taken it live is the last province in syria controlled by rebels the government of president bashar al assad is in the midst of a massive campaign to drive them out. how soon is back at the place that will forever remind him of the worst day of his life the day he desperately tried to save the lives of his little nieces. and wanted to get to them but i couldn't make it no one knows better. the fight had to. come. that was just minutes after an airstrike the moment this photograph was taken. 3 sisters a pictured only little tuka and the 8 year old talia survived the tragedy. talia is in pain but recovering well and has had visitors at the hospital the doctors here are working tirelessly. here in the city. working around. their daily attacks today 9 people were injured 6 of them are in intensive care. because the suffering of the children has caused the greatest spare here in the it live province a state of emergency has become everyday life syrian president bashar al assad and his russian allies have been on the offensive since april. the rebel stronghold is dominated by jihadist fighters how

the sanctions target bashar al-assad's regime frorom carryig out what officials call violent repressioninst civilians. among the entities targeted or government bound oil facilities. sanctions have left the government control of syria short of fuel. iran is a key ally of the regime and source of oil. but the picture is more complicated. this may explain why the tanker took the long route around africa and through the straits of gibraltar to make it to syria's mediterraneann coast. it avoids the suez canal, which is controlled by egypt and u.s. allies. the unusual journey did not escape u.s. attention. spain challenges british ownership of gibraltar and said the action was prompted by u.s. requests to britain. it took place in spanish waters. britain's foreign office did not respond to request for comment. and thee u.s. now fourth of july celebration. donald trump on thursday sing praises of the country military while showcasing armored carriers and tanks on thee streets of the capital. the event was e engulfed in criticism with some saying he was pololiticizing the nation's independent

republic and they're all shipments is certainly one of them but also the syrian government and bashar al assad is a very very strong ally ever iran so this will certainly be seen as a very provocative act. jabari their life in the tehran thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to date. 2 of the u.s. now a new details have emerged about the attack on a migrant detention center in libya the u.n. says it was hit by 2 airstrikes and there are reports that the guard shot at refugees migrants who were trying to escape the bombing the ministry of justice in tripoli says 60 people are confirmed dead in choose these strikes with 77 injured and those who brian has the latest. sheltering from the baking sun they sit just maces away from where dozens of their fellow detainees were killed migrants and refugees held against their will in a detention center close to a military camp the u.n. says that puts these already vulnerable men women and children at great risk of exactly the sort of tragedy that occurred on tuesday night it's been revealed to air strikes hit the site the 1st. the 2nd a cell holdi

troubles to return that. 2 syrians accused of carrying out torture on the orders of dictator bashar al assad are currently awaiting trial in germany and it's thought many other suspected war criminals entered the disguised as refugees but investigators now have vital evidence that of syria during the war to trace them down this has given hope to maryam lock she has been seeking justice for nearly a decade for her son who was killed by assad's torturers nerium lives in a berlin suburb she's from syria and part of a major hunt to catch syrian secret service members who committed crimes like these . mari m son is one of the regime's many victims he was beaten and tortured to death when the syrian civil war broke out. i don't believe on one of his fellow students even health torture him he had always been very courteous towards i am and greeted hand and the news that. i don't understand how someone could turn into a torturer and become a monster like that. serious secret service systematically tortured just for speaking up for human rights demanding syria become a democratic country and for urgi

sanctions on syrian president bashar al assad spain states that the vessel was detained off the if you west request which would escalate already tense relations between washington and tehran well india says it has no plans to hold trade with iran despite u.s. sanctions on tehran and washington is pledged to ensure alternative supply is it comes just days after u.s. secretary of state might pump aoa short new delhi adequate supplies even if it stopped buying from to run india howsoever made concessions with prime minister narendra modi cutting imports of crude from the islamic republic let's go live to our guests now in lake and keith political commentator and executive editor of open markets in a current affairs weekly welcome to the program great to have you with us and what do you make of india saying it will keep trading with iran. i think they're going to take attention that this radiance. that turkey just agreed to call. us pressure also completely different from the start but right now we'll stay with this you know it is going with benefits to india is going to take its tradition

may be carrying oil to syria lennon insists that would violate sanctions on syrian president bashar al assad saying states that the vessel was detained after a u.s. request which would escalate already tense relations between washington and tehran . iran earlier told the u.s. that it shouldn't start a fire if it's not willing to deal with the consequences that's after donald trump warned the islamic republic not to play with fire he was responding to tehran's announcement that it will increase production of low enrich uranium beyond limits imposed by the 2015 nuclear deal. shoes they made from july 7th only what's the level of enrichment will not be at 3.67 percent and you will know what to do with you know what they're playing with i think they're playing with fire this thing for the u.s. to do so correct it's mistake if washington is afraid of the word fine you can start on. this path began when washington withdrew from the nuclear deal and impose harsh sanctions on iran after a year of escalating tensions terror and now says it will no longer feel bound by the terms of the agreement iran

happened in idlib province, the last remaining rebel stronghold, of forces opposed to president bashar al—assad, backed by their russian allies, have stepped up their attacks on the territory and today the un's humanitarian chief accused damascus and moscow of carrying out a scorched earth policy. now the uncle of the girls, has been speaking about what happened. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet has the story. one small frame, a symbol of syria's pain. 5—year—old riham clutches baby sister tuka by a bit of her t—shirt as she dangles on a nail. uncle abdul, screaming for help in the rubble of a devastating air raid. and now, a few days on, speaking for the first time. translation: we could hear the jet above us. suddenly, the glass shattered. i immediately leapt towards the door and into the thick, black smoke. i found the girl right there, where the rubble is. i heard riham shouting, "uncle!", but she fell as the rubble collapsed. both girls fell to the ground that day, ending riham's little life. 7—month—old tuka miraculously survived. it wasn't just their house. these are th

over the last 48 hours in hama province listening to reports from neighboring lebanon president bashar al assad's forces are finding it hard to make substantial gains. syrian government forces and their allies are struggling to take ground from the opposition their offensive in northwest syria has been costly and difficult instead of advancing they have been defending their territory and the face of a coordinated and fierce counter offensive launched by rebel factions but both sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for one town village in northern hama more than 100 soldiers and rebels are believed to have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says that in more than 2 months of fighting nearly $900.00 soldiers have died on the government's side while nearly $1000.00 were killed on the rebel side and yet the russian backed campaign has yielded little for president bashar assad's side. but it has brought a lot of destruction rebel controlled towns in and around it live province are being targeted in russian and syrian air strikes more than 500 civilians hav

syrian government killed at least 54 civilians and province president bashar al assad's forces backed by russia relaunched their offensive to capture the last major rebel held territory in april how correspondent has this report from beirut. a trail of death and destruction this is the immediate aftermath of the airstrikes carried out by either syrian or russian warplanes the target was the marketplace and man the opposition controlled town is kilometers from the front lines but crowded and residential areas have been repeatedly targeted and the russian backed syrian government military campaign that began at the end of april i was planes are targeted. there are many casualties and inject the warplanes hit the area early this morning look at the syrians look at the bodies of syrian children traitors. syrians here feel the international community has abandoned them there have been words of condemnation and un security council meetings but russian support for the syrian government apparently means little can be done to stop the bloodshed. was i was i i. i i. i i i. i i i. opposition act

happened in idlib province, the last remaining rebel stronghold, of forces opposed to president bashar al assadbacked by their russian allies, have stepped up their attacks on the territory, and today the un's humanitarian chief accused damascus and moscow of carrying out a "scorched earth policy." today the uncle of the girls has been speaking about what happened. 0ur chief international correspondent, lyse doucet, has the story. 0ne one small frame, a symbol of syria's pain. five—year—old riham clutches baby sister tu ka by pain. five—year—old riham clutches baby sister tuka by her t—shirt as she dangles on a nail. her uncle, screaming for help in the rubble of a devastating air raid. and now, a you day zone, speaking for the first time. —— a few days own. translation: we could hear the jet above us. suddenly, the glass shattered. i immediately leapt towards the door in the thick black smoke. ifound towards the door in the thick black smoke. i found the girl right there, where the rubble is. i heard riham shouting, uncle, but she fell as the rubble collapsed. both girls fell to the ground tha

sanctions which would be a breach of sanctions which have been set up to try to cripple the regime of bashar al—assadassad, who has been engaged in this civil war for the last eight yea rs this civil war for the last eight years now. real drama with these royal marines getting on board. anna, the conversation is iran says this isn't about syria, it's about getting at them. you have two stories, where the ship was headed and where what's on it came from, iranian crude oil. iran having this i’ow iranian crude oil. iran having this row about its nuclear agreement, a deal it had with the us and mainly eu countries to say we won't pursue oui’ eu countries to say we won't pursue our nuclear programme, carry on enriching uranium, if you try to help us economically and ease up on us economically. the us have decided to go back on that and said we think you are pursuing a nuclear programme in one way or another, so we are going to hit you with sanctions stop the eu have tried to be more pragmatic to say, how can we help you out? iran is having one of the toughest economic climates in 40 years, so the eu is sa

tanker accused of violating european union sanctions against the government of syrian president bashar al-assad. frfrench lawmakers thursday approved a digital service tax on internet giants like google, amazon, facebookok and applele, prompting threats of a new trade war by the trump administration. supporters of the 3% tax argue u.s. companies largely avoid paying taxes by setting up headadquarters in eu countries with extremely low tax rates on corporate profits. the trump administration says it has launched an investigation and is considering punitive tariffs in retaliation. in new york, serial child sex abuser jeffrey epstein asked a federal judge thursday to release him on bail while he awaits trial on sex trafficking charges. epstein had been held at the metropolitan correctional center in lower manhattan since his arrest saturday. he offered to put up his new york city mansion and private jet as collateral. he also offered to pay for security guards in his home and to wear electronic monitoring. if the deal is approved, epstein would await his trial in the same manhattan townhouse where

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as protests against the regime of president bashar al-assad began in 2011, a young economics student began filming on aelell phone in her native city o aleppo. for veve years, waad al-kaab documenteded herife andnd the lives of those around h to make an award-wiing dodomentary entitled "for sama." you you i know ununderstand whahat is happenin. i can e it in yourur eyes. you never cry like a normal baby wod. that is what breaks my heart. amy: filmmaker waad al-kateab and her husband hamza al-kateab joined us in the studio. all that and more, coming up. welcome to dememocracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house of representatives voted 332 to 95 on wednesday to table a resolution to impeach donald trump as democrats continued to fracture over whether to seek the removal of the president ahead of the 2020 election. house speaker nancy pelosi has resisted impeachment calls, focusing instead on congressssional investigations. wednesday's vote came after texas congressmember al green introduced articles of impeachment against president trump -- gre

a reference to gabbard's controversial meeting with syrian dictator bashar al assad in 2017. >> meantime, senator cory booker going after joe biden over the former vice president's newly announced criminal justice plan. biden says his new plan correct key parts of the 1994 crime bill he championed. biden's plan includes a $20 billion grant program for states to move from incarceration to crime prevention. it also calls for legislation to end the death penalty. booker's campaign reacted by saying joe bide hen more than had -- joe biden had more than 40 years to get this right. the proud architect of a failed system is not the right person to fix it. he spoke at an event for youth in new orleans. all four will be on the stage next wednesday. part two of nights of debates live from detroit tuesday and wednesday here on cnn. >>> president trump telling republican senators he does not want to sanction turkey over its purchase of russia's s-400 anti-krafl missile system. the s-400 gives turkey the stealth jets and russian system to detect them. that is raising serious questions about turkey's

reporter: bashar al-assad has restored control over more than 60% of the country.is army is exhausted, overstretched, and it seems too weak to recapture rebel held areas without the help of iran ian backed militias. >> many of the fighters on the front line have been recruited for slid from towns across syria. many of them do not like the assad regime. some of them fought against it. theirore, their morale, determination to fight is very low. reporter: assad repeatedly says he will conquer idlib but the battle is proving to be difficult. protest leaders in hong kong are saying they will not hold talks with the government unless they are in public. the leader of the largest student union is responding to carrie lam's offer to meet in private for talks about recent arrests. to allow the extradition of suspect may 9 china. maine then china. another of demonstrators vandalize the legislative council building on. monday they are plans for another protest on sunday. mothers and hong kong have joined demonstrations against controversial extradition bill. rob mcbride has m

. >>> in syria, rebel groups are still fighting, loyal to bashar al assad. syria remains the last place where they can have some degree of safety even though they see bombings and air strikes every day. cnn's arwa damon has more. some of the images in her report may not be suitable for everyone. >> reporter: there's barrel enough of a lull for this man to talk to us. he hit the village, he tells us, relaying what he just heard on the pirate frequency. he was a former communications officer during his syrian military service. he cobbled together this rudimentary setup to spy on the regime's radiofrequency. "this one, we modified it to hear the pilots, the strikes," he explains, describing how he uses that information to warn people and rescue teams over the walkie-talkie radios many now carry. there's no other way to protect the population. >> there's a call on the radio about a plane. they're getting calls now on the radio. >> reporter: the skies in southern idlib province, the last rebel stronghold, feel like they're filled with the menacing roar of syrian

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bashar al assad. >> biden says he needs to be tougher.d to play a little bit about what happened at the last debate that he was criticized for and what he said this week that shows how clearly he knows that's not okay if it happens again. here we go. >> in my -- my time is up. i'm sorry. >> i was probably overly polite. >> that happened obviously my time is up. raising his hand. it was tentative or came off that way, governor. can he change his ways and be more aggressive? to your point, it's riskier to be more aggressive. >> sure. but i think it's a risk he has to take. no one can stay in the lead for 14, 15 months and worry about making mistakes. mistakes are inevitable. no matter what. but you hope the mistakes are ones that can be managed. look, i disagree with keith about one thing. i don't think democrats can go after each other viciously. remember it was kamala harris who said in the first don't, america doesn't want a food fight. she said that and took a big plate of mashed potatoes with gravy and dumped it on the. >> or steak kni

look at someone who has the history of congresswoman gabbard, especially in relationship with bashar al assad, that is not the correct questioner. however, that is a valid question, victor. i think that one of the things senator harris is going to have to do is dig into her experience on the senate foreign relations committee and talk about the things she's learned and explain to people what her world view is. remember, we had a great president for eight years who came in with not very much foreign policy experience. however, our global stature rose. we were not in any -- we didn't find ourselves in any new unending wars. he had a foreign policy that outside of syria most people found to be sound, and you understood what his doctrine was, especially compared to this president that seems to conduct foreign policy by betwetweet. during the first debate i'm not sure we had any foreign policy whatsoever. i expect her to be able to answer the questions. >> you also have some different pairings here with the second debate you didn't have with the first. we'll see that play out with booker, biden an

loyal to president bashar al assad and following that incidence and numerous attacks in the region the government closed the syria border which is a 900 kilometers long for border crossings and since then there wasn't any is such attack at least there were. casualties until now the inspectors are currently working in the field and trying to figure out what kind of explosion it was and the perpetrator. to malawi now where there was no letup in the 6 week fight by opposition protesters against the re-election of their president thousands marched on parliament in the capital a long way for that and peter more that they could deny as allegations of the results of the election in may but doctored farm in the middle has more from neighboring south africa. the latest protests led by opposition parties and a coalition for human rights who are demanding that president peter mubarak a step down they're also angry with the electoral commission which they say is responsible for what they are calling a fraudulent election which took place in may and in that election which i recall was reelected by

fighting over the last 48 hours in hama province and reports from neighboring lebanon president bashar al assad's forces are finding it hard to make substantial gains. syrian government forces and their allies are struggling to take ground from the opposition their offensive in northwest syria has been costly and difficult instead of advancing they have been defending their territory and the face of a coordinated and fierce counter offensive launched by rebel factions but both sides have suffered heavy casualties in the battle for one town how many at a village in northern hama more than 100 soldiers and rebels are believed to have been killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights it says that in more than 2 months of fighting nearly 900 soldiers have died on the government's side while nearly 1000 were killed on the rebel side and yet the russian backed campaign has yielded little for president bashar assad's side. but it has brought a lot of destruction rebel controlled towns in and around it live province are being targeted in russian and syrian air strikes more than 500 civilia

fighters and their families who were relocated from other parts of the country as president bashar al assad's forces gained ground government fighters backed by russia began a campaign to take back in april at least 450 civilians have been killed since then but despite this mounting death toll the u.n. says the world has become quote numb to the carnage. this is not like it was you know in the 1st few years in the syria crisis people really were paying attention and was constantly in the news there was a lot of in national political engagement and so on and we're just not seeing that now it's just like a sort of collective frog about what's going on in syria and it's such a vast scale now hundreds of thousands of people killed many hundreds of thousands more you know badly injured or even maimed for life and really the outside world paid very very little attention and certainly not sustained attention and certainly any attention and start making any difference or bringing over the present position any closer. or i'd time to introduce our guest now here in doha with me is marwan kabul and he's

their russian allies have killed hundreds of civilians in the last few months but president bashar al assad's troops haven't made any significant advances against opposition for exists. turkey's defense minister says the purchase of russian missile systems was not a choice but an assessor tape a 2nd shipment of equipment needed to make the f. 100 system has been delivered to turkey 1st arrived at a military base in the capital ankara on friday the u.s. is strongly urged turkey to pull back from the deal warning it will face economic sanctions washington's also threatening to end turkey's partnership in developing the f. $35.00 warplanes. flash floods and landslides in nepal have killed at least $43.00 people after 2 days of incessant rain the. river overflowed its banks destroying roadways and flooding towns and more rain is expected over the weekend so been trustor has more monday. cars and motorbikes buried in mud after reversed quickly rose above the danger levels and burst their banks streets have been flooded the water flowing into homes since thursday it's been raining steadily across t

clarification about how the iranians view this as an illegal act of course the syrian regime and bashar al assadhave been on the e.u. sanctions since 2011 and this is one of those things the oil shipments have been sanctioned so we want we're waiting to find out more from the iranians but that aside this comes at a very very sensitive time with less than 3 days to go before that nuclear deadline for the e.u. to respond to the rain in demands this act by the americans the british government will certainly be seen as a volatile one here. ok thank you very much a door so jabari that we will of course be crossing back to door so when more comes available from let's talk to paul brennan who is in london for paul been hearing from door so there's still no clarification from the arrhenius as to why they believe this to be an illegal seizure what are we hearing from london. ok we are having difficulty with paul brett in just snow but let's stay with this warheads see our guests a minute attack and he's an international oil and energy consultants and say former research officer at opec in vienna he is jo

if you extend that loojgic out, should we not attempt to stop bashar al assad from gassing his own people or dropping barrel bombs on his own people? work with other countries to raise concerns when there's mass imprisonment of political dissents which inherently makes the countries more unstable, opens the door to more malign actors, makes our ability to be partners with the country to lay grou -- so i think in terms of the ability of the united states to make saudi arabia change, no, that's what we're talking about. where there's change already happening that i think is areas for cooperation, we can find ways to partner and foster that. i dwo want to go back to the question of is there the way an make the saudis better in yemen? the core in congress has been intentionally versus capability. are the saudis intentionally destroying infrastructure and exacerbating the worst crisis or a matter of not knowing how to use precision-guided munitions effectively? determines wlr s whether or not think there's still an opportunity to work. the question is is the saudi -- our military is a learning

they are trying to sell oil to bashar al-assad, responsible for killing millions of people.er, bring it through the strait of gibraltar, british territory, and this is no sort of heinous act on britain's part. they are just following international law. iran is not, and they are in the wrong. >> julie: one could say that iran is asking for it. they are trying to really sanctions, but the u.s. is only going to toughen them. talk about backfiring tactics. i can't imagine that they could do you any more to provoke sanctions to be hitting them where it hurts. >> that's absolutely right. they are blazing a path to war. not just in the u.s., but european allies, if iran continues with this behavior, especially continuing to up their enrichment, building more weapons like advanced missile systems, just acting like a rogue regime, the u.s. is going to be pushed into a very tough decision. what i'm actually scared of is that they would try to start a war. and i think that is what we have to be careful of. the american people need to watch this very carefully because i could end up bei