the african union mission in somalia has recorded numerous successes in the fight against al shabab in 2011 when the militants controlled large parts of somalia the peacekeeping force helped push them out of mogadishu and cause the militants to lose significant amounts of territory. but next year i mean some will be gone and the task of containing al shabaab will be transferred to the somali national army some fear they're not ready to go with the line. broken so who the beginning is that the many. who are. most. at work only if one of them thank you for the compliment certainly the. 2 to the army's arms of the most. many would agree because al-shabaab is far from defeated. over the last few years the extremists have repeatedly inflicted mass casualties in somalia this bombing attack in mogadishu killed almost 600 people. the militants are also expanding their reach outside somalia leaving many in the region worried about his sums to punch. you in your ear for this. good. to. reduce you because that's true. but the days of the african union mission in somalia are numbered and countries

take back the city from terrorists and jihad his forces now one particular group the yacht terrier al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over $1400.00 attacks with tanks machine guns that have been heavy weaponry that have taken place recently in addition they have been countering civilian protest and ad lib against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shield syrian representative when speaking emphasize that their territorial integrity was being very very widely violated and emphasized that they were determined to defeat the terrorist forces and that it seemed like the united states and nato were essentially trying to undermine their efforts and prevent them from defeating these terrorist forces and retaking their province of it live. in this mind body things western powers and interested in ending the conflict in syria. well this goes way beyond th

that the russian foreign ministry has pointed to as being very dangerous is called a yacht terry or al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over 1400 attacks with tanks machine guns that have been heavy weaponry that have taken place recently in addition they have been countering civilian protest and ad lib against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants that there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shields now russia has also emphasized the recent deaths not just of syrian military personnel but specialists from both russia and turkey within the last 2 weeks of january a load it could have faced over 1000 to tuck's the death toll a number of injured among syrian troops and civilians outside the deescalation zone has already passed hundreds of people russian and took especially this also among those tragically killed now has pointed to recent statements from the u.s. government that seem to indic

terrorist group that controls the syrians province of the syrian province of it live is known as he at al shabab and that group has been widely understood to be a terrorist organization around the world has committed atrocities killing civilians targeting civilian infrastructure seizing hospitals and doing other things the russian foreign ministry has pointed out however that it seems that some of the statements from the united states almost seem to indicate that u.s. officials consider to somehow be some kind of moderate opposition group or somehow an acceptable group and don't seem to recognize that as a terrorist group furthermore when the syrian representative attempted to speak to the meeting at one point the syrian representative was interrupted by the security council president at that point we heard the russian representative step in and assert that the syrian representative had the right to speak emphasizing that the the place in question the entire purpose of the meeting was to discuss it live which is a part of the syrian arab republic it is part of syria's territory and so at that po

inspired by isis, al quaeda, al s-shabab, you name i. >> would returning to the prepatriot act standard of requiring specific and articulate facts to the record retains, threaten the fbi's intelligence gathering capabilities. >> if we were to return as somebody who saw the terrorist threat before 9/11, the day of 9/11, and the years after including the enactment of the patriot act that that would be a sad day for america and there would be a lot of people whose safety would be jeopardized. >> and what would be the effect if there were a legal requirement for an amicus attorney to be present for every single fiske. >> my own view is that would grind the fisa process to a halt and the vast majority of fisas don't raise remotely sensitive issues in the sense that i think the committee or some members of the committee might be concerned, that would be i think a real tragedy. i will also say that part of the reason why fisa is so important is because it allows us to use classified information and present it to a court in a way that we would never otherwise be able to do in a traditional proc