are turned out of the iraqi leader saddam hussein neither had weapons of mass destruction or is to al qaida by a conservative estimate more than 4500 u.s. soldiers in the same number of contractors lost their lives in the invasion. well former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter was on the program earlier he ses he was ridiculed for briefing joe biden about the absence of any wm days in iraq. what is a big deal is joe biden's vote for the iraq war and i take it personally because i briefed joe biden in person you know he insulted me when i testified for the united states senate in those september of 1908 about iraq and weapons of mass destruction he'd be a little be a scouting boy he said people above my pay grade were making this decision that cetera and then he met with me and apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 in the lead up to the vote on the war he as you mentioned he hosted a hearing and i did my darndest to become a witness for that hearing he ignored me. and it was very rude the way he did so and as you said he brought in

hiding in syria so we're going to believe al qaeda over russia and assad who are busy trying to fight al qaida but there's a real danger in this that is sort of a lawless and this for a long time frowned upon even though the cia has done its its best to do assassinations but as a legal and officially frowned on the idea of assassinating foreign leaders the assassination of sola mani of course in iran was a huge exception it hasn't gone very well for trump who hasn't got iran coming on its knees begging for a deal after that on the contrary so all this talk of assassinating people in reality what it does is puts u.s. troops u.s. diplomats and just plain old americans overseas in a lot more jets or even they than they need to be there's a lot of tough talk and actually has negative consequences for the u.s. . after months of delays and disagreements afghan peace talks finally got underway over the weekend and while that's been a major breakthroughs yet for the u.s. president when i was fingers crossed hoping to fulfill promises made 4 years ago with the details he has done of course i'm. the clo

battles to begin with anymore is it most of us war now a combination of drone bombing and funding al qaida so that they can kill innocent people in countries we don't like because that country isn't part of our central banking system i was under the impression that's how it works and also trumps tweets factor in there somewhere. well one of the reasons we're still building this weaponized trillion dollar dumpster fire is because no one in congress wants to stand up against it because nearly every state is involved in its production bringing home the bacon so to speak the 3 versions of the plane require a total of some $300000.00 parts and lockheed has parcel out these subcontracting to all but 5 unlucky states alaska hawaii louisiana north dakota and wyoming meaning 45 states in the union want the f. 35 to keep going because they're making a bucket load of money from it. doesn't matter how stupid it is how expensive it is how useless it is how hackable it is how immoral it is or dr strangelove apocalypse now on a bad day it is. let's just keep going with it because it produces jobs. where

remaining by the end of november in return the taliban committed to preventing other groups including al qaida from using afghanistan as a base to threaten the u.s. and its allies and the afghan government has freed nearly 5000 taliban prisoners and agreed in august to release more stuck one of the issues that people are not talking about think is going to be a major issue which is the ethnic divide in the country and you know that particularly the past to think to the point where the the government itself based in in kabul has suffered from this divide for for many many years would it be possible to turn that chapter to have the taliban and all the components of the nic divide. move forward you see i'm honest i have been to quantico and that conflict has inflicted so many damages on the society it's not. right that is why i work in mississippi and some ethnic groups there is a divide of argue logically be wired among the different groups that we have omar samad talked about are been. divided that we have done so many divides in this country and most of them are caused are inflicted by the lon

iraq related out the iraqi leader saddam hussein no one had weapons of mass destruction nor ties to al qaida while conservative estimates more than 4 hall 1000 u.s. soldiers lost their lives across the same number of contractors. a former u.s. marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter told the program he briefed joe biden on the absence of iraqi weapons of mass destruction but was ridiculed. what is a big deal is joe biden's vote for the iraq war and i take it personally because i briefed joe biden in person you know he insulted me when i testified for the united states senate in those september of 9098 about iraq and weapons of mass destruction he little boy he said people above my pay grade were making this decision. and then he met with me in apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 when the lead up to the vote on the war he as you mentioned he hosted a hearing and i did my darndest to become a witness without hearing he ignored me. and it was very rude the way he did so and as you said he brought in pro-war wait this is he stacked the deck it

al-qaeda in syria who are going to believe al qaeda over russia and assad who are busy trying to fight al qaida but there's a real danger in this that it's sort of a lawless and it's for a long time frowned upon even though the cia has done it it's best to do it that nations but as legally and officially frowned on the idea of a fascinating foreign leaders the assassination of solo money of course in iran was a huge exception it hasn't gone very well for trump who hasn't got iran coming on its knees begging for a deal after that on the contrary so all this talk of assassinating people in reality what it does is puts u.s. troops u.s. diplomats and just plain old americans overseas in a lot more jeopardy than they did they need to be there's a lot of tough talk and actually has negative consequences for the u.s. . all of these months of delays disagreements afghan peace talks brokered by the u.s. started the dollar over the weekend one nothing substantive really came out of the 1st session of face to face talks between the afghan government of the taliban it should be good news for donald trump h

satirical newspaper shirley abdo and a policeman outside they claimed the attack in the name of al qaida france's former antiterrorism prosecutor described arriving at the scene. there was a very powerful silence the smell of blood and gunpowder overwhelmed the building the editorial room was carnage it was no longer a crime scene it was a war zone with bodies piled up one on top of the other it was frightening if. in the 2 days that followed the challis abdo attack ality coulibaly who had pledged allegiance to i saw shot dead a policewoman and 4 jewish people in a kosher supermarket police killed coulibaly just hours after officers tracked down and killed the coati brothers who'd been on the run. prosecuting lawyers said the violence would not have been possible without help from the accused a lawyer for one of the defendants though said france's intelligence services had to bear some responsibility. this would not have happened if the intelligence services had not stopped watching the show archy brothers in the early and also the real accomplices are not prosecuted. those who supplied

similarily the forces of the coalition to support legitimacy in yemen were able to strike hard against al qaida and isis in them and to succeed in our battle against terrorism and extremism we must intensify our don't efforts by facing this challenge comprehensive. this includes combating financing of terrorism and extremism. the kingdom has supported many international entities that contribute to reinforcing our joint efforts to combat the strum and the kingdon supporting the un counterterrorism center. with $110000000.00 new it has established the global center for combating extremist ideologies. in riyadh. you know it also hosts the international terrorist financing targeting center they love that we in the kingdom thanks to our position in the muslim world there are a special historical responsibility to protect our tolerant of faith from attempts to defame it by terrorist organizations and extremist groups. and in. the killing of one individual with the killing of all people thus it is undoubtedly innocent of all cry and then atrocities committed in its name by the forces of terrorism and

planning attacks in the capital new delhi the national best a geisha agency says they're linked to al qaida suspects they were going to attack vital installations the arrests were made in west bengal and kerala states led to the seizure of weapons guns and body armor the latest anti-government protest in argentina brought traffic to a standstill in the capital while the scientists the economic crisis the pandemic response and proposed judicial reforms all angered demonstrators are also questioning the removal of 3 judges from the corruption investigation into vice president cristina fernandez the kids. what's being called a march for justice is expected to start in the by the russian capital soon some of protests are expected nationwide 400 female demonstrators were arrested in minsk on saturday most of now being released they're demanding the resignation of president alexander lukashenko following last month's disputed election. correspondence to pass an assault the latest police crackdown. i am. after a massive thanks and so last week the women are back here on the street women have been

we welcome the taliban commitment not to host international terrorist groups including al qaida or to allow them to use that in territory to train recruit or to fundraise we welcome the same commitment by the government islamic republic and ghana stand that they should never permit their nation to serve as a base for international terrorists to threaten other countries i think everyone sitting here today knows that it took hard work and sacrifice to reach this moment and that will require enormously hard work and sacrifice to keep it alive and to take advantage of it so that the talks result in a durable peace each of you i hope you will look inside your heart. each of you carry a great responsibility. but no know that you're not alone the entire world wants you to succeed and it's counting on you succeeding on our part and our part of the united states is required of a sovereign unified and representative afghanistan that is it peace with itself and with its neighbors one of the labyrinth in each of those 3 words what do we mean when we say sovereign unified and representative for so

you know fossil and mali where the government soldiers are fighting groups from islamic state to al qaida now this is a case that became really a government initially denied has taken place calling it fake news but after pressure from so we are taking you live now to the united nations where we are hearing from the afghan president bush afghani let's listen in. at the time of unprecedented global turmoil well all countries in the world better share of the burden of this turmoil some countries bet a much larger share than others. as a country positioned right at the heart of the ship right at the heart of untapped potential that could bring prosperity and peace to reach that this means that you're also right in the middle of the turmoil that is affecting gets solved today there are 5 drivers of this global all of which. has been dealing with simultaneously the corporate 900 pandemic exposed our vulnerabilities to the point that we as a global community can no longer afford to ignore we are funds we're fortunate to contain the 1st wave of the pandemic to close government business in society

and a policeman outside they claimed the attack in the name of al qaida france's former antiterrorism prosecutor described arriving at the scene. there was a very powerful silence the smell of blood and gunpowder overwhelmed the building the editorial room was carnage it was no longer a crime scene it was a war zone with bodies piled up one on top of the other it was frightening if. in the 2 days that followed the challis abdo attack ality coulibaly who had pledged allegiance to eisele shot dead a policewoman and 4 jewish people in a kosher supermarket police killed coulibaly just hours off the officers tracked down and killed brothers who'd been on the run. prosecuting lawyers said the violence would not have been possible without help from the accused a lawyer for one of the defendants though said france's intelligence services that's a bear some responsibility just about this would not have happened if the intelligence services had not stopped watching the brothers and i made equally badly and also the real accomplices are not prosecuted those who supplied the weapons are not being

remaining by the end of november in return the taliban committed to preventing other groups including al qaida from using afghanistan as a base to threaten the u.s. and its allies the afghan government has already released nearly 5000 taliban prisoners and agreed in august to release 400 another condition in the deal was the launch of interim afghan negotiations by march the 10th that meeting was delayed because of disagreements over february's presidential election results as well as the corona virus outbreak let's talk to scott smith from the u.s. institute of peace he's been involved in attempts to bring peace to afghanistan for many years he's joining us from new york thanks very much for your time with us on al-jazeera and we'll get into the u.s. a stake in all of this in a moment but 1st in your opinion how willing are both sides to compromise the afghan government as well as the taliban. well from what i heard. speaking to people in doha who are part of this opening ceremony to the mood it has been very positive and i think it's one of the risks that both parties took which they did not

cameroon by the way are suffering from a touch by armed groups some linked to isis some linked to al qaida and the homegrown book. group in nigeria and they're also looking at the single currency some countries in the region have already announced their decision of go ahead with the cole the regional currency to introduce it to replace the c.f.a. the funk of the been using in west africa ask in the other members to join and if they're not ready they are willing to go ahead apart from that they're also looking at they also discussed in the coming elections parliamentary and presidential elections in countries such as ivory coast faso. and a host of others that have their own elections coming up from this month and sort of from october to the end of the year countries like guinea countries like ghana and broke in a fossil so we discussed all these and heads of states that were responsible for these brief other heads of state at the meeting including the nigerian president who leads the west african effort in curbing 19 so they all briefed the meeting and we expect them to issue a resolution

bush administration launched its war on terror following al qaida's attacks of sept. 11, 2001." >> indeed united states currently has about 800 military und 8080 foreign countries s and territories. this is more basis than any nation in world d history. largerstatates had even numbers of basis at the height of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. there were upwards of 2000 bases abroad. inin part of what my book showss that this is also a long-term pattern. the unitited states has s been buildiding military bases abroad since independence. initially on the lands of native american peoples, that increasingly outside of north america and eventually circling the globe, particularly after world war ii. what i show is that these bases have not only enabled war, not only made war p possible, but they've actually made war more likely. made war far too easy policy choice decision for powerful decision-makers, leaders, politicians, corporate leaders, and others. and we need to basically dismantle this infrastructure of war that the united states has built up. why does the united states have dozens of

enforcement when it comes to these groups, because unlike international terrorism, where we can declare al qaida a terror group, we can declare isis a terror group, we have laws against being an international terrorist. we have no such law for being a domestic terrorism or declaring a domestic terrorism group. and what that means is the fbi can't get in those chat rooms proactively to get ahead of the violence. they have to wait for someone to advocate and move towards violence before they can do anything about it. it's an incredible challenge that's just been made worse by our own president. >> so i want to show you biden's response to all of this, but first, i want to hear your reaction to last night's debate. i've been waiting since it ended to hear from you? >> oh, come on, really? hi, nicole. >> hi. >> i've been -- i've been holding -- obviously, everyone has been talking about it since it happened last night. but you and i, i feel like we have a similar kind of reaction to this. which is in the face of all of the vandalism that's occurred over the last four years, the vandalism of all of t

you talk about terror, more police officers have been killed by white nationalists in america than al qaida. more police officers have been killed by white nationalists in america than mi5. it is domestic white terror that is the greatest threat to our way of life. and our president has been a terrorist sympathizer. and if there was ever any doubt, all you've got to go is go back to my alma mater of charlottesville and uva where he said, it's perfectly fine on both sides, there were good people on both sides. that is the real danger. that every single time a daniel cameron gets on a podium, cries crocodile tears and claims that his mama will be concerned about him, he is sending a sign to white nationalists everywhere, with the tacit consent of the president of the united states, that you can do this wherever you want and we won't jail you, we won't hold you accountable. shoot all the black people you want. shoot all the protesters you want. because at the end of the day, this system is made to protect white violence. that's what we're hearing. and our president doesn't mind, because as lon