decision to recognize roselyn as the capital of israel. and the fourth part of our series looking ahead to two thousand and eighteen we examined the future of syria two thousand and seventeen was a good year for president bashar al assad as forces recaptured large swaths of territory from meisel and the. opposition. appears a real possibility. of war. reports from. syrians in search of safety there may be less violence because of. fires but there are still active lines in some areas of the country over the past year the opposition lost sizable territory and the syrian government with the backing of russia have also recaptured from. the government is stronger than it has been since the conflict began nearly seven years ago but the war is not. the war. and what we're seeing. in some parts. there is the likelihood. of the almost a quarter of the country in the northeast for example is outside the state's control the mainly kurdish region wants a federal system for syria the government wants said it would be ready to discuss this but now it ca

the president trump respects his word he promised to move the embassy you promise to recognize your roselyn and him thousand and he is a very good example for other people to be loyal to closest allies israel it pre-shared see it deeply what i want also to mention listen just today now there you hear human rights organizations gave the data on syrian conflict four hundred sixty five thousand people heard there are we can continue to see what's happening in the rock in yemen in egypt in libya well tell me please where the christians in jury such liberty as in these throw where the christians are protected in the middle in the middle east unless we are talking about israel. israel is the prospering construct of the user of the country which provides christians muslims and jews with absolute full rights in jerusalem and is standard for appreciating it we get some european countries and liberal press stirring up the i prize well here i mean this is a waste of the liberal press which actually tries to portray what separate me here as a major event the riots were quite small irrelevant and i want

atmosphere is like because i mean we know the palestinian authority for example that they want to roselyn as their capital that they have claims there as well what is the mood there at the moment and how do you see this playing out if trump does indeed make this decision well i mean among the palestinian officials as a frenzy. there are they seem quite afraid that this could happen and you know. if it does they the thing about jerusalem is that in the palestinian authority point of view they don't really have control over it it's in israeli. you know israeli police run the show here and i mean they don't have control what happens in the street in jerusalem or in the west bank they could if you know america declares moves their procedures on anything could happen it's true when they say they don't have control because they really won't happen till they barely have control now and you can see there's a lot of panic you know mahmoud abbas has called eight or nine wolves leaders in the past day them to urge president trump not to do this you could sense the panic among officials about this ha

the many creative "action news" photographers used dash cam to capture snowy slushy drive through roselyn, montgomery county this morning. the side streets around easton road were coat budd fairly easy to navigate, on a day most folks decided to stay home and play in the yard. >>> many of those who did not choose to stay inside hit the hill taking advantage of the perfect sledding conditions. "action news" reporter trish hartman is live in one of the prime slopes in lower moreland and you got quite the assignment here, trish. >> reporter: i did it was a fun time brian. lower moreland high school still coming down here right now. give you an idea how much snow we have? let me get right even on the measuring stick here. we have about 5 inches here. now of course, today most of the sledders packed it in bait is cold, dark out but earlier today kid were having a blast here and parents say this is a winter tradition that the kid love coming back for every year. >> ahh. >> slide down, you feel the snow going right up your face and it is harsh. >> i like when you go down the ramp and go wow wow.

chief mike pompeo for the role to listens legacy as america's top diplomat has been controversial as roselyn jordan reports. there has been a lot of talk here in washington all year about the direction in which rex tillerson the secretary of state wants to drive the state department and perhaps more important how he wants to reform it of course all of this is coming even as there are questions about his own future with the nation's oldest cabinet department. the state department is the face of the u.s. to the rest of the world issuing visas working on humanitarian crises trying to prevent war but ten months into the trumpet ministration current and former diplomats are running to the process to accuse secretary of state rex tillerson of destroying the department the morale for many in the department has gone down so dramatically that you have to wonder whether or not they're capable people will leave out of frustration diplomats and foreign policy experts say tillerson plans to reform agency operations are just an excuse to gut the department to date forty six ambassadors have been confirmed