arab. did they just lump them all as middle east arabs? >> it's interesting. they are -- kerr milt roosevelt didn't have arabic but archie roosevelt and miles copland did. the three of them were -- they knew a great deal about the arab world and were inclined to sympathize with arabs, but that attitude didn't really seem to extend to iranians. archie roosevelt before kim roosevelt's operation in 1953 that overthrows -- he was in iran on the years after world war ii, and at the time of the first real cold war struggle take place in iran, 1946-1947, and it's clear from his account of that moment that he doesn't really have the same personal sympathy for iranians that he does for arabs. he in fact sees them in sort of rather orientalist british racist terms and writes about this in his memoirs and there's already this kind of element of -- at the same time as you relate to the arabs, don't feel the same way about iranians and that seems to be there as well for kim roosevelt in 1953. he is very ready to sort of accept the british analysis of what is going on in ir

throws its weight not so much behind arab nationalists as behind conservative, british colonial era leer in the middle east. meanwhile, at home, the american friends of the middle east, that cia front group that is advocating on behalf of nasa and arab nationalism generally, and attacking american zionist mentioning u.s. shouldn't be behind israel and nasa and u.s. identification with arab nationalism increasingly gives way to support for conservative regimes and pro-israel foreign policy. at the cia arabists themselves, as a group, split up by 1958, kermit roosevelt quit the agency, so too has miles copeland both going to the oil industry, for more profitable employment, and he says with the cia but moved to another region. now there were nefarious forces underminding the cia program from the outside, john foster sollace, secretary of state at the time, takes a strong personal dislike to nasa, and the british proved very effective at securing american support for their basically antinationalist agenda in the u.s -- excuse me, the middle east, so that the u.s. starts to rally around british clients regimes

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that water may become a key factor in world conflicts with it already fueling tension in the arab middle east. and the youngest victim of the terror attacks in volgograd is on the man we're following the fate of the three month old girl survived the blast killed her mother. bizarrely international coming to live from moscow with joshua welcome to the program and it's exactly thirty one days to go until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on sochi as the city gets ready for its big a moment we don't cross live show correspondent paul scott who is in the olympic host city for us hello to you paul so do tell us what's happening in the city now what's the atmosphere there like given that the city has been preparing for seven years to host this wonderful sporting event. well as the darkness descends over the russian seasons hotel in sochi organizes all reiterating that everything is on track and they are ready for the start of the games not each of the eleven venues in the coastal cluster which you can see. just over my shoulder on the mountain cluster have been completed and put

that water may become a key factor in world conflicts with it already fueling tension in the arab middle east. and the youngest victim of the terror attacks in volgograd is on the man we are following the fate of this three month old girl who survived the blast that killed her mother. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshing welcome to the program now it's exactly thirty one days to go until the winter games kick off and in russia and all eyes are on sochi as the city gets ready for his big moment scott is in the olympic host city that's wrapping up it's seven years long preparations for the international sports spectacle. organizes a saying that we are on track and that everything is ready here h. of the eleven venues in the coastal cluster which you can see behind me on the mountain cluster have been completed and put to the test on more than one occasion by hosting international spy standard competition and also each of the new transport networks including the high speed rail service which is connecting the two clusters to one another

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may become a key factor in world conflicts with it already fueling tension in the arab middle east. and an update to all the youngest victim of the terror attacks in volgograd all the men now we're following the fate of the three month old girl who survived the blast that killed her mother. very good even this is out international thanks for company money is kevin now in our top story that it's exactly thirty one days to go until the winter games kick off here in russia and all eyes are on sochi is the city gets ready for its big moment. in the olympic host city that's wrapping up seven long years of preparations for the international sports spectacle that it's set to be. organizes are reiterating that everything is on track and they are ready for the start of the games now each of the eleven venues in both the coastal cluster which you can see behind me just over my shoulder on the mountain cluster have been completed and put to the test hosting international competition on more than one occasion and each of the brand new transport networks including the high speed rail link which

we don't have a clear orientation towards the broad transformation that is occurring in the arab middle east but we have a lot of worries about specific things we see including violent extremism. there is a danger that in responding day by day to those urgent security imperatives, we end up re-creating precisely the paradigm that president obama came into office wanting to dismantle of a sort of broadscale war on terrorism that drives our policy and drives the way we are perceived in the region and drives the way we structure our relationships in a region that is undergoing tremendous change. well there are real threats, it's important for us to be able to distinguish what is local what is transnational, what is targeting us and what's not. i would love to hear bruce's views on this. >> i want to come back to the metamorphosis of al qaeda. as a result of the arab awakening, we have seen that al qaeda got a rebirth. ironically, it came exactly at the moment that the obama administration's policy against al qaeda produced its greatest success, the death of osama bin laden. i'm in agreement wit

throws its weight not so much behind arab nationalists as behind conservatives and the leaders in the middle east. meanwhile is advocating on behalf of this and it is attacking american sinus and suggesting that you shouldn't be so behind israel and this includes u.s. identification with arab nationalism and that increasingly gives way to support for conservative regimes as well as foreign policy. and the airbus themselves as a group split up in 1958 and they have both gone to the oil industry and archie roosevelt stays there and then he is moved to another region. and so there were various forces undermining the program from the outside this includes john foster dulles and the secretary of state takes a strong personal dislike in the british have proved very effective at securing the american supported the anti-nationalist agenda in the middle east so that the u.s. starts to go around the u.s. client regimes in the region and conservative arab leaders themselves will also contribute to this new within the u.s. foreign policy. and i think there is also the big internal problem with the cia and th

where we don't have a clear orientation toward the broad transformation that is occurring in the arab middle east, but we have all lot of worries about specific things that we see, including violent extremism. there is danger that in responding day-by-day to those urgent security imperatives, we in debris creating special to the process of the paradigm that president obama came into office wanting to dismantle the of the sort of broad scale war on terrorism that drives our policy and drives the way we are perceived in the region in terms of where restructure our relationships in the region that is undergoing tremendous change. while there are real threats commit is important for us to be able to distinguish what is local, what is transnational, is targetting the estimate was not. i would live to hear the views on that. >> i want to come back to the metamorphosis of al qaeda. we have seen as a result of the arab awakening in what as, on that al qaeda had a rebirth. erotically it came exactly at the moment that the obama administration policy against al qaeda corporation was out al qaeda produced i

will react if they feel an actual threat rising against israel and from perspective of many arabs in the middle easta totally israel centric perspective making it hard for us to be a fair broker and be seen as a fair broker from arab perspective there. if we had a different relationship with israel, do you think we would be able to help them more by seeming to be an actual fair broker? >> it's a great question. it's a really interesting one. i would argue that you're right. americans are very tied to israel. there's a very strong sense of attachment to israel for strategic and cultural and political reasons and i don't think that's going to change any time soon. i would also say that when it comes to brokering a peace between israel and the arabs, something that is essential for the united states, arabs and israel, america's friendship with israel has proven to be enormously important. we are one country that can go to the israelis and say this is a good deal and you need to do this and we're behind you. that's what made possible peace with egypt and jordan and initial treaties with the palestinians

already set in the past on the various issues not just a few things that did stand out on the middle east the arab spring he said is a quote good thing in the long term for security but acknowledges that there will be bumps on the road now he may be challenged on the basis of the ongoing instability in the region and whether these can be quite classified really as just bumps on the road and now in terms of syria you confirm that the situation there is an ongoing major concern for national security and acknowledged the potential for radical radicalization of british citizens he also said that the military intervention the contemplation in the past was purely about chemical weapons and not about regime change and of course one of the security issues that he was expected to be asked about is that of the n.s.a. and edward snowden revelations now with david cameron stood by the work of the intelligence agencies and he even had a little message for the media and particularly a newspaper the guardian that is where he said he would encourage newspapers and list delhi and this to think before they act and

ford talking about his new book, america's great gain, about america's one time pro-arab policies in the middle east, and what has happened since. and john fund, greg valier to discuss the g.o.p.'s war on the tea party that much more, straight ahead. >> benghazi not only scandal for white house in the news today, new reports that the fbi is not plan ing to file criminal charges related to the irs scandal. according to "wall street journal," fbi investigators blame confusing rules, and bureaucratic incompetance for irs targets of conservative groups rather than criminal intent, that report infuriated house republicans who pointed out the case is still being investigated. house oversight chairman darrell issa wrote in a letter to tern general, anonymous and politically motivated leaks from unnamed law enforcement official undermine public apure anes by current and former fbi directors is this is a legitimate investigation, the leaks come after the justice department citing the confidential nature of the investigation refused too brief congress on its progress. investigator also discovered that person

arab spring? in 2011, there was great hope that democracy would replace authoritarian regimes in a number of countries in the middle eastt that's not exactly what's happened. chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret warner examines why. >> warner: as the fourth year of the arab spring begins, the middle east is seeing fresh waves of violence of widening scope. in syria, sunni-led rebels long fighting president bashar al assad's forces are now battling jihadi extremist units, as well. in iraq, where sunnis are protesting the shiite-dominated government of prime minister maliki, militants linked to al qaeda have seized key western cities. and in lebanon, spillover from the syria conflict has triggered car bomb assassinations of top sunni figures and bombings of shiite neighborhoods in southern beirut. marwan muasher, former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of jordan, takes a long view of all this in his new book, "the second arab awakening and the battle for pluralism." we sat down for a conversation about it at the carnegie endowment for international peace. marwan muashering thank you for joining us. would

acceptance of the others on the rise of the others if you could because the kurds in the middle east were not arabs we are not turks we are not our cities we are a different national group and we have no rights in that area so as i said we are the largest nation in the world without a state and we are realistic we have been divided into four countries with the acceptance of the asking so for people and now we understand the realities of poor countries and each part of kurdistan within the countries that we are living in its own peculiarities so we don't want to copy paste what we have in iraqi kurdistan to the other part we do believe that this is the time for accepting the kurds as they are to live in a demographic situation that they can have a guarantee of their constitutional rights in their own country absolutely and i think this.

take the example of everything that went on the middle east, in the arab spring. so much of that was driven by youth who were unemployed. they were frustrated. they were not feeling like economic participants. >> disen chanted youth. and i think if tuck see our commitment and see things on the ground happening. the west here, we want to make sure that we understand it what worked, where programs have been successful, why, with which cities, which programs really produced results, how much youth was employed and what dent work. what are the less options? forward? it will be a multi-year program. >> mutar says the problem of youth unemployment and other problems around the world can be solved by applying the golden triangle: that's the enter the section of political and government leaders, the private sector and civil society groups to solve some of the most intractable problems around the globe. speaking about intractable problems, when i come back, i will bring you my interview with the president of rwanda, paul kadami. while you were asleep news was happening. >>

acceptance of the others on the rise of the other so if you can because the kurds in the middle east were not arabs we are not turks we are not our cities we are a different national group and we have our rights in that area so as i said we are the largest nation in the world without a state and we are realistic we have been divided into four countries with the acceptance of the asking so for people and now we understand the realities of poor countries and each part of kurdistan within the countries that we are living in its own peculiarities so we don't want to copy paste what we have in iraqi kurdistan to the other part we do believe that this is the time for accepting the kurds as they are to live in a democratic situation that they can have a guarantee of their constitutional rights in their own country absolutely and i think this is the argument that the various kurdish political parties have been making probably for decades but if you look at your most recent history it seems that any substantial change in their kurdish question occurred only at a time of major geo political upheavals if for

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but it's got to work closely with the arab governments in the middle east with the saudis in particulary to bring relative peace to places like syria and lebanon. that also means the united states has to talk to odious figures. and we'll see in a couple weeks when the syria peace talks start in geneva that the united states will have to talk to the assad government. secretary kerry said over the weekend iran might be brought into the talks. that might be have the choice we have to make to see it brought to an end. >> nick burns, thank you very much. appreciate it, as always. arwa damon going along for the dangerous job of hunting down poachers who just killed an elephant for its ivory tusks. shots were fired. we'll show you what they actually found. ryan, your hotel's robes are fabulous. so i'm choosing all of you with hotels.com a loyalty program that requires no loyalty. if yand you're talking toevere rheuyour rheumatologistike me, about trying or adding a biologic. this is humira, adalimumab. this is humira working to help relieve my pain. this is humira helping me through the twists

respect minority rights unless they will never have stability in the middle east and this is what is argued in the book the second arab awakening. the middle east is a highly pluralistic society with many different factions. you have shia and suni, christians, jews, you have tribal factions. so, those that will succeed in stabilizing the middle east and southeast asia, it will be potentially generations away. >> host: peter maker that covers the white house for "the new york times" tweeting around midnight saying that menendez from new jersey, a democrat is the chairman of the foreign relations committee signaled that he may clear the way for apaches to iraq after receiving urgent phone call from bill burns addressing the concerns. >> guest: the are going to go into another middle eastern civil war essentially alone to accomplish what? what has been accomplished over the last ten years in iraq? very little. there are still suicide bombers blowing at churches. the lesson for america is the best that we can hope for, again it is to condemn the violence and provide a breathing space, that opportunity for the actions to r

unfortunately innocent people are being caught in the middle right now in a very tumultuous middle east with the arab spring and all that comes with that well on that poll you just mentioned you brought up that disconnect of the u.s. being far and away the leader in this poll as as the greatest threat to violence and yet a plurality of people around the world still want to live there how do you explain that disconnect and does it suggest that that the world still wants the united states there they just want the united states to live up to the ideals that the united states says it is trying to live up to rather than exporting violence across the world yes and i think you just hit the nail on the head no unfortunately in a couple of the countries that you mention that have the highest anti u.s. opinion there's a lack of a freedom of press which is one of the things when people look at the united states they very much strive for that dichotomy in those two buz speaks exactly. one of them one of the troubling things no one who's can who's doing anything bad likes the police around and i shy away from tha

you've heard my take on what's behind the turmoil in the middle east now let's turn to a panel of experts. rashid khalidi is a professor of modern arab studies at columbia university, author of "brokers of deceit how the u.s. has undermined piece in the middle east" richard haas the president of the council on foreign relations, director of policy planning at the stapts department in 2001 to 2003 as the iraq war was being planned and for its start. from 2004 to 2007, meghan o'sullivan was deputy national security adviser at the white house for iraq and afghanistan. she's now a professor at the kennedy school at harvard. and peter bergen, of course, is cnn's national security analyst and the director of the national security studies program at the new america foundation. rashid, when you look at all the turmoil brewing in the middle east, what do you see as the cause? >> well, there are many causes, but one cause is that you have some sectarian issues that are working themselves out. another cause is a whole policies that i think erican - exacerbated things. a third cause is american alliances with countries that have their own dogs i

of the past made on several of the points in a couple of things did stand out on the middle east he said that the arab spring is a quote good thing in the long term for security but acknowledges that there will be some bumps on the road and he may face some challenges on that in light of the ongoing instability in the region and whether these can be classified merely on the road now in terms of syria he did it confirms that it is still a major concern for national security especially the potential for radicalization of british citizens as well as the just ongoing regional instability over there now of course one of the things that he was questioned on of was the n.s.a. edward snowden revelations albeit if he didn't spend that much time on the topic of going back to the general strategy set of security you said one of the things is that he wanted to enhance alliances in terms of security but what's interesting is just a day ago. again criticized the spying activities of the u.s. and the u.k. one of its strongest allies she said that this the end result is not a more security but in fact less now the pr

middle east. some suggest the violence is worse post-arab spring. ll street journal" today: it's becoming increasingly clear the arab spring didn't merely shake up the power structures of the middle east, it launched a total transformation of the region, one that has reduced american influence and will ultimately compel the united states to rethink its stake in an area that for half a century was assumed to be central to its global interests. syria's civil war is bleeding into the neighboring nations of remember than and iraq, weakening the central governments of both and setting off parallel fights between the armed sunni and shia groups. joining me now is washington wa, fox news terrorism analyst. do you agree post-arab spring, the violence between these two groups has ignited even further? >> they have, jenna. look, the iranian-led shia movement versus the salafi sunni-led jihadist movement are clashing everywhere. as you just said in the introduction. first in iraq, it's very visible, fallujah and other cities, but also in syria. an offshoot of s

like chris stevens, who was one of our very best and had served in libya and across the middle east and spoke arabic2016? sorry. you know i had to ask that. >> yes, you did. you did. i understand. and i have to say, i don't know. not a very satisfactory answer, i know. but, you know, the -- what i have said and what i will keep saying, although i don't think i am getting through very effectively, is that, you know, we have a lot of issues right now that need to be dealt with. and we need to get -- and i was very pleased that we got a budget agreement, for example. i'm hoping that we get past this next debt limit, you know, challenge. because i know how the rest of the world watches us. >> i want to be real clear here. those were two separate sound bites that we tried to get to as quickly as possible, what we call tape turns, one about benghazi and another completely separate and a different time. was about her thoughts about 2016. it was brought in while she was laughing about something completely unrelated at a different time. that is our mistake. she was not laughing. let's be very clear. the secr

made to the arab rebels and those promises were essentially for sweeping arab independence throughout, virtually the entire middle east, with a small little, a few little enclaves put in reserve. and as lawrence was fighting in the battlefield this, he increasingly felt this tremendous divided loyalty. he was an officer of the british crown and yet he also felt the loyalty to the men that he was recruiting and who were fighting and dying alongside him for a promise that he increasingly knew as the war went on was almost certain to be betrayed in the end. and so, while you have this cast of characters that, that are most remarkable for the minimal resume's they had at the time, it also indicates the consideration the pure european powers were giving to this region and what was going to come after. the british foreign office, officials in the british foreign office during the war referred to the ottoman empire as the great loot, what they imagined they would do if they defeated the ottoman empire an won world war i was going to be a great carving up of the region. and i think that lawrence being aware of this and consta

them "alpha dog" of the middle east but other countries will all scramble to fight it to the finish. you will have the israelis are in the middle of it. the sunnis, the sunni-arabtate, saudi arabia and others they will not let iran be a "alpha dog" of the middle east. it probably doesn't go any place good. you have two sides, two tribes fighting each either for millenia. they have enough money from the arab oil money to keep fighting in a fight to the finish. bill, the more i think about the middle east, we in the west look at this so differently. we think war is what happens when peace fails. we think it has beginning, middle and end and when it is over everybody start life again. in the middle east they don't think it is that way. they think it is constant war. they think peace is the time they go back to regroup to fight again. bill: if you're right about that, looking at three decades of war, on top of a decade of war we spent there as well. john kerry in jerusalem whether asking whether or not the administration will go back in essentially. secretary kerry. >> this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. that is what the president and the world decided some

strangling this day because of concerns that it might seem thing to the middle east a sense the decision taken by pressure from arab countries has caused international health rates the intimate twentieth of january. it's now been pushed back to change. an exhibition chasing the three thousand five hundred innovation said the team's season tickets now remains close to the health is concerned that in my home in the middle east peace coconuts come. these coasters made with whole wheat growers and if you close this means that no one has to recognize the delights of two people dunlap has nothing to do with its exhibition. despite several delays in modifications exhibits content was still a team and said ten tt outcome she's ranked unesco's director. i mean it. the king and to delay the effects in one week before accepting through these human done before. mrs vocal the decision to everyone. firstly it hurts unesco. because it shows is in that their objective is incredible when you try to improve the current countries because it shows that the one willing to compromise wanted to see who can walk you can fish too. meeting