special envoy to syria described the situation in being set up for a perfect storm staffan de mistura told the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against rebels will be and reflect battle the u.n. warning of the worst humanitarian crisis since the war began. now the news the first peace talks in two years between yemeni government leaders and who the rebels have hit a hurdle who say they can't get authorization from the saudi iraqi coalition to fly to geneva u.n. special envoy for yemen is already in switzerland with yemen's foreign minister to discuss humanitarian access and prisoner issues protesters in the iraqi city about sort of stormed the iranian consulate and set it on fire parliament in baghdad as called an emergency meeting on saturday to discuss four days of anti-government anger and the killing of at least eleven protesters. they were on our protesters they gathered in peace they were protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dare they open fire how dare they killed him this is murder this is busted we fought in mosul we fought in fal

humanitarian operation chief john gang just a short while ago before that stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy for syria we heard warnings of a bloodbath a humanitarian catastrophe if the syrian government were to go ahead with the unexpected military offensive in it live province and last rebel stronghold once again but there are some three million people who live in the province as well this briefing of the security council coming just hours after a summit in tehran between russia iran and turkey the three countries agreeing to jointly look for ways to resolve the situation in a rebel held it live province in syria i want to bring in our diplomatic editor james frey's who's been listening into this briefing at the security council for as james talk us through what we've heard so far from both the u.n. special envoy for syria and the humanitarian operations chief. well i think we've heard some very important things both with regard to the humanitarian situation the dye humanitarian situation and the prospects of any sort of break on a major military operation which looks like it

plan which he said could stop a humanitarian disaster during any military offensive in italy mr de mistura was addressing the un security council now he's calling for a public campaign within the province to demand that fighters leave built up areas and then go to the countryside he said the turkish government could influence some armed groups to abide by the plan diplomatic go to james bays has more on that u.n. security council meeting from the headquarters in new york. i think many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live but when despite that though stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and thus the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant fighters should be asked with a deadline to move their own military presence bay the way i did beat away from populated that vi

headquarters in new york so there was that security council briefing on syria stuff and de mistura was on a live link from geneva to talk about it and as i understand he was going to brief the security council in private but was told no let's be public here. yeah absolutely he has a new plan he said which maybe could stop the bloodshed by i can tell you the mood in the security council chamber is pretty solemn today and i think many diplomats believe it's not just now a question of whether they'll be inoffensive and it live it's a question of when that last and final big battle as it will probably be of the syrian war takes place but mr de mistura had a plan he wanted to present it in a private session nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who is the president for this month said no this month we're doing everything in public so mr distin mistura laid out his plan to the security council in the chamber in open session so all of us could hear the plan ideally all militant fighters should be asked with the way to move their own military presence bayed this way it would be away from populated t

by the staff by the special envoy stefan de mistura and by the humanitarian coordinator of mark but of course there are details in that deal that we don't know the answers to one of those concerns the fighting groups who used the know as well not survive because under the deal they are supposed to leave a question i put to stefan de mistura. why would they leave where are they supposed to go and who is going to force them to leave if they won't leave york with james is exactly the one i've been reading myself with both turkey and russia and they are going to provide death with some type of anthem i think turkey in particular seemed to be given by it russia deal with both the believe deal finding a way to offer your point and to you undersecretary general you cautioned that this deal might just be a stay of execution could you possibly expound to us what it would look like if there was full scale fighting in it lip and could the un cope let me give you james a very clear and direct response to your question the you the un and the crash and organizations absolutely could not cope could n

on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months. in yemen the saudi erotic coalition has launched a large scale operation targeting areas under who see control in who data the alliance says it's captured two areas on the outskirts of the port city since the advance began to say with the rebels are accusing the coalition of deliberately targeting food warehouses the united nations is warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis meanwhile the u.n. envoy to yemen has left the capital sana'a after three days of talks with who feel leaders one gryphus meeting focused on resuming consultations between the many government and who's the rebels andrew symonds has more from djibouti martin griffis may have flown out of some having reached some agreements with the leadership but there appears now to be another hitch the

live to campaign for rebel fighters to leave built up areas and go to the countryside staffan de mistura presented his plan aimed at preventing bloodshed to the security council our diplomatic editor james bays has more on that from un headquarters in new york. i think many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live but when despite those stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and thus the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant fighters should be off with the line to move their own military presence beit is our way i did beat away from populated think. at this same time and here comes that message and image i got from the population. i mean being indicating that this is what they've been asked from door that i would look to move out the day may how does day mate. crea

on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months larry korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says there are a number of reasons why putin is trying to defuse the tensions. i think he wants to keep good relations with the israelis the cost that kind of you know gives them leverage with the the united states the other is that he doesn't like to admit about these casualties happening in syria now with the turkish thing has nothing to do with syria but since he's been involved in syria there been a lot of deaths and it's not very popular at home in russia i mean the united states ended up killing about fifty of the so-called russians of billions the were fighting there so they downplay it you don't see much in the russian newspapers about the men and women who watched their lives there ben this

on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months. the saudi emmy rossum coalition says it has launched a large scale operation targeting areas on the who the control in the yemeni city of data the alliance says it's patrick two areas on the outskirts of the port city vance began on tuesday the day that is the main gateway for imports of relief supplies and martial goods into the country. the united nations envoy to yemen martin griffiths has just left sunnah after a two day visit involving talks with who the leaders andrew symonds has more now from djibouti just across the red sea from yemen. martin griffis may have flown out of sonar having reach some agreements with the who three leadership but there appears now to be another hitch there was agreement with him and with other u.n. officials for what the u.n

delegations about who exactly should be on that committee some forty seats have to be chosen and de mistura does want a decision on this because he wants to kick start the political process he wants a decision on this before the u.n. has its general assembly meeting later this month but we have seen some comments from the delegations going into the closed door meetings. in representative was asked. century will the humanitarian discussion be included in these talks he said yes he also said that he expected what he called a good result the russian delegate the deputy foreign minister was asked would his country stop the bombing he walked away and said no comment and there was no comment at all from the turkish representative so i think all eyes are really on the growing humanitarian crisis in italy and on that front one of even hearing from the u.n. about the situation. quite a bit laura first of all up to thirty thousand people have been displaced by the bombing campaign that's been going on over the last three days that's proving a problem for the u.n.h.c.r. they say they're short of funds

on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months. larry korb is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says they are number of reasons why putin is trying to defuse the tensions. i think he wants to keep good relations with the israelis the cos that kind of you know gives them leverage with the the united states the other is that he doesn't like to admit about these casualties happening in syria now with the turkish thing had nothing to do with syria but since he's been involved in syria there's been a lot of deaths and it's not very popular at home in russia i mean the united states ended up killing about fifty of the so-called russians of billions that were fighting there so they downplay it you don't see much in the russian newspapers about the men and women who watched their lives there ben this

they also added we invite you mr de mistura do it live to see and tell everyone in the world and see for yourself that we are civilians obviously whose voices have been silenced and are not being hearing the civilians who have been suffering over the past years and were hoping that they would not suffer again. we want their country without the war and we want a future in which we can be alive and they too are against terrorists but they can not sure that because of this situation is very difficult but they are not expecting to be bombed while there is are being actually identified or addressed so now let me go into some more. how will they face substantive aspect. why we met madame president then why all of us were very eager to meet today it was an important meeting in tehran at the level of head of state iran turkey russia they were it and have been we are aware of discussing very intensely the future formulas for libya we don't know the details of what was discussed and what was the . what they certainly got from that is the time is needed and time is of the essence and perhaps mo

i thank you mr de mistura for your briefing during this presidency we are putting on meetings in the open we do want to hear what you have to say from the civilians and we do want to hear what they think and we would appreciate it if you would say that publicly and let us know what you think so if you have any additional comments after we are done more more than happy to hear those if you are comfortable with that being public. on your vision in building on the phone the fact that you are asking me to do thought i have no problem in fact all our proposals are in it and should be public thought just give me a chance to do it would not like the myth to chance to actually make a proposal and then see where the anyone else has got other proposals of don't just stop and think that it's a horrible thing let's hope it doesn't happen thank you we thoroughly agree and we appreciate your service and we thank you and i now give the floor to representative mr jang. thank you madam president last week during the monthly briefing on the humanitarian situation in syria i briefed on the recent devel

not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live but when despite that though stephane de mistura of the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and ask the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant fighters should be asked with that there to move their own military presence bade with our way i would be away from populated think that the. at this same time and here comes the message in that message i've got from the population i meet your campaign indicating that this is what they've been after from door. to move out of they may how the they may fit the tree media will be able to get to be mobilized on that so one of the lever's for this plan is that people power getting the civilians needless to say to the fighters you need to move out of the built up areas out of the villages and towns and cities the other lever he says

diplomatic editor a james base he's following the story from the united nations what else did mr de mistura have to say. well there was concern during the security council meeting about the current developments but i think it's worth noting that when the russian ambassador spoke he simply thanked the other ambassadors for their condolences and then moved on and i think russia is trying to move on from this and not retaliate in any way not cast blame in a in somewhere like the u.n. security council the ambassador moved on to the russian turkish deal and we've been hearing the un's response to that from stefan de mistura the special envoy he's been welcoming the deal but of course the big question mark because you have this separation an area between government forces and opposition forces is what happens to those groups that we used to call. which under this deal are supposed to leave it live who is going to force them to leave where are they going to go these are questions i put to the special envoy well your question james is exactly day one i've been reading myself believe both turkey and

resistance president assad is the i thought to be preparing to launch a major offensive stuff and de mistura presented the proposal at a meeting of the un security council. meanwhile is a separate meeting to decide it libs fate iran russia turkey have been unable to overcome their differences iranian leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president ventured type one in tehran turkey push for a cease fire which was rejected by russia and iran raising fears of an imminent offensive the three countries did however agree to keep talking aid agencies say an offensive against it leave could be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's a seventy year war if that catastrophe materialize president heard one said his country would not be able to help. turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees lib's population is three point five million people now turkey does not have the resources or power to host a further three point five million people. let's get more from t.w. turkey correspondent julie han in istanbul welcome you here what's at

explain to its people why it would send aid to the barbaric assad regime while the un envoy stefan de mistura welcomed the breakthrough as he said between turkey and russia on aid live there was some caution coming from his u.n. colleague the humanitarian chief mark local he said that if that if this deal didn't hold then it would still faced a major catastrophe he said it would be the worst humanitarian disaster of the twenty first century and he said the people of it live well asking what whether this deal between russia and turkey was a stay of execution or an actual reprieve. all right james bays reporting from the united nations thank you so let's just take a closer look at the proposed buffer zone an adlib it will fall along the current battle lines between various opposition groups who hold the green territory as you can see and syrian government forces highlighted in red or russia and turkey agreed to create this demilitarized zone fifteen to twenty kilometers deep and have heavy weapons removed from all opposition groups by next month they also agreed that. formally known as the a li

pullback from syria's provinces the country's last stronghold of anti-government resistance staffan de mistura present the proposal and insecurities council meeting which comes as the syrian government is expected to launch a major military offensive against that love the envoy said that the al qaeda linked fighters should retreat to avert a bloodbath. well meanwhile at a summit on the fate of it live around russia and turkey have been able to overcome their differences reigning leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president as you type in tehran turkey push for a cease fire but that was rejected by russia and iran raising fears of an imminent offensive. now these three leaders did however agree to continue talking about. agency say an offensive against the province could quote be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seven year old war this is what turkey's president had to say because to do a lot of turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees it lives population is three point five million people now turkey does not hav

special envoy staffan de mistura called the situation a perfect storm saying a battle for it could be quote or a fake and bloody. all meanwhile a summit on the fate of it has ended without agreement with the leaders of iran russia and turkey saying that this continues to look for a situation that looks for resolution this it says the joint statement came after talks in tehran where the iranian leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president. the three said they would consider ways for displaced people to return to their homes elsewhere in syria. aid agencies say an offensive against this province could be quote the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seventy year old war this is what turkey's president had to say. to you a lot of turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees it lives population is three point five million people now turkey does not have the resources or power to host a further three point five million people. ok to abuse a turkey correspondent yulia han standing by for us in istanbul yulia we heard ea

estimates there could be ten thousand armed rebels there and now seven de mistura the special envoy for syria has appealed to the russian and turkish presidents to do something about the looming humanitarian crisis. well i would like to take this liberty frankly myself to address myself if you allow me to through you to president putin. and to president can you have been there once at the beginning and i know because i was very much witnessing what happened at the end of the siege and the fighting off a little you were the one who actually were able to talk to each other make a telephone call organize a formula that allowed the end of that horrible peter not to be that worth. a telephone call between the two of you. it would make a big difference seventy deca reports now from the turkey syria border. this northwestern corner of syria represents the last hopes of the rebel opposition government forces have steadily recaptured region after region under so-called reconciliation deals the fighters they didn't want to live under government control here with their families little ahmed was a

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has presented a plan to the un security council in new york to prevent bloodshed he's calling for a public campaign within the province to demand fighters leave built up areas and go out into the countryside stephanie decker is in kentucky on the turkey syria border. what is clear is that there was no consensus reached in tar and in fact the back and forth between the three leaders playing out live on the air turkey's position is that it wants to manage it wants to limit what is expected to be this offensive of the syrian government backed by russia to take it back from opposition forces the turkish president tweeting after he left the summit this is something he rarely does taking to twitter seven tweets in turkish but also in english russian and arabic basically saying if there was an assault on a lid that turkey would not watch from the sidelines neither watching the sidelines nor petition paid in such aggression turkey's worry is of course that of a mass movement of civilians towards its border area one making it very clear that turkey had

says that could be ten thousand armed rebels and now stefan de mistura the special envoy to syria has appealed to the russian and turkish presidents to do something about the looming humanitarian crisis. well i would like to take this liberty frankly myself to address myself if you allow me to through you. to president putin and to president can you have been the one at the beginning and i know because i was very much witnessing what happened at the end of the siege and their fighting of aleppo you were the ones who actually were able to talk to each other make a telephone call organize a formula that allowed the end of that horrible peter not to be the worst. a telephone call between the two of you would make a big difference for the u.s. as well that it will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons and labor has that diplomatic had it said james. the u.s. has just assumed the monthly rotating presidency of the un security council ambassador nikki haley has tweeted about the situation in the ad lib as has president trump both said they don't want there to be an all out assault but li

punishing people before they get that so and we saw most recently when de mistura the un envoy for syria said that he would go to syria personally with a team in order to construct humanitarian corridors so that civilians could leave into syria and get protection from this. one slide that might be coming and all of the radical jihadist groups said no they cannot do that for the reasons that you point out which is make them very vulnerable and they started setting up a gallows where people who violated a talk the regime work used to being traitors and it's the rebels said they would hang up so that could still go on even if there is this deal. is it as simple as it sounds create this will stop the conflicts between the government forces and those who oppose them or result america wants them dead. but it doesn't want syria to come out and it doesn't want the humanitarian crisis so in many ways this also suits the united states it helps their outcome it's slows down in beijing but it keeps it contained to it. for all the reasons that you have explained this seems like it's a great solution

on a scale that you know we've not seen for a very very long time anywhere in the world and mr de mistura made it clear that he was continuing his efforts to restart political negotiations he said he was still trying to form a committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but that's an effort that's been going on for months the latest on the u.n. there but so how is russian turkey's deal going down on the ground itself in syria stephanie decker has more now from pakistan near turkey's border with syria. as all eyes are on the events of monday night an important reminder of how many international actors have a stake inside syria israel turkey russia iran the united states it is an incredibly complex and complicated and potentially fish oil picture when you look at that situation of course now yes there has been agreement between russia and turkey as a first step let's say a temporary plaster when it comes to solving the issue of in libya deal militarized zone that now we're going to have to wait and see if it will take effect october the fifteenth is the deadline so-called terrori

special envoy stefan de mistura calling for you know the rebels to leave the cities well that seems very unlikely this is why turkey is talking to the rebels to try and get them to distance themselves between the sort of more radicals and the moderates it is very very complicated indeed and of course we know by certainty that damascus is keen is determined to take back. and the russians and iranian support them in doing so and turkey is still doing everything it can to try the political route to try and stop that stephanie decker reporting from taqiyya thank you. in other news iraq's parliament is still in emergency session into saturday night as it tries to work out how to contain protests in the city of basra another curfew is now in place there have been weeks of protests over failing government services unemployment and corruption is all spiraled into a violent few days several major buildings set ablaze on friday that included the iranian consulate earlier in the wake of state t.v. building was also burned and at least twelve people have died during all of these demonstrations that.

previously known as al qaeda in syria is alive and kicking now the un special envoy for syria stephan de mistura says that over ten down. as an al-qaeda linked fighters are in the area for a long time the usa has promised that it will separate the moderate opposition from the designated terrorist groups but this separation just hasn't happened and at this point it seems like u.s. officials are focused on raising the alarm about the syrian government's efforts to retake rebel held territories. president bashar asad of syria must not recklessly provance in fact the traffic ministration has already made it clear that if indeed there is a chemical attack they already know who did it if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them john bolton trumps national security advisor says that the idea that anybody even the syrian government might use chemical weapons is just crazy on the murder of children by the assad government take a listen to this reporter. i know my name and i'm and there's you know from syria and my message that we didn't do that song today i think i

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran russia's u.n. ambassador insists any offensive would be aimed at ending what he called terrorism and he says the syrian government has no intention of using chemical weapons yacob . allegedly president assad ought to be use of chlorine the syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to hear it when we're saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from a military viewpoint cannot be justified more than five point four million people have been issued storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one and a half million have been ordered to leave their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or south carolina in the next forty eight hours. the number of people killed in tuesday's suicide bomb attack in afghanistan has risen to sixty eight more than one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of

previously known as al qaeda in syria is alive and kicking now the un special envoy for syria stephan de mistura says that over ten thousand al qaeda linked fighters are in the area for a long time the usa has promised that it will separate the moderate opposition from the designated terrorist groups but this separation just hasn't happened and at this point it seems like u.s. officials are focused on raising the alarm about the syrian government's efforts to retake rebel held territories. syria must not reckless live type problems in fact the top administration has already made it clear that if indeed there is a chemical attack they already know who did it if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to use them john bolton trumps national security advisor says that the idea that anybody even the syrian government might use chemical weapons is just crazy. so apparently al-qaeda brought down the twin towers but they're just not evil enough to release some chlorine gas now the u.n. special envoy disagree is and says that the terrorists are very capable of conducting che

envoy to syria staffan de mistura has said ongoing talks between russia and turkey hold the key to resolving the fate of its live it's the last major rebel held region in syria the area saw several airstrikes today that rebels and an independent monitor said were russian russia and syria are said to be considering a deadline next week to launch attacks on the enclave meanwhile u.s. president donald trump appealed to the syrian president to avoid hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and it led. and he did when you spoke to mark lowe cockhead of the u.n. office for the quarter nation of humanitarian affairs now that previous rebel enclaves in aleppo and eastern who have fallen we asked him what makes the situation is live so explosive the way that the. siege is in the conflict in aleppo and has to go to ultimately were resolved was by large numbers of fight is being passed out of aleppo and used. and being taken to it live there are thousands of fighters many of them very extreme many of the members of prescribed terrorist organizations and there's no mutilated for those people to move

the united nations special envoy for syria staffan de mistura has welcomed the agreement by the presidents of russia and turkey to set up a demilitarized zone in the syrian province of. the mistura said he was pleased with what he called the deescalation and led but that the political process should now move ahead in syria until the summit between presidents putin and arrow on there had been fears of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in province because in recent weeks the syrian government backed by russian forces have been threatening an all out attack on the province in turkey on the opposite side of the conflict feared an influx of thousands of refugees across its border. this is it. just hours ago further destruction appeared almost assured. but russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart agreed on monday to spare if you look. as zone free of weapons between rebel controlled areas and those held by the syrian regime the opposition will remain where they are now we'll ensure that radical groups determined jointly with russia aren't active there russia will do what's

special representative to syria stephan de mistura but the istana process really took over and accelerated past the geneva process not least because over a period of several months meeting after meeting after meeting after two or three rounds of meetings they came up with this idea of deescalation zones in syria in practical terms policing the deescalation zones proved to be very difficult getting them up and running proved to be very difficult but the headline news from the setting up of those deescalation zones were buses carrying fighters people civilians women and children out of those deescalation zones we're also seeing there mr rouhani flanked by his foreign minister and also we've heard a shot of the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov listening but listening very intently of course the russians were involved as well in the a standard process not so much engaged with perhaps. the geneva process when that was at the vanguard of trying to get some sort of peace deal or negotiations on the ground in syria mr rouhani earlier saying as well we will not impose our wishes about self de

of civilians now it has to be mentioned that according to the un special envoy to syria to fund a mistura the assad government does have access to chemical weapons just like does the predominant action in syria but when it comes to this northern province well the leaders of russia iran and turkey sat down here in tehran on friday right before the u.n. security council meeting and they discussed the focus on the situation there and what they mostly talked about is how to get rid of terrorists there while this area is so densely populated by the civilians because they agree that the syrian land should be cleared of terrorists but it just the conscious bomb. can't just blindly bomb them in the area because the front would use civilians as a human shield. everyone knows that there are a lot of civilians in there and we must take that into account the russian military and the syrian army have always tried to guarantee the evacuation of civilians right now the focus seems to have shifted completely to the chemical concern when it comes to according to the russian defense ministry by the end of

an envoy in syria stefan de mistura said the other day that they're as many as ten thousand al qaeda connected militants in the province and they if you add to that family members the figure could be three four times as much the question sooner or later arises where is that population going to be settled because all the powers that supported them throughout the syrian conflict are not eager to take them in turkey definitely filled its own border you know not happy about or it's not excited about letting in more refugees or more militants into its territory and to play the devil's advocate to the russian position where do you think those people could be settled if not in some sort of an aaton the most region on turkish border because those people i mean the diehards could die hard but that still leaves a sizable population of civilians who do not want any sort of reconciliation and any sort of the official syrian authority on the ground and the thing that's one of the plans in mind during negotiations that. certain area on syrian turkish border would be necessary because i mean the u.

to be honest mr de mistura and the whole international system has been disappointment jordan very serious crisis. has it not been from. savannah forces and the russian. conclusion too and. the war in syria the united nations no place on the council would have done anything in that regard. and his statement is balancing between the victim and aggressors been the victims and the murder of. so definitely has his whole statement is not acceptable neither by us nor by common sense and does not in accord in accordance to the international laws or code they will and security council resolutions. soul but i believe that there is some sort of schizophrenia here from the other side you have the israelis will have been violating. the independence and the sovereignty of different countries no not on the senior syria lebanon palestine and. so. mr dennis through i should go back to his books and. use it. in accordance to such regulations this is this is how justice is. done not. statesmen such as this one. and just one more question for you israel and russia have managed to avoid direct confrontation i

special envoy to syria stefan de mistura began new talks with officials from turkey russia and iran while an adlib itself will syrians fleeing the looming assault have begun arriving in villages near the turkish border we'll hear more from there shortly but first our diplomatic editor has more on the talks in new york. these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation. he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lasted more than seven years. because the last so called the escalation zone in syria it must not be transformed in. would an all out offensive on it live a place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet happened is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the city get into a standard process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilia

underscored that all syrian said read toward upon the twelve principles formulated by staffan de mistura before this congress he couldn't get the support from the opposition and from the government of the same time and that declare ration simulates that there would be a constitutional community where syrians themselves would be deciding on the constitutional structure country today this constitutional committee has been established. with the first one to send it still a geisha it was specialists. of a couple of months it took for the opposition to prepare their delegations now we are harmonizing the lists of members to represent the civil society of syria it is very important in this case to. the ones. with the use i want you to be cautious not to be in any kind of a hasty because we need to be careful when deciding who will be part of that community because these members should be approved by the opposition and by the government the minor group on syria as some call it at matt. recently for western countries three arab countries members suffered so they adopted this statement which set

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura put their number at around ten thousand fighters but of course more importantly is the humanitarian situation almost three million people are inside it province half of those are people internally displaced from other conflict zones inside syria also a lot of people who left areas under these so-called reconciliation deals rebels and their families who didn't want to stay in government controlled areas came to they now have nowhere to go so there is talk of potential humanitarian corridors where will they go because there's no more opposition held territory people are terrified of what will happen to them if they cross into regime areas and of course the borders here in turkey remain firmly shut turkey's nightmare situation is of tens of thousands of people begging to be left benteke begging to be left inside turkey already hundreds of thousands of tents of internally displaced lie in the border so this is why intensive negotiations going on turkey trying to avoid an all scale offensive but we're going to have to wait and see how exactly this is

special envoy staffan de mistura mentioned september tenth as a potentially rumored start date of this of thousands of people yes will tell you that we will get an indication soon after this meeting as to how this is going to play out is it going to be a limited offensive only all positions let's say held by the age. of the group formerly known as the the main concern here martine is the civilians almost over three million people inside the province many of those yes in counts but also many of those inside cities and you do have military groups or many of them it's complicated live in about so it's densely populated and this is a huge concern turkey's nightmare scenario is to have a fresh wave of people desperate people fleeing the fighting coming to its borders we went to see some of the aid organizations about how they're preparing for what they tell us will be an absolute nightmare scenario. over the years the province of it is offered some want of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government off

well as you heard from stefan de mistura there the diplomacy behind the scene continues turkey is very keen to try and avoid a full scale military offensive why because its nightmare scenario is having tens of thousands of syrians trying to get into turkey its borders of course remain close you mentioned earlier we saw at least twenty four airstrikes particular in the southwestern area of the province seventeen killed including five children so when i spoke to the turkish head of the red crescent who got into it live and he just came out they were doing a recchi asking him if he thought the offensive had began and he said well psychologically yes the people are terrified the internally displaced have been displaced various times before so it is clear we know that the syrian government intends to take back the province what turkey's trying to do is to good negotiate with the different rebel groups on the ground particularly. which is the group for me known as the mr fund to try to get it to disband and join other let's say in quotations more acceptable rebel groups but then it still giv

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran are diplomatic at the james pace reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york. these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation in adlib he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lost more than seven years libya's the last so-called deescalation zone in syria. it must not be transformed in to a bloodbath would an all out offensive on place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the c get into the us then the process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of it the secretary general spoke just hours after another meeti

member states are gathering they're awaiting a briefing from de mistura the u.n. special envoy to syria as well as mark lane the head of the emergences at the u.n. so this is a regular briefing session but we're going to be dipping in and listening to what mr davis stewart has to say because this is of course quite an important moment again in that terrible war in syria now the north korean leader kim jong il in the says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks with the south korean president in this is the first time a south korean leader has gone to pyongyang in more than a decade kim jong intreated moon jay into a special concert after spending the day talking about north korea's nuclear program from a bride rickles now from the south korean capital seoul. if talks over north korea's nuclear stockpile were in trouble you wouldn't know it from the smiles and hugs. the third meeting between north korea's kim jong un and monday end of south korea and the warmest so far. a full on a guard and equal prominence given to the flags of north korea an