and saudi arabia by having the u.s. companies export nuclear power technology to saudi arabia. they started lobbying the trump administration and initially the trump transition about how this would fit with trump's about his approach to the middle east and make america great car restoring american jobs in american industry. tom barrick was very receptive to this idea because he was promoting a similar kind of economic outreach to the region. he had a lot of ties with the leader there. things to the support of time baruch and general flynn, who was involved in the project before he was in the white house, the idea gained a lot of traction in the early days of the administration. amy: take it through to now. >> initially the first three month as detailed by the whistleblowers who spoke to the house oversight committttee, ths was something that was happening in kind of a -- kind of being rushed to the national security council. and it was not complying with the atomic energy act that review. all kinds of obviously, the u.s. tightly controls this technology because it can be misuse

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . that's now bringing north and historian gerald torne for more on this story charles welcome to the program. now why would it be in the u.s. interest to help saudi arabia develop nuclear technology. well number one as is well known by now there are very close financial targets between the trump family and the saudi ruling elite is no accident that after mr trump became president one of his first trips was to saudi arabia evidence is now emerging about saudi contributions to his presidential campaign that may not have been a book or in two thousand and sixteen as well know that his son in law an advisor jeric listeners also very close to the same

everybody in saudi arabia in one way or another is a beneficiary saudi aramco a strong saudi arabia it needs a strong rand paul and vice versa as well the history of saudi aramco is the history of saudi arabia transforming itself from an isolated tribal society into a global presence. get it right you reap a windfall get it. and the risk is huge the whole saudi economy was at stake that all the balance be done how did you face that and. living. in the world they run the risk of being toppled the royal family could be running for the. issue is really you know is an i.p.o. best for the company and when you look at graeme coke the company you have to realize that unlike other companies. ram co operated for years without ever imagining and i p o. so they've never had to make decisions with the thought of oh maybe going to be publicly listed or we'd like to publish this here's how we need to have our finances a great here's the kind of growth that we need to be showing in our financial statements to make investors see our value. analysts have never followed around because it was never seen

arabia the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now for what we understand the saudis were refusing to agree to prohibitions on processing good talent and enriching uranium that other countries in the region have agreed to prop was apparently directly engaged in the efforts now the report cites a few whistleblowers who were in on the negotiations the whistleblowers who came forward have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through a plan to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiation or it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who is on trial as inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good idea mr barracks in gauge meant an investment in business development throughout the middle east for the purpose of better aligned middle east and u.s. objectives and well known as are his more than four decade

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in nevada every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. and so that the very the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole that enables a higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not one house comes back basically you have a sister and i said in which private prosperity impoverished is the government the opposite of normal economics. so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel it's a real parliament and a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and re

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in the god every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. and so that the very the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole and enables. higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not one house comes back basically you have a sister and i said in rich private prosperity impoverish is the government the opposite of normal economics so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel if they're real parliament and a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and red

i was in saudi arabia, i was there primarily see an official saudis. i would start with one general observation. a point that barbara made about questioning where the u.s. is, it's something that comes through both in my trips to abu dhabi and dubai and saudi arabia and israel. i would even cast it a little bit differently. the questions i got actually everywhere was really, maybe trump is not an exception, trump seems a lot like obama to us. in terms of not wanting to be in the region, not equating the two, but saying that basically, we wonder what the u.s. really wants to be in the middle east whether what we're seeing now is the new normal. and i just put that out as the kind of reality that you get when you are in the region. in saudi arabia itself, and with the saudi's i spoke to both prior to being there and then when i got there, right now is a kind of interesting mood. initially when i was first seeing saudis in the emirates, they were quite shaken by the effect of khashoggi, the international reaction to it, there was desire to sort of get out

arabia ok so testing to imitate saudi arabia consider south africa as a gateway. yeah let me get back to saudi arabia in just a moment but to ten billion is a lot of money but the south africa's looking for one hundred billion u.s. dollars in total where the other ninety billion coming from you know surreal of course i think it's on a good track to achieve his goal of collecting hundred billion u.s. dollars in investment after the age of ten billion by saudi arabia actually the united arab emirates pledged to invest also ten billion u.s. dollars into the country and we have also seen many local companies trying or you know patching investments into their facilities here in south africa and gold ashanti a big mine play in south africa so to invest four billion u.s. dollars in upgrading the mines common factors from germany b.m.w. . bargain and also most see this pledge to invest two to three billion u.s. dollars to upgrade their production facilities here well so i think you know as much as. we are sorry that it's adding up just very briefly getting back to what yo

will always have a strategic relations with saudi arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, oui’ arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, our neighbour and our future. arabia. saudi arabia is our partner, our neighbour and ourfuture. —— will always have. our future our neighbour and ourfuture. —— will always have. 0urfuture is to stay together because we don't have any future alone in the region. the region is growing and it is coming together, like the european union, if you know. so nobody, i am not, i'm notjudging what is happening in saudi arabia, and not entitled to judge what is happening in saudi arabia, i know that saudi arabia is coming to help the yemeni people, to restore legitimacy in yemen and to restore legitimacy in yemen and to restore the statehood, that is why we are fighting together in the yemen. if i may we are fighting together in the yemen. ifi may say we are fighting together in the yemen. if i may say so... we are fighting together in the yemen. ifi may say so... it is nonsense when you say that we are receiving instruction. ifi may say so, you receiving inst

arabia dozens of times over the years i knows saudi arabia very well it's impossible for people at that high level including officials who are very close working in the palace particularly working for the crown prince to simply just disappear and vanish in saudi arabia i found the statement lacking and group. was you bear with as we've had in congress today how do you feel he was received and what would you like to see congress u.s. congress doing next. well there are some members of congress who basically are too busy to pay real serious attention to this case and probably be this out the government is betting that this group will increase and will prevail but i don't think that's the case on the contrary those who have focused on this issue even though they have been distracted by all kinds of domestic issues on their plate over the past few weeks they seem to have returned to their focus on the crime and whether it is the murder itself or whatever it's the humanitarian situation in yemen i think at then shame is focused again on saudi arabia and these types of visits and statements a

and the same is true in saudi arabia if except even more so because at that time at least saudi arabia was heavily subsidizing electricity and water and other things that people needed so i said you know the difference is that in the god every cent will come back in the form of increased government revenue. so that the leave the debt will be replaced by a stream of revenue that makes the government whole it enables higher level of service whereas in saudi arabia not on how it comes back basically you have a sister and i said in which private prosperity impoverish is the government the opposite of normal economics so i've said to people. i'll give you a real nigel if the real parliament in a role in allocating tax resources but in order to do that you've got to pay taxes and he said i came very close to getting a consensus on this in the end i failed the merchants particularly in the western province would not agree so it's difficult to to rationalize a big investments in a country that's already a hard sell for investors anyway because of you know the visa requirements and red tape and

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . but let's now bring in pickle commentator and author lou rockwell good to have you with us now why do you think the white house is secretly pushing to transfer sensitive u.s. nuclear technology to saudi arabia and bypassing congress. well it's an attack on iran they want to have saudi arabia have a nuclear weapon so that they can be threatened or maybe used against iran so israel won't have to use its nuclear weapons and it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology to a patella tarried state like saudi arabia which is not a democracy. and just it's a terrible thing and it's similar to what trump announced that he's

arabia because it cannot afford to be a battleground where saudi arabia and iran settle their scores a very interesting piece read is on our web site at al-jazeera dot com now as we've heard the sound led war in yemen is what's also disrupting the kingdom's relationship with many of its traditional allies and the conflicts there shows no sign of ending saudi state media say yemen's who the rebels have killed at least nine saudi soldiers in a renewed military offensive the attacks happened in the southern saudi provinces of osier just on and on as the word spread of violence since a un brokered peace deal was signed in sweden in december priyanka gupta has the details. fierce fighting in the northern front lines of yemen who the rebels say they have launched major attacks on saudi u.a.e. backed forces across the border in saudi arabia over the past three days a number of saudi soldiers were killed and their military positions captured according to hooty media sources saudi media is also reporting the deaths of soldiers who they say the attacks will not stop and let mr miller watch out

sale of nuclear technology to saudi arabia fully expose u.s. hypocrisy or rami corey is professor of journalism at the american university of beirut he says the latest investigation demonstrates the u.s. congress growing anger against the trumpet ministration. the really important point here is that you now have a congressional committee led by democrats in the house of representatives where the majority is democratic officially investigating. inner workings of the white house dealing with members of trump's family his son a low questioner his top advisers linked to business dealings with saudi arabia and in some cases with the emirates in a context of concern in the democratic controlled house of representatives that the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have been for several years trying to influence american policy through business relationships so this closes a very difficult circle for trump and there's the beginning of a really important phase of an official investigation what you have to look at also is the wider context here which is that there i

relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power but its goal commentates a new book well suspects that the white house has iran and its science if it really is funneling nuclear technology to the saudis. the idea that they would arm mohamed and solomon with nuclear weapons just strikes me as something out of a science fiction movie it's like dr strangelove it's very alarming it's a terrible thing to spread this kind of technology and this is all part of the the . plan and george questioners involved in this too to destroy iran and they they hate iran iran is not promoting terrorism iran is not all the things they say it is it's a peaceful country it's got a very small military and out of date military a

senior trumpet ministration officials are accused of trying to sell nuclear technology to saudi arabia an investigation is under way. hello again i'm. live from doha also coming up the president of pakistan administered kashmir tells out there there's a real risk of conflict with india after last week's bombing in the disputed region . twenty four hour window closes for syrians to get out of a desolate can find out why they didn't take the opportunity plus. an estimated fifteen billion dollars worth of oil and gas was discovered off the coast of san diego find out next how this new found wealth is now part of the presidential campaign just days before the election. the first an investigation has been launched into whether senior officials in the trump administration have been trying to sell sensitive nuclear technology to saudi arabia a committee in the house of representatives led by the democrat says whistleblowers warned business interests pushed ahead of the law like had a ripples from washington. the twenty four page report is extensive and reach in detail providing names dates an

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that troponin astrachan approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of demolish

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got that on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal khashoggi in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committees showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power . top u.s. official staying to pittsburgh on the same page when it comes to america's military strategies on syria on wednesday iraqi officials kind that u.s. forces would be withdrawing from syria of iraq by april the feste the pentagon has refused to confirm the deadline speaking instead of an orderly exit. the unity and territorial integrity of syria. president trump announced in december that he would be with during the u.s. military from syria after a five year mission this part of an international coalition to fight terrorism in the region but to spy the imminent texas washington's envoy to syria has signaled that may not be the end of amer

arabia so a un led inquiry is pinning this directly on officials of the state of saudi arabia they say that saudi arabia seriously undermined turkey's efforts to investigate the murder at its stan bull consulate so this is the first we're hearing from this u.n. led inquiry the special rapporteur was in turkey last week i think it was for a week a fact finding found it difficult to get corporations from the saudis at least at the consulate but now saying that saudi arabia seriously undermined turkey's efforts to investigate it and that jamal khashoggi is killing was planned and perpetrated by officials of the state of saudi arabia very interesting developments coming there we will might wait to hear more. still ahead for you on al-jazeera though in step with everything in iran we're looking at the powerful role played by its revolutionary guards. hello there is pretty wet for some of us in the middle east at the moment if we take a look at the satellite picture we can see the clouds snaking its way towards the north but then bending background over the western parts of turkey we're seei

that's my kind of cake and recommendation for saudi arabia. in the case of saudi arabia, i was there just before the president's declaration on syria. in the case of israel, i was there after the declaration. what i found in israel was ok, we can deal with this, but i also found an unmistakable sense that we are alone. not alone in the sense that the u.s. won't support us publicly, we appreciate that, but when it comes to dealing with iran and syria, and the russians in syria, israel is completely on its own and feel that is completely on its own. i found a sense that we can manage it, that i also found a kind of interesting context of the russians basically have dopted a much tougher policy toward israel since the shootdown of their aircraft in september. the israelis in response to that have greatly limited the perations that they were carrying out in syria against the iranian presence. i was told explicitly that they had greatly reduced their operations. they noted that it seemed to have an effect on the iranians as well because the iranian

so i would like to thank all of the people of saudi arabia. >> trump's sycophancy toward saudi arabia of course reaching new heights as he stands in open defiance of an american congressional deadline to officially state whether the odd saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman was behind the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi. a conclusion that trump's own cia reached pretty much immediately. this is not hard. except for trump who has said mbs is a friend. for him, this is hard. >> i hate the crime. i hate what's done. i hate the cover-up. and i will tell you this, the crown prince hates it more than i do, and they have vehemently denied it. >> again, what is it about trump and saudi arabia? kara, you know, as we go through this report, how concerned were security officials about this plan to provide this technology to saudi arabia, this nuclear technology? >> i mean, erin, they were worried. they were so worried that they at least half a dozen times based on the findings in the report. the national security council staff, they were worrieded about a couple things. t

and what do we know about saudi arabia? we know that they were responsible for the murder of khashoggi. we know recently that m.b.s. admitted he wanted khashoggi dead. we know that they, the saudis, are supplying arms to al qaeda in yemen who are fighting our troops. the saudis are giving arms to the very people who are fighting our troops. this is why senator lindsey graham has said he may support this resolution. the only patriotic thing, if you care about our troops, if you care about american interests, if you care about the outrage that the saudis are inflicting on americans and on the world, the only patriotic thing to do is to vote for this resolution. i'm convinced it will pass with a bipartisan majority. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields his time back to the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: madam chair, i yi

arabia what do you do with saudi arabia when you have a split amongst the gulf states and clytie between saudi arabia and qatar and most importantly and this i think does limit on how far congress can push the administration away from saudi including over yemen their ministration is in bed with saudi arabia because it wants regime change in iran and until you give up that policy of regime change in iran saudi arabia still has a leverage with the trump an illustration of that if congress or anyone else tries to push too hard let me bring that up because we all i think it was you specifically that said that donald trump has bit at odds with his intelligence community just this week the leaders in the intelligence community testified that iran is still complying with video even though donald trump backed it up where is this coming from. ripped it up hard yell spill remember number those intelligence services though which the cia the office of national intelligence they're coming at it from just a sheer assessment of what iran is doing but in that same administration you have a secretary of

arms sales to saudi arabia and possibly into u.s. support for the saudi led intervention which includes the u.a.e. in the yemeni civil war you've got down on the one side but the problem is is that on the other side you've got the trump administration which is pursuing regime change in iran so if you go too hard against the saudis over young men if you go to war against them b.s. you pretty much undercut that trungpa ministration approach which is to change the leadership in tehran which way does u.s. foreign policy go to actually try to hold the saudis to account or to say put our hands up and say now it's all about iran and will release the pressure on him and on the yemeni intervention president donald trump has refused to hold saudi arabia and more specifically the crown prince accountable for the murder of jamal in november he contradicted a cia assessment that concluded mohammed bin selman did order the killing of demolish l.g. and shortly thereafter trump said we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of demoli

main manufacturer warns it may no longer be able to fulfill with saudi arabia. imposed after the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi the government is reportedly concerned about the as the contracts are worth a lot of money britain is the second biggest saudi arabia after the us over four billion dollars worth of weapons have been sold by the. twenty fifteen are taking a good look at this story. the u.k. is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia i'm very concerned about the impact of the german government's decision on the british and european defense industry and the consequences for europe's ability to fulfill its commitments up until recently last november to be precise germany did sell weapons to saudi arabia but then this happened shortly has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered was murdered in the saudi consulate it was looted to his death and this didn't help either. sorry akka markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms exports which are already

home to the muslim worlds holiest sites saudi arabia's real source of power comes from oil and saudi aramco turns that black gold into dollars and results a company which is never to be noted independently was the crown jewel of the so-called vision twenty thirty there is no doubt that iran co is one of the key pillars to this vision to the growth of our economy and to the progress of the entire kingdom of saudi arabia. to put the company which funds saudi arabia's budget never appeared on any stock market and the kingdom's economy has tanked since then al-jazeera has investigated the ideas behind vision twenty thirty the politics of the kingdom which revolve around oil money and the reasons why the proposed saudi aramco sell off did not work the secretive company has never had to declare its financial reports as a massive transformation had gone public one of the major objections by people in the kingdom was their fear of the money would go into the pockets of the royal family the other issue is the nearly constant oil build saudi arabia has claimed to own since it took over from am

saudi relationship have often pointed to the lack of human rights in saudi arabia as well as the saudi monarchy has ties to terrorism but it seems at the moment that we now have pretty solid evidence and a report from the house of representatives oversight committee showing that the united states for not the first time but just like on previous occasions openly discussed the idea of helping the kingdom of saudi arabia to develop nuclear power we watch this space thanks for bringing us the artes killer and live from new york city. the british museum has found itself facing a wave of criticism concerning an ongoing exhibition which was swarmed by hundreds of protesters over its close ties to the oil giant british petroleum at the weekend . they say on cleanses the soul but for these protesters the latest exhibition at london's british museum whitewash is the image of a less than squeaky clean or oil company. the i am exhibition here at the british museum has been nor did by christian it shows the inner workings of the assyrian empire and displays off the facts from what is now modern day

talk of transferring rather sensitive nuclear technology to the kingdom of saudi arabia and enabling them to develop nuclear power some of this some of what was said in the report can be heard here these reports also indicate that saudi arabia is refusing to agree to prohibition on enriching uranium and processing plutonium similar to those agreed to by other countries in the region however experts worry that transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could be a to produce nuclear weapons that country b. two the proliferation of nuclear arms according to the report donald trump actually directly engaged the deal was supportive of these efforts and now one of the nuclear power companies involved i p three has defended the idea of transferring nuclear technology and nuclear energy technology to saudi arabia this is a statement from ip three it is a strategic imperative that the united states compete and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena it's important to note that while it appears here there was open talk of giving saudi arabia nuclear energy technology that t

saudi arabia we'll have to see saudi arabia is a major investor in a number of very significant tech companies based in san francisco. so far we haven't heard of any of those changing or freezing their plans but we'll have to see what unfolds in the coming days and weeks and what about their their expansion if it if it isn't in saudi arabia do they still have big plans for the middle east in general that could be put into place elsewhere. yeah well this is this push into the middle east which has been several years in the making for amazon and. what they've said is that they plan to to head up that middle east amazon web services region out of bahrain saudi arabia is just one of several countries that they're looking at to put these data centers in so that they can have coverage across the entire middle east and they haven't said any as to how their plans have changed or evolves they affectively declined to comment by not responding either confirming or denying the story that we published today and of your fellow thank you very much indeed hurting that are talk to us thank you. peopl

arabia and look out he sanral because shelby incidentally has not held saudi arabia accountable spring and patrick back to the discussion tell us the practical human rights issues that come with allowing western weapons to end up in the hands of some of these militias what does that mean in terms of conduct of war that. well i think i'll just preface any come in specific to those militias by saying that all parties to the conflict with the be the saudi forces or the butties or allied militias have from the outset committed a whole range of very serious human rights violations including you know the indiscriminate bombardment of civilian areas but specific to these groups and the city has done some very detailed research on the ground in southern yemen talking to detainees and their relatives from a string of so-called black sites secret detention centers where they were held and guarded by some of these militia groups and the allegations that came from those interviews were quite shocking they were subject to torture sexual humiliation. they were deprived of food and water there was in

unfortunately we cannot do that when saudi arabia and the leader of saudi arabia kind of implicated to be part of the forces of tyranny and evil. >> well, it's not what the secretary of state said. he hoped and this is a big part of his trip and the alignment to push back on obama's engagement with iran. you know they've pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. but this is what he said about getting saudi arabia and others on board to continue pushing back against iran and take advantage iran. this is what he said. >> we fostered a common understanding with our allies of the need to counteract the iran regime's revolutionary agenda. countries increasingly understand we must confront the ayatollahs, not coddle them. nations are rallying to confront the regime like never before, egypt, kuwait and others are thwarting efforts to evade sanctions. >> what do you make of that? do you see delaying and setting the table for potentially another military adventure this time against iran? >> it could easily be. but the flaw in this logic that the secretary is laying out is that there is only one coun

arabia has practiced with regards to its female population and the fact that women in saudi arabia aren't allowed to make their own decisions in many areas of life. and they also have very few places to turn to when they when they face issues regarding abuse so that combined with modern technology and the fact that women in saudi arabia can now connect with the outside world and actually get in touch with networks of people who can help them that's caused a dramatic increase in the in the number of cases we hear about of saudi women trying to flee abroad to save their countries now the saudi women who spoke to didn't use alleged that the saudi embassy in berlin is complicit with their families families incidentally from which they fled the set so credible is that in character. certainly i can't comment on the germany cases because it's not an issue i've researched specifically however i mean it does absolutely fit a pattern something we've seen repeatedly over the years whereby families do collude with the saudi authorities the foreign ministry authorities usually or people working out of

is not impressed with germany's decision to stop selling weapons to saudi arabia i'm very concerned about the impact of the german government's decision on the british and european defense industry and the consequences for europe's ability to fulfill its commitments up until recently last november to be precise germany did sell weapons to saudi arabia but then this happened because shorty has been tortured beaten tortured killed and then dismembered was murdered in the saudi consulate it was looted to his death and then this didn't help either. south africa markel did this firstly were outraged by this case i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in a current circumstances on its own germany really provides about two percent of the total arms purchased by saudi arabia that's a drop in the ocean but crucially germany also makes components that are essential to other countries arms exports for example british. it has a contract to provide riyadh with forty eight new fighter jets but germany's refusal to make cars that are destined for s

arabia these reports also indicate the saudi arabia is refusing to agree to. an enriching uranium and processing plutonium similar to the news agreement of the countries in the region however an expense worry the transferring sensitive u.s. nuclear technology could allow saudi arabia to produce nuclear weapons that contribute to the proliferation of nuclear arms the concern is that this could lead to saudi arabia developing nuclear weapons now from what we understand the south but other countries in the region have agreed to prompt was apparently directly in the whistleblowers who came through and have expressed significant concerns about the potential procedural and legal violations connected with rushing through upon to transfer a nuclear technology to saudi arabia ip three nuclear energy corporation that was part of the negotiations said that providing nuclear secrets to was necessary because each and win against russia and china in the nuclear power arena tom barrett who was on trial as inaugural committee also thought that possibly arming might be a good

and mutual benefit pakistan needs investments and saudi arabia needs friends the saudi crown prince lands in pakistan at the start of an asian tour as his country faces international criticism over the merger and his job culture of jeet. welcome to the program on nick spicer. u.s. president donald trump called on european states to take back their citizens if they are among captured fighters from the so-called islamic state in a tweet that mentioned britain france germany and other countries trying threaten to release imprisoned combatants if their home countries refused to allow them back in december he alarmed western partners by saying he was withdrawing american troops from syria because he considered the islamic state to have been defeated. by us jihadists on the march in syria these images from the fall of rock in twenty fourteen. islamic state has since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters are dead and more have been taken prisoner recently the u.s. backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. besieged the city of backcross the last remaini

the residence of saudi arabia's consul general in istanbul is.

nuclear technology in saudi arabia the oversight committee under representative elijah cummings base the report on what it calls whistleblower accounts evidence provided by career officials within the administration deeply concerned about what would appear to be a deeply corrupt process circumventing congress what is surprising is the scope of u.s. government officials. directly involved and business to business talks. with out this close and potential economic interest in the work that they were doing and that is certainly on what is new among those named in the report to president trump's son in law and adviser jared cushion or who refinanced a deeply indebted new york building with a company called brookfield business partners which are just acquired a nuclear services company westinghouse electric. under scrutiny as well question his ongoing relationship with the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman and central to the report longtime trump supporter and onetime national security advisor michael flynn who the report says was deeply involved in pushing a nuclear plan for saudi ar

arabia and saudi arabia have used britain's weapons to earth bomb yemen and destroy the infrastructure there causing what the un's called the worst month major humanitarian crisis going on in the world at the moment i think when it comes to germany hunt's comments that are completely inappropriate he's meant to be a statesman and he's not meant to be using his position to lobby for british arms trade interest. just on that point how close is this relationship them between be a and the government i mean we looked at our report and polly boyko there and she made some links so you bert's i mean from your perspective how strong is that connection. i mean really the systems have. power of the old amount of access to go clare short she was a government minister under bush used to say that she felt that view systems are the key to the guardian good number town they really have an earth unique level of your lobbying and access to ministers and that frankly undermines our democracy in the u.k. what we see time and time again germany hans comments are just the latest example is the british gover

that it won't be able to order its arms contracts of saudi arabia as germany refuses to lift a ban on supplying certain component parts to the gulf kingdom. and the us actor is accused of faking a hate crime against himself just a small that's claimed that he was assaulted by donald trump supporters that led to an outpouring of sympathy support and anger at the president for supposedly raising tensions. and so joining us you're watching r.t. international. the un has called to avoid bloodshed in venezuela there after two people were reportedly killed more than a dozen others injured in clashes between the venezuela military and protesters near the border with brazil demonstrators have been demanding that the border be open to allow aid at the same time extra security forces have been dispatched to the area the military reportedly opened fire on the demonstrators three of those injured are said to be in critical condition the local mayor also confirmed twenty seven military service men were captured by protesters after the clashes broke out . and this comes after confusion around the b

arabia what do you do with saudi arabia when you have a split amongst the gulf states including between saudi arabia and qatar and most importantly and this i think does limit on how far congress can push the administration away from saudi including over yemen they're ministration is in bed with saudi arabia because it wants regime change in iran and until you give up that policy of regime change in iran saudi arabia still has a leverage with the trumpet ministration effect if congress or anyone else tries to push too hard let me bring that because we all i think it was you specifically that said that donald trump has bit at odds with his intelligence community just this week the leaders in the intelligence community testified that iran is still complying with video even though donald trump backed it up where is this coming from. ripped it out hard to remember the number of those intelligence services though which the cia the office of national intelligence they're coming at it from just a sheer assessment of what iran is doing but in that same administration you have a secretary of sta