Magneer, journalists and political analysts, joining us out of brussels. And mr. Firas alnajim, manager at canadian defenders for human rights, joining us from toronto. Hello gentlemen, i like to welcome you both to the program. I guess we will start there in brussels with you mr. Elijah magneer, so what do you make of the saudis meeting with some factions of palestinian leadership there in the occupied west bank, and we have heard nothing about a meeting with resistance groups, is that possibly a red flag . Thank you for having me. I think this is a first step for the saudis to normalize in the latest step with israel. At the end of the day, the ambassador they sent to jerusalem. And to meet with the Palestinian Authority is de an ambassador who has been in jordan who has long experience in contacting and dealing and meeting with the israelis, we have to keep in mind that saudi arabia has sent already several saudi delegations to israel years ago and its continuing the cooperation wit
Zimbabwe last our correspondent in the capital harare. Also coming up a bird it does do this morning in the war crimes trial of the right code law bitch to serve warlord who terrorized balls in the one nine hundred ninety s. Is expected to be convicted today for the last genocide committed in europe. And his cover up of a massive hack data of fifty seven million customers were exposed but the ride hilling firm kept quiet and then paid the hackers to delete the stolen information. Also coming up in the next hour qatar accuses saudi arabia of undermining security in the gulf region in the exclusive interview with g w compost foreign minister slams what he calls reckless behavior by his nations gulf neighbors and reject accusations that contact is financing islamist organizations. Then in football but dark out of the Champions League after losing to the english side tottenham will go through up through the fallout with our sports correspondent. Oh im terry martin good to have you with us
Republicans can defend cottons seat. The republicans vote on the tax plan as soon as today. A littleknown provision that would open one of the worlds and wildernesses to oil fracking guess drilling. Guess drilling. Is a great human rights issue, because the right to survival is one of the first rights people should have. Access to their food and water, and that is being seriously threatened in the arctic. Amy a new investigation found strong evidence that u. S. Special Operations Forces massacred 10 unarmed civilians in somalia, despite claims they were armed enemy combatants. Backandforth and kill these people, including children. Those are people who were innocent and not alshabab fighters. Amy we will speak with Christina Goldbaum in mogadishu, somalia, and on the trump impeachment. That and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On capitol hill, the senate could vote as early as today on a republican tax plan that wou
I thought it would begin by taking a couple minutes and talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, actually impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see is creating disequilibrium, but also how we stabilize the region. My short take on the world is i think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the change of the claimant of the climate. Were going from what i call later to now. When i was growing up in america in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix that river, clean that lake, save that orangutan. You could say it now or save it later. Today, later is officially over. Later now will be too late. That is Climate Change. We see it in the middle east with rising temperatures and rising water issues among others. We are in the middle of a change of climate of globalization. We are going from a world that was interconnected to a
Hundreds of thousands of people have rallied in barcelona to call for spain to remain united its the biggest show of force yes from the socalled silent majority who dont support catalonia as independent spirit some are even demanding the arrest of sacked Catalan Leader colace puts them on qatars amir has told the Us Television Program Sixty minutes that the countries behind the gulf crisis are trying to force a change of leadership his countrys been living on the blockade for almost five months after four arab countries cut ties in june why can a reports. There was no sign of friction among gulf leaders when they met President Trump on his first foreign trip it was all smiles and a common pledge to combat terrorism in all its forms it less than two weeks later the blockade against qatar was launched much to the surprise of cutters emir shaikh bin. We were praising each other. Laughing with each other this cussing you know how to solve this terrorism that is a threat for the rest of the