stronghold of idlib in western syria, but the sdf is refusing. it wants complete surrender. baghuz is the last i.s. bastion in syria. administratively, it has long been in ruins. i.s. number plates are now history. >> the area they control has shrunk considerably. and it is clear they had hardly any radios. so communication between them is minimal. reporter: the i.s. fighters in baghuz have two options. fight on, or go to prison. that includes the foreign jihadists, among them, many germans. the sdf says their home countries must now take responsibility for them. >> we just do not have the resources to try them for the crimes that they have perpetrated against the syrians and the iriris. and so we wiwill do all we can o send those arrrrested back to their home countries. reporter: meanwhile, i.s. wives

two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood. has been hit by several bombings in recent months that have killed scores of people the city is controlled by the high up to here al shaab armed group formerly an affiliate of al qaida. several members of the european parliament have urged the e.u. to suspend contact with venezuela's government after they were blocked from entering the country the group was invited to meet venezuela's national assembly by the opposition leader one why though is also trying to enlist volunteers to confront a government blockade of u.s. aid at the border hundreds of thousands of civilians are expected to try to defy the blockade by carrying supplies across the border on saturday but. our parliamentary group demands that the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in brussels decide to withdraw from the international context group we had our passports taken and we with him to back to our plane without reason

efforts needed to defeat terrorists on the ground the biggest concern today is of course the province of idlib in russia's in syria's north story a very vast area up to three million people more than ninety percent of which according to the russian side is today controlled by the jihad just from a loss for from former al-qaeda affiliated group this is very dramatic and very. big progress for the jihadist and. for all the sideline involved russia turkey iran and of course syria who believes that and karate is not doing its best making it easier for terrorists to come in to conquer a new lens because turkey is the country that is supposed to secure this region according to previous agreements but it seems that turkey is more interested in another region in syria's north east of the euphrates river and is continuing to push the idea of so-called zone thirty kilometer wide strip along four hundred sixty kilometer long turkish syrian border. ankara says it is needed to protect turkish security from syrian kurdish forces right now in charge of this area that and sees as terry's but there right now i

rebranding so whatever they call themselves they still control the lion share of the syrian province of idlib the thing america is in the king to get involved as it was previously it is time to give our brave warriors in syria. a warm welcome home it's also currently battling al qaeda in yemen since the beginning of twenty seventeen we have conducted more than one hundred forty strikes to remove key leaders in the arabian peninsula and disrupt its ability to use. these to recruit train and plan operations against the u.s. and our partners across the region u.s. allies in the region doing their share of the heavy lifting in fact. the united arab emirates have been accused of passing weapons on to terror groups something they strongly deny almost eighty years after his slaying by u.s. special forces the woods of asama bin laden about the al qaeda network standout. it appears he may have been proved right. showing signs of confidence what will for action. the threat from radical islamic terrorism the continuing threat posed by al qaeda as it stands that you'll be likely to be around for a while

experiment and did not provide enough money but i have no doubt this will feed into a much wider debate, idliblly striking thing, sorry... really striking thing, it's almost like medical research, they ta ke almost like medical research, they take the treatment group, the people who got the money and compared, 2000 of them, a control group of 175,000 who did not come a bit like people not getting a medical treatment and thatis not getting a medical treatment and that is something that social and economic policy, an approach to policy that has gathered a lot of steam in recent years. absolutely. thank you so much. researchers looking at that in great length, i am sure. we did not get onto oil and opec. no, we didn't. we can talk about that over copy later. in a moment we'll take a look through the business pages but first here's a quick reminder of how to get in touch with us. stay up—to—date with all the news on the business live web page, or editors providing insight and analysis from around the globe. get involved on the web page... and we are on twitter that and on facebook. bbc business li

. —— the province of a —— the province of idlib.too much processed meat and bowel cancer has accused the government of not doing enough to encourage people to cut their consumption. the department of health says it's committed to ensuring that all food products are as safe as possible. well, earlier i spoke to professor denis corpet, the man behind the research, and asked him to explain more about the link between processed meat and cancer. the link is not huge, it is not like smoking, of course, but when i give ham or bacon to rats and mice, if this bacon contains nitrite, it gives them cancer. if it does not contain nitrite, it does not — that is it. the survey shows clearly in humans that there is a link which is not amazing but it is a true link. to give a figure, every day in the uk there are 100 people who get colorectal cancer, 100 every day and ten of them are caused by processed meats, so it is important. nitrites — just explain exactly what nitrites are and why they are dangerous? it is a natural component you can find in

civil war there is said to discuss the situation in the demilitarized zone around the province of idlib the last rebel held on klav well that buffer zone was established in a deal between russia and turkey last year but hostilities there have continued now while russian president vladimir putin and iran's hassan rouhani are the main backers of syrian president bashar al assad turkey's president supports rebel forces fighting assad also on the agenda will be the planned withdrawal of u.s. troops from the conflict after u.s. president donald trump made a controversial announcement in december this will leave kurdish troops who are closely allied with the u.s. vulnerable we have this report from the kurdish city of co bani in northern syria. leila who visits this grave in cobol and every thursday to pray and honor the memory of her only son rody he died fighting the so-called islamic state in twenty thirteen as did thousands more kurds. hopes her sons commitment to freedom wasn't in vain it's a hope that unites many mothers who have lost their sons in this region. people hold that we'll ne

by syrian government airstrikes encounter she couldn't a town in the rebel controlled province of idlib reports just the victims include three children and two women activists say intensified fighting has forced thousands of civilians to flee many have moved to camps near the turkish border ahead of in the region refugee council has accused yemen's three biggest a donors of hypocrisy saying saudi arabia the u.a.e. and united states a fueling the conflict and they learned was speaking at a donors conference in geneva where two point six billion dollars was pledged comes as u.n. secretary general antonio terror's says that teams arrived at the for food storage food storage peppers in the port city of her data laced pledge led to many cities across yemen reach even more women men and children. lage part is to provide safe and restricted and condition only conditional humanitarian access to all parts of the country to respect international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. protesters in sudan's capital khartoum have defied a government ban on unau

and two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least twenty four people the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour seen several bombings in recent months which of we didn't kill scores of people the city is controlled by the. armed group the commander of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces has called for as many as fifteen hundred international troops to remain to help stamp out the remnants of i saw the kurdish led s.d.s. commander in chief of muslim ghobadi made the remarks during a visit by general joseph total the head of u.s. central command commanding also expressed hope that america would halt its plans for a total troop withdrawal but vocal said the pullout is going ahead meanwhile kurds say they won't release the eight hundred fallen i still find is held in prisons insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibility for their citizens they've warned there aren't enough jails for the fighters captured and worried about what could happen if they escape iraq carter has more from her on the turkey syria border. a member of

in syria two bombs in the northwestern city of idlib have killed at least nine people the u.k. based syrian observatory for human white says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour i jarius president is calling for an investigation into why the country's presidential election was postponed by a week mohammed who bihari says the election commission needs to explain what he calls its incompetence. definitely very. well i said incompetence militias so it. has to be explained to the nation after the election we have to know exactly what happened and. i know it's our employees to. make sure that this is still we willing to accept. is that making progress. except in confidence. the crew of a spanish warship has been accused of ordering commercial vessels to leave disputed waters near gibraltar before being challenged by the british navy the government of the british overseas territory says a spanish ship sailed away after the brave confrontation members of the european parliament have been refused entry to venezuela by the government they were invited by the national

two bomb blasts in syria's northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people and injured fifty more the u.k. based the syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour it has been hit by several bombings in recent months but a wounded and killed scores of people the city is controlled by there. which is formerly an affiliate of al qaida. the commander of the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces called for up to fifteen hundred international soldiers to remain to help finish off i saw the kurdish lead as the commander in chief made the remarks during a visit by general joseph votel the head of u.s. central command he also expressed hope that america would stop its plans for a total troop withdrawal but votel said the pullout is. kurdish authorities meanwhile in northern syria say that they won't release the eight hundred foreign eisel fighters being held in prison insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibility for their citizens but they've warned that the just aren't enough jails for the captured fighters a

a two bomb blasts in syria's north western city of idlib of killed at least fifteen people the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says the bombs went off in the neighborhood during rush hour seen several bombings in recent months the city is controlled by the have yet to hit a sham. the commander of u.s. backed rebel forces in syria has called for up to fifteen hundred international people to remain to help stamp out the remnants of i saw syrian democratic forces commander in chief muslim call bani made the remarks during the visit by general joseph votel the head of the u.s. central command kabbani also expressed hope the u.s. would halt its plans for a total troop withdrawal of voto told them the pullout is going ahead a kurdish authorities meanwhile say they won't release the eight hundred foreign i saw fighters being held in prisons insisting it's up to individual countries to take responsibility for their citizens they've also warned there aren't enough jails for the fighters captured and they worry about what could happen if they escape germany's government says it

the group's control expanded to include most of that as all parts of aleppo homs and the province of idlib also areas south of the capital damascus a vast stretch of desert and oil fields but in twenty seventeen u.s. backed mainly kurdish fighters read talk the city of raka and the syrian army with help from russian instructs regained full control of their hours or the fall of these two key strongholds weakened eisel and they began to lose more and more ground more than four years after the group's rise in syria has left is a tiny patch in burgos near the iraqi border. but let's introduce our panel now joining us from morocco is muhammad basta is director of the moroccan institute for policy analysis and ankara via skype is use of a freelance security analyst at set at the foundation for political economic and social research and in london is mesa gifted a human rights activist and anti eisel campaign a very warm welcome to all of you mr mass start with you and robot are we seeing the end of the group of eisel in syria. i think it's from a military perspective with ink i think it's it's it

by the syrian government airstrikes and who and that's a town in the rebel controlled province of idlib we're also hearing the victims include three children and two women activists are saying intensified fighting has forced thousands of civilians to flee in many a move to kemp's near the turkish border britain's prime minister has offered parliament a chance to decide whether to delay breck's it or go for a potentially disastrous no deal departure so here is how her latest plan works to resume a will put her existing you would draw agreement to a second parliamentary vote by march the twelfth they decisively rejected it back in january now if it's vetoed again parliament will be asked of the u.k. should depart with no deal if they turn that option down then a vote will be held on march the fourteenth on delaying the departure date which is currently march the twenty ninth lawrence lee is joining us from london what do you make of to reason may be giving all these options and all these choices lawrence. well i mean on one level she's folded you know and she was reminded in parliament by

been killed by a syrian government has strikes in college town in the rebel controlled province of idlib we're hearing the victims including three children and two women activists say intensified fighting his full thousands of civilians to flee many of moved to camps close to the turkish border russia and turkey had agreed to set up a deescalation zone in the northwest and grave last year. now the head of the norwegian refugee council has called out what he describes as the hot pot crissy of yemen's biggest aid donors saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and the u.s. who he says a feeling the conflict there yeah their goal and was speaking at a donors conference in geneva where two point six billion dollars was pledged meanwhile the u.n. chief antonio good terrorist says u.n. teams have a arrived at food storage jeffers in the port city of her data for the first time in six months they're going to try to distribute aid that's been stuck because of years of fighting between the saudi u.s. led coalition and who the rebels are now a senior palestinian official has rejected the trumpet ministration s

the group's control expanded to include most of it as all parts of aleppo homs and the province of idlib also areas south of the capital damascus a vast stretch of desert and oil fields but in twenty seventeen u.s. backed mainly kurdish fighters read talk the city of raka and the syrian army with help from russian estrada's regained full control of their hours or the fall of these two key strongholds weakened eisel and they began to lose more and more ground more than four years after the group's rise in syria has left is a tiny patch in burgos near the iraqi border. well it's introduce our panel now joining us from morocco is muhammad basta is director of the moroccan institute for policy analysis and ankara via skype is use of a freelance security analyst at set at the foundation for political economic and social research and in london is mesa gifted a human rights activist and anti eisel campaign a very warm welcome to all of you mr mass start with you and robot are we seeing the end of the group of eisel in syria. i think it's from a military perspective with think i think it's it's

and it was more than ever before, al-qaeda is largely holed up in controlling idliw out being tou -- idlibne that went off the terrorist groups, they were saying the united states would attack them. >> what about the second role. people saying we noushould not protect bashir al assad. he open fired on people want wanted more rights, and many people with died at his hand, but he pears some responsibility for it and for some people all of it. >> she a brutal dictator, no question about it, a lot of people have suffered and our hearts go out to them. as we here in the united states look at what role we have or what role we should take, we have to understand that our actions have not alleviated the suffering of the syrian people. we have seen it happen with gada gadahfi. the libyan people are now being old as slaves in open markets, terrorists are stronger there now more than ever. we have to be realistic and understand that most recently in the examples i gave as well as throughout history when the united states comes in and intervenes, launches these wars, topples these evil brutal dictators

if you look at idlib province, i stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people. they don't talk about that. russia and iran and syria were going to go in and perhaps destroy 3 million people in order to get 45,000 terrorists. and i heard about it from a woman who had her parents and her brothers living there. she said, please, please. and i thought -- i said, no, it can't happen. what are you talking about? no, they're going to -- i come home and i read a certain paper where the story was there that they were actually forming to go into really -- to really do big destruction. and i put out a statement that, you better not do it. and in all fairness to russia and iran and syria, they didn't attack, or they're doing it surgically at least. saved a lot of people. >> yeah, the actual thing was a lot longer than that, we just tried to pick the best parts. that was president trump unscripted just a little while ago in a wide ranging address in the rose garden announcing he's declaring a national emergency to pay for his border wall using money from american taxpayers.

but if you look at idlib province, in syria, i stopped the slaughter of perhaps three million people. nobody talks about this. they don't talk about that. russia, iran, and syria were going to go in and perhaps destroy three million people in order to get 45,000 tariffs. -- terrorists. i heard about it from a woman who had her parents and brothers living there and she said please, please. i thought -- i said, no. can't happen. what are you talking about? i come home and i read certain paper where the story was there that they were actually forming to go in to really do big destruction. i put out a statement that you better not do it. and in all fairness to russia and iran and syria, they didn't attack, or they are doing it surgically, at least. saved a lot of people. we do a lot of good work. this administration does a tremendous job. and we don't get credit for it. i think the people understand what we do. prime minister abe gave me -- it's the most beautiful five-page letter. nobel prize. he sent it to them. you know why? because he had rocketships and he had missiles flying over ja

in syria, twin bomb attacks a -- attacks in the northwestern city of idlib killed at least 15 people monday, including four children. this according to the britain-based syrian observatory for human rights. the attacks come as syrian government fighters say just a few hundred fighters remain in the last islamic state stronghold of baghouz, in the east of the country, where they are hiding out among around 1000 villagers. on monday, the international rescue committee said over 60 people have died in recent weeks due to exhaustion and malnutrition after leaving the area. the majority of deaths were of young childrenen. the united arab emirates has agreed to purchase $1.6 billion worth of patriot missile launchers from u.s. arms company raytheon. the e deal comes a as public ouy moununts over ththe u.s.-backed, saudi and uae-led war on yemen. rerent reports by amnesty international and cnn n have revealed weapons are being used to buy t the loyalties of varios militias or tribes and gain influence in yemen's political landscape. last week, the house of representatives approved a bill to

. >> if you look at idlib province in syria. i stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people.ocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan. and they had alarms going off. you know that. now all of a sudden they feel good. they feel safe. i did that. and was a very tough dialogue at the beginning. fire and fury. total annihilation. my button is bigger than yours and my button works. do you remember that? you don't remember that. people said trump is crazy. >> we remember that. christopher, do you think the president gets enough credit here? >> well, i mean should the arsonist get credit for putting out the fire? that's what we're talking about here. as courtney pointed out this was a period in which trump was ratcheting up the level of rhetoric and the level of threat and talking about war all the time. then we have a period of relative calm when in fact north korea has established it has a deterrent nuclear force. what have we seen in term of north korea giving up that deterrent nuclear force? nothing. we've seen nothing on that score. so if trump was threatening before be

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the group's control expanded to include most of bit as all parts of aleppo homs and the province of idlib also areas south of the capital damascus a vast stretch of desert and oil fields but in twenty seventeen u.s. backed mainly kurdish fighters read talk the city of raka and the syrian army with help from russian instructs regained full control of their dogs or the fall of these two key strongholds weakened eisel and they began to lose more and more ground more than four years after the group's rise in syria has left is a tiny patch in burgos near the iraqi border. but let's introduce our panel now joining us from morocco is muhammad basta is director of the moroccan institute for policy analysis and ankara via skype is use of a freelance security analyst at set at the foundation for political economic and social research and in london is mesa gifted a human rights activist and anti eisel campaign a very warm welcome to all of you mr mass start with you and robot are we seeing the end of the group of eisel in syria. i think it's from a military perspective with ink i think it's it's it'

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other stories making news around the world two bomb blasts in syria's north east northwestern city of idlib have killed at least fifteen people the bombs went off in the. neighborhood during rush hour seen several bombings in recent months which of wounded and killed scores of people the city is controlled by the high at the honey the sham. yemen's government and who the rebels have struck a deal over the withdrawal of troops from her day that the warring sides agreed on the first phase of a pullout from the port city and that comes after two days of un led talks aimed at ending the four year conflict. a quarter mile deeds as all of the arrest of former president of the year mean he will stay in custody for his corruption trial accused of attempting to bribe a witness who's also been charged with laundering one million dollars while in office authorities in the island nation are trying to track down millions more thought to have been stashed abroad seven members of britain's opposition labor party have resigned in protest against germany corbin's leadership they say corwin's failures over b

been killed by syrian government airstrikes and who in a town in the rebel controlled province of idlib and we're hearing the victims include three children and two women activists say intensified fighting has forced thousands of civilians to flee many have moved to camps near the border with turkey a senior palestinian official saw about a cause has rejected the trumpet ministration suggestion that borders with israel should be eliminated so he was responding to comments made by trump's son in law and advisor jared kirshner who is behind the latest american middle east peace plan because there is now want to tour of the middle east sabato says any peace plan that does not include a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital is doomed to fail let's bring in al jazeera senior political analyst joining us here in the studio so not really a surprise that's a lot of causes come out against what chris there had to say speaking to arab media and not at all surprise what i've said to a news media i think we're still in the same logic right. jared. thinks he can resolve the israel pal

activists say there's been an increase in government as strikes in the rebel controlled province of idlib the sadness collation has forced thousands of civilians to escape the town of conch a koan many have moved to camps near the take a supporter. he had agreed to set up a deescalation zone in the northwestern enclave last year. and i'm a see report looking at the state of human rights in the middle east says a lot of international justice only emboldens authorities to crack down on their citizens and freedom of speech the report singles out the case of journalists whose murder inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last october led to a global outcry. those responsible are yet to be brought to justice the report also highlights a jailing of rights activists ahmed months in the united emirates and the bill were shot in bahrain who are both in prison for criticizing their governments on social media and amnesty says egypt has become a more dangerous place where critics of the government than at any other time in recent history now earlier i spoke to him or riot who's the middle east regio

in a town in the rebel controlled province of idlib report suggests that the victims include three children and two women activists say intensified fighting has forced thousands of civilians to flee many have moved to camps near the turkish border. high level negotiations aimed at ending afghanistan's seventeen year war into the second day in qatar senior taliban leaders are in doha order talks with the u.s. special envoy for peace so in may how is that the afghan taliban co-founder. baraka is leading discussions are adar is a significant player and was appointed head of the taliban political office in qatar last year the two sides are looking to hammer out a timeline for a potential troop withdrawal as well as guarantees the taliban or not allow militant groups to flourish stephanie decker has more. it is the second day of talks between the high level delegation of the taleban and the americans trying to find some kind of solution to the seventeen year war between them and also the larger forty year conflict inside that country now we mentioned tracked down the taliban spokesperson here in

if you look at idlib province in syria. i stopped the slaughter of perhaps three million people. nobody talked about that. they don't talk about that. russia and iran and syria were going to go in and perhaps destroy three million people in order to get terrorists. i heard about it from a woman who had her family living there. i come home and read a certain paper where the story was there that they were actually forming to go into -- really -- to really do big destruction. i put out a statement that you better not do it. in all fairness to russia and iran and syria, they didn't attack or they're doing it surgically at least. saved a lot of people. we do a lot of good work. this administration does a tremendous job. we don't get credit for it. i think the people understand what we do. so prime minister abe gave me -- it's the most beautiful five page letter. nobel prize. he sent it to them. do you know why? because he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan. they had alarms going off. you know that. all of a sudden they feel good. they feel safe. i did that. it was

after russia, turkey and iran announce that they are going to hold talks on the cease-fire in syria's idlib francis leading the first ever papal mass to the thriving catholic community in the united arab emirates this as he concluded his visit to the arabian peninsula he called for his flock to remain meek in following god >>> and lindsey vonn crashing in the super-g at the world championships straddling a gate midair she ended up in the safety nets. vonn, the all-time leader in women's world cup wins announced last week that she'll retire after the world championships. >>> you are up to date that's the news update at this hour mike, back downtown to you >> sue, thank you very much. >>> now time for our etf spotlight. taking a look at the i-shares, aerospace, ticker eta. already up 15% for the year to date the group benefiting from the end of the imf treaty with russia the u.s. announced it would withdraw in six months names like raytheon rising on that news. as it looks to ramp up missile production defense also expected to be a big topic in tonight's state of the union address. the trump

but if you look at idlib province in syria, i stop the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people.he beginning, fire and fury, total annihilation, my button is bigger than yours and my button works. remember that? and people said, trump is crazy. and you know what it ended up being? a very good relationship. i like him a lot and he likes me a lot. nobody else would have done that. the obama administration couldn‘t have done it. number one, they probably wouldn‘t have done it, and number two, they didn‘t have the capability to do it. so ijust want to thank everybody. i want to wish our new attorney general great lock and speed, and enjoy your life. bill, good luck. i know you‘ll do a good job. and thank you, everybody, thank you very much. thank you. president trump in the rose garden of the white house. he‘s been speaking, we reckon, for about 50 minutes in total. covered a wide range of subjects. let‘s start at the beginning, shall we? talked about trade, about talks in china regarding north korea, and its nuclear programme. also went on to talk about the us economy, saying how we