the accounting tricks of stock buybacks and money printing their lives and in saudi arabia. we see a brilliant example of what happens when a country decides to go into financialization, instead of let's say, diversifying into actual productive economic activity. i think one of the worst things as a kid is what you want to do. it's not what you want to do. it's why do you do the things you do? you could design a life that is focused on your watch being aware of work as a way of expression. people ask me what motivates me every day and i look, i'm just being me. i started my company because it was an expression of myself. i am just painting on a canvas, but i think if we can teach them that think of their work and their life as a place to express themselves and then dream of what they see themselves becoming. that strategic mistake makes you think more long term rather than the short term want. athletes are told to picture making the shot before they take the shot. and i think that the same thing is true for the rest of us. we have to picture what our goal is, is looking like

. >> white house adviser and trump son-in-law jared kushner is headed to saudi arabia and qatar this week adding to an already nervous region. bret? >> bret: greg, thank you. we are just learning the pentagon is disbanding its defeat isis task force. the commander of that unit christopher maher has resigned pentagon officials say they have successfully destroyed the terror group. the reorganization is part of the trump administration's desire to declare the wars in iraq and afghanistan over. up next, the president's most recent pick for the u.s. supreme court poses an interesting question in the administration's push to exclude illegal immigrants from the census. we will explain. first here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country covering tonight. fox 2 in st. louis as a local company starts selling the first blood test to help diagnose alzheimer's disease. the test has not been approved yet by the fda. it's aimed at people 60 and older having memory problems and are being evaluated for alzheimer's. fox 5 in san diego as the navy says it will decommission a warship seve

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>> that two very important issues in saudi arabia. number one, the prime issue is that they need to inform their partners. they need to inform their partners including mostly and the ruler of saudi arabia about what is coming. remember coming although not signing buddy at the abraham accord, others are guaranteeing that activity so he has to be informed number one. they are going to make sure tha those reforms continue and that they are partners with us to contain iran. the u.s. delegation were raised with them which is. they have been at odds since 2017. i don't think they're going to be results in the next 50 days about that matter. what does that look like four years later? >> i think in the first year he's going to go slow on its bright a lot of things have changed in the region. of anything's. the second year and the third year will be the time where he' going to be back to the deal. he is going to have the administration if all goes well. they are ready to go back, it's up to them to let go of some of the radical positions or th

now it isn't exactly the full relationship with saudi arabia, but saudi arabia's saying okay, at least you can fly over our air space to get to the uae. interesting. >>> the incoming biden administration officially delivering the news investors had been waiting for. the starting lineup for the 2021 economic team. janet yellen, the odds-on favorite to lead the treasury department, got the nod. that wasn't a big surprise. this was widely telegraphed. if confirmed, neera tanden will be the first woman of color to lead the office of management and budget. and wally adeyemo will be the first deputy secretary of the treasury. however, no mention yet of just who president-elect biden will tap to be his next energy secretary. the entire sector is waiting and wondering including my next guest, tom werner, chairman and ceo of solar power giant sun power. good to see you. we already showed your stock. it has really sort of run ahead of what could have been the news a couple of months ago and that is a possible biden presidency. couple of possible contenders' names are being tossed about here. nuc

they seem to be really asserting their independence from saudi arabia. you have the uae. you have a iraq, which has basically not complied with its production quotas at all and continues to basically have to pump under this system that the under -- the other countries designed to compensate that never adhered to its production cuts. and then we have saudi arabia, which according to some sources threatened to resign from its position on the monitoring committee, perhaps as a result of the fact they have not been able to get iraq to follow along. kailey: on the compliance friend, are we going to have to stay reliant on saudi arabia to cut more than everybody else just to keep the balance? what are the consequences if saudi arabia does indeed step down from the co-chair position? ellen: i think there will be consequences because saudi arabia has been a force for getting a lot of the countries that had not complied to come into compliance. nigeria is one. uae was another. there have been other countries. iraq had shown a strong commitment to complying, but that has not exactl

but we do know that mike pompeo, bibi netanyahu and the crown prince of saudi arabia, mohammed bin salman were together in the kingdom, just a week before this operation took place pipe would speculate, i don't know if you would, that it's highly unlikely that this would not be discussed or some aspect of it. how common would it be for israel to pull something off without notifying the u.s.? >> i'm glad that israel and the on sovereign state are having talk. and if israel conducted any type of assassinations during the obama administration, we would have raised immediately our objections and concerns about it. and so, i don't know what has transpired in terms of what might have been shared between secretary pompeo, mbs and netanyahu. but the timing of this may just be incidecoincidental, but also concerning in terms what might have been shared with u.s. tolerance. >> certainly, the iranians are looking into that as well. mike mullen, the former chairman of the joint chiefs told chuck todd that he's concerned about the loyalists at the pentagon, what they may do in the next 49 or 50 days.

iran can't conjure saudi arabia, saudi arabia, iran, the idea of original oil on his back. sometimes we have these discussions, what should we do, how can we put the iraqis back in syria and this paper says what do we actually need from syria in a broader strategic contact pipe next. in looking at that i threw on the word on our seemed moderator michael hamlin to try to get a handle on what we stand on the persian gulf mission, the sort of broader middle east mission and its not an exact science as everyone knows what on the order of about $70 billion a year in peacetime in addition to the 5 and a half trillion dollars chris mentioned if you can rack, afghanistan and the post-9/11 wars. at real money. that's basically the sort of argument to say $70 billion a year to this? i looked at what we worry about the greater middle east, what are the concerns re we think this resource expenditure warrants. what are they after action mark and i basically concluded that oil is real and terrorism are the main things, their deeply in nonproliferation is a reason that we can talk about i

white house senior adviser, jared kirschner will travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days. and the trip believed to be aimed at resolving the disputes between the neighboring countries comes amid tensions in the region forming the killing of a top iranian nuclear scientist. stan with only weeks left in the trump ministration commissioner and his team of helps negotiate deals with sudan, bahrain, and the u.a.e. . it's normalize relations with israel. china's foreign ministry has rejected calls from the australian prime minister to apologize for an inflammatory tweet over at war crimes. allegations the tweet sent by foreign ministry spokesman li gentile depicts a fake image of a history of these soldiers slashing the throats of an afghan child. at 4 was a recent report since the conduct of strain in special forces. the israeli military has confirmed its dismissing more than a dozen soldiers accused of killing $39.00, announce afghan civilians and prisoners. as prime minister says, china should be ashamed of the tweet. it is utterly righteous and it cannot be justified on any

the top producer saudi arabia retaliated by announcing, and i'm crease in production. now. this pushed all prices to below $20.00 a barrel by april. moscow and riyadh agreed to gradually cut production with a price war hit america, the hardest with u.s. crude going negative for the very 1st time. opec reduced a period until the end of july, restoring petroleum supplies. but a 2nd wave of the virus has slowed to a slower recovery. let's get more now from our economics editor of it. he joins us live from london. this is not going to be an easy meeting for the all peg members. just sum it up for us, one of they trying to achieve. and do you think it's even possible? you're absolutely right there haven't, because when you bring $24.00 nations together to sit around the table, even through actually, you know, it's going to be a difficult task because every single country star its own demands right now. what opec wants to see is that this production that was introduced only this year, sentence that a 1000000 barrels is extend ready for another 3 months, the hearting in january. b

arabia sophists and why we do that with russia. the 2nd is that we see a clear illegal 3rd party sanction by the us again, small stream to which connects russia and germany directly from natural gas. and now obviously to the money is used to justified is illegal sanctions. and to make pressure on the pipeline project. and that is not russian policy. that is anti-rational sentiment from the us and from parts of western europe. and suv of my position is let's separate it. and then if we go to this is as an isolated case, then of course we should also all the question that or that or a and in the room. we should share the information we should share the libertarian formation and findings. and that i'm very optimistic that we could find a solution. but what i see is that there are many people, especially in the west who don't want to, who don't want to find a solution. they want to play a game against russia. this new declaration of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons as a new step of escalation. and i, i didn't li

other countries in the region like saudi arabia has already announced will say if iran is getting nuclear weapons, biden administration won't do anything about it we'll create a nuclear weapons program of our own. then within a short period of time you have an arms race in the middle east. this time a nuclear arms race. this region as you know, gillian, it is so explosive. these guys shouldn't be allowed to play with matches much less have nuclear weapons. >> gillian: you say that under the obama administration nuclear deal iran continued developing nuclear weapons but also the case that after president trump pulled out of the nuclear deal a couple years ago iran has continued to enrich uranium. it sounds like no one is having a lot of luck on this. >> well, i would disagree with that slightly because iran have continued to have their nuclear weapons program but what trump has done i think is really significant in the middle east. for a couple of reasons. one, by having the fracking industry in the u.s. that means we're no longer dependent upon middle east oil. we're independent of it. by

donald trump, so clearly saudi arabia but is giving 2 choices. one which we've heard about a lot in the last few days, normalization with israel and they hope that nothing now might be able to protect. so again, i may have from further sanctions by the next administration or the next congress that has been discounted by the saudis because they feel that they have already committed that they want normalized relations before it palestinian independence. the other way is for saudi arabia to begin to improve its regional standing and mend its fences with various countries. and of course the gulf crisis has been key failure of saudi arabia improving that sort of relation with qatar, which certainly improved the situation for riyadh. now, i think there's probably a lot of progress taken place and the visit by question at a company is probably meant to profit from the already existing progress taken place in order to credit for all right, thanks so much more on the heart of the public schools in iraq have reopened their doors after being closed since ma

and this happening as we hear netanyahu going to saudi arabia denied by the saudis, and to the blinken. this old obama era official being selected by joe biden to be the next secretary of state. so what i think 1st of all the main aim and this at the moment. and the main aim that netanyahu howard icing with these visit to saudi arabia kmiec m.b.'s, the crown prince, the 1st priority for.

andep reflecting on spring what saudi arabia and russia got up to, and that has got to go down as one of the worst policy decisions of this year. out of everything we have seen, that is up there. lisa: just a reminder for people who don't remember, that is when futures went negative on oil prices. so you've got to think they are not going to do a repeat of that. there is a question i keep thinking about. how has the decline of u.s. shale production affected the dynamic? does opec+ actually emerge from this ironically with more power, despite the fact that they made that catastrophic error in spring? $47.62.: brent crude, joining us now is bnp paribas' head of commodity strategy. always good to get you on the show. again?sorry, come jonathan: your read on opec+ right now. what is it? guest: listening to julian's comments, there are a number of issues ahead of this meeting, but we at be a bear. believe they would -- but we at bnp paribas deliver they will -- we at bnp paribas believe they will deliver three months of cuts, and it gives flex ability to reassess options in q2. as usual, t

arabia, that raises so many questions. in fact, somebody with that profile would never under normal circumstances be given a security clearance. now, of course presidents aren't evaluated for security clearances but evaluated by the voters and when they take office, they take control of the nation's secrets, as you said, and they can declassify whatever they want. but former presidents, there's really no law that governs a former president being granted access to secrets. it is entirely up to the current president it's a courtesy. they're not evaluated for the security risks. it's never come up before. but joe biden is going to have a decision to make here if in fact donald trump or the people around him ask for these briefings because donald trump would not qualify under normal circumstances to see top secret information for the reasons that you described. >> yeah. well, donald trump would never have qualified in a thousand years, would never have qualified for any top secret briefings, any -- to have any access to classi

fox news has learned jared kushner will visit saudi arabia and question tar later this week. vice president kamala harris is getting slammed for a tweet urging people to help small businesses. harris posted, quote: small businesses, especially black and minority owned businesses urgent live need relief to survive the effects of coronavirus this winter. joe biden and i are committed to helping these businesses during this pandemic and get them the support they need to thrive in years to come. now, critics pointed out harris helped bail out reuters in minneapolis despite them looting hundreds of businesses over the summer. a major cop union reveals more than 2,000 officers were hurt in the riots following george floyd's death. now, on to week 12 in the nfl. the san francisco 49ers pulling off a major upset. >> robby gold in los angeles. it's up there. it's out there it's good. car cart 9ers edging the rams 23-20 with a last-second field goal. the bears crashing the packers thanks to quarterback aaron rogers fourth touchdown. cans city topped the buccaneers 27-24. meanwhile the

will it be saudi arabia trying to pull all sides together? i know there are some splits in countries that are in the past allies. toier: probably it is going require a bit of opec diplomacy. we are not going to probably get the clean deal that the market was looking at only a week ago. there was a three month delay. it would be more complicated. different proposals delegate their reaction of the market, but it seems there is enough self-interest of everyone within opec. they know what the rate of value is because the pandemic has not ended, the vaccines have not yet there is a lot of lockdown. where there are usually open conferences. it is in lockdown. they are restructuring a lot of activities around the hotels, especially ended today. there is a lot of self-interest to find some kind of compromise over the next 48 hours. lisa: where are the lines here? where are the alliances? who wants the opec cuts that have been proposed, and who is against them? javier: interestingly, in saudi arabia, the different counts through the year are very much

and saudi arabia. and you a specially one to the normalization, to be, a step up on everybody else on the arab world and its relation with the u.s., but also to give it a security and take advantage of the other countries. and i think they'll be very disappointed by that example of this agreement are good to get your analysis. the top infectious disease expert in the u.s. is warning americans to brace force upon surge of current virus infections during the holiday season. the country reported more than 150000 cases on saturday, as millions of people visited family for thanksgiving. dr anthony found, she says it's strand ahead of people traveling over christmas in the new year. where we ask people to do is to at least stop for a moment and do what i call the risk benefit assessment of what you want to do in the holiday, which you want to do to the seasons where you bring people in your home. if you have a person who is elderly or who has an underlying condition that makes them more susceptible to the se

nic robertson has the story. >> reporter: saudi arabia's most well-known female prisoner, loujain has gone from jailed rights activist to alleged national security threat. her sister is horrified. she alleges loujain has been tortured in prison. >> my parents saw that she was very weak, that her body was shaking and that her voice as well. but even with that, she was still very focused and wanted to read her whole defense. her and other activists were being electrocuted, beaten, deprived of sleep, force fed. >> reporter: saudi authorities have repeatedly denied allegations of torture and sexual abuse in their jails. known as mbs gave the go ahead for the long awaited reform, she was arrested. human rights groups called on world leaders to use last week's virtual g20 summit in riyadh to pressure mbs to allow her release. instead, days after the event wrapped, hathloul appeared before a judge only to learn her case was being referred to a notorious terror court. >> i believe the charges have to do with receiving money from hostile govr hostile governments in order to pass it on to hosti

white house senior adviser, jared kirschner will reportedly travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days . a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring nations. it comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of the top iranian nuclear scientist with only weeks left in the trumpet ministration. his team of help to negotiate deals with sudan, bahrain, and the u.a.e. to normalize relations with israel. a weather update next here on al-jazeera, then one of the worst attacks and lots of no group is claiming responsibility for killing dozens of people in afghanistan. a place in argentina rate rate, the home and office of diego maradona's doctor as part of an investigation into the football star status is just about stopped raining on the coast of vietnam. but that was quite a few downpours from central and southern vietnam. giving the tournament reason 2 days at that trying. now it is a went to months and this does not beat the months average because the ground is sudden now that say about to rain to during tuesday, hit the far south of thailand

arabia. analysts are looking at the meeting for you clues into the death of the top nuclear scientist. carley, griff. griff: trey yingst in jerusalem, thanks, trey. carley: a cdc panel will meet tomorrow to recommend who should be vaccinated first upon emergency approval. griff: with pfizer's fda review days away, dr. jeanette nesheiwat joint us now -- joins us now with more on the process. thanks for getting up early on a monday. a big development, we want to show you the priority of groups for the vaccine as you sort of have laid them out, healthcare workers, those at high risk, nursing homes. explain who the groups are and why they get the priority. >> well, you know how you go on an airplane and they say in an emergency, put your mask on first before you put it on to your child or your loved one? you have to have the doctors, the nurses, the x-ray techs, the respiratory techs there, you have to have the staff in the hospital to take care of you if you get sick. what's going to happen if y

. >>> white house senior adviser jared kushner will travel to saudi arabia and qatar this week in a bid to solve an ongoing rift between the two countries. that is according to a senior administration official. kushner will meet with both the saudi crown prince and amir of atar. it's not the first time the u.s. has tried to strike a deal between the two countries. u.s. president donald trump remains forensic tated on the election results, as he continues repeating his false claims of a, quote, rigged election. we will have the latest from the white house. >>> plus november is coming to a close with record numbers for wall street and a lot of that's been driven by joe biden. and look at his impact on the markets. that's next. [ whispering ] what's this? oh, are we kicking karly out? we live with at&t. it was a lapse in judgment. at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot

white house, senior adviser, jared questionable, reportedly travel to saudi arabia and qatar in the coming days. a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. it comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of the iranian scientist, and with only weeks left in the trumpet ministration. his team of help to negotiate deals with sudan, bahrain, and the u.a.e. to normalize relations with israel. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera. that meeting in the middle brazilian voters choose centrist candidates over the years representing extremists and police in argentina raided the home and office of diego maradona's doctor as part of an investigation into the 4 star status of the stormy weather in the mideast not station reads, moving through its lead towards crease on this satellite picture, which is effectively the past. so during monday it's going to be the igi in greece to turkey in cyprus, where it's sundry, sort of links up with this. cold line of snow is a cold front. that's a represents the weather that's been around in easte

surrogates close to the saudi royal family have said publicly that prince mama, no saudi arabia wants to quote, give the resolution to go as a gift to the incoming biden administration. so this is positive rhetoric in the community and diplomatic sources that i have talked to over the past several months . all point to that, the resolution this would incite, of course, we don't know whether or not the resolution today crisis will be solved before trump leaves office or immediately after biden takes office. so that is the question mark is, is really not if, but when the crisis between qatar and its neighbors was a manufactured crisis, it was a crisis that was based on the false allegations that and all these, all these allegations have been proved to be on true and in did it, community understands that now? so was the question is really how do you get that back in order? so this is really a matter of semantics, but i think that also because jared herschel, as we know, has such a close relationship with prince mohammed, i'm sorry, best that he can really lean on this saudi crown prince

arabia and the arab gulf states to think it worthwhile to reach out to israel. now, on all of those arenas, things have changed a lot over the last four years. isjoe biden going to seek to unpick all of that? well, ishould repeat, i am obviously speaking as a private citizen and the middle east is not my area of expertise. there have been some achievements under this administration and i mentioned what they were, but let's start with iran. anyone who thinks the region is safer because the us walked away from the so—called joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran nuclear negotiations is, ithink, wrong. it is now less stable. but there are people who think that very thought. i'm thinking of ray takeyh, who is a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. he recently said, "the trump administration has pursued a successful middle east policy that succeeded precisely because it challenged entrenched assumptions, ratcheted up the pressure on iran, walked away from thejcpoa deal with iran on the nuclear programme and, in essence, he says, has left the mid

and this happening as we hear of netanyahu going to saudi arabia denied by the saudis, and to the blinken. this old obama era official being selected by joe biden to be the next secretary.

now white house senior adviser, jared krishna will reportedly travel to saudi arabia, and in the coming days, a trip believed to be aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighboring countries. it all comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of an iranian scientist and also with just weeks left in the trumpet, ministration. kirshner and his team have also helped negotiate deals with you, don bahrain and the u.a.e. to normalize relations with israel. well, let's now speak to sigurd neubauer. he's a middle east and gulf specialist, and also the author of the gulf region in israel, old struggles, new alliances. he joins us now from washington. d.c. circuit, great to have you back. i want to start with the top line priorities here for the outgoing administration. they have by my count 51 days left to achieve whatever it is they want to or is trying to mend the skull. frith close to top of that list. yes, absolutely. we have really seen that for the past several weeks now, we have seen positive statements coming out both from saudi arabia and from qatar, indicating that th

the bigger picture of what's happening in saudi arabia. the vast majority of people, and many of the young women we spoke to there, told us that they are happy with the reforms and changes happening in saudi arabia. they praise the crown prince for that. they not focused on her case. what they are looking at are the new opportunities for women which they feel are real and are there to be taken right now. >> nic robertson, thanks so much. >>> good eavening to you. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." we begin with breaking news. the biden administration is shaping up to look different than any white house in history. he is expected to name several women to top economic posts. he is announcing an all female senior communications team. this news coming on a day where coronavirus cases are surging. we have reached a new high in hospitalizations in this country. thanksgiving gatherings will only add fuel to the fire in the coming weeks. >> i want to be straight with the american people. it's going to get worse over the next several weeks. >> as

arabia and castle. in the coming days. i mean, to help resolve the dispute between neighboring countries and comes amid tensions in the region following the killing of an iranian scientist. and with just weeks left in the top administration. the headlines i'll have another update for you off the inside story, stay with us. the grapes of wrath of china imposes tariffs on a starting point in a worsening diplomatic dispute story, it accuses beijing of building. so why has their relationship turned so sad? this isn't hello, welcome to the program. between australia and china, all unraveling fost, beijing's ban some imports and play state customs duties on of the products. the latest is a tariff of up to 212 percent on australian law and china is australia's biggest trading partner and says it's a measure against dumping to protect its own wine industry. but australia believes the reasons political. the government has criticised china's handling of code 19, as well as its treatment of minority week of muslim

the bigger picture of what's happening in saudi arabia. the vast majority of people, and many of the young women we spoke to there, told us that they are happy with the reforms and changes happening in saudi arabia. they praise the crown prince for that. they not focused on her case. what they are looking at are the new opportunities for women which they feel are real and are there to be taken right now. >> nic robertson, thanks so much.

in saudi arabia. is there any chance the saudis would not have told the u.s. if they were in fact behind this? >> it wouldn't surprise me just because they think it might leak. again, there have been lots of israeli efforts that we believe against the iranians over the last few months. there was a killing of a high-level al qaeda operative that was in teheran. there was an attack, a bombing, of this centrifuge at the nuclear facility. in both of these cases the israelis are acting because it's in their direct interest, they're acting, yes, with u.s. intelligence support but unilaterally and the iranians did not strike the iran -- the israelis back. i'm not suggesting that this is the same category of strike, of course, this is the most important iranian nuclear scientist out there and it's enormous failure for iranian security and intelligence. but the iranians have had absolutely desperately horrible year on every front, on the economic front, security front, coronavirus front and biden is their one

meanwhile senior white house advisor jared kushner is heading to saudi arabia and cutter as tensions grow in the middle east over the killing of iran's top nuclear scientist. tehran is preparing for the burial of what you radiance considered to be the godfather of their country's nuclear program, iran saying he was killed in an assassination and accusing israel of the attack. trainings has more. >> good evening the middle east relieves lives on edge as an assassination of a man seen as the godfather of the iranian nuclear program. the funeral of scientist mohsen fakhrizadeh got underway today, his body will pass through multiple cities before being buried in tehran on monday. this evening supreme leader and iranian president are vowing to respond to the killing. [speaking in foreign language] >> iran has to know the iranian nation in the country official are going to respond to the criminal action at the right time to respond to the crime. >> top iranian officials say israel behind the ambush is one of the country's largest newspapers called on iranian leadership to bomb the port cit

arabia say that saudi and russia are unified on the need to delay this. market. uneven the combined power of those two would suggest that there is some sort of deal to be had. united -- united arab emirates and kazakhstan where the two that i mentioned. a question of whether the delay might be shorter, but it has been noted and if they do go ahead with this plan, we will inventoriesthose rising to surplus again. that is the basis for some agreement being reached. does the cartel rivalry factor in at all? >> it will certainly be a consideration. with the really big producers, most of their oil goes to asia and that demand has been recovering quite nicely. that economy is starting to come .long quite nicely of can't discount the impact u.s. and european consumption which remains pretty weak. factor, but i'm opec producers will not be making decisions to benefit shale producers, so in lookingse they will be after their own interests. about you can read more opec-plus and other key additions. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: let's take a look at this final trading day o

saudi arabia didn't go so well a chief adviser to biden when biden voted for the iraq war. he still says obama didn't do enough in syria. and that's to see how democratic hated police and they are anti-police but they want this guided be a cop of the entire world. greg: i thought with roque that habit. tyrus what are your thoughts in general? >> i like to see people pat themselves on the back before they do anything. i always think that's great. in a horror movie i've ever seen it so happy and great. this is the best camping site ever. oh my god we did it. let's get the camp liar. i will be right back. i'm going to go in the shed. i'll be right back. i try to keep an open mind but when i see the media, they are saving us. from what? once again and we were talking about this on the break they are going to be so thirsty for some type of drama. they will continue to go after the president because they miss him. all there'll pics with all their issues which will once again sour the american voter and they will be in the same position where they were or where they have these gre

they want to go to saudi arabia because it's a rich country and there is always an example of a family who get richer by the money sent from the migrants. and even if there is a lot of bad stories of migrants who failed in their migration, the success story is always more appealing. during theirjourney, they often go without food for days on end and are easy prey to kidnappers. speaking to the migrants and the traffickers, the film captures the desperation of those willing to risk their lives for a better way of life and the criminals who exploit them. for those who make it as far as yemen, living conditions are often no better or even worse than what they left behind. they're really living in the streets. they get a little money from begging in the street or washing the cars, but really it's a harsh condition for most of them. thejudges said this is a remarkable feat of enterprise and endeavour whereby the journalists covered an otherwise under—reported story alongside an awesome level of commitment where they put themselves at risk for the film. in this film, localjournalist elijah

lord john used to work as a domestic helper in saudi arabia, unable to cope with debuts last year. she managed to escape back to bangladesh. model does a little work over there. they would frequently abused me. never gave me enough to eat. i suffered a lot. i worked in that house for 10 months whenever i demanded my salary, they used to beat me up. once they had me by a ceiling fan with a rope. i almost died but got saved by the children. many women are also victim to human trafficking gangs. and unscrupulous recruiting agents. a recent study has shown more than 50 percent of paid money to go abroad with jobs. that this by the woman not been required to pay for government sponsored jobs overseas. and most poor woman from rural areas take along with a high interest rate to pay for the cost. social advocacy groups are trying to help improve the situation for the workers. what they would save you from the domestic like domestic work must be recognized as a legitimate form of employment. workers' rights must be respected. many women are dying, committing suicide or being abused. there

here is cnn's nic robertson. >> reporter: saudi arabia's most well-known female prisoner has gone from jailed rights activist to alleged national security threat. her sister is horrified. she alleges she's been tortured in prison. >> i saw that she was very weak, her body was shaking and her voice as well, but even with that she was still very focused and wanted to read her whole defense, her and other activists were being electric roe cuocute flogged, deprived of sleep. >> reporter: authorities have repeatedly denied claims of abuse and sexual assault. she -- and then the go ahead was awaited for the reform, she was then arrested. human rights groups called on people to use g20 to pressure mbs to allow her release. instead, days after, she appeared before a judge, only to learn he case was being referred to a notorious terror court. >> i believe the charges have to do with her receiving money from hostile governments to pass it on to hostile groups. >> reporter: so far the saudi government hasn't produced evidence, and in the courts that it would be presented, you notoriously difficul

arabia and israel. we need to get everybody on the same page if we're going to see a diplomatic program work and i think that's what his signals with this assassination, how risky, how hard and challenging it is to get coordinated activity and certainly in the end of this administration there's less coordinated activity on a diplomatic path than their ever has been. eric: that's the challenge from former deputy assistant secretarsecretary of state, joe, get everybody on the same page in the gulf, in europe and in washington. joel, thank you. we'll be right back. don't worry, julie... coughing's not new. this woman coughs... and that guy does, too. people cough in the country, at sea, and downtown. but don't worry, julie... robitussin shuts coughs down. we've always done things our own way. charted our own paths. i wasn't going to just back down from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. psoriatic arthritis wasn't going to change who i am. when i learned that my joint pain could mean permanent joint d

and then a few days later he was in saudi arabia around the same time that benjamin netanyahu was there. can we put all of these things together, is there a connection? >> well, certainly the pompeo visit is in line with the ongoing efforts of the administration, the outgoing administration, to stay very close to israel and construct a collaboration between israel and the gulf arabs. whether you can draw a line from that general propensity to this particular incident is more difficult to is and i. it is surprising to me that, again, this late in the administration, the u.s. secretary of state chooses to go to the west bank, go to an israeli settlement, something that has been opposed by u.s. policy for decades as we pursue a two state solution. this is something that you will see shift pretty dramatically with an incoming biden administration. >> and let's talk about that with the transition. retired admiral mike mullen -- mcmullen, rather, said that he is concerned about the damage that trump loyalists in the pentagon right now could do before augusta dinauguration da. what is your big

frank rooney said maybe they should live in north korea or of saudi arabia. come on. youtube has suspended the one american news network for a week for breaching policy against hosting misinformation about the pandemic. the google owned video service penalized oan for describing a covid treatment as a cure for the disease. and barred the network from making money on its existing videos, though they can reapply for the program. now get this. andrew cuomo and donald trump would seem to have very little in common other than growing up in queens. but it turns out that new york's democratic governor has a dim view of the media, saying they're taking on a nastier and disrespectful tone with some journalists asking, quote, really biased questions. this after cuomo chastised reporters at a recent briefing. here's what he told radio station wamc. >> the way they question president trump at some of these press conferences is just i've never heard that tone. they're supposed to be a decorum to the institution. if anyone used the tone that they use with me and some of these -- yo

. >>> let's go to saudi arabia where the case of a jailed women's activist has been transferred to a terrorism court according to her family. she's been in detention for more than 900 days. her trial was supposed to begin this week on wednesday. >> instead the case was referred to the specialized criminal court which says it would also investigate her allegations of torture in prison. the new trial date has not been announced yet. >> she was jailed in may of 2018 for speaking out about saudi arabia's ban on female drivers. that was just weeks before the government ended up lifting the ban. >>> new this morning, the british foreign secretary is asking for deescalation following the apparent assassination of a top iranian nuclear scientist. iranian officials have blamed israel. they haven't provided any evidence to that claim. israel has not come out and said anything either. cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd is a former cia counterterrorism official. he is with us, as well. always good to see you. thank you for being here. what is, first of all, the impact of this apparent assass

iran can't conquer saudi arabia. saudi arabia can't conquer iran. the idea of a regional oil hegemon is fanciful. sometimes we have discussions of what should we do in syria? how can we push the iranians and russians back in syria? this paper says what do we need from syria in a broader strategic context? i drew on the work from notre dame and our esteemed moderator, michael. to get a handle on what we spend, this is not an exact science but it is of the order of about $70 billion per year in peacetime in addition to the $5.5 trillion if you count iraq, afghanistan and the post-9/11 wars. it is real money. that is the argument to say $70 billion a year for this? i looked at what we worry about in the greater middle east, are the concerns that we think this resource expenditure warrants? what are they after? i concluded that oil is real in terrorism. the main concerns with nuclear a reasoneration's, that we could talk about. i looked at what we worry about when it comes to the oil markets, what we worry about when it comes to israel and what we worry

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