it appears to have peaked its state roughly the same level for twenty four hours now further south in crossing province the water level is about twenty meters but just still two meters below the danger level there is a flood alert in place in crocky province but no one has been evacuated officials have advised farmers who have crops in low lying areas to harvest their crops early in case there are floods now and still in trying province the number of people evacuated remains the same roughly about five thousand people and over in neighboring laos rescuers are still searching for the missing that number still stands at one hundred thirty one according to government officials and we are unfortunately no closer to understanding or finding out power and why the dam collapsed on the south korean company mainly in charge of construction of the dam has said that subsidence of the dam was first noticed around the days of questions now floating around about whether or not that warning should have been given much

earlier whether or not people living in the area around the dam should have been evacuated much. rights groups are accusing to preventing a four year old boy from travelling abroad to receive life saving medical treatment it will heal homicide is the grandson of an opposition leader in exile human rights watch says he and his family have had their passports confiscated that means the blocks from leaving the country it will him to go to his concert a local doctors can't treat him the tajik government denies the accusations and say he's free to leave it any time sky gazers around the world are enjoying a thrilling celestial spectacle the longest bloodmoon eclipse of this century would show the moon turn a red brown color as it rose the entire transition loss for nearly two hours and it was visible from europe the middle east asia south america and africa. one of the best vantage points was in kenya were katherine sawyer joined in on the spectacle

and mccarthy so it's a clear sky here in my god he and we are looking at the blood moon right now it's completely in the shadow of the quiet of beautiful sight and right next to it is a planet mars another ref a nominal happening right there. planet mars in the sun won't opposite sides of the arc a phenomenon that happens every fifteen to seventeen years but it's a moon that amazed move. along when you're reading this call me to used to see. you use a direct translation on the moon the moon the day the sun last day but i have come to realize that it is. and also the moon doing this in only you know not true i have just seen the cheating like something is cutting it the traveling telescope group has come to this canyon village to shoot

a local modify community up close the marvels in the sky trying to get as many people to look through to look at the sky and to appreciate what we have in the sky but also to look through the telescopes until you know lamb a bit of science i spoke about mars and the opposition phenomenon just tell us a little bit about that quite shred and it's more prominence now because it's much closer to was so it looks brighter it's more rare it's quite exciting interacting the people here many of them telling us they have not seen the stock as plan nets and even the moon so close you know through this telescope the next lunar eclipse of this duration is going to happen in the next century so a lot of people saying they are happy that they get to see this in their lifetime. and you can find a lot more on the web site the address for that is all just era dot com lots of his era dot com.

this is all just iraq these are the top stories a group of opposition political parties in pakistan is rejecting the outcome of wednesday's election official results show the party or former cricketer imran khan has gained the most seats in the national assembly opposition groups say the vote was rigged and that the military interfered in the process. all parties conference unanimously rejected twenty fifth july twenty eighth in elections we don't accept it as a people's mandate but consider it as a stolen mandate those who are thinking that they want a majority we even don't accept their majority nor will we give them a chance to rule we demand free and fair reelections and we all agreed that all members elected from all parties will not take over in the parliament. israeli forces have reopened the gates of the are like some mosque compound in occupied

east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday the soldiers stormed the compound firing tear gas and stun grenades. two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy have been killed in the latest friday protest at the gaza israel barrier both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health officials say at least another two hundred and forty five people were injured syrian government forces have recaptured the southern city of canet near the israeli occupied golan heights government troops have entered the city for the first time in four years after weeks of intense fighting but many i saw fighters have now agreed to leave for rebel held areas of northern syria after a deal brokered by russia. wildfires in northern california have killed at least two people and forced thousands of residents to flee firefighters say the blaze is only partly contained with hot weather and high winds fueling the flames. the greek government says some wildfires there which have killed at least eighty people were

started deliberately beach resorts near athens are in ruins some people are still searching for missing relatives and they're blaming the government's slow response the number of dead from monday's dam collapse in laos has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred missing many people have been trapped in remote areas and evacuations are still going on those are the headlines the news continues and ologies here after inside story life and. how big a threat to the syrian regime the group says if there is a coordinated attacks killing thousands in southern syria as the army backed by

russia and iran continues to crush the rebellion by the opposition. to this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program eisel fights as have carried out their deadliest attacks for months in southwest syria suicide bombers targeted a vegetable market a hospital and a public square in the government held city of the way to own weapons day all the gunmen raided nearby towns and villages dozens were killed including pro-government fights as some activists and doctors say the number of fatalities is at least two hundred forty also wait which is home to the druze community has mainly managed to avoid attacks during the conflict which is now into its seventh year. well control

of syria is largely divided between four main players in the northeast of the country kurdish groups control one third of all territory and they aim to establish their own autonomous government so the west turkish backed rebel forces control much of italy province and western aleppo home to around three million internally displaced syrians the asset regime backed by iran and russia have regained control of the majority of syria's provinces eisel stronghold in southern syria is under russian and syrian bombardment after losing territory seized in both syria and neighboring iraq eisel continues to control scattered patches of land regime forces are battling to regain control over the border with the israeli occupied golan heights that's close to where i saw launched suicide attacks on the city of the weight of let's bring in our guests today here on inside story joining us from vermont on skype is joshua landis he is the director of the center for middle east

studies at the university of oklahoma in london we have hate haid a syria consulting research fellow at chatham house and here in doha we're joined by marwan he's a syrian academic and writer welcome to you all meaghan in doha coming to you first what we're talking about in suede it was a suicide mission we haven't seen an eyesore suicide mission for many months how significant is that. i think it is important in my being in but it doesn't represent an existential threat to the syrian regime i think. as it loses more territories in syria whether in the southwest part of the conflict or even in the east of the contrary it will be actually resorting to the sort of tactics that was actually using in iraq especially. during the u.s. occupation of that contrie so most probably we're going to see more of these attacks in fact about as i said before that is not going to be that he presented

and the existential threat for the syrian regime because. eisen is being actually confronted by most of the powers who are interested in the syrian conflict that would include the united states russia iran the sunni our countries turkey so i said actually is almost fighting almost against everybody in this conflict so there is no chance in my being and for i said towards this sort of existential threat for the syrian regime what we are going to see as i said is more of these attacks and less we have the sort of political solution to the syrian crisis understood hate hate in london there was a particularly vicious element to what i saw was doing with this suicide attack because after the bombs went off they were going round door to door killing people in their own homes but leaving one survivor what's the message that i still is trying to get out now well it's it's not surprising to see or hear about this

tactic because from the beginning isis has been trying to basically brought cuz the fire its brutality and is to mainly scare its enemies but also to realize its allies and supporters around and what we saw in the way that is just another tactic. basically aimed to make their at tag to the headlines and living survivors to tell the stories about what happened will make sure that syria's and the rest of the war will continue to fear isis for years to come and i think that is the main message and joshua what does this tell us about the preparedness of the syrian forces. well this is a classic isis attack isis today is a is a cornered tiger it's lashing out as a diversionary tactic to show that it's still lethal even as it's being destroyed

in southern syria so it it attack the jebel druze and the jurors minority of course is seen as an evil minority by isis their ninth issue of their davetta magazine was about the druze and how they all their shakes their religious leader should be killed their women could be sold into slavery like the use e.t.s. so the druze have long been a target for isis it's a way to so. in a sense distrust between the syrian regime and the bruise because the druze were very upset they said it how come this could happen how do you let them get here why did they did massacre us so there's a lot of internal squabbling the syrian opposition has blamed this on aside and said that isis an aside are one that they're working together in a conspiracy to punish the druze are not wholeheartedly being a loyalist this is. seems to me rather conspiracy theory but but it has so in

dissension and it's diverted the gaze from doing real defeat that isis is undergoing today it's nothing like it was two years ago when it had a big caliphate the size of great britain and today it's its last little enclaves are being wiped out but it's still a lethal force and it can carry out these very dangerous attacks with a small number of men paid what does this attack by ice so the perpetrating of this attack by a so tell us about those people who perhaps rushing to judgment say bashar al assad is actually very close to a complete victory whether it's was two main issues the first one is that there is jeanne as. still unable to secure the areas it has been with the support of its allies able to capture so far and the other thing is that their region has been depending mainly on short term. strategy or tactics that

leads to basically brutal results at a later stage meaning. what just two hours referring to here why not only opposition groups but people from the way that themselves then assert for because most of the fighters who carried out that in so way the people said that they came from the countryside of damascus and from basically maly from the refugee camp here move in damascus where the regime brokered the deal was some isis fighters basically allowed them to be you look at it to basically area that is close to the way that and the desert of eastern syria and this is why i think that the problem here is that assad is moving basically one problem or solving one problem now creating ten others later on and the other issue i think that people

are basically blaming assets for and the russians as well is that because recently there has been some russian led efforts to demobilize and this local militias and do it and so whether. after that there were no measures taken by the regime or the russians to protect those areas and then after that the isis fighters took advantage of that security vacuum and attack and this is why also another reason the for what for for why people are blaming assad and the russians for a moment coming back to you here in doha i mean what are the chances here that bashar al assad starts going after the druze because the government forces don't control the specific area that is obvious on the one hand and. on the other hand the troops the young male druze do not sign up they refuse to sign up to this conscription system but he's got going for the syrian army. and yes indeed i think

that there was in fact in a very awkward position because on the one hand as you said they are not playing they are in fact trying not to be part of this war which is waged by assad against i mean in the sunni majority of syrians so they don't want to be part of that on one hand on the other hand they are seen by as not truly muslims so they are on one hand attacked by ice and on the other hand they are not very well protected by the assad regime and in fact what the recent attack by isis demonstrates is that as as as your other two guests actually have been suggesting it shows that the syrian regime is still in fact very vulnerable very weak and cannot provide the sort of protection that those people who are under its control actually are expecting him to to to to provide and this also demonstrated that military solution to this crisis will not actually end it we still need to see

a political solution because and this will bring almost everybody on board. in order to end this conflict we are going to see as we said earlier more attacks by isis and more of the colonization not only by ice who are going to see more of the colonization of among them moderates sunny's who who have seen actually their houses destroyed they are they are their brothers killed by the cities and after all that is sort of wives and after all the regime actually has. as it has changed some of the most of their of of the of the contras so i think it's the really important here to see the sort of political solution to this conflict. despite the progress with the progress on the ground that has been made by the regime and its. on this and i so it's not the end yet we are not there yet i think the end will not be. i would not be see it unless we see the sort of constitution that i was talking

about and you joshua landis in vermont if what we're talking about here with the druze community is like a microcosm of the brought a conflict how does that mesh with where we all the point that mom was making the how does that mesh with where we are in the political arena there are kurds in damascus having discussions with the asset regime as we speak on the one hand and on the other hand the reality is what if i still is not defeated what if iceland's just regrouping and kind of returning to its the gold standard of what it does is just regrouping well isis is regrouping. and its attacks recently in libya and yemen and other places but it's it isis can only grow where there is a power vacuum and quite clearly isis book the united states which was backing the syrian rebels to destroy the syrian government in a syrian army under assad but america turned away from that support because it

appeared that isis or al qaida would be the beneficiaries of this so ultimately they looked the united states look to iranian backed militias in iraq and russia and assad in syria to provide that security and they've gone to the kurds in the north but ultimately this is a dilemma i think that both everybody has underlined here is that we're going back to the status quo assad is clearly winning he is asserting himself he is destroying these various rebel groups as he's been doing down in debt and the question is whether he can provide state.