just broke with brett mcgurk who's on the ground in baghdad representing me and poetess doing a great job forming a strong iraqi government on national basis is essential to the enduring defeat of isis except he didn't do that great of a job as you can see the score still two three iran. for months now of our breaking news story this hour the russian defense military says one of its military planes was downed by a misfire alone by syria's added fence systems overnight but it's looking at is well as the one responsible for the incident it claims israeli fighter jets used the russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the syrian forces well as a result fifteen russian military personnel were killed in the end we can get all the latest details now from our middle east correspondent for the clear for that thank you for joining us can you bring us up to speed on all the details please. what are you hearing from the russian defense ministry is that it is well behaved irresponsibly it also says that israel created to quote a dangerous situation in syria that resulted in a russian

but what was trump special envoy brett mcgurk up to in iraq there sure were a lot of meetings and talks to win iraqis back to the right side even his boss mike pompei appraised his work just broke with britain the good who's on the ground in baghdad representing me imposed just doing a great job forming a strong iraqi government to a national basis is essential to the ensuring defeat devices except he didn't do that great of a job as you can see the score still two three iran. middle east expert paul haroon believes iran seeking any potential support to combat the us sanctions iraqi government basically has access to a lot of the rest of the world's markets in a way that iran doesn't have and this puts in the united states in a really difficult situation where you know iraq you know has been a now-i of the united states you know for a number of years but iran is now seeking to gain more influence in the region the iranian government is looking for any number of allies to come muster in order to basically work its way around the sanctions that the u.s. has reimposed after the joint congr

eisel coalition brett mcgurk referred to adlib as the biggest al-qaeda haven since nine eleven we can have a listen together to that. is a province just the largest a safe haven since nine eleven and it's live now is a huge problem it is an al qaeda safe haven right on the border of turkey. well washington's rhetoric regarding it does seem to have changed since then why do you think that is. well i think since that report maybe our position hasn't changed too much but the evidence is out that we are playing too many games with the because we've used al-qaeda and exactly as we say but the position for our institute is you know come home and mind our own business and try to set a good example for the world rather than thinking that we own the world because many of us believe that what we're doing is trying to maintain a modern day amp hour and that requires a lot of force and causal requires a lot of lying to do miss misinformed people in order for the american people to go along with that but i don't think the american people are well informed on this issue and that's why they tolerate

but what was trump special envoy brett mcgurk up to in iraq there sure were a lot of meetings and talks to win iraqis back to the right side even his boss mike pompei appraised his work just broke with britain the good who's on the ground in baghdad representing me imposed just doing a great job forming a strong iraqi government to a national basis is essential to the enduring defeat devices except he didn't do that great of a job as you can see the score still two three iran middle east expert pull her really believe they are wrong thinking any potential support to combat the u.s. sanctions. iraqi government basically has access to a lot of the rest of the world's markets in a way that iran doesn't have and this puts in the united states in a really difficult situation where you know iraq you know has been the now idea of the united states you know for a number of years but iran is now seeking to gain more influence in the region the iranian government is looking for any number of well isaac and muster in order to this work its way around the sanctions that the u.s. has reimposed after

. >> as long as it is not brett mcgurk. >> i do not know about that. >> that is just me. >> i don't necessarily agree with that, but i think iraqis are able to sustain engagement. people who get to know their background. right now, with the diplomatic team in the country, there is some of that. that is why iraqis care about the panel that you have now. >> they do care about it. on a serious note about brett. he condemned the attack on the iranian consulate in the iraqis wondered why he did that. he recently asked sunni arm members to back body and they publicly said he was trying to pressure him and they are going against his recommendations. he's lost a lot of trust with the kurdish parties based on the actions over the last year. as you look at these u.s. engagement in iraq, you can read in the narratives that everything is okay. i heard something from dod today that i could not believe. that the u.s. has more influence in baghdad then i ran does, we have never been a strong as we are now with the kurds. i can disagree with those two narratives more. what are your thoughts? >> i think i would

brett mcgurk condemned the attack on the iranian consulate and iraqis wondered why he did that. he recently asked members to they publicly stated he was trying to pressure them and they went against his recommendations. with parties process -- specifically based on actions of last year. these u.s. at engagement in iraq, you could build these narratives that everything is ok. i heard something from dod i could not believe. the u.s. has more influence in that death and i run does and we have never been stronger than we are now. here's disagree those narratives more. i think you thoughts >> i would disagree -- what are your thoughts? >> i think it would disagree a little bit. it is important to remember ironic difficult to compete with in terms of conducting promisee and building a relationship. we have a textbook we have to follow. we have rules, we have protocol. we have law. chiron has a lot more flexibility cousin is not bound by stakes. it has building relationships, four decades. he fought alongside -- in the trenches. have you met that? what kind of relationship? you ignore