of baghdad alongside his own. motar chose famous archive pictures of the capital, and photographed the same places to showow the city has changed. while there has been some development, much of baghdad's old architecture has suffered from damage and neglect. >>translated ): this particular picture is hung on a building from the year 1933. it's a very old and beautiful building. the combination of the columns and the outside details and also the balconies is ver particular, and it distinguishes ag rashid street. >> reporter: motar 20, comes from a generation that grew up mostly indoors to avoid olence that raged on baghdad's streets in the wake of the 2003 american-led invasion.i for years, explosions and sectarian strife altered the tyysical appearance and social cohesion of the ci then, after a viief lull in ence, isis took control of a third iraq's territory in 2014, and, although its so-called caliphatednever extendo baghdad, the group terrorized the city with car bombs and suicide attacks. security has much im

in baghdad, it is like more then the partnerships to baghdad, and how the service is ontracted. this is how we are going to negotiate in the next phase as a political party or as a political entity, we have to work on that. it will be always a problem, but both sides have to compromise in order to service the iraqi people, the kurdistan people. he intentions are always there to resolve outstanding roblems. but i think because iqr is in the formation of their krg and regional government, after this, hopefully before 2020, according to our schedule from baghdad's schedule and the iqr schedule, we have to deal with this. he 140 article, by the constitution, the cor, the parliament has to create a committee to address this. clearly, there are still problems in these areas. service problems. and -- these areas -- started to have problems after the battle. so how is it going to be approached or addressed? is the iqr going to contribute to the recent structures of these areas or the federal government? this is a problem between this or that. and these people are suffering because they

well, this is the historic city of baghdad, home to more than 8 million people. and the lifeblood of this city is the tigris river, but as you move down it, the more polluted the tigris becomes, and it's almost as if iraq is poisoning itself. it's nearly 500 kilometres from baghdad to the city of basra, it's home to the country's main port, and once fertile farmland. but now, it's hard to find freshwater here. and the rising salinity of the water is having a crippling effect on the city. this was basra last summer, when the city erupted in anger. protesters were furious about corruption, unemployment, and poisoned water. the authorities cracked down hard. more than a dozen demonstrators were killed. basra was a broken city. this wounded protester cursed the city's a leaders, as the scum of the earth. a city once known as the venice of the east, had become a vision of hell. its canal, a symbol of corruption and dysfunction. the sweltering summer heat turning this into a toxic stew. tens of thousands were rushed to the city's hospitals, suffering from stomach cramp

it's nearly 500 kilometres from baghdad to the city of basra. it's home to the country ‘s main port and once fertile farmland. but now, it's hard to find freshwater here. and the rising salinity of the water is having a crippling effect on the city. this was basra last summer when the city erupted in anger. protesters we re city erupted in anger. protesters were furious about corruption, unemployment and poisoned water. the authorities cracked down hard. more than a dozen demonstrators were killed. basra was a broken city. this one—day protest because the city's leaders as the scum of the earth. a city once known as the venice of the east had become a vision of hell. its canals, a symbol of corruption and dysfunction. the sweltering summer heat turning this into a toxic stew. this tens of thousands were rushed to the us hospitals suffering from stomach cramps and serious diarrhoea. doctors and doctors were overwhelmed. the city had never seen a health crisis on this scale. it was basra's slums that were worse hit. people here live in toxic f

in baghdad it's like more than the partnership from baghdad's point of view is the service to service these contracts. this is how we are going to negotiate in the next phase as a political party or as a political entity we have to work an that. it will be all a problem but both sides have to compromise in order to service the iraqy people. the intentions are always there to resolve these outstanding problems, but i think because the iqr is now busy of in their formation of krg, hopefully before 2020 according to our schedule from the iqr schedule buoyant of view we have to deal with this. the 14 article by the constitution, the parliment has to create a committee to address this. clearly there is still problems in these areas. service problems some of these areas. started to have problems after the battle. so how is it going to be approached, addressed? will they contribute to the structure or the federal government? this is the problem between this or that and these people are su suffering because they have not received anything to provide these services for idps and bring the idps

well, this is the historic city of baghdad, home to more than 8 million people. and the lifeblood of this city is the tigris river, but as you move down it, the more polluted the tigris becomes, and it's almost as if iraq is poisoning itself. it's nearly 500 kilometres from baghdad to the city of basra, it's home to the country's main port, and once fertile farmland. but now, it's hard to find freshwater here. and the rising salinity of the water is having a crippling effect on the city. this was basra last summer, when the city erupted in anger. protesters were furious about corruption, unemployment, and poisoned water. the authorities cracked down hard. gunshots. more than a dozen demonstrators were killed. basra was a broken city. this wounded protester cursed the city's a leaders, as the scum of the earth. a city once known as the venice of the east, had become a vision of hell. it's canal, a symbol of corruption and dysfunction. the sweltering summer heat turning this into a toxic stew. tens of thousands were rushed to the city's hospitals, suffering from st

it's nearly 500km from baghdad to the city of basra. it's home to the country's main port and once fertile farmland. but now, it's hard to find fresh water here. and the rising salinity of the water is having a crippling effect on the city. this was basra last summer when the city erupted in anger. protesters were furious about corruption, unemployment and poisoned water. gunfire the authorities cracked down hard. more than a dozen demonstrators were killed. basra was a broken city. this one—day protester cursed the city's leaders as the scum of the earth. a city once known as the venice of the east had become a vision of hell. its canals, a symbol of corruption and dysfunction. the sweltering summer heat, turning this into a toxic stew. tens of thousands were rushed to the city's hospital, suffering from stomach cramps and serious diarrhoea. doctors and nurses were overwhelmed. the city had never seen a health crisis on this scale. it was basra's slums that were worse hit. people here live in toxic filth, and have limited access to c

to do so andle that is how i says was not able to take over baghdad. they are basically making the same point. , the u.s.laces government has at times helped isis. if you want to help donald trump, you basically make your orclusion supporting iran the united states. >> thank you very much. c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, a discussion of efforts to obtain president trump's tax returns with university of virginia law school professor of law and taxation. republican congressman paul mitchell, and in illinois democratic congressman discuss college transparency act. we talk about staffing trends in congressional committees. be sure to watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. is a look at our live coverage tuesday. on c-span, the house is back at with a.m. eastern legislative business at noon. on the agenda, a bill to restore fcc net neutrality rules that require internet service providers to treat all internet traffic equally. on c-span2

reports from baghdad this is hosain osier. he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad stay here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at tahrir and on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad a lot of the job much the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment and no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we've lame administrate of corruption nepotism and favorite has any. official say the cou

he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue of. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad a lot of the job much you know the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment so no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favorite has many. officials say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason b

bush opted not to go to baghdad. and after we left office, everywhere we'd go, every time we'd stand up to speak they'd say why didn't you guys take care of saddam hussein when you had the chance. well, we didn't because we were worried iraq might fragment into warring tribes and that's exactly what happened. >> iraq is engulfed by bloody sec arianne conflict. >> the thing we greatly underestimated was that some of the issues we were dealing with had very deep roots. that when you lifted the lid off the dictatorship, out come all these forces of destabilization. he and i were both feel in retrospect that that's the thing that was not properly and deeply understood. >> coalition troops are attacked by insurgent forces. who are rebelling what they see as an occupation. >> it was looking bad. we were losing a lot of troops. we had an insurgericy that was not coming under control. and the world started to turn away from us. we thought i think that it would go fairly smoothly. we were disappointed when it didn't go smooth

there up towards tehran though rain in your forecast clouds as well attempt a few of twenty degrees baghdad it twenty four but here is the clearing that we do expect to see and fortune for the northern part of iran we could see more heavy rain in your forecast in a few spotty showers down here along the coast we're still seeing some stormy conditions across the gulf war since a partly cloudy conditions then it gets cloudy and in the evening in the afternoon timeframe we are seeing those thunderstorms develop across much of the area we do think by the time we get towards monday things will be improving particular here in doha but we could still see a few clouds in the area with the temperature there of about thirty one degrees thirty one degrees for you as well and then as we make our way down towards the southern parts of africa we did see quite a bit of stormy conditions here across much of the eastern part of south africa things are now getting better and we're going to see temperatures a little bit lower for this time of year where johannesburg at twenty one durban to twenty four and the

ports from baghdad. this is hosain messier. he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad to hear square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad a lot of the job much the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment and no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we've lame administrate of corruption nepotism and favorite has any. official say the coun

it is going to be thirty three degrees there and as we go towards tuesday it gets even hotter in baghdad we expect to see about thirty six tehran a nice day for you but we do expect to see some showers in the forecast at twenty four degrees there here across the gulf temps are coming up as well here in doha we're going to start the day here on monday with a temperature of about thirty two as a high as we go towards tuesday it does come up as well but the temperatures across much of the interior sections across saudi arabia neka forty degrees few as a high there but over towards miss got a nice day at about thirty one and of course we do want to update you on what is happening here across mozambique heavy rain could be a factor across coastal areas but the remnants of the storm is making its way off so we do expect to see much of the rain start to dissipate down here towards the south in durban it is going to be a nice day with sun in your forecast at twenty seven in johannesburg is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four. leah and her husband gavin worst leak wh

. >> would not be surprised if some headline writer somewhere came up with baghdad bill bar from what we saw today. rob: the comments sitting social media ablaze. carly is here to discuss that. rob: attorney general bill bar shutdown a reporter questioning him about protecting the president. >> what do you say to people on both sides of the aisle who are concerned about you trying to protect the president? >> the statement about his sincere beliefs are recognized in the report, that there was substantial evidence, saying that i'm being generous to the president. jillian: carly shimkus with serious xm 115 here with what everyone is saying online. >> the fireworks started during this half-hour press conference, william barr faced a barrage of questions from the media and in one heated exchange cbs news's paul are read brought up the concern that barr was going above and beyond to cover for the president and he quickly shut that notion down. conservatives on social media have his back, this twitter user criticizing the press for their coverage of the mueller report and another twitter us

this is the town of eighty five kilometers north of baghdad and looming over a main road a poster of brigadier general hamid to harvey one of the most senior commanders in their reign in revolutionary guards he was killed her by nice a sniper in december two thousand and fourteen fifty five year olds have used the most senior member of iran's armed forces to die outside its borders since the iran iraq war of the one nine hundred eighty s. . after the feet of eisel in mosul many of its fighters move south and circled this town in the hopes of capturing it and eventually getting to baghdad that's when the iraqi government asked for help a call answered by iran's revolutionary guards this statue was baited by locals a year after death. salah hosseini is a senior commander with iraq's popular mobilisation front here in baghdad and fought against eisel the. it's nothing new that the u.s. keeps interfering against the islamic resistance the us is trying to divide iraq from iran but it will not be able to iraq and iran are considered one body with one leadership it is impossible for america

president, they're not. >> three weeks after the war begins american troops take baghdad. saddam hussein is in hiding. >> president bush flies on to the uss lincoln. >> major combat operations in iraq have ended. in the battle of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. >> it's impossible to imagine george herbert walker bush standing under a banner that said mission accomplished. he would not have done that. he was too modest. >> 12 years earlier george w. bush's father also went to war against saddam hussein to drive the dictator's forces out of kuwait. >> george h.w. bush opted not to go to baghdad and after we left office where ever we go, every time we would stand up to speak they'd say why didn't you guys take care of saddam when you had the chance? well, we were worried iraq might fragment into warring tribes and that's exactly what happened. >> iraq is engulfed in conflict. >> the thing we greatly underestimated is that some of the issues we were dealing with had very deep roots. when you lifted the lid off the dictatorship out come all the forces of

there was never any support whatsoever on the part of 41 or his team for going to baghdad. and trying to convert what the u.n. resolution to kick iraq out unconditionally by force into a regime change. we never -- talmage: at the time, there was criticism on the decision not to go to baghdad. a few decades down the road, most people recognize it was the right decision. somebody of your age and stature, i am sure one of the nice things is to let history take care of the ultimate judgment about those decisions. mr. baker: yeah, because we got beat up pretty good for a couple years about, why didn't you finish the job he started out? we finished the job that the u.n. gave us authority to do. and we told congress and the american people we were going to do. we did that job and no more. talmage: you have talked about his amazing ability to build a bipartisan support and the fact that he had democratic controlled house and senate throughout his presidency. i know you are secretary of state, but what is your favorite story of when he reached across the aisle to a democratic senato

the country though muddies truck trip comes a month after iranian president hassan rouhani visited baghdad the relations between the neighbors are strengthen it despite the efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars our correspondent there is a dream arias more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at the palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last

east tehran maybe some rain in the forecast with a temperature of about nineteen but a warm day in baghdad we do expect to see a high there of thirty degrees for you here across the gulf we had seen some storms almost every day of the weekend but things are still going to be quite rocky as we go towards sunday with the clouds and possibly rain showers with attempted there of about thirty two by the time we get to monday that slowly makes its way towards ethe we come down a little bit in temperature attempt here about thirty one degrees and then very quickly it had been very heavy rain across parts of south africa particularly here towards the east things are getting better that system has now moved offshore but up here towards johannesburg it is going to be a partly cloudy day at twenty two durban at twenty three and by the time we get towards monday more rain and forty and your forecast with johannesburg a temperature sixteen interment of twenty six. a notorious symbol of the u.s. war on terror one set for closure one ton of detainees. we have identified as a priority is the construction

forces are both stationed in iraq let's get the view from baghdad jabarin of course also in baghdad some iraqi officials have close ties to iran so any official reaction from like dogs. well there in we're currently waiting for the country's foreign ministry to issue a statement we've reached out to the foreign minister in his office and they've told us that they're currently drafting a response to the decision by the united states government what's important to note is that there are fifty eight hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq and the rainy and revolutionary guards presence in this country is that their request of the iraqi government so there are an advisory role here but what makes things very difficult for the iraqi government is that they need both sides the united states as well as iran to be present in their country for the forseeable future according to the country's prime minister who was just in tehran the past few days he said that they relationship between iran and iraq has never been stronger and that the two countries will continue to develop their relationship there'

this trip comes just a month after a visit by iranian president hassan rouhani to baghdad's relations between the neighbors are strengthening this fight efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones were. all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars thorson jabari has more from. the iraqi prime minister arrived in teheran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to

the ship that comes a month after iranian president hassan rouhani visited baghdad and relations between the two neighbors are strengthening despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region briefly. we wish to see our well developed relations bilateral relations to be an example to follow and also to be a precursor to similar ones with all the regional countries iraq not only aspires to maintain such healthy relations with iran but we are willing to develop widen and deepen our bilateral relations similarly with kuwait saudi arabia egypt could tar and the united arab emirates we wish the region to enjoy stability and peace and to put an end to wars our correspondent has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at the palace in the capital there to help meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many

he has more now from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to come in the in the future between the two countries the iraqi prime minister for his part stressed the importance that iran has for iraq and that he said that if according to iraq's constitution there will be no iraq's oil will not be allowed to be used by foreign troops or fighters to launch any attacks against iran iranian president also stressed that iran wishes to increase its exports to iraq to a revenue of about twenty billion the current figure is at about thirteen billion dollars of course the two sides have made very strong gains in the past few years they've developed stronger re

would be the first public appearance by the leader since twenty fourteen he talks about the battle of baghdad was in syria which ended in march and the end of the video and audio messages added mentioning the attacks in sri lanka al jazeera cannot confirm the authenticity of the video or where it was filmed or child but is following the story from iraq's capital baghdad charlie so what more do we know about the video and how significant is it. well i think certainly think amongst the international security establishment intelligence forces around the world it's hugely significant they're going to be analyzing this video very closely and as you say it's the first time that we've seen baghdadi since two thousand and fourteen since he made that announcement at the inori mosque declaring himself kalif of the self declared caliphate the islamic state caliphate. he references the battle of bought a good news repeatedly throughout this video the battle of that was ended as you say in march which was the last isis on clave the defeat of the last isis on plate on the syrian side of the iraqi border an

he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad a lot of the job much the reason behind our protest is that many of those hota who scratch at degrees are suffering from unemployment no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favored his money but officials say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason behind rising un

visit to the country the matthys trip comes a month after iranian president hassan rouhani visited baghdad relations between the neighbors us strengthen them despite efforts by washington to curb iran's influence in the region also jabari has more from baghdad the iraqi prime minister arrived in tehran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south palace in the capital the two held meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger ties in the coming years of course the iranian president has just been to baghdad last month and he pledged many many developments to come in the in the future between the two countries the iraqi prime minister for his part stressed the importance that iran has for iraq and that he said that if according to iraq's constitution there will be no iraq's oil will not be allowed to be used by foreign troops or fighters to launch any attacks against iran iranian president also stressed that iran wishes to increase its exports to iraq to revenue of about twenty billion the cur

brilliant idea was that we would organize a cabinets to cabinet meeting so the iraq he cabinet was in baghdad and the relevant counterparts would assemble at camp david with president bush and we would have a joint cabinet meeting by city conference so that's what we advertised to the iraqis, what we advertised to the entire world was that president bush and his cabinet would be at camp david and all of the iraqis would be in baghdad and they would have a meeting by videoconference. we invited the cabinet members i think there were six or eight of them who were relevant to come up to camp david and the chairman of the joint chiefs, a couple other people and there was a big dinner and the convening place that has a dining room there was a big dinner for all of the cabinet members there with the president and vice president cheney and our plan was president bush and his national security advisor and i would slip out before dessert and we would leave dick cheney to make small talk. by the way this is where the plan almost failed. because we needed to keep everybody there at dinner while the rest

we did reach out and conduct negotiations with the iranians in baghdad during the course of the surge. ambassador crocker was the negotiator. the challenge was we had three rounds of this. we thought there might be some opportunity to make some headway with them. but the fact was that it was very clear that there was no room at all for the negotiators. they literally would have to leave the room and make phone calls back to tehran to literally ask, how do we respond to this particular point or question for ambassador crocker. they had no latitude. they weren't true negotiators. they were just a mouthpiece. and that was disappointing. we thought there was opportunity. beyond that, you know, look, i could neither confirm nor deny we ever contemplated doing something to sulimani. i can say that he never stepped foot in iraq during the time of the surge or when i was in centcom. i forget where he was when i was in afghanistan. he had to be careful when i was director of the c.i.a. he really traveled only in two countries, if i recall. those were obviously iran and then in syria. there wer

there up towards tehran though rain in your forecast clouds as well attempt a few of twenty degrees baghdad at twenty four but here is the clearing that we do expect to see and fortune for the northern part of iran we could see more heavy rain in your forecast in a few spotty showers down here along the coast we're still seeing some stormy conditions across the gulf war since a partly cloudy conditions then it gets cloudy and in the evening in the afternoon timeframe we are seeing those thunderstorms develop across much of the area we do think by the time we get towards monday things will be improving particular here in doha but we could still see a few clouds in the area with the temperature there of about thirty one degrees thirty one degrees for you as well and then as we make our way down towards the southern parts of africa we did see quite a bit of stormy conditions here across much of the eastern part of south africa things are now getting better and we're going to see temperatures a little bit lower for this time of year where johannesburg at twenty one durban to twenty four and the

government is because of the help that iran gave during the time that isis was 40 kilometers away from baghdad. they called washington. they told tehran. washington was not able to assist. that is how isis was able to do it back then. the politicians understand that. they had him him him in iran yesterday basically making the same point. government has helped isis. he said the u.s. government created isis. you basically make your conclusion. who is supporting terrorism, iran or the united states? >> thank you very much. a lecturer from the university of iran, joining us from the iranian capital. >> c-span's washington journal, live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, a discussion of getorts to washington trump's tax returns with a professor. paul mitchell and illinois democratic congressman -- discuss the college transparency act. and we talk about staffing and congressional interviews with senior fellow casey verdant. watch c-span's washington journal at 7:00 eastern, tuesday morning. join the discussion. attorney general william barr testifies before the ho

as you will recall we did reach out and conduct negotiations with the iranians in baghdad during the course of the surge. ambassador crocker was the negotiator and the challenge was, we had three rounds of this and thought there might be some opportunity to make some headway but the fact was that it was very clear that there was no room at all for the negotiators, they would literally have to leave the room and make phone calls back to tehran to ask , how do we respond to this point or question from ambasador crocker, they had no latitude and were not true negotiators. they were just a mouthpiece and that was disappointing. we thought there was opportunity. beyond that look i can neither confirm nor deny that we ever contemplated doing something that costs but i can tell you never set foot in iraq during the time i commanded the surge nor the time that i, i forget where he was during afghanistan and he was very careful when i happened to be the director of the cia. he really traveled only in two countries i recall and those were usually iran and syria. there were some other opportuni

it is going to be thirty three degrees there and as we go towards tuesday it gets even hotter in baghdad we expect to see about thirty six tehran a nice day for you but we do expect to see some showers in the forecast at twenty four degrees there here across the gulf temps are coming up as well here in doha we're going to start the day here on monday with a temperature of about thirty two as a high as we go towards tuesday it does come up as well but the temperatures across much of the interior sections across saudi arabia neka forty degrees few as a high there but over towards the scot a nice day at about thirty one and of course we do want to update you on what is happening here across mozambique heavy rain could be a factor across coastal areas but the remnants of the storm is making its way off so we do expect to see much of the rain start to dissipate down here towards the south in durban it is going to be a nice day with sun in your forecast at twenty seven in johannesburg is going to be a partly cloudy day with a temperature of twenty four. and world of illegal trade what you have

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he has more now from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister arrived into iran where he was greeted by iranian president hassan rouhani at south that's a bad palace in the capital there to help meetings and then a press conference where they stated the intention for the countries the two countries to develop stronger to.

countries of trade insults in recent days over the united states and iran policies but has more from baghdad. on saturday influential shia cleric here mocked other assad who controls the largest shia bloc in iraq's parliament called for a reconciliation between iran and saudi arabia and called for a change of government in bahrain syria and yemen now. it's in response to those statements that we saw the bahraini foreign minister describe the the influential shia cleric here with other assad as behaving like something that was a half man half god as you can imagine deeply offensive here in the muslim world as a result of that we saw protests overnight outside the bar in a consulate in najaf in the bahraini embassy here in baghdad it's very important to put this kind of diplomatic spat in some sort of geopolitical calm context here of course in recent months we've seen an increase in an effort by the u.s. to galvanize pull in its anti iran coalition a coalition that is very much supported by saudi arabia and by bahrain and let's not forget that iraq is a majority shia country that neighbors ir

he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad a lot of the job much the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment and no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favored his many. officials say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason behind rising

north though tehran will finally get out of the rain probably by sunday evening and over here towards baghdad it is going to be a very hot day for you at about thirty two degrees well that same area of rain will cause a problem here in doha over the next few days it is going to be quite heavy on saturday particularly into saturday night where we do expect to see thunderstorms by sunday that rain heads over towards the u.a.e. as well as into oman we could be even seen some localized flooding across that region we will be watching that very carefully down across the coast from and we do expect to see. clouds and possibly rain showers force a lot with a temperature of thirty one degrees and then very quickly across it is going to be a nice day for you with a temperature of twenty two degrees in durban partly cloudy to mostly cloudy with a temperature of twenty eight degrees there. a lifetime of emulation and struck by stroke copying the master selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more rewarding to crea

he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. yet they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a p.h.d. in any discipline but that's not happening. as bad mother to joe machine and the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment and no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favored his many. officials say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason behi

result of that we saw protests overnight outside the bahraini consulate in from the embassy here in baghdad it's very important to put this kind of diplomatic spat in some sort of geopolitical calm context here of course in recent months we've seen an increase in an effort by the u.s. to galvanize pull in its anti iran coalition a coalition that is very much supported by saudi arabia and by bahrain and let's not forget that iraq is a majority shia country that neighbors iran and sees itself very much as being in the center of this wider geo political context other souther up until now has always been so far at least as being quite moderate in his language very keen to point out that iraq is a sovereign nation and that iran will not meddle in its affairs and neither will the americans and their supporters so they say it's important to put context on this diplomatic route but it highlights once again as i say these very deep seated sectarian and political problems of this region and just how tense the situation is becoming the leader of hamas is calling on palestinians to unite against presid

bahrain is over statements made about an influential iraqi shia cleric so structured has more from baghdad on saturday influential shia cleric here mocked other assad who controls the largest shia bloc in iraq's parliament called for a reconciliation between iran and saudi arabia and called for a change of government in bahrain syria and yemen now. it's in response to those statements that we saw the bahraini foreign minister describe the the influential shia cleric here with other assad as behaving like something that was a half man half dog as you can imagine deeply offensive here in the muslim world and as a result of that we saw protests overnight outside the bar in the consulate in najaf in the bahraini embassy here in baghdad it's very important to put this kind of diplomatic spat in some sort of geopolitical calm context here of course in recent months we've seen an increase in an effort by the u.s. to galvanize pull in its anti iran coalition a coalition that is very much supported by saudi arabia and by bahrain and let's not forget that iraq is a majority shia country that neighbo

monday says the islamic state has been defeated in syria referring to the final battle in the city of baghdad but that the war against what it sees as the christian west and its allies is far from over and. the battle between islam and its people. cross and its people as long. the battle of the goose has ended. and in it the barbarity and savagery of the nation of the cross towards islam was clear. he promises to seek revenge for the killing and imprisonment of its fighters in syria and praises the deadly attacks in sri lanka on easter sunday which killed two hundred fifty people as well as a spate of small attacks around the world. despite a twenty five million us dollars bounty on his head he's a life and he says he's still in charge he looks humbled and much older than five years ago. it's a far cry from this moment the establishment of islamic states caliphates announced from the pulpit of nouri mosque in mosul iraq in two thousand and fourteen. how baghdad he is saying that although islamic state may not be powerful in syria it's still internationally active and paying close attention to

there is dosage of barry has more from baghdad. the iraqi prime minister up to the as a arrived in tehran where he was received by waning president hassan rouhani at the palace now the two day visit comes as the two countries pledge to further ties between the two sides in terms of the country's economy and their defense and the political strategies that they share of course iran and iraq have really become much closer in the past few years the iranian president hassan rouhani stressing the country's commitment to strengthen economic ties currently iraq is the number one importer of reunion goods that in two thousand and eighteen of about nine billion dollars the iranian president said they hope to increase trade to about twenty billion in the coming year now the iraqi prime minister also stressed that according to iraq's constitution they will not allow their country and iraqi soil to be used as a launching pad for any foreign troops or fighters to launch attacks against iran that is something that's very important to the iraqi go

this quickly as it did, there was never any support whatsoever on the part of his team for going to baghdad and trying to convert that resolution into a regime change objective we never had that but of course at the time there was a lot of criticism about the decision. but now a few decades down the road i think most people recognize it was the right decision so somebody of your age and stature one of the nice things is to let history take care of the ultimate judgment about those kinds of decisions.>> we got pretty beat up pretty good for a couple years. why didn't you guys finish this job that you started out with, well we finished the job, the un give us authority to do and we told the congress and the american people were going to do we did that job.>> we talked about his amazing ability to build a partisan support and the fact that he had democratic control house and senate throughout his presidency i know you were secretary of state but what's your favorite story of when reached across the aisle to a democratic senator or congressman who tried to get him to see things his way.>> i'm n

we flew eight or 10 hours to baghdad and landed there. just as we were landing, the iraqi prime minister was informed that yes, there would be a videoconference, but president bush would be here in baghdad. and so, this photo here is a photo of the president, and i am the guy at the end there. what you see on the screen is all the members of the u.s. cabinet being videoconference in from camp david. it was a hugely successful meeting. a way in which the protected and confidential nature of camp david contributed to a very successful operation that could not have been done but for the kind of place that can't david is. is.amp david holly: stewart, we talked about the camp david accords. talk about some of the other consequential historical events, meetings that happened, throughout history. stewart: winston churchill was the first international visitor with fdr. it was mrs. roosevelt wanting him to get the white house from her. they enjoyed fishing there and talking. they talked about the invasion of sicily, normandy, pretty consequential

we flew eight or 10 hours to baghdad and landed there. just as we were landing, the iraqi prime minister was informed that yes, there would be a videoconference, but president bush would be here in baghdad. and so, this photo here is a photo of the president, and i am the guy at the end there. what you see on the screen is all the members of the u.s. cabinet being videoconference in from camp david. it was a hugely successful meeting. a way in which the protected and confidential nature of camp david contributed to a very successful operation that could not have been done but for the very kind of place that can't david is. -- camp david is. holly: stewart, we talked about the camp david accords. talk about some of the other consequential historical events, meetings that happened, throughout history. stewart: winston churchill was the first international visitor with fdr. it was mrs. roosevelt wanting him to get the white house from her. they enjoyed fishing there and talking. they talked about the invasion of sicily, normandy, pretty cons

here in post 9/11 opportunities, some of the dialogue that took place when general petraeus was in baghdad and most recently the negotiations that led up to the jcp oa. we've been accustomed to seeing shari on our screens, the ministers speaking to the people in the president but that is a relatively new feature of the bilateral dynamic and it's important to remember for most of the last 40 years we've been laboring with the difficulty of an adversary that has often thought to avoid any direct dialogue with us. i think that's no longer the case today and that is one of the few advantages to the situation we find ourselves in in the aftermath of the trump administration's decision to walk away from the iran nuclear deal. as karim points out eloquently in the piece that he's published today in the atlantic, there is this divergence obvious between the president and his national security cabinet and it's been a consistent one almost since the campaign. . remember, president trump campaign on renegotiating the iran deal . he distinguished himself in 2016 on the other republicans in the race ov

we flew that eight or 10 hours to baghdad and landed there. landing, there iraqi prime minister was be amed that they would videoconference, but president bush would be here in baghdad. here, is as photo , and i amhe president the guy at the end there. screen isee on the all the members of the u.s. cabinet being videoconference in from camp david. it was a hugely successful meeting. protected and the confidential nature of camp a veryontributed to successful operation that could not have been done, but for the place at camp david. we talked about the camp david accords. talk about some of the other consequential historical events, meetings that happened, throughout history. stewart: winston churchill was the first international visitor with fdr. was mrs. roosevelt wanting him to get the white house from her. they enjoyed fishing there and talking. they talked about the invasion of sicily, normandy, pretty consequential conversations. eisenhower had khrushchev to camp david. eisenhower was the first american president to make use of helicopters

he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. yet they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. a spam law that the joe machine and the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favorite has any. official say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason behind

forces loyal to the world literally for half the are fighting forces allied with the baghdad government in several locations. the battle for control over strategic sites including military camps and a disused international airport. civil rockets have landed in civilian areas forcing thousands to leave their homes. in the north of the city after the planes also untag. airport the only operational airport in the city the fighting has led to the postponement of a you and let peace conference due to be held within days in the city of adamus ibrahim is praying the fighting you will treat each other parts of the city he says and you unity government should be formed to include the rival factions to help in the conflict thirty he says it doesn't matter who wins as growing as he doesn't lose what he has built up over the years. tens of thousands of displaced syrians away thousands and leave the remote refugee camp on the border with jordan conditions are worsening and nearly two thousand people living there using a corridor or opened by the russian military back to their villages which are unde