anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight with same way he he doesn't do anything differently than we do we bomb the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb and hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everybody dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody's house this is war criminal for fighting the war they say he was in a war a war and by all accounts the casualties were almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important the brits had it and only which is a laboratory we in america respect for those skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered the count was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman dempsey dempse

bashar al assad. north korea state news says the syrian president plans to meet with kim in north korea. the timing is unclear. north korea is shaking up the military leadership ahead of the singapore summit. we have alexandra field with more from seoul. this is interesting. what is the dynamic with syria and north korea? >> reporter: look, this is interesting news and it certainly comes as an interesting times. two countries have a history of ons back to the 1960s. k kim jong-un's grandfather met with bashar al assad's father in the '70s. they exchanged messages of support for one another. this is the first face-to-face meeting. admittedly no date has been set. it has been reported by north korean news the meeting would happen. this is theirst time a world leader travels to pyongyang to meet with kim jong-un. certainly we know history of cooperation with the countries. just this past winter the u.n. released a report with alleged evidence of the latest cooperation with north korea and syria on chemic

and obviously france is part of the western coalition that it's at sometimes fighting against bashar assad recently everything estrades and both want iran to go however it's a very unlikely that iran will listen to israel and france in this matter. and those in paris thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the king of jordan has appointed the country's education minister to be the new prime minister . will form a new government a day after the resignation of his predecessor honey malky made massive protests the king's ordered to as instructed i was asked to review changes in countries tax system and issue that spar with demonstrations. russia's president vladimir putin has told austria's sebastian courts that his country is interested in repairing ties with the a european union but the president has been meeting or about austria in the design his first foreign trip since his reelection he also called for europe to lift its sanctions on russia. movie producer harvey weinstein has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault agai

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you have isis and kurdish rebels bashar al-assad is dealing with.he united states helped to eviscerate isis he wants to throw is out of the country. we have done a lot of favors. >> lots of moving parts and pieces inside syria. you have israel, iran forces, hezbollah, russia, the syrian defense forces, many moving parts and pieces and bashar al-assad is looking to take a step up with russia by his side, and it is not going to happen. secretary mattis said he doesn't seem the united states leaving syria until diplomatic efforts are won and we are not there yet. jillian: the pentagon released a statement saying, quote, any interested party and syria should understand attacking us forces or coalition partners will be a bad policy. we are there. nothing has changed. you mentioned bashar al-assad never felt the force of the united states. do you think he should? >> i don't think the us for policy purposes is interested in getting any more involved in syria than they are. we have to thousand troops working with syrian defense forces to fight isis. that is

anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight the with same way he's that he doesn't do anything differently than we do the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb on hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everyone dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody's house this is war criminal for fighting the war they say he was in a war a real war and by all accounts the casualties were almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their they're just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important. the brits had it only which is a laboratory we in america respect for those skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered to account was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman de

it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets under way his envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area was. there any is receive a strong message from israel with the stepped up air strikes that it's want tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdrew from southern syria the iranians know that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefit. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threatened the assad government hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia

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government has urged rebels to give up their weapons but so far they're refusing to recognize president bashar assad can and. we don't recognize assad's authority he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of iranian and afghan militias it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general and from events in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support to the rebels have and are

now syrian president bashar al-assad wants his own face to face with kim jong un.m going to visit the dprk and meet kim jong un. jillian: despite claims no indications that any plans have been made. but is it possible that north korea is courting other heads of states while planning a summit with president trump. here now to weigh in is the author of dear, what do you think of the latest news. >> on the one hand this could be platitude and the other thing why is does the u.s. get to be arm's dealer and they don't. all the missile tests are great commercial for products and small state can stand up to u.s. and other nations, this is something that will compensate for. they will dial down missiles an weapon's industries, they will want money or something else in exchange and syria would be one of the customers. rob: two very bad people meeting together. big-time threat to, i think, international law, the two meeting and big threat, i think, to our negotiations here. are we fools to go into this meeting at this point knowing that they will meet, this does seem like ba

very concerned for their well being jordan says it won't take any more refugees syrian president bashar assad is determined to retake this area a humanitarian catastrophe is looming. at the world cup group c. was decided today france were able to wrest key players against denmark having already secured progression with a game to spare a draw was enough for the danes to qualify and so the two sides played out a tepid first half with chances few and far between olivier giroud hold it threatened for france but neither side pushed for victory meaning the game ended in the turn of its first nil nil draw france top group c. with denmark following behind. and already eliminated peru ended australia's hope of going through to the knockout phase when they beat the socceroos two nil andre carrillo opened the scoring for peru with a fierce volley from the edge of the box in the eighteenth minute new chance here for keeper matt ryan and then shortly after the restart paolo guerrero made it two nil for a captain with great awareness as he smashed in the bouncing ball with his outstretched you see it leg l

degree to connect that's very important next to that are and could possibly be the next place that bashar assad's regime attacks and that is an on golan heights of in part of the golan heights which is disputed between israel and syria these understandings that you mentioned this they seem quite shaky moscow the u.s. and jordan they all agreed to deescalation zone around daraa a year ago now russia is involved in these attacks again why. well the russian side of the regime we've seen russia do the same in all other deescalation zones as well i mean remember what that was a deescalation zone too when we saw the events there the way the un for day and thousands were left stranded thousands have to then date the buses to it lives of russia has been siding with the regime with the machine you see is the look the rebels there are all kind of believe there ought of of the list are which is not factually correct there are people there are rebels who are all. jihadi sort of sick but then there are those with the free syrian army and other groups who are also there and that us with russia says these are t

really quick, i want to ask you about the issue of the news that syrian president bashar al-assad is ng to go to north korea. i bashar al-assad to someone reading at a face-to-face whatever it's going to be. these two gentlemen are still considered dictators. should we be concerned about that? >> these are two of the most brutal but traders in the world. bashar al-assad and kim jong un have also previously, the north korean government allowed the syrian government to build a nuclear heard using north korean technology which is what israel bombed. did they not only chemical weapons but nuclear weapons. this is a really big problem for not only our government, but governments all over the world. cheryl: have a feeling the administration in the white house in particular is concerned about this. hopefully it is after the summit with president trump. thank you very much. appreciate you getting up with us on this monday. >> thanks. have a great monday. tracee: can a president pardon himself? good question. the latest on the russia investigation. good news for cancer patients. a doctor sugge

geopolitics have prevented the international criminal court from taking action bashar al assad is protectedby his alliance with russian president vladimir putin's. alberni and his team have found a willing partner in berlin germany is the only country to consider pressing charges under the principle of universal jurisdiction enabling any country to prosecute war crimes no matter where they've been perpetrated. damn it had taken with this germany's chief prosecutors have made a huge step ahead of other nations other countries should see this is an example of what action they could take because this task cannot rest solely on the shoulders of the german judiciary one it's really will be. proof to european. justice as. it's not under control. that is very important to us untoward. the case represents a strong signal from germany's judiciary to president assad suspected war criminals and torturers will be prosecuted. and we're happy to welcome you from the syrian center for legal research and studies with us here in our studio just saw him in that report one of the human rights lawyers working

a lot of people are trying to get influence and bashar al assad is next. >> good morning to you. yet another indication that kim jong-un is going into a important meeting with president donald trump. syria and north korea have a history. the presidents have exchanged messages of support before and this past winter that the u.n. alleged a report there was evidence of continued cooperation between syria and north korea on chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and now syria president is the first leader to visit face-to-face with kim jong-un. north korean state news saying assad said this. the world no date yes yet set for that meeting but the other big meaning between trump and kim jong-un happen on june 12th. he talked about the need to keep up the strong defenses against north korea at this point going into meeting in order to allow the u.s. diplomats to negotiate from a position of strength. take land to what he said. >> we will recognize the declaration of peace and prosperity against the north korean peninsula and that was announced in april. we can anticipate best a bumpy r

russia about a peace deal and there are under which see them hand over more areas to president bashar al assad's forces. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers and their coach been missing for a week local rescue crews have been joined by british divers and u.s. military personnel as we know contact with the boy since they went into the caves last saturday south sudan's latest attempt to deceive fire is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's northwest between rebels and government forces president salva kiir and rebel leader react machar signed the agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday. demonstrations are being held in south korea people who are angry about yemenis arriving to seek asylum more than five hundred refugees from the war torn country have flown to jeju island since december craig nice and travel to jeju to meet some of the refugees. the kitchen is the last place adnan imagines himself working. choose this job but i'm in an immigration and there are enough this place picked me and it turned out

millions of syrians risk losing their homes over a property you know implemented by president bashar al assad's government. some of america's biggest allies are threatening retaliatory measures off of the u.s. imposed tariffs on steel and many and ports the trumpeter ministration refused to exempt the european union canada and mexico they're now fears the decision could spark a global trade war committee how could reports from washington. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross made the announcement from paris where he was attending an annual trade forum. tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the united states from canada mexico and the european union all go into effect friday. the move potentially sets in motion a trade war with some of the united states' most important allies a claim the u.s. commerce secretary brushed off everybody has a remeron and very firmly every country does with others whose loathing we are to. get over this in due course in brussels the head of the european commission called it a bad day for world trade promising counter measures

little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. they've barker's out the conference in the h

bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people. which is a turkey that was in two thousand and thirteen was a very rich from his point of reactionary force there was very hostile to his his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and isis later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bombed and bombed to smithereens the war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had a war it was an awful war and he fought it awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it was government funding the white helmets right now that say it's one sided here it's the only can we trust you there's no question there's a look there i'm sure there are some people in the white helmets that were very actually doing what you know trying to save lives but the it's pretty clear now that they're basically the major funding also i think america was indirectly supplying some money certainly the brits were and so c

little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. all of the world's largest rain forest

>> so north korean state media says bashar al-assad plans to visit kim jong un in north korea so if thathosts another head of state. the u.n. has previously said they shipped nuclear materials to the assad regime. >> joining us from washington, good to have you with us. let's start with the trump/kim summit preparations. it appears to be back on at least for the time being. what final preparations still need to be hammered out between the two sides and what's the atmosphere like in the region ahead of this meeting? >> well, the atmhere in singapore is very much a city that's preparing for a big summit to take place. in terms of the details of the negoions they'veot t fire out the number of entrances there are to where people are going to sit, how the photo ops will be staged. these are all tricky questions they need to iron out. i think the big development is what we've seen in north korea with the dismissal of those three senior military generals from the previous generation being replaced by younger generations. the fact that there's been a shift in the leadership structure inside nort

want in syria it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets underway his envoy later clarified this included iran. days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area. received a strong message from israel had with the stepped up airstrikes that it's won't tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdraw from solving syria the iranians know that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefits and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threaten the assad government's hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia which e

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this area and to watch because i believe that it is i think that the regime of syrian president bashar assad will survive. the have been actually there no decision very well for the past five decades was a very good partner in actually wanted to bring the borders between syria and israel are you so in my being in there with the fear actually to have this regime staying in place it's almost like they're trying to manage what they consider to be inevitable anyway sort of and on the other hand they would like actually they would befit actually to have the receipt in the regime on their borders rather than having hezbollah and the iranians on the end on the borders with these like they don't want actually to have another lebanon in this particular part of syria so we believe that there is an understanding between that is that it is on the russians and that understanding as she was reached it during israeli prime minister visit to more school early last month. that. that understanding as i said that is likely would allow actually the syrian regime to be captured this this this part of syria in ex

government russia about a peace deal and are under which they would hand over more areas to president bashar assad's forces has been a temporary ceasefire in parts of the province but it's been breached by sporadic fighting and if it is a humanitarian catastrophe u.n. says the fighting is displaced a hundred sixty thousand people in southern syria over the past five days there are a bit correspondent has this update from the jordanian side of its border with sara look at. the cease fire announced friday and i mean not only held for a few minutes there's been uninterrupted shelling across billy just south of syria namely in the eastern and western countries sod's of daraa province according to eyewitness accounts we received the areas will all residential homes and makeshift hospitals which is no longer operational as a result of the intense bombardment as we speak we can still hear the shelling a true massacre took place in the town of possum in dars west and countryside the ceasefire collapsed in this town where residents of neighboring areas have taken refuge over the past few days was targeted by

little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. let's go live now to the hagar seriousl

it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets underway has envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area. how soon the iranians receive a strong message from israel and with the stepped up air strikes that it's won't tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdrew from solving syria the iranians know that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefit. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threaten the assad government's hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act fo

of shields he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think you'll get a visa for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a fact means being evicted and ending up homeless. now german chancellor merkel says syria must be secure before any refugee is sent back and as far as she's concerned the time is not yet right that message from the chancellor comes as fighting has intensified again according to a war monitoring group. b.o.'s said to be from it live in syria's north the syrian observatory for human rights and britain says president bashar al assad's regime has stepped up stepped up airstrikes on rebel held areas the u.n. fears hundreds of thousands of civilians will be caught in the fighting that comes as questions remain over the syrian regime's alleged use of chemical weapons and russia's involvement in the seven year long conflict. still to come on the day a cold war blockade and a daring rescue operation to save a city remembering the berlin airlift. planes dropping essential supplies in west berlin up to thirteen thou

and now the law is an obstacle to those who want to go back home even if it means living under bashar assad to rule the how much fairest and how is one of them his hometown has been all but destroyed and he has no documents to prove ownership of his land. that i don't have any papers i don't even know my property number that is because i inherited it from my father i don't know if my house is still standing i have nothing by god it's estimated up to fifty percent of syrian land was not officially registered before the war for many permanent displacement is becoming a reality. because lebanon. rights groups have condemned what they call a shoot to kill policy towards anti-government protest as a nicaragua more than one hundred people have died in the past two months including at least sixteen since wednesday president daniel ortega is accused of ordering snipers an issue to protest as demanding his resignation. from the capital managua . on the streets of managua gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in the nicaraguan capital many demonstrators took shelter in a nearby cathedral w

government gangs in the area president bashar al assad's forces took over the town of day on saturday his forces and his russian allies have been fighting to gain ground in recent weeks. well that's despite the fact that large parts of daraa province fall inside a deescalation zone negotiated by the united states and russia to his foreign minister says the two countries have a responsibility to end the violence. the united states and russia have reached an agreement regarding this area and syria they reached an agreement for deescalation zones and according to the deal opposition forces would be deployed on one side while syrian regime forces would be on the other but syrian regime forces launched an attack on the other side so who made this agreement the united states and russia they both have responsibility and this needs. dog. south sudan's latest attempt at a cease fire is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's north west between rebels and government forces presence of a karen rebel leader signed their agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday demonstrations are taki

little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. navy divers have reentered a flooded ca

korea's state news agency has been speaking actually and speaking specifically about president bashar assad and a visit that is being planned to kim jong un in pyongyang now the comments have been confirmed by damascus and there's no indication that the trip has been set out the two countries have maintained good relations for decades united nations monitors accused north korea of cooperated with syria on chemical weapons a charge the north denies. so i have for you on the program how isolated fighters in the southern philippines are recruiting children to join the battle. and out a groundbreaking study finds little need for chemotherapy and up to seventy percent of breast cancer patients. hello the weather is about to get pretty vicious in the south china sea and all neighboring countries we have a developing tropical depression here huge circulation has a lot of moisture this time of year cause a lot of heat and the potential for rain is great along the vietnamese coast and come not so much monday but tuesday that will settle down to southern china as well probably including hong kong as

people sunday strike is said to be in retaliation for a rebel attack on towns loyal to president bashar assad the battle for control of a besieged city in eastern libya is intensifying downa is the last eastern city not held by forces loyal to renegade general holly for have to his troops a bombarding the coastal city from the east and west using machine guns and heavy artillery trying to oust armed groups some linked to al qaeda which of control down a few years the u.n. says it's worried about the safety of an estimated one hundred fifty thousand civilians living there or people are fleeing down in greater numbers than at any time since heavy fighting began two months ago three hundred families who feared revenge attacks if a city falls to have to us forces have been rescued by red crescent volunteers the aid group is appealing for safe corridors to be set up to move others to safety somewhat up to the head has more from the capital tripoli. the situation in the libyan eastern city of there is going from bad to worse as street battles and fights from one street to another and from one build

north korea's state news agency says the syrian president bashar assad is planning a visit to kim jong un in pyongyang the comments haven't been confirmed by damascus and there's no indication that a trip has been actually set up at this point but the two countries have maintained good relations for a long time now knighted nations monitors have accused north korea of cooperating with syria on chemical weapons a charge the north denies. but least in berlin have shot a man in the leg at the city's cathedral officers who were called to the bell in a dom a major tourist attraction after a dispute between two people and they say the man who was shot had a knife but that there's nothing to suggest it was a terrorist attack kenya now a government official say residents of a building which collapsed early on sunday morning and been evicted but they sneaked back in even after it was condemned and marked for demolition three people were killed when the five story residential building crumbled rescuers are still looking for survivors it's not clear what caused the collapse but with housing in hi

russia about a peace deal and they're under which they would hand over more areas to president bashar assad's forces. south sudan's latest attempt at a cease fire is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's northwest between rebels and government forces presence all the care and rebel leader signed their agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday. and demonstrations are taking place in south korea against the number of yemenis arriving there to seek asylum more than five hundred yemenis are fleeing to chad you island since december about hoffa's a million people have signed a petition urging the government to revise legislation on migrants. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand for twelve young footballers and their coach you've been missing for a week local rescue crews have joined been joined by british divers and u.s. military personnel and you opening to the underground complex was discovered on friday offering hope that the bass boys may still be found alive let's go hide reports relatives remain positive despite so many questions and few

action against the syrian government for violations of a so-called deescalation zone president bashar assad's forces have recovered much of the country's territory but rebels still control some areas in the southwest that the escalation deal brokered by russia u.s. and jordan last year has contained fighting but the assad government has vowed to reclaim every inch of syrian territory. a new report on the former f.b.i. director james comey accuses him of mishandling the investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail the findings are already giving feel to white house attempts to prove the f.b.i. is corrupt and out sister u.s. president donald trump can be helped get us the story. it was a bombshell announcement during a heated presidential contest we did not sign clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information former f.b.i. director james comey concluded in july twenty six team that u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton did nothing wrong when she used a private e-mail server well secretary of

and now the law is an obstacle to those who want to go back home even if it means living under bashar assad to rule mohamed farah said how is one of them his hometown has been all but destroyed and he has no documents to prove ownership of his land. that i'm doing and i don't have any papers i don't even know my property number that is because i inherited it from my father i don't know if my house is still standing i have nothing by god it's estimated up to fifty percent of syrian land was not officially registered before the war for many permanent displacement is becoming a reality lebanon is not the only country concerned other nations that host refugees have also expressed concern germany for example called law number ten quote a cynical plan and it has appealed to the united nations to look into the issue there one hundred fifty somalian migrants have returned home from libya as part of a un repatriation program they'd been arrested by libyan police as they tried to cross the mediterranean to europe the international organization for migration says there are as many as six hundred thous

and now the law is an obstacle to those who want to go back home even if it means living under bashar assad to rule mohamed farah so how is one of them his hometown has been all but destroyed and he has no documents to prove ownership of his land. i don't have any papers i don't even know my property number that is because i inherited it from my father i don't know if my house is still standing i have nothing by god it's estimated up to fifty percent of syrian land was not officially registered before the war for many permanent displacement is becoming a reality. because lebanon the red cross is sending two teams of surgeons as well as medical supplies to gaza to treat casualties. shot by israeli soldiers one hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed and thirteen thousand wounded since border protests began at the end of march the red cross health system is on the verge of collapse. part of phones former chief justice has been sworn in as the caretaker prime minister ahead of july's election. and an interim government on the country as part of three main political parties campaign to wi

and now the law is an obstacle to those who want to go back home even if it means living under bashar assad to rule mohamed farah somehow is one of them his hometown has been all but destroyed and he has no documents to prove ownership of his land. there and i don't have any papers i don't even know my property number that is because i inherited it from my father i don't know if my house is still standing i have nothing but god it's estimated up to fifty percent of syrian land was not officially registered before the war for many permanent displacement is becoming a reality. because of that lebanon five dangerous big cats have escaped their enclosures in a german zoo have now been recaptured residents on the gemini luxemburg border will want to stay inside after two tigers two lines and i jag you a broke free one storm flooding damaged their cages a cats were finally found inside the zoo compound thanks to drone footage a bed which also escaped from a different zoo was shot dead. a new survey shows central africa's critically endangered mountain gorillas have exceeded the one thousand mark

bashar al-assad plans to meet, visit north korea to meet leader.date has been said, with the u.s. summit the meeting is notable, syria and north korea have been accused of cooperating on chemical weapons together. heather: yes, they have, very notable to say the least. thank you so much for joining us, garrett, appreciate it. number one-state sponsor of terror is accusing president trump of bullying, iran's foreign minister begging u.s. allies to stand up to the white house and save the obama-when area nuclear deal. u.s. decision to pull out of the deal is illegal and challenges international law. president trump has since reimposed harsh economic sanctions against iran. at least 25 people are dead, hundreds more injured after volcano erupts in guatemala. volcano of fire spewing laugh -- lava and black smoke, troops as far as colombia coming to help with survivors. second eruption this year. here at home, nearly a dozen people trapped on their homes on hawaii's big island. three people cut off from water, electricity air-lift today safety. lava cov

government for violations of a so-called deescalation zone in the country's south west president bashar assad's forces of a covered much of the country's territory but one of the areas still controlled by rebels is the land of bordering jordan and the israeli controlled golan heights ideas collation deal brokered by russia u.s. and jordan last year has contained fighting the assad government has vowed to reclaim every inch of syrian territory. u.s. media reporting that president donald trump has decided to impose tariffs on tens of billions of dollars worth of chinese imports and official announcement may be made as soon as friday the levies could be as much as fifty five billion dollars as trump tries to fulfill a campaign pledge to clamp down what he calls unfair chinese trading practices he's already imposed charges on steel and alimony imports from canada mexico and you firms louie has more from beijing. the u.s. government hasn't officially announced these tariffs yet but we have known about them for a couple of weeks the u.s. had said it will publish a list of affected items on the fiftee

earlier this year schools of children being treated after exposure to an apparent nerve agent has bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas since two thousand and twelve the o.p.c. recorded four hundred gc's of chemical weapons in syria and a year and a half ago a brazen assassination at kuala lumpur airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un attacked with a deadly chemical substance he later died in hospital and in march the attempted murder of former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter in the british town of souls. investigators concluded they were poisoned would not be chunky a nerve agent developed by the soviet union. russia and its allies syria and iran strongly oppose britain's proposal russia's published a plan of its own only the un it says can apportion blame the international border . security council this isn't the first time that there's been an attempt to point the finger at those responsible for carrying out chemical weapons attacks in two thousand and fifteen the un security council in partnership with the o.p.c. w set up th