Hello again to welcome back well the last day we have seen a big storm system make its way across the black sea and now across parts of the caspian this brought a lot of snow as well as rain to the Higher Elevations in georgia and now were going to be seeing some clearer conditions across that region before it does mean you can be a little bit cooler than you were maybe 13 degrees here on sunday down towards tehran at 20 and over here towards quaint city well by the time we get to monday it is still going to be quite sunny with a temperature of 29. 00 to greece well across the Arabian Peninsula were watching a Tropical Cyclone a model right now that system is bringing some clouds to coastal areas of pakistan but here across parts of oman we do need to watch the storm surge as well as the rip currents just like our previous storm system brought that is going to probably bring some clouds as well by the time we get to early week but from a scott see those clouds movie and maybe attempt to there of 29 and down to it slowly here on sunday and into monday maybe 31. Degrees there and thats a record way down towards the southern part of africa things are looking much better we did have a lot of rain towards durban things are clearing out the system is making its way towards the east we do expect to see attempts to there of 25 degrees and a very nice day up towards your head of spirit on sunday maybe ritchey to about 27 and cape town looks quite nice with you with plenty of sun 21. Whether sponsored by katherine. Deal with poverty unless you deal with the gap you just said oh i just agree with that this sounds like blaming the public the country for the current knowledge of. These people well trained much of the Islamic State machine has been very worried of populism altered future join me as i put the questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. Aljazeera. They want yours or with me as a whole robin a reminder of our top news stories Turkeys Defense Ministry has accused Kurdish Armed forces of a car bomb attack that killed at least 13 civilians including children in Northern Syria about 30 others were injured in the attack near a market in. Security forces have killed a protest room with 91. 00 others at another mass rally in iraqs capital baghdad the uprising across the country is the largest since the fall of the former leader Saddam Hussein in 2003. Police have fired tear gas and used water kind of old protest as in chiles capital some to younger people angry about low income Poor Public Health care of the growing gap between the rich and the paul. Trade negotiations and fears of an escalating trade war between the u. S. And china are likely to dominate day 2 of the skin summit in bangkok members of the Southeast Asian bloc are trying to finalize a major Free Trade Agreement led by china that includes 16 countries the deal would create a trade zone including one 3rd of the. Worlds g. D. P. But does not include the u. S. However india has raised concerns about the deal tell us more you can cross live to scot hyla who is in the thai capital bangkok and the summit normally has many observers nations scotter in this particular scenario the focus is really are not who is not there rather than who is. Exactly so when one person who is not here is President Donald Trump now its a very innocent as you hear rhetoric coming out of the u. S. State department focusing in the importance of what they call the Indo Pacific Region and how that has elevated their interest in this region over the last couple years yet the highest level person they have sent to see on to these summits these a couple of days is a secretary of commerce obviously thats focusing on the trade in the commerce in this region which is very important but no one higher than that know last year at the office in some ways they sent the Vice President but this year they did not so obviously that sends a message and its not a good one to help because a lot of observers here and nations here feel as though its been a downgrade that they say theyre very interested in the pacific but they dont show it really now whats interesting is that is that an opportunity for china as we speak now the members are meeting theyre having their summit with china led by premier of the chang that is going on right now whats interesting theyre going to be discussing about obviously partially that that trade agreement that you mentioned so here now there was early indications early hope i should say that there would be some kind of formalized agreement coming out this year with on here in thailand but that doesnt appear to be the case thats mainly because it sounds as though india has some reservations of the way its currently being formatted this trade agreement mainly because theyre concerned about the infiltration of chinese goods among other ideas other reasons but thats one of them thats really kind of been bubbling up to the top indeed. For decades certainly trying to. Formulate the reputation as a very important bloc very similar to the e. U. The e. U. Is happy to look just about the economy and trade but also about political issues its political issues that ask and doesnt talk about especially human rights. Absolutely and thats one of the reasons why a lot of observers view on as a toothless body you know trade agreements handshakes bringing in other leaders from around the world yes but actually talking poorly if you will in some views like thats what how me and maher views the situation in inside its country with the hinge and how theyve handled it they view anybody talking about whats going on inside their country to be you know out of bounds and thats kind of what has done they view if theres any kind of internal issues like weve seen with the engine the treatment by the myanmar government they see that as an internal view so they dont really talk about it at these meetings and obviously that has been met with great criticism from the Human Rights Community international Human Rights Community and you know over the last 4 or 5 years since the range of crisis has been going on that has always been brought up here from from outside members or attain easy to these meetings but there really hasnt been much proper discussion about it and were probably going to see that again this year for those same reasons i hope but also because there are so many issues on the table particular when it comes to trade it for the middle even the monitor events through the day with these things called. Children walking to school have been killed in a roadside bomb in northeastern afghanistan the victims were between 10 and 15 years old no one has yet claimed responsibility though the taliban is active in the province where the explosion occurred police say Afghan Security forces were likely to be the intended target the hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of a palestinian man killed by an israeli strike in the gaza strip. Shared he died in the early hours of saturday morning after israel launched air strikes into garza the military said it was targeting sites linked to hamas the group that controls the territory israel says 10 rockets were fired from gaza late on friday night a hammer spokesman has called israels attack a serious escalation well as they did laid out by the Israeli Offensive that targeted the guard to strip and caused the loss of a martyr and injured people while also terry find Children Women and citizens is a crime that is added to israel series of crimes the occupation is trying to export their internal troubles at the expense of our people the Palestinian Resistance will not accept this to african claimed it was behind fridays attack in mali that killed at least 53. 00 soldiers and one civilian an army base was attacked in the minako region its the deadliest strike against mollys military in recent history reinforcements have been sent to the area with the French Military helping to evacuate the wounded it follows a series of raids by armed groups across the region including the asia and the kenya 1st so center wing is an associate professor of African Studies have a college in philadelphia and she thinks military operations alone wont solve the problem of armed conflict. It is a vast region it is difficult its a its desert region and its very hard to to control these small groups that are able to move around very quickly on pickup trucks and mother bikes and and the like and the g 5 was created and order to basically hand our. Security in the area from the french to then the chief ive. Huntress but i think this attack is just another example of how the military. The attempt to do this through that through the military its simply not going to be there the entire solution theyre not achieving their goal of security in the region i think theres a lot of ongoing resentment between this this disconnect between those people who are living in the north and the Central Regions who are in cleese creasing lee frustrated by what feels to be a lack of ability to actually successfully clamp down on these terrorists while staying in the region 5 candidates have been approved to stand in algeria as president ial election in december despite ongoing protests against the vote among the contenders announced are 2 former Prime Ministers and to form a government ministers longtime president of the lizzies beautifully co was forced to resign in april after months of protests against his plan to run for a 5th term tens of thousands continue to stage weekly demonstrations opposing the election so he could be manipulated by the military. And tens of thousands of antigovernment protesters are rallying for yet another day in the pakistani capital islamabad theyre demanding the resignation of Prime Minister in one car the socalled freedom march led by a conservative Opposition Party arrived in islamabad on the 1st stone. Pleas of guns must protesters in the worst violence in hong kong in recent weeks some demonstrators were vandalizing shops and such in far too metro stations chinas main states news agency was also attacked to get the politest ball. The question in hong kong nowadays isnt whether protesters will be on the streets but rather which ones spell take over coming up to the 5th month the weekend demonstrations these latest protests brought several districts to a standstill. On polling morning thank you nobody wants to see violence but who is forcing us to come out in march its also called chief executive and so i came out today as i hope the people of hong kong will not forget that things have changed the demonstrations used to be so peaceful to think the days protest started as an approved rally at Victoria Park attended by thousands of people the gathering was led by Democratic Candidates standing in local elections later this month the protests gained traction after democracy icon joshua wong was disqualified from contesting the election a move he calls politically motivated but the demonstrations soon turned violent when police blocked protesters from marching into the streets and set up a cordon to prevent others from entering the park. Less than an hour after the rally began tear gas was fired sending people scrambling protesters shut down main roads and took over Hong Kong Central district you can hear the sirens in the distance and the air is thick with tear gas and smoke but that isnt putting up any of these shows have heard hundreds of them are gathered here in one khans main a Financial Center a place that is usually teeming at shoppers during the weekends and tourists instead the protesters have taken over the street the building barricades set up public objects on fire and are waiting for the police to come here and they came in large numbers firing tear gas and pepper spray this piers in the protesters in all directions they kept with their philosophy the water to recruit and disrupt other parts of the city protesters vandalized the offices of the state truncheon one using agency widely seen as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist government. In an unusual move earlier this week chinese political leaders indicated that beijing is likely to intervene more in hong kongs affairs in the name of safeguarding National Security some protesters believe this could mean their days on the streets are numbered saw how. We all know about the movement were not be able to count us what with the mounted yet we insist on you not we here we fear that this could be our last chance. But for now the standoff looks like it will continue despite months of street protests beijing looks set to harden its towns all the activists are showing bell take to the streets for as long as they can divvy gopalan ajah 0 hong kong. The Opposition Leader has labeled a temporary ban on fracking in england as an election stunt the decision follows a report which raised concerns about the link between the gas extraction process and earthquakes the investigation was prompted by a 2. 9 magnitude quake in a fracking site organised. Now the mountains of central asia home to some of the largest variety of wild animals including Snow Leopards conservationists say their numbers are increasing again to kurdistans government opposed to a strict moratorium on hunting the reports from is a coup in the north east of the country. Every other day they set off a dawn to scour the surrounding mountains volunteer rangers from nearby villages and the hunt for poachers record them grouper used to be a lot of poachers thats why the number of animals was decreasing almost didnt see any in the mountains and we noticed that and it was scary so we started to work so now were protecting 42000 acres the mountains of kyrgyzstan are home to some of the riches variety of wildlife in the world including bores deer and ibex and the much elusive snow leopard which lives on the peaks the cure gets call it the spirit of the mountains and then the most sought after for its fur meat and bones used in traditional medicine. Was saved as a cult the mothers poor was caught in a trap she was voted in abu century one of the largest for these wild cats in the world and remains here since more than half of the territory of kyrgyzstan is potential home to Snow Leopards they live and protect the mountains of central asia the tension here the park. And theyre all interconnected and those mountains provide water for nearly half of the worlds population. Under stand more of these animals conservationists are using modern technology about 40 heaton movement triggered cameras are placed on top of the mountains for 6 months at a time they cover an area of 900000 square kilometers the thousands of pictures taken revealed a lot about these animals daily habits this one with the tail up is marking the rock its hard to use by no cliffs and find them youll find maybe their parking marks on the snow or what. But there is our technology you cant work with whats this naps and videos also help estimate the number of Snow Leopards living in an area each cat has a unique pattern on its fur similar to fingerprints for humans there are least 350 living on the peaks there are probably more which is a significant improvement since in 1990 s. When pushing was rife thats why newry do you know yet want to portray himself so this is important to keep on patrolling the mountain its limited a lot of. Talk now we see days and other wild animals again villages joke with us and tell us to stop it because the wild animals are eating their crops or the pictures tell us you used to be one of us why did you change sides but its good now tourists can come here and see the animals. Its a fragile ecosystem this survival of one animal the pens under survival of others and in this impoverished country while left protection has also become a source of income but at that how many elders here kyrgyzstan. Now supply vessel is on its way to the International Space station and astronauts have an appetite for what its got on board the cygnus capsule is carrying a new space of a itll be used to test baking chocolate chip cookies in 0 gravity to the delight of the space station crew who are used to a bland diet of freeze dried food its more than just an indulgence the ability to cook fresh food in space is seen as essential for long grange missions. As there are with me cell robin a reminder of our top news stories Turkeys Defense Ministry has accused Kurdish Armed forces of a car bomb attack that killed at least 13 civilians including children in Northern Syria about 30 others were injured in the attack near a market in. Meanwhile turkey is so i think to send all eyes all fighters that has captured back to their home countries interior ministers alumina sulu says europe must do more to repatriate its nationals. We are not a hotel for anybody i saw members its not possible to accept this we have agreements with all these European Countries and in these agreements it says to send them back but this deprivation of citizenship is a new method you are on your own this is not acceptable for us i am stating clearly that this is also a responsible what am i going to do with your terrorist. Tens of thousands of iraqis have joined another mass protest in whats now the largest uprising since the fall of the former leader Saddam Hussein in 2003 this was a scene of central baghdad where empty government demonstrators rallied in the square there in rio about Economic Hardship corruption of what they call interference from iran and the us police fired tear gas and used water cannon on protesters in chiles capital sunday argo people angry about low income Poor Public Health care and the growing gap between the rich and the paul. Trade negotiations and fears of an escalating us trying to trade war are likely to dominate day 2 of the r. C. N. Summit in bangkok members of Southeast Asian bloc are hoping to finalize a major if major Free Trade Agreement led by china that includes 16 countries also 5 candidates have been approved to stand in algerias president ial election in december despite ongoing protests against the vote one of the contenders announced are 2 former Prime Ministers and 2 former government ministers longtime president of disease beautifully was forced to resign in april. And tens of thousands and government protesters are rallying for yet another day in barkers dance capital islamabad theyre demanding the resignation of the Prime Minister imran khan the socalled freedom marches led by a conservative Opposition Party and they arrived in islamabad on thursday those are the headlines more news in half an hour next its up front to stay with us. Every week a new cycle brings a series of breaking stories. As we turn the cameras on the media and Services Control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would put on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they oppose it too late we already have the information theyre listening pounced on. As House Democrats move yet another step closer to impeaching donald trump does the u. S. President have any credible defense left ill ask one of his closest allies the conservative media mogul whos been dubbed the trump whisperer. I met the hot sun also on the show our back row baghdad is vicious leadership of ice came to an end when he was killed in a u. S. Raid last weekend so is this the beginning of the end for eisel or will the ultraviolet group survive its leaders demise thats our debate but 1st with a flurry of damning testimonies and an impeachment resolution clearing the house this week democrats in Congress Just turned up the pressure on donald trump is there any defense though of trumps now notorious phone call to the president of ukraine in which he asked him to dig up dirt on Joe Biden Chris ruddy is c. E. O. Of conservative news outlet news about and is such a close friend of the president that hes become known as the trump whisperer he says the whole impeachment process is a giant diversion this weeks headlines from florida chris rock. Chris robbie thank you for joining me up front youre a close friend of donald trump you speak to him quite regularly how strong doing right now as he gets closer and closer to becoming only the 3rd u. S. President to be impeached judging from his twitter feed he seems to be cracking under the pressure. I dont see that at all i think that the president is a guy that likes to tell you what he thinks and how he feels and hes been tweeting quite a bit for several years now so i wouldnt read into any any new tweets that hes doing i think he likes this is a guy that likes to walk on fire he can walk on fire and not even feel it he thrives on battle he thrives on these political controversies hes wired differently than most of us i always say i think we can you know theres a fire is definitely what is it really is a fire well you know most of us if we see a fire we flee from it if we see a fight we flee from it he wants to run to it he likes to address problems or tackle problems or or confront issues not the style that maybe you and i have but it works for him and its been very successful over a long period for him you say not to read much into his tweets just this week he tweeted about the impeachment hoax in capital letters which sounded very stable what was the last thing the president said to you about impeachment when you last spoke to him. Well i dont discuss what the president tells me in private conversations but i can tell you that we both agree that the impeachment was a political act that this was started because the democrats are a year away from election they really have no candidate they can defeat him theres only a year left they have no evidence of a criminal act here none but of course impeachment is not about loral criminality it is a political act to begin with and you say theres no candidate who can beat him all the polls show that all of the major Democratic Candidates would beat him in an election tomorrow back in september 2 days after the impeachment inquiry was announced you said quote i think nancy pelosi is the smartest person in washington right now you said quote youre not sure this white house is prepared for this and that trump is being dismissive of the whole process why why is he taking it seriously given youve also described this process as quote a mortal threat and grave danger to his presidency i cant speak for donald trump but i dont want to presume even though weve been friends for a long time i dont want to presume that im here today speaking on his behalf i can only speak on behalf of chris ruddy newsmax the company i represent and you know chris i really think hes not taking it seriously. Well i think he believes that the best way to deal with this is how hes dealt with other controversies to be very reactive and to comment and respond every time theres a criticism with him doing it and hes had quite a bit of success doing that in the behind i think its a mistake this is in this in this particular case you think its a mistake really from your comment right because it is sort of like before youve been alleged to have committed something now youre actually on trial you know theres an old saying that you should never be your own lawyer and that youd be a fool to be your own lawyer and i think theres a case here that and i think the president s gotten a lot of bad legal advice from from a number of people in fact if you look at this ukrainian thing a lot of it starts because his Legal Counsel at the time Rudy Giuliani told him to push this issue of corruption investigating the biden so it came from his lawyer. And i think that you know the president didnt dream this up himself and now were dealing with this is a Major Political controversy and now an impeachment issue let me just ask it is according to a poll this week only 7 percent of American Adults think its ok to ask a Foreign Government for help with a u. S. President ial campaign are you one of them chris reddy i believe that its inappropriate we should not be asking Foreign Governments to be involved in any Political Campaign or anything related to a Political Campaign so when donald trump does that do you think its inappropriate that he doesnt. Absolutely i disagree now i do believe that as the chief Law Enforcement officer in the nation he can make a request like that i also believe that its not a criminal act while i disagree with it and i think its inappropriate or not proper as some people have testified on i agree that its not proper and was a mistake but i dont think its a criminal act and i dont think its an impeachable ok you know how Alan Dershowitz a very famous liberal has said we dont impeach people for political since you know many winced and not many would dispute the dershowitz liberal label and hes been a trump defender on fox news for obama just called come back to the impeachable vs criminal act in a moment just on the phone call the democrats are focusing their impeachment inquiry on this crucial july phone call between donald trump of the president of ukraine but was the call in which according to the white houses own called summary the ukrainian president asked for military aid and trump replied quote i would like you to do us a favor though and he then went on to ask ukrainian president to quote look into former Vice President joe biden and his son trump says that phone call was quote perfect do you think it was perfect. I dont think anything said in that call was criminal or impeachable i would disagree with the assessment that it was perfect what was wrong with it but its his assessment and hes allowed to make his assess in your view what was wrong i put my my view on this is and its always been the same i believe that you should never investigate someone loiss an evidence of a crime thats the due process legal system we operate under i believe it was very wrong and unjustified for there be a 2 year political investigation of the president on russia because an allegation was made i said it at the time that this was an allegation in search of a crime and thats not the way the system should work the president was victimized by this now he is saying hey they went investigated me why cant i investigate them when i think there is something fishy going on in the ukraine but what do you think my dont know any evidence im just asking what do you think was wrong with a call you say wasnt perfect what was wrong with it i think i think that joe bidens name should have never been raised in the call why. Because hes a political opponent of the president is running for office whats wrong with no evidence and as i said as i said theres no evidence that the bidens committed a crime its unusual that his son would be running on the border been of gas coming out a lot of famous people have family members on board including you would have to like start investing youd still have to start investigating half the congress. So my view on the president is this is a guy thats done an a plus job running the economy in the domestic side hes done a fantastic job on Foreign Policy in a lot of areas i think the report card is is yet to be completed but its very good ok but just about to call just come out to the call i appreciate youre in my his record on other issues just on the call well you say what you say because it plays into Everything Else yes but bill clinton had a very good other domestic record in many ways didnt stop people in peace he did let me just ask you that to him from being a quick on that being calculated whether you commit a crime or not is irrelevant to the impeachment process but in terms of it being an Impeachable Offense a high crime or misdemeanor well well tell you it is because bill tell you that the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine said last week contest to be the congress he thought it was totally inappropriate to tie the 2 things together he said it was crazy to make us military dependent on the president ial campaign the National Security councils colonel alexander said this week in what many describe as damning testimony he thought it was inappropriate how is that not an Impeachable Offense when his own people are saying that they thought this was the wrong thing to do to use the power of the presidency to help your own personal president ial campaign if thats not impeachable what is colonel vin min said that he felt the president did not act properly he never said that he acted illegally or criminally not a bottle going to die hard to jump in here we agree we dont know what i was trying to get away with you going to let him out of the crime im sorry to break this to you that competes with has nothing to do with your being a criminal a felt kind of makes that earlier in the year and the competitions very clear that it does not require a criminal offense to be impeached in fact gerald ford once said a high crime and misdemeanor is. However the house defines it as as you know i hate to break the news to you but the ultimate jurors are the American Public and they expect i believe and then the whole of the house of representatives is voting theres there is if you go across the country theres not broad based support for this impeachment more americans than not gris support and moving him from office to in a factual basis and then supports the argument that is but lets go back to colonel vin yes he said that it was he never said the president committed crime embassador taylor never spoke to the president hes saying that he was told by other officials there was a quid pro quo the president has denied that he ever withheld the aid in demand for this now i get you bill taylor is saying that he heard from other people that said the president may have wanted this or not thats for congress to investigate thats for the legal authorities to investigate. And i do think that would be very serious if that happened the president has said he did not require so just to be clear i want to be clear chris for your perspective you believe that unless the president s committed a crime broken federal law he cannot be impeached thats your view. I believe that that should be the standard and that is the standard that was the standard in the case of bill clinton or andrew jumps in the previous letter to the president as a result a lot of things. I think its wonderful many that youre researching what the Founding Fathers have said but the constitution and the laws about based on what what people today say it is ok and how the representative who decided i crimes and misdemeanors if president obama in 2012 had asked ukrainians to find dirt on mitt romney or a romney child in exchange for u. S. Military aid do you think the republicans were being ok with that they wouldnt even Peter Brock Obama seriously i dont know if they would have impeached in itself a really big hypothetical but what if what i want to get we know they got off to Hillary Clinton on being well its one of they talked about teaching Hillary Clinton for benghazi one of the things that the trump people and the president have alleged is that obama and his Administration Officials essentially asked the ukraine to find dirt on the president s Campaign Manager and to drop some of those bombshells in the middle of the election and thats now we dont know if that happened or not but they feel ledge that to have happened and that hell sue is allege that he was spied on by the Obama Administration or potentially foreign intelligence agencies i dont know if i lied about a spy he lied about the topping of phones that was a lie from the president s own Justice Department so there was no evidence of his why is being tapped as you know. Well again i havent investigated all of it im a little public the department of justice says there was no topping of his phones that was a lie thats why hes never repeated it since that tweet in 2017 where he made that claim well again you should ask the white house about that i dont need to the department of justice has said that there was no topping of the phone thats a fine because. I have them on the show great ok but you were just making a claim im just correcting you it is not correct to say that. I said that the president alleged that he was spied on and Campaign Officials allege there was but a probe i did not say whether it would have happened or not you repeated of allegations the problem with donald trump is he makes a lot of these repeated what the president has alleged is far less saying its true or not a green fine im saying be sure that its. Let me ask you this you say the trump makes allegations is the problem here if he makes so many false claims especially in defending himself he said that these bastards and people testifying in congress he said that they never trumpets and by the way he called never trump a human scum and he says that to bill taylor is a never trump a colonel alexander is a never trouble theres 0 evidence for that claim how could you have never trump or if you look truly work in the administration. I do not know what the president knows about those individuals but what i know and what ive read about them are their exam proly exemplary Public Officials that have dedicated their life for service to america im not going to criticize them i do know pete people that know ambassador taylor they say hes a man of great integrity but theyre not in the room for that im going to word but theyre not never told that i wanted out of that and im not aware of what the president but i have no evidence that theyre so its a filter job motivated by anything by the so its a full i have no evidence to accuse them of anything improper so i presume that you would think so chris we agree you have no evidence i have no theres nobody has any evidence when you make a claim against someone without any evidence thats called a false would trump being never trouble about any evidence again i dont know. Again youve got the president these questions because i dont know what he knows and why hes making the allegation but from what i know i think that there are upstanding Public Servants and they saw something they didnt think was right but as far as your away that are you have a problem because again i havent investigated but i havent seen anything that we dont know if its i mean come on this is a very old defense anytime someone says anything you dont have to have an investigation if i say today youre a democrat and you say youre not i can say well i dont know they havent seen any evidence thats not how it works the burden is on me making the accusation to support my accusation from doesnt do that he falsely smears anyone he doesnt like a scum as never trump has a deep state thats wrong you can say that you dont speak for trump what do you say thats well actually i dont think he ever called them scum but he called never trumpeting the whole the no of course he will never let your scum and i call them never trump and so that by definition hes calling the hey i told you that i dont agree with everything the president does or says when i told you that i disagree with this particular characterization based on the information i know and i said if you really want to know the white house asked that my mother their representative form a trump chief of staff john kelly said a few days ago that he told the. And before he quit the white house last year that if trump hired a yes man as his next chief of staff hed end up getting impeached which is exactly whats happening now of course but what does it say about this president that so many people around him speak about him and to him as if hes a child that he needs handholding needs boundaries he need saving from himself you know hes been nicknamed the toddler in chief. Well ive always found in my conversations with him i could be quite frank and he does take constructive criticism i dont work for him im not there at the white house so im not privy to the ongoing i have been told by people through a number of years that people give him a lot of feedback and disagreements privately hes very open to that privately i think what he disagrees is where hes has someone on his staff that they publicly disagree i think any leader would have a problem with that but i think hes he people forget he ultimately decides all of these things even if he even im sure john kelly gave him a lot of constructive criticism and the president decided many times against that advice i do think that the president is well served when he has advice and feedback i think congress has a vital role to play with but any but it doesnt it doesnt have to have a feed back his press secretary Stephanie Grisham said john kelly was quote totally on equipped to handle the genius of our great president this is chairman kevin stuff hes surrounded by sycophants i hope youre not one of them well. Im a friend of his i support him i think hes doing a great job but i also will have disagreements with him and ill let a member of the press and i will share those concerns both privately and publicly chris reddy thanks for joining me on outfront. Glad to be here. After losing all of its territory and most of its fighters i sill is now also lost its leader so is the death of abu bakr or baghdad in the final blow or while the we can group managed to survive and continue to pursue its murderous and to prize to discuss this im joined by 2 experts in the field Jessica Stern a Research Professor at Boston University and coauthor of isis the state of terror and how the director of the center for Global Policy and coauthor of ice is inside the army of tara thank you both for joining me in the arena donald trump announced by daddys death on sunday in his usual way he boasted about it and he claimed that he had taken down someone bigger even than asama been large and you said afterwards in an op ed for the New York Times that trump might be right even if its for the wrong reasons for once he might have a point why well because operationally can enough but. It can be more destructive far more destructive than the content of some of the land because remember when the summer blend was kaluta than live in those 10 years after 911 he was already kind of far removed from there was going in pakistan in a compound exactly far removed from the day to day reality of that but he wasnt as his killer was not as destructive as the killing of the today youre saying but he was controlling i sort of data there was a man who was commanding the organization very closely he was meeting with his commanders and shape in the direction of the organization jessica you also wrote a New York Times op ed this week and you said that while you recognize the importance of baghdad eisel you said quote just how the leaders and even jihadi groups come and go the u. S. General in charge of Central Command seems to agree with you he said this week we dont see a bloodless future because unfortunately this ideology is going to be out there if this is a case of an ideology being more important than the man or even the organization itself. I think so i mean i do think that the killing of bug was in fact very significant he was there really truly evil man and he killed so many people in fact a gruesome brutal way but nonetheless there is there there are many groups they keep splitting they keep merging and it is an ideology that has been going on for quite some time and apparently. Will continue for some time and you said this week that if the u. S. And its allies failed to put pressure on ice will now there was quote a risk of still quickly seizing on this vacuum in syria and iraq are you trying to say that donald trump should be sending more troops to syria in iraq rather than pulling troops out he should be intensifying the military effort against this group in favor of american troops stay in and syria the whole debate about whether american troops there were no not should not start when the americans decided to intervene on behalf of whoever in iraq and syria to fight this organization that the end goal should have been. After the defeat of this organization and you stay there until you make sure that is holy to be defeated properly defeated and instead of 100 over these areas to the likes of them and so on so forth you make sure we see your this situation in 2 pieces jessica how many of the Socio Economic factors the sectarian divisions that allowed eisel to flourish in places like iraq and how much of those factors are still around today i mean we have in iraq right now protests against the government massive corruption Security Forces shooting people dead in the streets how worried are you that the conditions are still ripe for another for i sold 2. 013. 0 i dont want to define it. I think they are right i think you know we know that some of the risk factors for terrorism include lots of young men who are unemployed or underemployed sectarian tension sectarian conflict sectarian war and yes we we see that used to work in Government Back in the day if you were advising donald trump today what would you be telling him to do. Im im im not sure were going to be able to defeat this movement but i do think though that we do need to be very careful about how we leave we yes maybe we need to leave over time we cannot solve all these problems clearly we often make them worse but if we leave in a precipitous way leaving our allies whom weve worked with very closely who are dependent on us completely vulnerable that strikes me as a grave error just look at just mention the rather depressing point theyre imposing the she doesnt think a group like this or the ideology at least underpinning the group can ever be defeated. I think the main problem today is the conflicts jihadism extrude thrive in 2 things the authoritarianism in the region the problem with the will always go to the disease of sort of to the symptoms and leave the disease of the disease is but others say the disease isnt just conflict its the ideology its radical islam to quote the president of United States where do you stumble not to be ideology comes after if youre fighting someone like the regime of bashar assad or someone like bashar assad then jihadism provides a way for recruitment to die hard justification after the fight exact out of fights as well before you would say the dealing with the diseases dealing with the conflicts in the region precise which which they have just would you share that view i do actually im very much of the view that ideology is often a a branding device more then then it is there something emerging its not the reason for the problem its that it is the branding for a fight that has much more to do with with the underlying. Sectarian tensions and authoritarian regimes what im suggesting however that i dont believe the us can defeat this proper fix this problem i. Its quite clear that we. We often make things worse and i saw this week announced a new leader a replacement for baghdad who theyre calling the new emir brahimi. What do you think his Life Expectancy is looking like right now well the source for we dont know anything about this doesnt his nickname or the court doesnt really narrow things down very small number of people nor the people at the top of the helm of isis who selected him i dont think anybody within or below them would know so the rock is probably would take some time to know who he is and thats when you start to trace them down and how worried should people at home be that in the wake of baghdad these death is it going to hurt the group and they get undermined and they kind of lose more all or is there a sense of were going to take revenge attacks weve lost our territory lost our leader were going to mount attacks in paris talk or new delhi or washington d. C. I think most certainly they would try to wage a campaign of revenge his decapitation is not the end of fall for isis obviously they were going as a nation has been there before twice actually a very critical time 20062010. And they survived the other think with the announcement this week of the 2 the new emir and his spokesperson it seems like they handle the transition very well and it really depends on the organization itself and whether the americans can go after these leaders more and more and keep the pressure but im not no well leave it there just to. You both for joining me in the arena. Show up front will be back next week. Rewind returns with series and brand new updates on the best about these things documentaries. Remind continues with renditions inside libyas prison and the rebels into tripoli where im. Associated with gadhafi regime it was an office of spy chief and i found a stash of documents which reveal the collaboration between british and Libyan Intelligence Services on al jazeera. Just off one of caracas his main highways the media and the family collects as much water as possible from the mountain above. A nationwide blackout left millions without power a regular water supplies. But this water is not portable the Health Ministry is recommending people treat it with chlorine but with none available other. Hopes that boiling it 1st will make it safe for her family to drink dr. Says the increased consumption of untreated water in the last 3 weeks is making an already catastrophic situation worse now than they might normally dont read anything we dont have the precise numbers yet but we know that the public and private hospitals theres been an acute increase of cases of severe diarrhea that require hospitalization including children under 2 years of age which can be fatal local and international Public Health experts describe the crisis its a complex humanitarian emergency. Also in a crowded marketplace a car bomb explodes in a Syrian Border time captured by Turkish Backed forces. In the fighting with Syrian Forces intensifies in the rebel held province of italy we have. Or whose only known conflict of all is life. Balance all right when youre watching aljazeera live my headquarters in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes trying to dampen down demonstrations please turn on people protesting against chiles deeply unpopular president. Also the of taria the vehicles providing Critical Services during antigovernment protest in iraqs capital. And report beginnings the captain with rugbys most treasured trophy after leaving south africa to a historic win. Welcome to the program a car bombing served as a reminder of how fragile it remains along syrias northeastern border where turkish and Russian Forces are doing joint patrols 13 people were killed and 30 others injured in the attack on a crowded market in the at the border town is controlled by Turkish Backed opposition fighters its seen some of the heaviest battle since turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish Forces last month ankara wants the mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces to withdraw from the border areas to create a socalled safe so his house with the days developments from the turkish Syrian Border. The car was packed with explosives and placed in a crowded market in other this explains the growing number of casualties the Turkish Military blamed the white p. G. For the blast and the white p. G. By the same time hit back saying that turkey is to blame for failing along with this. In the region the center of the Syrian National army for providing security to superiors and this is the latest blast in a series of attacks that took bases. In areas on the border with turkey. And also a loss and this is going to further. Challenges on the Turkish Military was how started joint patrols with russia there will be moments when the Turkish Military will be patrolling areas not far from where the white b. G. Fighters will be stationed across north Northern Syria situation remains tense with intensified fighting in it live and also on in the mountainous area around the city of latakia where the rebels are trying to stage an offensive to halt an attack by Government Forces as were going to see in this report. Hardly a day goes by without strikes or glasses on the ground. The problems in Northern Syria is controlled by a bubble forces opposed to president bush. Thank the main Group Operating in the area is hate as to who is h. T. S. You to pose as talks with the government and its fighters are deployed south near ponce hold where Government Troops are on the offensive a few days ago president Bashar Al Assad made a surprise visit to newly captured territory south of. Reinforcements are pouring into the area and for the 3 and a half 1000000 People Living there the buildup is a sign that war fighting is imminent and then theres one yes that iraq regime is going to in its aim to move its troops to a position territorian recap truth hes using the same tactic that helped him take over homes and there are further north not far from the battlefield its another relatively quiet day in s. Him a village south of it live city this is where i was born 9 years ago his only no live in a war zone he goes to school in the morning and then spends long hours in the afternoon collecting firewood ahead of the harsh winter when temperatures can fall below 0 a little him is one of hundreds of thousands of children in syria who have been traumatized by the war. Im happy as long as my brothers uncles and relatives are still alive but if any one of them or our neighbors got killed you know strikes i will be set people in villages in the south of it are planning to evacuated if Government Troops launched their offensive in the past they could flee to rebel held territory but this time they have nowhere to go. The blast in a 3 in is a clear indication of the tough challenges facing or the key players in North Eastern syria the turkish army the russians who are joining the patrols the air force has pulled out from the safe zone but still remains adamant it wants to maintain a presence in its strong cause and also the Syrian Opposition army the said they wish has conquered New Territory thats russias all the way from. Both seems to be struggling as we speak to maintain security in those areas turkey is threatening to send all eyes will fight as its captured back to their home countries interior ministers are the ones who says europe must do more to repatriate its nationals. We are not a hotel for anybody i thought members its not possible to accept this we have agreements with all these European Countries and in these agreements it says to send them back but this deprivation of citizenship is a new method you are on your own this is not acceptable for us im stating clearly that this is also a responsible what am i going to do with your terrorist. To the americas and what began as protests against the cost of travelling on a train is gathering momentum and turning against chiles billionaire president people are upset about low incomes Poor Public Health care and the increasing gap between rich and poor president Sebastian Pinera has become the target of growing protests latin america to turn Lucien Newman reports. For this 13th day in a row demonstrators gathered at santiago. But this time Security Forces used massive quantities of tear gas Water Cannons and pepper spray to prevent them protesting. At the several has had come to express their anger at chiles growing income inequality equipped with a none too for. Flattering sign of our president. But she doesnt just blame him for the not going to the governments leafed on the right wing have stolen from us weve lost our right to decent salaries and health care and the privatized all the Utility Companies the protesters were chased away over and over only a very few responded was rocks the candidates at the back and forth on trying to protect ourselves here this was supposed to be a march to call for the resignation the president said stepping out of the people were. Having. Protesters were angry that they could not express their constitutional right to demonstrate. The vision of the if i came here today with my daughters to protest peacefully for all of our rights because enough is enough the rich take everything in every day were worse off and worse all. Others say president needs to be punished yeah hes responsible like all the other president s and he needs to be impeached. That is highly unlikely to happen since at least part of the opposition says it wont support a congressional impeachment bid. To get us says hes listening to chileans demands and while he may be the obvious target of these protesters wrath most concede that changing the president is far less important than winning deep structural changes. You see in you and ill just see the santiago. Trade negotiations and fears of an escalating trade war between the u. S. And china are likely to dominate day 2 of the asean summit in bank hold members of the Southeast Asian block are trying to finalize a major Free Trade Agreement led by china that includes 16 countries the deal would create a trade zone including one 3rd of the worlds g. D. P. But does not include the u. S. Or india has raised concerns about the deal scott hyla has the latest from the summit joins us now from bangkok scott. So yes those negotiations are still ongoing as you mentioned india has brought up some issues they have with the negotiations Going Forward so it seems as though we still have a little bit of time theres hope that there would be some kind of announcement during these asan so much but it doesnt seem like thats going to happen now to discuss this further were going to bring in tom parts with the Asia Foundation though tom one thing thats interesting when you look at obviously this potential trade pact here in the region is the ongoing trade war between the United States and china what kind of impact does that trade war have on the nations here yet so on has been affected by the trade war for sure but the impact has been mixed i think weve seen actually increases in investment in some countries like here in thailand vietnam has also seen some benefits so obviously theres a lot of anxiety about the trade situation in the region and thats actually led i think thats put a lot of wind in the sails of the negotiations for our step but at this point yeah the impact is mixed i think look our separate is on the verge of being signed i think youre seeing these last minute you know sort of. Last stand negotiating points from india and from from others mostly from india i think that this means that were very very close either some sort of agreement by the end of this year or within a couple of weeks after that only look ok lets maybe switch from economy and trade to politics when you look at the representation from the of the nations that are participating in us arent from aussie on japan china south korea and the United States but you look at the level of the representation the United States its quite low its the secretary of commerce what message does that send to the members of aa so you know its obviously a big disappointment and i think you know thailand and others have made their frustration very clear i think nobody was surprised frankly that the president is not coming i think there was some surprise that the Vice President is in here but but nobodys really surprised and in a lot of ways look if the president was here there would be a quite distracting news cycle surrounding him which would be. Distracting for a for the whole thing so but you know its look if you want to play with if you want to be relevant here youve got to send the right people and the other major powers in the region are here in force with the right people so its very disappointing lets focus a little bit of intra yana knew we were talking about the environmental. Issues that they have been tackling and then theres one that passed a bit ago that theyre looking to move forward through this right so on is 14 of the worst countries in the world in terms of ocean borne plastics are here in oz and i think this year was an important year the countries got together d they came up with an agreement the bangkok declaration on ocean option Marine Debris which was signed in july and its going to basically streamline a whole bunch of new areas of cooperation to try to reduce the flow of plastics into the ocean from this region has a good history actually of cooperating in areas where they find agreement this was a big one others have been for example Human Trafficking response to natural disasters so there are ways that can really make a lot of progress when they come together and this is a good example one thats been used as a bad example is human rights when you look at human rights how do you think us and deals with that which is different so i was young remember is the