it seems that iraq is trying to play a rule of neutral mediator in the middle east neutral madrid that believe that disability and prosperity of iraq is a part of the stability of the region. especially that rec, trying to take a neutral tide in the middle of all these crises and conflicts in the middle east. remember that iraq has hosted before meetings between saudi and iranian officials in the past. also it has hosted summit including dedications from egypt and from the from joseph. so it seems that iraq is trying to retrieve this role and trying to send a message to the internet to come in here. the iraq can be a stable country and internally, especially the upcoming election, the prime minister multiple public and government is trying to say to the director that way we can make it we can reach the parliamentary election, especially with the recognition of the stakeholders and the system of the international community. me, thanks for that moment in baghdad. there calling it's a life altering storm. harken ida is make its way to the united states, gathering strength as it hits towar

hoping to ease tensions in the middle east. iraq, the regional summers with saudi arabia under ron high on the agenda. ah, ah, it's time for the perfect journey. the winter sponsored by cattle airways. hello, that is more wet weather on no way for china as we look to east asia. and that's thanks to the may you front. that's pumping those pockets of torrential rain from central areas to the east. and that means there's going to be more heavy rain in store for he 9 problems. but not just he also shangdorf problems as those pockets move towards the coastal areas. you can see the yellow peaks showing where they are going to for heaviest those rains. and as we go into monday, it's going to be the korean peninsula that's in store for some more really heavy rain. and we could see flooding here. but to the north of this, it is looking a lot dry evasion, managing to see a lot of sunshine come through. and this isn't the story for shanghai now was moved to south asia for india. we've got some very heavy rains continuing. those one soon range and we've seen flood waters up in the north. these are

saw, the hey, and this is out of their life and also coming up hoping to ease tensions in the middle east. iraq coast regional summit with saudi arabia and iran, high on the agenda. 50000 dead. russia records its highest monthly toll from curve at 19 with vaccinations, a well behind government target and hurricane eat a barrel towards the southern united states who are expected to strengthen to a dangerous storm. ah, now the pentagon says to high profile, i saw k members were killed in a drone strike in eastern afghanistan. that attack followed as days bomb attack cobble airport that was claimed by the group and killed at least $175.00 people, including 13 american service members. i am not going to talk about specific capabilities isis may have lost, and in the strike they lost a planner and they lost a facilitator and they've got one wanted and the fact that 2 of these individuals are no longer while longer walking on the face of the earth, that's a good things. a good thing for the people who can stand. it's a good thing for our troops and our forces at that airfield and i think i'm just goi

what should concern the congress government funded iraq has been hosting a regional summit aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation in the middle east. the aim is to improve ties between saudi arabia and iran, or among the countries taking part as well as france, egypt. the u. e. cats are much more than the head reports from baghdad. iraq stability is key to this stability of the whole region. this is how regional leaders participating in that conference for corporation and partnership concluded it on saturday. the summer twitch discussed economic integration and investment projects between the participants also addressed political and security challenges facing iraq, including the possible resurgence of yourself. iraqi officials say it's an opportunity to ease tension in the middle east. s o d and rain. you know, officials hill talks on the side lines of the summit. the fact that we managed to bring private countries together on the same table and initiate dialogue between them is not only important to them in us, but the whole region. the meeting, which was cor denies the by france, also addressed the water crisis, which it did th

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airport as the evacuation operation, the end to the final stages hoping to ease tensions in the middle east iraq coast regional summit with saudi arabia and iran. high on the agenda. the fight for equal voting rights marches are underway across the us against new laws that make it harder for some people to cross their balance. and why chile is largest indigenous rebel group says it no longer recognizes the government even as a new constituent assembly is from the thing. grace are right, i'm. we're harding with sports. christiana, rinaldo returned to his former club. manchester united the english side have reached a deal with you vented to resign the portuguese superstar ah, how the united states is now. one of the last remaining countries still evacuating afghan civilians trying to flee after the taliban takeover. but its efforts to fly . people out have been challenged by what the pentagon cause specific and credible security threats. now they follow those days explosion outside couple airport, which killed at least a $175.00 people, including that teen american service. members. over the u. s.

against eiffel in retaliation for thursday's airport attack, hoping to ease tensions in the middle east, iraq, the regional summits, the saudi arabia live on high on the agenda, or it can either barrels towards the united states. it's expected to strengthen the dangerous storm and the fights for equal voltage, right. march is a fund across the united states against new laws that make it harder for some people because their ballot. and i'm trying to, how much was the christiano novel return says form a club, but man, just so united the english side, have we deal with you benches to resign the portuguese? ah, well last minute, evacuations. i some of us can the stuff being made more difficult by security threats that faster of bomb explosion that compet airport kills at least 100 and see 5 people on thursday, including 13 american service personnel. will the u. s. is warranted. citizens not to travel to the airports, depends, can says there are still specific and credible threats. the u. k says it's lost their list form cobble will be on saturday for pooling areas, it's troops that means hundred

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country caucus, which is a bipartisan group of about 25 veterans who served, most of us in the middle east, iraqstan, basically pleading with him to revoke the 8/31 date but also the mission of getting americans out to getting all americans and their families out as well as their afghan allies and it's not glib to say we've got to keep reminding this president that it's not good enough to not only just get all americans out, but we have to get all americans out alive, and at this point, this is a very serious problem. it's going to get worse over the next few days before it gets better and we approach 8/31, the chaos will become even higher levels, there will be pandemonium, fear, and panic in the streets and there's only going to be so much that we can do and that our military personnel can do. again, this is an operation being run by the state department. it what we need to be doing right now is reasserting our dominance, reestablishing our dominance, and then reasserting our dominance. it not only troops in the area outside of the airfield, but also giving the weapons and the tools. there's n

what if you are from the middle east or iraq? nope. what about other minorities here in america?hite american with one grandparent from mexico entitled to these funds when an immigrant from, say, jordan is not? what's the deal? who are these bureaucrats picking minority winners and losers? let's ask the host of the informed dissent podcast lee nights johnson. always good to talk to you i guess this has been around for some time but as more companies go woke and more people seek affirmative action dollars, it's pretty unseemly to think there is this group behind the scenes that get to test or decide your racial purity in which races are thumbs up and which races are thumbs down on getting dollars,. >> it's incredible, will, i can't believe this is where we are in 2021 in america. think back to the often quoted i have a dream speech by martin luther king we talk about it all the time. we dreamed that his four little children would one day grow up in a nation where they were not judged by the dollar of their skin but the content of their character. we talk about it all the time. i d

iraq war. in washington, it's very hard to get consensus in favour of significant military involvement, particularly in the middle east shift is away from the middle east and europe to a certain extent, and this new primary foreign policy focus on the asia—pacific region and china. that's one for another day. and now to the �*any other business�* at the end of every agenda. in the case of dateline, it's the opportunity for each of you to tell us about a story or an angle on a story that you think has not received sufficient attention so far. ned, do you want to kick us off? i will, and this will sound weird because i'm going to kick off with the olympics, which has been giving a fair amount of coverage. but not the medals and not even the winners. i'm always transfixed and moved by some of the personal stories that risk getting overlooked or forgotten of those who don't win. in this, i include two remarkable young women. naomi osaka, simone biles, both of whom in different circumstances did not win medals and very courageously and articulately talked about the issues of mental health and pressures which are too often

concerneds ebrahim raisi has said that iran will be dynamic and very active here in the middle east in places like iraqn other places as well. and of course that could mean a lot of trouble for the biden administration the next couple years. >> and this deadly drone attack happening on a tanker connected to israel and arabian sea. take a listen to the secretary of state yesterday. >> we've conducted a mthorough review and we're confident iran carried out this attack. it follows a pattern of similar attacks by iran including past incidents with explosive drones. there is no justification for this attack on a peaceful vessel in international waters. >> fred, you have obviously covered iran for years now. how do the iranians handle this under new leadership? >> reporter: and one of the other things that the secretary of state said, the u.s. is already working with allies to find some sort of common response to all of that. the iranians reacting angrily calling the claims those and those made by israelis as well as baseless, but also saying that there could be massive retaliation if there is some sort of i

i have heard the arguments against appeal that would weaken our position vis-a-vis iraq, iran, and in the middle eastmore generally, in fact the senator and i had a productive meeting with the iraqi prime minister on numerous facets of the u.s./iraq lateral relationship and the challenges it faces with iranian aligned militias. our discussion is that we are in a radically different paradigm in our partnership with baghdad than we were in 2002. so, some have argued that repeal requires the united states to appear weak. i don't personally agree to that, but i would like to hear from you from the administration's point of view. what is the administration's position on that point and what steps is the administration taking, and will the administration take if they ensure the united states maintains its overall leverage in the region? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. we believe are of p -- repealing the a umf is a signal to the bipartisan work over the last more than two decades to establish an iraq that is very different than the one that existed at the time than the 1991 2002 a umf was decided. we

where i would say particularly after the wall came down into a tremendous focus into the middle east, whether it be iraq or iran, which was part of our focus and that's what we've been focused on for the past almost 30 years. and then, as a national defense strategy, 2018 came out. we moved into an heir strategic competition. it is a very stark photo, a print that i get look at every day when i come into he pentagon. it's the winston times by robert emerson bell. it was done for the 50th anniversary of the air force. and on that print on the far left of the print is the right flyer. and it shows every airplane that's been built since then to the 50th anniversary of the united states air force. next year will be our 75th anniversary from 1944 to 1984, we build a new fighter every two and a half years. since 1984, the year i was commissioned, we built probably about four fighters. it really slowed our pace. and so if i were to extend that print out, there wouldn't be much on it as far as what we've been able to do as an air force and i really believe that we got to look at how we accelerate. the fact that

trump said, doing his electoral campaign, that american intervention in the middle east produced nothing but field states, iraq, libya, syria, and now ever understand. and that tells you again, why why the americans intervene in this way. the, the saw nations do not. we give you patients, especially in developing countries, the exam of germany and japan is not applicable in the middle east gate thing. looking at what the american comment was that they said, you know, the title on isn't going to over run off down a storm than it did. that. it shows that actually 20 years and they still don't have an understanding. although the intricacies of what's happening on the ground, this is unfortunate despite the fact that america has a very advanced that centers of research and many workers in understand and be began to know what is the culture and, but this is again, apply by religious society that is very difficult to penetrate and they were under estimating capability. and although estimated the power of the army that we had created, and that's why we ended up in this situation. again, they have to restart the, the

with iraq, it tore up the middle east that was established after the first world war.tore up the old maps. here, i would be looking at the doran line, the line between afghanistan and pakistan. this used to be called the great game for central asia. with this pullout, we've just started the great game. >> what is america's role going to be in afghanistan? is it going to be similar to how we handle syria, where we go in, find a terror target, try to deal with that and sort of play whack-a-mole? it looks like we lost richard engel there. no worries. in doha, thank you. >>> i spoke with secretary of state antony blinken and asked what the united states' immediate future in afghanistan is going to look like. >> let me start with a simple question. what does america's presence look like in kabul on september 1st? >> chuck, i'll tell you in a sec. let me start with this because] it's important. every american is grieving the loss of our men and women in uniform in that heinous terrorist attack against our forces who were evacuating innocent men, women and children from kabul

perhaps some instability in the region that iraq, which has been seen as somewhat of a center of gravity of our situation -- of our security situation in the middle east. in that regard, we also see our nato partners seeking to increase their presence in iraq from 400 troops to potentially 4000. that highlights the european interest and also assuring a stable and secure region. they participate with us in an 83-member coalition. it is global but focused on iraq and syria. global community continues to care very much about the middle east. i do think that there is an opportunity to show the perhaps leaving a country too soon or under less than ideal conditions can have ramifications that you do not expect. perhaps the american dialogue can help us have a stronger focus on continuing air presence against isis, but also our security partnerships. i also think the u.s. and the region have the benefit of decades long security cooperation agreements and partnerships with countries around the region. that is something that in times of chaos or crisis or instability in one part of the world, we can really advance our interests by focusing on and perhaps doing

the middle east secure, syria and iraq, we had gotten isis out of those countries and now these imagesour screen and feels like we have gone back in time seeing these heart-wrenching images in a harling new reality in afghanistan and sadly beyond. >> harris: and we still await the white house press briefing. we are told to expect it at any moment now and my question is will the president of the united states addressed the nation? when will that happen? will he join his press secretary jen psaki at the lectern? what will that look like and when will we hear? those leadership points are very important always, but particularly when you have a war zone unfolding outside of the only territory and enemy territory that is right now protected by the u.s. military and that is kabul airport. i want to get your closing thoughts as we round out this hour waiting for the white house press briefing on what we need to hear when we do eventually hear from somebody in the white house? because the audience is not just us. it is everybody tuning in now. all around the world, what will come from 1600 penn

iraq. regarding the middle east, when hasn't it not been on fire? 6000 years ago? the pakistani isi was largely responsible for the civil war in afghanistan, and aligning themselves with and creating the taliban. the pakistanis hid and give safe harbor to osama bin laden. in pakistan there is 30,000-plus schools teaching radical brand of islam. why don't we focus on that? we give them billions of dollars . until they start reforming this system they have that produces this type of mentality in the world, we need to cut them off. host: kelly, can you give us a quick answer here? guest: i would go back to the mujahedin. we supported the mujahedin against the soviets in afghanistan. the mujahedin give life to osama bin laden. i will go back to my original point here about u.s. interventions and not seeing the consequences of them. host: we would like to thank kelley vlahos, the editorial director for the quincy institute for responsible statecraft for being with us and talking us through the military and political situation in afghanistan. thank you so much for being

middle east. it was being shrunk in syria and iraq, that it was a sending fighters, or it was starting to lay down roots in afghanistan, and in particular, in eastern afghanistan at around 20182019 the, the, the government, the government kind of stand supported by us forces and in particular, us power really did target them and really pounded them in the strongholds in the east of the country. and it was thought at one point that they pretty much been defeated islamic state apart from a few pockets of resistance. but you know, that was at a time where you had a stronger, more confidence afghan government backed up. of course, by far more americans, american military might. all of that has now gone. you have a, a taliban that is feeling its way into this government that it suddenly found itself inheriting. it has a country to run. it has married problems of job, just a governing the country. regardless of trying to maintain security. security is one of its the, one of its priorities. it is said that from the start it has to secure the country the situation around the country. it has been doing tha

there is plenty of sunshine and dry weather across much of the middle east, and event we are expecting temperatures to pick up for iraq, for pots of saudi arabia and in could tie. if we look at dough, how are we going to see the temperature pick up? by the time we get to thursday, and some of that humidity will ease as we move to coastal areas. we're seeing some spotty showers around yemen and into oman. but heavy showers can be found in the west, creeping up into saudi arabia and those join up with a shower across the horn of africa. we are seeing some heavy storms brewing in the central african republic, edging into the democratic republic of congo. and we are seeing some heavy storms as well across parts of nigeria. but as we go into wednesday, it's going to be western areas of africa that see some of the very heavy falls in my barrier. for example and coach to why we could see some flooding as, as heavy rains kick in the southern parts of africa, there is a lot of warmth around for what swanner for, maybe a. and then bob, way we're going to the temperatures pick up by the time we get to wednesday. and they will be

people coming back from the middle east, or at least part of whom i would be coming back from the middle east after you know, participating in the me, him over there and iraq and siri and so on. and they would be claiming legitimacy, and for them, this is an opportunity. and the russia now would be those people who are gathered even civilians who aren't gathered in front of the airport gates or nothing but collaborators and look at the taliban. and they are allowing them to go so they shouldn't be allowing them to go and basically be this whole operation would be about telling right wing works 3, missed the elements in the entire of understand that the taliban are not the people who are supposed to protect us and to protect and we are so it's basically a recruitment exercise there stealing some of the legitimacy from the town. and if they could kill or injure some of the western soldiers, especially american soldiers, and that would be even better. you know, the more the merrier. there is another element as well, which is a bit more strategic or, and which is that this sort of action would put stream on the evacuation process. it would force more screening

middle east. an event we are seeing the temperature pick up in iraq, baghdad, nearly touching 50 degrees celsius. it will come down as we go into thursday, across parts of syria and iraq. we will see that heat is slightly. we are seeing some bluster, we winds blowing across the red sea into saudi arabia, us kicking up quite a bit of dust, creating some hazy sunshine. we've also got a sham out picking up the dust for pots of q 8 and cut lots of hazy sunshine around here. it is looking cooler in the south thanks to a southerly breeze. so coastal areas of oman and yemen, likely to see the temperature for slightly in the days to come. now for the wet weather, we have to move to that central band of africa. we've got those thunderstorms rolling across. we are going to see some heavy falls in cameroon, and we could see more flooding there. the democratic republic of congo will also see. so the heavy rain rolling on thursday, now was we move to south africa. we've had a cold front bring someone usual snow to the western cape. it fell quite heavily in the mountainous areas. now the temperature in cape to

basis in salary while used to bomb iraq in the 1990s pre-support for israel the occupation of palestine at that time lebanon. support for dictators around the middle east such as the king and saudi arabia and el presidente of egypt. seat pressure on those nations to keep production high and oil prices artificially low to subsidize our economy at their expense. and bin laden criticized bin laden for turning a blind eye on russia, china, india and pakistan for their wars and suppression of muslims. the bill clinton government supported the al qaeda forces in bosnia, and co- seville, and chechnya. even that they've been attacking us all through the 1990s. they're picking up the tabs for russia's war at the same time cia were back with the rebels again. in fact after september 11 bill clinton, and brad sherman all three said something to the effect of how could these muslims attack us after all we have done for them? the reality was the occupation of saudi arabia had not ceased. the bombing of iraq could not cease. the dictator ship had not ceased. the democrats had failed to bribe off these al qaeda terrorists. all of their motives to attack the united st

people coming back from the middle east, or at least part of whom i would be coming back from the middle east after and you know, participating in the me, him over there and iraq and siri and so on and they would be claiming legitimacy and for them this is an opportunity and the russia now would be those people who are gathered even civilians who are gathered in front of the airport gates are nothing but collaborators and look at the taliban. and they are allowing them to go, so they shouldn't be allowing them to go. and basically they, this whole operation would be about telling right wing work stream is the elements in the entire of grandstand and the taliban. are not the people who are supposed to protect us and to protect that really. and we are so it's basically a recruitment exercise there stealing some of the legitimacy from the town. and if they could kill or injure some of the western soldiers, especially american soldiers, then that would be even better. you know, the more the merrier. there is another element as well, which is a bit more strategic or, and which is that this sort of action would put stream on the evacuation process. it would force mo

. >> the sykes pico essentially divided that part of the middle east into a british part, and that includes most of iraq french part which included lebanon, syria, and parts of turkey as well. >> so it was completely against everything that they agreed on with the arabs at the time. but i can't say that it's surprising because, again, the british and the french were fighting for the british and the french. they were not fighting for the arabs. >> faisal and all these people were misguided. they were lured and they were lied to by britain. they sought it's simply liberation. they did not know it was preparatory for an occupation. >> lawrence is one of the very few people who knows this. and as he works with faisal, it starts working away at lawrence, the duplicitous role that he is playing in this. >> so lawrence was having an internal struggle and that got exacerbated. with time, the more he got to know faisal, he found a lot of things in common with faisal who was from the same generation and with whom he shared a lot. >> he finally takes faisal aside, and he tells him, look, do not trust in my governm

people coming back from the middle east, or at least part of whom would be coming back from the middle east after you know, participating in the met him over there and iraq and siri and so on. and they would be claiming legitimacy, and for them, this is an opportunity. and the russia now would be those people who are gathered even civilians who aren't gathered in front of the airport gates or nothing but collaborators and look at the taliban. they are allowing them to go so they shouldn't be allowing them to go. and basically they, this whole operation would be about telling right wing works 3, missed the elements in the entire of kind of stand. the taliban are not the people who are supposed to protect us to protect the religion and we are so it's basically a recruitment exercise there stealing some of the legitimacy from the town. and if they could kill or injure some of the western soldiers, especially american soldiers, that would be even better. you know, the more the merrier. there is another element as well, which is a bit more strategic or, and which is that this sort of action would put stream on the evacuation process. it would force more scree

iraq to help combat what he describes as terrorism. on saturday, rock co city regional summers aimed at promotion piece and reconciliation in the middle east. it was aimed at improving ties between saudi arabia and iran, who are among the countries taking part, a southern france, egypt for hughie and carter. mahmud abdulla had reports from back that we don't iraq stability is key to this stability of the whole region. this is how regional leaders participating in that conference for corporation and partnership concluded it on saturday. the summer twitch discussed economic integration and investment projects between the participants also addressed political and security challenges facing iraq, including the possible resurgence of sil iraqi officials say it's an opportunity to use tension in the middle east. a sodium new range official hill talks on the sidelines of the summit. the fact that we managed to bring rival countries together on the same table and initiate dialogue between them is not only important to them in us, but the whole region. the meeting, which was cor denied by france, also addressed the water crises. what did you get th

middle east. we do have a wind blowing down from iraq through to the goal, so will be dry at times, but also gusty. so q $850.00 degrees and just want you to be on the look out for this. we could see those winds were up to about 45 kilometers per hour, and temperature is here. well above where they should be. southern areas of pakistan, we've lost those gusty winds. so karachi $32.00 degrees and we do have our mon sooner. moister toward the north, anywhere from the hor, to islam about could catch a shower or a storm in time. in turkey, we've got rain falling in all the wrong places toward the black sea region, which is still trying to recover from devastating flooding. places like our hobby, you know, for africa, hart to me we have seen flooding here because of both the blue and the white nile rivers rising rapidly. so we see these scenes, and it's all because if we getting these big storms through ethiopia, into sedan and south to dad, as we go further toward the south, the scattering is some showers will be the name of the game throughs and bob way, ferrari high of 24 degrees, but it abundance o

here's her weather story for the middle east, we are dealing with a shamal wind coming down from iraq impacting the gulf states to wait. and cats are so that means that the sand does is swirling around, but this is a dry wind. so our relative humidity down to 65 percent over the last little bit. it's been in the eighty's, our heat index 49. but look at this by friday, the wind switch around and we crank up that heat into the fifty's across pakistan. it is largely dry. we've got some showers squeaking in up against the border with are gone. it's done on tuesday or it take you to west jerusalem right now where we've got this wildfire that has exploded. we have had tender, dry conditions here and high heat as, while temperatures that we're looking at on tuesday for ramallah, a high of 30 degrees, starting to dry out cross the black sea coast for turkey on tuesday. certainly, good news is that clean up continues the tropics of africa, the heaviest pulses of rain, really gap on camera room rate through into nigeria on tuesday. and if we go a bit further south, it's unsettled for the easter