syria to hezbollah. we don't know the details, obviously, but it is impossible to think about the kind of complaint that syria wants to put to the united nations when it has systematically ignored past united nations' resolutio resolutions. for them now to go to the united nations and seek redress i think is beyond the pale. >> this is an attack on the country's sovereignty. >> right, technically speaking syria is entitled to put its grievance to the security council, but the security council is composed of members presumably like countries are members of the united nations to obey or follow the rules of the united nations. if in the past syria has not followed those recommendations i think it would be very difficult for security council members to take into account syria's grievances. >> why would this happen right now? as you're saying, it's not the first time. we saw it in 2013 several times. why not can you? ga. >> because the israelis have some kind of intelligence, trying to show that there are tra

on the other hand, you have has bulla -- hezbollah.he risk is that if one of these actors chooses not to be satisfied anymore with the implicit rules of this game, then you could have an escalation and the risk of the region being plunged into another episode of cross-border violence. >> thank you so much for that. gallagher fenwick from jerusalem. israel was pivotal in stopping a nuclear deal with iran last month, says benjamin netanyahu. israel has publicly criticized to the u.s. on the u.n. talks. the u.s. has stepped in to reassure its ally israel, insisting that washington would never let iran get a nuclear bomb. more on that story. >> pressure on the international community to ratchet up pressure on iran. >> a deal was not signed last night it would have left iran as a threshold nuclear power. our voice and our concerns played a critical role in preventing that deal. now we must seize the time to increase the pressure on iran to dismantle its nuclear weapons capabilities. >> benjamin netanyahu's comments came as the u.s. secretar

however, the europeans do not have any contact with hezbollah.ome of those officials are probably hoping the europeans will make that same kind of distinction between is political wing and armed factions. but it's acidly not getting a vote at this point by eu -- but it is absolutely not getting a vote at this point by eu officials. >> palestinians are saying they're going ahead with their bit bid for statehood, no matter what. this is after palestinian officials said u.s. secretary of state john kerry threatens the u.s. would use its veto power in a un security council vote today . that is on a resolution that would set a deadline two years from now for the end of the israeli occupation. >> neither side is budging. palestinians say john kerry warned the u.s. would veto its bid for statehood, but they are not backing down. the secretary of state tried to convince the palestinians not to rush ahead with a draft resolution, putting a two-year deadline for a full with really -- full israeli withdrawal. >> right now, we are trying to have a constructi

hezbollah and israel, i should say, have long had a very acrimonious history, have fought conflicts against each other, and it would be unsurprising that israel would tribe to prevent them from acquiring such weapons, whatever the case, the israeli government not admitting publicly that it carried out these strikes. >> what do we know about what is going on in the knesset ahead of the dissolving parliament? >> reporter: that's right, israeli lawmakers are in parliament, and they're debat ing a number of issues, but we do understand that at some point this evening, possibly early in the morning or, indeed, some time on tuesday they will vote to dissolve parliament. now, that, of course, will bring elections to be held in march of next year, but the fact that parliament is dissolving so soon after the last election, which was only two years ago, under scores how unstable the political situation here in israel is. the last time we saw a government dissolve so soon after the previous elections was 50 years ago. many are seeing this election, which again, will likely be announced in the coming h

iran basically helped create hezbollah.t's a stunning achievement of the 1979 islamic revolution in iran's mindset. done to that has to be protect hezbollah will be done. assad is key to protecting. that could lead to hezbollah's destruction, or in many ways, jeopardy. really iran is going to work hard to dissuade from its playbook in syria, which is unconditional basic supportive training, arming and they are recruiting all sorts of she is, pakistani shoes, afghan is,is, they are chechen she she is from all over the place, iran is summoning them to the syria battlefield. and so iran is really going all out. what gets around to change its playbook? -- iran to change its playbook ech? what gets them to change would be the fear, the perception, that is sought is going to lose. until there is a perception that us on is going to fall, iran will not change. this gets us into a whole discussion of what needs to be done to create that perception. we can talk about that in the q&a. white of the washington institute put out a great

they support hezbollah. hezbollah has been helping the regime. the regime is killing the moderate opposition. and we are having training sites throughout the region to train more moderate syrian rebels to help us. at the same time through hezbollah, iran is killing them. >> leads to the question of nuclear talks with iran. you have talked in the past about the imposing sanctions. the talks have been extended for another several months. >> you know, we had a great hearing yesterday. we had private witnesses. i'm getting ready to leave in a few months to a briefing where we are going to have a classified input. we had some private witnesses. i think everyone with the iran issue that i know of and highly involved, i think people are searching for the appropriate outcome. legitimate concerns on both sides of the aisle on where the administration started. people are tend to figure out what is the best way to help get this to a place we all would feel comfortable with? trying to understand the dynamics of the association of home that congress could pla

isis aspires to do to us what hezbollah, what iran and what al-qaeda have already done. >> the point that you made quite strongly in the hearing, you also took a tough stance in the statement you made saying westerners who fight for isil shouldn't just be monitored if and when they go home, they should be put behind bars. >> well, the u.n. security council said the same thing, and a u.n. security council resolution requires all member states to criminalize going to the middle east and fighting with isis and i don't think you can draw a line between somebody who's part of the isis army and somebody who shoots a gun as part of the isis army. this idea that isis soldiers could walk the streets of copenhagen while monitored is simply absurd. >> you noted that destroying isil is impossible without huge american casualties which you said was almost impossible in the present decade. what are we going to have to do, are we going to have to live with this threat? >> we have to minimize the threat, live with the threat and minimize the fear and the dislocation caused by the threat. we are not

syrian military and hezbollah were targeted in the strikes. israel is refusing to comment. deputy secretary chuck hagel arrived in kuwait, greeted by several military leaders when he arrived. it followed a surprise visit to afghanistan. more now on our top story, the detainees released from guantanamo bay. daniel schweimler is on the ground. he tells us how the men are settling in, and how the people of uruguay are reacting to their president. >> the six former detainees from guantanamo arrived in the capital in the early hours of the morning, to be met by nobody, really. some officials from the uruguayan government, lawyers in many cases are here to see the transition, to what is really a new life for the six men, four syrians, tunisian and a palestinian. five were taken to the military hospital. another one who has been on hunger strict for some of the last few weeks protesting about his treatment in guantanamo. he was taken to a different hospital, said to be in a weakened state and i said a while ago to his lawyer that he is very, very weak, but delighted to be here in

this is being reported by syria and state television and a hezbollah-backed tv station in lebanon. cnn international correspondent jim weedman joining us. what more can you tell us about these reported air strikes and why? >> there were two air strikes around dusk. one at a storage facility at damascus international airport, and another one which is on the highway between damascus and the lebanese capital. now, of course, the syrian media as well as the syrian army have accused israel of launching these air strikes. however, as is customary in these cases, they are declining any -- attacks on syria. now, there have been a series of air strikes on damascus and other syrian cities since the beginning of 2013 that are widely attributed to israel. israel apparently is very worried about the possibility of advanced weapon systems being shipped from syria to hezbollah. >> what's the message, if any, from israel. >> certainly i think if you look at the way they look at the syrian conflict they want to stay out, but they're very concerned about the possibility of weapon systems, a, being s

no one can doubt that the iranians, the syrian government and hezbollah have the -- have a capacity to get their agents into western countries in the united states after all, there's an iranian embassy just a couple of hundred miles north of where we sit at the united nations. as to al qaeda, their capacity to carry out attacks in the west was demonstrated on september 11 and the khorasan group which we headed in 2002 was headed into syria as a part of and alliance request the al nusra front, just as important as destroying isis is what would occupy it's deolo. we have to prevent foreign fighters from joining isis, but the turks seem much more focused on what they see as their enemies, assad and many of the kurdish fighters. they have not allowed us to use interlink to attack isis, unless we alter our policy and decide to use our air force against assad. whether we should do that depends in part as to who would take over syria if assad were destroyed, right now al nusra and isis seem to be first and second in line, perhaps not in that order. in addition to president does not have the l

hezbollah officials said the targets were hezbollah as far as to air missiles and drones destined for the lebanese-israeli border. the sent terrorist party called the strikes political saying it was the beginning of the netanyahu's campaign, and as we heard, we will focus on security. that gives you a sense of how high the stakes are here. >> nick schiffron, live for us in jerusalem, thank you. >> the obama administration is issuing new guidelines on racial profiling, banning federal law enforcement officials from targets officials based on religion, national origin or other cashing san francisco. they hope this will serve as a model. >> as part of the my brothers keepers initiative, that program was launched to empower america's young black men. >> a messy week in the east as a coastal storm movers in. kevin has more. tell us. >> it's going to be messy, a lot of snow. i'm not a fan of winter. we have two elements coming together, one across the great lakes is bringing snow and ice, parts of wisconsin. >> the energy is going to merge and this is the forecast for tomorrow on tuesday. a

for hezbollah. weapons going down from that airport into lebanon. >> in temples of whether we are going to hear anything from israel, "a," do we think we will, would it be typical? and "b," bigger picture, in this unstable region, what is syria and assad going to do about it. >> i don't think the israelis will say much. they've done this in the recent past. this is is not without precedent. assad is going to come back and say this is about aiding a terrorist, as he's already said. this has nothing to do with the fight. there's not much he can do about it. >> how big is this on the scale of things to be concerned about in the region? >> i think racked and stacked against what we're dealing with in syria, al nusra front, arming the opposition, this is a close second. this is way down the line. >> this is way down the line. i want to talk to you about another case we've been following closely. that is what happened in yemen and the u.s. -- the united states trying to rescue luke somers, the american ho

>> coming out of syria, and from the hezbollah television-run network saying that at least two air str air strikes this afternoon and one on a storage area outside of damascus airport and another one on the military area near demus near damascus and the lebanese border, and according to hezbollah and the men ags, r tv and the syria-run tv, no casualties in the attacks, and israel for the most part is taking the customary position of declining to comment on the e e reports and certainly since early 2014, there have been a number of air strikes near the mediterranean coast which have been attributed to israel, but no israeli official has ever conceded that these attacks took place, and although american officials have in the past said that it was israel that did them. now, normally, under these circumstances, the understanding is that israel is very concern canned about sophisticated weapons systems being shipped pr syria to hezbollah which is of course a ally of syria in lebanon, but at this point, no word whatsoever from israeli officials about possible involvement this these two air s

he was unknown even in hezbollah which nominally was under that umbrella. there maybe three may be three or four people. >> nobody that could be turned? >> never a defector from the other side. we had one of the other hostage takers, from the iranians, but never in his group was there anybody that came out that betrayed him. >> in your book you were worried one point but you're going to get hit by him. >> definitely they were looking at us. the problem is i grew up in middle-class and i didn't grow up in a war zone. you take people that have been in the civil war and their families are getting killed and they are killing people. they tend to figure out what you're they are doing and it's the darwin effect. i talk about the admiration for his skill, but i certainly wouldn't trade my life for his growing up in the southern suburbs in beirut and as a teenager leaving school with the collection and shooting at the other side. >> this part of the world that's falling off, progress and anything that we taken the civilization is growing by the day. you look at nig

playing fox news israel is targeting a shipment of weapons bound for the terror group hezbollah.e with details on all of that. reporter: israel launched several airstrikes in the past in syria as a revolt is really heated up in the last few years. like the previous times, israeli officials are refusing to comment, staying quiet but this follows a similar pattern we have seen the last four years or so. syrian tv said sunday israel launched a series of airstrikes outside damascus and the syrian lebanese border. the video you see is from a syrian news organization saying it is the aftermath of these strikes. they can't independently verify the video. it seems to have been a warehouse of sophisticated surface-to-air missiles from the regime to hezbollah fighters. they condemned the attack calling it an act of aggression but said no one was injured and there are reports two fighters were in fact killed. now similar airstrikes syria always vowed to retaliate despite the tough talks they have done nothing in the last few years after these attacks now a long-standing policy for israeli o

hezbollah is a very close ally of the syrian regime. it has played a key role in fighting the uprising in syria against the assad regime. the israelis are saying nothing to indicate they had a hand in the air strikes. john. >> a complicated mix of competing interests. ben wedeman, thanks. >>> 45 minutes past the hour. let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri with a look at the weather. we have rain coming this week. >> impressed, christine, the getting my name correctly. >> i promise next hour i will mess it up. >> he says you cannot handle a lot of syllables. >> boston into the single digits. winds are 5 to 15 miles an hour. temperatures are cold. winter storm watch for 2 million people across interior new england. this is ahead of the next storm system. it should be interesting tuesday morning. cold air from the north. storm system barrelling the eastern seaboard. it will help and fortunately the temperatures are warm over the eastern seaboard. 1 to 3 inches of rainfall. could you imagine if the temperatures were below freezing? tha

one day it's hezbollah, one day al qaeda, one day isis. evil is in the world. let's stop putting forth the notion of debraiding and destroying. degrading, i'm with you, mr. passport, burt not destroying. that's not going to health let's check our language here. but dr. king would have an interesting dance to do with president obama. i've said maybe times before i wonder what that bus of dr. king in the oval office must be whispering to the president late as night when he is making war plans because king would have had none of it. the president dish voted for him twice like everyone else itch want city him do. we about it took him six years to give a major public policy address on poverty income inequality. when he got there he said it's a defining issue of our time, but it took six years to get there? you think king would have been -- six years? king wouldn't have said nothing? no. you keep on watching your obama and king t-shirts. i know the truth. the truth is that king would have challenged him on poverty. he would have challenged him on mail -- militarism.

of course, hezbollah is a player in the syrian civil war.lis are being very tight-lipped about the accusations that they were behind the air strikes. >> complicated mix of competing interests in the region. ben wedeman live in jerusalem. >>> let's see what is coming up on "new day." chris cuomo joins us. >> how are you? protests turning violent. we will look at who is doing it and who is inciting it. maybe some surprises. we know the flashpoint. what happened in ferguson, missouri and staten island in new york. what will turn the tide here? the president made a surprising ruling about racial profiling. we will take you through what is going on. >>> two hostages killed by al qaeda during a surprise raid. turns out one of the hostage, south african teacher was hours from being released. is this about communication? the white house had to move quickly for certain reasons. we will go through it right now. there are big questions from the families about why this happened the way it did. >> so sad. it is so sad. chris, we look forward to you break

on january 4th, 2013, jets targeted a convoy, believed to be delivering weapons to hezbollah. later that month, syrian state tv said a scientific research center was destroyed by israel. in may they were attacked around damascus. believed to be targetting a shipment of weapons from iran. in november an air base was dropped by jets, believed to be destroying russian maid missiles. israel never confirmed any of those, and that allows the syrian government, even though it promises to respond, to stay quiet militarily. they team to be different from previous streaks. the scope is larger and seem to target military institutions >>> mexican officials say the analysis of forensic evidence backs up the belief that 43 missing college students were killed and bodies burnt. remains of one student alex appeda mora has been identified. the claimed gang members admitted to the killings. >> reporter: the positive identification of one of the 43 missing students from guerrero is unlikely to ease or satisfy the friends and relatives of the other 42, in fact, in a march through the mexico city.

in the past, we have seen that most of these raids have reportedly targeted syrian targets or hezbollahargets. but israeli officials really are reluctant to officially acknowledge that they are carrying out these airstrikes. we are basically hearing from sources inside syria, media sources, opposition sources, that people heard up to 10plosions in that area and that that area is heavily guarded by syrian troops. it's also an area that protects the international airport and where a lot of military residential buildings are and that we also heard from eyewitnesses and sources close to the border between syria and israel that they saw two warplanes near al someways quenetra near israel. they made their way up north possibly going to damascus and carrying out these unconfirmed airstrikes. so not the first time for sure. and we are only hearing these reports from syrian sources. >> nisreea, thank you. >>> stay with syria, activists say an al-qaeda life linked group is in control of a military compound in dera. the group reportedly detonated two suicide car bombs targeting the syrian army. th

on january the 4th, israeli jets targeted a convoy, believed to be targetting weapons to hezbollah. syrian state tv said a scientific research center was destroyed by israel. in may, jets attacked jets around damascus, believed to be targetting weapons from iran. in november, a syrian air base was attacked by jets, believed to destroy russian-made missiles. the syrian government, although it promised to respond, will stay quiet militarily. the strikes are different. the scope seems to be larger and targetting more syrian military institutions than before. >> iran confirmed it launched air strikes at the request of iraq's government. >> reporter: these iraqis walking to kabula faced attack every year in post-war iraq. this will be the first commemoration since i.s.i.l. gained strength and seized large parts of the country. the ceremony marking the 40th day of mourning since the killing 14 centuries ago, central to shia identities. shia'as have been the biggest target. the iraqi government is doing everything it can to those making the journey. >> there's a military deployment to prot

i mean, they obviously support hezbollah. hezbollah has been helping the regime. the regime right now is killing the moderate opposition, and here we are establishing training sites throughout the region to train more moderate syrian rebels to help us, but, at the same time, through hesbollah, iran is killing them. >> al: this inevitably leads to the question of the nuclear talks with iran. >> right. >> al: you have talked in the past about reimposing sanction or about new sanctions. the talks have been extended for another seven months, i guess now six months. are you willing to hold off on that till we find out how the talks will be resolved? >> you know, we had a great hearing yesterday and we had private witnesses. the administration, i'm getting ready to leave in a few minutes to go to a briefing where we are going to have some classified input by the administration, but we had some private witnesses. i just want to say this, al, i think everyone with the iran issue, that i know of -- i know everyone in the senate but everyone that's highly involved -- i thin

on the other hand it's almost impossible to beat them without the help of iran, hezbollah fighters andyria's government fighting them as well. naturally russia is the gateway to that second alliance, and we're finding ourselves in a very fascinating place. essentially we have some interests in common with russia, iran and syria defeating isil. >> although we don't want to admit it. >> we don't want to admit it but we're fighting on the same side. as you saw in the fall an argument that along had been brewing in policy circles here one of the things that led to chuck hagel's resignation is how long can the u.s. continue this military campaign against isil with a set of allies that not only disagree with each other but are forced to fight on the same side as their enemies. you saw with the turks being reluctant, they don't want to work with us unless we have a plan to beat a plan assad in syria, and we don't. >> that had to be the most striking moments in the last couple of months, where turkey seemed to be vacillating about who they were fighting in the area, and who's side they were on

it has the proxy force of hezbollah, south lebanon.know hezbollah has been operating in syria fighting alongside assad's forces against militant jihadists of the sunni sect. so there is only one real sunni extremist organization in iran. the cia and the fbi know about this organization, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out in terms of what this chap's motives were. what his motives were in terms of why he's decided to sympathize with what is effectively a sunni militant group yet he's from iran. >> we have to consider here his background. the criminal background there. ayman, you were talking about this, too. his political motives may be shielding him from his history there and the numerous charges. one, accessory of murder to his wife he's facing. >> right. i think that's going to be a point of major investigation for the authorities. i do believe when you look at the individual like this who is want as a suspect in the killing of his ex-wife, known to authorities, out on bail, there is the first inclination to think t

or launchers and there is a suggestion here in the israeli media that these were distincted for hezbollahbanon, again, we don't have confirmation for that. however, we have seen israeli air strikes in syria before and in the past we have also heard the suggestion that it was target i targeting ammunition and arms that could potentially go to lebanon but not a lot being said by the israelis. >> mts time, thank you. inside syria dozens of soldiers have been injured after opposition fighters targeted government offices in aleppo and reportedly bombed a tunnel close to aleppo castle and took on soldiers in a gun fight, heavy shelling soon followed on in the opposition held old neighborhood of the city. meanwhile syria foreign minister arrived in iran and in tehran for talks with iran officials on a two-day conference on violence and extremism and iran is a key ally of the syrian government and has been assisting iraq by politically and military in the fight against i.s.i.l. and met in tehran and iraqi foreign minister said the two nations most work closely together to fight what he called the

that these depos have surface-to-air missiles and launchers, which apparently were destined for hezbollah and lebanon, whatever the case we can't confirm this. however, we have heard in the past similar descriptions of why hale may have carried out an airstrikes in damascus, whatever the case the israelis, at least publicly are not talking. >> within syria dozens of soldiers have been injured after opposition fighters targeted offices in aleppo. clashing broke out and heavy shelling followed on the old neighbor of the city. >>> a syrian and iran foreign ministers have condemned the israeli airstrikes, calling them acts of aggression. iran's key ally with the syrian government. >> as we have said, these effect morale of terrorist groups who have undergone serious blows. >> the united nations have launched an appeal to deal with the humanitarian crisis. the humanitarian crisis chief spoke, and at the list of priorities of syrian refugees. >> over the course of this year the number involved in the conflict has risen sharply. we estimated there were 102 people around the world who were in nee

what israel said is that it will not accept any transfer of weaponry into any hands of hezbollah in lebanonnd said any change of balance of power would not be acceptable to israel. >> tonya, thanks so much. thanks so much, ton yeah. in afghanistan four people killed by taliban gunman. it happened on the same day that nato officially ended their combat mission in the country. >> this is a very real reminder that 13 years after the american-led invasion that toppled the taliban the country faces an uncertain future. >> soldiers guard the police compound. authorities say a man dressed in a police uniform detonated a car bomb at the entrance and four gunmen forced their way inside. security forces shot and killed the insurgents. a policemen and four civilians also were killed. hours earlier the u.s. and nato formally ended their combat mission in afghanistan. at a ceremony the joint force lowered their flag. commander of the force general john campbell said afghan forces were capable but the army needed structural change. >> they have to make change in leadership. they have to hold people accou

they accuse the army of being a tool of the lebanese shia movement hezbollah fighting alongside the syrian government. >> the siege is destroying our lives. should we just get rid of our lebanese i.d.'s? we aren't treated as citizens of this country. >> it is home to more than 100,000 syrian refugees. the army has detained some for allegedly being a security threat. >> they were successful in catching 40 sleeping cells from within those syrian refugee camps, which was a threat in case they were mobilized and decided to create some kind of in stabilities inside the lebanese territory. >> the military said its fighters are using it as a logistic space to capture territory like in iraq and syria. lebanon has a sectarian divide. it is a dangerous one. especially when the institution that be supposed to hold the country together is being seen by some as part of the conflict. >> in hong kong, police dismantled most of the main protest sites, but activists say the site for a free vote isn't over. >> the last act of defiance after more than two months of protest, campaigners, many lawmakers among

two groups, one hezbollah and their supporters, who fight for and stand firmly with the assad regime, and other who are sunni against the assad regime. when you consider those are together in a government it is clear that that fragile government will come under increasing pressure as the war in syria continues the affect politics inside lebanon. >> the lebanese capital sana sa- the yemeni capital sanaa houthi vebles. >> sheltering from the storm. we meet some of the filipino families waiting for deadly weather to pass. plus: >> i'm phil lavelle in paris where $60 million is about to be paid to victims of the nazi holocaust. but it may not happen straight away. find out shortly. owe an explanation to the egyptian people? >> no...no.. >> al jazeera investigates egypt's lost power on al jazeera america teach for america is supposed to educate poor children. >> schools where kids need grade teaching the most. >> can unprepared teachers make a difference? >> why are we sending them teachers with 5 weeks of training? >> now a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. the international crim

political group seen as anti-syrian regime, and who may see the military who arrested the women as pro-hezbollah. it can be an expression of how fractured politics is. there is a push for the next decision, whatever it is, whether or not they use the women as a bargaining chip. if they do not release them and demand the release of the soldiers. the government said after an emergency meeting, they came out and said in a written statement, whatever moves they make, they'll be unified and that is important, that all groups of the political spectrum in the government decide and agree on a unified approach. whether or not those women are used as negotiating tools from now on, or whether they are released. there has been pressure from some sunni religious leaders who called for the release of the women. the government are aware whatever the decision they main, the lives of several dozen soldiers and police officers are at stake. >> a u.s. drone strike in pakistan killed a high ranking al qaeda commander. umar farouk ran the group's operations in afghanistan and pakistan. scott heidler has more. >> in

he was born and raised in lebanon and has written extensively on hezbollah. jamie deborah next to him as a journalist and broadcaster with "the daily beast" as well as voice of america. jamie hazlett on every continent and has covered a range of stories as broad as its travels would apply for u.s. politics to ukraine. dr. jonathan schanzer is vice president of schanzer is vice president of accounting issues letter to the democracies has worked as a terrorist and fire a terrorist and fire eros at the u.s. department of treasury and is a research fellow at the washington institute for middle east policy. dr. schanzer is also a political author like his co-panelists has contributed to a number of national and international publications. we are also fortunate to have his co-author of this report with us today. there they who was born and raised in istanbul brings both a personal and scholarly perspective on the region that we will be focusing on. we will start out by asking john to speak a few minutes about the report and then we'll open the discussion to our pan

the army has reportedly reinforced its positions with fighters from lebanon and hezbollah to preventebel advance at the doorsteps of damascus, and the rebels recently recovered a town where they found many bodies. this is a war that neither side is likely to win with battle lines continuing to shift. for now, however, the state has managed to hold on to territory that it needs to stay in power. >>> pakistan has detained again one of the men suspected of planning the mumbai attacks just 24 hours after releasing him on bail. india complained that zaki ur rehman lakhvi shouldn't have been released but he has been picked up again this time under pakistan's new order act. new delhi has ook cued pakistan of being slow to prosecute. >>> rallies are being held in pakistan to remember the people killed on tuesday. most of the victims are -- were children. the rally thousands held signs calling for the perpetrators publicly to be hanged. other signs read we are innocent, and don't kill us. al jazeera's mohammed value has been talking to some of those who survived the attack. >> reporter: this

elements of lebanese politics, but is mainly two main groups, one that is largely in support of hezbollah, and of course they are fighting inside syria for bashar al-assad and the government. on the other which is led mostly by sunni groups, who are opposed to the bashar al-assad government. what you have inside lebanon is a coalition government taking in both sides of the war in syria. that is, of course, incredibly fragile and plays into the hostage situation. we have heard from the interior minister, openly criticizing the way the military handled the detention of some of the leaders of the rebel groups. it's a tense time to try to maintain some mediation effort to release the soldiers, but to keep a functioning government going here. >> and keep a lid on intentions in the region. thank you >>> humanitarian organizations are calling for countries to take in 180,000 syrian refugees. more than 30 organizations launched an appeal asking for economic support and aid packages. the refugees aids groups will ensure that the borders are kept open for syrians escaping the war. 9.2 million syria

understand that these depots had surface-to-air missiles and s surfa surface-to-air missiles to hezbollahe cannot confirm this but we have heard in the past similar descriptions of why israel may have carried out an air strike in damascus, whatever the case israelis at least publically are not talking. >>> inside syria dozens of soldiers have been injured after opposition fighters targeted officers in aleppo and armed rebels reportedly attacked a tunnel under headquarters close to aleppo and clashing between both sides broke out and heavy shelling on the opposition held old neighborhood of the city. humanitarian organizations are calling for countries to take in 180,000 syrian refugees and more than 30 organizations launched appeal asking for economic support and aid packages to the nation housing refugees and groups will say countries keep their borders open for syrians escaping the war and 3.2 fled to turkey, lebanon jordan and iraq with sources and infrastructure. iraqi forces fighting to maintain control of the country's biggest oil refinery. in november they retook the complex in baj

this attack that it targeted a weapons shipment, iranian missiles that were reportedly bound for hezbollahn lebanon. we don't understand the nature of the targets that were struck. it is not likely that we'll get a confirmation from the israeli army because it obviously would not want to say it's carrying outed airstrikes in syria. >> would lead to violence between syria and more attacks. syria has, in the past, said that it reserves it's right to respond whenever it sees fit according to sources inside syria, we know that the residents there heard several explosions and some media sources said that they saw two israeli warplanes flying over the areas close to syria and making their way north to damascus. >> reporter: all right, thank you. . >>> let's bring you our other top story now, iraq, sunni leaders accusing the army of pushing out sunni populations on the pre-texas of fighting isil. a spokesman for the association of muslim slarz told access he believes the current tide of sectarianism in iraq and the rice of isil is partly the fault of u.s. policy. >> we have always said that the m

one supporting hezbollah, who are fighting in syria on behalf of bashar al-assad, and the other led by sunni politicians, who oppose the government in syria. essentially what you have is a government, a coalition in which there are both sides - both reflections of the sides in the war in syria. that is an indicators of how fragile politics is here in lebanon. events like this, attacks across the border, inside lebanese soil, and hostage crisis with the young soldiers puts more pressure on the fragile coalition. >> thank you very much, jane ferguson. humanitarian organizations are calling for countries to take in more than 180,000 syrian refugees. more than 30 organizations launched an appeal asking for economic help and aid packages for those that take in the refugees, saying that it ensures that countries keep their borders open for syrians trying to escape the law. more than 3.2 million syrians fled to turkey, lebanon, jordan and iraq, straining resources in those countries, and the infrastructure. >> now, iran has been assisting iraq, both politically and militarily in its fight aga

he was unknown even in hezbollah which nominally was under that umbrella. there maybe three may be three or four people. >> nobody that could be turned? >> never a defector from the other side. we had one of the other hostage takers, from the iranians, but never in his group was there anybody that came out that betrayed him. >> in your book you were worried one point but you're going to get hit by him. >> definitely they were looking at us. the problem is i grew up in middle-class and i didn't grow up in a war zone. you take people that have been in the civil war and their families are getting killed and they are killing people. they tend to figure out what you're they are doing and it's the darwin effect. i talk about the admiration for his skill, but i certainly wouldn't trade my life for his growing up in the southern suburbs in beirut and as a teenager leaving school with the collection and shooting at the other side. >> this part of the world that's falling off, progress and anything that we taken the civilization is growing by the day. you look at nig

as long as he remains in power, courtesy of iran and hezbollah. we must determine and understand that the u.s. plays a unique role in this situation. our capabilities are unmatched. i understand that the american people are uneasy about getting more involved and the conflict half bay around the globe. i feel the same way. we're tired of war. we want to bring your men and women home. we want to work with local partners is so important to help prevent future escalation of american involvement. but we must not forget in so many places around the world, freedom, dignity and justice are under constant attack and i firmly believe if the u.s. does not lead the way as a champion of these values no one else will. we believe in a world in which all people are free to decide their own futures and there are times when defending and advancing that vision requires difficult choices and sacrifice. that's what makes the united states the world's one indispensable nation. we didn't ask for this conflict but we cannot ignore it, so i look forward to hearing the que

a sign research center was targeted and a convoy carrying weaponryitsis said was intended for hezbollah intended to cross the syrian lebanon border. activists say nusra front is in full control after military compound in dara. this footage reportedly shows fighters targeting the quarters of soldiers and officers in the syrian army. nusra front fighters are a step closer to azara, one of the last areas controlled by the government before dam avengeus province. let's get more from jane ferguson in beirut in neighboring lebanon. what more can you tell us about the effect of these astrikes? >> lauren, we have heard there from syrian state television this announcement that there were two strikes. since then, some activists on the ground inside syria have said that there are, in fact, more strikes than that. some say as many as a dozen or more at the minute the syrian government are saying just two strikes, but in those areas around dama and near the international airport. now, the syrian army did release a statement shortly after the attacks and in it, they said that those attacks were the r

as you say russia, iran, hezbollah are protecting assad government and it's clear assad is major part of the problem. there are 11 million refugees and displaced people in syria because of bashar al assad. the administration needs to work hard to create a syria poll sthay -- policy that will be consistent with what it's trying to do in iraq. it's a combined battle space. isis is in both places. >> what could that somebody is there coherent, long-term political strategy for syria that can work, defeat isis and also look at assad? >> i think you have to look first at this refugee is situation. it's becoming catastrophic. half of the country, 11 million people, have lost their onlies and, of course, as you know more than a million ref refugees in jordan and more than a million lebanon, the administration and allies in europe and world will have to consider humanitarian corridors into syria, placed at quarters protected by armed force to get food and medical aid into places where where refugees are besieged. it's urgeant, moral imperative and those numbers likely to increase if we don't d