agencies wanted list at the end of twenty eleven i had been arrested by military intelligence in damascus and taken to the newtonians branch to one find they are now to give evidence to the german attorney general all the karpin strip in this present they were like totally like ruin the quiet for a week or whatever it is because it's not something that they are used to you know there was a shock to get into the room and they just tell you and they never told you to take off your clothes it was like a surprise thing you know took off your pants and took off her dress and took off your cuff to look at and in every step they will ask you to do it again you know and you will be are you serious i am i am going to be like totally naked you would never know what tripped this tripped me when i went. totally naked and he did sexual harassment they thought they might be in whatever he tried to do something khaled does not want to talk about the manner of his torture only about how he was forced to watch the torture is at work they haven't really had before the third by four then these as five so yo

darwish founded the center in damascus in two thousand and four when it was raided for a third time in twenty twelve the air force intelligence service arrested who fourteen staff including darwish and his wife year out of baghdad. after being the last to be released in twenty fifteen he fled to berlin since then he has been continuing to struggle to ensure a democratic and peaceful syria. specially the us. faces before. the bad condition. of the families who feel that they. are ignored and nobody care about their suffering. and really if we don't find. justice a solution for those people who feel just there's no justice on the. human right it's. that it's not that fate so we push to go to the extent there's a. thought. of like either or i says. human rights organizations estimated well over one hundred thousand people in syria are in captivity or have disappeared eighty percent of them following government orders . many families in syria have somebody who is missing where they detained or disappeared. marzan darwish and here are by their determined to ensure that these people are not

in the city of damascus to drive the remaining arab leaders from the city. the bullet holes are still observable in the main covering of the main thoroughfare. the son of the sharif of mecca or sharif hussein, he was in damascus, where he planned to govern the new arab state. the french believe they had authority to determine who could or would rule there, and that is what caused the conflict. so, now i have gotten a little ahead of myself talking about the 1920's. i want to jump back to 1917. so the final of the three offers of the same land to three different people come in the form of the balfour declaration. this is the document where the british government formally acknowledged the return of the jews to a national home in palestine. there is a tremendous amount of history and tragedy between this declaration and the statement of independence issued by what would become the government of israel in may of 1948. but a great many people point to this document as a watershed in the trajectory of establishing the state of israel, both in the negative and the

and from basically maly from the refugee camp here move in damascus where the regime brokered a deal with some isis fighters and basically allowed them to be looking to basically area that is close to the way that and the desert of eastern syria and this is why i think that the problem here is that assad is moving basically one problem or solving one problem now creating ten others later on and the other issue i think that people are basically blaming us at for and the russians as well is that because recently there has been some russian led efforts to demobilize and this local militias and do it and so whether. after that there were no measures taken by the regime or the russians to protect those areas and then after that the isis fighters took advantage of that security vacuum and attack and this is why also another reason the for what for for why people are blaming assad and the russians for a moment coming back to you here in doha i mean what are the chances here that bashar al assad starts going after the druze because the government forces don't control the specific area that i

they had jhana shelter near damascus for displaced persons from the raya. they're safe now but they will spend the rest of their lives as victims of the war. three hundred families found shelter here including children who have never known peace. tinsmith mohamed habib and his family also live here. or. i don't have any work right now sometimes something comes through but most of the time i just sit around. and of course we need many things we can offer the children or things they want the biggest problem is that we aren't allowed to leave we don't have any papers as they took away our i.d.'s without them we can't go anywhere. in mamma mia. their daughter jasmine has just one wish. no want to leave here but those who do manage to leave aren't always welcome back like disillusioned palestinians radicalized syrian refugees have become fresh fuel for the raging conflict in the middle east. will iran be the next country after syria to spiral into war the us has been openly threatening the islamic republic for three years iran's population has been waiting for t

hezbollah fighters and their martyrs have become part of damascus scenery. plans have those of their sworn enemies israel and the us. the marketplaces and souvenir shops also offer new weyers. its all sounds way of thinking flattery are put in for saving his regime. they had john a shelter near damascus for displaced persons from the radio. they're safe now but they will spend the rest of their lives as victims of the war. three hundred families found shelter here including children who have never known peace. tinsmith mohamed habib and his family also live here. or. i don't have any work right now sometimes something comes through but most of the time i just sit around. and of course we need many things we can offer the children or things they want the biggest problem is that we aren't allowed to leave we don't have any papers as they took away our i.d.'s without them we can't go anywhere. in mamma mia. their daughter jasmine has just one wish. pompous and i want to leave here but those who do manage to leave aren't always welcome back like disillusioned pa

jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus.erve agent in wiltshire fell ill after touching a contaminated item. dawn sturgess and charlie rowley have been poisoned by novichok— that's the same nerve agent used on the former russian spy, sergei skripal and his daughter in march. the home secretary, sajid javid, once again pointed the finger at russia. he said that britain must not be used as a dumping ground for poision. our security correspondent gordon corera reports. —— poison. scientific analysis here at porton down labs has said to confirm that both incidents contained the same type of novichok nerve agent. so far it cannot be proven they were from the same batch. the skripal‘s are believed to have been poisoned after novichok was placed on the handle of theirfront door. sites they visited afterwards were decontaminated and the amesbury couple are not believed to have come into contact with the nerve agent at any of these sites. that has left police with one primary theory, that dawn sturgess and charles rowley had handled

and from basically maly from the refugee camp here move in damascus where the regime brokered the deal was some isis fighters basically allowed them to be you look at it to basically area that is close to the way that and the desert of eastern syria and this is why i think that the problem here is that assad is moving basically one problem or solving one problem now creating ten others later on and the other issue i think that people are basically blaming assets for and the russians as well is that because recently there has been some russian led efforts to demobilize and this local militias and do it and so whether. after that there were no measures taken by the regime or the russians to protect those areas and then after that the isis fighters took advantage of that security vacuum and attack and this is why also another reason the for what for for why people are blaming assad and the russians for a moment coming back to you here in doha i mean what are the chances here that bashar al assad starts going after the druze because the government forces don't control the specific area tha

seven thousand people will be evacuated from that area they're going to various different places damascus close to aleppo and the such to government areas basically in this is the wider picture that you're seeing now seven years of war sale millions of people displaced million internally and externally you know hundreds of thousands dead a country that has destroyed most of its infrastructure and you are seeing now damascus gained back more and more control of the country and dealing with the pockets of rebels so you have foreign cafe you have the areas around damascus and you have this area which was the southern that are area that was also under the influence of jordanian and the americans and some israelis fear of inference the rebels well now there are some deal that the government is going to be taking the areas back in there do so during so very very false and again very briefly you know the people who. smoke and get on that hill behind us the people who are fleeing this are still civilians here israel they have nowhere to go so i think we have to keep reminding our viewers of that

that got a shock yes that arafat wants to abandon the struggle we want to continue but he came to damascus and attempted a coup in fatah to kill the revolution which we want to preserve arafat has sold out because he is no longer interested in the revolution. syria which had always wished to make the p.l.o. subservient to its will sought to exploit out of facts vulnerability. every defeat has a price and the part of the price was the split at the time syria tried to settle the score with the p.l.o. leadership and what transpired was a syrian attempt to dominate palestinian decision later that should direct syrian intervention or through serious palestinian tool that was met with there is a lot defense of independence of palestinian decision making. the syrian intervention found the third child breeding ground of differences and power struggles with them further. and it happened so the s.s.e. if that if mr. arafat's bird is a direct responsibility for that split in the p.l.o. there were two choices that arafat's made the choice that there exist in swells futile. palestinian opponents start

this included the famous hit jab railway that traveled from damascus to medina. it was completed in 1908. this was the railroad targeted by the northern arab army in "lawrence of arabia." the ottoman navy began war hostilities by attacking russian ports in the black sea. this led to a chain of events that caused to be ottoman empire to be brought properly into the war. after all the efforts to balance power, the empires were brought into direct collision. once it was decided to destroy and dismantle the ottoman empire, then the dreaming began. russia wanted constantinople and the bosporus and dardanelles straits. england wanted control of territories that protected the suez canal and routes to india mesopotamia and the -- france wanted syria. before major combat operations, they were carving up the sick man in their minds. as mark sykes predicted, with the plan to carve up the ottoman empire, the british empire was setting the course for its own demise. so, as i previously stated, there was a conflict in the and division in the leadership and governance of the br

jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus.million into helping people with learning disabilities get out of institutions and receive support in the community instead. a recent review found people with learning disabilities can die up to 29 years earlier than other people. nikki fox reports.? this is james, happy on a night out. he has a learning disability and usually lives at home with his mum. fran works tirelessly, planning james's care, and employs a number of support workers. but he recently hit crisis point and has been admitted to an institution. as a result, the funding that enables him to live at home has been stopped, and fran says she may have to lay off his entire team. i'm terrified that i'm not going to have any staff when he comes home and it will delay his discharge. the system doesn't work when he goes to hospital. fran's concerned her son might end up as another statistic. currently there are more than 2,300 people with learning disabilities in institutions. today, nhs england is putting £22.2 million of new

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in the spring, the regime won the battle of damascus, smashing the last rebel enclaves. city survived, unlike the suburbs, where the fight for damascus was lost and won. this is douma in eastern ghouta, the last major rebel enclave to fall. even the graveyard is in ruins, hit by shells. the firepower of the syrian army and its russian allies was overwhelming. the heavy guns have been moved to other battlefields. no—one shoots now when you walk past the empty ruins. life never stopped here, but now they can live it in the sun. when the war was being fought they retreated underground into cellars and a network of tunnels. they were built to last by skilled engineers. the regime says prisoners of the rebels were forced to do the digging. some tunnels are wide enough for vehicles. one area, used as a car park, was burnt out in the last days of the siege. in this section the system goes down four levels into deep concrete basements. there are jail cells, and close by the command centre forjaysh al—islam, which was the dominant rebel group. the commanders down in this bunker t

eleventh day of the joint syrian russian offensive in the daraa province southwest of syria's capital damascus president assad's troops and their allies are looking for a quick victory over the rebels by any means necessary. has enormous significance for the regime this is where the uprising began in twenty eleven and it will be crushed here. assad is making it clear that the opposition in syria has no future. because there's been barely any news for days and only a few signs of life from rescue workers in rebel held areas. russian air attacks have targeted and destroyed numerous hospitals the civil defense appears to be largely eliminated. some cities in the province have surrendered to government troops after russian brokered talks. state t.v. shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday evening ceasefire talks with the islamist rebels that would have affected the whole province failed. tens of thousands have been fleeing the violence for days the united nations estimates at least one hundred sixty thousand people are in need of help but the precarious security situat

government has condemned the evacuation of the white house minutes from the south of the country and damascus has described the move as a criminal operation by israel and its tools but these routes defense fulfill said that they were acting on a request by the u.s. u.k. and other european nations as well but the evacuees were taken to jordan by the i.d.f. on washington's request and it's thought that the plan was to evacuate around eight hundred white helmets and the families but the number now seems to be about half of that number of them are expected to resettle in western countries such as canada germany and france tell us a bit more about this evacuation what was needed well at the moment the syrian army is currently advancing on one of the last rebel and centers in syria but this aside for a year is the white house myth groups have advertise themselves as a volunteer force and they get a huge funding from western countries and the groups also being praised by the west as well they've even received an offer for a documentary but the group's been repeatedly accused of cooperating closely w

jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus. now it's time for a look at the weather.orrow afternoon as well. other places, by then dry. this was sent in from hampton court. we had showers on the radar earlier. is showers are from the m4 corridot to london. dry overnight. most of the low cloud out into the sea. a gentle westerly. a bit of cloud in north—west scotland. a weak weather front. no rain. it brings airfrom a different region. fresh air behind the weather front. england and wales, continental hit building quickly in the sunshine. weather should improve in scotland, likely to be dry. further south, one or two showers in wales towards the south—east, perhaps east anglia. heavy and thundery. not many of them. most places, dry. scotland and northern ireland, significantly lower temperatures than england. 29 in england and wales in one or two areas. friday, more sunshine, low to know rain. temperatures are around the low 20s for scotland and northern ireland. the heat will build in the north. a weatherfront wea k build in the north. a weatherfront weak in the north

says it shot down a syrian jet that it claims simple straight it is airspace but the government in damascus says the sukhoi five was actually flying in syrian air space. at least sixty people have been killed in forest fires that are burning in several areas near the greek capital athens the fires have destroyed homes and disrupted transport banks officials have declared a state of emergency in two areas. hundreds of people are missing in laos after a hydroelectric dam collapsed state media is reporting it was under construction in the southeast of the country several people have been killed and more than a thousand families have lost their homes the region has been affected by severe floods over the past week. more than one hundred million voters in pakistan are preparing for their next government ballot papers are being taken to polling centers across the country campaigning ended twenty four hours before the polls open there are four major political parties in the race including that of the former cricketer imran khan some a big debate reports from lahore on the last day of campaigning.

well twelve days ago the regime in damascus backed by its ally russia began a deadly bombing campaign that has forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. this is syrian t.v. a constant barrage of unending brutal merciless gunfire with no regard for the civilian population. it's the eleventh day of the joint syrian russian offensive in the daraa province southwest of syria's capital damascus president assad's troops and their allies are looking for a quick victory over the rebels by any means necessary. and. has enormous significance for the regime this is where the uprising began and twenty and it will be crushed here. assad is making it clear that the opposition in syria has no future. there's been barely any news for days and only a few signs of life from rescue workers in rebel held areas. russian air attacks have targeted and destroyed numerous hospitals the civil defense appears to be largely eliminated. some cities in the province have surrendered to government troops after russian brokered talks. state t.v. shows the jubilant celebrations of a pro assad public. late saturday

faced with mounting pressure to end the conflict saudi arabia's foreign minister traveled to damascus and announced an agreement had been reached and hostilities and evacuating out of us forces from tripoli we have. reached an agreement. here based on the two principles that. refill these principles with a. preventing. any destruction of the city of of tripoli and stop the fighting between the factions to fully and call for the withdrawal of of armed forces at a syrian un forces out of tripoli well these principles have been enunciated in this. in this document. the united nations made arrangements for a lot of thought and for thousands of his fighters to depart the coast and lebanese city on board five greek ships. following his second expulsion from lebanon on a fact once more defined the enforced xx.

latest book reporter a memoir is out now in the past forty eight hours israeli jets of targeted damascus i mean the war seems to be continuing all of a kind you said that there were actually two suspects for the chemical attacks that news of which was beamed around the world as a reason why i say britain should bomb syria why do you think any journalist would just say no there is only one suspect the as a government and well that would happen if. you're talking about an incident in which. bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people. which is a. that was a two thousand and thirteen was a very rich from his point of reactionary force there was very hostile to his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and i says later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had a war it was an awful war and you fought it awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it

jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus.r the fishing industry after brexit will bring huge benefits to coastal communities. ministers say they're setting out plans to "take back control" of britain's waters in 2020 but the scottish government has said it has "significant concerns" about the proposals. our scotland editor sarah smith reports from peterhead in aberdeenshire. british boats are currently allowed to catch only 40% of the fish in uk waters, under eu rules the fishermen think are deeply unfair, and the government is promising will change. when we leave the european union, we'll have control of our territorial waters, and that means we can reverse what's happened in the past. in the past, we've had a situation where more than half of the fish that's caught in our own waters is caught by foreign boats. now we can say that we'll decide who catches that fish. now, of course, we'll negotiate with other countries, but we'll negotiate with our control in our hands. after brexit, the government say we will control the cat

of this conflict and if it does mean indeed a victory for bashar al assad we've got the kurds in damascus we've got the rescuers being rescued in the past few days the white helmets being escorted to a different location and we've got external actors kind of laying down a line in the sand saying yes we might accept an asset victory but we will not accept the consequences of that millions of people displaced unless those millions of people go back into syria how does that work well it's difficult to see and basically the situation when. make everyone happy in a way because on one hand it's clear that again that the regime is winning militarily. doesn't automatically mean that basically the regime will be able to ensure again the stability of syria on one hand stop the ongoing attacks inside syria on the other and more importantly for the regional and international actors be able to allow for at least on courage refugees to go back when we go to the first basically issue which is when the syrian regime be able to stop similar attacks in the future. we have isis who has been changing its tac

and from basically maly from the refugee camp here move in damascus where the regime brokered the deal was some isis fighters basically allowed them to be you look at it to basically area that is close to the way that and the desert of eastern syria and this is why i think that the problem here is that assad is moving basically one problem or solving one problem now creating ten others later on and the other issue i think that people are basically blaming assets for and the russians as well is that because recently there has been some russian led efforts to demobilize and this local militias and do it and so whether. after that there were no measures taken by the regime or the russians to protect those areas and then after that the isis fighters took advantage of that security vacuum and attack and this is why also another reason the for what for for why people are blaming assad and the russians for a moment coming back to you here in doha i mean what are the chances here that bashar al assad starts going after the druze because the government forces don't control the specific area tha

israel says it shot down a syrian jet that it claims infiltrated its a space but the government in damascus says the sukhoi fighter jet was flying in syrian air space let's go live now to our correspondent stephanie decker she's in israeli occupied golan heights and stephanie what can we confirm about this incident. well these really army has just confirmed to us that the jet has indeed gone down in the southern golden heights the syrian side of the golan heights which is where we are this area has been actively of an active assault carried out by the syrian government and russian jets we've seen both russian jets and syrian jets in the sky over the last couple of days the what the army is saying is that this syrian sukhoi jet entered around two kilometers into israeli airspace that it was monitored and then two patriot missiles were fired at it and we were a little further north when this happened in command when sirens went off in that area we then saw a field ablaze we went down to that field very soon after we heard the news of the jet having been downed and then after we were there a c

his latest book reporter a memoir is out now in the past forty eight hours israeli jets targeted damascus i mean the war seems to be continuing all of a kind you said that there were actually two suspects for the chemical attacks that news of which was beamed around the world as a reason why i say britain should bomb syria why do you think journalists would just say there is only one suspect the government and what happened with the talking about an incident which. used nerve agents against his own people. which is a. that was a two thousand and thirteen was a very rich from his point of reaction very hostile to his his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the gangs and i says later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had a war it was an awful war and he fought it awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it was government funding the white helmets right now that s

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his expulsion from syria and after years of a bitter feud on a fat return to damascus for the fact he was given a hero's welcome. it turned out to be a vote of confidence for the honest outlet p.l.o. in the heartland of a strong. feeling that stopped when a bomb out of. a stick with that engine as if you have a stick bad shabbier. there was a tremendous turnout at the funeral office a coffin was carried for hours throughout the camp that people tried to lift a car carrying out a fight off the ground as a token of the support leah. he was carried on people's shoulders it shook the splinter groups opposed to him because it restored the stature of our fast and for the us leadership. the intifada propelled the palestinian issue onto the world headlines and back to the top of the agenda for the arab world. it was an extraordinary turn. just a year earlier at an arab summit in amman the palestinian issue had been relegated to the bottom of the agenda. now in june one thousand nine hundred eight at an extraordinary meeting in algiers and appends of state pledged strong support for the intifa

a deal between the syrian government and militants all residents who move to areas controlled by damascus that was in exchange for imprisoned rebel fighters buses transported almost seven thousand people to safety it's a deal that ended years of suffering during the blockade of explains. for three long terrible years the people of. live besieged two pro-government villages in the middle of. kingdom in syria and the islamists the warlords and the terrorists were out for blood. the same day they had been previous evacuation attempts last years five thousand civilians were being bussed out in a deal with rebels a suicide bomber blew up nearby over one hundred died. i don't. remember. that. i met some of the evacuees last year they were clearly traumatized scarred here men and women and yes even children fought for three years they held out. of joy think i was created for my family we've met again the siege was very difficult forcible to describe it is impossible to express it. this latest deal was made by the syrian government and yet. previously. in syria islam ists let seven thousand civil