today people are dying in the seemingly endless conflicts in afghanistan and syria we've all long since grown accustomed to the images on the news. but no a-q. do shows us these conflicts from the point of view of the people who are affected soldiers freedom fighters and civilians he always uses a normal lens which forces him to get close to what's happening. war is not beautiful news and i refuse to make photos that are too beautiful all clearly emotions should be a media people should be made aware of how fragile peace asshole. collapsed. and that is why he continues to risk his own life and expose himself to the horrors of war. he wants to document what those horrors actually mean for the people caught up in the. 2 of germany's greatest historical figures were bravo's sond and visit him phone home boat and they being brought together in an exhibition at the german historical museum here in berlin both of them well in different ways very important figures of the age of the enlightenment and through thorough research this exhibition looks at some of the contradictions of the time and l

troops get out of what he described as endless wars, but critics saying the troops into syria, afghanistan, served as a deterrent. broadly speaking, what is the role of the u.s. military? warsare we in endless versus when are we using them as a deterrent to prevent further wars? used: militaries should be almost for reassurance, not just deterrence. japanample, today we have that has never wanted any amphibious forces after world war ii, and has begun now to have amphibious forces because it is getting concerned about china that has all of a sudden begun to overflow islands that japan believes it owns, but china wants it. it is beginning to think about, could there be a conflict? we have to be present out there in japan.ance i advocated that we should be putting one in guam nearby. you need two aircraft carriers to operate. the second thing are deterrence. the problem that has happened and why the united states citizenry has understandably lost faith in the u.s. leadership and global engagement was a tragic decision to go into iraq initially. the arabianed in sea, there were over 20 intern

think about the withdrawal from syria, afghanistan troop levels, the ban on transgender service members which i believe he announced via tweet. participation in nato, ending war games with south korea. pardons for alleged war crimes which we are talking about now. >> the president said i know more than the generals. we have seen it with the long list of situations where he basically contradicts his own experts, his own military leaders and says i'm the military commander in chief. without following the briefing he gets from leaders saying i'm going with my gut on everything from whether we should pull troops from syria to whether we should keep troops in afghanistan. josh and i were at mar-a-lago when the president had phone calls with the military leaders. he spent time saying, i know what we should be doing when it comes to buying ships for the military. you can expect that again where the president will be politic e politicizing the phone call. >> the president was on the phone with the military leaders saying, you know, trade is important to me. we have a lot of problems with trade

happened in europe in 2015 when you had the weaponization of migrants and refugees out of syria iraq afghanistan sri lanka and the like all streaming into g.'s out of syria iraq afghanistan sri lanka and the like all streaming into europe in completely offending e.u. politics the middle east is a case of europe in completely offending e.u. politics the middle east is a chaotic quagmire and likely will be for the forseeable future but whether it's the us got a quagmire and likely will be for the forseeable future but whether it's the us russia china other powers are going to be involved in the middle east and just to come to russia china other powers are going to be involved in the middle east and just the complexity of all of the parties at war with one another there makes it an area that is unavoidable exit he of all of the parties at war with one another there makes it an area that is unavoidable the question will be how do we properly engage and how do we properly debate that were to blow the. will be how do we properly engage and how do we properly debate that engagement and to senator chafe

asylum-seekers, most from syria and afghanistan are housed in camps partway between turkey and greecethree sites on the islands of close ase set to people will be taken to mainland. other asylum-seekers will be moved to smaller facilities where they will be locked in until they are granted asylum were sent back to turkey. the move comes weeks after greece adopted a new law aimed at speeding up the asylum prococess. the tightening p procedures has atattracted criticism from ngos, citing posttraumatic stress disorder will no longer be considered i in the application. >> it is well documenteted that people with ptsd get re-traumatized during the asylym interview or find d it difficult to relax or recollect their exexperiences. this could h have implications n their access to a fairir procedure. >> the move follows the new conservative governments promise to step up deportation. on some islands, the number of asylum-seekers has surpassed the local population. the prime minister has accused the eu of treating greece like a convenient parking spot for refugees and migrants. >> time for a re

that no one really knows who it is has to prove that he can maintain that brandon in iraq and syria afghanistan that may work but those affiliates are 2 joint eisel from the outside and if we're going africa may switch sides again and it's a chance for al qaeda who still has a visible and on their. toes if it gives back is now greater than having. a pleasure talking to thank you for your time and your expertise today always a pleasure talking to you thank you so much. to other news that israeli forces are hitting at what they say are terrorist targets in the gaza strip just hours after the summit jihad group fired rockets into israel all this despite a cease fire that was agreed between the 2 sides earlier on thursday most of those rockets fired into israel were intercepted by israel's anti missile defense system fighting between the 2 sides began on tuesday after israeli forces assassinated a senior leader of islamic jihad in gaza all of 34 palestinians have been killed in the israeli airstrikes since then this report from harry falls that in gaza. the single deadliest moment in 48 hours of fi

. >> the united states has taken the fight to syria and afghanistan because that is where our enemies are. advancing u.s. interests around the world does not make us an evil empire or the world's policeman. a prudent and responsible world power who stands up for our own security and the freedom of others. the coalition partners that is what we must continue to do. we must continue to provide support to the local forces that carry the law enforcement. >> senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky. to his point that the enemy is in syria, your response. agree with senator mitch mcconnell on a number of issues. i think foreign policy is an issue where historically he has been wrong. he has generally supported the foreign policy we've had in the post cold war era. ability to project power from afar. whether it's turkey, russia, the assad regime, the kurdish ypg. they learn their lesson by exhorting threat for too long and allowing it to emerge and it seeot in their interest to isis forma caliphate. in addition, i think a lot of our allies in the region and in europe have a more direct interest i

the withdrawal of troops from sensitive areas where we still have fighting ongoing such as syria and afghanistan it's no secret that mattis and navy secretary spencer were closed, were friends and were thinking in the same way but i think the secretary in his extraordinary op-ed in the "washington post" was far more harsh than secretary mattis had been when he resigned. i think the issue is one and you are talking about a former marine, or at least i guess you are always agreeing but he felt what the president had done was so untoward ends so out of line with naval procedures and tradition that it couldn't be accepted. he also acknowledged that he had made a mistake in going around the secretary of defense. he had not told the secretary of defense mr. esper that he was negotiating with the white house to try and do a separate deal for eddie gallagher, the navy s.e.a.l. and he said he had made a mistake. once again yet another high-level trump administration official resigning or being fired just points to the chaos that has gone on in the administration since the very beginning of president trum

if you ask american people do you fine having troops in syria and afghanistan to protect terrorists from attacking our homeland, i think you would get a different answer. terms of the sister, we don't know much about her, capturing her and intelligence she may be able to provide could be valuable. i assume that turkey would share that with the united states as well. -- this took place also in north western part of syria. it is very surprising, i think to many of us, that isis headquarters on under baghdad i wabaghdadiwas located there, i t isis and al qaeda may come together now after they have been separated for so many years, and that is not good. elizabeth: general, a great point, turkey saying we repatriot isis members back to their open country, great insight general, thank you for your service. good to see you. >> good talk you going to liz. elizabeth: now a year until the 2020 election, white house indicates there could be a looming thanksgiving government shut down, democrats are fighting against the president hard. and more news in the impeachment push, and new polls showing vot

if we take the troops that remain in syria, does isis come back? if we get out of afghanistandoes al qaeda come back? how do you think about this balance between we want to stop the forever wars and get out of these things, but we don't want to let terrorists sanctuaries emerge and then it comes back to haunt the kind of people that the foreign should protect. sen. hawley: i think part of what we have to do is focus more closely on our key priorities there and be more single-minded about pursuing them. i would say that the first of those is to counterterrorism and prevent the formation of networks and cells that could strike at the united states pose a direct threat to americans. counterterrorism is in our national interest. it is a key priority. preventing anyone nation from becoming a regional hegemon. i think foreign policy should be geared around preventing domination by any power. that is what i think has been our historical practice, and i think we should return to that. we have an interest in making sure that the greater middle east is dominated by anyone power. iran wo

terrorism camps is india ready for the response from hardline is the mis who knows coming from syria let alone. afghanistan to attack indian installations where 1st of all let me tell you we don't think that innocent as you do with economics. it's madness yes we teach it as it might mess but the people who question you have been denied development and it's a beautiful place it should be developed and the reason is that nobody wants to go invest it with all this or article to 70 and it's its implications that's why we are the way that we. 'd are and as followers of the city ends and all. nice and all the wall built or looked up at one side or reality for the subject of this well anyone smile and no one can give an go digimon can hear kashmir right now the tourists are all thrown out and everyone was arrested as far as we know all the leaders there is that next for nagaland mizoram a some man a poor goa is they are going to cut off the internet for all the phones and then going to directly rule all those areas of india because of the problem gets the 71 has got nothing to do no not similar. to the $71.00 is

this is the same warning that countries like afghanistan, iraq, syria and north korea have. m going to say this again. we are sending people, pregnant women back to dangerous places in mexico that have a level 4 threat that's equivalent of afghanistan, iraq, syria and north korea. before you decided to return families with children and over asylum seekers to wait in these very dangerous places in mexico, did you conduct any type of analysis, any type, to assess the potential harm these asylum seekers might suffer? >> so, the migrant protection protocols is a program in connection with the government of mechanics -- >> i'm asking if you had any kind of assessment of the potential harm of where they were being sent. did we do that? >> there was a month's long dialogue with the government of mexico -- >> i'm asking if the united states -- it's a yes or no. did you assess the threat level before you sent them there? >> between the department of homeland security, department of state, which jointly negotiated this program with the government of mexico, assessments were done on mex

afghanistan. and the same with syria. he initially wanted to withdraw in december 2018. he declared an n a tweet that he wanted it done so by the following february, and the bureaucracy ended up 100% reversing that because they were opposed to withdrawal if didn't do thinged the right way through the agency process and his management style or lack thereof is an indication he failed to sort of get his cabinet unified around a clear strategy and that's his fault. nevertheless there has been a kind of constant -- this is why the term, adults in he room, came along. trying to manage trump residents erratic impulses and sometimes that means making sure we don't make radical changes to the strategic cop cop send -- consensus rind prom si, you see a lot of mixed results and things that don't match with either what he said before or what he -- we believed that his inclinations are. and so it's always -- i will never write another book but trump hopefully and also never write a book that is so topical as this one because the personnel changes that have happened so rapidly and pro

recognize certain special for the fact that we have service members serving right now in iraq and afghanistan, syriang along with the appreciation is very important. >> you're right, we have veterans from both sides of the aisle so let's certainly hope it doesn't become political today, let's take a look, let's get you doctor to respond to this, the lowest unemployment rate since 2000, annual military pay increase and expansion of private healthcare options, he also created the va accountability office and mental healthcare for transitioning service members, so he's done a lot doctor. >> i agree, going back to my time as army officer, it was a difficult task to rally the troops behind me or i should say under me to being a part of what's going on, when i say a part of what is going on, seems like the political climate was against them and congress to receive benefits as oppose to introducing more benefits, we have a president that's introducing more benefits for veterans and that's really a robust component for us as military members, i salute the president in his endeavor and happy to say that i've

afghanistan. today as we are here on the floor talking about our great veterans, there are soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, active duty in places all around the world including in syria, including afghanistan and iraq. after i was at this event in blue ash, ohio, i then went to columbus, ohio, and had the opportunity to go to the national veterans memorial museum. this is a new spectacular museum outside of columbus, ohio. it is something that we're very proud of in ohio. i took the lead here in the senate to try to be sure we had the national designation, and we have that now. it's the national veterans memorial museum. but it was funded almost entirely with private-sector dollars, over $75 million raised just from the private sector in the columbus central ohio area. president trump signed legislation into law last year to designate it as the national memorial. it is a beautiful way to pay tribute to our veterans mostly by stories. you walk in and there are story boards about different veterans experiences. the facility itself is inspiring , one of the finest architectural designs we're told in the country the year that it was built. when i went around and thanked

it used to have about $1 million income from the oil and gas of syria, so they still have branches in afghanistanraq and syria. the most dangerous thing, isis is still there — the corruption, the lack of good governance and the sectarianism, the anarchy. if you see, there is uprising in iraq and lebanon. we will come back to all of that because there is a lot to unpack there. butjust on this individual, the us president says he knows everything about the successor to al—baghdadi. what do you think about the role that he has played here? if we ask ourselves the question of where does this leave isis and its affiliates, the question of almost equal importance, is where does this leave mr trump, who managed, by the way in which he handled this, to grab defeat from the jaws of victory, in the sense that his account of the whimpering al—baghdadi is not supported by the joint chief of staff or the commander of central command or by the commander on the ground. all of them said that they do not know where this account comes from. it seems to me that... an excellent story in the new york times, by the wa

doesn't gates mean war zones in afghanistan pakistan iraq and syria as named operations the longest war so far in afghanistan and pakistan has had 2 names operation enduring freedom designated the 1st phase of war in afghanistan from october 2001 it was designated operation freedom's sentinel on the 1st generate 2015 the war in iraq was designated operation iraqi freedom from march 2003 to 31st of august 2010 when it became operation new dawn when the u.s. began to fight in syria and iraq the war was designated an operation and her resolve for ease of understanding the costs are not labeled here by the designation but by major war zone so they keep on changing the name of the war right well we know from social.

and in this case, a disinterested 2021 president that doesn't look at iraq doesn't look at syria or afghanistan as a priority instantly jumps back in the iran deal. i think a lot of this is tied over the next year to whether or not we get back into the iran deal. we will maligned their behavior in the region. you did not curb it. they built a land bridge. the best thing about building a land bridge is the protesters have occupied it. the protesters in iran are occupying the land bridge. this is the first time the region is rejecting iran without a you was hand in it, which is great. we could only mess this up. we have to continue to look at the problems through iraqis' eyes, but make sure we are talking to the right iraqis. to your point for these movements having separate agendas, i think that is great. it is organic and it hasn't turned into one movement. if it becomes one movement, it can attack other movements and become attacked. there is a strength that they don't have a coherent message. that is a good thing. >> i want to ask him a follow-up question. that we started with the cables, how

s the figures for afghanistan iraq syria and several african countries are simply left blank. we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for further military activities we are obliged to learn from overseas reporters from journalists on the scene where the wars are happening how many u.s. troops are there as well as what we've been obliged to learn that same way for years how much bombing is going on by both of those measurements trump increased most of the wars he inherited and then stopped reporting the information and in some cases clearly has continued to escalate or maintain levels of troops and bomb strikes well talking about his opposition to war and being reported on in the us media as a so-called opponent of the wars i think you've seen recent poll sware 16 percent of the u.s. public wants these wars to continue so 84 percent of us need to shut up where we're not as likely to shut up if we're told accurate information and so we have all this us so called journalism about trump the opponents of the war are strong the bringer of the troops home. the u.s. nati

that there are going to talk about difficult issues of course but she made it for says on on afghanistan on on syria and on libya and and the important thing i think what was said by chancellor merkel that germany intends to play an active part in this so germany it seems that germany is stepping up its military involvement in a lot of problems and that has a lot to do with the u.s. pulling out of certain areas and of course secretary prepare welcome to this and he said yes we're going to talk about a lot of different things and he also talked about his past his visit of course actually when he was stationed in germany back in the eighty's and he also said that both countries are you know good friends great friends and some point for them to continue working together. from politics thanks very much for your analysis. we're continuing our special coverage of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall there's no doubt that it brought about huge changes but where they all for the better as we report that depends on whether you're from eastern germany or from the west. 30 years ago on the night

figures for afghanistan iraq syria and several african countries are simply left blank we will not talk about numbers of troops or our plans for a further military activity. ok joining me on the line now is investigative journalist and author david swanson i welcome david. clarke is what's the explanation for this is bizarre to think you would have troops around the world and not know exactly how many is this plausible deniability if you don't know how many then you say well we don't know. well i think there are people within the u.s. military who in each individual case know how many whether anyone knows the total worldwide or for the collection of the largest current wars i don't know but certainly it's not available to the public in a clear manner and we're obliged to learn from overseas reporters from journalists on the scene where the wars are happening how many u.s. troops are there as well as what we've been obliged to learn in that same way for years how much bombing is going on by both of those measurements trump increased most of the wars he inherited and then stopped reportin

doesn't gates mean war zones in afghanistan pakistan iraq and syria as named operations the longest war so far in afghanistan and pakistan has had 2 names operation enduring freedom designated the 1st phase of war in afghanistan from october 2001 it was designated operation freedom's sentinel on the 1st of january 2015 the war in iraq was designated operation iraqi freedom from march 2003 to 31st of august 2010 when it became operation new dawn when the u.s. began to fight in syria and iraq the war was designated operation inherent resolve for ease of understanding the costs are not labeled here by their designation but by major wars and so they keep on changing the name of the war right well we know from sociologists and consumer scientists and marketeer that the most psychoactive word in the human sub conscious and conscious mind to get them interested in buying something is new. new and improved right those 2 words trigger a response like oh i might buy something of it's new so the marketers and the profiteers who run america's defense policy embrace this idea and so like instead of

doesn't gates mean war zones in afghanistan pakistan iraq and syria as named operations the longest war so far in afghanistan and pakistan has had 2 names operation enduring freedom designated the 1st phase of war in afghanistan from october 2001 it was designated operation freedom's sentinel on the 1st of january 2015 the war in iraq was designated operation iraqi freedom from march 2003 to 31st of august 2010 when it became operation new dawn when the u.s. began to fight in syria and iraq the war was designated operation inherent resolve for ease of understanding the costs are not labeled here by their designation but by major wars and so they keep on changing the name of the war right well we know from sociologists and consumer scientists and marketeer that the most psychoactive word in the human sub conscious and conscious mind to get them interested in buying something is new. new and improved right those 2 words trigger a response like oh i might buy something if it's new so the marketers and the profiteers who run america's defense policy. embrace this idea and so like instead of

syria. it reaches out to a wider point about what donald trump strategic vision for us military power is. he has said recently that in regard to both afghanistan interested in continuing to engage in endless war, as he puts it. he also says he is not interested in laying down american lives to defend thousands of miles of empty sand. on both counts, again, it seems to me that those are concepts that chime with feelings of many of his core supporters in heartland america. notjust with the core supporters but with others. i think he is tapping into a few things. one is intervention fatigue after these long and expensive and not very successful interventions in both afghanistan and iraq. there is a sense among many americans — and this cuts across party lines. a lot of what he says you see echoed by several democrats. a sense that we have done too much overseas and not enough at home. he is tapping into the wellsprings of american isolationism. america first resonates with many americans across party lines. but there are a couple of problems. one is what happens thousands of miles away, as we learnt on 9/11, can affect us. this gives us no protec