arabia and they they work in saudi arabia they send some money home but the way that these guest workers have been treated in saudi arabia has been widely condemned by groups like human rights watch and other international watchdogs the you know these guest workers they work for far far lower wages than saudi citizens do and the conditions that they work under a quite bad now the crown prince solomon is trying to change the way the economy is set up he's arguing that they can start having manufacturing he's also changed some of the laws he's being hailed as a reformer in the american media is allowing women to start attending wrestling matches and and drive cars things to that effect but it's also important to point out that saudi arabia is really the only country in the world that uses beheading as a method of execution and since the beginning of this year they've already had forty eight different public beheadings in saudi arabia so saudi arabia is at a point of transition the energy markets are changing the country is changing the legal structure is changing the crown prince has his v

in quite a difficult position because saudi arabia and the u.a.e. alliance are seen as the cornerstone of their sanity towards the gulf and december if they crystallize that into a coherent doctrine so now these tensions are yemen now they've exploded saudi arabia anything mitigate the damage and it entered. and he convinced the u.a.e. they act unilaterally by supporting the south humanities and then by supporting any other groups that oppose had the weather been so hot or elsewhere in the country just arming and emboldening the houdinis and iranian backed forces so the saudi arabians first of all why do how dialogue and. sense of unity and consensus about who their real big enemy is and why they have to stay united to confront that and secondly i think that saudi arabia will for meant any kind of pro had to demonstrations like the ones we've been seeing in psychiatry against the military occupation the miss usa he the costs of if you're going to unilaterally inviolate a human sovereignty in this way are too high and that they must cissie the course

and rising unemployment in saudi arabia is raising concerns as m.b.'s crown crown prince mohammed bin solomon is seeking to overhaul the kingdom's autonomy here with the latest is r t correspondent philip martin who joins us from new york thanks for being with us i was really surprised to learn that the unemployment rate in saudi arabia was almost thirteen percent last year just seems crazy and a big pretty big problem for m.b.a.'s what are the latest. well the kingdom of saudi arabia is having a little bit of an identity crisis right now because essentially sense way back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight when oil was discovered in the arabian peninsula the house of saudi has had a pretty clear relationship with the rest of the world namely they've been kind of vassals overseeing the extraction of their natural resources and selling them on the global market other way the saudi economy is set up at senator around aramco which is their state run oil company that center essential functions as committal man for exxon mobil b.p. shell other wester

arabia so basically what will fix the image of saudi arabia is. back to the question asked at the outset why now there's really no clear answer to the p.r. led charm offensive and the m.b.'s interviews were targeted at the international media and foreign politicians the arrest of the activists and the discourse a chilling message that that sent were designed primarily for domestic consumption if that created a few unflattering headlines in the global media then so be it the image that the crown prince projects at home power above all else is the priority that's always been the way in the house of saud and for all the talk of reform and the generational changing of the guard in riyadh it hasn't changed. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers johannah who's joe a series of developments coming out of egypt over the past few days intensifying the pressure on journalists and bloggers there give us a rundown there are two main developments richard first there's a story that we have been following f

arabia who dream of a different saudi arabia of a more open country the question is of course how is that going to many fast i see a saudi arabia develop developing a different speeds depending on where you live or you are and once again all these social circumstances encourage this change or not so it's really a process and nobody at this point can answer whether this start is going to develop into something more profound that you have seen play out in other parts of the room there is so much at stake and as you've highlighted today especially for women in the country funny for char with the very latest thank you. it's. all day is almost done but as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at t w news or my handle is at seroquel it's easy to feel free to get in touch thank you so much for watching i have to say you can see. fifty kitchens one city our calling area world torture berlin's restaurant scene draws to a close is a very simple recipe for one maintains like i have once again we serve up international specialty chips in one sitting let us tick

arabia so basically what will fix the image of saudi arabia is. back to the question asked at the outset why now there's really no clear answer to the p.r. led charm offensive and the m.b.'s interviews were targeted at the international media and foreign politicians the arrest of the activists and the discourse a chilling message that that sent were designed primarily for domestic consumption if that created a few unflattering headlines in the global media then so be it the image that the crown prince projects at home power above all else is the priority that's always been the way in the house of saud and for all the talk of reform and the generational change of the guard in riyadh it hasn't changed. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers johannah who's joe a series of developments coming out of egypt over the past few days intensifying the pressure on journalists and bloggers there give us a rundown there are two main developments richard first there's a story that we have been following for

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negot

arabia who dream of a different saudi arabia more open country the question is of course how is that going to many fast i see a sudden rabia develop developing a different speeds depending on where you live or you are and once again all these social circumstances encourage this change or not it's really a process and nobody at this point can answer whether this start is going to develop into something more profound that you have seen play out in other parts of the room there is so much as stake and as you've highlighted today especially for women in the country funny for char with the very latest thank you. well day is almost done but as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at news or my handle is at to feel free to get in touch thank you so much for watching i hope to see you again. climate change. sustainability. environmental. globalization. biodiversity species runs racial exploitation. human rights displacement. to. three thousand next. where to store germany's nuclear waste experts are searching for an disposal site that will be safe for a mi

we have turkey, another business in saudi arabia. so the reality is you can take all of these businesses public at the right time. i think within the coming three years, we will probably have india going public. we will probably have hospitality as well going, going separately the public root. -- route. francine: how much bigger will you be? i hope to speak to you before but if i speak to you in five years, how much will your holdings be worth? mohamed: i think we should be double in value. we should have grown 20% to 25% on an annual basis. and i hope that my management and my boards really put that as a focus. and to be honest, i think we are capable of doing that. we just have to focus and have to make sure we have the right people to do it. and we do this day and night. and that is really how we do business in our region. francine: that is acquisitions or that is organic growth? mohamed: i would say organic growth. if you talk about acquisition, which we haven't done much of, i am expecting we do more acquisition in the coming tw

italia saudi arabia. essential the change their strategy they used to fight the bombs out now the ships . we knew that this was the best place from which to take photos of the secret operations with no ban on cameras. from here we recorded what actually happened because we don't usually eighteen containers a month were loaded up with one thousand to one thousand five hundred bombs. all the people. from government i meant that they were mainly transported by saudi arabian ships three or four belonging to the battery shipping company and i.v. it was a dock and load up the saudis evidently decided to run the transport themselves but this is. the military coalition in yemen needs a lot of bombs by the end of twenty seventeen saudi arabia and its allies had flown more than fifteen thousand air raids according to international experts almost a third of those raids that civilian targets. it's a profitable war even for small investors with shares in germany's biggest arms manufacturer a company that breaks free o

and saudi arabia. is collateral damage really but i think it falls to within a move region or kind of race to control you know these particular region here because for obvious reason commercial reasons military reasons and of course you know this is the man dab and the fact that you know it's the world or root and it's very important and whoever will control it will control not the fate of the world but we have quite heavy on international relations will go into what's happening within the saudi led coalition the moment but i want to put the same question to you and risk rig do you view the presence of iraq two soldiers in. as an occupation and also in the long run i mean do you ease a rich country but relatively small militarily not very strong is it sustainable. well i mean is the entire strategy of the iraqis sustainable at the moment i think they're punching way above their weight they have tried to translate their soft power into increasingly into hard power we have to say the iraqi military is pr

father in the past but this time around there's a bit of a doubt whether saudi arabia's who him to continue to back saddam he after the elections it all depends on what the result of the elections is going to be remember i earlier mentioned there are several contenders giving competition to solidarity and it remains to be seen what does ofter the results come out remember levanon is a very important it's a tiny country but a very important country when it comes to the battle over dominance over these wall between saudi arabia and iran did of his and show her parting for us from beirut thank you very much. now to some of the other stories making news around the world an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan has killed at least twelve people and wounded many more local police say the mosque mosque in haast was also being used as a voter registration center for elections later this year no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack iran's president hassan rouhani has warned u.s. president donald trump that dismantling the twenty fifteen nuclear deal would be a quote historic regret tru

on the part of heidi and saudi arabia as with the u.a.e. i mean we have to understand that as a sovereign nation they're going to do what they see as in their best interest and i think controlling silk without the support of eid and and having a very heavy presence in the horn of africa makes sense from a you a perspective you know once was blown out of proportion distorted very nice words but you do have sixty thousand residents on the island and many of them went down to the street denouncing what they see as emirati okupe nation of the island is an occupation in your view catherine. yes i think it is i mean to go from i mean we have to remember that yemen is a sovereign nation and so its people have rights and if a nation is in fact imposing you know whatever whether it's military or you know otherwise its presence is forced onto a nation then yes it is not just an occupation but it's actually an act of war technically speaking and so i did again i'm not justifying the u.a.e. at all because i do think that at the end of the day the peopl

business and economics this week why saudi arabia needs foreign cash to forge a post oil economy. also this week the first post brags it a new budget a cup of coffee a day is all it costs it's citizens according to the commission but new funding rules are making some members very unhappy. plus russia and iran want it blocked but millions of internet users love it will take a look at the messaging app and telegram. brand new mega-cities allowing women to drive foreign run cinema as the oil rich kingdom of saudi arabia is doing everything it can to convince the world that it's serious about change its on a charm offensive promoting itself as an international investment destination trying to lure foreign money to help it create a new economy to prevent future instability crown prince mohammed bin some months economic reforms are all about breaking the kingdom's reliance on oil on wednesday the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel brant is currently trading down around seventy four dollars a bow and although

arabia wants to attract which is hello welcome to counting the cost saudi officials think that they can grow the economy the normal oil sector that is of the economy by the year twenty thirty is that realistic do you think you're in this for the long term. yes but we do have to think long term the market hasn't been very open to foreign investors yet there have been listed equities in some state or companies have issued bonds but i would say it's still very early days over who willing to look five to ten years down the road and i think there will be tremendous opportunities if only because we are moving here from a standing start is saudi arabia of a stretching itself what happens if it if it fails to meet those targets i don't think yet i think there is not enough evidence and yet but at the same time i wouldn't be overambitious about what they can offer near term we had earlier hopes that the aramco i.p.o. my earth her sooner rather than later but then they realise it's more important to do it properly rather than quickly and these things can be very flexible if a lot more work ne

to saudi arabia so the united states or the rectory complicit to the targets saudi arabia is choosing to bomb and they're bombing civilians hospitals schools i mean there's a cholera epidemic in yemen going on right now and everyone is every human rights organization is crying foul and with syria i mean it wasn't iran in syria that was arming fighters that would later defect to terrorists or just turn out all just be uncovered as terrorists it was the united states so i mean there you have it the choice of countries to blame to blame or run for. says in this country in these countries well it's just well it's just simply not giving the full picture how is the u.s. now going to get along with iran at all participants of the deal they're still in except for the united states they were just like our dropping out so again he probably won't get along well with iran that's that's that he's he's truthful but he's put forward a list of demands to iran basically to say no to intercontinental ballistic missiles to stop backing terrorism but also most interesting lee to drop this whole as the ph

brand new mega-cities allowing women to drive foreign run cinema as the oil rich kingdom of saudi arabia is doing everything it can to convince the world that it's serious about change its on a charm offensive promoting itself as an international investment destination trying to lure foreign money to help it create a new economy to prevent future instability crown prince mohammed bin solomons economic reforms are all about breaking the kingdom's reliance on oil on wednesday the i.m.f. said riyadh breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel brant is currently trading down around seventy four dollars a barrel and although oil is considerably up from twenty fourteen the director of the i.m.f. says middle east department jihad has or said the focus in saudi needs to remain on economic and social reform i think the fact that we are currently witnessing getty covered globally and in the and the fact that oil price is going up it shouldn't at any point in time considered as a way for them to relax effort and to be complacent or levels are still t

i think that's a problem because saudi arabia is becoming. more and more problematic in the whole region of the middle east this reform is it's just a facade and when women take advantage of the very slight openings that have happened in saudi arabia there's a crackdown. i think a lot of the purpose of the facade was to placate forces outside of saudi arabia and not really for the saudi people themselves. and i ten year old woman who survived the siege of leningrad during world war two and the recent civil war in ukraine is facing one more fight now with the russian authorities who are refusing to give her a citizen ship fighting technical reasons but after our channel brought up a struggle it appears some good news is in the offing. i was. just going to sling that i did with you in minnesota then we would say it is your ma this sort of star or. no will soon you. didn't know show us a policeman us. said anything else so i knew you didn't exist or not but i don't want to get. on that you want to fix you need to do more with. the police that i'

i think that's a problem because saudi arabia is becoming. more and more problematic in the whole region of the middle east this reform use is just a facade and when women take advantage of the very slight openings that have happened in saudi arabia there is a crackdown. i think a lot of the purpose of the facade was to placate forces outside of saudi arabia and not really for the saudi people themselves. you can follow stories we just covered so much more of course saucily great resource don't call my service twenty four seven talking about services twenty six minutes past monday night here and more scope this choose dating this be done and dusted for now thanks for watching this planet in more for me in just over half an hour's time more great programs for you in your part of the world right after this break. we are now experiencing the end of a thirty year bull market in bonds which means are entering a period of rising interest rates and so the urgency to get deals done before the any cost is applied toward financing whatsoever needs to h

the region and those aren't saudi arabia u.a.e. qatar and and and iran and especially between saudi arabia and iran there is that loom and attract perception where saudi arabia will consider iran as extensional threat and probably five to set those two countries are looking at each other and specially in saudi arabia this is led to very high levels of military spending and in the run also if you increase in military spending in the past two years there are all the reasons to. the population region has at times revolted against him and also their approach to deal with these often militarized nature and of course it has been very clear the case of syria but also because of the weapons that we're seeing coming into this region where are they coming from. all these countries are not dependent on ours imports and of the countries like saudi arabia u.a.e. qatar i'm mainly dependent on weapons which are being supplied from the us and western europe. is not receiving downgrades yet they still are in international embargo but russia has bee

to saudi arabia so the united states a directory complicit to the targets saudi arabia is choosing to bomb and they're bombing civilians hospitals schools i mean there's a cholera epidemic in yemen going on right now and everyone is every human rights organization is crying foul and with syria i mean it wasn't iran in syria that was arming fighters that would later defect to terrorists or just turn out all just be uncovered as terrorists it was the united states so i mean there you have it the choice of countries to blame to blame iran for problems is in this current in these countries well it's just it's just simply not giving the full picture how is the u.s. now going to get along with iran at all participants of the deal they are still in except for the united states they were just like are were dropping out so again he probably won't get along well with iran that's that he's he's truthful but he's put forward a list of demands to iran basically to say no to intercontinental ballistic missiles to stop backing terrorism but also most interesting lead to drop this whole. the phrase d

to saudi arabia so the united states a directory complicit to the targets saudi arabia is choosing to bomb and they're bombing civilians hospitals schools i mean there's a cholera epidemic in yemen going on right now and everyone is every human rights organization is crying foul and with syria i mean it wasn't iran in syria that was arming fighters that would later defect to terrorists or just turn out all just be uncovered as terrorists it was the united states so i mean there you have it the choice of countries to blame to blame iran for problems is in this current in these countries well it's just it's just simply not giving the full picture how is the u.s. now going to get along with iran at all participants of the deal they are still in except for the united states they were just like are were dropping out so again he probably won't get along well with iran that's that he's he's truthful but he's put forward a list of demands to iran basically to say no to intercontinental ballistic missiles to stop backing terrorism but also most interesting lead to drop this whole. the phrase d

arabia after that there is saudi arabia employs a lot of weapons some of it coming also the u.k. but the us and several other western european arms to do search and this is a very costly plan together and this will push military spending upwards and also having saudi arabia also has. you know objectives of being an influential actors read in the middle east and even beyond to some extent so our lives together are classical driers up military spending. but you say the united states has a big warfare industry there three times during the russia however u.s. spending has been declining and it was unchanged when it is expensive and yet there's been some issue in the domestic level of the domestic political level and bearish until vote for the current budget will generate they were constrained there in the u.s. military the u.s. overall government budget including the magic budget were constrained by control that limited the. resources devoted to different terry acidly has a ceiling that it could go around to some extent they're not that much friend isn't time around they are still co

but what's interesting about that is that it all still kind of goes back to saudi arabia right i mean you're looking at him isn't it really just well he's got a very interesting because there is no wonder you know they had said there's no new material. in what he had said an iranian foreign minister to make point and foreign minister had said when he looked at it when he was looking at everything it was this idea. to put it in real estate terms what he said was when you buy a house and move your family and. or demolish it to build a skyscraper you cannot come back two years later and read it go she is the prize. and this is where. even the attorney on the case ultimately pointed toward saudi arabia so you have a deal that has nothing to do with nine eleven that is post nine eleven that the previous administration and many other countries sat down at the table and said let's look forward and you have a case. that's being thrown around right now oliver is trying to demonize an entire country so even the attorney on the case so as he points to saudi arabia as as like the who's actually l

to saudi arabia so the united states or the rectory complicit to the targets saudi arabia is choosing to bomb and they're bombing civilians hospitals schools i mean there's a cholera epidemic in yemen going on right now and everyone is every human rights organization is crying foul and with syria i mean it wasn't iran in syria that was arming fighters that would later defect to terrorists or just turn out just be uncovered as terrorists it was the united states so i mean there you have it the choice of countries to blame to blame iran for problems is in this current in these countries well it's just it's just simply not giving the full picture. so how how how is the u.s. now going to get along with iran in the wake of his decision to what is ultimately it's a real he's really negative or potentially we know on this agreement now that was agreed upon as you said by by most of america's allies and it took nine years to get this iran nuclear deal so how do we move forward now well it's not like exactly he really negative the whole deal because most of because all participants all the dea

doesn't sell those arms to saudi arabia saudi arabia's new best friend donald trump might step in there and start selling those weapons as well. yes you mean he might not step in he will step in here when he tries to do that he's made very clear that arms exports from the u.s. and allies and that many of them in saudi arabia and yes for sure he's one of those very important one. have to increase he will make a major effort and not only he also in france there is pressure to continue arms exports to saudi arabia and then might we need to place on the block for example russia will try very hard to get it to share to you and not to forget china now south korea actors to get some new examples of potential suppliers of arms to saudi arabia that may well be very well true but on the other hand the have also been stated in europe which have chosen to no longer supply weapons to saudi arabia in germany to have been a very fierce debate about these was a big plan to help tends to saudi arabia and a few years back the government is really in favor of that but now they have wrote that back and say

and saudi arabia wants to be your next travel destination we'll visit the first female tour guide jet. base is your business update on heaven home free good to have you with us while a deadline looms u.s. tariffs on european union could kick in today on less an exemption is extended a permanent one is what a you need is want both france is a menu a back hall and germany's i'm going to merkel have failed to get any assurances from u.s. president donald trump. behind the scenes u.s. and e.u. representatives are scrambling to find a last minute agreement to avoid the introduction of punitive tariff spy the u.s. the americans expect concessions saying they've been unfairly treated when it comes to trade with the e.u. the munich based institute for economic research study the tariffs on five thousand products to compare the e.u. and u.s. tax each other the results there are considerably higher barriers for u.s. products entering the e.u. than vice versa on average europeans charge a five point two percent levy as opposed to just three point five by the americans u.s. beef is especially har

law in the war in yemen britain has sold more than six billion dollars worth of arms to saudi arabia since its campaign began in yemen in two thousand and fifteen turkey's main opposition party has. its presidential candidates thousands of people rallied in ankara where the republican people's party decision in his first speech. for democracy to be a president for all turks called the twenty fourth snap election a year and a half ahead of schedule zimbabwe's ruling party has launched its election campaign ahead of a presidential vote in july president. remains a candidate for the poll his party lost several seats in recent primary elections leaving analysts predicting it will be a closely fought campaign it will be the first election without the former leader robert mugabe in power since independence in one nine hundred eighty. people in lebanon head to the polls on sunday for parliamentary elections it's likely regional players iran and saudi arabia will be closely monitoring the outcome of the vote as the rift between them deepens lebanon is caught in the middle how so how about i

saudi arabia used to play a major role in lebanese politics. for the better. or was busy with other conflicts in the region like yemen the war there is a priority for riyadh. saudi arabia was aware that there are laws in lebanon where no longer united and they couldn't be a force to confront hezbollah but will not leave the ground for iran. for now however there is little indication that lebanon is heading towards political instability lebanese politicians are talking about putting their differences aside and uniting now that the election is over. beirut. hezbollah is a shiite muslim political party in lebanon with a military wing the islamic revolutionary guard corps in eat on the help form has been ledger in lebanon civil war in the one nine hundred eighty s. hezbollah published its political manifesto or open letter in one thousand nine hundred five outlining israel and the u.s. as the enemy the thought if accord that ended the lebanese civil war in one thousand nine call for the disarmament of militias fighters were allowed to keep their weapons when hezbo

arabia levanon is a proxy battleground between showdown and sunni saudi arabia and of course it's a problem for israel as well which sees as well as nemesis because of his velocity sets in the war between israel and lebanon in two thousand and six all wrong the country is deeply divided on sectarian lines and those lines have been forced and you know the projections show that hezbollah and its allies are said to win over half of the seats here and parliament and we just like to ask you how exactly did this happen why did they do so well. they have a loyalist base and shias in this country feel that the hizbullah kid us to their needs and they were much poorer than they are now that's one part of it the other part of it is that they have cracked clever line says they are allies with the christians now broadly if you look at eleven on this the problem is divided between sunni muslims and christians and she ours which essentially are the hizbullah and i'm on our allies with the russians so because of this alliance they also managed in securing more number of wards as we're hearing now

wwe goes to saudi arabia. saudi arabia has very draconian walls with minorities and women. wwe has been at forefront of women's revolution, but some have criticize wwe for going to a country with such dr draconian laws and standards and practices. >> i am not big on talking politics with entertainment, they should be separate. but when you look at saudi arabia has done, strides they have made. you have to grow from the outside in. i think that isin something they are attempting to do. if you are not part of the solution, how will you know suite change -- how will you institute change, they have made an effort to be a part of solution, to help, it will take baby steps. you know wwe had an event that took place in abu dhabi, two top female wrestlers competing. the crude crowd, entire live crs chanting. this is hope. in english. the fact that two females were competing for first time in the united arab emirates. that is history, it will take time, but i think it is the effort at least is being made to make in change. john: when you were with wwe. after advent of cable televisi

so man of saudi arabia said it's the summit of jerusalem and condemnation of the times a decision that is the truth that's the truth there is no arab country that doesn't support us fully supporting us and that's the truth so all these lies being spread by it and you know that trying to to say that when they see that geopolitics of the region that iran is a threat and that we join with saudi arabia and we join with them with this with that that's totally got allies. netanyahu is occupation is this it stabilizing all countries well mr arafat may have to leave it there i really really appreciate your taking time to talk to us today and i also invite out viewers to keep this conversation going in our social media pages i hope to see here again same place same time here on the part of. the. united states can always. use. tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military press around the country is a true talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. is a resp