also in the middle news nd held a joint conference in aman with jordan's foreign minister and continued to outline plans for u.s. to withdraw from syria. cable satellite corp 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> good afternoon. there will be translation. >> welcome to jordan, which comes at a very important time. regional aspects to achieve the agenda. you have already conducted truthful conversations on in forcing our mutual relationship on security defense. to influence cooperation with the usa, which is an ally and we appreciate the support, not to mention particularly the five-year program endorsed by the trump administration and participated to great extent in helping us to face our economic hardships and not to mention our syrian brothers and sisters. thank you, your excellency. it is a huge expanse and we will focus on the palestinian aspects, not to mention freezing the process is a very -- we have to have cooperation meetings with international cooperation to a

remains committed to jordan's security and we will undertake that worked in the true spirit of partnership. our nations unveiled a new counterterrorism training center 50 mile south of where we stand as i speak. state department was proud to construct that facility through our antiterrorism assistance program. helping jordan build its already strong capacity to fight terrorism. we look forward to working continually to counterterror run's influence in the region. i want to thank the government of jordan for helping to combat iran's attempt to combat sanctions. i expressed my gratitude for the king's leadership. he has continued to establish jordan as adorable leader in the region. we are pleased to see your prime minister recently visit iraq as well as iraqi president possible visit to jordan. we welcome this kind of engagement and hope to see it replicated elsewhere. his majesty the king is undertaking important initiatives including protection of religious rights. jordan is also hosting its hundred 50,000 syrian refugees and we thank you and your people for their generosity. on behalf of

april he toured the region he visited three countries of it is saudi arabia israel and jordan so certainly it is a country that's important to them also just geo strategic borders israel it borders iraq it borders syria it borders saudi arabia it borders the west bank and it is an ally when it comes to security it's been very much involved in the fight against isolates been involved together with the united states in training syrian fighters that are on the ground inside syria so the two countries have had a longstanding relationship at the end of the day there are however somewhat of a tension i think because of what the trumpet ministrations policy now of cutting funds to that is the u.n. agency that deals with palestinian refugees it's something jordan has been hugely reliant on because it has two million palestinians living here you're talking about schools you're talking about health system so these are also issues that will be addressed i think we're going to hear from both men that said the foreign foreign jordan's foreign minister and secretary of state soon let's see wha

pounds protecting the welfare of hate preacher abu qatada after he was deported to his native jordan to face terrorism charges for some revealed by the times newspaper has sparked anger among both m.p.'s on the public. these payments are ridiculous the money we have is an insult to the british taxpayer the government have succeeded in deporting qatada back to the rule of law each and every stage of the process the deportation of abu qatada has taken twelve years and cost more than one point seven million illegal fees for both sides that is not acceptable to the public and it's not acceptable to me we must make sure it never happens again. a toddler was granted asylum in the u.k. nine hundred ninety four is he claimed that he'd been tortured in jordan but the u.k. arrested him after nine eleven on terrorism charges qatada was sent back to jordan twelve years later after receiving assurances that he would not be tortured. if the petition cost a lot to the united kingdom at least one point nine million pounds were spent on his deportation with payments for legal fees and legal aid ily t

against jordan wood the australia went into their match againstjordan wood the 109th ranked nation in the world, perhaps unsurprisingly, as the pretournament favourites. it was jordan took the early lead thanks to this unchallenged header in the 26 minute. australia boss graham arnold rued his side's slow start to the game. just minutes later, jordan was so game. just minutes later, jordan was so close to scoring a second, but it pounced off ryan. despite having 76% of the possession, the young socceroos just could not make work. unlike jordan's goalkeeper, he socceroos just could not make work. unlikejordan‘s goalkeeper, he was kept busy until the 79th minute, denying two goal attempts. kept busy until the 79th minute, denying two goal attemptslj kept busy until the 79th minute, denying two goal attempts. i must say thank you to my players. they make everything that i ask, they do everything. i believe in the chances that we can do, also when we have a caller freekick, we trained that we can do, also when we have a callerfreekick, we trained in that we can do, also when we have a c

thousand pounds protecting the welfare of hate preacher qatada after he was deported to his native jordan to face terror charges the summerfield by the times newspaper has sparked anger among m.p.'s and the public these payments are ridiculous the money we have spent is an insult to the british taxpayer. one point seven million pounds in legal fees for a hate preacher abu qatada total cost for deportation including welfare payments so far one point nine million pounds christ sakes two hundred thousand pounds spent on protecting hate preachers human rights you couldn't make it up. no wonder people want to come here they get twenty thousand even if they leave. the u.k. granted asylum and nine hundred ninety four is he claimed to have been tortured in jordan and the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges and qatar was then sent back to jordan twelve years later he was assured that he would not be tortured there however after his deportation overseen by then home secretary theresa may well it certainly cost the u.k. a pretty penny at least one point nine million po

pressure on iran and jordan. on his first stop of his eight day middle east tour. of kearney to kim jong un is in china for his full face it within a year trip came at the invitation of the chinese president xi jinping south korea hopes the meeting will help efforts for peace reports from hong kong. kim jong un his wife and senior officials boarding his customary armor train to beijing this video was released by the north korean state news agency in beijing news outlets were announcing the visit of the north korean leader an unusual move for both sides which usually keep their meeting shrouded in secrecy. this time though beijing wants to show washington its leverage with north korea as china and the us tussle in a trade war recent years spent with this drug administration the relationship with china has really got very sour and moreover is that as the trouble of a stray ship got a ramped up its north korea contacts they did so without any effort really to bring china and china as a fairly substantial country with one point four billion people and i think they really don't want to b

and on the border of jordan and israel. hezbollah and other iranian proxies and iran it self -- itself in a general who is a maven of murder in that area. they can do whatever they want. most freedom of movement and the tract threat it poses to israel and jordan. and iraqiurks come in troops come in, when isis is we constituted and start killing people again, you are going to have new refugee flows. maybe it will be mostly kurds or folks from the syrian defense horses who are far alongside us for a while and their families, aware of the refugees going to go? potentially some will wind up in jordan, further destabilizing or testing that countries ability to deal with all this. both the kurds and syrian defense forces have in excess of 700 isis fighters in custody. are they going to let them all go? because without us there supporting them, i don't know how they hold them. none of the countries they came from want them back. you could save hundreds of isis fighters being released overnight. these are all of the consequences and more. what are we going to do if isis decides to t

palestine israel jordan or syria we were often in syria until it was close to us in two thousand and eleven and ignore the political situation. i once had a long discussion with chancellor merkel she asked me about the peace process and i said there isn't any peace there's just an absence of war she couldn't believe it and i couldn't believe that she couldn't believe it we talked about it for a long time and then i decided i had to write it down. about what if i was wrong. i had to research more about the topic and so i wrote a book it's an issue that really concerns me. his latest most popular book is about the israeli palestinian conflict and has been reprinted several times another one of his passions is writing books for children and young adults in the hope of getting them interested in history one of his books has been translated into arabic . when spring comes around again returns to the middle east this time to the jordanian capital amman the german protestant institute of archaeology has another research center here. is visiting the georgian archaeological museum in the citadel hig

supported our anti-terror efforts around the world. jordan and turkey have hosted millions of syrians fleeing violence. saudi arabiaian and gulf countries contributed toward stabilization efforts. we thank all of them for their help and urge them to continue. the eyes has also helped liberate areas as an important means of preventing the caliphate from re-emerging. we have provided in humanitarian $2.5 billion assistance in iraq since 2014 and our churches and nonprofits do good work there every day as well. we and our allies generated nearly $30 billion to aid iraq's reconstruction in the kuwait reconstruction conference this past year. think about the people we're helping. last year, i hosted the first ever ministerial to to advance religious freedom in washington. at that conference, our ambassador recounted his trip to iraq. there, he met women who had been sold into bondage, whose children had been ripped out of their arms. life under isis was real hell. a living hell. on earth. today those areas are liberated thanks to our coalition's power and might and commitment. i recall a l

native jordan to face terror charges some revealed by the times newspaper sparked anger among m.p.'s. these payments are ridiculous the money we've spent is an insult to the british taxpayer who. was granted asylum in the u.k. in one thousand nine hundred four as he claimed he had been tortured in jordan the u.k. then arrested him after nine eleven on terror related charges and thought it was sent back to jordan twelve years later he was assured he would not be tortured but his deportation certainly cost the u.k. a pretty penny at least one point nine million pounds was spent on his deportation including payments for legal fees and legal aid and nearly two hundred thousand was spent deportation from monitoring his condition and ensuring that he wasn't being tortured the government committed to monitoring qatada for up to three years the last payment was made in twenty sixteen so we invited david vance a political commentator and keith best a c.e.o. of a group that advocates for sexual assault victims to weigh in on this debate over migrant deportations and in particular the case of a

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mistake happened but says it will on other tickets. it's nice to show jordan is one of the driest countries on us in some parts water deliveries only come once a week and the service isn't even reliable but new technology promises to help bring a steady supply to the remotest of areas. abdul rahim abu allah waters whose families olive trees every day but. they only get water from the mains on wednesdays so that is when they're always busy stocking up everybody here has a tank on the roof or a cistern in the garden it often doesn't rain here for weeks. the village of is fifty kilometers from the capital amman water from the mains just once a week is standard across jordan when there are problems at the water works it sometimes doesn't show up at all even on wednesdays. water has to be pumped here from lower lying regions hundreds of kilometers away that takes lots of equipment and energy and it's expensive the country's aging water supply system eats up around fifteen percent of the electricity used in jordan and a lot of the water it transports is lost due to leaks by some high is

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. jordan are the first team through to the knockout stages of the asian cup after beating syria 2—0. and qatar's nasser al—attiyah extended his overall lead in the dakar rally with victory in thursday's fourth stage. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with the tennis and the news that former world number one andy murray has annouced he'll retire from playing after this year's wimbledon championships. at an emotional news conference ahead of the australian open in melbourne, murray left the room in tears before returning a few minutes later. he's been plagued by a hip injury for much of the past 18 months and was a doubt for this yea r‘s australian open which starts on monday. murray has played in 11 grand slam finals, winning 3 of them — wimbledon twice, and the us open. he'll also the two—time reigning olympic champion. yeah, obviously been struggling for a long time. i've been in a lot of pain for, well, it's been probably about 20 months now. pretty much done everything that i could to try and get my hip feeling better and, you know, hasn't helped loads. you kno