A missile that was fired to Riyadh Saudi Arabia is also taking aim at lebanon saying acts of aggression of been committed by hezbollah which is mine by iran its all done with the lebanese government off the backing the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri saying a whole new reports from beirut. It has been three days since lebanese Prime Minister sato had announced his shock resignation he made his statement in saudi arabia and hasnt returned home since instead he traveled to abu dhabi a saudi ally in the anti iranian camp for talks on an escalating political crisis back home but the crisis extends beyond lebanons borders saudi arabia has made clear it wants to curb iranian influence not just here but across the Region Riyadh is accusing iran of what it called direct military aggression by providing hutu rebels in yemen with rockets used to target the kingdom saudi officials have also said the very presence of hezbollah in the lebanese government amounts to a declaration of war. T
On the agenda when he sits down for formal talks with the chinese leadership adrian brown is in beijing. Exactly a year to the day that he was voted into Office President trump arrived in china the country very savaged throughout the president ial campaign when he called china a currency manipulator and said that china was raping the u. S. Economy all that though was forgotten on wednesday afternoon as president xi jinping and his wife a score to the trumps around the forbidden city one of the most popular Tourist Attractions in china a chance perhaps for president xi to remind donald trump the china was once the center of culture and civilization president xi very much wants china to be center stage in Global Affairs and now top of the agenda of course is going to be north korea and the feeling that the United States believes china could be doing more to rein in its china will be pointing out that actually its done a lot in the past few months to tighten the Financial News around. Ear
A blockade on yemen fuel and food prices have skyrocketed since saudi arabia stopped all imports and flights have been prevented from landing. Those measures and five particular steps that im going to run through taken. There will be a famine in yemen. They will not be like the family in the. Resort in south sudan and earlier in the year when tens of thousands of people were affected. There will not be like the famine which cost two hundred fifty thousand people their lives in somalia in twenty eleven. It will be the largest famine the world to see so many decades with millions of victims kristie bakaly is a human researcher of Human Rights Watch says its up to the u. N. To put pressure on saudi arabia to act well tomorrow and listen the u. N. Security council met today to talk about the humanitarian situation and you know what we said which which i feel very strongly about is that the u. N. Security council already has a mechanism for sanctioning people in yemen who are committing gro
Trade in the Asia Pacific Region more than half of a pick members are trying to sign the deal that trump has withdrawn the u. S. From china is also pushing to form a competing trade bloc in the region to contrast to trumps pursuit of bilateral deals while wayne hay joins me now from denying the u. S. President has arrived and really all eyes on who hes going to speak to in those bilateral talks. Thats exactly right so air force one touching down a Dining International airport about thirty minutes ago and the arrival of donald trump is now being followed by the arrival of his chinese counterpart xi jinping so theyre arriving at da nang about thirty minutes apart from one another of course fresh from their bilateral meetings held over the last couple of days in the Chinese Capital beijing both of those leaders will now head to a summit of a pic chief executives where they will make. Speeches separate speeches the u. S. President expected to begin speaking to those a big c. E. O. s in the
Seven days since the shock resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri which he announced on a surprise visit to riyadh the lebanese president michel aoun is calling on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why hariri has yet to return to beirut following suggestions hes been detained on the house arrest the saudi sharons death in lebanon has denied this insisting horary hasnt returned because of security concerns they know how to has the latest from beirut. 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 crossroads for the past year this country enjoyed 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 been like him for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess thats when he really thinks things are really assassination. And we hav