sliver of land in eastern syria. ben wedeman reports from near the front lines. in it s dying days, isis fights to the bitter end. the small remote, otherwise unremarkable syrian town on the banks of the u frphrates river it a pinprick shadow of its former self. captured in this exclusive video shot by freelance cameramen. it s been hard going with repeated isis counterattacks using their usual tactics, booby traps, suicide car bombs and human shields.
he s against anything is against pouring additional resources into the middle east. the vice president was talking today about taking on iran. although not in the military sense. he s in germany today at this global security conference. listen to what he said a short time ago about discussions he had about iran. well, we ve had very frank discussions about the iran nuclear deal, and here in munich and in pole land, we called on our european allies to stop undermining u.s. sanctions against iran, to join with us in further isolating iran economically and diplomatically, and to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. this deal not only did not ensure that iran would not obtain a nuclear weapon. they would have access to the world s deadliest weapons.
that just arrived in poland as well. this happened this past week. the largest troop deployment in europe since the end of the cold war. a thousand troops going up to several thousand troops stakesed in poland the kremlin is furious about it but poland wants american troop there is. they negotiated for it at the last nato meeting to get american troops into poland because, again they want americans there. they want some protection. they want american protection if russia decides to push out of its borders again. this is the third armor brigade combat team from ft. carson, colorado, now based in poland. this was a deployment that was supposed to start later this month. president obama moved it up to start earlier so they are there now as he is leaving office. and these troops, along russia s edge, these troops in norway as of this week, in pole land as of last week, soon to be in estonia and bulgaria and romania, u.s.
this is the third armor brigade combat team from ft. carson, colorado, now based in poland. this was a deployment that was supposed to start later this month. president obama moved it up to start earlier so they are there now as he is leaving office. and these troops, along russia s edge, these troops in norway as of this week, in pole land as of last week, soon to be in estonia and bulgaria and romania, u.s. troops in all these countries that russia can see from its house, this is an unheralded story of how president obama is leaving office. this is part of the way that president obama is leaving office. by pushing up these deployments and getting those troops there and russia hates it. but our allies around russia s edges, they say they want it and we have said we will be there for them and president obama has really hurried this up in these last days to show our allies we are there for them and he s done in the a rush before he leaves office.
this is the third armor brigade combat team from ft. carson, colorado, now based in poland. this was a deployment that was supposed to start later this month. president obama moved it up to start earlier so they are there now as he is leaving office. and these troops, along russia s edge, these troops in norway as of this week, in pole land as of last week, soon to be in estonia and bulgaria and romania, u.s. troops in all these countries that russia can see from its house, this is an unheralded story of how president obama is leaving office. this is part of the way that president obama is leaving office. by pushing up these deployments and getting those troops there and russia hates it. but our allies around russia s edges, they say they want it and we have said we will behere for them and president obama has really hurried this up in these last days to show our allies we are there for them and he s done in the a rush before he leaves