there are many actors including russia, iran, turkey, the us but this is the time for diplomacy and new sanctions. >> senator from idaho. >> with all due respect, in kentucky, i respectfully urge this is exactly what is needed to encourage the diplomacy he wants, but i want, but all of us want and as far as discouraging that, gives the president the authority to grant waivers when and if they finally get to the diplomatic track so with all due respect i disagree with that. i understand he has the right to object to this. it is unfortunate we have the 435 members of the house, there were 99 members who signed off on this legislation and it is very unfortunate. the syrian people do not deserve the treatment they are getting from besar al-assad. this resolution is aimed directly at stopping it. thank you. >> mister president. >> senator from connecticut. >> thank you very much, mister president. mister president, i come to the floor to speak briefly about the president's announcement that he will be withdrawing 2000 american troops from syria. let me be clear. i thought this was a bad idea

a positive step for the syrian peace process as top diplomats from russia iran and turkey agree to work on constitutional changes for syria's future also. as anger rises over nicaraguan president daniel ortega a crackdown on the media and civil rights groups look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country but turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring honduras. or broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trumper russia dossier michael isikoff has said that it contains claims that are likely false isikoff said he believes the more salacious accusations made in document may never be proven his comments have drawn praise from the u.s. president. thank you too michael isikoff yahoo for honesty what this means is that the pfizer warrants and the whole russian witch hunt is a fraud and a hoax which should be ended immediately also it was paid for by crook hillary and d.n.c. . we're going to try and go comments now on this huge u. turn on the. someti

national security advisor michael flynn is to be sentenced as part of a high profile russia investigation iran russia and turkey agree on a five point political plan for reform in syria president xi jinping says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as china celebrates forty years since opening its economy to the world's. hello a un brokered cease fire in yemen's key port city of her day that has been largely holding but there have been reports of sporadic fighting throughout the day yemen's warring sides agree to a truce that peace talks held in sweden last week homage to reports. as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting in this is one of the problem of this we didn't . agreement because it has. the flow of human he did it with the security situation and. to be honest they should have actually. allow food and medicine. into a video oh the. united natio

a positive step for the syrian peace process his top diplomats from russia iran and turkey agree to work on constitutional changes for syria's future plus. the. rise of nicaraguan president to take its crackdown on the media and civil rights groups look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on that country but then turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring hundred. elo their good evening it's ten pm a choose day the eighteenth of december life martin to nationals news h.q. to moscow it's kevin away with you for the next thirty minutes thanks for your company hope you can stay with me this we go through tonight's top story starting with this well the first journalist to report on the infamous trump russia dossier of michael isikoff now says that it contains numerous claims that are likely false and that interview is drawing praise from the u.s. president. thank you too michael isikoff yahoo for honesty what this means is that the pfizer warrants and the whole russian witch hunt is a fraud and a hoax which should be ended immediately also it was paid for by crook hillary and d.n.c. that's

the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey arrived in geneva for u.s. led talks on syria the most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would go she to new syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society. china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transformed the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy. promised to open up to the world even more but gave very few details online holiday rental company a b. and b. has denied reversing its decision to ban listings of properties and illegal settlements of the occupied west bank the company made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has said since that back down after threats of legal action in israel and the us britons are being warned to prepare for a no deal broke said after the prime minister met cabinet ministers the governments be ramping up preparations to crash out of the e.u. without any deal in the fut

geneva meeting was hosted by the un special syria envoy stephan to mr a top diplomats from russia iran and turkey agree to launch a committee by january for draft a new constitution that. of a very useful meeting was the secretary general special envoy agreed to for its convening the first session of the constitutional commuter ingenue good in the next year steps will lead to the launch of a viable and lasting syrian led syrian and un facilitate the political process in their closing statement the three foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey they presented the positive results of their consultations on the formation of a syrian constitutional committee to either rewrite the syrian constitution or to amend it in order to allow for a wider pads syrian election presidential election part of a political resolution to this war that has raged on for so many years the ministers themselves from what we saw were smiling and laughing afterwards they described their work as again positive and they have committed to seeing the syrian constitutional committee sit for its first session early next year ear

positive step for the syrian peace process as a top diplomats from russia iran and turkey agree to work on constitutional changes for syria's future also. as anger rises over when the president daniel ortega has cracked down on the media and civil rights groups we look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country but turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring ponderous. broadcasting. this is our international and from thomas really glad to have you with us. all right one of the first journalists to report on the infamous trump russia dossier michael isikoff has said that it contains numerous claims that are likely false and then that interview has drawn praise from the u.s. president. thank you to michael isikoff yahoo for honesty what this means is that the feisal warrants and the whole russian witch hunt is a fraud and a hoax which should be ended immediately also it was paid for by crook hillary and d.n.c. earlier but trying to go comments now on this huge you turn on the steel dossier. sometimes it takes only one spark one report from one or a handful of journalists from a b

a positive step for the syrian peace process as top diplomats from russia or iran and turkey agree and work on constitutional changes for syria's future we'll tell you all about it coming up also. rises of a nicaraguan president daniel ortega is cracking down on the major civil rights groups look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country but then turns a blind eye to violations in neighboring home during. one of the first journalists reporting the alleged trumped russia collusion now says the main claims made in the infamous still quote likely false and quote. evening eight pm choose to the eighteenth of december life martin to nationals news h.q. here in moscow is kevin there with you for the next thirty minutes company first in the news from us tonight seems this positive agreement on the fate of syria has been thrashed out in switzerland geneva at a meeting earlier hosted by the un special syria stephan de mistura top diplomats from russia iran and turkey have agreed to launch a committee for drafting a new constitution early next year. of a very useful meeting was the secret

a key moment in the syrian peace process top diplomats from russia iran turkey to shore up details of the war torn countries. also ahead. did not support the general assembly calling on both states to take actions it is yet another violation. of the u.s. and e.u. countries are playing along with. confrontational. u.n. resolution as a provocation after russia is their pride for the militarized. also coming up. president. on the media rights groups we look at why the u.s. imposes sanctions on the country turns out to violations in neighboring countries. investment bank goldman sachs faces criminal charges in malaysia over the loss of billions of dollars from a government. possible consequences for the wall street. two pm here in moscow this choose they the september the eighteenth welcome wherever you're tuning in from our top story. the fate of syria is being thrashed out in the swiss city of geneva a meeting hosted by the u.n. special syria envoy stuff on de mistura top diplomats from russian iran turkey are putting their weight behind political efforts to ease years of turmoil in the

in geneva a meeting hosted by the un special syria envoy stuff on to mr a top diplomats from russia iran turkey are attempting to put together a committee responsible for drafting a new constitution which would then hopefully pave the way for elections in the war torn country our senior correspondent rutgers day of reports now from the swiss city the talks negotiations on this new constitutional reform have been very difficult because the different sides have such deferring views nevertheless the main sticking point is about the makeup of this constitutional new constitutional committee because it may have to either rewrite the syrian constitution entirely all amend certain parts of the to provide for an all inclusive pan syrian election going into the future there are of course other things that they're going to be discussing but that is the main topic nevertheless these three countries russia iran and turkey they've been working together over recent years and their cooperation partnership has yielded concrete results we've seen demilitarize zooms at stablished in syria we've seen deescalation

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the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey have arrived in geneva the un led talks about syria they are going to be submitting names which would form a committee some kind of constitutional committee to help negotiate a new constitution for syria about one hundred fifty people are due to be on this committee representing many strands of syrian society and go live now to our correspondent ben a smith is there in geneva and so these three foreign nations are submitted names fifteen names apiece to make up what will be a constitutional committee for syria sounds very much as the decisions are being made not by syrians but by others. while the fifty names between the martino will also be agreed with the u.n. and they'll go on to this list of a total of one hundred fifty names. come from the syrian regime assad's regime fifty names of come from opposition groups and then these other fifty names from over looks really by the russians the turks and the iranians and the hope is they've agreed with a lot of haggling over exactly who should be on this list and the hope is today that final fif

russia iran and turkey have failed to agree on the makeup of the committee to rewrite serious constitution and help end the war foreign ministers met the outgoing un special envoy for syria in geneva stuff on the mistura set to brief the secretary general later on wednesday. all of the world's biggest stock offerings flopped on its market debut shares in the mobile unit of japan these tech giant softbank fell fourteen percent on the first day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange. voting is under way for the presidential runoff election in madagascar former leaders and. marc ravalomanana have cast their ballots. well holy no one thirty nine percent of the votes in the first round while rather low man amana won thirty five percent about four point five million people turned up to vote in november out of the ten million that are eligible there are fears the result could spark violence candidate rejects the outcome electronic voting machines will be used for the first time in sunday's elections in the democratic republic of congo as catherine sawyer reports that the people don't know how to

iran, srl assad, andd russia. in addition to the fight against russia, syria remains the center of double proxy wars involving the united states, russia, iran, turkey, saudi arabia, israel, and other nations. we will have more on trump's decision and the situation in syria after headlines. the senate passed a last-minute stopgap spending bill last wednesday in an effort to avert a possible government shutdown friday. the measure would keep the government open until february and does not include funding for trump's border wall. $5 billion last week, trump declared he would be proud to shut down the government over border wall funding during a contentious public meeting with democratic leaders. the measure will now have to pass through the house before arriving at president trump's desk. it's unclear whether he will sign it. on wednesday, trump appeared to back off the border wall funding provision, tweeting -- "mexico is paying for the wall through the new usmca, the replacement for nafta! far more money coming to the u.s. because of the tremendous dangers at the border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the united states military will

foreign ministers from russia iran and turkey agree to accelerate their efforts for a political solution in syria. electronic voting machine controversy and d.r. c. fears the people won't know how to use them and the election could be raped. and begin in yemen where a un brokered cease fire is largely holding the key port city of her data despite some reports of sporadic fighting hoofy rebels say one civilian has been killed in a shop district by coalition forces themselves say three civilians have been killed by hoofy shelling into hate a district yemen's warring sides agreed to a truce for her date at peace talks held in sweden last week when a judge and reports. as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of her data as the. past the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting this is one of the problem of the. agreement because it has . the flow of human he did it with this it could. actually. allow food and me

new constitution for the country and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkeymet the outgoing un special envoy for syria in geneva staffan de mistura sent to brief the secretary general later on wednesday byrne and smith has more the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from opposition groups but this other fifty there's been a lot of haggling on who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in

tensions between iran and russia over iran's disappointment at the way russia is conducting itself with regards to taking advantage of these oil sanctions that have been imposed on iran for turkey they believe there is an existential threat i think one of the reasons why this is so very interesting what's happening in syria is that last week we had the turkish foreign minister saying we are ready to work with if you are in free and fair elections then ahmed bashir takes a letter from the arab states suggesting to bashar asad we are ready to reconcile with you then everyone speaks to trump and they have some sort of conversation and suddenly the turkish deal to buy patriot missiles from the u.s. is back on the table and the deal to buy s. four hundred from russia is now in doubt moreover we have the guns announcement that he's going to go into northern syria to fight the kurds if you will donald trump and you'll mulling over this you're thinking ok look i may be withdrawing but i know turkey doesn't trust russia i know turkey doesn't trust iran i know that if turkey has to choose it will choose me so if turkey is going into northern syria that's technically a fighting force that

the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names will be added to another hundred that will form this constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names from opposition groups and these last fifty russia turkey iran have been haggling over with the u.n. hoping to agree them by the end of today so they can be approved by the u.n. secretary general now when this committee meets the was a hope that they might meet before the end of the year although that seems rather optimistic but this committee of one hundred fifty people must somehow come to agree the terms or changes to syria's constitution before there are elections assad's regime has already said he's not prepared they're not prepared to have a new constitution or only take changes so given our blood day and divisive this war has been it's going to be an enormous challenge for one hundred fifty people to agree to those changes to syria's constitution online holiday rental compan

foreign ministers from russia iran and turkey agreed to accelerate their efforts for a political solution in syria. we are trying to approach machine controversy in d.r. see is people going to know how to use them and the election could be rigged to. play we begin in yemen where a un brokered cease fire is largely holding the key port city of her data despite some sporadic fighting approaches news agency is reporting four large blasts have been heard but it's not clear which side is responsible or the location of the blasts earlier hoofy rebels said one civilian had been killed in a district by coalition forces while they said three civilians and been killed by hoofy shelling into a to district yemen's warring sides agree to a truce for her data that peace talks held in sweden last week marijan drew reports . as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the perceived port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid

the day is either a day for a breakthrough or a breakdown in negotiations russia iran and turkey the three principal actors behind these this peace initiative along with the united nations have been trying to form a constitutional committee to either write a new constitution for syria or amend the current constitution in order to allow for national elections all the syrian elections in order to you know stablish a peaceful solution to this civil war which is raged for so many years now unfortunately the main sticking point is who gets the stuff this constitutional committee because. the russians the and the rain ians all have different views the syrian government obviously wants to get as many of its people in there the rebels these limits want to get as many of their people into this constitutional committee so that is the main sticking point and we're about to find out what solution they they've come to indeed the turkish foreign minister in turn said that they've had very little support from the u.s. led international coalition and events on the ground a volatile as well because t

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russia iran and turkey have failed to agree on the makeup of the committee to rewrite syria's constitution and help end the war the foreign ministers met the outgoing un special envoy for syria in geneva. one of the world's biggest offerings made its debut on the markets with a disappointing start shares in the most japanese tech giant softbank fourteen percent on the first day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange. u.s. president donald trump is agreed to shut down his personal charity to resolve a legal battle new york's attorney general alleges the foundation operated as an extension of trans businesses in presidential campaign if the state wins trample have to pay thousands in penalties and will be barred from running other charities . on the has more from new york. new york attorney general barbara underwood gave us gave ing rebuke of the way the trump foundation work she said there was a shocking pattern of illegality involving the trump foundation including unlawful coordination with the trump presidential campaign and in a statement she said that the trump foundation function a li

that was the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking in geneva where russia and russia turkey and iran have just said that they've agreed. to make efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syria constitutional committee early next year that is according to a statement that was just read out by the russian foreign minister back to james bay is joining us from the united nations so james this constitutional committee how much of it would be a starting point for actual political progress when it comes to syria. it could be but look at who is standing there the turkish foreign minister the russian foreign minister the iranian foreign minister parties on either side of the syrian conflict shaking hands at the end of that news conference who is not standing there stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy he had been meeting them maybe it's a protocol issue that he wanted them to speak and he'll speak separately but the word we're getting behind the scenes is there has been a disagreement between the russians and the syrians let me just remind you what this is all about long negotiat

live from london also coming up for misses from russia iran and turkey reach accelerate their efforts for a political solution in syria. press excessive to joseph kabila report from the democratic republic of congo on campaigning that a long awaited election. and one of the world's most successful football managers is fired one of the world's biggest comes. sacked by manchester united. and begin in yemen where a un brokered cease fire is largely holding for the key port city of data despite some reports of sporadic fighting and he rebels say one civilian has been killed by coalition forces and district well coalition forces say three civilians have been killed by hoofy shining in today to district yemen's warring sides agree to a truce for her data peace talks held in sweden last week. reports. as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting

dictate to the chinese people what should or should not be done the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkeyve arrived in geneva for us led talks on syria most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would negotiate a new syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society bernard smith has the latest from geneva the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names to another hundred that will form a constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names.

that its coalition is well into the formation of a constitutional committee that is will be russia iran and turkey three countries that it would have been working together for a peaceful resolution in syria yielding concrete results we've seen with jools cease fire d.d.'s collations put in place by these three countries nevertheless the united states and the u.s. led coalition of stated plainly that they no longer see regime change as a goal. getting assad out is not the only property we know but it is not going to be there is not any sort of option where a political solution is going to happen with assad at the head of the regime we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise settlement there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to ante up money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that the government is ready to compromise and that's not create yet another horror in the years ahead. so we're expecting any allen now results concrete results as one u.n. diplomat put it today with this year a breakthro

there are concerns about russia, iran, turkey all grabbing some influence and beyond that, the kurdishy will be targeted by turkey as they tried to establish and get their hands on more territory in syria. the truth it is going to be difficult to contain what is happening in syria and with the us pulling out there are many critics who feel that is potentially only going to cause more problems and create more difficulties for other countries to deal with. that's why we heard criticism from president macron. the french must consider how they will respond, whether they get more involved in syria. he may talk about a slow and coordinated pull but it's still clear that president trump wants to leave syria. thanks. as chris mentioned, france's president macron has said he ‘deeply regrets‘ president trump's decision to withdraw the us military from syria. i spoke to salih muslim, who's based in northern syria, where he represents the democratic union party of syria, which draws its support from the kurdish community. i asked him what impact a withdrawal of the american troops, who have often

of those of russia iran and turkey the three principal players currently trying to resolve the conflict peaceful means he said that there's been no support from the from the coalition coalition led by the united states nevertheless as i say a few hours left before we find out what they've agreed. the situation in syria meanwhile still volatile turkey is threatening any day an invasion of northern syria against the u.s. backed could there that it calls terrorists the situation in libya is also volatile with regular clashes between the syrian arab army and the hardest these the mist and rebels on the other side though there's been no major offensive so now. i guess you have thank you for bringing us the latest wild death threats to the family of the rights lawyer and jamie sparks have proven so right wing groups within the police who got the details on that story coming up right after this break. you know world's big partners do things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need

facilitate the political process in their closing statement the three foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey that they presented the positive results of their consultations on the formation of a syrian constitutional committee to either rewrite the syrian constitution or to amend it in order to allow for a wider pad syrian election presidential election part of a political resolution to this war that has raged on for so many years the ministers themselves from what we saw were smiling and laughing afterwards they described their work as again positive and they have committed to seeing the syrian constitutional committee sit for its first session early next year early two thousand and nineteen we hoop of course to be able to do this because this trio that have been working together for several years now russia iran and turkey they've been able to produce results you need concrete results we've seen cease fires in syria established with their backing we've seen withdrawals other deals deescalation demilitarized zone is established over syria so there's a lot of optimism going forward that they

from russia iran and turkey agree.

the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names that will be added to another hundred that will form this constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names from opposition groups and these last fifty russia turkey iran have been haggling over with the u.n. hoping to agree them by the end of today so they can be approved by the u.n. secretary general now when this committee meets there was a hope that they might meet before the end of the year although that seems rather optimistic but this committee of one hundred fifty people must somehow come to agree the terms or changes to syria's constitution before there are elections as regime has already said he's not prepared they're not prepared to have a new constitution or only take changes so given our blood day and divisive this war has been it's going to be an enormous challenge for one hundred fifty people to agree to those changes to syria's constitution she jinping has declare

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america, russia, iran, turkey, all with their own different agendas.split along sectarian lines, along ethnic lines, along regional lines, and as long as those rivalries exist, the middle east is going to remain deeply unstable place, fertile ground for those who don't mind mixing extreme violence with a narrow, mediaevalversion mind mixing extreme violence with a narrow, mediaeval version of its lamp. and remember, groups is, like it spread assessors, were able to cause mayhem without ever occupying any territory at all —— islam. and there is no reason to suppose it can't do that again. let's get more on this now. i'm joined now by retired lieutenant colonel daniel l davis, a senior fellow with the think tank defense priorities. good to talk to you, thank you very much for your time. i think it is fairto much for your time. i think it is fair to say you are generally a supporter of what the president is trying to do. his resignation letter, it is a pretty lister in leicester, isn't it? one white house source has described it as a 21 gun fu to the pres

russia iran and turkey have said a new syrian constitutional committee should begin next year.

because still there are lots of controversies on the future of syria even between russia and iran between russia and turkey of course between turkey and the run so this is the major question in besides the regime is also the government in damascus is also playing its own game so there are many complications but at least the american the american part of the equation is gone in it is an improvement of sorts because fewer players the easier it is to find a compromise nic and i said thank you very much already are also much more flexible ok all right nicholas i got thank you very much for talking to us jazeera. all right lots more to come here on the news hour including fighters attacked military bases in nigeria and escape with large quantities of weapons. and fuel for thought germany pushes for greener cars. and sport find out if serino williams could make a winning return in the first match since he was in the u.s. open that's all sort of. now there are more anti-government demonstrations in sudan ever spiralling living costs and corruption the government says nineteen people were killed during protests in