in this conflict most of them with bad hops now accept that assad is winning including. the united states. and others but i think there is a big that there is a big elephant in the room that we need all to see it before we can talk about an end also i mean to this conflict about from seeing a political solution between the regime and the opposition which is iran in this case i think everybody is talking now about. how to get iran out of syria if we accept assad the manning and power and then for that for the next war that for the next couple couple of couple of years i mean this is something that is really on board and so now i mean i believe this is why in syria it's c.d.n. borton to get almost everybody on board that that means the russians the americans of course i mean the russians are having the upper hand in the syrian and the syrian conflict there are in the driving seat the americans might be in the back seat for the time being but we need the the people who are sitting in the backseat and the people who are sitting in the driving seat to come to agree actually o

in this conflict most of them with bad hops now accept that assad is winning including. the united states. the states and others but i think there is a big that there is a big elephant in the room that we need all to see it before we can talk about an end also i mean to this conflict about from seeing a political solution between the regime and the opposition which is iran in this case i think everybody is talking now about. how to get iran out of syria if we accept assad the manning and power and for that for the next war that for the next couple couple of couple of years i mean this is something that is really on board and so now i mean i believe this is why in syria it's c.d.n. borton to get almost everybody on board that that means that the russians the americans of course i mean the russians are having the upper hand in the syrian and the syrian conflict there and the driving seat that americans might be in the back seat for the time being but we need the the people who are sitting in the backseat and the people who are sitting in the driving seat to come to agree a

in this conflict most of them with bad hops now accept that assad is winning including. the united states. and others but i think there is a big that there is a big elephant in the room that we need all to see it before we can talk about an end also i mean to this conflict about from seeing a political solution between the regime and the opposition which is iran in this case i think everybody is talking now about. how to get iran out of syria if we accept assad the manning and power and for that for the next what that for the next couple couple of couple of years i mean this is something that is really on board and so now i mean i believe this is why in syria it's c.d.n. borton to get almost everybody on board that that means that the russians the americans of course i mean the russians are having the upper hand in the syrian and the syrian conflict there and the driving seat that americans might be in the back seat for the time being but we need the the people who are sitting in the backseat and the people who are sitting in the living seat to come to agree actually on

the way that and the desert of eastern syria and this is why i think that the problem here is that assad is moving basically one problem or solving one problem now creating ten others later on and the other issue i think that people are basically blaming assets for and the russians as well is that because recently there has been some russian led efforts to demobilize and this local militias and do it and so whether. after that there were no measures taken by the regime or the russians to protect those areas and then after that the isis fighters took advantage of that security vacuum and attack and this is why also another reason the for what for for why people are blaming assad and the russians for a moment coming back to you here in doha i mean what are the chances here that bashar al assad starts going after the druze because the government forces don't control the specific area that is obvious on the one hand and. on the other hand the troops the young male druze do not sign up they refuse to sign up to this conscription system but he's got going for the syrian army. and yes indeed i

assad can stay in exchange for moscow ousting iran from the battlefield. even though russia has already said a complete pull out by iran is unrealistic. to break down all those complexitie complexities, i spoke to a man who focuses on the middle east and north africa. he spent his career analyzing the region and joined me here this week en route to washington seeking support for a new political solution. >> welcome to the program. so i wonder what you make and whether you think it is cynical that as we speak president assad is calling on syrians abroad, syrians who fled to come back to their homeland. they have liberated certain areas. what do you make of that? >> well, they're not going back any time soon. in fact, in the last four or five months, we have had the largest internal displacement, a million people. so people are voting with their feet. what is now going on in the southwest of the country is further testament to the fact this crisis is not over. people are still on the move. >> yet, people might think it is over because it has fallen off the r

siding with bashar al assad. well that's what critics will say and of course the counter to that is look at this is humanitarian issue we're taking eighty into that the who to area which had been a rebel area was smashed devastated by russian airplanes the on assad regime and therefore this is a humanitarian effort to stabilize syria help refugees go home but of course there's a fine line between humanism and acts that ultimately are going to shore up the regime and it's very difficult in many ways people are beginning to turn to leith and accept the fact that they have to think of refugees first how can they get home how can they get schooling how can you get health aid the very basic infrastructure that will help syrians were turned home is perhaps more important than he's bigger you know geo strategic problems of are we going to be able to hurt the russians hurt the iranians this sort of thing how are the russians still managing to polly what they bring to the table here into being a diplomatic super power i m

it is not just about sharp --assad -- bush are al-assad bashar al-assad but trying to stop him from engaging in the things he did. theets a change topics to second part of the speech, which was about iran. you had mentioned this was one of your takeaways and it was of importance. and there was real debate about the importance of the archived, with the said it wasn't a big deal and it wasn't a violation of the jcpoa or the safeguard agreement, what is your view of and doing that atomic archive what does it say to you and specifically as an international lawyer, can one say that the existence of this is a violation of the jcpoa and national agreements? in my view, the nuclear archives seem to indicate that the -- --n is currently a similar point in the speech, the archives show that the iranian nuclear weapons program was more focused and more advanced than previously understood. the archives contain considerable previously unknown data under nuclear weapons design, high explosives tests related to weapons development, individuals involved for research development. some of the archive images a

is the us now renconciled to bashar al—assad remaining in power?rump adminstration‘s approach to iran? mina, from your vantage point in the gulf, how does this situation look at the moment? it is clear that for the trump administration the priority is to push back around. and to limit around's activities, militant nefarious groupings in the region. that has become the parity for the trump administration, you have had various us officials come out of the gulf and other parts of the middle east to duplicate that. —— of the middle east to communicate that. we recently reported that the national, we were expecting a summit and jordan and egypt in the autumn and probably washington, but it's still not clear in the us, to discuss exactly that, to push on the iran issue. in helsinki, we studied under the details of the meeting, but it was discussed as disabling the issue of syria. the russians for sure have been the guarantors of that assad regime. the survival of bashar al—assad is because of russia and iran. there is the contradiction. it trump feels ca

assad knows that he is beholden to the russians. making sure that his regime and army control the country. they are over estimating how much russia can influence around. the russians are getting ready to step right in with american sanctions getting slapped on, the russians have not taken a place to add to consider these sections, neither the europeans are chinese. they are thinking, we can at strengthen our ties to and make a run beholden as at a time when are being squeezed. that is unclear. the russians also wanted more stabilised arab world in the middle east. regardless of whether we agree or disagree with their strategies. they do not want the iranians are doing, destabilising syria and iraq, yemen, it is not working in the long—term benefit of the russians. they could try to pressurise around, then iran is getting pressurise more and the tools they are using are going to get hardened. rather than thinking, how can we negotiate with american administration and so forth? the fear is that we will see more bloodshed when they thi

german prosecutors go after assad tension street style in jo'burg. but we begin in mosul in northern iraq in the hands of so-called islamic state until a year ago the city was severely damaged president picking through the rubble to see what can be saved. this is all that's left of the central library in mosul after occupation by the so-called islamic state and did it once housed half a million books before it faced bombings and fires armed with lanterns and willpower twenty locals united in their love for their city have joined forces to salvage everything they can. i could do with his should these books are the jewels they deserve to be saved despite the immense destruction these books are still here in the future. and april twenty seven thousand tiny celeb joined the most and i campaigned to save her city's books. so far more than thirty thousand have been salvaged thanks to the commitment and through ziad some of the volunteers. books our life our history our souls. the volunteers come to the library every day and the most i project is also gathe

of oklahoma he says the french move opens the door to the potential for others to engage with the assad government so small amount of aid but it indicates that france has willing to engage with russia and with us in order to supply a. many policy makers that said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no engagement with our side it will legitimize him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back iran they want to squeeze a side and bring about regime change and big economic sanctions but this little feeler on the part of the french to engage with the russians and with assad in just a small amount of aid many people are going to be hoping that it's going to open the doors towards them with greater acceptance of the fact that assad has won you know and we've seen yes with you know with trump's meeting with putin to do it with the israelis telling the russians that they're willing to accept assad if if the russians can keep iran away from their border that increasingly the international powers are accepting the fact that assad has one and the

themselves with assad to remove isis.'s interesting you mention the eu. the whole iran deal that trump remained on originating from the eu. jack straw was foreign secretary at the time, and with britain, germany, france and others they got that enron deal going. -- iran —— iran deal. it is such a decline in the european union in recent years that such a initiative would now be impossible in the current state of chaos. the problem with the deal was that only dealt with nuclear, and nothing else. that is the weakness of the europeans. that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time. goodbye. hello. for now we have lost the heat and sunshine and replaced it with something wet and windy. the rain from any is welcome. more to come through the afternoon. slowly clearing eastwards. a soggy scene in dorset. some gusty winds through the afternoon, particularly for southern and western coast, 50 mph in places. the jet stream has slipped its way south. it is coming in from of the atlantic, bringing

so when president bashar assad said members of the activist group who want helmets who refuse an amnesty will go to him be one of the terrorists. the fate of the white helmets will be the same is that any terrorist they have to pass on to lay down their arms and take advantage of the amnesty will be wiped out like other terrorists well the syrian president bashar al assad has reiterated his position on the white house being a controversial group now in the past he's regarded the white house mrs agents of western powers that have links to jihad this great finn he said that the world has been warned of the groups dangerous this comes as the syrian government has condemned the evacuation of the white house minutes from the south of the country and damascus has described the move as a criminal operation by israel and its tools but these routes defense fulfill said that they were acting on a request by the u.s. u.k. and other european nations as well but the evacuees were taken to jordan by the i.d.f. on washington's request and it's thought that the plan was to evacuate around eight hundred

if it had, bashar al-assad may have had access to those. that with the use of wmds you are better off obliterating it then using the mechanisms of the u.n. or whatever other agencies? i put that out provocatively. >> it worked for a while. >> i think it works for a single reactor. >> they are not complying anyway in terms of follow-up in inquiries, inspections and so and so. we don't know if the syrian nuclear program is finished. this is a very important part of the secretary's discussion. we don't know that. we do know that he responds to military action unilateral , military action for a time. it is the mowing the grass concept. it is not mowing the whole yard, it is pinpointing parts of the yard. >> valerie is right. there have been small victories along the way in terms of not holding accountable but attributing blame for the chemical weapons and strikes, etc. overall, i am concerned that the message of bashar al-assad civil war and not being held accountable for all of the things he has done, including the wmd and with regard to non-w

from kurdish held areas say that they've agreed to form committees with the government of bashar al assad a leading member of the syrian democratic council told dizzier that they will work towards handing back territory under their control to the government while planning a democratic decentralized syria the s.t.c. is linked to the u.s. backed military alliance known as the syrian syrian democratic forces which controls much of north eastern syria let's get more on this now. is head of development and humanitarian affairs at the syrian democratic council she's now on the line from in northern syria good to have you with us kind of just before we begin our discussion here i just want to clarify something. with you. a leading member of the syrian democratic council told our sister network al jazeera arabic in arabic earlier that the committees will work towards handing back territory that are currently under their control to the syrian government did we get that right or something been lost there in translation. got. a little sorry i don't time i'm getting good connections kind of all thank

the case represents a strong signal from germany's judiciary to president assad suspected war criminals and torture is will be prosecuted. tens of thousands of people do missing every year in mexico corrupt police and politicians are often behind the disappearances and obviously have no interest in investigating the crime and. this is one family's story. last we will never stop looking for your. match margarita's message for her brother on waldo who she hasn't seen for almost four years and whose whereabouts are unknown. no lord my lord i was there i still don't understand. i can't accept it must be the quantum i believe that he will come back any time and will say that i'm hearing what are you changing why are you looking for me in the mafia. members i'm a c c react here's the deal. with your sister susanna and her brother in law margarita has come to a monument in mexico city that has been dedicated to victims of violence the shaba sister salem while there was executed by a local policeman his case is one of over thirty four thousand disappearances in mexico i mean we had a man want m

the president seems to have accepted already that the russians have won the war in syria and that assad will be remaining in power for the forseeable future and the focus right now would be mainly on the humanitarian aspect the evacuation of the white helmet is part of that we're going to see also the russians focusing behalves more in the next weeks and months on the one point seven. million syrian refugees to dear to their homes we have seen also that the french are trying to be part of that deal as well because we have seen that. the french are sending humanitarian aid to the east and which has come under the control of that in recent months so all in all we are seeing this sort of regional and international. force in order to focus mainly on the humanitarian rather than the spirit of the syrian crisis what are we to make of israel's involvement here as you say it seems that america has accepted that president assad has won the war his forces now completely back in control of the of the southwest of the country right up against the golan heights but there are iranian backed forces th

and used to be an engineer now he's witness number twenty four back in syria he protested against assad he was imprisoned and tortured in a syrian air force jail the same jail the jamil his son was in charge of. you can you know if it's now a day or night you know if you will eat after two or four hours or you are allowed to sleep different you are not allowed to speak. syud ny is syria's most notorious prison what happens behind closed doors here is not seen but we know what the results look like a military photographer smuggled out pictures of the dead when he defected each of his photos suggest systematic torture. geopolitics have prevented the international criminal court from taking action bashar al assad is protected by his alliance with russian president vladimir putin's. middle but he 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. damage what they can with this germany's chief prosecutor

prison for his work as a human rights lawyer trying to bring torture charges against officials in assad's regime now he's in berlin collecting testimony from people who say they've been tortured and building a case against the syrian government he's handed it all to the public prosecutor. this is his target jamil hassan leader of the syrian air force secret service germany is now trying to arrest him now when he says it's a victory for victims seven years ago they waiting for some hope of some but the care about their suffering and nobody care now they find this hope and you cannot imagine how. the action of this the victims or the syrians at all how it's was. he hasn't used to be an engineer now he's witness number twenty four back in syria he protested against assad he was imprisoned and tortured in a syrian air force jail the same jail the tamil his son was in charge of. you can't know if it's now day or night you know if you will eat after two or four hours or you are allowed to sleep different you're not allowed to speak. side ny is syria's most notorious prison what happens behind c

we're in the al assad. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. by sunset nine dead over one hundred civilians injured. now most of those rebels are tied to the al qaeda linked al nusra a terrorist group but let's focus on those weapons that they used robert fisk an investigative reporter was able to trace those weapons back to that very factory in bosnia he was able to get a hold of the factories logbook and getting in touch with the former weapons control director the director recognized his signature in the logbook and from there was able to determine who the buyer was it's a warranty for the hundred twenty millimeter shell this is standard it went to saudi arabia it was posts of a supply of five hundred more i remember the saudi shipment well the saudis came to a factory to inspect the weapons at the beginning of the. twenty sixteen the response from saudi officials was pretty much a denial they said that the investigation was vague and undefined however their response seemed pretty vague as well saudi arabia is a leading voice within the inte

for and that are and there's really been no stopping them has there now russia's been backing the assad regime the rebels have not completely received the kind of backing they were hoping for that is for a variety of reasons because the levels are among themselves are by the divided many are extremists many are conservatives those who are seen as either to be moderate are also have problems with their backers so there are several issues with the opposition forces themselves but yes assad is certainly a firmly back in control of syria except for live and the kurdish controlled areas in the east he's had a curious understanding with the kurds we don't know how that's going to work out but after. that are now going to set his eyes towards it live where all of the people who didn't want to stay under evacuation were bussed to our correspondent now to sports there and what the players are having a well earned rest after the world cup semifinals this week the fans are adding about sightseeing and brush the country has been the tourist the restrictive of tourist movements in the past but this

shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred and sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach them. well the football will continue to serve plenty of trails on the first day of matches with no exception of news ali moody joins me now from moscow hates the alinta and the match between argentina and france certainly lived up to all expectations and more perhaps maybe now for messi last you make us. i was incredible game was an incredible start to the knockout phase you know often these knockout games can be quite cagey nervous affairs nobody wants to be the first one to make a mistake or france's previous game ended nil nil so i think there were a few worries that maybe the goals were about to dry up with this world cup what w

does he like assad? i think probably not particularly, but the obama administration made the mistake and hilary clinton made the mistake several times of saying that assad was going to go, he had to go and he didn't go. so it left assad in power and basically the obama administration in an embarrassing and painful position. the problem now is that finally, eventually obama built up necessary alliances on the ground in syria with the kurds and also with forces in the south of syria near the jordanian border. those forces have been completely abandoned. that's why the last real stronghold of the democratic forces just fell. you know, as we bee tray those allies on the ground in syria, we will have the question once again why would you want to be an ally of the united states of america, whether in nato, on the ground in syria or anywhere else, because americans cannot be trusted. >> reporter: and that, of course, is the underlying theme here in europe with the president having gone from quebec to singapore

campaign against the assad regime and against russia in bringing to light some of the atrocities that have happened in this war we've heard stories in the past of assassination attempts on white helmets on targeted bombings against places where you find volunteers from the white helmets so i think with regard to the evacuation it may well be that this is outside a u.s. russia repression and perhaps more of keeping a wild card in the event that syria becomes and it looks on course to become a more russian allied state then the u.s. state i would think that the assad regime in particular would not particularly be happy with the white helmets being evacuated i think with regards to the excuse that they were being surrounded they were being blockaded by the assad forces on one side and isis forces on the other side this situation has happened before and we haven't seen an evacuation of this scale before so it's a bit difficult to ascertain why exactly these white helmets in particular were being evacuated i think personally this is part of a broader vision simply just to keep a wild card

celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred and sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach them in the u.s. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have been taking part in a nationwide protest to show their opposition to the trumpet administration's immigration policy the rallies come despite president trump's decision to end the forced separation of migrant families over say thousands of children remain in custody without their parents. they marched on the east coast thousands streaming across new york's landmark brooklyn bridge. they staged mass protests in the west coast cities of san francisco and los angeles from chicago in the north to florida in the deep south crowds gathered outside the white house in washington st

get out of ukraine, let's settle syria in a man their doesn't hand it to assad and iran but he seems to think that meeting will be easy and this is the one where he should be making these strident comments. i think it's an enormous opportunity to -- he is squandering opportunity to gain power with the wind at our back and to take on putin. putin is not as strong as he looks. he would put himself in a stronger position for the helsinki summit if he did that. now we have to see how he plays helsinki because putin, you can be sure, has studied very hard and is looking to exploit places where president trump and the nato allies have split to his own advantage. >> you mentioned syria, the talks he might have with putin on syria and there's been a lot of reporting about a possible quid pro quo bargain with putin where be he, the united states, would allow and accept president assad to stay in power in return for russia's helping in getting iran out of sir. how much do you know about that? how workable do you think that is? is that good? >> russia has no interest in getting iran out of syri

military police will be deployed to guarantee the safe passage and the russians rather than president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan al-jazeera and it smith reports now from jordan syria border. for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jordan this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria syrian government forces swept through down a province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventu

military police will be deployed to guarantee the safe passage the russians rather than president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan there is bennett smith reports now from jordan syria or. for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jordan this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria syrian government forces swept through down a province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventually

more than anything else so the jordanians kind of with the americans in terms of being against the assad regime but as this stance is softened you found that so for example americans and the groups that they have been backing they have been cutting deals actually with the assad regime in order to kind of move back into the states sphere of influence and away from the free syrian army away from the revolution so once that's kind of you know amalgamated is all sorted out i think you'll find the border crossing will be open for any you know fairly quickly i think internationally speaking that's kind of been the status quo and that's kind of been the way of thinking for quite some time now the americans actually you know you could say they said that the assad regime and the russians should not kind of bomb the deescalation zones and then within a couple of days they completely changed their tune and they said that the rebels you know you're on your own you better sort this out terms of your own interests so withdrawing all of that support it's inevitable that i was going to fall and the surr

it's a small amount of aid but it indicates that france is willing to engage with russia and with assad in order to supply aid many policymakers had said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no engagement with a side it will of jet-a mys him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back he ron they want to squeeze on assad and bring about regime change hence big economic sanctions but this little feeler on the part of the french to engage with the russians and with assad and just a small amount of aid many people are going to be hoping that it's going to open the doors towards greater acceptance of the fact that assad has won and we've seen yes with you know with trump's meeting with putin with the israelis telling the russians that they're willing to accept assad if if the russians can keep iran away from their border that increasingly the international powers are accepting the fact that assad has one and they're beginning to look for ways to help refugees return they're worried that jordan and lebanon might blow it that the pressures ar

it's still a secret weapon it was a assad regime to make supports i don't. marzan darwish also has a photo of missing lawyer to con his war longside voters of friends and colleagues who have likewise disappeared darwish is a lawyer and activist for the syrian center for media and freedom of expression. darwish founded the center in damascus in two thousand and four when it was raided for a third time in twenty twelve the air force intelligence service or arrested fourteen staff including darwish and his wife yet out of baghdad. after being the last to be released in twenty fifteen he fled to berlin since then he has been continuing to struggle to ensure a democratic and peaceful syria. especially the youth. faces scandal for. torture the bad condition. the families who feel that they. ignore and nobody care about their suffering. and really if we don't find. justice a solution for those people who would tell them just there's no justice on the what . you might write it's. that it's not that fate so we push to go to the. thought and get i wish i'd like either

shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach. cope and russia the knockout stages star said with a real trailer argentina and emanated by france in a roller coaster. of the games all seven golds and very likely to last for a couple parents of one of the world's greatest players you know messi. a blistering run from the phenomenal killian pay was too much for argentina to deal with marcus russell brought back pay down and one treatment stepped up to convert the resulting penalty. paris and german teammate i'm healthy maria equalized with this startling strike just before half time and just after the break argentina went in front thanks to got real mad cow tow but then benjamin todd

raised about the city of massive protests in two thousand and eleven led to an uprising against the assad regime. and to define a headscarf long news meets the iranian women who are facing trial for not wearing a job and public. someone's got a good to have you with us at the start of his four day visit to the u.k. the us president was invited to a dinner hosted by the british prime minister but at that very moment an interview with donald trump was published in which he blamed theresa may for quote wrecking brags that trump said may's plans for a business friendly exit from the you would leave it to close to the bloc he also questioned whether there could be a special u.s. britain trade deal in the wake of a so-called soft words that in the interview he said quote i would have done it much differently i actually told me how to do it but she didn't listen to me. now his comments come after several to mulch was days for may two senior ministers resigned in protest over her plans for trade with the e.u. after the u.k. leaves the bloc next march well let's go right to our correspondent burga

bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people. which is a. that was a two thousand and thirteen was a very rich from his point of reactionary force there was very hostile to his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and i says later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens 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 you 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 helmet that were very actually doing with 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 certainly it was a hedge it was

shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred and sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach them. very surprising sports news for the moment we have the host nation russia has just pulled off a massive shock after the world cup dodi's barbara more now joins us from moscow barbara russia have knocked a spade out of the world cup how are people reacting to this news in russia. but i can tell you it was quite an experience to be inside that stadium and followed the game and side the atlas. it was electric with the arena almost exploding in the end the crowd was behind the team all the way through and to be fair spain was the better seeing so it was not always going in russia's interest and still the russian fans were so months

shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred and sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach them. a voting is underway in mexico after the most violent lead up to an election in the country's history at least one hundred and thirty politicians have been murders since campaigning began presidential frontrunner undress manoa lopez obrador arrived early to cast his close it's his third bid for the presidency the left wing former mayor of mexico city could as the two parties have girlfriend mexico for nearly a century. well some very surprising sports news for the moment we have the host nation russia has just pulled off a massive shock to the world cup dodi's barbara more now joins us from moscow barbara russia have knocked to

this really being no stopping them as they're now russia has been backing the assad regime the rebels have not to need to see the kind of backing they were hoping for that is for a variety of reasons because a levels and among themselves are by they divided many are extremists many are conservatives those who are see that the moderate. also have problems with their backers so there are several issues with the opposition forces themselves but yes assad is certainly firmly back in control of syria except for in the lit and the kurdish controlled areas in the east he's had a curious understanding with the kurds we don't know how that's going to work out but after. that are now going to set his eyes towards where all of the people who didn't want to stay under evacuation well bussed out to our correspondent reporting for us from beirut anshul thank you very much to iran now where several women and girls have launched protests against the government's compulsory headscarf law some have been removing their jobs in public and waving them in the air calling their movement girls of revolution

shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred and sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situation means international aid organizations cannot reach them. two big teams and two big stars of the world cup on saturday argentina were sent packing by france sending the l.s.e. home in the second the euro why take on portugal and saatchi for a place in the quarterfinals of the world cup in the end the marks on the esses eternal rival cristiana ronaldo also entered the tournament. i year ago i got off to a flying start as edinson cavani mitts and luis suarez crossed to give his side the lead off to just seven minutes. portugal struck back early in the second period pepe rising highest to no home in the fifty fifth minute. but a sumptuous strike from edinson cavani just seven minutes lat

and the mechanism did establish the syrian republic being responsible of the use. >> that's the assade? >> yes. >> so, i want to play for you this set of sound bites. it's from president obama and president trump. president obama famously said that there would be a red line if the syrian regime moved chemical weapons around, there would be a red line. let's play this and then the other one. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime, but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons being moved around or utilized. that would change my question. >> tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the air field in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. it is in this vital national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. >> so describe for me a little bit, how did your heart feel when president obama did not enact his red line? that was in 2013. and then when president trump actually did? >> in 2013, the use of sarin was determined. normally

elections like russia's support for president bashar al assad in syria it's and it's an explosion of crimea's of people are going to be looking at these issues i'm not expecting to see any sort of breakthrough there but certainly to see how president trump interacts with putin and how close he is seen to be to the russian leader. to the reporting from washington d.c. thank you. all right let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the british government has published a new blueprint for the country's exit from the new regs that minister dominic brown told parliament that the proposal aims to keep britain in a free market for goods with a looser relationship for services the new plans prompted the former foreign secretary and rags that minister to resign earlier this week. the syrian state television says government forces have raised the national flag over parts of darius city that had previously been in rebel hands since the year twenty eleven was the scene of the original anti assad protests that sparked the civil war seven years ago

a threat to those interests and that's why we need to like i said circle the wagons around julian assad's this could be the most important case and a century in this country before a group of. what are they you know what do you think because they've been you know we haven't seen the new york times we haven't seen the washington post who are so out a man about press three men so adamant about our amendments and upholding all of our civil liberties at least their own do you believe that any of those corporate out will at some point come to chile and defend and if they try and i do that i really do think so i think like i said right there is a was a small drink now it's a growing international movement and supporter julian assigns i've never seen anything like this take. it really is big there's a demonstration in front of the ecuadoran embassy in san francisco this wednesday every single day in london people are organizing and the press at the end of the day has got to be fearful if they were to drag this man who has committed no crime at all it's like a guy who's been in prison for twenty