starting next week, as one does. great to have the chance to talk a little bit about the middle east zone. let me talk about the framework more generally because they come up in the review conferences which they periodically destroy. let me put it in context is to how we in the state department see the way forward to contextualize thinking about the zone. this is an important anniversary. the up coming review conferences the 50th anniversary of the treaty's entry into force. it is important to keep these debates over the zone in the context of the bigger picture of the nonproliferation regime more broadly and the challenges it faces. i would argue that there are a number of things countries absolutely should be thinking about and planning to discuss at the conference in order to protect and hopefully advance the integrity and effectiveness of that treaty. this will include, most obviously, the proliferation challenges the world faces right now. we should make sure we do not forget the importance of focusing on things like ensuring the final and fully verified denuclearization of north kor

zone in the middle east with stink list -- with speaker assistant secretary for nationaltal customer. ford.istopher organizationrgest dedicated to nonproliferation issues. we have headquarters in monterey california as part of the mill berry institute of national affairs, which is a graduate school of -- middle barry affairs, of national which is a graduate school of middle barry institute. the --ges it is normally understood that it is very difficult to make ingress on security issues the middle east because there are so many moving parts. in the middle east, there hasn't been a moving part for quite a few years. .hat may be about to change the gridlock may be coming under pressure because of recent developments we will be hearing about shortly. podium over to the director of the james martin center nonproliferation program and she will east have some marks. >> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. the assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation here to speak with us. >> in 1974 at the u.n. resolution to be expended from .uclear weapon free zone the

the middle east. christopher ford is assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation. he spoke at the james martin center for nonproliferation studies. >> thank you, sandy. the delighted to introduce secretary -- assistant secretary of state for international security and proliferation, christopher ford. first put forth by iran and egypt in 1974 as a u.n. resolution to be expanded to weapons of mass destruction in egypt, thefrom proposal has been discussed for many years. cns has worked many years and we have publication on the zone issue. most recently in november, 2018, the u.n. general assembly adopted a resolution asking the u.n. secretary-general to convene a conference about weapons of mass destruction free zone starting from 2019 and continuing until there is a legal binding treaty. the first conference will be -- right now is being planned for november 2019 in new york, but the initiative has been received in the region with mixed results. we are very delighted that dr. ford agreed to speak about it today. let me introduce dr. ford. chris serv

. >>> up next on c-span 3, the conversation from the middle east policy council about relations between the united states and saudi arabia. we'll hear about the murder of jamal khashoggi, the civil war in yemen and iran's nuclear program. >>> all right. good morning, everyone. i am gina, the vice chairwoman of the board of the middle east policy council. i'm pleased to welcome you to this, our 97th quarterly capitol hill conference. our topic today is the united states/saudi arabian relationship. over the last 40 years, many of us have observed and supported this relationship from deepening our counterterrorism operation to championing women's rights. the challenge on each side has been to reconcile close, effective cooperation on national security issues while remaining faithful to two very different value systems. under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. the nature of our military cooperation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. these issues are ripe for informed

what do you know about the roots how weapons from balkan countries go to the middle east they go through turkey jordan co-write qatar and saudi arabia ok and so that's all u.s. allies u.s. allies exactly exactly yelena had been investigating a plane the departed from reactor airport 5 days earlier which she believes carried weapons to the middle east. you can see the tongue fight for there are the words that this plane took several times and you can see places such as r r ion gotta exactly and also it has flights number mark which is very specific for the planes that are actually transporting military goods. this is footage of the plane yelena tracked it has been loaded with crates at least 20 u.s. military flights have left this airport in the past 6 months. and when we arrive at the airport we to see a plane. this is one of the busiest airports when it comes to players such as this one. is from the same airline yelena had been investigating various really is pretty nuts it's just in the middle of a traffic junction. they are about to take all. their weapons there their problem.

-- middle east in general, but particularly, the issue with u.s. policy toward iran. i would like, for those of you interested, to recommend to you the most recent work for us if you go on our website, the nterdc.org, his most recent paper on tunisia and north africa adjusting to the the president and trying to cope with the transition manner, and also a couple written before that on the subject of dealing with iran. let me just say that aside from the a nonresident fellow at the arab center, daniel bloomberg is a director of democracy and government studies at georgetown university. he is also a senior nonresident fellow at the project on middle east democracy here in washington. he served as advisor and consultant, special advisor to the u.s. institute of piece between 2008 and 2015. he has worked in various advisory capacities to the u.s. government, including the state department, the agency for international development, focusing particularly on his specialty, human rights, issues., and governance in terms of the subject matter, aside from the questions that are raised on the invi

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be talking about if we want to say what does the modern middle east look like and the striking thing is this if britain had been concerned to preserve relations with france right through this to go she asian right through this process they failed because the french looked at sites because they looked to the baptists and they realized that they got much less than they had been promised by the british in sight fico we overlook these things but in a sense i think that saves vico reflects a failure of trying to negotiate a happy resolution of british and french territorial ambitions in the middle east britain came up with war and the french never forgave them. france had insisted on mosul in the fight. but had san remo they conceded it to britain despite the fact that it was known to be rich in oil. in the coup of turpin marker memes there are stores that are. dollar 1000000 the most sort of soil is because on that turkish but for the i'm company. keo. know if. it. fronts more territory in the in the south longest some of the old become the iraq syria it got more that it got 25 percent o

the world. the middle east. [laughter] david: the strait of hormuz. are we committed to keeping open the straits of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we are going to keep them open. we're going to build out a maritime security plan. countries from all across the world that have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open will participate. it will take more time than i wish it would take, but i am very confident that the world understands that it's important. that america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries from all around the world to assist us. we will be a success. david: our position is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians, we would presumably do something militarily, i guess. i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is a british ship or some other nationality? are we not committed to recovering that ship or doing something to defend those ships? sec. pompeo: i was working with -- i guess i am now working with my third british foreign minister since i have been secretary of state, working with the british to find th

types of land in the middle east land that britain and france would absolutely control which was colored blue for france and red for britain and a hinterland the in a region which was called area a an area b. where the arabs would have. somewhat ptolemy but in which each of the big powers the great powers would have the right to advise or influence with the further complication that the territory of what was to become palestine was designated for an international zone where basically russia britain and france are able to agree who could lay greater claim to the holy lands just to further that decision down the road by painting it all proud. in january 1916 the french and british agreed to ignore the borders of any future arab kingdom. their new borders were enshrined in the deal we now know as the psychs pekoe agreements. sikes to his line from acre to could cook so the south of anatolia eastern turkey the syrian coast and the roots were put under direct french control. basra and baghdad were put under direct british control. and damascus were put under french protection and were

those. david: let's go to an easier part of the world, the middle east. [laughter] are we committed to keeping open the strait of hormuz? mr. pompeo: we will keep them open and build out the military maritime plan. countries around the world with a vested interest will participate. if it will take more interest -- time. america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries to assist us. david: our position i presume is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians we would presumably do something militarily. a writ issue ship is taken? britishot -- what if a ship is taken? are we not committed to defend those ships? mr. pompeo: i am working with my third british foreign minister. we are working with the british to find a solution to both, a, stop that injustice and b, it from happening again. to theyou gave a visa foreign minister of iran to attend an event? mr. pompeo: yes. david: when he was in the u.s., where they're direct or indirect talks with him in the state department about anything you can talk about? mr. pompeo: no talks. david: ok. mr. pompeo: althoug

there mostly clear conditions across much of the middle east we're still seeing those the monsoon showers and thunderstorms across northern sections of pakistan can see here lots of clear skies the winds are strong at the moment either where we have got the rain is across northern sections of turkey $21.00 celsius on sunday with those showers and thunderstorms they could be heavy at times we could even see some localized flooding but by monday they're pretty much out of the picture and it should be feeling very nice the temperatures as you can see in the low twenty's and notice as hold as if i'd let you cross into a city 44 is your high temperature there on monday and then further to the south the winds have been picking up again little bit i lost a few as doha on sunday 42 celsius and in fact gone really is the cloud into the southwest again and there is just a chance of a stray shot on shore flow that into southern sections of amman so feeling fairly nice and solid for the next couple of days 26 celsius on a sunday and monday and time which is pretty good across into southern af

like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region his riches i tell you and this will be our use i've come up himself with a different plan which is something completely different a much more old fashioned that was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the defense i wish i were older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent

go to an easier topic, the middle east. the strait of hormuz, are we committed to keeping open the strait of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we will keep them open. we will build out the maritime allrity plan, country from across the world have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open and we will participate. it will take more time than we confident that america is prepared to be a significant part of that but we need assistance from all other countries. david: if a u.s. ship i assume more taken by the iranians we would do something militarily, i guess, i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is british or other doingalities, are we not something about their ships? sec. pompeo: i am working with my third british foreign minister. working with the british to find to write the injustice and prevent it from happening again. >> recently you gave a visa for the foreign minister of iraq to come to the u.s.. states was in the united were there any indirect or direct talks with him and the state department about anything you can talk about? sec. pompeo: no tal

tonight's guest directed at the intersection of politics, culture and society in the middle east. also the editor of the essay collection here to present tonight all women on the ground. as the editor, a far too rare platform for journalists to share in their own words the experience is reporting in the middle east. the 19 essays in this collection are chilling, harrowing and humorous. providing insight into the challenges these women face while reporting as well as the unique advantages. cnn chief international reporter writes in the collections they are crucial to gaining the full understanding of a story. without the female perspective, the full picture simply cannot be painted and often particularly in the middle east and the arab world it can be given a voice only by other women. tonight joined in conversation with contributor to national security reporter covering extremism. i'm so glad to be in conversation. at the essay ithe essay is the d this collection for a very specific reasons the way she framed her essay was quite beautiful because essentially what she does this has been ana

those. david: let's go to an easier part of the world. the middle east. [laughter] david: the strait of hormuz. are we committed to keeping open the straits of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we are going to keep them open. we're going to build out a maritime security plan. countries from all across the world that have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open will participate. it will take more time than i wish it would take, but i am very confident that the world understands that it's important. that america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries from all around the world to assist us. we will be a success. david: our position is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians, we would presumably do something militarily, i guess. i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is a british ship or some other nationality? are we not committed to recovering that ship or doing something to defend those ships? sec. pompeo: i was working with -- i guess i am now working with my third british foreign minister since i have been secretary of s

which isn't as widely understood is that many of the guns it sends into was in the middle east so the remission manufactured in eastern europe so how do the supply routes function and waves of the weapons go in the 1st of a special trip cross investigation into u.s. arms sales giuliana rufus has been to investigate. everywhere. there were 3 know that. you're controlling the. june 2007 efraim given rolly a 21 year old arms dealer from miami beach is negotiating a $300000000.00 ammunition for the u.s. plan to go on. his albanian contact caused attributes is secretly recording the conversation he wants to prove to vote he knows that the seller has links with organized crime. problem i don't have a choice the u.s. government or. the united states needs weapons for its allies in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. the guns must be clashing across and other soviet style weapons it's what its allies are used to. its speed is of the essence. a year after the coup with give the rolly. tribute sky is dead many believe the albanian mafia has silenced him to stop him from speaking about the pentago

writes about the intersection of politics, culture and society in the middle east. she is also the editor of the essay collection she is here to present tonight, all women on the ground, arab wome reportingm the arab world. it provides a platform for arab female journalist to share in their own words, their experiences reporting in the middle east. the 19 essays in this collection are chilling, harrowing and darkly humorous. enlightening providing insight into the unique challenges these women face while reporting a unique advantages. cnn chief international anchor rights in the collection forward, women's voices are crucial to gaining a full understanding of the story. without the fema perspective this picture cannot be painted and often particularly in the middle east and the arab world, female protagonist can be given a voice only by other women, with all women on the ground, we are given the opportunity to hear what these women have experience and we all benefit from a fuller picture. tonight we're doing a conversation with contributor haner, she is a national security reporter

middle east democracy here in washington and did serve as an advisor and consultant, special advisor [inaudible] between 2008-2015 and has worked in various advisory capacity to the u.s. government, including the state department, the asian agency for international development focusing particularly on his specialty, as i said, human rights security sector governance issues. in terms of the subject matter i find from the questions that are raised on imitation and announcement and dan will be talking more about that in a moment but it's been interesting for those of us following the dance that is taking place between washington and to run back and forth, it's a dizzying tennis match diplomatic with tit-for-tat aspects to it which makes it sometimes very difficult to follow and is somewhat chaotic. clearly the parties have not connected yet in terms of taking the positive reaction many of us would like to diffuse the situation and prevent or from devastating the region whether by intention or mistake but definitely the resolution in washington specifically and also on the iranian side m

studio by early for told on the job a middle east expert with think tanks like the brookings institution and the german council on foreign relations see argues that the big challenge is to transcends 2 equally simplistic perceptions of the islamic republic europe's tendency towards glorification of washington's problem showing full demonize. also with us is alan posner a regular commentator for the berlin based think. he believes that europe is on the front line of iran's aggression if we choose a peace been too serious we will pay dearly for cowardice and a very warm welcome to a drink i had a man who's a business journalist with another berlin daily the target sites on all the times it's also known to the recount argues that the oil price is not rising the economic indicators suggest that there is no real middle east crisis on the horizon. i'm very surprised by that you know this summer so much and so much evidence of the situation is tense and gets intensive and you're right single riggers so it's all going to blow over sometime very soon but i'm not saying that the market

missions to africa asia and the middle east. defending germany only plays a smaller role according to this expert and the u.s. . and this is not true. of course as a bit of protection but at the same time his teaching importance of ramstein for u.s. foreign policy and security policy must not be underestimated. and it's not just the air base the biggest american military hospital outside continental united states is also nearby doctors and health care workers train here for emergencies and for working in a war zone wounded soldiers are brought here from all over the world. soon they will be relocating not to poland but closer to the airfield. a new hospital costing around a $1000000000.00 will be built more modern and better equipped forest at the edge of the airbase has already been cleared. the mayor of. the large investment alone means there will be no move. you never know what will get used or not but i can't see it happening. the u.s. has also invested a lot in modern warfare in recent years the air and space operations center is located at the air base it's one of the u.s. milit

reputation as the entertainment capital of the middle east. we have amazing people who are doing work that is internationally recognised. also coming up, i'll be discovering how an ordinary man became the king of his own castle. did he build it himself? himself, stone by stone. it took him 73 years. plus, lucy hits the british countryside to check out the latest hiking gadgets. gopro, take a photo. with its mix of minarets and church spires, lebanon's capital beirut is a clash of culture and religion between the mediterranean and the middle east. for four centuries, it was the ottomans who ruled here, right up until the end of world war i, when control was handed to the french. it wasn't until 1943 that the struggle for self—rule finally paid off. now this statue here in martyr‘s square was put here to commemorate all of those who died resisting ottoman rule in the name of lebanese independence. today, the statue is pocked with bullet holes, scarred by the civil war that tore this city apart in the 1970s and ‘80s and made beirut a byword for sectarianism and conflict. a signific

military support for international terrorism and stop their other malign activity in the middle east. the ball is in their court. we recognize iran present a particular threat to israel. president trump has stated the united states support israel's right of self-defense and he has taken actions to demonstrate our support. since 1993 presidents have stood up one after the other to say they would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and move the u.s. embassy to the city of david. president trump actually did it. [applause] mr. bolton: he did it against dire warnings of unprecedented bloodshed which did not materialize. the united states embassy is in jerusalem today. the president took another historic step in recognizing israeli sovereignty over the gol an heights. [applause] mr. bolton: in the united states, we closed the palestine liberation organization that was right here in washington dc. we also stopped funding the united nations leave and works agency for palestine and cut off funding that benefited the palestinian authority. when the plo takes conscript -- takes steps to ne

middle east tensions soar as israel carries out an airstrike against iranian troops in syria just days after suspected israeli drone attacks in lebanon and iraq. are broadcasting live from our studios and this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us and president putin and his turkish counterpart have held talks at the max 2019 air show happening just outside moscow the 2 discussed cooperation on the syrian crisis and the possible purchase of russian fighter jets by ancora our correspondent at the air show has more. well we saw it right here once again the presidents of russia and turkey are really enjoying talking about. what their countries are doing together naming the projects one after another the likes of the turkish stream gas pipeline project that is being completed in the black sea or a nuclear power plant built in turkey by the russian atomic agency also deployment of the russian made 400 air defense systems i'm going to come back to that one a bit later and also all kinds of business that turkey does in this country but they all the want more

it was coming from that fast forward to 2015. americans supporting another war in the middle east but in syria it's supplying arms to rebels not 2 state forces. again the weapons us soviet style easy to use and so common in the region they're hard to trace if something goes wrong. when i still controlled territory expands u.s. supplies stepped up. i'm pleased that congress has now voted to support a key element of our strategy a plan to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists this is exclusive footage of what one of the pentagon secretive projects looked like. again the u.s. government uses private companies to train its allies were going to make. these men are highly experienced new fighters mike doherty and francis no we you know. they were in bulgaria to train on subjects so weapons that would be supplied to syrian rebels it seemed like a straightforward mission. but it would cost nobody you his life. my friends is no we you is survived by his wife and 2 young children. yes i'm giuliana she has agreed to meet us. we're joined by mike dohe

deals over the middle east. coming up how the british conspired with to be 1st thing of mccullough to strike back at the ottomans through an arab revolt of the british with the sharif of mecca the partners that were essential. in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side the fight with the audience let me explain why we must have and sikes. negotiate peace to feasts to get what they both want from the middle east well if we cannot have palestinian my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view french polish term would be now. but then we need to find another solution. we come to. play. and so. now we can do and. i have been looking at your instagram account and reading takes into the apples fall behind the scenes this is a dialogue when donald trump announce his candidacy for president ever laughter that everyone has a boyce the best chance the democrats have to beat donald trump is to nominate an exciting inspirational callus matic nominee to join the global conversation

country with so much potential. unlike most of the other countries in the middle east, the population is not reflexively anti-american. the population is not reflexively anti-israel, not effectively anti-semitic. this is one of the few areas in the middle east where our ideology as americans, international security prerogative of americans, need not be in conflict like in other theaters. 1979 is look at iran, a story of squandered potential. anyone interested in great power politics or middle eastern politics should look at iran as a cautionary tale for what happens when the long -- wrong leaders come about. host: did your parents migrate from iran and why? fatherthey did, but my was out in the 1960's, and my mother's family fled after her father, a journalist under the shah for one of the two major taken intos was prison during the revolution. they fled when he got out. john, an we go independent. caller: good morning. i am a u.s. navy operations specialist during desert storm, and he is correct, for what he is doing. host: in what way, thomas? caller: he is very intelligent. you hav