blasko demands explanations for washington over it shooting down of a syrian fighter jets as russia responds there by tracking u.s. and coalition aircraft as potential targets.

blasko demands explanations from washington over it shooting down of a syrian fighter jets as russia responds there by tracking u.s. and coalition aircraft as potential targets. and we now know the full team straight to the semifinals of the confederations cup germany wins and chile doing off to progress in their deciding games we'll have a report from our special studio in sochi. thank you for joining us for the weekly news round up here at aussie international i'm kate. founder start with some breaking news this hour syria says its all me positions in the golan heights have once again come under fire from israel it's the second strike in the area in two days and to get more on this story we cannot cross live to our middle east correspondent paula slayer. hi there paula so what more do we know at this stage. well at this stage the syrian military has issued a statement regarding israeli strikes on the golan heights it says that the israeli air force attacked syrian army positions twice since saturday and that it all happened while the army was in the midst of a battle with. the illn