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al assad bashar assad is a war criminal thugs and a murderer like bashar al assad it's already begun their equating duro to kim jong un that's crazy talk you might think there are no concentration camps there are elections with dora himself he joins a very exclusive club including mr mcgarvie. and and and kim jong un in terms of the real repression of his people what about this guy the king of saudi arabia his opponents a tortured and executed in public his family controls everything in saudi arabia he has deprived his people of freedom democracy choice talk about dancing with the devil. what does washington do sells hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons to saudi arabia. that for double standards us foreign policy is entirely hypocritical i mean they only characterize government says dictatorial or authoritarian when they're not favorable to us interests us maintains close ties and supports their monarchy in saudi arabia that's one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world when it comes to putting labels on governments and other nations it all depends on who's a

we should respect that, and we should sit across the table from bashar al-assad. thank you very much. >> thank you, john kiriakou at our next speaker is matthew hoh, a former state department official who resigned in protest from his post in afghanistan over your strategic policy and goals in that country. he resigned in september 2009. it's worth noting that the council on foreign relations has cited his resignation letter as an essential document in the history of the war in afghanistan. prior to his diplomatic assignment, mr. hoh serve to deployment as a marine in iraq. i should mention that matthew hoh like john kiriakou and we just heard the advisory board of expose program at the institute for public accuracy which has been in this building here at the national press club facility for 18 years, and i'm the executive director of the institute for public accuracy. here now is matthew hoh. >> thank you, norman. i just want to begin my remarks by noting that we have a new chief of staff in the white house, and one of my concerns over these last many years of our

we should respect that and we should sit across the table from bashar al-assad. thank you very much. mr. solomon: thank you. our next speaker is matthew ho. he is a former state department official who resigned in protest from his post in afghanistan over u.s. strategic policy and goals in that country. 2009.igned in september it is worth noting that the council on foreign relations has cited his resignation letter as an essential document in the history of the war in afghanistan. prior to his diplomatic assignment, he served two deployments in iraq. i should mention that matthew is on theohn kiriakou advisory board at the institute for public accuracy, which has been in this building and the national press club the silly for 18 years and i am the -- press club facility and i have been the director for 18 years. here is matthew ho. thank you. i want to begin my remarks by noting we have a new chief of staff in the white house and one of my concerns over these last many years of our campaigns of our wars in the middle east, what really is the most accurate -- our

bashar al-assad. >> bashar al-assad, i know you mispronounced his name a few times. >> who didn't evenusing chemical weapons. jonathan, somebody's asking questions, it's not your press briefing. major, you want to come on up? and with that, i'll take some questions. steve holland. >> steve holland's not here. >> david jackson. >> david's not here. >> i'll let the tweets speak for themselves. that's the silliest thing i've ever heard. this is silly. stop shaking your head again. >> sean, come on, sean. sean... >> sean... ( applause ) >> trevor: good buy -- goodbye, spice. we'll -- we'll -- we'll miss -- we'll -- we'll -- we'll miss -- we'll be right back. which one of you has been eating all we'll -- we'll -- we'll miss -- we'll be right back. the cheetos snacks? okay, i've given you guys a chance to confess. this little baby can detect trace amounts of cheetos dust. whaaaaat? gloria? kids? [meow] when did we get a cat? dangerously cheesy. jwith seasoned beaf,d, but he's comforting himself hearty potatoes and warm nacho cheese sauce. bye jenny. ♪ taste the comfort with the new dollar be

. ♪ ♪ charlie: what do you think of president bashar assault -- president bashar al-assad? sharif: it is my business -- it is not my business to think about him. it is the business of the people of syria. they should decide for themselves. charlie: for you to say that is in a sense -- javan sharif: i'm not. charlie: it's not my business, no matter what he does -- javan sharif: what happens in syria has been the consequence imposing outside syria redlines that this gentleman or another gentleman, or lady, should or should not be in the government. charlie: he said the use of chemical weapons -- javan sharif: but chemical weapons -- charlie: what happened in the iran-iraq war should be at the top of the list. people are saying of syria uses chemical weapons, it is a crime against humanity. javan sharif: we said that, and -- charlie: you shouldn't be supporting a regime that uses chemical weapons. javan sharif: you have to stop that, because who has -- i cannotthe fact accept the united states, which is a party to the conflict, along with its allies, who are parties -- charlie

bashar al assad and the russians are one."e massive destruction, the tiny efforts at reconstruction appear almost like a drop in the bucket. inside the bombed and burned ruins, aleppo's industry is starting to spring back to life. we came across this textile shop where they repaired the machines and are manufacturing clothes once again. "when the people who fled see that business is coming back, they'll return, and we'll work together to make aleppo as great as it used to be and even better," the shift leader says. aleppo's historic old town is a unesco world heritage site. much of it now reduced to rubble. some of the fiercest battles revolved around the highest point of the city, the ancient citadel. the ancient citadel was one of the main battlegrounds in aleppo. like so many parts of the city, repairing the damage will be a monumentous task. we climbed to the highest point of the citadel getting a stunning view of all of aleppo. one of the oldest cities in the world. badly damaged but now with a chance to stand up once aga

my business to think about president bashar, it's the people of syria. we should provide them with the opportunity to decide for themselves. >> rose: it's none of your business, that's, for you to say that is in a sense -- >> i'm making no no no. >> rose: it's not his business no matter what he does. >> i think what happens in syria has been the consequences of people outside syria imposing red lines from this gentleman or another gentleman or lady should or should not be in the government. >> rose: the issue was the use of chemical weapons. >> we reject the use of chemical weapons. >> rose: iran more than any other contemporary because what happened to you in the iraq-iran war should be at the top of the list people saying if syria uses chemical weapons it's a crime against humanity. >> we said that. >> rose: you shouldn't be supporting a regime that uses chemical weapons. >> you got to stop there because who has established that. i cannot accept the united states which is a party to the conflict along with its allies -- >> rose: you're a party -- >> no

mogave, bashar al assad and kim jong un in terms of the brutal repression of his people and in this case, the abrogation of the constitution with the constitution, with the assembly, constituent assembly. >> in a maduro responded to the u.s. calling president trump an emperor, saying he's proud of the sanctions and warning mr. trump that his biggest mistake in life will be messing with venezuela. >>> back home, a surge of children dying in hot cars, prompting congress to take action. they want technology in cars to alert parents when a child is left behind. 30 children have died in hot cars. 11 of those deaths were last month. and senator john mccain is back home in arizona after his dramatic thumbs-down vote on the gop health care bill. his office says senator mccain is getting chemo therapy for his brain cancer at the mayo clinic in phoenix, he's also set to receive radiation treatment. over the weekend he shared a photo tweeting old man and his daughter on the mountain. >>> and what's left of tropical storm emily, now a tropical depression is slowly making its way a peninsula. the bul

also, bolivia of having the remnant of nazi germany and bashar -- exile. -- in exile. i think it would be a mistake to follow this myth of bolivian nationalism to its conclusion. sees the u.s. acting as a tool of the locals. on the one hand, it is fair to say that we were dealing with a. in which anti-fascism continued to influence some in the united states. that was one of the reasons why some in the truman administration believed that not bolivians,iance with but also an alliance with bolivian communists would benefit the united states. if you're are still thinking along at that fascist lines, they are still a potential ally. the u.s. ambassador at the time actually came on to washington. it is a good thing for both bolivia and the u.s. that the communist party of bolivia is in a power-sharing relationship with the growing oligarchs. that is to say that the emergence of the cold war -- this has come up with the earlier papers, it did not immediately affect the way the jerk -- truman administration approached bolivia. war emergedcold with more intensity, the truman ad

held concerns i've archenemy arounds backing for hezbollah whose fighters are actively supporting bashar al-assad's regime in syria. the israeli government fears his eventual victory could give pteron feather territory. to extend the threat it already faces from hezbollah's militants in neighboring lebanon. elsewhere. benjamin netanyahu accused the united nations regional peacekeeping force of not doing enough to interdict weaponry being smuggled to the militant group. something guterres a short wasn't the case. i will do. every single in my eh capacity. to make sure that you know you feel fully. meets it's meant that their idea or the intentional to wheel. her to destroy the state of israel he something totally acceptable from my perspective. do terrace also visited the holocaust memorial yad vashem way he faced calls from the israeli president to clamp down on what he called bias within the institute. and against the nation. while stressing his commitment to impartiality. the terrace was likely hoping to get around to discussing the billy get peace process. when he meets with palestini

qaeda affiliate groups, you on air have had commentators describing them as "moderate opposition" to bashar, anyone who thinks an al qaeda affiliate is moderate is taking a veryjaundiced view of what's happening in syria, aren't they? well, yeah, but at the time when he resigned i don't think this issue was raised at all. not with us, by him or by any other... this is an issue i'm raising. i'm not asking you to address it from his point of view, it's from my point of view. i just want to finish with him. i am not accusing him of anything, i am just saying that maybe he was forced, he was threatened. he never came to aljazeera and said, this report or that report was wrong. it has never happened. i can challenge him and he can come and show me with whom he talked. when we cover syria, like we cover everything else, we cover all the opposition to the system as we hoped that to cover the government as well. at this moment, we are still asking the government or syria to allow us to work inside, wherever the government controls the areas. they refuse. they refuse to even answer our letters. for

of involvement as well most notably its bombing of the islamic state and the bombing of president bashar al assad's military back in april of this year after it was allegedly conducted a chemical attack against its own people many people are unhappy with the u.s. is involvement in the war some citing not only does the u.s. not have a real reason to wage a war in the country but it's also unlawful today a conference call no what u.s. warplanes over syria was held at the national press club in washington there were a total of five speakers at the conference including cia whistleblower john kiriakou and all three david swanson each gave their reasons why they support a petition that's calling on congress and defense secretary james mattis term move all of us military aircraft in syria kiriakou said the u.s. is involvement is a legal and swanson talked about the horrible impact this war is having on the syrian people take a look there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually see it's called diplomacy.

runs the country's president a dictator puts him on a par with syria's bashar al assad. beginning to ten pm here in moscow money your watching international donald trump has accused congress of bringing u.s. russia relations to an all time low in a tweet the us president said that it's thanks to the people on capitol hill who forced him to sign russia's sanctions bill he said he had to abide by the decision of the lawmakers after their landslide vote last week gave him no choice. congress can now check trump's deal making potential is by stopping him from lifting russia's restrictions the new law requires the president to obtain congressional approval for any such move earlier we discussed the growing political crisis in washington that artie's. i guess no president would like to be. shoes right now times really are getting tough as they can get for the president you know being america's top man but at the same time we think but not being able to exercise his power and even worse being cornered into making the decisions he doesn't want to make just to keep order and as w

talking about the duro in the same category as the likes of bashar al assad's kim jong il it's just here what has been said about the majority show if you join a very exclusive club including mr mugabe. should. go on in terms of the brutal repression of his people and in this case the abrogation of the constitution with the with the cost issue with the with the assembly constituent assembly that was. talking about with the other is this what's going to happen now we're going to see. continued continuously and consistently. well he's been continuously and consistently demonized by the u.s. since he first won in two thousand and thirteen after which of his passed away and there was a special election that has not changed it's ironic because maduro himself has made public overtures particularly to this administration and donald trump in fact just saying a few weeks ago that he aspired to shake trump's hand you know they have they provided funding to trump's inaugural committee you know they've been engaged in extensive lobbying to try to improve relations and this is what they get in return

of involvement as well most notably its bombing of the islamic state and the bombing of president bashar al assad's military back in april of this year after was allegedly conducted a chemical attack against its own people many people are unhappy with the us is involvement in the war some citing not only does the us not have a real reason to wage a war in the country but it's also unlawful today a conference call to know what u.s. warplanes over syria was held at the national press club in washington there were a total of five speakers at the conference including cia whistleblower john kiriakou and alter david swanson each gave their reasons why they support a petition that's calling on congress and defense secretary james mattis term move all of us military aircraft in syria kiriakou said the u.s. is involvement is a legal and swanson talked about the horrible impact this war is having on the syrian people take a look there is a solution to all of this but it's not sexy or quick or easy it's something that many of us have heard about but haven't actually see it's called diplomacy. wheth

suggest even if the united states failed in its initial goal of ousting syrian president bashar al assad it has been successful in trenching its military and influence in the country for decades to come in washington on your part until r.t. and this just in the catalonian police have confirmed four suspects have been killed in raids in campbell's the police say the raid was in connection to another impending attack the town is about one hundred twenty kilometers south of barcelona it is still unclear whether these incidents are related to the earlier car attacks and that is the news tonight follow me on twitter at the military and i am going to a chance again for actual supporting from washington we will see you again next week it's one. of a trial that we have spent countless hours went through documents to tell the story about a. corporate media rich uses to talk about the. i'm not a pretty clear picture about how disturbing our. work would be are. these are stories that you know we know it's a mark on your home. which. is a real irony going. to want to bring a responsible voice in the

crowns the country's president a dictator and puts him on the pol with syria's bashar al assad. will return next hour with more on today's top stories up next altie though it's the kaiser report stay with us. this is the kaiser report one is a monopoly not a been up place certainly of play monopoly who wants to still active are there any rules against wherry of monopolies forming on what started this debate who should care start to start. actually while we've been here in nevada o.j. simpson was released parole and you talked about monopoly not monopoly and things i think of the monopoly game and somebody came up with that idea i think it was you actually to come up with jail coin that o.j. simpson jail and that's a get out of jail free card to matter what despicable act you may have got he should work with eric holder maybe get deferred prosecution coin deferred prosecution token sort of thing well yeah my idea was o.j. simpson should launch an ice you know called juice coin so distant to mediate murder and on the side and larceny that kind of a play on that juice going basical

crowns the country's president a dictator and puts him on the pol with syria's bashar al assad. will return next hour with more on today's top stories up next altie though it's the kaiser report stay with us.

tillerson has said he does not see a future in bashar al-assad continuing to govern.e will see what transpires, what that leads to in the end. that. thank you for a lot at stake. setting up for another week of heightened geopolitical risk for markets. mining hotshots in kalgoorlie for the annual conference. aul, take us through the agenda. what are we watching for? aul: this is happening in kalgoorlie, australia's unofficial gold-mining capital. we have three days of talks and networking. there is a bit more representation from the services industry in the 2000 delegates we have. the backdrop is rising commodity prices, particularly iron ore. most of the miners will have some connection to gold, which has shown some strength since december. the gold price in australian dollars is off of tony 16 highs hasks to what is being -- been going on with the aussie dollar. we watch the deals end of the conference. australia's gold miners are cached up looking for acquisitions. the top 10 have about one point 4 billion dollars in cash. bloomberg was running a story about how som

to just even if the united states failed in its initial goal of ousting syrian president bashar al assad it has been successful in and trenching its military and influence in the country for decades to come in washington on your part until r.t. to continue this conversation i was joined by author and investigative journalist max blumenthal i first asked him why the u.s. will remain in northern syria long after the job is have been defeated. it's kind of ironic that the u.s. has managed to benefit or maybe it's not ironic maybe this was the intended goal but the u.s. is clearly benefited from a long standing project of destabilizing syria they've carved out as own of influence in eastern syria along the iraqi border and in the northern areas all the way up to ko bani using the kurdish syrian defense forces which is actually a front for the. us general basically told the kurds rename the y p g d s d f so that we can get around the terror designation because the y. p.g. is connected to the people k.k. which we and the turks consider a terror organization so through this proxy the us has est

. >> he has been compared to bar -- bashar al-assad. the people are killing their pets to be able to eat. and shooting pigeons, inflation rate is 500%. there is no civil society really that exists now. so when people talk about sanctions that were announced. directed at maduro and that is like it has not happened, it is long enough there is a concern, he moved a lot of his money out of united states, really has to happen targeting of military and militias that keep it going. we're concerned about oil, they say. they don't want to target oil, that will affect the lives of venezuelan people, those lives -- they are already desperate, they are giving their children away because they can't feed them, this is serious dynamic. >> emily the new body, called constituent national assembly, they have power to dissolve the contusion, they are all members of leftist socialest party, this group, they believe, security officials who seize the opposition leaders, they pulled them out in the middle of the night in their pajamas they are gone, it is pro

their relatives for imprisoned members of lebanon's hezbollah militia, who support syrian president basharl-assad. the exchange came as heavy fightiting continued to rarage around the isis-held city of raqqa in northern syria. the journalistic monitoring group airwars reports a u.s.-led coalition leveled a home in raqqa frid, kikilling 1515 membs of the al-zana family, including eight children. airwars also cited separate u.s.-led attacks in deir ezzor that killed 5 civilians. in iraq, airwars reported a u.s.-led assault killed ten civilians from a single family sunday, when an airstrike hit their home in the town of hawija. airwars cited a local source who reported the dead were mostly children. meanwhile, great britain's high court ruled monday that former prime mimister tony blair should not facece prosecution f for leg britain into the 2003 invasion of iraq. the court's chief justice declclared there w was no cre ef aggressionon in english law undr which blair could be charged. the ruling came despite a 2016 report that found blair deliberately exaggatated the threat posed by saddam hu

alongside syrian president -- hezbollah combatants have been fighting alongside syrian president basharsad since 2013. i'm mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. it is just after 5:30 p.m. wednesday in new york, 7:30 a.m. wednesday morning in sydney. paul has a look at the markets. paul: the positive lead from the u.s. is expected to translate to gains in the asia-pacific. we are seeing strength on nikkei futures. on the asx, we are seeing futures up by 2/10 of 1%. we will be watching rio tinto shares. they are slumping in london despite profits surging. it was, however, a miss. the market was expecting better. rio tinto also announcing a $1 billion share buyback and $2 billion dividends. we will also watch the australian dollar today with trade data from june due out. that is expected to shrink a little to a $1.8 billion surplus. sydney. allen in more from bloomberg technology next. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." tesla shares gaining in late u.s. trading. the company burning through cash less than analysts expected. the burn rate was still a quarterly record, and almost double wha

she said "right now it looks as if president bashar al-assad will escape justice if we want to negotiateeace. but one day he will have to face justice. justice must do its work because without justice there is no real peace." unquote meanwhile, syrian human rights lawyer noura ghazi safadi has announced that her husband, prominent syrian palestinian internet activist bassel khartabil, was executed by the assad regime in 2014. the news of his death has sparked international outcry and mourning, particularly among internet activists. khartabil was open source software programer who fought for an open internet and helped people across syria evade regime censorship and surveillance. in 2012, foreign policy magazine listed him as s the 19th most influential thinker of the year for "insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful syrian revolution." he was arrested by the syrian military in 2012 in damascus. the white house is considering an unprecedented plan to privatize the war in afghanistan at the urging of erik prince, founder of the now defunct private mercenary firm blackwater. prince told

. >> in 2012, minnesota senator amy call bashar, a democrat joined forces with representative michellean bachmann, a republican. >> at one point they decided to come together and lo and behold, the project occurred. >> when people come together they can produce some amazing things like this. back to you. >> jon: it's a good-looking bridge, it's an example of how a little political will and cooperation can get something done. >> in 2012, a required 100 senators all to agree to override the clean water act and amy klobuchar was able to convince one of them. you can >> jon: interesting story, congratulations, i'm glad they got it built. >> molly: we are awaiting the daily white house news briefing, set to start in about 30 minutes, we will bring it to you live when it begins and also we are keeping a close eye on the dow as the markets make history again today. we will have more on the record-setting day coming up next hour. ♪ the great beauty of owning a property is that you can create wealth through capital appreciation, and this has been denied to many south africans for generations. t

. ♪ charlie: what you think of president bashar assad and what happened to syria?> it is not my business to think of that. it is the business of the people of syria. we should provide them with the opportunity to decide for themselves. charlie: it is none of your business? is aou to say that -- copout. it is not my business, it is his business. no matter what he does >> i think what has happened in syria have been the consequences of people outside syria imposing that this gentleman should not be in the government. we reject the use of chemical weapons. charlie: iran more than any other country because of what happened to you in the iraq/iran war should be at the top of people saying if siri uses chemical weapons, it is a crime against humanity. >> we set it. charlie: you should not be supporting a regime that uses chemical weapons. >> you have got to stop there. the facts?ablished i cannot accept the united states, which is a party to the conflict, along with its allies who are parties -- charlie: you were a party to the conflict. you are funding hezbollah. >> tha