those who organize the geneva talks the ok we also have a new session. when you're building this year the platform also delays saudi arabia. facilitated. solidarity among opposition groups we helped it to but the geneva talks again spirit some delays now we have the mosque in cairo opposition groups came together saudi arabia helped in that. but the leaders the who were elected to a spot of this united tell a geisha started to issue ultimatums which were absolutely unacceptable and then they tried to discredit the saudi counterparts who have told us and mr de mistura u.n. special envoy in syria. told us that this delegation would come to geneva without any preconditions for direct contacts with the syrian government so they cheated on. our saudi counterparts are non stop funding as to or from where stefano mistura paid a visit to us together with our defense minister minister shari go with the we explained that the syrian groups have behaved in an acceptable way and at the same time we've been also working with the government so that this use a construct

when they get on tuesday diplomatic editor james baines reports from geneva. the syrian delegation leaving the talks in geneva it's not clear if they'll return their chief negotiator expressing irritation at comments by the opposition side who are still stressing assad must go the language was cocky it is possible politically speaking his position is perhaps surprising his russian allies since their intervention in the war in twenty fifteen have turned things around for assad on the battlefield and in recent months president putin has also been in the driving seat diplomatically reaching understanding's with two countries that had led the campaign against assad turkey and saudi arabia it held an important meeting last month in riyadh in a major reorganization prominent opposition figures quit their posts as members of another group with close links to moscow and derided by some as a sad stooges were admitted to the geneva delegation there's also been an important change of emphasis by the un at previous rounds of talks special envoy stefan de mistura as main a

special envoy for syria is describing the latest round of geneva talks which ended with the progress so far to restore a blames the syrian government because she it is for the failure of the throne of political talks the government is accusing the opposition and stands there which is following those events from geneva the eighth round of negotiations and yet another failure for the united nations in geneva the syrian government's team refused point blank to meet face to face with the opposition counterparts they say no talks will be held with the opposition as long as this insists on present ourselves removal from power. the opposition has presented us with a new position and has imposed preconditions on the talks in geneva these come from their handlers on the other side the un's mediator stefan de mistura couldn't hide his frustration he said courage was needed to win the peace a big missed opportunity i golden opportunity at the end of this year when in fact duty there a clear indication by many thighs that the military operations are coming to a cloth the leader of the opposition

the eighth round of negotiations and yet another failure for the united nations in geneva the syrian government's team refused point blank to meet face to face with the opposition counterparts they say no talks will be held with the opposition as long as this insists on president assad's removal from power and i know what the opposition has presented us with a new position and has imposed preconditions on the talks in geneva these come from their handlers on the other side and it was the un's mediators steffan de mistura couldn't hide his frustration he said carriage was needed to win the peace a big meat opportunity. i golden opportunity at the end of this year when in fact duly there a clear indication by many thighs that the military operations are coming to a cloth the leader of the opposition dedication though was equally forthright pinning the blame for the failure squarely on the shoulders of the team from damascus. the regime has refused to wreck talks refused indirect talks refuse even the agenda put forward by to. rejected everything it means the regime rejected the peace p

communiqué or do solution two to five for i think the geneva could have a chance how about i want tojust refer back to what your guest from moscow are calling for most closer to god in a stunning us than i was meant to be a military and humanistic matter just for disk elation and for the detainees to be released for a cease to be lifted and for aid to get to those besieged. and none of those goals were achieved as they intend they were intended to be unfortunately however russia wanted to use also the platform of a stana to politicize it when they introduced the constitution asserting constitution in one of the rounds and it was rejected and it found just a stunt to be to be not quite helpful in just going into that political track and that's why this matter was invented we can say that national dialogue was mentioned in two to five four but ask me who who is supposed to carry out such political dialogue it is the political transition body that is to be formed after a political transition takes place russia wants to find a political settlement for syria but not through these means an

the eighth round of negotiations and yet another failure for the united nations in geneva the syrian government's team refused point blank to meet face to face with the opposition counterparts they say no talks will be held with the opposition as long as it insists on president assad's removal from power. and which the opposition has presented us with a new position and has imposed preconditions on the talks in geneva these come from their handlers on the other side of the un's mediators stefan de mistura couldn't hide his frustration he said carriage was needed to win the peace a big missed opportunity. i golden opportunity at the end of this year when in fact duty there a clear indication by many sides that the military operations are coming to a kloof the leader of the opposition delegation though was equally forthright pinning the blame for the failure squarely on the shoulders of the team from damascus. of the work of the regime has refused to record talks refused indirect talks or fuse even the agenda put forward by jimmy stewart is rejected everything it means the regime rejec

so you and broken talks on syria resume in geneva after a short break both the government and opposition the president and the jew to meet the un special envoy stephan to the stories edging russia to convince the syrian government that there is no time to lose on reaching a peace deal speaking to swiss t.v. channel mr a said fadia to end the war quickly could lead to a fragmentation of syria across what david chase was in geneva and joins us now and david i want hope that they will listen to teamsters words. well it's it's a statement of fact essentially this peace process being brokered by the united nations is simply going nowhere and the only person that can really intervene to try and kick start successful peace talks will be president vladimir putin of russia but essentially it seems that you can't even get the two sides around the same table let alone in proximity talks in similar rooms close by so the peace process is simply going nowhere at the moment and the delegation the opposition delegations the syrian opposition delegation at the hotel behind me have a palpable sense of des

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al-jazeera geneva. from palestine to pakistan malaysia to japan protests are planned on friday against the u.s. president's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the outrage over don trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem hasn't died down since the announcement last week it was widely condemned with islamic leaders instead declaring jerusalem as the capital of palestine. let's go live now to harry forsett who's in jerusalem so what's planned there today. well so far the scene is although it looks quiet behind me it has been busier than around this time last friday there are a lot of people coming from on buses from the occupied west bank from northern israel as well for friday prayers they're obviously converging here and heading on their way towards the al aqsa mosque compound palestinian factions have called for larger scale protests this week than we saw last week and it also follows just a couple days after the organization of islamic couple cooperati

no end in sight for millions of syrians have suffered years of turmoil after the latest round of geneva talks failed to bring about any hopes of peace all sides are blaming each other for the lack of progress this leaves many syrians continuing to live there on the sea or in camps so a binge of aid reports from this author camp in northern syria. syrian children made homeless in their own country struggle to understand why they have to live in tents of the six and a half million displaced syrians almost three million are boys and girls mohammed remembers going to school before his leg was blown off in an airstrike he blames the assad government. his scars are a painful reminder of the surgery and shrapnel that hit his leg he tires easily these days and misses going out to play football well. it's too hard for me to go to the toilet we go to the caravan used by everyone else i want to proceed to clegg i dream of becoming a driver maybe a pilot or i could study to become a doctor. syrians into our camp were forced to leave their homes in homs city after a three year siege the government t

government said we are above the law we don't have to comply with the geneva conventions this ruling says yes you do you know just on the last point the u.k. high court ruled that the ministry of defense breached the geneva conventions the one nine hundred ninety eight human rights act through on lawful detentions who do you think should bear responsibility for that. well i think we know from the united states that the orders to violate the geneva conventions in fact to exempt the country from the geneva conventions came from the very top of the us political establishment it came from george w. bush i believe it also came from the ministry of defense top officials in the u.k. with the a wink and nod or complicit agreement of the tony blair government so who is really being charged who should be charged i would say it's the top officials of these wars these wars in and of themselves constituted not only a war of aggression which is a crime against peace the greatest crime according to the nuremberg trials but they were also crimes against humanity and they were done systematically it

brokered talks on syria are resuming in geneva after a short break but if the government and opposition sides are present and a jew to meet the un special envoy stephan de mistura is urging russia to convince the syrian government that there is no time to lose on reaching a peace deal speaking to a swiss t.v. channel mr assad failure to end the war quickly could lead to a fragmentation of syria then called on russian president vladimir putin to push the government to accept that there has to be a new constitution and new elections they would say to reports now from geneva. it's the eighth round of negotiations and the syrian delegations have still not met face to face at the same table after nearly seven years of war and deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands of peace appears no closer. the syrian government's team of negotiators in geneva refused to go into direct talks while the opposition is calling for a syria without president bashar al assad. the bombs are still falling on the besieged damascus suburb of eastern goten it's a so-called deescalation zone held by rebels four hu

kamalahmed, bbc news, geneva. man has beenjailed for murdering his toddler stepson almost 50 years ago. david dearlove swung the one—year—old child by his ankles and hit his head on a fireplace in 1968. for decades dearlove lied about what had happened, but then a photo posted on facebook led to the investigation being reopened as danny savage explains. this picture triggered a murder trial. it shows a man called david dearlove with his stepson, paul booth. when this image was posted on facebook, paul's now adult brother went to police, telling them dearlove had murdered the toddler and he had witnessed it. the 21—year—old dearlove in the photo is now 71. almost 50 years later, he was today convicted of murder. back in the late 1960s, he lived with the boys' mother in this house in stockton. on the night he killed his stepson in the living room, he claimed the boy's injuries were accidental, but his three—year—old brother, peter, saw what really happened. he'd crept downstairs for a drink, and through a gap in the

adrian for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up in geneva the u.n. tries yet again to end syria's civil war. zimbabwe's new president announces his team picking loyalists who help to end robert mugabe's long reign. at argentina's navy says that it will continue searching for a missing submarine but the rescue efforts have come to an end. libya has agreed to the emergency evacuation of refugees and migrants facing abuse in its detention camps the plan's been drawn up at a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast it's not clear yet how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries the reports from. the theme of this summit was huge but there is no doubt the from the outset it was dominated by the issue of the refugee slave trade in libya and by migration we heard from the host of the summit the president of the ivory coast in the beginning who said that everyone had a collective responsibility to do something well at the end of the summit what leaders decided is that they would try and repatch reate t

wording of his predecessor special envoy the former secretary general kofi annan who drew up the geneva communique which was signed by the international community in twenty twelve the communique which was later rian dorst by a security council resolution called for a transitional governing body agreed by mutual consent that last bit is important as the opposition has in the past said it would never consent to a sad being part of a transition what's changed is that demas stora has now drawn up a list of twelve principles that he says will guide the negotiations in the future can i also get clarification that you are still seeking to form a transitional governing body with full executive power agreed by mutual consent dear twelve. bring that will point when you will be reading them and you will recall that if them by and we hope to produce this and if there is a dick come on and if the ending are completely constantly inspired by did you never communicated and it twenty to fifty four. but special envoy for at them and they don't know i've not read them but i've read a version of that and

un brokered talks on syria resuming in geneva after a short break the opposition delegation has already met with the u.n. special envoy staff and i'm a store a government representatives are also due to hold talks with them a story he's urging russia's president to convince the syrian government to hold new elections our correspondent david chase is in geneva and joins us live from there how did those talks go. sammy north well it's expected this is a round of negotiations will end will end in failure and we're expecting at any moment now the head of the syrian government delegation bashar al jaafari to give a short statement to the waiting journalists behind me it seems though that as far as the united nations mediator is concerned that it will take pressure from russia from vladimir putin to try and get some concessions from the syrian government and from bashar assad to to get a new review of the fire the peace process because at the moment the whole process is going nowhere the delegation the syrian government delegation will leave geneva tomorrow morning and the opposition group wi

if there are further rounds of talks in geneva which i margin i will be in in the early part of twenty eight the but how the facts on the ground to change things and that will have a massive impact on the negotiating positions of all of those involved time and may been the middle east expert at the university of lancaster in the u.k. thank you simon thank you now russia's sports minister says the country will host an alternative competition following its banned from february's winter olympics in south korea that suspension came after the international olympic committee found evidence of a quote on president and systematic manipulation of the anti-doping system. in less than fifty days around two and a half thousand athletes would descend on pyong chang for the twenty eighteen winter olympics the question is how many russians will be here among them earlier this month i.o.c. president thomas bach announced a ban on russia because of state sponsored doping. this elin pickett launch now appearing some more tremont sure russian athletes will be allowed to compete in pyongyang under a neutr

david chase to al jazeera geneva. well still ahead here on al-jazeera and the british conservative m.p.'s one to reason may or defeat on the promises to make the bricks in negotiations even more complicated. and why a special election in one u.s. state has appended politics. through tranquil the rave you can you. can feel intense in its initial gondola. welcome back will start in the levant and western parts of asia where it is looking quite at the moment not serious indifferent precipitation temperatures struggling down kazakstan maximum of minus one degrees fine around the caspian sea double figures for terra bite that highs of nineteen he saw the mediterranean also looking pretty quiet at the moment for beirut temperatures still getting into the twenty's rather cool with own jerusalem at fourteen degrees heading down into the arabian peninsula we've got twenty four degrees as a high into how but there is just a chance of the odd shower and so it could be cloudy at times but otherwise looking fine so that dropping o

james based reports from geneva the syrian delegation leaving the talks in geneva it's not clear if they'll return their chief negotiator expressing irritation at comments by the opposition side who are still stressing assad must go the language was. the responsible party could be speaking his position is perhaps surprising his russian allies since their intervention in the war in twenty fifteen have turned things around for assad on the battlefield. and in recent months president putin has also been in the driving seat diplomatically reaching understanding's with two countries that had led the campaign against assad turkey and saudi arabia it held an important meeting last month in riyadh in a major reorganization prominent opposition figures quit their posts as members of another group with close links to moscow and derived by some as a sad stooges were admitted to the geneva delegation there's also been an important change of emphasis by the un at previous rounds of talks special envoy stefan de mistura as main aim was a transitional government it is clear the political transition is the

said that no one can tell them what to do we're live in geneva. also the scale of myanmar as a military offensive in its troubled state is thrown into the spotlight. all doctors without borders now believe these six thousand seven hundred. killed during just one month of violence a figure the. official tally plus the mysterious interstellar. space that suiting through our solar system will tell you why a strong. powerful telescopes are trying to determine if it's more than just a rock. and people across india are glued to state elections waiting to see if the prime minister's party will succeed or fail in the place he calls home i made a chapell send us your questions and comments throughout the show using the hash tag. you're with a news group or live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com it's looking like the same old sticking points will stand in the way of any breakthrough at the latest round of talks to end syria's war namely the future of president bush said the opposition's delegation in gene

russia to have the courage to push the syrian government to accept new elections during talks in geneva talking tough on north korea china's president xi jinping pose meetings with his south korean counterparts in beijing saying they will not tolerate war. and hamas calls for a palestinian uprising against israel over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem jerusalem as its capital as the party marks its thirtieth anniversary. we begin in myanmar where at least nine thousand. have died of being killed in just one month of these more than six thousand seven hundred injured were killed in violent attacks following the minute she cracked down in august but mammals government insists the real figure is much lower just four hundred mohammed john ging explains doctors without borders estimate that nine thousand roll hinges died in the month that followed the start of the military crackdown in me and more which began in late august most of the rohinton who died were killed violently. the estimate contrasts sharply with me and mars government total it said four hundred refugees were killed tha

is to help them diplomatic editor james braze reports from geneva. the u.n. says it's the worst humanitarian disaster on earth in yemen the people are suffering from conflict and a continuing cholera epidemic the situation only made worse by a saudi blockade stopping much of the food and medicine from getting to those who so desperately need it the u.n. appeal for twenty eighteen estimates there are in the country twenty two million people in need the situation in yemen is atrocious the number of people in need. of twenty eight million is approaching twenty million seven or eight million of those people are right on the verge of famine and starvation we need to get their paws fully opened so that the fields around the water systems can get in the fuel to get the food ramit country can get in. commercial food as well as the aid food can get in until those things happen the situation will continue to deteriorate and the risk of millions of lives being lost will grow yemen is just one of many civil tenures emergences making this a time of unprecedented need in i

most cases these are conflicts with no end in sight james pais al-jazeera at the united nations in geneva saudi arabia's foreign minister says that the military coalition in yemen is looking at ways to step up the flow of humanitarian assistance it blocked aid earlier this month after a missile was fired from the territory in yemen toward saudi arabia should bear says that the who things should stop fighting and join the political process we hope that eventually the who things will realize that this is not going in and that they will make peace in the area many citizens they have every right to participate in the political process but they can't control the country not if you're fifty thousand and the country is twenty eight. that's ridiculous and so this is where we are we are very concerned about the humanitarian situation in yemen we are looking at ways of intense in the flow humanitarian assistance into yemeni ports and airports in the coming days and few weeks we will make more announcements in this area diplomatic sources have told al jazeera that saudi arabian officials have no obj

reports from geneva. it's the eighth round of negotiations of the syrian delegations have still not met face to face at the same table after nearly seven years of war and deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands of peace appears no closer than. the syrian government's team of negotiators in geneva refused to go into direct talks while the opposition is calling for a syria without president bashar al assad. the bombs are still falling on the besieged damascus suburb of eastern goten it's a so-called deescalation zone held by rebels four hundred thousand civilians are trapped beneath the bombardment the united nations say they're facing a complete catastrophe. syria's opposition arranged a skype call to a mother and her children inside the enclave with delegates from press in the swiss capital on wednesday the video link was far from perfect so the message was powerful. it's unfair and unjust for us to have to store once instead of bread we beg you to break this news. i look through the window and i see

if there are further rounds of talks in geneva which i margin i will be in in the early part of twenty eight the but how the facts on the ground to change things and that will have a massive impact on the negotiating positions of all of those involved time and may have been middle east expert at the university of lancaster in the u.k. thank you simon thank you not to some other stories making news around the world french president manuel mccall has held talks with his palestinian counterpart mahmoud abbas the pair met at the l.s.a. palace in paris to discuss the u.s. is a move to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel now the meeting comes after the united nations voted to reject the session. cuba has postponed the historic transfer of its presidency castro confirmed that he will stay on until april two months longer than planned due to the damage caused by hurricane wilma custer in his late older brother fidel have ruled the country for nearly sixty years and police in western australia say they have made the country's largest ever seizure of metta infamy the one point two ton h

kamalahmed, bbc news, geneva.. 680 jobs will be lost. rbs, which owns both banks, says online banking means fewer customers are using the branches. pope francis has been meeting some of the rohingya muslim refugees who've fled to bangladesh from myanmar after a wave of ethnic violence. the pope asked them for forgiveness — saying the world had been indifferent to their suffering. from bangladesh, martin bashir reports. 0n the fifth day of his visit to south asia, pope francis arrived in typically unpretentious style at an interfaith gathering in dhaka. in the audience were 16 rohingya adults and children who'd fled from myanmar. one of them was 12—year—old shawkat ara. shawkat‘s entire family lived in a village in rakhine state, when the army arrived in september. in recalling what happened, she said, "they shouted, ‘you rohingyas, you bengalis,‘ and then killed everyone. they killed my aunt, my uncle, and others in the village. they killed my whole family, my four brothers. my sister and my parents are dead. i ha

kamalahmed, bbc news, geneva.he united states, have agreed to stop commercial fishing in the arctic ocean for the foreseeable future. once permanently frozen, arctic waters are now amongst the fastest—warming areas on earth. the deal protects nearly three million square kilometres for the next 16 years, while scientific research is carried out into the sustainability of the existing marine ecosystem. prince harry and his fiancee meghan markle have carried out their first official public engagement since they announced they were getting married earlier this week. they were greeted by crowds of well—wishers as they visited a world aids day charity fair. here's our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. as an actress, she's been used to a public stage. she's accustomed to meeting crowds and dealing with fans. little surprise, then, that meghan markle handled her first official public appearance in her new role with considerable confidence. husband—to—be was on hand, solicitous and supportive. there was a lot of eye

kamalahmed, bbc news, geneva.018 football world cup has taken place in a ceremony at the kremlin. our sports news correspondent richard conway, who is in moscow, casts his eye over the draw. the draw has been made here at the kremlin state palace in the heart of the kremlin compound, vladimir putin, russia's president, welcomed all 32 teams to come in and to take all 32 teams to come in and to take a look forward to next summer's tournament, but with russia itself kicking off the entire competition onjune14 kicking off the entire competition on june 1a next year against kicking off the entire competition onjune14 next year against saudi arabia, it will be here in moscow at the stadium. i have been given by fifa a little wallchart, already, so we have the map all laid out of google play where and when, in so some very interesting matches as well, portugal taking on spain, those neighbours clashing once again, it will be a fascinating time. argentina as well, in group d, they will take on iceland who are making thei

well in a lot jacko matt is from the international committee of the red cross in geneva and joins us now thank you so much for being with us here on d.w. . we understand that you know our news network in fact tried to contact the i.c.r.c. team there in yemen but the situation is at a crisis point from what we know what more can you tell us about the conditions being faced there by staff. conditioned and i have been critical over the past days last night so a huge increase in fighting people basically both the inhabitants of santa and i was that have been confined in their own homes caught in between their very heavy clashes on the street and strikes with hundreds of casualties as you said in your introduction people have unlimited quantities of food and water in their home pregnant women to reach hospitals this situation is very dying the. do you have any staff left there in the capital sanaa or have you had to move them out to to safety of a sense. where actually you have to have to stop and santa this morning we have been if you look at it or any of thirteen people that are going t

stefan the mystery is taking part he's usually hold separate talks with syrian representatives in geneva but with the reports of that worsening humanitarian situation in eastern russia he's hoping to get the sides to agree to allow u.n. aid convoys in let's bring in simon megan he's a middle east expert at the university of lancaster in the u.k. hi simon so there are new airstrikes as we said fresh air strikes in eastern and meanwhile stuff and i'm a store is expected in a standard for those peace talks today we've seen so many diplomatic efforts to end the conflict in syria fail is there any real hope for a fresh push for peace. well i certainly hope so but i fear that that might be optimistic right now i think that all sides know what each other wants but but there was this real intractability between the different sides which means that it's increasingly difficult to actually get a resolution that the assad regime wants to stay in power wants to to try to pay all forms of of oppositional forms of armed opposition and reclaim control over all of syria whereas the opposition groups the

sponsored talks in geneva the opposition delegation said that any step that would contribute to peace is welcome. so ana sky is a fellow at the washington institute she focuses on russia's policy towards the middle east and she joins me now from washington d.c. and we appreciate it so much so if you go back two years ago when russia and putin first kind of inserted themselves into syria to now what would you say he has accomplished or has the accomplish what he said helped to accomplish what thanks very much for having me certainly he's accomplished much of what he wanted and that is inserting officially putting russia back in the middle east map keep in mind that he protected assad in multiple ways from the very beginning when protests broke out against assad in march two thousand and eleven so this didn't just you know sort of happen out of the blue in september two thousand and fifteen but certainly the intervention was a game changer and two years now he's he's firmly entrenched russia in the region he has his aim was to expose the west as weak into sort of to present himself as s