these are resistance groups that are defending syria against the plate that was unleashed upon syria and iraqas well by the united states by saudi arabia and a plague in which even russians have been bent hurt and russia's them huge amounts of work to support syria and. lebanon and iraq even in defending themselves and faulting the plague of that isis so you know how come no one says that hezbollah or the shah be all for example these groups in syria i'm not russian backed why iran but why why because the target is iran so why those groups is or israel put it move dangerously close to israel's borders led. well they're allowed to go anywhere within the border region of syria or iraq or lebanon this is their sovereign territory one might actually i ask why is israel occupying and stealing swathes of land in the golan which has no right to internet internationally it still owns it was stolen rather portions of lebanon such as the shebaa farms it has no rights over there i see no one questioning why israel is doing something or why israel is provoking the situation at the end of the day israel n

well israeli forces also carried out drone attacks in iraq and in syria israel did not respond to the accusations that it's a soft killed at least one fighter from iraq's popular mobilisation forces but benjamin netanyahu says the operation in damascus which triggered syrian anti-aircraft fire was to prevent a drone attack on israel by iran. if someone rises up to q you kill him 1st in a complicated operation revealed that iran dispatched a special unit off to syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drugs i'd like to emphasize this was an initiative of iran and we prevented serious attacks that we will expose any attempt by iran to attack us and any iranian effort to hide behind excuses we will not tolerate a aggressions against israel from any country in the region any country that allows its territory to be used for aggression against israel will face the consequences and i repeat the country will face the consequences when israel's actions triggered threats of retaliation from both iran and hezbollah and iranian government spokesman described the attacks as shame

one quick line so who's the nuclear state in the middle east that's a just a fact within one week iraq syria lebanon and palestine it's not iran it's israel was is an address the dishes 7 know what what was addressed iran that is not the nuclear state and that has not aggressed for other countries just briefly on china do you think we've had now trump is talking about the president being somebody he can deal with the in memory go he was an enemy what what what do we we think about that change looks we've heard over the last several months since the beginning of the year so many statements from the american presidents on china including some that said within a week within 10 days this month soon enough the chinese want a deal they cannot but have a deal we've heard it with heard it many many times now if we could have at the end i don't know but the general perception is among economists and sort of just is we're not going to have a deal that this is a war of attrition that the trade war is a war of attrition and that might last long mona sheriff thank you very much indeed as well from europe

all over the region israel in gaza lebanon syria iraq as well as saudi arabia and all since since friday i think all of these reports or of concern to us we're continuing to follow the situation closely and i think as as the secretary general has said and we consistently maintained the middle east region cannot afford any additional turmoil hundreds of venezuelan migrants held a protest at the ecuador colombia border demanding may be allowed to leave the country and they were stranded out their new visa controls went into effect on monday ecuador is the latest south american country to try to curtail the flood of venezuelans escaping economic and political turmoil at home say a new man has often spoken and ecuador. monday morning at the entrance to immigration at the ecuador colombia border. 12 hours earlier more than 10000 venezuelans had managed to enter ecuador with their identity documents before midnight deadline went into effect requiring them to hold a valid consular visa but hundreds more arrived too late for the. families being told that they must go back because they missed the

well israeli forces also carried out drone attacks in iraq and in syria israel did not respond to the accusations that it's a soft killed at least one fighter from iraq's popular mobilisation forces but benjamin netanyahu says the operation in damascus which triggered syrian anti-aircraft fire was to prevent a drone attack on israel by iran. if someone rises up to kill you kill him 1st in a complicated operation revealed that iran dispatched a special unit off to syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drugs i'd like to emphasize this was an initiative of iran and we prevented serious attacks that we will expose any attempt by iran to attack us and any iranian effort to hide behind excuses we will not tolerate aggressions against israel from any country in the region any country that allows its territory to be used for aggression against israel will face the consequences and i repeat the country will face the consequences well israel's actions triggered threats of retaliation from both iran and hezbollah and iranian government spokesman described the attacks as sham

fighting over the years from people in their families going to the region in syria and iraq to fight for i asked now this particular case deals with 4 children all under the age of $101.00 even is younger than 10 months who's also suffering from serious brain injury now the german authorities agreed to take these children it seems after a berlin court a few weeks ago ruled that these children must be taken back this is after months of the german government dragging their feet in trying to figure out exactly what to do with kids who have some sort of legal right to return to germany these children are said to be going to northern iraq where they're going to be seeing seeking medical care and when they're healthy enough they will continue on to germany ok so this is very much against the german government's wishes it seems let's see if some of what the german foreign minister must decide today. for lish. it's most welcome that for german children who had been in custody in northern syria were able to leave the country today and will advocate for other children to also be able to leave

in particular in the particular cases of syria iraq. partly yemen and lebanon and iran is playing a problematic role but then in other theaters would argue about saudi arabia that is playing you know the the primordial bad role so to speak so i think what we need is that we have we have to be critic critical views of both actors in the region and we have to understand that both saudi arabia and iran are playing the odds and in this kind of to mulch as you know geopolitics of the region the other question is how do we devise any kind of iran policy that is not strengthening the regime and you know that is not producing the kind of dynamic that you have laid down so what we've been seeing a decade ago is that the crippling sanctions regime you know imposed by the obama administration of course as you know we can civil society and strengthens those political economic actors within the regime with privileged access to resources and then you know can does externalize the costs of sanctions onto the civilian population so we see a similar dyn

all over the region israel and lebanon syria iraq as well as saudi arabia and that all since since friday i think all of these reports or of concern to us we're continuing to follow the situation closely and i think as as the secretary general has said and we consistently maintained the middle east region cannot afford any additional term or. lebanon's president has called the israeli drone strikes against his country an act of war the lebanese group hezbollah is promising to retaliate against israel iran says it will support hezbollah as actions is in beirut. hezbollah is burying its dead in its stronghold in southern beirut 2 of its fighters were killed in israeli airstrikes in neighboring syria on sunday night the lebanese armed group is promising retaliation it has told israel to be ready for response its leader has in a strong also threatened to shoot down any drone that violates lebanon's airspace after what he said was an attack by israeli drones in hezbollah's area of control in the lebanese capital hours earlier. if we remain silent on this breach it will create a very dangerous

it doesn't need to be syria, afghanistan or iraq, it can be worldwide and it can recruit online. having mass deployments and having permanent bases in places like syria iraq and afghanistan -- we should be bringing those troops home, we should be doing strategic anti-targeted missions. just like we did to take out bin laden. that's the strength of our military today. and we should be investing far more in cyber defense and cyber warriors, getting the best and the brightest out of our best schools around america to serve this country and protect our democracy. our vetting infrastructure to protect our infrastructure for energy, to make sure that we can't have terrorist attacks around the country. that's the priority to keep america safe. not long term deployments that frankly result in more not less terrorism. >> senator gillibrand, thank you. >> thank youp p. >> thank you. >> the senator just mentioned the nra, today three more resignations in a leadership upheave il. this time a nascar owner and country music star. >>> president trump may be talking up the economy, but his team

does it stabilize iraq or syria? victories are in fractured companies. iran is seriously fractured. yemen is fractured. the pressure is to lessen the ability of iran to further fracture these countries. are we successful, no. every two years, we change of the strategy. it is a red skin analogy. we run wars like daniel snyder runs the redskins, change of the team every two years and we never get there. and whether or not it is in the jordan times, why not? it is a newspaper. to the gentleman with the mustache. [laughter] once upon a time in washington, d.c. >> i'm so glad i decided to grow this yesterday. [laughter] real quick, big kudos. my name is guy taylor and i'm the national security editor at the washington times. this panel is pretty rare these days. it is so important. a lot of people know that. with regard to the reports this morning, of another down to u.s. perhaps yemen, four and -- for banam perhaps or possibly , is this something the humans would have ordered or something the hootie's would have done on their own? the second thing, brian, you mentioned arab nato, but i'

one is in terms of its intelligence coverage over remember on -- lebanon, syria ad iraq. second is its ability in air power. israel is able to kind of lop off the low hanging fruits, so to speak, of the iranian project whenever they get too close to looking really dangerous. for example, it appears that israel has prevented an iranian attempt to equip their missiles in lebanon with precision-guided devices. it'll turn them into much more dangerous missiles that would have an accuracy radius of around 10 meters. israel, it a appears, has prevented that. but when it comes to the broader iranian project of, in a certain sense, trying to hollow out those systems and societies in iraq, syria and lebanon and replace them with iran-controlled power structures, yeah, it's very hard to see how that could be prevented by air warfare. i think, frankly, it cannot be. which means what we're looking at is the likelihood of continued iranian attempts to consolidate, probably successful in all three countries, and then as you said, periodic israeli actions to stop the danger from growing

inspector general warning that despite losing its territorial caliphate, the islamic state in iraq and syriaisis solidified its insurgent capabilities in iraq. jbie, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. so you are surprised by this report. why? >> no, this is -- you know, isis 3.0, 4.0, depends on how you keep track. we all saw that isis was not defeated back earlier this year despite the claims. thousands of isis members didn't just fade away. they went across the river to iraq. some of them went into the countryside in syria. but they're still there. what is surprising in this report and to people on the ground is how quickly they've come back in tearus places, particularly in parts of eastern syria and northern and western iraq and how organized and systemic they are. they're not just doing random attacks, going after leaders in local towns and provinces. the iraqs come in, they try to clear them out and they're back again that evening. so it's that situation. it's pretty dangerous. >> back in 2015, this was the height of their power, the caliphate was big. in red, you can

the main problem is really that a lot of isis fighters got away they got away to syria so for that moment iraq war's yeah it was sort of safe but since then isis was beaten in syria and isis fighters and their families were taken to camps in the area of syria and in iraq since then really just about daily and sometimes more more than one times a day we have attacks by people who are affiliated to isis who have sympathy for isis we don't know if there are sleeper cells. and the army these days is actually working on a on a big. campaign in 2 areas trying to get rid of these people and one of the reasons why this report is getting so much attention is because turkey is saying that it wants to finally install this safe zone across the border now that border is already guarded by a big wall why exactly want to have this zone as well is not quite clear but what is clear that if this happens that the syrian ports will have to take over their ministry to that place to that area because it's quite a big area and they will no longer be able to guards isis in the camps and already we've had people escap

similar to a declaration of war and our country has a right to defend itself a series of attacks syria lebanon iraq and people are pointing the finger at israel . at least. they owned up to that last attack and usually accusations that israel's attacked another sovereign nation are met with silence from tel aviv but this time benjamin netanyahu justified the attack claiming iran was targeting his country with explosive drones according to him the situation was kill or be killed but logan. if someone rises to kill you rise up and kill him 1st in a complicated operation by our security forces we determine that iran's quds force dispatched a special unit of militants into syria to kill israelis on the golan heights with explosive drones i would like to emphasize that this was an initiative of iran under the command of iran at the behest of iran. netanyahu often harps on about the supposed dangers of iran but when it comes to the facts the islamic republic is often on the receiving end of military violence about a year ago israel struck nearly all of iran's military structures inside syria it was the c

but the report if you look at it offers some very worrisome signs for iraq and syria. iraq the defense forces have not been able to contain isis in the northern parts of the country and that isis is actually trying to exacerbate the tensions that exist between the iraqi security forces and the kurdish forces up in the north. so i'm deeply concerned about where they're going to iraq as well. >> both of you have mentioned afghanistan. this comes at a time when the president is considering withdrawing from afghanistan where isis has become a really threat there as well. how, barbara, is this impacting to you think those conversations? >> well, the president has made it very clear that after some 18 years he wants to see that forever war, as some people might call it, end, and he wants to bring u.s. troops home and he's talked about bringing them home before the 2020 presidential election. but for most presidents have learned over the years that politics doesn't always dictate the best military policy. and he's being told by pentagon officials don't bring all the troops home ju

think about it like a forest fire in california which was burning instead in syria and in iraq.ks headed toward baghdad. they were controlling huge swathes of territory. we managed to push them off that territory, but like a forest fire there were still embers burning on the ground there. when you walk away from embers on the floor of a forest, it's going to resurge. that's what's happened not only in syria, iraq, in that terribly conflicted border region, but also in afghanistan, where this latest event has occurred. we have to remember, by the way, as recently as easter in sri lanka we saw the islamic state kill 250 at nine christian churches and injure about 1,000 people. so they're very much in the game. we need to be forward to deal with that. a premature pullout in order to facilitate 2020 election campaign slogan'reing is not good geopolitics or good for american security. >> and peter, this is part of a longer conversation to come. but there's no one around the president saying no. there's no one left in the national security team. there's a brilliant piece by susan glas

to envelope israel from all of the sides through hezbollah which is effectively iran through syria through iraq and even through gaza it's like a big octopus sending its arms in order to strangle israel israel has no issue with iran if iran would focus inward on on its own people and stop trying to destroy israel as it explicitly says it will do and if amending terror around the world we would have no issue with iran however iran has decided to attack israel to build forces and to strangle israel but we're not going to wait with defense systems you don't win by playing defense you have to preempt and that's what we will do the problem you have is very new slate this oil brought over the world. and because no one no one calls it to account it's allowed to get away with essentially murder. it's targeted and hit 3 separate sovereign countries in the past few days i see no one questioning why israel is doing something or why israel is provoking the situation at the end of the day israel needs to understand that iran has said this time and time again that look you're playing with fire don't do this

ridden areas borders drawn after world war one left the kurdish region straddling 4 states turkey syria iraq and iran. this has resulted in uprisings of violence and wars that still continue today. most recently against so-called islamic state over the decades millions of people have been displaced some fled to isolated mountain areas. kurdistan's wildlife has also been badly affected many species are now endangered but there is new hope in the car a dark region of northern iraq thanks to dedicated conservationists. summer temperatures can exceed 40 degrees celsius here in the carriage in the kurdistan region of iraq that's why biologist hanna rosin and her colleague corner a shout out like to get an early start they're looking for traces of the biggest predator here a leopard that's considered the spirit of the current. the look great it's a flat ship species so it's very important it's on top predator so it's on top of the food chain. the persian leopard is virtually invisible people who live here in the mountains of colorado know with the leopard but furry few have ever seen it. even hann

perhaps the main problem is really that a lot of isis fighters got away they got away to syria so for that moment iraq war yeah it was sort of safe but since then isis was beaten in syria. isis fighters and their families were taken to camps in this area of syria and in iraq since then really just about daily and sometimes more more than one times a day we have attacks by people who are affiliated to isis who have sympathy for i says we don't know it except there are sleeper cells. and the army these days is actually working on a on a big campaign in 2 areas trying to get rid of these people and so do you think moving is actually achievable is it actually possible to remove all i saw fighters because it's an ideology isn't it and is that not where the strategy needs to be focused on on combating the ideology. yes this is the main problem meaning on the one hand you have all these people in the camps in syria amongst them 10000 . fighters they are there. it's together in one camp or in 2 camps and they are radicalizing themselves even further their life happened in the prisons that the americans had fo

gary is arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened a new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions . we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for it syrian allies. sought what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also where france is no we was killed in june 2015. v.m.s. that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionist did agree to meet but did not want to go on camera not just the workers are refusing to talk to us but even the local t.v. station what we do know is that the workers a. huge amount of pressure if v.m.s. that fails to complete an order their bonuses are cut was growing i

says iraq instead of iran you just translator but how do you know that he for sure says iran and syria iraq well it's intuition it's intuition that comes with experience that come with hours and hours of work. on the other hand you take a risk in simultaneous interpretation you cannot ask the person in consecutive interpretation when you sit near him yes it is possible if you have doubts to to ask but it's undesirable you don't want to do it in both cases in simultaneous interpretation the choice is either you're correct when you are 100 percent sure or you say iraq and say that's what the speaker has said even though you assume that probably human iran so this kind of thing people sometimes. misspeak yes. that happens. and then also there must be some difficulties understanding certain accents i'm sure not now accents are as accessible as american or british i don't you even mention somewhere nigerian action for instance if you're sitting in samuel tennessee translating this top level meeting and we don't we understand why that person has sat what happens. normally you know i was lucky i m

syria. the report says isis has between 14,000 to 18,000 members in iraq and syria and the opportunity to recruitom among tens of thousands of refugees living in poorly guarded camps. the u.s. has 5,200 troops in iraq and nearly 1,000 in syria where the top commander for the middle east general frank mckenzie told cbs news u.s. special forces are helping local tribes track down isis fighters. >> they try to get in an empty kwr quarter of desert. >> is it gaining strength in your opinion? >> it is complicated. there are certainly places isis is more powerful today than they were three or four years ago. >> in afghanistan isis claimed responsibility for the weekend's bombing of a wedding party killing nearly 70 civilians. >> isis is conducting attacks in africa as well but the deadliest branch is in afghanistan. isis has killed some 800 people there in the past year. >> a banker from connecticut has a court date in the caribbean thursday. scott hapgood is charged with manslaughter in the beating death of a hotel employee on the island of anguilla. hapgood insists it is self-defense. >> he was vacat

also complicated the situation in syria and has proclaimed the creation of the state in parts of syria and iraq. while american planes were bombing i saw in syria the also enabled kurdish groups to take control of certain areas of northern syria in october 25th teen and proclaim a kurdish province there. this could be seen as encouraging the idea of a federal division of syria as well as causing alarm bells for neighboring countries. in syria they are trying to get some kind of control with the help of russia united states and. iranian regime and a count on like has been lost in the one on a defacto hobby tutt where internationally they may not be recognized but de facto they will operate all of that and continue to talk at all create kinds of problems in the region. in mid. 15 there were armed clashes in turkey between the government of friendship and the one and the p.k. case. the kurdish p.t.t. founded in 1978 once a political entity of its own independent. in there is a better model put this on and on. just the middle feet intifada. tiny. intifada. i had the home and there will. be lot to q

gary has arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories were reopened and new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions. we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the us government buys for it syrian allies. sought what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also with france's no we are was killed in june 2015. v.m.s. that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionist did agree to meet but did not want to go on camera not just the workers are refusing to talk to us but even the local t.v. station what we do know is that the workers a. huge amount of pressure if v.m.s. that fails to complete an order their bonus is a cut was growing int

gary as arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened and new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions. we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for its syrian allies. so what is home to state manufacture of v.m.s. that. it is also with france's no we it was killed in june 2015. the ems that has been struggling to modernize and not fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionists did agree to meet but did not want to go on camera not just the workers are refusing to talk to us but even the local t.v. station what we do know is that the work has a. huge amount of pressure if v.m.s. that fails to complete an order their bonus is a cut was growing inte

big areas arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria brought new demand. factories where we opened a new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions . we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the u.s. government buys for its syrian allies. so what is home to state arms manufacturer v.m.s. that. it is also with france's no we it was killed in june 2015. the ems that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its 1st incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over 2 months. when we contacted v.m.s. that to find out more its management declined to speak to us. 2 leading trade unionists did agree to meet but did not want to go on camera not just the workers are refusing to talk to us but even the local t.v. station what we do know is that the workers a. huge amount of pressure if v.m.s. that fails to complete an order their bonus is a cut was g

he says she arrived in syria in 2014 and lived in iraq and di yes control she has been living in a kurdish come with her 2 children for 2 years. so it's very difficult for the children my son is 4 years old i send him here to school he has to learn something i want to learn something too it's already been 2 years that's time i won't get back i hope we'll get picked up so that we can get a 2nd chance. one out of many stories us pressure on the german government grows to bring more of its citizens back from syria and political correspondent william cross with us tell us more about today's decision why is this decision coming now. well it's coming after a month as we just heard in the report of growing pressure on germany that's really been dragging its feet the governments have been dragging its feet for months now and what to do with german i asked fighters are their families and their kids and their legal rights and coming back to germany now we've been seeing this court ruling that was also mentioned earlier saying that the kids have to come back they do have a legal right to come back to

troops in syria it comes just days after a suspected this really drone attacks in. iraq. live from our international news center this is our international my names you know meal of the world cup. we begin in the u.s. a judge in oklahoma has ruled that the drug maker johnson and johnson is responsible for driving the state's opioid crisis and ordered it to pay a $572000000.00 fine he said the pharmaceutical giant run a full sun dangerous marketing campaign which doesn't play the risk of addiction and directing country bruited to it johnson and johnson said it will appeal the decision with a look at the implications of the case. got a landmark ruling today in oklahoma the drug manufacturer johnson and johnson a giant big pharmaceutical company in the united states has been found guilty and has been ordered to pay $572000000.00 to the state of oklahoma in order to deal with the ongoing opioid epidemic in the united states this is the 1st time that a big pharmaceutical manufacturers corporation has gone to trial in a case alleging responsibility regarding the opioid crisis th