hands with the u. s, which is helping to stabilize the economy and has a ministry presence in the country. now if it finds anything surfacing by the so called islamic states. so with this attack on others in syria and gm and easily united states now effective for instability as claims by the iraqi ministry. i'm feel game invalid, and this is the day the united states does not desire more conflict to the region when we are actively working to contain and t escalate conflicts in jobs. and we believe the presence of the americans in iraq, syria, afghanistan, and the region in no way create security. it disrupts the security of the region. the whole security situation in iraq is scary. iraq, indeed, the why to region remain on the knife edge with the tiniest miscoded threatening

a major of consecration. tax and american forces will not be tolerated. and we will continue to take all necessary actions to defend the united states, our forces and our interest. also coming up israel prepared to expand its operations in gaza. palestinians in rafa have been under bon bonded for months now. they're bracing for a possible ground defensive, but it's an a 3 missiles hit this same place where i'm standing. there's not much to say about the victims, children, the women and the elderly. i wish we could have collected their whole bodies. instead, we have bits and pieces. we're all hearing that there will be a ground incursion into rafa. i imagine things will be extremely bad. welcome to the day, iraq has denounced united states for a drug and strike on its capital bank that was about as far as the photographs, probably, ministers that'd be attack was pushing his government to end. the mission of the us led coalition in the country describe english as

a source of instability. the strike kills 3 members of a possible iran back to the nation, including its leader was conducted without private consultation with iraqi or thursdays. us believes the group can tell you, has blah carried out the drug striking jordan the claim. the lives of 3 us soldiers is us national security spokesman junk, big responding to iraqi product tests. i would tell you that we fully respect a rock sovereignty and our troops are there at the invitation of the iraqi government to continue to advise and assist their military, their security forces as they continue to battle against a still viable isis threat. but look, if there were no attacks on our troops who were there at the invitation of iraqi government, there would be no need for retaliatory strikes. we like it states as frequently talking safety around fact groups that age says that behind me. so having drug strikes on its troops in iraq and syria, the rest has new, the 900 troops and syria. i'm 2500 in iraq as part of an international coalition.

okay, so circles is lubbock state group. it's basis of co invest. sporadic are sold from around back munitions for years. of the attacks have increased and say, how much the tire attacks of october 7 let's consider they sam with bradley bowman who senior director of essential and military and political power of the foundation for the defense of democracies. he served more than 15 years on active duty is a us army officer, joins us from washington. welcome back to d w. so the u. s. think is any rock guys supposed to be helping to stabilize the country and help fight this? i assume search and see how does that square with attacking back capital, especially with drugs. i think it uh squares quite easily. uh, i think god wont kirby has it exactly right in its factually unassailable. the us

military is there in a rock at the invitation of the government of iraq, primarily for the purpose of keeping the isis caliphate defeated. when you invite someone in your home, you have responsibility to protect them. the rocky government has consistently failed to do so. and as you and i have discussed before, the numbers now a 168 more than a 168 attacks on us forces in iraq and syria combined with roughly half of those happen in a rock. and us has responded to about $10.00 to $12.00 times. and so the us unlikely as lama compulsive wrong supports are rock the sovereignty. but there's also something we also support, and that is our troops not getting killed and blown up. so this is a repeated play bucks moran. they encourage their proxies to attack our forces, they know sooner or later despite our restraint will respond and will respond. you get protests and pushes for the us military through the park, which would be a gift to ron, increasing his power and control over baghdad. increase the chances we'll see

a resurgence of guys is kelsey. so what do you think then, all the chances of the us remaining in iraq with this having happened i think this will increase the already underway momentum in some quarters in baghdad to push us forces out. and a process is underway. americans participating as you'd expect us to and we'll see what the sovereign government of baghdad heavily influenced by his long poking around the sides. and i suspect the bind restoration will respect that. it'd be interesting if they asked all the codes for its members of islamic revolution and guard court to leave. something tells me they wouldn't leave. but if they asked the united states to leave, i think the volume is racial on or that and will leave. and i really demonstrates the fundamental difference in the 2 approaches it does and it's, and it's interesting it obviously we'll see how it plays out. but how does a very for then play into why the us interest in the region is one thing saying,

all right, we'll talk about in bold. but then, is that necessarily in america's interests to leave iraq? no, i think it would be directly contrary to american interest. i think we have an interest in keeping the isis calsae defeated the cal face to feed the tears organization is not in any ology. my goodness certainly is not. and if we leave, as i just said, you're gonna have further undermining of a rocky sovereignty. you're going to have growing concerned among sunni or rockies about she i, predominance in baghdad, which will create fertile radicalization, recruiting ground for ices, increase the chances of its resurgence. and just like after the us, we've seen this movie before, the military withdrew in 2011 and it catalyzed a sequence of events that led to forced us to return in 2014. once you have the ice of cal fade on the mark. so yeah, sometimes it's good to look at the, the pre qual,

uh, because you know what the sequel is going to be. okay? and so we'll set lots to one side and a try and look at the sort of how we should re god, the presence of these people on a rock, a rocky soil because you have era and the u. s. supposedly on friendly terms, yet a rack apiece. ivan, knowing legal notes to be hobbling these people on each tabitha, the whole thing just looks big us ambiguous sir, is a polite word. it's an absolute mess. a rock is a chessboard for the, a competition between a ron and um, in the united states. uh there, there's long standing, she has so many issues there. there's hers an error of issues there. don't forget the iran iraq war. don't forget the kurds in the north. don't forget turkey. it's an absolute mess. it's an absolute mess and you know what? who likes to take advantage of massachusetts terrace organizations?

we've seen that without tied up. we've seen that with isis. we've seen that with others. and so the but us wants a rock to be sovereign capable, peaceful, and prosperous. and frankly, a lot of americans have given their lives and didn't return home their families in pursuit of that goal. you know, we respect their sovereignty, but we also respect the wellbeing of our troops too. and they're really putting us in a tough dilemma by inviting someone in your home and they're not protecting them while you're in your home. is the stuff that is it because for us, calculus has to be about a retaliation. now, against the likelihood that us, the interest in the region will be badly affected at some point in the future. so it's, we take our button bull, how i know, but in the year 2 years time, we're going to be back because, oh, how is broken loose? yeah, you're exactly right. you put your finger on the dilemma. and that's what a ron loves. iran loves this dilemma. it plays to their advantage, as i said

a couple of times now. and it's real tough, you know, 81 is just this foreign policy stuff is easy and clear. doesn't know what they're, they're talking about. this is tough. we want to solve unstable rock that's in the american interest. we don't want to undermine their solver to want to peaceful and independent and not a puppet regime of these long repub of wrong. that's the key differences i've said already. but we are going to protect our troops and anyone who's critical of this strike. i would ask them if you've been hitting the face a 168 times. how would you respond? what do you expect us to do? we can't leave our adversaries with the impression that they can kill our troops and have no consequences. we'll see how this plays out. so now though, thank you so much for talking to stewart, probably bowman from the central and the ministry and political past. thank you. the us secretary of states and to be blinking. the left is rel, empty handed, the he was on the to the middle east to push for

a humanitarian pause in the fighting to allow desperately needed aid into gaza. israel's prime minister rejected bahamas proposal for a cease 5 describing the terms of the lewis. know i'm claiming as an absolute victory, he's just months away. we've never ceased far inside. he's right. the forces are preparing for another portion to guy. that's israel says it's offensive as it's offensive. he's moving into the southern gauze and safety of rafa. but much of the policy palestinian population as fled smoke rises over the crowded city of rafa is really bombardments and preparation for our ground assault. and to what it says is a strong hold for him us, which is classified as a terrorist organization by many countries, us. but for hundreds of thousands of thousands who have fled to the southern end of the strip. after being told by the is really army and to leave their homes further north. rafa is the last refuge. it's also home to one of the biggest border

crossings for aid and supplies. israel says rafa also house has multiple tunnels that have mouse uses to supply itself with arms. the shelling has already taken its toll here. even before soldiers arrive in a 3 missiles hit this same place where i'm standing. there's not much to say about the victims, children, the women and the elderly. i wish we could have collected their whole bodies. instead, we have bits and pieces. we're all hearing that there will be a ground incursion into rafa. i imagine things will be extremely bad. but is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu and sis there is no alternative to the military collapse of i'm us, let me look a show like there is no solution other than total victory. lucky to on. if i'm us survives and gaza must. it's located only a matter of time until the next massacre and the axis of evil they run and its proxy is. we'll continue with our campaign, but to quote you

a little bit and we instructed the army to repair, to operate also in rough, awesome, and into the camps and the center. the last remaining strong holes of homos. i know zoom a whole nation with peace making efforts apparently stalled for the time being. the people of rafa will pay the price for both sides on willingness to come to a deal. let's pick this up with marina. i may run a ministry. i'm based with the worst studies department of kings college in london . she joins us for the drum unit. i welcome back to d, w. a marina. i'm what does each male hope to achieve with this push into rafa a good evening sale? well this is the last phase of the whole campaign because um the miller trade, the israeli miller tree managed to clear some of the biggest cities in golf as a gaza city for one. they're still tied down in san eunice. and now rafa is the

last important location as we have for this will be the last major stronghold for, from us. and another important factor here is of course, the cost for their operations. so the idea is to cut off how mazda is supplied to market and then to defeated in detail, rougher of cost, massively densely populated, to say, to the suffering from a humanitarian situation, described by the un as a business of more civilian casualties. same inevitable. oh absolutely, and it will be probably the most difficult operation or phrase of se operation for the idea because they have to have good intelligence in or do not to target civilians or at least to minimize civilian casualties. given that there are 5 times more civilians in the city used to have. um,

on the other hand you have those civilians track there. the egypt has said that it will not accept any refugees from gaza. israel is saying that these people should leave somewhere, save error is a question. and so for the idea of it, it will be a huge challenge because it will be important to destroy it. homeless and rough uh, at the same time, to keep the civilian casualties at a minimum meaning a very slow and painful progress. yeah. one, is it good to ask you about that? what sort of tactics do you anticipate israel using it? rafa and i think they will try to target the tunnels which are connecting egypt and gaza in order to cut off all the supply routes for home us. and obviously you will have urban bottles from us might be

using civilians as shields. they will be using their tunnels again to surprise the idea of so the idea of who have to go house by house and literally fight for every one of them. and it will be a huge effort, as i said, in order enough to have civilians in the way. so it might be similar to what i've seen in gauze and city right now. i'd like to apply you a clear, perfect uh mr. nelson yahoo speaking and get your reaction. lucky and i'll give this evening. i want to tell you one thing and we are on the path of total victory . victory is within reach. well basically, it's not a matter of years or decades. it's a matter of months. then you're answering for the she right and model and how do you assess that play minutes? how early? well, i think militarily i, the, has the capability to destroy from us. the problem here is,

what will happen after and yes, and as a problem is, what will also prove, such as has blood do in response to that, because as we remember, a hassle of sad that if it caesar from mazda is losing this war, they will stop and say if we focus just on, on how much it is possible and the fact that from us wanted a complete ceasefire shows that it doesn't see a lot of prospect for a military victory. i'm just to look at the, the why the picture is rails a has the most sophisticated on the, in the region. what have we learned since october? a 7 about is arouse prosecution of war. in particular, it's, it's ground. defensive may have we have seen from what israel has done and sundays a lot. um, what has happened during the battle of multiple so this complex urban warfare

operations that the idea of has undertaken combined of course with an era strikes. so they have not only use the ground components, it was used in the quarter, the needed matter together was their error and also naval assets. it is quite a complex operation, but i must say is that also it, you'll graphically speaking in favor of the east route because her mos could not flee from gaza. and i, i think that they have performed except for several cases, obviously of a civilian casualties and friendly fire. they have done the best they could in the given time processing as ever. thank you so much for that, but i think those are that i'm ready to meet on from the board studies department, kings companies, and thank you for having me the

cause of the war in ukraine and president savanski has dismissed his talk ministry come on, the general validity is allusion. a hot bank commander in chief of ukraine's armed forces presents events case at the time had come for changes in the military leadership. but the general would remain on his team. general civil, his name is regarded by many ukrainians as a national here of overseeing the countries war fs versus full scale invasion. and february 2022. the president says he will be replaced by the commander of the frames the crown forces. alexander c. escape presidents that lives can shed faced the video after messing with general zillow's. navigation is in there. i am grateful to generals the illusion need for 2 years of defense. i'm grateful for every victory we achieve together. and i think all the ukrainian soldiers who, who rightly contribute to our successes in this war, we talked frankly today about what needs to be changed in the army version changes . i suggested the generals illusion,

they continued to work together with us in the ukrainian government. i would appreciate his agreement, lines you greens with the problem. you able to have jasmine is a whole. let's bring in a correspondence at nick accommodate m k. welcome nick. so this is 10 days. this is after this, this happens after 10 days of speculation. what reason did present? so ask again of the we are still waiting for real clear explanation. we probably would ever get to it. there was lots of very general talk about a need for fresh thoughts and new management strategies, new approaches. but what exactly that means is especially given this illusion in his late stucco for cnn. i made lots suggestions and things that needs to be changed or improved isn't clear. i think the kind of charged explanation that you'd may probably hear from some of the zalinski supports would be that at the present company to specific for operational reasons, for 60 reasons about the lives, these failings and potential. uh, you know, things that he's done that haven't worked out that to councils,

it'd be more personal, more direct, full fear of dividing psyche way. so there's a, has a lot of support. i think the more kind of cynical kind of negative interpretation little this is that simply the listening was too popular. lots of putting showed him to have more trust in this country than the president. and there is certainly the fear and the kind of the landscape of the school counselor, this is a man who could have a future political career ahead of him. he's never expressed any political ambitions, but certainly that is something most people do. he has that is really a difficult moment here in cuba tonight. right. and does this dismissal bring any political risk for the present? well, i think it's important to kind of particular the pictures look at the statements that come out as a really both putting on a brave face. this has been kind of presented as a kind of compromise or a kind of consensual decision without slamming of doors, without any recriminations in public, at least directly. we have as illusion. hills are putting out

a post saying that it is easy expressing thanks to his team, the all me and stuff everyone. then that kind of consider it to offer from the president saying that he wants solution and stay on his team will be, i guess, you know, less the role at the motion of thoughts. but certainly there is a real danger. and there's worry here that this could undermine ukraine's credibility right. now, remember where it's best prefer it's actually laid needs to show us and european partners that it is a good that this is a country worth investing in. but for now, it does seem like the disney is not going to go out and create, publish the present. he has basically implied the hills report, whoever comes in his place now says key and a new team. so for now we're waiting to see what it goes on, but certainly this was basically just by a 1000 cuts to something that has been ruined about spoken about speculation about for the past 10 days. and this certainly is a sense, and maybe that was part of the rest of your loan to rent this being such a shock to prevent this taking people by surprise sunset. we've now had what basically we've been expecting for a good time. now. they said that they've got to be comfortable in that nit conway,

in case the german challenge of a hold off shelves, who's heading to the united states for toast with peasant bite, and their leaders are expected to discuss the situation in casa, add more military age for ukraine on wednesday. republicans status has blocked the financial aid package that included $16000000000.00 administrator assistance for k, as in bob and had been urging them to approve the extra funding for your training, which has been sold in congress for months. republican lawmakers, the one for the a tied to strict a security on the border with mexico. the rejection of the package has not been received well in your fall is prime minister. i don't know to us got to ex phone the notice. try to defend cease frustration. he wrote the republicans sentences of america bottle reagan who helped millions of us to win back off. freedom and independence must be turning in his grave. today. shame on you. the german

chancellor. this response was more measured speaking to be purchased before board and his plight. oh, that show said ukraine's defence can just unload ministry supplies. or if it's invested in clayton, ukraine is defending itself with everything it has tied is a body needs support to ensure to continue to do so. you will do that. so the what is being played so far by europe and the us congress is still not enough to because the so we need to find a way for us all to do more together. the hyphen via alex was on mid to well, they don't use chase. political correspondent became a cosigner on the washington bureau chief in his pole have more now on what's at stake from the chancellor meets the president of when u. s. presidential biden and german chancellor, or the shots, meat and washington, the stakes can hardly be higher. the danger of the conflict in the middle east escalating into a conflagration seems to be increasing every day. the russian aggression against

the graeme shows no sign of stopping a fight in coal salts when he wants to talk to europe, particularly on the 2 big crises, ukraine and the middle east. sol, just help get a 50000000000 euro aid package for key for cross the political finishing line as an e. u summit in brussels. and just like the united states, germany is still on stay at israel side. the you as president and the german chancellor will come together to reaffirm their strong support for ukraine. renewed off shorts. we will be meeting joe biden here in the oval office right behind me. he will not only be meeting a president who is unable to get any further funding for ukraine through congress, but also a president who's just at the beginning of an election cycle. on which end we might see another president in the white house who promised to cut off funding for you create. if donald trump wins this visit of the german chancellor at the white house

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