Opec of course that Work Together to reduce supplies to World Markets to keep prices relatively high but the been on opposing sides on a number of issues especially syria and iran the 2 nations have discussed cooperating on Missile Defense which is a controversial issue for the United States of course saudi arabia currently relies on u. S. Made systems which washington recently agreed to strengthen the thoughts of nicholai a question of who is an associate professor at the Gulf Study Center of how to university he told us the timing of this visit is significant. There are basically 3 priorities the 1st one is to ensure the signing off as much economic contracts as possible in the nuclear petrochemical that are in the oil and gas petrochemical fildes. Secondly to achieve the understanding on the system to continue the corporation within the opec bloss between saudi arabia and russia and possibly even the further decrease in the Production Output and finally to reach the common understanding or the key issue of the Regional Security most of the invested quite a lot of efforts in trying to make the litany of change in this relations to bring down at the level of lets say what it sees as a Strategic Partnership and now we believe that the time is really important because on the one hand there is a really serious decision on oil market that should be taken within opec lost by january 20th fainted on the other hand there is a growing insecurity in the region which as i said allows moscow to sell its vision of the future security structure and finally moscow believes that it at last it brought its ideas about potential projects for bilateral cope comic operation at the stage where they can be not only in simply signed by. Implemented as soon as possible. I former white house rusher advisor fiona hill is testifying behind closed doors in Congress Today as part of the impeachment inquiry into president on trump hill was the senior director for european and Russian Affairs on Donald TrumpsNational Security council and resigned just days before his phone conversation with ukraines president back in july he was expected still several house committees why she was concerned about marie event of a removal as u. S. Ambassador to ukraine she is also likely to discuss how in her view trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the u. S. Ambassador to the golden sundin were conducting their own ukraine policy separate from the National Security council has she had her tansey live on capitol hill for us she has as i read through all of that it starts to add up doesnt it another strong case in this impeachment inquiry. Right and shes been speaking for about an hour now we would expect her to speak for several hours today certainly the former Ukrainian Ambassador you mentioned in your preamble there she spoke about 9 hours almost on friday and this is the key question i guess is this the shadow Foreign Policy that was being conducted by Rudolph Giuliani and the e. U. Ambassador bolton someone who will be speaking later on and this week i guess for the for the articles of impeachment for those purposes the key question is always is this shadow Foreign Policy on behalf of the National Interests of the United States or for Donald Trumps personal interests thats the key question a president does have a great deal of leeway to control Foreign Policy as he or as he sees fit even to a point in their own voice and so on but but who is benefiting from this so that i think thats the really the key question who is benefiting from the former ambassador being removed early in her term and so on and it seems from the sort of leaks weve been getting she didnt make an Opening Statement but so that those around her have been talking to the press is that she will confirm that there was a shadow Foreign Policy a Foreign Policy operation conducted by Rudolph Giuliani and it appears she will say this was in support of Donald Trumps own personal political objectives of that scheme for any articles of impeachment this is all about you know who is benefiting why is all trump having the shadow Foreign Policy so she doesnt as you said know that much about that specific conversation on july 25th having said that it seems from what were hearing that she will say that there was some kind of quid pro quo being offered a lot less 350 ohms but for that visit for president selenski to the white house that is open to corruption investigation and youll get the visit so thats seems to be where shes going with that but she will be confirming we understand a shadow Foreign Policy agenda not necessarily in the u. S. National interest and that will be ok well the links dont usually take too long to there so well be back as she had a little later when we learn a little more from that testimony in the meantime well talk to john herbst who is a Eurasia Center director of the Atlantic Council but was also a former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine joining us from berlin and im sure with that previous job youre fascinated by whats going on how important just on todays events do you think is this testimony from fiona hill. Well i think her testimony will be important and if its along the lines you describe it will be a raise the problem for for President Trump i suspect though the testimony of gordons son will be even more explosive if again the least were hearing about the toast when he could come out do you believe this is all starting to add up now the sheer waste of evidence the sheer number of high profile people who are coming out because well Donald Trumps defense is always to just push back and say its a witch hunt and other such lines but what this inquiry is doing is actually going down a legal forensic path well i think its true that we have public evidence demonstrating pretty clearly that President Trump was using the possibility of a visit with president s alone ski as a quid pro quo in order to get selenski to do an investigation into Vice President biden. I suspect well probably will see more evidence which suggests that thats what he was doing with the military assistance as well although it would be premature to say that and thats very very damaging that certainly was against american policy interests what about the 2nd she had was talking about it earlier you could hear our discussion with him but this idea of shadow policy and shadow discussions going on outside of what happened with the National Security council if thats all confirmed as we as it seems i mean how how how damaging is that and is that something which again this president and this white house can attempt to sort of brush off. Its a little bit more complicated than that because i think its true to say that mayor giuliani was conducting a private policy but about a private policy on behalf of the president however there were u. S. Government officials involved with this to. Embarrass the someone who weve already discussed also ambassador volcker and to a lesser extent but also our current charge a in kiev ambassador taylor. So where is all this heading then in your opinion are we. Mean the feeling is that a impeachment was the unfortunate thing go ahead go ahead ok the unfortunate thing is that of all the people we just i just mentioned all 4 people the person who seemed to be driving the train was mayor giuliani who was not part of the government and if the policy is as we are as it looks to have been meaning that there was a quid pro quo certainly the visit maybe the weapons that was a very damaging Foreign Policy damaging to our National Interest damaging to our national reputation. And if this all proves to be the case i think it amounts to a huge problem for President Trump whether its an Impeachable Offense or leave the others to commons but it is seriously a problem and john hurts former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine now with the Atlantic Council. Very much appreciate your time thank you. There have been large protests in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 council and separatist leaders whove been sent to prison for their role in the regions failed bid for independence Rail Services to the airport were briefly suspended because of demonstrations the Supreme Court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison before my counsel and Vice President. Received 13 years for the crime of sedition more with son your guy who are now in the Regional Council on capital of basilan that just took us through. The very sense things and the reaction to it. For the overreaction have been expected really there was an angry outpouring almost immediately after the sentencing was announced where people decided to congregate and meet points of the city center of fossil and if you look behind me here theyve theyve cut off 2 of the main arteries in the City Center One of the roads that you see is actually one of the ones that leads to the airport now. Whilst they met in the city Center Thousands of. Took either the train or went by boat towards the airport where there is a huge group of them now essentially blockaded one of the total buildings and still they are turning up because people did go by and speaking to people here as well after they say this particular demonstration here they will go by foot towards the airport as well and of course their main. Reason for this is to cause as much just for option as possible though they were called by the civil by the government to a civil disobedience protest take place as well which would involve the cutting off of streets as well as hitting the Main Communications areas and transport hubs such. The court but this is something that is going to definitely be continuing throughout the week youve got already on wednesday and nava march is another set of marches which are going to be starting outside of the cities and towns outside of the city and they will take about 2 days before they reach the city of boston lono weather will be a general strike at the end of the workday week thank you for the updates on your guy i go in barcelona now a Strong Police presence in guinea appears to have put many people off attending a protest against president alpha conde demonstrators had organized a rally in the capital conakry and at least one person died with another being hospitalized after shots were fired at protesters theyre angry about companys plan to change the constitution and to run for a 3rd term 6 opposition figures have also been arrested. He is in the capital conakry. This is dont tell you this is normally a bustling road filled with people and activity its a ghost town most people have stayed indoors because look around you these are the Paramilitary Security forces and opposition accuse them of shooting them down with live ammunition now over there is this if you can still see protesters gathering this is whats happening throughout the capital and throughout the country sporadic attacks or confrontation between the Security Forces and protesters protesters that are out on the streets to protest against attempts by president to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term in office now hes 81 years old and if he had his way then he would be one of the all this president and forgot and many of the protesters here are young they want to see change and despite the Economic Growth they want more Political Freedom and want to get their voices heard and thats why theyve taken to the streets. Whats coming up for you in this new. My government intends to work towards a new partnership with the European UnionQueen Elizabeth rang up the u. K. Governments plans for the new parliamentary session of the report and. Also the malaysian governments plans to build new artificial islands along the coast which has fishermen in the area in an uproar. When in sport we will hear from japans rugby captain authors teams big breakthrough at the world cup. And i once again welcome to the look of the international forecast has seen some sharing just spilling out of the caspian sea across parts of northern iran is in the process of pay to ring out so its looking largely dry and sunny as we go on through the next couple of days to run a 25 celsius further east getting up to sydney temperature in kabul 35 therefore kharaj a little more clout across the eastern side of the mat pushing across syria into lebanon into jordan as well 30 celsius that the beirut over the next couple of days is why this day promises to be a brighter day more the way of sunshine sunshine want sunshine to work across iraq baghdad of around 37. 00 saudis or 36. 00 the 4 q 8 mid thirtys across the river potential i just notice a little more cloud across southern parts of our monument just catch one or 2 coastal showers here to go on into wednesday was a chance of wanted to show us just around the gulf of aden as well which i also want to see showers into madagascar over the next day or so before much of south africa is now looking largely fine and dry not just a little more plowed into maybe angola seeing some live showers along the spells of friday and assist paying that way as we go through the next couple of days. 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On the news on here at aljazeera these are all top stories the Syrian Government troops appear to be positioning themselves for a direct confrontation with Turkish Forces near the kurdish held city of these are pictures of u. S. Forces now stationed at the nearby bridge former white house advisor on russia fiona hill is testifying in congress as part of the impeachment inquiry into president dont trump she resigned just days before trumps phone call with ukraines president. In july a large protests are taking place in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 catalan separatist leaders found guilty for their role in the regions failed bid for independence Rail Services to the airport were briefly suspended because of demonstrations. Britains Queen Elizabeth has outlined her governments agenda during the official state opening of parliament. Cabinet has stressed the importance of leaving the e. U. By the deadline of october 31 but with a minority government its unlikely parliament will pass any of the proposals mentioned in the speech Charlie Angela reports from london. The costumes the carriage the queens speech is the high point of parliamentary pageantry and the british monarch announces the governments plans for new legislation in a speech written for her she began with proposals to support a back seat deal if a deal is reached this week my governments priority has always been to secure that you imagined kingdoms departure from the European Union on the 31st of october. My government intends to work towards a new partnership with the European Union based on free trade and friendly cooperation. Boris johnson has just 5 days to secure a bricks deal the parliament would approve if he doesnt succeed he faces asking for an extension to the october 31st deadline or trying to force through a no deal brecks it against the wishes of the house of commons the government says it is hopeful for an agreement after the Prime Minister and as i was counterpart agreed on a pathway to a deal on custo