a result of its clandestine efforts to construct an undeclared plutonium production reactor in eastern syria. for those of you who are familiar with the facility, it was built with north korean assistance. while the al-kabar reactor was destroyed by an israeli airstrike in 2007, syria has persistently refused to cooperate with investigation and denied the agency's request for information and access to address all outstanding questions regarding its activities at the site and other related sites. syria failure to cooperate remains a matter of ongoing concern indeed, for all of us. moreover, syria's efforts to impede the iea's investigation illustrates the degree to which the assaad regime is willing to go to conceal its clandestine nuclear activities. rather than responding in good faith to the iea's requests for information and access, they have gone to great lengths to deceive, up the skate, distract international attention from its perennial noncompliance, and in many instances, with the assistance of the russian federation. the trump administration has been clear that we cannot allow syri

backed military alliance known as the syrian syrian democratic forces which controls much of north eastern syria let's get more on this now. is head of development and humanitarian affairs at the syrian democratic council she's now on the line from in northern syria good to have you with us kind of just before we begin our discussion here i just want to clarify something. with you. a leading member of the syrian democratic council told our sister network al jazeera arabic in arabic earlier that the committees will work towards handing back territory that are currently under their control to the syrian government did we get that right or something been lost there in translation. got. a little sorry i don't time i'm getting good connections kind of all thank you for a job you know what their current fade back to the new thing with the t.v. government that was pulled over that petition all form committees i want to live i mean through the window that we are located and negotiation i was hoping i was or what the movement was and i was that hard over all of them that ability to buy government all tha

at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have died in as strikes in eastern syria the u.s. led coalition admits that its or its part of forces carried out the raids and arizona province saying they were targeting i still fight has wanted to say the strikes hit an ice factory that dozens of families were using as a shelter close to the iraqi border the u.s. coalition says it's investigating the civilian deaths meanwhile a senior and war to the supreme leader says iran has no intention of leaving syria regardless of u.s. and israeli pressure a statement from. came in the wake of his meeting in moscow with the russian president vladimir putin both the u.s. and israel want iran to pull out of syria while russia was was warned it would be unrealistic to expect iran to fully withdraw from the country or a challenge has more from moscow. well the advisor to iran supremely a man called. has been in moscow for two days now he met with putin on thursday and he's speaking at a forum in moscow today he had some fairly trenchant comments regarding iran's longtime adverse threes isr

this point france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern huta in syria russia has agreed to facilitate the delivery of government forces retook the eastern go to region from rebels in april after seizing it for several years protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua as months of political unrest pick up from moment momentum and government demonstrators are demanding president daniel ortega steps down and calls fresh elections donald trump has accused his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally offers emoji secretly recorded the us president discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's office earlier this year and the recording trump reportedly discusses paying money to counter the macdougall who claims they had a ten month affair campaigning has begun in pakistan for one stays the general election but a wall built was all dotty the head of the pakistan people's party held a rally in the southern city of karachi he's the son of former leader benazir bhutt

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 that is obvious on the one hand and. on the other hand the troops the young male druze do not sign up they refuse to sign up to this conscription syst

agency result of its clandestine efforts to construct an undeclared plutonium production reactor in eastern syria. for those of you who are familiar with the facility, it was built with north korean assistance. ar reactor wasab destroyed by an israeli airstrike in 2007, syria has persistently refused to cooperate with investigation and denied the agency's request for information and access to address all outstanding questions regarding its activities at the site and other related sites. cooperateure to remains a matter of ongoing concern indeed, for all of us. 's efforts toia investigation's illustrates the degree to which the assaad regime is willing to go to conceal its clandestine i'm nuclear activities. rather than responding in good requests foriea's information and access, they have gone to great lengths to deceive, up the skate, distract international attention from its perennial noncompliance, and in many instances, with the assistance of the russian federation. the trump administration has been clear that we cannot allow iea safeguardnd noncompliance to fade in our .ollective memories al

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of holmes so this is there were otherwise the louis wiped off with the russian airpower and the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the cd in me to go to that is that's mean the hezbollah. is there old so the syrian air force can to fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. said the regime on control of the southeastern syria. media reports from every train suggests troops are being withdrawn from the heavy militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed the peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war the eritrean embassy and i the some about reopened on monday n.b.c. opiah has appointed a new ambassador to eritrea. first though the.

france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern syria russia has agreed to facilitate that delivery the aid will arrive on board a russian plane government forces retort the eastern good to reach and from the rebels in april after besieging the area for several years little aid has entered the area since april around five hundred thousand people living if the aid from france doesn't arrive it will be the first time a western country has delivered aid to government controlled areas of syria with russian help let's get more on that from joshua landis joshua is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he joins us now from rochester in the state of vermont joshua landis what's emanuel up to here. well is a very important this sort of it important indicator of course a small amount of aid but it it indicates that france is willing to engage with russia and with assad in order to supply a good many policy makers and said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no one gauge with a side it will object in my

it's not confined to eastern syria. it's not even confined to syria. we do have to finish offer and we're well on the way to fini finishing off the remnants of the declared geographic caliphate. it's shrunk down to a small part. there will still plenty of isis fighters elsewhere in iraq and syria. they are still terrorists. even when we finish the fight. including something we should all be worried about. a large number of foreign fighters. the good news is the coalition finished off a lot of those people but there's still a lot of them left. they have gone to ground from a lot of places. the fight's not over. it's not even over in iraq and syria even once we finished off the last remnant of the original geographic caliphate. it begs the question to the two other things you ask me here, what do we do about what remains. my view is the role of the united states is irreplaceable in dealing with what remains. i don't know what the outcome of those debates will be. my view and i express this view in the circles that i live in today that the role of the uni

similarly it is clear that donald trump would like to pull troops, american troops, back from eastern syria. it is clear that the united states wants to confront iran. it is clear that israel has a red line. it will not allow iranian influence close to its borders. so what jeff was alluding to was a kind of grand -- that somehow vladimir putin might agree to lean on the iranians to pull troops back from the israeli border. in return for that, donald trump would say that at some point in the future american troops would be withdrawn from eastern syria. but that is -- it's a difficult agreement because, number one, we don't know what sway vladimir putin has on iran. there is no guarantee. indeed, sergei lavrov said it was unrealistic to expect iran to drop its interests in syria. so, again, that kind of grand bargain, in one respect, is unrealistic to expect, but this is the kind of thing that, you know, we are not absolutely sure what will be discussed in that one-hour meeting when president trump meets president putin alone. >> all right. bill, we will continue to check in with you through

stillght against isis continues, particularly in eastern syria. implications the of removing the 2200 u.s. troops from syria at this point in time? what needs to be done to consolidate the gains, interns -- in terms of stabilization and the international community doing enough? i'm going to try to take this in three bites. the last part was consolidate the gains, if i remember right. the fight against the islamic well, is you know very not confined to eastern syria. it's not even confined to syria. we do have to finish off. we are well on the way to finishing off the remnants of the declared geographic caliphate, that has shrunk down to a small part of the euphrates river valley. there arem is that still plenty of isis fighters elsewhere in iraq and syria. may have adopted primarily insurgent taxes -- tactics, but they're still terrorists. even when we finish the fight in the euphrates river valley, isis will still be in relatively car numbers -- large numbers in iraq and syria. including something we should all be worried about, a large number of

so to think and with regards to eastern syria, they are going over to the syrian tribes. to think it will be easy, even for the russians who, remember, need these foot soldiers inside syria in order to maintain their interests, i think this is a prospect, at least in the short term, it is not going to come to fruition. >> slightly devil's advocate. but if iran thinks the united states of america and russia and all the other major powers are going to guarantee their client to stay in power, why wouldn't they decide to pull back? they're obviously stretched in syria. they're undergoing some, you know, protests at home. there is economic pressure because of the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear deal. >> well, again, it is a strategic point to syria. and i heard iranian officials and syrians talking about how the iranians stepped in in 2012 and were telling assad hold on to damascus with your fingernails if you have to. and now they have established a military presence, in fact, they are in circles around damascus. they have established themselves within the security operators.

france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern in syria russia's agrees to use one of its planes to make the delivery government forces we took peace and go to from rebels in april after a siege which lasted for several years. protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua as months of political unrest picks up new momentum anti-government demonstrators are demanding president daniel take us steps down and calls fresh elections. wildfires are raging across the baltics on parts of northern europe better known for cold weather latvia's had to evacuate a village as it struggles to stop a huge peak five months of drought a forced it to declare and national emergency and sweden is suffering its worst drought for seventy four years it needs help to prevent a bigger disaster now as more. firefighters in sweden say their battle for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires. the government's appeals for help from other countries italy france and norway have responded by sending water bombing

charter by its its occupation in eastern syria. don't trouble also make kim jong un of course not curry long ago but senator is one that got the chance to speak to the secretary of state that don't seem particularly interested in hearing about thought at all your thoughts on not aspect. well that's another that's another issue where we've got the potential reality of a total breakthrough an ending of sixty five year state of war you know sixty odd your state of war between the united states and the democratic people's republic of korea and yet people are denouncing it is if this is something bad so there's kind of a a very bizarre set of circumstances going on in the united states where would be liberals are not supporting efforts toward peace it's a very strange. development that we've got going wrong on right now rick thanks for coming in the program giving us your thoughts on a situation developing method a hearing still ongoing rick sterling investigative journalist. riffing on a series of islamic state attacks in south west sy

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syriathe desert area which is east of home so this is otherwise they will be wiped off with the russian air power and the syrian forces so it is almost over. and by going to the one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that that's mean the hizbullah. is there . the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. the regime on control of the south with. a promise president daniel ortega has denounced recent violence in his country as an attempted coup he's been addressing supporters at a rally and they are celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that put him in charge for the first time around sanchez has been speaking to supporters at that rally. now let me let me find the numbers for me sonny member of the senate that never seen anything let me. turn it into. something. it's been a painful battle because we have confronted an up conspiracy financed by internal forces th

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 is obvious on the one hand and. on the other hand the troops the young male druze do not sign up they refuse to sign up to this conscription syste

and france is to send fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern syria the aids being sent on a russian plane it's the first time that a western country has sent the tiriel to government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces read to eastern ghouta in april after a siege that lasted several years. and those are the headlines borders on al-jazeera after today's edition of inside story next. what's triggering protests in nicaragua president daniel ortega under pressure to step down off two years impala of the form of evolutionary leader claims of us for the months of turmoil so what's the solution this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i am hashem it's. the man who led the revolution in nicaragua thirty nine years ago daniel ortega and his army of sendin star rebels were victorious in deposing president anastasio somoza the left wing rebel fighters called him a dictator which is exactly what many are calling or taking now the three time president's defied almost four months of protests against his rule at least three hundred prot

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of homes so this is there were otherwise there will be wiped off with the russian airpower and the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that is that mean the hezbollah. is there. the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. said the regime on control of the southwestern syria. nicaraguans president daniel ortega has announced denounced rather recent violence in his country as an attempted coup he's been addressing supporters at a rally in the nagual they're celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that put him in charge for the first time from one thousand thirty seven to one nine hundred seventy nine nicaragua was a dictatorship under the us back some of the family it was characterized by rising inequality and political corruption in one nine hundred sevent

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of holmes so this is otherwise they will be wiped off with the russian airpower and the syrian forces so it is almost over. and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that is that mean the hizbullah. is there. the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. assad regime on control of the southwestern syria the rescue of twelve boys in the football coach from the depths of a flooded cave in thailand captivated the world now that they're out there being treated like heroes but many people are unaware that fourteen members are sticklers with barely any rights step vasant reports from afar long in northern thailand at the most northerly tip of thailand lies the hometown of the wild boars the football team trapped in a cave for eighteen days nothing more than a small river device may sight from neighboring me on my. like many o

the only two areas there are will continue to be outside of its control the northern syria and eastern syria for sure the regime will try to capture one of them we don't know which one will be the next target but any of them could be ok thanks for your analysis on that hyde. park stands outside prime minister has been handed a ten year jail sentence for corruption but he wasn't in court to hear the ruling his daughter marry him received a seven year jail term both were found guilty of buying luxury of properties in london with undeclared income the sixty seven year old was removed from office last year over corruption allegations banned from politics for life both he and his ruling pakistan muslim league have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing our correspondent come out hi there is in the capital islamabad it was kind of expected but nevertheless how much of a landmark is this decision. were decision indeed a very big decision because as you mention now why should he have or disqualified by that country supreme court is being the country's prime minister. and of course on all the. neighborhood

protest began at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have died in airstrikes in eastern syria the u.s. led coalition admits it or it's part of forces carried out the raids and all those who are province saying they were targeted targeting eisel fighters monitoring groups say the strikes hit an ice factory which is being used as a shelter by dozens of families the u.s. coalition says it's investigating the civilian deaths senior envoy to these supremely says that iran has no intention of leaving syria regardless of u.s. and israeli pressure the statement from. the came in the wake of his meeting in moscow with russian president vladimir putin but the u.s. and israel want to run to pull out of syria or russia has warned it would be unrealistic to expect iran to fully withdraw from the country. nigerian officials say the bodies of several victims are yet to be recovered from areas recently attacked by gunman so far forty people have been buried in northwestern nigeria after the attacks on four villages i would address reports now from the nearby village of. thousands of people ar

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of holmes so this is there were otherwise there would be we wiped off with the russian airpower on the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the syrian army to go to that that's mean the hezbollah. is there old so the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. assad regime on control of the south was sincere. media reports from eritrea suggest that troops are being withdrawn from the heavily militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed a peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war the eritrean embassy and reopened on monday and ethiopia has appointed. to every trail. british detectives are reported to have identified those responsible for poisoning a former russian spy and h

france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern in syria the supplies will be carried by a russian plane it's the first time a western countries used russia's help to deliver material to government controlled areas in syria government forces read to peace in groups or from rebels in april after a seized lasting several years about five hundred thousand people live there but very little aid has made it in since april. rebels who gave up their fight in southwest syria are arriving in opposition held areas in the country's north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached hama province fighters and their families have been given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian armed forces have now entered the city of can a trial it's a big victory for president bashar al assad whose troops have retaken much of the side. a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean plans to file manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard they say a woman and a child died after they and another woman were

rebel forces and in northern syria and another one that is controlled by kurdish led forces in eastern syria so i mean let's talk about what we do know in terms of how much territories being handed back to the regime is this the end of the opposition presence basically in southwestern syria. well i think we need to wait until. the conditions of the deal are clear because some of the conditions are relating to what will happen to rebel forces who stay in those areas whether they would be able to have some kind of control over their territories meaning that they would be able to police the territories and control them while the regime has some sort of nominal authority over the area without any physical presence for at least the military and security forces or will the region be able to take over full control over those areas and push them out of any kind of authority local authority so this is this is not clear and i think another issue that is tonight clear is what will happen to many of the forces who rebel forces who decided to stay there because there is only a small part of them who will

but you have the case where the american forces were operating in eastern syria.ercenaries that were wiped out. you have this conflict now on the table tomorrow. do you see something coming from that? >> look, bill, first understand what the red lines are for the russians. they do not want to see the regime collapse by force. they do not want to see their base evacuated in northwestern syria. that we understand. what the american red lines are or should be, we do not want to see iranian and hezbollah forces waliddominating syria. at the same time, we want to finish the business. that would give you a possible deal in the deal would be russia would take care of pulling out the iranians and hezbollah and the united states will take care of not supporting any ducati organization and ending isis at the same time. that would be the basis of understanding the two leaders. >> you been doing interview with the russian press today. what sort of questions are they asking you walid? >> it is very interesting. they really interested in the possibility of having any bases or a

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of homes so this is there were otherwise there would be rewired off with the russian airpower on the city and forces so it is almost over now and by go into the accord of the one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is a lot of the cd in me to go to that is that's mean the hezbollah. is there old so the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so the. assad regime on control of the southeastern syria so that that's the south what about italy province in the northwest was seen evacuations in. it's the only opposition held territory left and turkey we know is the main actor in the north will we see more fighting there or could we also see there some sort of agreement as there was it seems with israel in the south between you know russia the syrian government and turkey. it will be three three million people and you get to heave which is the nostra is there and i think we might see it's hi

fisherman france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern huta in syriarussia has agreed to use one of its planes to make the delivery government forces we took eastern ghouta from rebels in april after a season last in several years. protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua has months of political unrest pick up more momentum anti-government demonstrators want president daniel ortega to step down and call fresh elections dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden it's going through its worst drug for seventy four years it comes after months of high temperatures sweden's asking for help from other european nations there's another ring of fire in the waters off hawaii on the streams of lava flowing into the ocean from the kilauea volcano that first erupted eleven weeks ago more than seven hundred homes have been destroyed by the volcanic eruptions india is scrapping taxes and sanitary pads in what's being called a significant boost for girls' education the pads had previously been taxed at twelve percent of the protests when

around the world at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have died in strikes in eastern syria the u.s. led coalition mits that it or its partners forces carried out the raids and province saying they were targeting eisel fighters monitoring groups say the strikes hit an ice factory which dozens of families were using as a shelter close to the iraqi border the u.s. coalition says it's investigating the civilian deaths a senior and voice of the supreme leader says iran has no intention of leaving syria regardless of u.s. and israeli pressure the statement from. came in the wake of his meeting in moscow with the russian president vladimir putin both the u.s. and israel want iran to pull out of syria while russia has warned it would be unrealistic to expect iran to fully withdraw from the country or a challenge has more from moscow. well the advisor to iran supremes leader a man called ali akbar velayati it has been in moscow for two days now he met with putin on thursday and he's speaking at a forum in moscow today he had some fairly trenchant comments regarding iran's longtime a

we sought incidents, one involving syrians in eastern syria, the syrians working with russian mercenaries to attack resulting force units in american airstrikes and the killing of at least 200, andaps, of these russians pro-regime forces, and we still have the iranian overflight of israel by the uav in february, .upposedly an armed uav the israeli and american response i think has put both iran and syria on their heels and caused them to act with greater caution as a result, but this, when they decided on a strategic direction, they will sometimes back off but then try to find other ways to achieve their goals until we attacked by other means, so to speak. the tensions in gaza -- i think that is a factor that maybe is a constraining factor in some ways having to deal with tensions on the border and violence on the border in recent months does not want a two-front wore it they can avoid it. to the degree that israel sees to some extent iran trying to a gaza mights on in militate in the other direction, so it's not clear how gaza plays out in israeli calculations. is also a couple getting f

s controls much of north eastern syria having driven eisel into retreat with u.s. support they say they want a new thomas area within the country but they are not seeking independence we can talk now to sin and cause the early our correspondent who's joining us live from istanbul in turkey because of course turkish authorities will be watching these negotiations very closely indeed see them. yes martin as you know for turkey an independent kurdish state by its border with syria or an autonomous kurdish enclave is actually a threat to its national security and territorial integrity so turkey is watching these lines very closely but according to these sources that i spoke in. since the turkish american corporation began over members in last june june fourth this is the sixth time that the syrian regime and p y d office shows have come together but of course this is interesting because they met in damascus this time so. the two of inman which turkey and united states have been cooperating since then they have been a joint patrol link and they have been trying to provi

jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of homes so this is there were otherwise there would be wiped off with the russian air power and the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the cd in me to go to that is that's mean the hizbullah. is there old so the syrian air force can fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. as a dream on control of the southwestern syria. nicaragua's president daniel ortega is celebrating the thirty ninth anniversary of the revolution that put him in charge for the first time in nine hundred thirty seven to nine hundred seventy nine nicaragua was a dictatorship under the u.s. backed somoza family its rule was characterized by rising inequality and political corruption in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the somoza those were violently overthrown by all takers sandinista national liberation front he was leader for eleven years unti

golan heights france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern syria the aid is being sent on a russian plane the first time that a western country has said material to government controlled areas with moscow's help government forces eastern ghouta in april after a siege lasting several years around half a million people live but very little aid has made it in. a truce appears to be holding on both sides of the israeli gaza divide funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed in israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday dozens of mass positions have been targeted after an israeli soldier was killed four boats loaded with eight are on their way to gaza from the italian port of palermo the freedom flotilla coalition says it wants to bring a peaceful end to the israeli blockade of the palestinian territory it expects to take just over a week to reach israeli waters a group that rescues migrants from the mediterranean sea is planning to file a manslaughter complaint against libya's coast guard pro active open arms says that a woman and child died when they

president trump has made it clear, he wants to pull american troops from eastern syria against the adviceh this. >> i want to get out. i want to bring our troops back home. i want to start rebuilding our nation. we will have, as of three months ago, $7 trillion in the middle east over the last 17 years. we get nothing -- nothing out of it. >> and trump has said that syria will be on the agenda with putin. the u.s. seeking to deescalate, particularly in the northwest, where a small contingent of u.s. troops are fighting isis. but experts warn, putin has backed out of previous peace agreements in syria, driving the ongoing civil war in that country that is now in its eighth year. i want to bring back my panel for this discussion. evan, let me read you a tweet from michael carpenter. carpenter was the pentagon's -- just so everybody knows, the pentagon's top russia official. he writes, trump wants to replicate the disastrous deal with putin from july 2017 when they agreed on a deescalation agreement. the only side that deescalated was the anti assad opposition, while russian, iranian and syr

they went after general votel ahead of cencom who over sees middle eastern syria. he not only discredited the official position of his supreme commander in chief -- are you aware what the official position is that is being referenced in that statement? >> you'd have to speak with the russian ministry of defense to know what it was he was referring to. >> but you can understand why we're concerned if it's being reported in russian press as senator flake and senator shaheen said they're talking about official positions the president has outlined. as far as you know general votel's statements did not violate any positions of the united states, did they? >> you seem to be giving a great deal of -- >> let me ask you about general votel. >> i have great belief in his truthfulness. >> you do not believe any of the statements he's made including those that i read violate any official position of the united states, do you? >> senator, if you would, that's best approached with general votel. i'm three orders removed. >> if i could introduce for the record, there is an intere

backed military alliance known as the syrian democratic forces which controls much of north eastern syria. from our one couple on is head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies joins us here in the studio good to have you were so first of all men want we know they had talks on july twenty sixth . has the s.t.c. reached an agreement with the regime though while i mean i think they have not reached an agreement yet but they are in my opinion in the final stages of reaching an agreement so why are some of the specials and the s.t.c. talking about handing back have premature not i don't think it's premature because this is the this is the end game i believe for them i think now perhaps is the time because. you know i mean the relationship between the kurds and the regime have been very complicated over the past few years in fact they hand over these territories to the cause at the very beginning of this crisis if you remember back in two thousand and twelve when there was no longer able actually to protect all the territories that we're under its control saw now

weeks at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have been killed in airstrikes in eastern syria the u.s. led coalition admits it carried out the raids in two hours or province saying it was targeting fighters or monitors say the strikes hit an ice factory that dozens of families were using as a shelter close to the iraqi border because coalition says it is investigating the civilian deaths eritrea will reopen its embassy and ethiopia's capital on sunday and the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries then to see had been closed since one thousand nine hundred. but will open in time for a three day visit by the eritrean president. for the first time in twenty years. resume daily passenger flights to eritrea's capital on tuesday the reconciliation could transform the economy politics and security of the horn of africa region. secretary secure. the council that is partly has nearly passed a resolution to impose an arms and walker on south sudan and extend sanctions to include a current and former government official the proposal was put forward by the u.s. in h

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 that is obvious on the one hand and. on the other hand the troops the young male druze do not sign up they refuse to sign up to this conscription syst

washington at least fifty four people including dozens of civilians have died in as strikes in eastern syria the u.s. led coalition admits it or it's part of forces carried out the raids and there is or province saying they were targeting i sell but woman is to say the strikes hit an ice factory that dozens of families were using as a shelter close to the iraqi border the u.s. coalition says it's investigating the civilian deaths meanwhile a senior envoy to the supreme leader says iran has no intention of leaving syria regardless of u.s. and israeli pressure a statement from ali akbar velayati came in the wake of his meeting in moscow with the russian president vladimir putin both the u.s. and israel want iran to pull out of syria while russia has warned it would be unrealistic to expect iran to fully withdraw from the country or a challenge has more from moscow. well the adviser to iran's supremely leader a man called. has been in moscow for two days now he met with putin on thursday and he's speaking at a forum in moscow today he had some fairly trenchant comments regarding iran's longtime

half hour first in the large weapons discovered in the formally terrorist controlled areas of eastern aleppo. syria came from the west according to an investigation by the war correspondent robert fisk he tracked serial numbers on the missile casings and tried to find out how those weapons then ended up in the hands of terrorists caleb maupin looks more closely at the results of the probe this is a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by those questionable rebels. we got it almost exactly eight o'clock in the morning and it happened at the worst possible time just as thousands of children were killed in the school the first shell actually came in between these buildings and you know that then the children were on their way to school when a mortar shell landed. a few of them were killed that if i knew them they went to mar school the thirteen year old lost her foot in a rebel shelling three week

francis sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern huta in syria russia has agreed to use one of its planes to make the delivery of government forces we took east and go to from rebels in april after a siege which lasted several years protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua those months of political unrest picks up new momentum anti-government demonstrators are demanding president daniel ortega steps down and calls fresh elections. wildfires are raging across the baltics and parts of northern europe better known for cold weather that fears had to evacuate a village as it struggles to stop a huge peat fire it's already declared a national emergency and sweden is going through its worst drought for seventy four years it says it needs help. prevent a bigger disaster and even bother as more. firefighters in sweden say their battle for control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires i think governments appeal for help from other countries it's really france and norway have responded by

france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern huta in syria the supplies will be carried by a russian plane it's the first time a western country has supplied material to government controlled areas of syria with russian help government forces read two piece of goods are from rebels in april after a seize lasting several years about five hundred thousand people live there but very little aid has made it in since april joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says the french move opens the door to the potential for others to engage with the assad government so small amount of aid but it indicates that france has willing to engage with russia and with us in order to supply a. many policy makers that said we're not going to do this no reconstruction no engagement with our side it will legitimize him it will legitimize the russians it will legitimize the iranians they want to roll back iran they want to squeeze a side and bring about regime change and big economic sanctions but this little fe

about but a whole host of issues could be on the agenda from ukraine to nato a large meant in eastern europe to syria let's see if we can pull in our correspondent in moscow on my show when he's been following all of this for us. if you can hear us you know what did you make of these opening comments that we heard from donald trump and that body language we were talking about with tyson. well absolutely i think the opening statements were very interesting particularly when it comes to trump putin kind of said very general things he said that trump that it's time to talk about our relations and about the difficult multinational issues in the world so pretty vague from him but much of what trump said would have been music to put in zero is talking about kind of the importance of getting along with russia talking about this extraordinary friendship and how he's looking forward to having a personal discussion all of these things will be music to vladimir putin's ears and also i thought it was very interesting as well sumi that he mentioned the nuclear weapons issue that is one thing that the two sides co

france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern ghouta in syria russia has agreed to facilitate the delivery government forces reach the east and it's a region from rebels and people. for several years. protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua months of political unrest pick up more momentum anti-government demonstrators demanding president daniel ortega steps down and call fresh elections. a group the rescues migrants in the mediterranean will file a manslaughter complaint against the libyan coast guard the group says three migrants including a child were intentionally left stranded and died as. a desperate rush to save lives it's the moment to rescue one percy stranded migrants in the mediterranean a forty year old woman from cameroon a storm of life but for another woman and a toddler it's too late but the difficulties we've experienced to save just one single life have been unbelievable aid group rock the vote open arms found the migrants and say the deaths were no accident it's accusing libya's coast guard of man

to the program our top story of weapons discovered in the former terrorist stronghold of eastern aleppo in syria have been traced to western manufacturers renowned war correspondent robert fisk identify their origins through their serial numbers and then tried to find out how those weapons ended up in the islamist rebels from kill up and. a weapons factory located in bosnia most likely you have never heard of it but it's here that the weapons were manufactured for one of the bloodiest battles in syria lots of homes were destroyed and lots of civilians were killed in western aleppo by those questionable rebels. we got it almost exactly eight o'clock in the morning and it happened at the worst possible time just as thousands of children would go into school the first shell actually came in between these buildings you know then the children were on their way to school when a mortar shell landed at the end by a few of them were killed near them they went to mar school thirteen year old lost her foot in a rebel shelling three weeks ago and never did this does. the rebels launch the rocket and it's te