assad's forces we know that bashar al assad would not be able to have this offensive without the support of russia but does russia have the same interests in this conflict the same interest as bashar al assad. well it does and the reason is this province is dominantly under the control of high at the lido shum which has been renamed such only recently earlier it was known as jump at the last saddam was an ally of terrorist organization i'll tie the experts believe in there isn't enough evidence to suggest that it still has ties with al qaeda this is a problem for russians because several of the russian fighter had also come in and joined this outfit and they just don't think that it's viable for them to elect this outfit to continue at a time that they want in several other parts of city as they don't want. to continue to do you know sam has also sent unmanned aerial we close to russian bases inside the us so they do see eye to eye with the sit in government when it comes to a fact that it's the province whereas if you talk about turkey and russia then their interests do. they ha

of territory not under government control of syrian president bashar al assad he plans to change that with the help of the russian military the you win calls that play the perfect storm fearing chemical weapons and more refugees it could quickly become the one spot on the map where iranian israeli turkish russian and american forces. i'm bored go off in berlin this is the day. we will continue to wish. to hope to avoid the but it. just wasn't a day more than twenty airstrikes were carried out unfortunately and there are civilians among the wounded we have service as well when we are inside syria that's why the sense of urgency that's why a lot pete if i may to president putin and to place and to talk about what goal is do for a city which is the british mean to include the city i'm late fee if i am told to. meet you and that's why when it comes be it is did tweet to if it came from the. danger of human again tragedy for me great that means a whole lot more when two forty nine you know people out there sewing dead since it was sending the right message. also coming up tonight a record

territory not under government control of syrian president bashar al assad he plans to change that with the help of the russian military the you win calls that planned the perfect storm syrian chemical weapons and more refugees it could quickly become the one spot on the map where iranian israeli turkish russian and american forces collide i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we will continue to wish. to hope to avoid the but to support it or build your listeners today more than twenty airstrikes were carried out unfortunately there are civilians among the wounded we observe this as well when we are inside syria that's why the sense of urgency that's why i'll up even if i may to president putin and to place a talk about goal is to facilitate the if the british willing to offer a include the city i'm led to feel the cold to. meet you that's why when it comes be it is the tweet to give that came from greater. danger than you many did in tragedy for me rick this means a all out war and when to put in that medium people out there so in that sense it was sending the right message. also c

on the go on to the province what about russia and what about march i was on forces we know that bashar al assad would not be able to have this offensive without the support of russia but does russia have the same interests in this conflict the same interests and bashar al assad. well it does and the reason is that this province is dominantly under the control of hi at the lido shum which is being renamed such only recently earlier it was known as jump at the last i was an ally of terrorist organization al qaeda experts believe in there isn't enough evidence to suggest that it still has ties with al qaeda this is a problem for russians because several of the russian fighter had also come in and joined this outfit and they just don't think that it's viable for them to elect this outfit continue at a time that they want in several other parts of city as they don't want. to continue high after you know sean has also sent unmanned aerial we calls to russian bases inside the us so they do see eye to eye with the sit in government when it comes to attack in the province whereas if you talk about

well they do and they don't russia has been backing bashar al assad and he's been backing several rebel factions so they're not united why but they did come together in the estimate for says the u.s. is next take the lead and essentially has given this theater to russia to handle so bush can also be playing now russia's concerns i does not want to go in it's repetition more than it already has people into doing so in conflict because it is asking the e.u. and other followers to be able to reconstruction because it wants to lead the political reconciliation process that happens after the war is over whereas turkey what turkey saying is look we don't want any more refugees to these already home to three million people a few million refugees ever get on and what duckie saying is give us more time so we can we can this extremist other school have them in a fight among each other and so we can contain the conflict now when the meeting happens and friday the two powers of essentially expected to hopefully come up with a solution of the conflict and it's. not an entirely without already. repor

these discussions today look we want to see nothing else nothing short of a military victory for bashar al assad and that means you take it live. well basically you know the russian position as it has always been is that damascus president assad is the legitimate government of syria and therefore the people who are moving against him will have moved against him over the past seven years of this conflict are essentially terrorists or little better than terrorists there was not much credence given in moscow at the beginning of this conflict to the idea that some are moderate opposition groups and some are more hardline opposition groups basically russia has long considered them pretty much the same deal so yes russia's position is that damascus has to reassert control over as much of the country as it can it has a different perspective from damascus about how exactly that should be done so i think damascus has been more brutal more hardline in its approach to this conflict than moscow has moscow has to listen to the concerns of countries like turkey is trying to build up a kind of coalition

what about russia and what about bashar al-assad's forces?e know that bashar al-assad would not be able to have this offensive without the support of russiaia, but does russia a have same interest in this conflict as bashar al-assad? anchal: well, it does. and the reason is that this province is dominantly under the control as an ally of al qaeda. experts believe, and there's enough evidence to suggest that they still have ties t to al qaeda. this is a problelem for russians because several of the r russian fighters have also joined this outfit and they do not thinknk t is viable for them to let this outfit continue at a time they wawant in several other price of syria. so they do not want it to continue. they have alsoso sent unmanned aerial vehicles to russian bases in syria. so they do seeee eye-to-eye wiwh the syririan government t when t comes to attacking the idlib province. whereas if you talk ababout tury and russia, they have similar interests because russia does not want its reputation to be worse than it already is, so it wants to

president bashar al assad of syria must not recklessly attack idlib province. the russians and the iranians would be making a grave humanitarian mistake to take part in this tragedy.

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concerned with expanding their influence in the region they want a unified syria under president bashar al assad. seven years of war in syria have left at least three hundred fifty thousand dead millions of refugees and a country in ruins if the offensive on it does go ahead as many as eight hundred thousand people could be forced to move again which. is anyone's guess i. have been hearing if there is another vast influx of refugees from syria the destabilization of areas just across its border is present but it following those talks into. turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees. population is three point five million people right now. turkey does not have the resources or the power to host a further three point five million people. we need to take joint steps to prevent migration from this area and to do that. we need to be successful in the fight against terrorism. do turkey correspondent judy han well can you hear what's at stake here for to take. well eat live for turkey is a major security concern not only because the battle over could lead to a final deci

well it would mean that because that would also mean that bashar al assad along with russia has won the war already he's done pretty well in terms of military victories victories in several of the in all of their lives across of the actually for their original win say they are then yes assad would have won the war and that would mean that politically conciliation would become even more difficult even as we speak the city and government is not very keen on having any sort of political reconciliation that the u.n. has appealed specifically to russia and turkey to help find a solution among theories for civilians and do on korea and moscow have the same priorities though in syria. well they don't but they are meeting on saturday in a style are along with the. ground to find some sort of a solution if something something could be really worked out russia's been back. but i've been backing several rebel factions who are operating in and are living on border areas of turkey and syria do this is why they actually don't know what russia and turkey do have a mutually beneficial economic relation

these fighters of the living close to the pick up time so everybody agreed to the fact that bashar al assad will stay in power so he's going to win he's going to win this war won militarily this doesn't mean that he can win the peace because he would need to rebuild the country he would need a lot of money and this is really a piece of the great he will keep on voting see me up i fear which means that people don't i'm not allowed to say anything his prisons are still filled up with people as they are and the only thing that europe should do really right now is not to normalize relations with this machine to help the activists in the first place that's not for democracy or when wise or their dignity in the first place that by the way inside it because they were expelled from all these are other areas that's right they were forced they're able to forcibly expel to live and they you know they found at these underground schools they founded libraries women sent us you sent us they all being there and i think the last thing that europe should do they work with these people they give them m

syrian president bashar al assad has vowed to recapture every inch of territory from the rebels and that is slowly been happening the syrian government has made major gains especially since russia joined the war three years ago it was now the last holdout for asset right now the turkish army controls a string of military posts around it live trying to prevent a government assault. a government offensive means there will be no place left for rebel fighters and their families to go stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. this northwestern corner of syria represents the last hopes of the rebel opposition government forces have steadily recaptured region after region under so-called reconciliation deals the fighters they didn't want to live under government control here with their families how little ahmed was a fighter in the southern province of that are the most recent area taken back by government troops he shows us video of when he was involved in the war and like so many others who chose to leave he doesn't trust the government. i see the reconciliation is a big mistake

security council regularly to protect damascus to protect bashar al assad from all of these war crimes. more subtly russia has been working on the grounds though in syria negotiating with opposition groups trying to peel them away one by one and get them to defect to the government side that has had some success and. it's you know it's something that turkey would like more time given to that process that's not to say that russia has everything its own way in syria in this kind of intense crucible of ryal polat seek that is the syrian war it has made itself the kind of key diplomatic and military broker. but it also has to listen to outside states it has to listen to turkey has to take on board turkey's concerned as stephanie was just saying there and of course then there's also this this complex problem of what to do are there the war is over how to rebuild syria now russia is going to have to take on some of that's responsibility itself but it is also trying to intreat other countries to take part as well it wants the europeans to come in something the europeans are very reluctant to

it is the firm stance that if bashar al-assad chooses to use the chemical weapons the united states andlies will respond swiftly. woodward's new book, and the chemical weapons attack in april 2017. the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, had no knowledge of it. >> i the pleasure of being privy to those conversations when we dealt with each chemical weapons strike and all the responses and everything and i have not heard the president talked about assassinating bashar al-assad. >> the ongoing efforts to denuclearize north korea. >> we let chairman kim know just because we shake hands and smile at each other, does not mean the international community is okay with ballistic missiles. >> donald trump spoke with the south korean counterpart, and he is sending a special envoy to pyongyang to meet with kim jong un. shannon: ronan farrow's firing back on the network of wrongdoing enemy too controversy. trace gallagher has the inside story. >> reporter: nbc news has trouble getting out of this story. the bombshell accusation from former nbc news investigative producer rich mccue, and the highe

for shanno >> fox news alert, breaking tonight, donald trump issues a stern warning to syria as bashar al-assad readies for what should be a major assault against a province in syria, last rebel stronghold in his war-torn nation. also the president lashing out at jeff sessions again, the justice department jeopardizing what could be easy republican wins during the midterms, smart politics or abuse of power? the panels here to break it down. colin kaepernick will not stand for the national anthem, he has been revealed as the new face of the campaign for the 30th anniversary, social media blowing up about this and you'll never guess who rush to colin kaepernick's defense, john brennan. a pat on the back from the former cia director. the president's labor day tweets. >> this is a big tweet and it is getting a lot of attention but donald trump was just in the nation's top law enforcement officers should have waited until after the midterms to prosecute two republican congressman until after the election. donald trump is again taking his attorney general to task by saying two long-running obam

syria's civil war may soon and but not without one final humanitarian crisis as the government of bashar al assad has reclaimed one city and region after another its opponents have been driven into smaller areas many are now considered traitors in the northern province of idlib recent statements from the government and the russia. push to retake this last major rebel held area may begin soon we began with this report from stephanie decker who's just across the border from it live in the turkish city of antakya. all eyes now on the rebel held province of the syrian government has always said it was going to take it back and it seems an offensive is now imminent what form will this offensive take that remains the question will it be limited will it be an all out war while there's intensive negotiations going on behind the scenes between turkey between the russians and also rebel groups on the ground particular group called hired to handle shadow this group formerly associated with al qaida known as the mr front that is the main issue this is what russia and syria say are terrorists and why th

so everybody really greed to the fact that bashar al-assad will stay in power.rent: so he is going to win? kristin: he won militarily. it doesn't necessarily mean peace. he will keep on routing syria by fear, which means people are not allowed to say anything. his prisons are still filled with people. the amazing europe should do right now is not to normalize relations with this regime. to help the activists in the first place, human rights, that are inside idlib right now because they were expelled from these other areas. brent: they were forced there. kristin: yes. they founded underground schools, libraries, women centers. the last thing europe should do is work with these people so they are kind of responsible for these people, and take them to safety. brent: i think you have the material for a fourth book considering how things are going to d develop. kristin helberg, as always, it is good to have you on the show. thank you. the german foreign minister has been in turkey and -- after the meeting he said germany is working with turkey to prevent that humanit

that decided to top of the regime of bashar al assad's when the revolt in syria started in twowo thousand eleleven not because he's a brutal dictator which of course he is. but because they wanted to instalall a regime that is o western rather than pro russian however both the russians. the iranians and the chinese were not willing. to have the west's sixth seed in syria and in the end they were mall. unscrupulous smarter in understanding the set up of the syrian conflict and they managed to a for the regime to regain control of most of the country okay. i want to pick up another the moment meant bringing it back to it live itself what would you expect from the rebels themselves would you expect them to use the civilians essentially. as hostages and shields have been doing so in the past weeks already they do not care about civilian casualties they are no different in that mentality from those holding power in damascus. and it was a strong era of western countries to support these people believing that they could bring about change in syria. these jihadi fighters whether whether they come

from the nafta free—trade agreement, and ignoring his suggestion to assassinate the syrian leader, bashar alssad. it quotes the white house chief of staff, john kelly, describing the president as unhinged. i think it's going to be a lesson that has to be absorbed by future presidents... i think it's going to be a lesson that has to be absorbed by future presidents... what gives the book so much credence is the authority of its author, bob woodward, whose work alongside carl bernstein during watergate did so much to bring down richard nixon. woodward is a washington institution. bob woodward finally managed to speak to the president, but only after the book was finished. so help me god. it's certainly a bad one for the embattled attorney general, jeff sessions, who mr trump apparently described as "mentally retarded" and "a dumb southerner". and there are insights into the legal advice the president received about talking to the special counsel, robert mueller. "don't testify", his former lawyer told him. "it's either that or an orange jumpsuit". the president last appeared before the cameras

it comes amid signs that president bashar al—assad's forces are preparing an offensive in the denselyed region. russia, which backs the syrian government, has been accused of being responsible for new air strikes in the region. caroline rigby reports. an airstrike on a village in the west of idlib province. anti—government activists claim this was one of 30 in the region carried out by russian warplanes. for weeks now, the syrian government has been amassing troops in the country's last remaining rebel stronghold, ahead of what is expected to be a major offensive. the population of idlib province in syria's north—west has dramatically increased throughout this conflict, with people fleeing the regime. russia claims the region is now dominated by rebel fighters andjihadi groups, a nest for terrorists. but it is also home to an estimated three million civilians, who have nowhere else to go, around half displaced as a result of previous battles. the un warns a full—scale assault here would be like having a war in a refugee camp. it has appealed for sanity in order to avoid humanitarian c

politically but seriously the voice coming out the message is the same that they want president bashar al assad to go that they don't want a government offensive and they don't want to live under a government rule but of course again you know it is looking at the bigger picture the final stand of the opposition and these people will tell you many of them don't like the groups that rule there are many of them don't want a president bashar al assad but they have no choice in either all right. do people at this point feel that it's only a matter of time before their strongholds for all those have all they really think there's still hope for the revolution to achieve its goals. a lot of people. don't want to admit it but i think deep down inside there is an acknowledgement that things have changed and that the reality has changed there are some people within the opposition whether civilians or fighters who will tell you one of them actually put it very eloquently to us last week who said you know it was our damascus if we took damascus it meant that we really would have won this war but it li

says he's prepared to strike syria if chemical weapons are used in the country syrian president bashar al assad has said he's planning a military operation to retake it lip french armed forces chief want was speaking to reporters in paris is on the turkey syria border there have been several air strikes in the northern area of how my province and south it live one of those are from what we understand is taken out one of the buildings belonging to the civil defense or the white helmets the rescue workers that operate in opposition terrace and we also understand that there are a number of families hundreds we understand around a thousand people that have fled some of those areas where those airstrikes are taking place at the moment all eyes remain on tomorrow that is when you have the trilateral meeting in town hall and between iran turkey and russia everyone expects something to be agreed upon there what this offensive what kind of shape it will take whether it will be limited to certain areas certain groups or wide scale turkey is doing everything to avoid a large scale offensive it is it

nightmare in syria for the people on the ground it's been almost everything's been in vain because bashar al assad is going to stay in power there's going to be no political change and there are going to be more people who are refugees in turkey for example is going to seal the border and says we don't want you to come over here nobody cares for syrians who really i mean everybody is busy with his own interests turkey for example is very busy with kind of controlling kurdish autonomy in the north east of syria this is the major idea now of president and he will be ready to accept bashar assad staying in power and the assad regime is. it's border if he would prefer the assad regime at its border rather than the p y d these fighters of the pentagon controls to living close to the picture can so everybody agreed to the fact that bashar assad will stay in power he's going to win this one militarily this doesn't mean that he can win the peace because he would need to rebuild the country he would need a lot of money and this is really a piece of the great he will keep on voting syria by fear which

from the nafta free—trade agreement, and ignoring his suggestion to assassinate the syrian leader bashar alffjohn kelly describing the president as unhinged. i think it's going to be a lesson that has to be absorbed by future presidents. what gives the book so much credence is the authority of its author, bob woodward, whose work alongside carl bernstein during watergate did so much to bring down richard nixon. woodward is a washington institution. bob woodward finally managed to speak to the president but only after the book was finished. so help me god. it's certainly a bad one for the embattled attorney generaljeff sessions, who mr trump apparently described as "mentally retarded" and "a dumb southerner". and there are insights into the legal advice the president received about talking to the special counsel robert mueller. "don't testify", his former lawyer told him. "it's either that or an orange jumpsuit". the president last appeared before the cameras yesterday on what looked like an aborted golf trip. and now, yet another diversion. the white house claims the book is nothing more th

backed opposition forces against syrian president bashar al assad and now fears a new flood of refugees russian president vladimir putin dismissed president to once a ceasefire proposal say a truce would be pointless. there are no representatives of armed opposition here at our table and moreover there are no representatives of nusra front or i asked on the syrian army. and i was. so in my opinion and i believe the turkish president is right in general it would be good to have a ceasefire which we cannot speak for them and moreover we cannot say that no threat from terrorists or i.a.s. will stop shooting although they will stop using drones with bombs. so if anything the tehran summit has highlighted the differences between the main powers involved in this conflict we'll bring you reaction from the shortly as well as analysis of the wider situation in syria before that there are reports about the situation in it ahead of a potential assault by syrian forces and their allies. the northwestern province of idlib is syria's last rebel stronghold tens of thousands of people were bussed here

concerned with expanding their influence in the region they want a unified syria under president bashar al assad. seven years of war in syria have lift at least three hundred fifty thousand did millions of refugees and a country in ruins if the offensive on it does go ahead as many as eight hundred thousand people could be fools to move again. which. ones get. jump ship by sekhar is head of debbie's farsi service and he joins us in studio for more on the story jumps to thank you for being with us turkey russia and iran as we heard in that report have very different motives the leaders of those countries are meeting in tehran today is there any chance that they can agree on a diplomatic solution to prevent a full out military confrontation and it lip. unfortunately. this point it doesn't seem so there is no diplomatic solution unfortunately for that. he has criticised for instance over the last few days russian air strikes on the ball of any food military action against their lives at least. it seems that the regime. has our did you decide to. support that openly giving him support that ope

your reaction to just the story about bashar al assad and is general mattis one of the people you regard as a human guardrail around this administration? >> absolutely. i think it just underscores how fortune we all are that somebody of jim mattis' experience, common sense, as well as his interest in making sure that this president, donald trump, does not do something that truly is dangerous for our national security. i think it also reveals just how inexperienced donald trump is and how impulsive he is. to say that he wants to kill somebody like that. as well as his utter disregard for the implications of doing something rash on the korean peninsula. again, it shows his impulsiveness, it shows his recklessness, and that's why i think people like jim mattis and john kelly and others are there to prevent donald trump from doing something that is truly going to hurt this country. >> here is gary cohn. well-known rich guy in new york, goldman sachs. he didn't come up through the intelligence channels. he wasn't trained as a national security adviser. the story goes he swiped a letter off th

he said in a phone call to general mattis, the defense secretary, that he wanted to assassinate bashar al assad, the leader of syria and his people. and mattis when he hung up the phone had to tell his senior aide, no, we're not going to do any of that. we're going to be much more measured than that. there is an effort by all senior officials in the administration to be guardrail for what they believed would be very dangerous and unwise actions that the president wanted to do. >> i intend to act john brennan a question about that in just a minute's time. jeremy bash, in your lifetime did you ever think you'd read about or hear about a letter being swiped off the desk of the president of the united states lest he read it or even worse sign it? >> no, brian. what we see here is our system of government is heaving under enormous strain because we have a president whose cabinet does not trust his fundamental judgement. they believe he's unfit to make core decisions about national security, about life and death, and they not only are alarmed as was just referenced, but they actually believe th

russia is the new regional power broker, and today, its war planes bombed idlib on behalf of bashar alad, the syrian president whose government russia and iran helped save. russia says it wants to finish the job. >> ( translated ): the main task this stage is to banish militants from the province of idlib.op wethat the members of the terrorist organizations have enough common sense to resistance and to lay down their arms. >> reporter: iranian-backed hezbollah troops are fighting for syrian government. iran hopes to extend their presence in syria, ander israel. but, turkish president recep e tayyogan warned against an offensive into idlib.ew he fears alood of refugees on top of the 3.5in million alreadis country. >> ( translated ): turkey does not have the resources or power to host a further the million people. we need to take a joint step to event migration from this area. >> reporter: iran and russia claim idlib is home to terrorists. rouhani said syria should root out militants in iib, and also force u.s. forces out. >> ( translated ): the illegal esence and interference america in

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also the european union plus turkey and the gulf arab states that decided to top of the regime of bashar al assad when the revolt in syria started in two thousand and eleven not because he was a brutal dictator which of course he is but because they wanted to install a regime that is pro western rather than pro russian however both the russians the iranians and the chinese were not willing so have the west's succeed in syria and in the end they were more. stroup smarter in understanding the setup of the syrian conflict and they managed to avoid the regime to regain control of most of the country ok i want to pick up on that at the moment bringing it back to ad lib itself what would you expect from the rebels themselves would you expect them to use the civilians essentially as hostages and shields the jihadi rebels totally they will do so they have been doing so in the past weeks already they do not care about civilian casualties they are no different than them until the tea from those holding power in damascus and it was a strong arrow of western countries to support these people believing

assad and then come back and express sympathy for bashar al assad and saying that he's just standing up for christians by killing half a million people, s.e., as a christian myself, there's no jesus christ i follow that would support a dictator murdering half a million people so that lack of human dignity, i don't understand. i firmly disagree with her. you can be against intervention but to meet with the butcher of baghdad is whole other thing. >> president erdogan of turkey, which would sustain a huge part of the refugee crisis from an idlib offensive, he's meeting with putin on monday. is erdogan sort of the last best hope, maybe, that syrians have for a cease fire, or is this kind of a lost cause? >> you know, it's confusing. erdogan's been confusing on the one hand. he shows sympathy to muslim brotherhood tendencies, on the other hand, he kind of plays both ways. i think if he meets with vladimir putin as he is, he needs to be very intense about trying to get this situation solved. i think we can solve idlib. i think we can solve syria if we come to a negotiated solution, which

that plays out on the ground is difficult because each of those countries while they agree that bashar al assad should remain in power they agree that they as victors of the syrian conflict they're the ones that need to lead the way forward for syria's rehabilitation and reconstruction what they diverged on in some ways is what to do about it turkey does not want more humanitarian fall out and more people streaming across the border into its territory iran is keen to end the conflict quickly it has been an expensive one supporting its ally syria in large scale military operations and russia is also ready to put an end to its involvement its russian russian air power was a game changer on the ground for syrian government forces and they're all looking towards reconstruction they also want the west to get back involved when it comes to humanitarian aid work that would help in the region reconstruction phase but there is an aspiration before a week before this summit the u.n. high commissioner for refugees wasn't to iran and he said that iran is in a unique position to to speak on behalf of