u. s. yes, they're all to minute to bases that one naples and one at the base. but that would know ground troops that, that we know comb about troops a how can you call it a defeat on the future and the fate of those bases that still seems to be under consideration. that was a way is most good, was emphasizing that it will push to dialogue and cooperation with really anyone on, on every se, every one asks for like to kind of move positive issues, breaks was raised and it was all positivity. it was co operation equality and mutual respect. and he really emphasized that anyone who tries to frame this multi asset, multi conceptual group as an to weston, on to the full test, just thought it was wrong. a couple of questions centered around the situation. state side, one particular he stood out to me. that was when he was almost about biden's pausing of his voice down to less than a taurus son. context who was facing convictions on federal gun charges as well as tax evasion, preaching quite hue malay. i thought responded to, he's always said, as a father, i can unders

u. s. companies to take a look at opportunities in iraq and make them aware of the opportunities and create -- there is dense and certain ways we can help to highlight opportunities for u. s. companies. yes we cannot direct them to take advantage of those opportunities. they had to make their own investment and a half to decide that iraq is possible for them. so i think they are a number of things that we can continue to do that would help attract companies. the prime minister has taken time in the past year to increase the focus on private-sector development. certainly what the government can do to advance the private-sector is important not only for foreign investment companies but it's important for iraqi companies to be able to continue to develop. i think the work that the government does to ensure that foreign companies in u. s. companies are paid, that contacts are enforced and the companies that are there of a positive experience, that's important because companies certainly will look at the treatment that other companies are receiving and if u. s. companies and other foreign companies look like they are being very successful than that's certainly more attractive to the other com

u. s. as in direct stokes with the hottest yes, we've been in contact with h t s. and the other parties. we have impressed upon everyone we've been in contact with principals again that have not been adopted by countries throughout the region and well beyond and we've communicated those. meanwhile, the west and media is scrambling to clean up the image of the h t. s. lead us despite his grim rat code of previous be fighting for al qaeda isis . his auntie contribute to rachel mazda, and with her take on the one bushing time pay. so just who is this mysterious of a mohammed, al gilani, who rocks right up to damascus and topples the syrian government? well, besides the guy who looks like he started his own trash collection chic clothing line to compete with ukrainian presidents libraries, zalinski is the main rebel leader of the mohammed. i'll giovanni who is a boom, a how much i'll jolanda instantly. the of hyatt to alshaun o h t s. the revolution syria that left the food of president a shot all a side. there's a minor detail of his history. paddling around the isis heads offers or guys fr

yes, ukraine. s h u. s. policies happened to just so neatly align with the pen to goods . the button to russian lies documenting russian rule crimes. rooting out common slides. syrian emergency task force director malls mustafah added that a desire to aid ukraine was another factor prompting the offensive with the aim of striking a blow against russia a mutual enemy. so it could be a coincidence of policies, so didn't trust. so maybe they have some classified information on pennsylvania avenue city of focuses are all through just a block away from the white house. so convenient that again. if it looks like a duck, swim is like a duck and quacks like a duck. then it's probably a government asset. we're really acting as an extension of the united states government. we've become a resource. then that's one of his policy advisors. tony, be dash of it. he's been a full team, his as a parks head of communications. and now was in a storm, chainsaw in a spring time, which ones pools of as well for american academics who knows, maybe the next one will include the now occupied golan

u. s. was talking to the arm group controlling damascus. yes. we've been in contact with h t s and the other parties we have impressed upon everyone we've been in contact with principals again that have not been adopted by countries throughout the region and well beyond. and we've communicated those what urgent efforts are in the works . you have seen by western media outlets attempting to clean up the image of h t s l in particular, is the mislead or r t contributor richard martin takes us inside how that's being tried. so just who is this mysterious of a mohammed, al gilani, who rocks right up to damascus and topples the syrian government? well, besides the guy who looks like he started his own trash collection chic clothing line to compete with ukrainian president, flyer zalinski is the main rebel leader. i will mohammed out villani who is a blue mohammed. l gilan. actually the of hyatt to alshaun o h t s. the revolution syria that left the food of president a shot all a side. there's a minor detail of his history piling around the isis head s

u. s. and japan and the allies today will yes. sometimes i want to blame the of the allies for doing i mean the war and had it not for them. i wouldn't be having this issues, but it's because of what they came with and what they leave behind. that's cost. some of us to have please enjoy reason last live similarly, so they should be coming over in person with the resources to do the clean up the back at the police from school to headquarters. the offices, the heading down the range to dispose of 2 rounds of what falls 1st, but blowing them up the we have to stay at a safe distance in the radio rain to down. but there are many, many more to go. what is out there is unsafe in just my estimate. maybe more than a $100000.00 items still out there. the cleaning up the solomon islands will probably take decades and it's highly likely in that time more people will be injured and even killed the mainland doesn't want to let that happen. she's now training in hewick. so risk awareness in the hope she can one of the of the dangers and sped th

u. s. has been supporting yes. yes. and it's fight against iso, it also sticks to secure oil resulted in the east of limiting the influence of russia. and ron moscow wants to maintain its access, the oil and gas fails, as well as military presence along sir, is miss training coastline and the wrong 6 to rebuild ties with syria and says it is open to working with a new administration. so it has been central to, to enhance foreign policy. so because an important thing to allies in leveling, and as a vice will supply for a car adult for hezbollah. and as well is focused on coming around to influence on blocking transfers of advanced weapons to hezbollah. and 11, and which one is here on set as well guys, pin for the lecture in peace and security and our university great speak to you. once again. let's look at tools and then the tools that are being held there and ask about all of these countries with all of the different interest in syria, all gathered that today. but does it strike you as old? but there is no one from the

u. s. was in direct contact with the arm group controlling damascus. yes, we've been in contact with h t s and the other parties. we have impressed upon everyone we've been in contact with principals again that have now been adopted by countries throughout the region and well beyond. and we've communicated those. well, the words being used are very interesting because urgent efforts are in the works by western media to the clean up the image of h t s. as this witness leader, a boot my outlets, i'll gilani are to come to be the original maurice in texas inside how that's being attempted. so just who is this mysterious of a mohammed, al gilani, who rocks right up to damascus and topples the syrian government? well, besides the guy who looks like he started his own trash collection chic clothing line to compete with ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is the main rebel leader of the mohammed, our villani. who is a boom? how much i'll jolanda instantly to of hyatt to alshaun. o h t s. the revolution syria that left the food of president bashar al assad. ther

u. s. in addition to officially the meeting stage. yes. how does that sound? well appraisals in damascus. so they're extremely cautious, because many officials of the age this are still on the tell release of the usa, and they say that based on the actions, they will decide whether to remove sds, what of that title is, or whether they're going to remain on that list and russel in the sullen pulse of the country. what. what do we know about this? is wally shooting the boston side, which folders to go on high field supplied. go down heights. well, just i will seize the full of the team here because i have started to have a minute to add them to where the, the to but see of you particularly through coordinates for our region. i don't side it's, it's in satisfied in size box today was the 1st time what they offer, the full of us averaging was the 1st time that is rarely soldiers have shoes, people. and that was in matter when any time. so when people were protesting, a guess is that the minute the lessons because today is that the army has entity into more with it. just as of now is not clear

but yes, there's no doubt that h u. s. high at the head of sean is the single most complex and sophisticated a organization both militarily, as well as a political you and it also happens to be an estimate organization. now they've sort of split from oak, ida and then um they themselves sort of engaged in a constant attempt, especially after they were delta, a very heavy blow after 2016 after they were sort of like left with that little corner in the north west of the country to sort of re brand themselves and to open up whether it's as cosmetic window dressing or real is unclear. um, let's just put it this way. um they've changed their name. they've included different functions. and so it's a, it's a hodgepodge of different of different groups. and i would say that they've sort of shifted slowly. uh, education in the north west. uh, definitely systems curricula hasn't islamist sort of substance. equally. it was very dire for non muslim a minorities or for non so new minorities in the earliest days, so that there's a small

u. s. and the u as a terrorist organization, that's right, it seen worldwide as a terrorist overnight is ation. because even though they used yes, has been saying the right things like they've been governing pragmatic me in a technocratic manner in it. and if they want to do the same thing in damascus and throughout the world of syria, is what they said both at the same time, this group's origins, it began as a spin to group of ice. so it was that in the, for the a to, to, i'll call you did before breaking of that to the agents as well. nevertheless, it has full both of those groups and that there is a clean break here. this isn't just window dressing, but this still lingering questions as to how much it remains that you had it stolen as ation. and whether it's leadership to say one thing and its members want something else. and that's something that the, you know, the us is basically testing. i think, hey, she has to see how they react and waiting to see what the vision facility is and how it would roll on folds on the ground. and if it matches the rhetoric, because at the moment we've gotten quoting for you, unit to cooling f

uh yes, this goes against what the u. s. has been say as well to care. i use that, it doesn't, it doesn't have any deal or any kind of contact with what it calls a to restore ventilation in this case, as we have also mentioned to care a cool lies as the y p g and the p k. k, do 3, it's very ranks within the syrian rubble of a fighter group and took care believes that a, the p k, k members within the a, y p g p wide. and even they asked the f r 4 and the fighters as they came from to kit you, ron, and even from some european countries, a true key, i believe, is that it is impossible to allow a possible li, ulta novice curtis shoot entity by its borders. led by b y, p j, which is an extension of the p k. k. on the other hand to kid, differentiates the curtis issue and the p k. k issue inside turkey and also inside syria. but we heard turkish foreign minister how come from down who spoke to told the elders or just a day before. he also mentioned that it's the syrian national arm of receiving a new searing administration who will be considering about this is

u. s. and take, you have coast backing different sides. yes. thoughts, roy? and i think that's the key issue here. obviously you have the us packing the, the from wanting see the, the preserved or at least that we know at the curtis you'll tell me in east and syria preserves. you have turkey who have a funded and equip the i send a the 3 national army which is very much a coalition, shall we say of around 50 to 60 different groups in itself. i'm the s and i have been fighting the sds, primarily not the assigned regimes of people tend to talk of the rebels. so i actually think that on relative to miss is out on the different groups and see where the different interests they have into labor. also the different boxes, they have x to the right and given that she has a very, very stretch, what 20000 serving the numbers. what about the capacity to bring everybody together? is that even realistic? well, the, the real, they really facing a dilemma at the moment because obviously as you say, he just does not have many troops. that victory was more of a strategic victo

yes, i'm trying to ent, of shopping around that section called the s b u agent walton, new i'd like to enrolled in an agricultural university and began espionage activities in regards to the owner of this year and demos and boulevard, and the nature of angelica and the monitors for your specific but it was on this the book i'm going to be plus my the as i may ask for us the word alone granted that he began to involve his parents in terrorist activities. espionage became a family of a fang, although i don't, again, just because i want the class of thoughts as a potential assessable solution is facing. you know what a seal is, but i'm not put in the oil. and so i don't watch so on. but you know, to go to some issues, come into the buttons by switching the ship, us fix them on the move minus on, on most of the quicker sort of the edge or furniture. you know, the finished finished to a course to ship a ship or store phone as well. and i'm on the brush and special services conducted the operations f. s b office's detain, despised parents. he was laid to capture the look on the screen. a stu

u. s . has designated them a terrorist organization even though they've kind of in recent days of tried to shift their stance and islam is solving they are yes. so they have tried to shift their stance and present themselves as accepting of minorities. but of course, they will want some kind of religious rule, i assume. and then there's the turkey backed syrian free army. there the usual face of the syrian revolution, the green, white uh, black flag with the red stars that you've seen, that is them. and then there's the kurdish forces, the syrian democratic forces, which are backed by the us. so these are the main actors involved and it will come down to how they negotiate. and, and these groups also made up of several small groups, which we can't go into right now. the short space of time that we have thoughts. uh, it's a sign that these groups are incredibly diverse. will they be able to govern together? now it all comes down to how they negotiate together and right as the assad government was starting to fall, all these groups started capturing as much territory as they could, the kurdish faction. the cf already control around 25 percent

u. s. u on the weapons . so what is money? g p t, in the title of your book, outlining a threat to perhaps bigger than the threats we've seen over here in ukraine and goes yes, actually that says exactly right. we're in the finance around the idea of a chapter on the actually nuclear we're finding, but the point is, you know, a, i artificial intelligence of course to be john or to pre train. transformers should be to use just as subset of a i is the part that's called the tension. lately you can give it a prompt, it'll, it'll write it, i say already. but by the way, i should issue a disclaim. i actually wrote this book. it was not written by a computer uh, by the, by computers can do that in a lot of college. kids are using it for term papers and so forth. so it's quite a lot of good, especially just a subset of, of a i and the, the, the book is not bash a i saw that they are bashing exercise. there's, oh, it's very powerful. there's a lot of good that will come out of it just in the pharmaceutical space. um, you know that the, the biochemist like a new i killer combination. so it could treat or sure certain diseases, but there are billions of them and a lo

u. s. u armed weapons. so what is money? g p t, in the title of your book, outlining a threat to perhaps bigger than the threat 3 single year in ukraine and goes yes, actually that says exactly right, we're in the finance around. although i do have a chapter on actually nuclear. we're fighting, but the point is, you know, a, i artificial intelligence of course, to be john or to a pre trained transformers should be to use just as subset of a i is a part of that. it's called a tension. lately you can give it a prompt, it'll, it'll write it, i say already, but by the way, i should issue a just claim i actually wrote this book. it was not written by a computer. uh, but uh by computers can do that in a lot of college kids are using it for term papers and so forth. so it's quite a lot of good, especially just a subset of, of a i and the, the, the book is not bash a i saw that they are bashing exercise. there's, oh, it's very powerful. there's lot of good that will come out of it just in the pharmaceutical space. um, you know that the big biochemist like a new i killer combination. so it could treat or assure certain diseases, but there are billions of t

u. s. involvement in syria has less than altruistic interest of its core. that is quite clear the us has been trying to do this, assessing yes and accelerate everything they did right now. in the and the reason that accelerated, the west has ravaged the middle east is, you know, historically in the name of democracy, even that we can't get a real election in the united states. and they've been doing this model with a rack and everything else. and using sectarianism to drive people up top on the use in groups specifically and they use and cios help fund them out, let them create like a whole sense of an economy. take a live, they basically lifted the city with giovanni is leader supported it with the engineers to coordinate with other results here. so it looks like a functioning society when in fact it was basically an authoritarian regime over that city. now expect the same with syria, a syria. why? why does syria right now? knowledge on it, his terrorist forces are in charge of the syria. you're going to see the us corporate up with n g o support, health care, everything else. all of the big organizations will fund things t

u. s. this is also something quite possible even to return them may not be able to produce, let's say the most advanced chips to that sense. so yes, i think we're really heading to us in more intense geo political tensions for an alter, possibly one know and other to use or i'd carry let's just for a moment assume that that that would be a trade for what for what that feel like for the likes of you and i and people watching all over the world. i mean, we're not quite used to seeing goods on our show shelves from everywhere nowadays. if there were a trade what, what would that change? well is it, um, i would say if the uh, tariff ready gets so high to was uh 60 percent or even 40 percent. right. um, it were largely hurt the corporate launching of the uh, the chinese or the us rooms the exporting a to was each other. so basically, it is really a back tracking with what we have seen in the past decade in the globalization of which countries try to de, optimized to production costs at the lowest way, and therefore consumers able to buy goods at the cheapest price. so i think this is really is something that is pointing back a little

u. s. foreign policy. and on the other hand, it's clear that this conflict is on winnable for ukraine. europe is starting to awaken to this back then. yes, trump has been saying it for a long time and so have other political actors. so there may be a, a shift in strategy as far as a foreign policy that, that does lead to maybe cutting losses when it comes to the grain. i think everything has to do with internal is rarely politics. i think that there is a certain faction of this really politics that looks at expansion is um, specifically the expansion of settlement as a way to alleviate internal pressures when it comes to economic dissatisfaction. and so on and so on, that's being felt by people that live in, uh, israel. so i think that the strategy more or less is to use war as a pressure valve to offset some of that. and, and basically, um, to open up new spaces for a settlement, the expansion of the the settlement project. can i turn attention to to syria, very much a developing situation there still. i'm interested on your view. in particular, how western politicians and medium rushed to put aside as we saw just weeks ago. long held

u. s. foreign policy. and so on the other hand, it's clear that this conflict is unwinnable for you. great. europe is starting to awaken to this fact. and yes, trump has been saying it for a long time, and so have other political actors. so there may be a, a shift in strategy as far as a foreign policy that, that does lead to maybe cutting losses when it comes to ukraine. can i move inside with into, into gas that because if there is a loss of weapon, re and, and money going to key, if you've got trump honest administration, big supporters of best, real hon, my thought impact, the middle east conflict. well, i think that the, that is where things are the most unpredictable right? actually right now i think that trump has made it very clear that he's committed to unconditionally supporting israel in this conflict. but on the other hand, it's very important to pay attention to other developments. there is starting to be a discourse even within the republican party and, and republican party politicians and congressmen that is pushing back against this unconditional support for israel. and while we know that there was criticism of israel coming

u. s. the boys medium range missiles anywhere across the globe. the remarks came during and expanded meeting of the defense department board, where the russian leader stated the west is pushing moscow beyond its red line. yes, this is sure if the united states does deploying intermediate range, nissan system, the voluntary restrictions will be lifted from yeah, given the growing geo political attention when, if we are forced to take additional measures to ensure the security of the russian and our allies. we are doing this carefully and in a balanced manner, without being drawn into a full scale arms radius to the detriment of the social and economic development of our control junior, which we have clarified the basic principles of the use of nuclear weapons, which are set out in the updated print sales, real estate policy, what was on nuclear to tell you? i would like to emphasize once again, that's no one should accuse us of flexing our new width of liam. good ask. this is a policy of nuclear auditory program. it is necessary to focus on the following priority tasks. certainly a just one dr. blue shield, a strategic nuclear forces remain one of the key instruments preserving stability, protecting rushes

yes. so i thought the feel a r l the the narr surprisingly well, maybe not so winter is marching through the maintenance in the western states, the u. s. and in vc with rain coming down the coast of california on friday or saturday. but what's been sitting on the ground in what's 2 very code and also, and ne, the stays which is that it was a battery replaced by the miles spell. the shelves. it produced some flooding in texas will spread the wounds and it is ready to find out through atlanta, to an office in the states, even that father canada stopped something of a soul. but it was a warm things up a little bit. there is a bit more winter tucking back into the upper midwest, but of course it's still raw the right weather to northern california, but not for the service. indeed, you have to go lower asap to find more significant reading that. that's like to be around cuba. you could time for lunch at possibly. nick or roger lights who shows in his bottom yard is still where we have seen funding in last week, but it's not like to be there pieces. i don't think because the force of nature is broad showers for the sense cost 3 k, panama in

u. s. employees medium range massage anywhere across the globe. the remarks came during an expanded meeting of the defense department board, where the russian liter state of the west is pushing russia beyond its red line. yes, this a shift if the united states starts deploying intermediate arrangements on the system for all our voluntary restrictions will be lifted. given the growing geopolitical tensions, we are forced to take additional measures to ensure the security of russia and our allies. we are doing this carefully and in a balanced manner, without being drawn into a full scale arms race to the detriment of the social and economic development of our country. we have clarified the basic principles of the use of nuclear weapons, which are set out in the updated principles of state and policy was on nuclear deterrence. i would like to emphasize once again that no one should accuse us of flexing our nuclear weapon. it's going to, this is a policy of nuclear deterrence over it is necessary to focus on the following priority tasks. first, just undoubtedly, the strategic nuclear forces remain one of the key instruments for preserving stability, protecting rushes, sovereignty and territorial integrity. we

u. s. is going to deal with the sort of changing politics of syria going forward. as we know there are now 2000 us troops still in the country. yes, and in fact the us killed to iso finds as last night in the strike, which i believe is the world stride they, they've told us to die. so by just since the folder with the machines i've not very long ago, they definitely stepped to the right to reduce the what the us has been trying to do is to negotiate a ceasefire or long set. an agreement between the, the actual key berries, proxy forces, they have managed to de escalate some of the volumes. for example, they ad convinced the sds to basically give up some large towns and cities in exchange for the 7 days and pulling back as well. but the offensive never really ended the s and i was still attacking probably onto a keyboard. and so the us is not going to throw its weight behind. the staff is not going to increase those truth numbers. but the question is whether it will withdrawal the map predict what from does very much a fools errand as we know from his previous administration. but we do know that he pulled out for the last time. ok

yes is, is on many of these lists due to its previous historic affiliation without data, as you mention, which, which ended in 2016, 2017. so generally when you century, using the u. s. as an example, the us has a bureau of counterterrorism within the state department. it's constantly reviewing, filing non state actors around the world. and if they had done, defy a group as being a 4 and to the united states, that's one of the, the necessary criteria for in the united states using terrorism. and also considered a threat to us national security. in this group, it seemed to submit to meet the criteria and could be put on the us or, and terrorist work. but i said, what does that mean? what is it exactly that determines, is it possible to tell what determines the designation offer an organization as a terrorist, as a terrorist organization? i mean, does it depend on sort of attacks taking place, the type of attacks frequency or other methods used? so yeah, so, so i've, i've looked at this and research with the, with a colleague here now last week. and we found that it's the level of violence that a group side. the ology a number of factors seem to be important. attackin

u. s. forces in afghanistan to 8600 troops in 135 days, is that correct? >> it is, yes. >> the only other force reduction commitment in the agreement was complete withdrawal of u.s. forces within 14 months, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> then president trump, despite not being required by the agreement, ordered more troop draw downs, as he was eligible to do as president of the united states, those being in september of 2020, reduction to 4500 troops, am i right? >> that's correct. >> and then strangely to me in january of 2021 on the administration's way out the door a reduction to 2500 troops, is that correct? >> yes. >> puzzling. absolutely puzzling. so those were all actions taken before mr. biden was even sworn into office january of '21. the what effect did the significant reductions have on the administration and on the withdrawal? >> i think the combination of the release of 5,000 taliban prisoners under the agreement and the reduction in u.s. forces to 2500 put the taliban in the strongest position it had been in since 9/11 and the united states in argu