in 2 years, the jihadist group targeted a prison in the north east of syria in an attempt to free thousands of it. spiders also coming up crisis talks top diplomats, russia, and the united states pledge to keep the channels of dialogue open on ukraine. moscow says it has no plans to invade its neighbour despite the $100000.00 plus russian troops at the ukrainian border. and taking the german theatre thine by surprise. i director who has been left russia in years, shows up at rehearsals and hamburg. ah, and i require baths and welcome to the program. the so called islamic state has launched the largest scale at hack and serious since it was defeated there in 2019 their target was a prison holding jo. hottest in the northeast, the kurdish lad syrian democratic forces said the repelled the attackers and we captured all or most of the inmates who escaped and the chaos. 24 hours after the initial onslaught, the neighborhoods around whereon prison were still a battle ground. conflicting reports of numbers of dead fighters and civilians hung over the city like the plumes of smoke from explosions.

syria? almost 3 years after the collapse of it's kind of us. all right, let's bring in daniel kayla. he's a middle east analyst and the editor in chief of zenith magazine. daniel, thanks for joining us. i want to start with your assessment of these iris attacks in syria and iraq. one of the did i amounts, do you think to come back for the group in this region? well, these attacks are doubtlessly spectacular. they're not without president operative smaller in certain groups, in the more decentralized fashion have been operating in iraq and syria over the last couple of months. we see targeted assassinations, some acts that resemble more like conventional reagan tree, a criminal activity, slack mailing. but yes indeed, i think these groups, these are benefits in the generally unstable situation in syria and the political term on and frankly, yeah, this is a reminder that i never did very much alive and kicking though it's not centrally organized course, far away from the military capabilities that alive and kicking you say, but i think the question still learns, has the thread of i explained dismissed to

us—backed kurdish forces and islamic state group fighters in and around a prison in the north—east of syriaacked nearly a week earlier by scores of is insurgents. 13 people have been killed and another ten injured in mexico after a a vehicle overturned in mexico. emergency services from jalisco state said the truck flipped into a ditch on a highway often used by catholic pilgrims visiting a local shrine. libya's interior ministry has received nearly $47 million worth of new equipment from italy to help the country combat illegal immigration to europe. the eu—funded hardware includes spare parts for coast guard boats, mobile administrative offices and logistical support. after a week—long drive across canada, a convoy of trucks has arrived in ottawa to protest against vaccine mandates and covid—19 measures. the movement was sparked by new rules for truckers crossing the us—canada border, implemented byjustin trudeau's liberal government earlier this month. this is bbc news. the headlines: a powerful winter storm is battering the east coast of the united states. forecasters are warning of his

it stays as long as one of its a biggest attack since he was defeated there in 2019 the militant group targets had big iran prison in curtis controlled north, east and syria. a thousands of ice fighters are being held report said, dozens of ice fighters escaped. the health minister for yemen, who the rebels says 70 detainees were killed in air strikes, carried out by the saudi leg pro government coalition, humanitarian group, say several children and civilians were killed. the strikes targeted a jail telecommunications have been destroyed, buildings into cities, doctors, local hospitals are overwhelmed with injured victims. you gotta be you got an author quinn's are russia. basha has appeared in court charge with insulting countries president after he posted comments on social media. lawyers representing the prize winning writer said a medical examination showed evidence of torture. mr. rashid, but she has been arrested several times since the publication of the 2020 novel, the greedy barbarian, which deals with high level corruption in a fictional country. with one of the highest corona, van corona, virus vaccination rate. in the world, spain is now cons

of speaking to us. what changed his mind? did you hear? well, i'm not sure. we went to north—east syria seeking to do other stories. ut there, you didn't know you're getting interview with him? no, we did not. no, we went out there with bethany haines, the daughter of david haines, the murdered aid worker, and the reason we were there was because we wanted to follow her journey. she had this invitation from the kurdish authorities to go and to see some of the locations that were significant in her father's story. because although his execution site has never been officially located, one estimate says it was near here. she has studied the landscape in his execution video so many times before, and finally she's now here. she can't be certain, but this does look familiar. it would definitely be the hills with the tracks because that's really evident in the video that there's a track going down behind him. it makes you just want to go off and try and find him, which is something that i can't do. but to know it's somewhere out there, it does provide a bit of comfort. we were there, we got essentially a tap on the shoulde

of experience fighting jihadists. ros: from west africa to syria in the middle east. there have been days of fighting between u.s.h forces and islamic state fighters we took over a prison. dozens of militant storm the prison in northern syria on thursday. they wanted to try and free jailed islamic state fighters. that led to scnes like this, intense fighting outside the prison. it is believed around 150 people died in these various battles. on monday, around 300 is militants in the prison surrendered. the kurds say there are still more inside fighting. the u.s. is concerned about children being housed in the prison. as fighting continues, risk to children continues to be harmed or forcibly recruited. >> this has been going on for several days now, ever since this group of islamic state fighters took vehicles to the walls of the prison and exploded them, king their way inside, sealing off parts of the prison and taking control while they were battled back by the local forces in northeast syria. this has been going on for several days now. it has leaked out of the prison and into the areas around. 50,000 people hav

have already seen that in history and without the cost of a war in the middle east or fears of a resurgence of the so called islamic state and syria and iraq after several deadly attacks, the militant groups largest in 2 years. experts say instability in both countries is helping i asking ground. the sound of intense gunfire, fills the air in the syrian city of his soccer. as kurdish lead forces fight with militants from the so called islamic state. the battles had been centered around the gray run. prison were thousands of suspected ios fighters are held. the fighting broke out late on thursday when i a sleeper cells launched an attack on the prison. 2 days later, the kurdish led forces backed by u. s. coalition aircraft were still struggling to regain control ala, i suppose that now islamic state is only in the prison, it, apart from the prison. they aren't present anywhere. we've checked the college and the agriculture building, surgically the silos and the surrounding areas of the prisoner under our control, and we're surrounding them in but they do have weapons, but they can't do anything with them, but they might run out of

of the syrian civil war, has only just begun. let's speak now to sara ali. she's syria researcher in the middle east and north africa division at human rights watch, and is investigating human rights violations in assyria. sir, thank you so much for taking the time to take our questions. this is regarded as a landmark case over state lead torture and syria. how important is this verdict? this verdict is extremely important. it is indeed a watershed moment, not just for syria, but also for the international community. this is the highest level official of the syrian government that's ever been indicted or indeed accused. and, and this is the 1st type of trial of its kind, it's against st state sponsored torture. and we're hoping that this will be a map for other other countries to follow. how does this become a german trial? germany was able to actually pursue this trial because it adopts the principle of universal jurisdiction, which is a principle under international law that allows it to pursue cases against humanity and atrocities where they didn't happen on germany's territory where the victim o

of our partners in the middle east region about this. it is something that is ongoing. the russians is kind of a different story. russian intervention in syria was significant. they were in syria in the cold war. -- martin spoke about henry kissinger so it is not something particularly new. it is also something we deal with. if we find ways to work with russia, which we can, we have tremendous differences. that is something that is not going to change. i do not see interview our -- i do not see any of our partners saying "the chinese will have our backs." miller: on a security issue, i think you are right. it will be conventional in the region if we weren't deep priority. last question, we are actually out of time. looking out at 2022, brett, what is the single most important issue that keeps you up at night? is there one more than any other? mcgurk: i am inclined to give jim madison's answer, it is our job to keep others up at night. i will say the safety of security of our armed personnel. i have stayed a lot of time. diplo cap -- diplomatic personnel. our first read in the morning is to make sure people have what they need to defend thems

and then in the northern part of syria, where the high ground will mean though full as snow east, that looks quite quite most arabian peninsula is quite obviously, that's not the case in the central and eastern met the circulating storm here, which means a lot of subtly breeze communicates the high ground, increasingly high least in turkey, which means rain on the coast. natalia, for example, and snow in latin, is got that normally opposing it across the black sea, which is you don't really want to be anywhere in northern greece. are probably western turkey the next day or so. and then increasingly it's like just know for the east to when becomes a little bit lighter. most levant, his find, i think you'll find they'll be some right in parts of lebanon, maybe syria, mostly though levant is fairly dry. that's us. as part of that before, generally true throughout iran, there and pakistan and afghanistan, and the radiant peninsula through tropical after we descend further south has been some very heavy rain recently in the east in cape because of some of thunderstorms have been flooding. a

east and syria. it's an attempt to regain control of areas where islip is to be gaining ground. all to does yet reports. these soldiers are on a mission. to push out his law mich state fighters from serious northern city of hospital for days, the area has turned into a battle ground between cornish lead syrian forces and i sole with more talks and arising. doesn't toll here. death is easy to come by lifeless bodies of suspected iso fighters are laid out by british forces near a dirt road. but dozens of people have been killed on both sides. the latest battle broke out after iso formed the white on prison, which house more than $3500.00 suspected members of the arm grew set of many managed to escape and are believed to be on the loose. now there are concerns, detox could signal the groups, come back 3 years after it was defeated. some local leaders say support for iso is increasing as resentment grows against the kurdish lead administration. often accused of discriminating against the majority or population. we shall live footage of just say no more what we're hoping god will mak

and then in the northern part of syria where the high ground will mean the fall as snow east, that looks quite quite most arabian peninsula is quite obviously that's not the case. in the central and eastern met the circulating storm here, which means a lot of subtly breeze can mucous, the higher ground, increasing the higher least in turkey, which means rain on the coast. natalia, for example, and snow in latter than that got normally opposing it across the black sea, which means you don't really want to be anywhere in northern greece. would probably western turkey for the next day or so. and then increasingly it's like just know for the east, the wind becomes a little bit lighter, most levant is fine, but i think you'll find that will be some rain in parts of lebanon. maybe syria, mostly that will event is fairly dry. that's as a point that before generally true throughout iran and pakistan and afghanistan and the radiant peninsula through tropical after we descend further south, there's been some very heavy rain recently in the eastern cape because of some of thunderstorms have been fl

east. iran is a center of terror and instability. they send their arms all across the middle east to get involved in lebanon with has bullock, in iraq, in syria, in yemen -- with hezbollah, in iraq, in syria, in yemen. every country they get involved with fails. look at syria, look at yemen. they have a modus operandi, a very clever one, where they sort of drive out terror, but through their proxies. they lay back into ron, sort of remote from the terror they are conducting -- in tehran, sort of remote from the terror they are conducting. we have seen it with a militias in syria. how very comfortable is it for mullahs in tehran to cause despair? we see a similar situation with the -- who provides them weaponry? i ran. who directs them on what to do? iran. the first thing is for the free world to call iran on what it is doing. they are the source of terror in the middle east, and they have to fight back. the last thing you want to do with this sort of octopus is poor tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus -- pour tens of billions of dollars into this apparatus, because you will get terror on steroids. everything will be doubled and tr

of troops with russia. you have done that in the middle east with syria and others. people give you troop estimates for russia, do you believe them? >> for now what we do know is that there is a lot of troops amassed on the border, at least 100,000. the estimates have been consistent for weeks or months and echo estimates from earlier this year. we are pretty reliant on those. what we are seeing is a pretty good reference point for preparing for all kinds of scenarios. i think that is why we see the movements we do in terms of heavy diplomacy can continuing between france, germany, russia, and ukraine and the u.s., but also deterrents building up. tom: 4000 troops here, 4000 troops there. the russian mathematics is 100,000. how do you respond when you see the troop differentials? >> the 100,000, from what i've seen, has been accurate. if anything it has been above that. when you look at the troop placements on the ukrainian border and deeper into russia and now belarus, the numbers are looking pretty accurate. the 4000 numbers elsewhere are some of the locale based.

east about what china's and what this project actual means. and to have a dead of an awakening in the middle east region. and that is ongoing. the russians are different story. and syria cold war and kissinger if that is new but that's also something that we deal with and find ways to work with the russians. but we have tremendous differences so that will not change tohi but i do not see any of the partners saying i think the chinese will have our back. >> although there is some hedging going on that conventional wisdom in the region to the prioritize. that the single most important issue that keeps you up at night? it's hard not to keep others up at night and that is part of our job but i will say that obviously the safety and security. that the firsti read in the morning is to make sure people have what they need to protect themselves. and i can assure you that would never happen one way or the other weeding diplomacy is the best way. >> . you for sharing your time. i'm glad you are working on it. and thank you to everybody for tuning in. test negative take care. [inaudible conversations]

syria. almost 3 years after the collapse of it's kind of us well, earlier we asked middle east analyst daniel gala, if this amounts to a come back of i ass in the region. well, these attacks are doubtlessly spectacular, but they're not without precedent. operative smaller in certain groups in the more decentralized fashion have been operating in iraq and also syria over the last couple of months. we see targeted assassinations, some acts that resembled more like conventional reagan tree, a criminal activities black mailing. but yes indeed. i think these groups, these are just insurgents, groups are benefiting back, generally unstable situation in syria and the political term on iraq. and frankly, yeah, this is a reminder, i never did very much alive and kicking though it's not centrally organized. of course, far away from the military capabilities. the aid has started arriving in tonga after last week's volcanic eruption, answered ami devastated much of the country in the south pacific. so far, 3 people have been reported ad to have died, but many more are still missing. experts are only now

be around for a couple of days. spread its largest south was in the east was so showers down through 11 northern egypt and probably libya are running crossed, and doors and syria. now south of that looks relatively quiet, but there will be an influence. i think this is friday's picture, which might bring showers into q 8 and then it links up and regenerates. a shower about running from mecca east was through red towards the gulf. it's likely that dough house stay warm and quiet at 25 degrees. it's likely that most of iran, afghanistan and pakistan will stay equally fine. the summer thunder saunter produce yet more flooding the eastern cape of south africa. and that could be a repeat procedure. oh, the weather sponsored by casara, always healing the debates. 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from of climate impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on cities across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future. 8, now not a lot can complete the fact. we cannot lose hope. we know what to do and we have the tools to to get all this to lean on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back a correct amount of the top stories here

be around for a couple of days. spread its largest south was in the east was so showers down through 11 in northern egypt, and probably libya are running, crossed and all, and syria south of that looks relatively quiet, but there will be an influence. i think this is friday's picture, which might bring showers into key. wait, and then it links up and regenerates. a shower about running from mecca east was through red towards the gulf. it's likely that dough house stay warm and quiet at 25 degrees. it's likely that most of iran, afghanistan and pakistan will stay equally fine. the summer thunderstorms produce yet more flooding the eastern cape of south africa. and that could be a repeat procedure. ah, the listening post cuts through the noise, we're talking about competing narrative, the modern day tools being used to perpetuate there's competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versions of the story and some element of the truth . but the full story remains and content unpacking the stories you're being told, it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics. the listening post your guide to the media on a j 0. lou . ah, welcome back. a quick

syria. almost 3 years after the collapse of it's kind of us well, earlier we asked to middle east on a list, daniel gala, if this amounts to a comeback of i ass in the region. well, the a see spectacular, but they're not without president. operative smaller in certain groups, in the more decentralized fashion have been operating in iraq and syria over the last couple of months. we see targeted assassinations, some acts that resemble more like conventional reagan tree, a criminal activities black mailing. but yes indeed, i think these groups, these are benefits in the generally unstable situation in syria and the political term on iraq. and frankly, you know, this is a reminder, i never did very much alive and kicking though it's not centrally organized. and of course, far away from the military capabilities that let's take a look at some of their stories making headlines around the world. a bomb blast on a mini bus in afghanistan has killed at least 7 civilians and wounded 9 others in the western city of herat. taliban officials say the bomb was attached to the vehicles fuel tank. there was

northern hills of turkey. significant starting for the east and rain, and yes, flooding is likely on the south coast of turkey, probably cyprus, and then running into the coast. there is a, syria and lebanon. this is like to be a progressive system that moves slowly eastwards. so the picture on thursday is that right, be somewhere in northern serious snow at height, oversee and coming into western side of iran. east of that it remains quite a pa, for a few showers may be showing the northern powder voskus or northern pakistan which are a rarity. it's going to be fine, which is the normal for this time the year. but that rainy stuff is moving down through the mountain, so the round probably showing itself in queue wait coffee once again central saturday. ah, gotta one of the fastest growing nations in the world news. bonnie, cato needed to open and development whole into national shipping company to become a p middle east and trade and money skilfully knocked down 3 key areas of development filling up front of connecting the world, connecting the future. wanted cato causes gateway to whoa trade. lou ah, this is al jazeera, quite reminder, all the top stories for you this are th

get united states out of the middle east, they are out of their eastern border in afghanistan, they welcome, that they are thrilled about, that they want us out of iraq and syria. they will put more pressure to do that. after all they tried to kill the iraqi prime minister. and they tried to kill a couple hundred u.s. soldiers that were at a base there. we got them out before then. how much help will render them will be the president's decision. but this is a dangerous situation. with iran potentially acquiring a nuclear weapon and conflict in the middle east as a result of it. trey: general, it sounds like 2022 is fraught with potential peril, thank you for your service to our country in every way if has manifest itself, we hope and you your family have a great beginning to 2022, thank you for being us. >> thank you, same to you and your audience. trey: education was afternoon american issue for state and political leaders in 2021, and parents, it was front and center in the virginia governor race, senator tim scott joining us next to talk about education and who gets to make those decisions on "sunday night in america." ready to turn your dreams into plans a

are going to begin in the middle east where energy from the east or med is now coming across the levant. so this is northern sections of syria into northern iraq. so impacting or bill it was just last month we saw deadly flooding. and now we've got rounds of rain to come k. i'm going to put this a day forward. here we are on friday. we can trace a batch of rain from the red sea right through to the golf and i think re ads going to get clip to some this. but for now a southerly flows for your temperature at $27.00 degrees. but when those showers move in, they will cool the atmosphere and that wind will shift around to the northeast. so just a high of 18 degrees on sunday. that's below average. pretty average across pakistan in terms of those temperatures. it's quite both in the south and the north. islam of bods got a high of 18 degrees off to turkey right now in a northerly wind from the boss versus really dragon down those temperatures in his stem bowl to degrees. fact, we could see a light dusting of snow talking about snow, but high heat for hearts whom you're closing in on 40 degrees. a juba, we've got you in for a high

of our partners in the middle east region about this. that is something that is ongoing. the russians are kind of a different story. obviously, the russian intervention in syria was significant. they are there. they have been in syria, the cold war, the book about henry kissinger -- he gets a taste for that, it's nothing particularly new. but we find ways to work with the russians where we can. but we have tremendous differences. that is something that is not going to change. we do not see any of our partners saying, you know what, we think the chinese will have our backs. not the americans. that's not where this is heading. >> although there is some hedging going on, the conventional wisdom in the region is that the u.s. is somehow de-prioritizing --. last question, we are actually out of time, but looking out into 2022, what is the single most important issue that keeps you up at night? is there one more than any other? >> i am inclined to give jim mattis' answer, it is our job to keep others up at night. but the security of our personnel -- i spend a lot of time in these areas, including in war zones. our men and women out there, that is something fundamen

this week from a weather system that's pulling east of the mediterranean, bring some heavy snow to the likes of turkey. that'll edge down into syria and work its way across iraq and onwards to iran. we've also got more wet and windy weather that's going to pull into coastal areas of libya and egypt kicking up some possible sand storms, blowing it across the red sea and we're seeing some showers tickling to coastal areas of saudi arabian others join up with some showers that we'll see in q wait on tuesday, but for the south of this, there is going to be some wounds coming back in to some of the gulf states like guitar dosing, 27 degrees by tuesday. that was a move across to north africa. it's looking wetter in the northwest corner as it is in the north east, but for the very wet weather we have to edge down to southern parts of africa. we've got the remnants of cyclone on a continuing to dump. torrential downpours in places like and go latin namibia. we could see the threat of flooding stretching all the way through to tanzania. it's very wet as well for interior areas of south africa for madagascar. it is looking lot of fine and d

in syria, kurdish—led forces say they've reta ken full control of a prison in the north east of the countryisoners. but kurdish forces, backed by us fighter jets, counter—attacked and a siege ensued. a spokesman for the kurdish fighters says all of the islamic state militants have now surrendered. a single body has been recovered by us coastguards after a boat capsized off the coast of florida. a sole survivor had earlier told rescuers that the vessel had left the bimini islands in the bahamas on saturday with a0 people on board. the boat is believed to have been made up of people from cuba and haiti who paid smugglers to take them to the us. the red cross says humanitarian aid to tonga is ramping up after the airport was cleared of ash, making it safe for planes to land. britain's royal navy ship carrying aid arrived on the island on wednesday. but tongan officials say the country is still in dire need of international support. i've been speaking to vanessa lolohea, executive director at the tonga national youth congress, who had this update. we are currently working on the ground. we are

of june. in the middle east, islamic state fighters launched some of their biggest attacks in several years. more than 100 gunmen assaulted a prison in northeastern syriaere some 3,000 isis militants were being held. at least 23 of the attackers died. and in iraq isis gunmen stormed , an army barracks north of ba-koo'ba -- killing 11 soldiers as they slept. rebels in yemen say a saudi coalition air strike killed at least 70 inmates at a prison today. dozens more were wound in the air raid. it was part of the war's most intensive air campaign since 2018. the assault began after the rebels -- backed by iran -- launched their own air attack on the united arab emirates. vice president kamala harris visited her home state of california today. while there she touted billions in federal funding for wildfire mitigation, rehabilitation and disaster relief. harris also announced $600 million in disaster relief for the u.s. forest service in california. on wall street today. stocks finished their worst week in many months. the main factors were worry over rising inflation and over how much the federal reserve will raise interest rates to get it under control. for

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