and it has been made clear by the syrian rebels and the syrian opposition that they will continue the fight for their right to live in a free and democratic syria, regardless of the odds. >> thank you for joining us on "inside story." >> thank you. >> we'll take a break and when we come back - we'll talk with a panel of guests and experts who have been watching the region closely, about the next act in syria, this is "inside story". >>> welcome back to "inside story". i'm ray suarez. the joint arab league, united nations envoy to syria, lakhdar brahimi resigned. as he bowed outside he said he believes the crisis in syria will end. the question he puts is how many more dead and how much more destruction will there be. joining us now, an advocacy director from the middle east issues at amnesty international usa. from norman oklahoma, joshua landers, director of the university of oklahoma's center more middle east studies, and a member from the hafic harir. >> center. you heard a member of the opposition. he sounded like their side of the question can prevail. in your view, is it too lat

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we are in front of the syrian embassy. you can see the people going in to the embassy a couple of hours ago, the crowds were on top of each other, desperate to get in. some of them, some supporters support bashar al asaad. some believe he has prevailed after three years of fierce battles. for them, it's a reason to celebrate. other people who are here are out here out of fear, sfraed for families still in syria that they would be punished if they don't actually vote. they are concerned if they don't show up, they won't be able to go back to syria. many think he is not going to be over thrown any time soon and he is staying. they are trying to deal with that reality. it's sad but we saw pregnant women, old people, parents with dehydrated children insisting to stay until they vote because they were determined that they want to show that they vote because they didn't want to bear the consequences of not voting. >> on the side of things that you mentioned, tell me if i can draw a parallel between the fact that you have support

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the deaths of over 150,000 syrians. agreed a short and first of all condemning the assad regime's hold eral plan to illegitimate presidential elections on the 3rd of june. e say in our kphraoupb communique' this mocks the lives contradicts the geneva communique' and many millions of syrians will be unable to participate in such a so-called election and we call on the entire international community to reject these illegitimate elections as the arab league, united nations, united states, and the european union have done. we've also agreed to take steps together through a coordinated strategy to increase the moderate r opposition national coalition nd for its supreme military council and associated moderate syrians will armed groups to do everything we assad regime e accountable for the terror it is through ing including security council referral it the international criminal court to to counter the extremism and f complete the removal of syrian chemical weapons and step up our deliver humanitarian aid across the borders a

the syrian government always accused him on not being neutral.his source said he was not realistic at reading the facts on the ground. and that is the code word to say that the government was winning the battles on the ground, and his offer should have reflected that. so they feel it was a de facto resignation, he hasn't been able to do much in the past few months and they were expecting it. he also was very frustrated from any side in the past two years who took unilateral actions that would undermine his efforts for a settlement. he was against president assad rerunning, and holding these presidential elections. he always said this was a bullet in the efforts to bring settlement to syria. and local regional countries who provided weapons. he always said he needed both sides to stop supplying to the government and the opposition, and also expressed that he cannot do his job while there are parties -- ♪ >>> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you are in "stream" , we're here to talk about why the global fight for one of the most intelligent animals isn't

syrian state t.v.s government forces have also taken more areas on the outskirts of damascus and aleppo. beset by recent gets in homs and elsewhere, some fighters are trying to unite. 5 rebel groups who say they have more than 50,000 fighters say they have decided to work together to overthrow the regime. leaders of the islamic front agreed to move away from extremism and called on other groups to unite. >> toppling the recommend e-mail is a joint operation shared by all revolutionary forces. we welcome cooperating and supporting the syrian people in a manner that serves the revolution's interests. our forces rely on syrian individuals and believe that the military and political decisions under the revolution must be purely made by syrians and rejects subordination under any foreign forces. . >> but activists say deep divisions remain among opposition fighters leading to infighting which has weakened their control and. al jazeera. >>> still to come on the program, yemen calls on the west for help in it

snow the syrian ambassador told us that yesterday tens of thousands of syrians cast their ballots, and they expect tens of thousands more to vote today. it's important for the syrian government to show. also, people taking part of it are not only those living in areas under the control of regime inside syria. that's why they are at the embassy. it's something they have been highlighting strongly to show people are fed up with the crisis and want a solution at the helm of power. thank you very much. reporting for us from beirut in leb nop on the vote for the syrian presidential election. >>> un-secretary-general bangui moonacknowledged that a -- ban ki-moon acknowledged that a dead line for the removal of chemical weapons will not be met. there is chemical weapons awaiting shipment. >>> libya's caretaker prime minister is refusing to hand over power to the newly elected leader. he was sworn in on monday. his predecessor says there are doubt about his legitimacy. forces loyal to a retired ex-germ carried out -- ex-general carried out strikes. it was part of a campaign against radical arm

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that the head of the syrian opposition. leaving. the rest are remaining and the syrian authorities their delegation is going to stay as well. said they're going to continue talking with mr brahimi one of the main sticking points is that the opposition continues pressing on. president assad to step down while the authorities are saying that first there . stop the violence. in the country and then hold nationwide elections with a new one. for the syrian people to decide the country's political future so clearly they are not on the same page when it comes to. the talks are going to continue. at the end of the day hopefully we'll find out if they'll bring any results. seem to be easy to find a common denominator thank you for bringing us the latest from geneva. i don't how war activist brian becker believes the syrian rebels are not prepared to hold meaningful talks of peace in their country. some might say first time i say so here and. there you were. rather. severely but i'm just. saying. i think. he would have a good new five hundred

america's army chief wants that the syrian rebels are not cut out for calm even as washington renews its push for regime change in damascus. prepared to wait longer for your force free cash strapped a restaurant workers are former hundreds of cities worldwide will stage walkouts to squeeze that decent pay from the industry's the biggest players. self-defense units in the newly proclaimed that the needs of peoples are republican east ukraine and tell care to pull its troops out by midnight all face the consequences as come fly as reported in the rest of region overnight. live from moscow this is r.t. international you're with me say we begin with syria where west and back to oppositions are would not be able to govern the embattled country that's from america's top military commander general martin dempsey warns that syria will plunge deeper into civil war if the assad regime falls he stressed the opposition legs the leverage to fill in for the current government all root out al qaida groups in the country in fighting is on the rise among a divided rebel factions inside syria while pr

just secular values or the civil values of the syrian state is the army is the syrian army. still to come here nazi international those who suffer the most for the troops fighting. the civilian death toll is going through the roof all about the prospect of a bloody future and nato troops leaving for good plus. i'm just trying to produce what i find out how a political satire so i would network accused of role jewish just around the. country any time that somebody raise the issue of gun control that we can attack the. person twenty five a third. person they don't see themselves living beyond these young people say that they will not live. twenty or thirty years. or. several more. dealing with. done. with. technology innovation. around russia. the future. i. just in time for the weekly here on r.t. international this monday the taliban launched a terror campaign in afghanistan known as the spring offensive couple's international airport was targeted as well as the biggest u.s. army base right near the capital at least a dozen people were killed according to the international c

and after the meeting you had with this syrian opposition, into the use of weaponry?>> i think the free syrian army has clearly improved. it has clearly gained in its capacity. it has gained in its command and control. it is also now being supported way then coordinated it was over the last year. one country or another may have been supporting one group or another. now that is much more consequent -- concentrated. we think that they are making progress. trained army in the context of nationstates? no, not yet. , and,ey are improving under very difficult circumstances, holding their own and making gains in certain parts of the country. we are committed to continue to be helpful to them. in manym rader capacity different respects. everybody there today shared in that commitment. c.w. andect to the what the consequences are, it has been made clear by president obama and others that use would result in consequences. we are not going to pin ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action. but there are big consequences if it were to be proven, including things tha

. >> i'll work to ramp up those for the syrian opposition. for terrorists and dictators. >> secretary of defense chuck hagel has ordered a review of the health care system. >> secretary shinseki, i call on the congress to fire him. >> maya angelou has died. >> she is the say i guess all the odds. >> i had something to do in this world. >> after months of accusations of feeble leadership and his handling of international crises and conflicts, president obama sought to counter his critics wednesday on a commencement address at the u.s. naval academy at west point. demand he it working through multilateral institutions and in concert with allies provided a force multiplier that made america stronger particularly in response to russia's meddling in ukraine. terrorism remained the most direct threat to u.s. at home and abroad and al qaeda's central leadership had been decimated, its decentralized routine needed more came to defeat. >> up to $5 billion, to maintain, facilitate partner countries on the front lines. >> the president also proclaimed h

. >> we first begin with the story of the syrian elections with syrians are broad -- abroad begin counting their votes this wednesday and a boat that is widely expected to return bashar al-assad to power. lebanon in particular held voting amid allegations syrian officials may have pressured refugees into voting. an estimated 200,000 of the 3 million syrians living abroad are eligible to vote, but the syrian opposition and its allies declared the election to be a sham. the rest of syria will be going to the polls next tuesday. for more on the story, let's .ross what was the turnout like today in lebanon where there are many syrian refugees about? >> it was pretty tumultuous. thousands of syrian refugees and the embassyed up at today. it was the only polling station in the whole country. ashas been extended tomorrow an emergency measure because .here were so many people schoolchildren had to cancel exams in the area because they said they could not get to their schools. the traffic was intense, and also people were queuing and walking for many kilometers to get there. there was a scuffle tha

so the syrian presidential vote is scheduled on june the 3rd. there will be only electoral ballots in -- electoral apology stations, overseas voting, many european and arab countries have banned voting from taking place in their territory. >> zanah hodad reporting for us. thank you. >>> chooses to interfere in the country. says libya will become another afghanistan for the americans. the warning came as the u.s. sent another navy warship to the region. because of security concerns and arnold campaign by militia has intense -- armed campaign by militia has begun in the last days. >>> in donetske area, hodad habib is joining us from donetske area, to tell us about the situation as you understand its at the airport and whether the government is in full control now? >> well, the government saysists in control of the -- sais it's s in control however, a standoff is not over yet, as of last night and this morning again. there was sporadic exchange of fire. even if the government is in control of the main terminal and the tarmac there, the airport cann

he talks about working with congress to assist syrian rebels fighting bashar al-assad. let's listen. >> a critical focus of this effort is the ongoing crisis in syria. as frustrating as it is, there are no easy answers, no military solutions that can eliminate the terrible suffering any time soon. as president i made a decision that we should not put american troops into the middle of this increasingly sectarian war. i believe that is the right decision. that does not mean that we should help the syrian people stand up against a dictator who bombs and starves his own people. >> reporter: now after the call, del, officials had a conference call with reporters. they did not have detail with what the president proposes when he talks about assisting the syrian moderates, the opposition now is largely unified. another problem with the president's proposal is he has to go to congress, and to get authorization to further help to do over and above what the u.s. government is already doing to help that syrian opposition. >> the president going to europe next week with a major fo

. >> at the syrian embassy in buy root, syrians in lebanon come to cast thor vote. >> vowing to fight terrorism, nigeria's president pledging to bring an end to boko haram. >> ukraine's government says at least 14 have been killed after pro-russian separatists shot down a military helicopter over the eastern city of donetsk. this comes as separatists have been seeing heading toward slovyansk airport. >> the government has taken control of the site, but the separatists the road leading to it. let's get more on this from our correspondent. david, can you give us more about the helicopter that was shot down? >> it was a droop carrier. it wasn't a helicopter gun ship like we've seen around the skies in donetsk and earlier this week. apparently there were 14 soldiers onboard. they just put a new shift into an army base. including amongst those killed was a senior army general, the ukrainian government have confirmed that death toll, 14 killed when the helicopter came down. apparently the pro-russian separatists fighters were use ago surface to air missile. the fighting around slovyansk has

where syrians have found shelter.his is also home to hundreds of families. this man came here after he lost both legs when the syrian army shelled his home. he said he can't afford prosthetic legs. >> translator: all i want is security. i don't want to become rich or need anybody. i just want to live in peace. entire families of women and children were wiped out. losing legs is nothing compared to that. >> reporter: the government doesn't allow them to collect money strictly for syrians. >> translator: the number of syrians coming to these already impoverished areas is colossal. it exceeds the capacity of our cher if i organization. >> reporter: the cycle of violence and displacement in this region has played itself out over many decades. today when a palestinian looks at his new syrian neighbor some have to wonder how long they'll be here. >>> still to come we'll have more on the victory in india, and the challenges it faces. plus the problem of hiv in guatemala. and in sport why this tennis player was on the receivi

>> i think the free syrian army has clearly improved. it has clearly gained in its capacity.t has gained in its command and control. it is also now being supported in a more coordinated way. it is much more concentrated. we think that they are making progress. you know, are they a trained army in the context of a nationstate that we measure things by in many places? no, not yet, but they are improving and under very difficult circumstances holding their own, in fact making gains in certain parts of the country. we are committed to continue to be helpful to them and give them greater capacity in many different respects. everybody there today shared in that commitment. with respect to the cw and what the consequences are, it has been made clear by president obama and others that use would result in consequences. we are not going to pan ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action, but there will be consequences if it were to be proven, including, i might say, things that are way beyond our control and have nothing to do with us, but the international criminal court

it's a tragedy for the syrian people. >> we have covered the story. she's been covering the syrian conflict for years now. we start with the u.n. in new york. as you hear ban ki-moon pay such tribute to bahimi, it can underline this is the most difficult job in diplomacy right now. >> a near impossible task given the violence that continues in syria and the international deadlock around the security council table. >> they may be part of the problem. i suspect he may raise the issue again and their share of the blame that's been unable to reach peace. we know that he got where many thought he wasn't going to get, which is getting both sides around the table in geneva. those talks broke down, though, because the syrian government side wouldn't in effect agree to a compromise agenda that he'd set up for progressing those talks. why the resignation right now? we probably hear this when he speaks later on to the press, but i think about the syrian president election that he said was going to completely derail the geneva process. the election date has set a

. >>> thousandsover -- thousands of syrians are living abroad.his was the seen in the capitol earlier in the day. police used batons trying to push back crowds. it is the only polling station in the country that seemed insufficient to push back the large crowd. >> reporter: since the early hoursover the morning, thousands of syrians have come here to cast their vote in the presidential election. some of them are soup porters of president bashar al-assad, they feel it is a sign he has prevailed. and for many, they came here out of fear. they are [ inaudible ] many of them believe that president assad is not going away any time soon. he is likely to win this new seven-year term no matter what the opposition says. and they want to make sure they don't burn their bridges with the regime in damascus because it is not going away. so they came here to show up, to register their name, to make sure the government knows they vote sod they can go home to syria one day. >>> it has been a very different picture in jordan. >> reporter: i am here outside the sy

people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad to the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regretted that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the. crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and and so obviously what we're setting up is a longer term conflict more conflict the u.n. envoy for syria lakhdar brahimi has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the hum

can do to provide support to the syrian opposition. we heard kerry briefly reiterate a decision that was made by the obama administration earlier this week, whichs that the syrian opposition council is officially going to be recognized, as it were, as an official representative of the syrian people. it's not full diplomatic status, but it makes it easier for the soc to set up an office here in the united states to have bank accounts to actually conduct business. but it doesn't mean that it is, for example, going to be able to take over the property that is owned by the syrian government, in particular the embassy as well well as 3 consults across the country. it's really a very difficult situation, as you noted, david, because one thing that is wanted is weapons to assist the pre-syrian army. the obama administration is steadfastly opposed to providing weapons to the militants because they say this is not a kind of situation where we believe that arming the rebels is going to lead to a positive outcome. they believe that in their words

. >>> law maker aside - the syrian president called heroic. the virginian state president's personal letter to the syrian leader >>> the hacker - should the government trust him, he served gaol time. >> plus, angelou - an extraordinary life filling with challenges and firsts. a tribute in this artist and poetment >>> the troubles are piling on for eric shinseki, speaking volumes for the scandal swirling around the veterans' affairs department. new allegations of lies and indinners -- indifference at the veterans' affairs unit in phoenix, some waiting 4 months for an appointment. >> reporter: for men and women that serve in the military and needing care, the interim report by the inspector general of the v.a. is not reassuring. a review of phoenix found 1700 veterans were not registered properly, leaving them at risk of being forgotten or lost. earlier phoenix health care officials reported minimal delay, wait times of 14 days. the inspector general's review of a sample found a significant delay with a weight time of 114 days. the report confir

we've already seen the deaths of over 150,000 syrians. and we have agreed a short communique, first of all, condemning the assad regime's unilateral plan to hold illegitimate presidential elections on june 3. we say in our communique that this mocks the innocent lives lost in the conflict. utterly contradicts the geneva communique and a parody of democracy. many millions of syrians will be unable to participate in such a so-called election and we call on the entire international community to reject these illegitimate elections as the arab league, the united nations, the united states, turkey, and the european union have already done. we've also agreed unanimously to take further steps together through a coordinated strategy to increase our support for the moderate opposition, national coalition, and for its supreme military council and associated moderate armed groups to do everything we can to hold the assad regime accountable for the terror it is perpetrating including through security council referral to the international criminal cour

not the least of which in neighboring lebanon, which has the largest syrian population. lucy is in beirut right now. this election has been disputed already and there are allegations that the syrian regime is trying to influence voters. tell me about that. >> there have been reports that syrian industry officials and members of the party in lebanon and the regime -- are taking names of those who want to vote. the embassy says there is a voter registration program, and although there is no evidence of intimidation, as such, many of the pro-opposition refugees have fled -- and just the presence of these officials, just turning up, would have been enough to make many people feel very frightened indeed. but not all of those in the camps are eligible to vote and that is what they are facing if they cross the border illegally. i slipped in on the border between lebanon and syria. there are a large number of syrians here, as was anyone could tell that supports the regime, people are starting to say that assad regime may be in they for a long time, could come to vote but not if

according to the syrian observatory for human rights, at least 150,000 syrians have been killed. this conflict has had a disproportionate effect on children in syria. a safe the children report indicates that at least 1.2 million children have fled to neighboring countries while about 10,000 have died in the violence. the assad regime has used every available tactic to terrorize the syrian people. some civilians have resorted to eating grass as desperately needed humanitarian and food aid has been withheld from besieged communities. the whir of helicopter blades also portends barrel-bomb strikes that we've heard so much about that could easily land on a school, a hospital, or an applican-- oran apartment block. assad's force dropped a barrel bomb in aleppo. this attack killed 25 children. this kind of activity by the assad regime, she is actio thes, are, in a word, "intolerable." yesterday the remaining opposition fighters in homes, once an opposition stronghold, were evacuated under u.n. supervision. if my colleagues here in the senate have not yet seen the images of holmes, i'd

not all syrian who is live here are refugees. half have been living in jordan for decades, the other half have been displaced by the recent conflicts. but those who have turned out, the vast majority of syrians in jordan are against the assad government. the guest here says it is not interested in cutting diplomatic ties with syria, and says that it will not interfere in the election, which is happening inside the embassy, which is considered syrian territory. but jordan cannot afford to cut diplomatic ties with syria, because it feels that syrian president bashar al-assad might be in power for a while. >> fugitive nsa leaker edward snowdon. ant interview comes a year after snowdon admitted that he stole a trove of documents revealing electronic programs. he said that he was not the low level workers that he has been portrayed to be. >> i was trained as a spy and working under a name that was not mine. they may frame it in a way that's a low level analysts but they're trying to use one position that i've had in a career here or t

the syrian government loyalists who want trouble and turmoil.y're here in the camp, and many are in this area. i used to live in this part of the camp and i moved. >> reporter: but it's not just syrian government loyalist who is are here. rebel groups have established a foothold in the camp. another reason why jordan has taken the security of these camps so seriously. al jazeera. >> the trial of the son of the late libyan leader muammar qaddafi has been postponed until may 25th. he and dozens former officials are facing charges ranging from corruption, war crimes and suppressing the 2011 up rising. >>> cairo has sentenced 46 students who were involved in anti-coup demonstrations in the capital of cairo. the students who supported ousted president mohamed morsi were accused of blocking roads and attacking security. they were fined over $4,000 ea each. >>> three al jazeera english journalists have been held in an egyptian prison for 134 days now. they are falsely accused of conspiring with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. the group has been declar

i used to live here, i moved. >> it's not just syrian government loyalists that are here. refugees say groups established a foothold in the camp, a reason why jordan is taking the security of these camps so seriously. >>> a look at other news from around the world. after five months of fighting a ceasefire in south sudan is holding. residents salva kiir, and former vice president riek machar called on the army to lay down their weapons within 24 hours, both agreeing to open humanitarian corridors to allow aid to be delivered to people. hundreds of anti-protesters fought with police in caracas, calling for the release of demonstrators. supporters say they'll stay on the streets until the protesters are freed. >> thousands of thai government supporters are rallying on the outskirts of bangkok, angry at the dismissal of yingluck shinawatra. on wednesday, two grenades were fired. two were injured. >> the african national congress has been declared the winner of the south african elections. it cements jacob zuma's presidency for another five years. we have this report from joha

america's army the syrian rebels. even as washington read news it's change in damascus.prepared to wait longer for your false food restaurant workers from hundreds of cities worldwide. pay the industry's. self-defense units the new proclaimed people's republic to pull its troops out by midnight or face the consequences that is reported in the rest of. it also coming up investigators in the ukrainian capital say that deadly sniper fire which killed dozens did.

it's called the syrian .pposition coalition b.is headed by a man syrian national council will and thenhe military arm is the free syrian army. organizedhere are groups that are identifiable that have known people. fact, the head of the syrian opposition coalition in the head of the free syrian army has been in washington. be there.ll i don't know. and there have been negotiations on the requests of the opposition for more robust military assistance from washington'sd from allies, especially the saudis, the u.a.e. and other countries in the arab world that are very much involved in the syrian crisis. oppositionrian leaders are asking washington, , isrding to news reports they certainly want to obtain equipment.t break theto try to monopoly of air power that soad's regime has effectively and brutally used against the rebel groups and syrian civilians. the dilemma that washington has on that, is that if washington does provide weaponry -- and i don't think they're considering missiles but something short of that. if this equipment falls into the the islamic radical groups in syria, they c

i used to live in the camp and i moved. >> it's not just syrian government loyalists that are here. refugees say they have established a foot hold, a reason why jordan is taking the security of these camps seriously. >>> the african national congress officially won south africa's election. jacob zuma vowed to create jobs and improve infrastructure. it fell short of a two-thirds majority, taking 62% of the vote. 249 seats in the national assembly. the democratic alliance took 22%, making the biggest gain, securing 89 seats. we were at the victory party in johannesburg. >> reporter: that is the sound of aac supporters celebrating the election win. lots of people are packed in this small square in johannesburg. people of all ages coming to celebrate the victory. president jacob zuma told them that he's happy that they've given him and his administration another five years in government. he told them about the past. about apartheid and said the a.n.c. is doing the level he can do live on the promises to the poor. he promised jobs, houses, sanitation, water, electricity - all the things

the syrian people will not see justice today.y will see crime, but not punishment. >> the russian ambassador made it clear he felt the french had drafted the vetoed resolution, were looking for something more than justice. isn't this just to try once with against to create a pretext for armed intervention in the syrian conflict. >> france's ambassador is resolution had been co-sponsored by more than 60 nations told me after the vote, this has been a sad day. >> what is your message to the people of syria? >> i think i really am ashamed. really in a sense, to tell them, we are sorry. my country, has done it's best, the french -- really that's a fact. which means in the coming weeks and months there will be more dead, more devastation, more rapes, torture, it is really awful. al jazeera has obtain add copy of a new report to the security council. about humanitarian access in syria. it suggests the situation is getting worse. particularly across borders without the syrian government's permissions. they could again face a veto. >> al

government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cart. deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington since keen to prompt the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on r.t. . gunmen have stormed a libya's apartment in tripoli detaining at least twenty lawmakers and officials troops loyal to renegade general after are believed to have carried out the attack earlier this week more than seventy people were killed in the city of benghazi as the same rogue general tried to push islamist militias out of the city to discuss those we're now crossing live to activists and journalists who can chandan joining us live on our international thank you for being with us general khalifa haftar who allegedly ordered the the tag says t

weaponry capable of shooting down syrian confident at croft the forces loyal to president bashar al assad had been dropping barrel on some rebel strongholds that lady gain the upper hand in the calm lake south of retaking control of the former rebel sixty pounds during jobless first visit to washington secretary of state joe perry made it his continued support we had. difficult moments in this journey. but we are committed to do our part to support moderate opposition in its efforts to provide a legitimate voice to the aspirations and hopes of the syrian people. the obama administration which has just upgraded to diplomatic status of the syrian opposition coalition has convicted two hundred ninety seven me and follow the same only food assistance and recently has become providing some anti tank weapons. this is being seen as the way to demonstrate to us that the suspected rebels are capable of maintaining control of the prawns weaponry. the us position on the conflict is not to mention in a minute a solution but to encourage president assad to stand down and agree to a political set

syrian state tv said they killed people. >>> the president of the syrian opposition coalition held talks with the u.s. secretary of state on thursday. >> that's right. john kerry and ahmed jabba had a public display of support. >> we are committed to do our part to support the moderate opposition in its efforts to provide a legitimate voice to the aspirations and hopes of the syrian people. his coalition, the syrian opposition coalition that he's built, is an inclusive and moderate institution committed to the syrian people and to the protection of all people, all minorities, all rights within syria. >> records that ahmad jarba said he would ask for military weapons. >>> coming up on cnn, a search for the kidnapped nigerian school girls and a promise from the nation's president. >>> i believe that it's not -- this will be the beginning to the end of terror in nigeria. >> speaking as more international help goes to nigeria to find the girls and stop the efforts of the boko haram. more of that coming up on "cnn newsroom." for a cleaner, healthier mouth, #1 dentist recommended listerine®. p

the last syrian rebel fighters leave the city regarded as the capital of the uprising. and the scramble for aid by those in afghanistan, displaced by a landslide. sh ♪ what is this place? where are we? this is where we bring together reliably fast internet and the best in entertainment. we call it the x1 entertainment operating system. it looks like the future! we must have encountered a temporal vortex. further analytics are necessary. beam us up. ♪ that's my phone. hey. [ female announcer ] the x1 entertainment operating system. only from xfinity. tv and internet together like never before. >>> good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera. rebel leader riek machar is due to meet with south sudan's president salva kiir for the first time, coming a day after the release of a u.n. report blaming both sides for gross violation of human rights. anti-government protesters are marching through bangkok in a final push to overthrow the caretaker's government, following a ruling on wednesday that forced yingluck shinawatra to resign. russia is celebrating a

after three years of civil war, is syrian city of homs devastated.e at the heart of the uprising, now civilians return to see what is left. reminds us so much about this conflict, but most of all, it is a symbol of an extraordinary cost. >> the nigerian government said it is ready to explore all options to win the release of more than 200 schoolgirls, including a dialogue with boko haram. welcome to our viewers on public television here in america and also around the globe. the syrian city of homs was once the heart of the uprising. today, it is in ruins. thanks to a deal brokered by iran, residents are trickling in and back to the town to see what is left of their homes. on the diplomatic front, t lakhdar brahimi has stepped down as international efforts have ended in failure. >> little is left after the worst debacle and a punishing siege. returnnds of life slowly , even at the harmony music shop . this musician shop and home when the fighting began. he came back two days ago, but not for long. >> i'm going to go to the u.s. there is no future for

i think the free syrian army -- i will do the second part first -- the free syrian army has clearly improvedly gained in its capacity. it has gained in its command and control. it is also now being supported moremorse -- a coordinated way. it is much more concentrated. we think that they are making progress. you know, are they a trained army in the context of a nationstate that we measure things by in many places? no, not yet, but they are improving and under very difficult circumstances holding their own, in fact making gains in certain parts of the country. we are committed to continue to be helpful to them and give them greater capacity in many different respects. everybody there today shared in that commitment. the cw andt to what the consequences are, it has been made clear by president use wouldothers that result in consequences. we are not going to pan ourselves down to a precise time, date, manner of action, but there will be consequences if it were to be proven, including, i might say, things that are way beyond our control and have nothing to do with us, but the international crimi

i moved. >> it's not just syrian government loyalists that are here.ebel groups established a foothold, a reason whioredan took the -- why jordan took the security of the camps seriously. >>> a report is showing that our colleague from al jazeera arabic abdullah al-shami, is close to death in an egyptian prison. he's been in custody since august and on hunger strike for 111 days. the report obtained by al jazeera shows signs of microsciatic anemia due to iron deficiency and prohibition of oxygen getting to organs, his kidneys are not functioning and there are high amounts of urria in the blood. his liver is close to failure. three al jazeera journalist continue to be held in an egyptian prison for 133 days peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are accused of conspiring with the muslim brotherhood, which has been declared a terrorist organization by egypt. al jazeera rejects the charges and calls for their immediate release. >>> still to come - michael sam becomes the first openly gay man drafted into the american football league. what's i

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