the world is better off without saddam hussein. i was hoping diplomacy would work and i understand the serious consequences of committing our troops in the hard way. it's a hardest decision a president will make. so i went to the united nations, i don't need anybody to go there, i decided to go there myself. i went there hoping once and for all the free world would act in concert to get saddam hussein to listen to our demands. they passed resolution the said disclose, disarm or face serious consequences. i believe that when these international body speaks, it must mean with what it says. so sane had no intention of disarming. why? surely he has 16 other resolutions and nothing took place. as a matter of fact, my opponent talks -- about the fact is that he was systematically deceiving inspectors. that's kind of a precept ember tenth mentality, to hope that somehow resolutions and failed inspections would make this world more peaceful place. he was hoping we would turn away, but there's fortunately others beside myself the believe we

this is al jazeera these are the top stories saddam is the latest country to agree on norm.

so what led to saddam being branded a state sponsor of terror for 27 years while the u.s. blacklisted it in 1993 when omagh bashir was president at the time he was accused of supporting on groups including offering sanctuary to osama bin laden the leader of al-qaeda the group was behind 2 attacks on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 the 335000000 dollars from khartoum would compensate victims and families of those bombings so don is one of 4 countries still considered sponsors of terror the others are iran north korea and syria the designation as cripple their economies sudan's removal would pave the way for the transitional government to access urgently needed debt relief and foreign loans well let's speak some more about this not to swim on bondo who is an expert on sudan and senior adviser at the century his eyes kite from new jersey thank you so much mr bondo for being with us so president saying you know we moved on from the list of state sponsors of terrorism how big of a breakthrough is this for this for so don and how big of a political boost is it for t

removing saddam from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and opens the door wide for saddam to make it's long overdue return to the international community or. not optimism is being echoed on the streets. where people have welcomed the news. this is a very important step that saddam has been awaiting for a long time. and it is negatively affected sudan. defective people running. it also said the strength of the citizens the government and national institutions. we are hopeful about the suspicion as it gives them a new horizon and awakening and brings us forward we have to think about this decision and not make any mistakes. leadership in the form the government has to begin with reforms and face all the challenges and the things that have been brewing over the past 30 years especially for no diplomatic relations. to ivory coast now which experienced widespread violence after a contested election in 20. in the country's economic capital abidjan it was hard hit even many children there homeless. dance company to give young people a safe place to live while teaching them how sweet

brokered deal between israel and saddam. and i can tell you that i've been very negative their reactions from the palestinian side the president abbas says office has a nice shit that a statement saying that this is. to all the resolutions of the arab league reminding the sudanese and others that according to the chords and agreements agreed upon by the arabs that israel should 1st with the droll from occupied territories and only then there should be this normalization the law and wage that we've heard from how my islamic jihad was even stronger against this but i can tell you that if we compare it with the reactions towards the relations with the everetts and the raney's wealthy here about palestinians is that they still hope that the sudanese people that they the sudanese people who have been supporting the palestinians that they would have a different position and that it's still a. i think the you that on the israeli side of course does this support for this kind of step their recognition and so forth a big achievement

sirens on reports of shelling and water on the border with saddam as every town for hours while the 2nd ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan we hear from locals both sides of the conflict what can i say about people who have no idea of humanity it is a pity that we are dealing with barbarians and terror needs also please see sponsors but never observed an ok point new territory thousands poor into the streets of several french cities to denounce raja climbed on top of the brutal murder of a teacher who showed his pupils are tools considered offensive to muslims. on social gatherings that coming on to special scrutiny during the pandemic was one government and its lead takes a vote what he calls a stupendous american celebration and imposes a cop told how do we do we can't we have political. aggression is not appropriate to me to the street has become a good holiday here in italy these are useless holy days honestly i'm not sorry for it. hello from moscow this october the 19th just 1 pm here in the capital glad you could join us to take a look at what's going on around the world. wha

you know saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction he was a maniac who wanted to destroy the world that was a huge conspiracy theory but no one shoves down new york times twitter accounts no one says you i to us how many times did new york times report that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction and so for hours and sometimes tens of thousands of women they got those say it's not a conspiracy theory and mr trump is a liar you should be labeled and then you advance would continue business as usual right i go only to find peace leg up you'll surprises in the promotions and they were just. keep up the ladder for a spreading their false narratives here you know this is the limit george i mean. in this is all the media's fault i mean let's just look at coded i mean you can get a one hour one hour of prime time and go to every single major cable station and they have their own their panel of medical experts but they all say different things ok i mean what are people supposed to believe and because they can't believe the official narratives they're going to try to make conclusions

sudan and israel have agreed to normalize relations in a deal brokered by the us and make saddam the 3rd arab nation to set aside its differences with israel in the past 2 months though the country's foreign minister says it still needs to be approved by the transitional legislative council which is yet to be formed. u.s. president donald trump sealed the agreement in a call with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the sudanese prime minister abdullah one dog he also told congress he's removing saddam from a list of state sponsors of terrorism palestinians describes to don's decision as a new stab in the back but trump says he expects more countries will want to make a deal allan fishes out the white house and has more on the announcement. it seems that this process has been ongoing for a number of years according to mike pompey it started when he came into the administration he of course was the 1st cia director before becoming secretary of state what is clear the sudan government decided it would pay $335000000.00 in compensation to the united states particularly to take

the last few years and particularly i have in mind russia gate ukraine gate even go further back with saddam and weapons of mass destruction the there's plenty of official conspiracy theories that have been thoroughly debunked but many of the conspiracy theories that i consider can vary the theories in the official discourse are there's no even attempt to acknowledge that they can be debunked go ahead oh well you're absolutely right 2 because look just starting from july facebook. even due to the shut down hundreds of thousands of accounts of people connected to what these companies declared to be conspiracy theories organizations and all i won't name them not to give as a dozen to them but everyone knows these names you know the mainstream media reports about them every day and if you look at their theories for which these groups were paralyzed are biased basically every one of them has some. kind of shadow in really good like ok it's a conspiracy theory that the western rule or world is ruled by paedophiles who are iranian you know child safety child sex trade yes that's a conspiracy theor

settable remove saddam from the list of state sponsors of terrorism if khartoum compensates us victims of terror attacks and especially recently also brokered diplomatic ties between israel and the united arab emirates and. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu welcomed the deal. today we declare another dramatic breakthrough for peace and no other arab country joins of circle of peace is not this time it's what a great development in the courtroom today 9673 knows of the arab you know to peace of israel you know if you're nation of israel and no negotiations with the revenues you know you day to me saying yes to peace with israel yes through recognition of israel and yes you know many zation of israel this is a new era. peace is proceeding with 3 arab countries in the last few weeks so most members would want to hold him well if the u.s. brokered this deal what was in it for washington. well the same that was in the deal with the united arab emirates that the trumpet ministration brokered donald trump urgently needs success stories in foreign policy as you know it did not go very

this is a d w news live from berlin saddam becomes the 3rd arab state to set aside hostilities with israel in the past 2 months the leaders of both countries agreeing to normalize relations a new u.s. brokered deal president of trump announced sedan would be removed from the u.s. terror list and in order to move saying deals with other arab countries are in the pipeline also coming up to the race for the white house and says the homestretch after a contentious presidential debate democratic candidate joe biden and president on the truck but 1st hoping for a big win to build momentum. and protesters and police clashed in warsaw off of the government effectively bans abortions demonstrators in the polish capital fair the band will have dire consequences for women's health. i'm all out psycho welcome to the program so don has pledged to normalize relations with israel making it the 3rd arab country to establish ties with the jewish state on the u.s. brokered deals this year donald trump announced the agreement on friday the u.s. said it will remove saddam from the list of state sponsors of te

this is al jazeera these are the top stories saddam is the latest country to agree on normalizing ties with israel and a u.s. brokered deal announced by president trump that the deal in just 2 months with the u.a.e. and already signing up to establish diplomatic ties with israel alan fischer has the latest eyes for donald trump well he seems to embrace the idea of making small deals across the middle east rather than look his previous s.s. trying to build one all the compassing middle east deal he believes that this changes the reality on the ground he already got a deal signed between the united arab emirates and bahrain to recognize israel remember the abraham accords were signed here at the white house just in september just over a month ago and he believes that there are 5 other countries who are ready to sign up to this deal libya's rival factions have signed a permanent ceasefire agreement the u.n. broad compact which orders all foreign fighters out of the country comes ahead of political talks next month it was signed into naval officer nearly a decade of conflict. tensions been

the bit it has a power and saddam. british attempts to intimidate the egyptians only further inflamed nationalist sentiment. a crisis point was reached when in november 1924 so least stack commander in chief of the egyptian army and governor of sudan was assassinated while driving through the streets of cairo. the assassins were arrested and sentenced to death. but the murder of the british official was a turning point london now found its reason to implement the good serious scheme. what they did was that ok you killed the governor general then the will take more work from the nile as a punishment so this was the 1st time in practice abstinence power punished the dunstan polydor it. for the vote with. britain's trump card was this an odd dam completed 1925. built on the blue nile in sudan it would help the irrigation of the gezi or area. but it also delivered an ominous signal to the egyptians for the 1st time in their history a dam built outside of egypt would affect the flow of the nile into their country. nationali

on the us agrees to remove saddam from its list of state terrorism spawned so to speak.

saddam hussein is probably better off than he was four years ago. renee proval is probably better off than he was four years ago. but are the american people? they're working harder and higher and harder paying more taxes. for the first time in history, you pay about 40% of what you earn. more than you spend for food, clothing and shelter combined for taxes under this administration. so some may be better off. they talk about family income being up. that's not true in connecticut, family income is down. and it's up in some cases because both parents are working. one works for the family, and one works to pay taxes for the government. we're going to give them tax cuts so they can spend more time with their children, maybe even take a vacation. that's what america is all about. >> one minute, mr. president. >> well, let me say, first of all, in february senator dole acknowledged that the american economy was in the best shape it's been in in 30 years. we have ten and a half million more jobs, a faster job growth rate than under any republican administ

you were meeting with saddam hussein i think we have some video of that. of that meeting tell me what was going on during this is why did you get this video from the iraqi television is on the iraqi television when did they give it to you recently are we back then we dug this out of the c.n.n. library i see. isn't that interesting. there i am. all more on terror. begins with al qaeda. but it does not in. this very phrase war on terror is irrational it's like saying. a war on war. when the serious fraud office launched its investigation into the crimes that we were covering it turned out that many of these arms deals have been forced through by tony blair personally piece of dirty case you don't sell. and once you start a war. you open a kind of pandora's box you don't control it it controls you. was the answer to my goodness you. can't. today there are good terrorists and bad the bad terrorists those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the good terrorists those who are in syria the job here is we've been there before. i mean if you consider

it's a real problem that saddam is probably stronger than he ever was. we shot 44 cruise missiles that are about 1 million or two apiece and hit some radar that was repaired in three days. did we inflict any damage? no. did we have any allies helping? well, we have great britain, they are always very loyal to us and i appreciate that. and of course, kuwait, even though they had to find out they had 5000 troops coming. they did not even understand that. we had to get their permission. the bottom line is that we went there in -- we went there alone. we are supposed to be operating under a un resolution. we did it without any of our allies that helped us in the gulf. >> senator dole has two or three times before tonight criticize me for working with the un. now i'm being criticized for not working with the un. >> it was not the un. >> sometimes the united states has to act alone, or at least has to act first. sometimes we cannot let other countries have a veto on our foreign policy. i could not send soldiers into the north of iraq, that would have been wron

saddam hussein is under a u.n. resolution not to threaten his neighbors or threaten his own -- repress his own citizens. unfortunately, a lot of people have never been concerned about the kurds as the united states has been and we've been flying an operation out of turkey to protect it for a number of years now. one of the kurdish leaders invited him to go up north, but we felt since the whole world community had told him not to do it, that once he did it we had to do something. we did not feel that i could commit, i certainly didn't feel i should commit american troops to throw him out of where he had gone, and that was the only way to do that. so the appropriate thing strategically to do was to reduce his ability to threaten his neighbors. we did that by expanding what's called the no-fly zone, by increasing our allies' control of the air space now from the kuwait border to the suburbs of baghdad. was it the right thing to do? i believe it was. is it fully effective? did it make him withdraw from the north? well,

this is a d w news live from the lead saddam becomes the 3rd arab state to set aside hostilities with israel in the past 2 months the leaders of both countries agreeing to normalize relations that make us brokered deal president on the trump announced saddam would be removed from the u.s. terror list and in order to move saying deals with father are a cunt.

then president saddam hussein ordered his forces to invade kuwait in 1900. more than $1000.00 civilians were killed and hundreds went missing during the 7 months iraqi occupation which triggered the 1st gulf war that same year. after u.s. led air campaign forced iraqi troops out of kuwait so bach was closely involved in rebuilding his country. and in 2003 he was appointed prime minister at the time it was widely expected that his next role would be that of crown prince but in 2006 then. his half brother died a new enemy or saddam abdullah salim was sworn in almost immediately concerns were raised over the state of his health and sparked what's appeared to be a power struggle within the royal family after a tense 9 day reign the army or abdicated the cabinet swiftly nominated as the next leader ending what was seen as a major crisis. in 2015 a suicide bomb exploded in a packed mosque in the east of kuwait city killing 26 people. then you're immediately rushed to the mosque despite security warning staring his sympathy with the people. in the long life of so o

removing saddam from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and opens the door wide for saddam to make its long of a jew return to the international community. and we cannot do it. optimism is being echoed on the streets. where people have welcomed the news. this is a very important step that sudan has been awaiting for a long time. and it is negatively affected sudan. and effective what people were earning. it also said the strength of the citizens the government and national institutions. we are hopeful about the secession as it gives sudan a new horizon and awakening and brings us forward we have to think about this decision and not make any mistakes. from the leadership in the form the government has to begin with reforms and face all the challenges and the things that have been brewing over the past 30 years you know especially for no diplomatic relations. to ivory coast now which experienced widespread violence after a contested election in 2010 the suburb of the country's economic capital abidjan it was hard hit even many children there homeless. started dance company give

that thingsmean would be better if we had left saddam hussein alone, but it is something that people should think about a little bit more because -- before they casually say, we as americans, it is our duty to fight the dictatorship and ring freedom and liberty for us to do so. >> they should have listened to what saddam said -- ubiquitous torture and terror. terrible, dictates oral order. for most people, it is probably preferred to the violent anarchy. violent anarchy, in many ways that you have until 1945, until order was reimposed. >> ideology. the period 1940-1945, it was not a war on religion on the face of it. obviously, the sense was that ideology, religion was like heroin and ideology was like methadone. down,ngs you trembling milliona bit of it 100 -- for communism and fascism. >> also, the border is not always so clear. phases,ost violent there is not a huge distinction between religion and ideology because it was also a religious colt in which people could be tortured to death for trading on a newspaper with his image on it that his religion at its worst really. it is a c

mike pompeo visited saddam's capital, cartoon, in august. he was the first us secretary of state to do so in more than a decade —— sudan. it is now the third arab league country to formally recognise israel this year after the uae and bahrain. this gives credibility to donald trump's reputation as a dealmaker and isa reputation as a dealmaker and is a huge foreign policy win for him. he is trying to push this as steps towards getting what he considers the deal of the century, peace between the israelis and the palestinians. but palestinian officials have called this latest move further betrayal. we are totally denouncing this deal and we are sure that the sudanese people, the intellectuals, the sudanese national parties, that the people of sudan also will reject this deal because sudan and the people of sudan they have failed the palestinian cause. it was in khartoum are backin cause. it was in khartoum are back in the 1960's, when the nations agreed never to negotiate with israel into an independent palestinian state was established. so

says it will remove saddam from its black list of state of state terrorism sponsors but it's coming with that hefty price tag a cartoon. that will welcome you watching r.t. international with me carrying our top story this hour in france people continue to mourn the slain teacher some your party the 47 year old was brutally killed last week in an in an ax labeled us terrorism as part of its pledge to fight hate speech the government has ordered the closure of a mosque accused of links to the gruesome murder with the latest developments a solid defense. several organizations are being shut down as a result of the attack on some real party almost a week ago in france and that includes the mosque behind me this is the grand mosque of punks on you know the reason the order says on the front of the mosque that it is being closed on wednesday is because that is for the sole purpose of preventing acts of terrorism and that's because this mosque which has around 1500 people who regularly come and worship posted a video inciting hatred against teaches samuel party in the days before he was killed

has pledged to take saddam off its list of terrorism state sponsors and exchange at once called him to pay out hundreds of millions to terror ficta mz and untrue malton diplomacy style the american president and his sudanese counter-top took to twitter to discuss the deal. great news new government of sudan which is making great progress agreed to pay $335000000.00 to u.s. tera victims and families once deposited i will lift see down from the state sponsors of terrorism list thank you so much president from we very much look forward to your official notification to congress rescinded the designation of sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism which has cost sudan too much currently washington's list of terrorist states include 4 countries so don but that also iran north korea syria this means that subject to sanctions they can receive foreign aid from the west there's also a ban on all sales as well as a number of financial restrictions sudan was 1st and that made to that terrorist state off the harboring al qaeda leader osama bin laden. terrorism expert david low believes the upcoming el

announced that it helped broker the deal in exchange saddam was removed from the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism the agreement still needs to be approved from a yet to be formed transitional legislative council in sudan. the time was very tight for them we never spoke about normalization but now the talk about normalization has begun we were adamant that 1st they have to announce that sudan would be removed from the list of states sponsoring terrorism that is why this linkage between the 2 issues occurred sudan's arms were tied then they talked about if we could afford to miss this opportunity and we were told we had to consider the possibility of trump losing the election. a presidential candidate in zanzibar who was arrested on tuesday has been released that's called his concerns have been growing over the credibility of tanzania's elections reports. this was the seat moments before the main opposition presidential candidate. was arrested. comet had just called for mass protests in tanzania semi autonomous region citing widespread regularities in west is pau

see a saddam in israel are taking up diplomatic relations as of course a very important achievement for the trump administration is a we're getting closer to election day because remember for a long time president trump was not successful at all in foreign policy think of north korea think oh falso iran off russia if you take a closer look to the deal made here it looks very much like a deal was made in fact because sudan at the same time was taken off a sponsor of terrorism list so it very much looks like economic advantages for sudan in exchange for a foreign policy success story although saddam stresses that the does not have anything to do with each other but it looks like a move in order to strengthen president tom's position as he moves closer to the election all of us on the thank you. and here's the rest of the day's news libya's 2 warring factions have signed a cease fire deal ended ending almost a decade of conflict effective immediately the agreement comes after 5 days of talks in geneva hosted by the united nations the body hailed the deal as a historic turning point for pea

sand in order to try and help restore slick so between 709479 there is a british occupation of odds of saddam and 2 son has to fight and he fights them and eventually serves them out of the hunt to another misinformation about bit the bit the younger then what about the american independence leaders as he said robespierre declares the end of slavery in paris and 7094 any help from the united states the americans are divided because they're on the one hand they know that they have slavery in their own country and the american revolution has you know does not take any decisive action against slavery at the same time some of the leaders of the american revolution particularly john had is very sympathetic towards the republican experiment in hate but others like jefferson for example talked of the haitians as cannibals. and you have some leaders of the american revolution particularly the ones who were particularly close to slave interests like jefferson were very hostile toward saddam and towards hate will donald trump won't be pulling him down any statues of jefferson i'll tell you that i made

if the if washington is interested in peace in north africa then it should get saddam tunis and others to help end the war in libya instead we see wars periphery that we see conflict and instability proofreading in the middle east we see dictatorships like that that the ship is saddam the military that that holding on to its power through this kind of a deal through washington with that of you so on in or out that by the syrians are screwed and many others are a screw all in the name of peace but monica that we could there be a silver lining to this in the sense that it will finally lay to rest the kind of zone b. arab politics lip service to the palestinian cause the whole land for peace initiative which has we know that there are already these relations between the gulf states and israel in that sense once it's now so have formalized an official cannot help perhaps could help alter palestinian strategizing you know i'm all for the civil linings i mean i'm more than happy especially nowadays with koran and everything but the middle east really falling apart more force of aligning and

rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting. shadow on al-jazeera. donald trump announces a u.s. brokered deal for sudan and israel to normalize relations palestinians say it's another step in the back. of a dream for the given this is our 0 live from doha also coming up after announcing the sudan israel deal president trump weighed into another controversial regional issue ethiopia's grand renee song. egypt is not going to be able to live that way and they'll end up blowing up. more coronavirus records tumble the us reports $84000.00 new infections in just 24 hours and more fighting at armenia and azerbaijan as disputed region both sides accuse each other of shelling residential areas. sudan's transitional government has agreed to start the process of normalizing ties with israel sudan's leader wants approval from the country's yet to be formed parliament it's part of a broader deal that allows the lifting of u.s. sanctions the palestinians are claiming it's another stab in the back after similar moves by the u.a.e. and bahrain in a moment we'll spe

so what led to saddam being branded a state sponsor of terror for 27 years the u.s. blacklisted in 1993 when omar bashir was president at the time he was accused of supporting armed groups including offering sanctuary to assam a bin lad now qaeda leader the group was behind attacks on u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998 the $335000000.00 from khartoum would compensate victims and families of those bombings so don is one of 4 countries still considered sponsors of terror the others are iran north korea and syria the designation has cripple their economy so sedans removal is a major win for the people and a transitional government cameron has sent previously served as a chief of staff to the u.s. special envoy to sudan he says a deal could be peril for khartoum status little additional goal it isn't that a lot of political pressure because of the difficulties in the supply of decision according to the population it's a reflection of the economic crisis that the government of chile heritage from president bashir is also a suit donor siddons financial situation

it's a very difficult situation now iran is not like iraq under saddam hussein in the 1990 s. iran is in many many areas a self-sufficient country with incredible industrialisation and economic power within its own country and it trades vigorously with it with its neighbors but still there are some things that iran needs particularly during this pandemic during the kobe 1000 pandemic that it has to import medicines medical devices peepee either we're always talking about iran cannot produce enough of it fast enough to affectively deal with its population so it will cause iran pain but again iran is not like iraq in the 1990 s. it is a huge country with enormous resources and it will get by but it will be hurt and every effort always a pleasure thank you for joining us thank you. in the news ahead rights groups in colombia say activists are facing increased danger is a golden week for china people celebrating the annual holiday generate billions in revenue for a struggling tourism industry. but . how i would also very wet some windy weather making its way towards japan over the

benjamin netanyahu and the sudanese prime minister abdullah one dog he also told congress he's removing saddam from a list of state sponsors of terrorism the palestinians describe sudan's decision as a new step and the fact that trump is saying he expects more countries will want to make a deal as well. that's who down there wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly because they essentially better war with israel for. a long time i don't know if it was fighting i don't know that but probably there's been a little bit but certainly it's been for many years you've been officially at war with the know it's not only the deal was but it's peace so that's official that's those you know we have at least 5 that want to come here. alan fish has more from the white house on how the deal came about well it seems that this process has been ongoing for a number of years according to mike pompey it started when he came into the administration he of course was the 1st cia director before becoming secretary of state what is clear is the sudan government decided it would pay $335000000.00 in compensatio

brokered deal for saddam and israel to normalize relations palestinians say it's another stab in the back. and i'm adrian from again this is al-jazeera life and also coming up after announcing the sudan israel deal president trump weighs into another thorny regional issue ethiopia's grand renee's on stem. egypt.

said it will remove saddam from the list of states consuls of terrorist. and if compensates us victims of terror attacks the champ administration recently also broken diplomatic ties between israel and the united arab emirates and bahrain. the move has angered palestinians but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu held a deal as the beginning of a new era for israel and the home. today we declare another dramatic breakthrough for peace another country joints of. this time. what a great development and through their doctrine 1673 nos of the arab league no to peace of israel no recognition of israel and no negotiations with the revenues. today but to me saying yes to peace with israel yes to recognition of israel and yes to normalization of israel this is a new era. peace is proceeding with 3 arab countries in the last few weeks. let's go to washington correspondent all of a solid for more get to see all of what's in this for washington why did the u.s. wants to broker this deal. old the same that was in the earlier piece that the united states brokered