hi, ms. lee. well, come in preparation. the country is staging a major form of the 16 nations going head to head in 6 papa phil stadiums for 2020. okay. we'll keep you across the action as capital prepared for the regions biggest sporting events. the fee for our cup on al jazeera me i'm, how am i here in, in doha, with the headlines on al jazeera, australia has become the 1st country in western europe to reimpose, a full calls at $19.00 locked on the measures starting on monday. last for a maximum of 20 days, austria is also making vaccination compulsory from february. and then they've been germany. the health minister says the country is in an emergency yet spawn hasn't

ruled. oh, it's a national lockdown. germany has seen a record rates of infections on thursday, the lower house of parliament approve you restrictions, though, and it kane has more on the situation in austria. the reality for many austrians is that it has been a sliding scale. almost that one week there's been one set of restrictions, then the next week, more restrictions, and now we're into full lockdown. clearly the reason for this is because of the incidence of cove in many parts of austria is in 4 digits more than a 1000 per 100000 of population will. that is a very considerable number. and for many politicians and austria right now, it's too much and they say that even though people are being vaccinated, they say that that, that problem is such that they have to lock down. remember that austria is one of those countries where around 2 thirds of the population has been vaccinated,

but that still leaves a 3rd who have not. and yes, of course, that includes the 3rd who have not includes children, but it also includes a large group of adults, people for whom the vaccine has been freely and readily available for many months indeed. and yet they have refused to have the vaccine. the point to make is that the scientists, madison, to do the ministers in austria say effectively, that the numbers that they see, the numbers of people coming down with cove it every day, the vast majority of them, of the unvaccinated, the indian government has made a dramatic you turn and announced its withdrawing 3 controversial farm laws that are just lation had triggered nationwide protests that lasted more than a year. the government introduced the measures last year saying they modernized the agriculture sector. but farmers said the reforms hurts their livelihoods. now,

by minister nor andrew moody is telling them to go home. i'd may apple duty. i have come to tell you and the entire mission that we have decided to repeal the 3 laws omni. we will conclude the gotten the short process of repealing the laws during the parliament recession that begin to the end of this month. revenue to be asking all my former friends who had been protesting me to return to your homes. you are farmland 0, and your family has some fun. holland has accused belarus of continuing to help asylum seekers cross into you territory. that's despite the bell russians clearing a makeshift camp on the polish border on thursday. belarus, official say hundreds have moved voluntarily to a reception center. thousands of migrants and refugees had been stuck in freezing conditions. at the border for days. the spanish coast guard has rescued a group of migrants near the canary islands. the boat was carrying 40 people to had died at sea. 2 others were taken to hospital in critical condition. it's the 2nd

time the coast guard has had to make a rescue in the area this week. sedans, police chief, has defended security forces, insist they be used only legal means to control recent opposition. protests, doctors say at least 15 protest, hers were killed by my fire on wednesday. it was the worst day of violence since the military took part last month. the canadian military is helping with rescue efforts in the flood, devastated province of british columbia. one person is confirmed dead, floating in landslides have cut off major roads. the 2 front runners and chillers presidential election had held final rallies ahead of the votes on sunday white when candidate jose antonio cast wants to bring down taxes and the size of government left us. gabriel barrick wants to do the exact opposite and those are

the headlines the say with his here and al jazeera, i said, master of chaos is next. ah 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

casa. 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. the best analogy you see that different. it can do 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 itself 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 conflict. i know from french music, of course it was young, of course, very, very old one there nobody can say, but from the noisy mary mateo and judah, 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 it's father huffy has died in 2000 mashhad, inherited one of the most notorious and isolated dictatorships in the outer world. ah,

ah, ah, in january 2011, the cds of uprisings known as the arab spring, began. first, the transient 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 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 cell phone. 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 dera, wrote on their school wall. it's your turn. next doctor, their arrest and torture provoked a wave of protests which sweat 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 masses of medic on the mass of those. i felt that i am the ambassadors, enum, western ambassadors, have a concept in 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 booth sanisha band with 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 organize it? 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 adopt 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 where reverbs tuition we go. and in the 1st months, actually i went to liberalism 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 sallie already said it, the lady was a fee announcement in hell and to lawton law. lunesta bit will mad at death, tommy eula will cook 20. not for shadow. can nice bustle, dog settle, while the little men off he can know. yeah anymore. i don't know enough. a libby like a shot. my thought will be a slot. who will be i'm in a slot than doubly cap of your firm. 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 and hello emily than the head of

the building is to be found in miraculous posse. lot a lot on way. the hoodie latina monica leone. so alan was al ambia when he finished 8. so remember 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 eyes. 3rd believe that the wasp will conch we are going to the war. wow. for oneself, as i said, man, i thus giddy lad, asian, haughty it with her while law dictates, or how quickly will that den, but that e die. i don't understand totally the that to learn azure of how a must viola when the semester ela, web

b. well let us hate for gonna lab. no, oh, you said the seller east london must in, if you any more. nor had for corolla. i mean massena la who will mcdonough be in all? oh, had the shop. oh my be silly swati oh! assad's 1st move was to cry, don't 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 their 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 matter how painful it is. but at the end, we will prevent ah, by the summer of 2011, the 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 assad's position weakens and western governments turned against him. mary lou, i have indicated repeatedly that present alice out as lost 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 and the white house was as 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 turnaround 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 was didn't indicate that he stuck 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 enlightened because he is was denied, means he's 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, ah, the war caused a massive refugee exodus as 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 down. now we shall not foresee

lou policy all good supercharged us up a little bit from political book you'd want buffy of couldn't read both of you. in june 2012, the un organize a conference in june, attended by the u. s. russia, china and britain. it agree 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 foreign minister loved off 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 she put on the loop and you know, like you don't and even though to go, what i value traditional put cheeks wanted showed be, well, that was the soft tea along with did it for him. she magnetic

e. her live off my lead and no odors to the inference was that russian president vladimir putin chose to protect aside as syrian leader russia had a naval base there. and putin did not support the revolutions of the so called arab spring, or the idea that western countries were champions of human rights. was there. oh, i see where, you know, put on because of look over mostly hostile buffer us with need infection. was special marked oil. what could you? i didn't ratish everything with you and then hello sir. but missouri, i'm here with us. okay. well i got them is 14 is only going to press them this sheila griffin. she's thought they actually knew my lord level bread 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 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 and i 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 see did. or did univ uni people,

new people because she was at boni, as from what i mean 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, subtle, cut them will not. on the 21st of august 2030 syrian government forces used chemical weapons against opposition held areas. hundreds of people were killed including many children. asada had visited troops nearby 20 days before the time i do 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 their 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 lion or streets present america pin the whole, say, look, cookers, or bardon. yes. really good. say to play or is almost no. so if you see lou lou cuz you're confused and to top wife. and you know we're gonna be pure. we don't want to participate. wants to do that terminal to children

. don't cure. got sick too. if one showed him a mo, that bone above completed a zone. his major concern is that the day after an american strike gossip 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 hm. yeah, it's november the 15th day, one of the new era and television. you, if you with no, that was the scale of bloodshed would you have still gone to moments ago to miss

all landed about a 100 meters away from us. we're on the front line, but it's on the road. we saw the union army flag hoisted high in the city. many people here have told me that the war will not end until they secret duffy and his son brought to justice. gonna get 90 seconds for this on. so we're be told that this an army is very, really coming. our way buying brides is lack of respect for women and lack of any value that the woman i was just for fear god, by the police on purpose. there's at least 20000 for him to refugees who live here . i'm on l 20. i got to commend you. you're not trying to push people to believe in this or believe in that the atmosphere has completely changed you with or

i'll dizzy, or is offices in garza or hires in that building. the tower has come back with never before in human history as the once per se, demon barn to the arctic in such peril. mover and halima he did in doha with the headlines on al jazeera, austria has become the 1st country in western europe to re impose a full cove at 19 locked on the new measures will start on monday. in germany, the health minister says the country is facing a national emergency. after infections hits a new records, dominic cane has more on the situation in austria. the reality for many austrians

is that it has been a sliding scale almost that one week there's been one set of restrictions then the next week more restrictions. and now we.