if the kurds if the kurdistan regional government is and the people of kurdistan are toward the clip the way you describe, why is is almost every christian left in iraq has taken shelter in kurdistan? they have chosen to go to kurdistan. i'm not saying kurdistan is perfect but it's the safest place for your community for other communities and for many others, even people who are muslim, feel safer in kurdistan than they else where, it's an important conversation but if we can get to the other question. [inaudible] >> okay. okay. if i can just quickly summarize. we're -- >> have a right to be there. that is our ancestral homeland. >> thank you nor point. we'd like -- >> are humans. >> i think you're underscoring that is of critical importance. >> who is today? that is our ancestral homeland and we have a right to be there. >> i would like to ensure -- it is a very, very important -- >> misinformation and this is -- for the people -- >> way can have this conversation. >> i think it's important to have the conversation i ask we be able to move on to next question -- >> anybody, they did

tohad chosen to go kurdistan. i'm not saying kurdistan is perfect, but it is the safest place for your community, for other communities, and for many others, even people who are muslim feel safer in kurdistan then they do elsewhere. [applause] can i -- it is an important conversation, but i think if we could get to the andtion that was asked, then there are other questions as well [indiscernible] >> [indiscernible] ms. kikoler: if i can just quickly summarize -- >> we have a right to be there. it is our ancestral homeland. ms. kikoler: i think you are underscoring something that is not important -- >> that is our homeland. our people have a right -- ms. kikoler: you have a very, very important -- >> ma'am, this is important -- think this is an informed conversation, and i asked that we move on -- thehey did not disarm assyrians. lobbyists in washington are raising. [indiscernible] thank you very much for your comment, and i'm happy to answer, but i think the conversation is bigger than your little -- not your lett

what about the broader picture outside of kurdistan and iraq? what do we need to do for those to live a reasonable life? trust was lacking even before isis came in the now be out of reach in the near future. is more realistic to speak of security and protection the steps that need to be taken are many and i echo those recommendations but first justice and accountability we need the international community to step up of and say never again to not allow those perpetrators to escape justice the government of iraq said in answer the call from other united nations members to allow the investigation of the isis crime the care she was the first to recognize the crimes as genocide and we commend the government of the united states and others for doing the same. the question is whether we allow the recognition of genocide to pd only step or the first that towards justice. to enhance security or our stabilization and reconstruction we need those liberated areas to be those unexploded devices various ford and local militias need to be removed so committees

if the kurdistan regional government come if the people of kurdistan were so bad towards the christians the way you describe, why is tha it almost y christian left in iraq has taken shelter in curtis didn't? they haven't chosen to go elsewhere. they've chosen to go to curtis didn't. i am not saying it is perfect but it's the safest place for your community and other communities and many others even people who are muslim feel safer in curtis didn't than they do elsewhere. [applause] it's an important conversation but if we can get to the question asked [inaudible] if i can quickly summarized [inaudible] >> i think you are underscoring something [inaudible] >> i would like to ensure you have a very, very important [inaudible] >> i would like to move onto the next question [inaudible] thank you very much for your comment. every word you said i'm happy to answer but the conversation is bigger then the dispute that you're raising [inaudible] there are many who disagree with you. let's let the others have a conversation. >> when i used to play water pool competitively i never thought that i w

if the kurdistan regional government, the people of kurdistan were so bad toward the christian the way you describe, why is it almost every christian left in iraq has taken shelter in kurdistan. they have not chosen to go elsewhere. they have chosen to go to kurdistan. i am not saying kurdistan is perfect, but it is the safest place for your community, other communities and many others, even people who are muslim, feel safer in kurdistan than they do elsewhere. [applause] >> an important conversation but if we could get to the question that was asked and there are other questions as well. can i -- can i -- if i can just summarize. >> we have a right to be there. it is our ancestral homeland. that is our homeland. >> you are saying something that is of critical importance. >> that is our ancestral homeland, our people have a right to be there. >> you have a very important -- >> misinformation -- >> it is an important conversation but i ask that we move on to the next question. >> anybody, they did not disarm the assyrians. this is something lobbyists in washington are raising. thank you

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>> we actually went to iraqi kurdistan. northern iraq and a couple of cities there.re now? >> when we were there the fighting was very intense in mosul and where we were was 40 to 50 miles away from mosul. didn't seem like that far, and others said, is that mosul over there? >> stephen: there was a fabulous photo of jared kushner, a little bit of his stylish-- are these all female soldiers? are they all british? >> it's a kushner homage. ( cheers and applause ) who spent time with the female peshmerga soldiers, we did a lot of interesting stuff. what we ended up doing, we will have a bunch of pieces, the next two weeks we'll have pieces from iraq. but we ended up doing our first trump-positive piece in kurdistan. they do, they love him. there are so many babies being born and they are being named trump. male or female. >> stephen: well, i believe we have a clip of that. jim? >> introduce us to your baby. he's so cute! hair? is that normalizing him? is that normalizinu?g yo >> stephen: how long were you there? >> four or-- >> stephen: how long were you there? >

that is why i spoke to some of those in kurdistan who i am going to see once i get back to iraq.y much sure. the dismemberment of iraq would makes the kurds the losers in this case. do you believe that this referendum could hasten a future conflict between the baghdad government... yes, it will, i am sure. even the regional governments and the kurds. you mean war? well, conflict... taking it step—by—step. there will be conflict. i don't think any of the regions will acknowledge this. neither iran or turkey... it has been conveyed to me that iran is putting pressure, this was discussed last week, iran is putting a lot of pressure on the kurds, because they don't accept what is happening. the iranians, let alone the kurds... your message to the kurds is, be careful what you wish for? yes, and rationalise even the question. this is very important. self—determination is something in the unity of iraq. complete independence from iraq is something else. so really, the wording of the questions should be very clear. one factor we have... this is what the iraqi government should focus on

region bill and other places in kurdistan without displacement camps when it comes to refugees there's a sense of paranoia here soldier manning the checkpoint seeing refugees approaching him. a real refugee from an infiltrator were a suicide bomber who's just trying to get close to blow his vest so the security precautions are absolutely necessary but they don't make the lives of refugees and the. operation to liberate is less than a week old and while. much smaller we can only hope it doesn't end like mosul a city in ruins thousands dead more. and with nobody to hold accountable. according to the u.n. up to thirty thousand civilians are being trapped in the city basic necessities including food and medicine. unicef has been raising the alarm of a mass the splay sma caused by the fighting in the country according to the agency more than a million people half of them children were displaced as a result of the u.s. backed mosul operation another major concern is focused on tal afar where thousands have been forced to. ali moore are expected to leave as the operation intensifies for more

that is why i spoke to some of those in kurdistan who i am going to see once i get back to iraq.m is pretty much sure. the dismemberment of iraq is wrong, i think that the kurds would be losers in this case. do you believe that this referendum could hasten a future conflict between the baghdad government... yes, it will, i am sure. even the regional governments and the kurds. you mean war? well, conflict... taking it step—by—step. there will be a political conflict. i don't think any of the regions will acknowledge this. neither iran nor turkey... it has been conveyed to me that iran is putting pressure, this was discussed last week, iran is putting a lot of pressure on the kurds, because they don't accept what is happening. the iranians, let alone the kurds... your message to the kurds, as they prepare to go to the polls, is — be careful what you wish for? yes, and rationalise even the question. this is very important. one factor in all of these publications... self—determination is something in the nature of iraq. complete independence from iraq is something else. really, the w

region bill and other places in kurdistan way that displacement camps when it comes to refugees there's a sense of paranoia here soldier manning the checkpoint seeing refugees approaching him. a real refugee from an infiltrator or a suicide bomber who's just trying to get close to blow his vest so the security precautions are absolutely necessary but they don't make the lives of refugees in the. operation deliberate far less than a week old and. is much smaller we can only hope it doesn't end like mosul a city in ruins thousands dead more missing and with nobody to hold accountable. according to the un up to thirty thousand civilians remain trapped in the city basic necessities including food and medicine gas while thousands of been forced to flee and more are expected to leave as the operation intensifies early and my colleague was not date on the situation from unicef's representative in iraq the city of lead. but we know. the operation that's happening in. about thirty thousand people have already fled and between twenty to forty thousand people are still remain with dire humanitaria

i thank you you're traveling, kurdistan, moscow. >> that was always a part of it. >> rose: was that a part where you sat up one day and says let's go to russia. >> for the first few shows for sure. the big part of the thought process behind creating the show for sure. >> that's what she's so good at. >> do you not like us? >> everybody's getting better at their job. >> rose: there are new factors. the whole idea that other things are flowing into the stream. >> we did a musical. >> rose: so tell me about not the white house correspondent's dinner. is that the title? how did that come about? >> i was sitting in my office, another one of our producers and we were just having a fun conversation and newt gingrich said something about how the whitehouse press corps was an an -- i wonder if the whitehouse correspondent dinner will exist, what happens. that was november. and then almost at the -- >> we were not going to be asked to host it. >> we were nott going to be askd to host. >> we sort of taken it for granted. >> rose: why wouldn't you pea -- be asked to host it. >> because donald tru

so obviously we have the relations's in the car to stand kurdistan in the region. that is something we have had for decades, and something that we will continue. we will also continue working through the government of iraq within the iraqi constitutional system to support a unified in -- and federal iraq. >> couple of questions. first, have you sorted out differences with turkey regarded -- there was a statement from the state department and in the panel you kept mentioning idlib as a safe haven for al qaeda. in syria. it is not on this map, obviously, bowing your dan -- when you are done with the points on the map, do you have plans for idlib in the future? and another question, regarding iraq. as far as i know, when there was a problem about the turkish president, and you brokered a them in baghdad, the deal was that mosul would be liberated. can you confirm that the turkish president is coming to an -- the turkish presence is coming to an end especially with the turkish troops in the region? brett: a lot of complex questions there. [laughter] so i did a 90 minut

that was a warning last given to kurdistan. apparently... a mother. this young man crashed into a mother crossing the road in london and he had a bike that was for a velodrome and not the street and had no brakes? it was a lightweight, incredibly fast bike with the young man obsessed with dangerous bicycle riding videos and is incredibly tragic, this accident. it has ca ptu red tragic, this accident. it has captured the imagination of the public partly because with 400 pedestrians knocked down on the roads, but it is so rare for it to bea roads, but it is so rare for it to be a bicycle, so much less kinetic energy from a bicycle and such a terrible story. also, i think the fa ct terrible story. also, i think the fact that straight after this happened, this woman ended up in hospital, this man was posting stuff on social media saying it was her fault? that is extraordinary, it makes it very much a story of his generation that somebody would be involved in something as terrible as this and then goes on to social media and then sent on social m

[laughter] samantha: you know, you can go to kurdistan.'s a little leeway to do a few more things. jo: you can do things more in-depth and digest them. newsweek is a good thing. nobody wants it to be the size of a phone book. charlie: it could be the size of a postcard. samantha: it is a hot cake. it's good to sit back a little bit. charlie: less is more. jo: twitter can handle the one-liners. we have a social presence. charlie: does the internet make it easier and more fun, because of twitter, everything that's possible? because it has created a class of people who knows what everyone else is saying. samantha: it is fun. it is engagement. miles: it's terrifying for me. i wake up and i scare myself. the first thing i do is i scroll. charlie: to see what insane thing has been said? miles: we are constantly bombarded with information. it is fun and terrifying. jo: someone said the other night, i feel like i can't go to bed because twitter is still on. [laughter] but it does mean that we can expect a level of basic -- base knowledge in our au

the kurdistan regional government special representative is here and are cohosting.e also have the ambassador from iraq. ambassador, glad to have you here. both will have an opportunity to speak to you before the panel discussion.

fears are coming out from kurdistan because they are saying that... fears that came out of the mosul battles. all we can take is the iraqi government's guarantees. thank you very much indeed. if you speak arabic, you can get coverage of this story on bbc arabic online. now for a story being covered by bbc india. the delhi high court is considering a petition to criminalise marital rape. the government's against the idea. it given a statement to the court which argues that doing this "may destabilise the institution of marriage apart from being an easy "tool for harassing the husbands." "what may appear to be marital rape to an individual wife, "may not appear so to others." you might have thought a woman is the bestjudge of whether she's been raped — but that is the government's position. and adding to the outcry — the husband of the foreign minister — a former governor himself — tweeted this: "there is nothing like marital rape. "0ur homes should not become police stations." iasked neha bhatnagarfrom bbc hindi if the government had offered any furthe

tackle the racial solidarity when you think that these men these particular case came for iran iraq kurdistan turkish there is only one connection so unfortunately the only race we should be talking about is the girl's race they were white not one girl as ever hunt these cases recognize as being racially motivated and it is racially motivated that in itself is racism but nobody wants to talk about that because that isn't the big story because unfortunately what we get is this whole we need to leave the experts where we left it to the experts the police were supposed to be the experts and they've been failing for years because of political correctness because they feed their word racist and islamophobia and they feed it so much they abandon these girls and they left them to get on with their and there is an absolute no evidence to show just the guys we know about woman left want to be thirty seconds to make a final statement so first. the suggest that the police left these girls to be raped because they were afraid to be being called racist posterous is literally it's unbelievable it's against

mostly they went to kurdistan, and these cities are surrounded by many villages, and it is mostly tribalt of these people will have fled to outside the city to the villages, or somewhere in other cities. chile's constitutional court has approved a move to legalise abortions under certain circumstances. this has already been passed by both houses of parliament, and opposition parties had challenged the ruling, hence the constitutional court getting involved. this bill allows abortions in the case of rape, ins if the mother's life is at risk, the foetus will not survive a pregnancy. you will not survive a pregnancy. you will have three cases in which women can actually have an abortion, in the case of rape, in the case of the women's life in threatened, and if the foetus isjust not going to carry through to the end of the pregnancy. but in other circumstances, women can, in some circumstances, women can, in some circumstances, go to prison? absolutely. the law in chile says that you can get up to 15 years in jail for abortion. for an illegal abortion, not in these three cases. so that's fo

support to turkey in the country struggle with the kurdistan workers party also known as the p.k. k. the turkish government has raised protests over the us army of the kurdish by p.g. in syria as part of the fight against isis turkey has struck kurdish positions in the past and recently in the turkish press released information about u.s. military bases and troop dispositions in syria so for more on the struggle between turkey and the kurds we're being joined now by barak id and director of outreach for the kurdish policy research center thanks for being with us today barak so what will matter is this visit with glee give way to in the way of policy going forward in syria will we believe matt is visited turkey genetically. in regards to kind of reshaping the already destroyed relationship with turkey. will this salvage anything i believe that's there right now trying to use the p.k. k. card and you know they're trying to rebuild their you know damaged relationship based on both as well as the y. p.g. and the kurdish reference the upcoming kurdish referendum in the. kurdish regiona

an oppressed group for hundreds of years and there's in northern syria there's a part of syrian kurdistan called rouge region and basically what they've done is they've created a flat structure and still creating a flat structure a gala tarion very very feminist community or communities it's a string of communities that are anti-capitalist anti patriarchy and at the same time are fighting isis and syrian rebels and the proxy war that's going on between the us and so they're fighting on several different fronts but their main front is that they're fighting for their right to live in an equal society of their choosing they're fighting for their autonomy and some people call it an arche some people call it democratic can federalism it doesn't really matter what you want to call it but it's a beautiful example of community building even even i mean obviously capitalism hasn't fallen but it's a great example of what we can start doing now before capitalism falls because if you look historically in the ashes of fallen systems human beings have a tendency to rebuild a version of what just about

doing the possessing of iraq e resources as far back as twenty eleven here in the iraqi region of kurdistan the word is out on mobile is coming. the billions of barrels that lay beneath this specific area are already being drilled by a smaller american competitor. but now exxon mobil has signed its own deal with the kurds to explore for more oil in the kurdish autonomy region of iraq well we know who used to run exxon mobil none other than president trump secretary of state rex tillerson. in the past twenty four hours u.s. president trump fresh from his dinner with israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu and his wife met with palestinian leader president abbas from gil scott heron to snoop dog officers from all around the world though have refused to play in the occupied territories of israel but from the anti-apartheid struggle in south africa to the cultural b.d.s. movement for palestine what is the nature of the political power of music recently we caught up with dave randall a musician who has played with acts such as faithless and dido selling millions of records. his latest releases

and explain how much worry the new do about music >> cry of a political kurdistan to music critic i haveay job beded my job idle think i'll like to do all of one but i was pretty happy fishing children of monsters. i was glad to do it and glad to wash my hands of it. i enjoyed doing it as the big issues of "war and peace" to meet those characters that our unsavory but to write this book you rub up against a lot of unpleasantness but my friend paul jensen a british historian he wrote a book called creators or intellectuals or comedians he was going to do one called monsters but he called off because he did not want to spend so much time with the material but he did write a brief life of stall and i said was that leftover from your research? he said yes he wanted to use that material. >>cspan: he wrote about stalin and mussolini but that hitler so what is it about these dictators with that life that day live compared to who you rightabout with the symphony and opera is how does that come out of this a body?. >> i have a great will and thirst for power and imagine themselves doing good. the

here is some perspective iraq's population ignoring kurdistan is roughly thirty million of those approximately nine million adult men and one in three a third of all men as soldiers. it's a vicious cycle workman hanging up the overalls teaches leaving schools. abandoning their fields and why not service pays much better. than. mosul university once the second. biggest in iraq but it's seen better days just like everything else in the city here's the kicker though classes are in session. those with walls and ceilings still intact nevertheless young men are abandoning study in favor of easy money in the police forces they get guns for a and opportunity. home. too often you'll hear those stories everywhere troops raise than jews this private armies shakedowns turf wars looting and protection rackets violence has become a currency. but surely this con cluster you might think isis will be defeated and there'll be no need for this huge on me perhaps but as america and britain showed iraq years ago violence sometimes is a solution. i don't. know . if. the system has an a it's called a war economy whe

there's a there is a discussion about the iraqi kurdistan splitting off and there's the idea of who gets which oilfield and amounts of revenue and what form the divide of iraq would take. but i think that when it comes to the sectarian issues it's hard for us to understand them here. anybody in the middle east and this is why when we talk about islamist extremism there is a sense of history in the middle east that they have very long memories and look very far into the future about how to take their society. they were in this bombed out building getting ready to reappoint justices to the that's the way these folks approach their relationships. in some respects that could be a very good thing, because they gave them stamina. the media love to talk about and want to suggest that not only were the americans losing confidence in the a recognition that the iraqis really didn't want us there. it's not different than not understanding the need for having troops and not having a vision for what the country should be. i had a conversation with the deputy mayor of baghdad. he went to dubai and cam

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. >> now an iraqi parliament member and kurdistan's regional government representative on combating eye and is protecting minority communes in the country. also, religious freedom, equality rights for women and humanitarian effort inside the region. >> ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to the united states institution of peace. we are very closed to welcome you here this afternoon. i'm billtail, the executivevicee vice president at the instate of peace. p we'll have an opportunity to introduce everyone at the right time the cured stan regional government

after isis is defeated, do you think that kurdistan will be the u.s. strategy -- ? ally, so, our strategic our friends in iraq, we support the government of iraq, we support a unified federal iraq that is strong and prosperous and is at peace with itself and neighbors. obviously, we have deep relations in the region. kurdishing with all the parties, that is something that goes back decades and it is something a will continue. we will also continue working through the government of iraq within the iraqi constitutional system to support a unified in federal iraq. >> couple of questions. first, have you sorted out differences with turkey thereing last week's --, was a statement from the state department and in the panel you kept mentioning idlib as a safe haven for al qaeda. but when on the map, you are done with the points on the map, do you have plans for idlib? and another question, regarding iraq. as far as i know, when there was a problem about the turkish president in pocket shot -- in -- you brokered a deal with anda and baghdad -- ankara baghdad and the conditi

the kurdistan regional government special representative bayan sami abdul rahman is here and we also have the ambassador from iraq ambassador fareed yasseen. welcome, glad to have you here. both will have an opportunity to speak to you before the panel discussion. three years ago this month isis targeted many of iraq's minority groups christians have cds pokemon and others to this assault on northern iraq. isis also targeted arabs and kurds in many more areas. last year the secretary of state and the u.s. congress and just last week the administration labeled as genocide the attacks on the chaldeans syrians and other groups by isis so the last administration and this administration are in agreement and have

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