of the three hundred twenty nine seats in parliament not a house for me is director of the middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high with the new alliance but iraq has a lot to be positive about. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is cured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of is

seven members of parliament which gives them an outright majority not a hashimi as director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high for the new alliance. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is geared toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one point particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that you rocky society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know cru

there are three hundred twenty nine seats in iraq's parliament not a hushed me is director of middle east studies at the university of denver he joins us now live via skype from denver good to have you with us again so eleven groups now forming an alliance in order to cobble together some form of government this is a recipe for disaster isn't it. watch i have the exact opposite of you this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of their various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is secured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraq

now the me is the rector of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high with the new alliance but iraq has a lot to be positive about. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is cured toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the ethnic or sectarian interest of one particular group so in that sense there's a lot to be optimistic about whether they can address the immense political social economic and environmental challenges that iraqi society is facing remains to be seen the stakes are are huge you know your rock is a failed state it's. been deeply affected by a sectarian war by the rise of isis which has been you know crushed but not comprehensively

twenty nine seats in total in iraq's parliament will not hashmi as a direct is the director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high with the new alliance but iraq has a lot to be positive about this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist.

on monday and the process of forming a government will begin now the hashmi is director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the new coalition gives him reason to be optimistic. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and once positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based to antigovernment protesters have been shot in nic the nicaraguan capital managua has been a flare up in violence that since saturday had followed president daniel take us decision to expel a human rights mission from the country. hundreds of people have protested outside the offices of the united nations agency for palestinian refugees in jordan that demanding that the u.s. reverses its decision to withdraw funding from the agency run schools hospitals and social services for more than five million palestinian refugees across the middle ea

convene on monday and a process of forming a government will begin not hashmi is the director of middle east studies at the university of denver he says the new coalition gives him reason to be optimistic. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of various religious minorities and what's positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based to anti-government protesters have been shot in the nicaraguan capital managua there's been a flare up in violence there since saturday had followed president to take his decision to expel un human rights question from a country activists say that three hundred people have been killed in the last four months in brazil of fire is raging at rio's two hundred year old national museum it started after closing hours and shows no sign of abating all floors of the building ablaze twenty million items are under threat including human fossils and

of the three hundred twenty nine seats in parliament not a house for me is director of the middle east studies at the university of denver he says the stakes are high with the new alliance but iraq has a lot to be positive about. this is a coalition government that is the most inclusive and i would say representative iraqi government since the two thousand and three american invasion it includes both iraqi shia sunni and members of their various religious minorities and once positive about that development is it marks a transition from previous iraqi governments that were very sectarian based most of the key players have a nationalist political agenda that is geared toward developing iraq for all iraqi citizens not catering to the at ethnic or sectarian.

ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. and so forth. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a wild and. why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of this special ality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that's a lot of us heading. that service down the hay back who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the horse. i was i was working in this out of what they call their the foreign ministers cabinet or the or the secretariat my husband was with fassel . legen lost a state

ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. circus and so forth. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a violent. and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of the speciality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that's a lot of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the other holes. i was i was working in this out of what they call their foreign ministers cabinet or the secretariat my husband was with fassel. legen lost a state s

headquarters and the clinton campaign, and the same thing is going on all over europe and in the middle east. just study about russian information operations in turkey, there's another one that came out about israel. so it is not just us. and in latin america, they're in europe, they're in the middle east. i suspect even africa also but nobody has looked at africa lately. so this is an element of a broader strategy of what the israelis call the multi-dimensional coercion or multi domain coercion. we are here to talk about the active measures in the information warfare, but you need to keep in mind it is part of an ensemble, part of an orchestra if you like. putin is the conductor and the orchestra is one that is playing on all the different sectors, press, wind, strings, information warfare, energy, finance, military operations, et cetera. this is an old story in russia, as my colleagues have pointed out. the czarist government in 1905 had a two million ruble budget for influence operations in the french press. because france was their ally, they were raising a lot of money on the french stock exchange

ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. the living conditions of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of growing up in such. a wild and. and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of the speciality. of half or so with it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment at all these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that sort of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the other holes. i was i was working in this sort of what they call their the foreign ministers cabinet or the secretariat has been was with facile. leg and lost a state secret

ministry in one thousand nine hundred ninety five who started to undertake research in the middle east its first study to examine the living conditions in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. and so forth. the living condition of young people growing up under the intifada what kind of effect on them. maybe more on the sort of mental psychological effect of grabbing up in such. a violent. and why meant but then it was more a social context it turned out to because because that was sort of this special ality. far for. it it turned up to be a little more on the sort of yeah more socio economic. i mean unemployment over these kinds of indicators of social economic life so who were the researchers that worked on this project from norway yeah they're very aware there were many. one of them that sort of us heading. that service down the hay bag who was the wife of. if he wasn't at the time that he later became the foreign minister you on the horse. i was i was working in this out of what they call the foreign ministers cabinet or the secretariat has been was with fossil. lost a state secretary more now you

middle east. rand released a study about operations in turkey and another one about israel is not just death, it is latin america and the middle east. so i expect even africa, also. so this is an element of a broader strategy of multidimensional forces and multi-domain. we are here to talk about the active measures that you need to keep in mind this is part of an ensemble. heard of an orchestra. putin is conducting it. the orchestra is one that is playing in all the different pieces, information warfare, energy, finance, letter operations. this is an old story in russia. the czarist government in 1905 to 2 million rubles budget it was an influence operation because france was their ally, they were raising a lot of money on the french stock exchange and they want to make sure that everybody thought russia was a great investment. the soviets took us to a higher degree. if you read these books, you see how expensive this was on a global level and as my colleagues have said, it revived to take advantage of the new opportunities and technologies that route their. going back to the 1920s, they were coord

middle east. rand just released a study about russian information operations in turkey. there is another one that came up about israel. it's not just us. even and latin america, in europe, the middle east and i suspect they are in africa also. but nobody has looked at africa lately. this is an element of a broader strategy of what was called multidimensional -- multiple domain coercion. we are here today talk about the active measures but you need to keep in mind this is part of an ensemble here part of an orchestra if you like. putin is the conductor and the orchestra is one that is playing on all the different sectors, brass, winds, strings, information warfare, energy, finance, military operations and so forth. this is an old story in russia as my colleague support together . the czarist government in 1905 had a 2 million ruble budget for influence operations in the french press because france was the electric the raising a lot of money on the french stock exchange and want to make sure of it but he thought russian was a great investment, although it turns out it wasn'

and he's currently director of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university joins us via skype from bloomington indiana good to have you on al jazeera again thank you for being with us so how significant is this vote one year after the kurdish region tried to on success we separate from iraq war can iraqi kurds hope to achieve. well i think that the very fact that the kurdistan region is holding up parliamentary elections is a good thing the last parliamentary elections were in two thousand and thirteen which is to say that under the laws of the region on iraqi kurdistan these elections are a year too late they should have taken place one year ago rather than the referendum which of course was rejected by the united nations and the international community as well as by the government so i'll be wrong so it's important that the elections themselves are taking place as. a step forward i think there is some hope amongst some in the region and the iraqi kurdistan region that the stranglehold of the two main parties that you mentioned in your report the katie and the p

i have spent a lot of time with steve hadley doing a big study on the middle east. we are doing something now together at the u.s. institute of peace in terms of looking at extremism. so i try to one thing informs another but my to-do list and, i am doing more and more on my to-do list, one is, to make very clear about the importance of respect for our institutional system, and our constitution. [applause] to make clear that nobody is above the law. [applause] >> okay. >> that the press is essential, and then, i am saying that either people need to run for office or support those people who are. and then something that is actually really difficult, which is to talk with people that i disagree with. now i'm sorry to say to all of you that are washingtonnians, i listen to right-wing radio as i drive, do a lot of yelling and hand gestures. [laughter]. so it may not be safest to be around me but the bottom line is, i think we need to understand, i don't like the word tolerance. that means put up with. i think we need to respect the views of those that we disagree with a

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panel joining us in moscow alexei klebnikov of the middle east expert of the russian international affairs council and is that the a professor of world studies of the university of to have an alexei a man with thought the of the three key players russia iran turkey had enough time to set aside their differences but differences seem to continue. well in the first place we shouldn't expect that all three should agree on everything and it's the bottom line that all three as certain differences on syria and as far as this summit concerned the major disagreements and the major discussion was held between turkey and russia as we saw that was quite. open discussion between their going on and putting their to go. cold russia to agree on a ceasefire in a blip where put in a reasoned or began by saying that you know there is some not present here in the summit so it cannot give their word for for that so basically the countries currently agreed to postpone any major large scale offense if it lip which actually plays in hand to both russia and took it. for i mean the russians and the iranians seem to be on the same page which is basically let's go ahea

middle east and the thank you sister gets nothing to. do with it on the grass because they told him to suffer but he took or never yet again here. goes this is the studies to support the plan until you send it out to sea guess you could say to simply get those people to drink your influences do you doubt on the golf course and the personal god for you to spend the night. with the living not go look good i mean. people just don't have enough time. this is a muslim but unless you come up again you're semi just simple all the system will take up to seven days the swimming pool no no i don't know much about it will stay around long periods see i get out of one of the fifty most of the state out of. the sites that out of systemic i still. don't know how to get my ass get out and i know they don't and i think that i mean most people start to be a focal point of whether you get. the revenue is to simply prefer that the middle seen the place supposed to be some open seven. less on the run the place that is come of the place home or that why not. put up at least to some one else i know about that but i think in the hope of grandma said i want them when they want

middle east on the left and i guess that's ok. thank you. just not speak out they told him to suffer but he took or never look yes you're here. because this is the studies that support until you get out of this you guess you could say to simply get those people to take your impulses did you doubt. them off. the person who got a gun for you to spend the night. with to not go look good and. evil. this is a muslim but unless you come up again you assume you just see imposed on the system of pick up assuming those listening to that moment by moment of it will stay around long period see a gift of one of the victims of this and out of. the safe side of systemic i still. don't know how to get past get out and. get out and i think that i mean most people start to be a focal point of whether you. can read through is to simply look for the fatal seen the place supposed to be some open seven left on the right not what's good is the place how the more they are why not. put up a nice descent one so i know about that but i think in the hope of grandmas and i want them in the one. body my can. see put forward. through police. but i prefer prime minister never made it

middle east and it says the saudi led. is having a negative impact on regional counterterrorism cooperation. that we can bring to the way is here with me he's the director of the go study center at university thank you for coming in. not really a surprise then that the united the say department report highlights iran's alleged role as being perhaps the main proponent and probably of what it considers to be terrorist activities around the world absolutely no surprise i mean this is iran has been mentioned in the report around five four four times and the context was a repetition of what of what's been mentioned two thousand and sixteen reports were basically linking iran with the sponsoring terrorism in the context where the linkage between iran has been around hammers and what's happening in syria some of the militias brought by iran. and i think that is that is reconfirming the perception of iran in the united states we cannot you know ignore the fact that the united states since the withdraw of the nuclear deal is sort of very clear policy of. bringing iran back to the square where it is you know a rogue state with the state isn't actually supporting terrorism and so