♪ gull eh leaders meet in saudi arabia, and the u.s. calls on them to do more to fight isil. ♪ i'm david foster, you are watching al jazeera. also coming up in the next 30 minutes. hundreds of syrian rebels and their families leave the city of homs in a ceasefire negotiated with the government. more than 70 die in this taliban attack on kandahar airport in afghanistan. and france says there has been significant progress in

curving greenhouse gas emission talks in many paris. ♪ u.s. secretary of defense is calling on gulf countries to do more to fight the islamic state of iraq and the levant. speaking in front of the senate armed services committee, ash carter said sunni arab nations in particular should be offering more. >> turkey must do more to control its often porous border. saudi arabia, and the gulf states joined the air portion of the campaign in the early days, only the air part. but have since been preonning -- preonning -- pre onning pied by the war in yemen.

and i called to for them to do more to enhance in the fight against isil. the gcc are meeting in riyadh. saudi arabia's king said they needed to find a solution to the conflict in syria. >> translator: regarding the syrian crisis, the kingdom of saudi arabia is hosting the syrian opposition in order to help in fining a political solution. the international community has a joint responsibility in fighting terrorism, and extremism, and the kingdom of saudi arabia has exerted a lot of efforts in this regard. we will continue our efforts with coordination and cooperation from our sister countries and friendly countries, because our islam rejects terrorism and extremism. >> we will be in riyadh in just a moment. but right now to washington,

d.c., our correspondent there, rosiland jordan. ash carter he looked extremely sturdy, he was showing his and the administration's frustration with the way the campaign is going. >> reporter: that's right. and ash carter stressed the point by indicating alongside the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff, concern that the ongoing u.s.-lead coalition against isil in both iraq and syria is being perceived as basically the u.s. effort against isil, that there is no coalition. so by calling on the members of gcc, by calling on turkey to put more of their military resources into the fight against isil, but the obama administration is trying to send a message that there is multinational unity on the idea of getting rid of isil; that this is not just a western

concept or western goal. now whether or not the members of the senate armed services committee are buying ash carter's call for more inclusiveness, and -- and for this -- this sort of appeal, well there is a lot of scepticism coming from the senators, particularly those who are republican, because they do not believe that the obama administration itself has been aggressive enough in the fight against isil. >> rosalind back with you in just a moment. i did say that our course was in riyadh, but in fact in doha. is this criticism of what the gulf countries haven't done going to make any difference for those leaders meeting at the gcc summit? >> reporter: well, david, it's not expected to make a big difference, because these issues are already clear. the americans know that the -- that the agenda they have, and the type agenda that

the gcc leaders have are different to a great extent. because these countries are in a war for almost a year now in yemen, and they are very much preoccupied rightly said by the u.s. secretary of defense. they are stuck in that war. they don't see any end to it, during the foreseeable future, and that was not their expectation. so they have quite great concern there to deal with in the first place. and also they look at the american stance in the middle east, and they see the americans are much more focused on combatting isil and the other groups like al-qaeda. and the emir alluded to syrian.

and in their eyes the americans are not doing sufficient to help topple the dictator, and they think there are double standards when the americans and the western countries are supporting, in a way -- not supporting a free movement to topple a dictatorship. in that way they are feeding the roots of terrorism. we need, he said to deal with the roots of terrorism, feeding on violence and poverty and loss of hope among people. >> so the divisions are very visible both between them -- those fighting different wars in the middle east and between the gulf countries and the western people who are part of this -- this coalition. but what about the divisions between those people fighting to take on president assad, because they are having a separate meeting in riyadh at the moment. is there any real expectation that something concrete can come

out of this with so many divisions exposed >> reporter: well there is optimism because this is the most comprehensive meeting of all groups, there is this hope that they might be going to unite their act and talk in one voice during those talks that are coming up in -- shortly between -- not actually -- i'm talking about something else. they are going to [ inaudible ] according to the hopes, and the fact that they are meeting at the same time with the summit of the gcc leaders. that they are going to talk to those leaders who are now much more concerned about unifying the groups in syria, so that they can have much more talks in the future with the assad side. so that's one of the major concerns. another major concern that i forgot to talk about in my first mention is about iran. these countries here in the

gulf, they think that america is not doing enough. and they are very concerned about the recent nuclear agreement with iran, they are very concerned about. >> mohammed thank you. back to rosiland jordan in washington, d.c. is the american hope if not expectation that by intensifying the campaign against isil from the air and perhaps on the ground with the fighters there, that now is the right time for these disparate members of the opposition to come to some sort of agreement or at least the start of some sort of agreement in saudi arabia? >> certainly the obama administration would very much like to see more unity from the various parts of the syrian opposition. that's another long-running complaint on washington's part that they don't know exactly who

is speaking for those who would like to see a government without bashar al-assad in it. so they are very much hoping that something concrete, whatever it is, comes out of the meetings in riyadh, because in about nine day's time in new york, there will be another meeting, tentatively to start dealing with how to move syria beyond its civil war, how to move beyond bashar al-assad as the country's leader, and to try to move into a post-civil war phase without having the country basically fall apart. so there is a lot of concern, and to mohammed's last appoint about the gcc and others sealing that washington isn't concerned enough about the iranian impact, both in syria, and in yemen, the administration is very much concerned about tehran's influence, and has been communicating its distaste as it were, both publicly and through back channels because they

consider iran's efforts to extent its own sphere of influence is simply promoting more of a destabilizing factor across the region, rather than focusing on what it considers the fundamental security problem which it says is isil. >> fascinating thank you. sir syria hundreds of rebel fighters and their families have begun to leave the city of homs. they are heading to areas of idlib which are under opposition control. all part of a ceasefire negotiated with the syrian government 2346 >> reporter: this is the result of more than two years of sporadic and difficult negotiations. hundreds of people, including fighters and their families are leaving this district. it was the last rebel strong hold in a city long known by the opposition as the capitol of their revolution. a ceasefire deal has come into effect. the united nationsed help broker

the agreement between the syrian government and the rebels. >> translator: the first batch of people has left towards the northern countryside. other groups will follow. about 160 families left the neighborhood, and about 300 fighters who are against the truce. it is part of the truce agreed on between assad's forces and the opposition in the neighborhood. >> reporter: the evacuation of fighters and their families is the first phase of the agreement. they will head to opposition-controlled areas further north. the syrian government in turn will lift the siege of the district. but the warring sides seem to be interpreting other details differently. the government says it will return to state control, cleared of weapons, and fighters who choose to stay will have their legal status returned.

the opposition denies that the district will return government control. >> translator: not everyone in the neighborhood of homs have left, only the injured and their families or thoses who families are outside in syria. we are steadfast on the front lines. there is no mass departure. >> reporter: opposition activists say the rebels had no choice but to accept the deal, because the government's blockade caused a humanitarian crisis. food and medical supplies were only allowed in sporadically but no aid entered for over four months for the tens of thousands of people who lived there. some may describe the deal as a surrender forced by the blockade. more than 2,000 fighters holed up inside another area, were granted safe passage. they agreed to the deal only

after they were starved and out gunned. since then few people have returned. the international community is now working to try to revive the peace process. and while these local ceasefire agreements may silence the guns, they are doing little to bring about peace and reconciliation. afghan forces are continuing to battle a solitary taliban gunman who was involved in a mass attack on kandahar airport. rob matheson reports. >> reporter: this video released by the taliban is said to show the gun battle between taliban fighters and afghanistan security forces at kandahar airport. the damage was easy to see. it's a heavily fortified facility. but at least ten armed men got into a school building without being challenged. they passed through several

security check points. once inside the gunmen seized families as hostages. >> translator: gunmen entered the airfield from the area where civilian families live, and where there is a market. >> reporter: these are said to be the attackers. dressed in what appears to be afghan army uniforms and equipment. the taliban has released this video in which one of the attackers warning the u.s. president that there is no safety for u.s. troops in afghanistan. he says u.s. technology will be finished and it power will be killed. despite having a newly elected leader and reports of infighting between factions, the taliban seemed determined to show it can mount well planned attacks. this video shows fighters being

equipped with fake ids, they even have official-looking vehicles with fake license plates, which according to these pictures, security forces don't appear to check. taliban fighters overran the northern city in september. it was their biggest victory since being removed from power in 2001. the afghan army supported by u.s. air strikes took several days to regain control. the afghan president is in talks. they will be discussing the possibility of peace talks with the taliban. right now in kandahar, that possibility seems remote. we have this coming up in just a moment from greece. it is the end of the road in greece for hundreds of refugees. ♪ and the lessons to be

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hello, you are watching al jazeera. these are the global headlines. the u.s. secretary of defense is calling on gulf countries to do more to fight isil. he said that sunni arab nations in particular should be doing more. hundreds of rebel fighters and their families have been leaving the city of homs as part of a ceasefire agreement with the government. and the taliban have warned

the u.s. president that his country's troops aren't safe in afghanistan. a group of taliban fighters attacked an airport in kandahar killing more than 70 soldiers and civilians. a german woman on trial for her involvement in a neo-nazi cell, has denied her involvement in ten murders. from berlin, neave barker reports. >> reporter: arriving in court. the alleged last survivor of one of the most violent neo-nazi gangs in post-war germany. in the two and a half years she has been on trial, she has remained silent, until now. also in court, relatives of some of the ten people the national socialist underground are accused of murders. eighty turks, a greek, and a german policewoman were shot dead. she is also accused of being

involved in two bombings, and 15 bank robberies. >> translator: i would hope she would give answers. the most important for my client is the question, why did my father, our brother, our son, have to die? why was he chosen? >> reporter: in a statement read out by her lawyers, she denied in i involvement in the ten murders. she apologized to the victim's families, but said she has nothing to do with the killings. instead she said the crimes were carried out by her two lovers and fellow gang members. the two men were found dead four years ago in an apparent suicide pact after a failed bank robbery.

searches of the property revealed weapons and other evidence linked to the crimes. greek police have been removing hundreds of refugees and migrants from the macedonia border, putting them on buses and seconding them back to athens. convoys have begun to arrive in the greek capitol. more than a thousand people mainly from pakistan, morocco and other countries have been arriving. the chair of climate change talks in paris says significant progress is being made towards a landmark deal. he has unveiled a new slimmed-downdraft text with three-quarters of the key points now agreed. our environment editor, nick

clark joining us from those talks in paris. i think you have got the piece of paper that matters, nick. >> reporter: yeah, indeed. this is the new slimmed downdraft text. still a long way to go, i have to say. the number of brackets reduced from something like 700 to 300. so it is going to take a while. there is a radical idea to reducing the target to 1.5 degrees. this offers three options. that is the sort of thing that this document is full of, and they are going to have to resolve here. and over the choice of words whether it should be shall or should, or other, or all of the other individual words have to be fixed up. the president of this climate conference says he wants it all

to be over, the gavel to go down at 6:00 on friday night. looking at this you have to wonder if the that is going to happen. we spoke to the climate chief for her take. >> this was never going to be easy. it is definitely the most complex negotiation that there has been, and the complex of all of the climate change negotiations because we're on the cusp of a legally binding agreement. the worst fate of any developing country is not coming to an agreement. in that is unthinkable. because not coming to an agreement would mean that we would continue with the current trend of rise of greenhouse gas emissions whose impact is directly and first and primarily on developing countries, and on the most vulnerable among those developing countries.

>> reporter: giving a rallying call to all to try to reach that agreement. now we'll speak to [ inaudible ]. so what is your take on what it is looking like right now? >> we still have everything to fight for. we know 100% clean energy is the metric the entire world is using to determine if this is a success or failure. and a lot has not been decided. >> reporter: like what? >> everything is still in play. there is still the 2050 language in there. but if you look at the brackets, there's also this willie nilly language. and the key thing there is, is it going to tell the markets when they open after this agreement is open, is it going to tell the markets is it the

end of fossil fuels? that's what honestly the majority of human beings across the planet want to see. >> reporter: and there seems to be quite a momentum for that here, isn't there? >> yes. there is 100 countries that were announced this morning as part of this high ambition coalition, and that is going to keep pushing us. the key thing is, these governments are here negotiating for the future of the planet. but the people outside are pretty clear. they need that language to be strong. they need an end date. they need it to be before the end of the century. and that element of the deal still in square brackets. >> reporter: as i said earlier, lawrence is trying to get this signed and sealed by 6:00 pm on friday. that seems incredibly unlikely,

because within the next 24 hour from now, he would have to pretty well complete it. >> the french have kept to the schedule they laid out. and we have all been very impressed. the mandate is there. the elements are there. there is a pathway to success here in paris. it wouldn't take 24 hours to get there if we can get countries in line. we're still waiting to see where countries like china stand. >> reporter: it could be until the weekend? >> i doubt into the weekend. we might be here late friday night. but i'm hoping the french's schedule is kept to. and if we focus on what people really care about, we're looking at a very small number of things, all of which are still in play, and 100 clean energy is

the number one moniker. >> reporter: thanks very much indeed. we'll see how the coming days pan out. >> indeed. thank you very much indeed. volkswagen says far fewer vehicles have been reading inaccurate measurements than was first thought. it says 36,000 were listed as emitting less co2 than they actually do. in india, some 280 people are believed to have been killed in heavy flooding since the beginning of the month. here is our correspondent in new delhi. >> reporter: this is all that's left of the business this man worked hard to build. his garage was flooded last

week. >> translator: i owned two sheds, there's no sign of one, and the other is completely damaged. cars were washed away a and -- severely damaged too. i have lost $30,000. i have even lost my tool kit. my life has gone back ten years and i have to rebuild from scratch. >> reporter: regions across india are prone to heavy rainfall and in some cases floodings. experts say devastation of this kind, is the result of a number of factors, and the seasonal problems many areas face are compounded by wide-spread policy problems. >> the policies of the city and the town has to be [ inaudible ] with this [ inaudible ] climate change policies. >> reporter: researchers at the world resources institute say more indians are exposed to

flood-prone rivers than in this any other part of the world. between 2005, and 2014, nearly 2,400 people are killed by floods in india every year. the indian government says lessons have been learned. >> the mumbai floods in 2005, a lot of work has been done to set up very localized early-warning systems with, you know, automatic [ inaudible ] in the city itself, there has been some work on [ inaudible ] the drainage channels, regaining some of the encroachment. [ inaudible ] has more automatic weather stations now than ever before. cities like [ inaudible ] are

taking steps in that direction. >> reporter: for indians who continue to be affected by flooding, progress isn't keeping up with changing weather patterns, and there are growing calls for improved government policies and plans to better focus on prevention rather than disaster management. i own it. i take responsibility for what happened. >> chicago in turmoil, the mayor apologizing for his city's troubled police force. also a man believed to be the friend of the san bernardino shooter now under investigation. the british parliament forced to