gulf countries are being warned the future is bleak unless they diversify and become this reliance on oil so what are the alternatives and how is the current blockade on cattle making things worse this is inside story. and welcome to the program jane the international monetary fund has some advice for countries in the gulf diversify and diversify fast the oil that's made many gulf countries extremely wealthy is not going to last forever and the i.m.f. street thousand and seventeen report is predicting the worst growth rate for the region since the global financial collapse several years ago economies in the region have been suffering since oil prices fell dramatically in two thousand and fourteen attempts to curb oil production of only slightly raised revenue and the gulf cooperation council diplomatic crisis that began in june has only made the situation worse the i.m.f. says cattle and its blockading neighbors could have trouble finding investors if the crisis continues but it's not a hopeless situation the i.m.f. director for the middle east says gulf economies are starting to make

that trade shifts from west to east, what does that mean for the economies of that region? iv gulf country is ready for life after oil? —— are the. we will find out in this week's talking business. located between asia and europe, the united arab emirates has been a natural hub for international trade. from the old wooden dowells that still ply the waters of the gulf to the vast containerships of cargo from around the world. this port in dubai and also the 17 million containers a year. that is expected to ship 22 million next year. these containers used to travel from east to west. full of goods made in asia are like cars, computers, and clothes. but a shift in global demand means a change in direction. asia and china in particular are booming markets for exporters. and for the golf, that means oil. china is now the world's largest importer of middle eastern oil. but the booming economy means goods and services as well. and most of those passed the reports like this. so, let's talk about some of those issues raised. with me is the president of the us— uae business council res

year. i have been to kuwait and all man carrying with me. of the crises taking place in the gulf region i also delivered the speech in the league of arab states where i laid down or laid out their concerns. among the risks and as i said this is responsible it is by virtue of our offices and our places and i believe we are through these efforts will be culminated simply because we are genuine and we believe that we will be met with positive response as i said our stand has been shaken and unchanged from the beginning. channel all our efforts and bilateral relations to the benefit of the regional ones and we can not falter in this respect and i believe iraq's strength stems from its adherents to the stability of all the arab. countries in the arab world which in and other words iraq should not take advantage of any bilateral relations and the expense of the other. well the gulf what does it mean it is a political representation of a geographical one. what is a gulf bloc and iraq is overlooking the gulf isnt it. so. that's why saddam hussein attacked and destroyed some of the gulf c

undermined american grant strategy in the region. - air gulf states got together and formed the gulf cooperation council. in large part, because of the concern about the iranian islamic revolution and the potential of exporting their revolution to their countries. (tranquil guitar music) - [narrator] the house of saud has ruled saudi arabia since before the birth of the modern nation in 1932. the royal family now has an estimated 15,000 members. - saudi arabia is basically named after the house of saud which basically you can call it a tribe or a clan. so now, they built a modern state based on very traditional concept of governance. - loyalty, of course, begins with the tribe because it is the expanded form of a family. - your job is to be part of this tribe, to work hard, because you carry the last name, that is so crucial in our arab culture. your last name means a lot. - we americans are as yet ill at ease with tribes. we see them as backward, we see them as illiberal, we see them as unprogressive. they are anything but what the stereotype is. they are in many ways the socia

calendar number 216. h.r. 2615, a bill to authorize the exchange of certain land located in gulf islands national seashore, jackson county, mississippi, between the national park service and the veterans of foreign wars, nd for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from colorado, mr. tipton, and the gentlewoman from california, mrs. torres, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from colorado. mr. tipton: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman. -- the gentleman is recognized. mr. tipton: h.r. 2615, introduced by mr. palazzo of national park ks service be given to the veterans of foreign awars in gulf islands national seashore in jackson county, mississippi. this bill benefits both the v.f.w. post and the park service. it provides the v.f.w. post with permanent access to their buildings via a long dri

afternoon one person is dead after this small plane crash in the gulf of mexico. this is near the town of holiday, florida. the plane was found upside down in shallow water. investigators say they haven't found a flight plan, so they are not sure how many people were on that plane. we expect to get new information during a news conference at 4:30. they will release the name of the person killed and will bring you new information just as soon as we receive it. >>> turning now to our first alert weather. another round of rain in our area as we track showers this afternoon. >> take a look at this. wait for it. really coming down there and it's collecting on the trees as well. >> there's the rain right now? >> reporter: everywhere, jim. it is pretty solid area of rain. e we told you about yesterday. and the only exception is is where it's snowing up in the poconos and even some sleet in parts of the lehigh valley. it is a nasty day in much of the area. pretty in the poconos for a lot of folks. but not so much elsewhere. there's wilmington in the rain. i think that's the high reflectivity f

welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan it's been five months since the gulf diplomatic rift began but counted as a mere says it's no closer to being resolved shake to mean been hammered out tani addressed the country's advisory council on tuesday saying that saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain don't want to reach a solution the so-called arab quartet began its land and sea blockade of council in june repeated attempts of mediation by q.h. the u.s. france and others of all failed over the past five months so what's next we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first reports. cottle's leader remains defiant describing the blockade imposed as unfair and violating diplomatic norms checked i mean been hammered then he says qatar is willing to start talks but national sovereignty is a red line. as you are all aware has been subjected to an unjust and unlawful measures that violate all the values and norms established not only among friendly countries but also among enemy by nature of the measures taken and the rhetoric and conduct adopted it has become evid

in rakhine state. says its neighbors have no desire to end the gulf crisis saudi arabia the united arab emirates and egypt seven ties with cats in june and imposed a land sea and blockade. spoke at a session of cats as parliamentary advisory body. why now. i'm talking to you with all transparency we mean what we say when we say we are ready for agreements through dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and shared commitment but on the other hand we know that the indications we receive say seach countries don't want to solution these countries with this attitude have opened a new stage in the relations between gulf countries we have benefited from this experience it brought out the best from the people we contributed to shaping its national identity and reinforced the national unity with the leadership of al jazeera correspondent joins us now in the studio to tell us more about his message basically you know this piece marking the opening session of the council is always a key note which basically addresses domestic issues and also foreign policy but this time you can tell

gulf news, record yearfor graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online graphics. in the gulf news, record yearfor online sales, graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online sales, following black friday, and we had singles day not long ago in china, incredible, record—breaking, black friday went really well, high expectations for cyber monday today. how important are these days and how important have they become for retailers? very important for retailers considering especially in the uk, you know, the wea k especially in the uk, you know, the weak economic situation, these are really important days and it seems to be, you know, black friday, then monday, and people then stop shopping. you would think that for retailers, they are having to mark down things so much and try to cut everybody else out of the market, like amazon is being extremely aggressive this year, but you do wonder how much money these poor retailers are going to make in terms of profit. absolutely, it is going to hurt their margins. it must do. so how has it come to the bottom line? black friday is b

reelected in with 1964 the gulf of tonkin incident. you're going to show us a cable, a document regarding the uss maddox. tell us about this. thehis cable is about second tonkin gulf attack. there was one on august 2. it is the august 4 that this cable refers to. maddox was the american ship believed to have been under torpedo attack by the north vietnamese. in the first cable, he said they tremendous torpedo attack. in the second table he is , expressing doubt about that and said the weather effects on radar and overeager sonar men may have accounted for many reports. secretary robert mcnamara did not report the captain's doubts to the president. so the president and others , believed there had been a second attack. and it was after the second attack that the tonkin gulf resolution was passed which gave president johnson almost unlimited war powers. >> your exhibit has the actual document, the gulf of tonkin, resolution as introduced in the senate august 5, 1964. was this unanimously accepted by congress? was it unanimously passed? >> it was accepted almost unanimously. there w

country's neighbors have no desire to end the gulf crisis try to member in the middle fun he says the blockade in countries underestimate the will of the cattery people saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt severed ties with cattle in june and imposed a land sea and air blockade has the latest. qatar's leader remains defiant describing the blockade imposed as unfair and violating diplomatic norms checked i mean been hammered then he says qatar is willing to start talks but national sovereignty is a red line. as you are all aware has been subjected to an unjust and unlawful measures that violate all the values and norms established not only among friendly countries but also among enemy by nature of the measures taken and the rhetoric and conduct adopted it has become evident that the blockading countries are not aiming for a solution or settlement it's all started in june when saudi arabia the u.a.e. bihari in and egypt severed diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade they accused qatar of promoting extremism accusations dismissed by the

bilateral agreement with the u.n. protecting laborers making it the first gulf country to do so. according to a bubble is due to rule on whether to grant bail to an american woman who's accused of insulting president robert mugabe on twitter mothra donovan faces up to twenty years in prison if convicted of referring to a gabi as a sick man she's denied the allegations against her as baseless and malicious the u.s. state department has called for transparency in saudi arabia's anticorruption drive dozens of prominent saudi businessmen and princes were detained over the weekend as part of an investigation led by crown prince mohammed bin sultan more news for you here on al-jazeera right after inside story next. some say he's in a rush to take power from his father others argue mohamed been so money is on a path to reform saudi arabia but what risks is the crown prince running and kenny meet the many challenges he faces both at home and in the region this is inside story. with. with. their welcome to the program i'm jane dothan the erased in saudi arabia have spurred days of speculation and a

rented systems in the gulf a no go of that the rent a state in itself is by western standards a corrupt system so how can you go around and say we're going to chop this head but we're going to leave this one in power you know if you spend one hundred million dollars and more on a on a summer holiday in morocco or six hundred million dollars on a private yard as as the king and his crown prince have done over the summer so i mean this is there is some sort of inconsistency here with the implication of the term. corruption and i think it's it is more about consolidation over political power economic power and military power of the security sector at large because this is what the rest of metal was all about it's about controlling the entire security sector of saudi arabia nicholas no i mean really is the stuff of movies isn't i mean that dramatic a helicopter is missing missing people swoop of princes it doesn't matter who you are jailed in the ritz carlton i mean how has this been viewed from where you are how important i would say step it actually steps. are you witnessing well i'm here

beirut. citizens of saudi arabia and its gulf allies visiting or living in lebanon are leaving it's not the first time gulf countries tell their citizens it is not safe to stay lebanon has long been entangled in the saudi iranian power struggle across the region but the latest warning heightened tensions after the resignation of lebanon's prime minister saad howdy but alongside the tensions there are growing signs of lebanese unity in what many see as saudi interference in their country saturday his resignation was sudden raising concerns about the circumstances behind the decision there is also concern about how to ease freedom of movement he may have been seen since he made the announcement in riyadh but the prime minister hasn't made any more statements lebanon's president michel aoun believes had he is under house arrest he told a saudi arabia the fear in beirut will lead bihari that the circumstances of the resignation are an acceptable and how d.d. should return immediately. how did his own political party made a similar demand they didn't just suggest the prime minister is be

persian gulf. u.s. intelligence sources confirm that within the past few hours, more than 100,000 iraqi troops have massed along that country's border with kuwait. >> saddam hussein sends a substantial fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaiti border. it's shocking in washington and other western capitals. saddam had a million-man army and if it invades kuwait, he could very quickly lurch into saudi arabia and the saudis would not have been able to resist. all the oil is on the eastern side of the country right there on the border with iraq. [ speaking foreign language ] >> iraq invaded and took over its tiny neighbor kuwait today. the government of dictator saddam hussein claimed it went in at the invitation of revolutionaries who had overthrown the kuwaiti government. no western authority accepted that story. >> many americans are concerned that there may be a war. >> what is required of mr. bush to say to the americans that he doesn't want war. >> if you had been in the room with saddam hussein and interviewed him for an hour and 15 minutes and spent another hour and

decision of the gulf states of saudi arabia and the emirates to embark in a confrontation with iran over lebanon but the second thing which is more tied to the saudi internal domestic turmoil that that that's occurring i mean the fire stations and accept the resignation happened the same day it could have happened another time and the mere fact that the interrogations are still floating about the fate of saddam ideally if he is confined in custody if he is forestation. them true or not the mere fact that they are floated and that they are becoming the talk of international i mean the subject of international statements is by itself worrying and i would say is not very well. for the image of saudi arabia itself because it is giving the image and idea that this is a country where some opaque things are or currying and this is not the exactly i think this country would like to give of itself that was of course to assist by hutto visiting scholar at colleague's middle east program speaking on the really situation well french president says he's being called out with her and will discuss

mentioned many other complications and one such complication of would be a b. gulf crisis surrounding qatar it appears now at the forefront of trying to rally other countries particularly in africa against qatar do you think sanctions and boycotts are effective ways of doing diplomacy these days and is it an effective means of trying to make the other country change its policy i don't see that it's a gulf crisis i see that it's not there's a crisis gulf challenge whatever you know i guess that's also goes to i was a ghost is in a situation the not necessarily me of the crisis but it is really saudi arabia is not happy with what's happening if qatar's i there is egypt and egypt is not part of the gulf but it is certainly. an important region as it relates to the national interests and national security what is i think the current situation is that there is a concerns on the part of the four arab countries egypt saudi arabia emirates and the bahrain as relates to policies of qatar that have to be addressed that have had a very adverse impact on the national security that has caused dire

support hezbollah in lebanon the saudi state minister for gulf affairs actually tweeting and saying that they expect escalatory measures but they're not saying what measures they're going to take against lebanon it has to be made clear that the saudi the resignation of saddam had it it was a saudi move against hezbollah and saudi officials have made it very clear to lebanese officials either you curb hezbollah's influence and you are on our side or you will be considered an enemy so very uncertain times in lebanon. well the french president says he's been in contact with her and will discuss his case with the saudi crown prince during a visit to riyadh on thursday but my call is denying hariri has formally requested to go to france earlier hereis office said he'd met the french ambassador to saudi arabia in riyadh. the global leaks website has also released what appears to be a plan by the united arab emirates to destabilize qatar's economy and jeopardize its hosting of the twenty twenty two football world cup the plan was found in hacked e-mails belonging to the m.r. r.t. ambassado

crashed in the gulf of mexico.& thank for joining us tonight at 6:00. i'm iain page. lucy is off tonight. roy halladay played few seasons with the phillies but he left major impact on the city. here's what we know right now. it was just afternoon today when the pasco county sheriff's office near tampa the marine unit got call that small plane went down in the shallow water in the gulf of mexico. halladay was the only person on that plane and investigators say he never made a may day call. the ntssb will lead recovery operation and investigation into the crash. and while talking about the crash, pasco county sheriff got visibly upset calling halladay a wonderful family man and friend. >> but i can speak as somebody who knew him, he was a part of our sheriff's office. his kids went to school with some of our kids. he was there whenever we needed him. he was probably one of the most humble human beings you'll ever meet. >> the sheriff went on to talk more about halladay's relationship with the department even bought them a police dog named k9doc. doc of course being halladay's nickn

gulf not only lebanese who are living in the gulf sent seven point two billion a year and remittances from the gulf but also there is the the trade between the countries there is also to design between the countries in lebanon as it is it would be. stick a destination for arabs especially from the gulf and it's arab nationalists that come and spend a lot of money also there are other ways and means of football heard the economy the economy is already on the brink so let alone. these sanctions if they come i think it's very important to put this into perspective there were rumors of course with the windmill or from hezbollah. media outlets etc that you know there is b.s. going to attack there's going to be a war from saudi arabia and lebanon i find this rather ridiculous if you're not going to be i guess it also not just not just hezbollah but i suppose there has been concern across what you know plenty of western media outlets as well about this sort of. very sudden resignation in the fact that it happened in riyadh and not beirut kind of contributing to this climate of te

up, examine the changing position of gulf states in the global order, which is certainly very relevant to the developments that we are examining today. he also has focused on the emergence of longer term, nonmilitary challenges, and region of security in the gulf seeings. he worked before that, the senior gulf analyst at strategic studies between 2006 and 2008 and as co-director of the kuwait program on development, governance, and globalization in the gulf states at the london school of economics, between 2008 and 2013. he holds a doctorate in history from the university of cambridge. each speaker will speak for 12 to 15 minutes and then we will spend the balance of our time encouraging in the art of conversation, giving you a chance to engage directly with the speakers through your questions. i would just like to remind you, that the card and the little pencils on your seat are not to improve your seating. they are meant for you to basically write your questions. we only entertain questions in writing. once you have a question or a comment, just raise your card, the staff wi

and saying i'm being heightened by the fact that gulf countries are urging they citizens to leave lebanon i mean how people they are reacting to this. will undoubtedly statements like that will last heightened tension it will cause instability it will be a blow to the economy to tourism in this country but the lebanese have heard these statements before if you ask anybody does say well there was the travel ban gulf countries have imposed a travel ban on lebanon in the past lebanon has always been entangled in the saudi iranian right. i will be which is playing out across the region but they will also tell you that this is an indication that saudi arabia intends to escalate the situation that it just then this will not just stop with the resignation of how do you deal with this how did his resignation really brought down the government a government that was hezbollah was part of that government so people are expecting further measures they're asking is saudi arabia going to impose economic pressure financial pressure on this country tens of thousands of lebanese work in the gulf th

the sixth has arrived in qatar to discuss the latest developments in the gulf political crisis the king was greeted by the time and been. this is king muhammad's first visit to qatar since the beginning of the ongoing gulf crisis saudi arabia the u.a.e. back lane and egypt have cut and diplomatic ties with qatar those are the headlines coming up next it's al jazeera world by for that. well they want to. hear the say. well they're. going to say there was a. bit. of a crisis but i think. there's something. else. wrong with. misled and i. want to go walkin to come out of it in your. head. that. and i've. been to. one of. the one. hundred. with the one of the few for the pleasure and. the man had a lot of. fun and with a. lot ahead of. him i'll have it all out of. my palm. just had to. come up with had nothing. they can with one of the fifteen. but. let me study let me start. with the op. had. been the self. summed up. as i was thinking of the actions i did had that has happened. and that is a word about about them in the in-situ who are worth. washing off on a possibly and. i think it

. they don't ask what else of christian is a middle east analyst and writes if a gulf news he joins me live from beirut said hi there joseph good to have your company what do you think he's most likely to say well he's probably going to explain what he has not done during the past week namely to tell the world why he resigned from the position of prime minister he has in his previous groundsman said that his life was in danger presumably he knows something that the rest of the world does not know that in fact his life wasn't danger and that he's left the country in order to protect himself first and foremost that's one option the second option he will probably reveal is to to tell us whether or not there were circumstances that led him to make the decision that he has made what to us are we don't know we're all speculating what may have pushed him to do this but i would just like to remind everyone that's complaining about the fact that this man has been away and he was kidnapped and all that's kind of things that in fact. when he was forced to resign for the first time in twelve gener

gulf in particular and trying to shift out of the gulf countries, fearing there will be requests from the saudi central bank, from the saudis to the uae, to the other countries to free some of those assets. you're seeing a lot of calls to fund managers saying, help me out here, how can i get the money out? insef: what is the next step terms of saudi foreign policy in the situation as it stands in lebanon? we don't quite understand where the lebanese prime minister, who ?esigned this is bloomberg. he met the russian ambassador , he is also traveled to the uae, meeting the crown prince of the uae. he seems to be out and about innocence -- in the sense of saudi arabia and allies, but he is not in lebanon. resigneduestion is, he in saudi arabia, why aren't you coming back? accusationsg to from some lebanese parties that he is being held against his will. the issue is that the uncertainty, which is what investors usually hate, the uncertainty is that nobody really understands what the next step is, what is going to happen , or what the demands are. saudi arabia is basically trying to

not just a lebanese internal matter the saudi minister for gulf affairs ephemera upon says lebanon will no longer be the same after heady days resignation he says lebanese leaders have to choose between peace and terror in other words they have to move away from hezbollah a party that has allies members in government and parliament as well as an armed wing the risk of an open ended political crisis is real and with that lebanon risks again being a battleground for others wars senator al jazeera beirut. well the pentagon has come out in support of saudi arabia mike hanna joins me now from washington d.c. it's an interesting statement but perhaps allows us to join the dots past of the way saudi arabia has been acting in recent days. well certainly that statement from the pentagon coming out to saying that it praised saudi arabia for what it called exposing saudi's role in yemen it also went tired of its way as well to say that saudi arabia was a much valued ally in attempts to stop what it called the iranian destabilization of the region so this is very clearly the pentagon putting i

season was unprecedented. four named storms in close succession slammed into the gulf, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. the hurricanes caused catastrophic damage and energy supply disruptions across the country. while texas and florida are further down the road to recovery, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in puerto rico. a number of colleagues from this committee have been down there. and the u.s. virgin islands where the majority of folks still remain without power for more than a month after hurricane maria made landfall. today's hearing will review the emergency response and energy recovery efforts in the wake of those storms. it will help us begin to understand what went right and what went wrong. what lessons can be learned and how we as policy makers can identify gaps so that, when the next hurricane hits, we will be better prepared. as a result of hurricane harvey, more than 275,000 customers lost power in texas in severe flooding also affected the supply and delivery of transportation fuels, compounding response challenges and energy impacts across the gulf. hurrican

gulf during the original hostage crisis. my daughter's a west point graduate served with 101st air born in iraq after she graduated. she stays in the army. she's army captain. may eventually deploy back. i've had many nephews and cousins and folks like that in my extended family have served in the middle east. in fact, my kid brother's a pilot in libya in '83, '84. these wars have gone on for a long time. president trump and the campaign and particularly when i was able to step in as ceo with kellyanne conway as campaign manager, it was just during the end of the mr. and mrs. kahn's the crisis around the khans, the gold star family and the death of that hero captain kahn. and the president one of the things we talked about was how you compare and contrast himself with hillary clinton. one of the strongest things she had going for her when she was running was her foreign policy experience. her time on the senate armed services committee, her time as secretary of state, her vast knowledge of all the ins and outs of foreign policy and president trump i think really connected with the

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call hallada halladay's small two seater went down in the gulf of mexico. they say halladay never made a may day call. the ntsb is now on the way to the scene of that crash to recover debris and initiate their investigation. and while talking about the crash, pasco county sheriff chris knock company got visibly upset calling halladay a wonderful family man and friend. >> many know roy as a cy young winner. future hall of famer. one of the guest pitchers ever pitched in the game of baseball. we know roy as person as a caring husband who loved his wife randy. he loved his two boys tremendo tremendously. he coached their baseball teams. i can tell when you he spoke of his family he spoke of pride. >> the sheriff went on to talk about his relationship with that department saying he was there whenever they needed him even buying them a police dog named k9doc. doc of course being halladay '96 name kristen rodgers is here. what a loss. >> iain, philadelphia is heart broken right now. roy halladay was a treasured part of the phillies organization for four years but his impact reached far

national law and to protect workers' rights something unheard of from gulf nations qatar will become the first to pave migrant workers and minimum wage and support a glimpse at how professional tennis may look in the future has a story. series army as well as militia from iraq have encircled and entered the control town of. it's located on syria's border with iraq and last urban region in the area this video released by a pro syrian government media shows fighting in the surrounding area on saturday some avenge of a house more from near turkey's border with syria. according to syrian media as well as hezbollah media sources syrian forces have surrounded the border town of a google the last remaining stronghold by isis fighters according to sources on the ground this is going to be a tough fight because isis fighters have been coming to this place from all sides not just the iraqi side of the border but from syrian town just far away as there is or. is in the daters or province which is also being fought by s.d.f. forces these are the forces of the kurdish predominately who are backed

gulf countries telling their citizens to leave lebanon this must be adding to a real sense of anxiety that. yes undoubtedly such statements just heightened tensions it causes further instability we have to remember of course this is not the first time gulf countries have issued such statements telling their nationals to leave the country immediately not to travel to lebanon so the lebanese people have heard these statements before but they are worried because lebanon really is and tangled in this saudi iranian rivalry which is playing out across the region and the question that many people here ask is what is next the saudi arabia has already brought down the government following the resignation of saddam had a government saudi arabia considered too close to iran so the question is what are they going to do next are they going to put economic pressure on this country financial pressure there are tens of thousands of lebanese who work in the gulf are they going to force these people to go back home are they going to prevent these people from sending money back home are they goi

the gulf region shaikh mohammad bin abdul rahman out tunney met his german counterpart zoomer gabriele in berlin today now the two men opened they could tare cultural center germany is taking an active role in diplomatic efforts to end the blockade of guitar by other gulf states including saudi arabia my colleague christopher spring gate spoke with foreign minister danny who says the saudis are refusing to engage with his country. saudis and their allies say that qatar sponsors extremist groups that destabilize the middle east is that the case it's not the case at all i thought i was an active player and there was a guest actually we've been one of the founding members of the global coalition and we are hosting the center for their global coalition and everybody you know started to realize that it was just a smokescreen to justify the blockade again and again to stop that and they know very well they nor the reality of our contribute to the fight again are stirred up this narrative is being used by by saudi and u.a.e. mainly to justify him to gain sympathy with the west as far