president did come to iraq he did meet with the troops in al asad air base in the west of baghdad we didn't meet with any official iraqi. personality or even political official now the reason for that is because they couldn't agree on the parameters what does that mean well i've been speaking to people throughout the day before the u.s. president's visit was and out and there is some confusion over what is going on with the u.s. is policy very concerned in iraq of doubt syria about of the two thousand troops being called out of syria the eisel here have been defeated have been defeated for yet baghdad is much more say that than it has been so brave very long term the iraqis very confident they can deal with ice off within their own borders or what really concerns them is syria and that's where they are less confident that the syrians the iranians russians and indeed the americans can deal with the threat from isis let's speak to douglas ollivant he's a senior fellow at the new america think tack and former u.s. national security council director for iraq is joining us via skype from

forces remain in mount khan has moved from baghdad. the u.s. president's visit to iraq was just three hours long but it has had an impact here in baghdad now there was supposed to be a meeting or a phone call between the iraqi prime minister. and president donald trump that didn't happen because they couldn't agree on the parameters of that meeting what was supposed to be discussed within that meeting president the u.s. president donald trump made a commitment to his troops. basically and he said that they would remain in the country however he hasn't actually discussed that with his iraqi counterpart so far the iraqis are actually right now debating on what the future role should be within iraq itself there is a commanding control base here there is a forward operating bases here and they've been using them as part of their campaign in syria however they're now withdrawing from syria and this concerns iraq ease because they feel that there are still pockets of eisel fighters both in the west of iraq and in syria itself and if there's no u.s. p

knowing the size of the earth calculated by the astronomers of baghdad in the ninth century they've been marked was able to use geometry to work out that the atmosphere was about eighty kilometers high that's not bad for almost a thousand years ago. throughout the golden age. and many other scholars wrote detail texts on optics but none were so comprehensive and influential as if no haitham ski tarbell menarche. at the same money a library in istanbul professor. shows me an ancient copy of it no hate them as great work. other than the book of optics. of course this isn't in the original copy this was written in the mid fifteenth century. mohammad who founded the ultimate empire is written for his library. me what's amazing is that we all around the world we talk about newton as being the father of optics and yet here we are a thousand years ago seven hundred years before newton and his away diagram this is there's a there's a convex lens and there's a focal point and there's all the brain lines and power lines in the angles of refraction here it is a thousand years ago. optics are all ar

and invited him to the white house and one car reports from baghdad . the u.s. president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit last in just three hours on wednesday night to al asad airbase one hundred thirty kilometers west of baghdad provoked a strong reaction from some iraqi politicians. i think it is shameful for the iraqi prime minister to accept the u.s. president's invitation to go to the u.s. after his mockery of iraqi politicians and the iraqi government he entered iraq surreptitiously without any coordination and no respect for iraq's sovereignty i spent three hours celebration with soldiers as if you to achieved a great victory in fact this visit is considered to fish rather than a victory. there are five thousand two hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq a lot less than the invasion sent to remove saddam hussein in two thousand and three more recently reinforcements were sent to help iraqi government forces defeat eisel fighters who seized large areas of territory iraqi commanders declared victory over eisel a year ago but pocke

donald trump didn't meet anyone from the iraq in the intercepts iran khan has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister and the us president donald trump were supposed to meet that didn't happen the iraqis on behalf of the iraqi prime minister. have said that the parameters of the meeting could not be agreed now that is going to be of concern particularly to the iraqis because they see the u.s. as an ally but they see them as an ally within the context of the whole region however the u.s. president did come to iraq he did meet with the troops and said air base in the west of baghdad he didn't meet with any official iraqi. personality or even political official now the reason for that is because they couldn't agree on the parameters what does that mean well i've been speaking to people throughout the day before the u.s. president's visit was and out and there is some confusion over what is going on with the u.s. is policy they're very concerned in iraq about syria about the two thousand troops being pulled out of syria the eisel hey have been defeated that been defeated for yet

that's absolutely right just speaking to people throughout the day here in baghdad everybody is very confused as to what the president meant by the fact that he said he wasn't going to pull out the five thousand two hundred troops here in iraq the iraqis are actually debating right now and have been for a while whether to oss the u.s. to stay on or whether to ask them to leave as a result of eisel being defeated now there are still pockets of fighters on the border with syria and in syria itself and the fact that the u.s. has withdrawn from syria or is in the process of withdrawing from syria is of real concern because they fear in iraq that those fighters may well be able to regroup also the president seems to be not taking into account his coalition partners in the fight against iceland seems to be going it alone so there's a lot of frustration hey the president there's a lot of confusion as to what the president's actual strategy might be and he was supposed to have a phone call or a meeting with prime minister. the but that didn't happen because they couldn't agree on the paramet

welcome to baghdad. was surrounded by armored vehicles and. we have plenty of security with us saying i'm on my way to the even seen a hospital in baghdad's green zone with dr moon jude al me jared spann one of his strangely is foremost the p.t. exogenous. shyness a highly. sami's ls tellings allegedly. people have come from all over iraq meaning they hung on the man they called dr when git. provision for al those somebody's been literally. one of the longest number of fatalities and disabled people due to the force that. went through and are going. twenty nine year old ellie bassam lost his leg more than two years ago when he volunteered to go to the frontlines and fight against islamic state. and there for. someone. else three. of. them will get to choose a. little slow walk up in iraq amputees often use outdated prosthesis which can be painful and allow only limited mobility. dr margaret specializes in a relatively new surgical technique called asio integration aussie integration surgery is. a cutting edge technology it's in simple terms me

he lives on the outskirts of baghdad.and elsewhere on the other side of the wider than one dog of a planet or whatever they all went. out your monarch to muslim one. or you know so auntie. so us out of. hardy. when allie lost his leg his wife walked out on him. ellie suddenly became a single father to his young son hussein. the macho done to make them better as was the you know. what is your box of us are the almost none of. us had them they were down in the top of another being you know for me the most i want is in a lot more moving on. with and then there was you were going to move and they would rather go with it then walk along and she could show there were saw to be teletype god and she more than one hell of. a shot about this evolving we're going to have. the holy wired with us so that of those hairs. i only see them ellie and hussein now live with alleys parents. of the late tell you there was the door you know if you look at coney island because of why this was india and in the. model the body and i saw him a geni

iraqi christians are celebrating christmas at the mar use of church in baghdad the city is one of the oldest christian communities in the world but their numbers have dropped significantly since the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion and that of course the rise of but it's not all bad news for the community iraq's cabinet has just approved to mark christmas day as an official national holiday imran khan has the latest now from baghdad. this is a much more hopeful christmas than iraqi christians have seen in a very long time. use of church the st joseph's church in central baghdad people in riding across christmas day to attend mass and there is a very hopeful at was say that things have changed for iraq christians that there are much more secure than they ever have been know just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one nine hundred eighty seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country on officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is about two hundred fifty thousand christia

forces remain imran khan has more from baghdad the u.s. president's visit to iraq was just three hours long but it has had an impact here in baghdad now there was supposed to be a meeting or a phone call between the iraqi prime minister. and president donald trump that didn't happen because they couldn't agree on the parameters of that meeting what was supposed to be discussed within that meeting president the u.s. president donald trump made a commitment to his troops. basically and he said that they would remain in the country however he hasn't actually discussed that with his iraqi counterpart so far the iraqis are actually right now debating on what the future role should be within iraq itself there is a commanding control base here there is a forward operating bases here and they've been using them as part of their campaign in syria however they're now withdrawing from syria and this concerns iraq ease because they feel that there are still pockets of both in the west of iraq and in syria itself and if there's no u.s. presence there t

and invited him to the white house imran khan's in baghdad.the us president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit lasting just three hours on wednesday night to al asad airbase one hundred thirty kilometers west of baghdad provoked a strong reaction from some iraqi politicians how did. i think it is shameful for the iraqi prime minister to accept the u.s. president's invitation to go to the u.s. after his mockery of iraqi politicians and the iraqi government he entered iraq without any coordination and no respect for iraq's sovereignty spent three hours celebration with soldiers if you to achieve the great victory in fact this visit is considered to feel rather than a victory. there are five thousand two hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq a lot less than the invasion sent to remove saddam hussein in two thousand and three more recently reinforcements were sent to help iraqi government forces defeat eisel fighters who seized large areas of territory iraqi commanders declared a victory over a year ago but pockets of figh

president did come to iraq did meet with the troops and asset air base in the west of baghdad we didn't meet with any official iraqi. personality or even political official now the reason for that is because they couldn't agree on the parameters what does that mean well i've been speaking to people throughout the day before the u.s. president's visit was announced and there is some confusion over what is going on with the u.s. is policy they're very concerned in iraq about syria about the two thousand troops being pulled out of syria eisel here have been defeated have been defeated for yet by get this much more safer than it has been a very long time the iraqis very confident they can deal with eisel within their own borders will any concerns them syria and that's where they are less confident that the syrians the iranians arsons and indeed the americans can deal with the threat i saw well before trump left for iraq he spoke to a brigadier general at the u.s. airbase in qatar he asked about the state of relations between delphi and its neighbors saudi arabia and the u.a.e. what's our bl

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on this in baghdad and has more. the president has come under a tremendous amount of criticism for being the first president in recent years this region not visit u.s. troops before the christmas period so it's likely that he listens that some of that criticism and come to iraq as a result however iraq has is a country that only has five thousand two hundred u.s. troops stationed it take for example you have a going to start so about fourteen thousand u.s. troops seven thousand which i jus to leave and take a look at syria where you have about two thousand u.s. troops whether it's goal is already signed off on those troops from leaving he defended his syria policy sunday's long awaited presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been perspire on to some parts of the country sparking concern about an upsurge in opposition protests the vote is delayed and then he and with tembo which are dealing with an outbreak and human body where more than one hundred people were killed in ethnic violence last week

this video taken two weeks ago shows one tribe attacking the house of another on the outskirts of baghdad these future becoming a growing problem for iraqi authorities who say the tribes operate outside of the law. tribal tradition in iraq goes back centuries and was a way of organizing society. in major urban areas like baghdad they have limited influence but in rural areas tribal leaders can enjoy almost unchecked power. power that comes from the barrel of a gun. as long as they are easy to access weapons in the hands of people and tribes then there is no security and tribal feuds continue to take place if there is any dispute between two tribes then the use of force with heavy weapons and armored cars will inflate the tribal feuds. but it's not as easy as simply taking weapons away iraq's tribes have always been useful to iraq's leaders the british used them to call rebellions saddam hussein used them in the one nine hundred eighty s. in his war against the americans use them to defeat al qaida during the u.s. led occupation and more recently the of all. of you to help defeat them for

president spent three hours visiting troops at an ad base in baghdad he'd been under scrutiny for not visiting u.s. service personnel stationed abroad before christmas our reynolds reports. president donald trump got a warm welcome from u.s. troops during his brief visit to iraq. we came to aldershot this year our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe strong and free. accompanied by first lady maloney a trump the president shook hands with service members at an air base one hundred sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a bake america great again campaign cap he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ago when i became president there were a very dominant group. they were very dominant today they're not so dominant anymore the visit came amid continuing fallout from trump's abrupt decision to pull out all u.s. forces from syria our presence in syria was not open ended and was never intended to be permanent trump said the withdrawal from syria would be strong deliberate and orderly he also met wi

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thirty russian children who had been held in a prison in the iraqi capital baghdad have now been allowed to return home they were jailed with their allegedly islington mothers who went to iraq and syria within a quarter never reports. little. children have returned to russia this evening from iraq brought on a plane organized by russia from baghdad the children are in quite a bad shape it is almost all of them are in need of urgent medical assistance this return home has been no easy task officials say that they have been gathering documents. to for months to prove that these children are russians we did d.n.a. tests specialists went to europe to take samples and the material went through the identification process then we filled out the necessary documents and search for the children's relatives the previous flight of this kind to happened over a year ago meantime these children aged four to fifteen have been in prison in the iraqi capital with their mothers almost all of them had to leave their mothers behind now dozens of russian women remain in prison in baghdad most of them facing c

involvement here in the country iran can al-jazeera baghdad. ok let's go back to our top story so far here on the news a big reshuffle in saudi arabia rami koori is journalism professor at the american university of beirut and a senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school rami khouri welcome back to the news hour how much of a humiliation is this for the foreign minister. you know it's really hard to tell right now like so many things in the decisionmaking or so the radius like the soviet union and the one nine hundred sixty s. you really don't know what's going on until a few weeks or months down the road when i decision is made the saudis themselves various odious close to the war it's really are saying that this is not really a demotion but just fire him would have been a real demotion but this is a sharing of responsibility they needed a more experienced fellow at the top of the burden of bringing myself was served for decades well in saudi arabia it that has been didn't do very well in talking about the sugar murder but nobody of saudi rec

to do and that seemingly has an ok rank on live for us in baghdad emraan thank you the no go zone near an erupting volcano in indonesia has and widened and the alert level raised experts fear another massive eruption will cause a second tsunami at least four hundred thirty people were killed in a five meter highway flooded coastal communities on saturday reports. a new exclusion zone around the volcano means no one is allowed to approach within five kilometers but the greater concern is for the people living along the coasts on either side of the sunda strait. they've again been warned to stay back between five hundred meters and one kilometer from the shoreline while commercial planes have been ordered to avoid the area all kind of cash is a mix euro and gas and it's classic rock programs and minerals and volcanic glass and it's very very scratchy or it can et so the dangers of that going up into the atmosphere so planes if there is a large rips in the ash goes hina the planes are flying back not just to be a hazard for airlines the increased warning level comes as a blow to the thous

in the soviet union to let him know in advance that the united states was about to start bombing baghdad about 5:30 that afternoon u.s. time. and he had constructed and put on the public schedule that meeting on educational assessment so that the world wouldn't know what was about to happen. a few weeks later we were having lunch and he was mulling over the prospect of putting a million american military men and women on the ground in the middle east in the first gulf war. he had a special feeling of that because of his background as a combat pilot in world war ii. and he knew what it meant to risk even one american life in that exercise. all of us have been having memories and stories we could tell about the president, but i want to talk about three aspects of his service very briefly. one is gentleman. two is well prepared. and three is pioneer, pioneer especially in education. i've suggested to jon meacham, the extraordinary biographer of president george h.w. bush that a better title for his book might be "the last gentleman." now saying that to an author is kind of like saying you o

resident was saying that they even let morning prayers this morning in baghdad time but the military is not giving so much details only confirming that one person was killed and that they have on a search and rescue in such an area in indication that probably some of their soldiers have been dispersed by boko haram so right now it's still. not clear what exactly is happening in baghdad and we were told by a military source that operations in that area is ongoing but by the way by god town is a scene of one of the worst book quite a massacres in nigeria for five days in general really two thousand and fifteen but won't fight us all more on that same military base multinational joint task force which is operated by soldiers from cameroon nigerian is here and been the republic child as well who are fighting boko haram and to go back arms and ammunition from that area and massacred more than one thousand civilians saudi arabia's king salon has to maintain his store ministry as part of the maintenance of the. ministry of state salis the. show chain which has brought a diplomatic clash aga

involvement in the country al-jazeera baghdad police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas on opposition protesters just days before presidential and parliamentary elections there's anger after voting in some pro opposition areas was perspire and country goes to the polls on sunday the main opposition candidate has appealed for calm. we have. come to. france. and. we should have. patience. and. we have this. country. as i said please please we know. well the outgoing president of the d r c has rejected opposition claims that the electoral vote against favoring the ruling party al-jazeera is malcolm webb spoke to joseph kabila ahead of sunday's election . talking of protests and the like i don't want to go into what happened. in the past and the electoral process is always a sensitive issue and i was just stating that even if it will game between two you have tensions that arise so during an electoral process you have tensions the most important thing is to have the necessary police force that's where equipped in order to give that a try and given point in time we did no

first let's go to iran counters in iraq iraqi capital baghdad so in iran there was meant to be a meeting with iraqi prime minister why didn't happen. well there was disagreement over what the parameters of that meeting should be the americans and the iraqis spoke to la trobe was supposed to come and congratulate the troops give them a christmas message and then meet twitter prime minister abdullah but that didn't happen and the reason it didn't happen is because they couldn't agree on what to talk about now i have been speaking before i even knew the president on trumpet was going to visit iraq with iraqis about the u.s. policy there is a lot of confusion in iraq about what the u.s. policy actually means they were very surprised as were the rest of the world when the u.s. president donald trump decided to pull two thousand troops out of syria there were even more surprised when he decided to pull seventy seven thousand troops out of the full team thousand that they have in afghanistan and this was a very big problem for the iraqis because they simply don't understand what the u.s. presid

we avoided going into baghdad, a very successful operation. the president's approval rating was at 91%. i remember thinking i wish he would say now that we have won war, let's turn our thention to home and apply same sort of energy to america 2000 and make america 2000 his entire domestic program. perhaps it would have been difficult for bill clinton to him that year if that had been his domestic agenda. no one will ever know. what we do know, he was a gentleman, he was as well-prepared as any president history for the job, he served at a time when we needed that preparation because the challenges were immense, he was a pioneer in education, and he may have been the most successful one-term president in history. who put the country first and whom we all admire. george h.w. bush. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. >> mr. president. >> senator from texas. >> mr. president, i join my friend comedy senator from tennessee, in saying a few words about the service of george herbert walker bush. i would note the difference between him and me

resident was saying that they even lead morning prayers this morning in baghdad town but the military is not giving so much details only confirming that one person was killed and that they have on a search and rescue in such an area in indication that probably some of their soldiers have been dispersed bible quote so right now it's still. not clear what exactly is happening in baghdad and we were told by a military source that operations in that area is ongoing but by the way bugger town is a scene of one of the worst book quite a massacre in nigeria for five days in general really two thousand and fifteen but won't quite as all that on that same military base multi-national joint task force which is operated by soldiers from cameroon nigerian is here and been a republic child as well who are fighting boko haram and to go about arms and ammunition from that area and massacred more than one thousand civilians a magnitude five point eight earthquake has hit the east an indonesian province of west papa when we come tsunami killed more than four hundred people further west in the country

not clear what exactly is happening in baghdad and we were told by a military source that operations in that area is ongoing but by the way by town is a scene of one of the worst book quite a massacres in nigeria for five days in general really two thousand and fifteen but quite an fight as all that around that same military base multinational joint task force which is operated by soldiers from cameroon nigeria nizkor and been the republic and child as well who are fighting vocal i am and took over arms and ammunition from that area and massacred more than one thousand civil unions. still ahead here on al-jazeera a major government shakeup in saudi arabia as the kingdom faces pressure of jamal khashoggi she's murder and the war in yemen also fuel for thought germany pushes for greener cars those stories on the other side of the break do stay with us. we've got some rather nasty weather in sewer to pad over the next couple of days already saying quote a chilly wind feeding in from the north the tightly packed i suppose in to indicate the strength of that window there will be some pock

the skies over baghdad have been illuminated. off all over the sky. we're getting starbursts in the black sky. >> the significance in journalism terms was it was the first time which you had extensive live coverage of the war. >> our office was on the ninth floor of the el rasheed hotel. we were one of the tallest buildings in baghdad, so we knew that whatever was going to happen, we would be able to see the drama. >> the military offensive overnight has been described as the largest, the strongest air attack in history. >> just one comment. clearly, i've never been there, but this feels like we're in the center of hell. >> saddam hussein in address to the iraqi people and arab nation says the mother of all wars has started. we told you earlier in the week that the information ministry had received its own satellite dish and prior to that, the foreign ministry had -- we've got to run. somebody is knocking on the door. john and i are going to hide. peter, here. >> we opened the door and there were several armed iraqi security peop

this is a 3 the cinema in baghdad in iraqi. body and i worked together in 2003-4 in iraq and i went back in 2009-10 for national geographic to do a story on baghdad coming back to life. so i included some early contacts. i wanted to show how i progressed as a photographer. when i started out i moved to india in 2000 and using a lot of panorama. i was treating black-and-white, going to places where a lot of photographers go to cut their teeth and i started working in afghanistan. had a roommate at the time in india working in afghanistan and he came back from a trip and that you are a woman and care about women's issues and you should go to afghanistan and view women living under the taliban. i said okay but i had no money, i was a freelance photographer 27 years old. i called my sister and asked to borrow $2000 to go to afghanistan and she said yes and i called my mother and said i'm going to afghanistan and she said okay, have a good time, honey. and i went. these are some of the early pictures of afghanistan under the taliban

. >> the president and first lady flew unannounced to western iraq, 100 miles from baghdad. the president's first visit to military personnel serving in combat zones since he took office and he acknowledged the dangers of the trip. >> i had concerns for the institution of the president, not for myself personally. i had concerns for the first lady i will tell you. but if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, no lights on whatsoever anywhere, pitch black. >> the trip comes days after donald trump said he would be withdrawing all us troops from syria. a move widely criticized by republicans and democrats alike and one which led to the resignation of jim mattis that in his remarks, the president reiterated that they could launch attacks on ice was from iraq if necessary and the syria based us troops are therefore coming home because isis has essentially been defeated. >> two years ago when i became president, they were a very dominant group, they were very dominant. today they are not so dominant anymore. [applause] >> great job. >> the president

cans with service members at an air base one hundred sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a make america great again campaign cap he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ago when i became president there were a very dominant group they were very dominant today they're not so dominant anymore the visit came amid continuing fallout from trump's abrupt decision to pull out all u.s. forces from syria our presence in syria was not open ended and was never intended to be permanent trump said the withdrawal from syria would be strong deliberate and orderly he also met with military commanders i think it's an opportunity for him to explain to his generals on the ground and the troops on the ground what the syria withdraw all means and most importantly hear from those generals how they plan to execute that withdrawal trump said the u.s. has no plans at all to pull out of iraq. a day earlier during a phone call with the commander of the air base in qatar trump asked about the ongoing blockade of qatar by saudi arabia and the

it was not to go into baghdad, occupy iraq or dismember iraq.fateful decision that president h.w. bush had to make, the road to baghdad was open, he said i'm not going to go down that road because he didn't have the mandate to do that from that big coalition. and i think the politics, the international politics was very different 12 years later. >> and, doug, put into context what we're going to see this week. the dysfunction between the bush family and trump family, president trump. he will be there. we saw the bond between president h.w. bush and bill clinton even though they ran a nasty campaign against each other in 1992. what will we see play out this week? >> donald trump will be having to take backstage when he was at the funeral. i don't think he was close to bush 41. the family doesn't like president trump very much. after all, he pummeled jeb bush when he ran against him and barbara bush, at her own funeral, didn't want donald trump there. however, bush 41 has done the right thing. the president of the united states should be invited.

over here towards tehran rain as well down towards quite city you may see a sprinkle a two there but baghdad you will finally start to see a break in your rain as well but it will be a little bit cool a few with the temperature there of sixty degrees we are going to see some clouds here across much of the arabian peninsula particular up here towards the north now those clouds will start to shift down here towards the south as we go towards friday we may see a sprinkler too but nothing in terms of accumulation is going to be cloudy with a temperature few of about twenty five degrees and then over here towards parts of southeastern africa we're going to be seeing durban with a temperature of twenty nine degrees and as we go towards friday more rain across that area temps are coming down for you would twenty three degrees in your forecast johannesburg will be a rainy day on friday a twenty five degrees but cape town plenty of sun in your forecast with a temperature of twenty four degrees few. the one of the sponsored black cats on. there's nowhere to hide is the easiest way to solve this to all

willson: the "wall street journal" last week reported that the baghdad blast wall's come down. explained that the iraqi government marked the first anniversary of the islamic state's defeat monday by reopening parts of the baghdad green zone. iraqi forces along with support from the u.s.-led alliance reclaimed the last of islamic state territory last december. the article notes that the changes at the green zone reflect declining violence across iraq and particularly tangible in baghdad and further notes that over 1,000 streets in baghdad have reopened during the past two years with 70,000 segments of the concrete blast wall removed. the number of civilians killed across iraq by terrorism, violence, and armed conflict in november fell to the lowest level in six years according to the united nations. as a grateful dead who has had o of my military sons -- grateful dad who had two sons serve in iraq. i am grateful. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from pennsylvania eek recognition?

use of church the st joseph's church in central baghdad people in riding across christmas day to attend mass and there is a very hopeful and was say that things have changed for iraq's christians that there are much more secure than they ever have been just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one thousand and seven and there were about one point five million christians living in the country on officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is about two hundred fifty thousand christians left they fled the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place not only have to go to a lot of the hotels here the public spaces and the big christmas trees and of the decorations like the ones you se

surprise visit to iraq as president of first lady milan you trump met with troops airbase west of baghdad the criticism over trump's failure to visit troops overseas combat zones and the nation authorities say no one is allowed within five kilometers of the volcano that triggered a tsunami on saturday killing at least four hundred thirty people it continues to spew ash into the air days after its creator collapsed status has been razed to the second highest level. supporters of opposition parties in the democratic republic of congo say voting must go ahead as planned commission has postponed the presidential election and three known opposition strongholds until march and says that's because of fears of violence and in poland. to ousted egyptian president have appeared in the same courtroom hosni mubarak has testified in the retrial of egypt's first democratically elected leader mohamed morsi over a jailbreak during the revolution that toppled mubarak seven years ago and a whole has more. egypt's revolution may seem like a long time ago but its consequences are still unfolding. and man who

anderton sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a make america great again campaign cap he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ago when i became president there were a very dominant group they were very dominant today they're not so dominant anymore the visit came amid continuing fallout from trump's abrupt decision to pull out all u.s. forces from syria our presence in syria was not open ended and was never intended to be permanent trump said the withdrawal from syria would be strong deliberate and orderly he also met with military commanders i think it's an opportunity for him to explain to his generals on the ground in the troops on the ground what the syria withdraw all means and most importantly hear from those generals how they plan to execute that withdrawal trump said the u.s. has no plans at all to pull out of iraq. a day earlier during a phone call with the commander of the air base in qatar trump asked about the ongoing blockade of qatar by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. together with egypt and bahrain so

this video taken two weeks ago shows one tribe attacking the house of another on the outskirts of baghdad these feuds are becoming a growing problem for iraqi authorities who say the tribes operate outside of the law tribal tradition in iraq goes back centuries and was a way of organizing society. in major urban areas like baghdad they have limited influence but in rural areas tribal leaders can enjoy almost unchecked power. power that comes from the barrel of a gun. as long as they are easy to access weapons in the hands of people and tribes then there is no security and tribal feuds continue to take place if there is any dispute between two tribes then the use of force with heavy weapons and armored cars will inflate the tribal feuds. but it's not as easy as simply taking weapons away iraq's tribes have always been useful to iraq's leaders the british used them to quell the rebellion saddam hussein used them in the one nine hundred eighty s. in his war against the americans use them to defeat al qaida during the u.s. led occupation and more recently the evolve here for it is. to help de