these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah here there are thousands of it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one forest to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues le

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed the ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face the disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone. lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one forest to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues. lebannon has a long history of

policy toward saudi arabia have reflected more the desire of buying and other democrats to draw a new relationship with saudi arabia ok recalibrate based on yemen this i think ultimately has to do with posture towards iran douglas hossain spoke about the iranian angle in this particular move and this is a problem i think from a sound perspective and from many leaders in this part of the wealth trunk came in and he said you know want obama messed up a big deal in the gulf region and that involved in the iranians i have to show them an aggressive push by then comes in and says i need to show some sense of towards the iranians the sound as well definitely say you know what this is the wrong message to send this particular time because it just ultimately would further embolden iran. certainly that's the saudi method i totally agree with what again both of my colleagues here on the program have said this is an iran and partially that's the internal messaging i was talking about central command and again the pentagon officers that manage the middle east have been seen as the ironic hocks an

but rightly as douglas said, saudi arabia remains a strategic partner of the united states, so you have to strike a balance and that is what's the brightness trying to do. the message that was sent last week already that the u.s. administration would only support defensive support for the saudi military to ensure that they cannot use any of the material support offensively in yemen is a part of that, but obviously, now withdrawing the defensive weapons and weapons used for deterrence against iran since the wrong message at the wrong time. hashem: is yemen one of the main reasons why the united states are rethinking their presence, because biden himself has been critical during the campaign of the war in yemen? hussein: yes, but this is not a manifestation of that. [laughter] everything my colleagues have said is exactly right and the word iran finally came up at the very end of my colleagues' last comment, but to me -- and i agree with everything douglas said about internal and external messages, but i think the biggest aspect that is being reflected here is the desire to reduce tension

policy toward saudi arabia have reflected more the desire of buying and other democrats to draw a new relationship with saudi arabia ok recalibrate based on yemen this i think ultimately has to do with posture towards iran douglas. spoke about the iranian angle in this particular move and this is a problem i think from a sound of perspective and from many leaders in this part of the wealth trunk came in and he said you know want obama messed up a big deal in the gulf region and that involved in the iranians i have to show them an aggressive push by then comes in and says i need to show some sense of towards the iranians the sound as well definitely say you know what this is the wrong message to send this particular time because it just ultimately would further embolden iran. certainly that's the saudi method i totally agree with what again both of my colleagues here on the program have said this is an iran and partially that's the internal messaging i was talking about central command and again the pentagon officers that manage the middle east have been seen as the ironic hocks and so

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to i don't it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone. lebanon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every here one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has

these farmers delivered on our harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed the ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster so the fish will see the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to i don't it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone. lebanon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every here one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues lev

these farmers 11 are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to are not that it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one force to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has a lon

there are media reports of direct diplomatic meetings between iran and saudi arabia to cut diplomatic ties 5 years ago in 2016 after saudi arabia's execution of a shia cleric sparked violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq in early april and the reported to have included discussions about reining in back who 3 rebel attacks from yemen into saudi arabia sources quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's growing political vacuum the statements also talks about growing along from gulf arab states over the expanding role of lebanon's iran backed hezbollah movement in the region mark fitzpatrick is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state he says biden's retreat from the middle east is pushing saudi arabia to take matters into its own hands. well this is a very good step you know the saudis have been wanting the united states to carry their water for them they've been demanding a seat at the table in the talks with iran to restore the j.c. way but now they have their own table set directly with iran and you know i don'

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia. both colleagues and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in compare a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. and he says like many kenyans his mother's deaf or runs a cigar felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser beer. with a pandemic income from ke

these farmers 11 are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah they had to are not that it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebanon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every here one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has a lon

we're providing geopolitical cover for saudi arabia. and we're tacitly endorse the blockade by not calling them out and forcing them to end it. so it's a quite horrible geopolitical dynamic that the u.s. is in right now, and we're calling for the biden administration to unilaterally withdraw all support for the saudi coalition. >> trevor: your film has showcased a really interesting aspect of what is happening in yemen. and the film is entitled "hunger ward." and you take us through the journey, primarily through lens of two healthcare givers, two nurses and doctors who are looking after people in yemen who have nothing and they're trying to keep them alive. i mean, it's truly the most against-all-odds story you can come across. but you're there and you're filming these stories and talking to these people. the first part of my question is how are you getting this access? nobody can really number yemen? secondly, why do you choose to tell this story? >> yeah, well, you know, to answer that first one, i thank you for doing a segment on ye

ties 5 years ago and 2016 after saudi arabia's execution of a shia cleric sparked violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq and early april and are reported to have included discussions about iranian back to the rebel attacks from yemen into saudi arabia sources quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's growing political vacuum the statements also quote talks about growing alarm from gulf arab states over the expanding role of lebanon's iran backed hezbollah movement in the region let's bring in mark fitzpatrick he is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state and he joins us from lexington kentucky by skype good to feel the program so what should we be reading into these diplomatic meetings between iran and saudi arabia. well this is a very good step you know the saudis have been wanting the united states to carry their water for them they've been demanding a seat at the table in the talks with iran to restore the j.c. . but now they have their own table to set it directly with iran and you know i don't think they're

his majesty's airports while he was saudi arabia this means there. are politically speaking or diplomatically speaking there is no proof that the saudis might be interested in such issue otherwise i think there are all the law wouldn't have been addressed in this way prince hamza spoke of poor and incompetent governance in that video without naming the king but could this be the remark of a bitter half brother deprived of his status as crown prince or is there truth behind really saying. well it's not new that he left. his death as a crown prince it's more than 15 years now that he's not a crown prince so basically i don't see direct link between that specie that he after that he had a lot of very famous letter saying that he has no desire for governance and he would understand this then he appeared in recent years morse lee engaging in domestic issues so it's not it's something unusual surprising to see that these words which is common and boredom i though it recently in public opinion there's very high criticism toward the public the food let's say

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah here there are thousands of it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues le

is without a doubt a strategic partner of saudi arabia. the partnership started 80 years ago. >> and the crown prince making reference to the meeting by fdr back in 1945 with the long relations there. for the first time he said about iran i want to see relations prosper, not to have difficult relations with our neighbor. that is quite a shift, but he held a firm line, if you will, rosemary, on nuclear ambitions by iran and using proxies from yemen to attack the kingdom. this is why tony blinken was saying they'd like to see the war in yemen dragging on and led by saudi arabia come to a close. >> john, the crown prince announced that saudi arabia is in talks to sell off 1% of state oil firm aramco. what is the motivation behind that? >> he is trying to unearth value from that crown jewel of the kingdom. it is the largest oil company in the world, they did a partial listing at the end of 2019 only in riyadh with regional aspirations by the crown prince to go to new york or london, but he is talking now about sending a 1% stake to a large ene

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and nanny in saudi arabia. both kelly and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in compare a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. and how he says like many kenyans his mother's death runs a cigar felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew tree. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser here. with a pandemic income from

attacks into saudi arabia and they really want to happen but this is happening cunts. so much because that's of negotiations between the u.s. and your audience of a j c p o ok so i'd imagine that quite a lot going to need to happen in terms of those u.s. iran talks for saudi iran talks to the. barony any fruit because the iranians of course will see their role there in yemen as as leverage and the saudis will not be keen to suddenly come out as major supporters of. shooting as you pointed out yemen is a republic the spirit of democracy lives deep in its history can you ever see the people of yemen accepting a government put in place by an absolute monarchy like saudi absolutely not i mean in their north yemen's where yemen was under you know turkish ottoman rule and then a kingdom came about and there was a revolution or sorry like a cool against the kingdom and they fight 8 years to ensure that the monarchy was no longer in power and in the south yemen was under british occupation and people are to really really hard to resist colonial power in the south as well where

arabia and effectively blamed saudi arabia, saying it is saudi arabia's fault opec-plus is not raising production as quickly as india would like. we are getting to the point where the people in the companies that do not benefit from rising commodity prices are starting to speak out. that could be something that puts downward pressure on them. oil has been flat for the last five to six weeks. part of that is because imports are under strain. jonathan: -- tom: thank you so much. paul wallace, bloomberg's editor for middle east and north africa as well. lisa abramowicz, what we focus on? lisa: today i'm curious about chair powell and how he will tow the line between earnings and inflationary pressure and the idea we have the tools to keep it in check. i am also very interested to see what apple and facebook have to say and what apple will do with all of that cash. tom: i will go to use of cash. i do not know what they will do with it. there's a lot of speculation and rumors on it. our team will assist on that. i will dovetail them into the boom we see in big technology and among the prosp

central command the middle east i think a very steady vision of what they would like in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defense of course we you know we saw these issues with the iranian shooting medium range missiles in recent years i think that might be more of a driver of the lack of u.s. short. range air defense capability in that need to move those patriot batteries out if you reduce your force structure in the face of. less tensions in that region it allows you to ramp back up again rather than on a day to day basis flying b. 52 is over to send some signal then what are you going to do if you need to ratchet up and and i think if you take a look at what's going on in the broader region again you now have a renewed russian threat to ukraine might be perfectly natural that the u.s. makes make sure that it could have a naval presence increased naval presence in the mediterranean vers

central command the middle east i think a very steady vision of what they would like in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defense of course we you know we saw these issues with the iranian shooting in medium range missiles in recent years i think that might be more of a driver of the lack of u.s. short. range air defense capability in that need to move those patriot batteries out if you reduce your force structure in the face of. less tensions in the region it allows you to ramp back up again rather than on a day to day basis flying b. 52 is over to send some signal then what are you going to do if you need to ratchet up and and i think if you take a look at what's going on in the broader region again you now have a renewed russian threat to ukraine might be perfectly natural that the u.s. makes make sure that it could have a naval presence increased naval presence in the mediterranean ve

officials from saudi arabia and iran have held diplomatic talks this month in an effort to ease tensions the cut ties 5 years ago after saudi arabia's execution of a shia cleric which spawned violence against its embassy in tehran the recent talks were held in iraq in early april and are reported to have included discussions about attacks from yemen into saudi arabia by iran backed with the rebels so it is quoted in the report say discussions also focused on lebanon's political vacuum and concerns among some gulf states about the influence of hezbollah in the region mark fitzpatrick is a former united states deputy assistant secretary of state he says joe biden's to retreat from the middle east is pushing saudi arabia to take matters into its own hands. well this is a very good step you know the saudis have been wanting the united states to carry their water for them they've been demanding a seat at the table in the talks with iran to restore the j.c. way but now they have their own table set directly with iran and you know i don't think they're going to resolve their differences overnig

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face a disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. yeah here there are thousands of it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone . lebannon exports $400000.00 tons of agricultural produce every year one forest to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues le

attacks into saudi arabia and they really want to happen but this is happening. so the much bigger sense of negotiations between the u.s. and your audience of a j c p oh ok so i'd imagine that quite a lot going to need to happen in terms of those u.s. iran talks for saudi iran talks through the. barony any fruit because the iranians of course will see their role there in yemen as as leverage and the saudis will not be keen to suddenly come out as major supporters of. tritium as you pointed out yemen is a republic the spirit of democracy lives deep in its history but can you ever see the people of yemen accepting a government put in place by the absolute monarchy like saudi absolutely not i mean in their north yemen's where yemen was under you know turkish ottoman rule and then a kingdom came about and there was a revolution or sorry like a cool against the kingdom and they fight 8 years to ensure that the monarchy was no longer in power and in the south yemen was under british occupation and people are to really really hard to resist colonial power in the south a

these farmers in lebanon are harvesting lettuce meant for households in saudi arabia but after the saudi government imposed a ban on lebanese produce they fear the agricultural sector will face the disaster saudi officials say the shipments are being used to smuggle drugs. and had there are not that it's an arbitrary decision and so we ask the saudis to reverse the ban we're not all drug dealers and smugglers you can't punish everyone lebannon exports 400000 tons of agricultural produce every year one forced to saudi arabia and the wider gulf region it's millions of dollars for a country facing a deep economic and financial crisis. we don't export pomegranates investigations show the truck came from syria but yes you can argue the lebanese government is not doing its job there are no scanners at the borders with syria or at the ports corruption in governance has plagued this country for years there is little control along its borders whether with neighboring syria or at ports where smuggling is rampant and evasion of custom tax costs the state billions of dollars in revenues levanon has

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia. both kalita and his 8 year old brother up to stay back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in compare a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. he says like many kenyans his mother stuffer runs a filter have no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew tree. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser beer. with a pandemic income from kenyans working abroa

to flee to saudi arabia since then the country has become a regional battleground with the saudi led coalition bolstered by the u.s. the u.k. and france intervening on behalf of heads internationally recognized government it's widely believed iran is arming the hutus although to her on continues to deny the accusation 6 years into the conflict yemen is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world millions are on the brink of famine and roughly one yemeni child dies every 75 seconds the u.n. has also warned of a deadly resurgence of cold in $1000.00 cases is yemen doing to regional power struggles and foreign intervention and what will it take to bring relief to the millions of people suffering joining me to debate this are from lansing mi. anti-war advocate an assistant professor of education at michigan state university and from new york peter sellers barry senior analyst for yemen at the crisis group thank you both for joining me in the arena peter i want to start with you that the war in yemen has often been described as a proxy war with the saudi backed coalition bombin

to flee to saudi arabia since then the country has become a regional battleground with a saudi led coalition bolstered by the u.s. the u.k. and france intervening on behalf of heads internationally recognized government it's widely believed iran is arming the hutus although to her on continues to deny the accusation 6 years into the conflict yemen is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world millions are on the brink of famine and roughly one yemeni child dies every 75 seconds the u.n. has also warned of a deadly resurgence of called $1000.00 cases is yemen doing to regional power struggles and foreign intervention and what will it take to bring relief to the millions of people suffering joining me to debate this are from lansing mi. anti-war advocate an assistant professor of education at michigan state university and from new york peter styles barry senior analyst for yemen at the crisis group thank you both for joining me in the arena peter i want to start with you that the war in yemen has often been described as a proxy war with the saudi backed coalition bombing the countr

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to flee to saudi arabia since then the country has become a regional battleground with a saudi led coalition bolstered by the u.s. the u.k. and france intervening on behalf of heads internationally recognized government it's widely believed iran is arming the hutus although to her on continues to deny the accusation 6 years into the conflict yemen is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world millions are on the brink of famine and roughly one yemeni child dies every 75 seconds the u.n. has also warned of a deadly resurgence of call it $1000.00 cases is yemen doing to regional power struggles and foreign intervention and what will it take to bring relief to the millions of people suffering and joining me to debate this are from lansing mi. anti-war advocate an assistant professor of education at michigan state university and from new york peter styles barry senior analyst for yemen at the crisis group thank you both for joining me in the arena peter i want to start with you the war in yemen has often been described as a proxy war with the saudi backed coalition bombing the countr

attacks into saudi arabia and they really want to happen but this is happening cunts. so the much bigger sense of negotiations between the u.s. and your audience of a j c p oh ok so i'd imagine that quite a lot going to need to happen in terms of those u.s. iran talks for saudi iran talks through the. barony any fruit because the iranians of course will see their role there in yemen as as leverage and the saudis will not be keen to suddenly come out as major supporters of. shooting as you pointed out yemen is a republic the spirit of democracy lives deep in its history can you ever see the people of yemen accepting a government put in place by an absolute monarchy like saudi absolutely not i mean in their north yemen's where yemen was under you know turkish ottoman rule and then a kingdom came about and there was a revolution or sorry like a cool against the kingdom and they fight 8 years to ensure that the monarchy was no longer in power and in the south yemen was under british occupation and people are to really really hard to resist colonial power in the south as we

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new nations saudi arabia and turkey are sending emergency aid to india and the 1st batch of russia's sputnik vaccine will reach india on saturday will also send 1000000 packs of the. vital drugs by the end of may and doctors in india fear the worst is yet to come elizabeth put on them reports from new delhi. india may be experiencing the world's worst outbreak of cholera the 19 but millions of people still turned out to elect to regional leaders in the state of west bengal on monday it's one of 5 states that has held elections in recent weeks despite the drastically rising number of infections that. hospitals across the country are facing a critical shortage of beds and oxygen the u.s. and u.k. have responded by sending life saving medical supplies to india we want to try them all the support because their close friends increasingly important partners but also we need this kind of international collaboration if we're going to get through the pandemic we don't can be safe until we're all safe. once the aid arrives armed police are deployed to escort the precious cargo that says region

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his majesty's airports while he was saudi arabia this means that. are politically speaking or diplomatically speaking there is no proof that the saudis might be interested in such issue otherwise i think there are all the wouldn't have been addressed in this way prince hamza spoke of poor and incompetent governance in that video without naming a king but could this be the remark of a bitter half brother deprived of his status as crown prince or is there truth behind resigning. well i knew that he left. his death as a crown prince of more than 15 years now that he's not a crown prince so basically i don't see direct link between that specie that he after that he had a lot of very famous letter saying that he has no desire or upper title governance and he would understand this then he appeared in recent years morse lee engaging in domestic issues so it's not it's something unusual surprising to see that these words which is common and boredom i though it recently in public opinion there's very high produces and poured the public the food let's say gov

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia. both kylie and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in complera a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. and he says like many kenyans his mother stuffer runs a sega felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. with. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of the family. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 us dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old nephew. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser. with a pandemic income from kenyans wo

and saudi arabia are among those who have expressed support jordan security forces say investigations into prince hamza are ongoing for more i am now joined by reporter. who specializes on the middle and far east the government says the prince the former crown prince was essentially putting the country's security instability at risk were there any signs that this was coming. good morning to you michael well i think one can't emphasize enough how this feels like it's coming out of nowhere i mean jordan is a country that is you know it's in a tough neighborhood bordering saudi arabia iraq syria has a long border with israel and also the west bank and it's often seen as kind of an outlier in the region that is often unfortunately plagued with instability however if you zoom in a little bit into the internal situation i think one can see clues as to what is going on here so the country has really suffered under the code in 1000 hand demick economically and it has also had to go you know how to undergo some very very serious austerity measures that are starting to be really really painful

i think very serious questions about saudi arabia is human rights. articulate in the conservative party we saw those photos of david cameron in the desert with mohammed bin solomon sort of a over the last couple of days as well. why are they so keen on building a relationship with this country given what we know about how it�*s conducted itself in world affairs and the terrible human rights abuses that we see there? given that there is an allegation made p. m. lobbied by saudi prince we found the rest of the story that the mail does give the government side. i�*ll get a the mail does give the government side. i�*ll geta read the mail does give the government side. i�*ll get a read that other balance. the government spokesman said while we welcome overseas investment this was a commercial matter for the parties concerned and the government was not involved at any point in the takeover talks. tom, some of the story for us. it�*s tom, some of the story for us. it's a funny one- _ tom, some of the story for us. it's a funny one- i— tom, some

his majesty's efforts while he was saudi arabia this means there. are politically speaking or diplomatically speaking there is no proof that the saudis might be interested in such issue otherwise i think there are all the law wouldn't have been addressed in this way what could the problem be not a potential enemy but a definite and confirm friend of thinking of the united states here which recently announced an agreement which would allow the free entry of american troops out of the kingdom's territory could that be a factor somehow some resentment about that. well this is interesting but to be honest this kind of military cooperation and agreement has been all over the years so there's nothing new in there that might lead for a new event let's say or to be a trigger for a new movement i doubt that this is linked. to any of these issues i think it's more domestic issues. crowd prince. you know the presence of. a decently like a man or in the last 3 years prison terms there has been a bit active social media tweeting criticizing the situation recentl

ok, now we go to dhahran, saudi arabia, for our last question from hiya shah. thank you so much for having me. - i am hiya shah, i'm17 years old, i'm part of the un- generation equality forum youth group| and i am also a un delegate for girls learn international. i also run my own non—profit called fundraising for- the girl child, and my question is, how can we ensure - that women have equal| representation in power in places of decision—making and leadership? _ thank you. right, well, all that and you're only 17 here. my goodness me. all right, let's come to you, ellenjohnson sirleaf, how do we ensure equal representation and power in decision—making and leadership? can ijust say here, ellenjohnson sirleaf, because i know in 2016 liberia introduced a new law reserving parliamentary seats for women, young people and people with disabilities. i mean, are quotas one of the ways forward? we need more than that, we need an enabling environment. and for that, we go back to changing attitudes. and women cannot be the only ones that fight to change these attitud

that's because she's taken a job as a domestic worker and a nanny in saudi arabia. both colleagues and his 8 year old brother up to have stayed back in kenya under the care of their grandmother they live in complera a huge slum on the edge of nairobi. i'm home he says like many kenyans his mother stuffer runs a cigarette felt she had no other choice than to seek work abroad. the money that my daughter was making here in kenya just wasn't enough she decided to go to saudi arabia for the sake of a family life. we depend on her for everything she went in january 2020 and says she won't be back until january 2022. 2022. at 1st stuffer runs us and all her income to kenya up to $230.00 u.s. dollars a month it's not only her mother and children who depend on the money so do his siblings and 5 year old tree. i use the money to pay school fees for the children i buy their school uniforms and food for everyone. she doesn't send any money we just have to make do because we have no other form of income to cover the rent and buy food so we just purser here. with a pandemic incom

is the biggest exporter saudi arabia is the biggest in puerto hardly a big surprise. the usa is the biggest military spender my report looks at the global military spending and of course usa spending $778000000000.00 it's indeed they're the largest spender by far in the world this is followed by china the 2nd largest spender in the world saudi arabia actually has seen its bush spending for the last year by 10 percent are only the 6th largest spent in the world do you think that trend will continue. we see that the general increase in global spending is something that possibly can continue in the years to come given that militia spending often is seen as having a strong inertia so many of these top spenders are implementing very long term and hugely expensive military modernization and procurement programs and of course this last all the way into the 2030s in china 2040 s. and in the u.s. from its nuclear program to 25 to 20 fifties so indeed if you look at these largest spending countries continue to increase it would be if we tried the global trend to continue to inc

arabia with you know people like prince are. being hung from his feet and the ritz allegedly and his fortune taken the same thing as essentially going on versus fox versus m.s.m. b.c. they're fighting for the decreasing remnants of of an empire like what they get exorbitant privilege but you know 2000 is quite important because of course we went to the gold standard in 1971 and that set in motion the possibility for what happened in 2000 which was that president clinton as he left office 3 things he did he got rid of the classical act he also got introduced the commodities futures modernization act those 2 helped the banks plunder. like j.p. morgan banker plundered his grandmother we helped banks plunder the productive capacity of the economy and then of course that couldn't have happened however without somebody being able to produce all or goods that the wealthy need and that is china being elevated to the w c o n favored nation status right the charge effect of december men of the american middle class thanks to bill clinton

arabia with you know people like prince are. being hung from his feet and the ritz allegedly and his fortune taken the same thing as essentially going on versus fox versus m.s.m. b.c. they're fighting for the decreasing remnants of of an empire like what they get that exorbitant privilege but you know in 2000 is quite important because of course we want the gold standard in 1971 and that set in motion the possibility for what happened in 2000 which was that president clinton as he left office 3 things he did he got rid of the classical act he also got introduced the commodities futures modernization act those 2 helped the banks plunder. like j.p. morgan banker plundered his grandmother we helped banks plunder the productive capacity of the economy and then of course that couldn't have happened however without somebody being able to produce all our goods that the wealthy need and that is china being elevated to the w c o n favored nation status right the child fact of december men of the american middle class thanks to bill clint

is the biggest exporter saudi arabia is the biggest in puerto hardly a big surprise. the usa is the biggest military spender my report looks at the global military spending and of course usa spending $778000000000.00 it's indeed they're the largest spender by far in the world this is followed by china is the 2nd largest spender in the world saudi arabia actually has units but if you're spending 4 in the last year by 10 percent are only the 6th largest spent in the world do you think that trend will continue. we see that the general increase in global spending is something that possibly can continue in the years to come given that militia spending often seen as having a strong inertia so many of these top spenders are implementing very long term and hugely expensive military modernization and procurement programs and of course this last all the way into the 2030s in china 2040 s. and in the u.s. from its nuclear program to 25 to 20 fifties so indeed if you look at these largest spending countries continue to increase it would be if we tried the global trend to continue

arabia with you know people like prince are. being hung from his feet and the ritz allegedly and his fortune taken the same thing as essentially going on versus fox versus m.s.m. b.c. they're fighting for the decreasing remnants of of an empire like what they get exorbitant privilege but you know in 2000 is quite important because of course we want the gold standard in 1971 and that set in motion the possibility for what happened in 2000 which was that president clinton as he left office 3 things he did he got rid of the classical act he also got introduced the commodities futures modernization act those 2 helped the banks plunder. like j.p. morgan banker plundered his grandmother we helped banks plunder the productive capacity of the economy and then of course that couldn't have happened however without somebody being able to produce all or goods that the wealthy need and that is china being elevated to the w c o n favored nation status right the child effect of december of the american middle class thanks to bill clinton and w

secretary of defense he says it's a reminder to saudi arabia that it's not an indispensable u.s. ally in the middle east. i actually think that this is a fairly routine matter even though it's understandable that the saudis may see this or interpret this as being some sort of signal by the administration and frankly the u.s. central command the middle east i think of a very steady vision of what they would light in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defense of course we you know we saw these issues with the iranian shooting in medium range missiles in recent years i think that might be more of a driver of the lack of u.s. short. range air defense capability in that need to move those patriot batteries out if you reduce your force structure in the face of. less tensions in that region it allows you to ramp back up again rather than on a day to day basis flying b. 52 is over to send some