary of state rex tillerson is calling the demands difficult to meet me meanwhile support saudi policy including arias collaboration on the bombing of yemen with three hundred thousand now face color blood oil tyrants violence in the rules that run the world examines nato nations support for repressive regimes its author reza chair of philosophy and law at king's college london joins me now live welcome to going underground you're being read in your book with supply chains how we may wake up in egypt time spain there are no waste of others way or no a feat and then you single out one particular country or the country which is chosen by don't trump as its first foreign visitors present the united states why saudi arabia saudi arabia as you know is the biggest oil state in the world and the oil that comes through from saudi arabia through the world supply tra

muscle and here we are now with qatar is now in the sights of saudi arabia and its allies within the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt because why because qatar is close to iran so could we see an escalation in qatar as we saw in the last year or both those is those stories like this this kind of rushed through you know secret source in the u.s. government told us rule rush just put it out does being the mouthpiece for u.s. intelligence and u.s. government you know anonymous sources that c.n.n. is kind of taken the mantle of over the last few months or years maybe. does that affect credibility then when this things like this happen that you know a lot about as we keep pushing this narrative every time that you should never question the official story that why would you question the official story and one of them is that they have reported that the f.b.i. quote the f.b.i. recently sent a team of investigators to doha to help the qatari government investigate the alleged hacking incident intelligence gathered by u.s. security agents indicates that russian hackers were behind the intrusion first repor

the u.a.e., the united arab emre emirates they are -- that's fueling this rift. >> the terror rate, theopportunity it will provide to iran to improve relations with qatar. qatar may have started it by moving toward iran, but the more it's isolated to the rest, the more likely it is to go to iran. >> what about the charge that was leveled against qatar that they're funding isis and al qaeda among other terror groups? >> i've seen some reporting based from saudi arabia and u.e. alleging that. we were concerned during the time that i was in the government about that. knowing exactly where an attack would take place almost beforehand because as soon as an attack took place, they would be there covering the attack by al qaeda. there have been concerns about the relationship between qatar and some of the extremist movement. right now i think the great concern that they really haven't talked a lot about is that qatar supports the muslim brotherhood in egypt and elsewhere. and i think u.a.e. is also very concerned about muslim brotherhood. so it's a very complicated situation with various facto

saudi arabia, egypt, bahrain and the u.a.e. broke ties with the kingdom on monday-- and accused it of supporting terror groups and iran. jordan scaled back ties today. today, mr. trump appeared to endorse the move in a tweet that said: this in contrast to yesterday, when the white house said the president wanted to work with all the parties, to de-escalate the situation. british police have identified the third suspect in saturday's deadly knife and van attack in london. he was 22-year-old youssef zaghba-- an italian national of moroccan descent. all three attackers were shot dead by police. also today: hundreds across the country gathered for a minute of silence to remember those who died or were wounded. meanwhile, the mayor of london-- sadiq khan-- brushed off criticism from president trump. the president has written a series of tweets ridiculing the mayor since saturday's attack. but today, khan said he's much more concerned about the invitation extended last year to mr. trump to come to great britain. >> i really couldn't b

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