we normally see around one $111.00 millimeters of rain in the average year in riyadh so that's how dry how severe how extreme a catastrophic the drought has been and there's not too much more right in the forecast over the next couple days i'm hopeful we will gradually see some as this weather system just makes its way in across the southwest pushing over towards the bike and easing over toward the southeastern corner high pressure in charges that will tend to block things off we've got the heat gradually getting screes further east which as we go on through the next couple of days picking up in sydney as we go on through saturday dry for many as we go on through the next couple of days we are going to see the rain gradually pushing in as we go on into saturday and hopefully a little bit of wet weather then the victoria tearing. thank you for my guinea bizarre prime minister or model as a circle in bhalo has won the presidential runoff election he got 54 percent of the vote the head of his main rival and bala tags were from president jose mario voz who was eliminated in the 1st round h

diplomacy i would love to see my foreign minister to travel to the region not only to tehran but also to riyadh. for example and also to ankara to at least try to find a way not to find there or not to provide to an over reaction to a potential iranian overreaction where does that leave their relations between germany and europe with tehran. the relations between europe and iran are different than the ones of the americans and the iranians your neighbors you know that iran is playing a highly aggressive role in the whole middle east we know that iran's human rights record is disastrous but at the end of the day this is in our neighborhood we don't want. we don't want to have nukes in our neighborhood this is why we fought for a nuclear deal for for so long. what kind of retaliation do you fear from tehran there are a lot of scenarios that. and imagine iran and iranian. armed forces and american armed forces are physically very close to each other in a lot of places like afghanistan the persian gulf and iraq and living on or in syria so it's imaginable that they can hit the americans and their a

underground this time in the studio just before we get to julian assange there's a saudi media forum at the riyadh hilton on monday and i understand that you and your fellow special reporters have been talking about the case of new jane newell who is apparently detained arbitrarily another area here prison she's been there for a year what is this case about well she's a human rights activist the women's rights activist actually that has been the tent on spurious claims of smash and security but in fact she has spoken out for women's rights very vocally and she claims also to have been tortured in detention and obviously no investigations have been undertaken by saudi arabia so we are calling on saudi arabia to conduct. these investigations which are international obligations under the convention against torture which saudi arabia has actually ratified obviously this idea in government would deny there's been any torture and that indeed she is there for national security reasons we write these been ambassador on the program let's get now to another case what have you made of 60 doctors claiming jul

i don't believe that this was the case especially not after the open account between tehran and in riyadh in saudi arabia. i don't think it would have been against american interest if indeed there was going to be reparations between saudi arabia and there and iran saloon money was actually masterminding more attacks he's made mission right now was to drive the americans out of iraq so the u.s. if should a warning that no matter who attacks the united states the iranian will not be able to hide behind their proxies so what it means actually is that the conflict now he's surfacing on the table and no more deep down underground operations that the united states will tolerate it wasn't too long ago that even corporate media was celebrating in the west general salim money for his defeat of isis. which some of linked to israel after the famous pictures of netanyahu in the golan heights frankly isn't the point that iran have a nuclear weapon this is a. as a nation wouldn't have taken place and the fact that that's the reason as a deterrent that israel has nuclear weapons which apparently that w

multibillion dollar relationship seems to take priority over the war in yemen human rights and other concerns riyadh denies any wrongdoing however the united nations once the usa to conduct its own investigation to get to the bottom of what actually happened however if the killing of jamal khashoggi has shown us anything it's that the relationship with the monarchy is worth more than any allegations. r.t. new york for years the. says it will take more than a killing on a phone hacked spoil u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was a. washington post he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it and that means not putting america's interests 1st but putting israel's and saudis the saudi arabian interest 1st in the

i don't believe that this was the case especially not after the open account between tehran and in riyadh in saudi arabia. i don't think it would have been against american interest if indeed there was going to be reparations between the saudi arabia and there and iran saloon money was actually masterminding more attacks he's made mission right now we're.

multi-billion dollar relationship seems to take priority over the war in yemen human rights and other concerns riyadh denies any wrongdoing however the united nations once the usa to conduct its own investigation to get to the bottom of what actually happened however if the killing of jamal khashoggi has shown us anything it's that the relationship with the monarchy is worth more than any allegations caleb mop and r.t. new york. well former u.s. diplomat says it's going to take more than a killing and a phone hack to pull they's us out when ations i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was were washing clothes he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it and that means up winning america's interests 1st but putting israel's in saudis t

detailed information on the judicial oversight and control exercised by judges of a person's placed in riyadh facilities following charges under the counter terrorism law let me make a bet with you this request is never going to be answered by. this i hope with my help or with other peoples help you can do an interview in jail i can help you to read some of these you know are saying my question it's not because i failed jane is not going north of this because there's no judicial oversight over the 1000000 or so we get in detention most of the inmates have no the been charged with not convicted of any crime nor being given any chance to challenge their incarceration . and that's fair and you're happy with all that no i think you miss called the situation radicalization is a process at different stages of radicalization you need to come up with strategies to deal radicalize the population including for example what i emphasized for the red. caught denying any family is misbehavior of depriving their kids the right to go to school thanks to leaked documents and despite considerable attempts at s

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia. greek islanders are protesting against the influx of migrants that's very much more after a short break this is art international. but we've also discovered that there are genes in our bodies that protect us from a gene we call these longevity genes and there's a set of genes that we work on in my lab at harvard called the search and for those to work effectively to slow aging and prevent us from getting diseases they need a molecule called an 18. what about this is our international now greek islanders went on strike on wednesday in protest against of the influx of migrants and thousands of locals

i don't believe that this was the case especially not after the open account between tehran and in riyadh in saudi arabia. i don't think it would have been against american interest if indeed there was going to be reparations between the saudi arabia in there and iran saloon money was actually masterminding more attacks he's made mission right now was to drive the americans out of iraq so the u.s. if should a warning that no matter who attacks the united states the iranian will not be able to hide behind their proxies so what it means actually is that the conflict now he's surfacing on the table and no more deep down underground operations that the united states will tolerate it wasn't too long ago that even corporate media was celebrating in the west general salute money for his defeat of isis day which some of linked to israel after the famous pictures of netanyahu in the golan heights frankly isn't the point that if iran had a nuclear weapon this is as a nation we. have taken place and the fact that that's the reason as a deterrent that israel has nuclear weapons which apparently that

multi-billion dollar relationship seems to take priority over the war in yemen human rights and other concerns riyadh denies any wrongdoing however the united nations once the usa to conduct its own investigation to get to the bottom of what actually happened however if the killing of jamal khashoggi has shown us anything it's that the relationship with the monarchy is worth more than any allegations. r.t. new york a former u.s. diplomat says it will take more than a killing out of phone hacking to spoil the relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the reality he was a. washington post he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it and that means up putting america's interests 1st but putting israel's and saudis the saudi arabian interests wors

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trump's 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. a diplomat jim johnson says it will take more than a killing and a phone hack to spoil u.s. and saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't ma

that the more of these violence they face the more of an issue in a fight if they were faced in return riyadh in an economy to grow says everybody's going to get hungry everybody's going to need to do this sooner i don't have to convince anybody about what's happening to do it's clear what's happening who can get a hold of their money in the banks we've lost everything joy funnily everything this is with 5000 years of this through the there is an amazing country that they took everything we have nothing left this is our only option is to go down on the streets and violence we have to use violence we'll fight being before the year corrupted government take a look at how all this developed nationwide protests began in october against high living costs for public services and government corruption by the end of the month prime minister saad hariri had resigned but stayed on in a caretaker role reforms were proposed and a new prime minister considered but several nominees were forced to drop out and prime minister designate haas on the yacht was accepted and tried to form a cabinet but that faile

saudi arabia and iran there was no real cover mation of any law planned by soleimani of coming from riyadh are you going to meet your saudi counterparts maybe discuss it what is certain is that he. had a message from the government of iraq iran through the government of iraq and that has been confirmed by the prime minister of iraq iraq but i think that's not that important the important seeing is that he was an official leader an official commander of this law making public of the iran and assessing ating. the representative of a sovereign nation insults of a cowardly manner is something beyond imagination and i think by that author nation the united states has already served the that reclines distinguished from better varies them from civilized rules of engagement he was assassinated. a long we of 4 of his iranian colleagues plus and number of iraqi highly revered commanders so that means that the iraqi trust to americans was betrayed because the american forces are supposed to be protecting iraq against. other extremist forces but it is a sad irony that the key anti isis fighters are as

s motor bike rider paolo downs all of us has died after a crash during sunday's 7 stage i was there riyadh saudi arabia the 40 year old suffered the fatal accident after riding 276 kilometers on that day. comes all of us was unconscious when that it's a arrived at the scene. the 2013 cross country rallies world champion was pronounced dead after being taken to hospital. well the film frozen has officially become the most financially successful animated feature of all time frozen 2 has already taken in some $1300000000.00 since its november release but as the sales registers ring at disney frozen success is creating some serious problems for a small town in austria. in frozen the kingdom of erin dell is home to snow queen elsa and her sister ana. karen dell is a place you won't find on any map or will you can tell she stopped safe. rumors are coursing through social media that erin dell is based on this place the village of hushed up in the austrian alps great advertisement for the town's tourism industry except stud is already up to its eyeballs in tourists 10 years ago the village only go

multi-billion dollar relationship seems to take priority over the war in yemen human rights and other concerns riyadh denies any wrongdoing however the united nations once the usa to conduct its own investigation to get to the bottom of what actually happened however if the killing of jamal khashoggi has shown us anything it's that the relationship with the monarchy is worth more than any allegations. r.t. new york former u.s. diplomat says it will take more than a killing and a phone hack to spoil u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was a. washington post he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it and that means not putting america's interests 1st but putting israel's and saudis the saudi arabian interest 1s

killing were cleared of charges due to insufficient evidence the incident strained relations between riyadh and many of its western allies in germany for example as well as several other european states imposed bans a weapon sales to saudi arabia following the larger washington refused to take action however with president donald trump stating publicly that he didn't want to lose the gulf kingdom's business. i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending $110000000000.00 on military equipment and on things that create jobs like others for this country former u.s. diplomat jim jot just says it's going to take a lot more than a kenning and a phone hack to spoil u.s. saudi relations i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was a. washington post he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they

what is being alleged so far or so is malware basically and ok now how has riyadh reacted how is saudi arabia reacted to these are they trying to dismiss the allegations and the u.s. embassy embassies or the sound embassy in the u.s. has tweeted recent media reports that suggest the kingdom is behind the hacking of jeff bezos his phone. and the call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out where u.n. experts have now reacted and said yes we do need there to be an investigation we want there to be one carried out by the u.s. and they have cited this that the saudi prince is possible involvement with that tax so it is has become very serious a much bigger obviously than saudi arabia had ever wanted this to be exported thank you so much. this is it over here is these are top stories. european commission president vonder liar has delivered a special address at the world economic forum in davos she laid out the environmental priorities and touched on concerns over failing economic growth. the republican controlled u.s. senate has finalized the ground rules

between saudi arabia and iran there was no real cover mation of any law planned by sulaimani coming from riyadh you're going to meet your saudi counterparts maybe discuss it what is certain is that he. had a message from the government of iraq iran through the government of iraq and that has been confirmed by the prime minister of iraq iraq but i think that's not that important the important thing is that he was an official lead there an official commander of this love making public of iran and assessing ating. the representative of a sovereign nation insults of a cowardly manner is something beyond imagination and i think by that i thought the nation the united states has already surpassed the reclined distinguished from better varies them from civilized rules of engagement he was a $38.00 it along we of 4 of his iranian colleagues plus and number of our iraqi highly revered commanders so that means that the iraqi trust to americans was betrayed because the american forces are supposed to be protecting iraq against. our their extremist forces but it is a sad irony that the key anti isis fighte

5 years the whole foreign policy international foreign policy philosophy has returned to a sort of riyadh politic to the taking care of the we realize asian of physical job graphical economic own interests mrs merkel clearly understood but she's been allowing this to go too far because occupying the moral grounds is nice but if you have no tools in your hand to get any more of mileage on the road you are not not really in a favorite position. that camera man who's contributed to work in iraq city was shot dead on friday his colleague a reporter from a local news agency was killed in the attack on cross that davis' body. there's only about 2 reporters one correspondent for a local t.v. channel his name is ahmed abdul some odd and camera man who also contributed to our . gali both of the reporters were shot dead in their in their car by unknown gunmen as they were leaving the site of the protests in basra group order earlier that there are protests going on all across iraq and of course basra is just one of those places local reports suggest a reporter. from a gunshot wounds to the head rig

wife stayed with friends brian wanted to go it alone then the fire came. our mobile looking beyond riyadh who are and everything was on for the track to be a mia we all highway going and all the trees or envoy everyone of the wood and or the social her his neighbors fled justin time the house now in ruins brian narrowly made it out alive but run re of they a put the foret wrought in the fence loyal and then a can rain the from bread a real the front and then i had a far in the veranda the up bore the truck to rail a put that a up and your sheesh back affords all know it and then you just really had a cake begad and 8 you didn't have told to to be scattering got that you had the concentrate on what you would do on brian's other neighbor phil also stayed behind it to defended their homes signed by signed with now i think the highest one of the ol their they really i mean in my for it still we mean i've drawn it counting l. him that's reuther that did never taught to do much at all the grit it's a now we don't there for each other just might your roofs go still kick him the fire burned every

i don't believe that this was the case especially not after the open account between tehran and in riyadh in saudi arabia. i don't think it would have been against american interest if indeed there was going to be reparations or between saudi arabia in there and iran saloon money was actually masterminding more attacks he's made mission right now was to drive the americans out of iraq so the u.s. if should a warning that no matter who attacks the united states the iranian will not be able to hide behind their proxies so what it means actually is that the conflicts now he's surfacing on the table and no more deep down underground operations that the united states will tolerate it wasn't too long ago that even corporate media was celebrating in the west general silly money for his defeat of isis day which some of linked to israel after the famous pictures of netanyahu in the golan heights frankly isn't the point that if iran had a nuclear weapon this is as a nation wouldn't have taken place and the fact that that's the reason as a deterrent that israel has nuclear weapons which apparently n

between saudi arabia and iran there was no real cover mation of any law planned by sulaimani coming from riyadh are you going to meet your saudi counterparts maybe discuss it what is certain is that he. had a message from the government of iraq iran through the government of iraq and that has been confirmed by the prime minister of iraq iraq but i think that's not that important the important thing is that he was an official lead there an official commander of this republic of iran and assessing a thing or the representative of a sovereign nation insults of a cowardly manner is something beyond imagination and i think by that author nation the united states has already surpassed the river lines distinguished from better buried them from civilized rules of engagement he was a $38.00 it along we of 4 of his iranian colleagues plus and number of our iraqi highly revered commanders so that means that the iraqi trust to americans was betrayed because the american forces are supposed to be protecting iraq against. other extremist forces but it is a sad irony that the key anti isis fighters are assass

i don't believe that this was the case especially not after the open account between tehran and in riyadh in saudi arabia. i don't think it would have been against american interest if indeed there was going to be reparations between saudi arabia and there and iran saloon money was actually masterminding more attacks he's made mission right now was to drive the americans out of iraq so the u.s. have issued a warning that no matter who attacks the united states the iranian will not be able to hide behind their proxies so what it means actually is that the conflict now he's surfacing on the table and no more deep down underground operations that the united states will tolerate it wasn't too long ago that even corporate media was celebrating in the west general saloon money for his defeat of isis. which some of linked to israel after the famous pictures of netanyahu in the golan heights frankly isn't the point that if iran had a nuclear weapon this is as a nation wouldn't have taken place and the fact that that's the reason as a deterrent that israel has nuclear weapons which apparently neta

the phone of amazon and washington post on a jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man and riyadh saudi after the murder of journalist marcus o.-g. by saudi agents in 2018 the u.n. special report says the alleged to hack it was carried out to influence newspapers reporting on saudi arabia. police. the crime trend and sang.

what is being alleged so far are so is malware basically and ok now how has riyadh reacted how is saudi arabia reacted to these alamo they've tried to dismiss the allegations and the u.s. embassy embassies at the sound embassy in the u.s. has tweeted recent media reports that suggest the kingdom is a high end hacking of jeff bezos his phone. call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out why u.n. experts have now reacted and said yes we do need to be an investigation we want that to be one carried out by the u.s. and they have cited this that the saudi princes possible involvement with that tax so it is has become very serious a much bigger obviously than saudi arabia had ever wanted this to be exported thank you so much in recent weeks australia has been battling some of the worst bush fires in living memory 100000 square kilometers of land have been scorched and scientists say part of the country's landscape has been permanently damaged and also its biodiversity images of the devastation have moved people around the world including a young boy in polan

between saudi arabia and iran there was no real cover mation of any law planned by sulaimani coming from riyadh are you going to meet your saudi counterparts maybe discuss it what is certain is that he. had a message from the government of iraq iran through the government of iraq and that has been confirmed by the prime minister of iraq iraq but i think that's not that important the important thing is that he was an official leader an official commander of this law making public of iran and assessing eating. the representative of a sovereign nation inside of a cowardly manner is something beyond imagination and i think by that i thought initially the united states has already surpassed the reclined distinguished from better varies them from civilized rules of engagement he was a $38.00 it along we of 4 of his iranian colleagues plus and number of our iraqi highly revered commanders so that means that the iraqi trust to americans was betrayed because the american forces are supposed to be protecting iraq against. other extremist forces but it is a sad irony that the key anti isis fighters are as

the incident strained relations between riyadh and many of its western allies in germany as well as several other european states impose bans on weapons sales to saudi arabia following lada washington refused to take action to have a president donald trump stating publicly that he didn't want to lose the gulf kingdom's business i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending $110000000000.00 on military what the. things that create jobs like jobs and others for this country former u.s. diplomat jim job just says it's going to take more than a killing on a phone hacked to spoil u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about his killing because after all he was part of the nobility he was a. washington post he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. diplomat jim says it will take more than a killing and a phone hack to spoil u.s. and saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the building he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't make any dif

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. a diplomat jim johnson says it will take more than a killing and a phone hacker to spoil u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the building he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom tromps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia will be keeping a close eye on the outcome of this one kill a month and live in new york for us thank you. the psychology of the architect of the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques post $911.00 is almost polar jessica his rule in any torture program the admission came during a military tribunals which is preparing a trial against the self-proclaimed muster mind on 4 others of the attacks on new york and washington in 2000 and. whatever personal consequences i would live with i believe there was a genuine threat of an imminent attack i thought my moral obligation to protect american lives outwei

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trump's 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia. well former u.s. diplomat jim gentry's sais it will take more than a killing on the phone to spoil u.s. saudi relations i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people are had a little momentary about. because after all he was part of the reality he was. arguing he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't make any differen

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia a former u.s. diplomat jim jefferies says' it will take more than a killing on the phone to spoil the u.s. saudi relations. i don't think anything is going to break anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people had a little momentary loss about killing because after all he was part of the building he was. walking close he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't they couldn't care less that saudi arabia has shown watering people in yemen in fact we're helping them do it it doesn't m

to riyadh? >> look, i mean, the rhetoric has been escalating from the iranians and from the americans. both telling each other look don't do anything silly we don't want to go to war here. i think in a way they're kind of united in the rhetoric saying we can hit you hard, we can do some serious damage to the other side, but we don't want war. we don't want to escalate. at the same time, i don't think anybody expects iranians not to, for example, ask their proxies, people they're allied with in lebanon and iraq and other places, to strike at u.s. assets. but there the iranians at least have the deniability saying this is not us. and the americans as well. so the idea is to avoid an open war, to avoid this kind of action. this is iran saying we've done our best. you attacked us openly we attacked you openly and this should be it. >> thank you so much. joining us for the hour is peter, global equities economist. great to see you. is the market reaction what you would expect based on what we know so

johnson support for donald trump's assassination of an iranian soldier allegedly promoting peace between riyadh and tack raanan which provoked iran into bombing u.s. installations in iraq this week coming up on the show the beginning of the end for the us empire as u.s. president donald trump backed down from responding to arguably the 1st sovereign state attack of its kind on u.s. assets since world war 2 we speak to the iranian ambassador to the u.n. in geneva about how iran can now expel the united states from the middle east and ahead of the question 2 of hollywood's award season is the u.s. state sponsor of harassment that drove jean seberg to head death alive and well in hollywood we ask the director of a new film about the legendary actor starring ses our award winner kristen stewart all the same all coming up in today's going underground 1st to iran's retaliation for donald trump's assassination of iranian soldier got some silly money who saved countless nato nation lives by defeating isis diana on wednesday it felt a lame duck u.k. labor leader jeremy called in to answer prime minister

administration in particular has embraced the saudi kingdom trumps 1st international trip after all was to riyadh to meet with the saudi monarchy so it appears that when issues like human rights and the killing of jamal khashoggi or the war in yemen come up the united states seems to prioritize its friendship with saudi arabia over other issues so perhaps this new hacking will be another incident that will that will raise some concerns but many have observed that the usa seems pretty loyal to saudi arabia former u.s. diplomat john trust says it will take more than a killing and a phone hack to spoil u.s. and saudi relations i don't think anything is going to break or anything of the foreseeable on the horizon is going to break these close ties with saudi arabia. you know people are had a little momentary loss about. because after all he was part of that he was a local market he was involved with the cia so this was a terrible terrible thing just like however they don't make wouldn't care less that saudi arabia is slaughtering people in yemen and in fact we're helping them doing. it doesn't make a

the beginning of december many families are now packing their belongings and leaving the city over riyadh but they don't know where they can go that safe victoria gates in the. polls still ahead here on al-jazeera they have gone to extraordinary lengths to put a muzzle on john bolton democrats keep up the pressure adult from some peach with trial as they see. to hear from a key witness. also an unwanted distinction how a small town named mark by donald trump as the capital of palestine is pushing against his plan those stories after the break. hello again it's good to have you back well here across japan we are still watching the area of low pressure over kaido bring a lot of snow across much of the area you can see the clouds right there swirling over sapporo the system is quite slow and moving out of the area so we were going to be stealing some more snow across much of the region for sapporo for down towards sendai it could be a mix of rain and snow as well temperatures into the single digits there a little further to the south though for tokyo it is going to be about 12 degrees by the

man not to be for the game but that was ok but a gave have to her is backed by paris abu dhabi cairo riyadh france obviously also backing the g.n.a.t. trump criticizing a turkish agreement over oil between. government and national accord government saying it was unhelpful and not sure that means trump is going to come to the rescue what is the green resistance there has been as you just mentioned the media intellectuals and the rest of it it is not mentioned in the context of libya inside libya all libyans are aware of korean persistence we are everywhere we are there many we are the majority even our any inside the country admit to that and actually they have been for years not saying it publicly they know any sure political such of any transparent truly genuine democratic system will lead to libya being green again i agree it is not does not mean that we are going to own it all government for ourselves it means we are going to liberate it from the foreign and because it is an international pitch up against the green resistance we decided many of us to enjoy in the vacant which is the liby

multi-billion dollar relationship seems to take priority over the war in yemen human rights and other concerns riyadh denies any wrongdoing however the united nations once the usa to conduct its own investigation to get to the bottom of what actually happened however if the killing of jamal khashoggi has shown us anything it's that the relationship with the monarchy is worth more than any allegations. r.t. new york well that's how its own looking for now a website on always has more to tell us stories such as get out have a good day. operations understand that the cost of doing business is buying and building support in washington d.c. and that includes staffing up with former members of congress put them on your payroll you want to hire a chief of staff from a powerful senator or a committee. member get their chief of staff put them on your payroll as a lobbyist this is what washington does on a bipartisan basis in fact i think it's the only point of true bipartisanship in d.c. is corporate influence over governor. from the. people why is the keep the slow force new the focus on the so do you still.

for costa to say riyadh still 16 and dubai's about 20 asked pretty typical on the low side of typical for this time the year there is cloud but it's quite high cloud running across the sahara so don't expect much from it a little bit or a might be possible in libya the breeze the standard breeze the northeast is running across sudan all the way west through the beyond and that's a dusty breeze not especially strong moment in northern libya that circulation which formed in eastern tennessee is moving eastwards that's going to be a wet period i suspect to tropical after a few showers in kenya but the concentration of rain is tom the it's a bit further sasnett still there angola namibia and eastwards. in a 2 part series. observes the lives of 2 children. over 20 years. insights into circumstances that shape lives. in a rapidly changing. 20 years it. starts with blood and land to story on how to 0. the. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera qatar is amir is calling for a dialogue to diffuse regional tension and what he called a critical time iran's government is facing growing anger o

normally this time the year which means the high temperature in kuwait is 80 and there was only 19 riyadh doesn't even make a fact now the breeze will ease so we can add one degree this is come monday and the rain carries on through pakistan towards northern india where it's still falling otherwise it remains a dry picture scientology druther so a few showers are coming to the horn of africa or dancer kenya and beyond that but this isn't the wet term the you just see you see a few showers building and like the tear victoria tends to generate orange but there was a big thunderstorm in the early morning but here's the general rash of light is showers which will see cheering sunday and probably monday which do extend up in towards somalia and kenya this is not the heavy rain time of the year old say the heavy rain should be at least to some degree further south in angola they are congo to some degree namibia botswana and places east you should see showers developing every day we've had that flooding recently in madagascar but don't think that will be repeated. for the congolese the journey t

protests in mid october unemployment was rising on the lebanese a local currency the lira was losing value riyadh in an economy can grow i says everybody's going to get hungry to everybody's going to give did me do this sooner if i don't have to convince anybody are both what's happening to do it's clear to what's happening who can get a hold of the their money in the banks we lost the recent job fun only ever thing this is the country with 5 balls indians this through the it is an amazing country it they took everything who have nothing left this is a was our only option is to go down on the streets by now vigeland so we have to use violence were off i think a 40 year career up good government there is anger at banks which imposed caps on good troubles there is a shortage of dollars anti-riot police had been using excessive amounts of tear gas to disperse the crowd but anti establishment protesters are defiance the wondered were in the dozens bows protesters and security forces were taken to hospitals there is a political vacuum many lebanese are growing impatient with politicians who are refusi

hacking the phone of washington post boss jeff bezos relations between the world's richest man and riyadh soured after the murder of jamal khashoggi saudi journalist was a regular contributor to the washington post which is owned by bezos tickler gage reports. 15 months after the murder of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the fallout continues jeff bezos the boss of the world's largest online shop amazon also owns the washington post the newspaper khashoggi wrote for he's now at the center of a hacking probe un human rights experts including agnes kalmadi who investigated murder say they've looked at forensic analysis that points to dart of being stolen from basal says foreign in 20 i 18 that happened after bass also received whatsapp messages from the personal account of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some on possibly the experts say to try and influence articles in the washington post the guinea shola expert conduct an. investigation concluded reason medium to or high certainty that the show also of the hacking was a videophile send to me stories. and accou

embassy in riyadh president trump very much had been ghazi on his mind and how much he criticized obama and hillary clinton as secretary of state for not acting firmly and he felt now is the time for him to take bold action now let me just add though that of course the impeachment is going to play into every decision president trump will make going forward it will be an element there i sort of doubt that he did this only because of the impeachment but let's face it that's going to be very much it really is very night and point about iraq and the solvency of iraq america's stance and position in iraq we are there today not through a status of forces agreement but between an exchange of letters letters in the presence of the united states and the prime minister is that fragile now and in the end are american interests served or not served if we have to withdraw from iraq well so 1st of all i mean that's enough. there element that one wonders whether the president and the secretaries of state and defense thought about that i thought about the fact that they were doing this in iraq and what