the husband in the swedish capital stockholm. 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. two days into the new year of eight hundred ninety five. his father prince oscar booked was the son of king oscar the second king of both 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. 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 were absorbed into the swedish ami but an adult decided to wrench the dragoon gob and his unit's form ahead colton's. estelle the million is 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 son frederick died shortly after his bed. two years later that eldest son gustav died. he was just six years old. was after the loss of two of his sons kept by an adult decided to seek a new role in life. in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven he became the head of the swedish scout

movement. he had two sentences to guide his life. the first was we have not come to this world it will be happy ourselves to make other people happy i want to course of the second war was what is possible is already done the impossible must be done. good causes became the new focus of an adult's life faith. family. yes 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 let's turn to sweden snipets. by the summer of one thousand 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 freed unfettered by the nazis and the russians looked 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 and the second reason is that sweden was quite willing to supply the german are moments in history is 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 the even though not all of the german navy to cross swedish waters. of german ethane to violate the space suite so officially they were neutral in the new meaning to with stability and that was easy for the germans i mean they got most everything they want. but securing one 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 forty three all woods as soon as the swedish government sends all recognized that germany is going to lose the the increasingly towards the allies. so a change in this was attitude. in october one thousand nine hundred forty three the swedish red cross by now under the energetic command of full command of 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 fight of faith that country in the organization of yesterday. full cabin adult had successfully established sweden's role as an intermediary. but in germany there were other prisoners in even greater need the swedish count skills as a mediator. ally they want to fight airport or get radicalized or they covered 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 east in german concentration camps were to be rescued by

a swedish red cross expedition. campfield had better not docked 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 slightly pressed 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 fals 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 x. is a kind of into be tween ben 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 style 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 him the man who controlled germany's concentration. twenty five years after the signing of al-jazeera world tells a two part story of norway's role in the oslo accords but a salute to the government of norwood for its remarkable role in nurturing this of . the secret negotiations and why its promise of peace has

remained unfulfilled decided the tone of the new goes there shows norway can do as a show strength or go home the price of all is low on al-jazeera conservation is helping kick isto to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. in war he decides the rules of engagement. when his killing permitted competence known competence severely

disabled civilians the danish officer returns to do more in croatia to confront a decision who made juno system minette massacre. a witness documentary on al-jazeera. hello. daryn these are the top stories here. there's claim and counter-claim over who is responsible for shooting down a russian military plane off the coast of syria fifteen servicemen died of latakia when the aircraft was hit by syrian air defense russia says israeli jets which are

active in the area a fully to play in. regard to provoking of actions of israel as hostile as a result of the irresponsible actions of the israeli military fifteen russian servicemen died it is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of russia israeli partnership we reserve the right to make an appropriate response. the israeli military says it regrets the incident but that the syrians were firing indiscriminately says it's fighter jets were targeting a syrian government installation where iranian weapons were being transferred to hezbollah iran and hezbollah are allied to syria and the war israel had more than one hundred positions in syria since the war began south korea's president in is in pyongyang for his third summit with the north korean leader kim jong il the two leaders were all smiles as hundreds of people lined the streets of catch a glimpse of the historic meeting in the capital they've been holding talks

focusing on north korea's nuclear disarmament. the saudi amorality coalition says it's launched a large scale operation targeting areas under who controlled in who data the alliance says it's captured two parts of the city since the advance began on tuesday the danger is the main gateway for relief supplies and commercial goods into yemen several members of zimbabwe's opposition of walked out during the president's state of the nation address to parliament and his imminent jagger was speaking in the capital harare he was outlining his government's agenda after winning a disputed election in july china says it has no option but to retaliate after the us impose tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods the juices were applied to almost six thousand items rescue teams in northern philippines are digging through the mud to search for survivors of the landslide it hit the mining town of its ago in bangor province many locals have been sheltering

from typhoon mangled when the landslide happened but. the headline says go back now to killing the count. robins broke germany. ninety kilometers north of. 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 records. polish women with the largest group incarcerated here many of them. more than one 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 kilo. 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 fall from robin's broke he was brought here to meet him at his villar in the sun and tore him grounds. at the negotiating table in the flatly rejected byrne 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 time was called no it. was the camp which was nearest the danish border so he hoped that one of the similar 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. a 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 sister 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 bus as 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 casal. 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 i thought 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. was ideally placed close to the danish border and just twenty kilometers from it so. both are happening here in the ten tallest. of the year for the school. board and. the white buses where 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. and to try wherever possible to take them back to scandinavia navin sibling. the first phase of the evacuation started on march the fifteenth 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. herder because there's folks from holes. who when we finally arrived in socks and house them. call the gates were opened and a lot of norwegians came out in a fairly orderly way. well there don't there were no first us. and when they took the first steps. towards freedom there was no plan if that was an experience or would opener of huge

experience put really. the second white buses platoon headed south to duck out sherman barrack at 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 and gama 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 thought the driving force behind the expedition

returned to germany. himmler agreed this time to the transfer of the sick and of old female scandinavian prisoners. 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 that evaporate. the beautiful both of them. the troop of birth of korea before. the german soldiers who did their i think most of them running 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 have 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 drive 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 of. 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 that the other saw and during the night while we slept they loaded up the busses 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 about other couldn't stuff of saying well i'm coming here too i want to rescue videos you could do that but after a while quite a number of those were rescued. byrne adults next goal was ravenous broke 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 to sca. 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 just. so their way and so wonderful got them to go back there though there was someone else to cards 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 fit in my 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 not we are going through. all the oil in the air though me endorse.

so much of a bit of 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 a neanderthal don't put it on 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 made the first the swedish white buses came. to mt. all except one volunteer. they spend it of course to document that. out of it so if it if you just got it you obs that. when you. need to put in miniature.

it. that's forty eight outs on a week. instead of. say. you. me. or you. accept. you don't kid get. out of it that that didn't do that. and i don't argue with 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. foca bernadotte was on his way to palestine until his death at the hands of jewish militants. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. tossed by the security council to mediate

between arabs and israelis. his death would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count on al-jazeera. binny's pink skies by the taj mahal. or as the sun sets in the city of angels. hello there we've got plenty of rain over south america at the moment plenty of cloud too over the southern parts of brazil and to the southeast where we've seen lots of cloud and lots of outbreaks of rain too now a lot of that is clearing away and we certainly have brought to skies here but not

quite for all of this for us in santiago it's looking rather gray throughout the day with a few outbreaks of right in the warm whether either with a maximum temperature just a fourteen degrees as you'd expect as you head up the mountains you will see a lot of that where the snow it brightens up there was we had through wednesday and it will be warmer to a bit of sunshine should make nineteen degrees really quite pleasant but the north they will still have the showers across parts of paraguay stretching across towards rio for the rule of thumb for the central america is we've got the remnants of a storm that hit we're still plenty of cloud there for across the region plenty of heavy rain as well doesn't look like it's going to reform into another tropical storm but it's still going to give us some heavy heavy rain as we head through the day and the winds day to wednesday does slightly break up but still some very lively downpours to be found here further north of course we've got the remnants of a huge hurrican florence that's here still giving us phenomenally heavy rain and

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it's claim and counter-claim of his responsible for the shooting down of a russian military plane off the coast of syria fifteen servicemen died off. when the aircraft was hit by syrian anti-aircraft fire russia says israeli jets which were targeting syrian government installations are fully to blame. the israeli pilots were using the russian aircraft as a shield and pushed it into the line of fire of the syrian defenses as a result the aircraft which has a much more effective reflecting surface than the israeli jets was brought down by the missile defense system israeli aviation management on the pilots of the f. sixteen jets most have seen the russian aircraft as it was landing from the height of five kilometers however they have done a provocation deliberately now a recovery operation in the area of the crash is on their way we regard these

provocative actions of israel as hostile as a result of the irresponsible actions of the israeli military fifteen russian servicemen died it is absolutely not in keeping with the spirit of russia israeli partnership we reserve the right to make an appropriate response where the israeli military says it regrets the incident but that the syrians were firing indiscriminately it says it's fighter jets were targeting a syrian government site where iranian weapons were being transferred to hezbollah or iran and hezbollah are allied to the syrian government in the war israel has targeted more than one hundred positions in the country since the war began let's go live now. we heard there that the russians are quite definitive in their language in saying that this is being a deliberate provocation on the part of israel. yeah it's been an angry response from the russian defense ministry on tuesday they

have accused israel of gauging in provocative actions irresponsible actions hostile actions. and what they basically say is that the israelis did not give enough warning nearly enough warning of their air strikes on syria and as a consequence of this. a russian surveillance plane was essentially caught in the cross-fire they basically allege that it is ready jets kind of used the russian plane as a shields to protect their own jets from the. anti aircraft batteries of the syrian anti systems antes and the missile systems and this is why this plane was shot out of the sky now russia and israel have an agreement basically that allows israel to target sites inside

syria when they feel that their own national interests national security are being threatened but usually this is hitting against iranian and has been a large targets the kind of unwritten rule of this is that russian lives should not be put in danger all that's why the russians are particularly angry with this latest turn of events because this is resulted in fifteen russian military deaths so the russian minister of foreign affairs summoned the israeli ambassador to day and also the israeli shark to fair that's the kind of military representative of israel here in russia and the kremlin has been i think noticeably less strident in its in its condemnation in its criticism. and that's interesting because you would expect perhaps the military the russian

military and the kremlin to be singing from the same hymn sheet but what we've got from me a putin spokesperson to be fair peskov is condolences for the deaths and the families of those who've lost their lives here but we don't have the criticism on israel directly mainly that the kremlin is concerned and upset by what's happened it suggests i think that vladimir putin keeping his eye on the kind of political architecture of the russia israel partnership is not as open to criticizing israel as the ministry of defense has been so far or i draw a thank you for that rory chalons our correspondent in moscow now from moscow let's go to occupied east jerusalem because there we can speak to our correspondent imran can say a rather unusual statement coming from the israeli military. regretting the incident

interestingly but far from accepting any responsibility. that's absolutely right the fact that they the statement from the israeli army came so swiftly suggests that they're trying to draw a diplomatic line under the whole incident and get on with things let me just read to you from the statement it says israel expresses sorrow for the death of the air crew members of the russian plane that was downed tonight judy to syrian anti-aircraft fire israel holds the assad regime whose military shot down the russian plane fully responsible for this incident israel also holds iran and hizbollah terror organization accountable for this unfortunate incident so they place squarely placing the blame there on the syrians iranians and hezbollah and now they also say they made an initial inquiry they suggest that the want extensive and not curate syrian anti aircraft fire caused the russian plane to be hit and

down and when the syrian army launched the missile that hit the russian plane is ready air force jets were already within israeli aspace now the fact that they statement as i say has come so swiftly suggests that russia and iran israel very much value the relationship that they've had when it comes to coordination and they don't want anything to try and jeopardize that relationship now in the last week we've also heard that the israelis have said they've struck nearly two hundred targets within israel itself israel coming towards the border with syria is crucial for them they need to defend that border and they've long said to the russians that we don't want iranian or hizbollah forces on that border and if they appear on the border we will defend it so it's likely as i say the swiftness of the statement is key we haven't really seen this kind of level of statement today from the israeli army when it comes incidents like this so it suggests that everybody is trying to draw a line and protect the relationship between israel and russia all right thank you.

live in occupied east jerusalem now let's go to stephanie deca she's. in antioch here in southern turkey very close to the syrian border so this this incident does appear from what him run and rory have been saying stephanie as if it's going to be contained diplomatically they're not going to allow this to spiral out of control in terms of the fallout from it but nonetheless it's still an indication is that of how crowded the skies above syria are absolutely and you know all the different actors and their interests and they're all militarized you know you also have various warships in the mediterranean but certainly i think as we were saying i think it remains to be seen whether the russians can allow this red line that was crossed which has to do with a significant number of its personnel killed without doing anything israel really needs russia to allow it let's say because it does pretty much control the sky is above syria to continue with you know what they say is inherent to their security

in targeting these kinds of weapons shipments but yes and i think you know as we go forward in this conflict as we're talking about it led it still remains there's a lot of challenges on the ground in syria martin because of all different players you have the turks you have the americans you have the iranians you have the russians and the irony of all of this is that it almost is the syrians that have the least say of all and looking now the province that of course is the subject of this. militarized the agreement that was arrived at between the two presidents. and putin everyone seems to be welcoming its suggesting that it has a virtue that this humanitarian catastrophe what are the fighters saying because presumably the crucial element of all of this arrangement is whether the fighters on the ground in italy will actually follow through with what they're supposed to do. yes we're getting we've been speaking to

a couple of the we've been talking to various sources because particularly the group that is. the controversial one the one deemed a terrorist organization they're not saying much publicly from their official channels they're the ones that have to move out of these areas and the turkish foreign minister just talked to clarifying a few things pretty much saying that the moderate so-called moderate rebels can stay in this demilitarized zone just without their heavy weapons so a lot of people are welcoming this martine there was a lot of fear about you know what would have been expected of a first stage of a limited offensive particularly in the south well this now seems to be a version i think what is clear is that the armed opposition is over and why is that is because turkey is at this point in time the only sort of obvious backer to that turkey is very much on the table that this now needs to be solved politically it is down to turkey to make these groups it here to putting down their weapons to getting into some different shape or form that is acceptable but there are still

very hard challenges on the table going forward and particularly to the language just briefly it looks like over the next couple of months they're going to be taking the key highways which means that's hard for the in the province and there's still a lot of fighters in these areas so i think challenges still remain going ahead but as always in syria let's be patient look at the ground see if this demilitarized zone can be fully implemented by october the fifteenth and then we can start talking about the next step all right stephanie decker live in southern turkey thank you. the north korean leader kim jong un says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks the south korean president moon jai in this is the first time a south korean leader has gone to the north in more than a decade and as rob mcbride reports from the south korean capital it was a carefully choreographed affair. if talks over north korea's nuclear stockpile were in trouble you wouldn't know it from the smiles and hugs. the third meeting

between north korea's kim jong un and j.n. of south korea and the warmest so far. a full.