policy in the middle east. the center for new american security hosted the event hooking at policies related to syria, iran and rack. this and iraq. this is 30 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, everybody, for joining us. welcome to center for american security. i run the middle east program here, can is today we're going to spend a couple hours talking about the future of the middle east. and specifically, you know, how we think about american policy in the context of, you know, the aftermath of at least the end of the isis caliphate but, obviously, isis very much remains a factor as we saw just last week in sri lanka. and if also looking more broadly at the region and all the various challenges we face. .. ultimately for american policy in syria based on level of commitment the united states wants to make on the level of investment the united states wants to make as well as looking at the question of how we want to and what posture we want to take toward a thought. second report to counter regul

east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use whatsapp and have it on your smartphone you should listen up what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rope software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organizations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. to talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague publisher ok so tell me about tell me how is what's being infected well 1st and foremost you mentioned there and so is an israeli firm now it's one of the la

east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use whatsapp and have it on your smartphone you should listen what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rogue software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organisations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. to talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague public ok so tell me about tell me how is what's being infected well 1st and foremost you mentioned there and so is an israeli firm now it's one of the largest

east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use one chap and have it on your smartphone you should listen up what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rogue software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organisations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague publisher ok so tell me about until we how is what's being infected well 1st and foremost you mentioned there and so is an israeli firm now it's one of the lar

soldiers heading to the middle east details after the break. you know world big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we are not to shy to talk about our ambition to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have made it clear that if i need a century p.-l. a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that would even clued the classic chinese navy. posts confirm the approval of arms transfers to saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan this part of an effort to came after president trump announced friday the u.s. troops would be sent to the middle east to maintain the status quo in the region the number being sent is much lower than recent reports suggest. we want to have protection

image of the middle east. i would most definitely say that we don't see these as client states that we are just working with transactionally. differentso many centers of powers, so to speak, but our images to build a security architecture with those countries that we can work with, that over time they work successfully together to sure up their own defenses and see that cooperated with each other is better than fighting each other. i will say, from dod perspective, we come with the tools we have. a point we like to make, and i think it's true, if you can build a certain amount of respect for security services and ministries of defense that are run appropriately and are noncorrupt and employ the right people with the right qualifications, the militaries can be sort of exemplars for the rest of society. it's hard but that is our mission nested within larger interagency process that has other tools whether it'd be humanitarian aid or other kinds of state led assistance. i know it's not a completely satisfactory a

middle east. we are allies with saudi arabia, funder of the lobby extremist form of terrorist groups, and we give an unbelievable amount of weapons, and we are also allied with israel, who has committed more espionage against the united states, including selling stealing nuclear secrets and nuclear technology. we overthrew their government in 1953 and installed a horrific dictator, we have sanction them, crippled them with economic sanctions, that is economic terrorism. i am really offended, and i find it outrageous that we are even conduc contemplating starting a war with iran who should not be under so much pressure by us just for wanting to have an independent foreign policy and determine their own destiny. host: so, racial, what should policyropriate foreign detour iran -- be toward iran? [no audio] number one -- caller: number one, pursue diplomacy, not bring them into submission. that should be number one. common decency between states. we should not act like we are superior. saudiwe allied

east peace process without actually talking about the middle east peace plan. in want to extend my thanks to you for joining us for this occasion. [applause] >> thank you for having me. it's an honor to be with all of you tonight. l >> let's begin with what you are proposing. [laughter] i listen carefully to the statements you and your colleagues have made. would be a plan, vision, frame work, i proposal, which of these words is an accurate description of what you're going to hear? >> we could use a lot of different words to describe what we've been working on the tr going away from all the typical owdiplomatic speech about how to describe things that the high level. so we put together the last year i would see a say it's more of n depth document that shows what we think is possible and how people can list together how security can work and interaction can work and how you try to form the outline of what a brighter future can be. very closely now the last two years with jason who is an phenomenal as an amazing lawyer and a great partner on this and david friedm

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influence in the middle east. and we're there alongside the goi, we're at their request from the strategic framework agreement that we signed 10 years ago. i think that we are part of that i think we're part of ensuring , that their military and security services are capable of defending the sovereignty of the government of iraq. ilan: do you think also in syria would you say the same thing, , we're there at this point, looking at a long term continued commitment to try to maintain the stability there? mr. mulroy: right, and this is something that ambassador jeffrey, jim jeffrey who is our special envoy says a lot. we're not in a bad situation. that's a strange thing to say considering everything that's gone on in syria. we have a capable partner, they have the territory that controls a lot of the oil resources, and the land for agriculture. and we are there with them. we do expect to be there for the long haul. and our presence, although military presence is only there to ensure the enduring defeat of isis, it do

by the way we're where we're going to put 126000 troops in the middle east and we can put them in saudi arabia the last time we put that money troops in saudi arabia we ended up with osama bin laden so things don't look that promising politically down that road now a conflict with iran maybe unlikely but i think it's also clear that the iranians are very worried about joe corney and american sanctions especially on oil trade i spoke to the iranian defense minister just a few weeks ago i'm he was pretty straightforward that iran will defend its vital economic interests with all the resources that it has do you think the extract sick of maximum pressure can produce iranian compliance i don't think so because i'm a i'm compliance we if iran complies means regime change which to john bolton is what it means obviously it can't if it means iran returns to the negotiating table and negotiates with the united states another deal that's one that trump likes as opposed to the one that he backed out of i don't think that will happen and unless the the other great powers that signed into the deal a

by the way we're going to put 126000 troops in the middle east are we going to put them in saudi arabia the last time we put that money troops in saudi arabia we ended up with osama bin laden so things don't look that promising politically down that road now a conflict with iran maybe unlikely but i think it's also clear that the iranians are very worried about the jerk corney and american sanctions especially on oil trade i spoke to the iranian defense minister just a few weeks ago i'm he was pretty straightforward that iran will defend its vital economic interests with all the resources that it has do you think the extract sick of maximum pressure can produce iranian compliance i don't think so because i'm a i'm compliance we if iran complies means regime change which to john bolton is what it means obviously it can't if it means iran read. turns the negotiating table and negotiate with the united states another deal that's one that trump likes as opposed to the one that he backed out of i don't think that will happen and unless the the other great powers that signed in to the deal ag

it has a confused policy in the middle east at the moment and so in the middle east at the moment and so far as it wants to pull out of syria but then the relationship between the us, russia, even china in the middle east is becoming very confused. this is all about us policy towards iran. what they want to make sure is that all their allies are aligned and again you can see analogies with trade was because wherein trade was they say that this is an under —— undermining of the wto, this is claimed to be an undermining of other global statutes. we have only spoken about president trump in the white house issuing a national emergency when it comes to it. at the same time we have news of donald trump deferring new tariffs on cars and car parts coming from europe and japan into the us. a deferred decision on that for six months or more. in this article in the financial times talks about the fact that the us thinks it needs to choose its battles right now and they cannot fight with europe and japan over cars while taking on china full of i think there is a large extent to which thatis

there are a number of threats in the middle east. we are threatened, as is israel, we are threatened by has belong -- hezbollah, houthi rebels. there are many threats in the middle east. we don't know where it is going to go. senator romney: we got a full review of the threats being posed against american interests and american men and women in the middle east, and the action taken by the administration is totally appropriate. been desired and designed to deter action on the part of iran or their surrogates against america or american interests. america will respond if something of that nature occurs, and hopefully that will deter iran from taking that kind of action. there is no indication anything as happened if there is indeed this credible threat national security officials have been telling you about? senator romney: there has been an attack on shipping, as you know, saudi arabia and other ships have been attacked by iranian surrogates. but attack against american personnel has not occurred, and perhaps that is related to the fa

>> is the iranian threat-- >> there are many threats in the middle east. i can't grade them. i can't grade them. there are a number of threats in the middle east, we're threatened by -- as is our friend israel, we're threatened by hezbollah, we're threatened by hamas, we're threatened by the houthi rebels, there are many threats in the middle east. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. satisfied? >> yes, sir. okay, all right. >> where this is going to go. >> well, we don't know where it's going to go next. senator-- . okay? see you guys. >> we've got a full review of the threats being posed against american interests and american men and women in the middle east and the action taken by the administration is totally appropriate. it has been desired and designed to deter action on the part of iran or their surrogate against americans and american interests, with specific credible evidence of maligned interest on the part of iran, and as a result of that, our intelligence community had a high degree of confidence that something might occur that might be a detriment

east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe i mean in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use whatsapp and have it on your smartphone you should listen what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rogue software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organisations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague publisher ok so tell me about until we know is what's being infected well 1st and foremost you mentioned there and so is an israeli firm now it's one of the large

and president trump announces he's sending another 1500 troops to the middle east as tensions with iran amounts with a number but the number is much lower than recent reports suggested. a very warm welcome you're watching aussie international with minichiello. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian no songs with 70 new charges has sparked the concern of media freedom groups. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a dian threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and the direct assault on the 1st amendment when a sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy in last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a u.s. extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to a computer and it carries a maximum

east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the problem we have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use one chap and have it on your smartphone you should listen up what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the wrote software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organisations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. you talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague published ok so tell me about this until we know is what's being infected well 1st and foremost you mentioned there and so is an israeli firm and now it's

the middle east peace plan. so first i just want to extend again my thanks to you, jared, for joining us for this ccasion. mr. kushner: thank you, rob, for having mesm it's an honor to be here. rob: let's begin with what you're proposing. i've listened carefully to the statements that you've made and your colleagues have made. will it be a plan, a vision, a frame work, a proposal? which one of these words is an accurate description of what we're going to hear? mr. kushner: we can use a lot of different words to describe what it is we're working on, but we're going away from all the typical diplomatic speak about how do you describe things at a high level. what we've put together over the last year is i would say more of an in-depth operational document that shows what we think is possible and how the people can live together, how security can work, how interaction can work, and really, how do you try form the outline behalf a brighter future can be. you know, i worked very closely now for the last two years on t

by the way we're where are we going to put 126000 troops in the middle east are we going to put them in saudi arabia the last time we put that money troops in saudi arabia we ended up with osama bin laden so things don't look that promising politically down that road now a conflict with iran maybe unlikely but i think it's also clear that the iranians are very worried about jerk corny and americans. especially on oil trade i spoke to the iranian defense minister just a few weeks ago i'm he was pretty straightforward that iran will defend its vital economic interests with all the resources that it has do you think the extract sick of maximum pressure can produce iranian compliance i don't think so because i'm a i'm compliance we if iran complies means regime change which to john bolton is what it means obviously it can't if it means iran returns to the negotiating table and negotiates with the united states another deal that's one that trump likes as opposed to the one that he backed out of i don't think that will happen and unless the the other great powers that signed into the deal

president trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and expediting arms sales to the region in order to keep iran in check. and the un's educational body unesco warns the automated voice assistance like siri. the most gender stereotypes. international live from our studio with me welcome to the program concern in the journalistic community is mounting after the u.s. 17 for the charges against you. in what's being described as an attack on media freedom and detect a ration of war on journalists a song his lawyer summarize the watery. 170 years in prison for publishing truthful information an indictment which captures what is typical news gathering activity for investigative journalist journalist it is all day every day so it's 17 new counts what american prosecutors are now stacking up against you in a songe is probably enough to put a whole basketball team behind bars. and we keep leagues have repeatedly sought and detained and disseminated information that the us classified due to serious risk dragging big fat skeletons out of government clausewitz once that was seen

foreign entanglements in the middle east -- in 2016 on ending foreign entanglements in the middle east. they were he might be angering core supporters. host: welcoming viewers to phone in. our guests, jordan fabian and catherine tully mcmanus, staff writer for roll call. you have three lines on the bottom of the screen, democrats, (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independent, (202) 748-8002. as we mentioned, it is a busy week this week. let's go to catherine tele mcmanus. we know the u.s. senate is going to return to disaster. can you explain where congress is on this issue? what they are hearing from the white house? katherine: the big question is isl the deal will the deal get done before the memorial day recess. i they all would like to get this tied up. host: how much money are we talking about and how widespread is this? katherine: this bill is focused on natural disaster events that in 2018.in less so there has been issues in disbursing aid and there has been holed up it money has hit the ground to actually do rebuilding. host: discussion on disaster has been going on

president trump announces he's sending another one thousand five hundred troops to the middle east tensions with iran the amount but the number is much lower than recent reports suggest. a very warm welcome me watching r.t. international with meaning. the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian a songs with seventeen new challenges has sparked a concern of media freedom groups. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and the direct assault on the first amendment when a sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month or no respite by british police he was slapped with a us extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to the computer and it carries a maximum charg

president donald trump announces he's sending more troops to the middle east and expediting arms sales to the region in order to keep iran in check. and the netflix show reasons why about a teen who kills himself fresh outrage with critics saying it should be pulled from the platform for romanticising suicide i guess weigh in. on the problem is the kind of you know. we have to. put the onus on the parents i think parents have to be more. of their children. it's 9 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all to international live from our studio with me. welcome to the program. concern in the journalistic community is mounting on after the u.s. falls 17 for the charges against you on thursday in what's being described as an attack on media freedom and a declaration of war this. summarized the worry. 170 years in prison for publishing truthful information an indictment which captures what is typical news gathering activity for investigative journalist journalist it is all day every day so it's 17 new counts what american prosecutors are now stacking up against you in a songe is probabl

trump announces he sending another 1500 troops to the middle east tensions with the mountains the number is much lower than recent reports suggest. even welcomed this is r.t. into. the decision by the us justice department to slot julian the songs with 17 you charge spots the concern of media freedom groups. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a dian threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and a direct assault on the 1st amendment when the sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy in last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a us extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to have a computer and it carries a maximum charge of 5 years so a fairly small fry but that has been padded out substantially no

and president trump announces he's sending another 1500 troops to the middle east as tensions mount with iran but the number is much lower than recent reports suggest that. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me. now our top story the decision by the u.s. justice department to slap julian a song with 17 new charges has sparked the concern of media freedom groups. any government use of the espionage act to criminalize the receipts and publication of classified information poses a diet threat to journalists seeking to publish such information in the public interest irrespective of the justice department's assertion that the sun is not a journalist this is an extraordinary escalation of the trumpet ministrations attacks on journalists and the direct assault on the 1st amendment when a sandra's dragged out of london's ecuadorian embassy last month and arrested by british police he was slapped with a us extradition request immediately and it only listed one charge against him and that was a single count of conspiracy to a computer and it carries a maximum charge

trump: we want to have protection of the middle east. we will be sending relatively small number of troops, mostly protective, and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we will see how -- we will see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people. [inaudible] >> can you and speaker pelosi work together to pass legislation at home? pres. trump: sure, that's possible, but i do believe you can go down two tracks, because if you look at judiciary, if you look at what's going on, all they talk about in the house is this. i would like to talk about lowering drug prices, which i have done better than any president ever. we had a year -- this year, as you know, drug prices went down first time in 51 years. i would like to talk about -- because with congress, i can get prices down 40% and 50%, but i can't do that when all they do is want to try and do a redo of the mueller report. they were very unhappy with the mueller report. they want to do a redo of the mueller report. it's over, there -- there is no redo. it's clear,

do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq no i don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need but we're looking for other things that we do force protection steps which. is being said we have now heard from the pentagon's acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani he has said that iran is ready to face any pressure and to defend itself even if the usa ends up using bombs against his country they are prepared to stand strong and defend themselves now on wednesday the u.s. senate foreign relations committee took a vote and the idea of the vote would be to not fund any unauthorized action against iran taken by the white house now the vote did not pass it failed so n

he supposed to strike the deal of the century jared kushner arrives in the middle east to drum up support for president donald trump's peace plan but he finds himself in the midst of a storm israel's prime minister couldn't form a government so parliament's been dissolved and the palestinians don't want anything to do with trump's deal and uphill battle lies ahead i'm. this is the day. the over the very last night. and it's still bad what happened this is real it looks like it's over with that reality and now they're back in the debate stage. our commitment is for a national government and not an ultra-orthodox government. your efforts to strengthen the relationship between our 2 countries it's never been stronger so. i need to look up. also coming up on the day harvard honors german chancellor angela merkel by awarding her a doctorate and she give something back and return today is a day of joy it's your day many congratulations. i am delighted to be here today and would like to tell you about some of my own experiences. we start with a trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan for t

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soldiers heading to the middle east than all explain all after the break. we are not to shy to talk about our ambition to turn chinese navy into a blue water navy actually we have but it's clear that if by mid a century p.-l. a will be developed hopefully into a world class military that would even crude 1st the classic chinese navy. as if you were going to see that happen to you it was most of. the previous governments the needs of the former for rich to 40 years the country people wanted much more and they didn't want just. really with you or of they want to through to become part of. this is very far way to go still you mean you can bring. back more u.s. troops will be sent to the middle east to maintain the status quo in the region president from the news on friday but the number being sent is much lower than recent reports suggested. we want to have protection of the middle east we're going to be sending a relatively small number of troops mostly protective and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we'll see how and we'll

sends more troops to the middle east. a deadline passes in algeria with no one successfully registering to stand in the presidential election. people of all want to touch on. syria rama poses sworn in as south africa's president promising an era of hope and renewal plus. in the u.k. the race for prime minister to resign may's job is now in full swing. iran says the u.s. decision to send more soldiers to the middle east is extremely dangerous but president trump insists the deployment of $1500.00 extra troops is needed because of what he calls it rainy and aggression the iranian foreign minister mohammed the reef me miles arrived in the iraqi capital baghdad and his deputies used to begin his tour of the region on sunday with stops in cata amman and kuwait was aris visit comes just weeks after a reported meeting with the democratic senator dianne feinstein in the united states that she is one of many democrats who've opposed the white house decision to sell weapons to its regional allies more on that in just a while 1st so

in the middle east that's really what it comes down to the u.s. has sent as you correctly note bomber squadron to the middle east has sent an aircraft carrier the u.s.s. lincoln and now i think the number of troops is questionable i don't know if they're going to be a precise figure there was 10000 there was 5000 in the media reports now maybe they're talking about 1500 but the larger issue is the u.s. is looking to work with our allies in the region to contain and to deter iran after learning from intelligence sources in late april that cut some silly money the head of the codes force in the iranian revolutionary guard corps was activating proxies to attack u.s. and allied interest throughout the middle east so you're comfortable that as all of this military brinksmanship is rolling out that there is some diplomacy going on in the background most of the diplomacy seems to be external it's a matter of coercive diplomacy with the united states is signaling to the iranian government that it will not tolerate any types of iranian inspired attacks aga

the middle east peace plan. so, first, i just want to extend again my thanks to you, jared, for joining us for this occasion. [laughter] jared: thank you. thank you, rob. and thank you for having me. it's an honor to be here with all of you tonight. rob: so let's begin with what you're proposing. is it? [laughter] rob: no, no. i've listened carefully to the statements that you've made and your colleagues have made. will it be a plan, a vision, a framework, a proposal? which one of these words is an accurate description of what we're going to hear? jared: so we could use a lot of different words to describe what it is that we've been working on, but we're going away from all the typical diplomatic speak about how do you describe things at a high level. what we've put together over the last year is i would say more of an in-depth operational document that shows what we think is possible and how the people can live together, how security could work, how interaction can work and really how do you try to form the out

certainly all eyes on the middle east ‘s. doctor dalia dassa kaye from the rand corporation, thank you very much —— certainly all eyes on the middle east. let's get some of the day's other news. an american man who murdered a couple in their home and kidnapped their 13—year—old daughter has been jailed for life. jake patterson seized jayme closs last october and kept her locked in a cabin until she escaped three months later. teachers and doctors have been demonstrating in the honduran capital of tegucigalpa. they say the proposed reforms in education and health will lead to privatisation, which they fear will lead to job losses. protests have been held since april. an explosive device has gone off in a shopping street in the french city of lyon, injuring eight people. the blast happened outside a bakery near the city centre, as hugh schofield reports. the device went off at around 5:30pm in the afternoon, outside a chain—store bakery, on a busy pedestrian shopping street near lyon city centre. eyewitnesses say it c

. >> monday may sixth, fox news alert, ussa abraham lincoln towards the middle east in response to alarming report that iran was firing at u.s. forces. rob: dozens dead after explosion in plane. >> how in the world did this happen? investigators revealed 3 possible causes. >> look at joe's record and my record, i don't think there's any question. >> bernie sanders making progressive power play. rob: "fox & friends first" continues right now. ♪ ♪ rob: that's a lot on monday morning. now you're awake. carley: i like it. rob: i'm rob schmitt. carley: i'm carley shimkus in for jillian mele, we begin with fox news alert, breaking overnight u.s. sending iran a clear and unmistakable message. rob: iran was planning attacks on american forces. carley: major military development, good morning, garrett. >> it is rare to be announced ahead of time but official told associated press that there were clear indications that iran and iranian forces were preparing to possibly attack u.s. forces in the region both on land and at sea. in response, the u.s. is sending a bomber task force to the middle east

east peace process without actually talking about the middle east peace plan. so, first, i just want to extend again my thanks to you, jared, for joining us for this occasion. [applause] >> thank you, rob. and thank you for having me. it's an honor to be here with all of you tonight. >> so let's begin with what you're proposing. is it? [applause] no, no. i've listened carefully to the statements that you've made and your colleagues have made. will it be a plan, a vision, a framework, a proposal? which one of these words is an accurate description of what we're going to hear? >> so we could use a lot of different words to describe what it is that we've been working on, but we're going away from all the typical diplomatic speak about how do you describe things at a high level. what we've put together over the last year is i would say more of an in-depth operational document that shows what we think is possible and how the people can live together, how security could work, how indirection can work and really how do you try to form the outline of what a brighter fu

s foreign office highlights in detail the persecution of christians around the world in the middle east the cradle appreciate. christians face extinction why is it deemed politically incorrect to defend the west foundational religion. cross-talk in the state of christianity i'm joined by my guest it in front home in copenhagen she's a theologian political commentator as well as founder of the you tube channel her own home talks in belfast we have david vance he's a political commentator as well as the editor of news media dot net and in london we cross to peter tatchell he is a human rights activists all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let me go to evan 1st in copenhagen. it really took me aback after the fire at northridge. the way they talked about the catastrophe in terms of turf them architecture but the fact that it was a place of worship for christians was very rarely mentioned also after sri lanka 2 luminaries that bill clinton and i'm sorry brock obama and hillary clinton referred to easter worshippers we

there are number of threats in the middle east. we are threatened by, as is our friend israel there are many threats in the middle east. >> thank you. >> are you satisfied? [inaudible question] >> we don't know where it is going to go next see you guys. >> we have a full review of the threat that opposed against the american interest, the american women in the little east and the actions by the ministration is totally appropriate. it is been desired and designed to deter action on the part of iran or their surrogates against americans and american interest. it was specific, credible evidence of online interest of the part of iran in a result of that there's of the matter occurred that would be a judgment her personal. therefore stood up very clear indication that america will respond to something of that nature cursed and hopefully that will deter iran from taking the kind of action. >> there is no indication that anything is happened. if there is indeed accountable threat that their tony about. >> the action that is happened is th

by the way we're going to put 126000 troops in the middle east and we can put them in saudi arabia the last time we put that many troops in saudi arabia we ended up with osama bin laden so things don't look that promising politically down that road now a conflict with iran may be unlikely but i think it's also clear that the iranians are very worried about jerk corney and american sanctions especially on oil trade i spoke to the iranian defense minister just a few weeks ago i'm he was pretty straightforward that iran will defend its vital economic interests with all the resources that it has do you think ecstatic of maximum pressure can produce iranian compliance i don't think so because i'm a i'm compliance we if iran complies means regime change was to john bolton is what it means obviously it can't if it means iran returns the negotiating table and negotiates with the united states another deal that's one that trump likes as opposed to the one that he backed out of i don't think that will happen and unless the the other great powers that signed into the deal agreed to do it should b

. >> we want to have protection in the middle east. we're going to be concerneding a a -- to be sending a small number of troops and we'll see how -- we'll see what happens. it will be about 1,500 people. >> now, with reaction to what the white house and pentagon say are threats from iran, i want to bring in john kirby who is our national security analyst. of course, a retired admiral. you've been to the pentagon and the state department and as spokesperson you understand these kinds of issues better than most, so break it down for us exactly what this is and why they say at the pentagon even that it's needed. >> so there are two components to this 1,500. the first is that they are extended the patriot batteries that are there and the troops that support them, around 600 people. they will be extended so they are in the additional into the region. the other 900 are additional and they are coming with some of reconnaissance and fighter aircraft so for general mckenzie, the central command commander it means two things, one that the threa

trump: we want to have protection of the middle east, . we will be sending relatively small number of troops, mostly protective, and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now and we will see how -- we will see what happens. it'll be about 1500 people. [inaudible] >> work together to pass legislation at home? pres. trump: sure, that's possible, but i do believe you can go down two tracks, because if you look at judiciary, if you look at what's going on, all they talk about in the house is this. i would like to talk about lowering drug prices, which i have done better than any president ever. we had a year -- this year, as you know, drug prices went down first time in 51 years. i would like to talk about with -- with congress, i can get prices down 40% and 50%, but i can't do that when all they do is want to try and do a redo of mueller report. they are very unhappy with mueller report. they want to do a redo of mueller report. it's over, there -- there is no redo. it's clear, there was no collusion, there's no redo. >

jared kushner arrives in the middle east to drum up support for president donald trump's peace plan but he finds himself in the midst of a storm israel's prime minister couldn't form a government so parliament's been dissolved and the palestinians don't want anything to do with trump's deal and uphill battle lies ahead i'm. this is the day. the hour the very last night. i started to stop the spread of what happened this is real looks like it's over with that reality is out there that if the banks say. our commitment is for a national government tends not. orthodox government. your efforts to strengthen the relationship between our 2 countries it's never been stronger and so on the one. hand. i need to get to. that. also coming up on the day harvard honors german chancellor angela merkel by awarding her a doctorate and she give something back and return today is a day of joy it's your day many congratulations. i am delighted to be here today and would like to tell you about some of my own experiences. we start with a trumpet ministrations long awaited peace plan for the middle east jared

deploys an aircraft carrier and bombers to the middle east. a russian passenger plane a bursts into flames after making an emergency landing killing forty one people. a cease fire between israel and palestinian groups appears to be holding following days of cross border airstrikes and rocket attacks so far there have been no reports of any violations since the cease fire came into force cut out in egypt brokered a deal after hours of mediation twenty four palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip and four israelis have died in southern israel in the violence in the past few days when times are going as joining us live from the israel gaza body offense what more do we know about this ceasefire natasha. good morning rob four thirty monday morning this ceasefire went into effect is also the first day of the islamic holy month of ramadan and this as you said after more than six hundred rockets were fired into israel more than three hundred twenty targets hit in gaza and almost thirty people died in what has been the largest conflagration bet

middle east it's kind of embarrassing that they are the legal invasion for example of iraq is really damaged the vitality of the christian community there and then the illegal occupation of american troops in syria i mean if you start you know meeting that yeah our politics in the region is hurting these communities that might be a reason for them not to do it anymore go ahead peter. well you're true that in some people's eyes christians are going to fight with the west so when the west does bad things whether it be in afghanistan or iraq or wherever people do tend to blame christians and it's very unfair to blame individual christians for the actions of western governments that that is a gross. generalization and making a connection which is not there but i would say that going back to the main thrust of this debate that it is true that in muslim majority countries the persecution of christians is most severe but not all muslim people share that persecution and i agree i agree why the lagering sure that ok i work quite a lot supporting christians persecuted pakistan and time and tim

by the way we're where are we going to put 126000 troops in the middle east and we can put them in saudi arabia the last time we put that money troops in saudi arabia we ended up with osama bin laden so things don't look that promising politically down that road now a conflict with iran may be unlikely but i think it's also clear that the iranians are very worried about jerk corney and american sanctions especially on oil trade i spoke to the iranian defense minister just a few weeks ago i'm he was pretty straightforward that iran will defend its vital economic interests with all the resources that it has do you think the extract sick of maximum pressure can produce iranian compliance i don't think so because i'm a i'm compliance we if iran complies means regime change which to john bolton is what it means obviously it can't if it means iran returns to the negotiating table and negotiates with the united states another deal that's one that trump likes as opposed to the one that he backed out of i don't think that will happen and unless the the other great powers that signed into the deal

amid increased tensions with iran more us troops are headed to the middle east. administration decides to make emergency arms sales to saudi arabia. fox team coverage, richardson at the state department where officials share newly declassified intelligence exclusively with fox news. david fund accept the trump administration's new military focus across the globe. >> the president is on his way to japan and flying there and there are several major stories with regards to the military, the us, japan and the middle east. air force one made a refueling stop in alaska. donald trump met briefly with troops and families on the base. he didn't spend much time as he has quite an agenda. the president will make history by visiting new japanese emperor naruhito. what makes the significant is the carrier would carry american jayme closs 5s, pushing japan to purchase us arms. he did this in 2017, from prior doctrine this move is causing china to watch closely as they are in the middle of a tense trade war with the united states. and the united arab emirates. and tension with

do you consider sending troops to the middle east to go into iraq no i don't think we'll need it but if we need it we'll have we'll be there in whatever number we need what we're looking for there are things that we do force protection steps which. is being said we have now heard from the pentagon's acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani he has said that iran is ready to face any pressure and to defend itself even if the usa ends up using bombs against his country they are prepared to stand strong and defend themselves now on wednesday the u.s. senate foreign relations committee took a vote and the idea of the vote would be to not fund any unauthorized action against iran taken by the white house now the vote did not pass it failed

president onil trump says he doesn't think additional troops are needed in the middle east for now he's maintained though that he is ready to boost the u.s. military presence if required to confront iran meanwhile trump's acting defense secretary has confirmed reports more forces could be sent to the region killing morgan has details. we have now heard from the pentagon's acting chief that would be patrick shanahan and he has confirmed that yes indeed the reports that it is being considered for in an increase in the u.s. military presence the sending of more troops to the middle east that he is indeed correct now he denied these specific numbers that were being raised in some of the press reports but he did confirm that yes the idea of increasing the u.s. military presence and sending more forces to the middle east region in order to counter a perceived threat from iran that's true what we're looking at is whether there are things that we can do to enhance force protection in the middle east and the conditional troops we've also heard a response from the iranian president hassan rouhani