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
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
On rising asset prices. Spurring a little of a stock selloff. Well this worry the fed . Share buybackhe days after dan lopes hedge fund bought a big stake in the business. Will this keep the activist investor at bay or spur him on . Hour less than half an away from the start of cash trading. Lets take a look at what the bloomberg is telling us about where we sit right now. At the moment and looks like we are starting off on a negative story. Feeding off what we saw yesterday. I will show you an interesting [inaudible] is outperforming. Uropean forces are down we will see a continuation of what we saw a little bit of yesterday. That was the equity market selloff. Lets move to the gmm. Heres what we can see happening around the world and dress in lines around some of these Asset Classes. The s p 500 down and the dax down. 8 of 1 . That is the bank drop to what we are seeing today. Interestingg some stories developing particularly in the commodities currencies, what is happening with chin
Blamed for a deadly outbreak of cholera in haiti. Lawyers file a lawsuit against the United Nations. [ technical difficulties ] and getting out of their cars and on to their bicycles. Hello, we begin this news hour with the latest developments from syria, and the program to destroy its stockpile of chemical weapons. There has been a rare briefing by the director general of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons at the hague. The opcw is in charge of dismantling the stockpile. Lets first take a look at some of the highlights of the briefing. Cur recollectly there are 19 weapons inspectors working in damascus and its suburbs. Another 12 will be deployed. Since beginning their work on sunday the experts have visited one site already and have 20 more to inspect. They have about nine months to carry the work out. And thats not going to be an easy task but one that can certainly be achieved. The corporation has been quite constructive, and i will say that the syrian authori
Murder. Reporter covering the news in europe. Including the angry response to the european chiefs visit to lamedusa where hundreds of my grants were killed. I do not really think that these elections are free or fair. Reporter claims of vote rigging as azerbaijans president sets for reelection. The head of the Global Chemical weapons watch daughter has called for a ceasefire to meet the deadlines. We have more from the hague. Reporter in the hague, the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, this is the first progression report from syria. Its we are at the beginning at a difficult process. There are significant challenges. Can you tell us something about the interaction between your officials and those of the Syrian Government . What is the nature of the dialogue and the contact that youre having for the Syrian Government . Reporter the corporation has been quite cooperative. Reporter the inspectors are being reinforced by a further 12. Its a small team and w