yeah. i mean you know. examining all the problems with this region. have a common shared. position on fighting terrorism. both sides. in the us is very appropriate in this context. and of course it's. the fight against terrorism. which we have to fight extremist ideology which. saudi friends.

but. she. very much that our contribution. will. a contribution by russia to peace and stability in the islamic world and also to work on the islamic council. so we have. seen. the humanitarian. and. the standing extended to russian. muslim pilgrims to saudi arabia. yes.

i. have also. of course. so. have. they. represented. to concentrate a practical translation into reality. thank

you. being here in russia at least friendly. with the custodian of that's all i'm most concerned about as he is in his first visit of its kind i would like to thank. you and all of the criteria said that this is why this is a very successful business. as a. very positive. constructive. visit. because with so many political. things the challenges

facing our region as well. we find that the relation between saudi arabia and russia has become developed a. better situation. than before. mr mr i mean. you. this is the actions of the leaders in both because of the. by our colleagues in both government a little but you know i must tell you. he said. the. trade between. the political cause of this and between the two countries was also

arcane to include security cooperation between the two countries to face extremism and terrorism. you can see. this is a process. we have together. we have religious. between our two countries that's something. that. if they do come through this believe in the same principles principles of other countries doing and the international. in other countries internal affairs. you. know when you're. seconds to the two countries are the same times you wish

to get to any things that are again this little customs and traditions of the societies. that there's a principle regarding his excellence say the minister. we talked a lot about facing terrorism extremism we talked about the palestinian israeli cause and how to find solutions for this problem. from a colleague. and based on the international nations and the arab initiative that. interest palestinian and israelis palestinians on the. sixty seven and residence as the capital. in the snow. on the steps. so that you. know whether it's the new guard in the syrian problem we work closely with the

russian side in older to unify the syrian opposition the moderate opposition to expand the syrian the next position order to be part of the political process in geneva. your own we support the talks. of maintaining. the institutions of syria here. in iraq we have searched the voters of the unity of iraq of the potential of supporting the right in the face of. yemen as his absence you said there was not a nation. in the first of the final solution according to the gulf initiative as the outcome of the national dialogue in yemen the united nations security council

resolution bash for humans in the skies over. states. and said he was trans and you were there when you took some leave the we try. to fire up push mom between the different factions in libya to support or not initially. to sort out the problem in libya at the same time. texting means that it's very much the recitation he's actually said distorts. the past he said he said syria. the same time as a said we spoke about the crisis in the gulf. and there with. his first the ways of. operation between the two parties.

between the two ministries are sort of. generally. at historic moment the relations are strong. between different sectors are quite strong and we have. investment and trade. issues. at play. here. this. summer. the state. ministries are coming together and some. political.

problems and. security in the region and in the world. today once again. thank you. for the friendship and for exchanging views on the call the nation will between us . so we have been listening there to the saudi foreign minister. baer and before him the russian foreign minister saying for all of their meeting in moscow king so mom saudis king solomon is also in moscow on the first visit to russia by assad the monarch of russia correspondent roy chalons has also been listening in to that meeting an adult algy bear saying that relations are to their area has started

moment strong cooperation on a range of issues here yeah i think the. heavy weight of this. this visit really has be the progress that has been made in the economic sphere and the things that these countries are working towards in terms of finance and investment and energy sectors and that sort of thing so we understand that there are various agreements that have been signed on this trip and will continue to be signed for the remainder of it on . setting up a joint energy fund of one billion dollars all that sort of thing i think what it comes down to the actual sort of regional politics there are clearly still differences between these two countries and that's unsurprising really considering

the fact that they have been essentially on opposite sides of the syrian war for six years now i mean one the one thing that always raises my eyebrows when i hear it coming from countries like saudi arabia and russia is that when they talk about the shared principles of. non interference in the internal affairs of others and when we are considering this as a russia and saudi arabia are both heavily involved in the internal affairs of syria and saudi arabia is also heavily involved in the internal affairs of of yemen . is an interesting thing to hear but you know he rattled through didn't he how do you bear a sort of fairly long list of international issues he said that they were keen to push the geneva process forward which of course is the political process for trying to resolve syria's war and then there's the a standard process which is

working in tandem with that which is solving various practical ceasefire issues on the ground he said that saudi arabia supported the unity of iraq and saudi arabia also supports the un envoy the efforts in yemen they're trying to find a reproach more in libya and they spoke about the g.c.c. crisis as well it gives you an idea that the middle east at the moment and north africa as well as is is riven in so many problems and these are intractable if issues there i don't think that one meeting between me putin and the king of saudi arabia is really going to bring these two countries. to change their perspectives on these things too much which is why i suppose it's a bit too much to hope for which is why i suppose we did actually get a lot of specifics but a lot of talk of you know cooperation and having the same values and principles all right roy we will leave it there for now thank you very much for that sir russia

correspondent roy chalons joining us live from moscow thank you we're going to move on to other news now the red cross says there was fighting since last year's battle for eastern aleppo is raging in several parts of syria the i.c.r.c. says up to ten hospitals have been damaged in the past ten days. as under intense bombardment by pro-government forces and activists say tens of thousands have been displaced as reports. death destruction and desperation are the results of what are thoughts of the russian air strikes towns destroyed thousands displaced in the syrian province of. the syrian observatory for human rights as the airstrikes over the last six days killed at least one hundred eighty five people including women and children more than a mile up we have looked at houses and went to the desert we've been like this book by the situation is catastrophic we've seen rockets artillery and war planes and we

don't know who is who and what is what the international committee of the red cross says the number of civilians killed is the highest this year since the fight over aleppo the strikes damage at least ten hospitals leaving the injured helpless humanitarian organizations are struggling to care for syrians to scaping the attacks this includes search and rescuers from the white helmets organization everyone is. in the night. i still can chills most of darrow's or and is under attack by the russian air force russia's defense ministry says forty nine members of al qaeda and putting its top seven leaders in syria have been killed recently the russian government says it targets insurgents not civilians but first responders say they see the opposite. when we go with. those and we. see women we see men old men entire towns already devastated are now left wondering when the next air strike will be. done

al-jazeera iraq's government forces have retaken from eisel video released by the military shows army vehicles rolling into the northern town the campaign to recapture heavy shit was announced two weeks ago it is one of the last two areas held by isis fighters in the country well prime minister hi there these said it was a major victory for iraq and the international community well i don't know how we have liberated how we judge them and in this regard we have only the border line with syria to go so we have beaten terrorism and our armed forces despite all difficulties have achieved big progress fighting terrorism in iraq. spain's constitutional court has suspended a session of the cuttle and parliament planned for monday the parliament was expected to unilaterally declare dependents from spain catalan leaders. calling for mediators to help resolve the standoff with spain's central government but madrid

says the region must respect the law prime minister money on the horn is urging caution on you to abandon succession plans to avoid what he calls the greater evils let's get more on this now with our correspondent penholder he is joining us live from boston laura so the constitutional court suspending a session of cotton parliament what will happen with that koll. well liz with we're only really just getting news of this now and it really has taken a lot of people by surprise nobody really foresaw this move by the constitutional court now in fact what they've done they're using an injunction this measure is is really a precautionary preliminary measure and it is never before been used to block a session of parliament either in catalonia or any in the or in any of the other of the seventeen autonomous regions of spain so this is really unknown territory it

also does certainly mockups are ratcheting up of the pressure both by the spanish central government and the spanish courts on catalonia to transport this bid for this region to break away from the rest of spain the importance of course on all of that session that parliamentary session in barcelona on monday was that the catalonian parliament would debate the results of sunday's referendum and then proceed possibly on monday or later in the week to a declaration of independence from spain now of course jurists taking a look at exactly what this constitutional court measure now means elizabeth and. you know we mentioned that the cost. is calling for mediators to step in and you're talking about the ratcheting up of tensions who could these mediators be. well i think before we even get to the case of mediation because the times are very

short now essentially and mediation effort would have to stop producing some results within three days because college bustamante is also a pressure within catalonia among the process palomas to push ahead with this declaration of independence now again remember that the referendum itself was declared illegal by the spanish government and by the courts so there is every likelihood that this parliament just ignores this constitutional call resolution and pushes ahead with the holding session on monday that does draw up the question though what will be the response from the government technically they could send the spanish national police or even civil guard to try and shut down that session there right now you know and i've just come off the phone talking to one constitutional lawyer and she said jurists here in catalonia are shaking their heads this is unknown territory never before has a session of parliament been suspended in this fashion in spain and she's also

questioning perhaps whether this measure is illegal given that it is not expressly designed to shut down a session of parliament but simply an injunction to stop any event that could cause irreparable harm certainly an extreme measure by the constitutional court thank you very much for that for now that's called penholder that all the very latest joining us from barcelona thank you. we have some breaking news coming from pakistan now there's been an explosion and central province at least fourteen people dead let's get more on this now our correspondent c'mon high that is joining us on the phone from islamabad kemal what more are you hearing. we have. particular rose and said to be a suicide bomb are trying to and trying and the new just district of child must see that shrine is known as the front line in two thousand and five

also the same shrine game i'm going to attack in which forty nine people were dead according to the security forces h. suicide bomber tried to enter that compound. and i knew they were done to read the policemen tried to stop them at the gate champix trying when. we had hearings to get at least fourteen people have been changing a number of people a room there that they could give me a month reading of the country and therefore the dead or nike control kemal what is the security situation and central to spawn why has this fine been talk of has before. when they didn't get the factory number tag the dog ate something goes in big words trying to get more. get the attention as they should be when it comes to security and therefore there are only a small dog exporter kagami just gone there's also been

a pioneer in the. groups within baluchistan who have been attacking the security forces there and it is a stool you can say well maybe behind if that gag was not starting a deadly attack on the shrine again in baluchistan province which happened munchak will. rise again by. storm one has to get it out mr daggett indeed it can't be actually we have fallen for the ball and there are many candidates who come on thank you very much for that finale that's all cost conscious kemal high the joining us on the phone from islamabad thank you . now three u.s. special operations soldiers have been killed and two others and hit an attack in southwest asia a joint patrol of u.s. and nisha troops was ambushed near the border with monny on estabrook has more from washington d.c. . well the pentagon at this point is not releasing a lot of details about this attack what we do know from other media reports is that

three u.s. commandos were killed two others were wounded this attack happened in southwest new share mir the mali border what we understand is that in this particular area there is a heavy presence of insurgents in that area some from al qaida some from the islamic state in greater the horror at this point though we don't know if one of those groups was responsible for this attack now the u.s. has military throughout western africa we know that several troops are have been in there they have been assisting in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance and in training they were on a routine patrol when this occurred and as we understand president trump has been alerted and has been briefed on what has happened we are expecting more information about this attack tomorrow from the pentagon well let's get more on this now of the anger leibovich visiting fellow at the european council on foreign relations and

specializes in west african security affairs he's joining us now via skype from senegal capital de kock very good to have you with us on al-jazeera we haven't heard a lot about americans in ground combat in this region is it new what is the scope of the involvement here well it's not only that there are. you dreaming or if you. were there are other american servicemen. i do apologize we have lost connection with our guest and. yet we have lost that connection so let's move on. to the u.s. people still trying to make sense of the deadliest mass shooting in modern history

in the country police have described the los vegas gunman as a disturbed and dangerous man but many who knew him say his actions came without warning and vesta gave a still don't know why a stephen paddick killed fifty eight people and injured hundreds more at a concert on sunday cost reports from las vegas police say if anyone had knowledge of the gunman's motive the woman he lived with would but after returning from the philippines choose de mary lou danley had little to say to explain her partner's behavior she released a statement through her attorney. i knew stephen. as a kind caring quiet man. i loved him. and hoped for a future together with him. he never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of that i understood in any way to be

a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen speaking on australian t.v. and with their faces hidden danley sisters said patrick sent her away two weeks ago to visit family overseas. that's a go and it. was said no way. so was no way. for this. damn lee's attorney says she is cooperating with the investigation police say they found a total of forty seven firearms inside the two homes the couple shared and inside the hotel room on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay resort from which paddock rained down terror what we know is stephen paddick is a man. in the. much of which would never be fully understood. he meticulously planned on the worst mess that

united states history. body cameras worn by police officers captured the chaos and confusion as twenty thousand concert goers ran and hid from the barrage of bullets. and other chilling details police say patrick may have considered attacking and nother music concert prior to sunday night's massacre a week earlier had a rented a high rise condo overlooking the life is beautiful music festival and its fifty thousand attendees with what intention yet another question that remains unanswered how did you castro al-jazeera las vegas let's try going back to news from malaysia and now with three u.s. special operations soldiers have been killed to all this and in an attack in the southwest of the country joined by andrew labor which visiting fellow at the european council on foreign relations and specializing in west african studies

thank you for staying with what is the school in the sleeve of all of american involvement in this region well. particularly special forces. training and. operations in the region and yet now this is accelerating the reason you're in the air. i do apologize we have lost that connection again with mr labor which obviously wanted to cover the story because american soldiers being killed. is very unusual we will try to have more on that for you later on on which is al-jazeera but let's move on from now. and after thirteen years the u.n. mission is pulling out of haiti it says its work is nearly done to help and put the

country back on the road to recovery the peacekeepers have been credited with bringing some stability to haiti but as the report their legacy also includes of violence and sexual exploitation. the united nations is going home early four thousand police and military personnel taking with them their trucks armored vehicles and the mobile hospital. they'd like haitians to remember them for helping to bolster national institutions for consensus building a successful election with human rights work and their relief and humanitarian aid in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes and an earthquake. in the haitian people it is an indication on the record by the security council that the. work which was intrusted to the mission. did in fact produce positive results. but staying behind another legacy these children and their mother say were

fathered by europe one un troops stationed in the southwestern coastal city of port salut then abandoned. i'm very angry that the un is leaving as it's left us with nothing they should take responsibility they know about the children they did d.n.a. tests and they told us their positive but never give us the results we want to. feel abandoned after years of running around and false promises from the un nothing has happened they make us do a lot of stuff but there's no results. this is just one of several scandals including rape and alleged murder involving u.n. troops from a number of countries the un has apologized saying sexual exploitation has no place in its operations the organization systematically. all of the information and all of the cases that it presents. in order to ensure that there

is in fact reaction and positive action on the part of the members. many also want answers about the two thousand and ten cholera epidemic which investigators say was caused by nepalese un troops and the un operations to pacify no go areas in july two thousand and five un troops entered this neighborhood with guns blazing the bullet holes still visible in the buildings behind me and unknowing and still disputed a number of residents were killed. a smaller one thousand three hundred strong un force will remain to work with the justice system which also remains a many haitians asking whether the mission which many here never welcomed has left the future of their troubled country any more stable. than. porter brands.

have a proud of and a harbor the headlines on al-jazeera russia and saudi arabia have agreed to work together to fight terrorism russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and herself a counterpart at an algae bear held a news briefing in moscow and it comes after a meeting between saudis can tell mom and russian president vladimir putin they discuss regional conflicts going on yes it's obvious that the fight against terrorism means that we have to fight extremist ideologies which are well known to saudi friends and we wish we very much that our contribution to these efforts will lead to good cons great contributions by russia to peace and stability in the islamic world and also to good work on the islamic council. iraqi government forces have recaptured the northern town of had a two week battle with prime minister heather in a bar they called it

a victory when a body was in paris where he's meeting france's president and manual mccrone has offered to help with mediation efforts between iraq central government and kurdish leaders those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream that's coming up next thank you for watching. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs the much as. i am. in your in the stream of life on al-jazeera and you too the death toll in puerto rico from hurricane maria has jumped to thirty four and could rise even higher and as the u.s. territory continues the recovery effort is helping out.