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i was working other terrorist groups on the side focusing on iraq at the time because we considered iraq from an intelligence perspective we considered iraq a state sponsor of terrorism, so working for in counterintelligence against iraqi government in the us was being handled by the joint terrorism task force. , as at the time time i worked al qaeda and i worked osama bin laden. after the east african embassy bombing, i was shifted to focus mainly on al qaeda, so i'm in so many ways like forrest gump. i found myself in the middle of a lot of big investigations and at one point some of my commanders if you want to call them and al qaeda as saying by the way, you are in charge of this investigation. i'm like okay. i will try to fix it out. i was lucky in a sense that i have-- i had a front to see to history unfolding in a lot of these things ended up in 9011 between in between 911 and the east african and the bombings i was involved in summary operations around the world that disrupted terrorists, so we were successful in stopping al qaeda and its network cut-- from conducting terrorist s

oh wrong on is stabilizing iraq that's funny i can recall us invading iraq and. killing roughly a million people gets on a minute but so this title is a run dominates in iraq after us open the door now open the door what a great euphemism that is open open a door it sounds like sounds like what you do would be a be neighborly right open open a door we open the door to iraq that's what we did now open the door in this case is a euphemism for invaded a sovereign country killed roughly a million people most of them innocent civilians destroyed the infrastructure destroyed their way of life how many people over there have family members that have died and by the way that million number i'm using is the lancet medical journal did a good in-depth study back in two thousand and six and found it was over six hundred thousand had died then and that was well before the killing was over were new people are still getting killed in iraq so that's where i'm getting my million estimate from then it says projecting economic and military influence in one time american four to hol

we have military advisors in both iraq and in syria as we do in iraq kurdistan on the engagement of the governments involved. everybody nawptz had it not been for iran rushing to the assistance in the iraqi kurdistan. we were there within two hours responding. we've had the consistent policy fighting those fighting terrorists and extremists. this is consistent. as i said in 2001 we were the ones supporting the people who were fighting al-qaeda. probably the only country that was providing active support to the people who became the future government of afghanistan, the iranians. we are the ones who are supporting fight terrorism and extremism in iraq in syria. we're not, we're not involved in saudi arabia. actually saudi arabia has been said by the new crown prince of saudi arabia is trying to take the fight to the iranian territory. >> rose: that's exactly what he said. they're coming after us and we'd rather fight in iran than fight in saudi arabia. that was part of what he said. they're coming after us and we'd rather fight in iran. >> we agree with the first part of his statement bu

and the islamic state of iraq rose up out of the ashes of al qaeda iraq, which had been defeated, and basically said, we will protect the sunnis from the uranian backed -- iranian-backed regime of nouri al-maliki. that explains. the sunnis looked at isis and al-maliki. and they decided isis was the least of the two evils and explains how isis managed to sweep through a third of iraq. if the government of iraq had been formed in a better way, if america had actually brokered the formation of the government, iraq would have set a model for other countries in the region, and you would not have isis rising up. so the situation in syria could have been a very different than it is today. what we are seeing in the middle east, it is not really an issue of borders. it is much more an issue of contested politics, failed politics, and broken governance. the crisis of political authority, the crisis of governance. david: emma argues this systematically in her book. i really encourage people to read the book. "the unraveling." because she makes a case she just made orally. again to be aou little

iraq's prime minister that are in the top coalition commander in iraq cautioned that such optimism maybe primatial. speaking to the bbc ariana tenant general stephen towns and gave credit where credit is due you. appointed to the long ride ahead in the fight against diana's. but i think i'd take exception that we've won the war first of all i'd like to offer. the coalition's congradulations to. iraqi prime minister of body. and the iraqi security forces on their historic victory knows a muzzle. against an evil enemy. also make its mayor extraordinaria to safeguard civilian lives. and i'd say that. the war is far from over. one major battle has concluded. there are a number of isis fighters still left. in iraq that have to be defeated before we've won the war. well correspondent jonathan bail was with the iraqi army is they advanced almost all. but a few hours ago he found in with this update. even though you pride it's about he has declared complete victory. against i. s. interludes certainly see markets. on the ground there is plenty of evidence today that we see knows a alliance presen

in iraq but this has limit because supporting the kurds. and here i mean you can understand the position of secretary of state who try to. set the bridges with russia because washington needs russia to pressure on iran to limit on iran at least in syria so because of obama administration policy. that all would from. lack of clarity. washington lost a lot of tools east and a lot of leverage it's true that now it's increasing its presence in terms of. presence on the ground and there are investing more but it's not easy to get back. to all the situation where they were the major force prevailing today prime. to face up to iran but they need partners saudi arabia is deafening partner but they need other partners to this is where their son is trying to engage with the russian. it's very interesting is because i absolutely agree with sami i think it's the there are fewer and fewer tools of influence but there are more and more troops and troops are not a very good instrument of politics at the end of the day look at the number of troops that are

in iraq, the government of iraq, but alsoin baghdad, the kurdish government, asked us to go and help them fight isis. >> in syria? x by the invitation of -- -- >> we were in syria because of the invitation of the government in damascus. that had it not -- iran iran and russia rushing to the assistance in iraqi kurdistan, today you would've had, instead of being forced to liberate mosul from you would've had to fight for erbir and baghdad. there responding to written we have had a consistent policy of supporting those who are fighting terrorism and extremists. in+++aid, the people who became the government of palestine. the iranians rid -- we are the ones supporting terrorism and extremism in syria. we are not involved in saudi arabia. this accusation from the crown prince of saudi arabia is trying to take the fight to iranian territory. >> that is what they have said. that you are coming after us, and that is why we must bring the fight to iran. we would rather fight in iran and saudi arabia. cannot neglect his own admission that he is trying to instigate terror inside iranian territ

coming from iraq. welcome back to our to international the u.s. the un has warned north korea that quote the time for talk is over nikki haley added any security council resolution that does not significantly alter the of the against the hermit kingdom is pointless it comes after north korea on friday test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and additional security council resolution that does not significantly increase the international pressure on north korea is. the time for talk is over. donald trump has accused china of being unwilling to seriously tackle the north korean issue the president he wouldn't let the situation continue as it has been on sunday the u.s. flew to supersonic bombers over the korean peninsula the b. one b. lancer is his plane and also has the largest internal pain the aircraft were flying by side korean fighter jets in what's been seen as a shill force in the wake of the recent missile launch by. one with tensions running high in the region china has been flexing its military muscle to during a military parade m

i don't know -- and this was about iraq. i don't know if we have wrong form of government or the wrong people in it. describing our problems in iraq. you think about both of those, very complex problem sets. neither of them army's or the military's responsibility really. and, again, what we label as counterinsurgency is really just modern war amongst the people. and i've got to admit, i've gotten a whole lot of frequent flyer miles out of it. i'm involved with the nay poe project for peace -- nato project for peace, sending out to partnership for peace nations. les a list of -- there's a list of 35 nations that will get it, and i've been told i will get first call being on the teaching teams to go to these places. i looked at the list of 35 nations, one of those are france or britain or places like that. they are not exactly garden spots. i've got to work on that. i have been to moldova, nigeria. there's a lot of people interested, but they've got some considerably big problems to work with, to deal with in their different s

iraq is united country is really important for turkey. so the turkish position is understandable and is correct. one caveat. it we all screwup in much of a rock falls under the control of iran, the way lebanon has, on the margins of this might be revisited not just by turkey by washington. i don't think there will ever be an acknowledgment of an independent sovereign state of kurdistan bu but i think there might be different arrangements if that very negative situation arose it but turkey and america have a joint interest in saying that it doesn't risa let's wait this one out. >> larger associate myself with the ambassadors remarks. on the issue of existential threats, we were so not threatened and and exited way but everything was happening in the syrian conflict that we actually hesitate or a great deal when we thought we knew what should happen, that assad should go. we did a very, very good job of avoiding a substantial and categorical commitment to make that happen. that's because, frankly, it's collocated that's policy proposition w

if the government of iraq had been formed in a better way, iraq would have set a model for other countries in the region and you would not have isis rising up. syria could be very different than what we are seeing today. what we are seeing in the middle east is not really an issue of borders. it is an issue of competitive politics. a crisis of governance. argues this is the medically in her book. i really encourage people to read the book. she makes a case she just made orally. i'm again asking you to be a little contrarian. i was talking about your book "the wise men," and this legacy of american leadership in foreign policy with a mutual friend of ours, bob, who has written wonderful histories, a polk, butf james k. was deeply skeptical about the intervention, he thought, of american power. conservative, but very much limited government. and i said, bob, you ought to about this world we are living in an you ought to call it "the unwise men." let me ask you about the subject you introduced, which is hubris hubristic side of our policy. we are looking at the generation of covert practition

military presence in iraq. other comments made recently about the defeat of islamic state for example in mosul talking about the fact that the u.s. shouldn't be taking the credit particularly for this suggest there's a whole there's a discontent with the u.s. policy that. certainly and the americans have a habit of throwing their weight around. not for the first time in iraq of course and the talk by general mattis the secretary of state for the fans about how being big bay through in iraq certainly. many iraqis definitely don't want a bigger u.s. military footprint and they would like that u.s. presence to be downsized very considerably. peter a pleasure to have you on with us this evening thanks so much for coming r.t. international peter ford former u.k. ambassador to syria thank you. moving on in the u.k. is international trade sexually and fox has accused the b.b.c. of willfully ignoring positive news on the brig's it processed that claim came in a letter to the broadcasters director general however fox ha

every government and iraq has been a strong friend of iraq. this is our advice to all of them, that iraq needs to be an inclusive government with all segments of the iraqi population represented in the government. iran maintains good relations with all members of the iraqi population. theave good relations with leader of the sunni community in iraq. charlie: but, you do not deny, do you, that isis got support from sunni tribes because they felt like they had no voice in baghdad? it is thesharif: result of disenfranchisement. i would not disagree that the perception of not having a voice in society leads people to join these extremist groups. which is why i said in the beginning that we need a comprehensive strategy to deal with these extremist groups. and that strategy includes certainly, giving a voice to everybody. i think this is what the government of iraq is committed to. you heard it from prime minister abadi and leaders of every community in iraq. this is something that iran will wholeheartedly support. we want every country in the regi

the group of is is being prised away from iraq and syria. but this does not mean peace and it does not mean the end of their ideology either because these jihadist groups are very good at regenerating themselves. the problem is that iraq and syria and other countries in the region have been incubators for that kind of ideology and some of the forces, things like poverty and poor government, the sheer— sony inter— muslim sectarian hatred, all of those things have fed into all of that and those factors are still there. as for iraq itself, there are all kinds of risks of renewed civil war. the problem is that the country has been coming apart at the scenes. the kurds in the north are having an independence referendum in september and if iraq continues to fracture like that at the net will be accompanied by a great deal of violence. —— then it will be accompanied. the parents of charlie gard — the ii—month old who has a terminal genetic disorder — handed a petition to great ormond street hospital today asking for him to be allowed

and we found them both in iraq and afghanistan that is not true. often time we're working to cross purposes, and it is always difficult to get the people who were supporting to do what we think they need to do especially when that seems to threaten their power. and that we got badly wrong in the 2006 version of the doctrine. now i want to make some observations on modern war -- open, open it up to some questions -- and these kind of wars conflict termination become very, very complex when you're fighting against a set of memes and no one individual in control, it makes ending these conflict v., very difficult. best way is manage them and violence and never get everybody to agree on the same thing. we have a lack of a ability with americans i tell it to the u.s. government like a giant fiddler crab with you know giant claw with a department of defense. and little teeny claw that says the inner agency. that is -- you can fit all of the foreign service officers -- in the state department on one aircraft carrier one fully manned aircraft carrier more o

military -- military amateurism have in america and question of command can that from civil war to iraq -- triumph fore saken vietnam war 1954 to 1965. and phoenix and birds of prey and in counterterrorism in vietnam. and with that i look forward to the discussion and turn it over to you dr. moore. [applause] great. thank you very much danielle for that kind introduction thanks john for inviting me here. great to be back at the heritage foundation. i'm going to talk about the book a little bit can't cover the whole thing in this presentation. but i'm going to hit on some of the highlights. and we'll have some time for question and answer at the end. just to -- with to provide a little bit of background the reason i wrote this book was that -- while i was at the joingt special operations university, we started a course on the history of special operations and -- discovered that there was not a single volume that we could really look to give you a history from the origins in world war ii up through the present and most of what, i think, special operations forces understood about their his

into the iraq war. we will discuss if he is right a year after the report. let's catch up with the weather. another hot and humid day across the uk today, mainly england and wales. with the heat and humidity we are going to see some storms developing later. as you can see from one of the weather watchers, that lumpy cloud is a precursorfor storms the weather watchers, that lumpy cloud is a precursor for storms to kick off today. one or two of those could be in the south—east of england. mainly it will be across the midlands, eastern areas of england. torrential rain likely in the afternoon. sunny spells in between. cloudier, outbreaks of rain for a time. this is to build again in the south, to about 30 celsius. -- dc in the south, to about 30 celsius. —— dc seat builds again. those thundery showers will move further east and into the sea. on friday, another day where we have showers across the north. it will feel fresher across the north and west. temperatures in the south 28 or 29. further north,

when you look at iraq, the results are border issues. in this context, what are turkey's priorities? regional turkey's foreign and security policy, the first one is securing turkey's territory and border security. this is one of the important dimensions. turkey is going to act in accordance with the requirements of the territorial imperative and border security. a have been experience in huge transformation in turkey's border security as well. compared to the letter-ups, we -- very little understanding of border security before the arab uprising, now we have very secure border security ties. we are constructing a wall alongside the syrian border. this will make a huge impact on turkey's foreign-policy, especially between syria and iraq. the second game of turkey is the increasing of the number of countries that turkey can work together, especially after the new government came to power. toally, of course, in order develop a conference of strategy for turkish foreign-policy, turkey needs to work with its in order to develop new understand

iraq's vice president is meeting flatterer pugin on tuesday during a four day trip to russia it comes out to do we al maliki said moscow should broaden his political and military presence in iraq then you hawkins has more. russia has of course had close political economic ties to iraq since well way back into the soviet era but what maliki was talking about here was more than just a close diplomatic presence he meant specifically an economic and a military presence as well something unprecedented really at least in the more than history of russia iraq relations a lot of. iraq has historic ties with russia and now we need russia's political as well as military presence to restore balance in the region in the interests of the countries nations living there now what exactly does maliki mean by restoring a balance while the key bone of contention here is the u.s. military presence the presence of bases in iraq they've been there since the two thousand and three invasion for a decade and a half now and many in iraq including those in government have grown increasingly uncomfortable with th

in the iraq/iran war of pushing it back when swept into iraq in 1983. we were successful, in the tank war, we weren't successful in beirut in a political military campaign in 2011 to stay on in iraq so our own success with iran is mixed. this will be the key geopolitical issue we will have with with turkey. it will affected by turkey, to the extent it will get worse, it will be affected by the gulen situation and it will be affected by the ypg question. the big issue once isis is done is what do we do in iraq and syria with the iranian threat in the total disorganization of the region? thank you. i'll leave you to fix that mess, okay? >> i will ask the question after the panel. simple question. so turkey somehow believes that the u.s. have some involvement behind or some actors within the u.s. involvement in july the 15th. failed coup. so what should the u.s. have done differently in order to but in particularly sees that great powers don't like competition. turkey is competition so therefore, ever since woodrow wilson advocated an independent kurdistan

lots to do in iraq. the un envoy to syria says a ceasefire in the southwest of the country has held quite well since it went into force on sunday. it's hoped the truce might give the negotiations some momentum. staffan de mistura said the de—escalation of the conflict in south—western syria should be a stage on the path to a nationwide truce. ajudge at the high court in london says he will reconsider on thursday the case of charlie gard, the terminally ill baby, who has been offered treatment in the united states. the 11 month old boy has a rare disease and is being kept alive on a ventilator. charlie's parents want the judge to evaluate an experimental treatment which they believe could improve their son's quality of life. meanwhile, the high court has rejected a case brought against the british government claiming it's arms sales to saudi arabia are illegal. the case was brought by human rights campaigners who argue the uk is breaking international laws by selling weapons that have killed civilians

interpretation of that is, iraq is still a better place thanit is, iraq is still a better place than it would have been had saddam hussein remained in power. retrospective history is always a mug's game. we can see what has happened. hundreds of thousands of people killed, sectarian conflict. many of the things charles kennedy and my colleagues warned about at the time have indeed happened. it is the time have indeed happened. it is the most terrible mess. i think the point sirjohn chilcott is making is not that tony blair was being dishonest, but that he was emotionally motivated, i think that phrase was used today, but the fundamental point is it was a terrible misjudgement with enormous long—term consequences.“ terrible misjudgement with enormous long-term consequences. if he is not straight with the nation does it not come to the same thing? there will bea come to the same thing? there will be a loss of arguments about the nuance and phrases. my view and i think that my colleagues is this was a terrible political mistake. it's destroyed his reputation. but this is not somethi

it is in different places in iraq and western iraq. the fight will keep on. the rivalry is there between different shia factions and the kurds. they we re shia factions and the kurds. they were always thinking what would happen next. 0nce isis is out of the scene, not only in mosul but in all of iraq, first of all there will be a confrontation between the americans and the iranians. the 0bamas administration did not think of iran is their target, but isis as their target. but with donald trump saying about how he will deal with iran. in this case, the prime minister of iraq will be a bit difficult position, who can't hit things in his favour? it is the wrong time for the kurds to push their position because isis is not yet finished. the shia are holding a conference in baghdad in ten days to create a new leadership. the shia are divided as well. in this situation we find it very difficult to imagine stability within a year 01’ to imagine stability within a year or two or three, but the prime minister is the only person that so far he is able to win the mode

pieces of iraq outof iraq is through neighboring countries like syria and jordan. are s'posed if the region hadn't been destabilized by the foreign invasion so much for security crisis the problem would be nowhere near as big right. believe i can see you but you can't hear me that's a pity iraqi jenison continent is abraham that we're trying to get but it's a bit late to maybe recorded the scenes of the gremlins i'm playing out it's twenty two minutes past nine in the morning a lot more to come you know it's international with me cavanagh and we are unified solution be found to the north korea crisis is fun if it's any closer after the short break. manufactured. public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room see. income inequality wage stagnation gerrymandering of political districts polarization you know the lack of effectiveness in congress there are these are well documented trends going back decades and now they're really acute unmanifest to the point where people describe the system is being seized with a k

michael: but remember when the united states left iraq, al qaeda and iraq still had several thousand fighters hidden in the shadows. that is where isis will go. there were still be a security issue that has to be managed and the united states will have to make a decision about whether we are there and in what numbers we are, to deal with that problem. then there is a huge political problem in iraq and syria. the military fight was a necessary condition to defeat isis. a political solution is a sufficient condition, right? the military success is going to unravel unless we get the politics right. getting the politics right is exactly what yousef said, having a government in both baghdad and damascus that represents all of its people, and not just part of the country. charlie: then you come to the question, how do you get that government and can assad be a part of that? michael: my personal view is assad cannot be a part of it. i am disappointed that the administration seems to have backed away from the idea that assad has to go. charlie: the secretary of state has publicly said that o

iraq's vice president calls for a bigger russian presence in his country ahead of talks with latimer. thanks for tuning in it's eight in the morning here in the russian capital here watching our to international with you this hour is and they still the top story now there is no magic solution to the refugee crisis according to italy's interior minister his words came during a meeting of european officials in tunisia on monday about the ongoing crisis in the mediterranean italy has been the most vocal over the issue with the country receiving the brunt of all migrants coming by sea from africa interior minister marco. stressed the need for a calling the strategy there is no magic solution. deal with the more good to reflux sheltered from. this year alone almost one hundred thousand refugees have reached a town and coast that's eighty five percent of all migrants who journey by sea to europe are days in the air trying to has been to rural areas of the country to see how the crisis is affecting life there italy's come up with a plan to ease the migrant crisis make them settle across the

based in iraq certainly. many iraqis definitely don't want u.s. military footprint and they would like that u.s. presence to be downsized very considerably. ukase international trade secretary liam fox has accused the b.b.c. of willfully ignoring positive news on the brig's it process the claim came in the form of a letter to the broadcasters director general however fox has all ready voiced his concerns in the past. to tell you in the newspaper or listen to the radio t.v. the story is done very negatively it almost is going to be impossible for us to do these trade deals if you look we spoke of rome undermines the work he's doing. well mr speaker it does appear that some elements of our media would rather see britain feel than seabrooke to succeed. and i i cannot recall a single time in recent times when i have seen good economic news that the b.b.c. didn't describe those despite rick's. well he says that the b.b.c.'s putting a damper on things economically he says that when his press team calls up the b.b.c. news desks offering positive stories

declared free of islamic state last week so i told the american states news in your interest to return to iraq in build your bases you will get to get. the iraqi vice president nuri al maliki has said his country's people will not tolerate foreign military bases there adding he's already warned the u.s. against. italy says it will not be threatened by its neighbors over border control that as the country struggles with a huge influx of migrants we hear from a local mayor who says his town's at the breaking point. and r.t. speaks exclusively to a man with a severe muscle wasting disease who was convicted for armed robbery and russian. broadcasting live from the russian capital it's one in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching our team to national with you this hour is and the. a correspondent from russia sporting news agency has been caught up in a gun battle in mosul iraq while she was taking pictures of the mine clearing operation in the historic part of the city she managed to escape unharmed and share her video with us. about it. in must of thought well come on or called looking from

seem to have very good relations with in the meantime iraq's relations with the u.s. haven't been so good leaky is a known and vocal critic of the american bases there and also how he's forced how uncomfortable the iraqi people are with the american presence he's also said that he's concerned about how the americans could also claim credit for the liberation in mosul against isis which he feels was effectively down to the iraqi forces on the ground rather than the american presence so lots of issues to discuss when it's coming up today on day three terrorism one of them that's the big point there but also as you said before economic cooperation and moving forward on maintaining what he calls that political balance. and adult movie about homosexual muslim refugees has sparked controversy in germany the film shows a night in the life of a newly arrived syrian refugee and berlin who after suffering a hate crime needs a german man that actor explained she was trying to change attitudes towards migrants. like you're reading. in the cafe. she didn't understand there's. like

and they are saying, if you can't get out to syria or iraq, you can't get out to syria or iraq, you can do more stuff here. thank you. and you can have a look at our database on the bbc website , it's the most comprehensive public record of its kind , just go to bbc.co.uk/news back to our main story and this is the scene in hamburg at the g20. thousands of protesters gathering: you can see them there, one demonstration is called welcome to hell, trump is not very popular with these protesters partly because of these protesters partly because of the withdrawal from the paris agreement on climate change. a security cordon in hamburg to prevent protesters reaching summit venues. european and japanese scientists are putting the finishing touches to a space mission that'll see two satellites bolted together to travel to mercury , the planet closest to the sun. it will take seven years to make the journey of nearly eighty—million kilometres. the mission will send back the most detailed pictures ever of mercury's surface and the team hopes it could solve some puzzles — such as why the plan

of 2011, al-qaeda in iraq still had several thousand fighters in iraq, hidden in the shadows. that is where isis is going to go. so there will be still a security issue that has to be managed. and the united states will have to make a decision about whether we're there and in what numbers we're there, to deal with that problem. so there is a security problem. and then there is a huge political problem in both iraq and syria. the military fight was a necessary condition to defeat isis. a political solution is the sufficient condition, right. and the military success is going to unravel unless we get the politics right. and getting the politics right is exactly what yousef said. it's having a government in both baghdad and damascus that represents all of its people, and not just part of the country. >> rose: and then you could am to the big question, how do you get that government, and can assad be a part of that in anyway. >> so my own personal view, is that assad cannot be part of that. and i am a little disappointed, quite frankly, that the 5d mrgs seems to have backed away f

and the whole truth about britain's war in iraq. we will approach our task in a way that is thorough, rigorous, fair. the man charged with finding it, the man who took us in. responsibility but not a regret for removing saddam hussein. a year since his vast report emerged, sirjohn chilcot‘s unvarnished view. tony blair is always and ever an advocate. he makes the most persuasive case he can, not departing from the truth, but persuasion is everything. there is, i argued, the responsibility of the leading politician of a government, both to make the case for the policy decision taken but also to balance that with realism about risks, downsides, counter—arguments. if you act simply as a one—sided advocate, you risk losing that, and i think that risk became apparent. but you spent years studying this intelligence. yes. the way you put it in the report and what you just said suggests, as somebody who spent their life in government, in public service... yes. that you feel he manipulated the evidence to make his own case? again, i'm

the judgments about iraq's capabilities in that statement and in the published the same. we're presented with a certainty that was not justified. despite the fact that tony blair is not going to clearly be appearing in court in this particular case the issue of the massive death toll as well as the consequences that this war has had for the region and the rest of the world and the fact that the families continue speaking out about the need to bring him to justice it doesn't seem like this issue is going to be going away anytime soon and this one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware of these names tony but we were proud of the students so it was signed on to sort of a comfort but we can be proud of the way i'll go to. the street. so it's obviously clear that despite the fact that this particular case has now been dropped that families are going to continue to hope for justice for the ones that they lost in the iraq war a former u.k. ambassador to libya told us blair should be prosecuted but probably never will be. believe that it will ever be about a fo

to return to iraq. the iraqi vice president nouri al maliki has said his country's people will not tolerate foreign military bases there adding he's already warned the u.s. against such a move. and activists in the french president's party on the move demanded legal action claiming they were probably consulted on quote undemocratic changes to the statutes. it's two o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from austria with me and. welcome to the program the u.k.'s international trade secretary has accused the b.b.c. of willfully ignoring positive news on the brig's it process the claim came in the letter to the broadcasters director general however he has already voiced his concerns before. tommy open a newspaper or listen to the radio t.v. the story is done very negatively it almost is going to be impossible for us to do these trade deals does he feel that we spoke wrong and undermines the work that he's doing yeah well mr speaker it does appear that some elements of our media

islamic state earlier this week so that i told the american states news in your interest to return to iraq in basis if you feel good to give the iraqi vice president he has said his country's people will not tolerate foreign military bases there adding that he's already warned us against such in. italy says it will not be threatened by its neighbors over border control that's as a country struggles with a huge influx of migrants we hear from a local mayor who says his town's breaking points. are exclusively to an almost totally paralyzed man who's conviction for armed robbery problem public outrage in russia. thanks for tuning in just turned eight in the morning here in moscow you're watching r t international with you this hour. our correspondent from russia sporting news agency has been caught up in a gun battle in mosul and iraq washer was taking pictures of the mine clearing operation and his story part of the city she managed to escape unharmed and shared her video with us. on what about her mother still thought will come out of called looking from from a comment about the. where you

iraq's vice president calls for a bigger russian presence in his country ahead of talks with blatter reporting. thanks for tuning in his twelve in the afternoon here in the russian capital you're watching our team to national i'm at least two. top story at this hour the u.s. is set to vote on further sanctions against russia on tuesday the bill which has already passed the senate and now goes to the house targets russia for allegedly interfering in u.s. presidential elections let's take a look at what's in the bill it blocks any partnership with russian companies in a range of sectors it also calls for punitive measures if any company invests exports or helps russian pipeline projects but the move faces stiff resistance from the e.u. brussels warns it may retaliate if the move hurts european businesses the e.u. commission warns it's launching a major diplomatic offensive against a possible new sanctions. following the spruces swith some concern regarding the european union's energy independence and their g security interests we are activating all diplomatic channels to. address these