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it is crucial that we understand how the iraq war went so long. go back to beginning of the sto! story. it is tempting to ask, wa if. what if there is someone who could is have warned us what could have happened if we invaded iraq. in fact there was one man who did just that. >> once you got to iraq and took it over, and took down saddam hussein's government, then what you going to put in its place? it is a volatile part of the world, and if you take down the government of iraq, then what happens? it is a quagmire. >> that is right. dick cheney predicted that iraq would be a quagmire. and flash forward to 2003, dick cheney appeared on "meet the press" with the late tim russert. >> then the iraqi people would be liberated. >> if you are wrong, do you believe that the american people are prepared for a long, costly and bloody battle with significant american casualties? >> i don't think it is likely to unfold that way, tim, because i believe that we will be greeted as liberators. >> so what changed dick cheney and why was george w. bush so determined to go to war in iraq? >> #/11 is

and, yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. has shown his face publicly only once. last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. >> the americans seem to see abu bakr as someone who could keep the prison quiet. there are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasn't considered from everything that we know now a high-level detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. those inmates were jihadists or former ba'athists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. >> it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionably. >> put them all together in the baking heat of southern iraq, with al baghdadi, a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror, it was a recipe for isis. >> they were meeting, they were playing soccer together, they

welcome to the news hour live from al jazeera's headquarters in doha. iraq opportunity scrutiny, the prime minister says he doesn't need foreign troops to fight i.s.i.l. others disagree. an al jazeera executi-exclude s. koreans take for the streets in seoul on anti-government protests. >> we are now investigating these horrific acts as an act of terrorism >>> but the f.b.i. says there is no hard evidence that the couple behind the mass shooting in california acted on instructions from i.s.i.l. our top stories so far tad. the debate is intensifying about foreign nations contributing to ground forces to combat i.s.i.l. in iraq. prime minister bashar al-assad says his forces are able to forb i.s.i.l. out alone. >> reporter: kurdish peshmerga troops keep watch on i.s.i.l. positions. they've had recent success in retap touring territory from i.s.i.l. in sinjar. they are hopeful they can defeat the armed group in other parts of the company with help from their allies. >> translation: until now the international coalition has been using air strikes. you want to end

and, yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. ublicly only once. last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. >> the americans seem to see abu bakr as someone who could keep the prison quiet. there are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasn't considered from everything that we know now a high-level detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. those inmates were jihadists or former ba'athists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. >> it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionably. >> put them all together in the baking heat of southern iraq, with al baghdadi, a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror, it was a recipe for isis. >> they were meeting, they were playing soccer together, they were strategizing tog

the surge. we injected 35,000 new troops into iraq. the idea was to solidify political gains that had been made at the grassroots, local level. i'm talking village by village, city by city, much less province by province. the awakening was what? sunni tribes in western-central iraq lorded over by al-qaeda in iraq which had outstayed its welcome. eventually, the jihadists were seen as another form of foreign occupation of iraq. they stole the money, they impinged on the black and gray market economies, they assassinated the tribal leadership, they raped the women. so the tribes said we had enough. we don't like the americans, but at least the americans when dayy come in and expel the terrorists, they don't kick us out of our own homes. so they partnered with us in a very pragmatic fashion, and it worked up until the point that it didn't work, and that was when the u.s -- forget about a military withdrawal from iraq -- politically disengaged, handed the country to nouri al-maliki who was, essentially, you know, a puppet of iran, and who j

almost all are sunni and they have suffered at the hands of iraq's shiite government. >> first of all, instead of anarchy, they now have law and order. i ask if they like the security? they take taxes. they take care of the poor. >> bizarrely, isis even reaches out to the disabled. this is a recruitment video for deaf jihadis who wish to join isis. >> isis minders kept him away from only one group. he was not permitted to speak to or even go near a single woman. >> and you think that you would win the war? >> perhaps the most astonishing thing he heard from both isis soldiers and leaders is this. >> they want to provoke the united states to bring ground troops to the country. >> it's a clear target. they want the americans to bring their boots on the ground. they want to fight the americans. that's their dream, the ultimate fight against americans. that's what they want. that's what they hope. >> they do want to fight the americans on their own terms. in this regard, isis has a different dream than al qaeda. osama bin laden wanted to perpetrate large scale terror attacks against the w

mission statement right now for the operation in iraq? >> well, congressman, you're getting to the heart of our strategy. and this is not only the part that is essential, but also the part that makes it difficult to achieve. and that is that we want a victory over isil that sticks. and that means forces that participate in the recapture of territory, and thereafter govern it in a decent manner, so that we don't have a new wave of isil or isil coming back. that's necessary in both iraq and syria. those are two different cases. that's why we pursue multi-sectarian governance, decentralized multi-sectarian governance in the state of iraq, and why we're trying to find a solution to the civil war. while it's important to defeat isil, it's important to defeat them in a lasting way. and that is a critical part of the strategy and the reason why we are so intent upon identifying and enabling capable and motivated local forces. >> chairman dunford, can you just answer that question, what is general mcfarland's mission statement? >> to degrade and d

and, yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. n his face publicly only once. last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. >> the americans seem to see abu bakr as someone who could keep the prison quiet. there are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasn't considered from everything that we know now a high-level detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. those inmates were jihadists or former ba'athists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. >> it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionably. >> put them all together in the baking heat of southern iraq, with al baghdadi, a man who dreamed of a new kind of terror, it was a recipe for isis. >> they were meeting, they were playing soccer together, they were stra

security council in 2003, we made him a hero and gave him a platform, which i the war in iraq, which he wanted to fight americans. >> host: joby warrick is our guest. phone numbers on the screen. there are other ways of getting ahold of us. you can't get through on the phone lines. there are other ways as well on social media,@booktv is our twitter handle and facebook.com/book tv. you can leave a comment, miami book fair. joby warrick, it's isis. it's isil, islamic state, al qaeda, iraq, al qaeda, what is the arc and the sequence of all these names and all these different organizations? >> guest: all comes from the same tree which is this fanatical jihaddist movement that rows from the afghan civil wars. all these arab muslims went to afghanistan to fight the communists, and from that insurgency we got a group of men who felt they were successful, they defeated a super power, and they had this global vision of being able to take control, to restore the muslim world to this caliphate that once existed hundreds of years ago, and so it was -- that is really where it started and then so m

i would like to return to the discussion about faith force in iraq. looking at her our position for the future of iraq and syria were political outcomes in iraq do you envision and what is your assessment of prime minister abbadi and whether those reforms are going to be enough? you have to be able to try to keep them at their station but they are not buying into it politically. so what is the political consequences that would need to happen in iraq in order to maintain and gain more books to become --. >> the political future that we are supporting in iraq and prime minister abbadi says he supports, and i've spoken to him and i believe he supports it is difficult to accomplish is a multi-sectarian but decentralized iraqi state in which, shia and sunni can live together under one state, have a reasonable amount of self-governance, not by isil to these territories but by people who can do a civilized job of governing sunni territory and the and shia all living together under one state, decentralization and self-governance as appropriate but under one st

now, the progress in the sunni portions of iraq as mentioned by mr. smith is the campaign to recapture ramadi shows has been slow. much to our and prime minister abadi's frustration. despite his efforts, sectarian politics and iranian influence have made building a multi-sectarian iraqi security force difficult with notable exceptions such as the effective u.s. trained counter terrorism forces. we continue to offer additional u.s. support of all kinds and urge baghdad to enroll, train, arm, and pay sunni arab fighters. as well as local sunni arab police forces to hold territory recaptured from isil. all these efforts from northern syria through iraq have slunk the isil-controlled territory in both. importantly, we now have an opportunity to divide isil's presence in iraq from that in syria. this could be important because while both countries are plagued by isil, each as i said earlier has different political pathologies that provide the opportunity for extremism and they ultimately require different kinds of political progress to ensure lasting victor

i -- >> talks about the desperation in iraq. i just had an email from someone who i will keep anonymous because they're working in qqa. they say this. daesh are the death that is stretching from the ice. when you see them, it is if you are seeing the angle of death. they're in raqqa right now. howe can i carry on exposing my chide to severed heads and bodies on a daily basis. a mother in raqqa. >> well i agree with my honourable friend. the reality we have to acknowledge, whether we like it or not, isil is at war with us. we don't have to pretech some case about weapons of mass destruction nor is this a threat of citizens of country from their own government. these are about people at war with us and our values and our society. this is not a are with of choice. around i haven't spoken to anyone, mr. speaker, who demurs from the proposition that isil must be denied the territory that they currently control. and while the defeat of isil and its ideology will be the worth of many years, even decades, retaking of this territory is an

the iraq he army advanced on the city from multiple directions.he offense of to reclaim the and bar provincial capital from the islamic state has been months in the making -- the offensive to reclaim the anbar provincial capital. >> our antiterrorism heroes into the city of ramadi and advance in the enemy's direction. a number of ruby track houses and vehicles were destroyed -- a number of boobytrapped houses and vehicles were destroyed. reporter: iraq says it's air force is providing air support to the troops on the ground. baghdad chose to leave pro-government shia militias out of the operation. in the past, human rights organizations have accused iranian backed groups of abusing sunni iraqis. the iraqi military dropped leaflets urging residents to leave before the attack began, but up to 30,000 are expected to be still in the city. christopher: let's get more from our correspondent via skype from iraq. thanks for joining us. do we know anything yet about the number of casualties in the fighting in ramadi on either side? >> it is indeed very dif

the u.s. army back when it was in iraq. true certainly that isil grew out of the ashes of al qaeda in iraq, which sprang up -- it was very largely sunni and bathist, but it had a heavy component.ired al zarqawi came from jordan.of e the core leadership remains iraqi and many of them were former sunni-bathists. so saddam hussein's former people. but when we came in and toppled saddam, they went into the opposition. people wonder if there was a different path. this if we had a different strategy g with regard to the bathist, er: might we have forestalled this l entire situation. >> hi, phillip. >> caller: hey. how are you doing? >> please go ahead. >> caller: yes, i have a coupler of questions for linda.ho in history, how many air campaigns have ever won a war? >> why do you ask that questioni phillip? >> caller: because it's been brought up we're launching in all kinds of air strikes. how many special forces have ever won a war? >> given your rhetorical questions, we'll get an answer tota those.my that question that you ask,

what's new now is that the iraq government, which complained it wasn't informed, "the raids in iraq will be done at the invitation of the iraqi government... this force will also be in a position to conduct unilateral operations into syria." but only a tiny force will be carrying out those raids... little change to a strategy critics say is too slow and underestimates the isis threat. "after down playing isis as a local group, us intelligence officials now say the group does have international aspirations and is an international threat, yet there remains no coordinated strategy to fight isis. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul." and while the u-s only saw 15 arrests for isis related activities in 2014 that number has more than tripled with at least 56 people being u-s so far in 2015. a recall of food products containing celery potentially contaminated with the e.coli bacteria has widely expanded. the f-d-a has expanded the recall to now include more than 155-thousand items at several major grocery stores. those inlcude costco, target, walmart, sam's club, and safeway, primarily in the wes

but equally, few are as tarnished by the iraq war hangover. still, blair says the western and its middle east allies must go all-out to defeat what he calls isis and its modern form of fascism. he joined me here in the studio to talk strategy. and i asked him whether he accepted that the u.s. and the uk remain so scarred by the u.s. war debacle that they've kept a hands off syria policy. tony blair, welcome to the program. you have said that you support isis being defeated by all means necessary. right now there is an air campaign against isis with a little bit of ground forces. that enough? is that all means? >> it probably won't nt be enough. and we have to defeat them by whatever it takes to defeat them and the idea of the so-called caliphate. they've got to be defeated completely and defeated in syria and iraq and libya and other places where they are. now actually as a result of what the americans in particular have done in these last weeks, there has been a stepping up of the support for a ground campaign. and you need a combination of ai

to expand it's use of special forces on the ground, in iraq. nd potentially in syria. >> back home, 16 lebanese soldiers freed in the prisoner swap with syrias front rebels.

the same thing in iraq. okay. they managed to defeat saddam hussein, removed him from power and then execute him, but what happened after that? the problem is, okay, victory can be achieved, but we have to have plans after victories. even if -- do we have any plans -- what will happen to the middle east after we defeat, if we defeat the islamic state? nobody can tell us about the future of syria. nobody can tell us the future of iraq. how can we create coexistence between the sunni and the shia in that part of the world? this is the most important thing. >> you mentioned some external vulnerabilities of islamic state. the question, i think, was about internal vulnerabilities. do you see anything inside the administration that might weaken the organization? >> yes. you know, external and internal are actually related. we cannot separate the external from the internal vulnerability. that's the most important thing, you know, because usually the internal vulnerability is feeded by outside. i mean, the region itself or

we are gathering momentum on the battlefield in syria and iraq. we are to accelerate the and we arempaign asking more of our global partners. i can't describe everything in this unclassified setting but i will give as much detail as possible. we are at war. using the might of the finest fighting force the world is a known. tens of thousands of u.s. personnel are operating in the broader middle east region. more are on the way. advising onare ground operations. they are engaging isil in the last remaining pockets of access into turkey. a coalition of syrian arabs that are fightingip alongside kurdish forces that have recaptured important terrain. at least 900 square kilometers of the surrounding territory. they are now focused on moving --th to isolate icicles isil's nominal capital. we've seen increased coalition airstrikes. we deployed additional strike aircraft to the air base in turkey. we have significantly increased our airstrikes against isil. , weuild on that momentum are sending, on president obama's orders, special forces personnel to syri

forces are increasing daily. >> this is at the apex of iraq going to hell. surge has just started. and the war went from incredibly violent to over the top violent, especially in baghdad. >> we would get blown up regularly. snipers shooting at us. never really tell who the enemy was. >> soldiers from the u.s. army's bravo company 216, including specialist ethan mccord, are on patrol in a rundown neighborhood called new baghdad. early that morning the battalion comes under mortar fire as it leaves the base. while the soldiers patrol, they hear sporadic gunfire. >> this area had been a troublesome area so bravo company was tasked out to go in and kind of flush people out. >> two apache helicopters are providing air support and cameras mounted on their gun sights are recording the mission. wikileaks added the subtitles on the video, but the audio you hear is the pilot's actual radio chatter. >> we got a target coming at you. >> the pilots spot a group of men they suspect are insurgents carrying weapons. >> have individuals with weapons. >> he's got a weapon, too

so, should we on those grounds, abandon action in iraq although we undertake it at the request of iraq's government and it does seem to be making a difference? should we take no further action against daesh, who are themselves killing innocent people and striving to kill more every day of the week? or should we simply leave it to others. would we make ourselves a bigger target for daesh attack? we are a target. we will remain a target. there's no need to wonder about it. daesh has told us so and continues to with every day that passes. we may as well take them not just at their word, but in deed, at their deeds. they have sought out our fellow country men and women to kill. including aid workers and other innocents and whatever we decide today, there is no doubt that they will do so again. nor is the consequence of inaction simply daesh controlling more territory, more land. we've seen what happens when they take control. the treatment of groups such as the yezidis in all its who should surely make us unwilling to contemplate any further extension of daesh controlled territory. in action

the iraqi government. this is an act of aggression against iraq, and without any prior knowledge or concern from the government of iraq. >> meanwhile british defense minister said two typhoon fighter jets successfully hit an oil field in the east of the country. the typhoon bombers arrived on thursday bolstering it's strike for of tornado warplanes. >> the city of homs has been under seen for at least three years. trucks carrying medicine and other provisions entered the suburb. the cease-fire began this week. >> now the stand off continues after the turkish government says entered it's air pace. turkish authorities have stop russian ships in the port. the vessels are said to pre to prevent the leaving of the port. al jazeera's bernard smith has this update from istanbul. >> we understand from turkish officials that they're expecting four russian cargo vessels in port. they said they're exercising their right to do so. normally they don't prevent them from leaving port. the suggestion is that this is some sort of tit-for-tat action not only for russia delaying a turkish vessel but also the economic sanctions t

is a direct threat to iraq and the government of iraq. i also added to that what's happened in tikrit since that has been taken. we've seen 70% of the population returning to the city. later on in the debate i'm sure we'll talk about the importance of humanitarian aid and reconstruction that can only work if you have good government in those towns and the absence of isil. a little bit of progress and i will take more intervention including from the different political parties in this house. mr. speaker since my statement that house has had an opportunity to ask westerns about the security experts. i've arranged a briefing for the members as well as more detailed briefings. i've spoken further to the allies including president obama, chancellor merkel and the king of jordan. the king in jordan has written in the telegraph today expressing his wish for britain to stand with jordan and eliminating this global threat. i've also listened carefully to the questions asked by members on all sides of the house and i hope the members can see the inf

is the government in iraq is a shiite government. it basically includes neither kurds more sunnies. >> you have araised a very interesting point. i'm intrigued by the points claimed by isil. this is them talking about what is going on across the border. treatment number one is deal with isil. stream number two is then address the issue of bashar al-assad. between stream one and stream two, if the continuity of those moderate fighters on the ground begins to break down what does the u.s.-led coalition do at that point? >> okay, well we're talking about again about syria. the main forces are the kurdish forces and they're not going to advance beyond the kurdish areas basically along the border of turkey. it is unclear even if isil is pushed back, the only force that is going to be able to push back and destroy isil and syria is going to be the syrian government. and at the moment that's not acceptable to the united states and a well, the gulf states and turkey. but there isn't a plausible non-kurdish moderate force that is going to be a

the basic framework is the same for iraq and syria. the conditions on the ground present unique challenges. without a partner on the ground, syria has promoted the most difficult challenge. success in syria requires working with our turkish partners to secure the northern border of syria. in iraq, we have a partner in supporting development of iraqi and kurdish security forces and enabling the operations with intelligence, advisers, logistics, and combined armed support. we have quickly outlined what we must do in the military campaign. let me provide my initial assessment of how we are doing. continuously examining ways to enhance the effectiveness of our operations. many weeks ago, the leadership across the department recognized we need to increase pressure on isil by improving the effectiveness of our strikes and accelerating our efforts to develop support on the ground. in short, we are not satisfied we are doing everything possible to defeat the enemy. while recognizing isolate is a trans regional threat requiring a broader strateg

recently, and during the iraq war northern lebanon was some of the palestinian camps in lebanon were areas where they were trained and sent to fight in iraq this has developed with much more checks. this is continuing where some groups are fighting against hills or against the lebanese fighting. >> now it's possible that the u.n. climate conference in paris has created a document to curb carbon emissions. delegates will try to arrive a at a comprehensive settlement in the week. they're working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the threat of further global warning. the background is that conversation. the reality is that this renewable energy gains popularity, the more land it takes to build wind farms. they're controversial because they have resulted in hundreds of legal disputes. and with more more wind farms being planned in the country, there is more controversy. [ . >> there is peace and tranquility, unless you live near one of these. here's the problem, two villages separated by a ridge and eight turbines. the territory of san clÉmente have eight turbines in the it's territo

i give way. >> is the difference though in iraq to syria that on the ground in iraq is a long established ally which, in the peshmerga who actually want to work with us? we haven't got that in syria. what the prime minister is now describing as a patchwork. >> i thank my right honourable friend as always makes a very important point. i just read, reread the from that debate we had back in september of 2014. this wasn't raised by anyone incidentally. issues of what comes next. this is very important consideration and we've, we've expressed concerns on all sides how it mus'nt stop us responding to what happened in paris, responding to resolution it -- 2249 and request for all countries with the capability to act. now the u.n. resolution didn't say let's delay this. it said to act now. and i don't, i don't believe, as anybody in this house, that the believes that defeating this motion tonight will somehow remove us from the line of fire. that isil-daesh will no longer consider us a target for their barbaric activities. 122 people murdered in ankara were at a peace rally. the seven plots foil

the situation. russia, interestingly, asked for this meeting not iraq. ia, of course, in an increasingly tense situation with turkey wants to bring up the fact of the presence there, has labeled the presence there illegal. and, of course, this comes on the backdrop of the downing of the russian fighter jet in turkey not too long ago in, which case turkey accused russia of violating its sovereignty and its territory. so something that the international community is closely monitoring in the run up to these talks which are hoped to bring about peace in syria. this could be a factor in affecting those discussions moving forward. >> kristen saloomey joining me there live from the u.n., kristen, thank you. >>> so as we heard there, there has been more talks between turkey and iraq to try to resolve the crisis. al jazeera's omar al saleh is in istanbul. >> reporter: turkish officials said turkey will respect iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity. now, the foreign minister says he spoke with his iraqi counterpart to try to de-escalate the cries i.. howeve

that not discourage the commander in iraq? o to theal president. and has a dampening effect on the military. >> that doesn't to be what secretary carter says they are doing. are thinkable put folks in syria and in harm's way without a larger better strategy to it. >> i am concerned about that. people youed that their logistics and medevac and all of those things and they could not sit -- go into an open session but is not among the concerns that we will express or ask about moving forward. maderoader point that you that i am trying to agree with is, there needs to be a strategy for success. ortever number of troops airstrikes to a cop was that, that is where you go -- to accomplish that, that is where you go. but every one of those has to be approved by the president. that is what is concerning. >> d.c. anything about changing -- do you see anything coming up about changing the rules of engagement? we heard a lot about the authorization for use of military force today. >> i'll think you'll ever see congress set up cap -- set a

turkey is the main buyer of this illegally stolen oil, stolen from the countries of syria and iraq. the russians say there are three main smuggling routes by which this oil flows out of syria and iraq into turkey and is then sold on from there. the flow of finances is channeled back in mercenaries, arms and ammunition. the most intendry allegation contained was not all that stuff, but actually what they said about who is responsible, because the russians are now saying that it is president erdogan, the turkish president himself and his family that have directly involved in this trade and financially profiting from it. >> the relationship between ankara and moscow is at its lowest point in 20 years. how these allegations and accusations by russia likely to affect the current spat. >> we heard from penalty erred saying i understand these allegations are being made. they are not true. i call on the russians to prove that this is happening. well, of course, what we have seen today is the russian's showing what they believe to be the proof of just that. president erdogan said if it could

it goes back to the occupation of iraq. that's when paul brenmey was sent to over see the government. he made a series of decisions, including disbanding the iraqi army that many say have contributed to the rise of i.s.i.l. and other groups in iraq. speaking to my colleague, he denied those allegations. >> i did not disband or destroy the iraqi army. there was not a single member standing to arms on april 17 as general has testified himself. the question wasn't to deband. it was to recall the army >> reporter: hindsight is useful for understanding the future of iraq and syria. the only debate is whether ground troops are needed whether they be western, arab, turkey and that debate is still raging >>> international coalition meanwhile is continuing air strikes against i.s.i.l. held territory in syria. military analysts say air strikes alone won't destroy i.s.i.l. they say groups on the ground are required. is their main agenda is to fight i.s.i.l. a closer look. >> reporter: it is estimated that there's as many as one thousan

the effort in iraq over the last year has been to the enormous credit of the armed forces and stabilization of iraq. this house and then gave without intervention. i think the reason a number of us oppose the motion about the airstrikes in iraq was very simply. we had into beaten isil despite nearly a million security forces on the government payroll and that brings us to syria because we have nothing near that and we still don't have that plan. it was absolutely necessary for the government and people of iraq. it is as if you are seeing the angel of death. how can i carry on on a dalia basis. we have to acknowledge they are at war with us. this isn't a tone of choice. in the defeat of isil and its ideology will be the work of many years of the decade. the mission was the civil war it was impossible to achieve that is the necessary first step into the agreement of the international support that can be seen to that transition. i do believe the government was able to offer to minister the caption from isil in syria to the satisfaction of the committee and in the wake of that ibb of the kind m

it must be destroyed in its birth place of the -- of syria and iraq. but it is metastasizing to other parts of the world. we'll combat it everywhere. of course, that includes in our own homelands. and so it won't have any place to fall back on. >> hi. thank you. two quick follow-ups actually and then a question. secretary carter, you said that the president has continued to tell you to come to him with proposals for fighting isis in iraq and syria. but on the hill this week, you essentially said if you had more options or ideas, you would offer them. what does that mean? does that mean that there's sort of a stalemate, you're at a logjam here? sec. carter: no. it means that we constantly develop through new intelligence very importantly new techniques and tactics for attacking isil. i'll give you a few recent examples. the attacks on the oil and other revenue streams of isil, our ability to do that in a way that subtracts from isil's ability to earn revenues while not affecting the life of ordinary people who are simply victims of kind ofl movement, tha

when the war in iraq started, i fell with a foot on each side. we're talking about it now ten years later, explain people to one another. for me, that's kind of the crux of it. i feel an obligation to try to, as best as i can, you know, remind us of who we are and that others are human, too, and we owe it to each other on a very global, moral level to try to help if we can and to try to understand and to have compassion and caring, even though people might seem like they're far away, they're really not. >> i started because i was curious. i wasn't sure what else i would do if i didn't do it. >> i think curiosity is -- i remember bob simon saying this to me, he was, like, you've got to be curious. if you're not an innately curious person you will burn out on journalism so quickly. you have to have that continuous desire to see different places. i definitely feel what arwa was saying, there are plenty of people a lot smarter than me that know a lot more than i do, but it's being able to combine having knowledge with a topic and having firsthand expe

i monday i spoke to the president of iraq and he expressed his thanks. when our planes reach the border with syria, we can no longer act to defund his country or our country even when we know that isil's headquarters are in raqqa in syria, and it's from here that many of the plots against our country are formed. >> there's no doubt that the so-called islamic state has imposed a reign of sectarian and imhuman terror. and there's no question that it also poses a threat to our own people. the issue now is whether extending british bombing from iraq to syria is likely to reduce or increase that threat to britain, and whether it will counter or spread the terror campaign isil is wages across the middle east. the answers don't make the case for the government motion. on the contrary. they are warning to step back. >>> charlie angela is live for us outside of the houses of parliament in westminster where that debate is going on. more than 150 members of parliament want to speak in this debate. what are the main arguments that we have been hearing so far? >> repo

i served in the iran/iraq war for eight years. we got nothing for our service from the government. >> reporter: the world bank says nearly 30% of iraqi families live below the poverty line. that's more than 10 million people who don't have access to adequate food, water or shelter, leaving to mass migrations as they search for work which pays better. >> reporter: economists say decades of wars, increasing violence, the rise of i.s.i.l. and a fragile political situation have all led to what they sdib as a crisis, but there are other important issues which are driving an increasing number of iraqis into extreme poverty. the country's economy is solely dependent on revenue from oil production. international lenders have suggested governments diversify its industries, but none did, which is why record prices of oil prices have led to a major deficit. government corruption is also a major concern after months of street protests, the prime minister announced a series of reforms to make the government more accountable and to shore up the

but i do want to add to another thing you said that's fascinating about the iraq last night. the other end of that equation also suggests that he's not an instinctive republican, because he said he would have spent that money on infrastructure. >> yes, yes. >> he didn't say he would have given that back in tax breaks to individuals or to corporations. he didn't sound like a republican on either side of that. >> he gets applause for every word of it, though. they're not distinguishing. let's listen to what glenn beck just said on fox news about donald trump. >> if they put donald trump in -- try to put him in office, if that's what the people want, you're going to see an end to the republican party. it will just be over. there will just be nothing left. >> and sam stein, glenn beck said he simply could not vote. he couldn't vote for hillary clinton or donald trump if those are the nominees. >> maybe this question is better for the former rnc chairman. >> you're doing just fine. >> we want to torture him first before we get to him. >> this is such a bizarre hypothetical, but i d

iraq says its forces have retain ramadi from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the flag is flying over a government complex and soldiers are celebrating their victories. >>> two villages near idlib, under siege of zabadani were meanwhile given safe passage for lebanon. >>> and japan has apologized to south korea. for the second world war practice of make comfort women and has been offered compensation. >>> 18 children are thought to be amongst the wounded in nigeria. the attacafghanistan. >> afghan police say a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives next to this pickup truck. the attack happened on a road fear kabul airport. the suicide bomber's target appears to be part of nato security forces but instead civilians were caught up in the blast. >> i was standing near my shop when suddenly i heard a huge explosion and everything became dark around me. shattered pieces of iron fell over me. i was three meters away from the explosion. i saw a teenager dead on the ground. it was really terrible. >> the explosion destroyed cars, and hit a street lined

iraq says its forces have retain ramadi from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the iraqi flag is flying over a government complex there and soldiers have been celebrating their victory. >>> hundreds of injured syrian fighters and civilians have been trapped in two pro-government cities near idlib. a number of opposition fighters under siege in zabadani have been given safe passage to lebanon. >>> this video of shooting of tamir rice invoked outrage in the u.s. >>> killed one per, injured 33 others near the airport, attack happened near a military entrance used by nato forces in kabul, zane besrabi has the story. >> afghan police say a suicide boardoxerbottomer detonated a b, instead civilians were caught up in the blast. >> i was standing near my shop when suddenly i heard a huge explosion and everything became dark around me. shattered piece is of iron fell over me. i was three meters away from the explosion. i saw a teenager dead in the ground. it was really terrible. >> reporter: the explosion destroyed cars and hilt a street lined wit -- hit a street signeh

the street. >> this was fallujah, iraq. the year was 2004.city aroused deep american anger and brought promises of retribution. >> we will hunt down the criminals, we will kill them or capture them. and we will pacify fallujah. >> and u.s. forces fought two long and bloody battles to retake the city. nearly 70 americans lost their lives liberating fallujah, and hundreds more were left seriously wounded. ten years later, fallujah falls back into the hands of an enemy. this time it's isis. just a few days after fallujah fell, the president talked about the threat from the terror group in an interview with "the new yorker" magazine. >> he said, "the analogy we use around here sometimes. and i think is accurate, is if a jv team puts on lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them kobe bryant." >> i was disappointed. i was disappointed that he said that. i don't think he was well served. >> the need for intelligence surveillance. >> lieutenant general michael flynn had a front-row seat to the rise of isis. he led the defense intelligence agency until l

is the war against isil is becoming a proxy war that the regional powers are using iraq to fight each other. we're hearing a lot of sunni about the iranian role, and hearing from sheena mp she shia mps, and a lot of people are very worried here about the russian and american role also in this country. so it's likely that the reason although prime minister hyder al abadi knew about these turkish troops for over a year now, it will try to take control of its own country. that's the view of several people i've spoken to during the day here in iraq. what we're also hearing is that iraq needs to get itself together and to formulate a coalition that is really talking to each other. the moment you have a lot of very desperate interests trying to fight isil and they've said this for a very long time now, iraq would like that coalition to be much more unified. >> iraq's forces will recapture a large area from isil following a fierce battle. the group over ran the city in may and they have retaken the area from them, and it is a significant break through for iraqi forces. they've

the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan loom large. t assuming support, airstrikes could begin within days or hours. >> let's just follow on to what you were saying about the public support for military action. the u.k. of course, bit once, twice bitten shy, this isn't the same issue. how do you perceive public support to be for this? >> well, david cameron spoke about that today in the chambers saying this was not 2003, and we shouldn't look at the mistakes made then. now public opinion is very mixed. the up in opinion poll suggests that 48% of people were in favor of military action. that dropped from 59% in recent days, actually. where we are not far from where we are there is a big antiwar protest taking place. i say big. there are just a couple of hundred people taking part in that. we have to report back in 2003 ahead of the iraq invasion we saw 1 million people out on the streets in london. we're not seeing that kind of voice in such big numbers. but people here are very resigned that these strikes will take place. of course we'l

officials. >> want to note events in ramadi, we commend the government of iraq, and brave iraqi forces, that have displayed perseverance and courage in the fight to return ramadi back to the iraqi people. the coalition that supported this operation every step of the way. reporter: u.s. played a role training iraqi troops launching more than 630 airstrikes on isis since july. col necolonel steve warren said this is a proud moment of iraq. ramadi is capital of the anbar province, an area what has been largely controlled by isis. when militants captured ramadi i in may they questioned the iraq' as he put it, well to fight. iraq military needs to maintain control of ramadi, the coalition partners will help. tom. >> thank you john huddy. tom: turning to the race for white house. presidential candidates on the road again. much of the focus on iowa. there is one absence. ed henry with our report. reporter: 5 weeks until iowa caucus, yet today republican jeb bush of nowhere near the hawkeye state, campaigning in his home state of florida. sign he may be laying ground wo

he said that the troops violate iraq's sovereignty. but his country prime minister said that his country's forces are able to push isil fighters out alone. there is increasing scrutiny about the way the forces are doing so. we have more from you are bill. >> troops keep watch on isil positions. they've had recent success in the northern iraqi town of sinjar. now they're hopeful to defeat the armed group in other parts of the country with help from their allies. >> until now the international coalition has been using airstrikes as a former officer you need troops on the ground. >> but prime minister hyder al abadi disagrees. he reaffirmed that iraq has no need of foreign ground troops. we did not ask innutrient to send any ground troops. we'll consider any such troops to be an act of aggression. they're concerned about iraqi army's increase human rights violations. it goes on to say that reports indicate that iraqi security forces kurdish security forces and their respected affiliated militias have been responsible for looting and destru

i give way. >> is the difference though in iraq to syria that on the ground in iraq is a long established ally which, in the peshmerga who actually want to work with us? we haven't got that in syria. what the prime minister is now describing as a patchwork. >> i thank my right honourable friend as always makes a very important point. i just read, reread the from that debate we had back in september of 2014. this wasn't raised by anyone incidentally. issues of what comes next. this is very important consideration and we've, we've expressed concerns on all sides how it mus'nt stop us responding to what happened in paris, responding to resolution it -- 2249 and request for all countries with the capability to act. now the u.n. resolution didn't say let's delay this. it said to act now. and i don't, i don't believe, as anybody in this house, that the believes that defeating this motion tonight will somehow remove us from the line of fire. that isil-daesh will no longer consider us a target for their barbaric activities. 122 people murdered in ankara were at a peace rally. the seven plots foil

some of those taxes are actually taxes on resources paid by the government iraq and syria. we have been able to kind of stop that as well. i do think we are in a position and had pretty significant impact on the revenue source of core isil. >> my last question. we talk about running agents in the region particularly the sunni states and the area. how do we make them to be first priority given the fact that saudi arabia, for example, their primary concern is iran and expansion? >> in view of the time it's a very important question. we will get back in written form. very important question. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. wilson. >> thank you for being here, general dunford i have had the opportunity to represent paris island. you transform them with the highest level of fulfillment they they can achieve. it's awesome what the marine corps does. but the president has established a legacy of failure not accepting common sense proposals to promote peace. this was cited by the washington post editorial who courageously confirmed, quote, he withdrew all u.s. troops from iraq when