caliph it not only here in iraq. but also in syria and he watched as mile by mile they lost all of it with the so-called caliphate being destroyed earlier this year it's thought that easter after the easter coordinated bombings in sri lanka that baghdadi released a video that many analysts have said appears to be authentic and the video was as much a message to the world as it was to his followers he knowledge that the caliph it had taken serious hit that it had in effect been lost but he said that the fight against the enemy would continue quote until judgment day but again dear and it's clear that here in iraq there are going to be a lot of people if in fact baghdadi was killed who are relieved to hear this news yeah and as a senator not the 1st time that baghdadi has been reported killed if it's true how did the death will be viewed there in iraq took us through what this means now billed as a show and its leadership there in iraq. well one of the things that we've seen with eisel is since it's the destruction of

the protests in baghdad and the south of iraq eventually the trouble could reach these areas and.they they could it could be pave the ground for reemergence of isis or isis 2.0 or 2 or 3.0 now on the syrian side of things there yes to the that isis was very much in control of where being. ford they were being fought in these areas by the as the f. now with the american withdrawal from these areas with empowering the guy who is largely seen both in iraq and in syria as the patron of isis the isis was largely seen as the military wing of the a.k.p. at the guys party in turkey $40000.00 fighters according to brett mcgurk who was in charge of the war against isis in iraq and in syria said that they had come to isis areas to syria from turkey now with turkey in charge of the borders again with the s.d.f. being away from their borders we could see a similar scenario of isis of the grounds are there for isis or isis to point or whatever else for for them to reemerge in the areas that they were. cleared of in the past with the coalition and there's the f. so this issue is that the conditi

the sensitive names in iraq with reaction from baghdad to his homeland. iraqis will contend with the psychological trauma caused by baghdadi and i saw for a generation whether it was being displaced from their homes losing a loved one being injured raped or simply living in fear you'd be hard pressed to find an iraqi family not affected by isis reign of terror in iraq with the news that al baghdadi is dead you can pretty much be guaranteed that most iraqis are simply saying good riddance to their fellow iraki just as with osama bin laden and al qaeda the death of baghdad he does not necessarily mean a dissolution of eisel although of course it is in a weakened state there believed to be eisel sleeper cells across iraq they have been launching attacks i spoke to the top general of the u.s. led coalition to defeat eisel here in baghdad over the summer and he says that eisel has done a very good job of adapting and becoming a nimble insurgency that he says is resurging here in iraq and syria he says the fight against isis is far from over we've been speaking

that's not the solution to iraq iraq needs to include the streets iraq needs to include the people many of the leaders for since 2003 are no longer representative and so really what iraqis want is a government that can rebuild the state so this moment what it represents it could go either way very clearly that you will have different leaders try and become the defenders of the system and you'll have leaders emerge that perhaps will try and defend that system and that could move towards perhaps a more a folk authoritarian style of government to. me we're heading towards a gentleman so i just want to move the conversation on the lower in about 30 seconds please what do you think happens next. well what happens next is that the government will have difficulty in convincing everybody things may come down but even also may escalate the security forces that are now defending the government there will be and they are mostly the paramilitary forces that are not state actors they are the more more like the paramilitaries and they are now increasingly in charge they are the ones controlling the c

that's not the solution to iraq iraq needs to include the streets iraq needs to include the people many of the leaders for since 2003 are no longer representative and so really what iraqis want is a government that can rebuild the state so this moment what it represents it could go either way very clearly that you will have different leaders try and become the defenders of the system and you'll have leaders emerge that perhaps will try and defend that system and that could move towards perhaps a more a folk authoritarian style of government to a litany with. gentleman so just one of the compositional dillo in about 30 seconds please what do you think happens next. well what happens next is that the government will have difficulty in convincing everybody things may come down but even also may escalate the security forces that are now defending the government there will be and they are mostly the paramilitary forces that are not state actors they are the more more like the paramilitaries and they are now increasingly in charge they are the ones controlling the crowd they are the one that

that's not the solution to iraq iraq needs to include the streets iraq needs to include the people many of the leaders for since 2003 are no longer representative and so really what iraqis want is a government that can rebuild the state so this moment what it represents it could go either way very clearly that you will have different leaders try and become the defenders of the system and you'll have leaders emerge that perhaps will try and defend that system and that could move towards perhaps a more a folk authoritarian style of government to. me we're heading towards a gentleman so just one of the compositional dillo in about 30 seconds please what do you think happens next. well what happens next is that the government will have difficulty in convincing everybody things may come down but even also may escalate the security forces that are now defending the government there will be and they are mostly the paramilitary forces that are not state actors they are the more more like the paramilitaries and they are now increasingly in charge they are the ones controlling the crowd they are

it was the remits of al-qaeda in iraq from obviously the iraq war. the u.s. conducted the surge. by 2008 was driven out of territories in central, northern and western iraq that a controlled, and it was perceived that al-qaeda and iraq which is also called the islamic state, making it more confusing, was defeated but they weren't. they went underground. they husband their forces. they gathered. the organist. tens of thousands of fighters from the conflict the state the dragnet and then you had an iraqi government that was corrupt, letting people out of prisons, things of that nature. so i remember watching a video i want to say it was late 2011 when i saw al-qaeda in iraq organized a large convoy and take over a town in and our province -- anbar province. i've never saying this is extremely disturbing. our preparing these types of operations. and we saw this happen for years later. the islamic state came out of dispute between al-qaeda, between al-qaeda central and -- it was basically a turf war between baghdadi, the head of the islamic state and joe lonnie who is allocating forc

nd what we wanted to do, iraq was one thing, iraq was a little easier, extremely difficult but and aworking with an army government and we had extensive relationships, what we wanted to take elements of the syrian opposition and work with turkey and others to build that would fight isis. nd we invested hundreds of millions of dollars and mike was leading this effort, mike and you would hear, i have 5,000 men and we're ready to fight. great 5,000, get them to our base on this date and it would turn out there would be like 20. happened over and over again, or the forces that we wanted to work with were so extremists that our military repeatedly said there is no way we can work with these people. repeatedly.d we delayed the counterisis over a for probably year. the rocket battle, because we reading ry, i've been about all of these roads we traveled, we traveled all these to nowhere.re roads so the way we met the syrian -- s was in the battle of cobani. the entire border to turkey was isis.lled by if you take a look at a map in it was all black. it's surrounded by thousands of to take ters abou

occupation of iraq he was a prisoner in the u.s. run jails at abu ghraib and camp booka and in 2010 he became the leader of al qaeda in iraq that later split from the main al qaeda that changed its name to eisele islamic state of iraq and the levant that was 2014 that same year baghdad he announced the creation of a so-called caliphate and within 12 months i still fight has captured large parts of iraq and syria controlling an area the size of the u.k. with more than 40005 says its attacks there and overseas prompted the formation of a u.s. led coalition which forced its fighters to retreat from their strongholds in 2017 and 18 most of that territory has been retaken but i still continues to carry out attacks let's talk to natasha the name in baghdad now just bring us up to date if you wouldn't argue with what we know so far in lieu of any official announcement from the americans just yet. code be hard to find an iraqi family who has not been impacted by daddy's eisel whether they were displaced they lost a loved one were injured ra

it was the remnants of al qaeda in iraq, from obviously the iraq war. the u.s. conducted the surge. by 2009 it was driven out of territories in central, northern, and western iraq, that it controlled and it was perceived that al qaeda in iraq, which was also called the islamic state, making it more confusing, was defeated. but they weren't. they went underground. they hustled their forces, they gathered, organized, tens of thousands of fighters from that conflict escaped, and then you had an iraqi government that was corrupt. letting people out of prisons. things of that nature. so it was feeding from that but i remember watching a video and i want to say it was late 2011, where i saw al qaeda in iraq, organize a large convoy, and take over the town in anbar province, a town between ramadi and fallujah. i remember saying this is extremely disturbing. we saw this happen for years years later. the islamic state came out of a dispute between al qaeda, between al qaeda central and it was just basically a turf war between baghdad, the now the head of the islamic state and the al qaeda fo

blown down jordan dishonors iraq life and also coming up. celebrations in argentina the country takes a turn to the left to look to the law professor to be the next president. of state of emergency in california as wildfires rage forcing tens of miles to feed a. show of unity thousands of people in lebanon to form a human chain across the country to support of anti-government protests. welcome to the program world leaders are warning the fight against eisel isn't over yet despite the death of its leader baghdadi france and britain say his killing in northwestern syria is an important moment but they'll continue to work with allies in the middle east to defeat the group entirely white house correspondent kimberly hoggett reports on the daring u.s. raid that ended in the death of the world's most wanted man. a car i'll bet daddy is dead in a rare sunday morning news conference president donald trump announced to the world the leader of eisele had been hunted down and killed by u.s. forces he died like a dog he died like a coward trump says the

bernard smith al-jazeera dormice refugee camp in northern iraq. britain's prime minister has laid out his government's agenda in the queen's speech with leaving the european union on october 31st a top priority is still to be finalized the divorce agreement was one of $26.00 new bills presented its course johnson has no majority in parliament opposition parties have dismissed the speech as an election manifesto charlie angela reports from london. the costumes the carriage the queen's speech is the high point of parliamentary pageantry and the british monarch announces the government's plans for new legislation in a speech written for her she began with proposals to support a back seat deal if the deal is reached this week my government's priority has always been to secure the united kingdom's departure from the european union on the 31st of october my government intends to work towards a new partnership with the european union based on free trade and friendly cooperation. boris johnson has just 5 days to secure deal with the parliament would appro

routes originate in iraq and al qaida in iraq abu bakar baghdadi he was the leader of al qaida in iraq in 2010 they were weakened by the presence of the us military in the campaign that the us military waged against the group but he managed to exploit the security vacuum in syria of course there was a civil war in the north of the country a lot of areas outside state control so he exploited that fact human order to regroup to recruit fighters and he also exploited the grievances of the sunday communities both in syria and iraq in iraq which was led by a shia led government the security forces people inside the areas in the in the center of the country they feared the government they fear the security forces so it was very easy when i saw it took control of that whole region and the same in syria as well because people you know they they perceive their fight against an alawite led regime which. exploited those grievances and created a state that he was the head of the states but soon a u.s. led campaign targeted the group in both countries led by kurdish forces on the ground and he slow

the protests in baghdad and the south of iraq eventually the trouble could reach these areas and. they they could it could be pave the ground for reimagines of isis or isis $2.00 or 2 or $3.00 now on the syrian side of things there is to the that isis was very much in control of where being. for they were being fought in these areas by the as the f. now with the american withdrawal from these areas with empowering the guy who is largely seen both in iraq and in syria as the patron of isis. isis was largely seen as the military wing of the a.k.p. the guys party in turkey $40000.00 fighters according to brett mccurry who was in charge of the war against isis in iraq and in syria said that they had come to isis areas to syria from turkey now with turkey in charge of the borders again with the s.d.f. being away from their borders we could see a similar scenario of isis of the grounds are there for isis or isis to point or whatever else for for them to reemerge in the areas that they were. cleared of in the past with the coalition and there's the f so this issue is that the conditions

on iraq. as questions about his death remain unanswered. safety 1st diplomats in somalia try to figure out how to hold an election next year against a backdrop of violence. hello they've had a fairly quiet couple days across central and eastern areas of china now on the satellite you see this bright bundle of cash just pushing actually outer shell gas is tropical storm e tag so as a k. is the way it takes the rain with it so a good couple of days ahead in shanghai also fine and dry and hong kong still feeling fairly humid of course other nations want to see will scout of the interior now they do become a bit more widespread as we head into friday but they don't make much progress so we might actually just see some localized flooding from the system of the ground is so very wet because the rain over the last few months and the rain is pushing further south so fairly unsubtle across much of borneo it's that time of year and also quite heavy across into northern sumatra and pushing on across into the med a peninsula as we head into friday quit

break up in iraq's capital of. several other cities across the country at least 4 people have died in protests in the past. what boris johnson says is his final breaths that offer has now been delivered to the e.u. the british prime minister says the proposal would require compromise from both sides and would not include cross the tracks on the island of fire and. a moment of silence has been held in istanbul on the 1st anniversary of the murder of saudi arabian journalist. family friends and members of the united nations investigation team were at that ceremony in turkey. was never seen again after going into the saudi arabian consulate to collect documents in order to get married those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then bye bye. the rankings march to demand jobs and improve services in the largest demonstration yet against prime minister abdullah abdullah mocking their pm it's a repeat of previous protests so iraq's leaders miss main and why is

worst very bad and go on to worse another that i think is the biggest of the boast a problem now in iraq is the corrupted because now the new generation is coming the generations they don't they don't follow and anything on the ground no job no the wheel of the economic is a stalled no trades not likely culture no industry nothing they talking about to relieve all the rulers that will relieve all the government because they don't see anything about them then i think this is what's behind what what's happening and what the broadest sense is needed the feds the things they want to government to fight the corrupted the corruption situation but they think and one of them they they do use the corrupt people because now the iraqi government does sign many agreement with many many companies but. all that's money goes to the pockets of the corrupt people. let me bring into the conversation now what are your thoughts on what's happening right now in iraq it's significant isn't it to see these protests in baghdad because many had viewed the iraqi capital as being in a state of recovery since the f

in western iraq in northern iraq and curren in the kurdish region of iraq protests haven't been happening because of the sunni areas in iraq and the sunni areas by sunni areas we mean the western iraq in northern iraq there is a fear of having the governmental accusation that those are sleeping cells of isis and they're only protesting against the government because they want to replace it with isis and this is totally an under understood justification why these sunni areas are not out by their counterparts by their countrymen in the south but this delicate anywhere ever they are taking place they do seem to be cross sectarian don't they and that is significant in a country that has had so much sectarian violence absolutely while sectarianism is affecting iraq on a daily basis and supposed 2003 iraq when we see. rising against the leaders of iraq that in itself means people are moving from identity politics to politics if there was protest might continue for the next few weeks i am assuming that people in the sunni areas would join their brothers and sisters in those protests so you know

surveillance for weeks trump thank russia turkey syria and iraq for cooperation with the mission but he minimized the contribution of kurdish intelligence even as its kurdish fighters that for years helped the u.s. destroyer baghdad's caliphate trump says russia and turkey were even consulted in advance of the mission but not democratic leaders in the u.s. congress we were going to notify him last night but we decided not to do that because washington leaks like i've never seen before and i told my people we will not notify them until the great people are out not just in but out the u.s. defense secretary says the death of al baghdadi will be a devastating blow to eisele but countering the ideology will be more difficult but the president's supporters in congress believe this is a turning point the killing of baghdad he. is a game changer in the war on terror like a scene reminiscent of the raid ordered by us president barack obama an al qaeda leader osama bin laden in 2011 truck watched the mission from the situation room of the white house he was surrounded by the u.s. vice preside

it's a bit harder for sunni iraq. to do so or kurdish iraqis to do so because that might take us back to the to the whole idea of this is a game of balance of powers were each community or each. sector in the iraqi society is only standing up against the regional power player that supports the other community against it but finally we have iraqi standing up we have shiite iraqis standing up these shia political parties in iraq was sunni rocky's standing up against the sunni politicians in iraq for the past few years we saw kurdish activists think kurdish protestors standing up against the kurdish democratic party the party or take union of kurdistan people in iraq are realizing that those political leaders those so-called political leaders of those communities are only leading and taking the country to push the interest of their own political parties and they're all economic interests of their own political parties and the regional power players that are supporting those political parties and never the interest of the

the security issues in iraq is not going to solve the infrastructure issue in iraq protesters have been protesting against reforms for the past few years nothing has been happened and the promises happen throughout every single electoral campaign that happened throughout each governmental cabinet within each parliament nothing has happened even people who contributed and fought against isis within the war never got their salaries or compensations back after the war people are done and fed up by the empty promises they want to see change in iraq and they realize that change will only happen with the downfall of an it off a regime that was installed by a foreign invader for foreign occupier and is currently controlled by a regional power players such as iran which is why the un to round sentiment is very loud and clear and those protests today do know is there another fight coming potentially down the political pipeline and it's the way that. is making demands offset against the way the speaker of the parliament is clearly positioning himself for something but we don't quite know what he'

you mention the iraq war. now talking the period in early 2003, the run—up to war, where you were going into work every day, as you say it wasn't particularly the focus of your own operations, but nonetheless, were you a political person, had you developed your own feelings? before this incident, which we will talk about at length, had you become somebody who could be defined as, let's say, anti the war, anti the iraq war? i suppose i did start to read up about the issues before it, you know, the iraq war began. when it was first mentioned in public, when iraq came up the a debate on the war on terror, i started thinking about it. and, you know, like many people, i was very curious at why iraq was being brought up again. you know, i mean, ithink — i didn't question so much the afghanistan invasion, but at this point it seemed why bring iraq into this? so i did read up on the issues. i read around various different publishing houses and i bought a couple of books and i really tried to dig beneath the surface on

the protests in baghdad and the south of iraq eventually the trouble could reach these areas and. they they could it could be pave the ground for reimagines of isis or isis 2.0 or 2 or 3.0 now on the syrian side of things there yes to the that isis was very much in control of where being. for they were being fought in these areas by the as the f. now with the american withdrawal from these areas with empowering the guy who is largely seen both in iraq and in syria as the patron of isis. isis was largely seen as the military wing of the a.k.p. at the guys party in turkey $40000.00 fighters according to brett mccurry who was in charge of the war against isis in iraq and in syria said that they had come to isis areas to syria from turkey now with turkey in charge of the borders again with this as the of being away from their borders we could see a similar scenario of isis of the grounds are there for isis or isis to point or whatever else for for them to reemerge in the areas that they were. cleared of in the past with the coalition then there's the f so this issue is that the condit

you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week unrest in iraq a conflict that is beyond sectarian and the news outlets have been attacked for trying to tell the story she should have just let it go the american comedian who tried to justify her friendship with george w. bush only to see her efforts backfire on line a sibling journalistic rivalry in poland 2 brothers in the 2 opposing media organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news some. nice and peaceful it's important to push my bullet yet i'm in square hong kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u.s. led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they can't do that

an occupation of iraq trump even visited iraq without the knowledge of the iraqi government he went and landed in a u.s. controlled big military base and iraq so we have a situation where the united states is still very influential inside that country and they are using this concept that iran is occupying iraq which is nonsense that our political forces in iraq which are allied to iran it's a political it's your logic an orientation but to suggest that the united states doesn't have real power inside the country is nonsensical and they are concerned about the divergence of iraqi foreign policy signing big deals with china not supporting the so-called deal of the century on palestine not going along with the u.s. plans for syria. set out there are. genuine divergences and also iraqi government refusal off you. strict sanctions on iran to implement those sanctions so that our number of issues at play have indeed it is so deep it is so complicated as we go in office so long isn't it thanks for your insight thanks for telling us what you think about it somebody ramadani from the stop the wa

deputy mission direct in iraq and jordan. he most recently served as a faculty member of the national war college in washington, d.c. and chaired usaid task force to tleemt defeat the islamic sfat in erie. administrator harvey has received numerous awards for exceptional service. thank you both for being here today. let me remind the witnesses to please limit testimony to five minutes and without objection, your prepared written statements in entirety will be made part of the hearing record. again thank you so much for being here today. assistant secretary schenker. you are recognized. >> chairman deutch. ranking member wilson thank you for of the inning us here today. >> would you pull the microphone closer. >> yeah. is that better? >> yes. >> okay. thank you for inviting us here to discuss the president's fy 2020 budget requests. stability is the administration administration's imperative. that drives our dplokt and foreign assistance. the president's fy 2020 foreign assistance budget requests of $6.6 billion for the region

we were discovering one of iraq darkest secrets.g money helping men who wanted sex with a very young girls. he was prepared to talk about it. i reporter had told him he met a 13—year—old virgin and asked whether a pleasure marriage would be halal. the general sex lives for bed and according to the cleric but other things he said were permissible. he said he was a follower of grand ayatolla h, he said he was a follower of grand ayatollah, the most senior shi'ite cleric. he has in the past written that if a child and denying was promised and ate marriage or temporary marriage, sexual touching was religiously permitted. we approached his office to clarify his religious advice on this matter. in a statement he said times had changed and this had been erased from his current books. to continue our investigation we came to the most important site for shia muslims. this is the biggest pilgrimage site in the world, tens of millions of pilgrims come here every year. we have seen how they helped break the law and even do pleasure marriages wi

problems transparency international ranks in iraq as the 12th most corrupt country in the world and since 2004 almost $450000000000.00 of public funds have disappeared according to official think is another persistent complaint is the poor quality of public services shortages of electricity and water and failing is for a structure continued to plague communities. helping us no one is supporting us we're giving our blood and we're getting hurt our youth is gone we have no results we want to internationalize ok's because there are no results were poor if nothing but our voice in ourselves well they have the weapons and the money and only i'm an our problem is with the parliament it is them who distribute the hall among the thieves we do not want to parliamentary system we want to republican presidential system to lead us out our little day the iraqi people have lived 16 years under a parliamentary system that does not work all we have seen of it are wars blood fighting and looting the corrupt are passing their position to one another. let's introduce our panel now in baghdad. he is a

presence in iraq. are there plans to set -- strengthen the security of the u.s. embassy in iraq? tell me where that stands. >> this is something i spent a great deal of time on, actually. iraq, in particular. i don't want to get into the details of how we came to discussions. i think the security at the embassy is adequate. -- actually, better than adequate. >> sufficient for the return of personnel? to enable the resumption? secretary schenker: to accomplish the mission, yeah. we've got a number of diplomats we think is appropriate and i can brief you about this in another setting, but we are committed to the mission. >> i would like to do that, if we can arrange that had finally, on the topic of iran and syria. you said if we curtail our presence, it would be more difficult to prevent effectively the land bridge asked about earlier. did i understand you correctly, and you say if we curtail our presence the way we are doing, beyond what we are doing? what were you referring to? sec. schenker: i was referring to beyond what we were doing. said duringeffrey his testimony to you ou

i ran in iraq paints a vast amount to seeing these documentaries. on. the wind continues with fool's gold millions of dollars and people's money jewish being taken in for their whole lives for the money and just down in drain and $1.00 day on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes government protests take another dangerous turn in iraq at least 30 people are killed. while in chile a 1000000 turned out to show their campaign against the government is far from over . also a woman who fears her daughter is amongst 39 people found dead in a truck near london harrowing details of her final moments. and tore a scale australia. for the final time a climbing down long fought for by. people takes effect. welcome to the news hour at least 30 people have been killed in a 2nd bout of violence to hit mass protests this month in iraq people were out in huge numbers denouncing corruption hardship and other problems that they say the government is incap

a we made our aid to iraq loan they would have acted differently than if it was a grand. now the sdf have a chance with our help to increase revenue for the benefit of their people. they will have more incentive to fight harder. everything changes when the people you are fighting with have skin in the game. i want to complement the president for coming up in a -- coming up with a model in syria that we should have done in iraq. this is a game changer with the killing of baghdadi. we should be proud of our military and intelligence community. this is a moment where president trump's worst critics should say well done. >> just before the news conference we learned more about fromleader al=-baghdadi this morning's washington journal. host: let's begin with the news. what do you make of the killing of this isis leader. who is he and why it is important? mr. heras: abu bakr al-baghdadi is the chief of isis. he is a longtime terrorist mastermind. he started the al qaeda in iraq organization and has been a longtime nemesis of the u.s., it allies. this rate against them and the c

this is al-jazeera let's get a round up now while top stories sporadic gunfire has been heard in iraq each county where anti-government protesters are defying a curfew is clear shows people inside doing district running to avoid bullets fired up by security forces at least 20 iraqis have been killed during 3 days of demonstrations britain's prime minister boris johnson those delivered his new proposals to revive briggs it talks with the european union it includes a new regulatory zone in northern ireland to replace the backstop arrangement in the existing with war with all due. the essence of on new proposals is a new protocol on northern ireland consisting of 5 elements. in the 1st place all our actions are based on our shared determination to sustain the belfast good friday agreement the fundamental basis of governance in northern ireland the protection of which is the highest priority of all and from this follows the 2nd principle namely that we shall of course uphold all the longstanding areas of cooperation between the u.k. and off friends in ireland including the rights of all t

religious ritual iraq's u.s. allies and the united nations are appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint promised the mahdi and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how he can stop the outpour of anger against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to go shake with. the rug or deserve. that was all of on a senior fellow at the think tank new america also former u.s. national security council to rector for iraq he joins us via skype and washington d.c. always good to talk to my understanding is that you just recently you just recently returned from baghdad where there are signs of the anger with this. no no this did this emerging very very quickly now this is always been there as your piece pointed out this lack of jobs this lack of basic services has always been there iraq is a very centralized economy it spends most of its money on salaries for people so there are lots of people on the government payroll it's not clear there is more money for the pr

defeated in iraq are defeated and mosul defeated and most of the iraq and is syria . the withdrawal of the us forces might be seen by some people as creating a vacuum that could be felt by our said but this is not the issue in my opinion the issue that we need to look at right now is that people who are living in places like i'll hold camp in east syria where the children of the woman are feisal are living there and that miserable conditions and that without being attention to this to this place and many other places like this i think we are contributing actually to the revival of icily because those young children are going to be grown up in a few years time without you cation without. economic and like economic conditions i think it's going to be very easy for the likes of isis to recruit those people and to come to make a comeback thank you. thank you. just another note on iraq at least 70 people killed there in 2 days of demonstrations against the iraqi government on saturday funerals were held for some of those killed by security forces protesters say they will n

in recent years in iraq what makes these different though you're you're right iraq is no stranger to mass protests the last one in the southern city of basra this was in september last year so a little over a year ago 30 people died then the difference this time is the geographical spread of them you see them in across iraq in the north in the south in the central states as well they're certainly the deadliest i mean we have seen since the beginning of the month the death of about $200.00 people. but we need to unpack this violence a little bit it's not just government forces against the protesters iraq is a country ripe with militias and to tuitions like this this creates opportunity for them to also sort of flex their muscles on the streets and attack the protesters to show their strength to the various political parties that they're aligned with but i think the main difference is that the people this time don't seem to be deterred by this. violence at all they are going on to the streets knowing that it could be their last day they could die on the streets they feel like they have

hello i'm down in jordan this isn't just iraq live from doha also coming up. group of syrian government soldiers enters the key city of man be his turkish forces prepare to advance. polls open in mozambique selection but opposition groups say they have it will be a free or fair result plus. we look at people's changing attitudes towards refugees on an italian island known as the gateway to europe. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions against turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas audio cast reports now from washington d.c. . president donald trump remained out of sight on monday he tasked vice president mike pence to brief reporters on the u.s. response to the rapidly deteriorating situation in northern syria and the president has directed me. and robert o'bryant to lead a delegation to turkey in the immediate future but to begin discussions and negotiations to bring the bloodshed to an end the white house says trump had spoken

caliph or religious leader it was a show of power by an armed group which took over much of iraq's sunni heartland after the iraqi army all but collapsed 5 years later it was back daddy's state that collapsed eisel once controlled 88000 square kilometers of territory stretching from western syria to eastern iraq it lost its last stronghold in syria in march this year weeks after back that he made his 1st appearance in 5 years putting to rest many unconfirmed reports of his death in a video the eisel leader wanted to show he was still in charge and along with his group survived the territorial defeat back that he was behind the group's creation an expansion eisel originated in al qaida in iraq. back then he became its leader in 2010 he then capitalized on the unrest in neighboring syria exploiting the security vacuum it started to capture territory and changed its name to islamic state in iraq and the levant before falling out with al qaida leader ayman al-zawahiri i so now the challenge is al qaida not only in syria and iraq but for the leadership of what it calls the global jihad this s

religious ritual iraq's u.s. allies and the united nations are appealing to iraq's government to exercise restraint promised. and his year old government is facing its biggest challenge yet but it's unclear how he can stop the outpour of anger against his rule with no apparent leaders of the protesters to negotiate with. iran. baghdad. president has declared a state of emergency as protesters block roads throughout the country have a price hikes. gasoline subsidies took effect on thursday transport unions say they'll strike indefinitely if the decision is not reversed reports. taxi. drivers block streets in a. transport unions went on strike to protest the end of subsidies that have been in place for decades. we can to make it what. we don't go out to protest because what we. the people the needle persons hurt because afterwards things will become more expensive the government announced a package of government measures worth more than 2000000000 a year. producer. after years of leftist rule says the elimination o

forces in iraq in 2004. he was held for 11 months, including reportedly at the notorious abu ghraib prison. on sunday morning, president trump announced al-baghdadi's death h in a televevised addres. tried s so hard to intimidatete others spent hiss t , in total utter fear panic and dread, terrified of the american forces bearing down on him. amy: during president trump speech, he invoked the names of u.s. journalist and aid workers who were killed by isis, although the vast majority of civilians killed by isis were muslim. told "the newrs york times" that al-baghdadi's alleged killing by u.s. special forces saturday came largely in spitite of, not becacause of, president trumump's recent abrut withthdrawal of some u.s. troops from syria. baghdadi reportedly set off his suicide vest. we'll have more on al-baghdadi's alleged killing after headlines. california's governor has declared a state o of emergency, as climate-change-fueled wildfires sweep across the state, f from lolos angeles to northern california.

if he which has played on sectarian divides to curve up the spoils of war torn but oil richer iraq so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis that's what these demonstrations have been about and given the scale of the protests it's no wonder the politicians the security forces they control and the media outlets they own are closing ranks to protect the status quo our starting point this week is baghdad. why would iraqi protesters how to change a political system that works for the few and not the many protesters determined to have their movement covered term to a comedy program rather than a news broadcast to tell their story. why would they send the videos they captured of the demonstrations and the deadly security response to the al bashir show a comedy program airing on german broadcaster deutsche of ella's arabic service and not for instance to. their own publicly funded national broadcast. they were not looking for comedy relief they were looking for fair coverage of a story that is no laughing mat

in iraq, here in lebanon. in egypt you have had sporadic demonstrations for the first time in years. and i can tell you that the oppression, the repression, the dun dungeons will provide the troops for some future extremist organization. so we are, with the death of al baghdadi, perhaps moving from one phase to another. but this phenomenon of extremist terrorist organizations is not about to come to an end now that al baghdadi has been, as we have been told, has been killed. . >> somehow the reign of terror continues. talk, too, ben, about the fact that after he announced the caliphate, many communities in iraq are so desperate that they welcomed isis into their community without realizing the viciousness and the savagery of this organization. we lost ben's audio. we'll continue to follow this breaking news. the leader of isis believed to be killed. breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. my congestion's gone. i can breathe again! ahhhh! i can breathe again! ughh! vicks sinex. breathe on. we were paying an arm

if you come out there who comes to iraq orders people around and it seems from what we've been hearing from some government sources that the area and u.s. have taken charge of the over the process of the process of crushing the approach that what's happening now. same way as the green revolution it had all around you iran it was crushed there and you have your tactics are being used today against the iraqi protests that you and i thank you and i we know iraqi government it's a consensual government and the middle east when you have a consensual government that means it's going to be weak which means going to be around you are going to be run by various political parties and he's the head of the state is not very rigid the head of the state the prime minister he's actually compromised part that he's not he's not an elected this that i mean dr mistah that i did yesterday he was a compromise figure out of a peak time pick him up from what i would has and has had to take back you created the big power vacuum created the big political vacuum created this being crippled by iran and its agent

of iraq and syria.is now offering a $25 million reward for al baghdadi's capture. what we do know, of course, was that this raid was based on cia intelligence in an area where normally the united states would not even have boots on the ground. and that is highly significant. cedric layton is a former deputy director of the nsa and is a cnn military analyst. he joins us now live from washington. and i want to talk to you about that. we've gotten in northwest syria here, an area where it's conceivable that without tipping off the russians or turkish forces or the syrian force that's they would have had to get air clearance, right? or do you believe this was more about the way the osama bin laden raid went in pakistan where you really try and tell no one? >> well, you know, paula, it could be both. there is, you know, perhaps one of the parties involved like turkey may have known something about this or the russians may have known something about it. because it is in the interests actually of both countrie