a bitter diplomatic dispute with opec's fourteen other members especially with saudi arabia for the past eighteen months they've placed economic sanctions on qatar. mark jones from business is here with more monica good morning morning this is not a first for opec is it that a member is leaving now it's happened before it was ecuador and gabble on but they returned and indonesia suspended its membership it's not the first time but it's the first time that a middle eastern country is leaving opac and not just a middle eastern country but the first one to join opaque after it was formed in one thousand nine hundred sixty the founding nations of course iran iraq kuwait saudi arabia and then it's so ala so in terms of culture and history this is quite a significant step but we also know of course that qatar for for quite some time now has had strained relations with saudi arabia which is the defense to leader of