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Like its real and true but has no basis in fact and in fact much of it is just made up and delivered you know by people who are attempting to you know affect the outcome in the election by introducing false narrative and information into the flow of information so you know so yeah i think it does have a real impact. Like of regard for the truth became more apparent than in any other us president ial campaign. According to politico fact an independent Fact Checking websites only 4 percent of donald trump statements during the campaign were true false information was constantly circulating in fact it became selfpropagating you have to look at our media landscape and how americans get their news nowadays conservatives get their news only from fox news or alternative sites like breitbart so thats the only news they see and they view the manged what they call the liberal media the main. Through media with distrust and they dont believe the kind of c. N. N. New York Times Washington post so they are only getting their news or large most of their news from very slanted sources and so. What trump will say trump picks up his information from the same news sources these voters hear something Conspiracy Theory and Breitbart News or something on fox trump here is a 2 says it and the voters are ive heard the effort on the news and i heard that from President Trump so he must be telling the truth if theyre in a silo and its really hard to break out silos so its a self reinforcing cycle of mr. Became more difficult to discern fact from fiction and the Traditional Press was pressed aside sort of a way that these campaigns have you know traditionally been covered and. And that model of Campaign Coverage was not sort of created with donald trump in my hands trumps disregard for making true statements is something that a lot of reporters have had trouble dealing with as were not used to that were not used to politicians or press people just sort of straight out lying the Mainstream Media is disrupted and because the Mainstream Media is disrupted truth is disrupted and if truth is disrupted you can just spread your advantage that. I didnt know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. 8383 will serve boulevard and address among the most prestigious offices in los angeles behind these windows at number 1000 are a few companies that would seem to have no connection. The 1st is break news regarded as a platform for the socalled right. The 2nd is going to ring steel its a small audio visual Production Company and these companies are linked to a billionaire whos rarely in the public eye. His name Robert Mercer. He is co c. E. O. Of a Hedge Fund Firm Renaissance Technologies whose ranks has been climbing since 1903. Carol cadwallader has been investigating this computer engineer turned billionaire robot. He is an absolutely brilliant scientist did really pioneering work. In the sixtys and in the field of natural language processing which is the base of. Basically and he was that royce at the start of it and working out how to do my Machine Translation between languages so that google translates which we use all the time that is a descendent of the work that he did you know he is with the brilliant computer engineer of his generation and he was just an ordinary middle class guy doing a professional job and he got an offer from renascence technologies this hedge fund. And he did. It was in the early ninetys that Robert Mercer left i. B. M. To work for run a song technologies. There he applied his methods of calculation on the Stock Exchange in order to predict its fluctuations. At technologies he pioneered. Algorithmic trading which now is you know below written sources so is something which still remains a bit secret about to make profit in markets but the origin of it is in applying a computer techniques to the data without worrying about fear of where the economy is going. What are the actual meaning of instruments or trading if youre buying wheat. Or if youre buying a car company. You dont really care that its a car company or that its wheat you just look at the performance of these futures or these stocks and the key thing was to view this just as a set of numbers by applying his mathematical tools Robert Mercer revolutionized Renaissance Technologies investment methods making it the worlds most Profitable Fund into this. Mess it became very rich renaissance because the performance of the fund which he had his own money and. Was extraordinary i mean if it goes up 30 percent 35 percent every year then pretty quickly you become very rich. Robert mercer is known to be very private he almost never speaks publicly. Even google has a difficult time producing photos of the few that exist are always the same. There is also a poor quality video a public speech in 2014 during a ceremony in his honor. Found out after ike this im sure ill accept this award but i would have to make it all right on some topic or other for an hour now which by the way is more than i typically talk and in a month. Robert mercer might have quietly enjoyed his new fortune but he decided to invest in politics. Hes been recognized as one of the most generous republican donors since 2010. Merces donations appear to be motivated by his own special interests. The political system in america is so broken right now because of the special interest money which floods campaigns i mean what happens is when the special interests have an agenda if youre annoying company for example and youd like to continue you know drilling for fossil fuel you know or your polluter and you want to make sure you can continue to pollute you go in and you support politicians who believe in your agenda politicians who will say for example that you know Climate Change is not happening because of bad made activities you know they will they will promote that publicly because that protects the special interests who fund their campaigns. Robert mercer set up his own foundation. The Mercer Family foundation. Headed by his daughter rebecca. But what exactly are these special interests hes protecting. Its hard to say since Robert Mercer never expresses his opinions publicly anyway youll never know whats going on in private this is brian said just look thats what hes funding for all of the money that way and i think that kind of bill for the paycheck. To understand the ideas that Robert Mercer wants to promote we can. Look at where hes been spending we can do so with tax documents declarations of the foundations fiscal allocations for the years 2012 to 2015 mercer financed a number of institutes and lobbies among them the Heritage Foundation which fights taxes and economic regulation 1500000. 00 the Media Research center which fights leftist media bias 12000000. 00 the Government Accountability institute which tracks government corruption and publishes books against Hillary Clinton 3. 7 1000000. 00 the Heartland Institute which defends Climate Change skeptics 2800000. 00. In new york he even paid for an ad denouncing the construction of a mosque near ground 0 in just 2 years Robert Mercer became one of the 10 most influential billionaires in politics according to the washington posts. In 2011 Breitbart News the right wing online newspaper was in financial difficulty. Mercer saw an opportunity and he invested 10000000. 00 in the website. The executive chairman of breitbart was a prominent figure closely linked to Trumps Campaign Stephen Bannon. A former Goldman Sachs trader he became a hollywood producer in the late 1990 s. He wanted to make films and t. V. Series to promote his ultra conservative political views. Mercer and then in our very closely associated and by mercer associating himself with somebody like steve better that maybe that may be a clue it is interpret merces personal views. In a few my. Its a ban and made breitbart an outlet dedicated to reactionary ideas. You see that with the breitbart publications over the course of many years it was someone like bannan who just proclaims this publicly that theyre going to take on these institutions and theyre going to try to deconstruct the government of the United States to pursue the agenda that they have which is to you know fundamentally change this nation and turn it into you know a place where people experience a level of division that i dont think weve seen since you know going back to the civil war. Robert mercer had built a political media network. To promote his ideas he was only missing one thing a candidate. In 2015 he began by supporting texas senator ted cruz a figurehead of the american far right. But after donald trump surprise victory in the republican primaries he placed his bet on trump. Robert mercer created a pro Trump Political Action Committee called make america number one endowed with 15000000. 00 his role in Trumps Campaign quickly expanded. In july 26th seen a dinner was held in a hotel in new york. It brings together among others Rebecca Roberts mercers daughter and donald trump the dinner resulted in key campaign changes. Trumps Campaign Manager was replaced. The chair of making america number one record mercer whose family also fund the super pac. Was able to influence the Trump Campaign to hire Stephen Bannon as campaign c. E. O. Steve benen became donald Trumps Campaign director. Kellyanne conway who headed the merced. Political Action Committee for ted cruz became number 2. David bossie a Mercer Family stalwart became number 3. Robert mercer has assembled team was in place. Bannon basi and conaway would from this point forward steer the republican candidate strategy. When the merc versus decide to support a candidate they expect the candidates to be responsive to their needs both in terms of how the candidate runs their campaign it also also after if the kid is successful and there are and they are elected as an Office Holder its reasonable to presume that the mercers expect that the Office Holder will be responsive to the mercers needs needs as well and their policy preferences. Robert mercer his plan was proving to be successful. But a mistake was made that made Steve Bannons role controversial. Heres what was discovered by looking at Donald Trumps official Campaign Books each of these lines corresponds to an expense during his 5 month tenure there was no trace of payments for steve benen. But when we look at the payments made by Robert Mercer as Political Action committee one name appears several times. Glittering steel a video Production Company. In total the Company Received 302500. 00 from the committee in 5 months the company is run by steve bannon. That would mean that his work for trumps official campaign might have been paid via glittering steel which would be Illegal Campaign financing. The Campaign Legal center decided to file a complaint. And. Steve bannon faced a fine and an investigation by the justice department. We believe or we think its possible that the super pac make america number one was subsidizing Stephen Bannons work for the Trump Campaign of i making payments abandoned through glittering steel at all see this consulting firms last movie Production Company located in california at the same address as and its own consulting firm. Glittering steel and breitbart are not the only companies tied to the Trump Campaign 8383. 00 will serve boulevard in los angeles also hosts Cambridge Analytics a company that came under the spotlight for its influence in Politics Around the globe. Cambridge analytical claim to have revolutionary data modeling techniques that can change political campaigning. It was a subsidiary of an english for and its role in donald Trumps Campaign is regarded as manipulation of Public Opinion. To strengthen the good you have to show your good all the more with you still fight against corruption. Dysphoric new cheering heroes like movie robot who refused to 15000000. 00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international. Ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to find a darkie used to shine a light lets make a road to bed to pledge nominate your Anti Corruption nero now. Talk to all jews there are we ask what guarantees will you give to the people will be attending the minimal workshop we listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone who is also terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter on the phone to 0. World leaders from un Member States of preparing to take their seats for this years General Assembly rowhani and President Trump will attend can growing tensions between the u. S. And iran he used will multilateral efforts provide solutions to a global refugee crisis escalating laws and Climate Change before its too late join us for extensive coverage of the un General Assembly on aljazeera. Im sammys a down in dar how they look at the headlines here now just 0 now Yemens Houthi rebels say theyre responsible for drone attacks on 2 major Oil Facilities in saudi arabia run by a ram co one hit the Oil Processing facility northeast of riyadh and another in the Eastern Province saudi state media says the fire is now being contained sorry is a spokesman for the he says they used many drones in the attack and had help from inside saudi arabia but the joey was a. O. L. Our john unit carried out a massive attack with 10 drones that targeted to iran call facilities in the peak and east of saudi arabia early this morning these attacks are our right and we warned the saudis that our targets will keep expanding we have the right to strike back in retaliation to the air strikes and the targeting of our civilians for the last 5 years. Was the live sounds and scenes coming from harare where African Leaders are gathering to pay their tribute to zimbabwes former president Robert Mugabe he died in singapore last week age 19 from the rubble ruled the country for 37 years until being ousted by his own army in november 2007. His burial will take place in about a months time off to resume his growth and National Heroes in hodder. West African Leaders are attending an emergency meeting on terrorism on became a fast the heads of state are looking at ways to deal with a sharp rise in cross border attacks involving groups aligned with al qaida and deisel. Fights have broken out between probe aging antigovernment protesters at a Shopping Center in Hong Kong Police made the arrest soft of breaking up clashes between the 2 sides of the mall probe aging demonstrators chanted support the police also waved chinese flags before being confronted by all the protesters the clashes come after several nights of peaceful antigovernment rallies in the city. And you can get more all those stories ahead over to our website dot com back to unfair again now stay with us. The election of the 45th president of the United States raised ethical and potentially legal questions. The possibility to undermine basic democratic principles has significantly increased. There will be no lies we will honor the American People with the truth and nothing else. The headquarters of a firm little known to the general public called s. C. L. Group Strategic Communication laboratories is located in the heart of london. In these offices of data scientists compiled and analyzed terabytes of personal information. Their objective was to determine what motivates Human Behavior in order to influence a. They specialize in psyops. Which is. A military term psychological operations its a whole discipline its an academic subject it can be used in different ways. The firm is very clear about its services on its. Clients include nato the British Ministry of defense the n. S. A. And the u. S. State department. As c. L. Has helped identify key leaders in afghanistan facilitating u. S. Intervention. Its also organized communications for Vaccination Campaign in ghana. But the companys practices remain questionable. Its a way of not judging people thats the working towards Better Outcomes for them but it also can be used to manipulate people without being aware and it can and has been used by authoritarian regimes. The company organized protests in nigeria in 2007 to win fluence the elections. S. E. A. L. Also intervened during an election on the island of st vincent in the caribbean. Election by example it is not just on his own parliament they have he just really moved it Clear Program of occlusion a stance pretty good luck candidate that we can have once problem because of the clinton 402 but for a player that has. Ensured. C. L. Sets up ultra targeted influenced strategies. The advent of the web and the vast amount of data circulating created an entirely new dimension of business. In order to extend their market as c. L. Group created a new subsidiary in the us Cambridge Analytic tech 7 wanted to suggest it was structured just doesnt take into it is it he was it says any can bridge and into the cue ball fit on goal and im so just. To create Cambridge Analytics partnered with the american billionaire Robert Mercer a mathematician specialized in data. Steve bannon served as Vice President of the firm. From the outset the objective was clear nothing less than a revolution in the Election Campaign process ready despite multiple interview requests Cambridge Analytical has refused to speak with us. But its possible to understand the work they did by simply watching their advertisements political campaigns have changed theyre no longer about running the most t. V. Spots sending out the most direct mail or spending the most money theyre about to spend the smartest money in todays political world what campaigns are getting more expensive in elections are won by small but crucial numbers of votes putting the right message in front of the right person at the right moment is more important than ever this is where Cambridge Analytical in our revolutionary data modeling techniques can help. It sounds like a more logical approach to Campaign Strategizing however the reality is more complex and above all much murkier than cambridge and in that it was willing to admit it. Since coming to the. United states the firm embarked on an unprecedented operation to compile data on the American Population without its knowledge heres how it works. Imagine that inside this car is mr x. Like anyone he leaves thousands of pieces of personal information on the internet his address age income hobbies purchases religion and whether or not he owns a gun. Cambridge analytical legally bought this data from Credit Companies banks Social Security and web giants like Facebook Google and twitter. In total the firm claim to possess about 425000 pieces of data for over 230000000. 00 adults living in the United States. This is how they plan to use its traditional political campaigns use geography and demographics like age and gender to break down voters into target groups this can work up to a point but it misses the important personal details that really drive voter behavior we combine geographic and demographic information with up to 5000. 00 data points of National Political consumer and lifestyle behavior for every voter in the United States then we add a unique extra layer of data about personality Decision Making and motivation. This creates an unparalleled rich and detailed view of voters in the issues they care about so you know exactly who to target with exactly what type of message we call this behavioral micro targeting our team of data scientists psychologists and Campaign Experts can show you which individual voters you need to win over in order to secure victory. The idea is to give people psychological tests and then compare the results with the in from. Nation they already have on them to know what motivates them and thus influence their vote its a technique that existed before Cambridge Analytical one of its inventors teaches psychometrics at Stanford University california his name is Michelle Kosinski metrics is basically a science of psychological measurement so basically have not is that instead of using question to ask you about your thoughts feelings experiences and past behavior such as are you a well organized person you can basically look at your Digital Footprints and see whether you in fact i well organized person in real life. Tests to determine a persons psychological traits are cold ocean tests they measure personality based on 5 criteria. Openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness and neuroticism. Its done with seemingly innocuous questionnaires that can be completed online like these. In 2008 Michelle Kosinski created the most famous of these tasks on facebook called my personality a questionnaire to learn more about yourself. Became really popular we had over 6000000 people to take the question there and a large fraction of these peoples have donated their facebook Profile Information to us and from this information you can use. Algorithms to transform this information into very detailed and very i curate intimate profiles so as a result Michelle Kosinski hospital largest psychometric database in the world. A database he can crossreference with the facebook profiles of the 6000000 people who respond its. This kind of shadow so basic you can turn your facebook likes into an actor its a prediction of your political views religious views your personality intelligence happiness sexual intake or even whether your parents were divorced or not people often ask me how accurate those algorithms are at predicting our intimate traits and i think that a great example comes from a recent study where we have compared the curacy of algorithms with a curiosity of other people so what we did we took friends and Family Members of our participants and we asked these friends and Family Members to feel in personality question as in the name of our participants now we would provide algorithm with a set of facebook likes and have it do the same thing so based on your facebook likes trying to predict your personality the results of this experiment are staggering by studying 10 of your likes on facebook the algorithm knows you better than your call the. With a 100 likes it knows you better than your family. And with 230 likes it knows you better than your spouse. Now given how much footprints how many footprints were living every day while using internet and splaying of our phones. It basically means that computers can clearly know us better in many ways than even our close Family Member this. Prediction of Human Behavior through the combination of personal data and psychological tests is shockingly accurate. David garrow is a media professor at Parsons University in new york. He battled for months to retrieve the data that Cambridge Analytical had on him. He was amazed by what he discovered. This is the excel spreadsheet that they provided it is broken into 3 tabs core data election returns and models the model on the one hand personal data that the firm has gathered from the web and then my registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but it its all accurate it has the day i registered to vote it has figured out my birthday my address the zip code down to you know all of my address its connected to census information and its connected to all the different kinds of elections so u. S. Congressional state Senate State House state legislative then you have some Consumer Information here like the designated mark information and f i p s it is another kind of consumer voter code and when youre on the other hand the psychometric interpretation of his personality together thats how you can really 0 in and target the model is my profile so you can see the different topics were ranked in order of importance my registered. Artisanship my underage is your partisanship you clearly see who their client was it didnt measure me as a democrat or republican just a very unlikely republican and you can also see sort of the model itself is in the interest of sort of finding. Conservative voters especially conservative voters who might be registered as a democrat but are actually going to vote republican so being able to go down to the zip code level and then reus o. C. A. That to all other election districts allows you to geo target. So precisely and thats how youre going to move the needle in u. S. Elections i think if americans knew this was happening and happening internationally they would be outraged. Funded by Robert Mercer and headed by steve benen naturally cambridge on a lot of how would offer its services to candid donald trump. By late june 26th seen the partnership with a done deal. On july the 29th the 1st payment was sent to the company you can find it in the campaign account. With 4 payments between july and october 26th in cambridge an emoticon would receive nearly 6000000. 00. At the same time the Political Action committee for donald trump funded by Robert Mercer paid Cambridge Analytic top 5000000. 00 between november 25th and november 26th. Ultimately the firm would receive 11000000. 00 to work with the Trump Campaign. A digital targeting strategy was made possible and set to run for donald trump. All that was needed was a way to put it to use in the american elections certainly beat some camp which include Cambridge Analytical saw something in the america. Electorate that the Clinton Campaign and the media certainly did. Its been reported that thanks to Cambridge Analytic has knowledge of the electorate trumps advisors devise the highly targeted strategy based on the particularities of the us voting system. In the United States the president is not alike to directly by the people but by the Electoral College appointed in each of the 50 states. Not all states have the same number of electors making some states more important to win than others. The trump camp suspected that they would not win the National Vote so with strategists decided to concentrate on the state. Knowing that they would lose the National Popular vote. How do you win well you win by capturing the Electoral College how do you do that you try and figure out a way of where you can go to appeal to relatively small numbers of people he was going to places that a lot of people thought why is he doing that he shouldnt be doing that he should be going someplace someplace else we didnt there was a strategy of looking at places that had been thought of as consistently democratic States States like michigan wisconsin and pennsylvania all 3 of which mr trump carried on in november. This was the strategy reportedly recommended by Cambridge Analytical not to try to convince millions of voters across the entire nation to vote for trump but rather to target only the 10s of thousands that the firm knew through its analyses were hesitating. If you are somebody whos. Clever. And youre just youre looking i mean what he does Algorithmic Trading its all about finding the tiniest edge is that tiny tiny tiny edge that you have of your competitors that you can leverage and make a massive difference and thats why you make the money and i think this idea of using data and the potential manipulation through a platform facebook is that can just be enough to give you that edge that then you can exploit through things like faith and all these other techniques and tactics. Here are the techniques that motion by the data scientists i cambridge and im going to be. Using the information they had on the other words they defined 32 types of personalities throughout the country. Its believed that individualized messages were sent targeting those considered to be the most concerned about issues. Was discussed by trump during his campaign. The Firm Identified many such voters in 3 states wisconsin michigan and pennsylvania 3 states bay believed could swing in favor of trump. In a press release Cambridge Analytical openly explained its strategy. Busy there remains one question that the firm does not address just how did they reach these targeted voters. They did it using a little known facebook feature dark posts. They do 6 not all peers will bash his book such a massage. And book readers should determine that because my search for certain movies you said because one of them a certain about but its all a 1st for those i cannot expect out of it if the decline in depth of battling this other yourself is a book i make them as such but also when they get if look on you that make good is almost by example not so i thought as for this christmas as the above but i had the might have to pick. Its so dark posts are very personalized messages visible only to the person for whom they are intended how does that work exactly lets go back to mr x. Analysis of his online data i can determine whether or not hes in favor of carrying firearms a message can then be created targeting him did you know that Hillary Clinton wants to take your gun away. Hell receive this message in his Facebook News feed at a specific time porting to has happened and digital fingerprints. No one but him will see the targeted ads and it will disappear a few hours later. As no record of them youve got no way of investigating that you have no idea who saw what and this is democracy taking place in darkness its not democracy if youre going to have a political debate have you out in the open know who is all doing what and here is being told what and the idea of just sort of like sneakily targeting people with who know whats on their phones and on their computer and with anything you get they could have been saying anything well never know because thats gone when its on facebook said its is interesting thanks but theyre not giving up. This Digital Strategy for the Trump Campaign was focused on the last few weeks. On november the 8th 2016 against all odds trump took wisconsin 523000 votes michigan 511000 pennsylvania 543000. In total 77000 votes in these 3 key states kerry trying to victory when he was 3000000 votes behind over the entire country. The digital targeting strategy had proved effective we can see that approximately 70000 voters made the decision for everyone else because they were the ones in the districts that ended up deciding to really i think this highlights as well our Electoral College system is a vulnerability that if software and data allows the most important voters to be easily. Found it and diminishing the vote of everyone else effectively. Politics and democracy was the next industry to fall we knew that technology interrupted newspapers in journalism and music and it was like actually here is weve been talking all this time about how great you know technology is it. For the next Disruptive Technology and i was like this is technology disrupting politics and and its not just politics its democracy and donald trump is the great disruptor. After trumps election when 2 former employees of Cambridge Analytic claim that the front collected the data of tens of millions of facebook users i dont believe the collection was done in violation of privacy policies. Christopher wiley was the 1st whistleblower hes the former director of research at Cambridge Analytics. Britney kaiser the former Business Development director was the 2nd. On march the 20th 2018 c. E. O. Of Cambridge Analytic Alexander Nix was suspended after secret recordings were broadcast off next boasting if using fake news campaigns and honey traps to affect Election Campaigns globally. On may the 2nd 2018 s e l Group Announced that it was filing for insolvency and closing all of its operations including its subsidiary Cambridge Analytical. Cambridge analytical stated that it has been vilified for activities that are legal and widely accepted as a standard component of Online Advertising in both the political and commercial arena as. However the acceptance of this Digital Strategy continues to be challenged as the manipulation of Public Opinion becomes clearer. Donald Trumps Campaign strategy exposed democracy to new threats however it also drew more attention to Data Technologies role in Politics Around the globe. Unless there were a significant change in privacy policies personal online data can continue to be used to disrupt politics all over the world. 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Now yemen so think rubbles say theyre responsible for drone attacks on 2 major Oil Facilities in saudi arabia run by iran co one hit the Oil Processing facility northeast of riyadh videos posted online showed a massive fire at the facility with flames shooting high into the air are the videos posted from the abqaiq facility included the sound of apparent gunfire in the background smoke could be seen rising over the skyline from some distance away the fires according to saudi state media have now been contained or they are take facilities about 330 kilometers from the capital estimates suggest it can process up to 7000000 barrels of crude oil a day the other targets of the attack is the horse race oil field 200 also kilometers southwest of our cake it produces about a 1000000 barrels of crude by the way with reserves of 20000000000 barrels some bunch of it has more. The Worlds Largest Oil Processing facility went up in flames after a drone attack. Amateur videos captured the fire in smoke at saudi aramco unit which was targeted by drones belonging to yemens hutu rebels with a capacity to process nearly 7000000 barrels a day of big plays a pivotal role in iran because operations and the oil fields in a race which produces a 1000000 barrels a day also came under attack. Aramco has not made clear the extent of the damage and its impact on Saudi Oil Production but state media carried a statement from the interior ministry and said the fires were brought under control saudi arabia has been leading a coalition against the hutus in the war in yemen since 2015. The rebels say they want the world to see that they have a list of targets which they can hit in the kingdom of god some. Attacks are our right and we warn the saudis that our targets will keep expanding we have the right to strike back in retaliation to the air strikes and the targeting of our civilians for the last 5 years saudi arabia accuses iran of backing the who these a charge denied by the rebels some believe the saudi response to the drone attacks is going to be more of whats been happening during the war in yemen this would probably help them project their what theyve been doing in yemen as something legitimate especially given the International Report about the violations and about the at last it is committed in yemen i think the saudis would continue the thing that theyve been doing over the last 4 years as bomb bomb bomb the frontis tactics have evolved in the last years and their drone attacks have become more frequent accurate and long range as conventional air defenses struggle against multiple small drones some see aerial attacks on Oil Facilities as a possible game changer in the conflict a drone like this can be assembled from 10. 00 to 15000. 00 or explosives this provides a unique opportunity to target the military and in this case its also more concerning because you want to target facilities that have a huge impact besides the physical damage the hoodies also seem to have time the attacks just a saudi aramco announced it is moving forward to selling a part of the state oil company the stock listing has been on again off again but attacks like these will not help Investor Confidence to bring in billions of dollars to diversify the saudi economy the Prime Minister is going to really like you on all the. Radio someone listening right. Now doesnt interest you saudi aramco is no ordinary company its the engine of saudi arabias economy and a source of power for its rulers its also the crown jewel of the saudi crown princes ambitious plan to diversify the economy but with seemingly expanding strike capabilities from the war in yemen this would give investors a moment to pause some of the job it is their. Own us out of binge of aid is also examine the strategic importance of a ram charan the politics of saudi oil in the documentary for aljazeera heres an excerpt from it. It seemed like a great idea the Worlds Largest Oil Producing company pumping millions of barrels a day to become the Worlds Largest ever traded stock on corsican had just no idea what you see it had going for you were not. To. Be asleep and over ambitious prince eager to make his mark as a reformer wanted to partially trade saudi aramco for a fellow you ation of 2 trillion dollars but the venture failed to get off the ground and the princes vision 2030 now seems blurry. Saudi aramco is almost like the basis of politics in saudi arabia they are always intrinsically tied everybody in saudi arabia in one way or another as a beneficiary saudi aramco a strong saudi arabia it needs a strong ram and vice versa as well the history of saudi aramco is the history of saudi arabia transforming itself from an isolated Tribal Society into your Global Presence when you can watch the full documentary saudi aramco a story of oil wealth and power on aljazeera dot com its also available on you tube channel. And in retaliation for the drone attacks on the saudi aramco plants the Coalition Says its carried out at least 6 airstrikes targeting who the military positions north of their strong stronghold of side the camera was the is an economist and political analyst he joins us now live from beirut good to have you with us 1st of all lets talk about what this attack means for the around co i. P. O. Well obviously the ideal of the National Public offering for this company is actually now probably is going to face a lot of tough tough. Assumption if i ever come to the market here this it would have been trying for a very long time to try to say they can issue that i. P. O. s theyve been talking about different market Different Exchange talking to hong kong. Japan the United States but in the end and this actually ideal was was was issued and its listed on the market and trade in the market today what a sell a big drop on the prize a lot of people are going to be afraid of investing their money in a place where there is an instability in war any time now this this this the resources can be at the act and actually what happened has undermined the ability of the say woody to actually issue this i. P. O. With this difficult circumstances when we talk about war and the capability of the who see of lunching at these kind of attack days after days and weeks so that theyre careful at the increased tremendously in the past 6 months i dont think this i. P. O. Will see a good day if ever come to the market all the promises this is ideal cannot be worth 2 trillion dollars still the sooty. Budget probably its something its like a buy on the sky its probably we will not see it anytime soon how significant is it that this facility in particular is attacked you know its the biggest Processing Plant in the world right. Its a major its a major escalation and war and we can see that thats who do not have actually that capability to defend themselves against the. Spy they have the most of the technology theyre there actually their border is ordinal is weak and probably the worst hasnt come yet. Weve been seeing the political statement that coming from the who see is coming because these are dark are coming in gradually and im sure he has more credibility and more determination to carry it further at the right time these at this point my and theyre standing in my reading the poor the political situation estelle teasing in the process that the big. Hasnt come and this is going to have a major implication for all who cannot buy a share of this where its going to be on flame at any time at any minute so that discussion of the i. P. O. Initial Public Offering whos going to be the underwriter what change cant carry it what investor kind of but the money and then if somebody believe on that i. P. O. Market well actually will not believe it probably going to see an ib or thats going to probably sell beer or their initial price for a camel was neither thanks so much now African Leaders have gathered in harare to pay tribute to former zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe he died last week in singapore aged 95. 00 his burial will take place in about a months time after a muslim is billed to a National Hero say in. For africa has fallen. In. Stead fast and reason new to be evolutionary. Robot. Is no more. Tender no raise from us. You for your hard to free liberate and empower us comrade mugabe will be remembered as a pan african ist and a great a can of african liberation who selflessly dedicated his life to the emancipation of zimbabwe and africa he was a visionary leader and that relentless champion of african dignity. Joins us live from harare so what are the leaders been saying their. Heart. The more of. Robert