captured most of the province and are now focuses on the costal city, the heart land of president asaad's support the army of conquest has made gains in the last few months, forcing government troops to withdraw fights happen intensified on several fronts. the rebels face forces that are backed by iran. isil has captured villages and expanded it's influence. and in and around aleppo the syrian government and isil fighters are attacking rebels tot. in areas like the u.s. government says it has heard reports of what appears to be joint strategy by isil and the asaad government. the row jet stream is making air strikes. beyond that we have seen they avoided lines and complete contradictions to the claims publicly to be fighting isil. >> the syrian for human rights says isil controls half of syria. battle hardened and well equipped fighters from the islamic state in iraq and the levant storm an army base isil has recently seized the ancient ruins raising fears they might destroy the site. in april isil blew up artifacts of the ancient syrian capitol in iraq. as the rebels gain more ground the

another set back, asaad rebels say they captured a major military base. hong kong issued a red alert against travel to south korea asmirs kills a second person there. plus. >> has now passed 100,000. that's according to the latest figures from the international organization for migration. the data shows more than 55,000 migrants reached italy. 46,000 reached greece, after setting off from turkey. the i.o.m. reports points to an increase in a number of people traveling to greece. more have arrived in the first five months of 2015, than in the whole of last year. and the i.o. m. also warned that these numbers are just a prelude to what is expected to be a surge in arifles over the calm months. just in the past 24 hours the italian coast guard has rescues hundreds mores from three rubber ding gis. 447 people were taken to the port all of them were from sub a hair ran africa. hundreds more have reached the eastern islands in the past day. most people rescued by the italian coast guard are then taken to italy. the island to find out what happens to them once t

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. >> syria would require the forces to be cooperating with president asaad, not many of them will be prepared to do that, are they. >> yes, that's right. what the coalition forces need is a two way strategy. question need to sort of talking strategy, by the force, by talking to those people, and to encouraging who is -- i mean the coalition forces but the missing point at that level is who is doing to talk with those guys and how should we synchronize. this is the first dilemma we have to address, and the operation level, as i said before, we need a cooperation, that covers both syria and iraq, and this is provided also supported by air support. which we need to marginalize isis and unfortunately in contrast to the increasing optimism, after the capture in the rest of the world, one assess the real picture on the ground, i tend to classify myself in the caution optimistic camp at least for now. >> appreciate your time and your analysis, thank you. and still to come on the news hour, a special report on the new generation of child soldiers in the southern philippines. plus thousands o

civilians are now safe from chemical weapons but it comes as doctors are giving evidence president asaad'sime are stepping up chemical weapons attacks. what are you hearing? >> reporter: pretty graphic testimony at some points jane the doctors are telling lawmakers that there have been 31 chemical weapon attacks, use of chlorine gas predominantly, being dropped, they say by helicopters in the form of barrel bombs, the bombs are seeping into basement where people are already hiding out. so they say this is a tremendously effective weapon in terms of psychological fear and this is wreaking havoc on the population. they showed video, and provided data that backs up their claims. they say mainly -- although they admit they can't 100% admit they can't exactly determine the source, they say it points to the assad regime being behind it. >> the obama administration said chemical weapons is crossing a red line. if this is true what can the u.s. do. >> reporter: he said say that and then he took it to congress and then there were a nob of steps that took place, the goal of the united states being r