a picture of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah still hangs on his wall. outside it's the same situation residents tearfully thank ali for his help but if anything is to change here people will have to turn their back on hezbollah and its powerful allies. such as multimillionaire nabih berri who is parliamentary speaker and head of the party. political parties are entrenched in the syria very much and so i think they have a major influence over the people there maybe they provide services a good stand they need to survive and i think that this is something that we need to work on we need to bridge we need to talk to them more and we need them to understand what we're doing you know amal and hezbollah got hit here and found out for example and the us they were hurt by that they they are all incompetent you know it's not just the other parties that there are competent they're all incompetent the court is controlled by all of them you know not a single party is not involved in this court and they all share the responsibility . because the explosion isn't the

a picture of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah still hangs on his wall. outside it's the same situation residents tearfully thank ali for his help but if anything is to change here people will have to turn their back on hezbollah and its powerful allies. such as multimillionaire nabih berri who is parliamentary speaker and head of the party. political parties are entrenched in this area very much and so i think they have a major influence over the people there maybe they provide services a good stand they need to survive and i think that this is something that we need to work on we need to bridge we need to talk to them more and we need them to understand what we are doing hugo amal and his own law cocktail here and find out for example and yes they were hurt by that they they are all incompetent you know it's not just the other parties that there are competent they're all incompetent the court is controlled by all of them you know not a single party is not involved in this court and they all share the responsibility . because the explosion isn't the only

a picture of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah still hangs on his wall. outside it's the same situation residents tearfully thanks ali for his help but if anything is to change here people will have to turn their back on hezbollah and its powerful allies. such as multimillionaire nabih berri who is parliamentary speaker and head of the party. political parties are entrenched in this area very much and still i think they have a major influence over the people there maybe they provide the services of a good state they need to survive and i think that this is something that we need to work on we need to bridge we need to talk to them more and we need them to understand what we are doing you know amal and hezbollah the take here and find out for example and the us they were hurt by that they they are all incompetent you know it's not just the other parties that there are competent they're all incompetent the court is controlled by all of them you know not a single party is not involved in this court and they all share the responsibility . because the explosio

the powerful hezbollah leader. because. one of the local bosses. has invited hussein in because the people here also need help. but they still have to act fast hezbollah gunmen could turn up any moment. that. ali wants to show hussein how bad things really are here extreme poverty stark's these narrow streets i'll. cut out on the. people actually live in this damp cave like dwelling. this is a hospital with. this is a house look at the humanising for. over going to someone will go. to his house is downstairs the whole building shook and then he tried to do it so it took him up the explosion a lot of damage here too but no help came says ali not even from hezbollah itself we're going to do this morning. is it good now to know that then go we can't stay here lebanon is finished with it was all our politician. ends are corrupt without exception the law or politicians are thieves they are all things how. could the anger and disillusion now be enough to break with old loyalties. maybe but always preference still seems clear. a picture of hezbollah leade

hezbollah is not keen on outside helpers on their territory. the entrance to the district is marked by a large portrait up the powerful hezbollah leader. that guy in one of the local bosses has invited hussein in because the people here also need help but they still have to act fast. has belonged gunmen could turn up any moment that ali wants to show hussein how bad things really are here. extreme poverty stark's these narrow streets. oh, a lot of people actually live in this damp cave like dwelling. this is a hospital with this is a house, look at the humanising for over an intimate mogul. this house is downstairs. there's a whole building shook and everything from here. good luck. i want the explosion. a lot of damage here too. but no help came, says ali, not even from hezbollah itself. we're going to this morning. this is good, and then, you know, then go, we can't stay here. lebanon is finished. it was all our politician ins are corrupt, without exception. the law or politicians are thieves. they are all things. how could the anger and diss

a picture of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah still hangs on his wall. outside it's the same situation residents tearfully thanks ali for his help but if anything is to change here people will have to turn their back on hezbollah and its powerful allies. such as multimillionaire nabih berri who is parliamentary speaker and head of the party. political parties are entrenched in the syria very much and so i think they're not a major influence over the people there maybe they provide the services of a good state they need to survive and i think that this is something that we need to work on we need to bridge we need to talk to them more and we need them to understand what we're doing you know amal and hezbollah got hit here and found out for example and the us they were hurt by that they they are all incompetent you know it's not just the other parties that there are competent they're all incompetent before it is controlled by all of them you know not a single 40 is not involved in this court and they all share the responsibility. because the explosion isn'

it would men hezbollah getting much stronger in the country than it is now.it would mean a flow of refugees, both lebanese and syrians into cyprus and into europe. so a whole bunch of problems. the u.s. has an interest in shoring up and trying to stabilize lebanon, which is not easy to do, particularly because the lebanese ruling class is not helping itself. the trump administration, i think this will be continued under a biden administration, has been quite positive and supportive of lebanon. a lot of support for the lebanese army. and this will continue. a lot of support for hosting over 1.5 million syrian refugees, likely to continue. lot of promise of serious economic support both directly and through the i.m.f. world ank. if lebanon undertakes need red forms that everybody agrees need to happen. i think the policies are there, but lebanon is still falling apart because of a political class that is hopelessly corrupt and hezbollah, which has its own agenda, which is not for the welfare and economy of the people. a new dynamic that has emerged as the marit

and that is an indication that hezbollah feels under pressure because of the collapse of the country around it and perhaps because of the maximum pressure campaign and wanting to perhaps buy time until the end of the trump administration. i think an incoming biden administration will certainly pick up on those maritime talks. both lebanon and israel have an interest in them being resolved. lebanon needs to move forward quickly and offshore gas exploration and extraction. more importantly, i think the u.s. and the international community should keep the pressure on the lebanese oligarchy, as it were, to undertake the reforms that have long been needed so that the world can help lebanon. lebanon, you know, as you indicated, is a kind of microcosm of the world around it. you have the sunni-shiite split, the turkish presence, the iranian-hezbollah presence, so it is inregime, a very difficult neighborhood. on,e one comment i will end making advanced to lebanon, a small example of a semi-failed state, to what others have talked about, when you look at the middle east in general, middle ea

and a lot of these groups that also moved to syria to support and same thing with hezbollah in lebanonnd it became a very important car they fly and same thing with helping in yemen which gave them a base in the southern peninsula. you know, i think we have violent extremist groups that are very active and popular among a lot of, you know, a lot of people in the middle east and they dance to the tune of regional powers or to terrorist organizations and this makes the region even more dangerous. but from the terrors perspective we see a new threat emerging and it's not domestic as it used to be and part of a transnational network and learning from the jihadi experience because were seen where they were in the '90s they go to ukraine on fire on both sides of the conflict and the washington side under the russian trivial movement and folks they include across the western world and those guys come back to the country with the mission to create division and we seen that in the united states and we've seen that some of the people that wants ukraine for operational activities in ukraine and c

dispute can be and hezbollah has enjoyed total of movement through the mandated areas of control. with iran's support and arsenal, fired missiles in israel. the united states cannot abide by these actions. the renewal reported new attacks against peacekeepers and investigations. we are hopeful that these important steps will ensure that there can be a mission that fulfills its mandate. if not, we will have to move in a different direction. mr. prime minister, it's always an honor to be here with you and visit israel. this is a place that has a special place in my heart and the heart of so many americans. i pleas you and i wish all of us many, many more years of successful partnership between our two countries. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org

for far too long, hezbollah has enjoyed total freedom of movement through mandated areas of control. with iran's support and an arsenal of weapons, attacked israel, fired missiles. the united states cannot abide by these actions against our trusted friend. the most recent renewal of the mandate included new reporting requirements on new attacks against peacekeepers. we are hopeful that these important steps will ensure that there can be a multilateral mission that actually fulfills its mandate. if not, we will have to move in a different direction. mr. prime minister, it's always an honor to be here with you and to visit israel. this is a place that has a special place in my heart and the heart of so many americans. bless you. thank you for your good work alongside the trump administration. i wish all of us many, many more years of successful partnership between our two countries. thank you, mr. prime minister. mr. netanyahu: thank you, mike. his visit to israel, secretary of state pompeo traveled to qatar for meetings with taliban negotiators. he wraps up this ten-day overseas trip

'd and their allies, mainly lebanese hezbollah attacked civilian israeli targets, so that the israeli government decided that the price was too high for israeli civilians to pay for these assassinations. and i believe something similar might follow. the revolutionary guards might also want to attack american american or israeli targets, but in most cases, at least western countries, they are too weak to target hardened. well protected targets. you were saying just earlier that one of the targets was the scientists of course, but also the policy of president elect joe biden, as i think the united states plans to, to reenter the iran's nuclear. how does this make things more complicated? well, the iranian side will have to prove internally, especially to the powerful revolutionary guards that they are not giving in to the pressure campaign by the tribe ministration. it will make it extremely hard, took this pressure campaign, and this event will make it extremely hard to convince the iranian leadership that it's worthwhile to negotiate with the united states. especially because major pa

same thing with hezbollah in lebanon.t became a very important card that they played in the arab-israeli conflict. same thing with the houthis in yemen which gave them a spot now, a base and the southern arabian peninsula. i think we have violent extremist groups that's very active and very popular among a lot of, you know, a lot of people in the middle east. they dance to the tune of regional powers or the terrorist organizations, and this makes the region even more dangerous plus from the terrorist perspective we see a new threat emerging in the west which is a threat of white supremacy extremism. and this time it's not domestic as it used to be, but it is part of a transnational network. they are copying the jihadis, learning from the jihadist experience. i believe the white supremacist today are the same level where the jihadist were in the '90s. they even have their own jihadist. they go to ukraine and fight on both sides of the conflict. they go on fight with the russian side under the russian movement, and folks th

to defend against missile attacks and rocket attacks from the iranians and from their allies and hezbollah. and you know, to have some really tough and honest conversations with regional partners about the ways in which their behavior in the last four years has gone, not just beyond the bounds of partnership, but beyond the bounds of basic international norms. the violations of sovereignty of other countries, including the united states by the saudis, for example. not only the murder of jamal khashoggi, but the twitter, -- planting of spies inside twitter, the abuse of diplomatic facilities using saudi , diplomatic facilities in the u.s. with common crimes to escape justice, this is not how friends behave. there needs to be some very honest conversations about the things we need to do together and the things that they need to pull back on in order to demonstrate that they're committed to this partnership. >> thank you. victoria, there's a question here from jennifer rubin, which is how can president-elect biden institutional in departments like the state department? i'd like to ask you tha

since the mid-1980s, the shi'ite militant group hezbollah, has also gradually extended its power in lebanon today it's considered a state within a state. but in their struggle intain iluence, lenon's regional leaders repeatedly block reforms despite angry public protests. jumeina: there is something very special in the port. there's a very special energy, everything passes through here. everything transits through here. it's the heart of the city for me. it's like the energy, the movement, the people working. >> joumana asseily standing on the roof of her gallery, marfa. the name means harbour in arabic. in two old garages she made her dream come true space for -- space for contemporary art. the explosion on august 4th destroyed that dream. on that tuesday the gallery was closed, and joumana asseily wasn't there. a coincidence to which she os her li. joumana: it's all physical damages at the end of the day and it's going to be reparable but that's not the issue. whether it's someone who has a restaurant, whether it's someone, a librarian or anyone, they want to break it. they want to break

it could theoretically come from lebanon and hezbollah. although that seems unlikely. says it's up to iran and tends to stay out of friction between israel and iran. it could come from syria where there are iran ian proxies, or iran could try to target iranian targets overseas such as embassies or tour groups, especially now that israels will soon be able to travel to gulf states like the united arab emirates. as for the claim that this was a remote controlled attack, we've spoken to a couple of israeli security experts who say, look, the technology is there to do something like remotely and autonomously, theortheoreticallt it's unlikely to have happened in a case like this. to have left this to something remote and autonomous doesn't seem credible. >> you've been to tehran more than a dozen times. what kind of pressure does this put on the iranian regime and what do thaw make of the timing of this attack? >> i think that those are really the two key questions right now that people are looking at and debating in tehran. you looked at today, there was a funeral for that

will pull out and then i am on again the taliban enabled gloomy and everybody remembers hezbollah ands brother when the taliban took over kabul so ice see a lot of these things are creating environments that making people very distrustful of the united states position and making our allies nervous and making our enemies happy so now we are in a situation where enemies don't fear us in our allies really don't trust us. >> yet, so looking home a little bit one of the things you read about these days is what happened to the state department into the diplomatic agenda that the united states has. is that part of what has gone awry what needs to be fixed going forward? does there need to be more diplomacy and what more than that would it take to reassert some kind of leadership? >> i think we need to have an international and global strategy. what is our strategy? we are always advocating so let's start from the views and it used to mean something [inaudible] now you know it seems we are so happy that we stayed after he murdered a washington post journalist and is numbered him into pieces.

i believe that the israeli attacks stopped when iranians and their allies, mainly lebanese hezbollah attacked civilian israeli targets, so that the israeli government decided that the price was too high for israeli civilians to pay for these s.s. innovations. and i believe something similar might follow. the revolutionary guards might also want to attack american american or israeli targets. but in most cases, at least at western countries, they are too weak to target hardened. well protected targets. you were saying just earlier that one of the targets was the scientists of course, but also the policy of president elect joe biden, as i think the united states plans to have to reenter the iran nuclear. how does this make things more complicated? well, the iranian side will have to prove internally, especially to the powerful revolutionary guards that they are not giving in to the pressure campaign by the tribe ministration. it will make it extremely hard, took this pressure campaign, and this event will make it extremely hard to convince the iranian leadership that it's worthwhile to

hezbollah also has a problem because you have a crisis in lebanon, which actually brought everything, everything down and also hizbullah. and they are just a part of that society. suddenly the resources are cut. iran doesn't have the money to be to be active everywhere there in yemen, they're in, in syria. they are in lebanon. but at the end of the day, it's a combination of a couple of things. didn't work out 100 percent, and i wouldn't, i wouldn't like to say that. ok, let's just rewind for a moment. the incumbent presidents of the united states of america is still donald trump. but it seems that is slowly accepting that he can't stay in the white house indefinitely. so the question is, will it be by the front door by the back door of the tea leaves and will it be with a bang or with donald trump as half heartedly and indirectly admitted defeat on twitter for weeks after the election, the incumbent president remains in a sullen mood judicial to the election results. success hardly completing mandatory tasks such as the virtual g 20 summit. after a while he cut the signal to play gol

the type hezbollah denied any involvement in tuesday's attack. while most shia groups are keen to see the u.s. leave iraq, kurdish and sunni politicians want them to remain car them. is part of a sunni bloc in parliament which boycotted a january vote to expel foreign troops. in iraq. the iraqi army is not ready to confront all possible attacks from others because of that, when it came to a vote for the ousting of foreign troops, we believe that this resolution came in a rush. the iraqi government has said it wants to continue to cooperate with the u.s. on training and intelligence. sharing. iraqis are divided about the presence of all for u.s. troops. some see them as an occupying force, but others regard them as a necessary counterbalance to iran's influence here. others again, fear that without the air surveillance and intelligence support from the u.s. led coalition, iraqi security forces could face difficulties in containing isis resurgence seem awful to you al jazeera. along the way to inquiry into the conduct of australian special forces i

hezbollah also has a problem because you have a crisis in lebanon, which actually brought everything, everything down and also hizbullah. and they are just a part of that society. suddenly the resources are cut. iran doesn't have the money to be to be active everywhere there in yemen. they're even in syria, they're in lebanon. but at the end of the day, it's a combination of a couple of things. didn't work out 100 percent, and i wouldn't, i wouldn't like to say that. ok, let's just rewind for a moment. the incumbent president of united states of america is still donald trump, but it seems that he is slowly accepting that he can't stay in the white house indefinitely. so the question is, will it be by the front door by the back door that he leaves and will it be with a bang or a whimper? donald trump has half heartedly and indirectly admitted defeat on twitter 4 weeks after the election. the incumbent president remains in a sullen mood, judicial election result, no prospects of success, hardly completing mandatory tasks, such as the virtual g 20 summit. after a while he cut to play gol

and then lebanese ally, hezbollah, number two in command, condemning this, blaming it on agents of israel and america. but interestingly, saying it is up to iran, here, to decide how it is going to retaliate, and what it is going to do. and that is the question, michael. you've got a region, right now, that was already on edge. very concerned about what might unfold here, over the next few weeks. those final weeks of the trump administration. there's been concern that he might make a move against iran, in those final days. so, everyone is waiting to see what happens. some believe that iran can't really afford to risk any sort of a wider confrontation. if you consider what is going on domestically there, the country's really stretched, dealing with the worst covid outbreak. you have got the impact of the u.s. sanctions that have been really crippling for the country. wh not risk it right now when you have got a new administration on the way, perhaps could mean reviving the iran nuclear deal. but, others would say you have got hardliners in iran, who can't sit back after this embarrassing a

d as a lebanese academic with ties to hezbollah, and then the story vanished.seemed it didn't exist. there was no eulogy for him in lebanon, no academic by his name in iran. months later in mid october on obscure social media accounts the story resurfaced, but not about the man. the candidates said the man was really better known as the number two man in al qaeda. "the new york times" said it was, indeed, him, according to unnamed intelligence officials. a senior counterterrorism official told us he is probably dead. he was on the most wanted fbi list. he was one of the primary planners of the twin bombings of u.s. embassies 22 years to the day before he was killed. according to the times, the drive by shooting was carried out by israeli agents at the behest of the united states. if true, it would be similar in nature to israel's reported killings of iranian nuclear scientists in the past. the israeli and american governments declined to comment and al qaeda has made no comment about losing a leader. iran's foreign ministry denied the report accusing the u.s. a

most notably, you've got lebanon's hezbollah, the second in command there, condemning this. but importantly, saying it is up to iran to decide how it is going to retaliate. how it's going to react. for the most part, michael, there's been silence coming from this region. as you can imagine, this is a middle east that is on edge, right now, waiting to see what iran's going to do. you've got some here, who believe that iran is really in no position to try and take this further, to try and widen this into a bigger conflict by retalia retaliating. if you look at what's been going on domestically in iran, u.s. sanctions and it's got one of the worst -- the worst covid outbreak, in this region. so, you've got that school of thought there. but others, who believe that iran cannot really afford to sit back and retaliate. as you mentioned there, this was a strike at the heart of its security apparatus, its intelligence, so close to the capital, one of the most secure individuals. this was clearly complex, it would seem, from surveillance going on. so, perhaps, to try and save face, p

d the man as a lebanese academic, habib adud, with ties to hezbollah. and then the story vanished.he man, it seemed, didn't exist. there was no eulogy for him in lebanon, no academic by his name in iran. months later, mid-october, on obscure social media accounts, the story resurfaced but not about doaud. the accounts said the man was really abdullah ahmed abdullah, better known as al masri, the number two man in al qaeda. "the new york times" said it was indeed al masri. according to unnamed intelligence officials. a cnn counterterrorism official told cnn, al masri was probably dead. al masri was on the fbi's most wanted list. $10 million award for information leading to his capture. he was one of the primary planners of the twin bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya on august 7th, 1998, 22 years to the day before he himself was killed. according to the "times," the drive-by shooting was carried out by israeli agents at the behest of the united states. if true, it would be similar in nature to israel's reported killings of iranian nuclear scientists in the past. the

july put together a 79 page kpausive memo to warn the president he had to change hezbollah tune to win tune. to mandate face masks and rather than mock them. each being straightforward things. from the rather intense headline this fing virus. these are trump people saying it's his fault. >> i'll go with her and say blame is what goes around after you lose. in an election like this. trump has to blame. it's intolerable to him to think of himself as anything but a winner. the only option is loser and loser is to be o blid rated and not exist. he'll never concede he lost. i was reading cast the extraordinary new book. i read it quote that seems relevant to this moment. she is talking about dehumanization and says it's a war against truth. to dehumanize another human being is not to declare that someone is not human and doesn't happen by accident. it's a process. it's a programming. it takes energy and reenforcement to deny what is self-evident in another member of ones species. it made ne think what with e need right now -- biden is maybe positioned to do this. we need to rehumanize. not

from that day forward, he had more in american and israeli blood on hand, the operational genius of hezbollahoperational chief, he was so elusive, they had one photograph of him, the cia and they could never keep up. he would with disguises, he developed pioneered the use of the so-called shaped charge, a sophisticated ied that essentially drove the israelis out of lebanon. ... since he was killed injanuary of this year . the cia tried and tried to crackdown and it's a story of an operation on bill clinton's watch at the end of his presidency and georgetown's watch as cia director in which they tracked him down to beirut. he was visiting his mistresses flat and he would visit her and he would beat her as it turned out. the cia enlisted her, set him up and grabbed him and bundled him down to the boat and off to a battleship offshore . it all went south. the operation failed in a number of decades went by before the cia tracked him down in damascus so i tell that story in hair-raising detail how in a joint cia mossad operation they tracked him as he was driving around damascus and in a injuriou

there are reports that hezbollah in lebanon said that retaliation is purely up to iran. point, it looks like there's a potential that it would be a response coming from syria towards israel. that being said, at this moment, the idf, the israeli military is not on high alert in the north. there has not been any call up of troops or reinforcements but that doesn't mean this is over. israel has long believed that when iran chooses to take an action, it's well thought out. it's planned. it is not impetuous, not a knee-jerk reaction. so certainly waiting to see how this develops here. again, officially, it's a no comment from israel. oren liebermann, cnn, jerusalem. >>> up next -- north korea reportedly attempting a major hack on a coronavirus vaccinemaker. the details ahead. now, there's skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or

inside the region and we built a campaign that denied the regime the resources to underwrite with hezbollahe militias in iraq. reporter: as part of the seven country tour pompeo visited israel last week and the issue of cutting off iranian support to its proxies in the region directly affects the country. overnight a rocket was fired by a suspected iranian group inside gaza hitting a building in southern israel. jon. jon: trey, thanks. bipartisan -- >> if we want to move forward with a peace discussion with the taliban i think we have to have a presence and i hope we are looking carefully at the number that you would have to have for that presence to be meaningful. >> we want our troops home but let's not bring them home in body bags and that is potentially what will happen if this president gets his way and puts his own political timeline ahead of our national security. jon: there is bipartisan pushback against last week's pentagon announcement of accelerated troop drawdown from afghanistan and iraq. trey just mentioned in his report the u.s. is putting to reduce the number of troops in ea

d the man as a lebanese academic with ties to hezbollah. and then the story vanished.emed didn't exist. there was no eulogy in lebanon, no academic by his name in iran. months later, mid-october, on obscure social media accounts, the story resurfaced but not about daoud. the accounts said the man was really abdullah ahmed adulla known ads the number two man in al qaeda. "the new york times" said it was indeed al masri. a senior counterterrorism official told cnn that he's probably dead. al masri was on the fbi avenues most-wanted list. $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. he was one of the primary planners of the twin bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya on august 7th, 1998, 22 years to the day before he himself was killed. according to the "times," the drive-by shooting was carried out by israeli agents at the behest of the united states. if true, it would be similar in nature to israel's reported killings of iranian nuclear scientists in the past. the israeli and american governments declined to comment, and al qaeda has made no

happening you have a situation in which iran retaliates and they have proxies in israel and syria and hezbollahon others, if iran retaliates that makes it difficult for the biden administration to work with iran. by the same token if they retaliate you risk rising tensions in the area, all-out war and the trump administration for a long time has been interested in prodding it and getting iran to do something that would justify some sort of military action in the region. so this really does put the biden administration in a tough situation. i think the best thing for iran to do right now is to exercise restraint and to recognize that this is a new opportunity for iran and for everyone in the region to get off on a new footing, a better footing with regard to some sort of peace in the region but the important thing right now is that the biden administration gets all the information they need in this briefing today, and that tensions are brought down in the area, before this transition happens. >> you mentioned the distraction, the amount of attention that the president's assault on this election

hezbollah and lebanon seem unlikely. foreign government we warned about be vigilant and ready as the israeli are ready to travel to the gulf with normalization ties. >>> "the new york times" is out with a stinging report about major u.s. corporations trying to water down legislation that would ban the import of goods made with forced labor in the xinjiang region of china. they point to coca-cola and nike among the companies suspected of using slave labor to make their products. your sneakers, your sodas. the house of representatives passed a bill this year to stop all american companies from using forced labor. nike and coke both said they don't use forced labor in their supply chains. mind you, nike, of course, has been at the forefront of promoting social justice in it's ads including black lives matter. they built a civil and human rights in atlanta did coca-cola and perhaps i'm time for corporate leaders from coca-cola and nike to visit that museum. >>> 267,000 deaths in the united states from covid we would like to

type hezbollah denied any involvement in tuesday's attack. while most shia groups are keen to see the u.s. leave iraq, kurdish and sunni politicians want them to remain. cobham is part of a sunni bloc in parliament which boycotted a january vote to expel foreign troops. in iraq. the iraqi army is not ready to confront all possible attacks from others because of that, when it came to a vote for the ousting of foreign troops, we believe that this resolution came in a rush. the iraqi government has said it wants to continue to cooperate with the u.s. on training and intelligence. sharing. iraqis are divided about the presence of u.s. troops. some see them as an occupying force. well, others regard them as a necessary counterbalance to iran's influence here. others again, fear that without the air surveillance and intelligence support from the u.s. led coalition, iraqi security forces could face difficulties in containing isis resurgence seem wonderful to you al jazeera, but the pakistan's prime minister is in afghanistan. so at all where the pre

their support for rebels in yemen, their support for hezbollah in lebanon, their support for the regimethat has oppressed and killed so many people, those are significant concerns that the biden administration will have. i think the idea of just opening the door to return to the status quo ante isn't likely, that biden will want to have some process that requires, first, that iran return to compliance with the jcpoa, within the nuclear agreement, but second, addresses regional issues. i think the iranians, similarly -- president obama made a bet that this nuclear agreement would open the door to a process of modernization that would make iran less threatening in the region. that didn't work out. you can have lots of arguments about why it didn't work out, but it didn't work out. there still is destabilizing forces there and biden knows it. so, i think probably steady as she goes in the beginning. one thing i just would note that i'm hearing from people i take seriously on foreign policy -- the risk of a military confrontation with iran in the final days of the trump administration is re

so far we haven't seen a lot of reaction to this killing except from iran, regional allies like hezbollah. what does that suggest to you? are you surprised by the lack of reaction from western countries? you know, that's a fairly standard response. if you're talking about countries willing to take responsibility for this, it will be interesting to see whether the remaining parties to the g c p o way would be willing to condemn this activity where there is this killing of reside. they will have to wait and see what happens there, and whether the security council will adopt a resolution unlikely given the veto power of the u.s. on the security council, right? israel widely assumed to be responsible for fact reside is death. the question though is why and now is this time, do you think to impede restoration of the iran nuclear deal that the incoming u.s. administration had said it would consider joining again. i think there are a couple of things to consider whether this was fortuitous, opportunistic, or whether it was intentionally timed to coincide with the end of transit ministration. to

in iraq, in syria, lebanon through hezbollah, in yemen through the houthis, iran is the greatest sponsorf terrorism in the world and they have this fanatic ideology that they seek to export and they've been doing it until recently in the last two or three years where essentially sanctions have been put back on iran. the president withdrew from the nuclear deal which i think was very important for the region and made the region much safer, because it took a power that had a tailwind in iran and then turned it into a headwind and become much more difficult to export ideology. i will tell you david, what's important for me, the most important thing is to understand why did we achieve this success? what was the recipe for success? and it's pretty clear to me, it was a policy where you confront iran, you embrace your allies in the region, and you leave open a door to the palestinians, but you don't put that issue front and center because a lot has been invested in that issue and as yousef said, not a lot has been achieved. i think a new administration, would do the same things, confront iran,

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