through legal repression and that's why i mean before we seen what we've seen today that he's been tackett it by. the political establishment so he's not going to be in bali a month but that doesn't mean that is not going to be in politics but what does his departure from bali meant mean for thai politics well. of course thai politics is i mean if you were there was a simple thing is if you want to push through a law or in the right now the party's mission is to change the constitution you have to do it that's for the parliament so without he being in the parliament that kind of spearheaded the leadership would be missing and i think the establishment kind of believes that the part he is at by tonight on. and i think that would affect the leadership of the party is this a message that these debates been destroying to send to other political parties to draw the line. absolutely but i mean this is not the 1st kid. previously we have political leaders of opposition parties being charged and tried but i think more and more that this has become normalized less and less people would feel that th

tackett shot that there was. a bit of a neutrality in the works and then the kurds decided to abandon that neutrality for the sake of what we now see to be a very short sleeved alliance with the americans in hindsight do you think it was a mistake to for the courage to align themselves with the pentagon at the time back in 2015 of the moment they were facing this existence will it by isis by. terrorism. what happened in many parts of the. bonding. with the constant through. the kurdish communities so they were looking for support or for. that assistance from other countries that. seized on the fortunate to step in to provide. logistical support for the. forces they formed. so really it was our current of. being as a support to the way. in order to follow their common enemy but there could should not see themselves. out of younes to be honest with you too far to be good fighters and so on the should have a political agenda. we are using all up influence to encourage them really to be part of the political process

least 9 people have been killed and several others injured and a strike in northwestern syria it tackett 2 villages on the main road from damascus to aleppo an area that remains under the control of rebels. president bashar assad says he aims to retake the region soon syrian observatory for human rights says the air strikes were conducted by russia. a power transmission towers collapsed in egypt at least 5 people were killed when a pylon came down local media reports say that several others were injured in the incident it happened in keizer governorates just outside of the capital cairo. of the 1000000 a men trying can politics is back in charge former defense minister got to buy rajapakse has been declared the winner of saturday's vote is rival. conceded as a result rajapaksa more than 50 more than the 50 percent mark required to avoid a 2nd count than it's method ports now from colombia. to his supporters mainly from the sin hello produce majority got a buyer rajapaksa is the president sri lanka needs they believe he can strengthen security after the easter sunday suicide bomb attacks

. >> a recent graduate but you mentioned briefly the shifting tackett to target children can you speak more how terrorist organizations are doing that and how we respond to that and the radicalization efforts that grow up with extreme ideology such as a rack and syria. >> this is getting a tremendous amount of attention from our european partners who have this much worse than we do there is a lot of children born in the caliphate their fathers may have been killed and europeans are struggling with what do they do. there has been a willingness to bring the orphans back. some countries are now talking about trying to bring women and children back but the social services issue associated with how you deal with these kids and what kind of mental shape they are in is an area of concern. >> we have learned a lot about the islamic state over the years that sounds like extremism through the isis project that is used by government as well so what do you think from what we know about isis can be predictive of what it will become next last time we had the general here and he talked about the stra

in particular tom tackett was stationed in the philippines at the time of the attack at pearl harbor.ived the brutal bataan death march and three and half leaders in a japanese prison of war camp unbroken. he returned to service as an air force judge advocate upholding the rule of law until his death in 1965. today i appeared before you once again under subpoena as a fact witness ready to answer all of your questions about the events add to bill it was in this inquiry to but the best of my ability and recollection subject to the limits placed on me by the law and this process. i will begin with some opening comments on the key principles at the heart of what brings me before you today. 28, principal public service in pursuit of our enduring national interests in the place of ukraine national security interests. for the past five years we have focused our united efforts across the atlantic to support ukraine in its fight for the cause of freedom and the rebirth of a country free from russian dominion and the work legacy of soviet institutions in post-soviet behavior. as i stated in my