you know outside the stadium louis is with g.i. activists from the pool and the lost on me. the last only includes members of the extreme far right. as the most a funds arrived pretty pool heads to the front of the crowd. that. the bottle is throwed. in the cold with tons of the scoff he stolen from a ma say find. something for the. next. generation identity in has already been tarnished by its links to the lost on me. i'll mail you the yorktown nicholas good you know will would let.

me tell you it's a way to go but i do what's different here. caught up in it with. the last colony then but who used to attend the citadel is you know on mute we filmed him after a court appearance. since. the news is awaiting trial for his alleged role in a man's death the body was found in a little river commute was also a member of the now disbanded neo nazi group even a little more yeah go cold. cold people are good. just because you just saw. says she gets to put.

in episode one the generation hates rémy follies takes part in a race attack. on america. fulfilling the activities of the last call me go beyond football hooliganism. but the six zero. zero zero three key. it struck which it was. following meets the rest pictures emerged of him with the citadel regular. on match days to joins the last call me a pub close to the stadium. went to easily met movie at the citadel he said

violence helps g.i. members to bond but. today he's suspicious of louis. it was the last question i just put up with just a little bit of what is right about the true love it would offer you but it didn't go that well but a lot of the it was. just this little. of that very manages to reassure him and offers to join him on a night out with us about what it was like other likewise with a bit of life it was the other with. the last army has a reputation for file and it's forty one members of the last call me were arrested when neil paid it pulled out in december twenty sixth eighteen among them well to easily you know i mute on the. already employed hassle they were charging the quitted although the verde. under appeal. to go down we're going to scummy trying

to block innocents to spirit people to history step forward yeah. it's amazing illegals main square vassal tells louie about a movie used against rival football fans. but one thing i think when we saw an opportunity this was the solution to the all who feel it's such a sweet as it was on the first lap i think if you think it was just a couple of if you look like the full heat would keep on such a classic i. will have a go until she comes all the evil person could have one is really cool with that was anything other than a traditional church and also. keep in touch with the goal to make an affair until the thing was all too clear that the company was something of such a ridiculous question with. all of this quote we can say also.

later at the citadel basle tells on the cover of course at that last call me members are not welcome at his ball. because it's a goal of. significance it's. a sad sad result c.d.c. has got yet. he tells louis that generation identity rejects the phylum far right. which is he said it was the height of the only idea lender out of those. awfully i don't give a company that was going to decide my purse over just over a stupid which would you consider an awful awful you get it was you know i was good for. you thanks.

despite the hustles claims inside the system there is an overt racism. as a year of me just something about this notion. of. you know there's an issue there's a. very good in for me is this i know you're going to have some flaws in the movie the muscle to be. committed to the people who believe it's because it's good because it's louis he has many anti semitic remarks that this is going. to. focus on the. stuff that we try to take photographs in the box for a second time. searching little bit of an issue that it was sort of

a given that the hustle is constantly trying to prevent outsiders knowing what goes on in the citadel i think your points are going to come up when you said he got so much more powerful than for you know she had to get rid of the book takes louise photos as the people that were going to help those in the movie love as you know for both of them said you know that's what the cable you were using is the. legal g.i.d. that makes it clear that members have to play by his rooms. twenty five hundred bucks a day was going to. change not just any part of all hang. on somebody might have noticed. it's the night before a planned national protest by generation identity in paris. the hassel receives a. message. me if you can document that you know. this is an.

extreme look at obviously the fact that a hot ticket today came up to. left wing activists attack a generation identity ball. looks like it would to let me get let off of me on a little beyond all. of the stories that work for you about something the. following morning g.i. activists gather at the citadel before leaving for paris. this is it since it is easy to shoot the full fifty three. generation identities demonstration has been done by the french cool it's due to

fears of file and it's. a police cordons the rounds hundreds of g.i. activists from across europe. they include members of legal g.i. . g.i. activists later stage a demonstration outside the box a clown theater eighty nine people was shot dead by islamist assailants join the twenty fifteen paris attacks. outside the ball damaged by left wing activists the national director of the identity and is with hostile until the g.i. leader's. plans to exact revenge for the attack have been put on hold. not because i think the six hundred seventy. six is. thomas fox.

larry j.l. monye was in the bar at the time of the attack so it's a little silly to test for something that is about something that works in the new movie i mean nothing. a week after the ban demonstration activists watch a video of the paris bar attack posted by on to fascists. the trouble to legal. was. to. kill mony reveals that talks about a revenge attack have taken place with another far right groups on the subject to something simple small system to.

tell them all is there any suffering is a little. song for this course of. the group union defense is a neo fascist organization. that has a long history of conducting violent attacks. before the grouping and defense was formed after may sixty eight in france as a reaction to trotskyist another leftist movements. the group is radical in its ideas but above all radical in its violence that's the principle is that violence is a goal in itself it's in the static that's talk to young activists sitting. members of generation identity all worried that the media will find out about the plan to work with a good. singer . when you have

a mission to. do all pull. together with these if you can do this for. the fortress of if you want. to. see. some of the it it was. you know you think it was you know. it's the weekend that leo host the national front congress. lou goes to a meeting on europe's future hosted by right wing publishing house generation identity has a stand a hassle is with a friend of a duck. left

on into jail for. al-jazeera obtained a video which showed fidel in the room when good members assaulted the former president. of the. better fidel believes that the former good leader edouard klein was too weak to run a far right organization for us to design us into politics. exactly there's a lot. said dahlan to all those faces soul charges i think so i think this is interesting that if it was for the love of the living. in the way it was awarded the hassle joins vigil in mocking klein to the limits for. those of us. if you. regard as you. know.

we visit we start something. at the citadel lee meets a visitor from the capital. city that even though you. know you all there all of us are going to call you a little bit out of the for. the good was formally dissolved in twenty seventeen following internal rouse as activists continue to operate under its name alongside members of generation identity. director told reporters that if i'm going to come to trial for them with one of. the good has been linked to

a number of attacks on left wing students we're going to be there for them and you never for the ignition problem or addition to the removal of the one foot were there with up to. the number one unit on the far right activists have stormed several universities in france this year some of the attacks have been violent like the one in to paris school several activists came in two d. from the good arrived giving fascist salutes and shouting slogans all the food one of them was convicted in france last summer it is also. illegal so that's because allawi suppose. he was given a year's suspended jail sentence for punching a female student to scribble long. for unity also said members of the good attend national front running alongside g.i. activists but i'm sorry for you if you don't like the benetton it was good for the company for subversion of the little boy who should want to be part of the also.

every year the citadel hosts an event called qantas night. it's a medieval gemini tradition involving singing and drinking. coffee during a break claridge elmo he gives more details on generation identities partnership with the good. but not something that made me. start thinking that it could get acknowledgement of a similar type of signal or you want to but. i got upset about some of this is going to take that back for so long but you know let. me read to tell you that we have rising not because the officers were shot it's the people most of them are with us on the road because of that particular view of jewish lives. easier.

to. follow the descent of the sun i know you'll be loaded up. on the. impulse to a member of the national front this is the citadel posts about his street fighting skills still nothing there's a good offer. on the ticket what the fuck up the money on one of the pennies closest friends says immigrants will be expelled from france if he wins pot ok. my son gets on. two thousand and eight the year the u.s. trying to trade tariffs. with. opec

will review the year that was new dynamics to shaping the global economy. county with. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after borders between five safe countries facing the reality. from the very beginning. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story talk to al jazeera. and richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera president reportedly ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan that would have the number of american soldiers in the country meanwhile u.s. defense secretary james mattis is quitting this is the latest high profile

resignation in the trump administration it comes a day after the president announced that all u.s. troops will be leaving syria. kurdish syrians erratic forces are meeting in paris for talks in the wake of trump's abrupt decision they say they hope france will play a more active role in syria. the region faces threats especially from the turkish government and the threat of i still remains there's an obligation to protect the areas we freed with the help of international partners we've asked the french government to assume the moral responsibility turkey is a part of nato the french can pressure them to stop the barbaric aggression against this region. independence activists are protesting in barcelona spain prime minister there is a cabinet meeting in that city tensions are running high a year after spain's government ruled that catalonia secession referendum was illegal on a guy who has more from barcelona. they say it's a symbolic probably cation here however the spanish government itself says that

it's a symbol of the genuine motive trying to ease tensions between madrid and barcelona in the spanish prime minister better such as itself has said that so really it's a nice side effect towards council outside seaton but that's not a french really has gone down the stone. you would think otherwise. schools and universities have been suspended in sudan's capital after eight people died in protests against rising food and fuel prices demonstrator for angry about inflation which is at nearly seventy percent that is one of the highest in the world the city's economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan in two thousand and eleven when it lost the majority and the spoil out which opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo are waiting to hear their leaders response to the election delay but it will now take place a week later on december thirtieth electoral commission says violence and logistical issues force that postponement will continue to keep an eye on that.

those are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera al-jazeera investigations is up next. al jazeera is on the cover of has infiltrated generation identity. it's one of europe's fastest growing far right movements in part one of the g.i. leading illegal promotes street violence as a political tool. to work sickle issues the future of the. generation identity calls for really migration where known european immigrants and their families all sent back to their supposed country of origin a reporter was about to discover a plan by senior national front figures to secretly adopt these policies. that they are not it's not an accident walk in your back i don't really want even to add up.

oh god. this year's national front congress is in lille. following the twenty seventeen election defeats this is marine le pen's first big opportunity to galvanize has supporters. senior party figures all gathering. among them filipe a merry. it's. a merry was exposed in episode one this generation hate hiring g.i. activist to work for the national front. dollar or get

a lawyer is. that we reveal the links between sebastian shenouda and generation identity. things that she has always denied you can you give us just sort of some games to the extent of what you call the good or to the back to the cubicle most of up will get you what did you do that extra woman a look at but if you called it on issue of it could be journals or that the book has a. good our investigation found evidence that she knew knows already in basle the g.i. leader in louisville. or you know this initiative one of the first. cases it's just . with the national front congress in town it's a big weekend at the citadel. delegate some senior policy figures are expected to

stop by. there are gods outside and further checks inside following concerns that journalists may also try to enter. into. the law of the eurozone do you have a. little. knowledge of the. among the visitors is club a vigil a former activist with a violent likely movement the good he's in legal for the national front congress the american criminal. louie wonders if he too could attend the congress. difficult to fish for contributors for a couple. of form of the open source. project. for rights activists such as can access the national front congress with these new

push to. this is the purpose of the little mouse to own. home. new mingles with national front delegates trade all over the wishes of the people that you think about it scalpels you. it's. a shock to the legal system of the owner to the. patroon mixes with leading policy figures including nicolas face a senior official and member of the european parliament. the people go for money. to do make up with illegals so much that you would have a group of americans who live there often through much of. some of the. moment like.

the citadel is attracting some influential figures. to leave g.i. leader jokes that he doesn't recognize them well those were all. the benefits. of the. crawshay is a good friend of marine le pen and joining him another cold feet all of the party leader frederick shetty don't. actually own crawshay face fraud charges in connection with election campaign funds . the facile greek shouting all of the tools to broady there are zero zero zero. zero zero. zero zero zero zero victory over the bushes you will have to face the

annoyance to place that in twenty seventeen a french television documentary was broadcast about the financial scandal. chatty on cross. all known in the french media as marine le pen's men in the shadows. senior national front figures are accused of embezzling millions of euros of public money and selfish the program focused on the alleged roles of crawshay and shattered young the feet of. these f.a. additional small to combine civic to highlight the don't question if chris unique abu hussein. seems to at least to do see some to me to not some. new bin to be the documentary was based on a book by investigative journalists to stultify a murray in turkey. he could actually finish it you also make a crocheting and frederick shetty on really are marine le pen's men in the shadows they are not in the official organizational structure they're not in the media yet

they're the ones who pull the strings from behind they've been your friends for thirty years they controlled the party's communications and finances and work for the national front of the european parliament one astronaut are on the cover a quarter met crawshay the night before the national front congress. that would be called a vote in the fight. against. to the extent of the. law was no. issue since i think going to find it hard to do or. crawshay speaks about a trip to italy that he'd recently taken with a chatty all put into almost fell on with the bill because it was a whole bunch of. people you should clear. cast the pound is the near fascist political movement in italy. that staged

a rally to mark a fool she found a verse free of the death of three far right activists. after the rowdy left wing activist spots chatty on crawshay. feeling like oh yes just. for the peace of the. debate shock sets you up so you push these emotions of. people out there even if. it's all. in the end the two men managed to escape. that's the front there's. basically two seats it's immediate so you know the civil suit that you have to cover to cover all these what. you tell. me quickly for the nickel or crochet and frederick szechuan are toxic because they

are already linked to financial scandals affecting the national front today but there is another much more ideological aspect to frederick shetty on he is the radical who is close to re in the pan and he was president of the good degree that . was president of the extreme far right good movement as a student in the one nine hundred ninety s. he's been accused of anti semitism in the book she does not trust many people but she trusts her former chief of staff told me that le pen said that she can count on them for life and death so there is an enormous trust there. of a citadel of undercover reporter met more leading national front figures who align themselves with a generation identity. she was in because there was a little bit you're also going to only see about her all her life but it's not just

your belief in all of us coordinates of where we're sitting up to what they're going to kill bill and get or if the individual will enjoy shut up so much that it was a little bit of a silly. most of it is just a little disappointed. what's the good news because it's a labor of just a few of the british assume the nose on the you would also want something to follow . up on good luck to go to. college. nearby the party congress is on the way. she still has a value is a member of the european parliament for the national front. she's voted on to the policies national council i ask her about the number of muslims living in france. and the people say that their own thoughts is the name too little easter song is you know just

a good idea. so at least if you're lucky if it's you know today it will be it's just always you know looking focal point is so soft yet when that will come when young. yet you don't get these killers for the so no i didn't see fall of it if they missed it we're going to. know i know not to steal the city's next time do what i think you know best going to school to. put your own stuff. evolves and one of the founders of the identity area movement is also elected to the policies national council. he has a conviction for inciting racial hatred. one of the guests is steve bannon president trump former advisor and right wing ideologue let them call you racist

let's see the list it was a let them call you son of folks the menace it is it was appeasing of let them call your native us let's see if it is up to. wear it as a badge of honor. but bad she doesn't. know me i mean our camera captures little value was gone from swap the drone and who worked for a local party in normandy. at the citadel a drone zero in she says listen valley to louis. county out. the national map incident to his general it is little that you have not had to know . that if you thought he'd go that route out right now was. already there. the only knew you. didn't know

yet your details just really are. not going to. be at the let me look. let me say oh yes. what shocks me and what tells your journalist is that many of the national front leaders support generation identity's program and ideas. but what is also telling for me is to see a national front m.e.p. in an identity area surrounded by violent openly racist activists just. vassal dances with his national front guests. shot yawn crawshay also

enjoying the evening. alongside grammy follies we filmed punching a woman in a race attacked. louie us cross a why he's then. yes i definitely will not get my number let them help me save them . as more prominent national front guests arrive at the citadel basle jokes about the risks they're taking. before you hear of the photo before the officer you want to. go to the. dillies wife sylvie golden is another m.e.p. living also if a prominent party figure should be seen as a g.i. bar. really really

hungry just so you. know sauce off something you know you can tell. you first yes yes. we see here ya go right down to something in the galley of course if that's what i mean it was good of us what we see is what we're. being asked to live here people don't see if we're. a good morning well. i felt perhaps naively that they were no longer on that to rein. the fact of entering into positions of political responsibility that could also change their personal line towards the identity ariens there obviously this was not the case for everyone and this is an unwelcome surprise for me. knowing that we're going to grab one of them. every threat seriously after i left

home and you know that was another one of the our drummer i'm going to write a book. with a friend shot you are looking on marine le pen prepares to make an announcement about the national front future the band wants to broaden the party's appeal. to the owner of the gun the feeder stevie's assume. the pen believes many voters associate the party's name with extremism. so no one is you're not. building a straw it became your you never discovered elected do gooder francais. men did. have crimes you could call who was one of them. gentle god was i don't call a foreigner sure now and their v.n. joha song on the show.

the plan hopes the name change will attract the moderate voters she needs to gain power. take its time to work as president but to type out on us holding a news conference and talking about the border the turkish border with syria and donald trump's decision of all troops out let's listen to the region's security russia and iran iran together all the steps are taken in the region the target is watts it is security maintaining security. so on the contrary all our allies. and we are trying to secure the peace for all our allies i am sure you will accept this truce europe and the balkans and mediterranean it would

relate to. and it with affected negatively if there is instability in the region of course same applies to. the co caucasus and syria of course. especially our border neighbors and all the developments around our region we follow very closely and the reason why we. why we get involved is this is the reason why. it's specially. in syria. the incidents going on in syria especially security and humanitarian crisis this is directly related to turkey. the. syrian crisis is good for the syrian crisis to be solved in front of the international community we waited a long time but in this process. the syrian crisis hasn't been sold and on the

contrary it started to threaten our people and our borders look now. and the arabs and kurds all of them what is a they saying turkey should come why because. they believe in turkey and they trust turkey. all this happening around low so this happened in africa. this is what happened in this in josh. and from this period on what. these things happened is. as you can see. we will not hesitate to take steps but of course with mr trump the result of our meeting. he said to us this time.

if you could juke. you. from this area we said yes we will and we will continue if you. give logistic support to us. and now we can see they started to throw now the market is. to further their diplomatic relations and how we done. how we literally lived three thousand members in jobless and we will continue. to be why did and why p.g. we will neutralize. all of them and we have the capacity and the skills and we have the free syrian army. everyone should know this.

so this is. syrian territories. for us it's a responsibility we have to take to secure syrian territory so. million syrian in our country. for them to go back to their country. and the people who live in syria and the brotherhood we have with them there is absolutely no way for them to feel secure other than our help. our corporation went to russia. and successful operations that we have conducted. we have. we have allies in the region. and the west side of writers but on the northern side of the greatest there is a terror corridor or is making us take in all risks so. it was in a position to take all risks the beginning of the syrian crisis and the diplomatic

track we have with the united states. unfortunately it didn't reach the point that we wanted but now it did reach a point that we are pleased with specially in the period the obama period. problem. has been inherited by from. but now. it and also it's delayed. in the. face to face meetings and telephone meetings we do it with a trauma. at many points we agree. and we have same opinion and the last telephone conversation i had with him i saw that too. in this . agreement but this to this agreement took a very long. time to reflect itself on the field but it happened.

yet. the results. we have been we have heard the most hopeful statements from american administration ancestors. say. if you parent your mouth from milk you would eat your good by below and. previous experiences made is. that we should hear these words with happiness but also. with. the telephone conversation we had with mr trump and the contacts they had our diplomatic departments and the statements from the united states made this way too long but this is of course not say indefinite wait

during this time in the meeting we had with mr trump. according to this. day i wish entity in. syria we are working on our operation and we will continue working on. in the next few months in syria fields. we will be. neutralizing we will be destroying all the aspects of their ash and the k.k. we will be continuing our operations. terror to turn their culture much against terror organizations from the very beginning we have a very principled attitude. of course nothing else could be expected from. terror terrorists risks from syria where once that's been diminished

this will be allowing us to build the region again and we can work on that as. we have had our deliberations about this with other countries and we have received some promises about the financing of the rebuilding of the region but these promises hadn't been delivered in the new period. there were syrians in our country in other cunt and in other countries. but them the infrastructure and the building projects should start in syria very quickly. that the international community that has been successful of the destruction and preventing the destruction of syria should be helping at least the rebuilding of the country. all the other international organizations we are in

contact with and we are talking about this and very. quickly we will start the work . at the moment the areas we are controlling we are of course there and it's already reached. the experience we have received in this process we can of course use it all for the for the rest of the syria all we need is support their friends in turkey these last three. years is full of success stories. especially in the last five years and the attacks we received it is the job of all those attacks is an effort to stop us and stagnate or they couldn't succeed. the spite of all the attack for all the struggles we had we became more powerful.

become more become stronger cut today. to stop turkey is harder now. we need to miss. our peoples so all the. so all the games that have been played and now we can look at our future with more confidence and we have the climate now to maintain that. and our economy to base our economy in this. good promise we will reach our targets. in our all our struggles business world was with us. and even today all of our business world. we are very happy to see them with us again.

each one of you. i see as a as a comrade. rb took country turkey. all together we will. make it more prosperous and we will reach the civilized. above the above the level of the civilized world god bless. his salutes you with these feelings and all the five hundred country companies in this list and i wish you best of luck and i give you my love goodbye. in listening to turkey's president richard tayyip erdogan making her first public

comments since this president donald trump announced that u.s. troops would be pulling out of syria and iran says that he and president from pet a phone call and they are on the on the same page on many issues in syria there were really policy announcements here just basically re asserting how he feels about border security i'd say to her joins us from the turkish town of object collen near the near the border with syria zain i know you were listening in as well he didn't really say anything that we haven't heard before he seemed to this kind of be reasserting his position in turkey so that position as it pertains to the crisis in syria as he called it. well he announced that the operation the cross border operation will now be postponed it will be put on hold for a month as a result of understanding reached with the u.s.

administration he was talking about a closer relationship really but with the united states that both countries now see eye to eye in syria. the u.s. administration's policy in syria really has been a major source of tension between these two countries and only last week are the guns threaten their cross border operation in the east of the euphrates to get rid of what he calls terrorists in reference to the kurdish armed group the y.p. g. an area which where where where u.s. troops were stationed and just two days ago we heard the u.s. president donald trump say that those troops will be leaving so this is the president of turkey saying that he's giving time but he's not saying why what is being discussed even though he had a few messages first of all he had a message to his western allies because france germany the u.k. they expressed concern when donald trump said that he was pulling troops out saying that this is not the right time i see it's

a resurgent group but this hasn't been defeated you're here you heard the turkish president say we will take responsibility for this we've done this in the past with this in africa and we did this fight and so that was a message to the west and he's even telling them that we care about european security and european security of course means to contain to contain eisel so and at the same time the president making clear that to this cross border operation is not about a territorial ambitions in turkey it is about in his words a regaining the rights for the syrian people he said the arabs the kurds the turkmen they're inviting turkey in because to a certain extent you know arabs feel that the why p.g. have discriminated against them the right beach of course being the kurdish armed groups many of them you meet them here. here in these border villages they say that they cannot return their homes have been looted so the president saying the operation has been postponed just an hour before his speech we heard the turkish

foreign minister welcomed the u.s. decision to leave syria it was the first reaction from turkey but he also had interesting comments he said we can't leave a vacuum and we need to coordinate the troop withdrawal with the united states he didn't elaborate but we've been speaking to pro-government sources here in turkey and they believe that this is a message to many countries to france because france was talking about staying in northeast syria and not leaving with u.s. forces as it was a message also to the syrian government in one way or the other they're not going to allow this area to be handed over to someone else but to be handed over to turkey or turkey allied groups so to coordinate your troop withdrawal with the united states and to prevent a vacuum in northeast syria so something is being discussed behind closed doors and the united states and turkey are on the same page and are working on this arrangement are we hearing any reaction from the syrian government saying any

anything from president. no reaction from the syrian government as of yet we do know what the syrian government has called us troops in syria they've called them occupying forces but at the same time the syrian government have called turkish troops in syria occupying forces. the kurdish led syrian democratic forces the allies of the united states which the united states has now abandoned we understand from unconfirmed reports that they are reaching out trying to reengage with damascus hoping to get some sort of quote unquote protection from damascus in order to amend tain their north eastern autonomous enclave in syria damascus has repeatedly said it wants to regain control of the whole country but it doesn't really have much bargaining power especially if turkey and russia are in agreement and it seems that russia is approving for the

time being turkey's presence in the north of the country we are in the post war phase in syria and all of these different stakeholders power brokers in syria they are negotiating each of their spheres of influence in the country and right now it seems major bargaining is happening behind closed doors but clearly there is something a major shift in turkish policy when they say coordinate the u.s. troop pullout and not accepting a vacuum in the northeast of the country and coincidentally or not there was a meeting today in northern aleppo and as has this is opposition controlled territory representatives of arab tribes turkmen kurds they came together and they have decided to throw their weight behind turkey in their fight against the kurdish armed group the white p.g. so are they creating a new political or military body to replace the white p.g. after some sort of an arrangement is being made it's hard to say now but definitely

this is what the what many arabs would like to see because they have. believe that the kurdish armed group is not just fighting eisel but they have territorial ambitions a political project really to create their own autonomous area in syria writes in her life for us in turkey thank you the u.s. may also be pulling troops out of afghanistan president donald trump has reportedly ordered the return of up to seven thousand soldiers and that's half the contention a spokesman for afghan president musharraf's ghani says the decision will have little impact on the capability of security forces and two thousand and one president george w. bush launched a military campaign to topple the taliban government following the september eleventh attacks trump's decision on wednesday to pull all troops out of syria drew criticism from america's allies defense secretary james mattis has quit over a difference of opinion with trump matta said the president deserves a defense chief whose views ally more closely with his own the kurdish led fighters who fought iceland syria have met and france and asked political leaders for more

support the syrian democratic forces also warned it may have to withdraw from fighting eisel if they're attacked by turkey. the region faces threats especially from the turkish government and the threat of i'm still remains there's an obligation to protect the areas we freed with the help of international partners we've asked the french government to assume the moral responsibility turkey is a part of nato the french can pressure them to stop the barbaric aggression against this region geoff thompson joins us live now from washington d.c. so a lot a lot of moving parts and the trump in this race and specifically as it pertains to foreign policy what kind of reaction are we seeing in washington to secretary defense james mattis resigning. shock i think for quite some time the washington establishment the political bubble the republican party establishment thought they could keep donald trump in

a box no matter what he said or whatever he tweeted and by and large he was doing what they want to tax cuts for the rich slashing the social safety net for the poor destroying environmental regulations as what any republican president might do to hawkish foreign policy which is tough on iran and russia and others i was keeping troops in the middle east now it's all seems to be falling apart and it's interesting that. reporting is very interesting because we have several accounts of how this decision was made and most of them suggest it was crystallized after a conversation between donald trump and president of turkey last friday i'm trump finally made that decision in the end the strategic relationship with turkey is way more important than with the kurds they're going to he was going to sell out the kurds as the u.s. has done so many times in the past interestingly what we're hearing is that was perhaps the breaking point for defense secretary mattis that the kurds were going to be abandoned and that's one of the reasons why one of the main reasons why this

week was the moment where he decided he decided to leave having said that there we should remember that while the going was good mattis had enormous leeway to trump trump loosened the rules of engagement and matters seized it and he did several theaters of war including syria and iraq and afghanistan and somalia with the exponential rise in civilian casualties all of which didn't have much scrutiny didn't have much transparency partly because he was always presented as the adult in the room standing up to trump donald trump has now said nope this is going to stop and and he's gone this is gone. ok but you so much of to you can hear it yeah it's. just a. lot of that. now we're also hearing reports just within a few minutes of that development and the resignation letter coming out we start hearing reports that there is going to be a troop drawdown in afghanistan do we have any actual confirmation on that.

it's a bit vague right now but we are getting reports that donald trump ideally would like this to be done by the state of the union address in january so he can stand in front of congress and say look i'm doing this i'm doing what president obama promised and failed to do president obama campaigned on withdrawing troops from afghanistan but as the military hope stablish would have hoped he was talked out of it by by the in fact he expanded the war in afghanistan trump now wants to really make this an issue it was a cool campaign issue for him as well as campaign issue for this base so he wants to he wants this to be done it seems by the state of the union and going to look great in twenty twenty difficult for democrats some of pointed out to run against you know him on foreign policy and someone who's with.