it's to go to syria. and syria is right next door. going to syria is very cheap. and it's very easy. >> narrator: thousands of young european muslims joined up. unlike recruits to al qaeda, aspiring isis militants often knew little about islam. >> (translated): it was open bar: anyone who wanted to join the islamic state could do so. it was well known that al qaeda had created filters; you had to show you were trustworthy, there were a series of tests and an apprenticeship. it was not all that easy. in this case, anyone can join. even crazy people, very violent people, petty criminals. i even saw young people who were not yet radicalized going to syria. it was just a trend, a need to have fun and escape their boring lives. i'd never experienced anything like it before. >> narrator: one country, belgium, provided more isis militants for its size than any other in europe. among them was a petty criminal named abdelhamid abaaoud. the son of a shopkeeper from brussels, abaaoud had spent time in prison for assault and minor crimes. as isis was emerging in syria, abaaou

for now, the fighting continues in syria, but u.s.-backed forces have punched a hole in isis defenses. cnn's senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is the first journalist to go inside the breached wall around raqqa. here is his exclusive reporting. >> reporter: we are now inside the old city walls of raqqa, the capital of isis's self-declared caliphate and the territory in which they will make their final stand in syria and really the middle east. that wall, a key milestone for coalition forces and the syrian kurds and arabs who now control fully inside. down that way, 200 meters are isis's positions. the forces here don't move around much in the daylight because of the risk of isis snipers, less so in these streets but it's at night where the majority of the movement forward is, in fact, made. we've seen u.s. forces here, not far from these positions, anxious not to be filmed or even noticed, frankly, but who understand it's them calling in the air strikes and often the artillery that's allowing these forces to move for

because turkey is vfed in syria. turkey has had to-- the more authoritarian regime. >> turkey is playing a much more influential role in the region. but in certain areas like syria, i think that role has actually helped empower radical browps. and so what does turkey want in syria, i'm not sure i'm qualified to answer that. but supporting islamist groups, in syria they want to overthrow assad immediately. >> there are a lot of people that want that. what are the means you want to use to utilize that. >> rose: includes also the saudis. >> i think it is very typical. >> at the end of the day what we want in syria is to have a syrian government that can actually deliver for its people and that is not dominated by ises lambists and not dominated by iran. how we get there has been a struggle for the last six years. >> it is all finding a peaceful ceasefire agreement that would work, with the russians, has failed because the russians clearly are a major player now. >> and because frankly even before the russians test in, e

enough to get involved in syria one of the interesting things here is there being. live who is if we have a scorecard here who's come out on top in this conflict here because you know the the great boogie man in the west particularly in the united states is iran ok it ran his amazingly benefited from this era in support of the legitimate legal government in damascus and the the west washington and the israelis have themselves to blame for this because of course and russia as well why because supported a legal government in syria and so it's an example for every kind of rebellions we want to be supported by west in a i don't know kind of country but systems that would see that when you are such an ally like your russia or like iran you're not sure to win it's a complete change if you compare what's up in kosovo or it's open. in libya or in during the arab spring so in my opinion for the for the place of the russian diplomacy it's a very strong state because not everybody and you can look at it. in libya or any. fricken countries everybody wants to be a ally of russia

syria was somewhat misaligned to the reality on the ground to begin with so first you know russia and the united states have very different domestic political systems and i think there are advantages and disadvantages one of the advantages of the us system is it is very open and transparent the russian system less so so you know when there's. agreement among the intelligence agencies about an assessment again i have high confidence and that i think if there are reason to doubt it there'd be leaks and other things russian intelligence i have less confidence and it's a more close system i think it's easier to keep secrets and spin spin analyses but on the on the point of the changing policy in syria i think you're right you know u.s. has the united states has several objectives in syria one is to prevent chemical weapons use to is to defeat isis and take territory back from isis and then third is you know dimon how assad's behaved recently i think the united states would prefer a different government in syria one that can control the country without gassing their own people but that's a

the international community is not going to accept a syria led by the assad regime. and so, if syria is to be accepted and have a secure economic future, it really requires that they find new leadership. we think that it will be difficult for them to attract both the humanitarian aid as well as the reconstruction assistance going to be required because there just will be a low level of confidence in the assad government. so that continues to be the view, and as we said, how assad leaves is yet to be determined, but our view is that somewhere in that process there will be a transition away from the assad family. >> thank you. on north korea, did president putin agree to do anything to put more pressure on north korea? and, secondly, you seemed to have reached somewhat of an impasse with china in terms of getting them to put more pressure on north korea. how are you going to get them to go beyond that already, and what will president trump say to president xi on that tomorrow? secretary tillerson: we will continue those discussions and ask them to do more. russia does

i haven't been able to get back into syria since 2014. that was partly because of the threat from isis. but now their territory's being diminished. the fight is being taken to them. and finally we're able to go back and report on what's going on in the country. >> reporter: the syrian desert is a vast desolate landscape untouched by time where bedouin tribesmen tend their flocks as they've done forever. a land worn down by sand, scrub, and now this war. this land and its people is steeped in tales of sacrifice. and every day the country bears witness to the suffering the war on isis has unleashed. they cry "shaheed." that means martyr. on this day four soldiers were buried in one town alone. arab and kurd all killed on the fr front line in raqqa against isis. these scenes have been repeated day after day across the north of the country. it underlines the amount of sacrifice people are having to make. this community of kurds and arabs and ethnic christian groups has done most of the fighting and most of the dying here. the flags of their f

the international community is not going to accept a syria led by the assad regime. and so, if syria is to be accepted and have a secure economic future, it really requires that they find new leadership. we think that it will be difficult for them to attract both the humanitarian aid as well as the reconstruction assistance going to be required because there just will be a low level of confidence in the assad government. so that continues to be the view, and as we said, how assad leaves is yet to be determined, but our view is that somewhere in that process there will be a transition away from the assad family. >> thank you. on north korea, did president putin agree to do anything to put more pressure on north korea? and, secondly, you seemed to have reached somewhat of an impasse with china in terms of getting them to put more pressure on north korea. how are you going to get them to go beyond that already, and what will president trump say to president xi on that tomorrow? secretary tillerson: we will continue those discussions and ask them to do more. russia does

so why is hezbollah being more brazen in syria all of a sudden raising the flag. might be an attempt to assure the supporters of hezbollah that the fire will go on against the terrorist groups until the end looks like hezbollah those waving its flags openly in syria as is feeling confident it's on the winning side while one of america's most senior generals has admitted that the u.s. presence in syria has little legitimacy saying that if russia played the legal card washington could be obliged to leave the country here's the conundrum we are operating in the sovereign country of syria. the russians they're there they're stalwarts they're they're back stoppers have already uninvited the turks from syria were a bad day away from the russians saying why are you still in syria us and it's it is come up in the form of some some close calls there but it'll be hard i defer to the lawyers in the crowd and others in terms international law on the basis for us staying there other than our c.t. writ we went there for all the righteous reasons but if the russians play that ca

the first document establishing a deescalation zone in syria has been signed between russia and syria's moderate opposition. in the studio with the latest on the development. it finally is the first deal that's been signed as a deescalation zone in the key strategic area which is fifteen kilometers east of damascus and its key strategic area or one time population of two million people prior to the syrian conflict key point strategic importance of signed a document it's the first time it sets out also how people are going to behave and also how they can keep the peace and what is the deal mean in practice what in practice it's been a bit of a military free for all there so you have the government forces fighting against the rebel forces nor so you have the rebel forces fighting amongst themselves as well and you've you've had the reports of even the terror group al shabab which is for me as you know now known as our nose or that was fighting there as well so now of course this sets out a peace process that is going to be no more fighting there we're going to have humanitarian and medica

practically in syria this area that we have pointing has a very important backyard which is. syrian desert that expands towards the jordan and the jordanian iraqi border. the question. all these. interests and agenda meet together for a final solution or. president putin described. another practical pragmatic approach to the crisis in syria or maybe another time buying one over to the group and. that's the question isn't it do you think that following the talks at the g twenty summit that the u.s. is going to take a more pragmatic approach to syria which is what the russian president vladimir putin actually suggested. actually president putin as well. explained how the american policy works. in an interview in a previous interview with a small. one would only hope that the americans themselves can i agree to a one to one policy and can respect each other's administration now that trump administration is facing an internal opposition a very fertile opposition. may break any agreement he can make we have experienced this were president obama before and we have experienced him w

, there was nothing except syria; it was all about syria. there were so many cases related to syria that people who should have been watched just could not be. cleary we can't do everything, and we didn't have the means-- we still don't-- to monitor all of this. >> (translated): that brings up the issue of having to make choices. that is, among all the possibilities of targets to monitor, thousands of targets to monitor, it's necessary to make choices. >> narrator: in june 2014, french spy chiefs made a fateful decision. for the last three years, they had been monitoring al qaeda veterans of the buttes-chaumont gang: cherif kouachi, and his brother said. meanwhile, kouachi's old associate amedy coulibaly had just been released from prison. french domestic intelligence now decided to stop watching them and shift surveillance resources onto the growing threat from isis. >> (translated): for more than three years the surveillance and wiretappings had yielded nothing, so it was stopped at that time. this was mid-2014, which means that for six mo

and russia in syria. joined now by cnn's senior white house correspondent jim acosta, traveling with the president. he is in hamburg, germany. jim acosta, a remarkable and i think fair to say unexpected development here, this lengthy discussion between putin and trump on russian meddling in the election? >> jim, i think it's a huge development. i think it's a sign that president trump has been listening to his critics on this issue. it was just yesterday when the president was saying at that press conference in warsaw that perhaps other countries were involved in the meddling in last year's election. that it was not russia alone despite consensus from the u.s. intelligence community. you mentioned, a few minutes ago after the meeting with vladimir putin, secretary of state rex tillerson told the press gathered there in that briefing room that, yes, president trump opened the meeting talking about this issue, that he pressed vladimir putin on this subject on a number of occasions. that they had a lengthy e

has the united states has several objectives in syria one is to prevent chemical weapons use to is to defeat isis and take territory back from isis and then third is you know dimon how assad's behaved recently i think the united states would prefer a different government in syria one that can control the country without saying. their own people but that's a third priority from a u.s. point of view number one is the feeling isis number two is stopping chemical weapons attacks and so i think trump's recent changes is something of a nod to reality that for some time the forces that the united states was supporting against assad under obama weren't receiving adequate support weren't performing very well but then mr craning don't you think that in addition to being a not to reality this is also an indication that the american public was perhaps misled about the root causes of the syrian conflict from the very beginning because . you can say all you want about the change in the terms of policy but it is quite clear that the rebel force that the americans supported was one of the in any case

from syria i like you still and i. was. told i was. joined by peter staunton he's chief correspondent for gold dot com peter great to have you in the studio now first of all just explain to us what are you doing here in russia well obviously it's a big tournament next year the world cup and a lot of our team we haven't been to russia before for work to visit me on almost an expert. mission here it's going to be a proper world cup next year i know a lot of people in the u.k. and ireland in the united states might have certain fears or preconceptions about what it's going to be like on the ground here next year but you know this sort of you know should really anybody's fears about coming here i found great stadiums for a straight stadiums and infrastructure great help from the volunteers free transport between the cities and around the cities for all the sounds i just find that the people you know the country would know for you people that are warm there . and like i said the country will for you if we could have been a winner for the wo

as well as presence in syria has always been a bone of contention as israel the u.s. and the arab league all view the group as a terrorist organization and levanon hizbollah a terrorist organization uses towns to shield itself of tens of thousands of illegal rockets its militias stand side by side with syrian troops as they slaughter the the syrian people. iran continues to support terrorism including palestinian terrorists and. hezbollah is a terrorist organization and they are currently. cross international loans in fighting in another country over it's no way trying to demonize a group that is fighting against west against american against israeli and saudi interests in the region. but not everyone categorized as hezbollah fighters as terrorists the list of those who don't include syria russia china and of course iran which funds it and helped create the group in the eighty's the russian. allies and they came here legally the supporters again the terrorists there are many politicians in the fight scenes because of the syrian army forces and those forces that are us

secretary of state invites russia to cooperate on a no fly zones in syria. hello there you're watching r.t. international start this hour with breaking news to you because violence has broken out on the streets of hamburg during a mass demonstration against the g. twenty summit police deployed water cannon and to gas against protesters who were throwing bottles and reportedly refused to remove six. i. was i think leon i was. i. was pleased because i was i was i was. losing i do sleep. ok well as for scenes from the last hour or so i would get the latest now from peter oliver he's in hamburg force to what is the situation like in the mine. and i'm. right i've just come back to the end of the report on the one of the main nightlife district seen on days the demonstrators that had been only fish market down by the quay side where the scenes that you've just seen took place where water and we used pepper spray and it was clashes between the police and demonstrators some of those have made their way up here and we now see a new police line it's been for around th

russian president vladimir putin at their first in person meeting agree to a regional think fire in syria at the g. twenty summit. and protests from the g. twenty raged on injuring as many as one hundred sixty officers as police used water cannons to disperse rowdy protesters for a second day in a row. and after months of reporting on alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election using unnamed sources they don't seem to be changing its attitude towards anonymity. it's friday july seventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man here watching r t america. russia and the u.s. have agreed to establish a ceasefire in three areas now of syria the announcement was made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov following a two hour long meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump on the sidelines of the g. twenty. well russia the us and have reached a ceasefire agreement for syria the ceasefire will come into effect in three areas there are. unswayed or it will come into force when there's not. so much time the u.s. and russia have committed to monitoring the cease fire and ensuring hu

including syria. we have engaged more closely probably with turkey on syria than any other country because we feel these issues should be dealt with through dialogue and multilateral discussions. iran, turkey and russia i said are parts of the process and we've been able to do some good. >> rose: that's part one of a two-part series of a conversation with the foreign minister of iran javad zarif. tomorrow night, part two. for more about this program and early episodes visit us on-line at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh cess.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >> you're watching pbs. >> the following kqed production was produced in high definition. [ theme music plays ] >> yes, "check, please!" people! >> it's all about licking your plate. >> the food is just fabulous. >> i should be in psychoanalysis for t

we have a clear with our discussions with russia that we do not syria -- think syria can achieve international recognition in the future, even if they work through a successful political process. the international community is not going to accept a serious led by the assad regime. so if syria is to be accepted both secureecure, and economic future, it really requires they find new leadership. we think it will be difficult for them to attract both the humanitarian aid as well as the reconstruction assistance going to be required because there just will be a low level of confidence in the assad government. so that continues to be the view, and as we said, how ssad leaves is yet to be determined, but hardly is somewhere in that process there will be a transition away from the assad family. >> thank you. korea, did president putin agreed to do anything to put more pressure on north korea, and an impasse with china in terms of getting them to put more pressure on north korea. how are you going to get them to go beyond that already, and what will president trump sega president x -- say to president

we need to bring the war in syria to an end. we need to bring the senseless bombing -- charlie: -- charlie: how do we bring the war in syria to an end? do think a cease-fire in that region will hold? mr. javad sharif: there is a de-escalation and three larger russia, andn, turkey responded and it is holding, more or less. you see the amount of killing and suffering of the syrian people, it has been drastically reduced since december of last year when this initiative by iran, russia and turkey has been in place. we believe it should be enlarged to include all of syria. except for fighting against isis and al-nusra, who are recognized by the security council as terrorist organizations and cannot be part of the cease-fire. but, other than that -- charlie: the united states does not want them to be part of a cease-fire. mr. javad sharif: i am not saying it is a contention. i am just stating the principal, that we need to expand the cease-fire throughout syria. we need to allow unhindered humanitarian access to all syrians. charlie:

millions of syrians do that, they are not refugees, they live in syria safely. they drive through, they fly out of beirut airport because many airlines do not fly directly to syria. so technically and physically and practically, there are safe areas in syria for many people to go back and forth through the borders. clearly, if that was the case for this group, then they would have been going back and forth on their own. they have been. well, the human rights watch says in this case, they were kind of effectively forced back without any consideration. nobody forced anybody. you see, the other point is you are not signatories to the refugee convention, from 1951 anyway, as a county, so you have not sort of formally committed to the international standards and another reason why people are a bit sceptical about whether they can take your word on this. let's put it this way, imagine, as i said, more than 100 million people coming from syria or from anywhere in the world — imagine the scale — to europe. this is the kind of scale of population we're talking about.

on syria, again, we need to find out more about syria. but the initial reporting was that it was a cease-fire in southwest syria. now, southwest syria is significant, because that's where the assad regime is. that's not where the chemical weapons attacks are taking place. that's not where the vast majority of civilians are dying. a cease-fire in that area would effectively be a cease-fire that props up the assad regime, which is allied to putin. >> richard -- >> reporter: you want to hear more about the syria deal, the devil is in the details. >> absolutely. thank you for bringing that up. much-needed context. ambassador festanovich, stay with us for a moment, if you can. we have just gotten the playback from that briefing between reporters and rex tillerson and sean spicer. it starts off with rex tillerson. let's listen. >> president trump and president putin met this afternoon for two hours and fifteen minutes here on the sidelines of the g20. the two leaders exchanged views on the current nature of the u.s.-russia relationship, and the

a new video allegedly showing us helicopters over raca islamic state stronghold in syria has emerged as washington forces and breaking inside the city the u.s. describes its mission as quoted by a sister and a company. and eighteen year old palestinian has been killed in clashes with the israeli army near the west bank it comes just hours after a shootout in east jerusalem in which two israeli police officers and three gunmen were killed. you want to international live from moscow studio with me welcome to the program. this friday marks a year after the deadly tragedy in the french city of nice when a truck was rammed into a crowd leaving dozens dead. easy and living in france you charter was known to police for several violent crimes. just terror tactics direction lone wolves to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. that is not a. little and you will see we are in a new era and france will have to live with terrorism. one year on from the attack and not all the victims have recovered their health and that includes mental health is around three thousand people still receiving counseli

the legal basis for america to be in syria. is really not very valid it's all. another front against i saw it was opened at the end of may that was when u.s. backed kurdish forces reached the terrorists' defunct capital the battle to retake the city rages on but as already resulted in enormous civilian casualties many more people remain displaced some of those who fled the cold life between liberation forces and terrorists. i came from rucker nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and i saw but the strength of the coalition will worsen some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished houses families children women all were headed by the random strikes. i left my neighbors at home in the evening and went to sleep outside i came back in the morning just to find twelve of the date the children the mother and the man i buried them they died because of the shelling and i can cut the grass suffer i studied it was great but kalish walkley still less than an a team manager they carried out in their strike on high school an

>>> and syria agreement, presidents trump and putin managed to reach common ground on the war in syria. striking an important agreement on cease fire that could take an effect within days. can it stand beyond relenting blood shed in syria's brutal civil war? >>> we want to welcome our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jim sciutto and you're in "the situation room." >> translator: this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news at the g20 summit in germany tonight including new violent protests with clashes between demonstrators and police. fires are burning in the streets of hamburg and officials are reporting almost 200 police injured now, more than 80 people arrested. >>> also, new details of the first face-to-face meeting between trump and putin. it ran more than 90 minutes over schedule and began with mr. trump raising concern over russian cyber meddling in his u.s. presidential campaign. russia's foreign minister said mr. putin denied interference and mr. trump accepted his word. that account is denied. we have exclusive cnn

situation in syria. tension in southern city and used in syria because the current balance of power doesn't favor them so that's why i don't believe that there would be any breakthrough in the near future or whether or in geneva. well although there was no final day along the serious deescalation zones the u.n. special envoy to syria stephan de mistura said that progress had indeed been made enough to know what kind of progress was that. well i believe the escalation zones such approach progress. mending fences with a key which was considered as one of the basic players in the city in crisis since the onset of this crisis so this was another progress of course to progress by the syrian army on ground. against terrorist groups whether in the south or in the east and north is only byproduct of the us to not talks but still i believe that the us cannot books should be complemented with talks in geneva with the willingness of the united states to really set the solution a political solution for the sitting c

so we are empowering the russians in syria. this is, the secretary tillerson needs to step up the state department and use it wisely. >> is a gift for assad? we have --, good to see you. and a treatment the president said syrian cease-fire seems to be holding. many lives can be saved.came out of meeting good. do you think his confidence will be rewarded and the cease-fire at least in a small area will finally hold? >> i think the president is right. many lives can be saved.i think that lindsey graham is right in that you know assad is a problem. the thing is operating on many different levels. the end result, if all you do is try to be realistic then any attempt the de-escalation is a good thing from an aide perspective. humanitarian perspective. decreasing the killing as you pointed out, the carnage. possibly give any read half a million people killed so far in the civil war. millions offended. and forced to live as refugees. so anything that we can do to help de-escalate is a good thing. we have to also understand the is that

envoy special envoy for syria. and the agreed cease fire deal over an important area in the south of syria is a positive development the implementation of these arrangements towards a nationwide society should of whose to and unhindered humanitarian access is key to facilitate the interest syrian talks under u.n. auspices in geneva now while this is no doubt an important step forward in relations between the u.s. and russia shows the two sides can work in agreement they can come together and make some positive developments in terms of fighting terrorism let's not forget that we've been here before there have been numerous cease fires brokered numerous deescalation zones set up since the syrian war broke out six years ago when they've all broken down with the two sides accusing each other of violating the terms of these agreements so it would be top to mystic to say that this is a major breakthrough for the syrian conflict as a whole and actually when there are still a huge question still on. the major stumbling blo

here's the conundrum we are operating in the sovereign country of syria. the russians they're there they're stalwarts they're they're back stoppers have already uninvited the turks from syria were a bad day away from the russians saying why are you still in syria us and it's it is come up in the form of some some close calls there but it'll be hard i defer to the lawyers in the crowd and others in terms international all on the basis for us staying there other than our c.t. writ we went there for all the righteous reasons but if the russians play that card we may want to stay and have no. ability to do it they could played out and less martin jane says ever more people are coming round to the idea that america's presence in say rock violates center national. it's interesting that senior military officials are now sort of going to beginning to. show some disenchantment with donald trump policy loose the actually legal basis of america being in syria is a very shaky one it's based on u.n. rules that were adopted in two thousand and five which argued in theor

it is hard to know once they go into syria. but we have seen qatari funds going into syria and libya. charlie: al-nusra has been considered different than al qaeda, and my right? michael: it is the al qaeda affiliate in syria. charlie: it has gone through name changes. michael: yes. think of them as the al qaeda group and syria. there is a third piece of this, we talked about the terrorist organizations, the muslim brotherhood, and then there is al jazeera. in the american media, what you often see on this issue is, freedom of the press. al jazeera do its job as a journalistic organization. the american people need to think of it this way, what if a canadian broadcasting company was trying to incite individuals to conduct attacks in the united states? the united states would get upset about that and have a conversation with the canadian government about that. that is what is happening here. yousef: they are not mutually exclusive. you can support freedom of the press and be against incitement at the same time. this is not a pri

the legal basis for america to be in syria. is really not very valid it's all. over one hundred i saw suicide bombers could be preparing to strike europe more details on the story coming up right after the break. the solar industry is a job in california generates says of thousands of jobs new york tens of thousands of california is going to have a lot of jobs on the side or nobody is on this but they got a lot of desert obviously if they go solar they get a lot of job in texas and folks in texas going to say your ideology sucks we want to job this solar jobs you're out of office we're going to bring the folks to do it california still isn't that the way democracy works in america. but i do think that archie is propaganda arm of the russian government and helps to spread. information that helps advance russia's interests and so that's why i think it's important for people like me to come on if it were me i would be somebody who is less capable who would maybe not do as good a job presenting the american point of view. welcome back into pool has released a list o

. >>> a rare moment of hope in syria. a ceasefire set to start right now in parts of the country's southwest. >>> plus, a club of one. u.s. president trump approaches issues such as climate change and global trade drawing criticism from other world leaders. >>> and a boost for venezuela's embattled opposition. leopold low spez mopez is moved prison to house arrest. we want to welcome our viewers. i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, noon in damascus where a ceasefire is set to start right now. this the result of a deal that was reached bri the u.s. president and his russian counterpart. this happened on on the sidelines of the g-20 friday. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov say the two countries promised to ensure that all groups comply. following this story, we go live to jordan. we know that it's taking effect right now. what does this mean for people there on the ground? >> reporter: well, i think we have to wait and see. everyone really is waiting and seei

to face to iran iraq and syria it's true that they could rely on a proxy. in iraq but this has limit because of supporting the kurds. and here i mean you can understand the position of secretary of state who try to. set the bridges with russia because washington needs russia to pressure on iran to limit on iran at least in syria so because of obama administration policy. is that all would from. lack of clarity. washington lost a lot of tools and a lot of leverage it's true that now it's increasing its presence in terms of. presence on the ground and there are investing more but it's not easy to get back. to all the situation where they were the major force prevailing today their primary focus is to face up to iran but they need partners saudi arabia is deafening partner but they need other partners to this is where their son is trying to engage with the russian. it's very interesting is because i absolutely agree with sami i think it's the there are fewer and fewer tools of influence but there are more and more troops and troops are not a very good instrume

syria i mean how far away are we from from seeing that resolved. you're speaking about a cease fire throughout the country is that what your get the exactly i mean obviously people are talking about this very positively but in terms of finding of a final resolution to the conflict in syria that's still a long way off it seems. you know yes because you still i don't think you still have a you know consensus or a kind of people agreement on what the final settlement should be. you know do we want to go back to a united syria where by the syrian president controls all of syrian territory for example in that particular case if the syrian president bashar al assad was to seize control of all of syria that's a red line for his frail israel obviously would do its utmost to prevent that such a scenario from being fulfilled that's also our headline for turkey at the same time you have iran which believes that president bashar assad should have control of all of all of syria as he's a legitimate a syrian president so yes you don't have a convergence of views

, and have started acting in syria, this is a legitimate opposition. so if those people do not feel safe going back to the regime areas, how can we actually talk to the regime about sending them back to them? they might be persecuted. they might be put in danger. and the international community is not even ready to share their names with the syrian regime. will the unhcr share their names with the syrian regime? if the unhcr cannot do that, why should we be doing that? we're saying, we are being very logical and very practical about this. there are safe areas, they can choose to go back to them... they can choose, no one will be forced out of lebanon? lebanon has actually... that is a yes or no question. lebanon has agreed to the non—refoulement principle — so people will not be forced out, but we have to be also logical... there is always a but... let me explain the difference. if you are actually incentivising them, giving them a big cash and financial... are you going to bribe them to go home? no, no, you're giving them an incentive to stay in l

bases in northern syria in a comment to r.t. the u.s. central command said that the sources which contributed to this story cannot be independently verified adding that it would be very concerned if officials from its nato ally would purposefully endanger forces by releasing such sensitive information with more here's nick earring. this is how america's military presence in northern syria allegedly looks that's according to turkish state news agency on the dollar it claims to have detected america's hidden outposts scattered across kurdish held areas the agency reports there are as many as ten including two air bases one in army leon which is large enough for cargo planes and used to supply kurdish forces and another inherent hit which is slightly smaller reportedly used by military helicopters there's also said to be eight more military points which it's claimed are used to house military consultants operational planning offices and units to engage in active conflicts plus the equipment cap that allegedly includes artillery batteries ro

they won it in a war from syria. so they're trying to get this thing tamped down because the longer this goes on, the more chance it has to spill over these borders, and the israelis are not going to put up with hezbollah on their border, let alone the iranians. they a hate the iranians, for good reason. and the same thing with the george jordanians. they want to seal this thing off, so it's going to take the major powers -- the adults in the room, the russians and the americans -- to come to some political solution acceptable to all of those contingent groups as well as the president of the united states is going to have to explain to the american people why he's cutting the deal, and the russian president a little less so have to explain to the russian people why he's cutting the the deal. arthel: and before i let you go, captain nash, apart from the temporary ceasefire in syria, potential military options as it pertains to north korea surfaced during the g20. should a military response to north korea many be consi

they discussed important topics like syria. i think many of you have seen some of the news that just broke regarding the escalation agreement, the memoranda that was agreed between the u.s., regardingd jordan southwest syria that affects the security of jordan but is also a very complicated part of the syrian battlefield. -escalation area was agreed. a cease-fire has been entered into. this is our first indication of the u.s. and russia being able to work together in syria. as a result, we had a lengthy discussion regarding other areas in syria where we can continue to work together on the area.ing and to work together towards a political process that will secure the future of the syrian people. ofa result, at the request vladimir putin, the u.s. has appointed a special representative for ukraine. ambassador kurt volker. he will draw on his decades of experience in the u.s. diplomatic corps, both as a representative to nato and also his time as a permanent political of treatment. the leaders also acknowledged the challenges of