sanctions in iraq. so, your question earlier, will iran increase activities in iraq, this makes it more necessary to increase activities in iraq. vivian: what about recent iraqi military attacks against isis strongholds in syria? the isis targets have been put in quotations, because they are not isis target. they are the sunni opposition. it is kind of the same thing you iraq.n howard ministration said we have killed 50,000 isis fighters and iraq. there were never more iraq. than 10,000 to 15 thousand isis fighters and a rock the start of the campaign through the campaign. isis works on a billet system. somebody dies, they fill a billet. operations, of their pay was dwindled to $50 a month and you would be conscripted into those positions open because people had been killed, or isis killed them themselves. iranian forces are targeting sunni in syria, targeting s. argue iraq should have the best intel on where isis fighters are in iraq, because the core group around i was iraqi. inteld say that iraqi sho

threat to the united states, we went to iraq, war with iraq because iraq was weak and vulnerable. we kicked the army around in 1991. the country been under strict sanctions ever since. although nobody was paying attention, the united states sometimes with british help had been bombing iraq through most of the 1990s on a persistent basis, not large-scale bombing, but basically iraq had become a very weak military power. so we invaded because it was weak. we invaded because a coalition of neoconservatives and hard-core realists, people like wolfowitz would've been a neoconservative camp. people like rumsfeld and cheney would be in the hard-core realist camp. that coalition persuaded president george w. bush, who had persuaded himself after 9/11, and bush is a serious believer, persuaded himself that he had been anointed by god to transform that part of the world. so that coalition chose to invade iraq because they expected an easy win and expected an easy win and iraq basically to position the united states to increase our leverage, to increase our influence so they could move beyon

legacy and iraq. it is a very a very relevant and current topic those of you entering military service. so sitting before you some of the globe's leading authorities and they don't say that lightly we are fortunate to have sitting on thevant and panel and we hot appreciate although not familiar with their backgrounds because of your majors but thatu we are very fortunate to have them here at the university and you will hear from them shortly. and as you recognize and support several people when i i call your name please stand.the eaesident richard writer.if youl please hold your applause until the end. ceo of the military museum, john swan.military also the symposium is made available to the generosity and support of the military u.s. army retired major general clas of 1950 also i would like to thank all of those on and off campus give them a round of applause. also i would like to welcome all of you watching from different points of the globe and different circumstances and specifically we will welco

hopefully in iraq as well. one of the things i begrudge my theure is i learned about izitis reading a book in english. there is an effort to maintain memory. we would like to do this. we don't have the means to. 2003 when the first mass graves were discovered, i wrote an op-ed for the help of the international community to provide tools to preserve forensic evidence so people can find the remains of their loved ones and achieve closure. .e need this all the more rack,l the victims in a and particularly for the zd's. we need the help and support of the united states. i don't think the united states will be reluctant to give us that help. andok forward to a fruitful promising cooperation. i would like to close mentioning can do tonstitutions bring people together to discuss this issue. i am here. my iraqi colleagues are here. so, in closing i want to thank you for having invited me to speak here. i hope i have not been too long. this is a topic that merits talking about not being forgotten. thank you. >> i want t

saginaw iraq or -- >> that is -- if u.s. leaves, if the coalition is not there we are going back to the era maybe nor dangerous than isis. we'll see -- if, for example, he is mentioning there's no reconciliation. there's no -- nothing over there done for the communities, for the -- >> i mean militarily. >> u.s. should stay. without u.s. there, we will face more problems. >> do you owl -- all agree? let's go down the line. >> i think the security situation is more divided than ever. >> more what? >> divided. so there's many local forces and different authorities. some of them connected to the different groups and they have different agendas and this affect the situation of normal life for the people and making some people didn't be able to send their student to university of mosul for example. they affect their normal daily life, and current situation now we have example, and forces named babylon. >> the babylon brigade. >> 10% christian and 90% from different groups, but i hear stories the member of isis, they joint the forc

hopefully in iraq as well. one of the things that i begrudge my culture as i have learned about the yazidis reading a book in english. that needs to be addressed. there is an effort to be done ensuring that there is accountability. there is an effort to be done in terms of maintaining memory and we would like to do this, but we don't have the means to. our member in 2003 when the first masquerades were discovered in the south of iraq have wrote an op-ed for the international community to provide us with the tools to preserve forensic evidence so that people at least can find the remains of their loved ones and achieve some sense of closure. we needed not only for the people, but also for all the victims and for the yazidis. we need the help and support of the united states and i don't think that the united states will be reluctant to give us that help. and i look forward to a fruitful and promising cooperation. they have institutions like the hudson institutions. the iraqi colleagues are here from various insti

of this is your friend ship with iraq is precious to us. naturally iraq's security is also ours and vice versa. the same is true for syria. and the syrians don't overcome the jihad as it's at home they will enter iraq and then our country. and spread throughout the region that. we turn bad for their well. that is why the security of the muslim world and that of iran depends on the security of syria. at the. so to defend its borders in iran openly send soldiers from excludes force and elite units of the republican guard to both syria and iraq. you know i think it runs influence and commitment in iraq was present well before mozilla in the summer of twenty fourteen really go all the way back to the us intervention in two thousand and three. powerman shia majority government backed by iran the role that arabian militias played. ever since the arraigning presence was both opportunistic to expand its power expand its influence in the region but also defensive because first of all didn't want to return to power of this party and sunni arab domina

iraq's war on meth with yalda hakim. a hunt is under way.olice, on the back of a tipoff, think they've found their target. a suspect they believe has been dealing in the highly addictive and illegal drug, crystal meth. kidnapping, extortion, organised crime are already part of daily life here in basra, iraq's second city. now there's a new threat, crystal meth. i've been invited tojoin the police frontline. this is the elite force that goes out every night on raids to try and crack down on organised crime in this city. they think the suspect is inside. major mithak is leading the raid. with him, officers from the counter—narcotics unit and swat team. injust two years, police have made more than 4,000 drug—related arrests. at police headquarters, they're keen to show off the results of their efforts. today, hundreds of suspects are being paraded in front of the cameras. the police want to show the local media, and i suppose the community, the arrests they've made and the progress they're making to crackdown on crime in basra. general abdul ka

there were once high hopes for iraq's second city.rnment, together with the us department of health, ran a study looking at addiction in basra. there were once high hopes for iraq's second city. oil production in basra province generates 95% of the country's oil wealth. but most residents don't see any of that. this is jumhuriyah, one of the poorest most densely populated parts of town. most of the young people here haven't finished school, they're out of work. jumhuriyah is notorious for gangs and drug dealing. shallal rady, who is 21, has never worked. so do you feel safe here? what about drug users? hello, how are you? nice to see you. i went to see shallal‘s family. salaam—alaikum... they're struggling to get by without electricity or any clean water. his father has serious health issues. what do you think about iraq now in comparison to what it was like when saddam was in power? what do you think about iraq now in comparison to what it was like when saddam was in power? the swat team are on the move again. this city is awash with

war in iraq so when. i got it i made the wall. after three hours with boys and reciting santa it's two packs of cans and bottles. of sixty cents but. it's not enough to pay off their mother's daily interest payments. so they will have to return to the streets again and they often. then not only children who have to work here to survive. the government estimates that there are one point three million child laborers in. one of the worst rates of under-age appointment. poverty has always been the job. can force behind this phenomenon look at the dependence of man most poor on these high interest loans making it even worse. we've managed to track down a break at that specializes in recruiting children into jobs as waiters cleaners and housemates the minimum working asian male nurse fourteen released and this lady recruits children far younger than that. she may live in a squatter come think about. doing respectable four hundred dollars per month as a broker recruiting two hundred jobs in towns and cities across the country. she says a

it's true for iraq. one thing to keep in mind it's never been a democratic movement that has succeeded without outside support. the american revolution supported by the french, south africa, the sanctions were called for by the people of south africa. the whole whole world was mobilized. the fall of the iron curtain and the berlin wall on the break with communism is all strongly supported by reagan every day practically. was always on the nightly news. while the iranian people supposed to be different? why is it bad for the government does a 12 month muslim society that you deserve better we know that you know you deserve better and were here to help you. all of this is regime lobbying. unfortunately all of the academic experts have listened to the regime lobbying. when the green movement happened when these great professors wanted to do the right thing but they told the obama administration not to do anything. and that's what the administration wanted to hear. let's look at what the elites lot. we know

again wouldn't share if you're lucky otherwise the picture is a dry one still a dusty we're on in iraq still about about thirty one mark on the coast of the woods no i'm sure breeze of the east and met now recently the breeze is come out of iraq has brought more humidity with it to cut out the u.a.e. that's like to go back to the dusty size a dusty in eastern side of saudi temperatures rise as a result forty for the full cost which is rather hot the mecca the potential for shyness is still there in yemen and of course the saudi if you still blowing in salalah big shots from tropical africa up in the south a useful addition around the eastern cape there's a lot of cloud recently some decent rain and the system is just going offshore as you can see doesn't mean every bone dry they for the next couple of days the still charles the increase in the western cape and get a bit of rain into cape town itself which is sitting there about sixteen at the moment. al-jazeera follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't oft

what do you think about iraq now in comparison to what it was like when saddam was in power?n the move again. this city is awash with weapons left over from the war and the fight against isis. the team are looking for their second target. young men of the house are hauled out of their rooms. but the man they are after is missing. what has happened? it is hard to ignore basra's crippled infrastructure. addicts live in these impoverished districts where crystal meth addiction flourishes. many addicts and dealers end up here at this prison. this man is the deputy governor. what are the issues you face here? prison authorities have had to expand detention centres to cope with the numbers of addicts and dealers. major, this is one of the rooms? how many people in this room? and this is a combination of drug dealers and drug users? yeah. you just keep them all here together in one room? yeah. i am taken deep into the prison to see what the conditions are like for those who have been convicted. quite overwhelming. i mean, i've been to many prisons in many parts of the world but to s

the united states spent trillions of dollars in wars in iraq, destroying iraq, destroying libya, helpingnd to a dirty war in syria. they are the ones who have created this mess. let's bring it back to what is happening inside iran. you have not tried to dispute with me that economic times are tough and there is anger on the streets, we have all seen it. it is interesting to me that certain politicians, particularly former president ahmadinejad, are making calls for president rouhani to go and to go now. and even supreme leader ali khamenei is an it is afflicting a run. it does seem, and i know you don't like all this talk of hardliners against moderates and reformers, but it does seem, in the current context, as though the hardliners are making a concerted effort to regain complete political power in tehran. well, stephen, i am glad that you acknowledge in iran we have different legal parties with different political perspectives that argue with each other and carry out public debates, because that is not the sort of narrative we here in the west. what we usually hear about iran is usual

made sure that the united nations did not a better did the people of iraq. the same funeral is taking place initially for the victims of tuesday's bridge collapse in genoa but some family is boycotting the ceremony the remains of a family a husband wife and their nine year old daughter meanwhile have been recovered from the rubble of a night. the bridge collapsed on tuesday. thousands of stranded people are waiting to be rescued in the southern indian state of carolina as heavy rain continues to batter the region more than one hundred ninety people have died in just over a week most of the state is submerged in what's being described as the worst flooding in a century. the film a cricketer imran khan has been officially sworn in as prime minister of pakistan it's taken more than two decades to get the top job after retiring from sport and turning to politics he was elected prime minister innovate at the national assembly on friday his p.t.i. party won the most seats in elections last month all right just today those are the very lazy latest headlines from us

and he did expresses concern about the intervention in iraq. at his final press conference he was asked by the bbc, could he give his opinion. he said quite clearly that in his opinion the incursion into iraq was not legal. if you remember it didn't go through the united nations security council or the un general assembly. it is thing to say, yet he was not afraid to say it. and i think one of the reasons he went out on a limb about things like that was because he could see the consequences of conflict on ordinary men, women and children, and this was why, of course, after he left his office as united nations secretary—general, he continued working in peace promotion, he was the un special envoy for syria. i saw him their work tirelessly, well into his 70s, long, long hours, trying to get the different sides to the table, trying to negotiate some kind of peace even if only a short ceasefire here or there. tragically the conflict is still ongoing but not because people like kofi annan, especially because people like kofi annan did not try to bri

donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions on iran is expected to have an impact on its neighbor iraq its shares a fifteen hundred kilometer border with iran with good some people crossing daily the name reports from the border districts off in iraq. each day trucks slowly wind around treacherous roads in the zagg gross mountains carrying goods from iran to iraq since the u.s. announced it was reimposing sanctions against iran rumors and uncertainty are also traveling back and forth across the border iranian bus driver rahman adult is worried soon the border will close and his job of six years will disappear. that's a bit was going to give me an edge on his chest and really i don't know because you can expect anything here the politicians haven't made any agreements if they make an agreement it should be for the sake of the poor people iran is iraq's second largest trading partner it exports fruits and vegetables fuel and home furnishings and for about a decade it is also provided electricity here and wind district and other iraqi border towns the iraq central bank has prohibited all

difficult labor sanctions on iran complicating like next door in iraq. and i'm with the day's sport and tiger woods is looking strong in his quest for a major title in ten years i have the latest from the p.g.a. championship later on in the program. welcome to the program after more than two decades of talks an agreement has been signed which will settle the territorial dispute over the caspian sea well the leaders of russia kazakhstan iran turkmenistan and azerbaijan which border the caspian have met in the port city of tire well they've signed a convention on the legal status. the sea but so far we're yet to hear exactly how bad the work it's all about how much of the caspian each country can claim as there is what russian president vladimir putin said an agreement was crucial to regional security and beyond. bizarre person is to un security is very important and this is what underpins our agreements in this region has an influence on afghanistan on the middle east so this really affects the basic interests states and we need to pull together to combat

sanctions against iran could also have a negative impact across the border in iraq. i'm andrew thomas in the northeastern indian state opus where there's real concern about a new register of citizens which is left four million people of its concerns there are about to be made streets. and fireworks to rafael nadal as he reaches the final in toronto tatiana appetite in sport. taliban fighters have attacked police headquarters and other government buildings in gaza is the battle for the southeastern afghan city enters its third day u.s. ak raft have conducted at least four as strikes in support of afghan national forces who insist the city is not under threat of collapse but lawmakers from guys me say the taliban is in control of much of the city after launching an attack in the early hours of friday morning. over one hundred people many of them members of the security forces have been killed al-jazeera correspondent eunice a.t.'s seen sent us this update from kabul. this is choice is very tense a source told the just that taliban fighters attacked the election committ

well still to come here on al-jazeera isolate the long gone but people in northern iraq say the whole thomas kurdish region only slowly seeing the economy recover. and getting ready to travel one hundred fifty million kilometers we look at the probe that's flying into the face of the sun. the south china sea is a very wet place and i wouldn't touch each of course depression the same as sure the philippines see in the white cloud over luzon which covers it doesn't disappoint two hundred ten millimeters is what you might expect from that sort of white mass of tide over twenty four hours now those to the southern limit to where the further rain will fall a shower too is possible in borneo maybe in bali as well typically internees here is dry most of the lazier is trying to sing a pole and problems are not in the forecast zone full showers south of the equator very active weather recently active winter as a weather one's sure on these fronts and you see them quite clearly i mean you don't need to be charges to see to something going on there and what's going on is windy and wet weather un

their own good to see your old lincolns iraq was a pleasant and gives you two days a day of mourning mourning over democracy it is a great day because we are seeing every bit of what we saw during the entire year if you didn't watch the polls will be going to the region you know what i mean. both the book love and the event. also coming out on the day it's been four years since the so-called islamic state launched a genocide campaign against the u.c.d. ethnic minority and wars in iraq thousands of women and young girls are still in slaves and i as controlled zones coming up we'll introduce you to a woman who's working to win unite them with their families. and their families get a job in which it's got i saw how they killed my mother. it was awful. they tortured us and forced us to pray. they beat us and they put a price on us and sold us from one man to the next and there was. hopes were high for zimbabwe's first election and the post will go up there but now the leader of zimbabwe's main opposition party is refusing to accept the result saying he'll challenge it in court now some c

and you're right iraq sanctions did not work that well they may have slowed the development of some iraqi military programs but on the whole saddam hussein was very defiant and the only thing that caused a major change in this policy was as it was the u.s. invasion and occupation chain of force change of government and so on but that was really very mad general also point out richard just minter of i mean we have to just because we're talking about iraq ok we keep on talking about regime change said that hussein is gone but it was also a form of collective punishment of the whole country wasn't it right that's one of the problems of sanctions and that we try and make them targeted talk about smart sanctions and so on but it's very easy particularly for authoritarian leaders to displace the costs of these sanctions on their people who are perhaps seeing this and in some other countries today so in. the smart the sanctions have become better they're becoming more targeted they've developed over time the u.s. treasury comes better of doing this but the same time countries have become m

and iraq is protesting basser after contamination water leaves hundreds of people in hospital. hello it's good to have you back well we have been watching a tropical depression here across parts of taiwan move very slowly to the west where with this tropical depression we've seen quite a bit of rain across the area actually over nine hundred fifty millimeters just over the last forty eight to seventy two hours in this region now as a system makes its way a little bit more towards china the rain showers are going to continue but the amount is going to start to come down slowly but the flood risk will stay up over the next few days heavy rain also down towards hong kong over towards vietnam though hanoi not looking too bad for you maybe about thirty five degrees mostly cloudy conditions there were here across india their concern over the next few days is going to be up here towards the north and down here towards the east as well as saw the clouds on the satellite but on the forecast map very heavy rain up towards new delhi down towards kolkata over here toward sniper and then we

he's wanted on a murder charge in iraq. we found out who the suspect is, what he was doing in california, and the brutal crimes he's accused of. >> makes me nervous. we were shocked. >> the 45-year-old was arrested in a raid by fbi agents who surrounded his sacramento apartment removing boxes of evidence. >> he was just kind of a friendly muslim man, family man. >> did they have kids did you know about? >> yeah they have a kid. and i play with them. >> as neighbors peered through their doors our knocks went unanswered but at one point what looked to be his wife and child entered the apartment. former federal prosecutor says. >> it's a little bit of a wake up call that bad guys disappear into the wood work and can pop up anywhere in the world. >> court documents describe him as a terrorist who allegedly worked with isis and albuquerque and was a leader in the iraq military system. >> he was involved in the capture and subsequent execution of soldiers. >> the government of iraq has charged him with premeditated murder. he was

throughout that really stressful period and whilst dealing with a lot of issues other than iraq. i remember he told me once that his favorite book was siddartha by herman hesse or and i think there's quite a parallel there in a way the book is a fictional version of the story of how he he sees great poverty and great riches and and finds a middle path and i think that during the lead up to the iraq war kofi annan was similarly he'd seen great endemic poverty around the world he'd met leaders who were living a life of luxury but he was able to to keep a level and actually feel when he spoke to people feel that they were being heard so i think that was a huge asset to the u.n. i think we have it with the new secretary general antonio as well that human quality of being able to listen and be able to speak with with forcefulness but with humility when necessary. in the end it was not possible for him to stop the iraq war but i think he carried himself with great integrity throughout that episode indeed he was very proud african and therefore one wonders what its legacy will be will i

that turned the tide in iraq and actually laid the foundations for more successful iraq and forward in the other cases afghanistan and the gulf war i think he stands by those decisions as what was necessary at the time what he's always focused on or whatever is the exit queue sion of our missions he was also a dedicated supporter of israel and he condemned us un resolutions condemning israel and settlements and so on. what do you see as see. his vision on the israeli palestinian conflict. was did he care about the fate of palestinians and you know what was his view. about this conflict and how it could be resolved. well that's a great question because you're absolutely right betty to a very close very strong relationship with israel at the same time is a very strong and close relationships with allies in the arab world as well for president or sort of king abdullah of jordan to the king of saudi arabia the crown prince there now egypt and so on and his vision has always been you've got to have security and you've got to have democracy and you've got to have peace among people and th

if you're lucky otherwise the picture is a dry one still a dusty run in iraq still around about thirty one mark on the coast of the with no i'm sure breeze of the east and met now recently the reasons come out of iraq has brought a bit more humidity with it to cut out the u.a.e. that's like to go back to the dusty size a dusty in eastern side of saudi temperatures rise as a result forty for the full cost which is rather hot in mecca the potential for showers is still there in yemen and of course the saudi if you still blowing in salalah big shots from tropical africa but in the south a useful addition around the eastern cape there's been a lot of cloud recently some decent rain and the system is just going offshore as you can see it doesn't mean be bone dry they for the next couple of days the still of charles that clearly increase in the western cape and get a bit of rain into cape town itself which is sitting there about sixteen at the moment. just. counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means. companies doing business there the world's biggest oil producer s

ahmad: if we talk about isis presence in iraq, it does not have a significant presence. based on my own talks with iraqi officials, they don't see that as a major threat. but the al qaeda organization has decentralized over five years. they are not a smaller organization, they are not are forces but there in iraq that have an association

campaign of propaganda at least since the iraq the buildup to the iraq war in two thousand and three which comes from a great tradition it comes from nineteen forty five the cover story for dropping two atomic bombs later discredited right through to the beginning of the vietnam war the gulf of tonkin so we had years of misery and devastation in vietnam built on a lie when you be going to understand this when we're going to send understand there's no sturrock will patton and we see that played out now almost through the propaganda that's presented as news i think will get you that many mainstream media journalists have short term memories perhaps but they are handed as they have always been and press releases from government they routinely say russia has obviously rules invaded an area of europe and now they're being told we have proof that they have launched a chemical attack on english soil first time since world war two and and the journalists say all governments cannot possibly be lying about such a serious event i've been a journalist for a long time i've covered many wars i've

is that food to us i mean that the end of that they now have a bigger problem in iran did that in iraq rather than they used to have i think chris correctly pointed out that the complexity of assessing the efficacy of sanctions or any foreign policy tool is you are so many confounding variables in other words the u.s. imposes sanctions on a country but all these other things are happening there are other countries doing other things as military actions or domestic development matters it's hard to say and run the counterfactual if you didn't impose the sanctions what would happen as an alternative and that said it's also important to keep in mind that sanctions have many goals so one goal of sanctions is to put pressure on the target country as you mention iraq or iran but there are other goals there could be to avoid military force could be for domestic political reasons that could be for economic reasons so you have to add all those up ok so those are the two really big complexities you mention iraq and you're right the iraq sanctions did not work that well they may have slowed the de

ethnic minority and more in iraq thousands of women and young girls are still laved in i as controlled zones coming up we'll introduce you to a woman who's working to reunite them with their families. back on. i saw how they killed my mother. it was awful. they tortured us and forced us to pray. they beat us and they put a price on a sound sold us from one man to the next. hopes were high for zimbabwe's first election and the post will go up there but now the leader of zimbabwe's main opposition party is refusing to accept the result saying he'll challenge it in court elson chamisa from the movement for democratic change also complained his party had been harassed and the police are trying to confiscate proof of electoral fraud earlier in the day riot police tried to stop the m.d.c. from addressing the media. the main opposition party leader in zimbabwe tried to hold a press conference on friday in the capital out of it but it was disrupted by riot police who then cleared the area and they were then interned confronted by journalists. during. a venture lead the police did allow the pre

that turned the tide in iraq and actually laid the foundations for more successful iraq going forward in the other cases afghanistan and the gulf war i think he stands by those decisions as what was necessary at the time what he's always focused on the whatever is the exit queue ssion of our missions. ok let's bring you more on our breaking news story that's the shooting at a video game convention in jacksonville florida our correspondent andy gallagher now joins us on the line from miami andy what more can you tell us. well the latest one we're getting here from the jacksonville police is that the suspect in this shooting is now dead the figures being released by the sheriff's office well that four people have been killed eleven injured in jacksonville learning the police are still warning local residents to stay away from the area because in these situations please don't assume because one suspect has taken his own life that they were acting on their own so they are searching that area at work but this was a gaming conference a modern gaming conference in jacksonville florida so you

>> so if we take iraq and syria, and you are right to say that great progress has been made in iraq. i remember at a time of the intervention, first in iraq, most people said that it was going to be impossible to actually make a difference, to push back isil, literally from the gates of baghdad. but that is what has been achieved, led by the united states with local partners, but also with international allies, such as the united kingdom and france, and we have been able to push isil back, reduce their territory, degrade them in what they are able to do. we should be immensely proud of that. but we've also got to be realistic because while the threats have been reduced, it still remains there and it is dispersing, and the idea that there will be one moment where isil and its poisonous ideology is dead forever, that sadly not something that i think anyone will truly be able to achieve. what it does mean to say that nations such as britain and the united states have constantly got to be engaged in terms of that fight, making sure that they don't get such a foothold that they were able

you can do it in iraq, in yemen. do, you are going to help the opposition to have much more effective ways. >> hasn't that started already? the protesters are say no more syria, no more iran. so the u.s. government should listen. is not that the commander is probably identifying him as the commander and the problem. but i have not seen that to be translated into policy. >> mhm. >> the regime is under severe stress. by november, it has to make hard decisions in terms of if it supporting theue assad regime hezbollah and hamas , and these militias. overopulation is very well -- aware. sanctions are also putting tremendous stress on iran. not think the united states needs to do anything dramatic, slept these things play out. there is no reason for trump to meet with anybody. no reason for the u.s. to hit iran anywhere in the region. it's whole position is under tremendous stress. and the internal unrest is feeding that. the u.s. is in a good position if it does not mess it up. >> if you look at the u.s. banksry, any iraq

iraq. he had tried to avoid war with tireless diplomacy and by keeping a team of weapons inspectors in the country until the last moment later the un went back into baghdad after the invasion but its compound was then bombed with twenty two staff killed iraq was also the biggest controversy of his decade in the un job the oil for food program set up to help iraqis lead to massive corruption with the secretary general's own son kojo implicated i when he stepped down at the un he addressed these remarks to his successor banki moon. you have to take over the most impossible job on end of could. while that may be true i would. i would add this is also the best possible job that. he did not choose to go into quote retirement he was the u.n. and arab league envoy to syria in twenty twelve coming up with a plan that would have ended the war six years ago. but it was ignored by the parties that continued to fight. well recently he went to myanmar coming up with proposals that form the basis of the

during the iraq war in two thousand and three the u.s. led coalition consumed about one third more fuel every month than the total amount that was used in all of world war one. a jet fighter burns enough fuel in one hour to power five hundred compact cars. an aircraft carrier uses more fuel in an hour than a small city does in an entire day. and military operations around the world are responsible for the production of ten percent of global c o two emissions. the generals often cite national security and the need for maintaining a strong defensive capability as the main reason why the armed forces should be exempt from limits on energy consumption. this is a military training ground in western germany the bundeswehr has been using it for decades but they've turned one hundred hectares of the zone into a nature conservation area a good example of military policy that's environmentally friendly. but if war breaks out all bets are off. or that but they won't discuss their unit in battle those who survive are those who shoot first and accurat

and find out how an abandoned tobacco factory insula money here could help preserve iraq's history. the air. hello there we've had some severe weather over parts of europe recently ukraine has seen a lot of thunderstorms and this is what it looked like in the capital kiev this is central kiev an awful lot of water there flowing down into the shopping center there and causing quite a few problems that was just the rain there we also had some very gusty winds as well and they caused a fair amount of damage to now that system responsible is just making its way eastwards now and behind it we've got this system here this is a weather front is making its way eastwards and behind that it's turning a lot fresher that it has been so we'll see some pretty violent downpours here but behind it not quite as hot so around twenty four in paris and twenty three in london or chao saturday night into sunday though because we're going to see a very severe system work its way across parts of the british isles and that will make things hit very very stormy across the other side of the mediterranean gene