hello i'm daryn jordan doha with
a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera millions of displaced
syrians will now have only one turkish border crossings through which to receive
aid that's after several attempts to keep
a 2nd crossing open failed to pass at the u.n.
security council diplomatic editor james bays has moved from the united nations.
this is the position that russia backed by china wanted and they have now got it
there were some other things that russia and china want to do and that's why in the
end in the vote they abstain didn't vote for it and that was on sanctions they
wanted some language condemning the sanctions on syria particularly the sanctions
by the u.s.
and they said at the time of economic hardship in syria it was not the time to
pursue those sanctions that language didn't get into get into the final version of
the resolution although russia wanted it in there and that's why russia and china
abstained there's been
a high turnout in hong kong for...