envoy staffan de mistura believes that ten thousand dollar qaeda linked fighters are there it's home to close to three million people almost half of them displaced from territory that the government has captured including aleppo eastern guta and dead a province nato has reported a russian naval buildup in the mediterranean sea where russia is holding exercises from saturday not a is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he's highly critical of the u.n. envoy proposal for a humanitarian corridor or out of it lip. it makes no sense to me at all the question is where are they going to go they're certainly not to not going to go into syrian government regime territory they've all fled from there and they are opponents of the assad regime and turkey is the only place they can go there's a long border between in the province and turkey but turkey has explicitly state stated that they have maxed themselves out in terms of hosting refugees there's three point five million syrian refugees in turkey already turkey has said it will not open its border so

special envoy for syria staffan de mistura scolding for a humanitarian corridor to free nearly three million people trapped in the province the syrian government down its ally russia planning a major offensive against rebel groups in the area where we challenge reports from moscow. the question of if they'll be an assault on it live has faded recently now it's more a matter of when that shift has been hastened by hardening language coming out of moscow. it was with satisfaction that we noted the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in italy. sergey lavrov was meeting his syrian counterpart. in the russian capital while him said they'd finish the groups they call terrorists but also try to protect civilians. here this saudi the decision of the syrian leadership is to fight al nusra front whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians. but civilians have paid a heavy price in previous russian backed syrian g

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura put their number at around ten thousand fighters but of course more importantly is the humanitarian situation almost three million people are inside it province half of those are people internally displaced from other conflict zones inside syria also a lot of people who left areas under these so-called reconciliation deals rebels and their families who didn't want to stay in government controlled areas came to that they now have nowhere to go so there is talk of potential humanitarian corridors where will they go because there's no more opposition held territory people are terrified of what will happen to them if they cross into regime areas and of course the borders here in turkey remain firmly shut turkey's nightmare situation is of tens of thousands of people begging to be left benteke begging to be left inside turkey already hundreds of thousands of tents of internally displaced lie in the border so this is why intensive negotiations going on turkey trying to avoid an all scale offensive but we're going to have to wait and see how exactly thi

from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting a new syrian constitution staffan de mistura says he hopes to finalize the plan in september he made the comments as the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of such. parties vowed to work towards the resettlement of refugees as well as a pilot project for president swaps between the government and opposition here as president has held a make america great again campaign rally in tampa florida he spoke about the economy for relations and gave his backing to republican candidates in the upcoming midterm elections and gallagher was there. when he took to the stage in tampa the crowd gave president trump the kind of welcome he's grown used to with his make america great again rallies as expected the president highlighted his supremes court nominations immigration and the u.s. economy the hispanic unemployment rate is at the lowest level in history years than it was the eighty's your unemployment rate has reached the lowest level in history the old sorry about this women but the unemployment rate has reached th

from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting a new syrian constitution staffan de mistura says he hopes to finalize the plan in september he made the comments as the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of sochi all parties vowed to work towards the resettlement of syrian refugees as well as a pilot project for prisoner swaps between the government and opposition. most of venezuela's capital city caracas was left without power for several hours on tuesday the ashes happened regularly and areas of the crumbling infrastructure but then read in the capital itself president nicolas maduro called the blackout sabotage reports. more misery for the residents of the venezuelan capital caracas. eighty percent of the city and some nearby areas without electricity thousands of houses lost power telephones were down and the city's subway system ground to a halt. we were on the subway full of people and finally it stopped due to the blackout we were half an hour in there we were suffocating. patent is either waited for radio overcrowded buses or walk the long dist

constitution for syria after the un special envoy said he's looking to finalize a plan in september staffan de mistura made the comment as the latest round of talks brokered by russia iran and turkey wrapped up in sochi on tuesday turkey has been battling kurdish armed groups within syria and it says it rejects any attempt to turn the country into a federal state. and iran has a chronic shortage of water it's estimated some form of drought in ninety seven percent of the country some blame the weather others think it's a us conspiracy and environmental experts blame government mismanagement of it imports from to run every day a small group of iranian farmers meet up at the edge of their town once where the fields of despond lush with crops now barren land by a dry can now they beg for government help. where rainin citizens to we are rainy and to live in this part of the country we just want to be hurt people are really tired they can't make ends meet they go to bed hungry most of the lost an eye during fighting between police and protesting farmers in march acute water shortages are worsening problems

is trying as we heard to prevent any major military escalation in the special envoy to syria staffan de mistura says the financing could put millions of people at risk. there is a perfect storm based on warning counter warning which is gathering around and do today lemme which is a true day limit on how to defeat terrorists in need leap in at the same time avoid affecting a huge number of civilians one having you would be one not accelerate militaristic elation and give a libby more time for this type of discussion to allow him facilitate a credible credible humanitarian corridor to a lot of libyan population to temporarily create to a safer area. in beirut for more on this you know the thing which strikes me is that it was one of these so-called deescalation zones it's where people have been sent from all over the country when other areas have been taken over now they're in the phrase here but sitting ducks there is this assault could begin in any time. yes people are worried the syrian government the syrian president himself reiterating that they want to recapture the whole country and they'r