half have ended up in lebanon. the syrians say that they can't house and feed that many people. >>> the center for disease control's 9,000 employees returned to work on thursday after 17 days of being furl load. we're joined by tom, the director of the cdc in atlanta to talk about the shutdown, disease doesn't take a day off, and yet during the shut down, your 9,000 workers were considered non-essential. was that a mistake? and if so, who made that mistake? >> i think it's important to clarify how the law works here. when there's a government shutdown, it's not a question of essential or non-essential. or a question of important or non-important. it's our 13,000 employees, 9,000 were furloughed. and that's because the way they were paid was on an annual appropriation rather than a multiyear population. >> if i may stop you, that's the answer that you get in washington, but the truth is, there was a salmonella outbreak last week where some of the employees were considered to be non-essential. and do we have hard num

the country, 1-4 people in lebanon are syrian refugees. firefighters are battling to control more than 20 bush fires that are burning through the state of new south wales in australia and dozens of homes destroyed and people evacuated. emergency supplies are slowly reaching some towns cutoff by an earthquake on tuesday. and residents in the town of bohol say they have not received help from the government. work is underway this kenya to find out how much they could be sitting under one of the driest regions, an aquifer could have enough water to supply the entire country for 70 years and where they keep it is in the northwest of the country covering more than 4,000 square kilometers. >> reporter: children and grandchildren on the daily search for water in kenya's dry and harsh county. there is a drought in some parts and means they have to go further. and dig deeper to get the water. and when they find the water, it does not matter how that is, they have to make due. and water-born diseases here are common. and they had a discovery of a la

but this is life in lebanon. these tents are costing these people $50 to rent the ground for this tent, up to $70 for larger ones. and look at this. that's storage for you. if i just come under the washing line here, you can see the kids -- the school is a problem for them. look at this child here, the sanitation is non-existent. and the males don't want to show their faces some of them because they are going in and out of syria each day to try to make ends meet, because they simply have no money. they have some level of security, but take a look around at this. it's not an unusual picture in lebanon right now, and not only that, these people in some places are outnumbering the lebanese and that is causing tensions. this is what we found out when we started our report at the un center that takes on refugees to signup. more than a thousand people a day in lines to register as refugees. in some towns syrians now outnumber the lebanese. when the war began, these people were welcomed, but not anymore. >> translator:

since the lebanon war in. syria has supported to develop islamist organization which became his what between eighty two and again five. syrians gave their strategic umbrella this alliance grew stronger because of common cause it's kept iraq from becoming the predominant regional power and stopped israel's efforts to bring lebanon into its orbit. what i can tell you is that syria is a key element in an axis of resistance this is why no one knows for sure how an american aggression against syria might play out of eventually not even the americans who would be pushing for intervention in israel has already tried to hand and although she won't publicly admit it it's widely accepted tel aviv was behind at least four military strikes inside syria aimed at preventing weapons from being transferred from damascus to hizbollah in a shift from her usual noncommittal public stance tel aviv also recently called for assad to be toppled but any attack on syria will undoubtedly invoke his beloved television a scenario that co

before the mass migration of syrians lebanon already had a weak labor market. and he is among the thousands of qualified lebanese who can't find work and a bio chemist graduate who doesn't blame syrians for the country's economic ills. >> translator: there was an economic problem before the syrians came. the problem is the government, needs to find solutions. >> reporter: undoubtedly lebanon is a casualty of the war in syria and the people are just as much victims as the syrians themselves. al jazeera beirut. >> reporter: audi arabia rejected the seat on the council a day after being elected as a nonpermanent member and accused of double standards and hard to end wars and conflicts and it called for unspecified reforms and the five permanent members have been divided over the crisis and russia and china will impose strong sanctions against syria. a series of explosions across iraq has killed at least 60 people and the bombs targeted residential including a children's hospital and play ground and 12 car bombs killed 48 and injured hundreds and in northern iraq 1

and in the places where the shia are living in lebanon. the movement once hospitals clinics schools as well as agricultural centers that provide farmers with technical assistance and training it supports families of fighters who die in battle but hostility to israel is the party's defining platform especially since may two thousand when the last israeli troops left lebanon largely because of the success of his bill of fighters but where is his bill is popularity peak today and opinion over the organization is divided most of the arab and muslim world see hezbollah as a resistance and social movement more powerful than the lebanese government but the united states european union of course israel and others regarded as a terrorist organization terrorist organization the terrorist organizations like hezbollah it's starting to. as a terrorist organization to take action against its recent intervention in syria has also been highly controversial beirut and many in the international community have criticized the group for to. the side of the syr

at the table trying to organize this what he did for lebanon what he did for afghanistan what he did for iraq for somalia for haiti what he didn't to say call an election pretend that one man one vote is going to take care of the political problems here you know what he did in each one of those other conflicts which he essentially wave the vote so in lebanon today it's not one man one vote there is power sharing you can have. power sharing in syria to where i said who i think represents and most americans hate when i say this i think he represents about fifty percent of the population if you stitch together the christians the shia the way the truth and the sunni is who don't want to live under an al-qaeda state you have at least fifty percent of the population so that's what i was that brings to the table but that's not enough there clearly needs to be more at the table and i think what the the door that locked up or he may has opened just a bit is that asada is willing to come to the table with his fifty percent but to have others run maybe for other positions maybe they won't be pr

. >> you've traveled osyria but you're in lebanon right now. is there any way for the lebanon governor to handle -- government to handle the situation or not? >> you know it's very difficult. lebanese themselves are leaving their own country in hoards. we hear of cases of lebanese drowning as they're being trafficked off the coast of indonesia on their way to australia. these are young lebanese or families who feel they have no future in their own country, there are no jobs. even educated lebanese graduate with their college degrees and have trouble finding work. not so skilled lebanese also have trouble finding work. so it's very difficult for lebanon to provide the necessary services for the syrian refugees here. majority syrian kids. there are jokes lebanese kids go to school and come back speaking a syrian accent. there's some truth to that. it's really problematic with medical care with everything. even infrastructure. i mean lebanon's infrastructure you know the barely enough for lebanese themselves and now they see their population risin

there for us in lebanon. >>> now, staying with syria. an explosion near the airport in syria's capital damascus has been followed by a blackout in parts of the country. this video which cannot be independently verified was posted on youtube showing the aftermath of the attack. state media says power was cut after rebel artillery hit a gas pipeline. residents say the entire capital was plungeed in to darkness. >>> germany has become the latest in a long line of countries demanding answers from the u.s. over its surveillance program. the national security agency is now being accused of tapping the german chancellor angela merkel's mobile phone. the u.s. president obama has told mrs. merkel that she isn't being identifie spied on but the house didn't rule out that it didn't happen in the past. >> reporter: the german government in must have been pretty sure going public with allegations that the american spied odd angela merkel's mobile phone a spoke maps described the idea as completely unacceptable. the chancellor kerr herself called the

as a syrian you're looked down upon in lebanon. >> reporter: syrians are blamed for lebanon's failing economy and volatile economy. all right 80 thundershowers syrian versus registered with the u.n. but there are 1.3 million in the country. the government is imposing stricter rules at its border crossings. new conditions have been set. >> we will not close our borders. people who have come here to abuse, they will not be allowed. >> reporter: many syrians are competing for jobs with lebanese. others have had open business and this has had a social impact on lebanon's 4 million people. >> reporter: they say lebanon is heading to disaster due to the influx of refugees. it will have doubled the unemployment rate b by 120% and they will join the 1 million who live below the poverty line. >> reporter: it is an extreme strain for this tiny nation which has already seen security incidents. hostility towards syrians is growing and some refugees feel that. >> they're complaining of the syrian existness in lebanon. they're saying we need support, i guess the syrians, why they're sending us to s

they are expectedded the to fly to lebanon in the next 24 to 48 hours. zblrchlts they are part of a celebration where relatives have been waiting since may of 2012 for a break through. the big question now is when the two turkish pie -- pilots will be released. and now the turks are fairly optimistic but they don't believe the two pilots are delivered from syria and transported here to lebanon and go to the turkish embassy. they will probably be flown straight back to turkey and then to the outer banks even. >> some of these hostages have been held for over a year, andrew, were are they being released now? >> well it's a three-way deal. it's complicated. but qatar has been a mediator here. some local media here in lebanon says there was a large amount of money involved. technically what took place was these pilgrims were kidnapped and then cones -- consequently the two turkish pilots were detained. and now the relatives of the pilgrims are insisting they were not directly involved in this kidnapping but effectively what did take place was a quid pro quo.

access, beirut. >>> well, luciana galistin is unicef in lebanon joins me live from beirut. what kind of fund something available to help these children? >> right now, there is around some tens of millions, let's say, of dollars available to support these children, which will run out by the end of this calendar year. as you heard in the story, there are now more than 400,000 children who will need some form of access to education in this coming school year. so the financial requirements for the end of this year and beyond will run into the hundreds of millions likely. >> if the children aren't in school, what are they up to that you know about? >> i mean children here have, of course, been often wrenched from their homes and their communities due to violence. and that means they are in an environment that is foreign to them, that the normal protective social curtain around them has been removed. so children who are out of school are not only missing out on an education, but they are also exposed to abuse and an exploitation because those normal family structures and communit

and lebanon seeing social tensions as the result of syrians here. unemployment is on the rise, lebanese can't find jobs and more importantly of all, the security incidents related to the presence of syrians in lebanon. lebanon saying it can no longer handle this crisis and at the same time expecting up to 2 million refugees by the end of 2013. >> and banky moon is calling for a hundred more experts in syria right now. this is a country in war. is that feasible? >> well, we know the chemical weapons are spread across many sites in syria. we do not have information exactly where these weapons are, but we do know that war is waging in a number of areas. the syrian government even trying to reverse its losses in the north going on the offensive, trying to open a main road to supply its forces in a contested city, so fighting still taking place in many areas of the country. a syrian government official even issuing a statement saying the government cannot guarantee the safety of the inspectors in areas where the military is engaged in conflict with the r

lebanon not just in search of safety but to work. many of them are too tel scaredo tell their stories because some of them are here i will legally or they don't have work permits. many hire them because syrians are willing to work for lower wages. >> we can hire two syrians than one lebanese. they accept lower wages and it's better for us. >> reporter: this reality has caused resentment. >> the lebanese can't find jobs. there will be a lot of unemployed people and our men to continue to migrant. there has been an invasion of syrians 2347 this tiny nation hosts syrians, and lebanon's economy is under strain. 20% of the nation's 4 million people are now unemployed. official statistics show average wage versus dropped. >> we work for $600 to $800 a month. syrians work for $300 or less. >> reporter: next year the world bank says an additional 170,000 lebanese will not find don' fins adding to the numbers living although the poverty line. >> reporter: even before the mass migration of syrians, lebanon already had a weak labor market. >> a

lebanon and qatar are active on that front. if things go well today in this deal and this deal that is nearly over and not completely fulfilled yet, it does satisfy all millimetrepartiesnd it seems the case. it will pave the way for more negotiations and talks between the parties. thanks so much at the crossings near lebanon and syria. >> staying with syria an explosion near the airport in the capital da masse dasmascus. this video is showing the after math of the attack. the power was cut after rebel ar artillery. utearaartillery fire. >> let's join nick spicers in berlin. we are talking about europe's most powerful leader none too happehappy about this i imagine. >> absolutely not. she is a reserve woman that likes to keep her card close to her chest. she picked up the phone, the phone that she expects is being eavesdropped on to call barack obama if you are listen to my confident it'foreignphoneit's e didiplomatic offensive continues with the foreign ministry. calm on the american ambassador and i assume it's going to be a d

onorting round the district the border between syrian and lebanon. reporting from the syrian district on the border between syria and and lebanon. basically systems help the regime spy on opposition forces. these companies are under investigation and france. , this is in slate. >> that is right. people often wonder what a will die up. slate takes a look at what you could have died of act in the day. they have pulled together archives with using historians putarchaeologists and together a timeline where they have looked at the last couple of decades and takes away -- takes a look at when you could have died in. 1902, you would have died from a very diamond -- five at death. you can also look at how things of all over the years. some sort of the infectious disease. sort of respiratory disease. as you go down the timeline, diseases going towards poison. a morbid article. quite fascinating today. thank you. the french newspapers and french website. months the past few egypt has been tightening the gaza's neck. shutting down the tunnels that run between t

my mother's mother ran a school in lebanon, the first national secular school in lebanon. she came to america in the 30s to get her ph.d.. she was very active in palestinian human rights. she was an arab nationalist. she was brilliant and that's my grandmother on my mother's side. that's not even my dad's family. she asked me to say her name so i'm saying it. all of my aunts -- everyone all the women i know are part of this as much as anyone else. part of the reason i also wanted to write the book was because there was a really limited idea of what an arab woman is. i talked about this a lot. especially hollywood. it's this idea that the job you are going to get in a movie is a girl wearing a scarf on her head who is either the sister, the cousin or the wife of the terrorists. it angers me so much because it's so one-dimensional. that is really how i initiated my interest in approaching this subject matter for my identity. maybe this is how my parents raised me but that's just a human reaction to this idea that i was worn and raised in new york city and for all intensive p

her family fled syria for lebanon four months ago. "i miss school and my teachers" she told us. "i miss my home." her father says he knows how important school is but that he has to send his children to work because he has no job. it must be hard for you to send your children the fields when you value education as much as you do. "of course" he said. the u.n. estimates that at least half a million syrian children are now living in lebanon, the majority in refugee camps like these. some start working as young as seven years old. with the help of a local charity, the u.n. has set up 22 makeshift schools. we visited one classroom and asked how many children worked in the fields. the many put up their hands. you work in the potato fields? this girl told us it was hard work. when we asked why she did it her answer was simple. "in order to live" she said. but these children, at least, get some education. back in the field, fatoul and the girls were nearing the end of their shift after four long hours in the hot sun. what's your dream for her? "to see her and her brothers and sisters g

lebanon's economy is under strain. 20% of the nation's 4 million people are now unemployed. he is among them. and official statistics show average wages have dropped. >> we work for around 600 to $800 a month. syrians work for $300 or less. >> reporter: next year, the world bank says an additional 170,000 lebanese will not find jobs, adding to the already 1 million who live below the poverty line. lebanon has been hurt by these syrian crisis, it is mainly the middle class and the lower income workers who have been hit especially hard. but even before the mass migration of syrians being lebanon already had a weak labor market. among the thousands of qualified lebanese who can't find work, he is a biochemist graduate who doesn't blame syrians for the country's economic ills. >> there was an economic problem even before the syrians came. the problem is the government, it needs to find solutions. >> reporter: undoubtedly however, lebanon is a casualty of the war in neighboring syria and it's people are just as much victims as the syrians themselves. al jazerra, beirut. >>> two l

and if he is a refugee then yes he will be allowed to enter and if not and if he wants to lebanon just to open a business or find work that is not going to happen any longer because the lebanese people really have been complaining that syrians are taking their jobs. there has been fierce competition in the job market. so lebanon carrying a very big burden and these refugees a life in exile has not been easy. >> reporter: many thanks, zana reporting with very excited children celebrating need. a bomb blast at a sunday mosque in northern iraq has killed 12 people. it happened with a crowd of worshippers after they left a mosque after morning prayers. in afghanistan a governor has been killed in an attack and happened in the eastern providence of logo and the explosives were in the mosque where he was praying and 20 others were wounded and we have the latest from kabul. >> reporter: he was attending morning prayers the first day of a major muslim holiday in afghanistan when an ied improvised device exploded close killing him instantly and several were injured and the death toll could rise

the presence of the syrians in lebanon has caused social tensions, security incidents, and lebanon telling the world this country can no longer cope. the international community finding it difficult to deal with this situation. >> so much attention is being paid to the chemical weapons removal, and yet the civil war rages on and thousands continue to die. >> reporter: yes, speak to any syrian, and that's what they will tell you. the international community is concerned with its own interests and not the interests of the syrian people. conventional weapons are killing people on a daily basis, so the syrians really feel the world has ignored them, there is talk about an international peace conference convening in the next few weeks, but a lot of people especially those in the opposition and those who have lost loved one, do not believe in a political resolution. they feel the international community should pay more attention to their plight. >>> the crisis in egypt is escalating and marches against the interim government are underway. students are gathered at several universities across the

. >>> and the syrians pushing lebanon, and an already fragile economy towards the breaking point. ♪ >>> well now that the federal government is back in business, congress and the white house are looking forward. the house and senate are working on a budget plan while the president tries to move forward with other issues including immigration. libby casey us live from washington, and the deal calls for congress to come with a long-term budget plan by mid-december. are we keeping our fingers crossed? >> that's right. it will be co-chaired with [ inaudible ] and congressman paul ryan. what they bring to the table is a lot of baggage as they themselves admitted yesterday. >> chairman ryan knows i'm not going to vote for his budget. i know that he's not going to vote for mine. we're going to find the common ground between our two budgets that we can vote on, and that's our goal. >> our goal is for the good of american people to get the debt under control, do smart deficit reduction and do things that we think can grow the economy and get people back to work. >> the most ambitious would be

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two turkish pilots had been released in lebanon. they'd been kidnapped to help free the lebanese hostages. >> let's go to the border crossing between lebanon and syria. our correspondent is there. is the prisoner exchange complete? will the syrian government release any more prisoners? >> one expects more prisoners will be released simply because the fact that actuality the syrian rebels put forward a list of 126 women who are held by the syrian government. their initial list was 370 women. that was watered down to 126. so far half of these women have been released. one is to expect more to come - to be set free in the coming hours - some lebanese officials here are saying that the whole - the process should take maximum 48 hours, but, you know, at this stage one has to wait and see. you know, this is a very different kind of release than what happened in the instance of the nine lebanese, two turkish pilots that you have mention nds. what is happening here is discrete, quiet. the first batch of 14 women were released early dawn on

in lebanon they are looking for a better life and end in disaster. rough and tumble in the baseball playoffs as la took on the atlanta braves and find out if the dodgers can pick themselves up for a win a little later on in the sport. ♪ police in kenya say the last month's attack on west gate shopping center was planned several weeks this advance. new surveillance video shows two suspects entering the mall on september 6 to lay the ground work for the eventually siege and they are seen entering a bank and which they used to pay for a car and that vehicle was used to block the mall's main entrance on september 21 preventing security forces from getting inside and al jazeera discovered the police in kenya could big nearing evidence connected to the killing of a muslim person last week and could have been one in a series of extra judicial killings and allegations denied by the police and andrew simmons has our report. >> reporter: uncovered what should be part of the investigation into the murders of four men, one of them a muslim clerc with connectio

is making a big dent in lebanon's economy. we are joined live from beirut. a 20% increase in the population from last year, all of those syrian refugees. what can the government do to help its own citizens? >> well, really, the lebanese government is in a very difficult position. even before the massive influx of syrian refugees to lebanon, the lebanese economy was fragile. many lebanese migrate to foreign countries to survive. the government officials show there are approximately 1.3 million syrians in this country and this is a tiny nation. the syrians are not just looking for safety, a place to live, to escape the conflict, they are looking for jobs. we are at a commercial district, and you just walk into any shop here and at least one of the employees is a syrian. this is really sawing a lot of social tensions, the world bank warning that 170,000 more lebanese will lose their jobs next year simply because there is fierce competition in the labor market. >> we are hearing reports that there is growing resentment in the coun

i know you just came back from lebanon and you encountered many refugees there. when we talk about them leaving from tunisia that is one heck of a journey. over land across africa. >> that is correct. i'm meeting refugees to hear their stories an se and see whey have come from and what they are hoping to do now. one thing i have been told many, many times over what has started out as a shor short term crisiss been a long term reality. >> they are looking for news nes to build their lives in other places. >> if we are talking about as we are at the moment particularly those that try to make the journey into europe by north africa a and lampedusa. have you any idea how many people are attempting this at the moment. >> the latest official numbers are 700,000 and increasing so in that ratio lebanon may have as many as a million refugees there. and if the situation continues like that the living situation in lebanon and will continue to deteriorate when the winter arrives. there will be more people making that journey unless we provide assistance in lebanon. >> to giv

. >> as far as the he knows, his brother and his children tried to flee syria for lebanon. >> every day could be your last day. >> every minute. every second. >> it's everything in mass numbers and hearing for families. it's not just -- it's thousand get my parents here, my grandparents, my can cousin. >> they gave a syrian immigration attorney. it's her job to bring families back together. >> they are on the phone to me telling me their story and seeing concerns and i have seen all walks oh of life and really the living conditions have become so unbearable that everyone is effected no matter what their religion is or background. >>> for syrians already here in the united states, there are options. the obama administration has: >> for syrians still trapped in the middle east, there's little hope. the especially u.s. responsibility and the international. it's not the solution. but many fear the hope and it's illusion. and germany has committed to taking 5,000 refugees on a temporary basis. they go on and tell them if it was need that they could often identify to that process. i believe t

as a syrian you're locked down upon as a lebanon. >> reporter: syrians are blamed for lebanon's flailing economy. there are 1.3 million in the country. the government is now imposing stricter rules at its border crossings to prevent increase in refugee numbers. new conditions have been set. >> we would love to close our borders, but people who are coming here who are refugees, who are coming here to work or abuse the refugee status will not be allowed to get in. >> reporter: some open businesses and this has had an impact on the 4 million people. the world bank said lebanon is heading towards a disaster due to an influx of syrian refugees the syrian conflict will have doubled the unemployment rate by 120%, and th syrian refugees wil add to the 1 million at that live under the poverty line. >> they're complaining from the syrians, they're always telling that we need support, financial support, so i guess the syrians. why they're sending us to charity, they're the one who is are sucking our blood. >> hoping to be re-elected to german over the next few months. this will only take 4,000 syri

my mother is from lebanon, from a christian family but they are actually quaker. that is the first problem. my dad was as many of you know, a palestinian born with american citizenship to british schools end he wrote about his own identity issues and left palestine at a young age. and he came to the united states at the age of 14 or 15 and he was also a christian, and i was born and baptized there. and i was sent to a private school for girls. and what went to school, seemed to be blonde. and my father was in the room when talking about representations in the era of literature. and watching i dream of jeannie and figuring out why i didn't have blond hair, magic powers and the sexy out that, there was a lot -- this is how i see myself to this day, this confused, lost child of immigrants and i am also the daughter of this person who to many people stands, symbolizes palestinian american identity. when i became a professional actress, won't get much into this but it became interesting to me, how much it mattered my name was najka said and they didn't want to change i

at the time, he was a senior security figure in lebanon. they had troops here and controlled lebanon politically. he was questioned but not charged. >> what about the geneva talks we have been hearing so much about? the international community continues to push for talks they hope could put an end to the conflict which has gone on for so long. there is doubt among the opposition about whether it should take part. >> that is right. this came over the last couple of days after the deputy prime minister announced what he called tentative dates for the conference on november 23 and 24. there has been no confirmation from the united states or russia although the attribute of those dates to the head of the human -- u.n. they have not received confirmation from the united nations. the question is whether anyone will turn up from the other side. the syrian national coalition one of the main bodies of exile opposition, have cast doubts over whether they would attend, particularly the syrian national council. they want guarantees assad will leave whe

their release was the result of intense negotiations involving syria, turkey, lebanon, and qatar. a case that highlights how the syrian conflict is affecting neighboring countries. >> a hero's welcome for the turkish pilots who spent just over two months in captivity. their prime minister is on the tarmac to greet them, as well as relatives and the crowd of journalists. i'll being held hostage the two say they never -- while being held hostage, the two say they never lost faith. >> we will be healthy emotionally. we need to stick to these rules. >> the turkish airlines pilots were abducted outside their hotel in beirut by a group named [indiscernible] , previously unheard of. the men put pressure on them to really nice nine men -- to release nine men kidnapped on october 12. after diplomacy, all hostages were freed. it appears as though officials played a key role. >> qatar is supporting opposition to president bashar al-assad. they are supporting the opposition. supporting also turkey. because turkey had their pilots taken hostage, it was possible for qatar to discuss with the op

they have returned to lebanon. >>> we are getting reports of an explosion in lebanon's bekar valley. in the past hour. it happened on the shatora highway in the jalala area. the target appears to be an army intelligence station. the army cordoned off the area. no reports of injuries. more details as and when we have them on al jazeera. >> spain is officially out of its 2-year recession. only just. the economy has grown by 0.1%, due to a rise in exports, and a busy tourist season. >> three season from the defunct news of the world paper admitted to hacking phones. it comes on the back of trials of former editors brooks and kewell son. the scandal forced rupert murdoch to close his "news of the world" newspaper in 2011. >> people in kenya are calling for the government to take action against men who gang-raped a 16-year-old girl. protesters gathered at freedom park and are making their way to the ministry of justice building and police headquarters. >> here is more detail about the case. in june 6th men attacked the girl known as liz to the media. they threw her into a deep pit lat ree

let it go now. >> the israeli-lebanon war in 1928, syria has supported to develop vest 82 and 85. this syrians gave the strategic um ball la. it's kept you from beginning the predominant power. and stopped and help her to get back into into its orbit. syria is a key element. and this is why no one knows how an plern aggression might play out eventually. >> another she won't publicably admitted that was why that in a they also recently called for a sight to be held. but any attack will undoubtedly provoke retags y'all. looked like a hinor cranl >> sean thomas is here. and just over half an hour. discussing the death of a recently released lau prisoner who spent 145 years in molltary confinement. this isment rt" -- this is r.t. international.