and i'm at the head that our sochi europe regarding sochi should remember there are many problems both on the ground and political the syrian army with its allies has liberated large areas and eliminated terrorist leaders anyway the geneva negotiations lead to nothing in order to please other parties that happens with other negotiation platforms too and that's where sochi comes in but we shouldn't expect too much maybe some expect the situation in syria will be resolved right after a declaration when announcements and sochi but we know how politics works these negotiations are just a stage. right up to date thanks for staying with the latest headlines in half an hour. we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freeflow world called better than a legend to keep it tight at the back. in ninety two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one. believed in last what we want and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall

so we have seen in sochi to be. the major military factions syrian factions of the north a ticking bought in so in fact yes i mean turkey is a major part of the syrian opposition or important part of the syrian opposition both military and the military and the political one which actually have access and they have support of the turkish or the turkish government but after all we don't we shouldn't be forgetting actually that. the president. and when we talk about him i mean he's he's clearly the president of the turkish republic and he was elected actually to take care of the interest of the of the turkish republic of the interests of his own country not the interests of the syrian people so we have been seeing this shift and changes in turkish foreign policy towards the syrian conflict from from the first to the from the early stages of this conflict in which he was actually calling for president bashar assad to step down and until then there are stages in which he actually started to become their hopes more intere

i would never go to sochi because. this is not and utra place this is an occupier who is killing children and civilians in the thousands and supporting a war criminal who used chemical weapons where they raped women as a weapon to make rebels surrender their rapes continue it was on france do with a documentary that was unfortunately only aired in france but we are busy translating it and sending it even to the russian people we have no problem with the russian people or iranian people or american people it's always a problem with politicians and extremists including the jewish people we have no problem with them we have a problem with the extremists xanthus policies of never and you know so we would never go to a mickey mouse conference where they invited sixteen hundred people for a one day of talks that's point two seconds per person nobody is going to be able to talk it's just a place to. cement the interest of russia and pretending it's a and honest broker when it is not its interest is in supporting assad so that

sochi the meeting was delayed by several hours the main opposition groups on the kurds have boycotted the meeting a small section of the opposition groups who are inside she are also refusing to participate they mounted a sit in at the airport after apparently taking offense being by the presence of official syrian slangs in the terminal building where the meeting was finally opened by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syria's history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the u.s. backed mediation. well on the ground in syria the government is continuing to attack the rebel held on plave of eastern guta at least six people have been killed and dozens injured in the fighting nearly four hundred thousand people have been living under a government siege for nearly five years well we'll be talking to stephanie deck in a moment to use in the last man on the turkey syria border first let's go to rory chalons in sochi and of course. one o

the russia back to syrian talks are delayed in sochi is opposition members refused to leave the airport for the negotiations. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up supporters a kenyan opposition leader are waiting for him to take a symbolic vote as the so-called people's president. dozens of saudi princes and top business men held in a corruption investigation have all been released from captivity at a hotel and riyadh. and no more anonymity the south korean government cracks down on the trade of digital currencies. by russia on the syrian war have been delayed in sochi the meeting is due to began earlier on tuesday but it's been postponed to move reports of differences between turkey and russia their foreign ministers have spoken twice already in an effort to bring all parties together on the table about sixteen hundred syrian businessmen politicians rebels and member members of civil society work and bided to the black sea resort town of sochi but the. main opposition groups are getting ready for that meeting so a small section of the opposition groups he

syrian opposition members refused to leave sochi airport ahead of russian backed talks. i'm richelle carey this is our sara life and also coming up. so you can see the president wasn't part of this is making process often essential target of the president the f.b.i.'s deputy director steps down. colombia suspends peace talks with the island rebels after a series of bomb attacks. and no more anonymity the south korean government cracks down on trade digital currencies. russia back talks aimed at finding a solution to the syrian war are getting underway in sochi they appear to have run into more problems some opposition members who arrived in the black sea resort are refusing to leave the airport ahead of the meeting they say they are offended by the presence of official syrian flags in the terminal building about sixteen hundred syrian politicians rebels and members of civil society have been invited to the black sea resort town live pictures of this happening there moscow says it's bringing all sections of the conflict together but the main opposition groups and the kurd

what are the chances of success at this meeting while so many others have failed a live report from sochi. also on the grid on side thousands of workers from the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees take to the series of protests against the u.s. decision to cut aid to the agency they support some five million palestinians the organization has launched a global fund and campaign to make up the shortfall and taking the heat fitness tracking companies is under scrutiny after i published a heat map showing the exercise rooms of a sousa rom the world's problem is some of those words appear to reveal secretly u.s. military locations used by soldiers overseas. lots of conversation around the story followed. beyond the security issues it's brought attention to all the anonymous data that's been collected from our personal devices turns out it's not so anonymous i mean are supposed to be this requests and comments throughout the show using the hash tag it. with the news be live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thank you for joining us for the fi

with the united nations and with turkey as guarantor of stayed in that stand out before and now in sochi including other friendly states like here knighted states united kingdom france european union jordan saudi arabia all with the effort with the aim to continue to push forward the political process and take advantage of any initiative so that the political process of today very can be reinvigorated. so. as well as our discussions with united nations or friends especially turkey as a guarantor state in the agreement in the conference of us dollars previously and now in sochi in addition to the with other states like the united states of britain france the european union jordan and saudi arabia all of these discussions and meetings with in the context of pushing the political process forward and to meet use of any initiative vitalize the process in geneva. all of this all comes within the context of serving the political process of the neighbor and causing any and shit to have supportive to it in a very that's why we gave in more detail of. talks with respect to the associate conference

well it's not a matter of saying yes to what russia intends to hold in sochi or saying no the issue is one of investigating this particular initiative by the russians as i told you previously that russia believes that it can solve their problems politically as it thinks that it's old militarily you cannot use the same means and tools to approach the political settlement the russia has no parallel no compatible power in the field and it has jets all over the place it just use syria feel a test feel about what's its weapon mr a lot of the work you're problem with him and initiative they would like you to negotiate a political transition they want to sell a set to stay in power and they say that you are welcome to be part of a broader political establishment but you won't be the only one to have the biggest say what is your problem with this perspective. ok well fine that's we have to discuss then the nature of this initiative or this invitation to a sooty congress first when new russia has put a precondition for those attendees those who are going to attend it first they do not need they

tensions flare as peace talks over best syrian crisis get underway in the russian city of sochi we're going to be bringing you live updates from the venue later in the program. the u.s. treasury names over two hundred russian politicians and business figures in the so-called kremlin list washington stresses that no sanctions are being imposed against the individuals on it though it was drawn up as part of a sanctions law signed last summer. the problem of doping in sport is much more widespread than previously thought according to a recently released report that was withheld by the world anti-doping agency for six years. a very warm welcome i'm mickey aaron and you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital it's good to have you with us this hour. now we start with breaking news the pentagon has apparently told the inspector general for afghanistan to hush up how much of the country's territory is under the control of local taliban insurgents that's according to his latest report. the inspector general produces regular reports on the progress of t

syria and voice confirmed he will be traveling to those talks in sochi. stephanie decker is an anti care on the turkish syrian border she'll tell us about what's happening on the ground in syria but first to her in vienna where it's the last day of those u.n. sponsored talks on syria's future and as i mentioned the opposition saying hold on they're not going to solve she didn't really explain why. well they said that all they had met here in vienna is actually stubbornness on behalf of the government delegation there was a new working document that was floated around that working document was written by . britain the u.s. france saudi arabia and jordan and the opposition describe it as a documented basically provides new mechanisms to revive these peace talks that seem to be going nowhere i think you know one has to bear in mind that they're not even able to start talking about peace or even start negotiating anything or any of the points of these should be negotiated really to reach anything like constitution elections none of that has happened russia an

in sochi so worry as things stand at this minute and i understand they could change in the next minute but right now the opposition by and large is refusing to participate correct. we have certain opposition groups who are here we have the moscow platform which is here represented by a cadre tamil but yes you're right the main bloc opposition representatives. and also the turkish backed opposition forces maybe affiliated to the f.s.a. the free syrian army they have stayed away the s.n.c. decided they were going to come over the weekend the turkish backed opposition forces well they did arrive they arrived overnight at sochi airport and then when they stepped off their plane they saw plastered all around the airport all across the branding for this congress the syrian government flag they didn't like that and so they said they would not leave the airport until all those flags were changed now map kicked off last minute round of negotiations between the turkish and the russian foreign ministries and the outcome of all that is the those representatives have gone home but what they've done

or whether it's under you know the russians now in sochi the situation remains incredibly volatile and we went into syria just a couple of days ago and i can tell you you know millions of syrians are displaced in their own country you see tents all along the border the situation is dire and it seems that no one can agree on how to find a political solution to this even though you know it seems that all the international players now a jostling to sort of carve out their spheres of influence and it does seem that the syrians are the ones that have you know the least say of all. we're going to talk about attempts at solutions so stephanie thank you let's get the latest on the talk some more a challenge in sochi so already the the opposition said we're not going to be there what can that what can the substance of the talks really be if such significant groups of people are not going to be there. what it exposes i think really the shortcomings of this congress is all about russia has been trying to make this is inclusive as possible it's invited people from across the spectrum of syrian pol

headlines here on our feet in the russian city of sochi peace talks between the syrian government and opposition groups are about to get underway the u.n. special envoy to syria staffan de mistura will also be attending. as a preview. minutes after landing in camera man jokingly asked if we being diverted to beirut look at the badness he said. there everywhere the entire city seems to be plastered in a piece for the people of syria five hundred ten journalists were registered for the sochi peace conference in just four days representatives from seventy eight different channels as well as dozens and dozens of different news agencies most of them foreigners these army of journalists covering this event. only by the number of delegates one thousand six hundred delegates descending on sochi to take part in these talks syrian politicians and the opposition reconciled rebels and active ones commanders and thousands of men christians. limbs all faiths and denominations aiming for peace. the hard work putting the finishing touches in place they even have special prayer rooms for both muslims

around sochi they had the blood that that there was to be taken down and. we were made to the airport refusing to work under the flag and slogans of the syrian regime therefore our delegation has decided not to take part in the sochi talks but boycott them and return to ankara however the turkish delegation remains in sochi and it will voice our demands and our desire to see them implemented then boarded the jets and after spending ten or so hours in the airport flew back to turkey nevertheless the congress the syria peace conference went on went ahead it would have been great to have that opposition here to have that diversity here it isn't going the way that the rebels wanted it to go so there's more incentive here to sit down and talk nevertheless not this time around. my staying with the same thing about with more and often now. here's what people have been saying about redacted the night with us exactly just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know really what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of hearty

only by the number of delegates one thousand six hundred delegates a descending on sochi to take part in these talks syrian politicians and the opposition reconciled rebels and active ones commanders and thousands of men christians e.d.'s limbs all faiths and denominations aiming for peace. crews are hard at work putting the finishing touches in place they even have special prayer rooms for both muslims and christians. this is a new format no middleman she has these direct talks face to face the aim here isn't to replace other platforms like the geneva peace process it is to supplement them to get the ball rolling say organizers everyone's tired of this war. is about letting people admitted. as authority peace talks get underway they reconstruction of syria's city of aleppo is ongoing the oh my is a mosque one of the holiest places in islam was badly damaged in the syrian war the mosque was built between the eighth and the thirteenth centuries but was largely damaged in clashes in twenty thirty in the matter i was all down by shelling and the whole complex is riddled with bullet holes

the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the y. p.g. then not here either they are considered persona non grata by turkey and of essentially being shut out i don't think they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syrian conflict the upshot of this congress is likely to be the endorsement of the new what they're calling a constitutional committee made up supposedly all of the syrian government on one side and opposition representatives on the other but if the main groups of the opposition are not here then this allows damascus to essentially say that the opposition groups boycotting sochi boycotting this process are saboteurs of peace the big question of course is where the u.n. stands on the of this and whether stefan de mistura will approve of these measures and not allow this to filter in to the geneva process the russians believe that he is on board rafter

around sochi they demanded that those be taken down. we were made to the airport refusing to work under the flag and slogans of the syrian regime therefore our delegation has decided not to take part in the sochi talks but boycott them and return to ankara however the turkish delegation remains in sochi and it will voice our demands and our desire to see them implemented. they then boarded the jet and after spending ten or so hours at the airport flew back to turkey nevertheless the congress the syria peace conference went on went ahead it would have been great to have that opposition here to have that diversity here to see them sit down with the syrian government perhaps other factions other denominations and the cities who are represented here and to talk about their differences not try to necessarily. result them here and now you know that's expecting a lot but at least get the ball rolling at least voice their concerns voiced their positions which is what vent this venue this space is entirely about getting everyone to sit down and

president bashar assad but the main opposition groups and the kurds are not attending as talks and sochi. the second and final day of the african union summit is underway in the ethiopian capital meeting is focusing on tackling corruption and conflict across the continent leaders have also been discussing ways to fund the fifty five member block it's mostly financed by foreign donors but members wanted to become completely self-sufficient homenaje i was in ethiopia in capital addis ababa so as we are in the midst we've been reporting mohamed one of the focus of the summit this time is conflicts in africa in particular which conflicts are getting the most attention what's the priority. walter shell almost all of them. of their conflict in libya of the wall against boko haram in what's on central africa as well as the democratic republic of congo where they've been killings going on in the eastern part of the concrete in the past few months however most discussions of the peace and security council of the african union which is. a meeting today of the presidential level was all him. as you

is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't also for.

let's hope the kids will have a voice at the congress or syrian minority that is going to be held in sochi you know in the coming days but actually if you look at the pattern it repeats itself in syria ignore the foreign invaders i'm sorry they have been trying to remove the syrian government created more and more problems you know that the states intervened in syria in order to replace a person who was not actually and a western mr us up and they've got that terrible problem with the islamic state you know which was much more dangerous than ten hours of state them together rate. you wanted to put it it's all people in power in syria they've got their good your state right next to the border. it's the worst possible outcomes if you look at it you know i mean how does this change mean the rest of syria we have reconciliation going on the syrian army is an essential one against these terrorist groups it's just the border area between syria proper and turkey is it a new conflict a very different and it can be confined and turkey will have to clean this up near its borders every single power.

for several hours it seemed like the syria congress in sochi would collapse before it began turkish banks opposition figures refused to participate soft arriving at so she's airport overnights offended by the presence of syrian government flags. we were surprised to see that none of the promises were kept needed a brutal bombardment stopped nowhere the syrian regime flags and slogans removed from the conference banners and we have seen a lack of diplomatic manners from the host country which. two hours late proceedings finally got underway. but the chaos continues during russian foreign minister sergey lavrov opening remarks in the conference hall. in the room one thousand three hundred ninety three international observers and delegates from many walks of syrian life political religious ethnic cultural and business they pushed ahead with dialogue agreeing in the ends to embrace twelve principles developed in the un stalled geneva process and to form a constitutional committee comprising syrian government and opposition figures but there was no disguising the absence of the main rebel orga

of using banned weapons like cluster bombs and napalm on civilians the kurds are also boycotting the sochi meeting they are the focus of the turkish military operation in northern syria anchor of use there the groups there fighting the fighting groups rather as terrorists at least fifty one civilians including seventeen children have been killed in fighting near efraim stephanie checker joins us now from kilis on the turkey syria border so there's a lot to cover staff let's start with the operation in a frame what's the latest there that we know. well it's relatively quiet were in the same location as yesterday behind us i'll just get to show you where that intensive fighting was going on yesterday you can see the mountain you could probably see that white wall that so the wall turkey built with syria a lot of airstrikes there yesterday were shell artillery rocket fire going out from here to those locations we have seen some jets in the sky today we've heard some explosions in the distance but it's nothing as intense as it was yesterday what turkey is trying to do at the moment is to push

today no one's expecting any breakthrough so that meeting in sochi staff comes at a time when violence seems to be escalating on several fronts against civilians specifically as you said russia does have a lot of sway in russia brokered cease fire and rebel control eastern ghouta seems to collapse activists are reporting repeated violations by the syrian government at least eight people including two children have been killed so what is the latest in eastern canada that we know. as you mentioned there that ceasefire gets quiet today but yes yesterday and the day before airstrikes and artillery killing civilians one of the main you know. from the opposition side was for humanitarian aid to get into this area because it is busy just been besieged for years the situation for civilians incredibly incredibly difficult lack of food medicine all these kinds of things so they want to get aid in in the period of two days as we've seen throughout this conflict richelle getting aid in negotiating aid is very difficult it is also used as a political tool you have to get all sides to agree on how a

with tensions are high in the russian city of sochi where peace talks over the syrian crisis have got under way during the opening speech of russia's foreign minister some in the audience became quite emotional and that is more advanced the ever reports. it's been a busy and unpredictable start to the sochi peace conference first there's a deal for hours and hours while last minute arrivals couldn't quite make their minds up on whether to attend or not and when foreign minister lavrov finally got around to making the opening speech well this which is different i want to say. the only difference thank you very much. difference we have to continue working you will have a chance to participate in the discussion. as for myself. released the results and once express my sincere is christian colleagues. friends again i would like you know. going to see does that if it's long live the let me speak please. organize this tell us more than a thousand one thousand six hundred delegates most of them syrians have come to attend to attend this peace conference but those last arrivals we mentioned ar

the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the y. p.g. then not here either they are considered persona non grata by turkey and of essentially being shut out of the thing they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syrian conflict the upshot of this congress is likely to be the endorsement of the new what they're calling a constitutional committee made up supposedly all of the syrian government on one side and opposition representatives on the other but if the main groups of the opposition are not here then this allows damascus to essentially say that the opposition groups boycotting sochi boycotting this process are saboteurs of peace the big question of course is where the u.n. stands on the of this and whether stefan de mistura will approve of these measures and not allow this to filter in to the geneva process the russians believe that he is on board the lef

political solution to the nearly seven year civil war the meeting in sochi is also backed by turkey and iran but the main syrian opposition groups are boycotting the meeting the rebels want russia and the syrian government to stop bombing parts of it. so far monday air strikes have killed twenty civilians including women and children and elsewhere in the syria a russian russian brokered cease fire in eastern guta near the capital damascus seems to collapse activists there are reporting repeated violations by the assad government with at least eight people killed the rebel controlled on klav has been besieged by the government for almost five years now the kurds who control almost twenty percent of syria are also not at the site she talks are the focus of a turkish military operation in northern syria and ankara views their fighters as terrorists while we have reporters in such a rory chalons as they're monitoring those talks will cross to him in just a moment but first let's speak to stephanie decker who joins me now from gold bar on the turkey syria border. stephanie obviously a lot ha

need to first indorser that you also have conditions set by the opposition the opposition said that sochi meeting should be a one timer we shouldn't for example form any subcommittees because that would jeopardize the work done. so certainly you have all these point the working document i mentioned before has also been passed to russia we need to hear the response of the regime russia and then after that we will know whether the un and the opposition will both or not ok whatever he thinks did. in vienna. and whether of next year then. people. on high sometimes sleeping rough in the u.k. the number of homeless reaches a record high. african nations look to develop a global gateway to bolster economic trade with the rest of the world. we're still going to few wintry flurries pushing across japan but not quite as heavy as they have been recently see how the the winds are coming in from the sea of japan easing into that western side of honshu so can't really add a little possibility of one or two snow flurries just coming in over the high ground temperatures in tokyo starting tonight up six c

ounce syria the syrian opposition says it will boycott a peace conference that russia is hosting in sochi next week a spokesman for the delegation says the conference is an attempt to undermine u.n. efforts to broker a peace deal the decision came as the latest round of un talks wrapped up in vienna without a major breakthrough. what did require. if political will it is high time the diplomacy dialogue and negotiations prevail for the interest of all the syrians they said they think the general. is being briefed and will be briefed tonight on the outcome of these discussions and then it will be up to him to take to the efficient what will be the u.n. response to the invitation to attend the. us president donald trump has taken his america first message to the world's elite addressing the world economic forum in davos he declared the u.s. open for business but he's warned that washington will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair trade practices diplomatic editor james bays has more from davos. as the band played president trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the world

now or a challenge as well from sochi with the latest round of talks on sylvia taking place. well the news earlier on monday the another group of opposition figures was going to be staying away from sochi really exposes i think the shortcomings of this congress russia has tried to make this as inclusive as possible inviting people and groups from across the syrian cultural religious and political spectrum so there are a bathysphere there are these there are sunnis and shias allo whites and various different political platforms including the moscow platform the rest on a platform but there are a few notable exceptions now those are the s.n.c. the syrian negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the why p.g. then not here either they are considered persona non grata by turkey and of essentially being shut out i don't think they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syr

turkey syria border city because two new is in istanbul but first let's go over to rory chalons in sochi and some very concerned calls from the russian foreign minister before he even spoke i mean one has to wonder how that speech has gone down despite the interruptions aurore. while they were interruptions both pro russia and anti russia i think we heard the the anti russian ones there but. was preceded on the stage by a syrian government representative who said that hands off syria essentially foreign interference should back off that the progress has been made to lead to such easy put it had been won by the victorious syrian army on the battlefield he then said long live syria and thanks to russia following that there were there was a lot of raw of people standing up and saying you know glory to russia thank you russia so yes there are people from the opposition who have turned up here who are still very very critical of what russia has been doing in syria but there are a good many syrians who come here who see things along a more damascus aligned position and they of course think tha

in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't also for the rest know the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just under two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. hockey players and figure skaters again all of whom have never

point in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of this editorial will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn in this and sportsman to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't go for the rest no the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just a mere two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent. hockey players and figure speed skaters again all of whom have

they will not attend the sochi talks. the rebels had a mediator in the peace talks has to be a neutral and honest broker but russia says, hey, that's not the problem, let's come to sochi and solve the problem. i view this as a way away from the united nations and not what we're looking at talk about what we're trying to do. >> senator, the russians have claimed this to the secretary general, to the secretary, to the president is that they have no intention through sochi or any other channel of going beyond 2254 and the u.n. process in geneva. well, that's fine rhetoric, but it needs to be demonstrated and there are significant doubts, reservations about whether sochi is a one and done and translate outcomes to geneva, which is one possible option or like a second track, nominally part of geneva but under russian control and direction and only informing geneva and the u.n. when outcomes are derived. it's the latter option which i believe the secretary general would not and cannot support and we could not either. >> because

in the is a by athlete who brought a gold home from sochi and he and his team mates. or leaders of team russia and were both two main hopefuls for winning medals and south korea as well they're both world champions and in all of their years competing neither has ever tested positive for doping and that's one of the reason the the decision as an injustice the tone of the set of tauriel will not please everyone that's obvious but there are still questions about the integrity of the decision makers since when can we condemn innocent sportsmen to punish the guilty is obvious to ban the russians that don't for the rest know the i was he has promised to publish the full list of eligible athletes on sunday just a mere two weeks before the start of the games leaving an appeal unlikely and that means that a number of russian athletes who are still reeling from the fact that they will not be able to compete under their own flag will now be hit with another blow others said to be excluded from the list are prominent hockey players and figure skaters again all of whom have never

strengthen his hand at the negotiating table we are having a few talks coming up in all straw and also in sochi in russia later this month israeli forces have killed a palestinian man and injured others during a raid in the occupied west bank israeli police are linking the incident to the search for the killer of a rabbi who was shot at a week ago and ron khan has more from ramallah. the rights of place around eleven forty five pm on wednesday night are very special forces went in now we don't know who opened fire first what we do know is that two israeli special forces were injured and a palestinian man was shot dead these radio me say that the palestinian man was responsible for the killing of a rabbi on june ninth in nablus now when that happened there was a real fear that things could escalate and there indeed were attacks from settlers against palestinians from local settlements nablus the settlements clearly illegal under international law now the israeli army have proof that this man is linked to the killing of that rabbi around two o'clock in the morning in janine ready army went in the

opposition in vienna stays before syria's close ally russia is due to host its own negotiations in sochi but turkey's latest military assault is expected to complement complicate the talks further for the past six days turkish forces have been attacking kurdish y.p. jet fighters in the northern syrian region of a free kurdish authorities in the area have appealed to the syrian government for help turkey wants to push the white b.g. out of a frame and create a buffer zone along its border with syria well as the diplomatic effort struggle to make any progress the syrian government forces backed by russia and iran have continued to gain ground for years recovering huge swathes of the country from rappel fight says for more now on who controls what is priyanka gupta. the bathtub map of the syrian civil war has changed dramatically over the past year seemingly shifting the balance of power this is what syria looked like a year ago fractured between various sides syrian government areas are marked in red their opposition areas in queens the kurds in yellow at the top and i saw in brum their th

rory chalons has more now from the talks in sochi. well the news earlier on monday the another group of opposition figures was going to be staying away from sochi really exposes i think the short comings of this congress russia has tried to make this as inclusive as possible inviting people and groups from across the syrian cultural religious and political spectrum so the robot is here there are these there are sunnis and shias alawite various different political platforms including the moscow platform the rest on a platform but there are a few notable exceptions now those are the s.n.c. the syrian that negotiation committee which has said that it will stay away from sochi believing that this is undermining the geneva process the kurdish groups such as the y. p.g. then not here either they are considered to sign on grants or by turkey and of essentially being shut out i don't think they want to come anyway because of what's going on in africa and so this all basically steers towards the moscow and damascus perspective on the syrian co

will attend those meetings because it did get guarantees from russia that any result coming out of sochi will be folded back into didn't even talks that there's a question what happens now with the opposition left into the fold the opposition says it appears that this meeting in sochi is an attempt to try to isolate it from any further to what abdul hamid at the syria talks to the current ones in vienna thank you for that another opinion piece for you here this is written by assad i see from. syria which is trying to promote a syrian civil society movement he is not confident about this other diplomatic track being pushed by russia simply because he says russia cannot be a neutral broker of peace it's a good primer for those talks in sochi which we'll of course cover this is in the opinion section a down to zero dot com. the saudi billionaire prince. has been released from detention after agreeing a financial settlement remember he was one of the dozens of saudi princes and billionaires rounded up by crown prince mohammed bin salman last year as part of an apparent corruption crackdown s

will actually indorsed the sochi meeting or not we do know that there have been several conversations between the founder mistura and the russians that the russians have put forward. to find them is to our request for him to take part in forming the constitutional committee in so she would have asked for a written guarantees about what exactly is wrong with b. and more importantly parent is that wherever outcome or whatever achievement there isn't so she will be folded back into do you and process do you and the opposition not wanting to have two parallel tracks now when you listen to embassador jaafari it is quite clear that on the other side this syrian government is looking at sochi more that is looking that is looking here at the u.n. so very complicated situation now we need to listen to hear from the two other partners involved in this process before really saying that we've reached another dead end here but at the moment it doesn't look very. thank you very much trying to identify me and in vienna. want to tell you about in the program eight years after the haiti earthquake mil

heard plenty of accusations leveled at me in miles military over the range of prices not designs on sochi most notably the u.n. which called it textbook ethnic cleansing but now downright has entered the lexicon as well rights groups say the attacks occurred during a recent crackdown in rakhine state and which has many as seven thousand people i thought have been killed stratford reports now from the cook upon refugee camp in bangladesh. these sisters fifteen and seventeen years old samia army soldiers tied them to trees and gang raped them the eldest says a sister lost consciousness was the second man began to brutalize are headed to. the army surrounded our house she says my sister and i were in the bathroom the soldiers burst in and drank this outside seven men raped me she says passers by found them unconscious and still tied to the trees. it was difficult to walk she says but they helped us it took us fifteen days to walk to the bangladesh border. rights groups say that the myanmar army used gang rape as part of its ethnic cleansing campaign that killed thousands of people and destro

years it comes to syrian opposition members say that they will boycott talks that russia is hosting in sochi next week the decision was announced at the u.n. sponsored negotiations in vienna which have been extended for a day though there's been no breakthrough. we listen to many good n.t.'s concerning . commitment but none of them will deliver somehow and. we are we are tired of that we need real involvement we need real commitment and the ball is in the russian court and the say that they have the upper hand in syria. and they were responsible for saving this region for a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality was aleutians and if they won't they can meanwhile turkish forces continue their operation against kurdish fighters in afrin in northern syria the violence has increased tension with the us which supports the kurdish y.p. g. forces in the area as they battle eisel let's draw all this together now with stephanie decker who is live for us from and taki a staff starting with the ceasefire at least and good to remind us how many people are trapped ther