monday will be a day of snow for some parts of ukraine the very few other people thought his cotton died so at the european play in the alps yes a covered in snow is not much more to come at least twelve hours there will be actions for the south central train that circulation is of rain but it's not off in the balkans you can see small snow for central turkey and rain to cover the already flooded area along most of the sides to be honest to the west where it was raining what the end of the weekend is by the portuguese so it's all fine again and the sun's a but then the next storm system comes in it comes down through the u.k. obviously it's much colder rather is snow when it's forward flank has a big change of direction and that will eventually hit the out into tuesday night or wednesday was to circulation africa bit more active bringing rain through its early to the domination and course snow beyond that up towards the south and garion

plates are actual back of the water that means the dow geria to new zealand probably morocco will be involved in the picture of a monday rather cold analogy is rain coming on shore it's dying actually about hugo fifteen degrees to enjoy and that's in the sunshine come tuesday and although it is still disappointing most of the rain is skipped across northern to news here on tuesday it's actually warm further east.

welcome back a quick recap the top stories here on al-jazeera these four syrian soldiers have been killed after israel launched airstrikes on iranian targets in syria video posted to social media reports to show missiles intercepted that damascus russia says during those an strikes syrian military adventures destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs. turkish president says he's ready to take up the control of man but he spoke on the phone to president trump about the u.s. withdrawal from northern syria they agreed on the need for and negotiated settlement and joint steps against christ. and polls have closed in the southern

philippines for an historic vote on autonomy holding two million people in mindanao region were asked if they back a plan by separatists in the government to create a self administered area known as fox more. now police in athens have used tear gas to prevent angry protesters from getting into greece's polman building tens of thousands of people rallied against a proposed main chains deal with neighboring macedonia johns or office as this report from the capital. it took only an hour of peaceful protest before a small group of demonstrators clashed with police decimating fireworks over the heads police responded with volleys of tear gas clearing crowds off the square in front of parliament but most of the thousands of demonstrators here would peaceful including families with young children many had traveled overnight from far flung corners of greece to oppose the government but last week survived

a vote of confidence with a razor thin majority one hundred. and fifty one m.p.'s in the three hundred seat legislature that's majority is likely to pass the message on your name change deal by the end of the week and i must capture or kill your she won't say press to write out a hundred and fifty times there is only ball macedonia and it is greek and my kid and i match. my grandfather force in macedonia we cannot allow it to be sold out we are losing our values some people of the shoeing a new order they want to access the sea through the port of cecille any truckie will be the next to go then will lose a chunk of greece to albania. greece's original position was that it would not allow a neighboring state to use the name of its northern region of macedonia a decade ago it agreed to allow use of that name along with an adjective and last year recognized north macedonia but that country has now ratified the deal and it is now greece's. but the agreement has angered many here because it allows the

people of north macedonia to call themselves macedonians rather the north macedonians and recognizes their language as macedonian with the preface agreement to have. it where the north macedonia. and at the same time we give their rights to the citizens of these states to mono polis the word macedonia for the citizen if he nationality if he give the long words this is called identity. and we do not want to offer it to one of the states of the area that i to monopolise the macedonian aid in. the agreement is a bitter pill for most greeks some have decided to swallow it but many have not these demonstrations have reverted to the original hard line position and they want prime minister alexis tsipras to declare a referendum is unlikely to take that route he knows the deal is unpopular but vows

to push it through. with his one vote majority by the end of the jump rope. a senior u.s. republican senator says he'll urge president trump to meet the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan so they can come up with a plan to end afghanistan seventeen year war lindsey graham made the comments after a meeting with pakistan's prime minister in a bad come on how it was that. the retired by the u.s. senator lindsey graham comes at the time when the pressure represented there for peace and reconciliation and i've run a stands out in mcallen dogs i just left a slum i bought he was offering to meet the alphonse dollar bond head and up august our kneecap return to our about the odds on taliban walking our dog door stall saying that beats and reconsider would only botch it well as if the americans were willing to give our timeline over draws much beyond their storage that the senate is all for once the president's all for us forces going to a new way of running

a stance as well as insidious he has already met the bugs on the prime minister and ritchie said that he a good read the progress on the prime minister imran khan's that their relationship would bugger standford we are strategic one and not our transactional one he has also praised the progress on the efforts to fence the border does run a stand something that the of one governments are not happy about but you said that he will be recommending to the us president that he joined in white or ford called for the bloggers on the prime minister and dr archer of money as soon as possible however the of one taleban are continuing to stick to their demo on for their drawl of four hundred forty and up problems ahead we've gone through the us senate about the fact that the engagement has continued for all more still decades and yet there was no end in sight to dad's bloody conflict senator it's being eighteen years since the us launched the attack on our wildest on in reprising. and it's going to

trillion dollars and did no end in sight a dip in the dollar boehner much stronger than they were when you first came in so how longer the united states committed to stay in the nest on and then did really need to spend all that money to continue this campaign against the i've long thought of long thank you that's the really good question and here's why i get that question asked all the time. what did it cost us since nine eleven a lot more than a trillion dollars pay now or pay later the good news we're at a point where our military presence is literally ten percent of what it was ten years ago that most of the fighting is being conducted by the afghan military support from us that we now have a new partner in pakistan that the pakistan military has done things in last

eighteen months we've been hoping for for eighteen years as to time the old saying is you have the watches we have the time to the taliban in case you're listening time is not on your side some girls constitutional court has released a list of five candidates allowed to run in next month's presidential election mark assad is running for a second but the two main opposition leaders have been banned from taking part because hogs in the company dhaka. the decisions taken by the constitutional court behind me are usually a formality and go unnoticed but this year missing on the list of candidates for this upcoming presidential elections are two heavyweights the opposition the son of the former president of senegal karim wadded and the popular mayor of the car khalifa sol now they've both been sentenced to prison time for corruption charges one was freed and amnesty the other is still in prison but both were hoping to run

in this election and this has paved the way for outsiders to take the limelight notably one song who was very popular on social media and among young people he's taken to the stage criticizing michael saying that he's using the courts to clamp down on the opposition there's been a chorus of condemnation and reaction from not just politicians but also members of civil society questioning whether this can be a real free and fair election when two of the main opposition figures are not taking part in the race there is a lack of trust of opposition and even. much of citizens towards was elected advantage man or so close a security force sees as a b. . in general in shutting peace and security is one of the most stable democracies on the continent organizing free and fair elections for the last fifty nine years in prison mikey says that this one will be no exception but with this

decision from the constitutional court it certainly sets the tone for this election that will take place in just a month's time zimbabwe's president. will skip the world economic forum and return home as protests there intensifies activists say at least a dozen people have been killed during demonstrations over the doubling of fuel prices police have been accused of cracking down on the government. colombia's leftist rebels are claiming responsibility for a car bomb that killed twenty one people thousands took to the streets in bogota to condemn the attack president even due kate joined the demonstrations and ruled out any restart of peace negotiations with the eleven thursday's attack at a police academy in bogota was the worst in fifteen years. and this report from bogota. thousands of people both here in the capital and in cities across colombia march demanding an end to the violence after

a car bomb attack on tears they killed twenty young cadets so people came out dressed in white or holding the white flags saying that life is sacred and that they are tired of what they describe this terror attacks in their country while people are united here in this message against violence there were some tensions along the route to colombians remain at the same time deeply polarized on how to move forward especially on how to achieve complete peace in the country the president. decided to shut the door to any possibility of continuing peace negotiations with the ear land but some people here are saying that death at the wrong decision that's going back to a state of war will bring more death and more attacks there's no doubt that

thursday's car bomb attack has jolted many nerves here in the country colombians were just starting to bring down their guards when it came to violence after decades of internal conflict but at least for today they came out and said that all together they want an end to the violence. the partial government shutdown in the u.s. and its thirty first day in a few more thousands of federal workers will miss their second paycheck that's been trumpeting democrats rejecting his proposal to end the shutdown and provide funding for his border wall but the democrats say his plan is not a compromise it was not offered in good safe article again as more from washington for. a sign of the times a food bank sets up on the streets of the nation's capital aimed at feeding. federal workers that are not getting paid many live paycheck to paycheck so for some this is the only way to feed their families. they aren't getting paid because

u.s. president donald trump says that democrats want to put them back to work he needs money for his often promised border wall democrats have said no they'll debate border security but only after the government is reopened i can't see us keeping federal employees if hundred thousand people of work while we go back and forth on the go shave since these negotiations get to three of four weeks also appearing on the president's favorite conservative network fox the vice president seemed to admit the federal workers are leverage and i mean you don't really think you just want to leverage and what and that you figure if you don't keep the government closed then they're going to go nowhere well again i go i was there i was sitting right next to the president when speaker pelosi said. if you if we reopen the government and took thirty days to negotiate but that she would not give the president and i want to i want to ask you what your security or

a wall house speaker nancy pelosi actually said no to a wall democrats say they will fund border security the president walked out of that meeting but as the polls turn against him and his wall he's making democrats an offer he will reinstall the protections that he took away from around a million migrants in exchange for his wall so far democrats say no it is the impacts of the shutdown continue to spread across the country from long security lines at airports to federal loans not being given americans are wondering how this ends with no answer in sight pedicle al-jazeera washington economic growth in china has slumped to twenty eight year low as the trade war with the u.s. takes its toll the world's second largest economy expanded by only six point six percent last year that's a drop despite government measures to stimulate the economy best of all concerned that beijing's problems could drag down growth well why. not for generations people

in taiwan have avoided visiting a doctor when they're sick and opted for traditional chinese medicine is instead of thousands of shops of shut down in the past twenty years caught up as holder young explains why. bleach chilling dispenses traditional chinese medicine from this herbal store in taiwan natural medicine shops like this one have been used for generations as an alternative to visiting a doctor but the industry that depends on curing illnesses is dying taiwan's government hasn't issued a new operating license for twenty years. he says. this profession in taiwan is on the decline it's become a so-called sunset industry older people have slowly left and younger ones starting to have a license it's all very uncertain. the license shortage started in the one nine hundred ninety s. as the government trying to regulate traditional medicine shops government leaders feared combining western and eastern medicine could lead to unforeseen medical

emergencies it was hoped train professionals would take jobs in traditional shops but that didn't happen well pay a limited benefits failed to attract young doctors and now more and more shops are closing down a good shrink who knows her dispensary will only remain open while her ailing father in law is alive when he goes so will his operating license. but on the chinese medicine shops are forced to close because the second generation cannot legally carry the operating license our livelihood will be in jeopardy but more importantly it will be the end of a taiwanese tradition and cultural icon that it will be a thing of the past it will be difficult for them to emerge again an estimated two hundred taiwanese natural medicine stores shut down every year the total has been cut in half to about eight thousand in the last twenty years. taiwan's approach is a stark contrast to china in hong kong where there has been

a push to promote and export traditional medicine mounting concern anger has led to protests in the capital taipei now the government says it's trying to find a solution with industry leaders but shop owners fear it may be too late and employees such as lead channeling worry that it's not only her livelihood at stake but also a tradition that's part of thailand's culture katia llopis of the young al-jazeera . now a rare lunar eclipse has been observed around the world the phenomenon is known as a super blood wolf moon it occurs when the moon is closer to the earth making it appear red a brighter it only lasts for about five hours and we won't get to see it again until twenty thirty seven. have a quick check of the headlines here at al-jazeera at least for syrian soldiers have

been killed in israeli airstrikes on iranians are gets inside syria video posted to social media appears to show missiles intercepted near damascus russia says during the strikes early on monday syrian air defenses destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs are a force of reports and you know that in southern israel. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on these removed for you saying that it's striking iranian could forces targets inside syrian territory and it is warning the syrian armed forces against striking against israeli military targets or against israeli territory the syrian state media is saying that its forces have fought it what it calls hostile targets over syrian air space recep tayyip erdogan has told us president donald trump the turkey is ready to take control of the kurdish held syrian city of man beach without delay the

turkish president made the proposal in a phone conversation with from zero to one told the u.s. president that an attack last week in man believes that killed four u.s. troops was a provocation by isolating the influencing trumps decision to pull troops out of syria polls have closed in the southern philippines for an historic vote on autonomy the referendum is a push to end nearly a half a century of unrest people in mindanao region were deciding whether or not to back a plan to create a self administered area known as bangsamoro afghan taliban fighters have killed at least twelve members of the security forces at a military base in a war that province close to kabul more than twenty eight people were wounded when a car bomb went off in a gunman entered the compound the african union has canceled a high level visit to the d.r. see it had wanted the constitutional court to delay announcing final presidential election results citing serious doubts about the vote opposition leader martin for

you has rejected the ruling from the top court well those were the headlines and news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story of that subject i think. saudi has never been a real easy still foreign investment how much are the reserves down through are they understated or overstated they own those shares your company for the people by the. protests in sudan unrest that's gathering momentum and more demands for the president to quit but omar al bashir has ruled for thirty years and remains defiant so can the protesters succeed in the international pressure make a difference this is inside story.

to the program i'm richelle carey they are the longest in decades and the most significant in sudan's recent history nationwide protests have been taking place almost every day for a month they were prompted by a rise and bread and fuel prices at the demonstrators quickly turned their attention to other issues and called to overthrow the president omar al bashir is response has been a crackdown by security forces dozens of people have been killed and hundreds arrested in recent weeks has the latest from khartoum. it's been over a month now since these protests started here in sudan of the beginning there were a way to show popular anger against rising prices inflation and scarcity of some commodities but then they saw in developed into the months for the government of omar bashir to step down and this is the longest wave of protests against the sudanese government since the independence of this country dozens of people have

been killed the government statistics talk about twenty four people killed activists talk about fifty people killed during these protests and there is a claim and counterclaim to who killed these protesters just a while ago today president omar bashir gave a speech in the state of south of khartoum and he said that these protesters have not been killed by any. of the state a process he accused protesters of having an element infiltrated within them who shoot other protesters in order to blame the government that's a serious accusation according to some of service here and this discussion about who kills a protesters has been going on for some time now so here's how we got to this situation the protests began against rising prices but widened to question president omar al bashir rule they began at a bar that quickly spread to other cities including the capital khartoum the

government declared a state of emergency in curfews and some towns that has also restricted internet access places tear gas baton some reportedly live bullets to disperse the crowds sure call the protesters traitors and said they were being influenced by foreign powers who want to destabilize the country as economic policies have been denounced by protesters who accuse the government of corruption. let's bring in our guests now here in doha adela and a professor of politics at the institute for graduate studies and in boston via skype is alex of all research professor and executive director of the world peace foundation a tough universities fletcher school of law and diplomacy and thank you both for joining me i am going to start with you there have been protests obviously and sudan before does it feel or same different this time yes it's quite different actually for to start with this has been going on for more than

a month in the past any protests had brought the government down within a week or maximum eleven days so the continuation is interesting in the sense of also widespread started from. still going on in her to an outside force to. looks in some ways like the last days of the one nine hundred to five protests in that there were spread in various areas of the capital more justice center. so. the popular feeling seems to be very strong. and the bar is it in the can three is also months much higher. allan cetera characterization of the protests this time compared to other times and sudan where i completely agree we have the ability to end that there is an extraordinary strong societal consensus that it is time for change and the current government in

which is increasingly a really minority clique has to go however i think this one thing that really is very different today from in the past which is in the past in the previous popular uprisings nine hundred sixty four and one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the army was a cohesive institution with some independence and autonomy and the high command of the army could take the decision to stand with the people against the regime to any the army is is fragmented. president bashir has has a suit intimate knowledge of the officer corps which is very much been shaped by him in his own image and we also have the national intelligence and security services as a rival power which we as a comparable level of capacity in foreign power and so the senior officers will be

less suspicious of one another as they are fearful of the government will potentially embracing change and i think therefore it's much more difficult for the the security establishment to switch sides and pull that reason i think president bush is still has a chance to play ok in the median age for for someone inside and the median age there is is night night yes that's nineteen so a lot of the people that are protesting this is all they have ever known a deal why has this been the tipping point for them yes i think the to start with they went to the figure. alex. i literally like the bagel right ahead. rex i think the the army is still cohesive i mean. whatever has happened the army has a core army there is

a culture of the army i think. they are all what they're there fear is double fear first of all. they they're afraid that the media many militias and security forces and and and they they don't want to jump in and create a civil war so they are studying their moves. carefully. secondly there is a worry among them with this record that if they if they make a coup and take over power as sudan is in the same situation as it is now economic at the. caring and isolated they will be in the same position of the current government they would be able to feed the people they wouldn't be able to do much so they they would like some some supporter of our side on this but if you

yes if you go to your question yes. they use a movement interestingly there's quite a large number among the people arrested themselves the children of people who are in the regime including in the army and the party so it is a there is a feeling that this government has lost touch with the people i think this is very clear. president bashir was speaking today although he was speaking in a rally in the in the white nile province he was nobody has. speech doesn't resonate with anyone he's speaking about it will be the people who are killing that the ministration will be a vision of the government of the i mean literally or the police but he is not

saying that who is then fiery in the government itself has been the security forces have been even entering a houses and almost of people arresting people from inside their homes just this morning they have. for tear gas inside the college so there is a problem does the government want to talk to the people or does want to fire what is at the people they are not making of them are actually put that question to alex alex has there been any type of inkling at all from the president that he actually is concerned about what the people are upset about or does it seem that his sole focus is keeping power. i don't think this i completely agree with that do i go this is really not the slightest inkling of any sensitivity to the major concerns of the population a few minor concessions or hints of concessions in terms of economic policy in

them subsidies and so on but people in sudan are completely fed up of this guy and it's clear that. from the great majority of the population this is the only government they've known him so that the same faces in government are not the top of government over the last thirty years it's only people who are fifty years old who have ever had the chance to vote in a free and fair election in and sit on the last such election was nine hundred ninety six and so the kinds of change that people are demanding are going to change that it completely off the radar for this rather small increasingly isolated ruling clique that is that is completely insensitive to run to the demands of the people but i'd like to pick up our if i may on one point that. what happened may which is the international science service because there has really not been any serious

signal from the regional auntie's that's the african union the arab league the go coordination council or from the major powers in in europe in a bubble united states everyone has been pretty much silent about what they would like to see in sudan and i think if i get this real quick you're you're bringing up a point that i just want to add to what you're saying and i want you to finish your thoughts but nicholas kristoff wrote in the new york times he says and that the united states has joined statements with britain norway and canada calling on bashar to release detainees and recognize the right a peaceful assembly but there said they a much sterner warning to all security forces that they will be hell personally accountable for. atrocities it does to your point it does seem that there has not been a lot of attention from the international community why. i think that the main reason it is. attention is also for both agree on various reasons and also there's a sheer of what might happen next there's

a fear that there could be something worse than that then bashir and that is take for example what is happening in south sudan one way we have a very tragic peace agreement and the architect peace agreement is only rubbish. he has actually been the one that has this is it helps construct this very intricate arrangement this share out of power and reward among the south sudanese factions and so many in the international community they would rather have the devil they know with all the short come then the devil they don't know i'm sharing what has happened with the overthrow of all or three tearing regimes from europe spring in the air in yemen and so on are. ok so if you did touch on something that like to get your your thoughts on alex's talking about how omar i'm. sure has manipulated

a lot of what happens in south sudan he has been accused of basically exploiting an ethnic and racial differences between people how is that contributed to the state of things now. yes i think just before that about the international position that is an interesting convergence of stances in the region for example the coalition the so the coalition which is fighting the war in yemen its support of bashir for two different reasons. has sent an army to help them in yemen and second i think together with egypt are very worried about any revolution succeeded i think the whole you know of the gulf states especially the anti gotta have correlation is that they don't want any democratic uprising anymore because that they feel that if they succeed that's what we have to lead to their own stability

so they don't want any democratic uprising to succeed and so they are supporting obviously but even the other side that also say they seem to see. more favorable to . them than the other us. about the racial differences yes the government has actually its right. from the very beginning and they did that in the two thousand and thirteen uprising which was suppress quickly by trying to. suggest that this is not a genuine popular uprising but maybe. from the people especially from that food so they arrested some group of that foreign students and i think tortured them into admitting that they were militarized for the words of the war had nur in the fall

and they were planning to do some assassinations i think like that however this back for a very badly on that actually one of the slogans now is to say that we are all that for years so that one of the slogans is saying that us is not all from that for so it actually did the opposite of what they were hoping to create fear of of other people or divide the people so i think the government at this moment i've been very bad shit because the momentum of the uprising seems to have picked up and it seems to be very punitive young people old people people for of all the raytheon of the said data many of the key of the of the rulers themselves alex i mean obviously. south sudan left and was created that was a chunk of oil revenue obvious iraq but but what has has there ever been

a plan. for the economy of sudan how this how did this inflation how did it get this bad was it is it incompetence or or is it corruption it's corruption i mean in any way this system that has developed over the last thirty years is a city system we don't see and what has happened is that in order to see. gain power president bashir and the cheek around him how he used the resources of the nation not just to enrich themselves but to set up a nationwide system of client which they are paying off people and then what that means is that when there is some sort of economic boom now there is the lifting of some u.s. sanctions there is the peace agreement with south sudan that means that some additional revenues will come because of more oil flowing when there is

a deal with the saudis for payment for those troops that have dispatched to saudi arabia to yemen to fight on behalf of the saudis the majority of economic kind of fits that upturn goes into the pockets of the ruling elites only from the ordinary people simply don't see it and and the only way in which the only strategy that president bashir and his couple have been maintaining power is using that patronage using that money and people are i think very very well aware of and they're well aware of the type of change that that needs to call and i think one of the remarkable and exemplary things about this uprising which is now going on the law in a month is good it is known by the only way in which carrot ariens which dictators have been overthrown in sudan and elsewhere in iraq well has been through

this kind of uprising they are not overthrown through insurgency through through civil war they are over thirty through their civil uprising and this seems to be the fundamental lesson of the demonstrators of london town lines and it's something that the new sudanese government is unable to cope with because if they as they move to escalate the violence the more they will be discredited and i suspect and. and the regime really is acting too cool where the only option really president bashir is to negotiate some form of graceful exit but he has really no other options before and a double hog do you think it do you see that is actually a possibility it's only for the couple is do you think that the protests will continue and do you agree with alex that at some point the protesters might actually get their way and the president may have to leave yes i think the

problem is now that. the more. this protest escalate the more the government acts rightly pointed out will have to engage into mass at rest is again the people and if if that's happens i think they will the international community might have might be forced to react. so at the moment they have managed to keep. the casualties manageable i mean in september two thousand and thirteen they killed two hundred people in about three four days in this small area of khartoum now up to now i think after one month they have only the cards what is that about forty. so they are playing the game of not into going izing the international community at the moment and managing to dispose of them the situations because the usually small demonstrations

spread around the area but it's clear that the feeling in the country as a whole is completely irreversible in the sense that they don't want any compromise with the government if stays as if it is so if you think the president thinks that he can just wait this out yes i think some of the people from what i know in the government and security are saying that yes we can they can manage this and actually they say this might be good to mobilize their supporters who have been a little bit lethargic of late and if they also they want to create a polarizing but i think that they are mistaken in this at the moment. they seems to be white public opinion including within their own i think ranks and at some point they can to me also gets worse because now there's trouble just

a lot and. the streets are also. business are not working universes are closed so this situation is unsustainable for for for the long term of course he has been to syria recently and so he might have some you might have some tips from there about how to destroy your country. alex if not omar al bashir then who. there is no clear leader. in matching head and shows about the others but what do what is quite striking i think is that a number of those who are being prominent in the islamist movement most of them to really have a quote presidential advisor leading islamist salaheddine are now aligned with the opposition and so i think what that is is it is the possibility of a very broad coalition government of national unity that in that actually brings

into government not only those who are in the better in opposition who opposed the shift ollie's here but many of his former allies. as well as added and then bringing in most importantly the the white iraq a. young people who are on the streets there is time for a real generational change in the leadership of what would that happen without without the international pressure have all that we were talking about i think it would require some call of international mediated engagement and one of the reasons for that of course is that president bashir is reluctant to step down without some guarantees that he himself will not be handed over to the international criminal court to face prosecution and also some of those who are very close to him similarly will will face that risk and this is perhaps the one

concession that the that the opposition really ought to be contemplating making because. he president bush and some of his close followers really are in a corner on that issue which and compromise on that may be the price that they will have to consider to concede in order to have a number of transition to talk to checks inclusive and democrats. ok well i guess we'll have to see am how the rest of these and of these protests play out the final word then i guess or be for you adele bob do you think that if we check back in ana in a couple of weeks things will be different. i hope so and i think. pointing to the international community's rule i think is better for international community and switch to the african union to move in and before it becomes too late because

at the moment there's a window for both unity where there is a stalemate between the government of the position and so some some international actor made jump in and say let's look at this little look at least where looters have a transitional government let us have an easing out of bashir. getting teased and and some change which will then. prevent the worst which is massacre so i think the international community to your due waits until it's too late after the disaster has struck and then they come in if you are more costly and also less effective if i move in through actually you could get somewhere and set a window for opportunity we will have to say gentlemen thank you very much for the conversation operation abdel wahab elephant he and alex of all thank you very much

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and turkey discuss the withdrawal of american troops from syria with ankara ready to take over security in the kurdish town of man be. seeking peace voters in the southern philippines cast their ballots in a referendum aimed at ending a decades long conflict. on the battle against al shabaab somalia and ethiopia plan a major offensive against the armed groups. at least for syrian soldiers have been killed after israel launched and strikes on iranian targets inside syria video posted to social media appears to show missiles intercepted near the capital damascus but russia says during those airstrikes early on monday morning syrian military air defenses destroyed more than thirty cruise missiles and guided bombs on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket fired at the golan heights from syria well let us begin to reach alan's in moscow in just a moment but first harry for

a set has more on the overnight and strikes. well in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on the movie is saying that it's striking iranian could forces targets inside syrian territory and it is warning the syrian armed forces against striking against israeli military targets or against israeli territory the syrian state media is saying that its forces have fought in what it calls hostile targets over syrian air space now the immediate background to all this is what took place during the course of sunday there were reports of an israeli strike or strikes in and around damascus again syrian state media saying that it had struck against those strikes as they came in and then shortly after that there was a report of at least one if not more projectiles being fired from syrian territory

towards israeli territory in the reports were that they were ground to ground projectiles surface to surface missiles potentially now that is relatively uncommon what is more common is for syrian anti-aircraft fire to potentially. and to towards israeli air space of yes space over the israeli occupied golan heights and there was speculation that there might well be an israeli response to a potential ground to ground attack the slightly longer look at this in terms of the background is what took place the previous weekend when there was an air strike against targets inside syria on the friday and by the sunday israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was publicly owning up to that in fact saying that it was a vital military operation and that such efforts may well intensify during that weekend as well his outgoing military chief of staff got the eyes and caught all but lifting the entire veil of israeli ambiguity on its strikes inside syria over

several years now. it was saying that this had been a successful operation against iranian targets inside that country and there had been speculation at that time that this lifting of the ambiguity policy may well give the syrians the iranians cause to strike more directly at israel now that israel had owned up exactly and publicly to what it was doing. and joins us live now from moscow reso russian officials saying that syrian air defenses shot down over thirty israeli cruise missiles but of course much of that technology is provided by the russians anyway isn't it. yeah pretty much all of it is and up until quite recently the syrian air defenses were operating fairly antiquated systems that either came from the soviet union or from russia or in the in the later years but scarse your mind back to september of two

thousand and eighteen in an incident in which a russian reconnaissance plane ended up getting shoot shots out of the sky is ready jets attacking from the mediterranean sea the that the syrian coast essentially the syrian air defenses responded and mistakenly down the russian plane the russians were incredibly annoyed with the israelis about that they thought that it affected the ripped up an agreement that they have that the israelis could do attacks inside syria as long as the russians were made aware of it informed in advance and as long as russian lives were put in danger so in response to that the russians provided the syrians with the very sophisticated s. three hundred missile defense systems now we don't know the moment from the russians at least whether those were used in the most recent attacks by the syrian air defense systems the russians are saying at the moment only the panacea and brute systems were used and as you said daryn thirty. israeli cruise

missiles and guided bombs were blown out of the sky i think though that a moment we have to be slightly skeptical about that figure certainly yet really and meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for syria get peterson is meeting at the russian foreign minister in moscow today one of the expecting to come from that meeting. yes well this is the new u.n. envoy for syria of course replacing the man who had been doing the job for four years or so before he comes into this fairly fresh he's done middle east and before but he hasn't met with a lot of rov in moscow before he hasn't met with either so basically he's coming here to meet the russian he's already been to damascus and becomes obvious the at a time where things are shifting on the on the ground in syria with the donald

trump announcement that the the americans are going to be pulling out of syria fairly soon that of course means that countries like russia countries like turkey which have large interests in syria in the syrian war are kind of jostling around at the moment trying to work out how this changes the situation there is going to be a visit later on in the week by. that the turkish president and he's coming here to meet with putin they're going to be talking about it live they're going to be talking about a potential buffer zone that turkey wants to set up in the north east of syria to help them counter the turks so are the kurds so there's a bit of horse trading perhaps going on at the moment between turkey and russia about what they can accomplish in syria all right to reach alan's day in moscow thank you. now russia type earlier one has told us president donald trump the turkey is ready to take control of the kurdish held syrian city of man be without delay the turkish president made the proposal in a phone conversation with trump ota and told the us president there's an attack

last week in manby that killed four u.s. personnel was a provocation by eisel aimed at influencing trump's decision to pull troops from syria or some a binge of aid has more now from gaziantep near the turkey syria border. it's been an eventful night for syria both in terms of diplomatic developments and violence in the late night phone call the turkish and u.s. presidents discuss their future strategy inside syria or the gun told on that attack in member northern syrian town which was the deadliest on u.s. forces there at least force for us and members of the military as well as civilians were killed to be a provocation and it's him to derail the u.s. pullout from northern syria this is a pullout the turkey has welcomed turkey wants the u.s. troops to leave but it also wants an end to the collaboration between the u.s. forces and kurdish fighters who are in charge of these are the forces who took mandate from isis fighters with the help of u.s.

forces and the turkish president wants them to leave he does not just want to see that area in the hands of kurdish forces with turkey seize as terrorists meanwhile these kurdish fighters have been going closer to word syria a result for which neither the turks or the americans want afghan taliban fighters and killed at least twelve members of the security forces at a military base in a war down province not supposed to kabul more than twenty eight people were wounded when a car bomb went off the gunmen attacked the compound for. well a senior u.s. republican senator says he will president trump to meet the leaders of pakistan and afghanistan so they can come up with a plan to end the afghanistan seventeen year war instagram made the comments after a meeting with pakistan's prime minister in islamabad come on how it was there. rejected by the u.s. senator lindsey graham comes at a time when the special representative for peace and reconciliation and i would run a stand. has just left islam

a body words all things that made the album on taliban head and up a tiny captured however the afghan taliban walking out of the orthodox saying that and reconciliation was only. if the americans were willing to give a timeline for withdrawal it must be understood that the senate. wants the president's all for u.s. forces to continue and of running a stand as relevant in syria he has already met the pakistani prime minister. said he agreed with the charges on him prime minister brown kron that their relationship would bog standard we're strategic one and not our transactional one here and also praised the august on the efforts to fence the border raid on one it's done something that the governments are not happy about but he said that he will be recommending to the u.s. president that he should in white or hold dogs would up against any prime minister and dr archer of ronnie as soon as possible however the oven taliban are continuing

to stick to their demand for the red drawl of four hundred forty and there are problems ahead we broke through the u.s. senate about the fact that the engagement has continued for all more steward decades and yet there was no end in sight to dad bloody conflict senator it's been eighteen years since the u.s. launched the attack on of honest on in reprising. and it's cost a trillion dollars and there is no end in sight he did to period that the taliban are much stronger than they were when you first came in so how long did the united states committed to stay in a one historian and then lead willing to spend all that money to continue this campaign against the of one taliban thank you that's a really good question as usual i get that question asked all the time what did it cost us since nine eleven. a lot more than a trillion dollars pay now or pay later the good news

we're at a point where our military presence is literally ten percent of what it was ten years ago that most of the fighting is being conducted by the afghan military support from us that we now have a new partner in pakistan that the pakistan military has done things in last eighteen months we've been hoping for for eighteen years as to time the old saying is you have the watches we have the time to the taliban in case you're listening. time is not on your side fighters linked to al qaeda say they carried out an attack on u.n. peacekeepers in mali the group says it was in response to the chaldean president's decision to revive diplomatic ties.