push out ofrying to the uae a message of tolerance.f you go to that museum, you will see there is a secure ration. there is one particular gallery that is, for me, incredible, in which you see the world religions really in one gallery. you see them next to each other. torah next to a bible next to a koran from the same period. to see the three books next each other. phenomenal. you can see that in a museum in germany or the u.k. or the united states, but for a museum in the uae to have that, for people to do not know the middle east, that is a massive step. a massive step in a massive message that you will understand, david, and many people not in the middle east will not understand the significance of that. david: another thing you're have done is bring the formula one races. i have been to the races. is that working out? khaldoon: it's working out great. the uae, when we say we need to attract -- we went from attracting one million tourists a year to over 20 million tourists a year of a country that has a population of 10 million, so

robert: nobody had any idea about abu dhabi, the uae.ond, the pronunciation of my name, i had a difficult name. it is khaldoon. the pronunciation in english is most friends in the united states, so i struggled with my name because people could not pronounce it. . became known as khaldoon it is my american name. david: but you pronounce it another way. you can do that in yiddish, but not so much in arabic. robert: i found that out. david: you have opened a museum. beautiful., it is the art collection is remarkable. i think there is a bigger story. we are trying to push out of the uae a message of tolerance. ♪ ♪ david: you come back after college and you are looking for a job, and what did you do after college? robert: back then you go back to abu dhabi and you are a u.s. graduate. you are going to have essentially two options. you can work in oil and gas or the investment field. i interviewed for both and had an offer for both. at theed to start national oil company. i worked there for a couple of years, spent a lot of time in abu dhabi,

khaldoon: the uae is a federation of seven emirates. oil is finite.e have to prepare herself for the future. david: you lead a group that bought a team in the premier league. khaldoon: manchester has been the most successful club. david: do you ever go down and say let me kick some footballs? >> would you fix your tie, please? david: well, people wouldn't recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. just leave it this way. alright. ♪ david: i don't consider myself a journalist. and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. i began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. how do you define leadership? what is it that makes somebody tick? let's talk about something you are passionately interested in, which is football. you lead a group that ought a team in the premier league and in england called manchester city, which won the premier league. khaldoon: football is a passion of mine. doing that job was an absolute joy. 10 years ago, we started this journey. manchester city was a modest

khaldoon: number one, nobody had any idea about abu dhabi, the uae. second, the pronunciation of my name -- i have a very difficult name. khaldoon. kh, the pronunciation of this letter in english is challenged by most of my friends

and positive about trump that the uae would send this emissary to the trump camp offering their helpme of that becomes clear when you look at the communications that tom bar ache had with the emiraty ambassador. >> tom barrick had a preexisting relationship with paul manafort which you describe in some of your new reporting and he is creditwood bri paul manafort onboard the trump campaign where he became chairman. what role does paul manafort play in this potential part of the investigation? >> i don't know of anypecific role. but there is an interesting part of this where tom barrick tries to set up a meeting between paul manafort and then the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia. mohammad bin salman. and that's quite a thing. it was discussed between the emiraty ambassador and tom barrick as a prelewd to bringing mbs as he is known together with the candidate. and it's a -- it's a rather advanced effort to try to hp the campaign with saudi arabia, and specifically with mbs as a time he wasn't yet the successor to the , still making his move within saudi yash arabia to put himself in

and it was involving officials from the uae. now, what happened there was that eric opiniok prince says h there to meet with uae officials. he just happened to be introduced to a russian official who was very close to vladimir putin and he had a discussion. he cast it as happen stance. about you the question mueller is looking into whether it was actually happen stance or whether it was premeditated or planned perhaps in a meeting in december of 2016. we know all those players had been in the seychelles around the same time, just a week or so ahead of the inauguration. we are now learning that gerson, who is a close friend of kushner's and was in a december meeting with uae officials in 2016 also happened to be in the seychelles at this same time. >> coincidentally, he was on vacation. what do we know about any evidence that may have been collected by the mueller team related to this? it does give us a sense of the breadth yet again of all the different thing that this investigation is looking into? >> yeah, i mean there are a f

trained and equipped by the uae and saudi arabia, yemeni government forces have been advancing on theort of hudaydah. facing them are yemen's houthi rebels, who have reportedly fanned out across the city of half a million. diplomats have been scrambling to prevent a bloodbath, but the uae, which is leading much of the ground force, says its patience with diplomacy has run out. we have waited for over a year in order to secure hudaydah out of the houthi hands into a third—party hand. there's been a lot of diplomatic work based on that and it has come really to nothing because the houthis have not been very clear, not been very honest, in all these efforts. the houthis, who control the port of hudaydah, say the coalition are invaders and that the un is biased against them. they accuse the saudis of bombing the port's cranes, making it harder to off—load vital supplies. translation: the battle in hudaydah will lead to a humanitarian disaster in terms of food supplies. translation: hudaydah is a city full of civilians and it holds the main artery for all yemenis in the north and south. 70

the uae has forces on the ground, with advancing yemeni forces, we were told there we re yemeni forces reserve force waiting across the sea and territory. the uae officials insist there is no pause and operations, simply that the first phase of this campaign is nearly completed, they have reached the edge of the city, the airport, they now hope that the united nations special envoy martin griffiths can dissuade the rebels to vacate the miniature rebels on the city. if that doesn't happen, they say, a significant forces waiting to be deployed across the sea in eritrea. in the meantime they have said there will be more actions, they will not say what that including deception activity, one thing they did early on in this battle was to do it deception plan to make the rebels believe that the attack was coming from the north when in fact troops were advancing from the south which they say aloud to them to punch to what they call the green zone, a fertile zone to the green zone, a fertile zone to the south of the city. but they are aware that there could be counter attacks. but this could go

-back saudi uae attack on yemen.el taillk about what is happening g to yemeni prisonersn uae jails in yemen. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "be reasonable" by barbara dane. performing in our studio. tonight she is performing at joe's pub. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: we turn now to a shocking new investigation of rampant sexual violence against yemeni detainees held in prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen. the associated press reports that in march, 15 officers lined up the prisoners in the southern city of aden and ordered them to undress before searching their anal cavities, claiming that they were looking for contraband cell phones. the men screamed and cried and those who resisted were beaten and threatened by dogs. hundreds of detainees reportedly suffered similar abuse. witnesses told the ap that detainees were raped while other guards filmed the assaults. ap also reports that yemeni guards working under emirati officers electrocut

frank: trained and equipped by the uae and saudi arabia yemeni f, governmeces have been advancing on the red sea port of hodeidah. facing them are yemen's houthi rebels. mbdiplomats have been scng to prevent a bloodbath. e,e uae, which is leading much of the ground foays the patience with diplomacy has run out. >> we have waited for over a year to secure hodeidah out of houthi hands, there has been a lot of diplomatic work on that. and it has come really do nothing, because the houthis have not been very cenar, have not ery honest in these efforts. frank: the hodeida -- the houthis, who control the port of hodeidah, say the alition are invaders and that the u.n. is biased against them. they accuse the saudis ofth bombinport's cranes. >> the battle in hodeidah will lead to a humanitarian disaster in terms of food supply. >> hodeidah is a city full of civilians, and it holds the main artery for all the yemenis to the north and south. 70% of humanitarian aid comes through the port. therefore this aid will stop. frank: aid agencies fear of to a quarter million people's lives could be at

so currently 1.8 million barrels are currently off the market so it sounds like what the uae's energyister and the president of opec is saying, they're shuffling us out of here, as opposed to calling this an output increase they'll reduce the cut, guys f that makes sense. if you're cutting and you cut less, that's a de facto increase you heard him mention 1 million barrels a day. effectively that would add a net 500,000 barrels a day to the market by the end of the year. 500,000 barrel also come off from iran. it's a fluid circumstance. i'll put together more on "squawk box. i will get out of the room before they frog march me out of here more live in a bit >> brian sullivan, thanks for that report. >> some interesting comments there, saying opec is not a political organization, they mae not look to make a statement about the united states and the iran nuclear deal. >> that's it from the opec side of things. let's check in on the market action elsewhere this hour the futures picture for this stock market in the u.s. is positive for now the dow jones would open up by 125 points the s&p

trained and equipped by the uae and saudi arabia, yemeni government forces have been advancing on theaydah. facing them are yemen's houthi rebels, who have reportedly fanned out across the city of half a million. diplomats have been scrambling to prevent a bloodbath, but the uae — which is leading much of the ground force — says its patience with diplomacy has run out. we have waited for over a year in order to secure hudaydah out of the houthi hands into a third—party hand. there's been a lot of diplomatic work based on that and it has come really to nothing because the houthis have not been very clear, not been very honest, in all these efforts. the houthis, who control the port of hudaydah, say the coalition are invaders and that the un is biased against them. they accuse the saudis of bombing the port's cranes, making it harder to off—load vital supplies. translation: the battle in hudaydah will lead to a humanitarian disaster in terms of food supplies. hudaydah is a city full of civilians and it holds the main artery for all yemenis in the north and south. 70% of all humanitarian

the uae led force on the ground they start pushing towards the airport, so we have not seen the portsid agencies pull out of a data which will have consequences already and thousands of people trying to flee their homes. trying to escape the conflict that's about to come. it's always been known that this port is strategic, if they take control of it it will have a major shift in the balance of power in this conflict. but this isn't the first time we have discussed this offensive. the uae have put it forward time and time again to the uk and the us and they've been told not to do it. that's because the price and the cost is just too high on civilians. if this takes a long time, every single day that that port isn't working will have catastrophic consequences on the ground. france, the uk and the us are backing the saudi—led coalition. but as you heard there from nawal, they say they didn't want this offensive to happen. in fact when it was clear it was going ahead anyway, the uk called a meeting of the united nations security council. that's happening now in new york, nada tawfik is th

>> well, the reporting about mueller's interest in the uae and saudi arabia was prior to the tom barrickeporting centered on george nader, as you said. and it all comes together in the seychelles meeting which you discussed in the past. a meeting by the united arab of emirates where they brought together a representative of the trump administration, in their view, with a business man close to vladimir putin. i think we know for sure that that meeting has caught the interest of the special prosecutor and that they're asking questions about nader, about nader's connections with russia, about efforts by the uae and possibly saudi arabia to try to help the trump campaign and whether or not there was some communication there. all of that, to my knowledge, does not involve tom barrick. he enters the picture earlier trying to build a bridge as you between the trump campaign and the arab leaders. when we were doing the nader reporting, i wondered how is it the uae and saudi arabia can feel so positive about trump that they would send this emissary to the trump campaign to offer their help. some

the uae, which is leaving much of the ground force, says its patients with diplomacy has run out. than a year in order to secure hudaydah out of the houthi hanson to third—party hand, there has been a lot of diplomatic work based on that. it has come merely to nothing because the houthis have not been very clear, not been very honest in all these efforts. the houthis, who control the port of hudaydah say the coalition are invaders and that the un is biased against them. they accuse the studies of bombing the port's cranes, and the hit hard to off—load import supplies. translation: the battle in hudaydah will lead to a humanitarian disaster in terms of food supplies. translation: hudaydah is a city full of civilians and it holds the main artery for all yemenis in the north and south. 70% of all humanitarian aid comes through the port, therefore this aid will stop. aid agencies fear up to a quarter of a million people's lives will be at risk in the fighting. yemen is the country with the worst food insecurity in the world. more than i7 insecurity in the world. more than 17 million p

trained and equipped by the uae and saudi arabia, yemeni government forces have been advancing on the's houthi rebels, who have reportedly fanned out across the city of half a million. diplomats have been scrambling to prevent a bloodbath, but the uae — which is leading much of the ground force — says its patience with diplomacy has run out. we have waited for over a year in order to secure hudaydah out of the houthi hands into a third—party hand. there's been a lot of diplomatic work based on that and it has come really to nothing because the houthis have not been very clear, not been very honest, in all these efforts. the houthis, who control the port of hudaydah, say the coalition are invaders and that the un is biased against them. they accuse the saudis of bombing the port's cranes, making it harder to off—load vital supplies. translation: the battle in hudaydah will lead to a humanitarian disaster in terms of food supplies. hudaydah is a city full of civilians and it holds the main artery for all yemenis in the north and south. 70% of all humanitarian aid comes through the port.

, which as you know, very well, the meeting that took place with eric prince, a trump confidant and uae officials and a russian close to vladimir putin. gerson's spokesperson says he did not attend that meeting, but he happened to be in the seychelles at the same time as these other folks, and he met separately with the crown prince of abe dhabi. so he's in that meeting which we know is being scrutinized by mueller. second, he was in a meeting a couple weeks before that in new york at a four seasons where he was -- it was trump transition officials, jared kushner, michael flynn, steve bannon, officials from the uae and this fixer who we know is cooperating with robert mueller's investigation, george nader. he's a lebanese-american businessman. so rick gerson is at the beginning of this meeting brings tony blair, the former british prime minister, according to his spokesperson, into this meeting to give a presentation on middle east peace. and so we know that that meeting is also under scrutiny by investigators. and so you now have this new sort of fixture in this web of folks who have c

a few more in portugal, finland, saudi arabia and the uae.ds very simple on paper but when it comes to very strong opinions within the different countries in europe, in hungary, for example. i didn't say to take more into hungary. take more into portugal, and into saudi arabia. it just needs more co—ordination. portugal, and into saudi arabia. it just needs more co-ordination. the meantime, angela merkel is having to deal with this within her own coalition. are you glued to the world cup? i did a lot of research. does that mean you were not glued to it? i was watching, does that mean you were not glued to it? iwas watching, and does that mean you were not glued to it? i was watching, and the mexicans we re it? i was watching, and the mexicans were phenomenal. i had my baby boy with me so i couldn't really shout when they scored. scoring against the germans, contrary to the previous story, was nice when you are an england supporter. of course, it is very early on. smiling now, give it a few more hours until england has played. nobody is being

he said while fighters at the uae and saudi arabia, he was sharing on the saudi team thanks to his host president vladimir putin. and mentioning the world cup, the press is looking forward to day two of the action. on: and a showdown, the final before the fine, -- the final before the final, they should him between portugal and spain. are calling papers their team "the iron curtain." they photoshop armor on to the players. this will be the team's biggest test since winning the euro title back in 2016. they are the champions. difficulty will be at a maximum because they are playing against spain. is urging theer nation to rally around them. they say -- today we are all message ofa special unity because spain had their coach fired on the eve of the world cup. because quite a lot of national upset in spain. molly: all right, let's cross now to india. ae country is mourning journalist who was shot by a gunman. ison: this happened in kashmir. he was the author of the paper "rising cashmere." they -- "rising kashmir." of his lasttes one tweets was about a and human rights report released on t

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it really begs the question, though, if this is about back channels to russia or to the uae or other middle eastern countries, in january 2017, shortly before the inauguration, why does jared kushner or other trump administration officials, why do they need a back channel? there are formal channels of diplomacy, of negotiation. what is it that they would need a back channel for? as a former prosecutor, that's what i'm looking at. why back channels? it's the same question you often get in terms of why charge false statements? people only make false statements when the truth will be damaging. so that's why you pursue charges of false statements and you look into the substance surrounding the false statements. the same thing goes here as well for the back channels. >> i want to read a statement for a spokesperson for mr. gerson indicating mr. gerson was on vacation in the seychelles. he is not under scrutiny or investigation by any agency including the special counsel's office. how strong do you think the criticism is going to be when it comes to the scope of this investigation? we've h

we saw the uae ambassador to london today.ght, to which france said that they never gave them a green light, they aren't part of this. we heard a story from the wall streetjournal, that the light from the americans is a blinking yellow light. in other words, "go in, but be very careful". and the british said to please hold on, give the un envoy more time. the ambassador said that we gave him more time, a0 hours, it was enough. -- it —— it wasn't enough. it's true that this could be a game changer in the war. if this port is taking, 80% of notjust aid, but imports of all kinds, food, medicine, all kinds goods, they all go through the port. and what some of the aid agencies are saying is that it is by definition, if the port is out of action, people will die. it is a huge cost, and what the united nations and every single agency as saying is that the cost is simply too high. the uae is saying that they're exaggerating, but the cost, they say they'll get cost to migrate from other agencies. if they are right and it is over eight

if you take a look at this leaves, those of the arms of the u.s., saudi arabia and the uae and other states helping the saudi coalition. the paper says these countries and are drowning in their attempts to take back. host: we go to spain for a well-meaning art restorer the many say has butchered a piece of art and a church. reporter: she tried to repaint the art. you can pull up some photos from the guardian. is an effigy of st. george. is 500 years old, although it is looking quite a bit newer. the restoration is believed to have been carried out by a local art teacher and the mayor is very upset. it is that the first time this has happened in spain. you might remember six years ago a restoration at another church went viral for how bad it was. that was the monkey christ. it turned christ into a monkey. this have a nickname yet that people have started spreading pictures online. you can see a better image there. he is on a horse. there is another one who is asking if her have so many restored st. george is a fan of the belgian cartoon character tin tin. host: it did look a bit like

but we don't have the sensitivity that we believe is necessary from the saudi's or the uae. obviously they have security concerns. we understand that. how much more aggressive can we be to make sure the people of human get the help they need? >> thanks, senator. i think more can be done, certainly. i think the team has provided some assurance that saudi's and the uae and contraband weapons are not arriving from the eastport. be we can can pressure parties there to bring , and that may -- the situation. but it's a very complex and difficult situation. shutdown, they a have to leave so leave, which is north of their. done andore can be allies. on our allies. they have made commitments to humanitarian goods getting into the country. >> i think you can play a very critical role here because there's a lot of activity by the uae and the kingdom in washington. there's a lot of engagement. i think it's important that they get a very clear message as to the importance of being as strong as possible in regards to humanitarian aid. i appreciate your statements on that. >> thank you, se

if you think about the countries that are in there, canada, uae, pakistan, qatar, even israel. they all had things happen to them last year that brought them down, whether oil, geopolitical, even technology runs in a company inside israel. eric: conversely, you have one that just tracks momentum in terms of countries. dorsey wright, using highly technical analysis. what is that one doing? joe: that is buying countries up momentum level. country rotation is buying things as it has had that strength and is looking for those companies to continue that strength, and eventually as it dissipates off it will sell off. we have been working with dorsey wright very long, and this is part of their methodology, using relative strength to deliver those types of returns over time. carolina: going back to dogs, i had a question about underlying liquidity. if we look at the fund's holdings, they are not super liquid. the fund is tracking at a 21% premium for a discount. how do you calm investors who may be concerned about their slippage eating in? scarlet: good question. joe: that's a common q

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the uae and saudi have been behind some talks and it is expected early next month there will be anotherpakistan, iran and russia, they have some sort of stake in the afghan conflict, and clearly afghanistan being located in an important geopolitical location, it appears a peace deal with the taliban will be better for the immediate neighbours of afghanistan that have some sort of stake in the current conflict. we can now go to a press conference with donald trump. it has been very successful. we have concluded a really tremendously successful g7 and would like to provide you with and would like to provide you with an update. we are with the legendary larry and the legendaryjohn bolton. we had a good meeting on defence and environment and factory on tariffs which is what we are here for —— frankly. i would like to thank justin trudeau for hosting this summit. it has worked out to be so wonderful, the people of canada are wonderful, the people of canada are wonderful and it is a great country and a very beautiful country. we tackled a variety of issues and opportunities facing our nation

the uae and saudi have been behind some talks and it is expected early next month there will be anothers, pakistan, iran and russia, they have some sort of stake in the afghan conflict, and clearly afghanistan being located in the important geopolitical location, it appeals a —— it appears a peace deal with the taliban will be better for the immediate neighbours of afghanistan that have some sort of sta ke afghanistan that have some sort of stake at the current conflict. thanks forjoining us. a man will appear before magistrates today charged with the manslaughter and robbery of a 100—year—old woman whose neck was broken when she was mugged. zofija kaczan died nine days after she was pushed to the ground and her bag stolen in derby. 39—year—old arthur vass—ker—vitch has been remanded in custody and will appear at derby crown court next month. the food standards agency has opened an investigation into allegations that traces of meat were found in some vegan and vegetarian products at tesco and sainsburys. it follows a report by the daily telegraph newspaper, which said traces of pork wer

country. >> i think you can play a really critical role here because there is a lot of activity by uae and the kingdom here in washington and there's a lot of engagement. i think it's important that they get a very clear message as to the importance of being as strong as possible in regards to humanitarian aid. i appreciate your statements on that. >> thank you, senator. >> admiral harris, i want to talk a little bit about north korea. i wasn't going to let you go without that. most of the experts that we have had before this committee we have had outside experts that were in the administration, we haven't had yet the administration's people here have said that the very first thing you need to do if there's going to be any confidence that north korea is going to give up their nuclear weapons, you have to have a declaration. you have to know what's going on in north korea. you have to know the venues, you have to know the activities, you have to have inspectors in to verify what the starting point is and then you need not just a statement that you are going to end the nuclear program, b

the uae's oil minister telling cnbc live on "worldwide exchange" that 1 million barrels is what they're looking at here's the problem if i ask everybody to bake cupcakes and bring them in and you eat what you bake based on proporti proportion, it sounds good until you realize some people don't have an oven or cupcake mix. some of these countries like venezuela, iraq, iran, they're unable to produce more oil whether or not that's because of in venezuela's situation they have a rolling economic disaster or with iran, they're at max production and now the sanctions will kick in later on this year. if you can't produce more oil and opec agrees to do that based on your current production cuts, that means a couple big players, saudi arabia, you could wait, uae come out as winners, while some countries are unable to produce. that's the fight also confirming on camera as well, this takes the political element up a notch, the iranian oil minister confirming to cnbc, that in addition to the number of barrels, they are looking for the opec official statement to denounce in some way or rebuff the u

its port, under attack by pro—yemeni forces, supported by their powerful allies, the saudis and the uaeaudi bombers on their emissions and the british have sold billions of dollars of missiles and ammunitions to the saudis. yesterday we heard that pro—government forces had taken control of the airport, obviously thatis control of the airport, obviously that is not the case and fighting is continuing. that is right, the airport has been the scene of the most intense action of this offensive launched on wednesday and there were reports yesterday, saturday, that the rebels have been forced out of the airport but through today, it has become clear that was not the case. we heard of more saudi air attacks on the airport, which lies to the south of hudaydah, and there are unconfirmed reports of major preparations now for another attempt to assault the airport and drive out the rebels. clearly a n airport and drive out the rebels. clearly an intense situation and we are watching it closely. how can this be diffused diplomatically? as we speak and through these last 48 hours or so of fighting,

uae officials insist there is no pause in the campaign to drive houthi rebels out of hodaida, simplysay there is a major force waiting in reserve across the red sea at a base in eritrea. one thing is certain. the saudis and the emiratis who are backing this campaign to restore the yemeni government say there is too much at stake to abandon it now. stay with us on bbc world news. still to come: the best game of the world cup so far. plenty of goals light up the tie between spain and portugal. there was a bomb in the city centre. a code word known to be one used by the ira was given. army bomb experts were examining a suspect van when there was a huge explosion. the south african parliament has destroyed the foundation of apartheid by abolishing the population registration act, which for a0 years forcibly classified each citizen according to race. germany's parliament, the bundestag, has voted by a narrow majority to move the seat government from bonn to berlin. berliners celebrated into the night but the decision was greeted with shock in bonn. just a day old, and the royal baby is to

the uae and saudi have been behind some talks and it is expected early next month there will be anotherountries, pakistan, iran and russia, they have some sort of stake in the afghan conflict, and clearly afghanistan being located in an important geopolitical location, it appears a peace deal with the taliban will be for better of the immediate neighbours of afghanistan that have some sort of stake in the current conflict. thank you. a man has appeared in court charged with the manslaughter and robbery of a 100—year—old woman — whose neck was broken when she was mugged. zofija kaczan died nine days after she was pushed to the ground and her bag was stolen in derby. 39—year—old arthur waszkiewicz has been remanded in custody and will appear at derby crown court next month. a teenage boy has been charged with 7 robberies committed in north london in the space of an hour. scotland yard says the 14—year—old — who cannot be named for legal reasons — was a passenger on a moped during a series of attacks across three areas on thursday afternoon. police found 13 mobile phones in his possession.

become a focus of questioning by mueller's team, largely as it relates to mueller's interest in the uae possible influence on the trump campaign and the transition, so he wasn't known before, which we've determined from our reporting is he was a presence at some of the key meetings that we know have been under scrutiny by the special counsel. he happened to be in the seychelles in 2017 around the same time that the meeting that eric prince had with uae and russian officials close to vladimir putin. gerson's spokesperson said he didn't attend that meeting you about met separately with the crown prince of abu dhabi and we know he was present for a meeting that was also under scrutiny that took place in december of 20 16 during the transition between trump transition officials and uae officials and he had an interesting role in that in which his spokesperson said that he brought tony blair, the former british testimony to this meeting to -- prime minister to this meeting to give a presentation on middle east peace process and how he thought that should play out and we know that the senate

energyister's from saudi arabia, the uae, kuwait, and other countries held a meeting.mportance of investment in the energy sector. crude prices have fallen since russia and the saudis talked about reduction. and resuming wage negotiations unionsne in chile, with making their most tious proposal yet. talks failed last year, leading to a strike. no agreement this time and the old contract was extended until july 31. wagenion wants a 5% real rise and a bonus of up to $40,000 per worker. global news, 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc, powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm paul allen. this is bloomberg. get to the will geopolitics, with united states and northea, it could win relief from sanctions when pyongyang shows reversible moves to denuclearization. we take a look at the meeting of the defense ministers in singapore's, just eight days before the summit. >> a prelude to what will happen next week in singapore. --s is the shame rely shangri-la dialogue. with james mattis there. he says, we can anticipate a bumpy road in negotiat

south korea has put some orders on hold, while the uae is seeking alternatives. under revive sanctions, the u.s. once allies to end all crude purchases by november 4. global news 24 hours a day on air and on tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am paul allen. this is bloomberg. let's have a look at the chinese currency, weakness continues, but are we getting to the stage where we have consolidation? blog is suggesting that. >> we have the yuan above that support level. monthou look at one implied volatility for the offshore rate, that is spiking and suggesting traders have been caught out by depreciation. this feeding the debate on whether china is weaponize in the currency. depreciated 3% this month against the dollar, but sean taylor at deutsche asset management says this move may look big, but when you look at the year to date loss come at that has not been as sharp as it could be given the currency has held up well compared to other currencies. haidi: thank you for that. we will get more on the yua

south korea has already put orders on hold while the uae's emirates national oil is seeking alternativesnuclear sanctions, the u.s. wants allies to end purchases of iranian crude by november 4. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am jenna, this is bloomberg. yvonne: thank you. we are counting down to major market opens in the asia-pacific. let's get to sophie kamaruddin. we are seeing more than the weather. forecasting what this means for the markets, but it is like -- [speaking simultaneously] sophie: red flags being thrown up over the em space, getting stocks in currencies set up for the worst in september 2016. the yuan is in the spotlight after losing 3% over two weeks. that raises the risk of trump reviving accusations of currency manipulation. so the yuan bears may be in here for the long haul. see this chart here. hsbc saying it is no longer totally controlled and after the turmoil settles down, 640 might be a fight but for the note yuan volatility is across the space. morgan

this is production coming from saudi, russia, uae, kuwait. have the capacity to turn on the taps. we are learning that the deal would return to 100% compliance. all of these opec nations are complying more than 100%. were know that the saudis cutting more. they say they want to lead by example. annmarie, any sense of what the saudis had to give up to get iran on board? less than 24 hours ago, they ross --walked out of the room. annmarie: yes, we saw them leave quite angry and furious about what was going on. he had a lot of fiery comments to say about the united states putting pressure on the group. we heard about a possible quota on iran. we are still learning what is in the final decision. we had a bilateral meeting this morning, saudi arabia and iran, and that seems to go really well. prince.ayer was the it seems like the prince was really able to bridge the gap between the two countries. alix: thank you so much. with us on the phone is tom petri, he has been an active advisor to $200 billion worth of energy deals, including the biggest in

a lot of that from saudi, russia, the uae, and kuwait.you think the markets are interpreting it? is it fundamental or is it an unwinding. this morning the reaction on brent in particular was a knee-jerk reaction. opec said it would increase output nominally by one million barrels a day. people thought it would be effectively 600,000 a day. that million turned into a 600,000. on the weekend when we had a meeting with opec, the agreement was expanding to include russia and the rest of these non-opec countries helping opec. in essence, russia will be able to contribute one million barrels a day increase so the market corrected. when you do the barrel math and you look at the supply risk, clearly the situation right now the oil market is very constructive for oil prices. david: as you look at what happened over the weekend, did saudi arabia step up and say we will be the guarantor that the price does not go too high? harry: in opec language, they are committed to market stability. the question is stability at what price? i think there been co