zira geneva. there is a summit been javid has been speaking to people in three areas of syria to hear about their expectations from the talks in geneva. when there are no place in the sky and there is less fear of forces invading you there is hope all around you in this particular town in northern syria this is jobless and people are trying to come back and review their lives but when it comes to talks in geneva they are not very hopeful they say this is the revolution that they began and it has been taken away from them and the world really doesn't care. i'm in syria and they call me a refugee what can we want from the talks. as long as assad remains geneva doesn't mean anything. they show solidarity with syrians but in reality they're all complicit and involved in the destruction of syria we just hope the siege can end. our hope is with god not russia or iran. and. we hope this round could be a new beginning because of the major changes before the geneva meeting we see the meeting in geneva whet

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as long as assad remains geneva doesn't mean anything. they show solidarity with syrians but in reality they're all complicit and involved in the destruction of syria we just hope the siege can end. our hope is not russia nor iran. and. we hope this round could be a new beginning because of the major changes before the geneva meeting we see the meeting in geneva whether it's the eighth or the tenth or the twenty fifth round of talks there are all the same there is a lot at stake at these talks opposition leaders have been telling us that they're fearful that if the united nations fails yet again to come through this solution to provide a long lasting peaceful terms that all sides can agree upon they will be forced to go to word sochi and then russian solution when they feel that russia will undermine the role of the united nations as it tries to bring its own version of the saloon. and many people here will tell you that this is something that they do not want meanwhile the united states says it's considering adjustments to how it gives m

to bypass the geneva talks begin to rush actually would like to restart to revive the geneva talks geneva talks and to that the geneva talks to reach the concrete specific results specific results for national reconciliation in syria between all the parties so i think that that's not true so how is russia doing it differently when you compare it to were the previous method mediators made so very little progress in this. well who says that the progress should be made it this is a long process actually because of the war the war with terrorism international terrorism has just done that and you know we have syria in shambles so we need just have some time to restart the process of national reconciliation to restart the process of negotiations between all the parties and to start the rebuilding syria so this is not in these a process and it will take time all right good to talk to somebody thanks david i mean the coffee in moscow the pressures on the hundreds of thousands of students in south korea as they sit exams the all important college entrance tests often set the course of a young pers

peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the time table of failed diplomacy is actually creasing the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province is scooter and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its own slaughter in the days and hours before talks due to start my fellow in the development of a sudden leave a single corner that hasn't been destroyed if you want to fight it don't target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they'll teach you a lesson briefing the u.n. security council in new york the man who's supposed to lead the talks on tuesday stefan de mistura condemned the violence he noted that the syrian government had perspire its travel to geneva but he said they needed to attend. naturally we hope and indeed expect that the government will be on its way shortly but to get in i don't break that into men to break them in putting when they met in thought you that meeting part of intense diploma

syria's opposition relinquish their demand that assad must go as a precondition ahead of talks in geneva. argentina's navy says an explosion was heard near the last known position of a missing submarine is fear grows for the forty four crew. zimbabwe has about to get its first new president in thirty seven years in the next hour or so m.s.n. went on god where will be sworn in as leader is an important moment for the people with expectations running high that he'll be able to turn the country's fortunes around. most and bobbins of any known life under robert mugabe's rule. i think they change. because we have proceedings i think you will be able to change everything. but as for me i wish to. this country i think it was made for me i think. all the same was. i don't think it's a shame because they are people of the same party maybe their policy would be the same but you just see the best but the seventies with the suffering i think is a positive change. i think if that was you. then maybe we can get going to get jobs for me i think in zimbabwe we need a unity government so if this. is the

they say they perspire own their flight to geneva because they're angry that the opposition is still saying that assad must go there are some who believe that's not made the main reason why they perspire on their trip it's also being suggested that you mentioned it that onslaught in eastern guta that maybe they want to continue that bombardment for a little longer before they come to the negotiating table potentially with the strength and hand well let's look at the opposition groups i mean how do they feel given that it was just one of week i'll say again that you had president putin and president assad congratulating each other pretty much on on ending effectively the war on the ground and talking about a political solution. the opposition if you speak to them privately they are not happy with the way things played out clearly not militarily because assad definitely has the upper hand because of the help of the russians and the iranians but also diplomatically and we as a result of that have a different grouping coming here they calling themselves the syrian negotiation commission

representative in this delegation that is going to go to geneva and a lot is that player geneva because syrian opposition members fear that if geneva fails yet again they will be forced to take russian terms they will be forced to go to sochi and trying to iron out a solution because the people inside syria are tired of the fighting they say that they want a solution and there they are pushing their representatives to try and come to terms but having said all of that there is one resoundingly message that has been coming out from both inside syria and from their representatives in various diplomatic forums that there is no future for bashar al assad and his clique in the future syria still ahead of. the man accused of signing the two thousand and eight number is released from house arrest to get the latest from the. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we've seen the deep area of low pressure across northwestern parts of europe and it's driving cold there southeast was across much of mainland euro

here's our diplomatic editor james face the syria talks in geneva are back on but for now with only one of the two sides present u.n. envoy stefan de mistura met the delegation from the opposition. but the government has been involved in a major intensification east and. its trip to geneva the suspicion is they wanted this aerial bombardment to strengthen their hand at the talks and you have any optimism when you see what's going on. as you're supposed to be. well i was just informed by do russia and then do it today or did people a meeting did the russians have their proposals there and the government they've accepted a defiant it's difficult because we were and are very content up till now we need to feel where they did take place but it did not please you then told that they've actually been proposed to end their greed upon just the day of the beginning of the station. there is tension within the opposition camp two groups the karo platform and the moscow platform were previously shunned by the rest of the opposition now they've been brought into the negotiating team but that dec

people ahead of a new round of talks in geneva. to be in trouble already. and the new evidence showing that an oil giant was allegedly complicit in punishing nigerian villagers who complained about spills. we begin in kenya where kenyatta has just been sewn in for a second and final term as president you know gratian ceremony follows four months of often violent political upheaval which left more than fifty people dead the opposition leader right out with a has vowed to fight on again scan yachters presidency let's listen in a bit to what the kenyan president is saying he's speaking right now to the kenyan people three years we have risen fifty six places in the world bank's ease of doing business index from one hundred thirty six. to eighty s. and our targets in a few years is to be fifty s. and we have several kenyans new business is established to show we have embarked on building an entirely new work clothes really system and thousands of kilometers of access roads to connect producers to markets we have ensured our children can study at night because w

process so unfortunately the geneva process is. been traveling read more and more because we have a major crisis within one we have the political crisis about syria and who should be with that. should remain in power or not you have the humanitarian crisis half of the put a population is i.d.p.'s already really is that alone about half a million of casualties then you have the security crisis that is now to be inherent in the by all of the regional and international powers i'm talking about i said so everybody is trying to maneuver or to handle one segment of the crisis from this and the fourth one which is woodson in the or making it more difficult for geneva. there i'm if occasional of the latent cold war between the regional powers between the saudis and iranians and turks families of forty four crewmembers of a missing submarine are firas of the argentinian government as fears grow over their fate the navy's announce of a possible explosion was detected near the last known location of the n.r.a. someone but the vessel still has

on in geneva this must seem like a million miles away from the people where you are. when you hear very bitter comments from people when you try enough of them what hopes and fears that they have from this particular round of talks and they'll tell you that they don't have any. many many. the government has continued. all across the world and talk about. them. hundred dollars. hundreds of thousands of people living under conditions. of the world people say. they don't have any hope that. anything and especially the opposition has been. making sure that. because there is a. happening. and that the russian government is trying to make. everything. a demand. by people. now a volcano in indonesia and ireland of barley is rumbling and spewing smoke officials say could erupt at any moment they've ordered more evacuations from the immediate areas mt are gone has been hurling clouds of ash about three kilometers into the sky ever since the weekend the new exclusion zone includes twenty two villages and up to one hundred thousand people the volcano last erupted in one thousand

as long as assad remains geneva doesn't mean anything. they show solidarity with syrians but in reality they're all complicit in involved in the destruction of syria we just hope the siege can end. our hope is with god not russia or iran. and. we hope this round could be a new beginning because of the major changes before the geneva meeting we see the meeting in geneva whether it's the eighth or the tenth or twenty fifth round of talks they're all the same there is a lot at stake at these talks opposition leaders have been telling us that they're fearful that if the united nations fails yet again to come to its solution to provide a long lasting peaceful terms that all sides can agree upon they will be forced to go to word sortie and the russian solution when they feel that russia will undermine the role of the united nations as it tries to bring its own version of the solution for syria which are literally side in power and many people here will tell you that this is something that they do not want. are diplomatic editor james is live fo

in geneva u.s. vice president mike pence says president trump is actively considering when and how to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem pensa made the comments during an event at israel's mission to the united nations now the controversial move is something trump has previously vowed that he would do in june trump signed a waiver to keep the embassy in tel aviv but that's up for renewal early next month zimbabwe's new president has opened a three month amnesty window for the return of stolen public funds emersonian gal was says those individuals and companies that have illegally stashed money abroad have until the end of february to give it back when jaguar was sworn in as president on friday and promised to tackle corruption following the roberts my god is thirty seven year of war. president amisom and i was sitting at the ground running and he seems to be doing that he the poison into the government it's embarrassing will be good we is the acting president is minister patr

bring you the details with the end of the war in syria in sight another round of political talks in geneva are set to begin for the eighth time will the fast changing battlefield affect the outcome this time and how can the country rebuilds we have report and analyses coming up and in the new amount of gunk threatens to erupt thousands of people in bali have been moved out of harm's way but the government says thousands more need to be evacuated we'll take a closer look at the volcano with the help of our weather presenter richard angwin i'm heading home and there's a royal wedding set. as britain's prince harry marries actress meghan markle but it's not only love and praise says mina racist backlash around that announcement that the us he's national news right. here with the news spread we are live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and that al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us there is one big question looming over pope francis his first visit to me in mar will he mention the word hinge up now the pontiff has already met the military chief who told him there

change base life for us there in geneva thanks jason. grated breaking news to tell you about a story about the bosnian war crimes appeal hearing. earlier we have ported to you that the person in cry at mr. had taken what he said was a poison it is now being reported by croatian t.v. that he has now died after allegedly taking at this point and that's all the information that we have on this at the moment but we did hear from the judges from the proceedings in the hay. a little bit earlier the judge talking about the courtroom being now a crime scene that's all the information that we have on this at the moment of course bring you more as and when we get it we're going to bring in dennis again deputy director for the. project which associated with the balkan transitional justice project joins us from syria thanks very much for being with us. so what do you make then of these reports first of all. we have not been able to. actually we have confirmation that he was the. presiding judge tried and i would use at the beginning the actual polic

tribunals are in the receiver because they're being prosecuted and convicted for not respecting the geneva conventions among those crimes are some of the worst atrocities carried out in europe since the second world war thank you the four year siege of sarajevo which an estimated ten thousand people were killed in shelling and sniper fire and the massacre of thousands of mostly men and boys in the town of srebrenica where my colleague david chaytor now reports. the mothers of srebrenica called once again in the horror of their own memories watching the court proceedings in the hague in a small museum in the middle of the cemetery where their loved ones are buried they wanted justice as ever then. when they came a surge of elation followed by a wave of emotion they'd waited twenty two years for this movie but they too have all had a life sentences families and villages torn apart a heavy burden of grief that they will take to that of great. among them was caught in this iconic photograph of the genocide pleading with a u.s. soldier to help her get back a house mint her son and her brother b

process so unfortunately the geneva process is. been traveling to do more and more because we have four major crises we've been one of them one we have the political crisis about syria and who should be with the. should remain in power or not you have the humanitarian crisis half of the put a population is i.d.p.'s already for years let alone about half a million of casualties then you have the security crisis that is now being here out of the all of the regional and international powers i'm talking about eyes and so everybody is trying to maneuver or to handle one segment of the crisis from this and the fourth one which is what's in in the or making it more difficult for geneva process is there i'm if occasionally of the latent cold war between the regional powers right when the saudis and iranians and all the elements are not helping the geneva we should pick up on one of those points you made and that is the humanitarian side of things because we can talk about men in suits in however many different cities we want especially the

resolution two to fight for it stimulated that peace process should start in geneva and. united nations facilitation and this has been going importance for some time unfortunately did not want to negotiate russia is supporting now what is what is what is happening now in sochi is an attempt by our effort to change that. jack the reason these forces from geneva and change it into so to take their sortie now the problem is that in sochi they are going to invite about one thousand or more from syria and from outside but they will invite more people. who are supporting bashar assad than opposition who started the revolution in the first place so i think that this conference we only. morning to avoid the international legitimacy decided by the united nations they did that before by the way to invest then they separated the military track from. diplomatic. help by pressuring military groups to attend actually groups didn't have and you know they just attended to witness what was and the whole thing was devised by russia and iran but have a long and how are you as cynical when i

syria's opposition is meeting un mediator stefan emma store in geneva and the eighth round of united nations concert talks to end the civil war discussions are happening as rebels trial trying to topple syria's president bashar al assad has set to being significantly weakened by nearly seven years of fighting syrian government because she has held talks with them store on wednesday our diplomatic out of her chair and spain's trying to slide from geneva so james what phase are these talks and right now well i think that the special envoy stephan de mistura is trying to move things on pretty far let me show you the scene here in journey room with the flurries of snow you can see the reporters outside the door that we've seen inside the door both delegations going at the same time for the first time actually we've had them both in there for what's called proximity talks since liked abrahim e was the special envoy going back a number of years what happens in proximity talks is you have both in adjacent rooms the special envoy talks to one speaks to one goes then to the next room and rela

sponsored talks in geneva. but i've also demanded the resignation of president bashar al assad during a conference on syria's future in riyadh. and the argentinean navy says a possible explosion was detected near the last known location of a submarine that disappeared more than a week ago families of forty four missing crew members are furious at the argentinean government the fee is growing over their fate. now the first images. robert mugabe and his wife grace have been released since the form a zimbabwean leader resigned on tuesday my god he's been granted immunity from prosecution under a deal brokered as part of his resignation security and political forces sources have told al jazeera the agreement guarantees his safety in zimbabwe and it means he won't be going into exile as a mcgarvie wants to die in his own country the leader of the main opposition party the m.d.c. the movement for democratic change is cautiously welcoming the incoming president. my expectation is that. there's a lot of the must demons

process in a state department statement they talk about forging ahead with the geneva process what does that mean for the. talks on a process that russia initiated. well the istana process has never really been intended to replace the geneva process i think russia would have liked a standard to take on more of the political aspects the aspects that geneva really is supposed to be dealing with bombs that never really got off the ground so astonished has been focused on dealing with technical cease fire agreements the deescalation zones those sorts of my new shy and geneva is about mapping the broader political framework for a future syrian state now rather me a person in his press conference today said that essentially because the battle against i still is in its endgame is what he says you know where we have beaten the terrorists now so we can now have a situation in which we can start moving forward again with geneva that is obviously a process that has had its own. frailties and difficulties the problem of getting all these. conflicting and warring and disagreeing policies around the

has been shored up the political process in geneva can start moving again well meanwhile the head of the largest syrian opposition group has resigned riyadh was made leader of the high negotiations committee in december twenty fifth he his space with the several other key officials are step down ahead of an opposition conference in saudi arabia as well as a new round of u.n. sponsored talked to the due to take place in geneva a statement from his job did not say why he was quitting that the saudi backed tighe negotiations committee the agency is the. main block for syrian opposition groups it was established in late twenty fifteen as the main opposition negotiator at the un talks in geneva is made up of several military and political opposition groups the agency has always called for the removal of president assad is the basis for any solution to the syrian war. let's talk now to sami niger who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs he's joining us now live from beirut given that it seems that the war is effectively over we just heard president. putin and president

headquarters in geneva opposition negotiators arriving just minutes before the government delegation u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura met both sides separately and explained how things would work. what we call the real. me that means the two sides in separate but adjacent rooms with mr de mistura and his team shuttling between them. it is though far from a breakthrough they're still discussing the way this round of talks will be conducted the situation is very much as we've seen many times in many rounds of these talks no discernible sign of progress but inside syria the people continue to suffer the u.n. has revealed that last month four hundred thousand people were displaced from their homes in syria that's the highest number of people on the move for eighteen months getting food and medicine to those in need may soon get even harder in new york the russian ambassador to the u.n. vaseline a benzema says he's opposed to extending in its current form a security council resolution that allows aid across international borders into syria mr de mistura humanitarian adviser is calling

here in geneva currently only one of the two sides is represented and that's the opposition delegation the government delayed their trip here they will now be here on wednesday the opposition have been meeting here at their hotel with stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy and he said he had some good news about the fighting in syria fighting that could derail these talks yet again i was just informed by a do russian then do it today or to people a meeting there day of russians have their proposals to end a government the effects of the eighty five on is difficult because we were and are very content up on seoul now we need to feel where did it take place but it is not coincidental that they've actually been proposed and he agreed upon just the day of the beginning of this stage further talks will take place between special envoy de mistura and the opposition side in the coming hours and then we expect the syrian government delegation led by their chief negotiator the ambassador who has been here for all of their negotiations ambassador bashar jaffrey to start their talks with mr de

turned things around on the battlefield for assad supposed to bring the syrian government to the geneva table and the saudis created a new opposition group ing to go to the talks out are key players like former leader riyadh his job in a figure is closer to moscow some of which were previously even derived it as a sad stooges a number of western diplomats have told me they're concerned about the way stefan de mistura is handling this process they fear it's becoming russian flavored with a focus on a new constitution and elections rather than on political transition. geneva well meanwhile the united states says it's considering adjustments to how it gives military support to kurdish led forces fighting eisel in northern syria take it considers the kurdish syrian fighters known as white the earth on friday the turkish government said u.s. president donald trump told his counterparts rest of. the supplies to the kurdish groups would hold at the state department such decisions on military support will be based on battlefield requests. not on. we are allies of the us under nato and we have m

syria's opposition is meeting the un mediator stephanie muster in geneva in the eighth round of u.n. sponsored talks to end the civil war discussions are happening as the rebels trying to topple syria's president bashar assad face up to being significantly weakened by a nearly seven years of syrian government fighting syrian government negotiators held talks with de mistura on wednesday let's go to james where is diplomatic editor is covering things from geneva force james what sort of phase are these talks and of stephanie mr a sort of in the middle east got people coming to him from either side how would you describe the the the scope of these talks at the moment while he's trying to create some momentum in this talks process and he's moving pretty quickly in this around he's had for the first time on the second day of the two sides being here in geneva both of them in the building behind me at the same time that hasn't happened since the special envoy lakhdar brahimi some years ago what's called proximity talks the two sides in adjacent rooms the special envoy stefan de mistura sh

some that are here in geneva and they've been joined in their delegation with with members of what's known as the karo platform in the moscow platform i can tell you in the past other opposition members did not like those two groups particularly in the moscow platform who some derided as assad stooges but they're now all together in this new. if the syrian government and the russians though thought that was going to dilute their position on our side they will be disappointed this is what the head of the new negotiating team had to say. we want board blue conditions we are here to condition to to negotiate but i want to go in then you will see action will be the departure of bashar assad from the beginning of transition. and verity is the key issue which has through so many rounds here in geneva been the real stumbling block the future of president assad a man whose family of controlled syria since one nine hundred seventy one side saying he must go the other side saying he must stay james ray's life first their engine even thank you. pope francis as widely expected avoided any direct

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in geneva u.s. vice president mike pence says president trump is actively considering when and how to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem the fence made the comments during an event at israel's mission to the united nations the controversial move is something trump has previously vowed he would do now no country currently has its embassy in jerusalem because the city is not officially recognized as the capital of israel in june trying to sign the waiver to keep the embassy in tel aviv but that's up for renewal in the next two months zimbabwe's new president has opened a three month honesty window for the return of stolen public funds and my sentiment god was says those individuals and companies that have illegally stashed money abroad have until the end of february to give it back when god was sworn in as president on friday and promised to tackle corruption following robert mugabe's thirty seven year. get the ground running and he seems to be doing that to me the boys in the

on its way out as far as we can tell now so how then does that bode for the next round of geneva talks with the opposition and the state that it's in and the syrian government once again as we've seen in the past before negotiations attacking the opposition flagrantly violating these deescalation zones in eastern guta. the dilemma of the political and the moral dilemma is that the people who have used brute force have essentially come out on top in syria this often happens in military conflict specially when you have foreign powers who come in to help the local autocratic regime and they've used tremendous force the russians and the syrian government and others against opposition groups and against civilians in syria so they've retained the incumbency of the assad regime but syria is a country is shattered and it's almost never going to go back to it's certainly never going to go back to its old shape what it means in the short run is that the international community doesn't exist as a credible integrated force that can check this kind of brutal military warfare in the service of polit

a common ground for the whole opposition in order to be able to go in one joint delegation to go to geneva and to start this negotiations with with there is jim there is a huge pressure on all of them actually including from saudi arabia from egypt from the three the three major players here that we all have in saudi arabia which actually have leverage over the. opposition group which has leverage over to cairo egypt which has developed over the cairo group and most she which is very much seeking right now to have this sort of new normal and your. delegation joined delegation to the prison the city and because without that you can't have a political process starting actually within the geneva process so there is going to be huge pressure on these different groups in order to agree on one common ground to start to kick off this geneva process over would you agree with that there is a russian delegation going to this conference in saudi on wednesday is there a huge pressure being placed on the opposition to fall in line. well those are gathering in riyadh. of course not those who are part bu

geneva . meanwhile the u.s. says it's considering adjustments to how it gives military support to kurdish led forces fighting isis and northern syria turkey considers the kurdish seven fighters known as the wife tell us on friday the turkish government said u.s. president donald trump told his counterpart range of five adelong that supplies to the kurdish led groups would hold for the state department now says such decisions on military support will be based on battlefield requirements. woman not all done. we are allies of the us under nato and we have made it clear several times to us with the right method with the right rhetoric that this was not the right thing to do what we were told in response was that they attach a lot of importance to the fight against eisel and as a result they have to assess all options but of course it is not a choice for us to work with these organizations to fight against arsenal it is a necessity they told us but we are having difficulty understanding this since when do you need to

they say they perspire on their flight to geneva because they're angry that the opposition is still saying that assad must go there are some who believe that's not maybe the main reason why they perspire their trip it's also being suggested that you mentioned it that on slaughter in eastern guta that maybe they want to continue that bombardment for a little longer before they come to the negotiating table potentially with a strengthened hand a turkish gold trader charged with conspiring to evade u.s. sanctions against iran will not go on trial in new york this week as that i've dropped out of sight in the two months leading up to shuttle trial prompting turkey's prime minister to suggest he has reached a plea deal with the u.s. authorities zab and then executive of the turkish state owned health bank are charged with doing deals with the iranian government and entities worth hundreds of millions of dollars but he insists the case is being instigated by supporters of the us based religious leader for two leg and then she has more now from washington d.c. . turkish president has tried

life for us there in geneva thank you i still add on al-jazeera reports that britain is moving closer to agreeing on its brakes a divorce deal with the european union. and finally some good news for thousands of tourists stranded on the indonesian resort island of bali. howlers a creeping cold is a bit more of a rush now to north korea and probably hard. as coming out of what is a very cold mass a ground this is not cloud this is effectively frost if you like think of it that way is cold so minus eight is a maximum that if asked to come first day the sun is out it still matters a monastery in sapporo this is called the sea cold cloud it'll produce some snow eventually of the high ground ignore the whole chewing over the lower ground of her colorado leaving behind subzero temperatures in north korea but plus three in beijing where adequate quality is still pretty good which is nice this time of year zero in pyongyang is your max on friday it's about the same part of us looks about the same sapporo and the clouds are still producing snow showers for northern homes to further south in fo

the syrian talks a back on in geneva but only one of the two sides present the syrian opposition of the meeting with the u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura at their hotel in the last few hours here at u.n. headquarters but the syrian government perspire on their trip angry they say some comments by the opposition there are those that believe the real reason for the delay was to allow the syrian military to continue their operations in east and the u.n. special envoy though says he's now received word there will be a cease fire i was just informed by do russian sandu today or to people a meeting that the russians have proposed to end the government effects have to do a sci fi only it's difficult because we were and are very concerned about till now we need to see where they did take place but it is not coincidental that it's actually been proposed and agreed upon just the day of the beginning of this station the syrian government delegation will arrive here on wednesday it's not clear whether they'll have talks straight away the opposition say they want to meet with them face to face a

they say they put spoke on their flight to geneva because they're angry that the opposition is still saying that assad must go there are some move believe that's not made the main reason why they put s'posed trip it's also being suggested that you mentioned it that on slaughter in eastern guta that maybe they want to continue that bombardment for a little longer before they come to the negotiating table potentially with a strengthened hand. a senior hamas official says the group will not give up its weapons which is a key demand of its rival palestinian faction fatah as part of the every conciliation deal under the agreement brokered by egypt hamas is you to hand over the administration of gaza to the palestinian authority on friday has more now from gaza. a senior hamas official told journalists that i must believe in the reconciliation reconciliation between palestine's two main political parties fatah and hamas as well as twelve other political factions it's being brokered by egypt and it's meant to lead to the handover on friday of the administration of the gaza strip from hamas

insisting president bashar assad leave office hariri says everything is on the negotiating table in geneva the trumpet ministration has decided to keep open the palestinian diplomatic office in washington d.c. for now a week ago said the office would be shut because palestinian leaders called for the international criminal court to prosecute israel for illegal settlements the us said that statement was a breach of its laws in response the p.l.o. threatened to cut all communication with washington the functions of the office will be limited for ninety days. bangladesh in myanmar have agreed to ask for u.n. assistance and the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of rangar rights groups have insisted on outside monitors to safeguard the return of the rangar to me and my but the un has expressed concern about the process repatriation is due to start in two months more than six hundred thousand range of fled from violence in rakhine state to bangladesh still ahead on al-jazeera. and many innocent us ahead of sunday's general elections the government says it has reduced dramatically the number

twenty thirteen now as strikes have been intensifying even as more talks are due to start in geneva on tuesday this is a un led process aimed at bringing six years of war in syria to an end as led by the special envoy stefan de mistura his managed to bring the syrian government and opposition to the table in the past but has failed to get any agreement syria's main opposition group behind to go see a sions committee or agency says it will be in geneva and has no preconditions it will have a new person at the helm after former head riyadh he job quit last week that resignation came on the same day president bashar assad made a rare trip out of syria to meet with the russian leader vladimir putin in sochi this will be the eighth round of talks in geneva previous attempts are stalled because of better disagreements mainly over where the assad should stay in power and a trade is a syrian affairs analyst and senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he says he's not surprised by the resumption of airstrikes ahead of the next round of geneva talks. oftentimes when we go