nato says 15,000 afghan security forces died or were injured in the first eight months of 2015. a 30% increase over last year. >> on the security side, the afghan security forces are struggling, a high number of casualty whicies which is not sustainable in the long-term and the government is not fictioning. >> reporter: it took the government nearly six months to agree on cabinet members a midst rumors of political in fighting between the president and his chief executive. can in one of the most important positions defense minister remains unfilled. with an acting minister making security decisions. the afghan press has repeatly asked of afghan people to be patient. change takes time that things will get worse before they get better. this time last year, he had two things he lacks now, momentum and the people's support. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. >> following afghanistan politics now closely, joins me now from kabul. good to have you with us, it's one year since the president took over, do you think most afghans are satisfied with the performance of his government? >> u

. >>> breaking right now in the last moment from nato, we just got this, the nato chief says the russian air strike made no effort to avoid any conflict with u.s.-led coalition forces against isis. team fox coverage continues now with reaction from the white house. peter dooci is there. >> officials here are so ko confident the situations are so similar, they believe russia will fail. the white house thinks the solution should be a political transition and they repeated today as they have many times over the last several years, the political transition hinges on assad leaving. no update on how to get rid of him. >> this meeting between the american president and the russian president, we got no word on what was discussed. do we know whether today's actions were talked about then? >> we know they were not talked about. josh earnest specifically said putin never leaned in to obama and said, get out of the way, we're going to go clean things up in syria. we now know that when president obama and putin chatted monday it was about de-conflicting military operations in syria. and earnest says

she has had discussions with her key, and important make nato i nato i i believe as we said earlier this needs to be a sunni arab fight against the sunni extremists. under american leadership with our special forces embedded but it has to be a sunni arab, in their backyard. they have to step up to the plate to defeat the sunni extremists. i think for too long we carried the water there and i don't think there is a political appetite for that. i think in indigenous force under american leadership in nato with our forces is the best strategy to defeat this threat. >> you talked about a few pieces of legislation, where are they? >> we just came out with this report so the next step is to identify the legislative steps necessary and also dealing with the key committees. i think again, this is one of the issues that as a ranking member indicated that this is about protecting americans. this should not be a partisan issue. these bills bills should be able to pass through the house. the senate, given their 60 vote rule, for god sakes, if we can't pass this kind of legislation what can we pass?

ambassador to nato later. let's listen to putin. >> translator: in its legitimacy, representation and universality, it is true that lately, the u.n. has been widely criticized for supposedly not being efficient enough, and for the fact that the decision making on fundamental issue stalls due to insurmountable issues. however, i'd like to point out there have always been differences in the u.n. throughout all these 70 years of existence. it's always been exercised by the united states, the united kingdom, france, china, the soviet union and russia alike. it is a diverse and representative organization. when the u.n. was established, its founders did not in the least think there would always be this. the strength comes from taking different views into consideration. decisions debated within the u.n. are either as resolutions or not. as diplomats say they pass or do not pass. whatever actions any state might take by passing this procedure are illegitimate. they run counter to the charter and defi internationy int

we need to convince them to get involved ed id in nato. >> they are in nato. >> reporter: no one can argue ben carson who performed ground breaking surgeries is not bright. donald trump is a very smart man. polls show republican primary voters want outsiders to bring a new perspective to washington. those who do have experience, those who are running on that experience, they're hoping that voters will look at the reality tv star's interview and say he's not ready for prime time. >> dana bash, thank you so much. a lot to discuss about this. let's bring in jeffrey lord and rory cooper. thanks for coming on. rory, starting with you, we heard it, donald trump saying hugh hewitt asked gotcha questions. do you think trump has a right to be upset? >> no. he's a brilliant interviewer. he will do a brilliant job. he was asking fair questions. donald trump's not -- is not running to be dog catcher. he has to have a broad idea of what's going on in the world. voters will forgive whether he forgets names or who might be leading a current regime. who is leading a proxy war in syria? what is going

nato is pretty straightforward. the u.s. is leading a multinational coalition with nato is backing up. turkey, of course, is part of nato, which confiscates their role. i described earlier some mixed interests they have there, including on the refugee issue, which is probably the single overwhelming security situation for them. has a positive relationship with russia at this point. i think the russians are looking to continue to maintain turkish support for their transit operations going into syria. obviously, if the turks said no and try to block that, it back could make life very difficult for the russians. the iranians, they have been providing support for what they view as part of this broad shiite alliance in the form of the assad regime. but on the other hand, they are not fighting directly on the ground to the degree that they were in iraq, as far as we know. if the iranians were to go in more significantly, it was likely provoke a lot of other arab states to go in on the other side. of course, what that other side wo

they are all members of nato. we have solid obligation to come to their assistance should they be attacked. question, can we do that, are we capable of putting together the type of operation if we had to? i think putin is bound and determined while the bombings in the white house to take advantage of that. he knows weakness when he sees it. it is provocative, and i think he also had an objective, the desire to undermine nato. i can see them pursuing a strategy, a series of operations basically don't put a lot of pressure on the united states. remember, we're 75% of the nato budget. it isn't an data without the united states leadership and use force to be a part of it. at all that i think will be tested in the next couple of years by mr. putin. he watches, he can read the newspaper, he knows what's happening to our defense budget. he obviously has a set of beliefs. somebody suggested the other day, more dangerous than the predecessors gorbachev's predecessors when you had brezhnev and others. the argument was at le

moves in syria, joining us, the former nato supreme nato comm d commander and julia a contributing writer for the new york times magazine. general, we were saying the u.s. and russia, former soviet union have been through these kinds of issues before. first of all, what is russia up to right now? >> first of all, i think ton honest, isis is as much of a threat to russia as us. their whole southern border is possible terrorist activity -- >> but the targets today in this first air strike clearly if you listen to the pentagon were not isis. >> well, that i think needs to be determined but targeting isis for them a priority and what bothers me here, do we have a joint air coordination center? >> u.s. russia. >> u.s. russia, russia, nato or whatever how to pull the coalition together and make sure we don't go bump in the night. that to me is imperative here if we're going to have a coordinated effort in syria. >> you were shaking your head, julia. >> it's been confirmed now that the targets that russia hit today were actually cia-backed, u.s.-backed anti-assad rebels. when russia said it woul

and nato combat mission. joining us now is james jeffrey. ambassador, always good to see you. let's start with a question we ask every year on this sad anniversary. are we safer here in the homeland? >> in the homeland, we're definitely safer. the ability of al quaeda or any other terrorist group to launch anything like the attack on 9/11 has really all been arat erradicated. we've seen that time and time again here in the united states. we saw it a couple of weeks ago on a train from brussels to france. there will be individual people and there may be casualties. the thing that the u.s. government correctly focuses on is the kind of mass casualty headline grabbing attacks that we saw on 9/11, that we saw in london sometime later, in madrid, i understand knee that, jordan. those are the kind of attacks al quaeda wanted to do to grab attention and expand influence. >> what is the greatest danger to the u.s. today? should we be more worried about conventional opponents, russia, china? are they more of a threat to the u.s.? >> it's all of the above. there's no doubt that the remn

nato, the world bank, united nations -- dozens of these institutions that brought people together based upon a common interest. differences of opinion. have.s. will continue to bridges with our strongest allies. that's okay. -- continue to have differences with our strongest allies. the world is going to get more comforted. a world of 700 -- 7 billion people now. how we use our military is always important, has always been important. but today, it's particularly important because the military caps off all the problems. -- can't solved all of the problem. they are underpinned by a much bigger political, social problems. my good friend jim clifton, who is from nebraska, his family owns gallup. he's said over the last couple what's goingch of on in the world is driven by nop hope, despair, and joblessness. you have these 18, 19, 2 0-year-old man with no prospects, no education, no job, no hope. what we think is going to happen? it won't be good. all these things come together at a point where the strength of her military, just as always, must never become demised. -- must never be compromi

he's enjoying disrupting nato and the european union. and right now what we're seeing is just a phenomenal, remarkable situation where germany, which has a grain population, needs young workers, wants to skim the cream off the refugees and dump the rest of them into other states that have high unemployment, have already all the refugees they can handle, and this must be a bigger problem than the greek debt crisis. the germans need a broader spectrum of workers, but the problem is that as you saw with the extent of the greek debt crisis, europe is still not a real union, they have very different needs between north and south, even between west and east within the european union, and merkel is doing what she wants to do and country wants to do and what's best for germany, period. lou: have we overestimated the intelligence of the european leaders, underestimated the intelligence of putin and she, and ayatollah khamenei? i mean they are playing with the united states leadership and the european union leadership as if they were abject fools,

going to agree with tom cole regarding -- helmet kohl regarding reunification and germany's future, nato membership. so things went well for him because he had a good start. he was wished her well -- wished well by the politburo, and when he ran into difficulties he was a far from the ruler. he made lots of errors. is management of the economy was catastrophic. the ruination of the soviet economy was really dramatic. i remember going to moscow in 1990, went into a gigantic dairy supermarket where nothing was sold but butter, milk, yogurt and associated products. they were about 20 dairy counter assistance in the supermarket and there was absolutely no milk. not a single bottle or can or tub of milk in the whole of the supermarket. it was an absolutely catastrophic period of management of the economy. but on the side of international relations, gorbachev got his way right towards the end of the soviet union's entire existence. now, i said that i wanted to focus on interaction as much as possible. where do the americans come into all of this? well, the strategic defense initiative did make

member his nation is safe from russia, because he believes nato could not fail on its responsibility to protect estonia. >> thank you. >>> scientists at nasa say they found strong evidence of flowing water on mars. a potential break through in hopes of some day sending humans to the red planet. john hendren has more. >> reporter: scientists say the red planet is not the desolate dry place they thought it was. >> today we're revolutionizing the understanding of this planet. there's a lot more humidity in the air. as we ingest the soils they are full of water. mars is not the dry arid planet that we thought of in the past. today we're going to announce that under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on mars. >> reporter: researchers say a few billion years ago, mars was covered with rivers, lakes, and possibly an ocean, where they believe only a small amount of frozen water remained. now a camera captured streaks of flowing briny water on the surface of the red planet, and they say there is a water cycle that changes over the course of the year, much like the water cycle

from isil and middle east, it's absolutely right to increase spending and make sure that membership nato is cornerstone of our defense. >> you have been watching prime minister's questions. and again sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. watch anytime on c-span.org where you can find video of pastor prime minister's questions and other british public affairs programs. >> next, a discussion on pope francis's views on capitalism. after that, a form examining relationships between the united states and thailand. and then loretta lynch talks about changes to the criminal justice system. pope francis is scheduled to arrive in washington, d.c. tuesday afternoon. the cato institute hosted a discussion on his views on capitalism and his -- and its effect on poverty around the world. they consider the pope's statements on global free markets and their tendencies towards selfishness, greed, and economic inequality. this is about one hour and 20 minutes. [no audio] this is saint john paul ii. >> much of what he says, he knows would be shocking because he has a colorful style. ou

america is concerned and so is nato. russia presses ahead with the military buildup in syria with tanks, armored personnel carriers, and troops. good evening, everyone. a day that europe wanted to open their door to migrants. we have been dealt a sobering lessons in how to erect barriers. flashpoint, germany's border with denmark. trying to cross the border by train, 100 are still on one of those trains. denmark >> these men tried to make a break for it. they tried to stop the train the previous night. authorities wanted to register the migrants but many refused to get off the train. we hope we can solve this problem and convince remaining passengers to leave the train. and we can register them and let the officials do their job. some migrants had agreed to go with authorities the night before. they were transported to reception centers and buses. others stayed on board hoping the train would continue north. most hoped to make it to sweden. danish authorities have stopped the trains and close the border to pedestrians. j

it is a member of nato. it is a critical transit state either for nato flag operations, or for russian transit. let's not forget that the russian ships that we have been observing over the last several have been passing through the bosporus straits will stop -- the bosporus straits. by treaty, but basically turkish waters. refugee crisis, which has been dominating the headlines in europe and is an existential crisis for leaders in the european union. turkey was once an aspiring member, and now it is the superhighway by which those escaping the conflicts are getting into europe. it seems the last thing the turks you want to do is get involved in fighting this conflict, because they are either going to have an enemy on their doorstep in the form of the assad regime, or they are going to be -- where they are going to be propping up a neighboring dictatorship. what they want to do is quietly managed the refugee crisis and keep the border more or less controlled. they have not been able to do that. and then provi

nato eu, australia, southeast asia. but you have to start with a u.s./taipei dialogue that builds trust and some agenda for moving forward and some understanding of what -- where the rails are, where we will start to get uncomfortable. the other thing is to recognize that the president of the united states will develop relationships with other leaders in sensitive areas because he can talk to them on the phone, he can meet them in person p and you cannot overtight what an effect that has with taiwan. and how frankly i had to go in and tell the president based on reporting from taipei, based on very capable david lee and others who are here, we had to go in and sort of explain for the president where we saw things going, often in contradiction to what was showing up in the press. and so the incoming administration here should recognize you can say stuff in the campaign, you can have bureaucratic mismatches, you can have problems. and often the president can get on the phone or have a summit and you start fixing those issues. you can't really do that with

the military chief of nato had no such delicacies. listen to general and what he had to say about the russians. >> what concerns me about what's going on in syria. we see some very sophisticated air defenses going into these airfields. we see some very sophisticated air-to-air aircraft going into these airfields. i have not seen isil flying any airplanes that require sa-15s or sa-22s. i have not seen isil flying any airplanes that require sophisticated air-to-air capabilities. so what i am doing is what i've always done, i look at the capabilities and the capacities that are being created, and i determine from that what might be their intent. these very sophisticated air defense capabilities are not about isil. they're about something else. >> reporter: the blunt general breedlove indicating his military assessment is the russians may be ready to strike against forces, militias fighting bashar al assad, to beef up, assad. all of this comings the u.s. struggling to figure out what to do with its program to train and equip moderate syri

or nato active, what is happening in the russian or is not necessarily provocative. what is the father points out in the report points out the provocative military exercises the nuclear saber which is dangerous talk air patrols they are doing quite aggressively along all of the arctic as well as bulk takes the, including alaska up to the border and so forth. that is the cold war stuff with it for a long time. again, in 91 it stopped in without being moved beyond that and we would be back into that era of testing provocations and so forth. >> to fall on back, that is why i mentioned the art expenditure because i seabed really managing the remotenes

allies for example, nato ally turkey, which is actively supporting the jihadi forces in syria. the support is so strong, that it appears that turkey helped frontlies on the al-nusra to kill and capture the few dozen fighters that were introduced into syria by the pentagon a few weeks ago. it is a result of several years, and who knows how many billions to enters, training and were immediately captured or killed. apparently, with the aid of turkish intelligence. more important than that, the central role of the leading u.s. ally saudi arabia for the jihadi rebels in syria and iraq. and more generally, for saudi arabia having been "a major source of financing" to rebel and terrorist organizations since the 1980's. that is from eight -- a recent study by the parliament repeating what is well known. and still more generally, the missionary zeal with which saudi arabia promulgates its radical extremist doctrines by ic schools,g koran mosques, sending radical clerics throughout the muslim world with enormous impact. one of the closest observers of the region, patrick cockburn, the ma

the airstrikes from an f-16 called in to protect nato forces including nat nato and american troops advising afghanistan. the troops are not supposed to be involved in front line fighting with the exception of a small current terrorism force authorized to target individuals. chairman john mccain was quick to blame the call on kunduz on the president's decision to pull out those forces. he said that the collar-based draw down despite situations on the ground have created an opening for the taliban and placed at risk the hard-earned gains of the past decade. tonight the pentagon said that the government has amassed a sizable force numbering in the thousands to try to retake dunduz, saying that the force will defeat the taliban and return the city to afghan patr patrol. >> you know, when i listen to this story, i hear this story, and i think about the united states fought car in afghanistan, it's almost like again? >> that's right. the fall of kunduz is a big deal. this is a major city. this is not some hamlet. this is not some district down in far away remote areas. this is a major city, and i

is that acceptable to nato? >> welsglel -- >> well, there is a buildup, and it is too early to know, but i urge them to play a constructive role to not support this, and what is also not going to be constructive to finding a solution. what we need is a political and negotiated solution. that's the most important thing. >> and there are some who russia under president obama is trying to expand the influence in syria right now, and potentially elsewhere as well, and nato looks at that with deep concern, i assume? >> yes, we are following that very close, and si very much of concern that they are bringing so much military presence in syria. and at least we need the mechanisms for deacon flikt the military presence of russia with the coalition which has been there for a long time fighting isil, because we have to avoid accidents, and close flying planes, russian planes that we expect to be in the air as well as the coalition planes fighting aislic isil. >> and now that russia has moved into crimea, and has ambitions

and nato left year, leaving afghan forces to face the taliban alone. taliban fighters are a powerful force on the ground and have tried to take the city before. afghan forces managed to push them back. the question is, whether they can do it again. stephanie decker, al jazeera. >>> volkswagen is now facing legal problems because of the emissions scandal. german prosecutors have launched an investigation into the former ceo. rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: the public prosecutor's office has announced that it is launching a criminal investigation into the former ceo of volkswagen group who resigned under pressure last week. the focus of the probe says the prosecutor's office will be on potential fraud surrounding volkswagen's now admitted scheme to cheat emissions testing by implanting special software into 11 million of its vehicles that make their diesel engines appear when tested to be less polluting, when they were much more polluting when driven under actual driving conditions. it was less than a week when then the highly respected german executi

fight america, nato, international community and u.n.? it is not viable. not realistic. he is losing as nile said earlier, this is about flexing his muscles. russia is not the power that it used to be. what he is doing he is trying to flex his muscles to show the world he -- trish: only has a little bit of time left. isn't that part of the problem? kt mcfarland was on the program yesterday. used to work in the pentagon knows quite a bit about these things. she made the point the clock is ticking. nile, he has only got so much time and he is going to play for every single minute. >> yeah. vladmir putin is extremely ruthless and unscrupulous. in contrast i think, president obama is viewed by the russians as very weak-kneed and dithering, and russians take advantage of that. only language that mr. putin understands is the language of strength and resolve. we haven't seen that being projected by the obama white house. trish: no, you haven't. you haven't. as we move forward as we try to deal with the likes of a thug as john mccain said, like vladmir putin is the answer, gina

for that reason also china has tended to pose nato expansion. not necessarily for any alignment of interests, any desire to see russia circa rick assert its hegemony in the near abroad the primary because they do not want to see the u.s. military outlines gets stronger. you see those sorts of exercises ask strategic influence. >> since we're talking about coercion and political, political warfare at the u.s. alliance system in the region, zack and mentioned earlier that the u.s. taking a strong stance on the secaucus is a good thing. since we're talking at the ship missiles and talking about other missile base ways in which china is bullying its neighbors, i'll suggest, perhaps in the hope of a softer outcome, success to a softer outcome. i think one of those things that china continue to say to its neighbors, you know, you're not goingoing to get involved in the franchise on missile defense, are you? i think the question is, why not? and the information sharing agreement, a trilateral information sharing agreement from i think last december for

. >>> also tonight, another foreign policy failure in afghanistan nearly a year after nato ended its combat mission there. u.s. special forces are now on the ground in the northern city of kunduz trying to help afghan forces retake it from the taliban. they seized it earlier this week at a major military victory for the taliban. we take up the president's embarassing handling of afghanistan and the war against the islamic state. we talk tonight with general jack keane, ambassador john bolton, former pentagon official k.t. mcfarland. >>> and donald trump reigniting his presidential campaign. a new poll shows trump with a 10-point lead over his republican rivals as the billionaire ends his six day boycott of fox news. we'll discuss all things politics with former reagan political director ed rollins, fox news digital politics editor chris stirewalt. >>> top story tonight -- russian president putin defying the west and the obama white house by launching airstrikes in syria, putin significantly escalated the war in syria. today's russian attacks mark the first time russia carried out a m

union collapsed and never the less, nato continues to expand, as well as the military inf infrastructu infrastructure, and offering the countries a false short whether to be with the east or the west, and sooner or later this spark of confrontation is to spark off a geopolitical complaint. a and in is what happened in ukraine, where the discontent of the popular leadership was at odds. we are confident that through the agreements of february 12th, 2015, ke with put a way to the end of the bloodshed. the integrity cannot be influenced by the force of arms ash and what is needed is the genuine concern for the people of the region, and the respect of the choice, and there is a way to coordinate with them the kremlin's governance, and that guarantee s th guarantees that the ukraine people will be building in a space of specific space both in europe and eurasia, and ladies and gentlemen, i have is mentioned these common space on purpo purpose. not long agot it seemed that in the economic sphere with the market laws, we were left without dividing line, and we would build on the transparent,

he is anti-american, dislikes nato. is appointed somewhat shadow chancellor, even less moderates and him. it makes jeremy corbyn look like a moderate because this guy wants the bank to stop -- tom: could he become prime minister? what is likelihood that he could replace mr. cameron? i would say at this point very unlikely if not impossible, but he actually comes into power -- that he comes into power. this means a very fragmented labour party, and it could mean that conservatives do not have an opposition party. this is dangerous not for the election because it is five years away, but he does we have an eu referendum at our doorstep in the next 18 months. his country goes to vote. we do not know whether jeremy corbyn at this point is pro-europe or not. we know he is lukewarm. we know that someone who is very close to him has refused his job because he does not think he is pro-europe enough to try and tor the citizens of britain vote, to stay within the european union. i would say that is probably more dangerous and him

convention, these exercises are legal, blue its worrying nato definitely. and they're getting more and more armed vessels in an area that's already militarized. and that could upset the stability in the middle east. >> that's peter sharp reporting from moscow. professor swift is from georgetown, and he joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time. and so if you go back to monday, and vladimir putin was addressing the u.n. general assembly, he basically said he thought that al-assad should stay in power, and he wanted to take on terrorism. so we kind of knew something like this was coming, and we didn't know when, but now the airstrikes are happening, and are those two things in conflict, wanting to keep assad in power, and targeting isil? >> well, i think they offer some value, those two positions offer some valuable insight into the way that the kremlin, and vladimir putin in particular look at the challenge in the middle east. if you look at their operations today, and i pulled some russian maps of those air operations. all of those operations hi

we have a former supreme nato allied commander. now the don't of the fletcher school at tufts university. nice to see you again. thank you. >> good to see you, shepard. >> are you worried about the russian moves or is this something with which we should not concern ourselves? >> we should very much concern ourselves. at a minimum, it's going to prolong this conflict. it's going to put more chaos into a very confused battle space, and worst of all it's going to put russian military conducting combat operations, i have no doubt of that -- in the same battle space in which the united states is flying combat missions against the islamic state. that is a very dangerous prescription. we taught be -- ought to be very concerned use, how does it change the equation for us about how we're fighting fighting thec state. >> it does nose change the equation for us. i think secretary kerris doing this and hopefully the secretary of defense ash carter today in the talk you mentioned with his counterpart, are trying too convince the russians to get

for that reason, china has tended to impose nato expansion unnecessarily for any alignment of interest or any desire to see russia reassert s. hegemony and primarily because they do not want to see the u.s. military alliance gets stronger. you see those sorts of exercises and strategic influences. >> since we talk about coercion and political warfare after the u.s. alliance system. zach mentioned earlier the u.s. taken a strong stand is a good thing. since we talk about anti-ship missiles and other missile-based ways in which china is bullying its neighbors i will suggest, perhaps in the hope of a softer outcome, success there a softer outcome. i think one of those things china continues to say to its neighbors, you know, you're not going to get involved on missile defense. the question is why not. the trilateral information sharing agreement from last december for the u.s. rok and japan. by the way that reflects to other nations in the asia-pacific that kind of stuff to be expanded further and it serves the basic military underlie, but also the political one, which as i said before, w

torn, if there was thought to be existence of the soviet war and the soviet unit n collapsed but the nato continues to expand nevertheless. as well as their military infrastructure offering a poor choice. it should be with the east or east. sooner or later the object of confrontation was bound to spark political cries and this is what happened in ukraine. where the population with the current was used and the military crew was orchestrated from outside that triggered a civil war as a result. we are confidant that only through this agreement on february 12th, 2015 can we end this. ukraine's territorial integrity is not displayed by the force of arms. there is a general interest of the people in the region. and the key element of the political structure will guarantee ukraine will develop fate as an essential link and build a common face of security and economic preparation in europe and urasia. ladies and gentlemen, i have mentioned these common spaces of economic operations, not long ago it seemed that in the economic spear, where the objective mark is lost, we would learn to live without

a new playbook countering russian aggression with a strong and balanced approach and bolstering our nato alliance, which continues to be an anchor for global security. we do not seek to make russia an enemy. make the mistake, they may be intent on turning the clock back in russia, but they cannot turn the clock back in your. -- in europe. [applause] we will defend our allies. rules-basednd the international order, and we will defend a positive future that affords us. in the middle east, the situation is to put it mildly complex. that test our friends from different directions -- they are threats to our friends from different directions. we are focused on protecting our interests and our allies, and above all, defending our people. [applause] first, we will deliver a lasting defeat to isil. [applause] with a global coalition of some 60 nations, we are taking the across the battle space as it requires. conductedion has over 6500 airstrikes, severely hampering isis movement and operations and systematically eliminating the evil group's leadership. dealing them in lasting defeat must be a ca

nato puts the number of afghan police and army dead and wounded at 15,000 so far this year. that's an average of 22 afghan soldiers being killed a day across afghanistan. numbers that analysts here say are just unsustainable and one of the big challenges for the new government president ghani. it knows that security is a key for afghanistan if it wants to move forward and get any stability here. >>> tony abbott has been deposed after a challenge from his own liberal party. malcomb turn bull was successful on 54.. tony abbott got 44. there has never been a more exciting time to be alive than today. and there has never been a more exciting time to be an ausa. he was never personally popular and as the -- began to look slim. . malcomb turnbull was a long time rival and known to harbor ambitions to be prime minister. abbott's government he promised will be one of stability, one of no surprises. it was not to be. malcomb turnbull will be sworn in formally on tuesday. >>> three people have been arrested in malaysia in connection with a bombing of an shrine last month. two malaysia

a nato report and u.n. report said africa is poised with 2 million people coming. it undermines identity, culture, we can't take anymore. it's got to be sorted out within the arab states. i think the arab league should be stepping up to the plate to take their fair share. >> just if i may interrupt, lebanon, 25% of the population now of lebanon are syrian refugees. jordan, turkey, egypt, they are taking their share, aren't they? >> the levant is, absolutely, but the u.a. isn't, qatar, kuwait, saudi arabia, they haven't taken a single refugee. saudi arabia has paid over ate 9 million pounds. my country has promised 900. we've paid $900 million, $100 million coming. why are the arab nations not stepping up? culturally, this is their problem. the interference, if you take the situation with syria, you've got the factions fighting, the arab spring, and in this place, they talk about getting people around the table. there's been a 1400 year war between the various factions out there. how they think they can get around the tail and sort this out, we can't. the arab leagu

provides 70% of the budget for nato. nato is nothing without u.s. leadership and capability. right now we're very weak in that area. >> we watch their geo political ambitions, the chinese have their geo political ambitions. i don't think anybody fears obama. does that mean there's more ukraine-like crimea-like moments to come? >> he seems to be completely ignorant of history. and not just of history that goes back decades, but of history, you know, that happened during his own administration. he doesn't recognize one of the fundamental doctrines is history is provocative. these other nations have interests that are adverse to ours and it creates vacuums. >> remember caught off mic, you know, this is my last election. tell putin, you know, more flexibility. remember this? >> my last election. after my election i have more flexibility. yeah. >> i understand. i transmit this information. >> i convey to vladmir. in all seriousness, isn't that kind of saying i can't tell you the truth what i want to do to help you because the american people will not elect me. so i'm going to hide

. >> these are nato allies. if nato allies feel threatened by something that's happening, we have an obligation to help them respond to it. >> it's a huge problem. and we should help as much as possible. >> reporter: while the world is focused on europe, aid groups say the real problem is instability in lebanon, turkey and jordan, which have already taken in millions of refugees. under current policy, the u.s. limits the number of refugees taken in each year based on geography. right now we resettle 70,000 refugees annually. 30,000 from the middle east, mostly iraq, afghanistan, pakistan and syria. 13,000 from africa. mostly somalia and eritrea. 13,000 from east asia, mostly from burma. the rest arrive from latin america and the former soviet republics. >> i think we could raise the numbers. so i'd like to see the number go up maybe to 100,000 a year overall. of which 30 or 40,000 could be syrian refugees. >> reporter: the administration said thursday it had no plans to raise the ceiling on refugees or rush the

we need to convince them to get involved in nato and strengthen nato. >> the -- they are in nato. >> no one can argue ben carson, who is a surgeon who performed ground-breaking surgeries on siamese the twins, is not bright. trump is a smart man. they are what polls show republican voters really want. outsiders who bring a new perspective to washington. they argue that they are smart enough to bone up at the last minute. obviously their opponents, who already have that experience, are saying they're not ready. >> we'll see if they can cram. all right, dana bash, thanks so much. joining me on the phone, the iowa cochairman, chairwoman, of the trump campaign, tana gerts, also a former contestant on trump's tv show "the apprentice." tana, thanks for being with us. just give us your take on this interview. i'm sure that it was not the performance that donald trump wished that he would have given. but here it is. this is what it is now. what do you say? >> you know what? first off, mr. trump is the most brilliant man i've ever, ever met. and he is never unprepared. so the fact that this ca

so it's not just the nato commitment. we're growing the defense budget year on year, real term increases. against a backdrop of pretty, you know, desperate situation and requiring our other government departments to do more heavy lifting. so increasing the defense budget, i think, should sends a very clear signal to the u.s. from the u.k. that we are serious about this. i think as well, we need to have some discussions around how the u.s. can help itself by helping us. so i mentioned before in answer to this lady's question about our industrial base, we buy things from the u.s. we would love the u.s. to buy more things from us and to help us. reduce our own costs. things that we are genuinely innovative at and that would benefit and be better -- >> a better two-way street. >> exactly. so i think we have a good enough relationship to have those conversations and not fall out. but you know, i think we need some challenge there as well. and we are -- as i said, we invest, in particular k.i.t., that is relative to you. our 45

plus they continue their policy of expanding nato -- soviet union has collapsed and nevertheless nato continues expanding as well as its military infrastructure than they offered the poor soviet countries a false choice either to be with the west or the east. sooner or later the logic of confrontation was bound to spark a. this is what happened in ukraine where the discontent of population with the current authorities was used and the military coup was orchestrated from outside and a civil war result. i'm confident that only through implementation of the minks agreement of february 12, 2015, can put an end to the blood shed and find a way out. ukraine's territorial integrity cannot -- what is needed to the genuine consideration for the interest and rise of the people and respect to their choice. there is a need to coordinate with them as provided for the key element of the country's political structure. these will guarantee that ukraine will develop as a civilized state, as essential link and building a common space of security and economic cooperation both in europe and euroasia. lad

help inuly to commit the united kingdom to the 2% of gdp spent on the nato target. spendo commit to the 20% of budget, which i am responsible for. itakes is the only country in the worlwho is meeting those three international commitments and coming toto the aid commitmt in proving support to syrian refugees today. that putss us in the security review and an much better place to start with. looking at what opportunities there may be for meeting those threats in the future and taking advantage of the other commitment given by the treasury. inefficiencies can be reinvested within the department to meet some of the priorities that will emerge from this review. >>hehereas the deputy chief f of staff that set the last review is bas on emotion and tararget data. how do you address that? areou going to be able to back up the since -- back of t the decisions -- back up theecisions you make? throughve been working this -- working at this throughout thehe year. this is a bottom-up driven exercise. we arere looking at the opportunities to meet ose threatfrom each of theommand a

the united states has been an ally with nato countries in gove governing now it's manage the. oath we need this to determine how the u.s. is involved in govern of course, how to deal with russia. there's a fact that russia is claiming the land. >> they are doing this legally, through a mechanism that the united states worked hard to get set up in the united nations, that president obama, president bush, the u.s. chamber of commerce things the u.s. should sign. where does your objection come from? >> the u.n. then gets to make a lot of decisions that federal government and congress should make in respect of to resources, how they should be allocated, and the factoring that we can work in li lateral, multilalterral agreements to ensure a secure and safe arctic and take advantage of the opportunities there are in terms of resource development, maintaining strong environmental records. we can accomplish the objectives without signing the treaty. signing the treaty takes away too much sovereignty and accomplish little. >> in this particular instance, where this treaty exists, 116 n

nato will not send anybody, the americans will not send anybody. the russians are actually the only ones with military presence, augmenting the military presence. they are the ones with the iranians and the ayatollahs are really aggravating the situation in syria specifically. so i believe only if there would be some kind of massive intervention where some arab soldiers can stand in between this warring parts and there are so many, maybe we can see some kind of a bright solution and it will not be easy unfortunately. >> i want to ask you about that. you mentioned the hospitals in the north of israel that are treating some of these people and you're right this has not been widely reported and it's good that israel's doing this but there's been reports in israel media, some of the people treated are parts of these warring factions, antisyrian faction he including the nusra front. is that something that israel doing, is that a good thing or a bad thing? is the enemy of your enemy your friend? >> i think we should be very careful. we cannot intervene i

. >> these are nato allies. if nato allies feel threatened by something that's happening, we have an obligation to help them respond to it. >> it's a huge problem. and we should help as much as possible. >> reporter: while the world is focused on europe, aid groups say the real problem is instability in lebanon, turkey and jordan, which have already taken in millions of refugees. under current policy, the u.s. limits the number of refugees taken in each year based on geography. right now we resettle 70,000 refugees annually. 30,000 from the middle east, mostly iraq, afghanistan, pakistan and syria. 13,000 from africa. mostly somalia and eritrea. 13,000 from east asia, mostly from burma. the rest arrive from latin america and the former soviet republics. >> i think we could raise the numbers. so i'd like to see the number go up maybe to 100,000 a year overall. of which 30 or 40,000 could be syrian refugees. >> reporter: the administration said thursday it had no plans to raise the ceiling on refugees or rush the