six and a half year war opposition groups and government representatives a jew to meet in geneva but u.n. officials have been unable to confirm that the government delegation is planning to travel is james pace. 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. and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its onslaught in the days and hours before talks judah's start. assad didn't 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 own 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

the geneva convention says his war crimes. that is a serious, serious issue. and the constitution charges the senate to give its advice and consent to senior executive branch nominations.as a check against the appointment of people to important government positions. who, because of one spelling or another should not be entrusted with the interest of the american people. i do not believe that mr. bradberry deserves that public trust. and i will oppose his nomination. and mr. president, i am astonished, i am astonished! that we are here considering the nomination of a person who is in violation of the geneva convention rules of work to which the united states of america is a signatory. some of us remember that mr. bradberry served as the acting head of the department of justice of legal counsel from 2005 until 2009. during this time, he offered a few of what had become infamously known as torture memos. they provide legal justifications of 13 types of enhanced interrogation techniques employed by the cia. four detainees held by the united states under law of war authorities. the ter

talks differ from the ones in geneva or a stunner. actually they are not so much defer because this congress of national unity of syrian people is actually adding to the geneva talks because according to the plan as russian president vladimir putin sat russia is suggesting that in this conference all the parties are also well the official. representatives as well as all the opposition groups or their representatives will take part because that will be that should be a truly representative for congress and the decisions which we'll be discussing discussed during this congress should actually add the value to the geneva talks fell the geneva talks because the congress is going to be on the fourth of december after the geneva talks resumption in the end of november but i think there will be are there geneva talks all that should be adding value western diplomats the fear that putin has decided in effect to bypass the the deadlocked u.n. syrian peace process in in geneva has he no no actually he doesn't he doesn't one with them doesn't want to bypass the geneva talks begin to rush actua

syria and geneva also predictions of an imminent major eruption raised bali's volcano alert to the highest level. now protests in pakistan a dispersing from the sit in on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many though a sitting around for celebrations. they've been demanding zahid hommage step down over the side of the wording of the column entry bill which they describe as blasphemous the demonstrations gradually spread to towns and cities across to his son has more from islamabad. this is the epicenter of a protest start began praying to tour de gaulle where did the board start and by the government security forces deployed to protest that intersection called fred. that changed everything the writing then spread across the country forcing the lawmen are starved or dying but if you know tens of thousands of supporters are now gathering at this point which will be remembered for a long time to come and ignored the law minister already paid the price but did it no kidding predicted against the country doing a minister who

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 destroyed for the past seven years so we need unity government. we will get jo

moscow 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 as fear grows for the forty four crew. zimbabwe is about to get its first new president in thirty seven years in the next . mornin god will be sworn in and thousands of people are pouring into the national sports stadium to witness the historic event as several african leaders expectations are high that men on god will be able to turn the country's fortunes around most zimbabweans of any known life under robert mugabe's rule. i think they change. because there we received a new president i think you will be able to change everything. but as for me i wish to. rule this country i think it was paid for me i think he swore the same was. change. 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 we're going to get troops. shortly we'll get more from ou

round of geneva talks aimed at ending the conflict but even though the talks are set to begin imminently the u.n. says it's yet to receive confirmation that the government delegation will be there osama bin job it has been speaking to people in three areas of syria to ask them about their expectations from the geneva talks. 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. people are trying to come back and resume their lives but when it comes to talks in geneva they're 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 but. 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 not russia or iran. we hope this round could be a new beginning because of the majo

while a sense of the laws and customs of war and grave breaches of the geneva conventions other side judgments if you would in may two thousand and thirteen comprises over two thousand six hundred pages there are more than ten thousand pages of material presented to the court more than three hundred witnesses were released into the court that this is the case that we've reached the discourse is going to fall. on top of it thank you so much for that update from the hague appreciate it. hugo shooters in geneva are waiting for the syrian government delegation to arrive and join the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war syrian and russian warplanes had spent the days leading up to the talks bombarding rebel held areas near damascus from geneva 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 bombardmen

more people where in geneva and in syria. also predictions of an imminent major eruption raise bali's volcano alert to the highest level. and with all the sports news as australia thrash england by ten wickets to take a one zero lead in the ashes cricket series there are more later in the program. but france protests in pakistan are now dispersing from the city and on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many they're sticking around to celebrate. they were demanding step down or be sacked over the wording of a parliamentary bill which they describe as blasphemous the demonstrations gradually spread to towns and cities right across the country let's go live now to our correspondent zain verjee in the capital islamabad so tell us more about this movement that managed to bring many parts of pakistan to a halt and ultimately when they got there the scope of the minister. the group is called. to the law it is a relatively new political group definitely on the fringes of mainstream politics for for many years and it is new to

cease fire. after days of heavy bombardment it came at the start of a round of talks in geneva to try to find a way of ending the violence our diplomatic editor james bays reports from. the syria talks in geneva 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 which has been involved in a major intensification in eastern. 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 were supposed to be because well it was just informed by the russian then do it today or to people a meeting that the russians have proposed to end a government they've accepted a defiant is difficult because we were and are very content up till now we need to feel where they did take place but if not coincidentally that they've actually been proposed to end their greed upon just the day on the beginning of this stage. there is tension within the opposition camp two groups the karo platform in the moscow platf

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 we have connected thousands of schools and millions of bloom t

negotiate all this comes as the next round of u.n. but talks are due to begin in geneva on tuesday another process has been running in the cousin capital as stana the latest round of talks between opposition groups and government representatives i should do for early next month the major outcome from them has been the creation of four so-called deescalation zones inside syria where monitor khouri is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university he says the agreement in russia raises complications for the talks in geneva. the question we should ask is what influence or what the real power mr de mistura has in bringing twistin some all the possibility towards at the same time we have the or the it becomes like a precondition step before geneva at the same time and the other question that we also should we should also entertain is how far the russians the turks and the iranians are helping the geneva 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 wh

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 relays messages we understand that that is how

here it is have arrived in geneva to join the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war the us government initially refused to confirm it would attend the government was angry opposition wanted to talk about bashar al assad's removal as syrian president something that it says is off the table to get more or less now from james space in geneva who has been following this for so so james what more on the meetings that are taking place today. well the first meeting with the government involved is taking place right now it's a courtesy call this is the same thing the u.n. special envoy did earlier with the opposition he's gone to the government's hotel which is close here to the u.n. headquarters and i think if it's anything like his meeting with the opposition side this will be welcoming them to geneva and setting out his plan for how he's going to proceed and his agenda now what's not clear is whether the government side will be late to having a formal meeting with him here at u.n. headquarters in geneva we were told that's a possibility in the next few hours starting this proces

and direct negotiations with the government to un backed talks in geneva but the government is a failed for arrive prompting fears that attempts to find a diplomatic solution to this conflict could be sorted once more diplomatic editor james bays reports. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually crossing the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province he's on 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 fellowmen of envelopment assad didn't 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 staff earned him a store condemn the violence he noted that the syrian government had perspire its travel to geneva but he said they needed to attend b

negotiate you've got as we say the next round of u.n. back to talks to begin in geneva that's tuesday and also in the cars like the capital the latest round of talks between opposition groups and government representatives scheduled for early next month the major outcome there has been the creation of the four so-called deescalation zones inside syria mohamad chatah is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university we spoke to him on the news he said the agreements in russia actually raises complications for the geneva tolls. the question we should ask is what influence or what the real power mr de mistura has in bringing an twistin some using all the possibility towards the same time we have. or the meeting that becomes like a precondition step before geneva at the same time and the other question that we also should we should also entertain is how far the russians the turks and the iranians are helping the geneva process so unfortunately the geneva process is. being challenged more and more because we have a major crisis within one we have the political crisis about syria

round of u.n. sponsored talks in geneva which appear to be in trouble already. people fleeing poverty and war in africa ending up sold as slaves in libya we examine the details in the horror of the twenty first century slavery. pope francis arrives in myanmar's capital where he will meet the country's leader aung sang suu kyi with all the focus on the range of crisis i'm tatiana sanchez with all the sports new thing clipping the one hand. vast three other plane crash that killed team players and staff of brazilian football team capital entities house later in the program. has been sworn in for a second term and final term as kenya's president the inauguration ceremony follows four months of often violent political upheaval the left more than fifty people dead opposition leader royler a day has vowed to fight on against kenyatta's presidency. i will protect and not the sole rinty the sovereignity integrity integrity and the dignity of the people of kenya and dignity of the people of kenya so help me god for help. so how did we get here well who can ya to was declared the winner of the

must be for sure the geneva process now here's how the russian president vladimir putin described the decision take a listen. it's a vision that lets you imagine of the sofa it's a very crucial document because we see it for some principle things firstly we continue to fight against terrorism in syria it's important for the whole international community that we continue to apply joint if it's of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the suffering of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over we'll start the political process under the auspices of the united nations. now we have two correspondents to explain these latest developments in the syria conflict osama bin job it is in guys on the turkey syria border but first says go to worry china in the russian capital moscow. how big of a diplomatic breakthrough is this you know this agreement from the russian perspective what does this mean well i think from the russian perspective the breakthrough is that they have donald trump essentially swinging rounds even more so than he was doing already the

represent them at next week's talks in geneva calls for president bashar assad to go have been renewed but he's stepping down will not be a precondition for negotiations the man accused of planning the two thousand and eight attacks has been released from house arrest how few said walked free from a pakistani court rejected the government's plea to extend his detention by three months say it is found of a banned group has been under house arrest in the horse and january he's expected to lead prayers late on friday a large following in pakistan mostly because of his charitable work. relatives of forty four crewmembers of a missing submarine are accusing the argentinean government of deliberately keeping them in the dark they were emotional scenes at the model plots at naval base after it was revealed that a likely explosion was detected near the last known location of the outer san juan vessel hasn't been found some family members say the government that the crew operate a submarine that was too old to navigate. those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story. yo

gather in geneva a video has emerged of syrian government jets continuing their bombing of eastern huta on the outskirts of the capital damascus three people died in the air strikes on tuesday at least nineteen were killed in separate air strikes earlier the rebel area has come under heavy bombardment in the last forty eight hours and the united nations saying the asset government has now agreed to a cease fire in the area on diplomatic and to james bays is in geneva and i asked the u.n. special envoy to syria about that ceasefire for eastern ghouta he sent us this update. 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 governme

opposition delegations in geneva this is the eighth round of the united nations sponsored talks to end the civil war the opposition is still demanding the departure of syrian president bashar assad but they are significantly weakened after nearly seven years of fighting diplomatic editor james bays reports from geneva the syria talks have reached a new phase at u.n. 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 we have what we call. me that means the two sides in separate but adjacent rooms with mr de mistura quite literally the go between i've been shuttling with my colleagues between the two rooms which basically were five meters away while we were actually reading and discussing with both issues which we can see that very important it is though far from a breakthrough there are 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 discerni

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 is no religious

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 but this was no safe zone. they were

negotiate with the next round of un back talks due to begin in geneva on tuesday as well and another process has been running in a capitol latest round of talks between opposition groups and government representatives are scheduled for early next month the major out convert from those has been the creation of the four so-called deescalation zones inside syria so let's try to. tireless together with mohamed who is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university joining us here in doha forgive me i was getting confused with what the director was saying in my ear as i read through all of those things i thought this many process is ongoing is there a way to pull them all together because they're all achieving and i use that word loosely different things one. dynamic several shifts on various fronts for example the russians have decided to minimize or decrease their military presence in syria so as they are going to work with one. naval. force. base i mean could be considered. however this reduction in the military dynamics doesn't mean that there is less involvement i think

opposition delegations in geneva is the eighth round of united nations sponsored talks to end the civil war the opposition is still demanding the departure of syrian president bashar al assad but they're facing up to being significantly weakened the navy seven years of fighting on diplomatic head as a giant space has this report from geneva. the syria talks have reached a new phase at u.n. 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 hom

war is in its last moments now. 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 hea

had perspire own 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 a commitment to break that imputing when they met in thought she that meeting part of intense diplomacy in recent weeks the russians who. 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 syri

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 to towards negotiatio

talks in geneva next week he succeeds riyadh he job who resigned last week the group is insisting president bashar al assad leave office he really says everything is on the negotiating table in geneva. the troubled ministration is the size of keep open the palestinian diplomatic office in washington d.c. for now a week ago it said the office would be shot 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 well leaders are urging zimbabwe's new president to make good on his promise of reengaging with the international community and bringing in economic reforms emerson moon was sworn in on friday ending thirty seven years of robert mugabe's rule for me the miller reports from harare. a new and of holding democracy is how innocent men are god was described his ascent to power even if it took military intervention to end robert mugabe's

heavy bombardment in the past forty eight hours ahead of the eighth round of geneva talks to try to end the conflict talks were meant to begin on choose day with the government delegation has said it won't arrive until wednesday or diplomatic edison james beings is in geneva. 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 coincid

see it is are in geneva for the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war opposition delegates met the un special envoy for syria stuff and i'm stuart on tuesday straight our diplomatic editor james bays in geneva so james how have those initial meetings with mr or gone well i think there is some disagreement about what they should be focusing on you go back to december twenty fifth to find the mandate for all of this the so-called road map for syria and that's the u.n. security council resolution twenty two fifty four that talks about political transition and then a new constitution and elections for syria well mr de mistura is focusing on the latter parts of that constitution in the elections and not really on the political transition the spokesperson for the go sating team believes that was the demon story has been influenced by the russians it can be a road that well this stew ation he is supporting is not is against the syrian people and this is this is the best prescription for his family. and we believe that russia. has a power with real influence military in syria. is i

than a little sparkle brightening up the november gloom in geneva this week. some of the world's rarest and most valuable gemstones are up for auction, they all command multi million dollar price tags, but there is one particular diamond which is attracting special attention — and it goes under the hammer tonight. imogen foulkes has been along to have a look. there is more than a little sparkle in geneva this dull november. every year the jewellery houses compete to show that one special stone the rarest, the purest, the most vivid. but this year there is one extraordinary showstopper. that is 163 carats. this is the largest diamond ever to be put up for auction. to show it at its best, or maybe to make sure potential buyers don't mistake it for an ice cube, it has been set into a string of emeralds. 59119 of them. add to that, 862 diamonds on the other side and this piece makes all sorts of records. but there is one especially important number everybody wants to know. how much? we expect to in the region of $30 million for it. it is the largest flawless diamond ever to come to

bashar assad to take an active part in the geneva political process trump said he reached the agreement very quickly challenge has more from moscow. in his press conference in vietnam flooded my piece and said that the reason this agreement had been reached for the united states this statements which was put out is that the fight against isis in syria is coming to an end the hotbed of terrorists as he put it in syria is being defeated in the important thing now is to finish that job then the circumstances will be right for moving ahead with the geneva peace process but there are a few questions left hanging in the air about all of this one is why was it the kremlin that puts out this statement a full six or seven hours before the u.s. state department released its version why did stunnel trump say that this or agreements have been reached between him and police in very quickly when we know that actually added been bashed around for many days now by rex ellison and sergei lavrov why does it also break no real new ground or the commitments that we have in this statement the comm

from geneva sir thank you for joining us welcome to al-jazeera now libya has been a state of the survey for what six years now a bit more since gadhafi fell the slave trade itself is nothing new but what changes are you see in the past months or so what examples can you give us how do you think the nature of the slave trade in libya is changing. well i mean i think what you're saying is human trafficking is nothing new and it's happening worldwide including in developed countries nothing new about that what's new and what shocking about libya is we have slave auction something we thought had been banished from the face of the earth two hundred years ago so you have effectively opened slave auctions which have been filmed and which have been recorded and which have now been spread around the social media and this clearly you know the selling of human beings is not new to libya but the auction is a pretty low base and what do you think has changed to create that situation for it to come out in the open in such an obvious way because there's a couple of things one is the the the cri

negotiations committee and un backed talks in geneva next week he succeeds riyadh he job he resigned last week the group is 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-

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 are having saudi arabia which actually have leverage over the. opposition group it cairo 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 norm and you. delegation joined delegation to the bridge in 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 of what you would you broadly 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 but part of the opposition that's more was c

latest round of un backed talks in geneva appear to have been delayed they're still waiting for the government delegation to arrive james bays though is already there. the word is that this is probably not going to start on time in the past we've had the opposition of taken days to get here to get to geneva because they had last minute negotiations among themselves this time the opposition some of them already here others are flying in in the next few hours it's actually the syrian government's side that is not it seems going to be here the start of talks on tuesday here in geneva 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 weapon

which says it refuses to discuss the future of syria outside of the un's geneva framework at an opposition conference beginning in the saudi capital riyadh early indications are that groups will keep their insistence asaad must go despite pressure to compromise with his plan for a congress of national dialogue russia seems keen to shake the political future of syria much like it's already shapes the conflict if putin successful this will be to the benefits of his ally asaad and yet again the dreams of the opposition will suffer. al-jazeera. let's not get the thoughts of our guests joining us in moscow pavel felgenhauer he's a russia defense and foreign policy analyst in oxford samuel romani pacey candidates at the university of oxford samuel is a specialist in russian middle east of says and is a regular contributor to the diplomats and washington post and via skype in rome but i'm audie ambassador of the syrian national coalition to italy a very warm welcome to the three of you imadi russia's plan kind of where you like it they were using the plan of russia actually to change m

because there's been prosecuted and convicted for not respecting the geneva conventions conventions not because he behaved this soldiers the prosecution is now considering whether to appeal the only charge but that it has been found not guilty of a charge of genocide over ethnic purges carried out of bosnian towns and villages laddish his defense team also intends to launch an appeal against the remaining ten guilty verdicts it's been a long and complex trial with thousands of witnesses and pieces of evidence right couple adage defiant to the bitter end when our spend the rest of his life in jail . or al-jazeera the hague. russia iran and turkey have agreed to support a syrian people's congress bringing together government and opposition representatives speaking at talks in the black sea resort of sochi president vladimir putin said he believed the new sanctions been reached in the syrian crisis but he warned that achieving a political solution would require compromises from all sides russia and iran are major allies of syria's president bashar al assad who made a surprise visit to such