this was the world that forged a talent for mediation a talent which would take him to the center of world politics. in the same city almost thirty four years and. count fold had been adults of these people had been born two days into the new year of eight hundred ninety five. his father prince oscar but in the books was the son of king oscar the second king of by sweden and norway. at school in stockholm focus showed himself to be practical rather than intellectual. a gifted linguist he spoke fluent english french and german it was a talent he would put to good use in later life. in

one thousand nine hundred eighteen he graduated from the military academy of col but. a skilled horseman he rose to the rank of major in the elite dragoon cavalry unit. but not long after his marriage he was forced to resign his commission on medical grounds. shortly after when the dragoons words a little bit into the swedish army but an adult decided to rent the drug god and his unit's former headquarters. estelle the millionaire's daughter transformed this military office into a luxury a swan fit for a prince. but

in one thousand nine hundred thirty four family life dragoon godden was struck by tragedy. the couple's third son frederick died shortly after his birth. two years later that eldest son gustav died. he was just six years old. yeah was after the loss of two of his sons kemp an adult decided to seek a new role in life. there. in one thousand and thirty seven he became the head of the swedish scout movement and. he had two sentences to guide his life.

the first was rehab not coped with his world of to be happy ourselves but to make other people happy. and the second word was what is possible is already done the impossible must be done. good causes became the new focus of an adult's life. yet the utopian world bernadotte and sweden were living in was about to end. on the first of september one thousand nine hundred thirty nine. the second world war began when german troops invaded poland.

the following year at le turned to sweden snipets. by the summer of one nine hundred forty the nazis had occupied by just norway and denmark. king gust of of sweden incredibly active at the age of a seventy one attended the recent maneuvers held by his son in swedish armed forces were put on alert fleet unfettered by the nazis and the russians look stunned offensive. soon but an adult was mobilized.

and with his country in fear of invasion he began working to integrate the scouts into sweden's defense plan training them in antioch cry. well. and as medical assistance. but sweden's defenses would not be put to the test. germany did not invade sweden for at least two reasons sweden was not of very strategic role importance the second reason is that sweden was quite willing to supply the german armaments industries with the necessary war materials i am in particular. and sweden at least in the first part of the second world was leaning towards the

nazis to even allow the german navy to cross swedish waters. the allowance of german ethane. to violate the space suite so officially they were neutral in the gloomy mean to what's germany and that was easy for the germans i mean they got most everything they want. me but securing nine hundred forty three the tide of war would change dramatically. the seemingly invincible nazi germany now found itself losing on several fronts. the allies had been victorious in north africa. and had landed invasion forces in southern italy. on the eastern front.

the red army had begun a huge counterattack. pushing the german troops back west. from niger for the feel woods as soon as the swedish government sensed or recognized that germany is going to lose the the increasingly towards the allies. so a change in this week's attitude. in october one thousand nine hundred forty three the swedish red cross by now under the energetic command of full cabinet don't. organized a prisoner of war exchange between the western allies and nazi germany but the swedish pull to gothenburg.

a year later a similar intervention the total of prisoners riprap treated to over ten thousand. on their way home at last our heartfelt thanks are due to sweetie for the vital part played by that country in the organization of the exchange. for cabin of dot had successfully established sweden's role as an intermediary. but in germany there were other prisoners in even greater need to the swedish count skills as a mediator. ally they were reported by airport to get radicalized reporting over the over the right. as allied troops pushed towards berlin from the east and west.

they began to encounter concentration camps. tens of thousands of prisoners living and dying in desperate condition. january nine hundred forty five soviet troops entered our friends. the largest center of the nazi industrial killing machine. rumors were circulating that hitler had given orders to heinrich himmler the commander of s.s. troops for the liquidation of concentration camp inmates. there was to be no evidence left behind. no prisoners to tell the tale. quick and

decisive action was needed. through six years of neutrality during world war two sweden had remained a country of peace. unlike its neighbors norway and denmark. nothing has been able to stop the danish saboteurs were continually blowing up factor buildings starting fires directing trains and so. those called resisting the nazi occupation had been removed to concentration camps in germany. in the resisting ideology of national socialism they were a rian as long as they were not jewish people who had been put to germany into

concentration camps out of political reasons because they resisted in norway or in denmark they were a reaction in the eyes of the s.s. and they were ok many of them were able to understand and to talk german. which made them more human to the s.s. because they could talk to them they could give them order they were understood. exploiting this special status but not taught and the swedish red cross had already managed to get more than seventy thousand households of food and clothing to scandinavian inmates in nazi camps. the danish government had lists of the prisoners that had been brought to german concentration camps the list was a privilege because people in denmark knew where who was in which concentration camp and this meant that their relatives knew where their loved ones were and that

the government was able to send packages for across packages with food and with clothing to people personally if you sent packages to a concentration camp without a special name on it the s.s. just took them and never gave it to the prisoners but when the official packages from the red cross came the s.s. gave them to the prisoners and that made danish prisoners they had more to eat and they had a better situation. by february one thousand nine hundred forty five all privileged treatment had been overtaken by the threat of total liquidation. as the situation in the camps deteriorated the swedish government stepped in. those identified as scandinavian in turn ease in german concentration camps were to be rescued by a swedish red cross expedition. campfield had better not thought

was the man who would lead the nation. the relations between sweden and germany had by historical memories been very good before the war but i think actually that they were straight deep rest of a member of the king's family. to take all this work. i think there must have been. the man bernadotte would have to impress was heinrich himmler the commander of the s.s. the notorious paramilitary defense falls a leading member of the nazi party he had risen to become a minister of the interior and by now the second most powerful man in germany. on it was orders it was himmler who had set up the concentration camps controlling

them through his s.s. troops. this was the man with whom bernadotte would have to negotiate to secure the prisoners release. but how to reach him that was the crucial question. felix keston was himmler's personal masseur a baltic german physician he lived in stockholm but traveled regularly to germany to treat him as chronic abdominal cramps. felix cast an act as a kind of interview during the tween bend i bought him and as soon as bella daughter offered you know this kind of deal. in the sense that this might be a chance that only to rescue him to save him as a person against revenge of course but also maintain and even increase his power he still had power you have the power over the lives of the prisoners.

keston gave a green light to stockholm himmler had agreed that sweden could send an envoy to germany. on the sixteenth of february one thousand nine hundred forty five bernadotte embarked on one of the most courageous humanitarian efforts in history. as stele accompanied her husband to stockholm's bramah airport as count falcon bernadotte boarded a german airplane to berlin. it was a journey into. this situation was desperate from the point of view of jim and woody and. from the point of the view of the nazis. of course ben adults wanted to.

take advantage of this and to pressurize the author to concede the release of some prisoners. but to achieve this bernadotte would have to take a crucial step. negotiating face to face with. the man who controls germany's concentration. millions of dollars has been stolen in a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe when he stays exclusive access to this cutthroat underworld through a criminal turned whistleblower on al-jazeera. being located outside that western centric sphere of influence we're able to bring a different perspective to global events when you peel away all of the lists

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one hundred twenty three me to spy on it's famous for its cloak the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works. meanwhile russia's president has inspected troops taking part in the largest war games since the fall of the soviet union and for the first time chinese troops joined the weeklong exercise buddy mir putin says the armed forces will continue to be strengthened but russia is a peace loving state. the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen says hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as intense fighting between the saudi and iraqi coalition and who the rebels escalates in the port city of a day that the coalition says it continues to control the main supply routes into the city but who the fighters are downplaying the reports turkey has sent a convoy of tanks and heavy vehicles to the syrian town of roddick it lies close to the line which separates opposition fighters and government forces battling for

control of the rebel held city of it lived almost forty thousand people have fled the area since government and russian airstrikes intensified last week. the east coast of the united states is starting to feel the effects of hurricane florence it's now been downgraded to a category two hurricane but forecasters warn it could still cause catastrophic flooding across america's southeast posing a grave threat to life and property high winds and waves are already battering north carolina with thousands of power outages reported along the coast. myanmar's leader and son suchi says in hindsight her government could have handled the crisis better after seven hundred thousand people fled the military crackdown in iraq kind state the u.n. said there were mass killings and gang rapes but suchi defended security forces from charges over trial cities more of the al jazeera news hour and half an hour

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father. broke germany. ninety kilometers north of in. a column in place. yet this name isn't from its. synonymous with one of the most notorious nazi concentration camps. specially built to house women and children. by nine hundred forty five over one hundred thirty thousand female prisoners post through ruffles. polish women with the largest group incarcerated here

many of them. more than ninety thousand died in ravensbruck seventy percent of those sent in to this day the deserted houses of the s.s. gods remain. homes of offices under the command of one of the most feared and powerful men in germany. i marry him. the man with whom count foca bernadotte would have to negotiate to secure the release of scandinavian prisoners. on the one hand band of dogs wanted to save as many prisoners as possible on the other hand in negotiating with the needy nazi a camel. to some extent employed recognizing him.

as a kind of partner. so it's a dilemma it's a catch twenty two situation. but for bernadotte there was no choice. on the nineteenth of february one thousand nine hundred forty five three days after his arrival in germany he was taken to what was then a sanatorium at home and they can not far from robin's broke he was brought here to meet him at his villar in the sun a tory and grounds. at the negotiating table in the flatly rejected burn adults proposal for the release of all scandinavian prisoners. but bernadotte achieved one major concession that norwegian and danish inmates should be moved to

a camp where the swedish red cross would be able to support them. the camp was called noida in goma. the camp which was nearest the danish border so he hoped that with whom he was negotiating would say ok take all the scandinavian prisoners back home and then he wanted to be as near to the danish border as he could and this was why they chose as a place. three days after meeting him the doctor was back in sweden working hard to assemble a rescue expedition.

three hundred volunteers were quickly identifier. officers and soldiers from the swedish army. red cross doctors and nurses. among the burn adults one system and. swedish transport vehicles were to be allowed into germany to collect scandinavian prisoners from other concentration camps and move them to knowing government. allied forces by now in control of the skies over germany were informed of the plan . their response would give the whole campaign its name. printed up spoke to some commander of the allied forces and said ok we're doing this rescue actions and please tell us and then the soldiers said no we can't guarantee you that so it's better if you take the buses white or if we can see which buses belong

to your rescue action. and so they decided on painting the bus as white. and they decided to put the swedish flock to paint it on the roof so that the planes could see are these are non german buses but these are going to neighboring buses. on march the eighth one thousand nine hundred forty five the first column of swedish buses there white paint still wet boarded a ferry and the swedish court of moma. four days later the vanguard of the expedition reached the place bernadotte had chosen as its headquarters in germany friedrichs through costal.

the casa was owned by prince otto found bismarck grandson of germany's chancellor. his wife and married tang boom was swedish. by then what are. the four hundred. meter familiar than about other words but i'm a bit foggy about other out there my mother was friendly with the bernadotte family . especially with copernic dr who came here a lot to negotiate with the representatives of the third reich. when he did that vulcan bernadotte always stayed here overnight or he got on with my mother all rather with my parents very well is good for. one bismarck's castle home free to assure was ideally placed close to the danish border and just twenty kilometers from it so.

happened here in the ten tallest. of the year for the school. board and. the white buses were headquartered in the xuxa involved forest and time here in the free drinks room for chandeliers sent out to various different areas of germany to pick up prisoners from the concentration camps today and to try wherever possible to take them back to scandinavia simply. the first phase of the evacuation started on march the fifteen the white buses divided into two platoon. around forty s.s. and get stop only as officers were attached to the expedition. the first platoon headed east to the camp but sachsenhausen over three hundred kilometers away. steve young son

a swedish red cross volunteer accompanied them as a motorcycle escort. no matter the call from holes. who when we finally arrived in socks and how some. call the gates were opened and a lot of norwegians came out in a fairly orderly way. well there i don't there were no first us. and when they took the first steps. towards freedom there was no plan with that was an experience that would open a huge experience put really.

the second white house's platoon headed south to duck out sherm barrack mauthausen . they took with them the detailed lists of danish and norwegian prisoners being held in nazi custody. the list helped the people from the rescue mission to know whom they searched in which camp so they took the lists and went or drove into the concentration camps and they could read out mr anderson mr young and so on must be here so we search for him and he is to come to the bus and we take him with us so it made it very easy in that part for the rescue action that the lists were there. but within two weeks the white buses campaign had become a victim of its own success.

by late march more than four thousand five hundred danish and norwegian prisoners had been evacuated and brought to the noise camp. which was over capacity even before the first white bus arrived. had been billed for two thousand five hundred prisoners and at the end shortly before the scandinavians were brought here there were fourteen thousand prisoners. so the camp was totally crowded and the people were dying. because no one had an own bed and there was not enough to eat and so on. the germans insisted that if the evacuations were to continue the swedish buses would have to transfer two thousand inmates of noise away to other camps.

on the twenty seventh of march the swedish yielded to the german demond. the white buses designed to save scandinavian prisoners were now carrying hundreds of others to an unknown future. as far as we know not many of them made it because they were so ill and dying many many of them died during the transports in the swat buses to other concentration camps. and this was a problem for those going to neighboring prisoners knowing that those people had been brought away in order to give them space they hadn't asked for this. they were not guilty but but they felt they were guilty because they are better life was.

made other people die. this terrible task completes the white buses could return to their job of collecting more scandinavian inmates from camps and prisons scattered across nazi germany and by the beginning of april one thousand nine hundred forty five some seven thousand danish and norwegians had been brought together in one gamma. but the ultimate purpose was still to be achieved getting all the scandinavian prisoners out of germany and away to safety in sweden. once more count full cabana dought the driving force behind the expedition returned to germany.

himmler agreed this time to the transfer of the sick and of all female scandinavian christmas. by the eighteenth of april more than twelve hundred six prisoners had arrived in sweden. the following day british forces arrived at the river elbe practically within sight of knowing. by now german control of the camp what evaporate. the beautiful both of them.

go through go through with a career before. the german soldiers needed there i think most of them run ahead at that point the war was almost over there was nothing they could do it. and it wasn't easy being a german soldier they will all feel if they were out on the streets they would tear off anything which mocked them as being a german soldier or. in the chaos now engulfing germany evacuation of the camp became a matter of logistics rather than a mission. danish busses had now joined relieving exhausted swedish volunteers and. by a polish twentieth hitler's last birthday four thousand three hundred norwegians and

danes had been rescued from know and. most were brought to a reception center set up in a spot in the swedish city of ram luxury. today this memorial beyond the waves in the grounds of the spa is dedicated to the efforts of the white buses expedition. but the white bus volunteers are not finished. the bus driver us all who came from sweden and denmark they told us that it was very cruel to see other people other prisoners who were non scandinavian just standing there seeing their white buses seeing the red cross and laughing and yelling and thinking they would be rescued no because red cross buses

were arriving and then they had to say no sorry we are only taking the scandinavian prisoners. bernadotte wanted to try to save those they have been forced to leave behind. to return would mean facing a danger. allied air forces were attacking virtually anything that moved on germany rather it's. on the fifteenth of april the white buses left free drugs on their most dangerous mission yet. a long trip south to to rasie and shot in what is today the czech republic. there were no the utility. we

stayed overnight in that area and stopped and there were four hundred jews i think it was families we were picking up there and the. or the not there you know the saw and during the night while we slept they loaded up the bus s. well they were everything was ready there were there were some complaints one baby carriages but in fits and we had to throw them away that i remember. after a perilous return journey they achieved what looked impossible just weeks. in fact you're waiting for one hundred twenty four danish. the jews didn't come for us this is a fact it's nothing to make us about because

a situation was and i should understand the situation in germany also under what conditions they could squeeze the s.s. and himmler but other couldn't stuff way of saying well i'm coming here too i want to rescue videos you could do it but after a while quite a number of those were rescued. byrne adults next goal was ravensbruck and the release of french women held there. with the advancing soviet army just days away himmler unexpectedly agreed to the evacuation of the entire camp. women of over twenty nationalities. there are hoarders. but make a point of ska. or there were many polish women on the other

wouldn't really and among them there were three women that were a while their pregnancies were well it oust. to their way and so wonderful that their little bucked that there was someone else to guards it was a pub come there was so many pregnant women over there the boy. and the german said that it was a holy spirit to go. to the other way if they fed him a own old phone hit the we have this chief medical officer with us on hold some with a smile and he told the president charged up one of them would probably become a mother during the night for him didn't know the route all those. who live here or that we are going through. all the way into there though me and bruce. so much of a good so they fitted out a bus which they called albon they fitted it out like

a maternity ward and the three women were kept in there. with indian who told them . and one of them cape birth to a song about night. in the closing days of april the white buses transported some ten thousand women to sweden. at the end of the month with soviet troops battling their way into. i don't

consider. the war in europe just a few days to run. on may the first the swedish white buses. will accept one volunteer. they spend over the course to document that. out of it so if it is found in obs that. when you need to send minissha. that's forty eight outs on a week. that. you.

often meet. or you. accept. you don't kid get. out of it that that bit of news that. that are are you me you don't need me. after the german surrender the buses would return to bring another ten thousand prisoners to sweden. of thirty thousand lives saved by the white buses at least ten thousand jews.

in the months that followed count foca bernadotte was honored by countries whose citizens had been saved by the campaign. jewish organizations were among the first to celebrate his achievement. bernadotte was now an international star. three years later he was called on again. heading this time to the middle east which had been plunged into a war. of white plane with u.n. and red cross markings was carrying the brave count nephew of the swedish king

organizer of the white buses campaigned on a mission that would seal his fate. bernadotte was on his way to palestine. until his death at the hands of jewish militants long in. the wrong.

hello again it's good to have you back well across australia we're going to be seeing a big change in temperatures here across the by i want to take you to adelaide we are seeing a big switch in the winds and that's going to cause a temper difference notice here twenty five degrees on friday the winds are coming out of the north off the continent now once we go to saturday well we're going to be seeing a switch of the winds they're going to supplement from the south so from twenty five degrees your high to only thirteen degrees by the time we go toward saturday and that front going to be moving towards melbourne so showers in your forecast as well but quite nice along the east coast when we sing sydney seeing about twenty nine degrees there as her come over here towards parts of new zealand well we're going to see a lot of clouds down here toward south island the north island not looking too bad on the satellite image and we're going to be seeing maybe some clouds for auckland about fifteen degrees but as we go towards saturday well things are going to stay pretty much the same but if we went to sunday we'll start to see a difference with that new system coming into play there and then very quickly up

here towards japan well the rain is continuing across much of southern japan osaka twenty nine tokyo radiate twenty six but as we go towards saturday the front starts to move a little bit more to the north and for tokyo heavy rain for you with a temperature of about twenty two and up towards and i at about twenty six degrees there. al-jazeera. hello there i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming out but in the next sixty minutes the two suspects in the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. appear on television saying they were just tourists visiting souls great cathedral

turkey sends military reinforcements to syria to beef up its positions inside libya and stop a humanitarian tragedy. as high winds and waves from hurricane florence begin battering north florida carolina president trump whips up a storm of his own over puerto rico. and paul rescind our all with the sport u.s. open champion of soccer returns to a big payday in japan and the canadian youth hockey club the last sixteen players and staff in a bus crash make their return to the ice. version says the claims made on television by the two men accused of poisoning former russian spy service cripple are deeply offensive the men told russian t.v. they were merely tourists who visited solsbury to see its famous cathedral but the

prime minister's spokesman described their interview as lies and the blatant fabrications which are an insult to the public's intelligence scruple and his daughter were poisoned in the u.k. city of souls brewery in march using the band that nerve agent novacek they survived but a member of the public later died neve barker has more. the two men certainly look like the u.k.'s prime suspects in the poisoning of sergei and script pollin march we are indeed those who were shown on surveillance videos or from. the conduct of the man also confirmed their names are the same as those revealed by british police thought to be aliases and that it is them on this c.c.t.v. footage but they deny they were in sol's bria they get back time of the poisoning for anything more than a holiday. they have a famous or a jew with the soul speak with a jewel it is famous not only in europe or over the world i think it's famous for

its one hundred twenty three me to spy on its famous for its clock the first clock that was invented in the world and which still works prosecutors say the man visited solsbury on consecutive days the first day only for a few hours before returning to london the two russians say it was because of the snowy weather british investigators say they were planning a murder the interviews failed to change official opinions in the u.k. a government spokesman said they clear the man all russian military intelligence offices the m.p. for souls but he dismissed the interview as propaganda delighted the alexander patrol of and was. able to see the world class attractions that soulsby has to offer tweety john glenn but very strange to come all this way for just two days while carrying not the chalk in their luggage the interview came a day off to the russian president vladimir putin said the man had been found and that there was nothing unusual about them british officials suspect the interview

is a carefully staged managed to attempt to turn the u.k.'s version of events on its head . al-jazeera well joining us now in the studio is dr samuel green director of the russia institute at king's college here in london thank you so much for joining us here in the studio i mean it would be funny if it wasn't so serious and now we all know that the height of the spire of the cathedral is one hundred twenty three meters but why do you think they're even going through the motions of going on t.v. and coming out the story well so i mean i think very simply they probably want to get out ahead of the story they realize that eventually journalists are going to look at these individuals eventually because people have just digital trails around what we're going to start picking up on information and so this provides them opportunity maybe to push back we were all expecting i think quite a significant and well produced show after. president putin the other day said that we should expect to see these people on television and are i'm not entirely sure that's what we got what we heard today was unconvincing really in every respect and

not really helped by the fact that they were asked for to difficult questions that we would expect from from journalists i guess we'd expect them from journalists but one necessarily expect them sort of to come out of the russian t.v. station what do you think the point was then the message i guess that russia is sending the u.k. the rest of the world by putting these two men on i have a hard time understanding what message they thought they were sending i think we do understand what message has been received which is that they're not taking this very seriously i think that the only message we can take away from this really is that they fundamentally don't care what the british public or the western public more broadly thinks about this story because if they did then they probably would have been able to come up with more. with more answers maybe they'll be a sequel it will see a continuation of this but for the moment the story we've been told of it that two people came to the u.k.

for the express purpose of going to salzburg i suppose it does happen but these gentlemen don't seem like the kind who would have done that. they went to solve for the express purpose of seeing the could shoot cathedral they did that twice they didn't make it there but they did find themselves wandering around other neighborhoods quite far removed from the station and and the cathedral it doesn't really compute no not as well i mean president putin often speaks of what he calls russophobia that never around the world especially in the west people sort of have this sort of attitude to russia but it does seem to be a credibility problem certainly from where we're sitting at here in london what do you think how do you think this goes down in russia itself. well in russia i think . to a certain extent there is a sense yes that the west maybe has it in for russia that it's hard for russia to get a fair shake but i think really. in russia itself there is increasing fatigue with the government focus on foreign policy whether it's in the u.k.

whether it's elsewhere if the fact that the economy is not doing well pensions are being cut reform people would much rather focus on their own livelihood and on solsbury or on syria or iran ukraine doctrine just stay with us a second isn't there this russia related story that i want to tell you about and that is that the process group pussy riot and they say one of its activists has been poisoned about the events in love has been an emergency care in a moscow hospital since losing his eyesight and speech on tuesday he's the husband of one of the pussy riot members who was jailed for protesting in a cathedral in two thousand and twelve and then acted as their spokesman while they were in prison but still of was also one of four protesters jailed for running onto the pitch during the world cup final in moscow two months ago so obviously quite a high profile person now a suspected poisoning what do you make of this story well it will need to wait and see what facts come out of the hospital and we will certainly hope that he makes a full recovery but this speaks to what you were talking about earlier in terms the

credibility problem that we've had a number of incidents things happening either in theaters of action where russia is involved say in ukraine in crimea with the downing of a maid seventeen in eastern ukraine or in solsbury or in u.s. elections or to opponents of the regime whether it is very live or a boris them solve several years ago who who was murdered in moscow we always hear denials those denials never seem to be credible and so the the kremlin if it does want to really get control of these messages is going to have to start telling something that's going to feel a lot more like the truth to western audiences that decide no green director of the russians if you get king's college here in london so thank you for showing us. it's going to syria now president of the huns said that turkey would not turn a blind eye billions are killed in italy province and it seems that he's keeping his word a turkish convoy made up of tanks and other heavy vehicles as reached an observation point in the town of modoc in syria's hama district it's one of the closest points

to the line which separates opposition fighters and government forces battling for control of the rebel held city of it the syrian government is preparing to launch an offensive to take back control of the city the u.n. says it's shared the g.p.s. coordinates of schools and hospitals with russia turkey and the u.s. led coalition as it tries to prevent what it fears will be a bloodbath in italy province almost forty thousand people have fled the area since government and russian airstrikes intensified last week many have escaped to the nearby town of the ceuta an area controlled by turkish backed rebels those who remain in need lived are taking any measures that they can to protect themselves including making their own gas masks. we hear a lot of threats from the regime in russia saying they'll bomb us with chemical weapons that's why we had to make gas masks to protect our wives and children.

i learned how to make the masks on you tube the mask is made with cardboard cups cotton god's natural cool and plastic bags to protect the face and eyes and you can breathe through it stephanie decker is mona from montauk you're on turkey's border with syria. nine hundred thousand people those are the estimates from the united nations of a worst case scenario if there is a full on military offensive on the province of idlib they fear that that's the amount of civilians who could try to flee to safety what does that mean though however because it is surrounded by government forces most people don't want to go to those areas there's a small area controlled by turkey turkish backed forces to the north the u.n. believes around seven hundred thousand people could flee in that direction that's a huge humanitarian effort and this is why you have increasing calls for there to be some kind of a political solution turkey maintains its borders are going to remain closed it already hosts over three and a half million people million syrians and it cannot take anymore this is why the

diplomatic tract the political talks are ongoing certainly reading the ground the last three days no airstrikes no barrel bombs on it of sporadic shelling yes or cross the border but i think we could read from that the turkey has been given more time to try to talk to the armed groups inside particularly those sticking groups being called terrorist organizations to try and get them to disband that is going to be a major challenge so it is an incredibly complicated scenario and certainly for the opposition is the province is their last stand everyone will tell you at this point in time it's impossible to predict how it's all going to play out. coming out on this news hour from london. the situation could have been better and lars leader admits her government could have dealt with the range of crisis differently but defends the jailing of tools reuters journalists record wildfires and soaring temperatures california bucks the white house trend and the claires war on fossil

fuels and in sports a hero's welcome back in japan for u.s. open champion no real soccer and a lucrative one to. but first the u.n. is warning that hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance as fighting escalates in the port city of her data yemeni forces backed by the saudi erotic coalition have seized the main road into the city it's one of the main who the supply routes linking her day there to the rebel held capital who the fighters have been downplaying that before it saying that they've repelled government forces and stopped their progress anderson and as more now from neighboring egypt. it's now becoming clearer that the fighting is escalating around the red sea port of the data and hooty rebels have tried to repel the u.s. the saudi led attacks but.