Photographers. That National Archives cohost of this event. The Army Signal Corps photographic collection is one of the largest in the National Archives. Roughly 1 million images from world war i to 1981, chronicled military activities during war and peace of the frontline, as the front line i like to welcome the Strategic Communications officer for the u. S. Army center of military history. He retired from the army reserve and 2017. He had the rank of colonel and 35 years of military service. He deployed three times and commanded the American Forces network in iraq baghdad plus direct Media Operations and assisted spokesman for commissions at guantanamo bay, cuba and was the chief of Media Operations and a senior spokesman for detention operations at guantanamo. He was also an assistant professor of military science at usc. [applause] good evening and thank you. My name is lee reynolds. It i am a strategic medications officer for the u. S. Army center of military history. The center i
Killing or bringing in general because of the money. And paris police fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters on a 6 week mass nationwide strike over pension reform. Youre watching R T International bring your line news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. U. S. And canadian investigators are due to arrive at the site of wednesdays plane crash in tehran on irans invitation a 176. 00 passengers on the ukrainian passenger jet lost their lives iran says a thorough investigation is underway and has rejected what it calls a logical and impossible claims by western leaders that it may have accidentally shot down the jet. Artists ask you to help looks at the growing speculation even before any progress has been carried out. Nothing instills confidence and International Leaders more than my love of precise language. We have intelligence from multiple sources including around lies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an array ne
Country. Elsewhere angular merkel is due to me Vladimir Putin in moscow later on saturday will be 1900 official visit to russia as german chancellor and this visit comes amid tight into the global times. That youre watching on t. V. International im writers on a lot could thank you for joining us. In the u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general mike bumppo struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General solomonic during a press conference and explains. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary t
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
Past week weve heard a lot about escalation deescalation and what is proportionate weve also heard the words war this is how the u. S. Ran complex describe what is not talked enough about is the necessity of ending the American Military presence in the middle east these endless wars must cease. Talking the us around conflict im joined by my guest Mohammad Marandi and to him hes a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when 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 a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and 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 thing