carrying bags of food clothes and a few belongings thousands of syrians pour out of eastern who saw. nonstop the townhouses thre. safe and sound.

the rebel and cave has come under intense involvement from the syrian government's backed by the russian ministry. causing off rebels from key support networks but schools are making it difficicult to deliver aid. have you injured and at the same time that most held structures have been damage. during the fighting but what we need to use more access to the treat you feed. all forty people to look at how how is the treatment elsewhere needed urgent that that. is humanitarian convoy is the seconond to write ths week but t this i is a fracn ofof what is n needed i in e region why resesidents are facing severe shortagages of food and m medical supplss. medical stuff in willpowower is a suffering a lot from

the this issue we can do a lot for that injuries add the additions to you bebecar hundred thousand civivilians course in the crossfire. and today the syrian rule and says it's eight yeah well began as a protest against a repressive regime has turned into a brutal conflict this killed three hundred fifty thousand people. wounded many will made eleven million home this massive minute she assistance for iran and russia as props up president fascinating him to destroy the opposition. hundreds of thousands of civilians are on the stage fist fighting continues on several fronts. okay a complex is also shown the importance of the international community wants security council

resolution after another has been vetoed by russia. ginny the peace process has failed to yield any results numerous ceasefires have been ignored. aid workers have become targets and the use of chemical weapons has gone unpunished hello i'm joined by i want a lot he's a senior fellow at the sense of his. studies at the univerersity is andrew thank you for being with us tonight. now and it has over the years become increasingly clear has it that the international community has no power to stop the war in syria and that's partly because the major powers don't agree. on who is it foldss. right i think. this is a case study her a arm is stil did he clear that ununless some type of the agreement takes place prior to the securirity council sessions. will takake place within thm so we have. over s sen detailss on theory alone for the last seven years. averagingg one per year and the few resolututions thatt werere p passed were not respected and i in the casef

course will be. in last month's resolution which. had. supposedly ninetyy eight ad it shows that this tee. it was in essence violent on the same date perhaps not only by. syrian forces by russian forces as well. it's's i ririding expended wish on te security c council has faild to do really anything you. and president obama a famous he said that the use of chemical weapons in syria would be a red line for him but he never axes after they were used against civilians in eastern ghouta back in twenty thirteen. did that fateful decision help along the wall. the impossibly not you know we we see what trump active because you know what obama said he would act even when you know we were quite certain you act you know it was always. beingng. talking about has very limited in nature now foresee scene that t e w wht kind of limit is so i can

you know last year in april. president trump order to strike on on syrian airbase and that it didn't quite solve anything. so i i think this ideaa that you know there's some type of magic intervention and change things. is probably the. but it's's. better in twenty fifteen might it have made last revision think twice about getting involved in wars. if he thought that the united states was also going to to stanand up as well. righght well he was already involved any day were involved from the very beginning possibly. in every set up as a cold and i with the s. architecture. was yes he did an and it had a and very significant impact. i think that if there is a lesson involved here is tha. is the law is is over estimate as far as he's strategic importance to russia is this is not about.

rurussia in my opinion thiss about a much larger picture this is about nuclear expapansion is about a misse defense saudi ukraine as. it used to be the card by wish russia's like sting that it shows the less that unless it is on board s sething that you deal with thehem ae accecess because. it's realy away for which on super powers a are playing out thr differences and regionall powers are are are doing the same absolutely several.

several powers are involved in this conflict die rightly right now and let's talk about series future than. it is an extremely fragmented country at so many different groups have a vested interest that. the reconstruction bail out could top a hundred billion dollars i mean presidentnt asset d doesn't seem to be going a anywhere how do howo you see this panning out of the next eight years. right would here we are in seven years later and and we we have no the russians were lalast is so fragmented didu wounds are so deeeep.. they did they didn't daree road reconstruction bilills astronomical and and. no w e don'n' even havee a glimmerf

hohope somome tend to say oy there's negotiations somewhere something i is tataking place on n some lel we we can't even clean bus sevenn years later. social really. no onee realllly knows whee this i is going u unless soe type of.. even takes place outside of ththe securitity council hel at some some type of you know when y you go she asian addd historirical settlemen. we will contitinue to see this. and falls and it only gets worse and you just think in terms of a generation of syrian children. the traumatizedd gin deeee i interracial chin know what will they be like in ten fifteen years. spacey over there you know education for their future for them not to become radicalized easily. i'm very hot issues in data i my money thank you very much for talking to us.

thank you grabbing. well the. conflict that said get slaps a les paul this is the than the war in syria that is the three year old conflicts in yemen is left that country on the brink of the apocalypse according to the united nations. eight million people in what is the arab world's poorest country are at risk of starvation seventy percent of that population are native urgent humanitarian aid our correspondent said a finance it is support from the southern port city. of aden. here in the heart of yemen's port city eight in displaced yemenis arrive everyday. many mistake to survive. we don't have anything to live on no money. been trying to survive. it is. sometimes a family and this whole. we can only council sells. a thousand days of war ten thousand at and millions of displaced. among the yemenis at a fled the north and the war is akhmad. just eight years old an orphan.

work i clean the tombs and water the plants. always a lot of people that come to the senate. the i managed to make money. three hundred and even sometimes five hundred three as it's a good job. a few months ago a commit became part of a community of children. in the streets of aiden. . currently. let. please stay on find enough food to eat correctly. david a respected on the streets they'll even people. more you can only hear me from the north not from here is not one of us. despite the animosity of some akhmed says he feels at home in dayton.

in asian. will never leave. this is my country. save the children says that at least fifty thousand children died of famine and disease in yemen last year. a humanitarian crisis that continues and grows worse every day. well maybe not to the united states and authorities in miami florida have now concerned as severaral peope hahave dieied softer needy construct is nine hundred and fifty tom pedestrian bridge collapsed onto highway. it havaven't met florida international university the bridge journey went up on saturday amid much fanfare the accelerated construction methods and that was used was supposed to reduce risks to workers and pedestrians. and minimize traffic disruption we invested officials are urging students and others to stay away from the area. government rick scott says that he is on his way to the sites. the united kingdom is stepping up diplomatic pressure on russia and the use of a deadly nerve agents in engnglish tonsils reeta this month as protestant

theresa may visit the site of what she called a brazen attack. fronts generate the us and the uk said in a joint statement that also is involvement was the only. possible explanation uk is also appealing to nato support that james rainey has the story. he did it english countryside is perhaps the last place you'd expect to be embroiled in a. row over please inform us by. british prime minister theresa may visited sells me on thursda. the summons if you as a superpower his tools were found slum to a park bench. thirteen attacks with the nerve agents. may is clear on who's to blame we do hold russia culpable for this up brazen brazen acts and despicable acts that's taken place. on the streets all four she is such a remarkable city.. this is s for ibm minglgledh residence. banks local emergency services little seed is it the male pop

whicich faceses of the nerve agent used against the two victims were found. tma recy to depriving bruce from her eyes the leaders of france germany and the united states issue to read joint statement with the prime minister. they describe the incident as the first offensive use of a nerve agent in europe since the second world war. missiles on u. k. sovereignty. russia denies the accusations. i always have to make. one that is go to moscow now all corresponded thomas love is there and that we just t had the recy finesest of f his singles we today russia me while has vowed to to retaliate several sides do we know. what the russians are planning? well in essence all we have servee auditions agaga i'vee rolf w who's the foreign. his news of the foreign ministry and he says that they will definitely definitetely t the expulsiof diplomatsrom the countryry

uk dipiplomats from. sure that's really attack measure because as we head into reason night was prime minister twenty three russian diplomatsts you've referrrred to them as. . on reregulated u undocumenteted splilicing i'd be t thrown t of the u uk that really y ws quitite protectable from the rurussn side to getet have role saying that. the rest of the measures will be announced soon. this is really hate something a crisis level in russia not quite clearlyly s that it britain. held a meeting of the security council has the highest council has brought together in these crisis situations is composer. at the the prime minister deputy prime minister the key ministerial positions to discuss. how the measureres that wiwill e taken to? the u. databases couldn't put in place an ounce by the british prime minister. i yesterday and. what we heard from the smoke and we don't know exactly what is going to be yet b bt what we've heard from a

neighborhood and spokesman? is that the. russian prime is the person is going to make the final decision on what those nations will be and then tell us and the uk that is ramping up the pressure the u. s.. has decided to slap sanctions almost go away over another issue this is our about. and asian meddling in the twenty sixteen election and some malicious cyber attacks out what reaction of the things that. much less reaction to be honest i think the real focus it will first of all we're in we're in an election. where any? to innovate days away from the presidential elections. that's reading leading the media second d we've been looking at this a reward role coverage of these. these police accusations know that you know asian accusations against russia i in the uk and third we creeping into third place in coverage andnd in teterms of official reaction. these additional sanctions weeks we've seen a wave of that's tighter sanctions if

you like being rule sheet over the last say a year and a half. of these tight against pose a ski individuals i'm engaged companies. as welll nowow nineteen individuals have been targeted five companies many of those companies are related to one person shoul. companies the russian. military industrial complex in the hope he said. from the u. s. site of boosting business boosting ministry production i should be said at this point at the u. s...

and foror u us and britaine been squeezing russia house of t that a free market over the last. year also rushes feeding that pressure and this is another step in that direction more pressure on the russian government thomas thank you very much indeed homicide that reporting from moscow. prime minister hosokawa here has resigned and his government's been dissolved following public outrage thoughts on the matter of an investigative journalist and his fiance tens of thousands of slovaks protested across the country last week. demanding a comprehensive investigation into the case down to check was investigating corruption scandals links to remotely says policy. tens of thousands of people have been attending a rally in hungary with prime minister viktor orban warning the crowds that western europe is succumbing to a migrants invasion. on it will soon leave native or europeans in our state over its recording and had brussels are his and seeing

immigrants rhetoric warning that a mass influx of muslims into europe will change the confidence christian culture. who speaking say humvees national holiday which comes three weeks before the election? selling images set for you from other that the arctic circle these all the world famous northern lights and they're moving across the skies. above the northern finish city overland yet me. just before midnight if he described as the best stories since september twenty seventeen this right green and white in the. lights claim is able to make it northern lights also known as aurora borealis are a result of collisions between election. charged particles from the sun. and set into the s. access. explain the science any better than that but they all pretty signing on and. i've size of finland's tonight.

now this is a business news way because haiti is here with us that is you he was. made yeah strikes may destruction ahead for us in a few months there is nothing we haven't seen before but he's already particularly destructive i think. workers at the state run rail company sncf of cold rolling strikes of the government's proposed overhaul union say they're planning to strike on two out of five days over a three month period. starting on april the third girls as supporting it nationwide strike over broader reforms next thursday. yes and yes it is it's the new recruits lose their privileged employee status and generous pension schemes. government plans to push through its reform up by decree in the coming months. it says it's trying to improve services it cost thirty percent more operate than comparable train services elsewhere in

europe. meanwhile air france unions have voted to strike on march the thirtieth thert benefit from other cuts which resulted overall in a small raise for most fresh workers salaries. french pension stands at one thousand three hundred or as per month in union city extra charges make it hard to stay afloat retirement. but to whenn. manage is givn to the richest another taking away from poorer pensioners who aren't only twelve hundred years months. they're dealing with an increase in the national insurance following their purchasing power. it's not acceptable that the secret. after eight years of having legal headquarters in two countries yellow dust giant unilever is shifting entirely to the netherlands. consumer goods conglomerate says it's trying to simplify it structure and the

decision was not impacted by he is headed to parker from the european union. well the market value of nearly a hundred and twenty billion euros unilever's move is a reminder of just what at stake for post brexit britain outstanding support. the makers of marmite leading the u. k.. unilever consumer goods giant behind brands like to of lipton's tea as magnum ice cream has chosen rostam a london for its courses. it comes as a blow to uk prime minister theresa may who have always hollis to avoid the move. concerns about the message it was sent to the rest of the corporate world balloon he case decision to split from the e. u.. unilever ceo however was awesome and so we've had nothing to do with brexit. continue to stress and i will discuss that once this is nothing to do with brexit that these are long term decisions. and that we are

deciding to make major investments in the uk as a result of f these mountatai. judy the has said it dropped itits u. k. heheadquarters r technical reasons at fifty five percent it says which raised in an evidence. however was to simply was just over three thousand people in the netherlands. that raise the seven thousand people working for you even in the uk. that will be some trance us but known in the uk will lose that job. it's only the corporate headqdquarters is moving i ia relativevely sml number of kills a a once in fact on the amounts tax that you to leave a place. in the uk. unilever has said it will still based two of its three production divisions in the uk. and hopes to continue trading in london on saddam in new york. but it's unclear if it will be able to say on the thirty one hundred and the acts of the uk's top companies worst

currently number three expes dropped one percent amsterdam. down about one point seven percent in london. in the united states thirty three thousand jobs are at risk after toys r. us announced it would close all of its more than eight hundred locations across the country. the retailer like many rivals has been struggling with increasing competition from online retailers like amazon. missiles price wars with the likes of walmart and target ownership has the details. a sad day for tory lovers. to his arrest announced it would liquidate all of its u. s. stores after failing to find a buyer or reach a deal with its creditors. i am very disappointed with the results but we no longer have the financial support to continue the company's us

operations. after domominating t the toy industry in the eighties and nineties toys r. us lost ground to discount megastores like target and wal marts and more recently to online retetailers like amazon. the company was also hurt by the rise of moveon gamingng it's a which and largely fafailed to adapt. d since the two thousand five buyouts it has struggled to service a five billion dollar debt. in two thousand fifteen two zero us was forced to close its flagship store in new york's times square. and in september two thousand seventeen it filed for bankruptcy protection. the instructor of its seven hundred and thirty five u. s. stores could now but the jobs of around thirty three thousand full and part time employees at risk. the chain also announced wednesday it would and all of its uk operationss. withh stores in western europe and australia are likely to follow suit. does arrests is still looking for buyers for its

canadian asian and central european business. it is easy has revealed that its female employees in the united kingdom are paid on average fifty nine percent less than their male counterparts. firm's disclosing their gender pay disparity and financial sector is among the worst offenders as you can see there though it is easy does come in. with the widest gender disparity gap among the firms disclose that data so far when it's more than three times the national average. is disease that was because a disproportionate percentage of men in senior positions. that it is quite discouraging accessories it doesn't at fifty nine percent last. month it also women off going into banking i think either put them off or perhaps encourage them to do better in caught perhaps

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