great to have the chance to talk a little bit about the middle east zone. let me talk about the framework more generally because they come up in the review conferences which they periodically destroy. let me put it in context is to how we in the state department see the way forward to contextualize thinking about the zone. this is an important anniversary. the up coming review conferences the 50th anniversary of the treaty's entry into force. it is important to keep these debates over the zone in the context of the bigger picture of the nonproliferation regime more broadly and the challenges it faces. i would argue that there are a number of things countries absolutely should be thinking about and planning to discuss at the conference in order to protect and hopefully advance the integrity and effectiveness of that treaty. this will include, most obviously, the proliferation challenges the world faces right now. we should make sure we do not forget the importance of focusing on things like ensuring the final and fully verified denuclearization of north kore

taking a thoughtful step beyond the nuclear focus idea of a middle east zone and focusing middle eastiable zone free of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, biological, and their delivery systems. calling upon the five nuclear weapon states under the mpt to give support to this. the history of how everyone has tried to, and so far not done so well, to live out the promise and the hopes is the kind of thing we don't need to get into too much detail here. if you are interested and our understanding, i would refer you to the working paper we submitted last year. it is publicly available on the u.n. website. this process has been challenging. there have been two basic categories approached that people have taken to trying to live out the promise of the zone. the first approach, long taken by the arab league states follows a model that relies upon next terminal pressure to mostly lateral means to try to compel progress on a regional zone. trying to compel israel to accept the arab league's approach to the issue. rather than seeking to facilitate direct engagement between stakeholders

great to have the chance to talk a little about the middle east zone. let me say a little bit of preparatory stuff about the framework generally because these issues often come up in the context of review conferences. let me put this in context of how it is that we and state department see the way forward to contextualize thinking about the zone. this, of course, is an important anniversary. this upcoming review conference, 50th anniversary of the treaty's entry into force and i think it is important to keep these things and debates in the context of the much bigger picture more broadly and the challenges it faces. i would argue as we head towards the review conference, there are a number of things countries absolutely should be thinking about and planning to discuss in order to protect and advance the integrity and effectiveness of the treaty. this will include, most obviously, proliferation challenges the world faces. we should make sure we do not forget the importance of continuing to focus upon things like ensuring the final and fully verified denuc

tom litman, an adjunct collar with the middle east institute and the former middle east bureau chief of "the washington post." our next speaker will be ms. dana stroll, a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and a former professional staff member for the senate foreign relations committee. welcome. and finally, my long-term colleague and friend, ambassador gerald firestein, senior vice president and president of gulf affairs programs at the middle east institute. jerry is also a former principal assistant deputy secretary and former ambassador to yemen. i'd like to thank all of you for joining us today. the program will begin with each panelist delivering brief opening remarks, and this will be followed by a discussion session, which will be moderated by my colleague, the executive director of the middle east policy council. note that we have followed our usual practice of placing index cards on all of the seats. please use these to write down any questions you have as the speakers are speaking and then hold up the card. our staff will collect them during the

he like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region as riches and this will be our eyes use i've come up himself with a different plan which is something completely different a much more old fashioned that was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the defense i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the mi

really it's a river we should be talking about if we want to say what does the modern middle east look like and the striking thing is this if britain had been concerned to preserve relations with france right through this to go she asian right through this process they failed because the french looked at sites because they looked to the baptists and they realized that they got much less than they had been promised by the british in sight fico we overlook these things but in a sense i think that saves vico reflects a failure of trying to negotiate a happy resolution of british and french territorial ambitions in the middle east britain came up with war and the french never forgave them. france had insisted on mosul in the fight. but had san remo they conceded it to britain despite the fact that it was known to be rich in oil. in the coup of turpin marker memes there are stores that are. dollar 1000000 the most sort of soil is because on that turkish but for the i'm company. keo. know if. it. fronts more territory in the in the south longest some of the old become the iraq syria it got m

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forces from the middle east. you remember it was only last december he said he was leaving syria and backtracked on that . now he has his envoy trying to get an agreement with the taliban so the u.s. can drastically withdraw troops from afghanistan. so yes, there is maximum economic pressure, but the u.s. is not really eager to put boots on the ground, which is another reason for the iranians to continue to test the united states with provocative actions in the persian gulf, to pressure chinese,o pressure the the russians, and others, and essentially without trump. pres. trump: thank you very much. n's articleay, ke is recommended reading. >> it is on the atlantic council website. >> it reminds us of a strange idea that if a country is having economic struggles it has to defend national interest which is very bizarre assumption. here is an interesting question that i will read for you president macron proposed an initiative in iran and acting as mediator for the u.s. and iran, and a number of countries have propo

so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the defense i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way into line 1915 the debunks in committee recommended dividing the ottoman empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. but when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. so so mark from your knowledge of the air out of the question. where would you say that a legion slot was between us and the french. practically all arabs approach not exactly anti french but. frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of french colonial methods. but there are many chri

he's also a senior nonresident fellow at the project of middle east democracy here in washington and did serve as an advisor and consultant, special advisor [inaudible] between 2008-2015 and has worked in various advisory capacity to the u.s. government, including the state department, the asian agency for international development focusing particularly on his specialty, as i said, human rights security sector governance issues. in terms of the subject matter i find from the questions that are raised on imitation and announcement and dan will be talking more about that in a moment but it's been interesting for those of us following the dance that is taking place between washington and to run back and forth, it's a dizzying tennis match diplomatic with tit-for-tat aspects to it which makes it sometimes very difficult to follow and is somewhat chaotic. clearly the parties have not connected yet in terms of taking the positive reaction many of us would like to diffuse the situation and prevent or from devastating the region whether by intention or mistake but definitely the resolution i

bases in the middle east. from their weapons can be funneled to syria. this ng the largest pentagon supply of weapons for syrian rebels is bulgaria to the e use poorest country that's a change in fortune. gary is arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened a new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions . we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for it syrian allies. sought what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also where france is no we was killed in june 2015. v.m.s. that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionist did agree to meet but did not

david: in the middle east, do in the middle east, do you see any prospect for peace between israel andhe palestinians? there has been talk of a plan. do you see any progress being made? sec. pompeo: well, there's a reason it hasn't been solved for 40 years or more. in the end, this will be the decision of the prime minister of israel and the leadership in the west bank and gaza. i have been deeply involved in mr. kushner's efforts there. david: does our position, the position of the united states government that we prefer, a one-state or two-state solution? sec. pompeo: you will see our plan shortly. david: will you give us a hint? sec. pompeo: no. [laughter] sec. pompeo: we prefer what the palestinians and israelis agree to and what the nature of that relationship will look like. david: negotiations are underway with the taliban in the middle east. the u.s. is involved in that. do you see any progress in reducing our need to be in afghanistan, anything in the near future? sec. pompeo: yeah, real progress. i try not to do timelines, but i'm optimistic. we are not just negotiating with

at least until recently, the feelings in the middle east were different. i think if there is a hopeful sign, i agree with my fellow panelists. the united arab emirates has sent an emissary to iran, even the saudis seem to be toning down the rhetoric somewhat. if the region understands that donald trump is not going to save them, is not going to get rid of the hated regime in tehran, that they will be stuck with this regime for a long time, maybe they can sit down and start to sort out some of their problems together. trump has shown he simply cannot be counted on to solve the problem of iran for the region. daniel: thank you. yes, and i would add to that, when you are playing a game of chicken and hoping that the rest -- that threats of u.s. action will bring iran to compliance, you are left having to rethink your whole approach. that is probably what they are doing in dubai right now, is reconsidering whether that will work out, because otherwise, it doesn't seem that the u.s. will necessarily go to war, or that iran will take the bait. here is an interes

david: let's go to an easier part of the world, the middle east.laughter] are we committed to keeping open the strait of hormuz? mr. pompeo: we will keep them open and build out the military maritime plan. countries around the world with a vested interest will participate. if it will take more interest -- time. america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries to assist us. david: our position i presume is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians we would presumably do something militarily. a writ issue ship is taken? britishot -- what if a ship is taken? are we not committed to defend those ships? mr. pompeo: i am working with my third british foreign minister. we are working with the british to find a solution to both, a, stop that injustice and b, it from happening again. to theyou gave a visa foreign minister of iran to attend an event? mr. pompeo: yes. david: when he was in the u.s., where they're direct or indirect talks with him in the state department about anything you can talk about? mr. pompeo: no talks. d

but wants to withdraw all us forces in the middle east. the us was completely withdrawing from syria and later backtracked on that. now he has his envoy, tried to get an agreement with the taliban so the us can withdraw troops from afghanistan. there is maximum economic pressure but the us is not eager to put boots on the ground which is another reason for iranian's to test the united states with provocative actions in the persian gulf to pressure europe, the chinese, the russians and others and essentially wait out trump. >> ken's article was highly recommended reading. it reminds us a strange idea that if a country is having economic trouble, expected to stop defending its national interest which is a bizarre assumption. president macron proposed an initiative acting as media for the us and iran, trump tweeted to run is giving mixed signals including form macron, nobody can represent -- does that mean mediation do? what do you make of this statement? this is for ken and barbara? >> something that has just been tweeted today? stopped beat

david: let's go to an easier topic, the middle east.he strait of hormuz, are we committed to keeping open the strait of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we will keep them open. we will build out the maritime allrity plan, country from across the world have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open and we will participate. it will take more time than we confident that america is prepared to be a significant part of that but we need assistance from all other countries. david: if a u.s. ship i assume more taken by the iranians we would do something militarily, i guess, i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is british or other doingalities, are we not something about their ships? sec. pompeo: i am working with my third british foreign minister. working with the british to find to write the injustice and prevent it from happening again. >> recently you gave a visa for the foreign minister of iraq to come to the u.s.. states was in the united were there any indirect or direct talks with him and the state departme

influencing diffused church of millions of people in the middle east. over a 100 years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw a map in the 2nd episode we explore the lasting effects of this agreement that there is a regional set to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs pekoe lines in the sand on on just the. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast well the fire threat is still very high here just to the west of the caspian we have seems a very dry conditions over the last week and we are looking at the increase risk of wildfires across much of this area for about koom expect to see a very warm temperature for you of $32.00 degrees very dry across much of this region but down towards the south from baghdad we're still dealing with the heat they are talking about he way still in effect across that area with a temperature of 46 degrees here on wednesday dropping down to about 44 so a little bit better by

hello there mostly clear conditions across much of the middle east we're still seeing those the monsoon showers and thunderstorms across northern sections of pakistan can see here lots of clear skies the winds are strong at the moment either where we have got the rain is across northern sections of turkey $21.00 celsius on sunday with those showers and thunderstorms they could be heavy at times we could even see some localized flooding but by monday they're pretty much out of the picture and it should be feeling very nice the temperatures as you can see in the low twenty's and notice as hold as if i'd let you cross into a city 44 is your high temperature there on monday and then further to the south the winds have been picking up again little bit i lost a few as doha on sunday 42 celsius and in fact gone really is the cloud into the southwest again and there is just a chance of a stray shot on shore flow that into southern sections of amman so feeling fairly nice and solid for the next couple of days 26 celsius on a sunday and monday and time which is pretty good across into southern af

the middle east. [laughter] david: the strait of hormuz. are we committed to keeping open the straits of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we are going to keep them open. we're going to build out a maritime security plan. countries from all across the world that have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open will participate. it will take more time than i wish it would take, but i am very confident that the world understands that it's important. that america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries from all around the world to assist us. we will be a success. david: our position is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians, we would presumably do something militarily, i guess. i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is a british ship or some other nationality? are we not committed to recovering that ship or doing something to defend those ships? sec. pompeo: i was working with -- i guess i am now working with my third british foreign minister since i have been secretary of state, wo

the middle east. [laughter] david: the strait of hormuz. are we committed to keeping open the straits of hormuz at any cost militarily? sec. pompeo: we are going to keep them open. we're going to build out a maritime security plan. countries from all across the world that have a vested interest in keeping those waterways open will participate. it will take more time than i wish it would take, but i am very confident that the world understands that it's important. that america is prepared to be a significant part of that, but we need countries from all around the world to assist us. we will be a success. david: our position is that if a u.s. ship were taken by the iranians, we would presumably do something militarily, i guess. i don't know. what about if a ship is taken that is a british ship or some other nationality? are we not committed to recovering that ship or doing something to defend those ships? sec. pompeo: i was working with -- i guess i am now working with my third british foreign minister since i have been secretary of state, wo

bases in the middle east. from their weapons can be funneled to syria. this ng the largest pentagon supply of weapons for syrian rebels is bulgaria through the e.u. is poorest country that's a change in fortune. big areas arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened a new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions . we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for its syrian allies. so what is home to state arms manufacturer v.m.s. that. it is also with france's no we it was killed in june 2015. the ems that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m.s. that to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionists did agree to

bases in the middle east. from their weapons can be funneled to syria. this ng the largest pentagon's supply of weapons for syrian rebels is bulgaria through the e.u. is poorest country that's a change in fortune. gary has arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories were reopened and new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions. we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the us government buys for it syrian allies. sought what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also with france's no we are was killed in june 2015. v.m.s. that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionist did agree to meet but

bevan spends much of his time in the middle east documenting recovered weapons. most have been captured by iceland battles from their enemies including weapons taken from rebel groups equipped by the us. to date conflict armament research has used serial numbers to trace 40000 items. is qana transfers have introduced weapons which they didn't previously have access to and that's a positive 1st for their friends a pack of o.t. . this is an r.p.g. 7 launcher designed in 1940 s. but some of the rockets which they've acquired instance a b. through the u.s. train and equip program are the tandem rockets which basically converts a 940 s. weapon system into something that can defeat a modern tank so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely serious blowback there are serious buyback. but not all of weapons were captured in battle a significant number were handed to iceland by friendly fighters from u.s. equipped groups says the missile from an anti tank guided weapon system its transfer history is productio

keep a big picture look on what is going on in iran and the middle east as a whole and what needs to be done. a maximum pressure campaign is the correct way to go. host: let's talk about iran's involvement in iraq. is the u.s. supportive of it or opposed? what impact is iran having on the political situation in iraq? wart: since the iran-iraq ended in 1998, a bloody conflict that need not have come about, but because of accidents and people thinking they can one up each other in the middle east -- this was an eight year off with that killed countless people on both sides. since the end of that conflict, iran was forever slated to intervene in the politics, society, military, that -- the religious and even aspects to never let its neighbor ran challenge to iran. and aou see seminarians holy city, occasionally challenge a religious ruling by iran's supreme leader, that is a challenge to iran's ruling governing policy. create arying to trojan horse in iran, to create malicious -- militias that will eventually co-opt the state. -- they eventually became a check against iran's national ar

he's also a senior nonresident fellow at the project on middle east democracy here in washington. he did serve as an advisor and consultant, special advisor, to u.s. institute of peace for many years, between 2008-2015. he has worked in various advisory capacity to the u.s. government, including the state department, the u.s. agency for international development, focusing particularly on his specialty, as i said, human rights, security sector reform, and government issues. in terms of the subject matter, aside from the questions that are raised on the invitation and the announcement, and dan will be talking a little bit more about that in a minute, but it's been kind of interesting for those of us who are following the dance that's taking place between washington and tehran, back and forth. it is a dizzying tennis match, diplomatic tennis match with a tit-for-tat aspect to it, , whih makes it sometimes very difficult towh follow. and it's somewhat chaotic. clearly, the parties have not connected yet in terms of taking a positive reaction many of us would like to see taken to defus

the story of the british declaration the middle east. to school on al-jazeera. new yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested that global perspective. this is al-jazeera i'm there with a check on your world headlines so don has formally disbanded the military council that took power after deposing longtime president bashir the military and protest leaders have announced an 11 member sovereign council to run the country for 3 years until elections are held the council is set to be sworn in later a court in australia has upheld convictions against cardinal george pell the highest ranking vatican official found guilty of child sex abuse sentenced to 6 years in prison in march on charges of abusing 2 choir boys when he was archbishop of melbourne 20 years ago has issued a statement saying it's committed to pursuing clergy who carried out abuse clearly me work for a charity that supports abuse survivors she told us about the impact this ruling. this has shown a lot of survivors that justice is a possibility. unfortun

and peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israel's right to exist. israel is a light to the region, but we all know it's surrounded by jihadists who embrace people -- evil and who deny israel's existence and violently work to wipe it off the map. i think of my own visits to the holy land. they were indelible experiences that have shaped me in many ways. in visiting my great uncle and aunt in the netherlands and seeing where they had dozens of fleeing jews but behind flower stacks in their bakery during the second world war also impacted me. the atrocities of the holocaust must never again occur. never again. [applause] sec. devos: this administration is committed to protecting israel, our strong ally in the -- and the middle east's only democracy. friend in a committed the white house and has committed friends at the u.s. department of education. we're pleased to have ken marcus as our assistant secretary for civil rights and read rubenstein -- [applause] and reed rubenstein as our acting general counsel. many of you know both men and their longtime

in the 1960s, beirut was the height of glamour, dubbed ‘the paris of the middle east'. epitomise this ideal better than one of the city's 5—star destinations. this commemorative book was produced a few years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the hotel and when you look through it, it really gives you an idea of the calibre of celebrity that have stayed here. i mean, they've got marlon brando, there's bridget bardot, even the great muhammed ali. i was coming to the phoenicia since the beginning. we used to do fashion shows here, and this is a very special hotel. mona ross is an international model who was based in beirut before the war. wow! mona ross! take a seat! now she is a permanent resident of the hotel. i mean, it's part of my life. i consider i'm part of the columns of the phoenicia. maybe i am! you are part of the furniture, yeah? part of the furniture! yeah, you're part of the fabric of the whole hotel! when the war came, the hotel became a battleground, a key strategic point because of its size and downtown location. i was passing by next to the phoenic

dot correspondent right now in the middle east, yes it does. what does it take to break through and not field leading. i have to give these a good story is a good story and i remember when the fatigue set in. it feels formulaic and it becomes a formula so i would try not to let myself fall into that and how can we elevate that story. what is the one way we can move in and this is something i heard from the "washington post" as a young college student aspiring journalist for marriage, wedding, birthday is and try to find the familiar frame. if the place is unfamiliar and the names are unfamiliar and the religion is unfamiliar, at least there is some thing that connects >> i have a question of putting the process of the book. i wonder if you can tell us a little bit about the authors but already knew each other but if you can talk about is built between the journalists if you have plans after the buck to continue the sisterhood that developed and fair you would hope to take it from here. we are quite a tightknit group p and i think that we all kn

middle east expert with think tanks like the brookings institution and the german council on foreign relations he argues that the big challenge is to transcends 2 equally simplistic perceptions of the islamic republic europe's tendency towards glorification of washington's polish all full demonetization and also with us is alan posner regular commentator for the bergen based elite team felt he believes that europe is on the front line of iran's aggression if we choose appeasement he says we will pay dearly for cow. in vegas and a very warm welcome to 2 already had a man who's a business journalist with another berlin daily the time for sites on all the times it's also notable recount argues that the oil price is not rising the economic indicators suggest that the recent no real middle east crisis on the horizon. i'm very surprised by that you know this summer so much and so much if you didn't so the situation is tense and gets intensive and you're right to monitor it through so it's all going to blow over sometime very soon well i'm not saying that the markets are right they might pe

>> hi, sarah from middle east troop. i would like to hear from other people besides brian about whether or not they really believe the jcpoa was working. shamess like everybody trump from leaving the jcpoa but there were certain provisions that the irani's were great achieving at, such as military sites were supposed to be unopened to the iaea. and the iaea, for some reason, did not go in. we found out that they were enriching uranium there. if i were an uranium regime, i would use military sites. what are other people's us about the jcpoa? >> wasn't working or not? very quickly so we can get -- >> it was working for iran well and they messed it up. president obama was right saying iran would never get a bomb on my watch, and then he left office 12 months later. it was working. >> and the other views? a lobar to, jcpoa is say you have sealed off all of the pathways for iran to get a nuclear weapon. ,here are times where the jcpoa which is heavily slanted in iran's favor, they still pushed things. they did violations of u

americans supporting another war in the middle east but in syria it's supplying arms to rebels not 2 state forces. again the weapons us soviet style easy to use and so common in the region they're hard to trace if something goes wrong. when i so controlled territory expands u.s. supplies stepped up. i'm pleased that congress has now voted to support a key element of our strategy a plan to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists this is exclusive footage of what one of the pentagon secretive projects looked like. again the u.s. government uses private companies to train its allies we're going to examine the outside. these men are highly experienced new fighters mike doherty and francis no we. they were in bulgaria to train on subject sell weapons that would be supplied to syrian rebels it seemed like a straightforward mission. but it would cost nobody you his life. my friends is no we you is survived by his wife and 2 young children. yes i'm giuliana she has agreed to meet us. we're joined by mike doherty knew we was training. he was present

create as a shia dominated middle east we millions of sunni paying the price as they are doing in syria and so on then we in europe will pay the prize the oil will break down we have even more refugees we will sooner or later be forced into a military conflict somewhere if not in the persian gulf then maybe in lebanon or eventually in turkey wherever we don't know we have to stop it raining aggression now and we can keep going through this you know. i think it's a completely wrong attitude because you know once you have. once you threat a threat to iran all you chief is to have the idea tell everybody i'm being strengthened because you know most iranians after 40 years of religious dictatorship would love to change the regime but they it's not possible as soon as you start attacking the iranian regime from outside. of course everyone in iran has to somehow. stand behind the regime because they don't want to be they don't want to risk to have any invasion by the us anything so you can have an internal that people of which mostly very is would love to have if you have the threat from outs

bases in the middle east. from their weapons can be funneled to syria. this ng the largest pentagon supply of weapons for syrian rebels is bulgaria to the e use poorest country that's a change in fortune. gary is arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened a new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions . we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for it syrian allies. sought what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also where france is no we was killed in june 2015. the ems that has been struggling to modernize and not fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract as a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m.s. that to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionists did agree to meet but did not wa

this is how strong prudent leadership improves stability in the middle east. that is good for the united states. [applause] i was recently in jerusalem for trilateral talks with israel and russia and even russia agrees with the united states that israel security is essential to the stability of the middle east. it's significant to get russia and the united states to agree on almost anything today. that was i think an important lesson. in particular right now we disagree on the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which prohibits ballistic and ground-based cruise missiles with a range of roughly 300 Ã 3000 miles. this friday will mark the official end of the inf treaty when the united states withdraws. by and large americans are a law-abiding people when we agree to a treaty, we uphold our end of the agreement. we expect other nations to uphold their end. for too long the united states abided by the treaty while russia continued to develop advanced ballistic and hypersonic delivery systems to modernize its inventory all in violation of the treaty. here is a

and the triple threat tensions soar in the middle east as israel carries a strike against a really intrude in syria just days after suspected is really drone attacks in lebanon and iraq. from moscow to the world every hour of the day this is our to international and my name's even a little a little. this hour's top story president putin and his turkish counterpart read on have held talks with in the past number of the 29000 show which is taking place not too far from here just outside moscow the 2 discussed a number of issues including cooperation on the syrian crisis on the possible purchase of russian fighter jets. our correspondent attended the subsequent media conference could see again what were your takeaways from the meeting today. you did again well we've seen this many times before and we're seeing it here at the as you called airfield once again of the presidents of russia and turkey a lot of talking about the things that their countries are doing together they were listing them and naming them one by one the lights of the turkish stream gas pipeline project in the black sea a nu

in a triple threat middle east attention soar as israel carries out an airstrike against iranian troops in syria just days after a suspected israeli drone attacks in lebanon. this is our international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with. our president putin and his turkish counterpart have held talks at the max $21000.00 airshow happening just outside moscow to discuss cooperation on the syrian crisis and the possible purchase of russian fighter jets are to go reports. well we saw it right here once again the presidents of russia and turkey are really enjoying talking about what their countries are somehow doing together naming the projects one after another the likes of the turkish stream gas pipeline project that is being completed in the black sea or a nuclear power plant built in turkey by the russian atomic agency also the deployment of the russian made s. $400.00 air defense systems i'm going to come back to that one a bit later and also all kinds of business that turkey does in this country but they only want more and more a 5 fold increase and mutual trade that is th

really it's a river we should be talking about if we want to say what does the modern middle east look like and the striking thing is this if britain had been concerned to preserve relations with france right to this to go she asian right through this process they failed because the french looked at sites because they looked to the baptists and they realized that they got much less inseparable that they had been promised by the british insight fico we overlook these things but in a sense i think that saves fico reflects a failure of trying to negotiate a happy resolution of british and french territorial ambitions in the middle east britain came up with war and the french never forgave them. france had insisted on mosul in the strikes. but at san remo they conceded it to britain despite the fact that it was known to be rich in oil. in the cool turpin marker memes there are stores that are. dollar 1000000000 the most sold since all is because of that turkish but for the i'm company. don't. know if. it is a. front more territory in the south along just something that is of the old become