do security in the middle east. i still remember this conversation that we had in the chinese embassy and algiers, and the funny thing is as you meet chinese diplomats and i don't know how many of you had this experience, but certainly with each decade of youth you're meeting people from a different country. so, like, the 50-year-old guy struck me as a chinese diplomat with a $3 polyester sweater and bad english, right? and you sort of got down and down and then there's a 20-something guy with a bright white shirt and yellow tie and he looked at me, sarcastic diplomats are not so common and he looked at me and said how about you do security and we do business which is what in many ways china would love to see. the u.s. can do the expensive stuff and the stuff that annoys people and china can do business. it works really well. the other thing china offers is they support governments and governments really like that. the perception is during the arab spring the u.s. started wavering and i don't know anybody who has be

of the middle east where people can retreat to and find some of the middle east where people can retreat to and find some kind of comfort some kind of a sort of leaven teen playground on one hand it's a playground but on the other hand it said it's a refuge for all kinds of thinking and kind of comfort some kind of a sort of leaven teen playground on one hand it's a playground but on the other hand it said it's a refuge for all kinds of thinking middle easterners who can't find a place in their own countries so it would be terrible easterners who can't find a place in their own country so it would be terrible if that if it collapses if it if it runs into bankruptcy which it could do it well if that if it collapses if it if it runs into bankruptcy which it could do at any moment and it's hard to see how they're going to how the lebanese are going in any moment and it's hard to see how they're going to how the lebanese are going to really sort out their economic problems because when we look at the arab spring more to really sort out their economic problems because when we look at the arab

a supporter of all status quo forces in the middle east. he has established good relations with all you middle eastern governments -- with all middle eastern governments as well as has below and hamas. bollah and hamas. not international groups, those concerned with their local areas. at present, no middle east government supports such movements. managed to get them to -- putin posesf as the defender of middle eastern governments. that they have two common goals. one is that they are all against islamic radicals and against u.s. disruptive policies, supporting democratic revolution or intervention. moscow portrays the u.s. as being allied with islamist forces. formember being in moscow the conference with lavrov. with the iranian foreign present, sergey lavrov said iran is a partner in the war on terror in syria whereas the united states supports jihadists, basically. really amazing. putine have seen is that in many respects supports multiple sides simultaneously with regard to the relations with iran and also relations with saudi arabia, al

middle east of course they'll be the. grahams out there and they'll be the tom cotton's and people like that they want the grahams out there and they'll be the tom cotton's and people like that they want to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall here that it's some to keep the united states in the middle east but i think the writing is on the wall here that itself is creating instability because so much dependency the u.s. has created wealth is creating instability because so much dependency the u.s. has created among many of the elites in the middle east that and they're going to have to start thinking twice and they have among many elites in the middle east that and they're going to have to start thinking twice and they have social movements that see that are disenfranchised of social movements that see. disenfranchised rising up and they are you going to have elites not being able to be clients the same kind of client rising up and they are you going to have elites not being ab

dusek it in middle east.i still remember this conversation i had in the chinese embassy in algiers probably more than ten ten years ago now. the funny thing is as you meet chinese diplomats i don't know how many of you had this explains but with each decade of you it's like your meeting people from a different country. select the 50 year old guy like struck me as a chinese diplomat come like a three dollars polyester sweater right? its would cut down and out and then there's a twentysomething tied with a bright orange shirt and feel tight and you look at me sarcastic diplomat and he said how about you do security? you do business? right. what you did in many ways is what china would love to see things involve the middle east. the u.s. can do all the expensive stuff the stuff that annoys people, and china can do business. it works really well. the other thing china offers is they support governments. governments really like them. the perception is, during the arab spring the u.s. started wavering. i don't know

it there really hasn't been any serious economic discussions about how these how the middle east are serious economic discussions about how these how the middle eastern countries can get out of this terrible income gap the bad governance and countries can get out of this terrible income gap the bad governance the corruption and that's what's going to take and if we don't really know the answers to this the corruption and that's what's going to take it is we don't really know the answers to that. and people are desperate but these movements that have been run by social media which are easy and people are desperate but these movements that have been run by social media which are easy to gather together yet don't have a leadership and that is something to see to gather together yet don't have a leadership and that is something that's playing the middle east it's good on the one hand because it means that you can't play in the middle east it's good on the one hand because it means that you can't read press them but it's bad on the other hand because when it comes time to taking control pr

sending new troops to the middle east which is really confusing.ings up, we go to senior war correspondent reporting live from the middle east, desi lydic, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) desi, this administration seems to have mixed messages about america's role in the middle east. >> there's only one messagively getting trevor and it's dear world, america first, prayer hands emoji, bald eagle emoji, america. president trump is just fulfilling his promise to pull troops out of the middle east. you know what? it's refreshing. a lot of men say they'll pull out but they don't! fool me once, shame on you. fool me seven times, i have seven kids now. >> trevor: but desi, even though this is one of trump's promises, you have to admit his decision has turned the middle east into a total shit show. >> trevor, the middle east has always been a shit show. it's like a waffle house after 1:00 a.m. it's not america's job to get involved. you have the kurds, the turks. it's such a nuanced, so complicated situation. it's not something america can solve. >> tre

i'd like to start with william wechsler, he's the director for the middle east and middle east programsncil. his most recent was secretary for special effects and battling terrorism. and secretary for defense for narcotics and global threats. special advisor during the clinton administration and previous service as director for transnational threats on the national security stuff. he has-- from columbia university. >> well, thank you very much kareem. my understanding is whatt we're going to do. i'm going to discuss what we see in the middle east and turn to my co-panelists and talk about the european response to those conflicts. >> it's my understanding that the most important dynamic that's driving a lot of the decisions and actions in the middle east right now and has been for some time is the widespread perception of american withdrawal. this is exacerbated today by the actions of our president, but it would be wrong to solely blame this dynamic on our current president. this has been a long time coming. i'm going to give you a little context of why i believe this and i'm going to s

interests in the middle east and north africa. tois an honor to be here and be representing the professionals of usaid. thed recognizes most of nations in this region are actually middle-income countries, countries with young ose energy, wh education, and educati -- in intelligence can be kept -- can play a critical role in helping these countries lock in democratic advances where they have occurred and drive job-c reating economic growth through free-market economies. in line with administration policies, usaid focuses its programming to help analyze and graduating countries through foreign assistance. helping partners build self-reliance is skewed to the broader u.s. effort to counter malign influences humming from outside -- coming from outside, while demonstrating american values. in iraq, we continue to support the government's initiative to strengthen fiscal management . progress in these areas will strengthen iraqi sovereignty and provide an effective counter to iranian influences within the society. another key area of foc

today that that to power in the middle east today that that. that doesn't have answers yeah but i mean we'll have to end on that point here but you know the lack of principled stealing someone else's now to resources so they can't. that doesn't have answers yeah but i mean we'll have to end on that point here but you know the lack of principled stealing someone else's now to resources so they can't rebuild i mean i don't know how more pathetic back can be ok but unfortunately build i mean i don't know how more. thetic back can be ok but unfortunately it's not really portrayed that way in western media gentlemen that's all the time we have many thanks and i guess really it's not really portrayed that way in western media gentlemen that's all the time we have many thanks to my guests in washington plymouth the new employment and then dixon or if you are watching of us who are. seeing and i guess here darkie see you next time and remember time and remember. today there are good dentist. today there are good terrorists and the dead and some of them

we have spent $8 trillion on wars in the middle east. never really wanting to win those wars, but after all that money was spent and all those lives lost, the young men and women gravely wounded so many, the middle east is less safe, less stable, and less secure than before these conflicts began. the same people pushing for these wars are often the one's demanding wins demanding america its doors to unlimited migration from war-torn regions, importing the terrorism and the threat of terrorism right to our own shores. but not anymore. my administration understands that immigration security is national security. as a candidate for president, i made clear that we needed a new approach to american foreign policy. one guided not by ideology but by experience, history, and a realistic understanding of the world. we are building up america's military might like never before. investing $2.5 trillion since my election. but we will not be depleted. we will not happen again. it will not be allowed to happen again where our military is depleted, fig

and then gaining more leverage throughout the middle east and even promote in africa and with access to a strategic core door running away from to ron to its very doorstep of israel. madam president where do we go from here? many of us in the senate are ahead of the game to reaffirm the american global leadership against radical terrorist at the beginning of this year a bipartisan super majority of senators warned about this course of events and the mcconnell amendment earned 70 votes back in february warning against the precipitous withdrawal and noted the need of american presence congress should affirm or actually reaffirm those same troops today and do so strongly. unfortunately the revolution crafted by house democrats isn't so much wrong as it is insufficient focusing on the thkurds ignoring what suffered under the aside regime and isys and those like the christian arabs of syria. the house is silent on that key matter of the physical presence in syria. after all our colleagues from massachusetts told an audience the senior senator from massachusetts we should get out of the mi

the united states and china to be talking about the middle east which we are not doing right now. d one last thing just about china is that, you know, china in the middle eastern leaders, china presents an alternative model in the u.s. and you can get everything you can get from the united states in terms of economic technological benefits without human rights and democrat see and more than that, china is perfecting the use of technology to retrain their own populations and at some point in the future that technology will be exported and there will be many parties in the middle east who will find that to be -- who will find themselves to be very active buyers and that's a whole other set of problems that we can anticipate in the future and the last thing about what to do with iran, quickly, four things. you have to re-establish d deterrents and there is a role of action given where we have been and given where we might be, it is a very minor role and a proportionate role and we have to understand for all of the things that iran did, and i completely agree with you about what they d

interests in the middle east and north africa. it's an honor to be here with assistant secretary schenker and to be ---en a to be representing administrator greene and the professionals of u.s. aid. u.s. aid recognizes that most nations in the recently are middle income countries. countries with young populations whose energy, education, and inspiration can be tapped to help speed their country's journal journey to self reliance. we we believe well tarlgted investments by the united states and other donors can play a critical role in helping these countries lock in democratic advances where they have occurred and drive job creating economic growth through modern free market economies. in line with administration policies, u.s. aid focuses its programming to support our friends and allies appear steadily work toward graduating countries from foreign assistance. helping partnering build self relevantens to counter malign influences come from outside while demonstrating american values in the context of renewed great power competitio

troroops from the middle east.e spoke t to him earlier this month and asked him why he was critical of trump's decision to withdraw from syria. inwe can't just get involvedd a place and then walk away and not have some moral responsibility. we have a moral responsibility who fought the kurds with us against isis, we have a moral responsibility to accept certain refugees and to help rebuild society that was ravaged by civivil war where we were involved. i call for responsible withdrawal, but now one that is oblivious to human life in syria or to american interest in syria . president trump, at the very first instance, should have notified the kurds about what our intentions were notifying our allies. amy: that is california congressmember ro khanna. professor, if you could respond to what you have talked about, the poking of this beast come of the probe or establishment rarely -- rarely do you have mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, speaking out in the senate against president trump, not to mention his vie

how many americans must die in the middle east? in the midst of these ancient sectarian and tribal conflicts? after all of the precious blood and treasure america has poured into the deserts of the middle east, i am committed to pursuing a different course, one that leads to victory for america. through much work, we have done things that everybody said couldn't be done. today's announcement validates our course of action with turkey, but only a couple of weeks ago was scorned and now people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. congratulations. it is too early to me to be congratulated, but we've done a good job. we've saved a lot of lives and we've saved a costly military intervention that could have led to disastrous, far-reaching consequences. many thousands of people could have been killed. the last administration said assad must go. they could have easily produced that outcome, but they didn't. in fact, they drew a very powerful red line in the sand. you all remember the red line in the sand when children were gassed and kil

across middle east broadcasters apart from way you are at the moment fast forward 2 years there was a big report i think it was the washington post the new york times another report into 911 on the day that report was published and there was a very big glitzy glamorous t.v. news channel broadcasting in arabic in this region saying our 911 but was done by cattle no it wasn't it never was cata has never been put in the same sentence as 911 and yet it's broadcast in this powerful way because somebody someplace takes an editorial decision to let's call it what it is lie yes and broadcast an agenda as news. let's be frank targeting minds and hearts that is one of the 2 tools to effect policies that was in the united states it even in the united states discourse and narrative has been used in the last 20 years since $911.00 we need to we need to have to target minds and hearts and now what's been have been happening now if they want to affect the view towards images iraq and the qatar because in the last 2 years but that has been targeted for different reasons and as you mention at th

i think we ought to get out of the middle east, said the senior senator from massachusetts. and almost all of our democratic colleagues currently running for president refuse to sign on to the mcconnell amendment that earned 70 votes earlier this year. but we can't afford to dance around the critical question of u.s. presence in syria and the middle east for the sake of democratic presidential primary politics. the senate needs to speak up. we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence. senators who thought we should withdraw from syria and afghanistan in february do not get to criticize president trump for withdrawing from syria today unless they go on the record, admit they changed their minds, and say it's too dangerous to quit. so today, along with chairman inhofe, chairman risch, senator graham, senator burris, i am introducing a stronger resolution that acknowledges hard truths and focuses on our strategic interests in the middle east. our resolution acknowledges the vital role that our kurdish and arab syrian partners have played

in the middle east, as a whole, however, we are producing more oil. there's no question about that. so we don't have the same need to import middle eastern oil. but we're all connected to a global market. and that means, if there's instability in that part of the world and something happens that takes the oil of the middle east offline, that is still going to affect the american consumer, who is tied to the global market, so global supply and demand meets in the place where global price is. now, we have seen that oil markets haven't really reacted to all of this instability very sharply in the last few weeks. and my personal sense is that the markets are really undervaluing the geopolitical risk here. and that we are at a risk of having a spike in price if something goes very badly awry in this region, as the chances of it have gone up pretty substantially in the last several weeks. >> fascinating. stay with me, both of you. next up, what to make of a foreign policy that seems geared to a president's personal agenda. where does that leave ukraine in the battle against russia? i will

that everyone knows that the middle east a place. where the christianity in it is growing is coming and. where the christianity in it is growing is coming in the pollution that's the cradle of christianity there the christians are prosecutors that's the cradle of christianity there the christians are prosecuted or killed and robbed and russia you to. kill to rob to and russia is doing everything we can to support the christian community in the middle east and we are doing everything we can to support the christian community in the middle east and we are doing that . in close cooperation we're doing that. in close cooperation we're continuously meeting the. legitimate authorities of the country so that we meet you the. legitimate authorities of the country so that region. and syria for example we help not only. in syria for example we help not only christians. but also christians. but also muslim we've got the. game with the now we represent a muslim we've got the. game with the no we represent the. new islam make religion going to he

iranian and russian interest of the middle east have been advanced at a time we were applying maximumn pressure giving a stronger hand in syria we have weakened the pressure. rushes objective plays a greater role in the middle - - middle east has been impacted the kurds out of desperation have now aligned with assad so now america's diminished with russia and iran and assad are strengthened. so i ask how and why this decision was reached. relations committee given this urgent undertaken i might be forgiven for wondering why my committee even exist. i say this because l apparently the decision to leave syria was made without consultation of the committee or the committee chairman or ranking member. just three weeks ago the subcommittee held a hearing to receive the extensive analysis of the conditions in syria presented to us by a serious study group a bipartisan congressionally mandated commission tasked with providing the in death this one - - in depth o assessment and to provide american strategy going forward as far as i am aware they made no effort to contact those who attended the

the middle east history of slavery the casual racism particularly against. people from the south of egypt and the depictions of black arabs on screen interwoven but as many arabs often say the context is different if it really fair to compare slavery and blackface with their western counterparts. i am sure that when people object to the idea that blackface is offensive in the middle east they're saying we're not talking about the american south we're not talking about plantation slavery we're not talking about the same kind of abuses or the same scale that happened in the southern united states. however the slave trade in the middle east was huge and the cultural impact of this slave trade has everything to do with black face in the middle east nobody has ever discussed any of that and nobody has ever acknowledged this very dark and shameful history so like we keep shaming americans and the europeans for when they really do like i think racist but at least. somewhat common terms with their dark history. they're trying to confront it and face it head on where

europe and we're talking you later oh he was advising them merican president as well but in the middle east it's it's not just the region it's beyond the region and beyond the region there are 2 camps in the region the return camps so that really complicates things enormously so the context has changed in the sense that when it 1st started of course it was an expression of the grievances of the syrian people became complicated by. i would say regional international interventions. they were designed to change things in syria it's understandable that at the time it was the beginning of the arab spring and everybody thought that this was the tide of history things got more complicated i think people started to revise their positions and understood that the continuation of syrian conflict are continuation is in no one's interests including the neighbors quite frankly you have been very diplomatic as is understandable but let me put it in stark returns because i also. invested in syria i covered this calling from the very beginning i saw its transition that my own eyes and i think it took a defi

in all total we have some 60,000 troops in the middle east. assuming for the sake of understanding that getting out of endless wars was the logic for the decision, why would we take action so precipitously? why would we not warn our ally the kurds of what we're about to do? why would we not give them time to also withdraw or perhaps to dig in to defend themselves? clearly the turks had a heads up because they were able to start bombing within mere hours. i simply don't understand why the administration did not explain in advance to erdogan that it's unacceptable for turkey to attack an american ally. could we not insist that together we develop a transition plan that protects the kurds, secures the isis prisoners, and meets the legitimate concerns of turkey as well? was there no chance for diplomacy? are we so weak and so inept diplomatically that turkey forced the hand of the united states of america, turkey? i believe that it's imperative that public hearings are held to answer these questions, and i hope the senate is able to conduct those

the weather slushy set fire across the middle east of the i missed him a fair amount of cloud having said that just spilling out of iraq pushing across the caspian sea northern parts of iran not too much right on this if anything at klavern will thin and break further as we go through monday set around of around $24.00 celsius into the thirty's once again there mid to high thirty's to baghdad for kuwait city also for karate by rates set of around 30 degrees celsius some pleasantly warm sunshine continue going to let eastern side of the med it's right about a little more cloud just spilling in here as we go through tuesday think about general fair weather nature so it should be 5 and dry and sunny lots of sunshine too across iran replenished just down towards the far south of a man you could catch one of the 2 coastal showers the more so it was a lot of us to go on in to choose that both of them by spot is looking fine and dry highs here in doha of around $35.00 celsius out of dry weather to into southern africa but we have got some right in the forecast some think a cloud just pushin

here's our middle east correspondent, quentin somerville.adi died in the dark in northern syria. the ferocious sound of the firefight was heard for miles. pictures of donald trump watching the operation live have now been released by the white house. he later described how baghdadi he had fled into a tunnel wearing a suicide vest, taking three of his children with him. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest, killing himself and the three children. a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. he will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. he died like a dog. he died like a coward. the world is now a much safer place. this was the scene this morning. donald trump thanked russia, turkey and the syrian kurds, but said only americans were involved in the raid. a neighbour told the bbc what he saw. translation: around 11pm, they started shooting the house of abu mohammad. the house was completely destroyed. we recovered seven bodies from un

this was not a major invasion of the middle east. this was a limited deployment of special operations forces to take down the terrific enemy. what was one of the most successful and effective operations with a partner force in the history of the united states military, so we need to give the defense department credit for doing what it did so well and with relatively little cost, and ask the questions about what kind of threats we are willing to accept. host: if isis is able to reorganize, where do they fight and who do they fight in the middle east? guest: isis is reorganizing. we released a paper earlier this year that demonstrated how isis has been on a path to resurgence before the american withdrawal from syria. this is not an enemy that needs to regroup. this is an enemy that is already fighting, on the upswing, and will accelerate that's resurgence if it is able to get the presidents out -- prisoners out. isis will fight basically everyone in syria, the government in iraq, and will use the resources, the money, the training gro

keep him educated in in line with what the national defense strategies were to keep troops in the middle east. he's conflated every middle eastern conflict into one big conflict that was not worth america's time, that was not wanted by the american people, and here he is declaring, you know, trying to declare victory, like you said. on the victory point, i wrote about this two years ago, when trump came into office and met with his generals, he asked the question, how do we win? that's something he was very fixated on. that's the opposite of what we hear from pentagon leaders when they talk about these long term commitments to counterterrorism operations around the world. so i think this was quite the political statement that's different than we've heard or at least a lot more stronger than we've heard in the last few years regarding u.s. interventions. >> the thesis perhaps being, and i wrote this down, i want to make sure i get it right, president trump saying at one point, let someone else fight over this long bloodstained land -- >> sand. >> sand, excuse me. kristen, it would seem that th

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well beric it claims that it controls middle east oil. actually it doesn't it controls the governments which have the oil in the end a.b.m. pet is and it controls the routes through which oil is ship like this threat of saddam was and other restraints. like the street as well so in that case he is or trying to demand money from the oil producers of the gulf in return for protecting the oil but there is a global balance of power shift américa america's influence is declining even the allies of the united states like saudi arabia don't trust the americans because they will squeeze you in like 11 get all huge juices and throw you away when it is when it suits them they have done it with the accords and they have done it everywhere they dealt with that our lives sooner or later they will be out of the middle east because they. have power emerging and i can mention here that the president putin and to saudi arabia and to the united arab emirates source successful that it is part of this embarrassing. shift in the balance of power power from th

muslim state in the middle east i think now is president knows. you know that he is a businessman he knows profits and profits very profit it comes in and he decided i think the right way after this new constitution or against a turkish. power in the middle east and i think is a really good position for the united states otherwise united states will lose turkey. for good. we know that it's fair to say it's a fact that serious sovereignty has been trampled all over the united states put troops in there without any kind of permission it's reported turkey has large numbers of troops on the border if they move into syria how do you interpret that at what point does that become an invasion or an annexation how do you describe it . actually this is not invasion in turkey has a lot of acts. it is in history in iraq in syria before now it started aircrafts will make and then i think 2 or 3 days of it out to libya softening area that. army with the syrian side and to especially. in the beginning maybe later. we cannot say that this is an invasion this is j

i think that's certainly happening in the middle east.ess in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and jordan, egypt, traditional partners of the united states. i am actually in melbourne, australia, this week. and we could not have a closer military alliance than the one we have with australia, and yet people here have been questioning me today, will you back us up in a crisis? and that has really stunned me, and it has given mea really stunned me, and it has given me a sense, quite palpable, of the impact that this decision has had outside the middle east on traditional allies of the united states, like australia. you can find more on the latest developments on our website, bbc.com/news. let's get some of the day's other news: a white police officer in texas has been charged with murder over the killing of a 28—year—old black woman in her home. atatiana jefferson was shot through a closed window as she was playing video games with her nephew. aaron dean resigned earlier. local leaders have called for an inquiry into the police depar

or architecture in the middle east or in the gulf specifically. will take time. i think the 1st time was proposed by russia was probably more than 10 years ago so. we can discuss that in more detail but the monitoring system makes every sense the issue is how do you bring it about all but as a former un official documenting that is also an indication of how little trust russia or perhaps other countries in the best in the human ability to do that kind of investigative work because you know has a number of bodies to investigate chemical attacks and other sort of attacks. russia skepticism about the use of those mechanisms is well known don't you think that perhaps it's an indication that the un has not been doing its job if not properly with and off the neutrality of that country like russia with call for the creation of a at the in the other mechanism to do that what if if i'm not mistaken i think the secretary general has already dispatched a team. to saudi arabia to verify what has happened i'm not aware of the russian proposal. is is designed for the un not to

that is the views from within the people in the middle east and they say about themselves rather than others describe what's happening in the the english dizzier english has you know offered the platform to talk in english to the people in the states in the nothing them everywhere in english language about them in the middle east and to listen to the people as negative rather than to the other outlets who have their own agenda their perception of the region and that is i think annoying others let's just say the last word in vienna ravi the 1st big foreign policy trip for this current us administration donald trump went to riyadh he in effect greenlit the g.c.c. blockade of catterick kicks in very quickly after that initial visit if he tells towards al jazeera english having to register in this way will it actually happen do you think. i doubt he will do that because. of the geopolitical reasons but if he doesn't it maybe extremely unfortunate. he would protest it will go to the congress we will use our and to march across institute of america national committee to do is this issu

that is the views from within the people in the middle east and they say about themselves rather than others describe what's happening in the the english dizzier english has you know offered the platform to talk in english to the people in the states in the nothing them everywhere in english language about the middle east and to listen to the people as negative rather than to the other outlets who have their own agenda their perception of the region and that is i think annoying others less to say the last word in vienna ravi the 1st big foreign policy trip for this current us administration donald trump went to riyadh he in effect greenlit the g.c.c. blockade of catterick kicks in very quickly after that initial visit if he tells towards al jazeera english having to register in this way will it actually happen do you think. i doubt he will do that because. of the geopolitical reasons but if he doesn't it maybe extremely unfortunate. he would protest it will go to the congress we will use our international since to chop american national committee to do is this issue at every leve

they promote terror in the middle east, europe, latin america, and all over the world, and the world must stop them. i call on the international community to support president trump's maximum pressure policy against iran. this is the way to stop them. we must stop iran today in order to prevent war tomorrow. and to the iranian leadership i say, in their own language, [speaking persian] you don't count the birds until the end of the fold. it isn't over until it is over. [applause] excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the reality in the middle east also presents opportunities for corporations in advancing the economies of all countries. in recent years, prime minister have developed a draft of a regional peace initiative which will conduct arab gulf states by rail through jordan to the israeli port in haifa. it will provide them a faster, outlet to theafer mediterranean. we are also going to connect to the palestinian authority to this project, and this will boost their economy. i presented this initiative to the u.n. secretary-general when we recently met in abu dhabi, and invited him

hi yeah yeah of the carnegie middle east center. was a coming up this so i'm from twenty four you members agreed in principle to the spend the day to phrase it beyond okay but the thirty first. the block however has not set a new date orange johnson for his part. is only up a snap general election . thank you for watching l live from paris w we start with russian forces which have boasted that presence a across northeastern serious this.s. afternoon code was clinched by ankara and moscow in a bid to and turkish attack on the area. the agreement also requires kurdish figighters consider to e terrorists by turkey t to pull back this willllay forces t the. to relinquish control of somee of the main towns donald trump meanwhile has hailed the agreement. a big success. early this mornining the government of turkey informed by administration that they would be stopping combat. and their offensive in syria. and making the ceasefire permanent and it will indeed be permanent. however you would also. define the word permanent in that part of

i am middle east. if that was true, i would have no problems. lam not middle east.ould have no problems. i am not a father in denial, ifjack has done anything wrong, he should pay the price, he should be tried and punished for that. i don't have a problem with that, i don't have any sympathies for what extremists have done. as far as we knowjack never joined isis, you say he signed up and joined the caliphate. please show me the evidence that proves that. the only thing that can be used to prove that is the interviews he did last year. for years before that the media created this narrative to say he ran off, joined isis, joined up with the caliphate and participated in these atrocities. it is not true, we don't believe that is the case, if that was the case we would not be here defending him. you say you are not in denial but we have the words from his own mouth which tell us he was in islamic state. even in our court case when we were prosecuted for having sent jack money to escape from syria, to pay people smugglers, there was a court distinction that made a disti

. >> as we await off date on the situation in the middle east from defense secretary mike this morningre's a new battle between nancy pelosi and president trump. >> speaker of the house leading a so-called bipartisan delegation. mark with the very latest. >> good to see you, the good morning, speaker's office says the congressional delegation made multiple stops in the middle east. delegation was made up of house speaker nancy pelosi and one republican house maker, pelosi's office put out a statement following the visiting, meeting and hearing from troops and diplomats on the ground for congress to conduct oversight in our mission in afghanistan, the president weighed in on the trip as lawmakers continue today criticize his decision to pull troops out of syria, the president put out on twitter, quote, she should find out why obama drew the red line in the sand losing syria and all respect. this comes as kurdish military leaders are deeply disappointed in president trump's decision and cooperative relationship with the united states going forward. south carolina lindsey graham, he says

elsewhere in the middle east, i don't know if i can just keep piling more dots but elsewhere in the middle things are falling apart fast due mostly to the trump administration's incompetence. it started with nonsensical fracture relations between saudi arabia and another key u.s. both ally cutter. it was the kind of disruption that would normally be papered over and fixed by a competent u.s. administration probably in days but years later the two countries saudi arabia and cutter still aren't talking largely because we did nothing to fix it. making matters worse, saudi arabia and their one remaining stable friend of the region aren't getting along now either. under trump the war in yemen began to rage out of control, tens of thousands of innocent yemenis many little children died needlessly. as trump piled more weapons and more bombs into the war ended nothing to try to find a peace agreement between the parties. who for a year had been begging the united states to step in and play a traditional role as mediator. the conflict has raged on for so long due to trump's unwillingness to use ame