Is the story of a power struggle between 3 princes 3 rulers who all came to power between 20302015 in the richest Oil Monarchies of the world saudi arabia qatar and the United Arab Emirates. A generation with unbridled ambition and dreams of shaping the future of the arab world. These are people who think that theres power is given to them forever its clear that these cowards will enter just like spoiled children. The rivalry between these 3 men has plunged the gulf region into a crisis like no other. At 34 mohammed bin some months or m. V. S. Is the youngest he rules saudi arabia his favorite pastime is 1st person shooter video games. Mama been so money hes someone who lives in this old tyria world where you know you can control this entire game with a joystick youre the master of death and live. I think n. P. R. s lourdes remarkable about him is each shoot 1st you know and asks questions were. Hailed as a reformer by the west rio its new strongman demonstrated his brutality as soon as he assumed power by declaring a war in yemen. The conflict has already claimed the lives of tens of thousands of. Lives. On the Arabian Peninsula on the borders of the saudi kingdom mohammed bin someone has found a useful ally mohammed bin zayed or m bs a. Is the crown prince of abu dhabi and rules the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed bin zayed lawyer had been fired is a military man whose mindset is very militaristic uses the army as a means to gain more power. Lobbies and particular has paranoia about being surrounded by people who cannot trust. Him with the tanks in the. To establish their dominance in the middle east m. B. s and m. B. Said identified an enemy that needed to be defeated by this unpopular neighbors accused of collusion with Islamist Groups and having close relations with iran. But one of the biggest grievances with time in fanny the emyr of qatar is how his overshadow the other 2 by staging the next football world cup in qatar. Because the princes of the gulf states know each other well there is this clash of ambitions that poly explains the crisis in relations between qatar and certain of its neighbors. In the gulf criticizing the royal family is considered treason punishable by prison or even death. No one has dared to send saudi journalist john mark ashanti was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul. His crime publicly criticizing m. B. s the crown prince of saudi arabia. Today only foreign observers are able to freely discuss these personal quarrels which often involve into state affairs and upsets the geopolitical balance. Of the gulf is far away from most for most europeans geographically but since the arab spring with the old powerhouses of egypt syria libya and also iraq obviously earlier collapsing and disintegrating and disappearing the new powerhouses of the arab world are on the goals. Billy from you heard the ruling families of the gulf are in fact tribes who gradually rose to power in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries of the anything to him 6 these families were living as bedouins and essentially nomadic existence with little other than small scale farming and fishing that there should have. Relations says the wealth and prosperity of any businessman was measured by the number of camels he have that he did that song. Look like a look young to the feel something that all the gulf countries have in common is the fact that up until the 1st oil crisis in 973 that they remain relatively poor is before the. Change obviously came quite quickly and almost brutally i would say. In the new leaders who rose to power in the 20 tens represented a generational shift as unlike their fathers they had no memory of the harsh lives their families had led in the desert they were born into a life of wealth and opulence. They extravagant crown prince of saudi arabia is rumored to have bought the most expensive painting in the world to solve it on monday by leonardo da vinci. For all that really goes is the bit that this is so. It was allegedly a gift for his friend and ally m. B. Said the crown prince of abu dhabi who opened his own Louvre Museum designed by the architect of. The same french architect was commissioned by qatar as well family to design the brand new National Museum in doha. Yeah there is a sort of political one upmanship in terms of which emirate will invest the most in using for example or other cultural endeavors in the end this rivalry between these emirates is to determine who is more committed to efforts to modernize. States know very well that one day the oil will run out and that they now need to attract capital advertising and tourists. For a faint need to have the city with the tallest building in the world or the most expensive all the curious place you. Yeah its a childish race to be the biggest and the best. Without fail were dealing with monarchs who are driven by a need for power who have an enormous amount of hubris that kind of pride. And a country that is so small and yet so rich must spend vast amounts of money to attract the spotlight. And so in 2013 when tommy fanny came to power in cars then the facing 3 year old sports enthusiast inherited the task of staging the worlds most watched sports event. Were very proud that were going to be hosting the world cup in. 2022 this world cup is for all the arabs not for if it was for they would not be successful we said that this whole world cup is for all the arabs and thats why were successful thats a big challenge. Thanks to its wealth from oil and natural gas at the pokies football club. And some of the worlds most expensive play is to boost the reputation of this country with just 2600000 inhabitants. So which is a way for qatar is to gain unparalleled publicity. Everyone loves sport its broadcast 24 hours a day all over the world investing in sport is investing in visibility its the way to get fast recognition. To. Those decisions are not questioned on the streets of doha nor are the scandals that accompany the sport based diplomacy the accusations of corruption and the many deaths on the Building Sites of the world cup stadiums. We are in the other steps no. Other little no Something Special you know the 1st arab country and you know its qatar youre going to be historic like saudi but he was the 1st to take this series out for the world cup so. We would be jealous. At the end of the last world cup a saudi newspaper printed a very telling headline 2018 world cup is over see you for the next one in 2026. Of course whats implied is that the 2022 world cup doesnt exist this anecdote shows that its hard to swallow for the. Political elites see today. For so many of. The release of the neighboring countries could no longer stand to watch matches on qatari channels so they decided to attack one of the flagships. Sports enterprise. And all of a sudden a ghost channel appeared broadcast and no one had heard of until. Then thats called. Its a mocking of the name of being so its the opposite of being is be out to me is that simple and the arctic you on the end to represent guitar so be out. Of here we go this is so you see in school through your move to fortune long to minus 32 seconds 6 seconds. What do you feel to should be. Losing means. You think you see this its a year before. You see the n. B. A. The n. F. L. The super bowl final every sport you can think of is being part of we dont exactly know whos behind it but its a saudi entity so the it is pirated from saudi arabia be in is claiming 1000000000. 00 euros in damages plus interest and has filed a complaint with the world trade organization. This is piracy on an unseen scale and its by no means harness it reveals the rifts in the gulf and the conflict that has been destabilizing an entire region. For us to better understand this tension between tom email fanny on the one side and mohamed bin salman and mohammed bin zayed on the other we have to go back several years. And the real split in the region stems from the arab spring but. I know you know. Its not for some people to worry princes came to power after the start of the arab spring. Funny in 2030. 2040 mm and mohammed bin simon in 2015. All of these rulers and. Who did the arab spring in that political strategies relinquish the many other determinants. When the arab spring began the 1st reaction of the 3 countries saudi arabia qatar and the u. A. E. Was to increase the salaries of all civil servants. I think for the gulf monarchies. Certainly for m. B. A. s and frenzy they are horrified by by the arab spring its like man theyre coming for us and weve got it weve got a real. Honest successful qatar didnt feel threatened by the arab spring mainly because its the smallest of the 3 countries in terms of population there are simply not enough people to form an organized opposition. Which is true organising. Seem to be its the least populated of the 3 countries but also the richest qatar has one of the highest g. D. P. Per capita on the planet. So the motivation to challenge the power of the of funny family is extremely low or even nonexistent its more fabric. In existence. The emir of qatar and the royal family there their reaction the arab spring is very different in some ways its like more sophisticated they thought you know weve got to this is a big wave come in and weve got to get on that web and write it you know and thats the only way were going to survive because we cant fight. And curse so has its own unique way of influencing the course of history the most watched news channel in the arab world. I think without aljazeera the arab spring wouldnt have run as smoothly lets put it that way. Aljazeera is an. Entity that is obviously state owned it was set up in 1906 as part of a vision of the older media to catch someone liberalize Civil Society in the arab world it was all about you know allowing people to speak up against or for terror and oppression for example across the region aljazeera was always giving a voice to anyone and aljazeera you could be a shia radical and you could speak you could be a sunni radical you could speak. Of limbaugh well i live in the uk. Im a little cover this for you for. This cold to murder the libyan dictator was made by one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood a political refugee and. So the feeling was that aljazeera was increasingly trying to give voice to opponents of the arab world in particular to the Muslim Brotherhood was. The catell or ease have also financed and islamist movements in libya and syria and internees and egypt they have contributed to the electoral victories of the Muslim Brotherhood. And the. Saudis and iranians have seen how they worst enemies gain power and do everything to overthrow them. The 2 countries staked everything on the return of the military in order to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood. In egypt they chose to support general elsisi and guarantee him financial aid. Under his command the Egyptian Army staged a coup that ended in the blood. The egyptian regime took revenge on him by sentencing a team of al jazeera reporter has to 3 years in prison. Sick and thats how the riff deepened on the Arabian Peninsula between qatar on the one hand and saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates on the other. Was a hole in the United Arab Emirates theres an extreme concentration of power in the hands of the crown prince of abu dhabi who is reined in all his brothers his. Mohammed bin zayed 1st project was to create a credible army and to focus all its military strategy around the protection of its borders but thats one of the last. Model hunted bin zayed attended centers the prestigious British Military academy he has a pretty clear like side to his personality hes very determined. Mohammed things ayat has always been fascinated by new military technology and every 2 years he organizes what is now the largest worldwide. Production center site of this arms fair really is an disease baby noises which is why he always goes there without fail and visits each of the stats showing just how much he is in his element in this environment and that him. Using his checkbook to claim his see the crown prince himself a former hello. Up to pilots has managed to attract plenty of western sympathy. The United Arab Emirates has become one of the most militarized countries per capita on the planet spending billions of euros each here. In the emirates there is one battle tank for 2100 people in france there is one battle tank or 250000 people. The prince likes to present his also in displays of power the goal is to impress governments around the world. This. Is. One view we see the true face of as a prince who wants to extend his influence beyond the borders of his country he wants to become a charismatic leader in the arab muslim world oh. Shared. You are heard the world of. Mohammed bin ziad wants to become the western worlds most important ally in the fight against islamist terror. In this effort to court west and how is he profits from his nations image as a tax haven and a major tourist destination. To buy has become famous for its artificial islands its Luxury Hotels and its tolerant lifestyle. During state visits the crown prince always puts on an impressive show with a military parade in the colors of the on it guest. Under the cloak of my identity and liberalism mohammed had welcomed the pope with all the pomp and ceremony that one would expect it was the 1st time that a country on the Arabian Peninsula had hosted his holiness this display was of course meant to demonstrate that the u. A. E. Was open to the world and all its religions and creams none of this stops them busy from the really is a kingdom with an iron fist. As ambitious as m. B. Is that is hes always known his country is too small to play in the major league he needed an ally and he found it in saudi arabia. Mohamed bin sayed so mohammed bin sons rise to power as an amazing opportunity because the saudi rulers shadd the same political goal as the u. A. E. Namely an autocratic modernization. Notion here because he wants saudi life to become more liberal to reduce the role of religion in society and to modernize the countrys economic infrastructure which. Saudi arabia has a population of 30000000. 00 and is completely dependent on its oil exports a resource which is diminishing year after year. The country needs to diversify and m. P. S. Is ready to face the challenge. Hes a big guy hes very dynamic he walks into the room everybody stops talking. Be extremely. Well that would eat you know part of the. Shuttle to much myself and i dont know what i thought but then i havent had that so whats up with me every day. Hes a modern charismatic guy. Looks women in the eye shakes their hands. Very direct and thats a very thats a thing that westerners. You met all these ventures big venture capitalists and so from valley. On his trip to the United States he just kind of wowed everybody. Hes been portrayed as a hothead hes impulsive hes not very strategic in its decisions hes very childish sometimes that definitely applies to more ive been so lucky. Im not just 29 years of age m. B. A. s became the worlds youngest defense minister and immediately his focus turned towards the old enemy missile or the saudis the existential threat in the region is a real. And i defy you see the. Other place in the hall because i live in the at the smaller concert here. So what i mean if you could come up with kind of the whole feel was of surprise. And yet nothing but here is a very strong rivalry between iran and saudi arabia who both opposes the 2 great powers of the gulf. So what really disturbs saudi arabia is the expansionism of revolutionary she is in. That they feel totally surrounded by iran who has a heavy presence in iraq. Lebannon syria. And of course in yemen and with the who teens. And early 2015 m. P. s took over the reins as commander in chief of the saudi military at the same time those who fees and local shiites and probably run militia seized yemens capital sana. And the crown prince tooth as to mean that her van was effectively a presence at the southern border of the saudi kingdom. Come mohammed bin simon this when my men didnt sound money aside to intervene in yemen the idea was to signal his arrival in power by showing that under his rule saudi arabia was not a country to mess with. Your general must be a chicken or the believe comet. Or the spit of the mc ill be im sure there can be a good that even the. Pleasant one dorm. Not must finish the 3rd because you a lot of. M. P. s knew he could count on the suppose of his ally m. B. He said and his well equipped army to support him in this nearly declared war. Will sure to be any rotty intervention in yemen allowed them to exhibit that military power on the well stage. When the emirate is went into yemen it was a quite a quite impressive and i know it impress a lot of people there like you know wow. Im on his way and. Very impressive operation maybe this wont be so bad i think that all changed very quickly. Was. Was. Oh. Ill tell you the both of they are killing soldiers civilians policemen many Common People they are targeting universities money a mole on the saudi regime is killing students. They are the terrorists. Then the system it was making bombs are now taking them from we will Never Surrender an arsenal so now. The war in yemen is going terribly wrong. The massive humanitarian crisis of cholera or phantom parts and i. See mixed up its a terrible mess the saudis and their emulating allies are really burnt down in it its a bit like their vietnam war. It is anti iranian obsession of the saudis is not necessarily shared by the other monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula the country said we dont want to get involved in yemen when the country military did is they will move to southern yemen to to help the saudis protect their southern border but they didnt get involved in the air war and putting boots on the ground in the same way that the air atis or the saudis did. If you can as a result qatar is considered by saudi arabia and abu dhabi as being too close to tehran. To. Look at the video. Does iran share an offshore gas field in northern qatar in the persian gulf. If in if there were more inevitably that requires a certain amount of cooperation with iran is going to qatar cant. Border breakdown in relations with iran as it would be against its own financial interest. These disagreements over iran were