in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. they've barker's out the conference in the hague. the special session of the a p c w is now underway this meeting was called of the of the united kingdom with the backing of ten members of the a.p.c. there one hundred ninety three in total one hundred thirty have registered to take part in this meeting we now know that roughly around twenty countries have lent their support to the u.k.'s proposal to extend the mandate of the p.c. w to allow it to apportion attribute blain for chemical weapons attacks at the moment the organization is simply a technical body that can say whether or not a chemical weapon has been used more often than not it can also say what weapon has been used but it falls short of apportioning blame and in light of recent attacks in seoul spree with the poisoning of former russian agent sergei sc

i mean is syria now on syria up until say you know the drought is over now and you see the kurds have cut a deal with bashar assad it's over and drums of changes policies because when it comes to doubt we've been having here a thing where russia has been accused on a regular basis in the british parliament of assassinating people in britain well that's the case is sort of falling apart there's been some reporting from europe and i should say the books as you get older you start researching on w m d contexts for stories for decades now you've. got to have do you have for example there was a story about let's get let's get to the let me just say this there was a story in the press where syria was using chlorine in. the endgame in the isis and you know this spring there was an end game and there was stories that they were using sarin gas in korean together and so here's why hellman set foot. in the fifty's koreans are very volatile gas and it's of great interest to the use. not a word for it and there was a story just the other day about syria drop the un report going to drop this chlori

around thirty five german women and their children are waiting in northern syria to return home their fates are all very similar. left germany in twenty fourteen friends brought her to rocca via turkey she gave birth to a child and found work in a shopping center. for two years it's also not full time so much they had planned and everything. and. yeah there was everything from the news the halls is the bedrooms every scene because i know in german is not the life you know and then you go also you must close every scene because i know she claims she was unaware of any atrocities she says the war and the bombs took their toll and when rocca fell her own life fell apart but islamic scholar marwan abu doubts the women's ignorance he considers them dangerous. stuff. that is hard to believe they arrived in rocca and the modus operandi of the i.r.s. was of course not just to welcome people but to question them closely then they had to swear oath of loyalty is the. only then did they get an apartment or a house which belonged to someone who had previously been expelled for. the german women w

in northern syria. what i want to say to my government is bring us back this still goes back just bring us back to germany. for children twenty three square metres of space but things could have been worse there is enough to eat and drink and nonstop cartoons for the kids no war no terror sandra traveled to syria because she wanted to live according to sharia law as a recent convert to islam she didn't feel like sept did in germany nor did her american born husband a friend of hers in iraq suggested they come. she said me covering this law mixed. she sent me videos and it was very beautiful he was how you can if you use windows so yes maybe it's. around thirty five german women and their children are waiting in northern syria to return home their fates are all very similar. left germany in twenty fourteen friends brought her to rocca via turkey she gave birth to a child and found work in a shopping center. for two years it will send him full time so much play and everything. and. yeah there was everythi

the moment we've still got that area of cloud in the far eastern part of our map a more cloud from syria drifting its way across the caspian sea as well so plenty of clouds and not a great deal of rain for us as we head through wednesday just a few bits and pieces but it's pulling itself together and on thursday that's the way today looks like that rain will be stretching its way eastward so georgia seeing more heavy rain there and it's gradually pushing its way towards the caspian sea once more we still have those showers in the far eastern part of iraq as well they've been plaguing us for a good few days now but further south largely fine enjoy hot now baghdad right help forty five degrees i mean for the towards the south and it's also pretty hot for many of us here doha will get to around forty two on wednesday thursday will be the hotter day will get up to at least forty four forty five degrees it really will feel very hot for many of us on thursday towards the south of rome and more in the way of cloud air as they have been over the past day or say and that could just give us a litt

the latest coalition offensive finally get this story the kind of coverage it deserves journalism in syria suffers from a different kind of problem does the truth even stand a chance that a brutal murder of a kashmiri editor sends a chilling message to anyone trying to report from the region and an american cartoonist becomes collateral damage in donald trump's war against the u.s. media he's out of a job. for a conflict described by amnesty international as the forgotten war yemen has found itself in an unusual place over the past week in the news the reason for that is the assault by the combined forces of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates on the port city of hope data the u.n. already calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that port is where yemenis get seventy percent of their aid supplies while it's the saudi led coalition that is wage this war from the air over the past three years hitting multiple civilian targets many media outlets describe yemen as a proxy war which is why you'll be familiar with the term iran backed who's the rebels but how much attention h

the walkout these allegations of bias are certainly not me i'm sure you have heard the russia china syria many other countries make filler claims after unfavorable votes but none of them ever walked out of the council simply because i think most of them realize that they're not limited to one single issue they devalue the council is broader do you take this american of a troll to mean that the united states at this moment of time doesn't care about anything else about israel no look. the u.s. position is not always been the same the us was. then it can mean no it's going all to game which means that there is a balance in the american public opinion and in the american institutions the going on the party that is known as the balance of the party that is in the shown different attitudes in addition to the human rights council so i don't think we should generalize these i think this is a very specific area where we have always seen the u.s. . position in position of position in so let's hope that in the future the u.s. will come back now speaking about the nature of that criticism i know tha

>> well, we don't only have our military in syria, and it's not just about that.

against syria's government began seventy years ago now it's fair. eight may have international implications it has a very important strategic value for israel because it's about its north ern border the un warns the situation could turn into a humanitarian crisis many of those who try to flee now have nowhere to go katia lopez so there jaan al-jazeera. and al-jazeera correspondent tom else well they has this update from the jordanian side of the city. well. the cease fire announced friday and i mean not only held for a few minutes there's been uninterrupted shelling across billy just south of syria namely in the eastern and western countries sod's of daraa province according to eyewitness accounts we received the areas were all residential homes and makeshift hospitals which is no longer operational as a result of the intense bombardment as we speak we can still hear the shelling a true massacre took place in the town of possum in dars western countryside the ceasefire collapsed in this town where residents of neighboring areas have taken refuge ove

died in syria but that's a noble cause thousands of. militants. come from russia and from central asian countries and we don't have controlled borders so they're very clear in syria and it was best to you choose troyer them out there in syria then to fight them here. and that is. also help to to stabilize the situation in syria the syrian army and the syrian government controlled territories so for me at this we're ninety percent of people live in the large scale combat operations. and involving russian armed forces. no longer in the city in the used. to stop the situation is moved into the political stage show and that's what we've been working on and again our military's out there. have two bases worn in the port of tire to. the other is the maiming air base it's in line with an air treaty that we signed with the syrian government. so it's all the it's all in line with international law that there were family tree are there. in the world and i'm pretty taking the interests of russia in that certain vital region of the world that is really close.

graham: the state department for syria comment --, -- syria, can it be achieved? sec. pompeo: we are looking to achieve the political resolution since the uprising in syria. we not in a position where we leverage toent achieve the political outcome that is the best interest of the united states and the world. if we withdrew from the north without thinking about the turkey, kurdish conflict there are a number of things i worry about in the north. one of them is in the province in the al qaeda news front that i'm very concerned about. president irwin was just reelected, i think it is a five-year term, can you outline where we are out with turkey and where we help the administration to make turkey a better partner. sec. pompeo: in my time, it has been difficult. with the turks it has been difficult as well. it is something they were not happy about. we have made progress now three weeks ago and we came to an understanding on how our forces would work together to resolve a complicated issue between kurds and arabs. a real mix. we are hopeful we can build on that. they were

and in the extremely complicated terrain of syria's war analysts believe deals have already been made i believe that is not the americans that we have a good deal with the russians now they are going to stay out of this of this of this anyhow and the city of beijing will take control and that will be good for everybody what is the need for the russians for jordan because jordan also although the jordanians actually but it concerned about any new influx of refugees inside job done but they want very much actually to open the border crossing with syria because economically this is a very important lifeline port the jordanian economy according to the united nations forty five thousand people have so far fled the violence and headed toward the border with jordan concerns are growing about the humanitarian situation no matter the regime's recent advances rebels say they will continue to fight even as many wondering if this fight may be coming to an end. syrian state media says that israeli fighter planes have hit areas near damascus international airport activists say the target was an arm

people caught in the midst of a civil war in syria. that is not the message the president is sending this morning from the white house. the message he's sending this morning from the white house is about u.s. election meddling that russia led and our intelligence agencies have laid that out as clearly as possible and the president now in this tweet bringing that to question. he's not writing about syria. >> if the president's goal is to put the russian investigation behind him, the worst thing he can possibly do is have a face-to-face summit with vladimir putin. this is politically reckless, its air ganlt. i don't understanding the timing. russia and assad have won in syria, you know -- >> does the u.s. have any leverage over russia in syria? can the u.s. exert its power to get vladimir putin to push his hand on the iranian forces at work in syria as michelle reported or is that not even feasible? >> it's not feasible. i don't see what leverage he has with putin. russia is a weak country, smaller -- its economy is half the size of cali

how did the permanent and only solution for syrian refugees is you may return to syria in a safe and orrible way the book could be the first to be a priority for the future to protect our rights to loads. of money believe we'll look at whether bind china or even multinational agreements can solve certain problems better to do so. also coming up on the day turkey's crucial election this sunday can anyone stop regift from tightening his grip on power. it out on when the necessary majority he will be an almost all powerful president but he is not there yet. but first germany's chancellor has downplayed hopes of a breakthrough in europe's migration crisis during a visit to lebanon americal described emergency talks with most but not all european countries planned for sunday as an initial xchange that would not yield a joint statement or any action that after italy's new populist government threatened not to come and some central european leaders held a meeting of their own it's a sign once again of just how divisive an issue migration is and how much is at stake. on the americal scene he

into a thousand and fourteen i still controlled large territories of iraq and syria rocka was a main stronghold the planning center for attacks around the world especially after mosul fell to iraqi forces but in a toll it's also lost iraq part of the much of the city is in growing and many of its three hundred thousand population fled during the fighting let's bring in our guests joining us from london and hide syria consulting research fellow of the chatham house from bollywood. military analyst and retired general in the lebanese army and by skype from a writer in italy is just well and this director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all for joining us. can the outcome of the report illegal action against the u.s. led coalition well basically that the scale of. casualties on the ground among civilians is what the report i thing is asking for because we don't know the scale exactly what we know so far is that their report confirms what locals have been saying for months during and after that that they have been saying that a big number of

to mention the security and stability of those come as a consequence of the war next door in syria the isis attacks that have taken place inside sarky and the fact that the opposition has been extremely loud in the past few years in terms of being very critical of the way they view he has managed and his party has managed the country coming out of this election not over fifty percent winning gets in the first wrong there's going to be a vindication as far as the party and her one is concerned that they still very much represent the majority of the people not for those maybe looking from the outside fifty percent he's seen possibly as a small margin but when you consider the fact that the second closest person or the with the closest person while the truth is as you mentioned there an inch of my heart of the injury of the c.h.p. and he's not looking likely to reach more than twenty seven percent of the votes when you're talking about a big difference almost double or between those two contenders so it's historic in the sense that you know no one will not only be the first president unde

and i describe on syria example of afghanistan and iraq. and then to blowup the runways to say what happens the next day that this inevitably to change things but the track record of the capacity to resolve the civil war was limited. and part of the circumstance. but i had to redirect my idealism. so feeling somewhat frustrated my -- frustration is when i turned to cuba or vietnam. and we need to pay attention. we have so much coming out every day that you barack obama need to make cuba a priority. so let me do this. and then to broaden somewhat. >> so you didn't want to that was the george w. bush experiment. but to undergird the iran deal was the notion that if we just open it up and to have the openness that will change the society for the better. and to go into certain middle east countries despite foreign policy is broken. is there too much idealism? >> we have had hundreds of hours of conversations about iran. what was being into us by barack obama was preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon. and that is why this is about. it's

we started to use them in syria. we had crews from russian defense enterprises that fine-tuned those weapons. they were out there in syria, and they saw how those weapons were used, and they realized how it could be improved. a lot of generals and army officers were out there in syria, and they realized what a modern military conflict is all about, how -- what are the best ways to coordinate the efforts of the airspace and our air force and navy and ground troops. helped us to modernize and upgrade our military. >> talking about our new weapon technologies used, talks about this new development, during your address, recent address, there have been publications saying that -- [inaudible] still going and not as always effectively and not productively as we claim. can we confirm that we have these technologies already used? >> during my address, i said that in 2004, we began development of new systems as a response to the unilateral withdrawal by the u.s. from the abm treaty. and i mentioned the system. it is a missile

moment as new life is here in turkey but one day she hopes she can help bring her torturers in syria. the political crisis in venezuela has long been a devastating economic crisis accompanied by debilitating hyperinflation money is scarce many venezuelans are struggling to survive. there isn't much cash flowing in venezuela apart from public transport and street food little is paid for with coins and nights most businesses have been forced to adapt to card payments and reduction in sales. woman oh i say less and have fewer clients because of the situation it is becoming too expensive for people to buy clothing or any other personal items. like that oh well get out of the clippers owner look at us a look at an effort feel i let them pay whatever they have. because they all want to pay with cards. but because i don't have the technology for that i let them pay me in cash with whatever they are carrying. according to some experts the two main causes of inflation are a waste of oil profits and corruption at all levels of government. a communist economy that expropriated and didn't make an

lebanon border will syria. you will you has below also has will enter the has below also has active efforts for extra budging including places like the united states. >> the have the appropriate theater at the appropriate amount of resources to carry out the policy on their stability? amount of the area hardly the policy on their stability? sec. pompeo: i believe we do. a blip we do you >> what are the areas of cooperation the united areas of cooperation the united and they were in the area and states needs next with israel? about the same a month of time. and about the same a month of time. thank you very much. >> thank and mr. chairman. mr. secretary, think you for being here. you being here. mr. secretary think for me is accurate and i note that the administration is committed to that administration committed an agreement with north korea on to an agreement with north korea agreement with north korea on their nuclear weapons and i weapons that i think think has had been tried at the best buy that will been d

and now of course also as was pointed out in libya and so and then of course notice how in syria the existence of isis on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent they should be today and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quickly equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all brit

syria is one of different countries. syria is one of them. their politics, their behaviour, their values, is not about interference or dictating. they don't. we have had good relations with russia for more than 60, nearly 70 now. they have never, during our relationship, tried to dictate, even when there are differences. and because there is a warand differences. and because there is a war and there is high tension in our region, it is natural to have differences between the different parties, within our government or with other governments. russia, syria, iran. within these governments, that is very natural. at the end, the only decision about what is going on in syria and what is going to happen in syria is a syrian decision made by the syrian government. queen elizabeth has marked her 92nd "official" birthday with the annual trooping the colour parade in london. she was joined by the newest member of the royal family, the duchess of sussex and her husband prince harry. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell was there. music plays: "god

there is ukraine and syria. not to mention traditional issues of counterterrorism, proliferation and fighting organized crime together. >> jeanine: sebastian gorka, let's talk about ukraine that barack obama did nothing about. what leverage do we have with russia to be able to get them to forget about coming to the table, they are already at the table but how do we level them? >> well, russia is in a world of hurt right now. if you look at every single significant policy decision that the president has taken in the last year and a half, judge, which has any impact on russia, they are been hurt. whether it is unleashing fracking in the anwar, whether it's getting the nato nations finally to pay 2% of the defense budget or whether it's arming the ukrainians, we have a lot of leverage. this is a country in a death spiral. 600,000 russians die every year. more than are born. the average mortality of a russian male is under 60. so, there is all kind of things with the economic, diplomatic that we can leverage. but th

to take the city rock lies in the north of syria and i still declared it the capital of its caliphate into a thousand and fourteen i still controlled large territories of iraq and syria rocka was a main stronghold the planning center for attacks around the world especially after mosul fell to iraqi forces but in a toll it's also lost iraq part of the much of the city is in growing and many of its three hundred thousand population fled during the fighting let's bring in our guests joining us from london and hide syria consulting research fellow of the chatham house from beirut. military analyst and retired general in the lebanese army and by skype from a writer in italy is just well and this director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all for joining us. can the outcome of the report legal action against the u.s. led coalition well basically the scale of. casualties on the ground among civilians is what the report i thing is asking for because we don't know the scale exactly what we know so far is that their report confirms what locals have be

as fighting continues in syria's southern province rebels say the u.s. has told them you're on your own. zimbabwe's president survives an apparent grenade attack on the campaign trail. and two years after the break tens of thousands marched through london to demand another referendum. in turkey polls have just opened for sunday's landmark elections these are live pictures from a polling place in istanbul more than fifty six million turkish citizens are eligible to vote six candidates are seeking the presidency including the incumbent to win a second round of voting will take place next month if no candidate wins more than half of the votes in today's first round after the election sweeping constitutional changes will come into force vastly expanding the powers of the president those who approved in a referendum last year let's speak now to bernard smith who is in the turkish capital ankara so bernard polls have just opened how close is this race expected to be. well i'm in central anchor of the turkish capital has i'm this polling station had just opened

at least trying to get out of syria in the near term, president assad stays in power in syria for the indefinite future. so that's something we know that the president wants to discuss with putin, whether they come out with a deal on syria, of course, like everything else, remains to be seen. >> michelle kosinski, appreciate the reporting this morning. now to moscow, our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is there with reaction. hearing this, from the president, weeks ahead of this summit with president putin has to make everyone in the kremlin smi smile. >> yeah, i think you're right, poppy. i think one of the main reasons for that is that the tweet that you're seeing from president trump seems to be the exact line that we have been hearing from the kremlin, also from the russian foreign ministry as well. we have been hearing that they believe that president trump is someone who they call a pragmatic politician, who wants better relations with russia despite some of the things that happened around the presidential election in 2016. and they believe that it is president

in syria she used to teach music but in twenty twelve she was arrested because she joined the protests in there a sore against president assert. she was released after a while but then detained again and brought to damascus to military intelligence branch two one five detainees call it the held branch because torture there is a daily routine. if you order that was what i told you is only half of what happened in that prison especially to women there many rape victims i many have been tortured some are tortured to death. all the people in the world should know about these things the law isn't hard to see you also. know was released in an amnesty decree and managed to escape to turkey but thousands of women are still in torture prisons says ferdinand up to her knee he documents human rights abuses in syria all sides in the war use violence against women he says but not to systematically as the syrian government but sharla sides forces target women to intimidate opponents and spread fear. so using the woman or captured a woman or a being or doing sexual harassment against them this is not

and now of course also as was pointed out in libya and so and then of course notice how in syria the existence of isis on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent they should be today and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quit equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britons

before its defeat the so-called islamic state captured swaths of syria and iraq and subjective people to a reign of terror but while a true international condemnation and repulsion the jihadist group also proved attractive to some a group of german women who joined as lawmakers state were picked up last year by kurdish forces after the fall of its de facto capital rocca they're being held by the kurds in northern syria ahead of their possible return to. we have this report . life under the so-called islamic state from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen the jihadists imposed their ruthless moral code on the city of raka torture beheadings public executions were daily occurrences and here is where attacks around the world were planned and managed. sandra moved to iraq in twenty fifteen she made her way there from munich we have turkey since the city was retaken from the islamic state last fall the thirty three year old has been living in a camp run by the kurdish militia y p g in northern syria what i want to say to my government and he's bring us back this just bring us back to. four

as fighting continues in syria the southern province rebels say the u.s. has told them you're on your own. but i have to see because this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. zimbabwe's president survives an apparent grenade attack on the campaign trail. the final push to stay in power for turkey's president before the polls open in just a few hours. and the u.s. says it's working to reunite families separated by immigration authorities but along the border there still confusion and uncertainty. the united states has reportedly told syrian rebels not to expect military support in southern syria and jordan and the israeli occupied golan heights deescalation zone was established there last year including parts of the provinces of the trip syria and russia been carrying out an strikes on the rebel territory according to reuters the us government sent a message to the heads of the free syrian army groups who has supported in the past thousands of civilians have fled their homes in that province where a major government offensive is underway rebels say

and the conflict in syria is like a so hollywood horror movie with very predictable formulas and this kind of ever more violent sequels and what those formulas are like are airstrikes and the movement of syrian backed forces into areas rebel control often followed by siege is often followed by a sustained prolonged denial of aid access and that's where the humanitarian catastrophe really comes in and i think it's really important at this stage of this particular offensive to really emphasize that it is the beginning of that we've seen some forty thousand plus displaced those numbers could escalate could spike a lot further and as your report alluded to this was an area of the syria which did have a sort of diplomatic guarantee made by the russians are doing in the americans and i think it's within their power to find a far more peaceful outcome to the situation there than one that is yet another sequel to homs aleppo institute and yes well the borders are closed and countries in the region regional area have got every right to say they've taken a huge number of people in often a move

situation should syria say well we don't trust the o.p.c. w. anymore because they can pass judgment and we don't trust this body to pass judgment and we're not going to allow them then the only thing they're going to rely upon again is social media and you know the they won't have correct horror trustworthy reporting on your point of how this can be seen to be undermining the fabric of what the o.p.c. w. was originally founded for and what it does but i mean if we take the wider point ok that both the u.n. security council the o.p.c. w. they have members that are powerful that do vote along political lines that the friend their allies russia will defend damascus at our side as its ally the west will defend the groups that it sponsors in the in the syrian conflict regardless of the time of the horrific things they've done as well if we buy that argument what is the way for. but i mean how can countries come to a consensus through these international organizations or who has committed crimes and how they're dealt with. well let's go back to the o

that's why iran withdrew from solving syria the iranians nor that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefits. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threaten the assad government's hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and wants russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in. is increasing influence in syria. so basically russia is interested more in stronger. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save that the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position a

to iran in syria the. russian troops the military police are ready to deploy wherever they want in syria it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets underway has an avoid later clarified this included iran. days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area. the iranians receive a strong message from israel had with the stepped up airstrikes that it won't tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdrew from solving syria the iranians nor that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefit and it's not to

syria is not its benefit. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threaten the assad government hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and want russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow. it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in long term run ins increased incidence in syria because there. were so basically russia is interested more in stronger than. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save their the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying

advocating the creation of this so-called sunni stand which with comprise certain parts of syria and iraq what do you think about this idea even if it has a chance to bring ideas that have you had the opportunity to talk with americans and russians on this issue and one scene that i believe you will use to preserve the territorial integrity of syria and other countries in the region to to try not to do some kind of new psych speak will in my opinion be a suicide move now there are certain issues that are absolutely central to the un a legacy one of them is the palestinian territories it was the united nations after all which ratified the partition of the palestine which allowed for the creation of israel alongside an arab state the promise that was never granted and i think that is now actively sabotage do you think the palestinians still have a reasonable hope of seeing their own state and when it be more moral more honest to tell them you guys go and build your life somewhere else no i don't think it does if that is acceptable i am a strong supporter of the two state solution i don

to we had refugee camps in the countries that border syria they were the first to take and refugees we had to close schools and clinics and cut food rations because we didn't get the funding that we needed to help the refugees there with the by. when people in desperate circumstances unable to get medical care or schooling for their children unable to feed their families they have only one option to move on again and we have to put far greater focus on prevention. that have been going in for that's also the goal of the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace that's intervening earlier identifying crises as they are merge with it so that we're not reduced to being a fire truck or an ambulance when it's already too late and it's just a this season there are many crises in violent conflicts around the world. the u.n. says there are sixty five million displaced persons most of them in africa. you mustn't have one in awfully is europe truly aware of the dimension of this problem and its repercussions for us in europe but the voice. in recent years europe has learned that perhaps more than

well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition minas apparently ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all how bush feels like he's running out of options although levanon opened its doors to syrian refugees in the hour of need the relationship has been far from amicable difficulties in obtaining walk in residential permits have served to dissuade the syrians from settling in lebanon now the syrian speer new tactics are being used in a systematic way to push them out a human rights watch report says local authorities are using a fiction's to force syrians to leave. this is really just the latest a step that the government or this presid

within syria when in some mainstream media in our region and in the with. their plan was to create this rift within the society that we make things easier for them when you have such a civil war kind of civil war between thanks or if this city and the tea. now the keep using the same narrative at least to encourage some fellow at the x. in different places in the world to come and defend their brothers in this area because that's how with the imagine imagine that this conflict between safe it's all because of the. minded way of thinking some maybe all their ignorance they came here just to support her father to know if i'm going to do this is right or wrong your audience doesn't know if it doesn't know me the they don't have any idea maybe above like you to beauty thirty you know theory of it or will it's better to go and see the reality on the ground now give the order to validity in reality. skinning another sticked. syria should be divided according to sectarian lines you should come to visit early on the old controlled and see one color or a few colors

on the very next day five out of armies from jordan egypt lebanon syria and iraq immediately declared. one young palestinian activist who was living in cairo at the time was keen to join the fight. and i thought. that i knew. that there was where stan managed not to lobby for the sliney in the should bury him as they mean i left school we gathered the young muslims association and we decided that whoever wanted to fight would have to bend their books. i was among those who burned their books and went and joined the army of ali struggle. that. the arab armies were defeated. the newly declared state of israel seized control of most of palestine with the exception of jerusalem the west bank and the gaza strip. by nine hundred forty nine close to three quarters of a million palestinians had become refugees. in the late one nine hundred fifty s. in kuwait and made the popular sentiment of arab unity common in the region a group of palestinian exiles established a secret organization. they called it the palestinian national liberation movement it became known more popularly as fact that. ya

have you been paying attention what happened in syria? iran has fired a drone in her airspace and rockets in the first time in 40 years. i ran directly buyers rockets from syria into israel and we responded to that fire. the steel was bringing conventional war with iran much closer and it wasn't a question of this could happen decades but it could happen is for now. and also give them the clear path to nuclear arsenal. right now the decision the president made makes everybody safer who wants to oppose iran in the region. they will have to make a choice of what they will do now and i believe the right policy is a policy of crippling sanctions combined with credible military threat and we will never allow a regime the calls for our annihilation to achieve and obtain, develop the weapons to achieve that goal. israel is committed to providing it and i think everybody is clear about that. i think the united states is the clear that the never allow iran to get nuclear weapons. not now, not five years, not in ten years. the iranian people take p

fully back to bold so ahead rebels in southern syria say the u.s. has told them they're on their own as the army and its allies close in plus. zimbabwe's president because it wasn't his time after surviving an apparent grenade attack on the campaign trail and from a lack of hospitals to fake untie venom we'll look at the factors behind a worsening health problem in nigeria. voting is underway in turkey's high stakes he lections that will complete the country's transition to a new executive presidential system presenter shuteye bedouins main rival omaha m n j has cast his ballot in his home city of he's wood voters with an unexpectedly gauging campaign earlier on for his on is seeking reelection for a new five year term with vastly increased powers under the new system and his ruling ak party is hoping to retain its majority in parliament another virtue on challenges a sole female candidate has voted in the last hour action air from the nationalist eve party previously served as turkey's first female interior minister action as promised to reestablis

says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. w.'s mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u. case proposal of wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history they've balk at the hague. to spain now with the first trial of the so-called stolen baby scandal as about to begin thousands of children a believed to have been taken from their mothers of a several decades and eighty five year old doctor is now on trial accused of stealing a baby and nine hundred sixty nine pizza shop reports. are. what they call themselves the stolen babysit association each of them horribly scarred by the loss of the newborn and each of them could tell an all too familiar story. you know doing my baby was with me for the first day i fed her she was fine then they took her away to wash her but they didn't bring her back three days later they told me she was dead they gathered outside the municipal courthouse in madrid but they were denied a confrontati

reported that more than one hundred sixty thousand syrians have fled to jordan is borderline with syria jordan's government said it cannot open the borders as it's already home to one point five million syrian refugees and due to political economic and security issues jordan is in no position to accommodate more negotiations also kicked off in the regime held areas south of syria between representatives of the free syrian army and russian forces we have learnt that the rebels would propose to give up crossing on jordan's border while the syrian regime laid a precondition that the f.s.a. must lay down arms withdraw from the south then integrate into the police force these demands were turned down when you can see on this map how much territory rebels had twelve days ago that territory in green is shrinking by the day a syrian government forces continue to push south more now from our colleagues over at a.j. plus. really worried about the situation we expect that the number of displaced people could more than double the violence escalates. for more in-depth analysis of the situation in so

special envoy to syria our diplomatic editor james base has more. it's a pattern of violence that syria has seen a number of times before like darius aleppo in eastern guta it's been a carefully planned military offensive by the assad regime using artillery and other indiscriminate heavy weapons the syrian government's planes assisted by the might of russian air power the u.n. special envoy briefing the security council by video link said he was deeply concerned it could be like. if they're called that combined together in terms of the population in the area of sunk forty five thousand people all of fifty gulf here have already been displaced you do fighting the u.s. and its allies called out russia saying it and the syrian government were breaching an agreement on deescalation in southwest syria made last year. the united states can confirm that russia itself launched air strikes in the southwest deescalation zone in recent days to be clear the unilateral military operations underway by the assad regime and russia in southwest syria represent a vio