they were killed in isil's syrian strong hold raqqa.ictims had all been captured earlier this month. this follows the release of a graphic video by isil which appears to show the mass beheading of 12 syrian soldiers as well as the american aid worker peter kassig. the 26-year-old was a former u.s. army ranger and muslim convert captured just over a year ago while providing medical aid to syrians who were fleeing the war. he is the fifth western hostage that the group has beheaded in recent months. american journalists james foley and steven sotloff were the first to be killed. followed by the british aid worker david haines as well as allen henning. isil is also known to be holding british journalist john. also killed thousands of iraq and i sear kwr*er vinnie soldiers in its campaign to establish an islamic state. zeina report now from beirut. >> reporter: he helped assist lives of syrians wounded in the war. that is what peter kassig was doing in lebanon for about a year before he decided to help those living inside syria. he left in

war and the syrian revolution. meaning that, in fact, the feeling of sunni disenfranchisement in lebanon is something that traces back probably, if not to or three in the fall of baghdad but very openly and very visibly to 2005, the killing of prime minister rafik hariri. then in 2008, the hezbollah takeover of beirut, and kind of coup d'etat that happened at that moment, and 2010 and 2011 and the syrian revolution and the syrian war, only added an additional, let's say factor of pin flapation on this lebanese scene. so this leads us to say that there is a security, of course, treatment to the issue of isis, jabaat al nusra and other islamist radical shades in lebanon but this cannot by itself be a sufficient or a relevant answer if you put aside the political question of the renewing or the reshaping or the reviving of the political formula in lebanon. now if we extend that question to the lebanese and syrian political scene it means that, in fact, the security solution and i don't think i'm telling you something

the syrian government. and andrew tabler a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. welcome both of you back to the program. andrew tabler, let me start with you. this is almost an alphabet-like collection of groups in suryoo so i'm going to keep it simple for my own sake. how significant is this latest news that al-nusra has routed the free syrian army, which the u.s., at least in part, has been supporting? >> i think it's significant in that it's routed two primary groups in the free syrian army, both of which the united states had supported in a covert program. it's a setback for the moderate rebels. there are moderate rebels elsewhere in the country, so they're down but certainly not out. i think the bigger question is what the implications of this all are for a different program proposed by the obama administration, and that is the train and equip program that has been earmarked and is going ahead that will be organized in neighboring countries. >> woodruff: the same question to

this is a major concern of syrian refugees.any have told us they arrived here in the camp with the clothes on their back. when i've spoke ton people in the last few hours, these young men syrian refugees also live in the car. they told us they come from stipulates all across syria from places like aleppo, also some from raqqa up in the north where they fled advances of islamic state militants. understandably there's a huge amount of concern about what the future holds. people simply don't know when they're going to be able to go back. more widely in jordan, that worries ordinary people very much as well. you've seen now something like 600,000 syrians officially registered as refugees in jordan. it's been very overwhelming for local people. jordanians complain about rising rent in towns and cities. they would like to see more in the camps. 85% of syrians that live in jordans are in ordinary towns. it's pushing up rent. there's more competition for work as well. often that leads to resentment. that's why the jordanian government

there and for syrian refugees in turkey. they're preparing their 1:00 news program about to go on air. >> they tell those in opposition areas about area air strikes from the regime. it's a valuable tool in the war says the manager. >> we have some people that provide pus with information like helicopter going maybe to that neighborhood. we are now working on an air system to alert the people that this area maybe targeted from regime. by supporting people on the ground, they have shelters. tell the people go to those shelters. we have to provide people of syria the accurate information, accurate premiums. the regime is telling all the time lies and lies. the regime media telling people a different story of why there is war in syria. we have to fight the regime in our way. people on the ground fighting for regime with weapons. now we are if in media fighting the regime. >> do you think you can win the information war against the regime? >> now we have hard and difficult situation outside syria especially funding. if we have mo

these were weaponries that the syrian kurdish fighters belonging to the ypg and allies from free syrian army had been calling for several weeks to say that they needed in order to swing the battle in their favor away from the advancements of isil. as it stands now, both sides continue to hold the positions they held prior to the peshmerga forces entering with one side that is isil side controlling the eastern and southern parts of kobane and those who have been defending it against isil advance, holding the southern and western side of the town. >> in syria, the al-qaeda linked nusra front have taken control of a town, saying it's now in charge after five days of fighting. >> to burkina faso now, the army says its backing lt. colonel as a transingsal leader. the former president who resigned friday after protests has arrived in neighboring ivory coast. we have the latest >> it may be a reflection of the fact people finally know who is running the country. presidential guard said he is now head of state. >> while we wait for a consensus by the people and all political parties, i will tak

in the sense that these are all fuelled to them by the syrian war and syrian revolution. the sunni disenfranchising, it traces back probably if not to the fall of baghdad, but openly to the killing of prime minister and then the hezbollah take over of beirut and what happened at that moment. 2010 and 2011 and the syrian revolution and the war only added an additional factor of inflammation on this lebanese team. this leads us to say that there is a security treatment to the issue of isis and liz lammists in lebanon, but this cannot by itself be a relevant answer if you put aside the political question of the renewing or the reshaping or the reviving of the political formula in lebanon. if we extend that question to the lebanese and syrian political scene, it means that in fact the security solution and i don't think i am telling you something new here, the military solution to isis and other shades of radical jihadism is not only a military solution, but it has also to embody or to include a political component and this leads to the lingering question which is in fact roa

to do to help syrian refugees? >>reporter: it's one of the few places where people here praise what the u.s. has done. the u.s. has given more for syrian refugees than any other country in the world. but the problem is massive and it could get worse. some 300,000 people would become refugees if the regime pushes into ache poe and already this is the worst humanitarian crisis since world war two. we have not had to deal with this since then and frankly these refugees tell me as well as the syrian opposition that we're simply not doing enough despite the money given to them. >> thank you. >>> the conflict in iraq and syria acleppo -- >>reporter: the student stopped studying here two months ago. his school has become a place of refuge for families fleeing from fighting in his native syria. they came here because there's little room in the camps. there are more than 400 schools like this in the northern iraqi kurdish region. >> i wish all these people could go back to their homes. i feel terribly sorry for their famili

hezbollah is closely linked to the syrian regime. the americans have not yet reached a position where they're willing to say okay, let's work with the syrian regime against isis. let's team up. that's a long way away, too. in fact, president obama has reported to be basically asking his people to revise policies on syria to take into account the fact that the conclusion may be that you can't get rid of isis without getting rid of bashar al assad as well. so all these things are in the mix and i think it's going to be some time before we see clearer policies emerging from what is really a terrible policy mess. >> reporter: and jim, you've been reporting in recent months about the pressures and tensions along the lebanese-syria border. the flood of refugees from syria going into the valley. the lebanese government recently announced it had to now shut its bord borders, couldn't take any more. what is the situation now? >> reporter: well, that is the situation. basically, the borders are pretty much closed now to the flow of refugees, w

he felt that through his experiences with the wounded syrians, with the syrians he was trying to help he could somehow bring about perhaps less hatred of the united states, of the western world, bring about a measure of understanding that not all americans were out to get the middle east, that there were individuals like him that genuinely wanted to help and vice versa as well whenever he would speak to friends and family back home at the u.s. he would give them this entire different take on syria perhaps the one they were used to. we first met him back in 2012 in a hospital in tripoli. it was quite the sight. there he was this former army ranger, pale, at that too, not speaking a lot of arabic but his compassion transcended the language barrier and he was an individual who believed in doing. he used to always say wanting to help, saying you want to help was not enough. you had to go out there and do it. just a few months after we met him i remember being so surprised when he told us and told me he actually accomplish this. but a few months after we met him he had set up his own nonpr

it may include groups we currently do not want fighting isis such as the syrian regime. that is the military solution continuation of what is happening and arguably escalation. isis is successful not because it imposes itself but because to some extent the message of isis central soil within these communities. this seems to me a major unanswered question with respect to the events of the past month, who are the local constituents of isis, syria and iraq? providing an ideological alternative, a political islam that does not appeal to violence takes the way forward and this is a generational challenge but i think countries such as syria and iraq can do so in the long term by addressing what lies at the root of all this which is my opinion, in the absence of inclusive governments with in these countries that empower the diverse ethnic and religious groups that form the matrix of the society. if you have an inclusive society that -- and include iraqi state that does not disenfranchise cities, you open a pretense under which isis is doing. >> please wait for the mic and ident

the syrian rebels. the syrian rebels. i asked the head of the syrian i asked the head of the syrian coalition, he said it's just not coalition, he said it's just not going to going to work, it's too slow. work, it's too slow. six, seven, eight months from six, seven, eight months from even graduating the first even graduating the first fighter. fighter. that gives you a sense that gives you a sense of of how how methodical the u.s. has methodical the u.s. has been. been. whereas this group has lost two whereas this group has lost two of their main strong holds of their main strong holds against the al qaeda backed against the al qaeda backed group. group. they don't have time to fly they don't have time to fly people to saudi arabia to vet people to saudi arabia to vet them train them and fly them them train them and fly them back back into syria. into syria. that is the state of the battle, that is the state of the battle, there's not a lot of trust among there's not a lot of trust among these moderate

syrian government air strikes have increased since u.s.ces started attacking isil positions in september. >> we see the striking to give the impression that he is somehow working in coordination with the international coalition, which is something that leaves the syrian people thinking that they are alone against a dictator, against a western coalition that doesn't seem to do anything to stop him, and isil itself which is another foreign entity that has come and devastated the syrian people. >> reporter: for the people living here the situation is getting increasingly desperate. according to the syrian observatory for human rights any regime launched more than 15 air strikes against the city in the past month. this is the reality of life in raca. >>> there's a renewed diplomatic effort to resume the peace process and this time from russia. zana hoda explains. >> reporter: russia is trying to revive the police process. what does the initiative involve? the creation of a national unity government. a government with powers, and the government

the man in charge of the syrian opposition says the u.s. strategy is backward. >> they are about the same issues cared about in kobani which happening now in aleppo. to be honest there is no true strategy which you can see. there is only the air strikes. >> reporter: today the u.s. focuses on kobani. on one side, kurds fight with assault rifles, some of them are women, all throughout man. on the other side i.s.i.l. fighters use american-bought tanks soanl from the iraqi army as -- stolen from the iraqi army as cover. destroying kobani's infrastructure. the fighting sparked an exodus to turkey. 200,000 refugees, more than half children. some of their families sleep in unfinished building. as winter approaches there will be no protection from the elements, for home, gas stations, gas pumps the only place your child can play. if you are three and syrian, your country has been at war for every day of your life. >> this is your home. >> i.s.i.l. overran one of their homes then another then another. as they fled their three month old son was born

there are now more syrians living here than there are jordanians. we've been speaking to jordanian officials, also international aid organizations about the implications of all of this. the real struggle to deal with more than 600,000 officially registered syrian refugees who are now in jordan. at the moment, one of the big worries is actually the weather. as i found out when i went to al-azrak camp. bringing cement to lay on the floor of these refugees' cabins. it should make them waterproof and winter proof. the race is on here to prepare for the colder months ahead. it's a sunny november day here in the east of jordan. we're right out in the desert. but actually, at nighttime, it can get really cold here. the temperatures can go below freezing. and for syrian refugees who arrived with just the shirts on their back, that's a growing concern. now some of the aid agencies are handing out winter clothes. you can see over here, there are boxes for women and children and boxes for men as well. the refugees are coming in here to collect their supplies.

of syrian kurds and opposition fighters to take on the islamic state of iraq and the levant. reconnaissance teams have been there for days, now ready to start the fight. we have a report from inside kobane. >> we are now standing in the western neighborhoods commonly known at kobane. they represent the springboard from which kurdish forces are fending off isil attacks, now in desperate attempt to control these areas and have a firm grip on areas to the east. to the right of the northern neighborhoods of kobane where the rye ridging can be seen in the backdrop, on these ridging the kurdish army and forces positioned, closely monitoring the fighting inside the city. the armed opposition groups who recently joined the kurdish forces are now deployed to the front lines, fighting isil, waiting for orders from the joint command, who are in turn waiting for the arrival have peshmerga kurdish forces with their superior gear and equipment. this will shift the balance of power on the ground. sources say the syrian kurdish forces plan a new assault against isil positions in kobane. >> m

he also helped syrian refugees in lebanon.mer colleagues have tried and failed to convince isil to spare his life. zeina reports they are not shocked by isil's latest murder. >> reporter: he helped save the lives of syrians wounded in the war. that is what peter kassig was doing in lebanon for about a year before he decided to help those living inside syria. he left in october 2013, only to be captured by the islamic state of iraq and the los angeles srafpblts a week ago his friends in the northern city of tripoli added their voice to an international campylobacters to persuade isil to release him. they were hoping that party who convert today islam in captivity would have helped spare his life. even his close friend who was a syrian from homs had hope. but now he is lost for words. >> what i should say to his family, that we are sorry, for your son dieing in my country. and once he came to my country to help my people and to kill him people say that we -- who kill them, they say they protect islam. i don't know. they are not

according to the syrian observatory for human rights. the syrian air force dropped more than 400 containers. 3.5 years of conflict changed battle and territorial lines. the regime insists it's in control. >> the government holds and clings to their unity and territorial integrity of syria. this is a sick red issue -- sacred issue. >> reporter: this is a government stronghold, ones dominated by alawites loyal to bashar al-assad, and the community has undergone an ethnic transformation, home to sunnis seeking refuge from the multiple fronts of war >>> pro-russian separatists held elections in eastern ukraine. polls closed. ukraine's government and the west say the vote is illegitimate. let's turn to hoda abdel-hamid. any indications of results so far. >> reporter: a short while ago we heard from the electoral commission, and the exit polls indicate that alexander sharazenko the prime minister of the so-called people's public would have won with 81% of the votes. these are exit polls at the moment. basically the vote cements the grip of the

his close friend, a syrian from homs had hope. he is lost for words. >> what i should say to his family? that we are sorry, because your son die in my country, and to help my people, and people say who killed him. i don't know. >> this was one of the many clinics where peter kassig treated patients. >> while in lebanon peter volunteered with humanitarian workers. they used the media to tell peter's captives about how he helped the syrian people. the video didn't refer to peter as an aid worker. he identified him as a u.s. soldier. this didn't shock syrian opposition activists, some of the people new peter kassig well. those that didn't know of what he did for the revolution, believing it made no difference for i.s.i.l. if a person is a charity worker or not. >> they are doing this to muslims, they kill anyone against them, not just americans. likely they would kill me as well. they are giving a bad image of islam. >> peter kassig was a former soldier. that is not how he would be remembered by family and friend. >> at an early age

the syrian kurdish y.p.g. forces who have been combatting i.s.i.l. for several weeks. >> while that is going on, the syrian regime is wasting no time stepping up its attacks. tell us what is going on elsewhere in the country. >> indeed, that is true. particularly latest news coming out of idlib. the forces are there, increasing the dropping of berrell bombs on the area, as well as several other parts of syria. this goes in line with statements made by the turkish president when he was questioning why so much emphasis was put on kobane, when massacres were taking place. it's a negative thing coming out of the struggle against i.s.i.l., is that it's essentially provided de facto smokescreen for the continuing attacks but the syrian governments on other parts of syria, and essentially narrowed the crisis, as significant as it is, geographically and politically. why the conflict has been raging on, costing more than 200,000 lives and 5 million refugees seems to have fallen off the agendas, and that is what many of the opposition fighters and refugees hav

envoy and syrian president assad an aid convoy has been allowed in to the syrian city of homs.vering assistance to the besieged neighborhood. but the government only allowed 12 of the 23 trucks in the convoy to enter the city. >>> the president of the national coalition for jean revolutionary and opposition forces is cautious about a possible ceasefire in a hleb >> we have conducted discussions and exchanged possibilities. and expressed our opinion clearly that any impartial luke will not serve the final purpose of stopping violence and rink a complete settlement. what he is calling for now is not a ceasefire, but he is calling it a freeze of situation at the ground level as it is meaning each side freeze its okay tests without any obligation to the other side. as you know, the devil lies in the details and we haven't seen a complete outline of such an agreement, what guarantees it offers the syrian people inside the protection of the civilian pop lungs. >>> in iraq the army says it's recaptured most of the town of beiji from ic isis. they took over in june. stopping production

dispossessed by the syrian conflict.l exploits the tragedy in syria to advance their own selfish ames, abdul rahman was so moved by the anguish and suffering of syrian civilian that is he traveled to lebanon to work in a hostile treating refugees. later he established an aid group to provide assistance to syrian refugees and displaced persons in lebanon and sear wra. these were the selfless acts of an individual that carried deeply about the plight of the syrian people. isil's actions represent no faith, least of all the muslim faith which abdul rahman adopted as his own. we than the spirit and good ands perseverance that burned so brightly in kassig and which binds them together, ultimately is the light that will prevail over the darkness of isil. there is a long statement coming from the president. he is due to return back to the white house tonight around around 8:30. actually, a little earlier than he was supposed to be returning. a big week ahead, obviously, for this white house. >> all right. aaron mcpike at the wh

people, the protection of the syrian civilians. the ground army -- >> so you are not on board yet then with this idea of a freeze as you call it? >> you cannot have a clear position right now, because we don't see the details. so we need to see the details of the agreement. but our position is very clear that we have to have comprehensive political resolution and we could see these type of agreement of freeze zone areas as part or as a step forward. we need to know what is the second step, the third, and what is the final target, where we will reach. what type of outlook. >> but as you know, sir, the government of bashar al-assad seems to be on board at least for now with this idea -- >> we need -- we need -- we need to be careful what assad regime said that it was looking at. it didn't say they are committed to it. still the details and as i said devil lies in the details, we need to look at the details and see what does it have guarantees for the civilian population in syria. >> reporter: there are multiple rebel groups of course

along with a dozen syrian captives. peter kassig, a former army ranger, was captured last year helping syrians. >> the video is gruesome, showing 13 beheadings, 12 soldiers and peter kassig. i.s.i.l. say he was beheaded because he was an iraqi war veteran who came to iraq during the war to kill muslims. he, himself, converted to islam during his captivity. this is again, as i say, a brutal video, but the type of propaganda that i.s.i.l. want out there. they want people to see the video, and what they are capable to do, a message sent to the americans, is one that you can't bomb us without impunity, you'll be affected. there are other western hostages, but it's not just westerners, it's not just about western hostages. i.s.i.l. killed at least 17 iraqis and 20 journalists, sl have been kidnapped. journalists in iraq and syria, whose whereabouts we don't know. i.s.i.l. say they are holding a number of iraqi journalists and aid workers as well as beheading soldiers from iraq and from syria. this is a tactic that they use.

he's now based in the syrian country side.ome experts believe he has little influence online and on the ground. >> translator: his videos very basic with old archives from films of news reels in france that call for knee happened abroad. through they have about a big impact. that has what has given him his legitimacy. omar's group attract far fewer militants, they have less presents pr*epbs online, they are quite isolated with very young followers. they also fight very little. >> reporter: today most of the recruiting is done by isil, and french nationals have appeared in the group's propaganda videos. according to the friend of government, france is the birth he felt single european supplier of fighters. authorities there say that more than 1,000 of its citizens have left or plan to leave to join isil. on the surface the message in their videos may not be any different from what omar used to recruit, but he didn't recruit fighters to join a specific group. but rather to join a cause. >> reporter: but get are rid of the assad

so the syrian society is destroyed now.ke no community anymore between the people. ♪ and he uses music to try to bring syrians together and his message is simple silences the guns would mean nothing if people cannot live together but here it runs to deep for healing. >> i'm not sure syrians, you know, see a solution as -- there are multiple ideologies and multiple factions of the same population that see a solution but what is for sure is they all want peace. they all want just for this war to stop. >> reporter: for now even that is just hope. >> it's like a nightmare and you wish to wake up but you don't because every time we think we can go back something worse comes. >> reporter: hard reality for the syrians and know their lives and their country will never be the same again. i'm with al jazeera, beirut. >>> the afghan parliament approved two security deals governing the role of foreign troops in the country after december, the by lateral security agreement with washington and separate nato agreement both passed by major

i was killed alongside those 12 alleged soldiers, syrian soldiers. now, we don't know if they were soldiers or not. what we do know is that this video is time and time again a tactic that isil uses. they release this without any warning, and the families of those victims find out pretty much the same time we do. >> you're talking about these alleged soldiers. now, if this is kwisconfirmed, r is the fifth western hostage to be killed by isil. there are hundreds others that have been executed by isil including what we understand these supposed 12 syrian soldiers in that video. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. we don't know whether they were soldiers. we know the video itself was taped in aleppo, so we know it's syrian in nature but we don't know who these soldiers were. isil has beheaded and killed at least 17 journalists in syria in the last ten months alone. also here in iraq, that figure rises to around about 18, 19. the figures are very difficult to determine completely accurately because of the nature of these killings. also, we think there a

in fact, syrian government air strikes on raqqa increased since u.s. forces started attacking i.s.i.l. positions in september. >> what we see today is striking in raqqa province to give the impression that he is working in coordination with the international coalition, something that leaves the syrian people thinking they are alone against a dictator, that doesn't seem to do anything to stop him. and i.s.i.l., which is another foreign entity that has come and devastated the syrian people. >> the people living in raqqa, the situation is getting desperate. one resident tweeted: according to syrian observatory for human rights, the bashar al-assad regime launched 1500 air strikes across syria, in raqqa they collect the bodies of the dead >>> a court in the libyan cabinet issued an arrest wonder for khalifa haftar. it's part of a power struggle. it comes hours after air strikes hit tripoli's only functioning airport. the group says it was forced to hit the airport because it had fallen under the control of a rival administration in tripoli. this month the

he was captured while helping syrian refugees. and while he was in captivity he shared a cell with americans james foley and steven sotlof who were also beheaded. bob, watching this video is horrifying, it is horrific. it made me so angry this continues to happen. i know you've looked at it as well. what stands out in terms of what is different this time? >> well, it's the production, poppy. it's less complicated. what that tells me is the hostage takers are on the move, they didn't have time to plan their idea of marketing this. there are platforms all over syria and iraq. it's difficult for them to hide. we've been doing geomapping from previous videos that show where they've been and they're taking more precautions. >> some analysts are calling this a sign of desperation that isis is feeling the air strikes more. >> they did lose the refinery a couple days ago. they were unable to take kobani. they had great aspirations. they've told their followers they were on the move, they're going to move into saudi arabia, this and that.

we are leaving the syrian military alone.ing to pivot now and go after the syrian military, we'll have to degrade his air defense and shooting any aircraft that flight. john, i think that gets us into the realm of mission creep. >> does that mean to you, do you see the potential for more troops being deployed a year from now, six months from now? >> i think we need to figure out -- the government needs to figure out what we're going to do in syria. we know what the end game should look like. we don't know how to get there. there aren't any viable boots on the ground. i don't think the free syrian army is going to be able to do this. are we going to introduce some other coalition forces? are we going to be willing to put u.s. forces there? i don't see this administration or any current administration on the horizon willing to put u.s. forces on the ground in syria. i can see what we're doing in iraq. the iraq policy seems to make sense. it's viable, i think it has a chance to work. syria is a whole new ball game. i don't think

. >> three have been killed in fighting on the syrian border town of kobane. several people have been injured in an attack. kurdish fighters have been struggling to stop the town falling into i.s.i.l.'s control >>> several people have been killed in syrian government air strikes. the attacks happened in duma, injuring several people. the u.n. says the syrian president was considering a proposal to end fighting in parts of the country. >> meanwhile the u.n. says close to 14 million people have been displaced in syria and iraq. and the agency warns up to a million could miss out on winter aid. it said it needs additional money and more countries need to accept refugees. it can allow aid to delivered. >> a situation is more desperate than ever, however, the free syrian army is rejecting the ceasefire plan. we have more. >> reporter: this counteroffensive is about recapturing supply lines. syria's rebels need to win the battle to hold on to the neighbourhoods they control in aleppo. over recent weeks syrian troops close in on the main roads that think the city to

syrian people.nk we have to step back and sort it out. >> do you believe that the u.s. is losing credibility or risk losing credibility by multiple strikes and different groups? >> i do. i think when you're looking at supporting an opposition group and you don't share the goal of the opposition group that is ousting assad, almost inevitably that will get you crosswise with the people who are supporting the opposition group. you're taking people like the free syrian army and saying if you fight isis, it is okay, if you fight assad, that's sort of not our game right now. i don't think that confusion will stand. >> phil mudd, appreciate it, interesting. you can find out more on the web at cnn.com on this story and others. coming up, please find a suspected cop killer, eric frein they find his stash of supplies he used while he alluded them for seven weeks. he is now in custody. from a lap tap to radio glow sticks, dvds, we'll show you, we have this video of what police found next. fascinating stuff. so

. >> syrian refugees exiled in lebanon struggle to see a future for their beloved homelands. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ top stories here on al jazerra. world leaders are meeting in vienna as a deadline nears. they have until monday to agree to a final deal. but that may be extended. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has finished meeting his iranian counterpart. >>> a suicide bomber has killed at least 49 people at a volleyball match in afghanistan. more than 70 are also thought to have been wounded in at tack. no one has yet claimed responsibility. and the polls have closed in tunisia's first election since the revolutions three years ago. two candidates have emerged as frontrunners from the field of 22. but it could be tuesday before the results are known. >>> well, syria's conflict has dragged on for three years now, leaving a legacy of displacement and loss. millions of refugees have fled to neighboring lebanon where they are struggling to survive while dreaming i've homeland they may never see or experience against. zeina has their story from bay beirut. >> reporter: she is a business graduate and

most syrian families sell vouchers to buy in that food items or pay rent. the u.n. has had to prioritize the most vulnerable families based on a field study, concluding that 15% of syrians don't need the vouchers. there may have been some errors. >> there are some people that are very clear when we run the data, we can see that's an instant error and reinstate them completely. some have assets and can survive and they will stay excluded. >> there are so many who can't survive on their own or return to syria and who's conditions are only getting worse the longer they stay in exile. >> investigators in afghanistan are trying to figure out how you a taliban suicide bomber walked into police headquarters and blew himself up. one police officer was killed and seven others injured in kabul. >> a police shooting parked rioting in israel arab village. it started 24 hours after israeli police shot dead a man from the same village. armed police have made several arrests. >> almost 2 million voters took part in a referendum vote in cat lane i can't. it is expected to result in

are viewed by syrians as fighting assad and protecting the syrian people. think we've got to step back and sort it out. >> do you believe that the u.s. is risk credibility by sort of multiple strikes of different groups? >> i do. i think when you're looking at supporting an opposition group and you don't share the goal of the opposition group, ousting assad, you're taking people like the free syrian army and you're saying, if you fight isis that's okay. i don't think people are going to understand. >> philip mudd, thank you. >>> coming up, police find a suspected cop killer eric frein, they find his stash of supplies that he used while he eluded them for seven weeks. from a laptop to a radio, globe sticks, dvds. we have a video of what police found, next. it's fascinating stuff. plus your runny nose. oh, what a relief it is. [ male announcer ] over time, you've come to realize... [ starter ] ready! [ starting gun goes off ] [ male announcer ] it's less of a race... yeah! [ male announcer ] and more of a journey. keep going strong. and as you look for a medi

i was in the syrian neighborhood of istanbul. i saw a lot of tension, local turks feeling like the area has been taken over by syrians. but in some pockets of the country, there are more militant syrians who are building these jihadist dreams. turkey has been accused of fostering the militant groups in syria by taking an anybody but assad policy by not controlling its borders properly in syria. it has now apparently woken up the threat in the last few months. it is controlling that border more tightly. it is trying to stop the flow of foreign fighters and of jihad write ys across the border. but when you are schooled in war like these children, it is pretty difficult to stop those ideas of the future turning to something very dark indeed. >> mark, thank you very much. mark lowen in istanbul. >>> let's take you through some more stories from around the world. the nigerian authorities say more than 2,000 prisoners have escaped over the past five years. many as a result of attacks on prisons by boko haram militants. earlier this wee

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most syrian families sell some of their vouchers to buy necessary non-food items or pay rent. u.n. says it has had to prioritize the most vulnerable families based upon a field study which concluded that 15% of syrians don't need the vouchers but there may have been some errors. >> there are some people that are very clear when we run the data, we can see that's an instant error. we can reinstate them completely. some we can be clear from the living conditions, the assets they have that they actually can survive on their own and they will stay excluded. >> there are so many who say they can't survive on their own or return to syria and who's conditions are only getting worse the longer they stay in exile. talks about iran's nuclear program are being held in i aman ahead for a deadline this month. u.s. secretary of state john kerry met his republicanian counter part and eu negotia negotiate contact written ashton. they are trying to overcome disagreements on uranian enrichment. and iran says the program is purely for peaceful purposes and not for nuclear weapons. >> leaders are

to the turkish syrian boarder. >> it appears that i.s.i.l. fighters are coming under attacks from several directions and different fronts. now, on the one side you have the fighters combatting them for weeks. and now they have been joined by the peshawar forces that came from northern iraq through turkey. they are now fully engaged or to a greater extent. fire and mortar throughout the day, from the western side to the eastern side. they've been reinforcing positions with more weapons coming in. added to that is attacks from the air. it has been targeted i.s.i.l. positions. until now there has been no news of a shift in territorial control. there has been fierce fighting coming from our colleague in the town, and there has been fierce fighting on the main road connecting the south of kobane. i.s.i.l. bombed the main hospital, reducing the building to rubble. despite this and the intensity of the fighting. many wonder how long it has taken and there are few left. how it's taken so long for a town to be taken away from a control. now the battle

but they remain optimistic. >> syrian kurdss peshmerga and our brothers from the free syrian army areighting together. we have been dreaming of this unity for years now, in order to defend both the syrian and the kurdish people. >> the refugee camps here are filled with children many of them have elder sisters or mothers fighting in a war that has all but destroyed their country. the hope is there will be no more war to fight when they grow up. >> jamal al jazeera, from the turkish syrian border. >> libya supreme court has dissolved the elected parliament making months of political instability. lawmakers and the u.n. special envoy to libya dismissed the order, but they may not have any choice in the matter. rebel militias control the cap can toll in the oil well. victoria has our report. >> libya has been under the control of two rival governments each supported by armed groups enganged in daily fighting. >> now the supreme court has ruled on how to move forward, it has declared the u.n. backed parliament that was elected in june, and it is now based is unconstitutional and should be

it shows at least a dozen syrian soldiers, and hundreds of iraqi and syrian soldiers have been executed by isil fighters in the last year. and on top of that, the 17 euro and 17 journalist17 iraqi iraqiiraqi and 17 journalists have been killed by isil. kimberly halkett, any reaction yet? >> spokes woman bernadette mehan said that the white house is aware of the video that claims to show the murder of the american. they are working as quickly as possible to determine it's authenticity. it's appear that we're appalled by the murder of an american aid workers and we express our deepest condolences. i can't tell you that president obama is aware of the news media reports of this video being released. he is on route to washington flying, of course, meeting with world leaders in the g-20 summit in australia. one ironically he was working very closely with oh world leaders to come up with plans to cut the cash flow to further limit the activities of isil. the new strategy under way to try not just deal with the situation and the family and consoling the family, but the concern of those who may

he was giving lessones to syrians in critical first aid because in so many cases people on the scene initially are those who don't know how to handle the extent of the injuries they're being confronted with. peter was kidnapped in october of 2013 by isis, and i just want to share a little bit of a letter he wrote that his parents did receive during the time of his captivity and in it, he says, "if i do die, i figure that at least you," and this is him addressing his parents -- "and i can seek refuge in comfort that i went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need." that is exactly who peter was. he actually, if we know him at all, wouldn't necessarily want the focus to be on him at this stage. he'd want the focus to continue to be on those desperate syrians, those who need so much help and he was a real believer in not giving up, even when things seemed impossible, not giving up, so he would also want us to, at this stage, remember that we, whether it's us as journalists or aide workers or even the global community, that we should not give up on syria

russia pushes to revive the syrian peace process. we'll have the latest on talks under way now in sochi. also this hour. the future of hong kong's process movement thrown in doubt. police arrest leaders and take back the streets. >> and i'll have all your sports - including australian cricketer phil hughes still critically ill after being hit by a bouncer in sheffield shield game. doctors have just given an update on his position. we'll have the latest in sydney. >> we begin this newshour in the united states, where there has been another night of angry protests in ferguson, missouri. it follows a grand jury decision not to bring criminal charges against a white police officer for shooting a black teenager. anger is spread from coast to coast with people coming on to the streets from new york to los angeles. [ chanting ] >> reporter: the anger boiled over in dozens of cities across the united states. this crowd in the capital washington d.c. is condemning a jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed bl

analysts say at times the al-nusra front and the free syrian army hat worked together to fight the syrian president bashar al-assad. he has been slaughtering his own people but al-nusra has turned against the rebels after the u.s. airstrikes targeted the group. u.s. officials say they've been training and providing weapons to the free syrian army to defeat the islamic state, and that strategy, in this battle, went up in smoke. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. what more do we know about al-nusra's gains in northern syria? >> right now, we can tell you that the al-nusra front is four miles from the border crossing between syria and turkey. this, as you mentioned, key supply line for u.s.-backed rebels. the so-called free syrian army. the gains made despite u.s. airstrike targeting the group are outlined by this u.s.-backed warlord who was seen as a key player on the ground in syria. the cia backed him in the last two years, training his men, providing him weapons. he posted this video on saturday after retreating from his headquarters in idbid. he opportunities the head of al-nusra

syrian kurds were fighting against isis.hat the similar po lichl was to provide, a symbol of unity. but people now in kobani looking to see what isis can throw at this fight. they have continued to fight for the official crossing which may it hard for the pesh merger to go in. in terms of the fight for kobani. >> and u.s. air strikes, they didn't really seem to be able to get isis out of there. are the air strikes, have they subsided for now? >> reporter: the air strikes continue to come in, not quite with the intensity that we saw over ten days ago where we were seeing 60 in just a matter of four days. we're seeing less now. they seem to be targeted, often much larger blasts that with eve seen previously. they appear to be used to keep isis back from advancing, to remove parts of the armor which is hard for those fighting on the ground to actually take on. of course now with the iraqi kurdish troops on the ground, there's more capability to move isis out of the areas that they continue to harass in kobani. this is that they

the question of responsibility for the people suffering divides syrians.ed, a supporter of president, believes syria's choice is simple. assad or the jihadists. he showed me the basement where he was held for 22 days with his family and 60 neighbors after al qaeda followers took his town a year ago. he says each day they were terrified of murder and rape. problems broke out as a consequence of the so-called arab spring, that was used to fool people, including in our own country. during these 22 days, even though i'm 40 years old, i feel like i aged 400 years. here in damascus and elsewhere, the president's opponents say he has created a stark choice between the regime and the jihadists by targeting moderates and leaving the jihadists alone. end is nowhere in sight. jeremy bowen, bbc news, damascus. >> the war in syria has changed in aleppo, too. for a long time, the rebel stronghold. our chief international correspondent spent the last few days there. aleppo, one of the world's oldest inhabited cities. one of its newest wars. large swathes of this city are

syrians are unwanted. >> syrians are not allowed to work here. but she has begun picking olives from home and selling them. 1200 have been excluded by the food programme. a study conducted by the world food program concluded that the families have access to sufficient income and support networks. many appealed to be reinstated. the majority did not have newer money to buy the food they need. many families are concerned without support that they'll revoter to begging or sending children to work to put food on the table. food vouchers are a life line for many. most families sell vouchers to buy non food items or pay rent. the u.n. sames it has to prioritise families based on a field study, concluding that 15% of syrians don't need the vouchers. there may have been errors. >> some are clear when we run the data, that it's an instant error, we can re-ipp state them. some we can be clear from living conditions and assets that we can survive on their own, and they'll stay excluded. there are some that can't survive on their own, and whose conditions ar