anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight with same way he he doesn't do anything differently than we do we bomb the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb and hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everybody dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody's house this is war criminal for fighting the war they say he was in a war a war and by all accounts the casualties were almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important the brits had it and only which is a laboratory we in america respect for those skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered the count was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman dempsey dempse

anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight the with same way he's that he doesn't do anything differently than we do the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb on hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everyone dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody's house this is war criminal for fighting the war they say he was in a war a real war and by all accounts the casualties were almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their they're just like letting their personal dislike overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important. the brits had it only which is a laboratory we in america respect for those skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered to account was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman de

bashar al assad. north korea state news says the syrian president plans to meet with kim in north korea. the timing is unclear. north korea is shaking up the military leadership ahead of the singapore summit. we have alexandra field with more from seoul. this is interesting. what is the dynamic with syria and north korea? >> reporter: look, this is interesting news and it certainly comes as an interesting times. two countries have a history of ons back to the 1960s. k kim jong-un's grandfather met with bashar al assad's father in the '70s. they exchanged messages of support for one another. this is the first face-to-face meeting. admittedly no date has been set. it has been reported by north korean news the meeting would happen. this is theirst time a world leader travels to pyongyang to meet with kim jong-un. certainly we know history of cooperation with the countries. just this past winter the u.n. released a report with alleged evidence of the latest cooperation with north korea and syria on chemic

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you have isis and kurdish rebels bashar al-assad is dealing with.he united states helped to eviscerate isis he wants to throw is out of the country. we have done a lot of favors. >> lots of moving parts and pieces inside syria. you have israel, iran forces, hezbollah, russia, the syrian defense forces, many moving parts and pieces and bashar al-assad is looking to take a step up with russia by his side, and it is not going to happen. secretary mattis said he doesn't seem the united states leaving syria until diplomatic efforts are won and we are not there yet. jillian: the pentagon released a statement saying, quote, any interested party and syria should understand attacking us forces or coalition partners will be a bad policy. we are there. nothing has changed. you mentioned bashar al-assad never felt the force of the united states. do you think he should? >> i don't think the us for policy purposes is interested in getting any more involved in syria than they are. we have to thousand troops working with syrian defense forces to fight isis. that is

a can agree on well i think they both have a common goal they want iran to go iran is supporting bashar al assad the syrian president at the moment fighting on his side and obviously france is part of the western coalition that it's at sometimes fighting against bashar assad recently everything estrades and both want iran to go however it's a very unlikely that iran will listen to israel and france in this matter. and those in paris thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the king of jordan has appointed the country's education minister to be the new prime minister . will form a new government a day after the resignation of his predecessor honey malky made massive protests the king's ordered to as instructed i was asked to review changes in countries tax system and issue that spar with demonstrations. russia's president vladimir putin has told austria's sebastian courts that his country is interested in repairing ties with the a european union but the president has been meeting or about austria in the design his first foreign trip since

now syrian president bashar al-assad wants his own face to face with kim jong un.m going to visit the dprk and meet kim jong un. jillian: despite claims no indications that any plans have been made. but is it possible that north korea is courting other heads of states while planning a summit with president trump. here now to weigh in is the author of dear, what do you think of the latest news. >> on the one hand this could be platitude and the other thing why is does the u.s. get to be arm's dealer and they don't. all the missile tests are great commercial for products and small state can stand up to u.s. and other nations, this is something that will compensate for. they will dial down missiles an weapon's industries, they will want money or something else in exchange and syria would be one of the customers. rob: two very bad people meeting together. big-time threat to, i think, international law, the two meeting and big threat, i think, to our negotiations here. are we fools to go into this meeting at this point knowing that they will meet, this does seem like ba

arriving back in germany amid high security, wearing hand and ankle cuffs, ali bashar was led away bysylum seeker was deported back to germany after fleeing his home country following the death of susannah carr and in, a german schoolgirl found strangled last month. her body was discovered ina last month. her body was discovered in a field close to a centre for asylu m in a field close to a centre for asylum seekers, where ali bashar had lived with his family. but on friday the 20 old was arrested in iraqi kurdistan, where police say he confessed to raping and killing the teenager. speaking at the g7 summit in canada, german shards of a will set the case highlighted the importance of integration. —— chancellor angela merkel.” importance of integration. —— chancellor angela merkel. i want to say that this murder has deeply shaken all of germany, and me to. it is an invitation to all of us to ta ke is an invitation to all of us to take integration seriously to make our values clear again and again. angela merkel has faced fierce criticism over her decision to open germany's orders durin

from iraq a teenage boy led police to bashar who had already been denied asylum the boy and bashar lived in the same refugee center when police searched the center they discovered had left they believe that days ago he along with his parents and five siblings fled from just to istanbul and then to the city of bell in northern iraq. the ticket to the tickets were booked for all eight people using names different from the ones we know these people to have been sequenced because it. was already known to police for assault robbery and he suspected of having right to an eleven year old in the refugees and now an international manhunt is underway as police seek justice in the brutal killing of fourteen year old susanna. monica is here with some business to do with your bank could make a radical move to save its troubled business it seems there's some rumor around some interesting rumors terry deutsche bank chairman powell. has reportedly been speaking with shareholders about a merger with competitor could mel spog according to bloomberg talks have not yet reached a formal stage the two banks w

syrian president bashar al-assad is with the pyongyang's state-run media.te has been set for the meeting but it is notable of those two countries have been accused of cooperating. >> that's a very good point. thank you for your life report. decr strategt michae starr hawkins and former colorado republican state senator and chairman of the committee to defend the president, and harvey. >> going to start with what's with china. market does seem concerned about it right now. the dow up triple digits. at the same time, nothing was accomplished over the weekend between ourselves and with china. are you worried this is a rough row to hoe? >> it's a pretty complicated situation and it's going to be a rough road going forward. the president will be negotiated for america first in china will do the same. this is not something that will happen overnight and discussions will continue. the market is saying they are giving the president the benefit of the doubt and they are looking forward to seeing what will happen with trade negotiations. >> michael, 50 billion on tar

president bashar al—aassd of syria has again alleged that western nations have stoked the conflict inended russia‘s involvement in syria. russia is fighting for the international rule, the sovereignty of different countries. syria is one of them. their politics, their behaviour, their values, is not about interference or dictating. they don‘t. we have had good relations with russia for more than six nearly seven decades now. they have never, during our relationship, tried to dictate, even when there are differences. and because there is a war and there is high tension in our region, it is natural to have differences between the different parties, within our government or with other governments. russia, syria, iran. within these governments, that is very natural. at the end, the only decision about what is going on in syria and what is going to happen in syria is a syrian decision made by the syrian government. the taliban has announced a three—day ceasefire in afghanistan during the festival of eid, at the end of next week. it‘s the first such move by the group since it was overthrown

a lot of people are trying to get influence and bashar al assad is next. >> good morning to you. yet another indication that kim jong-un is going into a important meeting with president donald trump. syria and north korea have a history. the presidents have exchanged messages of support before and this past winter that the u.n. alleged a report there was evidence of continued cooperation between syria and north korea on chemical weapons and ballistic missiles and now syria president is the first leader to visit face-to-face with kim jong-un. north korean state news saying assad said this. the world no date yes yet set for that meeting but the other big meaning between trump and kim jong-un happen on june 12th. he talked about the need to keep up the strong defenses against north korea at this point going into meeting in order to allow the u.s. diplomats to negotiate from a position of strength. take land to what he said. >> we will recognize the declaration of peace and prosperity against the north korean peninsula and that was announced in april. we can anticipate best a bumpy r

bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people. which is a turkey that was in two thousand and thirteen was a very rich from his point of reactionary force there was very hostile to his his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and isis later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bombed and bombed to smithereens the 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 he 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 helmets that were very actually doing what 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 c

but it's not necessary that they would do it in the past we've seen some of the men were close to bashar al assad have actually traveled to italy in the past and the e.u. did criticize it but that has happened so essentially the message is broadly symbolic if john larson decides not to go to germany then really nothing much can be done about him at that stage but you mentioned the syrian regime acting with impunity what about these cases even if they don't necessarily result in prosecutions could they maybe have an effect on the syrian regime. well why would this if an observer say that it can actually also have a negative effect which is that there will be there will be more executions they will try and ensure that there are no destinies remember the case is that under whom he has filed are based on testimonies of people which are in germany and of course there are many other testimonies that are emerging in lebanon and turkey some of the people the big doctor that person has spoken to so that can be a possible negative effect they can be more executions because assad will try and make

detained briefly but released the second his twenty year old from iraq a teenage boy led police to bashar who had already been denied asylum the boy and bashar lived in the same refugee center when police searched the center they discovered had left they believe that days ago he along with his parents and five siblings fled from just to istanbul and then to the city of bell in northern iraq. the tickets were booked for all eight people using names different from the ones we know these people to have. a concert. was already known to police for assault robbery and he suspected of having right to an eleven year old in the refugee center now an international manhunt is underway as police seek justice in the brutal killing of fourteen year old suzanna let me now draw an achievement. lots of open questions in this case for example how does one explain that eight people could leave the country using different names than on the ticket than on their passports and one of them a suspect. yes the police here in germany say that basically one thing the id documents and these iraqis who had failed to a

of shields he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think you'll get a visa for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a fact means being evicted and ending up homeless. now german chancellor merkel says syria must be secure before any refugee is sent back and as far as she's concerned the time is not yet right that message from the chancellor comes as fighting has intensified again according to a war monitoring group. b.o.'s said to be from it live in syria's north the syrian observatory for human rights and britain says president bashar al assad's regime has stepped up stepped up airstrikes on rebel held areas the u.n. fears hundreds of thousands of civilians will be caught in the fighting that comes as questions remain over the syrian regime's alleged use of chemical weapons and russia's involvement in the seven year long conflict. still to come on the day a cold war blockade and a daring rescue operation to save a city remembering the berlin airlift. planes dropping essential supplies in west berlin up to thirteen thou

who published it's not the only one who should you know we excuse more than twenty four including basharassad himself because he is responsible about order to kill the people inside nation outside the know and the accusations are of torture what kind of proof have you been able to gather we have first of all of the brave victims brave witnesses who gave their testimonies in front of the prosecutor and they. then said victims of torture. and we have to commence to prove the overdubs. was how they did lose their chops with the knees and we have the comments will prove the chief comment. tutorage the. sponsible of the child and can he said great victims it must have been very difficult for them to share their story with different very difficult for them as best known and very difficult because some of them their parents still in syria under the regime control and that is you can't have any action against them inside syria so they are very brave people so their parents their families could be facing reprised. assad's regime they have risked big risks so some of them we didn't publish their n

ethiopian prime minister it will be their first meeting since a peace deal between the government of bashar as rebel group fell apart in two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands of people had been killed since the civil war broke out in south sudan five years ago. or korea's leader has told china that as country will do all it can to protect peace camp john it is in beijing where he braved china's president xi jinping on his meeting with u.s. president donald trump of course that was last month or earlier this month rather in singapore it's kim's a third visit to china since march. there have been more deaths as armed forces backed by the government try to regain control of the city in the south. peace talks between the government of the opposition have been put on hold as violence continues to shake the central american nation. has more from managua. right confrontations between anti-government protesters and paramilitary groups have claimed more lives in messiah nicaraguan police and government backed militias fired on demonstrators as scores of people fled to their homes for cover the

ally russia about a peace deal and there are under which see them hand over more areas to president bashar al assad's forces. divers have managed to go several kilometers into a flooded cave in thailand looking for twelve young footballers and their coach been missing for a week local rescue crews have been joined by british divers and u.s. military personnel as we know contact with the boy since they went into the caves last saturday south sudan's latest attempt to deceive fire is under threat from heavy fighting in the country's northwest between rebels and government forces president salva kiir and rebel leader react machar signed the agreement in neighboring sudan on wednesday. demonstrations are being held in south korea people who are angry about yemenis arriving to seek asylum more than five hundred refugees from the war torn country have flown to jeju island since december craig nice and travel to jeju to meet some of the refugees. the kitchen is the last place adnan imagines himself working. choose this job but i'm in an immigration and there are enough this place picked me and it

>> so north korean state media says bashar al-assad plans to visit kim jong un in north korea so if thathosts another head of state. the u.n. has previously said they shipped nuclear materials to the assad regime. >> joining us from washington, good to have you with us. let's start with the trump/kim summit preparations. it appears to be back on at least for the time being. what final preparations still need to be hammered out between the two sides and what's the atmosphere like in the region ahead of this meeting? >> well, the atmhere in singapore is very much a city that's preparing for a big summit to take place. in terms of the details of the negoions they'veot t fire out the number of entrances there are to where people are going to sit, how the photo ops will be staged. these are all tricky questions they need to iron out. i think the big development is what we've seen in north korea with the dismissal of those three senior military generals from the previous generation being replaced by younger generations. the fact that there's been a shift in the leadership structure inside nort

done little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. they've barker's out the conference in

destroyed millions of syrians risk losing their homes over a property you know implemented by president bashar al assad's government. some of america's biggest allies are threatening retaliatory measures off of the u.s. imposed tariffs on steel and many and ports the trumpeter ministration refused to exempt the european union canada and mexico they're now fears the decision could spark a global trade war committee how could reports from washington. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross made the announcement from paris where he was attending an annual trade forum. tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the united states from canada mexico and the european union all go into effect friday. the move potentially sets in motion a trade war with some of the united states' most important allies a claim the u.s. commerce secretary brushed off everybody has a remeron and very firmly every country does with others whose loathing we are to. get over this in due course in brussels the head of the european commission called it a bad day for world trade promising count

it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets under way his envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advisers are not present in the area was. there any is receive a strong message from israel with the stepped up air strikes that it's want tolerate iranian presence in south syria that's why iran withdrew from southern syria the iranians know that engaging in a war with israel in syria is not its benefit. and it's not to russia's benefit either an iranian israeli confrontation with threatened the assad government hold on power and moscow's achievements it has been a difficult balancing act for russia

done little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. all of the world's largest rain f

bashar al-assad plans to meet, visit north korea to meet leader.date has been said, with the u.s. summit the meeting is notable, syria and north korea have been accused of cooperating on chemical weapons together. heather: yes, they have, very notable to say the least. thank you so much for joining us, garrett, appreciate it. number one-state sponsor of terror is accusing president trump of bullying, iran's foreign minister begging u.s. allies to stand up to the white house and save the obama-when area nuclear deal. u.s. decision to pull out of the deal is illegal and challenges international law. president trump has since reimposed harsh economic sanctions against iran. at least 25 people are dead, hundreds more injured after volcano erupts in guatemala. volcano of fire spewing laugh -- lava and black smoke, troops as far as colombia coming to help with survivors. second eruption this year. here at home, nearly a dozen people trapped on their homes on hawaii's big island. three people cut off from water, electricity air-lift today safety. lava cov

earlier this year schools of children being treated after exposure to an apparent nerve agent has bashar al assad's forces sought to take control of rebel held areas since two thousand and twelve the o.p.c. recorded four hundred gc's of chemical weapons in syria and a year and a half ago a brazen assassination at kuala lumpur airport the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un attacked with a deadly chemical substance he later died in hospital and in march the attempted murder of former russian double agent sergei script and his daughter in the british town of souls. investigators concluded they were poisoned would not be chunky a nerve agent developed by the soviet union. russia and its allies syria and iran strongly oppose britain's proposal russia's published a plan of its own only the un it says can apportion blame the international border . security council this isn't the first time that there's been an attempt to point the finger at those responsible for carrying out chemical weapons attacks in two thousand and fifteen the un security council in partnership with the o.p.c.

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the downing of the civilian airliner and backing of bashar al assad and the chemical weapons attack on a former spy and his daughter. when you look at rewarding russia, there is no support in that alliance. in terms of the russians, they responded with skepticism. they said we don't care about the g8. we focus on other formats. there is an awareness in russia and awareness that donald trump cannot always deliver on the things he promises. he promised to make it better and it has gotten worse. >> astounding. matthew chance live. thank you. >>> 13 minutes past the hour on historic monday. a pizza delivery man is saved from deportation after arrested dropping off food to the new york army base. why he gets to stay in the united states with his daughters and wife. that's next. the first survivor of alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. visit alz.org to join the fight. >>> 4:17 eastern time. a federal judge blocked the deportation of the undocumented new york city pizza delivery man. he was turned ov

how to feels he won't be safe in syria as long as bashar al assad is in power he wants to go to europe but doesn't think he'll get a visa. for now he's forced to stay in lebanon even a fat means being evicted and ending up homeless. turkeys voting in elections on sunday and there are indications the opposition is mounting its strongest challenge yet to present. the main opposition candidate has reportedly had one of the largest campaign rallies in the country's history of the city two million people are valid it is near heaven inchy and his c.h.p. party polls show in chick could force a do on to a second round on sunday. less articulate at some other stories making news around the was officials from north and south korea have set a date for holding reunions of families divided by the korean war in the nineteen fifties the families are now due to meet from august the twentieth to august the twenty sixth the koreas last held reunions in two thousand and fifteen before times between the two countries u.s. and. south sudan's president salva kiir says he has ruled out governing again with r

very concerned for their well being jordan says it won't take any more refugees syrian president bashar assad is determined to retake this area a humanitarian catastrophe is looming. at the world cup group c. was decided today france were able to wrest key players against denmark having already secured progression with a game to spare a draw was enough for the danes to qualify and so the two sides played out a tepid first half with chances few and far between olivier giroud hold it threatened for france but neither side pushed for victory meaning the game ended in the turn of its first nil nil draw france top group c. with denmark following behind. and already eliminated peru ended australia's hope of going through to the knockout phase when they beat the socceroos two nil andre carrillo opened the scoring for peru with a fierce volley from the edge of the box in the eighteenth minute new chance here for keeper matt ryan and then shortly after the restart paolo guerrero made it two nil for a captain with great awareness as he smashed in the bouncing ball with his outstretched you see it

degree to connect that's very important next to that are and could possibly be the next place that bashar assad's regime attacks and that is an on golan heights of in part of the golan heights which is disputed between israel and syria these understandings that you mentioned this they seem quite shaky moscow the u.s. and jordan they all agreed to deescalation zone around daraa a year ago now russia is involved in these attacks again why. well the russian side of the regime we've seen russia do the same in all other deescalation zones as well i mean remember what that was a deescalation zone too when we saw the events there the way the un for day and thousands were left stranded thousands have to then date the buses to it lives of russia has been siding with the regime with the machine you see is the look the rebels there are all kind of believe there ought of of the list are which is not factually correct there are people there are rebels who are all. jihadi sort of sick but then there are those with the free syrian army and other groups who are also there and that us with russia says the

german prosecutors have applied to extradite the former president bashar al assad regime or in spain to spain he's facing charges of corruption and rebellion there was detained in germany on a european arrest warrant for his role in last of two of his independence bit by catalonia the exhibition must first be approved by a court before it can be carried out. north and south korea have bizarre will be a key part of efforts to resolve the nuclear standoff with pyongyang. and not a spin where marianne or a whore has been ousted as prime minister after losing a duel confidence vote in parliament rawhi admitted defeat is just ahead of the vote and said it had been an honor to lead the country he replaced by socialist leader beds or sanchez the opposition socialists called the vote after members of the horse party were linked to a corruption scandal. he is the man of the hour pedro sanchez has achieved his goal of ousting his old foe mariano rajoy the socialist opposition leader was a driving force in the campaign to oust him. i really needed are you ready to resign here today. resigned to

as places that would be free of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of bashar al assad's government the day it can mean b. day this unprecedented air campaign by the russian jets adopting the scorched earth strategy is in gross violation of the deescalation agreement. but russia's ambassador to the united nations says moscow will no longer uphold the deescalation zone saying it was among the last strongholds of al qaeda syrian branch and i sold we urge the again the russians the americans and the it today nance were able to to to do it last july they can do it again today. that they have only influence in this in this area there's nothing inevitable about. this escalation of fighting for assad taking the rebel stronghold of down especially important after all this is where the uprisings against his rule began seven years ago. libyan warlord. his forces have taken full control of the city of daraa from rival armed groups people have been celebrating in the streets the local armed groups are denying those reports on a was the last city in eastern libya not under

about a peace deal in the south under which they would hand over areas they control to president bashar al assad's forces now these pictures which were aired on syrian state hello. vision is set to show celebrations in one town called dial it up is people a chanting pro-government slogans off to the army and to the town there's been a temporary ceasefire in parts of daraa province but it's been breached by sporadic fighting adding to fears of a humanitarian catastrophe the u.n. says the fighting is based one hundred and sixty thousand people in southern syria over the past five days there are by correspondent tom. has this update from the jordanian side of the border with sara what. the cease fire announced friday and made not only held for a few minutes there's been uninterrupted shelling across billy just south of syria namely in the eastern and western countries sod's of daraa province according to eyewitness accounts we received the areas will all residential homes and makeshift hospitals which is no longer operational as a result of the intense bombardment as we speak we can still

how did life change when son bashar al-assad came into power? how did they sustain over time? how did this evolve from a few demonstrations to a national revolt that first called only for reform, some changes to make less oppressive system ultimately called for the toppling of this regime especially the regime responded to peaceful protests with brutal forms of violence, how the opposition eventually took up arms first defensively and series of offensive measures and uprising fragmento have many different groups fighting as nonstate and state actors with different patrons and agenda, how is it like to live war, how did people come to flee as refugees, that's the arc, trajectory that i heard again and again in people's own stories about living each of those stages of life and i decided to make narrative arc of the book. those stages but within each stage, the book moves simply voe by voice, story by story, cross-section of syrians, different backgrounds have lived each of those stages both to give people i hope, outside reader, a sense to better understand the syrian conflict a

government has urged rebels to give up their weapons but so far they're refusing to recognize president bashar assad can and. we don't recognize assad's authority he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of iranian and afghan militias it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general and from events in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support to the rebels have an

done little to stop them and the attacks in syria have invariably been met with routine denials by bashar assad and his sponsor the russian government and they've been seen as a provocation to the international chemical weapons watchdog eleven member countries of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons called for an emergency meeting at its headquarters in the hague to defend and strengthen the global ban on such nerve agents. currently the organization only determines whether such attacks have taken place not who carried them out they want to use the session to set up a new mechanism so the a.p.c. w. is able to assign blame for attacks carried out with banned munitions proposal would need a two thirds majority to pass and would likely face challenges from iran and russia which has previously criticized the o.p.c. w. in light of its findings in syria as well as souls. but there is an urgency to tackle the troubling spate of such dangerous and indiscriminate attacks attacks that have already cost the lives of too many civilians so yeah go. let's go live now to the hagar se

has called on president bashar al assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation zones. reports. this is the first time forces have used battle. in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an end to the seven year war the americans have of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's of course and he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he's quite serious distinct power we will never recognize him reject the presence of ukrainian and afghan militias. who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shia militias also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the bor

now there are reports from north korea the syrian president, bashar al-assad, could be paying a visit soon? he could. it was an unexpected announcement that the charlotte visitould be planning a bashargyang -- that al-assad could be planning a visit toyong btw are both internationally isolated. if the meeting does transpire it that kimhe first time hosts a foreign leader on his home grounds. in this opinion piece, the paper jumpes a side of trying to on this to avoid international isolation. next, to the u.k. were the british papers are carrying a sign is story on their front page echo yuka: -- frontpage? that this study found women with early-stage breast cancer could avoid chemotherapy and still have a fighting chance of battling the disease. it's a big deal according to the co-authors of the study. it means that women whose tumors have not spread to the lymph nodes could get a genetic test, option tople determine if chemotherapy is necessary. it could help them avoid a painful, sometimes unnecessary step in the battle against cancer. genie: not to france where "le m reporting that

as places that would be free of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of bashar al assad's government the day i mean the day that this unprecedented air campaign by the russian jets adopting the scorched earth strategy is in gross violation of the deescalation agreement. but russia's ambassador to the united nations says moscow will no longer uphold the deescalation zone saying it was among the last strongholds of al qaeda syrian branch and i sold we urge the again the russians the americans and git to damien's were able to to to do it last july they can do it again today. they have all influence in this in this area there is nothing inevitable about. this escalation of fighting for our side taking the rebel stronghold of down especially important after all this is where the uprisings against his rule began seven years ago. on. us police say they've captured and identified the man suspected of killing five people inside a newspaper office in the city of annapolis maryland investigators say the shooting specifically targeted journalists. castro reports. police say