is complicit in saudi war crimes in yemen today i believe that we are aiding saudi arabia in saudi arabia is committing war crimes i mean i believe that was the case under president obama as well i imagine that he was still committing war crimes but i don't think it was at the scale that it is today and i think the president i think of president obama were in office today and he saw a million people who had suffered from cholera and the saudis closing the ports closing the airport not allowing chlorine tablets to get into civilians that he would be outraged then he would put pressure on the saudis the saudis would say over the decades they have been a loyal friend to the u.s. they've helped provide stability in the region make sure the oil keeps flowing providing intel on terrorist groups invest in the u.s. economy and so the u.s. critics people like yourself are ungrateful unappreciative of that relationship well first of all fifteen of the terrorists who attacked us come from saudi arabia is one of the largest export hers of violence and non pluralism to the world there are ties between

radicalism in saudi arabia that was put into the saudi curriculum, the saudi education system, the saudi mosques, it was allowed and tolerated by the government. it the government pulled the plug, those clergies dependent on the government, they will go back home and seek their own safety. the reason why so many people, not least in the white house behind you, care about what is happening in saudi arabia is because of the strategically important role the kingdom plays in the region. mohammed bin salman has, if you like, been the director of saudi arabia's military assault on the houthi rebels in yemen and seems to be choreographing a very co—ordinated move, for example encouraging former prime minister hariri to resign in lebanon, getting tough with iran, sending signals to qatar, that qatar's radicalism will not be tolerated any more. is all these different ways in which saudi arabia is flexing its muscle, will be intensified in the coming months and years? it has to succeed. before it could intensify, what about its chance of success? that worries us. as a citizen, i want to stop ira

tween saudi arabia. and a warm welcome also goes to show the rosanna's from t w two why she's both a producer and an analyst shani can bring us the israeli perspective on things and she says in its ongoing struggle against iran it's not saudi arabia that israel is looking to. russia. for ok i'd like to begin with you if i might and of course the tensions between iran and saudi arabia go back a very very long way but why is this cold war now heating up why now and there is. a kind of explanation for that i should also say it's not any kind of accord valar what we are seeing at the moment because cold war i think is of wards it's more than that is it really valar is approximately between both of them because you can also see in different parts of the rich in that country on think themselves against each other via you know i think there is two or three. issues help out understanding this for example we have done our trump in america. plays a major role in this confrontation in this live it because last year

so it is good for saudi arabia to do that. >> do think the kingdom of saudi arabia has exaggerated or given too much credit to the hoses. the part of the around saudi competition or is that threat genuine? >> the disease have swept out of their strongholds taken -- by september 2014. by the time he came to power the president was imprisoned temporarily in the government fell the same night that he came to power. clearly the newsies had the line of convenience with the former president who had >> it's gigantic. returned to get involved against the ran into syria he needs to get the consensus and understanding from congress to do such a thing. so, he should know whatever kushner trump promise, they cannot deliver. we need to spend some time about this. how is that the stabilizing, we should speak in one voice so that we will send the wrong message to a leader like, listening to trump and tillerson and assuming there is a difference between them. basically they can look at the measure in saudi arabia because they're the only ones who have a leverage in saudi arabia today. >> i think the

saudi arabia, next on great decisions. (enthusiastic music) - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers, llp. (soft arabian music) - [narrator] saudi arabia and the us are at odds culturally and ideologically yet for decades, they have been said to enjoy a special relationship based on shared interests. - on 1945, when the late king abdulaziz, the founder of modern saudi arabia met with the late president franklin roosevelt on an american destroyer called the quincy, there was a very strong strategic relationship that developed between the two countries. - there's lots of areas that we have to work together. we had times, have different views and different priorities and we have different values, we understand that but we share a common commitment to a more peaceful region and i think we can work with saudi arabia in order to accomplish that. - the special relationship about the united stat

is there in saudi arabia and the chief of the emknee group is in saudi arabia. i don't know about others. so that is best way to end the war is for saudi arabia to reach out to all emens. not one side against the other. that is exactly what happened in 1965. >> the next question is from les junka. explain dynamic of the royal family. willits cohesion be threatened when king salman passes away? >> i think there is only one person who probably in-laws the answer to that question. that's the king himself. we have the speculation clearly and every time there is said to be an imminent abdication it hasn't come to pass. one can read whatever one wants into that. a more dramatic push back than anticipated. i guess we don't know in terms of family dynamic. my consent perhaps is that salman has for a long time in the past performed the role of almost like the chief whip of the family. he sort of kept -- he was the instrument in maintaining family discipline. he was not only feared but also respected for that. it looks as if at least to some extent mohammed bin salman is

that we have now between saudi arabia and iran the problem for the saudis is hezbollah has just become too big too powerful across the region and now the saudis on the gross thing from a point of weakness not from a point of strength you know they've they've sort of kidnaps the lebanese prime minister we don't know exactly where he is exactly or what he's doing in saudi arabia there is this debacle and now which is a merger between now the international community in france is trying to usher him back to france there's a huge question mark over whether he will come back as a prime minister and do what everyone wants him to do which is to talk to has blood because frankly he's the only one the lebanese the saudis have got who can actually be put into that circle and who will be listened to and who can communicate with has been come out with a deal the million dollar question is to the saudis really wants to negotiate a deal because they had an opportunity and they seem to have lost it i got to run it clear. hariri areas become so popular in the last two weeks more popularly could be ever

what role will the crown prince play in saudi arabia's future. mohammed been known to his friends i'm told as his close allies n.b.s. what can you tell us about him as a as a person is about. well the first thing that striking is is he's very young is thirty two years old. he always worked with his father the current king he was in his administration the current king was the governor before. the. crown prince now and yes and to refer to now what was all this is a person secretary his. boss of the administration so he traveled very much in the shadow of his father his father became king he now into and became. became crown prince well we don't really know a lot of aside from that it's clear he has the financial means in about last year bought a five hundred million dollars yacht so he's doing quite well and. but i mean it's you can't underestimate what kind of a revolution he he started in saudi arabia to. fight back the radical islam to take on the islamic establishment. nick clerics over. women allowed to drive our women allowed into sports stad

the united nations have condemned saudi arabia's blockade of yemen ass catastrophic and it along with international aid groups is calling on ria to lift its feel prices in yemen have increased more than sixty percent while cooking gas prices have doubled after saudi arabia cut all aid access to the country the u.n. humanitarian affairs spokesman says it's essential that access for aid be restored immediately donald trump has struck a more conciliatory note towards north korea during a visit to seoul u.s. president is on the second stop of his tour of asia and has met with south korea's president in trump said he's still open to negotiations with pyongyang i says it carried out an attack on a t.v. station in kabul which killed two people and injured at least twenty others gunmen stormed the station after an explosion in the capital kabul. outfit catalan president carlos reached him on pro independence parties to unite ahead of a midnight deadline to register for next month's election which the moment speaking to catalonia radio from brussels weighs in f.l. facts post exile there's a to

saudi television. the un and fifteen aid organizations have called on the coalition to end the blockade and allow the delivery of desperately needed emergency supplies are the ambassador you've been in yemen you've spent time there you know what the situation is like there on the ground. do you foresee the saudis opening up the borders long enough for food aid to get in or do you think yemen is going to be the site of the biggest famine that the world has seen and half a century. well we have the statement by the saudi foreign minister out of eligible error in which he said that the coalition would not impede the movement of humanitarian supplies into yemen there's no doubt that this is an extremely grave extremely serious situation that needs to be result very quickly if we're to avoid the kind of large scale disaster that your correspondent was referring to there needs to be some clarification of communication between the international humanitarian organizations and the saudis to ensure that everyone

citizen spent most of his life in saudi arabia and is considered to be a sort of a saudi pawn to put it bluntly so they they pulled mystery over back to saudi arabia in a sort of panic last week a couple of times and basically forced him to resign as lebanese premier that's part of a bigger longer term plan to try and destabilize lebanon to shake tiny lebanon so as to make a point to hezbollah and to the region that there's a new there's a new guy in town a new leader in saudi arabia who's got a new agenda to play out it was a double whammy i mean there was also some talk about mr hariri his connections with some of these leading businessmen who have been arrested so it was a two in one for the saudis feel like you get about the prime minister of lebanon may quitting. blamed around and as but large said they were sowing conflict that is there any connection to iran and has below or is this a smokescreen. now it's smoke and mirrors it's a sort of a theater being played out i mean you know it's very much to the saudis. objective on israel's objective because the meetings between the cr

all the decisions he makes under any circumstances meanwhile saudi arabia's attorney general says two hundred eight people have been questioned as part of what officials are calling an anti corruption crackdown he says the investigation has uncovered around one hundred billion dollars worth of fraud were all family members officials and prominent business men are among those being held in the luxury hotel in the capital riyadh the syrian army says it's now in control of the eastern city of al bookham all i still find says withdrew the border city was one of the last remaining pockets of territory in syria held by the armed group the u.n. says a saudi led blockade has put yemen on the brink of the world's worst famine in decades with millions at risk of starvation a group say seven million yemenis are facing famine like conditions with a further ten million in desperate need of food humanitarian workers are calling for the opening of all and seaports that were closed after saturday's attempted missile attack. the speaker of council only a sacked parliament and five of the former catala

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 its cards on the table making very clear that it fully back saudi arabia in recent events particularly the ongoing war in yemen and of course the massive purge that happened in riyadh over the weekend with dozens of people arrested including several current and former ministers one of the richest men in the world so the pentagon coming out very tightly behind the saudi administration in particular behind the crown prince who has been heading that anti corruption committee set up by his father the king and which led to the massive purge of dozens of people who are for them and we'll leave it there mike thank you very much meanwhile hooty rebels in yemen are warning that sound ian demographically airports are within firing range and could be targeted next. you know what. we call all passengers an airline and not to be at any saudi port a

the al-jazeera news our live my headquarters here in there are coming up in the next sixty minutes saudi arabia says the lebanese government will be dealt with as one declaring war against riyadh plus. we're trying to see whether we can get our normal access restored and we're hopeful that we will be able to continue our normal operations the u.n. raises other law aid efforts and we haven't suffered due to the blockade by the sound of that coalition. donald trump's hawkish stance towards north korea's nuclear threat in the spotlight as he heads for seoul also. i'm just feeling i'm saving nine lives right now so. yes i think anybody that. think about it it's a dog eat escort service passengers take stray dogs from mexico to new homes four thousand kilometers away. welcome to the news our side eurabia says lebanon will be dealt with as a government that has declared war against it is a major development amid escalating tension in the region between saudi arabia and iran in comments to the state media the saudi minister for gulf affairs referred to the role of iran within lebanon to be. tha

saudi arabia is accused of forcibly detaining lebanese leaders. unify different political groups but is becoming an open battleground for regional proxy . this is inside story. with. hello and welcome to the program i'm laura. it's been a week since lebanon's prime minister saad hariri suddenly resigned during a visit to saudi arabia his actions have set off a chain of events that continue to play out across the region the iranian backed hezbollah movement part of hero is governing coalition says saudi arabia is holding him against his will hezbollah believes by forcing her very to resign saudi arabia has declared war on lebanon the u.s. has joined the u.n. in calling for stability and lebanon warning regional powers against using the country for proxy conflicts we have a lot to get to with our guests but first this report from in 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 saud

iran accuse a saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of stoking tension in the region after the sudden resignation of lebanese prime minister saad hariri. and we'll take you to drone on the home of sac catalan leader carlist which from our politics took a backseat to tradition. and the school says. casablanca when their first champions league title in twenty five is better and more later in the program. with. there has been a major shake up in the top ranks of saudi arabia's government and ruling family between saturday night and sunday morning eleven saudi princes four sitting cabinet members and dozens of former ministers were detained the government describes all this is the work of a new anti-corruption committee which itself was only formed on saturday night so among those being held. to law he is best known as a billionaire and bester controlling major stakes and twitter twenty first century fox and citi group the most significant internal move involves prince mittal been adela who was removed from his post as the head

basically saudi arabia has lost so much in the last five years that for this new saudi prince to come into power he needs to feel as though he's making a statement he needs to send a message to iran but he also is sort of holding out a hand to has a pool of hariri to say country just give us a little bit back to show a little bit humility we lost so much in syria we lost so much in the end and we've made fools of ourselves in that. but let me go to joe does that help politics works in the in the middle east i mean give me something no i don't think it works that way i mean saudi foreign policy is the been nothing less than a catastrophe over the last few years i mean and then going back in and meddling in in lebanon trying to rebalance and whatever that means it's up to the lebanese people to do that what is in your mind what is going on in saudi arabia go ahead joe in washington. i mean obviously it's not them to grab power of the system became very complicated a lot of princes a lot of branches in southern would have family that wants to control and obviously you want to call so the

iran accuses saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of stoking tension in the region after the sudden resignation of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri. and we'll take you to just run of the hometown of the sect cattle and leader push to mount where politics took a backseat for tradition. there's been a major shake up in the top ranks of saudi arabia's government and ruling family between saturday night and sunday morning eleven saudi princes for sitting cabinet ministers and dozens of foreign ministers were detained the government describes all this is the work of a new anti corruption committee which itself was only formed on saturday night among those being held prince. he's best known as a billionaire investor controlling major stakes in twitter twenty first century fox and citi group but most significant internal move involves prince met had been adalah who was removed from his post as the head of the national guard he's the son of the late king abdullah and was considered a contender for the throne also out is the

in the government of saudi arabia there has been a coup and saudi arabia tried to use the resignation of saad hariri to hide that tennille movements and thought the saudi government but the first headline is the resignation of saad hariri not incidents happening inside the government of saudi arabia so we believe that this is coordinated now he also said that iran's government has information to suggest that hardline political groups are taking over saudi affairs but he took the opportunity to reach out to the saudi government . we believe if there is cooperation between saudi arabia and iran it is beneficial for the rage and it could bring calm to the region but they were alone america they rely on israel they think that with american weapons they can be a power in the region this is a wrong theory the government before the revolution in iran the shah's regime with totally saving america but americans abandoned him during the islamic revolution so instead of relying on american powers and foreign powers pay attention to the countries of the bridge and finally hussein he said that att

else involved. >> he has saudi and lebanese citizenship. >> business interests in saudi arabia, a big company which went sour this year. he needs to be build out, maybe he's expecting for the saudi stability not. he needs to give something in exchange. >> a sequence of events unfolding in saudi and the region. help us understand why he made a series of shock moves precisely at this time. was he trying to fend off something or somebody? >> i think he's preparing to take the throne, or the crown, i think he wants to become the next king very soon. he needs to go against rivals, but he's probably the first truly populist ruler of saudi arabia. somebody who tries to rally the support of the street of citizens against the couple of thousand princes and his family. calling it the shock move, i think that is true. if you want to change something, i think it's the right thing to do. i don't want to justify it, but i think it helps us understand the ways, means, and instruments. >> thank you, daniel. i want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. russian lawma

the official saudi news agency is a seed saudi forces fired a surface to air patriot missile to intercept it witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing fragments falling near the airport the rebels moved quickly to say they were behind the missile attack telling al-jazeera they had launched a burke and two h. missile a scud type missile with a range of more than eight hundred kilometers knocked out of the year. we choose the time and place after collecting information about a target and it was khaled international airport east of riyadh targeted by a long range volcano ballistic missile this is in response to the continued aggression committing daily massacres against the yemeni people. the conflict in yemen pits houthi rebels from the north backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh against yemeni government forces back in two thousand and fourteen the who thiis and their allies took control of the yemeni capital sana'a. but the conflict widened early the following year when a saudi led coalition of arab countries state done with airstrikes to back

arabia going to do now yes he was summoned to saudi arabia saudi arabia is his patron of course he's going to go there but nobody knew that he's not going to return a week after he has resigned thank you very much for that zena harder live for us in beirut bear. aljaz if you want to connect with her and find out more about the situation in lebanon i mean are bringing graham banham into the news grade his a former staffer for middle east and south asia on the u.s. senate foreign relations committee is live from washington d.c. very good to have you on the show we've heard the leaders say today that saberi be had declared war on lebanon and hezbollah he said that saad hariri is being detained in saudi the u.s. state department has so far refused to comment on the status of lebanon's prime minister or former prime minister depending on the way you look at it how worried do you think washington is about the current situation in this region. i think the united states is deeply concerned about the situation in the middle east for several reasons first of all we are at a conundrum here beca

how did he saudi citizens did for saudi has influence over him and that means he has a responsibility towards they tell him something he must listen and it's possible his children could be a pressure caught. he wasn't salty and it's natural that he's there and often he would return this is this country. behind only he and. this may be a family issue but. i would like to know why i would like to thank president for not accepting his assignation because if you gave how do you mean if you are. the first official confirmation that saddam will be returning to was made by the man himself. not long after landing in paris held the phone conversation with lebanon's president telling him that he will be here to attend the independence day celebrations on november the twenty second now what happens when he. insists on his resignation or will he decide to be reappointed as prime minister and form a new government but on condition that hezbollah. which is allied with iran is not participating in this new government so a lot of questions on what comes next and that is why many in lebanon fear that

which is ongoing in saudi arabia there's a very last conversation in the u.k. about why it would be illegal to continue just somewhat the country that is leading a coalition that continues to violate the laws of war and commit war crimes and yes i'm sorry we just bring helen in very quickly it's not looking good is it i mean do you have a time line for this country for to see some some sort of light some sort of rebirth if possible well first i'd like to pick up the point you made earlier about you know starvation and and the jeopardizing of the future by of children and families starving i think you know that is a very important point and something that we all need to look at and examine i think the timeline at the moment is extremely difficult to envisage i haven't met anyone who is in visiting an immediate end to the war i think there are too many factors that are preventing it from from ending i mean first you have the issue it was just raised of the iranian saudi proxy war which has. really nothing to do with yemen abs in reality but in practice it is bein

mr hariri do you see him as a pawn of saudi arabia in a conflict between saudi arabia and iran. well potentially as he is a dual national saudi and lebanese he can be easily played out so he's a convenient are in an uncomfortable position to be now potentially used as you say as a pawn and but there are a lot of question marks right now today we saw his this is a plane returning to lebanon without him so there are a lot of questions about his fate right now and if people are looking at these events it seems that this crisis has sharpened and are spiked very quickly what do you think is behind all of this what is precipitating what was the catalyst for this rising tensions i think we have the interconnectivity of regional developments on the one hand but also the interconnectivity between domestic politics and foreign affairs inside arabia we have this very ambitious crown prince mohammed bin someone who is trying to consolidate his power and through a mix of authoritarian measures and potentially welcomed measures that he's adopting at home he needs to to prove a strong hand in

this really connection with saudi arabia of course i think is really more hurtful to saudi arabia than it thinks because in public in the public opinion in the region people recognize israel as an apartheid state that has kept palestinians basically in concentration camps in gaza and the which is treating them as subhuman and any the closer the relationship gets the more unpopular the saudi regime becomes but i'd like to also point out a couple of other things about what's going on in saudi arabia and why i think that . this is very dangerous for the stability of the regime itself the be the erratic behavior is not only with regards to its sudden arrests of all these influential people and it's not just the war where they're slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people due to disease and starvation although the western media for two years has been saying ten thousand people have been killed they don't want to tell the real numbers but then we see what he did in the tatar and outrageous behavior that the saudis showed towards that heavy people and they still they tried to strangle them

the saudis could only describe as a rainy an aggression the saudis also ready to throw that allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of the blue without warning declaring his resignation lou inching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were never iran his presence it was discordant destruction and interfering through our countries in lebanon syria. yemen what i would like to say would be iran and its followers that they would lose in their. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo seva ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for cata daring to deal with the rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored rebellion is dying that. the hardest allies losing an aside is winning and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated riyadh hear the saudis around picking up attacks on iran on other fronts truly this is an international game of chess wi

absolutely, it is saudi arabia and the members of the saudi-led coalition. and also other western countries that are directly involved in the military operation. so all of these countries have the responsibility to, you know, well-beinghe human before the political and military gains they're looking for. it has been more than three years now with no military gains the by either one site from boring part. this war sounds insane, actually. amy: i want to go to the blockade happening this past weekend and write about the same time, well, last week, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior advisor who is now with him in china went to saudi arabia. afterwards, saudi authorities arrested scores of prominent officials over the weekend including 10 princes, four ministers, and dozens of former ministers in a massive shakeup by king salman aimed at consolidating power for his son, crown prince mohammad bin salman, the main architect of the kingdom's war in yemen. among those arrested was prince alwaleed bin talal, one of the world's richest people, with a

and saudi arabia citizens out of lebanon immediately after the resignation of the saudi bank the lebanese prime minister who made his announcement from riyadh. good evening money you're watching r.t. international and we'll start this hour with breaking news because wiki leaks claims that the cia's created a computer program that impersonates the antivirus software of the russian company kaspersky lab let's get more details on this story now from our correspondent kelli what else is in these revelations. well at this point we have a new batch of documents from wiki leaks vault a now this new batch is known as hive and essentially it reveals the source code and development logs used in cia malware infrastructure very very interesting now at this point it is revealed that the cia had a method for actually impersonating the russian company known as kaspersky labs now just recently it was reported that in two thousand and fifteen this company kaspersky labs had stolen cyber secrets from the u.s. national security agency with with software that they had developed however they've denied any wro

arabia's princes has been killed in a helicopter crash near the border with yemen a number of saudi officials also died prince mansoul been in al saod was the son of the former crown prince madrid and believed to be a close ally of the current one hundred and salma these videos posted on his twitter page just hours before his death should have inspecting defense and environment projects iran and its ally the lebanon based group hizbollah have accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension in the middle east by pushing lebanon's prime minister to resign saad hariri announced that he was leaving his position on saturday while on a visit to saudi arabia there's the headlines more news for you on al-jazeera right after inside story next. germany is hosting this year's climate talks president from the united states out of the paris agreement what now for the global effort to tackle climate change in the finale some live reports from the climate conference in bonn and from the front lines of global warming climate so what does iraq. on the brink of turmoil lebanon's pr

and the saudi agreement. that civil servants handle the terms of contracts not government ministers. denies any wrongdoing but it is viewed as a potential threat to the left wing government headed by prime minister alexis. that's going to straight to our guests and joining us from athens we have gabrielle secular regis he is the director of amnesty international greece and london under smith spokesman for campaign against arms trade and is so-called via skype he's advised man he's a senior research on arms a military expenditure program at the international peace research institute great to have you all with us cable first of all just provides a little bit of context here why is this deal in greece potentially with saudi arabia so controversial. it has been controversial for various reasons as you have already mentioned one of the reasons is that there are some military sounds from the side of. the opposition that there is some kind of economic scandal and yes there was a big debate in the greek parliament a

not just in saudi arabia. his career -- in and our friendship goes back more than 25 years -- he served as core -- foreign correspondent in different countries in the region, including algeria, sudan,, kuwait and the and reported on all these developments during that period in the region and became a expert, particularly in islam is an in the region. islamism. , particularly when the prince was the ambassador during that period. he has always been also a allentator on the media in of these languages and many networks aside from the saudi workedt he directed and at, that includes channels like bbc, nbc, dubai tv and many others. our next speaker, also a good isend, kristian ulrichsen the middle east fellow at the baker institute for public policy at rice university and we are also delighted that he chose to make the trip from houston last night to be with us today. kristian is working at the baker institute across disciplines of political science, international relations, international political economy. -- if

says the saudi state t.v. reporting this they're citing a royal the crazy so this looks as though there is a shift that goes beyond the national guard it looks more wide ranging than that and perhaps fits in with all the news we've had over this mega-city that that building as you say this is a a crown prince that is king to consolidate his control to what extent is it consistent with a very specific passon of behavior that we've seen on the part of the saudi crown prince well do you do any he really is a young man who is going places and is clearly in a hurry is attracting a lot a lot of attention and the object is that are coming to be associated with him words like in petra some people say reckless clearly a very significant being made to promote him to burnish his image i mean the extraordinary performance you put in that the recent international investment conference in riyadh detracted less of attention across across the world underlining this quest for modernity and the changes that it will require it i

and saudi authorities basically getting higher. and tense with iran in the past year or so but this is the translated to policy on the ground because we see in syria there is an agreement now between the u.s. and russia and you see iran you're getting close to call for the iraqis here you know border. you have saudi engagement you have a coexistence between quotation between the u.s. and iran in the iraq through the end through the. situation over there so that it's not it doesn't match what's happening on the ground and this was the u.s. message saudi arabia they do want to lead but don't explode everything for us that it's very tricky what's happening we have to. deal with the mission in c. to try to contain iran that's not the time to go into a. conflict that's not the big priority for the u.s. at this point which is liberal and there you see you know that's a completely shift in that sense so again i mean the saudi authorities does not much and will not much anything soon that of toric specially in lebanon with the saudi open o

it is clear that saudi arabia and the saudi officials have declared war against lebanon and hezbollah however let me tell you this is a war against. the entire lebanon not hezbollah and i want to know and here i would like to address the lebanese the lebanese with absolute veracity and openness and passion. propose also stress. points. i made. the happenings around us. and the state of the car we have been enjoying shears until the said saturday last. month a state and institutions presidency prime ministership stability security financial economic instability. all these benefits of pressures today many of the regions peoples are biting they fold that grave and dire situations they are living we must realize the value and the preciousness of what we enjoy in lebanon and hold on fast to this end contrast so the arabia is calling on them to read when. this troll to demolish all that. site has war against hezbollah saudi arabia is calling on you to read when your own homes will you do that. it is saudi arabia for all the statements and measures made by them are they willing or i the they

the saudi leadership the seaview iran through saudi glosses i think trump had almost no perspective on iran prior to running for office and at this moment it seems that his perspective is almost exclusively one that is informed by the saudis when it comes to iran and again it's not to make the argument that the saudis don't have legitimate concerns they do and so do the iranians the question is where is the u.s. perspective in all of this the united states is not and cannot be a proxy of the saudis because they have their own interests and they're pursuing them right now so i can understand why the saudis perhaps thought that this is a good moment to escalate tensions i don't understand why that would be a good thing from the u.s. perspective and that's where a lot of concern is coming in which is is donald trump pursuing u.s. interests here or is he essentially just being led around by the saudis on this issue and of course the iran nuclear deal you know big topic trump is now looking to sabotage and it seems to work seem to work ok. they under obama and the u.s. didn't get a nucle

the saudi's back the government. iran has increased its influence in syria as a ally of the assad regime. iran has also increased its presence in lebanon through its shiite ally, hezbollah. this has the israelis very worried. will war b break out again in lebanon? rozanes, theni israelis are worried about a possible war in lebanon. is it likely? is it inevitable? it is the feeling is that not a question of if, a question of when. there also seems to be consensus that now is not the time. israel has always been loud and clear that it will not tolerate any missiles shot from lebanon, from hezbollah to israel. it can endanger the northern part of israel, but also reach the population of tel aviv. we were talking about the middle east as a new game with old cards being reshuffled. there's an understanding that every mistake might lead to war and might lead to -- the repercussions might be very dire. as much as there is very strong talk, there's very much caution when it comes to any operations being made. we need to keep

fire a missile into saudi arabia's capital riyadh it says it was intercepted. at a shakeup in the house of sand the princes detained on ministers dismissed. also lebanon's prime minister quit citing a rainy the influence in his country that hariri makes a surprise announcement from saudi arabia. also first stop tokyo the u.s. president donald trump begins his twelve day tour of asia with north korea at the top of the agenda. good to have you with us on the news hour a day of three major stories within the kingdom of saudi arabia so we begin with the arab kingdom saying it was taken down a long range ballistic missile fired from yemen over its capital riyadh the rebels say that they had fired the missile across the border the saudi rivals and vowed to keep up the attacks while the saudi led coalition airstrikes continued in yemen marianna homes as well. it's not the first time who the rebels have fired long range missiles across the border at saudi arabia but this missile appears to have travelled the furthest hundreds of kilometers deep into saudi heartland and