and with the other shiite militias at the end of the day we have to remember whether it's the shiite militias or whether it's sunni militias whether it's in chechnya or whether it's in israel or in europe we are all in the same boat so i think limiting the runyon presence in syria is very important and we have to remember senator that we are not the one who started it we have not been any we didn't have any involvement in syria whatsoever until the iranians came close and they also said that they were going to open a second well. i'm afraid our reading of the syrian conflict is very very different . because i think from the russian point of view it's not the rain ians who came first of the americans and the saudis and the who started financing in supporting extreme sunni groups and i have to correct you that. since you mention that we suffered from the presence of extremist sunni groups not shia groups but. thing on that she issued because they see it c.n.n. has just recently reported that it was actually ease rail reach chock targets close to the in iraqi border last sunday reported

and with the other shiite militias at the end of the day we have to remember whether it's the shiite militias or whether it's sunni militias whether. it's in chechnya or whether it's in israel or in europe we are old in the same boat so i think limiting the runyon presence in syria is very important and we have to remember senator that we are not the one who started it we have not been any we didn't have any involvement in syria whatsoever until the iranians came close and they also said that they were going to open a second front i'm afraid our reading of the syrian conflict is very very different because i think from the russian point of view it's not the rain ians who came first if the americans and the saudis and it could tyreese who started financing and supporting extreme sunni groups and i have to correct you that in essence you mention that we suffered from the presence of extremist sunni groups not shia groups but. staying on that she issued because they see it c.n.n. has just recently reported that it was actually ease rail reach struck targets close to the in iraqi border

shiite militia commanded by uranium commanders these shiite militias come from afghanistan from pakistan from other places and they have a specific goal the military goal but also a religious goal iran wants to increase the number. such militia to eighty thousand and to basically conduct. a religious. campaign in the largely sunni serious areas ninety six percent sunni but try to convert sunni is this will inflame another religious war this time a religious war inside syria and the consequences would be many many more refugees and you know exactly where they'll come the ability to increase fourfold five fold the number of militias that are there depends among other things on money and the money comes from iran until recently came from among other places from the j.c.b. away this is not a false argument it's a true argument we've seen that they've used about twenty five billion dollars from proceeds that they've got and one way or another from the easement of sanctions in . yemen in syria and lebanon and elsewhere so i think the konami pressure economic sanctions on iran break this cash m

and after weeks of uncertainty iraq's prime minister forms an alliance with shiite cleric watada outsider this coalition led the maypoles. history has been made in saudi arabia with women taking to the wheels of a cause for the first time in decades the kingdom of overturn the walls only ban on female motorists an hour ago this is one of the first women to take advantage of that law change some ladies have been taking virtual driving lessons in preparation for the move the decision is expected to boost the economy with sales of cars now expected to rise hello everyone when the t.v. you're watching history being made it's finally twelve in riyadh saudi arabia it's the twenty fourth of june. to drive you would watch me drive to my father's house and then i'll take you to a tour. that. well women's efforts to overturn the ban go back nearly three decades in one thousand nine hundred forty women drove the cars in riyadh the first public demonstration against the ban in two thousand and seven activists submitted a petition to the van king abdullah asking for the right to drive the next year on

has killed at least sixteen people officials say the blast destroyed a nearby mosque in the mostly shiite district and severely damaged other homes and buildings the government says it's launched an investigation to determine the cause . of spain has sworn in a new government with the largest number of female ministers in the country's modern history the new approach you cabinet under prime minister pedro sanchez includes eleven women and six men socialist sanchez took over after al sting conservative arianna rahowa in a no confidence vote last friday. in the us a sixty three year old great grandmother has been pardoned and released from prison after serving more than twenty years for a first time drug offense alice marie johnson was freed after a t.v. reality star kim cardassian petition president donald trump at the white house last week. and turkish voters living here in germany can start casting their ballots today for turkey's snap general election polling stations open this morning in turkish consulates and other locations across germany voters here have two weeks to choose a presid

look jones i thank you ever so much we'll let you take your say for the second half and if you're a shiite in the meantime it's because i think we can have a look at the mexican fans because my think is that way their. policies beginning after that great result they got over the current world champions of germany so i see green then that makes confounds flooding into the streets here in moscow in moscow in celebration of that shock when the whole just in a and it was a hard for victories they were saying their fans have been dancing and singing and drinking their house to seismic monitoring network in mexico city apparently even reported a mini artificial earthquake apparently caused by intense jumping i'd like to see the sources on that as you can see maske a stunning when i was a world cup winners just in russian capital into a big big party you can hear them celebrating from the studio and earlier i discussed this shock results a with a former denmark peter schmeichel. from mexico were fantastic they say face horizon so quickly didn't i cause germany all sorts of problems they for sure

over a million and half shiites. a million and a half sunni.ns. and now, by some estimates, as many as two million syrians all living and, somehow, getting along, kind of, in a country the size of connecticut. but along its borders the country has what you might call "serious neighbor issues." isis, in syria, threatening to expand its so-called caliphate into lebanon. >> archival: isis, in many ways, is something we've never really seen before, a really large, well-organized, well-equipped terrorist army. >> archival: lebanon's been absorbing refugees for nearly two years now. the country simply can't take anymore. >> archival: a quarter of lebanon's population is now syrian. that is the equivalent of the us taking in eighty-three million syrians. >> archival: this could be spiraling, and, as you said, the real fear is the violence across the border in syria's civil war now spilling over into an already fragile neighbor, lebanon. ♪ >> archival: beirut struggles to put a lid on the simmering sectarian tensions. ♪ >> archival: aftermath of that b

one month after iraq's elections a shiite cleric worked out that a father and iran backed militia chief had the ally meeting and have agreed to form a political alliance while their two blocs came first and second in may's vote which was marked by a historically low turnout and allegations of fraud. on. a saudi led coalition has launched an assault on yemen's main port city. it's been a key battle front and possible turning point in yemen's three year civil war between the country's saudi backed government in iran backed hooty rebels an estimated six hundred thousand people live in the area and aid groups are warning now that the new offensive risks causing massive civilian casualties and exacerbating the country's already severe humanitarian crisis. and earlier news spoke with the n.s.i. harry who's with the charity save the children and asked him what his teams and who are telling him about the situation on the ground. our teams and for they they are now living in our zone where they should also protect their own lives but our teams in what they do are trying to save lives there we ar

iraqi officials launched an investigation into illegal stockpiling of weapons by shiite militias. meanwhile, iraqi officials launched a recount in last month's election amid complaints of rampant fraud.to efense ministers rolled out new military plans today to deter russian aggreson. defense ministers from the alliance met in brussels and agreed to a system of rapid-fire reinforcements across europe. it's to be ready by 2020. meanwhile, during a call-in show in moscow, russian president vladimir putin argued his country is no threat to th west. ( translated ): we must defend our interests and do it consequently. not in a rude manner, but still defend our interests in economy, in security. we did it and do will continue g it. but we always look for a compromise, we aim at having a compromi. >> woodruff: putin said the u.s. and its allies must come to realize that sanctions on russia are ineffective and harmful to all. the u.s. commerce department is lifting a ban on letti chinese telecom giant zte buy american parts. the ban was imposed for violating sanctions on iran and north kor

killed at least i had people iraqi officials saying the blast destroyed in nearby mosque in the mostly shiitemuslim district and severely damaged homes and buildings the government says it's launched an investigation to determine the cause.

has killed at least sixteen people officials say the blast destroyed a nearby mall spin the mostly shiite district and severely damaged other homes and buildings the government says it's launched an investigation to determine the cause . there been more protests in jordan over postings to raise income taxes there the government's austerity policies sparked a week of angry demonstrations earlier this week jordan's king replaced the country's prime minister to call public on rest. and in the u.s. sixty three year old great grandmother has been pardoned and released from prison after serving twenty years for a first time drug offense alice marie johnson was freed after reality t.v. star kim kardashian petitioned president trump at the white house last week. spain is preparing to swear in a new government today with the largest number of female cabinet members in modern history the new protein you executive under prime minister pedro sanchez will include eleven women and six men socialists chose took over after ousting conservative mariano rajoy in a no confidence vote last friday. starting t

the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque inside the city district iraq's interior ministry has called it a terrorist attack business owners in nicaragua capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april money well rob polo has more from the capital. where we're really seeing the biggest impact to the economy here and you can i what is when it comes to the tourism sector because the guy was been working for years trying to build up this reputation as the safe country as its popular tourism destination for all of the travels all around the world if you look around the city of managua if you look to to some of the more popular tourist city like that now they and they own there's been a lot in optic and violence in the cities and there's just no tourism that compiled with the travel warnings from different from from different governments that you can really see that immediate impact on the tourism sector here and the guy will homes are still being eva

there's also smaller groups that are not shiite. hamas for example. it is much more formidable. it's capability to manufacture nuclear weapons is very much reared in the west. not just because it will become another nuclear power, but because of its aggressive ideology. with confrontational stance, not just for the united states but for israel and other gulf states. it is very difficult. up until now, we have relied on sanctions. the current administration has implemented some very severe and far-reaching sanctions. these have caused major economic problems for the iranians. for example, the currency has depreciated roughly 80%. inflation this past year was 30%, and consider trees another 20%. nonetheless, it has found ways to get around the sanctions, by using shell companies and so forth. i am dbtful that sanctions will bring the iranians to heal. they protest that the nuclear program was entirely peaceful, unlike the north koreans who brag about nuclear capacity nuclear weapons, the iranians say it's within their right. it seems to be a very popular program among the iranian

killed at least i people iraqi official assigned to blast destroyed in need by a mosque in the mostly shiite muslim district and severely damaged homes and buildings the government says it's launched an investigation to determine the cause . to fame more protests in jordan over proposals to rise income taxes the government's austerity.

. >> you mean sunni, shiite and the whole divide we see being played out? >> absolutely. the proxy war between iran and saudi arabia benefitting the extremists on both sides. sometimes they try to change their names. now we're not al qaeda, we'll al nusra, now we're not al nusra, we're al sharia. so they put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. the third element of it is the arab spring. the arab spring shifted the calculus of al qaeda tremendously and the fourth and last thing about this is to focus on the ideology, to focus on the narrative, to not play into the fear that if we talk narrative and we talk about al qaeda and we talk about isis and we talk about them hijacking religious terminology that we're attacking islam. we're not attacking islam. i am a muslim and i spend my life fighting these groups because they don't represent anything about the beautiful religion that i believe in. >> so with all of this that you've said, what is your prediction, then? where do they strike next? is the west still in mortal danger? >> absolutely. i think they are now building t

itself is actually counterproductive because it's the lifting of sanctions is allowed iran to fund a shiite militia in syria he says which is going to spread religious war across the region and he talked to quite a drastic image of inflammatory actions of refugees waves of more refugees will be arriving in europe he said. the europeans and chancellor merkel among them of course think that that iran deal is the best worst option if you like it's the best way to keep some oversight over water iran is doing with nuclear technology also to have some leverage and to keep the dialogue going which of course is important the language is quite interesting and chancellor of course is no hand well fists but on the other hand this out on the on hobbs he was saying yes iran is. probably as bad as you think as you say it is but on the other hand as you say if the deal is the least worst thing but also she was talking and shit she talked about the. plight of the palestinians in gaza saying that germany would what was in a position and would come to their economic aid yeah i mean that's that's certain we d

community there is this feeling that they have been battered and dispossessed and then you have the shiite shia who are in power how do you see the future of iraq. well it doesn't look very good because indeed as you're saying it's. the danger of the of the country falling apart has been here for a while and what we saw after the battle against isis was that it pulled together again because they all work together to get isis out now these kind of political movements. the way it all is about money and about who is going to get the place so that he can get his his cousin and his brother a job and this is really it's a disaster for this country and indeed it's very true if you don't listen to all those people who didn't go to vote. then what's going to happen after that so i'm not optimistic about what's happening here to be quite honest real challenges india is facing the iraqi political elite and the country it's grappling to find a way to its political crisis christine. judith eurex think you very much indeed for your contribution to the program we appreciate it and thank you to forcing yo

the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque in baghdad suburb city districts iraq's interior ministry called it a terrorist attack no group has claimed responsibility. jordan's incoming prime minister has pledged to work with other parties to reach a tax law that will suit everyone despite that promise thousands of people rallied near the prime minister's office in amman for a seventh straight night they're angry over a tax plan they say hurts the poor and the middle class business owners and nicaragua's capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april many well it up no reports from managua. at the busy minute gaggle would be undone open air market in my now while thousands of vendors and shop owners are preparing for an act of civil disobedience a majority of the small business owners say they will no longer pay taxes or utility bills until the government commits to ending the violence that's gripped the country for the last six weeks the thoug

has killed at least sixteen people officials say the blast destroyed a nearby mosque in the mostly shiite district and severely damaged other homes and buildings the government says it's launched an investigation to determine the calls . there in more protests in jordan over proposals to raise income taxes the government's austerity policy policies have sparked a week of angry demonstrations earlier this week jordan's king replaced the country's prime minister in an effort to calm public on rest. and spain is preparing to swear in a new government today with the largest number of female cabinet members in modern history the new approach e.u. executive under prime minister petro sanchez will include eleven women and six men socialist sanchez took over after ousting conservative mariano rajoy in a no confidence vote last friday. from today turkish voters living here in germany can start casting their ballots in turkey's general election which takes place on june twenty fourth turkish consulates are expecting a high turnout more turkish migrants live here in germany than anywhere outside of

the bombs were detonated near a shiite mosque in baghdad southern city district iraq's interior ministrycalled it a terrorist attack no group has claimed responsibility the vice president of the origin time football association along with other members of the team have welcomed a move to cancel a friendly match with israel the decision comes after pressure mounted from pro palestinian activists who say israel is sports washing its crimes against palestinians the president of argentina's football association did apologize for counseling that match saying player safety was at risk palestinians have protested against a match being held in jerusalem over fears it will normalize israel's claim to the contested city bernard smith reports from west jerusalem. moving a friendly with argentina from the port city of haifa to this stadium in west jerusalem has turned into something of an own goal for israeli football now israeli fans won't get to see leon all messy in the rest of the squad in a present world cup warm up under palestinian pressure argentina has pulled out the palestinian football as

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. yes present donald trump's son in law and senior advisor jarred says the administration will soon present its peace plan for israel and palestine and he said this will happen with or without input from palestinian president mahmoud abbas he made the comments during an interview with palestinian newspaper codes during his trip to israel is quoted as saying that he doubts about us is capable of making a deal but added that he is still willing to work with him the palestinian leader cut communications with the trumpet ministration after it rec

with the sunni community and when you live in situations like muzzle where you had the control of shiite individuals in the military, may have been sunni and very little resistance. and it is countered at the same time. there is a serious democracy, one of the papers recently published called all the hard is local, it can be social and economic variables. we see what the social movement is called -- isis is so barbaric, like al qaeda, beneficial for the jihadist movement as a whole. competition is good in any way you want to allow yourself to experiment alongside every terrorists organization. the general population, isis is messaging and more willing to accept the jihadist narrative and made the announcement. that presents something that has to be -- >> the social movements, it is growing, it is big, real big and poor governance and what we know about a rack and syria, people turn to religion often for ideas about social justice, deep inequality, when the apparatus is targeted, populations that are part of the underclass, when there is deep corruption in the government, a great temptati

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army in daraa for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. zimbabwe's president has survived what looks to have been a grenade attack at a campaign rally before next month's election emmerson man and god called the attempt a cowardly attack and said it would not influence the upcoming vote of almost throne of the zimbabwean leader as he walked off stage with other zanu p.f. party officials in the city of bull away or. hurt one of his vice president and another minister were injured there's been no claim of responsibility for the attack and one guard says the attack was one of many assassina

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti as forces are largely outgunned and outnumbered. the dollhouse poses challenges for all the parties the rebels cannot afford another setback after being evicted from a just all calls including homes and on the ask of damascus but if the syrian army's push continues the u.s. may interfere and that may trigger a wider. spanish say they've rescued five hundred sixty nine refugees who were trying to cross the mediterranean by boat into spain and elsewhere in europe a container ship rescued one hundred thirteen refugees from the boat off southern italy the vessel from the shipping giant musk

home on the wall for one month after iraq's elections shiite cleric without souther an iran backed militia chief had the meeting have agreed to form a political alliance their two blocks came first and second in may's vote groups was marked by historically low voter turnout civil and allegations of fraud like a brush fire in the hills over beverly hills california has threatened houses and for some evacuations more than two hundred fifty firefighters have been working to contain the blaze there have been no immediate reports of injuries. and we say in the us where the american president donald trump has declared that there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea well that's a day after his unprecedented summit with kim jong il and state media in north korea portraying the summit as a win for peace on the enlisting american concessions including the promised and to the u.s. south korean military exercises while critics of the deal point to its vagueness and the fact that it contains no mention of washington's demand for the north's complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearizatio

least ten people were killed in twin bombings in a baghdad stronghold of the other of souther the shiite cleric whose bloc won an outright majority in the election. also the president of argentina's football association has apologized for canceling a friendly match with israel saying players' safety was at stake honestly answer protested against the game being held in jerusalem which is a contested city. more people are leaving their homes us where go volcano here in guatemala continues to erupt at least ninety nine people have been killed but hundreds of gone missing since sunday rescuers have been sifting through hot ash in the search for bodies and potential survivors. now u.s. president donald trump is hosting his first white house dinner to mark islam's holy month of ramadan the move surprised many as trump skipped the annual traditional dinner last year the press secretary says about thirty to forty people mainly cabinet members and diplomats are expected to attend several muslim civil rights groups are hosting their own if they are to protest against the president arsalan iftikhar

a shiite islamic ideology guiding him. that's a key difference.ollah death to america khamenei. stuart: he would never change? iran will never change its position? >> i didn't say iran will never change position, i said the ayatollah will never change. stuart: he will not allow iran to change position, even when offered prosperity. >> the only possibility with iran, barring a military tribing would be that there would be an overthrow of the ayatollah. that there would be an uprising which already has started in iran but hasn't reached a peak level, that would overthrow the ayatollah. that is the way that the ayatollah will be stopped in his nuclear quest. you have to remember, he comes from an ideology. the ayatollah khomeini, his predecessor, the one who overthrew the shah of iran 30 years ago, he was the one who who coined the slogan. the ayatollah khomeini. stuart: watching what's going on in singapore. >> they can't like it. they've lost an ally, basically. that's how they do it. if things go according to the way they seem. they will have lost

iraqi shiite forces and a syria are accusing the united states of targeting their troops inside syria. the iraqi group known as popular mobilization forces says u.s. aircraft fired two missiles sunday at a group of fighters deployed along the iraq-syria border to prevent reaches by islamic state. the u.s. denies the charge. there is talk of a

and with the other shiite militias at the end of the day we have to remember whether it's the shiite militias or whether it's sunni militias whether it's in chechnya or whether it's in israel or in europe we are old in the same boat so i think limiting the runyon presence in syria is very important and we have to remember senator that we are not the one who started it we have not been any we didn't have any involvement in syria whatsoever until the iranians came close and they also said that they were going to open a second front i'm afraid our reading of the syrian conflict is very very different because i think from the russian point of view is that the iranians who came first if the americans and the saudis and they could tyreese who started financing and supporting extreme sunni groups and i have to correct you that. since you mention that we suffered from the presence of extremist sunni groups not shia groups but. staying on that she issued because these she is c.n.n. has just recently reported that it was actually ease rail reach strike targets close to the iraqi border last su

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security officials in yemen say heavy finding between pro-government forces and shiite rebels have killed 600 people on both sides. beennment rebels have advancing along the western coast in recent weeks as they battled the iranian-allied who's houthi rebels. the closing on a report city that is a pipeline for yemen's food and medical aid. accepted the resignation of three bishops, including the one at the center chile's clerical sex abuse scandals. last month, a bishop and 30 offer their bishops resignations to francis at a vatican summit. global news 24 hours a day on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. julia: "what'd you miss?" flying from a summit of allies to one with north korea, president trump sets himself -- separates himself from unity among major economic powers that the g7. pressat follows a conference in a played out on twitter, escalation -- escalating issues with canada, a country that buys the most u.s. goods. he double down on justin trudeau. >> there is a special plac

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti asset forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. now dozens of yemenis are fleeing fighting in the western port city of her data most of them heading to sanaa for safety the coalition has been bombing the area for ten days now as it continues to fight who through rebels rights groups have said the fighting is obstructing aid from reaching civilians in desperate. hundreds of palestinians protested on the west bank on saturday against sanctions imposed on gaza by their own government tens of thousands of government employees in garza have gone without pay for months our reporter imran

role of publishing in the greater creative sector, both culturally and economically, and at simon & shiite exterior a leader of a -- simon & schuster you're the leader of a top five publishing house and a leader of the large he creative industry, and not only because simon & schuster is part of cbs and book publishing is parts of that big ecosystem. on the other hand consumers have many choices and distractions, and like other companies that target audiences you have to compete for readers 'when asked about this at the frankfurt book fair last year, you said, it behooves publishers to keep books central to the discussion in the culture and not on the level of a tweet. can you expand on that for us? >> that was my example of a little tweet kind of comment. in any case, books take time so theyake time from the consumer, but they also take an awful lot of author time. so, books are really thing on long form left. authors spend year, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, living with researching, coming up with their ideas to produce the books they do. what i said earlier, i believe very strongly

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti forcers are largely outgunned and outnumbered. yes president donald trump son in law and senior advisor says the administration will soon present its peace plan for israel and palestine and he said this will happen with all without input from palestinian president mahmoud abbas he made the comments in an interview with palestinian newspaper al could string his trip to israel because she was quoted as saying that he doubts about us as capable of making a deal but added that he's still willing to work with them. communications with the trump administration after recognize jerusalem as the

and speculated about it, was the idea of having insurgency in the south of the country where the shiitesre supported by the united states which would establish a free iraq and the part of the country and wage war against the government. that i think was the farthest anybody was thinking of a military engagement. the short answer is i'm quite sure i never did, although, if i did, i would be interested to learn about it. secondly, if i had, there would be nothing remarkable about it. thirdly, the idea that this is the kernel of some conspiracy depths of the body of politics waiting to emerge, is ridiculous. conspiracy is hardly out in the open, and an open letter is about as open as you get. brian: i was interested in whether or not from some points stand a success story. where you have a lot of people that did send that letter and think alike on this issue who managed to pull it off. charles: i'm not sure how central it was. if 9/11 hadn't happened, it never would've happened. 9/11 changed everything. would we have invaded afghanistan without 9/11? no. would there be a revolution in leban

a week later full shiite teenage girls were poisoned at their high school. and helmand province is in taliban country where education is a battle line. but the best goes far beyond helmand province fighting has intensified since the taliban announced its annual spring offensive and later i probably al-qaeda and i say look tax of complement at the taliban campaign the afghan government now controls this in sixty percent of territory this is the man. i lost both my eyes due to the war i was blinded by shattered glass when my bus was hit by a landmine i know that my eyes could be fixed in india but i want peace first and then my eyes. pairing more rooms and bliss states these afghans are on a pilgrimage for peace and they're on the homestretch shallot ballasts. still ahead on al-jazeera i will tell you who's offered to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded on a ship in the mediterranean plus ash cloud disaster in guatemala and rising anger over the lack of volcano warnings. china's seasonal rains pulse in and pulse of post art recently but they're com

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 uprising in two thousand and eleven but in recent years the rebels have been retreating they now control one neighborhood in the city and a few areas on the border with jordan this is a show of force by the free syrian army. for years the f.s.a. was trained and armed by the u.s. europe and gulf countries but that support has diminished over the last. anti as forces are largely outgunned and outnumbered. the tao offensive poses challenges for all the parties the rebels cannot afford another setback after being evicted from a just all calls including homes and on the ask of damascus but if the syrian army's push continues the u.s. may interfere and that may trigger a wider. the fate of children separated from their parents at the u.s. border remains unclear two days after president donald trump ordered officials to stop splitting up asylum seekers and families his rhetoric remains combative though he's accusing critics and political rivals

there's word that me than 600 people have died in days of heavy fighting between government forces and shiite rebels. troops backed by saudi arabia are advancing on the red sea port of hodeida, now held by the rebels. most of the country's food and aid enters through the port. pope fra today of catholic church leaders in chile over a sexual abuse scandal. he accepted the resignations of three bishops, including juan barros, who's accused of ignoring the abuse of children by a priest. church leaders and laypeople in chile said they welcome the move. >> ( translated e can't rule out that there could be new measures from the pope himself. what he has highlightehat measures from the vatican are insufficient. that we break away fat culture of elitism, from that culture of collaboration in so we are able to offer guarantees that children and youngsters are being cared for and treated with respect. >> woodruff: theinitially defended barros, but has since acknowledged "grave errors i judgment." back in this country, e u.s. supreme court has sided with states that purge voter rolls of people who fail

now the nationalist iraqi shiite cleric mctaggart saw there has formed a coalition with a pro iranian bloc led by head the mirror to form the biggest political group in iraq's parliament these pictures show the two men meeting late last month after an election in which our solders party took first place and bad party came in second the two groups are still short of an overall majority the united nations envoy to yemen is negotiating with the major warring sides to prevent fighting in the main port city for a deliveries forces led by saudi arabia the united arab emirates are ten kilometers from the data which is held by hooty rebels the u.a.e. gave the who these until tuesday to withdraw before military assault data has been a vital lifeline for millions of yemeni suffering from food and medical shortages. judges of the international criminal court have ordered the release of a former vice president of the democratic republic of congo john pierre bemba was sentenced to eighteen years in prison after he was found guilty of atrocities committed by his troops they've been sent to the cent

iraqi shiite forces in syria are accusing the united states of targeting troops inside syria with an airstrike. the iraqi group known as popular mobilization forces says u.s. at aaft fired two missiles group of fighters deployed along prevent-syria border to bridging by the islamic state. british prime minister theresa may suffered a defeat today on her tbytes bit of deflation in problem -- her key brexit legislation in parliament. it forces are back to the negotiating table rather than leaving the eu with no deal. will return to the house of commons on wednesday for what is expected to be an extremely close vote that could determine the outcome of its bit talks. -- brexit talks. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. julia: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am julia chatterley. scarlet: i am scarlet fu. joe weisenthal is on assignment. julia: crude spikes ahead of opec's meeting. scarlet: the question is, what you miss? opec

iraq shiite cleric calls for calm after a huge blast killed eighteen people in his stronghold in northeast and hundreds are still missing after sunday's volcanic eruption in guatemala now some people are taking for their relatives to the right. so the leaders of france and canada have been busy forming a united front ahead of what's to be a tense g. seven summit in quebec on friday and meanwhile macron justin trudeau both harsh critics of president trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and on a million they say they will not be intimidated by the united states and warned once again about the dangers of a trade war. some call to pull duty complete books only going to be the measures taken are counterproductive even for the u.s. economy and again for me it's a matter of principle we can't wait to trade war against friends we're all involved in complex syria iraq and subsaharan reach into different areas of the world where allies we exchange critical information or soldiers stand side by side to defend our freedom and values that we cannot decide in such a context on a trade war or me i