arabia saudi arabia cannot last for two weeks i mean they have to pay they have to pay and 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 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 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 every army in the world and clearly that you pay him he can silence the anyone on his step that he that he will continue his relation with

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'

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

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

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 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 the 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 arabia r

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

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 bit of 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 they don'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 with t

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

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

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

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 later 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

saudi arabia and the u.a.e. opposing qatar it had a knock on effect in yemen. and disagreements between factions members previous affiliation of surface. in october twenty seventeen the other one a bus brigade reached the peak of their international fame the us saudi arabia other u.a.e. put the group on a terror watch lists they justified their decision by saying that the brigades were giving support to al qaeda. you know very but again it is strange for an entity to be classified as a terrorist group while being funded by voters who classified it as such. brigades also claim that being branded terrorists didn't affect their deals with the saudi led coalition. nothing happened. the group was invited to a meeting in saudi arabia with the leaders of ties. things changed. the ones in financial support are still the same as before. it seems increasingly clear that weapons bought for one country's armed forces are being passed on to other parties for political reasons most of these weapons come from western countries

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

arabia itself so saudi arabia is not actually because of oil is becoming really important to the americans it's because of father. things maybe . because maybe for iran because of the peace process in the middle east not actually because of the main that was the main bail out of the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states from the very beginning. germany's former foreign minister has told on jazeera that more countries should follow berlin's example by ending their arms trade with saudi arabia sigma gabriel who still a member of the german parliament was attending this year's doha for we stopped for example or delivering of defense of defense materials and capabilities after the crash of the case when you look at investigation that hasn't even accounted for where a journalist body is after he's gone in a consulate many people say that's simply not an acceptable vesting of course it's not acceptable and i mean it's also a tragedy we should not forget there are relatives because she had a family and i mean the killing of mr question is a catastrophe but it's for the family an

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 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 matters were misleading us knew that there was no way this merger happened without the consent and direction of m.p.'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

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

saudi arabia of the u.a.e. did not respond to repeated attempts to contact them but a senior yemeni official confirmed that the arab coalition knew its weapons were being passed on. look at that location was started by the coalition about the leakage of a weapon that was handed over to a resistance faction ties that was linked to al qaida in aden this is confirmed by the coalition. we have transparency in the coalition to say yes although it is partial and not influential. the yemeni situation is stressful and there are clashes between parties and tribes. there are parties allied with the coalition who deal with the who fees in one way or another. but the situation is almost completely under control. but even. in twenty eighteen germany approved four hundred million euros worth of arms sales to saudi arabia but has now put the exports on hold. in june belgium announced the withdrawal of the license from a belgian company to export to saudi arabia. international human rights organizations have welcomed the moves

he has been red sant in taking saudi arabia's side. will congress be able to force his hand to change? do you think? >> i think it's likely. very likely. this is an issue where yes, it's a complicated issue and when the president said we may never know the truth and can ascertain the facts and there is bipartisan agreement in congress that the administration needed to take some action this. i think that's where you see congress like on forcing the president's hand on russia saying very likely to act to contrain. where the frustration is not that the administration didn't cut off ties with saudi arabia or post sanctions, but refusal to acknowledge the facts and use our leverage with saudi arabia who is a close ally to force the king to broaden the base of power there. the base of power there is only the crown prince and whatever sort of politics trump is practicing, he's not using a moment of weakness to extract any concessions from the king. >> that's something to keep in mind. what lindsey graham and bob corker and dick durbin came ou

focus on saudi arabia and its role in its policies now. just a vest to clipart abroad as well that those killed with the resolutions that senators and congressmen have been pushing in the congress for actually a couple of years now but that heightened focus. along with the u.n. pronouncements of the imminent famine in the country some of the shocking reporting we saw coming out by western journalists who managed to get in and to document the levels of starvation and civilian destruction all of that happening at the same time created a newfound momentum a newfound backbone really for the u.s. congress to properly focus on these issues now you mentioned the congressional committee but there were there were already some practical steps that the united states has taken just recently it announced that it will no longer provide refueling assistance to the saudi aircraft each it's been doing for the past i think three years since the bombing campaign began in two thousand and fifteen how critical is that assistance to the overall operation in yem

to start sanctions more meaningful sanctions than it already has against saudi arabia and it seems to me that ministration wants to offer a yemen truce all perhaps even peace negotiations in order not to sanction saudi arabia and to its middle east policy regarding especially regarding iran ok so we have new pressure from the united states the yemen conflict is widely considered a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran what motivation would either or both of these are and the fighting was saudi arabia has the motive that it is absolutely dependent militarily diplomatically on the united states without united states military support saudi arabia cond keep up. for i would say more than two or three weeks on the other hand i do not see it. i do not see the war as a proxy war the iranian influence on the forty rebels in the country is not really strong we hardly have an iranian presence we do have a presence perhaps. dozen military advisors. see the conflict as one between the two richest states two off the richest states in the region namely saudi arabia and the u.a.e. against the rebel

arabia you know on the campaign trail the president often said why wouldn't i love saudi arabia they give me tens of millions of dollars and since this murder of jamal khashoggi he's come out and said i have no business dealings at all with saudi arabia there are questions about his son in law and whether his real state empire has received some funding from saudi sources and in the house say they are going to be looking into all of that and they have tremendous power to do that they have the power of subpoena so and the financial records they want they can demand they see that he was. always patient data has to come back to the house to give further briefings because some of the some of the senators and others have been unhappy that they weren't able to listen in to sevens. depends on how how much they dig in on that we see senator rand paul say no this is unacceptable you can't just brief it does happen though i think we should point out that there are times that there's information that the cia consider so sensitive it really only a hand selected member and certain committee member

earlier this year saudi activists, a leader in the fight for women's rights in saudi arabia, was kidnapped from abu dhabi and forced to return to the country. she is currentlyng being held without charges. the same is true of many other saudi political activists. human rights watch recently reported that in prison women activists have been subjected to torture, including electric shocks and other forms of physical and sexual assault. further, as every member of the senate knows or should know, there is no overwhelming evidence that saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman was responsible for the brutal murder of jamalmu khashoggi, a saudi dissident who lived in the united states and was a columnist for the "washington post," and made the mistake of going into the saudi consulate in turkey, never came out alive, and we believe that his body was dismembered and nobody knows where it is. unbelievably, president trump continues, despite theov overwhelming evidence the crown prince involvement in the murder of ait man living in the united states, a saudi dissident journalist, president trump cont

to start sanctions more meaningful sanctions than it already has against saudi arabia and it seems to me that the administration wants to offer a yemen truce all perhaps even peace negotiations in order not to sanction saudi arabia and to its middle east policy regarding especially regarding iran ok so we have new pressure from the united states the yemen conflict is widely considered a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran what motivation would either or both of these and the fighting was saudi arabia has the motive that it is absolutely dependent militarily diplomatically on the united states without united states military support saudi arabia cond keep up. or i would say more than two or three weeks on the other hand i do not see it. i do not see the war as a proxy war the rani an influence on the forty rebels in the country is not really strong we hardly have an iranian presence we do have a presence perhaps. doesn't military advisers. see the conflict as one between the two richest states two off the richest states in the region namely saudi arabia and the u.a.e. against the hu