the head of uae's national oil company, yusef omar ben yus oef met with japan's visiting industry minister akihiro o'hata on tuesday. yusef said he plans to renew the rights held by four japanese firms for 30 years after they expire next year. he said he will also expand the content of those rights. yusef added he's willing to meet japan's requests on other oil deals that will expire in 2018. >> translator: i think it is now the time to establish bilateral ties to enhance mutual trust and rights rather than just focusing on getting oil. >> ohata also stressed the importance of strengthening the bilateral ties to enhance mutual trust and added japan will consider providing assistance in education and other areas. >>> japan airlines currently restructuring its business under court protection and its partner, american airlines, will boost their ties through joint flight services starting next month. the announcement came after the two carriers were granted antitrust immunity as a result of an open skies agreement reached by japan and the u.s. last year. the two airlines said on tuesday their

i was actually born in the uae... >> hinojosa: in the united arab emirates. >> yes, and then i moved as ten, and i grew up there until i was 21. then i moved to michigan, michigan to new york, new york to la. >> hinojosa: okay, and why did you decide to leave your country and say, "i'm going to move to michigan"? what was the dream for you? i mean, was it... because you hadn't spent time in the united states, right? >> no, well, actually, i was in the states when i was two years old. my mom... you know, my folks traveled a lot. we were like, really well off, initially, and then my father lost everything. so it's a very interesting story. i hadn't seen my dad like, 20 years, and then eight years ago, i finally got to see him. so it was like, a really profound sort of experience. but on that note, it was... for me, it was that time when we were like, really young and my folks had the money we would travel a lot, and one of the countries was america. my mom spent like, three months in florida, took us to walt disney every day, and i don't remember any of that. we have pictures, though.

largely because uae wanted to have additional landing rights in canada.his apparently is going to cost several hundred millions of dollars extra trying to get our equipment out. is there any possibility we are working on with the united arab emirates to see if we could come to some compromise with additional lending rates? >> the lease, as you know, expired. the uae came to us with a proposal for the renewal of the lease, which was not in our best interests. we had been prepared to make some compromise, but that is it. i do not think we could be in a position as a country where part of doing our part of an international mission, we have men and women in uniform putting their lives on the line -- we then cannot use that to have our airline interest and airline jobs threatened in canada. that is not a reasonable situation. i did not think we would ever want ourselves in a reasonable situation again where we would be subject to that kind of pressure, so i think it is reasonable that we find other arrangements. >> other arrangements mean we get our material i

starting in the uae, spending three days in afghanistan, on to jordan and finishing with two and a halfdays in israel. during the trip i met with a number of senior political leaders and military officials. at every meeting that the top of , s sofnda was iran, the threat rriswheone to halt its nuclear weapons program. these days most ofhe teio ofraan t regn d n e medius o sucar aps bionnd rightly so. the iranian regime continues to regard even security council restrictions, and there is the risk that its nuclear program will provoke other countries in the middle east to pursue their own independent nuclear options. in the past f days enir israeli ficials inuding the ad o mossad suggested that iran's progress has been slowed and that it isow wo to thre yearawy om buildina nuclreapon. some u.s. officials have a slightly less optimistic assessment about that time line. but there is absolutely no disagrment and no dispute over the fact that iran is keeping open its nuclear weapons option by continuing to develop various technical capabilities that each day bring it closer to being able to p

current and the way he having nyu -- de uae having in why you build a building.his is a city that is completely carbon neutral. the university in qatar. they play football in 110 degree temperatures. dubai recently hosted -- i feel all the way to do by -- dubai to talk about the alarming rise in diabetes and what could be done about it because of the project that we have in united states. this is a huge deal, all of these countries wanting to adopt common policies to restore health to their countries. all of this is exciting to me. we have to try to give the conditions a positive way forward -- the two nations -- tunisian a positive step forward. i recently spoke to the cairo egyptian chamber of commerce. it was exhilarating. the people that you see in the street on television and do not feel like they are part of that. there will be a lot of fits and starts. if i had any influence, i would want to make that deal, now. all of these countries have offered israel a political, economic and security partnership, not just peace, but a genuine partnership. israel could

like to acknowledge minister bill from sweden and i would like to acknowledge sheik abdullah from the uaeordinarily different person than almost everybody else i met in this campaign. nobody had their own office. nobody had their own telephone. nobody had their own secretary. until dick came. and when dick came, all of a sudden he managed to get a secretary, several secretaries, a staff, the staff to staff him and he managed to get an office and he managed to get an office with windows. after a while the campaign revolved around him. [laughter] but that's the way it should be because he actually did extraordinary things. and sometimes dick might have been thought by others to have a large ego, but in truth, as a famous american baseball pitcher dizzy dean once said, you know, if you can really do it, it's not bragging and in dick's case he really could do it. he had the unique combination of intelligence, perseverance, patriotism and commitment to making the world a better place. it was unique from almost anybody i ever met. now, a service like this could be held in any one of dozens of c

uae dhaka used to talk about this when i was in the white house. i used to tell everybody but at the end of the cold war we had a brief moment where america was the world's only military economic and political superpower. i would remind them china was bigger than we were, n'digo was bigger than we were and if europe continues to unite economically and politically they would be better than we were and you can never begrudged someone else the fruits of their labour or the benefit of their imagination, therefore it wouldn't be long before others had aggregate wealth as well as we did, and then what they're our military superpower remained unique depending on how they decided to spend their money. and whether or political influence remained unique depended on two things, how they decided to exercise their influence and whether we could remain true to our own tell you that have made us attractive to people throughout the world. so what i think, david, is that relatively speaking, the 21st century will belong to a lot of countries, but the world would be

a working group chaired by the uae in germany is helping on the economic about and governance runs. another working group chaired by the netherlands focus on improving justice, security and the rule of law. we are looking for to participate in the friends of yemen minister and saudi arabia next year and will continue to work with the government and people of yemen and our international partners on coordinating and streamlining the assistance going forward. this is a long-term challenge. while the results might not be immediate, they are absolute critical. since the very first days of this administration, we have also focused substantial time and attention on the terrorism threats in the meeting from yemen. and on developing the appropriate response is to that threat. we are helping to train and develop yemeni counterterrorism forces, and those efforts will continue. the resolve has grown over the past year as al qaeda began specifically targeting yemeni security officials, and many brave yemenis have given their lives in defense of the country and their fellow citizens. we will cont

starting in the uae, spending three days in afghanistan, on to jordan and finishing with two and a halfdays in israel. during the trip i met with a number of senior political leaders and military officials. at every meeting that the top of the agenda was iran, the threat it poses to stability in the region, its support for terrorism and what might be done to halt its nuclear weapons program. these days most of the attention of iran and the region and in the media focuses on its nuclear weapons ambition and rightly so. the iranian regime continues to regard even security council restrictions, and there is the risk that its nuclear program will provoke other countries in the middle east to pursue their own independent nuclear options. in the past few days, senior israeli officials including the head of mossad suggested that iran's progress has been slowed and that it is now two to three years away from building a nuclear weapon. some u.s. officials have a slightly less optimistic assessment about that time line. but there is absolutely no disagreement and no dispute over the fact that ira

we had a least that base, and the uae came to us with a proposal that was not in our best interests. we were prepared to make a compromise. i don't think we can be in a position as a country, where we, as part of doing our part as an international mission, we have men and women putting their lives on the line. we cannot use that to have our airline interests threatening canada. that is not a reasonable situation. i do not think we would ever want to be in a position subjected to the pressure of. >> other arrangements means getting our materials in there somehow. it is going to be much more difficult in other ways. what is the plan? >> the military has already put into affect its other options. there are other routes. that is the cost of military missions. we are not in afghanistan so we can start negotiating how the canadian airline functions. that is not a reasonable demand. >> how do we get the heavy combat equipment out that has to leave next year? we are not going to take it to pakistan, are we? >> the military has plans for that. one of the first things our government did was to

starting in the uae, spending three days in afghanistan, on to jordan and finishing with two and a halfays in israel. during the trip i met with a number of senior political leaders and military officials. at every meeting that the top of the agenda was iran, the threat it poses to stability in the region, its support for terrorism and what might be done to halt its nuclear weapons program. these days most ofthe attention of iran and the region and in the media focuses on its nuclear weapons ambition and rightly so. the iranian regime continues to regard even security council restrictions, and there is the risk that its nuclear program will provoke other countries in the middle east to pursue their own independent nucar options. in the past few days, senior israeli officials including the head of mossad suggested that iran's progress has bn slowed and that it is now two to three years away from building a nuclr weapon. some u.s. officials have a slightly less optimistic assessment about that time line. but there is absolutely no disagreement and no dispute over the fact that iran is kee

starting in the uae, spending three days in afghanistan, on to jordan and finishing with two and a halfit poses to stability in the region, its support for terrorism and what might be done to halt its nuclear weapons program. these days most of the attention of iran and the region and in the media focuses on its nuclear weapons ambition and rightly so. the iranian regime continues to regard even security council restrictions, and there is the risk that its nuclear program will provoke other countries in the middle east to pursue their own independent nuclear options. in the past few days, senior israeli officials including the head of mossad suggested that iran's progress has been slowed and that it is now two to three years away from building a nuclear weapon. some u.s. officials have a slightly less optimistic assessment about that time line. but there is absolutely no disagreement and no dispute over the fact that iran is keeping open its nuclear weapons option by continuing to develop various technical capabilities that each day bring it closer to being able to produce nuclear weapo