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president has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria donald trump took to twitter to do it giving the u.s. and himself much of the credit for the victory of the terrorists. we have defeated isis in syria my only reason for being there during the trump presidency we now have official confirmation that u.s. troops will be leaving syria now president trump's tweet contradicts everything that we've been hearing from the state department and the pentagon over the last several months here's what the head of the coalition to defeat isis said just over a week ago we want to see a resolution to the syrian civil war through the un security council resolution process and we also want to see the removal of foreign forces from syria particularly the iranian commander the proxy forces from syria his various americas will remain on the grounds of them for the physical to be to the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat is and are now there are at least two thousand u.s. troops in syria and removing them would be fulfillment of one of president trump's

campaign promises now vice president mike pence and the secretary of defense jim mattis are meeting right now in the pentagon white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders released a statement saying the process of returning troops back to the u.s. has actually already begun and the statement also says that this doesn't signal the end of the global coalition to defeat isis or its campaign to isis has been defeated in the sense it holds no territory perhaps president trump is overstating the the u.s. role in that effort isis was largely defeated by the syrian and russian militaries along with the lebanese group hezbollah and the timing here is very curious turkey is threatening an offensive on u.s. backed kurdish forces in northern syria and president ever to one has demanded that the u.s. backed forces withdraw and said that the operation to attack them could start any moment so turkey is unlikely to attack u.s.

forces and this could very much factor into president trump's decision to remove american forces. don cohen a correspondent do you see the earlier hero's journey where it goes down or for a broader look back over the u.s. campaign in syria president. pretty much full unusual for the credit for all this for looks of it for defeating isis although it was only really the you know these couldn't the very last read of all this is neat well yeah it's not the first time the donald trump announces the withdrawal of troops from syria but last time that happened he backtracked pretty quickly you turning into staying in syria for another year or so while now you are indeed and he is taking the credit for it and just to give him the credit that he deserves in really the united states did do a lot to defeat eisel in syria i mean that can can't really be taken from them they pretty much liberated all of the eastern and northern much of the northern syrian regions of course not their soldiers not their troops but their proxy sort of army

as the kurds i mean the self-proclaimed capital of the caliphate rucka was liberated by the united states and their allies although all of that does come with a big big excuse the phrase the thing is the means that the because they did kick our with their favorite tool with their favorite approach and that is blunt stupid force that's what they used on rocket for example the blitter rated the city with bombings once a flourishing prosperous city now it still lies in ruins i mean we've heard a very very big outcry coming from human rights groups for instance who have been accusing the united states of indiscriminate bombing and even using a term as an annihilation war and saying that this should be considered a war crime with the united states a bombing there just to give you the scale of how bad it is bodies are still

being found in rock or complain and in. in twenty seventeen. or similar thirty year we were forced to leave our homes because of ice and when we returned we found everything that used to rubble look at all the devastation rocky is a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. life years horrible this is in rubble that we have to be to remove the debris with all money there's no running water so we have to boats in. the u.s. coalition cause the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water

supply in clearing the rubble. i found a man on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mine didn't work and walked towards it exploded my friend was killed survived. so the white house and confirming u.s. troops as they put it but we heard there were a troop of what is is along the way but either which way started to come out is it all happened at once what's the plan here what's been said about the timeline for all this while this is this is a very good question i should say because yes indeed right now we're hearing that some of the troops are being withdrawn already but i mean the united states they do kind of send troops in and out of syria regularly this is called military rotation this is this is a thing so they send out a set number of troops and send back in another group roughly the same size or so

this is what's been happening in iraq for example in the years. to that after the official and of the military campaign there and this is sort of the question that. right now with syria whether or not how will they be withdrawing troops what scale will this withdrawal take will it be all of the troops or will this be again an iraq war in afghanistan the sort of situation so we have no details on this i mean a lot of that stems from the front with the united states. have been changing the rules of the game as game was and go in when it comes to why the in syria in the first place because it certainly wasn't an official invitation from the u.n. recognized leader bashar assad into the country saying they want to fight terrorists. so now they've defeated unlike the how to already introduced a new reasons

a new pretext as why the should stay for example combating and kind of countering iranian influence in syria where did that come from so now they say that their priorities have shifted again getting assad out is not the only priority we know that it is not going to be there is not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with assad at the head of the regime we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to ante up money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to compromise a notion are created yet another horror in the years ahead one thing that is obvious is that the united states there are still unhappy with the bashar assad being at the helm of syria so the are bound to keep some influence so they will in a way it looks like they will remain there in syria just to what extent still to be

seen but he still is not the biggest problem that the series facing in terms of. terrorism there i mean it's a. province of little of this is the most festering wound on the flesh of syria so to speak so i still know i still doesn't really hold it i still barely holds any territory holds a patch of desert on the government controlled side and so there was nothing much going on there in the small patch of land on the kurds controlled side and that is the us zone of responsibility and so in terms of how they've been fighting i saw in the course of these years well one of the most notorious tactics was arming and training the so-called moderate rebels with the assumption that they will fight i saw under the geologists and here's how that turned out can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters remains. it's a small number. the ones that are in the fight.

is we're talking four or five of the officer there he did not mix up the decimals or whatever it's literally out of thousands of fighters that they had trained they were left with four or five of them so and also again about bombings of the they've never really had again they've never really had a combat force on the ground they never really sent boots on the ground to syria at least not the ones that they had admitted to but they did have military advisors with the rule of training the kurds the proxy force the proxy boots on the ground these are the main means of fighting i saw. with one hundred days left until the u.k. parts ways with the trees amaze government's been ramping up no deal bricks it preparations it says the prime minister's divorce plan continues to flow through faces serious opposition with m.p.'s a final vote on the deal in mid january when

about the fourteenth mrs may's been making a case in parliament again today again it triggered a heated exchange with opposition leader jeremy called in. until the deal has a date has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal no deal would redesign aster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow each yes i know it's christmas i know it's not to be stocking down the chimney under the christmas tree this still hasn't found. the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking a negotiation was the prime minister the trial to bring an acceptable deal but why didn't the prime minister stop the pretense and stop wasting four billion pounds in a cynical attempt to drive good deeply damaging deal through their house you know

who is a right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's governed easy also but this is a way to get. the stakes are getting higher and higher and the debate is getting harder and harder it is in fact one hundred days to go before bracks it turns from being this vague concept that everybody in the u.k. seems to be arguing about into something very real and it's been now two years of attempted negotiations and it's absolutely clear at this point that the situation is more uncertain than ever and certainly passions are flying high so no device for the i try to go joe johns you know i in syria that are to go. get it appears that the opposition party leader jeremy corbyn apparently had called the british prime minister

a stupid woman during prime minister's question time today i referred to those who i believe are seeking to turn the debate about the national crisis facing our country into a pantomime as. people. this is speaker did not use the words stupid woman about the prime minister or anyone else and i am completely opposed to the use of sexist or results of his language in absolutely any form at all so what we can know certainly leave this lip reading to the experts in terms of who said what the key is that once again attention has shifted from the substance of bracks it to now this scandal and alleged namecalling making up the headlines moving forward for at least for today and while it's clear that the problem has gone nowhere and specifically the european commission this wednesday has officially started preparing for

a new deal brac said contingency action plan so things are getting quiet real the debate as hard but where all of this is going to lead remains a massive question so if no deal more will talk about this more than three thousand troops to be put on. no deal contingency plan other measures include securing medical and food supplies has been talked about for a while now but more and more it's being mentioned over the coming weeks families and businesses will also be receiving official guidance on how to better prepare independent british m.e.p. just as i consume believes the fear is though over a chaotic exit from the e.u. may be displaced but it does depend who you talk to on either side. they're actually playing up a no deal scenario letters going out to households and businesses in this project fear with nuclear nuclear warheads on at the moment so they're ramping up the fear of this age by brussels is an option is on the table and under government

legislation if we don't have a deal in the next few weeks then we just leave under world trade organization rules and there is no problem without the problem is in westminster is that we have too many m e m pace and any pay standing behind cameras going on radio just just arguing amongst themselves not listening to what the voters want we've got to remain prime minister that are in main opposition and we've got remain m.p.'s in the house of westminster when they were they were given a clear mandate by the people to leave and we knew exactly what we were voting for and that is leaving without a deal if that comes down to it but i mean brussels now broadcasting to you they they really don't get its and understand the brussels brinkmanship that takes place here of course it goes to the wire and we should hold their feet to the wire as well oh we've got one hundred days to work this out because this lot will cave in because they need us more than we need them. with weeks of protests still simmering in front still scranton's police officers have started their own protest against

paid overtime and what they say dangerous working conditions and at least one term in the french company's main airport offices have been causing long lines of passport control slowed protest reporting from paris charlotte do bensky tonight. well it seems is out with the yellow vests and the blue vest says police are now trying to squeeze concessions out of the government they're unhappy with what they see is deteriorating conditions the amount of overtime they've done some twenty three million hours and that includes because some of the work that we've been doing over the last five weeks with the best protesters and of course increased security that we're seeing around christmas markets and some sites across france in the wake of that strasburg attack and they say it's simply not enough the unions describing the situation for policing as big city.

do not get the grease was superficial even considering the social and professional obligations of our colleagues when they are not in uniform they become yellow vests because we are middle class or even lower because of our salaries our origin that's why some colleagues feel that they are yellow vests because of the yellow fasts really resonates with police well those mean cry from some of the police unions who've been in discussions with the interior minister since tuesday there's discussions are ongoing but already the government is offering some concessions being put on the table trying to quell the sunnies the last thing they want is for the police to continue a strike which has been described as many as act one giving the suggestion that they prepared to go a little bit further as a yellow vest and be going over the last few weeks the concession on the table so for is a three hundred. to be paid to the officers who've been involved in the deployment of the yellow vest protest but the union say it's just not enough and actually what

they want is for those twenty three million hours of overtime being paid a huge bill according to the interior minister. the state currently goes almost two hundred seventy five million. uro's to its police officers for over time not in recent months or years but for decades we cannot have debt at that level they're also unhappy the unions about what they see is being moved enough in the port that the police budget which is due to be discussed as part of the two thousand and nine hundred budget in the national assembly on that day they say it's not enough money to pay for the overtime and it's not enough money to improve the conditions nor is it enough to recruit the extra staff that they need to deal with the continuing protests those talks ongoing between the unions and interior minister but it seems that already this slowdown of the police this new blue vest protest here in france

is already having some impact surely do bensky now the original widespread yellow vest demonstrations of course mission he called for fuel tax levies that was filled with they wanted to be dropped to move in the end on what a political reforms would go but some have been looking away from the government for the source of discord and the rush to link the movement with moscow shallots on top of the others were looking for suspects. i don't think i've definitely found one. yes. by you in paris to make people protest known the two like need. look. no need to say when your chest. your chest. the russians are they behind the yellow vest protests as a thank you lou just like you would push out good leads in

a loop remove good. news in your mouth. the mainstream media say that russia is behind these protests you must be wearing a yellow vest on saturday. very. well this place suspiciously could be a center of russian activity in france. france or do you mean you not here it is so discordant to protesting just spoon france into chaos. here. his story what's your favorite color. are you sure it's not yellow. do you. see.

most of the policy. now the year they plea of agreed the truce to end months of what's a bitter row one point over the country's much to speed budget for next year extensive reforms and tax breaks planned by the euro skeptic government. would have put it on course to break euro zone fiske. rules but through the threat of sanctions from brussels even though several other countries are also in the red too currently all nineteen countries which use the euro must observe a deficit ceiling of three percent of g.d.p. but spain belgium portugal and slovenia are among the nations who got a telling off for breaching those rules it's france's big spending plans for next year that's really got a tally of politicians riled paris is projecting a three point two percent deficit for twenty nine t. while rome was threatened with sanctions the e.u. as far as france is concerned a signal that france won't be punished it's not gone down well in italy it's been

perceived that this discrepancy. seen italian leaders try to force through their budget since day one this is the first to tally and budget the e.u. doesn't like no surprise this is the first italian budget written in rome and not in brussels the economy. the italian economy is healthy and this is an economic move that will give italy district pretty neat we won't change one comma in this document there is a plan b. you know to go into the ground that are both going on. working for the future. and italian m.e.p. from the five star movement we spoke to says there are positive aspects in the new budget despite italy's struggles with the. some. things about the it's people think about of course think about software that they use all of this during the last year so we are very very satisfied about it we have our

european commission that was appointed in twenty four and now with this where almost twenty nineteen they don't represent anymore political situation there was a you report he's saving up for an uproar stewarts. france this be completely out of the ball and what i mean we have nothing against france and there we cocked the french can do or some expansionary mangers in order to about big that are leaving for the french people we are all europeans but we cannot state. it's your brought to all of the main counties of europe next sentencing of the first white house official over alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand u.s. presidential campaign has been delayed once again donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the f.b.i. next as kind of maupin explains buzzwords like treason like meddling disguise what

flynn is really guilty of. general michael flynn the only senior member of the trumpet ministration to be charged with a crime by the special prosecutor it was supposed to be a smoking gun the judge didn't mince any words when describing it i'm not hiding my disgust my disdain for this criminal offense alone you were and registered agent of a foreign country serving as a national security adviser arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for arguably you sold your country out however the judge took it back i feel terrible about that the government has no reason to believe that the defendant committed treason is an actual crime with telling a lie to the fed but that's not what the media has been feeding us. it's it's funny because history is a witness tampering not only is possibly treason but mike flynn is what people thought about when they're thinking when he's talking to people who might have gone along a treasonous path to him how many troops did michael flynn take his place anthony

bourdain of treason no treason no sinister connection to foreign adversaries what happened is this in december of two thousand and sixteen as the f.b.i. was preparing to wrap up and conclude its collusion investigation at that point michael flynn had a conversation with russian ambassador. now you'll recall that is far as the media was concerned he wasn't simply an ambassador but a super spy master remember. identified by c.n.n. as a top intelligence gatherer spy or master in washington d.c. and who we know is the chief spy i'm actually levy so course the f.b.i. had no choice but to talk to flynn about that conversation but the way their interview with him was conducted was rather strange no lawyers were present the white house counsel was not informed when just sat down with the f.b.i. and at no point did they tell him that what he said could later be used against him in court you guys investigation of a guy who pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i.

he should have been warned you shouldn't should have told you. have a lawyer think of the state of affairs we've ended up in that's nonsense i'm very proud of the way the f.b.i. conducted itself agile flexible thoughtful pursued believes where you'd want to steer the f.b.i. broke standard protocol in the way that they came in in ambush general flynn the only reason that they did it was the terms administration and they thought they could get away with it at the time the f.b.i. did not see any wrongdoing general flynn pleaded guilty to making a full statement to the federal bureau of investigation even though the federal bureau of investigation agents did not detect any deception during flynn's ince of you what michael flynn apparently said is that international tensions shouldn't ask following obama sanction and sacking of the diplomats however michael flynn told the f.b.i. that he couldn't recall the details of the conversation they were tired general admitted lying to the f.b.i. michael flynn lied to the f.b.i.

general michael flynn oh the horror he sat at a table with russian president vladimir putin and he's supposedly met with a group alleged to be nazi sympathizers and he supposedly kidnapped someone on behalf of turkish president and while we're at it let's mention that his son is apparently part of the investigation glen's name has been dragged through the mud at the end of the day however the f.b.i. only found one thing to hold onto a lie if the opposition the democrats and certain members of his own party are doing everything possible to frustrate the will of the people and to subvert to or to prevent the implementation of the pose policies for which donald trump was elected flynn was within the administration the most visible supporter of improved relations with russia since sitting at the table with putin that was in december two thousand and fifteen at the tenth anniversary celebration of r t i happen to also be in the room and i know that putin's presence at the table was for

a few minutes only it was a as. it was a courtesy to the to the leading guests of the of the event it had been understood that his cooperation on more than one thousand interviews with the f.b.i. in the last year was to buy him. a a release without imprisonment and then the judge came down on him as he did in the harshest way. and that's that for now this news up so far this wednesday night as reported from moscow i'm kevin zero in for the rest of the team here tonight thanks as ever for watching international. the u.s. senate struggling rebuke saudi arabia over the shogi murder and calls for an end to

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