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in the three hundred days mahmoud hussein has been in prison his family says he's grown depressed he's accusing the egyptian authorities of denying him legal rights and medical treatment and providing inadequate food and clothing he is father to nine children my sisters and brother face social stigma every day in their schools everyone calls them that they are sons and daughters of petitioners. and they are not tool or flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is not safe young woman. hussein is an egyptian journalists who was based in qatar working for al-jazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state al-jazeera has denied all allegations while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father. it's a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being off

and we'll be talking to the cia official who interrogated the former iraqi leader saddam hussein afterapture in 2003. it's 5 o'clock. our main story is that ministers have been forced to abandon charges for calling a helpline about the new universal credit system — after strong criticism from campaigners and mp5. the calls, often made by people in financial difficulty and facing long waits for the new benefit payment, currently cost up to 55 pence a minute. the announcement was made ahead of a commons debate about the implementation of universal credit, which labour says should be put on hold given the problems experienced so far. our political correspondent iain watson reports. newcastle was one of the first areas in the country where the government's flagship welfare reform was implemented, universal credit brings together six existing benefits for both unemployed people and those on low incomes. but it is paid six weeks in arrears and the labour—led local council says claimants are being forced into debt. some government minister thought waiting six weeks was a good idea. i don't th

[laughter] >> from 1980 to 1988, who supported saddam hussein and who fought saddam hussein? in 1990 when saddam hussein invaded kuwait, who supported kuwait? when the taliban took over afghanistan, who supported the legitimate government of afghanistan? charlie: that is an interesting point. >> who supported the taliban? charlie: people now believe iran is supporting the taliban. >> they are not. charlie: in no way is iran supporting the taliban in afghanistan hoping it will somehow be to your benefit if the taliban -- >> the taliban killed 11 iranian diplomats. we almost went to war with the taliban when the u.s. allies recognize the taliban as a legitimate government of afghanistan. i am not finished. in 2003, who was the first country to recognize the government of iraq and who did everything to undermine that government? in 2001, who was behind the establishment of a new democratic government in afghanistan? and who continue to support the taliban? from 2003 to 2011, who was behind every move to undermine the iraqi government? who overthrew the government of the taliban?

with me is hussein kanji, co—founder of venture capital fund hoxton ventures.re hoxton ventures. were you when it was happening yesterday where were you when it was happening yesterday afternoon? in the office, watching it is all glass. you get a great view in the city of london. let's start with the autonomous region of hercog. deeply troubled because any think that it may lead to the actual breakup of modern—day iraq. the kurds have struggled so long for some full independence. what do you make of the fact that iraqi tricks —— troops and their militias managed to get in without a fight. it looks like some sort of deal was struck between these two competing factions full. the arab news is specifically reporting that they have kind of defected in a loud —— and allow the military to come in and take over. the question is this always happen in kurdistan. both these factions have their own passionate or fighters. it is worth noting the former iraqi president died a few weeks ago. he was pro the government in bad. other faction is pushing independence, which they h

al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mark with hussein who's now been in a gyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and al-jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december was visiting his family two white south african men have been sentenced to a total of twenty five years in prison after they were found guilty of trying to force a black man into a coffin and threatened to burn him alive three or martin's jackson and. were convicted of attempted murder assault and kidnapping both had pleaded not guilty claiming they only intended to scare victim a lot in last year's incident jackson was jailed for nineteen years and even for sixteen had five years suspended from their terms. the end human rights chief has described the syrian government's siege of the capital suburbs as quote an eye wage and aid must be allowed to reach civilians there zaid radical hussein says residents in eastern guta are facing a humanitarian emergency despite a truce neg

invasion for example of iraq and the overthrow of saddam hussein and even before that as professor i thought he was pointing out the massive sanctions and sanctions mechanism that him imposed on iraq they see all of that as successful because it brought down massive iraq arab military power in the middle east they see that as a success never mind the people that died there but they see that as this as a success what's happening now is that same small group of people are now being essentially empowered not just in congress but at the at the cia within the white house to have influence over us the u.s. policy direction what's holding them back is not a group that presents an alternative not a group that says hey we could work with the islamic republic of iran it's an important power we can work with where our interests overlap and we could negotiate where they where they diverge no this alternate group says iran is still a bad actor but the united states much must respect its agreements and we can push iran and other ways that group is personified by secretary of state tillerson secret

he was unjustly labeled as a terrorist by egyptian media hussein is the latest al-jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt last year a former editor of al-jazeera arabic website was sentenced to death in absentia in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohammed fahmy and baher mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to iraq. hello again the top stories on al jazeera kurdish forces have lost more territory a day after iraqi government troops took over the northern city of kurds they've now withdrawn from the towns of. as well as several oilfields tensions been mounting in the oil rich region since the kurds held a referendum on last month the philippine president says his military has liberated the southern city. after a five month battle against ice a linked fighters president of the territory says the city has been freed from what he called terrorists but his military says fighting is still continuing the announcements came a

he was unjustly enabled as a terrorist by egyptian media hussein is the latest al-jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt last year a former editor of al-jazeera arabic website was sentenced to death in absentia in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to al-jazeera. thousands of people are protesting in barcelona against the arrest of two separatist leaders the leaders of the catalan national assembly and a minium a group dedicated to promoting the catalan halter and language were arrested on monday and are being investigated for alleged the sedition they're being held without bail demonstrators are calling for the release of the two process session figures the first to be imprisoned since catalans controversial independence referendum. three days of national mourning have begun begun in portugal after forty one people died in wildfires rain and lower temperatures

to protect the kurds from saddam hussein very different territorial. the u.s. secretary of state is traveling to pakistan as part of a tour of the region focusing on conflict and security rex tillerson is expected to use the visits pressure pakistan to do more to stop taliban fighters from operating there the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the country's constitution in the final day of the communist party conference that makes him one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades. the u.s. is considering sanctions against me and for its treatment of the russian jew muslims the state department says it may use a human rights law to talking to leaders or groups involved in the violence in rakhine state more than six hundred thousand were injured have fled to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown in mazar me denies accusations of ethnic cleansing the u.n. is warning of early signs of genocide in the central african republic as fighting intensifies between rebel groups the secretary general antonio terrace will visit the country on

kurdish leader taleban he carried out a decades long military struggle against former president saddam hussein we will have much more on his life and legacy in the program so to keep it here f.b.i. agents are investigating the history of the sixty four year old former accountant who carried out the worst mass shooting in modern american history tactics are trying to find out why stephen paddick opened fire from a hotel room overlooking a concert in las vegas at least fifty nine people were killed more than five hundred others injured police found him dead in his hotel room alongside more than twenty weapons and a similar amount of guns were found in his home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosives. making his way to hurricane ravaged puerto rico the u.s. president donald trump addressed the shooting in las vegas. us thank. us. joins us live now from las vegas or rob what more are we learning about the person who carried out this shooting. well we just heard president trump say that the he must have been a very sick individual which of course on the face of it anyone who wou

has described as textbook ethnic cleansing well as a drugged out hussein told mike hanna the situation in mia ma is worsening. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and bangladesh and so it had all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing now what monitors had made clear as well is that it's not just the enforced removal of people it's also the destruction of their homes to prevent them from brittany i mean the confirmation of this will come in two forms one is harmony they're willing to accept back if it's only a trickle then this confirms the ethnic cleansing cleansing hypothesis and the second of course is that all of this would have to be confirmed when one day surely those who have committed or perpetrated these atrocities are holed up before a court and answer to a judge so that the victims can sense that a certain extent justice will be served in particular for many years

kurdish state and journalism is not a crime it's been three hundred days since al-jazeera is mahmood hussein was arrested egypt's accuse of broadcasting false news human rights and media organizations are joined on network and denouncing his incarceration and demanding his immediate release. and in malta one of the journalists behind the panama papers is killed in a car bombing i mean are supposed to miss your questions and comments throughout the show using the hashtag major news group. here with a news grid live on air and streaming online for you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us after four months of intense fighting and hundreds of as strikes u.s. forces in syria say they are now in full control of eyes seoul south declared capital of rock out it was one of the first big cities to fall under. i so controlling twenty fourteen dozens of eyes all fighters have surrendered and clearing operations are underway but the military offensive has taken a toll on the city and its people at least three thousand two hundred fifty people including a thousand civilian

he was unjustly enabled as a terrorist by egyptian media hussein is the latest al-jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to iraq. that china's ruling communist party says it will focus on business at home rather than pushing for global market reforms the comments are made just before the start of the nineteenth party congress president xi jinping is expected to map out his ambitions for china and further tighten his grip on power adrian brown reports. she jinping is a confident leader confident enough to be carrying out the biggest of a shake up of the communist party that has ruled china for almost seven decades. the unprecedented overhaul includes the people's liberation army until now untouchable three hundred thousand troops have been dismissed and top generals ousted with many accused of corruption combating graft in t

following saddam hussein in terms of allowing different inspectors generally generally some of them at least linked to intelligence services to be visiting iranian military sites that's what saddam did and we remember what happened to him so the idea is not only to get kind words from europeans what iran wants when europeans on concrete actions for example suing the u.s. . they were all passing legislation at the e.u. basically protecting companies that are dealing with you don't these concrete actions actually can benefit you don't and politicians if they want to argue in terms of saying in their nuclear agreement but if you just goes along with us then i think the nuclear agreement is going to end. hillary mann leverett in his speech to the u.n. general assembly that is last month described as one of the worst and most one sided transactions the u.s. has ever has ever entered into and he calls it an embarrassment then at the same time you have the defense secretary james mattis who just recently when asked whether he believed that the iran deal was in the national interest of the cou

in heavy thing the kurdish identity he tells me about his family being displaced during saddam hussein's rule about the gas attack in the eighty's against kurds. he hates being called iraqi. is very or first it is very humiliating to hold occurred in iraqi passport as a kurdish people feel like i'm being here with every single time when i put into my pocket or into my back. if he wants to fight for a kurdish nationalism that is civic and inclusive of different ethnicities unlike the brand of nationalism in neighboring countries he sounds but is an independent kurdish state the proper solution to war identity opinions vary. is an analyst of the iraqi kurdish conflict like most people he voted yes on the referendum but in the conflict growing in iraq he no fears that kurdish nationalism could be used for a negative sense. what's really fear is that this crisis turns kurdish nationalism into something that can create problems between the people. this streets was the street where everybody used to meet. everybody they would come here for a meal. nowadays says the crisis less and less arabs a

their place in the iraq after saddam hussein. failures of the baghdad government to be inclusive it's difficult to see how the iraqi flag will be raised here once again. the people have. free and fair elections. elections next year and the test of president. and his power and. well one of the people who set up an anti-nuclear organization says he hopes the nobel peace prize will remind leaders of the dangers of nuclear weapons the award went to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons so i can a coalition of non-governmental organizations across more than one hundred countries . couldn't have come at a better time to reinforce the fact that the world's in a very dangerous stage and we haven't sorted this problem out and most of those who know me think that actually the risks of nuclear war starting now are greater than they've but they've been for a very long time we've got explicit threats now for multiple leaders to use nuclear weapons in a way that we haven't heard for decades to south korea now where the capital

. —— jabed hussein. while we people found carrying acid around. ——jabed hussein.a bit of breaking news from the republic of ireland, which we are now told has issued a status red weather warning for parts of the country on monday. wind in access of 80 mph are expected. this is as harry kane ofelia approaches the uk. -- is as harry kane ofelia approaches the uk. —— hurricane ophelia. some parts of the country will have a lovely weekend and early next week, and getting the republic of ireland, they are saying they now have a status red weather warning because of the hurricane, and also parts of britain as well are going to have some problems with the forecast. there will be a discussion on that here on the news channel after 2pm. for now, let's move on to the crisis engulfing the acting industry after the allegations about harvey weinstein came to light this week. he has been accused of a series of rapes and sexual assaults going back decades. earlier i spoke to eirini mo about her experiences as an acting woman in the industry. sometimes directors want something mo

the movement suffered under saddam hussein especially in the widely condemned. what kurds were gassed in one thousand nine hundred eight really then came the iraq invasion of kuwait in one thousand nine hundred one after kuwait was liberated a no fly zone and safe haven for kurds was established by britain france and the us . elections were held in iraq or to start in one thousand nine hundred two and a p u k k d p joint interest ration was established. but the underlying tension between the two parties spilled into armed confrontation dubbed the fratricide war in one thousand nine hundred four taliban and again fled to iran after the k d p called on saddam hussein's forces to help defeat the p u k the four year conflict ended in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight with taliban and masoud barzani the k d p leader signing a peace agreement. after the two thousand and three invasion of iraq by the us and the takeover into areas of iraqi territory. by i saw in two thousand and fourteen the kurds began to demand self-determination eventually a referendum on to sa

ever since the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three this area was taken by various armed groups including and i and the tribes here frustrated by the lack of support from the central government in baghdad had only one choice left just seek protection from the kurds. and i career soldier still remembers when it was too dangerous for anyone in uniform to be on the streets he survive several attempts. i said yes to the referendum and yes to independence i used to say my country's iraq united. but after the central government ignored us and let iceland areas i changed my mind. the tribal leaders to kurdish president masoud barzani for help now they fully backed the referendum for secession and. joining the kurds it doesn't mean we forego all arab roots but it's the kurds who represent the real. sectarian with baghdad we are less than even second class citizens. this border area was controlled by the iraqi government in baghdad up until two thousand and fourteen when the kurds ever arrived. iraq's prime minister threatening to retake control of similar areas but increasing num

demanding the release of its journalists hussein has now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred ten days is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny it has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail it was arrested in december while visiting his family criminal organizations are recruiting children to smuggle undocumented migrants into the u.s. al-jazeera has obtained rare access to some of the teenagers acting as guides and juarez just across the border from texas john home and brings us more. beyond that train is the united states so close to see that what is mexico you can almost reach out and touch it. the dream of many is to get to the other side and that's where mexican cartels have sent it an opportunity smuggling across those without visas for a price. what's little known is to do that they're increasingly relying on minors as people smugglers they call them dogs. this fourteen year old boy is one of them like others we talk to two hundred dollars for every mexican he takes across five hundred percent from americ

the kurdish referendum other minorities were never found their place in the iraq after saddam hussein. to failures of the baghdad government to be inclusive it's difficult to see how the iraqi flag will be raised here once again. hundreds of people have. free and fair elections and. opposition leaders accuse the ruling party of tampering with. elections next year the. president. has. great. now millions of women in the u.s. may no longer have access to birth control through their health insurance on the new roles brought on by president on trump any company claiming to be morally opposed to contraception canal have the benefit removed from the employees cava it's one of a number of for the just freedoms trump promised during his election campaign don estabrook reports from washington d.c. . it's a move that could impact millions of american women the trump administration is rolling back on obamacare mandate requiring insurance coverage for contraception the white house said effective immediately a new rule allows employers to refuse contraception coverage based on religious or moral r

expense of lebanon which is suffered grievously from iran and hezbollah's deadly partnership saying hussein with savion is a former iranian diplomat who has negotiated but has a lot he is now a middle east specialist at princeton university he says the u.s. has stepped up its pressure and has a lot in an attempt to counter tehran's growing regional influence. it is part so you with us strategy containing reagan and you know roll and influence there is no doubt however that. add uranium we walk ration we are going to russia and see the end the are war sex best fighting isis releasing isis on their mining arses in the region the us you and i believe they would put more pressure and sanctions on iran or that because they believe these developments these facts that would be a need of role as we progress in the region that's why you see the us is live that u.s. strategy games development and this strategy is to put more precious actions on the on because of the rain there isn't a role that you see the new restatements against in. a way that what the us is going to do grab the bee these are rank

assam hussein go down when the u.s. is in your neighborhood it's not necessarily good news if you're leading a country there be a dictator or not as we stand right now though there is a solution here that russia and china talk try to put on the table they're calling it the double freeze so they've told north korea stop with your missile activity stop trying to build a nuclear arsenal that can make its way all the way to the united states and please south korea and us stop with your military drills let's tone this down let's get to the table and let's negotiate the u.s. says no way at least at this point they're not even thinking of this proposal as anything that they might want to do in the near future i'm alex my how a bitch for news with ed schultz. secretary said rex tillerson isn't baghdad after an unannounced trip to afghanistan earlier today taylor said expressed continued u.s. support for the afghan government and the need for pakistan to take part of the fight against the taliban and i'll be traveling to slam ab

but iraq says that doesn't go far enough as it was demanding the release of its journalist would hussein who's now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december whilst visiting his family. the u.k. defense secretary is angered human rights groups by appealing to british politicians to stop condemning saudi arabia saying it's affecting arms sales to riyadh michael fallon told a parliamentary defense committee a fighter jet deal was being compromised and the british politicians have openly criticize saudi arabia over its intensive bombing campaign of yemen the u.n. says the war there has killed more than ten thousand people and injured more than forty thousand. prosecutors in mexico say they've arrested one of the top heroin traffickers for el chappell's cinna lower drug cartel victor manuel felix was arrested on thursday at an apartment complex in an upscale suburb of mexico city chapels sons of largely take

to seek the un security council's intervention if the perpetrators and punished they'd rather al hussein sat down with al-jazeera as mike hanna. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and bangladesh and so it had all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing now what monitors had made clear as well is that it's not just the enforced removal of people it's also the destruction of their homes to prevent them from brittany i mean the confirmation of this will come in two forms one is harmony they're willing to accept back if it's only a trickle then this confirms the ethnic cleansing cleansing hypothesis and the second of course is that all of this would have to be confirmed when one day surely those who have committed or perpetrated these atrocities are holed up before a court and answer to a judge so that the victims can sense that to a certain extent justice will be served in partic

al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and al-jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december last year while visiting his family australia's foreign minister will be acting prime minister in the aftermath of the legal ruling that forced the country's second in charge to step down the country's highest court found that barnaby joyce and four other politicians were eligible to stay in office because of their jewel citizenship the prime minister has decided against appointing a temporary deputy and instead named julie bishop as his standard when he travels overseas later in the week a deputy prime minister will be sworn in after a by election in december. you're watching out is there i'm still robin these are our top stories in historic move these spanish prime minister has stripped catalonia of its autonomy and ordered snap and regional elections they came within an h

hussein is an egyptian journalists who is based in qatar working for al-jazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state el jazeera has denied all allegations while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father. it's a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being officially imprisoned. he was unjustly enabled as a terrorist by egyptian media. hussein is the latest al jazeera journalist to be imprisoned in egypt last year a former editor of al-jazeera arabic website was sentenced to death in absentia in two thousand and thirteen an international campaign was launched after the arrest of peter greste mohammed fahmy and baher mohamed the three spent more than a year in prison in all cases al-jazeera says their only crime was being a journalist natasha going to ira

in the three hundred days mahmoud hussein has been imprisoned his family says he's grown depressed he's accusing the egyptian authorities of denying him legal rights and medical treatment and providing inadequate food and clothing he is father to nine children my sisters and brother face social stigma every day in their schools everyone calls them that they are sons and daughters of petitioners. and they are not tool or flipping during egypt they are not safe each one of us is not safe young woman. hussein is an egyptian journalists who was based in qatar working for al-jazeera he was looking forward to going home for a vacation last december instead he was arrested in cairo egypt and authorities have charged him with what they call disseminating false news and receiving funds from foreign authorities to defame the state al jazeera has denied all allegations while human rights and other media organizations have denounced the accusations and are demanding his release we struggle to face the life without my father. it's a story of a man who was kidnapped by the government before being off

that was saddam hussein. there were effectively no institutions to think of, or we thought, underneath him. and so the distance between peoples desire now that you've overthrown the dictator, we've overthrown the dictator, and the institutions there could jam ale of those passions.ea there's a great distance and yu don't have much time. i relate in the book we made a lot of mistakes. we undervalued the potential for the tribes, the sunni tribes to play an important role. we didn't understand the tribes. when we got back with the surgeon 2007, the tribes were a big part of the region that were able to defeat al-qaeda in iraq. i think we didn't fully understand the implications of the disbanding of the army, which wasn't supposed to take place by the way, and i described it in the book. so in the fog of war a lot happen. one thing i want people to understand about iraq was we did not go to iraq to bring democracy to iraq. that's an urban legend. i was in those meetings. it's not true. we went to iraq because we

that was jordan reporting there al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist would hussein who's now been in an egyptian prison for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos claims he and al-jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested in december while his family well you with the news are here al-jazeera sports still to come. under an intern in detroit gathering to turn the energy from the women's january into an ongoing international women's movement . in january two point six million people across the u.s. took part in the women's much the biggest national protest in the country's history and if there was follow the election of u.s. president donald trump sparked system protests around the world at work and i says a meeting again in detroit for the women's convention john hendren is there. a day after the inauguration of president donald trump they marched. in washington chicago san francisco into round the world. now they're turning a women's march into a growing women's movement. t

that was saddam hussein. effectively there were no institutions to think of or we thought underneath him. so, the distance between people desires now that they have overthrown the dictator and the institutions there to channel all of those is a great distance and you don't have much time. i relate in the book that we made a lot of mistakes. we undervalued the potential for the sunni tried to play an important role and we did not understand the tribe and when we got back from the insurgents the tribes were a big part in the reason that we were able to defeat al qaeda in iraq. i don't think we fully understood the indications of the expanding of the army which wasn't supposed to take place, by the way and i describe that in the book and in the cause of wawar that happens. i would like people to understand about iraq is that we did not go to iraq to bring democracy to iraq. that iss an urban legend. i was in those meetings and it doesn't have the benefit of being true. we went to iraq because we thought we had a

the kurds are being attacked by saddam hussein it is complicated but it's about who controls what territory and now that your forces have sort of stopped fighting i saw that kannan common enemy is gone they're now starting to turn their guns on each other and of course trying to get crucial and significant territory the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders in decades but was made on the final day of the communist party conference she thought in the footsteps of former leaders to him and on shopping she's described his concept is central to making china a great socialist country by twenty fifty and to thomas from beijing. after their weeklong congress these are the members of the communist party poor thing out of the great hall of the people behind me getting on the buses in tiananmen square to go back and spread the message over to china what is that message that's come out of this congress well first and foremost that president xi is an absolute control of his party not only is his name going to b

led war to oust saddam hussein he held the presidency until two thousand and fourteen but withdrew from political life after suffering a stroke and twenty twelve. the european parliament has voted against to moving to the next stage of talks on britain leaving the e.u. lawmakers in strasburg slammed to the british government for failing to make progress on key issues the vote was non-binding but reflects the mood of the parliament which will have to approve the final bribes that deal. german president frank has warned of new walls as the country marks twenty seven years since re-unification he made the comment in a speech during an event commemorating german unity day which saw the country's leaders gather in the southwestern city of mights the celebrations are being overshadowed though by the nationalist alternative for germany parties strong showing in last month's election indicating that despite the great success since you remove occasion there are fresh divisions and concerns. on the twenty seventh anniversary of german unity both leaders and citizens have reason to be cheerful. bu

led war to oust saddam hussein he held the presidency until two thousand and fourteen both withdrew from political life after suffering a stroke in two thousand and twelve. the european parliament has voted against moving to the next stage of talks on britain leaving the e.u. lawmakers in strasburg slammed the british government for failing to make progress on key issues the vote was non-binding but reflects the mood of the parliament which will have to approve the final breaks that deal. that's all we have time for for now but we will be back again at the top of the hour we will leave you now with us rocker tom petty who has died at the age of sixty six we will remember him now because this is one of his best known hits i won't back down you're watching thanks for trying. to. drag. the russian alist are on the rocks with morning. contract greater good is their slogan the focus put your nation first i am taking a trip to highlights different shades of nationalism and to find out what.

so is samir hussein was talking to some of the candidates.ell, the continuity candidate, then taylor, who could be a little bit more unpredictable. yes, there isa bit more unpredictable. yes, there is a difference between powell having experience and working with the taylor for several years, and taylor, who is eight professor who invented the taylor rule, and according to that rule, they should be higher than where they are now. this is a continuity candidate versus somebody who is a little bit mawkish. it is important to remember that whoever is picked, they are still working with a fed that has many participants and interest rates will not change necessarily straight after the appointment. that is right. there would be an immediate shed. and over has thejob right. there would be an immediate shed. and over has the job will be very conscious of the power they'd have, because the wrong comment can make markets go all over the place. yes, and as janet yellen has seen, that press conference that has the data come out is so important. the way s

thousand and three the united states invaded iraq under the pretext that the iraqi dictator saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction president bush wanted to topple him as the direct neighbor of iraq the syrian regime felt threatened assad feared it could be in the americans interest to so end the assad era in syria. bashar al assad was familiar with the west's fear of islam as terrorism he knew that for as long as this threat existed he would be needed as a partner in the fight against the terrorists and he the dictator would always be the lesser of the two evils be a year later at madrid central station almost two hundred people died in what was the biggest islamist terrorist attack in europe to date the syrian president and his wife expressed their condolences. this is an interesting moment two thousand and four it's the railway station that's right at the same time where they went to the station to put a candle to. a thought for the victims of terrorism at the very same time. the assad regime was supporting the jihadist where working in iraq. and. i mean it was our time then what

it was implemented in one nine hundred ninety one by the you went to protect the kurds from saddam hussein very different territorial demarcation the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the nation's constitution on the final day of the communist party conference it makes sieging playing one of the country's most powerful leaders in decades the u.s. is considering sanctions against me and for its treatment of the range of muslims the us state department says it may use a human rights law to target leaders or groups involved in the violence in the northern state of recalling more than six hundred thousand injured have fled to bangladesh to escape a military crackdown the army and meehan mas denied all accusations of ethnic cleansing austria's chancellor elect is to hold coalition talks with the far right freedom party sebastian curtseys conservative people's party won thirty one point five percent of the vote in last week's elections well short of the majority needed to govern only two parties the freedom party and the social democrats have enough seats to give curt's a

threatening to seek the security council's intervention in the perpetrators are not punished them hussein spoke with al-jazeera mike hanna. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and bangladesh and so it had all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing now what monitors had made clear as well as that it's not just the enforced removal of people it's also the destruction of their homes to prevent them from brittany i mean the confirmation of this will come in two forms one is harmony they're willing to accept back if it's only a trickle then this confirms the ethnic cleansing cleansing hypothesis and the second of course is that all of this would have to be confirmed when one day surely those who have committed or perpetrated these atrocities are holed up before a court and answer to a judge so that the victims can sense that to a certain extent justice will be served in particular f

the public engaged. >> brian: between your service in the military, impact you made getting saddam husseinme back and have your own weapons manufacturer. people listening right now saying why would the congressmet ever do something that would hurt his own business or the nra, being that he's a republican? >> we don't make bump stocks or try to circumvent any laws. we pay special operational tax. we work well with the atf. we know what the laws are. how about turn to folks like us that know the law, >> brian: know guns. >> know how to -- after the st. valentine massacre in the 1934 firearms act, they try to address these public safety issues. they created a body of law than in 1986. to not eliminate but to provide restrictions -- >> brian: congressman, what are you proposing? >> those laws have been effective. virtually never been used in crimes. that body of law has been successful. what we have to do is examine the whole thing comprehensively and say how do we the public, engage the public, and we look at manipulation devices that try to circumvent the law. all of that is on the table.,ge