russia is carrying out an air strikes and has been carrying out strikes in the area of it lib mr de mistura said this was a perfect storm but not sure about the word the use of the word perfect because it sounds like a really a very difficult situation he made it clear that ninety eight point five percent of the people are civilians and will be affected now what's worth telling you is that the u.s. is currently the president of the security council they instituted a new rule for their month as president which is everything is going to be in public right now mr de mistura said at the end of his speech i have a plan that i'd like to present to you in private to separate the what he calls the terrorists from the ordinary civilians and about the he said well if you want to present your plan you need to present it in public so when we heard all the security council members speak all fifteen were on the first right now the deputy foreign minister of kuwait when we've heard all of those fifteen we're going to get a rare moment that a plan that would have been presented in secret is going to be pre

life 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

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

and a reminder that after the council members speak if they have any questions or comments from mr de mistura we're going to bring him back on after the security council members have spoken and before the representative from syria speak i will now give the floor to his excellently mr co-leader all general. deputy minister for foreign the u.n. security council being briefed there about the situation in syria specifically about this situation in a province in northwest syria the last rebel stronghold which is under threat of a government offensive we heard from the u.n. 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 agreei

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

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

life 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

life 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

opposition leaders from syria where there really was very little hope about the situation but mr de mistura told security council he did have a plan that had been suggested by civil society in it lip he told ambassador nikki haley who is tembe as president of the security council that he would like to brief in private on this plan she said no during her month as the president she wanted all meetings in public so he agreed to reveal his secret plan in front of the security council and so in front of us two and made it clear that his plan was to try and separate the ninety eight point eight percent of the population believed to be nearly three million in libya who are civilians from the fighters this is what he had to say they thought your lobby laid lesion is being already mounting we have been think not only candlelight we've been think they're mostly without a little bit about know they want to let them today by a look at their door actually put it on flag the people they know we don't want that we want just to remind everyone we are sleeping with three million people have a voice they can

life 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

a 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

life 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

questions unanswered in that turkish russian plan and they haven't at this stage been addressed by mr de mistura he's trying to push things forward now back to geneva where in the past peace talks have failed they have for more than six months now been trying a new approach which is to have a constitutional committee to come up with a new constitution for syria and he says he's making progress that the big question is whether the syrian government will properly gauge in this process in the past when they been talks in geneva they have not been prepared to engage with those talks fully now of course the assad regime work may well believe that militarily they have turned the tide and have won back most of syria all right james thanks for now days days our diplomatic editor talking to us live from new york as the security council here's a fairly detailed briefing from the special envoy about the thick curation in syria . china has announced a tariff hike on sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. products that's after washington imposed more duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods

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 think. at the same time and here comes the message and image i've got from the population i mean. indicating that this is what they've been asked from door. to move out of they may how those day mate. creamy don't be able to get to be mobilized on that so short story james he wants to and the plan that he's been given it's to to separate the quote unquote terrorists from the civilians that sounds specially with numbers in the millions sounds ambitious at the very least. yeah he says that ninety eight point eight percent of the people and its nearly

the united nations mark local and it's interesting i think to contrast their comments on this mr de mistura very much welcoming it was the local could have a little bit more caution we welcome and think that they're here and i think think the german will and have been very clear and welcomed effect the diplomacy has produced progress in an effort to address the challenges both the u.n. security council listed terrorist groups why blood dig. up to three million of them including one million children what do we think the three million civilians including those million children cathal the need to make of yesterday's agreement well i have a simple question is these merely a stay of execution. or is it the beginning of a reprieve the first time you go into blind at the end of the very darkest tunnel is this just a stay of execution you can see that that. is a little cautious about the deal that has been done between turkey and russia he makes it clear that if there is fighting if there is an all out offensive. that still happens then it will be in his view probably the worst humanitarian disaste

the mr front that is the main issue this is what russia and syria say are terrorists and why they're going to be undertaking this offensive while the u.n. 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 offensi