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that isn't going to change many lives in iraq. let's bring in mike say brahms is the professor of public policy at northeastern university thanks for joining us great to have you on the program as always we heard there just in our correspondents report there there are government claims they need one hundred billion dollars to rebuild even begin rebuilding their devastated country us pledging hundred fifty million dollars do you think that will make a lot of difference i mean there's no question there's a huge discrepancy between the amount of money required to rebuild iraq and what you know the states is prepared to offer and there's also a huge discrepancy between the amount of money u.s. has invested in iraq previously particularly against the islamic state group but even you know well before that but since some toppling saddam or what the u.s. is now prepared to offer for our humanitarian assistance or iraq or parts of it there are especially the sunni areas in particularly places like mosul or far are just simply and they requ

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announced that it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq is pretty devastated by the war on islamic state that's a good war why how much the pentagon has requested for military operations that this year. germany rejects the deportation of a turkish to hardest to support extremists in syria the man's prison time is almost up he could be released next year. and ecuador is considering out find help to resolve the case of julian a song which the wiki leaks chief's been holed up in the country's london embassy for five bit of call here. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international coming to you from our moscow headquarters and we carry. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent rebuilding cities left devastated by the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has continued military operations there is more gaza you have has more on the story . what does this look like to you mad max. resident evil no this is mosul or rather what's left of it quote a sea of thousands of air strikes we filmed this

i'm sumi so misconduct thank you for joining us we start in iraq or at least thirty eight people have been killed and one hundred five wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say two suicide bombers detonated back to back explosions during rush hour in the city's al tyrone's square the area has been targeted by similar blasts since two thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility so far but this latest attack bears similarity to previous bombings by so-called islamic state. mustafa salim is a journalist at the washington post a baghdad bureau i asked him if iraqi authorities fear further attacks. yes according to the actual chile they said that they decreased under our close to suicide bombers. stuff is the limit journalist at the washington post a baghdad bureau on the line with us mustafa thank you very much for that update. and more on the story now with amir a saudi an iraqi journalist who is out living here in berlin he joins us in our studio good morning to you as yet no one has claimed responsibility for these twin bombings last what do you think wha

says it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq a city is devastated by the war on islamic studies a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested this year for military operations there. and germany refuses to deport a turkish extremist who supported terrorists in syria his prison term is almost up could be released next year. this is already international coming to you live from moscow on page thank you for joining us. this confusion surrounding wiki leaks chief julian assange own drafter earlier reports he had been handed ecuadorian citizenship is now claimed he was only being given the country's identity card i must say it isn't laundered with the latest. the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that julian assange had poste

reconstruction funds for iraq had ever been dispersed instead what reconstruction did take place in iraq was funded by what was called the development fund for iraq that was funded under a u.n. security council resolution and what that did was to take six billion dollars left over in the oil for food program it took the. assets that had been. the assets that had been taken away from iraq and to saddam hussein return those to use and then it was iraqi oil revenues but a special inspector general found that in fact most huge proportion of that money was in fact stolen or embezzled by u.s. officials and contractors. so you know we have an absolutely shameful history here what we really should be talking about is the payment of war reparations by the united states and the u.k. to iraq and in the conclusion of my book i discuss that and i said that the best model for. that really is what happened after iraq invaded kuwait. now the un security council resolution set up a. compensation commission that accepted claims from kuwait and kuwaitis and iraq in the end was forced to pay fifty two point

says it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq the city is devastated by the war on islamic state a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested this year a military operation of that. and germany refuses to deport a turkish extremist who supported terrorists in syria his prison term is almost up and he could be released next year. oh this is an international coming to life from moscow on a concrete thank you for joining. the u.k. foreign office has reportedly denied a request from ecuador to grant diplomatic status to julian assange if follows reports the way he read it was found on has been granted an ecuadorian id card as a step towards ending his five year confinement in the london embassy an associate reports the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and just some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemm

helicopter crew in iraq. you know shining a light on those kind of abuses was a great public service and even if you have some criticisms of the way because leaks of behavior on some issues you can't take away from the fact that he did help expose things that successive government wanted to keep hidden from the people of the united states and indeed the world and in that sense i think he is somewhat of a hero regardless of other criticisms that may be made indeed he certainly as much admired as he is a figure of controversy internationally as well will be keeping updates of course on that throughout the night throughout tomorrow to see what the those details are peter that sure human rights campaign a director of the peace that's all foundation thanks for coming on such short notice and giving us your take on what could happen there. give. another news according germany has provoked controversy after it blocked the deportation of a turkish hardest decisions likely to also give chancellor merkel a headache she

lasting for a decade and included tens of thousands of troops and personnel to support the invasion of iraq and the war in afghanistan. where they were leger ash and these huge open air heads. they burned everything creating this black plume of smoke that had been just bursting out now settling over these small the war to five cities. they think you can and you had people living in various right next to this whole people working right next to it if not working with it with no protection whatsoever. for receiving more blast and we're going to have to make it and say this was a catastrophe in the making. at the start of the war in afghanistan. the military commanders on the ground realized that they had a big problem with the trash that was accumulating from the war each soldier was accumulating approximately nine pounds of trash a day on a battlefield they know what to do with it so they came up with the idea through centcom which is central command decided to create burn pits to burn the trash that was being accumulated. a purpose as were the military during the war collected all or waste i

not then iraq starting from country in the region connecting syria to iraq we dosser to countenance in the west and in the east of your if it's arm into syria and carbonic antoine's and the canton in the west of europe it's arm in the club and canton saw uncle right on his you feeling under very big pressure on how to first prevent him from prevented this terror belt or protect a belt from happening and have to counter all the things going on in the north of syria and get out and can your view that kurdish fear of these moves by the u.s. . well the move by the u.s. seemed to please the kurds in the region firstly because until now. that the alliance between the kurds and the us has been largely seen as transactional i mean certain u.s. officials have said that that relationship is a tactical relationship and is based on the defeat of isis but as we see now isis has largely been defeated in syria but this relationship is continuing the u.s. says that this is to maintain stability in the region and i think the kurds are pleased by this that this relationship can move forward from not jus

that is are going to change many lives in iraq. called rolling in germany has provoked can't control the sea after refuse the deportation of a turkish the hardest decisions likely to also give chancellor merkel a headache as she continues to struggle to form a coalition government. has more details. well germany's top court her as ruled on wednesday that a person cannot be deported back to their country of origin if they face torture or inhumane treatment in that country now turkish court has said that germany would need to have appropriate assurances that neither of those would take place if a person was deported to that country now this case has been highlighted because of a court case brought by a german born turk who was convicted back in two thousand and fifteen of supporting terrorism the man who's thirty years old had traveled to syria and had supported a terrorist organization in the country including giving funds to that terrorist organization where he received a three and a half year sentence for doing so here in germany

thanks for joining us i'm marrying evan sting we begin in iraq where at least thirty eight people have been killed and more than one hundred wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say two suicide bombers detonated back to back explosions during rush hour in the city's altai are on square the area has been targeted by similar blasts since two thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility so far but this latest attack bears similarity to previous bombings by the so-called islamic state. for the latest on the story let's cross over now to susannah george she's the associated press bureau chief in baghdad susanna thanks for joining us now this is the second deadly attack in baghdad in just three days how are residents in the city coping. the mood in the iraqi capital is very tense there's a lot of anger especially in the neighborhood where the attack occurred one of the people we spoke to at the scene of the attack said that he wasn't surprised that the attack occurred and it just shows that the iraqi government is only concerned with military victories against

benefiting iranian position within the middle east the invasion of iraq kind of. the rise of isis and so on and of course it is not only about the iranian policy it is also about kind of miscalculations and wrong policies of the ukrainian primarily here we're talking about saudi arabia but the situation is changing a little bit now we have a president in the white house who has a very kind of narrow iran centric kind of understanding of the region according to his kind of naive perspective all the problems in the middle east all the instabilities in the middle east all of the sudden can be resolved if he could confront iran and the best way he thinks that he could confront iran is to kind of undermine this historic deal and now increasingly there is more evidence to suggest that maybe within the next three or four months we going to see the end of this very important security deal and if that happens it can create some serious new problems for for the region so iran should not take account of its recent victories in the region for granted because the situation is

announces it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq is cities devastated by the war on islamic state a figure dogged by how much the pentagon has requested the military operations there this year. i could always considering outside help to results like a subdued you just saw on the wiki leaks chief being holed up in the country's london embassy for five and a half years. to news years and gold in economic protests despite having been raised as a model for the arab spring but the demonstrations failed to gain the same attention as the in the west and similar on the red in the wrong. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from the russian capital and the karen good to have you with us. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent on rebuilding cities left devastated in the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has earmarked for its continued military operations there are these more advanced you have has more on the story what does this look like to you. mark. residen

the puzzle is why iraq -- not why iraq instead of north korea, but if in iraq, then why not also in north korea? i think there are two answers. the first is that you have china, right? china sits right on the border with north korea. the last thing the united states or china wants is some sort of confrontation or conflagration on the peninsula that would cause the two to butt heads. -- heads as they did in 1953. i think anytime there is serious thought given to some sort of military action, this is constantly at the top -- not even at the top, but even halfway up the escalation ladder, this is constantly a concern that every u.s. president has had to think about seriously. so i think that certainly is one of the reasons, the china factor. and the other is that the united states went into iraq or into afghanistan because it became the top foreign-policy issue on which the administration saw a final resolution. now, we can debate whether that was the right or wrong thing. many americans think it was the wrong thing. many americans think nothing was resolved there. and that is a completely d

those were the two countries, iraq and syria, where it had the strongest foothold. we have to be very careful about declaring victory. president trump's path forward in iraq is difficult but easier to imagine because we have a government there we can work with and should be trying to help reform, help further improve the conditions in its own country to patch up the sunni-shia-kurdish divisions, to moderate or minimize the role of iran. there are some things we can do, staying engaged with iraq with relatively modest numbers of forces and maybe turning more of our security assistance into economic aid because iraq is still struggling economically. if they're going to repair those sectarian divisions they'll need a stronger economy. i think the path forward is going to take some continued american attention and resources but is relatively easier to sketch out as to what it should be. syria is still a huge hornet's nest. we are nowhere near finishing a solution to the civil war unless you're like russia and you're happy to see president assad just win the conflict. ev

announces it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq in cities devastated by the war on islamic state a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested for military operations there just this year. germany rejects the deportation of a turkish jihad is to support extremists in syria the man's presence is almost but he could be released next year. and so our teams national life from moscow just go midnight here in the russian capital hawkins wherever you are thanks for joining us this hour there's confusion surrounding the wiki leaks chief julian a song made early reports he'd been handed citizenship is now claimed he's only been handed an identity card for the country. next to the ecuadorian embassy in london where a song's remains holed up. the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming ou

defeat on isis in iraq and we got them driven out of iraq and the last three it took it took us there three years to drive them out of iraq but it. victory is not only military. the there is no security. the security need to be addressed in a more a broader. this is it the counterterrorism is an intelligence led war and we need to build up our intelligence agencies we need to built our human. intelligence our signal intelligence. surveillance and and so on and so forth so we need to do that that to really declare security victory not only military victory and the threat to be quite honest with you the threat is not only military if that is not only security but as not to an economy right. the threat and the challenge is an ideological challenge. people are talking about political inclusion and so on and so forth but it is. an ideological challenge need to be addressed and it would take probably decades not years to declare victory on an ideological challenge of militancy of terrorism of right because not only ideologically but the iraqi soldiers are fighting i.a.s. and provinces that

blow themselves up in the city's tyrone's square a blow to public morale coming just a month after iraq declares victory over the so-called islamic state we'll go live to baghdad also coming up palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the landmark oslo peace accord is over and lays the blame squarely with israel and donald trump . and turkey's president warns are cross border assault on a kurdish held city in syria is imminent he says the u.s. backed militias there posed a terror threat. i'm sumi so much common good to have you with us we start in iraq where at least thirty eight people have been killed and one hundred five wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say two suicide bombers detonated back to back explosions during rush hour in the city's al tyrone square the area has been targeted by similar blasts since two thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility so far but this latest attack bears similar there is similarity to previous bombings by the so-called islamic state. let's bring in susanna george she's the associated press bureau chief in baghdad

forces in iraq was 5,000. you already have more than that even at the lowest numbers from north africa to syria and iraq. so i don't think they are low. but i do think the issue of is it an oversimplification to say they're not going to take territory, i think that's actually true. going back to the ideologues we say nobody actually reads but the terrorism analysts these days. there is an element of they don't have to take an entire country, they just have to control some territory. this the concern for libya. is okay, maybe they won't be up north but they'll be down south in libya and if they can control a little bit of territory in libya is that sufficient in the border regions. i think the sinai is similar. if they control a little territory in the sinai and can threaten cairo, which is basically what they are doing now, is that sufficient? i think it's not as big as what they did in mosul and in raqqa, but i think is it sufficient -- is it a concern? yes. is it sufficient for us for them to hold territory

injured after the attackers blew themselves up in the city's tyrone square it comes just a month after iraq declared victory over the so-called islamic state we'll have the latest from baghdad also coming up turkey's president threatens to attack a u.s. backed force on the border with syria he says the force is a terror threat because it includes kurdish fighters. and the moment of floor collapses of the jakarta stock exchange in indonesia scores of people are injured but police say it was not a terror attack. hello and welcome to the program i'm mary in evanston it's good to have you with us we begin in iraq where at least thirty eight people have been killed and more than one hundred others wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say two suicide bombers detonated back to back explosions during rush hour in the city square the area has been targeted by a similar blast since two thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility so for. our but this latest attack is similar to previous bombings by so-called islamic state. for the latest on the story let's cross over no

says it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq the cities devastated by the war in islamic states was quite how much the pentagon has requested for military operations there this year. and germany rejects the deportation of a turkish geologist who supported extremists in syria. almost up he could be released as early as next year. considering outside help to resolve the case. we could be chiefs been holed up in the country's london embassy for almost five and half years. the live from moscow with me. for a walk with us on the program now the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent rebuilding cities left devastated in the war on islamic state that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has earmarked for its continued military operations there. has more on the story what does this look like to you mad mad. resident evil no this is mosul or rather what's left of it quote a sea of thousands of air strikes we filmed this a few weeks ago and nothing's really changed from when we were there last this is what the aftermath of a cla

one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq the cities devastated by the war on islamic state a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested for military operations this year. and germany rejects the deportation of a turkish jarvis to support of extremists in syria. he could be released as early as next year. and i welcome to our international live from moscow with me. welcome to the program we do have some breaking news coming in for you this hour on the program just coming in the we can exchange. has been granted ecuadorian citizenship a song tweeted this picture within the last hour or so showing him wearing the ecuador football team shirt however he provided no further details so far at least . has been holed up of course in the country's london embassy for more than five years he faces arrest breaking his bail conditions that legal team fears britain will into the u.s. where he faces prosecution laura smith has more. so the ecuadorian foreign minister has come out and called the situation of our sons' living in the embassy here in london unsustainable with a person

any iraqi letters, any iraqis in iraq? he went to the iraqi community, immigrants talked to family members and got all these letters and emails about the iraqi perspective, not the enemy perspective but what it is like to live under saddam hussein but vietnam was interesting, at the encouragement of vietnam veterans, what was the other side writing during all this? vietnam was an interesting dilemma because it is a communist country and her archives are heavily censored and what they allow us to see as well acknowledged. the way i get from the letters i found, i was lamenting to someone about the trouble of the archives, this is a gentleman who worked in a hotel, concierge, he said i have a guy here looking for stamps and a little antique shop, he came back complaining there were a lot of stamps but letters he had no use for, that is what i'm looking for. we went back to this antique shop and the guy said go through with my interpreter who skimmed the letters, this is a battle letter, the stamp collectors, they couldn't ca

what do we do with engaging in iraq? to then, we responded of what destroyed lebanon's fast normalization, and we are preventing a takeover militia to a radical ourselves. we do not want hezbollah and yemen. dominate a country of 28 million, so we are working with allies in order to push back, and working with allies in ef up defenses. we are working with african countries, and we will continue to do so until iran changes its policies. >> young lady back there. can you identify yourself question mark >> -- can you identify yourself? >> [indiscernible] mr. adelon is from al-jubeir. you said the crown prince once a normal saudi arabia. do you see in the very close future the end of the guardianship system for women in saudi arabia question mark -- saudi arabia? >> if you look at the issue of women in saudi arabia, in that in 60, we hadfor women. are for women. in 1960, there were no professions. today, some of our most prominent business persons, doctors, engineers, women can vote for elections, 20% of our counsel, our leg

iraq afghanistan war injury is our generation's agent orange. if you look at the historical precedents with agent orange for decades it was not acknowledged and then after decades it was studied and then finally soldiers were treated. so to goes with iraq afghanistan war longing for we can't wait that long poor the burn pits to reckon on it's not the pace that the guys are in the females are dying from the burn pits it's a lot faster the illnesses are showing up in the sometimes lot sooner he put in his time he sacrificed he gave everything that it was possible to get. and. and we're proud of that and we don't regret that and he doesn't regret that and we would serve again our sons have enlisted so it's not the service that's the problem and then things happen in war and we understand that there is a cost and and we will pay with that because there are some things that are worth the cost but the other side of that is that at the end of it they take care of you and every single time there's a war we do this song and dance with the government wher

or kept for example in iraq what will happen if. they are. well that's a big issue right now and european governments are in a bind because some of them have said publicly and some of them just think it privately they don't really want these people back these are some of the fighters who stayed on so they clearly hadn't had a change of heart and wanted to come back and start a new life and many of them hundreds of them are now rounded up in iraq and are expected to face a rocky justice now this is a problem for europe because europe is against the death penalty and this people are very likely to face the death penalty in court in iraq so governments are being asked what are you going to do about these citizens who are there and at the moment we don't have an answer in fact the iraqi ambassador here in belgium is said that they don't plan to send them back they very much want to try them there in iraq there's an issue with there something like eight hundred children who are believed to be belgian. that are being held in this camps and they pos

when they did not like that, they joined up with a and isis took a lot of iraq. in other with, we have to be careful about declaring victory. i think president trump's path forward in iraq is difficult but easier to imagine because there is a government there that we can work with and should be trying to help further improve the conditions to patch up the shia-kurdish divisions. to minimize the role of iran. there are some things we can do, staying engaged in iraq with a more modest number of forces. struggling still economically. ishink the path forward going to take some continued american attention and resources but it is relatively easier to sketch out as to what it should be. syria is still a huge hornets ast and we are nowhere near solution to the civil war. unless you are like russia. and you are happy to see president assad when the conflict. it is not clear to me that president assad can stay in power and stabilize the country because he has so much blood on his hands at this time. so many sunnis are angry with him because he has killed their family memb

air strike in iraq at the beginning of the operation. very roughly counting fuel fly time cost of bombs made in uncertain military pay was half a million dollars for one of their strike they carried out fourteen thousand their strikes in iraq alone and after helping turn iraqi cities into these all they can pledge is one hundred fifty million dollars the equivalent of two mid-sized passenger jets that isn't going to change many lives in iraq. a course in germany has provoked controversy after it blocked the deportation of a turkish extremist the decisions likely to give chancellor angela merkel a headache and she struggles to form a coalition government r.t. shiela do bensky reports. well germany's top court her has ruled on wednesday that a person cannot be deported back to their country of origin if they face torture or inhumane treatment in that country now turkish court has said that germany would need to have appropriate assurances that neither of those would take place if a person was deported to that country now this case has been

defeat on isis in iraq and we got them driven out of iraq in the last three it took it took us three years to drive them out of iraq but it. is not the only military. the there is no security. the security need to be addressed in the motor broader. so this is the counterterrorism and intelligence led war. and we need to build up our intelligence agencies we need to built our human. intelligence our signal intelligence. surveillance and and so on and so forth so we need to do that to really declare security victory not only military victory and the threat to be quite honest with you the threat is not only military that is not only security threat is not an economy right. threat and the challenge is an ideological challenge. people are talking about political inclusion and so on so forth but it is. an ideological challenge and need to be addressed and it would take probably decades not years to declare victory on an ideological challenge of militancy of terrorism of for hundreds of bright because not only ideologically but the iraqi soldiers are fighting i.a.s. and provinces that have

iraq cannot be eliminated as a critical element in our strategy. we have worked very closely with legitimate forces in baghdad to counter iranian aspirations. it's been a hard struggle. >> you say there is not much of a lamb border but i would beg to differ that there is not much or there is any. the reality is it's a constant challenge. i asked specifically if it's a policy of the united states to actively remove iranian back forces from syria. how so? >> you gave me a generic answer russians are for an entity. if that is the policy of the united states to remove iranian back forces from syria, how so? with force or troops? with diplomacy? >> first and foremost citizen aggressive sanctioning and measures undertaken by the u.s. in our partners to deny the physical tools and the ability to move to finance the activities. >> when will this happen? given the administration a host of sanctions that they have not use. if we didn't have the bandwidth and, i certainly have to have it now. we are engaged after the fact. a much more difficult set of circums

i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start out in iraq where at least thirty eight people have been killed and one hundred five wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility yet but this latest attack there are similarities to previous bombings by the so-called islamic state. and more on the story now with amir a saudi an iraqi journalist who is living here in berlin he joins us in our studio good morning to you as yet no one has claimed responsibility for these twin bombings last what do you think what is the government response been so far to this i think this is the first response from mr bobbsey the prime minister of iraq give many orders for the intelligence to in the hands of their work and in concentrate on the sleeping cell i think in the end of the day is going to face i hope not but all the the size looks like iraq is going to see more. similar attacks within back to the city in. a body's government actually said that it had declared victory over islamist terrorists that had been operating in

the united states says it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq in cities devastated. by how much the pentagon has requested for military operations there this year alone. also this hour germany rejects the deportation of a turkish jarvis to support extremists in syria. and could be released next year. considering outside help to resolve the case of julian assange and wiki leaks she's been holed up in the country's embassy for five years . from moscow. thanks so much for being with us this. now the u.s. embassy has officially requested up to one hundred fifty million dollars to be spent rebuilding a rocky cities left devastated by the war on islamic state that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has earmarked for its continued military operations there. has more on the story what does this look like to you mad mad. resident evil no this is mosul or rather what's left of it quote a sea of thousands of air strikes we filmed this a few weeks ago and nothing's really changed from when we were there last this is what the aftermath of a classic strike in mosul look like neig

when isis first emerged to sweep across iraq and syria that summer to inflict suffering on thousands of civilians but despite those advances made our job is not done to remain focused on the defeat of isis and other terrorist organizations countering iranian influence in those behaviors to prevent the use of chemical weapons to ensure the safety of neighbors with the humanitarian crisis through the de-escalationre of violence with a political transformation and resolution in accordance with the national security resolution. those that are previously controlled by isis was 7.5 million freed from the domination in iraq and syria. announcing that the fight is over that coalition partner does not regard this as a finished effort. the u.s. is committed to the enduring defeatt of devices and then to ensure that they cannot regenerate. thanks to the generosity of the congress u.s. provided $7.5 billion of humanitarian assistance or 1.5 billion over the last year. but in eastern syria with support from the department of defense they lead recovery effortss to help consolidate our military gai

but it just demonstrates this resource so often in iraq with far more we don't know the outcome of this video in terms of what the effect on a truck driver was he may have crashed later on he may have even never known to actually he was being opened fire on from the passengers truck he could have thought perhaps a stone was kicked up and smashed his window. but unfortunately this situation is that i think that the fact in this case for example you say or we suspect that this video was shot on operations in afghanistan it's surprising i think to anybody it's taken partly it's kind of operations that this soldier would even have his weapon loaded with what is effectively an anti riot's ammunition because it would be useless if that against taliban or isis attacking them that suggests of course that this ammunition has been loaded into this weapon specifically to target vehicles and afghans in this way and that in turn might suggest that this is far more common occurrence than this one video would suggest and that means that there are really problems as we know as we saw in iraq for exampl

i'm sumi so misconduct welcome to the program we start out in iraq where at least thirty eight people have been killed and one hundred five wounded in twin bombings in central baghdad officials say two suicide bombers detonated back to back explosions during rush hour in the city's al tyrone square this area has been targeted by similar blasts since two thousand and three there's been no claim of responsibility yet but this latest attack bears similarity to previous bombings by the so-called islamic state. let's begin with staff s.l.m. he's a journalist at the washington post baghdad bureau he joins us on the line the staffa thank you for joining us what is the security situation like in baghdad this morning. that really attack has targeted. more pictures which is really very carted of this back in the morning first started with one suicide bomber who did take himself and then when the people come to. to carry the victims a little one has been exploded. i guess the government people as a given people were in conics they even moved the tents food the cart before the ambulance arrived t

from iraq. because it was of this past year that launched a campaign to bring back russian children i saw fighters who had been abandoned in iraq among those lucky ones. and from southern russia they were reunited with their relatives with the help of. the head of the chechen republic. they. want to. see a close look in one of the school lives where they just said. this was a mom i knew a little more more really. just not all that not only in the book family says. it all me out. on me and. she. was. like chill. carrying a world class world in my. now that wraps up our first morning bulletin for january the first twenty eighteen here on r.t. international we are back in half an hour for the meantime though from all of us again happy new year. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. it's the cradle of jazz. the america in america we are. noles disc jazz feel. a city of climatic contest

every day for the united states military it's open is that iraq exposed thousands of troops to toxic chemicals a mysterious illness is affecting veterans who were exposed to open burn pits which the u.s. military used in iraq and afghanistan to torch everything from batteries to body parts experts say the fumes pouring out of these pits are toxic and dangerous so while troops may survive the battle they may also be being poisoned. in september two thousand and four. i know it is. a v.a. clinic instead of seeing old caucasian men with meal chairs and oxygen who are in their eighty's. the entire composition of the waiting room changed. all of the young women and men of lawlessness unease and they're all in their twenty's back from their first yearlong deployment in iraq. the typical service member came in with an inability to complete a two mile run within regulation time. and most of them had already had a traditional work up for pulmonary disease including x. rays c.t. scans plenty function testing all of the studies return normal or near normal in almost every case. it was subtle be

gone iraq spend my time with the u.s. military, which as incredible experience, but i wanted to talk to actual iraqi busy the war and their culture and history and to south. if was hesitant to just walk up to this group of iraqis, and i finally decided i'll never have this opportunity again so i tentatively went over, introduced myself and said i was a writer traveling the world and looking for war letters and i was curious if if could talk with them. they looked at me, and then each other, and total silence. and one of the young men, whose name i later found out was amar'e, looked like he was about to say something and the end kind of held back. i said, feel free to ask me anything. he looks martinez me and breaks out in a big smile and says who are your favorite british authors? there's a war going on around us, and this is the question that he wanted to know. so i thought, well, you're a writer. this is a slam-dunk. so i stood there for a moment and taterred thinking, and not one name came to mind. and little beads of