and saudi arabia. is collateral damage really but i think it falls to within a move region or kind of race to control you know these particular region here because for obvious reason commercial reasons military reasons and of course you know this is the man dab and the fact that you know it's the world or root and it's very important and whoever will control it will control not the fate of the world but we have quite heavy on international relations will go into what's happening within the saudi led coalition the moment but i want to put the same question to you and risk rig do you view the presence of iraq two soldiers in. as an occupation and also in the long run i mean do you ease a rich country but relatively small militarily not very strong is it sustainable. well i mean is the entire strategy of the iraqis sustainable at the moment i think they're punching way above their weight they have tried to translate their soft power into increasingly into hard power we have to say the iraqi military is pr

and saudi arabia. is collateral damage really but i think it falls to within a move region or kind of race to control you know these particular region here because for obvious reason commercial reasons military reasons and of course you know this is the man died and the fact that you know it's the world or root and it's very important and whoever will control it will control not the fate of the world but we have quite heavy on international relations will go into what's happening within the saudi led coalition the moment but i want to put the same question to you and risk rig do you view the presence of iraq two soldiers in. as an occupation and also in the long run i mean do you ease a rich country but relatively small militarily not very strong is it sustainable. well i mean is the entire strategy of the iraqis sustainable at the moment i think they're punching way above their weight they have tried to translate their soft power into increasingly into hard power we have to say the iraqi military is p

their interest in yemen at the expense of the saudis which in twenty fifteen twenty sixteen the saudis were ok that the iraqis were pursuing their own national interest as long as they were serving the overall coalition interests where we stand today it seems that this the iraqis of achieve their objective in the south and they are not that inclined to help on the massive scale or the saudis out as they might have done in earlier years and that really puts into question this saudi led coalition many would argue it hasn't achieved much so far in the into conflict in yemen and where is it going from there so now you have to choose major countries participating in that coalition catherine saudi is still trying to support president had he the u.s. he seems to have dropped him basically. having your own troops. sort of keeping hostage for a while or not allowing a prime minister of a country to leave an island is quite a bold move so what's how will all of this impact the main conflict that is going on in the mainland. but i think it's going to definitely have a great impact in those towns

arabia so basically what will fix the image of saudi arabia is. back to the question asked at the outset why now there's really no clear answer to the p.r. led charm offensive and the m.b.'s interviews were targeted at the international media and foreign politicians the arrest of the activists and the discourse a chilling message that that sent were designed primarily for domestic consumption if that created a few unflattering headlines in the global media then so be it the image that the crown prince projects at home power above all else is the priority that's always been the way in the house of saud and for all the talk of reform and the generational changing of the guard in riyadh it hasn't changed. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers johannah who's joe a series of developments coming out of egypt over the past few days intensifying the pressure on journalists and bloggers there give us a rundown there are two main developments richard first there's a story that we have been following f

and rising unemployment in saudi arabia is raising concerns as m.b.'s crown crown prince mohammed bin solomon is seeking to. overhaul the king to the heart of me here with the latest is r t correspondent who joins us from new york thanks for being with us i was really surprised to learn that the unemployment rate in saudi arabia was almost thirteen percent last year just seems crazy and a big pretty big problem for m.b.a.'s what's the latest. well the kingdom of saudi arabia is having a little bit of an identity crisis right now because essentially sense way back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight when oil was discovered in the arabian peninsula the house of saudi has had a pretty clear relationship with the rest of the world namely they've been kind of vassals overseeing the extraction of their natural resources and selling them on the global market other way the saudi economy is set up at senator around aramco which is their state run oil company that center essential functions as kind of a middleman for exxon mobil b.p. shell other western oi

and rising unemployment in saudi arabia is raising concerns as m.b.'s crown prince mohammed bin solomon is seeking to overhaul the kingdom's autonomy here with the latest is r t correspondent caleb mop and he joins us from new york thanks for being with us i was really surprised to learn that the unemployment rate in saudi arabia was almost thirteen percent last year just seems crazy and a big pretty big problem for m.b.a.'s what's the latest. well the kingdom of saudi arabia is having a little bit of an identity crisis right now because essentially sense way back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight when oil was discovered in the arabian peninsula the house of saudi has had a pretty clear relationship with the rest of the world namely they've been kind of vassals overseeing the extraction of their natural resources and selling them on the global market either way the saudi economy is set up at senator around aramco which is their state run oil company that center essential functions as kind of a middleman for exxon mobil b.p. shell other western

lot of the among saudi citizens a lot of them are shia muslims and before the u.s. congress the way shia muslims are treated in saudi arabia has been described as the words religious apartheid a lot of times their rights to conduct routine religious services are violated and they have some long. standing grievances against the saudi government which is historically you know this is a sunni wahhabi government strong religious differences there now it's also important to point out that in saudi arabia they have over nine million guest workers these are workers from other parts of the world who come to saudi arabia and they they work in saudi arabia they send some money home but the way that these guest workers have been treated in saudi arabia has been widely condemned by groups like human rights watch and other international watchdogs the you know these guest workers they work for far far lower wages than saudi citizens do and the conditions that they work under are quite bad now the crown prince solomon is trying to change the way the economy is set up he's arguing

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago on maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for ne

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negot

saudi arabia where several women's rights protests with the rest. of what i thought in the speech on trade and accusing. women's rights leaders getting ready women in this. last play by taking us back. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week saudi arabia jails women's rights activists in the media ask is the crown prince driving real change or hitting the brakes one journalist arrested another one sentenced egypt keeps tightening the screws on the news media in mexico and government advertising those ads keep some media outlets afloat but that comes at a price and read my lips badly britain's royal wedding reworded if you wore a hot dog and you got a hot dog why put almost dome. tracking developments in the middle east one keeps coming across the increasingly assertive hand of saudi arabia and crown prince mohammed bin salma there's the war in yemen the blockade of qatar the jostling with iran and last year's palace coup that left the prince they call m.b.'s in control of ever

in quite a difficult position because saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alliance are seen as the cornerstone of this attitude towards the gulf and december if they crystallize that into a coherent doctrine so now these tensions are yemen now they've exploded saudi arabia needs to mitigate the damage and it entered. missions are all mode and he said convince the u.a.e. that act unilaterally by supporting the south humanities and then by supporting any other groups that oppose how the weather's been so hot or elsewhere in the country is just arming and emboldening the houdinis an iranian backed forces so the saudi arabians first of all want to how dialogue and. sense of unity and consensus about who their real big enemy is and why they have to say united to confront that as secondly i think that saudi arabia will ferment any kind of pro had the demonstrations they are the ones you've been seeing in psychiatrist against the military occupation the in this you hear the costs of if you're going to unilaterally inviolate human sovereignty in this way are too hi

lot of the among saudi citizens a lot of them are shia muslims and before the u.s. congress the way shia muslims are treated in saudi arabia has been described with the words religious apartheid a lot of times their rights to conduct routine religious services are violated and they have some long. standing grievances against the saudi government which is historically you know this is a sunni wahhabi government strong religious differences there now it's also important to point out that in saudi arabia they have over nine million guest workers these are workers from other parts of the world who come to saudi arabia and they they work in saudi arabia they send some money home but the way that these guest workers have been treated in saudi arabia has been widely condemned by groups like human rights watch and other international watchdogs the you know these guest workers they work for far far lower wages than saudi citizens do and the conditions that they work under a quite bad now the crown prince solomon is trying to change the way the economy is set up he's arguing

that are oil countries why is saudi arabia so it's why we saw in bed with the saudis before i answered i want to add one thing to this important list that you just gave us and that is and this is something that almost no americans know and that is that the saudi government provides all of the korans in the u.s. prison systems all of them and their english translations which means that aren't real korans because the qur'an a muslim believes that the koran can only be read in arabic because arabic is the language that god spoke so this is a translation but it's a wahhabi translation it's a radicalized translation and it's those qur'an that are in american prisons and you know a lot of people convert to islam in prison but the islam that they are converting to without them even realising it is a fundamentalists. well harvey strain of islam so why are we friends with the saudis. we've been in bed with the saudis since the roosevelt administration and we have what we like to call a special relationship i've never believed in the special relationship i think what it comes down to is the saud

counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week why saudi arabia needs foreign cash to forge a post or oil economy. also this week the first post brags it a new budget a cup of coffee a day is all it costs it's citizens according to the commission but new funding rules are making some members very unhappy. plus russia and iran want it blocked but millions of internet users love it will take a look at the messaging app and telegram. brand new mega-cities allowing women to drive foreign run cinema as the oil rich kingdom of saudi arabia is doing everything it can to convince the world that it's serious about change its on a charm offensive promoting itself as an international investment destination trying to lure foreign money to help it create a new economy to prevent future instability crown prince mohammed bin solomons economic reforms are all about breaking the kingdom's reliance on oil on wednesday the i.m.f. said riyadh breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel brant is currently trading

business and economics this week why saudi arabia needs foreign cash to forge a post oil economy. also this week the first post brags it a new budget a cup of coffee a day is all it costs it's citizens according to the commission but new funding rules are making some members very unhappy. plus russia and iran want it blocked but millions of internet users love it will take a look at the messaging app and telegram. brand new mega-cities allowing women to drive foreign run cinema as the oil rich kingdom of saudi arabia is doing everything it can to convince the world that it's serious about change its on a charm offensive promoting itself as an international investment destination trying to lure foreign money to help it create a new economy to prevent future instability crown prince mohammed bin some months economic reforms are all about breaking the kingdom's reliance on oil on wednesday the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel brant is currently trading down around seventy four dollars a bow and although

says middle east department headers or said the focus in saudi needs to remain on economic and social reform i think the fact that we are currently witnessing any coverage globally and in the region and the fact that oil price is going up it shouldn't at any point in time considered as a way for them to relax effort and to be complacent or levels are still too low to balance the books the twenty eighteen budget deficit is predicted to come in to around fifty two billion dollars so the plan is to raise cash through the sale of state assets like saudi aramco it's tipped to be the largest i.p.o. in history when it lists of five percent stake on the saudi stock market attracting foreign investment is key here but around ko hasn't opened up the books and there's a risk that because of its size it would cost the stock market to move in tandem with the oil prices and that's despite the goal to diversify away from crude saudi arabia also has its two hundred fifty billion dollars sovereign wealth fund that money is being put into everything from us official intelligence to robotics but those k

arabia so basically what will fix the image of saudi arabia is. back to the question asked at the outset why now there's really no clear answer to the p.r. led charm offensive and the m.b.'s interviews were targeted at the international media and foreign politicians the arrest of the activists and the discourse a chilling message that that sent were designed primarily for domestic consumption if that created a few unflattering headlines in the global media then so be it the image that the crown prince projects at home power above all else is the priority that's always been the way in the house of saud and for all the talk of reform and the generational change of the guard in riyadh it hasn't changed. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers joanna who's joe a series of developments coming out of egypt over the past few days intensifying the pressure on journalists and bloggers there give us a rundown there are two main developments richard first there is a story that we have been following for

in quite a difficult position because saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alliance are seen as the cornerstone of their sanity towards the gulf and december if they crystallize that into a coherent doctrine so now these tensions are yemen now they've exploded saudi arabia anything mitigate the damage and it entered. and he convinced the u.a.e. they act unilaterally by supporting the south humanities and then by supporting any other groups that oppose had the weather been so hot or elsewhere in the country just arming and emboldening the houdinis and iranian backed forces so the saudi arabians first of all why do how dialogue and. sense of unity and consensus about who their real big enemy is and why they have to stay united to confront that and secondly i think that saudi arabia will for meant any kind of pro had to demonstrations like the ones we've been seeing in psychiatry against the military occupation the miss usa he the costs of if you're going to unilaterally inviolate a human sovereignty in this way are too high and that they must cissie the course

in quite a difficult position because saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alliance are seen as the cornerstone of their saudi towards the gulf and december if they crystallize that into a coherent doctrine so now these tensions are yemen now they've exploded saudi arabia needs to mitigate the damage and it entered. missions are all mode and he said convince the u.a.e. the act unilaterally by supporting the south humanities and then by supporting any other groups that oppose how the weather's been so hot or elsewhere in the country is just arming and emboldening the houdinis an iranian backed forces so the saudi arabians first of all want to how dialogue and. sense of unity consensus about who their real the enemy is and why they have to stay united to confront that and secondly i think that saudi arabia will for meant any kind of pro had the demonstrations they the ones we've been seeing in psychiatrist against the military occupation the in this you hear the costs of if you're going to unilaterally inviolate human sovereignty in this way are too high and t

and rising unemployment in saudi arabia is raising concerns as m.b.'s crown crown prince mohammed bin solomon is seeking to overhaul the kingdom's autonomy here with the latest is r t correspondent philip martin who joins us from new york thanks for being with us i was really surprised to learn that the unemployment rate in saudi arabia was almost thirteen percent last year just seems crazy and a big pretty big problem for m.b.a.'s what are the latest. well the kingdom of saudi arabia is having a little bit of an identity crisis right now because essentially sense way back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight when oil was discovered in the arabian peninsula the house of saudi has had a pretty clear relationship with the rest of the world namely they've been kind of vassals overseeing the extraction of their natural resources and selling them on the global market other way the saudi economy is set up at senator around aramco which is their state run oil company that center essential functions as committal man for exxon mobil b.p. shell other wester

that are oil countries why is saudi arabia so it's why we saw in bed with the saudis before i answered i want to add one thing to this important list that you just gave us and that is and this is something that almost no americans know and that is that the saudi government provides all of the korans in the u.s. prison systems. right all of them and they're english translations which means that they aren't real korans because the qur'an a muslim believes that the koran can only be read in arabic because arabic is the language that god spoke so this is a translation but it's a will have a translation it's a radicalized translation and it's those qur'an that are in american prisons and you know a lot of people convert to islam in prison but the islam that they are converting to without them even realising it is a fundamentalist sunni wahhabi strain of islam so why are we friends with the saudis. we've been in bed with the saudis since the roosevelt administration and we have what we like to call a special relationship i've never believed in the special relationship i think what it comes d

are concerned it's known that saudis back sunni candidates the saudis have backed saad hariri and his father in the past but this time around there's a bit of a doubt whether saudi arabia's who him to continue to back saddam he after the elections it all depends on what the result of the elections is going to be remember i earlier mentioned there are several contenders giving competition to solidarity and it remains to be seen what does ofter the results come out remember levanon is a very important it's a tiny country but a very important country when it comes to the battle over dominance over these wall between saudi arabia and iran did of his and show her parting for us from beirut thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan has killed at least twelve people and wounded many more local police say the mosque mosque in haast was also being used as a voter registration center for elections later this year no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack iran's president hassan rouhani has warned u.s.

italia saudi arabia. essential the change their strategy they used to fight the bombs out now the ships . we knew that this was the best place from which to take photos of the secret operations with no ban on cameras. from here we recorded what actually happened because we don't usually eighteen containers a month were loaded up with one thousand to one thousand five hundred bombs. all the people. from government i meant that they were mainly transported by saudi arabian ships three or four belonging to the battery shipping company and i.v. it was a dock and load up the saudis evidently decided to run the transport themselves but this is. the military coalition in yemen needs a lot of bombs by the end of twenty seventeen saudi arabia and its allies had flown more than fifteen thousand air raids according to international experts almost a third of those raids that civilian targets. it's a profitable war even for small investors with shares in germany's biggest arms manufacturer a company that breaks free o

so the first question is always how do you saudi a pure saudi yes i'm saudi and there are hundreds of ladies like me hopefully with all these changes that would have become three that west would change the idea about the saudi woman it's not considered decent for women to do jobs who are men and women makes but this is changing to. another year is about to get her certification as the first female tour guide she says she has also experienced a lot of resistance from men that saw her as competition. the tour is about to end the arabic coffee and dates. it's lesser commercial you feel like tourists to discover new things and the people are also discovering new stories the government wants to issue tourist visas starting this month the question is whether and how much tourism will change the ultraconservative makeup of saudi society. our last stop this week china. the country is well on its way to becoming one of the world's largest consumers of wine and china's best vintages come from the desert. which. a vineyard on the edge of the gobi desert and the spring time the great finds are cl

italia saudi arabia. essential he changed their strategy they used to fly the bombs out now the ships. we knew that this was the best place from which to take photos of the secret operations with no ban on cameras. from here we recorded what actually happened that we usually eighteen containers a month were loaded up with one thousand to one thousand five hundred bombs maybe. well that was. fundamental meant that they were mainly transported by saudi arabian ships three or four belonging to the battery shipping company or not it was a dock and load up the saudis evidently decided to run the transport themselves so the decision fired. the military coalition in yemen needs a lot of bombs by the end of twenty seventeen saudi arabia and its allies had flown more than fifteen thousand air raids according to international experts almost a third of those raids that civilian targets. it's a profitable war even for small investors with shares in germany's biggest arms manufacturer a company that breaks free of ger

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem shuttled for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for

for the saudi people themselves. and i ten year old woman who survived the siege of leningrad during world war two and the recent civil war in ukraine is facing one more fight now with the russian authorities who are refusing to give her a citizen ship fighting technical reasons but after our channel brought up a struggle it appears some good news is in the offing. i was. just going to sling that i did with you in minnesota then we would say it is your ma this sort of star or. no will soon you. didn't know show us a policeman us. said anything else so i knew you didn't exist or not but i don't want to get. on that you want to fix you need to do more with. the police that i'm going to elicit. but it's ok skip bus but did he give them a couple of the budget kenya russian document the menu but he need to put them. in a coach good evening if they do. this i'm in the moment then the both of them get the most of the loan you know your new. novel is longer. than any differently. we have to for the most legal matters the new

and also coming up on the day women behind the wheel in saudi arabia who say that a simple car isn't what they want as the kingdom prepares to lift its ban on women drivers. driving is not the only thing we need we need it many many things but we used the car as a symbol it gave us the opportunity to go in the streets and to be very very visible for people to really see us and see our demands. that's coming up a little bit later on the day but first dozens of women have accused him of sexual misconduct and now the stories of two women have the potential to land him in jail the former hollywood film producer harvey weinstein was charged with rape and sex abuse in two separate cases in new york on friday one of the women has not yet been identified but the other is evans' of what she told the new yorker magazine last october took weinstein from the height of hollywood to a police holding cell in manhattan within months now back in two thousand and four evans was an aspiring actress and she met weinstein for what she thought would be a casting call she says that he then forced her to pe

in quite a difficult position because saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alliance are seen as the cornerstone of their saudi towards the gulf and december if they crystallize that into a coherent doctrine so now these tensions are yemen now they've exploded saudi arabia anything mitigate the damage and it entered. and he said convince the u.a.e. they act unilaterally by supporting the south humanities and then by supporting any other groups that oppose had the weather been so hot or elsewhere and the country is just arming and emboldening the houdinis and iranian backed forces so the saudi arabians first of all why do how dialogue and vision sense of unity consensus about who their real big enemy is and why they have to stay united to confront that secondly i think that saudi arabia will for meant any kind of pro had to demonstrations like the ones we've been seeing in psychiatry against the military occupation to miss you here the costs of if you're going to unilaterally inviolate a human sovereignty in this way are too high and that they must cissie the

arabia wants to attract which is hello welcome to counting the cost saudi officials think that they can grow the economy the normal oil sector that is of the economy by the year twenty thirty is that realistic do you think you're in this for the long term. yes but we do have to think long term the market hasn't been very open to foreign investors yet there have been listed equities in some state or companies have issued bonds but i would say it's still very early days over who willing to look five to ten years down the road and i think there will be tremendous opportunities if only because we are moving here from a standing start is saudi arabia of a stretching itself what happens if it if it fails to meet those targets i don't think yet i think there is not enough evidence and yet but at the same time i wouldn't be overambitious about what they can offer near term we had earlier hopes that the aramco i.p.o. my or her sooner rather than later but then they realize it's more important to do it properly rather than quickly and these things can be very flexible if a lot more work needs

arabia wants to attract which is hello welcome to counting the cost saudi officials think that they can grow the economy the normal oil sector that is of the economy by the year twenty thirty is that realistic do you think you're in this for the long term. yes but we do have to think long term the market hasn't been very open to foreign investors yet there have been listed equities and some state owned companies have issued bonds but i would say it's still very early days over who willing to look five to ten years down the road but i think there will be tremendous opportunities if only because we are moving here from a standing start is saudi arabia of a stretching itself what happens if it if it fails to meet those targets i don't think yet i think there is not enough evidence and yet but at the same time i wouldn't be overambitious about what they can offer near term we had earlier hopes that the aramco i.p.o. my or her sooner rather than later but then they realize it's more important to do it properly rather than quickly and these things can be very flexible if a lot more work n

involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and american politicians have been pushing to and u.s. support to the saudis but this latest development might lead to a messy legal battle given that there was no public debate on whether the u.s. should get involved because it seemed as if it was consciously kept from the public so i honestly wonder how americans will feel knowing that their government could be indirectly fueling the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that includes american politicians who were questioning washington's indirect role in the conflict even though there was no direct military support so it'll be interesting to see how they react to this. foreign policy analyst robert nyman thinks that washington's position isn't entirely on this story over the war in yemen. to say that you support ending the war while you are doing everything in your power to help one side and prosecute the war is a contrad

yes from here to please so the first question is always how do you saudi a pure saudi yes some saudi and there are hundreds of these like me hopefully with all these changes that would have become three the west would change the idea about the saudi woman it's not considered decent for women to do jobs for men and women makes this is changing two. of the year is about to get her certification as the first female tour guide she says she has also experienced a lot of resistance from men that saw her as competition. the tour is about to end with arabic coffee and dates. you so it's the breadth of the armor that tells us this that this of the of the guy who is putting it's this one it's often merchant rich people because we have this bradbury. so one two three locals are just as curious as the tourists they say where is the celebrity goers so here you are so what was it like. you feel like tourists to discover new things and people are also discovering new stories. that's it you're up to date with the latest from the world all the business i'm in the. control. comes to. move. the tremend

so the first question is always how do you saudi a pure saudi yes i'm saudi and there are hundreds of ladies like me hopefully with all these changes that would have been good the country the west would change the idea about the saudi woman it's not considered decent for women to do jobs who are men and women makes my this is changing to. another year is about to get her certification as the first female tour guide she says she has also experienced a lot of resistance from men that saw her as competition. the tour is about to end the arabic coffee and dates. it's lesser commercial you feel like tourists to this cove lieutenant's and the people are also discovering you as stories the government wants to issue tourist visas starting this month the question is whether and how much tourism will change the ultraconservative makeup of saudi society. our last stop this week china. the country is well on its way to becoming one of the world's largest consumers of wine and china's best vintages come from the desert. a vineyard on the edge of the gobi desert and the spring time the grape vines

are concerned it's known that saudis backed sunni candidates that saudis have backed saad hariri and his father in the past but this time around there's a bit of a doubt of whether a saudi arabia is going to continue to back saddam he after the elections it all depends on what the result of the elections is going to be remember i earlier mentioned there are several contenders given competition to solidarity and it remains to be seen what does ofter the results come out remember levanon is a very important it's a tiny country but a very important country when it comes to the battle over dominance over these wall between saudi arabia and iran did of his and show her parting for us from beirut thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people and wounded many more local police said the mosque in host was also being used as a voter registration center for elections later this year no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. iran's president hassan rouhani has issued a

so saudi arabia meanwhile exports. estimated hundred billion dollars worth of money into mosques schools refugee camps you name it over the past decades to indoctrinate muslims around the world into. potations of islam that includes failing in isolating women beheading dissenters suicide bombings all the ugly elements of islam that people associate with us really originates in saudi arabia why is it i mean saudis they say it's because of the oil iran has oil we could at any moment switch if. the saudis want to just kick the saudis out in turn to you know iran or russia or any number of countries that are oil countries why is saudi arabia so it's why we saw in bed with the saudis before i answered i want to add one thing to this important list that you just gave us and that is and this is something that almost no americans know and that is that the saudi government provides all of the korans in the u.s. prison systems all of them and their english translations which means that they aren't real korans because the koran a

and also coming up on the day women behind the wheel in saudi arabia who say that a simple car isn't what they want as the kingdom prepares to lift its ban on women drivers. driving is not the only thing we need we need it many many things but we used the car as a symbol it gave us the opportunity to go in the streets and to be very very visible for people to really see us and see our demands. that's coming up a little bit later on the day but first dozens of women have accused him of sexual misconduct and now the stories of two women have the potential to land him in jail the former hollywood film producer harvey weinstein was charged with rape and sex abuse in two separate cases in new york on friday one of the women has not yet been identified but the other is the evans of what she told the new yorker magazine last october took weinstein from the height of hollywood to a police holding cell in manhattan within months now back in two thousand and four evans was an aspiring actress and she met weinstein for what she thought would be a casting call she says that he then forced her to

they've been under the rubble for hours because the saudi has befriended. from reaching the site and we have seen in some of this video that one of the a girl called this a all which was crying and she was asking for some water just imagine she has been waited for four hours. and she was thirsty she couldn't feel her body and she thought that she was not injured and you can see totally in the footage. that was broadcast by many local t.v. channels that she was really really badly injured by this so-called sodhi strike or we have sent a request to the saudi led coalition in yemen asking for comments about the recent airstrike although so far we have received a response a spokesperson for the saudi coalition has said previously though their goal is to restore yemen's legitimacy and to make the country safe and secure however according to human rights groups the bombing campaign has resulted in a grave crisis in the country saudis repeatedly insisted they target rebels not civilians but. again says he has evidence to the contrary. those bombs were brought to m

and also coming up on the day women behind the wheel in saudi arabia who say that a simple car isn't what they want as the kingdom prepares to lift its ban on women drivers. driving is not the only thing we need we need it many many things but we used the car as a symbol it gave us the opportunity to go in the streets and to be very very visible for people to really see us and see our demands. that's coming up a little bit later on the day but first dozens of women have accused him of sexual misconduct and now the stories of two women have the potential to land him in jail the former hollywood film producer harvey weinstein was charged with rape and sex abuse in two separate cases in new york on friday one of the women has not yet been identified but the other is evans and what she told the new yorker magazine last october took weinstein from the height of hollywood to a police holding cell in manhattan within months now back in two thousand and four evans was an aspiring actress and she met weinstein for what she thought would be a casting call she says that he then forced her to pe

involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and american politicians have been pushing to and u.s. support for the saudis but this latest development might lead to a messy legal battle given that there was no public debate on whether the u.s. should get involved because it seemed as if it was consciously kept from the public so i honestly wonder how americans will feel knowing that their government could be indirectly fueling the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that includes american politicians who were questioning washington's indirect role in the conflict even though there was no direct military support so it'll be interesting to see how they react to this foreign policy analyst robert naiman told us the u.s. position on the yemen the conflict is contradictory. to say that you support ending the war while you are doing everything in your power to help one side prosecute the war is a contradiction the saudis a

yes from here to please so the first question is always how do you saudi a pure saudi yes i'm saudi and there are hundreds of ladies like me hopefully with all these changes that would have been good because three the west would change the idea about the saudi woman it's not considered decent for women to do jobs for men and women makes this is changing to. another year is about to get her certification as the first female tour guide she says she has also experienced a lot of resistance from men that saw her as competition. the tour is about to end the arabic coffee and dates. you so it's the bread duty of their ahmed that tells us this that this of the of the guy who is putting it's this one it's often merchant rich people because we have this bridie. so one two three locals are just as curious as the tourists they say where is the celebrity door so here you are so what was it like. you feel like tourists to this. and the people are also discovering you and stories. that's it you're up to date with the latest from the wild old business i'm going. to cause for celebration. freedom day.

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for the saudi people themselves. join us for the latest news headlines at the top of the out. of the world. that is i would not be here other. than as an. idiot ok tell us a little. you. know you said a it'd be a bit odd. on them and. by then got a session on the nod that they know. by then is a shift the long. haul of a stunt to an audience that in most is going on want. some certainly not so with. them you know so it was if you know people multiple injuries among current enough to soak them for keeps if you hold the rope but it shows real your mercy on the phone to the book on the if you can book a political symbol so this is for you but i don't know it's a book from a little some of. my. own of it of nothing. off allowed me. somethin that was. on long enough something not set it. on top of us and then totals look ma let's see what i can now they need i'm editing on that these protests. oh max kaiser and this is the kaiser for ever opening lotus of perpetual knowledge hey you know what today is a very special day v

involvement will help the saudis do just that but thanks to the saudi onslaught the conflict in yemen has morphed into the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there's been some domestic backlash here in the u.s. and american politicians have been pushing to and u.s. support to the saudis but this latest development might lead to a messy legal battle given that there was no public debate on whether the u.s. should get involved because it seemed as if it was consciously kept from the public so i honestly wonder how americans will feel knowing that their government could be indirectly fueling the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that includes american politicians who were questioning washington's indirect role in the conflict even though there was no direct military support so it'll be interesting to see how they react to this foreign policy analyst robert naiman told us the u.s. position on the conflict is contradictory. to say that you support ending war while i know you are doing everything in your power to help one side and prosecute the war is a contradiction the saudi and un

and also coming up on the day women behind the wheel in saudi arabia who say that a simple car isn't what they want as the kingdom prepares to lift its ban on women drivers. driving is not the only thing we need we need it many many things but we used the car as a symbol it gave us the opportunity to go in the streets and to be very very visible for people to really see us and see our demands. that's coming up a little bit later on the day but first dozens of women have accused him of sexual misconduct and now the stories of two women have the potential to land him in jail the former hollywood film producer harvey weinstein was charged with rape and sex abuse in two separate cases in new york on friday one of the women has not yet been identified but the other is evans of what she told the new yorker magazine last october took weinstein from the height of hollywood to a police holding cell in manhattan within months now back in two thousand and four evans was an aspiring actress and she met weinstein for what she thought would be a casting call she says that he then forced her to per

in once sense the saudi aramco ipo is almost doubling the size of the saudi market. that is definitely changing our position as far as size. now, as far as liquidity, saudi market has been historically proven market for liquidity when it's needed. so we're trading at 1$1.4 million. we have reached 10 billion u.s. dollars one day. so the capacity of the saudi market ten years ago was high. i think the capacity today is even higher. so the aramco ipo will change the markets. >> we have to leave it there guys, i will toss it back to you in new york. >> appreciate it, hadley good work out there in saudi arabia for us with the head of the saudi arabia stock exchange. >>> today is another big day for earnings cvs health, mastercard, kraft heinz before the bell. after the close, tesla and spotify. the central bank wraps up its two-day meeting with a policy statement at 2:00 pp easte.m. e time >>> let's talk a bit more about what to expect from the fed. joining us now is steven pete, director of international equities and investment management at janice henderson this is a m

saudi arabia used to play a major role in lebanese politics. as for the better. would be arabia was busy with other conflicts in the region like yemen the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are laws in lebanon where no longer united and they couldn't be a force to confront hezbollah but will not leave the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and now that the election is over. beirut. hezbollah is a shiite muslim political party in lebanon with a military wing the islamic revolutionary guard corps in eat on the help form has been ledger in lebanon civil war in the one nine hundred eighty s. hezbollah published its political manifesto or open letter in one thousand nine hundred five outlining israel and the u.s. as the enemy the thought if accord that ended the lebanese civil war in one thousand nine call for the disarmament of militias fighters were allowed to keep their weapons when

we have turkey, another business in saudi arabia. so the reality is you can take all of these businesses public at the right time. i think within the coming three years, we will probably have india going public. we will probably have hospitality as well going, going separately the public root. -- route. francine: how much bigger will you be? i hope to speak to you before but if i speak to you in five years, how much will your holdings be worth? mohamed: i think we should be double in value. we should have grown 20% to 25% on an annual basis. and i hope that my management and my boards really put that as a focus. and to be honest, i think we are capable of doing that. we just have to focus and have to make sure we have the right people to do it. and we do this day and night. and that is really how we do business in our region. francine: that is acquisitions or that is organic growth? mohamed: i would say organic growth. if you talk about acquisition, which we haven't done much of, i am expecting we do more acquisition in the coming tw