solution voted syria and now for the syria and i mean what we are looking for is just the syrian government to protect the service of syria i mean that's all. we are about or we are not going to return back to the of us is reaching. the pressing that worship looking for the solution. i mean that a lot with. government forces is just to protect the civilians of the syrian territory joshua landis do you buy that that this will more than a dialogue and if that dialogue actually has in-built guarantees it may actually succeed. yes i i like to believe. the syrian regime has has fought isis for a long time and took half the territory the kurds to what happened that territory without the and much united states and the syrian army took the other half of the help of iran so there's been a long war going on between the syrian government and isis but to your question up a team this there is still some disagreement between the syrian government and the kurds the kurds have been there in fact they are made in a military but they say a political and administered agreement has not been struck that they wi

because it downs the drone allegedly flying over syria by bombing syria and it's bomb syria repeatedly and by using iran as a scapegoat is just like with apartheid south africa did with regards to the a.n.c. they blame the russians the soviet union the communists in order to subjugate africans in the west supported ok you know if we look if you try to look at the next step forward mr bono work this is the political reality in syria a weakened president bashar assad but with the backing from iran and syria russia is bad as you know to reverse some of the gains made by the made by the rebels the americans into was in the region is waning so we're left with two key players inside syria iran and russia. is this going to have any kind of impact in the near future about president bashar al assad are we going to see him likely sergei more ground or no i think iran is going to stay in syria. and for once was been established with and mean in lebanon syria up to the sea it actual fact now russia need iran. on especially on tactical level they have differences on a strategic. but the going to be

case then why is israel launching sorties an s strikes over syria. when israel was in effect asked to choose between two evils so two devils sees it the assad regime and dies it indeed shows assad if he's satisfied that i still has been eradicated and that the forces arrayed against him be the russian led coalition or the american led coalition have prevailed but israel also resists the notion that iran is going to have a foothold in syria and to cory door to lebanon against israel so when the iranians violate israeli air space israeli sovereignty by sending a drone into israel israel both should sit down and makes the point of retaliate ing in order to have some impact in the talks about the future of syria israel would not sit idly by if i during such the orange an eva the future is syria is decided upon without bringing into consideration israel's own interests some some might say that israel is perhaps working its own agenda in syria if you jump online and just and just have a look at the information israel has been conducting as sorties over syr

deal between the russians and americans to reduce iranian presence in syria. israel considers russia its guarantor for security along its border with syria they have talked about a buffer zone but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said the ceasefire agreement in southern syria didn't address what he called iranian military ambitions israel has repeatedly said it will not allow iran and its allies to entrench themselves militarily in syria and it won't allow syria to become a forward operating base against israel calls them raw. lines now the syrian government and its allies are introducing red lines of their own they say the downing of the israeli jets is a clear message that the days of carrying out attacks in syria are gone russia allied to both sides is calling for restraint and for syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity to be respected it was a serious and dangerous incident the israeli army said it was not a war but more than a confrontation for now all sides have taken a step back after making their message clear senator beirut for mor

want to influence in syria and the don't want by syria but want. to go and syria seems a very rich. region you know for the oil. and natural the we we saw and. you know of the fighting there around. all the resources i knew way syria one. and the syrian cake is not much. and there is a. want of it's a part of the syrian cake what i thought say in the regime or not. russia but isn't a large part of the syrian. people. want not. to moscow and protect its interests and. what russia want ok well let me give the last word to joshua landis in a wrestle and josh i want to come back to the current situation in syria today this civil war is now entering its seventh year we've seen in the last forty eight hours more than one hundred people killed in italy been eastern ghouta civilians really bearing the brunt of this conflict the humanitarian situation is disastrous as the u.n. has said. where does this all leave this current escalation where does this leave peace efforts whether it's. whether it's so she whether it's geneva can maybe a negotiated solution still in syria or is this war only g

these included delegations from syria's traditional allies. iran. and russia. western officials attended as well and established their first contacts with the new president syria had been a key player in the middle east for decades particularly when it came to regional peace negotiations and fighting international terrorism. but only one western head of state attended a son's funeral french president jacques chirac. it would have holes but friends of the little leaders decided that if they showed syria some respect they might be able to influence its policy on lebanon you know the whole story of the wooden bowl appear after assad's older son died french politicians try to figure out how to deal with bashar with the. jury was an ophthalmologist by training but it had no experience as a political leader or an unknown quantity but if no one knew whether he would be up to the job the above. so you know if it. married his wife in two thousand the new president sought to portray himself as a modern western style leader perhaps this reserved and well educated young ma

democratic syria but i think the time syria cannot return to the time before when two thousand and eleven i mean this political regime must this region is could not be it should be a new syria i mean for democratic for everybody and we are part of if offering is syrian territory. the we know of course that the kurds are currently governing that area would it be an option for you that the syrian regime would step in and be the administration in that area in exchange for some sort of deal should be if you are talking you know that the most of the things that of course we have a project for the which is the cedar should be decentralized because now we are talking about sudanese we are talking about the holidays the doozies is a disease that christians muslims. are talking about of ups the careers of many men two months so have how you can keep all those verses all together should be democratic way otherwise you cannot keep them if you are talking about the unity of the syrian territory should be all of those should be in their marketing system which we are to decentralize syria it means offe

groups inside syria. its only conflict has been with the with within syria and recent times as with the kurds of syria they got frightened because the united states backing started backing the y.p. . but truly turkey should also shoulder quite a lot of the responsibility for the mayhem that. unfolded in both syria and in iraq by the way where they still have some forces inside iraq as you out and their policy towards the kurdish people over many decades has been really bad that must be mentioned that the kurdish people have suffered enormously from successive regimes tens of thousands of kurds have died inside turkey and this so-called cleansing inside syria turkey is in effect committing aggression against a sovereign state the syrian state which has object to fish only to the entry of turkish troops so there are a dime if you cations here and that is the other point i wanted to raise is out there is some genuine friction between turkey and the united states since the coup attempt which seems to have had

it in syria been a project in syria was completely defeated and russia got the upper hand. to stage i mean it could be that the building of syria game so that lead building needs money and syria needs. the gas which is in eastern of the desert or where the fields are situated so it seems that america would like to prevent syria prevent that i shammed from actually putting their hands on the old reserves as it is so i don't think they will succeed here i have a lot of. information saying that the next stage could be actually i war in their war against american forces in syria and also in iraq so if this happened like what happened after the american occupation of iraq in two thousand and three i think this would be the first stating to united states i believe but i sure wouldn't second if i say it's second feiss and actually that heavy price which they paid in syria since two thousand and fifty and they love it let me tell you they would include the money because when we live in germany we're going to go to a short break and i'd like to point out to everyone since the pentag

legality of the war in syria of the war on the syria and it's done under the two thousand and one two thousand and three authorization of the use of military force for iraq against al qaeda which is still being used by the united states to justify its presence in military conflicts all of the so when this is a justification for endless wars thinking they say that they have the authorization you just move the goalpost as it were and say this is what covers it ok i suppose it will fly to yemen in somalia and only those who are getting it is ok so i mean you know it. it's already a justification and it doesn't matter the circumstances that was done once and it applies the entire region to how this never get to that obama is the person that ramped up the u.s. presence in syria and so the justification was to fight al qaeda then obama comes and he supports an al-qaeda isis springs up out of out of al qaeda and now trumpet his generals and i want to say trump i would say the generals are going to show their you know. you know where i'm going there now using it as an excuse to have u.s. troo

they trained people in syria. they are focused on syria. i do not think this nuance is not of great interest to turkey, but it is important when looking and ypg. at the same time, these operations have not encountered in the military way against turkey. there have not been attacks on turkey from syrian territory. they have not -- they have tried to keep the past few years their senior commanders in syria. so the problem is for the united states is that by denying any somethingen the two, that is necessary for u.s. policy, they make it difficult for the u.s. to acknowledge some of turkey's concern or try to explain why the pyg is not a real threat -- ypg is not a real threat. when we look at them, we see they are operating according to syrian conditions for the situation in syria. >> thank you for that. i should note there is a legal distinction that the united states risks the -- lists the pkk as a terrorist organization. turn to gonul for a minute. it is a state of warfare. , turkey underrent a state of emergency. is the restriction on the

and it's the most serious confrontation between israel and syria in yours. and it's really jet inflames an angry reaction from the army and two very different versions of what happened early saturday morning. the key question didn't iranian surveillance drones stray into israeli territory from a base in syria triggering a deadly response from israeli fighter jets syria says its allies drone was near the israeli border on a standard intelligence mission but israel disagrees it has released this unverified video which it says shows the drone in israeli airspace next they say it followed the drone across the syrian border and shot it down and then launched fighter jets like these to strike the drones base inside syria that triggered a syrian response the regime unleashed its anti-aircraft guns on the israeli after making an emergency exit. israel then responded with another large scale bombing raid it hit syrian government positions near damascus just days ago israel declared itself ready for a standoff like this on tuesday israeli prime minister benjamin netan

exceptional to syria. we have seen this before in places like iraq, palestine, congo, even in myanmar now with the rohingya. what you want -- if you want a sound bite what we are saying is the power over people. it's this is something that will continue -- this is something that will continue in syria and other places as long as government and states are allowed to do what they do. if populationsnd around the world start mobilizing and pressuring their own governments to stop these types of actions -- to not allow power to dominate over people. if we don't do that, we will see the tragedy of syria continue for a long time and you will see other tragedies in other places around the world. that is what is happening. the: i wanted to ask about role of bashar al-assad. many of the western powers calling for regime change to end the civil war -- that has dropped off the table for a lot of them in terms of the ongoing conflict. can you talk about that as well? yeah, of course. i am not surprised they dropped off

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putin announced a twenty four hour humanitarian pause in syria's eastern kouta now the image of syria's civil war are always disturbing but tonight they warrant an extra warning due to their graphic nature including the bodies of children. these are the images that observers claim proof of a chlorine gas attack that is killed at least one child infant still in diapers or among more than a dozen people being treated doctors say their skin and clothes a heavy with the odor of chlorine one of his say a syrian regime war plane dropped bombs carrying the toxic gas on a village in eastern guta on sunday. a cease fire is yet to come into effect despite a resolution passed by the united nations security council on saturday the wounded continue to fill up the districts over run hospitals. there's been ill come whatsoever there hasn't been time to catch our breath the blood is flowing in the hospitals are overflowing with patients and there are no places to evacuate them. but syria's ally russia denies the assad regime is behind the chemical attack foreign minister sergei lavrov says the reports

secure and stable zones an independent and unified syria and help chart a new democratic future for syria under the un security council resolution two two five four process we're hopeful that the geneva process will produce a new constitution for the syrian people and elections to be held under u.n. auspices a democratic future for syria is essential for present preventing isis from reemerging and from stopping the suffering that the assad regime has inflicted on the syrian people the turkish government and people deserve the gratitude and recognition for the unprecedented hospitality they have displayed in hosting more than three million syrian refugees we recognize the legitimate right of turkey to secure its borders we take it seriously when our nato ally turkey says it has security concerns as to afrin we call on turkey to show restraint in its operation to minimize the in the casualties to civilians and avoid actions that would escalate tensions in that area from the beginning we've been transparent with turkey regarding our objectives in syria.

syria and. that and that those extremists they were being supported by u.s. allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis. on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states change its policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we. no from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states to start fighting isis and that was because

you can work today at the pkk counter in syria and then you and itd to go to syria is the ypg. there are reliable statistics that more than 50% or about 50% of those fighting are from turkey. i think these points show very clearly that the ypg and the pkk are really one and the same organization. i would agree that the ypg has not targeted turkey or anything like this, but of course, since it is one organization that is a threat for turkey, now they have .n the border the ypg it should be quite simple to get those weapons over to turkey and to use them there, so and so far i would agree that it is a danger for turkey, even though the ypg has not yet targeted them. 'slinda: you would say erdogan offensive is legitimate, turkey has a legitimate offensive that has a right to pursue here? eva: i do understand there are security interests, even though there are other reasons why turkey is now intervening. this does not mean that it is legal, of course. melinda: how do you interpret erdogan's aims? is he looking to cleanse the region of terrorism or to prevent establishment of a kurd

we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange go to syria i'm invited and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self-defense. let's purser told us that with islamic state practically gone now from syria washington is targeting the country's government instead. they are not just in syria to fight. and they were all have been in syria for a long time because they want to through our side as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves and largely defeated diodes the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white so i think that's true the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the probably got prominent reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes in saudi they were diverted from that by know with the possibility of a defeat of diet inside syria that policy that reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long war t

into syria. terry occupation in syria with the us then he said he's sending troops to a province they're obstructing the syrian. patrols openly with all collide and that's that's that's without that's the mecca of jihad right now exactly and of course he's doing that using these arrangements that he's made with the russians and the iranians to relate to legitimize that there is another side because of course that the russians are they say what we need the cooperation of. and there's been one important country and there's a lot of chatter. that the israelis are looking for a real real meaningful scary conflict with the iranians also with hezbollah or do you see this is a. part of a puzzle piece right now because you know that would you know for planners for american planners in the pentagon it would be nice to have a foothold in syria if an operation like that were to be pulled off i prefer to stay on the ground effect which let's just look at the facts israel has been firing missiles from the ter

has literally been aiding al qaeda in syria or syria had nothing to do with ok go ahead and just let me remind you of all the highs today that we had last week about the bombardment over used you know civilians die in there while pool more of the route you swim is to defend in the southwestern part of it but let me remind you that in two thousand and nine in the beginning of two thousand israel started a parisian cost let in boldly similar situation for people killed by hamas missiles from gaza four people were killed in damascus the day before the start of the bombardment by the musa was coming from his group well israel during that operation killed at least one hundred so one thousand one hundred sixty six c.b.s. two hundred fifty out of them children and that's normal russian press reporting and that's the guardian citing sources. international humanitarian organizations and israel was trying to decimate the military structural hamas well hamas compared to the islamists it in is to go to is a company of sunday school boys you know hamas is a palestinian branch of morton brotherhoo

this is data from syria at war with. strikes that deal with kurdish rebels of syrian forces will work together to turkish troops from syria reaching syrian state media says pro-government forces could be on the front line within hours also on the program. this. successor. gets ready to appoint. to a key position that could be tickets to the chance of a ship. had inside a russian fake news for a whistleblower tell you about the thirteen people indicted for alleged meddling in america's election just the to come very big i suppose. i filled a welcome to the program syrian media is reporting the forces will lead to a serious a free in region to help kurdish militias repel turkish troops could arrive in the rebel held and it within hours is foreign minister responded to the news by saying that any move by damascus to clear kurdish militias from the border area would be welcome but if the syrian regime moved to protect the kurds and the turkish would continue to cross border offensive into syria operation all of branch began

and is also lost confidence of president calderon as the government pursues military operations in syria and continues to crack down on civil liberties are turkey's principles. about to come well come to conflicts in a talk in front of your party members shortly after the beginning of the attack in syria president other one said quote if the terrorist enough enough don't surrender we will turbaned what does tearing down me how far will turkey go well as you know this process is not a new process it started in two thousand and eleven with the. people being massacred in syria and turkey has been under attack over the last two years seven hundred attacks have come to turkish soil to the first charge you intervening in syria you actually know this is not a this is not the first time it was during operation euphrates shield in two thousand and sixteen when turkey went first into the syrian through the syrian border and turkey was the one who clear to area from dice terrorists isis and syrian citizen what were able to do to militarily in down what does this mean it's a very aggressive matter w

so it's not actually syria you know but it's equivalent the same type of things are going on in syria it's kind of just inform and it might not be you know to a t. informative but it's getting the message across that even if these pictures are someplace else it's ok do you think that you by that i mean to some extent yes if you think that it actually it's like taking initiative then i feel like the pictures don't really matter i think the real issue is scary and sad enough that we don't need to you know misinformed people to have real journalism to have real information and verify you know contact with this be fake news the fake i mean part of why i don't use twitter is because of the information fabrication that exists and also has it in about facebook this exact reason you can't trust anything anymore and it's a sad state of the world now the saddest part is that some commenters say they don't actually care what they say people are dying in syria aren't they facts don't matter that's how things are in the post truth world caleb mop and artsy new york. the german chancellor merkel ha

we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange to go to syria and a vital and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self defense. experts told us that with islamic state practically gone now from syria washington is targeting the country's government instead. they are not just in syria to fight there are. have been in syria for a long time because they want to through our side as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves at large who defeated di age the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white snow so i think that's really the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the probably got prominent reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and sword they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of a defeat of diet inside syria that policy that reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long war the

america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis today isis has been all but defeated in syria but you don't see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring that isis cannot reemerge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad continue his brutal treatment against his own people so as to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement that is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson peter he stated that their only goal in syria was the defeat of ice so now they've got far more ambitious plans with more of the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying general mattis said that the united states will stay in syria we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's

there were result in a whole independent democratic syria with no special demarcations dividing syria and with the syrian people selecting their leadership through free and fair elections and we we all share that same objective and now going from this point forward we're going to closely coordinate our efforts against the final defeat of dash we do not have them fully defeated today but we're going to coordinate our efforts against the bottom feet of desh as well as other terrorist groups that are located inside of syria we want to coordinate how to stabilize areas together and who will who will occupy those areas and the objective in intent is to return these villages these cities back to the composition of people who were there before they were overrun by dash so we're going to address man but first it's one of the first areas we're going to work on the united states made commitments to turkey previously we've not completed fulfilling those commitments through the working group we're going to address that in man but is going to receive priority but it's not just man because we have

howard you characterize this in syria vis-À-vis iran. whatever trying to do too iran and syria? >> are broad u.s. government objective is to limit iran's influence in syria. as we have seen, they are attempting to our unmotivated fighters that could pose threats to other vital partners here we of interest in trying to limit their influence and activities. >> i want to say that if there's any influencing gaining in syria we need to limit the perhaps some clarity how would you look at our strategy i characterize it as teacher, assure, and compete. we have to have capabilities in place to deter the ballistic capabilities against her partner and assure that they can erase their declare weapons capability. we have to assure our partners when it line up our coalition ours is much more capable. so continue to develop those relationships is important. showing our partners will be there. not just militarily but with other instruments of power. this is pushing back and going back on their narrative and in the areas we must preventing them from moving their weapons and other things that po

and the turkey syria border right so that's what's been happening in eastern. this is the scene now at the united nations in new york where diplomats have been negotiating to try and reach an agreement on a resolution that would pass if it were put to a vote for there to be a cease fire across the whole country not just in eastern guta that would allow for humanitarian deliveries and a and watching all of this our diplomatic editor james bays joins us from the u.n. headquarters does it look like we might finally see a vote james. i think it's highly likely that we're going to see a vote in the next few minutes in the security council in fact the majority of the security council ambassadors are now they're in the chamber they have been again negotiating in the couple of hours that they were supposed to have been meeting and the meeting didn't start on time because russia still had problems with the draft resolution the swedish ambassador you see him that is the one that's been leading much of the negotiations trying to bridge the gap between the russians and muc

we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange to go to syria and invite it and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self-defense. regional experts told us that with islamic state practically gone from syria washington is now targeting the country's government instead. they are not just in syria to fight they're in. have been in syria for a long time because they want to through our side as the spate of feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves and largely defeated dying the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white house so i think that's true the answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the product of prominent reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with the airstrikes in saudi they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of a defeat of diet inside syria that policy that reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long

agency has been facilitating extremists in in britain to move toward to move to syria in two thousand and eleven and two thousand and twelve many people went to extremists inside england known extremists and they were allowed to go to syria and to libya the british is no exactly how things started and how these terrorists and extremists rose in syria and in other parts of this region and if it wasn't for iran and allies of iran such as russia and the syrian people themselves we would have the black flags of isis and al qaida over damascus and bath are and probably even beirut today so the british government should be very thankful to the iranians for sparing this region from the sort of misery that we would have seen if if they actually missed that one reza momentarily thank you well that's the view from jack run but what about britain's role in the carnage i'm joined now by britain's former ambassador to syria peter ford he's in manchester in northern england peter thanks for coming back on the show what side is britain on when we hear of atrocities committed by the coalition in syri

there's going to be a problem the israelis claim to have taken out most of the surface air defenses of syria i don't believe i don't play cause either because as i said it's an integrated system with russia it has a russian flag on it they're not going to take out russia's surface defense system because it would be unacceptable they know that so they took out a control tower or something like that but you know what do they do next there's a except there's two they say well look the air defenses of syria and lebanon are only going to get better in the long term we must try and take an early preemptive action to destroy them before they become even better what are they going to do or are they going to say well we have to just come to terms with the reality much as we dislike it that we have lost our military earlier in the break accepting it it doesn't seem part of their d.n.a. i think culturally almost impossible to to the to accept it i think they would try and find some means to avoid it except and i think you know one of the let me jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after

are you willing to go to war with syria right now . like sarah i think i am trying to make it very clear that we are not in a war with a country we are just trying to nationalize the trat to our citizens and borders and this is an international zone right given to turkey as an in a part of international law in two thousand and twelve we meet we updated the rule of engagement in our syria border look we have over nine hundred kilometers border and then there is ice is there is there is the. speaking in syria there is a civil war in this country and three million people who came to our country and many more are coming and now when we are trying to neutralize the threat it's not opinion a war to a country it's just securing to people that actually fully fleeing to us and securing our border that's make it very clear we are very open that there's and we want to make it very clear for everyone the we are respecting the territorial unity of syria this is why we are the only country that is if fighting with all terrorist organizations in syri

no doubt mr zarif will brazenly deny iran's defers involvement in syria. iran also denies that it committed an act of aggression against israel last week that it sent a drone into our airspace to threaten our people well. here's a piece of that iranian drone or what's left of it after we shot it down i brought it here so you can see for yourself. mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should it's yours you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of terror on do not test israel's resolve. and i've missed a message for everyone gathered here today to i want you to support the people of iran. i want to support those in the region who want peace by confronting an iranian regime that threatens peeves i've been speaking to the people of iran with video messages the response is amazing. i saw this before the recent demonstrations i asked our intelligence people to explain to me how it is that we were getting names names of people supporting what i said from iran risking their lives their families i said something is happening there those people want freedom

syria and. that and that those extremists they were being supported by u.s. allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states change its policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was

also in syria the u.n. says two hundred thirty civilians have been killed by syrian and russian airstrikes and just the past week and commissioner for human rights just cried as some of the worst violence during the almost seven year long conflict save saying says the strikes may also constitute war crimes he confirmed his office had received reports of the possible use of toxic agents earlier this month in the rebel held town of mar a cat. north korea's leader kim jong un has extended a rare and the taishan to south korean president. to visit. new host of chems sister for talks in seoul on the sidelines of the winter olympics. has more from. him in the presidential blue house in the capital seoul relations between the two koreas continued to thaw the meeting had two firsts jiang is the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war the sister of the north korean leader came with the first ever invitation kim jong un is asking south korean president moon jay in to come to pyo

attacks have come to turkish soil it is the first time i heard you intervening in syria you actually notice is not a this is not the first time it was during operation euphrates shield in two thousand and sixteen when turkey went first into the syrian through the syrian border and turkey was the one who clear the area from dice terrorists isis and syrian citizen what were you to militarily in down what does this mean it's a very aggressive matter what should we do with terrorists we're fighting turkey's you my five year old would know terrorists you will enter into other countries will cross borders this is not turkey we are talking about no turkey is not imagine syria would have done the same. wealth and let me take it to the beginning at start from the beginning turkish citizens are on terror attack have been attacked by missiles by bombs coming from syrian border seven hundred different attacks took place in addition to that thousands and thousands of syrians have been massacred since two thousand and fifty six point five million people have lost their homes were hosting three mil

turkey or the syria. the downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed to their soldiers is a significant development in this three week long but military operation it brings the number of christe oldest killed by a z y p g kurdish militia group to over twenty years far as the serbs are concerned they've killed at least one hundred fifty kurdish fighters now some advances have been made on the ground in the past twenty four forty eight hours the free syrian army which is fighting alongside turkish military in order to advance towards the y.p. cipro just from hold of free and i have managed to capture some villages on the road towards there as far as the turkish army is concerned and the listening to president merchant tehran they will respond the same to those who were behind that attack what's important to note here is that although the. kurds are sources in the y.p. ji claim that the turkish military has killed civilians in its operation ankara denies that they say the reason wh