saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, which vary want -- very much wants to seek the return of an army-led -- return of the former regime, which they i think they are threatened by that, and his starkly -- have historically and at odds with qatar foreign policy. this is a significant cash injection. a billion dollars matches the total that qatar has given over many months, so it is clear support for this military coup and the army-led transition. >> could you outline some of the more complicated aspects of the constitutional declaration and with the main opposition to the plan has been from all groups involved? >> this declaration establishing of the law of the land. it sets forth a speedy transition to civilian government. it is about 33 articles. it will essentially go in the order of amending the 2012 constitution within four months by a committee of legal scholars, all by parliamentary elections, and then presidential elections. many say this is repeating a lot of the mistakes from the first army-led transition, that it was drawn up by an anonymous committee without any input

well as you can well imagine these coming in from saudi arabia the united arab emirates and kuwait's have been greeted with a lot of anger by the muslim brotherhood in the pro morsi supporters they believe that it's giving legitimacy to a government that we should not have any kind of digits in a seat that panel to that me just say that i've been trying to gauge a lot of reaction both among pro and anti morsi supporters he said be the united states and you can there's a lot of anger and this goes across the spectrum people feeling that the u.s. backed morsy they've been backed he's overthrown they say they particularly want the united states to make a statement in terms of what is happening now they feel that very much washington is remaining on the fence and obviously you want these morsi supporters to say to have washington call it a military coup on the other hand you want them to say that it's not so the signs be pledges of support there's also a lot of anger that the united states and have some of the countries are not actually making any kind of statements and remaining on the

ambassador to egypt, israel, and the united arab emirates.son here in the finer point office diplomacy. how this president doing. >> pretty well so far. he hasn't come out strongly or in a legal way to condemn the takeover of the morsi government. he recognizes the stakes are very high for the united states, and for egypt. but he also has to have been looking at all those pictures of the thousands of million0s of people sitting on the street and wonder, do we want to get on the wrong side of the egyptian people? that's what it would appear to be if we came out strongly saying that this was a, quote un-unquote coup and that morsi should be restored. >> morsi was not very popular in egypt. 93% felt he was trying to take over the government and install the islamic rule of law. >> we heard the president's public statements and what he has said and has not said. but take us behind the scenes. what is the u.s. doing right now to try to assert itself, assert our interests in egypt and around the world? >> well, first of all, what we're undoubtedly d

united arab emirates and kuwait. they're trying to get them enough time, buy time for them to get their act together. i don't know that egypt ever can. but at least they now have a chance. >> sky news arabia affiliated with fox reporting that there's an emergency session of the leading muslim brotherhood figures from across the region, including europe. >> right. >> hamas as well. to find out what they can do to reverse the egyptian political direction. what do you make of it, what's the likelihood? >> i think it's an act of desperation. you're always somebody who talks about is the economy stupid, look at the economic statistics. >> i have a vested interest in that viewpoint, i have to admit. >> too bad you're not running things in the middle east. because the muslim brotherhood failed every time they've taken power. whether in gaza, in egypt. they've driven those economies into the ditch. so their opportunity costs are going to be very high. nobody is going to trust them. it's not to say that the muslim brotherhood

>> they are getting 5 billion from saudi arabia and throw billion from the united arab emirates it is not like a shortage of mone i think those countries recognize the geopolitical significance of egypt. this is a moment where the president could have fixed what he did wro by pushing out mubarak. we don't know where the money will e up or those jets o f- 16s and that is precarious. >> right. >> we keep doing this. we keep sending people stuff and money and jets and tanks. >> i hate to say this, we can be a dumb country. thats a dumb thing to do. this is approximate ashin' in and people's money. we have more oil and natural gas and all of this energy, more than the entire middle east combined and don't tap into it. >> where is your tie? . all right. this is a -- >> this is a question. >> this is 18th year now. i was here from day one, and don't like wearing ties. i wear jeans and sneakers every night on hanity. and you come in first thing. no tie, you get no tie. i hate wearing a tie. >> i got to tell you sean. first day we sat down and one thing we shock hands. tie or no tie. >> just

more, visit coke.com/comingtogether >>> a norwegian woman has been sentenced to prison in the united arab emirates reporting she had been raped. she told her story to cnn. >> reporter: 24-year-old marti is a convicted criminal in the united arab emirates. she's just been sentenced to 16 months in prison after reporting to police she had been raped by a colleague in a dubai hotel during a business trip in march. >> i got to the police station. i told them my story. and then he asked me when i was done, he said did you call the police because you didn't like it? and i said of course i didn't like it. that's the way i understood that. they don't believe me. >> she claims to have been held with no charge or contact with the outside world. four days later she learned she was charged with having unlawful sex. sex outside of marriage is banned in the uae. on july 16th, she was sentenced to 12 months for that crime in addition to jail time for alcohol consumption. she said she was advised to say the sex was voluntary in order to get the charges dropped, but when she did, police added a charge of making a

also, the united arab emirates is doing the same.not all, even the obama administration is refusing to cut off funding to the country nor will they call the military's overthrow of the president a coup. remember, doing so would require the money to stop. unrest could lead to a new hotbed of radicalism. joining me now, colonel oliver north. good to see you, sir. >> good to be with you. one of the things i find to be exciting about all of this, is the way the press is portraying this as an anti-american rebellion inside egypt. it's not anti-american. the muslim brotherhood has always been anti-american, anti-western. the muslim brotherhood essentially co opted or seized control of what had been a secular and economic rebellion against mubarak, they had the best control of the political process in the country. the fact that you have the united arab emirates and saudi arabia and now others lining up to support this ought to be a message to the obama administration that the rest of that part of the world regards the muslim brotherhood to

a private company from the united arab emirates is funding most of it. foreign businesses will manage the farmland loaned from sudan's government. in may, sudanese businessmen invited foreign corporations to invest in the country. >> reporter: sudan has lots of land that is perfectly suited to farming. there is an abundant supply of water. >> saudi arabia, qatar and other gulf countries don't have much farmland. so they find sudan's access to water appealing. >> we have a different varieties of our food basket, let me say. one of our major investments is really enter saw dan. really in sudan. >> sudan's minister of investment expects foreign involvement will help the development and later create jobs. >> we have no money to this infrastructure. investment is going to do it. investment is going to provide me with jobs, high amount of unemployed people in the sudan. we can not employ them unless we have investors. >> but, not everyone in sudan shares his enthusiasm. the government has forced people who lived on the project land to leave their homes. their

that would be ten meters higher than the tallest building in the world in the united arab emirates. it will take only ten months to complete the 202-story building because it calls for prefabricated modular parts. they have doubts about earthquakes and fires. some developers have been criticized for shortening construction periods more than necessary to quickly recoup investments. tax incentives encourage to create skyscrapers considered a symbol of economic prosperity. >>> kpextives at japanese cosmetic giant kanebo are scrambling to save their company's image. they've had to recall skin whitening products from japan, britain and markets throughout asia. and they've fielded almost 7,000 complaints from people who say the products leave blotches on their skin. nhk world has the story. >> reporter: kanebo announced a recall of 54 types of skin whitening products in japan in early july. they say they haven't pinpointed the cause of the problems, but the brands all contain a substance developed by the company and approved by japan's ministry of health. kanebo president apologized at th

the top investors in arable land abroad include china, britain, the us and the united arab emirates. in total the land transferred from local landholders to foreign owners makes up an area about the size of france and germany together. china is currently investing heavily in neighbouring tadjikistan's agriculture. but restrictions apply: everything produced on tadjik soil has to be sold locally. so at least for now many feel this could be a win-win situation. these workers have been laboring since early morning in the cornfields of yavan in the former soviet republic of tajikistan. their bosses are from china. they've leased about one thousand hectares of land near the capital dushanbe. the chinese didn't even have to pay to lease the land. but the workers here aren't complaining. they get more than average pay. "we like to work here. they pay us on time and we also get food for our lunch break. translator yang yizhan is indispensable especially when representatives from the local authority come by. he studied management in russia and calls himself oleg. many tajiks speak russian bec

a court in the united arab emirates has convicted and jailed 56 citizens for planning a coup.hey will spend 3 to 10 years behind bars. eight other people were sentenced in absentia. the taliban has carried out its fifth major attack in as many weeks in kabul. the afghanistan interior ministry says that more than 1000 people have been killed in the past month. >> in the early morning blast resonated around the city. a truck bomb exploded the gate of a logistics company and three of them tried to storm the compound. car bomb inside the compound, bombers entered. fortunately they were killed by forces during the first minutes of the attack. >> it took afghan security forces less than one hour to put an end to the attack. and made would target good on threats. in the capital alone, taliban fighters have attacked the international organization for migration and the supreme court as well as the presidential compound believed to be used by the cia, all in the past weeks. afghan forces have stopped a number of assaults. capturing and diffusing the of anotherts assailant on sunday. the

in the united arab emirates, 56 people jailed for planning a coup. all political parties are banned in the u.a.e. eight others were sentenced in their absence. in iraq, at least 47 people have died in a wave of suicide bomb education in -- bombings in baghdad and the south of the country. the attacks happened in shia areas in the capital and in the south. exploded outside a hotel used by foreigners, no one killed in that attack but several were wounded. on the same day a suicide bomber blew himself up in a ka tai northeast -- cafe northeast of the iraqi capital. eight people were killed and others were injured. authorities in bolivia dismiss rumors that snowden is on a plane that was forced to land. the aircraft was denied access to air space over portugal and france because the whistleblower was thought to have been on board. olivia's foreign minister said hat was based on unfounded suppositions nonet hurt the country. >> if this news is proven true, it would be very disturbing and raise serious and very important questions. this is why as soon as m

she was on a business trip to the united arab emirates when she says she was attacked in a hotel. that attack resulted in a conviction for extramarital sex. >> ohio rise -- a high-rise metropolis known as the shopping capital of the middle east. most visitors know they are expected to conform to a ban on indecent clothing and other strict islamic laws, but this woman said she never expected to be treated like a criminal after reporting she had been raped. she was on a night out with colleagues last march when the attack took place. >> i woke up and realized i was being raped. i asked the front desk to call the police for me. they ask me, are you sure you want to call the police? i thought, of course, all the police. that is a natural reaction where i am from. >> she says she was shocked when police arrested her and confiscated her passport. she was charged with three counts, including having sex outside marriage. convicted earlier this week and sentenced to 16 months, she is preparing to appeal. her family back home says they are terrified for the 24-year-old. >> of course i am af

the coastal city of dubai in the united arab emirates has seen its daytime highs exceed 40 degrees celsius recently. inland the mercury topped 50 degrees on tuesday. starting this month, uae officials have banned construction firms from any outdoor work in the afternoon to protect workers' health. violators may be fined up to 30,000 durhams, about $8,100 u.s. dollars. working conditions for laborers are especially tough during ramadan. muslims north supposed to eat from sun up to sun down for an entire month. >> translator: it's really hot. this summer is even harsher because you can't drink water during the daytime. >> it's very hot, but i have to work regardless of the sweltering heat. otherwise, i can't make money for my family. >> reporter: the temperature in kuwait has also exceeded 40 degrees in recent days. whether officials forecast that next week the mercury will surge past 50 degrees. >>> torrential rain is causing havoc across a wide area of china. landlieds have crushed homes and stranded dozens of people. officials say 37 people have died. storms are lashing sichuan and hunan

and then the united arab emirates, they're giving away some $3 billion, about a billion of that is a up front. so that support is coming now that the muslim brotherhood has fallen out. and is out of power. they're now coming in to infuse some stability. economists i speak to make it clear to me the government needs to move fast to address some serious structural problems in this economy. we're talking about a bloated budget deficit which doubled over the course of the last year. you're looking at dwindling foreign reserves, unsustainable subsidies and wage will as well. if they don't burn that money in the transitional process, we're back to square one. >> how much of this pent-up frustrati frustration -- one fundamental problem was wheat delivery, food delivery, at an affordable price. is that the case? is that -- how much a factor is that? if that is so, what on earth is any interim government going to do about it? >> that's key, isn't it? that is the affordability of a lot of the regular goods if you will for most egyptians. and that has not really lived up to expectations thus fa

of a dire financial situation during that sensitive transition period saudi arabia and the united arab emirates say that they will provide up to eight billion dollars which according to the opinion of r.t. contributor option or tons is not simply a gesture of goodwill. the u.a.e. and saudi definitely did not like the muslim brotherhood and so the saudi station al-arabiya quite called it in dubai in the u.a.e. backs the rebels and you go. back to qatar which is backing the mostly government is against a military coup so you have both sides using media using financing using weapons sales to back them man in egypt all the time the united states we must remember that president obama was backing mubarak dictator up until the end seemingly not quite knowing what he's going to do and perhaps the saudis are threatening him even john mccain the presidential candidate used the word coup from obama we get nothing and in the mainstream media all we get his mom and el baradei another nobel prize winner like obama who is saying nothing about the house arrest without charge of a democratically elected preside

a quarter in the united arab emirates convicted sixty one people plotting a crew and london and handed down jail sentences of up to ten years the ruling comes in the wake of a quantum darwinism of it prosecutors claim the group were linked to the band was in brotherhood movement the verdicts have faced massive protests says by human rights watch which claimed the process was unfair and evidence of growing intolerance in the gulf state country. first. but i'm sure miss chief may soon fall under an amnesty if russia approves a draft law interned to give offenders a chance to pay back their ill gotten gains it would cover many times of economic crime but has already split the public and business community is unlike to people being asked the story russia is expected to pass a draw a floor for those convicted of economic crimes which could lead to the release of around ten thousand prisoners and suspects now the idea was spoken in favor of by vladimir putin at least in pieces by economic forum last month and is intended to be a more humanitarian approach especially considering not all crime

other partners in the middle east willing to pick up the slack on tuesday saudi arabia and the united arab emirates two of the wealthiest monarchies on the gulf as well as kuwait pledged billions of dollars in cash and loans to egypt's new interim government so just what sort of influence might all this outside cash have on the continuing revolution in egypt is the united states which has routinely found itself on the wrong side of the egyptian people close to being shut out of the country altogether well earlier i spoke with both r.t. arabic correspondent rima day and then egypt our team middle east bureau chief paula slow year started by asking paula just how volatile the country was today. the situation here is incredibly volatile the focal point at the moment is on these pro morsi supporters who are gathering in the hundreds of thousands in front of the baba i doubt we have a mosque as i speak to you are we hearing word of a planned demonstration tonight they plan to march from there to the presidential palace and you remember back on monday that's way more than fifty one people were killed in

saudi arabia united arab emirates the opposite that they're very worried about the muslim brotherhood in their own country and in the u.a.e. for example is locked up quite a lot of people who are muslim sympathizers or organizers so there is a scene quite happy because they saw the muslim brotherhood as a threat to their particular. menarche you know and of course what's happening now though could be seen that the islamic movement in some of these arab spring countries is being undermined for example tunisia where we see and we're already hearing of some protests there so is this fundamentally a quote a blow to the islamic influence that we have seen in the arab spring of late. well i think the islamists are very strong and i think this is your god that they will now some people will now move on to and the tunisian opposition will take heart from what's happened in cairo and perhaps come out in the streets in large not on this thinking they can do the same thing after all to his year was the first country that had one of these revolutions in the circle the arab spring that brought isl

and now finds herself behind bars. 24 year old marti del-elv is a convicted criminal in the united arab emirates. after reporting to police she had been raped by a colleague in a dubai hotel during a business trip in march. she was charged with having unlawful sex. sex outside of marriage is banned in the u-a-e. she was sentenced to 12 months for that crime. she says she was advised to say the sex was voluntary in order to get the charges dropped but when she did, police added a charge of making a false statement. del-elv will be appealing her sentence on september 5th a whole lot of shaking going on in new zealand. coming up - we show you the quake - caught on tape. [ glenn stonebarger ] we are a family farm. she has been around corn her entire life, so she's probably been around corn longer than i have. [ jeannie stonebarger ] i shop at safeway quite a bit. i walk around the produce department a few times, just to see that box. i'm like...yes! really, really proud. to know that they're buying locally is important. [ female announcer ] safeway works with hundreds of local farmers because local

restore democracy and hold new elections, saudi arabia has pledged 5 billion in aid, and the united arab emiratesthat they will donate 3 billion. the u.s. is still debating whether to cut the aid package that the united states gives egypt, but egypt central bank is accepting direct donations from anybody, if you want to help. here to help us follow the "money" and what it all means, the heritage foundation foreign-policy expert. is the debate in the united states, i understand that the law requires us to cut off the now we have the reverse situation where the army has kicked this guy out. personally, i think it is the wrong time. it punishes the egyptians were doing the right thing, but the law is the law, and it is clear. adam: a democratically elected president or official, right? >> right. in the president is simply flaunting the law which is just wrong at he should do is come back to the congress and say, look, these guys have a road map. if they're going to stick to it and meet their commitments for the human rights and maintain, we should reinstate aid. if they don't follow throu we should

turned over the last few days you have seen a lot of blood $12 billion of money coming from the united arab emirates, so your view on all that and how the international community should act responsibly in terms of supporting egypt. >> just should imitate those countries, realize that today is a very serious transitional period. and in particular for the economy because the unrest can come from the youthful unemployment and this we must put a stop to. but at least create jobs. that is what you don't have. you don't have creation of jobs, you don't have productive industries that would be labor intensive instead of machinery. i think that the economy is the number-1 priority. but i have reservations about the imf because austerity measures, the thing to do, and the book says that. but in a polarized country as it is with social unrest as there is in egypt i don't think that this is the best recipe. it would be the recipe for chaos, the recipe for really another resistance movement because more people would be affected by that than democracy or lack of democracy so i think the imf should think twice an

you should never send a welcome you love to the united arab emirates.ouldn't send my mom, my wife, my daughter, are you crazy? this is open season of rape in the uae. if you report rape they will arrest you and put you in jail unless you miraculously had four male witnesses. it's crazy. it's a giant prison for women if you step outside you might be rapeddish, the rapist is certain to get away with it, and if there is enormous international pressure they'll pardon the woman, and then pardon the rapist with a little insult to the jury. aha we'll let the rapist go. we appreciate it, uae. >> you're not alone. expedia.com that say don't travel to uae if you're a single woman. >> the uae will get a lousy review on yelp. >> let's put this in perspective. let's look at statistics in the united states to see what the statistics may be like. 54% of rapes and sexual assaults are not reported to the police. that's here in the united states. so that if you were to take those numbers and assume that they're higher lack of reporting in the uae then you're figuring abo

egyptians in an aid package, couple billion in industry, a couple billion in security, and the united arab emirates gave them $3 billion. so i suppose when you want money, you should overthrow the government and have a military coup and take the president out. that's been the result of this. the entire world needs stability in egypt, with stability in egypt comes stab with the israelis and they're not anywhere close to it. and the funny thing -- it's funny to me -- they're trying to have some sort of equivocation about whether this was a coup. how the hell are you going to do senate imagine this just for a moment. work with me. this is far-fetched but they probably thought the same thing. be elected a president. in this case we have barack obama, all of a sudden the people are unhappy with barack obama so the military goes to the white house, removes him and tells him he is no longer president and the military puts in a new president. is that a coup? that's a coup. the problem with a coup is, if there's been a coup under international law you can't give them the bills -- 1.3 billion in aid which th

since the removal of president morsi, the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have stepped in pledgingearly $welfare million to the new egyptian government and its military. >> size can't supply 16s and m-1 abram tanks. saudis can not provide expertise the intelligence, training that only the u.s. military can. no. i think that the saudis can do a lot to buy influence in egypt. perhaps even some with the military. but they cannot replace the united states as the single most credible partner that this egyptian military depends on and needs. >> meanwhile, defense secretary chuck hagel has been appointed by the administration to serve as the point man that diplomat in chief to the egyptian leadership during this period of transition. the defense secretary hagel has spoken to his egyptian counterpart, des facto leader in egypt more than eight timesins since the change of government on july 3. often for 45 minutes at a time attempting to convince the egyptian military to move to civilian rule as quickly as possible. >> jennifer, thanks for the update. >>> coming up, death toll rising in the

that aid could be obtained from saudi arabia, from the united arab emirates.ries that have cheered this coup d'etat. i don't think we have that much influence. >> fouad, do you see -- some say this is the downfall of political islam. this is political islam on its heels. do you agree with that? >> i do. i think it's the set back for the muslim brotherhood, ben wedeman gave us a cautionary note. we should never think that anyone could extubate the roots of the muslim brotherhood in egypt. they run deep. they run to the 1920s. the muslim brotherhood should always be in the game. many of the liberals if you will, begrudge the brotherhood, they ran for elections against the brotherhood and they lost. it sustained a setback in egypt and it even sustained minor setback in turkey, the troubles of erdogan. the story continues. it never ends, because there is no way that you could somehow cut down the roots of the muslim brotherhood, and there is no way that secular governments are going to deliver happiness, economic prosperity and thus make the brotherhood irrelevant