occupied golan heights but first let's get in with bernard smith whose job of crossing on the jordan syria border to how died is a situation look there to you bernard well some we know that there are around two hundred seventy thousand displaced people who fled the fighting in daraa province fled towards the borders syria's borders with jordan and israel at least some twenty five thousand people that come behind me that we're not allowed to go and see thousands of people at locations further up and down the border we know that some aid has god in some sort of locally donated water and beds and blankets and that the u.n. is still getting in its aid but there's a lot more waiting to get in particularly from the jordanian authorities as you mentioned and from other other organizations as well the problem is as the u.n. said this is the largest and fastest displacement of people in this part of syria since the conflict began in the needs are very urgent the needs for shelter from the heat for sanitation for water for food so while some is getting across some stuff is getting across just not en

spot there are about twenty five thousand as many as one hundred thousand all the way along the jordan syria and syria israel borders the u.n. is going to release an updated figure in the coming hours they say it's going to be more i mean behind me you've got these aid trucks that have been queuing up since midnight the drivers and people delivering they're very angry that they've not been able to get that aid in it's mainly sort of locally donated stuff is mainly from what i can see water bottles of water and pillows and blankets a sort of very very basics that anybody my need on the other side of the border we know some aid has got across an official sort of u.n. aid has got across but these people trying to get more aid in to the so the syrians we know having creased in number just on the other side of the border house and when these things stand on the on the talks to try to end the fighting the latest round ended with with with nothing any attempts be made at this point to try and restart those talks. well they ended all on tuesday they're going to start again today slightly different t

thousand all the way along the jordan syria syria israel borders the u.n. is going to release an updated figure in the coming hours they say it's going to be more i mean behind me you've got these aid trucks that have been queuing up since midnight the drivers and people delivering they're very angry that they've not been able to get that aid in it's mainly sort of locally donated stuff is mainly from what i can see water bottles of water and pillows and blankets a sort of very very basics that anybody my need on the other side of the border we know some aid has got across an official sort of u.n. aid has got across but these people trying to get more aid in to the so the syrians we know having creased in number just on the other side of the border house and when do things stand on the on the talks to try to end the fighting the latest round as ended with nothing any attempts be made at this point to try and restart those talks. well they ended on tuesday they're going to start again today slightly different today in that the rebel groups of sort of there a

well those of them that are massed along the jordan syria border they it's hoped will feel confident enough to go home and as that that the point about the russians maintaining security control here is what would give those people confidence is why jordan wants those people to remain to be confident because jordan wants them to go to jordan as we know has been under enormous pressure to take in those refugees they've been stuck along parts of the fence line. for more than two weeks some of them with very little access to water or food or sanitation so jordan hoax those people will feel safe enough to go home it hopes the russians will be able to guarantee their safety come on but it's most of the job of crossing jordan syria border there thank you bernard and we've got hired had with us now he's been with us this afternoon a syrian columnist in the consulting research fellow at chatham house to talk through some of this do you agree mr hyde that surrender is really what's happened here. exactly and this is not the first time that the regime has been able to impose surrender conditions

all right for now thank you very much bernard smith with all the latest at the jordan syria or dead. a trade war between the worlds largest economies has officially begun with the u.s. and china imposing tariffs on each other washington fired the first shot with tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods a chain has now accused president donald trump of starting the largest trade war in economic history state media even comparing his administration to a gang of hoodlums from beijing rob fried reports china has always said it will match any u.s. tariff with its own at the ministry of foreign affairs briefing just hours after the u.s. terrorists were imposed china promised to be true to its word shooters are i want to stress that we never want to see the escalation of trade frictions into a trade war a trade war is the last thing we want to see because as we've said many times no one country will benefit. thirty four billion dollars worth of goods will be affected from farm products to automobiles chemicals and medical equipment as those u.s. products become mo

heading here jordan has already said it won't be letting anyone cross burnet smith al-jazeera on the jordan syria border. both jordan and israel are refusing to open that border to the many syrian stop where. israeli occupied golan heights. well you can see there on the horizon is one of a number of makeshift camps that have appeared in this area in the last couple of weeks since the syrian government offensive started in dera and kuwait shown up there or is around ten kilometers in that direction certainly this morning we heard what certainly sounded like strikes coming from that area the israeli government here have said that they will not open these borders to refute g.'s but it is also said that it will continue she managed tarion assistance when necessary prime minister netanyahu saying that israel will react to any threats to its sovereignty the israeli military has reinforced troops in this area in the last few days reinforcements for the two hundred tents division we understand of course this area is very sensitive it having been occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven

the offensive started more than two weeks ago but i suspect this is that you are crossing on the jordan syria border. these people move to the border area to escape the fighting and down a province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists the being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to the towns and villages that have fallen on the state rule is not an option. because people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even execution as this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or and. or international guarantees from that. the opposition had a few cards to play but hoped they'd have more leverage by resisting government attempts to recapture remaining rebel areas in dara but the negotiations have now broken down with the opposition saying the russians were asking them to give up too much the rebel groups say it's because of an insistence by the russians rebel groups hand over their heavy weapons how

and jordan would form a joint delegation to future negotiations for resolving the out of israeli conflict syria opposed the accord and sought to exact retribution for out of that small once again eleven on was the battleground. the syrian backed militia and and the other factions besieged the palestinian refugee camps in beirut and southern lebanon. the camps were subjected to an on and off siege and onslaught for the next three years. that can look at a matter. of them if it out on that. could not have become involved had not asked them they quest was made to seventy lebanese but is that the client to have that is possibility of shedding palestinian blood on their hands and accepted the test the fighting and the how doing the experiences for the refugees would be termed the camps war. there were criminals there two. palestinian women were being shot in the head as they went for water deliberate. and those criminals are walking around us today i can remember the savitri i can remember one day with so many armor were firing so many machine guns i mean you know weapons into the camp that there wa

says at least fifteen people have died because of severe conditions at the jordan syria border then a smith spent the day at a crossing along the border some aid has been getting through this crossing point between jordan and syria and just on the other side of the fence here we believe there are at least twenty five thousand syrian refugees syrians fleeing the fighting in and around. three separate towns have been set up for men women and children there on the syrian side of the jordanian mira military says it's treated hundreds of casualties people injured by the bombardment people escaping the bombardment but the jordanian military say that as soon as those people have been treated by being sent back over to the syrian side so the most seriously injured have been sent to hospitals in amman the jordanian capital but again as soon as they're treated being sent back again into syria. we received people of all ages from young children to old people and we've treated all of them we've had pregnant women people suffering from burned hundreds of casualties. the jordanian government like t

zero on the jordan syria border. food supplies and medical treatment helping build up the strength of a football team trapped in a cave in northern thailand for twelve days rescue is a working out how to get the twelve boys and their coach out including a crash course in scuba diving tying navy seals are using a chain around seven hundred meters into the cave complex as a base for their rescue operation and heavy rain is expected in the next few days and that could slow down the progress has more now from the sites in chiang rai. as the training and the planning for this very difficult process of getting the boys in their coach out continues there was a clock over when they have to get that done that is because the monsoon rains are expected to start again we've been lucky with the weather last couple days it's expected to start again in three days on sunday you see that there's still training right now trying to get that water level is low is possible now when you think about the logistics of getting these boys out

syria. expelled from their base in jordan in lebanon left in a little. green valley and this rising in the ranks of china but was this just another inevitable step down the road to. this is a long story just for the conflict that would cost on assad his leadership in life . chronicling the term story straight to. history of the revolution the now just. a new series of rewind i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues but from bob did till now he's distance rewind continues with the return of them is it can't stay challenging when one east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera. life in the islands fringing the antarctic peninsula is abundant a place of seemingly endless variety the whole region is richly biodiverse a living example of how things are pretty much free from the influence of man. getting to see the astonishing bond life here is by no means strai

involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan there is bennett smith reports now from jordan syria or. for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jordan this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria syrian government forces swept through down a province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventually want to reopen with jordanian agreement data covers most of the area held by the opposition in southwest syria one of their last

hence that offensive started more than two weeks ago bernard smith is in the air crossing on the jordan syria border. these people move to the border area to escape the fighting in daraa province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists the being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even executioners this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another our country or international guarantees from that. the opposition had a few cards to play but hoped they'd have more leverage by resisting government attempts to recapture remaining rebel areas in dara but the negotiations have now broken down with the opposition saying the russians were asking them to give up too much the rebel groups say it's because of an insistence by the russians rebel groups hand over their heavy weapo

offensive in that i will burn it smith joins me live now from the job across and that's on the jordan syria border so bernard one of the main concerns now that syrian forces have taken back the area main concerns daryn security for the displaced people who fled along to along this border post in the weeks of the bombardment now last night and this morning some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been gathering here started to go home the jordanian military particularly hopes that the rest of them will now feel confident and secure enough for them all to go back to their villages and homes in the southern part of syria for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its fronted with this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria s

heading here jordan has already said it won't be letting anyone cross bernat smith al-jazeera on the jordan syria border. of both jordan and israel are refusing to open their borders to the many syrians start their channel stuff and is in israeli occupied golan heights. well you can see there on the horizon is one of a number of makeshift camps that have appeared in this area in the last couple of weeks since the syrian government offensive started in their uncouth nature and out there or is around ten kilometers in that direction certainly this morning we heard what certainly sounded like airstrikes coming from that area the israeli government here have said that they will not open these borders to refute g.'s but it is also said that it will continue she managed tarion assistance where necessary prime minister netanyahu saying that israel will react to any threats to its sovereignty the israeli military has reinforced troops in this area in the last few days reinforcements for the two hundred tents division we understand of course this area is very sensitive it having been occupied by israel in

up and receive the fleeing civilians jordan's leaders say they can't cope with more refugees instead they say aid is being delivered to them across the border in syria and they say it's up to the u.n. to obtain approval from government leaders in time ask us to allow in supplies to reach our province jordan's foreign minister says the focus should be on preventing more devastation i'll be meeting with the russian foreign minister lavrov there for a discussion on how we can work towards a cease fire and create conditions for the ground under which people would feel safe and also discuss the facilitation of the provision of supplies to syria and their country on their land indeed our syrian government troops are advancing with the help of russian airstrikes troops have seized towns and villages under rebel control and through so-called reconciliation deals that involve a return of president bashar assad's rule sixty percent of daraa is now under government control and the offensive is continuing to pressure the remaining rebel held areas to surrender. russia has been negotiating on behalf of the syrian government with rebel factions the opposition say

they would then be given safe passage to rebel areas in the north burma smith has more from the jordan syria border. but there is a cessation of hostilities on this southern part of syria will be back in the hands of the syrian regime albeit along the borders but trolled by russian military forces that will keep the jordanians happy and it will keep the people living on this the syrians are close to the border happy as well they were the opposition fighters were fearful of the syrian regime taking revenge so they wanted the russians involved and the jordanian should also be very happy because in theory if people feel the refugees who've been gathering on the syrian side of the border feel safe to go home then they should start soon doing that and it should bring a reasonably quick end to the refugee crisis that we've been facing on this board as a pakistani called has given a ten year jail sentence to ousted prime minister nawaz sharif in a corruption case his daughter received a seven year jail term both were found guilty of buying luxurious properties in london with undeclared income beiji

involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan al-jazeera and it smith reports now from jordan syria border. for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jordan this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria syrian government forces swept through down a province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventually want to reopen with jordanian agreement data covers most of the area held by the opposition in southwest syria one of their

bernard smith out jazeera on the jordan syria border rebels in south sudan of rejecting a peace plan reinstating the opposition to react machar's vice president saying it fails to dilute the president's strong power base but as president salva kiir is deputy until two thousand and thirteen when a political disagreement between them generated into a war that's ravaged the country have a since the deal naming the child first vice president was reached in entebbe in talks mediated by uganda's president a seventy. to haiti now where protest is a holding a nationwide strike against the government's plans to raise fuel prices this follows two days of violence in which four demonstrators were killed and dozens of buildings damaged and looted on friday the government announced a fuel hike of up to fifty percent which it since been forced to cancel many businesses are closed for the strike action and public transport has been suspended . we're now in a few hours time president onil trying what announce his candidate for the soon to be vacated supremes court seat this is the second time he's b

it's very important to trade with tween jordan syria and the northern parts of the middle east billions of dollars of trade flowed through our border from beirut sports from turkey that line potentially now could be soon reopened boosting the jordan a jordanian economy boosting the syrian economy the priority for the moment is to make sure this area stays secure that is a main jordanian concern and they've been speaking to the russians about that in march as again today that the russian defense ministry announced parts of the terms of the deal which involved those opposition fighters getting their weapons back and being given safe passage to the north because the jordanians also want to make sure the russians and the syrians make sure that there are only russians and syrians patrolling this border jordan very concerned about iranian backed hezbollah militias being near here they were involved in this fight for a dollar jordan does not want this near the border and he's been speaking with his russian counterparts to make sure that that doesn't happen down bernard thanks very much. the wo

but a smith has more from jordan syria. some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been camped for up to two weeks along the syrian jordan border just behind me they started going home last night according to the jordanian military not long after the cease fire and surrender was agreed with the rebel groups here across the border in southern syria the jordanians hope that the rest of those refugees in the coming hours and days will feel safe enough to go home and one of the most important things about making them feel safe enough is security guarantees that they'll be given bodies that the russian military police maintain overall control of security along the border area because many people who've been living under rebel control fear rebel affair reprisals from the syrian regime also important for the jordanians is that there are no iranian backed hezbollah fighters along this border side that was one of the major jordanian concerns they are expecting only to see syrians and russian forces along this area no involveme

warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe on syria's border with jordan and israel as talks to end the fighting in there rob breakdown or. hello i'm barbara sorry you're watching i'll just. live from london also coming up iran's revolutionary guard backs a warning from president rouhani threatening. oil exports if sanctions are imposed tire rescue teams started giving crash course. to the twelve boys trapped with their coach and from aden to. find welcome refugees. thank you for joining us there are reports that russia has resumed their strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between russian rebels and russian syrian rebels and russian officers that's the spy jordan's foreign minister calling for a cease fire as soon as possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive in their province said the hunter has more now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. these people move to the border areas to escape the fighting. but they also fear the syrian government who considers them terrorists for being

situation in dar on thursday at least fifteen people have died because of severe conditions at the jordan syria border ernest smith spent the day at the crossing a long war. some aid has been getting through this crossing point between jordan and syria and just on the other side of the fence here we believe there are at least twenty five thousand syrian refugees syrians fleeing the fighting in and around. three separate towns have been set up for men women and children there on the syrian side of the jordanian mira military says it's treated one hundreds of casualties people injured by the bombardment people escaping the bombardment but the jordanian military say that as soon as those people have been treated that being sent back over to the syrian side so the most seriously injured have been sent to hospitals in amman the jordanian capital but again as soon as they're treated being sent back again into syria. we received people of all ages from young children to old people and we've treated all of them we've had pregnant women people suffering from burned hundreds of casualties. the jordanian

government hospitals in jordan let's cross live now to burn a smith at the jab a crossing on the jordan syria border so bernard what's the latest are you hearing there on the plight of refugees. well the un's humanitarian relief coordinator in jordan has put out a statement in the last few minutes he says about two hundred seventy thousand civilians in southern syria have been displaced since the bombardment of dara in the province began on the eighteenth of june i'm not says the u.n. is the largest displacement of syrians in southern syria since the conflict began so you can see how quickly and dramatically this has escalated there were yesterday just in the book border location behind me about twenty or twenty five thousand syrian refugees there another hundred or so thousand along various positions along the border but in total lot number now about two hundred seventy thousand according to the u.n. some locally provided relief has got in from here in the last hour or so trucks behind me but we're only taking in there only out on them really warts and blankets and pillows just a very very b

five thousand trucks a month used to rumble across this border between jordan and syria then the civil war started starving the jordanian economy of four hundred million dollars a year in trade the it really did that it's had a huge effect here with business from shipping people had jobs now they are sat at home when the border all balloons this area will flourish one and a half billion dollars worth of goods a year pass through this border before it closed now it's syrup governments across the region but especially in lebanon and syria and here in jordan on the border reopened again as soon as possible. jordan is desperate for revenue nationwide protests in early june forced the government to abandon tax rises and employment is over eighteen percent the highest it's been in twenty five years and there are more than six hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees living here we have meager resources the fact that the government is is almost bankrupt they cannot invest more money in developing the infrastructure so the jordanians have to share their weak infrastructure with hundreds of thous

bernard smith al-jazeera on the jordan syria border russia paper the hun says turkey is embarking on a journey towards a strong government in parliament as he was sworn in for a second term as president at a ceremony in ankara at that assumes office with sweeping new powers after a controversial referendum on the role of the president in april last year critics though say the changes undermine the strength of the country's the ocracy and centralized decision making in the office of the president meanwhile turkey's economy is struggling and the currency has fallen significantly in recent months. well funny how cora is a turkey analyst at the international affairs think tank chatham house he joins us live now in the studio thank you so much for being with us so first of all i guess the think the say about the cabinet is that the number would be fewer than sixteen down to twenty seven members but any particular appointments the you will be looking out for the most crucial will be the. check the former deputy prime minister will be appointed in a in a in an economy related role the marke

leave four villages in province bernard smith joins us now live from the job at a crossing on the jordan syria border and more details can you tell us about this deal. sami we know that there's going to be a phased handover the heavy weapons we're not heard yet whether the rebel fighters or the opposition fighters have been given safe passage to the north at least six thousand f.s.a. fighters and their families were hoping to be given safe passage the russians earlier on more amenable to that while waiting for clarification on that but there is a cessation of his of hostilities and this southern part of syria will be back in the hands of the syrian regime albeit along the borders but trolled by russian military forces that will keep the jordanians happy and it will keep the people living on this the syrians are close to the border happy as well they were and the opposition fighters were fearful of the syrian regime taking revenge so they wanted the russians involved and the jordanian should also be very happy because in theory if people feel the refugees who've been gathering on the syrian sid

warning is a humanitarian catastrophe on syria's border with jordan and israel as talks to end the fighting in dara break down. there i'm certain this is al jazeera live from london also coming up iran's revolutionary guard backs a warning from president rouhani threatening to shut off all gulf oil exports if u.s. sanctions are imposed time rescue teams give crash courses in swimming and diving to the twelve schoolboys trapped in a cave with that coach. so. the protests outside and inside power lines supreme courts as a top judge churns up for what he defiance of a new law. first to retire. there are reports that russia has resumed as strikes in southern syria after talks broke down between rebels and russian offices despite jordan's foreign minister calling for a cease fire as soon as possible to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced from their homes by the russian syrian offensive there is a no hold a has from beirut in neighboring lebanon. these people move to the border areas to escape the fighting in the province but they also fear the syr

fighting that are displaced three hundred thirty thousand people bernard spent the ports in the jordan syria border for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jule this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nazi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria. syrian government forces swept through data province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventually want to reopen with jordanian agreement. covers most of the area held by the opposition in southwest syria one of the last remai

tells us now that certainly on the jordan syria border around nasib area nearly all of the displaced people who had gathered there over the last couple of weeks have now gone home jordanians were very keen to ensure that security guarantees given by the russians that the russians would oversee the security presence in that area that would give enough confidence to those refugees to go home those displaced people to go home because they otherwise feared reprisals from the syrian regime so they seem to have felt confident enough to go home but there are still refugees further west again up near that golan heights area where the fighting continues and where the u.n. wants. aid at a crossing that it wants people it wants to be allowed through to give aid to those people up there who need it bernard thanks very much. spain's running of the bulls festival is taking place as we speak in pamplona several people have already ended up in hospital after being caught in trampled injuries occur as festival goers run with the five hundred kilogram animals through and over the cobbled streets penne

i think the only pocket to remain is the jaish of the eyes the law book which is between jordan syria and israel that's the area and i think they will reach an agreement to go to i think eastern syria the desert area which is east of holmes so this is there were otherwise the louis wiped off with the russian airpower and the syrian forces so it is almost over now and by going to the accord of one nine hundred seventy four the buffer zone which is allowed the cd in me to go to that is that's mean the hezbollah. is there old so the syrian air force can to fly over the buffer zone according to the one nine hundred seventy four accord so. said the regime on control of the southeastern syria. media reports from every train suggests troops are being withdrawn from the heavy militarized border with ethiopia it's the latest sign of improving relations between the neighbors the leaders of both countries signed the peace and friendship agreement earlier this month ending a twenty year state of war the eritrean embassy and i the some about reopened on monday n.b.c. opiah has appointed a new amba

promised to leave four villages bernard smith is now in jordan he's having just returned from the jordan syria border what are you hearing about these accusations off who breached the ceasefire bernard. well we know that there is a small town to the north of crossing the nasuwt crossing is this main arterial route that links jordan to syria through to beirut is a main trade route that the syrian regime was very very keen to get hold of we know that just to the north of that there's a small town or village where one rebel group is now holding out this group is accusing the regime in the russians of not on airing the cease fire agreement we don't know what aspect of the season green they're accusing them of not on uring but nevertheless that has sparked we understand airstrikes there and fighting on the ground there in the syrian military says there is an operation ongoing the cease fire agreement effectively meant that the opposition groups in that part of that a province in southern syria would hand over all the heavy weapons and they would be given safe passage north to them the last remainin

russia and jordan hold talks in moscow over the conflict in syria and the fate of thousands of people displaced by the war. a lot as i'm speaking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. rescue crews are taking no chances and it could be days maybe months before the boys found trapped in a flooded cave in thailand will be brought to the surface. malaysia's former prime minister appears in court and denies he stole millions of dollars in public money magic resurrect faces up to eighteen years in prison if convicted of corruption charges plus senior judges forced out of their posts on the supreme court in poland show up regardless. of the russian and jordanian foreign ministers have been meeting in moscow to discuss the situation in their hour so a lover of and ayman serfaty both admitted there is cause for serious concern the jordanian minister says a ceasefire is needed as soon as possible to avoid what he calls a humanitarian catastrophe an offensive by the russian backed syrian military to retake areas of the province that's forced hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee

russian negotiators as they try again to end the fighting serious time i'll smadi has more from the jordan syria border where displaced people. now you are not abroad. we are at the crossing point separating jordan. which has been reeling for days on their severe bombardment forcing the displacement of tens of thousands of syrians towards the border with jordan as you can see behind me hundreds of jordan's residents are flocked here offering what they can to help the syrian refugees jordanians have brought food items medical supplies baby milk the situation is dire as large numbers of displaced syrians mostly women and young children are flooding into the area the u.n. reported more than one hundred sixty thousand syrians are stranded along the border with jordan the jordanian government issued a statement to the effect that it is prepared to well there were humanitarian lifeline to be extended by the united nations and international community to the syrians board it says it cannot afford to open the border for more refugees as jordan is now home to more than one point five million refugees the

has more from the jordan syria border where displaced people are massing. no not about there. we are at the crossing point separating jordan. which has been reeling for days on their severe bombardment forcing the displacement of tens of thousands of syrians towards the border with jordan as you can see behind me hundreds of jordan's residents are flocked here offering what they can to help the syrian refugees jordanians have brought food items medical supplies baby milk the situation is dire as large numbers of displaced syrians mostly women and young children are flooding into the area the u.n. reported more than one hundred sixty thousand syrians are stranded along the border with jordan the jordanian government issued a statement to the effect that it is prepared to allow a humanitarian lifeline to be extended by the united nations and the international community to the syrians board it says it cannot afford to open the border for more refugees as jordan is now home to more than one point five million refugees the government cited political economic and security issues to

the israeli occupied golan heights but first birth and smith is that the job of crossing on the jordan syria border and so byrne of the collapse of ceasefire talks can't be making things any better for people at the border where you are. certainly not here some in the evidence of those strikes you can see behind me first over my left shoulder white smoke rising there from what a soldier told us was an airstrike on a syrian industrial zone area and some is going to pan over to the left for me and you'll see some black smoke on the horizon to the left of that you'll see some buildings and some structures in front those are where refugees are staying so the airstrikes coming in very close right along the jordan syria border that is coming in very close to where those refugees are the u.n. estimates now there are some sixty thousand syrian displaced internally displaced syrians along its border with syria some three hundred twenty thousand people displaced in all as ever the problem is getting provisions and supplies to those displaced civilians the jordanians were desperate for this sort of. pe

from their homes by the russian syrian offensive there and it's there is at the crossing on the jordan syria border. these people moved to the border area to escape the fighting in daraa province but they also fear the syrian government which considers them terrorists the being involved in opposition activities among them army defectors media activists and employees of rebel run administrations at least for now returning to their towns and villages that have fallen under state rule is not an option. people are afraid there will be reprisals retaliation or even execution as this is why they are asking that any deal is guaranteed by a regional power like a jordan or another out of control or international guarantees from that. the opposition had a few cards to play but hoped they'd have more leverage by resisting government attempts to recapture remaining rebel areas in dara but the negotiations have now broken down with the opposition saying the russians were asking them to give up too much the rebel groups say it's because of an insistence by the russians rebel groups hand over their heavy w

come to russia very concerned about the situation that is unfolding across the border from jordan in southern syria of course as we've been hearing through this program both jordan and israel have closed their borders to the refugees who are trying to flee the onslaught that's going on in our province right now an onslaught that has basically been unleashed on them by syrian government forces linked militias and of course the russian air force which has been bombing heavily this is a tactic that we have seen from the syrian government and from the russians. it's been done in aleppo it's been done in duma as well now we're seeing it in there are basically. a fierce onslaught military onslaught coupled with pressure from the russians to the the rebels on the ground sensually either surrender or move to a different part of syria and that's a fact that was seen before we're seeing it again and i think the russians are saying that what's going to happen in iraq is going to be similar to what has happened in the course of this conflict so far which is a rapid government takeover of the area and then they

pacifying syria's southern front government forces a back in control of most of data and the border with jordan that follows a cease fire deal with rebels but one. and others in the region this is inside story. welcome to the program. after more than seven years of war in syria rebel fighters of lost control of the southern province of delta where the revolution began some rebels will hand over their heavy weapons as part of a cease fire deal with the government others will be given safe passage to the rebels last stronghold in northern province jordan and israel are cautiously watching the developments as the syrian army inches ever closer to their borders and of course the government's victory also brings big changes for the three hundred twenty thousand people who fled will be our guest in just a moment but first al-jazeera has been at smith reports from jordan's border with syria. some of the thousands of displaced syrians who've been camped for up to two weeks along the syrian jordan border just behind me they started going home last night according to the jordanian military not long after