a port al jazeera is also says in dasa, our house in that building and the time has come down. the other before in human history has the once per se demon barn to the arctic students such peril. ah no norn taylor and under the top stories on al jazeera of in the 1st signs of an easing and the border crisis on the european union's eastern frontier. more than 400 iraqi migrants have abandoned their attempts to enter the e u, and flown home to abil and baghdad. many had been stranded at the polish batteries border for more than a week. but a re says it's moved. hundreds of migrants still stranded at the border to nearby warehouses, but many remain in limbo, as i said, beg reports, stranded cold, and living and miserable conditions. these people on the bela russian side of the

border with poland. i'm now getting some help, but it's far from what they want and meet. but the roost has some in a makeshift shelter. a warehouse with beds, blankets, and food, but still they tried to cross. oh hi. this footage, released by polish authorities, shows people detained as they crossed the border. oh, me on a dove in the green, supposed to have yells, cable up into to them. there were 501 attempts of the legal border crossings from belarus in the last 24 hours limit of what this means. the total number of such attempts in november exceed $6000.00 target but the russian forces also released this footage. lithuanian border force dog bites into a man sleeping bag. lithuanian authority say they didn't know someone was inside. the e u wants to impose more sanctions and the g 7 has condemned by the roost. they say

it's creek to the situation on his borders in what the you called a form of hybrid attack by the russian official say the president has offered german chancellor anglo merkel away forward resident with his vizier. the susannah smithsonian, the, you will create a humanitarian corridor for 2000 refugees. her and the camp were taken obligation upon ourselves to assist the other 5000 as much as possible. and in case they are willing to return home is along you something the e u. has rejected out of hand, but tensions are bedrooms. his borders remain high. ukraine has deployed the national guards to its border with belarus and lithuania, as also reinforced its border with the country. but the ru says it won't force any migrant refugees to go back home. but with no solution in sight, those who are tracked are likely to continue to be used as pawns in a much larger game. aside, beg, i'll jazeera poland, protested since you don, i once again clashing with security forces a day after at least 15 people were killed by police gunfire. security forces hard

tear gas at demonstrators in the capital cartoon as widespread anger. the military's refusal to hand back power after last month's takeover. if a morgan has more from cartoon now the police made their 1st press briefing seems to take over on thursday. they said that they did not use any live ammunition against protesters, and they use the minimal force needed to try to stop protested and that they only use tear gas and battens and did not fire weapons at protest as they say, it's the country that happened and bats protested, attack police properties in which they had to defend, defend themselves, at least 80 police officers have been injured in the protests, on the 13th and on the 17th, but processed. the said that is not true. that 6 united nation staff have been released from detention in ethiopia, a un spokesperson said 5 staff and one family member, remain in custody after the arrests this month. if you can, authorities to rounded up high profile to grounds as well as u. n. staff in

a crackdown on suspected supporters of the rebellious northern forces. several countries across europe are struggling with a new wave of corona, virus. numbers, infections and deaths arising, often where vaccination levels are lower. and that's led germany, greece and other governments to re impose restrictions on the on vaccinated to try to contain the spread state of emergency is in effect and the canadian province of british columbia. after heavy rainfall triggered flooding and mud slides, your thirties have confirmed one death and at least 3 people are missing. the number of dead is expected to rise. a sad master of chaos is next, which examines the political power plays at work during the war in syria. do stay with us again. our morning she ought to. that was the

ah, the civil war in syria has now been fought for more than a decade. around half a 1000000 syrians have died in the conflict and more than 12000000 of left the country. tens of thousands are held in government prisons within cities, but bought out allison is still president lining the said, i don't to see a side as the real cause of the problems in syria with us. not as hans

determination to remain in power has had global consequences. neighboring countries have been overwhelmed by millions of refugees. other countries have been drawn in to the conflict and new geopolitical dynamics of developed because of russia support for us. but how did this all come about before the war assa, to developed a reputation over 10 years as a reformer. and this has made us government's actions since 2011. all the more shocking. besson azure. did you see that the extended my term? he'd be a good kind of a person. you would wanna have a dinner party going back. i did not see any evidence that a cheryl are sad, could become the premier war criminal of the 21st century. ah

ah ah ah french t v. filmed with us at a few months before government troops attack demonstrators in the street in march 2011. here he seemed driving to the opera in damascus with his wife asthma. ah, you have to put your seat belts on otherwise the police could still p. class had studied medicine and damascus and then up from ology in london. but when his elder brother basil was killed in a car accident, in 1994 basha returned to syria as heir apparent. actually we'd like to go very much into comfort. i know from fresh music, of course it was young, of course,

very, very old one and nobody can say, but from doug innovation, mary matthew and judah. tv, well, i would have, i go to my world to the fed up i. i only drive myself, but it's very unsecure. no, no, no. it is very secure. company bulletproof can open the window ticket and helping you with otherwise you'd be living in it like living in a cage. nobody wants to live in a cage. when i saw its father, huffines' died in 2000 mashhad, inherited one of the most notorious and isolated dictatorships in the outer world. ah, ah

ah! in january 2011, the seas of uprisings known as the arab spring, began 1st the chim. izzy in president xena al aberdeen ben ali was toppled then egyptian president hosni mubarak stepped down. oh baran this time i said met the u. s. ambassador to syria. he was a very nice i asked president martha, are you worried that the winds of change will come here? and he said he was not worried. he said the syrian people strongly supported him, strongly supported his government. ah. 7 just 2 weeks later, there was a large demonstration in damascus in a market called althea,

it happened very, spontaneously very suddenly, wasn't planned. and it was immediately filmed by syrians with their cellphone. ah, and we sent a message to washington that night and said it's coming. the firewood is very dry and it's coming. 3 days later on the 18th of march 2011 young people in the southern city of dora wrote on their school wall. it's your turn next doctor. they arrest and torture provoked a wave of protests which swept the country. syrian security forces attacked unarmed protesters who were colon for more freedom ah,

at the beginning the classes we met with british ambassador friendship, masters of medic, on a mass of those. i felt that am the ambassadors, enum, western ambassadors, have a concept and that heads that these are the sit in people and that prices that fit and people under abdul respond to the 3rd and pupil. i had a meeting with both sanisha van at the presidency and i said, because of the internet, because the satellite, tv eyed people will know the world will know what you do. and if you shoot a lot of people, if you kill a lot of people, every one is going to know every one in syria and every one around the world and you will be condemned. you have to a mister tactics the us offered to help us. i'd engage in talks with opposition leaders while they thought the was still time. what they would say is yes, we welcome that discussion. can you even help us or kind of, we said we would try,

but every time we got close to a discussion, ah, the syrian secret police would move in and break up meetings or arrest people. mm. internally, assad government was divided between those who favor taking a tough line on others who wanted to adult a more moderate approach. asada noticed he would make a speech on the 30th of march 2011. 0, you feel that this is speech really willing obese will bring solution because we are fried from with herbs tuition. we go and in the 1st months actually i went to the prison 2 times. i said it must be renew, hey anaconda is minnesota,

which is at min assess even us sold by law savvy on had it. no, i should be in nor artillery because up to laurie sally already said it, the lady was i fear not been in hell and to look nor lunesta a bit will mad at death armina, helium, global could 20 not for shadow can nice bustle talk sadly while the little men off, he can know. yeah, you cut off min no enough, alleviate luck was shot. my thought will be asli. who will be? i'm in a slot than public up of you. for who about that? i don't believe i'd be glad the out of i ludo thought she might be wednesday than i really. why bill is jemma i there are no. none of it. none of john. hello, emily than the head of

the building is just now beside him, but i give him a posse lot a lot on where the hoodie latina monica leon for. anna was al ambia when he finished 871. but when in my office it's as they put with it is more of them for to build on. and it's only the silence and ice that believe that the wasp will coming. we are going to the war. yes. for one cell for that said, man, i thus giddy loud, or is your moody it with how we're le dictates or how quickly will that then but that e. deb hey, i don't understand totally except to learn azure. that's how it must villa on the summit at eda web b. well let us hate for kara lab. no. oh, his name is sandra. east london. almost in. if you any more nor have the corolla. i

mean the city of la will mcdonough. be in all? oh, had the shop. oh my be seeley swati. oh. assad's 1st move was to close down the protesters. ah oh. but this simply spurred on his opponents who themselves began to take up arms. their ranks were bolstered by soldiers deserted the syrian army. soon they received international support. that's easy because they open the war all over the country. i mean, it's much easier to fight the war along your border. but whenever i saw the president, it would say we're going to be here and we're going to fight and we are going to be

victorious. we will prevail, no problem. no, not that how painful it is, but at the end we will prevent ah, by the sum of 2011 syrian government forces had lost control of half the country, media images circulated showing the widespread killing of any opposition the world watched in shock. on serious acids position, weakened and western governments turned against him very tough. mm. i have indicated repeatedly that present alice out as loss legitimacy that he needs to step down rather than drag his country in the civil war. he should move in the direction of the political transition. the view in the white house was asked, sad is essentially finished and he is finished near

term. and our concern in the white house is that he may be finished before the president of the united states says he should be finished. therefore, we need to get the president up to make the statement to be on the right side of history before it happens. ah, this was quite a turn around for a president who had previously managed to project a very positive image to western leaders. he speaks english, he's a handsome man, wedding suit than the thigh, and therefore one was an official used to come to him before the war. they said to him, well, as you are western educated, he, what's it indicated is that in the left for 2 years,

and then the west thinks that's why he is good. that's why his flexible, that's why he's in latin because he is, was denied, means he has like us. you know, it means it will give him the honor to describe him that he is one like us. but he is still in awe. the war caused a massive refugee exodus us. hundreds of thousands and then millions of syrians fled the fighting. this increasingly drew eastern european and other western countries into the whole crisis. france became one of the louder voices calling on our side to step done with love. we shall at 40 play with nancy all good missy bershana. so it would be from papa book you'd want buffy if could have been thought of you in june 2012. the un organize

a conference in june, attended by the u. s. russia, china and britain. it agreed to set up a transitional body in damascus, involving the government and the opposition. but when you are secretary of state, hillary clinton suggested that aside should 1st step done. russian fallen mensa, loved av showed concern. it was clear to us by 2012. he would only negotiate under pressure. we hoped we hoped that the russians would apply that pressure. what does he want on the let you know? like don't, and vba to grow. what i on traditional putting cheeks with was his show would be all that was, is off tea along with did it for him. she was, you know, big e, her love off. i need to know how to do the inference was

that russian president vladimir putin chose to protect aside as syrian leader. russia had a naval base there and put and did not support the revolutions of the so called arab spring. all the idea that western countries were champions of human rights was there. oh, i see where, you know, put on because of obama slash hostile buffer us with need infection was special marked all work with you or you can credit through you at 31. no, sir, but missouri. emily, windows. okay, well i got the miss 14, a gina gunner said that i asked them this she lived with and she thought issue a new my la la brecht of diplomacy stalled. so western governments led by the us and france increased their support for the syrian opposition in exile and its armed wing, the free syrian army. what can we do to accelerate that process? the united states and other governments decided that they would try to coalesce,

the opposition provide it support so that it was strong enough to at a minimum, negotiate a transition in syria. oh, the west port. hundreds of millions of heroes and dollars into weapons and training programs for the soviet position. with this level of support, the opposition succeeded in gaining ground to until government forces shown here in red, controlled only a 3rd of the contract. ah,

my early 2013 asada was becoming increasingly isolated. he rarely left the presidential palace and several former allies defected, only the continued support of russia. iran and the armed lebanese group has bhalla, enabled the government to avoid defeat. with what i've been, where time when i felt that things are very, very difficult. and when i felt that it could be the last see it, i live and because we had only let them in there, you know what, learn what leopard. dan said, i will learn live and fight and die, and celia ah, with this strategy began to pay

dividends. i saw supporters rallied around him and he built a firm following among the middle class and the other white and christian minority communities. at the same time, the west also began to lose patience with the syrian opposition move. if your own avenue have an opposition strong enough to take on a standing army and i regime with security forces that's backed by russia and iran, then you needed to be powerful and united. and i think one of the challenges we faced was it turned out, the opposition was neither strong nor united. self does any more deploy should or at your keys at, as in more proportion. you get down genesee c idea. if you any people in, if you will because she was at boni, as from what i me them all her sit to and i to push out,

ah, with the opposition. however, certain armed groups began to gain more influence than others were getting stronger. they had money, they had ammunition, they had food, they could pay salaries to their fighters. a lot of young syrians are joining them . i recommended and i know colleagues at the cia recommended that we helped those more moderate elements, who were on the one hand, competing with the al qaeda affiliate in syria, called the nurse her front. and on the other hand, were fighting opposite the moderate opposition was therefore forced to fight on 2 fronts. and asada was present the west with a greater challenge and thoughtful thought on the monotony huddled level, cut them

a lot on the 21st of august 2030 syrian government forces used chemical weapons against opposition held areas. hundreds of people were killed including many children. i saw, had visited troops nearby 20 days before the time. ah, i do show with the, with the u. s. it announced a year before the chemical weapons were a red line not to be crossed any use they said will be met with an american

response. france also said it will be prepared to support the us with a or power. ah, president obama has the military to prepare for quite a significant response. some of the senior syrian officials sent their families out of damascus because they were worried. ah, then you might get more fighting in damascus itself. it would have been physically devastating for ah, for physical assets of the syrian regime. the precision that i know it would have reduced to, to almost 0. the potential for non combat to be killed. a few hours before the plant strikes, obama called

a white house crisis meeting. there was a long national security council meeting that was focused. it's fair to say more on how to go about military response than whether the turning point moment was when to president came to the conclusion that he changed his mind lawsuits. lou christa america a pin the whole say, look, group cookers or barbara. yes. really. good. say to play or is almost no. so if you see lou, lou critical food and to top wife than you know, we're gonna be pure. we don't want to participate, but i wanted to tell me how to sell it, don't you? since it got sick too, if only showed him a mo, that bone above completed resume. his major concern is that the

day after and american strike goss, i would still be there and might even use chemical weapons again. so then we have to hit again and maybe this time a bit harder. take out some more air defense. and then again, the logic would be to escalate into a bigger strike. and i think the president's concern was he would not be in control of that decision. it would be awesome. mm. mm. african narrative. mm. from african perspective. i knew series of short documentaries, by african filmmakers from across the continent. this is going to really get committed to handle the african direct. coming,

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