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taken to tackle climate change. lebanese army has exchanged prisoners. 16 cap tav soldiers have been released in exchange for prisoners held by the lebanese government. the former wife of i.s.i.l. leader was among those freed. the lebanese army also received the body of one of its soldiers killed by al-nusra front last year. they were part of 40 sol verse who were seed in august last year. the armed groups, the al-nusra front and i.s.i.l. were responsible for the kidnappings. the nusra front freed soldiers in august. joining me now from beirut is middle east analyst. good to have you with us. the picture that we saw a few

minutes earlier there, fighters openly standing exchanging prisoners with the sovereign state. no strikes taking place. doesn't that speak to how important this deal must be perceived to be?

that is going to be a harsh one, specifically that the al-nusra front is being surrounded in those areas without having any access to the lebanese territory in order to exchange supplies and food and as well as from the other decisions. there was an interest for both, whether this group or the lebanese in order to make this deal and to make this swap, in order to reduce the pressure on the lebanese security institution as well as the al-nusra front just to clarify there, you say obviously there were other elements to this deal other than simply a prisoner exchange. yes. definitely. also what initially has told these negotiations were these elements, these other elements. they were considered as much as important as the swap by itself. so there was a series of demands that were being presented by the

leadership, which was to protect whether these syrian refugees on the outskirts of the city or to support their families, et cetera, whether to receive more food supplies, medical supplies or to have access to the territory in order to get some access to hospitals and medical institutions, et cetera. there was a series of demand being presented by the al-nusra front. this was practically has sold these negotiations. in addition the swap by itself by demanding the swap of some of the prisoners that are so much important for the al-nusra front, are leaders or female like the sister of the leader who was captured earlier by the army and the general security, in addition to the wife of the - the former wife of the i.s.i.l. leader. there is a norm of elements that were taken into account to make in swap successful. what allowed this swap to take place is the ability of the

general security from the lebanese part with the negotiator to reach some kind of a middle ground between the demands of the al-nusra front and the lebanese state in order to achieve the swap that is taking place right now the al-nusra front are not only getting prisoners, but high profile people back like the ex-wife of the i.s.i.l. leader, they're also getting food and some kind of supplies to help them through winter. what does the other side get back, or was it only in exchange for captured lebanese soldiers?

negotiations. it's mainly - the main focus of the negotiation was about receiving those soldiers alive and safe and not get into more killing of these soldiers or receiving more corpse. in addition, there was a clear decision being taken by the lebanese security not to enter into further instalment of these negotiations and to make sure that to ease all the aspects and elements of the al-nusra front is asking in order to receive these soldiers live because there ways real threat that these soldiers would be killed at some point to put pressure on the lebanese. if this swap is successful, this will ease the issue in their fight against the al-nusra front

because what so far as been stalling the lebanese army from completely taking over on the al-nusra front positions, or to attack them, in order to protect the lib knees syrian borders was the presence of the soldiers being kidnapped which practically prevented the lebanese army to completely shoot down or bombard any location for the al-nusra front with fear that these soldiers might be present in those locations hang on, if that's the case, you just told us that part of in deal was supplying food and supplys to al-nusra front. how does that work with the idea that the lebanese army are now going to go on the offensive against this group when they just helped to strengthen them in a certain sense?

support the syrian refugees and also the al-nusra front leadership declared it is to hand over these food and medical supplies to those syrian refugees being placed on the outskirts and on the lebanese/syrian border. it is being used to reshape its image and have more credit ability with the syrian refugees and the communities that are supporting them. from a military perspective, and as i said before, once the swap will be done this will make the lebanese army more rpd at any time that they're feeling of attacking, they will have more freehand. because earlier they didn't have this capability because of the fear that the soldiers might be killed during these operations. so this by itself, the swap by itself will reduce the pressure on the lebanese army. however, we saw that the al-nusra front reduced the

operation on the borders and they were not trying to infiltrate as much as they used to do before the battle and the period after that. practically after that battle, the way that the al-nusra front is operating on the borders have changed. they are more localised in their positi position. as soon as the swap would be done, in case there will be a shift in the strategy of al-nusra front or they will decide to attempt to infiltrate or tack the lebanese armed forces, the army will definitely have a more freehand in responding thanks for your comments. british prime minister says he will call a one day debate in parliament on wednesday to decide whether britain should launch air strikes in syria. parliament needs approval to extend military action against i.s.i.l. from iraq to syria.

i believe there's growing support across parliament for the compelling case there is to answer the call from our allies to act against i.s.i.l. in syria and in iraq. the headquarters in many ways of the terrorist is in syria and it makes no sense to recognise this border in the action we take when i.s.i.l. themselves don't recognise this border. it's in the national interests, we will be acting with our allies and we will be careful appeared responsible but it is right to do this to keep our country safe russia's president vladimir putin is accusing turkey of shooting down a russian jet to protect oil smuggling routes. he says oil produced by i.s.i.l. is entering turkey on an industrial scale. >> translation: we have now received additional information that oil produced in territory controlled by i.s.i.l. and other terrorists organizations in and

in huge quantities on an industrial scale is being supplied to the territory of turkey and we have every reason to believe that the decision to shoot down was dictated by the desire to protect these oil supply routes turkey denies any involvement in oil smuggling. it says it shot down the jet because it violated their airspace. the pt has refused to apologise but has expressed regret. the incident on 24 november clearly does not rest with turkey by any means. we have no intention whatsoever to escalate the situation. we are ready to talk at every level in order to prevent further similar cases on the syrian border. it is not the border of any

other country live for us now in brussels where a meeting of nato members is due to get underway and, no doubt, the clash there between a nato member and russia will be adding to agenda of things that nato needs to get through. >> reporter: absolutely. the nato member states foreign ministers are meeting here. that includes, of course, turkey's foreign minister. turkey an important member of the alliance. we heard from the prime minister of turkey here speaking here on monday. he did sound like he was regretful, but let's not forget that since then we've just heard russian president vladimir putin clearly accusing ankara over accepting oil from i.s.i.s. areas, i.s.i.l. areas sorry, in syria. president erdogan of turkey has said that his country will not react quickly, but will react

patiently, but we do know that he has also chaemgd president putin to produce evidence. he has asked him to put his documents on the table. he said he will resign president erdogan if it is shown to be true that his country is dealing with i.s.i.l. and he has challenged his russian counterpart to resign if, in fact, it turns out to be a false allegation. a lot of people here at nato are very hooch hoping that things will calm down between russia and turkey but it doesn't seem to be happening at the moment burkina faso has a new president after a year of turmoil. roch mark kabore won more than 50% of the vote. he replaces blaise compaore who was toppled in an uprising after 27 years in office.

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welcome back. recapping top stories. the lebanese army has exchait soldiers with al-nusra in exchange for prisoners held by the government. russia's president vladimir putin says oil produced by i.s.i.l. is being smuggled into turkey on an industrial scale. he believes turkey shot down a russian jet last week to protect smuggling routes. ankara denies any involved in such. burkina faso has a new president. former prime minister roch mark kabore has been elected, the first new president in 27 years. he served under blaise compaore. more now on that prisoner exchange on the lebanon/syrian border. live in the studio.

clearly this has been going on for a while behind the scenes. how did it all come together?

armed group but a group that countries can do deal with. trying to solve things. maybe not on a grand scale the syrian issue, but at least taking bit by bit and trying to solve things through forks negotiation. i think that's something that also the country state will try and underline that their approach to the solution of trying to talk to different so sides, if they're sides that some countries don't like, such as al-nusra, being an al-qaeda affiliate, it is only threw dialogue that a settlement can come bah there are several countries operating in syria right now. some of them consider al-nusra front to be an al-qaeda affiliate, terrorist group, enemy. there must have been some level of coordination for those to be

taking part in this exchange. you would think so because at the end of the day there are so many different regional and international things that play here, obviously. every country has its finger in the pie when it comes to syria. so the u.s., russia, obviously gulf countries and so forth. for something like this it would require a degree of coordination or at least acceptance, and that's, again, coming back to the role of the mediation. that's where it's very important to deal with-- what does that tell us about where some of these world powers stand vis-a-vis the sanctions. well, it's an interesting point. if we've come to a point where some of these world powers are willing to accept april deal with al-nusra front, it shows that they are accepting a reality, and the reality is that there are groups on the ground that have some inference that maybe they don't agree with them, but they will have to deal with them thank you. we're going to have to leave it

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