special envoy to syria described the situation in being set up for a perfect storm staffan de mistura told the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against rebels will be and reflect battle the u.n. warning of the worst humanitarian crisis since the war began. now the news the first peace talks in two years between yemeni government leaders and who the rebels have hit a hurdle who say they can't get authorization from the saudi iraqi coalition to fly to geneva u.n. special envoy for yemen is already in switzerland with yemen's foreign minister to discuss humanitarian access and prisoner issues protesters in the iraqi city about sort of stormed the iranian consulate and set it on fire parliament in baghdad as called an emergency meeting on saturday to discuss four days of anti-government anger and the killing of at least eleven protesters. they were on our protesters they gathered in peace they were protesting unemployment the water crisis the bad services how dare they open fire how dare they killed him this is murder this is busted we fought in mosul we fought in fal

pullback from syria's provinces the country's last stronghold of anti-government resistance staffan de mistura present the proposal and insecurities council meeting which comes as the syrian government is expected to launch a major military offensive against that love the envoy said that the al qaeda linked fighters should retreat to avert a bloodbath. well meanwhile at a summit on the fate of it live around russia and turkey have been able to overcome their differences reigning leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president as you type in tehran turkey push for a cease fire but that was rejected by russia and iran raising fears of an imminent offensive. now these three leaders did however agree to continue talking about. agency say an offensive against the province could quote be the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seven year old war this is what turkey's president had to say because to do a lot of turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees it lives population is three point five million people now turkey does not hav

special envoy staffan de mistura called the situation a perfect storm saying a battle for it could be quote or a fake and bloody. all meanwhile a summit on the fate of it has ended without agreement with the leaders of iran russia and turkey saying that this continues to look for a situation that looks for resolution this it says the joint statement came after talks in tehran where the iranian leader hassan rouhani hosted russian president vladimir putin and turkish president. the three said they would consider ways for displaced people to return to their homes elsewhere in syria. aid agencies say an offensive against this province could be quote the greatest humanitarian catastrophe in syria's seventy year old war this is what turkey's president had to say. to you a lot of turkey right now is hosting three point five million syrian refugees it lives population is three point five million people now turkey does not have the resources or power to host a further three point five million people. ok to abuse a turkey correspondent yulia han standing by for us in istanbul yulia we heard ea

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has presented a plan to the un security council in new york to prevent bloodshed he's calling for a public campaign within the province to demand fighters leave built up areas and go out into the countryside stephanie decker is in kentucky on the turkey syria border. what is clear is that there was no consensus reached in tar and in fact the back and forth between the three leaders playing out live on the air turkey's position is that it wants to manage it wants to limit what is expected to be this offensive of the syrian government backed by russia to take it back from opposition forces the turkish president tweeting after he left the summit this is something he rarely does taking to twitter seven tweets in turkish but also in english russian and arabic basically saying if there was an assault on a lid that turkey would not watch from the sidelines neither watching the sidelines nor petition paid in such aggression turkey's worry is of course that of a mass movement of civilians towards its border area one making it very clear that turkey had

of it live to campaign for rebel fighters to leave built up areas and go to the countryside staffan de mistura presented his plan aimed at preventing bloodshed to the security council our diplomatic editor james bays has more on that from un headquarters in new york. i think many diplomats believe it's not now a case of if there is an offensive in need live but when despite those stefan de mistura the u.n. special envoy has come up with a new plan to stop the bloodshed he first said he'd like to give the security council the plan in a private session but then and thus the nikki haley the u.s. ambassador who's the current this month president of the security council said no we want to hear your plan in public and this is what he said ideally all militant fighters should be off with the line to move their own military presence beit is our way i did beat away from populated think. at this same time and here comes that message and image i got from the population. i mean being indicating that this is what they've been asked from door that i would look to move out the day may how does day mate. crea

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran russia's u.n. ambassador insists any offensive would be aimed at ending what he called terrorism and he says the syrian government has no intention of using chemical weapons yacob . allegedly president assad ought to be use of chlorine the syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to hear it when we're saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from a military viewpoint cannot be justified more than five point four million people have been issued storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one and a half million have been ordered to leave their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or south carolina in the next forty eight hours. the number of people killed in tuesday's suicide bomb attack in afghanistan has risen to sixty eight more than one hundred others were injured in the blast near jalalabad the capital of

syria underscored that all syrian said read toward upon the twelve principles formulated by staffan de mistura before this congress he couldn't get the support from the opposition and from the government of the same time and that declare ration simulates that there would be a constitutional community where syrians themselves would be deciding on the constitutional structure country today this constitutional committee has been established. with the first one to send it still a geisha it was specialists. of a couple of months it took for the opposition to prepare their delegations now we are harmonizing the lists of members to represent the civil society of syria it is very important in this case to. the ones. with the use i want you to be cautious not to be in any kind of a hasty because we need to be careful when deciding who will be part of that community because these members should be approved by the opposition and by the government the minor group on syria as some call it at matt. recently for western countries three arab countries members suffered so they adopted this statement which set

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 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 this is

special envoy staffan de mistura mentioned september tenth as a potentially rumored start date of this of thousands of people yes will tell you that we will get an indication soon after this meeting as to how this is going to play out is it going to be a limited offensive only all positions let's say held by the age. of the group formerly known as the the main concern here martine is the civilians almost over three million people inside the province many of those yes in counts but also many of those inside cities and you do have military groups or many of them it's complicated live in about so it's densely populated and this is a huge concern turkey's nightmare scenario is to have a fresh wave of people desperate people fleeing the fighting coming to its borders we went to see some of the aid organizations about how they're preparing for what they tell us will be an absolute nightmare scenario. over the years the province of it is offered some want of a refuge for almost a million internally displaced syrians but that seems like it's all about to change with the expected government off

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran are diplomatic at the james pace reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york. these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation in adlib he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lost more than seven years libya's the last so-called deescalation zone in syria. it must not be transformed in to a bloodbath would an all out offensive on place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the c get into the us then the process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of it the secretary general spoke just hours after another meeti

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran our diplomatic editor james bays reports from the u.n. headquarters in new york these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation in he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lost more than seventy. is the last so-called the escalation. it must not be transformed. to a bloodbath. would an all out offensive on it live a place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the city get into the us then the process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of it the secretary general spoke just hours after another meeting of the un se

special envoy to syria staffan de mistura has been holding talks with representatives from turkey russia and iran diplomatic out of the james bays reports now from u.n. headquarters in new york these were the strongest comments yet by the secretary general on the situation in he warned that if there was an all out assault it would be the worst thing to happen in the syrian war which is already lost it more than seventy years. is the last so-called the escalation. it must not be transformed in to a bloodbath. would an all out offensive on place which has such a large civilian population in your view amount to a war crime and i think what is important at the present moment is not to classify what was not yet kept and is to make sure that it doesn't happen which means it is important that those specially the c get into the us then the process find a way in which it is possible to isolate terrorist groups and it is possible to create a situation in which civilians will not be the price paid to solve the problem of italy the secretary general spoke just hours after another meeting of the un s

special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey iran and russia staffan de mistura is trying to persuade moscow and tehran not to support an expected syrian government offensive to retake rebel held province the u.n. secretary general says the attack could spark a humanitarian disaster russia's ambassador insists that any offensive would be aimed at ending what he calls terrorism he says the government the syrian government has no intention of using chemical weapons yacob but it didn't also. opinion you. allegedly president assad ordered the use of chlorine the syrian authorities have no intention of doing this they do not have chemical weapons once again we ask you to him his way saying that the use of chemical weapons by damascus from the military cannot be justified. more than five point four million people have been issued with storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one of the half million have been ordered to leave their homes expected to be the worst storm in thirty years it's likely to make landfall in north or sout

special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey iran and russia staffan de mistura is trying to persuade moscow and tehran not to support an expected syrian government offensive to retake rebel held it live province the u.n. secretary general says the attack could spark a humanitarian disaster at the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says that there will be consequences for russia and iran if airstrikes continue in syria let's not waste time with the december mation distractions and outright lies that the assad regime and their russian and iranian partners constantly use to distort this conversation let's talk about the facts on the ground in syria this month already the world has seen a clear military escalation in. russian and assad regime air forces launched over one hundred airstrikes they are using barrel bombs rockets and artillery they are targeting hospitals and medical facilities. more than five point four million people have been issued with storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as are akin florence builds in the atlantic one of the half million have b

martin you might say that but staffan de mistura who is the u.n. special envoy for syria has said he's very anxious that the regional plan for this meeting is not hijacked by events in libya what they're supposed to be discussing here what they were due to be discussing was in fact the forming a constitutional committee of some forty members to redraft syria's constitution and kick start the political process but of course they will be discussing now the the situation's humanitarian situation in libya and i've been talking to n.g.o.s here about exactly what is needed they say that there are some five hundred doctors there five thousand medical workers some fifty hospitals and two hundred medical centers now that might sound a lot but you're dealing with three million people in the province and they've learned a lesson from eastern guta and many of these medical facilities are very very small because they don't want to see what was happening before where hospital hospitals have been the target of attacks and if you go one large hospital it has a hug

martin you might say that but staffan de mistura who is the u.n. special envoy for syria has said he's very anxious that the regional plan for this meeting is not hijacked by events in italy what they're supposed to be discussing here what they were due to be discussing was in fact the forming a constitutional committee of some forty members to redraft syria's constitution and kick start the political process but of course they will be discussing now the the situation's humanitarian situation in libya and i've been talking to n.g.o.s here about exactly what is needed they say that there are some five hundred doctors there five thousand medical workers some fifty hospitals and two hundred medical centers now that might sound a lot but you're dealing with three million people in the province and they've learned a lesson from eastern guta and many of these medical facilities.

envoy to syria staffan de mistura has said ongoing talks between russia and turkey hold the key to resolving the fate of its live it's the last major rebel held region in syria the area saw several airstrikes today that rebels and an independent monitor said were russian russia and syria are said to be considering a deadline next week to launch attacks on the enclave meanwhile u.s. president donald trump appealed to the syrian president to avoid hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and it led. and he did when you spoke to mark lowe cockhead of the u.n. office for the quarter nation of humanitarian affairs now that previous rebel enclaves in aleppo and eastern who have fallen we asked him what makes the situation is live so explosive the way that the. siege is in the conflict in aleppo and has to go to ultimately were resolved was by large numbers of fight is being passed out of aleppo and used. and being taken to it live there are thousands of fighters many of them very extreme many of the members of prescribed terrorist organizations and there's no mutilated for those people to move

the united nations special envoy for syria staffan de mistura has welcomed the agreement by the presidents of russia and turkey to set up a demilitarized zone in the syrian province of. the mistura said he was pleased with what he called the deescalation and led but that the political process should now move ahead in syria until the summit between presidents putin and arrow on there had been fears of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in province because in recent weeks the syrian government backed by russian forces have been threatening an all out attack on the province in turkey on the opposite side of the conflict feared an influx of thousands of refugees across its border. this is it. just hours ago further destruction appeared almost assured. but russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart agreed on monday to spare if you look. as zone free of weapons between rebel controlled areas and those held by the syrian regime the opposition will remain where they are now we'll ensure that radical groups determined jointly with russia aren't active there russia will do what's

special envoy to syria says the situation and it may be set up for what he calls a perfect storm staffan de mistura told the u.n. security council the expected military offensive against rebels in there will be a horrific battle and warned of the humanitarian consequences. the french president and germany's chancellor of metin must say for their latest talks on europe's migration policy the border between france and spain actually is a favorite gateway for many migrants heading into northern europe but as the talk about the reports they're facing some unexpected hurdles at the foot of the pier unease in the basque country and estrie divides northern spain from south western france a lush landscape and now a new frontline in europe's migration crisis. last year less than ten migrants a day came to the spanish town of iran hoping to reach france now it's near a forty ever hour and grain is part of a growing network of volunteers helping new arrivals there. we are driving around iran the last banished town before the border with france and we're looking for people who've just arrived from the south of

special envoy to syria has been holding talks with representatives from turkey iran and russia staffan de mistura is trying to persuade moscow tehran not to support an expected syrian government offensive to retake rebel held it live province the u.n. secretary general says the attack could spark a humanitarian disaster and the us ambassador to the united nations says that there will be desired consequences dire other consequences for russia and iran if strikes continue in syria let's not waste time with the december mation distractions and outright lies that the assad regime and their russian and iranian partners constantly use to distort this conversation let's talk about the facts on the ground in syria this month already the world has seen a clear military escalation in. russian and assad regime air forces launched over one hundred airstrikes they are using barrel bombs rockets and artillery they are targeting hospitals and medical facilities more than five point four million people have been issued with storm warnings on the u.s. east coast as hurricane florence builds in the atlantic one of