meeting in the former russia iran i said by jan. in the russia. we have in past into parliamentary exchanges connections between the regions of the two countries and and are developing the contacts. between the corresponding ministries including of course the foreign ministries where interested to further promote our relations in all those years and being external political one of the priorities is that fair the combination of efforts on fighting terrorist threat including. law enforcement. and also we call parade. to ensure the interests of the citizens of russia and iran. who are in the territory so each other. we have a good relations of trade investment corporation of course or of course some illegitimate sanctions they hamper it which the united states unilaterally. bypassing the u.n. security council to introduce and say and. we confer here as. to promote our economic cooperation and to look for if in fact he wastes which. would be under the power of this in an acceptable illegitimate american the restrictions. would have good. prospects. co

the roots of today's tensions can be found in russia's recent history. presidents gorbachev and reagan start of the process of dismantling the iron curtain. me as office and as you say i don't see any threat for us from the west for the troops withdrew from east to the europe peacefully they were dismantling their own them by it. was the end of the cold war years of isolation and separation from the west were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party soviet system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. or i'm glad that all men are the one in on their i gin steve. stockton come behind of walsh that option which. is going yeah because of dollars at last you see gosh. this one nurse says. anything near city or similar simply things that does

want russia cuba iran out of venezuela but in the past russia has already answered back saying that in order for russia to leave venezuela them the united states will have to leave syria first and most definitely russia is talking about the possibility of some type of dialogue that includes countries like euro why mexico that have been in a way outside the group the thirteenth of the countries involved including the united states countries like brazil and argentina that have been pushing for a changing government here in venezuela the possibilities right now for a dialogue are almost nonexistent especially because of the stance of the united states and all of it as well and oppositions so what's in for russia in all of this russia has been a crucial supporter since the government of chavez already back in the year two thousand and two after there was an attempt to who were against what chavez mostly by the opposition but also supported by the united states russia has slowly become a strategic ally for venezuela they're involved in all of truck to projects here in venezuela building two

that in russia and also having these discussions. about what happened during the $2016.00 elections russia stays with its stance that its all fiction there was no interference despite the fact that dozens of russians and also russian companies have been indicted through the model report because of this interference they say they still insist that didn't happen but. the district commitment for 2020 so it can't happen again even though he insisted on that last for 4 was not very clear on how much he can commit to that basically just sat we've been asking about a communication dialogue about this cyberspace incident for quite a while and americans never really wanted to listen interesting also i think despite the fact there was no much common ground on iran on venezuela on syria seems to be some common ground on the arms control race after the collapse of the i am i and our nuclear treaty the intermediate nuclear forces treaty which basically collapsed half a year ago when donald trump. now said he was going to step out of it there's on

is reacting and russia is standing by every step of the way how will trading between iran and russia impact all the rhetoric that is coming out of washington d.c. they will obviously be watching moscow very closely. well the first thing which we need to keep in mind is that trades are not big between the russia and iran is not that big so keeping trade ties and economy changes between russia and iran won't help iran as much as they keep you know trading with the europeans which. way larger partners trade partners for for iran so in this matter russia is just trying to side with iran and actually agree is i mean repeatedly it's rhetorical or always european partners who can't deliver on their promises to stick to the deal in terms of. the next step forward if everybody is entrenched in their positions is this now a case as we spoke to previous analysts in the last twenty four hours here on al-jazeera that there needs to be some. conversation between very senior levels of government you know president the president president and prime ministers is this something now that vladimir putin

should stop supporting me and russia they don't want to do that they said you can't force the mosque and democracy can be forced on the actually mentioned rock and the libya as an example but he also had some positive remarks here we have many differences but what that the fact that we talk about it will go on discussing this situation of course it gives us some hope that some agreements. maybe. well actually this is the positive outcome of this whole meeting all together the fact that the 2 countries are talking again and one of the main issues that is still on the table arms control of the united states fold out of this very important i am after nuclear treaty and now there's only one treaty between the 2 superpowers which will expire next year so the fact that today that he is considering the united states is considering to extend that very important treaty and that there will be a dialogue held in the next coming weeks about this is also a positive effect of this meeting. reporting from. iran's supreme leader ali how many has ruled out negotiation with washington over its nuclear

of us russia all knowledge easy. hello again i'm the star a reminder of the news this hour at least 6 civilians have been killed in saudi u.a.e. coalition air strikes in and around yemen's capital sana residential neighborhoods were bombed the coalition insists the targets are truthy military positions. talks between sudan's opposition and the military council have been suspended for 3 days this follows an increase in violence they're trying to decide who should head up the council that will oversee the transition. and egypt's military says it killed a $47.00 gunmen and raids across north and central sinai it also says 5 of its soldiers were killed in the operation the army has destroyed shelters and confiscated tons of drugs. china has vowed to defend its companies after a u.s. government decision to place while way and 70 of its affiliates on a trade blacklist washington believes equipment produced by the chinese company could be used for espionage huawei has repeatedly denied the allegations brown reports from a t

last september russia and syria say the military campaign is against those so-called radical groups but those fighters are embedded among the civilian population russia has accused turkey of not fulfilling its commitment to clear a demilitarized zone from the so-called radical groups and open highways that link cities held by the government but turkish officials argue a war with them and other armed groups will only endanger the lives of civilians and has been trying to push for a negotiated solution. now the syrian army and its allies are trying to forcibly dislodge them at least from the hammock countryside and a few kilometers into an area that was supposed to be a buffer zone the army hasn't announced the scope of its operations but there is no indication it involves recapturing the entire province especially since turkey continues to have a military presence there and still maintain a strong alliance with russia so they know increased fighting in what is supposed to be de-militarized in the region is covered by a by a truce which was brokered by the russians what are all sides

russia and the u.s. are also on opposite sides of the crisis in venezuela don't pay you urged moscow to stop supporting nicolas maduro russian foreign minister sergei laugh of replied democracy can be implemented by force and research with missiles or social we are threats from both the official representatives of the us administration and from mr quite though who constantly talks about his right to invite an armed intervention from abroad this has nothing to do with democracy. this by their 1st high level meeting in months the united states and russia are struggling to find common ground while no progress has been made to find solutions on a crisis in iran and venezuela or a new dialogue on arms control shows that their relationship has somewhat improved after the collapse of the intermediate nuclear forces treaty earlier this year the superpowers now aim to start a new discussion on arms control because as both laugh off and pompei o pointed out if the u.s. and russia don't get along the world will fee

president treasure time or to the un was also careful not to mention russia's role in the violence in northwest syria he accused the syrian government instead of seeking to sabotage turkey's relations with russia the 2 countries don't just cooperate in syria. turkey is increasingly reliant on russia for its energy needs they also have an important economic relationship and the kremlin's expanding influence in the middle east is a reality so it is difficult for turkey to walk away from a now lions that secures its interests in syria and gives it a say in its neighbors future. it live gives turkey political leverage but the offensive around the province is unlikely to break its alliance with moscow. smart or. you know. interest or i think it was. in. turkish officials say a working group with russia on northwest syria will could be 2 and it didn't give more details but the offensive continues dozens of civilians have been killed and nearly 200000 displaced many more remain trapped not just in a war zone but in a geo political struggle. the route. the venezuelan government's been holding

iran is the second largest oil supplier to turkey after russia turkey has energy rich neighbors but no reserves of its own so is dependent on oil and gas imports that leaves the turkish call me while noble to rises in energy prices the value of the turkish lira has fallen at least forty percent in the past year and could fall further because of concerns about all supply to keep the troubled economy running. human you have many troubles just like the israeli lobby before the twenty twenty a lick should sound like he gave golan heights and jerusalem told him otherwise it has nothing to do with national security around complies with the nuclear deal but they want to contain iran for israel safety if turkey can't buy oil from iran sourcing alternative supplies from the united arab emirates or saudi arabia is difficult the turkish government is a leading saudi quit it following the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the kingdom sconce late in a stumble last year and relations with the u.a.e. are strained since turkish police arrested two arabs who confessed to be spying for their mura

comments he is expected to meet russia's foreign minister in finland this week. i'm going to meet with foreign minister lavrov in a couple of days we'll have more conversations about this the objective was very clear we want the iranians we want the russians we want the cubans out that's also what has to take place in order for venezuelan democracy to be restarted but then russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov hit back with this response. to this we now see an unprecedented campaign led by the united states in order to overthrow the legitimate venezuelan government we condemn this campaign which seriously violates all the principles of international law provided by the united nations statute. and as the war of words between the u.s. and russia plays out over venezuela opposition supporters have gathered in the capital caracas to hold a vigil for those killed in fact these are live pictures of that future. again a vigil for those killed in the ongoing efforts to overthrow president in the last matilda. pope francis is being urged by campaigners to return to his

and 24 detained sailors russia sees. korean vessels and crew last november in waters off the crimean peninsula during a standoff at the care streets reeling for the hearing of the international tribunals for the law of the sea in hamburg well dominic cain has been following that hearing he brings us more now from hamburger dominic does this verdict come as a surprise it's all. well the point to make here is that in a document measuring 32 pages a session that lasted 45 minutes the court basically went through all the details of the case that it had been able to compile from the ukrainian sides which was much information from many lawyers and then from some written submissions by the russian federation the russian representatives the point to make here there were no russian representatives in this court at any point the russians have been ignoring this hearing perhaps because they might have anticipated what's actually spelled out here the court has come down heavily in the favor of the ukrainian side and said as you said

russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president donald trump wants to repair relations between washington and moscow flavor putin is holding talks with michael pale in saatchi's let's go live to step vasant who is there for us says so what do we know about the talks going on between putin and. well after all matt with a laugh of russian foreign minister he had a meeting with vladimir putin and indeed putin sat that he hopes that there's now a changing situation as he described it between the united states and russia he mentioned that the report he considered it as objective had concluded that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia so basically this sort of clears the sky for a future relationship a better relationship between the united states and russia but of course the talks also between the 2 foreign ministers but also with putin still dominated by the differences between the 2 countries the 2 superpowers but they have decided that for basically world peace it's

just around the caucuses which will become more widespread as we go through sunday george or i mean russia by john could see some showers or longer spells of run out of my hands shouldn't be too bad around 24 degrees celsius 2425 therefore by right lovely sunshine here 1st time in around 27 again and he has sunshine. more hazy just around the eastern side of saudi arabia a little bit of cloud coming through here for saturday that clash a little more widespread as we go on into sunday keeney and lifted doesn't sound a possibility here in don't be surprised if you see a spouse or 2 of light rain coming through as well the course of sunday off maybe nothing much to speak of nothing much to speak of to in the way of rainfall across southern africa jealous of want to showers into central and northern parts of nice and big the west the weather is pushing its way further north so more showers there the east in tanzania. becoming a living legend to the young age was simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clout the piece to the ivory coast. hosted by eric canton

and russia have traded accusations over the crisis in venezuela might pompei or urged russia to stop intervening was. called u.s. support to overthrow president nicolas maduro illegal those are the headlines risking it all is next. university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study. investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrees. around the world just zero. for many in the west african country of guinea life can be quite a struggle. a quarter of the country is covered in forest and the government has neglected roads and basic services. constant delays paralyze the nation's economy. and yet guinea is a rich country rich on gold and diamonds. but most canadians never see the benefit. of. the monk in his office today on his assistant was transformed. sins in record time from the capital conakry to kissa dugu on the other side of the country so we're going to know. guinea is still plagued by serious diseases like polio diphtheria and rabies. the pharmacies primary concern is delivering the vaccines to where they're needed before the climate spoils the

in russia in turkish officials say a working group with russia on northwest syria will convene soon it didn't give more details but the offensive continues dozens of civilians have been killed and nearly 200000 displaced many more remain trapped not just in a war zone but in a geo political struggle senator beirut amnesty international says it has evidence that walk crimes may have been committed in libya the rights group says unlawful rocket attacks against civilians have been launched on tripoli where warde hollister have to as waged a 6 week long offensive after is trying to take the capital from the un recognized government amnesty is calling for an international investigation into the attacks. sudanese opposition groups have called a decision by the military to suspend talks on a transfer of power a regrettable setback talks were postponed after gunfire broke out at the main protest site in the capital on wednesday the military described the atmosphere in khartoum as unsuitable to reach an agreement and school on protesters to remove road blocks which means set up throughout the c

russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses president trump wants to repair relations between washington and moscow let it be putin has been holding talks with like pump a 0 in sochi earlier peo met his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and said that the u.s. doesn't want war with iran step fasten is in sochi for us. very rare but very important meetings here in sochi between my compare and the russian foreign minister and after that with vladimir putin basically the leaders now want to improve the relationship which has been very bad between the united states and russia and one of the reasons that they can do this is because the report has basically officially cleared the collision allegations that were made between the campaign and the russian authorities put inside that that was an objective investigation and basically now it sort of clears the way to have an order changing situation between the 2 nations as he described it but then there's of course all these differences that the 2 superpow

and russia traded accusations over the crisis in venezuela my pompei are urging russia to stop intervening. called u.s. support to overthrow president nicolas maduro illegal under international law those are the headlines one on one east does next. on council because this week trump gambles the world economy all shutting down iran's ability to sell oil. indestructible phone screen of chinese tech giants of the f.b.i. stick. we'll talk to the inventor who suspects his technology to store the counting the cost on al-jazeera. getting a university degree with ask any study or exams sounds too good to be true can be appointed a new term university to serve this guy and actually like it or not hundreds of thousands of people have fallen for pledges like this from fighting in online universities do you think these people are ready by these people if at all and i want to want to investigates the pakistani company allegedly pulling the strings behind the scam and the lengths they will go survey to keep the money flowing success case the best never end. up. getting a degree isn't a z. . for most stu

damascus has another oil rich ally russia but politics seem to be play. rather at the moment and i will sure is not assisting the syrian government with fuel oil i think russia is using this to put pressure on the syrian government and it's. russia wants the writings and so the political military and security decisions in syria come from the kremlin. syria has just granted russia control of the main strategic commercial port in the mediterranean for the next forty nine years it appears russia is replacing iran as syria's main oil supplier but it's not just losing leverage in the energy sector iran's financial difficulties makes it harder for it to remain serious economic lifeline the sanctions are affecting its ability to expand its economic influence u.s. thanks sions on iran have worked in russia's favor it no longer has to compete with her on over the economic benefits in post-war syria also the sanctions contain iran's influence and weakens its footprint making it easier for moscow to convince gulf arab countries and the west to reintegrate the syrian

now last september russia and turkey reached an agreement to reduce hostilities in italy but since then an armed group formally allied with big parts of the area triggering the regime's latest offensive is in a hole to reports. the intensity of strikes like these is increasing and so is the number of civilians killed across southern adlib and northern how russian and syrian jets are carrying out more than 100 raids a day. and most are hitting crowded residential areas marketplaces are reduced to rubble hospitals clinics and schools have been. destroyed in the offensive in northwest syria that is entering its 2nd month thank god the law but. many civilians have been killed the planes of return to hit model to norman the people are panicking afraid opposition activists are accusing the government and its allies of using internationally banned weapons like cluster bombs and white phosphorous they say it is part of a strategy to depopulate a belt of territory on the southern edges of province to secure to international wrote more than 200000 syrians have moved north towards turkey's borders

turkey is increasingly reliant on russia for its. power just to cut into that report says head back to the us house foreign affairs committee we had to guess fiance of murdered saudi journalist jim marcus shoji is addressing the forum let's listen and me at this hearing i am not going to read my false statement today but i will provide a short summary. i am apologies there we have this is not had these changes this is the representative weaker journalist who is addressing that foreign affairs committee we are expecting. fiance to be up next but for now just we are standing by to take that testimony from the us house foreign affairs committee special hearing on the dangers of reporting on human rights to stay with us. excusing. it serves. no it's the 2nd last day of campaigning for the 7th and final leg of india's parliamentary elections the election commission or the campaigning in the west state of west bank will be wrapped up a day early after violence at a rally on cheese day when 100 people are eligible to vote over a 6 week peri

a un maritime tribunals has ruled russia must release ukrainian sailors and ships it sees near crimea last year for more on that we can cross over to my european broadcast center. yes that's right $24.00 ukrainian sailors and 3 ships for all captured by russia this was in november during a standoff in waters off the crimean peninsula the maritime tribunals called on moscow to facilitate their release immediately and urged both sides not to aggravate the disputes but russia didn't even attend the hearing there is dominant cain has more now from hamburg several of the country's sailors and ships have been held by russia since last november so on saturday ukraine's deputy foreign minister led her delegation here at the international tribunals for the lure of the sea in search of justice in contrast russia shows an empty chair strategy seemingly unconcerned by the possibility of an adverse ruling. or consider as appropriate. under the circumstances of the present case to prescribe provisional measures requiring the russian federation to rule is those 3 ukrainian naval vessels and $24.00 d

with this for russia's president who sees a scoring machine on the ice but proves he's well you know and he wouldn't victory . people have to weigh your own record on this trouble in fact a few years ago there was place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story is unfair and i'm sure we will show you i don't care about the official story if you were a little visit today you would say what has the media been telling you now the world isn't black and white there's lots of grains in here join me mad the hot sun on the front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories on the big issues here on al-jazeera. english. talk about the watching al-jazeera news are with me so rob never mind top stories they're all rip. thoughts of a gun battle in pakistan's province it happened at a luxury hotel in the port city of other local reports say at least 3 attackers are inside the hotel security officers have surrounded the location. the rebels in yemen have begun redeploying forces from 3 besieged po

serbia's russia has called it a provocation the un says a russian u.n. worker has been released by cross of the police after angry protests from moscow and his detention the un is demanding the release of another employee also alleged to have been detained and injured. river and makeshift barricades divide the 2 ethnic half of the city majority albanian kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 a decade after nato stepped in to support kosovan forces in their separatist war with belgrade but north mature still has a population that is mainly a many of them like serbia itself still do not accept kosovo as an independent country nato is peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for is playing down the incident at the moment that we are no or little side. to that. but this is. the cause of and president insists the operation is about law enforcement and nothing else. there were no do it leroy i am sorry but belgrade should not under any circumstances be an address that protects those involved in crimes regardless of their ethnicity. with its bloody history and

in working turkish officials say a working group with russia on northwest syria will convene soon it didn't give more details but the offensive continues dozens of civilians have been killed and nearly 200000 displaced many more remain trapped not just in a war zone but in a geo political struggle. beirut amnesty international says it has evidence that walk rheims may have been committed in libya the rights group says unlawful rocket attacks against civilians have been launched on tripoli where warde hollister have to has waged a 6 week long offensive after is trying to take the capital from the un recognized government. has appealed to world powers to form a new international coalition to combat increasing violence in africa's sahar region that's after a series of attacks against the christian church in the capital where the dog and the violence has the hallmarks of an eyesore group as nicholas hack now reports. this is it downtown no longer do it right behind me is the main cathedral of this capitol the immaculate conception it's a place of worship where perishers are in mourning f

russia's president meets with the u.s. top that lot but the 2 countries failed to agree on how to deal with iraq. police blocked one as well as opposition national assembly the government strips more politicians of immunity plus. i'm charlie rangel at the cannes film festival where some of the cinema heavyweights will be complete.

and the crane russia detains $24.00 ukrainian sail is and sees the ships since last november in the waters off the crimean peninsula the hearings taking place at the international tribunal for the north of the sea that's in hamburg the mc cains . this report. these men have been in russian custody for months held because the government in moscow accuses them of violating its territorial waters when the vessels they were on board tried to cross from the black sea into the sea of as of last november. when. the korean ships did not respond in any way to the questions of our border guards surface they trespassed into territorial waters which were russian even before crimea joined the russian federation. the sailors say they were following a longstanding agreement between ukraine and russia on sharing the waterway for their government it's the russians who are breaking the rules treating their sailors as criminals and denying them the protections built into international agreements governing the military at sea. yet i spoke to the parents of the men one cannot remain involved so i met th

then russia if the turks join us and us and russia if everybody will stay in this area the way there are right now. works a lot more costs in france or behind. this is how serious stakeholders have negotiated in the past two years military pressure has and continues to be used fighting is escalating but at the same time turkish officials say they are in talks with russia concerning the deployment of their forces in syria turkey wants russia's approval to move into areas under the control of the kurdish y p g not just in northern aleppo but east of the euphrates as well russia for its part wants its allies to use the highways and lead to revive trade. moscow into baskets describe the assault as a fight against terrorism but it is causing immense suffering the united nations says three hundred thousand syrians who live in the area of hostilities large numbers have already made their way north towards the border with turkey how many more will be made homeless may depend on the outcome of the latest round of bargaining santa who their beirut. the pilot of the russian aeroflot plane that

can you be clear which countries are carrying out the bombing thank you for now even some of russia's harshest critics on syria who are not prepared to condemn the country in public medical facilities have been attacked in it who do you think is responsible. will make medical facilities appear to have been targeted from the air so very many options for who can target from the air in this part of syria many security council members want to stop the bombardment but they're also aware of russia's record of intransigence on syria it's used its veto 12 times in the security council that's why they're doing things behind closed doors at the moment the next step of course is likely to be an open meeting calling russia out in public jamesburg out his era at the united nations. now venezuela's economic was a giving us ally cuba a reminder of the troubles that face from the soviet union collapsed in the $1990.00 s. now it's been forced to ration food and other basic goods to cope with shortages it blames partly on expanded u.s. sanctions will shop shelves have been increasingly empty with custo

in waters off the crimean peninsula the hamburg based tribunal called on russia to facilitate their release immediately and urged both sides not to aggravate the dispute but russia did not attend the hearing domenic cain has more several of her country's sailors and ships have been held by russia since last november so on saturday ukraine's deputy foreign minister led her delegation here at the international tribunals for the law of the sea in search of justice in contrast russia chose an empty chair strategy seemingly unconcerned by the possibility of an adverse ruling. the tribunal consider is it appropriate under the circumstances of the present case to prescribe provisional measures requiring the russian federation to rule is those 3 ukrainian naval vessels and 20 full detained ukrainian silversmith and to a low dome to return to ukraine. one of the judges on the panel was russian his was the only dissenting voice among a panel of 20 a moment of success then for ukraine for out this is a pure greek theory there's what we asked did you know and 2 of you now clearly the that all o

its russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov hit back with this response. we now see an unprecedented campaign led by the united states in order to overthrow the legitimate venezuelan government we condemn this campaign which seriously violates all the principles of international law provided by the united nations statute. and as the war of words between the u.s. and russia plays out over venezuela opposition supporters are gathered in the capital caracas to hold a vigil for those killed in the ongoing effort to overthrow president until it has more from the capital. people gathered during got back us to honor those who died doing this with this protest here in vegas while our own tuesday opposition leader aung why the appeared in a military base not far away from here like a lot that's surrounded by members of the military saying that the government of the call out by the will was over well that did not happen and then thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the government then on may first again thousands of people on the streets clashi

after donald trump downplays russia's involvement in venezuela. we look at how the legacy of apartheid is fueling tensions leading up to south africa's election. we've had some severe storms across the deep south of the u.s. anywhere from around say museum and i that's not the tapes that the music theory come down it's a walk you saw a into texas but if this area club has some flooding to into the say following a tornado that ripped across that eastern side of texas and this wild weather is now making its way eastward alabama stings a nasty weather to go through sunday and the mid atlantic states just pushing up towards new york doing too badly fourteen celsius plateau right comes back in behind not out of the woods just yet there's some more of a shower still a possibility across the central plains the northern plains to i was towards the west what is fine and dry here sixty celsius in san francisco eighteen in seattle and nineteen for l.a. maybe an eighteen there on monday seattle warms up to twenty one you notice by monday that's one of the new

trying to find a trade of if russia will give them more. money but again. which is on the table to russian turkey i think all supporters are trying to test the limits of each other to see how far we can go. but serious power brokers are unlikely to push far enough to break an alliance they both benefit from neither side wants a large scale assault on a blip but even a limited operation is enough to destroy the lives of many so. beirut. libya's un recognized government has suspended the operations of forty four and for its says violated trade laws they include the french oil company and the german tech giant siemens it comes a day after libyan prime minister fayyad visited paris of the sky of recent battle for tripoli with the french president. there are vague accusations the french government is helping the warlords. in his month long offensive to take the capital . yemen's a un recognized government has accused the united arab emirates of sending separatists fighters to a remote yemeni island the u.a.e. which is fighting for the rebels in yemen along with

and surrounding areas were declared a deescalation zone last year under an agreement reached between russia and turkey intended to avert a major offensive on the rebel held area that agreement appears to be under threat activists say syrian and russian government forces launched more than eighty strikes on saturday two hundred fifty thousand people have already been displaced in the latest wave of violence if there is a real offensive a real attack and really i mean. is aimed at penetrating. the denture or the. settle. down itself. others then we going to have an enormous crisis and then we're talking about two hundred thousand but up to a million of people probably will be on the rules right now. i'm still hopeful that's not going to happen i'm still hopeful that this will be contained to dot's final confrontation a cease fire. as government tanks and troops move towards it live in greater numbers the state media say they're there to target terrorists from a group linked to al qaeda but many fear this could be the start of a bigger operation to take the final rebel held stronghold home to

government airstrikes the attacks are the latest violation of an eight month old truce brokered by russia and turkey. thailand's king ma what you know long gone has been crowned as the country's monaco after two years of mourning his father. king a rama ten placed the seven point three kilos crown on his head in their labyrinth coronation ceremony mixing buddhist and hindu traditions sixty six year old succeeded his father in two thousand and sixteen ending a seventy year reign when he has the latest from bangkok. over the course of just over two hours inside the grand palace in the thai capital bangkok thailand saw its first royal coronation in sixty nine years with the crowning of king my heart what year long corner the tenth king in the cretinous de at the end of that ceremony we saw him dawn the seven kilogram great crown of victory and give his first royal command a very brief comment inside the grand palace saying that he will reign with righteousness for the benefits and happiness of the people of course he was already king having ascended the throne in two thousand and sixteen fol

real crisis fortunately in particular and that's why the turks have made it very clear to russia that they don't want that to happen in any circumstances and they have been has been some progress in terms of having she had the troops all right according to the patrols along the ceasefire line turkey's a russian controlled but it's not enough it's clearly not enough progress i mean these missiles that have been shot recently showing now that that show it needs to provocations do happen and then the civilians of course bear the brunt of it for turkish soldiers have been killed during the fighting in syria and iraq one of the soldiers died in an attack by u.s. backed kurdish y.p. g. forces and terrified turkey has launched an operation in response in the area earlier three turkish soldiers were killed in northern iraq. at least nine soldiers have been killed in the attack on a training camp for forces loyal to the libyan warlord and for halftime after blaming the attack on ethnic taboo forces aligned with the un recognized government in tripoli what to do why does more now from the libya

if russia will give them more. but again. which is on the table to rush into. and i think also part of the trying to test the limits of each other to see how far they can go. but serious power brokers are unlikely to push far enough to break an alliance they both benefit from neither side wants a large scale assault on it lip but even a limited operation is enough to destroy the lives of many. beirut. a sixth round of talks between the u.s. and taliban aimed at ending the war in afghanistan has concluded in qatar negotiators say some progress was made on a draft agreement for when foreign troops mites withdraw the u.s. has been pushing the taliban to agree to a cease fire and talk with the afghan government south korea's military says north korea has fired two missiles on the launch happened include song in the north province south korea says the missiles were directed towards the east rob mcbride has more from seoul. south korean defense officials confirming that two projectiles were fired within half an hour of each other on thursday afternoon local time and

can you be clear which countries are carrying out the bombing thank you for now even some of russia's harshest critics on syria were not prepared to condemn the country in public medical facilities have been attacked in it who do you think is responsible. will make medical facilities appear to have been targeted from the air. there aren't very many options for who can target from the air in this part of syria many security council members want to stop the bombardment but they're also aware of russia's record of intransigents on syria it's used its veto 12 times in the security council that's why they're doing things behind closed doors at the moment their next step of course is likely to be an open meeting calling russia out in public james out his era of the united nations. from the world food program says poverty is the enemy for many war weary syrians. after 8 years of crisis in syria the needs are strike staggeringly high is specifically an invalid because of the latest escalation we know that there is from 150-002-1800 extension 00 people who have been displaced from north and. s

russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state that he senses donald trump wants to repair relations the commons followed talks between vladimir putin and the u.s. secretary of state in sochi on tuesday the kremlin says is prepared to set a date for the next meeting between the russian president and trump an earlier my pompei are told the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that america does not want a war with iran but he also said the terror on must be prevented from threatening its neighbors. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror. here we have many differences but what that that the fact that we talk about it alba will go on discussing this situation of course it gives u

the negotiate on going to go she agency turkey and russia. turkey has been unable to really power out the the jihadist groups that control it russia is saying this is falling apart our agreement is falling apart and they're pressuring turkey at the same time. turkey a turkish backed arab free syrian army groups are attacking kurdish zones north of it i'm in a place called one of the five which is a kurdish enclave that have been conquered by turkey so there's two actually one two punch going on here in the north in that province there is a there is a turkish movement against the kurds in the south there is a syrian government movement against the i don't know who did it it looks so many people are saying this is a conspiracy the turks the russians have made a deal to to both go after the people they want to and not to bother to each other about this so so there everybody's trying to figure out exactly what's going on and how its sense of you know this new invasion is going to be what exactly i mean some pro syrian government media happy repor

their release immediately but russia did not attend the meeting and cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in as south african president in front of thousands of spectators in pretoria a promise to tackle rampant corruption unemployment and growing poverty in the country well as our top stories this hour there will be more news from doha in about half an hour's time off to find out latin america which starts now. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the way. al-jazeera viewfinder fresh perspectives through the lens of local filmmakers around the globe. no way to know. what else i love. that i'm not going to let me go but it does look to be. a long. long time in. that i want it. to play a little. more you know you've. got it covered i think enough that i mean they don't get i give you nothing but a good look at all they can all make. q q. yeah i was going to. have. to. pick at. 000000. 00. 00000. 000. 000-0000. 000 sophie i shushed. the i maybe got. a 1000 the neo like. getting rid of a sale if they made out whatever i did not receive usable money as he put it on