that we've seen is being largely orchestrated through mr chewing his office the extent to which donnie p.f. is marching in step and the government is marching in step of course is a good question some people say there are all these huge splits say a good cop bad cop approach is being pursued but that certainly is one of the big burning questions at the moment that many of us are trying to look into. eight un peacekeepers have been killed in northern mali they were attacked by a group of armed fighters near the village of algal hoc the identity of the attackers is still unknown the head of the u.n. mission in mali has promised a swift and concerted response. israel says it shot down a rocket fired from syria its iron dome defense system intercepted rocket fire in the northern part of the occupied golan heights the attack follows syrian state television announcing government forces prevented an israeli air strike and there's been an explosion at an army checkpoint in syria's capital damascus there are no casualties the car bomb blast syrian army controls all areas around the capital which ha