it's home to many syrian refugees.s comes as islamic state terrorists entered from turkey into kobani. >> reporter: turkey's government denied that. and say they entered from the western side of the town inside syria. >> translator: claims that the terrorist group daesh crossed into kobani from turkey are just lies. it is just not true. >> reporter: isil has recently had serious setbacks on the turkish border. kurdish fighters have taken control of some provinces. isil has lost supply lines on the border as well as influence. >> isil has a result needs to show that it still has influence, and that's why it's on the offensive again, also we have the regime itself retreating from some areas because it is overstretched and this is giving isil a big opportunity to advance. and finally we have the anniversary of the so-called caliphate coming up on monday and isil needs to show it is still very influential and powerful on the ground. >> reporter: and civilians are again caught up in the fighting. kurdish families have also

and suddenly the painfully syrian internet improved. the security agencies had turned the tables on the activists. president assad found a secret weapon, his own hacking collective. >> the syrian electronic army nation honor loyalty. >> we made contact with the syrian hacker the electronic army tried to recruit. he told us that the hacker space is extremely well equipped. >> they offered me the intelligence of the commitment this they had. i said i would think about it. >> cyber security analysts discovered that hackers had access to 30 conversations. many relating to the 2013 battle where security forces lost access to crucial supply routes. we may never know who struck them but it's clear thousands of attacks on commercial and government targets take place every day around the world. but syria's war is likely blueprint for the way future conflicts will be played out with cyber warfare taking place a long way from the battlefield. juliana rufus al jazeera. >> our stephanie sy spoke with tre herr. he said the syrian electronic army is c

most of the customers are syrians. this person is catching up with his family before going back to his new job designing stationary. this person is taking a break from a turkish language course. the turkish government defines the syrians as guests, rather than refugees, they are expected to eventually go home. but learning turkish is one example of how syrians put down roots here. >> translation: as long as there's no international way to remove i.s.i.l., despite the hundreds of thousands of people killed and barrel bombs, we can't go back. we have big hopes to go back. the facts show we caned. - we cannot >> there are half a million syrians in the province. all are escaping the war back home. >> translation: we are a 5-member family. i had a new baby, for any family, the situation was hard because of a lack of work. i don't think of leaving turkey to go to europe and waiting for a chance to go back to syria. syrians know that they are here for the long haul. >> translation: of course we had to set up business to lie a

most of the customers are syrians. he is catching up with his family before going back to his new job designing station. taking a break from his turkish language course, this man visits. >> rather than refugees, they are expected to eventually go home. learning turkish is just one example of how syrians are having to put down roots here. >> as long as there is no international will to remove isil or the topple the syrian regime despite the hundreds have thousands of people killed and the barrel bombs that fall every day, we can't go back. we have big hopes to go back but the facts show we cannot. >> there are more than half a million syrians in the province. all are escaping the war back home. >> we are a five-member family and i had a new baby. for any family, the situation is relatively hard, because of the lack of work opportunities. i don't think of leaving turkey to go to europe. i'm waiting for any chance to go back to syria. >> syrians know they are likely here for the long haul. >> of course we had to set up bu

the town was retaken by kurdish fighters supported by syrian rebels. bernard smith reports from the turkey syrian border. >> deciding it was better to go home than to squeeze through the packed refugee camps these syrians crossed back on wednesday. only two days ago syrian-kurdish ypg fighters took control of a strategic border down from isil after a after a three-week battle. >> i don't feel safe going back. >> we are going back after two years. isil accused us of being ypg. >> we have been in turkey for three days without anywhere to stay. i'm not afraid to go back. i'm a civilian. i have done nothing wrong. >> most of the 20,000 syrian who is crossed are still in turkey. of those we spoke to who are going home some were nervous about being under control. others were indifferent and others were glad to see the back of isil. >> u.s.-led airstrikes are changing the political map of syria, replacing isil with the kurdish ypg. turkey has long been concerned about the strengthening kurdish presence along it's border with syria. now the ypg controls a cont

but the town was retaken by kurdish syrian fighters. >> reporter: these syrians crossed back on wednesdayly two days ago, syrian kurdish ypg fighters took control of the strategic border town from isil after a three-week battle. >> translator: we are at a loss. whoever we support, others will kill us. life under isil has been bad, and i don't feel safe going back. >> translator: we are going back up to two years. our homes were blown up by isil who accused us of being ypg. >> translator: we have been here for three days without anyplace to stay. >> reporter: most of the 20,000 syrians who crossed are still in turkey but those who are going home some are nervous about now being under kurdish control, others were different, and some were glad to see the back of isil. >> reporter: u.s.-lead air strikes are changing the area. now the ypg controls a continuous area of land that runs along the frontier with turkey for 400 kilometers. in january after a four-month battle ypg forces secured control of the syrian town of kobani, then they had been under siege from isil fighters. the ypg managed to

syrian kurdish forces control 400 clem teres on the turkey-syrian border some syrian rebels are accusing kurds of forcing out arabs and turk men. >>> isil fighters have killed five policemen near iraq's biggest oil refinery. they carried out the assault west of beiji as control over that refinery continues it's changed hands several times already. >>> u.n. negotiators are urging direct talks to end the conflict in yemen. all sides are meeting in gentleman neave actual but they are negotiating through mediators high on the agenda is an immediate ceasefire. >> reporter: the are the houthis and allies of the deposed president saleh. they are in geneva for crucial talks aimed at stopping violence in em yemen the united nations has called on all the parties to agree on a two-week humanitarian truce. >> the fighting on the ground is an issue think but the biggest problem is the saudi-led air strikes the different sides can agree on a ceasefire but we want the u.n. and international community to put pressure on the saudis to stop the air strikes. >> reporter: the houthis and forces loyal to sal

activists say the syrian government have dropped dozens of barrel bombs.y say they have not heard shelling this heavy in a while. rebels have made significant gains close to damascus and the syrian government always seems to strike there. >>> soldiers in iraq have been killed by an isil suicide bomber and gunman. security commanders say at least 14 soldiers died when they were ambushed. one of burr -- burundi's vice president has fled after his life was threatened. harry fawcett is in the capitol. >> reporter: government officials say the vice president had no reason to run away. they say he is perfectly safe in the country. the vice president wasn't heard from for a couple of days we were told that some sympathizers were hatching a plan to get him out of the country safely. he said he criticized the bid by the president to run for a third term. and that's why he left. people are suggesting that news on thursday when another grenade was thrown in the city center. at least six were injured and some are in critical conditions. on thursday students who were p

syrian food? >> syrian. syrian food, it is called the seven countries.tables. seven kinds of fruit. most of them are doctors, well educated, engineers, lawyers, teachers. >> here now it's the opposite. >> here in lebanon even if you were a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher, you can't work only in the camp. we don't know how to go, where to go, to go back to syria. >> no can do. >> to cross the sea. >> yeah. >> suppose that there is authority to collect us to throw us away to syria, what will we do? we have no area in the world. we have no place in this universe. we belong to nowhere. nowhere. when you're not confident you have complete visibility into your business, it can quickly become the only thing you think about. that's where at&t can help. with innovative solutions that connect machines and people... to keep your internet of things in-sync, in real-time. leaving you free to focus on what matters most. >>> once known as the paris of the mid the east, beirut still clings to its glamorous 1960s image where you could famously ski and go to the beach all

entered the syrian town of kobane for the first time in six months. kurdish fighters entered from the sworn side of the town on the border with turkey. advances have been made in the syrian city of aleppo and deraa >>> greece's prime minister is in brussels for a new round of talks with creditors. the government could default on $1.6 million euro payment and risk being pushed out of the eurozone. >>> one of burundi's vice presidents fled to belgium. he was threatedened after denouncing the president's quest for a third time in hospital. he is the latest senior official to leave the country within weeks >>> to yemen, where the saudi-led coalition launched attacks in the southern provinces. the u.n. envoy to yemen warns that the country is close to fam in. >> reporter: the streets of sanaa are pitch-black at night. power cuts leave the capital in darkness. its citizens say it's never been this bad before. >> this is the first time that the yemeni people are going through a period where there's lack of water, electricity, oil or petrol. the prices of foo

the turkish government says we want - it wants help to look after the syrians, to pay for the syrians here. >>> bernard smith reporting live from the turkish-syrian border >>> a group affiliated with i.s.i.l. claimed responsibility for a series of car bombings in yemen's capital. dozens were killed in the attacks that hit mosques near the houthi headquarters. the violence comes as delegates meet in geneva where they are struggling to make progress on a peace deal. we have this report. >> car bombs hit a houthi stronghold in the yemeni capital, in an area on the outskirts of sanaa, one of the houthi headquarters is located there. this is not the only attack targetting the houthis, in march the islamic state claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targetting houthi mosques. more than 100 people were killed. the attacks come at a time when crucial talks to solve the crisis are underway in geneva the united nations has been urging the factions to agree on a humanitarian truth. each party has preconditions, and there has been little or no progress. the houthis and forces loyal to fo

and suddenly the painfully slow syrian internet improved.y agencies had turned the table on his the activists. president assad found a secret weapon his own hacking collective. >> the syrian electronic army honor, loyalty,. >> reporter: we made contact with the syrian hacker, the electronic army tried to recruit. and he told us the hackers space was extremely well equipped. >> reporter: cyber security analyst discovered that pro ca jim hackers had access the skype conversations many relating to a 2013 battle during which opposition forces lost access to crucial supply routes. we may never know exactly who struck the tv, but it's clear thousands of attacks on commercial and government targets take place every day around the world. but syria's war is a likely blueprint pot way future conflicts will be played out with cyber warfare taking place along way from the battlefield. julianna, al jazerra,. >>> a decision by an egyptian court to uphold the death sentence for deposed president mohamed morsi has been met with widespread condemnation the u

members of the syrian medical society are expected to give evidence to the u.s. committee on foreign affairs that their being used on civilians. the security council is considering another resolution to stop it. >> to make it very clear to the world that just because chlorine is a household product doesn't make it not a chemical weapon when put in a barrel bomb and dropped on civilians. >> the u.n. envoy to syria is meeting with assad trying to push for a political solution to end the conflict. he urged assad to stop hitting civilians. since 2011, human rights groups have documented 230,000 deaths in syria. half of those are people not involved in the fighting. victims such as those in the attack on duma, this time there were shouts of joy as a girl was pulled alive from the rubble of a building blown up by asses air force. while underneath, her brother could still be heard calling for help. al jazeera. >> let's take a look at these homemade weapons and tactics used to kill syrians on a mass scale. elephant rockets used are made by attaching artillery rocket moto

lebanon has not closed the gates in front of syrian citizens. lebanon continues to host syrian citizens and we will never close our borders in their faces. what we have said is that we have a population of about 1.5 million additional citizens residing in our country in a country who's infrastructure has not been able to provide for it's own people. we need to otherwise entry. it's not about restrictions. it's about a number of people -- it is not about restrictions today. it doesn't have to do only with money. it has to do with numbers the number of people reas i hadding in lebanon today, we have a density of population, what is needed is other countries to start sharing the burden. it is not only financial sharing of the burden, it's a sharing the burden in humanitarian admissions, sharing the burden with resettlement, additional resettlement, as well as providing some safe spaceles inside syria so that syrians can go back and live in their country with their dignity. financial support is very important. >> i'm sorry, there is a slight delay o

groups are putting on the syrian army elsewhere.have the ypg who again in kobane are respond to go threats from isis. it's a very complex situation. and i think rather than it being coordinated, i think it's just a lot of individuals either taking opportunities or respond to go threats. >> okay. let's just look a little bit closer at the isil advanceadvances that we are seeing today in the north and north cease, and the attack on kobane i'm few days ago we were talking about isil being on the back foot with the kurds gaping the upper hand remember it's impossible, isn't it to underestimate this group? >> of course it's impossible. i bybut i think it's a general point. insurgencies are not to be analyzed in the same way as conventional armies. they tend to ebb and flow. they never really stand and fight. if the pressure gets intense they always move away. and they attack somewhere else at a different time, different place of their own choosing. so a lot of their fighting is not so much to hold or gain territory, it's to send politica

more than 13,000 syrians have crossed the turkey-syrian border in the last week alone.leeing fighting between isil and kurdish forces. >> just a couple of meters here this latest search of refugees is escaping an assault on a border town under isil control. airstrikes have helped the ypg push forward. >> we lost our home ten days ago. fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our children. before that life was okay. >> we were terrorized by isil. we left because of a heavy bombardment from both sides. i'll never go back. in there you die a hundred times a day. >> the ypg has had the area in its sights for three weeks. isil has been in the town for four months. people say that it is now deserted with a few isil fighters left inside and the ypg now controls the only road, isil's effective capital 80 kilometers away. this is the fourth time that turkey has opened its borders. most people have been waiting at least 4 hours to get through. they're carrying everything that they can manage for the most part they look relieved to have made it through. they'll be processed by t

i ask that the funding of the syrian-train -- syrian train and equip fund be accomplished by this amendment to h.r. 2685. . and i acknowledge my deep appreciation for the chairman and acknowledge so many good things in the bill. but it is hard for me to accept this war that is going nowhere. and with that i yield to the gentleman from minnesota. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. >> mr. chairman, how much time do i have? the chair: 30 seconds. >> wow. i want to -- i'm comblad to join my colleague -- glad to join my colleague. i have enormous respect for the chairman and the ranking member's good and noble intentions. but again, the fact is we have no friends in these conflicts. the weapons that we send inevitably being used against us i was here during the vietnam war conflict. mr. nolan: and the arguments that we hear today for continuing this involvement is to somehow make something good out of what hasn't been quite so good. and we finally ended that conflict. by cutting off the funds for it. and that's how we're going to end our wars of choice i

on tuesday the town was retaken by kurdish fighters supported by syrian rebels. we have reports from the turkey-syria border. >> deciding it's better to go home than to squeeze in turkey's packed refugee camps. they passed back in on wednesday. only two days ago syrian kurdish ypg fighters took control of the strategic border town from isil after a three-week battle. >> we're at a loss. whoever we support others will kill us. i don't feel safe going back. >> we're going back after two years. our homes were blown up by isil, who accused of us of being ypg. >> we have been in turkey for three days without anywhere to stay. i'm not afraid to go back. i'm a civilian. i've done nothing wrong. >> most of the 20,000 syrian who is crossed over are still in turkey. those we spoke to about going home, some are nervous about being under kurdish control. others were indifferent and others were glad to see the back of isil. they said that human they're replacing isil with ypg. they're talking about strengthening its presence along the border with syria. now from the euphrates

envoy to syria is in damascus for the talks with the syrian government.s spokesman says he's expected to tell senior officials that the use of barrel bombs is unacceptable. meanwhile, syrian state tv says rebels have she would government-held areas in the city of aleppo. at least 23 people killed and 100 others injured. >>> eight female students killed in a bomb attack in iraq. two more injured by the improvised explosive device, the attack was in baquba, northwest of baghdad. >>> there are allegations that his successive australian governments made payments for over a decade to prevent the inflow of illegal migrants politicians are refuse to go say whether security agents paid people smugglers during their time in government. the current prime minister tony abbott won't confirm if the australian navy paid smugglers to take asylum seekers back to indonesia. >> the most moral thing you can do here is stop the boats. because as long as the boats are coming, the evil people smuggle are trade is in business. and the deaths continues. so we have done the right

we treat all syrian cities equally. we have it all the arabs who would like to come back, anyone can come here to verify what i'm saying. >> for isil, the loss of the city is their most significant defeat since they swept through morn syria two years ago. the kurds now control the road to raqqa,s effective capital of isil in syria. >> still ahead on al jazeera russia's president says he'll modern ice the countries nuclear arsenal. why nato says that's dangerous saber rattling. >> the blame game escalates between greece and its creditors with talks in stalemate. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. just because i'm away from my desk doesn't mean i'm not working. comcast business understands that. their wifi isn't just fast near the router. it's fast in the break room. fast in the conference room. fast in tom's office. fast in other tom's office. fast in the foyer [pronounced foy-yer] or is it foyer [pronounced foy-yay]? fast in the hallway. i feel like i've been here before. switch now and get the fastest

two syrian doctors testified before u.s.ongress that president bashar al-assad's forces are increasing chemical attacks. chlorine bombs have been used as recently as tuesday. >> in the past three months we've experienced a new type of terror, that is in the form of barrel bombs that contain chemical weapons. since march 16th of this year we've documented 31 attacks using poisonous gas in idlib province. i remember well the nights of march 16th when the first attack of poisonous gas was used. i heard helicopters over my house. i left my house to head over to the field hospital. i could smell chlorine bleach in the air. as soon as i arrived at the hospital there were many victims who had beaten me there and they had symptoms of being subjected to suffocating gas or poisonous gas. dozens of people suffered difficulties in breathing and their throats and eyes were burning. and. >> what do the doctors want from congress? >> they're pressuring u.s. lawmakers to push the obama administration to take some sort of military action, di

or indeed, the syrian army.o they are rejoined for the moment but they have -- they are redrawing it for the moment but they have benefited from the groups fighting each other. neither of them particularly want the kurds to have high autonomy there. so in the long term, if either side in syria wins, with islamic state or the damascus government, that is bad news for the kurds. but actually, the state they have created their is perhaps the only successful so far of the 2011 uprising in syria in that it has gotten rid of the dictatorial regime of assad, but it hasn't been taken over by extreme islamists. units of their army are made up of women. women get 40% of the jobs in government. that it is a secular society. so it's long-term future is debatable. it will come under a lot of pressure. at the kurds have a lot of achievements to be proud of. amy: patrick, last month the daily beast had an article criticizing you, alleging you discount any syrian national opposition to the al-assad regime and your positions --

controlled the syrian town on the border with turkey. not any more. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish y.p.g. their flag flies over this border crossing. the 3-weak assault forced thousands of people to cross to turkey. u.s.-led coalition air strikes helped the y.p.g. push through. the price these people have paid homes turned to rubble. >> we lost our home 10 days ago. fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our children. before that life was okay. >> we were terrorized by i.s.i.l. we left because of heavy bombardment from all sides. i'll never go back. in there you died 100 times a day. the y.p.g. had it in its sites as a connection between the turkish border and i.s.i.l.'s capital. i.s.i.l. have now lost control of the only main road to the city. >> this is the fourth time that turkey opened the border. most of these people have been waiting 24 hours to get through. they are carrying everything they can manage. for the most part they look relieved to have made it through. and will be processed by the turkish authority and allowed in to t

enters the syrian town of kobane for the first time in six months. they entered from the sworn side of the border town. rebel groups made advances in the syrian cities of aleppo and deraa. the u.n. envoy to yemen warns that it's a step away from famine. 21 million people have been in urgent need of humanitarian health after months of fighting between houthis, rebels and allies. >>> talks between greece and creditors are about to resume after late-night talks failed to make progress. greece could default, and risks being pushed out of the eurozone if it does. >> there's finally slight relief in southern pakistan. if the temperature starts to drop. more than 1,000 people have died in the heatwave. we'll take you live to islamabad. the pakistan cap hall kamal hyder is there. it's the worst heatwave in terms of the number of people that have died in pakistan's history. why have so many people succumbed to the heat? >> well that's a very good question, as you correctly said. it's not the first case. there has been worse heat waves in the past. the heatwav

where more than 380 syrian civilians were injured by it. 10 of them died of suffocation. >>> providing additional video evidence, the doctors told lawmakers the attacks intensified 10 days after a u.n. security council resolution condemned weaponization of chlorine and threatened action if the resolution was breached. >> i'm a doctor and very familiar with death. i have never seen a more obscene way to kill children. i have never watched so many suffer in an obscene manner. >> the doctors say only the syrian government has access to the helicopters responsible for dropping the chlorine-filled barrels on to civilian areas it believes are supportive of the syrian opposition. >> bashar al-assad has always maintained his government is not behind the chlorine gas attack. last month in a u.s. tv network interview view he argued that chlorine is available, and has been weaponized in the past by other groups. >> including islamic state of iraq and levant or i.s.i.l. u.s. secretary of state says that the united states believes that bashar al-assad is behind the attacks. and is working to hold h

the syrians aren't on alert.he actually takes a small plane up to look at the border doesn't see any israeli forces massing there and he reports this to nasser. nasser decides for political reasons to ignore the advice of his chief of staff and to act as if the soviet warning is true that israel indeed intended to invade syria and he send his entire army into sinai, sends 100,000 men into sinai, a thousand tanks. c-span: and the sinai is about how far from jerusalem if you got in a car and drove? >> guest: if you got in a car and drove it would be about five hours. c-span: and if you got all the way to the end? >> guest: the closest point is about two and a half hours, take it back. c-span: how long does it take you to drive across to sinai? >> guest: sinai is like about four or five hours from tip to tip. c-span: so now mr. nasser sends the troops up to the border of the sinai? >> guest: on the long israeli border. c-span: along the israeli border? >> guest: yes. yes. now the question is... c-span: sinai is cont

. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour, here is what is coming up, going home hundreds of syrians return from turkey as forces celebrate victory from i.s.i.l. >>> we'll show you the money - indonesian people smugglers show the cash australians bribed them with to turn back >>> controversial debate on a reform package >>> all the sport, including the end of a 40-year wait as the golden state warriors are crowned n.b.a. champions. >>> hello, hundreds of syrian refugees in turkey are going home following the kurdish victory over i.s.i.l. in the bordertown bordertown. crossing over to bernard smith, to tell us what you have been seeing and what is the latest. >> reporter: it's quietened town there were a few hundred allowed to cross back. some came to escape but escalation in violence as the battle intensified between the syrian kurdish y.p.g. and i.s.i.l. who were in control of talabia. a couple of people were going back after being here for two years. they were kurds, saw the kurds in charge they are going back others in the arab residence of tal abbia, there has been reports, climate from

syrian town on the border with turkey not any more. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish ypg.ir flag now flies over this border crossing. three-week assault by wpg forced thousands of people to cross to turkey and u.s. led coalition air strikes have helped the ypg push through, the price these people have paid are homes turned to rubble. >> translator: we lost our home ten days ago, fierce fighting forced us to save our children before that life was okay. >> translator: we war terrorized by i.s.i.l. and left because of bombardment on both sides and i will never go back because in there you die 100 times a day. >> reporter: the ypg had this town in sights as a connection between the turkish border and i.s.i.l.'s effective capitol in raaka 40 kilometers away and they lost control of the only main road to their city. this is the fourth time that turkey has opened this border and most of these people have been waiting at least 24 hours to get through and carrying everything they can manage and for the most part they look relieved to make it through and they will now be processed b

controlled this syrian town on the border with turkey. not anymore. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish ypg. their flag now flies over this border crossing. forced thousands of people to cross. u.s. led coalition air strikes have helped the ypg pushing through. the price these people have paid are homes turn to rubble. >> we lost our home ten days ago. fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our fighting. before that life was okay. >> reporter: >> translator: we were terrorized by i.s.i.l left because of heavy bombardment from both sides. i will never go back, there you die 100 times a day. >> strategically important connection between the turkish border and i.s.i.l.'s effective capital in raqqa 80 kilometers away. they have now lost control of the road to their city. most of these people have been waiting at least 24 hours to get through, they're carrying everything they can manage. for most part they look relieved to have gotten through. they will now be processed by the turkish authorities and allowed into turkey. beturkish authorities ca

most of the customers are syrians. and, catching up with his family before going back to his new job >>> taking a break from his turkish language course. >>> the turkish government defines them as guests, rather than refugees, they're expected to go home. >>> but learning turkish is one example of had you they are having to put down roots. >>> as long as there is no will to remove isil, despite the hundreds of thousands of people killed, and everyday, we can't go back. >>> we have thoughts to go back, but we cannot. >>> there are more than half a million syrians, and all are escaping the war back home. >>> we are five member family, and i had a new baby for any families situation is hard because of the life of lack of opportunities. and i don't think of going to europe and i want to go back to syria. >>> they know, that likely here, for the long-haul. >>> of course, we have to set up so we can live and if you don't work you can't live. and we know the situation in syria, and we don't know when we'll go back. >>> turkey

where more than 380 syrian civilians why injured by it. ten of them died of suffocation. >> reporter: providing additional video evidence, the doctor told law make, that the attacks intensified ten days after a u.n. security council resolution condemned the use of chlorine and the military action if it was breached. >> i'm a doctor and very familiar with death. but i've never seen a more obscene way to kill children. i've never watched so many suffer in such an obscene manner. >> the doctors say that only the syrian government has access to the helicopters responsible for dropping the chlorine-filled barrels onto the areas supportive of the syrian opposition. he has always maintained that his government is not behind the chlorine gas attacks. he argued that chlorine is widely available and it has been weaponized in the past by other groups, including the iraq state of lavant and isil, but u.s. secretary of state john kerry the united states believes that assad is behind the attacks, and they're working to hold him accountable. and that's w

but it's mainly the free syrian army with the different battalions. they are not all necessarily friends. when it comes to major battles, and big operation, they tend to unite to work together because they understand that the different rebel groups are not going to individually be tablet take control of especially deraa city, which provides a direct link to damascus, the capital, along a direct highway. so far rebels have been able to make major gains along the border with jordan capturing most of the towns there, and the last remaining border crossing a couple of months ago with jordan. they have not been able to conquer the heart of deraa city. half is in control of - by rebels, and the other half is under the control of the government forces. in that part of deraa city all the important army installations are based. so far the fighting is going on but they have not been able to make advances and haven't been able to push the government forces from deraa city. >> a lot of different strands to the battle. thank you for explaining those elements >>> w

it's a dangerous voyage. >> the syrians are coming with a lot of children. last week there was one family with 11 kids. >> we have seen babies one or two months old. some born, while the families were fleeing. >> what do you think will happen. will you see the same numbers of last year. >> unfortunately the forecast was 500,000. now the mirpry of internal affairs was saying one million were coming from syria. there were syrians, and there were women from mallee eritrea, somali and eritrea. >> the goodwill on display could be a thing of the past. many of the leaders are said they want to take a hard line to the migrants. many are not refugees, but economic migrants looking for better prospect in the e.u. >> to that end they are considering a plan to quarantine migrants by force, if necessary. until a decision can be made on their status. then 40,000 would be allowed into europe in the next two years. it's a drop in the bucket compared to the million or so that could arrive this summer, raising a spectre that hundreds of thousands could be deported at home. >>

intense fighting for control of parts of northern syria including aleppo and hasaka and syrian forces from the air and i.s.i.l. are making gains on the ground. bangladesh police charged the owner of the rana factory complex in daka and 41 people with murder, it collapsed this 2013 killing 1100 people in the country's worst industrial accident and if convicted of murder the defendants could face the death penalty. and saudi arabia says efforts are being made to find a political solution to the crisis in yemen. saudi foreign minister says there will be meetings in geneva but no date has been set as yet. inside yemen there are no signs of the fighting easying and we report report. >> reporter: yemen civilians are running out of safe places. this is a contested stronghold of pro-government tribes fighting against houthis and forces loyal to the president saleh and houthis and allies targeted several neighborhoods with rockets and tank fire and some believed they are punished for taking part in the up rising which resulted from president saleh stepping down in 2011 and this is densely popu

could islamic state take syrian?r lavrov: if people continue to acquiesce is what is going on. and continue to acquiesce with those who refuse to start the political process. until assad disappears, i am not very optimistic for the future of this region, because these people put the fate of one person whom they hate on top of the fight against terrorism. we have been through this repeatedly. saddam hussein was a one person after whom the united states went and they ruined the country. qadhafi is the same. ryan: you say that airstrikes are not working and what would be affected are ground operations. this is a hypothetical question -- and i know you do not like hypothetical questions. would you support american troops on the ground in the middle east bring peace to the region? yes or no? airstrikes are not working. minister lavrov: do you believe the american troops on the only troops that can do it? no, no. look, they have been to afghanistan. they have been to iraq. look where iraq and afghanistan are now. i said it

. >>> heavy fighting in and around two major syrian cities as rebel groups launch major attacks. >>> hello there, from al jazerra's head quart nurse doha. i am laura kyle. also ahead. >> we are one step ahead. >> the unites nations warns that 10s of millions of people at risk of starvation. >>> new talks between greece and its creditors get around way after negotiations breakdown. and nepal's government a appeals for billions of dollars to rebuilding the county after devastating earthquakes. ♪ ♪ >>> we begin in syria where rebel groups have launched major attacks against government forces in aleppo and a city south of the capita damascus. after two years of fighting for control of the strategic square in aleppo, rebels now say they have seized that area. they have also taken control of the surrounding government barracks in northwest a help so city. further south syrian activists say rebels have a took government held areas of the city and heavy fighting has been reported overnight. eight people have been killed, 3838 wounded in an attack on the syrian town of kobane, according to a

the global resistence to tyranny. >> anonymous hackers to face syrian government websites. inside syria the demonstration has spread, and the level of violence increased, and suddenly the painfully slow syrian internet improved. the security agency has turned the tables on the activists. president bashar al-assad's secret weapon, his own hacking collector. >> honor loyalty. >> we make contact with the syrian hacker, the electronic army tried to recruit and he told me that they were extremely well equipped. >> cyber security analysts discovered that hackers had accessed 31,000 conversations. many relating to a 2013 battle during which opposition forces lost access to crucial supply routes. we may never know who struck, but it's clear that thousands of attacks on commercial and government targets take place every day around the world. but syria's war is a blueprint for the way future conflicts will be carried out with sigh be warfare taking place a long way away from the battlefield. >> and you can watch the full report on cyber war far on wednesday at 2230 gmt. that's in a l

blows up shrines around the syrian city of palmyra. from al jazeera's headquarters in doha - coming up, striking port workers cause chaos in calais. migrants seize on the opportunity. >>> hospitals and malls in pakistan struggle to cope as the death toll from a heatwave keeps >>> boosting japan's company, a . >> i'm nicole johnson, reporting on afghanistan's highly prized landfill ends up in finland. >>> i.s.i.l. destroyed two ancient shrines, close to the syrian city of palmyra, a u.n.e.s.c.o. world heritage site. amateurs photographs show the shrines being blown up. smoke can be seen rising from the hilltop tomb of mohammed bin there were reports that mines prophet muhammad's cousin. there were reports that mine s were laid in the ancient city, raising fears that more art factors would be lost. i.s.i.l. vowed to destroy statues and shrines, which it regard as idol worshipping. our next guest wrote about the shrines, saying it's likely i.s.i.l. will target religious sites. >> it's entirely possible that the organization will destroy a

fighters from the syrian kurdish are now in charge. only last week black cloud isil fighters were here in the same place trying to stop people leaving. but a three-week assault led by the ypg forced isil out. airstrikes from the u.s.-led coalition were an essential part of the battle plan. now the kurdish flag flies above. that makes the turkish government nervous. >> we going into the west is unfortunately positioning terrorists members of the dyd and the pkk in their place. >> turkey sees the ypg and syria as an off shoot from the turkish pkk. it's a separatist group that's fought a 40-year battle with the turkish state. the syrian kurds have now added this area to their list of self-declared independently ministered regions in northern syria, but uniquely that town is the majority arab, however the kurds say it was once custodyish before they were forced out firstly by the syrian governments by the 1980s and more recently i by isil. the turkish government and the group of anti-government groups have accused them of deliberately disp

most syrian and israelis. their religion is an offshoot of islam, and they are viewed as heretics by al qaeda and i.s.i.l. many are fighting against the rebels. they are waiting for the army to intervene in syria. a chair of contempty middle east studies joins us live. this situation is one the ethnic yazidi targeted by i.s.i.l. in iraq. explain why would al qaeda view the jews as heretics? >> well aric almirdu views any of them, the jews and the sunnis who do not accept the dream, as an infidel, as an upstate. a big point is to realise that the predicament of the jews is basically reflecting the predicament of the people particularly minorities that are in front and so-called, and would like to convert the syrian society into their own slum. and what happened after nusra took over or a massacre was committed, you have major battles taking place on the israeli border and in an area a sizeable community. and the community in israel is concerned about massacres taking place. that is why the upheaval. it's region

what is now concerning the turkish government is the expansion of syrian-kurdish influence on the syrian side of the border. turkey's deputy prime minister said he's worried about the kurds connecting, that they already control within syria making one area of kurdish control. the turkish government see he is the turkish kurds asal lived to and an extension of the turkish p.k.k., the turkish kurdish p.k.k. a separatist group fighting for autonomy from the turkish state. >> 70 were injured and others killed in a crash in tunis during rush hour. the minister has blamed the crash on the lack of a crossing barrier. >> the u.s. confirmed it carried out the air strike which killed an al-qaeda leader, wahayshi. the group has appointed their new head. we have more on the life and death of one of al-qaeda's most powerful figures. >> wahayshi was among four al-qaeda leaders that launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007. two years later, it merged with the branch to become aqap. a nigeria man tried to blow up a u.s. airliner going to michigan with plastic explosives hidden in his underwear. aqap said they