the first division started to retreat before the israeli army. when it did it had almost two hundred fifty tanks and the infantry brigades behind it they started to retreat to this resulted in the advance of the israeli army i remember that day the president issued an order dismissing the commander of that division and appointing another in his place. stories emerged that assad's punishment for his commanders went beyond mere dismissal. and as. i remember yes more than one officer was arrested and it said that some of them were executed. there was one senior commander that president assad summoned and asked him to account for himself the commander then shot himself in front of the president. assad's rage was borne of the anger he felt towards his allies in cairo. the egyptians had successfully

stormed across the canal on the first day of war. they had quickly established a defensive bridge had ten kilometers deep and repulsed all the israeli armored attacks. but since then they had moved not an inch further east into sinai. because the liver is said the president said kept calling president sadat telling him mr president advance the whole israeli armed forces are in front of us and we are taking aerial strikes by the entire israeli air force there is nothing stopping you from advancing deep into sinai as we agreed but there was no answer to. what is your. eight months earlier and to meeting in egypt set out on our side had forged a plan with a common purpose they had agreed to launch a war against israel on two fronts. but now it seemed the two presidents had

entirely different concepts of the war they had planned together. as a totally that from the moment of the seizure of power is that bush and his dream was to avenge the siege of ninety six to seven when syria had lost. the two israel with us and themselves have been defense of the stuff so i. thank you felt as with personal responsibility for the recovery of the damned. us and saw the wall she was planning as the war of liberation. sadat on the other hand had been planning for a limited war to focus the minds of the world superpowers and jumpstart the stalled peace process. i wouldn't use that when president said that came to power he met with us in march nineteenth seventy one he told us i just need to get things back on track just give me ten centimeters of land in the east and

that will be enough to show what a hell of. a week into the war it's possible target had already been surpassed it seemed a swift victory might be in sight. in the early hours of october the thirteenth he was woken for an urgent meeting. the british ambassador had come with an offer to broker a united nations cease fire resolution the israelis he told sadat were ready to accept the cease fire based on the current positions. saddam kaka shade side not some israeli army had been hit hard the israeli army was ready to accept a cease fire it was defeat at that moment a terrible defeat and we were ready to accept that which shows that we've given up hope of winning the war. seduced by success sadat now refused the british

offer. he would only accept a cease fire he said if israel withdrew from the whole of sinai things are going very well as a force of that he would want to stop the war something dramatic had to be done to persuade him to to agree to a cease fire or maybe even to get him to request a cease fire and. the only thing that. work was crossing of the canal that might scare them enough. but the egyptians alive to the possibility of how to ahmed divisions with over two hundred tanks each and a second line of defense west of the canal. it was a problem of which israeli chief of staff general divied elliott as it was well aware. before crossing the canal he wanted to draw those two arm of the business to the israeli

side for two reasons one not to have to cross while those to the business are waiting for him on the back of the canal when you're very vulnerable number two to have them is really so i worry can meet them on israel's terms. generally as it was sure that a second phase of the egyptian attack would begin on october the night with those two armored divisions crossing the canal to advance and sinai strategic passes some forty kilometers to the east. but the egyptian plan was to stay put. yet forty eight hours later president sadat gave a new and surprising order to his woman ista general smiled. they would to go ahead with just the second phase the advance that it had been waiting for you. on october eleventh. came to me and said

we want to advance to the past as i told him it was not possible for many reasons and one can actually get it to. carry on with russia he came again on the twelfth and said we want to go ahead with the advance to take the pressure off syria i told him we can take the pressure off syria the enemy air force is capable of holding any front west then he said with a get. well again on the for wealth for the third time he said no this is a political decision and it has to be implemented c.s.e. why with their fees. after a long debate with shadley general smile issued orders to the commanders of egypt second and third field to begin the advance east. yeah there were also mobiles that immediately both of them called me and said we can carry out the sward as the

minister sent us that's what i was told by saddam our moon and i've been when i was alone and even said he is ready to hand in his resignation. that night the two commanders was summoned to send to ten the egyptian armed forces command center in cairo. a heads up was right till midnight or just maybe it was just like a broken record this is a political decision and it has to be implemented if you don't it's tantamount to mutiny so all we could manage to do was to postpone the start of the attack until the fourteenth we delayed for twenty four hours. ironically at almost exactly the same time egyptian commanders were arguing over an attack from west to east the israelis were locked in their own debate about an attempted crossing and the other direction. attending the stormy meeting in goldeneye years. office was seasoned near the head of the israeli intelligence must

sat. reading was go and tell it were with the. inner cabinet and the general staff. there in the middle of the discussions someone entered and whispered into it to some years here and he excused himself went out. as a man returned with astonishing information from an impeccable source a spy operating at the heart of affairs and kyra. the egyptians were on the point to moving their armored divisions across the canal. next day thirteenth of october confirmation arrived in israel. an american spy plane as saw seventy one black but at photograph the suez canal front with high resolution cameras. recognizance pictures showed the west bank was suddenly empty

of egyptian tanks. the egyptians were committing their biggest mistake of the wall. the israelis would do nothing to stop them. ibrahim of the lobby. the commander of the twenty first armored division told me i was surprised because while we were crossing from west to east i expected to be hit by the israeli air force but nothing happened not dissing the tank was hit and the crossing from west to east they just let us in. with a little bit of trouble. the egyptian plan was to make for some thrusts towards the sinai strategic passes and crossroads. three of the assaults would be made by ahmed brigades. the central push would be by a full division the twenty first ahmed. at six

thirty in the morning of the fourteenth of october the egyptian army moved east. of the one gate where there are spoke to. a book in the negative quarters of it for guardian totally out of a rupture of our egyptian tires. the israelis were waiting for the tank assault in pre-prepared positions on the ridges east of the egyptian bridgeheads. tanks came up and boom boom boom boom. and the first few minutes of the battle the gypsum twenty first armored division suffered significant casualties. and possession. of the needle at the border one of the armored brigade commanders was martyred cause i know it so you. also his chief of staff was injured and the commander of their total brigade was martyred. there was

a lot of confusion at the front of. the award. will be a clip it's awful lot saw us all we definitely succeeded in stopping dozens if not hundreds of egyptian tanks and blowing them up with not many casualties on our side during the action. of course lot by midday on the fourteenth of october two hundred fifty tanks had been lost. the egyptian general command ordered all advancing forces to retreat westwards to the bridge heads. there at the house it was an attempt to relieve the pressure on the syrian front but it didn't do that how could we do that the distance between us and them is five hundred kilometers how could we relieve the pressure. in fact by the time the egyptians launched their attack the syrian front had already been

stabilized. israelis had been forced to halt their advance by the arrival of iraqi troops. home after. they arrived and surprised our forces when they attacked. we had put out an alert that the iraqi forces are moving towards the goal line but we couldn't tell them the precise location so that came as a surprise. they tried to place part of the blame on us but what could be done. was over. the iraqi third armored division had moved swiftly from its bases around baghdad towards the goal line a distance of over a thousand kilometers. levels than. we arrived that night and the outskirts of damascus it was guarded by syrian civilians the things they said to

was that night the eleventh of october shocked us are you iraqis yes we are iraqis for god's sake save our own. we thought it was a total victory that was a huge shock we started to realize that the situation had completely changed. into sought heavy or sudden also their area. despite their fatigue the iraqi forces were rushed to the front to reinforce syrian troops retreating before the advancing israelis. shorter so i we had penetrated deep into syrian territory i climbed a couple of observation towers i saw the air was full of dust and i assumed it was one of our forces on the move the division commander called me and told me that a very large force was moving towards us and that it was very close something like a thousand meters away till afraid. of you heard them open.

and that's situation that was a strategic victory on the syrian front the timing was perfect if it happened come just twenty four hours later it would have been much tougher and the israeli forces would have reached the gates from damascus or less what the bush. five squadrons of the iraqi air force some sixty at craft were flown to to syria. make up for losses sustained by the syrian air force so wolf if she can see some maturity in the iraqi prison sort of the syrian pilots up tight for the button even the most his didn't know how compilers from iraq are up for the fight why the syrians are reluctant to leave base so it turned into a competition to carry out their missions and he did watch what he said. with the arrival of the participation of iraqi forces in the war the jordanian army

was now straining at the leash. have that have. that feel it was very embarrassing for us i mean it embarrassed of making the same a lot of them because there were two arab countries who had territory occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven and jordan was a third arab country whose territory ha been occupied in one nine hundred sixty seven but those two other countries are fighting to regain what they lost while you're not i remember i attended one of the meetings and held with the military and i saw how much pressure they put on him to go to the war. but it doesn't give it the jordanian forces. being. through august today. that the iraqis and jordanians were not the fust to arrive.

five months before the outbreak of the war on the second of morocco had sent to brigade to support the syrian front the moroccan brigade was given the name. they didn't want us over with. vax pression to lead them means home can paint. the americans were given the task of guarding the eastern foothills of mount hermon . limited your bullshit. more expeditionary forces would soon arrive from other arab countries. with the loot on the syrian front we first faced a moroccan brigade later the iraqis came and we fought them too. then later the jordanians came along after that the saudis so we found four armies there we had to fight. the israelis had suffered

heavy losses but they had also achieved significant gains in the last four days. they had advanced to within thirty five kilometers of damascus and occupied new territories to bring to the bargaining table after the war. now their initial goals in the north achieved the israelis were about to turn their attention south to the egyptians. the plan to cross the suez canal had been finalized and given the name stout hearted man. we will maintain the finest fighting force the world is ever known united states army was so reliant on the private sector i would call the dependency we have

a mismatch between the way we. are to be and the reality of the twenty first century. for evil and how to tell you how many of the persons that you're sending out you should be child soldiers not. child soldiers reloaded on al-jazeera. hello again adrian fenty going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera pro syrian government forces say they've taken control of two key towns in the east and countryside state media showing troops believed to be iranian backed militia entering one of those town halls aria on tuesday the area has come under heavy ground attack in recent days as part of the government campaign to retake the northeastern province where the capture of the town is the first major government

advance in that offensive it cuts off a key rebel supply light in the province allowing war pro government troops to move in retaking the entire province of delta would give the government control rights to the border with jordan. navy divers have reentered the flooded cave in northern thailand as part of their expanding search for a missing football team these are live pictures from china by where the rescue operation is underway twelve boys and their football coach had gone exploring on saturday when rising water after a heavy rainstorm blocked the only exit from the cave chemical attacks in syria are being discussed by the world's chemical weapons watchdog the emergency meeting in the netherlands was requested by the british government following a nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in england germany's chancellor angela merkel says the e.u. why deal on the migration crisis will not be reached at the summit on thursday

merkel has been meeting spain's prime minister in berlin she's under pressure from a coalition partner to find a solution to stem the flow of refugees and immigrants into the u.k. but the block is divided over what approach to take germany wants the number of migrants spread more evenly across the e.u. but some countries such as italy are opposed to that the un says the general don't tell you that it calling on the world not to abandon the united nations agency for palestinian refugees the organization known as undera says that it's facing a quarter of a billion dollar shortfall i'll be back with here on al-jazeera in a little over twenty five minutes don't forget you can catch up with news though at any time by heading to our web site as long as you've got a web site an internet connection that is just take a look at al-jazeera dot com see if he's out back to the war in october.

during the war in october nine hundred seventy three ariel sharon was the general in command of the hundred forty third reserve army division one of three facing the egyptians in the suez front. a controversial personality sharon had already developed a plan to deal with any egyptian attack during his three and

a half years as commander of the southern front an assignment that had ended just three months earlier. so then i asked him what will happen to the earth any dull work this war is going to end. wherever. they are on the other side of the commercial. that's the only place where it can be terminated. this is the first time i hear it's we are going to course the source that. was around seven thirty of top of the six. pool. in his kitchen invention. on the night of october the ninth the fourth day of the war sharon sent his reconnaissance battalion west towards the canal. surprisingly no egyptian forces

intercepted them and they quickly reached the shores of the bitter lake where the waterway is up to five kilometers wide. turning north the israelis and to to abandon foods of the bar-lev line block a can and maps meant. the battalion had stumbled on the forty kilometer wide undefended gap between the gyptian second and third armies. sharon was electrified and radioed headquarters for permission to implement his strategy. when sharon tells them. we have to cross the come out we have to arrive in their rear. they telling we cannot afford to do what you are suggesting because you are the only division which we got in that. you are the only one. between the enemy and tel aviv. what's more on

october the ninth there was still two egyptian army divisions on the western side of the canal ready to counter any israeli crossing. sharon's plan was placed on hold until five days later when those two divisions suddenly crossed the canal and began their abortive advance deep into sinai. now the israeli plan could be activated the time had come to stout hearted man. but to pull it off the israelis would need to transport a curious mix of equipment to the waterline. they picked up in europe. secor her from tomb bridge the year before a war surplus and it also picked up floating wraps. mechanize raf's which carry

a tank but third and most important was an actual bridge specially built in israel this was how the main forces would cross the canal the idea of the bridge. roller bridge they call it it was. a bridge that was built in tire it was two hundred meters long metal bridge with metal rollers are growers but the rulers were thrilled with the substance that floated. hole it to the canal with turks where you reach the edge of the target in the breakfast course you're going to order and you have a ready made bird. but getting the four hundred ton bridge to the water's edge a twenty five kilometer journey was to prove harder than expected. before the war the israelis had cut a dirt track specially designed for moving the bridge to

a pre-prepared crossing point but now that track was an egyptian hands. a strong defensive position the southern flank of the second egyptian army stood in the way of any israeli advance. the battle to open the road to the canal would be called the battle of chinese farm. like farms on the eastern bank of the canal today the area was an egyptian agricultural development on which work had begun in the early one nine hundred sixty s. with the help of japanese experts. occupied during the six day war the israelis had mistaken the japanese writing on irrigation equipment for chinese. the farm had now been recaptured by the egyptians the sixteenth division dug into dry ditches now serving as trenches. had to engage

the second army. so that the bridges could reach the canal and the tanks could cross all the bridges. and dusk on the fifteenth of october. the israeli tanks started their assault on the chinese form. but the egyptians would counter the attack using their new highly effective weapon anti tank guided missiles. by use of the sea kashif. our member the conversation between opera gate commander. and division commander ariel sharon and he called to view raviv two because it was the second of his three brigades and he said to this is forty forty is the division commander the attack is looking good. and to be a raviv who had

a deeper meaning voice said forty two here it's our tanks that are running over. well sharon's division was taking heavy casualties in the chinese form a seven hundred fifty strong israeli paratrooper force was advancing towards the canal across the dunes. by midnight they had reached the crossing point. a. paratrooper. reached we can all have trucks. and carrying with them half trucks or rubber boots. and they crossed uncertain of what they would find on the other side and the first. car bomb gave us another back. yo clear and they didn't go in there they stablished the bridge so there was no one is really

a presence on the western bank. but despite the desperate efforts of the israelis the road to the canal remained closed find entire egyptian infantry brigade. but there was one ray of light for the israelis and mechanized rovs could move independently across open terrain. and by six thirty on the morning of the sixteenth of october fifteen rovs had reached the canal and began ferrying tanks to the west. just when we arrived there and it's quiet. and we have there we have there on the come out sharon sense between twelve to twenty thanks across the cannot and what happens is exactly what he said and it's in these the way they're gypsies don't know what happens to them for twenty

four hours that arrival in their rear of the enemy was exactly what sharon was aiming at and the decisive phase of the war is closing. the israeli canal crossing went almost unnoticed by the egyptians. and later that same morning in cairo it seemed the head of state was totally unaware of what was going on at the front. and his first public appearance since the start of the war sadat led a victory parade through the streets towards parliament. he was accompanied by a woman mr general mattis my. commute

. and arrows and speech set out set out his conditions for ceasefire a total israeli withdrawal from sinai. later that day in jerusalem told them i made her own speech she decided to share the good news with the israeli knesset. for fifteen this afternoon the israeli population were told for the first time that their troops were on the west bank of the su is going to. want to mrs murray it said came as

a surprise not just to the israeli people but also to the egyptian military. israeli paratroopers and tanks had formed a limited bridge had on the western side of the canal in an area called. me but egyptian report. it's about the israeli crossing the confusing and underestimated the scale of the problem. for the law there was a problem with the reconnaissance and most or all of the reconnaissance units were on the eastern side of the kind i was there was no reconnaissance in the west to provide information and that's why when i asked for information about the west no one knew anything much. it was only when the israeli forces in the west went on the offensive that the egyptians first crossed the extent of the problem. that the enemy was already in their backyards. or the attack on america was

the first to cross received. orders saying so i want to talk to you. the voice as that of the air force commander general. you have a map. you see the flowers on the those are. batteries. please destroy them out. located on the western side of the canal the egyptian surface to air missiles and cause the israeli afros heavy losses in the first days of the war. now reachable by israeli tanks it was payback time for the egyptian and defense. but despite the israeli success in destroying the somme batteries other aspects of stout hearted man were not going so well. of an os i shall get but ariel

sharon received an order not to activate his forces in the west of the canal because the concern was that if they were unable to establish a real bridge a pontoon or roller it would be impossible to establish a logistics route to evacuate casualties send supplies send forces. and then they would even consider canceling the whole operation of it so. the israelis still hadn't gained control of the road to the crossing point foot soldiers would have to be used to flush out the egyptian infantry and tank hunters from the ditches of the chinese farm. we were walking in the sands a beautiful. by in the silence everything was locally quiet and some. heavy heavy fire. really heavy for. supper and fuel injection numbers and tanks. with light arms.

during that long night the egyptians inflicted heavy losses on the paratroopers forty one killed and over one hundred wounded but the action kept egyptian forces occupied and both the israelis the opportunity to tow their pontoons forward to the crossing point. by the night of the sixteenth of october having finally realised the scale of the israeli operation the egyptians reacted. the plan was simple the twenty fifth armored brigade would move northwards to meet up with the twenty first division which would advance southwards . in a pencil move the two armored units would close the gap and crush the israeli forces . the plan seemed straightforward but to general it was flawed.

he wanted the brigade to cross to the west and make its assault on that side of the canal which was under gyptian control. general ismail ordered that new forces that had already crossed to the east should cross back to the west. this he said was a political decision taken by president sadat himself. neither. would back down until finally president sadat was asked to come to the egyptian main command center known as center ten to arbitrate on this dispute between the top two commanders of his armed forces. ladies i told him mr president i disagree with general. as soon as i said so he blew up in my face blew up in my face he shouted at me and kept saying don't ever mention with mr president this is not a was droll it's it's maneuvering with force is no maneuvering with forces and

north through with one soldier has to withdraw i will have you court martialed if the word with no one is ever mentioned again to see things. from such decision was clear the next day seventeenth of october at zero seven hundred hours the twenty fifth armored brigade moved northwards to carry out his mission. the chesley was about to be proved right. after ruslan comments from. the twenty fifth brigade came from the area of the bitter lakes and two tank brigades caught in a sort of ambush. about two tank brigades. one brigade on that side. and the other again on the other side the battle was over very quickly. egypt and suffered heavy losses. with sixty five chance to strong only ten able to

retreat. southwards. had looked as if a new offense or shooting in the rocket. and the losses for the twenty fifth brigade were shocking maybe ninety percent of our tanks were lost and that was so sad because these were the best tanks in the egyptian army. sixty two. what was even more damaging was what happened to the fighting units around us that they regarded the twenty fifth armored brigade as their shield the pride of good gyptian army. so what happened to the twenty fifth armored brigade was a blow to the morale of the soldiers at the front during that battle a lot of them the whole lot. meanwhile in the northern sector of the suez front things were no better for the egyptians after two days of heavy fighting of a chinese farm the right flank of the second army had been decimated. the remnants

of the brigade that had blocked the road to the canal had retreated. but only off to making the israelis pay a heavy price. yes painful and. very painful mainly because of the dead. in their wounded. and one night of the crossing with we lost some four hundred people. thanks we're fighting. some of them when we saw in broad daylight later one bell against another like to salt competence in the media. a theater with tanks both of them destroyed maybe most of the people in both of them. the valley of death next day along the come out was terrible. but we

were on the other side of the. general and john's on the division had successfully crossed the canal using the pontoon bridge. next day eighteenth of october early morning advanced tanks are unleashed on the egyptian red. soon they have destroyed more trees clearing the skies for the israeli air force. is not a top down the air force started to appear previously we hadn't seen it at all but after the seventeenth we started to see the f. also a lot no one to stop those our defenses the anti-aircraft missiles were non-existent for the air force had a freemount well as the national. on the eighteenth of october

these really high command decided to capitalize on the successful crossing building their presence on the western bank of the canal to three armored divisions. sharon's division would move north to surround the egyptian second army and capture the city of is my idea. a duns division and another commanded by general monk and would move south to encircle the egyptian army and capture the city of suez. this would be their final goal israel would come to the bargaining table holding a trump card. israel had two bridges were going to merge. they were now ready for an army across for the summer. for two days and with the bulk of the egyptian army on the east of the canal scattered forces in the west foot bravely trying to hold

their ground against three israeli army divisions but they were outnumbered and overwhelmed. general shadley could see that his plan was on the verge of failure. and this again i was a different i went back and said the situation was becoming very dangerous so on the twentieth i said tonight i have to bring back any armored brigade i can afford from the east i had four armored brigades in the east with no job i said i have to bring them back tonight as well then. that night one small general smiled had to request sadat to come to the command center the president was unmovable he simply reiterated what he had said food days earlier and caught up. all this at a with well it appears decision was to withdraw not a single rifle or tank room east or west everyone to stay where he is and fight

that was nonsense this is not a war in the world that works like that you have forces under pressure and you do nothing to assist them while others have nothing to do and you don't want to bring them into the battlefield. that doesn't give a lot of. it but if he shows the kavanaugh in the whole. the father of the for a long time general. the special forces the pericope. i mean the kind of forces that dual high risk. and i think he was really professional. but the. sometimes he would do a border thing and maybe on certain occasions it would be to truck bomb all right marianna. in the obama two at the michigan. sadat's position was clear any movement of forces from east to west could undermine morale and lead to the collapse of the whole front. he's lost bargaining chip would

be lost. on us as the high end as we actually are a lot of people who are dead at the time they said if we had seen just one soldier to cheating the whole army would have done the same. shortly after midnight sadat left sun to tan and return to his residency. he summoned the soviet ambassador and told him that egypt is ready to accept a cease fire. this time though it was the israelis who had no interest in a cease fire. but we can say that israel had a greater interest in the ceasefire getting it right at that moment because the hard work to do so terror it was recovered. but in the third week of the war international attempts to broker a cease fire in the middle east would bring the whole world to the verge of

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a unified approach on migration as germany's leader meets spain's prime minister ahead of a critical summit. on how much with all the latest from the world cup we're argentina and nearly all mathy could make an early exit from russia if they fail to beat nigeria later on i'll have all the build up to that game coming up. pro syrian government forces say they've taken control of two towns in the east and dead a country side state media is showing troops believed to be iranian backed militia entering the town one of the towns earlier on tuesday however the rebel free syrian army says that fighting is ongoing but have a jump jhoom reports. as the battle for death intensifies pro syrian government forces say they've taken control of the two towns sort of how do you and. in the

eastern countryside videos like this one purport to show troops many of whom are believed to be iranian backed militia members entering sort of how do you on tuesday the town has come under heavy bombardment and its capture is the first major government advance in this offensive that will. allow the syrian army to advance more southwards thought of. the city of that i think if i think that connecting. with that and buying the values of which we're full of. groups. forget that the group that will allow. me to advance faster towards the city of that. by cutting off a key rebel supply line in our province more pro-government troops will be able to move in retaking the entire province of that i would give the government control

over its border with jordan all the way to the israeli occupied golan heights. and in the extremely complicated terrain of syria's war analysts believe deals have already been made i believe that. the americans that we have a good deal with the russians now they are going to stay out of this of this of this anyhow and the city of beijing will take control of that will be good for everybody what is a need for the russians for jordan because jordan also although the jordanians actually but it concerned about any new influx of refugees inside job done but they want very much actually to open the border crossing with syria because economically this is a body a more plant lifeline for the jordanian economy according to the united nations forty five thousand people have so far fled the violence and headed toward the border with jordan concerns are growing about the humanitarian situation no matter

the regime's recent advances rebel say they will continue to fight even as many wondering if this fight may be coming to an end. and syrian state media says that his rating fighter planes have hit areas near the damascus international airport activists say that the target was an arms depor belonging to the lebanese armed group hezbollah as there is how a force that is following the story from west to recent well as is usually the case after events like this there's been no official comment from the israeli military on this strike but it is being blamed on israel by syria state media it says that two israeli missiles struck a target close to the damascus international airport the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms depo this is been a long term policy by israel to try to strike iranian or iranian linked targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you

go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military. navy divers have reentered a flooded cave in northern thailand as part of a growing search for a missing football team twelve boys and that coach had gone exploring in the cave on saturday when rising water after

a heavy rainstorm blocks the only exit scott hyla reports now from chiang rai. for a third day hundreds of rescue workers continue their search but still no sign of the twelve players from the cademy football team and the twenty five year old coach . it's not the first time that an outing at the tom long cave in northern chiang rai problems they're not just teammates but good friends to. come to has been under this tent since saturday her sixteen year old son is missing he's one of the oldest the youngest is eleven make up at least not just my son i feel bad that he's not alone so now i need to be strong so i can see his face again when he walked out of the cave she adopted a don't send on when he arrived from myanmar at the age of two he's now fourteen and missing chin is hopeful the boys will survive and says they work well together we have very strong i want to see if you're

a strong yes this is the mouth of the cave complex that runs some eight kilometers deep into these hills right along the border with myanmar the bikes from these twelve boys and their coats are still here just as they were left on saturday a small makeshift village has been created for the rescue workers there divers cave climbers soldiers and forestry service workers the man in the morning at the museum and he is our biggest challenge in the rescue operation trying to pump out the waters have the dive and. we need to string more electricity in the case to run the pumps we are pumping three kilometers in and need more power and more help keeps coming in the race is on to find the boys with rescuers aware time is not on their side it's got harder al-jazeera chiang rai russia iran and syria have opposed the british proposal to go. of the world's chemical weapons watchdog the power to assign blame for chemical attacks the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has been holding an emergency meeting at the hague it was called for by the

u.k. following the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in england let's go to the hague live now al jazeera is the barca is that meeting what's russia in particular up to here with this political move in the watchdog has much of a watchdog without the powers were assigned blame is it. yes that's exactly right well after a very slow morning in which russia seem to slow down proceedings by bringing up one technicality after another and another finally we appear to got some movement some a meant to last the u.k. has put forward its draft proposal to allow the o.p.c. w. to apportion blame at the moment it is simply a technical body you can say whether or not a chemical weapons attack is taking place possibly also mame the chemical weapon itself that may or may not have been used but it falls short of pointing the finger and that's what the u.k. has been demanding it says that given the current climate in the last twenty years

where we've seen an increase in chemical weapons attacks in the likes of syria and iraq and also of course recently earlier on this year in march in seoul spree with the poisoning of the former russian agent sergei scrip ollie's daughter yet script now is the time for this body to have a little bit more power but this draft proposal has received stiff resistance as you mentioned there by russia and russia's allies syria and iran we know that the russians themselves have also got their own proposal that would essentially allow the a p c w to continue its current mandate there is crucially though within the text of that that detail put forward by the russians a view that would allow the executive here. choose chemical weapons inspectors on the ground in a given part of the world where alleged attacks attacks take place the u.k. argues well look if you hand over responsibility to the executive it strips the a p

c w of the flexibility and whose ability to act quickly to send inspectors to quick parts of the world the u.k. worries that the russian russian side of things would only slow things down with just the apc's. ability to act quickly so look we've got to keep the arguments the unfurling here the russian side and the british side we never vote will take place here within twenty four hours in the case proposal made many thanks indeed pay back of their lives at that meeting in the hague iran's president says he won't give in to u.s. pressure of a nuclear development hasan rouhani says the iranian government is able to withstand the economic burden of new sanctions their planned after donald trump withdrew from the nuclear deal signed by world powers three years ago rouhani says that trump has hurt america's global reputation by appalling and illegal actions. the un's general secretary general antonio is calling on the world not to abandon

the united nations agency for palestinian refugees the organization known as undera says it's facing a quarter of a billion dollar shortfall and may soon have to cut emergency assistance the u.s. slashed its funding by more than a half in january more than five million refugees in the middle east rely on the agency for education food and health services will be challenged made his statement at the donor conference at the un our diplomatic editor james bays reports. the un has been trying for months to fill the massive shortfall after the u.s. pulled out most of its funding from the u.n. secretary general of the start of this pledging conference appealed to nations to come up with more funding and the head of armor commissioner general credible said time was running out our current shortfall remains now in excess of two hundred fifty million us dollars and we still have a very big task ahead at this point we do not i repeat we do not have the income

to ensure that the schools will open on time in august and in the absence of significant new funding we will have to begin taking very difficult measures in july impacting the level of services as well as our staff the situation will be particularly critical for emergency operations in the west bank and in gaza what is at risk is food for one million people in the gaza strip as ever at these sort of pledging conferences as a little hard to work out exactly what is new money and what has already been committed by countries in the past it appears though there are some new funds coming from the e.u. from mexico from sweden and from belgium and other countries like the u.k. bringing forward some of their funding the a total amounts though are nowhere near the shortfall of two hundred fifty million dollars and the u.n. is still desperately.