this is the campaign that the regime launched in homs and damascus. this is not a regime that is confident or strong at its core, it can only exist by wiping out all those that oppose it. and this is not an indication of strength. the revolution goes on. the asaad regime will never be able to control syria the way that it did. you cannot destroy an idea. you cannot kill an idea. and it has been made clear by the syrian rebels and the syrian opposition that they will continue the fight for their right to live in a free and democratic syria, regardless of the odds. "inside story." >> thank you. >> we'll take a break and when we come back - we'll talk with a panel of guests and experts who have been watching the region closely, about the next act in syria, this is "inside story". >>america tonight investigates a controverseal addition treatment. it could be a life saver... >>the reset button has been hit what is this teach us about the brain? >> can ibogaine cure heroin addiction? only on al jazeera america >> al jazeera america presents the system with

damascus, it will put our lives at risk. just to lose another child. >> so the family is left to seek help from the government they say is responsible for inflicting his injury. this is what international amnesty means when syrian refugees are forced with agonizing decisions. in syria health services are free to all. but in lebanon it's a private system. healthcare is not affordable even for lebanon's poor, so most refugees cannot afford treatment here. the u.n. and other aid agencies say they lack the sufficient funds to provide for all the refugees' need. the need for healthcare is huge. the camps where the refugees live do not have proper sewage systems. this doctor gets frustrated when easily treated illnesses become life threatening due to lack of available care. >> there are many cases that need expensive treatment, but this is all very "x-mensive" inn lebanon. >> six years old and diagnosed with a brain tumor, his family needs $300 to travel to the war zone of damascus. >> the road to damascus is not safe, but we have

take him to damascus and put our lives at risk. we tonight pay for anything in damascus except for medicine they didn't have in the hospital, but they are the ones that launched the shell. >> reporter: so his family is left to seek help from the government they say is responsible for inflicting his injuries. this is exactly what amnesty international means when it says syrian refugees in lebanon are faced with agonizing choices. syrian refugees have little chance to get the health care they need here. in syria health services are free to all. but in lebanon it's a private system. health care is not affordable even for lebanon's poor, and so most syrian refugees can't afford treatment here. the u.n. and other aid agencies say they lack the sufficient funds to provide for all the refugees' needs, so they end prioritizing. the need for health care is huge. the camps where the refugees live do not have proper sewage systems, but food there is contaminated. disease spreads quickly here. this doctor volunteers to help the refugees. he ge

the road to damascus is not safe.e have to go. >> refugees like this are forced to return to the war they escaped. >>> senior libyan air force commander is the latest military figure to turp against the government. two people have reportedly been killed in the latest attack in the libyan capital, destroying several vehicles in the sworn district of tripoli. despite the violence, national elections have been announced. we have more on the government efforts to restore stability. >> reporter: marching with rhythm and firm steps - these men want to be soldiers in libya's army. they get basic training for four months, including different drills and classes. >> we want to prepare the fighters. we give them military lessons and tactics to raise efficiency. we have our forces to protect libya. >> trainers focus on discipline. many of the recruits fought against colonel muammar gaddafi's regime. the libyan army integrated thousands of rebels like her. libya doesn't have a well-equipped army, one that is capable of overcoming

to get the treatment he needs they travel back to damascus. >> the road to damascus is not safe, but we have to go. >> refugees are now forced to return to the war they escaped. al jazeera, lebanon. >> a big child pornography bust involving dozens of people. >> reporter: yes, tony, it's one of the largest round ups in th e new york child pornography case. several authorities arrested 70 men and one woman. the montana man charged with shooting an exchange student pleaded not guilty to deliberate homicide. marcus said he set up motion censors in his garage to capture potential thieves. he said that he feared for his life and he was defending his property. >>> in iowa, an egg company faces charges for a salmonella outbreak. they blame the firm for the 2010 outbreak. quality egg is accused of bribing a food inspector. >>> nor cremore crews are on ito fight a wildfire in arizona. the number of i would fire wilde doubled. >>> a school comes up with a way to help pay for graduation day. manatee high school charged people to attend graduation day. the school is charging each senior $20 to at

toss well normal oliver and to ctv news damascus. the law the leader of the syrian opposition coalition is in washington trying to persuade the obama administration to increase the supply of weapons that us president barack obama has been conscious about supplying heavy weaponry to the rebels that the year that it may end up in the arms of militants who oppose western interests. chris bond and daniel ranges explain what's at stake. good job of head of the syrian opposition coalition has made it clear that he wants the us to supplied weaponry capable of shooting down syrian confident at croft the forces loyal to president bashar al assad had been dropping barrel on some rebel strongholds that lady gain the upper hand in the calm lake south of retaking control of the former rebel sixty pounds during jobless first visit to washington secretary of state joe perry made it his continued support we had. difficult moments in this journey. but we are committed to do our part to support moderate opposition in its efforts to provide a legitimat

for example, water quality in damascus is now terrible.ean you open the faucet, which just three years ago, you would have been able to drink straight out of the faucet. you know now you actually visibly see sand coming out. also a lot of college students are purposely failing their exams in order to postpone their mandatory military service. you know their life is suspended in time just waiting for this to end. >> we turn now to africa. the cariba dam is one of the biggest man made dams. located on a river between zambia and zimbabwe. millions are living down river an tanya reed has the story. >> one of the word always biggest for evere for more than a are century it's harnessed the zambeezi river. the wall is cracked and needs to be l fixed urgently. chief is among the three and a half million people who live down river. his people believe a river spirit called the yami yami is to blame. >> it is true yami yami is responsible for cracks in the dam because it doesn't want anyone to tamper with the rivers. when the zambezi is blocked it ma

my aunts and pro brothers still live in downtown damascus. it is still safe a little bit, so far. they can hear shellings and bomb it's, fighting. but so far syria saved. >> to be such an accomplished writer and come to the states and driving a cab to get back into the writing aspects. what have your days been like in that regard. >> reporter: it's been a new experience. when i first came to the states i was thinking i have to work anything to make money. to make my living to pay my bills, you know, to for the first year i couldn't write a single word. i couldn't write anything because it was a completely new experience for me, and i felt as if i came to another planet, to be honest with you. after this year i started step by step to refresh my soul, refresh my mind. >> after i published my first book in english my life, my soul turned upside down because now i'm writing more than ever. and i'm optimistic more than ever. i'm working and writing more than ever. >> best of luck to you in that endeavor and maybe you can even get back to syria and start writing there. thank you. >> th

bbc news, damascus. >> such incredible dedication there by those students. the defense in the trial of former bosnian serb army chief ratko mladic on charges of genocide and rhymes against humanity has opened in the hague. the most serious is that he was -- and crimes against humanity has opened in the hague. the most serious is -- the defense says he was fighting to defend his people, not to ethnically cleanse parts of bosnia. deported tolamist the u.s. has been charged with terrorism. a jury found that 56-year-old guilty on all 11 charges he faced. mr. hamza could now be sentenced to life in prison. for the latest, we go to nick bryant outside the courthouse in manhattan. this case spanned several continents, didn't it? >> it did. and as it came to the end and as those verdicts were handed down, abu hamza leaned back in his chair but showed very little emotion. asked. ok? his lawyer "yes," he replied -- replied. abu hamza, notorious as the face of extremism, now convicted in america of using his base in london to fight global jihad. prosecutors betrayed hi

i came from a town in the west of damascus. i got exposed by sarin attack, on august 21st. my heart stopped for three minutes. i lost my ability to breathe. i felt my chest was set on fire. my eyes was burning like hell. it was so, so painful. i felt like someone was tearing out my chest with a knife. i use the expression of judgment day to describe what it felt like for me to see women and children, older men, running and falling on the ground, suffocating, without seeing a single drop of blood. i have to pull myself together five days later to escort the united nations team when they entered the area, to take advantage of my english skills. people started to feel hope again when we heard that there'll be consequences for using chemical weapons in syria, but when nothing happened, people were so disappointed and this comes from the international community. i made it through the borders, and from beirut airport, controlled by hezbollah, and it was a pure miracle for me to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s., making events and universities and other publi

she says the remaining 8% are in an area outside the capital damascus. she is unable to say whether armed groups may get a hold of the weapons. >>> pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine are going ahead with plans to hold a referendum this sunday to seek greater autonomy. they met in donetsk to discuss russian president vladimir putin's request to postpone the vote. analysts say putin wants to pave the way for talks with kiev authorities. the separatist leader told reporters after the meeting they decided voters will cast their ballots on may 11th as specialed. ukraine's military has been trying to evict armed pro-russian separatists from public buildings their occupying in slavyansk and several other eastern cities. many civilians on both sides of the conflict have been killed or wounded since fighting intensified last week. ukraine's acting president oleksandr turchinov said on thursday his government is ready to meet with representatives of local governments, and activists. now, he said he won't talk to armed people with blood on their hands. >>>

i came from a town in the west of damascus.xposed by a syrian attack by them on august 21 and my heart stopped for two minutes. and i lost my ability to breathe and i felt like my chest was set on fire, my eyes was burning like hell, it was so, so painful. i felt like somebody was tearing up my chest with a knife. i use the expression of judgment day to describe what it felt like for me to see women and children and men falling on the ground sophisticated without seeing a single drop of blood. i had to pull myself together five days later to go to the u.n. to take advantage of my english skills. people started to feel hope again when we heard that there will be consequences for using chemical weapons in syria. but when nothing happened people got so disappointed and disgust from international community. i made it through the borders and then from beirut airport controlled by hezbollah and it was a pure miracle to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s. making events in university and other public events, meeting

rebel fighters were granted safe passage out of the city under an agreement reached with the damascus government. earlier we asked the former u.s. ambassador to syria if this could be a turning point for president bashar al assad. >> i think the fact that haunts this family, fallen to his troops is extremely important. homs maintains the north-south highway between damascus and aleppo and secondly, it also controls the road to the coast. there's an old crusader castle that overlooks the valley that leads to the coast where the cities are. so in effect, assad's consolidating his hold on some of the most important areas of syria in terms of their population and in terms of the ability of the syrian forces to move from damascus to their ancestral homeland in the mountains overlooking the cities. >> the move will be a boost to president assad ahead of the presidential election set for early june. we'll of course keep our eyes looking out for that development. >>> and now to this news out of north africa. the son of deposed libyan dictator moammar gadhafi returns to court today. he is faci

it's true he may regain the mountainous areas on the border north of damascus last month. on the other hand he lost a huge chunk in aleppo, in idlib and he also rust the opposition in the course. this is like - could you then - this is a stalemate. >> it is, absolutely. as i said this, is not a syrian war, this is original and international conflict. as i said, the original and international powers will not allow either powers of the conflict to win the war. >> you see it as a stalemate and a proxy war. >> it is a proxy war. >> is more weapons coming in. >> it's true, it's calculated. the lies of the opposition don't want to opposition to win the conflict. americans made this clear many times. u.s. officials, saying we don't want the regime to fall, to undermine the regime, we don't want to regime to collapse and how they go about that, it's anybody's guess. >> we'll leave it there, thank you for joining us. >>> you are watching the newshour - still to come - south africa's opposition party holds their final rallies. are they fighting a losing battle? >>> 13 years in capti

dallas to damascus. i only wish it was so. let's get that answer in just a second.l of that, carter, i have a question for you. do you still like exxon? >> you know, i do. and here is the interesting thing. so in june of 2008 the stock was basically where it is now. we've just now gotten above that high of seven years ago. so it has characteristic not only absolute but relative. if there is a real drawdown, exxon will hold up really well. it's a low beta stock, but it's a defensive stock by nature. we would stay in this trade. we like it. >> what about the next move according to you, mike? and is there a way to make even more cash on this trade? >> you know, one of the things that dan highlights all the time, you're in these positions, this was a stock that rallied. you could have taken a little money off the table but rolling it in into a spread or rolling up and out. which basic life means pushing out the expiration and buying a higher strike and buying some of those profits. if the stock rallies and i'm going to stay in this trade, that's probably what you should

says government forces have taken more areas on the outskirts of damascu damascus and aleppo.ome fighters are trying to unite. five rebel groups who say they have more than 50,000 fighters say they have decided to work together to overthrow the regime. leaders of the islamic front, and others agreed to move away from extremim and called on other groups to unite. toppling the regime is a joint operation shared by all revolutionary forces. we welcome cooperating with reaming n regional and international parties and supporting the syrian people in a matter that serbs the revolution's interest. our forces rely on syrian individuals andplasty the military and political decisions under the ref russ must be purely made by sirians and reject subordination under any foreign forces. >> but activists say deep divisions remain among opposition fighters leading to infighting which has weakened their control and helped president bashar al assad's forces. >> an egyptian court has jailed more than 160 muslim brotherhood supporters. the country is cracking down on the group in a lead up to the

opposition fighters film themselves as they targeted the tisharin hospital in damascus. latest research shows the vast majority of violations were not actually by the opposition side. >> is there a clear picture of which side is responsible for most of the attacks? >> well, as you look at this map, you see a lot of blue circles. the blue represents the government. 90% of the attacks have been committed by the government, by the syrian government. >> we spoke to one syrian doctor who is currentlied in a neighboring country by skype. he did not want to be identified. >> from day one of the revolution, syrian doctors were targeted by every means, being killed, being arrested, tortured. they were struggling every day to be committed to the oath they have towards their patients. >> the picture this report presents is one of numerous violations of international law, leading to a situation where very many syrians have virtually no access to basic medical care. things continue to get worse this year alone, 49 doctors killed, 14 medical facilities destroyed in the last month. jam

another barely bomb was dropped near a mosque southwest of damascus on friday.overnment helicopters are using the barrel bombs around the suburbs to try to get rid of opposition fighters. and the italian foreign ministers has made their first visit to new york after attending a meeting in london. our diplomatic editor james bays asked her if the political process has failed. >> i don't think there was a plan b in terms of military. i don't think it would be a good idea as i think it wouldn't have been a good idea some years ago. i think the only way we can put an end to the conflict is involving all regional actors that can play a role, who are willing to play a role and call for different parts of the fragmented political scene, to come to the table and find a solution for the country. it's the only way to launch the principles o. >> the iranians say they have a plan that they've offered to ambassador brahimi. how important could those two countries be? >> i think it could be a game changer if that happens. the announcement of the possibility of a visit itself

it happened in august near damascus. he has escaped to the u.s. here's the story of his journey in his own words. >> i'm 27 years old. i just made it to the united states almost two months ago. i came from a town west of damascus. i got exposed to chemical attack. my heart stopped working. i lost my ability to breathe. my eyes were burning like hell. it was so-so painful. i felt like someone was tearing up my chest with a knife. i always use the expression of judgment day to describe what it felt like for me to see women and children, older men running on the ground, suffocating without a single drop of blood. people started to feel hope again when we heard that there will be consequences for using chemical weapons in syria. but when nothing happened people got so disappointed. and disgust from the international community. i managed to make it through the borders and then from beirut airport, which is controlled by hezbollah, it was a pure miracle to make it here. i'm doing a speaking tour across the u.s. making events and universities and other p

even as washington renews its push for change in damascus. prepared to wait longer for your false food restaurant workers pharma hundreds of cities worldwide. to squeeze that decent pay from the industries the biggest players. play. the new proclaimed peoples are republican east ukraine and tell kids. to pull its troops out by midnight all face the consequences. is reported in the rest of region over night.

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are actions in dmafntio damascus every so often.aleppo has been absolutely destroyed. that's not seat of his power. >> in aleppo, bombs dropped on schools and children suffering. >> it's a war of terror. >> i wants to you talk about nigeria and this horror that over 200 girls and this terror group called boko haram, there was a report to the hoamsdz models security committee, three have been threats of thousands of individuals for years. >> you never know when somebody is going to be recruited from the ranks of nigerian extremists like boko haram and used somewhere else. the guy who tried to blow up the flight over detroit a couple of years ago, he was from nigeria. he went to yemen and had ro had explosives sewn into his underwear. english speaking some of them fairly sophisticated, many not, but the sophisticated ones can move around the world. extremely dangerous. >> unless something can be done to help these girls it is a horrible story. >> christopher dickey, always great to have you. >> thank you antonio. >> federal officers h

. >> the corridor alonging damascus to government strongholds passes through homs. >> both the regime and opposition, they can't control the whole country. they are it's part of their plan to partition the country. >> once the rebels would withdraw, homs city would no longer be divided. they will use the heart of the revolution but the war is still not over. al jazeera, istanbul. >> still ahead on al jazeera, campaign countdown in south africa. the ruling anc plans to hold its final rally ahead of polls next week. >>> and floyd "money" mayweather shows his class once more in las vegas. >> welcome back to al jazeera. our top stories. search teams have given up hope of finding any more survivors of a landslide that swept through the northeast. more than 2,000 people are reported missing and 4,000 others have been displaced. a cease-fire in the city of homs is holding while groups agreed to stop fighting and leaving strongholds by sunday. at least three people have been killed, a grenade was thrown at a passenger bus while a second blast was near a resort. south africa's elections just a

these include the northern city of aleppo and annie is around the capital damascus. japan's finest tristan thompson is promising to help improve infrastructure in the asian nations. this generally strong growth us to make a commitment on sunday at an annual meeting of the asian development bank. finals bonuses and other officials from sixty seven countries and texture is amazing and had six sons capital astana aso said developing countries in asia needs infrastructure improvements tools that potential he said those in power plants on the foundation for such posts we do know i know. who the winner. there's an end japan's plan is still so suggested the two nd japan should come as a deep east fiftieth general conference in twenty seventeen. this planting in a package of about three hundred million dollars to foster the development of private sector firms in africa. in the midst of the team on african development opened on sunday in a guarantee in the capital of helmand on twelve and fifteen african nations are taking part the ring is a font that enter into national conf

zaid fought the fightin fightinn damascus. remained determined to reach calais. >> i tried go to u.k. maybe 40 times or -- 40 times. >> khan and ali, who want to hide their identity, left pakistan several years ago. >> there is extremism, fundamentalism fighting and problems. so we came here to save our lives. >> and ali lost his business in egypt and has been on the move for over a year. >> translator: i came here to be free because i thought there was freedom in europe but i have found no freedom here. >> reporter: when the french authorities cleared the camp earlier this week, they told migrants they would be taken to a better place. the problem is they didn't tell them where that would be, and many feared it would be further from calais and further from their deem of reaching u.k. the volunteers think the recent success of the national front in france shows that local patience is wearing thin. >> we're ashamed. we've shown no common decency to these mieg raghts. they -- migrants. >> on friday authorities told the migrants

in finding credible sources and saying he survived a chemical attack that happened last year near damascushe carrier escaped the u.s. and is raising aware of of the war and the story of his journey in his own words. >> i'm zachary and i'm 27 years old and made it to the united states almost two months ago and came from a town in the west of damascus and i got exposed by an syran attack on august 21st. my heart stopped for three minutes. i lost the ability to breathe. i felt like my chest was set on fire. my eyes was burning like hell. it was so, so painful and it felt like somebody was tearing my chest with a knife and i use the words judgment day to describe what it felt like with woman and children and men and falling on the ground suffocating without seeing a single drop of blood. i had to pull myself together five days later to escort the u.n. team when they entered to take advantage of my english skills and people felt hope again when we heard there would be consequences for using chemical weapons in syria. but when nothing happened people got so disappointed and disgust from internat

election, you still had campaign posters up even in areas inside syria which are traditionally -- in damascus and so forth. syrians were actually talking about how ironic it was that the iraqis could vote and you could have posters up in damascus, but of course no syrians were allowed in this context. when it comes to some of the violence that has occurred, a theof iraqis will embrace conspiracy theory, but there might be some truth to it. that might be one of the reasons why the neighboring states were so intent on disrupting the iraqi experience, be it iran or syria. -- back in the 2007 timeframe, the underground railroad of suicide bombers was coming through syria, and therefore people said reason why iraqders do not want democracy to succeed is simply because it would set a negative precedents home. that set this model, because of the tremendous violence and terrorism has not had the domino effect which some american officials hoped it would had. with that, i want to thank the audience if i may. you can follow what brian does bkatulis.r @ you can follow douglas @ douglasollivant. you for

. >>> and southwest of aleppo there has been a barrel bomb attack in the damascus countryside.rel bombs have killed throws of civilians. >>> in libya at least two people have died in fighting in benghazi. the caretaker prime minister has called the violence illegal. >> reporter: the situation in benghazi is now relatively calm, but it remains very tense. now the caretaker prime minister, described the situation in benghazi as a military coup against the legitimacy and the revolution of february 17th. he called on rebels to prevent any force from outside benghazi trying to enter the city. he also called residents to back the revolution, and he also called on the rebels as well as the residentsover benghazi to show self restraint. the forces head by this heard has apparently declared he is trying to pursue extreme elements within benghazi. he named the february 17th brigade, and the [ inaudible ] brigade. they are very powerful militias and describe them as extreme mril -- militant groups. the government says he is trying to topple the legitimacy of the government and the nationa

. >>> syrian government forces launched attacks around damascus. a barrel bomb was dropped near a mosque south-west of the capital on friday. government helicopters are using such bombs around the suburbs to get rid of opposition fighters. the airport has been closed in the eastern libyan city after fighting between armed groups. 24 people are known to have died. 150 have been hurt. it's been led by a retired army general, backed up by military planes, we understand. targeted religious fights. they launched the attack to rid the country of armed groups. >>> columbia's f.a.r.c. rebels reached a deal with the government to eliminate the illegal drugs trade. talks have been held in cuba. the rebels declared a week-lopping ceasefire to take place during the presidential elections. the two sides aim to end a decades-lopping conflict leaving more than 200,000 dead. we have the latest from bogota. >> reporter: friday's agreement could signal a sea change in the war on drugs in columbia because f.a.r.c., essentially agreed once a full-peace deal was signed

syrian state tv says government forces have taken more arse on the outskirts of damascus, and aleppo. this is despite recent defeats. some fighters are trying to ignite. five groups who say they have more that 50,000 eighters have decided to work together. leaders of the islamic front and others agreed to move away from extremism and called on others to unite. >> toppling the regime is an operation shared by all military forces. we welcome cooperation with all parties and in a manner serving the people's interests. we believe the military and political decisions must be purely made by syrians, and reject subordination under foreign forces. >> reporter: activists say there are deep divisions, leading to infighting, deepening their c control. >>> still to come - thais count the cost of their political crisis. >> a shadow over the election next week in ukraine. >>> and the top stories - south korea says its coast guard will be disbanded in response to the sinking of a ferry. the president park geun-hye took responsibility for the government response to the disaster. >>> two have been kil

the syrian rebels are not cut out for calm even as washington renews its push for regime change in damascus. prepared to wait longer for your force free cash strapped a restaurant workers are former hundreds of cities worldwide will stage walkouts to squeeze that decent pay from the industry's the biggest players. self-defense units in the newly proclaimed that the needs of peoples are republican east ukraine and tell care to pull its troops out by midnight all face the consequences as come fly as reported in the rest of region overnight. live from moscow this is r.t. international you're with me say we begin with syria where west and back to oppositions are would not be able to govern the embattled country that's from america's top military commander general martin dempsey warns that syria will plunge deeper into civil war if the assad regime falls he stressed the opposition legs the leverage to fill in for the current government all root out al qaida groups in the country in fighting is on the rise among a divided rebel factions inside syria while president assad's forces are making signi

he suggested that iran could arrange a new interim government in damascus.eph is a middle east expert he says talks between iran and saudi arabia are long overdue. >> i think that everybody realizes now that in fact there will not be a political settlement in syria without the full cooperation of both saudi arabia and iran. of course the two countries have been at odds with each other over syria for the past three and a half years, supporting different sides, but at then of the day, the saudis and the iranians have to address issues that go beyond syria. there is the question of iraq which is very important, yemen, which is very important, and here in lebanon. >>> ukrainian government has launched talks on decentralizing power as part of a european-backed peace plan. seven soldiers were killed in an ambush but pro-russian activists. kim vinnell reports. >> reporter: this is where ukrainian troops were am established. medics treat soldiers wounds. the defense ministry says a convey of armored trucks was attacked by dozens of pro-russian separatists. >> transl

dallas to damascus. i only wish it was so. let's get that answer in just a second.e a question for you. do you still like exxon? >> you know, i do. and here is the interesting thing. so in june of 2008 the stock was basically where it is now. wee just now gotten above that high of seven years ago. so it has characteristic not only absolute but relative. if there is a real drawdown, exxon will hold up really well. it's a defensive stock by nature. we would stay in this trade. >> what about the next move according to you, mike? and is there a way to make even more cash on this trade? >> you know, one of the things that dan highlights all the time, you're in these positions, this was a stock that rallied. you could have taken a little money off the table but rolling it in into a spread or rolling up and out. if the stock rallies and i'm going to stay in this trade, that's probably what you should look to do? >> i don't like the trade. i will give you a freebie -- >> you didn't like it when we put it on either. >> i think it's up because of buffett got in back in februa

. >> in addition to the bombing of the school, equally shocking attacks in suburbs of the damascus where a technical institute was targeted, killing 14, injuring 80 others. and the car bomb in a busy part of the city of homs. 100 dead, many of them children too. . >>> in turkey hundreds of demonstrators are gathering in istanbul for may day. they are defying a government ban on protests in thaksin square. scuffles between police and protesters on the same day a nation-wide movement was launched against the government. thousands of police officers, and water canon trucks and vehicles are going to be deployed. zeina khodr is live for us. telling us whether they have been deployed and what is the seen in thaksin, because we know there's a ban on protests. >> well, yes, as you see behind me, the state is making its presence clear. it's visible. up 230,000 police officers deployed in istanbul - we are in thaksin square, and the city is underlock down. the city center is under lockdown. public transport has been suspended in some areas. you can see the barricades put up by the police. the gove

ago, i spokeme with reporter who had made her way back to damascus. your piece was heartbreaking. you get the sense that the civilians returning back to homs were supporters of the government or had their also been supporters of the opposition as well? >> i think you meet both. we met people today who supported the government, who fled soon after the fighters moved into the old city of homs some two years ago, and you met people who were critical of the government, but i think you could say that everyone just wants some kind of peace. they want this war to end. no one expected it would go on so long. they are literally picking up the pieces of their lives today is a microcosmms of what lakhdar brahimi always said for the nearly two years he took on this toughest of jobs. he would say to the rebels and governments when he met them, "sure, eventually, one side or another will win this war, but by the time that you do, there will be no syria left." in a small way, in a microcosm, that is what we saw in the city of homs. a place that lies in utter ruin, a community torn apart. the fig

. >> syrian government forces have launched further attacks on opposition areas around damascus. another barely bomb was dropped southwest of the capitol on friday. government helicopters are using the barely bombs to get rid of opposition fighters. >>> two iraqi soldiers have been killed in western ambar province. and more killed in fall uminga. iraqi forces have been trying to retake control of fallujah. >>> the western u.s. fire fighters continue to battle several out-of-control fires in california. the largest blaze near a military base has already consumed at least 6,000 hector sorghum, destroying a dozen structures, causing $2 million in damage. police have arrested a 57-year-old who was seen setting one of the fires. >>> the worst flooding on record in bosnia. peter sharp reports there are warnings of further flooding. >> three months of rain in less than three days. the worst floods to swamp the balkan sorghum since records began 120 years ago waters flood across flood beforfences. landslides cutting through communities with no warning. scores have died. the dettoll is ex

and they want to make sure they don't burn their bridges with the regime in damascus because it is notoing away. so they came here to show up, to register their name, to make sure the government knows they vote sod they can go home to syria one day. >>> it has been a very different picture in jordan. >> reporter: i am here outside the syrian embassy, where voter turnout appears to be rather low. although jordan is home to large population of syrians that reaches around 1.3 million and constitutes around 20% of jordan's population. not all syrians are ref fees about half of them have been living in jordan for decades, the other half have been displaced from the conflict. but it appears about half are against the assad government. the syrian ambassador went to jordan two days ago for what was described as his recent insults against the jordan government. it says it will not interfere in the election which is happening inside the embassy, which is considered syrian territory. but jordan cannot afford to diplomatic ties with syria. >>> the crackdown has jeopardized the fairness of the elec

these unverified pictures purport to show fighting the rebels and pro-government forces near damascus. troops loyal to president bashar al-assad made gains on another front today. insurgents have been trying to take a prison to free an estimated 4000 inmates held there. a government released a statement saying fighting around the prison had cut in supply line vital to the rebels. >> turkish police have clashed with protesters in istanbul after a man was seriously injured in the city earlier in the day. >> the man was shot during violence as demonstrators took to the street in protest of last week's mining disaster in western turkey. more than 300 miners died in an underground blast and fire in a coal mine in the town of soma. many people in turkey blame lax government 80 standards for that accident. and it was the deadliest clash yet for ukrainian soldiers in countering russian separatist. >> kiev says at least 13 soldiers died on thursday when separatist forces attacked south of theukraine shows no sign of g up as the whole country prepares for presidential election on sunday, and el

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the organise ailings for the prohibition says 8% of the stock remains at a site in damascus.sident bashar al-assad's regime has until 30 june to surrender all of it. >>> three al jazeera journalists have been held in an egyptian prison for 132 days, peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed is accused of conspiring with the muslim brotherhood, declared a terrorist organization. our colleague, abdullah al-shami, has been on hunger strike for 10 # days. al jazeera rejects all the charges and is demanding their immediate release. >>> now, the fill peeps military -- philippines military objective replaced thousands of members of a last indigenous tribe. we have this report. >> these are the last remaining indigenous tribes of the philippines whose culture remains intact. they are considered the keepers of the southern rainforest. they are homeless. driven from their homes after the philippine military launched an offensive more than a month ago against communist rebels hiding in their area. over 1,000 are forced to live in evacuation camps, and they are angry. military

the syrian leader is trying to gain control of all the in damascus. he is close to that now.ng into elections next month, president assad looks stronger than ever. makinges, rebels are gains. it is not a simple picture, but president assad is winning more than he is losing. perhaps the real significance of homs lies in what it says about the rebels' morale. for some, three years of sacrifice with nothing to show for it is enough. >> both sides are tired, but local cease-fires like that in homs are still far from the negotiated settlement that would end this war. the $300,000 reward is being offered by the nigerian government to anyone who can help find and rescue the more than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted by boko haram last month. officials are calling or both american -- calling for both american and european security advice. >> a desperate seen as mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters are arrived at the school where more than 200 girls were at .pted -- abducted this footage, which has just emerged, captured the awful moment last week when they visited the burned-out

says government forces have also taken more areas on the outskirts of damascus and aleppo.et by recent gets in homs and elsewhere, some fighters are trying to unite. 5 rebel groups who say they have more than 50,000 fighters say they have decided to work together to overthrow the regime. leaders of the islamic front agreed to move away from extremism and called on other groups to unite. >> toppling the recommend e-mail is a joint operation shared by all revolutionary forces. we welcome cooperating and supporting the syrian people in a manner that serves the revolution's interests. our forces rely on syrian individuals and believe that the military and political decisions under the revolution must be purely made by syrians and rejects subordination under any foreign forces. . >> but activists say deep divisions remain among opposition fighters leading to infighting which has weakened their control and. al jazeera. >>> still to come on the program, yemen calls on the west for help in its fight against al-qaeda. sri lanca marks five years since the end of the civil war. the lo

even as washington to push for regime change in damascus. top stories of today and of the week the weekly here on international thanks for joining us today. so police have unleashed tear gas and water cannons on demonstrators in istanbul during the latest protest over tuesday's. blast that claimed three hundred and one lives. over the government's handling of the prime minister over the one demonstrators when he visited the blast site one of his aides was caught on camera kicking a protester on the ground. correspondent sara reports from istanbul. but still a tense situation here after there was one small cluster between the protests in the riot police water cannons being deployed to take us to the plea i know that these are all standards that they have not today is the lawyers association it will say turned out great has put it happened in saying i don't say to demand answers to the many questions that still remain a very exactly what happened the people who turned out here had said back calling for accountability from the government someth