well, russia is not necessarily interested in the middle east because of the middle east, per say. what russian president vladimir putin is after is to weaken the united states in the west. and the middle east is adjacent to europe and the united states has been the major actor in the region. so by intervening and syria and rescuing bashar are said, he made an impression on other leaders in the region. in contrast to the way in which they viewed president obama's actions when there was an uprising in egypt in which after just a few days the president ice, they started talking about america's 30 year ally in egypt about a transition from power ferocity, mubarak that difference where the days supported are set, are not made an impression on the leaders in the major powers in the region that the russians were competent, non ideological, and making a play for leadership in the region that undoubtedly, undoubtedly those actions made. the russians seem a more attractive option than united states, and suddenly the russians are selling more weaponry to the egyptians than they have since th

china to get a monopoly on the middle east energy trade. china is also an attractive partner to dictators in the region who are looking for more tools of repression and civilis that the chinese have perfected as a world leading human rights and democracy defended u.s. should push back on the spread of these tools of oppression. but at the same time a hope this hearing considers whether it's worthwhile to approach every middle east issue through a lens of u.s.-china competition. for example, china's recent sale of armed drones to saudi arabia does not mean that we should rush to provide those drones are cells that the saudis have a clear record of miss using such weapons yemen and we are right to distance ourselves from these abuses. chinese investment into the vanity projects shiny new cities for egypt president sisi and the saudi crown prince was questionable returns for investors. there's no compelling reason why the united states should be seeking to counter china's investment any projects with our own funny. there are limited areas wher

east, the chinese has an impact on the middle east. now, it seems that the chinese view the middle east and the region as a primary region competition for the united states. so china is entering that with the middle east, military bases, trying to get to the military embassy. they see a vacuum, and american vacuum. now, a lot of the stuff in the obama administration, this current administration, will vehemently deny, but it should be noted -- and sort of, you know, that the youth actually exist, for the first time. but underground, people see the middle east. they feel that the united states has withdrawn. they feel that there is a rebalancing, and the same with iran, right? in syria, it doesn't help. lebanon is less than the iranians. and in iran, they have an iran- backed militia. so it is important. after world war ii, they were pillars. saudi arabia, iran, georgia, all of these are components of the structure that they have decided is the right security, architecture for the region. the united states, where have they gone? we all l

well, russia is not necessarily interested in the middle east because of the middle east, per say. what russian president vladimir putin is after is to weaken the united states in the west. and the middle east is adjacent to europe and the united states has been the major actor in the region. so by intervening and syria and rescuing bashar are said, he made an impression on other leaders in the region. in contrast to the way in which they viewed president obama's actions when there was an uprising in egypt in which after just a few days, the president nice. they started talking about america's 30 year ally in egypt about a transition from power ferocity, mubarak that difference weather days supported asada not made an impression on the leaders in the major powers in the region that the russians were competent, non ideological, and making a play for leadership in the region that undoubtedly, undoubtedly those actions made the russians seem a more attractive option than united states. and suddenly the russians are selling more weaponry to the egyptians than they have since the early

well, russia is not necessarily interested in the middle east because of the middle east per say. what russian president vladimir putin is after is to weaken the united states in the west. and the middle east is adjacent to europe, and the united states has been the major actor in the region. so by intervening in syria and rescuing bashar assad, he made an impression on other leaders in the region. in contrast to the way in which they viewed president obama's actions when there was an uprising in egypt in which after just a few days, the president nice. they started talking about america's 30 year ally in egypt about a transition from power for us, new mubarak, that difference whether days supported offset or not made an impression on the leaders in the major powers in the region that the russians were competent, non ideological, and making a play for leadership in the region that undoubtedly, undoubtedly those actions made the russians seem a more attractive option than the united states. and suddenly, the russians are selling more weaponry to the egyptians than they have since t

well, russia is not necessarily interested in the middle east because of the middle east, per say. what russian president vladimir putin is after is to weaken the united states in the west, and the middle east is adjacent to europe. and the united states has been the major actor in the region. so by intervening in syria and rescuing bashar assad, he made an impression on other leaders in the region. in contrast to the way in which they viewed president obama's actions when there was an uprising in egypt, in which after just a few days, the president, i say, started talking about america's 30 year ally in egypt about a transition from power for a hosni mubarak. that difference where the days supported asada not made an impression on the leaders and the major powers in the region that the russians were competent, non ideological, and making a play for leadership in the region that undoubtedly, undoubtedly those actions made the russians seem a more attractive option than the united states, and suddenly the russians are selling more weaponry to the egyptians than they have since the e

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not only the middle east. there are two billion muslim people all over the world. i we should differentiate between them and europe and western _ worlds in particular. they have a feeling there, about 90% of the people i of the muslim world believe freedom of expression is practised _ only to insult muslims. you know, you have a problem with cartoons offensive - towards the prophet about mohammed and now these satanic verses - are blasphemous completely and it's offensive. _ salman rushdie, he was very cruel when he talked - about the prophet muhammad and his wives and to talk- about the wives of the prophet is really very dangerous. - people, i believe 95% of the people never read the satanic verses. - i was here when it was published in this country 40 years ago. - there were demonstrations all over the muslim world and many people | were killed and again- with the cartoons, offensive cartoons, again there was a huge - demonstration against this and many people were killed again. so it is a dilemma here. people are asking why - there are people and there was in p

s. foreign policy in the middle east. i want to plead guilty 100 times because in west the united states pulls out of afghanistan and iraq until they stop drone strikes in somalia, pakistan and yemen, and stop attacking muslim lands. we will attack the united states and be out to get them. it's a war and i am a part of it. and while the u. s. bombing campaigns have since been reduced, the government installed by the us have proved that they are unable to exist without constant us support. that was, of course, the case in afghanistan were the nato back government fell in a matter of just 10 days. the u. s. then turn it back on the country, replacing billions of dollars in aid with crushing sanctions, will lead to a devastating humanitarian crisis. and most notably the same group that was defined as a terrorist organization and targeted for 20 years by the u. s. is now back in charge . the war on terror came full circle when the afghan government fled and the taliban took control of the nation's capital. they had washington

i think obama had a revolutionary vision for the middle east. i don't know that biden shares that vision. you certainly do not see those kinds of quotes coming from president biden. to what extent does the circle of advisors that they share half that revolutionary view? what helps us understand the approach, it was interesting because this i saw as the jcpoa was being negotiated, you would hear this much more explicitly from european countries than you would from the u.s. administration i think because of political digestibility of it. the approach was, you lay out the terms of the jcpoa to a neutral audience or an audience that is learning about it for the first time and they actually cannot believe it. you lay it out and you often are met with skepticism. how is it possible that they agreed to do this? >> thanks. andrea, back to you. i put words in your mouth a minute ago when i was talking to rob and i said that you said this was the capping the iaea. this i mean the concessions regarding the possible military dimensions of the program that h

that the middle east is really. on the edge of starvation. they have corruption, they have currencies falling down, - the prices going up, - energy prices going up, food prices going up, i everything is going up and people are suffering there. so the name of the game is it could be arab - food spring very soon. maria, you mentioned that there are various proposals for capping energy prices, and the british labour party, the opposition, sir keir starmer, came up with one that he said would have an impact on inflation and the experts seemed to agree it would, but only a six—month plan. again it's a short—term plan, and then a longer—term plan is the labour party plan to connect a minimum wage to the cost of living, which seems a very reasonable thing to do, but we definitely need a longer—term strategy and you were saying, henry, about the inflation reduction bill being partly under climate change, but the green new deal, which is again part of the labour party here's plan, seems to be a more sustainable in both senses way of going forw

they're all over the middle east. they're now in west africa, south of the sahara, east africa, some parts of south asia. so it will kill a leader. but that tends to help these groups continue to grow and, and get support isn't the problem is not the groups. are the leaders or the strategies of the west? necessarily. the problem is that you have millions and millions, tens or hundreds of millions of people living in an acceptable conditions of poverty of destitution, authoritarian governments, and they have no hope. and it's inevitable that some of them break often create these kinds of groups and there's going to be more at least a splintering of these groups taking place. and they adapt of god that has adapted after the death of in latin and after the death of the 2 other successors including the son. and now after the death of swati, they keep adapting and they join local groups like in yellow, northern syria that become part of the local landscape with a try to. and they will keep trying to do that. the level beco

i think obama had a revolutionary vision for the middle east. i do not know that biden shares that revolutionary vision. you do not see those kinds of quotes coming from president biden. to what extent does the circle of advisors that they share have -- shared that revolutionary view? i think it also helps understand the approach. it was interesting because this i saw as the jcpoa was being negotiated, and justified after. you would hear this much more explicitly from european countries then you would from the u.s. administration. i think because of political digestibility of it the approach was, you lay on the terms of the jcpoa to a neutral audience or an audience that is learning that for the first time. they actually cannot believe it. you laid out and you are met with skepticism. how is it possible that they agreed to do this? they say why would you do this. what the europeans would tell you is, that this is supposed to be eight solution. by engaging our on -- iran diplomatically eventually they see the light. as we heard, joined the commun

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as her young reporter, my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's, they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. ah. when we speak about bay roads golden age as dismissal under the middle east, we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is are offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel distr

that the middle east is really on the edge i of starvation. they have corruption, - they have currencies falling down, the prices going up, energy prices going up, . food prices going up, i everything is going up and people are suffering there. so the name of the game is it. could be arab food spring very sooi'i. maria, you mentioned that there are various proposals for capping energy prices, and the british labour party, the opposition, sir keir starmer, came up with one that he said would have an impact on inflation and the experts seemed to agree it would, but only a six—month plan. again it's a short—term plan, and then a longer—term plan is the labour party plan to connect a minimum wage to the cost of living, which seems a very reasonable thing to do, but we definitely need a longer—term strategy and you were saying, henry, about the inflation reduction bill being partly under climate change, but the green new deal, which is again part of the labour party here's plan, seems to be a more sustainable in both senses way of going for

not only the middle east. there are two billion muslim people all over the world. i we should differentiate between them and europe and western _ worlds in particular. they have a feeling there, about 90% of the people i of the muslim world believe freedom of expression is practised _ only to insult muslims. you know, you have a problem with cartoons offensive - towards the prophet mohammed and now these satanic verses _ are blasphemous completely and it's offensive. _ salman rushdie, he was very cruel when he talked - about the prophet muhammad and his wives and to talk- about the wives of the prophet is really very dangerous. - people, i believe 95% of the people never read the satanic verses. - i was here when it was published in this country 40 years ago. - there were demonstrations all over the muslim world and many people | were killed and again- with the cartoons, offensive cartoons, again there was a huge - demonstration against this and many people were killed again. so it is a dilemma here. people are asking why - there are people and there was in particu

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. or the palestinian presidency of called on the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on gaza and to provide protection to people that hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people. have garza pensions have been high in the west bank of the month, arrayed by israeli security forces, correspondence. abraham having the past and in presidency, has condemned the installation, calling a dangerous calling upon the international community to intervene to stop what they called it. these rainy exclamation also we heard from the palestinian prime minister, how much the you talking about the escalation saying, it's israel that started this week, people to enter my la, go out in the throughout the protest, calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation engineering in the north will be occupied with bank. this is we're excited to senior plumbing. she had b. there was a

on the un special coordinator for the middle east has warmed the security council. the ceasefire garza between israel, palestinian islamic john rufus, fragile tor winans lamps, and any resumption of vicinities would be devastated. the european union has tabled a final text as talks over reviving b. 2015 iran nuclear dio wrap up in vienna. talk you diplomat. jasa barrios said a monday, what can't be negotiated. husband negotiated. united states says it's ready to conclude an agreement quickly based on the text. but it rom says it needs a comprehensive review or treat a policies from the quincy institute. he says, there been compromises on both sides. i think we are more aware of the issues. where do you run years? have back down, for instance. they are no longer insist sting on the vanya revolutionary carter quotes to be taken off. the u. s. is terrorists less. they have also indicated that they are now satisfied with the assurances that they will be given to us, will not be withdrawn from the deal. again, however, it does not seem to be a particularly strong assuran

still has a strong relationship with countries in the middle east? or could this perceived kowtow to saudi arabia actually heard it, particularly in the eyes of strategic rivals and adversaries. it's definitely so that saudi arabia has arabia actually heard it, particularly in the eyes of strategic a close has close ties with with with the u s. still there very much dependent on weapons deliveries and their contracts long running contracts. i mean there is no way that saudi arabia could say we we don't want to have anything to do with us any longer or vice versa. so it's more about strategic demonstrate a demonstration of a strategic move the u. s. is making here they want to show to iran to russia. um we are still in we are still having a leverage here um the it was also a sign that the times when uh saudi arabia was isolated because of the murder of john g. that this this chapter is closed now so um so but this has a price and the price is um showing showing that that this close cooperation is still in place and it's a deal. i mean they also get qu

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as her young reporter, my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's, they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. ah. when we speak about bay roads golden age as dismissal under the middle east, we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is they're offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel d

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations. ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's bay route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. when we speak about bay roads, golden age, as the switzerland of the middle east, we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is are offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel district, which

i was there onhe assignment andv living in the middle east but the work was starting in iraq and those of us lucky enough to witness a part of history, we were in iraq for a very long time. for 20 years, this war on terror has continued. i don't want to talk about foreign policy or american mistakes or successes. i wrote the book not to do any of that, i wrote the book to correct what i saw as a glaring omission over the last 20 years. as someone who grew up knowing a lot about our allies in world war ii, i could talk about the warsaw uprising, french resistance fighters and we all probably know one or two of the stories, we knew who was fighting alongside of us and in the war on terror, americans and mostos journalists really havent spent enough time trying to figure out who those people were. baguette, i hope it helps feel that void and put iraqis back as in characters in their own modern history because if you follow foreign policy or know anything about iraq, you know there are shelves and shelves of books written by amazing american generals and servicemen and women about their ti

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations. ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's bay route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. when we speak about bay roads, golden age, as dismissal under the middle east, we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is her offering, anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel district, which wa

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as her young reporter, my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's, they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. when we speak about bay roads golden age as dismissal under the middle east. we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is they're offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel distr

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned the palestinian presidencies cold in the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on garza and to provide protection for people there. hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people that garza tensions have been high in the occupied westbank. after months of raids by israeli security forces are correspondent me to abraham has more. the palestinian presidency has condemned de escalation, calling a dangerous calling upon the international community to intervene to stop what they called it. these rainy escalation. also we heard from the palestinian prime minister, how much the you're talking about the escalation saying, it's israel that started this week. people to enter love, go out in the throughout the protest. calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation in jeanine in the north will be occupied with bank. this is we're a sam excited to senior plumbing. she

russia and china and turkey taking the whole middle east control. we have moved to contain the west of o situation and turkeys giving a great hand in order to, to preserve and not the world to fall to chaos. i think that if it goes to debt, the turkey will be kicked out of nature. but what is to nato without jerky it's then it means the ditch with dog, middle east, it's, you know, it is loses, it's one of the core forces they are listening. water aired or gun has to say, if, oh, there, the con wants to make a filament, and sweden to collapse from his side. he can do it. he has all the tools to do it. and, and it's interesting that we are, for the situation that to northern countries are in the rule of anchor. it's highly connected to, these are blocking the nature oh, coming to russian, northern borders and what's happening now in armenian sprites, on, in the black sea, it's all connected. what's happening in crane malaysia's ex prime minister is to make one last effort to overthrow a court ruling that found him guilty of corruption, thus banning hi

russia and china and turkey taking the whole middle east control? we have moved to contain the west of situation and turkey's giving a great hand in order to, to preserve and not the world to, to fall, to k us. i think that if it goes to that turkey will be kicked off of nature. but what is to nato without jerky it's then it means that it's with dog, middle east. if it's, you know, it's loses. it's one of the core forces they are listening. water aired or gun has to say, if, oh, air to con wants to make of finland and sweden to collapse from inside. he can do it. he has all the tools to do it. and, and it's interesting that we are, for the situation that to northern countries are in the rule of anchor. it's highly connected to, these are blocking the nature oh, coming to russian, northern borders and what's happening now in armenian sprites, on, in the black sea, it's all connected. what's happening in crane malaysia's ex prime minister is to make one last effort to overthrow a court ruling that found him guilty of corruption, thus banning him from

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as her young reporter. my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950s to the early seventy's, they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jet set destination. ah. when we speak about bay roads golden age as dismissal under the middle east, we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district. that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is they're offering anessa. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. ah, in 1974, it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this hotel d

s. foreign policy in the middle east. i want to plead guilty $100.00 times because unless the united states pulls out of afghanistan and iraq until they stopped drone strikes in somalia, pakistan and yemen and stop attacking muslim lans we will attack the united states and be out to get them. it's a war and i am a part of it. and while the u. s. bombing campaigns have since been reduced, the government installed by the u. s. have proved that they are unable to exist without constant us support. that was, of course, the case in afghanistan were the nato back government fell in a matter of just 10 days. the u. s. then turned its back on the country, replacing billions of dollars in aid with crushing sanctions, will lead to a devastating humanitarian crisis. and most notably the same group that was defined as a terrorist organization and targeted for 20 years by the u. s. is now back in charge . the war on terror came full circle when the afghan government flood and the taliban took control of the nation's capital. they had

and none of the many residents of the middle east europe seems like a distant paradise. they go to terrible hardships rung to where they expect to find safety and freedom, but nicely has lost faith in europe. she thinks the middle east is safer than i of now i'm going to lebanon because among other things, and who would have thought there is more freedom and lebanon? i heard you say you feel more free here, to what extent? yes, i've been teaching for a long time, and i would like to teach again, although i taught in austria and taught for several years at the american university in austria. take, for example, the problem of climate change, the problem of war and ukraine, or the problem of the pandemic. these are all topics where there is only one black and white and from the point of view of science, this is a failure. and if we compare it with the debates that i can conduct at universities in lebanon, egypt, israel, than i have much more freedom of speech than in austria, not to mention germany, i often had german students who told me, wow, you can still discuss things

i didn't go to school to learn about middle the middle east. i didn't go to school to learn about complex international affairs. i wanted to tell stories that people could relate to and so that was another reason why i wrote this by master baghdad if you don't know anything about iraq, and you don't care about iraq if you don't care about the middle east, i hope that i've written something that's accessible for you to jump into because also at the heart of this it's not just about heroes and it's not just about the band of brothers and it's not just about counterterism and and great spy tales. it's also about families. and getting to know these families the sudanes abu ali al-basri and the other family who is part of my book who are the alchobaces the people who are very tragic figures whose daughter went down a extremist rabbit hole online and became a terrorist. she became a member voluntarily became a member of the islamic state. all these people are real all their stories are true. all of them are very authentic and all of them. i hope will

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. egypt who various media is saying that there is a delegation from egypt that has come or is coming to israel to try and to try mediate between the israeli government and islamic jihad and try and stop this before escalates. still further the us national security spokesman john kirby says israel has the full support of the united states before or like to defend itself to solution. of course we remain committed to the station president strip. busy to jerusalem and. busy we still want to wanted to learn. jordan has more on the reaction in washington dc. abundant ministration is also reaching out of what it calls the relevant parties, asking them to try to calm the situation, to not aggravate attention and to try to was stop of the violence that has been erupt in, in is in southern israel and in the gaza strip. a all day on friday and into the overnight. the bite administration of course, is a very much committed to a 2 state solution, bu

with united nations middle east coordinators called for d escalation of the fighting. kristen salumi has more from the un in new york. there can be no justification for attacks on civilians. those are the words of middle east coordinator toward venice land in response to the recent attacks in gaza. he noted that a 5 year old child is among the dead and express concern that this escalation between palestinian militants and israel. and what he described as the targeted killing of the palestinian islamic jihad leader could further exacerbate tensions in the region intentions, which have been growing and brewing not only in gaza, but also across the west bank. and of course, it's the united nations that gets called in to pick up the pieces after conflicts like this in the occupied territories. and he express concerned that civilians will ultimately be the ones who pay the worst price at a time when international support and international funding to help and situations like this is stretched very thin. so a word of caution from the middle east coordinator or words released

manus: good morning from our middle east headquarters. it is "daybreak europe." tensions over taiwan. urging beijing to refrain from aggressive action over nancy pelosi's expected visit as joe biden's has a u.s. strike killed a key planner of the september 11 attacks. asian stocks and u.s. futures selloff while treasury yields decline. keep a wary eye on the development in taiwan. three times 50. the reserve bank of australia hikes rates by 0.5 for the third consecutive month but says there is no preset path. the aussie dollar drops. that is what you call a dovish hike according to our chief economics correspondent. we will get to enda curran in just a moment. let me show you the equity narrative. we snapped three days of gains on the equities market. 56% have reported. 52% have beaten. that trailed the past five quarters. the results are better according to goldman sachs. they are looking into dovish messaging from the fed but there are a lot of deniers of this dovish messaging from the fed. not least speculation on a fed pivot is overdone and counterproductive.

s. foreign policy in the middle east. i want to plead guilty 100 times because unless the united states pulls out of afghanistan and iraq until they stopped drone strikes in somalia, pakistan and yemen and stop attacking muslim lands. we will attack the united states and be out to get them. it's a war and i am a part of it. and while the u. s. bombing campaigns have since been reduced, the government installed by the u. s. have proved that they are unable to exist without constant us support. that was, of course, the case in afghanistan were the nato back government fell in a matter of just 10 days. the u. s. then turned its back on the country, replacing billions of dollars in aid with crushing sanctions, will lead to a devastating humanitarian crisis. and most notably the same group that was defined as a terrorist organization and targeted for 20 years by the u. s. is now back in charge . the war on terror came full circle when the afghan government flood and the taliban took control of the nation's capital. they had wa

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in the middle east and those winds are shifting around. so for places like cats are now coming in off the golf, so that means much more humidity. we go in for a closer look. there's those winds. anytime it comes off the golf, it's basically scooping up all that moisture and humidity shopping it rate into the city of the house. so high humidity, it will feel about 55 on saturday, or it's a pockets done. they've had some big storms here. this was a scene in karachi not too far away from the clifton beach area, had the windshield wipers going up full blast. they're much of the same in the forecast on saturday with this disturbance spinning around the arabian sea. chuck and rain there. so from grouchy to jacob bad, some pretty big downpours seem likely. turkey looks like this on saturday. no real change in the weather. some cloud showers never really too far away from its stumbles. so got to put the risk in there. and for central africa, it looks like this eastern portions dry, but pretty much west of nairobi is where we're going to get into s

she thinks the middle east is safer. now i'm going to lebanon because among other things, and who would have thought there is more freedom and lebanon? i heard you say you feel more free here, to what extent? yeah, yeah, yes, i've been teaching for a long time. and i would like to teach again, though i taught in austria and taught for several years at the american university in austria. take, for example, the problem of climate change, the problem of war in ukraine or the problem of the pandemic. these are all topics where there is only one black and white and from the point of view of science, this is a failure. and if we compare it with the debates that i can conduct at universities in lebanon, egypt, israel, than i have much more freedom of speech than in austria, not to mention germany, i often had german students who told me, wow, you can still discuss things very openly and critically on various issues, regardless of whether it's about israel, the war in syria or anything else is the ceiling leak. flesh play out th

and the un also the special coordinator for the middle east peace process. also waited and said that he was deeply concerned. while the palestinian presidency has called on the international community to press israel to stop its attacks on gaza and to provide protection to people there. hundreds of people protested in ramallah to show their support for the people of casa tensions had been high in the occupied west bank of the month, a raised by israeli security forces. correspondence need. abraham has the past and in presidency, has condemned the estimation, calling a dangerous calling upon the international community to intervene to stop what they called it. these rainy escalation. also, we heard from the palestinian prime minister, how much the you talking about the escalation saying, it's israel that started this week, people to enter my la, go out in the, throughout the protest. calling for unity calling for retaliation. we've also seen a 10 situation engineering in the north will be occupied with bank. this is we're a sam excited to senior plumbing. she

east and throughout the terrorism community in the middle east, trey yingst joins us now from the middle east bureau. reaction? any early reaction? >> yes, that evening. the leader of al qaeda killed in a u.s. drone strike according to american officials, the successor to usama bin laden and the man the americans have been hunting for the last decade. significant because the strike reportedly took place in kabul, afghanistan, on the cusp of the one year anniversary of the takeover. and warned that the u.s. capability to fight terrorism around the globe specifically in afghanistan could be hindered by the takeover, but that's over there were horizons strike the first of its kind since the takeover is a significant development. especially targeting the leader of al qaeda. this is a man who is responsible in part for a variety of terror attacks over the last two decades including 9/11 and also a variety of other things like the attack on the uss cole off of the coast of yemen and also the bombings in sub-saharan africa, and someone who joined al qaeda in 1998 and was a longtime deputy of us

the mention of none of the many residents of the middle east europe seems like a distant paradise. they go to terrible hardships run to where they expect to find safety and freedom, but nicer has lost faith in europe. she thinks the middle east is safer than i of now i'm going to lebanon because among other things, and who would have thought there is more freedom and lebanon? i heard you say you feel more free here to what extent? yeah, yeah. yes, i've been teaching for a long time, and i would like to teach again though i taught in austria and taught for several years at the american university in austria. take, for example, the problem of climate change, the problem of war and ukraine, or the problem of the pandemic. these are all topics where there is only one black and white and from the point of view of science, this is a failure. and if we compare it with the debates that i can conduct universities in lebanon, egypt, israel, than i have much more freedom of speech than in austria, not to mention germany, i often had german students who told me, wow, you can still discuss thin

russia and china and turkey taking the whole middle east control? we have moved to contain the west of the situation and turkey's giving a great hand in order to, to preserve and not the world to fall decay us. i think that if it goes to that turkey will be kicked out of nature. but what this term may talk without jerky it's then it means that it's without middle east. if it's, you know, it's loses, it's one of the core forces they are listening. water aired or gun has to say, if, oh, air to con wants to make a filament and sweden to collapse from his side. he can do it. he has all the tools to do it. and, and it's interesting that we are, for the situation that to northern countries are, in the rule of anchor, it's highly connected that these are blocking the nature oh, coming to russian, northern borders. and what's happening now in armine are sprites on, in the black sea, it's all connected. what's happening in crane. malaysia's ex prime minister is to make one last effort to overthrow a court ruling that found him guilty of corruption. thus bann

china and turkey taking the whole middle east control. we have moved to contain the west of situation. and turkey's giving a great hand in order to, to preserve and not the, the well to, to fall to pay us. i think that if it goes to debt jerky will be kicked out of nature. but what they need to without jerky it's then it means the digital middle is the it's you know, it, it's loses. it's one of the core forces. they are listening water air to gun has to say if o air to con wants to make of finland and sweden to collapse from inside. he doesn't do it. he has all the tools to do it. and it's interesting that we have for the situation that to northern countries are in the rule of anchor. it's highly connected to dis, blocking the natal coming to russian northern borders and what's happening now in armenia bites on in the black sea. it's all connected. what's happening in crane that there isn't any scandal involving western media coverage as a recent deadly shelling of the town of sped le dusk in the dawn. yes, republican loco say at least 3