other the more crises we can prevent we have gone through many crises unfortunately the after the iran iraq war we've seen the iraq invasion of kuwait it the iraq war the advent of terrorism and extremism in the region u.s. invasion of iraq we have seen the difficulties between qatar saudi arabia and others we have seen other incidents of. instability and turmoil in our region so the sooner we start discussing these issues around the negotiating table the better we are in preventing further escalation and further eruptions in the region there are people who feel that the countries that have imposed a blockade in the gulf they've pushed the qataris. into the arms of iran isn't that a good thing for the islamic republic in the region no. you see the problems in the region are like that they. complain about our influence in iraq they complain about our influence in syria all of it happened just like the situation in qatar they adopted wrong policies we took the right side and that creates an influence for iran it's not our choice we don't like what's happening in iraq we don't like what's happ

capping prices so long, and why the deal on the export cuts go ahead. >> what about the impact of iran and iraqso increasing their exports and production. iran, as it continues to come back from tensions and work on its oil fields. project with many foreign companies trying to raise output. they are also subject to the opec deal under which the saudis have been cutting, but they are not playing the game the same with his saudis -- the saudis are. we see as saudi arabia has pulled back, particularly in august and september in sales to the u.s.. iraq supplied nearly twice the amount of oil then saudi arabia did to the u.s., that is not happen for years. -- at its narrowest for eight years and iran is catching up. whether it continues in november, saudi arabia will increase its exports. at some point the opec deal will end and we will see saudi arabia coming back into the market. but we also see demand increasing by that time to make room for all of these supplies. we will see some room, and it could be all of these countries are able to keep the market share. yousef: excellent reporting, thank yo

intervened in iraq at times against the kurds we know that iran doesn't have the same problems with the kurds in their country that turkey does nevertheless we heard from president hassan rouhani today that they will not let the territorial integrity of syria or iraq be compromised what is iran willing to do right now do you think about this issue. well up to now the sanctions seem to be very mild iran stopped the flights of iranian airplanes to bill and so the money added two airports here in iraqi kurdistan and they stopped the flow of petrol by stopping the the tankers that go across the border but those are the two main sanctions really. how worried is the kurdish regional government about the steps that are being taken by turkey and iran so far. well of course there are a lot of. reactions that much of what we see were expected. but if they do cause inconveniences they are causing worries people are worried about escalation into military action although this is increasingly unlikely given the statements made and given the complexity of the dynamics on the ground but that doesn't st

allowing isis to take it because those who supported them financed isis in iraq will bear the consequences of that have a presence of iran in iraq today and i think america will be surprised by iraq's response to this because they've come out and defended haven't they these iranian mobilization units. i don't think that they are surprised and probably this is part of the show they're putting because they're trying to appease as much as possible the saudis and but also lake this is business to them because the more they. they play along putting pressure on iran the more money they will get from the arab countries so i don't take it seriously i don't i don't see where they're trying to get with that. ok we'll leave it there good to get you thought i would think it was only a show ok that was a political analyst thank you. know the fate of catalonia remains in limbo the spanish regions parliament will now meet on thursday to decide whether to push ahead with independence in response to the threat of direct rule from madrid both sides continue to blame each other for the crisis is the route from. a spaniard screeners acting

we have seen prices go up close to $60 last week. >> what about the impact of iran and iraq? ngie. they have also been increasing their exports and production. iran, as it continues to come back from tensions and work on its oil fields. iraq has a big project with many foreign companies trying to raise output. they are also subject to the opec deal under which the saudis have been cutting, but they are not playing the game the same way the saudis are. in trying to keep oil out of the markets. they see opportunities here, as we have seen saudi arabia has pulled back, particularly in august and september in sales to the u.s., iraq has stepped in. iraq supplied nearly twice the amount of oil then saudi arabia did, that has not happened for years. iran has been selling the difference between the amount saudi has sold the china and iran has, that is the narrowest at eight years. iran is catching up. whether it continues in november, saudi arabia will be increasing its exports. at some point, this opec deal will end and we will see saudi arabia coming back into the market, along wit

is playing an active enough role in iran -- i'm sorry, in iraq, helping to contain iran and helping to say to abedi, for instance, the prime minister of iraq, don't coordinate with the iranian forces and help the peshmerga and don't fight with them? or how do you see the or how do you see the administration's actions? captioning performed by vitac captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008

iran iraq war and he said these were all examples of why iran had every right to pursue any reasonable defensive capability that it deems necessary chaumont. are you worried about it rainy a missile what about those weapons you give every day to aggressor countries i know targeting of the oppressed people of yemen with planes and bombs that you built yourself you don't have any protest about those weapons and that's aggression and you targeted all platforms you are always the aggressor in this region our weapons our missiles of defending ourselves we have always been determined and today we are more determined to defend ourselves president rouhani speech was unmistakably defiant in tone designed to match the aggressive tone and rhetoric coming out of the white house he also took an opportunity to defend the revolutionary guard a group in iran that he says enjoys a great deal of public support he also addressed trends criticism of anti-american slogans chanted by iranian demonstrators saying that those slogans were not meant to target american people but instead those slogans were meant

question to share any mr tillerson in riyadh was talking about countering the spread of iran's influence especially in iraqdo you are you worried about the spread of iran's influence in the region and do you think it is a threat thank you. with respect to the talks getting underway yes i did and by meetings with the crown prince mohammed bin solomon asked him to please and gauge please and gauge in dialogue. there is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. and so we cannot force talks upon people who are not ready to talk so there has been no invitation to the white house because it's not clear that parties are ready to engage and we're going to continue to work towards that dialogue and towards that engagement but as i said in response to an earlier question we we cannot and will not impose a solution on anyone with respect to iran gaining i think the most immediate and obvious gain that iran has is that it is qatar's only air space available for qatar to operate and so it puts qatar in a position of having to engage with iran in a in a positive way to meet qatar's needs but this reall

should be out of iraq. iran is in iraq for many reasons. they're neighbors. have asked for the irans help, the militia we heard about are pro-iranian. they rose up to fight against isis. the notion that we are going to tell the iran or that the saudis that's fantasy. what we can do and try to do is reduce iran's influence but the notion that we are going to be able to push them out we got to take that out of our minds. >> did we make a deal with the devil in allowing these iraqi militias to have such a powerful foot hold in the fight against isis and now they're pretty powerful compared to the iraqi central security forces? >> but, bob, mali was exactly right. they rows up to fight isis and why did they rise up to fight isis because the entire u.s. created armed trained army of iraq collapsed in the face of isis. that's when the militias rose up. and what were we going to do as the united states? we didn't have any assets on the ground so of course we made a deal with the devil. we needed somebody to fight isis. >> i feel like that's the question we always ask

iran iraq war and he said these were all examples of why iran had every right to pursue any reasonable defensive capability that it deems necessary chaumont. are you worried about rain you missed what about those weapons you give every day to aggressive countries i know targeting of the oppressed people of yemen with planes and bombs that you built yourself you don't have any protest about those weapons and that's aggression and you targeted all platforms you are always the aggressor in this region our weapons our missiles of defending ourselves we have always been determined and today we are more determined to defend ourselves president rouhani speech was unmistakably defiant in tone designed to match the aggressive tone and rhetoric coming out of the white house he also took an opportunity to defend the revolutionary guard a group in iran that he says enjoys a great deal of public support he also addressed trends criticism of anti-american slogans chanted by iranian demonstrators saying that those slogans were not meant to target american people but instead those slogans were meant t

nor would many other actors in this situation so it isn't all straight from one direction between iran iraq and turkey there are interests in turkey borders that can't be crossed in the sense of action it would seem so very much a wait and see type of situation richelle andrew symonds live for us in istanbul andrew thank you turkish commanders are blaming the kurdish workers party or p k k for a bomb blast which killed at least four soldiers several others were injured in the colver district province near the border with iran procession m.p.'s in catalonia are meeting for the first time since sunday's disputed referendum they're discussing what's next in their move to break away from spain the regional parliament's governing body is also meeting to decide when to call a parliamentary session to discuss the results of the vote and rates of thousands of cattle lines went on strike in response to the national police's handling of the vote spain's king accuse catalans government ruling killing its government rather of running the referendum outside of the law and called for unity. lawrence lee

to help the government and force immigration reform farmers in the kurdish region of northern iraq say iran has stemmed the flow of water to border towns it follows kurdish independence referendum iraq iran and turkey opposed the vote all of them have a large kurdish minority. hundreds of thousands of people have joined a unity rally in spain's capital in your region one week after the session referendum the regional government is considering a unilateral declaration of independence. as the headlines on al-jazeera but do stay with us one o one is coming up next. the great if. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes an. opportunity to be able to a business model of sustainability of nature. banks of course don't do that because they have the heart protection. because. the planet has this time on al-jazeera. around the world are demanding more respect. for the rise of.

is still a part of iraq so two very clear signs from leaders of both iran and iraq here in iran today that they're both on the same page and that neither country will tolerate any compromise to iraq's territorial integrity. the u.n. chief is calling for militia groups and central african republic to put down their weapons and. visiting the troubled nation for years after religious. and as. reports from the capital some was still too afraid to leave their own clay. they are safe here but this act of faith is too dangerous to perform in some neighborhoods of banky. at the height of the ethnic violence in four years ago my son was chased down by christian a vigilante group lynched because he was muslim the family home destroyed fled to the muslim district of p.k. five. they're hunting a stand where rats so we have to hide our religion otherwise they will cut us into pieces. disguises his faith whenever he leaves his neighborhood he shaved his beard and changes his clothes. he even changes his name. becomes. he's not alone many muslims in the capital disguises

but like iran, iraq is a shiia majority country. an played a major role in the effort to defeat isis in the last few months. so the opposite cals to bring iraq into this anti-iran coalition are significant. isis suffering several major blows. losing control of the largest oil fields to the u. svmentd-backed coalition. they captured the alomar oilfield, while syrian troops captured a key city. so there is a lot happening in the middle east. while diplomats talk, isis is continually losing ground to the u.s.-led coalition and also to syrian troops on the ground as well. arthel: conor powell, thank you. eric: for more on rex tillerson's visit to saudi arabia, we'll bring in ambassador john bolton. is the saudi-iraqi partnership realistic? john: i don't think it's realistic. if the saudis want to take a swing at it it can't take any harm. but i don't think they are believers they can make it a success. fundamental reality is the government in baghdad on any kind of strategic matters is controlled by the ayatollahs of iran. so they are no

canjust imagine, iran makes a lot of the fact, it is one of the defining national interests, they survived years of sanctions and it wasn't lost on many that the rising influence in iraq, in syria, happened under sanctions. so sanctions are not, iran will carry out its strategic objective. it has never been afraid of sanctions, but it is a country where people expect benefits from the nuclear deal. if this puts a halt to new investments in iran, it's going to have an effect both on iranian politics with the hardliners. what we said including iran's supreme leader, go ahead and negotiate, but we don't trust the americans. there must be a lot of people in tehran saying i told you so. people in tehran saying i told you so. let's bring in barbara plett—usher. how did what we heard from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting? from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting ?|j from donald trump compare to what we have been expecting? i think pretty much as advertised. a long description of iran's allegedly bad behaviour. he sees it as a terrorist nation as he calls it. that a long description of how he feelings the nuclear deal meet requirements, that

it was the iran iraq war which lasted for eight years where the revolutionary guard made its name. these men a chanting for martyrdom they believed faith would overcome iraq's technical superiority young man would walk across minefields to clear a path for the military the army had to defend the country in the face of much more powerful foe the revolutionary guards though since they were a volunteer force they were highly motivated and therefore when they went to aid the army they were very effective and the army along with the revolutionary guards were able to push back saddam hussein's forces. president. johnny oversaw the revolutionary guards expansion and you nearing skills learned during the war were used in post-war reconstruction front companies not subject to sanctions were established to carry out the work. the guards also expanded their involvement in internal security. they suppressed these student protests in one thousand nine hundred nine and have been used to crackdown violently on any dissent since then the and the kurds force was created by the guards to train proxy

iran? and sorry, in iraq? helping to say to the prime minister of iraq, you know, do not accord with the iranian forces? and do not fight with them? how do you see the administration's actions? >> we are a little unhappy with the kurds, with the president, because he did not listen to us when we asked him not to hold a referendum, and we made an alternative offer. i think we also think larger, more broadly than just being unhappy with this nonbinding referendum should not be a surprise that 93% of kurds want to have a country of their own. this is not more or less a public opinion. [laughter] think? do they because of that disappointment, i think we have not been strong since and engaged enough these hostilities began. think we need to make it very clear and loud and clear that all use of force must stop. that negotiation must begin immediately. iranianss it that the are sitting at the table in the negotiations between iraq and the kurds? and where are we, so to speak, on this? >> so we're missing> ? >> given

kurdish leadership into the results of monday secession referendum stratford reports from on the iran iraq border which is one of two main border crossings between iran and the could region of northern iraq now the kurds used to sell their crude oil to the iranians who would refine it for them before selling its bank but it seems like tehran is acting on it and we've been speaking to customs. only at this border at least trading oil and fuel the stock. the transport of food in general. that. these trucks are waiting to cross back into it having delivered. the situation will continue we have made out a living going back to. we don't know if i will be allowed back to the carriage. iraqi soldiers are expected to participate in military exercises with the iranian army on the iranian side of the border in the coming days. this is the closest town to the border many of the goods sold in the shops are iranian many of the people here are reliant on trade with iran. we are afraid of the referendum ignore the economic challenges we now face. many of the kurds here voted yes in the referendum but the

iran, the u.s. has got to respond to a full range of threat, not just the nuclear program because we see in syria and iraqalong western sea. now the cuts were says in the higher gc taking advantage of this fight against isis and moving and brutalizing mncs so much territory and iran's terror proxy is amassing troops along israel's border in the north along the east and iran continues to acquired destabilizing conventional weapons, but also intercontinental ballistic missiles. the administration has taken a realistic approach on iran recognizing the full range of these threats. this is what we have been messaging in a bipartisan way on this committee. this is what the chairman and i., mike mccall, elliott ingo and i have been talking about as we push these policies. congress and the administration must work together to confront these threats while ensuring iran never develops a nuclear capability. and i will add another point here because that approach was evident just over a week ago when the administration implemented a provision that congress passed in july has michael mccaul shared with you designating

the people of iran, the people of iraq, iran, yemen, and syria , wethe rest of the region continue to resist terrorist groups that have been created by the united states, and they will not stand until these terrorist groups have been terminated, annihilated. is a powerful force that is popular among the young -- among the iranian people and has been standing behind their people before the war on iran fought against anti-iran agents after the revolution, fought them head on. and stood against the invaders and the irgc has said yes to the call of support from the oppressed people of the middle east. is this a corrupt force? or the government and armed forces that have always done everything to interfere in the independence and sovereignty of different countries in the region? is this a government dictator that is only elected by the people? the government is being supported by the u.s. and they have a tribal system that manages the country, that has never seen, never had an election in their country. a regime that continues to oppress the people of palestine, lebanon and others. you sup

syria now and the question is what the day after would look like if we would see iran and then iran influence iraq and iran influencing syria and iran the influence in lebanon with. this would be a huge problem and we believe as i said before that this is something that needs to be done by the international community well it's interesting you say that because the view in moscow and let me know if you disagree with that is that the iranian influence is indeed growing there is no dear. dispute about that but most believe that partially it is growing because of israel's own policies or the policies of israel's closest allies it all started to be with the invasion of iraq which allowed iran to gain a foothold there was a campaign in the israeli complain in lebanon the beach consecutively allowed to hizbollah gaining more influence and dot country down was syria and now there is yemen don't you think that at least in part the iranian influence that you are so concerned about is growing because all of the opportunities that were handed to it by israel or israel's allies no way i mean to accuse east for

more gunshots are ringing out and there was like no we're not staying here so everyone got out the iran iraq now tours most of most of the world mind you want to run anyone practical and we always just run across and we'll just hear shots coming from every angle from every angle we're in to field we're often fences and people are falling on the ground you know there is everything was just going off so i also hope everyone was safe but i saw a few people a number i don't know how to keep going you know rest in peace to over you know who got in you know who got injured it was you know like literally right behind my head like i can hear this. problem in the middle few produces you know people you know turned around and was in our list as well like what the hell you know what the heck was that was that gunshots were fired four months out not part of like a little twenty two pistol and then you know thirty forty seconds later went on you know like a big you know big big in this unless the machine gun also rifles syngas it's. just ringing down my ears i'm like you know this is various i turned aro

strange this is the kurds really stand alone as almost friendless, without al turkey, saudi arabia, iran, iraq, of course, none of them want an independent kyrgyzstan. this goes back up ottoman empir. this is very worrisome last night, because we thought as the iraqi forces were moving on kirkuk, that this would be a tough fight. the peshmerga have been -- >> the kurdish forces. >> yes, sorry, the kurdish forces, as brutal fighters. in an intrigue worthy of shakespeare, they laid down their arms apparently because there's infighting amongst the kurds as well. the iraqis just really marched in here and have given the oil market a breath of ease here. so the oil price didn't go up all that much, it jumped over $1 a barrel on the initial reports, but things calmed today and we're all watching it very closely. >> it seems as though, and i hate to use this phrase, because every time you do, something goes wrong, but it's different this time, right? for the oil market? because we have seen these types of skirmishes in the past. but this time, it seems as though the stakes are much higher. and both s

the kurds celebrated the referendum on secession from iraq since then turkey says it will gradually take control of its land border neighboring iran has made similar threats. the federal government has banned international flights to and from the kurdish region of iraq and a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kayla g.'s electoral commission and now the k r g says it is under straight from the same forces it worked with to defeat eisel in northern iraq the peshmerga say they have voluntarily withdrawn from an area south of kirkuk in order to ease tension with nearby iraq eat government forces but with sounds of pressure being deployed to kirkuk and neither the k r g all the baghdad government willing to talk face to face unconditionally about the results of the controversial referendum there are mounting phase of a potential new conflict in northern iraq stops at al-jazeera at a bill. yes austria's anti immigrant freedom party has ended its election campaign with a rally in vienna immigration has been a major issue ahead of sunday's vote the party's leader christians cuse the government coalition of trying

four months in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspended ties with cata iran and iraq as well as the conflict in yemen are also expected to be high on the agenda sure a senior lecturer in middle east politics and security studies at the university of exeter having just moved to doha now he's obviously going to have a central message of let's deflate this what kind of reception will that message get. i think up to a few months of the this crisis they may think it's right time to approach this but i think it depends a lot on what kind of pressures you would put because the first choice of the i think that leadership both in saudi arabia and the usa used to continue the crisis and to continue to be more pressure i think it's not exactly in the u.s. interest before that we had conflicting messages from the white house and the state department now we have almost the same message from the white house and the state department so you have a united united states if you wish and based on that i think this is the approach but the negative message that rex tillerson gave that he d

iraq is likely to listen. to secretary terrorism. the the factual matter is iran has been dominant arm in iraq. in the past you know especially several years you know ever since basically the iraqi army fled on the heels of the routing of the the islamic state taking all that northern territory. you had a lot of what's called rands and these militia he's popular mobilization forces. basically coming in and doing the brunt of the fighting. really. . actually defending iraq in many respects are they were incorporated these forces he's popular mobilization forces actually into the iraqi army itself not here's where it gets a little tricky. and here's where perhaps is a little confusion even rex two listens comments. a we talk about these popular mobilization forces we talk about these iranian shiite militias fighting in iraq in the neighboring country. however they're not all arabia a lot of them most of them are actually not. yes iranian sponsored iranian backed up a lot of them are iraqis iraqi citizens iraqi shiite militias which is why you could sort of understand. iran's response when rex to

iran has deployed dozens of tanks along its border with iraq for thomas kurdish region following last week's secession referendum the deployment as part of joint military drills with iraqi forces the referendum was held in the finance of the government in baghdad as well as neighboring iran and turkey baghdad has rejected any dialogue with kurdish regional government officials unless the referendum is an old well iraq's former leader saddam hussein used chemical weapons against the iraqi kurds of how lab province in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and that attack is often cited as a reason for kurdish autonomy but despite the history the provinces turned out in last week's a session referendum was low chance stratford. almost thirty years ago during the final days of the iran iraq war the people of this town were victims of an atrocity that shocked the world. almost sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty eight iranian soldiers were in the area when iraqi war planes dropped chemical weapons and around the kurdish town of junk. it's estimated that up to five thousand people were ki

almost thirty years ago during the final days of the iran iraq war the people of this town were victims of an atrocity that shocked the world. almost sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty eight iranian soldiers were in the area when iraqi warplanes dropped chemical weapons in and around the kurdish town. it's estimated that up to five thousand people were killed in the chemical attacks on how about just now you think that the people that have suffered such an appalling atrocity would be fully behind the referendum on eventual secession from iraq but the province of had one of the lowest turnouts in the vote. there were no flags or signs celebrating the referendum here it was a lie. and fifty five percent turnout in her lab just sixteen percent of those who did vote said no to the eventual future independence from iraq. she recently lost eight members of his family in the chemical attacks three decades ago he says the kurdish regional government has let down that the people have little trust of the government because of corruption and there is fierce competition between parties to maximiz

iraq. despite the threats from the government should baghdad and korea and iran these iranian kurds share the same dream stuff that al-jazeera jack built in iraq. the united states is offering millions of dollars for information about two senior hezbollah officials the u.s. government accuses. and forwards of playing key roles in hezbollah attacks targeting u.s. citizens show cory's accuse of being involved in a major attack in beirut in one nine hundred eighty three that killed two hundred forty one u.s. service personnel it has more from washington. the trumpet ministration is ramping up the rhetoric when it comes to iran it is signaling that it will begin to crack down on the armed wing of hezbollah which the united states says is backed by iran now the u.s. state department declared hezbollah a terrorist group in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but now the trumpet ministration is launching a new campaign to undermine the group's political legitimacy it's important to recall that hezbollah hasn't developed its military and terrorist capabilities on its own it has become the global thre

four months in saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain suspending ties with cata iran and iraq as well as the ongoing conflict in yemen are also expected to be high on their agenda. the head of the world health organization is rethinking his appointment of the zimbabwean president robert mugabe as a goodwill ambassador the u.k. and the u.s. both criticized the decision along with human rights activists and health groups they point to alleged rights abuses in zimbabwe the w.h.o. as chief had earlier said mr mugabe deserved the on that because of his public health policies five former american presidents appeared together at a charity concerts in support of hurricane relief the one america appeal concert in texas is raising money for people affected by hurricanes harvey and maria tens of thousands of people were displaced and billions of dollars worth of property destroyed after the storms hit us and the caribbean former leaders have already raised thirty one million dollars donald trump wasn't there but he did think his predecessors did you miss those are the headlines up next i

the iraqi region of kurdistan is an important hub in the middle east turkey iran and iraq all move goods to one another through the autonomous region now the kurds are pushing for independence the region's location is making it difficult to neighboring countries to make good on their threats of closing the borders but is the region really so invulnerable. business is humming at the ybor he included border crossing between turkey and iraqi kurdistan three weeks after kurds in iraq voted for independence a little here seems changed the shops are filled with goods products like these still rods await further transit turkey is now threatening to close the crossing leaders there are angry over the independence vote and fearful of the ripple effect it could have amongst its own kurdish population such a move wouldn't be easy some traders here say many of the goods are only passing through and that's not good idea meant to get that anybody about seventy to eighty trucks loaded with commodities travel from turkey to iraq on a daily basis about ninety percent of those trucks go to iraqi cities li

yes absolutely as it was confirmed this morning by iraqi prime minister iran stands with iraq shoulder to shoulder to protect the national integrity of the country. at this very sensitive time actually iran continues to play a very important role to protect our national. integrity for forty dollars just to give you a little bit of a context to understand almost this indispensable security rule or for iran for iraq on fifteen so fur october. general pulled from the very powerful iranian courts force along with some other iraqi commanders the go to kurdish commanders incur a coup and they say leave the city peacefully otherwise we're going to hit you from three points from here here and here and guess what in the matter of if you hours courts force along with shia militia and government managed to successfully capture this city this highlights it waves in which iran even after the defeat or almost defeat or twice as plays a very important security and political really help in iraq and to that point secretary of state rex tillerson said this aronian militias that are in iraq now that the

in the middle east in the 1980s during the iran iraq war multiple times having people try to blow our school up having bomb threats called in for various organizations and sandwiches open to look for explosives as we walk to school in the morning. we lived in an open neighborhood and to move home where overseas we had a lot of camel racing and politics became a connection to me. and i became a political junkie, and survived the david duke race where my parents had to vote for the crook and it is important. going to college in georgia i met my wife and made a home with the law school practice for five years and one day one of the partners of my law firm asked do you know what deficit of a dumbass is? i said no. he said you. so i did. friend of mine started the website red state and put me in charge of it and things exploded. in 2009 cnn called and asked if i wanted a job, i had a friend who had to put up with me for three years at cnn and after the 2012 election moved over to fox where i have been since and my life has revolved around politics day in and day out. my wife is not politic

the governments of iraq turkey and iran have joined ranks in announcing measures against iraq's kurdish regional government this follows last month's controversial referendum on the future of kurdish the session from baghdad the non-binding vote was supported by kurds in neighboring countries that as charles trafford finds out from cashion sheikh and northern iraq the effects of secession can be felt across the border in iran as well. these are new recruits members of the armed wing of the iranian kurdish party that's been demanding greater rights for kurds in iran for more than seventy years. the democratic party of iranian good istanbul p d k i is banned in iran but the kurdish regional government of northern iraq has helped fund the party and allowed its members to train here since the one nine hundred ninety s. . it's quite as have served alongside the iraqi peshmerga helping the iraqi army and the international coalition in the battle against leisel its ultimate aim is the same as the iraqi kurds a future independent state the p.k.i. claims it has thousands of fighters based in the

when we are talking about kaepernick goes goodell, it's like rooting for someone in the iran-iraq warconference yesterday, it was like he had a tick, he kept saying the same thing over and over again. let's roll the sound quickly, please. >> these issues, these issues, how deeply he felt about these issues in our community. these are issues that are player yous were community issues, issues in the our communities to make our communities bert and get back into our community and make our communities better. lou: this man is making $40 mill a year and he has gone off on a jag and talked about communities and issues. >> that 7 the only word -- that's the only word he could say over and over again. issues and community. there is no definition to issues. >> he's been doing this for several years and he makes $44 million. >> you would think he would know one word other than issues. lou: some specificity of some kind. let's turn to this moment today at the white house press briefing. that is general kelly who is eloquent, he set straight the entire country on the dignity that's expected for s

iran and iraq are snapping up some of saudi arabia's market share.is the latest move by the saudi's? their fluxing more muscle. .- they are flexing more muscle >> what the saudi customers request in terms of oil. they tell the company how much need in november and the saudi's say they need this much. they come in below that number. the request around 7.7 million barrels. that would already be more than the saudi's were exporting during the summer months. the saudi's do joe baca on exports anywhere in the summer as they have higher demand at home because they need to power air-conditioning and key people cool when it is very hot. they do ramp-up in the winter months. we do see increase in saudi exports but they are targeting a lower than historic levels of exports because they want to take the oil physically out of the market really target the stockpiles that have built up in the united states, and that is what has been capping prices for so long. the deal on the expert cuts go ahead, we see prices, close to $60 flex week -- last week. impact?hat abou

iran came under attack by saddam hussein's government of iran iraq with was backed by the united states he also said that the united states is responsible for using two nuclear weapons and threatening to use another one now against north korea. should not be a player that that has a say in whether or not i. don't proliferate treaty or agreement is the right thing so. strong words from the president and also from was in defense of his own country the turkish army says it started setting up observation posts in syria is the province turkey's deployed its troops as part of a deescalation deal with iran and russia it was announced that the soldiers would be advancing science but there are reports they are heading east close to areas controlled by kurdish forces. or kurdish forces in iraq and evacuated a number of villages to the south of could and the fears of an attack by iraqi government troops and militia fights as is believed that iraq forces have now moved into these areas which kurdish forces have controlled since twenty fourteen cards have accused iraq of getting ready to launch an o

also, iran has tremendous influence inside iraq. they really have more influence over the government of iraq that the united states has not the other reason why secretary tillerson as they are talking the saudis about that in making certain iraq moves forward as an ally of the united states. we have ceded the logical influence despite the military successes we've so much influence over. with a strategy that just isn't tough enough in dealing with the iraqi government and also dealing with the iranians. hopefully the strategy will involve can be pushing back on iran inside of iraq and also syria. elizabeth: and getting it in my ear but also we had lindsey graham say listen, it's changing as we speak or do you like to see the awareness that even lawmakers the folks at the pentagon is seen as a whole new ballgame as if the want terror continues to change. that radical islam is a global movement that is generational for sure and we have to push back comprehensively. we have the right strategy. we can't do that, but we can offer partners