destined for hezbollah. by creating factories in lebanon and syria, it makes it easier for iran or for iran's proxies to arm themselves and for the -- harder for the united states and israel to interdict these shipments because the weapons are being made locally. we have also seen iran greeting -- creating syrian and iraqi missions. -- militias to serve as proxies against israel. a lot of these were primarily created to fight -- proxies to keep the war against the opposition in syria. in iraq, they were created to fight isis, but of course, you know, they can be easily repurposed, and we have seen in iraqi group, they announced the creation of a golan liberation brigade. i don't know if it really exist, in fact, but they announced it and with the idea that they would have elements that would fight in any future war against israel. we have seen tours on the lebanese border by some of these iraqi groups. presumably a kind of area familiarization kind of visit to prepare them presumably beyond the propaganda pu

today the dominant external players in the country are iran supports the shia muslim party hezbollah and its allies and saudi arabia which supports most sudanese and search in christian policies against hezbollah. things came to a head in news them by twenty seventeen when prime minister. was visiting saudi arabia and to the shock of his fellow citizens suddenly appeared on t.v. to make a statement for. the year. or she had. or doing. wrong left. femur. what the one hundred many in lebanon believe that was how the hostage by his saudi patrons and forced to resign because he was losing ground to hezbollah after international pressure heavy returned home and said he wasn't giving up office off the rule but he has yet to explain exactly what took place and we both know what happened to the president and now is that our prime minister was a person in saudi arabia then the prime minister came back after a month he said ok i'm not resigning anymore and business as usual. what's that. this is this. it's not normally the people who are in charge of the country i'm not in charge of them and t

hezbollah and its allies including the president michel long's party were the biggest winners in the recent elections we try to speak with has been listening to ship which we're told that they too were not giving interviews even filming from a car in a hezbollah controlled area is problematic security is tight and outsiders are quickly spotted you know you never leave. your house was always a. memory but never mind that there are. some of us right now because michael doesn't palestine. and to israel is one of hezbollah's defining characteristics the polish he did agree to show us the museum . close to the border with israel built on a former battleground the place is a showpiece of hezbollah's resistance to his radio tax. we are hearing sort of bunker. used by fighters or for this during the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. . the first. iranian funs we're told gave has the means to fight israel more effectively than the last equipped lebanese army it's why for years now proposals that hezbollah's paramilitary wing should give up its weapons have to follow both the governmen

if hezbollah gets into the fray, were all better off because as i've said before if hezbollah is involved and means it's quite likely they will use their inventory of rockets and they will want to hit back critical infrastructure not just in lebanon but perhaps in iran. i'll just note that iran's oil industry is located in the southwest part of the country and this was at a time when the united states was trying to maximum economic pressure on iran and if israel in such a situation hits the oil industry, iran might respond especially if they're cheering israel on. i think this is kind of a low likelihood, high impact event, i don't think it's something that's likely but i'm just trying to show a path how a local concept could become a regional conflict despite the desirable would you like to start thank you for organizing a timely conference. iran began interfering in the syrian civil war in 2011 with the specific objective of the feeding sunni opposition and keeping asad in power. late 2016 and 17 those objectives were virtually achieved. iran led forces, victory over the opposition in a

hezbollah and its allies including the president michel long's party were the biggest winners in the recent elections we try to speak with has been mislead to ship but we're told that they too were not giving interviews even filming from a car in a hezbollah controlled area is problematic security is tight and outsiders all quickly spotted you know never let me. tell you. i was a. house member. never mind that there are. no muslim addressed right now because michael doesn't palestine. and to israel is one of hezbollah's defining characteristics the poles he did agree to show us the museum. close to the border with israel built on a former battleground the place is a showpiece of hezbollah's resistance to his radio tax. we are hearing sort of bunker. used by fighters or for that during the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety. they were the first. iranian funs we're told gave has the means to fight israel more effectively than the last equipped lebanese army. it's why for years now proposals that hezbollah has paramilitary wing should give up its weapons have devalued its base the

hezbollah and its allies including the president michel long's party were the biggest winners in the recent elections we try to speak with has been listening to ship which we're told that they too were not giving interviews even filming from a car in a hezbollah controlled area is problematic security is tight and outsiders are quickly spotted you know never let me. tell you. i was a. house member. no matter there are. no muslim address right now because michael doesn't palestine. and to israel is one of hezbollah's defining characteristics of the past he did agree to show us the museum . close to the border with israel built on a former battleground the place is a showpiece of hezbollah's resistance to his radio tax. we are hearing sort of bunker. used by fighters or for this during the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety s. . the first. iranian funs we're told gave hezbollah the means to fight israel more effectively than the last equipped lebanese army it's why for years now proposals that hezbollah's paramilitary wing should give up its weapons have developed both the governm

who have sworn allegiance to iran like hezbollah in lebanon. publicly declared that they want to liberate the holy places in saudi arabia. from the saudi government so it cannot tiller ate the business of it in evolution a gut feeling and country and its south and border that is a red line for saudi arabia you cannot accept iran and its militia has blood of pollution you got your south along. with the reality that seventy mountains and yet you cannot control it's very difficult to to really close the line it cannot in go inside the country so you had to take an action this is this is wrong. because it is not iran's presence be compared with the saudis presence in circling the entire tape tori of yemen i mean there has been some minimal you know supports and aids going there there has been some you know. political support for the yemeni you know favored political parties no doubt but comparing the korean size of the two sites involvement in yemen you can it's easy to be understood that iran is not that involved and its presence is in a minimal w

it's through syria that iran has provided hezbollah with logistic and strategic count. and if you talk to iranian officials today many believe that the reason israel did not attack iran at the height of the nuclear standoff was because they were afraid of his well lost power of retaliation not because of iran's capabilities so for tehran defending the damascus regime as a question of self interest it must not for as of late two thousand and eleven the islamic republic decided to send military advisors to hezbollah in syria to support bashar al assad its efforts to crush the rebellion. to iran had its own outlook on the syrian conflict in its size the civil uprising among part of the population against bashar al assad never took place tehran saw it as a conspiracy engineer by the west and israel. cheered on was why i support bashar al assad because he was and is the legitimate president of syria so we are proudly state out loud that military advisors of the islamic republic of iran have helped the syrian military the syrian government and the syrian people in order to av

into his one year can you do the slutty shit on hezbollah is a strategic ally of iran. the misuari as a whole you look at this lebanese group has the same ideology as iran is would like to hit it to be very nice were dead it was so it is naturally a very close ally to not just be targeted off what his last hezbollah is also an ally of syria just his would love to hear this asked so it is a link between ourselves and syria. ma this true year that. in what they did how do you want us and like ourselves and syria. hezbollah is hostile towards israel you see as i tell you you don't destroy your home and you had to was. there was. tehran maintaining those links with lebanese shia organization hezbollah is therefore a necessity the political and military group which iran co-founded in the early one nine hundred eighty s. is to this day an ally and an. essential tool in the latter's resistance to israel . were. it's through syria that iran has provided hezbollah which logistic and strategic account. and if you talk to iranian officials today many believe that the reason israel

its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nations but when you look out the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias to lebanese hezbollah it's billions and billions of dollars and we need to get at drying up those revenue stre

add to that the billion dollars or so every year that tehran spends on hezbollah in lebanon. cost now of iran's involvement in yemen as well, it comes back to what is sustainable and what is not sustainable in the context of the economy that we've discussed today. are you telling me that iran's foreign policy is sustainable in economic terms? stephen, let's not talk about yemen. yemen is... there's a starvation siege imposed on the people of yemen by the saudi government without the western countries. western countries are helping the saudis starve the yemenis, they're helping the massacre and slaughter of the yemenis, and western governments are implicated in crimes against humanity. their leaders have blood on their hands. the canadian prime minister, who's had a fallout with the saudi government, was a very good enabler of saudi war crimes. if i may say so, professor marandi, i'm not trying to discuss the rights and wrongs of the yemen wall, and believe me, we put on the spot saudi officials, us officials, uk officials, for their responsibilities when it comes to yemen, bu

address it now that it appears president bashar assad will be staying in power the iranian backed hezbollah party and pro assad politicians want lebanon to resume dealing with the syrian government in an official capacity hezbollah and its allies say the government makeup should reflect the election results which means they want the top hour he wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak. the overwhelming number of tourists flock to the mediterranean every summer is taking a toll on its ecosystem that's according to the u.n. and it's now the most overfished in the wild. fisherman in the city of on the french riviera who are trying to make a difference the mediterranean is now the most overfished sea in the world according to the latest report by the united nations. working the waters off the small portable. men like share are cut at darnall are counting the cost. more than a third of the season total fish population has vanished over the last fifty years . pollution and climate change are taking a toll but the impact of tourism is not even being monitored. you more than your yuppie

we have seen a concern, attempt made perhaps five hezbollah -- by hezbollah to get influence in suriname. as we look at the russian engagement in our hemisphere, other players want to get involved that are not in our interest. policiesheir impact on and the united nations, the number of votes they have. these are all small nations in which it does not take a lot of contact to have impact in those countries, whether financial or just giving them attention. -- there are those of us who believe the united states may not be giving enough attention to the caribbean states. that the caribbean basin security initiative may be a form for greater impact but what is your view as to how the united states can have stronger allies in the caribbean? ms. williams: thank you for that question, senator. i will target back to my days a decade back working in caribbean in the and working u.s.-caribbean summit when we brought all the nations to the united states and met with them. at the presidential level. engagement is one of the most important things you can do in the caribbean. it is not necessarily --

address it now that it appears president bashar assad will be staying in power the iranian backed hezbollah party and pro assad politicians want lebanon to resume dealing with the syrian government in an official capacity hezbollah and its allies say the government makeup should reflect the election results which means they want the top our party wants to prevent that but politically he is too weak. to lead for you this hour sudanese families displaced by flash floods complain the government hasn't done enough to help them thousands of people struggle plans are disrupted as ryan as pilots go on strike. and in sport wimbledon finalist kevin anderson advances to the semifinals of the raw just in toronto. hello there a cool air is continuing to flow its way across europe on the leading edge of the cool air we're seeing this line of thunderstorms that has given us some flooding in the southern parts of france and the whole system is continuing its journey eastwards and as it does so the temperatures are dropping like a stone so our maximum in warsaw will only be twenty degrees on saturday and t

its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nations but when you look out the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias to lebanese hezbollah it's billions and billions of dollars and we need to get at drying up those revenue stre

but when you look at the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias and to hezbollah, it's billions and billions of dollars. we need to look at drying up those revenue streams. that is the purpose of our maximum economic pressure campaign. we have had teams from the state department and the treasury department who have now visited i want to say 24 countries in most regions of the world. that work will continue in the coming months and we have very good discussions with allies around the world, because when you look at the range of iranian threats, especially around missiles and cyber, maritime aggression, terrorism, these are concerns of other nations. united states is not alone in that regard. i find that when we sit down and talk with other nations, there are shared interests that we are able to pursue and we will continue doing it. >> can you talk about how you will work with the quote, regime, when this week, the ayatollah's speech criticized rouhani for dealing with the united states. this is obviously not the same as dealing with north korea, dealing with moscow

helpillingness to hezbollah was frightening. in july two brothers and dutch 2017, nationals were arrested for suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities. the brothers allegedly had been recruiting in suriname for isis. is it your view that hezbollah has a presence in suriname? ms. williams: thank you for the question, senator. from what i've learned, no, there is not a presence. in spite of those activities by the president's son, there does not appear to be a major issue in that arena in the country. however, it is an issue where we must be vigilant and be looking for what may transpire for the future and to make sure, as there are people who leave war zones from isis, fighters, they are not coming into the nation's in which we are serving. sen. rubio: are you aware of the status? i don't know often the status of the case of the brothers, dutch nationals. ms. williams: i know they were arrested and it is in the legal process but i do not know further. sen. rubio: on our relationship with us, they do not have many situatio

i wwuld worry about iran's belligerent military activity wwth syria, with hezbollah, and in yemen. genie: we will go to bruce uu from seoul. tell us more about this historic meeting that is happening for some of these families who ave now had their first meeting. what do we know about what happened today? some of the scenes were incredible. i saw s some live streams from korean tetelevision. seoul.ere broadcast here in i saw one woman who was in her late 90's seeing the daughter fled northhkorea during the war. pn her 90's ow, her daughters in their 70's -- a lifetime apart. their story is not unique. i met many people in the buildup to these family reunions who had similar stories. the war-torn them apart. they fled south. they expected to catch up much sooner, reunite. and the war lasted much longer than they ever expected. what happened today in north korea -- a group of soutt the overrment and the korean red cross, ann held the first mmeting with their families in many decades, and then began a dinner". over the next two days, omorrow and wednesday as weel, they wwll meet again

at the very least we should not be funding nefarious behaviors of iran, whether it's supporting hezbollahite militias, bashar al-assad, the houthi rebels, continuing with missile programs, we know that iran in various ways was violating the iran nuclear agreement, jcpoa, the europeans have been trying to undermine our policies. they are not succeeding because europe is still relatively free, the government can -- can't tell the businesses what to do and the businesses are being told by their compliance officers and others, look, we can do business with iran but we will cut out from the u.s. market and the u.s. market is absolutely essential to us, the iranian market is not. increasingly we are seeing european businesses saying we are going to abide by the u.s. sanctions, we don't want secondary sanctions on us and we don't want to be cut out of the market, that's very frustrating for the governments but the government deserves to be frustrated because they should be acting with us to curve the nefarious behaviors of iran. paul: cliff, we don't have much time but let me ask you one final q

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed the terrorist and clean up time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the preventing prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. with elections looming in sweden the far right is gaining momentum that's amid a spate of incidents in swedish cities of gangs setting cars on fire over a hundred cars have been burnt all vandalizing just the past month of locals calling some areas no goes up. and often a visit to one such area where the local john. we're driving to the southern part of stockholm the swedish capital to one of the areas called by police as found the rebel area or especially vulnerable area or risk area now the area for to me very often they call these neighborhoods right now around sixty one of them officially still leave as you know. and he with me t

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already defeated the tech feed terrorist cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the preventing prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. u.s. intelligence agencies are reportedly complaining that their kremlin moles have suddenly gone quiet comes amid a host of fresh russian meddling allegations in the media ahead of the american midterm elections artie's daniel holcomb's picks up the story less than two years after the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the russians are at it again the end words this time it's the u.s. mid-term elections in the crosshairs of kremlin meddling another russian attack on our elections a serious warning about russian meddling in future u.s. elections there also hacking or attempting to hack political campaigns russia is added again it's clear for all t

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated that sexy terrorist cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the preventive prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. almost a thousand people gathered at an anti michael and demonstration in the german city of kevin it as right wing sentiment continues to raise its head protesters held ball falls at police who are trying to disperse the crowds. god. let's go live now to watch his piece all of us he's following the incident in germany to see you can you tell us more about what prompted such things. well yes this all happened after the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old man in the early hours of sunday morning this was after a fight that broke out between a group which includes what police have called foreigners this was after the city festival in that w

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed terrorist cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the prohibited prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. almost a thousand people gathered as an anti migrant demonstration in the german city of kevin it says right wing sentiment continues to raise its head protests protesters held both halls at police who are trying to disperse the crowd. to the. well we can get more details on this now from marty's pay to all of paid to. such scenes. well that crowd that we saw there of around eight hundred people including it said members of a far right football hooligan outfit marauding through central came that all was sparked following the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old man in the early hours of sunday morning two other people were seriously wo

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed terrorist cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the preventive prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. now iran's taking legal action against the us government save it donald trump's decision to re impose sanctions but they may have sets both countries on a collision course respond as he is multi naked. aggression against my country. done much too little iran's filing with the international court of justice was an attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of the united states to take lawful action including the reimposition of sanctions which are necessary to protect our national security. earlier this year total trump pulls the u.s. out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear pact between iran and the number of world powers and announced

already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed terrorist instead of clean up time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the prevented prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons the french president says europe may need to look elsewhere when it comes to security will tell you why just after this short break. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. somehow wanted. to be like to be close it's like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the logs in the. first six. months. welcome back to our international french president's about all the set his plans for europe's defense speaking to the country's ambassadors here on the line the region security committee longer rely so heavily on the united stat

on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quit equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britons arms exports yeah go to one country saudi arabia and that's on top of the massive saudi and incidentally also qatari influence that these countr

hezbollah fighters and their martyrs have become part of damascus scenery. as have those of their sworn enemies israel and the us. the marketplaces and souvenir shops also offer new wares. its all sounds way of thanking vladimir putin for saving his regime. they had jhana shelter near damascus for displaced persons from the radio. they're safe now but they will spend the rest of their lives as victims of the war. three hundred families found shelter here including children who have never known peace. tinsmith mohamed habib and his family also live here. for well i don't have any work right now sometimes something comes through but most of the time i just sit around. and of course. we need many things we can offer the children or things they want but the biggest problem is that we aren't allowed to leave we don't have any papers they took away our i.d.'s without them we can't go anywhere. in mamma mia. their daughter jasmine has just one wish. pompous and i want to leave here but those who do manage to leave aren't always welcome back like disillusioned pales

its nuclear weapons ambitions as well as to stop its efforts of supporting groups such as hamas hezbollah the who these in yemen and other such organizations that have been listed as terrorist groups under u.s. law even though this effort is now being unveiled the administration is denying charges that it is trying to push for regime change inside iran there's also the question of whether the u.s. is goal of trying to get other countries on board with this new effort will work notably countries within the european union which have long standing economic ties to terror on when asked whether or not the u.s. was going to have a problem getting these countries to agree to put more pressure on iran to change its ways this is what brian hall the new special representative for iran had to say that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure the point is not to create any rifts with with other nations but when you look out the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias to lebanese hezbollah it's billions and billions of dollars and we need to get at drying up those revenue stre

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