in 1924 to reestablish a bloody theocratic caliphate a theocracy in the middle east. according to the financial times, this threat group was able to raise at least $2,000,000 per day as it's budget from elicit oil sales. local taxing and hostage taking and controlled territory in multiple countries in the middle east. iraq and syria being the foremost but having territory holding affiliates in places as far apart as nigeria and according this is unclassified on the front page of the washington post to the nctc isis alone had operational affiliates in 18 nations around the globe. that was the retail of the let the we faced an organization that held ground in the middle east. wasn't running, wasn't hiding in and the middle east alone had 6,000,000 human beings that it controlled on the territory of it's new caliphate. that's just two years ago. we have been told by the last administration that isis is generational threat. remember that phrase? our children, our grandchildren would be fighting isis. >> a dis decades from now. well i guess the trump administration has red

al qaeda established afill yats and a caliphate. it was making $2 million a day from kidnapping, oil sales, you name it. i guess the trump administration managed to crush a generation into a month. jesse: the war on terror is not over, but the entire battlefield has been eliminated in terms of the caliphate in iraq and syria. and i don't think donald trump has gotten any credit because he is the one-loosened the rules of engagement and put the heavy pressure on the enemy. exactly what he said was going to happen happened. the stock market is through the roof. the isis caliphate is destroyed. that's not a bad first year if you don't count anything else. he's crushing it. this is the first jihadi organization since 1924 that succeeded to create a new one. when steve bannon and i were in the west wing, we had one objective above all else to make sure the physical caliphate is destroyed. jesse, it's already gone. jesse: that's good news. merry christmas. maybe that's the message we'll deliver to the jihadis. the truth about omorosa. >>

i think of them as kind of a cloud caliphate. they are thinking about the information battlefield in a unique way and they are using crowdsourcing to recruit people, using bitcoin to raise money. this is the new iteration, and they are thinking about extremism on a new level. host: they are not as interested in creating a physical caliphate that they would have to defend physical space? guest: that is right. they are almost exclusively in this virtual space. you do not have to travel anywhere. you can stay where you are. it is a different approach and they may be realizing there is a whole suite of things they can do like shutdown electrical grids or steal intellectual property, things that have an effect. u.s.o we as the government, international community, mobilize? we have the best thinkers in silicon valley, the best tech people, the best military. young people all over the world are trying to get on the front lines of this, that we have a collective action issue. that is why i advocate for a new manhattan project. we have th

physical caliphate. physical caliphate. we wanted to make sure that within weeks or maximum, months of coming into office with the unleashing of our military to do the job they are trained to do, the physical caliphate would be no more. we can actually make that statement, there is no isis caliphate any longer. without -- with our iraqi partners, we have taken about -- think about rocco. ago, thehree weeks last isis stronghold in syria has fallen as well. not quite a generation, maybe eight months. so how is this possible? how have we gone from this massive historic caliphate rebuilding organization to it being in its death throes, currently. very simply, because of two things. 8 -- correct determination of what the threat is and after the correct determination, the application of a strategic response. administrationma last diagnosis so inaccurate? what was the problem? we could have several day symposiums on that. but let me give you the bare-bones. the obama administration came into office with a strat

>> i this it's what you say the caliphate as it existed in owe rook and syria is crushed. used to control all of northern syria, northern iraq, western iraq, they're now down to few pieces of territory along the u freights river in sewer i can't i think the trump administration deserves some credit for that. the weight of american airstrikes and capabilities of american special operations forces would sooner or later crush the isis caliphate no matter who was in the white house. the way that general mattis, secretary of defense, was to give his commanders more authorities to make decisions in the field. so when they saw target of opportunity they didn't have to come all the way back through the chain of command to the white house to get approval. they just did. now, isis, that once existed is almost dead. as secretary mattis says over and over, they're not defeated. the caliphate is going to become isis the movement and its followers, we already see them in afghanistan, somalia, yemen, name almost any country there, these aren't fighters who for most part escaped from iraq

and the isis caliphate has collapsed. we've actually taken back with the capital of their so-called caliphate was thanks to the courage of our armed forces and the leadership of our commander in chief. we made incredible progress. >> laura: that's why asked the question about the polls. that is an unbelievable record in one year. by any standard if people are being objective. but the media, the establishment media doesn't want to give a shred of credit to this administration. many of them are actually crediting the obama administration for the economy, believe it or not. they are getting credit. getting those numbers up. i know you don't believe in the polls, but you don't think that's important in the midterms with these critical senate races given you have a lot of people who want president trump to resign. a building movement to investigate him on sexual harassment allegations. in the senate and house don't you need that majority? >> let me be clear. i'm skeptical about what the poll numbers are. but i think you can co

the final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of their resort the syrian city which i saw besieged for three years. after the loss of their resort there was not much of a state left for i saw they suffer defeat after defeat being pushed from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian air strikes sads and iraqi forces kurdish militias and hezbollah are. all russia's latest declaration that syria has been liberated from i still has sparked a new rift between key foreign forces fighting terrorists in the country we didn't sit well with the u.s. led coalition which now claim it's the only force that's made what it calls meaningful progress against islamic state parties and here and explains. everyone was gearing up to celebrate isos grip on syria was loosening and the u.s. coalition forces had the champagne on ice we are defeating isis we're really winning we know how to win places in terms of a physical caliphate will be gone by the end of the year but when the black flag was finally lowered some felt the limelight was stolen and used and about on the locals to russia's defen

no longeral caliphate exists. our troops have been published. i had the top of the top special operations guy on detail for the national security council. .ithout apropos coming up to me he said sir, you have no idea how the morale amongst our forces has skyrocketed. micromanaged and we are allowed to do our job and if it is clear that the president trusts us, much easier to win a war when that comes to your forces. we have gone under secretary mattis with a strategy of attrition, he has said this openly, a strategy of attrition to a strategy of annihilation. think about recent, unclassified reports, u.s. troops and their partners had over a thousand jihadi's surrender to them in a day. perspective, when did we ever have jihadi surrender? the whole point of jihad is what? you die. you die trying to kill the your 72because you have versions, you have the short salvation. the surrendering to end of the dow, you go straight to hell for that one. that tells you how much it really has moved from attrition to annihilation. what us to have to appreciat

peter, is the caliphate finished a least in iraq?you're talking about caliphate, the state itself, it has crumbled but i don't think that is the end of the islamic state or isis as it is also known. they could certainly return to their roots as an insurgency david, as they started. there may be 3,000 or so fighters in that region according to some estimates. they can attack, they can have the home game there in iraq and syria. there are other places they're operating, afghanistan, the sinai, libya, yemen. parts of africa we had the terrible attack on u.s. forces. they look at the far enemy which is us and europe. there are concerns over the holidays. david: before we leave the mid-east i look at syria in the left of the screen. when i hear putin say anything i'm skeptical, but what he says pretty much gone syria as well, i am a little skeptical. are there pockets still where isis does have control of territory. >> iraq has a better handle on their own country than syria where there is civil war going on. one group previously called a

we should be happy that the caliphate, the physical caliphate is just about gone, but unfortunately thesis threat remains, now based in libya and yemen and the afghan-pakistan border regions. it might have been avoided if we had been really pursuing them harder during the obama years. >> pete: absolutely. a lot of people, guys on the ground credit the loosened rules of engagement. when i was in iraq and afghanistan, it's going to inhibit my ability to make decisions on the ground. now it's captains and majors and colonels making moment by moment decisions. how important is that to maintaining momentum in defeating an enemy like we have, which once was -- the caliphate once was the size of ohio. i'm reduced to a thousand lowly fighters? >> i think it was critical and i think it reflects what the strategy should have been all along, not degrade and ultimately destroy, economize, save words, destroy, period." i have to say that because the administration continue to follow the obama approach of relying mostly on the government of iraq and its militias, certainly we helped with the kurds, w

and dealing with the isis caliphate and the broader strategic threats are russia and especially china. that's something you did not hear for 8 years in the obama administration. >> this president is also showing that he can, if you will, delight and revel in understatement just as much as does hire bowl from time to time. the 14-1 vote in the flaits in which the united nations security council tried to overwhelming u.s. sovereignty and its support as jerusalem as its capital fit so chooses jerusalem as its capital. it had everyone in the security council beside themselves. then to veto the resolution was a magnificent moment. you can see the president

lea: the caliphate has collapsed. a new report shows isis lost nearly all of it is territory in syria and iraq the time president trump has been in office but the fight is not over yet so what needs to be done now? david: also purge the fbi of anti-trump bias? one republican congressman used that word to say what is needed right now. is that a good idea and how would you do it? we'll debate it coming up. >> can you imagine a republican justice department and fbi working with the republican national committee, created and funded dossier to go after a democratic candidate? this would make watergate looks like nothing. lea: isis own the verge of defeat in iraq and syria. the terror group losing 98% of its territory, 50% of the so-called caliphate taken back since president trump took office, according to military officials. reports indicate fewer than 1000 isis fighters remain in iraq and syria. we have retired general jer boy skin. general, nice it see you, sir. >> good to be with you. lea: how much do you attribute pre

any other faction he seemed the times they seemed unstoppable two years in a few months song the caliphate has been reduced to a comp and villages and uninhabited dess it wasn't russia's air force alone that did this of course the u.s. led coalition its allies on the ground played a huge part in all of this but we've been covering the syrian civil war in depth before isis even had its name for jihad ists hijacked the rebel schools and he had some of the most memorably memorable movements filmed by my colleagues and i. this is the ad base in life akio from which russian jets launching this against this targets here in syria. there it's. time the pilots are ready to go it's a moment's notice. it's quite incredible to be standing here in the power of the desert decades since fifty of palmira. people around the outfeed would be reduced to dust in this. amphitheater laid down by the romans almost two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria. you can see had just some of the impressive mil

the sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have the caliphate to fight for. or to discuss all these issues in more depth we're now joined by our cafeteria rect of gnosis and british think tank that focuses on crisis in syria and the middle east thank you very much indeed i'm often joining us i mean what do you make of this unexpected trip to syria. it was quite it was question uprising we knew all along that the prison putin would be visiting to a key and and later on but then you know would he stop it happening i mean i don't think anybody thought about this. especially there is nothing new but this is very highly significant because it gives you the impression that there is a you know a large feel or a growing confidence in syria in the stability of syria and so on but this is definitely a surprising visit and it tells you again and you know that things are going forward measure combating operations regarding the analysis with itself of course a withdrawal of of measure combat units that you know the major operations are now coming to an end a

final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of their resort the syrian city which i so besieged for three years. the last resort there was not much of the states left i see they suffered defeat after defeats in push from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian and strikes sides in the rocky forces kurdish militias and hezbollah are all russians latest declaration that syria has been liberated from eisel has sparked a new rift between key foreign forces fighting terrorists in the country it didn't sit well with the u.s. led coalition which now claims that it's the only force that's made meaningful progress against islamic state artes and here and explains. everyone was gearing up to celebrate isos grip on syria was loosening the u.s. coalition forces had the champagne on ice we are defeating isis we're really winning we know how to win races in terms of as a physical caliphate will be gone by the end of the year but when the black flag was finally lowered some felt the limelight was stolen and used it on the locals to russia's defense ministers reported that the military opera

trish: i remember, always telling me, you have to destroy the caliphate. you have got to get rid of that. that is a source of power for them. so the good news we put them back in the shadows and that is where they need to stay. general keane, thank you. good to see you. >> good talking to you, trish. trish: you know, israel is pushing a plan to name a future train station near the western wall after president trump. the plan is to extend jerusalem's high-speed rail line set to open next spring to the western wall, the holiest site where jews can pray. the extension has two underground stations and tunnels beneath downtown jerusalem. the opposition will be faced by those who don't recognize israel's sovereignty over jerusalem or u.s.'s plan to move its embassy there but israel clearly likes what he is doing. >>> to a topic i've been passionate about on "the intelligence report," the fat cat special interest loophole. if fixed could save us taxpayers $180 billion over the next 10 years. heck, that would pay for the wall, right? news today that the president

finished take it back to two thousand and fourteen that's when the group declared its so-called caliphate naming a barcode baghdadi as the leader of muslims everywhere eisel took control of about thirty percent of iraq during the next two years but it started losing ground at the end of two thousand and fifteen the first significant win for the iraqi army was or ahmadi six months later the army retort for lugar from eisel you're not ration which lasted little more than a month the battle for mosul took longer after nearly nine months of fighting the iraqi army with u.s. support regained the city in june since then the focus has been on getting rid of isis from smaller towns and villages around morsel and on december the ninth iraq's prime minister officially declared the country eisel free eyesores caliphate was meant to stretch from eastern iraq to western syria taking over most of both countries but i still suffered heavy losses in syria two this year in october u.s. backed syrian forces seize a rocket from the armed group the city was eisel de facto capital the victory in iraq or came

jihadi activism jihadi actions across western cities because these people they've lost the local caliph it area and they are now displacing back to their home countries so this is indeed a greater threat and this is indeed why the. heads of the intelligence agencies from the five countries met recently to discuss this particular threat in the run at christmas also ronnie what we've been hearing is well if you look from from the british news in the fact that they're saying that they have managed to meet several terror attacks quite a few terror attacks i mean is it ever possible to prevent attacks like these when they attack a transport. it is more likely if you are doing proper and very good intelligence work to stop an explosion because often there are more than one actors in the plot so there might be chatter if you have human agents out there on the streets who can report back on people plotting to do something you have a greater chance of trying to stop those sort of attacks what is more difficult to try and stop a lone wolf attacks where someone just takes a machete and knife or wh

isis caliphate was meant to stretch from eastern iraq to western syria taking over most of both countries but i still suffered heavy losses in syria two this year in october u.s. bank syrian forces seized the rocket from the armed group the city was isolated defacto capital the victory in iraq came at a heavy price more than a thousand civilians were killed in the battle dozens of eisel fighters have believed to have fled the city and avoided capture let's bring our panel into the show joining us in the discussion today we have someone who mccloud from the arab lawyers association in london via skype from st johns bre in vermont rob ford the former u.s. ambassador to syria and. chatham house also in the british capital welcome to you all if i could start with so where have all the fun i still find it is gone i mean that even if you add up the claims i don't think you can account for all the tens of thousands of its rank and file yeah i think it's right. as an organization continues to exist sure it's lost a lot of its territory at its peak it controlled up to one half of syria and one thi

operation began isis held more territory in syria than any other faction two years in a few months on the caliph it has been reduced to clubs to villages and i don't have it to desert wasn't the russian air force saloon that did this the u.s. led coalition also played a huge pot we've been covering the syrian civil war in depth before isis even had its name before jihad ists hijacked the rebels cause he had some of the more memorable moments filmed by my colleagues and i. are. this is the ad big enough akio from which russian jets. against this comic state targets here in syria. there it's. the pilots are ready to go at a moment's notice. it's quite incredible to be standing here in the pulse of the engine fifty of palmira on people around the outfeed would be reduced to dust in this amphitheater laid down by the romans or most two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it the crowding jewel of the operation here in syria. you can see had just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in the possession that has made the battl

in chief and the courage of our armed forces isis , is on the run, their capitol has fallen and caliphate has crumbled across syria and iraq. [applause] vice-president pence: but what brings us here today is that president trump also knows that american strength starts with a growing american economy. and from the first day of this administration, this president championed free and fair trade, he rolled back federal red tape at record levels, we unleashed american energy. and today, mr. president you , fulfilled the promise to millions of americans struggling in this economy, to cut taxes across the board for working families and businesses large and small. in august of this year the , president laid out his vision for a tax cut that would be a middle-class miracle and that's exactly what the congress passed today. [applause] vice-president pence: this tax code will put more money in the pockets of the american people and make our tax code more easy -- more simple, fair, easy to understand, it will make businesses across america more competitive to create , good-paying jobs and raise wage

they were going for the caliphate, and that is failing.s al qaeda coming in to fill that void with this new version of terrorism? >> there is no question al qaeda sees this as an opportunity to reassert itself as the primary jihadists. there is an opportunity to copy what was successful as a propaganda perspective of isis. ideologically there is not much difference. but the overall goal of a global caliphate is the same. kennedy: to destroy freedom. >> it is to destroy freedom. we think about it being preposterous, they are playing a long game. not too long ago, they had a caliphate that was the most of powerful entity in the world. in the meantime we have to worry every time we buy and christmas present or walk around the streets in our hometown. kennedy: republicans are scrambling to finalize their tax plan. marsha blackburn does the path next. -- does the math next. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers h

narrative the idea of the up backfire of fact sometimes you think tit-for-tat so if you say the caliphate is bountiful they say no. be careful because oftentimes we can get trapped in that backfire you can reinforce that belief by countering the narrative you have to think different without alternative pathway so these are the stories of thousands of young people i have met had you tell their stories that our authentic and organic? that is the idea second what i have seen the social media incubators a group based agenda their fantastic taking on isis with some very edgy content using satire. you cannot forget a lot of what makes isis influential is that they had a video that was approaching young people using new media or animation and drama and music that was one of the best examples of the groups that combat them but they take them on they try videos of they don't work that they directly tackle those narratives that i say is like the alternative pathway so it is like these, petite -- competitions one of the most popular youtube space they are using organic content so there is a lot of p

the result is the islamic state caliphate is gone, dead.he people that started this program, they knew from the start that some weapons would fall into the hand of bad guys. because on battlefields, your guys get killed to and the weapons get surrendered and stolen. kennedy: when you say the battlefield is messy and we don't necessarily know who our allies are, i think that's all the more reason to reexamine our foreign policy in the middle east. i guess my question is we have technology that allows us to find our i phones, and this may sound incredibly naive. but is there a way of equipping it in weapons with the same sort of tracking devices and telling? >> yes, there is always a way. but do you want to do that and spend that much money? the kind of weapons -- we weren't spending that much. we were spending a few million on these programs. given the result of a destroyed caliphate, that's pretty good. kennedy: you still have the problem of the lone wolves radicalized here and abroad and they want to do us great harm. but we haven't taken

come back they may not just spread radical ideology but also in far on a stop wishing an islamic caliphate in europe or from here to there when it was removed in bosnia and herzegovina they're already small caliphates existing the reason that they're far from the cities and towns is that allows them to perform any covert activity they need in the fact that they're recruiting members means in the future there will be a big threat to europe the bosun in government try to curb the terrorist threat by making it illegal to fight for a foreign military and more than a dozen of those who have to turn from syria have been jailed well the country is also spending millions of euros and the radicalization projects but is it all working the local a mom says he fears for his life after speaking out till we do this is radical elements are always unpredictable these people prayed with its foreign force shawmut deep in ski i don't hear even the call. to john that he dropped on up there you go clean or can't you just shoot. me and took me home again and that means that you might have made things like what

the final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of their is all the syrian city which i saw besieged for three years. after the loss of their result there was not much of a state left for i saw they suffer defeat after defeat been pushed from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian air strikes sads and iraqi forces kurdish militias and hezbollah. the israeli military has bombed hamas positions in gaza that story animal still to come . plenty. plenty plenty. plenty of. little. lego warhawk still in you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they don't believe you saw spreading tell you that plenty gossip and tabloids by files a little more news today. about telling me you are not cool enough to buy their products little. things all the hawks that we along with our audience will walk or current. welcome back to the program israeli tanks have bombarded hamas military positions in gaza according to the i.d.f. the strikes were in retaliation to rocket fire tensions of flattops in stone times not is meant that the u.s.

ground the sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have a caliphate to fight for. or with russia saying i so has been essentially driven out of syria there are still the question of what to do with the groups remaining fighters in neighboring countries including iraq from their artie's you've got your time of reports. russia has effectively expressed its outright willingness to join the u.s. led coalition against the very same coalition that has been can do you still has been knocked out of i still can't washington was to get to the border and so this i should say fluid six strokes is the need of cooperation between the two militaries fall about the de facto victory over iceland syria has actually disagree with the russians and the russians have the russian military has responded with concern that this is just a pretext to leave u.s. forces on the ground in syria even after the operation even after the victory over i saw it will be really interesting to see how all of this unfold especially with the u.s. state secretary rex tillerson the meeting of th

they don't have their caliphate. there are 6,000 to 10,000 isis fighters in iraq and syria, the euphrates valley. i think people would be surprised how wide a swath is still controlled by isis. they have moved into africa, the sinai. at the end of the day, even though the caliphate is gone, their ideology is still very real. that being said, though, i think 2017 was a good year in the fight against isis. and i think the administration, the u.s. military has a lot to be proud of for what they have pushed. >> and a reminder as we approach new year's, tens of thousands of americans deployed not just on the ships always at watch but on the ground in places like syria, iraq, afghanistan, in harm's way. we often don't write about them. they do their 11 or 13 months and come home. >> yeah. we found out in 2017 how many are in afghanistan despite we have been told it was somewhere around 8,000 or 9,000. it is closer to 15,000. they have always used funny math how many people are on the ground and because the trump administra

on ice we are defeating isis we're really winning we know how to win races in terms of a physical caliphate will be gone by the end of the year but when the black flag was finally lowered some felt the lime light was stolen and used it on the locals to russia's defense minister reported that the military operation on the east and west banks of the euphrates river is now completed with the full defeat of the terrorists of course that could still be some pockets of resistance but in general combat actions at this stage and on this territory are over. how their russian claim the moment of glory i want to thank general manners for doing such a great job with respect to isis he's not the hell out of. myself made it possible with what i've let you do i think. so instead of celebrating some chose perhaps predictably to squabble over. i find it surprising that russia takes all the credit for defeating eisel in reality eisel occupied a large part of syria and iraq and it was the coalition that shrank the territory occupied by the jihadists let's step back and look at how i still lost ground in the s

narrative that is the aspiration so then you say that is why when they put that social media is the caliphate's is bountiful talking about handing candy to young kids and then you get a better sense of the propaganda. the thing that struck me is part of this audience segmentation is who are the key influence hours part of the ecosystem? voodoo they scale up their message? with this story boarding and the outlet but they are a sarah get that -- a surrogate and though one person who kept coming up again in interview after interview was a gentleman that i would get most of us your probably have not read much and even in the region to be the most popular person in the middle east on twitter. that is a shocking fact so i give answers like king abdullah may be an actor or actress to the extremist cleric based in saudi arabia with 20 million followers not just on twitter but also step chat across platforms probably one of the single biggest driver is why young people would go to syria and iraq he doesn't violate terms of service but the narrative complements a lot of what they're doing watching over 3

there sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliphate to fight for. no sting in the region british soldiers may face prosecution the international criminal court in the hague over allegations of war crimes committed in iraq between two thousand and three two thousand and nine the court's chief prosecutor say there are reasonable grounds to believe that some troops may have abused captives reporting about political. it's a court that seen a number of historic and high profile trials of war criminals including the cases of slobodan milosevic rod came last ditch and charles taylor and now the international criminal court in the hague is looking into british troops ledge to war crimes against detainees chairing the iraq conflict i received three years after u.k. troops officially pulled out of iraq the only thing the chief prosecutor has said that there is a reasonable basis to believe that british soldiers unlawfully killed prisoners during the portrait acted us led to war. powers and in investigations of these crimes which where they. cann

ground sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliph that to fight for. ok new this hour the russian foreign minister in the u.s. secretary of state are going to start talks on the sidelines of an international security meeting in the austrian capital they're expected to discuss syria among other things in vienna for us our europe correspondent peter oliver peter hi what's expected this afternoon. well a lot of focus is on not. lateral meeting between russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his counterpart from the u.s. the secretary of state rex tillerson the two know each other very well since tillerson took the job at the beginning of february well him missed the level of how met more than seven times we can have a look at just what came out of those previous meetings. well among the hot topics for mr tillerson a missed allow for all of on thursday will be the situation in the korean peninsula also the ongoing conflict in ukraine and we may expect to hear something relating to comments made by the russian foreign minister spoke fi

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there sleeper cells will terrorize the world for years to come but now they'll no longer have their caliphate to fight for. well the question now is what to do with the remaining eisel fighters in neighboring countries like iraq and it was said to be a major talking point at a meeting between the top diplomats from russia and the u.s. that's just concluded on the sidelines of an international security conference in vienna so let's go live there now peter all of it is there hi peter any clues yet as to what's come out of that conversation. well i can tell you that meeting between secretary of state to listen and four minutes the last roll of lasted for around thirty minutes it was all very pleasant out in the sphere in the room before they started that was before the journalists were kicked out they didn't take any questions from anybody but we understand that they were expected to talk about who was the ongoing situation on the korean peninsula the conflict in ukraine as well as a major point on the fight against islamic state in both syria and in iraq this comes after wednesday's announcemen

final nail in the caliphates coffin was the liberation of dare resort the syrian city which by so besieged for three years. at the last resort there was not much of a state left for ice they suffered defeat after defeat in push from all sides and all parties u.s. and russian air strikes and iraqi forces kurdish militias and hezbollah are there's a stop off on putin's middle east towards cairo though he met his egyptian counterpart and discussed another topic that's making waves across the region. i like one lot of our putin suddenly showed up in syria a little earlier his cairo trip was planned in advance but what kind of timing this is to squeeze in talks with both the president of egypt and turkey in cairo and ankara and here we're talking about a timeframe of just several hours while donald trump's jerusalem move really continues to send shock waves across the entire middle east and as our c.c. and vladimir putin were addressing the journalists here at the presidential palace in cairo we heard more condemnation of that move as a c.e.o. of we were discussing the palestinian issue and esp