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we have to remember that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. don't actually want to increase production saudi arabia has been giving lip service to donald trump until now this is not the first time that donald trump has are saudi arabia to increase production there was a tweet a few months ago where he said that saudi arabia had promised and then that tweet was removed later on or he went back on that particular tweet saudi arabia does not want the prices to go down why because the investment that they expected invision twenty thirty the aramco valuation that they had was not what they expected the amount of money that they expected to come into saudi arabia from these various economic projects has not matched their expectations so in other words the higher the oil price comes the more of a buffer the more of a cushion that they have in order to come up with a new plan in order to assess this situation how to come up with a better solution the problem is that trump is applying very heavy pressure on saudi arabia or the other so there's this vie

we have to remember that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. don't actually want to increase production saudi arabia has been giving lip service to donald trump until now this is not the first time that donald trump has are saudi arabia to increase production there was a tweet a few months ago where he said that saudi arabia had promised and then that tweet was removed later on or he went back on that particular tweet saudi arabia does not want the prices to go down why because the investment that they expected invision twenty thirty the aramco valuation that they had was not what they expected the amount of money that they expected to come into saudi arabia from these various economic projects has not matched their expectations so in other words the higher the oil price comes the more of a buffer the more of a cushion that they have in order to come up with a new plan in order to assess this situation how to come up with a better solution the problem is that trump is applying very heavy pressure on saudi arabia although the south there's this

we have to remember that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. don't actually want to increase production saudi arabia has been giving lip service to donald trump until now this is not the first time that donald trump has our saudi arabia to increase production there was a tweet a few months ago where he said that saudi arabia had promised and then that tweet was removed later on or he went back on that particular tweet saudi arabia does not want the prices to go down why because the investment that they expected in vision twenty thirty the aramco valuation that they had was not what they expected the amount of money that they expected to come into saudi arabia from these various economic projects has not matched their expectations so in other words the higher the oil price comes the more of a buffer the more of a cushion that they have in order to come up with a new plan in order to assess this situation how to come up with a better solution the problem is that trump is applying very heavy pressure on saudi arabia although the south there's this

saudi arabia is the biggest opec company. we're going to play a sound bite of what he said regarding high oil prices at the moment. >> opec and opec nations are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world and i don't like it. nobody should like it. we defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giv high oil prices. not good. we want them to stop raising prices. we want them to start lowering prices and they must contribute substantially to military protection from now on. we are not going to put up with it, these horrible prices, much longer. >> saudi arabia, as i said, is the biggest and most powerful opec nation. were you surprised by that? we're not going to put up with these horrible prices any longer and accusing opec of being responsible for these high prices. >> it wasn't surprising because the president has articulated this before. saudi arabia is committed to balancing the oil markets, that prices are at moderate levels so that consumers are not hurt and producers are not hurt. we

iran and saudi arabia are on the opposite side of these companies so describe very very tense times in the middle east and on and on and with groups. you know see each other as an enemy and this i mean particularly disservice group drew terrorist attack in iran is very important it comes. at a time when iran is in a feeling the pressure of sanctions by the west also at a time when the middle east is quite tenuous that was the guardian's iran correspondent say to come on and take on speaking to me earlier from london and now to some of the other stories making news around the world and the death toll following a ferry accident on lake victoria tanzania has risen to two hundred and nine of the capsized on thursday state media says the ferry was overloaded two days after the disaster emergency workers rescued a survivor who was found in a pocket of air. thousands of people have rallied in cities across russia against planned increases in the country's pension age the proposed change would raise the retirement age for men from sixty to sixty five and from fifty five to sixty for women a

miller iran has blamed for many years now its regional rivals including saudi arabia of assisting the stewardess groups and it's no blame saudi arabia many times worries even today the revolutionary guards directly like mr zarif who was not very direct in his tweets but revolutionary guards are very directly to saudi arabia was behind the attack so it is very critical times in the middle east where you have iran and saudi arabia on the opposite end of many conflicts you know you have syria you have the yemen war and iran and saudi arabia are on the opposite side of these companies so it's quite very very tense times in the middle east and on and on and both groups. see each other as an enemy and this i mean particularly disservice group drew terrorist attack in iran is very important it comes. at a time when iran is in a feeling the pressure of sanctions by the west or that at times with the middle east is quite tenuous and that was the guardian's iran correspondent saved kamali take on speaking to me earlier from london now to some of the other stories making news around the world an

saudi arabia and of course the old favorite america. form. the u.s. says it's going to cause its consulate in the iraqi city of basra citing threats from iran secretary of state has blamed iranian backed fighters for recent attacks on the consulate which is inside the city's airport compound he says he'll hold regular sponsible for any harm to americans diplomatic facilities. caught the foreign minister says a propose u.s. middle east security alliance won't be credible because of unresolved regional tension last year egypt saudi arabia the u.a.e. and the train and forced a blockade on diplomatic economic and political ties but the country's foreign ministers did meet on the sidelines of the un general assembly. reports from new york. a gathering of rivals. this is the first time qatar's foreign minister has come face to face with his counterparts from saudi arabia the u.a.e. rain and egypt since the fall countries imposed a land sea and blockade on qatar in july last year. no handshakes no smiles and no news conference at the end of the meeting that

peace and stability referring to the past track record of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates when it comes to war in yemen and its ability in libya and also united states congress inquiry into nine eleven which basically blamed saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for lax finest regulations and also for for whiting safe havens for extremist let's listen to what the qatari diplomat had to say about the allegations made by the united arab emirates saudi arabia and bahrain and then with you don't step on our and then at night you do unfortunately what is cause for suspicion is that we find the state's target allegations at us and they don't practice what they preach they do not practice respect for state sovereignty and interfere in affairs of other states in fact they terrorize civilians and violate human rights and interfere in domestic affairs of other states in a manner that undermined international and regional peace and security and this has become evident in the repeated attempts by these states to destabilize security and stability in qatar they have plotted and finance

saudi arabia according to jews sami is in a difficult position doesn't want to be seen as a puppet of the trump administration iran on the other side has a lot of veto power within opec and they say is actually putting saudi arabia under spot isnt it. well i wouldn't put it that way you see there is so much being said as to political differences for recent months between iran and saudi arabia that have been greater political differences between these different countries with you know pickett on iraq we're at war with each other in one nine hundred eighty s. but i want to emphasize that these a miniseries when day yet to get there looking at the oil market they are really more concentrating as a business leaders and trying to understand the market and see for what is good for all of them to do of course there are priorities short term long term what do those are all i would say technical decision making and this is what would happen here as well but. sorry for interrupting going but when the iranian minister of oil ministers says i would block any ole pick decision that poses the sligh

arabia saudi arabia for what he says is mitigating the humanitarian situation in the country let's cross over to have some how about he's joining us from new york you were listening in to what opposite of a months what have you had to say and if we just start with what he began with and he quickly went on to attack iran strong words against iran. durian there was a purely act of political opportunism because he saw the americans sending strong signals against iran and decided to join the course by saying that basically ultimately the biggest problem that human faces is iran's interferes this is why he's there to continue to violate international law by sending channeling cash weapons to the who thiis to kill the ground. in their own favor by saying that he would like to garner international support to try to restore his control over yemen that so my to my view remains stick because i'll double my so hard he has been evicted off while he lives in exile in saudi arabia and ultimately it's the who the thieves who control most of the territory in the northern part of the country despite the

so is saudi arabia on a new path? one of the strongest voices calling for saudi arabia reform. she was jailed seven years ago for driving in saudi arabia and wrote a book about her experiences called "daring to drive." she joins me now. pleasure to have you on. >> pleasure. >> someone asked you your reaction, you now live in sydney far away from saudi arabia but you must have watched this last year with great interest. what was your reaction when you heard the crown prince announce the series of reforms he's been announcing, whether the speeches, the statements, the interview on american television on "60 minutes" what was your reaction? >> i was very hopeful that finally we have a young healead who believe in reform and not only economy reform, bewere hoping there will be political reform and especially that the religious establishment or extremist islam in arabia, the power had been decreased throughout the years since he came to power in 2015. he's a defactor leader of saudi arabia. he's young. he's 32. >> the reaccomplish gligious es have been decreasing and he's disbanded

there have been heated exchanges between qatar and its neighbors saudi arabia the united arab emirates and about how they accused qatar of sponsoring extremism and destabilizing the region accusations strongly dismissed by qatar which said that the emirates is and the saudis are the last one to preach about peace and stability referring to the past track record of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates when it comes to war in the end there and its ability in libya and also united states congress inquiry into nine eleven which basically plane saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for lax finance regulations and also for for widing safe havens for extremist let's listen to what the qatari diplomat had to say about the allegations made by the united arab emirates saudi arabia and bahrain and then with you know you step on our and then at night you do what is cause for suspicion is that we find these states target allegations of us and they don't practice what they preach they do not practice respect for state sovereignty and interfere in affairs of other states in fact they terrori

arabia saudi arabia right now is going through a process of reforms. do you how do you see the future of saudi arabia. developing right now given the current current status of the government and its reform drive. give honest with you i'm not sure the leak is so that's it's it's kind of for what he me a lot. i know it's going to happen but the us does you know like enough brave and. cost i think the us was going to make a change and it's going to it's going to happen so on and we hope for justice for all of. the tunny thank you so much for talking with us can tani is the wife of mohammad fahd khatami one of the three saudi laureates of this year's alternative nobel prize thank you so much now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today u.s. president donald trump has dismissed the sexual assault allegations against his supreme court pick brett kavanaugh as politically motivated trump said he's with him all the way cavanaugh and his accuser a due to testify before a senate panel on thursday another woman has also claimed sexual m

you talked about iran there are saudi arabia and the u.a.e. is sincere in their design it for a negotiated peace in yemen can they be trusted. if what they actually want is peace on their terms and to rid yemen of any iranian influence. no no this is not true i mean the piece the terms of the united nations resolution twenty two sixteen end of story and this is very clear why not the united nation or mr griffiths you know what cards to implement this your united nations resolution twenty two sixteen and the stand of the legitimate so you know governments and the allied forces i mean the. coalition that a coalition is ok the who you are not allowed to be in a two to control the whole yemen you are. a minority or you are in a part of the me yemenis people so if you want to get involved in the in the political process you're most welcome but as a military as a militia ok as a militia armed by iran that their sole enemy of the out of snow this is not accepted. the arabs allied forces they will not accept at all that the who thing will become like

palestinians living in jordan say saudi arabia is allowing politics to taint rituals which should be sacred saudi arabia is fighting the palestinians and islam at the same time other palestinians even with a jordanian passport say they're being banned from visiting saudi arabia if they don't have a national id number two company representatives in jordan were wary of speaking on camera because of potential repercussions in saudi arabia but this operator agreed so long as his identity was concealed. passports of all been rejected by decide to consulate they informed us not to bring these passports again to get a visa to go to saudi arabia so this has been getting really affected to talk on. the saudi arabian embassy in a man refused to comment but palestinians off furious i don't live in a very good joke the decision represents no respect us the latest on a conference any reason to petition for such a decision. more than two million palestinians live in jordan and the hashemite kingdom has become their second homeland it's long been believed that israel would like to make the state pe

but it comes at a very critical time you know iran and saudi arabia are both involved in various conflicts in the region in syria for example in yemen and they are the opposite sides of each in all of these conflicts so it comes at a very critical time i think both iran and the middle east well the iranian government was very quick to say that they're going to respond with a crushing response but just what are they likely to do. i mean it's difficult to say what options they have. there was a little bit i mentioned the conflicts in the original or both sides are involved so there are what this means is that there's going to be an escalation probably in the tensions with iran and its rivals in the region and most of these conflicts are proxy wars you know you don't have a direct conflict between along the saudi arabia and iran of the fair border what is happening is that there's a number of proxy wars in syria as i mentioned in yemen where example law. i mean there's was a seizure and around the port city of without a doubt. between a minimum and probably usually these sort of tension short

really iran has going for many years now its regional rivals including saudi arabia of assisting the supporters groups and blame saudi arabia many times where it is even today the revolutionary guards directly like mr bari it was not very direct in his tweets but revolutionary guard said very directly to saudi arabia was behind the attack so it is very critical times in the middle east where you have iran and saudi arabia and the opposition and many conflicts you know you have syria you have the yemen war and iran and saudi arabia are on the opposite side of these conflicts so it's quite a very very tense times in the middle east and world groups. see each other as an enemy and i mean particularly these terrorist groups attacking iran is very important it comes. at a time when iran is feeling the pressure of sanctions why the west those are the times when the middle east is quite tenuous. kamali dig on the guardian's iran correspondent many thanks indeed thank you very much. well now to some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll following a ferry accident o

arabia there are a number of european countries that made the decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia this year how much of a difference do you think that will make them a school when the largest supply is the u.s. the u.k. and france continue to on the saudis. well it's important that these european countries have stepped up to the plate and decided to stop sending bombs to saudi arabia and it certainly puts the pressure on a larger supplier of bombs to like the united states like spain like the united kingdom to stop sending weapons themselves and we need to see more concerted action going forward we do have we know that the trumpet ministration is planning to move forward billions of dollars worth of arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates we have seen a lot more action from congress a lot of interest in trying to stop those sales and that every bit of pressure does help it sends a strong signal to saudi arabia that support for this war is not unconditional and unfortunately though spain has sent the opposite message with this reversal but has i'm sick which

anchor: in saudi arabia, it was a minor sensation. the country opened its first new movie theater in 35 years -- and both men and women may attend. throrough cinema l licenses, e government hopes to earn up to a billion dollars a year. crown prince mohammed bin salman wants to make the country less dependent on income from oil. half the population is under 30. young people are demananding me job opportunities.s. saudi women are alalso gaining greater freedoms. they are now permitted to dre,e, for r exame. saudi arabia is openening up. reporter: until recently, this was forbidden. joanna, 20 years old, from jeddah -- learning to shoot movies. setting up cameras, lighting, set design -- all this in a country where for decades the guardians of public morals held cinema for the devil's work. >> 3, 2, 1 -- action. joanna: when people saw a woman outdoors filming or doing something with the camera, they found it weird. it was unusual today. but now society's becoming more open and things like this are more acceptable, and it's a good step.

arabia is investigating the bombing of the boss and there is always this will let saudi arabia investigate themselves for their human rights violations that it's all about iran and it's always put are pointed toward it's iran it's iran it's around it's iran you're supposed to be terrified of them what do you think looking at all this information what are the accusations about iran really about well i think it's part of a larger project of western hegemony in the region and for here in washington or in riyadh there has to be kind of this narrative of a larger like iranian conspiracy the fighting you know the saudi arabia is fighting back against terrorism when it's actually fighting against a legitimate indigenous insurgency and so there's this narrative created that there's really never any evidence for and so basically we just see this used to to pretext to carry out this devastating intervention well i think we're looking at a lot more information coming out and the more weeks and i wonder why i mean what what stops any country our country or any other here in the united states or anybod

for creating instability in the region while saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sandman is expected to arrive in kuwait in a couple of hours he'll meet with. them and to discuss the ongoing gulf crisis cory's has played a mediation roles in saudi arabia the u.a.e. the train and egypt posed the blockade on gaza in two thousand and seventeen its inside story next stay with us. the united states pushes forward its ambitious project of a pan arab alliance against iran but there are deep divisions brought on by the gulf crisis so can washington's desire to rope in israel along with the arab states against a common enemy actually succeeding and what does it mean for president trump's middle east peace plan this is inside story. welcome to the program today with me peter w. washington has begun putting together a plan to forge and iran alliance with the arab countries now the us secretary of state mike pompei has met foreign ministers of the gulf cooperation council states and egypt and jordan they discuss the perceived threats posed by iran to peace and stability across the middle east ho

arabia who is governing the capital because they're not bombing the saudis on bombings and. the humanitarian crisis in sana'a is very big and they are forming some our like almost every day so i think the best way is for the parties to. they belittle carhart's he's in yemen they have to hide there me think in. any city's approach and to stay together and to solve this problem but what i really think it is not about the political parties in yemen it is a ball with u.k. and u.s. because forty years of sailing to saudi is only just the beginning to build the u.s. and u.k. economy so if this war will be over it depends on them they have to stop this war and they have to stop supporting saudi i'm an alcoholic thank you after the break. josie counselor warns there is own council may be attempting to move people back into one safe homes i'm going to have lines u.k. terror a fiction becomes untrue terrifying while tehran blames real terror on washington baltimore coming up with what you have going on the ground. the old saying you know we need to go back to invite more foreign force

arabia which they said was in line with british foreign policy that saudi arabia and other countries will have to think twice before running similar ads in the future and sky will have to do the same before airing them thanks will. it's been more than fifteen years now since the conflict in darfur in western sudan began but there's no end in sight to the fighting the government continues its attacks on insurgents and the region's non arab and african civilians a campaign that the united nations has called a genocide one that has led to the international criminal court's indictment of sudanese president omar al bashir however with the authorities preventing journalists going in and information coming out darfur has turned into a black hole for news as a result one broadcaster has proven to be critically important radio banga beaming in from amsterdam to remain beyond the reach of government censors the station has become a rare source of independent news for what it says are its more than three million daily listeners but the broadcasters funding is drying up meaning that the bank tha

saudi women are also gaining greater freedoms they're now permitted to drive for example saudi arabia is opening up. one till recently this was forbidden. joanna twenty years old from jeddah learning to shoot movies setting up cameras lighting set design all this in a country where for decades the guardians of public morals held cinema for the devil's work the two actions of the internet you know when people get to see a woman outdoors filming or shooting something with their camera it was taken as something that's weird or not very usual to see but nowadays everything has become more open and people are more accepting and it's a good step. if at university named joe and his cause digital and visual production the word film was not allowed to be used otherwise the university would not have been able to get a state license. but since april when the first cinemas opened things have changed and film studies are allowed to be called just that. feature films have been produced in saudi arabia but have not as yet been shown publicly about a car meets barack or a love story fatima our by now

arabia put saudi arabia before they've put america. around the news for now i'll be back at the top of the hour with more but first here on r.t. international it's crosstalk. with more make this manufactured sense of certainty of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the frame of. the certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room. her. mother who used to leak.

track there's been a moment in time on the crown prince of saudi arabia and let's watch that he's going to take the rivalry on three iranian parents not a good man it's too early to say who is being behind the attacks. we have equally a claim from arab separatists. who say they're responsible but are they in fact a serious enough of a force to to have pulled off such an attack. well as i said it's too early to challenge and it's also we have to be cautious too to use a label for the ab separatist because we will be dealing with is probably did the strategically most important iranian province. where was it the capital is the home of iran so or we saw it. and who the son has been decided a lot of and he was in protests have a sense they were called at the turn of the year and concerning protests have a sense that there is a lot of frustration not only among abby iranians but also among the other parts of course just on the population against the government over water shortages over unemployment and so forth so there has been some home grown kind of. nation in a buddhist arm and there hav

saudi arabia and of course the old favorite america. form. a u.s. federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit against president trump can proceed congressional democrats accusing trump of violating the constitution by doing business with foreign governments while in office. many u.s. communities are still dealing with severe flooding two weeks after harken florence made landfall more than forty people died in the storm and its aftermath many in the state of north carolina and as andy gallagher reports from goals for us some a still waiting for help. hurricane florence has passed but the so-called storm of a lifetime is still being felt in the carolinas rivers continued to quest following record breaking rainfall in north carolina the cleanup is underway and the fears of long term consequences toxic coal ash pits are scattered across north and south carolina the byproduct of the coal industry contains arsenic lead and mercury activists say storms like florence make contamination unavoidable but they still got a beer with the six million tons of poisonous

arabia by saudi arabia quietly in the justification that the spanish government gave namely that these are precision guided munitions is something that we've heard for years from the u.s. and u.k. and it is completely false i mean you don't need even if you have precision guided munitions or weapons doesn't mean that they will be used lawfully saudi arabia already has an arsenal of high tech weapons and they've continually use them to bomb schools mosques. markets and continue to carry out civilian casualties in apparent unlawful strikes so you know human rights watch alone has documented the death of nearly a thousand civilians over the last several years in apparently eighty seven unlawful airstrikes other rights organizations have documented many more so the spanish government justification is clearly in contradiction with the fact that we've had over the past few years what if the spanish government you know does give in to political to economic reasons and precious could legal if not moral when the question stop them and other governments from selling weapons to sell things which

to get a visa to go to saudi arabia so this has to get it really affected to talk companies. the saudi arabian embassy and a man refused to comment but palestinians off furious i don't live in a very good joke the decision represents no respect tell us the latest on a conference any reason to petition for such a decision. more than two million palestinians live in jordan and the hashemite kingdom has become their second homeland it's long been believed that israel would like to make the state permanent hoping palestinians would then forfeit their so-called right to return to palestine but are not out of trouble this is a decision by trauma it's an absolute american decision amos to give the jordanian citizenship to the palestinians this is just the latest in a series of u.s. setbacks the palestinians including moving the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem palestinians say the eastern part of the city should be the capital of their future state and the u.s. government stopping hundreds of millions of dollars for palestinian refugees from the united nations relief and

in iran for many years has blamed the some of his regional enemies like saudi arabia. are not supporting separatist groups in the region especially around areas like was a stand which is like a indio rich area you know home to the arab minority of iran so iran has been accusing saudi arabia of supporting these groups and at the same time you know we are in a very critical time in the middle east where iran and saudi arabia all are involved in a number of conflicts in the region including syria including in yemen and they are the opposite against you know of these conflicts so. i mean and this moment in spades i mean big moment in iran a rare terrorist attack of such a scale and now it's raining prime minister pointing the finger directly at iran's regional rivals. saeed kamali dagon the guardian's iran correspondent thank you thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll following a ferry accident on like victoria in tanzania has risen to more than one hundred seventy according to officials the boat capsized on thursday state me

arabia and other arab allies of saudi arabia of supporting a so this is a particular moment when iran things that. you know this is not you know many times in the past we've seen terrorism in iraq for example last june there was a terrorist in the capital. and also the parliament to seventeen people so attacks like these are not common in iran you know it's common and not a possibility for another was it was quite a surprising development. from the guardian in london thank you very much and. now on to some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll from a following a ferry accident on like victoria in tanzania has risen to more than one hundred seventy according to an official the boat capsized on thursday state media says the ferry was overloaded on the third day of rescue efforts workers found another survivor located in a pocket of air. pope francis has touched down in lithuania as he makes the first papal visit to the baltic states in twenty five years he was greeted upon arrival by the country's president. guy ten there he'll celebrate mass and then visit a

so is saudi arabia on a new path? one of the strong of the voices is calling for saudi arabian reform. she was jailed years ago for driving in saudi arabia and wrote a book about her experiences called daring to dr drive. someone asked you what is your reaction. you live in sydney, far away from saudi arabia, but you must have watched this last year with great interest. what was your reaction when you heard the crown prince announced the series of reforms he has been announcing whether it's the speeches or the statements or interview on american television on 60 minutes. what was your reaction? >> i was excited. i was very hopeful that we have a young lead who believes in reforms and not only economic reforms, but we were hoping there will be political reforms and especially the religious establishment or extremist islamists in saudi arabia. the power has been decreased throughout the years since he came to power as a minster of defense in 2015. he's a de facto leader. he is young. he is 32. >> the religious establish

but i think women in saudi arabia have achieved a lot. and i think yeah, it is very frustrating for me when i travel, i have to have permission from my father or husband. and i really hope that will change. but i think it will change when women put pressure on their brothers and families. and within the families they understand it is not as a culture, we don't want it. and it needs to come from that small cell of society and that is how change will happen. once people see it is not how we are and part of our identity, it is going to go away. so that is where we need to reach and that is why you need to make films and show movies and have art and music and hopefully that will slowly people will understand what this means. >> haifaa al mansour, thank you. >> health care in america is still a privilege and inaccessible. new york mount sinai hospital. dr. singh tells hari how it happens. >> what do you we see today in the united states that most people watching wouldn't know about? >> one thing i have been alarmed by is watching for example i

weapons are part of it or that weapons are passing to saudi arabia and them being used in yemen. you know sure that not being used in your going absolutely not i mean you make good. use a certificate by the. new rule and if you trust the saudi statements then you ought to be part of the christmas to the red nose reindeer but the so that absolutely and i think the ridiculous aspect about the whole thing is they had the german government coalition in their country in their coalition contract or to see treaty. see if they did not supply any government including saudi arabia they have so well is going to be exactly what's going to ask in the lead in a set german chancellor merkel had said that sounds have been justified now than. well this is absolutely ridiculous how it's been just to quote explode all the human rights. groups has so do you really are it's regarded according to a statement by president government regarded as clueless heartless don't laugh in the fight against international terrorists the fight against international terrorism just except for instance in syria by mess

states foreign ministers the egyptian and jordanian foreign minister it was a message to saudi arabia that the united states is no longer so enamored with the saudi foreign policy and the what the what the saudis have done for the united states because it really forced the saudis to accept a lot to sit at the same table as the three foreign minister who has been saying for over a year that there is no way that the saudis could ever accept really anything about . the current situation and doha so it was a very important symbolic. subordination of the saudis very very public symbolic subordination and i think what you see happening is you know. the u.s. government trying to really weaken any are we control more of what the saudis do and to get them ready to go even more publicly more often ok the israelis and whether that in the end leads to any concession from the israelis there may be some who hope for that but there would be absolutely no basis in u.s. foreign policy history to conclude that understood very last briefing will point to my chips where he in new york if the arab nato ac

housing advocate is the shift on saudi arabia? -- how significant is the shift on saudi arabia oh? >> the saudi's aren't necessarily going for a $90 oil, but earlier in the year, we saw tweets from donald trump about crude saying he wasn't happy with the high prices opec had created an now the idea saudi's are creeping above $80 and are content to see if there. it is an important shift because it suggests that in the short-term, the saudi's aren't going to step in and curb brent above $80 a barrel. >> oil, high after u.s. refiners eroded domestic stockpile to a new low. what is the push and pull here? >> what you see is based on u.s. stockpile numbers. we saw opec watching the cushing number with extreme attentiveness before they made their decision to curb production output. what you are seeing is refiners stepping in and chasing the margins while they have them, and you are seeing a lot of exports. it is hard to think of the u.s. as a major oil exporter, but you are seeing that. >> brent, up 1%, the second week of gains. that is before the opec meeting in algiers. it is a joint,

to saudi arabia reversing last week's decision to cancel the order the move is angered activists who say the weapons will be used in the killing of civilians in yemen the cancellation of the deal led to concerns about spanish jobs and the future of a more lucrative contract to supply warships with kate gould is from friends committee on national legislation c says a stronger message needs to be sent to other nations who are still supplying arms to saudi arabia. it's truly a shameful decision and we're seeing with this reversal that spain instead of sending a red light to and mass slaughter in yemen that is spain is changing that to a green light to green lighting the continued indiscriminate killing of civilians and targeting of civilian areas like hospitals and schools and most recently a school bus full of yemeni children so it's truly a shameful decision and spain should rethink this and also other countries should step up to the plate and stop sending more weapons of mass starvation and mass destruction to saudi arabia. we need to see more concerted action going forward we do hav

saudi arabia before they've put america. on to other stories now world leaders and top diplomats are descending on new york for the seventy third u.n. general assembly with the main session starting on tuesday the general debate as the most notable session is now is seen as less of a debate and more a chance to make a keynote speech and it seems donald trump is playing the headliner role artie's ecology donna looks at what we should expect this year. in the global political circus trump has taken it upon himself to be the greatest showman or jest depending on what side of the fence you're on and on tuesday the curtains will rise and the spotlight fall on trump taking center stage at one of this year's main spectacles the u.n. general assembly has got a couple major possibilities really to help illuminate for the american people what america's place in the world is president will preside over the security council and i am sure that's going to be the most watched security council meeting ever well trumps the trickle debut at t

a new report out from reuters suggesting that saudi arabia will increase energy poil produ stem price concerns. >> the maximum sustained capacity is 12 million barrels, and it's sustainable capacity. as you know, we have the reserve, 260 million barrels, other reserves by third party that are available to sustain that maximum sustained capacity. that capacity is available some of it in days, some of it in weeks with a maximum three months to have it all available. >> you can see it, they were saying there they had the capacity to go up, that report suggesting they may do that. adding a couple hundred thousand barrels per day to offset declines from the iranian sanctions and venezuela's decline. not having a marked impact on the oil markets. crude oil is not changing much let's check the markets outside of energy. stock futures indicating the dow will drop slightly at the open we had a drop yesterday following the fed decision we saw bank stocks sell off, the market fell a bit. the nasdaq positive. dow futures down positively. hard to get a read on anything like this we'll schltthis we