marwan they're claiming that 2 civilians have been killed and one monitor is saying that thousands of the circus offensive on that region in the north east of syria how how concerning is the humanitarian situation going to be. well i think of course i'd be we're going to see civilian casualties during this conflict because you know as i mean the civilians they have bid the heaviest spies during this year's conflict in syria don't you know that we have now want than 5000000 displaced internally we have like 6000000 refugees our side syria we have more than 500000 people half a half being killed and we have more than 1000000 who have been enjoyed during the course of this conflict so of course we expect more civilians actually to fall during this this dish a turkish military operation and i believe the city and the market the cause of the that is the f. will be highlighting actually this issue in order to. create the sort of sympathy with their with their cause and to show that the turks actually are. targeting also civilians during this this conflict you're not really surprised actuall

but ministration deliver any of that to discuss that i'm now joined by marwan a syrian writer and thedirector of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy mistake kaplan it's good to talk to you thank you very much for being here thank you very much thank you for having me now everybody is now talking about the agreement it's been the turks and the americans as the deal president himself referred to it as something having civilizational significance isn't that a bit of an oversell for what at least for now is essentially a pledge to hold fire for 5 days of course i think i think both the turks and americans must be billie's now that they are having this deal in my opinion because on the one hand it gives what it really wanted from the very beginning and that is to the bush white b.g. all of the senior democratic forces. away from the border along the 140 kilometers borders between the euphrates. borders but i mean this deal was actually reached mainly because the american delegation came with a stick on one hand and the card on the other hand you know that the u.s. co

them to write a chance for there on the border with syria charles thank you for that let's bring in marwan cabala he's head of policy analysis at the absence of the research and policy he joins us live here in doha let's talk 1st about the cease fire deal and it seems the americans offered a deal they couldn't refuse help to move kurdish fighters away from the border not imposing new sanctions i mean this is a deal that ankara readily accepted given it was under such pressure. absolutely i think that is the negation came to uncut are. with the carrot and stick at the college is as you said i mean this awful lot of which actually allows for the cia democratic forces to withdraw for 5452 kilometers along the $440.00 could have with those border between syria and turkey from their fifty's to the iraqi borders so this is something that the turks have been trying actually to do for the past couple of years but with little success and they actually started this whole myth that operation on the 9th of this month so now the turks must be pleased actually that they are having what they wanted actua

analyst he joins us from london marwan welcome back as i watch the news our no political leader has been spared the raf and the anger of the demonstrators is that significant. oh absolutely especially for a country like lebanon where for decades now it's been divided among a number of elites tribes confessions and cetera and the very reason why no such mass protest has happened in the country is because the country has entered into a civil war among those very same various factions and eventually a post call a boston war or that was established among those factions so the idea that people who for a long been loaned to those factions and leaders are coming out against their own and basically criticizing if not attacking everyone and the fact that this is more than a 1000000 of them in the streets of lebanon is hugely significant tensions have been building for months what is it about lebanon's politicians that they were apparently unaware of it. well apparently they were aware of it but apparently as usual they are indifferent to it knowing all too well that in countries like lebanon

lebanon we're going to talk again to my colleague my want to shout out he is a senior political analyst marwan clearly the politics of lebanon utterly unique with an utterly unique backstory does that make any potential solution more or less difficult. you know it's utterly unique but it's also more of the same i mean we need to distinguish 2 things one the causes for the up people in lebanon that are very similar to other causes of upheavals in different countries but also not to project one country solutions on another country so each and every one of the arab spring nations that have spring one point or 2 point or are different but they're also the same so i think lebannon and the lebanese in the streets of lebanon probably need to learn the lessons of upheavals of fiascos in other countries and one of the most fundamental conclusion we our of the last decade is one you need peaceful protests that violent protests and civil wars on the lights that we've seen in different countries just next door in syria are not only counterproductive they are destructive and 2 you can't just be against som

virtually the very beginning of this proxy war that it was forced upon syria from the outside here marwan let me let me give a hypothetical because people watch this program and say we're all one sided ok so i'm going to throw a wrench into the works here what is what do we hear in western media this benefits putin this benefits iran how do you react to that because they never talk about what benefits the syrian people but that's beside the point go ahead and they wrote in exactly and it's it's laughable it's definitely and it's laughable because most of the people who are talking about this specially in the western media who is anti trump and anti syria to begin with talks about of without even mentioning where syria is on the public people don't even know where syria is on the love they don't know what has been happening for the past 8 years they don't know that the syrian arab army along with its allies has been in the mini isis they think that it is really the u.s. that eliminated isis and it's laughable i mean i join conferences for all across the world in europe. in eastern asia and

aspect to it and certain it will have an s.s. a nation special operation aspects to it as well ok i marwan we're going to bring someone else into the conversation thanks for your for your insights so let's bring in a tosca name our correspondent who is live for us and back that so natasha if this in fact is true that the leader of eisel has been actually were stay and stay there in the top and that's why the president trying to speaking now let's listen last night the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice abu a car al baghdadi is dead he was the founder and leader of isis the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world the united states has been searching for big daddy for many years capturing or killing baghdad he has been the top national security priority of my administration u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern syria and accomplished their mission in grand style the u.s. personnel were incredible i got to watch much of it no personnel were lost in the operation while a la

with corruption let's bring in his al-jazeera senior political analyst is joining us from london marwan so the top if a court is credited with ending the civil war in lebanon yet many say it is really the basis of all the problems that is the basis of sectarianism where politicians work to benefit their sect rather than work for the benefit of the country so one of their demands is to dismantle the system how challenging though is that going to be what yes this is the generation that came after the taif accord of 1809 that was 30 years ago the accords were perhaps necessary perhaps not but perhaps necessary in order to end the war and for the fighting factions within the country to have some peace but 30 years later clearly a new generation of lebanese want something else doesn't want sects to divide the pi's among them they want a state of citizens within the country and that's why i think the idea of a government of technocrats is a good force 1st step because a lot of the nepotism and the corruption. goes through the the ministries that are dividing the pi's among them they are hirin

marwan is the director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies and he joinsus here on the set now and give me your take on what we're seeing playing out right now there are so many moving parts russia trying to keep turkey and syria apart the united states of course putting sanctions on and and at the same time one saying that he wants to complete the mission that he started. there with all of the u.s. forces from syria has and needs to completely different dynamic in this in this conflict now we can see that the situation in the east of defeat is very much becoming like the one in which the united states is not a party anymore to this conflict it's merely between the 3. and iran and to that extent russia risk critical absolutely russia today is the main bar broker in syria it's pulling most of the strings right now it has good relations with all the parties of this conflict that iranians that the syrians and the days are eighty's it's russia it's mainly russia now after the after the united states pull out from from syria so everything is being really really

much let's bring in mark bashar al jazeera is senior political analyst he joins us from london so ok marwan there's a lot to get to i want to talk about his comments about oil in just a moment 1st though i want to begin with. donald trump is known to try to brand things he repeatedly said use the words when praying screaming crying words like mutilated died like a dog etc etc now no he also did talk about the victims of ice or he named some people he named these e.d.'s. but how would you characterize a u.s. president using that type of language in a situation is grave is this. well certainly it's important for him as he put it. to make clear to those who follow support or might support the islamic state or the successor of that the that but that is a coward so if you will it's a way to not only kill back that the physically but also kill him in terms of whatever memory there is of him meaning kill his character and say he is a coward and so on and so forth so this is important for him and as far as continuing if you will killing back that the through other means meaning through the assassin

damascus thanks so much for joining us on al-jazeera let's cross over to one of our regular analysts marwan car blood joined me earlier on the program he's director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies joins me here in doha professor obviously you heard james bays are our diplomatic editor in the united nations talking about the fact that at the moment the international community are unwilling to really say anything on that u.n. platform. at the moment i suppose it is difficult to know what to say and who to say it to because at the moment all the focus is on turkey and turkey is certainly taking no notice of the international community at the moment. absolutely like well i think the turks they think that they got this green light from from the us president and they are actually in consultation also with russia. since the russians and americans are actually. not unhappy with this operation or at least with what they think the turks will be. doing in the north of syria i think there is no point actually of taking this issue to the security council because at

center for research and policy studies at the doha institute for graduate studies is joining us from marwan again let me ask you about the way this operation started it was reported witnesses rather were reporting that it started with explosions in the town of. what do you make of the way it commenced and i think we are going to see more of this in the coming days and weeks because i believe that i mean the opposition will of course i mean create the sort of backlash from the kodesh forces they will be trying actually to do what i mean to do all sorts of things in order to. prevent turkey from from from advancing on the other hand you are going to see also from the from those who are supporting the. opposition all soul. the sort of the action that will drive to a key even farther into into the area so that this is not this something got going to see more of it in the coming days and weeks and of course we know that the y.p. gene the s.d.f. have really irked turkey for many decades now but how do you assess the way that the s.d.f. may fight back. it depends very much of course on on the dept

baghdadi let's bring in more on bashar is al jazeera senior political analyst he joins us from london marwan what does this do to eisele. we're certainly weeks and weakens it further it has already been weakened over the last 2 years 3 years with sustained american western and divisional. offensive against its infrastructure over those large swaths of land in iraq and syria and with the killing over its leaders one of its more importantly there's i must add certainly at the this time except as we've known it no longer exists probably a new more like a stomach state $2.00 is already emerging of course out of the destruction of its kind of fight and that is one as you know your report mentioned earlier would probably look more on the model of al-qaeda than on the model of color fight where it just takes control of a piece of land and the clears every gene i think we're going to see more of an islamic state that is as they say in and security studies segmented pretty centric it illogically networked groups meaning they would be separate there would be diverse there would be geographically diffe

marwan albazud performed part of the successful transplant at henry ford hospital. >> he is the fullest when his friend after years of making the f-150 for the first time bought his own -- >> that is swede. >> reporter: he knew right where to drive it. >> when you see a man frail and knowing he's going to die soon, to where he is now -- >> that looks awesome. >> it's an amazing gift. >> reporter: do you ever feel the urge to remind him that it's essentially a ford part that's keeping the chevy going? >> all the time. we do it all the time. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," kris van cleave, detroit. >> what a great story. >> he's the fullest of human potential. >> yes. >> especially when you think he's a hi-and-bye friend. i wouldn't give my body part to someone i don't know. i wouldn't do it. i don't know if that makes me a bad person. i admire people who can is the point i'm making. >> yes. >> wow. >> you might. you haven't met the right person. >> i think in the right circumstance you might. >> okay. all right. okay, if you say so. >> all right. >>> before we go, how a photo shoot