how is saudi arabia thing to deal with such a nita? well, i'm sure that we will be developing a good and strong relationship with mr. biden's ministration in the same manner that's we have developed good as strong relations with tens of administrations before that since the time of president roosevelt and until now. so i'm confident that's all the american relations have. a lot of foundation has and principles in common interests and common values that will govern that relationship in the, in the next and the next few years and doing that by that ministration. not to send about any particular statements that may have been made on the threshold of the campaign in one form or another with trunk, expected to leave the white house in january. do you think that that's a challenge that the iran can appeal can be revived? we've had, you know, foreign minister say that saudi arabia wants to be a part of the future negotiations. what are your expectations from that? i think they are a nuclear deal, as is, or as it was, is dead already. the absc

it was hosted by saudi arabia this year . virtually there was a call to ensure fair access for all of the vaccines for covert 19 and developing nations. want a plan for extending debt relief. but there was no firm commitment to that in the final communique. or donald trump missed part of the summit to play golf. our diplomatic editor james spades reports saudi arabia's king solomon concluded this 2 day summit, conducted by video conference and handed over to the g. 20 presidency to the italian prime minister content. but then in a previously unannounced appearance, the king's son, crown prince mohammed bin sound man, made his own address to a man who's in day to day charge in saudi arabia and who human rights campaigners blame for the continued repression in the kingdom. said the g 20 is actions and greatly helped the world deal with the pandemic of the fish in light of the outbreak of causes 19 whatever and its health, economic and social repercussions that a tower in a recovery center has been important more than ever or to

throughout his term in the office, he was extremely loyal friend to saudi arabia. whether came to the world in yemen or getting the crowd cover over the murder of the saudi journalists. he had said -- i asked about comments that joe biden had made about saudi arabia being a pariah state. he said that people say things during an election campaign. there is such a long-standing, strategic relatioehip between kingdom and the united states, he does not expected t there will have to be a relationship with saudi arabia,h world's top oil exporter. there is a lot of shared concerns when it comes to counterterrand ending the war in yemen. president elect biden has made it clear he will be tougher human rights. when it comes ts,human rig it is the question of what people say, and what they do? anchor: we willthe watching all . thank you so much from riyadh. back here the u.s., georgia is the latest state to certify that joe biden has won the presidency. donald trump continues to claim that the election was right against him. enthere has been no ev to prove his acquisitions s

in saudi arabia and in the gulf general, saudi arabia remains the swing producer of energy, even if hydrocarbons are not exactly as essential as they were to the u.s. 10 years ago, but for the foreseeable future, hydrocarbons remain a global trategic factor. and the u.s. cannot walk away from that energy relationship, ike it does not want to walk away from control of the sea lane -the persian gulf or the red sea. saudi arabia is a major oil economy and a major economy, essential to the u.s. dollar protecting its status as, still, despite everything, the go-to global currency. that's been under threat. saudi arabia remains an ally in that economic sense. i think the peace deals that the u.a.e. and bahain and sudan have implemented with israel also are political game changers in that obviously, these peace agreements, particularly bahain, would never have gone a-- bahrain would never have gone ahead without support and encourage from riyadh and saudi arabia. so for an incoming in the administration, to have the heavyweight gulf country effectively normalizing relations with israel is a new reality

policy on saudi arabia. all right let's bring in our guests in the moroccan city of if fran nisar massai associate professor of international studies at a university in oxford u.k. thomas gift director of university college london center on u.s. politics and joining us in istanbul matthew bryza a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council's eurasia center and global energy center welcome to each of you thomas let me start with you it's being reported that joe biden is planning on quickly signing a series of executive orders once he's sworn in as the next president and that these orders would see america rejoin the paris climate accords reversed president trump's withdrawal from the world health organization in the muslim ban reinstate daca i'm curious to know from your perspective how much is joe biden going to have to rely on executive orders to try to implement his agenda and is that something that he wants to do. well i think that the executive orders will be the primary mechanism by which biden wi

saudi arabia is hosting the summit, firstborn arab nation. >> saudi arabia had high hopes when it took over the g20 presidency in 2019, offering a potential face-saving exercise as the country's reputation on the world stage to needs to deteriorate. but instead of in person meetings and photo opportunities in the kingdom's opulent palaces, this year summit will mostly be virtual, due to covid-19. as well as rehabilitating riyadh's image, a global summit was expectedo garner support for modernizing reforms launched by crown prince mohammed bin salman. saudi arabia's reputation as an battered since 2018 an international uproar over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi, the war in yemen, and the arrest of women's rights activists. portraits of the jailed women were projected on the louvre museum, with a call to release those imprisoned. >> [speaking french] >> this is a seduction by saudi arabia to restore its image internationally. in reality this contrasts with the human rights situation and this hypocrisy must stop. emmanuel macron must call in saudi authorities to release activist

anchor: call for a boycott as the summit is hosted online by saudi arabia. in75 years the first war crimes travel of nazrmany. ♪ america."me to "world news on pbs and around the globe. pharmaceutical gia pfizer it is determined partner by an attack are the fst -- biontech are the first to ask for approval. whe this news gives many people hope, to worltihealth organi says that vaccine is only a part of the solution ike s with a representative who says that she is seeing mixed results when it ngmes to flattehe curve. >> i tnk at some places it is getting better, and in some places it is getting worse. and the number of countries, we are seeing an increase inan cass our hospitals and icu's reaching capacity. in europe alone, we have recently seen an 18 in -- and 18% increase in mortality. in many countries across asia, in many countries across africa, we areaying that they have control over covid. wee he hope that the measures that are put into place could really bring tder control. it is a mixed picture across the world. anchor: there has been some positive

saudi arabia is a major oil economy and a major economy, essential to the u.s. dollar protecting its status as, still, despite everything, the go-to global currency. ally inabia remains an that economic sense. deals that thece -- the peace deals at the uae, bahrain, and sudan have implement it with israel are also political game changers in that, obviously, these peace agreements, particularly bahrain, whenever have gone ahead without support and encouragement from salary a beer. -- from saudi arabia. in thean incoming administration, to have the heavyweight gulf country effectively normalizing relations with israel is a new reality for them, hence something they value and would want to build on. so i think that the friction is going to be over human rights, over the crown prince himself and his responsibility or not jamale jamaal should -- khashoggi killing. and that leadership question, certainly we will not have the warrant we have under trump. -- that warmth under trump. some other leaders will have warmth issues, but i do not expect the u.s. to walk away fr

saudi arabia, even poland, are hungry. speaking about the e.u. members. i mean that, that's a community look like a good idea of south tractor not invest some of your allies while conspicuously ostracizing. the advice is that really such a wise character had no idea. no, i don't, i'm not, i'm not going to defend. and so employers are not a spokesperson for by us in atlanta, i'm saying what he has intended to do, and his policy or his idea probably behind it is that he wants to create great here. and in the west on pro-democratic camp. and as i said, of the beginning of a conversation as being betty freight relations and the drums as nato members and busy e.u. members. if you really deteriorate a lot so i can see by them wanting to give it a new push to make that coherence bring it about again of greater stability in transatlantic relations in these sort of friendly relationships. whether that's will be successful, whether the even bill be a substantive summit or whether it will be just small, a symbolic summit and i have no idea. i assume they want to mak

saudi arabia has no diplomatic relations with israel. while there is a former official confirmation from ezra, we're -- from israel, we are getting different messages from saudi authorities. the foreign minister tweeted "i've seenss peports about a meeting. no such meeting occurred. the only officials present were american and saudi." here is more on this who's in r >> senior saudi officials are also denying that any meeting took place. there wrere any israelis at that meeting which was a last stop for mike pompeo on a 10 day, 7 nation tour. so, someone is not telling the truth. >> this all didn't come completely out of the blue. mike pompeo is on a tour of the state east pushing arab to normalize relatns with israel. but there is still very big hurdles to clear. >> ll rthe core issue, the big issue, the saudis still point out. is that they would not sign a deal with israel until there was a full peace withhe palestinians. it is hard to see how that bridge is crossed. the trump plan for getting some kind of agreement between israeli a pe

and because of that, any claim by saudi arabia's crown crown prince, or by saudi arabia's ambassador to the us princess rima, that things take time is just nonsense. it's propaganda because all they have to do is say, we're not going to do this anymore. we're going to freely jayna, have little, we're going to stop bombing yemen. and the violence sent us right. until now many countries have been willing to, to set aside reservations about being involved with saudi arabia. are you hopeful that with, with the new administration coming into the u.s. by administration set to come in in january that things could change that we could see more pressure on saudi arabia. unlike the way the administration has dealt with a kingdom. absolutely, president like biden has a unique opportunity to put a lot of distance between himself and the trumpet, ministrations, terrible, legacy here. this is a big opportunity to dramatically change how the united states in gauges with monarchies and other oppressive governments in the middle east. whether you're talking about saudi arabia, u.a.e. egypt, or israel

saudi arabia has not commented on the claims. the spokesman says foreign companies operating in the area should exercise caution warning. military operations will continue still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour. a little decades after being forced from their homes as aries, head back to rebuild their lives and revive their culture. ross kept in custody hong kong, pro-democracy activist. josh will want peace, guilty to his role in on thai government protests. and in sports, this search 9 year old swedish striker remains unstoppable. finally, how the story has a senior political analyst alluded to earlier. we're starting to get an idea of who will take the top positions in joe biden. sub ministration in the u.s. to president elect is expected to announce anthony blinken as the new u.s. secretary of state. reagan has a long served as long served as a foreign policy adviser to biden and held here. olds under president obama reports also suggest jake sullivan is being lined up to take on the role of national security adviser sulliva

in saudi arabia and in the golf in general saudi arabia remains the swing producer of energy, even at hydrocarbons are not exactly as central as they were to the u.s. years ago or the foreseeable future hydrocarbons remain a global strategic factor and the u.s. cannot walk away from that energy relationship like it doesn't want to walk away from control of the [inaudible] in the persian gulf or in the red sea and second, saudi arabia is a major oil economy and its central to the u.s. dollar protecting its status still despite everything we go to global currency and that has been under threat in saudi arabia is and remains allies and that economic sense. i think the piece deals that the uae and bahrain and sudan have implemented with israel also our political game changers and that obviously these peace agreements particularly in bahrain never have gone ahead without support and encouragement from riyadh and saudi arabia so i think for an incoming u.s. administration to have the heavyweight golf countries effectively normalizing relations with israel is, you know, a new reality for the

it will not true saudi arabia into an enemy and no one would expect that. and the other hand, you know, not let the crown prince get away with the sort of character something about these women was present that it was in office together with president obama. they tell him that allowed saudi arabia to launch one of the most murderous, bloodiest wars there is, has still continuing right now. and i understand that, that there is a certain that resonance about the absolute horrific nature of that one killing. but under biden and obama, hundreds of thousands of such killings have been taking place. can you really put down this? so your ministry of their coverage of the wall of a human conducted for saudi arabia and of those who start to do it while obama was in power. and it's certainly this one. it's a black, the obama administration, the only one. i don't know, not saying that that's one of them, and i find that they didn't do anything about it. but biden was, of course, vice president. he did have an influence obama could if i say in the end he did possum's a

arabia, i am wondering because saudi arabia and israel are aligned in their views towards iran, as you articulat articulated, is there a chance for saudi arabia's real deal? >> weird he said we would be per tail underprepared once israel except the establishment of the palestinian state in the palestinian territory and give the rights to those palestinian people, once that happens not only saudi arabia the all the islamic countries will be prepared and normalize relations with israel and to strike a peace deal with israel. we think this is a nice way to go and we are committed to that. leland: what you make of the fact that bahrain and the united emirates in the council and key allies of saudi arabia had made this deal with israel without those conditions being met? >> their independent countries, their sovereign countries, there the right to decide for themselves what they think is right and what they think is good for them for the palestinian people and we will respect their decisions, their independent decisions and they had made those decisions by themselves. leland: we appreciate

and so the saudi arabia did not get all it wanted from this summit. and this apparent, this is, is certainly a frustration to sell the leaders, folks. there are so many more questions i want to ask, but unfortunately we are out of time. so thanks to august's to ann pettifor, to newsarama, sorry. and to hillary mann leverett, and to thank you 2 for watching, you can see the problem again. any time by visiting our website, al-jazeera dot com, more debate, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, ford slash a.j. inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter. we are a.j. inside story and i am up to 0. from a 3rd, it's me and a whole scene here. i think there is a huge group of people at work behind our screens and the power they have is not that urge to keep swiping through a twitter feed. that's just the way we all click. i agree to the terms and conditions that's just to most of us never even give it a 2nd thought. and actually that's designed as well. ali re-explore is how designers are manipulating, argue a viewer in the final episod

saudi arabia will, sooner or later, i guess. and europe just doesn't have, i think the will to play the set too excited by points election and dreaming that it's all going to be a return to the good old atlantis's of the past. i think they're mistaken as a current. thank you. thank you very much. in the after the break, as a fire kills 10 with coronavirus of an intensive care unit in nature, a member rumania. what is the level of neo liberal corruption in the former moscow aligned states, the director of all scripted film collective about remaining years previous west, tells us about profit driven corruption that echoes testimony heard this week about britain's worst tower inferno, austerity emblem, grenfell going underground. seem wrong. just don't get to shape out, educate and engagement because the trail went on, find themselves worlds apart. we choose to look for common ground. welcome back. an inquiry has been launched in nato member rumania, to determine how 10 patients suffering from co in 1000 were killed by a fire in a

and the crown prince of saudi arabia, muhammad bin salman, were both there. usually if there is a story that the israeli security establishment doesn't want to come out, there are strong national security military censorship laws in israel, which gives you all sorts of strange wording in israeli media reporting about foreign sources, according to foreign reports and the like. there was none of that. this all came from domestic political israeli journalist. so there's obviously a real will to have this leak out and certainly no denial of it as far as the reaction coming from here. the palestinian leadership hasn't said anything on the record because again, there's been no official confirmation. but speaking to some senior officials, one of them said that if it were true, it would be heartbreaking. another said that while they do point to the language used by the saudi foreign minister recently when he said there would be no normalization with israel before a palestinian state. he also said that there were no guarantees when the u.a.e. and israel signed their n

arabia saudi arabia is the most powerful country in the region it prides itself on being the protector of sunni islam but the taken into account that biden was part of the same ministration that abandoned there were barak in 2011 the when there was a wind of change in this part of the world king abdullah of saudi arabia because of the 1st book with obama and said we want you to support our friend obama said i'm sorry that i want to be able to do that in 2015 the americans struck a deal with the iranians that was seen as an ultimate act of betrayal i was in saudi arabia in 2016 when obama was there it was a somber atmosphere the saudis felt like they were betrayed a year later when trump was in saudi arabia i was there covering his visit for english the feeling suddenly change they saw in him a someone who could suddenly position saudi arabia as. a key player in the region what happened after that was phenomenal by all proportions. sidelined his cousin who was a crown prince he became the crown prince of saudi arabia now there is a new guy in the white house and they are pretty much con

i mean, saudi arabia, the u.a.e. and israel, this is not something you know, that is going to lead to necessarily, to a positive development for the region and also 2 positive outcomes for the populations of the region. so there is a lot of, you know, euphoria about what was happening, although i think it's much of that your forest, misleading is also not the end of the story. i would say, i mean for instance, i mean you, you can, you can befriend the u.a.e. about at the end of the day, the problem is not solved with the palestinians. so you cannot ignore the meeting, put into that through the history books as they have solved. no, it's not solved. i mean the palestinian issue is still there. it's considered as failed. now. i mean, you have huge frustration in the palestinian communities and just look to jordan for instance. i mean they take, they, they have taken like millions of palestinians. and where shall they go? actually, they just, they just believe the problem in the region and give it back to people who can

i mean, saudi arabia, the u.a.e. and israel, this is not something you know, that is going to lead to necessarily, to a positive development for the region and also to positive outcomes for the populations of the region. so there is a lot of, you know, euphoria about what was happening. although i think it's much of that you're for is misleading. it's also not the end of the story. i would say, i mean for instance, i mean you, you can, you can befriend the u.a.e. about at the end of the day, the problem is not solved for the palestinians, so you cannot ignore it. i mean, you cannot put into the history books as they solve. no, it's not solved. i mean the palestinian issue is still there. it's considered as failed. now. i mean you have huge frustrations in the palestinian communities and just look to jordan for instance. i mean, they take, they, they have taken like millions of palestinians and where shall they go? actually they just, they just leave the problem in the region and give it back to people who can deal wi

, took place in neon saudi arabia and u.s. president elect joe biden is set to make key cabinet appointments. in the coming days, his longtime adviser, anthony blinken, is expected to be named secretary of state, while jake sullivan is lined up as national security advisor. there both obama era of fish now to indonesia, where more than half a 1000000 people have been infected with the coronavirus daily cases are now passing $4000.00 only this month. president joker, we don't know, announced mass vaccinations will be rolled out by the end of the year. indonesia has a region's highest number of cases and deaths. south korea, meanwhile, is introducing new restrictions to try and stem a 3rd wave as winter starts. daily cover 1000 infections have topped 300 for much of the last week and officials here, they could rise further. rob mcbride records himself on south korea's 5 tier scale for social distancing restrictions, are being raised to level 2 for the sole metropolitan area which is home to around half the country's population.

and saudi arabia. i would be actually more cautious because what actually happened under trump's watch is an official izing of some of them that america's policies and realities in the region that were there. you know, so there was cooperation between all those states, you know, more covertly than overtly and now it is official ised plus the fact that none of those regimes are, you know, democratic there are, you know, very authoritarian regimes. and they, by no account can, you know, represent the arab populations and their aspirations in the region so, so this is, you know, this is not a positive development, per se, that there is now a peace deal between bad. i mean, saudi arabia, the u.a.e. and israel, this is not something you know, that is going to lead necessarily to a positive development for the region and also 2 positive outcomes for the populations of the region. so there is a lot of, you know, euphoria about what was happening, although i think it's much of value for us. misleading is also

and people outside it sounds odd but you can be charged with what sounds like say so in saudi arabia that sort of activity is again so low that the charges don't even state in the legal basis so they just actually it's fair and it's you know it's that everything that has been done from the beginning is eagle no christians or has been respected jane was disappeared basically during the 1st months of her imprisonment enough unofficial prison where she was being tortured by saudi officials one of them is that he was a crown prince and b.s. is right and man and so everything from the beginning has been made with without any. legal basis so even the charges basically don't state. the accuser of her activism of course of the crown prince is not here to speak for himself so we don't know whether those obligations of torture or not how did you hear that she had been tortured. so the 1st is it's when my parents jane they clearly saw that she was being tortured but again didn't tell them anything she would only say it's because you know the air conditioning is too cold or that dish sometimes d

continues to send political tremors across the political establishment in saudi arabia now if you go to twitter since yesterday the only hostile which has been trending in saudi arabia is the surge which translates saudi arabia a great nation basically is trying to say that we don't tailor our foreign policy to words around a person biden or trump we don't care saudi arabia will continue to fight for its own national interest but there are statements from biden during the campaign is creating some sense of anxiety in the riyadh for for many reasons saudi arabia when the start of the campaign in the year in 2015 could only do that with intelligence support from the from the americans and what the. flow from the americas without that there would have been able to launch that military campaign and with all that support they haven't managed to make any significant gain on the ground there who things are still the political force that has a massive say over nor the part of just been in touch with the scene that healthier fishel of what it means for them that's biden is now taking over the

and possibly saudi arabia. this is something that's getting, a lot of attention or got a lot of attention. the u.s., also from from liberal columnists who are praising trump, saying in other times he'd be nominated for the nobel peace prize. and i know in germany, trump is not that popular, and i was really interested to see the media hardly wrote about that, but there were quite a few liberal journalists here agenda as well. yeah, but i mean, in germany, if that had been obama, it would have had a lot different story, i think. so you see how unfair sometimes the media is towards trump, especially in europe. and that was a pretty big, important breakthrough. and i think that's something a legacy that will trouble be remembered for. the breakthrough with u.a.e. and saudi arabia would be actually more cautious because what actually happened under trump's watch is an official eyes and some of them that america's policies and realities in the region that were there. you know, so there was cooperation between all th

how is saudi arabia thing to deal with such, anita? well, i'm sure that we will be developing stronger relationship with mr. biden's ministration in the same manner that's we have developed good as strong relations with tens of administrations before that. we have declared that one sided ceasefire several times in yemen, talking about who initiated the situation and the threats of famine. all of that is happening on the territories controlled by the who sees. because of the fact that there, hindering and obstructing the delivery of international aid to the, to these affected areas. back in march, we saw that was an oil price down tof between moscow and riyadh. and the result was that moscow and aipac failed to agree on a production caught which led to a crash in the global price of crude. many people worried, how can such disputes be avoided all prevented in the future? i think cross-court of the nation is taking place between the kingdom and the russian federation. and we have all of proven to ourselves and to the entire warrant that

and possibly saudi arabia. this is something that's getting a lot of attention or got a lot of attention. the us also from from liberal columnists who are praising trump, saying in other times he'd be nominated for the nobel peace prize. and i know in germany, trump is not that popular, and i was really interested to see the media hardly wrote about that, but there were quite a few liberal journalists here agenda as well. yeah, but i mean, in germany, if that had been obama, it would have had a lot different story, i think. so you see how unfair sometimes the media is towards trump, especially in europe. and that was a pretty big, important breakthrough. and i think that's something a legacy that will trump will be remembered for. the breakthrough with you, a in saudi arabia, would be actually more cautious because what actually happened under trump's watch is an official izing of some of them that america's policies and realities in the region that were there. you know, so there was cooperation between all tho

i think you will see joe biden attempt to reset some of the relationship with saudi arabia. ron, new hampshire, democratic caller. you for your program. an awesome show. i may. question if the obama transition, obama congratulated trump one after trump's win. he had trump at the white house giving him briefings for two days, and that was a tough loss for obama. onto socialism, it seems that republicans continue to push this thing. if you are for a few socialist programs that help the poor, the sick, the elderly, it will turn our country into a socialist country. do not vote for a democrat because they will turn the country into a socialist country -- host: we will try and stick to the topic here. vicedent-elect biden and president elect kamala harris are getting briefings because of kamala harris's access for members of the senate intelligence committee. is that a good substitution? not and it is worth looking back at the traditions put into place after 9/11. we saw earlier those comments in the wake of 9/11 and the 9/11 commission report, about unique of aligence challenges

iran, the gulf pay these now traveling on to saudi arabia before he heads home. but a lot of talk in the u.s. media, people watching saying that this is also perhaps a more productive, a message from peo to the american audience. perhaps a message to 2024. he's looking ahead potentially to run that, that this is really a particular back to what he did in israel, the 1st sector of state to visit a settlement of the occupied west bank. the language used into the occupied golan heights. of course recognized as israeli sovereign sovereignty, so very much also pandering to a base there. but yes, of course we can't move away from the fact that he's also still trying to achieve certain issues in the last months of office. i know this is ministration has been saying that they would like to see some kind of movement on the new. ah, but hey, that was into its 4th year folly. there's been some talk about potentially seeing patter is being allowed to overfly saudi arabia and bahrain airspace. but again, nothing has come out, nothing concrete. all these things that have been

saudi arabia hosts a meeting of the world's biggest economies— but can boycott calls take the shine off the 620 summit online? be and, 60 million streams in a day, south korean band bts prove the k—pop bubble‘s far from bursting. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. donald trump's efforts to overturn the result of the us presidential election have suffered further setbacks. the state of georgia has certified its results showing thatjoe biden beat mr trump by over 12,600 votes. and after meeting mr trump at the white house, senior republicans from michigan said they had seen no information that would overturn mr biden‘s victory in their state. the bbc‘s nomia iqbal is in washington. she says that despite them confirming victory for joe biden, president trump will still want to pursue any recounts. that's not stopping him from still pushing ahead so today, we saw that georgia had certified the votes, confirmed that it will go tojoe biden. but donald trump can still demand a recount, that is still his right because, in terms of numbers of votes thatjoe bid

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.

saudi arabia is hosting a virtual summit of the g. 20 group of beating nations. top of the agenda is ending the pandemic and chuckling at the global recession and concerns over human rights of cast a shadow over the online gathering. but the european union has defended its decision to reject its use update us this hour, coming up next, a d.-w. documentary on the nuremberg trials of the nazis, m. k. richardson in for them, for me and the whole team here. thanks so much for joining us. in london home many poor soon old love shall certainly in the world climb a tree, a different whole story. this is my plan for when film goes one week before it can really just we still have time to work on doing this.

still ahead on al jazeera, accused of harming saudi arabia's interests. one woman finally faces trial after 2 years in prison. for how we've got something of a change taking place in the weather across the middle east. at the moment, a little more cloudy. notice across northern parts of the region, but it, within the next couple of days, many of us can expect to see a spot or 2 of rain there because some western weather, some windy weather moving across cyprus, easing towards the levant, syria, lebanon. jordan, not the way into israel palestinian territories, seeing some very heavy showers, showers there, pushing across northern parts of iraq, easing over towards the caspian sea. northern parts of iran, also seeing some showers. but you can follow this line of wesel, weather, just out of kuwait, across northern parts into central areas of saudi arabia. heavy downpours down towards mecca could cause some flooding here that will sneak a little further southwards. as we go through friday, i said something to watch out for even haven cotta we might see a spot

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

we have never, in the history of saudi arabia, had a citizen of saudi arabia murdered. we just don't do this as a government, that's not our policy. it is tragic and people have used at the cost aspersions on saudi arabia. i don't blame them but, i don't think it is being fair or equitable with the kingdom of saudi arabia. i must ask you about loujain alhathloul. today her photograph is being, is on the louvre museum in paris. she's become a symbol of the call to release some of the activists. an interview in 2018, mohammed bin salman said that she was a spy. why hasn't the evidence been presented? in our legal system the evidence is presented after the verdict is rendered so that you don't embarrass somebody who turns out to be innocent. so that's how the system works. loujain alhathloul was detained because of issues relating to national security, dealing with foreign entities, supporting entities hostile to saudi arabia. it has nothing to do with advocating for women's right to drive. if every woman who advocated for the right to drive in saudi arabia was to be jaile

it was hosted by saudi arabia this year . virtually there was a call to ensure fair access for all of the vaccines for covert 19 and developing nations. want a plan for extending debt relief. but there was no firm commitment to that in the final communique. or donald trump missed part of the summit to play golf. our diplomatic editor james base reports saudi arabia's king solomon concluded this 2 day summit, conducted by video conference and handed over to the g. 20 presidency to the italian prime minister just pick on target. but then in a previously unannounced appearance, the king's son, crown prince mohammed bin sound man, made his own address to a man who's in day to day charge in saudi arabia and who human rights campaigners blame for the continued repression in the kingdom. said the g 20 is actions to greatly help the world deal with the pandemic of the fish in light of the outbreak of causes 19 whatever and its health, economic and social repercussions that a tower in a recovery center has been important more than eve

also coming up, there's been an explosion in saudi arabia. a ceremony attended by european diplomats, france is calling it a cowardly attack to protest and arrests in armenia, where people are angry about a deal with azerbaijan to end the fighting in a form of carbon and bidding farewell to side erekat, the chief palestinian negotiator who died on tuesday, after contracting private 19 hong kong is facing further crisis. after more than a dozen pro-democracy politicians called it quits. their resignation was in solidarity. after the territories government disqualified 4 of their fellow legislations. yet there we are. now china's congress has passed a patriotism resolution, allowing the removal of legislators who pose a threat to national security and challenge beijing's rule. pro-democracy activists say that amounts to the end of the one country 2 systems. principle polland has more for us from hong kong. that was a very emotional press conference. some of them announcing the resignation with tears in their eyes, saying those resignation lette