Senator orrin hatch, and the chairman of the Transportation Committee announcing they will retire at the end of their terms. Many fear the gop can lose congressional control. Reporter the agenda is going to have to deal with having to fund the u. S. Government. A lot of attention will be paid to a meeting tomorrow that will take place with leaders on capitol hill and leaders of the administration. You have Mick Mulvaney from the office of management and budget who will meet with Mitch Mcconnell from the senate, Chuck Schumer from the senate, nancy pelosi and paul ryan from the house. One of the things they will talk about is how to funds the government Going Forward before the deadline runts stout january 19. But also raising some spend caps the on the domestic side. Sarah sanders. The press secretary here at the white house summed it up like this. A lot of meetings the president has this week with leadership will help determine the best strategy on each those individual areas. Those a
A low i Maryam Namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes turkey launches an operation targeting Kurdish Forces inside syria the u. S. Is calling for restraint. A Taliban Attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in kabul finally ends after a sixteen hour gun battle at least eighteen people were killed. Tear gas and gunfire in kinshasa Security Forces killed five people taking part in an antigovernment protest. And ive used them as in doha with all the sports news wolf number one rafael nadal remains on cool so glorious the Australian Open that cross all the other schools talking up to this news are. Welcome to the news hour our top story the u. S. Is urging turkey to use restraint in its operation against kurdish fighters in Northern Syria turkish soldiers have entered the enclave of a free part of an assault to drive out Kurdish Peoples Protection units a y p g talkies president is vying to crush the group which views as a terrorist organization al
The country or the region and really focus on afghanistan for multiple tours of language training. The problem is that to the war in afghanistan of a certain size to slightly bent personnel rules to have the program created. Right now the institutions are reverting back to their normal resting place which is to say good for you have for having been an afghan ham an afghan ham but your an afghan ham but your career is done thank you very much are you very much or you would post it to someplace where you will never get the next promotion. Places like iraq and somalia and the sedges of empire we think they need these types of deep subject Matter Expert piece but also the relationships. Most of these countries are based on relationships not in formal situations we have in the west. I think in yemen we need a yemeni hands program. We will be there for a long ti time. Back to one of your first comments about whether its fair not. In many ways especially when theres complete lack of security
Taking over the city of fallujah and my other question is how did you end up winning the trust of the city in order to change it and make it more prosperous even though isis is taking over the city . I think for a lot of a lot of americans they sea ice is taking over iraq and hear about the growth of al qaeda affiliates and theres a sense of what can we do about it . Is this something we just have to live with is a permanent condition of our lives . One reason i wanted to write the book is to show that success is possible. Its not by accident. Its a process that takes place. Theres learning that has to take place as well. This is not an intractable problem. You can do it but it requires local partnerships. The problem is so much of how we remember war or misremember wars purely about combat. Its not how wars are fundamentally finished in this type of work very. I thats the big take away i would say. I would like to add on that thats one of the reasons we wrote this. To get people to un
The other name for the Kurdish Forces, are you bubble are a capable fighting force. Necessary is support from the American Military to enhance their fighting position or to take out key targets that would allow them to have greater success. Again, there are a couple of factors that are important. The residence determination not to send american and to ensure that this is being done in a way that is coordinated with the Security Forces and have an inclusive iraq government. The reason for my question is the Iraqi Government is not currently relevant in the fight. That is all that is relevant right now. As seems to be a potential turning point. The fighters are fighting right might have an opportunity to regain facilities. That. Like what im curious about is the u. S. Says, dont do that. We want help you with that even though it is cushy to iraqi even though it is crucial to iraqi. What is overall direction going to be if they do get back in the fight . They aree seen that prepared to ge