however i think you would have felt or will feel again a change in weather in the caucasus we've seen one from go through there was more us a change of season now not battle vs new satellite pictures but will count around the normal maybe nor indeed from the full cost of friday but backers at 23 degrees are on those his tenants to 28 and back at his 40 but i think we're far more in the way of tide and more likelihood of rain than old the caucasus knows the breeze but he feel a bit colder in baku and maybe prompting some showers around the south coast off of the caspian sea north and iran. tempers and changed much in tehran but the weather riess thinking about it nothing much has changed for the south set along the i'm on the coast is no longer the hurry fins has risen again we still got the chance of showers in the high ground mountains in the west inside of yemen or southwest saudi otherwise quiet not much moving in southern africa is a different story altogether the seasonal rains a start of a great showers an ngo the d.n.c. in tanzania and this rather actives zone it's dominating r

time and then when we looked closer we found many many more elephants that have been poached many caucasus and skinned and that was completely you know we have never seen that level of poaching and it was not just all elephants it was cows costs all kinds of the elephants what can be done to stop this trade in skin primarily as it appears to be because. well i think it's difficult to stop the trade entirely you know i think the myanmar government has been. put new measures in place they have a criminal investigation team under the government and under the ministry of home affairs they have the updated their wildlife law and increase the fines and the punish jail time punishment for poaching and trading in strictly protected species such as elephants they working with local n.g.o.s and local government to try and detect these poachers but in the end i think the problem is much more difficult because. as you may be aware and me and my hunting has been traditional hunting has been very common and rule people had to rely on hunting to substitute their life and what some have additional protein

the caucasus been referred. >>> coming up, a sneak peek into the lip-sync battle taking transformation to a whole new level. >> before go to break let's go to the >>> we are keeping an eye on the fire burning in san bernardino. multiple homes and businesses near the highway 18. we just heard from a firefighter on the scene about some of the challenges they are dealing with, just the fire is being whipped by the wind and turn into multiple fires and firefighters are having to see the fires continue to spread on right now. we have several news crews in the area, upon these little spot fires, firefighters still trying to figure out what they are dealing with right now, we will keep an eye on this active fire still burning in san bernardino county all morning long. >>> we are watching the santa ana winds forsyth county, they will see wind east as we head for the day today. for us, we are dealing with cold temperatures, especially the north bay mountains, north bay valley rather. a freeze warning for the north bay valley due to these cold temperatures as we start off the day. here is what y

look at our account if you want to see 70 massacres in caucasus. and bosnia. if you want to sincerely massacre. look at. all the turkish of operation if you want to look at if you want to see civilian casualties . look at in your string look at the streets of palestine that muslims are killed on the streets. if you want to see civilian massacres look at the. terror organization who killed our women our elderly our children they were killed by them in the last 40 years and also if you want to see civilian massacres we look in the mirror and look at the history and look at all the blood of the innocent in your own hand and turkey can never be. turkey is not a country that can be about this is. the the one. i can use turkey of civilian massacres are blind they have a stern in their heart they have a star and as a heart they have no conscience. there is no any other country who had such a large operation against terrorism and had such a clean job in syria. the ones who are accusing us of posing the villain casualties they have to remember the afghanistan operation

the region of north caucasus from south of russia we also help the people who are. helping the people who are. representing. you and. representing. you on this for christians of course and that is the most brass questions of course and that is the most prosecuted today in that region and we must help them us acutest coming unity today in that region and we must help them must support them it's not about a grimace what kind agreement can you sign a with them it's not about a grimace what kind of agreement can you sign there with the christian community representatives here we just need to help them through the christian community representatives here we just need to help them to lend them a helping hand to help them restore a sacred holy place lend them a helping hand to help them restore a sacred holy places. the shore which is and that we will this. show which is and that we will discuss during the meeting that we are going to have. discussed during the meeting that we are going to have soon which because i'm very grateful to prime minister for putting forward that

however i think you will have felt or will feel again a change in weather in the caucasus we've seen one from go through that was more or less a change of season now not that obvious in the satellite picture a bit more count around the normal maybe nor indeed from the forecast for friday but backers a 23 degrees on the it is 10 and still 28 and by that is 41 but i think we're far more in the way of cloud and more likelihood of rain in the northern caucasus we know the breeze make you feel a bit colder in baku and may be prompting some showers around the south coast off of the caspian sea so that's northern iran tempers and changed much in tehran but the weather research thinking about it nothing much has changed for the south it set along the i'm on the coast is no longer the hof in salalah temp has risen again with the chance of showers in the higher ground mountains in the west inside of yemen or southwest saudi otherwise quiet not much moving south africa's a different story altogether the seasonal rains are starting a great shot in angola d.l.c. in tanzania and this for other act

lately in syria in iraq in palestine in northern africa and before that in balkans and in caucasus these are examples of this truth and because of that in every opportunity to all our friends i tell them to unite. because of that we stay one minute because the that we say jerusalem is our red line this is why we say the world is bigger than 5. because of that we say justice for everyone prosperity and peace for everyone. and because of this reason the without discriminating we have 4000000 syrian refugees and we've been accommodating them for 4 years because of that our syrian brothers we are working for them to go back to their countries in peace because of that we are trying to keep the peace in the countries that are neighboring us to because we are turkey. because we are. here just to make people live just to give peace and prosperity our civilization our culture say is this give the message of this and we have many examples in our glorious history hopefully with the peace bring operation we're going to have any other great chapter in our glorious history. one more time i would like

is a small state with outsize strategic significance ina with outsize strategic significance in a caucasusion beset with tension and hostility. last year popular protests delivered a so—called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed in yerevan amid ambitious talk of reform. my guess is the foreign minister in that government, zohrab mnatsa ka nyan. is armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration? zohrab mnatsakanyan, zohrab mnatsa ka nyan, welcome zohrab mnatsakanyan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. last year saw major political upheaval in armenia, the so—called velvet revolution, after which your government claimed you were working for a new armenia but sceptics would say it looks very much like the old armenia. how is it different? why would they say that? for example, you were an official under previous regime, you are not a new broom at all. i made a choice to move from a diplomatic career to a political one. i took up the responsibility to share with the government and this is a major change. the government has received a huge mandate from the pe

how i think you will have felt or will feel again the change in weather in the caucasus we see one from goes for. there was more as a change of season now not that obvious and satellite picture a bit more catamaran than normal may be nor indeed from the forecast for friday but backers a $23.00 degrees on the it is 10 and still 28 and by that is 41 but i think we'll find more in the way of cloud and more likelihood of rain in the northern caucasus we know the breeze but feel a bit colder in baku and may be prompting some showers around the south coast of the caspian sea northern iran tempers and changed much in tehran but the weather research thinking about it nothing much has changed for the south set along the i'm on the coast is no longer the hurry if in salalah temp has risen again we still got the chance of showers in the high ground mountains in the west inside of yemen or southwest saudi otherwise quiet not much moving southern africa's a different story altogether the seasonal rains are starting a great shot as an ngo the d.n.c. in tanzania and this rather active zone it's domina

rain in western turkey the fronts going through it probably has changed feel the weather in the caucasus and maybe in the fall north of syria you won't notice it in the full cost very much 23 in baku and twenty's in tehran nothing in the.

will bring in a week ish cold front normally behind it that will develop clouds and rain for the caucasus and a hint for developing showers which should appear just north of terran or even of the city itself was hard to get to sunday back used to 21 degrees this time in the sunshine but everything south of there and it's still quite young there's nothing in the sky in pakistan anymore we've seen the back of the southwest monsoon should have seen the last the rain now and nothing much has changed in iraq or the rest of it to be honest temp is still where they might have been a month ago nor has it changed great the saudi arabian it is yet we're waiting for the northerly wind to tuck into has done so we've lost the how the from sun i was with chance of showers in the higher ground of west and yemen and the southwest of saudi arabia again that's been the case for a week or so. now as the sun takes the rain south through africa we seen some pretty active stuff through south africa recently this is still looking cloudy new not very wet so for the most part we're still talking about lovely suns

there's a big gap and the changing in season is obvious it's come for europe through turkey to the caucasus so to the science we should be thinking about a change of some sorts not obvious yet we're still hovering around the 30 mark in tehran rather 40 mark again in a good part of iraq and just below the city on the coast and as rainy and so nothing much has changed nor indeed will change much in the forecast the winds are strong there's no strong northerly fact if anything for the gulf states is a bit of a southeasterly developing which might just might bring shots or the u.a.e. having developed them in their mom but it does look fairly dry to be honest even the mountains of yemen but some get to wednesday that's a dry picture that has dropped sas to more actually with that there we see more rain run through the eastern cape now the front wants to graze the western cape and then you've got that linkage which he sees in oh there goes up through western botswana up towards i go to the sharia and is the angolan in the navan that's not reliable so the picture of the cheese day is pretty much a

the bbc‘s caucasus correspondent rayhan demytrie reports from neighbouring georgia.authorities means instant detention. unsanctioned protests are illegal. this footage filmed by the bbc azeri service shows dozens of people being detained. "freedom, freedom!" shout the demonstrators who had gathered in the centre of baku on saturday. they want democracy and free elections in a country which has been ruled by a family dynasty for the last 26 years. president ilham aliyev succeeded his father in 2003. he is accused of stifling dissent and jailing his opponents. this is one of the opposition leaders, ali kerimli, who for many years has been banned from leaving the country. he was detained by the police on saturday along with his supporters. this was a rare display of public discontent in azerbaijan, but the second demonstration in the heart of the capital in less than a month. thousands of protesters in lebanon have taken to the streets of the capital, beirut, for a third day, demanding the government resign over its handling of the country's financial crisis. president

forecast will bring in a week ish cold front normally behind it will develop clouds and rain for the caucasus and a hint for developing showers which should appear just north of terra or even of the city itself was hard to get to sunday back east and 21 degrees this time in the sunshine but anything south of there and it's still quite young there's nothing in the sky in pakistan anymore we've seen the back of the southwest monsoon should have seen the last the rain now and nothing much has changed in iraq or the rest of the band to be honest attempt as to where they might have been a month ago nor has it changed greatly saudi arabian that is yet we're waiting for the northerly wind to tuck into has done so we've lost a holy from salaries to what with chance of showers in the higher ground a western yemen and the southwest of saudi arabia again that's been the case for a week or so now as the sun takes the rain south through africa we've seen some pretty active stuff through south africa recently this is still looking cloudy new not very wet so for the most part we're still talking about lovel

cloud in southern iran in pakistan list surprisingly is the wintery stuff trying to get into the caucasus the far north of iran but we're not talking about when to get a proper very high ground on the edges of the himalayas was because we just warm sunshine once more but maybe a shower too still possible run the straits of hormuz more especially southern pakistan in the next day or 2 for most of us it's sunshine still well below 30 in tehran but above 40 in baghdad clearly cooler only slightly on the coast and it's raining now throughout the arabian peninsula it's quiet the wind is not strong this is a blues not low for the most part it's quite humid during the morning in the evening in doha as an example as it should be so i was seeing rather more of the sunshine than of late the heaviest maurice's finished and this green stuff is potential showers in yemen to the far southwest to society of the next couple of days travel to office to lack tropical africa still active in southern africa maybe more active still with the changes season of course we're going through spring to summer this is

the bbc‘s caucasus correspondent rayhan demytrie reports from neighbouring georgia.t attention. unsanctioned protests are illegal. this footage filmed by the bbc shows dozens this footage filmed by the bbc shows d oze ns of this footage filmed by the bbc shows dozens of people being detained. freedom, freedom, shut the demonstrators who have gathered in the centre of the capital on saturday. they want democracy and free elections in a country which has been ruled by a family dynasties for the last 26 years. the president succeeded his father in 2003. he is accused of stifling dissent and jailing his opponents. this is one of the opposition leaders. who for many years has been found from leaving the country. he was detained by the police on saturday along with the supporters. this was a rare display of public discontent in azerbaijan. but the second demonstration in the heart of the capital in less than a month. at the rugby world cup injapan it was the first day of the quarter finals — england took on old foes australia. 0ur sports editor dan roan reports. if they wa

significant rain in western turkey the fronts gone through it probably has changed feel the weather in the caucasus and maybe in the fall also syria you won't notice it in the forecast very much 23 in back or in twenty's in tehran nothing in the sky but i think the cloud having brought a bit of rain through might start to change things rather more obvious t 22 in baku northerly breeze klyde right way down towards iraq still 40 in baghdad all the saving the sun is the predominant weather type or is it is for the science of course times as are any coming down slowly humidity is still fairly high around the gulf states including qatar to clean morning and evening as you might expect but hasn't changed to draw a spell yet with a northerly breeze showers are still possible on the west side of yemen all the southwest society but not very often and not very many whereas there is much more active weather down here in southern africa as a seasonal rain starts to show and i go to see these was to tanzania this is an obvious mass of white cloud that's gone through the eastern cape and up into southern missour

evening humidity otherwise of course it's a dry picture as it is further north as well although in the caucasus weather has changed. after the genocide we may do most about another book deal let it sit for a time this has been lifted. one woman's vision uplifted many close to who. you see this is this just gets a total you see football team poem in transforming blood you've seen her community on and off the pitch able to take their children to school does run folks interested in question was reaching its goal women make change. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera turkish forces have intensified their military offensive in northern syria for a 2nd day there have been air strikes and artillery fire along a broad front and turkish forces have crossed into syria through at least 3 points the turkish president has been defending his country's military offensive in northeast syria he says the operation will target strictly what he describes as terrorist groups. meanwhile kurdish forces say they've repelled turkish ground attacks they are also warning of a humanitarian crisis as thousands of pan

co-chair of the border security caucasus. congressman, i'm so proud of you and your colleagues. first 185 of you stand for this president. then dozens of you today storming the schiff scif. i loved it. what has gone the ahold of you guys? it's wonderful to see. >> it may have taken us a while to get rolling. but now the stone is rolling and we need to keep rolling down the hill with greater velocity. matt gaetz worked real hard to put this together. we were going to do this last week, but we had elijah cummings untimely death so we suspended this. steve scalise was there with us, the whip. i think this will keep building momentum because the other side is simply not willing to allow an open and fair and transparent justice-filled proceedings. lou: they are trying overthrow the president. >> they are running a coup. lou: until this moment you guys acted like this was a political contest instead of a contest for law, order and our constitution in support of this president to see it so broad and complete within the republican party. at least in the house is to your credit. congratu

one-third of the american caucasus has been participants in the classified hearings.t is your leadership who appoints members to the these committees and not the democrats, your leadership. >> we want to get another topic with you that we have been talking about the last while. your state is being ravaged by wildfires. wildfire season in california was 105 days longer and three times as many as large fires whar, what are your thoughts on this? >> it is art breakinheartbreaki. we had massive rainstorms with a lot of flooding and an opportunity to create the climate that we are seeing today. last night i was speaking to my husband and he said the winds in our community were 75 miles per hour winds. i lost my home to a fire in 2005 and i know exactly what these people are going through, having to live in a hotel and temporary housing. i did it for 14 months. don't give up. your community is there to help you. this too will pass and california will continue to grow its economy and we are now the fifth largest global economy in the world. i say we'll recover from this also

little bit of cloud that is spinning out of the black sea towards the caspian sea just around the caucasus you might just catch the odd shower head just around i mean the pushing of it into georgia as well as easy way as we go on through thursday you see a lot of fine and sunny weather a little bit of cloud into that east the side of the mediterranean but beirut still getting up to 28 celsius over the next couple of days they contain is in iraq $41.00 celsius there for back that kuwait city with a top temperature of around $37.00 degrees mostly similar temperatures across the arabian peninsula just notice the possibility of want to see showers southern parts of iran just around the strait of hormuz elsewhere of course the reason we're going to keep the dry weather and the sunshine hot sunshine as we go on through the coming days meanwhile we say the fed is sunshine recently in sioux southern africa but we've got some showers as well to speak of said he said east side of south africa over the higher ground 2nd but pace will see some wet weather coming in lively down pulls there for johannes

they are foreign fighters who came in from russia and they have a problem in the caucasus region of russia some of the fighters are capable of pulling off atrocities in russia too. we need a concerted effort, an international effort to contain this menace and it's good happened to happen going forward otherwise were divided if her incapable of working together it will rise again and be more horton tragedy that we will have to do with perhaps on our soil, god forbid important innocent victims around the world. yes, absolutely we have to share some intelligence with russia, just as russia supported us in the de-escalation effort to allow our special forces to enter in and take care of the job. arthel: we will leave it there. great job as always. we appreciate your analysis. eric: the house democrats in washington upping the ante on their impeachment inquiry. what they're doing to threaten the administration if officials do not show up to testify before the committee. we will tell you what they plan to do. i bet you lunch you can't make it in there. i'm thinkin' sushi. alexa, ask buick to sta

forecast will bring a weakish cold front normally behind it that will develop clouds and rain for the caucasus and a hint for developing showers which should appear just north of terran or even of the city itself was hard to get to sunday back used to 21 degrees this time in the sunshine but everything south of there and it's still quite young there's there's nothing in the sky in pakistan anymore we've seen the back of the southwest monsoon should have seen the last the rain now and nothing much has changed in iraq or the rest of the event to be honest attempt as to where they might have been a month ago nor has it changed greatly throughout arabian it is yet we're waiting for the northerly wind to tuck into has done so we've lost a hurry from sun i was with chance of showers in the higher ground a western yemen and the southwest of saudi arabia again that's been the case for a week or so now as the sun takes the rain south through africa we see it's a pretty active stuff through south africa recently this is still looking cloudy they're not very wet so for the most part we're still talking a

there's a big gap and the changing in season is obvious has come for europe through turkey to the caucasus so to the science we should be thinking about a change of some so it's not obvious yet we're still hovering around the city mark in tehran rather 40 mark again in the good part of iraq and just below 30 on the coast and that's rainy and so nothing much has changed nor indeed will change much in the forecast the winds are strong there's no strong north of the fact if anything for the gulf states is a bit of a southeasterly developing which might just might bring shots or the u.a.e. having developed them in their mom but it does look fairly dry to be honest even the mountains of yemen but how we get to wednesday that's a dry picture that has dropped sounds to more actually were there we see more rain run through the eastern cape now the front wants to graze the western cape and then you've got that linkage which he sees in oh there goes up through western botswana up towards i go to the sharia and is the angolan in than even that's not reliable so the picture of the cheese day is pretty

cloud in southern iran and pakistan list surprisingly is the wintery stuff trying to get into the caucasus and the far north of iran but we're not talking about winter yet apart from the very high ground on the edges of the himalayas was because snow which is warm sunshine once more but maybe a shower too still possible run the straits of hormuz more especially south and pakistan in the next day or 2 for most of us it's sunshine still well below 30 in tehran but above 40 in baghdad clearly cooler only slightly on the coast and it's rainy and that's around the arabian peninsula it's quiet the wind is not strong this is a blues not for the most part it's quite humid during the morning in the evening in doha as an example. as it should be so i was seeing rather more of the sunshine than of late the hobbies morris is finished and this green stuff is potential showers in yemen to the far south west to society of the next couple of days travel to office to elect tropical africa selective southern africa maybe more active still with the changes season of course we're going through spring to summe

experience and we know what this might lead to we still remember what happened in russia's north caucasus region not that long ago this is why we made a decision to support a legitimate government we've not just provided assistance to the legitimate government we proceed from the premise that in town all political contradictions must be and can be resolved by political methods only that is why we were so adamant i am glad to see it happening now as part of the political process as a result of the establishment of the so-called constitutional committee this idea was conceived right here in softy at the syrian national dialogue congress that brought together various political forces including the opposition and the government and his syrians agreed among themselves to set up a constitutional committee that would. work on changing the syrian constitution or drafting a new one we've tried an a hard arduous and long path to form this committee now it's finally been formed on behalf of the government on behalf of president asset and on behalf of the opposition i expect that in the coming days i

evening humidity otherwise of course it's a dry picture as it is further north as well although in the caucasus weather has changed. what are you protesting about how does this in question whether on line well i face many people saying i'm directly out of trance like it's slavery or if you join us on sand this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about the solutions on al-jazeera. your geologist are with me so whole rob a reminder of our top news stories turkish forces have intensified their military offensive in northern syria for a 2nd day there have been a strikes and artillery fire along a broad front turkish forces of crossed into syria through at least 3 and 3 points the turkish president has been defending his country's military offensive in northeastern syria he says the operation will target strictly what he describes as terrorist groups. meanwhile kurdish forces say they

rain in western turkey the fronts gone through now it probably has changed feel the weather in the caucasus and maybe in the fall north of syria you won't notice it in the full cross very much 23 in back or in twenty's in tehran nothing in the sky but i think the cloud having brought a bit of rain through might start to change things rather more obvious t 22 in baku northerly breeze clad right way down towards iraq still 40 in baghdad all the saving the sun is the predominant weather type or is it is for the size of course times or any coming down slowly humidity is still fairly high around the gulf states including qatar to the morning and evening as you might expect but hasn't changed a dry spell yet with a northerly breeze showers are still possible on the west side of yemen well the southwest society but not very often and not very many whereas there is much more active weather down here in southern africa as a sees the rain starts sure and i go to see at least was to tanzania this is an obvious mass of white cloud that's gone through the eastern cave and up into southern mozambique the