the white nationalists jason castro the man who arranged both last year's unite the right rally and this years has said in media interviews this week that he wants this year to be peaceful what really his goal is to spark a conversation to spark a debate about the role of white people in american society and he is one of these white nationalists who believes that white voices are being marginalized in america these people who are here who are probably many times more people than the white nationalists are record to show up later today. very much reject that message and they want to put forward the message that washington d.c. is a multicultural place it's a welcoming place and this sort of ideology coming from the other side is not welcome here maya could you give us a feel of how many people have turned up to the rally where you're currently at and what the numbers are expected to be like from the international news from the white nationalists rather. edith i am rather bad at estimating myself by just looking at this crowd ahead of me as at least a couple of hundred people and we know t

here to say that with their voices are being marginalized and i was especially the message of jason castro the man who organized this. with the latest from washington thank you. let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful explosion in north and syria has reportedly killed at least thirty six people including many children the force of the blast toppled buildings burying many of the victims the origin of the explosion is still unclear but a british based wanted to group says rebel weapons depot in the basement might have detonated. the five countries bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status the convention signed by russia iran as a bio john kazakhstan and turkmenistan decades of dispute over the world's largest includes body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will require additional agreements. jordanian security forces have pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their collapsed hideout following a deadly shootout four soldiers were also killed when t

organizers of both this year's rally this year's unite the right rally and last year's rally jason castro has said in a media interview earlier this week that his first goal was to keep things peaceful but his second goal was really to to send a message to spark a debate and to stand up for white people's first amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly now as you can see behind me there's quite a large crowd gathering to stand against this message and in fact it's grown exponentially in the past couple of hours kessler is really trying to be a prophet provocateurs or here and he really seems to if you read interviews with him really believe that white people in america are very marginalized voice one thing of that of course is why is a promise is always say is they're being marginalized that they don't have a voice that they don't have a share in the politics of the nation if you talk to anyone around me here they'll say they absolutely do not believe that they do not see that in action and that in fact this administration has simply been helping fuel white supremacist

they have permission for up to four hundred people to be here know they're going to hear from jason castro the man who has organized this event he sent out an e-mail last night telling people that if they come not to bring any weapons or minder of the ordinance that are working under here in washington d.c. itself told not to think about can bringing any sort of sense that they're going to provoke violence and to leave their racist baggage behind what that exactly means we're not entirely sure perhaps we'll hear more of that when the speakers take the stage here in the coming hours but we know that they're going to hear from david you know that name might seem familiar david duke is a former imperial grand wizard of the klu klux klan the extreme right wing organizing. and of course was famous particular in the twenty's and thirty's for its oppression of black people in the south and he will address the rallies also a figure you may remember from the twenty sixteen presidential election because he endorsed donald trump and there was a contriver see over that because donald trump didn't imme

nationalist movement was drowned out not just by the rain but by the sheer numbers of the left jason castro came escorted by police on a virginia subway and he ended up here in washington d.c. escorted all the way with perhaps dozens of people with police surrounding him kept away the entire time from the left wing demonstrators who would arrive here in the thousands now kessler said the reason there were so many fewer people on his side was that he had invited fewer people he said being a free speech absolutist that he had invited a number of groups to the charlottesville incident the disastrous incident one year ago that he didn't. not invite this time he apologized and he said he wanted to offer a more reasonable message his concern was that the country was becoming that whites in this country would be coming a minority and that he was concerned about that but that was the message that was completely drowned out by sheer numbers and by the volume of the other crowd here. the unite the right demonstrators are marching under police protection there are very few of them dozens are only maki

confrontation although i'm sure they'll be plenty of shouting at one another it's interesting that jason castro who is the organizer of the unite the right rally who are coming here in the next couple of hours he sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday and he said what they should do is not bring any weapons not bring any intent to commit any act of violence and not bring any racist baggage know what that means we're not entirely sure i can tell you one of the people who will be speaking from the stage in the next couple of hours is david to christen a former imperial grand wizard of the ku klux klan now you might remember his name of the twenty sixth election campaign that's because he endorsed donald trump and it was controversial because it took donald trump a number of days to disavow that endorsement to say that he didn't want that sort of backing initially he said he didn't know who david was and then it was pointed out the dad actually met him on a number of occasions and that is one of the reasons there are so many people here because they believe that the all right is getting suppor

side you will have the right and the other side those who who seek to confront them certainly jason castro who is the man who's behind the unite the right rally sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday he told them not to bring weapons he told them not to come with any idea of committing violence and he told them not to pack any rex's baggage quite what that means i'm not entirely sure but we know that senior figures of the old right have also disavowed this gathering here in washington he said they didn't see the point they thought it was a complete waste of time and we're expecting numbers from the old right of somewhere about two to three hundred they have a parrot for four hundred one of those who will be speaking includes david duke who's a former peer wizard of the k.k.k. controversially give donald trump his backing during the presidential election campaign in twenty sixteen and it was controversial because donald trump immediately disavowed that endorsement it took him a number of days he initially said he knew idea who david was when it was sure and that he knew exactly who davi