Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
These developments will change by the hour. Sometimes literally. Stay with us. Sandra thanks very much for joining us. Im sandra smith. Im bill hemmer. The story starts right now. Heres mack that. Martha im martha maccallum. Its a dark day. In addition to the loss of life in israel, we have lost at least 27 american citizens as Hamas Terrorists hold an unknown number of americans hostage at this hour. Heres john kirby moments ago. We all need to be prepared for the fact that theres going to be additional gruesome images coming out. Theres going to be some pretty tough reports for all of us to swallow. This is not over. Martha pretty tough reports coming for all of us to swallow. We will find out what that means in the hours and days ahead. Every hour we see more of the evil that is hamas. A warning that these im my knowledges are graphic. The Kitchen Floors are stained with blood. People were home. It was early in the Morning Saturday when hamas militants stormed into their homes. In a
this is in iraq. in syria the kurdish-led militias who basically control the prisons where you have thousands of islamic state fighters and tens of thousands family members have not really been able to build the trust with the local communities, mainly local arab and sunni communities in northeastern syria. so isis this insurgency has been able to really find a refuge and the question is how do you address the grievances? how do you deal with punishing poverty? how do you provide security and, fareed, look, the united states is missing in action. really the american foreign policy team is missing in action. it has not invested much
overnight raid killed isis leader abu ibrahim al hashimi al qurayshi and it raised the question what is the state of islamic terror and isis specifically? is it still a major threat? joining me now is fawaz gerges, professor of international relations at the london school of economics and the author of isis: a history. fawaz, welcome. first, give us a sense of what al qurayshi s death means. is this a body blow? how would you describe it? well, i mean, i think the killing of al qurayshi will have more of a tactical impact on the islamic state than a strategic impact. my take on it, fareed, and i m very harsh on american foreign policy, is that american politicians tend to simplify very complex problems.