truly unable to escape the war. pushing ahead syria's foreign minister says the army will go all the way in rebel held it lead to a meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow. alone so robin you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. an appeal for calm in libya after days of fighting between rival groups in tripoli. also waves of unstoppable water after part of a dam collapses in me and more than sixty thousand people have been evacuated from their homes. and argentina appeals for a multi-billion dollar advance from the i.m.f.

first inflation saul's fears a new economic crisis. welcome to the program syria's foreign minister is threatening an all out assault and province the last rebel held stronghold. and his russian counterpart have been meeting in moscow here's what they had to say in the news conference that they held a short time ago. this would be the decision of the syrian leadership is to if i tell news referring to whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians. so that voting in constitute a little for the relationship was with satisfaction that we know to the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy . meanwhile russia's ministry of defense says it's going to hold

a major naval exercise in the mediterranean sea starting on saturday the u.s. has warned of retaliation if syrian government forces attack opposition areas with chemical weapons the un envoy to syria has called for the setting up of a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave it. there is a perfect storm based on warning counter warning which is gathering around and you did a lemma which is the true date limit on how to defeat terrorists in need leap in at the same time avoid affecting a huge number of civilians one having you would be to one not accelerate military escalation in give libby more time for these their discussion to allow. a credible credible humanitarian corridor to allow three billion population to temporarily greet two or three for area is

a holder's life for us in beirut but first let's cross over to our correspondent in moscow challenge rory sergey lavrov spoke a short time ago and despite backing up his syrian counterpart for an assault on he was also making an appeal to the international community about what comes afterwards. yeah i mean the russians know that this is a costly war they know that it has ruins much of syria's infrastructure and they know that as the preeminent military force inside syria at the moment some of the responsibility for rebuilding syria falls on them on russia but they of course don't want to shoulder all of the bill and so they're encouraging as many foreign powers as they can to chip in essentially and get the country back on its feet but

before that happens of course there is the small matter of the ongoing civil war and i think the russians and the syrian regime in damascus both believe that if they can clear out the remaining rebels in libya the war will pretty much be over the question is of course how costly is that assault on going to be it's not really a question of if it's going to happen it's more a question of when and the severity of it now the turkish foreign minister the minister was here a few days ago basically are asking the russians to take turkish concerns into account they already have. some three million refugees inside turkey they don't want any any more they don't want the kind of assaults on the ad lib that was meted out to you know aleppo and there are and goose are in places like that

they want this to be a slightly more refined a new wants to fair yes they say there has to be a separation between the groups like misrata and the civilians in libya but they don't want this to be an all out bombardments it's a delicate balancing act for russia the moment because of course damascus wants to mock this i. i think it would take a. civilian casualty counts perhaps moscow is willing to tolerate and certainly. is willing to tolerate some of them and we'll leave it with you rory and cross over to a colleague who's in beirut and it's a reset it's a delicate balancing act of how to proceed next with the minimum of casualties this is no no because. of saber rattling the writing is on the wall and people in be very concerned about what the next few days might have in store.

will definitely three million people live in it live they've seen the military assault against other rebel controlled areas. but they also saw what happened where many of the rebel factions agreed to surrender but it's something really not on the table for many at least half of the population they tell you that we are wanted by the state simply because we engaged in opposition activities people who were medics people who were part of the white helmets volunteers who are you know digging people from underneath the rubble these people are considered terrorist by the government they have nowhere to go because the border with turkey is effectively shut what we understand is that the russians and the turks are still holding discussions on what to do what kind of an operation we know what russia wants russia wants turkey to deal with groups linked to al qaida whether it's the scene

whether it's a sham and whether or not turkey can and convince for example the so-called moderate rebels allied to turkey to take on the fight against these al qaida groups it is still not clear but we understand from some sources is that turkey is trying through its contacts to convince him to disband itself to prevent this all out offensive. will this offensive for example be limited in scope we know that the syrian government has some strategic assets that it wants to recapture like the international highway so that it can link the main urban centers and it wants to put the push the rebels far back so that they can protect their strongholds and how much and love to keep so nothing is clear we are expecting the russian president that's what us is turkish counterpart and the iranian president to further discuss the issue of when they meet in iran later next week we'll leave it. with these and i think you. but other news now on

a fragile cease fire in libya appears to be holding after an appeal for calm by the government. the three day ceasefire came into effect on wednesday after days of fighting in libya's capital tripoli between the arrival of groups at least twenty six people including fifteen civilians were killed in the clashes my mood of the where he has more from tripoli. the situation is still very tense and the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli despite a cease fire agreement that has been recently reached between the competing or the warring groups this recent conflict is for control of a strategic locations in the capital tripoli and that includes military camps and also tripoli international airport now that the seventh infantry brigade from the city of tijuana is in conflict with other groups from the capital tripoli the

seventh infantry brigade. that used to be part of the presidential guard despite the fact that the national accord government has recently this owned that brigade and on the other hand bring it out with troops from tripoli which are backed by the national accord government now the seventh infantry brigade says that the arm of groups in tripoli are unofficial and they are blackmailing the state institutions in tripoli and now the cease fire agreement stipulates that a neutral force should be composed from the central and western military soon to intervene in tripoli to put an end to this conflict and maintain order in the libyan capital tripoli now twenty six dead including fifteen civilians because of these clashes that is according to the health ministry in tripoli and so many families have been forced to leave their houses in the southern suburbs of the

libyan capital tripoli because the clashes have been going on during the last three days in populated areas. four people are missing a person be able to cause widespread flooding and devastation sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes when the torrent of water inundated towns and villages government disaster management teams as well as soldiers police and the red cross have joined the rescue and relief operation. this is the dam in region central neon the spillway of the dam collapsed on wednesday morning after days of heavy monsoon rains sending torrents of water into nearby towns and villages in some places the surge of water reached nearly two and a half meters the military police and red cross are working on the rescue and relief effort i mean i'm not one yet you and i know the water came so fast into our village and we didn't have time to run we have never been flooded before nothing

like this has ever happened. eighty five villages have been flooded and more than sixty three thousand people affected. they've lost more than just their homes. i got back to a village with a buffalo and soon after we got there waters are already rising behind us we lost our carts pigs and engines everything including. flooding at the dam site has receded all the transport remains disrupted and a badly damaged bridge will need to be replaced by better than we're going to be not because we're going to build another bridge broadway in place of the damaged one days before the disaster the ledges raised concerns about the debt but government leaders reassured them it was safe and said there was no sign of anything wrong. because that hydraulic hydrologic is not only we can see we're

going to see only. we're going to lose one year when the people want to be for one hour before we're going to. this accident now puts the spotlight firmly on safety concerns about dams in southeast asia another dam collapsed in neighboring laos last month killing at least twenty seven people and forcing thousands from their homes florence lee al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera followed shops have been targeted in south africa's largest city we'll have more that's in johannesburg and what's happened to millions of week as the u.n. says china has created camps that indoctrination. hell are going to welcome back well we did see some very active weather across the southeast in portions of china in the four john province not to cease showers right

there well take a look at the video that has come out with the flooding that has really been exceptional for just overnight we did have a lot of rescues going on across the region they did see over in some locations over two hundred millimeters of rain just in that period of where the showers were and unfortunately there are going to be more showers over the next few days in this area so the ground is already saturated and really we don't need a whole lot of rain coming into play to continue with the flooding situation here so going to washington very carefully down towards hong kong attempt a few in a rainy day about thirty two degrees getting a little bit better as we go towards saturday well here across parts of the indian subcontinent as well as over towards miramar of course we're watching the area miramar very carefully because of the the dam collapse the causeway collapse there over the next few days most of the heavy rain from myanmar will be up towards the north so that's a good thing there but we do expect to see here across much of northeastern india very heavy rainfall could attempt a few of about thirty three

a little bit further down here towards the southwest some showers along the coast and by about twenty eight degrees and bengaluru a rainy day at twenty seven. full of struggles. and look at it yeah it's. over he said pretty much full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the word and the wrong person but i me the reality i want to be an intimate look at life in cuba today is work in my. bank but the government that will tell you to keep my cuba on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching of zero zero robert a reminder of our top story syrian foreign ministers threatening an all out assault and province the last rebel held stronghold while it says the army will do everything possible to avoid civilian deaths he's been meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow to discuss the offensive also a ceasefire seems to be holding in the libyan capital tripoli days of fighting between rival groups killed at least twenty six people before the internationally recognized government appealed for calm. and for people remain missing in me and more after wednesday's down the collapse the torrent of water flooded down dozens flooded dozens of towns and villages partly forcing tens of thousands from their homes soldiers police and the red cross have joined the rescue and relief operation

. the united nation marks international day of victims of enforced disappearances china is accused of detaining more than a million weak of muslims the us politicians of call for sanctions against the chinese officials response. bill there are reports of torture and indoctrination in secret accounts brian barry is a researcher with the world we are conference this is an organization that advocates for human rights of the week as a joins me now from brussels good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean why all the week as the large majority of whom are practice or to practice islam seen as a threat or a problem to the chinese authorities. look at afternoon well ever since that we were people have been under chinese control they've been oppressed. so we're just like the events are a large ethnic group with a long history plan territory and unique culture language and religion so the

chinese government wants to establish complete control in this region instability at all costs and that you need ethnic identity that we give people poses problems that expression out of the built in road initiative must pass as we go along and. more broadly of the chinese trying to assimilate all the people in china under one political identity groups with a different ethnicity culture a language such as the leaders the tibetans mongolians unger's i bearing the brunt of this approach so how long have this particular community been disappearing as far as your concerned and where do you think they're being held. well there's two issues here so for a long time that use of force disappearance has been used against the bigger population it's not a new thing political prisoners in the past and activists have been disappearing for decades for example in july fifth two thousand and nine after the arrest in orange. at least forty two people had disappeared when the chinese police swept through and rounded up

a lot of people this is according to rights watch according to our estimates the number is likely much higher and also refugees and asylum seekers have been targeted so over three hundred of them have disappeared after being forcibly returned to china from those countries and from sixteen different countries in the past fifteen years do you have any sort of these are disappearing being held so yes they do you have any idea whether you have that's going to say do you have any idea where they're being held yes so we believe that the refugee asylum seekers were held in prisons in the past as long a long with the political prisoners and now there's a new dimension to this which is what more than one million leaders being held and the political indoctrination camps so there's a camp scattered across the weaker economies region holding more than one million people will sort of condition. are they sort of detained and then what sort of condition are they in if they are ever released are they released. well

that's a very rare very rare people subjected to force against released in china once the chinese authorities we begin to disappear them we are no more information about their whereabouts or well being for example recently a twenty two year old we are asylum seekers was a stick in the return to germany after ministry of error and it were two thousand and thirteen his lawyers tried to contact him the german government has tried to contact the chinese stories about this and there's been no information about it since over the guard of the camps despite the huge number of people affected is very very few cases actually have been released sometimes we just see it receive information that some was in the camps after they passed away this was a the case with the mother of the president of the world were congress who passed away in an age that was eighteen. don't you so the president didn't know his mother was in a camp until he heard about her death a month later. not being the contactor for over a year you not seen or in twenty four years i can imagine the pain of not seeing a family member in such a long time not be able to contact them not be the sicker by and then find out this

way so but this story is not like neat weavers all over the world have this is a similar story similar tragic occurrences and this missing loved ones misses missing family members it's truly a difficult situation indeed for them and would have to leave it there but right to bury from their world conference thanks so much for joining us from brussels. but doctors in iran say sanctions imposed by the u.s. are endangering lives they say they can't get enough drugs to treat patients foreign companies are able to sell them medical supplies but new banking restrictions are making that harder because more from tehran he had actually been struggling with hemophilia since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means he will never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting chance. he's a boy he should play with his friends and. if he does he has to go to the hospital to get an injunction so defects his spirit and he cannot enjoy his childhood. he

seems too serious his father says his condition makes him a little weak but like any other kid his age he has dreams. he wants to be a police officer when he grows up he says because then he'll get to catch criminals for a living. his parents are hopeful that the treatment he's getting now will make him strong enough to take care of himself and turn his dreams into reality and. i have something to tell the american they shouldn't mix politics with haitian issues they must separate these things from each other the iranian care center treats thousands of patients in dozens of clinics across the country. in the past blanket sanctions on banking made it nearly impossible to find companies willing to sell medicine and equipment to iran. and so iranians began domestic production taking matters into their own hands half of the medicine views to treat many of the

patients in facilities like this is made right here in iran the other half is imported from pharmaceutical companies outside the country but it's the second half that has medical professionals worried once again iran can't make all the medicine it needs on its own. as governments play political games aid workers say civilian lives hang in the balance. i'm saying this to the leaders of western states and americans you may have political conflict with our government but your methods actually hurt people in classic war when it's guns that there are some rules but with sanctions we have no rules i call it a silent battle maybe war without sound of guns the first victims in this war are the civilians it's women it's children u.s. president donald trump and his administration say they will impose the most stringent biting sanctions on iran the world has ever seen the white house says sanctions are designed to weaken iran's government but people in this clinic want

donald trump to know that at some point that means fighting kids who are fighting for their lives. the international monetary fund is feeding a payment solve a fifty billion dollars bailout to argentina following an appeal by president. that caused the value of the pace at a plunge to record lows and how small. the international monetary fund has agreed to speed up bailout payments to argentina president made the request of the argentine post or drop to record lows. but you have to keep in mind also that the perception of the i.m.f. argentina is very negative for what happened two thousand and one. two thousand and one is when argentina defaulted on its ninety three billion dollar loans tens of thousands of businesses closed unemployment skyrocketed and a huge number of people were left in poverty but i'm not going to talk about the

new generation that did not live through the two thousand and one crisis like me as i was still a kid we see what's happening now and there is less and less trust in government. lack of trust has stemmed from the government's inability to cut deficit spending it's also failed to address pension reforms or create revenues from taxes all that and the spiraling global investors and argentinians who want to take their money out of the country in. the country is a problem which is that due to all the government's lack of credibility we think a lot in dollars and it is logical to think in dollars with inflation it's thirty thirty five percent per year. workers who've had enough are planning strikes and protests and as argentina prepares for elections next year president must stabilize the economy or lose control of it. john al-jazeera. trumps hoping for

a new trade deal with tentative kind of its foreign minister says very intense negotiations underway in washington on a revamped north american free trade deal now after the us president reached agreement with mexico on monday and threatened to impose more time if some canadian car imports of canada doesn't agree to join by friday. in the white house right now we're negotiating with them right now they want to be a part of the deal. we gave till friday and i think we're probably will see what happens but in any event things are working out very well we recognise that there is a possibility of getting there by friday but it is only a possibility because it will hinge on whether or not there is ultimately a good deal for killing a good deal for canadians i said from the very beginning no live to deal is better than a bad nerve to deal with jordan has more from washington d.c. . at the beginning of the week it looked as if the replacement for the north

american free trade agreement or now would be a by international law a deal between the united states and mexico hedging mostly on revised terms on how many automobiles and automobile parts could be exported from mexico into the united states however there is now the possibility that this deal could end up including canada one of the members of the north american free trade agreement that's because canadian negotiators led by the foreign minister chrystia freeland are currently meeting with their u.s. counterparts here in washington to see if they can hammer out a similar export deal as well as work out other issues including such things as agricultural trade between the two countries more than half of u.s. states have a robust direct trade relationship with canada and they don't want to see that imperiled there's also considerable pressure from bi partisan members of congress

to see any replacement for nafta include both mexico and canada now the question is can the united states and canada reach a deal before the end of the day on friday that deadline is important because that might be the only way that the trumpet ministration could get an approval of at least a binational deal with mexico approved before the new mexican president takes office on december first the rain forest the size of france is at risk in the democratic republic of congo it's the world's second largest rain forest but the company is on time to end the ban on industrial looking concessions welcome where possible. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. and hardly any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager gustava pombo learned to use a chainsaw and how to survive working. and i mean this is my life it helps me to

feed my wife and my two children and pay for their school fees it's the only job i know the forests provide a small income for thousands of people who live in and around them each of these timbers sells for about two and a half dollars out of the whole tree. get about one hundred dollars worth of timber five dollars to be paid to the landowner as an annual license fee for using a chainsaw the rest of the money is divided between the five people that it takes to do the work it's low key and it's informal the government gets very little revenue the environment minister says the government could be making a lot more timber carried out of the forest and exported congolese hardwoods of demand all over the world most end up in china europe and the us. the government hasn't granted any industrial logging concessions for sixteen years supposedly to

preserve the disappearing forests but it now plans to welcome back industrial loggers he says to fund development projects new phone don't look good most of all of all we sell what we can it can be mineral resources it can be any resource it can also be the resources of the forest they are ours we want to turn them into resources that help the wellbeing of our people. the forests also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years lower misnomer he says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. the government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realized the big companies would just take the profits from the forest and leave the population in poverty the government should abandon this plan to benefit the local population not only for ecological reasons the authors know logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not. the world's second largest rain forest and disappearing steadily and

if loggings industrialized you can get a lot faster a little never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it turi the democratic republic of congo. you're watching old is there i was the robin hood reminder of our top news story syria's foreign minister is threatening an all out assault an adlib province the last rebel held stronghold well it says the army will do everything possible to avoid civilian deaths he's been meeting with his russian counterpart in moscow to discuss the offensive. here this would be the decision of the syrian leadership is to fire tell news or a front to whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians. so that when you constitute a list of the relationship it was with satisfaction that we noted the majority of

the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy a cease fire appears to be holding in the libyan capital tripoli days of fighting between rival groups have killed at least twenty six people before the internationally recognized government appealed for calm. for people remain missing in me and bar after wednesday's dam collapse the torrent of water that's flooded dozens of towns and villages has forced tens of thousands from their homes soldiers police and the red cross have joined the rescue and relief operation. and stay with me and while there's a warning another group is facing persecution forty five right says the government is blocking aid to people in northern kitchens state who've been displaced by fighting between separatists and the army. south america argentina

value of the peso was plunged to a record low after the president appealed to the international monetary fund to speed up a fifty billion dollar budgets to bail out with inflation above thirty percent and times are heading for the second recession if three years the dollar trumps hoping for a new trade deal with canada and it is for a bit of very intense negotiations are way washington going to be revived after a deal. frightened to impose more time. it doesn't agree to join by friday those are the headlines here or we have more news in half an hour the news group with. the stream is next to stay with us. here is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bring that story to the forefront.

here in the stream today a look back at one of the most iconic photos of the syrian refugee crisis well here the backstory to the image of the boy on the beach and look at the current state of syrian refugees. sunday will mark the date three years ago when the cody family mother and her two young sons and alan drowned in the mediterranean sea along with other syrian refugees they were attempting to travel from turkey to the greek island of cause and they were company.