>> there's so much more to us and to saudis in saudi arabia than that. >> reporter: after her workout hala puts on her long abaya and her head scarf, still required dress for saudi women in public. >> mine is actually pretty colorful. >> it is. >> reporter: she tells us those bright colors were unheard of just a decade ago. so many rules, so much forbidden for so long. when we head to lunch, hala talks about the country's strict past. >> before it was scared of the religious police. like if you were sitting with someone who was your cousin -- >> a man. >> a man. and they're not your brother or father or whatever. they would actually -- they could jail you. >> reporter: at the restaurant we meet halea's sister dania. she's a filmmaker. >> i always say i was born with a camera in my hands. >> reporter: dania's just finished a documentary about saudi arabia. >> change is inevitable. >> there is nothing we have gone through that other nations have not gone through. >> we struggle with this idea of what and who is a saudi woman because it's not -- one thing doesn't tell that story. >> repo

saudi arabia maybe affluent but poverty exists here to. some or all rich she'd is a project manager with an aid organization called. today she and a social worker of visiting a family that the project supports. is in her late forty's and lives with her two daughters and two nieces and. for the interview they're all wearing veils in general the less privileged women in saudi arabia are the more likely they are to abide by convention is. something. that. can be. shaped her is a single mother. without help she would be penniless the father of her children abandoned her she says. my husband said it's enough you're a burden. i already had one daughter and i was pregnant with my second he didn't even know that. i mean that he told me i needed to take responsibility for myself and my daughter and i'm in too much. into. shape her and her family are now supported financially by the on the after foundation it found them an apartment gives them money and clothes and helps pay for the children's schooling single mothers in saudi arabia often have to r

aramco which is the main source of income for saudi arabia they are talking about the i.p.o. which is the initial public offering aid of selling five per cent of saudi arabi cannot be productive assets of oil but different assets four hundred billion dollars that is not going to happen and i will tell you why because the saudis have valued the i.p.o. at more than hundred billion dollars that cannot be right because based on the proven reserves of oil they have. many organisations including ords three general and the world bank and many other analysts said that the value could be based on smaller proven reserves saudi arabia say's it has proven reserves of two hundred sixty eight billion barrels my research shows that that is between eighty and ninety billion and many other experts also agree with that so if you base the i.p.o. value on that smaller reserves i think the value of the i.p.o. is between fifty to seventy five billion still saudi arabia with their eyes is only prices now it does not have to sell at any percentage in the saudi aramco it doesn't need the money financ

mr katie let me start with you the whole things have withstood three years of this of attacks on the saudi led coalition but can they withstand this offensive. i believe they will do all it takes to protect the port and it doesn't mean that if they have been defeated or withdrawn from other areas like in aden that they will give up this second largest city in yemen so easy. well i mean what that is is really really strange that the all the blame is actually on the whole the they heard the i believe the humanitarian coordinator from sanaa she said what matters now is that the fourth estate is this mean that the port actually does. is kind of all been bring some humanitarian aid to yemen some n.g.o.s eighty percent of the aid comes through the port so the hoti existant or president in her day the port does a lot of stock any. of the flow of the humanitarian aid into yemen on the side that should be actually asked and called to stop its of an offensive is this idea that coalition has actually now is that i and to invade the port. is a saying that the operation is a critical step towards achie

a year ago four countries saudi arabia u.a.e. behind and egypt sever ties with qatar and impose their forward blockade it's game after qatar state news agency was packed and fake news posted on it. own investigation has found the group behind the hacking work from a saudi government minister and his phones and computers were connected to the saudi communications company in a separate development size eurabia threatening military action against acquires washing weapons those reports in two of the biggest newspapers in france the figo and le monde they say the saudi crown prince has written to the presidents of friends and the united states of america and the u.k.'s prime minister warning his ready to retaliate if other acquires the s four hundred anti-aircraft defense systems but the threat of military action against their house is not you located in countries were reportedly planning it of the beginning of the crisis one year ago. as we mentioned the crisis began to unfold with qatar news agency was hacked on the twentieth of may

of a country becoming liberal can a country like saudi arabia liberalized so. wolf unless it has a genuine liberal leadership because what sammy seems to be saying is that people are prepared to protest as and when they want to to get more liberal rights and yet they are gifted to them and taken away by people who are completely illiberal. yeah i think i mean not just for saudi arabia i think we need a time and i think change is becoming very still i mean in that region but surely it would come i mean now i really believe that of course now i mean there is no there isn't any genuine. really will political will in saudi arabia so to speak about really liberating women and or saw granting women their rights as for example male guardian ship system is their women and they can't to travel abroad because they have to have the permission of that many guardian either their fathers their brothers their husbands what a bit of that i to do even study abroad they have to be accompanied by a male guardian so yes that odd am still we are living in a very harsh situations as

half of all britain's arms exports go to one country saudi arabia and that's on top of the massive saudi and incidentally also qatari influence that these countries have on the city of london in terms of of ownership. stocks and shares companies and also real estate and let's not forget as well the massive flotation that's coming up of the large part of the saudi sovereign wealth fund the oil fund that is going to come up in the next few months for which london and new york are absolutely falling to to achieve the flotation on their markets and so support saudi arabia for britain or at least the elites running britain and america as well when you look at political donations to the ruling elites running these countries the role of saudi arabia like israel is absolutely vital and the sad thing is that they put on one side the massive lucrative gains that are to be had from continued this relationship is toxic relationship a country like saudi arabia on the other side is the suffering and the deaths of the creation of a humanitarian catastrophe which is largely not being reported in the wes

saudi arabia said he have uruguay next. the russians don't care how bad saudi arabia were, let's hear from some of their fans now. amazing, impressive, full of energy. cheers. is very important to win and have a good start at the tournament. the russian team has not won the past eight games so we played did as good as saudi arabia maybe what we wa nt good as saudi arabia maybe what we want so hopefully now we will be out of the group, it's a good part to get some confidence. we will not win world cup but quarterfinal, we can go to quarterfinal i think. let's get a quick update from the england camp now. away from today's action england forward marcus rashford is expected to take a full part in england training tomorrow after missing yesterday's opening session and working separately from the main group today. he suffered a knock to the knee during a practise match at st george's park on monday. the england squad have been carrying on in their relaxed mood. chelsea defender gary cahill taking on charlie sale of the daily mai

arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support also we have to remember just really how important this relationship particularly saudi arabia is if we think about trump we think about. other government ministers united states and united kingdom their first port of ports of call when they've been put into office isn't their allies in europe or the states often it's usually going off to see two players both of whom are vitally important to british and particular interests one of those is israel and the other one always saudi arabia and so really i think this war is becoming increasingly and embarrassment not just war but the blockade in everything else that goes with it is becoming embarrassment to wester

when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut all diplomatic ties with cattle and house the gulf nation of supporting terrorism a claim doha strongly denies and this year demands including cutting ties with iran and shutting down zero cattle is refusing to give in to those simone's the country's foreign minister has spoken to al-jazeera he discussed the recent reported threats of military action against off from riyadh calling them unjustified. do you believe that qatar could face an attack from saudi arabia first for just that let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimacy believe this behind this letter and threatening its violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly its violating. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an any attack against each other so we believe that this letter has no any legal basis to justify

for the saudi crown prince is also the luzhniki said a supporting the saudi side before the match he met with the world cup mascot. the wolf and signed a football. jersey he would merely at c.u. and he's predicting a russian win tonight despite despite a lot of negativity in the russian press. if i was. checkers off i hope by sharing his name not so lots of wrong i'll be happy because. no expectations no positivity no optimism everybody expects the worst and it can be in this moment in his auto with this players preparing everybody for their. for their country pride. for their let's do it for the country let's do it for ourselves let's do it. against the ones that don't believe in don't believe in so i think can be can be a good thing for them you want my personal opinion i give my personal opinion i think there is a little bit of identity crisis in the russian team we are used at least i think my generation used to have. the russian teams with a certain identity i think they lost a little bit of that identity there in the search of that talent is not in men's. but they have enough t

with all due respect they can't match the capabilities of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. . the u.s. defense cooperation agreement is stated very clear that the u.s. will. be. if it's its will be required and this is also stated in order joint communiqué when we have conducted this i think dialogue in end of january and also and the joint defense declaration which we have signed and your you will still confident that that will be the u.s. position even in this era of change in the us the us understand very well cannot afford to further escalation and the us is a strong ally for qatar and for the other g.c.c. them but they have played a positive and constructive role since this a bloc at this started and we are counting in their constructive vote to be continued as well i'm glad you mentioned the u.s. role there if we think back to perhaps some of the early statements by the u.s. president don't trump on june the ninth he was talking about how the nation of qatar has historically he said been a funder of terrorism at a very high level on april the tenth of this year we heard a differ

arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support also we have to remember just really how important this relationship particularly saudi arabia is if we think about trump we think about. other government ministers united states and united kingdom their first port of ports of call when they've been put into office isn't their allies in europe or the states often it's usually going off to see two players both of whom are vitally important to british and particular interests one of those is israel and the other one always saudi arabia and so really i think this war is becoming increasingly and embarrass meant not just war but the blockade and everything else that goes with it is becoming embarrassment to wes

all you in blood are totally biased just mentioned the saudi as part of this war and then the saudi will be held responsible if they break in a cease fire if they do not accept any any agreement that will come in the future do that and i think we will reach a solution soon or mr amos to say they can't like to give you the last word on this not out you and your organization and other aid groups are desperately hoping for a solution you know what is your message to the warring parties and the international community. i think i have all that invention is the basically three things the past on board the warring parties they have to end the fighting without putting any precondition the process on the second one they have to agree that we don't any preconditions are going back to the peace negotiation the third one is basically in order to establish craft between the ottoman among different warring parties i think that u.n. and international communities have to. lead and coordinate an inclusive and and participatory peace negotiation process as i'm in being both civil society women and both i

drive: a saudi woman's awakening. manal helped start a women's right to drive campaign in 2011 and was herselfjailed for driving. i asked how she felt on this historic day. u nfortu nately unfortunately it is overshadowed by some people in prison. these women campaign to end the ban on women driving in saudi arabia and today they are injail. other women's rights activists like me have been harassed and shut down and banned from leaving the country. it has overshadowed and it has made me have mixed feelings about it. i'm still happy and hopeful and i know women finally when they are driving their cars, they would feel fully independent and the male guardianship system will be obsolete, even if it still stands as a law, would be absolute, because women would not exercise it. there are many things women can't do in saudi arabia, going out without a letter of permission from a male guardian for example, is this really a step forward and other things will follow or is this a cosmetic gesture? i think the women can decide t

welcome to the program it's been one year since saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain initiated a blockade on qatar claiming doha was a supporter of terrorism it's a claim that qatar has strongly refuted in a special day of programming al-jazeera is looking at the causes and effects of the blockade and how twelve months on the g.c.c. remains fractured and we secured a wide ranging interview with qatar's foreign minister mohammed bin up to rahman i thought he says qatar won't make any compromises and in particular to the latest reports of threats of military action by saudi arabia. first for just that let us make it very clear that the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision which no country has. anything to do with so there is no legitimate grievance behind this letter and threatening to cut that violating the international law by writing all the international norms and. most importantly it's violating the. g.c.c. charter which is the countries of the g.c.c. should not launch an attack against each other so we believe that this lett

saudi arabia's crown prince behind. around the same time expressed concerns about the fallout from the crisis it's a very unstable region and the gulf has always been the most stable part of an unstable region and this crisis has kind of thrown this region into a quagmire that it didn't have to be and i think the troublous treasure realizes that you know at least we have to provide one pall of stability and the center of gravity of the arab world in general has been the gulf in recent years so why the region there in crisis there is something that that had to be avoided at all cost. trump has invited the g.c.c. leaders to meet in the u.s. in the hope of finding a political solution but that invitation has been delayed a the blockade in countries insist no talks will take place until qatar meets their demands alleges iraq. kuwait has tried to mediate in the gulf crisis shell joins us from kuwait city where is the mediation process now and thoughts on how to get it going again. well jane unfortunately there hasn't been a

did you make about his comments the his response to the threats in inverted commas that been made by saudi arabia and also the plans to potentially buy into this missile system i think for the time being the catheter for mrs careful choosing his words because there is no official confirmation from the french government that the saudi king did write that letter for what we know this far these are press reports not available on that reported about that so i think first and foremost the others would probably need official confirmation that the soldier in the saudi arabia threatened to attack them if they buy defensive missile system and the operating word here is defensive the missile system so i think in so many ways it is a bit shocking for a country that want to buy a sophisticated missile system but that this country is with then a defense collective called the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council and that normally each and every one of those countries will probably be reinforced in terms of its security when another country gets stronger not weaker so there is a bit of that now. difficile

the women in saudi arabia veiled invisible oppressed. all other day. with the woman he reach maybe a level that many women into many firsts in the world did not reach. unfortunately the media and we are lacking in this by that we. are searching themselves they're working and they're visible. pyke say i'm sure. a lot of the progress that's underway is taking place out of sight but some changes are more evident. again that's why. i will be taking the license a saudi license and feel like a citizen and feel i am part of this country and part of its development progressive. a citizen. for the time being a grinch still has a driver until saudi arabia's driving ban on women is lifted in june. today she's headed to juba a unesco world heritage site in the north of the country. medea is wearing trances normally an absolute no no for women in public but it's her work where. almost online media is a professional photographer and she's recording the ancient petroglyphs carved onto the rock face. some of the images of people animals and gods are thousands of years

change is under way in saudi arabia. cinemas have been allowed to open, along with the same music concerts and the first fashion week. it's all part of a modernisation drive led by the crown prince, mahmoud bin salman. but while some restrictions are easing, saudi women are still not free to travel, marry, divorce, or even leave prison without the permission of a male relative. and those who demand too much change are still being punished. only last month, more than a dozen prominent activists were arrested for demanding greater rights. bill hayton, bbc news. the bbc‘s hanan razek is injeddah. she's been telling me how people have been reacting there. yeah, there is a great deal of excitement. just moments ago, there was a convoy of women driving, celebrating this moment. they are being escorted by saudi traffic police, celebrating driving finally after a ban in place for over 60 years now. earlier on, at the very beginning of it in the first few moments, we took a ride with one of the saudi women driving her car here

and about what's going on in saudi arabia. right now the kingdom is trying to modernize but it has come at the cost of a crackdown last year academics religious leaders and activists were detained while riyadh's ritz carlton hotel became a prison for some assad's wealthiest mean the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon promoting a more modern kingdom globally well neutering challenges at home challenge palace al jazeera saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. have pledged two and a half billion dollars in financial aid to jordan it comes after an earlier pledge of twenty three million dollars by the european union federica marini the e.u.'s foreign minister said the e.u. would continue investing in an ally in what she called the most heated and difficult area of the world the u.n. says a quarter of a million people are in extreme danger saudi led coalition forces prepared to take the yemeni port city of had data coalition planes and ships are attacking who three targets and u.a.e. led troops are just ten kilometers to the south

saudi arabia saudi arabia egypt is better than saudi and you know why is better than egypt so calm enjoy the moment relax and feel that that happiness and the pride that definitely challenges him and. i was not convinced that all the way that russia was defending. a team like saudi arabia should have zero chances against you and there was one big chance and then for sure the chances could have ended up in the go and i think that's something that he really needs to work on in the days that before the next thing i get plenty of positives to one of the injuries a chatty chef dennis chit chat to share i understand that you spot it is talent didn't you when you were at real madrid as a manager you can just tell us about how i just play in this is first match in real madrid who was not father myself who was in the in what we call the custodian the second real madrid team and in some in some cup match i brought into the first team i gave him his is that woods was he was a good kid he was he was fast he was confident he comes like peter was saying from half. ballplayer background if he's there e

thanks the united nations has held an emergency session on the saudi led offensive on the rebel held again any port of the data the operation is the largest of the three year long war in yemen so far aid groups say that it will worsen the country's humanitarian crisis and could endangered millions of lives but saudi arabia insists that the goal is to dislodge the hoofy rebel fighters from data and bring it back to legitimately room has more on the u.n. meeting. well this closed door u.n. security council meeting was held at britain's request after the saudi led coalition there launched a full scale attack on the port of data the saudi led coalition wants to wrestle back control of the strategically important port but the problem is that yemen has been suffering as a result of the civil war for some three years now and the concern is that this new offensive is going to make the situation in yemen even worse although for many it's hard to imagine how it could get any worse the war there is already described as the planet's worst humanitarian disaster and aid agencies have been sounding

and the poetess you documentary tells the story of a courageous woman challenging the patriarchy in saudi arabia. but first up perhaps the most anticipated film of the summer the latest hollywood gender flip movie is out ocean's eye is a heist movie with a difference all the crooks are women the all star cast is a veritable who's who of hollywood a list actresses. want to cast cate blanchett helena bonham carter sounder bullock and. you all you want to get it you always. have a. dime in mind yes that's exactly right for. the math. book plan is to steal the most valuable necklace in the world valued at around two hundred fifty million dollars a year the plan is ingenious the thieves are stunning in formidable and the story is well maybe not the point gender flipped sequel in the famous ocean's series sixteen point five million dollars meets your bank account five weeks from now that's a lot of the film follows the format of its predecessors very closely but steven soderbergh's trilogy exhibited a lot of testosterone. for george clooney alias danny ocean it was always more about how the thi

all you in blood are totally biased just mentioned the saudi as part of this war and then the saudi will be held responsible if they break in a cease fire if they do not accept any any agreement that will come in the future do x. and i think we will reach a solution soon or mr amos to say they can't like to give you the last word on this no doubt you and your organization and other aid groups are desperately hoping for a solution you know what is your message to the warring parties and international community. i think of all that invention is the basically three things the past on board the warring parties they have to end the fighting without putting any precondition the process on the second one they have to agree that we don't any precondition are going back to the peace negotiation the third one is basically in order to establish craft between the ottoman among different warring parties i think that u.n. and international communities have to. lead and coordinate an inclusive and and participatory peace negotiation process is including both the civil society women and both i mean

and saudi arabia and a large influx of refugees from the surrounding conflicts have added to the crisis . king abdullah met with reporters promising reforms in saying the country must meet its challenges challenges the middle class hope they won't have to pay for a medal but d.c. al jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera the arab world we were all yelling brandon get out because some people didn't believe what was happening the bleak picture emerging from a volcanic eruption that's killed at least sixty five people in guatemala. and around downtown revisit a part of italy that symbolizes its deep seated social problems. hello there it's looking very very wet in vietnam at the moment it's all thanks to a tropical depression that's gradually running its way northward but it's intensified the showers all the way across the eastern coast and it is very wet currently am plenty more wet weather still to come so for vietnam and for the west through cambodia and into thailand it's looking pretty gray and at times pretty wet during the day on wednesday and we're also going to see the rain begin to pi

and saudi arabia announced the launch of a new bilateral organization a saudi u.a.e. organization through which they would deal with all important economic and security issues so not only did they boycott the meeting but they tried to undermine at the same time it would be the shortest g.c.c. summit in history being abandoned after only a few hours. prior to the g.c.c. meeting qatar samir shaikh to mean bin hamad el fanny went on a charm offensive promoting kutta and its policies to the world. meeting heads of state and reaffirming qatar's commitment to peace and stability in the region he cemented ties with foreign leaders and in an address to the united nations he turned the charges laid against his country back on the blockading part of you have a lot of work up before no more valid your shabby guitar all of you has had in jail in most a matter of a toward a world in which one the hum so you on your own mobbing it do and let you follow in his saddle jacket i look up a bit to the one for sure an adult. the dodo a bit of an image any ability what. it does of him is c

: a saudi woman's awakening. manal helped start a women's right to drive campaign in 2011 and was herselfjailed for driving. she told me how today's historic change was overshadowed by the recent arrests of women activists in saudi arabia this is really what makes me have mixed feelings about it. i'm still happy, i'm still hopeful and i know women finally, when they are driving their cars, they would feel fully independent and the male guardianship system will be obsolete, even if it still stands as a law, would be absolute because women would not exercise it. we know there are many things women can't do in saudi arabia, going out without a letter of permission from a male guardian for example, so is this really a step forward and will other things will follow, or is this more of a cosmetic gesture? i believe the women, they day they decide they are free and don't need male guardianship, that will make the law obsolete. even if it stands today, it will make it obsolete. the woman will not ask permission to take d

saudi arabia kuwait and the u.a.e. have pledged two and a half billion dollars sent financial aid to jordan comes after an earlier play out of twenty three million by the european union rick i'm over renie the e.u. is foreign policy chief said brussels would continue investing in an ally in what she called the most heated and difficult area of the world jordan a seen a wave of protest against a proposed tax hike. we are here to support a company to share our own experience if needed and if useful. to provide advise if asked for but most of all to go around to you know to try to go out and see that the good steps that are taken are financially and economically supported we are here not as a just of as a gesture of of charity if you allow me the expression but as an investment. protesters in ramallah are demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both israelis and palestinians who want palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end salary cuts for officials demonstrators are also demandi

these cows at the unlikely heroes of the year long blockade led by saudi arabia the saudis went almost overnight from providing eighty percent of conscious fresh milk to their room. to cushion the blow the farm flew and shipped in thousands of cows from europe and america and they bought state of the art technology to run a large dairy farm in the desert there's a total new infrastructure there's a total new dairy industry which wasn't a year ago and actually in fresh milk we already self-sufficient one year after we have about ten thousand cows. by the end of the year we'll have let's say around twenty thousand cows so we still in the growing face in the building first everything the farm needs is made that from the dry feet to the dairy product and i'm told this factory with food be run by robots now one of the latest challenges is to be out in the first hearing coming before the fray and telling you the company that on the day they are the first three dollars from island where i'm going to get them killed in a single hour after they think it's really a problem to keep the rays of th

this is an active interference and the saudi efforts -- in the saudi efforts to bomb the houthis and engage in the civil the united states stands to stop our role in furthering the saudi efforts and we need to do everything in our power to stop the saudis from attacking the port of hudaydah. amy: the wall street jouournal s reporting the trouble administration is weighing a request by the united arab emirates to expand the u.s. role in the war in yemen by providing direct assistance to the impending offensive against the port city of hudaydah. so you are talking about saudi arabia the united arab emirates. these are the countries also that particulalarly jared kushnr are presesident trump's son-in-w , senior advisor to president trump, is very close to. what does this direct assistance mean and how is this happening without congressional approval? is candidly been a lack of transparency by the trump administration. in the past when secretary mattis has testified to the armed services committee, on which i said, he has been very clear our efforts and yemen are largely limited to count

you have the russians and the saudis with different levels that they think can come out of this the saudis have been saying maybe 300 to 600 the russians have been saying 1.5 million barrel per day increase the latest out of opec was 1 million barrel per day increase is put on the table. it could be maybe iran says okay, we can go with that. and they have a little win because it's not as high as the 1.5 as the russians offered. >> it's no secret saudi arabia has been struggling with a budget deficit they've been spending their currency reserves pretty aggressively because they had to because of where oil prices have been it's at a level where they said they're happy with it. they presumably think there's enough demand in the global market for them to increase outpu output >> yes the saudis yesterday said they're expecting the second half of the year to be 2 million barrels per day more demand than the first half they're setting it up for rationalizing why an increase needs to take place. it's based on their sort of putting politics aside and basing it on strict demand and the call from con

this is going to work a recruitment company for saudi when. there is no gender in socks as it says right here at a little work but the strict segregation of gender is one of the biggest challenges to overcome even here at a global it females cannot mix with the opposite sex you see here men in one room and women are separated in another room. the founder of go work tells me separate places are set up for women to respect their privacy but he says greater interaction would actually improve the output the only thing lacking is the social barrier to communication gap between men and women once that's over then we'll start seeing more integration of women into the labor market the agency is defer stopped for international visitors wanting to be women here probably name some foreign politicians this is frank. came to our office two years we have john mccain senator the agency connects saudi women with a retail consulting or manufacturing company and it wants to re brand the image of saudi women. living abroad and says that she's suppressed and if s

the saudi led troops won control of the crucial point tells by iran. but in a news conference on thursday who has vowed they would not give up even an inch of the city no danger your manually janissary yemeni military has prepared to fight a historic battle the power of art the which accounts are aggression through a long war our girl has him a. white girl i've yearly we're sure the enemies to her day there's occupation is impossible to have let you do that and for data. today that is the main entry point for food and aid to the war torn country but saudi arabia alleges the who see have been using the port to bring in arms from iran. with the militias exploded the port of. the war and increased the suffering of the many people. by using the port for smuggling weapons and iranian ballistic missiles into yemen. tehran has repeatedly denied the charge and civilians in her data now have to bear the brunt of the stone meet. with. people are suffering under these conditions we cannot buy anything for our children and we cannot sustain ourselves financially.

on the oil front, the saudi's made headlines. an output increase is said to be inevitable. saudi arabia said they will come to an agreement that will be reasonable and moderate but not outlandish. what does that mean? >> we will find out the details next week in vienna. this week it is about soccer, that the action is happening and it probably kicked off a few weeks ago in st. petersburg. i think it is pretty clear, opec is going to increase production. we inspected increase from here to the end of 2019. it is a gradual increase. basically priced to bring the market into a better balance. right now, we are growing inventories probably at two faster rate. alix: the saudi's said 1.5, and this is what putin said, he said we are not interested in and in this rise in the price of energy and oil, we are satisfied with $60 per barrel, above that can lead to albums for consumers which is not good for producers. does 1.5 or 1.2 get him to $60? >> probably not. our baseline next year is $75 per barrel on brent. even 1.2 billion barrels added to the market, we will not have a surplus.

saudi arabia's crown prince behind but. around the same time expressed concerns about the fallout from the crisis it's a very unstable region and the gulf has always been the most stable part of an unstable region and this crisis is kind of thrown this region into a quagmire the that it didn't have to be and i think the tremendous treasure realizes that you know at least we have to provide one pall of stability and the center of gravity of the arab world in general has been the gulf in recent years so why the region the crisis there is something that had to be avoided at all cost. trump has invited the d.c.c. leaders to meet in the u.s. in the hope of finding a political solution but that invitation has been delayed the located in countries in says no talks will take place until qatar meets the demands. is iraq. let's move on to other news now on donald trump's former campaign manager has been accused of witness tampering prosecutors say a poor man a ford who's been indicted by u.s. special counsel robert muller tried to se

back to saudi and you force. the conflict has been cast in ways that have been very misleading to us or u.k. audience people don't realize how involved our governments are in creating this catastrophe in yemen construed as something that just is happening somewhere to people who are fighting each other already of the war has metastasized and it's grinding the ruins of life into dust casting it as a sectarian war and more often as a proxy war between iran which is completely misguided very latest from the fighting in yemen now that proxy war it is raging between iran and saudi arabia when you have coverage which doesn't really provide context which doesn't really provide a proper understanding of the key actors in the conflict and also the role of our own government public with a sense of confused. knowing how helpful is where it's not clear who's right or wrong it's not clear whether or not we're involved in any of the big political economic and military relationships which would cause increasing degree of public

as a story this was one of the most defining moments in saudi arabia in recent times the king sacks his nephew and crown prince mohammed bin nayef and appoints his son mohammed bin sandman to the throne what happened nursed included a series of dramatic decisions by the young prince who wasted no time consolidating his grip on power mohamed a man jailed senior members of the royal family businessman and government officials on corruption charges. but the sweeping campaign over the last spread to outspoken reformers clerics and human rights activists. and holds many portfolios as defense minister he is the man in charge of the military campaign in yemen the war has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. when it happened originally i don't think he anticipated it to go as long it was perceived and seen and sold to him as a sharp air operation that's going to take a few days max me a few weeks in support were supported by the united states the british the french everybody else been sell man says he wants to change his count

another reason that we are so concerned about the humanitarian impact of the assault miss one day the saudis are saying that they are pending on retaking of the airport the seaport and the routes from the whole day that to the capital sanaa but that they have no plans to engage in urban warfare but are you as certain that this fighting is not going to reach the city of six hundred thousand people. if finding were to be in the center of the city i think we would have to face the fact that impact would be very serious it could in fact be catastrophic who data is very densely populated and if there is a ground conflict then we know that civilians will have very great risk we would probably have to assume that there could be a large number of casualties it's the it's important point for all of the parties to the conflict you know in under international humanitarian law of course of the conflict or watch to do absolutely everything possible to ensure that civilians survive they are the one that's responsible for ensuring that people live but unfortunately none of the parties in this conflict seem

changes under way in saudi arabia. cinemas have been allowed to open, along with the same music concerts in the first fashion week. it is part of a modernisation drive led by the crown prince, mahmoud in summer. some women are still not allowed to travel, marriage, divorce, or even leave without permission of a male relative. does who too much change are still being punished. 0nly last month, more than a dozen prominent activists were jailed for demanding more rights. bill hayton, bbc news. the bbc‘s hanan razek is injeddah. she's been telling me how people have been reacting there. there is a lot of excitement. there was a convoy of women driving and celebrating just a little bit ago. this moment they are being escorted by saudi traffic police. they are driving after a ban of 16 years against striving. we are at the beginning of the very few first moments where we took a ride with one of the saudi women driving her car here for the first time. and she was telling me that it feels like it is an historic moment. she f

security council meeting was held at britain's request after the saudi led coalition launched a full scale attack on the port of data the saudi led coalition wants to wrestle back control of the strategically important port but the problem is that yemen has been suffering as a result of the civil war for some three years now and the concern is that this new offensive is going to make the situation in yemen even worse although for many it's hard to imagine how it could get any worse the war there is already described as the planet's worst humanitarian disaster and aid agencies have been sounding the alarm throughout this conflict but they are particularly alarmed by what's happening now how data happens to be the port where seventy percent of yemen spewed and supplies come through and the u.n. and the red cross have had to withdraw their staff from the port city and a full scale attack on her day to put even more yemenis at risk of starvation and it could force hundreds of thousands of people from their homes as well as aid organizations are warning so it was britain that called this

arabia is not planning to destroy infrastructure the saudi foreign minister. more larry saying that yemen guarantees have been allowed safe passage from the data before any bombing so complete denials from the coalition no i mean how can you be guarantee a safe passage if the only passes for eighty percent according to the united nation for eighty percent of the humanitarian aid getting into yemen is from port eighty percent means that the whole the are not abstract in this border this statement by some yemeni officials in saudi arabia they just want to kind of say that we do care about the humanitarian aid and we have plans like if it's not if it doesn't work and if the port is destroyed and if the city is destroyed as well then the blame all the blame will be put on the whole movement british regime media calling them indeed the yemeni government but as you say there in yemen when you talk to people in the capital that we can see behind you have seen a dearth are they aware that britain opposed to a swedish resolution of the u.n. security council this week t

and saudi arabia protesters say they want to make it clear to the government that simply replacing the prime minister will not go far enough. the syrian kurdish forces have announced style pull out of a strategic town in the country's north after an agreement between the u.s. and turkey ankara had repeatedly threatened to take the town of binge by force in order to push back the kurdish why p.j. the agreement was reached between turkish foreign minister never to govern and u.s. secretary of state might pump a zero and is likely to ease tensions between ankara and washington congress parliament is debating a bill that would make it's a criminal offense to help asylum seekers as part of a crackdown on immigration by prime minister victor all bans rightwing government and could mean up to one year in prison for anyone found guilty jonah hole reports from budapest. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe aunt welcome in hungary. alone slide when in parliamentary elections in april as encou

the yemeni government says its forces backed by a saudi amorality coalition have taken the airport in her data from his the rebels the port city is the main gateway for humanitarian deliveries and the u.n. says it should remain open. government and opposition activists have agreed to allow an international investigation into the last two months of political violence more than one hundred seventy people have been killed since the protests began in april the catholic church is mediating between the two sides and wants president ortega to call early elections. student activists in the u.s. are traveling from coast to coast rallying support for more comprehensive gun control measures following a series of deadly school shootings they hope to persuade people to vote for politicians who back gun control in november's midterm elections reports. for months after seventeen of their classmates and teachers were gunned down the activists students of marjorie stoneman douglas school are on the road. seeking support for gun control measures and showing solidarity with other young people. by gun vi