for a week already targeting al nusra terrorists something that is allowed under the un resolution. according to the russian defense ministry it was militants in eastern who violated the truce moscow says damascus was shelled several times after the ceasefire came into force presidents that say they never believe the rebels would abide by the truce in the first place. this truce is similar to the others and we will see it being violated this is the same old story and we are the ones who end up being harmed don't you see the children. women and students who should we feel sorry for for these releases this is we are tired of shelling every day about thirty to forty shells for here in my let me i am against the truth because it only benefits the read books but i hope that it will be over soon and there are no gunmen remained there the resolution calls for a thirty day ceasefire across syria this hope to allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach stricken areas a number of terror groups such as islamic state al-qaeda and the latest incarnation of a

long play for in fact the damascus has been bombing east for already more than a week targeting al nusra terrorists is something of that allowed under the new u.n. resolution however according to the russian defense ministry it was militants in eastern guta who violated the truce moscow says damascus was shelled several times after the ceasefire came into effect residents say they never actually believe the militants would abide by the truce in the first place. this truce is similar to the others and we will see it being violated this is the same old story and we are the ones who end up being harmed but don't you see the children old people women and students who should we feel sorry for for these rebellious. we are tired of shelling every day totally took forty four here let me i am against the truth because it only benefits the rebels i hope that it will be over soon and that no gunmen remain there the resolution calls for a thirty day cease fire across syria and this it's hoped to allow allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach stricken areas a

entered the realms of the fantastic queered in groups such as nusra front and jash islam which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which are here to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted those rebels as partisans of second world war repute who are by the syrian army made up of conscript soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious was a city in society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue city of comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the sitting government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. on the day for russian up police at the winter olympics a second our fleet has tested positive for a bun substance according to the russian bobsled federation now days that is said to have tested positive for a perform

terrorists would abide by the agreement as russia has pointed out moscow's also said it wanted the al nusra group to be excluded from that truce. put the dupatta which is the main problem in eastern time as i mentioned he's consciously or unconsciously being treated the same as the other syrian rebels just how to loose freeze not being touched and we still don't have evidence that the coalition led by the united states is treating just how the real target of course would draw the attention of our american colleagues to that fact but we don't see our comments having any effect well it's been a tough days of rhetoric and negotiations now it all relates to the district of eastern ghouta that's east of damascus a suburb that is currently under the control of rebels and terrorists that the syrian government is trying to retake the city in an anti terror operation the anti terror operation is being widely criticized by western leaders recently we even heard from the u.s. president donald trump what russia and what iran and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you t

regime change propaganda has entered the realms of the fantastic creating groups such as nusra front and jash al islam which is the dominant faction in eastern these groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted those rebels as partisans of second world war repute whereby the syrian army made the script soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious was a city in society there are no being painted there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue and syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of a civilian which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country that's what. point here is that a ceasefire with the amendments address could help the terrorists regroup and fight against the syrian army allowing them time to rearm essentially how valid is that

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province and north western syria which is controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group all nusra and other militants now the pilot a managed to a jacket from the aircraft but was then or for a while and by terrorists has the weapon was found with an empty magazine and two others have spent and number on various video quite graphic videos and photos quickly surface online after the incident where one can see militants taking selfies with the pilots and even stomping on the debris of the crashed plane and now russia has already reacted to this incident carrying out a number of strikes in that particular area of syria with the ministry reporting over thirty militants have been killed as a result of these strikes. for those that one could only imagine what was going through the pilots. to gloss moments of his last thoughts as we did a question of the. no kilometers of rubble thousands of the chapter of mosul's victorious liberation in iraq has closed is now open. video agency ruptly has filmed the grim reality of the recovery in the once tormented islamic state hold city a warning it

s forces have freed shuji areas from my ass and from the al nusra front. that they have stabilized the region and are now well prepared to repel any enemy regardless of who they are the plot is and it's. the first assad's troops in two thousand and twelve and then the terrorist group by yes in both two thousand and sixteen and in two thousand and seventeen including from the iowa stronghold of raka now this battle hardened militia wants to defend against another offensive this time from turkey's military and its allies turkey's president wretch of enda one says he wants to free the area of kurdish terrorists that's the official line these officers here find out both maddening and amusing. on the gun how can you free a land from its own people he wants to free it from the people who freed it from my ass while thousands of fighters died in order to defend the slant of. the. town. to do fight though with any with any. yet in some villages in northern syria people are fearful again like intel. one sixty five christian orthodox families live here now there are

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were excluded from this and they include these terrorist groups like islamic state al qaeda and al nusra front now the russians they wanted some extra names i did that they were concerned about some of these rebel groups that are operating in eastern guta that may have been working with some of these extremist groups and they wanted them added to the resolution so we haven't seen the final draft that they're working on at the moment before it goes to a vote and that's going to tell us exactly where the negotiations are at the moment and that james the handling of this crisis by the u.n. some say is underscoring international powerlessness in the face of syria's for tractate warming earlier this week we had unicef issuing a blank statement and now russia who would veto yesterday. this is the u.n. system under attack. it's times like this where the u.n. system really does expose its frailties because it's structured in such a way that there are five countries on it russia britain france the united states and china and they've all got a veto so if they want to they can stop any action by th

fund a proxy guerrilla force and i know there have been allegations that they are cooperating with al nusra lied to are going to what would be in the british interest to do that and then forge information that the russian military were engaged in atrocities it's a question to the british government you know the only thing that i want to say is that there were quite interesting discussion you know debates in the in the parliament and the british government was ask you know how was two hundred million spent for so-called moderate opposition and so on they could justify only forty eight million all the rest they couldn't even find the answer how this money was spent and i'll tell you that a lot of m.p.'s were surprise and we were surprised but of that money went to the what hellman's where the other one. so that's the question to the government and that's the question was posed by the m.p. you know by the russians so make your own conclusions i know it's early late breaking news but. ministry of defense in russia this. of that appears to say they received a call that the white helmets might be

camp in northern syria set up by the terrorist group taria out of sharm previously known as the al nusra front. was sent here by a father a member of the terrorist group. this syrian documentary filmmaker came to the region of in the north of his homeland to shoot the award winning documentary of fathers and sons. he pretended to be a war photographer and a sympathizer of their cause to gain a jihadist trust. darkie left syria because of the civil war but he has returned to make films he used to live in damascus and was friends with many artists and intellectuals being in an area controlled by jihad ists was strange to him. i thought then that. what if it is to bow to movement i want to know from the will of the law itself who said office came to me and. he got to know osama family well osama is the oldest of eight boys. it was the filmmakers entry into a very different world the life of jihadism. i want to understand how people how it's helped and how you become what you are who are those people how they look from the inside what is the courts what is the thing that they can the use to

the government and a few rebel factions said that they would respected but it does not apply al-nusrasainst the front. but it creates hope that the regime will allow much needed itslies and food to reach 400,000 residents in ghouta. genie: there are of course residents in this resolution who are tting prsure on the government and its forces to continue fighting what they call terrorist targets. latest, ourery correspondent, thomas muller is standing by in moscow. thomas justifying its position, considering how deadly these targeted attacks have been up to this point? all, russiarst o has linked syria and bashar al-assad to give it very strong support. has put itself in a posion where it has really thrown itself behind bashar al-assad, two were it has some leverage over assad. at the same time, it is almost kept prisoner by bashar al-assad. if he decides for example to continue the bombardment of eastern ghouta, because he has become very essential to the geopolitical aims of moscow in syria and in the middle east. l had some very strong rhetoric an hour agoavrov -- verylavrov h some st

suffering of civilians regime change propaganda as enter the realms of the fantastic quirin groups such as nusra front and jash which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no green depicted there rebels partisans of second world war repute whereby the syrian army meet up group soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious syrian society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of the civilians which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and this particular russia to liberate the country. is second russian baffle it has failed they don't bring to the winter olympics according to the russian bobsled federation now they're said to have tested positive for a performance enhancing hard to drug a previous s

regime change propaganda has entered the realms of the fantastic queered in groups such as nusra front and jash al islam which is the dominant faction in eastern guta these groups which adhere to the same ideology responsible for nine eleven and a whole litany of terrorist attacks there are no being depicted there's rebels as part of zion's of second world war repute whereby the syrian army meet up group soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious of syrian society there are no being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this narrative will continue syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of the civil years which no one can deny is being prolonged by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. u.s. has announced that it will move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem on may the fourteenth the date marks the seventieth anniversary of the establishment of israel as a nation

these guys crusading for democracy and when they aren't busy killing each other they share power with nusra. in syria and the number of smaller groups. these are ruthless people they cage civilians literally put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them and little human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. these infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al-qaeda remember what the u.s. led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. what are they leveled. and then ty's city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there's no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation do you agree that some of the the high level of

reach stricken areas a number of terror groups such as islamic state and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from the agreement and the forces operating in syria are allowed to continue antiterrorist operations however despite all the efforts the trousseau here is to have little chance of surviving as my dad gets dia explains. thirty days of peace ceasefire of course all of syria sounds wonderful a pause for civilians time for food to reach the hungry starving people for the wounded to be treated no shelling no bombs and almost no chance. east ghouta suburb of damascus the last to islamist stronghold in the area it's from here that rebels blindly shelled damascus killing and killing and killing civilians for years now the syrian army launches a counter-terror operate sion and buying international outrage. by the escalation of strikes me as a living hell hell on earth unbearable suffering indiscriminate shelling of residential areas intentional and systematic targeting of civilians the human disaster and nothe dead children and nothing wrecked families the thing in syria is you c

groups claimed they were behind it the first is widely believed to be affiliated with a former al nusra front. in the past received weapons from washington the second is the for itself which is covertly allied to al qaida in syria russia moved quickly to take action carrying out a number of strikes in the province more than thirty militants were killed as a result. of friday saw the release of a memo alleging the f.b.i. and justice department to be used the powers to secure a warrant to spy on trump's election campaign putting the us to geisha trumps links to russia in doubt which didn't go down well with the mainstream media did you ever watch those north koreans who stepping in line the republican party is so much like that people need to start taking to the streets this is a t.v. this is a tipping point for our democracy declassify this memo for fundamentally a political purpose. well the memo outlines the warrant was used for surveillance of a former trump aide it was granted using a highly controversial dossier legibly funded by the democratic party if they are those accused of not

problem can we just briefly expound on what you said a moment or two ago terrorist groups including al nusra they're not included in the ceasefire russia has repeatedly accused them of hiding in the civilian population using them as human shields so is there any real chlorate see here over which areas can be targeted and which cannot i much and this is going to be a bigger talking point in the coming days. no there's not clarity it's usually difficult look if the syrian government and the russians were as a ruthless as they are portrayed in the west syrian government could have gone in all guns blazing four or five years ago and it could have ended it but it would have to civilian life the cost so in aleppo same thing it was a long drawn out protracted. affair back and forth and there was huge loss of life on both sides but even more so on west aleppo and the government held side which was being siege would help the cannon's for four or five years so that this is the same problem we're having good to it could be a protracted long term thing there well dog underground by the way this is not s

things eased goatees one of the last jihadi bastions just like aleppo it's been a long time den of the nusra front and the likes here's the terrorists flag hanging off the wall during a meeting you need to go to a few years ago and since then new strain have only been getting cozy of their militias any good to have a record of forcing civilians to sit tight amid the fighting and the worse it is for them the better the evidence indicates that non-state armed groups in eastern guta and in particular jaya islam are also responsible for inflating the price of food and other basic necessities there arbitrarily restricting the movement of civilians wishing to leave and abducting and arbitrarily detaining people. human shields is a tactic favored by all terrorists including those who were in aleppo hardly a surprise that minutes after russia and syria opened humanitarian corridors out of those paths to safety came under rebel shelling humanitarian corridors for the passage of civilians are still blocked by terrorists and being shelled militants continue to use mortars and rocket systems against res

regions a number of terror groups chance islamic states al qaeda and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from the agreement operations against them will continue killer martin has more now on the u.n. initiative. there has been a resolution agreed on by the fifteen member body that leads the united nations regarding the situation in eastern guta this is an enclave to the east of the syrian capital of damascus and it's a place that's under the control of rebels and terrorists that are working to overthrow the syrian government twenty thirteen it has been surrounded by government forces and the fighting there has recently intensified and we're hearing allegations against both sides about human life being taken about civilians being killed we're hearing accusations from the syrian observatory for human rights which is based in the united kingdom they're saying that that syria with the support of russia is hurting civilians and committing atrocities against civilians we've also heard reports from the russian center for reconciliation in syria they are pointing out that the area

is not affected by this resolution that internationally delegated terrorist groups groups like al nusra and isis that the fight against them is not restricted by this resolution of that fight will continue he also had some concerns about how the fight against terrorism seem to be serving some other goals a. game of battling terrorism can't become a cover for solving geo political problems of dubious legitimacy and that is exactly what the u.s. is doing in syria right now we insist that the so-called coalition and its attempts and occupation as soon as possible it would have among other things a clear humanitarian effect nikki haley the representative of the united states walked out before the syrian representative could speak under u.n. rules if the resolution pertains to you all countries have the right to address the security council the syrian ambassador to the united nations went on to point out that he said that the thirty day ceasefire should be implemented and not just implemented in eastern guta but also in our friend as well as in the golan heights the resolution has been passe

known terrorist groups including i so i do nusra are not included in the cease fire and russia has repeatedly accused them of hiding in the civilian population and using them as human shields specifically in the ghouta region so is there any real clarity here over which areas can be targeted in which can't. well that will be i'm not sure if they have got a map and delineated specific areas or or not. it's not hard to predict i think nikki haley's comments that she was going you know there may be suggestive of the attack the u.s. is going to take when the syrian government untaxed al qaida and isis any scooter the u.s. government is going to claim that they're attacking civilians the syrian government despite the constant barrage of accusations and propaganda the syrian government has no it does not attack civilians it has no. no there's no benefit to that the syrian government is trying to reach reconciliation with former terrorists no it's welcoming the syrian government welcomes the billions and it it also welcomes leaders who are willing to lay down their arms reconcile with syrian civil s

it's survey done that for the extremists jihadi groups and in that's case that was the job i got a nusra group which claimed responsibility for shooting down the russian boy when to fire a military jet for a russia has become the main enemy because. because russia is trying to help are fighting for the government all troops of the syrian government the troops fighting the job and the remnants of so-called islamic state in this province and in other parts off of syria saw no innocent people at the games targeted in our world russia use this to continue targeting innocent people targeting other rebel groups i mean under the demilitarized zone it was supposed to be hands off that's clearly not happening. well actually you know the the military hostilities and the war as was all there they are there sometimes sometimes the countries are making the nominee. says rather than solve it i said we're not doing that. but that's not it was what they were though i will say i let me let's to say i guess i let me bring bill in quickly i mean our concern is what about what is happening in that e-mail co

offensive to retake province which is controlled by tough area dominated by the formerly al qaeda linked nusra front polish lawmakers have called i wage in israel by approving a bill that would impose jail terms for suggesting poland was complicit in the holocaust israel's called it an attempt to challenge the historical truth that's it from a stay with out of the streams that. hi i'm femi oke a little overweight afghanistan's capital kabul has been hit by four major attacks killing almost one hundred fifty people pushing an already angry population to dispatch after more than sixteen years of violence and political turmoil why does the war look no closer to ending we'll speak with a panel of afghans to ask that question and here in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube be sure to send us your comments and questions and we'll try to get them into today's show before we started the conversation take a look at this video from our colleagues at a.j. plus. you don't miss anything that goes along with. along with you. as you just saw the afghan civilians are often the victims when bombs go off

over and that no gunmen remain there now that the syrian government is making progress against islam nusra. which also has a presence in other radical islamist groups now that they're making progress against them advancing making gains suddenly you have another international scandal outrage more allegations of chemical weapons use from the same faces from the white helmets are the pro rebel activists which the no issue with some regularity but they say this is politics first and foremost there isn't as much concern in the among the international community for the civilians in eastern guten many of whom are not being allowed out according to various sources the russians people on the ground they saying that the rebels are doing what they did in aleppo they're blocking civilians from leaving eastern ghouta their their human shields also what i mean we shouldn't they started the fact that even the eastern beauty were paid to be the focus of much media attention at the moment is not the only hot spot in syria no it isn't military action is continuing in you know rebel on claves as well as p.g.

evil regime you don't have to be a supporter of bashar al assad to understand that the alternative of nusra or drash or isis in damascus is too awful to even contemplate john white author and political commentary speaking to us live this hour thanks joe. for. the winter olympics a second up the lead has tested positive for a substance according to the russian bobsled a federation that dish the circuit is said to have tested positive for a performance enhancing heart drug eight previous some pull out the games come back negative so give her partner finished twelfth in the bobsled competition on thursday curler alexander crucial netsky and his partner were stripped of their medals after he was found to take and mil don't e m a drug used to treat diabetes sufferers well earlier on friday the a limb pick athletes from russia team us of course there is no one their first gold medal at the games on another silver two teenage skaters taking the top spots on the podium in the women's single figure skating event fifteen year old alina gates of her team a close friend. in the final standings after th

that allies such as nusra follicle other groups in eastern huta with strong strong very strong extremist connections jihadist connections being ignored yeah sure and we shouldn't lose sight of the fact even should be that the world focus seems to be on east and that's not the only hot spot in syria at the moment though it isn't turkey is not stopping its operation and afrin it says we're also exempt from this ceasefire because by b.g. the syrian kurds the is the school them they're terrorists and this resolution allows us to continue our operation against terrorists. when we look at the un security council resolution we see that fight against terror organizations is outside its scope therefore it will not affect turkey's ongoing operation. thousands dead in ad. tens of thousands fleeing their homes destruction shelling airstrikes you have reports of atrocities even some footage of verified schools but reports of executions field executions killing of civilians robbery looting but you know there is there is no where near as much criticism of what thirty is doing as the result of what is h