or boycott israel. in essence, it allows us to boycott the boycotters. something that is an infringement on the first amendment, but let me tell you, the first amendment protects speech and actions that function in the form of speech. this is not an effort to silence speech, nor is this an effort to silence speak, per se, it is an effort to defend the right to counter speak. you have a right to express your views on something. you have a right to boycotting country, and people have a right to boycott you, and that is what this law allows you to do. it is that simple. by the way, this is not some domestic debate. they are not trying to influence some law that we are passing here in bds. they are not trying to influence your opinions on a topic. they are trying to influence the foreign policy of another country. this is not traditional free speech. the courts have given congress and the executive reached extraordinary discretion on the setting of foreign policy, and when a company weighs in on bds, they a

if you're not investing in israel, anyone here not investing in israel? [laughter] pm netanyahu: invest in israel. you should. david: you were the first israeli prime minister to be born in israel. but you moved to the united states when you were initially eight-years-old, right? pm netanyahu: yes. i came for a year. david: then you didn't like it and went back? pm netanyahu: i was eight years old. [laughter] pm netanyahu: i was an independent kid but not that independent. [laughter] david: then you came back to the united states a a teenager? pm netanyahu: yeah. david: you went to m.i.t. and majored in architecture. did you want to be an architect? pm netanyahu: yeah at the time i did. i got an under degree in architecture and did four years in two years. after two years, i got my under graduate degree and then i decided i'd go to the sloan school and got an mba. david: mba, and then you went to bcg. you are in a business career with a great firm. what propelled you to get out of that, possibly getting into private equity even and going to something else

so you're israel. you have your mortal enemy, iran, your mortal enemy had a assad, and your mortal enemy from the groups north of you in that country. so israel is taking action. they are increasingly and openly acknowledging as they launch these attacks into syria to try to put thumb selves into that position. they cannot allow people and they cannot allow organizations whose very existence is justified by the destruction of the jewish state to openly operate and increase their capacity just north of their border. that's what's happening and that's why israel is increasingly striking. but thereon the words of -- but listen to the words from a broadcast is that hezbollah was on television, in a public -- open television interview, and he basically warned israel, he said, if israel continues to strike within syria in this way, it's going to lead to a war. and it's going to lead to a war because syria and its allies, including them, but also iran, are going to have to retaliate for these attacks. so if y

gaza was a mass terrorist israel attacked and it's not enough to just support israel but you have to want those who don't support israel to be punished senator marco rubio is going after a newly elected congresswoman simply because he had voted against a law that would penalize. those who boycott israel and it's not just democrats who catch flack if they don't toe the tell of eve line rand paul a republican is facing away the attack ads congress wants to authorize key military support to keep israel safe president trump strongly supports it but not rand paul and his stand with israel or will you stand in the way if you want to be successful in politics follow the lead of new york city mayor bill de blasio he actually went as far as saying that being pro israel is part of his job and this is what i do as mayor it's a sacred responsibility to speak up for and defend the state of israel there is no closer relationship on earth literally no closer relation to than that between new york city and the state of israel and when it comes to media coverage of israel palestine conflicts well it'

if you're not investing in israel, anyone here not investing in israel? [laughter] pm netanyahu: invest in israel. you should. david: you were the first israeli prime minister to be born in israel. but you moved to the united states when you were initially eight-years-old, right? pm netanyahu: yes. i came for a year. david: then you didn't like it and went back? pm netanyahu: i was eight years old. [laughter] pm netanyahu: i was an independent kid but not that independent. [laughter] david: then you came back to the united states a a teenager? pm netanyahu: yeah. david: you went to m.i.t. and majored in architecture. did you want to be an architect? pm netanyahu: yeah at the time i did. i got an under degree in architecture and did four years in two years. after two years, i got my under graduate degree and then i decided i'd go to the sloan school and got an mba. david: mba, and then you went to bcg. you are in a business career with a great firm. what propelled you to get out of that, possibly getting into private equity even and going to something else

and boycott israel. in essence, it allows us to boycott the boycotters. now, some say that's an infringement on the first amendment. first i would tell you the first amendment protects speech and actions that function in the form of speech. this is not an effort to silence speech, nor is this an effort, by the way, to defeat an effort per se. it is an effort to defend the right to counterspeak. the first amendment is a two-way street. you have your right to express your views on something, but others have a right to respond. you have a right to boycott a country and people have a right to boycott you. and that's what this law allows them to do. it's that simple. by the way, this is not some domestic debate. this is about -- they're not trying to influence some law that we're passing here in b.d.s. they're not trying to influence your opinions on a topic. they're trying to influence the foreign policy of another country. this is not traditional free speech. the courts have weighed in on this in the past a

and jews identifying strongly with israel, as well as within israel itself, because, for many, these two concepts, international human right and zionism, have come to be used -- viewed by many as polar opposite. i'm going to say a few words about this because it will give you the context of the moment we -- and why i wanted to explore the sister and explain to myself and all of us how we got here and what the story is really about. full disclaimer. i would say parts of the left. there is the idea that zionism is viewed as a tribalism and at worst is a form of racism. roguel is demonized as a regime linked to police fertility a link to all manner onic ideologies of racial some periodic. more specifically, as many of you may be aware in england today, british politics is convulsed with the debate about zionism. is debatingarty whether it's tax of his leadership constitutes anti-zionism or a political critique. starbucks frequently partner with the anti-defamation league to deal with bias, and he and i was to do sensitivity training in terms of racial bias, because of an incident in phi

only to the jews living is israel —— in israel but also the jews living is israel —— in israel but also thejews living outside of israel. if tomorrow, god forbid, the state of israel did not exist any more, i think the situation ofjews in the whole world will change radically. we know what it meant to bejewish... radically. we know what it meant to be jewish. .. i totally understand that. i don't think you are answering my specific point. is it your perspective that israel is ultimately the only safe place, truly safe place for the jewish people? so, it is the job of an israeli prime minister, is rayleigh politicians to invitejews to come to israel. it is ourjob of the conference of european rabbis to make sure that jews conference of european rabbis to make sure thatjews in europe can live safely. and you believe they can? i believe that the future of jews in europe is dependent on the future of europe. if europe gets its act together, and we are going to go through these changes and turbulence, and europe is going to come out as a stronger entity, a safe entity, that i think there is

is in the white house to trumpet ministration is clearly a pro israel israel has also a lot of good will in the sunni arab state that a very warry above the iranian expansion and period lism in the middle east and therefore the time is on israel's side as long as the iranians do not have nuclear weapons and i think israel will pretty much demand that iran does what israel is demanding for many years now which is to stop the resupply of hizbollah the iranians are under economic pressure because of the oil sanctions and because of the white house policies and if they rainiest are not listening to what the israelis are telling them then this is collation may continue in the lebanon and syria space and possibly as we just recently learned from the reported by the israeli television university is to do it for strategic studies also possibly action in the territory of iran itself well arrow one of the timing pre-show perspective thanks very much indeed thank you. turkish president reza type and has spoken with donald trump to discuss u.s. troop withdrawal from syria the phone conversation come

israel will hit back harder. you can easily see missile start coming out of lebanon and into israel and israel is funny with overwhelming force, and now we have a much rotter conflict -- and israel responding with overwhelming force, and now we have a much broader conflict. the united states stands ready to equip israel in the case of such a contingency is one of the best things we can do to prevent it from happening. there's enemies believe any doubt the u.s. will step forward and help israel we supply, you increase the probability that they will miscalculate and take such action. if a no -- if they know we are committed to rearming israel is often as is necessary in order to help them defend themselves, and the chances of them attacking our diminished. that is why this bill authorizes u.s. security assistance and financing to israel at an amount no less than 3.3 billion dollars for the next 10 years. this is authorize a memorandum of understanding signed between the obama administration and israel. we are often

israel is a small but tourism is booming and israel is trying to compete to ways its neighbors mainly ways are kabar airport that actually was opened after the integration of the first airport in a lot daylight a lot airport i visited it i crossed it several times is quite limited and israel is trying to bring the winter tourists to the area and hopefully in the future we will see packages of tourist packages bringing european tourists coming here to warm up in the summer in a lot of them crossing to aqaba and to sign out i just listen to the report about gaza actually i also visited this airport in gaza when we were in the honeymoon days of all slow but it also reminds me that in two thousand and six. shimon peres at that time he was the one of the architects of all slow and the hero . has agreed with king abdullah of jordan of opening an international airport in a lot and our combat that will serve both sides that there will be one terminal on the israeli side and another terminal out in jordan and will offer its services to tourists coming to the middle east interesting how a thing

if you're not investing in israel, anyone here not investing in israel? [laughter] pm netanyahu: invest in israel. you should. david: you were the first israeli prime minister to be born in israel. but you moved to the united states when you were initially eight-years-old, right? pm netanyahu: yes. i came for a year. david: then you didn't like it and went back? pm netanyahu: i was eight years old. [laughter] pm netanyahu: i was an independent kid but not that independent. [laughter] david: then you came back to the and went back? pm netanyahu: i was eight years old. [laughter] pm netanyahu: i was an independent kid but not that independent. [laughter] david: then you came back to the united states as a teenager? pm netanyahu: yeah. david: you went to m.i.t. and majored in architecture. did you want to be an architect? pm netanyahu: yeah, at the time i did. i got an under degree in architecture and did four years and went back? pm netanyahu: i was eight years old. [laughter] pm netanyahu: i was an independent kid but not that independent. and two years. a

offensive israel's security was maintained this is of course going to be top of the agenda israel's main concerns inside syria is the presence of iranian backed militias is the presence of hezbollah and any potential weapons that can reach the group and can threaten israel security now these are the prime minister will be taking john bolton up to the occupied golan heights. and of course will be keen to show him the operation that israel's been undertaking there against tunnels that were dug by hezbollah also a message there in that press conference calling on the international community saying it was time for them to recognize the golden heights of course that israel occupied after the one nine hundred sixty seven war so syria and iran the threat of iran will be top of the agenda of course bolton looking to reassure israel that the troop withdrawal is not going to be a threat to israel's security of course the timing of that now very much up in the air i think no one really knows exactly how and when that is going to happen john h. jones is a u.s. foreign policy expert and a former

guards in syria as a direct threat to israel's security. after a rocket was fired over the golan heights israel has now warned of further counter attacks by syria syria's ally iran. the president of respect. today for talks with a chance of. president. minutes there is u.s. wants to deepen ties with germany his visit comes at a time of change for the central asian country the president's assumed power to me years ago following the death of the country's autocratic leader mr you know i have says he's committed to opening up the country to the rest of the world. compliments of head on recent political. this reform process is genuine. yes it does otherwise this visit to which is the first such visit in eighteen years simply wouldn't have taken place in fact as long as the previous president was in power the german government steadfastly refused requests for a meeting and the chancellor said as much in her remarks today she said that this visit was intended as a gesture of encouragement and as you said she commended the president for quote a lo

for threatening to destroy israel remarks came just hours after israeli jets launched nighttime air strikes against what it described as a rainy and weapons depos in damascus russia says thirty israeli cruise missiles and guided bombs were shot down by its advanced added fence. another reminder of the challenge facing newly appointed united nations special envoy to syria who met with russia's foreign minister in moscow. holder is live for us in neighboring beirut saying the looking at the situation now is it looks like the conflict is taking a new turn. well since the beginning for years now there were and are many wars in syria's war one of them is israel's war against iran israel now being more vocal a shift in its policy because it has been hitting iranian targets in syria for some time now and it rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the strikes and providing information on what exactly is being hit as they hit the target so a very different israel with the message that we will not stop there will be no letup until iran leaves syria iran just as defiant saying that it will

some messages to israel. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last m

israel, the state of israel, overwhelmingly in congress and the senate passed a resolution today with marco rubio's amendment, it's not a question. for this new generation of far left democrats, as we talked about earlier in the show, governor, everything is on the table. you saw this coming a long time ago, you saw this coming 20 years ago. where are the republicans out there really supporting the president's agenda and exposing what this stuff is at its very co core? >>> it's one of the reasons that republicans need to circle their own wagons around their principles and around their president. this is a president who has had some really gutsy split cal moves p it's not just moving the embassy but taking a strong stand recognizing israel's right to exist and the unity of the city of jury is lump, that may not seem bold but it is because he's the first president in my lifetime who has been as clear about it as anybody has ever been.

what is talking about is the fact that there is an election in israel scheduled for april the ninth so has the cutter embroil ahmadi that describing it as being political brought by by the israelis we understand that the netanyahu government has been under a lot of pressure regarding this money that was being donated by full gaza the main sticking issue is the fact that a lot of that money. was was focused on the employees civil servants within hamas and of course there are numerous parties right wing groups in israel the see hamas as a terrorist organization and accuse netanyahu basically filling houses pockets with this money i think what's interesting though is certainly in the last couple of days we've heard reports that all the main security services in israel agreed that it was necessary to get this money to cause. through hamas as well they understand that this money was certainly being seen as a means of possibly calming the situation down his specifically looking at these friday protests. now it saves that as you say how nice a start to their guns they say they are not going t

on sunday which was itself a response to israel's air raid in the damascus international airport. explosions in the skies over damascus early on monday morning the syrian observatory for human rights says some syrians have been killed israel's military has confirmed that it targeted at radian and syrian positions including arsenals and training camps as seen in this footage. during a visit to china yesterday israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu called it an early warning of a long term military strategy. is one of the newly prominently pursue a policy of attacking iranian positions in syria and everyone who tries to harm. the policy was developed after a drone attack on israel from an iranian position in syria in february last year in the months that followed israel did hundreds of military bases arsenals and radar stations across syria the goal was to destroy the iranian infrastructure there as much as possible. his real increasingly views the expansion of iranian positions and the deployment of iranian revolutionary guards in syria as a direct threat to israel's security. a

china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially when israel and government to uphold national sovereignty independence and threatening military interference and continued to support efforts made by the stability. the growing political economic and humanitarian crisis in venezuela has attracted global headlines and concern the main evening news on state controlled television has shown pictures of the protests but so far made no mention of the violence or suffering of the people. as in africa chinese influence in south america is expanding fast especially in venezuela besides money china has also been helping the mature regime in another important way its no venezuela's biggest provider of arms including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective during the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing. let's move to other news the u.k.'s prime minister has met the opposition leader labor leader jeremy corben as they try to find common ground on a deal to leave the european union the british parliament given may a two week deadline to rene

experts worry israel. between the two countries is no secret since the early days of the syrian war eight years ago israeli forces have targeted iranian allies of the government. but continuing israeli strikes. in syria means what started out as a sidebar to the war runs the risk of becoming a parallel conflict. we have been fighting israel in different ways. there is a direct contact because. we are monitoring their activities and we are capable of retaliation so far we have not decided to enter direct war with israel because we believe the syrian government should make this decision they haven't yet but it may happen and if it does we should expect a direct and very wide war on the ground. with no immediate borders between them open conflict with israel would probably look like proxy battles of the past like. experts say strikes on each other cities is also a possibility but the most dangerous escalation would come from the involvement of israel. and iran. the united states if that were to happen many ex

for braggs it are about to find out its israel opens a brand new international airport we'll tell you why palestinians are stuck on the ground. and it's war find out why this tennis player lost his cool at least for you know. britain's prime minister's reason may is set to address parliament and lay out a plan b. for the brigs that withdrawal agreement her original deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament last week she's already met rival party leaders in the hope of reaching a breakthrough the u.k. is scheduled to leave the e.u. on march the twenty ninth. paul brennan joins us live now from london i guess the big question paul is what might the prime minister be willing or able to offer to get the process out of its current dead end. it seems that she's not willing or prepared to offer hardly anything at all frankly the informed speculation here at westminster is that plan b. will be almost identical to what plan a was which was so emphatically rejected last tuesday by a majority of two hundred thirty votes in the building behind me the prime minister theresa may

a result of israel's you know israel is the one which has been escalating especially recently particularly since the trouble for president trump and also his intention to withdraw from syria since the time we've seen these escalated is ready attacks on syria are ongoing by elations of syrian sovereignty and so hence we see this strong syrian reaction as a result of this is really a skill ation now we're getting a question what is the likelihood do what could happen we all know that the u.s. has provided israel with diplomatic cover over many issues whether it be its policies towards the palestinians whether it be its policies wars on lebanon which we've seen and i think that the u.s. will probably try and give cover. for the israelis regarding the s get out tree activities in syria but to produce a lot of pain to mention this point i think that bashar jaafari in his remarks that he was addressing first and foremost to trumpet ministration because syria syria knows of the trumpet mr ation doesn't want to get involved in any new war and i think what the syrians republish trying to say for th

some messages to israel. course it will. continue providing. missile. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last m

ally in the ronger middle east than the state of israel. israel has proven itself to be a resilient beacon of democratic facing threats daily since its founding in 1948. ur two nations have worked closely to stop terrorism, to spread of terrorism and chemical weapons proliferation regimes like syria and iran. the legislation today will support for strong israel including $3.3 billion securityin annual u.s. assistance. that's consistent with the understanding which was signed by, in 2016, president obama. and the 115th congress, 72 senators, 72 senators, democrats, and co-sponsored this legislation. t passed in the senate unanimously on august 1 of 2018. there is no reason why my the aisle across should not support this legislation today. o reason, in order to show our strong bipartisan support to our at a and ally, israel, time of great need. this package also includes rovision supporting state governmentes that have taken action against the anti-israel nd anti-semitic movement known ment sanctions.st this legislation before us today simply

defense of israel security was maintained this is of course going to be top of the agenda israel's main concerns inside syria is the presence of iranian backed militias is the presence of hezbollah and any potential weapons that can reach the group and can threaten israel security now the israeli prime minister will be taking john bolton up to the occupied golan heights. and of course will be keen to show him the operation that israel's been undertaking there against tunnels that were dug by hezbollah also a message there in that press conference calling on the international community saying it was time for them to recognize the golden highs of course that is right occupied after the one nine hundred sixty seven war so syria and iran the threat of iran will be top of the agenda of course bolton looking to reassure israel that the troop withdrawal is not going to be a threat to israel's security of course the timing of that now very much up in there i think no one really knows exactly how and when that is going to happen. after israel bolton will travel to turkey ankara considers many of

defense of israel and their friends in the region is absolutely assured john h. johnson is a u.s. foreign policy expert and a form a senior congressional advisor he says baldness trying to reassure allies concerned by trump's foreign policy the number one problem is the trump policy of carrying out foreign policy be your tweet has real world consequences and be impulsive decision to pull troops out of syria as startled our allies in the region and even led to the resignation of a u.s. defense secretary so i'm sure a ambassador bolton is there in an attempt to assure partners in the region bad even though this announcement was announced in a rather cavalier way. it is the plan of the attention of the administration to not carry out this withdrawal in the same way it was announced and the hope i would imagine from ambassador bolton viewpoint is to try to reduce the tremendous level of concern in the region which is totally understandable i believe if you just look at the past two years there are those in israel who. by and large support trumps decision to switch the us embassy or to

predicted the end of israel giving the country twenty five years until it destroyed itself. his supporters did the math and put a clock in palestine square in downtown tehran for those who take the word of the supreme leader as literal and this countdown clock is more than just a publicity stunt for many iranians it is a real time countdown to the end of israel as we know it. better. still bear the scars of the eight year war with neighboring iraq in the one nine hundred eighty s. and even with israel a rush to who're seems unwanted janko well first of all war is not a good thing because all countries involved take a loss and if there is a war we won't start it but we will fight until our last drop of blood to defend our country and even read in front of iran won't go for what iran is just defending itself we don't say war will never happen every moment we expect it but we will defend ourselves and we will surely when. better to avoid war as much as possible is better things can be solved by talks docks without any perception of think about it. while low level skirmishes wit

israel says it was targeting iranian forces. but it also hit syrian air defenses after they tried to launch missiles. the video from the israelis purports to show an attack on a syrian site. >> israel says the strikes come after iranian forces tried to launch a rocket at the golan heights from syria. the israeli military tweeted out this video and said the rocket was intercepted by israel's iron dome system. and for more, cnn's oren lieberman is live in jerusalem. he joins us now. what were you learning about circumstances surrounding these air strikes? and of course what is happening right now? >> reporter: rosemary, let's take this back to where this all began on sunday morning. we just got more information from the idf, the israel defense forces, which is the israeli military. this starts on sunday morning when israel launches on targets innia. that strike is called out by both the russians and the syrians. and then in a fairly rare move is ak or apparently acknowledged by prime minister benjamin netanyahu on a trip to africa

said it in the sense that a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria israel's president said the strikes were retaliation against iran. very. close to the an acceptable we should follow formats yes runyan forces from syrian territory this is. clearly begins the new influences in syria and it creates the region. we will not allow to happen to the international community massing the. forces in the middle east who would lead the region into a skill aish polls have now closed in the southern philippines region of mindanao and a historic vote on autonomy the new proposal would mean greater local control and less dependence on the national government. stray shell fire in libya has killed the news camera man who works for al-jazeera and other leading media organizations thirty five year old mohammed bin khalifa died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia. but as the headlines the news continues here now in search of who to russia stay with us. children's lives none of. us wish that they did watch a sudden much to miss certainly this. still has that. this year. trying to.

if israel fulfills that, who was there? and israel does not want to say. you probably do not want to test the proposition, especially during an election period where the prime minister is going to be criticized if he does not do enough. might other hand, you probe to see what the thresholds of primein the case minister netanyahu, on the one hand he wants to convey a very tough rhetorical posture that he hopes will be convincing so that it deters anything from happening, weather in gaza or if it happens in the northern front, and in both cases, the last thing he probably wants is to have a conflict that is unlikely to be decisive. and is not easy to bring to a conclusion. and there clearly are hence from fromesk from hezbollah -- hezbollah and the iranians that all the resistance would be involved. just in gaza alone, would that really mean that nothing would be happening on the northern front? hamas now has people -- now has people in southern lebanon. all sides real allies it is not in their interest to have a conflict. and as we have seen before, even th

bolton on his visit wed to israel's concerns lie when it comes to syria. well it's all about the iranian presence militias backed by iran hezbollah in particular this is also an area where israel has been very active militarily throughout the syrian war it has targeted very rarely confirms has done so occasion the policy of targeting weapons shipments to hezbollah weapons warehouses and this is something that it says it will continue to do now the americans are saying that it fully supports israel in this but israel's concern of course is if you have these troops pull out you will have a power vacuum which of course it's all about balance of power when it comes to the ground in syria so it's concern that these iranian backed militias will benefit from that situation so this is what they'll be discussing what is the pullout going to look like when is it going to happen as you mentioned earlier bolton putting a couple of preconditions on that now that make it a little more complicated so i think still a big question mark about how and when it's going to happ

and the bill they are refusing relates to israel, our great friend israel and the atrocities having a hard time understanding why the senate should be shut down this looks pretty good and i don't know why we cannot process bills the vast majority of us support. i helped to pass all of these bills at the end of last session so we are unable to do it but the vast majority of members in the senate so no matter how you view the government shutdown there is

israel and iran exchanged. for his crew that it could lead to a wider regional war with global consequences. and with the potential to get a. relationship with the north. pole. hello we've had a couple of fine days not just in iraq but throughout live and so it's time to bring another storm system in there is it's one that's been really quite active in the eastern med particular across turkey it'll swing in and it's just this line here but ahead of it is inducing yet more rain this green that runs out of egypt through northern saudi in jordan that is just developing in situ more or less produce some fairly heavy downpours and last a day or two does not attempt very much with eighteen degrees in baghdad but the dark darkness in the green suggests some pretty heavy rain in eastern iraq running up to the north coast it will be snow to get to the high ground in turkey in northern syria and tolerate on well briefed and showers all systems rain comes back to lebanon this is during monday because the tail of green whi

israel takes aim at iranian military targets in syria killing at least four syrian soldiers. down in jordan this is al jazeera law. also coming up the u.s. and turkey discuss the withdrawal of american troops from syria with ankara ready to take over security in the kurdish town. seeking peace voters in the southern philippines cast their ballots in a referendum aimed at ending a decades long conflict. our licensing laws in the death knell for taiwan's traditional medicine industry. for syrian soldiers have been killed in israeli airstrikes on iranian targets in syria the video posted to social media appears to show missiles intercepted near damascus russia says during those strikes early on monday syrian air defenses destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria but a solid binge of aid is live for us now in gaziantep that's on the turkey syria border the russians there saying that syrian air defenses shot down more than thirty israeli cruise missiles what more can you tell us.