regime right now the assad regime is not even the shadow of its former self assad is not winning iran is winning iran is getting its corridor to the net. mediterranean russia is winning the assad regime in the process lost legitimacy lost independence assad cannot travel around the country and on the ground the russians do the fighting hezbollah does the fighting iraqi militias with the fighting and everyone knows that assad's troops are little more than entertainment so let me bring in patrick coben you've been covering this war since the start in twenty eleven is it your view that assad has basically now won and it's over for the opposition for the rebels yes he clearly has won because he controls most of the syrian population and most of the populated areas. the syrian army is pretty strong the main opponent says i make state are on there or treat. and he's got a superiority of forces that's not going to and the only way the western intervention would have a overthrown asset is if the power of the u.s. air force and its allies had been directed against assad in favor of the opposit

forced it was proportional it was appropriate and it's done i think it hopefully send a signal to the assad regime that this will not be tolerated anymore mr lippold the bombing of the syrian arab a says dramatic as it was does not amount to a syria strategy and let's admit the even the previous have been a straight and didn't have a coherent syrian strategy you said yourself it was sending a powerful signal but in military terms it didn't change and the thing on the ground i wonder how far do you think the trumpet ministration can take these dramatic gestures the reaction there in gestures without paring down with actual military policy decisions well i i don't think that it was a it was a dramatic necessarily obviously that's generated by how the news media covered it when you look at what we did militarily they took those tomahawks you have to remember when the united states chooses to employ that weapon they put together a strike package and say ok what are the objectives of this strike what do we need to hit what we looked at was given that the strikes the chemical strikes came from th

this is the significance of president assad as we see it from day one of the syrian war hizbollah has been saying that any scheming that aims to remove assad hurt syria's interests we cannot accept this because the syrian people elected their own president. bashar al assad was reelected as president during the ongoing aggression against syria this makes in the legitimate leader and strengthens his position as head of state we are convinced that assad will remain president his future will be decided exclusively by the syrian people and we will not accept any foreign interference on this issue. we support the choice of the syrian people when the elections are held when syria's completely free and its people are free to make their own choice without any external intervention we will support any choice made by the syrians. no one can predict the future right now and give any forecasts where the positive or negative it's crucial to give the syrian people a chance to make their own political choice lee. and. now in syria america's goals have changed. they before wanted to get rid of preside

bashar al assad was reelected as president during the ongoing aggression against syria this makes him the legitimate leader and strengthens his position as head of state we are convinced that assad will remain president his future will be decided exclusively by the syrian people and we will not accept any foreign interference on this issue. we support the choice of the syrian people when the elections are held when syria's completely free and its people are free to make their own choice without any external intervention we will support any choice made by the syrians. no one can predict the future right now and give any forecasts where the positive or negative it's crucial to give the syrian people a chance to make their own political choice lee. now in syria america's goals have changed america they before wanted to get rid of president assad and now especially since trump they say the focus is defeating dark. do you think and this is made hezbollah and iran stronger in syria will america accept this long term you think america for sure that saudi america has suffered a defeat in syri

ok let's go back to that breaking news this hour because syria's president bashar assad his congratulated his country's military on breaking islamic states three year long siege it is all released in syria russia's defense ministry says if the whole area cannot be cleared of isis terrorists it would be a major blow to the terror agree to train carries the again there with more details on this. this could be a major major breakthrough couldn't it well yes and speaking of the latest things that we have received both from the syrian army and the russian military i can tell you that they are fully confirming it now first we heard the confirmation from the syrian president we saw it in a tweet that there was an announcement on syrian state t.v. we do realize that it's a very special day for syria and the people of syria then a few hours later this is something that happened within the last forty or thirty minutes or so we heard the confirmation from the russian military and now with the actual details of what's been happening on the ground the blockade was being broken are emerging we're getti

has been saying that any scheming that aims to remove assad hurt syria's interests we cannot accept because the syrian people elected their own president. bashar al assad was reelected as president during the ongoing aggression against syria this makes him a legitimate leader and strengthens his position as head of state we are convinced that assad will remain president and speech will be decided exclusively by the syrian people who don't and will not accept any foreign interference and insist that. we support the choice of the syrian people when the elections are held in serious concern and free and its people are free to make their own choice without any external intervention will and we will support any choice made by the syrian. no one can predict i think your right now and give any four calls with a positive or negative it's crucial to give the syrian people a chance to make their own political choices leigh. shop now in syria america's goals have changed. they before wanted to get rid of president assad and especially since trump they say the focus is defeating dark. do you th

this is the significant president assad as we see that from day one of the syrians all the hezbollah has been saying that any scheming that aims to remove assad hurt syria's interests we cannot accept this because the syrian people elected their own her student. bashar al assad was reelected as president during the ongoing aggression against syria this makes him a legitimate leader and strengthens his position as head of state we are convinced that assad will remain president and speech will be decided exclusively by the syrian people who don't and will not accept any foreign interference in a system that is a free and we support the choice of the syrian people a shock when the elections are held in serious concern and free to make their own choices without any external intervention will and we will support any choice made by the syrian be. no one can predict i think your right now and give any for calls with a positive or negative a sham says it's crucial to give the syrian people a chance to make their own political choices here lee. to shop now in syria america's goals have change

is that of the syrian army is now being referred to as the syrian army is no longer being called the assad regime and so on so the pejoratives have gone out of a lot of the western coverage of this at this stage of the conflict which is a very positive sign that the west itself is ready to resolve the the war on the on the basis of syrian sovereignty it is that mean bashar assad will stay i mean i know a long term thought on this is that you know the chippie new elections the syrian gov or syrian people should choose who they would like as their leader but looking at sayings from syria today bush out of that has a lot of support it wouldn't be surprising to see him stay oh no no to no surprise at all in fact they. want. it was really damning the international community's efforts to resolve conflict in syria was the insistence on the removal of president assad now. you can argue with whether the president sounds a good leader a great leader a bad leader a whatever the reality is that he is the syrian leader and at some stage this is going to have to be resolved by the syrian population but

some breaking news because syria's president bashar assad has congratulated the country's military on breaking islamic states three year long siege in eastern syria government forces did manage to fight their way into the city and link up with the brigade there that were trapped has more on this now we're also getting some reaction see from the russian defense ministry what they say yes andrew this is very important this is the confirmation from the washing army that the blockade of sore that's been in place for some three years is over i'm just going to read you some of the latest messages that we are getting from the russian defense ministry first of all they are confirming it then of course they're talking about these caliber cruise missiles that were launched from the frag it that i was telling you about last hour for an admiral as there were a number of cruise missiles that destroyed the command and communication posts of islamic state near tears or what is happening at the moment according to the russian military is that the syrian government troops are. as we were saying they p

president assad. charlie: they have to have credibility with the syrian people. guest: more than half of syria's prewar population is either displaced inside syria, dad, or a refugee abroad. that is syria today. many fear that it has been an existential crisis to syria, that syria as they knew it no longer exists. syrians and you can see they don't want to say it. they want to believe that something called syria still exists. but when we are looking at now jordan have an influence in the south, turks have influence in the north, the russians and a rainy and -- russians and iranians having influence where president assad prevailed. there are definitely tensions pulling it apart. but there are people trying to pull it back together. i think there are many narratives about syrians not black and white. there's a kaleidoscope of interests. a kaleidoscope is correct because a kaleidoscope is constantly changing. the legions of death the i knownce of turkey -- you did quite a lot of reporting on that. look a

anymore that's a recognition that assad. strong with the support of russia and iran and that the real politic is that we have to broker an end to the conflict with assad and that is something that the trumpets and ministration has recognized as well was that was there an element of ok we took out. you know we took. in libya we took out gadhafi in iraq we took out saddam hussein that you know it didn't really work out well doing that and so this is a change in policy from the obama policy in the early trump policy. recognition one that the policy isn't working that since. the intervention of russia and iran has been so powerful in terms of giving assad the backing that he needed that taking out assad is very unlikely right now and the other is a look around at what comes afterwards and i think an understanding that now we have to broker what comes afterwards now rather then thinking we can overthrow assad and then figure out who and apropos of that it seems to me crazy for us to be in a proxy war with russia and it seems craz

assad is not an imaginary president jalal he is a real and highly sensitive leader and the choice of the syrian people has been lost and the project to move president assad as a not against the whole of syria which we cannot accept at this time is more the syrian people reelected president assad as the legitimate of the state this is the myself choice for the syrian people and no amount of foreign powers to negotiate. about with the latest the top of the hour. it will make all known why we. would. maybe not use any. of them i talk to them they. must convey that on them as well for us to loudly. cutest body of get his body of what point the love up of this new idea but this sort of feel a poke you want to get to but the young looking wistfully. it's easy to see and everybody everybody's iscar see seymour hoffman all that but it's one that's. the bit in my blood is a bit about. everybody could. just feel so sad next kids. to some muscle fishes it means that you settle on the same issue now in the last combine yes the. film the musician the single dishonesty so. about your sudden passin

assad is not an imaginary president is a real and highly effective leader and the choice of the syrian people has been last year and a project to remove president assad as an act against the whole of syria which we cannot accept at this time of war the syrian people reelected president assad as the legitimate had of the state this is a matter of choice for the syrian people an armada of foreign powers to negotiate. now the russian president has said that using sanctions against north korea is a dead end approach that any putin also believes that north korea won't abandon its nuclear program even under economic pressure he was speaking to the media at the bric summit in china from there his cape partridge. it was a very comprehensive post summit conference by president putin but of course one of those key points was about north korea and north korea he george curry well with countries like libya and iraq where regime change had been opposed upon them and he believes that the north korean people are looking at that particular example and fear that threat of regime change being imposed up

in full control. >> assad has survived. he's in control. he's stronger than he's been in many years. in the six and-a-half years since the civil war began on a line from de must cuss all the way to aleppo there's control. the province just to the north is under siege right now and the eastern part of the country is up for grabs. >> rose: with the russians now about facebook. >> yes. >> rose: and a range of other things that it's clear was a policy of the russian government to disrupt the american -- >> so i think we've learned -- >> rose: this is apart from what happened in terms of the hacking. >> right. i think we've learned two really important things in the last 24, 48, 72 hours. one, is that the russian propaganda in the united states, their influence operations went well beyond just the election. that they were playing deeper in u.s. society, they were playing in the whole black lives matter issue for example, trying to divide americans on race. that's one thing we learned. the second thing we've learned is that they'

cannot accept at this time of war the syrian people reelected president assad as the legitimate had of the state this is a matter of choice for the syrian people an armada of foreign powers to negotiate watching out international still to come for you this hour german police are under fire for advising women not to go running alone we'll have that story. after the break. the feeling of. every. good on the old old. old according to josh. coming. again welcome back police in the german city of leipzig advised women not to go running alone after a female child was right in a local park or patrol of is across the story for us and joins us now from berlin paid to this is provided this story a lot of reaction. well that house indeed it's been a lot of criticism of the police force in light seek for these comments not least of which coming from the mayor booker young the mayor of leipzig that he slammed his own police force it follows on from the rape of a woman in a light state park on friday now the woman who said to be in her. fifty s was punched and kicked so hard in the face that she

>> is assad a good guy?? >> tucker: i don't know. ask the christians and who live in syria. >> if we align with russia, we are aligning with iran. we are aligning with assad. >> tucker: that's bad for american interests because why? >> do you think iran is good for american interests? >> tucker: i think iran is a bad country and in a lot of ways against american interests. but within the context of syria, assad was much better for americaa than the people i believe you hope to replace it with. >> the kurds? >> tucker: the kurds are going to run syria? now we are in fantasyland. >> they are going to have an independent -- i am not going to break it out.i >> tucker: because it worked so well in iraq? >> the problem with iraq was in 2003, when we had the chance, we didn't break it up. >> tucker: we didn't break it up. w last question, and would you -- knowing what you know now -- i hate to revisit this, knowing what you know now, deposing saddam, his subsequent death, empowered iran dramatically and in fact we expressly helped iran gain

success while iran and hezbollah have also been instrumental in backing up syrian president bashar assad since the beginning of the war it was russian air power that changed the dynamics of the conflict giving assad the upper hand the establishment of deescalation zones in syria has become a priority for moscow but even with the presence of russian military personnel in various parts of the country it's still a question as to how they will be enforced still having solidified its influence in such a strategically important country in the middle east the cost of military involvement in syria seems to have been well worth it for russia. and look who's here in the studio with us mohammed join us to say it nice if it's so can we play it all how important russia's involvement was sunny two years ago but how how bad were things for bashar al assad at that time before rusher intervened the short answer no we can't underscore in on how important their intervention was because before they came into this conflict the way that they did supporting with their air power the regime of bashar assad this

assad is going to be part of the u.s. and the system the missile defense system by deploying saudi south korea that means there will be part of the u.s. people. will eventually threaten tensions in northeast asia. secondly they say that they deeply thought in south korea to. prevent a north north korea and a missile threats. but when you see the distance between north and south korea it's quite close to each other and thought is to prevent a high altitude missile. shooting so when they shoot missiles from north korea to south korea will be low altitude because we are very close that is why we say defied it is not going to be effective to defense a south korean peninsula korea from north korea stret. lastly the process of deployment of thought in south korea is not democratic i know it was not transparent the government did not get any consultation or agreement from the villagers living in some june as well as there was no discussion proper discussion in the polish and the deployment process has been very untransparent tha

so we still have a bleeding syria, and the reality is that assad still rules it and is represented in the u.n. you might deplore that, but we could not with all our efforts, best efforts, diplomatically and politically, change the game. that's one of the most probably tragic failures of the coalition of states who are involved in recent history. and the most terrible humanitarian catastrophe that we are witnessing in our times with dramatic consequences for the neighboring region. but i just say this in a kind of deploring sense but this is the reality we have to deal with. >> just to back up peter on this point. assad may still be the syrian representative in the u.n., but this is, remember, a leader who has bombed and used chemical weapons against his own people, who has so misruled his country that there are millions of people now forced to flee the country as refugees, millions more displaced inside the country, hundreds of thousands killed by this conflict. there might be some kind of neutral emotion around international law, but in no way can you describe them as a legitimate an

you know we're russian killing civilians you know the assad killing his own people. the war has tipped into the other direction i think is pretty obvious here but you would know that from mainstream media you would know that from cable t.v. would you what happened in syria last time i heard over a half a million six hundred thousand people returned to aleppo oh i thought they were supposed to fear mr assad i mean their whole media narrative has collapsed basically the message from the new york times is stop telling me peace is coming back just like their main message for mr trump during the talks with which is stop . telling me that i want honestly yes i want thanks to you and you're going to be held to account for that and this is in the detour you also the new york times you are absolutely right you wouldn't you wouldn't know that the situation is improving from the western media i have to learn the situation is improving problem the had all of their. positions negotiating so-called supreme council here last all of that stuff on diffused the you under presented to

you know we're russian killing civilians you know the assad you know killing his own people. the to the war the war has tipped into the other direction i think is pretty obvious here but you wouldn't know that from mainstream media you wouldn't know that from cable t.v. would you what happened in syria last time i heard over a half a million six hundred thousand people returned to aleppo oh i thought they were supposed to fear mr assad then the whole media narrative has collapsed well integrated basically the message from the new york times is stop telling me peace is coming back just like their main message for mr trump during the talks with is stop telling me that they want honestly. i want thanks to you and you're going to be held to account for that and this is in the torah also the new york times you are absolutely right you wouldn't you wouldn't know that the situation is improving from the western media i have to learn the situation is improving problem the had all of their. positions negotiating so-called supreme council here lashed out that stuff on de mistura the yo

has made it clear years ago that assad's chemical weapons had been destroyed and that he no longer had any more therefore what's the most compelling evidence that you've uncovered in your experience which contradicts claims made by other various western nations including. accusing rather than the syrian government of using these chemical weapons there's a dear simply is no compelling evidence here there are some indications that some people may have been poisoned by serin or sarin like substances which of course is a nerve agent but that doesn't mean this was part of a chemical attack by the assad government we know that the rebels have. had have have these chemicals and for example in one case we have journalists from the site where they claim this chemical attack occurred. taking the camera over to a dead goat that was supposed to be near the scene and if you look carefully at the dead goats photographs and i publish this you can see tracks where the dead goat carcass was dragged to that location so i have no idea what happened but i don't think that goes drag themselves to the locat

does that mean that president assad is immune now from any persecution? and what can you do to stop the further use of chemical weapons? thank you. >> well, first of all, the palestinians and the israelis, we are discussing, we are working. they say it is the world's most complex and difficult deal. you know that. but it is something that could happen. i believe that the relationships that we have with both can help. it's an event that's never taken place. sometimes people think they're close and it never happens. i think we have a chance of doing it. i think the palestinians would like to see it happen. i think the israelis would like to see it happen. usually when you have two groups that would like to see something happen, good things can happen. so i think there is a chance that there could be peace. but again, i say that a little bit reluctantly. we're going to give it our best. we have tremendous talent working on that particular transaction. as you know, david friedman, the ambassador, is very much involved. we have a great group of people. we'll s

assad the beautiful face of the dictatorship starting october first on d w. all of germany is in the throes of election fever all of germany. here on this one of the ten high like islands in the north sea people get more worked up about runaway rams elections the german. parliament the bundestag are this sunday parties are not important here between the mud flats and the meadows here the issues are different from those in the rest of the country. but it. will. no. longer this is an easy to reach or even to see here in the middle of our picture that i like rises from the north sea barely. it's just a few meters above sea level so how like is not a normal island there are no dunes or dykes the sea floods the land regularly. almost everything has to be brought here by ship including the roughly one hundred ballots where the election. and the election campaigners if any come at all. has other worries one of his rams is premature interested in the female lambs. yes i need a shouldn't be getting about. these places with the others and i mean it's no good when he's

you think the kurds will run syria once we depose bashar al-assad? >> i think it will be very difficult to do in any case. i think it should have been done in 2011, 2012, free syrian army >> tucker: just sorry we didn't follow your advice. >> what is your advice, tucker? should we collaborate with with russia and committing war crimes in syria? is that your advice at the moment? >> tucker: i think you are not choosing -- >> i am very opposed to the trump policy. >> tucker: you specialize in moral outrage. i am a cheerleader for russia and iran. this is exactly the style of debate that prevents people from taking you seriously. >> tucker: am i wrong? >> tucker: cheerleading for iran and russia? of course i'm not. i wouldn't live in -- >> you don't think we should make common cause with russia and syria? >> tucker: that's very different. let me ask you this, since i think you are also historian. the congress in 1941 voted for something that sent billions and billions of dollars to joseph stalin in armaments and food because the congress of the united s

the seriously reelected president assad as the legitimate had of the. this is a matter of choice for the syrian people foreign powers to negotiate. when northern italy is now tottering a refugee influx coming from other european countries become more on the story after this short break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations from washington to washington controls the media the media. voters elected businessmen to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. here's what people have been saying about rejected and that it was your position it is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it was a really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than food the things that i see people you've never heard of love or down to the night i'm president of the world bank so very. seriously send us an email. come back seven italy has be

and project to remove president assad as an act against the whole of syria which we cannot accept at this time of war the syrian people reelected president assad as the legitimate had of the state this is a matter of choice for the syrian people and foreign powers to negotiate. the founder of the red crescent in yemen has died in hospital in the capital city of he was unable to receive vital treatment as a result of saudi arabia's blockade of the country dr abdullah alchemy c passed away at the age of seventy six after a failed heart operation he was prevented from travelling abroad for surgery and local hospitals lacked the equipment needed to save his life a spokesperson for the red cross told is that he died the same way as millions of others. first of all i would like to see it when we have the whole movement to grow cross and red crescent that don't miss us and then you who during his her life should complete me. and. indeed. it is in reason millions of suffering human as we speak it is just me. that is for giving me. no access to health care. in total the un estimates that arou

means with the help of other arab countries this shifted to a policy of non-conference of president assad because they know. there's as much of a threat of them as does the syrian people and the world that. there's not an imaginary president which is a real and highly sector and the choice of the syrian people has been lost and the project to move president assad as a not against the whole of syria which we cannot accept. the syrian people reelected president assad as the legitimate had of the slain this is a matter of choice for the syrian people foreign powers to negotiate. northern italy is now tackling a refugee influx coming from i think european countries got more and that much more later in the program. that's. what politicians do you shouldn't expect to put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. yourself want to be rich. that you'd like to be this is what we. were able to get. into st paul's it belongs. there should be. welcome back all the founder of the red crescent in yemen has died in hospital in the competent city of santa he was u

defendants that assad, for the moment, isn't going anywhere. yousef: geopolitics aside, there could be more dangerous for the global economy today than there were 10 years ago. that is the view of william white out of the chairman of the economic and irrelevant review committee at the oecd. guest: looks to me to be very similar to the way it looked in 2008, which is that we are seeing all sorts of odd developments in financial markets. the prices of metal for -- of many financial assets are very high. house prices in many countries have continued to rise very strongly. equity markets are very high. all of these things i think are a source of concern. let's dive into our bloomberg right now because i want to highlight what you are talking about. markets' deing the bt? take a look at the biggest economies in asia, china and india. we often talk about china, the huge debt pile that could be a concern if it pops. but take a look at india's back loan ratio as compared to its total gross loans. it is more than quadruple china's. what is going to happ

the seriously reelected president assad as the legitimate of the. this is a matter of choice for the syrian people and not about our foreign powers to not go . the founder of the red crescent in yemen has died in hospital in the capital city of sun our he was unable to receive vital treatment as a result of saudi arabia's blockade of the country dr abdullah alchemies the passed away at the age of seventy six after a failed heart operation he was prevented from travelling abroad for surgery and local hospitals lack the equipment needed to save his life a spokesperson for the red cross told is that he died at the same way as millions of others in yemen. first of all i would like to see it when we have. the road cross and red crescent that don't miss us and then you who during his her life should complete me. and he died indeed. it is in reason millions of. us we speak it is. all. that is for going to. have no access to health care. in total the un estimates that around twenty thousand people have now been denied crucial health care due to the saudi bo

report accuses the assad government of using chemical weapons against civilians and it claims it was responsible for an attack in italy province back in april we'll have the details on this a bit later in the program. the russian president says sanctions are mounting pressure will not solve the north korea crisis as pyongyang feels it is being backed into a corner flemmi putin made the comments after speaking with south korea's leader of the eastern economic forum in the russian city of bloody for stock and hawkins has more. it's foremost primarily a place for business and trade interests to find common ground but as you say there's only been one thing really hanging over the four and one key thing on the agenda and that's been the korean crisis the crisis on the korean peninsula and president putin of south korea half an hour concluded the talks they've done a joint press conference where putin again as russia's position has been over the last weeks and months that diplomacy negotiation was the only way long term to solve this crisis take a listen it's obvious that the korean penins

in watching our team start this hour with breaking news tonight because syria's president bashar al assad has congratulated the country's military on breaking islamic states three year long siege of deir ez-zor in eastern syria government forces did manage to fight their way into the city and link up with the brigade trapped there. now in the studio with more. developments moving rapidly what's the latest in that we. hi again well i can tell you that many times in this studio i have said that the syrian army was advancing towards steroids or if the city finally gets liberated this will be the beginning of. the state in syria we heard from the russian defense ministry from the minister himself from the . syrian government for many military analyst why there are many reasons for it some of islamic state commanders are of course based around besides what they got there are munition depos but most importantly if islamic state terrorists are completely kicked out of the dare as zoar province that means that the jihad is that remain in iraq which used to be the de facto capital of islamic state

into the age of the civil war now it's being seven years of conflict with the full intention of the assad government to actually to overcome that peaceful revolution that has to be the prize of his responsibility has to be there bright or for actually all the blood being on the ground in syria and i don't think that the man who would syria into the middle of the civil war he will be able to bully the country together again united against terrorism and i guess different foreign forces this is why syria has to start a bullet to go to transition where the us said has no place in in within this transition what do you think is the immediate future then for the people on the ground in syria if the two groups on either side of this debate will simply refuse to meet face to face as they have been in the past and refused to reach some sort of agreement on the press in the future of president bashar al assad if he and his future is the main stumbling block to moving this process forward. but we have to understand this is actually is not not short of crisis this is a media crisis and that bashar ass

regime forces inflicted more death and destruction in their bid to defeat opponents of president bashar assad. we thought we were working on her diverse strike but we didn't think that it was targeting us . earlier rebel. fighters made a push from the group towards the northern countryside of aleppo province in a bid to take back from government forces who have recaptured it in the past few months this escalation in fighting comes just days after the latest round of talks in cousin stands capital stana where russian iranian and turkish negotiators continue to push for what they've described as the escalation zones across syria while the northern iraq war problems isn't included in your standard deal traddles bombardment of civilian areas suggests this seven year long war is far from being over for those fighting assad and his russian and iranian allies there is no end until the regime is toppled from. beirut a u.k. based human rights organization is calling on egypt to provide necessary medical treatment for detained al jazeera journalist mark went to say he's been in prison for almost nine m