Professor following complaints from trans activists. Some members of a group called from this fight back and some friends activists had said that they would not appear at the conference if i was there so they asked me if i would like to disinvite myself and just. Very well welcome to you know watching r. T. International with me nicky aron our top story high stakes talks are well underway in moscow this thursday as the leaders of russia and turkey try to ease the violence in syrias war stricken province the 2 International Powers are backing opposing sides in the conflict which has brought them perilously close to a direct confrontation in recent weeks maria fanaa has the details. But a joke type of a gun is here in moscow kremlin meeting blood him or putting a while ago the turkish leader announced a special gathering on syria in istanbul between turkey and russia but also france and germany but one near putin convinced his turkish counterpart that they do not need mediators i had a r
A very difficult journey for those who are trying to leave or in the philippines where tens of thousands are on the run from a volcanic eruption. And. The corruption trial of former will definitely chief the mean diac in paris has been delayed with the 86 year old facing up to 10 years in jail. Hello talks for a permanent cease fire in libya ended in moscow and they failed to achieve a breakthrough or russias foreign minister says quote Good Progress is being made on an unconditional and open ended cease fire but the words but if i have to choose day to decide whether to sign a formal deal a truce to stop fighting came into force on sunday morning libyas Prime Minister phase a sudden i have to. Her attending the negotiations in moscow and the Turkish Foreign minister explained the results off the days think associations. Today we worked hard on this document and we put into consideration the compromises regarding the situation in libya called in to the proposals made by mr after marsha
Come to a resting place where theres been able to be harmony throughout these governments and i would agree with you that it is just completely difficult to have this kind of long term intervention at this point i would i would certainly agree limiting the u. S. Footprint but the problem is 2 things one you know that resolution is obviously nonbinding its sort of a sentiment from the legislature weve still got reality on the ground of being able to do things and i think the u. S. Doesnt want to have. You no longer term iranian influence whether a certain extent stand without having something i would also dispute isnt it but isnt that really up to the iraqi people i mean why should someone sitting in washington d. C. Determine what kind of friendships a foreign country a sovereign country like iraq should have it seems very heavy handed and i dont see how it adds to American Foreign policy interests go ahead. Well i think youre i know you are right i mean the fact is theyve already had
Say peace loving after after the attack so its the iranians feel its the other way around but more importantly i think the iranians believe that the americans have made probably the biggest mistake. That theyve made among the many mistakes that theyve made over the past decade and that is that theyve turned the iraqi people against the United States theyve turned the iranian people against the United States and theyve united iran in iraq in a way which we havent seen before you know chris youre in iraq war veteran i mean talk about that because thats essentially whats happened and if you look at whats coming out of the pentagon and other places of power in washington d. C. What where does democracy actually stand now in iraq because it was invaded under the auspices to bring democracy to iraq now they have a parliament in the form of the Parliament Says thats time to go home but washington says on not so fast so what is the value of the democracy that was forced upon the iraqi people i
He is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know a ran his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. I think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. Launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them. So that was a major success and i think that was a signal to washington that all the