and expensive syrians there also usually earn significantly less than the locals. it was tough we couldn't really live in lebanon comfortably we decided to come back but. the high cost of living and the low wages weren't the only reasons they left lebanon on after five long years. most people respected us but some kept telling us you're taking away our work in the form of. his former house was badly damaged during the war now his family has to live in rented accommodation but they aren't complaining so it's a wonderful feeling i can't explain it now we are here again in my village after all that's happened this is still my home if you travel or are forced to flee as a refugee there's only one place you can call home. but just eleven years of age their daughter has lived almost half her life in lebanon now she's starting a new adventure joining classes at the local school. on the first day of school i was really happy that i knew friends at school different friends than those i had in lebanon. from a harvard it's not an easy restart he doesn't know who damaged his f

some time back in may syrian state t.v. the. military hundreds of. them and he denies these reports but some of the finds. elsewhere and on numerous occasions we reached out to do some in post who told us they were forced to move by the only. reasons. investigative journalist martin hamill says it's hard these days to hide something once it's been published it probably appeared in such a major media outlet because it has some truth it's not such a secret it's been done many times before no one wants to publicize it the syrian rebels don't want to be publicized in the fact they're working with the evil jewish state and the jewish state doesn't want to publicize the fact that it's working with syrian rebels that are allied to others because they're enemies as well but they there is a common interest here and it falls the rule of the enemy of my enemy is my friend but clearly it stepped on some people's toes here they don't want it out to publicly and they decided to retract it well you can't retract anything that's already out and in this world today.

for them displaced from territory rick by the syrian government including. and the province nato has reported a russian naval buildup in the mediterranean sea where russia is holding exercises from saturday. let's introduce our panel of experts in our man. military analyst and retired air force general in moscow. nick of a middle east expert of the russian international affairs council and in london they're consulting a research fellow on syria chatham house welcome to you all these seem to be quite significant a moment in syria. do you think that a final push to recover. is just a matter of days or weeks diplomacy is working right now with the negotiation also with the militant but the question is whether their friends will start or to see the summit in that iran which is going to be next week and that iran. this is the gift and this might lead to. i could say diplomacy might be too late but i think there is some strategic points which is really want to get back to. just a short south. and the merely the highways in five and four these are very strategic fo

coast it was returning to the russian air base at humber mean near the syrian city of latakia not at the time for israeli jets firing at syrian facilities in the area they hit a power station amongst others and initial reports suggest that at least seven people were injured on the ground at the same time there was a french frigate which was launching rockets from the mediterranean and the syrian military had activated its missile defense batteries now the foreign media was very quick to point fingers at the syrians and blame the syrians even without any kind of conclusive proof coming forward there is always coordination between the israelis and the russians over any kind of israeli actions syrian air space but the fact that in this case that coordination seems to have been hugely insufficient is something that is going to need to be investigated here in israel with all calls to both the army and the foreign ministry have yielded nothing the response we have received to date is no comment so we all waiting to see what these radio response if and when it comes will be but certainly th

displaced the devastating conflict in syria appears to be moving toward a decisive battle russian and syrian warplanes have been bombarding the outskirts of islam in northwestern syria the lats remaining rebel stronghold over three million people are trapped in the city this week the united nations warned of an impending humanitarian catastrophe with thousands of casualties and the risk of mass flight by those who can't get out of germany and other western countries are considering retaliatory action should syria's military resort to poison gas during an offensive is its live the so-called endgame in syria and what happens after the end those are the questions we want to address in quadriga and these are our guests my sume men them is of syrian origin and she works on d. w's arabic show she believes the battle for it live could be the end game for rebels in syria but its legacy could start a new hard time for both turkey and europe. and we're very glad to have the poster on the program once again he's a commentator for the daily newspaper to vote and he says germany should join the allied mi

turkey was against it from the start gearing more syrian -- fearing more syrian refugees. this video was taken last friday. turkey says they were setting up further observation post. now, hope at long last for 3 million syrian civilians in idlib. russia insists there will be no military offensive in idlib. brent: let's bring in our correspondent emily scherwin an d julia hahn tonight. flesh this deal out for us between two countries on opposite sides of the syrian conflict. emily: two countries on opposite sides of the conflict but they have agreed to create this demilitarized zone. idlib -- in didlib by mid october. that's zone will be 20 kilometers wide and will be the short by russian and turkish forces. they will also withdraw all heavy weaponry from that zone. radical rebels will have to pull out of the zone according to vladimir putin. this is into the cease-fire that turkey had been pushing for, it is more of a compromise but it is a step in the direction of peace and toward what turkey wanted from vladimir putin. brent: from where you are standing, julia, is this t

anti-government rebels and more than three million civilians are trapped that over recent weeks the syrian government backed by russian forces have been threatening an all out attack on the region turkey on the opposite side of the conflict a fierce an influx of thousands of refugees across its border in what the u.n. has warned could become a humanitarian catastrophe no details have yet been. at least about exactly where this safe step will be established. the promise from ridge of thai air to one and let him have hooten it live will be a safe haven they'll be no bitter battle for control of the last rebel held province in syria. hootin an heir to one of agreed to set up a demilitarized zone by mid october they say russian and turkish troops will patrol a buffer strip between syrian government forces and rebels. but. we both agree that implementation of the plan steps will give new amounts into the process of resolving the syrian conflict politically allowing work to intensify an international solution and it will contribute to peace returning to syrian soil. russia and turkey both have d

do syrians it means that. the russians soldiers. revealed the syrians are operating as three hundred and that's the major to extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system knowing that the russians are going to be implicated and so all of that to say. in the absence of any kind of russian agreement to let these readies do basically what they wanted to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obvious need any interest in syria this year in government and his well known and consequently really limited i believe the margin for the israelis to men who are as they used to the israelis do have some considerable leverage with the russians mr rabbani how much action you know can russia take against israel given things like we had from israeli minister. earlier this year who was very quick to remind russia that. you know israel didn't join and western sanctions against russia for its actions in crimea it didn't kick russian ambassadors and diplomats out of its

russians sold a missile system to the syrians which to syrians are using in order to take down israeli aircrafts and they've missed israeli aircraft and they heard a russian aircraft so to say that israel is to be completely. in charge of this would be far from reality it was the syrian me sell hurting the russian aircraft. that's number one number two to say that israel does not appreciate the russian cooperation i think is also very far from reality because since two thousand and fifteen israel has conducted over two hundred air strikes and it was with complete cooperation with russia no unfortunate incidents do happen but it's by percentages less than one percent. if we go into some of the details here are indeed the language that was used by by russia moscow sais that it was warned too late that israel was carrying out operations in the area literally minutes before it do you agree in not respect that either negligence or a lack of professionalism on israel's side could at least be a factor here. i definitely think both sides need to do whatever he can so these incidents will never

is claim the president bashar al assad gave the order to use chlorine the syrian authorities are not going to do that they do not have chemical weapons i ask you again to listen to us it would be an invitation for the western countries to launch an attack on syria which they're threatening if chemical weapons are used. hawkins takes a closer look at the fears of a potential chemical attack. the russian ministry of defense has been warning for two weeks of a possible false flag operation by militants using chemical weapons a red line for the u.s. and its allies according to the russian military that possibility became clearer citing local residents in the town of jews that show good or they claim camera crews on site have recorded footage of an alleged chemical attack by the syrian government including video of what helmets rescuers treating supposed victims the footage says is to be sent to numerous channels imminently to justify a u.s. led military intervention the u.s. department of defense hasn't yet responded to us directly with comment on these claims although the u.s. has made

plane to be hit and downed and when the syrian army launched syrian army launched missiles and hit the russian plane israeli effulgence were already within israeli headspace so they don't playing the fact that the russians are blaming israel for all this but they are saying that this is squarely on the shoulders of not just syria but iran and hezbollah as well so they're ratcheting up tensions with the syrian regime and with iran with hezbollah maintaining a conciliatory regretful tone towards the russians and why is that is because since two thousand and fifteen they've had the russians and the israelis an agreement that the confliction agreement which they say is working and perhaps that's much more crucial to them than any kind of escalation of the conflict between those two parties russia and israel all right so iran can talk you very much indeed two hundred live from occupied east jerusalem now let's go straight to new york this is the scene at the security council where the member states the fifty. member states are gathering they're awaiting a briefing from de mistura the u.n. s

with the syrian government preparing to retake the last major rebel stronghold of it live there are signs the country's civil war could be entering its final stages the war drove hundreds of thousands of syrians to seek refuge in neighboring lebanon after years often three years now beirut wants them to return home to areas that have been deemed safe for one returning syrian family the last five years has been a struggle on both sides of the border. the small village of beit jr knew the

tween the syrian government forces and militants there. being that serious planned operation against terrorists will be put on hold . the russian defense ministry tracks the serial number of the missing link by the official investigation for the downing of the mh seventeen these top secret documents unclassified of course for the.

now it has been almost entirely controlled by rebels and is a must to hottest but in recent weeks the syrian government has threatened to attack it love and its capital city city so this deal could prevent a major humanitarian crisis but details are still unclear including exactly where in islam. this saves would be. the promise from ridge of thai air to one and let him have putin it live will be a safe haven they'll be no bitter battle for control of the last rebel held province in syria. hootin an heir to one of agreed to set up a demilitarized zone by mid october they say russian and turkish troops will patrol a buffer strip between syrian government forces and rebels. but. we both agree that implementation of the plan steps will give a new amount into the process of resolving the syrian conflict politically allowing work to intensify on an international solution and it will contribute to peace returning to syrian soil. russia and turkey both have direct strategic interests in syria moscow has strongly backed syria's president bashar assad's regime with troops on the ground but turkey too

and so the lawsuit is as much the syrian people at this point as it is. my family i want them to know that we have got. so we are trying to work. it seems. really i know very would have done a lot more. but what i. you know someone on twitter this is thomas he says i think the family will have a good case against the assad regime there's a lot of evidence confirming the deliberate killing of marie colvin and holmes by the regime the regime however will not care much about the case or any final judgment so there is that but but picking up on that last sentence there is what i want to pivot to thinking about the syrian government and the war thus far scott here in the killing of marie colvin was not just the killing of a journalist it was an attempted to turn for any journalist and remember all of the syrian journalists who've been killed detained and tortured for bringing us that window on war and the evil of those waging it chris do you want to take that on was there a chilling effect after the death of marie and really. you know i mean i think paula's pr

syrian government installations are fully to blame. the israeli pilots were using the russian aircraft as a shield and pushed it into the line of fire of the syrian defenses as a result the aircraft which has a much more effective reflecting surface than the israeli jets was brought down by the missile defense system israeli aviation management on the pilots of the f. sixteen jets most have seen the russian aircraft as it was landing from the height of five kilometers however they have done a provocation deliberately now a recovery operation in the area of the crash is on their way we regard these provocative actions of israel as hostile as a result of the irresponsible actions of the israeli military fifteen russian servicemen died it is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of russia israeli partnership we reserve the right to make an appropriate response where the israeli military says it regrets the incident but that the syrians were firing indiscriminately it says it's fighter jets were targeting a syrian government site where

on the outskirts of bombed out syrian cities new tent cities are being built. sort of snowy and not all are as tidy as the camp filmed by the drones these images are from the syrian village of very close to the turkish border more than three million people are now living in the province of it house of them have fled fighting in other parts of syria. has returned from his eighth delivery in it he says the people there are more optimistic since a feared large scale offensive by the syrian army was for now a very it's a glimmer of hope but no more reason to get a little we bring our aid supplies into the people there and we leave again but they are always there day and night for them explosions and bomb attacks have become a part of their daily reality for the children too that's very hard for me to take let's hope that this fighting truly comes to an end and all these displaced people can return to their cities because. the red crescent sends aid convoys across the border at least four to five times a week how do you reckon does makes his way back to how tight in

secretary of state accusing russia and president assad of escalating the syrian conflict he described plans to liberate italy province from extremists as an assault by compare also said civilians there would bear the brunt of the offensive against terror groups r.t. had a chance to speak to the syrian foreign minister about the fight against your hardest and his country. first of all the international community should recognize that it leapfrogged syrian territory and this syrian government must regain full control of it secondly as president assad said our priorities live by that peacefully which we prefer or use in the military thirdly it is clear that the new city is listed as a terrorist organization by the united nations to protect c.b. then. we have opened and humanitarian corridor it has been open for two weeks and we have already received hundreds of families on these bases and i can say that if military action is considered necessary it will be only. the news that those groups who are in favor of a settlement deal should voice their position and me their commitments in terms

to the reports as jets were attacking syrian installations in the area. south korea's president moon j m is in pyongyang for his furred summit with north korean leader kim jong un now these are some of the first pictures that we're seeing off the north and south korea's korean leader's actual summit meeting in pyongyang and it's the first time such a summit has been held at the headquarters of north korea's ruling workers' party where kim jong un has his office. this is the third meeting between these two leaders it's been all smiles so far they're holding formal talks with north korea's nuclear disarmament high on the agenda now china says it has no option but to retaliate after the u.s. impose tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods duties will apply to nearly six thousand items including rice and textiles washington has warned it will hit beijing with even more tariffs if it retaliates. eighteen yemeni fishermen have been killed in shelling by saudi amorality coalition warship off. and south of the rebel held city of days

the top stories on me a russian military chats with fourteen people on board goes missing off the syrian coast during an israeli bombardment in the to care province. russia take a agree to create the demilitarized saying between syrian government forces and militants as a counterterrorist operation is put on hold. protests erupted in the libyan capital on sunday even living conditions house amid seven years of war following foreign intervention and the country. hello and welcome to r.t. international we start with some breaking news a russian military aircraft with fourteen personnel on board has disappeared from radar coverage off the coast of syria according to the russian defense ministry took off from an ad base and province let's cross live to our own. staying with syria the russian presidents have agreed to create a buffer zone in syria's in the province the goal is to separate syrian government forces from militants in the country's last major rebel stronghold. along the battle to militarize. fifteen it will be from fifteen to twenty kilometers one will move radicalize militants a

everyone time is short these aid packages are bound for the syrian border. but there are still empty boxes here at the red crescent depot in how tight. helps with packing even though it isn't one of his usual tasks he's the chief coordinator of his organization's aid to syria we're going to. these things we can care for one hundred twenty five thousand people from head to toe in the camps for displaced people and. but in order for all this to go smoothly it's crucial for the transport to go quickly and be well organized. in one corner of the warehouse there is a display of what the red crescent workers take across the border to shoes toys washing powder hygiene supplies food and cooking utensils for the. most of the families there have been displaced in the province of it live alone there are more than four hundred camps and the people there have a very hard time getting by. most of them have lost absolutely everything they once had. turkey has taken in more refugees than any other country about three point five million syrians now live on this side of the b

shows article outlines his role has been providing syrian rebel groups with money and arms while the i.d.f. maintains that it was not intervening in syria's civil war on minded confirm that as part of operation good neighbor israel has been regularly supplying syrian rebels near its border with light weapons and ammunition in order to defend themselves from attacks and a substantial amount of cash to buy additional arms operation good neighbor was officially presented as the idea is to provide aid in syria but according to the two recent. post article its real goal was to keep his below prices and rainy and soldiers away from israel's borders and do it guys israel over forty provided aid to no fewer than seven syrian rebel groups included among them so some joined up with a four hundred strong fighting force who would see some five thousand dollars as the money to put the ports up in circulation for a while but it's also force so with rebel groups but this is the first time that those before subpoena tributed to the i.d.f. or at least they could have been if the article was not dropp

on the outskirts of bombed out syrian cities new tent cities are being built. a sort of endless night and not all are as tidy as the camp filmed by the drones these images are from the syrian village of may very close to the turkish border more than three million people are now living in the province of it house of them have a fled fighting in other parts of syria. has returned from his a delivery and he says the people there are more optimistic since it feared large scale offensive by the syrian army was for now a very it's a glimmer of hope but no more than. a little we bring our aid supplies into the people there and we leave again but they are always there day and night for them explosions and bomb attacks have become a part of their daily reality for the children too that's very hard for me to take let's hope that this fighting truly comes to an end and all these displaced people can return to their cities because. the red crescent sends aid convoys across the border at least four to five times a week. makes his way back to her tie in turkey the next trans

system be diff syrians it means that. the russians soldiers. be syrians operating as three hundred and that's the major to extremely difficult really for these raiders to attack such a system knowing that the russians are going to be implicated and so all of that to say. in the absence of any kind of russian agreement to let these readies do basically what they want to do you are going to see a situation much much more complicated than before and that is going to serve obviously detainee interest in syria this year in government and his well known and consequently really limited i believe the margin for the israelis to men who are as they used to the israelis do have some considerable leverage with the russians mr rabbani how much action you know can russia take against israel given things like we had from israeli minister. earlier this year who was very quick to remind russia that. you know israel didn't join and western sanctions against russia for its actions in crimea it didn't kick russian ambassadors and diplomats out of its country like

leaks that dozens of syrian office of the went. to russia in order to train on the use it it seems that this is our in syria and now they can use it against israeli warplanes three hundred very effective to craft a missile and this is well known. in the field of defense and israel is aware of their own then of the danger of these. missiles and that deprives the. force from. the support unity and freedom of woman in this funeral space so that will change the situation dramatically and there will be no more freedom of movement of the israeli forces the. space to other news in a flurry of questions about the future of the man who appointed robert muller as a special prosecutor there are reports in the u.s. in just the past couple of hours that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein could be about to lose his job remember he's the one overseeing the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty eight sixteen election last week in new york times reporter he also been looking at ways to secretly record president trump and

air defenses the russian plane went down off the syrian coast near latakia israel is yet to respond to the reports it's jets were attacking syrian installations in the area or a challenge joins us live from moscow and with the russians have come up with a very clear and damning picture of what they say happened here. yes the ministry of defense is very angry indeed with the israelis at the moments they've been using words like hostile or provocative and irresponsible to describe what they say happened last nights and that was that is ready jets basically deliberately created a dangerous situation in which a russian plane and kill twenty which we believe is a reconnaissance plane and the transport plane as i was saying earlier was shot out of the sky by syrian air defense systems now. what the russians say is that the israeli jets had basically you this russian plane as a shield sort of getting behind it's putting its between. aircraft fire and themselves and that is what caused this russian jet to be shot down so yeah we have a very angry ministry of defense they are saying that the

regime which was not really anti west and also the syrian economy to the e.u. you know he was trying to be friends with he was a darling of the older world reformer yes so they they didn't top all of that regime which was not trade in any way what they all lost that much more important ally that was turkey which is now a real dissident inside nato you know and the relations are very bad between washington and uncorrupt so they mess it up every time they want to make it better ok and you know in the united states u.s. treasury has done remarkable things for the turkish lira let me go back to alexander i want to go back to this quote here right now it is our job to help create quagmires until we get what we want that's really remarkable because usually when there is the regime change mantra is that we want regime change and then you deploy some kind of military arsenal or army planes in this time reverse we've got there on the ground now and there is certain search of a mission quagmires that is plural ok mr go ahead. in search of a mission and until they get wha

state department accuses the syrian government sound its allies of assisting terrorists in the country we examine whether the claims correspond with the reality on the ground. and coalition course ahead of what's being billed as the greatest fighter in mixed martial arts history called. meet the press with the paris set to do battle in two weeks' time. we are all fighting for it here in r t h q as well in the russian capital good to have your company this sunday morning and only in our top story president delayed his own order to declassify documents related to the on going russia collusion probe the files were expected to shed light on alleged conflicts of interest and ethics of certain f.b.i. and government officials. i met with the d.o.j. concerning the declassification of various unredacted documents they agreed to release them but stated that doing so may have a perceived negative impact on the russian probe also key allies called to ask not to release therefore the inspector general has been asked to review these documents on an expedited basis i believe he will move quickly on t

province separating rebels from the syrian government forces and hopefully preventing a massacre also coming up chinese authorities order millions to evacuated as the ferocious typhoon moves inland and in the philippines a rescue workers pulled bodies from the mud after a massive landslide. and is president drugs choice of brett kavanaugh from the supreme court about the crash out senators are backing off a confirmation vote planned for thursday after a woman accused of an attempted rape that allegedly took place almost four decades ago. and we have a special report from a british town at the heart of a shocking child sex abuse scandal prosecutors have charged with sexually exploiting children over many years but one victim tells d.w. news that even more perpetrators remain at large which. is good to have you with us tonight russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone to separate rebel fighters in syria is. the province from syrian government forces it is an attempt to prevent what the united nations warns could be a humanitarian catastrophe in the province if libya i

the syrian province of idlib it is the last piece of territory not under government control of syrian president bashar al assad he plans to change that with the help of the russian military the u.n. calls that plan the perfect storm fearing chemical weapons and more refugees it lives could quickly become the one spot on the map where iranian israeli turkish russian and american forces collide i'm bord off in berlin this is the day. we will continue to wish you all to hope to avoid the but for it. today more than twenty airstrikes were carried out unfortunately there are civilians among the wounded we have service as well when we are inside syria that's why the sense of urgency that's why i will upbeat if i may to president putin and to present again to talk i will goal is to facilitate the discovery shrink to include the city i'm led to fear the older constitutional committee and that's why it will come to be it does indeed if that came from the trial that potential human again tragedy from the record this means a whole lot more to forty nine million people out there so in that sense

the syrian conflict another drawn out affair with the u.s. only digging itself in deeper but as the newly appointed representative for syria engagement stated there's no hurry so an open ended presence in syria is the new reality despite donald trump's call to get us personnel back home will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it. surprise surprise plans on syria once again aren't panning out as expected let's roll back to the beginning of. the syrian uprising seemed simple washington's main goal regime change the plan according to cables published by wiki leaks would lead to the unraveling of threads all over the region including a possible sectarian war that would likely bog down another major adversary eram the fall of the house of asad could well the united states terry and war drawing in iran which in the view of his right of the come on this would not be a bad thing for israel and its western allies two birds one very bloody stone but here we are in two thousand and eighteen and the reality is assad sti

the headlines on our take russian military jets with fourteen people on board goes missing off the syrian coast during an israeli bombardment in the taqiyya province. also this hour russia and take a greater creates a demon it tries to end between syrian government forces and militants as a counterterrorist operation is put on hold. and this president trump slaps import tariffs on chinese goods with two hundred billion dollars range you probably like tronics of food and clothes. you're watching aussie international welcome to the program we start with breaking news a russian military aircraft with fourteen personnel on board has disappeared from radar coverage off the coast of syria according to the russian defense ministry it took off from an ad base in the taqiyya province a middle east correspondent paula slayer house the details this is a developing story and in the last few hours it's transpired that the russian military aircraft that went off the radar on monday evening now there are fourteen service personnel on board and we are hearing that traffic controllers from the base of com

another mass influx of syrian refugees if and when the offensive goes ahead. and joining me now here in the studio to discuss this is middle east analyst steinberg good morning to you good oh and i'd like to begin by asking you because this is really the battle that everyone has been fearing three million people estimated to be in this area the u.n. warning of a bloodbath what do you think we will see in it. if the offensive starts we will see a. magnitude of what is happening is greater than anything we have seen in recent years the population of east aleppo for example was. about one hundred fifty thousand people and here in italy we talk even if the numbers seem to be a little bit exaggerated of up to three million people who for the time being are not able to escape to turkey so now we have the leaders of iran russia and turkey they are said to me and tehran on friday coming up with a plan a strategy what do you think that we will see from them i. really don't know it might be the last chance to avoid this big offensive because the russians have been putti

and russia trade barbs at the un over the syrian government's plan to retake rebel held province coexistence with terrorists is impossible those are ruled branches of al qaida which we have been fighting since the terror attacks in two thousand and one all we've seen are the actions of cowards interested in a bloody military conquest of it and that's the side bombing kills thirty two people at a rally in afghanistan against a local police chief while the twin blasts in the same province targets school go worse during morning rush hour. a million cab plans filled the streets of. their regions and national day in a huge show of support for independence from spain. you can find out all about those stories over on our web site i'll be back what they had lines in an hour it's time right now though it's crossed out here on our team for national. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle peering into the abyss the syrian arab army is determined to liberate and to eliminate the terrorists they are essentially ending this international proxy war the u.s. and its re

go anywhere invited by the syrian government like that i shed were invited by the syrian government in order to fight radical rebels the terrorist organization in syria so why things are really our bombing them nobody give the you know the authority or the international legality to do what they are doing so now actually there are. problems for the russian the russians said clearly there is there really aren't foreign responsible for this kind of attacks they use the russian surveillance plane as a cover in order to actually get to the region where that is they're in a war plane where bombing where are tacky so in order to be shot down so russian were very angry the question is how that actually is going to tell you how you think there will first i think they will put the destruction on this israeli three hand syria in a way or another second they could supply the syrian our lives with very sophisticated me signs like it's four hundred or three hundred business will make the syrian. able to shut down and it is that i.e. war planes in the future so we don't know yet why does the russi

prevent this conflict from being over the syrian government will. will be the responsible for chemical. regardless of who does them this isn't the first time that us foreign policy has a zigzag when it comes to al qaeda back in the one nine hundred eighty s. they called osama bin ladin a freedom fighter when he was battling against the democratic republic of afghanistan cia gave him guns and us media cheered him on it seems now us foreign policy regarding the al qaeda terrorists has gone full circle. art see new york a suicide bombings hit a protest in eastern afghanistan has killed at least twenty five people authorities say dozens more but injured to the demonstration there was calling for the resignation of a local police commander have come both journalists a car has sunny as the story. today afternoon exactly just a few minutes after. i saw you said no more actually it a group of civil hands who gathered in eastern province of afghanistan in one go to protest against a local police commander. in action districts often i'm gonna call it what sha

operations over syrian air space over the last three years but in particular it's been aiding forces on the ground as they fight against isis forces now and we know that france has pledged in the past full support to syrian kurds on the ground the president should the syrian democratic forces and the french support in particular for the stabilization of the security zone in the north east of syria within the framework of an inclusive and balanced governance to prevent any resurgence of i saw it while seeking for a political solution to the syrian conflict well that support from the french military has been vegas to water actually means and what the context of that support actually is and there is actually a question of the legality of the french and the u.s. troops being in syria to all of course they do not turn off a u.n. mandate and they do not have permission from the syrian government to be that we also know that francis repeatedly warned that if it believes a chemical attack has taken place it will seek retribution and retaliation for such an attack on syrian ground so now with

these aid packages are bound for the syrian border. but there are still empty boxes here at the red crescent depot. this person helps with packing even though it is in one of his usual tasks. he's the chief coordinator of his organization's aides to syria. >> we can care for 125,000 people had to tell in the displaced persons camps in idlib . it is crucial for the transfers to go quickly and be well organized. reporter: in one corner of the warehouse, there's a display of what the red crescent workers take across the border to idlib. shoes, toys, washing powder, hygiene supplies, food, cooking utensils. >> most of the families there have been displaced. in the province of idlib alone, there are more than 400 caps. the people have a hard time getting by. most of them have lost everything they once had. reporter: turkey has taken in more refugees than any other country. about 3.5 million syrians now live on this side of the border. president erdogan decided the country could not host any more. they have been trying to keep refugees on th

state use agency the russian media spot nick saying that it was syrian army infrastructure so things not exactly clear what exactly was hit but the video showing large fireballs in the sky multiple missiles used but again it just shows you how complicated syria's war is with all the talk is about the last a rebel held stronghold in the last stand of the opposition you still have various state actors with a lot of interests when it comes to syria russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in syria's last rebel held province of its hold this will keep government forces and rebel fighters apart russia's defense minister says that means they'll be no military assault which many were fearing were a challenge reports from moscow. for weeks it labor has been bracing itself for the assault that seemed imminent damascus and moscow both signaled it was coming but they wanted to clear out syria's final rebel stronghold and after a low bombs had started forming again but following america meeting in sochi it looks like turkey's president has persuaded liberia putin to try somet

three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting air assault weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're cool it is you that has them going to let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while syrian service personnel were given appropriate training today the situation has changed not by our fault the defense ministry holds israel responsible for the deaths of fifteen military personnel a week ago their reconnaissance plane was misidentified and mistakenly shot down by syrian air defense admits the

another mass influx of syrian refugees if and when the offensive goes ahead. i'm joined by correspondent. who is covering this story from beirut good evening to you i'm sure you know we heard the united nations warning of a bath in talk to me a little bit about why this province why it's so important and what is at stake if it falls back into government control. well it is the last remaining rebel stronghold and once the syrian government acquires it if it does which is what it wants to do then bashar al assad would have pretty much won the war which means what would happen to the political reconciliation which the assad government it says even now is unwilling to move forward on secondly this province has about three million citizens most of these people are against the syrian government. from areas like aleppo and and are on the seventy conciliation deals they were told that it is going to do this if they haven't but if the syrian government as it says wants to attack in it and does that then what would happen to these people so in a sense is it that betraya

and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle peering into the abyss the syrian arab army is determined to liberate good lives and to eliminate the terrorists they are essentially ending this international proxy war the u.s. and its regional allies are dead set against this why it's the trumpet ministration siding with terrorists. across talking syria i'm joined by my guest adel darwish in london he's a political commentator and author of the book the edge of war in leeds we have seen shah he is the senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in beirut we have niamh solemn he is a professor of international affairs at notre dame university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to the best dressed man on television adel darwish in london i love your vote. i don't explain something to be allowed in july of last year we had the american delegated to oversee dealing with the situation in syria direct and boy said the greatest concentration of terrorists