To meet the houthis bitter rivals. Narrator from inside yemen the story of how the Houthi Rebels ignited a battle that has turned an american ally into a warzone of antiamerican militants. Narrator with a Saudi Led Coalition trying to break the houthis hold. explosion frontline investigates the fight for yemen. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann ha
To meet the houthis bitter rivals. Narrator from inside yemen the story of how the Houthi Rebels ignited a battle that has turned an american ally into a warzone of antiamerican militants. Narrator with a Saudi Led Coalition trying to break the houthis hold. explosion frontline investigates the fight for yemen. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support fo frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. At fordfoundation. Org. The wyncote foundation. And by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hag
Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii but doing it in afghanistan which is a pil
That they were sending an Aircraft Carrier to the golf as diplomatic and military efforts are being weighed the sunday morning. Our phone lines are open. Can also weigh in my sending us a tweet. Our email address is journal at cspan. Org. Us on facebook. Already, many of you weighing in on the question. Diplomacy or military in iraq. Answer,g with one diplomacy. Good sunday morning to you. We will begin with your calls and comments in the moment. The leaders in iraq directing troops to make their stand against advancing sunni militants and a flashpoint city revered by a shiite mosque in order to highlight the sectarian fighting that is tearing the country apart. The Prime Ministers order came as he sought to put out fire in the belly of his troops in the , threatening ifi f to dance to the capital of baghdad, the Iraqi Military claimed they had regained a key new territory, a claim conflicting with other reports and Security Officials who had of then that 60 to 70 province remains in t
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It is not clear when or even if israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will deliver on his pledge to annexe a major chunk of the occupied west bank. Even less clear is how the palestinians will respond if that happens. Well, my guest today is the Palestinian Ambassador here in london, husam zomlot. Does the palestinian leadership have the vision, the imagination and the credibility to mount an Effective Response . Husam zomlot, welcome to hardtalk. You palestinians were preparing, onjuly 1, to hear the announcement from the Israeli Government that they were going ahead with the annexation of a major chunk of the west bank. It hasnt happened. Do you have any reason to believe it wont happen . No, i dont have any reason so far to believe it wont happen. The calculus with netanyahu, the calculus in israel is still the same. The net gain for this government is clear for neta nyahu. Its simply a way of assuring his re elections, his control of th