and the blockade of cats are, despite some reluctance from the u, a. e. it also did not join the u. e and some other arab nations in signing a piece deal with israel. saudi arabia as amended rules on imports from other gulf countries that would affect goods made and so called free zones, including those by israel. and it's also threatened to cut off multinational from contracts if they don't relocate to the kingdom. and more recently, the saudi government has been travel to and from the u. e. sites in corona virus concerns the let's not bring in our guest. joining us from react as often as either of us young who's a researcher and fellow for the secretary and isn't proxies and the secretary and ization project and london, andrea is craig, was an assistant professor at kings college london and call through surrogate warfare. the transformation of war and the 21st century. joining us from kuwait city is about it and say, who the non resident fellow at the carnegie middle east center. thanks for joining us on insight story. welcome to you all. but it is safe to begin with. you, how woul

the u. e. block, the agreements call and get unfair and demanding an increase in its own production . but saudi arabia's oil minister has promptly rejected that request. oil producing nations have been trying to stabilize the global market, as it slowly recovered from the worst periods of the pandemic. they cut out put last year in an effort to increase falling prices. the saudi energy minister called for compromise and rationality and what was seen as a pushback against the u. e. z refusal. prince abdulla, he's been cell man also said we're looking for a way to balance the interests of producer on consumer countries on for market stability in general, especially when shortages are expected due to the decrease and stockpiles of saudi arabia and the u. e. have deferred on a number of issues in recent months. the emerging government has downsize, its military presence in the saudi, like holy shit and fighting, who sees in yemen, while saudi arabia has taken the lead and the blockade of cut are d

let's take a closer look at both charges against bower. prosecutor say he provided the u. e, with sensitive information about the trump administration, including how senior us official felt about the blockade on katara. authorities also say that in may 2016 barrack concerted language praising the u. s. e. and a campaign speech. trump delivered about us energy policy back because also alleged to have repeated the lives during an f b. i interview about his dealings with the moratti's on my counter as well for us now in washington, dc. and my, what has thomas back said in response to these challenges well, there's been no response whatsoever he himself is still in custody. the prosecutors say that he is a flight risk, given his immense wealth, access to a private air crop. deep relationships with countries like lebanon and you a saudi arabia. so we have heard nothing from him on likely to until he actually appears at possibly a bail hearing. prosecutors refusing bell at this particular stage because he's a flight risk. but all in all this 7 indictments, again, thomas barrack, v

so wealth fund by the u. a e and it's very close allied, saudi arabia, christians have also written about the trump administration's policy towards the o. e. and of course, saudi arabia as well that being the 1st country that then president trump chose to visit. so although the prosecutors attempting to play down any possible link with donald trump, himself as he died, many continued to be investigated so many other facts could come to light. okay, mike hannah in washington dc. thank you. ryan grim is the washington d. c. bureau chief of the intercept and investigative news organization, he joins us now on scott, thank you for your time. give us you will take, how serious are the charges that he's facing? they're very serious. and in fact, as you know, that he is considered a flight risk by prosecutors. you know, you know, as you are saying, which, which means that this is a, this is a billionaire used to moving in some of the most powerful circles on the globe who was, it was going to remain in prison. you know,

a close ally of donald trump is charged with legally bill being for the u. e commerce barrack was the chairman, if the former us president and girl firms brain causes have a consent to china. and $10000.00 people are forced to leave their homes due to flooding and all of the world's richest man wraps up a space trip on his company. first passenger flight, just fazel has this message for future. we're going to build a road space so that our kids and their kids can build the future. and we need to do that. we need to do that to solve the problems here on earth. ah, haiti has new prime minister after 2 weeks of uncertainty following the assassination of president r e l only is a 171 year old euro surgeon, public official. he's calling for unity and it's promising to build consensus. he replaces interim prime minister. the whole josephs who took charge after president jovan malise was killed and thought his home. several foreign is are under arrest for his murder. and gallagher was following developments from miami. now what we have as a prime minister, who's alre

so the u. e argue, was that soon, stand that his minister, the minister argues that since then, they have the spend so much money to have invested and they have increased oil production capacity capability. they can produce more than they did in the past. so now that they're cutting, i think there should be even more than the what they were given in december 2016. so that is a fairly request to be more equitable. but usually this problem disagreements, i exist them all member countries for all the time whenever they meet, because this country has invested their country has done back, et cetera, et cetera. so they negotiate with, you know, pick themselves usually not in the public domain. and they don't make press amounts and they talk to each other. it is a horse trading bargaining twisting arms every live, your excellency, your excellency has please, and so on. and the reach an agreement. i think this time the u. e has been more asset to as i say, part of it is because it has, it can produce mor

let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea, the e. u has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree changed moscow's behavior? well, if you look at the history of sanctions globally, then it's of course, always an issue. how much and how fast sanctions will have its influence. and what concerns russia then? yes, so we have seen that so far that has been no immediate direct influence because russia continues while ation of international law and human rights be in the ukraine, be in russia, in some other 3rd places. but there is also always question what these are, what should be an alternative if one country is systematically and harshly violates international law and human rights. so that they yeah, me that the impact. yeah. so for the time being the sanctions have been useless. and my question is really, what's the point of continuing to take measures that have no effect? is it to make people in the you feel better about it?

why was the e u so it will prepare to see one of the most complicated issues for european foreign policy. is there any point in pushing ahead with enlargement plan, the perspectives to get membership is also very important. when it comes to foreign policy, it's getting harder to work out what the use stands for. too many disagreements among members, too many grand intentions and find words to little to show for them. my guess this week is or must pipe nice chairs the parliament foreign affairs committee and he joins me from strasburg. can he explain why such a powerful block of nations seems to punch so far below its weight on the world stage? the news for master pies, welcome to conflict zone. hello. let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea the has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree changed moscow's behavior? well, if you look at the history of sanctions globally, then it's of course, always an issue. how much and h

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so that may be an indication of, for example, a u e. n is rather than having established relationship wanted the that the card open leader said that, you know, he's in that and they are doing this on a so part of, i think this, this announcement by the you, a oil minister, demanding higher production quarter is being led by politics in line with the us government, i'm sure they want to use this oil issue as one excuse or one occasion to emphasize that independence. iran's only nuclear power plant is banking operation. the bush had a plant, was built with help from russia. it's been shut down for 2 weeks of emergency maintenance us sanctions have prevented thereon from bringing in new parts. iran has faced power blackouts blamed on surging electricity demand during a heat wave. sweeping the region demonstrations against major power can continue to be held in the iraqi capital. iraqis is suffering from a heat wave. it's already hit 50 degrees celsius. southern provinces have been the worst hit by the regular blackouts. the ministry of ele

u is saying, you know, we're not sure about this vaccination. and yet the same e u as been funding the kofax program, the u. n. w h o kofax program, which gets this vaccination funds getting this vaccination out to the rest of the world. that they're now saying, they're not sure about how much for the nation is there between the e, u and the w h o on these kinds of issues. how much coordination is there between countries themselves? some of the you, nations have approved the same covey shield that the e u, as a whole, the saying they're not sure about. well, given that be totally legitimate for each regulatory authority to independently carry out the approval process for drag back to that whatsoever. apparently at the moment we have a problem of coordination because european union paid that the vaccine should not be used and recognized. but at the same time, oh, nice. well, they knew i'd be lam, spain, and in the near switzerland. nice land approved kong shields. the answer, the proper and effective and safe roxanne, therefore in, in a time in which in a moment in

ok, the paper, the ink on the paper was still wet and the e u. cowardly just turned away. you know, what they sanctioned the wrong government. they should have sanctioned the qu regime, ok, and the e u has, is, is at fault for every single part of this year. they created the facts on the ground for this tension that was completely unnecessary. and the russians warned them you destabilize ukraine like this, that countries sovereignty will be in danger. and it is in danger because of what the b, e u and plus, victoria knew and, and her famous words and their policy towards ukraine. peace would be the european union. go ahead, john. peter, i 100 percent agree with you. but we are talking about events that happened 7 years ago, and things have moved on. now. we don't need to carry on arguing about ukraine's or about crimea, because i come back to what i said at the beginning. what's going down beneath the surface is different from the froth that's being generated to the tall. the fact is, nobody in washington or brussels believes that the crimea will ever revert to ukraine. the

the most young, disappointing aspect which human rights groups are underlined last month is how the e u has failed to safeguard people against serious human rights violations at its external borders. the spotlight has fallen on the border agency front, tx, which is accused by human rights watch of failing repeatedly to take action of allegations of human rights violations. that's a serious issue, isn't it? it's, it's supposed deep hold lines in the values that all men to countries were supposed to sign up to have been a major disappointment for you. why the, for me, the big disappointment actually is that we still have the situation that there are lots of people who have to leave their homes and they have chosen the way to, to be in refugee. so that once again, i think that europe, but also other strong countries in the world. they have to do everything that people simply don't have to leave their homes. but the for really there are, if which east and of course you have to handle this. you have to handle the people who have well the right for protection. they should get it. and people w

the 3 men are accused of seeking to influence us public opinion in favor of the u. e. let's take a closer look at the charges against barrack prosecutors say he provided the you a with sensitive information about the trump administration, including how senior us officials found the blockade on carter. authorities also say that in may 2016 bar, a concerted language, praising the u. e, in a campaign speech, trump delivered about us energy policy. barrack is also alleged to have repeatedly lights during an f b. i interview about his dealings with the m r office. my can i have more from washington, dc. he himself is still in custody. the prosecutor say that he is a flight risk, given his immense wealth, access to a private air crop deep relationships with countries like lebanon and you a saudi arabia. so we have heard nothing from him, unlikely to, until he actually appears as possibly a bail hearing. prosecutors refusing bell at this particular stage because he's a flight risk. but all in all this 7 indictments, again, thomas barrack, very serious indictments, indeed amon

now a compromise giving the u. e and others, a higher production quota is paved the way for the latest yield. opec will begin further easing cuts from august policy attack and is an international oil and energy consultant. he says the dispute between the saudi and the u. e was ultimately technical. there was a major uncertainty because of this dispute. $200.00 saying it became political because request was logical. technical as soon as it became political the way the statements. and so, well thanks a lot. i think as all big countries, always they older companies and they act and make decision on a business on a business. and they did it. and i think that shows that they are getting together as well as non big rush others. and they will continue as they were, except that by may 2022. they will by then they will have discussed with each other and studied and see what the, the various production because they have to revise the production or. and that is natural because the market, the world like changes change and of co

of the world that they're now saying they're not sure about how much ordination is there between the e u and the w h o on these kinds of issues. how much coordination is there between countries themselves? some of the you, nations have approved the same covey shield that the e. u, as a whole is saying they're not sure about. well, given debbie, totally legitimate for each regulatory authority to independently carry out the approval process for drag that back to that was wherever. apparently, at the moment we had a problem of coordination because european union paid that the vaccine should not be used and recognized. but at the same time, germany as well, they knew i'd be lam, spain, and i find the sony or switzerland. the nice lambda approved kong shields. the answer, the proper and effective, unsafe roxanne, therefore in unit time in which in a moment in which there should be unique way to face the, the make emergency. apparently there is large page space for each country or each or different countries to be a in a different way, which is not something helpful to properly manage the eme

let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea, the e. u has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree change moscow's behavior? well, if you look at the history of sanctions globally, then it's of course, always an issue. how much and how fast sanctions will have its influence. and what concerns russia then? yes, so we have seen that so far that has been no immediate direct influence because russia continues while ation of international law and human rights be in the ukraine, be in russia, in some other 3rd places. but there is also always question what these are, what should be an alternative if one country is systematically and harshly violates international law and human rights. so that they yeah, me that the impact. yeah. so for the time being the sanctions have been useless. and my question is really, what's the point of continuing to take measures that have no effect? is it to make people in the you feel better about it? w

but this time it would really like to resolve the dispute, because it's u e, a powerful ally. it wouldn't really like to drop it on the wrong side. and that's the reason why it is trying to negotiate and the talks have entered an extra day the most of the most likely to even the weekend. so clearly because there's a lot at stake it, it knows that. 3 if the deal is not reach, then the current output deal is going to stay in place and they're going to stay till april, which means no extra about as of oil would be to do would be in the market, would be sent to the market and which means higher oil prices, and again, that inflation would go up. so that's going to be problematic. and that's the reason why for now, saudi arabia would like to resolve the dispute as to expand in frankfurt. thank you . it provided some distraction from all the madness these days, the question of which 1000000000 air is going to blast themselves off into space. first, jeff bezos was leaving his post as amazon ceo on monday was long expected to become the 1st private citizen to leave the atmosphere. but

and the e. u has discovered that it is embarrassing the weak in its ability to force or band and also the polish leadership to live up to their commitments. and now we're seeing a, a conflict which i fear the you will lose because it lacks the, the power to, to force poland and hungary to comply with their commitments. ok, well alan, what is, how does that for both, for the european union moving forward? because if the polls in the hungarians can just, you know, say we're not going to follow your edicts, should they remain members of it? should they be welcomed in the european union? because they'll be other populace and conservatives. they'll say, well, the gary ends in the pulse can do it. why can we, i mean, you don't to see the, the, the slippery slope possibility here. not that i particularly against that either i believe in the democratic process. ok. people elected. these officials go ahead. alan well, the trouble is that you will be in union is a non elect to bureaucratic institution, whic

is that from that time of donald trump's in organization to 3 years later, the u. e. and it's close ally, saudi arabia paid some $1500000000.00 into barracks sovereign wealth fund. vast amount of money. also questions being raised in those indictments as to what degree barrack attempted to influence the administration's policy with regard to the u. a. e. over a period of time, once again within that 3 year period. and my guess is likely to implicate trump at all. well, one of the things that is laid out in the indictment is the possibility that it may not. the prosecutors make reference to the fact that the former president was also betrayed by the actions of his former campaign manager. and this would be appeared to indicate that they are separating up the activities of the trump administration from the activities of thomas barrack. that being said, however, there have been several as amounts of speculation through various sources in the wake of this indictment, raising questions about the comp, administrations relations with saudi arabia and the u. a. e. saudi arabi

of that deal is an oil contract that will see tank because doc in israel, southern ports of a lat, u e o l will be sent through a pipeline to ash cologne in the north. then loaded on the tank is bound for europe that cause in concern among environmentalists, the stephanie decker reports from the lat. so cause like this actually is 5000 years old. ever seem to be to me to seem different kingdom. it took thousands of years to create but so fragile. it can be instantly killed, which is why environmentalists sounding the alarm about an oil deal between israel and the united arab emirates that will soon see huge tankers deliver oil to israel, southern port of a lot from the u. e. just over the pipe actually. or somebody isn't putting that into the water or if you have one the name happened. yeah. one minute somebody did not. close devolved your mattress bag is not working. something technically, you're going to have an oil spill which can be 1000, go benito, a lot coral reef extends for around 11 kilometers along the coast. and just over kilometer that falls under a protected nature, reserv

the e u and u. n. have condemned the move and australia has sent thousands of asylum seekers to its offshore prisons on the remote islands of now lou and manis detainees, if complained of widespread abuse and harsh conditions. legal experts warning the legislation could violate the 951 un refugee convention. it says signatories cannot impose penalties on asylum seekers who enter a country illegally if they present themselves without delay. but the new law makes going to the u. k. illegally a criminal offense, it also creates a 2 tier system for a silent applicants. people who successfully claim assigned them after illegal entry will have only a temporary protection status with limited rights. as talk to tim, now, hilton, who's the chief executive of refugee actions. he joins us now. live from manchester . good to have you with us. what do you make of this new bill with the propose plans of housing asylum? see whose offshore is that a legal justification for the u. k. to do this in a way that does not c

u. s. and the e u. it's also of course, a game changer for you and us citizens living in england for the time being the other nations of the u. k. will follow suit who folks, since the beginning of the pandemic, really haven't been able to welcome into this country, their friends and family from abroad to reasons for this next stage in the reopening process bar. as johnson, the prime minister desperately worried that the u. k. was losing out to the you in terms of us tourism people heading to cities like paris and rome in europe because they couldn't come here to london. he was worried about squandering the so called vaccine bonus and enormous pressure applied on the government by the travel industry, warning ministers in recent days that they were thousands of jobs on the line with sectors of the industry facing bankruptcy. if they didn't open it didn't open very quickly. thursday marks the 69th birthday of thailand's king. he is one of the most protected monarchs anywhere in the world. but protest had

well, remind you we're discussing the e. u in crisis. ah ok, let's go back to donald in london so far in this program we have 2 contradictory ideas . the e u is just the all power comes from the member states. and then just supposed to that we have this all powerful commission. what is it because that's what the arguments i hear all of the time. it's not democratic, faceless bureaucrats. but then the other argument is no, all the power comes from the member states. ok, how do, how do you, how do you balance that donald? go ahead. but it's obvious that the power comes from the council of ministers because it's an agreement between states the states get together, the council of ministers appoints of commission and the commission then. and the commission then an actor, a number of propositions which obtain a majority the that is the way it has been. the idea that the commission runs european affairs or interferes in hunger and culture. is absolute nonsense? well, i mean they, the are about, and the hungarians are being threatened with sancti

but it's now being postponed, the u. e. of poses a push by others to raise output, production's been inching up since being slashed last year. when the pandemic crushed demand. saudi arabia has called for rationality and compromise. the u. a. e insist it's been patient enough. at least 21 bodies have been recovered by coast guards into news here after a boat carrying migrant sign. comfortable. port city of facts, 50 other people on boards from sub saharan africa have been rescued. officials say they were trying to reach europe. health care is tough to get for them. bob wins who live in remote areas with poor public transport. now a new social enterprise is helping to solve the problem with a van converted into a mo bile clinic to south, powered by renewable energy. that's how them with us are reports from go to munsey . it's bringing medical care directly to those who need it most on the outskirts of how is an informal settlement called caledonia, this place used to be a commercial farm until the mid to thousands wins in bob

s. broker reconciliation deal last year. palestinians were outraged by the u. e decision to establish ties with israel before a lasting peace between israel and palestinian has been established. for those president desirable scenario has been hospitalized and might need emergency surgery . the far right leader is suffering from persistent hiccups. a possible symptom of intestinal blockage. often nora was stabbed in the stomach in 2018 and had to undergo several rounds of abdominal surgery. on the 5th anniversary of a best deal day attack in france, the country has paid tribute to the victim. 86 people died when a truck flowed into a large crowd. speaking to survivors and families, the prime minister appealed for unity and said it, france would never surrender to hate. we'll be calla bon, are pressing ahead with their serge in afghanistan as troops complete their withdrawal from the united states. longest war, 20 years ago us president george w bush launch the us invasion of afghanistan following the september 11th attacks. he is now given an exclusive interview t

u. k has already paid back into the e u. and the previous agreement, interestingly, theresa may or johnson's previous i saw, had made many agreements. she agreed to the dollar, the euro numbers that will be paid to the you were ball. as johnson came into office, he did not question those euro amounts. he did not question any of those financials . and in june the u. k. did pay 6800000000 euros already to the u. hillary. i mean, we have to look at this. there was big news over the weekend, the english football team. okay. well what i couldn't quite close the deal, but quickly are we going to be able to of this issue to get about 30 seconds? i really think all i have to say to you rent is katasha. it's coming out and trust me, it's coming on. but no, this is going to be an ongoing saga. it's not going away. just like any divorce. they're always scamp that are going to be picked and things are going to, there's always going to be issues, i think. but if you look at the fundamentals, you look at the trade deals that have been com

i mean at the recent e u u. s summit, it was decided that they would be talks trying to resolve this until the end of the year. now this is of cause a responsibility of the e. u, not of germany. so it will be difficult for me to do anything about that. and then also the, the, the u. s. has made some concessions, for instance, they removed sanctions related to not for him to, i think the that, that they will hardly make more concessions at this stage, but the talks were continue. so is there any space or any of these issues for meaningful progress during this meeting, or is it more or less a farewell visits, chancellor maxim, i think it's mostly a farewell visit. there will be talks and it's always useful to exchange positions . maybe also be informed about shifts in positions and better understand also the domestic political situation for both sides that's useful. but in a way, this is primarily farewell visit. marco will not make decisions that will bind the next german government. and i think both sides are awa

that weather just flooding across the u. e. nothing up towards doha. don't be surprised to see a shower as you go through saturday and on into sunday, some showers to also extending their way into parts of southern and west and iran over the next couple of days. further north of this january dry fusion i was around the caucasus. i pushed back further south. we got the shelves continued central parts of africa. so with the south sedans, seeing some heavy downpour. central african republic, all the way across towards the gulf of guinea, south of that. it is generally dry, but we have got a few showers in the forecast across the eastern parts of africa, chiefly into were mozambique some on shore showers, just drifting in here, maybe a shower or 2 into towns near and we are legacy one is too heavy showers for that eastern side madagascar, the coded 19 is a public health crisis that has been compounded by capitalism. alleyway navigates the big questions raised by the global pandemic power based on private ownership and the profit. 3rd, the world in a ton of

one that comes out of iraq and down towards sadie might in fact reach as far south as caps from the u. e. which means 45 will be a dry 45 or quite a dusty one all the time. this edge reflectance, lala, and exceed a shadow here, means is overcast and drizzly on that coast of among the seas. no rains are certainly picky up in the for sandstone in the if you, if, in highlands and also in southern sudan and further west. this is normal, they go through in clumps. the after a one year delay the tokyo olympics off finally to despite growing opposition and spiraling cost, thousands of athletes, a competing an empty stadium. amid the corona virus endemic algae, here it will be inside the olympic bubbles, bringing you the latest from again, right? no other he added to the fashion, the success and the popularity. and then he gave it all up for the love of his homeland football rebels. delves into the realm of footballing legend rashid mac luthey. for to the cheery and national liberation front. with his feet, rashid mackenzie, and the f. l. n. team. on al jazeera, one half go fish and halfway bene

more or less cost over the frankfurt and our financing correspondent as respond a, as tosh why is the u e throwing a banner in the works here? just when you thought that there was a deal at hand with the opec plus i bring to a $400000.00 barrels a day of production increase from from august. clearly you had other ideas. it feels that it is, but has making proportionally deep of got production costs than other countries. and that's why it wants to, to be allowed to increase production to reflect its increased capacity that its main concern. then it is also unhappy with the fact that this deal is being extended beyond april, december 2022. it feels that the unfair is that it is already suffering because of the current terms of this deal. it's only going to process the longer i just saw the ravia and russia, they want to increase production. so red lager is here with many of the other opec members and his allies. what's next? well basically the dog talks go on and they may run into the weekend because there's a lot of fig. because if the dispute with you is not, is all that means that the cu

the u. e. a poses a pushed by others to raise output production's been the inching up since being slashed last year when the pandemic crushed demand. saudi arabia is called for rationality and compromise. while the u i. e insist has been patient enough. british prime minister boss johnson has unveiled plans to lift most coven 19 restrictions in 2 weeks. people that england will not be legally required to wear face masks, or maintain social distances from july. the 19th. the rules do not affect scotland, wales, and northern ireland, which have their own health guidelines. the prime minister says the country will learn to live with the virus highly contagious. delta variance is led to a spike infections in recent weeks despite the high vaccination rate. so as we come to the 4th step, we have to balance the risks, the risks of the disease, which the vaccines have reduced, but very far from eliminated. and the risk of continuing with illegally enforced restrictions that inevitably take their toll o

u. k. germany on the part of the e. u is opposed as well as other rich countries. japan, australia, norway, switzerland. these are countries that believe that if you simply do away with intellectual property rights, you set a very poor precedent in terms of future investment, risk research innovation by these big pharmaceutical companies. they'd rather see a system of licensing rights handed out to developing countries. technology transfers so that you can manufacture those vaccines on the ground, but you don't do away with the will important profit principle. so without consensus, there's unlikely to be agreement. it may be pushed down the road to another meeting in october to too late, of course, say activists, and campaigners who will and many more people will die in the meantime. infection rates arising foster the developing well then as they do so to will rise the risk of the emergence of yet more dangerous variance undermining further the world's ability to escape this pandemic. all right, thank you for that hole i

u. s. and e u countries and allowing them all except those in france for the time being to come into this country and escape quality. it's a big, big deal for the tourism industry. it effectively is the foreign gotten on the resumption of international tourism. the vast majority of inbound tourism to this country comes from the u. s. and the e u. it's also of course, a game changer for you and us citizens living in england for the time being the other nations of the u. k. will follow suit who focus since the beginning of the pandemic really haven't been able to. welcome into this country that friends and family from abroad to reasons for this next stage in the reopening process, effectively weakening border control even more at a time when this huge paranoia about the import of dangerous variance into this country. those 2 reasons. one, you mentioned it, that bar is johnson. the prime minister desperately worried that the u. k. was losing out to the you in terms of us tourism people heading to ci

u. s. and e u citizens can now escape quarantine at traveling in to england. the other nations of the u. k. will likely follow suit in due course quite apart from the issues that he raises in terms of the potential import of new and dangerous variance is a great paranoia here about that. and the loose thing a board is, will raise some questions there. there is a course, the question of reciprocity. does it mean that travel is therefore opened in both directions with the e. u. it pretty much does. most european countries now are allowing brits in without too much difficulty with the u. s. though that he's not the case and as much as this may have been a sort of olive branch and attempt to engender some goodwill with the, by the ministration on opening up travel. i think we're going to hear from john in a moment. that is not immediately anyway. likely. thank you for that. jonah, however, and london, and we are now going to go to john hendrick, who is in washington dc. john, is there any pressure in the us to make this a 2 way deal with travelers from england? we

when he was asked about his relationship with the u. a. e. these are deeply serious charges, but to give you some kind of context to it as well. the indictments indicate that the u. s. e and saudi arabia paid some $1500000000.00 into barracks account following the whole gratian or the nomination of donald trump. as president of the united states in those 3 years. so we are talking about massive sum of money here, and very, very serious charges, particularly that charge of lying to federal agencies. and this is likely to implicate from well, the prosecutors appear to have gone out of a way to say that it went to they say that the former president was among those who were betrayed by the actions of thomas barrack. however, they are already questions floating around about why did the trump administration seek such close ties with saudi arabia. the 1st visit he paid overseas with the u, a. e. and some arguing very strongly that these amount of funds are coming into the advisors account. a possible explanation for the administration's actions. but

it's the growing trend toward normalization, of course, that concerns the u. a. e on it not, not so much saudi arabia, but at the same time, we know that shouting review was in certain ways to certain extents, supportive of the u. a. e and bahrain. moving ahead with the abraham records in from jordan's perspective. those diplomatic deals undermined jordan's position in the region. jordan would like to see the palestinian issue resolved. and when you have gulf states, i normalizing relations with israel before there is resolution of the palestinian question. the perspective from on is that this is the stabilizing, and most importantly it will have the stabilizing impacts on jordan. so that's definitely one of the numerous issues in the region that has created some distance between the ash my kingdom and some powers in the arabian peninsula. despite a history of the gulf states in jordan, being very, very close to each other, thought provoking conversation, georgia kathy over there in washington. thank you very much, ga good to talk to you. thank you. still to come h

a number of e u countries like ireland are against the reform, but this will not stop. the global corporation tax says us treasury secretary, janet yellen. i should emphasize it's not essential that every country be on board . disagreement contains a kind of enforcement mechanism that can be used to make sure that countries that are hold out are not able to undermine the global corporation. tax rate is set to come into force in 2023, but negotiations are still ongoing. final agreement is not expected until the g 20 leader summit in rome and october. nato and ukraine are wrapping up 2 weeks of military exercises in the black sea. the war games involve a $5000.00 troops, plus dozens of ships and aircraft. commanders aim to signal the strength of the alliance to an increasingly assertive russia. the w correspondent, nick connelly has been on board the u. s. destroyer ross, he sent us this report on operation seabreeze from the ukrainian port of odessa person ships shadowing the u. s. s. ross and his allied vessels just a few kilometers in distance here in international wat