without syria present. oh that's how it's going to be because the internal syrian civil war if not ended but it kind of reached a big turning point and now it's going to be even more mosquera internationalized as the isis has been women they did at least as a quasi state and is a back into being some kind of terrorist organization but there are the into x. outside forces there's reports of turkish armor and troops moving in to province additionally and moving up to the free and. occupied by the kurds will be a conflict there possibly israel has announced that it will not tolerate uranian or his bow our bases being established in syria and can go to war over that with all due respect between it and yahoo and putin and there are the saudis who are right now very much opposed to reigne and also presence in lebanon the and the iranians and syria so there is the outside powers that didn't go away and now since the common enemy of everyone isis is more or less out of the picture as a big force these forces are go

the balance of powers on the ground in syria has drastically began to change if you look back at the previous years in the situation in which the country in the government we're actually in it was diabolical the half of the country was lost it was a it was defeat after defeat of the us plans for intervention and arming rebels and helping them and now you look at the situation it's it's a complete whitewash because yeah you've got one force on the ground in the syrian military which is now continuing to make advances and actually find some sort of military solution in a crisis where you know danny on one thought that was no and done it was possible let me go to a down here because i think it's you know if you look at western mainstream media the united states is crushing isis in syria and there's no mention of you know iran there's no mention of his blog and if it is it's always negative there's very little mention of russia or of course they probably committed human rights violations it's really remarkable how this is being spun in western media go ahead adele yeah it's. laughable ac

sovereign syria whole syria but at the same time we have the pentagon coming out and saying they're not leaving militarily any time soon that is another huge barrier to having some kind of peace process go ahead danny i mean absolutely but if you look at the groups the u.s. is working with and relying on to have their presence in syria and that is the best year for the kurds the kurds actually have quite a consistent recent history of giving back territory to the syrian government and i'm sure that in the wake of what is a quite victorious syrian military in his border and the russians and the iranians the kurds will definitely think twice about keeping some of these areas which will in the future continue to jeopardize the u.s. is its presence within syria i can't see the u.s. having forces in syria for a long time because the if you look at the trajectory of the crisis now and the nature of how the syrian forces were victorious the u.s. really has nothing to leave their troops in for because the majority of terrorism is almost on the way of being defeated and i think the u.s. is just

as the war in syria really almost over syria's president visits russia to thank his allies for their sacrifices they say victory is close and are talking about a political solution how likely is that with a badly divided opposition and rebel areas still bombarded by as strikes this is inside story. i know that i'm oracle welcome to the program he's thanks them for their sacrifices and for saving his country so as president bashar al assad has flown to russia for a few hours to meet his major hussan the kremlin says russia's president told him that the fight against all md groups is close to finishing and once is over finding a peaceful political settlement will be a key is that achievable the opposition has long demanded a future syria without assad but he survived nearly seven years of war and is likely to remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future. we just had a meeting with president vladimir putin and i passed greetings and gratitude to him and to the people of russia for the efforts which russia put in saving our country i particularly emphasized the role of the russian arme

troops are in syria and the living. welcome to sophie shevardnadze the nuclear agreement between iran and the world powers is being thrown into jeopardy by u.s. president donald trump. call as iran preparing itself for a potential throwback to the days of sanctions and confrontation and what will it mean for the already troubled middle east well i ask former foreign minister of the islamic republic. with a miracle struggling to struggle the wrong deal. wrong in saudi. maybe you go against instead you know following every quarter at least you don't find yourself in uncertain waters the standard aiming for the role of regional hegemon can't afford to run the risk of international isolation again and how can it gain the upper hand in the standoff began the state's. punjab attacking a welcome to the show it's a pleasure to have you on our program now president trump has been talking so much about scrapping the iran nuclear deal but now has promised to keep it in place will he want to or negotiated since according to him som

is its presence within syria i can't see the u.s. having forces in syria for a long time because. if you look at the trajectory of the crisis now and the nature of how the syrian forces were victorious the u.s. really has nothing to leave their troops in for because the majority of terrorism is almost on the way of being defeated and i think the u.s. is just doing this just to save face because we discussed donald trump on it from the syrian military airbase which was you know twenty thirty kilometers away from isis so he's not someone who fought terrorism successfully within syria and what they're doing at the moment is just literally attempting to show the world that they have some sort of a symbolic presence because after the russians intervened in september two thousand and fifteen they complete the balance of powers on the ground in syria has drastically begun to change if you look back at the previous years in the situation in which the country and the government were actually end it was diabolical the half of the country was lost it was a it was defeat after defeat after us

mandate to deploy station troops in syria a u.n. security council resolution only authorized sanctions to be used against eisel such as freezing assets or an arms embargo but nowhere is troop deployment to a sovereign country mention the syrian democratic forces one of the groups who the u.s. backs and who happens to be at odds with damascus have welcomed america's long term plan for syria. they have a strategy for decades to come there will be military economic and political agreements in the long term between the leadership of the movement areas and the us administration so while i feel is on its way out all signs point to the pentagon taking an objective former u.s. diplomat jim jett trysts talked to us about washington's seeming reluctance to leave syria even after i still eliminated them any attempt to stay in syria has nothing to do with isis or isis to or to think of the sort u.s. troops are out there legally in the first place unlike iraq where they have been invited in by the government of that country the only resolution t

syria . deprives eisel of a lot of the revenues that i think that that region in that country will remain on stable for the first sea of all future islamic state is one of many groups in that country i mean given that i think that the civil war will continue so i do think that assad's probably the syrian government's power is expanding the country but i don't expect him to have all of the country under wraps because there are still remain you know tens of thousands of prepared to fight against the syrian arab army and its militia staying in the region the spot between iran and saudi arabia has escalated after a missile attack near riyadh airport carried out by who the rebels in yemen iran's president warned saudi arabia on wednesday it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of iran to saudi arabia lay the blame for the missile attack on teheran joe you know the mites in position of the public people more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the iranian people you a

soldiers in syria i think the u.s. is responsible for major war crimes there were bombing in in syria if the fat the problem is is we're not allowed to see what's going on in syria the united states puts a. filter on any news that coming out about there we just heard that there is thirty percent more civilian casualties and that's from a new york times article we don't know the facts but there are thirty times more civilians died in syria in iraq fighting isis then then united swell you know it's to a tie you should be i don't why you should like these you should be thankful to argy because we do report those things ok i'm so proud of this network's coverage of syria. it really blew off the lid of the the pure nonsense that the mainstream was pumping out it was a really disgraceful coverage of the conflict here and i'd like to point out since we're on the topic here. take a look at the mainstream media and you'll never hear that rush it was played an instrumental role and in defeating these terrorists ok you never hear

russia's plan to end the war in syria after six years of fighting is the kremlin now in the diplomatic driver's seat and is the white house taking a backseat this is inside story. it was. it was. jane dutton welcome to the program russia's leader says a new stage has been set for a political solution to the war in syria let me a putin has welcomed the presidents of iran and turkey to map out a strategy for when the fighting stops notably absent from the negotiating table united states how much influence does president donald trump have over putin when it comes to syria and can peace really be achieved with bashar al assad still in power we'll discuss this and more with our guests in a moment but first chalons reports from saatchi in southern russia. the war in syria is nearly over said the three presidents meeting in sochi now it's time to rebuild the shattered country. thinks a plan he's been pushing for weeks now is gaining momentum. i am satisfied by the fact that the presidents of iran and turkey have supported an initiative to hold an all syrian forum a congress of national dialog

and iraq what is the next stage in syria is. going to continue to dominate the country is it going to stand for this bill is position or not russia next month is holding talks in sochi for example to trying to find a diplomatic push but the problem is that iran and russia are one side but in the region for example turkey and a lot of arab states on the other side and washington as well they are supporting the opposition in syria so. it's difficult to see at the moment what that the dramatic solution would look like. a journalist saeed kamali de gun with the guardian in london thank you very much for joining us on our program a version now excitement is starting to build in south korea ahead of next year's chuang winter games the olympic torch arrived in india on today from greece the flame is set to tour the country on a one hundred day two thousand kilometer journey to pee on chang for the opening ceremony in february. after a long journey from grace the olympic flame touched down it into an airport prime minister a knock your

and syria. the international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russians skeleton athletes to the athletes have also been stripped of their winter olympic medals. and disqualified the athletes from violate you know in a properly run world probably so this should not happen let's think of an analogy it's as if in moscow city center for the past several saturday nights that been a high number of driving under the influence of alcohol arrests you would expect that the offenders would be tried individually their cases evaluated and they would be punished accordingly we wouldn't expect that everyone who holds a driving license in moscow to be banned but that is effectively what is being contemplated at the moment he was sentenced by you know was anticipated even has done what is surprising slightest chance to general or no normal rational person could have expected and not because he is guilty but because he was determined to be found guilty even before the first protection witness. s

we saw it in syria. every one of those instances there were both in the united states government, people in the intelligence community that would say this group is only interested in local issues. they're not -- we see no evidence of them planning external attacks. then we were always surprised they went to external attacks. we need to understand that is the nature of these kinds of groups to do this. >> right now, do you see any of these groups having a place to operate from? >> they're a local pockets where they do have sanctions. in all these countries, in syria, in iraq and libya and in yemen, al qaeda and the arab peninsula, still one of those dangerous terrorist groups that we have. >> okay. sal. >> well -- >> the two greatest threats being iran and -- >> sure. on terrorism, i think one of the issues that we do not pay enough attention to is not only that there are groups that iran supports, terrorist groups directly, such as hezbollah or hamas or some of these militias that now exist in iraq, incl

syria. a deprives eisel of a lot of the revenues that it was getting for smuggling oil into turkey into the black market and be it gives that oil back to syria the syrian government control so they can sell it. and oil is a tough thing to as the us found with iraq under saddam hussein it's a tough thing to embargo because everybody's hungry for oil and it's fungible good so it's pretty easy to to sell it even if people are trying to stop you from selling it it's certainly an interesting situation of course oil you bring up the point that that's one of the main reasons why the u.s. is involved in the united states and middle east anyway dave lindorff always interesting to hear thoughts founding editor of the new site this can't be happening thanks for being with us here on our to international. all right switching gears now russia's investigative committee has rejected claims that the country ran an elaborate state sponsored doping program it said the world anti-doping agency had provided no

the eastern part of syria as a lot of syria's oil such as it is from. the for seeable future islamic state is one of many militant groups in that country and given that i think that the civil war will continue so i do think that assad's power of the syrian government's power is expanding throughout the country but i don't expect him to have all of the country under wraps because there are still remain you know tens of thousands of prepared to fight against the syrian army and its militia and are staying in the region between iran and saudi arabia has escalated after a missile attack near the riyadh it was carried out by who the rebels in yemen iran's president is now warning saudi arabia he did so want to wednesday that it will not achieve anything by threatening the might of iran after saudi arabia laid the blame for the missile attack on terror on. you know the might and position of the republic people more powerful than you have been able to do anything against the iranian people you are not strong enough to do that some concern that the ongoing and

on the use of chemical weapons in syria here at the u.n. security council really this is very significant eleven out of fifteen security council members voting in favor of chemical weapons investigations but crucially russia has vetoed it and so now the united nations will no longer investigate the use of chemical weapons in syria so very significant implications to this vote taking place we are waiting to hear from the russian representative and so we expect that to happen and of course al coverage of this u.n. security council vote will continue as we go into the news hour i'll see you in a couple of minutes time stay with al-jazeera. is captivity the only hope for china's panders. ventures deep into the mountains of western china in search of the elusive wildcard. at this time and how does iran. violence and discrimination are all too familiar to many women in india a reality too often reinforced by volatile. but it's leading star is throwing his weight behind the cause. of addictive behavior and using his celebrity to advocate for gende

the kurds the second largest ethnic group in syria to build a new multi-party federal syria where the interests of the kurdish people would be enshrined in fusion allowing kurds to participate in parliament and join the army and all the state institutions. a new constitution for syria is on the horizon russia iran and turkey backing the initiative but what the kurds get out of it is still up for debate. the u.s. has never viewed the syrian democratic forces as partners unfortunately the u.s. has only been using them to which leaves us with the u.s. and its two horses the trade the turks a valuable nato ally will betray the kurds their ace in syria alternatively wait for them to betray the states well it was the turkish foreign minister who said donald trump had promised to cut military aid to the kurds where analysts nicholas davies believes washington athalie i think we have to wait wait and see exactly what this means but at the same time we should be very conscious that most of the so whatever they are saying publicly is not necessarily the whole story there's a lot of holes in tha

we're discussing syria. ok dan let me go back to you in damascus ok we've already talked about the russian rainy and turkish initiative here but let's turn it upside down the other side as it were here saudi arabia are they going to go along with this is israel going to go along with this. think so these are the other obstacles here go ahead danny i completely agree i mean i mean we can we have to separate the israeli interest from the saudi arabian interests but saudi arabia will continue to have it in transition stalled stance towards the crowd. yes and syria as it has done throughout because it's syria for saudi arabia is it's an issue of national security and the huge failures in saudi arabia from policy in syria have actually reflected so negatively on the state that it's now beginning to lash out regionally it's being to lash out in the media if it's even if it's turned a complete you know the arab spring peter if you look at it it was stopped in syria if if they are a spring managed to get rid of the

in sochi putin said their work on syria is producing concrete results. now for you. of course we discussed the syrian issues on the background of the success of terrorism we decided we need to coordinate our efforts to ensure long term certainly of the situation. we need to promote the process of a political. and form of the president of the joint communique was approved to ensure the integrity and sovereignty of the country in syria. well the challenge has been following that media news conference and joins us live now from sochi story we didn't hear that much about syria during the news conference itself but we did get as we've just heard some positive words from putin about syria. you know you're right this is a curious press conference in many ways given that we had been led to believe by. remarks that made in turkey before he came out here to russia and also the the mood music that was coming from the kremlin that this meeting would primarily be about syria will actually when they ended up in the press conference they talked very little about syria or mostly abo

and iraq what is the next stage in syria is. going to continue to dominate the country is it going to stanford split his position or not russia next month is holding talks in sochi for example to trying to find a diplomatic push but the problem is that iran and russia are one side but in the region for example turkey and a lot of arab states are on the other side and washington as well they are supporting the opposition in syria so. it's difficult to see at the moment what that the grandmother solution would look like right journalist saeed kamali de gun with the guardian in london thank you very much for joining us on our program of budget. you're watching t.v. news still to come life for syrian refugees in jordan it is hosting around one and a half million of them we report on the daily struggle facing one teenager and his family. but first a perfect storm is shaping up in equities markets across the globe care how does mine that that's right so mean but it's not a bad storm sowing destruction it's a good storm sweeping across

we're discussing syria . ok dan let me go back to you in damascus ok we've already talked about the russian iranian turkish initiative here but let's turn it upside down the other side as it were here saudi arabia are they going to go. all along with this is israel going to go along with this i don't think so these are the other obstacles here go ahead danny i completely agree i mean it i mean we have to separate the israeli interest from the saudi arabian interests but saudi arabia will continue to have an intransigent start stance towards the crisis in syria as it has done throughout because it's syria for saudi arabia it's an issue of national security and the huge failures in saudi arabia from policy in syria have actually reflected so negatively on the state that it's now beginning to lash out regionally it's being to lash out in the media if it's even. a complete you know the arab spring peter if you look at it it was stopped in syria if if they are spring managed to get rid of the syrian government thi

soldiers to leave the statement from syria's foreign office came a day after u.s. secretary of state quote walking away from syria this right in attacks comes as world leaders agreed to reduce the number of civilian casualties but inside syria people say that another security council meeting with continued to fail to prevent attacks. earlier this year the world reacted in almost unanimous condemnation to the images of suffocating children the u.n. found the assad regime responsible for the chemical attack in qana which killed dozens of people the government denied responsibility and russia questions about the attack itself britain's foreign secretary accused russia for consistently choosing to cover up for the. as the mandate for the un joint investigative mechanism expires the u.s. and russia are presenting rival bids for how to investigate future chemical attacks russia has so far vetoed nine resolutions on syria and more than six years into this war world leaders are still making statements as attacks against civilians continue with impunity some of the job it o

and elections and the fate of syria must be decided by the people of syria not something else that the russian president said moving on to some of the. hello moving on to some of the things that. the iranian president hassan rouhani was saying he said that the three countries are calling on the entire world to help rebuild syria and also to make sure that the refuge. that have been fleeing the war torn country for a year now for years now can finally come back then some of the things that mr erred on said he once again said that the efforts by the three countries need to be stepped up so more things can actually be done together including those to set up an ultimate ceasefire and the forty escalation zones of syria he also paid special attention to coordinating according aiding the efforts by the three countries because of course that requires more meetings more summits on the very highest level and also by other officials as well the leaders were talking about the critical role of the three countries the founding fathers of the past in our process and there was something else very imp

proposal from russia on whether or not to extend and encourage into the use of chemical weapons in syria let's watch abstentions militia. the result of the voting is as follows four votes in favor seven votes against four abstentions. the drug solution has not been adopted into the negative vote of a permanent member of the sorry absolutely you're right. i apologise dr lucian's not be having failed to obtain the required number of both. the floor two doors members of the council who wish to make statements after the vote i need the floor to the representative of egypt. say the rays. going after them tommy got him out and or once again. i must express my deep regret to what has transpired in the council today and that it has transformed transformed from an organ to a maintain peace and security in the world and to media show i want to repeat that are voting today to abstain from voting on both draft resolutions came after strong efforts to. bring closure to the prospective and to renew the ban date and enhanced performance without compromising its independence. we have seen room for conse

has spiraled over whether to extend a chemical weapons probe in syria after moscow for the second time in twenty four hours vetoed a resolution on the issue russia is calling for serious changes to how the joint investigative mechanism operates russia has no interest in finding common ground you have to stop trying to shift the blame on russia and russia has not negotiated with any of us your story is a deliberate attempt to disinform a should russia will not agree to any mechanism extension of the only possible force after all the major deficiencies in its work of. russia's actions today and in recent weeks have been designed to delay to distract and ultimately to defeat the result would have you forgotten how yesterday you killed a j i am russia is wasting our time this is everything happening here looks like some ridiculous principle to me however behind the scenes both ambassadors were caught on camera calmly discussing the situation tensions grew after the investigation issued its final report on the chemical attack in syria's can check you in in april this year the report conclud

is winning in syria you know it's trump isn't winning in syria ok it's others here you know john it's good to go back to it's already been it's been mentioned on this program already it really does look like a general general's foreign policy here if you're in the oval office watching the president or you over the pay and they're given a lot more discretion you know i find that very troubling go ahead john well i think that the remarks that your first guest made and syria were excellent yes there was that bombing which the progress so-called progress of love to focus on the one bombing of the airbase but there was there's also been ceasefires which saved a lot of lives and there's also been a cutoff of cia funding to the jihadi s. that you have to look at to so well you oppose one i oppose that. you've got to support the other you get the same kind of age you know. well i was your guest just said. a few minutes ago well you know and i'm glad i could i can address that here i know i get a involved i get it i could address that it does appear that some of the operations have gone you kn

in this story the week with islamic states on the verge of total collapse in syria russia and its regional allies plans for establishing a lasting peace in the country. unsettling times for germany chancellor merkel as coalition talks break down leaving question marks over her future leader . gain access to russia's most notorious prison and bring you a look at the grueling regimes. in. moscow with the main stories from the past seven days welcome to the weekly on r.t.e. international i'm going to go with the islamic state all but wiped out in syria the prospect of a lasting peace in the country is finally on the horizon russia is attempting to help secure a political solution to the almost seven year long conflict on this week talks with other key regional players. breakstone how things currently stand. it looks like saudi is shaping out as the new platform for dialogue on syria the resort has become the venue for the first major round of talks on the syrian crisis the syrian president bashar assad was here on monday. at this stage especially after victories against terrorism we are of co

thanks brushes air force strikes the last remaining islamic state positions in eastern syria as the terror group self-proclaimed caliphate is all but wiped out in the country. meanwhile the leaders of iran turkey and russia take the chance to try and kick start the syrian peace process and bring to an end almost seven years of conflict. and also to come this hour google admits striking android smartphones even after users of switched off their location setting. i welcome come to you live from moscow you're watching asking international. the russia's defense ministry says its air force has successfully carried out a series of surgical strikes against design mixtape positions in syria it states that fighters ammunition that pose and armored vehicles were destroyed in the attacks they are being carried out to support the syrian military in its push to liberate the remaining eisel held villages in the east of the country and with the terror group self-proclaimed caliphate in tatters the leaders of russia iran and turkey have been meeting to lay the groundwork for a series postwar future eleven

hashemite baron now for an update on the situation in syria he's in gaza and take on the turkey syria border hashem so a push by the syrian army to regain territory in the east what's the latest first on efforts to retake become oblast city under eyeful control on that border between iraq and syria only russia is replicating the scenario that it did in places like iraq which is basically the moment is confronted with isis the start of a massive campaign of strikes to ensure that the defense lines of i still underlie and then the syrian army which is now moving from the east to the town of may at the end is going to pass its campaign by shelling the positions of i still and then move into the heart of the town because of it just a matter of hours before those confrontations started videos on the ground say that dozens of people were killed or killed. during those strikes however this time is different in a book come out it says that the syrian army is going to call today its military operation with the iraqi military which is now in aleppo i said for the time being you sound wish betwe

and syria. the international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russians skeleton athletes two of the athletes have also been stripped of their salt she winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it disqualified the athletes for violating violating anti doping rules at the twenty fourteen games and is cashmore professor of sociology at aston university says there's an atmosphere of fear among russian athletes still hoping to compete. i mean it must be dreadful i can't even get myself into the mind of an athlete to imagine that it's if i prepared for four years maybe longer still waiting for the outcome of the deliberations to know whether i'd be allowed to compete for what is after all a lifetime's goal i mean it's unimaginably difficult for them you know in a properly run world probably so this should not happen let's think of an analogy it's as if in moscow city center for the past several saturday nights the been a high number of driving under the influence of alcohol arrests you w

fighters in northern syria. argentina's president calls for an investigation into the disappearance of a submarine with forty four crew on board plus after years of court fights the u.s. tobacco industry is forced to pay for anti smoking advertisement. egypt launched a military campaign in sinai up to two hundred thirty five people were killed in an attack on a mosque on friday president of the fact that all sisi has promised to respond with what he calls brutal force a bomb was detonated in a mosque in that attack as then. fired on way ship as as they fled on a judge in reports. the bomb and gun attack happened during friday prayers at the other older mosque in bit aboud in egypt's northern sinai peninsula local sources say the attackers planted explosives and then opened fire on worshippers while the sermon was underway. for. oh it looks like it was a. sideline a huge. not really clear motive was i know it's my responsibility yet but it's very possibly and i said they have targeted sudanese in the past in sina

with islamic state essentially driven out of syria now the leaders of iran of turkey and russia move to help reconcile the remaining sides and try to bring an end to this six year long bring up to speed on the. elsewhere a short reversal in lebanon's political crisis says the country's prime minister on his resignation his surprise decision to step in came almost three weeks ago amid regional uncertainty of heightened tensions again. striking android smartphones even when users have switched off their location. there's a backlash over a new children's book in sweden about a horse who claims to be a dog reaction over identifying as transgender and its legal status to gauge reaction again to this controversial issue right now. about trying to. young people who don't feel they fit neatly into the male female role but you have to separate your imagination imply from objective scientific fact and the fact is that your gender or your biological sex is defined by your anatomy and by your program. good morning this is art so you say to moscow this twenty third of november. with you with this

the northern part of syria and the terrorist groups that they believe are. threatening turkish sovereignty so it is in their interest to move closer to the syrian government and to the iranians and also we see the huge progress has been made on the ground and also in iraq things are much better than before the iraqi government has retained sovereignty over the whole country so i think for the syrian people things correct i don't think that i said that all countries suggesting of syria we know that saudi arabia linked to many of these terrorist organization there are really in their local allies they allow them to escape so that they could find fight syrian troops in there and that there are those who are the area and we know the iranians know quite well that the americans have been dealing with isis just as they have been doing so in the past they continue to deal with isis they tolerate isis when isis fights the foes of the united states and they target isis so when isis targets american allies so this sort of hypocritical behavior by the united states if i

and russian presidents on how to end the fighting in syria. a new deadline set for refugees refusing to leave mannus island leave by monday or the police will move in . then he did what you wanted to do to me i lived with a lot of anger and pain and i was crying. fighting back our rape victims in recent democratic republic of congo rediscovering their confidence. but first the u.s. has joined the u.n. in calling for stability in lebanon warning regional powers against using the country's a proxy conflicts prime minister saad hariri resigned suddenly waltz in riyadh last saturday blaming interference from iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah or us actually it's a direct tellus and says there's no legitimate role for what he calls foreign forces militias or armed elements in lebanon they are the harder reports now from beirut. citizens of saudi arabia and its gulf allies visiting or living in lebanon are leaving it's not the first time gulf countries tell their citizens it is not safe to stay lebanon has long been entangled in the saudi iranian

i think that there are mixed signals regarding syria. in the obama administrations i remember one of their official said that bashar al assad was a dead man walking then in this. administration they said that they are not seeking regime change now that they say that such you not play any role in in the future of syria it's really difficult to to to have a conclusion on that but the fact is that the evil is that the united states had in the region as a whole he's a negative one we cannot talk about i mean syria we don't talk about. iraq where we don't vote for a long talk about terrorism but we all know that if the had not taken place i mean the invasion and in one thousand of two thousand and three had not taken place then we might not be in talking about ice's right now and the policies of regime change that the united states and some of their allies were imposing even syria in libya besides i mean. iraq i called seen all these. fragility in the region and this of course turbulence war. the flood of refugees and i think that's something

will be united states pull out of syria the americans have occupied significant portions of syria without the permission of the syrian government this is a violation of state sovereignty there's a lot to do and it's not clear that the americans and their allies are going to help this process move forward or whether they are going to improve competed. google has been caught secretly collecting location data from android phone users even after they had turned off location settings and had no you seem card in their devices and one insisting it is neither stored nor use the information it collected google has nonetheless agreed to stop it expects now your cell phone will often ask you annoying questions like would you like to share your geo location data well if you answer the question no you would assume that your geo data is safe and well it turns out you're wrong cell phones operating on an android are sharing information with google even if you take the sim card out the android phone will start gathering the address is it any nearby cell phone towers i'm stan. not far from one right now.

armed forces there they believe that isis is on the brink of defeat in syria. you know the numbers stand you know they had many fighters when they were fighting and you know the that bodies don't amount to the number of fighters they had in the fields so where did they go they were hiding somewhere in the desert or in the some safe houses. and the. yes you know down from peace and he wants american cities to be safe he wants europe to be safe. but that means engaging the middle east that means addressing the problems of the middle east. if this is true you know the kurds want peace because i've never said in syria at least they want a separate state u.s. involvement is necessary to bring about peace. in syria turkey is involved russia is involved iran is involved easter in euphrates area is basically under control of the kurds and the americans and they should be part of this and the kurds should be invited to the negotiation table and maybe we will have peace in the middle east and i mean in syria. there are millions of syrians outside of syria they would like

to syria's border with iraq that is the group's last urban area in syria. the u.s. president says he's found common ground with the chinese leader over tension on the korean peninsula donald trump is in china where he called on president xi jinping to apply more pressure on pyongyang over its nuclear weapons program he says china could curb the escalating tension quickly and easily we agreed on the need to fully implement all u.n. security council resolutions on north korea and to increase economic pressure until north korea abandons its reckless and dangerous path all responsible nations must join together to stop arming and financing and even trading with. the murderous north korean regime more from our series adrian brown in beijing where president keating ping laid on a very lavish welcoming ceremony for president donald trump outside the great hall of the people china has really been rolling out a very long red carpet for trump inside the two leaders met for several hours the dominant themes of course being trade and north korea afterwards the two men

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