however there are conflicting political interests in syria and the situation in syria is changing very fast as the islamic state isis seems to be collapsing rapidly and as the proxies of each side are moving rapidly to trying to take over territory so i think we will avoid a clash i think the military is on both sides are determined to avoid one i don't think one can be completely excluded unfortunately chris ridgway you know on the same question there because it does look like at this stage of the conflict it is a movement of or a conflict of movement to get as much real estate as you possibly can because of the perception is that we are in some kind of end process of at least one of the stages of this conflict here so it's really a land grab right now to see who is going to end up sitting more powerful at some kind of peace table could you read it that way go ahead christopher. yes i think we have the long predicted scramble now taking place of course we have vacuums very rapidly developing as groups including the islamic state have to concede territory on an almost daily basis now s

syria! syria! there are about 100 sarin fans in the stadium. —— syria. —— syrian.. in a sports club into massacres, the tension is palpable. fans watched the game head towards the final minutes. a win here is actually crucial to syria's world cup hopes. then, in the final minutes, al—katib is failed and scores a penalty. syria have a famous victory. its meaning to those in domestic is clear: so, too, here in malaysia. lovely to meet you. good luck and south korea. this team operates under unique circumstances. they have a real belief they are playing for the syrian people. the achievement is really do seem to transcend both sport and politics. —— the achievements. it demonstrates the power of sport and how, even amidsta the power of sport and how, even amidst a civil war that has rips apart, he can matter so much to so many. —— that has ripped syria apart, it can matter. hello. we'll do the easy bit first and then i'll give you the forecast, which is probably the bit you're after, anyway. a mixture of sunny spells and showers. friday was notjust as straightforward.

syria! there are about 100 syria fans in the stadium.these 11 players. cheering. chanting. it's a close game. at half—time, it's goalless. in a sports club in damascus, the tension is palpable, as fans watch the game head towards the final minutes. a win here is absolutely crucial to syria's world cup hopes. syria! then, in the final minutes, returning star firas al—khatib is fouled and wins a penalty. omar kharbin scores... and syria have a famous victory. syria! its meaning to those in damascus is clear. the final score is syria one, uzbekistan zero! so too here in malaysia. syria! coach, lovely to meet you. good luck in south korea... this team operates under unique circumstances. they have a real belief they are playing for the syrian people. the achievements really do seem to transcend both sport and politics. it demonstrates the power of sport and how, even amidst the horrors of a civil war that has ripped syria apart, it can matter so much, to so many. let's ta ke let's take a look at the weather. there was an area of low pressure

that is how syria's leader wants it. of damascus, we are at a football field that has been hit in the past by mortar fire. very few of the national team play in syria, but 5—star players i hear training with their local club. for a variety of reasons they have stayed in syria, their career choices complicated by the war. every so often you can hear the sound of an aerial artillery shell going off somewhere in the distance. we are very close here to one of the front lines, even as we are in the centre of damascus. the players are not fast. they haven't even raise an eyebrow. it is the sound of war, something they have grown up with. omar midani is one of the younger members of the team. does this team really believe it can go on and qualify for russia? the training looks familiar. that is where similarities between the game here and in other countries ends. the difference is not just the conditions, but the hopes and expectations that are placed upon this team. there is no part of life in assad controlled syria untouched

an outstanding point in the war in syria even more important then. the capture of aleppo syria itself given what you said the side in the strategic importance of that harrie do expect america to hate that warning as you put it. well trump you know i personally believe that trump comes with much human cry to show the war of that he is mad he might do things that are on lies but eventually this is not trump himself that running the united states that's the strategy and when trump ascended to office he was accompanied by over fifty generals and i remember that former top general and top commander of i.r.g.c. who is now a top official at the expediency council general major general moore senator of iran said that it's much better when you see the generals come to power in the united states because they understand the power of the of iran its i.r.g.c. and army. i don't know how much time we have but i would like to raise a point that some kind of you know i can say misuse has been made by some probably ease really medias that are trying to convince the pu

created favorable environment for this political process syria would you understand. that we pay special attention. to your ship or a shelter for the in a syrian negotiations. uproot what you do which is going to be sort of by staff and that is to reign that on the tab so you july in geneva and before that on the fifth or sixth or july there will be another meeting and. certainly we talked about hugh crane. come one position is that the means could raymond's should be complied with and they abided by by all parties there is no alternative to the documentary you say. that is a compromise and we should follow it closely we in russia believe that it's. implementing that package of measures there should be more goodwill expressed by the government in kiev. well we are ready to continue to operating as we discussed today within the normal deep water. order to have a very important external supervision of the cancer group because that is a very very group where we present or use all the government in kiev ever present there's all the. donbass region provinces which are cont

i always sort of wanted to tell a story about syria for the sake of syria.telling people about a place with interesting characters, people living their life against what has been very tumultuous experience from independence in the late 1940s until today. i did in april 2011 when things began to give in the middle east, when it looked like there was the stagnation that we had associated with the region felt like it might finally be giving way to something else, i decided to move back to damascus. i felt, i had the opportunity, having been a human a human rights lawyer and journalist these are occupations that are hazardous to your health in syria. i never had an opportunity to be me in syria once i had become an adult with professions. i had been a frequent visitor and for the first years of our life in the united states we always planned on going back so there was a lot of back and forth but there was this opportunity to go and i had a cover story. in syria, 40 years of strong police state that is always watching you. for me as an american as well as the syr

air operations in syria will be made in june course. well why is the situation there not safe because the agreement that was signed by us from russia back in october twenty fifth in the agreement that prevents any sort of collisions or dangerous incidents in the airspace over syria that agreement as of yesterday has been halted and that means that as of now there is no any sort of regulations in place to prevent the u.s. air forces and also the russian air force and hitting each other and this of course came after sunday when the u.s. shot down a syrian fighter jet and that has prompted russia to announce that any coalition airplane flying on the west of the euphrates river or potentially targets that could be tracked down here's exactly what the ministry of defense said any aircraft belonging to the u.s. led coalition detected in the skies west of the euphrates river with the russian air forces operating will be tracked as targets by russian air defense systems well that statement certainly sounds threatening but bear in mind the russi

from moscow breaking news russia's military suspends cooperation with the united states in syria and says that american backed aircraft will now be tracked as targets it's after a syrian fighter jet was downed by an american plane. hits a crowd of worshipers outside a north london mosque injuring several people in what's being treated as an act of terrorism one person died at the scene. this was an attack on muslims near their place of worship. and iran launches missiles targeting militants in eastern syria in retaliation for recent terror attacks into iran which is being claimed by islamic state. a low for me in the team here at the r.t. news center in moscow is monday the nineteenth of june five pm here in the russian capital thanks for choosing us for your news update this hour first the breaking story we've been bringing you in the past couple of hours russia's defense ministry says it's halted cooperation with the u.s. military in syria the move comes in response to the downing of a syrian fighter jet by an american warplane near the i still held city of rocket our correspondent

provocation today and a statement released by syria's official news agency syria's foreign ministry says it rejects allegations that syria is preparing for a nother chemical weapons attack the syrian official says the objective of these claims are to further justify interventionism including attacks targeting the syrian regime the same and went on to say washington's press release is a distraction from the legal coalition strikes led by the us responsible for the deaths of thousands of syrian civilians attacks like the reported u.s. coalition air strike on a prison run by the self-proclaimed as state and the syrian town of the elder my edina monday at least fifty seven caligula has resulted from the strike that's according to a monitoring group the group reports at least fifteen so-called islamic state fighters were killed in the rate while a syrian state run television station say that its local correspondent who says coalition fighter jets targeted the building despite evidence the prison helped put a large number of civilians and activists run media outlet in deer as zoar also co

bombing raids against syrian government forces in syria and the u.s. forces say that they are doing this to defend themselves and to protect their position within what they call a de confliction zone now the white house said today it is willing to cooperate with russia on avoiding conflict between sides in syria however regarding yesterday's events this is proving to be somewhat difficult. thanks kind of in new york we also got reaction to the latest developments from middle east expert . americans react to the syrian threat as a sort or were they trying to assert sovereignty over syria if you think about it really ever since the early one thousand nine hundred ninety s. have been used to it being able to patrol what they regard as enemy skies with impunity and they feel threatened but also the allies on the ground are threatened so there is a risk that in fact they may try to assert themselves against any syrian or russian limitations on their activities over syria and that of course then could spiral out of control who are very dangerous situation al

neither the trampling and this ration or it's any moves want to send an american army to syria. the american involvement in the muslim world is already too large. too much has been done in afghanistan in iraq there's no appetite for sending an army to syria that's very clear very clear in the russian policy appears to be to try and preserve the acid regime as long as possible. and the you know the able to do it to a degree the americans do not have a policy of sending an army to remove the answer the same so this thing can continue for god knows how long. you know it's not it's a crisis that in a way is simply a very violent expression of a more general crisis which is present for out of the muslim world then no country in the muslim world is in a state of political equably tell us something in your opinion does america really care that much about assad and the fate of his government and therefore syria as a whole or is it really all about iran and iran's presence in syria for them i mean the white house of course says it's all about this lama state but which one of the two do y

air power in syria iraq yemen the u.s. cannot allow there to be a saudi on could tory military conflict now a little bit of cool with no. i think it's forced regime change this is what they want they want and they want to new regime new family leader in yeah. exactly all right gentlemen we're going to take a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on real news state. armstrong calling more than i'm neal hoping. we're going to be your hosts for the tree thousand and seventy confederations cup here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities or sochi. moscow is going to be great i'm told in full pool so so so i think pretty much covering every topic the fans need to know about them head of the match so don't forget to join us on field it's going to be full and let me know. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go on to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm inter

air operations in syria will be made into course. well the reason why they view the situation there is not save it's because this agreement that the u.s. and russia signed back in october twenty fifteen an agreement that ensures there will be no collisions or dangerous incidents in the airspace over syria while that agreement has been halted russia has announced yesterday to stop cooperating with the u.s. military in syrian airspace and this would mean that for now there would be no regulation in place to make sure that the air forces from both sides from the u.s. is led coalition side and russia from hitting each other and this all of this of course comes after the u.s. now shut down the syrian government on sunday and because of that russia said that they would treat any u.s. led coalition aircraft flying over the west of the euphrates river as potential targets here's exactly what the russian military said. any aircraft belonging to the u.s. led coalition detected in the skies west of the euphrates river with the russian air force

is going to syria bombing syria killing syrians that's an act of war congress not only hasn't declared war on syria of course they didn't declare war in vietnam or korea either no time since world war two is congress. conform to its constitutional mandate to to declare we're not only that syria has that he would come up in congress congress hasn't even used a congressional authorization another words less than a declaration to give the president this right will he be impeached that's a political issue should he be impeached for war crimes or a war of aggression of course but so should president obama george w. bush and the other presidents who arrogated to themselves this kind of executive privilege that does not exist in the constitution thank you so much very much like we ran out of time that is brian becker a national corner of the antiwar coalition answer thank you so much again now to the white house where it's been confirmed u.s. president will meet russian president putin next week during the g. twenty economic and finance summit and hamburg germany that's according to white hou

actions in syria the united states is pushing hard now to lose ground in syria especially that the syrian forces are expanding their control over the city and that it could be and they were. also able to reach the border with iraq which doctored the american plan to drive a wedge between iraq and syria and this is what makes for example australians and other. coalition members feel afraid because i believe that they might. see themselves as targets for the russian forces stationed in syria. and they they might fear a potential let's say that their jets might be downed by russian forces let's take a look at how the u.s. presence in syria has evolved under the pretext of fighting islamic state u.s. led coalition airstrikes began in september twenty fourth without the permission of the syrian government we will degrade and ultimately destroy eisel at the end of twenty fifteen washington officially began sending special forces into syria to help the so-called moderate opposition again without the permission of damascus twenty sixteen u.s. troops were spotted across syria with washington reluc

in syria and the white house but the side i notice will break down those strong words and talk to a chemical weapons but in the end my two experts. we break down some more hearses latest exposé regarding the official narrative behind the trump ministration major escalation in syria. it's wednesday june twenty eighth or pm in washington d.c. and you talk to sweets and you're watching r.t. america well just hours ago a new secretly recorded video surfaced this time appearing to show a non-air c.n.n. host dismissing the substance behind the network's heavy coverage of russia's alleged connection to the u.s. election well it's this second undercover video featuring c.n.n. employees on russia in just two days project barrett test founder james o'keefe is behind the videos. there was ario tells us which c.n.n. host is the target of the latest release. it's been one public relations crisis after another this week for c.n.n. first the network retracted a story that tried to draw a connection between a donald trump ally and an investigation into russian funds the story had one anonymous source and in

syria syria that will keep its territorial integrity but if they deny a certain territory for the military activity of the syrian government it means that they want a divided syria the united states have they never criticized this until now and so their policy confronts their official position that's why we need clarity on this now since the u.s. took down that syrian government jet australia has also stopped military operations in syria apparently seeing the situation there is no longer safe so is washington essentially putting its coalition partners at risk. well i think it is i think it is putting them a triscuit because if you are tech the military forces of the government of syria then nobody can guarantee that there will be no retaliation and you are well aware that the russian government declared that it has frozen the memorandum on the prevention of incidence between the russian air forces and the coalition air forces in the syrian sky this is a precarious situation and i think the australian government has made it quite a reasonable move until the situation is sorted out to preven

ambassador to syria and bahrain thank you thank you there's been another development in syria today over the last few hours the country's military says that the u.s. led coalition has brought down a syrian warplane it the city of rak a pilot is reportedly missing to america has not yet commented commented on the incident damascus based journalist alley but it will join us hopefully life and if you more minutes to bring us further details. wednesday's tower block inferno in west london is now believed to have killed fifty eight people play say that number may still rise to is the slow task of combing through the gutted building for bodies continue the fire broke out in the early hours of the morning in swiftly gulf entire twenty four story residential block. all. right. but i'm betting. it. will. have you known for a whole lot. for me her bodyguard. and the lack of a robust government response has led to widespread public theory protesters in the capital have been calling for the prime minister to step down they want on system wide cheap flammable and possibly illegal cutting regime chang

for the future of syria and i think that the u.s. has to clarifies a stance because this statement that it is should today after the downing as i said . you know stems from incoherence in policy and the u.s. really doesn't have a clear policy on syria display and iran has launched a missile strike against terrorist positions in syria could this cause a further escalation. well. you know iran has made a big power response to the terrorist attack that killed and injured dozens of an innocent civilians in tehran on june seventh and the strikes from the western parts of iran deep inside syria and territory illustrates iran's long reach and targeted areas. also you know where day isis is been very active reflects the fact that iran is using this as an opportunity to escalate its content out tax on on isis and so in a sense you're right this represents an escalation and a deepening of iran's military involvement in syria and possibly danger of a direct confrontation between the u.s. and iran in syria just briefly your thoughts on that unfo

well i figure in syria the russians clearly hair square are. both loose their players specially with their all or ground to air missile attacks so i think the russians temporary legal. a no fly zone which is a fact quickly claire and so the question areas well we explore sure to challenge this and unless washington can very quickly pressure the australians to get back in. the australian australian process that affect other. coalition partners call. and you could see this same coalition breaking up. if the american strategists this and the russians know if flew the dog effective they don't blow the played out ska. that the russians will have lost their influence their face and their americans will increase or their interests in syria but i don't transmit as i know trump is ratcheting up the economic warfare against cuba the way you just describing that sounds like the cuban missile crisis i think again you have to understand that the military security tom plots are very threatened by trump that goes the question nato's purpose twenty five years

syria syria that will keep its territorial integrity but if they deny a certain territory for the military activity of the syrian government it means that they want a divided syria the united states have their never criticized this until now and so their policy confronts their official position that's why we need clarity on this. new details are emerging about tuesday's attack in brussels the suspect is in iraq national with no previous terror court challenge due bensky reports. well it just emerged through the prosecutor's office in belgium has confirmed that the man who carried out that attempted attack at brussels central station on tuesday evening was moroccan national he was known to police but was not suspected of any terrorism offenses we also understand that he was carrying a rucksack that had nails inside it and gas bottles and that's what caused that explosion when he apparently ran at soldiers crying out which is the arabic term for god is great now we also have been told that he was living in the mall and back district of brussels this is an area very poor and also notorious fo

talks about syria this is one person of syria. well this is also interesting because it keeps you know u.s. officials keep referring to the confliction zone but it seems to again be a unilateral measure that's been taken by the u.s. it doesn't seem as though there's been any other forces that are in agreement with the city confliction zone except for the forces that operate under the u.s. so once again you have the u.s. inside syrian territory making you do a lot of get a lot of decisions without the permission of the government in that country and also hindering the government's efforts at fighting and expelling isis. so we've talked about america we talked about russia but this was a syrian jets in syria to spare you so how do you expect damascus to react to the downing of its fighter jet. or i mean i imagine that damascus is going to do what it always does which is continue. in the taking back. militant group whether. that's the danger here i think that we're going to see syria continue along with its effort trying to liberate

media narrative not only with the syria conflict although we're seeing it right now in east syria but in every conflict the u.s. according to the atlantic is getting sucked into the war in east syria it's sliding it's it's it's stumbling into it it's getting trapped into it's getting pulled into a quagmire it's not the fact that the us greatest superpower in the world in world history is getting sucked in and it's not the u.s.'s fault that they spent a billion dollars a year just on a cia program to train up and illegally train up an arm and salary by the us taxpayers the hobbies that overthrow the syrian government it's not that they're bombing syrian government troops in the shooting down their airplanes over syrian territory there are a benevolent giant who always means well but is just a bumbling oafs who gets pulled in by everyone else's little squabbles and as a result just toss the bomb everyone into eternity one of the interesting things about this is that you know the mainstream media if they mention it at all i find it deplorable that they actually don't talk about any news

into syria the u.s. is an invader in syria it decides that it's going to go in it's going to kill people it's going to it's going to support the forces it likes oppose the forces it doesn't like. me imagine some imagined candidate deciding they're going to do that to montana and we would like it syrians don't like a worse russia. but i'm a longtime ally of syria and. been invited by the elected government the u.s. is an invader it's a very arrogant invader and i'm must say what's going on now which reminds me of something out of a of an old one nine hundred fifty s. movie where you have the juvenile delinquent playing chicken with their jalopies what's going on in the air over syria over the baltic sea and so forth has the possibility of bringing about a war with such a war going nuclear it's all too possible i mean what you know it's just it's it's childish behavior and six trimboli dangerous it's extremely irresponsible of the u.s. has no business in syria and what the syrians take care of syria. and t

to dominate a separate part of syria basically they want to go to syria. and in violation of syria and stubborn integrity a country is torn apart by civil war with different factions vying for power as civilians flee in chaos the pentagon has a brilliant idea send in more weapons just so long as they promise to give them back caleb mop and r.t. new york. russia's defense ministry has released a new video showing missiles being launched from was shipped on a submarine in the mediterranean targeting islamic state positions in syria. russian intelligence is tracking eisel fighters have been trying to escape their stronghold iraq through the so-called southern corridor that's pretty much their only way out as the city has been surrounded by u.s. led coalition forces for quite some time now for what we understand the fighters have been trying to go from brought to palmira by the hamas profits and that's where they've been targeted in the latest series of air strikes from russia now as i still continue to lose ground a rocket this is certainly not the first time

they want to isolate the eastern part of syria in order to separate syria from iraq but it was the. plane source of a lack of drugs in the u.k. based think tank it also says well you know with thanks. thank you very much obviously with me kevin know any of this morning about c h q coming up after the break. here to talk us through why for targeting i still in syria is another story of syria today where across a. small seemed wrong well we just don't all. get to shape out. come to the ticket and engage with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corners corporations run washington washington media the media. voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. ok as for the break seems a rare know was launched missiles into our you saw held eastern parts of syria yet another complication in that neck of the woods across it kind of unprecedented

yes we are at war with the sovereign country of syria when exactly we went to war with syria can be debated but after one takes a moment to review recent events and actions committed by the united states ago.

what sort of reaction should we expect them from syria. well i think it's really going to be in the russian hands now are we going to have to see the russian fighters having to fly fly air cover for the syrian sorties and that would be a escalation where if a syrian plane with force fired on with a russian plane fire on the u.s. coalition plane that attack paris and that is something i think that the u.s. may not mind having a conflict like that trying to escalate this because what's going on is they are trying to vulcanize syria before the political talks as a as the isis is being pushed out the kurds are moving in with the u.s. as their allies so they now have control of that area and they will be wanting to expand that as much as possible grab as much of the of the wealth as possible and control the areas that have water and agriculture so that they have a sustainable economy and the syrian people do not have it so it's really. an attack under cloak by the u.s. to balkanize syria whilst well again we're going through this cease fire so

well syria's also recently been hit by the u.s. on monday moscow said it was halting cooperation with washington over syria after the coalition shut down a syrian flight to plane the day before well the pentagon earlier claimed it to shut down the syrian jet in self-defense after it bombed the u.s. backed militants but damascus says it's plane was attacking islamic state where the syrian jet was down near the iso held city of raka which is under siege by u.s. backed local troops and it's not the first time the u.s. led coalition has targeted pro assad forces in the war zone last month in southern syria the coalition also bombed pro-government forces several times after accusing them of violating so-called the conflict zones auntie's and it's now it takes a closer look at the latest round. the u.s. shoots down a syrian plane over syria in self-defense the only actions that we have taken against pro regime forces in syria and they've been to specific incidents have been in self-defense let's imagine a random guy comes into your house

air power in syria iraq yemen the u.s. cannot allow there to be a saudi on could tory military conflict now a little bit of cool with no. i think it's forced regime change this is what they want they want and they want to new regime new family leader in yeah. exactly right gentlemen we're going to take a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on real news state party. feel. a. huge. role make this manufacture consent to step into public wealth. when the right wing pluses and protect themselves. with the famous merry go round be the one. doing the whole middle of the room sick. during the real. welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter will melt. mind you we're discussing real news. ok mike you said you want to do yeah a little bit more about syria i want to jump on something dimitri said you talked about the u.s. being drawn entrapped into this is this is something that we've seen repeatedly in the us media narrative not only with the syria conflict although we're seeing it rig

today launched from western iran and into syria's eastern d. arrows or targeting the militants which iran said were responsible for those twin attacks that we saw in toronto earlier this month and this is an unprecedented move because it marks the first time that iran has long strike on syrian soil since the country descended into chaos in two thousand and eleven it also shows perhaps that when it means business it means business perhaps the perception shift it has or is when it comes to iran and while the west has warns that iran is a country that is dangerous and that it shouldn't have weapons on the other hand iran is now using these weapons to launch strikes on islamic states the common enemy and it's also making a lot of progress in destroying this common enemy to. ok let's get the thoughts now going around the political analyst at the university of toronto he joins us to see evening thanks for your time tonight what first what do you make of these strikes when you first heard that that happened did you sense that this was a major escalati

he just published a second about the battle for syria. born in baltimore to disagree al immigrant parents a trial attorney in the u.s. department of justice and also worked in the legal field in both the west bank and lebanon. she was a master's degree in journalism from columbia university and reporting hasan appeared in the nation and "new york times." her books include a country called america a u.s. history retold through air of american lives and the new memoir the home that was the country that we will also be discussing today. the author of novels green on blue and the new book dark at the crossing. he lives in istanbul and has covered the war since 2013. writings have appeared in the new yorker, the atlantic and stories have been included inith the best american short stories. a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq andve afghanistan where he received a silver star, bronze star for valor and purple heart. welcome, everybody. [applause] when we think about the era era arab spring it broke down hosni mubarak and pulled

good evening friends we start tonight with an escalating situation in syria tensions between the united states syria and russian russia have never been this critical post cold war the united states shot down a syrian warplane and it's the first time a u.s. warplane directly engaged with syrian air forces since the beginning of the syrian civil war the downing of the syrian jet fighter has drawn strong reaction from russia manila chan joins us now for more details tonight manila. jets bombed an area near the isis so-called caliphate capital of raka the syrian government has confirmed its downing the pilot ejected from the jet but conflicting reports on whether or not he survived without any confirmation from syrian officials either way at this time and while this is the first time an instant of this nature has occurred this marks the fourth time in a month that the united states military has hit pro syrian government forces a couple of hours before the fatal strike the pentagon says it reached out to their russian counterparts on the d. confliction channel to have russia warned the syria

warnings were also issued to syria's biggest allies, russia and iran. while on the domestic front, growing republican opposition to the senate health care plan after a devastating analysis from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. projecting that it would push 22 million americans off the insurance rolls, cut almost $800 billion, hurting the poor and granting big tax breaks to the rich. joining me now, nbc's kristen welker at the white house and garrett haak on capitol hill. let's talk syria, scrambling all night to catch up with this very unusual white house press statement. warning syria that there would be heavy price -- a heavy price to pay. what do they mean? what is the intelligence showing. >> based on our understanding, andrea, you're absolutely right, a remarkable statement that came from press secretary sean spicer, not the president himself, not from the defense secretary, but issuing that very stern warning to syria. and the latest intelligence that we have, according to u.s. officials is that the government saw a similar ramp up in

conflagrate this further against the russians or syria is there a danger that the u.s. might lose support of other members of the coalition to do you think at least to some degree. yes i think the australian move is a clear indication of that the germans and italians of all to voice their concern about this so there could definitely be an issue especially with the peace accords coming up and the turkish iranian russian peace initiative of deescalation zones that could be in danger and here of course turkey is in a to remember the quiet they would be quite worried about the u.s. escalating further just said the point when they are talking to the russians in the iranians to end this conflict so there could definitely be a rift within the coalition if there are more strikes against the syrian government ok look good to get your thoughts come i will leave it there fanatic military analyst thank you. the number of people dead or presumed dead after the grand fell tower in west london has risen to seventy nine and the city's metropolitan police say that number could still ris

syria accusing israel of supporting terrorists to be i.d.f. . government positions for the second time into the mosque it sees its forces were fighting islamist militants of the time of the attacks. plus we hear from a us democratic congresswoman who is pushing to stop washington supplying arms to extremist groups in syria. each time we have these wars that has resulted in the strengthening of terrorist groups. live from our new center here in the russian capital international my names you know neal hello welcome we will get your headline stories in just a moment but some news coming into us the u.s. supreme court has partially. so-called travel ban to come into effect new immigration rules that affect people from six per dominantly muslim states iran libya somalia sudan syria yemen now the court overturned a previous decision blocking president trump's policy there will be reaction to that coming up throughout the hours here on our. british prime minister trees i'm a conservative party has reached a deal with northern ireland's democratic union