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

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 the u.n.

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 as rebels as partisans of second world war repute whereby 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 painted as 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 the civilians 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. the us set a date for when it will move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem it's set to be made the fourteenth which coincides with the seventieth anniversary of the establishment

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 brainw

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 sample

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 revea

things eased goatees one of the last bastions just like aleppo it's been a long time den of the nusra front and the likes here is the terrorists flag hanging off the wall during a meeting you need to go to a few years ago and since then. have only been getting cozy of their militias a nice 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 particularly josh islam are also responsible for inflating the price of food and other basic necessities that 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 residential neighborho

suffering of civilians change propaganda as enter the realms of the fantastic creating groups such as nusra front and jash which is a dominant function 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 those rebels partisans of second world war repute who are by the syrian army. soldiers drawn from every part of the multicultural and multi-religious syrian society of you know being p.t. there's a lot of the waffen s.s. an army of occupation the than an army of liberation so this not a to walk in. syria comes closer to achieving its complete liberation and the suffering of the civilians which no one can deny is being pool long by this continued attempt to undermine the attempts of the syrian government and its allies particular russia to liberate the country. and second russian athlete has failed a dopping test at the winter olympics according to the russian bobsled federation now. is said to have tested positive for a performance enhancing heart drug the previous sample at the games had co

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 and e

originally did not include extremist groups like islamic state al qaeda and al nusra front now russia had objected to this because they said that the resolution should go further than those three groups and to ensure a should include two of the largest rebel groups that are fighting in eastern guta they include josh and its rival its fighting there iraq man all right now we've been getting reports that russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. says that russia is preferred to vote in favor of the resolution as you also alluded to but there are caveats that you just outlined some are saying that russia is buying time. yeah russia of course has come under a lot of criticism for repeatedly stalling and preventing the un security council from acting when it comes to syria as the was progressed over the past few years recently amnesty international human rights group put out a report saying the russians must go had blocked nine resolutions in the un security council and the human rights group argued russia was really just trying to block the prosecution and any international action against i

facilities this draft makes an exception for military operations directed against eisel al qaeda and al nusra front and other terrorist groups as designated by the security council this does in no way relieve the parties to the conflict in syria from upholding their obligations under international law at all times including the principle of distinction proportionality and precaution mr president this draft resolution is not a comprehensive peace deal on syria its aim is purely humanitarian there are already cease fire agreements in force for the areas where fighting has asked escalated the most they need to be complied with there are existing monitoring mechanisms that can be utilized the role of this council is to push the parties to the conflict to comply with the proposed the station of us ditties in order to urgently enable need alleviation of suffering for the people of syria if this resolution is adopted today it can deescalate violence save lives alleviate suffering and break the deadlock on humanitarian access and sieges since the first call for suspicion of a still ities the situation has

under the control of to where our shot that's a group dominated by the formerly al qaeda linked nusra front. and the u.n. says the syrian government is being more uncooperative than ever before when it comes to delivering aid to besieged areas the humanitarian advisor for syria young egeland also criticize rebel groups for putting out of sickles humanitarian diplomacy seems to be totally impotent we're getting nowhere and i'm the last convoy to have besieged area was at the end of november the twenty eighth of november to a place called national beer and it was only for seven thousand two hundred people so through december and through general ri hasn't been a single convoy of lifesaving relief medical supplies food to any of this experience. three kenyan television stations remain off her despite a court ordering them to reopen the government closed the stations on tuesday after they tried to broadcast a mock inauguration ceremony staged by the opposition leader. our correspondent catherine sawyer has more from the kenyan capital nairobi lunchtime news at n.t.v. one of three t.v. stations s

to retake province which is controlled by tough area dominated by the formerly al qaeda linked nusra front polish lawmakers have caused outrage 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 stream stacked. high that we're ok in a little over when afghanistan's capital kabul has been hit by four major attacks killing almost one hundred fifty people pushing an already.

moderate elements who were on the one hand competing with the al qaida affiliate in syria called the nusra front and on the other hand we're fighting off. the west now had to defend the moderate opposition against both assad and the jihad has. on august first twenty thirteen assad visited his troops in a damascus suburb a rebel fighters controlled a residential area just a few kilometers from here called guta a lot of the. total cut him a lot of cash. or and august twenty first guta was struck by rockets that contained the chemical agent sarin at least two hundred eighty people were killed including a number of children. the international community held assad personally responsible for the attack a military response from the west now seemed likely. french president francois hollande made it a top priority to bring down assad's regime. soon after the attack the u.s. and france sent aircraft carriers to the eastern mediterranean in august twenty twelfth president obama had warned syria that any use of chemical weapons would amount to crossing a red line and would have serious consequences. preside