your boundless compassion consoled asim on —— consoled us home on.course on so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth until by your call we reunited with those who have gone before, through by your call we reunited with those who have gone before, throuthesus christ our lord, amen. most merciful god whose wisdom is beyond our understanding deal graciously with john's family and friends in their grief and surround them with your love, that they may not be overwhelmed by their loss but have confidence in your goodness and strength to meet the days to come through jesus christ strength to meet the days to come throuthesus christ our lord, amen. a reading from the book of wisdom. the souls of the righteous are in the hand of god and no torment will ever touched them. in the eyes of the foolish they seem to have died and their departure was thought to bea and their departure was thought to be a disaster and they're going from us be a disaster and they're going from us to be their destruction but they are at peace. for though in the s

were discussing just before the break the suppose that the chemical attack i think all sides are now asim aiding you mentioned kurdish sensibilities of turkey earlier and my understanding is that russia is trying to be attentive to those. at the cost of a defacto partition of syria even though it's not quite clear whether turkey would be interested in that now i've seen some reports in western media about. some kurdish forces to be realigning themselves with the syrian army especially after the so-called american betrayal in the aftermath of a offering offensive do you think that is something that maybe i'm drawing air though on your and making him a little bit more concerned about where both russians and the syrians stand at the moment that's one hundred percent right and that's already been held true rounds of reconciliation talks between representatives of the kurds over a few ideas and syrian government in damascus so no deal yet struck but there are good. prospects for that and also played into hands of both syria damascus and in moscow because that actually makes her more nervous an

in some of the things he has said really makes them come across asim come somebody who does not care.a sense now, he understands there is a problem. and in the last month, we have seen a change. this month, he visited a homeless shelter, announced a new policy on poverty. he has been trying to soften his language. saying we understand that, beyond the statistics, the government reports, it is about people, and people are suffering. jason: in the politics section, we continue to check the aftermath of hurricane florence and we turn to one of our favorite writers. chris has become a leading chronicler of how cities cope with a ferocious climate. carol: the city focuses on north carolina's largest city. a program that buys homes most at risk of flooding and they tear them down and have been doing this for 20 years. jason: climate experts think this could be the blueprint for the rest of the country. but it has taken a lot of political will. here are the details. >> i went to charlotte, north carolina just before florence or what was left of it reached that city because they have one of t

actors, means, and the asim met refrom the u.s. perspective goes two ways, the ability to use nonstate actors and means and the ability of autocratic authoritarian states to use full elements of their economy and nation for purposes of national security in the way that the u.s. can't. so there's a duality to the asymmetry that you have to look at. first, with respect to russia, has russia sort of been playing a weak hand very well through these asymmetries, has that forced us to rethink our analyzati analyzation? the gru has started to play a much more aggressive role based on press reporting, based on some of these attacks happening around the world which seem to be driven by the gru as opposed to the fsb, the more traditional intelligence arm of the russian state. so have we had to, and have you had to sort of realign how the dia thinks about posturing against these great powers that are using asymmetric means? >> good question. so it gets back to my discussion about the dime and what nobody brought up yet. really nonlinear warfa