strategic town on the lebanese border. rebel forces withdrew in the face of a massive onslaught. >> we have declared the city as a safe city. we appeal to all residents to return home. >> fears that the conflict in syria could spill over deepen as they warned of fighters continuing to support those forces. >> i think we are allowed to fight inside lebanese territory. >> the fate of one afghan interpreter work for the british army, he said his life has been ruined by the taliban. freedom and no life. >> aaron is here. a big trade battle between two giants. >> it looks like and has begun.

the european union told china that they have sold solar panels in europe far too cheaply, so we charge you more. china said, well, we will charge more for your wine. where will it end? ♪ >> it is midday in london, 7:00 in the morning in washington, 2:00 in the afternoon in syria, where government forces have retaken a local town after two weeks of intense fighting. it represents a major gain for the government. rebel fighters said they pulled out of the town overnight because they could no longer faced a massive onslaught from syrian troops. emily b. cannon reports.

now aboute town, brown. the besieged city has fallen back into government hands. the rebels have been driven out. the fighting was ferocious. the town is near vital supply routes and highly strategic for both sides. the syrian military is claiming victory. safe declare the city as a city. we appeal to all the residents to return home. this operation has been planned for a while now. >> syrian rebels are blaming their defeat on the first intervention of lebanese hezbollah militants. they are experienced fighters who support president assad. this all comes one day after france confirmed that samples

collected inside syria have tested positive for the nerve gas, sarin. doctor says that he has witnessed the effects first hand. >> we have seen about 6000 injured people, some of them obviously dead, this time with no clear injuries except that or have it from coming out of their mouth. says that.n. report the war in syria has certainly reached new levels of brutality, with the execution of war crimes rising. they have urged foreign powers to cut off the flow of weapons to both sides. american and russian diplomats are trying to pave the way for a new peace conference. on the plant a flag clock tower, the prospects of

peace seem remote. this could be a turning point for president assad his forces are likely to press on to take more ground. latest developments come as a key rebel leader says that his men are ready to fight inside lebanon. in a rare interview given before it was retaken by the rebels, a commander of the free syrian army said that thousands were coming over the border into syria and operating in towns and cities across the country in support of government forces. he said that if the lebanese authorities failed to intervene, the syrian authorities have the right to attack inside neighboring lebanon. >> i told the commander of all brigades to fight against hezbollah fighters inside syria.

as you know, there are a very large number of those fighters in syria. everywhere in the country. they are attacking syrian territory and when they continue , without action stopping them coming to syria, i think we are allowed to fight against the fighters inside lebanese territory. >> what is your strategy? looking at events elsewhere it seems like you're losing. >> no, we are sure that we will win the war. we are sure that we will pull him again. but without support from our ,riends in the western country it will continue for many years and there will be more material,

more destruction and some other kind of danger with more sympathy. we do not like to see that these the syrianamong people. >> we met many of the brigades. they said they were not fighting for democracy. they said they were first and foremost fighting for syria and islam. >> we are fighting for all syrians. allim, shia, christian, and other syrian people's. if we say that we're fighting for sharia, no one is against sharia. these kinds of messages are harming or damaging the revolution. >> you and the men that you

speak for, will you accept any assad ere bouchar al remains president? >> no, never. >> if the price of peace is that he remains? >> we will fight, we will fight. he must be brought to justice. if the price of peace is the bashar has power in syria, we do not need that kind of peace. >> that was the syrian rebel commander speaking to call woul paul joins us live from istanbul in turkey. the thoughtlopment, of this escalating into fighting inside lebanon between the syrian rebels and hezbollah.

[inaudible] >> all right, so unfortunately we can see paul, we can see his lips moving, but we cannot hear what he actually has to stay. we may try to restore the line, if we can, but actually if we can, we will, and if we cannot, perhaps we got the gist of what he was saying, which i heard slightly, which is that it is a worrying development, the fact that the fighting in syria could overspill into neighboring lebanon. thousands of commuters have fled from the moscow metro after fire broke out in a tunnel. the kremlin was evacuated.

the fire is believed to have been caused by a power cable. the islamist militants in nigeria have been declared terrorists and banned by the nigerian government. faces caught helping them a minimum jail sentence of 20 years. the ruling comes after the united states said they would pay bounties for the capture of terror network leaders in western and northern africa. tennis, this man is making fans in tennis and dare to dream of a french winner in the french open, something that has not happened in 30 years. theinto the semifinals, last french winner in paris was in 1983. paule can now go back to in istanbul, talking to us

about the assemble -- the interview he had with one of the rebel commanders, who said that the loss of strategic turns on the border was a bit of a blow, but does not represent the end the fighting at all. hall, i was asking you, he said that it has a love fighters to not stop helping the syrian government forces, they will take the fight into lebanon, which must be worrying development for everybody. >> that is what western governments have been fearing all want. he is not saying that he agrees with attacks on beirut, and there was a rocket attack against southern beirut a few days ago. he is saying that in his view his fighters have the moral and legal right to attack hezbollah on lebanese territory because they are reinforcing it over the border. i think of what you can well expect to see now, some might

characterize them as revenge attacks just over the border, the area is almost a tinderbox with tension between shiite, christian, and sunni villages. it is entirely possible that you will see a lot more suny refugees around, adding even more to the attention. i think that this is a dangerous moment for lebanon. >> obviously the strategic plan on the border is a bit of a blow for the rebel forces, is it not? how do you suppose this plays into their diplomatic move to get some kind of negotiation going in geneva? known as geneva ii? >> there is a lot talk about the important supply line here. the government is anuous territory and it

itrible blow for morale tells you that for all the talk of the president lose in this campaign, he has served him locked up about a dozen. the rebels say that one thing ,hey will not in an interview that is the one condition the government has. >> paul had on the latest with the fighting in the syrian conflict. the ministry and defense has announced a new policy for afghan army interpreters who routinely work with frontline troops, there will be allowed

but only if they have been employed since last december. critics say that hundreds of interpreters were not qualified. one disturbing case involved a young translator whose life had been destroyed by the taliban. heat and the the dust, british troops rely on afghan translators. september 2008, i joined them. one translator for one of the units was named barry. he was popular, regularly risk his life, and he even helped to save a soldier who had been hit by shrapnel. his commanding officer commanded him. but today his life is very different. >> this is the accommodation provided by the german government? >> the voice is major driscoll, he found very where he has lived for two years, in a german

immigration camp. he fled afghanistan after his father was executed by the taliban and his brother killed. he sold everything and paid an agent $25,000. >> i gave all the money to the agent. then they took my brother, sister, and a mother. they said with that money they would take them to your visa the. >> but their boat capsized in the mediterranean. sister both and my died. they were lost. >> he was arrested with a fake passport when he arrived in germany. now he and his brother are in limbo. unable to go home or to britain and locked up here. >> i am not free. i have no freedom and i have no life. >> james is back on the street

and feel the responsibility to help them. >> to see him in that situation is akin to seeing one of your own soldiers, your friends in that situation. not just myself, but anyone who knew him would want to help them. >> the boot -- a written statement outlined the new british policy, saying that they would be offering resettlement within the u.k., but it was limited to those employed until last december. critics feel that it is not enough. >> we feel that the packages have baked and does not go nearly far enough and will leave hundreds of brave interpreters at the mercy of the taliban. >> barry is still waiting, he has not seen his fiancee for two and a half years. bbc news. >> do stay with us.

still to come, we go to pakistan, where u.s. ground , these are the unprecedented third time. technology has revolutionized many aspects of our lives. many of us would be lost without our pc. i know that i would. the have become commonplace in many parts of the world. many use them for the internet and games, but doctors are also finding them useful. paul explains. >> surgery is an art, but these days due to a lack of time and resources, not all surgeons have enough chances for the hands-on experience with patients.

deal with this problem that have come up with a solution. >> we wanted to take surgical , soation on a mobile device that people could get a real learning benefit from that. >> people could rehearse, train, try to get into the operating room. time they spent together was much more focused. >> focused on the range of devices, they have been downloaded over 1800 times in less than six months worldwide. this is quite useful for surgeons. i used it to reverse certain surgical procedures and i got good feedback from it. >> the feedback was very good.

>> the operating theater will always be a daunting place for patients, but this will be a step forward in allaying fears and giving surgeons a voluble practice before doing the real thing. >> a group representing the protesters in turkey has demanded that the government abandoned plans to reprint a park in istanbul. the solidarity group, as they're known, told the prime minister that they also want all protesters who have been arrested to be released. they also demanded a ban on tear gas. being done out to mark in istanbul. and is the result of the meeting from the deputy prime minister

earlier today? >> very much so. we are waiting to hear exactly what the government response will be, officially, with demands laid out by protesters, it is very much seen as the good cop in all of this. certainly while the prime minister is away in north africa protesters feel that they can negotiate or talk to the deputy prime minister and see what kind of olive branch he offers them to try to break the stalemate. to the park where it all started, you can see the numbers are still swelling, people are still entering the park. the government announced plans to rebuild, we develop it, but it has all mushroomed into a far bigger protest that has gone to the heart of what modern turkey is

today. protesters wanting greater freedom and freedom -- freedom of speech, less of a top-down approach, less of an islamist agenda. one of them told me this morning that they simply want a democracy back. >> when the prime minister returns on thursday, if you reckon that they are actually going to say to him -- look, we will have to extend the olive branch? >> well, it is going to be very difficult. the prime minister has been resolute on this, refusing to give any ground at all. he called these protesters extremists, looters, villagers, describing them as arm in arm with terrorists. has been far more conciliatory. there may be a conflict within the heart of government. we will have to see how that plays out.

kind of are seeing is a conciliatory message from the prime minister and we will have to see just how much sway he has on the prime minister when he returns from his north african trip tomorrow. i can see these protests continuing to build, really is turkeys were lost -- were so " -- worst social unrest in decades. >> you get the feeling that it is very much the prime minister who is the focus of the people's anger? >> very much so. that is shown by the protesters who are outside his office every night, they were given tear gas again last night. he is seen by many as the kind of sultan of old, almost like the old ottoman empire, he has been compared to. replacing democracy with autocracy, he has become the focal point of these protests and he is the man that will have to break these stalemates if it

is indeed broken at all. >> mark, thank you ray much indeed. in pakistan, no are sharif will ministerin as prime for an amazing third time today even though he was removed in a coup in 1999. is one of theon country's wealthiest people and he is expected to bring stability and prosperity to death and is -- to pakistanis. let's hear more about what he had to say from our correspondent. what else did the prime minister said would be his priority? openingde those remarks to parliament after it was comfortably elected as prime minister. he was invited to move into his seat, which he did.

one of the first things he spoke about was the need to end drone strike. its sovereignty and independence must be respected, he said. and that there was a dire condition to the economy, so bad that it was beyond imagination, that tackling that would be his first priority. commented on the crippling power shortages here. although we did not hear specifics about how he is planning to tackle that, and we are expecting a more detailed policy speech later in the week, he said the country has suffered tremendously because of dictatorship over the years, appealing for unity, reaching out to all of the political forces to act together, attempting to improve the conditions of the people and the country. he may need to turn quickly to

the international monetary fund for a bailout as their finances are in a poor state. >> people will be looking carefully to see how he deals with those two big centers of power in pakistan, the army and the religious grouping. >> there is a great concern here about his relationship with the army. early on he was a darling of the army, then promoted by then periods -- that spectacularly came to an end in 1999. previous stint in power in the 1990's ended badly. thenssed on corruption, ousted by the military, sentenced to exile in saudi arabia. reporters are stressing the he is a changed man, older and wiser, intending to rule very

much by consensus this time, and he has been striking a very conciliatory, friendly town, both during the campaign and in these remarks to parliament. there is a sense of guarded optimism, a feeling among many that he has command with a strong mandate and sufficient support in parliament to push to his policies. what people and the international community will be waiting to see is whether or not he will take the hard decisions of the economy and push through greater taxation and really get the economy back on the road. >> thank you, very much, indeed, the swearing in of nowar shariff. you soon. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for

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