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zero zero zero s. . with every. the u.s. pushes its middle east agenda at a conference in colons but iran isn't an vices describes the talks as a stuff this. hello i'm a saudi attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iranian russian and

tuchis leaders are in salt talks about the war in syria. the joint resolution is passed. a push to end u.s. support for the war and yemen is one step closer to becoming reality but challenges remain. it's the. end of the runway for the world's biggest passenger plane thousands of european jobs under threat as air bus kills off the a three eighty. s. the u.s. secretary of state says a new era of cooperation is forming between arab and israeli leaders he was speaking as a conference in warsaw where the u.s. has gathered sixteen nations the official agenda is broad but the real focus appears to be iran most european nations have sent junior officials to the meeting it's a further sign they're unhappy with u.s. sanctions against iran tehran has dismissed the gathering as

a second it says the real work is taking place in sochi that's where the presidents of russia iran and turkey a meeting for a fourth round of talks on syria. are two meetings with conflicting visions for the middle east in a moment we'll have reaction from santa clara in the iranian capital but first let's go. at that gathering and walsall what's on today's agenda there. well definitely iran is on the top of the journey with secretary of state by saying that this is this gathering of a conference in warsaw is a good opportunity to build a global coalition against iran and also the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that this could be a good opportunity to rally support among arab nations also in the region against. against iran earlier in a meeting between netanyahu and. the u.s.

secretary of state said that it's difficult to have stability in the region with the groups affiliated with iran like hezbollah eleven and these in the yemen operating financed by iran so this is going to be the top issue in the agenda now are they going to be able to rally support about how to move forward when it comes to iran that would be the case because many countries many key players are very skeptical of this i push by the americans to to impose a tougher stance when it comes to dealing with iran that are still many key players who believe the all the way to engage with the iranians is to maintain the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal on one hand and on the other to talk to them diplomatically about how to solve the problems in the region particularly water in yemen and also in syria. as you say there are also other rivalries at play how is all of this playing out with the u.s.

relationship with not only europe but also of russia. well this most of the issues here are divisive for example these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu is hoping to be able to build bridges with our muslim leaders here in warsaw and to team up against iran and here is the problem with this particular approach is that not really there is no consensus among arab leaders it is about time to team up with these rioters for different reasons first of all they say that these writers are not genuine about a viable political solution to the middle east crisis and they're concerned that he could just be using this to further advance his political agenda back home in israel the sudden loss of president trump is going to deliver a speech where he's going to talk about his peace plan something that has infuriated the palestinians and many delegations who remain very skeptical about

this new peace plan which they thing could undermine the chances for the palestinians to have their own state for the time being as we speak the dog in the arab and muslim world is we are ok. as long as that peace deal will guarantee the right for the policy the refugees to go back home and for eastern jerusalem to be the capital of a palestinian state and this explains why the policy is staying away from that or not we come to the political divide particular between the u.s. and between the rushers. many are saying that because as we speak you know this talking about about syria you can chill syria without the russians have a huge political leverage ability to leverage in syria. about war in yemen without having iran as well a key player in the region so i think this summit started just today with this.

whole issue of. this could be a great trip of should you just solve the problems of the middle east that devised continuance is there is hash in the whole bar in warsaw for us thank you hashem well iran's foreign minister says it's no coincidence that the warsaw conference opened on the same day as a major attack near its border with pakistan a car bomb kills at least twenty seven soldiers from the revolutionary guards on thursday president hassan rouhani said the bombing was a stain on the record of america's allies. let's bring you some breaking news now we're getting reports of multiple casualties in a roadside bomb explosion in indian administered kashmir police say at least fourteen security personnel have been killed but al jazeera sources on the ground say the number of casualties could be much higher we'll be bringing you more on that story as it develops. returning to our top story iran's president isn't

meet with his russian counterparts to discuss syria's war. since the u.s. plans to withdraw its troops from the conflict tekkie it wants to fill that void but russia and iran believe the assad government should take back control anahata reports from tehran. they last met in teheran in september the presidents of russia iran and turkey are partners in the so-called asked on a process on syria since then the us announced plans to withdraw its troops from the north east a corner of syria which is under the control of the kurdish armed groups the white p.g. turkey wants to fill the void and create what it calls a safe zone in syria along its borders iran however shares russia's position allies of the syrian government are referring to the one nine hundred ninety eight at an agreement between syria and turkey the best way. to defend syrian turkish borders. legitimate concerns of turkish neighbors

about terrorist attacks from syrian territory to make sure that the syrian government has control of its territory we have done agreement and we can see how best we can use that agreement the kremlin has been encouraging talks between syria and the wife for a peaceful handover but it is also trying to push for direct contact between syria and turkey and that is where the ad in a dream and comes in that agreement and that syrian government support for the p.k. kate the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization russia's message was that turkey can rely on syria to reign in the white peachey which turkey says is an offshoot of the p.k. k. or up between the once close allies is seen as a positive development by iran i think by.

all of the. mend. erdogan has talked about low level contact with the syrian government through the intelligence services russia iran and turkey their differences but their strategic interests means they find common ground none of the countries want to risk rupturing their relationship russia doesn't want turkey to move to the us iran wants turkey to remain an economic lifeline turkey wants a seat on the table the defense ministers of turkey and russia have been meeting to determine the roadmap for the post u.s. period the fate of now under the control of what many in the international community regard as an al qaida linked group seems to be a park in egypt russia has been pressuring turkey to act against. to avert a syrian government offensive that could cause a humanitarian crisis on its border. that.

deals are in the making russia promise to move to wipe e.g. from the border it may promise turkey security guarantees or it could allow turkey to set up a temporary safe zone that is all on the table when the three presidents meet in sochi. santa tell us a little more about the significance of the. well these three leaders these partners in these so-called asses in the process they need to find a consensus on what will happen once the united states pulls its forces out of the northeastern corner of syria a very strategic corner thirty percent of syrian territory an area rich in oil and resources damascus and its allies russia and iran want the syrian government to

restore sovereignty over this territory turkey believes it should be able to create a so-called safe zone for two reasons security concerns because it believes the kurdish armed group the white b.g. is a terrorist organization they want that group to be pushed away from the border and they want a safe zone for humanitarian reasons so that refugees can return so these three leaders don't see eye to eye iranian president hassan rouhani before leaving to sochi this morning made it very very clear when he said syria's territorial integrity needs to be respected he didn't single out the presence of u.s. forces calling them occupying troops but he also said not any part of syria should be under the control of any country which could be hinting to turkey but these countries really it's a very difficult balancing act because they need to each other in syria but what is significant is that both iran and russia are not talking about the at the no agreement an agreement that this doesn't just talk about

a security guarantees it is an agreement that talks about cooperation between ankara and damascus so iran and of russia trying to pull turkey closer together with damascus two countries that we have to remember president or the god of turkey president bashar assad of syria they were once close friends yes. you know support the opposition throughout the war but there seems to be attempts to bring these two countries closer together. thank you santa. on al-jazeera senior political analyst joins us now and i. want to. talking about these two missing the us that missing in warsaw and the russian led initiative in such which is likely to have more impact on the ground in the middle east well certainly. if the three presidents in sochi agree which i don't think it is as as good as it seems by their declarations there is definitely more to make

a progress in sochi then there is a morsel because insult you were talking about the future of syria and the three protagonists in this case russia iran and turkey have very specific demands for the time being that the turks want everything gets east northeast of syria the russians want everything that's north west of syria. the iranian wants the syrian society they want to infiltrate the syrian society and they want to normalize relations with the syrian society they want to have more influence within syria and it happened to be that the fourth was not in sochi bashar assad he wants basically paedo any attempts at building a new constitution in the country that would put his future in jeopardy so i think the future in the future in sochi depends whether each one of the protagonists will agree to the demands of the others and it's not clear to me that russia will agree

to turkey moving to the north east or turkey agreeing to russia or moving to the north western source of force now in war so it's much more fluid than that in in war so the united states is trying to put together some kind of an international effort that i think it failed to do so in the middle east but say it tried over the last several months to put the gulf countries in israel together in the region it didn't work out so now it basically kicked it upstairs to some kind of an international meeting of sorts in warsaw and east european country i must add because west europe does not agree. the new american initiative to destabilize iran or to attack iran well let me ask you a little more about that kind of restructuring of power in the middle east as american influence is appearing to weigh in is russia trying to step into that void absolutely i think in so many ways as i said despite the many challenges president putin with a stroke of brilliance understood that this was the best time to bring turkey and

iran together back in two thousand and seventeen because turkey needed some new alliance of sorts because it was alienated from nato so bringing turkey and iran in moscow in order to find out what could be the future of syria is a stroke of a brilliant imperial architecture for a post-war effort something that the united states used to be good at but it's no longer a especially since the end of the cold war so what we have now is the united states being a spoiler in more so and a spoiler in israel palestine a spoiler in the gulf the united states not able to be the architect it used to be once especially under president trump what has been the person putin that basically launched a war in syria against the op that the syrian opposition is now playing the.