let me go back to our guest in beirut ok we heard about the demands that the u.s. is putting forward for syria after donald trump if you look through his the history of his tweeds the syrian war was a big mistake until he became president and we had to leave illegal airstrikes against syria because of alleged chemical weapons would probably waiting for another one of those but what about what syria one syria has it has russia and it has iran and the longer or the more elaborate the u.s. administration's strategy becomes the more and more it seems to me that the u.s. wants to stay in syria to determine any kind of peace settlement i don't see how it could happen if the u.s. remains there and u.s. policy of the iran and i think it's pretty universally recognized that everyone is in in in ministration is a hoc when it comes to iran go ahead in beirut. where i believe that the united states policy is very much directed by what is called of this month is the united states as much as or anybody more than the president as such whoever the president is misled about obama w

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seen shah he is the senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in beirut we have niamh solemn he is a professor of international affairs at notre dame university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to the best dressed man on television adel darwish in london i love your voice. i don't explain something to be allowed to july of last year we had the american delegated to oversee dealing with the situation in syria direct and boy said the greatest concentration of all of terrorists in the world isn't it good and he identified them is al qaeda and associated groups now we have remarkable turn around in the last days and weeks is that no that the syrian government is warned not to liberate its own territory and not to apparently seemingly not to lay a finger on anyone and it live how do you account for this major reversal i think it's a four letter word and it's called the iran but go ahead. well of course iran is a measure player and factor here. are you never really a subs

for decades beirut has been at the epicenter of conflicts in the middle east. are going on saw a lengthy occupations by both syria and israel. since the beginning of the civil war in syria and twenty eleven more than a million refugees have fled to the government. a. little bit. in the. us thanks. you know what most to me is to see people coming to iran that debate with math people from all walks of life eighteen different diligence to see more than one hundred nationalities all come together to show study that eighty through that powered off sports. we lived through with almost thirty years of war in lebanon if definitely scares me . we would continue against all odds and fighting for peace until we need each but as they say peacemaking is not the spin it's more of the math of. it. thank. you no longer since we arrived in lebanon in twenty two the same year i left university. for months we had moved from one place to another in syria in search of safety here in the month. six ft. and now they have now and. they all when we got to lebanon there were seven of us

then years later, he was tragically killed in beirut in 1983, and i read a novel by david ignatius called "agents of innocence" and david is not only the "washington post" reporter on the intelligence beat, but this was his first novel. he has now written i think ten. that book got me interested in trying to figure out who my next door neighbor was. david encouraged me to do this book and gave me many sources, and the only reason "the good spy" happened is because of david. i first met joseph kanon, his first spy novel was called "las alamos" and he had a lovely, moving portrait of robert oppenheimer, who i later wrote a biography on, and i had to tell joe that his little portrait of robert, oppy as he was called, is the best i'd seen, better than my 800 pages. which tells you the power of the novel. finally we have all the way from london, adam sisman, who is a biographer's biographer. two years ago i guess, three years ago, he came out with this massive biography of john lecarre, otherwise really known as david cornwell. he rips off the mask from this very enigmatic man you all know as

years later he was tragically killed in beirut in 1993 and i read a novel by david ignatius called agents of innocence. david is not only "the washington post" reporter on the intelligent beat but this was his first novel. he has now written, i think, t ten. that book got me interested in trying to figure out who my next-door neighbor was david encouraged me to do this book. he gave me many sources and the only reason the good spy happened is because of david. i first met joseph cannon in los alamos and his first spy novel was called los alamos and he had in it a lovely moving portrait of robert oppenheimer, whom i'm later wrote a biography on. i had to tell joe that his little portrait of robert was the best i have seen and better than my 800 pages. [laughter] it tells you the power of the novel. finally, we have all the way from london adam who is a biographers biographer, literally he wrote a biography of the biography, boswell's sumptuous task and now two years ago i guess three years ago he came out with the massive biography of note on otherwise known as david cornwell. he rips off

he's in beirut and he's a freelance broadcast journalist martin it's good to have you back on the program let's talk a little bit about what's going on with russia israeli blocking an illegal attack on syria to begin with if they had some idea that it could be a threat to their security they should have taken their evidence to the u.n. security council of course there's going to but you know for me i'm going to deem here this has some echoes of the u.s.s. liberty attack on the american one nine hundred sixty seven. an american ship and sailors were attacked and sailors were killed where were strong where the comparison was made in russia but the main points on which the russian defense ministry concentrated in his press conference this was first the use radio planes did not leave the area immediately you know they were there and they offered help or only fifteen or twenty minutes after the plane was dull pictured second russia actually did everything to do ensure security by its actions in syria russians helped to remove the and the israeli forces from the. area broaching golan cade's and

burra in beirut and shell thanks for joining us reports of heavy russian ass strikes is this the beginning of a major offensive. but it does seem like that perhaps it will be a phased offensive not the men who did yesterday said that it's time to bring phased stabilization to the problems of the well we have seen as we've seen sixty eight and strikes in the area concha counting. on is where the chemical attack took place in april this year it was the bomb by o b c w and this is new. to pinpoint who was behind it and it said it was a syrian government this is believed to be under the control of the extremist how this organization which is now known as. and has in the boss had links with a terrorist organization that some believe it still does so what russia is trying to do is it's trying to say look we are going to be attacking areas that are directly under the control of this dog this organization the other area that's come under attack is in northern hamas about two weeks ago. some of the job this group were actually moved to northern hamas as reinforcement so this is what's coming out at

well for more on the situation in syria we're joined now by the burra who's in beirut so on child with all these reports of heavy airstrikes are we seeing the start of a major offensive an invalid. well we certainly see the start of an offensive we don't yet know how major this is going to be because if you look at where these strikes have happened and then just just trying to send a message that these are the keys to begin with limited strikes even though we have seen. big we've seen them in an area most of them in an area of conscious which is believed to be under the control of jihad an extremist group known as have in the past has certainly had dies with them believed to have links with them so russia just trying to say that this is going to be a phased offensive blog that important yesterday in the trilateral summit that on said it's going to be faced step allies ation so they're trying to give a message that the casualties will not be as high and they're going to be targeting just the members of the sixteen this child that's true what happens of course remains to be seen because

he's in beirut and he's a freelance broadcast journalist martin it's good to have you back on the program let's talk a little bit about what's going on with russia israeli relations in lieu of what's happened in the last week or so with the the shooting down of a russian jet. accidentally we're told here what has been the fallout go ahead mark. well it's at the moment it's up in the air this is a very serious subject which is really don't getting the correct amount of. media nuts largely force the relationship that israel has with russia is a very special israel is the only western ally which is active in syria and at the moment but has a very special relationship with a short lease that has recently so i think what's happening now is that all the analysts and the journalists will scratch your head some wondering what's the next step now from the use to there's a lot of. duplication and using must have to come from russia which italy is hoping it wouldn't be. who said but but i think in hades and in general in the south of israel there was an agreement between netanyahu and bolton that ru

dominated by the kurds ok i'm shelled bora and beirut thanks so much for your reporting. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a court in egypt has sentenced seventy five people to death over a twenty thirteen pro muslim brotherhood sit in which ended in the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces those convicted include prominent islamist leaders photo journalist mahmoud aboud saying he'd known as shole can received five years in prison amnesty international has condemned the trial is politically motivated. un peace talks for yemen have failed the un special envoy for yemen confirmed the rebel delegation would not be coming to geneva in response the saudi backed government delegation announced it would go home the war in yemen has been raging for three years and claimed some ten thousand lives two thirds of yemenis now depend on humanitarian aid. people in sweden a preparing to vote in sunday's general election the traditional mainstream policies of facing a strong challenge from the far right anti immigration sweden democrats a main

hundreds of thousands of syrians to seek refuge in neighboring lebanon after years often three years now beirut wants them to return home to areas that have been deemed safe for one returning syrian family the last five years has been a struggle on both sides of the border. the small village of beit jr knew the

who is covering this story from beirut good evening to you on show you know we heard the united nations warning of a blood bath in talk to me a little bit about why this province why it's so important and what is at stake if it falls back into government control well if that is the last remaining rebel stronghold and the once the syrian government acquires it if it does which is what it wants to do then bashar assad would have pretty much won the war which means what would happen to the political reconciliation which the assad government it says even now is unwilling to move forward on secondly this province has about three million citizens most of these people are against the syrian government. from a guys like aleppo and who thought and are on the seven conciliation deals they were told that it live is going to be this if haven but if the syrian government as it says wants to attack it and it and does that then what would happen to these people say in a sense is it that betrayal where will these people go he does not want them into that he has three million syrian refugees europe is n

reporting from beirut thank you. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the world iraq's parliament will convene an emergency session on saturday to discuss unrest in basra demonstrators there set fire to a local government building despite a curfew imposed by authorities people have been protesting for days in the city of a collapsing infrastructure power cuts and corruption. officials in japan say at least sixteen people have been confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck the northern island of hokkaido on thursday rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after a landslide more than twenty people are still missing. and intense wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced the closure of an interstate highway drivers had to flee their vehicles as the blaze raged in the shasta trinity national forest scores of homes are under threat and many residents have been ordered to evacuate. and twitter is permanently banned the right wing conspiracy theorist alex jones from the s

embassy in beirut four years later that killed sixty three people including seventeen americans. some believe that if salama had lived he would have been able to pass intelligence to the americans and fought the attack. longer term if both aims and salama had lived the u.s. relationship with the middle east over the past forty years might also have followed a different course. hello there well here across parts of night states we are watching the approach of florence this is a major hurricane category four you can see right there with the i make its way towards the carolinas now the problem with the storm is not only the size in the intensity but as it makes its way towards the coast it's going to slow down that means that area along the coast is going to be seeing sustained winds as well as precipitation and storm surge not just for one day but probably for several days in that same area as we go from thursday or friday watch how little movement we see with that storm system so that is going to be the big problem and they're considering this to be a catastrophic storm system as

reporting on the story for us from beirut thank you and. germany and turkey kick off a series of high level visits today relations between the two countries have soured in recent years over human rights and other issues germany's foreign minister will meet turkish president ever to one in uncorrelated today i am the agenda for the german government is the release of seven german citizens from turkish jail they're being held on political charges after the failed coup two years ago turkey will be looking for support for its weakened economy the lira has tanked and recent weeks. now some other stories making headlines around the world british prosecutors have accused two russian men with a nerve agent attack on former russian spy circus cripple and his daughter in the u.k. the suspects are being charged in absentia with attempted murder and other crimes police say traces of nova truck were found in a london hotel where the men stayed in march. u.s. secretary of state by pop pale is in pakistan where he is due to meet pakistan's new prime minis

correspondent poured in for us from beirut thank you. now some other stories making headlines around the world british prosecutors are seeking to arrest two russian men for the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy service and his daughter in the u.k. the suspects are being charged in absentia with attempted murder and other crimes police say traces of nova truck were found in a london hotel where the men stayed in march the botswana government is disputing reports that some ninety elephant carcasses found in recent weeks were the result of poaching the charity elephants without borders so the animals had been killed for their tusks in what's thought to be one of africa's biggest poaching incidents of its kind. a south korean delegation has flown to north korea to prison present president kim jong un with a personal letter from president mugabe in this comes ahead of a planned summit later this month at the south hopes will lead to complete the nuclearization on the korean peninsula. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has met wit

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get a little bit warmer with temperatures in beirut seeing thirty two degrees and speaking of those warmer temperatures quite city forty eight is your high here on wednesday and we are seeing some dry conditions winds are coming out of the north northwest so as long as they are there it is dry but it's still very very warm make their way across much of the middle east we are lucky here in the gulf doha at thirty eight degrees very humid here so that is going to be very uncomfortable for most people here on tuesday as well as into wednesday but down across the low in oman we are looking at clouds along the coast a temperature few twenty degrees then as i make our way down across parts of southern africa we are looking at one funnel system way off the coast so across much of the region really looking at mostly cloudy to partly cloudy conditions but as we go towards tuesday it is going to be relatively nice for cape town at nineteen and up towards durban it is going to be twenty three degrees in your forecast and twenty nine on wednesday. this is al jazeera live from doha the top stories this

beirut's international airport. here is the first missile site. water's edge, a few blocks away from the runway. here is the second site, underneath a soccer stadium. two blocks away. here is the third site. it is adjacent to the airport. ezbollah.for h israel knows and israel knows what you are doing, where you are doing it and israel will not let you get away with it. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, just as the nuclear deal supporters were wrong about what would happen when sanctions would be removed, they were wrong about what would happen when sanctions would be restored. they argued that u.s. sanctions alone would have little impact on iran. that is what they said. really? let us see what happened to the economy, now that president trump has forced companies to choose between doing business with iran and doing business , whosee united states gdp is 50 times the size of iran's gdp. a year ago, the economy was booming. now, it is collapsing. iran's currency is plummeting. inflation and unemployment are soaring. british airlines, german banks,

our middle east correspondent quentin sommerville is in beirut.ore do we know about this man? clive, the kurdish forces picked him up, they are fighting in syria against the so—called islamic state, they picked anwar miah up in is controlled territory. they say the birmingham pharmacist has been inside syria for about four years. the reason we know of his capture because video has emerged, and he is on the back of a pick—up truck, blindfolded, surrounded by kurdish forces, and he says i am a doctor, i ama forces, and he says i am a doctor, i am a qualified pharmacist from the uk, istudied medicine am a qualified pharmacist from the uk, i studied medicine and am a qualified pharmacist from the uk, istudied medicine and pharmacy. the kurds at the moment are having a lot of success at picking up foreign fighters who they believe are members of the so—called islamic state. anwar miah was now under their control, under their detention, being questioned by western intelligence officials. 0k, quentin, thank you, quentin sommerville in beirut, thank you.

the last hour say that the security and political and it's going to be an editor of the weekly in beirut in lebanon thank you. ok well another man who was listening to all of that was our correspondent in new york and he joins us now. quite a speech and he went through an awful lot didn't a donald trump. how outdrew yes we're in fact done and dusted with the u.n. g.a. highlight of choose day donald. speech at the u.n. general assembly and you know there was quite an awkward the beginning to it when for some reason donald trump decided to tell the whole world that his administration is doing a great job and let's just have a look at what that situation was like. in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america so true. didn't expect to react. to it through. well that was the all the mormon theology and started laughing the rest of the speech was quite serious and i'll tell you what it is more or less back to you ok thanks. for trying to there in new york first covering events let's go back now to a. plan h

his mom, knar, was born in beirut.hildren speak? and where will they live? >> mariam: here. >> nazareth: yeah, here, if -- >> anthony: no hesitation. >> mariam: that's the easy question to answer. >> nazareth: but, i mean, i think the two of us would like them to grow up being equally comfortable with armenian, russian, and english. all three languages are very, very important for anyone growing up in armenia. >> serj: yeah, i mean, they are the two largest armenian diasporas: russia and america, so. >> anthony: how many years was it part of the soviet union? >> nazareth: uh, 70 years more -- since 1921, more or less, until 1991. so, 70 years. >> anthony: but what remains of those times? >> nazareth: [ speaking foreign language ] >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: you sound wistful about the old days. are things better now or worse? >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: when armenia was swallowed up by the soviet union in 1920, it became the armenian soviet socialist republic. with that came

joining us now via skype from beirut is asso correspondent sarah el deeb. sarah, for those people who might not have been paying attention over the past few days or weeks, who are fighting idlib, and what's at stake here? >> everyone is fighting over idlib, to put it simply. i mean, everyone that is involved in theyrian war finds themes on the center stage in the idlib battle. the government is eager to retake idlib. it was one of the last spots that is out of its control. turkey, that is on the border with iib, is worried over an offensive, and is keen on not seeing one happen. and it also supports some of the oprsposition fightn and around idlib. russia, which is a supporter of the government, iran, wants to sort out idlib. >> sreenivasan: who is actually in there? you have people who are against the islamic state. you have people who are against the syria you have people who are are ing the-- people threaten turks. what's the population really being targeted here? >> there are over three million ipeople in ib, and i think the way you put it is a little b