these fighters of the popular mobilization forces are being trained in southern iraq.he group was formed in june last year to counter the islamic state militants after it had rapidly gained ground. iraq's most influential shia clerk, ayatollah sistani, called for the group to be formed. he has repeatedly warned the sunni-dominated islamic state group is dangerous. the popular mobilization forces are set to have more than 100,000 fighters. sistani ordered junior and senior high school students were ordered to take part in training during their summer break. it's believed that some children participated in the fight. training instructors are former members of the iraqi military. some also fought against islamic state militants. 27-year-old haidar al budairy is one of them. he has fought with the militants 16 times. he shares his experience with the trainees every time he returns from a battle. >> translator: i've been back and forth between battlefields and my hometown. i feel proud to see young fighters being nurtured. >> reporter: haidar joined the fighting after his o

. >>> two children have died from a cholera outbreak in southern iraq that has claimed seven lives in less than a week. ten people have now died since the outbreak began 246 cases have been recorded, most of them in the town of abu gharib. despite attempts to prevent the spread of the water borne disease, the water and sewage systems are outdated after war and neglect. the start of the school year has been postponed until next month as a precaution. >>> wheat prices have risen in gaza. that means they can't afford the muslim tradition of sacrificing livestock on the holiest holiday of the year. we have more. >> reporter: as the eade holiday proms, life is hard. the ritual of buying cattle for sacrifice is xobl for everyone. is impossible for everyone. >> translator: it's really expensive compared to last year's prices. we are in a war and can't afford the prices anymore. >> reporter: restrictions by israel and the nine-year long siege caused prices to rise. cattle owners saw a drop in demand during a season they rely on to make profits. >> translator: for every kilogram for cattle the

they were from iraq and i met one iraqi father who brought his family with him, he had come from southern iraqad been wounded due to clashes there, narrowly escaped with his life, decided he was going to get his family out of there and said he come all this way and gotten this far and gotten into europe and he is not going to be turned away and almost in europe and in serbia yesterday and is not going to let the new restrictions keep him from trying to get to germany where he ultimately wants to get and that is the attitude for most of the refugees i'm speaking with and also spoke with a syrian refugee yesterday who paid $7,000 for small l -- smugglers and will work with them in order to get o-germany and really the refugees seem to be unfazed and they of course are concerned, they are worried about what is going to happen to them, many of them are worried if they are getting into hungary and if they are out of hungary but they say they are going to be undeterred and continue to try to make their way no matter the roadblocks that keep being put up in their way and on this desperate journey the

al jazeera. 2 children have died from a cholera outbreak in southern iraq which has claimed seven livesless than a week. 246 cases have been despite attempts to prevent spread of the water-born disease. the sewage systems there are outdated. war and neglect has been postponed until next month as a precaution. now, rwanda's supreme court is hearing a case that aims to block a changing to the constitution to allow the president for a third 7-year term. parlf he is generally a popular president, credited with bringing stability and economic prosperity to rwanda after it was shattered by genocide. 800,000 most of tutus and houtis. the opposition group reject the plan, accusing him of stifling dissent and wanting to clean to power. the united states, a major donor has warned the president against the move saying it will bring instability. well, joining us from brussels is andrew wallace, a journalist and author of "silent accomplice." the untold story of the role of france in the rwandan's. >> the people love him mostly. >> it's one of the strange con um drums meaning the rule of the people

because i fought in southern iraq, i've seen american colleagues killed and wounded by the weapons andn regime so i have seen first-hand the threat that iran poses to america and to our allies. but i think it would have been a mistake to include conventional weapons in this agreement because it necessarily would have watered down the nuclear provisions. the nuclear threat is absolutely paramount. i wouldn't want to see shorter timelines or fewer restrictions on the nuclear program in exchange for more restrictions on their conventional weapons. so i think the administration made the right decision to keep this agreement about the nuclear program, but this is all the more reason why we have to keep the pressure on iran for their other violations of international norms and other threats to world peace and to our allies. we can do so under the agreement. the agreement takes away the nuclear sanctions only when they meet our demands. but it doesn't do anything about the sanctions that are against iran for their sponsorship of international terrorism. >> okay. i want to switch gears, ask yo

so the iranian interventions in syria, in southern iraq, in yemen, in gaza and in lebanon, that is unnerved the entire region. the united states obviously needs to do more to support israel and support our arab allies and secretary clinton laid out a very detailed program for how the united states can do that. and what we need is a strategy to counter iran. i think we heard one this morning from secretary clinton. >> you also heard the ambassador talk about how israel and how important that is for the iran nuclear deal. you have a knew piece out today subjecting the real audience for clinton's iran speech was israel. how would she be different from obama when it comes to israel? and explain what you meant by israel is the real audience of this speech. >> not so much the real audience necessarily but the real subject. at least the thing that jumped out at me. she did a good job going through the deal and its particular lews. but i heard in her tone really a way of saying that i am going to restore a very rocky relationship that washington has had with israel under this president. if you look

southern iraq at the time was a very poor place, no access to health care. internet. >> exactly. what had been happening was, as we moved through the south the regular iraqi army was retreating to make the final stand in bagdad. they were going hut to hut coercing the poor farmers to fight us. and we were fighting these guys by the hundreds of thousands. the first major contact in the war was a place where we pushed through the city and set up a defensive perimeter north of the city at the time. i remember everyone was scared. we were all terrified, tired, hungry, hadn't eaten in a couple of days. i looked on the highway and saw a white car approaching our position from the north. they had just started doing suicide bombing missions. i grabbed three guys, ran toward the car and tried to get it stopped. it finally stopped and the iraqi man jumped out of the car and starts yelling and running at me. i am yelling at him on the ground to get on the ground. >> you speak arab as well? >> i did at the time. he wasn't responding. as i lift my weapon up to take him o

ultimately taking these people back, those who want to go back to their ancestral homeland, northern iraq, southern waffles the ancestral homeland and there is a model being worked in northeast syria we're calling it a promise of ours and we're actively working in rebuilding people's lives there, so these two efforts that are under way right now we have to pay attention to. >> because eventually some of the people are going to want to go back as you pointed ut because it's part of their heritage and it's not like they want to live in a foreign country forever obviously. >> exactly. >> real quickly we've talked about the cultural destruction, that isis has gone after the sacred sites and destroyed the temples and satellite image shows the before and after if we can put it up there the temple before you can see the outline of where the temple stood and now you see it completely wiped out. what impact is it having on the psyche of the people that you see out there? >> i'll give you a brief example. my treasure, seven of her family members were kid napped by isis in syria on a monday evening. we heard

our show you why we're calling things down the weather system to the south was came from southern california with iraq dixie pushing out to the coast of heavy rain that we all know we need unfortunately when i get to as we're getting a high clouds in place give you a better idea of the cloud cover for tomorrow 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning also in the an invalid the klaus little more as well down to the south bank san jose will because the conditions tomorrow as a transition more afternoon you see everywhere is pretty much covered with a is causing a bit cloudy day tomorrow sunny to partly cloudy skies monday for next week's sale thing to clear quite a little bit this is a long for if the clock and the afternoon. >>diane tuazon: move upon a cross the bridge to the is the shoreline more like the '80s is family and the seven it for 0174 alameda fremont to get 86 agrees that is an invalid were we have the 100 degrees would say goodbye to triple digits and its different would mind if livermore the upper 80s and or else in the inland valley cities will run down to the south nice clear skies for the afternoon

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revenues from iraq proper, which means really need to southern provinces that produce the most. but there is no oil or gas revenue going to be provided for the sunni areas. there is no production in those areas. so one of the really serious problems is how would they survive. the second is who draws the boundaries, where the borders? the state of politics is so fractious that you have a population that is alienated. how in the world are you going to have an amicable divorce? this will be a very fractious divorce and it will be another civil war perhaps along the lines of syria. concern about that. anybody wants to pursue inclusive politics but i don't think people have picked up that there are huge to mistress and going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged by insufficient services, particularly electricity, during extraordinarily hot weather. and then corruption. they are flat out outraged. the ayatollah seeing this, through his clerics, issued statements that really encouraged the kinds of reforms that premise or a bo

think people have picked up that there are huge to mistress and going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged

reporter: more than a dozen flights of large russian transport planes have flown from southern russia across iran and iraqrrying half a dozen tanks, large artillery pieces and some three dozen armored personnel carriers as well as some equipment for up to 1500 troops. it's all going here to a coastal airfield where commercial satellite imagery has captured airfield construction and improvements. the pentagon believes all of this will become a russian operating base. secretary of state john kerry talking again today to russian foreign minister lavrov, no indication the russians are changing they'ir minds. a new, grim assessment from the head of u.s. military intelligence suggesting both iraq and syria may be gone as countries the world once knew. >> i could see it, time in the future, syria's fractured into probably two or three parts. again, not the ideal because that comes with some unknowns. that's going to be a tough one to put back together long term. >> reporter: now the pentagon may not able to stay quiet much longer. tomorrow general lloyd austin, head of central command, guy in charge of running t

think people have picked up that there are huge to mistress and going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged by insufficient services, particularly electricity, during extraordinarily hot weather. and then corruption. they are flat out outraged. the ayatollah seeing this, through his clerics, issued statements that really encouraged the kinds of reforms that premise or a body has pursued. and now they are moving each week. he knows that the only way to get -- to combat isil sustainably is to get to the people in the area where isis is located in the same way that we did with did with the andy barr awakening and the sons of iraq program. turn against a barbaric force unless they have a sense that is going to be secured. to do that, you have to have sunni arab iraqis who will not only clear but then be able to hold his forces with considerable assistance from us. me make sure it understand. this sort of divorce you talk about is something to be avoided in iraq. and you have a different view about syria where you seem to suggest it would

they still need to get their 17% out oil revenues from iraq proper, which means really the two southern provinces it produced the most. there is no oil or gas going to be provided for the sunni areas. there's no production in those areas. one of the real serious problems is how would they survive? the second is, who drives the boundaries? where are the borders? if you have a state of politics that is so fractious, how are you going to have an amicable divorce? this will be a fractious divorce. the body wants to pursue inclusive politics. i don't think people picked up there are huge demonstrations going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged by in sufficient services, particularly electricity for a month and then corruption. and they are flat outraged. the grand ayatollah is seeing this through his clerics, issued statements, that encouraged the reforms that prime minister abbadi has now pursued. they are moving each week. he has pursued more reforms. indeed, he knows that the only way to get to combat isil sustainable is to get

don't think people picked up that there are huge demonstrations going on in the cities of iraq in the southern part of the country because of citizens who are outraged by insufficient services, particularly electricity during extraordinarily hot weather in recent weeks and corruption and they are just flat outraged. the grand ayatollah seeing this, issuing statements that really encouraged the kinds of reforms that a prime minister body has now pursue and they are now moving each week, her has purr sewer -- pursued more reforming and he knows the only way to combat isil is to get the people in the area where isis is located to turn against them and the same way that we did with reconciliation with the on bar awakening and the sons of iraq program. citizens can't turn against a particularly barbaric force unless they have a sense of security. but to do that you have to have sunny arab iraqis who will not only clear burr then be able to hold these forces with the considerable assistance from us with the intelligence and precision strike assets. >> let me make sure i understand. this sort of divo

people fleeing violence and terror in places like syria and iraq, making the 2,500-mile trip through turkey over to greece up through southernurope and on to either germany or belgium. in order to get there, they first have to make the perilous passage from turkey to greece by water. they pay a smuggler $1,200 apiece to board a little boat that will take them to the island of lesbos. people have died making this journey. we were there when other refugees, including very young children, came ashore. these people, families, have just risked their lives, everything they own, everybody they love, to cross this narrow strait to arrive here in greece. refugees are often jubilant when they arrive safely in greece. but like ali and his crew they are quickly hit with hard reality. a sweltering 25-mile walk to the port for a ferry over to the greek mainland. it's they:00 in the afternoon and we meet up with the group at a local cafe in athens as they wait for a bus that will take them north. >> we're scared if they are going to open the roads or not. we don't have any choices. >> hello. >> reporter: rawa is more optimistic. >> it will

reporter: but more than a dozen flights of large russian transport planes have flown from southern russia across iran and iraqg half a dozen tanks, large artillery pieces and some three dozen armored personnel carriers as well as some equipment for up to 1500 troops. it's all going here to a coastal airfield where commercial satellite imagery has captured airfield construction and improvements. the pentagon believes all of this will become a russian operating base. secretary of state john kerry talking again today to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. no indication the russians are changing their minds. a new grim assessment from the head of u.s. military intelligence suggesting both iraq and syria may be gone as countries the world once knew. >> i can see a time in the future when syria's fractured into probably two or three parts. again, not the ideal because that comes with some unknowns. that's going to be a tough one to put back of this could explode into the political arena tomorrow. the senate armed services committee calling top pentagon and military officials in for public hearing about all of t

there's 4 million refugees that are just fleeing syria alone and we aren't including iraq, afghanistan, or southernin the bucket. but listen. good for us. it's very important that we show the world into the united states is going to take some leadership role here. >> look at these pictures of people just clamoring to get into these trains. you were just this summer in europe. of course you've been dealing a lot with north africa and the middle east. this won't -- there's no end in sight to this. not just the people that have been displaced, internally in these countries they have lost their hopes and have been displaced internally and could leave at any moment. >> just think about what's happening right now. think of this as a wildfire in california. you have a situation in syria right now where half of the country -- half of 28 million people are displaced from their homes, jose. >> 14 million. >> 14 million people. and on the periphery of syria, in lebanon and jordan, there is not sufficient food to fees these people who are desperately looking for food. these are not muslims who are terrorists.

southern italy. what you're seeing there, in addition to syrians in iraq, is west africans, a lot of people from the of africa. people from the boat i rescued are almost all trans from africa. >> you witnessed, quote, most of the migrants had no idea how long their journey might last, though a few had been told by the smugglers that they could expect to reach italy in six to eight hours. in reality such a voyage would take at least six days, long past the point when almost all those on board would have perished from dehydration or exposure. >> right. yeah. it's amazing that they have absolutely no information, they have no clue. on these boats -- they're very small fishing boats. there's 375 people on each of the two fishing boats i was involved in the rescue with. very few people knew how to swim. >> these boats were allotted for 150, 175 people at best? >> at best. i would say probably 75, really. the only way they fit that many people in is there was another 100 people down in the hold stocked like cord wood down in the hold, people on top of each other. there were actually three boats that went

iraq, soldiers were killed in a string of i.s.i.l. attacks. 13 of them died in a duel attack on northern and southern ramadi. further east another eight soldiers and popular mobilization forces were killed during a showing. i.s.i.l. is preparing itself in preparation for the attack >>> tens of thousands of protesters marched in southern nepal, carrying the bodies of five people. it broke out over a new draft constitution. ethnic minorities say they were not getting enough political or economic power. we have more >>> the village in nepal's southern plains is in mourning. a young man from the village had been shot dead. he was studying to be the first qualified engineer from the village. his family had high hopes. >> translation: my second was in the 10th grade and got into engineering. i hoped he'd go and work in the government. we had take loans to educate him. now he's gone. >> five young men died. dozens were wounded when police opened fire on protesters. they restructured nepal in southern states. police try to redirect goods to the capital. there were violent clashes. >> how can the state treat us like

. >> reporter: more than a dozen flights have flown from southern russia across iran and iraq into syria artillery pieces and some 3 dozen armors personnel carriers as well as some equipment for up to 1500 troops. it's all going to a coastal airfield where commercial imagery has shown improvements. the pent gone believes all of this will become a russian operating base. the secretary of state talking again today to russian foreign minister, no indication the russians are changing their minds. a new grim assessment from the head of u.s. military intelligence suggesting both iraq and syria may be gone as countries the world once knew. >> i could see a time in the future when syria is fractured into probably two or three parts. again, not the ideal, because that comes at some unknowns. that's going to be a tough one to put back together in my view, long term. >> reporter: all of this may explode into the political arena in the united states. a top general is scheduled to testify wednesday before congress about the progress in the war, and the russian involvement. one u.s. military official

iraq's capital. they have been battling to spread the disease. 165 cases have been reported so far. >>> indonesia says that some of its southern are experiencing drought dow to the weather phenomenon known as el nino. some areas haven't had rain in six months. farmers are now relying on help from the government to buy in food and water. step vaessen reports. >> reporter: anxiously waiting for water. iwells have run dry after nearly half a year without rain. he has sold his only to get just to be able to buy water. one tank costs around $10, that's a huge amount for the poor farmer. >> translator: we have. [ inaudible ] i used to wash myself has been reduce today one. my. [ inaudible ] are used two buckets but she gets only one. >> reporter: monsoon rained are expected to start two months later than usual. because of the weather phenomenon known as el nino. already half the crops have failed. even the local staple which doesn't need a lot of water, is not growing. this lake is an important source for drinking water. but for the last five months, it has been dry. nearly half a year without a single drop of water. and normally tr

those refugees you just spoke of, that 11 million that have come from iraq and syria, are being replicated across north africa. southern mediterranean, with people fleeing what is going on, in country what was once called libya. these are totally failed states. this administration committed themselves to policy of responsibility to protect. they have done anything but. and they have left the entire region and millions of people destitute with know help whatsoever. ironic if you consider what their promise was versus what this outcome means. see a whole lot more of it by going, light of the lord global missions.org. look at website to see the photographs taken by my friends talking about how these refugees actually trying to break out of isis-controlled territory. martha: yeah. what do you think about the fact that in so many publications they're being referred to as migrants? when you look up a definition of a migrant, someone flying by choice or leaving by choice because they want to see a better economic condition elsewhere. it really undercuts the argument that you just made, doesn't it? >> well look, my grandparent

iraq. >> can i response to that? >> just a second. >> you know, you do have your 1%. >> round two for the republicans. the gloves thrown off tonight as the candidates clashed in southern california. donald trump taking center stage yet again allen. looks like there were no shortages of heated exchanges. >> reporter: once again, there were exchanges but not as many as last time. candidates knew what to expect of trump this time. and at three hours long, moderators knew there was time for issues. there may have been light hearted moments like secret service names. it is high energy donald. >> reporter: but there were jabs taken at the front runner. >> his visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat, ugly. my goodness, that happened in junior high. are we not way above that? >> i never attacked him on his looks and believe me, there is plenty of subject matter there. >> reporter: but the gop debate steered toward issues. >> they were trying to find the divisions between the candidates and the division. >> reporter: the only woman candidate on stage, carly fiorina pushed on funding planned parenthood. she talked about losing a child to a drug

iraq, and afghanistan, seem to have an unstoppable will to enter europe. claiming to be the safeguard against a migrant invasion, hungary is building a 100-mile-long fence along its southern border. next door, austria stepped up vehicle checks, backing up trucks today nearly 20 miles. yet the underground railroad continues. europe is tightening its borders to stop this massive march of migration. so people here are rushing to get in while they still can and already thinking of new ways around the obstacles. ibrahim and his friend, known as cato, plan to go to finland because they don't think many refugees have tried there yet. ibrahim is from syria. his dream -- >> building a new life. >> what kind of life. what do you want to do? >> peace. >> reporter: cato says he worked as a u.s. army contractor in iraq and was threatened because of it. >> somebody sent me some message. a terrorist, not somebody. you work with american army. go out. >> reporter: the young men took what is now the well-trodden refugee route from syria to turkey, greece, macedonia, and up through serbia until the hungarian border. it's a long and dangerous trip. but for cato, ibrahim and countless others

running a deficit and still made what they can get 17% none of the oil revenues from iraq proper, which means the two southernprovinces that produced the most. there is no oil or gas revenue provided. there is no production in those areas. one of the really serious problems is how would they survive. .. issued statements that really encouraged the kinds of reforms that prime minister abadi has now pursued. they are now moving each week. he has pursued a more reforms. and, indeed, he knows that the only way to get to combat isil sustainably is to get the people in the area were isis is located to turn against them in the same way that we did with reconciliation with the anbar awakening, with a sense of iraq program. but, of course, the citizens can't turn against it particularly barbaric force unless they have a sense they are going to be secured. this will have to proceed but to do that you can sunni, arab iraqis who were not only clear but then be able to hold these forces with a considerable assistance from us in the form of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and precision strike assets. >> let m

southern city of latti. the finish government condemned the violence. more than 13,000 asylum seekers have gone to finland this year, most of them from iraq. >>> hungary says it has removed razor wire from part of its border with slovenia. croatia has also given in to pressure to lift a blockade on its border with serbia, to end a week long standoff. nadim baba reports. >> they've traveled a long way and don't know where they'll end up but now these men women and children are being registered into a temporary camp in croatia. but europe's blame game over how to handle the flow of refugees showed no sign of ending. >> this must be topped on turkey's border. greece is not following any rules, they are sending people through macedonia and serbia. these people are here less than 24 hours and that was our aim. >> reporter: over the border in serbia the prime minister was showing a senior european union official around a reception center. croatia's accused serbia of failing to police the crossing, an entry point into the eu but it has eased its week long blockade after serbia urged it to do so. >> we must find solutions to help these people in an adequate and hu

the problems that our southern allies see every day in the flows of people, criminality, terrorism, foreign fighters that are escaping these ungoverned spaces starting in western iraq, going through the la vont into northern africa. so a very different problem. now i'm sure we're going to get into it in q&a, but the two are beginning to merge as we see russia apart of the syria equation. let me also point out and i think it's very interesting that in our last ministerials, one of our bright, well-thought ministers brought up that general breedlove, you talk about strategic direction east and strategic direction south. we in the north are worried about strategic direction north and what we're beginning to see happen in the arctic with the militarization of the arctic by the russians. so now there's a voice that begins to talk about strategic direction north, strategic direction east and strategic direction south. so it is bigger than just russia. >> today is a huge day because as we all know at 5:05 this evening will be the long awaited bilateral between president obama and vladimir putin. the last time the two of them sat down for a formal face to face was in 2013

southern part of the country. hundreds of taliban fighters stormed the area on monday sending afghan security forces and u.n. personnel fleeing for safety. >>> isis is a recruiting machine. u.s. forces believe 30,000 have traveled to iraq and syria to join since 2011. that is double as first thought. as many as 250 americans are among the recruits. later this morning, a homeland security task force will cite gaping holes in security making it easier to join. >>> and planned parenthood president cecile richards testifies before an oversight committee today and she expected to say reduced funding will leave 650,000 women without health care. other government approved health care facilities cannot pick up the slack if congress strips planned parenthood of funding. >>> congress appears to pass legislation averting a shutdown. the stop-gap bill cleared a key procedure hurdle on monday. the measure could be approved in the house tomorrow preventing a shutdown. conservatives view december as a better time to challenge obama on planned parenthood since new leadership will be in place in the house. alison, december is a time that many people think the fed should raise rates. it sets things up for an interesting end of the year.

southern turkey. >> reporter: in the 12 months since air strikes over syria began, the u.s. says 17,000 conveyor kilometers of territory has been taken back from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. central command gives the credit to what it calls anti-isil fighters including syrian kurds and sunni arabs. they wouldn't have been as successful without air power to back them up, and for the last month the u.s. has been able to intensify its campaign after squeezing permission from turkey to use its base. the border with syria is just about 120 kilomere meters from the base behind me. that means more air strikes than when the u.s. and its coalition allies were forced to fly up to four hours away from bases in the gulf. to make those air strikes as effective as possible, the u.s. needs more and better intelligence from individuals on the ground who can identify targets to be hit. so the obama admission is looking at the option of sending american-trained fighters into syria to help direct the air strikes. they might be attached to groups already on the grountd like the kurds. many of these groups are ulcer fighting the regime of ba share al assad. the u.s. doesn't want to be

and here is an iraq war vet to founded humanitarian experience abroad. and he joins me live from southernstan via skype this morning. nice to see you and thank you for joining us. what why did you decide to join this fight? >> well, thank you for having me. i think the reason why most of us decide to join was of course to help the kurds and to beat back isis or dash. but in addition, i'm combat vet, i served in 2003 in iraq. and a lot of us have a tendency to keep in the fight and help out. >> and that's one thing but to pack up, go to the front lines and try to help the peshmerga in this region who don't have a lot of support like they used to have when the united states army and military was there, what are they facing against isis? >> they're facing a problem that could easily be solved with more help from this administration and future administrations. they're like a little israel. they could be our best friend but they need night vision, they need to be able to match them toe for toe at night and during the day. they need specialists. >> one of the things that you've talked about is

the problems that our southern allies see every day in the flows of people, criminality, terrorism, foreign fighters that are escaping these ungoverned spaces starting in western iraq, going through the la vont into northern africa. so a very different problem. now i'm sure we're going to get into it in q&a, but the two are beginning to merge as we see russia apart of the syria equation. let me also point out and i think it's very interesting that in our last ministerials, one of our bright, well-thought ministers brought up that general breedlove, you talk about strategic direction east and strategic direction south. we in the north are worried about strategic direction north and what we're beginning to see happen in the arctic with the militarization of the arctic by the russians. so now there's a voice that begins to talk about strategic direction north, strategic direction east and strategic direction south. so it is bigger than just russia. >> today is a huge day because as we all know at 5:05 this evening will be the long awaited bilateral between president obama and vladimir putin. the last time the two of them sat down for a formal face to face was in 2013

iraq, to all the hot spots today, the iranian fingerprints are all over those activities. and, of course, iran has long sponsored military groups with rockets, hundreds of rockets and terrorism. in southernlebanon, iran funds and supplies hezbollah which threatens israel's northern border and threatens -- with which israel went to war in 1976. in gaza on the southern border iran has long sponsored hamas, which the relations have frayed in recent years, iran has long sponsored palestinian jihad. so suffice it to say that over the years iran has sown chaos, attacking united states and allies while celebrating the deaths of americans in tehran. so with this regime's long history of aggression against u.s. and its allies i find it troubling that the president says it's akin to warmongering. that's what the president said. if you don't like this deal, the alternative is war. to which i would say wrong, mr. president. the difference -- alternative to this deal is a better deal. according to the president's twisted logic those who are skeptical of this same iran which i've described that has time and time again demonstrated its aggression against the united states and who is have are a particul