i'm the president of the middle east institute. i'm in washington dc and it gives me great pleasure to welcome our friend and colleague ambassador martin indict for a talk about his new book called master of the game henry kissinger and the art of middle east diplomacy. i exhibited here and encourage you all to read it. i've been reading it all of last week and taking copious notes and very eager to discuss it with martin. ambassador indic is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the center for relations in new york. but as you know, he's had a long and distinguished career in the us diplomatic and foreign service particularly relating to the middle east and the israel palestine conflict. that involved ambassador to israel a number of times served as assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. it was a special assistant to president clinton also as special and void to president obama on the israeli-parestinian negotiations. somebody who's really been on all parts of this. us peacemaking history in the middle east and c

a special meaning of characterization in the middle east. has that happened and if in fact it has happened, how would you differentiate the bidens administration towards policy in syria from the previous administration in syria? mcgurk: one thing with our approach in the region, our conversation in capitals have been very frank and direct. when it comes to saudi arabia, this is a historic partnership that is going to indoor. -- going to indoor -- endure. we have discussed the saudi's from the top down. it is something that is very dangerous for any country the defense of saudi arabia is a very important interest of ours sometimes when we have discussions with congress, the conflict is locked in a paradigm of 2015, 2016, 2017. over the last year, the saudi's have supported u.n. initiative. initiatives to wind down the war. they have answered these initiatives by launching against the town of --. -- mara. they do not want to live under putin. whose motto is death to america, death to christians, death to the jews. over last year, the who these

in the middle east policy as well. we are returning to a time where there is, you know research in russia. there's a china looming and that is relevant to the middle east. so how would he or how would you kind of being a kissinger whisperer attempt? how do you deal with the smaller groups, you know like that are not states and and the you know the big the big great powers which are not the soviet union. but they're they're a big challenge just to the us at least in the region. how do you think that fit into his framework? yeah, so i want to make clear that i'm not speaking for henry kissinger. i understand that i accidentally no in the sense that i haven't talked to him in detail about about how he would deal with the current situation my conversations were about very dealt with the situation back then because that's what i was focused on in the book. but if i try to apply disengerian principles. to the current situation, i would say first of all. that in terms of the non-state actors. he had no time for you know unles

i'm the president of the middle east institute. i'm in washington dc and it gives me great pleasure to welcome our friend and colleague ambassador martin indict for a talk about his new book called master of the game henry kissinger and the art of middle east diplomacy. i exhibited here and encourage you all to read it. i've been reading it all of last week and taking copious notes and very eager to discuss it with martin. ambassador indic is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the center for relations in new york. but as you know, he's had a long and distinguished career in the us diplomatic and foreign service particularly relating to the middle east and the israel palestine conflict. that involved ambassador to israel a number of times served as assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. it was a special assistant to president clinton also as special and void to president obama on the israeli-parestinian negotiations. somebody who's really been on all parts of this. us peacemaking history in the middle east and c

east basically lacking diverse communities, it's a middle east we don't want, the rich fabric they bring society. >> thank you so much. please join me j in thankin jenny. [applause] >> thank you for coming, everyone congratulations, janine and the free to stick around. >> i think it's at the bookstore, to. >> you could buy at the bookstore and for those on whom, we got as many as we could so thank you so much and thank you for bearing with us for this hybrid in person virtual event, hopefully the first of many more to come as we emerge from covid so thank you so much. >> a look at the books being published this week and just pursue, senior the federal prosecutor. investigative journalist profiling the scientists and reports of technology that led to the creation of the covid vaccine his book longshot. in 100,000 first office, will hospital because his pass from recent college graduate, the youngest state senator connecticut history also being published this week, new york times global economic or spot peter goodman set wealth inequality through conventional lives of five billionaires. mi

do we have allies in the middle east, or do we have partners? if an ally is a country with which we share common interests and values, how would you best describe countries like egypt, saudi arabia and even the israelis where there's a high coincidence of interests and values but certainly by no means is that across the board with rirespect to american interest. so how do we look at our partners because our partners are critically important in the achievements of the objectives and policies. >> you've done this work and you recognize trying to paint a broad categories. an ally is defined in the dictionary as a treaty ally that's one thing. an ally is defined as a state cooperating with another military of affairs. let me give you an example. when we had after the afghanistann crisis we had to bring out what became over 100,000 afghans myself and otherss called every capital aa said we are going to have to ask for your permission to use your facilities. we don't know how many afghans that will be in the country for an indefinite period of time. w

do we have allies in the middle east or do we have partners? if an ally is a country with which we share common interests and values, how would you describe countries like egypt, saudi arabia, and even the israelis, where there is a high coincidence of interests and values, but by no means is that across the board with respect to american interests. our partners are critically important in the achievements of our objectives and our policies. >> i love talking to you, because you have done this work and recognize the flexibility. i am not trying to paint broad categories, but this is a dictionary definition of a treaty ally, that's one thing. in cooperating of the area of affairs -- let me give you an example, when we had the afghanistan crisis and had to bring out what became well over 100,000 afghans. myself and others called every capital in the gulf and said, we are going to have to ask your permission to use your facilities to bring out, we don't know how many afghans that will be in your country for an indefinite period of time. we don't k

in the middle east policy as well. we are returning to a time where there is, you know research in russia. there's a china looming and that is relevant to the middle east. so how would he or how would you kind of being a kissinger whisperer attempt? how do you deal with the smaller groups, you know like that are not states and and the you know the big the big great powers which are not the soviet union. but they're they're a big challenge just to the us at least in the region. how do you think that fit into his framework? yeah, so i want to make clear that i'm not speaking for henry kissinger. i understand that i accidentally no in the sense that i haven't talked to him in detail about about how he would deal with the current situation my conversations were about very dealt with the situation back then because that's what i was focused on in the book. but if i try to apply disengerian principles. to the current situation, i would say first of all. that in terms of the non-state actors. he had no time for you know unles

i sometimes ask are we de-prioritizing the middle east region. that is the wrong classroom -- that is a wrong question. i was with the bush administration and the war in iraq, taking casualties every day. i live through that every single day. if you look at that time until now, it is quite different. that is important. we are not trying to pursue a transformation of this region. we are trying to pursue very corporate -- and our means and capabilities. it is a very important the medic point about how to approach this region. you will not see from the biden administration announcements of setting grandiose objections -- objectives without a factual foundation. it is important if you look at presidential history. jfk and we are going to moan. if you discover -- if you study that decision, one of the top scientists at the time said "mr. president, we can go to the moon. here is how you do it. here are the costs. it is not without risk but it is very achievable." that is a charge to my team and my students when i was teaching. also when i was coming f

people particularly in the middle east . and yet for me, what i did on the ground as a witness and as a human rights investigator was very separate from me as a person. although when you live amongst, if you're living in a warzone and i'm thinking very strongly right now of my time in sarajevo . it was living under siege in the city thatwas completely blockaded . and was very scary. there was shelling all the time. there was sniping but there was a catholic church that was open throughout this period and to get to it was actually the cathedral on marcella tito street, i don't know if anybody knows sarajevo but to reach it was great peril. you had to like run out to snipers alley and it was the main thoroughfare that people called snipers alley because people who were on the hills above could basically target you . but yet when i arrived there, i found such solace and such peace in the middle of an incredibly emotionless time and a very scary time. because essentially if you're living through war your very much alone. even if

is interviewed by college middle east studies chair. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. ♪♪ >> a look at conflicts in africa with officials from the state department and the u.s. agency for international development. they testified on capitol hill about u.s. policy in the region and need to work with partner nations. >> the subcommittee on africa's global human rights will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the subcommittee at any time and all members will have five days to submit statements, strenuous materials and questions for the records subject to limitation to the rules. to insert something into the record, please have your staff e-mail the previously mentioned address or full committee staff. as a reminder to members, your video function on at all times even when not recognized. members are responsible and you yourself after you've finished speaking. the accompanying regulations staff only member

as efforts to counter isis and al qaeda efforts have made some progress in the middle east, new isis and al qaeda affiliates have gained strength and legitimacy across the continent. u.s. must work with african partners, effectively address these terrorist threats and targets the drivers of extremism and radicalization. i appreciated the opportunity to highlight in a hearing last week, the importance of continued engagement with our european partners and partners on the ground to combat extremism and maintain networks to advance counter tear roughlyism objectives. by extension, we must also have those efforts to curtail the efforts of maligned actors in the region and seek to keep civilian safe. i was grateful to join ted deutch in the liberalization act to come out of suspension today to curb the maligned influence by actors such as russia. there is certainly more work to be done in the regard, especially given china's dubious investments. i look forward to hearing from our witnesses on any recommendations they may have. we appreciate the witnesses for their expertise and we appreci

you as research as estimate that north africa and the middle east in particular, we'll see a dramatic rise. more people getting older and indulging in unhealthy habits. that's what a landmark study found were the main reasons for an expected spike in dementia. cases will rise in every country, but the middle east and north africa will see an almost 400 percent rise in the number of people with the degenerates of brain disease by the year 2050. the projection and north african, the middle east, where we're quite large, i'm in the do you like increases both and population growth and population aging. and he's been a graphic factor in particular, not re gen, row is large anticipated and that in dementia burden. dementia leads to a loss of brain function. thinking, reasoning, and remembering. destroying life slowly reset. you see that though the numbers are not set in stone, they should serve as a warning to act. no. this is an important important these to consider on the future planning no matter where you are. you will see a less pronounced increase with 40000000 cases in 2050 compared

i recognize the chair of the subcommittee on the middle east. actually i don't believe he's still here i think he's on the floor sole let me recognize chrs smith, the ranking member of the subcommittee. >> thank you very much for your leadership on this. half of the world's armed conflicts in 2020 were in africa. fifteen will testify so i want to thank you, chairwoman for convening this very timely hearing on a very important topic understanding the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague africa. among the concepts, the two most pressing present are nigeria and ethiopia, and in part because of the importance of the two countries in the continent. other areas such as the insurgency with mozambique or the conflict in the central africann republic of the civil war and the democratic republic of the congo. moreover, while focusing on nigeria and ethiopia, we need to nonetheless be aware of how interrelated many of the conflicts are. indeed it may make more sense rather than confining ourselves to the lines on the map. it operates within that juris

and iran seeks to displace the united states from the middle east. the 3 powers are working together in different ways. i believe, between russia and iran. it's more tactical, especially on russia's part where iran is a useful partner in syria and engaging in operations against the sunni arab allies of the united states. and keeping the united states very much focused on the middle east when it wants to pivot to both asia, and especially now with russia regarding ukraine for china. it's a little bit of a different story. i would say because china actually has very tangible interest in the persian gulf region and the indian ocean. this is a maritime superhighway that connects chinese markets to natural resources not only in the middle east, but also to africa and to markets in europe. and so china is working with iran, they do have maritime security concerns in the indian ocean. and of course, iran has now entered into a 25 year 400000000000 dollar oil for infrastructure investment arrangement with china. and iran recently just sent proposals to russi

by the year 2050 the projection and north african, the middle east, where we're quite large and it's a, do you like increases both and population growth and population aging. and so the hearing about a factor in particular in that region row is large anticipated increases in dementia burden. dementia leads to a loss of brain function, thinking, reasoning, and remembering. destroying life slowly reset. you see that though the numbers are not set in stone, they should serve as a warning to act. no, this is an important important is these to consider on in terms of future planning no matter where you are. you will see a less pronounced increase with 40000000 cases in 2050 compared to around 8000000. no believe to be a result of the older population. and a long history of grappling with unhealthy lifestyles, healthy diet, lower alco intake, stalls making. and so that this sort of mantra look after the hearts and you look after the head expense, see healthy eating campaigns as well as the use of medication like aspirin, to prevent stroke have help to combat the disease when i start, inste

with iran potentially acquiring a nuclear weapon and conflict in the middle east as a result of it. trey: general, it sounds like 2022 is fraught with potential peril, thank you for your service to our country in every way if has manifest itself, we hope and you your family have a great beginning to 2022, thank you for being us. >> thank you, same to you and your audience. trey: education was afternoon american issue for state and political leaders in 2021, and parents, it was front and center in the virginia governor race, senator tim scott joining us next to talk about education and who gets to make those decisions on "sunday night in america." ready to turn your dreams into plans and your actions into achievements? explore over 75 programs and four-week classes at national university. your future starts today at nu.edu. trey: year after year education remains among most important issues for americans, while there is agreement on the importance of education there is robust debate on where the decisions should be made and by whom. our next guest is living proof of the power of educ

they are the source of terror in the middle east, and they have to fight back. the last thing you want to do with this sort of octopus is poor tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus -- pour tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus, because you will get terror on steroids. everything will be doubled and tripled because it will be much stronger. i want to point out something. iran, while it has this image of a powerhouse, iran is way more vulnerable than one would think. their economy is tanking. their currency is depreciating. they are so incompetent that they are not able to get water to faucets in huge swaths of land. there are many iranians that, when they try to turn on the faucet, nothing comes out, because of their regime's incompetence. we are seeing massive demonstrations of teachers, of judges, of pensioners he iran. -- in iran. it is a corrupt, failed regime. we need to stand strong until iran goes through an agreement, but there was only one agreement. they call it longer and stronger. it means effectively that iran has to give up its n

manus: good morning from our middle east headquarters in dubai. dani burger in bloomberg hq. treasury yields surge with the two-year topping 1% since early -- for the first time since early 2020. a drone strike on abu dhabi sparks tensions. crisis planning. finance ministers meet in brussels on how to tackle challenges of energy and russia. and our the bond markets really under siege? is this the foothill of a taper tantrum at the 2013? state street have warned this is the fed fighting the ghosts of inflation, which will fly away in 2022. good morning. dani: good morning. it comes during the fed blackout period. there has been the run on the bank many had feared. we love a nice round number. the two-year the highest since february 2020. nearly 15 basis points on the front end of the curve in just two days. manus: higher and higher. this is your two year yield up over 2%. the short end of the curve has a frisky, risky move. the question is what happens next with balance sheet reductions? by the way, we run a risk of shock. that is when the wheels come off the bus. >> the dread

with iran potentially acquiring a nuclear weapon and conflict in the middle east as a result of it. trey: general, it sounds like 2022 is fraught with potential peril, thank you for your service to our country in every way if has manifest itself, we hope and you your family have a great beginning to 2022, thank you for being us. >> thank you, same to you and your audience. trey: education was afternoon american issue for state and political leaders in 2021, and parents, it was front and center in the virginia governor race, senator tim scott joining us next to talk about education and who gets to make those decisions on "sunday night in america." before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn... claire could only imagine enjoying chocolate cake. now, she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? >> woman: what's my safelite story? >> vo: my car is more than four wheels. it's my after-work decompression zone. so when my windshield broke... >> woman: what?! >>

but look at the middle east, look at the whole of the coming together. i think it was even 20 years ago. people want that the sort of short term success. it's all it would do would be to turn china and russia against the united states and even possibly could have been working together against us. that's what's happened. and when it comes to the conservation that you were mentioning earlier, this time around, obviously, i mean, the china will remember it's embassy being destroyed, as nato broke up. your love, you ever had that time in, in the ninety's and poochie. and i think roy's remembers that russia should never have abstained on that. you end security council resolution on libya. so it's a bit different this time then majoring in moscow up, up to the tricks that washington my play and room will react differently. i mean, this is what china said to, to, to bring them to, to sup sullivan. you know, we're not doing this ala carte foreign policy where you just pick, we don't like to cooperate with this. but on the other issues, it's a open warfare. we'll

so for sat day levant, middle east finance, right? 22 celsius in doha. 20 celsius here on sunday. watch out for some early morning, missed and folk. here's that change, which is a foot by this stays. and that will just push its way toward, sir, that eastern side of the med, somebody to watch out for next week we'll see some showers all the way across the la vance, syria, iraq, lebanon, jordan, sing some of that sherry rate, even northern parts of saudi arabia, can watch out for some right into the early part of next week of the moment. that same systems just feeding across northern areas of janasia, just grazing the coastal regions of libya, will see it making its way further. east was then as we go through the next hour. so one or 2 showers to just around the guinea coast, but for central parts of africa. georgia, the shower where they should be just around the heart of africa, some big down paul, spilling out of angola into where zambia just running across says in bob way into mozambique and madagascar more the same as we go through

i now see the chair of the subcommittee on middle east, north africa and global, representative deutsch is with us. they've called votes but we have a few minutes, maybe we can get the chair and ranking member. >> thanks for holding today's joint hearing and thanks to your ongoing commitment to highlighting these issues and all the issues facing africa. we will examine the conflicts across the african continent where nonstate actors have wreaked havoc. violent extremist groups like al qaeda and the islamic and others have been inspired and in many cases actively recruited and funded by al qaeda and isis. in the 20 years since 9/11 terror threats have metastasized, africa became fertile ground for training and recruiting. horrific human rights abuses have taken place with dire humanitarian crises have arisen in the wake of their terror. the us funded humanist arena development programs across africa the last 20 years the majority of our military has been rooted in counterterrorism operations. comparatively military -- in the years after 9/11 the us has significantly increased joint count

not just in lebanon, but throughout the middle east. what did the international labor organization do to address this issue? and i had go ahead. this is this question about, it's not just lebanon, and your response is what? it's true that it's not just lebanon and that you know, human rights watch regularly documents abuse of migrant domestic workers and various countries across the middle east. however, another non is becoming an outlier on this issue because of countries such as golf and the gulf i gulf countries as well as countries like jordan has started implementing reforms. now whether those reforms go far enough, we don't think that they do, but lebanon is an outlier on this issue, and that there is no law governing margaret domestic workers presence in the country. migrant domestic workers are excluded from the labor law. and there isn't another law governing our presence only lebanon and all martin trinity eastern countries that receive a large number of margaret domestic workers and still don't have any law protecting or regu

mm. boiling billions of leaders of water takes a lot of energy in the middle east. the availability of, of oil and especially fossil fuels makes the thermal process is cheaper. but for other types it could be, i think, 25 or 30 times more expensive. but that energy doesn't have to come from fossil fuels. ah, start up in berlin has a sustainable alternative. the water comes from the ball for the system. and after that is gone through the booster bomb with fortune by the water is price through the membrane. and he is in is water with green energy. that's the key to the company success. this is one of their plants can kenya the solar panels, keep the cost of water low in villages like this, where electricity is not available. i get the water for free. we get the electricity from the solar and wind for free. so we can now produce $1000.00 rita for $0.50. this price is actually competitive to clean water from the river or from the ball. but there's another problem. what do you do with this water? that's left behind. so we thought of this, so look out of the woods to prod

just as, as has happened in germany, sark alia is the syria researcher in the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch a talking to us about the significance of this land market torture verdict that has been passed here in germany today, sir, thank you very much for taking our questions. european union minister as our meeting to discuss russia's military build up on its border with ukraine. the discussions come amid a flurry of diplomatic activity to try and refuse the crisis. the you was not part of talks this week between the us and russia, but foreign policy chief, joseph brown, denied that the e u is being frozen out of the negotiations over the threat of war in its own backyard. novel could be good. that's been a lot of talk that europe was kept the side that europe was not participating, was not at the table. i really listen. we've developed an extremely advance coordination with the united states anymore. but we're actually corporation, and we are assured that nothing will be decided not even negotiated with the russians when a close coordination with europe and w

if a nuclear deal can't be done, how real is the danger of a catastrophic war in the middle east? mohammad marandi in vienna, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. now, you are in the austrian capital with the iranian negotiating team, us negotiators are there too, but it does look as though efforts to revive the international deal on your country's nuclear programme are running out of road. why is that? the americans are dragging theirfeet, and so are the europeans. they left the deal. from the very beginning, they violated the deal, then they left and tore up the deal. they imposed maximum pressure sanctions on citizens in iran, killing people — intentionally — and that's basically waging war by other means. and now, the iranians want the sanctions removed, and in order for the deal to work, the other side has to accept removing sanctions. they can't have their cake and eat it too. so what we're seeing is that the americans and the europeans are resisting. they want to keep sanctions in place, they don't want the proper verifi

molly: tensions rising in the middle east israel carried out airstrikes on gaza after hamas launched rockets and the mediterranean sea off of tel aviv yesterday. trey yingst is live with the very latest on this. >> molly good afternoon the new year in the middle east is not off to a great start is really airstrikes targeted hamas positions along the gaza strip the strikes were in response to rocket fire on saturday and landed off the coast of central israel there was a sniper attack from gaza the injured one civilian hamas claimed it was conducted by an attacker addiction negotiators are working around the clock to prevent another round of escalations between the two sides after the 11 day last may it comes amid tension of the mega policies meant to decrease tension have only added to the status quo. the eighth round of nuclear talks in austria resume between the u.s., iran and the parties of the nuclear deal iran is still increasing its storage and enrichment of uranium actions that may push israel to act on militarily against the country. analyst warrant a passive approach that hav

manus: good morning from our middle east headquarters in dubai. i am manus cranny, dani burger alongside me in london. these are your stories to set the agenda. the u.s. has ordered citizens and family members to leave ukraine as attentions -- as attentions continue. -- tensions continue. the fomc will be more aggressive than expected. yields climb and u.s. futures advance. plus, the crypto crunch continues. bitcoin drops 50%. a very good morning. we are waiting for phillips to give us their numbers, and they are in across the screen. fourth quarter at 13.1%. this is a squeeze, they warned the market a couple of weeks ago in terms of sales, revisions, chips. the estimate was 15.5%. what else have we got on phillips? dani: we have a dividend per share at 85 euros. fourth quarter net income 157 million euros. it is also a recall over sleep apnea machines as well. as you said, they warned against, and it means higher provisions as well. missing estimates. they tried to adjust the estimates. we will get more in a little bit. we have the phillips ceo t