Vash, regions report on russian soldiers reduced to one town to ruins. Russia types the way for tougher measures. Finding what it says is the promotion of homosexuality. Both to say its part of moscows battle against western decadence. Indias hunger levels are now considered serious. The Global Hunger index. Theres more than 3000000 children malnourished in his government, rejects the fund. Ah, im sure hell welcome to the program. United states has imposed fresh sanctions against arraignment officials believe to be involved in the brutal crackdown on protests against the government. A protest worse sparked by the death in Police Custody of gena masa a mean the writes groups say the cut down on demonstrations. I have killed a hundreds of people including children, memorial demonstrations were held across the country at the end of the traditional 40 day morning period. Following was, i mean, hundreds gathered at the ceremony where shes very chanting slogans, calling for womens rights. An
Foley. Thats not islam. Islam is not isil. Increasingly, all of the voices in the region are really starting to feel that they have a need to speak out and reclaim islam. Thats one of the most important things that could come out of this. Were working on ways to do that. So isil is not a state, obviously. It isnt remotely like a state. What we need to do is make that more clear. So let me share with you two important things. The home of mecca, which by the way are in the target scale of is isis, these are islams most holy cities, they days ago said of these murderers they are enemy number one of islam. That comes from the grand mufti of saudi arabia. Today, saudi arabias top clerical council, all 21 members, the only institution in the kingdom of saudi arabia that is authorized to issue fatlas, invoking mohammed, using the words of the koran itself, today they said isil are killers, they are thugs, they should be singled out and punished as apostates and made an example. They were not
Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
There will have to be some patience here and this will be a long struggle. We will degrade and destroy them. We better do it. Good day. Im ari in for alex wagner. An incursion that may demonstrate the limits of the u. S. Airstrikes against the terror group, after weeks of warnings the isis victory could result in death for thousands of kurds. U. S. Military forces have launched 23 air strikes in and around the syrian town of kobani. It it has not stopped isis yet. There are estimates that isis militants control about a third of the city and u. S. Officials openly acknowledge that air strikes will not be enough to save it. Today, secretary of state john kerry saying that setbacks in kobani do not define the strategy to destroy isis. Let me make very, very clear, kobani is a tragedy as it represents the evil of isis, but it is not the definition either of the strategy or of the full measure of what is happening with respect to isil. It is one town and there will be others where there wil
Isis demanding a 200 million ransom be paid. The other man being held hostage was haruna yakawa. He was beheaded last week. There were hopes kenji goto would be spared possibly as part of a potential deal involving a prisoner swap with jordan. It now appears that was not the case. With me here in new york throughout the next few hours as we continue to report on this breaking news michael weiss. He writes for Foreign Policy. Also he authored the book isis inside the army of terror. Lets go first to jomanac jomanac karachi in ahman, jordan. She has been covering this throughout. It is an incredibly tragic development. There had been hope even up until this morning that the jordanian government may have reached a prisoner swap deal with isis. Do we know where things fell apart . Reporter as of thursday poppy, thats where things were not looking good for this prisoner swap to take place. We had heard earlier from the jordanian government saying that they were willing and they were going t