want to influence in syria and the don't want by syria but want. to go and syria seems a very rich. region you know of oil. and natural the we we saw and. you know of the fighting there around. all the resources i knew way syria one. in that area and cape it's not much. and there is a. want of it's a part of the city and what i thought stay in the regime or not. russia but isn't a large part of the syrian. people. want not. to moscow and protect its interests and what what russia want ok well let me give the last word to joshua landis in a wrestle and josh i want to come back to the current situation in syria today this civil war is now entering its seventh year we've seen in the last forty eight hours more than one hundred people killed in italy been eastern ghouta civilians really bearing the brunt of this conflict the humanitarian situation is disastrous as the u.n. has said. where does this all leave this current escalation where does this leave peace efforts whether it's. whether it's sochi whether it's geneva can maybe a negotiated solution still in syria or is this war only g

syria we are part of syria we never tried to divide syria and rearm up to trying to establish something else all we want is democratic syria but the i mean the sudan government is not doing their duties i mean their mission to protect the syrian territory would never thought of dividing syria or anything else so what we are doing i mean in and often in the other places we have been attacked in our home so we are defending yourselves it's uses just self-defense is nothing else i mean underwood will never return to the back to buses through dream as it was before two thousand and eleven gentlemen we will have to leave it there thank you to all our guests today met but you can sell a muslim. it joshua landis and thank you for your company you can see the program again any time via the website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter at a.j. inside story for me peace adobe and the entire team thanks for watching. monitor the truck quantified i'm valued da

democratic syria but it any time syria cannot return to the time before two thousand and eleven i mean this political regime must this region is could not be there should be a new syria i mean for the most i think for everybody and we are part of if offering is syrian territory. we know of course that that the kurds are currently governing that area would it be an option for you that the syrian regime would step in and be the administration in that area in exchange with your some sort of deal should be if you are talking of the motor things of course we have a project for that which is syria should be disarmed from the list because now we are talking about sudanese we are talking about the holidays the doozies is a disease the christians muslims. are talking about the the me now two months so have how you can keep all those verses all together should be democratic or otherwise you come up to them if you are talking about the unity of the syrian territory should be all of those should be in democratic system which we are to decentralize syria it means offering and other places not on th

hari is an enemy of syria and. puppets of the us and france for the sea. three days later that it was that should. not. explosives equivalent to nearly two tons of t.n.t. were used in the attack twenty two other people were killed in the blast everybody says as a nation sparked international outrage the un security council approved a resolution sponsored by britain france and the us that imposed some new sanctions on syria. cories murder also led to a popular uprising in lebanon this domestic resistance movement combined with international pressure prompted syria to pull its troops out of lebanon in two thousand and six. assad seemed to take these events in stride at least in public. but since his relations with the west now lay in tatters he moved his country closer to iran. and he signed a military cooperation agreement with russia. that assad turned the situation following her reasons sasa nation to his advantage. he purged political and military leaders who'd been appointed by his father and replaced them with his own people. the shadow said that about

syria and. that and that those extremists they were being supported by u.s. allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the east of syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states change its policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive without the right to go on between turkey and isis we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned to the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was

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america has said that it is in syria only to fight isis today isis has been all but defeated in syria but you don't see the pentagon packing its bags our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains to defeat of isis whether it's in iraq or in syria that is our intent to defeat isis and not do anything more than that the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge total withdrawal of american personnel at this time would restore assad who continue his brutal treatment against his own people so as to put its ability to the lack of a fundamental commitment to our agreement that is typical of current u.s. diplomacy including the reasons why the americans stay in syria rex tillerson peter he stated that the only goal in syria was the defeat of ice or now they've got far more ambitious plans with more of the most with the mixed messages here is the pentagon staying general mattis said that the united states will stay in syria we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you

they train their people in syria. they are focused onnsy syria. i don't think all of this is really, obviously this nuances not of great interest to turkey, but nonetheless it's important when looking at this. at the same time, the operations of this organization in syria have not been counter in a military way against turkey. there have not been attacks on turkey from syrian territory. they haven't, they tried to keep, over the past two years their senior commanders in syria so, the problem is for the united states, i'm sure we'll get into this later on, by denying any link between the two, something that's necessary for u.s. policy, they also make it difficult for the u.s. to acknowledge some of turkey's concerns and try to explain why the w y pg is not a real threat. not but thatn would necessarily calm the situation. there are clearly links but when we look at the y pg, we see that they are operating according to syrian conditions in syria. >> thank you for that. i should also note there is a legal distinction between them, the united states l

you want regional autonomy or something like this in syria i think they are just using syria for their interests in turkey if you have a look for example back to two thousand and fourteen you see that they fought against the islamic state the so-called islamic state. they became really popular all over the world hey this is the only force that can cite the islamic state. only in syria so because they fought the state. suddenly you seem to be. the only ones who have women's rights for example the only ones who are really. the only ones who are really democrats so they really profited politically in the international community from this fight and this is what they're interested in they're not interested in syrian kurdistan in the end for them it's not important if there was tony or something like this they want to profit for their fight in turkey from what is happening in syria let's look closer at that role in that fight we have a short report on the role that the syrian kurdish fighters played in the fight against us. for months now kurdish fighters have been defending the syrian borde

deal between the russians and americans to reduce iranian presence in syria. israel considers russia its guarantor for security along its border with syria they have talked about a buffer zone but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said the ceasefire agreement in southern syria didn't address what he called iranian military ambitions israel has repeatedly said it will not allow iran and its allies to entrench themselves militarily in syria and it won't allow syria to become a forward operating base against israel that's a guy who calls them red lines. now the syrian government and its allies are introducing red lines of their own they say the downing of the israeli jets is a clear message that the days of carrying out attacks in syria are gone russia allied to both sides is calling for restraint and for syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity to be respected it was a serious and dangerous incident the israeli army said it was last not a war but more than a confrontation for now all sides have taken a step back after making their message clear

soldiers in syria. that's like russia moving troops within its own border and it's called a provocation you know where one of the interesting is from a media point of view is it any time trump says something equal to go live. the liberal media like to say this is a perfect example of saying something that has nothing to do with policy but nobody says a word a word it's remarkable how the mainstream liberal media they won't jump on this they'll jump on just about anything else is long as the neo-con agenda is moved forward he can quote unquote law all he wants there because there is no opposition in either the u.s. you know political elite or within the media only they are all cheerleading us regime change efforts now transitioning to partition efforts in syria they're all back at there's there's no objection even if trump is doing it in fact that's the few minutes that he actually gets some temporary plaudits right now when he does take over military action there i thought it was a little funny this wee

soldiers in syria. that's like russia moving troops within its own border and it's called a provocation you know where one of the interesting is from a media point of view is it any time trump says something equal to go live. liberal media like to say this is a perfect example of saying something that has nothing to do with policy but nobody says a word a word it's remarkable how the mainstream liberal media they won't jump on this they'll jump on just about anything else is long as the neo con agenda is moved forward he can quote unquote la all he wants there because there is no opposition in either the us you know political elite or within the media only they are all cheerleading us regime change efforts now transitioning to partition efforts in syria they're back at there's there's no objection even if trump is doing it in fact that's the few minutes that he actually gets some temporary plaudits right now when he does take over military action there i thought it was a little funny this week to see ti

legality of the war in syria of the war on syria and it's done under the two thousand and one two thousand and three authorization of the use of military force for iraq against al qaeda which is still being used by the united states to justify its presence in military conflicts all of course always themselves and this is a justification for endless wars thinking they say that they have the authorization you just move the goalpost as it were and say this is what covers it ok i suppose it'll fly to yemen in somalia and only those that make part of it know that it is ok so i mean you know it. it's already a justification and it doesn't matter the circumstances that was done once and it applies the entire region to how this never get that obama is the person that ramped up the u.s. presence in syria and so the justification was to fight al-qaeda then obama comes and he supports an al-qaeda isis springs up out of out of al qaeda and now trump in his generals and i would even say trump i would say the generals are going to show their you know you know where i'm going there now using it as an exc

more now on the war in syria. the united nations says six hospitals in eastern ghouta have been targeted in the past 48 hours, as syrian government forces intensify their bombardment in the rebel—held area. activists say more than 200 civilians have been killed since sunday. well we can speak now to dr ahmad tarakji. he's the president of the syrian american medical society. it's a non—profit, medical relief organisation. dr tarakji has been giving evidence to mps this afternoon about the situation in syria. he joins us live from our westminster studio. how tired think the situation in eastern ghouta is right now question what the situation is very bad at this time in eastern ghouta forgot to give you a brief, a brief example of what is going on right now, the storage where the un convoy, the food convoy in eastern ghouta, it was bombed by the syrian air force. that is in the last 48 hours. our collea g u es that is in the last 48 hours. our colleagues from the white helmets tried to evacuate patients from des

in years israel's military says the country is not seeking escalation with syria. and israeli jet in flames an angry reaction from the army and two very different versions of what happened early saturday morning. the key question didn't iranian surveillance drones stray into israeli territory from a base in syria triggering a deadly response from israeli fighter jets syria says its allies drone was near the israeli border on a standard intelligence mission but israel disagrees it has released this unverified video which it says shows the drone in israeli airspace next they say it followed the drone across the syrian border and shot it down and then launched fighter jets like these to strike the drones base inside syria that triggered a syrian response the regime unleashed its anti-aircraft guns on the israeli fighter planes and it brought down an f. sixteen jet which crashed dramatically into the northern israeli countryside the israeli air force says its pilot was seriously wounded after making an emergency exit. israel then responded with another large scale bomb

the truth is in syria, if you look at the numbers, over half a million people have been killed in syria. that wasn't being done with chemical weapons, that wasn't being done using gas. the truth is, in syria, when the united states makes a statement and says that we're not going to allow you to use chemical weapons and sign a deal with russia to withdraw those chemical weapons, they're basically giving the green light to the syrian regime and to all the other parties involved to use any other means of violence to kill syrians. what about the tortured victims in the dungeons? what about those people? do chemical weapons only justify the idea of actually standing against something like that? in syria, the truth is, christiane, that we're seeing a widespread massacre. we're using many means of torture, of death, or weaponry, that we've locally produced weaponry such as barrel bombs and elephant missiles, things we've never heard of being used in syria, because war costs money and the syrian regime knows that war is financially a stronghold. so what they're doing is creating weaponry to kil

case then why is israel launching sorties an s strikes over syria. when israel was in effect asked to choose between two evils so two devils sees it the assad regime and dies it indeed shows assad if he's satisfied that i still has been eradicated and that the forces arrayed against him be the russian led coalition or the american led coalition have prevailed but israel also resists the notion that iran is going to have a foothold in syria and to cory door to lebanon against israel so when the iranians violate israeli air space israeli sovereignty by sending a drone into israel israel both should sit down and makes the point of retaliate ing in order to have some impact in the talks about the future of syria israel would not sit idly by if i during such the orange an eva the future is syria is decided upon without bringing into consideration israel's own interests some some might say that israel is perhaps working its own agenda in syria if you jump online and just and just have a look at the information israel has been conducting as sorties over syr

exceptional to syria. we have seen this before in places like iraq, palestine, congo, even in myanmar now with the rohingya. what you want -- if you want a sound bite what we are saying is the power over people. it's this is something that will continue -- this is something that will continue in syria and other places as long as government and states are allowed to do what they do. if populationsnd around the world start mobilizing and pressuring their own governments to stop these types of actions -- to not allow power to dominate over people. if we don't do that, we will see the tragedy of syria continue for a long time and you will see other tragedies in other places around the world. that is what is happening. the: i wanted to ask about role of bashar al-assad. many of the western powers calling for regime change to end the civil war -- that has dropped off ththe table for a lt ofof them in terms o of the ongg conflict. can you talk about that as well? yeah, of course. i am not surprised they dropped o

turkey or the syria. the downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed to their soldiers is a significant development in this three week long but military operation it brings the number of christe oldest killed by a z y p g kurdish militia group to over twenty years far as the serbs are concerned they've killed at least one hundred fifty kurdish fighters now some advances have been made on the ground in the past twenty four forty eight hours the free syrian army which is fighting alongside turkish military in order to advance towards the y.p. cipro just from hold of free and i have managed to capture some villages on the road towards there as far as the turkish army is concerned and the listening to president merchant tehran they will respond the same to those who were behind that attack what's important to note here is that although the. kurds are sources in the y.p. ji claim that the turkish military has killed civilians in its operation ankara denies that they say the reason wh

you can work today at the pkk counter in syria and then you and itd to go to syria is the ypg. there are reliable statistics that more than 50% or about 50% of those fighting are from turkey. i think these points show very clearly that the ypg and the pkk are really one and the same organization. i would agree that the ypg has not targeted turkey or anything like this, but of course, since it is one organization that is a threat for turkey, now they have .n the border the ypg it should be quite simple to get those weapons over to turkey and to use them there, so and so far i would agree that it is a danger for turkey, even though the ypg has not yet targeted them. 'slinda: you would say erdogan offensive is legitimate, turkey has a legitimate offensive that has a right to pursue here? eva: i do understand there are security interests, even though there are other reasons why turkey is now intervening. this does not mean that it is legal, of course. melinda: how do you interpret erdogan's aims? is he looking to cleanse the region of terrorism or to prevent establishment of a kurd

and democratic solution of what syria and now for the syria and i mean what we are looking for is just the syrian government to protect the surgery's who are syria i mean that's all. we are about we are not going to return back to the all voices region as it was before and depressing and that russia looking for the solution and. already i mean that a lot with. government forces is just to protect the civilians of the syrian territory joshua landis do you buy that that this will more than a dialogue and if that dialogue actually has in-built guarantees it may actually succeed. yes i agree with that i'd like to correct one thing you said which is that the syrian regime is not gone at the at isis of course the syrian regime has has fought isis for a long time and took half the territory the kurds took one happy territory without the and much united states and the syrian army took the other half of the help of iran so there is going to long war going on between the syrian government and isis but to your question up a team this there is still some disagreement between the syrian government

within syria that will remain the same but right now. we are hearing that a big operation is on the way all right to him and in a western that's cross over now to the iranian capital tehran i'm told designed by a saying so the israelis and the u.s. have been quick to blame iran for this incident so what's the view from tehran well since the syrian conflict began iran's position has always been that its forces are in syria at the behest of who they see as the legitimate government of the country president bashar al assad and they are there to support that government and they're saying runyan leaders are saying that the real narrative is that israel in fact encroached on syrian airspace has had it has done several times in the past and this time the syrian government response was something that iranian leaders said was long time coming and they certainly celebrated it we've heard bold rhetoric in the past bold and defiant rhetoric from both the iranian leadership as well as the syrians and they've said that they will respond at an appropri

so it's not actually syria you know but it's. the same type of things are going on in syria it's kind of just and for me it might not be you know to a t. informative but it's getting the message across that even if these pictures are someplace else it's ok do you think that you by that i mean to some extent yes if you think that it actually it's like taking an initiative then i feel like the pictures don't really matter i think the real issue is scary and sad enough that we don't need to you know misinformed people to have real journalism to have real information and verify you know contact with this be fake news be fake i mean part of why i don't use twitter is because of the information fabrication exists and also has it about facebook this exact reason you can't trust anything anymore and it's a sad state of the world now the saddest part is that some commenters say they don't actually care what they say people are dying in syria aren't they facts don't matter that's how things are in the post truth world caleb mop and artsy n

to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what's next for syria's state. elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fit of to committed to do it living for you like a million little pieces of my complicity is going up local study hall meeting. john doe about a tough job with a ship the only palestinians who gets the most help from his to roost on counterparts i don't think this is about those who endure under the oak vision the only could give us a book and know it is all of us not just the heart of this lady of the most of the jihad i know if you continue muslims you know do more camillus also don't piss off . hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru well he's a little bit different i'm not a. good one of your windows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet everyday americans. and hope

let's start out with syria and the conflict has been going on almost seven years now. part of that conflict has come to an end with the almost complete defeat of isis and its affiliate. in that country primarily proxies now this calm thirty is changing how is it different this conflict about as opposed to the formal one you know it really is quite tragic because syria was slowly coming to a conclusion and coming to an end and a political end with a political solution that was going to very likely emerge from these other processes going on and now suddenly we have new wars and we have a new episode you use all the plural wars wars explain we've got three at least wars. the internal war is only going the war against the jihad is is winding down syria has had a big success which i always thought was going to be much more difficult but in practice it's almost finished so we should be moving directly towards a political situation instead of which we have first of all america deciding to have a permanent base in northeast of syria on thirty percent of syria why are they want

live from berlin sirius for tracks of war just got more chaotic as alliances shift kurdish militia in syria say they are teaming up with president assad's forces to push turkey out of the border enclave it invaded last month meanwhile critics fear german tanks like these used to attack kurdish rebels in syria were part of a deal to secure the freedom of imprisoned journalists some believe it might have been turkey's price tag for the reporter's freedom and inside a russian fake news factory whistleblower tells you that news that the people indicted for alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election just the tip of the iceberg. all right thanks for your company everyone syrian media is reporting that pro assad forces will enter syria as a free region to help kurdish militias expel turkish troops could arrive in the rebel held area within hours turkey's foreign minister was spotted to news wires saying that if the syrian regime moved to protect the kurds the turkish offensive would continue turkey's cross border incursion into syria began last month. you know every news correspondent on i

because it downs the drone allegedly flying over here by bombing syria and it's bomb syria repeatedly and by using iran as a scapegoat is just like with apartheid south africa did with regards to the a.n.c. they blame the russians the soviet union the communists in order to subjugate africans in the west supported ok you know if we look if you try to look at the next step forward mr bono work this is the political reality in syria a weakened president bashar assad but with the backing from iran and syria russia is bad as you know to reverse some of the gains made by the made by the rebels the americans into was in the region is waning so we're left with two key players inside syria iran and russia. is this going to have any kind of impact in the near future about president bashar al assad are we going to see him likely sergei more ground or no i think iran is going to stay in syria. and for once was been established with and mean in lebanon syria up to the sea it actual fact now brush i need you ron. on especially on tactical level there have differences on the strategic. but the goin

and israeli fighter jet has crashed after an iranian drone was shot down near the border with syria syria says it was responding to an israeli act of aggression state television is reporting explosions from what it says israeli attacks in the damascus well two f. sixteen pilots ejected from the plane and parachute safely into northern israel israeli army says they were shot at by massive anti-aircraft fire they were targeting a military base inside syria suspected of launching an iranian drone which flew towards the golan heights let's get more now from joins me from western so what's been the reaction so far inside israel to reports of this f. sixteen coming down. well the israelis are squarely blaming the iranians for this they have gone off to what they say are iranian targets inside of syria they say they've destroyed a command and control center for the unmanned aerial vehicle the drones flew over. really taking a look at what they should do next now we are hearing that a cabinet meeting the government is going to formulate a cabinet meeting to discuss what to do next also the minist

israel says it was provoked a charge denied by syria and iran. the burning israeli f. sixteen shot down by syrian air defenses both pilots ejected one was seriously wounded israel said the judge had attacked iranian targets in syria after an iranian drone entered israeli airspace following the incident on saturday prime minister binyamin netanyahu vowed that israel would defend itself against any attack or attempt by iran to establish itself in syria. iran seeks to use syrian territory to attack israel for its professed goal of destroying the us this morning iran brazenly violated israel's sovereignty israel holds iran and its syrian post responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security. laws of syria and enemies of israel celebrated the downing of the warplane fighters from the pro raney and hezbollah group gathered on the border between lebanon and israel as israeli soldiers looked on the iranian president hassan rouhani condemned the israeli action in syria. yet if one

nicol for the boring parties in syria we cannot arrive at a ceasefire. with this kind of an unrealistic approach will not in no way help to address the pressing humanitarian situation in syria what is necessary is for the demands of the security council to be underpinned by concrete on the ground agreements. it would be naive to think that difficult issues can be addressed overnight momentarily we trust that all parties or external parties with influence to bear will help to bring this about we seen that some external sponsors of the illicit armed factions are falling well short in this regard and they at times deliberately skirt their obligations to the russian federation works with all parties to the conflict in so doing we are doing everything possible to normalize the situation we are proactively lending assistance in terms of humanitarian delivery what a great deal of work is being done by a partners under the astonished a process iran and turkey. in their monster com we're preparing for an important meeting under this format. under the southern us

syria and. that and that those extremists they were being supported by u.s. allies in the region and as general michael flynn who was the head of the defense intelligence agency at that time admitted on al jazeera the united states took a willful decision to support those extremists so the united states back then was supporting an attempt to take over the eastern. syria later on when the tide turned when the tide turned with the help of russia iran hezbollah the iraqis on the volunteers and isis began to lose ground and territory it was only then that the united states changes policy before that the united states was allowing isis to thrive. to go on between turkey and i say this we know from kerry the secretary of state of the united states in the audio file that he told the syrian opposition people that the united states allowed isis advance on damascus to put pressure on president assad so only when the tide turned that the united states decided to start fighting isis and that was because the

groups inside syria. its only conflict has been with the with within syria and recent times as with the kurds of syria they got frightened because the united states backing started backing the y.p. . but truly turkey should also shoulder quite a lot of the responsibility for the mayhem that. unfolded in both syria and in iraq by the way where they still have some forces inside iraq as you out and their policy towards the kurdish people over many decades has been really bad that must be mentioned that the kurdish people have suffered enormously from successive regimes tens of thousands of kurds have died inside turkey and this so-called cleansing inside syria turkey is in effect committing aggression against a sovereign state the syrian state which has object to fish only to the entry of turkish troops so there are a dime if you cations here and that is the other point i wanted to raise is out there is some genuine friction between turkey and the united states since the coup attempt which seems to have had

and is also a close confidante of president palin as the government pursues military operations in syria and continues to crack down on civil liberties well this principles. about welcome to conflicts in a talk in front of your party members shortly after the beginning of the attack in syria president and other once said quote if the terrorists enough enough don't surrender we will tear them down what does tearing down me how far will turkey go. well as you know this process is not a new process it's started in two thousand and eleven with. people being massacred in syria and turkey has been under attack over the last two years seven hundred attacks have come to turkish soil out of the first arguing to building in syria you actually know this is not a this is not the first time it was during operation euphrates chilled in two thousand and sixteen when turkey went first into the syrian through the syrian border and turkey was the one who clear to area from dice terrorists isis and syrian citizen what we're able to do to militarily in down what does this mean it's a very aggressive matter

have come to turkish soil to the first arguing to building in syria you actually know this is not a this is not the first time it was during operation euphrates shield in two thousand and sixteen when turkey went first into the syrian through the syrian border and turkey was the one who clear to area from terrorists i see two with terrorists we're fighting turkey as you might probably hold would know terrorists you will enter into our countries you will cross borders this is not turkey we are talking about no turkey is not imagine syria would have done the same. wealth and let me take it to be king at start from the beginning turkish citizens are i'm to attack have been attacked by missiles by bombs coming from syrian border seven hundred different attacks took place in addition to that thousands and thousands of syrians have been massacred since two thousand and fifty six point five million people have lost their homes we're hosting three million of them in turkey so we know so we're not there in syria to kill citizens innocent citizens not only are there lives where there are the

we'll fight in syria for as long as the united states wants to fight in syria i mean that's you know pretty direct now you see how this might sound strange going to syria vital and while there you start killing syrians in syria in self-defense. the experts told us that with islamic state practically gone from syria washington is now targeting the country's government and that they are not just in syria to fight there in the new have been in syria for a long time because they want to throw aside as the spate of. feeds as it becomes clear that it is the syrian forces themselves at large would be to die in the priority of overthrowing assad begins to reassert itself in the pentagon and in the white house so i think that's true. answer the question the overthrow of assad was always the protocol problem the reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and saud they were diverted from that by no with the possibility of a defeated diet inside syria that policy that reasserts itself this is coming at the end of a long war the united st

are you willing to go to war with syria right now. right like sarah i think i am trying to make it very clear that we are not in a more with a country we are just trying to neutralize a trade to our students and borders and this is an international the right given to turkey as a part of international law in two thousand and twelve we meet we updated the rule of engagement in our syria border look we have over nine hundred kilometers border and then there is isis there with the to speak ikey n p y z in syria there is a civil war in this country and three million people ever came to our country and many more are coming and now when we are try to neutralize the threat it's not a tech opinion a war to a country it's just securing the people that actually the police and leading to us and securing our border let's make it very clear we are very open but there's and we want to make it very clear for everyone we we are respecting the total unity of syria this is why we are the only country that is if fighting with the all terrorist organizati

syria so they talk he is undertaking it's all operation but at the same time in syria but it's at the same time talking as well as iran in together with russia the three countries are guarantors of the soul calls us on our process so i think that. everybody understands that if. some outside player have some concerns he actually undertakes what he's supposed to be for for his own sake and another thing is that. talkie here i'm talking about mali about the provinces where is the leap city i guess i say he said before we go she said before we get into a bunker so we will move on to adlib but before we get on just want to carry on focusing on a friend for a moment what is russia getting out of this because clearly turkey couldn't have done this without russia allowing the airspace to be opened up once the trade off for russia. actually russia russia is just the monitoring the situation that that was said by. top or top leaders or what was said by the plus secretary of russian president vladimir putin we are monitoring the situation what is going on in these areas where there is the hostil

these included delegations from syria's traditional allies iran. and russia. western officials attended as well and established their first contacts with the new president syria had been a key player in the middle east for decades particularly when it came to regional peace negotiations and fighting international terrorism. only one western head of state attended a son's funeral french president. of holes. leaders decided that if they showed syria some respect they might be able to influence its policy on lebanon you know. after assad's older son died french politicians try to figure out how to deal with bashar. he was an ophthalmologist by training but had no experience as a political leader or an unknown quantity. but no one knew whether he would be up to the job that the bulk. of us i know if it. married his wife in two thousand the new president sought to portray himself as a modern western style leader perhaps this reserved and well educated young man would introduce political and economic reforms in syria and increase the country's ties to the west. in p

putin announced a twenty four hour humanitarian pause in syria's eastern kouta now the image of syria's civil war are always disturbing but tonight they warrant an extra warning due to their graphic nature including the bodies of children. these are the images that observers claim proof of a chlorine gas attack that is killed at least one child infant still in diapers or among more than a dozen people being treated doctors say their skin and clothes a heavy with the odor of chlorine one of his say a syrian regime war plane dropped bombs carrying the toxic gas on a village in eastern guta on sunday. a cease fire is yet to come into effect despite a resolution passed by the united nations security council on saturday the wounded continue to fill up the districts over run hospitals. there's been ill come whatsoever there hasn't been time to catch our breath the blood is flowing in the hospitals are overflowing with patients and there are no places to evacuate them. but syria's ally russia denies the assad regime is behind the chemical attack foreign minister sergei lavrov says the reports

in here is israel's military says the country is not just seeking escalation with syria. for more we're joined now by our middle east correspondent tanya kramer who joins us from jerusalem so tiny syria is denying that its ally iran's drone did enter israeli airspace was the latest we know about this incident well yes they're saying that it didn't enter the israeli f. space and that it was on the governing intelligence. border area now according to the israeli army however they are saying that in the early morning hours an unmanned drone was entering israeli aspace they tracked it and shot it down at some point in response to that they are deployed at planes attacking inside syria at the launching base of this drone. why that those israeli fighter jets were on their way back the. syrian air defense. of one of the jets was apparently hit we don't know all the circumstances but it went down in israeli territory the two pilots they could eject themselves and now getting treatment at an israeli hospital so the incident and then went on because after that the israeli army laun