it's been announced by now but we're putting tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of technology and other things because we have to because we've been treated very unfairly but china's been terrific president she has been terrific for us judges sent donald trump's former campaign manager to jail prosecutors say poor man a ford try to interfere with witnesses connected to the investigation of russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election in a tweet from callie decision tough and unfair the leaders of france and italy have met in paris to end the diplomatic round over the fate of refugees who try to enter europe both insist the e.u. is migration policy needs to be overhauled the saudi led coalition has seized the entrance to the airport in yemen's main port city operations or retake rebel held data from iranian back to the fighters launched three days ago the coalition which is backing government forces says it can capture the area without disrupting aid to millions of yemenis. officials from nicaragua's government and local groups have restarted talks in a bid to end two months of anti-government protests neither president daniel ortega

nor his deputy are expected to attend the talks come after another seven people including a fifteen year old boy were killed in clashes between government forces and protesters. thousands of mourners attended the funeral of a leading journalists shot dead in indian administered kashmir. he was the editor of the english language newspaper rising kashmir he was killed on thursday by unidentified men on a motorbike as he left his office in srinagar the fifty year old had been given police protection following three attacks on him in the past decade and at least twelve people have died and thousands forced into relief shelters after days of torrential rain in northeast india flash floods and landslides of cut off parts of money poor state in neighboring tribe poorer hospitals and shops were flooded and closed. well those were the headlines the news continues here on the al-jazeera after the war in october station that's watching.

at fourteen hundred hours on october sixth my nine hundred seventy three young kid poor sirens sounded across israel. it was war again. a show bit of trouble to machine for sure straight the elegant. of the lot of features a whole new the one memory i have from the one nine hundred fifty six while i was hearing air raid sirens at night and my father wrapping me in a thick blanket and running with me to the shelter about sixty of them on yom kippur or two in the afternoon we heard a siren when i did the same thing i took the very same blanket wrapped my six month old son up and out the iran was into the shelling of trust me her looked after us and that was the first time that i knew it was a war going on without steve told me cloth saw family shalosh of on the ship going

with me home. at the same time as egypt was crossing the suez canal and the golan heights to israel's north syria join the fray. and that is how that i turn to the president has said and said it is time he said that with god's blessing we start i picked up the phone and gave the operation code it was better but added bed it better but at. least. one hundred fifty syrian jets started the war with a massive aerial strike on israeli positions in the golan. minutes later a thousand artillery pieces opened fire paving the way for the ground assault and.

three syrian. entry divisions formed of forty thousand troops and six hundred tanks cross the puppy line the ceasefire line after the nine hundred sixty seven war. two hours into the war the syrians gained their first significant victory when they captured israel's eye a key israeli vantage point two thousand meters above sea level on top of mount hermon this is what was that was well aware that the syrian paratroopers who carried out the operation advanced first on occurred then another unit was dropped by helicopters from where the battle mount hermon and both units were able to capture the israeli forces who surrendered to the weapons then they raise the syrian flag on mount hermon and that was the best news we received during the first hour. of. the syrian paratroopers we're joined by

a unit of palestinian commandos. but the. you cannot imagine the feeling you are now to catching something from the israelis for the first time in their lives where. the battle for the outpost lasted only forty five minutes thirteen israeli soldiers were killed thirty one taken prisoner . or for them the how to remodel. what about our home they captured the outpost and had with them russian and german experts who dismantled all their equipment at the. actually they passed by us carrying the equipment from the outpost which had belonged to the israeli army. and. facing the massive syrian ground assault was an outnumbered israeli defensive line

guarded by two hundred israeli soldiers and ten outposts and two ahmed brigades numbering almost one hundred eighty tanks. we forgot the music. of bach i looked up and i saw dust tracks coming from the east and it was of course tanks coming towards us as they advanced it began to get dark so we started shooting at them from very long range for five kilometers and we tried to stop their advance then just as they were getting close enough that we were starting to hurt them darkness fell. by nightfall on day one pushing through unguarded holes in the israeli line syrian tanks would penetrate into central go around the key city of. capital of the occupied heights. the second big news came with the breakthrough of the seventh division into the

outskirts of. the third success was when the ninth division reached. that's a town named the south of. it meant that i was encircled from many sides and that was very good news. for. yet more syrian tanks had now advanced into southern gaulin forming a bulge and. recapturing a large part of the strategic heights. by midnight the syrians had made major gains but now strangely the order came to stop the advance and regroup for another assault in the morning. before them the road stretching down to the jordan valley and the heart of israel and defended. just a few kilometers to the east on the edge of the golan the positions which had they been taken would have been virtually impregnable. it's clear that the syrian army

did not permit junior commanders discretion in how to act out and regardless of which senior person was in control in damascus nobody felt that they could just side to continue without the approval from damascus. president hafez al assad was controlling the syrian army with an iron grip. no one was allowed to act outside the original plan. or free of it nor can. he lived with us he had a bedroom at the command center he slept there and when he woke up he used to salute us and take his place behind the operations desk he was always there in the command center or in his room in the same place or after office in the car. within hours almost a quarter of

a million israelis would be mobilized. these reservists were vital support without them the regular forces were facing a huge arab numerical superiority. the syrians had calculated it would take the israeli reserves twenty four hours to reach the goal line. in fact the first times were there by midnight at the end of day one just. fifteen hours after they had been mobilized. this nine hour difference was to prove crucial. essentially once the syrians failed to take it in twenty four hours then at that stage you have the israelis begin to really organize themselves and a syrian victory becomes increasingly less likely as as as israel was mobilized. at first light on day two syrian tank commanders could see fifteen kilometers west

down to the sea of galilee and the city of tire various but also in the sites israeli tanks that simply shouldn't have been that. could have sued them in hama they were the syrians began to lose the war they didn't know this yet because the reserve tanks like my brigade started being ready after just fifteen hours instead of twenty four hours some of them went out alone but mainly by status take over from the regular forces join the night combat between october sixth and seventh shushi looked over. shortly off to doon ignoring the fact that the israelis had successfully mobilized to meet them the syrians launched their plan tank assault. their main target was nothing. the israeli advanced command center and the strategic crossroads that controls the

golan. after capturing the syrians would move westwards towards the but not bridge over the jordan river. the bridge was less than fifteen kilometers away and beyond that lay the israeli mainland. the israelis were on the verge of disaster. but of your we want to assure. you we suddenly started shooting at the syrians from three or four different directions we fired on the syrians were stopped some of them managed to bypass enough. but we beat the syrians here and it was here that a battle would have lasted till the night of october seventh finally and the. israelis managed to stop the syrians but paid a heavy price and men and tanks. on top of the casualties the commander of the hundred eighty eighth armored brigade. bencher homme was killed along with his

deputy and operations officer. having failed in his main objective to take the israeli forward base that now found in his damascus command bunker president assad's decisions were looking increasingly desperate. salame or if. they were at one point a brigade was ordered to attack i gave the order to the commander being aware of the situation on the battlefield he asked me to postpone the attack from six in the morning to make it ten that i took this request from the brigade commander to the president i told him he's asking to postpone that attack until ten the president became angry he said he must start that attack at six o'clock otherwise he can hand over to his deputy i tried to ease the tension and then i made the suggestion again i said there is no difference between six and ten except that around two thousand

of our troops will be killed so please approve ten but he became even more angry and hit the table with his fist although i've been out on me. on days three and four faced with a series of deadlocks assad simply repeated the strategy that had previously. failed to achieve a breakthrough. in a desperate throw of the dice to further the divisions numbering five hundred tanks were brought forward to compensate for the losses of the first two days a. week where we stood there and shocks like mad men me included i was in my own world aiming at the tanks heading towards us shooting down the first second third and fourth i hit some twenty twenty five tanks and everyone everyone took aim and shelter and shot and shot they.

contribute. in northern golan in a place that became known as the valley of tears by the end of day for the israelis had destroyed hundreds of syrian tanks. the same fate befell the first syrian army division during repeated attempts to capture enough i. would go for i think that today looking back forty years the battle of now five. when the syrian first division decided to withdraw and not complete its mission to get to the jordan valley that was the critical stage in the battle to defend the golan heights. avocado lanny and spica green gold would both receive the medal of valor israel's highest military decoration. but this israeli victory. was not won by bravery alone.

the neck of the bets for the conduct that the city had the best idea why and to that one tank is sometimes better than another club in that. so one israeli tank can destroy twenty syrian tanks and fail because if a tank that can fire the same hit and destroy at a range of two thousand others faces fifty tanks with guns with a range no greater than fifteen hundred meters with simple math that one tank can destroy all the other tanks that those shelves cannot reach it above it and let the love. of god it's just a matter of technical excellence not competence in combat. i don't deny the courage of the syrian officers and soldiers but unfortunately israel had better tanks and never. say what a forward but the vet. on the morning of the ninth of october the israelis launched their counterattack. moving

north from the jordan valley they opened fire on syrian tanks and south golan pushing them back before the onslaught. by the following morning the syrian threat had been neutralized two thirds of their tanks destroyed or abandoned on the battlefields the syrians were in full retreat back where they had started before hostilities began. a story in that home of how myself is one day the syrians were overtaken by enthusiasm during the first two days thinking they could overpower israel that meant taking over the golan of an approaching occupied palestine given that they thought they could end the war but they overstretched themselves and lost a lot of tanks during those first three days that it had set.