isis terrorists attacked a battalion of state-sponsored militia in iraq today, , and intelligence official says eight members were killed. the death toll from yesterday s car bomb attack in baghdad has risen to 59. north korea says it will categorically reject the results of an autopsy on kim jong-un s half-brother. he died this week, speculation that the murder was ordered of the estranged sibling. saying malaysian officials conducted the autopsy unilaterally and prevented a north korean representative from attending. israeli prime minister netanyahu is back home after a three-day visit to the u.s. he says his country s security interest will improve as a result of the visit. reaction tonight from jerusalem. it was a warm welcome for benjamin netanyahu at the
of course that s great. can i advise you, be careful about using the word refugees. a refugee of somebody in fear of their life because of their race or religion. actually, most people whether it s coming into europe or america, and it s mixed in with some of those that you could potentially get terrorists. i think the refugee gets misused. the difference is fundamental. a refugee as someone like a jewish person in germany or austria. a refugee if someone like in india was living in uganda. because that s who you are, because of religion or been persecuted. i can say christians in the area or iraq today. just because somebody comes from a country that had difficulties does not make them a refugee. you know, even the european
melissa: the big news out of iraq today. [gunfire] the country s security forces have retaken a strategic government complex in the city of ramadi from isis militants who have occupied the city since may. the news comes two days after isis leader abu bakir al-baghdadi release ad audio message which he said u.s.-led airstrikes only fueled the terror group and they are not working. new york congressman peter king telling fox news sunday that baghdadi is probably right. i would expect baghdadi to say that we ve had some impact. but unfortunately overall he is probably right after 15 months, 16 months of air attacks by the u.s. it has had really minimal impact on isis considering how long those attacks have been going on. melissa: meantime a new poll showing more americans think the
definitely, it s a very important diplomatic week. thank you very much, laura haim. thanks to both of you. back to erica hill in new york. still to come on msnbc live, coalition forces launch new air strikes against isis targets in syria and iraq today. are they helping to defeat the terrorist group? days after calling for a data base from muslims talking about questionable recollection of activities on 9/11, donald trump saying he would bring back waterboarding. when heartburn hits
the invasion of iraq as the principal cause. what would you say to them? i think there are elements of truth in that. but i think we ve, again, got to be extremely careful otherwise we ll misunderstood what s going on in iraq and syria today. of course, you can t say that those of us who removed saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015. but it s aren t also to realize, one, that the arab spring which began in 2011 would also have had its impact on iraq today, and, two, isis actually came to prominence from the base in syria and not in iraq. and that leads me to the broader point, which i think is so essential when we re looking at policy today, which is we have tried intervention and putting down troops in iraq. we ve tried intervention without putting in troops in libya. and we ve tried no intervention at all, but demanding regime change in syria. it s not clear to me that even