and saudi arabia by having the u.s. companies export nuclear power technology to saudi arabia. they started lobbying the trump administration and initially the trump transition about how this would fit with trump's about his approach to the middle east and make america great car restoring american jobs in american industry. tom barrick was very receptive to this idea because he was promoting a similar kind of economic outreach to the region. he had a lot of ties with the leader there. things to the support of time baruch and general flynn, who was involved in the project before he was in the white house, the idea gained a lot of traction in the early days of the administration. amy: take it through to now. >> initially the first three month as detailed by the whistleblowers who spoke to the house oversight committttee, ths was something that was happening in kind of a -- kind of being rushed to the national security council. and it was not complying with the atomic energy act that review. all kinds of obviously, the u.s. tightly controls this technology because it can be misuse

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . that's now bringing north and historian gerald torne for more on this story charles welcome to the program. now why would it be in the u.s. interest to help saudi arabia develop nuclear technology. well number one as is well known by now there are very close financial targets between the trump family and the saudi ruling elite is no accident that after mr trump became president one of his first trips was to saudi arabia evidence is now emerging about saudi contributions to his presidential campaign that may not have been a book or in two thousand and sixteen as well know that his son in law an advisor jeric listeners also very close to the same

arabia the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now for what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to prohibitions on processing good talent and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prop was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came forward have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiation or it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who is on trial as inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barracks in gauge meant an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better aligned middle east and u.s. objectives and well known as are his more than four decade

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in nevada every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. and so that the very the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole that enables a higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not one house comes back basically you have a sister and i said in which private prosperity impoverished is the government the opposite of normal economics. so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel it's a real parliament and a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and re

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . but let's now bring in pickle commentator and author lou rockwell good to have you with us now why do you think the white house is secretly pushing to transfer sensitive u.s. nuclear technology to saudi arabia and bypassing congress. well it's an attack on iran they want to have saudi arabia have a nuclear weapon so that they can be threatened or maybe used against iran so israel won't have to use its nuclear weapons and it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology to a patella tarried state like saudi arabia which is not a democracy. and just it's a terrible thing and it's similar to what trump announced that he's

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in the god every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. and so that the very the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole it enables higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not one house comes back basically you have a sister and i said in which private prosperity impoverished is the government the opposite of normal economics. so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel it's a real parliament and a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and red t

i was in saudi arabia, i was there primarily see an official saudis. i would start with one general observation. a point that barbara made about questioning where the u.s. is, it's something that comes through both in my trips to abu dhabi and dubai and saudi arabia and israel. i would even cast it a little bit differently. the questions i got actually everywhere was really, maybe trump is not an exception, trump seems a lot like obama to us. in terms of not wanting to be in the region, not equating the two, but saying that basically, we wonder what the u.s. really wants to be in the middle east whether what we're seeing now is the new normal. and i just put that out as the kind of reality that you get when you are in the region. in saudi arabia itself, and with the saudi's i spoke to both prior to being there and then when i got there, right now is a kind of interesting mood. initially when i was first seeing saudis in the emirates, they were quite shaken by the effect of khashoggi, the international reaction to it, there was desire to sort of get out

everybody in saudi arabia in one way or another is a beneficiary saudi aramco a strong saudi arabia it needs a strong rand paul and vice versa as well the history of saudi aramco is the history of saudi arabia transforming itself from an isolated tribal society into a global presence. get it right you reap a windfall get it. and the risk is huge the whole saudi economy was at stake that all the balance be done how did you face that and. living. in the world they run the risk of being toppled the royal family could be running for the. issue is really you know is an i.p.o. best for the company and when you look at graeme coke the company you have to realize that unlike other companies. ram co operated for years without ever imagining and i p o. so they've never had to make decisions with the thought of oh maybe going to be publicly listed or we'd like to publish this here's how we need to have our finances a great here's the kind of growth that we need to be showing in our financial statements to make investors see our value. analysts have never followed around because it was never seen

that's my kind of cake and recommendation for saudi arabia. in the case of saudi arabia, i was there just before the president's declaration on syria. in the case of israel, i was there after the declaration. what i found in israel was ok, we can deal with this, but i also found an unmistakable sense that we are alone. not alone in the sense that the u.s. won't support us publicly, we appreciate that, but when it comes to dealing with iran and syria, and the russians in syria, israel is completely on its own and feel that is completely on its own. i found a sense that we can manage it, that i also found a kind of interesting context of the russians basically have dopted a much tougher policy toward israel since the shootdown of their aircraft in september. the israelis in response to that have greatly limited the perations that they were carrying out in syria against the iranian presence. i was told explicitly that they had greatly reduced their operations. they noted that it seemed to have an effect on the iranians as well because the iranian

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in the god every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. and so that the very the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole and enables. higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not one house comes back basically you have a sister and i said in rich private prosperity impoverish is the government the opposite of normal economics so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel if they're real parliament and a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and red

arabia the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to prohibitions on process and would tell them and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prop was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came forward have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets than was necessary because of russia and china it is a strategic imperative that the united states can. peace and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who was on trump's inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barak's engagement an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in the god every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. so that the leave the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole it enables higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not on how it comes back basically you have a sister and i said in which private prosperity impoverish is the government the opposite of normal economics so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel if the real parliament in a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and red tape and

arabia because it cannot afford to be a battleground where saudi arabia and iran settle their scores a very interesting piece read is on our web site at al-jazeera dot com now as we've heard the sound led war in yemen is what's also disrupting the kingdom's relationship with many of its traditional allies and the conflicts there shows no sign of ending saudi state media say yemen's who the rebels have killed at least nine saudi soldiers in a renewed military offensive the attacks happened in the southern saudi provinces of osier just on and on as the word spread of violence since a un brokered peace deal was signed in sweden in december priyanka gupta has the details. fierce fighting in the northern front lines of yemen who the rebels say they have launched major attacks on saudi u.a.e. backed forces across the border in saudi arabia over the past three days a number of saudi soldiers were killed and their military positions captured according to hooty media sources saudi media is also reporting the deaths of soldiers who they say the attacks will not stop and let mr miller watch out

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of demolish

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder

arabia ok so testing to take saudi arabia consider south africa as a gateway. yeah let me get back to saudi arabia in just a moment but ten billion is a lot of money but the south africa's looking for one hundred billion u.s. dollars in total where the other ninety billion coming from. you know saran of course i think is on a good track to achieve his goal of collecting hundred billion u.s. dollars in investment after the age of ten billion by saudi arabia actually the united arab emirates pledged to invest also ten billion u.s. dollars into the country and we have also seen many local companies trying or you know patching investments into their facilities here in south africa and look at the shanty a big mine play in south africa so to invest four billion u.s. dollars in upgrading the mines common in factories from germany b.m.w. . bargain and also most see this pledge to invest two to three billion u.s. dollars to upgrade their production facilities here also i think you know as much as. the story that it's adding up and just very briefly getting back to what

home to the muslim worlds holiest sites saudi arabia's real source of power comes from oil and saudi aramco turns that black gold into dollars and results a company which is never to be noted independently was the crown jewel of the so-called vision twenty thirty there is no doubt that iran co is one of the key pillars to this vision to the growth of our economy and to the progress of the entire kingdom of saudi arabia. to put the company which funds saudi arabia's budget never appeared on any stock market and the kingdom's economy has tanked since then al-jazeera has investigated the ideas behind vision twenty thirty the politics of the kingdom which revolve around oil money and the reasons why the proposed saudi aramco sell off did not work the secretive company has never had to declare its financial reports as a massive transformation had gone public one of the major objections by people in the kingdom was their fear of the money would go into the pockets of the royal family the other issue is the nearly constant oil build saudi arabia has claimed to own since it took over from am

and what do we know about saudi arabia? we know that they were responsible for the murder of khashoggi. we know recently that m.b.s. admitted he wanted khashoggi dead. we know that they, the saudis, are supplying arms to al qaeda in yemen who are fighting our troops. the saudis are giving arms to the very people who are fighting our troops. this is why senator lindsey graham has said he may support this resolution. the only patriotic thing, if you care about our troops, if you care about american interests, if you care about the outrage that the saudis are inflicting on americans and on the world, the only patriotic thing to do is to vote for this resolution. i'm convinced it will pass with a bipartisan majority. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields his time back to the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: madam chair, i yi

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power we watch this space thanks for bringing us the artes killer and live from new york city. the british museum has found itself facing a wave of criticism concerning an ongoing exhibition which was swarmed by hundreds of protesters over its close ties to the oil giant british petroleum at the weekend . they say on cleanses the soul but for these protesters the latest exhibition at london's british museum whitewash is the image of a less than squeaky clean or oil company. the i am exhibition here at the british museum has been nor did by christian it shows the inner workings of the assyrian empire and displays off the facts from what is now modern day

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of demolish

relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power but its goal commentates a new book well suspects that the white house has iran and its science if it really is funneling nuclear technology to the saudis. the idea that they would arm mohamed and solomon with nuclear weapons just strikes me as something out of a science fiction movie it's like dr strangelove it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology and this is all part of the the . plan and george questioners involved in this too to destroy iran and they they hate iran iran is not promoting terrorism iran is not all the things they say it is it's a peaceful country it's got a very small military and out of date military a

arabia ok so testing to imitate saudi arabia consider south africa as a gateway. yeah let me get back to saudi arabia in just a moment but to ten billion is a lot of money but the south africa's looking for one hundred billion u.s. dollars in total where the other ninety billion coming from you know surreal of course i think it's on a good track to achieve his goal of collecting hundred billion u.s. dollars in investment after the age of ten billion by saudi arabia actually the united arab emirates pledged to invest also ten billion u.s. dollars into the country and we have also seen many local companies trying or you know patching investments into their facilities here in south africa and gold ashanti a big mine play in south africa so to invest four billion u.s. dollars in upgrading the mines common factors from germany b.m.w. . bargain and also most see this pledge to invest two to three billion u.s. dollars to upgrade their production facilities here well so i think you know as much as. we are sorry that it's adding up just very briefly getting back to what yo

arabia dozens of times over the years i knows saudi arabia very well it's impossible for people at that high level including officials who are very close working in the palace particularly working for the crown prince to simply just disappear and vanish in saudi arabia i found the statement lacking and group. was you bear with as we've had in congress today how do you feel he was received and what would you like to see congress u.s. congress doing next. well there are some members of congress who basically are too busy to pay real serious attention to this case and probably be this out the government is betting that this group will increase and will prevail but i don't think that's the case on the contrary those who have focused on this issue even though they have been distracted by all kinds of domestic issues on their plate over the past few weeks they seem to have returned to their focus on the crime and whether it is the murder itself or whatever it's the humanitarian situation in yemen i think at then shame is focused again on saudi arabia and these types of visits and statements a

is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia i'm very concerned about the impact of the german government's decision on the british and european defense industry and the consequences for europe's ability to fulfill its commitments up until recently last november to be precise germany did sell weapons to saudi arabia but then this happened because shorty has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered was murdered in the saudi consulate it was looted to his death and then this didn't help either. south africa markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances on its own germany really provides about two percent of the total arms purchased by saudi arabia that's a drop in the ocean but crucially germany also makes components that are essential to other countries arms exports for example british. it has a contract to provide riyadh with forty eight new fighter jets but germany's refusal to make cars that are destined for s

and what do we know about saudi arabia? we know that they were responsible for the murder of khashoggi. we know recently that m.b.s. admitted he wanted khashoggi dead. we know that they, the saudis, are supplying arms to al qaeda in yemen who are fighting our troops. the saudis are giving arms to the very people who are fighting our troops. this is why senator lindsey graham has said he may support this resolution. the only patriotic thing, if you care about our troops, if you care about american interests, if you care about the outrage that the saudis are inflicting on americans and on the world, the only patriotic thing to do is to vote for this resolution. i'm convinced it will pass with a bipartisan majority. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields his time back to the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: madam chair, i yi

arabia has practiced with regards to its female population and the fact that women in saudi arabia aren't allowed to make their own decisions in many areas of life. and they also have very few places to turn to when they when they face issues regarding abuse so that combined with modern technology and the fact that women in saudi arabia can now connect with the outside world and actually get in touch with networks of people who can help them that's caused a dramatic increase in the in the number of cases we hear about of saudi women trying to flee abroad to save their countries now the saudi women who spoke to didn't use alleged that the saudi embassy in berlin is complicit with their families families incidentally from which they fled the set so credible is that in character. certainly i can't comment on the germany cases because it's not an issue i've researched specifically however i mean it does absolutely fit a pattern something we've seen repeatedly over the years whereby families do collude with the saudi authorities the foreign ministry authorities usually or people working out of

arabia violate international humanitarian law and the justification as applying weapons to the saudi emira to coalition is flawed they say well written as more from london. since the yemen war began in march twenty fifteen s strikes in military operations by the saudi led coalition forces are estimated to have directly killed more than sixty thousand civilians and that's not including the tens of thousands more who have died from starvation and disease . britain has licensed nearly seven billion dollars of arms exports to saudi arabia and the coalition nations since the war started and in twenty eighteen the un report alleged that u.k. and u.s. weapons have been used in attacks which may amount to war crimes now this house of lords committee has concluded that u.k. arms exports narrowly contravene humanitarian law and the government should act challenge the apparent violations much more vigorously put the pressure on the stock of agreement and reveal export licenses and tie them up certainly yes. which would mean clearly closing down to some extent the flow of weapons the government

the residence of saudi arabia's consul general in istanbul is.

arabia the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to probations on processing good talent and enriching uranium but other countries in the region have agreed to prop was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came forward have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer nuclear technology to saudi arabia i p three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets to was necessary because of russia and china it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who was on drugs inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barracks in gage meant an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better aligned midd

arabia and saudi arabia have used britain's weapons to earth bomb yemen and destroy the infrastructure there causing what the un's called the worst month major humanitarian crisis going on in the world at the moment i think when it comes to germany hunt's comments that are completely inappropriate he's meant to be a statesman and he's not meant to be using his position to lobby for british arms trade interest. just on that point how close is this relationship them between be a and the government i mean we looked at our report and polly boyko there and she made some links so you bert's i mean from your perspective how strong is that connection. i mean really the systems have. power of the old amount of access to go clare short she was a government minister under bush used to say that she felt that view systems are the key to the guardian good number town they really have an earth unique level of your lobbying and access to ministers and that frankly undermines our democracy in the u.k. what we see time and time again germany hans comments are just the latest example is the british gover

arabia so a un led inquiry is pinning this directly on officials of the state of saudi arabia they say that saudi arabia seriously undermined turkey's efforts to investigate the murder at its stan bull consulate so this is the first we're hearing from this u.n. led inquiry the special rapporteur was in turkey last week i think it was for a week a fact finding found it difficult to get corporations from the saudis at least at the consulate but now saying that saudi arabia seriously undermined turkey's efforts to investigate it and that jamal khashoggi is killing was planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of saudi arabia very interesting developments coming there we will might wait to hear more. still ahead for you on al-jazeera though in step with everything in iran we're looking at the powerful role played by its revolutionary guards. hello there is pretty wet for some of us in the middle east at the moment if we take a look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds snaking its way towards the north but then bending background over the western parts of turkey we're seei

arabia the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to probations on processing and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prague was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came forward have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer nuclear technology to saudi arabia i p three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets was necessary because of russia and china it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who was on drugs inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barracks in gage meant an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better aligned to middle east a

saudi arabia in this instance. i dare say we need look at what took place, follow the money line and you may get your answer. >> i read "the pos" every morning. i love the paper and always have. it does care about the fact that one of its columnists was killed and butchered pretty much in public daylight in the consulate at turkey and thaw just -- they don't seem to have to worry about it. they act like they can get away with it before hand and afterwards. they if you goiered out this president. this president will not give them any trouble. >> you're absolutely right. virtually every can country in the world, with the exception of the united states president has put the blood -- had the blood on the hands except for this president. every can country has. and so there's a big question mark as to why this president does not come out solidly with the rest of the world. because all our intelligence agencies also put the gun or the knife in the hands of mbs. only person that doesn't, the president of the united states.

ties with saudi arabia afternoon report reveals washington is ready to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to. publicly. project with russia after a heated in the white house. good evening and welcome in moscow. putin has warned that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missile although the russian president stressed the new weapon would only be used in self-defense threaten to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the u.s. bases intermediate range missiles in europe though quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president. during his annual state of the nation address president putin announced the corner new hypersonic cruise missile a committee ploy from both land and sea learned to go testing later in the year. explaining its. another day another excuse to panic for the mainstream media for them for the second year in a row of the flavor of lattimer putin's state of the nation address is

will always have a strategic relations with saudi arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, oui’ arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, our neighbour and our future. arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, our neighbour and ourfuture. —— will always have. our future our neighbour and ourfuture. —— will always have. 0urfuture is to stay together because we don't have any future alone in the region. the region is growing and it is coming together, like the european union, if you know. so nobody, i am not, i'm notjudging what is happening in saudi arabia, and not entitled to judge what is happening in saudi arabia, i know that saudi arabia is coming to help the yemeni people, to restore legitimacy in yemen and to restore legitimacy in yemen and to restore the statehood, that is why we are fighting together in the yemen. if i may we are fighting together in the yemen. ifi may say we are fighting together in the yemen. if i may say so... we are fighting together in the yemen. ifi may say so... it is nonsense when you say that we are receiving instruction. ifi may say so, you receiving inst

arabia what do you do with saudi arabia when you have a split amongst the gulf states and clytie between saudi arabia and qatar and most importantly and this i think does limit on how far congress can push the administration away from saudi including over yemen their ministration is in bed with saudi arabia because it wants regime change in iran and until you give up that policy of regime change in iran saudi arabia still has a leverage with the trump an illustration of that if congress or anyone else tries to push too hard let me bring that up because we all i think it was you specifically that said that donald trump has bit at odds with his intelligence community just this week the leaders in the intelligence community testified that iran is still complying with video even though donald trump backed it up where is this coming from. ripped it up hard yell spill remember number those intelligence services though which the cia the office of national intelligence they're coming at it from just a sheer assessment of what iran is doing but in that same administration you have a secretary of

talk of transferring rather sensitive nuclear technology to the kingdom of saudi arabia and enabling them to develop nuclear power some of this some of what was said in the report can be heard here these reports also indicate that saudi arabia is refusing to agree to prohibition on enriching uranium and processing plutonium similar to those agreed to by other countries in the region however experts worry that transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could be a to produce nuclear weapons that country b. two the proliferation of nuclear arms according to the report donald trump actually directly engaged the deal was supportive of these efforts and now one of the nuclear power companies involved i p three has defended the idea of transferring nuclear technology and nuclear energy technology to saudi arabia this is a statement from ip three it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena it's important to note that while it appears here there was open talk of giving saudi arabia nuclear energy technology that t

a lot of resolutions to put pressure on saudi arabia he was in saudi arabia of money laundering accusing saudi arabia of financing or not fighting the financing of terrorism i think this is a heavy blow and it could be fatal it means that no director or is the arm deal to saudi arabia especially in its war and yemen so i think they have i think they must have a huge what is because of this a fatal blow do you think that a would actually heed such calls from the u.k. which we know is leaving the block. well actually u.k. and a very difficult situation now and we had the foreign minister of u.k. is going to was so meeting in order to advocate for a peace settlement to yemenis war now i think this is this is a huge test for britain i used test for european european actually. raising that id card in front of the saudi saying your human rights record is very bad and it is actually getting worse and we are warning you if you continue at arresting the activist woman activist and particularly if you are actually going ahead of this as a nation plans like what happened to the saudi journalist. ja

senior trumpet ministration officials are accused of trying to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia an investigation is under way. hello again i'm. live from doha also coming up the president of pakistan administered kashmir tells out there there's a real risk of conflict with india after last week's bombing in the disputed region . twenty four hour window closes for syrians to get out of a desolate can find out why they didn't take the opportunity plus. an estimated fifteen billion dollars worth of oil and gas was discovered off the coast of san diego find out next how this new found wealth is now part of the presidential campaign just days before the election. the first an investigation has been launched into whether senior officials in the trump administration have been trying to sell sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia a committee in the house of representatives led by the democrat says whistleblowers warned business interests pushed ahead of the law like had a ripples from washington. the twenty four page report is extensive and reach in detail providing names dates an

backed forces across the border in saudi arabia over the past three days a number of saudi soldiers were killed and their military positions captured according to hooty media sources saudi media is also reporting the deaths of soldiers who they say the attacks will not stop and yet mr miller are watching our operations will continue and in the coming days the advantage further as the war on yemen continues and the coalition continues to violate their obligations and promises under the hood data agreement the army and resistance fighters have no alternative but to continue to fight and intensify their tactical operations. this is the first significant escalation in violence since the u.n. brokered cease fire deal was signed in sweden last december the head of the u.n. mission tasked with implementing that deal in the port city of who is trying to stop the conflict from getting any worse but the realities on the ground are a sobering reminder of the challenges this agreement was sort of blown upside down by focusing on sunday the. bourses a major humanitarian access and that's fine but if

arabia's own review mechanisms were sufficient but the lords disagreed relying on assurances by saudi arabia and saudi led review processes is not an adequate way of implementing the obligations for a risk based assessment they said the government of sets that in its licensing of arms sales to saudi arabia it is now really on the right side of international humanitarian law although conclusive evidence is not yet available we assess that it is now really on the wrong side. in twenty seventeen the group campaign against the arms trade tried and failed to have british weapons exports to saudi arabia declared illegal this new law to report has been published just weeks before the campaigners take their case to the appeal court and when you came eight fighter jets are flying over yemen dropping u.k. made bombs but cannot be divorced from the responsibilities of u.k. government it's time for the government to end its support for this terrible catastrophic war and work towards a peaceful political solution for the moment the u.k. is not yet ready to change policy in a statement saying the k

arabia has there's no indication that saudi arabia wants to enrich its own your brain am you have to enrich uranium in a much higher level or any kind of nuclear weaponry than you would for a nuclear power plant now saudi arabia is first of all it's very expensive to enrich your own uranium and enrich uranium for power plants is actually quite cheap so it really wouldn't make any sense for saudi arabia to want to build its own nuclear weapons technology what we're talking about is the power generation and here's here's here's basically the lay of the land saudi arabia forty four percent of saudi arabia's electricity generation right now comes from oil and that's both horrible for the environment and bad for the country economically that much rather sell that oil or turn it into petro chemicals or some other profitable substance basically any toil that they burn for electricity is basically wasted now this is a country that cannot use hydroelectric power which is very very beneficial for baseload electricity generation and so the only non hydrocarbon electricity source of electricity

relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power but it's a goal commentator well suspects that the white house has iran on its side so if it really is following nuclear technology to the saudis. the idea that they would arm mohamed meant solomon with nuclear weapons just strikes me as something out of a science fiction movie it's like dr strangelove it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology and this is all part of the. plan and george kirschner is involved in this too to destroy iran and they they hate iran iran is not promoting terrorism iran is not all the things they say it is it's a peaceful country it's got a very small military and out of date military and they're

arabia these reports also indicate the saudi arabia is refusing to agree to prove bishan on enriching uranium and processing plutonium similar to those agreed by other countries in the region. however experts worry that transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could allow saudi arabia to produce nuclear weapons that contribute to the proliferation of nuclear arms the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to prohibitions on process and would tell them and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prompt was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came through and have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets was necessary becaus