arabia. >> hillary clinton confirmed that saudi arabia remained a critical financial base for terrorism. she also said that there was only limited action to stop flow of funds from taliban and other such terrorists groups. saudi arabia was one of three countries in the world to recognize and support the taliban-led government in afghanistan until the 9/11 attacks. it is also a major player in pakistan, now home to most of the world's deadliest terrorists. the country's former law minister told a german news agency that there was no doubt that saudi arabia was supporting groups throughout the country. ever since al qaeda attacked in 2003, the saudis have stamped down on islamic terrorism at home but not ended support for clerics or militants abroad. during the iraq war, much of the support for sunni jihadies came from saudi sources. a pattern that continues in syria today. saudi officials have expressed dismay at president obama's policies in syria and iran, but its objections are not framed by humanitarian concerns for people of those countries. instead they are rooted in a shia ideolog

possibly with one notable and very curious exception and that is saudi arabia saudi arabia that also sees iran as an enemy and a country that also seems to experience at this current moment some difficulties with washington what do you what do you make of these ones and imaginable union dispute the fact that israel has only one alone in the area we share the same set of interests i think that most of the countries in the middle east share the same sort of interest with israel they all fear islamic terrorism the forms of hamas islamic jihad they all despise the countries even syria of president assad and most of all the fear in islamic shiite extreme state like iran holding a nuclear weapon if you go interview the wiki leaks cables that were published just two years ago you'll see transcripts of meetings between rulers of ghost gulf states and emirate countries where they called the american strike iran when they see very favorably a possible aerial strike from israel on only iran that's exactly my point that it is gulf state goal staved that primarily support israel the same goal sta

possibly with one notable and very curious exception and that is saudi arabia saudi arabia that also sees iran as an enemy and a country that also seems to experience at this current moment some difficulties with washington what do you what do you make of these ones and imaginable union dispute the fact that israel has only one alone in the area which share the same set of interests i think that most of the countries in the middle east share the same sort of interest with israel they all fear islamic terrorism the forms of hamas islamic jihad they all despise the countries yemen syria of president assad most of all the fear in islamic shiite extreme state like iran holding a nuclear weapon if you go interview the wiki leaks cables that were published just two years ago you'll see transcripts of meetings between rulers of gold gulf states and emirate countries where they called the americans to strike iran when they see very favorably a possible aerial strike from israel on only iran that's exactly my point that it is goal state goal staved that primarily support israel the same goal

the united states could abandon saudi arabia. because the u.s. has other options. the saudi arabia monarchy does not have. >> monday is the 34th anniversary of iran storming the u.s. embassy in tehran. there is a rally held to commem race that -- commemorate that event. the take over led to members being in prison for more than a year. >> dozens of iranians support this day. remembering the hostage taking and the take over of the u.s. embassy in thai ran. a large compound. the crowd is stretcheded past the embassy, down the street. thousands here. less than in previous years. the sentiment is one of the science regardless of what is going down on the international political stage. people here see the united states as the great statin, and they do not support the normalisation of relations with america. now, in the positive diplomatic atmosphere, the phone call between president obama and the iranian president hassan rouhani, and nuclear talks and optimism surrounding the talks. most iranians support relations with the united states, as i said the people here, the t

there is a healthy debate in saudi arabia about the issue. i think the debate is best left to saudi arabia and the people engaged in it. all of whom know exactly where we many the united states of america stand on this issue. >> while the democrats regularly accuse the gop of waging a war on women it's staggering to hear those remark trs a former presidential nominee of a party that claims to care about women's rights. talk about a gutless, spineless coward. here with reaction to that and more author of "black book of the american left" david horowitz joins us. how are you? >> doing good. hypocrisy is their middle name. here he goes to saudi arabia, bar baric country that won't allow women to drive an automobile. when he goes to the middle east he tells israel which is a democracy that they have to be tolerant toward palestinians supporters of terrorism. they call openly for pushing the jus into the sea and destroying israel. his opinion is stick it to our ally, israel. >> i feel that the administration between supporting morsi, muslim brothe

in interest of saudi arabia. i think it will backfire on saudi arabia. i don't think it's smart to create a public view between two strong friends if their disappointments and disagreements and diplomacy is always better. to keep those private and have private arguments and not to engage in a public feud which i don't think will be helpful and influential the united states. >> 34r ambassador are the saudis with diplomacy on the issue of syria? they can't be against -- they have to understand that the americans are concerned with the funding of sue any extremist groups they have to to be aware that they are concerned about that looking ahead to a post assad government. >> you have most of the fighting being done by radicallist forces. >> and what is your take on this? is this public money or is it live -- private money? >> i assume it's a combination of both. the united states does not want to be funding radical jihad groups. and the obama administration has very little running room on on this. the bigger issue is

secretary of state john kerry is in saudi arabia tonight. he began a 9-day middle east trip - first stop egypt. >> syria's main opposition group is refusing to attend a second round of peace talks in geneva unless certain conditions are met. rebel leaders in the eastern democratic republic of congo are calling for fighters to lay down their guns. tonight we look at so-called blue zones - places where people live longer and healthier lives. [ ♪ music ] >> tonight secretary of state john kerry is in saudi arabia trying to smooth over tensions. his 9-day trip to the middle east began with a quick stop in egypt. it's the highest level visit there since the military removed president mohamed morsi in july. during kerry's 6-hour stay he called for the violence to end and the country to move towards full democracy. we have the latest from washington. >> the first stop made on the trip to the middle east was not to saudi arabia, but instead to cairo egypt. it's the first and highest ranking visit by a u.s. official since july 3rdrd. that's the day

arabia you know that same saudi arabia that gave us a sound in law and fifteen of the one thousand nine eleven hijackers america's alliance with israel and the saudis has been great for arms manufacturers and great for the oil industry but our relationship with those two countries and our refusal to really call out their human rights abuses as fuel. many a jihad jihadi is fire now that israeli saudi american intelligence appears to be cracking israel and saudi arabia both oppose the iranian nuclear deal reached this weekend in geneva switzerland back to iran no one is saying the islamic republic is a perfect country it's not a weak but it's also not the crazy bogeymen caricature that the western media makes it look like it's a culturally rich country with a two thousand or more year old history of literature poetry and philosophy back in the sixth century for example the persian and for cyrus the great issue of the world's first declaration of human rights the cyrus cylinder. and for those who take all that propaganda about appeasement seriously consider this iran has not invaded anothe

report speculative and baseless now i'm in no way trying to defend pakistan or saudi arabia what i am saying is that it seems highly unlikely that either nation would risk the diplomatic blowback of transferring these weapons so how did a story that seems like a bunch of hearsay and speculation manifest in the first place well that starts to become clear when you consider the timing of the story remember right now there are highly significant talks going on in geneva about nuclear proliferation and the potential peace deals not sitting well with israel and or saudi arabia apparently see according to former state department official mark fitzpatrick it is conceivable that saudi arabia planted some of the evidence for the story as a means for putting pressure on the u.s. to be in firm in dealing with iran also the fact of this intelligence was initially gathered from israel precisely at the time of the geneva talks seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most media outlets running a story fear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes

that saudi arabia planted some of the evidence for the story as a means for putting pressure on the us to be in firm in dealing with iran also the fact of this intelligence was initially gathered from israel precisely at the time of the geneva talks seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most to have media outlets running a story fear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes israel and guess what country already has an arsenal of nuclear weapons already kick started a regional arms race and has time and time again below literally refused to comply with any non proliferation treaty peripheral aeration tree i cannot say that word i think you get the point twist the truth to fit your agenda meanwhile all eyes away from the real peace to turn in the middle east that the real weapon of mass destruction. two weeks ago seven point three magnitude earthquake hit near japan's eastern coast the same spot where a nine point zero earthquake hit in two thousand and eleven triggering a catastrophic meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear pow

and indeed george is now considered the frontrunner to replace saudi arabia on the security council a bit of diplomatic musical chairs. now while the council is considered a pre eminent arm of the united nations has come under frequent criticism even retain the un system for example for focusing on the israeli palestinian conflict at the exclusion of others. still the organization has brought up issues of freedom of assembly women's rights and lgbt rights members of the body serve three year terms and no country can serve more than two terms consecutively. stephen p cctv at the united nations in new york. following china's admission to the un human rights council the country's foreign ministry thank those who supported china's of action. well my mother tells feeling generally on some of the election of fourteen new mom that's too easy to minimize console time that gold's favorable votes from the mistakes we need a free in town running from twenty fourteen to twenty sixteen initials and appreciation from the international community of china's achievements in protecting human lives an

at saudi arabia. america wants iran out of the peace negotiations but really the country that has prolonging this war is the core the cause of the instability is saudi arabia and it's it's absurd that saudi arabia is our ally in this region they're going to really regret this one day if not already been funneling all these people foreign nationals into a civil war everyone why did we call a revolution and now it's a proxy war which is taking the lives of a lot of people that do not like these foreigners in their country this is i'm glad you mentioned lebanon earlier because this is what it's going to get down to in my opinion a partition go ahead joseph but you know what i mean i find myself in a kind of a situation as an israeli to intervene between the ground in saudi arabia to decide who started what fair doesn't matter anymore look it was as they call it the phony sense that she's and lo and lebanon and syria have become there are enough of this war whether it was started by the saudis or the iran

that saudi arabia planted some of the evidence for the story as a means for putting pressure on the u.s. to be in firm and dealing with iran also the fact of this intelligence was initially gathered from israel precisely at the time of the geneva talks seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most to have media outlets running a story fear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes israel and guess what country already has an arsenal of nuclear weapons already kickstarted a regional arms race and has time and time again below literally refused to comply with any non proliferation treaty peripheral aeration tree i cannot say that word i think you get the point twist the truth to fit your agenda meanwhile all eyes away from the real peace to turn in the middle east that the real weapon of mass destruction. two weeks ago seven point three magnitude earthquake hit near japan's eastern coast the same spot where a nine point zero earthquake hit in two thousand and eleven triggering a catastrophic meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear p

saudi arabia one of several stops on his middle east tour as the saudi's complain about the syria, iran, and the middle east peace process. >> right now we have things to make certain that the saudi arabia-u.s. relationship is on track moving forward, and doing the things that we need to accomplish. >> the saudi foreign minister telling kerry his country has no problems with the united states. the two countries promising each other that the region they would continue to work together on issues on which they do not agree. >>> there is a new independent report out that says doctors and nurses under u.s. military order participating in the abuse of terrorism suspects according to the institute of medicine. medical professionals actually helped design and enable, quote, torture and cruel inhumane treatment of detainees, unquote. that report based on a two-year study of prison in afghanistan and c.i.a. detention sites at guantanamo bay. the c.i.a. rejected the report findings. >>> the government of pakistan said it will be looking at every aspect of its relationship with united states. that

years. >> saudi arabia -- allowing legal workers -- illegal workers to return to the legal system. they had become illegal because they were freed from the system of patronage. not a regulated system at all. locks them tot their employer who abuse and split them. >> after a million migrant workers find themselves without a sponsor by the end of amnesty, those who have not left the country faced being hounded by saudi authorities. the labor and interior ministries already deployed patrols throughout the country to raid suspected businesses. undocumented workers face around two years in prison and a 20,000 euro fine. >> an old turkish proverb says for every turk is born a soldier but being -- but being in the army is often dramatic. 166 committed suicide the last year, more than double the number killed on the front. our correspondent sent us this report. >> saturday night in the suburbs of the stumble. he is preparing for departure for military service. this traditional celebration marks -- for all turkish men over the age of 20. although the government recently reduced the ranks of

monaco that's now to put it it's in the process of falling apart now this one saudi arabia decides that the us doesn't have their back what interest is saudi arabia have in supporting the dollar i'm not saying this happens overnight max that's what i i said before these are straws in the way i look at the new merging g.c.c. central bank based in riyadh issuing their own currency perhaps person oil in that currency perhaps the rise of the s.t.r. perhaps a regional reserve currency in the in the russian periphery others in northeast asia and there are a lot of regional things emerging the brics are doing a lot of things as you know i'm not saying any one of these things eliminates the dollar overnight i'm saying they all point the same direction over a matter of years to the diminution of the dollars the global reserve currency ok last question was in your book comment new books coming out april eighth it's available for preorder now it's got a nice cheery title the death of money and the coming collapse of the mining dollar insist on having a bit with him in this time of the shock ok i r

arabia for a blank check i mean that's pretty nice for the military. well let's take it step by step pete first i don't really think that the u.s. has any. effects whatsoever in whatever goes on in egypt after the twenty fifth of january it's the egyptian people who are deciding so unlike what people in the opposition may claim that the u.s. is backing morsi you know we used to hear liberals saying that when was he was in power and now we hear people from from the muslim brotherhood claiming that the u.s. is backing in c.c.m. backing the military i honestly believe that the u.s. . did not. support any president after mubarak or any egyptian leader after mubarak ever since the twenty fifth of january the u.s. had been just playing the role of the watcher the viewer. perhaps this is a missionary i mean larry that is a requirement you had let me go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very i mean very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards

monaco that's now to put it it's in the process of falling apart and there's one saudi arabia the size of the u.s. doesn't have their back what interest is saudi arabia in supporting the dollar i'm not saying this happens overnight max that's what i i said before these are straws in the way i look at it and then emerging g.c.c. central bank based in riyadh issuing their own currency perhaps person or on that currency perhaps the rise of the s.t.r. perhaps a regional reserve currency in the in the russian periphery others in northeast asia and there are a lot of regional things emerging the brics are doing a lot of things as you know i'm not saying any one of these things eliminates the dollar overnight i'm saying they all point the same direction over a matter of years to the diminution of the dollar is the global reserve currency ok last question when a book come out new books coming out april eighth it's available for preorder now it's got a nice cheery title the death of money and the coming collapse of the mighty in dollars just on average the knowledge base a bit but in this time

a report from british and pieces concluded that saudi arabia's new taurus me that human rights record is no reason to stop selling billions of pounds and weapons to the kingdom campaigners have accused the government having to despotic regimes in return for profit. smith has more on the controversy of the recall echoing silence the ethical side and out of the uk having this race relations that would operate in saudi arabia you obviously have stopped school human rights records but if it's been a simple thing is that the government finds new ways of sending the races it to the is that snakes through eighteen it's a pretty stupid with his cupcake and not necessarily doing anything of our space contest. rates on hold the tracy said that that is that our consent about juggling human rights with these lucrative trade deals it recognizes that saudi arabia's well as the key practice of arms from the uk is quite controversial. it is said to the balance is no point in anything that relationship it wouldn't set any caps it all. now the campaign against the odds take is no progress to the sixtie

that saudi arabia planted some of the evidence for the story as a means for putting pressure on the u.s. to be in firm and dealing with iran also the fact that this intelligence was initially gathered from israel precisely at the time of the geneva talks seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most to have media outlets running a story fear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes israel and guess what country already has an arsenal of nuclear weapons already kick started a regional arms race and has time and time again below literally refused to comply with any non proliferation treaty peripheral aeration tree i cannot say that word i think you get the point twist the truth to fit your agenda meanwhile all eyes away from the real peace to turn in the middle east that the real weapon of mass destruction. two weeks ago seven point three magnitude earthquake hit near japan's eastern coast the same spot where a nine point zero earthquake hit in two thousand and eleven triggering a catastrophic meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclea

a way that is required even had let me go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards what's going on in cairo right now is positive i mean saudi arabia and israel on two separate sections are probably at their best relations with egypt now since july third the amount of security cooperation that's going on between israel and egypt is unbelievable according to what's going on with the shutdown on hamas right now and the saudi financing of the current regime is really proving to be the backbone of keeping the egyptian economy afloat but the reason why they're doing that is not really they're not in a new energy and mistakenly interested in egyptian democracy though is that what the people want because saudi arabia and israel prefer to deal with dictators in egypt it's been their tradition it's worked out well for them that's that's that's completely incorrect mohamed mohamed morsy negotiated the ceasefire by himself between hamas a

arabia for a blank check i mean and that's pretty nice for the military. well let's take it step by step pete first i don't really think that the u.s. has any. effects whatsoever in whatever goes on in egypt after the twenty fifth of january it's the egyptian people who are deciding so unlike what people in the opposition may claim that the u.s. is backing morsi you know we used to hear liberals saying that when was he was in power and now we hear people from from the muslim brotherhood claiming that the u.s. is backing in c.c.m. backing the military i honestly believe that the u.s. . did not. support any president after mubarak or any egyptian leader after mubarak ever since the twenty fifth of january the u.s. had been just playing the role of the watcher the viewer. perhaps this is a missionary i mean larry that is a requirement here let me go back to greg i mean israel and saudi arabia are very i mean very keen on this regime in cairo right now would you agree or disagree with that. i would say that their position regardless of the relevancy towards wh

that saudi arabia planted some of the evidence for the story as a means for putting pressure on the us to be in firm in dealing with iran also the fact that this intelligence was initially gathered from israel precisely at the time of the geneva talks seems more than just a coincidence after all who would benefit most to have media outlets running a story fear mongering the us into taking a harder line over these negotiations yes israel and guess what country already has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and already kick started a regional arms race and has time and time again below literally refuse to comply with any non proliferation treaty peripheral aeration tree i cannot say that word i think the point twist the truth to fit your agenda meanwhile all eyes away from the real peace to turn in the middle east that the real weapon of mass destruction. two weeks ago seven point three magnitude earthquake hit near japan's eastern coast the same spot where a nine point zero earthquake hit in two thousand and eleven triggering a catastrophic meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power

recognizes that saudi arabia's role as a key purchaser of arms from the u.k. is quote controversial but it says it all balance there's no point in ending that relationship it wouldn't have any purpose at all now the campaign against the arms trade is not impressed with that it is the foreign affairs committee is providing cover basically for the government says it continues to pander to despicable regimes in the service of arms contracts particularly for the manufacture so basically what this report is doing is recognizing the hypocrisy but not doing anything about it representative the campaign against arms trade told us why exactly the group believes the report is misguided. there is a wrong attitude by the british government because it is they're always saying we've got to understand the saudis with quarter pounder to them with to try to understand their point of view we will have influence over them if we take the extra steps if we sold them weapons if we try to foster good relationships we say that that's just the wrong way around you should put human rig

sell you arabia if they want the wages to increase for people living in saudi arabia they put more oil just make their wages in saudi arabia go up you know if it's more crony pumps more money in the bank of england wages don't go up because there's no connection there's no connection you go to hospital buddy you just put your brain surgery because that whatever that book was that severed the circle that such a way as you kid even think straight well speaking of oil we're also going to connect to the back door at the end your house our says was provided a back door bell out to wall street there are of course back doors installed throughout the internet and member we have all this and. as a spy well connected to this permanent austerity for the peasants and a large us for the top australian spy agency helped be h.p. negotiate trade deals b.h.p. billiton is of course the largest resource company in the world they produce all sorts of minerals resources or oil b.h.p. was among the companies helped by australian spy agencies as they no go she did trade deals with japan a former australian s

iran turkey the real big players is right is the detail in saudi arabia come on it's an acronym is them one hundred percent ok daniel that you want to jump in now go ahead here break in a little bit yeah i just wanted to point out something that pepe said earlier he talked about american public opinion what's interesting just in the last day or so there was a rest news and poll that show that the majority of americans are backing this interim agreement so we might be seeing is a replay of what we saw in that toward the end of the summer with the syria situation where the vast majority of the american people are opposed to what attack it's very possible the americans are tired of this confrontational attitude toward iran and syria and then we may be demanding something different and in that case there may actually be a danger of a backlash and further resentment toward israel if israel continues to do what it's doing which is sending an army of lobbyists through the halls of capitol hill telling all sorts of horror stories and of you know getting american congressmen and senators to oppo

this is israel and saudi arabia they don't want this realignment at all and this is really what it's all about they want to keep iran isolated and israel probably with saudi arabia would like the united states somebody else to attack iran but it's the likelihood of that happening is getting smaller at least for the time being. yeah and this is not going to happen this is where the and these are minor players i would like to focus on the major players once again this is the new great game in your asia it has been brewing for the past fifteen years now there's a major realignment in sight number one will the obama administration they have until two thousand and sixteen that's very important finally recognize iran as a sovereign independent can through we've their own independent foreign policy we still don't know if that is the case we're going to have a definitive deal next year and then we're going to have russia china and iran three independent eurasian independent foreign policy from the west that's a major development if it happens all right turkey very important i wrote about thi

keep iran isolated and israel probably with saudi arabia would like the united states somebody else to attack iran but it's the likelihood of that happening is getting smaller at least for the time being. yeah and this is not going to happen this is where the and these are minor players i would like to focus on the major players once again this is the new great game in new regime it has been brewing for the past fifteen years now there's a major realignment in sight number one will the obama administration they have until two thousand and sixteen that's very important finally recognize you run as a sovereign independent can through weave their own independent foreign policy we still don't know if that is the case we're going to have a definitive deal next year and then we're going to have russia china and iran three independent eurasian independent foreign policy from the west that's a major development if it happens all right turkey very important i wrote about this last week turkey wants to position itself as the crossroads of energy transit energy from east to west for that they nee

saudi arabia that goes back to the early one nine hundred seventy s. when the gold window was closed and you had the beginning of the petro dollar but now that is are threatened because of other activities in the middle east because now you've got the collapse of the syrian invasion do you do in part the no vote from the u.k. house of parliament and this detente with iran the saudi arabia and so you're so you see that the gold price to go up and what you're saying is that the playboy states in the gulf as you described them they want to get more liquid in gold to recast this gold because they are now looking toward a post saudi us by bilateral relationship it's a huge change in that relationship i'm speculating that this is the case but this to me seems logical if we take this a bit further then we can get a little bit more frightened perhaps about the implications ok let's do it because go for it because. if they are looking to use the gold for transactions then they are moving away from the dependence on the petro dollar so they're becoming more asia

saudi arabia and qatar turkey is almost regretting its role because it now has to deal with militants on its borders saudi arabia is funding them continuing to bomb them things it has a free it has a license to destroy syria it's astonishing that no one in the west has said that saudi arabia should get out of the syrian conflict right the reality is you can't put the blame on how this started when people jumped in i mean you have backers on both sides and people there will benefactors on both sides but today that bombing in beirut that was claimed by an al-qaeda affiliate in lebanon they said in their message that they will continue attacks until hezbollah and iran leave syria i mean that right there shows you how complicated this is and messy it is right now. because the new round of talks on iran's nuclear program all the israeli prime minister travels to moscow in his last minute to an agreement. nato is european ambitions the blocks planning massive military drills in the e.u. to maintain cooperation after the afghan mission finishes fears it will be hit europe's pockets. are repo

john kerry's mission to the middle east takes him to saudi arabia. some latin americans mark an anniversary with death towards america. >>> crimes he did not commit, a georgia man tells his story. >> doctors take an oath to do no harm. but an independent report claims that doctors violated international standards to help u.s. military and intelligence agencies. al jazeera's tom ackerman with more. >> this is how the u.s. military medical command head describes her group. >> an organization founded on army values, warrior ethos, and a trust that exists between patients and providers. >> but falls far short of that, by an independent task force of medical, legal and ethics experts. military and intelligence agency doctors and psychologists had taken part in abusive interrogation, used medical information for interrogation purposes and force fed hunger strikers. at guantanamo detainees in hunger strike have been force fed in violation of a half century ban by the american medical association. >> this is one of our ethical medical professionals that grou