Logical what 1st ending the presence of Foreign Forces as an emergency measure and making arrangements for that secondly to go back to the draft decision that was put forward to the parliament before the current government took office. But all kurdish representatives boycotted the session and most of the sunni m. P. s were in there the emergency session of parliament is a reminder of the deep ethnic and sectarian divisions in iraq being so nice shias and kurds at least one commander of the. Group has said that if the Parliament Fails to cause a decisive resolution against the u. S. Presence in iraq on sunday all future sessions will be worthless. A powerful cleric who heads one of the leading blocs in parliament criticized the decision as a weak one so theyre called for the shutting down of the u. S. Embassy on socalled resistant groups inside and outside iraq to form urgency battalions similar sentiments were echoed by other shia majority political blocs. This is a real test for loyal
Such spiritual significance. But quite a lot of hill fog down towards the south west of the uk in the mild air. Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Lets focus in on the rain, though, and these totals youre seeing here are some of the higher totals we may see in the Higher Ground a foundation in our move forward. This is the briefing. Welcome to hardtalk. In the moors of south west england, im victoria fritz. Our top story im stephen sackur. The welsh hills and pennines. Armenia is a small state lower levels wont see as much borisjohnson tries again with outside strategic significance as this, but with that much rain to secure a new election, as eu ambassadors meet to discuss in a caucasus region beset falling for some, the potential for some flooding and perhaps another possible brexit delay. With tension and hostility. Some travel disruption. There are some met office tens of thousands of people last year, popular protests yellow warnings in force, are forced to leave th
That is now lost. They were also collected intelligence for us, giving that to us so we could use it in our fight against isis and the other side of the border, what the iraqies were doing. I dont know if we have lost that, i bet you we have or its at significant risk. Brennan who pw epbt benefis besides isis. Isis and russian. They get the intelligence now. The Syrian Regime benefits. The biggest winner here is isis. Brennan bill, you have negotiated with erdogan. Typically its a rule that there is leverage in a negotiation. When Vice President pence went to turkey this week he promised to lift u. S. Sanctions. He seemed to promise the u. S. Allies would with draw from this area as well. Was this a negotiation or as some say a surrender. I think there was a smart w. We had modest leverage in northeast seer ya. I think we chose the dumb way. We gave aware our leverage. And in a negotiated cease fire we threw the kurds under the buss and essentially gave erdogan what he wanted. The pres
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Armenia is a small state with outsized strategic significance in a caucasus region beset with tension and hostility. Last year, popular protests delivered a so called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed in yerevan amid ambitious talk of reform. My guest is the foreign minister in that government, zohrab mnatsakanyan. Is armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration . Zohrab mnatsakanyan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Last year saw Major Political upheaval in your country armenia, the so called velvet revolution, after which you and your government claimed that you were working for a new armenia. Sceptics will say it looks very much like the old armenia. So, whats different . Why would they say that . Because, for example, you were an official for many, many years, under previous regimes. You are a man of great governmental experience, you are not a new broom at all. I made a choice of my own, i made a ch
From. [inaudible] its my pleasure to moderate this discussion with a group of folks who are prime movers in the development of the nature posture review. I will introduce them in a moment. We are not calling this a panel. Each group will give us five or ten minutes. We will get some conversation for the group going. Most of you know the group and let me introduce rob the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for Nuclear Defense policy. Greg weaver is strategic director for staff j5. He runs the Defense Program shop and anita is the acting assistant secretary from the bureau of arms control. Im very pleased we can gather this group and we are looking forward to the discussion. As i said we will start with introductory remarks from each of our guests and then we will go in the following order. Well start with greg and go to phil, anita and rob has asked to clean up today. Thats what well do. Greg over to you. Thank you. When i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you all a lit