reporter: sami elvan hopes more will remain of his son than just memories. case to become a symbol in the struggle for a democratic turkey. brian: it may be difficult to believe, but the rare persian leopard once roamed across the caucasus mountains in great numbers in countries like iran and russian into the early 20th century. since then they've been all but wiped out by human encroachment. they now number less than 500. russia started a project to reintroduce them to the wild last year. but a new ski resort project approved by the russian parliament and backed by gazprom is putting those efforts, and the persian leopard, in jeopardy. reporter: it feels rather adventurous. we are in an area unique in russia, a nature preserve unparalleled anywhere in europe. nature as it was 100 years ago, still under complete protection. we are only permitted here accompanied by scientists and rangers. we are in leopard country. many of them used to live here, but then they were almost exterminated. now that is to be reversed. last year, scientists released three persian

armed groups let's bring our guests into the show now and we have joining us from beirut in lebanon sami neither director of the levant institute for strategic affairs joining us on skype from a man sanyo koch save the children's syria director and from that so in italy joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all if i could start with sami in beirut so local officials as you may have heard in iraq a civil counsel talk about a deal an evacuation deal that allows some members at least of eisel to leave does this mean we're not going to have that final bloody eisel standoff in iraq or. i mean this deed is very similar to what happened in one month ago where the isis fighters have been evacuated through air conditioned buses going all through today resort so this i mean put into question why this now and why couldn't it be possible before saving all this destructions and death tolls all the more that among the international fighters that has been that have been evacuated they are where those responsible of this attack and resp

us from yemen's capital sana'a is hakim a must mahdi editor in chief of the yemen post from london sami ham the editor of the international interest and from bull must also in the u.k. rocco bloom of conflict the conflict and humanitarian policy adviser at war child good dad you'll win it so rocco bloom let me start with you then you welcome this decision we certainly do this is blown over due to human rights abuses are being recorded by credible human had already been by the u.n. for the last two years now we have a mechanism providing the press and development scrutiny and this will enable the international community to make some very strong decisions as to how to proceed with dealing with that calling for conflict in the ward never the fear is though rocco bloom is that this is a this might be a watered down commission that's been put together. to keep saudi arabia happy and if that's the case can it be an honest and far reaching investigation well it's true that the original resolution that was then proposed by. the dutch to the human rights council was a commission of inquiry which

center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all if i could start with sami in beirut so local officials as you may have heard in iraq a civil counsel talk about a deal an evacuation deal that allows some members at least of eisel to leave does this mean we're not going to have that final bloody eisel standoff in iraq or. i mean this deed is very similar to what happened in one month ago where the isis fighters have have been evacuated through air conditioned buses going all through there is or so this i mean put into question why this deal now and why couldn't it be possible before saving all this destructions and death tolls all the more that among the international fighters that has been that have been evacuated they where those responsible of bias and responsible of terrorist. acts the second point i think were worth mentioning why i mean it's the final destination there is or that seems to be the nexus of or the pope the point of all. when it comes to. war because it's about who will be controlling. iraqi borders who will be in charge of uprooting in his

his father and step mom, sami, had no idea the burden hagan was shouldering. >> he would say he was tired. and would almost sleep all the way here from their house. >> reporter: but then in june, an emergency phone call from utah's division of child and family services, hagan's mother and stepfather had been arrested for stealing. and then, admitted to something unthinkable. they told police that when hagan's sister was born last april, they knew she would be addicted to heroin since her mother used through the pregnancy. when the baby was still in the ward, step dad colby told police he rubbed opioid drugs on the newborn's gums to prevent her from going into withdrawal and having seizures. >> they realize they could keep their babies from having symptoms for a period of time, they get discharged, then they might bypass being reported. >> reporter: and having the child taken away. >> and having the child taken away. >> reporter: this doctor has been at utah valley hospital for 38 years. there's a little baby in here right now who's in withdrawal? >> yes. >> reporter: the hospital has a re

sami is a than this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up under pressure after a controversial referendum iraq's kurdish leader is reportedly considering standing down. marching for spain's unity thousands. to drop its bid for secession plus. i mean reporting on moves to bring apex predators like wolves back to the scottish highlands after an absence of more than three hundred. says it was behind the siege of the house held in the somali capital that lasted for more than ten hours at least twenty three people died five fighters stormed the building on saturday after twenty in the area and took people hostage security forces killed two attackers and arrested three others catherine so i reports from neighboring kenya hours after the attack on a hotel in mogadishu volunteers and rescue workers still clearing the debris and pulling out mobile this siege is over and once again residents of this city. just two weeks after another attack the wost in somalia's history close to four hundred people were killed and dozens are still missing out how allowing two of the attackers were killed

back to you in a minute then with a question which i initially asked you about this is interesting sami now that are we going to see then is the vacuums have a nasty habit of getting filled though they are they going to be filled the vacuum if i'm following the joshua saying correctly here it sounds like we're saying there's a bit of a vacuum developing is there going to be filled by regional powers if the u.s. doesn't really have the interest in the appetite to fill it or is it going to be filled by some other reincarnation of some other eisel ask or al qaeda esque force that red you know that arises from the despair on the right a little aces like russia. i think both of them the regional power will stay at least for a while. namely iran and turkey i don't see even a seat in territory very soon. not russia and what's at stake in syria and iraq and. iraq is very important for the american to repeat the same mistake of two thousand and eight a rapid withdrawal would. yes i agree with joshua that pressure is a position of the american and they want to engage in nation building but at som

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bouquet, bayan sami abdul rahman, thank you very much for speaking to us. thank you.t some of the other stories making the news. british prime minister theresa may and european commission head jean—claude junker say brexit talks should accelerate in the next few months. the pair issued a joint statement following talks over dinner in brussels ahead of the crucial european summit which takes place later this week. the us army sergeant who was captured by the taliban in afghanistan has pleaded guilty to deserting his duties and endangering the lives of fellow troops. bowe bergdahl spent five years in captivity and was released under a prisoner swap deal. he'll be sentenced later. dozens of militants of the so—called islamic state have been killed in us airstrikes in yemen. the pentagon says us forces carried out attacks on two training camps in the central region of al bayda, inflicting a serious blow to the group's ability to train new fighters. a journalist who investigated corruption among politicians, officials and business people in malta has been killed by a car b

was a pro independence friend joined sami well at the rally and is confronted with societal divisions that she'd never seen before i was there was. the recent divisions a much worse than people of thought that i had no idea that there were so many people who wanted to take to the streets and defend these ideas and that. was the thing and that's why a catalan president pushed him on really wants to defend his people he has two options. preserve his image as a politician as an independence hero continue this process and end up in jail that's likely how he will end up there with them and. for he can step down. and tell me that they are put out. at the cattle and parliament there is no stepping down from the momentum. that's building towards independence. arrives security is tight madrid's reaction is still uncertain. i think maybe. i'll. tell you you know like it's everything close. a bit more secure it's ok you. know alba is joined by her father both expect that this will be the realization of a dream that spans generations. of. dad how do you feel great elated. lots of emotions but it

yes or they've been samy twists and turns in this process seventy ups and downs with people it really has been an emotional roller coaster a lot of people here are telling me that what they really fear is a repeat as martin was talking about what happened on october first when this place for madrid where keys are being very handy heavy handed with people going to the polls they've all been saying that they can very much for see that happening again i was so crucial to point out about this situation is depending on who you ask and it really is extraordinary some people say that they think that spain is is in charge other people madrid is still in charge other people are saying that they still recognize him on in fact when he was in people were chanting president president recent polls that were taken still prove that it is a fifty fifty divide and whether people are forgetting that independence or against independence for those who are against it who are expecting to march tomorrow this really is a very frustrating situation because just just because you are against independence doesn'

sami khedira scored a hatrick despitejuve playing with ten men for more than hour after mario mandzukicnd yellow card. lazio and roma also picked up respective victories over cagliari and torino. while in france's ligue un neymar scored a goal and was sent off as leaders paris st—germain scored late through edinson cavani to salvage a 2—2 draw away to marseille. in the other two matches nice continue their fall from grace losing to strasbourg who remain in the relegation zone while lyon put five past troyes. psv eindhoven tightened their grip on top spot in the dutch eredivisie with a 3—0 home win over heracles. marco van ginkel poked in from close range for the secon while their third came in controversial circumstances in stoppage time — a red card for robin propper for a push and a penalty too although it looked outside the box — van ginkel stepped up and put it away for his second goal of the game. the wimbledon champion garbine muguruza continues her bid to win both the wta finals and year end world number one crown beating jelena 0stapenko in straight sets in singapore on sunday.

armed groups let's bring our guests into the show now and we have joining us from beirut in lebanon sami neither director of the levant institute for strategic affairs joining us on skype from a man sanyo of course save the children's syria director and from edward so in italy joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma welcome to you all if i could start with sami in beirut so local officials as you may have heard in iraq a civil counsel talk about a deal an evacuation deal that allows some members at least of eisel to leave does this mean we're not going to have that final bloody eisel standoff in iraq or. i mean this deed is very similar to what happened in like one month ago where the isis fighters have been evacuated through air conditioned buses going all through their resort so this i mean put into question why this now and why couldn't it be possible before saving all this destructions and death tolls all the more that among the international fighters that has been that have been evacuated they are where those responsible of this att

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natural on barzani again we're going to have to wait for official confirmation of that but interestingly sami we haven't heard from the president we haven't heard him speak to the people since all of this this backlash against that controversial referendum began which basically saw a huge reversal of fortune within thirty six hours iraqi federal forces taking control taking back control of those disputed territories and also now the far message that they fully intend to take control of the border crossings at the k r g holds with syria with turkey and with iran this is acceptable under the iraqi constitution but certainly you are seeing that the situation of the k r g the seventy and thomas region take huge steps back from where it was before this referendum so i think yes we'll be waiting to hear what parliament decides right think more important people will be waiting to see if president muscled but design is going to address the people at any point in the next few days because that term and in three days time so what happens next and what measures are in place if this does go the way that

go ahead kate you wanted to jump in let me give you a chance to finish your i was just going to say sami that i think i think it's also important to note that the focus is really on the coalition because that's where the international community really has the leverage to push for change and i think the blacklist is very important like christine was saying that it starts creating this evidentiary body to start talking about now only a commission of inquiry but also sending cases of violators to the hague eventually and demanding that accountability and it also gives domestic audiences in the u.s. and u.k. when these arm sales are being debated and other forms of military support that these violations can no longer be swept under the rug the u.n. what we talk about anted evidentiary for who to take action who couldn't to see you case against any of the parties to this conflict we have to bear in mind of course there and use ations against the who sees in their backers as well of of committing violations of of war. absolutely all parties to the conflict have committed violations of the laws

s see as a challenge to them in parliament his vice president tariq sami voted earlier in the state of our polls have put the opposition on course to win many of the same votes but the president sworn any elected governors will have to swear allegiance to a controversial new constituent assembly to raise a boat has the latest from a polling station in the capital caracas. well people have been coming for the four hours. previous elections where there were. already. around the country. broken and many people here are. doing everything possible to hurt. no major in. that. country. kenya's opposition leader has held a rally in the city of mombasa where he's urged his supporters to boycott the presidential election this follows days of violent protests despite the government ban two protesters were killed during clashes with police on friday as anger over an increasingly uncertain rerun which is scheduled to take place later this month. now myanmar is holding a ceremony to mark two years since the signing of a cease fire with several armed groups eight of myanmar's twenty one ethnic group

well sami is the crux of all this are two chief points now that the iranian government is going to be looking at rouhani speech last night during the president's speech covered a long list of issues he touched on every criticism that came from president trump but really one of the key points that he focused on was iranian stiff iran's defensive capabilities when it comes to their own regional security the missiles program has been a a thorn in the side of the white house so to speak and something that they've long criticized but the iranian president made the argument that iran has a long history of experiencing aggressive behavior by its neighbors as well as by the united states he reminded people in last night's speech that it was the cia. the central intelligence agency that backed a coup that toppled the democratically elected government here in one thousand fifty three in one thousand nine hundred eight a passenger airliner was shot down by a u.s. warship in the one nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war the united states actually backed saddam hussein so rouhani very strongly defe

. >> jj: hey, we heard sami brady was brought in. you had her arrested? >> lani: don't tell me she-- >> hope: no. no, but she did grab my gun. and she held rolf at gunpoint, demanding he tell her where will was being held. >> jj: so it's true? will's really alive? >> hope: rolf claimed that-- well, claimed that he attempted to revive will in the morgue. yet he never did confirm that he succeeded. >> jj: under whose orders did he make that attempt? >> hope: that's a good question. he insisted he wasn't working for stefano. but unfortunately, he bit down on a cyanide pill and died before i was able to get more out of him. >> jj: i don't believe this. >> hope: i know. listen, i need you two to

right and on that we have to leave it thank you to all three of you have given muslim audience and sami handy in london and rocco in former thanks very much for being on inside story. and thank you as always for watching remember you cannot watch this program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and further discussion you can go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter i handle there is at a.j. inside story for me has i'm sick and the whole team here by finish it with. the hour with all. in the hash tag era when news coverage consists of a punchy had line a five second sound bite not an easy solution. dellums deep of his challenges the status quo exposed double standards and debate the contradictions joined me mad the hot sun for a new season of the show the frank loved up front. but this time i'll just hear of . one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this regio

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independence has been marked by aggression and marked by violence and so that would indicate i think sami that he is very wary of going back in to spain so it's difficult to see exactly how he can start this campaign how we can start just peace process how can start this ballot box. support for catalonian into. pendants on the twenty first of december by not actually campaigning does he actually think he can do it from here does he think you can do it through the press through sky how is he going to operate it's not a told clear so. disorganized and clear about exactly how he's going to approach the next few days and a few weeks before those elections take place and you're absolutely right they really did dodge that question when the journalist put it to him would you be willing to go back would you be willing to risk arrest but one of the members of the panel who kind of said i suppose on his behalf turned around and put the question this way would he get a fair trial which kind of indicates to us without trying to read too much into him or what he's saying without trying to look into a

venus williams is hardly slowing down the american still a year hasn't finished yet williams has made samy finals in singapore by beating spain's. seven five six draw it keeps you on track to win the season ending tournament for the first time in nine years and it continues a remarkable run in which she's made two major finals this year including losing to move to wimbledon williams will face other caroline wozniacki caroline garcia in the final for. catalina percivale is also in the same means and it's a good thing she made it before meeting the panko in the final round that's because she was beaten by the french open champion who took the match six three six one. in the race to finish the season as the world number one. and roger federer has reached the quarter finals at his hometown tournament where he launched his career as a ball boy holding twenty years ago the seven times with induced champion crushing frenchman brainwash six one six three in boxing. now for a blast of the bloodhound it's a car that a british engineering team hopes will smash the world land speed record the aim is t

palestinians to to positively challenge the israeli a distractions and blockade on gaza and what does this sami concretely mean for how math. essentially means that they would be able to disarm sizes of v burdens of government in a place like gaza that is that is experiencing a great deal of problems in every facet of life. this would also enable hamas it would mean that hamas has a new opportunity to devise a new political program. with the rest of the palestinian factions mainly with fatah. to better represent the palestinian people over all right and let's talk a little bit more about that the situation of the some two million people living in gaza that you waited to a little bit before what has life been like for gazans up to this moment. it has been very difficult to do to the the deterioration in all aspects of life people have have essentially lost. all hope and there has been a c.v. a sense of of desperation. that has been because of the he is in the distractions and because of the consequences of the division between palestinians. this has translated into. lack of. the provision of ess

we can talk more about that now with sami humvee who's editor of international interest which is nonaligned news service he joins us live now from london first of all how big. big a victory then is this for the s.d.f. to finally kick out of rock a which they called their capital i think what's very interesting is in your question you say how big is it for the s.d.f. as opposed to for syria in general or for the powers are involved in syria because this is the very problem itself who claims a victory for defeating isis turkey claims it is fighting isis russia claims it's fighting isis iran claims it's fighting isis syria claims it's fighting isis the u.s. claims it's fighting isis who essentially beat isis here turkey's not going to allow the s.d.f. to claim victory for defeat defeating isis because it's taking to prevent an independent kurdish state in northern syria the u.s. as we saw in iraq the fact that the u.s. allowed the iraqi army to take away from the kurds essentially destroying any hope for independent label a show that you know we very well your way back to let's stick with syri

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a tie break the spaniard don't think they won the decider six three your plate man chyna chicken sami's. was up against vinnie last in his quarterfinal in shanghai be twenty fourteen your second champion a straight sets win a six three six for the final school. and italy's and dread of a zero so has clocked the fastest time in practice ahead of the japanese moto g.p. whether making the track a little bit difficult to navigate world champion leader mark mark has had the second fastest time in practice despite crashing out in the afternoon session with four races left marquez at leeds to visit i so by sixteen points. ok there is a sports looking for now. in a rather dramatic footage. this bulletins of that end of the news of the me joined in the race the team thanks very much for watching but i'll be back again couple of minutes a. day with us for some more news see then. arts . the street is quiet the signal is given. out yet so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty metres in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in s