three of slavery routes one i was using the yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al jazeera provides. fears grow a massive offensive to retake it glib from rebels in syria will happen syria's foreign minister says damascus is prepared to go all the way. ellen malcolm i'm devika pollin and you're watching our ages there live from london all of that coming up argentina raises interest rates to whopping sixty percent in a bid to prop up the tumbling past of. rescue teams struggle to reach thousands stranded in myanmar after a dam collapse that's had masses of water across villages. and you were in there in

the public and the democratic republic of congo to the second largest rain forest in the world but for how much longer. first to syria where it seems it's only a matter of time before the syrian government and a longtime ally russia launch an all out offensive to take the last rebel held province in the country it led the russian and syrian foreign ministers have been meeting in moscow and the language coming out of their news conference has been as tough as ever serious while it says the government forces will quote go all the way in adelaide the provinces some to some three million people among them an estimated ten thousand fighters from al-qaeda and then those who are friends who were transferred from other areas taken over by the government it is those fighters that both syria and russia russia and syria want wiped out. this the

decision of the syrian leadership is to if i tell news or a front whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians. so that voting in constitute a list of for the relationship it 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. and joining me now is there a senior political analyst marwan bashar amman good to have you on set so we heard there from the u.n. asking for the violence not to escalate there are millions of people there we've also heard from turkey asking for some consideration for the refugee situation do you think russia is likely to listen to either of us no i mean there will listen but i'm sure there will hear exactly the pleas from various capitals including.

in other places washington and so on so forth because you see from the very beginning the russians have been quite consistent since september two thousand and fifteen when they intervene militarily in syria they've said many different things and they've heard different things and they seem to be meaning different things but they were very consistent the military comes first political comes second humanitarian comes third they were also very clear that there is no war in syria you know russia is but one of the only countries in the war that refuses to take the fiji's from syria because there is no war in syria according to the russians there is only counter terror operate. so the russians have been consistent unlike all others unlike the turks and the iranians and the israelis and everyone else they have been quite consistent and i think they're going to see or they're going to follow through on their threats to intervene to launch their offensive

against adlib and there's going to be a very human cost and given that the russians though have us the international community to help with syria once they have completed this offensive why is that what are they looking for now but in the end of the day. syria is really paralyzed syria is on its knees. it's going to be very difficult for the russians and the syrian regime once they win the war militarily for them to carry any serious reconstruction of the country because that's going to be expensive and they understand that for syria to walk forward especially if assad as russia insists must stay it's going to be impossible for them to move forward without western or international assistance or that west or international investment without western or international support so while russia can win militarily on the

ground while they can repeat for example what the americans did the new. defeat i saw at the huge human cost but unlike a new set whether iraq is a rich oil country supported by the united states in the case of syria it's been. that in a civil war for several years several hundred thousand people died millions of refugees half of the country is displaced and most of it is destroyed that requires help so if this the law when they're calling in the last rebel stronghold is the civil war over once. russia and syria take over it is this going to be back at a country that goes back to bashar assad governing it you know. i think the old was that is you can't strip in the same river twice because this is just the nature of things it's just impossible it's wishful thinking for anyone to think we're going

to go back to the pre two thousand and eleven first of all because nature changes things change and seriously. serious change and not only because you can't step in that one river twice it's because after the rivers of blood in syria bashar last is not going to be governing like he governed or ruling iraq here all before two thousand and eleven the country is divided as i said earlier the country is destroyed it's on its knees the hatreds today run deep there is no room for a conservations because the i think the regime only wants to win. because the whole understanding from two thousand and twelve that needs to be not by the with executive powers is now completely sidelines in favor of russia supporting assad in order to defeat everything including the mother of opposition the liberal opposition the democratic opposition in addition to the extremists these and so on

so forth and i think that will lead to more of the same tragedies i think the country would remain divided i don't see a political future for assad even though moscow insists on bashara thank you so much as always good to get your take on this your thank you. to argentina now at the central bank has hiked interest rates to sixty percent in a bid to stop the currency from falling any further the passo is down more than fifty percent this year and on wednesday president shocked the country when he asked the international monetary fund for an early release of a fifty billion dollar emergency bailout halted durgin reports. thanks the international monetary fund has agreed to speed up bailout payments to argentina president made the request as the argentine peso dropped to record lows.

but you have to keep in mind also that the perception of the i.m.f. . very negative for what happened two thousand. 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 don't know. 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 governments lack of trust to stem 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 the 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. german authorities in the eastern city of quetta nets are preparing for more far right anti immigration rallies after a serious of violent confrontations earlier this week now thousands of people have taken part in two days of protests against asylum seekers and minorities in the city it follows the arrest of two men from syrian and iraqi backgrounds on suspicion of fatally stabbing a german man on sunday police from other states have been drafted to help support local forces joining the rally on wednesday a twenty year old was beaten with an iron chain by three attackers dominic cain is at that protest in cabinets so dominic i know it's early yet but how does the

process used to be shaping up. well so far very peaceful people are still gathering here as you can see behind me this is where the people from the group proclaim let's have gathered they've come here because they want to protest against the meeting that we're taking place a little later involving the prime minister of saxony of the croucher from the christian democrats and the mare of this city this is the big from the social democrats a show of solidarity by the politicians here but developments to do with this story today have been quite interesting so for example the suggestion that the period in the media over the last few days that there was a degree of collusion between some elements inside the police force in the city and elements of those who had been at those rallies well today it is emerged that a specific person in the in the justice ministry as it were locally here has admitted that he leaked the details of the the investigation because he felt it was

important for democracy so that gives you a sense that there has been something going on as it were also bear in mind that the criminal prosecution in this state has said that in order to guarantee an open and fair investigation they have to take that role away from the police force in this city at least in so far as this case is concerned dominick came there in cannes nets for us where there's a far right protest starting thank you. at least two people are missing and me and after widespread flooding from a dam collapse more than sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes and the torrents of water inundated towns and villages government officials are investigating what went wrong frontally reports. this is the dam in. the spillway of the dam collapsed 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 and. 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. and soon after we got there waters were 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. we're going to build another

bridge in place of the damaged one days before the disaster the ledges raised concerns about the debt but the government leaders reassured them it was safe and said there was no sign of anything wrong. because hydraulic. only we can see we're going to keep only. we're going to. be people one day before one hour before we're going on this accident now puts the spotlight firmly on safety concerns about dams in south east asia another dam collapsed in neighboring laos last month killing at least twenty seven people and forcing thousands from their homes florence italy al-jazeera. you're watching there live from london there is much more to come on this program including a fire right politician geared to well there is this once again at the center of controversy concerning cartoons i laughed off the comedy of the back and i mean.

hello again welcome back well we did see some very active weather across the southeast in portions of china in the four jump 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 is so going to be watching that 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 mumbai about twenty eight degrees and bengaluru a rainy day at twenty seven. the struggle. between police. is. what it's pretty much full of pleasure. out of the goodness of the with the impossible but i mean. what if an intimate look at life in cuba today is what. people thought but the government that you pay your money cuba.

hello again history minder for main stories on al-jazeera the russian and syrian foreign ministers have met in moscow where they've discussed launching an all out offensive to take the last rebel held province of idlib province as him some three million people. argentina central bankers hiked interest rates to sixty percent in a bid to stop the currency from falling any further the bass is down more than fifty percent this year. and protesters have started gathering for another far

right anti immigration rally in the eastern german city of kemet thousands of people have taken part in two days of protest against asylum seekers and minorities in the city. now the farai dutch politician geert builders has received death threats up to announce a competition to draw cartoons of the prophet muhammad the stunt led to protests in pakistan as the public politicians and even a former cricketer voice their anger lawrence he reports. the netherlands self-styled european capital of tolerance but populism and its full clown with is long resurfacing again. kid billed as leader of the far right wing freedom policy seen here before last year's elections as announced a competition to help him plaster the walls of his office with cult sumus of the prophet mohammed. the news of the stars reached pakistan with predictable results one political party call for diplomatic relations. by mcauley the dutch

ambassador should be immediately to politics and pakistan chicago back to its ambassador this is our simple demand and the government should meet it but it seems others have different retaliate in the lives within a day a man was arrested at the main railway station in the day after he allegedly posted on facebook that he was going to poland to target builders and a former pakistani cricket then posted a video on twitter offering twenty thousand euros for villas murder. villas himself tweeted crazy that this happens after announcing a cult soon contest of course builders knows that what he's doing isn't really a call to competition it's all but a deliberate attempt to try to provoke muslims and in that he's clearly succeeded as well as apparently making himself a target but he has received some support from the dutch prime minister who says that he backs vild is rights to freedom of expression even if it's offensive. since

getting twenty percent in last year's elections supporting the netherlands fulfilled his policy has slumped what elsewhere in europe the far right torch has been picked up by matteo selvi me of the it's how he and lead who shares a mutual admiration of hungary's of the. builders himself who want nothing more than to be back in the headlines alongside them even or perhaps especially if his tactics lead to a threat to his own safety gloriously al-jazeera the hague. a military helicopter has crashed in the interior killing all eighteen people on board the helicopter was traveling from the eastern city of the wired to an airbase in bush off to town southeast of the capital addis ababa police say the cause of the crash is still under investigation. fragile cease fire in libya appears to be holding off an appeal for calm by the government. the three day cease fire came into

effect late on wednesday after days of fighting in the capital tripoli at least twenty seven people including fifteen civilians were killed in the clashes between rival on between us. thursday is international day that it catered to remembering the victims of forced disappearances it's hectic long used to spread terror and crackdown on dissent around the world nowhere is this truer than in the philippines where people have been going missing since the one nine hundred seventy s. when martial law was imposed although things have improved since then as dogon reports war still needs to be done. or the disappeared is a theater play in manila that aims to remind young filipinos of the horrors of the recent past. scenes here hope to recreate the atmosphere of fear and brutality to the time of the dictator precedent for didn't mark last.

month civilians brother her monologue man was a human rights lawyer he was abducted by military agents and has been missing for more than forty years the loss is immeasurable she says not just for her family but also for the country the political dissenters during the marcos the dictatorship where on long the finest men and women our country has ever produced they were really consciously deliberate silence. for this because they were very critical rights groups say the practice of enforced disappearances by state agents started during martial law and continues to this. almost two thousand people are know to be victims of enforced disappearances but rights groups believe the number of unreported pieces is even higher. longs for her daughter

surely the pardon was deliberate activists was abducted in two thousand and six by military agents when gloria macapagal arroyo was president early in the feels that even if a case reaches court the odds against people like her are much higher because they are poor and get very little government support. the. winner if we stop at the eight or generals will be toppled by iran in court there were so many soldiers protecting him but there we were the teams with no one on our side and then i realized this government policy to protect women these are relics and memorabilia of filipinos who were abducted tortured and killed over the years it may seem like the newseum of horrors but curators see it is necessary to preserve the memory on these recent historical tragedies.

there's been a resurgence of protest art in recent times but really i mean we hear it over and over again never forget always remember because history is a cycle and we have to break it families who mourn for their dissipated see to see even though they are no longer there their struggle for fundamental freedoms continues if anything their absence has only made it stronger. zero. the nicaraguan president has dismissed a un report accusing him and his government of ignoring human rights abuses during anti-government protests of the reports accuses the government of illegal arrests torture and close trials three hundred people have been killed in violence since mid april and the u.n. says the government must immediately stop the persecution of protesters and disarm the last civilians responsible for killings and arbitrary detentions. then you

report by the u.n. atomic watchdog has found that iran is complying with the restrictions imposed on its nuclear activities under the twenty fifty nuclear deal the international atomic energy agency says iran is sticking to the terms of the agreement which limits it's a talk pile and enriched uranium they didn't she says it had access to all sites in the country that it needed to assess it is the second report into iran's nuclear activity since the u.s. announced it was withdrawing from the deal in may. thousands of people are continuing to pay tribute to the so legend aretha franklin in her hometown of detroit her casket has now been transferred to do so the new bethel baptist church that's her lifelong church and head of a tribute concert our correspondent john hendren is in detroit for us so john tell us what's happening there today. well dva you might be able to hear

a guitar behind me from time to time and tonight there will be more guitars than at the rock n roll hall of fame more guitars than in b.b. king's basement and that's because there are thirty bands here playing in a free concert that sold out in about six minutes as a tribute to the queen of soul among those bands will be gladys knight the four tops johnny gill is going to be broken into four segments all of them representing the various portions of aretha franklin's career it will start off with a jazz tribute then a gospel tribute then an all r. and b. tribute for the type of music she is best known for and then there is an all star tribute in which the stars of all of those various genres will get together and sing and spoiler alert it all ends with her most famous song respect that is just one thing going on tonight her body lays in repose for the third day the first two days it was at the museum of african-american history and today the queen of soul is that new bethel baptist church where she began singing in the choir and became a standout soloist that's where her father was a pastor and that is only that only brings us to day three of four days of

celebration of the life of queen of soul on friday of course is her funeral and there jesse jackson bill clinton smokey robinson will all speak and then there will be nineteen bands playing there so a concert as well that includes faith hill ariana grande day and stevie wonder and after that after these four days of remembrance the legacy for the queen of soul is not quite over that's because people here in detroit have been talking about how to remember her and what they're talking about is perhaps a museum there's a columnist from the detroit free press rochelle riley who asked her writers what they wanted and that was it but they don't want it to be just a retrospective they're talking about a museum that would talk about the music and the civil rights legacy of the queen and sort of the queen of soul but also how that moves forward and how she influences civil rights and music in the years to come so it would be a living breathing tribute to the queen of soul. so john as you said it's the third

day there were people have been honoring her and her legacy what's the atmosphere been like has the momentum diminished at all what are people saying. what's funny and most funerals you think of being a really sad event but that's not what we have seen especially outside the museum of african-american history where she had been laying in repose for a couple of days people were celebrating they were singing her songs they were dancing and you hear a lot of that cheeriness people are just fondly remembering someone who was an icon of america but also an icon right here in detroit where she was from thank you very much john heilemann there in detroit for us. now the democratic republic of congo is home to the world's second largest rain forest and the government now plans to end the ban on industrial logging concessions and limoncello say an area of the rain forest the size of france is at risk has this report.

it takes about a two yeahs for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. to any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager accused of a poem by learn to use a change to and how to survive. 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 haas dollars out of the whole tree. at about one hundred dollars worth of timber five dollars has to be paid to the landowner is an annual license fee for using a chain saw 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 they carried out to 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 it says to fund development projects move from don't fall 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 and also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years lower miss emmy says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. your government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realised 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 artists know logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not the world's second largest rain forest and disappearing steadily and it's loggings industrialised it'll go a lot faster and it'll never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it turi and the democratic republic of congo. well again his reminder for top stories knowledge is there a the russian and syrian foreign ministers have met in moscow where they have discussed launching an all out offensive to take the last rebel held province of idlib serious while it says the government forces will quote go all the way and it live which is home to some three million people the u.n.

says ten thousand of those are fighters from al qaeda and the nose or a front. this would be the decision of the syrian leadership is to tell news referring to what if the sacrifices we are ready to exert every possible if it be not to harm civilians. argentina central bankers hiked interest rates to sixty percent in a bid to stop the currency from falling any further the past is down more than fifty percent this year on wednesday president crease shocked the country when he off the international monetary fund for an early release of a fifty billion dollar emergency bailout. protesters have started gathering for another far right anti immigration rally in the eastern german city of chemist's thousands of people have taken part in two days of protest against asylum seekers and minorities in the city it follows the arrest of two men from syrian and iraqi backgrounds on suspicion of fatally stabbing

a german man on sunday. at least two people are missing in myanmar off to widespread flooding from a dam collapse more than sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes when the torrents of water inundated towns and villages government officials are investigating what went wrong. now there in the crowd on nicaraguan president has dismissed a u.n. report accusing him and his government of ignoring human rights abuses during antigovernment protests there port accuses the government of illegal address arrests torture and close trials three hundred people have been killed since mid april the u.n. says the government must immediately stop the persecution of protesters. those are the headlines my kiba next stay with us for that.

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