the the construction process in yemen is saudi arabia's number one priority yemen is saudi arabia's war it's not the case in syria for saudi arabia to pay for yemen it becomes more of a creative syria which is not the case here and as he's talking about a nickel a let me go to you i saw you nodding along as ibrahim was talking about the economic situation in saudi arabia and whether or not saudi arabia would actually have the money to pay for reconstruction in syria what are your views on that. well i agree that the price of the reconstruction will be huge at least two hundred billion dollars and that will require participation of many countries. well the saudi participation will be definitely welcome but will well the europeans will have to participate well the iranians will have to participate the russians everybody who is engaged in this conflict will have to invest in the future of syria otherwise the country will remain in ruins so my expectation is that this eldest will provide some money but not even. well unlike it's unlikely that they will give more than ten billion dollars

saudi arabia has denounced a u.s. senate resolution which blames the crown prince for ordering the murder of john this jamal khashoggi in a statement released by the state news agency the kingdom's foreign ministry calls a resolution a blatant interference in its internal affairs and it warns that the senate's move could affect its relationship with. on thursday the republican controlled senate voted to hold mohammed bin sound man personally responsible for the saudi journalists murder and another a resolution also calls for an end to washington's military support for the riyadh led war in yemen. and canada's prime minister says his country is looking for a way to back out of an arms deal with saudi arabia just in today is demanding answers cooling the murder of jamal khashoggi unacceptable he said canada is trying to see if they can no longer export trucks as part of a thirteen billion dollar deal made by the previous government relations between also and riyadh have been tense since a diplomatic dispute over human r

arabia saudi arabia cannot last for two weeks i mean they have to pay they have to pay the saudi has not given a single clear stronger response to cry two from the statement and the other how do we see them they too they took really serious steps against canada this show you that what you what trump has actually said it was really that the existence of saudi arabia is not cannot continue only with the help of the united states and i'm going to just tell you that here in yemen actually we think that from we can say one of the best president of the united states because all the previous president for example they have started wars in afghanistan and iraq and syria and libya. obama and probably now with a raging this war against yemen and why we think that he is the best because he's actually exposed the united states is not about the value isn't about spreading democracy is not about the freedom of speech is about who's going to pay from his likely he's now leading the largest military army in the world and sclera that you pay him he can file it silent to anyone on his staff that he th

said many time in his election and media lection the us say that we protect saudi arabia saudi arabia cannot last for two weeks i mean they have to pay they have to pay the saudi has not given a single clear stronger response to. the statement and the other hand we see them they thought they took really a serious step i got guns canada this show you that what you were thrown by has actually said it was really that the existence of saudi arabia cannot continue only with the help of the united states and i'm going to just tell you that here in yemen actually we think that trump can say one of the best president of the united states because all the previous president for example they have started the war in afghanistan in iraq in syria in libya. obama. raised in this war against yemen and why we think that is the best because he actually exposed the united states is not about the value is not about spreading democracy is not about the freedom of speech is about who's going to pay trump is likely he's now leading the largest medicine at a army in the world and clearly that you pay him he

well you know saudi arabia has been the linchpin of u.s. policy in the middle east that in israel for ever since the iranian revolution and seventy nine when the united states really was pushed out of the entire gulf region because saddam hussein was in iraq and doubled down on saturday via built nine nuclear hardened bases around saturday with the saudis paid for it all but the pertinence is the military complex in saudi arabia is better than anything in nato and the united states can project power from that region and keep its control over the persian gulf and that means it has its hand firmly on the oil tap and if the united states learned one thing in world war two it was that oil makes the world go round and in many ways the allies defeated it lower yes because hundreds of the control of oil and the russians know this better than anybody because they fought stalin grodd which was about hitler getting to russian oil and by the caspian sea they stopped hitler they won the war and today the united states is geared up for world war three o

arabia in yemen then he further says on the other hand saudi arabia would gladly withdraw from yemen if the iranians would agree to leave this would immediately provide desperately needed humanitarian assistance additionally saudi arabia has agreed to spend billions of dollars in leading the fight against radical islamic terrorism and we could spend hours to selecting those few sentences here. it seems to me that the reality is completely opposite of how president trump and mike palm pale john bolton are characterizing what's going on in yemen right now your reaction joshua well it is and the u.n. resolution they passed on yemen is really it requires the who these in the north to completely surrender and it is quite clear they're not going to do it and any effort to force them to surrender is going to require taking who data the pork and from which all of the grain goes and humanitarian assistance it would cause widespread famine from one end of yemen to the other right now that peace talks are going on to try to us to try to get some kind of agreement but that would mean saudi arabi

of course, this is not true of saudi arabia. particularly under mohammed is anti-muslim brotherhood to some extent come in a more general sense, but you can't have saudi arabia standing in the way between religion and politics because saudi arabia presents itself as an which is a religious state, custodian of the mosques and a pure islamic state with the koran as its constitution and all that, so it's not possible. secondly, you know, you could say well, the difference between status quo islamic politics or republican versus monarchical, the point is, there is no clear break in saudi arabia, the way there is. the second thing is that mohammed is not categorically opposed to all muslim brothers. the example here is yemen. saudi arabia in the northern part of yemen, where it has been operating has been increasingly working with a muslim brotherhood party in yemen which presents itself as part of this wave of post- islamist groups, who have broken with three aspects of muslim brotherhood structure,, which is the revolutionary natur

arabia saudi arabia is not in a position. to finance our reconstruction reconstruction process in syria first of all because reconstruction of syria for saudi arabia means one major thing which is that a move all of the iranian influence from syria which is not going to happen because iran has invested so far seven years military finance and the troops on the ground it's not going to influence for money and for that reason that's the only thing that saudi arabia would be an incentive for so that it to finance and to pay for the reconstruction process there is no political settlement there is no political agreement that has been breached between the parties which would allow saudi arabia to pay for this and the other major problem actually when we talk about funding any construction process in syria we're talking about the most conservative numbers two hundred to three hundred billion dollars saudi arabia does not have the money to pay not even fractions of this one and dual which is more important to be taken into considerati

saudi arabia has with the. assassination of jamal khashoggi that probably the trouble is capitalizing on this because the saudi regime at the moment is in the most vulnerable position probably since two thousand and one since september eleventh so sound at a better g.m. at this at this moment is not able to engage in this. struggle in the region because again it's its image of consideration as to how to end this political crisis which by the way a charm but mr shin has used very well with that in terms of. trying to build relations and build deals and make autumn sales and supporting does the saudi regime so the saudi him is vulnerable but i don't think that this is going to reach to a point where saudi arabia is willing to finance a huge task like that he financing of the reconstruction in syria so for the. even if they want didn't have the money to do with a nickel at this stage with russia playing such an outsized role in syria any reconstruction effort that goes ahead would have to be coordinated closely wi

with regard to mbs >> with regard to mbs and saudi arabia, the decision-making process in saudi arabia, not only is murky, it's always been murky, it's harder than the kremlin, a more complex puzzle, the dearth of good information and knowledgeable sources, et cetera, makes it almost a fool's game. i do think, though, we can be sure of two things. number one, mbs, young, audacious, et cetera, has an enormous amount of power. the degree to which the changes that he has overseen in the past two years constitute a self-coup, which i've been calling it from the beginning since the ritz-carlton thing. it can't be overstated. the old system of saudi arabia, which was a monarch and modern f futilism and checks and balances in the royal family, all that is pretty much wrecked and there's been a tremendous concentration of power around the crown prince. it also needs to be said that the authority for all of this comes from the king, you know. in other words the king is a non-controversial figure relatively in saudi arabia. his authority is uncontested, his right to be king is uncontested, his a

saudi arabia is our ally. but when your ally jumps into a pool of sharks, you aren't obligated to follow them. there is a line that saudi arabia crossed. i would argue long ago. and unfortunately it is now up to the united states congress to try to make clear what this relationship can be and has to be, going into the future. yemen is one of the symptoms and unfortunately it is the most disastrous of them. 85,000 kids under the age of 5 have died from starvation and disease. all the evidence points to the fact that many times the saudis are using our bombs to deliberately target either civilians or civilian infrastructure. but as senator graham mentioned from the blockaid of qatar to -- blockade of qatar to the kidnapping of the lebanese prime minister, saudi arabia's foreign policy went off the rails. some time ago. and we are still the senior partner in this relationship. sometimes it seems as if the united states is the junior partner. we are fat. and we can use our sanctions, we can use our military suppor

rare out saudi arabia condemns the us senate for accusing the. crown prince of jamal khashoggi is madder. hello welcome to a live from doha i'm. coming up to don's president al bashir becomes the first arab leader to go to syria since the conflict began in twenty eleven. thousands of hunger ariens protests against prime minister viktor orban labor reforms dubbed the slave lol plus. i'm scott either in bangkok's chinatown the work group of performers is trying to keep the centuries old art form of chinese opera alive their story coming up. saudi arabia is denouncing what it calls blatant interference by u.s. senators who are blaming the crown prince for ordering the murder of jamal khashoggi the republican controlled senate voted on thursday to hold mohammed bin sound man responsible for the killing of the saudi list a second resolution called for an end to u.s. military support for the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen the saudi foreign ministry said the senate's decision could affect relations. and canada's prime minister is seeking ways to cancel a

saudi arabia i'm joined by my guest hussein. and suddenly he's a yemeni journalist in riyadh we have made it bram he is a us sodhi relations expert and in brighton we crossed to katherine shocked she is a senior analyst with bio on center all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate command let me go to you first in riyadh how are you reacting to the rebuke from the u.s. senate was quite strong unanimous when it came to close shogi and the majority when it came to america's at least how the senate sees america's role your countries led war against yemen so what's the reaction there your reaction and if you just want to repeat the government's reaction that's all right as well go ahead in riyadh. well definitely peter as you know with the saudi arabia. news they actually denounce what the congress have done the congress itself you know too many people does doesn't understand they always have these kinds of symbolic agreement of doing things but that doesn't mean that it'

in the saudi consulate in istanbul saudi arabia has faced international backlash including from the u.s. congress who said crown prince mohammed bin son man was responsible for murder during a regional summit earlier this month denied the crown prince's involvement and see this with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish citizens to be a was appointed foreign minister by king selman in twenty fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen is strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling who think fighters backed by iran and stage the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis he's also overseen turmoil within the g.c.c. including a saudi lead in land and sea blockade of qatar for the past eighteen months or moves that have stalled controversy around the kingdom something his successor at last if no one here it's by having brought him last of who was an he's a veteran he was a minister of finance for twenty years from one nine hundred

has never rebuked saudi arabia there's been almost no criticism of saudi arabia and so this actually is more significant than it may appear to be simply because they're trying to send a clear message that they do not agree with the way the saudis are conducting the war though we can be pessimistic or cynical about well that really isn't. the fact the outcome came of us mari if the us then can't do it and the united nations are trying their hardest but there's a long way to go is there any other partner any other honest peace broker that may be able to significantly change the outcome of the war in yemen or and bring about an end to. the us can't help stop the war and the idea is not to have our congress and senate vote for it in the u.s. to step aside and forgetting that it's one of the reasons why this war is happening in the first place or are a reason that it was prolonged so the idea of nothing the us have a boat and i'm done with my right it's to put pressure on saudi arabia which your us can do put pressure on saudi arabia to eason. it's a tax i meant to come to a peace deal an

the current relationship with saudi arabia isn't working for america. they have been strategic allies and could be in the future but right now it's more of a burden than an asset. this country has been a wrecking ball and this instant is one of many o that the most egregious d people can understand why they are upset. i think more is expected not less. if you want to integrate your economy towers there are certain things you have to accept what the rule of law and if you want to buy a weapon you have to accept certain things. how to use them matters. i want everybody in the region to know if you are thinking about doing what they did and you want to have a relationship with the united states, good luck it's not going to happen. i think the president is right about having been a strategic ally. they could be in the future but i think you are wrong about what is going on here. the reason i'm supporting the approach next year is i'm never going to let this go until things change in saudi arabia. this is coming from the biggest supporter of the relationship

let me state right over as of uss, even for those who have been critics of saudi arabia, saudi arabia is a very orphaned ally for the united states, it is an important partner for stability in the region. engage ine to intelligence sharing with saudi arabia. they has helped us crackdown some very bad people. -- we haveelped us helped them crackdown some really bad people. is important to note something we take for granted in the region. detente that has existed between the gulf states and israel, something that did not used to be something that you could rely on. one of the most serious foreign-policy debates that this senate ever had was back in the 1980's, and the objection then was that by empowering saudi arabia, you were hurting israel and israeli security. argumentuld make that state, because saudi arabia has been a good partner in figuring tensions inalm the the region and of course how to provide some balance in the with the iranian regime on the other side continuing, to this day, to use inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric about the future of r israel. this is an important pa

arabia to such wide scale international condemnation i think even within saudi arabia even the king realizes that his crown prince son is a liability now you wrote recently and honest reckoning of how the united states got to where it is and yemen should start with the obama administration which still insists through its various former members on portraying itself as a as a moral force and that region or at least more moral than the current administration what was the main substantive difference between obama's take on the young men. well i think the substance since difference is that at least many in the obama administration persuaded themselves even though they knew it was a bad decision to support this war that it would be short that it would be limited that it would be quick and that there would be little harm to yemeni civilians obviously their calculation turned out to be grossly incorrect as we warned them it would be by the way i think that it was very clear that they had grave reservations about proceeding down this path i know there were major debates within the obama admi

crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabian oil and not look at the kingdom the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell it's sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the consent and direction of m.v.s. of the senate is already considering an unprecedented bill to invoke the never before used one thousand nine hundred seventy three war powers act to force an end to u.s. aid to saudi war efforts in yemen this six page measure would record the view of the senate that mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and it urges the u.s. and the international community to hold him and anyone else involved in the killing responsible and a joint statement democratic senator ed markey calls the crown prince a fuck up and republican senator lindsey graham calls him a wrecking ball rare harsh wo

in saudi arabia is -- it has always been murky. puzzle, the terse of good information makes it almost a fool's game. , though, that we can be sure of two things. mbs has a norma's amount of power. he hasree to which overseen the past two years constitutes a self coup which i have been calling it from the beginning -- it can't be overstated. system, which was monarchical, a modern feudalism with checks and balances and accountability within the royal family -- all that is wrecked. there has been a tremendous concentration of power around the crown prince. saidt also needs to be that the authority for all of this comes from the king. thinking king is a non-controversial figure in saudi arabia. his authority is uncontested, his right to be king is uncontested. his authority is uncontested. mohammad bin salman does what he does precisely because of this sense that he is doing it all under the rubric of the king, that the king has delegated this to him. and this is a king that has already replaced the crown prince. he was removed and mo

in saudi arabia it is incorrectly labeled wahhabism. in turkey, with president erdogan, it is the muslim brotherhood. there is a huge variety of flavors. one of them would be the syrian brotherhood, which was way off on the far end of the scale. many were very big on bonds, anything they could make blow up in damascus, aleppo, or elsewhere well, everybody in this room knows what happens. in february 1982. billy outside of this room has a clue, but it had a significant amount to do with the civil war that broke out in 2011. at the other end of the continuum, i would suggest you could find say muslim brothers in turkey. and in iraq. as pledged to the system, and indeed, in the case of turkey, it is the system through president erdogan. so, this notion that we should labeled the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization is as dangerous as it is idiotic, quite frankly. who are we going to talk to in iraq, in turkey westmark -- turkey? if you want to talk about an assault of a democratically elected of a nato member, that would be it. as t

arabia is very disappointing to turkey he said that saudi arabia has sent the government has sent a team of experts including forensic experts a team made up of members of secret services in saudi arabia to commit a crime in stumble on a turkish soil so this is not a crime that has been committed by just anybody in saudi arabia it's a crime committed by people who are related to the highest levels of the government in saudi arabia saudi arabia is responsible for this crime as a government and they have to hand over their suspects and he also said that they refused the saudi refusal to hand over the suspects confirms the belief among many here that saudi arabia wants to cover up for this murder he said this team or so has not only these people he mentioned but also the consul of saudi arabia in istanbul has been accomplice according to all of the evidence his accomplice in this crime and this is this only confirms the need for saudi arabia to answer for this crime and to send those eighteen suspects here to turkey for try a turkey has been you know taken that approach that by a lot o

saudi arabia and the u.a.e. backed by the united states are trying to inflict pain to gain leverage over and destabilize the houthi rebels. the reason the ruths are alive -- the houthis are alive with iran. kristof continues, and i quote, the problem in emwhyen is not so much a shortage of food as it is an economic collapse. g.d.p. has fallen in half since the war started. that has left people unable to afford food. and, quote, kristof tips -- -- kristof continues, quote, we think of war casualties as men with their legs blown off. but in yemen, the most common war casualties are children like far a's who suffer malnutrition, end quote. continues, some will die. even the survivors may suffer lifelong brain damage. a majority of yemen children are now believed to be physically stunted from malnutrition. let me repeat that. a majority of yemen children are now believed to be physically stunted from malnutrition. 46% were stunted even before the war, and physical stunting is frequently accompanied by diminished bra

saudi arabia condemns the u.s. senate for kucing the crown prince of jamal khashoggi she's murdered. also act now rights group accuses nigerian security services of failing to prevent violence between herders and farmers. and thousands rally in sri lanka as a show of support for the reinstated prime minister. today in custody of the u.s. border patrol it's better than a life back at home the grim story of a central american asylum seeker. and i'm peter stammered with all your support liverpool drop by in munich at some of europe's biggest clubs around able to avoid being drawn against the children champions league last sixteen i'll have a full door for you later this news hour. welcome to the news hour saudi arabia has issued an unusually strong rebuke of the united states senate rejecting its resolution that blames the crown prince for murder the journalist was. killed by what's been described as a saudi hit squad inside the kingdom's stumble consular office in october in a lengthy statement riyadh said the resolu

and saudi arabia. the absolutely right i think the saudis they have been pursuing a very damaging from policy in my opinion especially over the past two years says the ascendance of france mohammad pencil man since he became competence in two and two thousand and seventy. and i think the saudis the saudis this for this foreign policy actually is in might be in backfiring because at that time when they are actually saying that they want to cut to counter act. policies and the region and yemen and syria and iraq and and lebanon everywhere they are in fact as i said best selling a very damaging foreign policy because they. policy led in fact to dividing. the air it also actually led to increasing iranian influence somehow and and the region by actually forcing qatar to. get closer to iran and you know qatar in fact has withdrawn its ambassador from tehran in two thousand in early two thousand and sixteen during the crisis of. the storming of the of the saudi embassy in tehran and the saudi consulate in so

at saudi arabia's consulate in istanbul in october. i deplore everything in conjunction with that and while there are not-- it may not be a smoking gun as such, i believe the saudi arabian leadership is responsible for mr. khashoggi's death and those responsible must be held responsible. and the trump administration's important decision to sanction 17 saudis for their roles in mr. khashoggi's murder. at the same time saudi arabia is an important middle eastern partner vital to the security of our regional allies including iz r israel and saudi arabia is essential to countering iran. we know that and we know how ten use things are in that part of the world. we don't have that many friends, we can't afford to lose any of them. while we must be frank with our partners when something is wrong. we must be cautious in damaging a strategic relationship that goes back over half a century. for this reason, i'm hoping that the resolution will be introduced and in which case i will be supporting the resolution that the leader and senator corker h

arabia it comes to be turkey because a saudi arabia will never ever copulate and the arms of those people considering that they are part and parcel of the in a sphere of mohammed the sentiment of the crown prince and it's impossible impossible for any inquiry not to find that there was a link between the perpetrators of this horrendous crime who use the means of state who used. the or the or the or the means available to the state in order to commit this crime it couldn't have happened without the ledge and the or the of the supreme leader in that country namely the put in the crown prince mohammed the saloon and very often in investigations the public doesn't know everything that the end besta gaiters know they they tend to hold something close to the vest and. it would you would think that that would be the case for turkey as well but it seems that way are they gonna speaking publicly that they have hit some sort of brick wall and that there are still lot of things they just don't know. that us troop one point to bear in mind is that the turkish prosecutor has not concluded the turkish

arabia and the kingdom of saudi arabia led coalition in the civil war in yemen? i challenge anyone to explain that to me, how it is that we section 15olved by 47c. we are. and because we are come under the powershares agreement reached in place over the last four or five decades, we need to follow those procedures. and it is one of the reminders that we have that we need to respect the separation of powers . we first brought up this resolution, or one like it, earlier this year, about eight or nine months ago. up,he time we brought it when we got into the senate to the senateit a resolutionognize like these in order to secure a vote on the senate floor to try to bring this bill out of committee. at the time, sadly, we received only 44 votes. to get it out of committee. that was not enough. fast forward a few months, the week before last, we voted on it again. essentially the same vote resulted in 63 members of this same body supporting the idea of advancing it out of committee. and today, a move to consideration of this bill, and we got, if i am not mistaken, abo

saudi arabia's foreign minister was replaced just think soundman announces a major cabinet reshuffle. along down to this is live from doha also coming up police fired tear gas in the democratic republic of congo after opposition supporters protest against a delay in presidential elections. iraqi leaders accuse donald trump of violating their country's sovereignty during his amounts visit to meet u.s. troops. in the major steps up the alert level for the volcano tsunami triggered by its eruption on saturday killed four hundred thirty people. and of saudi arabia as old a government reshuffle including the demotion of longtime foreign minister. his new job his minister of state for foreign affairs a new political and security council has also been ordered by the saudis want to let us take a quick look now at the bear's recent history in saudi politics he was appointed saudi minister of foreign affairs on april twenty ninth twenty fifteen prior to that he's the saudi ambassador to the united states from two thousand and seven to two thousand and fifteen he was also the foreign policy advi

and its assistance to saudi arabia for the war in yemen. and in a separate resolution blamed the death of a journalist jamal khashoggi on the saudi crown prince. the vote on that resolution was unanimous. both measures would have to be approved by the house for them to go to the president but the house blocked the measure from getting a vote. here is part of the senate debate on the yemen bill. we begin with vermont senator bernie sanders who sponsored the bill with senator mike lee from utah. this is two and a half hours. >> mr. president, i come to the floor today to talk about one of the great humanitarian crises facing our planet and that is the horrific war in yemen. 2015, under the leadership of mohammad bin salman who was then the saudi andia and defense minister is now the crown prince, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates intervened in yemen's ongoing civil war. the saudi-uae intervention, yemen is now experiencing the worst humanitarian disaster in the world. nations, to the united yemen is at risk of the most severe famine i

crown prince and president trump support for him we are with saudi arabia we're staying with saudi arabia no not look at the king of the same way senators erupted in anger on tuesday after a long awaited briefing from cia director gina haskell sort of hard to call this a cover up given the fact that everybody in that briefing last week knew that tom peo and madison were misleading us knew that there was no way this murder happened without the consent and direction of m.v.s. of the senate is already considering an unprecedented bill to invoke the never before used one thousand nine hundred seventy three war powers act to force an end to u.s. aid to saudi war efforts and yemen. this six page measure would record the view of the senate that mohammed bin solomon is responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi and it urges the u.s. and the international community to hold him and anyone else involved in the killing responsible and a joint statement democratic senator ed markey calls the crown prince a fuck up and republican senator lindsey graham calls him a wrecking ball rare harsh words for