which is their plan is to weaken damascus to such a point that assad and the russians have to agree to un over sponsored elections democratic elections that assad leaving some other regime that would allow for autonomy that's the american wish in all these regions and in lebanon northern aleppo and so that each area would have their own set up that means the kurds get relative independence turkey isn't going to put up with that america is going to have find it extremely difficult to remain in this area as we've seen already arabs and kurds are coming to have deep differences in the region and all the regional players want to merica out it's going to be a difficult ok heavy push united states model one of the syrians talking about what's next they went into a debate. a divided syria north damascus of the north east now bit perhaps if there is something that that he and the opposition would agree on is that to keep one united country they might be actually fighting over what every other think but but the course i mean not this one so this is why i mean the russians they are hoping act

several hostile targets damascus based reporter mohammed ali has the latest. syrian local t.v. quoted an official military source here in damascus as saying that at the syrian air defenses at 11 30 pm local time here in damascus detected enemy targets and i quote coming from the direction of the occupied golan in the direction of damascus and directly according to the syrian military source syrian air defenses confronted and intercepted those enemy targets shooting down most of them before they can reach their target israeli defense forces also gave out a statement confirming that israeli fighter jets carried out a series of air strikes that targeted and m yeah a location called a town called dhaka by southwest of damascus saying that the aim of such israeli air strikes are to florence and i quote a planned drone attack against israel by iran i.d.f. in a statement said also that they have targeted what they described a really important particularly and of course of the iranian revolutionary guards over there now prime minister and also benjamin netanyahu craze

in damascus with the latest. well soulful to sound out to the light coming up here in just a few moments sean thomas will be with you in 30 minutes to bring you the lights latest global headlines. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. why a paradise with some around turned into a round experimentation feel the agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritant there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up and suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people where one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental races goin

and to syria says it has intercepted several hostile targets damascus based reporter mohammed ali as the latest. syrian local t.v. quoted an official military source here in damascus as saying that as a syrian air defenses at 11 30 pm local time here in damascus detected enemy targets and i quote coming from the direction of the occupied golan in the direction of damascus and direct the according to the syrian military source syrian air defenses to confront that and intercept that those enemy targets shooting down most of them before they can reach their target this is according to the syrian military force this is the only official statement that we got from the syrian side but the israeli side on the other hand ople gave some information about what happened these rating the i.d.f. israeli defense forces also gave out a statement confirming that israeli fighter jets carried out as to the airstrike the targeted an area a location called a town called dokken about southwest of damascus saying that the aim of such israeli air strikes are 6 floors and i quote a land drone attack against

israel's military is saying its aircraft have hit iranian forces near the syrian capital damascus this after state t.v. reported that government defenses it intercepted what it called hostile targets over the syrian capital the air strikes hit a number of targets in the village of in southeast damascus meanwhile a car bomb has exploded in the rebel held city of strikes hit its outskirts in the government's offensive on the last major opposition stronghold in the country activists are saying one person was killed in the blast a new push by government forces to take the area has seen heavy strikes and advances this week in the south of the province and in nearby hama those are the headlines do stay with us rewind the lost tribe is the program coming up next. the leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world need to do it's this august the climate crisis is high on the agenda. but trade walls breaks it on the tension with iran put in the van for their attention how much progress can one might follow the g. 7 summit on al-jazeera. hello i'm kemal santa maria and welcome again to re

her syria jamal pasha executed a group of arabs in damascus and beirut in 19151916 they were accused of being separatists and of supporting the british and french this hard determination of the arab nationalists to separate from ottoman rule and to create an independent arab states hussein didn't have any modern ideas of nationalism but he wanted more autonomy under the ottoman. empire but it's only gradually that he was drawn into what became an arab national movement a full scale revolt against the ottomans and this wasn't an easy decision for the sharif maker to make because the ottomans were fellow muslims. and he was siding with an infidel. against fellow sunni muslims. there had been conversations between the british and the hushed moritz before the war but in july 915 sharif christine wrote to the british high commissioner in cairo sir henry mcmahon. he offered his support against the ottomans in return for british support for an independent kingdom that would include the provinces in the arab peninsula and be ruled by the hashemites. service 7 i like. some of the. muscle over

to impartiality on the issue of syria marks the 6th anniversary of a major chemical attack on a damascus suburb after the break we'll look at the headway or lack there of the probe into the incident have made sense. seemed wrong. but. just don't hold. me. to shape out the attic. and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. going back to medieval days you had the church which is like a monetarist present day 21st century where they would discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a bed they were in power and they enclosed this. model and now we've got neo feudalism are you guys central bankers discussing how many derivatives can be stuff into a worthless action fund and we've got folks in san francisco in newark new jersey dyson medieval diseases. welcome back in a 6 years to the day since a major chemical attack on the syrian capital suburb of the skoda back in 2013 the rebel stronghold in damascus was targeted with rockets containing sarin gas this prompted international outrage with many pointing the finger at the

syria was divided into the streets of damascus aleppo the alawite state and mount druze. lebanon would become a republic 6 years later. though he didn't know that the. well at the crossing knew what i know that they are. for going out of friends and us and they would be different and you have. well there's that. the british colonial office organized the cairo conference 1921 hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill it drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place administered administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there had been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive terms to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and

whom seem to reinforce bashar assad's reputation of a tyrant gassing his own people even though damascus denied any involvement the fact finding mission provided an extensive analysis of the incident but somewhat overlooked the fact that the closest the government planes got to hunchy who in their day was 5 kilometers the map indicated that the closest to harm shake that the aircraft had flown had been approximately 5 kilometers away additional information provided by the mechanism referred to 2 aircraft that had taken off from the shea rad air base at around the time indicated as above 10 minutes apart following the same flight path this effectively rules out the possibility of an air strike throwing a dark shadow of doubt on the version suggesting the government's involvement. another thing left out about this incident is the fact that some of the alleged victims had been admitted to hospitals before the attack some were chipped in as patients in a hospital more than a 100 kilometers away just 30 minutes after the incident the mission didn't seem to present any facts explaining how the

lobby has managed to criminalize protests against pipelines. 6 years on from a chemical attack near damascus we look into the official investigation which is still ongoing. live from moscow you're watching a lot of international daniel hawkins thanks for joining us in the program russia's president has condemned the recent test of a u.s. cruise missile saying it appears to have been developed long before washington quit the i.n.f. treaty which binds such weapons not a mere possession president touched upon a number of issues at the press conference from the i.n.f. treaty like you said to the ongoing protests in moscow now on the latter the western media has been accusing russia of cracking down on its opposition but lattimer putin stressed that the police have been acting within accordance to the law so i'm with you must be purchased in moscow not something unique need the for the world as a whole know for europe in particular we've witnessed similar events in many european capitals these events oh much wider also politically fueled and have quite grave consequences for the protesters now th

as far as that strike on alleged iranian targets near damascus, the israelis say that iran was about to launch what they're calling killer drones on targets in israel. the iranians deny that any iranian targets were hit in syria, and yesterday we heard the secretary general of hezbollah saying in a speech that the target of that israeli strike was a building that was housi housing members of his, two of them were killed, and and he somehowed tho vowed those attacks would not go unanswered. >>> conservative radio host joe walsh announcing he's running against president trump for the republican nomination. the former illinois congressman telling abc news he's running because mr. trump is, quote, unfit for office. >> the country is sick of this guy's tantrum. he's a child. again, the litany, he lies every time he opens his mouth. look at what's happened this week. he is -- the president of the united states is tweeting us into a recession. >> walsh says his former colleagues on capitol hill all t think the president will lose in 2020 and want him to lose. walsh was elected to the house

which is their plan is to weaken damascus to such a point that assad and the russians have to agree to you any ill over sponsored elections democratic elections that assad leaving some other regime that would allow for autonomy that's the american wish in all these regions and in lebanon northern aleppo and so that each area would have their own set up that means the kurds get relative independence turkey isn't going to put up with that america is going to have find it extremely difficult to remain in this area as we've seen already arabs and kurds are coming to have deep differences in the region and all the regional players want to merica out it's going to be a difficult ok heavy push united states model one of the syrians talking about what's next. they went into a debate. a divided syria north damascus of the north east bit perhaps if there is something that that he and the opposition would agree on is that to keep one united country they might be actually fighting over every other think but but the course i mean not this one so this is why i mean the russians they are hoping ac

and damascus were put under french protection and were called area a. the rest of mr petain mia and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . but palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from here. it is yes. the national. fates x. people. while they're not quite as mean. don't really need to know the arab men. called from us it was the. woman in the. shabby larby from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they'd agreed with the hashemites because they were still considering the territories if there is informal british and french influence as kingdoms to

mosul and damascus were under french protection and called area 8 the rest of mesopotamia and the southern levant were put on to her british protection and called area being. jerusalem was designated as an international zone. but soon. after the deal was struck some voices in london began expressing dissatisfaction with what britain had agreed to in the secret negotiations. as a good friend. in. what i feel badly. can just see their figure as general hoar. had but if you will feel lost and. given a. big enough of us you will have a. few 100. have you hold the year before think well if we cannot have palestina my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view. could not agree over the future of palestine when they did their deal at the end of 1950 and they agreed it would have an international ministration but neither side light as a an outcome and the british didn't like him but to kill or because it left the east bank the su is now exposed to an administration that could be governed by who knows who so the british immediately start to think of

to motorway linked aleppo damascus.f the syrian government ousts the rebels, they would regain control of the strategicic road. most importantly, they would surroundnd the remaining fightes in the south of the province. claire: there is confusion over a no-deal brexit would mean for eu citizens. hours later, the home office said eu nationals and families would work to stay in the u.k. and the deadline for the resettlement scheme was end of 2020. theresa may's government promised a gradual transition away from free movement. the government has said in freeof a no-deal brexit, movement for eu citizens will end on the 31st of october and criminal record checks will come into force. at the terminal in paris, travelers said they were worried about the disruption it might cause. translater: it is going to be a problem. there are going to be more problem and stricter customs procedures. we will have to see. sad.later: it is very it is going to make life difficult. reporter: once freedom of movement is gone, eu citizens will no

region because i said before it's very rich in oil and gas in water and there is human damascus will be dependent on the russia hand out if if if it doesn't get already covered that is to defeat these regions where the russians that they want that easy and very much and how does the syrian government see this well of course i mean this is a basic interest for the syrian government as well actually is he covered the region of east of the if with these and. once or once again so there are important in my position in my opinion is very important here as i said they are watching closely what's happening between the russians between the americans and and the turks bahrain we have here the regional players vying for the biggest say in the aftermath of what happens in syria so you have the iranians you have the russians you have the americans and you have the turks i mean from a turkish perspective can we see this a pretty good to turkey trying to rethink its presence militarily politically once syria splinters or is divided. turkey's interest i would say is to keep syria as much of a unita

which is their plan is to weaken damascus to such a point that assad and the russians have to agree to u.n. over sponsored elections democratic elections that assad leaving some other regime that would allow for autonomy that's the american wish in all these regions and in lebanon northern aleppo and so that each area would have their own set up that means the kurds get relative independence turkey isn't going to put up with that america is going to have find it extremely difficult to remain in this area as we've seen already arabs and kurds are coming to have deep differences in the region and all the regional players want to merica out it's going to be a difficult ok heavy push united states model one of the syrians talking about what's next. they went into a debate. a divided syria north damascus of the north east now bit perhaps if there is something that that he and the opposition would agree on is that to keep one united country they might be actually fighting over what every other think but but the course i mean not this one so this is why i mean the russians they are hoping

and as a in a mentioned israel says it's carried out in the strikes near damascus a spokesman for the israeli army says fighter jets struck iranian backed forces preparing to launch a large scale drawn attack syrian state t.v. has reported that air defense systems and deceptive hostile targets over the city. now a car bomb has exploded in the rebel held syrian city of idlib killing one person a new push by government forces to take the area has seen heavy strikes and advances this week in the south of adlib province and in nearby hama the u.n. says hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting since april and a new exodus of refugees has begun. turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states is operational in northern syria it's part of a plan to create a so-called safe zone where the 2 sides were locked in months of talks over the size of the zone and whose control it but it smith has more from on top here at the turkey syria border. the turkish and u.s. military have been discussing for a long time now what exactly a safe zone along the turkish syr

israel strikes against iranian targets near the syrian capital damascus. riot police to find tear gas and charge protesters with batons in hong kong following a tense standoff which lasted for several hours the latest violence occurred after a march against so-called smart posts which of sparks fears that people are being watched and recorded the protests took. outside a police station and a shopping mall with demonstrators setting up makeshift barricades when he has more from home. after a week when the police in hong kong appeared to adopt a different tactic seemingly standing back allowing the protest to happen without intervention on saturday it seemed that they were in no mood to muck around the riot police very quickly moving into this area of cow loon to clear the protest is away using tear gas the day it started peacefully there was a march through this part of cow loom the protest is it asked police for permission for their march to take place the permission was granted by the police but as we have seen before a large group of the protesters then

and damascus were put under french protection and were called area aid. the rest of mr petain mia and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . but palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from local state it is yes. the national harbor freight 6 people. while they're not quite hashmi and. don't really need to know the arab men. called for most wealthy. mining these. done. shall be from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that this system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they've agreed with that guides because they were still considering the territories if there is an informal british infection floyds a

syria was divided into the streets of damascus aleppo the alawite state and mount druze. lebannon would become a republic 6 years later and. tell he didn't know that the. well at the crossing knew what they were that they are them physically for. they were different and you have your customer. well there's the. british colonial office organize the cairo conference in 1921 hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place administered administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there had been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palestine e

the major highway connecting damascus to aleppo the north of the country runs right through this area and whoever controls concha koon is going to be controlling the highway as well this is vital for the national government to reestablish connections with aleppo rebuild the country otherwise aleppo is really quite cut off and will never be revived so this is a major struggle and it's very important to both sides syria and assad demand that they're going to insist that they're going to take control over all syrian territory and restore sovereignty to damascus that means taking away this area big area of italy province which is still under rebel control supported by turkey northern aleppo cars controlled by turkey and ultimately the regions in the northeast that are controlled by the united states and kurdish forces the stun a process in which these these agreements were hammered out is falling apart to a degree here and it led because. originally turkey had agreed that it would withdraw rebel forces particularly jihad us forces away from conch a coon and and this and a buffer zone they

can 2030 in the rebel stronghold in damascus was targeted with rockets containing sarin gas this prompted international outrage with many pointing the finger at the syrian government the syrian government has utilized chemical weapons in its fight against rebels the syrian sarin gas attack which are ministration says the syrian government launched the assad regime has used chemical weapons including the nerve agent sarin syrian troops now have the deadly nerve agent sarin gas weaponized and at the ready for the syrian president bashar al assad responded to the allegations calling them part of the fake narrative of the west nevertheless he committed to destroying his country's chemical arsenal the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons launched a special fact finding mission to investigate that incident and of those in its wake reports on what progress has been made. the syrian war theater has become the seeing for some of the scariest chemical attacks of the 21st century in many acts of this tragedy it is still not known to this very day who launched noxious project tiles th

just hours earlier israel carried out air strikes against iranian targets near the syrian capital damascus so in a hotter house more from beirut this is a template populated neighborhood in the lebanese capital but it is also a has a much stronger hold. for sure have been quoted as saying that. area and the 2nd one exploded and crashed in the area we don't have any more because the group field are the southern suburbs. of the group of course. which have been the ones that is grabbing the pa well as in i was reporting there israel says it carried strikes in the syrian capital damascus a spokesman for the israeli army says fighter jets struck iranian backed forces preparing to launch quote a large scale drone attack syrian state t.v. has reported that air defense systems intercepted hostile targets over the city turkey's defense minister says a joint control center with the united states is operational in northern syria as part of a plan to create a so-called safe zone the 2 sides were locked into months of talks over the size of the zone and who would control its planet smith has more from

and 6 years on from a chemical attack near damascus we look into the fission investigation which is still ongoing. hello you're watching see into national i'm rosana loquitur welcome to the program . russia's president has condemned the recent test of a u.s. cruise missile saying it appears to have been developed long before washington quit the i.n.f. treaty which banned such weapons a lot of it putin was also about the issue off the talks with the finnish president in helsinki seized on a call to discuss the story with my colleague daniel hawkins the russian president touched upon a number of issues at the press conference from the i.m.f. treaty like you said to the ongoing protests in moscow now on the latter the western media has been accusing russia of cracking down on the top position but blood amir putin stressed that the police have been acting within accordance to the law so i'm with you must be a purchase in moscow not something unique neither for the world as a whole new for europe in particular we've witnessed similar events in many european capitals these events are much wider

recently as government forces advance in the city it's the final strong group of rebels opposed to damascus was racing to save lives rescue of mohammed tom a receives details of the incident over his radio a russian warplane has dropped bombs on an apartment block in moderate a town in syria's province right now every moment counts on the they arrive at the scene to look for survivors buried in the rubble who can't get out without their help and the owners of the. this time at least it seems no one is being hurt or needs the white helmet assistance. we help injured civilians children women and old people are doing our work is really important there's no other organization on the scene that saving lives goes up when it's. 100 joined the white helmet and 2013 he's one of 180 volunteers based here at this emergency center. gov rescued thousands of people from the rubble that's what inspires muhammad to keep going. still not every mission is a success and the memories of what he's seen still haunt him. a farm of about what the new and the worst was when i pulled 2 brothers from underneath a con

the syrian government in damascus is vanda the white helmets terrorist supporters how do they respond to such accusations i spoke to ahmad said no in northern syria earlier he's been a white helmets wanted to since the beginning of 2013. our reaction is that line is this law is whatever i have been repeated and the truth of the through walls whatever have been denied because we say hundreds of civilian and document what happens on the ground and transferred what have been the ground of ground this is the cause of transferring what i've been on the ground and several civilian assad regime to touch eyes as i as i said to him into hospital someone with. some hospital coordination was shared with you and russia and they attack it they get the item is good and that this can ban 30 times the lid on the item it's we lost 8 volunteer we. also have no insurance and we lost the take calls between ambulance and fire fighting just just of the 2 of our volunteer have been and doing serious injury and the onset of the. russian helicopter the simplest one you know what we're responding and destroy o

just hours earlier israel carried out an strikes near the syrian capital damascus a spokesman for the israeli army says fighter jets struck iranian backed forces preparing to launch a large scale drone attack syrian state t.v. has reported that air defense systems intercepted hostile targets over the city sudan needs $8000000000.00 in foreign aid to rebuild its economy according to the country's new prime minister talks of started with the i.m.f. and world bank about restructuring sudan's debt following months of political turmoil. doc was sworn in on weapons day to head a transitional ruling body after the ousting of the president obama all the shia in april. those are your headlines so far today the news continues after people in power have a quick summary in about 30 minutes. on counting the cost this week we check the pulse of the global economy that age a populist government says the independence of central banks comes under threat and the unintended consequences of trumps trade off plus the i.m.f. warns on the missteps of brings its own trade rules counting the cost on al-jazeer

attack violated agreements with russia which is a powerful ally to syrian president bashar assad's damascus says the convoy was heading towards the town of phone to protect rebels but ankara denies the accusation then offered it has more from beirut's. syrian or russian warplane is believed to be behind this attack close to a turkish military convoy it was making its way through the opposition controlled province of idlib turkey says it was heading to one of its observation posts. that in the habit of more ak and like the rebel controlled town of a few kilometers away it could soon come under siege and syrian government force. their allies advance the syrian foreign ministry is accusing turkey of trying to stop the army's advance and providing support to what it calls terrorist groups turkey's local allies the so-called syrian national army were recently seen heading to the frontlines to help fight the government's military push the nation and army were sent in massive amounts to the front lines and and the 2nd we have seem to be mourning the mess of calm war 200. and. cutting 5 highway tha