iranian foreign minister hussein amir abdullahyan arrived in damascus where he met president bashar al-assad and discussed bilateral relations. president assad warned that the us supply of weapons to israel threatens to expand the war in gaza. amir abdullahyan said the aggression against gaza is considered the main issue at the regional and international levels, noting that syria is in the frontline of supporting the... fields. president ibrahim raisi has extended an official invitation to president assad to visit iran. we condemn the illegal presence of us forces in syrian territory. our two countries share identical views concerning the support that should be given to the people in the gaza strip in light of the genocide perpetrated by the israeli occupation. syria has fought wars against the israeli occupation and remains prepared to engage when necessary, but we decide that timing and approach. the repeated assaults by the zionist entity on syrian territories are a direct result of syrian resistance against this entity. the iranian minister concluded by stating that the onslot on gaza mu

iranian foreign minister hussein amir abdullahyan arrived in damascus where he met president bashar al-assad and discussed bilateral relations. president assad warned that the us supply of weapons to israel threatens to expand the war in gaza. amir abdullahyan said the aggression against ghazza is considered the main issue at the regional and international levels, noting that syria is in the front line of supporting the palestinian people and their cause. amir abdullahyan also met with his counterpart faisal madhdad. they condemned the us aggression on syria, iraq and yemen and the repeated israel attacks on syria. they later held a press conference. i discussed with president the latest regional and international developments. the leaders of our two countries are willing to achieve remarkable progress through cooperation in various fields. president ibrahim. has extended an official invitation to president assad to visit iran. we condemn the illegal presence of us forces in syrian territory. our two countries share identical views concerning the support that should be given to the people in

so-called jihad against syria in order to fulfill the zianist agenda of taking out the president bashar al-assad in order to cut off the weapon slow between iran and lebanon and palestine. um so so they're quick to act when it comes to their sectarian aims and serving the us and israely agendas of getting revenge against resistance access countries like syria, but when it comes to palestine uh... they do practically nothing and they even shake hands and and control with these terrorist murderers who are killing their who are killing their muslim brothers, their arab brothers, the palestinian people who they put a face of pretending to care about, so um the reason for this discrepancy between the terms of the deal has to do with uh the untrustworthy nature of the gcc and various international organizations like the un and etc. well when you when you talk to about um shower risby the fact that the us was buying time made me think that uh throughout the what so-called uh peace process that was happening on so many different stages throughout the past decades um we have seen how us has indeed been a

federal officials or employees from taking any action to recognize a syrian government led by bashar al assad. the bill also expands existing sanctions related to the syrian conflict to cover additional activities and persons, individuals and entities. the department of state must provide congress with a strategy to counter for and government efforts to normalize relations with the bashar al assad regime. the details in that bill suggests a number of 2 things. the 1st one is of course that the united states is trying to legitimize its presence in the syria. but more importantly, it's also trying to legitimize its presence to ensure that it can ensure its interests are not affected by the many different actors within the region. of course, this takes into consideration, rush out circuit. iran, the united states, many european countries, namely speaking, fronts, have all, have some parts of play. but what's really important here is of course, of these, the current situation. for the most part, many of the clashes, or the general outlooks of war, had been diminishing. many nations have been disc

bashar al-assad, they both discussed the... relations between the two countries, the on the strategicey confirmed also both of them that the palestinian people in gaza must not be left alone, and all support possible must be provided to to gaza to withstand and defeed the israeli regime, supporting the resistance was main priority of the discussion, dr. also considered gazza the cause of the whole world, not only the region, not only palestine, it's the it's an international cause and there's a genocide that must be stopped immediately, they he went, he later went to to meet the foreign minister dr. faisal maqdad, they also they also both discussed the uh the work the... framework of the ministers after the latest agreements between the two presidents and they both of them also condemn the israeli attacks and on his part uh thanks the iranian foreign minister uh for iran's position towards syria its support. palestine has risen from the ashes, the nation has gone a long way in its struggle against the occupation regime of israel, from throwing stone to flying drones. but who can deny

bashar al-assad, they both discuss the bilateral relations between the two countries, the on the strategic level, political, economic level, they discussed the latest development, especially after the latest memorandums and agreements. by uh by the two presidents, president raisi and president asad in the last visit of president trisy, they also confirmed both of them that the us uh attacks and israeli attacks on syria and other countries in the region are contributing escalate uh the conflict more and it it may take the region to a dangerous place, they confirmed also both of them that the palestinian people in gaza must not be left alone and all support possible must be provided. to uh to gaza to withstand and defeat the israeli regime, supporting the resistance was a main priority of the discussions, condemning the israeli attacks and the the the the occupation, the us illegal occupation of part of syria, the president considered that what the resistance in gaza achieved uh is unprecedented, nothing alike before happened. so they must not be left alone, the iranian minister, sorry, dr.

counterpart held close to size between the two nations mentioned he had talks to the syrian president bashar al-assad as well as um the syrian foreign minister all gear toward regional developments of which the israeli campaign of genocide of palestinians in gaza topp that list. he also mentioned the marcherdoms of assyrians and iranians on syrian soil by the us and the israeli regime were also discussed. he said that both um mcdad and am condemned occupation of syrian soil by foreign forces, namely us, israel and turkey, and there the regimes maline activities in the region, including it's a genocide in gaza and attacks on syrian soil, that was the second leg of um the iranian foreign minister's a regional tour before he was at the lebanese capital damascus, we also met with um dignitaries there to discuss the latest developments related again to the bessieg gazo strip, and now back to your world news bulletin here: on press tv today marks the anniversary of the victory of iran's islamic revolution, which toppled the us back pahlabi regime 45 years ago. millions of people took to the streets to cele

bashar al-assad accused israel of war crimes against the palestinian people under the cover of the westhe also emphasized that arab countries must firmly stand on the side of the palestinian people and provide them with all possible assistance. artillery of the south military district. blew up a rotation of ukrainian troops in the zaporozhye direction of the special operation. the vso's attempt to renew its personnel was noticed by our military with the help of aerial reconnaissance. the coordinates of the targets were received by the multiple launch rocket system calculations. the crew of the nomadic tornado-g crew carried out strikes on the enemy. firing range 40 km. and it is equipped with an optimized control system, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the execution of the fire mission, that is, the time to open fire on a target on a prepared and unprepared the prepared firing position is significantly reduced in the area of ​​1040 square meters, it covers the package, if these are armored targets, then 860 km. at the front line of the defense of the donetsk direction , ukrainian

bashar al-assad, they both discussed the bilateral relations between the two countries, the on the strategic the palestinian people in gaza must not be left alone and all support possible must be provided to to gaza to withstand and defeat the israeli regime. supporting the resistance was main priority of the discussion. dr. hussein amir abdullahan also considered gaza the cause of the whole world, not only the region, not only palestine, it's the it's an international core. and there's a genocide that must be stopped immediately. they he went, he later went to to meet the foreign minister dr. faisal maqdad, they also they also both discussed the the work, the framework of the ministers after the latest agreements between the two presidents and they both of them also condemn the israeli attacks. and on his part uh minister thanked the iranian uh foreign minister uh for iran's position towards syria, its support. this year iran is marking the 45th anniversary of the victory of the glorious islamic revolution. this great revolution inspired many across the world, especially the people. of afri

asia in response to the drone attacks by the iraqi resistance against the us base that president bashar al-assad informed the world that this is actually a isis training center that is the us base, so they want us to cry crocodile tears for the strike on their isis training. center, they never struck iran because they're too scared to, so any kind of deescalation if the deescalatory faction uh wins over is not due to their humanitarianism, but it's due to basically humiliation, they have no choice but to deescaly, and the same time you see very psychopathic leaders like netanyahu who are trying escalate further within the restraints that they have, because of you know they they just cannot win in this situation militarily ' so they're going to lose on both sides, just how much more blood is going to be spilled, on the deescalatory side, they're going to come in with soft war, they're going to come in with another oslo accords, to humiliate gaza and put gaza under the control of a palestinian leadership that is puppet of the zionist regime in the same way that mahmoud abbas and the palestinian au

but the russians, the difference here is the russians were invited there by president bashar al assad, unlike the us. now, congress did not vote to go to war with syria. wire. us troops still being placed in harm's way. and as many would describe it as illegally occupying syrian lan. i mean, is there some sort of legal or diplomatic loophole that we all missed? you know, of course not. i mean let's, let's, let's go over this notion that there's anything like a u. s. constitutional or us rule of law that governs any of these things that we, that we've logged long since left therapy high. but i think there's a couple things you may not need to understand here. first of all, isis is just a pretext to that. for the better part of the 3rd of a century, there's been this obsession in a us policy makers without basically occupying but least 1st occupying iraq and then bring down syria, bring down the wrong, have total american control. the region of the reasons for that are complex, but there's no doubt but that that's what would be trying to do. and iraq was the wind spin. unfortunately, wh

bashar al-assad in syria, who controlled him, iran?hese proxies throughout these areas who do they work for, iran and what other country is solidly controlled by iran and hezbollah? lebanon. all of it is an attempt by iran to reshape is that region. goal number one for them is to try to get americans out and they've been fairly successful after our adventures in iraq and afghanistan pushing us out. now they want these bases out and certainly want to divide any alliance israel would have from saudi arabia as well. there's you political aspects as well. rachel: as an american. i would like us to have shipping routes. we are to get things in and out. do we need to have a big presence to secure the commerce part of this? rachel: you want to land capabilities. if i come off of this. on the arabian peninsula we have other options on the arabian peninsula that are not necessarily in a rack and syria. if we were to remove our troops we would want to do it on our own terms. the calculation we are told by our leaders right now is all these bases

and when we get guys like the other guy, griff jenkins interviewed syrian men, we don't talk to bashar al-assad, a lot of them are here to stay. some are considered "special interest" aliens, additional vetting from the federal government. others, even if the government would like to deport them, some home countries will not take them back. recalcitrant countries. >> john: the meantime, they get to stay. bill melugin, extraordinary reporting, thank you, bill, talk to you soon. >> i walked in the very shoes of those who stand on the thin blue line, protecting us from those who seek to disrupt the peace that we all deserve in our communities. >> sandra: that's louisiana governor jeff landry urging his state legislature to pass stricter crime policies. coming up, we will ask the governor himself about declaring a state of emergency that he just did to bump up police officer presence in his state as he works to restore law and order in louisiana. >> john: plus, president biden off to california for campaign events as calls for him to step aside grow louder. chris bedford and jonathan are up next on

shipping lanes and global trade in syria, a paramilitary group called shubi, organized by president bashar al-assadria, shia militias, they all act as a conduit and an enforcer to convey runs message to the world >> iran would recruit, train organized these militia groups who had their strategic and tactical relationship with iran. >> java >> will receive funding for military weaponry and they would also be integrated into a command and control structure. sure, >> of the boats force quds force is the most elite part of iran's revolutionary guard responsible for growing in the axis of resistance. that task fell on the broad shoulders of notorious quds force commander qasem soleimani, who took great offense at bushes axis of evil label. >> here was a person who is just hated by the west and by american officials because he has been the leader of most efforts that have involved threats to the united states a rocket attack on the baghdad airport kills the wrongs. most revered military leader when the us assassinated soleimani in 2020, the result my dip backfired, galvanizing iran and its allies. >> it

of course, they almost certainly, beth, would not have informed the government of bashar al assad, which is an enemy. so what do you make of the fact that there were no other allies in this operation? the u.s. took great pains to assemble a coalition when it came to striking the houthis in yemen. there was a whole international group to escort those ships through the red sea. there has been targeting of coalition facilities in iraq and syria, and yet the u.s. went at this alone. >> yeah, i don't -- i mean they killed three americans, so that is our job to do that. also i think our allies have been reluctant to join in. i mean you look at the red sea and really only the u.k. is fully participating. you have the indians there have been helping out, you have the french, they're mainly escorting french ships. so, you know, this is really limited in terms of nobody wants to be on the dime, the receiving end of potential iranian retaliation. and so, you know, it's our fight, and they're happy for us to do it. >> one other thing i wanted to mention was we're the only ones that have intercontine

when we sent tom a hack -- tomahawk missiles into syria after bashar al assad used gas on civilians,e said it was a human red line we weren't going to tolerate. if you don't do something like thissing we're going to see more of the same. what are you going to do if you're the iranians right now? they're probably going, boy, we dodged a bullet on that one. they're not coming downtown at us. okay, we'll just keep funding these other organizations and let 'em keep shooting at americans. i don't think we've solved anything by this except if blowing up a lot of buildings, a lot of as a fault and sand, and i don't think -- asphalt and sand, and i don't think we've gone to the cause which is preventing them from doing something further. larry: you know with, waiting six days gave, i mean, in a sense gives these iran-backed militias time to seek cover. some reports in the papers or and elsewhere are suggesting they went to iran, but it doesn't look like we're going to touch iran. lindsey graham is making very forceful criticism. we're trying to get him either on the phone or on the show, but

and even the regime of bashar al-assad in syria. these groups, they answered to tehran. but at the same time, they have their own constituencies that they have to answer to. they have to turn around and be politicians. they have to govern, especially when we are talking about something like hezbollah, or i'm speaking to you from southern lebanon, from early in the crisis, into mid november. we are talking about a major outfit, that had had the kind of leading role in the resistance against israel, and the pro palestinian force. now, they really don't have that position. it's been usurped by the houthis in yemen. so all of these groups, they can benefit, and they can sort of, they can sort of be damaged by their iranian influence. in terms of the hezbollah and lebanon, they are not necessarily going to benefit by dragging the lebanese people into war. the lebanese people probably never forgive hezbollah for doing that. so we are talking all of these different groups, and they are swirling around the middle east. when we talk about these reprisal attacks by the united stat

demonstrators peacefully gathered to express against the corrupts and murderous regime of dictator bashar al-assad. people carrying roses and shouting, peaceful, peaceful, were met with unspeakable atrocities. it was merciless slaughter, systemic rape, ultimately chemical warfare used against the people of syria as we saw when president donald trump acted so quickly to try to address the atrocities of chemical warfare. we had devastating bombardment and the killing of so many civilians that the united nations has stopped counting at over half a million innocent civilians. assad did not act alone. his ability to kill opposition and regain territory was made possible by the support of like-minded war criminals and kleptocontracts like putin and the iran regime. assad has displaced over half the population of syria. this is nearly 10 million people in a country of 20 million. sadly, families are living in refugee camps for over a decade. they've lost their homes, their businesses, their religious institutions, their schools, multiple generations that they worked together to build such a successful co

then a lot of these groups were fighting on the side of bashar al assad at syria.e of the groups are fighting with isis too. some of these groups like the houthis in yemen were fighting in war that the saudi led coalition was pursuing in yemen. they have a capacity to deal with a degree of violence and to essentially not give up their core mission of trying to influence events, and i'm, in trying to espouse their ideology. i think what success looks like is a murkier definition of the attacks on u.s. forces, slow down or stop, our troops are more secure than they were before this took place, and ultimately, the only true path to real deescalation in this region has to come through gaza. that's been the precipitating factor in this more recently escalation across the region and i think a cease-fire there is the kind of thing that would more definitively calm things down, even though it wouldn't eliminate, obviously, the contest that's been going on for a very long time between iran and iran-backed groups and lots of places and their various adversaries. >> andrew, i

official action to recognize or normalize relations with any government of syria that is led by bashar al-assad and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 389, nays are 32. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed. and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. he. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. please, all members, if you have conversations, please take them off the floor. the house will be in order. >> five marines who tragically lost their lives -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady will suspend. for

section, you write about a cross country trip you took in syria in 2005, just five years after bashar al assadly modernizing and opening its borders to toursists and foreign investment after decades of isolation under former president hafez al-assad. they chose to believe it'd be likelier to be set free because they'd tasted freedom themselves. i can see the seeds of the 2011 revolution when a young, mobile, ambitious generation of arabs witnessed the arab spring uprisings and believed they, too, could ask for more freedom and opportunity. today, as i read my notes, i feel a quasi-physical pain, knowing that the hopes of the university students i interviewed that day were likely never realized. the country's youth would later be betrayed, shot, imprisoned, or exiled. they were sacrificed." hala, you describe so beautifully there that moment of hope that we saw in the middle east, only to be squashed. i mean, nowhere more brutally than syria. of course, where your parents came from. >> absolutely. 2005 was when we started feeling, and there was this kind of impetus, young people were infused wi

where was the concern when tens of thousands of palestinians were being massacred in syria by bashar al—assad'st's israel that's involved, it's a different ball game. >> very interesting. thank you. gary, chairman of the national jewish assembly, gary eamonn there. >> up next, our old navy has failed yet again. i'm afraid to launch a trident missile. it was rather embarrassing. the conservative mp tobias ellwood, former soldier who was the chairman the commons defence chairman of the commons defence select is going to select committee, is going to join britain's join us here in britain's newsroom . you're listening to gb news radio . and i'm afraid another radio. and i'm afraid another royal navy trident trident missile test has failed. >> it misfired and crashed into the ocean just yards from the nuclear sub that launched it . nuclear sub that launched it. >> that's right. it's the second failed test in a row since 2016. so joining us now is a former chair of the defence select committee, tobias ellwood. good morning tobias. should this kind of thing happen in testing situations it's clearly s