this defiance for the rule of law not only internationally but even our own constitution i think mr pompei speech was a triumph of mr rection that it was especially old neo conservative wine poured into it america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been to. drawing america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the current over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's universal is ation of american long because i mean we have this situation with a chinese national that was detained in canada who. are we the chinese company here as we're sitting down here i read that a former canadian diplomat has been detained in china so now the the game begins here i don

this defiance for the rule of law not only internationally but even our own constitution i think mr pompei of speech was a triumph of mr rection that it was especially old neo conservative wine poured into it america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been destroying america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the sovereign over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's this universal is ation of america.

doesn't change the influence or impact of the united states in the region and it's going to make mr pompei us job more difficult as he travels through the region trying to explain how it is that we're withdrawing and also maintaining an aggressive stance in the region as well the pentagon hundred years. defense minister mattis had done a very good job of trying to keep the turks engaged in very close indeed conversations over months and years to manage the relationship the work of ambassador jim jeffrey was intended to accomplish that same kind of objective i'm afraid this tweet if it's taken seriously in the turks will treat it as if it were serious will just make this the relations more difficult and make the year ahead for both countries extremely extremely difficult i think there is a strategy of personality to be honest with you there's mr trump's strategy there is mr bolton strategy there is mr pompei o a strategy and so far those three don't sound as if they are coordinated and that is the difficulty and so it confuses the allies if he says everybody in the region it confuses the am

say the one part of the mr pompei oestrus speech really struck me when he talked about sovereignty for ourselves and for our friend france but that means i guess we have the unilateral right to say what other country's sovereignty should be a bridge not because they violated any internationally agreed upon or binding rule but because we say so towards we we have a situation where we're not only one of the players on the international stage we also get to be the referee of the umpire and if need be the executioner and this cannot end well peter that we cannot continue to divide the world into satellites and vassals on the one side and enemies on the other side especially when we're lining up with not only iran but but but russia and china as potential enemies remember there was a recent report by a congressionally mandated commission saying that not only might there be a war with russia or china we could lose that war. this the unthinkable for thirty years forty years during the old cold war has now become thinkable because of this mindset you know daniel going back to my pump a i mean

horizon and that is at least a military complained by the israelis in syria you know speaking of iran mr pompei and he had a lot to say about iran today none of it was good take a listen. let's turn to iran the president has reversed our willful blindness to the danger of the regime and withdrew from the failed nuclear deal with its false promises the us we imposed sanctions should never have been lifted when parked on a new pressure campaign to cut off the revenues the regime uses to spread terror and destruction throughout the world in syria the united states will use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last iranian and work through the un let process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people. so you've got mr trump there saying that the u.s. is going to drive iran completely out of syria despite the u.s. troop withdrawal and he's also saying that he wants to end iranian influence in lebanon how realistic is this this is only going to happen. as a result of a major war and do you think that he is he is he prepping the world for for a military conflict i

horizon and that is at least a military complaint by the israelis in syria you know speaking of iran mr pompei and he had a lot to say about iran today none of it was good take a listen. let's turn to iran. president obama has reversed our willful blindness to the danger of the regime and withdrew from the failed nuclear deal with its false promises. the u.s. we imposed sanctions should never have been lifted when parked on a new pressure campaign to cut off the revenues the regime uses to spread terror and destruction throughout the world. in syria the united states will use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last iranian and work through the u.n. led process to bring peace and stability to the long suffering syrian people. so you've got mr trump there saying that the u.s. is going to drive iran completely out of syria despite the u.s. troop withdrawal and he's also saying that he wants to end the iranian influence in lebanon how realistic is this this is only going to happen. as a result of a major war and do you think that he is he is he prepping the world for for a militar

of state under president obama is now the president of washington strategy group and he describes mr pompei a speech is contradictory and an attack on the obama administration was shamefully partisan it was a historic and lacked a real vision. was just a checklist of one off comments that was meandering and contradictory and very disappointing frankly for an american secretary of state to go to a foreign capital and to attack his predecessor an american president it's not something that we should be doing and it's certainly not something that is sitting secretary of state should do if you're really wants to represent the whole of the united states abroad prior to the speech i was hoping he would have an audience of three the american people the arab people leaders in.

got this major middle east policy speech delivered today by mr peo what did you make of it well mr pompei or already obviously wants to do two things he wants to reassure allies in the region the states that he would call the moderate states israel egypt saudi arabia and some others that the united states is there to stay although it is withdrawing troops troops from syria and secondly he wants to build this alliance for a single purpose that is to exert measure maximum pressure as he said several months ago on iran in his speech today pompei was emphatic that the u.s. is not retreating from the middle east but at the same time he said the syrian withdrawal is still going to happen so it is contradicting each other it is contradicting of course but the united states is present in other countries in the region it is present in turkey in iraq in jordan all over the gulf so the united states is there and he and states in the region now know that they are there to stay and possibly that to stay in order to confront iran. i think that this speech was was kind of frightening because there is so

forces out of syria that does not mean that the war against eisel is over in fact mr pompei you made a point of stressing that the combined task force that's going to be in charge of the global coalition against eisel will continue to carry out air strikes inside syria inside iraq and anywhere else for that matter if they believe that they have credible information that partisans are trying to reestablish what they call their caliphate ok. and washington thanks very much. is live. in northern syria and the u.s. might be withdrawing its troops but the turks are preparing for a new offensive in northern syria what's the latest on that front. well laura turkey is simply is almost has almost completed more than seventy percent of the necessary perforations for the lands military offensive it's a member who is soon side of the euphrates river but of course the spike the military is ready and is actually waiting for a political call to begin this operation there are challenges on the ground because turkey also needs a purse weight the kurds in inside syria that's why ankara has been holdin

doesn't change the influence or impact of the united states in the region and it's going to make mr pompei as job more difficult as he travels through the region trying to explain how it is that we're withdrawing and also maintaining an aggressive stance so that in the region as well what's the status of u.s. tech like now as they say off to john bolton as well that tenet says that when he got snubbed by president at eleven. well they're not good and they're going to get worse and they would have been getting worse even without today's tweet but now they certainly will get worse the pentagon hundreds. defense minister mattis had done a very good job of trying to keep the turks and gazed in very close and the conversations over months and years to manage the relationship the work of ambassador jim jeffrey was intended to accomplish that same kind of objective i'm afraid this tweet if it's taken seriously in the turks will treat it as if it were serious will just make this the relations more difficult and make the year ahead for both countries extremely extremely difficult we've had contradi

state under president obama he's now the president of washington strategy group and he describes mr pompei a speech is contradictory and an attack on the a bomb or ministration was shamefully part is in it was a historic and a real vision. was just a checklist of one off comments that was meandering and contradictory and very disappointing frankly for an american secretary of state to go to a foreign capital and to attack his predecessor an american president it's not something that we should be doing and it's certainly not something that is sitting secretary of state should do if you're really wants to represent the whole of the united states abroad prior to the speech i was hoping he would have an audience of three the american people the arab people leaders in the region but i really think it was just an audience of one that was just president trump there were good soundbites there occasionally one or two that were good quotable moments for a tweet but really it didn't seem like he was speaking to any of the most important audience is the people directly affected by american policy in t

mr malvo the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i will continue to push the saudis for answers when he is in riyadh next week. and members of the religious minority community appealing to the u.s. to not withdraw troops from northern syria a report by the free foundation is warning if washington doesn't leave syria before i saw this defeated the armed groups will make a comeback. thailand's first tropical storm in thirty years has left one person as rain wind and searching seawater uprooted trees and brought down power lines is now weakened to a tropical depression but the risk of flooding does remain thousands of tourists were left stranded when airports and ferry services were shut down before storm made landfall thousands of residents were also forced to evacuate louis has been following developments on the island of. we're seeing a loss of lives at a minimum and really it appears to be the worst of the storm has passed and. the storm has moved on see it has already been downgraded to a tropical depression still bringing rain and winds but nowhere near as strong as when it first made landfall on frid

out of syria for three days six days too much three months and then his lieutenants bolton pompei another saying mr president we cannot do that we have commitments to the kurds we have the commitment against isis isis not defeated we have commitment all our ally israel the israelis are upset we simply cannot leave the region syria. turkey so it was a switch of the priorities if you will or all of that now with what secular pumpers thing look we are still saying or doing what the president said will drawing a lot forces from syria but that does not mean that we will not be as engaged diplomatically economically distressed digitally in the region against i so did he succeed in the damage control i am not sure maybe he did or was able to as you said the fears of the like netanyahu and sisi and others but in terms of the people in the middle east i don't think there's much clarity as to what the administration wants to do in the region ok i want to thank you so as we mentioned compay i gave his speech from that same city cairo where the former president barack obama delivered one of his major policy st

said ankara would not be intimidated by mr trump's tweets and that strategic partners should not communicate via social media. u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has held talks in riyadh with the saudi king and crown prince they agreed on the importance of deescalating the war in yemen where the saudis are fighting iran bad rebels was to pump air was also expected to press crown prince mohammed bin salmond of the murder of turkish journalist jamal to show . that to the united kingdom where the country's prime minister said that the country is at the start of a crucial week in its history to reason will spend the next twenty four hours doing everything she can to secure support for her controversial breck's it deal which currently looks as though it will be defeated in parliament tomorrow a short while ago mrs mary addressed employees at a factory in the english town of stoke she accused some lawmakers of being prepared to use what she called every device possible to thwart britain's departure from the european union she said you kate might end up but not leaving the e.u. at all if m.p.'s voted her deal down. but while no deal remains a seri

mr spain's saying us into farrah's only leads to chaos repression and resentment that has more . the u.s. secretary of state might pompei always touring the middle east almost described as a mission focused on shoring up support among arab allies against iran. since withdrawing from the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal last year the u.s. has increased pressure on teheran which accuses of being a destabilizing force in the region many middle east experts say pushing iran into a corner is a dangerous move but in the egyptian capital cairo america's top diplomat didn't mince his words the nations of the middle east will never enjoy security achieve economic stability or advance the dreams of their people of iran's revolutionary regime persists on its current course america's economic sanctions against the regime are the strongest in history and will keep getting tougher until iran starts behaving like a normal country. middle east follows confusion about donald trump's withdrawal of a around two thousand u.s. troops from northern syria. the president's announcement schult arab allies as well as a u.s. political l

think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o. is in the gulf visiting allies some of whom are at odds with each other he is currently in the u.a.e. meeting with abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad after that he heads to qatar and then to the saudi capital riyadh the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are part of a group of countries blockading qatar they accuse qatar of supporting armed groups something it strongly denies pump air has called for unity among gulf states as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its troops from syria and pump air is hopeful of an agreement with turkey to protect its kurdish allies who fought the war against eisel ankara accuses the kurdish fighters of terrorism turkish troops have now carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of an expected offensive on the rebel group stronghold of men in northern syria from their sin and cos the early reports. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army is homs a brigade their own laws of the turkish military or on a war footing a

the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia. well u.s. secretary of state mike pompeiwas in the gulf of visiting allies some of whom are at odds with each other he's in the u.a.e. meeting abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad after that he heads to qatar then the saudi capital riyadh the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are two of the four countries blockading qatar they accuse doha of supporting armed groups something it strongly denies pompei or has called for unity among gulf states as the u.s. prepares to withdraw its troops from syria and pump air is hopeful of an agreement with turkey to protect its kurdish allies who fought the war against eisel ankara accuses the kurdish fighters of terrorism turkish troops have now carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of an expected offensive on the rebel group stronghold of men in northern syria from their sin and cos the early reports. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army is homs a brigade their own laws of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offen