syrian government forces have begun shelling the last area under eisel control near the capital damascus the tiny enclave of your move has been under government siege for several years half of that is held by eisel fighters the other half by rival rebel groups government troops say they plan to retake the entire area in the coming days it's mainly home to about six thousand palestinian refugees who move there long before the war in syria began as into her has more from beirut in neighboring lebanon. the syrian army and its allies they've been preparing for this operation for some time now sending reinforcements to the front lines the army announced that they are targeting this enclave a number of districts in southern under the control of. the army moving on following its a victory really in eastern after taking control of eastern from the rebels that setting its sights on this enclave in the south of damascus really wanting to clear the area around the capital around its seat of power now these districts really are not that densely populated unlike eastern and these districts are smalle

it was the location from where the leader of eisel aback al baghdadi declared an islamic state in july two thousand and fourteen the iraqi military says i saw fighters blow up the mosque as they retreated i still blame the damage on the americans the archaeologist the loss of the mosque is a loss for the whole of iraq could have been unlucky until now we don't have an exact statistic of what has been looted or destroyed artifacts the reader on display at the most museums and in other places were damaged or destroyed by eisel generally or information tells us that at least eighty archaeological sites were sabotaged beisel before the military campaign to drive them out began in late two thousand and sixteen. eisel is alleged to have sold off the tax on the international black market in two thousand and fifteen the university college london institute of akio logy reported that antiquities from areas controlled by eisel while openly on sale in london iraki all kill it is say the government has done little to assess the loss because it has more pressing concerns then though has the local au

rex tillerson announced the recovery funding in february during a meeting of the coalition fighting eisel from the thomas with the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs she's a spokesperson for what they do in syria she joins us now from beirut the sky and we appreciate it so the numbers seem to change what is your best understanding of how many people have left eastern mood and how many more people still in need and want to get out of there. sorry well the situation is extremely volatile and we have been watching over the past couple of days tens of thousands of people coming out of school we estimate that over one hundred thousand people have left school since mid march the majority of them have gone to collective shelters and wrote them asking us but we also asked him a that about thirty thousand of them have been evacuated to the direction of live so all of these people need humanitarian assistance also millions you know nitti monetary and aid many of them tell us that they have been living in basements for more than a month many of them are in poor health

president trump says eisel is defeated in syria and he wants u.s. troops to be pulled out soon he also said that if america's allies saudi arabia wants u.s. troops to stay the kingdom may have to foot the bill. for the president's also announced he'll deploy soldiers along the border with mexico he's demanding that mexico prevent a large group of central americans from reaching the u.s. . china has condemned the latest move by washington in a growing trade dispute it says it's ready to retaliate again after being hit with twenty five percent tyrus of more than thirteen hundred items mostly consumer goods a boat carrying almost sixty ranger refugees has now reached malaysia the group began their journey from a bank of ishi refugee camp a bizarre they'd been sheltering there among hundreds of thousands of others who fled violence in me amar their boat headed through southern sea routes where it was intercepted by the time navy stopping on an island in crabby province the group was given supplies and then escorted on its way the vessel was and spotted

well to iraq now where the government has launched strikes against eisel targets in syria prime minister office says iraqi fighter jets carried out a deadly raid against i still in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel from nearly all of its previous territory iraq has stepped up its campaign to clear the remaining i still held areas this week meanwhile hundreds of rebels who are holed up in an area near syria's capital have agreed to lay down their arms in an evacuation deal negotiated by russia members of a rebel group known as the army of islam have already started leaving to manor but to the north opposition fighters and are still holding out despite government as strikes saying harder reports from lebanon. they surrendered without a fight rebels into mayor have agreed to leave accepting an offer from the syrian and russian militaries for safe passage to rebel areas in northern syria hundreds of fighters are to be evacuated along with a few thousand of their family members they didn't want to repeat of the pro-government alliances the military assault against what w

we begin in afghanistan where dozens of people have been killed in a series of attacks by eisel and the taliban it was also the deadliest day for the media since the fall of the taliban at least twenty five people were killed in a double suicide bombing in kabul claimed by eisold nine journalists who rushed to the scene were among those killed by the second blast and al-jazeera cameraman was among the forty five injured b.b.c. afghan service reporter was killed in a separate incident in the eastern province of cost and the taliban suicide car bomb apparently targeting a nato convoy in kandahar killed eleven civilians including children from a nearby religious school jennifer glass reports from kabul on the almost zero zero zero the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike i saw says the target was intelligence headquarters but the explosion killed civilians and policeman in the street edward led to do well for policemen from district nine who were at the front line but were among those martyrs and three policemen who would as well get emergency workers rushed to the scene. to aid the wou

iraq has launched air strikes against eisel targets in syria the government says its final jets carried out what it calls a deadly raid against the armed groups in the border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven i saw for most of the territory it once held iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear remaining pockets of eisel territory the first case of a u.s. citizen detained accused of joining i saw has taken a new turn a judge in washington d.c. has blocked the suspects transferred to saudi arabia where he also has citizenship the unnamed man was detained was allegedly working with eisel in syria last year he's been held in iraq for seven months without charge the case is seen as a test of the trunk of ministrations pledge to get tough on americans who fight for groups united nations says more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes natori province of the democratic republic of congo since the beginning of the year following attacks by militia but the government says only about a tenth of those people have been displaced and that is in control of the crisis wel

president donald trump says eisel is only in syria and he wants u.s. troops to be pulled out soon he also says that if america's ally saudi arabia wants them to stay the kingdom may have to foot the bill 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 seven trillion dollars. in the middle east over the last seventeen years we get nothing nothing out of it well the president has also announced that he'll send soldiers to the border with mexico the u.s. president says the move is needed until his long promised wall is built he's demanding that mexico prevent a large group of central american migrants from reaching the u.s. china has condemned the latest move by washington in a growing trade dispute it says it's ready to retaliate again after being hit with twenty five percent tariff some more than thirteen hundred items mostly known consumer goods moscow has agreed to speed up delivery of a powerful air defense system to turkey a move which is alarmed ankara's nato allies du

rex tillerson announced the recovery funding in february during a meeting of the coalition fighting eisel. many christians in iraq can pray and gather together at easter for the first time since the defeat of beisel and the northern city of mosul the armed group destroyed many churches and christians fled the area now the community is on a mission to rebuild itself but as a man congress boortz it is not without challenges. for many easter is a time to mark the resurrection of jesus christ it's a time of rebirth and reflection and for the christians of home to neo in the nineveh plain in iraq's second city of mosul it's particularly relevant the christian community here is going through its own rebirth when eisel took over the nineveh plains in two thousand and fourteen it tried to destroy the christian community. some fifty five thousand people fled isis violent role from hamdani alone when the group was defeated late last year they started to come back and this is what they found destroyed churches and homes. there is no government support at all it seems that the government does not car

eisel is alleged to have sold off the tax on the international black market in two thousand and fifteen the university college london institute of akio logy reported that antiquities from areas controlled by eisel while openly on sale in london iraq is say the government has done little to assess the loss because it has more pressing concerns then though has the local authorities and the government view iraq's artifacts as something of an accessory and not a crucial issue to worry about the issues of displaced people and security are at the top of their agenda nowadays but if we give it a second thought then we have to admit that the heritage of native a is its identity and the country's heritage. even before iraq was a country sites were looted by europeans and more recently priceless artifacts were hidden away behind closed doors because of the security situation even today in iraq a museum in baghdad a visit is a few but those who do come make the most of it the people's had a taking a group for say that's actually quite a rare thing and something they've only been able to do recentl

another eisel bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote were the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic values and human rights and the afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al jazeera kabul well let's bring in our social media producer and bella nine journalists among the dead in kabul and joy and much of the outrage and tributes are being shared online certainly true condemnation of this attack was swift and global the afghan ambassador to the u.k. saying that there is no term. well enough to condemn the evil and despicable acts of terror that we've seen today that killed many of afghanistan's best talents and most courageous journalists the a.f.p.'s f.p. news agencies chief a target

system detained an accused of joining eisel has taken a new turn a judge in washington d.c. has blocked the suspects transfer to saudi arabia where he also houses them ship the unnamed man was detained while solicit working with iceland syria last year he's been held in iraq for seven months without challenge the cases seen as a test of the trumpet ministrations pledge to get tough on americans who fight for groups. iraq has launched as strikes against eisel targets in syria the government says it's fighter jets carried out what it calls a deadly raid against the on the group in a border area so in an iraqi forces have driven isel from most of the territory it once held in iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear remaining pockets of eisel territory. still ahead head on al-jazeera and flamed by inflated prices they got into the ins protesting a mosque being built the macho of the candles. and a new mom on a mission to make sure however it counts in the u.s. senate. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. probably the weather is now largely fine ac

mosul it's particularly relevant the christian community here is going through its own rebirth when eisel took over the nineveh plains in two thousand and fourteen it tried to destroy the christian community. some fifty five thousand people fled isis violent role from hamdani alone when the group was defeated late last year they started to come back and this is what they found destroyed churches and homes. there is no government support at all it seems that the government does not care about the people here the people here are helpless people return to a hamdani and they only see their houses burned and destroyed and their properties looted and stolen people are spending from their pockets to rebuild their homes while the government did not show any care so far it's a common complaint from iraqis who feel the government has abandoned them the iraqi government is seeking money to rebuild for meisel areas it's appealing to the international community for help and says it needs one hundred billion dollars nowhere near enough cash has been pledged so far people like no idea how to contact in

fight is in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel from nearly all of its previous territory iraq has stepped up its campaign to clear the remaining i still held areas this week a palestinian cyclist from gaza has been forced to abandon his dream of representing his country at the asian games after his leg was shattered by an israeli bullet twenty one year old ali is one of several palestinians whose limbs had to be amputated off to being shot by israeli forces palestinian authorities say the israeli government refused to let elderly be sent to the west bank to receive treatment he was among thousands of people who've been rallying for weeks to mount palestinians expulsion from their ancestral lands. the former new york mayor rudy giuliani is joining us president donald trump's personal legal team giuliani is a long time friend and supporter of trump will be part of the team dealing with special counsel robert miller as investigation into possible collusion with russia lead lawyer john dowd resigned last month off to clashing with the president over the munna probe.

soldiers since twenty fourteen as part of an effort by the african union to defeat al shabaab and eisel turkey has been one of the biggest investors in somalia also drawing attention to the humanitarian crisis there the president richard typer the one was the first foreign leader in recent years to visit the country in twenty eleven arab states also play a role in influencing and supporting somalia but none have as big an impact as cattle a strong ally of turkey. ok let's get going with our guests joining us from washington is up the lucky how lucky a horn of africa analyst and in nairobi joining us on skype is muhammad ali he is the somalia country director at a desk oh that's an. organization welcome to you both muhammad ali just give us a brief sense of the backstory to these current tensions well. i think it's an issue of. human qualities that's the way i would oh this might take i shouldn't have been. in the service is provided by men to do you know service is a critical service is that our lives. and i think that's one of the biggest problem . is issues that your years made in ter

fighter jets carried out a deadly raid against iceland a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel from nearly all of its previous territory rebels in a syrian town meanwhile near the capital damascus have agreed to hand in that weapons under a deal negotiated by russia a fight is in demand being evacuated to rebel held areas in northern syria hundreds of rebels are leaving alongside their families and riot police in paris have used pepper spray and take gas against protesters who are out taking part in strikes and rallies across the country this is the latest in weeks of demonstrations by railway employees public sector workers and students against present and the new electrons plan reforms for public services and universities well more now on cuba and future the future for the country under the new leader in the string. and here in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube for the first time in sixty years cuba has a new president whose last name isn't castro so what will new leadership mean for the country. thursday president roh castro stepped down handing over power to his fi

which is also leading a coalition that includes kurdish fighters to get rid of eisel this is america's nato ally turkey which considers the kurds a terrorist group and a threat along its border with syria has recently launched an offensive north of syria to clear the area of kurdish fighters alexei kaepernick off in moscow how far is russia willing to go to support bashar assad. well as moscow. a retailer it numerous times it's not supporting the in do in person it supports the state structures the institutions the state from from collapse and as usual as usual moscow puts in example the story of iraq afghanistan libya where the collapse of state institutions basically ended up in a in a chaotic situation so this is the first thing russia i mean it claims to support the regime but the state sovereignty institutions secondly about how far russia would go it's wary complicated situation in terms of that many experts see it as russia having a huge leverage over us so if to look at this from other angle russia is kind of trapped itself in this situation because it cannot pick up it cannot

the government siege and continuous bombardment it's estimated there are one thousand two hundred eisel fighters in yarmouk and the surrounding neighborhoods. the plight of syrians in battle zones on the country's future is the focus of a major e.u. summit today representatives from more than eighty countries aid groups and agencies are meeting in brussels the e.u.'s foreign policy chief become a greenie has called on russia and iran to do more to end the conflict and as the secretary general of the norwegian refugee council he is at the conference he says as syria's government takes back territory the focus needs to be on supporting refugees and helping them home. this is a massive relief operation these food water sanitation shelter. education but also. their livelihoods. production that we now need to see we need to give hope to a whole generation of syrian youth that have really seen nothing but war they need to have education vocational training and then we need to help them into livelihoods it's very dangerous to say to a whole generation of of of syrians you will you will you wil

citizen detained and accused of joining eisel has had his transfer to saudi arabia blocked by a judge in washington d.c. the unnamed man who also has some of these citizenship was detained while allegedly working with ice and syria last year he's been held in iraq for seven months without charge the case is seen as a test of the trumpet ministrations pledge to get tough on americans who fight for armed groups. now south and north korea have set up a hotline between their leaders ahead of their summit next week j n n kim jong un planned to meet on the southern side of the militarized zone next friday and that will pave the way for a much anticipated summit between kim and u.s. president donald trump that stew to take place next month or in early june moon says the north is committed to complete denuclearization. i mean marcotte is set to decide whether to charge to watch as journalists accused of disclosing state secrets while on and. rested in december while covering the military's crackdown on the hinge of muslim population a felon guilty the journalists could face up to fourteen yea

still work to be done withdrawal of the two thousand military advisors and special forces could allow eisel to regain a foothold in the region we shouldn't go into iraq on the campaign trail trump pushed an america first agenda arguing foreign conflicts have cost taxpayers too much it's a point he reiterated on tuesday well meeting with baltic leaders seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing. it's perhaps one reason trump is excel orating withdrawal timeline the other is russia trump has argued nobody has been tougher on russia than i have a withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria would be a win for russian president vladimir putin whose forces have supported the syrian government of bashar last throughout the conflict oh it would also be a victory for iran israeli government believes the iranians are planning to use their forces in syria to attack israel accusation iran denies but one analyst thinks trumps desire to pull the united states out is simply part of a bigger strategy i think it's probably a good idea to put that on the table because it forces people to ne

a spray can again of his desire to pull american forces out of syria suggesting that victory over eisel is imminent the u.s. is launching airstrikes almost every day in the war torn country and has around two thousand troops on the ground president trump says if the saudi allies want america to stay the kingdom they have to pay for it alan fischer reports from washington. the president insists he's never been keen on america's foreign military adventures seeing the cost too much money thank you at a news conference at the white house with leaders of three baltic countries donald trump insisted his decision on withdrawing from syria is coming quickly i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation think of it seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing nothing except death and destruction. it's a horrible thing so it's time it's time. to fish really the u.s. mission in syria is to provide advice and support for forces battling against isis the president's latest statement marks a shift from a comment he made just last w

has spoken again with his desire to pull american forces on to servia suggesting that victory over eisel is imminent would trump says of allies like saudi arabia want to america to stay in syria they have to pay for it the leaders of iran russia and turkey are meeting in for a summit on syria seven year war iran's president hassan rouhani and russia's vladimir putin supports the vias bashar asad while turkey backs the opposition all three have been keep our brokers in the conflict with a significant military presence in syria. a boat carrying nearly sixty one hundred refugees from bangladesh has reached malaysia and are being processed by immigration staff they had been sheltering in bangladesh with hundreds of thousands who fled violence in myanmar. and the myanmar court has delayed ruling on the fate of two voters journalists who are currently being detained the decision on whether to dismiss the case has been delayed next week wallow in and work accused of possessing secret government documents rights groups that are being targeted for reporting on the hinge of crisis. a second day of

syria's government has continued to pummel a suburb of the capital damascus to force out eisel facesthey've agreed to leave the southern on place but to get to surrender the area they occupy which includes the palestinian refugee camp is one of the last near the capital that hasn't fall and pro-government forces police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed four people in the u.s. state of tennessee police say that travis ranking opened fire in a national restaurant on sunday ranking was arrested last year for being in a restricted area near the white house his gun ownership privileges were revoked by the f.b.i. and those are the headlines the news continues here after this week's listening post next. on counting the cost the trade war a real war and rising debt find out why the i.m.f. and the world bank a warning of risks to the global economy what saudi arabia is ideal world price and the castro year ends in cuba but an economic blockade remains counting the cost on al-jazeera. rescue workers. right now.

has continued to pummel of suburb of damascus with artillery and aerial bombardments of foresight eisel fighters have said they'll leave the enclave in the capital south but i get to surrender to pro-government forces the area is the last still under rebel control near the syrian capital and it includes the palestinian refugee camp well further north in syria rebel fighters from the district a column on have arrived in northern aleppo as part of one of the evacuation deals negotiated by regime russia any of the fighters belong to the armed group. explains. it's been a long journey for these syrians rebel fighters and their families were forced from their homes in eastern. and sent on buses to northern syria the rebels had no choice they were taught to surrender or face seeds and bombardment. color moon in mountainous area near the capital damascus was once a rebel stronghold but government troops have recently managed to recapture most of the area following a military offensive. we have lost the war will remain strong we will return to our homes we have been oppressed for fifty years wh

out what it calls a deadly raid against in a border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven eisel for most of the territory it once held iraq stepped up its campaign this week to clear the remaining pockets of ice or territory. cuba has a new president after six decades of castroville miguel diaz kyle was sworn in on thursday succeeding eighty six year old castro a latin america editor lucien newman reports from havana. a historic moment without a story except chapter but with a similar script. under-supply president raul castro passed on the baton to his chosen successor. clearly not to be governing alone. or going to the generation off adel and remains intact comment army general role castro will remain the first secretary of the communist party and as such will lead the major decisions of our country now and in the future. these canelo is a communist party cater cording to castro has passed all the tests of loyalty to the cuban revolution. but the real end of the castro era will take another three years from. when the a party congress and the gradual and orderly transfer of our mai

iraq strikes against eisel targets in syria the government says it's fighter jets carried out what it calls a deadly raid against the group in the border area syrian and iraqi forces have driven leisel from most of the territory it once held iraq stepped off its campaign this week to clear the remaining pockets of eisel territory. the united nations says more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes in the tory province the democratic republic of congo since the beginning of the here following attacks by bullish or bust the government says only about a tenth of those people have been displaced and that it is in control of the crisis . of the conflict in a tory province and sent this report. rochelle good to see will never know her two older sisters militia killed them with machetes before cutting her we met her family in this camp for displaced people in the democratic republic of congo they fled their village when the militia attacked who ran into more fighters down the road also cut off her sister's arm her father told us how his wife was killed. i was running behind m

for backing eisel fighters in syria you also called on all policies to respect syria's independence and territorial integrity that his president said this could only happen if it distance itself from what it called terrorist groups. what other will earn. as a guarantor country it's important to attain the territorial integrity of syria these fights have to be ended in the country has to be rebuilt on this we are in agreement the syrian public the civilians of those who are losing as a result of these fights there is a difficult process ahead of us but the light at the end of this tunnel is getting brighter we will not allow the face of syria to be darkened by terrorist organizations yet tad as. we stressed the territorial integrity of syria the sovereignty of syria and the unity of syria the independence of syria should be set as a very high priority on this is what the people of syria want. as i'm now joined in the studio by a senior political analyst marwan bashar and so we have two leading back as of president bashar al assad meeting with what has been perhaps up until now one of his

vatican many christians in iraq can pray and gather at easter for the first time since the defeat of eisel the city of mosul where the armed groups destroyed many churches on the community there saying they're trying to rebuild their lives because a man called reports from baghdad it's not without challenges. for many easter is a time to mark the resurrection of jesus christ it's a time of rebirth and reflection and for the christians of home to near in the nineveh plain in iraq's second city of mosul it's particularly relevant the christian community here is going through its own rebirth when i still took over the nineveh plains in two thousand and fourteen it tried to destroy the christian community. some fifty five thousand people fled isis violent role from hamdani alone when the group was defeated late last year they started to come back and this is what they found destroyed churches and homes. there is no government support at all it seems that the government does not care about the people here the people here are helpless people return to a hamdani and they only see their houses bur

welcome to the program syrian government forces have begun shelling the last remaining area on the eisel control near the capital damascus. has been under a government siege for several years as well half of it is held by eisel fighters by rival rebel groups government troops say they plan to retake the whole area in the coming days well much of it is a densely populated camp it's mainly home to palestinian refugees who moved there long before the war in syria. joins us live now from the lebanese capital beirut of the syrian army has announced the start of this offensive against in the south of damascus what more do we know. the syrian army and its allies they've been preparing for this operation for some time now sending reinforcements to the front lines the army announced saying that they are targeting this enclave a number of districts in southern to mask under the control of ice. so the army moving on following it's a victory really in eastern after taking control of eastern from the rebels and setting its sights on this enclave in the south of damascus really wanting to clear the ar

another eisel bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote were the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic that. and human rights many afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al-jazeera kabul. one of those journalists killed in kabul was f p's chief photographer in afghanistan shah maher i had rushed to the scene of the first blast to cover the story french news agency has shed a selection of his best work bar i was a father of five and wrote in two thousand and sixteen about how his family had been scared to leave the house he said he never felt life have to have so few prospects and cold at a time of anxiety well honeyed keamy is a research associate at the think tank chatham house was pr

next step what happens after that and the white house has been concentrating largely on defeating eisel and reducing the caliphate as donald trump is referred to several times on twitter and certainly they would like to see some sort of peace settlement in syria but they've moved away from the idea that president assad needs to be in a place where there is no doubt that the president of france left those phone calls with donald trump very clear on donald trump's commitment although obviously given the statement snow coming out of the white house saying there is no change in their policy nothing has altered as far as their ideas and syria has can sound president mccraw may have left those conversations with a different impression of what donald trump was actually seeing syria also featured high on the agenda at the arab league summit in saudi arabia twenty two member body is divided over the issue of those airstrikes saudi arabia bahrain a lot of previously issued statements in support of the action while egypt iraq and lebanon have expressed concern. montenegro's ruling party has declar

another eisel bombing last week killed at least sixty people and injured one hundred ten afghans lined up to register to vote with the target not only in kabul but elsewhere too in kandahar in southern afghanistan a suicide car bomb attack on a nato convoy killed at least eleven civilians including children several nato soldiers and afghan policeman were injured the afghan president has described these attacks as were crimes terrorist acts in conflict with islamic values and human. right and the afghans blame the government for not doing enough to prevent them jennifer glass al jazeera kabul earlier i spoke to major investigative journalist who used to be based in afghanistan she says the attack is a devastating blow for the small tight knit media community there and i think today is meant to go down as one of the deadliest is an afghan media press history and and press is one of the few sort of you know big accomplishments of the post nine eleven order compared to other countries in the region compared to iran pakistan especially what's happening. in you know certain countries in the

the country or pro-government forces have surrounded the can after taking several neighborhoods from eisel and other rebel groups saying a ha there are reports from a vote in neighboring lebanon. another evacuation deal another surrender fighters belonging to him. an armed group formerly known as al nusra front are leaving their enclave in southern damascus they were face to little choice they were under siege and under fire their families are accompanying them to the opposition controlled northwestern province of. this powerful but the armed group had to make concessions such as agreeing to release dozens of prisoners and allowing thousands of syrians from the besieged loyalist towns of. to leave to government controlled territory pro-government forces have long wanted to fully evacuate the predominantly towns because that would deny the rebels the ability to pressure damascus by threatening to target them it's another win for the syrian government and its allies so it's a force agreement of its kind in recent weeks rebels have already surrendered eastern hutto which was their main strong

here on al-jazeera al-jazeera gaining exclusive access to a prison where the afghan government holds eisel fighters. also ahead picking up the pieces six months to somalia's deadliest attack we look at a busy market is back in business when we come back. how to spring has been across much shelf europe cola fresher weather making its way in from the atlantic a little less speckling of shock clouds there across the northwest across the british isles some west of weather coming in across the baltic states through scandinavia some rather wet weather too into that western side of the mediterranean we have got this area of cooler air coming through there behind our cold front winds coming in from a northwesterly direction or as a showery direction that's going to the cases because one through thursday a similar day the way to stay in fact fourteen or fifteen south is for london and paris where the system does make its way further southward so just easing down across southern germany into the alps into austria still a fair bit of cloud across that western side of the mediterranean for the race we

advisers the pentagon says about two thousand troops are based in syria to prevent a resurgence of eisel. bollywood actor someone car has been sentenced to five years in jail for poaching an antelope karn hunted the protected animal in one thousand nine hundred eight it happened in the state of raja stan while he was shooting a film. ministers from egypt sudan and ethiopia are resuming talks on and his adverse dam project on the river nile the ground renesas down was originally slated for completion this year but disagreements between egypt and ethiopia have led to the two year suspension of talks those were the headlines more news in thirty minutes here on al-jazeera but next we continue with a.j. selects to stay with us. we were caught early days that on. tuesday. nobody. costs. go. up.

are agreed to a peace deal despite a large french military and un peacekeeping presence france says eisel is the greater us it's in the greater so horrid has been using northern mali as a haven ne a kuwaiti is the executive director of the african immigrant caucus he thinks these latest attacks are an attempt to prove to provoke rather the target into a larger conflict. the two iranians have hired. conflicts and disagreements with whichever government has been embalmed uncle ever scenes independence in one thousand nine hundred sixty because their asses separate ethnic groups have always argued that they want to separate want their own country now that is very hard for them ali has to accept and reality for all of africa to us because it is based on walther and ethnicity and there are only five percent of the mali and population and they will be landlocked and so they have always argued it did for this as you mentioned as few years back the inside and the most recent. peace deal with the government was so five p. as to be holding why will the terrorist target them it will seem that. they

next step what happens after that and the white house has been concentrating largely on defeating eisel and reducing the caliphate as donald trump has referred to several times on twitter and certainly they would like to see some sort of peace settlement in syria but they have moved away from the idea that president assad needs to be replaced where there is no doubt that the president of france left those phone calls with donald trump very clear on donald trump's commitment although obviously given the statement snow coming out of the white house saying there is no change in their policy nothing has altered as far as their ideas and syria has can sound president mccraw may have left those conversations with a different impression of what donald trump was actually seeing now days after that suspected chemical attack which killed more than forty people in duma syrian government forces say they've now retaken the rebel pockets in the east in the quarter or so in the holder of forts. it's being described as the biggest victory for syrian president bashar al assad since the start of the conf

make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel and aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb and it doesn't come from europe and not even from france the meeting between u.s. president donald trump and french president emanuel mccraw has highlighted key policy differences between the two leaders their divisions mccraw may address on wednesday before a joint session of the u.s. congress can really help that al-jazeera at the white house president warns tehran of bigger problems if it restarts its nuclear program while the iranian foreign minister said his country may abandon the deal if the u.s. pulls out. we've said that the united states has not lived up to its to its side of t

of its annual spring offensive meanwhile al jazeera has gained exclusive access to a prison where eisel fighters detained by the afghan government are being held hundreds of them have traveled to afghanistan over the past two years as the on group most territory in syria and iraq. the story. these men have been recently detained the sum of up to four thousand eisel fighters thought to be waging a war against the afghan government mr of them foreigners. they asked me to join a training center nanga har that's where i met people from pakistan iran a spec a stand and balochistan there were four brigades in the center this man says he was tricked into joining the armed group you know i was in russia then i traveled to iran and then to afghanistan when i arrived i realized that being called my goal was to study sharia. since i saw entered afghanistan two years ago it's been behind a number of attacks. in december claimed responsibility for an attack on a shia cultural center that killed forty one people in kabul. a month later i saw fighters stormed the offices of save the children in manger

a year on fear of the passion tribes who live here adjoining eisel they remain war weary after decades caught up in the taliban's rebellion barbara and al-jazeera. turkish journalists working for an opposition newspaper have been convicted of helping so-called terrorist organizations of courtney is standalone has handed out multiple sentences to fourteen staff employees in a trial seen as a test case for press freedom in the country they remain free pending an appeal three others were cleared the turkish government has been accused of serious violations of media freedom including locking up dissenting journalists a palestinian reporter asked where abu hussein will be laid to rest in gaza he died on weapons day from injuries he sustained while covering the protests on the gaza border with israel two weeks ago abu hussein was shocked when israeli forces used live fire against unarmed palestinians of these thirty six palestinians have been killed in the past month that border area. thousands of yemenis the protested to condemn a saudi led airstrike that killed a senior who feel leader las

troops out of syria as the fight against eisel is almost complete and he added that their continued presence may depend on someone else that in the bill. our primary mission in terms of that was getting rid of isis we've almost completed that task and we'll be making a decision very quickly in coup ward nation with others in the area as to what we'll do saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well do you want us to say maybe you can have to pay but a lot of people you know we do a lot of things in this country we do him for we we do it for a lot of reasons but it's very costly for a country and it helps other countries a hell of a lot more than it helps us well alan fisher has more now from washington. we could go donald trump was in ohio at a big political rally there he suddenly said that we were going to put a load of syria and that withdrawal is imminent and there was general george dropping around washington because people in the establishment had thought and had said that the united states is in there for the long haul they were looking at establishing a base even thoug

announced the recovery funding in february during a ministerial meeting of the coalition fighting eisel the us state department has not confirmed the funds are being withheld. tonight survivors of the war in syria are using social media to appeal for help in the syrian government's recent bombardments of eastern ghouta killed more than a thousand civilians including three hundred fifty children fifteen year old mohammed najem managed to escape the besieged enclave he moved to which is also under attack so you know holder has a story. mohammad survived. one of the fiercest offensives in syria's war he managed to leave after rebels in the enclave surrendered but remained in fear the fifteen year old moved to the opposition controlled provinces targeted by airstrikes ordered by the syrian government and its allies. i hope they don't destroy the way they destroyed. the regime cannot be trusted i don't know maybe we will die here on our fate is to die here especially since the world. following years of siege tens of thousands of civilians were trapped in the war zone for more than a month al

a week now since government forces in syria launched a campaign to regain the area of yarmouk crum eisel fighters sits in the southern part of the capital damascus which was once syria's biggest palestinian refugee camp home to around one hundred sixty thousand people but most of now fled because of the government siege and continuous bombardment it's estimated that there are one thousand two hundred eisel fighters still in yarmouk and in surrounding neighborhoods well the plight of syrians in battle zones in the country's future is the focus of an e.u. summit representatives from more than eighty countries aid groups and agencies are meeting in brussels the u.n. says the turn as at the conference pledged four point four billion dollars in aid for syrians and the country's hosting the foreign policy chief federica mockery any says that all members present at the summit agreed on three key issues. one is that there is no military solution to the war in syria and that there is a need that everybody recognized to relaunch the political process the second element on which i have not found an