hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in saudi arabia a missile attack shows that much of the kingdom is now within the range of yemen's the rebels. iran accuses saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of stoking tension in the region after the sudden resignation of the lebanese prime minister saad hariri. and we'll take you to just run of the hometown of the sect cattle and leader push to mount where politics took a backseat for tradition. there's been a major shake up in the top ranks of saudi arabia's government and ruling family between saturday night and sunday morning eleven saudi princes for sitting cabinet ministers and dozens of foreign ministers were detained the government describes all this is the work of a new anti corruption committee which itself was only formed on saturday night among those being held prince. he's best known as a billionaire investor controlling major stakes in twitter twenty first century fox and citi group but most significant internal move involves prince met had been adalah who was removed from his post as the head of the national guard he's the son of the late king abdullah and was considered a contender for the throne also out is the minister of the economy and planning at all ben mohammed. and a dollop in sultan al sultan has been ordered to retire as the commander of the saudi navy the dismissal is a widely seen as consolidating the power of the crown prince mohammed bin solomon also known as m.b.'s been solomon was elevated to his position just four months ago displacing an older cousin the same reports now on the sweeping changes and their implications. call it a surprise saturday night shake up saudi state t.v. reported that eleven princes three current and dozens of former ministers have been detained as part of an inch i corruption probe only hours after the formation of an investigative committee was announced it's difficult to relate this to corruption since they didn't have enough time to make a prosecution or to make investigations about that if there was something or some information collected previously why did the and with. the case by case in different people as before about the not doing this overnight all these people together which is rather spacious. the saudi cabinet overhaul is viewed as a power play by king solomon analysts say it's designed to ensure his son and heir to the throne crown prince mohammed bin solomon consolidates power and does so among their branch of the royal family he's making this public relations sense to get more public support and also a little bit of the way to afford his popularity one of the most high profile figures pushed out is the minister of the national guard prince metabo bin of dollar he was the son of former king of dollar and once thought to be next in line to the throne he was the remaining member of the abdullah family in such a high level position. also detained is prince will lead bin tell out he's one of the wealthiest men in the world and given his widespread investments is detainment could have an impact on global business. this shakeup sends a message there's a new political order but only do we have a new chapter opening up in saudi arabia we have a whole new book a whole new political i bet if you will accept i mean with one exception that's still all done in secrecy it's also a reminder that for months after the crown prince was named heir to the throne there can be no mistake mohammed bin selman is the future for saudi arabia natasha going eight zero zero we saw him briefly and that's ashes report there let's bring in once again i was in a senior political analyst now and bashara what's your take on what's really going on in saudi arabia right now it's really amazing as someone who's been following development in the middle east of course with that we're not we don't stop being amazed at what just happened in this region and for the areas out of countries since the beginning of the twenty first century it seems it's. and ill fated times for the outer world changes nonstop there are drama and stop of course what we've seen the last couple days is not the death and destruction as we've seen in iraq and syria and yemen and libya but certainly it is politically dramatic in we don't know anything like it in the modern history of saudi arabia. as i have been stating throughout the day this is not just a not a new chapter this is a new book a new political alphabet that we have not heard before in the country now is it is it well thought through well the record shows over the last couple of years the things are not exactly well thought through in saudi arabia whether it is the war in yemen whether it's privatization or whether it's restructuring and so on so forth so while there's all sorts of and vicious programs and vicious steps being taken on various fronts and here now under the pretext of fighting corruption we were seeing their entire system of governance in the country is being shaken. is it to consolidate power of one man or one nuclear family or there's more to what we don't know but certainly there are magic to change what is who is it who would be behind it is that the king or is it the crown prince the that is behind all these dramatic traces and are these changes for the good a positive changes or are you skeptical well look from what we've seen is that the more the more vocal the more representative the more. explain that in chief if you will of all of this has been the crown prince not the king the king has taken the back seat and actually for much of the summer he was in north africa and so on so forth so clearly the the crown prince is the one that is the driver behind much of this and as i said he's a young man he's been referred to in various profiles in western publications someone who is inexperienced ambitious but also perhaps reckless in sense that he keeps taking taken on these mega projects campaigns like the war in yemen like that crisis in the gulf and yesterday the crisis in lebanon perhaps but not really well thought through and sometimes he goes back on the things that he's done before so it is him but clearly he also has help from the outside clearly that the rulers and the and the united arab emirates are completely behind him and so one clearly president from the way he tweeted yesterday the way he's visited saudi arabia the way he received. you know various attempts at changes within the kingdom clearly the american president is an ally of the crown prince of saudi who is who is left in saudi arabia to hold the crown prince in check. you know it's always been a question of division of labor between the religious establishment and the political establishment that was about to start. and there's always been a division of labor between business to do its own and for the family to work the oil wealth of the country i think that division over us is changing slowly but surely and i think how much been so now is just taken a very aggressive steps in terms of security and security is king behind the king we've seen. take the portfolio of the minister of defense two and a half years ago in the beginning of two thousand and fifteen so he became missile defense the launch of the war in yemen and so on so forth. few months ago we've seen him take over the crown prince's portfolio which is some of the knife who was in charge of minister of interior and all the internal security services so again the crown prince then took over the second level of security power in the country and as of yesterday he kicked out the traditional historically have been abdulla and his father the former president king abdullah over the national guard so now because the crown prince and some of them so much is in control of the triangle of security forces within the country the defense forces the interior forces and the royal guard he's basically in charge of all security in the country it's all in his hands that's certainly a good will start if you want to make changes in the country when i was told you many thanks indeed al-jazeera senior political analyst. a suicide car bomber struck a security headquarters in yemen's port city of eight and several people were killed it happened in the court next on neighborhood no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attack and in other developments in saudi arabia the military has shut down a long range ballistic missile over riyadh it was fired from yemen towards the saudi capital's airport who the rebels in yemen say that they're behind the attack on a honda reports. it's not the first time who three rebels have fired long range missiles across the border at saudi arabia but this missile appears to have travelled the furthest hundreds of kilometers deep into saudi heartland and only taken down close to king khalid international airport on the outskirts of the capital riyadh. the official saudi news agency is a saudi forces fired a surface to air patriot missile to intercept it witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing fragments falling ne the airport the rebels moved quickly to say they were behind the missile attack telling al-jazeera they had launched a burka and two h. missile a scud type missile with a range of more than eight hundred kilometers. we choose the time and place after collecting information about a target and it was khaled international airport east of riyadh targeted by a long range volcano ballistic missile this is in response to the continued aggression committing daily massacres against the yemeni people and. the conflict in yemen pits the rebels from the north backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh against yemeni government forces back in two thousand and fourteen the who sees and their allies took control of the yemeni capital sana'a. but the conflict widened early the following year when a saudi led coalition of arab countries state done with airstrikes to back up humans government in two and a half years the saudi coalition has launched thousands of a strikes the same a strikes that have been repeatedly criticized by the united nations for disregarding the number of civilians killed and return who sees and their allies have fired dozens of missiles into saudi territory last week who the spokesman told al-jazeera that who's the fighters would target any country that attacks them. what. i would be and others the target yemen as far as we are concerned are fair military target from ballistic missiles any country that hits yemen militarily will be targeted. yemen was already the poorest country in the region before the war nearly two and a half years of fighting has left it on the brink of collapse a crippled infrastructure abject poverty seven million people close to starvation and since april the world's worst outbreak of cholera the u.n. says around ten thousand people have been killed and at least forty thousand wounded mostly from saudi laid is strikes this latest missile attack deep into saudi territory will likely escalate this long running and conflict medium hond out to zero yemen's civil war began in march twenty fifteen since then there's been several missiles fired from hooty rebels into saudi arabia which is backing the yemeni president drabble mansour hadi the exact launch sites aren't known but it's believed that most have been fired from yemen's northwestern sada province in october last year who the rebels were accused of targeting the holy city of mecca and missile was shot down just south of the city but it was the deepest strike into saudi arabia saturday's missile launch a year later now suggests that what the rebels have the technology that can strike beyond the reach of the saudi capital riyadh andrius craig is assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he says the missile technology is almost certainly being sent to who these from outside yemen. this is a tit for tat kind of balance of terror now whereby the who these have said that if you strike us we will strike back and this is not going towards only against saudi arabia but also against the united arab emirates potentially and they have over the last two years really expanded their reach and they have really have increasingly more sophisticated missile technology which is far beyond the reach of what was initially targeted so when the coalition started to that fifteen when the strike started the scud missile capability of there were these was relatively limited we're talking about three hundred kilometers to five hundred kilometers there is a stockpile in yemen of skype missile that has been there for more than twenty years and now they have this capability has been augmented so i think what we see here is definitely some of the technology comes from iran but it doesn't come as entire missiles it's not like the revolutionary guard of iran is shipping in time missiles into into yemen i think it's different parts and then they're being assembled in yemen and fired off and apart from that i think there are some of the capabilities also coming from north korea but again it's certain parts that really of meant the strike range of these missile of these missiles and i think we've seen this development over the last two years where they go get increasingly better a at the range and b. at hitting the targets they want to target iran has accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to strike tension in the region it follows the sudden resignation of lebanon's prime minister in the saudi capital riyadh on saturday in a televised statement on saudi state television saad hariri accused iran and the lebanese armed group hezbollah of saying strife in the arab world he also said feared he said that he feared an assassination attempt against iran accused me of quote playing a game designed by those who want ill for the region in a heart of reports now from beirut. there is a political vacuum and a lebannon and a filling it will not to be easy the president of the country will have to formally accept the prime minister's resignation and then start consultations with parliament members now there is a parliamentary democracy in this country but in reality it is a consensual democracy the rival political camps that need to find a compromise candidate to form a national unity government or else the instability will continue but that is going to be hard. and his allies have made it clear that they do not want to share power with hezbollah and if the president appoints a candidate close to hezbollah then it risks isolating lebanon the resignation you can't just see this as an isolated incident it's not just a lebanese internal lebanese matter it is linked to what is going on in the region it is part of the ongoing iranian saudi arabian rivalry across the region and lebanon is now the new battle ground and the people here are worried this uncertain times they fear that once is political and stability they may see security incidents and they feel lebanon which has really tried to shield itself away from what is going on in the region may be dragged into this but the united states saudi arabia israel they've been making this clear for some time now that they want to curb iran's influence and iran of course having an ally a very powerful ally in lebanon hezbollah which is not it is a political party and part of the government that's hoddle had to be headed so the fact that he resigned they all see this as you know aimed at trying to curb hezbollah's influence but it's easier said than done a weather update thanks to an i was zero then we will never yield never waver and never falter in defense of our people. brings tough talk to japan as the u.s. president kicks off his twelve day tour of asia. and awaiting a key decision in liberia the president the presidency itself is in the balance. welcome back well look at the weather across asia and the northeastern arizona came very nice at the moment with last of these weather systems so it's sitting under a big area of high pressure through much of the region so that means subtle weather for japan there tokyo very pleasant light winds one thousand degrees in the sunshine fine too across the korean peninsula beijing should be dry and bright for the south in shanghai for the sunshine here temperatures of twenty two degrees maybe just an area of rain developing across the far east of four northeast of china on the far east of russia but not expected to amount to much so let's head further towards the south now we had typhoon damrey heading in across this region and we still got a quite a strong flow here and so we're going to see some heavy rain affecting parts of central and southern vietnam through into cambodia for hong kong those dry foods you plenty of sunshine elsewhere one noise just a chance of a shower but much amir mars looking dry and fine sunshine on highs of thirty you may see some showers developing later on tuesday for southeastern parts of asia scattered showers across borneo much as you'd expect jaffa barely largely dry but looking pretty wet up through them in a plane with kuala lumpur and singapore seeing some showers some heavy showers through the gulf of thailand and further north because he wanted to downpours affecting bangkok. sixty seven words that spelled promise for one people but ended up a disaster for another. lead to the establishment of a jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. hundred years on al-jazeera world tells the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east. seeds of discord this time. well again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour there's been a major cabinet shakeup in saudi arabia the same night as several princes were detained in a new anti corruption crackdown the head of the national guard the economy minister and the head of the navy have been replaced the billionaire investor prince our lead been told is among those detained and other developments from saudi arabia the military has shut down a long range ballistic missile over riyadh it was fired from yemen towards the saudi capital's air force the rebels in yemen say that they are behind the attack and iran is accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension after the sudden resignation of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri he resigned in the saudi capital riyadh on saturday accusing iran of saying strife in the arab world but iran says that hariri is playing a game designed by those who want ill for the region. catalonia as ousted leader callus push demand is calling for a united front ahead of next month's regional election in pro independence groups are calling for posters and banners to be plastered across the city to protest against spain's direct rule in catalonia and the imprisonment of nine former ministers on friday a spanish judge issued an international arrest warrant for pushed him out who travel to belgium after declaring independence well in his hometown pushed him on supporters say that they agree with his decision to stay in belgium while others are not so convinced this is the city celebrates its annual fiesta and who simmons reports. tradition is colliding with politics in. the city's annual festival has gone ahead despite attempts to call it off during a province is the heartland of closed session politics and the who. despite appearances people say lou. one here is really happy in general they are angry. they are sad all my family i'm from. and they don't understand exactly what is happening here. very. very young and we need to do this three. rights we had are going to fight this but i think it's very difficult in the old city many balconies make a political statement the spanish national flag represents the minority city councilors say they're in mourning over the jailing of eight sacked cabinet ministers in the unusual just black drapes allayed on the front of city hall on the flags above wrote hamas the european union the catalan regional and the jarana city floods the spanish national flag was removed when secession was declared more than a week ago. and the man says she supports pleased being in belgium. even in the big i mean i fully understand why president puts them on is seeking european protection especially after seeing what has happened to the rest of the government ministers we can't have a situation where we have political prisoners and i think it's ok that he protects himself and he makes our complex margaritaville international the week long festival was supposed to end with a firework display but that's now being canceled organizers who had to consider cutting out other parts of the shed you chose to focus on events aimed at children in catalonia culture tradition and politics have always gone hand in hand the children may be having fun watched by their parents but this year's festival takes place against the backdrop of a long good increasingly bitter struggle for secession andrew simmons al-jazeera jiro and u.s. president ronald trump has begun his twelve day tour of asia his first stop japan trump met with prime minister shinzo abbé for lunch and a round of golf the two are expected to hold talks on monday aimed at countering north korea's nuclear threat trump's asia tour is the longest to the region by u.s. president in twenty five years he'll also visit south korea china vietnam and the philippines has the latest from tokyo. just minutes after air force one touched down at the u.s. air force base on the outskirts of tokyo president trump climbed on a stage flanked by american fighter jets he switched his suit for a bomber jacket that addressed the american troops cheering him on in the head. we will never you know never waiver and never falter in defense of our people our freedom and our great american flag no dictator no regime and no nation should underestimate an. american resolve on his flight from hawaii told reporters a during the twelve day trip to talk to russian president vladimir putin about more help with north korea and that he will soon announce whether the u.s. will name pyongyang to the list of state sponsors of terror. trump met up with japanese prime minister shinzo abbate at a golf club outside tokyo for a burger lunch and a round of golf it's not the first time the two have played golf the leaders view their relationship as tight holding for so much and speaking on the phone regularly some hope that trumps a visit to japan will bring more than tough talk on north korea from the two close allies and there's concern that one provocative tweet could change the narrative for the trip something that can get away from just bombs and bullets would be valuable in trying to win hearts and minds in the rage and people here every day they go to work they don't want to worry about another missile flying over what we know with north korea the resolution there is not going to be a war it's going to have to involve sanctions and each day one of trump's asia tour was kept with a private state dinner with prime minister and then leaders wives thank you monday it's down to business that to hold a bilateral meeting and then speak to the media they will likely touch on promoting a free and open indo-pacific region seen as a way to counter china's growing influence in the region it's got to either al-jazeera tokyo. supporters of italy's far right for the other party marched in the capital rome against proposed changes to citizenship laws there are happier changes that would allow children to qualify for italian citizenship by residency even if their parents were born abroad currently at least one parent of a child under eighteen has to be a tally and about a thousand people took part in the match. police in the u.s. have confirmed that they gathering evidence to seek an arrest warrant for the disgraced movie producer harvey weinstein it's in connection with the alleged rape of an actress in new york in twenty ten on the other side of the country police in los angeles are also investigating weinstein who comes as a judge sets a january date for a trial in which weinstein hopes to force his former film company to turn over documents that he says will clear his name liberia's supreme court is set to decide if a presidential election runoff will go ahead a candidate in the first round filed a complaint but many liberians say that could jeopardize a smooth transfer of power in january but address reports now from monrovia. on the streets as liberians await the decision of the supreme court in a country where the political class is viewed with suspicion by many at stake is whether the conduct of the presidential election will set all candidates. the hearing opened up tight security with judges promising speedy proceedings experts to dismiss the possibility of a constitutional crisis in liberia i don't think wasn't even a crazy and the reason is simple. the. liberian is not. iran iran is not it is also not. whether they can be in internet no but that is what many believe some politicians are up to raising the level of fear and suspicion whatever happens here on monday many liberians don't expect to be called out to vote the next day. is what impact any further delays will have on the first transition from one democratic government to another in more than seventy years in liberia. the election commission maintains the october election was credible but it meets the legal challenge of setback its preparations for the runoff between former football star george ware and the incumbent vice president joyce of pork i we've already distributed our my to us both sensitive and i said if and when ballot paper us at least up to sixty seventy percent of the country. so a dig cannot have that besides we were still. all workers. so those things can happen in a day's time. the commission says conducted the election immediately after the court's ruling will depend on the level of preparation of other partners like the security services and international support. observers within and outside liberia i watch closely to see how the judgement on monday will affect not only the vote but they visit democratic transition in general. i'll just. good to have you with us adrian finnegan here in doha the top stories on al-jazeera there's been a major cabinet shakeup in saudi arabia the same night as several princes were detained in a new anti corruption crackdown the head of the national guard the economy minister and the head of the navy have all been replaced the billionaire investor prince our lead been told is among those detained also in saudi arabia the military has shot down a ballistic missile over riyadh it was fired from yemen towards the saudi capital's airport the rebels in yemen say that they are behind the attack at least five people have been killed twelve others injured in a suicide car bomb attack in yemen sports city adan the explosion happened in the cormac's our neighborhood no one's yet claimed responsibility for the attack iran has accused saudi arabia the u.s. and israel of trying to fuel tension after the sudden resignation of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri who resigned in the saudi capital riyadh on saturday he's accused iran of sowing strife in the arab world but iran says that hariri is playing a game designed by those who want ill for the region. u.s. president donald trump is in japan the first stop of his twelve day tour of asia trump met with prime minister shinzo for lunch at a round of golf the two are expected to hold talks on monday aimed at countering north korea's nuclear threat trump will also visit south korea china vietnam and the philippines we will never yield never waver and never falter in defense of our people our freedom and our great american. no dictator no regime and no nation should underestimate. american resolve. catalonia is ousted leader calls push the moment is calling for a united front ahead of next month's regional election in barcelona pro independence groups have been carrying banners across the city to protest against spain's direct rule in catalonia and the imprisonment of nine former ministers on friday a spanish judge issued its national arrest warrant for push to mount the travel to belgium after declaring independence. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story next. imagine you can't go to school thea don't travel when you want and feel constantly look down on the ten million people that fly life without and that's knowledge but why in twenty seventeen or so many people in this position and what can we do about it this is inside story.

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