government of syria and syria have been facing we do believe if. they stumble. and russia which are available in syria leave early should remain there. to. maintain these three against a terrorist group if he is iran syria the states. its allies will continue the search for supporting of tourists who once again. the dumbest of the champions of. syria will be in danger and dangerous situation and once again we will face is the. development of new development of the two. issues still. to z. syria because the main. responsibility of the defend the country. of the coleman syria. yet is here just. pointed out the iranian policy is has no relation to the american policy do not correlate but i'm sure you know very well that russia does try to your cards made its policy with all the actors on the ground with a specific reason of achieving a point when all foreign troops i assume including russian troops would they could be withdrawn from that country and syria would be able to provide its security on its own is that concurrent with how iran sees the out cement go in in

out of all its military entanglements approach specifically syria he mentioned syria a lot in two thousand and three in many tweets so he ran on these things and if he doesn't fulfill these election promises he's going to be in big trouble in two thousand and twenty but what he's running up against peter is the permanent state the deep state call it what you will whether it's the generals whether it's lindsey graham john bolton mike poppy or whether it's the mainstream media who is also urging trump making you know putting all their all their might and all their muscle into trying to convince the american public that trump is making a bad decision by leaving syria and all of a sudden peter the narrative now is the kurds no one was talking about the kurds for so many years but all of a sudden everyone is an expert on the kurds of what's going to happen to the kurds should trump get out of syria so that's the narrative now ok game a but i mean if you were to go to our own turf and to and i would say real media sorenson's. the kurds are already talking to the government in damascus not only w

army is in syria illegally let's take a listen. americans were emotional relationship with the american military remains on syrian territory illegally there is no ground for their presence sanctioned by international law there is neither illegal invitation from the syrian government nor a decision from the un security council we discussed how the decision of the us to withdraw troops from syria will affect the situation in the country if such plans all implemented this will be a positive step. so it is clear that following u.s. troops withdrawal from syria the reason a lot to be done to be discussed to be called an aid to on the ground between russia and turkey both at the gun and putin today reiterated also they are afterwards to bring peace to syria and to stabilize the situation there through so-called asked enough form and we've done so it is clear that the countries are going to work together on that but still it's clear that the rug disagreements big . we the parties involved back to you from international reporting for us fr

crop administration because syria syria most of the trumpery mystery and doesn't want to get involved in any new wars and i think what the syrians were trying to say to the americans was you know trying to control the israelis and otherwise we're going to ignite the war and you trumpet ministration don't want to be dragged into a war if you don't want this then hence put a stop to what the israelis are doing. now russia has lifted a veil of secrecy around one of its ballistic missiles in a bid to salvage a key nuclear treaty washington alleges that the weapons violate the terms of the cream and moscow refutes the claim and invited foreign journalists as well as military experts to see for themselves hugo she's done off as more. there are stage lights a red tape and even a red carpet it almost feels like the unveiling of a new iphone except it isn't this is the missile the u.s. says it has knocked out the global nuclear out of kilter it is the reason why washington wants to rip up the existing treaties one of the few barriers holding back an arms race two point zero russia's been fligh

withdrawal from syria stimulus. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle president donald trump has repeatedly said the u.s. will withdraw from syria it would seem he's the only one in his administration backing this move is trump in charge of his own foreign policy are john bolton and mike palm pale actually running the show. cross talking to syria policy i'm joined by my guest. in london he is a lawyer and an independent political analyst as well as an expert in iraqi affairs in damascus we have amar why cough he is founder and director of know so it's an organization expressing stakeholder opinion in syria and in the middle east and in norman we cross to joshua landis he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma are right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joshua let me go to you first in norman i have a very simple question but i don't think there's a simple answer is

syria and syria for sure afghanistan. rethinking the possibility of american troops in iraq i mean this is something that his base likes public opinion polls show it but because trump is for it the democrats in the in the liberal media are against it what's going on here mark was. well i don't think there's been any shift and suddenly at my lights i'm again the democrats have been as true or as the republicans let's not forget in the nine hundred ninety s. how bill clinton treats all who facilitated the arrival of the mujahedeen to also during the civil war there and the mujahideen and that's what some of the most appalling atrocities of the twentieth century against mostly in service let's not forget how being bill clinton gave the order for nato to stop bombing serbia to free months and mock was talking earlier about how it was referring to the bible well. the beginning of nine hundred ninety nine bill clinton was sitting in the oval office and he also sculls shall i poem serbia and guess what got sense yes yeah i guess

crosstalk interim syria policy i'm joined. i guess so. in london he is a lawyer and an independent political analyst as well as an expert in iraqi affairs in damascus we have amar why cough he is founder and director of know so it's an organization expressing stakeholder opinion in syria and in the middle east and in norman we cross to joshua landis he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma our right gentleman. rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate joshua let me go to you first in norman i have a very simple question but i don't think there's a simple answer trumps foreign policy is befuddling. frustrating to understand and it seems quite fluid so what do you make of his policy as his major foreign policy advisers including the u.s. secretary of state is essentially contradicting their boss on their middle east tour go ahead joshua well you're absolutely right and for americans it's just as confusing as it is for the rest of the world because the for

troop withdrawal from syria to begin. now objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal we don't think that took so what you want to take military action that's not fully coordinated with and agreed to by the united states so that they meet the president's requirement that the syrian opposition forces that have fought with us and not endangered john bolton has been here in jerusalem meeting with a number of israeli officials and giving details of a hard the u.s. withdrawal from syria will work we have heard him say that there will be no timetable and then for the first time we're hearing a condition that turkey must guarantee the safety of the until now u.s. backed kurdish forces now all of this follows the surprise announcement last month by the american president donald trump that he was withdrawing american forces from syria so our borders our young women our men they're all coming back and they're coming back now it will be a strong deliberate and orderly withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria very

and of people of syria is a poor the whole integrity oh the syria. the. fighting you are helping the syrian go and if you close syria for fourteen games terrorist groups. with the help of russia and some other countries fortunately we have overcome me even cosies the. government of syria and syria have been facing the do believe if. they stumble. and russia which are available in syria leave early should remain there. to. maintain these three against a terrorist group if you interrupt syria the united states. its allies will continue their search for supporting of tourists who once again. the dumbest of the champions of. syria will be in danger and dangerous situation and once again even face the. development of new development though the. issue still. to the syria because the main. responsibility of the defend the country. of the. syria. has just. pointed out the iranian policy is has no relation to the american policy do not correlate but i'm sure you know very well that russia does try to your cards made its policy with all the actors on the ground wit

always prepared with us let's put it that way we've done in syria as. i get to about ninety nine percent of the territorial caliphate president trump is trying to make the case for why the u.s. can withdraw from syria as we know many of the elite today did team foreign. policy team around president trump the secretary of state national security council want to stay in syria but the president is saying look russia the united states syria are all on the same team in iraq are on the same team trying to destroy isis the united states can withdraw and russia iran and the syrian army will finish the job. they tell him and terry a minister to salvini has called on the money to hand over tens of fugitive terrorist suspects believed to be sheltering in france but the story has shown that dubinsky off to decades on the run one of eight to these most new tourists criminals finally steps back on to home soil says operatives steve charged with four mood as was part of the so-called red brigades that terrorized the country back in the seventy's. too many years into a

in every time there's a negotiation to end the conflict in syria the u.s. seems to upset it maybe once what once it does leave it'll leave the the players on the ground because if they have real genuine interest they can resolve it joshua it's been reported that in september john bolton went to the pentagon and was asking for. a menu of ideas how to react militarily to iran for an alleged terror attack within the green line in baghdad. there's i tell you everything we need to know about john bolton in the middle east. well you know it's not only that but john bolton and. therefore he got his present job he was. he was lobbying for regime change in iraq he was talking to me reaching change in iran excuse me was he was talking to figure running groups united states and saying that he was all in favor of regime change in iran so he has a very aggressively anti iranian and which i presume is part of the reason he was brought to the top of the pick for president trump so president trump is sitting on a very anti iranian foreign policy crowd and we say that from

plan in syria was a new year new strategy isn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. even more so that we can hear an international back again. at the top and. no. i don't want them to. be. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per circuit first second and fifth point rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. because you know what i want to. get. there so i don't hide away less good buskers i just know that then you have the. resources you like on just about anybody on a month although it doesn't but that's on. i don't know if that

look russia the united states syria are all on the same team in iraq are on the same team trying to destroy isis the united states can withdraw and russia iran and the syrian army will shift the job. to libya and the journalists in the capital city tripoli have been paying tribute to people killed and renewed fighting this week among them the journalist for the satiated press who also works party's video news agency ruptly at least thirteen people were killed and fifty two others were wounded according to the country's health ministry mohammed ben khalifa had been contributing to roughly since twenty sixteen and had produced around thirty stories for the agency his colleagues have described him as a courageous and talented journalist he survived by his wife and seven month old daughter here's some of the last images he captured during his reporting along with a recap of recent events in tripoli. well that's just what. i was but. ruptly was saddened to learn of the death of journalist mohamed bin a khalifa who lost his life during clashes in tripoli over the past three years he worke

we have a separate ship to harm iranian entrenchment in syria to harm anyone who tries to harm us policy doesn't change when i'm in the kountry and it also doesn't change when i'm making the story carries it to charge. now this is not the first time that this kind of incident has happened in the past israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes against what it says are you rainy and sponsored targets inside syria. ok thank you paula slater there reporting from tel aviv thanks for the update paula but we're going. to. landis director of the center for middle east studies thank you joshua for coming on to the program that syria is they've seen another week of strikes so israel fortunately with no casualties this time and israel is claiming that damascus attacked them as well is it time for the international community to step in. well you know it would be good to calm down this escalation there the israelis did complain that over there ski hills amounts seen that day they saw a rocket a land to land rocket this was not an anti-aircraft rocket that had been shot from the syrian side toward

withdrawal from syria is to avoid a vacuum of legal power. it is critical not to allow a sort of power to replace american troops it was our only aim is to counter terrorists and to clear syria from eyesore and the white b.g. and terrorist organizations that are trying to undermine our relations with russia . speak in a ball to u.s. troops in syria vladimir putin has said that he wants to read to rate this one more time and stress that the u.s. army is in syria illegally i'm going to go through every muscle regime that with the american military remains on syrian territory illegally there is no ground for their presence sanctioned by international law there is neither illegal invitation from the syrian government nor a decision from the un security council that we just asked how the decision of the us to withdraw troops from syria will affect the situation in the country if such plans all implemented this will be a positive step. both that of the gun and putin today read to rate it also the afterwards to bring peace to the rain to stabilize t

plan in syria was a new year new strategy it hasn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. that's the weekly wrapped up for this hour here on international though we are back at the top of the next hour with more of the highlights of this last week of us. and the police stations are always telling us oh we can't have everything at the same time we can have peace and democracy blah blah blah in a cost culture and situation oh i know war situation that's not true is that instead of telling people what you can't have everything and then failing to deliver on everything at all we should be ferric here and say ok you can have cheese like some kind of peace you can have some kind of democracy you can have some kind of justice in the short term but unfortunately we cannot feel everything at the same time and so someone has to make a choice. because. they're bred for a single purpose. of a supermoon. training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. if they're rats. and they save lives. by your half to really split you

replace american troops in syria once they withdraw we must prevent syria from being taken over by business after the americans leave we need to. rid syria of isis in the front and the why and why. we know the forces that seek to undermine turkey's relationship with russia. and it will be working in coordination. implementing and carrying out the decisions we have arrived at in this regard in the near future. a constitutional commission should be set up in syria we would like to accelerate that process. and. with. assistance from our partners we are confident that this will be done as soon as possible. and we also discussed the issue of syrian refugees with a russian called this issue affects us directly because turkey is hosting three and a half million syrians already. in the area of the. and the olive branch over three thousand syrians have already. gone back to their homes they have returned to their. locations and they are enjoying peaceful life free of terrorist activity and we should spread this positive experience on to other regions in syria on to the eastern bank of the year freit

plan in syria was a new year new strategy it hasn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. right today to help us even half an hour back with the latest. as a spy you have to really split your own personality into two you that is the committed to hardest that was still alive there within me and then there is the person who wanted to counter everything they want to do and then try and dismantle everything they were doing so you have to really become a productive in order to. you have to follow your own family in order to for the. long and welcome to the first edition of worlds apart in two thousand and nineteen happy holidays and thank you for keeping us by your side this year and i'll add a chance that that councils of war never fired meaning that decision makers often get caught up in deliberations rather than actually making and implementing decisions that may not be so bad in the case of war a but. what about peace councils of peace or the u.n. peacekeeping operations deliver what they set out to do well to discuss

troops from syria on this estate to watch the. year span different fantastic all the episode drill down into twenty nineteen predictions. will be suffering ten years of the kaiser report. shows seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any beliefs yet to stamp out these days comes to council. and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so you will be and that is your last yes does the she does it with the big business of going this one up well what i mean. i mean it was not. really a lock to get me to move he can see as you know he is if. you're in the form of the media. i'm with you more in their favor when within them what are most of them given many balls up in the phone while you most will start to feel . just the for christmas the. a little world here in washington d.c. was shaken to its very core when president donald trump announced that the united states would be pulling its troops out of syria and drawing down in afghanistan most were surprised by trum

goal was in terms of regime change in syria's we've said before we don't really know i mean. i know the record and we know that barack obama wanted. to know that you know we know that the united states wanted assad gone we didn't know what was going to replace that and that's the point that i mean by that but i think the second thing to realize is that russia has had success in these areas in for the way i would put it it's home turf it's not surprising that russia cares more about ukraine it's not surprising that russia cares more about syria given that syria's always been russia's strongest ally in the arab middle east whether or not these things are going to work further afield i think is another question i think this question of war and peace is the ultimate contention between russia and the united states it's not you know that disagreements primarily another trade they're not about values that not even about the form of governance it's about the america's ability and they believe in the united states that it can launch wars you know laterally if that is put aside if that

we have asserted it to harm iranian entrenchment in syria and to harm anyone who tries to harm us is not the first time that this kind of incident has happened in the past israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against what it says are a rainy and sponsor targets inside syria we spoke to joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies who believes that despite the ongoing conflicts in the region president trump is still eager to withdraw from syria. we killing i or you know the worst enemy. right here harass syria you look at it is isis so we're killing like four people that are surely always prepared with us let's put it that way we've got an area here. i guess about ninety percent of the territorial caliphate president trump is trying to make the case for why the u.s. can withdraw from syria as we know many of the elite today did team foreign policy team around president trump the secretary of state national security council want to stay in syria but the president is saying look russia the united states syria are all in the same team in iraq are on the same team tr

plan in syria was a new year new strategy it hasn't quite materialized with the u.s. administration seemingly as confused as the rest of us. now police in the german city of bremen have released video. footage of monday's attack on an m.p. from the anti migrant alternative for germany party it does show three men approaching sixty six year old frank magnets from behind to run up to him and attack him before the group flees leaving their victim on the ground a police investigation is underway frag magnates with frank magnets was seriously injured and remains in hospital they f.t. describes the incident as an assassination attempt magnates there was able to speak to r.t. about the attack. i was at the new year function organized by the words or career newspaper of the party surely before six and went to the car park to my car i took a short cut through an area i don't really like and there was a mistake i went through the square next to the cd theatre there are normally no people there the only people there were there were two laborers who were looting their cars i went

learn help and teach and explain and then create a good dialogue about you know really where are we in syria bashir is there russia is there they weren't before i says potentially could be reborn. and so the bottom line for me is the president said what he said but taking our troops out of syria in the ways doing it i think is misguided but if you lost a family member in syria and someone described it as sam the best what we're fighting for well you know it's a good question. as to what we are fighting for i think what we were fighting for was to try to bring some stability to that region i think we were trying to push iran back. and there was purpose to it we didn't want isis to grow and have a base. and so. you know it takes your breath away to think that we've had soldiers who've lost their lives men and women in afghanistan iraq and syria and there has to be purpose to it and if there isn't we should leave them first and said we do see tonight is isis and how he says we almost eradicated isis what's your take on our nation's well i says this in syria isis and part of iraq still isis is a

syria so it's very important to avoid drawing any borders so i think the kurds in iraq and syria. understand that we need to they need to work out an agreement with the government with the national government that would be mutually acceptable but out undermining the territorial integrity of their respective country. we. call another us from the foreign minister said. on many occasions in such an.

troops in syria though on this estate to watch us. we're continuing our special episode here the new year celebrating not only twenty nineteen but ten years of kaiser reports at some point in twenty nineteen i'm not sure exactly when that is but we'll keep you posted. will say you will both be end of. last years does. she doesn't it with the big business of congress are going up well what i mean. i mean it was not i. thank. you lou your local superman for movie can see as you know if you buy the fact. that you're in the family leave your. home with you moved in with the baby when it was in the mud almost most. you were the force of the moment you both were was a yes. thank. you. just before christmas the political world here in washington d.c. was shaken to its very core when president donald trump announced that the united states would be pulling its troops out of syria and drawing down in afghanistan most were surprised by trump's sudden shift towards withdrawal because just days earlier the washington post was reporting that the ad