june two thousand and seven efraim given rowley a twenty one year old arms dealer from miami beach is negotiating a three hundred million dollar ammunition for the u.s. plan to go on. his albanian contact because the tributes is secretly recording the conversation he wants to prove knows that the seller has links with organized crime . the problem is i don't have a choice the u.s. government or. the united states needs weapons for its allies in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. the guns must be kalashnikovs and other soviet style weapons it's what it allies are used to. speed is of the essence. a year after the coup with gives a rolly. tribute sky is dead many believe the albanian mafia silenced him to stop him from speaking up about a pentagon deal gone bad. tributes because desk gave rise to a scandal that was supposed to change how the american government lies weapons to its allies overseas but the question is has it we set out to investigate just how these weapons find their way into some of the most fragile states on. this is david peck who's he used to be did rowley's business p

i mean the syriansde syria, the ones who are trapped in the siege in hut at that and efraim, they want action and they realize that actipeaks louder than words, and to them, wh the u.n., the security council resolution is not on paper unless it is enforced. seven years of war in syria we have seen that the is very little international community eo actually enforce th resolutions that the security council passes and to enforce the international la that apply, the laws of war that apply here. be thompson: there have moments throughout this conflict over the years where it seemed like, okay, maybe now there be a resolution to this, i mean, over the last year the islamic state was defeated in syria and it seemed like, okay, maybe now this will be a time when the conflict can end. but we vice president seen that happen. i mean, why not? >> well, the islamic state was a common know/foe for a lot of different side actually don't have much in common. they have opposing goals. they have opposing aims. so without that common enemy we have all of the different sides in syria now getting back to l

let's let's pick up there with efraim allen where are these people going and has there been any more of a response to turkey saying once they take back this city they're not giving it up once they take the city rather with the people. when people are leaving afrin they're moving to the south of the city to the only road that's open this humanitarian corridor that's been opened by the free syrian army and the turkish military and from there they're moving into government controlled areas we're hearing that the assault on afrin city which we're expecting for a number of days has no begun with reports of soldiers moving towards the northern outskirts of the city so people are dying in the city as well there's been a number of bombardments and air strikes and that has spread all over the city to a much wider area than we've seen over the last few days were for the united nations warning from a news conference in geneva that they are concerned about the situation after in the sea we're hearing from residents who say that rockets have been placed in residential areas that are also seeing t

recap the headlines for you now on al-jazeera turkey says it may not hand the city of efraim back to the syrian government once its military operation there is over the turkish government says it expects to clear affray in a kurdish fighters very soon thousands of civilians are leaving the area after turkish troops and free syrian army fighters and circled the city turkey launched this military assault in january to clear syrian kurdish forces that control the region. russia's foreign ministry has called u.k. prime minister to rescind may's allegation that moscow was behind a nerve agent attack in england completely insane a spokeswoman said moscow was working on measures in response to britain's expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats at the united nations security council discussed this incident at an emergency meeting on wednesday britain's allies pledged their support but russia is demanding material proof will boris johnson the foreign secretary has been giving a round of interviews this morning he said that the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats had gone far beyond

community groups have responded to the calls turkey should send free syrian army fighters have surrounded efraim and warned they will enter seoul and turkey launch an offensive in a frame in january to clear the area of kurdish why p.g. fighters elsewhere in syria state media say the army has completely surrounded the town of duma isa the capital damascus weakening what is one of the opposition's last strongholds monitors and activists say more than one thousand one hundred people have been killed since the government stepped up its offensive in east and go to three weeks ago alan fischer has more from gaziantep on the turkey syria border. but what has happened in dumas happened elsewhere in syria we've seen it before where first of all the split the area as they did in eastern guta on saturday and there's no surrounded one tone the syrian government forces and but by the russians then turn to use their military advantage to try and gain a political advantage by saying to the fighters maybe you should leave a move to another part of syria as a see that has happened before in this conflict meanwh

stay with us on the news hour still ahead the battle in efraim gets even more complicated and seventeen hundred kurdish fighters head to the front line. the afghan president pursues peace with the taliban but ordinary afghans say they're no more ready to forgive and forget. and they think three in a row or the council winning in the n.b.a. details ahead with far in sports. head of the eastern mediterranean still not a settled place to be its spring storm i suppose you could argue even though any early march in the clouds and look very much but it is part of the system that's just been slowly churning it'll bring significant rain to turkey was a twelve degrees and there's not much risk of snow is that in the high ground to the east to juicy a bit of a breeze so expect a fairly windy time on the coasts and beirut you'll see big waves i think it twenty six degrees as quite warm twenty eight in baghdad the temp is actually relatively high as shot iraq and further south as for iran slow warming trend baku sees eleven degrees and a hint of a circulation which means we're going to win hearts t

turkey's army says it has surrounded the northern syrian city off efraim this marks a major advance in turkish if it's to remove could find his which it fuse as terrorists seven hundred thousand civilians are trapped there this unverified footage is say to show a roadblock prevented residents from leaving. how much will bracks it cost and who will foot the bill german industry leaders are urging berlin to ensure that the business board bear the brunt of britain leaving the e.u. we talked to one of germany's top economists about the impact of brecht's it and how to soften the blow and from dealmaker to deal breaker as donald trump blocks the takeover of u.s. chip maker qualcomm national security really have been hampered by the one hundred twenty billion dollar deal. this is a business i'm crystal coble welcome at a european parliament debate on tuesday e.u. officials urged the u.k. government to speed up. with just one year to go until britain is set to exit the block prime minister theresa may has mainly been repeating the red lines that have been known for years.