they say the assad administration will focus defense efforts on securing a quarter of syrian territory. people in nagasaki commemorated earlier there month the destruction caused by the atomic bomb on august th fine 45 t. attack killed tens of thousands of people. many more were left injured and suffering from radiation sick ness. 70 years later, memories of the tragedy are fading. one young woman is trying to keep them alive. >> reporter: a university student in tokyo spent five years listening to stories from atomic bomb survivors in nagasaki. she says it's her mission to become a storyteller who can pass on these first-hand experiences to younger people. she had a traumatic encounter on her first visit to nag cake for a high school excursion she met this woman that lived through the bombing and went on to recount her experience. she was in a shelter when the bomb detonated over the city. louisiana year she had another opportunity to meet her. hannah felt certain she was on the right road. she said, wooer the last generation that can listen detectly to those who seen the atomic bomb.

now russia has long been pushing for the syrian government, the assad administration to be included inhe international fight against the islamic state, and it seems from what he is saying here that egypt is at least agreeing in principle with this. this will be going against the specific wishes of saudi arabia. saudi arabia say there is no future for assad in syrian politicians. and egypt and saudi arabia are very close. egypt is very heavily reliant on money from saudi arabia, so this probably won't go down that well with the saudi arabiians. apart from these matters they talked about mainly grain and wheat supplies. russia is looking to boost its wheat supplies to egypt. egypt gets some 40% of its wheat this russia, i think turkey is a bigger customer. and there was always noted the supply of the warship to egypt. >> interesting relationship between those two countries. thank you. rory challands on the egyptian president visit to russia. >>> chinese stock markets have closed lower despite a central bank cut in interest rates, but other asian markets did make small gains. volatility i

assad. administration officials have been deeply concerned that can fending the pentagon backed force could inadvertently open the first open contact -- conflict the assad government. " president obama at an event around 2:15 the white house and will be talking about his climate change agenda. powerplant admission roles to alter and challenge the industry, states are likely to sue, and industry officials as well. president obama will be announcing a role announcing -- for a 32% cut in emissions by 2030. the white house put this video together ahead of today's announcement. president obama: our climate is changing in ways that threaten our economy, security, and health. this is not an opinion, it is fact, backed by decades of carefully collected data, and has serious implications for the way we live now. we can see it and feel it, hotter summers rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and longer wildfire season. all the disasters that are becoming more frequent expensive, and dangerous. our families experience it to. asthma rates have more than doubled. as temperatures keep warming and smo

because the administration ran away from its redline, syria's tyrant assad remains in power and is a magnet for radical islamic terrorism. no strategy to defeat isis can succeed while assad is still in power and iran is patron has a base of operations in damascus. therefore, we must do more than recruit. we must do more to recruit and support fighters in syria who oppose both isis and assad. the obama administration has trained only about 60 fighters. that is just not going to cut it. that is not going to cut it. a no-fly zone enforced by america and its allies would dramatically enhance this campaign on the ground. our efforts in syria and iraq must be part of a broader, u.s. led regional coalition, with real guarantees from our allies that they will help us shoulder this burden. which brings me to the next step. the next step for defeating radical islamic terrorism, we need to stand with our friends. there is a reason why the president of the united states is called the leader, the leader of the free world. our allies are amongst our greatest resources of strength. as winston churc

are -- they are supportive backers and allies of hezbollah and, indeed, of the damascus administration, the assad government itself. the same could be said in iraq, where they carry a lot of weight with shiite militias there. to the extent that they are participants, they would have to be part of the solution. whether they can actually broker peace themselves is another question. look at the four-point plan they put forward. there are several clears tumbling blocks right from the start. in the first place, they don't clearly say what the role of president assad will be in the future. secondly, they also talk about the cessation of violence, but clearly isis will not play a part of this agreement. one thing that would help the iranians in their efforts to sell this peace plan in the region is if they were seen to distance themselves somewhat from president assad. many of the rebels and is backing them, mainly saudi arabia, qatar, have said right from the start of the volition that dish of the revolution that --start of the revolution that assad must go, and as long as they are protecting assad, th

assad regime used chemical weapons. ultimately we didn't see that strike. but if there is a confirmed link here, does that cross the line for the obama administration? he implication is that it was in some stockpile that got overrun and isis got ahold of it without any cooperation with the assad regime. there is another aspect to this that there are repeated claims by human rights organizations and syrian rebel groups that the assad regime is using chlorine. chlorine wasn't part of the deal brokered with russia and the u.s. to get rid of its chemical weapons. it's illegal under international law. but it's not part of that original deal. so at this point, i don't think you're going to see much of an escalation by the obama administration against the assad regime. >> bob, he's talking about the fact that it is believed these were from long leftover stockpiles and isis mixed the mustard agent themselves. is that what you think is most likely? >> i think so. there's no evidence the syrian regime gave these weapons to the islamic state. you can't rule it out. but they've got technicians that could do this, put them on warheads, mortars and fire them again

this might be a good deal, but the administration isn't telling us, what is it going to do with this extra time? right now iran is supporting sending in troops to help assadill 200,000 civilians in syria. what is the administration's plan for stopping that kind of destabilizing activity by iran. >> right. so this deal's intent was to make sure that the path to iran obtaining a nuclear weapon were cut off at least for the next 10 or 15 years. do you know enough about this deal to know whether you would support it on those grounds? >> is it a good idea to cut them off for only ten or 15 years. what is going to change in the next 10 o 15 years? that makes a big difference. plus there are a lot of details of how the deal is going to be implemented that we have asked the administration to make clear. in the text it's just not that clear whether or not there will be the tough procedures needed to make this work. >>> off duty police officers asked to photograph the city's homeless. how the police union's political tactics may backfire. ♪ >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's >>> two california teenagers face prison sentences after 28 p

because the administration ran away from its redline, syria's tyrant assad remains in power and is a magnet for radical islamic terrorism. no strategy to defeat isis can succeed while assad is still in power and iran is patron, has a base of operations in damascus. therefore, we must do more than recruit. we must do more to recruit and support fighters in syria who oppose both isis and assad. the obama administration has trained only about 60 fighters. that is just not going to cut it. that is not going to cut it. a no-fly zone enforced by america and its allies would dramatically enhance this campaign on the ground. our efforts in syria and iraq must be part of a broader, u.s. led regional coalition, with buy-in an real ironclad guarantees from our allies that they will help us shoulder this burden. which brings me to the next step. the next step for defeating radical islamic terrorism, we need to stand with our friends. there is a reason why the president of the united states is called the leader, the leader of the free world. our allies are amongst our greatest resources of streng

assad. the obama administration has trained only about 60 fighters. that is just not going to cut it.t is not going to cut it. a no-fly zone enforced by america and its allies would dramatically enhance this campaign on the ground. our efforts in syria and iraq must be part of a broader, u.s. led regional coalition, with real by an and ironclad guarantees from our i -- from our allies that they will help us shoulder this burden. which brings me to the next step . the next step for defeating radical islamic terrorism, we need to stand with our friends. there is a reason why the president of the united states is called the leader, the leader of the free world. our allies are amongst our greatest resource is a strength. as winston churchill once said, there is only one thing worse than fighting with our allies and that is with fighting with them. adding support from allies only strengthens our position to defeat radical islamic terrorism , we need to restore alliances across the middle east. our traditional ally is israel and the sunni arab states are divided on many issues. one threat y

so syria, the obama administration opened with assad has to go. so it doesn't work. so the way i put it in the book, is not the regime is not all bed but not god diplomacy to china to put regime in question. you shouldn't talk about it even if you want to. it's not why it's diplomacy to talk about it. that's a problem across the administrations and across regimes and something we need to recognize that if you focus on prescribed behavior your much more likely -- china is so big economically. china is so power in the un and elsewhere that it can block various multilateral organizations from taking action on those issues in question. you have to take china's view into consideration and then try to get china to contribute actively to global sovereign to stabilize the system from which all countries have benefited, no country has benefited more than china from the stability of that system. it's not an unworkable, impossible task but it's a very difficult task. it's not what the state department is designed for. it's going to take imagination and europeans to be successfu

more directly engaged with the regime of syrian president, bashar al-assad, and that's something the obama administrationas pledged to avoid. jamie macintyre joins us live from the pentagon with the latest. jamie? >> reporter: david, the u.s. has said all along, once the fighters it trained to take on isil got into harm's way it would have a moral obligation to come to their aid, but it stopped short of saying what form that aid could take until this past friday when the u.s. authorized air strikes to support the new syrian forces on the ground. smoke rises over the northern syrian city as a result of multiple u.s. zone strikes friday that help repel an attack on a group of syrian opposition fighters which included just over 50 members of what has been dubbed the new the pentagon says they were co-located with other syrian rebels. at least one u.s.-trained fighter was killed and two division 30 commanders were captured by the al-nusra front. the air strikes the pentagon says made good on the promise to provide air defensive power if the forces came under attack by anyone. but a pentagon spokesperson down

assad's enemy is isis and i don't trust the administration seeing what happened in egypt and libya and the muslim brotherhood. i want to ask you what is the relationship currently between the white house and the department of defense? >> well, it is bifurcated in a couple ways. with the pentagon it is fairly close. general dempsey, who i know well, he supports the president's policies. but when you get down to the operating level, below that and the people in iraq, they absolutely believe we are not doing enough. they are very concerned about afghanistan in the sense they will make the same mistake. next year we are pulling all of the forces out of afghanistan. that is the president's policy. he is a man of his word. you have to give him credit. but i believe he will make the same error he made in iraq and the military is opposed to that >> i don't think he is getting credit for that. he is getting criticized for not changing the policy when needed. hillary clinton is taking more jabs at republicans trying to fend out going support for senator bernie sanders. will the new aggressive ap

assad. it is making it tricky but at the end of the day this shows the absurd plan the administration has. >our air campaign be? we are using unmanned vehicles to take down these isis targets. but if that is just what we are doing how effective is hat? >> intelligence has to drive operations. so with drones and our intelligence picture on the ground is murky at best. i think the reality of having close air support too. it is only so effecive because we don't have controllers that can see the pilot and drop with precision. >> there is a great deal of work that has to be done on the ground. >> absolutely. tremendous. >> what do you think is our goal? if you had to advise whether a group of american forces that have to somehow take the fight to isis how would you explain the goal of the administration as you see it when it pertains to syria? >> in short, don't anger iran. >> you think that is the drive? >> absolutely. we want to work against assad at this point in the nuclear deal. to even consider the fact there remains the old border between iraq and syria is absurd. do we push them out of ir

we've seen twiths this is a pillar to the obama administration and they're triening what they say are moderates willing to fight isil but not fight assad. they had a horrible time trying to find the people and vetting those people after a year into it, they only trade 54 and sent them into the battlefield within days, five were killed and one was killed and five were captured and the others disappeared and they count find them. from the white house they realized problemed with the train and equip program. they say the air strikes have an effect. when you look at the map, they point to it and look at the successes and look at the failures. its it takes a long time to defeat isil and the reps say the strategy is not working but they can't budge president barack obama who will maintain this course. at least that's what he's saying or now. >> we'll get more on this story later. thank you. >>> the fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant have destroyed a 1.5 million-year-old monetary in syria. they demolished it with a large tractor. it was in a village 85 kilometers from the city of homs. it included a syrian catholic church. now

administration can give them. we saw that on syria and they stood by what they had been saying for the last three years. that assad lost legitimacy. in yemen he let me yemen for the gcc to decide. in iraq he believes that the gcc can play a larger role, but he did not define that role for the gcc. on the over all security for the region he did not give the gcc what they want, however he basically promised that the united states will give them all the weapon necessary and all the training necessary. therefore, the gcc has to pay for the security of their own region okay, provided that iran will get financial assets to build it's own economy. here what i say whatever iran gains, the gcc lose. whatever the gcc will gain, iran will lose. i don't see i don't see that we are turning a page or that there will be a new chapter in the region. however-- >> setting the stage for more competitions and more of an arms race? >> this is where it will move us where it will deplete its resources and iran will begin to rebuild its resources. this is something that we have to be extremely careful about. they began by elaborateing on

for the chaos in syria serves to be placed with the administration who chose to fellow in their lot with those that rebelled against bashar al-assad. >> our responsibility is we created i.s.i.l. we put abu bakr al-baghdadi in prison al qaeda came into iraq which morphed into i.s.i.s. so we have that responsibility. but we don't have responsibility for i.s.i.l. winning on the ground against the syrian army or the syrians against bashar al-assad. that's not our responsibility. those that wanted to us get involved a couple of years ago caught to step back and say if we did, we are going after bashar al-assad do you want to fight them at the same time and deal with the p.k.k. iraq is different. you have a chance of prevailing. it's only us and the iranian on the same side there. >> former assistant secretary of defense, good to have you with us. >> the pentagon says suspected i.s.i.l. member has been handed over to the iraqi government. she is the widow of a late i.s.i.l. leader killed in may by u.s. special forces in syria. >> a group affiliated with i.s.i.l. is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing this morning at a mosque i

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arms embargo expires iran can legally ship weapons to president assad so he can continue to kill his own people. how can the administration be open to further consideration of new sanctions on arms activity and ballistic missile program and finally because the arms embargo and ballistic missile sanctions are not mentioned in the jcpoa only the governing jcpoa will violations of the arms embargo be considered jcpoa does the snapback apply to the arms and missile embargoes if iran continues to ship weapons to his bolo before the arms embargo expires, are they in violation of the jcpoa. >> congressman, there are so many questions in there. we're happy to come back to you on the record, i want to answer every single one of them. but let me take on the biggest ones first of all. let me call to everybody's attention here, the irgc opposes this agreement. so they are not sitting there thinking they are going to get the whole world and do what they want to do. and one of the reasons they impose this agreement and i invite you to talk to the intel community about that, they will document that, is they see themselves losing the cov

the arms embargo expires iran can shift weapons to president assad so he can continue to torture and kill his own people. would the administration be open to further congressional consideration of new sanctions on the missile program, and the arms embargo and missile sanctions are not specifically mentioned in the jcpoa, only the resolution governoring and does the snapback of sanctions apply to violations of the arms and missile embargoes if iran would continue to ship weapons to hezbollah before the arms embargo expires and would they be in violation of a jcpoa? >> congressman, there are so many questions in there. obviously we are very happy to come back to you on the record and i want to answer every single one of them. let me try to take on the biggest ones, first of all. let me just call to everybody's attention here the irgj opposed this agreement. they are not sitting there thinking they will get to do what they want to do. i invite you to talk to the intel community about that, they will document it they see themselves losing for their activities. there's nothing here to prevent us from pushing back the irgj and others

assad syrian government. >> i think it's down to 54 of our guys now. reportedly 6 more were kidnapped by an al qaeda affiliate within the last 48 hours. it's such a circus. the obama administrationre going to train 5,000 syrians. well, we trained about 60, and now we've come through to try to recruit more to give them confidence, we're saying we'll give you air support, but we'll give you air support if you're attacked if you attack guys you want to attack. if you free the country of bashar al-assad, we won't give you air support for that. this is a colossal muddle, words fail me, lou, and that's rare. lou: that is indeed rare. we have video to prove to once occurred. the fact is it's further muddled by turkey stepping into the fight against the islamic state finally, but at the same time, attacking kurds which have proved to be, i think you would agree, the most effective fighters against the islamic state to this point, what do you make of it? >> the kurds have been the only truly effective fighters against the islamic state. we're just not good diplomats. we'll sucker for any deal. and president erd wan, a nasty islamist is going to call an election in the coming months. and

assad in the war against isis? that as the president obama signed off on the decision senior administration officials tells cnn it wascomes on the heels of news that isis is losing some of its ground in iraq. intelligence officials describe the situation as quote/unquote a stalemate, a holding pattern. so let's talk with kimberly dozier in washington. first, let me begin with that the sid ways between -- the how do you read that? >> well there isis can't take more territory right now, but that it's still managing to maintain some of the areas it controls parts of ramadi fallujah areas where the iraqi government has told us they are preparing the ground work for an assault, but they haven't gotten there yet. i've had u.s. intelligence officials tell me that the sfle large territory that isis does control inside the iraq much of it is unpopulated, so really they mostly carry about the cities so watch in the next week and months whether the iraqi forces through the softening exercises as they're calling them manage to lay the ground work and tails those cities back. >> to the broader theme, though if the united states i

they did that with syria and assad and walked across the red line 37 you don't expect another with isis, do you? >> i absolutely do not stuart. i think this administrationey want to do in a general level. you know, the guest you just had on or reference a few minnesotas ago he's absolutely right. we have 75% of the aircraft going out to run strikes taking ordinance and going back home without dropping it. we're not aggressively pursuing an air campaign. distinctly kurds are most effective fighters that we have right now against isis and we're barely supporting them. >> okay. do you think that we will put some boots on the ground to guide our aicialght to the right target? >> what we should have been doing well over a year is training locals. iraqis, kurds maybe some egyptians maybe some -- jordanians should be treating those guys to call in air strikes i'm from vietnam era there's no rocket science to it. it is pretty basic once you have the ability to communicate from the ground to those aircrafts. we just don't have all of those pieces put together for other foreigners for foreigners to be going in air strikings not u.s. troops. >> do you think the co

administration for the rise of isis and he outlines his strategy for defeating the terrorist group. he called for establishing a no-fly zone over syria, defeating the regime of syrian president bashar al assadops with iraqi forces. he says pulling u.s. forces out of iraq gave isis an opening. >> that premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that isis moved in to fill and that iran has exploited to the full as well. isis grew while the united states disengaged from the middle east and ignored the threat. and where was the secretary of state? where was secretary of state clinton in all of this? like the president himself, she had opposed the surge then joined in claiming credit for its success. then stood by as that hard-won victory by american and allied forces was thrown away. in all of her record-setting travels she stopped by iraq exactly once. >> let's bring in cnn senior political analyst david gergen and cnn political commentator and bush supporter ana navarro. so, david, this was a big speech. jeb bush's first major foreign policy speech of his campaign. how effective was it. >> it's getting lost in the stories but i think it's an important speech. it's being seen t

, with sharp criticism on the obama administration and then-secretary of state hillary clinton on the rise of isis. here's what he had to say. >> iran, its ally assad terrorist proxy hezbollah, and the sectarian militias it sponsors have fueled the rise to isis. yet, the president's deal with iran confronts none of these problems and least of all does it prevent iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability. in fact, the deal prepares the way for that capability. with the lifting of sanctions, the deal frees up more than $100 billion for iran's security services to use as they wish. in effect, the primary investors in a violent, radical middle east have just received a new round of funding courtesy of the united states of america and the united nations. and this is president obama's idea of a diplomatic triumph. wow. it is a deal unwise in the extreme with a regime that is untrustworthy in the extreme. it should be rejected by the congress of the united states of america. [ applause ] if the congress does not reject this deal, then the damage must be done -- undone by the next president, and it will be my intention to begin that process immediatel

the administration's commitment that we will protect they defense department trained forces, that's the right decision. as a practical matter it's the only decision, and i think bashar al assad would be crazy to try to interfere that. he doesn't need a new powerful adremember sear. probably the pivotal event is the decision by turkey to get more fully into the fight, to close down that border with syria, and to go across that border with its aircraft and strike isis targets. >> it is u.s. had committed to striking isis from the air, has been do so in iraq for some time, but now there is this move to syria. we did not see that before, and the administration had stopped short of doing that because of the risk. you see this effort expanding. it seems like it's happening without some sort of xre hence sieve explanation of where it's going. >> this is a very tough problem to discuss as well as to fix, because you have parties that are fighting with us, and fighting against us all the at the same time. you have the turks now more engaged in the fight against isis, but now also engaged in a fight with the kurds, which are our allies, and that's very troublesome. you have iran, whic

that we have a administration that said very clearly early on that the use of chemical weapons would be a red line and we would not accept if anybody would use it, and we were discussing assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people, and it was confirmed he had use it time and time again and we chose to look the other way. now we have the new development. what is the united states prepared to do? what will the administration do? it's disheartening to say the least. >> i don't know if you can see the images we're putting up now, but we are looking at video that was reportedly an isis chemical attack on kurdish peshmerga. when you look at the pictures they are so disturbing and it brought up the red line, as the president said, with bashar al assad. should we do more, shift our strategy, and help kurdish fighters counter what isis is capable of now that we see? >> absolutely. you know, people have said we don't want to be drawn into another battle, and although that's understandable, it depends on how you ask that question. we have natural fighters who say we want to beat isis and eliminate isis, not only does jordan want to do it, egypt and the kurds want to do it yet

assad, et cetera. they have their own set of regional interests and i think over time those may be modified moderated, may adjust, that is clearly what i think the administration is sort of -- over the long term but i don't think you'll see a substantial shift in either american policy or iranian policy flowing out of the nuclear agreement. not certainly say in the next 12 months or so. >> do youdy agree? >> i think that is probably likely but maybe a mistake. we are probably at a moment now where the deal been we are where we are with the deal. it is no secret that iran has continued to engage in sort of reasonably bad behavior in the rest of the region. and there is a question and many of the regional alleys are looking at us can you do a deal with the iranians an be tougher with us on iranianig regular warfare activities throughout the region. so i think this is probably the i deal moment for the administration once they've come through and done the deal to quietly reinforce and show we are going to be a little bit more rebust in how we've sort of allowed or managed activities to spread in the region. and i think one of the things we can probably do on this

administration agreed to provide air cover. the first usair strikes came friday when the free syrian army came under attack. we're told the pentagon will defend syrian rebels against the assadreport from last month that u.s. has only trained about 54 moderate rebel fighters far fewer than 5400 they hoped to train by the end of the year. this is of course a tricky situation for the united states since it opposes the assad regime but finds a common enemy in isis. joining us now from the white house lawn press secretary josh earnest. josh, good to you have on this morning. >> happy monday. >> happy monday. great to you have here. not a happy monday for a lot of people in the energy sector. the president is unveiling some tough new epa standards. tell us about them. >> the president not so over the weekend. we're going to take the most important substantial step that our country has ever taken to reduce the causes of climate change. what we're going to do is scale back the carbon pollution that our power generators are currently allows to spew into the atmosphere. and this joe, i was thinking about this last night. in some ways this is the culmination of what the president talk

administration may be expanding the scope of the war to defend u.s.-trained syrian fighters against attacks including from the bashar assad regime. we're expanding our cooperation with turkey in the region. we're even hearing rumors of a u.s. humanitarian zone in syria. each of these steps is potentially significant and could even lead to even more unforeseen expansions of the ongoing war. we have already had testimony by military leaders to suggest that the war will likely go on for years. but as the war expands and our troops risk their lives far from home and as we prepare to go on our traditional one-month recess a tacit agreement to avoid debating this war persists in washington. the president maintains that he can conduct this war without authorization from congress. he waited more than six months after the war started to even send congress a draft authorization of the mission. congressional behavior has been even more unusual. although vested with the sole power to declare war by article 1 of the constitution, congress has refused a meaningful debate or vote on the war against the islamic state. a congress quick to critici