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involvement in syria. russia part of this is the sovereignty of different countries. syria is one of them. their politics, their behaviour, their values, is not about interference or dictating. they don't. we have had good relations with russia for more than six nearly seven decades now. they have never, during our relationship, tried to dictate, even when there are differences. and because there is a war and there is high tension in our region, it is natural to have differences between the different parties, within our government or with other governments. russia, syria, iran. within these governments, that is very natural. at the end, the only decision about what is going on in syria and what is going to happen in syria is a syrian decision made by the syrian government. the taliban has announced a three—day ceasefire in afghanistan during the festival of eid, at the end of next week. it's the first such move by the group since it was overthrown in 2001. the afghan government, which has declared an 8—day truce,

involvement in syria, but said moscow does not dictate terms to any country it is involved in. russiacountries. syria is one of different countries. syria is one of them. their politics, their behaviour, their values, is not about interference or dictating. they don't. we have had good relations with russia for more than 60, nearly 70 now. they have never, during our relationship, tried to dictate, even when there are differences. and because there is a warand differences. and because there is a war and there is high tension in our region, it is natural to have differences between the different parties, within our government or with other governments. russia, syria, iran. within these governments, that is very natural. at the end, the only decision about what is going on in syria and what is going to happen in syria is a syrian decision made by the syrian government. queen elizabeth has marked her 92nd "official" birthday with the annual trooping the colour parade in london. she was joined by the newest member of the royal family, the duchess of sussex and her husband prince harry. ou

says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. w.'s mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u. case proposal on wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history they've barkha al-jazeera the hague and. plenty more ahead on this hour of news from london including. a train officials arrive in ethiopia for the first time in almost two decades bringing with them the hope of sustained. u.k. court grants or a temporary license to operate in london but criticizes the company's gung ho behavior. and in sport defending champions germany prepare for another must win world cup i will have the details a little later in the program. oh it's warming up nicely now across much of northern europe where the heat wave affecting those western past clear skies here absolutely gorgeous stands was the southeast is not quite so lucky as to be said lots of clouds just around the southern parts of italy easing over the i mean sea into greece into the balk

russia, dr. gorka, have any kind of incentive to get out of syria? what does it benefit russia to be in syria? >> well, look, russia has to be understood as different from other countries. this isn't belgium, this isn't canada. i always label russia as an anti-status quo actor. they meddle in other people's business. they destabilize regions to profit from that instability. however, they are in trouble in syria. remember, secretary mattis said u.s. forces have killed over 200 russian mercenaries in syria. it's not going well. it doesn't play well at home. they want relevance. putin wants to demonstrate relevance and he knows with donald trump this is a very, very different president. >> jeanine: and when they have this meeting -- and i just have a few seconds left -- what do you think we are going to come out with? but i think we are going. i want to thank you both for being with us tonight. thank you sebastian gorka and thank you, dan hoffman. more of the special edition of "hannity" after the break. you won't see these folks at the post office they have businesses to run they have passions to

and put russia's hand a little bit in syria and the devastating civil war there. the u.s. doesn't have leverage over russia on that but that's -- that's the messaging coming down on. this you were in the meeting yesterday, the 11 hour marathon meeting with fbi agent peter strzok who sent all of those anti-trump text messages. he was on the hillary clinton probe, he was on the mueller/russia probe before he was removed from it. lightning round here. quick yes or no because we have to get to some other things. yes or no, it peter strzok want president trump to went election? >> there is nothing that we saw that came out in that deposition yesterday that suggested that there was bias from peter strzok that impacted the investigation -- >> trying to do yes or no here, so let me try again on another one. was peter strzok's conduct at least deeply unprofessional, yes or no? >> and he was -- yes, and he was removed from the investigation, of course. >> is it possible, yes or no, that strzok may have intentionally, intentionally slow r

eighty two member states voted in favor nine countries that were against they included china russia and syria and so boris johnson's visit to the hague clearly worthwhile it's certainly being hailed as a major victory here by the u.k. by france to help to spearhead the initiative but the o.p.c. w is obviously the name of an organization that's been on many lips recently it's had rather a lot of work on its hands in recent months there was that chemical attack in june and also the poisoning of the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter yulia back in march that took place here on british soil and westminster blamed moscow for it so the u.k. was particularly key to spearhead this initiative in order to sort of further efforts to apportion blame for incidents like the one in seoul's very earlier this year and going into that the russian side had said that it considers the proposal self-defeating it was against it because they said it gives western countries the ability to influence decision making within the organization and essentially to manipulate its opinion so for russia china syr

members of the organization but whether or not it will continue to face stiff resistance from russia syria and its ally iran well that's really yet to be seen we're expecting more discussions going forward in the coming days and possibly a final vote later on in the week. the german chancellor has discussed europe's migration crisis with the spanish prime minister and berlin before the e.u. summit on thursday. under pressure from a coalition partner to find an e.u. wide solution to stem the flow of refugees and migrants but the block is divided over what approach to take germany wants the number of migrants spread more evenly across the e.u. but some countries like italy are resistant on the markle says an e.u. why deal won't be reached at the summit this week. so there is still some time needed to solve this and for this reason i spoke about working with countries that are willing on all dimensions of the migration policy the spanish prime minister spoke about the external donation and i spoke about the internal damage and in this spirit we will have through the talks in the coming days d

al-jazeera my own county in south sudan tensions remain high between russia and iran over the deployment of russian troops on syria's border with lebanon it's an area normally dominated by hezbollah or a militia group supported by iran on the forces have now been recalled russia hasn't provided an explanation for why they were there so in other reports from beirut. the region straddling lebanon's eastern border is an important supply line for hezbollah syria is the land link to iran for the lebanese armed group russian troops briefly took up positions here the russian military didn't comment but its troops were soon replaced by syrian army soldiers in russia trying. to iran in syria the. russian troops. are ready to deploy wherever they want. it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets underway has envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the bo

eighty two member states voted in favor nine countries that were against they included china russia and syria and so boris johnson's visit to the hague clearly worthwhile it's certainly being hailed as a major victory here by the u.k. by france to help to spearhead the initiative but the o.p.c. w is obviously the name of an organization that's been on many lips recently it's had rather a lot of work on its hands in recent months there was that chemical attack in june and also the poisoning of the former russian spy sergei script and his daughter yulia back in march that took place here on british soil and westminster blamed moscow for it so the u.k. was particularly key to spearhead this initiative in order to sort of further efforts to apportion blame for incidents like the one in seoul very earlier this year and going into that the russian side had said that it considers the proposal self-defeating it was against it because they said it gives western countries the ability to influence decision making within the organization and essentially to manipulate its opinion so for russia china syria

in many many things russia and israel are working together and on the issue of syria and iran i think both countries both israel and russia have a very very strong interest of having stability in in syria of having you know ending any. forces that may. provoke a door provoke and cause a lot of violence both in syria and also in the surrounding countries jumping in i think russia is certainly has an interest of not seeing forces that would act if that would act provoke at tivoli in in syria but i think those forces at least from the russian point of view include not only the hereat and forces but also american forces and to some extent is really forces because israel has become a increasingly assertive in striking targets on the territory of syria even if russia looks the other way i think indirectly it does impact on russia's own interests do you think russia will continue looking the other way or do you think it will actually become a little bit more proactive in deterring these type of assertiveness on the part of israel when i think the close cooperation will continue and there is

or counterterrorism many many things russia and israel are working together and on the issue of syria and iran i think both countries both israel and russia have a very very strong interest of having stability in syria or having you know ending any. forces there. ok to provoke and cause a lot of violence both in syria and also in the surrounding countries jumping in i think russia is certainly has an interest of not seeing forces that were active that would act provoke at tivoli in in syria but i think those forces at least from the russian point of view include not only the iraqi and forces but also american forces and to some extent is really forces because israel has become a increasingly assertive in striking targets on the territory of syria even if russia looks the other way i think indirectly it does impact on russia's own interests do you think russia will continue looking the other way or do you think it will actually become a little bit more proactive in deterring these type of assertiveness on the part of israel when i think the close cooperation will continue and there is

difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and wants russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in. the russians interested in. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save that the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position and influence in post conflict syria iran and russia included. beirut. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera iraq's parliament has ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's parliamentary elections after accusations of widespread fraud and it comes a day after prime minister hyderabad the said there had been serious violations and banned high ranking election commission officials from leaving the country and at le

says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u.k.'s proposal on wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history. still ahead. here and eritrea after twenty years of fighting and a. clash. later in the program. the weather sponsored by. how i want place to say we have got some dry weather now coming into southern parts of china following on from the weekend rain still a little bit of wet weather down towards the southwestern corner northern parts of vietnam where of course we have had some flooding and those showers extend their way or are across china will be downpours coming in here but as you can see by thursday it should be a little dry for southern parts of china few showers and just slide in the way towards more than parts of the philippines want to showers in the south as well the usual rush of showers the heat of the day showers he will see the the clouds just bubbling up ther

says russia is trying to protect its ally syria russia says extending the o.p.c. w.'s mandate will undermine its independence member states will vote on whether to accept or reject the u. case proposal of wednesday the result could lead to the biggest shake up in the organizations twenty year history they've balk at the hague. to spain now with the first trial of the so-called stolen baby scandal as about to begin thousands of children a believed to have been taken from their mothers of a several decades and eighty five year old doctor is now on trial accused of stealing a baby and nine hundred sixty nine pizza shop reports. are. what they call themselves the stolen babysit association each of them horribly scarred by the loss of the newborn and each of them could tell an all too familiar story. you know doing my baby was with me for the first day i fed her she was fine then they took her away to wash her but they didn't bring her back three days later they told me she was dead they gathered outside the municipal courthouse in madrid but they were denied a confrontati

without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. yes republicans have a great to work on legislation to end the political process around the president's policy a separating migrant children from their parents at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support a bill saying donald trump can solve the problem with a simple executive order alan fischer reports from washington d.c. mr president the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates system is broken for many years the immigration system that's been really. interesting probably the words that they were the word of we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside but on a number of bills doing the rounds which deal wi

the united states so far away on some of the main issues of our time, as on global security with russia, syriaawing from the paris agreement. so this is difficult and they have to learn how to talk to a man who is not really willing to engage. apart from that, they have to wait for this storm to pass and to wait for this storm to pass and to see what else comes out of the trump presidency. he is quite unpredictable. he can produce some moves from the american side that could be advantageous for the west. we will have to see. but it is a disturbing moment for other western leaders to find such a different kind of president in the white house. the singapore summit is coming up this week and we will see what comes out of that and whether there is a rapport between donald trump and kimjong—un and there is a rapport between donald trump and kim jong—un and whether they come down to negotiating rather than the theatre of this. but what about the g7? is it a bit of an anachronism? it was never a decision—making organisation like the united nations security council or like nato. it's always been an in

without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. well the un's human rights chief responded on twitter shortly after that announcement zaid rod saying says the decision is disappointing if not really surprising given the state of human rights in today's world the u.s. should be stepping up not stepping back. yes republicans have agreed to work on legislation to end the president's controversial policy of separating migrant families at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support it saying trump can act alone alan fischer reports from washington d.c. this is the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates is really broken for many years immigration system that has been really. interesting probably the worst that they were the world we're going to try and see if w

difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and want russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow. it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in long term run ins increasing influence in syria because the. so basically russia is interested more in stronger than. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save that the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position and influence in post conflict syria iran and russia included. beirut well south sudan has been torn apart by conflict its five year long civil war has left many suffering from preventable diseases because of severe medicine and food shortages more than half of its population that's around seven million people depend on aid and since twenty thir

syria because they. were so basically russia is interested more in stronger. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save that the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position and influence in post conflict syria iran and russia included. beirut and south sudan is another country tone of by conflict its five year civil war has left many people suffering from diseases because a severe medicine and food shortages more than half the population is dependent on aid even morgan reports from my own county. simon has been sick for days and says she would have liked to stay at home but that's not an option for her because there's no food there so she had to come here to an aid distribution center to register and get food all of that line that no one and i like i've had a fever and headache for days and then came the car but had to come here to get food if not the only thing i can have is porridge so i came to get aid. simon is one of more than one hundred thousand people in m

since on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department and u.s. president trump has been meeting republicans on capitol hill to discuss passing legislation to of the whole the immigration system trump says he's willing to back up one of two bills one proposes a crackdown on the side of sikhism funding for the border wall a more moderate second bill provides a path to citizenship for young people known as dreamers who came to the u.s. illegally as children trump has been on the fierce criticism for its policy of separating migrant families at the mexico border which he continues to defend. when you prosecute the parents for coming in illegally which should happen you have to take the children away now we don't have to prosecute them but then when not prosecuting them for coming in illegally that's not good we want to end the border crisis by finally giving

without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department. well the council is based in geneva and its mission is to promote and to protect human rights around the world it was established back in two thousand and six to replace the un commission on human rights that had been strongly criticized for allowing countries with poor human rights records to be members of the un h r c has forty seven member countries who serve for three year terms it meets three times a year and investigates human rights records of all u.n. member states in a special process it covers issues including freedom of expression freedom of belief women's rights l g b t rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities the un general assembly can suspend the rights of any council member that's violating human rights in a gross and systematic way this requires a two thir

and its allies called out russia saying it and the syrian government would breaching an agreement on deescalation in southwest syria made last year the united states can confirm that russia itself launched air strikes in the southwest the escalation zone in recent days to be clear the unilateral military operations underway by the assad regime and russia in southwest syria represent a violation of the cease fire arrangement reaffirmed by president trump and president putin some humanitarian groups and now calling on jordan to take action some of those fleeing the violence in southern syria have nowhere to go and the jordan syria border remains closed james pays out just era of the united nations two car bomb attacks in our free and in northwestern syria have killed at least eleven people turkish fact forces captured after three men from kurdish y p g fighters in march after a two month military campaign. yemen's president is demanding who think rebels withdrawal from a date a province present updatable months old hardee's ultimatum comes after he met the united nations special envoy the u.n. fears an all out assaul

on syria, russia wants to tax in southwestern syria resulting in civilian deaths, and a president whoilty of crimes against humanity. we don't see eye to eye with russia and the alliance with iran in syria. heather: we will see what happens, the second huge sit down for donald trump during his administration with north korea and vladimir putin so you will see when that happens if you are right about that date, appreciate it. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the our, sarah sanders getting support from an unlikely person. >> people have a right to go into a restaurant and have dinner. heather: is this more proof the calls for confrontation are getting too out of hand? beware if you are heading out of town for the july 4th holiday, the travel nightmare that could be waiting for you at the airport. ♪ with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done! simply enter your destination and dates... and see all the hotels for your stay! tripadvisor searches over 200 booking sites... to show you the lowest prices... so you can get the best

backing of russia iran and the lebanese militia hezbollah president assad is seeking to retake control of daraa one of the last remaining rebel held areas there are is in the far south west of syria and government forces of massed in the region they're shelling and they're dropping barrel bombs and some reports suggest that they're getting support from russia in the air campaign but this was supposed to be a deescalation zone agreed by russia the united states and jordan well that agreements clearly now null and void much to the consternation of neighboring countries the u.s. has reportedly told the syrian rebels not to expect to military support in southern syria so why is there are so sensitive apart from it symbolic significance as the birth race of the revolution the province is considered strategically important it's on the border with jordan and it stretches all the way to these radio golan heights and as we've mentioned the u.s. russia and jordan agreed last year to include darragh as part of full so-called deescalation zones designed to reduce the fighting in syria. well syria's government has urged rebels to give up their weapons but so far they're refusing to recognize

russia, dr. gorka, have any kind of incentive to get out of syria? what does it benefit russia to be in syria? , look, russia has to be understood as different from other countries. this isn't belgium, this isn't canada. i always label russia as an anti-status quo actor. they meddle in other people's business. they destabilize regions to profit from that instability. however, they are in trouble in syria. remember, secretary mattis said u.s. forces have killed over 200 russian mercenaries in syria. it's not going well. it doesn't play well at home. they want relevance. putin wants to demonstrate relevance and he knows with donald trump this is a very, very different president. >> jeanine: and when they have this meeting -- and i just have a few seconds left -- what do you think we are going to come out with? but i think we are going. i want to thank you both for being with us tonight. thank you sebastian gorka and thank you, dan hoffman. more of the special edition of "hannity" after the break. since my stroke, he hasn't left my side. with the right steps, 80% of recurrent ischemic strokes coul

and its allies called out russia saying it and the syrian government were breaching an agreement on deescalation in southwest syria made last year. the united states can confirm that russia itself launched air strikes in the southwest deescalation zone in recent days to be clear the unilateral military operations underway by the assad regime and russia in southwest syria represent a violation of the cease fire arrangement reaffirmed by president trump and president putin some humanitarian groups are now calling on jordan to take action some of those fleeing the violence in southern syria have nowhere to go and the jordan syria border remains closed james just era of the united nations more heavy rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing for four days in a flood the cave but rescuers remain optimistic the teenagers are alive because in the past cave explorers have been found when floodwaters receded it's called the has more from outside the cave in chiang rai. heavy rain overnight between wednesday and thursday brought the water level in the cave system to its highest level yet b

syria and russia have been carrying out and strikes on rebel groups trying to expand their territory. zimbabwe's president survived an apparent grenade attack at a campaign rally before next month's election emerson called it a cowardly attack and said it would not influence the upcoming vote. as he walked off stage in the city to pull away all. of voters in turkey head to the polls in a few hours before sunday's landmark elections in his final campaign rally president . attacked leading opponent. for lacking vision the vote will bring constitutional changes into effect that would transform the political system into an executive presidency. spain's coast guard has rescued nearly eight hundred migrants trying to make the journey across the mediterranean sea. in north africa spain's maritime rescue service says it picked them up from twenty five boats in the outboard sea and the strait of gibraltar busy shipping lane with treacherous currents two men were pulled from a canoe and one was rescued after he fell off into the water calm weather this week has encouraged migrants to try to mak

is that president putin recently and i said to both the same namely russia into the situation with all the middle east in the in syria my belief that i have said this already to the interests of russia and united states in the middle east. and that's in my opinion it's extremely important for the future of the middle east that the two countries come together and have a common strategy and. i mean it is always easy and i understand that from the point of view of the media it's much better if you have big fights but from the point of view of the world it's very important that countries are able to come together to overcome their divisions and to understand that their common interests especially in these world where terrorism became so dangerous their common interests are more important than the difference is that he said that russian and american common interest in syria overlap somehow and there are grave doubts and grave concerns in this city about the united states may be moving towards creating some sort of partition in syria. i'm sure you heard john bolton the and national security advisor to. advocating the creat

led proposal was passed by eighty two votes to twenty four russia syria and iran opposed the resolution i think it's too early to say how many will go where we have very clear indications. of and play just very concrete pledges from each member state i think everyone will take who are linked to it's safe to say everyone is take according to. its capability i'm sorry that was in the video that we meant to play it more heavy rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing now for four days in a flooded cave rescue as they remain optimistic that the teenagers are still alive because other cave explorers have been found in the past after a flood water had receded the united nations envoy to me is called for the dismantling of what she says is a system of discrimination against religious muslims yankee levy was speaking at the un human rights council in geneva in response may amazon basad a call for her to be replaced. donald trump's national security advisor john bolton has met president vladimir putin in moscow as he finalizes plans for an upcoming u.s. russia

without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to whole country such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council rosalyn jordan al-jazeera the state department and the u.s. president donald trump has been meeting republicans on capitol hill to discuss passing legislation to overhaul the immigration system trump says that something needs to be done to curb illegal immigration and he plans to sign either of two republican bills that the house passes trump has been out of his criticism his policy of separating migrant families at the mexico border which he continues to defend saudi embassy coalition forces have taken control of parts of her datas and port in yemen as they continue to fight to the rebels the u.n. and aid agencies fear the battle will spread to the city and cause a humanitarian disaster. north korea's leader has told china that his country will do all it can to protect peace kim jong un briefed china's president xi jinping on his s

we're not going to be successful in dealing with our problems whether it's north ina, russia, syria and so many others unless we have unity in our western alliance. donald trump is destroying that unity, waging trade war with our allies. let's remember how amazing this is, canada, one of our closest allies, a country that has fought with us for 100 years and donald trump is cassandra gaiting his prime minister. this is not something that should be happening. this is destructive with the american position in the world. this may ultimately turn out to be more significant than whatever happens here with kim jong-un, we'll see what happens. but the fact that donald trump is undermining the unity of the western alliance, which has been the prosperity since 1945. i think that's going to be a calamity.com. >>> president donald trump meeting with kim jong-un. right now, what will it take for them to make a deal that would make the world safer? plus, before he went in before that summit, the president tweeting larry kudlow is in the hospital, his chief adviser, with a heart attack. we have more

and connector syria and russia been carrying out as strikes on the rebel territory according to reuters the us government send the messages to the heads of the free syrian army groups whom it has supported in the past thousands of civilians have fled their homes in their our province asher madera has that story. this is the first time government forces have used battle bombs in daraa in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an eye and to the seven year war the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's law for a t. he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroyed syria to stay in power we will never recognize him and we reject the presence of the reigning and afghan militias only syrians who should decide the future of the country. the syrian army is massing troops in the area the opposition says thousands of shiite militias are also moving in dar was the focal point of the syrian upr

difficult balancing act for russia which enjoys good relations with iran and israel israel doesn't just want iranian and iranian backed troops away from its borders it wants them out of syria altogether israel sees them as a strategic threat and want russia to ensure that their military influence doesn't grow. it's not just israel's demand other regional international powers want to limit iran's influence moscow to wants a strong syrian government to help broker an internationally backed political settlement not interested in long term run ins increased incidence in syria because there. were so basically russia is interested more in stronger than. russia and iran have long had different goals and agendas in syria their alliance save their the syrian government but now that the war is winding down many actors will be jockeying for position and influence in post conflict syria iran and russia included. beirut now the us is warning the united arab emirates against the proposed offensive to capture yemen's who data port the red sea port is the main lifeline for getting much needed aid supplies into the water and country saudi military says the yemeni government forces it banks

country isn't making any effort at all among those countries in this year's report include russia china syria and burma the us report says that burma as authorities particularly in iraq in province haven't done anything to protect the wellbeing of the real him and that people as a result have been much more vulnerable not just to abuse but to smuggling to sex trafficking and other labor abuses this is a point which the secretary of state like pompei was stressed during thursday's ceremony in southeast asia burma's armed forces and others in the rocking state dislocated hundreds of thousands of rowing up and members of other ethnic groups many of whom were exploited through the region as a result. some of the burmese military also recruited child soldiers and subjected adults and children from at the minority groups to forced labor one of the other issues that is highlighted in this report is the vulnerability of children who were forcibly separated from their talents u.s. officials here though did not want to address that matter as it relates to the ongoing controversy on the us mexico border

simple diplomacy to russia for example ask president putin to get out of syria or ukraine and i don't know about here i would be a little bit nervous about where that conversation can leave and i want to ask you what do you actually think about the current state of the u.s. russian relations given their presence very massive presence of navy bases around forever is the president putin recently and i said to both the same namely to the situation with all the release of the in syria my belief that i have said it's already dead to the interests of russia and united states in the middle east. and that's in my opinion it's extremely important for the future of the middle east that the two countries come together and have a common strategy and. i mean it is always easy and i understand that from the point of view of the media it's much better if you have big fights but from the point of view of the world it's very important that countries are able to come together to overcome their divisions and to understand that their common interests especially in these world where terrorism became so da

russia china syria many other countries make the miller claims after unfavorable votes but none of them ever walked out of the council simply because i think most of them realize that they're not limited to one single issue they devalue the council is broader do you take this american of a troll to mean that the united states at this moment of time doesn't care about anything else but israel now look. the u.s. position is not always been the same the us was all that it can mean was going all to gain which means that there is a balance in the american public opinion and in the american institutions the going on the party the. party that is in. different attitudes in addition to the human rights council so i don't think we should generalize these i think this is a very specific area where we have always seen the u.s. . position in position of position in so let's hope that in the future the u.s. will come back now speaking about the nature of that criticism i know that the other one cover to sell a alstom has just submitted every quarter very critical of trump's president tranced tax over

without the american presence on the council it will be much less able to hold countries such as russia syria or north korea accountable for the mistreatment of their citizens it's also not clear how long washington plans to stay away from the human rights council. jordan al-jazeera the state department u.s. president donald trump as a meeting republicans on capitol hill to discuss passing legislation to overhaul the immigration system trump says something needs to be done to curb illegal immigration and he plans to sign either the republican bills of the house passes he's going to face criticism face policy of spitting up migrant families at the mexican border. saudi and erotic coalition forces of taken control of parts of the day it is airport in yemen as they continue to fight who the rebels the u.n. and aid groups fear the battle will spread to the city and cause a humanitarian disaster. north korea's leader has told china that his country will do all it can to protect peace kim jong who is visiting for the third time since march he briefed china's president xi jinping a meeting president