Hello im rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes new video emerges of lebanese Prime Minister saad heidi in saudi arabia as president and his party called for his return home. Despite u. S. Intelligence reports donald trump says he believes any of putin did not interfere with last years president ial election. Thousands of people on the streets of boston on a demand the release of imprisoned leaders. And u. S. School buses get a radical make over for the roads of guatemala. You pages of images of lebanons Prime Minister saad hariri in saudi arabia they were aired on state television showing him meeting king solomon at riyadh airport how do these whereabouts have been shrouded in mystery in recent days following suggestions hes been detained and is under house arrest. Well how do you hes made no public remarks and says shock resignation in the saudi capital last saturday when he said he feared assassination and accused iran along with hezbollah of sowing strife in the arab world is Political Party of the future movement says its waiting for him to return to lebanon but its also denounced attacks against the saudi kingdom and want to run about interfering with arab nations the lebanese president michel own one saudi arabia to clarify exactly why how did he hasnt gone back to beirut hes told foreign ambassadors how daley has been kidnapped french president emanuel has similar concerns he said a call with our own on saturday that the lebanese political leaders should enjoy freedom of movement hes going to receive lebanons foreign minister empower us on tuesday has more from beirut. Posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. The resigned Prime Minister whose fate really is unknown Uncertain Times in lebanon the country finding itself at a crossroads for the past year this country and toward relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region its many like him and i think for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess its when he really thinks things are really assassination. And we have two polls like saudi arabia and iran and those two polls have people on the ground iran has done this others economics and in the middle of all this i think and live on a lot of special editions what they do best is they they they they lie and they say things. To make people maybe scared and to put this like political pressure on everyone just to get what they want we are in a. Neighborhood hold many people here feel that the Current Crisis is going to march and allies them even further this in the community has long complained of iranian dominance in lebanon and now theyre blaming their own allies saudi arabia of robbing them of their leader. Now. This we want to know the reason behind his detention lebanon cant handle this crisis thank goodness the detention of a Prime Minister is unacceptable. This is a loss for all of lebanon hariri is loved by everyone we are all upset by his detention no one will accept what is happening this is humiliation we wont be quiet we will demand his release. So for the time being the different part political escalation but the question is this where unity will it be short lived on romney who is a professor of journalism at the American University of beirut hes a senior fellow at Harvard University and hes joining us live now from boston thank you very much indeed for being with us rami so were seeing these pictures of saad hariri in saudi t. V. Is that going to be enough to convince people that he is free and not in detention in saudi arabia well i think that saudi t. V. Shows now is going to be probably the opposite of the truth in the eyes of most lebanese unfortunately the saudi media is like them or are they in a couple of others have totally lost their credibility in the last three or four months and this is this is not going to be taken very seriously this super irony of whats going on is that twice now in a row the saudis with some of their colleagues in the gulf and egypt theyve tried and now theyve tried in lebanon to squeeze these countries thinking theyre weak small Vulnerable Countries and that these countries would capitulate to their demands and exactly the opposite has happened that they have triggered a tremendous burst of strong grassroots nationalism and solidarity in qatar and i was just there a few weeks ago visiting the university and theyve done the same thing now in lebanon and this is a sign of the really the immaturity of the saudi diplomacy and statecraft unfortunately but theyre still trying to figure out how do they deal with the region when things in the region are constantly. Going against them in their eyes and they what they keep doing keeps making things worse for them and they are in a real mess of their own making ok where do things go now between lebanon and iran and saudi arabia given the circumstances that were finding ourselves in. Well i think whats going to happen at some point is that reasonable people in saudi arabia and there are still some of those in the power structure i assume they will realize that their policies are not achieving the goals that they want to achieve and they will start looking for other means theres always somebody in the arab world willing to step in and mediate among arab brothers who are often at each others throat as brothers often are and they will find some mediation whether through the arab world or through some external party the United States tried it with the qatar and the g. C. C. And it hasnt worked yet thats one possibility the other possibility is that you might get a coalition of countries from the region from europe from the United States from the arab world at some point when diplomacy and pressure fail the countries who are applying these instruments try to adjust in a different way the long Term Solution is there has to be a strong arab iranian dialogue and not just a dialogue but a serious. Negotiation about like the negotiations between the soviet bloc and the nato in europe and the for security and cooperation in europe that border along the helsinki agreement and things of that nature of that hasnt happened yet but there were i think we need to start thinking in those big terms its an unlikely to happen with the trumpet ministration but the pressures that the saudis are putting on the lebanese and the qatari is the theyve already destroyed the Gulf Cooperation Council theyve already destroyed the credibility of the saudi media they have all their heart very badly hurt the credibility of the of the saudi diplomacy and Business Community a lot of people around the world are going to think twice about making any deal with anybody and saudi arabia or the emirates also in some cases because they dont know if these people are going to just turn three hundred sixty degrees the next day and change their mind and. Pli strong arm tactics so theyre feeling a lot of pressure and at some point we assume that somebody will step in and help them pull back from the brink i want to talk to in a moment about who that somebody could be but youve lived in lebanon for a large part of your life there are deep divisions in the society there was mentioning in her report do you think that this incident is going to have the effect of bringing the country together or are those divisions going to deepen. Oh it will certainly bring the country together in the short term this always happens when the israelis invade and occupy South Lebanon or attack beirut all the lebanese come together because they understand that theyre all threatened when a serious threat from overseas comes in or say like the isis threat recently the israeli threat over the years and now this the lebanese definitely come together when things calm down they go back to their squabbling they have a pretty dysfunctional political system in lebanon unfortunately which keeps finding ways to disagree with each other and postpone important decisions which have now reached the point where peoples daily lives are really bothered a lot on things like electricity garbage collection water and things of that nature but still the political system now has overcoming these short term squabbles because the whole country has been insulted and humiliated and made to feel like its like one of the members of her it is future party said that were not a nation of sheep that somebody can just say now youre going to be owned by somebody else we transfer ownership from one hundred eighty through another how do you deal as apparently the saudis seem to be trying to do very briefly if you dont mind i want to come back to that point you were making earlier that somebody else has to step in given the way that donald trump and Rex Tillerson seem to be dealing honest on differing levels with this particular incident and with saudi arabia with iran and so on. They would be the most likely people the u. S. Would be the most likely people to step in in an incident like this but are they still is that still the case or is somebody else waiting in the wings that should be able to come in and help solve this. Its unlikely the u. S. By itself can do it partly because you have incoherence as the driving force of American Foreign policy i mean before we heard different different views or within the administration now with the tillerson statement yesterday we have vague views us seems to be criticizing both iran and saudi arabia which is which is certainly reasonable so i dont think the u. S. Can do this by itself theyve tried with the qatar g. C. C. If you would have been six around the region rami curry thank you very much indeed for your time u. S. President donald trump is calling several investigations into whether russia interfered in last years president ial election and artificial democratic hit job made the comments in vietnam on route to the capital hanoi he told reporters he believed russian president Vladimir Putins assertions that moscow had no part in any election meddling trump added that he questioned putin again on the subject when the informally chatted on the sidelines in the apec event in vietnam but those comments are in stark contrast to that of the u. S. Central Intelligence Agency the cia director of holds a report that russia did run a campaign to influence the election outcome a spokesperson said the director stands by and has always stood by the january twenty seven hundred Intelligence Community assessment they went on to say the intelligence assessment with regard to Russian Election meddling has not changed ok Bill Schneider is a political analyst and a professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and hes with us now live from washington d. C. Bill this is putting the the security and Intelligence Services in the u. S. In a difficult position because once again theyre actually having to defend a document an assessment that had already effectively been accepted by as as accurate. Thats right its accepted by as acted by congress by members of the trumpet ministration by his own chief of staff they said with high confidence that russia meddled in the ninety in the two thousand and sixteen u. S. President ial election on behalf of donald trump what President Trump is doing here when he says that he believes lattimer putin who says they had nothing to do with the election what hes saying is there is nothing there thats the message trump wants to communicate its a way of saying all the investigations going on from the special counsel the special prosecutor looking into collaboration between the campaign and the russians they wont find anything and that thats why hes saying he believes. But what do you think is going to be the effect on the investigating teams themselves is this likely to actually give them more of an incentive to try to find more evidence that it actually happened or will they restricted in the times of reference im terms of investigation that they are able to carry out despite what donald trump may say. Ill take the latter answer he doesnt mean anything to them special prosecutor has his own mandate his own support hes independent and Robert Mueller is very independent and he has some highly skilled professional attorneys working on this investigation i dont think this. Point by president he believes putin didnt have anything to do with it i dont think its going to make a bit of difference much of the accusations we should point out are aimed at russian involvement effectively in inverted commas when it comes to alleged allegations of meddling in the us elections the problem partly seems to be that we cant identify who in russia actually did the meddling do you think that theres any part of the investigation that might show that perhaps moscow was not involved that there might have been a separate entity within russia itself that was doing this without the knowledge of moscow but obviously perhaps to the benefit of the putin government very unlikely i dont think i think moscows hand is in everything in this is an especially sensitive area of Foreign Relations its another rival countrys elections there our political process i dont think this could have been done without the knowledge or consent or both of the kremlin those not to thank you very much indeed always interesting to get your views in this thank you very much indeed for your time. Donald trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed in a joint statement supporting a political solution to the war in syria the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to syrias sovereignty independence and territorial integrity also called on all parties to the conflict including president Bashar Al Assad to take an active part in the geneva political process trump said he and putin reached the agreement very quickly. Just now weve adopted that document with the prism of the United States its a very crucial document because we see it for some principle things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria thats the most important for the United States and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there to do with recent terrorist acts as ive said weve been confronting that evil for quite some time now its important for the whole International Community that we continue to apply joint if its of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the suffering of syria and its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over well start the political process under the auspices of the United Nations. Chalons has more from moscow. In his press conference in vietnam flooded my piece and said that the reason this agreement had been reached for the United States this statements which was parts house is that the fight against isis in syria is coming to an end its the hotbed of terrorists as he put it in syria is being defeated and the important thing now is to finish that job then the circumstances will be right for moving ahead with the geneva Peace Process but there are a few questions left hanging in the air about all of this one is why was the kremlin that puts out this statement a full six or seven hours before the u. S. State Department Released its version why did stunnel trump say that this or agreements have been reached between him and police in very quickly when we know that actually added been bashed around for many days now by rex ellison and Sergei Lavrov why does it also break no real new ground or the commitments that we have been in this statement of commitments that both countries have made in the past also why considering both sides seem to be trumpeting this as a breakthrough was there no proper bilateral meeting between trump and police in vietnam will produce in was talking about that and saying well it was just a matter of julian problem that their pride so coals didnt quite match up with each other he jokes i assume that someone was going to be punished for this but he also alluded that there were problems and that perhaps the United States hadnt been as committed as russia was he said when he was asked what the suggest is that there was no meeting his answer was well it suggests that there are still there is still a deep crisis in the u. S. Russia relationship russia he says would like it to make it better the United States the illusion is it seems to be dragging its feet. Thank you more ahead in the news including the far right marches into mainstream politics thousands of polish nationalists celebrate Independence Day in the capital was. An attempt at palestinian unity gaza residents on a former leader Yasser Arafat and his death anniversary. But also ends a twenty year football world cup qualifying drought details to joe later in the program. Iraqi Government Forces have launched an offensive to capture one of the last remaining areas under control in the country two infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces are carrying out the operation in Anbar Province its believed fighters are holding ten thousand civilians call stage in the town of imran khan has the latest on the offensive on the iraqi capital baghdad. The operation began early on satu