presence in iraq. so you can see here in this picture congressman murtha after he's awarded the profile in courage award, embracing caroline kennedy in a very emotional ceremony. congressman murtha was also very good at bringing back dollars to western pennsylvania, supporting people in the work of the federal government here in the region. one of the ways he did that was being involved in the appropriations committee for the interior department, which of course, is apparent of the national park service congressman murtha: in many ways . congressman murtha: in many ways our national parks represent what our greatest strengths are as a nation. the natural beauty of our great land, seemingly limitless potential, unspoiled by the ravages of man. for pennsylvania, our park lands also represent another source of economic diversification as tourists spend nearly $20 million a day throughout the commonwealth. >> in particular, he was very supportive in the 1980's of the creation of the industrial national par

the iraq syria border. a japanese comic in its sand has warned the british government that its manufacturing operations in the u.k. will be seriously disrupted if there's no gregs it deal between the united kingdom and the european union the company employs almost forty thousand people in the u.k. in a sense says its business relies on importing millions of components from the e.u. every day it's wanted a no deal brags it would add nearly six hundred fifty million dollars to its costs . other busan international film festival has opened in south korea with a star studded red carpet marking the end of difficult times for the event one three hundred twenty films from seventy nine countries will be screened over the next ten days rob mcbride reports from. it's a fitting opening film for a festival the coincides with what many hope is a new start in into korean relations beautiful days tells a story of a north korean defector who abandons her husband and son for a new life in south korea the work of an up and c

five years ago, islamic state in iraq and syria arose from the remnants from al qaeda in iraq. isis killed and pillaged. the goal of isis was to develop syria as a base of operations for the global terrorist network. isis has some initial success, the group quickly seized territory including eastern syria and while the united states continued to speak out against the atrocities of the syrian government, they posed a possiblist ruthless anti-american terrorist group controlling a large and important region. therefore the united states insisted all of those fighting isis and there have been some important victories since march of 2017, significant territory from isis. nonetheless, it continues to pose a threat. the department of defense has declared that isis is well positioned to rebuild. isis could recapture lost territory. the goal of the united states is to prevent this possibility and it is essential that the nation had the response. the situation is extraordinarily complex andes rail is profoundly affected. the fact that russia and e ran vigorously support the assad regime

been a bargaining chip for politicians but perhaps nowhere with such devastating consequences as in iraq half a century after the constitution granted the iraqi women equal rights they face increasing pressure on how to dress what to do with their lives and when to marry their daughters off as the effort to democratize iraq resulted in the further subjugation of its women well to discuss that i'm now joined by han that at war a prominent iraqi human rights activist and founder of the amal association madame ad words good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. thank you now first of all let me ask you about the latest political development in your country five months after the national elections the major political factions have finally managed to agree on the three main posts in the country is that a positive development as far as you're concerned. oh yes thank you you know we were working for this election. we have seen the results of this elections which as you know get you know eighty three women being elected this is according to our court not to list them twenty five perc

five years ago islamic state in iraq and syria emerged from the remnants of al qaeda in iraq. isis killed and pillaged. the goal of isis was to develop syria as a base of operations for global terrorist networks. isis has some initial success. the group quickly seized the territory including in eastern syria. while the united states continued to speak out against the atrocities of the syrian government isis posed the possibility of a ruthless anti- american terrorist group controlling a large and important region. therefore, the united states insisted some of those fighting isis assisted some of those fighting i suspect there have been important victory since march 2017. significant territory has been liberty just liberated from isis. nonetheless, it continues to pose a threat . the department of those isis is well- positioned to rebuild . the they could recapture lost territory. the goal of the united states is to prevent this possibility . the is essential that our nation carefully calibrated its response. the syrian situation is extraordinarily complex. turkey iraq, israel,

how did the war with iraq turn out? >> ma'am. >> you're doing exactly the same thing we did in the case of iraq. we don't want another war in the middle east. >> ma'am, if you want to go outside and give a speech you can do that. >> how did iraq turn out? how did libya turn out? we have the people of syria suffering and how dare you bring up the issue of yemen. it's the saudi bombing that is killing most people in yemen. let's get real. no more war. peace with iran. >> she had a lot of energy for 9:30 in the morning. >> she had her coffee this morning. >> well, thank you, brian, for those remarks. thank you. thank you all for your patience for that. so, brian, thank you so much for those remarks. i think one of the things i think you said possibly the most interesting thing you said or one of the most interesting things you said, was that the iran deal, which was supposed to have a moderating effect on the regime, in fact did not have a moderating effect on the regime and the missile activity in particular was something

the axis of evil is iraq, iran, and north korea. brian: let me run seven seconds of a statement of george w. bush's at that interview. >> they are asking did i make a mistake in the liberation of iraq? the answer is no i didn't make a mistake in my judgment. brian: comment? james: yes, he made a huge mistake. he -- to the extent that bush has admitted mistakes, he admits tactical mistakes that were central to the war without ever saying that the entire war in iraq was a mistake. as we can talk -- the mistakes he has admitted, he admitted he made a mistake in the mission accomplished landing on an aircraft carrier, and he has admitted, and others have admitted, that the way they handled the post-war was a mistake by allowing the disbanding of the iraqi army, r expulsion of the party members from government decisions. it is true that he has never said the war in iraq itself was not a mistake. in fact, what you saw right there is i guess, he doesn't believe it yet but i think that is profoundly wrong. brian: in your book, you wrote a w

these wheel tracks were closed when i saw fighters swept through the west of iraq in two thousand and fourteen. when iraqi railways reopens the baghdad the fallujah line we didn't think of the economic benefit this is a message of peace to the people of fallujah after the dark days when eisel used to rule those parts. after the defeat of isobel have been roads that have been open between baghdad but the fact that the security checks on that journey can take anything up to several hours but this train doesn't stop for checkpoints. the journey between baghdad and fallujah takes just fifty five minutes by railway and the high cost of fuel means traveling by road is more expensive. basic train tickets for a one way journey cost just under two dollars. is nothing but what about going by the train is much easier we avoid traffic jams many checkpoints across the highway or even deadly car accidents it's also much cheaper than road transport. when the train arrives in fallujah fifty seven kilometers may not seem far but this reopen track is a milestone for iraq's railways. but joining me now

the fighting has taken a major dollar in iraq's infrastructure and it's not over yet iraq even remote parts see that security forces may control the daytime but the night still belongs to iceland and the real challenge is to counter rifle from regrouping in either side of the euphrates river osama bin jollied out of iraq by the iraq syria border and on friday or so a binge of aid will bring us more from al qaim where human rights watch is urging countries to hold fair trials for those accused of committing crimes under eisel turkey's foreign ministry has summoned saudi arabia's ambassador for a meeting of the disappearance of a prominent saudi journalist saudi officials insist jamal khashoggi disappeared after he left the consulate building in istanbul the turkish government says they believe he's still inside a shell he had been living in self-imposed exile in the united states while writing columns critical of the kingdom and its policies under crown prince mohammed bin sound man thousands of yemenis have rallied in the second biggest city of ties in protest of the worsening economy

and you way north and iraq recently reporting on the plight of you. how much has the sexual violence perpetrated against women had an impact i mean if you look at the community it's emotionally destroyed community because rape as it is sexual slavery is also associated with shame a lot of women choose not to talk about it we met plenty of women when we were up there in may who spoke to us on the condition of you know or staying anonymous they didn't want to give their names but not your moretti is choosing to do the opposite you know when she managed to free herself by running away she took a chance because the door stayed unlocked after three months of captivity she chose to revisit the troll much time and again she basically allows herself to relive those physical and mental aftershocks because with every interview she gives with the book she wrote with her work with international human rights lawyer clooney trying to gather evidence against islamic state you know she is revisiting that trauma and she has chosen to do that and to be the voice of the

many from thirty there are ambitious women in our countries taking into consideration that women in iraq has been the first one to be assigned as minister when istead in nineteen fifty nine. most of these women been really always say they contributed a lot in the political life some of them they were in the central committee of the party or in the leadership in many leadership of the parties in iraq but now we have seen that with the ups's with the very weakness of this state has discretion here that the absence of this security system. we can us of the justice system the questions of the tribes you know what are called the tribes and norms and traditions has been you know over. the rule of law. the status of women becoming more and down not in the advance one that we have really worked for that let me ask you specifically about one of those challenges because i know you're very proud about this problem entry quotas but i also heard people say that they do not represent a genuine political change there are people who complain that those many of those seats in parliament go to essentially

at this reopened track is a milestone for iraq's railways. but joining me now from london is sean's allow strand is a fellow at kings college and a managing director of carducci consulting good to have you with us so from the protests in the south it looks like a pretty urgent situation how urgent is the electricity crisis from an economic perspective thank you while the electricity crisis in iraq is not one issue that can be resolved overnight there's a compounding spontaneous issues with electricity except for example if you look at the. the power generation and demand completely at odds with each other especially a peak time if you look at the in the heat of summer for example a month from july there's almost fifty percent shortages in generation two why is that to my why is this such you know why they such odds with each other why is lectures degrade in such a bad shape to start off with in such an oil rich country well other say there's a plenty of issues i mean one of the main issues for me is found that the business model for electrici

the iraq syria border. u.s. vice president mike pence is accusing china of trying to undermine the trumpet ministration a comes just a week off the us president alleged china was interfering in the upcoming midterm elections to help his democratic rivals beijing is employing a whole of government approach to advance its influence and benefit its interests it's employing this power in more proactive and coercive ways to interfere in the domestic policies of this country and interfere in the politics of the united states the chinese communist party is rewarding or coercing american businesses movie studios universities think tanks scholars journalists and local state and federal officials and worst of all. china has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence american public opinion the two thousand and eighteen elections and the environment leading into the twenty twenty presidential elections to put it bluntly president trump's leadership is working and china wants a different american president of three evol

the iraq syria border. five time world footballer of the year christina and aldo has been left off portugal's national team for a pair of upcoming internationals the thirty three year old has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a las vegas hotel in two thousand and nine or now denies the claim and on thursday trained with his team eventis for the first time since the allegations surfaced last week paul race has more. christiane over naldo pulled into the event as training complex in cheering on thursday the day after using twitter to deny he had a right to woman one of the biggest names in world football has been accused by american catherine majorca of assaulting her in his las vegas hotel room nine years ago she told the german newspaper spiegel that she had been paid three hundred seventy five thousand dollars by rinaldo to keep quiet majorca has now filed a civil lawsuit against the portuguese player whose own lawyers have threatened to sue the newspaper for damages in early two thousand and

a former miss iraq with also a huge instagram following in this video she posted to social media she told her followers that she had been receiving death threats to tara's five hours is killing and also text messages warning that she would be next sorry a really terrible situation for people like her and other women in iraq who are using the internet to build up their profiles and we'll be tracking this story of course. reach social media as a factor in. protesters in space catalonia region of marking the first anniversary of a referendum on breaking away from madrid the vote was really ruled illegal by the country's supremum courts and plunged the country into political crisis a year pro independence demonstrators have been taking to the streets again demanding to be heard. thousands of pro independence demonstrators marched through the streets of bus alona until well after sunset. since the morning they had been rallying in different parts of town. they blocked roads and even the entrances to the city's stock exchange building. goes out girders them in we are maintaining the flame

it is not too soon to judge on the war in iraq. it didn't accomplish what he thought it was going to accomplish before he started the war. it cost 4000 plus american lives and $1 trillion, and i write in my book, and i don't think this judgment will change, that it was one of the biggest strategic blunders in american history. so those kinds of judgments i think can be made. he is stating the truism that people's judgments do change, of presidents, as time goes on, but i don't think that what is going to change much. brian: how did he make the decision going into afghanistan and iraq? james: i would divide them. the decision to go in afghanistan followed immediately after september 11. the thinking of the administration, within hours of september 11, was, we want to punish the people who did this. they knew what the start, this was al qaeda. and any countries that assisted them, and in this particular case, since al qaeda had been based in afghanistan, that meant afghanistan. negative afghanistan -- they gave afghanistan a warning

invading iraq, that is a longer story. there has been this recommendation at the very first meeting to attack iraq. why? brian: we know where it came from? james: it came from paul wall for its -- wolfowitz. he doesn't get support from others there. first of all, if you can envision this meeting, it is the at the table, meaning members of the cabinet. cheney, rumsfeld, colin powell, , and wolfowitze is on a backbench. this is a recommendation from the second level. it is, again, shelved at the time. during those two months, while the war in afghanistan is being fought, a couple noteworthy things happened. one is the anthrax scare. bewhat turns out to something entirely unrelated to al qaeda as far as we know, people in washington and on capitol hill are opening their mail and finding these powders which may or may not be anthrax. scares ther really top levels of the administration. i want to back up for a second there and say that the september 11 attacks had caught the administration, this is their administration, they ha

been killed recently but actually they've been for since august and people are starting to worry in iraq that there might be some sort of coordinated campaign underway to try and silence prominent women particularly women who are bucking the conservative norms in iraq firstly i want to tell you about farai she is a former beauty queen who built an enormous social media profile almost three million followers on instagram and what she was posting was pretty typical for any kind of influence on instagram showing off her makeup and her clothes and her car we're looking at someone who is a pretty typical instagram celebrity who documents their life on social media we have to remember this is iraq a presence like this really does stand out and you could argue she's making a political statement generally against these conservative norms that do dominate her country and as we saw tara had a lot of fans almost three million but she had a huge amount of detractors as well and she received the enormous amount of height online and very sadly last thursday while she was driving through baghdad in her

but we went into iraq, with the thought in mind that we can solve the problem by turning iraq and his neighbors into liberal democracies. that will create a giant zone of peace in the middle east. it would take the terrorism problem and the proliferation problem off the table. it is a liberal solution to some very nasty problems. a good realist like me, flew concerned about the balance of power. we start talking about invading countries like iraq, i say to myself, you're really asking for big trouble. this is like going into vietnam, the soviets going to afghanistan. i used to argue during the cold war that the soviets wanted to afghanistan in 1979. virtually everyone in the national security establishment was aghast. if that was the end of the world. soviets were on the march. i said this is dead wrong. soviets just don't -- you actually want to invite the soviets to invade afghanistan. just that they should have been very happy about the fact that we went into vietnam. as i said to the chinese when i first started going to china in the early 2000. we should be very thankful the amer

covered the wars in lebanon, iraq, and afghanistan. he will be moderating this afternoon an amazing trio to be upstaged in conversation with each other in you, the audience. thank you for being here. but the conversation begin. however, remember please turn off your cell phones but no flash photography and if you want to talk about it today you can go on social media to our headstock # mr ws and when this session is finished we ask everyone to clear the theater so we can get ready for the next presentation or conversation. please come up to the stage. [applause] >> welcome. i'm [inaudible]. on the right is frances fitzgerald, born in new york city, daughter of jasmine gerald and educated at radcliffe which was then a women's college associated with harvard. i see a few out there that might remember those days. she has written over the years for the near times and esquire, rolling stone and other publications. she is the author of numerous award-winning books including her epic history of vietnam, "fire in the lake", which won a pulitze

community that stayed inside iraq and has not physically left the country is living in northern iraq they're living most families in camp settings these are camps where conditions are getting worse every year as humanitarian aid is diverted to other areas other crises these are also camps where you have dwindling resources for things like psychosocial support psychosocial support is one of the most important ways to help women particularly as you said you see the women who are held by by isis fighters were used as sex slaves and experienced such severe trauma that they're still now years later struggling to process the trauma so it sounds as though they have not had a great deal of assistance that also and ultimately is justice for these women who suffered a saloon this brutal way is justice for them out of the question at the moment in iraq you have government authorities that have in prisons thousands perhaps nineteen thousand men and boys that they're prosecuting for isis affiliation for on terrorist charges now these trials which last about ten minutes simply are a session betwee

questions about her stunning decision also coming up wrestling has always been seen as a middens sport in iraq for the past two years a women's team has been gaining acceptance and success on the map. goff it's good to have you with us it has been twenty four hours since german chancellor angela merkel announced her gradual withdrawal from the halls of political power but as potential successors jostle for position merkel has been keen to show that for her it will be business as usual at least for the near future on the sidelines of a summit with african leaders merkel told reporters her decision will not affect german foreign policy. i think the seating position in international negotiations will not be changed or affected in any way you can only say that i don't know fully focus on my job to stay ahead of government and as far as the list of possible candidates for the chairmanship of the c.d.u. party is going to necessary is that they ease and open since. the previous. woman in my political life i have learned that question of succession not questions that you shouldn't intervene in because

but he feels it is too early to tell them what he did in iraq. he has been dealing with the psychological scars of that tour ever since his platoon got back from dora. i had quite a few nights of drinking a lot to try to numb the pain, and as my wife will tell you, she had to sit there and listen to me bawling my eyes out, pretty much blackout drunk, talking about the guys i lost and all the pain i was going through. nick mazzarella has his own way of unwinding, keeping the memories in check. even though i hated it when i was in the army, i have a rucksack in my garage and i like to strap it on and walk over the bridge, or walk around the park for hours, miles and miles, with a little bit of music in my ears, that is really therapeutic. benjamin jones returned to pennsylvania, a few miles from where he grew up. like nick, he took advantage of educational opportunities after the army, and that helped him get a job with the police. but a decade ago, like most of the married men in the platoon, he found his relationship in a downward spiral. i don't

i say no, he was named after a friend who died in iraq. ifeel if we forget — if we forget our fallen brothers, that we are invalidating them. that is if we don't remember them, and if we don't tell their stories, and talk about what kind of men they were, who is going to remember them? and if they are not remembered, was what they did was the sacrifice that they made, even worthwhile? there are countless reminders of the ways in which the second platoon is still fighting. and their experience now marks the next generation as well as their own. hello. cold arctic air in place for the weekend. some with glorious sunshine. 0thers wish our after shower, particularly if you are in an area exposed to the strong northerly wind. northern scotland, showers wintry on hills. an id start there. northern ireland, showers. icy conditions to the north sea coasts, wales, the far south—west of england, with showers penetrating to the south—east and midlands through the south—east and midlands through the afternoon. if you factor in the wind, it fee

and iraq's new election president has chosen his prime minister and asked him to form a new government the veteran kurdish politician. was elected president by the parliament and he's picked the shia politician abdul mufti seen on the left to be the next prime minister. of the u.k. is a former foreign secretary johnson is urging the british government to abandon its current regs that planned to leave the european union his speech on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the ruling conservative party was seen by many as a direct challenge to prime minister to resign may's leadership all but in reports from birmingham. a queue outside a hole number one began performing more than two hours early some have doubts about boris johnson's political future others see him as a potential prime minister. there's no doubt he can draw a crowd like no other in the current conservative party and it was his defiant rejection of the prime minister's checkers plan for brics it which most excited his loyal audience think what we could do if we had proper free trade deals and that is why it is so sad an

been killed recently but actually they've been for since august and people are starting to worry in iraq that there might be some sort of coordinated campaign underway to try and silence prominent women particularly women who have bucking the conservative norms in iraq firstly i want to tell you about farai she is a former beauty queen who built an enormous social media profile almost three million followers on instagram and what she was posting was pretty typical for any kind of influence on instagram showing off her makeup and her clothes and her car we're looking at someone who is a pretty typical instagram celebrity who documents their life on social media we have to remember this is iraq a presence like this really does stand out and you could argue she's making a political statement generally against these conservative norms that dominate her country and as we saw tara had a lot of fans almost three million but she had a huge amount of detractors as well and she received the enormous amount of height online and very sadly last day while she was driving through baghdad in her car sh

we went into the iraq that we could solve that problem by turning iraq and its neighbors into liberal democracies that would create a giant zone of peace in the middle east. it would take the terrorism problem in the proliferation problem off the table. it is the liberal solution to some very nasty problems the good realist like me was mainly concerned about the balance of power. and when you start talking about invading countries like iraq i say to myself your really asking for big trouble. this is like going into vietnam. soviets went into afghanistan in 1979. virtually everybody in the security establishment was aghast. i said this is dead wrong. they just jumped into a giant briarpatch. as i used it tell of the chinese. you should be very thankful that they have invaded afghanistan's and iraq. how do you just to go back to world war ii. to try to keep it like the communist hands off of it. we are trying to promote that. they have the realist justification. it took on a life of its own. would that be the way to think about it. in the immediate aftermath. the united states quickly f

in terms white house just taking a tough stance on iraq is part of threatening drastic american action against iran . spread across the world. coming together to decide the fate of their region can washington hope to continue dictating the future of the middle east. of the white house lead to real trouble and counted handle yet another unpredictable conflict. colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell welcome to the show it's great to have you with us again so lately all the important in syria are being decided on car out moscow and tehran the yes which u.s. which once was keen to intervene mostly just watching the show right now is to current white house more cautious than the previous one or just less powerful. i think both white houses obama's and trumps have been with regard to syria in particular cautious i think they're still being cautious in the trumpet ministration but i would remind you that there are some twelve installations if you will that are u.s. installations in syria as and that there is no intention to move those elements out

the forward operations bases run inside iraq by the u.s. led coalition but the french artillery is hitting targets inside syria. the fighting has taken a major dollar in iraq's infrastructure and it's not over yet iraqis in remote parts see that security forces may control the daytime but the night still belongs to iceland and the real challenge is to counter rifle from regrouping and either side of the euphrates river was on a binge of it out of iraq the iraq syria border and on friday osama bin jawad will bring us more from al qaim where human rights watch is urging countries to hold fair trials for those accused of committing crimes under eisel yemen's cholera outbreak is accelerating rapidly the world health organization says about ten thousand suspected cases are now reported every week thirty percent of the cases affect children under five years old if left untreated cholera can kill a child within hours intensified fighting between the saudi led coalition and toothy rebels as damaged much of the country's water supply which may have

i want to lift the leave iraq and when i. was. one of the most significant finds in tripoli was a letter written by so mark allen then head of counterintelligence at m i six in march two thousand and four to the head of the libyan p.s.o. . it says quote i congratulate you on the safe arrival of. meaning. this was the least we could do for you and for libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over the years i am so glad that the british security services the cia and the libyan kidnapped children between the ages of six twelve and send them to get out. and i once it's you know what and. there was no more and no one. what they needed was. the civil cases. and. run side by side but also accepted an offer of compensation by the british government bell hollows however wanted a full apology from the government the former foreign secretary and former head of counterintelligence identify six the british government settled that case in december two thousand and twelve for two point two million pounds in the short of the

especially southern iraq and ultimately perhaps even military action against iran in company with the us a saudi arabia and perhaps even israel as being ultimately the thing they will turn to if regime change doesn't come out come about some other way that's why i liken it to two thousand and two and two thousand and three it looks like the same road map to me all over again can america afford to deal with iran and cause instability there a force in neighboring iraq and afghanistan aren't even over yet. asking my opinion absolutely no we can't look at it twenty two trillion dollars in debt looking at the interest payment on that debt that's going to equal the defense budget next year the next looking at almost no discretionary federal spending when you put those two things together the defense budget in the interest payment on the debt no we can't afford it but we seem to have leaders who like dick cheney in two thousand and two believe that deficits don't matter believe that as long as we control the world's transactional currency it's reserve currency the dollar we can do anything w

bush to actually show some sort of a success against the background of that failure in iraq. we saw a stream of western companies coming back to their view including british as well as american oil companies martin came back on of course phillips came back this territory and came back shelf came back. and then they take him to going to external of allowing him to visit you and he was there in france and paris would circassian signing the agreement with. the military company using the oil companies and all of that so no clearly if that's willing to buy himself with the will to fully deal with the truth to be accepted in the west. but this gadhafi was getting closer to the west he was alienating himself from the arab world the rest of the. subject doing well. and then. he has a clash with king abdullah of saudi what he's trying to imply that he's just the public of the americans there was also a bad chemistry between him and prince how much of. that was real bad. they never felt comfortable with them. why did duffy burned bridges already charred across the region he continued t

this is a livestream by a former miss iraq called shimaa qassem. she says she's received a message saying she's going to be killed. there's every reason to take that seriously. she's very prominent on instagram, with almost 3 million followers. tara fares also had a huge following. she was a fashion model and blogger, and on thursday, she was gunned down in baghdad. she was 22. this cctv footage shows her at the wheel of her porsche moments before that attack. two days before this murder, a human rights activist was shot in her car in basra in the south of iraq. the intention is of course to scare and intimidate. these are some baghdad residents reacting. translation: this is not the first case, it is happening every single thursday. we just we each thursday to see what happens. the situation is very difficult. most girls, especially the famous ones, thinking of leaving iraq. translation: people are starting to be scared because of the assassination cases, especially the assassination cases, especially the young women. this is affecting them ina th

but we went to iraq with the thought in mind to solve that problem to turn iraq and its neighbors into liberal democracies and that proliferation problem a liberal solution but a good realist like me like the balance of power so really you're asking for trouble. and i used to argue during the cold war. everybody the national security establishment and then jumping into a giant briarpatch. then to tell the chinese in the early 2000's. you should be very thankful. and to tell the americans why they should stay in iraq and afghanistan beat mine - - until they win. . >> and have a lot of resources with the marshall plan and try to keep it with a communist hands. and then to balance against the soviet union with those liberal tactics. is that the way to think about it? . >> go back to world war ii that we had to balance against the soviet union. and then to create nato in 1949 and then to do with the soviet threat part of that reason we create democracies because the alternative was communism and as most of you know, in the 19 thirties the left stood up to fascism and had a lot of cachet li

the iraq syria border. is a visiting fellow and not immune averse sense of a conflict security and terrorism joins us via skype now from nottingham thanks very much for being with us so how much of a threat does isaw remain while it operates in these desert areas. well it's a it's ironic it's the drought it isn't. concentrated in territories like it was in the past and certainly not. thirty miles from baghdad as it was and in twenty forty or so what it's doing really is reverting to its reaps if you call i salute i wish to mouth wrong what was known as of iraq by people like us and the whole muslim ones or. and during that time it conducted with terrorist operations attacking those living or ones in cities and that is what is reverting to now it is just continual. and bomb attacks against soft target civilian targets there was an attack just or only twenty four hours ago needs a huge number of people were killed a total of seventy people have been killed in september and early july hundred injured so it's r

but the iraq war one battle for the western allies. no evidence of dangerous weapons was found and the lack of a post-war strategy plunged the country into calles. gadhafi then seized the moment in a dramatic bedouin gratiot to himself with the west and have sanctions on libya lifted he claimed to have w m d's and offered to surrender them. with. desperate to put a positive spin on their mission to destroy weapons in the middle east the u.s. and u.k. led the way in rehabilitating gadhafi almost overnight. libya was no longer. part of the axis of evil. in return a lucrative oil and gas deal was signed and it was then that the cia and m i six began increasing their rendition of libyan dissidents to the gadhafi regime as evil as a vehicle doled out of. one hundred four available. but it's now thought the relationship between the head of the e.s.o. . and western intelligence went back much earlier than the aftermath of the two thousand and three invasion of iraq repression between the two states gathered pace after nine eleven. british int

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action this is of course something beyond the situation in iraq over here do the same both the iraq war we had the same of both afghanistan as well we hear over and over again that the strikes on meticulous strategic using the best technology that money can buy but in the end it's dropping bombs and explosives on dangerously populated civilian locations the language that's used that owned us meticulous you often hear as well of course famously or infamously collateral damage in fact these are real people and if you read the reports coming out of iraq and there's a real anger at the we civilians have been cheated not least because there's not even an undertaking to have an investigation into how these theories were taken place. the u.s. news network n.b.c. has come under fire for showing out of context remarks by president all trump about the american civil war his comments made it seem like he was praising a pro-slavery confederate general the outlet on the corrected that report two days later on the scale of more than looks at how the us media is becoming ever more polarized in the lib

of these elected women because of the leadership of the political parties in iraq they don't believe of course rights or equality or they don't won't they feel that women are very much are in competition with them foreign says that we have seen the last election that some of these women can do that for men being as something been attacked by as smear campaign which has affected them on sexual and on their sexual orientation on sexual you know dignity it was very this is a problem the mentality is this thin friend said among our politicians this is what we have to work very hard on changing the kid change of a stable. that's women can participate always say voluntary and actively in the life of our country now you just alluded to the male patriarchy that doesn't want to see women represented in politics and this is a very typical framing in the west but i wonder if it actually applies to iraq because if we take for example the former prime minister nuri al maliki who didn't assign a single woman to his senior cabinet he strikes me as somebody who didn't want to share power with neithe

with fanfare on slot if i think and now the us needs iranian housing iraq to stable future rice and threats and to stabilize the country could washington confront iran in some areas and still copyright in others we were doing that we were doing that even in the second bush administration i should say we were doing it majorly in the first bush administration particularly in afghanistan right after nine eleven we will cooperate with iran and iran was cooperation with us and the results were pretty positive. has there been cooperation sense on and off yes particularly in the obama administration but it's been very limited very constrained and has never led to anything and what the j c p a way diplomacy was supposed to lead to according to john kerry and wendy sherman and president obama himself was a more robust set of talks about everything from banking to finance to fixing the runs from. anshul system to missiles and terrorism and you name it we're going to talk about all those things that we're going to do it in a diplomatic manner and we're going to do it basically with diplomats t

the iraq syria border. india has deported seven ringette men it's the first time it's taken such action against the muslim minority for me and all its top court has rejected a petition to allow them to state the opposition accuses the right wing government of using the issue for political gain ahead of elections next year but reports. that being in india for about ten years six of them in a jail charged with illegally entry now these muslim or hindu me in iran they way back to a country with they say they endured five wins and persecution. they told india's supreme court nothing has changed for them and me and ma but filed in a petition to force the government to let them stay unfortunately the cork did not listen to this and has dismissed the abnegation that's even the way part of their deport. the seven men is some of the estimated forty thousand who have crossed into india escaping what they describe as years of persecution by me and most government it culminated late last year in a government crackdown