this is not the baghdad. i knew it's not the baghdad any of my friends knew and i thought it was a pretty straightforward question turns out it was a really complicated answer because only five other people in the world knew what that answer was the answer it turns out is this plucky. a band of brothers in elite iraqi counterterrorism unit had managed to put one of their officers undercover inside the islamic state in one of the most daring feeds of wartime espionage of modern times, and they were getting real-time intelligence from their officer. that was helping them. keep the capital safe and keep the morale of the nation up while they were fighting this ground war to the north of the of baghdad. and i wasn't really expecting that huge answer but i started asking that question, but it turns out that i was unlocking an incredibly important secret weapon about how the iraqis ended up defeating the islamic state. i thought i was gonna have maybe you know sort of a a story, you know in the middle of the new yo

we recaptured baghdad. thought of mal um, enfeebled, done the 1st phase of the plan to stop the interfaith war. the 2nd to destroy al qaeda. to do this, david betray yes and normally key enter into a packed with their former opponents. the sunni insurgents. powerful sunni clans pledge to fight against al qaeda. they join forces to form a militia, the software or awakening. young who walk on the lot of a sword, the morse, t. r. america. the suffer wasn't an american decision of some of it was the tribes themselves. whoa, are to little ha, will they decided to fight the terrorists who were killing me intellectually in the nations province began to learn cathartic. amelia, it was the women, arthur, and o'connor nudge. laconia strategy, worldly shackles, said he. a terrorist groups quickly disappeared in ramadi hall, marty sharla, pin and most horse lil. yeah, near. they withdrew to desert, reaching them a gun, a muck us while we ate, watch of yet only in central regions and the north calm is restored. but batt

it is hell and baghdad. mm. certainly by the period of 2006, i was seeing him on a near daily basis. he said to me, megan, you know, i'm looking to you to tell me what we can do to improve the situation in iraq. but i'm also looking to you to tell me if we're unable to do that. so i recognized we needed a change in strategy and we needed to resource that strategy and that required more troops in just under 30000 more soldiers fly to iraq for operation search under the command of general portray us ah, to the strategy sounds straight forward to crush the insurgencies. appalled by the coalitions failures the general works for 18 months. the pentagon gives him a free hand to hire and train his units in the us. we actually took rocky americans arabic speakers and hired them. and we had hundreds of what were termed roll players. some others were clerics. we had some that worse iraqi security forces. we had insurgence, they were suicide bombers with hollywood special effects. ah, you had everything to the extent t

so ava set off for baghdad. ah, today we're starting our tour of baghdad with this place morton, nearby street, which is the book bizarre, the book market of baghdad, one of the longest running book bazaars in the entire world. and probably also one of the most iconic places in the city, almost in a be street is not just the market. there's a lot more to it than just the business of buying and selling books. artists, writers and journalists flock here every friday to meet discuss, and of course read this place has been a hub for baghdad, intellectuals, so the ab as lead times, almost in millennium ago. and it's literary fam, extends beyond the borders of iraq, according to a local saying, kyra writes, bay root prince baghdad, reads from books about women travelling and living alone to mox is. so c ology in hungary to novels and poetry. i picked out alice's adventures in wonderland from the thirties and a book of english, $3.00 for both novel alma to not be st. isn't doing all too well today. people still remembe

it is hell and baghdad. mm. certainly by the period of 2006, i was seeing him on a near daily basis. he said to me, megan, you know, i'm looking to you to tell me what we can do to improve the situation in iraq. but i'm also looking to you to tell me if we're unable to do that. so i recognized we needed a change in strategy and we needed to resource that strategy and that required more troops in just under 30000 more soldiers fly to iraq for operation search under the command of general portray us ah, to the strategy sounds straight forward to crush the insurgencies. appalled by the coalitions failures the general works for 18 months. and the pentagon gives him a free hand to hire and train his units in the us. we actually took rocky americans arabic speakers and hired them. and we had hundreds of what were termed roll players. some others were clerics. we had some that worse iraqi security forces. we had insurgence, they were suicide bombers with hollywood special effects. ah, you had everything to the exte

s. troops capture baghdad. but saddam supporters are digging in there is looting in the liberated towns and cities. all regime authorities are ransacked except for the oil ministry and baghdad, which comes under armed guard footage of the victory over saddam as beamed around the world. ah, sorry you were so have to look a know be died in the most. you beginning of a new hope the new regime fell from the people could criticize and insult saddam saddam, if that's democracy, exile, of course, the mission of democracy was changes made in the civilized manhood. the world look at level silver, the silver can hummadi. ah, at the time that the decision was made to go to war, i was supportive of that decision and in fact, i volunteered to be a civilian who would go to iraq. megan o'sullivan is one of the 1st u. s. government employees to experienced the battles, any rock her task, coordinating amana, terry, and assistance and reconstruction. ah, i remember clearly driving through baghdad, as part of a convoy of dozen or

s. intelligence agency unit returns to baghdad. i think i made the right decision by, by following those legal orders. i have no regrets whatsoever. i think what we did a sate may have saved american lives, probably saved iraq in or any lives by bringing that war to a faster conclusion. they knew we were there for our own interests, and they let us be there for their own personal interest. what's known as the 1st gulf war ends in august 1988, 8 years, almost a 1000000 deaths. saddam declare victory and has a triumphal arch built in baghdad. the swords of kadijah lamadue muscle. i was surely. well guy, while you said that wasn't a victory. lucky a victory over what shouldn't, isn't it about what did the iranian and iraqi people gain and this war is the sort of the hoya i lost my brother. he wasn't married. he was still young. i'm and how he fell in battle. his corpse was never found monica desert but for to live in a, in the early days shy people liked saddam. but then he started the war going with and, and people started to hate hi

and when that happened, i was in baghdad. i was really shocked because i just didn't think that in, in, in the modern world we were going to see a nation used nerve agents. i came back to the united states immediately but was not part of the discussions because foreign policy is made by people much more senior than an air force captain. this put us in a dilemma. what do we do? a, how do we react to this? because we had a relationship with the iraqis at this time. and so were we going to be seen cooperating with the iraqis or using chemical weapons? or do we stand back and maybe have another accident? oh, on in the persian gulf big dilemma fiancee's, the reagan administration turns a blind eye and plows on with its policies. the u. s. intelligence agency unit returns to baghdad. i think i made the right decision by, by following those legal orders. i have no regrets whatsoever. i think what we did a sate may have saved american lives, probably saved iraq in or any light by bringing that war to a faster conclusion. they knew we

and when that happened, i was in baghdad. i was really shocked because i just didn't think that in, in, in the modern world we were going to see a nation used nerve agents. i came back to the united states immediately but was not part of the discussions because foreign policy is made by people much more senior than an air force captain. this put us in a dilemma. what do we do? a, how do we react to this? because we had a relationship with the iraqis at this time. and so were we going to be seen cooperating with the iraqis or using chemical weapons? or do we stand back and maybe have another accident? oh, in the persian gulf big dilemma fiestas, the reagan administration turns a blind eye and plows on with its policies. the u. s. intelligence agency unit returns to baghdad. i think i made the right decision by, by following those legal orders. i have no regrets whatsoever. i think what we did a sate may have saved american lives, probably saved iraq in or any lives by bring that war to a faster conclusion. they knew we were th

i cried at the sight of baghdad and the rock in this state. allah, allah weatherbug dog! well, the lumber with a bond showed him a holiday. thea, a well have gone to duncan about that there were about 20 assassination attempts on me, the fast in downtown baghdad. but alabama had been placed on the edge of the street and exploded, close to my car, got the letter by the nurse, and it killed a passer by and injured my body guns. i could shout if he got up, but i was in an armored car which protected me from the shrapnel shove, i am in the throes of civil war. saddam hussein goes on trial for crimes against humanity. the ex dictator rejects the charges and refuses to recognize the court almost identical up with adam though like every one else i heard about the death sentence in the morning on the and i didn't expect them to execute him so quickly will. there was still numerous out the charges against him to law, but you can will a fault. i don't want to mac, i met and hurt my land were done. so damn shin and magic 1000000000. damn jump, and i tell moat. lyrica is your job. i'

ah, the nice already getting a live call here in baghdad. but i got us, this is not only our dinner, but also an active. while you see here is a spectacle lunches with mexico and it consists of the national dis, muscle. don't only fish, but i don't think i can resist glaze than seasoned carp grill. the real good fire looks good, doesn't it? and for dessert, he can hop on that to one of back dad's many speech shops. i have a feeling that iraqis have a very sweet tooth because i've never seen a store with this much but clever sugary stuff. chocolate cakes, biscuits name it, they've got it because of ice cream. and so carfax all the pistachio all the knots with so creamy. all right. i know he's been travelling deep in the history and culture of both of them today. but there's a very modern sight to the city as well. shopping malls like this one, have sprung up all across back that recently, catering to the land cruiser driving, wealthy citizens of the city. honesty. once you're inside a mall like this one, you feel like you could just as well b

and when that happened, i was in baghdad. i was really shocked because i just didn't think that in, in, in the modern world we were going to see a nation use nerve agents. i came back to the united states immediately but was not part of the discussions because foreign policy is made by people much more senior than an air force captain. this put us in a dilemma. what do we do? a, how do we react to this? because we had a relationship with the iraqis at this time. and so were we going to be seen cooperating with the iraqis were using chemical weapons? or do we stand back and maybe have another accident on in the persian gulf big dilemma for the united states. the reagan administration turns a blind eye and plows on with its policies. the u. s. intelligence agency unit returns to baghdad. i think i made the right decision by, by following those legal orders. i have no regrets whatsoever. i think what we did a sate may have saved american lives, probably saved iraq in or any lives by bringing that war to a faster conclusion. they

i 'ust want to mi grozny, north baghdad... i 'ust want to pick upi grozny, north baghdad... north baghdad... i 'ust want to pick up on one of i grozny, north baghdad... ijust want to pick up on one of the i want to pick up on one of the things, repeatedly calls from the ukrainians for a no—fly zone, repeatedly rejected, so let's parker, that is not going to happen, what kind of support do you think ukrainians need? they need as much anti—tank, i know we have talked a lot about the javelins and the in—laws, and the stingers, but is the most lethal man portable system you can hide, i mean, nobody can find. as much of that needs to be rushed into the city as possible before the gates are closed, because you can see john spencer trying to close the gates with fires in the west and with moving forces in. that is the number one goal is to take out the tanks before they get in, because he can't get in with others.— they get in, because he can't get in with others. ok, retired ma'or get in with others. ok, retired majorjohn _ get in with others. ok, retired majorjohn spencer, _ get

he stages a visit to a british family detained in baghdad. eileen, well then don't you just to get you is pretty self confident, which i think his wife had me. you guys don't have the intestinal fortitude to fight a long war and you just don't have the courage to fill the blood of 10000 americans and name iraqi desert desert. saddam has got it wrong. the us ready for war. ah ah. engender demona? well, did you know what her deal do? dick cheney requested a meeting. i'm sophia, it lasted 2 hours. he addressed me in that typical american way by saying, are you french know the middle east and the arabs? what's your take? honestly, like i said to you, if you're trying to break iraq's backbone of michel, your file is good. you'll only fan the flames with la mic fundamentalism each time he can put a wrong in a dominant position to witness april. and what did he say? the next jump. yale. ok. thank you, sean pierre. very interesting, lee. i've made some notes and i'll report back to the president, marquise you don't. it was all part of an enormous smo

a year in baghdad ends dennis holidays decades long career at the u. n. he is candid on the experience of ordinary iraqis . i would underline the importance of responding to the younger generation of leadership in erect that's avoid the possibility of a taliban type of movement emerging in the country brought on by the isolation and anger and alienation that sanctions. now military strikes are breeding and so they are right, but they don't take the risk any longer. i was right. there were hurt their neighbors or friends, people, arab so fellow parents wouldn't talk to them. they couldn't travel, they weren't able to go anywhere. and they were, you know, they were trapped. mm. sanctioned, sorta fairly blunt instrument. they strengthened the power of reaching visa be the populace. by making the people pay the price of sanctions, not the regime ah summer 1998. the radicalization of mainly young people gathers pace. while saddam exploits his nations misery to consolidate his own power base. he has got his great written on the national flag and rehabilitate th

as hon sponge monica takes over from dennis halliday in baghdad. the americans and british lodge air strikes against saddam the trigger the expulsion of un weapons inspectors. the strikes are ostensibly aimed at military installations. la la, you know, when i was in duke, i get a message that there was a terrible incident. north of marshall, where 6 shepherds and a 101 sheep were killed in american estuary. i went there, 45 degrees, heat, dead bodies smell. it was incredible that was bad enough. ah, hans von schmo neck leaves baghdad in february 2000 after one and a half years with effect. i had no option. i had to do that because i felt that i was involved in something that couldn't end well. ah, article 51 of the un trotta. it is not permissible to target civilian institutions and they were targeted. the geneva conventions were broken. the un charter law was broke. therefore if you break the law, you're held accountable. so there is no christian that those who were instrumental in maintaining the status quo against iraq in the security council sh

as hon sponge monica takes over from dennis halliday in baghdad. the americans and british launch air strikes against saddam the trigger, the expulsion of un weapons inspectors. the strikes are ostensibly aimed at military installations. so you know, when i was in duke, i got a message that there was a terrible incident. north of marshall, where 6 shepherds and a 101 sheep were killed in american history. i went there, 45 degrees, heat, dead bodies smell. it was incredible. that was bad enough. ah, hans von schmo neck leaves baghdad in february 2000 after one and a half years with i had no option. i had to do that because i felt that i was involved in something that couldn't end well ah article 51 of the un trotta. it is not permissible to target civilian institutions and they were targeted the geneva conventions were broke. the un charter law was broke. therefore if you break the law, you are health accountable. so there is no question that those who were instrumental in maintaining the status quo against iraq in the security council should have b

a year and baghdad ends dennis holidays decades long career at the u. n. he is candid on the experience of ordinary iraqis. i would underline the importance of responding to the younger generation of leadership in erect that's avoid the possibility of a taliban type of movement emerging in the country brought on by the isolation and anger and alienation that sanctions. now military strikes are breeding and so they are right, but they're not take the risk of young. i was right. there were hurt their neighbors or friends, people's arab. so fellow arabs wouldn't talk to them. they couldn't travel, they weren't able to go anywhere. and they were, you know, they were trapped. mm. sanctioned sort of fanny blunt instrument. they strengthened the power of reaching these would be the populace by making the people pay the price of sanctions. not every gene ah summer. 1998 the radicalization of mainly young people gathers pace while saddam exploits his nation's misery to consolidate his own power base. he has got his great written on the national flag and rehabilitat

. >> we arrived in baghdad with the national guard unit, arkansas national guard. right away in april, which is one of the bloodiest months of the war when we arrived, right off the bat there were a lot of injuries and deaths. amy: then as nato accuses russia of flying warplanes out of belarus, we will speak to a leading belarussian activist living in exile about the russian invasion and the escalating repression inside belarus. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a new round of talks between ukrainian and russian officials is taking place today as russian forces intensify their deadly assault. the discussions could help ease the evacuation of more civilians. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky said sunday 125,000 people had been evacuated via humanitarian corridors so far. some 2.7 million people have fled ukraine in under three weeks. meanwhile, russia has escalated its attacks, targeting areas close to the polish border and the capital kyiv. earlier this morning, a residential b

he stages a visit to a british family detained in baghdad. i live up and just to get you is pretty self confident, which i think his wife had me. you guys don't have the intestinal fortitude to fight a long war and he just don't have the courage to fill the blood of 10000 americans and name iraqi desert, our desert. saddam has got it wrong. the us ready for war. ah, ah, engender the modem? well, did you know what her deal do? dick cheney requested a meeting. i'm so feel it lasted 2 hours. he addressed me in that typical american way by saying, are you french know the middle east and the arabs use? what's your take on next door? i said to leave you if you're trying to break iraq's backbone of michel, your file is good. you'll only found the flames with la mic fundamentalism. let me go and put a wrong in a dominant position to witness evil. and what did he say? the next jump, yale us. thank you shawn pierre. very interestingly, i've made some notes and i'll report back to the president. more question don't. it was all part of an enormous smokes

in december 1914, british troops under the command of general townshead occupied the siege of baghdad for more than six months. he was captured in march 1917. after the defeat of germany and turkey, the british took over the mass, taking control of the entire territory of what is now iran on april 15, 1920. san rema. they received a mandate for management and crayfish. in response to this in the middle and baghdad began a shiite uprising in the north revolted iraq plunged into chaos. it doesn't matter to me at all. what system of government will give us access to oil, but i am convinced that this access is of vital interest to us. lord arthur british foreign secretary 1918 and i would like to remind the americans of an interesting fact that the first thing the commander of the british army that captured baghdad in 1917 ordered was to distribute a proclamation that said we have come to you. no way conquerors. and as liberators, it’s interesting that it was the iraqi war that undermined the faith in british politics even of such a great imperialist as lawrence of arabia, he publicly ref

and not so lucky. leaders in baghdad say they're serious about tackling people trafficking. but with limited resources and faced with well connected, organized gangs, a lot more remains to be done. some of bon jovi it elders, era baghdad, falling children, hound and syrian cancer relatives a suspect, a deisel fighters risk being stuck there for decades. save the children says it could take 30 years for young people to return home unless the pace of repatriation is increased around 18000 iraqi children and more than 7000 from 60 other countries in the kurdish on our hall. and raj comes in northeast and syria for people have been killed after a man reportedly stabbed 3 of them and drove over another one in the southern israeli city of sheba. elijah selim was shot dead by an israeli bus driver. the mine's been identified as a palestinian former teacher, carrie faucet has more from west to rosalyn. the reports are as follows, that this was a pretty wide ranging attack that took place in the southern town of shaver. the man is alleged to have attacked and stabbed a woman at a pet

please say they've uncovered 60 organized crime gangs osama. bon jovi reports from the capital baghdad for this people trafficker, it looks like a routine transaction, but this is a police thing. but detectives, boozing his fires hidden camera and the cars captured the criminal, confirming that he's selling to women for $2000.00 each once the deal is done, police arrest the trafficker and the women detective, see the women were part of the gangs to run away from their buyer then repeat their scam all over again. using recordings and other techniques, especially unit countering people, trafficking says you were able to go to court with evidence on the seller thing. it is true that i've dealt with you and told you about the $2000.00. he confesses to have received the money in exchange for the women. the man was sentenced to 6 years in jail. it's an extraordinary web of human trafficking and more than the slavery investigators have found nurses abducting babies, children being sold for body parts and women being strapped across the u. s. deed abutment of the iraqi government doesn't meet

it is the 1st major suicide attack in baghdad in several years. so far today, no group has claimed responsibility. be i kid i b keys. shawnee quick at danielle bison. identity up to sender. yeah. do she know c quarterman did. mckenzie. could you jim? as it may be on paper, i believe, but we do seem to get jessie de or ethan again on this for you to avoid a socket. 2 is obvious. if she is we all thompson are different comes from it is jim chris for leadership team. they came to a sub for a beam caballo talked with ha, ha ha, i'm welcome. welcome to josh channel one, how much it was to do a little a little plug. how you know for lunch anyway, watch any of it. i job you know, the del, called of a value home, should choose from the attendant. those are the only have a he whole night. not only just home. now i did a did go that and then how can i just wanted to i live in tucson not a lot of that. and most of them valesh been how can i home with how come all of the album bit long will kind of flush, a lot of them open. yahoo! and their them into sold of

it is the 1st major suicide attack in baghdad in several years. so far today, no group has claimed responsibility. b. i. k. i b ki shawnee, quick at daniel bison. identity up to sender. yeah. do she know c. quarterman did. mckenzie. could you do? like maybe speeding up a bikes, i believe. but we do seem to get your c, t o eason gout on us for you to void a socket to is obvious. it is we all come to put different. he comes from it. is jim, no caprice for me to just, you know, they can tell it to somebody with a beam caballo. talk to godaddy. ha, ha ha, i'm oh, good. okay. middle, josh channel one. 0, might you want to do a little little blond title for lunch anyway. watching you kind of i job in the del, called w at home should choose, had the attendant. those are the only how can won't change my whole night. not only just home. now i didn't and then how can i yeah, i'm just one of the island the it is not a lot of that. and most of valesh been how can i'm home with how come on lovely. the bottom deadline will kind of flush a lot of them open. yaho

it is the 1st major suicide attack in baghdad in several years. so far today. no group is claimed responsibility b, i could i. b. g. shawnee. quick at danielle bison. identity up december. yeah, do she know c quarterman did. mckenzie. could you do like maybe speeding up it, but we do seem to get your c d o, he's in the gout on us for you to void a socket to obvious. if this is we all come to put different, he comes from induced gym caprice for me to just, you know, they can tell it to somebody with a beam caballo told the guy to tell you why you have. i'm welcome. welcome to josh channel one. how much it was to do a little long title for lunch anyway. watching it as a job in the girl called couple valley home should choose had the tim is on hold. i the only how can i get my whole night not only just home now i didnt and them. huh. i am one of the island. it is not a lot of that and most of them valesh been how can i home with how come on who love the bottom deadline will kind of flush a lot of them open. yahoo! and that them into sold of, you know, me on to a h

it is the 1st major suicide attack in baghdad in several years. so far today, no group is claimed responsibility. b i. k. i b ki shawnee quick at danielle bison. identity up december. yeah. out of do she know see to come quarterman did mackenzie could you didn't like it may be on paper tv, but we do seem to get your c d o isn't gas on this? you know it's void a socket 2 is obvious. if this is we all come to put if and he comes from induced gym chris for me to virginia dick until i talked to somebody with a beam volatile, dietary. wow. how do you have? i'm welcome. welcome to josh channel one. how much it was to do a little land title or lunch anyway. watching it on the job. and the girl called couple of ali at home should choose had the attendant told i the only how can i get my whole night not only just home now i didnt and the zone and them huffman i'm just one of the album it is not a lot of that, and most of them valesh been how can i home with how come with a little more can flush a lot of them open. yahoo in their them into sold of you know,

bequeathed by napoleon the material embodiment of this was the construction of the berlin constantinople baghdad railway november 8, 1898 in damascus, kaiser wilhelm delivered a speech that marked a new meaning of the german east politicians. on earth they will be sure that the german emperor will always remain their friend. kaiser wilhelmmann the second damascus 1898 is definitely a bet on islam as a battering ram on the way domination is attacked by islamism, as opposed to competitors and britain, russia, a bet on the pan-islamism of the ottoman empire, and not on its collapse. naturally, after the defeat of germany in the first world war, it was precisely the stake on collapse that was implemented. what happened to germany after the treaty of versailles is well known, the much less well-known serbian treaty had consequences for the ottoman empire that were not measurably more catastrophic than the sevsk peace treaty. signed on august 10, 1920, so the treaty of the ottoman empire lost 80% of its lands to england transcaucasia received jordan iraq and then egypt dan and cyprus france syria or i

and if you follow my fingers up to baghdad at 30, now that does seem excessive, this time yet you be right to think so, because the average is 21. so it was 10 degrees above what i get to wednesday, but that's accompanied often by a wind and it'll be a dusty one once again by wednesday. but back to monday and the wind is so potentially fairly dusty. so at q 8 non, sorry, may be as fast as a buck. rain and cutter road. don't think so. showers over the hills are going to be of rain at the mountains of snow in iran. just a series of storms have been coming through the last few weeks, giving significant significant snow and thunderstorms to afghanistan widely during tuesday. got big a picture, then took you back to live, and once we seen the shower disappeared because choosing out from this part of the round by start to reappear. coming out of turkey, the southern co, chris's but the sample that is looking pretty dry. the story in southern africa, of seasonal rain is with that time the year we start the rain falling in the locker of anger. delta which is down here. northwest a botswana m

know that to the they can execute these missions and to baghdad. and have everybody come back safe and sound is a testament to, as frankly, the professionalism of these people. and also waiving to the troops as they went by giving them up the soldiers themselves, feeling a certain sense of relief. waving back. still the only thing of a shot back and forth between the 2 was a sense of gratitude, apparently. and it seemed to have gone reasonably well. and despite the devastating civilian casualties it caused the term shock and awe became so popular. in the aftermath of the invasion, the trademark application store for everything from energy drinks to video games, but the reality of the iraq war was far, far different than the media coverage. hundreds of civilians were killed and thousands wounded by the us led coalition and incidents involving the still yet to be universally been w m. d 's. according to iraq body count which maintains the largest public database on casualties related to the invasion. well, the killing of civilians was rarely shown by

know that they can execute these missions into baghdad and have everybody come back safe and sound is a testament to as franklin professionalism to these people. and also waiving the troops as they went by giving them a thumbs up the. busy soldiers themselves feeling a certain sense of relief waving back. so the only thing of a shot back and forth between the 2 was a sense of gratitude, apparently had it seemed to have gone reasonably well. these papers across the western world, we are eager to support the invasion despite the violence inflicted by the shock and old tactic of the us led coalition, military, which cause massive collateral damage. and with even described by its creators as akin to dropping a nuclear bomb. shutting the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shut down in control of the flow of all vital information and associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock. akin to the effect that dropping nuclear weapons on hiroshima and nagasaki had on the japanese hall. let's get more now and go liv

taking of westerners in kuwait with us. ambassador joseph wilson is told to negotiate their release in baghdad. i have not slept in several days. i had thousands of americans in distress in kuwait . i had hundreds of hostages. i was not in a very good mood, and i represent the united states of america. i thought it was what is seats and foreign minister ta kaziz. i showed over the form in history and i get summoned into this room, a nurse said on. he's wearing his bought party uniform, he's got a gun on and he had these very deep brown eyes and he would fix you with a stare and unblinking. and i didn't have any talking points as i didn't know. i was meeting him. so i just went through what i figured, what u. s. government pawleys was going to be, which is your violation of the un charter. and by the way, quit taking american sausage and quit looting our properties. this was to be the last meeting between the dictator and an american official. before they're fried, the hostages need to serve their purpose. ah, saddam hussein is now tie in his tactics to hide behind western women and children an

he was born a soldier, army national guard, combat medic, in kosovo and iraq station, near baghdad, just yards from bern, pitched the size of football fields. danielle is here with us tonight. they love going to ohio state football game, law building leg goes with their daughter cancer from prolonged exposure to burn pitch, ravage he longs in body. danielle says he was a fighter to the very end. he didn't know how to stop fighting and neither did she . for a pain, she found purpose to demand that we do better to night, daniel, we are going to do better the da da as far a new ways of linking talk to dispose of disease. already helping more veterans get benefits. and tonight, i'm announcing we're expanding eligibility at veterans suffering from 9 respiratory cancers. i'm also calling on congress to pass a law to make sure veterans devastated by toxic exposure in iraq and afghanistan, finally get the benefits to the comprehensive health and 4th, last, let's in cancer as we know it. this is 1st me this is person the main to jill and a comma. and so many of you. so many of you lost someone yo

now that's giving quite warm weather for the time of year in baghdad. for example, the average is around about $21.00. this time yes, so it up to about 10 degrees higher than that or when say, unfortunate, that means usually you bring your subtly with that it's a dusty one quite likely on wednesday. now as i said, we've got things spread across iran towards afghans and significant sto, seems likely during tuesday, maybe doesn't cobble, but not far away from cobble and low levels. it will be rain, a zip for the south. i'm still looking for a big house in kenya, they're not. and yet they're in tanzania and then across further west in and go, in fact, that seasonal rain in and go run, it stretches down through western botswana, the acr of anger delta. this bit here where you see the wildlife bloom as the rains start to fall on the delta floods. and that's the forecast for monday, stretching all way down to the south coast of africa. ah, the little is more distressing for a woman than a month 20 pregnancy going horribly wrong. aside from then being punished

unless you got something went to run into baghdad, where it was just kind of a thunder run in the regime capitulated. but here they're not doing that right. they're fighting. and so it's going to be an extended fight in, in, as you saw in the south. right, even if they take the city and you're no longer fighting michelle for his, i think you're going to start to see, you know, the insurgency brewing there and they'll, and they'll continue to attack the russian forces that are in the city. oh was great to get your thoughts, former defensive, varsity crime, liam collins. thanks so much. thank you. he cried, and russia have reportedly made progress on establishing humanitarian corridors for civilians. caught in the fighting an advisor to ukrainian president zalinski tweeted that the 2nd round of face to face talks in believers were over. he said, what you crime does not have the result needs yet. there are decisions only on the organization of humanitarian corridors. he added that the 2 sides also agreed to keep talking d, w 's international. it is a richer walker is with me in the studio,

be honest, joy, it would be night and day to what we experienced in fallujah and i experience in baghdadface a nightmare on every street. just to be clear, the world's best military, we penetrated fallujah on night one we sat in the middle of it. russia will hit a concrete wall of ukrainians. there are thousands of them and highly trained ukrainian military backed by the best tank killing machines in the world that we provided them. russia approaches a meat grinder and they know it and they're scared. >> so what would be the, you know, the case for doing it? it does seem to me that they've faced, you know, a very determined population. we made it clear we don't want them there. we face it in iraq. iraq had a government people didn't support. so they weren't fighting for the government. there is nobody fighting for the government. in this case, they are going to fight for that government. they are going to fight for each other. it seems to me -- i guess i keep saying this, it doesn't seem sane to take the city but they are determined to do it. what would be the case for trying? >> they wi