yeah very much so i mean russia is the provider to syria all of pretty much all its defense systems syria currently has. blue and s. three hundred as far as we know from what the russians have said it was only the panacea and boot systems that were used to defend syrian positions against the cruise missile attacks and guided bomb attacks etc from israel over. overnight and in the attack that took place at the end of the week and there is as you say diplomacy going on as well we have gear peterson who is the new u.n. envoy to syria arriving in moscow sitting down and having a meeting with sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister this is pedersen's first trip to moscow in this capacity and i think this is really

a chance for these people to get to know each other so lavrov in the meeting was trying to impress on get a certain that russia has made numerous achievements as lavrov put a chief ment's in the territory that russia and syria have taken back from the terrorists as he put it achievements in laying the groundwork for the return of refugees and better than present himself was trying to basically show that he is hitting the ground running that in the last couple of weeks or two weeks that he's been doing this job he has been to damascus already he's been to riyadh to see the opposition now he's in moscow he hopes that he can reboot this process and make progress in the u.n. security council resolution twenty two fifty four which is supposedly getting us towards a political resolution to the to the syrian civil war which is pretty definite de mistura wasn't able to do. we're hoping to speak to a guest in tehran in

a moment just before we do i wonder if i can quickly ask you about the i've heard this mention before s three hundred this system which the russians have deployed for the syrians the importance of this sort of thing and effect it gets used in well against israelis. well it hasn't as far as we know we wasn't used in the this most recent strike it hasn't been used in anger with as far as we know of in the syrian fears or of war there are two very sophisticated systems that the russians have operates in syria at the moment there's the s four hundred which is you know the most sophisticated only russia is using that and it uses its a god the bases come in and the naval facility and talk to the asteroids hundreds were provided to the syrian military in the aftermath of an event that happens

in september of two thousand and eighteen when in the last big israeli attack on syrian territory a russian reconnaissance plane was shot out of the sky accidentally by syrian air defense the russians a very annoyed about that very annoyed with the israelis who they thought had broken the deal did russia and israel has about israel activity in syria and has retaliate and they said right we'll league we're going to give the s three hundreds to syria but what i was told today is that it's unlikely that the syrians are going to use that s three hundred because of limits of limitations with with ammunition and that sort of thing unless they're sure that they can actually shoot an israeli plane out of the sky that wouldn't necessarily use on cruise missiles got you excellent thank you for clearing that up i think i misheard that earlier on today rory chalons in moscow. right about on the with us now in tehran is

a professor of american studies at teheran university nice to have you with us i wonder. if i might start with a question actually from one of our viewers he's watching on facebook live and has asked very simply is syria now turning into a battlefield for iran and israel is that how you view this. no i mean the reality is that this is a western narrative that's being creative created and we see it in c.n.n. and other outlets where americans are justifying israeli actions the israelis have not struck iranian targets thousands of times as the israeli defense chief or claimed what they did over the past few years was a attack targets alongside the border whenever the syrian army was trying to advance on their forces or isis for those forces which were both based on this really border in the region israelis actually recently admitted arming these

extremist groups every time the syrian government would advance israelis would attack them slice assume that every time they fire a shot they fired a shell over the same seventy eight years they claim that these were attacks on iranian targets you know you iranian has been killed in any attack over the past few months if a single iranian had a broken leg it would be all over social media in iran and the footage that israeli that the israelis release were a vehicle that belonged to the syrian air defense so this really is are targeting syrians but they're using iran as an excuse to do so and the western media as usual woman make their narrative just like when suicide bombers attack or when israelis attack let's say sulu a neighborhood we'll call it for example in lebanon the say hezbollah stronghold or when they attack when they kill media members or medics in gaza the western

media will say clashes between the israelis and the palestinians then we're used to that would you then expect to see more such attacks as this because israel it seems will make iran the center of the story whichever part of the middle east might be most active they will link it back to iran like. well they will do that when they attack gaza and kill civilians they will say that iran when they invade lebanon they say that iran when they strike syrian targets they'll say it's iran and that's that's up to the regime if the regime was to truly go after iran then i would advise israelis or people who are in palestine or or in that area to leave because the iranians obviously would would retaliate very harshly the israelis only killed seventy iranians

a few months ago when they targeted the tea for air base these were drone operators they were drone operators whose drones were targeting isis and al qaeda near the golan heights where as i said earlier there's rebels who are supporting these groups and after the iranians were planning to strike back there's rain the regime told the russians that we will not target iranians we will be very careful to stay clear of them and we haven't had any iranian casualties since then so this is basically i think this has more to do with israeli elections and netanyahu has problems at home his legal problems and i think he's looking to convince the gullible population that he's a he's a strong man and so at the moment with the regime is doing is that they're striking syrians not iranians and they're using iran is an excuse but nothing much more than that i think is happening if there was a single iranian or that mini's person killed you today all over social media and

miranda from the university of tehran thank you for joining us so syria israel iran russia it's all led me actually to this opinion piece that al jazeera dot com from a regular contributor mo in kabul on what will the middle east look like in twenty nineteen he asked in the he went through the issues he looked at syria he looked at well you've got to think about yemen as well the gulf crisis in iran in the united states israel palestine his overall view is that old conflicts will persist and new ones might erupt to read for yourself it is in the opinion section down to zero dot com. thank you for some of those questions that have been coming through already always good that we can put them directly to our guests and correspondents hashtag a j news group on twitter if you want to replies who are threat at a.j. english please do that with the hashtag looking out for your responses there also facebook dot com slash al-jazeera for the live stream which is up and running as always and plus one seven four five or one triple one four nine save the number on

your mobile use it on whatsapp or telegram to contact us directly now for anyone flying into israel the gateway while we're in the region the day way is tel aviv's ben gurion airport but now israel is actually inaugurated a second international airport airport near the southern port city of a lad and it is the ramon international airport it is to start receiving domestic flights before opening to international or traffic in march israel's minister of transportation says this five hundred million dollar project will revitalize much needed to resume in the area however there is opposition from neighboring jordan which is airport operations from a lot will actually violate jordanian and space so let's put it on the map and here is where rahman airport is in fact it's so new that the google earth map doesn't actually have it but you can certainly see where the land started to be excavated there for the runway and the terminal and you can also see if i had a little bit how close it is that white line is the jordanian border that's where

the jordanians are so worried but you know a bit further north from a zoom out and hit up here there is another airport will relieve a shell of another airport it is what was guard airport inaugurated in one nine hundred ninety eight you see the runway there destroyed by the israelis in two thousand and one and this child stretford now reports the site really stands as a reminder of how much progress needs to be made in the gaza strip gaza's airport was a symbol of hope for a future peace between israel and palestine. it cost eighty six million dollars to build with funding from the japanese the germans the spanish saudi arabia and egypt when it was opened in november one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the opening ceremony was attended by that the u.s. president bill clinton and this is the remains of it now so has all not was a manager in the airports administration it saddens him to be here now.

but it was great working here we all loved our jobs we had like one family from the manual workers to the high officials it was a beautiful symbol for palestine it showed the world that we palestinians could operate an international airport. the u.s. our fight international airport as it was called could handle seven hundred thousand passengers they could fly to and from cyprus and various capitals around the middle east it was a symbol of hope after the nine hundred ninety three oslo accords the airport stopped operating during the second intifada or uprising against israel's occupation in two thousand israeli fighter jets bombed the control tower and radar station in two thousand and one shovelful seen palestinians feel both sad and angry about this the airport would have helped our economy so much and it employed so many people now it lies in ruins. twenty five years after the failed all

slow peace initiative and three walls later zuhair walks through the rubble despite the destruction of a life he wants briefly knew he says he still won't give up on hope chance trafford al-jazeera gaza. we're going to speak now to the columnist from iraqi he's on skype from tel aviv so we see there the two sides of the coin i guess gaza with no international airport israel now getting its second wonder what what is the real need for a second international airport in a fairly small country. israel is a small but tourism is booming and israel is trying to compete to ways its neighbors mainly ways are kabar airport that actually was opened after the integration of the first airport in a lot daylight

a lot airport i visited it i crossed it several times is quite limited and israel is trying to bring the winter tourists to the area and hopefully in the future we will see packages of tourist packages bringing european tourists coming here to warm up in the summer in a lot of them crossing to aqaba and to sign out i just listen to the report about gaza actually i also visited this airport in gaza when we were in the honeymoon days of all slow but it also reminds me that in two thousand and six. shimon peres at that time he was the one of the architects of all slow and the hero . has agreed with king abdullah of jordan of opening an

international airport in a lot and our combat that will serve both sides that there will be one terminal on the israeli side and another terminal out in jordan and will offer its services to tourists coming to the middle east interesting how a thing is you've mentioned jordan the jordanians are concerned about it but how this actually airspace work in this part of the world given you've got israel surrounded by arab countries which aren't necessarily friends with them. actually i. was enjoying a flight to the far east crossing the airspace of saudi arabia just a few months ago this is what israel is hoping will happen in the future of course it will not happen before the end of the occupation it doesn't go. with the current policy of settlements and occupation but as you see there are other interests and

the saudis before the kazoo the incidents has allowed air india for the first time to cross its space coming from tel aviv to the far east and back. the tories in the tourist that will come from tel aviv as you just mentioned come on. until march it will be only for domestic abuse of domestic flights they will be coming from tel aviv and the nose of israel but in the future when they will come from europe if you look at the map there is no problem to route we'll cross the mediterranean and we'll go straight to a lot. ok there is also work for you do egypt i'm sorry i'm going have to jump in there we've got a lot of other news to get to as well but thank you for your time always enjoy talking to you thank you come on now the annual meeting of the world economic

forum will be held this week in the swiss alps of course known commonly by the name of the town which hosts doubt of the meeting is actually missing some big players this year who are true thing to stay home trying to sort out their domestic issues james bias is with us now from davos who others say does one showing up times. well of course not all the world leaders come here every year but there are some notable figures who won't be here and i think the reason they won't be here is perhaps obvious when you look at some of the recent headlines you look for example france and the french from president emmanuel mark rohr that turmoil and protests in france he's staying away from this and concentrating on the domestic agenda the u.k. prime minister to reason make never was going to come here we're not very far away from that breaks that deadline she's in the u.k. and obviously very vital discussions for her there about brics it and what to do

going forward the big one bo is the one who was going to come here and had it very much on his agenda and that's the u.s. president donald trump he was going to come here for a second year to he enjoyed his gathering here last year he like the reception he received one year ago but because of that government shutdown he canceled his trip he was still then going to send his secretary of state his treasury secretary and his son in law jar a cushion or because the shutdown has continued i think they felt that that would send the wrong message having those members of the administration here with business leaders in the swiss alps they've actually pulled out the whole u.s. delegation from this event what's the biggest concerns up there this year james when it comes to economic issues i mean we are now a decade on from the global financial crisis but it looks like growth is still pretty slow you've got brains that to worry about you've got trade wars to worry about all these sorts of things. absolutely some of the issues

that are reasons leaders are staying away are the same issues that worry them here breaks it of course as you say is one of the issues the chinese figures that have come out in the last few hours the growth in china that is worrying people the idea of a trade war between the chart between china and the u.s. is worrying people as the shutdown in the u.s. continues for now i think economists see that just as a little bit of a bump but if it continues for much longer that could affect the u.s. economy and of course going back to president trump who's not going to be here the question is whether if he was here this year he'd get the reception that he got a year ago remember it was just after the tax cut a year ago and the stock market was riding high very different picture one year on for president trump and i think you've got to look at the global economic picture

which isn't looking particularly good and where we are in the u.s. political cycle now in the last two years an administrator next year election year the nightmare of course for a u.s. president is to have that election year coinciding with a downturn even a recession that now is a possibility james bays in snowy davus james thank you for that and almost like clockwork sam has released its annual inequality reports it's released really every year to coincide with the world's elite gathering and devils they have found the twenty six richest people in the world have the same wealth as the poorest huffs of humanity who have actually seen their wealth decline eleven percent and two thousand one thousand the full report is that out as they were dot com it includes down the bottom here an edition of inside story on what is behind that growing economic gap. we are going off the grid now to the philippines and some probably quite shocking news if you are the parent of a child under the age of ten or is now looking at

a new bill that was passed on the reaction to it that's right come all the house committee on justice in manila has possibile that can criminalize children as young as nine years old. and the response. is over. for this bill would amend the current law that sets the minimum age of criminal liability at fifteen years and allows for children between the age of nine and eighteen nine to eighteen to be sent to intensive juvenile intervention and support centers if they're accused of committing murder homicide rate or drug related crimes well the justice panel says the bill actually seeks to protect children from being taken advantage of by organized crime groups the people online raged the campaign children not criminals is growing on twitter and charles says imagine you have a nine year old sibling maybe third or fourth grader who contrary fluently doesn't know his rights properly discern adults potential criminal behavior but he can't be

sent to jail in no time for acts he doesn't even understand and rights groups say the children says during the age of criminal responsibility will only push children to further discrimination abuse and anti social behavior and unicef philippines describes the bill as an act of violence against children but it looks like the issue of child attention isn't new in the philippines a story of an eleven or an eleven year old boy who was detained in two thousand and two before the posse all of this recent bill was shared on facebook by the child rights network. i'm out for no don't let me out sometimes it gets to midnight without us having had any breakfast lunch or dinner so we get so so hungry but we don't have any money i could not stand the hunger any more so i said let's just steal from the store but we could not reach the show so we took money instead i was at the back counting coins one two three and the door opened and then the store

owner said let the children go because it was no big deal but my father said no they'll do that again put them all in jail. and since a new bill was passed many have been protesting against this decision but we do want to get your thoughts on the story suggests wait us use the hash tag aging is great or you can dismiss me directly i'm after him come all thank you we're here this is the newsgroup if you're with us on facebook live about a story for you now for my friends and i to pass it's about a man in aleppo syria who founded the sanctuary for cats and then later the british prime minister to resume a gets ready to reveal their plan b. for brags that they're waiting for him the house of commons will be live there in a month. and they're all storm is now clearing away from the middle east look at the satellite picture we can see old this cloud here edging its way eastwards away from

many parts of afghanistan and taking its mixture of rain and snow with it so forcing couple let it should be draw as we had to choose day a maximum temperature of two degrees and further north it should also be trod draw a force in tashkent with a maximum of four further west we all seen a few showers around the coast of turkey bull durham certainly had a lot of rain in the last day or so and it looks like we'll see a fair few more showers just in the west in case there for wednesday further south there and here it should be dry so things here are a lot more settled over for the towards the south than here in doha it's been pretty chilly over the past few days and particularly over the past couple of nights. it's things will improve though as we head through the next few days so turn to three degrees will be our maximum during the day and at night we'll see the temperatures drop not quite so low as well over the towards the south of the southern parts of africa his all store miss it desmond and it's gradually tracking its way northward it's moving very slowly but it's working its way towards the coast of mozambique so that's where we're expecting the heaviest of the downpours

as we head through the next few days and if that system gradually works inland it will bring its heavy rain with us some places could see around two hundred fifty millimeters. you know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before a judge jury. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera and monday put it world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their

days looking forward to full dry riverbed like this one back with the news grid where i live in london the house of commons theresa may is addressing there he's on the regs that plan b. . i'm pleased with everyone we met with took the same approach. i regret i regret that the rational gentleman the leader of the opposition has not chosen to take. my hand i hope you will reflect on that decision given the importance of this issue we should all be prepared to work together to find a way forward in my ministerial colleagues and i will continue with further meetings this week let me set out the six key issues which have been at the center of the talks today it's the first to relate to the process from moving forwards first there is widespread concern about the possibility of the u.k. leaving without a deal and there are those on both sides of the house who want the government to rule this out. but we need to be honest with the british people about what that

means the right way to rule out no deal is for this house to approve a deal with the european. sassiness that is not. this government is seeking to achieve the only other guaranteed way to avoid or no deal brix it is to revoke article fifty which would mean staying in the e.u. . there are others who think that what we need is more time so they say we should extend article fifty to give longer for parliament to debate how we should leave and what a deal should look like this is not ruling out no deal but simply deferring the point of decision and the e.u. are very unlikely simply to agree to stand article fifty without a plan for how we're going to approve a deal so when people say rule out no deal the consequences of what they are actually saying are that if we in parliament can't approve a deal we should revoke article fifty mr speaker i believe this would go against

the referendum result. and i do not believe that is a course of action that we should take or which this house should support second all the opposition parties that engage so far and some backbenchers have expressed their support for a second referendum i set out many times my deep concerns about returning to the british people for a second referendum our duty is to implement the decision of the first one i fear a second referendum would set a difficult precedent that could have significant implications for how we handle referendums in this country not least not least strengthening the hand of those campaigning to break up our united states. it would require an extension of article fifteen. it would require an extension of article fifty we would very likely have to return a new set of any piece to the european parliament in may and i also believe that

there is not yet been enough recognition of the way that a second referendum could damage social cohesion by undermining. so tourism address. thing is they're typically boisterous crowd they are in the houses of parliament is she well let's talk to lawrence lee about it actually lawrence the correspondent who's followed so many of the twists and turns and breaks that so far no we only listen to a little bit there lawrence and it's going to go on for some time but short story does to reason may have a plan b. or is it more sort of a minus just trying to tweak the old one. no you know that today statistically is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year and . if you want to get depressed then his his his the place to be you know their employees just literally walking around with their heads in the hand saying you know we're now an international law things talk plainly she's already said if there's any spoken for

a minute or two you know even though she's had all these and be some other parties in saying you've got to extend article fifty because we can see green we can crush that with no deal because there's only a only a rump of m.p.'s actually wants no deal. all the needs of another referendum or a rethink of the whole thing or something and across the channel you know they get their absolute infuriated by the lack of progress but if he's playing now that's a reason mais strategy is basically to run the clock down as close as she can sue march the twenty ninth which is the shed you'll date for the u.k. leaving the european union scare the life out of m.p.'s on all sides with the prospects of no deal and basically balance them into saying as indeed some very right wing conservative is already saying the deal is deeply flawed we don't like it at all but it's better than staying in the european union and that really does now appear to be the way she is looking so she is what we called t. needs in this country deaf to people's peoples in treaties and frankly one of the

most galling things for her opponents about all this is when she keeps saying you've got to think about the national interest and not about your own political policy when many of her opponents say her big fear is that if she agrees to not have no deal it would split the conservative party and so she's more interesting given the conservative party together even if parliament eventually says that they can be no no deal then putting it on herself and so does that there's all sorts of allegations of accusation of apocryphally doing the rounds as well and his the most extraordinary thing of all some of the british broadcasters in polls to. has been polling members of the public where apparently a full twenty five percent of people seem to be in favor of no deal and yet some of them seem to think that no deal means staying in the rip european union so they don't even know what no deal means and these are people who can end of having another vote in the second referendum so the whole thing is frankly beyond

exasperating but as it is at the moments parliament isn't going to seem to have a vote on anything now insula middle of february and that's only about four weeks into the shuttle departure date she's also cain as we heard at the start of that speech there lawrence to lay blame at the feet of jeremy coleman the leader of the opposition no surprise that's how politics works but what is the issue with him apparently not coming to the table well he said he won't meet her until she rules out no deal now i mean technically what she just said there is actually correct that if parliament votes to rule out no deal then they they have to vote for something else instead and that could effectively mean revoking article fifty and staying in the european union which she says would be a breach of the referendum and parts of the thing that's on her side is the chaos in all the opposition parties and indeed some of her own m.p.'s who are all bickering with each other because they because they all want different things and they can't agree on the on the separation. as to what's going to happen next but as

i say it in terms you know. stretches to run down the clock but you heard what james bass was saying from terrible surlier on this isn't just about the arc arcane details of british parliament's hearts bricks it now and the financial chaos would be which would in shoe if the u.k. left without a european union is now being classed as a major global risk because if because of the pound plummets the stock market plummets then there's a contingent effect on the stock markets around the world companies start to shut down jobs move abroad it's very very serious lawrence thank you for all of that we'll talk to you in later on. and just an interesting little feature i found was added to our desire about common the past twenty four hours it's looking at british overseas territories fourteen of them around the world quarter of a million people ninety six percent of them voted to remain in the e.u. so they're watching this one closely one man said people are surprised that so much could change without our say in it it's a really interesting re do recommend you have

a look at that brings it trouble in paradise and just quickly theresa may has also said i've just seen is she does not believe there is any majority in parliament for a second referendum and also that she will be consulting parliament on the go she had a mandate for the next phase of the talks in other words get parliament's agreement first and then take that back to the european union to try to renegotiate with them ongoing brags that drama as they are we must take to iraq now that the oldest streets in iraq's capital which is finally reopened after being blocked off the seventeen years it was once the center of baghdad social and business life but closed during the u.s. that invasion when many of the buildings fell into disrepair but now the government has opened it up trying to show that baghdad is safe math and went for a walk. this is all right she street it's one of the most iconic streets in central baghdad there's been a street all in this route for the best part of a hundred years it dates back to the early days of the ottoman empire in the

sixteenth century but all rasheed streets came into being about about nine hundred sixteen that's when the british suffered a serious defeat at the hands of the autumn winds to the south of baghdad to commemorate that victory the military governor of baghdad coming up pasha said that this street should be built during the u.s. led invasion of iraq the street was closed and that's because it's a very strategic importance for baghdad it links. the central bank to behind me to baghdad's main base to business district which is just a few kilometers on the other side that was very important and it was very likely that it was going to be a significant target so the street was closed but seventeen years later it's reopened for decades all of the sheet street was the center of baghdad social life there was cinemas here and restaurants and cafes and hundreds of small businesses its heyday was in the one nine hundred fifty s. when money from oil started to make its way into the iraqi economy and people had

more money to spend but over the years the buildings have fallen into disrepair particularly during the years when the streets being closed the government is hoping that this by reopening the street will send two messages first of all that the project problems in the center of baghdad might get a little bit easier but perhaps more importantly that the city of baghdad is getting back to normal and it's safe. for what if you fell on this one i don't know that i know how sort of active iraqis are on the social media with an event like this a lot of it is in arabic so we did have some help today really rocking time as i did at the marquee was a festive drive through streets of the nineteenth spec to the operational work being done to remove concrete barriers that were cemented in the streets nearly seventeen years ago he also met with residents and shop owners who welcomed the move and process as a milestone. and some new sides are sharing videos of the official street opening

this morning yellow news live streamed the event plenty of cars driving through with shoppers and street vendors meanwhile others are sharing pictures online of all rasheed street some go back as far as the nine hundred twenty s. it was one of the main centers in baghdad with retail stores cafes restaurants government buildings were all interlaced for many the street is a reminder of a more peaceful and multicultural past that some think the government should be doing more to rebuild iraq we have promised had be the editor of. an iraqi news websites based in doha. seeing that rashid street and the major parts of the city's core are reopening definitely send a strong message that the city is coming back to life however looking closer at the government's ability to provide the basic means of sustenance to its citizens or more likely the inability of the government to do so and here we're talking about

health care education clean water and electricity we ask ourselves is this a real sign of a new era or is this just a p.r. stunt well what do you think of the opening of all rashid street protests is the hash tag. yes thank you for that. just a couple quick comments of so you know on bragg's it here one question about cancer reason why retaliate with a second referendum i mean she is wrong if she does not want but she says as we know it breaks it means brigs it and as i saw on the news wires there she is very much so and she does not believe parliament has the numbers or the appetite for. a second referendum and just quickly shannon says i want to know how the queen of england herself feels about briggs that. who would know but sometimes i wonder if she's just sitting there in buckingham palace with a head in her hands every now and then wondering what is going on. once again for the. video from. washington this is from.

sports fans getting excited about an trip to the n.f.l. the biggest day.

honestly explore well super bowl in a moment but cup football yeah not a good day for saudi arabia more three time champion saudis have been knocked out of the asian cup japan beaten them one nail to reach the quarterfinals on deck a hero to my ass to school the only goal of the game in japan have lifted the continental trophy at four of the last seven editions of the tournament.

right now defending champions australia playing back east on the last time the teams met and this event australia wants six nil it's still nil now and all i know and the game is heading into extra time well this year the tournament to a was expanded to include twenty four teams up for the first time we are asian football writer and to give us his opinion on whether that decision had paid off. a lot of people expected it to be blowouts there has been some blowouts was in the group stage but looking and analyzing that data there's not that much of an increase in the average from this tournament to previous tournaments furthermore having twenty four teams we've seen the absolute jubilation it's created to fans across asia for newcomers to the tournament and for those that have been there before may have necessarily not have made it this time through qualifications had

it not being expanded so nations such as vietnam and victory last night against the quarterfinals absolutely amazing jordan and palestine. obviously jordan getting knocked out last night but they talked a group with australia you know. not only do we see an expansion in markets and allowing nations to develop themselves and get better in a tournament setting so they can bridge the gap but also it means for those left that do qualify for the asian cup they're playing groups with nations that have similar ability and we are seeing less blowouts in qualification and that confidence that preparation is leading into having better quality football at the tournament the favorites the traditional powerhouses have done what it needed to do to get through the tournament none have really looked particularly exciting they're just going through the rhythm if you look at their big stars they're all playing in european leagues and if you look at south korea with young sungmin joining the late

as well maybe destructing preparation in terms of who i thought could do some damage or go into the tournament i thought qatar saudi arabia and they potentially especially could come into this tournament very different to how they came in two thousand and fifteen two thousand and fifteen they're expected to do really well potentially even when they had a very good group of players a golden generation so to speak even this time around it's been completely different in terms of the expectations on the national team and they've done absolutely fantastically. well tom brady's new england patriots are back in the super bowl for a third straight year the patriots it will take on the loss and it is a rom so for the n.f.l.'s biggest prize brady posted this video on instagram mass he left the kansas city chiefs stadium in a words were necessary the patriots a had just won the game in overtime the video also includes new england's winning touchdown and has been viewed more than one point three million times

but really well today. we're going to need a more great game so that's pretty a great way to end it most players excited as i've been in a long time and you know a lot of things one play here one play here it changed everything but this book will be the starting. in the n.f.c. this side of the rams spent the entire game playing catch up against in new orleans saints the greg alliance a field goal eventually gave the rams a twenty six to twenty three overtime win at thirty two shell mcveigh is the youngest head coach to lead a team to the super bowl. i've never coached an atmosphere like that ever it was so loud and you know we had some communication issues from the start we've dealt with it big time adversity and kind of personifies what i think team this is this is been really throughout the course of the year fell behind guys just kept competing kept swinging in wasn't always perfect but guys made enough plays and i think

really the over time periods personifies what this team is really all about. well fans in los angeles have every right to be excited as an l.a. franchise it's been a close to four decades since the rams made it to the super bowl but the rams did win the title in two thousand but that was when the team was based in san louis. working with the super. bowl. is the best way to get. the room. which. they've been working to get back it is working. well usually tom brady dominates the chats all social media but this year is the rams and their young coach sean mcveigh who are stealing the headlines and f.l. team carolina panthers expressed their support for the rams in a few words on the view but saying they're really really really really really really really have another page told are really really really really happy for the

rams when was the l.a. lakers star le bron james was also quick to congratulate them saying congrats runs on punching your ticket to the super bowl hash tag l.a. unites together rams coach mike fay was just sixteen years old when brady when his first super bowl this fan to eat it of come to the conclusion that even though i admire the patriot to tennessee i'm living our life vicariously through sean mcveigh the next two weeks do this exactly where i hope to be in life by his eight well you can let us know what you think via twitter using the hash tag a.j. news grid there will be more sports at eighteen jim t. would far but for now had you back to come up thanks so you know what i liked about this is how happy people were on twitter i woke up this morning actually i tweeted this i screamed grabbed a few things just people being really really happy what a day and well well well he's the king this is the only reason i watch n.f.l. games what a game it would see i cannot handle it was just nice to see people happy on twitter

not going on about. brags that not going on about bad news it's just nice to see it's rare these days as well that will give this news great if you've got a comment to say that it does hashtag a new script. to facebook on whatsapp and we'll see you back here in the city of fourteen a down to zero fifteen hundred hours g.m.t. tomorrow tuesday. saturday has never been a real easy sell for investment how much are the reserves down through all of the understated or overstated they own no shares you're

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i'm barbara starr you're watching live from london also coming up on the program hours after taliban fighters killed thousands of members of the afghan security forces the group says it's helped talks with the u.s. special envoy britain's prime minister presents her greg said plan b. to parliament but how different is it really from the one that was voted down last week and the moon earth and sun lined up to create a highly unusual eclipse known as a super blood wolf moon. hello thank you for joining us we begin in syria where there's been a new outbreak of violence between regional rivals a suicide bomber has rammed his car into a checkpoint in the kurdish controlled northeast killing at least five people the

bomb went off in the city of the as a joint convoy of u.s. troops and allied fighters from the syrian democratic forces passed by but no american soldiers were killed or injured eisel says it's responsible that just a few hours earlier the skies over the mask this blazed with explosions as israeli warplanes launched airstrikes against the iranian military targets russia says its air defense system shot down thirty israeli cruise missiles and guided bombs over the syrian capital well we have correspondents covering this story from the turkish syrian border and washington but first though let's watch this report from santa halder in neighboring lebanon. israel has repeatedly struck targets inside syria for years but rarely admits doing so now it is confirming the attacks and providing information saying it's targeting the elite couldst force unit of the iranian revolutionary guards israel has lifted the veil and its message is that it has no

intention of stopping the strikes because one of the new we have a permanent palsy to strike of uranium entrenchment in syria and her whoever tries to hurt us israel operates in syria with russia's approval moscow turns a blind eye when the strikes don't weaken the syrian government and when the israeli military gives the russian military prior notice the russian defense ministry doesn't usually comment on the operations but this time they didn't just provide details about syrian army casualties but that syrian air defenses destroyed israeli missiles russia will send. some messages to israel. course it will. continue providing. more missile systems or more. rockets. there are reports that russia wants israel to stop targeting in and around the damascus airport it's a difficult balancing act for moscow it has

a good relationship with israel but it wants commercial planes to start landing to end syria's isolation but the airport is also important to iran israeli officials have said civilian cargo planes are used to transfer weapons from to her and to iranian backed groups in syria including lebanon's hezbollah they also say iran's privately owned mahaan air is one of the carriers suspected of carrying war material to syria the airline has been under u.s. sanctions and now the german government has decided to prevent it from landing at german airports many of the strikes targeting damascus airport coincided with reports of iranian planes landing on sunday air flight was about to make its approach before turning back according to israeli media the latest wave of attacks is the second in less than ten days and the third since the u.s. announced last month plans to withdraw american troops israel was concerned the u.s. pullout would strengthen iran which has vowed to stay in syria as long as required

but israel to made a promise and that is to keep up the airstrikes until iran leaves. beirut well as mentioned there israel's announcement that it struck targets in its war torn neighbor was highly unusual as the government is normally very secretive about its activities in syria harry force that has more now from. it was just eight days since the last time the israeli prime minister was speaking very openly about an israeli strike inside syria that came last sunday two days after that strike a much more limited one it was also the same weekend that the outgoing military chief gary isengard was detailing in a much more comprehensive way exactly what israel had been doing over the last few years targeting urania interests inside syria really putting an end it seemed or at least moving away from the policy of ambiguity which israel has been surrounding its activities for those years up until this point the reason for that change well

there are two explanations being posited here mainly one of them being domestic politics elections coming up on april the ninth benjamin netanyahu under serious pressure over three separate corruption investigations a potential decision by the attorney general re indictment coming within weeks it's expected and so it suits his political profile certainly to appear strong and in charge of israel's security at this time also the it may well be that the military wants to message iran and indeed syria that it is willing to do more and escalate its activities over syria further and messaging this before it does so certainly there has been analysis that changing this policy does run the risk of iran and syria potentially using that as a reason to be more open in their possible escalatory actions and that is certainly one risk that the israeli government the israeli military appears to deem we're

taking at the moment let's speak now to osama bin dividing ghezzi and on turkey's border with syria some a good to see the first of all do you think it's likely that israel is going to become more aggressive now in targeting iranian positions in syria after this attack was foiled. well this is on the face of it does appear that way but israel has maintained that policy that it would announce some strike it will take credit for some strikes where it would skirt around others so this seems to be a continuation of policy per se but what it is done is that it has called the bluff of iranian commanders and the pressure that we've been seen building inside syria after the repeated victories of the syrian government against opposition groups taking back a lot of areas and iran in trenching itself inside syrian territory and building its military presence and chose that iranian presence inside syria is both vulnerable and at risk from not just israeli targets but also pressure from other

allies such as russia which does not see eye to eye with everything that iran does inside syria so it's a it's a slice of the very complicated picture inside syria close to where we are on the turkish syria border there is also another aspect of this conflict which is the divisions between the united states and turkey over the future of what happens when the u.s. troops pull out and obviously all of that plays a role into how we're seeing the belly cause rhetoric from various circles whether it's israel whether it's the united states whether it's still inside here in turkey or the russians who've now also come up with not just the numbers but a very rare admission of what happened and how dare defenses are going to be protecting the syrian government some a lot of questions still unanswered about the future u.s. withdrawal of some of in with the latest from ten percent to thank you to get more u.s. reaction now on the latest attack from

a white house correspondent kimberly halkett secondly do you think that this latest attack on a u.s. convoy is likely to sway the u.s. president's decision to withdraw or bizarrely do you think it actually reinforces that way of thinking that actually withdrawal is the only option. well the president over the weekend was there when the four american soldiers return to the united states were killed in the attack that occurred last wednesday we reached out to the white house to see if there is any further reaction to the attack on the sleigh this convoy so far the white house has not issued a statement but there are many within the president's own party senior senators like lindsey graham on capitol hill who are urging the president to at the very least have a slow smart withdraw all there was a lot of surprise when the president announced that was wrong decision december nineteenth many people felt it was rash that it had not been carefully. thought out

and as a result we even saw the departure of the secretary of defense james madison over that decision but it appears the president is continuing to move forward even as some of his top advisers like the secretary of state like pompei own national security advisor john bolton are looking to put in place some conditions for example a safe zone potentially to protect the kurdish fighters that help the united states but that turkey says is affiliated with terrorist groups so these are the kinds of things that his advisors have been working on very quietly in the background even as the president continues to press forward with this withdrawal it's already in the works and you have to remember there are some political and domestic calculation to all of this the twenty twenty presidential election seems very far off but in the minds of many americans who are fatigued with our ongoing wars for the united states they're looking for donald trump to deliver on that campaign promise to have the united states withdraw from the conflicts that it is untangled

in and so this example of another u.s. attack or rather attack on u.s. interests is certainly going to bolster that feeling i'm at least among the domestic public that this is just further underscoring that the president needs to live on that promise can really help it with the latest from washington thank you. at least forty three members of afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a coordinated attack by the taliban the voices news agency says the best saw could be as high as three times that number the target was a military base and police training center in my dad shot which is just outside kabul and when there's attack is the latest in a series of assaults by the taliban hours after the attack taliban representatives held the talks with the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan in qatar that's according to a spokesman for the group well to talk about this in more detail let's speak now to

have be border doc who joins us live from kabul sir thank you so much for joining you are an analyst in in such issues now the timing does seem strange the taliban has admitted responsibility for the satanic which literally came hours before they were meant to meet the u.s. says special envoy for afghanistan i mean actually there's obviously doesn't engender any good feeling to try to find a resolution or some you know middle ground between the u.s. and the taliban yes real hard moscow conference two months ago and then we have the u.a.e. conference a month ago it looked like the taliban were into their mission for use and we're going of they could get something out of the negotiations and the peace process but the policy that we are proud from the united states and its afghan counterparts that is the afghan government was a policy where the.