the united arab emirates. looks at the roles of the key players. busy times for our times foreign minister. and he has traveled the world to rally support for qatar neighboring saudi arabia the u.a.e. and rain as well as egypt imposed a sea and land blockade on june the fifth and cut diplomatic ties to. the rift continues as a sardine lead quarter insists qatar must meet a list of thirteen demands that include closing a turkish military base scaling down ties with iran and shutting down the al-jazeera network while saudi arabia is a powerful player some think it's the u.a.e. that leads the push to further isolate qatar the u.a.e. do not believe in the same values that qatar believes and they don't believe that we should have a foreign and security policy that looks at the middle east. tries to reform the middle east in the way to create social political inclusion or pluralistic governance or freedom of speech the u.a.e. have taken a different approach they believe that the middle east can only be stable and resilient when it's run by or through tea

troops are stationed qatar has been under diplomatic okayed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain for almost four months it rejects those countries accusations that it supports terrorist groups. beijing says any north korean companies operating in china will have to shut down by january the u.s. has been pressuring china to force to give up its nuclear ambitions the chinese vice premier li you young dong is currently visiting the united states she's been meeting secretary of state rex tillerson in washington and will also meet with the u.s. president donald trump. you have to say with the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more for you in under thirty minutes time coming up next though it's a stream. on october the first catalonia plans to hold an independence referendum yet the central government insists it's unconstitutional and the courts have judged it illegal as the state crimes down and catalans take to the streets where all this crisis and watch al-jazeera for the latest. is uganda going to have a president for life a proposed bill to amend the country's co

after this is a resolved this has there has to be some new understandings that really the united arab emirates needs to. this from carrying those sorts of these stabilising actions in the region senior analyst political analysts maran sharma marline thank you. and mr international has satellite imagery to highlight what it calls an orchestrated campaign. villages are there ice cream past detected a large fires in rakhine state since august twenty fifth and a military crackdown began almost four hundred thousand right hand to have fled to bangladesh in the past three weeks in march army says it's targeting armed groups in the area. from sources it's really clear campaign. by the mia more security forces. fire. burning so. it's very very difficult anything else the liberal effort by the military to drive a country. by any means necessary. border with me and mark i mean shop. on my backside on the other me on my side of the border in between is the enough about now you can see behind me smoke rising because i realize it's been done by the myanmar security forces within the last several days thous

what's disturbing is that present in these sorts of meetings is egypt and the united arab emirates egypt and the united arab emirates stand vocally directly and clearly as they stated against the international consensus on libya meaning a national recall it look insulation between the tobruk parliament and the tripoli parliament as was agreed in two thousand and fifteen they are standing all heartedly in arms and in finance and sometimes fighting along the renegade call and after who is basically trying to impose his will through military means on the libyan people and against the international consensus so here you have a meeting in london whereby the egyptians and the a morality is are trying to put pressure on the americans and the british to accept hafter as the defacto future leader of libya and fortunately that will not happen unfortunately you cannot have elections under these circumstances unfortunately have to even with the support of egyptians would not be able to take control of entire libya unfortunately on the one hand benghazi and the other hand tripoli will remain divided

zimbabwe visited pakistan after that and pakistan were forced to play their home games in the united arab emiratestani domestic championship had to take place in the united arab emirates. but security has been improving over the last two years and earlier this year the final of the pakistani super league was held in pakistan for the first time, the fact it went smoothly paved the way for this tour and now even the sri lankan team are due to visit pakistan at the end of next month. melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. in australia alone, which has the highest incidence of the disease in the world, one person will die from it every five hours. but a team of researchers there say there is hope after clinical trials appear to show new treatment stopping the disease and preventing it from spreading. hywel griffiths reports from sydney. there are two drug treatments which have been trialled, one doctors say reboots the immune system to attack the melanoma cells and another in a similar way over 12 months, that targets the genes which other driver for melanoma. in both cases as patients who hav

the american who is the top yemeni is to rally behind his group against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and. you know. as we said the immoralities are the front for the americans and today there are. stealing yemen's natural gas despite the suffering of the yemeni people and both people are suffering from issues related to both natural gas and petrol either in not being able to find it or not being able to benefit from its wealth in all of this the yemeni people are not the ones who benefit. these are fighters backed by saudi arabia near the capital they face tough resistance from pro who theater. as the fighting continues so does the humanitarian crisis. the u.n. says more than ten thousand people have been killed millions have no access to food medicine and water. and health agencies describe the country's cholera outbreak as the worst ever recorded. a situation many fear might even get worse as all parties with jacked international calls to seek a political settlement but i'll to zero. let's take a look back now at how this latest chapter began in the yemen's long running history of

channel as well as its news web site also blocked in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in response to criticism of censorship snap incorporated responded by saying we make an effort to comply with local laws in the countries where we operate as a snap chat content was as popular in saudi arabia as sky news arabia and a lot of am i just it has condemned the band as an affront to free speech. unprecedented i mean. other countries such as china have tried with google and google you know what we're going to stand by the freedom expression and we're out of here they're the ones who have invited us to be one of the scusa parness news publishers for the region because they understand the audience we bring into into the mix and with this move there definitely now are not allowing our audience on snapchat to be able to see our content let's bring in our panel now from london we have three who is a lecturer a senior lecturer in the department of informatics at king's college london from copenhagen trenberth she is the co-founder of data ethics dot edu and with me in the studio is mohammed el

citizens are asking british police to investigate alleged torture and illegal imprisonment by united arab emirates officials the lawyers claim as many as ten senior officials were involved. law allows police to investigate and arrest foreign nationals for suspected war crimes or torture that took place anywhere in the world. guatemala's congress has protected president jimmy medallists from facing criminal proceedings over campaign finance allegations congress voted for medallist to keep immunity from prosecution despite a congressional committee arguing the immunity be lifted the committee found evidence of unregistered money in campaign funds last month got him out of began a corruption trial against the brother and son of president what on this. the number of refugees and migrants arriving in europe through spain has more than doubled this year the head of the european union's border agency says it's registered almost fourteen thousand arrivals in spain from morocco it's not clear if the rise is due to tougher controls around libya forcing refugees to take alternative routes. this is al jazeera

the military group in yemen of course has been trading accusations of the saudis into the united arab emirates over the last two weeks saying that he has built military capabilities and that he's voted to send missiles into both saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and part of this is basically. trying to sort of. present himself as the ultimate political authority and he's taken advantage of the fact that the saudis coalition has failed to make any progress on the ground yemen remains more divided but the hope is backed by for president. still have the upper hand is going to sell enormously that comes from a place of confidence and the international growing international condemnation of the saudi led war there. it is going against them isn't it absolutely you are talking about a population that has seen young men destroy you're talking about entire areas destroyed by the war more than half a million children facing malnutrition you're talking about ten thousand people were killed hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their own areas so many people blame saudi arabia the coa

there was no immediate comment from the united arab emirates embassy. rice's explanation appears to back up devin nunes' allegations that the names were improperly revealed. in an interview, rice denied knowledge. >> i know nothing about this. i was surprised to see reports from chairman nunes on that. >> in an interview on msnbc, rice insisted unmasking requests were aboveboard. >> the allegations that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, that's false. >> after devin nunes issued subpoenas by rice, john brennan and samantha power who allegedly made hundreds, devin nunes wrote to dan coats that the possible motivation was to "achieve partisan political purposes. multiple sources say they found rice's explanation dubious. the obama national security team and former attorney general lynch. >> bret: thank you. let's get the latest on that investigation that ended with james comey exonerating hillary clinton last july. >> speaking to fox, lindsey graham threatened to subpoena the former fbi director. >> there

a majority of the gold goes to levanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen fauzi and killed in recent months. roundly research as mining in the democratic republic of congo and he joins us now ben thank you for joining us what exactly does the u.n. report accused the military of doing well the u.n. group and see who produced the report was set up back in two thousand and four by the security council at the end of the congo war as part of its mandate was to monitor the illegal exploitation of natural resources which were thought at the time to be contributed to the janitor of the wall is now as your report just mentioned. the office visit to excluded from participating in natural resource exploitation by the congolese mining code and this latest report has cited a

know there's been a blockade carried out by these countries the kingdom of saudi arabia the united arab emirates about heine and egypt since june fifth and this is a created for. government in the qatari people number of political and economic hardships things which the kataria real government has had to try to work around of course the big question would be if you had something of this sort happening would the united states be the gotoh mediator well very early on donald trump seemingly took sides with saudi arabia and the other members of the g.c.c. and egypt and that made it tough perhaps more difficult to try to resolve what many have described as a political dispute that said it is noteworthy that trump and the emir would be meeting at this hour to talk about the way forward because there are many within donald trump's own administration who believe that trying to keep the g.c.c. together trying to keep it united is key to the u.s. his own national security strategy which is going after al qaeda going after eisel and trying to in the wars in yemen and in syria if you have gulf countries spl

saudi arabia's into the semifinals of the asian champions league the united arab emirates was poised at no mail going into the second like. but i have tricks from brazilian carla said wardo ensured a relatively free night for al hillah. two time champions progressing last fall here with a three male aggregate. olympic leaders are gathering in peru is they mapped out the next decade of summer games later this week i see president thomas back set to confirm that paris will host the twenty twenty four games with l.a. taking on the twenty twenty eight event cost concerns so all other bidding cities drop parents but paris insists the games can provide a chance to build a worthwhile legacy. many times that every city is working so hard to the end. infrastructure they can think about the environment they can think about the economy they can think about the health of the people so in the last six weeks i've been excited about a decade ten years to think about that to reimagine that and to deliver that. formally build what you need all the you know do with the existing or the temporary and th

a majority of the gold goes to lebanon the united arab emirates and india. the gold sold by the military in twenty thirteen was worth an estimated four hundred nine million u.s. dollars according to the u.n. this is hurt the country's economy to the tune of some eight point two million u.s. dollars annually. meanwhile millions of congolese are fleeing violence that is seen thousands killed in recent months. now imagine paying tens of millions for a rock and one that's not all that uncommon all the largest roll of diamond ever found known as outlined has been sold for fifty three million u.s. dollars a canadian mining company the car a diamond sold the one thousand one hundred nine counts going to british jewel the lawrence scruff the tennis ball size gem was discovered in botswana in twenty fifteen it is the largest diamond found in over a century the biggest diamond ever it was three thousand carrots and it was fractured into nine pieces to make jewels for the british royal family it was called the cullinan and was discovered in south africa in one thousand

channel as well as its news website also blocked in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in response to criticism of sense the ship snap incorporated responded by saying we make an effort to comply with local laws in the countries where we operate as a snap chat content was as popular in saudi arabia as sky news arabia and a lot of am i just that it has condemned the band as an affront to free speech. unprecedented i mean. other countries such as china have tried with google and google you know what we're going to stand by the freedom expression and we're out of europe they're the ones who have invited us to be one of the schools of parness news publishers for the region because they understand the audience we bring into into the mix and with this move there definitely in our not allowing our audience on snapchat to be able to see our content let's bring in our panel now from london we have three who is a lecturer a senior lecturer in the department of informatics at king's college london from copenhagen trenberth she is the co-founder of data ethics dot edu and with me in the studio

lanka's team bus in 2009, pakistan have been forced to play the bulk of their home games in the united arab emirateslahore will host three t20 internationals between pakistan and an icc world xi — captained by south africa's faf du plessis, and led by the former england coach andy flower. pakistan are hoping the three—match series will encourage other countries to return to the country — to play all forms of the game. golf, and there's a three—way tie for the lead after the first round of the european masters at crans—sur—sierre in switzerland. the joint—leaders on 6—under—par include spain's miguel angel jimenez, who's looking for his first tour title in three years. australia's scott hend, and this man, tyrrell hatton, of england. they all opened up with a ga, and they're one shot ahead of the field overnight. the day began with a special presentation to the former world number one lee westwood to mark the fact he was playing in the 500th european tour event of his career. after the champagne and cake he went on to shoot a 1—over—par 71. there was a champagne moment, too, for the american daniel i

that meeting came before the separate effort by the united arab emirates for a back channel communication between russia and the incoming trump white house. joining us, ron clain, a former chief counsel, former chief of staff to janet reno and former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore. also with us, matt miller, former spokesman of eric holder and a msnbc contributor. ron, i want to go first of all, i want both of your opinions about what the white house press secretary said today about james comey and was there a possible crime, a violation of law by james comey in the release of his memos of his conversations with the president? ron, you first on that one. >> you know, i worked in two white houses and administrations. i worked at the justice department. in any other administration, the attorney general would have been on the phone with the president demanding the firing of the white house press secretary and that would have only been exceeded with the speed with which the white house counsel to insist on the firing of the white house press secretary. it is not the j

interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united arab emirates turning up with --same group. >> meeting with kushner, manafort, bannon. in that case, it appears that u.s. intelligence agencies were aware of that meeting in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab emirates was in the united states without telling them which would be protocol. is there any chance he took the meeting without telling the united states he was doing so. >> we would like to know that. we have not been able to figure it ou. it's a rather simple question, did you tell our national security appa rat us that a foreign head of state was in the united states in a bar in lower manhattan. simple question. we're a little weirded out that no one will answer it or give a straight shot at it. i can't answer it. >> and the king of jordan, he has incredibly warm relations in the united states, especially on security and intelligence matters. so do we know anything about his side of this in items of whether he is willing to answer questions from investigators, report

and the united arab emirates to cook steps to make qatar stop financing extremists and terrorists. to bread hatred and too high a fugitive sons territory. so now if our is serious about fulfilling its obligations so that we could open a new page in our relations. i think any ways and means will be acceptable the main thing is for qatar to understand that we reject its policy with the entire international community backing us up you can't support extremists and i think all the countries in the world would agree to that and no one would suffer interference in their domestic affairs we need to have good neighborly relations. and we hope that this. will be wise to fulfill the demands of our for countries and the demands of the international community as a whole think you again mr minister where happy that our football team will be taking part in the world cup in twenty eighteen will be happy to be there thank you. and a lot of comments from jet the west coast red sea resort of saudi arabia that was a sort of off the russian foreign minister his saudi arabian counterpart. jubera both ma

broken because a very senior member of the elm ratty royal family, the crown prince of the united arab emirates, he came to the united states in december in secret. he did not notify the obama administration. he did not notify the u.s. government that he was coming and that's weird. that said, it's not like he didn't get noticed. he's pretty high-profile international figure. and u.s. intelligence agencies picked up the fact that he was here. and his visit and their surveillance of his visit presumably was way more intriguing to the intelligence community than it might normally have been under normal circumstances, specifically because he tried to sneak in, right. you see somebody doing something like that's a routine thing that they let you know they're going to do in advance and you pay attention, but you don't really pay that much attention. you find somebody sneaking in and trying to do something without teg the government that he's here, they're going to focus on that. so this guy didn't tell the obama administration that he was coming. the intelligence community picked up that he was here

of time, can i ask about you this susan rice unmasking thing related to that visit from the united arab emirates and the story that is swirling about. she was concerned about who was coming in a meeting and at white house didn't know about it, and that's why she asked for the unmasking of who in the trump administration for the upcoming trump administration, what you make of the whole stor story? >> i have to say, this is an interesting reporting on this today and it generally tends to favor susan rice. you've got people like a couple of other republicans of the house intelligence committee who heard her, said she seems like a good witness. remember, unmasking is not illegal. what that is is basically you have electronic intelligence that will say american number one and she is finding out who was american number one? that is not it for the national security advisor to want to find out who was in a meeting with people from another country is not illegal. what is a legal that she then leaks that in the initial report from republicans in the house intelligence committee was it didn't seem to be a

here as well as the emir shakes her mother funny saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut the plastic and trade links with pat hunger in the face accusing it of sponsoring terrorism kept her strongly denies all the charges against them. that's one of ours he's a say they're working to ensure that the spearhead referendum on secession from spain will take place peacefully thousands of university students have marched through barcelona to protest against what they call an intensifying crackdown ahead of sunday's vote john hendren has more now from barcelona. each day a peaceful show of force growth. led by young in fiercely proud catalans in the street. police say sixteen thousand of them organizers say tens of thousands more. are going to shut their schools because. by comparison this anti secession rally mustered perhaps three dozen people. at a secret location days after the spanish army arrested catalan leaders and confiscated ten million ballot papers this video tweeted by catalan president carlos to month shows the resistance printing new balance he got better misk

i met with this -- the secretary tillerson and their colleagues from egypt united arab emirates and france. libya is a front-line in our common struggle against terrorism and illegal migration and we all share of vital interest too countries stability. our shared goal is to break the political deadlock and rally behind united nations as he seeks to bring all sides together. our friends in north africa share the same interest in a peaceful libya. that is only achievable. we now have progress to helping bolivian people to reach a political settlement based on compromise and consensus. finally we discussed the grave situation in asia where north korea has defied the world by td launching ballistic missiles. on monday the security council unanimously adopted u.n. resolutions 2375 including the toughest sanctions imposed on any country in the 21st century. today we discussed how best to enforce those with maximizing the pressure north korea to reach a diplomatic solution. we resolve to continue to work together and with important partnerships including china and the complete in a reversal denuc

dispute between qatar and its gulf neighbors which has lasted for months saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain have cut off diplomatic and trade ties with doha they say qatar gives money to terrorist groups qatar strongly denies the accusations there raney and foreign minister has told al jazeera about why attack iran is backing qatar in its standoff with locating nations one hundred saudi flames saudi arabia and the u.a.e. for undermining stability in the region. why don't we open our borders and our airspace to our brothers and cutter what we would have done exactly the same have united arab emirates been threatened we're not happy with because we believe that music food needs to be settled through peaceful means we believe that nobody should try to bully others we believe that differences communities all around the negotiating table not to abuse many. african security issues are trying to come up with new ways of tackling armed groups human trafficking and arms smuggling more than thirty countries are holding talks in sudan about modern reports from khartoum . it's called

coordinative a body of six countries to have the united arab emirates and its ambassador washington reveal that kind of explicit hostility leading to military intervention within the gulf region is of course a dangerous precedent and now leading to the resolution of this conflict everyone needs to make sure not only that this is a result diplomatic. but that there is no one there ring though to sort the military solution is moving forward yeah and we know we did hear from chancellor merkel in that press conference really highlighting just how important it is to solve this dispute so that the gulf cooperation council can stay together and work on the problems in the region you know when you spoke about how there isn't the same urgency and solving this dispute every email that we get from use of seems very damaging to the blockading countries and their cause what they're doing here just how much how much has their case been undermined you know by yet another leaked e-mail that shows what would be a very dangerous plan here. by the way just to be clear what i meant by there's no there isn't t

trip since the gulf different crisis began in early june sodje arabia egypt bahrain and the united arab emirates have cut ties with qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism a charge the government has strongly denied shift i mean bin hamad all funny has just met with the french president in money and my core ideas it is where they will hold closed door talks the french government has been keen to offer itself to mediate the crisis earlier the emir was in berlin germany for talks with chancellor angela merkel he agreed to rated a kata wants to negotiate but had. mr dudley we talked about the regina's of qatar to sit down at the table and to discuss and solve the issue we think germany for its effort and also i think the chancellor of germany his role to solve the problems around the negotiating table we think you for your support of the kuwait initiative which qatar has support to since the beginning and will continue supporting until we get the solution to such fights all the parties want to go on and. the players should really sit down at a table germany's not a part of this conflict but germa

interesting reporting this week about the crown prince of the united arab emirates turning up at trump tower in december, meeting with flynn -- >> the same group. >> the same group? >> yep. same group, kushner, bannon, in that case, it appears u.s. intelligence agencies were aware in part because they were weirded out that the crown prince from the united arab emirates was in the united states without telling the united states. is there any indication the king of jordan took that meeting without telling -- >> we really would like to know that. >> okay. >> we have not been able to figure it out yet and no one will tell us. it's a rather simple question. did you tell our national security apparatus that a foreign head of state was not -- was in the united states, in a bar in lower manhattan? it's a fairly simple question. we're a little bit weirded out that no one will answer it, or no one will give us a straight shot at it. i can't answer it. i wish we could. >> the king of jordan, should be noted, has incredibly warm relations with the united states especially on security and intellige

qatar, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, bahrain and egypt are all essential u.s. partners in this effort. we have great relationships with all of them right now. maybe better than we've ever had. we will be most successful with a united gcc. tomorrow, secretary of state tillerson and foreign minister al-sabah will chair the shared kuwaiti dialogue but strengthening communications with allies like kuwait, we send a strong message to both terrorist organizations and regional aggressors that they cannot win. they will not win. they cannot win against us. and our military is getting stronger and stronger and stronger. and that those who cherish and value human life will always prevail. i want to thank his highness for joining us here today. the united states values its close friendship with kuwait and its people. and we look forward to strengthening these bonds even further. together we will show the world that the forces of destruction and extremism are no match for the blessings of prosperity and peace. thank you very much. i appreciate that. thank you. >> translato

he's a weekly columnist with the national, which is based in the united arab emirates. he previously served as a senior fellow on the task force on palestine, executive director for arab american leadership and communications director for the american arab anti-discrimination committee. then we're going to hear from another dear friend who is executive director of the seta foundation at washington, d.c. this is a turkish foundation which has been very active for the past dozen years, ten years? how long now? >> seven. >> seven years. yeah. at a time when, of course, turkey's policies have been very dynamic. kadir also served as assistant editor of inside turkey, an academic journal. he holded a ph.d. in middle eastern and south african studies from columbia university and a masters degree in history. if anyone has attended the events at seta, they know these are really interesting and give a lot of insight into how turkey sees the region. and then finally, we're really pleased to have ambassador hussein wasabi in here to talk about how iran is viewing all of these new ch

qatar, saudi arabia, united arab emirates, bahrain and egypt are all essential u.s. partners in this effort. we have great relationships with all of them now, maybe better than we've ever had. we will be most successful with a united gcc. tomorrow, secretary of state tillerson andal and sab a will chair the strategic dialogue, strengthening communications with allies like kuwait, we send a strong message to terrorist organizations and regional aggressors that they cannot win, they will not win. they cannot win against us. and our military is getting stronger and stronger and stronger. and that those that cherish and value human life will always prevail. i want to thank his highness for joining us here today. the united states values its people, we look forward to strengthening these bonds further. together we will show the world that forces of destruction and extremism are no match for blessings of prosperity and peace. thank you very much. i appreciate that. >> translator: my dear president, president donald trump, your excellency, your highness, ladies and gentleme

resilience and that the book a the has been a part of imposable by saudi arabia egypt and the united arab emirates he's ultimately going to fail because people here i'm more determined than ever to stand for what they consider to be a sacred right for the qataris to preserve and defend their. sovereignty what i have to say come out that at the same time the statements made by. the saudi foreign minister. foreign minister of the united nations give you no impression whatsoever that this crisis is going to end any time soon they located in countries in say that they will continue the impose the measures i guess till the government of qatar says that thirteen point something which is rejected by the qatari government which says that anything that's violates the sovereignty of qatar is going to be rejected. waterfront as the crowds await that motorcade from the airport with cut his amir as he arrives back into the country thank you hashem with me in studio. who is a director of the scent of conflict and humanitarian studies at the doha institute and who just got here in time because he was stuck in tr

and prior to the diplomatic row the country was relying on imports from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to finish constructing it. last week the eastern economic forum wrapped up talks in russia where leaders from around the world met to discuss investment in trade and transportation we have a piece from anya parm poll who spoke at who got the chance to speak with a member of south korean president moon allegation in seoul. well the east asian economic forum wraps up earlier this week and in light of these high level regional meetings i spoke with a member of president moon diana of south korea's delegation who traveled with him to la de vos talk of russia for these talks i first asked mr hewitt how these unprecedented sanctions passed by the u.n. security council on monday could impact the south korean economy actually is sanctions on north korea doesn't affect korea a new kind of battery being. the reasoning. north salis trade even before the sanctions and during the ninety's during that two thousand the omanis for example or just the one billion want to build. you think about the kor

it means larger container ships can now go directly to cas are rather than docking in the united arab emirates where cargo was transferred to smaller vessels the u.a.e. is one of the countries that have imposed a land air and sea blockade on cats are the port will have an annual capacity of seven point five million shipping containers and separate terminals dedicated to general cargo cereal vehicles and livestock it's expected to be fully operational by twenty twenty joining us now from london andrea's creagh address is strategic risk analyst focusing on the middle east security and assistant professor at king's college london always great to have you with this address what impact is the opening of this new port go to have on cattle as economy i think is a very significant development irrespective of the crisis i mean qatar was very much dependent on neighboring countries specially the land border to saudi arabia to get imports and exports out of the country particularly imports all the l.n.g. has never been a problem i mean qatar controls the entire supply chain of l.n.g. from from getting it

troops are stationed qatar has been under diplomatic okayed by saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain for almost four months it rejects those countries accusations that it supports terrorist groups beijing says any north korean companies operating in china will have to shut down by january the u.s. has been pressuring china to force beyond young to give up its nuclear ambitions the chinese vice premier li you young dong is currently visiting the united states she's been meeting secretary of state rex tillerson in washington and will also meet with the u.s. president donald trump. you have to sit with headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more for you in under thirty minutes time coming up next though it's a stream. on october the first catalonia plans to hold an independence referendum yet the central government constitutional and the courts have judged it illegal. and cats take to the streets where. for the latest. is uganda going to have a president for life a proposed bill to amend the country's constitution has sparked an intense debate online tension in the streets

manchester city is owned by the united arab emirates.eve in socialism, but it does believe in sporting socialism, where it doesn't allow anybody to come in, but we allow everyone to come in. leicester city is owned by someone nobody knew about. they see this as branding exercises and as far as they are concerned, most of the money is going abroad. in the old days, there used to be reaganite trickle—down economics. the big clubs paid the lower division clubs. now they pay all sorts of foreign clubs. this owners think if they can get into the premier league and brand themselves, look at what has happened by psg. they are owned by the qatar state. they pay 198 million, a bit than what you might be getting from the bbc, for neymar. why? because qatar is saying this is our soft path. maybe that is a solution for kim. perhaps if he paid 198 million for neymar and they could say that north korea has a great footballer. maybe that is the solution. if only! i am a fan of the best club in the united kingdom, ipswich town. we have secured a new str