mr. hussein is ready quite yet. if anybody wants to ask a question please go to -- and submit your questions whether it's on line for or here in the audience speed. there is one question everybody's asking. forget everything we are talking about here and the main question is -- abandoning iraq or not. >> i think the first thing i would say to that is something our president and secretary of state has said repeatedly stable secure sovereign prosperous iraq is in u. s. national interest. we think it's in iraq's national interests as well and that's a shared goal. well of course i think people are aware of my recent announcement regarding the transition of the coalition presence in iraq again our relationship is about a lot more than a coalition. our relationship is about the people-to-people ties into ties between our companies, the economy, energy and an ongoing security partnership. our engagement with the iraqi government across-the-board is intended to not only redeemed the partnership but to strengthen it. >> you

mrs. carter, king hussein of jordan and they all said happy new year, toasted champagne and everything. i sit mr. president, you're going to go to egypt tomorrow why is that? and he said what? barbara wasn't there because she and jon chancellor of mbc some of the other bigwigs had been imparted to a party and they were all dancing somewhere. and indeed if you minutes later we went back downstairs the president's secret service agent dick keiser said the president is to see a pretty came back upstairs and the president said just told me the secretary of state just told me yes we are going to egypt and meeting president set off. so, sometimes being and the in t place at the right time. she was always an aura apart from that working at the white house. >> example of good sourcing where you know where the president's going to go the next day and he doesn't. let's move to the part the years of abc that i knew the best. central casting could not have designed two more perfect protagonists and barbara walters and diane sawyer. i mean that's the stuff that could make movies nichols could make a

this installment of press tv spotlight. joining us is hussein al-bukaiti activist and political commentator joining us the yemini capital sana and mr. peter ford a former british ambassador to syria joining us out of manchester. john twin like to welcome you both to the uh program. here i guess mr. peter ford, we'll start with you sir, if we may uh welcome to our spotlight program. now a gaza cease fire uh proposed by the biden administration back early um july, you very well know is accepted obviously by the americans, they they proposed it. it was accepted by the palestinians and the uh delegations from qatar and egypt also looked upon with favor upon it, but it was rejected by the israelis, ample opportunity to... the genocide in gaza, why do you think the regime opted for more escalation and walked away from that opportunity? well, the us proposal for sess fire in in gaza was never very clear, um, it was very ambiguous, it left lot of scope for israel to retain. control over large parts of gaza, it was similar in fact to the so-called middle east peace process, which has been going on off and on for for 30 years and every time

mrs. carter shah of iran, king hussein of jordan. and they just all said, happy new year, toast and champagne and everything. and i said, mr. president, you're going to go to egypt tomorrow to see president sadat. why is that? he went one. barbara wasn't there because. she and john chancellor of nbc and some the other bigwigs had been invited to the party they were off dancing somewhere and indeed, a few minutes later, we went back downstairs. the president's secret service agent, -- kiser, came and got me said, the president needs to see you. i came back upstairs and the president said, well, cy vance just told me the secretary state just told me, yes, we're going to egypt and meeting president sadat at aswan. so sometimes, you know, being in right place at the right time, but she was always kind of an aura, a part from the working stiffs at the white house. well, that's an example of good sourcing when you know where the president's going to go the next. and he doesn't. yeah, let's move to what the part of the barbara years at abc n

protest rally against the crimes of the zionist regime in imam hussein's ritual square and throughout islamic iran. these reactions will continue , mrctor. etamadi, we mentioned a discussion in this part of the conversation with you and your analysis we found out about the series of assassinations carried out by the zionist regime in order to achieve its goals in the field and in the military arena , but the question is, where will the zionist regime take the future in the face of this series of assassinations ? in fact, he assassinated the leaders of islamic jihad, hezbollah, lebanese and hamas, but these assassinations are now based on the 2,700 previous assassinations that he carried out during the past 75 years, 75 years ago . in fact, the growth of the mojahedin axis of resistance in different fields in different countries it increased, as mentioned, the motivation for resistance increased, the effects of terror were soon replaced by witnessing quickly . terror, which achieved 168 successful assassinations, of course , according to the statistics, it carried out 1,000 operations, 1,000 operations after 2000. most of the assassi

gotten the better of us, but appreciate having you both on hussein albukaiti, their activist and political commentator joining us from sona and mr. peter ford, former british ambassador to syria joining us from manchester, and viewers, thanks for tuning in. this brings us to the conclusion this segment of your press tv spotlight. bye-bye for now. it's real launches fresh air strikes on dow here south of. the lebanese capital bayrut as hezbulah fights off regime's attacks on southern lebanon. leader of yeminala move inhales iran's retaliatory operation true promise to against the israeli regime. and israel's indiscriminate strikes hit more schools sheltering displaced palestinians across gaza raising genocidal wars death.

mr. hosseini . god bless you, and today, children, god is great and honors the mountain spots, black spots , unseen spots, by god's great grace. in dujud and masaekar al-hussein , we will never fall short of ali's line for the oppressed. abba abdullah, we do not compromise, we do not beg at all , for example, we do not compromise with the enemy, abba abdullah, if we are calm, if we are silent, but on the day when the imam of the ummah says, we are shrouded. welcome to 8 am news, the commemoration ceremony of the great mujahid of the resistance, seyyed hassan nasrallah, on behalf of the leader of the revolution in qom, said that if we are killed , we will be burned and this story is repeated a thousand times , we will stand on the path of the imam and the islamic revolution. with the islamic resistance forces of lebanon , warplanes of the zionist regime attacked the residential areas of beirut 12 times this morning.

award include uh mr uh commander in chief of the uh iranian army abdul rahim musavi and also commander and chief of the guard score, iran's islamic revolution guard score, the irgc hussein salomi. are among the people that have received this award from the leader of aron's islamic revolution ayatullah khamenei, also some other interesting figures that our viewers might be familiar with are uh mohsen rezai who um was a presidential candidate uh a couple of times of course he did not uh win um enough votes to go to the second round and of course another important uh figure that has received this award is yahya rahim safavi uh now another important thing to be mentioned worth mentioning actually cover is uh the fact that this award the fat medal is awarded in three different classes there's the first uh there's the grade one, grade two and grade three classes of the medal and of course uh the highest honor is for the first class uh medal that is awarded to senior commanders only. just as this case with uh mr. haji sad. thank you very much in the studio with us. i like to thank you also journalist author and activist spoke to us from belfast. with that we come to an end for

mr. prime minister, let me ask you you yourself, from a background of where you have been persecuted under saddam hussein. i think you lost many members of your family who were executed by by saddam. you are now prime minister what do you want your legacy to be what do you want to believe iraq with? if you were successful through injustice, he will be very keen to not put someone through injustice as well. >> cooler, especially in a position like mine is the prime minister of the government of my country iraq were fitted with it at all. >> i hope for is to be in service of iraq and iraqis and to put iraq first in all our policies that are built on respecting others and building balance relationships prime minister, thank you for joining us thank you thanks to all of you for being will see you next week ever miss a show. >> you can always listen to my podcast, go to cnn.com/fareed for link to. you can listen on whatever app you use black people for better or worse, a lot of people came away from that bag you and it's my turn to talk tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture. >> tonight at nine on cn