prove to the world you bring in connection of course to hezbollah which you know for many years the shiite axis in the middle east hezbollah as iran proxy agents you know on the borders of israel is very interesting i just want to break it down from viewers a little bit almost sort of give a jogger a few lesson if you will so basically. to its north israel shares a border with syria and iran supports hezbollah which is actually based in lebanon right now but we have also very close by but you know it isn't as if in syria does the northern border the tip northern part is lebanon and the and the eastern northern part of the border israel this is the golan heights what are actually also on there under contention whether it's this is a part that israel occupied in one thousand sixty seven from syria officially syria saying this is theirs of course israelis have no plan in giving that part up and he time soon so israel is basically in this has direct border with syria but also has a direct border with lebanon and its bit and if this is where all this tension is happening this is. exactly and th

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the shiite militias have not been disarmed. sectarian scores are settled.6 to 2007, each month some 3,000 iraqis were killed. (sirens blaring) >> tin removal of saddam husse created this perfect opportunit iran to establish leverage over an important arab capital, baghdad, and that forced the saudis to try to, you know, counteract that and to confront iran. au thdi-iranian competition is primarily a competition about the direction of politics in the middle east. the two never fight, but they have access toroxy forces throughout the region that can dohe fighting on-on-on their behalf. >> smith: within saudi arabia the royals were conflicted about how toespond to the situation in iraq. >> the saudi royal family was in a real difficult position and it orwas on the defensive-- wried ssout sanctions, worried about other forms of preure if it were aused again of supporting (indistinct chatter)al qaeda. i on the other hanhad a restive population, full of radical ideas, which it hadve fundedmany years. kn you there were certainly some people in saudi arabia who tho

the radical sunni is the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses as the red compresses. and it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in and we have fought both types of militant islam. israel contributed mightily to. the battle against the battle against isis by giving unmatched militant military intelligence that has prevented dozens of terrorist attacks in dozens of countries and we are absolutely determined to prevent iran from creating a new base in the west i call it isis west obviously egypt is fighting it as well to prevent isis from shifting its base from. iraq and syria into the sinai or into somalia and to africa and other places this is one battle that we are fighting successfully the unfortunate thing is that as iran as isis compresses and iran moves in it's trying to establish this continuous amp are surrounding the middle east from the south. in yemen but also trying to create a land bridge iran iraq syria lebanon gaza this is obviously a very dangerous development for our region it is creating this n

just only syrian forces the forces as forces with allied militia from you know again backed militia shiite militia they could win and if you want to what's called so in that order is you have the one side you have so many forces fighting there is you of bashar assad and this is the theory and i know we have these even. with the dogs so they are facing them from the seat in the g.m. and the russian and the iranian backed militia forces is trying to achieve population transferred as i think not dissimilar to what you have seen inutile some time ago and cleansing the sunni population that is opposed to assad and that i've been is that actually in damascus you use them with all but it is other than administrative leave it is the mosque it's a kind of a suburb of damascus eastern due to you know the area well you've served as a correspondent yourself in damascus now the syrian regime says there are thousands of opposition fighters in eastern go to some of them affiliated to al qaida and to islamic state what can you tell us about that well first that has been. i don't think that as many islamic

this may be explained by the fact that assad belongs to a minority shiite muslim sect known as allah always. they have occupied the top government positions in syria since hafez assad became president in one thousand nine hundred seventy one and they aim to hold on to that power at all cost. bashar assad took a hard line against lebanon syria's neighbor to the south former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri had long sought to free his country from de facto syrian occupation hariri was killed in a car bomb blast in february two thousand and five some have alleged that the syrian government was behind the attack but this has never been proven afterward a number of other lebanese politicians and intellectuals were also assassinated. the sharpest wished him up one day at a past party meeting we were discussing economic matters. and suddenly assad walked in and shouted. hari is an enemy of syria. he's a puppet of the u.s. and france for the sea. three days later that was debt. explosives equivalent to nearly two tons of t.n.t. were used in the attack twenty two other people were killed

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they're not just on the syrian forces they are forces as forces with allied militia from militia shiite militia they could win and if you want to what's called so in that order is you have the one side you have so in the forces fighting there is you. this is experience. with you're on so they are facing a double from the from the seat in the team and the it off and the iranian backed militia forces is trying to achieve population transfers i think not dissimilar to what you have seen in europe some time ago and cleansing the sun a population that is opposed to assad better but is that actually in damascus you use them with all that it is other than administratively it is the mosque it's a kind of a suburb of damascus eastern ghouta you know the area well you've served as a correspondent yourself in damascus and the syrian regime says there are thousands of opposition fighters in eastern go to some of them affiliated to al qaida and to islamic state what can you tell us about well there has been. i don't think the. as many islamic states if there are those that are but is themselves a fo

effort and i am happy to report one good news from west mosul federal police which are primarily shiite and are not welcome have now been moved out and not iraqi army is moving in. this is very important for iraq to understand that local police are the best way to secure in police the sunni areas and that means emphasizing that local people do not engage in local punishment and paid them all with the brush of being isis supporters and you need to hire them back on and direct the army has a much better rate in the counterterrorism service the mosul put up a billboard thinking the counterterrorism service coming to rescue them. of course, there is also the delicate issue of the popular mobilization process and those are now enshrined in law as before service security service of iraq and it's very important and controversial questions to be dealt with regarding the degree of iranian influence, control and direction there. we will talk more about that, i'm sure, in the q&a that is something that must be dealt with to truly stabilize iraq and help it be both secure but also politically at pe

force that was initially described to us by a syrian government force as a pro-government, syrian shiiteilitia. now it is coming out that many, maybe scores of russian contractors were killed. the kremlin is saying we don't know anything about these people -- they are military contractors. they do not work for us. this is the russian version of blackwater. the idea there are large numbers of groups working for those who in the same arena where american troops are is very risky, and that is not to mention that turkey, as i mentioned before, and the united states -- turkey has threatened to attack an area where u.s. troops are there on the ground with the kurdish militias. you have the process of two nato allies. ,ou have the israeli, iran hezbollah is that we talked about before. it is getting more and more dangerous. in a world where collective action seems to be impossible, it seems everyone that on the idea that syria was containable and we could let people die and let it stay within the borders of syria and some countries consider that to be in their interest. they felt their enemies

the radical the sunni is the black is iran and its offshoots the radical shiites as the red compresses. and it will be wiped out very soon from the map of the middle east iran is moving in iran's involvement in syria has long been a critical issue for israel but now the prime minister's rhetoric may even be time for actions to speak louder than words so we want is changing the ground rules in syria i've said we will not allow them to do that if mr us invites iran in militarily that changes our position such words once enough benjamin netanyahu brought some visual aids said to be part of an iranian drone the israelis into step to as it crossed the syrian israeli border worryingly the drone incident is being called the first known direct confrontation between the two sides militaries and prompted israel to hit iranian targets in syria mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should be george. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of her around. do not trust israel's resolve the rainy and foreign minister mohammad job and theory for later took his chance to hit back you were. th

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iran and its offshoots the radical shiites. now there's many prime minister has never been a fan of the iranian nuclear deal at multiple times he has called it a great danger and this was a deal that essentially saw iran agreed to limit its uranium enrichment in return for financial incentives netanyahu repeatedly speaking out against it over the years. i think this is a bad. deal. now the iranian foreign minister responded to netanyahu is comments saying and i quote that it was a cartoonish circus that essentially did not require any kind of response what is interesting is that when that iranian nuclear deal was signed israel's closest ally namely the united states was very critical of netanyahu is comments but since then we've seen a new president in the white house and president trump is much more supportive of netanyahu viewpoint and at the same time recently dissatisfied the deal some here in israel however say that all this rhetoric against iran comes notably just days after the israeli police have recommended that netany

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through its proxies shiite militias in iraq the hutus and yemen has bomb in lebanon on hamas in gaza iran is developing huge swathes of the middle east now there has been one positive consequence of iran's growing aggression in the region it's brought arabs and israelis closer together as never before and in a paradoxical way this may pave the way for broader peace and ultimately also for a palestinian israeli peace this could happen but it will not happen if you want aggression continues to grow. and nowhere iran's belligerent ambitions clear then in syria there iran hopes to complete a contiguous empire linking tehran to tartu says the caspian to the mediterranean for some time i've been warning about this development i've made clear in word and deed that israel has red lines it will enforce israel will continue to prevent iran from the stop wishing a permanent military presence in syria israel will continue to act to prevent iran from establishing another terror base from which to threaten israel but iran continues to try to cross those red lines last week. it's brazenness reached

we talked to sunni leaders and shiite leaders and different politicians to have a united front among them with the common national interest and that the options be undermined and to stay together for the future. but just the feeling of these i don't think. >> thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible] >> getting underway, conversation with supreme court justice, ruth bader ginsburg on the intersection of law, media and jewish life. that's live on c-span two the president trump returning to washington after speaking on the gop policy retreated west virginia. he delivers remarks at the trump hotel. coverage starts tonight at eight eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal", live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. we talk about the federal workforce under the trump administration. also the cato institute explains immigration reform. and chain migration. in wiretapping of u.s. citizens. a conversation with georgetown university law school professor, watch c-span's "washington journal", live seven eastern on friday morning. join the discussion. >> now, live to synagogu

years ago they said that they will not allow weapons to reach hezbollah hezbollah the lebanese armed shiite group an ally of iran and as a race they've been saying that they won't allow iran to set up permanent bases inside syria they won't allow iran to entrench itself militarily in syria or make syria who were operating the base. with the israeli prime minister has made that clear he has been to moscow a number of times discussions with the russians and clearly the russians have given them agreed might use syrian airspace there is close coordination and we also can't forget that in the summer of last year when the united states and russia announced a cease fire in syria with south of syria that ceasefire was to appease israel because part of that field was to keep troops in iranian backed troops away from its border so clearly this is a dramatic escalation already there were tensions already israel worried about the iranian princes in syria as an ally for some better would say no thank you not the leader of north korea kim jong il who now has extended a rare invitation to the south korean

among the hardest hit areas is which iraqis forces aided by shiite militias and the u.s.on recaptured in july 2017. , president jacob zuma has been given 48 hours to resign according to south africa state broadcaster and other networks. zuma has defied pressure to step down since he was replaced as head of the anc ruling party. his years in office have been marred by scandal. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. i am alisa parenti. this is bloomberg. after 5:30 p.m. in washington, 6:30 tuesday morning in hong kong, where we are joined by david ingles with a look at the markets. good morning. it was a good day for wall street. looks like we will be extending that global rally. japan was closed on the holiday. we are looking to see the nikkei 225 futures at the moment, looking to gap 300 points of the open there. days ine of the first two weeks that we are going in with not just gains from wall street, but proper upward momentum. it is a retest of resistance levels, we pretty much blew t

sunni leaders in iraq began to warn against the intervention of neighboring shiite iran into internal affairs of their country. they feared a sectarian war which would lead the country into a spiral of violence and arguably meek division the only option. iraq when you're confused. why didn't the man when the mob kind of here on my idea the iraq war here i mean. what i meant. to know which and that if you only use a million but i thought he has such an ear when brady are. here why the libby has a job or if it's not part of year. someone ab initio. was in. sofia what do you do what he. did why. did you hear all of this. and what. you. when i saw it dang it i. want to get them all what has it all when i'm the one whom it so will hold. them out i'm so ill you don't want to see the old boy's yet what i meant to believe it i don't like you to bury it that was that the new i'm all in the woman has haven't yet it all had me to democracy that all how muted to feeling the able to see that it all the markers you need that i hope and those they let me have this to us so that the horde. the kurds

the ones that are trying to get into our country -- i don't know of any shiite terrorists. we've had plenty of sunnis. all 16 hijackers were from saudi arabia. we just released documents last year, the missing pages from the saudi arabia investigation with the 9/11 commission that shows that there's a possibility they were complilings sit in those things -- complicit in those things. they're not exactly a free country. they're a monarchy that's actually having power consumed and concentrated in one person's hands more and more. so we have to decide what wars do we need to be involved in. our founders were very clear about this. our founders didn't like war, by the way. our founders had seen virtually perpetual war in europe. everybody was always fighting somebody and went on even after the founding of our country. cousins were fighting cousins. fathers fighting brothers. brothers fiefting brothers. -- fighting brothers. everybody was related. all the royal families of europe were related and always fighting with each other. of course they didn't do the fighting. they sent t

sunni leaders in iraq began to warn against the intervention of neighboring shiite iran into internal affairs of their country. they feared a sectarian war which would lead the country into a spiral of violence and arguably make division the only option. why didn't the kind of you're on my idea we're here to for. what diamond. to know which and if you're only young who does a million but i thought he has such an ear when brady are. here why they leave the house. if it's not part of year. to be an issue. with. sophia would he do what he. did why. did you hear all of that is. what. you. when i sit down with that ship bellows i want to get them all one has it all and one under the limit so will hold. them out i'm so little you don't want to see the old boys yet what just a man to be in a billet i don't like you to bury it so it was that they were more in the woman has haven't yet it all hang me to democracy that all how muted to feel in democracy that it all the moccasin the party that i hope and those they let me have this to us so that the horde. the kurds managed to achieve autonomy i

isis is claiming responsibility for an ambush of iraq shiite led paramilitary fighters that left at least7 dead. correspondent benjamin hall has the details. >> two months ago, baghdad declared total victory against isis but the terror group continues to attack. on sunday, isis militants launched a complex ambush which left 27 27 iraqi militiamen de. the terrorists set off a fake checkpoint. the hunter becoming the hunted. the clashes southwest of kirkuk lasted two hours and many believe this attack is a sign of things to come. >> they will continue to conduct terrorist operations to undermine the iraqi government. >> since losing their territory, isis has morphed into an insurgency. eradicating the groom now will not be easy. >> counterinsurgency operations against an enemy that does not want to be found, that hides in and among the people. >> sources tell fox news there are approximately 50,000 isis fighters at large between syria and iraq. thousands have been arrested but the iraqi government is struggling to deal with them. some are sentenced to death. others simply released. it's tel

they believe every shiite blocs are meant that this is not acceptable.they set out to export this revolution on the one hand, and to try to restore the persian empire on the other hand. this is what led them to interfere in the affairs of arab countries. they have no problem setting up terrorist groups like hezbollah, others, and the houthis in human later. they have no problem attacking embassies and assessing diplomats. i have no problem committing terrorist acts in europe, and south america all over the place. and so from our perspective the iranians had to do so within a nationstate which would be a rational actor that you can do with with respect to international laws and respects to international norms of behavior or if it's revolution that doesn't reckon it's any of the spirit i don't think iranians know what they are. so what do we do? we sat for 35 years that we try to reach out to iran. we tried to engage iran to no avail. all we got was death and destruction in return. our diplomats assassins, our embassies blown up, terrorist cells planted in

they have been persecuted by iran's shiite regime. back in this country, the department of health and humanrv es proposed letting insurers sell limited health plans that do not comply with obamacare's mandates. they would offer lower-cost coverage witfewer benefits for up to 12 months. and, companies could denpeople with pre-existing conditions or charge higher premiums. the proposal is open for public comment for 60 days. an outside legal review is out on npr's ouster last year of michael oreskes as top news executive, for alleged sexual harassment. it finds there were questions about his behavior even before he was hired, and repeatedly during his tenure. and separately , tavis smiley is suing pbs for breach of contract, after being fired last december, for alleged sexual misconduct. pbs says the suit is "meritless."e ancellor of the d.c. public school system is stepping down, under fire, mfter a litte than a year on the job. the "washington post" hadan reported thaan wilson bypassed a lottery system, so that his daughter could tran

yuan envoy is accusing shiite rebels and the saudi government of prolonging the conflict.s a real threat. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. scarlet: let's get a recap of today's market action. we saw stocks falling to the close with the down by 300 points, retreating from the one-month high that it closed at yesterday. 35 points as jay powell made his debut testifying before congress today as fed chairman. we also have some earnings news. booking holdings, which is the company formerly known as priceline reported fourth-quarter results. full-year earnings per share outlook or the view for the outlook for this year is beating the highest analyst estimates most of that is what is driving the stock higher by 5.25%. as for the results that have been reported for the quarter that ended, eps was $.91. analysts were looking for $.31. revenue up higher than the consensus estimates. fourth-quarter subscribers increasing 20% as well. stocks up. scarlet: "what'd you miss?" --

trump's response, after the news smary.e islamic sttackers in iraq have ambushed and killed 27 shiite-ledmen. it happened in a town southwest of kirkuk, while the militiamen were conducting nighttime raidsi faes mourned the victims as their bodies arrived at a military airfield in baghdad. iraqi officials had declared victory over isis just two months ago. turkey and syria may be headed toward a confrontation. syrian state tv reported today that pro-government forces will go to the aid of kurdish fighters near the turkish border. turkey says the kurds arete orists, and it's attacking them around afrin. in jordan's capital, amman, the visiting turkish foreid minister warat syria is risking an armed clash. >> ( translated ): i have also seen the the aim of our afrin operation, is obvious: to eliminate the terrorists that rry out attacks against us and pose a threat against turkey. however, if the syrian regime comes in to defend them, then nothing and nobody can stop usur or thesh soldiers. >> woodruff: by nightfall, no syrian-backed troops had entered asafrin. turkeylso demanded that n e u

villages are reinforcements were deployed to stop protesters blocking main roads the country has a shiite majority but the ruling body is seventeen since the demonstrations first broke out hundreds of people have been stripped of their citizenship allies of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have been offering their support after police recommended he be indicted on corruption charges that netanyahu is accused of accepting the three hundred thousand dollars in gifts that is suspected of backroom deals with the publisher of an israeli newspaper in return for favorable coverage and he denies the allegations and backers say they'll stand by him pending a decision of the indictment from the attorney general. meanwhile israel has details of more than thirty palestinians and raids across the occupied west bank and east jerusalem is being viewed by palestinian officials as a skeleton a policy of aggression hurry force that has more from occupied east jerusalem. on an east jerusalem hillside the palestinian neighborhood of the so we are has become a regular flashpoint of confrontation with

in iraq, isis has claimed responsibility for an attack against a shiite militia that left more than two dozen fighters dead on sunday night. last month, isis militants also carried out a double suicide bombing in the capital baghdad, which killed at least 27 people. all this comes after, in december, the iraqi government declared victory in the three-year fight against isis. in afghanistan, three tribal elders were killed after a bomb blast in a hotel room in jalalabad, the provincial capital of nangarhar province. no one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. this comes as, in western farah province, at least eight afghan police officers have been killed in taliban attacks on police checkpoints overnight. meanwhile, afghan artists have taken to the streets of the capital kabul to paint over concrete blast walls -- aimed at minimizing damage from bombings -- with murals promoting social justice and peace. this is omaid sharifi, cofounder of the artists' group called artlords. >> we are bringing down the blast walls. we painting. we''re using it as a tool for social change. we

the iraqi forces recaptured it with the help of iranian—backed shiite militias and a us—led coalitionhe country‘s reconstruction. with the help of the world bank, it came up with $88.2 billion. the conference is hosted by neighbouring kuwait. the head of the delegation in iraq for the international committee of the red cross is katharina ritz — she‘s there and explains why this money is necessary. if you are in iraq, and new work on the ground, and you see the destruction, what happened over these last years, but notjust the infrastructure destruction, it is also the rebuilding of the community, which needs to be invested, and i think in this sense it isa invested, and i think in this sense it is a massive amount, and i think it is a massive amount, and i think it is a massive amount, and i think it is not something which is being done over one year. but the needs are extremely vague, and it is, at this time we have to get it right. yes? i think many would agree that the need is great, as we looked at those pictures, but ijust want to bring out a tweet coming in from the us president,