A cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace after nearly a decade of war. I appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors due respect to provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation we dont delay. And Foreign Ministers of mania and azerbaijan meet separately with the u. S. Secretary of state to defuse tensions over in a going to cut about. The breaking news this friday is that sudan has become the latest country to normalize its ties with israel under a deal brokered by the United States president made the announcement from the white house few hours ago the 3rd such deal in just 2 months remember previous the United Arab Emirates and behind agreed to normalize their ties with israel earlier this week a deal was also struck to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. And they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly nice because they essentially bettered war with israel for. A long time i dont know if it was fighting
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Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a familiar trick. Saudi arabia ha
At new america for this Book Discussion of the book franchise that we will learn more about but learning about the black community over the past 60 years. A fascinating book of fellow in the class of 2017 in new america for go it was in then study africanamerican studies in georgetown and then teaches about women and girls history. I do a lot of work with the program here my favorite thing about the Fellows Program you look at it and say this is something i havent thought about. And that has always been my reaction to this story. Then its relationship to the Civil Rights Movement. And to help us understand the relationship. And my other favorite thing to be supportive of the colleagues. And then when you see that kind of cross pollination. So thats why im particularly excited. But this is in the same category as the center for justice and also the fellow at new america and has also been super engaged and those complexities of the economic experience. And then to get the conversation go
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. President biden has reportedly paused arms sales to saudi arabia as his administration reviews relations with his long time strategic ally. Not long ago, candidate biden described the kingdom as a pariah, but is there any prospect of external or internal pressure challenging the authority of saudi arabias De Facto Leader, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman . Well, my guest is exiled saudi opposition activist, madawi al rasheed. What next for saudi arabia reform, repression or maybe both . Madawi al rasheed, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You have become one of the highest profile saudi critics of Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. I just wonder how you felt a couple of weeks ago when we saw the crown prince so warmly welcomed at the World Economic forum, the online davos event, where he was selling saudi arabia as an Investment Opportunity for the entire world. What did you make of that . Well, its a familiar image and a fami