middle east represents a huge opportunity for us. uae is a component part, as is india and malaysia and hong kong. >> in terms of potential acquisitions, you said before that you are interested in acquiring businesses that may let you acquire more hard assets, particularly in europe, still on the table? >> yes, we recently made an acquisition of a european real estate firm. we will integrate that in with our existing real estate organization of the u.s., which allows us to extend the product set to our customers and adds nine countries to our abilities to reach customers and provide them with good solid real estate solutions. >> any targets in sight? >> alphabetically? >> yes, please. write them down. >> in those areas weekend bring scale to existing capabilities or add capabilities, infrastructure is good for us, not unlike real estate? , why a lot of our customers have liabilities that are 30 and 40 years long. if you think about infrastructure and commercial real estate, they have attributes to ongoing contributions relative to ca

not welcoming poor any additional involvement in a conflict and the middle east whether it's syria or whether it's iran or or iraq or what or yemen or what have you i get a little bit of the administration will continue to bleed internally and to weaken . with as fine a way it's thank you very much thank you very much as well i guess it's a very and a fashion show and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our web site al-jazeera dot com for further discussion you can get our facebook page at facebook dot com ford slash a.j. inside story can also join the conversation on twitter on my handle is at a.j. inside story on the vessel and they stay inside story t.v. thanks so much. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the wild recalls hardesty side and who controls the other side people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy a movie to america's gallons of a

he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler saudi arabia's crown prince head saudi iran's supreme leader in his first interview on u.s. television. thank you for joining us live here putin has celebrated his victory in russia's a presidential election with thousands of supporters in moscow has won seventy six percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted fourteen was always expected to win but what was in question was how many people would vote in his favor his nearest. there was communist party candidate a very good dean who is on almost twelve percent soon after the first exit polls fulton joined crowds in moscow's red square the election was held on the fourth anniversary of the annexation of crimea from ukraine at a press conference the president later rejected british allegations that moscow was involved in the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. calling them nonsense lawrence lee reports on putin's landslide victory. so it's all over putin has won again and so i think the kremlin a likely to be pretty happy with the

is middle east policies. it's hard to say i my initial reaction would be in not particularly because the united states as middle east policy has not been very effective or very clear or very consistent the loss of tillerson is a loss for those people in the middle east who care for rational decision making and the compliance with international law to the extent that that can be done the people that are happy in the middle east are those few heads of state and various arab countries who are actually trying to be very close to trump who play up to him like the leaders of egypt for instance or so the arabian u.a.e. and other countries and there are people all around the region who love trump but they're really quite a minority because most of the policies of the united states around the middle east have been damaging to the most part for the majority of people but a small minority of people in the power elites are trying to be close to trump and this is something that probably they would welcome but also they th

. ♪ >> welcome to the "best of bloomberg markets middle east." your other major stories driving headlights from the region -- headlines from the region this week. saudi arabia and the u.k. target $90 billion of trade and investment deals as the kingdom visits london. theresa may calls that a vote of confidence ahead of brexit. markets are rattled by president trump's tariffs. gary cohn quits and retaliation is threatened by china. could saudi arabia be the next to join the shale revolution? we have the story. first, the u.k. rolled out the red carpet for saudi arabia prince. he met with theresa may, with the two countries agreeing to a goal of $90 billion of mutual trade and investment in the coming years. may's office called it a vote of confidence in the economy before britain leaves the european union. i got more details from bloomberg's emily horton. >> it is key for both governments as theresa may embarking on the post european union, she sees it as a vote of confidence in the u.k. after brexit. and really for the crown prince, this is his f

his government a middle east peace conference but does he seriously think anyone. going to. be a lot more than just. playing with. combining. max sixty minutes. discovered. video and audio podcast language courses. at the center. of. the palestinian president was outraged when donald trump recognized jerusalem as israel's capital but telling the white house no money and may your house be destroyed wasn't perhaps the best way to enhance his cause my guest this week is abraham currie she palestinian ambassador to the u.n. here in geneva his government once a middle east peace conference but does he seriously think anyone will show up.

he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler. saudi arabia's crown prince had soured on iran's supreme leader in his first interview on u.s. television. that amir put in has celebrated his victory in russia's presidential election with thousands of supporters in moscow has won seventy six percent of the vote with almost all ballots counted put in was always expected to win but what was in question was how many people would vote in his favor is nearest competitor was communist party candidate prevailed jordanian who is on almost twelve percent soon after the first exit poll split in joint crowns in moscow's red square the election was held on the fourth anniversary of the annexation of crimea from ukraine at a news conference the president later rejected british allegations that moscow was involved in the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. calling them nonsense lawrence lee reports now on putin's landslide victory. by sema the coolest election such as the status of blood in your putin in russia as he wa

east of christians. and the prior administration made very, very clear their priority was not the christians that were being slaughtered by the thousands in the middle east, it was muslim refugees and that's why there's such a tiny, tiny percentage of christian refugees that were allowed into the united states when compared to the percentage of christians living in the middle east where the refugees were coming from. it's a sobering time, and it only makes sense that when we reach a time when christianity s maligned, defamed, persecuted, that it's a time the bible talks about, right is wrong, wrong is right, those that try to hold to the right as god gives them to see the folks at, gee, those are said to be crazy. and if not crazy, hate mongers. they are not hate mongers, but when we get into that period of time, it makes sense. priorities are completely askew , and the generation in charge thinks of itself and does not think about what is going to happen to that generation's children. when one thinks ab

east i says leader them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them in washington libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea there was a meeting were concerned that as the u.s. presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon all the alliances. at the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council. it was reported to king abdullah of jordan congressional leaders in the u.s. that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he later

in the middle east probably the turkish concern to get the missiles to turkish territory will be much more justified than it is the case now so it is a. cautious movement of turkey and by the way for hundreds will be not delivered before two thousand and twenty and the turkish diversification of defense is something which it seems that the more they are necessary than ever before disability concerning the natal that what type of airlines is this is why you need america would try to impose military sanctions so towards turkey in future could be a possibility the president's reaction i would say is justifiable from the future challenges but mr broadsheet the structure you don't know what's going on behind the scenes basically in a nutshell doesn't president anyone care what nato thinks a by go and i had to they say no he's going to rile lebanese happy to do that is he or no. i think president don's position is this when the greeks did buy this indeed nobody was thinking anything but they did the same time the problem is the they are much better three hundred of course of four hundred an

if it's true it's damning if it's true or has to go for many of us the fall of the middle east closely we could not understand why the trumpet ministration was so firmly taking the saudis side in this dispute between the saudis the m roddy's and the qataris because the united states has very important interests in qatar at the top of the list are thousands of u.s. troops that are stationed in a base there and so to so firmly take the side of the saudis against the countries potentially resulting in the downward spiral of the qatari economy put thousands of americans at risk. their investigation has revealed new evidence of saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain's attempt to overthrow the castro government in one thousand nine hundred six that includes interviews with coup leaders who conspired to remove the movie end there of cattles father shake him out tunney who was then the country's leader an investigation comes eight months into a blockade against cast by a saudi the bahrain and egypt the countries have accused of supporting terrorism a claim cattle vehemently denies that it w

♪ >> welcome to "best of bloomberg markets: middle east." these are the major stories driving headlines this week. ipo's. the head of abu dhabi's sovereign wealth fund tells us why he is planning to sell shares in as many as three companies this year. along the fed, you we central on why he will be matching any u.s. rate increase in 2018. and not such a summary outlook. fourier treasury secretary larry summers on why he thinks the next recession could drag on longer than the last one. first, a gathering in abu dhabi this week for the financial markets forum. now regarded as the premier annual conference in the region, those in attendance were the head of the sovereign wealth fund. they set down with bloomberg's erik schatzker. erik: one of your largest investments, emirates global aluminum showed record results for 2017. profit is up almost 60%. why is that such an important milestone? >> i am very proud of this company. it is a company that has a rich history. 40 years, and industrial champion from the you we -- the ue. -- the uae. this com

east we never got out of the middle east i made a movie about it called w in which dick cheney the dick cheney's character have them asking what what's our exit policy says there is no exit and the truth is we haven't there is no exit to iraq where here those five hundred thousand men in one form or another have never left the middle east so this is heartbreaking stuff if you have any sense of history when i knew it was a mistake i thought the iraq war one was a huge mistake i thought there was plenty of room to negotiate when films like that come on w for instance are at the untold history of the united states they want to even mention how as a percent in america when you pretty much denounce a lot of troops and facts in american history i can't tell you it's easy but i think it's the most some of the most important work i've done in my life i'm very proud of those two films and i pay a price for because i guess some people would you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is. no center in the united states' political dis

east and didn't seem this to be a consequences or basically. that actually you know what these number of people who have been tortured the number of people who have been arrested a number of people have lost their wealth and property at least partly because of that intelligence. that idea that actually somebody using an american intelligence for his all in financial benefits for it is all pretty small benefit i think is a very very very sad and at the same time tragic news for for american democracy and apart from the saudi plan to explain i think the ball has been completely preoccupied for example about the role of russia and the ways in which russia has meaning to fury in american democracy and they have been completely ignoring their all of the e.u. law i think groups primarily donated by by united arab emirates since that's our aid when mr tabor became. did it all and to washington d.c. effectively he changed its rudisha whole approach to kind of that. gaining influence in washington d.c. traditionally basically arab states try to our appr

east i says leader urged them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them and moshing to libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the media were concerned that as the us presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances with the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council and it was reported to king abdullah of jordan congressional leaders in the us that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he later alle

forward in the middle east he coauthored it with george mitchell the former u.s. special envoy for middle east peace he is in san francisco and joel rubin who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the obama administration he's president of the washington strategy group joel joins us from washington. alone we'll start with you you seem the deadliest day who's in who's in violation of the cease fire well when they un security council declared a cease fire about ten days ago in the hope was that that could lead to a period of calm for a little while and as has happened so many times in the past the assad regime continues to bombard civilian positions throughout syria with the help of russia in particular and in its attempts to exert more control over the syrian territory as it stands now president bashar al assad is in the strongest position he has been in really since the start of the civil war support from russia the help of the iranians. have really helped prop up the assad regime in a way that allows him to feel confident in his

>> brian: who cares about middle east peace right now, that's on the tenth of my to-do list. the number thing is we need to figure out if we are going to be giving away two iran and turkey's benefit. when lindsey graham spends his week off going to jordan, when he goes over to israel and says we know the damage hezbollah did last time, that's the message. i don't blame the president for this, these people wake up in the morning with some type of game plan, can we please see it in syria and to protect israel? >> harris: is this the time to question the reports that there is maybe a little dissent among a couple of those generals? >> brian: i think there is. >> harris: these are also master at multitasking, masters of multitasking, they should be able to do it all. is this the time to at least ask the question, does that get in the way? >> brian: i would say number one, let's do debate of the plan, let's find out if this is bad or good, can i see it? >> kennedy: it speaks to the complexity particularly in syria, there is so much that could go wrong here and when you have israel

he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like your. saudi arabia's crown prince hits out at iran's supreme leader in his first interview on u.s. television also. i'm mohammad fired by the shores of lake chad coming up i'll tell you why this source of fresh water for millions of people in the region is at the risk of disappearing. welcome to the program russian president vladimir putin has been reelected and will serve another six years in office electoral officials say it's the best performance yet this being his fourth term as president he's won seventy six point six percent of the vote in sunday's presidential election with nearly all of. the ballots counted the average voter turnout was sixty seven percent two percent higher than the previous vote six years ago now putin was widely expected to win but the kremlin was aiming for a high turnout to boost the legitimacy of his victory is nearest competitor the communist party candidate pawel a group did in who won almost twelve percent soon after the first exit polls putin address suppo

he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like. saudi arabia's crown prince hits out at iran's supreme leader in his first interview on u.s. television. hello there is absolutely throwing it down for some of us in japan at the moment here's why on the satellite picture you can see all this cloud working its way across us bringing us some very heavy rain and it's still clinging on to that southeast corner on cheese day elsewhere it does look a good deal dry it still a lot of cloud around the still quite gray and quite gloomy we've got yet more wet weather this pushing its way towards us as we head into wednesday this mostly over the southern parts but we could see a few outbreaks of rain there across tokyo as well meanwhile towards the west generally mild air force in beijing temperatures around twelve degrees heading a bit further south in the wet weather that we've had over the southeastern parts of china is still just clinging on to that eastern coast it's not warm in that way where the either we're looking at around twelve in sh

east i says leader urged them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them more shinton libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the meeting were concerned that as the us presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances with the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support their initiatives we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council. it was reported that king abdullah of jordan briefed congressional leaders in the us that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he

we know what has happened in the middle east. a pretty not been picture for the united states or for anybody. things are changing rapidly. as you know, we've recaptured almost 100% of the territory as you have heard. but with captured close to 100% up the territory held by isis rapidly, veryery quickly. that is coming to an end and in that part of the world it is coming to an end and we will be able to get out of parts of the world we been wanting to get out of. honor to have you had your representatives here. conference, thank you very much. thanks thank you. >> thank you. than 80 years of our alliance and big interest. andicularly economically security. a lot of areas. the foundation is large and deep. we note today the relation is a cause of more than four main dollars directly and indirectly. indirectly.i arabia from know, mr. president day one when you reached this office we planned to -- we ended up with 400 billion. than 50%.sents more more than 55%. we planned at this but if it happens and that one year, this is a signal

east we never got out of the middle east i made a movie about it called w in which dick cheney the dick cheney's character have to ask what what's our exit policy says there is no exit and the truth is we haven't there is no exit to iraq where here those five hundred thousand men in one form or another have never left the middle east so this is heartbreaking stuff if you have any sense of history when i knew it was a mistake i thought the iraq war one was a huge mistake i thought there was plenty of room to negotiate when films like that come out w for instance are at the untold history of the united states they want to even mention how as a percent in america when you pretty much denounce a lot of troops and facts in american history i can't tell you it's easy but i think it's the most some of the most important work i've done in my life i'm very proud of those two films and i paid a price for because i guess some people would you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is. no center in the united states' political discou

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to john winds of seventy really got to have spare time for everyone we have to have picked let me go to john john respond to what's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break well just like to point out that the united states is is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. knows in yemen and there was a recent vote in the senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is how being the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to manage terry and crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet state with r.t. . when lawmakers manufacture conse

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to john ones i've said he really had to have spare time for everyone we have to have picked let me go to john john respond to what's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break. just like to point out that the united states is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. no in yemen and there was a recent vote in senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is helping the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to monetary and crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet stay with r.t. . that he will go back to what. bush will call you out

now we're back with robert malley is a obama administration's advisor on isis on the middle east now had of the international crisis group talking about the war in syria is growing more and more complex mr malley you met president assad in person do you think you will stop short of conquering the whole territory from the rebels i mean what recovering its unity under asset may ultimately be better for syria than splintering it into a patchwork of rebel warlord controlled areas. so i met a many many years ago before before the war so i can't i can't really claim that i know from those meetings how he would react i think we know from the way he's been conducting the war that the goal is to reconquer or to retake as much of syria's possible and perhaps all of syria i don't think that that's something that's going to happen in the near term because of turkey's presence and because of the u.s. and kurdish presence in the in the east so i don't i don't think that that's going to be an attainable goal it is a goal that in the medium to long term the regime is going to continue pursuing you k

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east -- i rain yin expansion in the middle east -- iranian expansion in the middle east. >> right. the commander in charge of syria, afghanistan and iraq said this tuesday, make no mistake, iran's malign activities across the region pose a long-term threat to stability in this part of the world and he said the following, countering iran is not one of the coalition missions in syria. so i see no strategy to deal with the russian iranian connection that is dominating syria. syrian democratic forces are falling. iran now is de facto control of damascus and that will throw the entire region into further chaos. paul: i assume you will deliver that message to the white house one of these days here coming up. >> i talked to general mattis about it. i'm writing an op-ed piece in the "wall street journal." i'm going to meet with mcmaster and let them know we believe israel is in a no end situation. it's just a matter of time before israel has to use military force. the message is we need to counter iran. obama withdrew from i i iraq. the vacuum was filled was russia and hezbollah and iran.

think is a better middle east for the u.s. than the one that the theocrats in they're an have in mind. ashley: fascinating to watch it all unfold. thank you so much. ambassador robert jordan, i think i called you john or dave before. sorry. ambassador robert jordan and cliff may as well. thank you, both, gentlemen, for joining us today. >>> take a look at the big board, the markets trying recover a part, maybe 40% of our losses yesterday, but we'll take it. the dow up 157, 158 points at 24,769. >>> amazon founder jeff bezos may have found a new best friend. he tweeted a picture of himself walking his robot dog. at the conference in california. looks very obedient. the dog's name? spotmini. bezos not making friends on google, on pace to overtake alphabet as the second largest company in america by market cap, over $760 billion. lot of money, folks. amazon up. alphabet/google down about half a percent. >>> coming up next, you may not be ready for a robot dog but how about a robot ride? jeff flock is here to tell us of a deadly a

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to john ones of saudi arabia got to have spare time for everyone we have to have picked let me go to john john respond to what's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break well just like to point out that the united states is is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. no in yemen and there was a recent vote in the senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is how being the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to monetary and crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet stay with r.t. . the most expensive fish in a will each one

in tit for tat, where does that leave the middle east? tarek: if there is any good news, it is that the middle east does not export a lot to the united states. it's not a massive impact on the region. yousef: i always appreciate your insights. we are seeing big stories from this side of the world. we have the ceo of eft hermes. find out why the firm is confident about the latest ipo p ipelines. ♪ hermes is one of the middle east's largest investment banks and has been expanding. the ceo says the business is looking to excel or eight that growth after becoming the top advisor. i spoke to him here in dubai, and a started by asking him how things are looking for the business right now. >> i think we have had a good year. we have done 16 transactions within egypt, the london stock and kuwait.u dhabi we are very optimistic about the coming year. hope we will be able to maintain our positioning. have a very close relationship with our clients to make sure we maintain these levels. --will there be a few london karim: we believe there is a lot

east ice says leader urged them to create a new power block in the middle east to convert turkey and iran and he would lobby for them and moshing to libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the media were concerned that as the us presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances with the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council. it was reported to king abdullah of jordan congressional leaders in the u.s. that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he later

and is an outspoken critic of iran's aggression through the middle east. and he joins us, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome arkansas senator tom cotton. [applaus [applause] >> thank you very much for that very warm welcome. thanks for the kind int introducti introduction. i feel like i should have an oscar to present. >> just a few people here. as a member of congress, you've been a vocal and consistent supporter of the u.s.-israel relationship and i want to ask you what i asked senator clo klobuch klobuchar. where does this come from? >> personally where it comes from for me, everything i know about the modern nation of israel and its connection to the united states, it goes back so deeply in our history. you know, the pilgrims called america a new zion, and america's always been welcoming and open to the jewish people in a way that you could come to america and be fully american and also fully jewish, which isn't always the case in nations around the world and also my personal travels to israel i've noted on several occasions since elected know the co

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to judd ones of saudi arabia got to have spare time for everyone we have to have picked let me go to john john respond to what's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break. just like to point out that the united states is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. no in yemen and there was a recent vote in senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is how being the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to monetary and crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet stay with. the most expensive fish in the world each one but tens of th

east i says leader urged them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them the motion to libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the meeting were concerned that as the us presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances with the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council. it was reported that king abdullah of jordan briefed congressional leaders in the us that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he la

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to john ones of saudi arabia got to have spare time for everyone we have to have pick let me go to john john respond to it's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break well just like to point out that the united states is is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. knows in yemen and there was a recent vote in senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is how being the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to monetary and crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet stay with r.t. . join me every thursday on the alex salmond show

of jordan middle east ice says leader of them to create a new power balkan the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them to libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the meeting were concerned that as the u.s. presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances . at the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council and it was reported to king abdullah of jordan congressional leaders in the us that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he la

-middle east policy. last year, some of you may remember, al-jazeera undertook a major undercover investigation of the lobby and how it really operates in the united kingdom. but they also had an undercover investigation of what was going on in the united states. this report called the lobby presented a threat. the american-israel public affairs committee and other groups were determined that americans not be allowed to see the u.s. version. their threats included getting the u.s. government to deny landing rights to airways, 10.6 billion dollar organization with 43,000 employees. their threats included having the justice department register al-jazeera's reporters as foreign agents which would cut off their access to u.s. government officials and limit their access to government facilities. and this pressure campaign has worked. you will not be able to see the u.s. version of the lobby which should have aired before the apac meeting this year, air. but we're happy to have two journalists who have withstoo

israel is a middle of a very, very broad circle in the middle east and beyond where the arab citizens serve in my government, in my government, i appointed a drus minister, they serve in the supreme court, and they have real freedom and real equality under the law. if you want to make a comparison to other countries, i think you could make that yourself. there's complete religious freedom in israel, and in israel it's not only the jews and the muslims who enjoy complete freedom, it's the christians and in the middle east, the christians are being squashed, they're being decimated or destroyed outright. and the only place where the christian community is thriving, flourishing, growing is in israel, because they're a democracy, because of our shared values, and i think most people know that, and even if they don't know it, they have a glint of it, they appreciate the fact that israel is a genuine democracy with all the trimmings and with all the faults, you know? it's not easy to govern democracies, i can tell you that. having done it four times. mark: east jerusalem, many of the holies

east and that they can manage in co-opting coerce these people. thank you back to the show but we'll be back on monday when we speak to unicef about how british shopping training and targeting is affected the poorest country in the middle east three years to the day of the saudi ball that if you haven't began to let you know just by social media will see on monday the birthday of a streetcar named desire a tennessee williams who protested the u.s. state department and he called me this witch hunt against fellow playwright and husband of our of the drove off a bit though. they're bred for a single purpose. they have a super. star training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they save lives. kristen trumps money in finding practices are still surprising the recent appointments of my companion john bolton have definite impression on friends and foes alike watch him play to a late night of all american politics. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates of the so long. i mean they're in the sma

east ice says leader of them to create a new power block in the middle east to combine turkey and iran and he would lobby for them to libya was to join the group later its alleged leader a convicted paedophile was told they like the idea that the meeting were concerned that as the u.s. presidential election was moving into high gear democratic nominee hillary clinton would protect the iran nuclear deal and would be less keen to abandon old alliances . at the meeting thought the republican candidate donald trump might be more likely to support the initiative we have seen for the last nine months that there has been a new alliance that has emerged between the united arab emirates saudi arabia egypt and what bahrain as a junior party as a junior partner and what or not that alliance can sustain itself in the long run that is unclear but there are certainly efforts to boost that alliance at the expense of the gulf cooperation council it was reported to king abdullah of jordan congressional leaders in the u.s. that turkey was the main regional threat to stability but he later allegedly fell

withdraw at the current stage middle east is very important and any global power which really wants to be global must be present in the middle east so allies are necessary and there will be not only syria where we have russia will have strong ties with egypt russia will have strong ties with l.g. area and i think russia will do its best to develop those with the countries of the persian gulf we can i circle thank you very much indeed thank you now i've had to say that syrian government forces have arrested hundreds of people as they fled east and over the past few days they say mostly men between the ages of twenty five and fourteen picked up tens of thousands of civilians have been fleeing the rebel held on claim in recent days and the government stepped up its attacks all nice and good at last month and it now controls around eighty percent of the territory let's go live now to our correspondents anahata she's monitoring events from neighboring lebanon from the capital beirut fs all this is quite alarming is that this these reports that we're heading that possibly those people are ma

. >> i've seen that you called the ayatollah, khamenei, "the new hitler" of the middle east. >> ( translated ): absolutely. >> at just 32, mohamed bin salman seems fearless and determined. he has quickly become the most dominant arab leader in a generation. hello. and in his first american television interview, m.b.s., the heir to the saudi throne, walked us through his revolution, changing everything in his country, including new rights for women, like driving. >> driving is just a quick win. it's not everything. it's just a representative that we're going in the right direction. >> can anything stop you? >> ( translated ): only death. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm scott pelley. >> i'm sharyn alfonsi. >> i'm norah o'donnell. >> i'm bill whitaker. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ♪ seresto, seresto, seresto jake... ♪ seresto, seresto, seresto whatever your dog brings home to you, it shouldn't be fleas and ticks. seresto gives your dog 8 continuous months of flea and tick protection in an easy-to-use, non-greasy collar. ♪ seresto, seresto, seresto oh no, jake.

east we never got out of the middle east i made a movie about it called w in which dick cheney the dick cheney's character have them asking what what's our exit policy says there is no exit and the truth is we haven't there is no exit to iraq we're here those five hundred thousand men in one form or another have never left the middle east so this is heartbreaking stuff if you have any sense of history. i knew it was a mistake i thought the iraq war one was a huge mistake i thought there was plenty of room to negotiate when films like that come out w for instance are at the untold history of the united states and want to even mention how as a percent in america and you pretty much denounce a lot of tropes and facts in american history i can't tell you it's easy but i think it's the most some of the most important work i've done in my life i'm very proud of those two films i paid a price for because i guess some people would you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is no center in the united states political discourse it'

east. i think the presence of tillerson will be missed in the world of lives according to russian olive tillerson was a pretty reasonable rational fellow who ran exxon which is a major international organization we may not always agree with his idealist ideological positions but he was a russian rational reasonable person who played according to rules according to systems and that's why he didn't last for long and even during his stay in the state department he was often at odds with with the president so yes i think you will be very much missed we don't know how it was going to actually conduct themselves and as the head of the state department will have to wait and see we know that is gotten along well with trump in his capacity briefs trump of remodeling and they seem to get along well at a personal level so that's probably a good sign but we don't know in terms of policy setting what this is going to mean and as to how to proceed with regard to the gulf crisis we are expecting the saudi

east and they should get out of the middle east and let regional players work out their problems here let me go to john ones of saudi arabia you had to have spare time for everyone we have to have picked let me go to john john respond to it's been said here go ahead one minute before we go to the break well just like to point out that the united states is is working with saudi arabia right now as everybody. knows in yemen and there was a recent vote in the senate and this is a tragic situation in yemen where the united states is how being the saudis bomb that country and it's causing immense human suffering the worst human to manage terry in crisis in the world so it's not just about bad things that might happen in the in the future there's a really horrible situation going on because of this leaning toward saudi arabia and yemen right now and we ought to do something to stop that war as soon as possible ok gentlemen i'm going to go to a short break here and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on trump's war cabinet state with our team. the most expensive fish in the

east but this is the middle is that we have. not only is it the syrians and iraqis were not find redraw borders, none of the outside actors are trying to redraw borders. nobody wants to redraw borders. part of the reason is it's a very violent process oftentimes at so as violent azerbaijan has been, once we forced the turks and the kurds to define exactly that light is, they will fight over it militarily if they have to, for example, and so the way to try to address this anything nadja boxes of earlier is any peace agreement is going to have to include essentially a very weak syrian state i think with a lot of different local actors playing a role in negotiating that outcome because those local actors actually control of what's going on in the ground, whether it's the people with the guns or the local governing council and those actors are going to have to be reflective of the views of the population in those areas. that sort how you try to put humpty dumpty back together again, through a federalized system, through decentraliza

still ahead on al-jazeera going global professional wrestling has its eyes set on the middle east's. natural capital the capital which makes the creative. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes bits of from opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because they see a business that pricing the planet as this time on al-jazeera. when the news breaks when people need to be heard in the struggles of market to good to me is. already there in. my brain and this story needs to be turned in just largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. and live news on air and on. campus forces joe. thanks very much and we start with football where manchester united have strengthened their hold on second place in the english premier league after beating face rivals liverp

hello there we're still seeing plenty of rain working its way across parts of the middle east the satellite picture shows up the systems very clearly we've got one spiraling its way across parts of iran that's working all the way up into kazakstan then the next one following it is making its way through parts of iraq and then the final one is making its way into parts of turkey now what i have a turkey is fizzling out so by the time we get to choose day just a good deal of cloud around not too much in the way of wet weather and the system that was a rock is also desponding so the temperatures here are rising thirty degrees will be on maximum in baghdad pretty hot for us it's for the east where there's more in the way of cloud that's still going to be lingering over parts of afghanistan or though it does eventually begin to clear away as we head through wednesday a bit further towards the south and here in doha no major changes for us over the next few days so thirty degrees should be our maximum as we head through maybe thirty one paps as we head into wednesday for the south temperatures mu