they are reliant on the supply routes between the port city and santa their capital now the report suggests that that supply route has been cut to the point a checkpoint called kilo sixteen also reports the kilo ten further towards the city has also been breached cuts by government for forces they are aided by the saudi us easy led coalition mounting strong asterix all around the area now we're hearing that the hoochie rebels have responded with a counter attack using artillery and other weaponry and that fighting has been very harsh indeed now beyond this beyond this whole issue of this route that delivers aid and arms and supplies to the rebels is the problem of how martin gryphus the u.n. special envoy can possibly get traction again for any form of peace talks or talks

about talks involving diplomats and the fighters he is shy jeweled to be in amman and moving on from there hopefully he thinks to santa and from there to riyadh but as he knows the chances of getting a breakthrough seem quite limited still ahead on the. fighting in syria has displaced more than. six months. to an enchanting. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts for starting this hour down here across parts of central asia we're watching a tropical system here passing along the northern part of the south china sea that's going to be some rain showers for hong kong as well as make landfall we

think just to the north of high now and now what that says i'm going to do is really bring a lot of rain here on the heels of watching another storm system that is making its way towards the philippines now this is super typhoon and could it is going to be a big factor passing over luzon as we go towards saturday so we could be watching this system very very carefully as we make a way toward down towards the south here we're watching a lot of activity here not only for the philippines but well here towards north towards thailand as well as into malaysia down a little bit more towards the south though it is drier so things a little bit better there jakarta not too much in terms of rain or cloud in your forecast really up towards the south also the portions of vietnam though it is going to be rainy for humans about thirty one degrees is going to be a high there really not saying too much of a change there maybe about twenty nine degrees in your forecast and then very quickly over here towards parts of india well the west is looking quite nice we are seeing that which are all of the monsoon right there still very rainy out here towards the east we are seeing kolkata see

a temperature and rain at thirty three. the winds are sponsored by cattle and meese . it was a big problem because it was different people admired him he was the center of nightlife in beirut and he married miss universe he was a buoyant character on the other hand ruthless operatives fighting for the palestinian cause some israeli intelligence sources claim that he planned. for years the israeli trying to find him and kill him al jazeera world examines the life of ali has son salaam the hunt for the red prince.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are all top stories millions of people in the pov of florence of the eastern united states are making last minute preparations for what's being dubbed a monster storm that could make landfall as early as friday. hungary says it will challenge proceedings against it for breaking rules on democracy and civil rights the european parliament agreed to take action which could lead to hungary losing e.u. voting rights. u.s. president has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against people all countries have meddled in american elections past phase months of criticism for not doing enough to prevent potential foreign interference and future and their actions . get more coverage off in florence now we're joined by n.b.c.'s wendy she is live from wrightsville beach that's near wilmington in north carolina very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so how are authorities and people preparing

where you are and are people evacuating still. good evening to you elizabeth as you can tell behind me the back mandatory evacuations are in place that's why they are blocking all of the bridge entrances to the islands that lie in the carolina coast at this point most people are heeding the evacuation and the warnings they've been given if they do not they have chosen to buy their supplies board up their homes and shelter in place they've been given the warnings and authorities are making sure they know that they are putting their own lives at risk and there will be a point when first responders can no longer respond to them because it'll put those people in harm's way as well when do the carolinas i take it i used to school and so how do people. feel what do they make of just how big florence is projected to

be. i could say that the mood has probably changed quite a bit in the past twenty four hours elizabeth yesterday it was florence was this monster category four hurricane barreling toward the southeast coast and i was on an airplane with a couple of men who were saying their wives were saying get home because you need to help us pack up and evacuated as soon as possible but then you get here and you realize there are a lot of people who have grown up with these storms and these warnings quite a bit and they learned to roll with the punches they say they've been through a lot they are used to what comes and they're they're ready to take the risk themselves they are like i said they have boarded up a lot of the windows around here they have bought their supplies and they're there ready to ride this storm out that is and the seas when they will float joining us

from wilmington north carolina thank you wendy. now rival factions in south sudan have signed what's being called a final peace deal after months of negotiations they'll begin the process of forming a transitional government president's health care will have rival react much as deputy again as well as other vice presidents catherine so reports from ethiopia's capital as are where the deal was signed. another grim end aimed at peace in south sudan the last time this leaders signed the past twenty fifteen it collapsed barely a year later after violent clashes between the two are in sides in the capital juba they say this time the deal that provides for man other things five vice presidents and five hundred fifty members of parliament will halt despite mistrust between the groups confidence reading is a process it is not an event so it is a process which is actually thrown for all the. people and i'm sure

this will happen that process will be built the confidence will be built as we are we move. to implement the agreement south sudan's leaders are under immense pressure at home and internationally to make it work the regional heads of state did not specify any action against spoilers it still remains a possibility i think they sanctions and things like a possible sanctions and sanctions and. a lot of them going to us today and it's not it's not the not but we know the use of those. who had them we said before and i must say. i'm not ruling out if anything happens now if there's any good for good french or. all the signatories say it's not apathic still but they are committed to implementing it so now we have eight months to form a transitional government which will run for three years opposition groups that

have signed this deal say they have concerns with the division of roles in the executive and legislature security arrangements as well as the number of states and boundary demarkation. they also have reservations about how and who will be involved in writing a constitution whatever we do not get. this process is a progressive process and it is a process a transitional process that will take. two years or three years. we will on our some of this thing as we go along. regional leaders and other stakeholders who witness assignee expressed optimism they say failure is not an option anymore for millions of south sudanese displaced from their homes those unable to fend for their families because of their kind of me or those who continue to live in fear of violence in their own country catherine saif al jazeera i

disabled the. washington is accusing iran backed groups in iraq of carrying out what it calls life threatening attacks against u.s. diplomatic missions in iraq there have been while there are protests in the city of basra where people are angry about a lack of government services and corruption and that's during these protests that of rocket attack damage the airport and bus are where the u.s. consulates located and three mortar rounds were fired at the fortified green zone in baghdad that contains the u.s. embassy the protesters also attacked the offices of iranian allies and the consulate in wasilla was burned. u.n. human rights investigators say soviet government forces have fired a clawing gas a banned chemical weapon on rebel held areas three times this year the u.n. commission of inquiry says an unprecedented number of people have been forced from their homes where most of them are now in the last rebel held province of adlib barco reports from geneva the syrian war is harming the syrian people on

a massive scale the un's international commission of inquiry on syria says fighting displaced more than a million men women and children in six major battles nationwide between january and july levels not seen before in the seven year conflict if there's many diplomats expect there's an escalation of the syrian government offensive in italy province to try and capture the last remaining rebel stronghold it could trigger a massive exodus of civilians you are free to thousand. people. remain a population will be the price. of course you don't know if you're for a good service but something has to be done. the rights of the three million people or one million children if we had little goes the same way as we've seen in

other places then it's a complete failure of the international system and it's a complete failure of many of us to be able to prevent work we've seen happening time and again the u.n. commission blames all sides of the conflict for violations of the syrian government for again firing the banned chemical weapon for gas using rockets made in iran. turkish forces for bombing a medical convoy and an archaeological site in the battle for african and kurdish fighters for attacking a psychiatric hospital it's hope that all the analysis carried out by the commission of inquiry on syria will one day lay the groundwork for legal proceedings against those accused of war crimes and of violating human rights in the hope that when the war is finally over the guilty will be brought to justice but with fears growing of an imminent assault on it live the u.n. is preparing for an even larger humanitarian crisis we've barkha al jazeera geneva

the alun rebel group in colombia has released six hostages captured last month but it's still holding at least line others most to members of security forces our military contractors president and founder kaye has insisted all must be free before peace talks can continue as colombia's last major rebel could have after far disarmed under a peace deal in twenty sixteen. u.s. health regulators have warned that the use of electronic cigarettes by young people has reached epidemic proportions the food and drug administration is considering banning flavors like candy and bubblegum which is popular with younger uses it's also given manufacturers two months to provide details of how they'll mitigate sales to minors are the concerns that they're creating a new generation of negative addicts as estimated over two million teenagers use the devices in the u.s. last year shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c.

it's against the law to seventy cigarette to anyone under the age of eighteen in the united states nonetheless it's estimated that some two million school children are regular users that's of concern because the cigarettes deliver a particularly intense hit of nicotine so young people are getting hooked tobacco many factors say it's not their intention to market to young people but gum pain is are skeptical pointing to the long history of tobacco companies doing everything they can to sell their product despite the health risks campaign is say the time for self regulation is over it's time for the government tags a matty meyers is president of the campaign for tobacco free kids and he says the latest devices are highly addictive. i think what we're seeing is an interesting thing in the united states there's been a dramatic decline in the use of cigarettes they're no longer cool among adolescents the new generation of the cigarettes have been designed in such a way that they're sleek and hip they've been marketed with social media campaigns

that appeal to kids and they now come in flavors that are highly appealing to kids and mask the harshness of the flavor so it shouldn't be a surprise if you design a product that appeals to kids marketed it on social media and introduce it in flavors you're going to see kids use it what f.d.a. did today is important because they made clear that they see this is a truly serious problem and they recognize that it's the actions of the industry that has made the problem worse what's unfortunate is that there are experiences shown that given the opportunity the tobacco industry and the east cigarette industry won't reform itself they can't police themselves the only solution is for our government to ban flavored products that appeal to kids ban the kind of advertising that we have seen over the last couple of years eliminate the kind of online sales that make it easy for kids to get the products unless the government acts it won't be solved and i have faith that this food and drug administration

does not want to be known as the food and drug administration that allowed another generation of americans to become hooked. well shares of tech giant apple dropped slightly off the latest big launch featured its largest ever i phone but little of the way of course breaking innovation however the company's strategy off getting consumers to upgrade to and christen the expensive devices continues to pay off but the overall stock price is gaining more than thirty percent for the year. as more. what is the secret to apple's success wednesday's product launch was short on new products big on prozac now let's talk about i phone and even bigger on price i phone to this max has just displayed have been annoyed with the new i phone tennis max a larger and faster version of the previous i phones starts at one thousand nine

hundred nine dollars while the so-called starter version i phone this year costs seven hundred fifty and under its estimate the bench with. especially for folks reading. it way for a year or two or three for. apple's higher prices are a way to boost sales in an already saturated market although the number of i phones sold remain steady apple has increased i phone revenue by twenty percent by squeezing out more money from each unit but to what point can consumers continue to stretch their wallets apple doesn't appear to be too worried announcing more than five hundred million people visit its apple stores a year these are great products that american consumers want an apple takes that passion innovate and making those products better apple was the first american company to reach trillion dollar valuation with stocks that continue to steadily climb you think about american companies i think steve jobs apple is truly kind of

a standout in the minds of american consumers and i think it's a well deserved apple though has strong competition in the chinese company while way. which outsold i phones last quarter while way is cheaper and more accessible overseas for now though the apple i phone remains an american status symbol. castro al-jazeera washington. and just a reminder that you can keep up to date with all the news on our website that said al-jazeera dot com. again i will have a problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera for millions of people in the eastern united states and making last minute preparations for what's projected to be the worst storm and thirty years how can florida make landfall as early as friday it's expected to bring heavy rain massive ones and flooding people in the

states of north and south carolina and virginia have been warned to take action to end shore they stay safe. and first responders are out there they're going to stand through the danger of this storm get out of its way don't play games with it it's a big one we want you safe get out of the storm's way listen to your local representatives south carolina north carolina virginia chad in your way it's probably not going to change bear it's going to be hitting pretty soon be ready and god be with you hungary says it will challenge a new sanctions to be imposed against it for breaking rules on democracy and civil rights that's after the european parliament voted by a large majority to take action on the policies introduced by hungary's president. radel factions in south sudan have signed what's being called

a final peace deal after months of negotiations the leaders will now form a transitional government president salva kiir will have rival react much as deputy again as well as for other presidents u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has told congress that saudi arabia and the united arab emirates actively working to avoid harming civilians in yemen the u.s. has been under increasing pressure to withdraw support for the war over the scale of civilian deaths last month the saudi led coalition admitted mistakes have been made when it bombed a school bus killing more than forty children u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against people all countries found to have meddled in american elections trams faced months of criticism for not doing enough to prevent potential foreign interference and future avoids the order comes with the midterm elections less than two months away well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us inside stories coming up next thank you very much for watching.

joint military drills and huge business deals russia and china are boosting up their relationship but are they building an alliance can they trust each other and what do the u.s. and its allies think this is a sad story. hello and welcome to the program i'm adopted hamid with a firm handshake the presidents of china and russia have announced stronger ties

bloody mirror putin is hosting cheating ping as well as the japanese and south korean leaders of the three they eastern economic forum in vladivostok it aims to boost investment in the far east region of asia but putin is warning trade barriers are a threat to asian economies as the world stopped two economies the u.s. and china imposed trait terrorists on each other as the talks began so did the largest war games by chinese and russian troops since the soviet union three hundred thousand troops thirty six thousand tanks and armored vehicles and a thousand war planes and ships are all on parade in siberia and from the fire into the frying pan as putin introduces cheek to russian cooking rory chalons takes a look at how the countries are stretched and the bilateral ties.

with the slight awkwardness of two leaders who probably don't spend much time in the kitchen sheeting paying hands bloody made thirteen conducted some pancake diplomacy and blood of all stock the chinese president is here for the eastern economic forum and his meeting with putin this year despite the presence of other asian leaders it's russia and china strengthening ties that are the bedrock of this event and with caviar and vodka the two presidents were happy to let the world know how close they become we were constantly meeting this year for example in beijing in johannesburg and now here we are invalid as fausto if we keep close contact with you it means we have good relations i am ready to strengthen these relations from now on including the exchange of ideas to close cooperation china has the largest delegation with almost a thousand people it is quite clear we have a really close cooperation we had eighty seven billion dollars of trade last year this year will almost certainly reach one hundred billion dollars the corporation makes sense the two eurasian giants are next door neighbors and china is hungry

economy needs natural resources which russia has in abundance this growing relationship is about more than just the kind of business and energy deals on offer here at the eastern economic forum it's about the threats that both russia and china feel a share in the modern world. while she's in pain and putin was talking the heavy metal of russia's military was moving into place china's two it's been invited to take part in two thousand and eighteen russia's biggest war games since one thousand nine hundred one a sign of friendship and a message to one particular aggressor in the earlier we can see continued. to push more between russia and china because of or very assertive line of the united states. against both countries and in this regard because we can. say the problem is the major patter on of russian chinese.

closer relationship washington has imposed sanctions on russia trade tariffs on china each country is too independent minded to make a full alliance at all likely but they still want the us to know that if a regional crisis ever exploded into conflict with russia and china could present a united front. how to zero talk with you. so let's bring in our panel joining us in moscow pavel felgenhauer russian military analyst from beijing michael coverage he's a senior advisor for northeast asia at the international crisis group and from washington d.c. michael purcell director of operations at the center for global interests gentlemen welcome to the program pavel let me start with you we're seeing strong pictures

coming out of siberia what is the main message here. well day's. exercises or actually war games happening in the russian far east are really a big deal there's a lot of russian troops being mobilized and moved forward it's happening from the arctic in the pacific and in. the far east and partially in siberia but the main ground action is going to happen in the transom by cowher zakk by call yet region which is actually north of the chinese border russian them exercises happened there is a regular basis and always before they had that bit of a kind of over town that this could be oh so posh way to be prepared for a process of a clash with russia china and so this time for then to be no kind of speculations

on that the russian military invited the chinese contingent that they part also contingent small contingent from mongolia so a chinese brigade size force over three thousand men would about thirty aircraft have been deployed there together with the russian troops at one specific point this is a very big wargame but it's one specifically for instance one training range and so go and there's about twenty five thousand russians and three thousand chinese and there's going to be the climax of the action putin is going to be there at the climax this week to see all the fireworks imo siker there is going to be a chinese delegation to so there's the russians and the chinese as brothers in arms preparing to fight alongside each other against a foreign foe which most likely means america and its allies and the

political leadership overseeing that happening so this is all very significant well michael is that is it the same view china i mean that beijing has something at stake here what exactly is the message china's trying to send to the world. thank you so this is obsolete i fully agree with our caller gets a strong message from president xi jinping both to have these large military exercises and have chinese troops participating in them for the first time ever that's really quite significant china and russia have done military exercises before together of course but not within russian soil and not at this scale so that sends a very strong message of increasing military cooperation that has really been growing strongly under president xi and president putin for the past several years and then has accelerated under the trumpet ministrations policies for the united states and secondly you have president xi turning up at the economic forum in vladivostok

again the first time a chinese leader has attended that forum a very strong display of diplomatic support and of respect for president putin risks rip's reciprocating is putin's visit to beijing in june of this year and that's three visits three meetings that the two leaders have had this year again marking an acceleration over the last several years really since she jinping came into power and found a kindred spirit in a lot of near putin building on economic complementarities military cooperation prospects but also very much by the two challenges that both countries are having with the united states and this week at these two meetings here and military cooperation are a very strong signal to the united states that if it continues to put this kind of pressure on either of them it's going to push them even closer together well michael i'm supposing that while these war games are happening at

generals military experts and looking at watching very closely what's happening this k and what kind of equipment is on display but what are they looking for exactly. i think the probably the most important indicator that military analysts are looking for is the degree to which real capabilities demonstrated in the sense that combine military operations and a capability to conduct combined military operations is something that the russian and chinese would have to demonstrate i think you know a quick liquid would tell you that the signaling is as michael and described more on a strategic political level to demonstrate resolve if you will and a willingness to cooperate that's a far cry from an alliance which is what the u.s. is. participation in the north atlantic treaty organization nato over so many years and at the moment is is a big contentious but nonetheless still strong the level of cooperation entailed

and alliances significant more than that what we're seeing in the in this exercise vostok twenty eighteen well michael coverage it is i mean china is the first time that it let's say goes and trains outside of its borders relations with russia have never not not always been so friendly is this more of a marriage of convenience as they sit and watch things unfolding in washington. i think it you could argue that it started out that way several years ago china russia relations certainly on the economic side for a long time were relatively modest certainly much much less than the huge bilateral trade relationship between china and the united states or even china and europe but ever since the russian onyx ation of crimea and worsening relations between russia and europe and russia and the united states and sanctions on russia that's really pushed russians in particular to look further east something they've done

reluctantly gradually over time and the chinese have welcomed that but again there's also been a lot of mutual suspicion from the chinese side as well so what we're really seeing is jus a political circumstances driving these two political leaders to move their countries closer together and a lot of that has started with top level political rhetoric and language lots of leader level meetings but step by step it is being underpinned by initiatives the two have agreed for example after a lot of debate and concern that there to you the eurasian economic union and the silk road economic belt initiatives in central asia they would try to make them cooperate and work together we've seen increasing cooperation and investment in through central asia and particularly building on the energy relationship and then from china's perspective the military cooperation is very important not only in this kind of exercise in training but also in chinese interest at least in the

short term in russian military technology specifically cutting edge a surface to air missile batteries and sukkot a fourth generation fighter jets which china still doesn't have a domestic capacity to build and that starts to affect the strategic balance then between china and the united states and other powers in the pacific ocean as well. pavel apart from to the message that china and russia are getting closer together i think also today now may cause a big change between these two. countries ring in the sense that russia union used to be the big there and now is china the big bear because of the of its economic strength but beyond that i so you quoted as saying that this is about sending a message that soon there will be a large scale conflict. well the russian military the russian general since officially at least thirteen hof not only put forward

but they say has been approved by the kremlin so that assessment that that predicts . the next seller rating possibility of a big war happening somewhere in the twenty's. series or several. large scale regional wars that may actually in the escalate into a global conflict and that russian mendis is that's the official politic whole perspective that's what the russian military and russian state have been preparing and these exercises is a demonstration and the test of the russian capability to mobilize and field a large numbers of heavily armed troops for a regional map massive regional war that could happen in the east in asia or in the west in europe and that could keep ability to move these forces long distance to

the store west because of the russian a present military is much smaller than the subject which are so it relies on mobility to sustain such forces in the field have a good logistics operation and see where the. weak spots are these exercises should expose them so this is yes this is testing and preparing for a possible big regional war that could happen in the future or may not happen and also to use this as a signal and as a deterrent to demonstrate to the potential opponents which are basically seen as sitting in washington that russia is ready to fight for and defend its. borders on the has a strong ally in china at least that russia is not without allies on the this is

may be viewing with russia is not that good night idea that the united states should think twice before taking on russia well talking about the united states let's go to michael purcell i mean when asked about this the u.s. secretary of defense jim mattie said i think that nations i act out of the interest i see little in the long term that aligns with russia and china to gether now do you think that is a good read from the pentagon i mean we have seen a china that has been modernizing and reforming its military with quite intensity of what the past few years shouldn't they be a little bit more worried. and i think it is a good read from secretary madison is consistent with what he's portrayed as his world view the u.s. national security documents the national security strategy defense strategies both identify china and russia as strategic competitors and that's not just the military but of course in the political and economic realm as well i would i would say to

secretary mabus is probably careful not to over militarize the entire relationship between russia and china i think we should be careful and i know he would say this is to use the word allies a form alliance implies an obligation for mutual defense in the article five of the nato treaty. attack on one is an attack on all in think it's important we identify be careful that we're that this is not an alliance this is a strategic partnership between russia and china in things secretary mabus also knows that the values gap if you will between the u.s. perspective on the relationship and with russia and china and their relationship is one such that both russia and china at the moment have authoritarian. characteristics of their ruling governments and the u.s. is clear to point that out as being inconsistent with what it sees as sort of the international order and that's that's bound to be conflicts i think he. probably

has in the rep respective context but michael corbett since chairman she came to power certainly that china concentrated on a lot on modernizing its military i think is a special focus on the navy if i'm not wrong that has somehow tilted the balance of power in the pacific area no. that's correct yes president xi has strongly prioritize reforming the people's liberation army and turning it from what was frankly to a large economic enterprise and heavily be dominated by a land army and shifted a lot of the investment in the training and the technological improvement to the navy and the air force really wanting to turn it with the with the objective of turning it by two thousand and thirty five into a modern competent fighting force and by two thousand and fifty into a really world world class military and that's involved an enormous program of

building ships and of course then reclaiming and paving on and militarizing islands in the south china sea establishing an air defense identification zone in the east china sea and essentially what we're seeing from china and its own way from russia are attempts from both of these countries to establish spheres of influence in their periphery as china wants to push the u.s. navy and the u.s. military influence and rule in east asia further away from its shores to establish within the western pacific and certainly within the first island chain that's denmark headed by japan for example and other islands out there a zone in which china is the dominant power it's not looking for a fight it's nowhere near ready for an actual conflict with the united states it doesn't want that but what it does want to do is enlarge it space for maneuver for example condition other countries in the region to be more deferential to chinese preferences protect its sea lines of communication and reestablish itself as

a dominant regional power and in that sense with its relations with russia it's found a willing partner if a reluctant one in some ways but increasingly u.s. policies that have put pressure on both countries have led them to find a kind of axis of convenience and mutual benefits for example now trade tariffs applied by the u.s. on china similarly to sanctions on russia incentivize them to look for stronger economic ties stronger defense ties. and stronger political ties that's not an inevitable process but as long as that pressure is there from the u.s. they're going to keep looking for to each other for support whether political or otherwise i'm just going to bring back michael purcell so just in view of what you just heard and this the chinese military that is giving modernize stronger there was a time when it was considered like a second string kind of military is that still the case in washington and certainly

with having more capabilities with these missiles that the developing musts challenge do you best supremacy in parts of the pacific. i think the short answer my question is yes it is use the word worry to secretary mabus worried about in particular the u.s. rather the russia china relationship i think concern is what you know a military officer like general mattis now secretary would say would use the u.s. concern because the capabilities that china's demonstrated over the proceeding several years are significant in their change the nature of their their ability to project power outside of the borders of china and the u.s. as both militarily and i think perceives equally adjusted itself to a future that must accommodate chinese military power in the first ranks if you will. pavel now this is all happening on the backdrop of the ukraine crisis the

war in syria allegations that russia is interfering in western elections and politics so i'm sure there is a message to president putin is trying to convey here by holding the largest military exercises in its history or is in modern history. of course these processes are happening in the west and in the southwest and the exercises are in the far east there is of course a kind of tense situation still somewhat in the korean peninsula but there has been that downscaling of tensions there just recently but the actual planning of this exercise happened some time before it's a big strategic exercise and it's also a war game actually and there's a difference between exercise and war game and this so this is there's technicalities there involved because in the being part of russia there as the

vienna document of those see that women it's the possibility of scale like that mobilizations and they have in the far east there's only very limited regulations there's an agreement with china on the kind of limited limiting forces in the immediate border area but most of these exercises are happening outside of that so that's a free zone at the same time russia has an violent russian motor haven't invited journalists and observers from accredited military attaches here in moscow to go what they're going to go to that to go that's just one piece of the action where it is going to be a showcase for president putin and other dignitaries so of course they won't see much of the real nitty gritty of how russia is dealing with. such watch numbers of troops the russian general staff as announced at the right now we have one hundred

twenty six battle ready media but already tactical but talian groups in our military in the army in the marines and the airborne corps where as nato say deployed they get to contain russia for battalion tactical groups in the balt. it's and in poland so the differences of course and russian on the russian side though there is of course that the logical still gap between the russian military and the western militaries. though of course the russian backed already and this has increased everyone recognizes that new you should also take into account that the russian military want to have a good kind if they want to come and they're each attention with because they're reaching the end but i just want to ask the last question briefly michael purcell in view of what we just heard yes there is still i think the logical gap but i think in washington people will probably keep on watching closely at how quickly

that gap is bridged right i think that's accurate it's not hard to look back in the just a few years ago when russian military capability wasn't taken nearly as seriously at the strategic level and what pablo described the nuts and bolts of this exercise . was very well done and it's it as an opportunity to examine weaknesses and make fixes but also to demonstrate at that level that they have the capability to to again occupy the first ranks and it's certainly a point well taken in washington i think well so far we haven't tested really the combat capability of the chinese but we have reached the end of this program i'm sure we'll be talking about it in the future thanks to all our guests pavel felgenhauer michael coverage and michael percent and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward

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has done salama joined to the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. in one thousand nine hundred sixty three he was born in one nine hundred forty near jaffa into a wealthy family. his famous father has sand had been a commander in the arab revolt against british rule in the late one nine hundred thirty s. much shorter to give power to a third supporter the men are c.m.'s than the silly me or are most allow the bill. and the father must allow one of their gunny orlean on the shaquille j. she shared with us and hasn't said to me shows up when her father as jaish what they thought i'd get the ordinary money up will be a more highly presence alone most of the bits of a world of a lot are locks on the law the law doesn't sell a muscle how cool is it that each was of impotent. his son ali is probably best known for founding the armed p.l.o. group black september which killed eleven members of the israeli

a limb pick team in munich in one thousand nine hundred seventy two. to israel made the list after the seventy two oppression of twelve i was thing and figures who were involved in this operation in munich and her son was one of them who was in the list and for years the israeli tried to find him and to kill him. he also gained a reputation for his flamboyant lifestyle enjoying the beirut nightlife to the full . call we were free to walk and if so you gradually. what you called shock see and now. what killed salama was being on a mossad most wanted list but his extravagant may rude lifestyle did make him an easier target. but it emerged after his death that there was more to his role in the p.l.o. and his relationships with foreign journalists and the americans than was clear at

the time. this is the story of a major p.l.o. figure of the one nine hundred seventy s. the man the israelis called the red prince. alley has sansa lama hardly knew his influential father but he did seem to inherit some of his daring. the old palestinian soldier for jewish militias in the one nine hundred forty s. and some of those missions were quite all day shoes. cousin salami he was joint with some other palestinian and some some german part troops and they are pressured into israel into palestine if this was. a fight the gestapo and by the german military intelligence believe he was far of a scheme. awful scheme to poison the

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