the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a summer eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post. already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump's syria decision dangerous and deplored jim madison's departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trumps you know a lot of old decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting i so now certainly as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be us forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. brett mcgurk spain instrumental in shaping washington's policy in northern syria he was appointed as the u.s. envoy for the global coaliti

withdraw troops from syria this time america's envoy to the global coalition against i saw brett mcgurk has quit in his resignation letter he said i saw we're on the run in syria but not yet defeated as the president has said mcgurk follows defense secretary jim mattis out the door he quit on thursday telling president trump he had a right to have a secretary of defense whose views were more aligned with his a trance decision this week to pull around two hundred two thousand soldiers out of syria has rattled the s.d.f. a kurdish led force american troops had been supporting they too say the war against isis has not ended before more on this let's cross live now to john hendren in washington so john yet another high profile departure for president. yet another self-inflicted wound another fratricidal blow to this administration at a time when it could hardly afford it less the government shutdown beginning at midnight on saturday just hours ago local time and now the president has his second major defection brett mcgurk was one of the few holdovers from the obama administration he'd been

yes ok so mcgurk was also there to ensure it's fortune met in two thousand and seven no idea where he was working on the status of forces agreement were good is is is good at getting in front of somebody and telling that person what they want to hear the problem is other people are listening if you simply talk to that network that you talk about it's long been time to leave his post was supposed to leave at the beginning the time and inspiration disposed to leave last summer he was now supposed to leave two weeks from now so now he's resigning to head to head of the syria issue citing the president snarkily troops out of syria is the reason and it's just it's just not the case as to that drawdown of u.s. forces from syria very specifically just that specific. kariya first for the next minute or so. ah there are potentially all that negative consequences to this because there have been for example a couple of low level terror incidents in europe in the last year the genesis of those have been traced right back to rocca which as you and i both know was a is eisel emotional hot land that

the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a summer eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post. already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump's syria decision dangerous and deployed jim madison's departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trumps unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting eisold now certain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington staying with washington the us government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse on the budget spending the stando

leave the role it drifts here culls mcgurk the architect of dangerous and short sighted policies in iraq and syria he's probably referencing the group's work with the george w. bush administration he was an early advocate for the surge in iraq in two thousand and seven now in an e-mail to his colleagues mcgurk said trump's decision to pull troops out of syria came as a shock and left our coalition partners confused and our fighting partners bewildered i worked this week to help manage some of the fallout but i ultimately concluded that i could not carry out these new instructions and maintain my integrity. now let us know what you think about this latest high profile departure from the trump national security team you can get in touch with us as always on twitter using the hash tag it's a news group thank you for that andrew and the impact of president trumps decision is being felt on the ground in syria al jazeera is in a harder has this report from the techie syrian border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of mumba

against isis has quit over president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops from syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of defense secretary james mattis who had opposed withdrawing from syria and cutting the u.s. presence in afghanistan a partial shutdown of the federal us federal government has began after politicians failed to end their dark deadlock over spending trump refused to back down on funding for his border war forcing the congress to adjourn without a budget deal. the head of the u.n. team tasked with monitoring a cease fire in the city of data has arrived in yemen on friday the security council vote to send observers to oversee the truce between the rebels and the saudi and iraq backed yemeni government. at least ten people have been killed in sudan in protests against the rising cost of food and fuel schools and universities are closed in the least five states cities of bata and get out of the state to right now under emergency rule inflation is at seventy percent among the highest in the world. at the head of the sudan opposition party and maddy says th

eisel said he is resigning effective december thirty first mcgurk was one of the few holdovers from the obama administration back since two thousand and fifteen he was to have retired in february but apparently disagreed with the trumpet ministrations policy of pulling two thousand troops out of syria that was announced by the president in a tweet in the past few days and that also prompted defense secretary james mattis to resign so the president seems to be having some defections here and disagreement over his policy in syria the president apparently realized that this was something of a sticking point for many people so he put out a tweet defending that decision saying quote on syria we were originally going to be there for three months and that was seven years ago we never left when i became president isis was going wild now isis is largely defeated and other local countries including turkey should be able to easily take care of whatever remains we are coming home the president said ending that tweet but if there is one thing that history has shown it is that i sold or before it

diplomat in the global coalition against eisold brett mcgurk has quit over trump surprise decision to pull troops out of syria it comes hot on the heels of the resignation of the u.s. defense secretary james mattis who strongly opposed the syrian decision a state department correspondent rose jordan as more u.s. president daal trump made two major foreign policy decisions this week he said he's pulling seven thousand u.s. troops out of afghanistan and trump is pulling out all two thousand u.s. service personnel from northeast syria a decision he's been defending on twitter on syria we were originally going to be there for three months and that was seven years ago we never left when i became president isis was going wild now isis is largely defeated and other local countries including turkey should be able to easily take care of whatever remains we are coming home. defense secretary jim mattis quit in protest on thursday on saturday it was revealed that a top u.s. diplomat in charge of coordinating the fight against eisold is also quitting the military mission is enduring defeat of isi

the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a symbol eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues the week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post. already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump's syria decision dangerous and deployed jim matta says departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trump's unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting i so now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. the us government remains partially shut down after politicians fail to break an impasse on budget spending and it's the result of a standoff over

brett mcgurk the u.s. envoy to the global coalition of fighting i saw has resigned in apparent protest at president trump's abrupt decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria comes as turkey says it has put on hold a planned cross border offensive against kurdish held territory in northeast syria says it's awaiting the outcome of a meeting in january on the pullout and he's fifteen people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu a vehicle laden with explosives was detonated at a military checkpoint near the presidential palace and other smaller attacks close by appeared to target civilians going to work. at least ten people have been killed in sudan during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel demonstrators angry about high inflation which is running at around seventy percent cities about bharat good arraf and the entire white nile state an hour and emergency rule thousands of people attended the funerals of four palestinians killed by israeli forces

the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a summer eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump syria decision dangerous and deployed jim matta says departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trump's unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting eisold now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. following trump's announcement there were reports of turkish troops being sent to the syrian border turkey certain to strike kurdish y p g targets

diplomat dealing with eisel brett mcgurk quit in protest against president trump's abrupt decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria as a state department correspondent. us president donald trump made two major foreign policy decisions this week he said he's pulling seven thousand u.s. troops out of afghanistan and trump is pulling out all two thousand u.s. service personnel from northeast syria a decision he's been defending on twitter. on syria we were originally going to be there for three months and that was seven years ago we never left when i became president isis was going wild now isis is largely defeated and other local countries including turkey should be able to easily take care of whatever remains we're coming home. defense secretary jim mattis quit in protest on thursday on saturday it was revealed that a top u.s. diplomat in charge of coordinating the fight against eisold is also quit the military mission is there enduring defeat of isis we have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past so we know that once a physical space is defeated we can just pick up and leave

says eisel is on the run in syria but not yet defeated as the president claims mcgurk is the latest person to leave his post for as defense secretary to mattis who quit on thursday over differences in foreign policy turkey says it has put on hold across a planned cross border offensive against kurdish held territory in northeast syria it says it's awaiting the outcome of a meeting in january on the us his decision to pull troops out of the country as now concerned a vacuum created by washington could worsen instability in the country our senior political analyst has more on brett mcgurk resignation. well certainly when it comes the generals that he. claimed that you know they love him so much and he loves them so much and he did appoint a number of them originally when he was first elected president stands out that all i think what is it three or four of them have already quit the latest not this before tim mcmaster and and kelly including of course his chief of staff so the generals are leaving that is leaving a good number of people in the american establishment quite anxious beca

quit over president trump's decision to pull troops out of syria in his resignation letter brett mcgurk says eisel is on the run in syria but not yet defeated as the president claims is the latest person to leave his post for his defense secretary jim mattis who quit on thursday over differences in foreign policy. turkey says it has put on hold a planned cross border offensive against kurdish held territory in northeast syria and says it's awaiting the outcome of a meeting in january on the us his decision to pull troops out of the country the us federal government has partially shut down after the senate failed to approve payment but don't trump's controversial wall along the mexican border democrats who are strongly opposed to the plan say they'll never pay for it means around eight hundred thousand federal employees will have to continue working without pay or be placed on unpaid leave we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help t

battles how do you dislodge fighters that are willing to die and also the the the instructions of mcgurk in the heads of the american coalition or the international coalition has been that isis is to dock in there they're not be allowed to escape so these slightly i guess the human rights groups like amnesty and so on would have been critical of some of the tactics would say how do you confront the well in a way which you don't use it doesn't cause massive million casualties. yet it's very difficult and clearly isis is also holding a lot of hostages and we've seen this over and over again in every one of the battles for the major cities that the these groups are holding tons of civilians because they know that there is intense pressure from that human rights organizations not to kill civilians and this paralyzes to a certain degree the attacking armies that want to use heavy airpower and just to blow blow them apart quickly talking about casualties and suffering it sammy is there a consensus about how what to do with iraq once this is over who's going to run it who's going to make sure t

key members of his administration resigning last year his defense secretary james mattis and brett mcgurk eisel special envoy what this shows president. all of his predecessors were whether republican or democratic is only concerned about himself we have a moral responsibility to the kurds because without them we would not have destroyed the caliphate in a statement on monday the pentagon made clear to turkey the united states does not back turkish operations in northern syria believing it will have a destabilizing effect on the region president trump campaigned in 2016 promising to withdraw the united states from foreign wars now with the 2020 u.s. election just a little more than a year away it appears potential voters not his senior advisers are the ones trying cares about pleasing most can really help at al-jazeera the white house so let's take a look at how others have responded to trump's decision nikki haley who served as strom's 1st u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said we must always have the back so if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful figh

visited syrian territory captured by kurdish led rebels activists photos show him with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's the actual envoy against eisel fighters have recaptured tow tree from my sleeping rock or the group self declared capital in syria passion reports from gaza and the turkey syria border. there's been no official explanation of the visit by mr. this argument. to. area but however we do understand that at this particular moment then there will be a need to rebuild. and the united states of america is hoping to tap into saudi arabia's deep pockets to be able to rebuild the area that has been damaged by months of fighting between the eyes now. we know from activists hole sort that medicine to hand in iraq have this ever him battle with local officials and also with the reconstruction committee but this is an issue that could raise concerns here in turkey because turkey consider the deal with one of the main kurdish factions operating within the as the coalition as a terrorist organization it could be also an indication of the saudi arabia is definitely going to be a bigger

the special envoy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a similar eleventh mcgurk new everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump syria decision dangerous and deployed jim matta says departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trumps unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting i saw now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington following trump's announcement there are reports of turkish troops being sent to the syrian border turkey's threaten to strike kurdish y p g targets i

president donald trump's administration the top american diplomat dealing with brett mcgurk has quit a trump surprise pullout of troops from syria he follows us defense secretary james mattis who is also resigning over the decision our state department correspondent roslyn jordan has more. u.s. president doll trump made two major foreign policy decisions this week he said he's pulling seven thousand u.s. troops out of afghanistan and trump is pulling out all two thousand u.s. service personnel from northeast syria a decision he's been defending on twitter. on syria we were originally going to be there for three months and that was seven years ago we never left when i became president isis was going wild now isis is largely defeated and other local countries including turkey should be able to easily take care of whatever remains we are coming home defense secretary jim mattis quit in protest on thursday on saturday it was revealed that a top u.s. diplomat in charge of coordinating the fight against eisold is also quit the military mission is enduring defeat of isis we have obviously l

key members of his administration resigning last year his defense secretary james mattis and brett mcgurk eisel special envoy what this shows president. all of his predecessors were whether republican or democratic is only concerned about himself we have a moral responsibility to the kurds because without them we would not have destroyed the caliphate in a statement on monday the pentagon made clear to turkey the united states does not back turkish operations in northern syria believing it will have a destabilizing effect on the region president trump campaigned in 2016 promising to withdraw the united states from foreign wars now with the 2020 u.s. election just a little more than a year away it appears potential voters not his senior advisers are the ones trying cares about pleasing most can really help at al-jazeera the white house so let's take a look at how others have responded to trump's decision nikki haley who served as strom's 1st u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said we must always have the back so if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful figh

visited syrian territory captured by kurdish rebels activists photos show him with brett mcgurk the us president's special envoy against i saw a fighter as have recaptured territory from my soul including iraq the group's self declared capital in syria has some how about has more from your turkish border with syria. there's been no official explanation of the visit. area but however we do understand that at this particular moment then there will be a need to rebuild. the united states of america is hoping to tap into saudi arabia's deep pockets to be able to rebuild the area that has been damaged by months of fighting between the. now. we know from activists. in iraq. where local officials and also. russian committee but this is an issue that could. be considered. one of the main kurdish factions operating within the coalition as a terrorist organization it could be also an indication of the saudi arabia is definitely going to play a bigger role in the future in syria still ahead on al-jazeera the un's human rights. council intervention the perpetrators of atrocities against. are not.

against isis has quit of a president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria but mcgurk departure follows the resignation of u.s. defense secretary james mattis. and the u.s. government remains past a shutdown after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending summits about but adjourned until thursday. now it's been two years since al jazeera journalist mark what he was saying was arrested and jailed in egypt he hasn't been charged with any crime despite international calls for his immediate release as imprisonments been repeatedly extended. reports. for two years saying has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights reject it the al-jazeera journalist for recurring role in. two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned and detained he's been in solitary confinement ever since without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the qatar based journalism broadcasting what it describes as false news and of receiving

envoy to the global coalition to defeat brett mcgurk has quit over president trump's decision to pull troops from syria. the us federal government is partially shut down off the senate failed to approve payment for a double trumps controversial war and only mexican border. at least fifteen people have been killed and more than twenty five injured in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu. the head of a united nations mission tossed with monitoring a fragile cease fire and yemen's strategic port city of data has arrived in aden is due to meet government representatives before traveling to the rebel held capital sana'a and then on words to her data port city is a key gateway for aid and food imports me baka has worn the story. arriving in aden the head of a united nations monitoring mission patrick is a retired dutch general with experience of some of the world's worst conflicts the t r c sri lanka and cambodia other members of the un team touched down in yemen's capital sanaa the group will be heading to the strategic port city of the day where they're tasked with monitori

the special long boy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a symbol eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post. already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump's syria decision dangerous and deplored jim madison's departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trumps unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting now certain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge. al-jazeera washington just days after that announcement of a u.s. troop withdrawal there are reports that the takesh on me is sending soldiers to the syrian border president threaten to strik

key members of his administration resigning last year his defense secretary james mattis and brett mcgurk eisel special envoy what this shows president. all of his predecessors were whether republican or democratic is only concerned about himself we have a moral responsibility to the kurds because without them we would not have destroyed the caliphate in a statement on monday the pentagon made clear to turkey the united states does not back turkish operations in northern syria believing it will have a destabilizing effect on the region president trump campaigned in 2016 promising to withdraw the united states from foreign wars now with the 2020 u.s. election just a little more than a year away it appears potential voters not his senior advisers are the ones trying cares about pleasing most can really help at al-jazeera the white house so let's take a look at how others have responded to trump's decision nikki haley who served as strom's 1st u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said we must always have the back so if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful figh

would say to those critics of the president's wrong for wanting to get out of syria getting rid of mcgurk the madness is not a bad decision at all i know that both resigning but they were on their way out in yuma i work for madison that is was a guy that worked on you ron you said i have three concerns iran iran iraq you had a secretary of defense did nothing to conquer iraq he was against leaving the j.c. if your way he was against carrier one in iraq and syria and he's been very weak on your watch the president now has not returned or to get a secretary of defense there will be aligned with the national security council aligned with you with the secretary of state and aligned with the cia now this was the lone holdout and it's something that a lot of people don't know is that madison mcmaster did not get a lot now this would not take any of mcmasters phone calls he would not be part of the n.s.c. interagency process madis was the lone holdout on an effective policy or iran on iran in iraq and syria madison mcgirr with voices it's a new one is not a problem let's not let's not be worried

and in fact the most recent person who was the special presidential envoy had been the deputy brett mcgurk under president obama and the plan that had been executed was essentially a continuation of the military and diplomatic strategy that had been put together by the first special presidential envoy retired general john allen with brett mcgurk assisting him and it's essentially the same plan which ambassador james jeffrey the former ambassador to iraq among other nations is in fact executing at this hour now the question is whether or not there was any renewed emphasis once donald trump came into office while i've been covering of the u.s. response since two thousand and fourteen it pretty much has been the same response a very robust. aggressive response a lot of political back and forth with countries in the region about which local forces should be involved in trying to get rid of members of this or i sold and so this is. a situation where even though donald trump is taking credit for what has come about in the last couple of years he lived very much avoided the question of when the u

battle however and other crossings with turkey this is embarrassing for turkey the united states mcgurk the head of the coalition the american head has called this the biggest conglomeration of al-qaeda peoples since nine eleven he said something has to be done about it and he's been pressuring turkey to do something about it i think in that sense turkey needs to step forward as and perhaps try to negotiate with the rebels themselves to withdraw and this be modeled on the operation around to rebels taken a year ago in which turkey stepped into northern syria north of aleppo and pushed out isis and isis withdrew pretty rapidly and f.s.a. free syrian army groups that had been trained and helped by turkey moved into the area so this may be a similar operation with negotiations by turkey on all sides because the free syrian army is very anxious they say we do not want turkey which has helped the so much with their revolution to end up hurting the syrian people he does not want them to work with russia extensively so this is very delicate for turkey mr felder how what is russia's involvement

troops from syria saying he hopes it doesn't happen until i sell is destroyed once and for all brett mcgurkthe former u.s. envoy to the anti eisel coalition says there's no chance of that warning the pullout will only give the armed group a new life let's cross over to. in washington for us with more reaction but first we'll speak to some vinge of it who joins us from ghazi inter palmer turkey syria border some very choice words by lindsey graham which will certainly prick the ear of many both in turkey saudi arabia and the u.s. . well it's you graham is one of those u.s. senators who does not known for mincing words he's called mohammed and selma and the saudi crown prince a wrecking ball in the past so this is not the first time these actually airing his views about how he feels about muhammad's online and how he thinks he is implicated and he's basing that on information that was provided by the u.s. cia earlier after the killing of. that of the orders for the killing did not come from a lower level operative they went straight to the top and it and the end indicted almost the saudi lead

relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren washington. president spoke with president trump on sunday says the two discussed a slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria but the u.s. navy is already changing the battleground reports from the turkey syria border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of the message turkey is sending is that it's ready to use force if not handed over to what it calls its rightful owners the turkish deployment followed reports that the syrian army planned to move in there will be a vacuum once the u.s. begins with drawing its troops from areas across northeastern syria controlled by the syrian kurdish armed groups. the military. people are afraid after reports of a possible military operation and other reports that the regime was to capture the city were preparing t

brett mcgurk is announcing that we're going to be staying for a long time is envoy for syria embassador james jeffries the set that we would be there and as long as that rand was president and the longest assaut most of our so there was a just then an enormous confusion about the policy. and trumpet and this in the case of the withdrawal from afghanistan and syria was simply operating on his instincts rather than any strategy now he he has been a long time critic of us sending forces abroad and you know he says the u.s. is being played for suckers and i think that that. this really reflects that. president trump said during his trip that he believes a lot of people are going to come around to his way of thinking on his decision with regard to syria is there is any evidence to indicate that more people are actually coming around to his way of thinking on that. well i think there is no objective evidence unless you want to do a very detailed analysis of twitter and so on and that's of course a very problematic issue there's a great deal of support for from his followers for for this the a

brett mcgurk who had been the head of u.s. anti isis coalition. up to last 9 months ago says this is insane meters but it isn't the same but he said it doesn't make any sense this kind of an incursion isn't going to last it doesn't you know it only makes sense within the context of president trump's saying about iraq iraq we should have kept the oil and. you know he clearly likes oil in the end members of the administration have fed him this idea that he could keep the oil somehow n. but strategically it makes no sense legally a thing makes notes indeed i think you along with many other analysts are as flabbergasted by this decision as i think the international community will be just too alarmed as it's always good to get your insight on this thanks very much for your time later russia is sending more military police and heavy equipment to patrol parts of the taking syria border as part of its agreement with the turkish government under the deal kurdish forces are also pulling back from the front here but as they do said the bloodshed hasn't stopp

relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al-jazeera washington well for more on political reaction and other developments let's head over to jordan joining us from washington since d.c. so what is the reaction to not only not us leaving but now it we know he's leaving earlier than planned. well daryn there is a real sense that the departure of jim madis is a real loss in terms of u.s. national security in terms of preserving the u.s. is prestige on the international stage and there's a real sense among both republicans and democrats that the ability to check the president's impulses when it comes to u.s. foreign policy that that last check in the person of jim madison has now disappeared people are not happy with the way that mr madison has been treated they're very concerned both republicans and democrats about the u.s. is ability to be engaged in crises around the world to w

very interesting indeed i mean there's been no official statement from brett mcgurk who is the u.s. envoy for the global coalition against. isis about the about the trip from the families have a hand himself what we do understand from activist. both in in saying basically in a town north of iraq i think that this argument for god. has attending two meetings one with the. local council and second one with a reconstruction committee it could be an indication that the americans would like to tap into saudi arabia's deep pockets in the near future to rebuild iraq because as you know this is going to be an extremely delicate task facing the local committees on the ground particularly as the the s.d.f. on its own has absolutely no way no capabilities whatsoever to rebuild iraq there needs to be an international push so the saudis could be now deeply involved in this syrian crisis once again with trying to rebuild iraq or however i have to say that this could create some problems particular for good neighbor and country turkey there's no official statement from turkey itself turkey has con

against isis has quit of the president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of u.s. defense secretary james mattis the u.s. government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending the standoff is of a funding for president trump's plan mexico border wall the senate has now been adjourned until thursday when these negotiations produce a show lucian very rich up of all parties which means she actually votes in the shadow of a majority and. a presidential sugar at that point we will take it up all the senate floor senators will be no one a vote is scheduled and in the meantime. their discussions and negotiations are going to enter a u.n. team has landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi amorality but government forces and who the fighters from her data the two sides agreed to a ceasefire in the port city during talks in sweden the area is the main entry point for most food aid into a country that's endured almost four years of. sudan's government says at least ten people ha

relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al-jazeera washington. covering the story joining us from washington to talk us through the reaction that madness is now leaving much earlier than planned. well it's not going over well with either republicans or democrats on capitol hill they were already upset daryn that he had decided to tender his resignation or basically quit in protest because of the president's decision to withdraw all two thousand u.s. forces out of northeast syria saying that the fight against eisel essentially was over and that there was no more reason for u.s. troops to be in that country that was not jim madison's view he apparently it spent several weeks trying to persuade the president to keep those troops in northeast syria in order to prevent a resurgence of eisel or al qaeda or any other group any non-state actor that would try to reclaim territory and

so we know that once a physical space is defeated we can just pick up and leave this was brought mcgurk the special long boy briefing reporters on the anti eisel fight in syria under a similar eleventh mcgurk knew everyone in the region and he reportedly told colleagues this week the president's new policy on syria would make it impossible for him to continue in his post already both congressional democrats and republicans have called trump syria decision dangerous and deployed jim matta says departure from the pentagon now those who had been fighting alongside the americans are looking to these legislators to try to change the white house's mind dear senator lindsey graham south carolina kurds in syria appreciate your strong opposition on the wrongfulness of trumps unilateral decision to withdraw from syria and your principled stance on standing by your kurdish allies the next step in fighting eisold now uncertain as the trumpet ministration declares it won't be u.s. forces and resources leading the charge rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. just days after the announcement of a u.s.

seems to be a little annoyed with him after his resignation of course we had the resignation of brett mcgurk the head u.s. eisel fighter and the president apparently was just annoyed by all this wanted to get mad as out earlier had his replacement ready in the form of the sitting deputy defense secretary and elevated him earlier than expected so what do we know that about the man who will replace mattis well his views be more aligned with the president's. well he's a long time boeing company executive who oversaw a number of plane projects the president would not of course name anybody who was not committed to pursue his vision all of those people who had been thought to rein him in over the years seemed to be gone and he is increasingly taking his own advice in things like pulling out of syria it doesn't sound like he consulted madis at all it doesn't sound like he consulted mcgurk at all he's been pretty much his own chief of staff and so whether or not the new defense secretary is going to go along with him he doesn't seem to care he seemed perfectly happy simply to pick the next person i

troops from syria saying he hopes it doesn't happen until i see this destroyed once and for all brett mcgurk the former u.s. envoy to the coalition says there is no chance of that warning the pullout will only give the armed group new life is over been joyed has the latest now from go near the turkish syrian border. this is on the first time u.s. senator lindsey graham has voiced his opinion about how he feels the killing of journalist jamal to shuggie was carried out and who he thinks is responsible in the past he's called saudi crown prince mohammed bin salon a wrecking ball so it is not new for him to come out. and voices opinion about how he feels about the of what happened what is happening to the saudi government and the united states but his stance is not what the u.s. official policy is his president still thinks mohammed bin solomon is a key ally he said repeatedly that he does not believe that mohamed bin solomon had a role in the killing often at the saudi consulate in istanbul despite the cia coming up with evidence and conclusions that there was some sort of involvement by the s

the soprano visited syrian territory captured by kurdish rebels activists photos so i'm with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's special envoy against eisel inside story is up next on al-jazeera. promising economic openness while tightly consolidating political power what will the latest communist party congress reveal about china's global leadership aspirations as america turns inward this is inside story. hello there i'm james pays who is the most powerful person in the world many would say the u.s. president donald trump but the international news publication the economist makes a fair case for arguing it's actually china's president xi jinping unlike trump the leader of the world's second largest economy doesn't have to worry about congress the media or for that matter reelection and although china has had in recent years a collective leadership system president xi is feared because of his anti corruption campaign and as amassed more personal power than any of his recent predecessors this is a particularly good time to assess all of this china's ruling party has a major meeting every fi

relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al-jazeera washington well for more on this let's cross over to rosen jordan joining us from washington d.c. so what is the reaction rosalyn to madis leaving earlier than had planned well tarin there is a real sense that the wheels have come off the trumpet ministration or more of specifically that the white house is trying to run foreign policy and military strategy itself and that it is it just doesn't care what people at the agencies in this case at the pentagon have to say about the way forward for the united states there was already a lot of consternation on capitol hill both from democrats and from republicans that jim madison even decided to walk away and leave his post in the resignation was announced on thursday this is not going over well because there is raising a very real concern that the ministration may be taking the unit

withdraw troops from syria this time america's envoy to the global coalition to defeat eisel brett mcgurk has quit and his resignation letter he said i still were on the run in syria but not yet defeated as the president claims would go for those defense secretary jim mattis out of the white house mattis quit on thursday telling president trump he had a right to have a secretary of defense whose views aligned better with his troops decision this week to pull around two thousand soldiers out of syria has rattled the s.d.f. a kurdish led force american troops have been supporting they too say the war against eisel has not ended well joining us live now to discuss this is our senior political analyst my one bashara so far another resignation from looking christian are slated on foreign policy. well certainly when it comes the generals that he. claimed that you know they love him so much and he loves them so much and he did appoint a number of them originally when he was first elected president stands out that all i think what is it three or four of them have already quit the latest not this

relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al jazeera washington richard white says the director of the census the political military analysis at the hudson institute he says shanahan's lack of experience as a defense secretary may not be such a bad thing. what we have had more turnover under president trump than previous presidents and normally i mean has a disadvantage in that you you it's a bit of turmoil for the bureaucracy and it's uncomfortable for people who have to report to change their reporting procedures to different people over different time that some advantage and you get new blood new energy new experience so i'm not necessarily sure it's a negative i mean the pentagon is a really tough place to manage and having somebody who knows the issues the managerial issues at a high level is fine we've had secretaries before him well with that background and it depends a

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