you heard barnaby phillips story. what about assad must go? >> the alternative is assad must go eventually. we negotiate a position, to move assad personally to other members of his regime. he himself is poisonous and can't stay but we could incorporate part of the baath party, if we manage to do that, there is a chance that would be more successful. >> all right so along those lines, the ultimate goal of putting the 50 u.s. troops on the ground is to test the waters in a way and attempt to build a multiethnic syrian coalition to coordinate with these kurdish fighters. it's not diplomatic but the military solution of what you just suggested. >> i don't want to sound like a broken record, the problem still remains that we haven't resolved the syrian civil war. there is u.s. conflict against i.s.i.s. in loins to a lot of other nation and then there's the syrian civil war. until we convince rebel groups on the ground that they can't overthrow the assad regime we can't back them against i.s.i.s. as much as they would want to be. a diplomatic solut

barnaby phillips last this report. >> reporter: on state television in syria president assad's soldiers were celebrating. they've apparently regained control of a vital route into the city of aleppo. pushing back i.s.i.l. fighters, that captured it last month. meanwhile, in moscow, more clarity on where russia, president assad's most important ally would like the diplomacy to go from here. >> translator: we need to agree on two lists. the first list of the terrorist organizations which will not be covered by a ceasefire which we hope will be agreed upon at some point and the second list is the opposition group that will negotiate with the government under the auspices of the u.n. >> in london i complete the leader of the syrian national coalition, which is backed by the west, several arab countries and turkey. he said he knew flog about a meeting in mostly cloudy -- knew knowinnothing about a meeting in moscow. >> in order to relaunch a political process with russia or other sides they have to end their occupation with syria, stop killing the innocent people in syria and commit to genev

as barnaby phillips explains. >> on state television in syria president assad's soldiers were celebrating. they have regained control of a vital route into the city of aleppo pushing back isil fighters that captured it last month. meanwhile in moscow more clarity on where russia president assa assad's most important ally would like the diplomacy to go from here. >> we need to agree on two lists. the first list of the terrorist organizations which will not be covered by a cease-fire which we hope will be agreed on at some point. and the second list the opposition groups that will negotiate with the auspices of the u.n. >> they want to hold a meeting next week. in london i met the leader of the syrian national coalition. which is backed by the west several arab countries and turkey. he said he knew nothing about a meeting in moscow and sounded doubtful of what it could achieve. >> in order to relaunch a political process which russia or with other sides, they have to end their occupation of syria, they have to stop killing innocent people in syria and commit to dialogue immediately. the onl

barnaby phillips explains. >> reporter: on state television in syria, president asad's soldiers wereelebrating. they have regained control of a vital route into the alep. o pushing back isil fighters. in moscow, more clarity on where russia, president's assad's most important ally would like the diplomacy to go from here. the terrorist organizations which we hope will be agreed on at some point and the second list, the opposition groups who will negotiate with the government under the aus pieces of the u.n. >> the russians want to hold a meeting in moscow next week between the syrian governments and opposition groups. i met the leader of the syrian national coalition backed by the west, several arab countries and turkey. he said he nothing being a meeting moscow and sounded doubtful of what it could achieve. sthf to stop killing innocent people in syria. >> there is no dialogue, no contact between you and the russians? >> after the intervention, the only communication with the russians is fighting against them in syrian in order to liberate our country. >> the vienna talks have broug

and angela merkel says the country must rise to the challenge of integrating new arrivals and barnabie phillipsm berlin on a new scheme to offer education to refugees. >> reporter: he is a young man hungry to learn, from pakistan he walked across nine countries to get to germany, now he wants to be an engineer, a big ambition for a penniless refugee who speaks no german and thang and thanks to a new online university for refugees not an impossible dream. >> if i become a good engineer so i can really contribute to the whole community, i can design a new future for them so it is my motto and that is why i see this to help themselves. >> reporter: called kirun university and this is the promotional video with a thousand refugee students alrea already. >> i'm 25 years old from somalia and my profession back home was a social worker and currently a refugee in germany. >> reporter: these people made it happen, the team behind kirun and they can offer courses for free and marcus one of the founders told me why he felt compelled to offer refugees this opportunity. >> i could really make a structural c

al jazeera's barnaby phillips about a reports. >> on state television on syria, president assad's soldiers were celebrating. they have apparently regained a vital route into aleppo, pushing back i.s.i.l. fighters that captured it last month. meanwhile, in moscow, more clarity on where president assad'assad's would like the din to go from here. >> translator: the second list were the opposition groups who will negotiate with the government under the auspices of the u.n. >> the russian he want to hold a meeting next week between the syrian government and opposition groups. in london i met the leader of the syrian national coalition which is backed by the west, several arab countries and turkey. he said he knew nothing about a meeting in moscow and sounded doubtful of what it could achieve. >> in order to relaunch a political process, with russia or with other side, they have to end their occupation of syria to stop killing the innocent people in syria and commit to geneva communique. >> and there's no dialogue no talk between you and the russians? >> after initial, the only communication wit

from london barnaby phillips reports. >> reporter: he's the former military strong man who would nowrld to see him very differently. as a democratically elected leader, a statesman fighting what he calls terrorists. egypt's president abdel fattah sisi. but nobody in egypt has ever been held to account for this. the 2013 massacre of hundreds of supporters of the former president and since then according to international human rights groups, 10s of thousands of opponents of president sisi have been impressed. hundreds sentenced to death. >> egypt going through its worse human rights cries face decades, far from moving towards did democracy under sisi the president of egypt what we have seen is ferocious crack down on descents the denial of fundamental rights and freedoms and the building of the state that people were protesting and revolting against in 2011. >> reporter: and yet president sisi is by no means a pariah figure in europe. he's already enjoyed visits to france. and more recently to germany. european governments may not approve of much of what president sisi does at home, bu

barnaby phillips has more. >>reporter: he is a young man determined to learn. he walked across nine countries to get to germany from pakistan. he wants to be an engineer. thanks to a new online university specifically intended for refugees his dream is not an impossible dream. >> i can really contribute to the community. i can design a new feature for them. that's why i say help them help themselves. >>reporter: it's called kiron university. it already has more than a thousand refugee students. >> i'm 25 years old from somolia. my profession back home was a social worker. currently i'm a refugee in germany. >>reporter: these are the people who have made it happen, the team behind it. with crowd funding and grants from donors, they can offer it for free. >> i could really make change and maybe enable thousands of people to study and maybe have something they can look forward. >>reporter: refugee students who spend first two years learning german and studying online will be allowed to come here in their third year provided they pass the right exams and eventually

barnaby phillips reports. >> he's the former military strong man that would like the world to see him differently. as a democratically elected leader. a statesman fighting what he calls terrorists, egypt's president abdul fatah al-sisi. >> no one in egypt has ever been held to act for this. the 2013 massacre of supporters of the former president. and since then, according to international human rights groups tens of thousands of opponents of abdul fatah al-sisi have been imprisoned and hundreds sentenced to death. >> egypt is going through the worst human rights crisis for decades. far from moving to democracy. what we have seen is a ferocious crackdown, and the rebuilding of the very authoritarian states that they were protesting and revolting against in 2011. abdul fatah al-sisi is by no means a paria in europe. he's enjoyed visits to france, and more recently to germany. european governments may not approve of much of what abdul fatah al-sisi does at home, but they feel he provides a degree of stability in a troubled region. as paris and berlin think, so does london. >> we should n

germany needs more people with all these skills, educating refugees could bring enormous rewards, barnabie phillips> in the capitol porta prince are in the streets of presidential run of candidate survivors and questioning the credibility of the results and elections held three weeks ago and according to the results the top two frontrunners will face each other in a runoff next month and eight candidates called for an investigation into the voting results, from new york to chicago to new york they are calling for tuition fees and billed cause a million student march it was smaller and expected and come two days after fast-food workers went across the united states demanding an increase in wage. >> no more tuition fees. >> reporter: students taking to the streets with a message that higher education has become an expensive business and they are being left holding the bill. >> they are raising our tuition rates. it is already hard enough to find housing, to afford food and take care of our children. >> reporter: this is what has them so up set the tuition is now $32000 a year and 42 million have stud