in the syrian legal world to this day nobody has seen or heard from him since. money feels it is his duty to continue their common struggle for justice and the key issue here and the jails run by the intelligence agencies everybody in syria from himself over from the stories of that they should need who were released or their parents. but the detention in the jail or in the station. but they didn't spoke about it because afraid they didn't spoke loudly that public the more secret weapon of this regime to put the people in fields in europe or just feel. to head up or. feel. it's still a secret weapon it was a tradition. to mix up the bush titled. marzan darwish also has a photo of missing lawyer mark took on his war alongside photos of friends and colleagues who have likewise disappeared darwish is a lawyer and activist for the syrian center for media and freedom of expression. darwish founded the center in damascus in two thousand and four when it was raided for a third time in twenty twelve the air force intelligence service arrested groove fourteen staff inclu

out of ember the phones twenty sixteen syrian human rights lawyer. launches an appeal on facebook. we are looking for people who were abducted taken to intelligence service jails two one five two two seven and two three five and tortured there we want to press charges in germany and send a clear message to the torture is in syria there is no impunity. one hundred people responded that same day offering to testify as witnesses. khaled or ours was in germany when he saw the appeal he had heard good things about the syrian human rights lawyer alderney was known for his courage in defending countless political detainees at trials in syria. never less. that's far i was surprised actually. here i had an opportunity to bring criminal charges. despite not being german. exactly and chance for me so as i said it was an opportunity. and i soon as i saw the appeal. i talked to and were right away. in twenty fifteen hundred and his wife were able to escape and come to germany where they were recognized as political refugees they had taken part in the mass protests against assad in twenty eleven

even for the syrian of that or what happened. with these to this level as a human being we don't accept this kind of. war crime was a crime against them the city and humanity and say no this is not the what a problem for a lot of. muslim darwish was questioned by the german state attorneys over the course of two days he testified on his own three year imprisonment and how he was tortured daily for an entire year you also reported about friends in the same prison who did not survive the ordeal i am a trainee dentist was tortured to death and there are photos of guys whose body and those of over six thousand others. all the syrian military photographer had to take pictures of those tortured to death after over two years he could no longer stomach it and deserted subsequently smuggling his photos out of the country he is codenamed caesar for his own protection his pictures catalogue the systematic human rights crimes by the regime in damascus. on this particular day darwish was interviewed for twelve hours with many traumatic memori

we all sit down as syrian people. once the killing stops in syria and the bombardment of the people stop in syria that we come together we can go through a tradition for the be giving representatives from the different kurdish parts and representatives from the different sunni parts in one example i would bring it now is i am part of the founding members of the syrian women political movement. loosely we are saying the syrian women's political movement we felt that syrian women's right not been addressed with the general opposition and 50% of the publishing that their specific need and concern and ways of knowing in dealing with the legality and reconstruction and the constitutional building of syria needs to be addressed. so we came together there is a wide range of affiliations that we have and that is why it's called movement because there's a common denominator we have agreed on and we look at each other and know i have very good friends from the movement and working together in the future of syria and part of a d

position for syrian engagement.nk it brings a lot of credibility to the issue. thank you for your service. i want to just talk a little bit or get your thoughts on lebanon. obviously there are so many intertwining political and security issues that relate to lebanon. i look at the positive side in lebanon we just had free and fair elections in may with the new election law that would free s controversy of no protes. we had a cedar conference that pledge $12 billion to lebanon, which is positive. the laf continues to cooperate with american forces and american intelligence and it's been seamless with general Ãin charge of the lebanese forces. i think we are one of the best ambassadors in the world there with lassiter richard so those are the positive things, however, i look at the concerns and the challenges in lebanon. can't form a government after seven months now, we have over 1 million refugees in lebanon from syria that continued but stress and anxiety and uneasiness on the lebanese infrastructure, everything fr

. -- syrian civil war. ais meeting is an hour and half. >> the subcommittee will come to order. >> thank you for being with us. usually, i would not deign to start without my ranking member or any other democrats, but they have caucus meetings. they are big shots now. we have to pay attention to them. we are going to start with the staff saying it is ok without them. whenever they can, they will pop in. after recognizing myself and whoever may come for opening statements, i would love to recognize all of the other members for their opening statements, if you could keep them brief and we will then hear from our witnesses, thank you, gentlemen, for being with us. statements will be made a part of the record, and all of the members may have 5 days to insert statements and questions for the record, subject to the length limitations in the rules. the chair now recognizes yourself for 5 minutes. this hearing is part two of a syria hearing that we began in september, and while it took a bit longer than we had hope

they're all syrians inside the country. one of the challenges inside syria is all of these people are inside and we are forbidden from getting in and actually looking at that time. what we tend to do is triangleate, and so if someone else misses it, someone else catches it. our partners themselves have their own third-party monitors and what happened is about a year ago one of the third-party monitors thought that there was a problem that hts was diverting or getting usaid aistance assis they had it all at same time. by february we found out that things actually were happening and we were immediately suspended and ended those programs. in the northwest that is we now have three. that was one of the three programs that we have suspended. we do not wait for the ig to come back with their findings and we immediately suspend while people investigate. what we have now put in place over the course of seven years is we've had to deal with different iterations in this difficult kinetic environment is we now have the most comprehens

of syrian citizens in syrian land they have the right to be to be in their own country to liberate their country from foreign occupation the syrians are taken to the streets they are not just boycotting they have rejected the entirety of the population that is falsely called the democratic process that is and there is no democratic process under international law when it comes to occupation the process is supposed to be a local mall between the locals there without any interference from the occupying force. nato has held its largest military drills since the cold war international observers were allowed to attend of the war games in norway and secretary general stoltenberg suggests russia should offer similar invitations although as it turns out russia has already done just that. made to always invite of service to our. exercises russia has not invited it in national service to end the exercises the end of the cold war period nato and russia exchanged reciprocal briefings on military exercises in may allied military attachés in moscow have been invited to a voluntary observation of the e

against the syrian government the syrian government is the one that is killing its people. using chemical weapons so to speak once it comes to actually the rebels have chemical weapons obviously providing that they are the ones who did this one but during parallel from two years ago. in aleppo itself nobody spoke about this nobody speaks about this you know the public need probably to be under the impression all the time that the bad guys are the syrian government and the good guys are the rebels. previous chemical attacks we've seen accusations that the syrian government was behind them being brought up at the u.n. haven't they do you think this one will be brought up there. or not necessarily again we need to remember that the in two thousand and thirteen in the summer of two thousand and thirteen when the who attack. took place the international investigation investigators the u.n. investigators where has just or had just arrived into damascus to investigate a chemical attack against the syrian army in the last hour southwest of a little. after five months of asking by t

of syrian citizens in syrian land they have the right to be to be in their own cars. treat to liberate their country from foreign occupation this is taken to the streets they are not just boycotting they have ejecting the entire to the operation that is falsely called them about the process that is and there is no democratic process and that international law when it comes to oppression the process is supposed to be a local mall between the locals dead without any interference from the occupying force. activists in hamburg have been celebrating halloween with a march against the nationalist alternative for germany party people held banners with the message halting the ghost of the far right opponents accuse the f.t. of stoking racism and hijacking concerns over immigration demonstrators called for and to neo nazi politics in germany the rally in hamburg passed on peacefully with no. this comes after a recent string of gains from the local elections last weekend of the party entered the regional assembly in has for the first time after securing twelve percent of the vo

political divisions risk shaking their fragile balance in lebanon can the country stand firm with this syrian war still raging right across the border today i talked to the former prime minister of lebanon. war hatred deep in a months long political stalemate and while trying to balance a bigger game of middle eastern rivalries will it lead to further conflict or example for its neighbors that compromise is achievable and will the neutral country try to help put out the flames of war raging beyond its borders. what's in your are former prime minister of lebanon welcome to the show it is great to have you with us today sir so mr siniora after five months of political deadlock lebanon is close to forming a new government has bought less allies have made significant gains in the last parliamentary elections prime minister hariri has said many times that has is not the main player and they do not control things in lebanon but they are backed by the christians by the president so is the prime minister just putting on a brave face here trying to play down has well this role. well actually. there's

and also coming up a stolen childhood the plight of an eight year old syrian refugee forced to work in the fields to feed her family. when i came here from home today can collect the onions but i would rather have toys to play with. but first we begin in the united states where there has been a major blow to donald trump's immigration policy a judge has temporarily blocked a law aimed at denying the possibility of asylum to people who enter the country illegally trump issued the proclamation earlier this month citing national security concerns as a caravan of thousands of central american migrants which he calls an invasion made its way through mexico toward the u.s. border now around three thousand migrants are waiting in the mexican city of tijuana to apply for asylum in the u.s. thousands more are still making their way through mexico d.w. went to the us mexico border at tio wanna wear a few asylum applications are being processed each day and where tension and frustration are running high. this family and here to request asylum volunteers at the border crossing are helping them wit

and also the syrian conflict. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle what is the next step for the saga known as drags it also is a stage being said to finally end the syrian conflict and why it's in my six scrambling to stop. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with internet. and we have them choke he is deputy dean at the department of political science at moscow state university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate other let me go to you first here well it's done at least this stage of brags that the european union has accepted to resumes deal the problem is it doesn't look like the deal has been accepted in her own country yet has to face parliament and there's a lot of. squabbling to say the least that it won't get through but what is the context of all of this h

is syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government. and the international community but wasn't established national. this is. by. circumstance where. strangely border. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s. says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here so they really want to help these people or do you want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not the united states' problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves are so very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. and starting. out with one of mexico's most famous criminals about to go on trial in the u.s. succession battles have broken out for control of. drug empire but this hasn't stopped the similar cartel from carrying o

the democratic forces on the other backed by the united states and a syrian army backed by russia and iran are on the other there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for geopolitical bounty in syria and writing off i still really means risking another wave of terrorist resurgence. caroline cox a member of the u.k. house of lords believes western powers need to rethink their stance on president bashar al assad if they want to bring peace to syria. i've had very vicious articles about me in. the newspapers like the london times there is a big media i think is very biased indeed and it really does not give an equal representation of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by the jihadists but it's not going to stop me trying to be a voice for the people of syria and the many people out there who do supporters and i do find when i do speak in different contexts people just say thank you so much for putting. all the truth from the b.b.c. we knew there was more to it than that and thank you for telling us the other side of the story so there's a lot of appreciatio

turkey and iran holding two days of talks on syria and the cause that capital delegations of the syrian government and the opposition are expected to attend the negotiations will not lead to an internationally backed political deal but russia is pushing for a breakthrough on a un constitutional committee so how to report from a stana. another meeting on syria in the capital asked to know a negotiating track shaped by russia iran and turkey it has become a forum for the main power brokers in the syrian conflict who use their influence over the warring sides to make deals the latest was a prisoner exchange between the syrian government and the opposition it's hoped that the detainees file will see progress during the talks but they haven't been as effective when tackling of the main political issues supposed to be resolved in the geneva based un led process to having so many players and just having one sort of side of the actors in there isn't enough to come to some sort of comprehensive peace deal there was an attempt to expand the asked in a format to include members of the so-called sm

sunlight sext who are really very much abiding by their instructions hizbullah instructions and by the syrian regime instructions that they want to be represented in the new cabinet although actually on the one hand they did not really appear after being elected as being one block to the concert they are part of other blocs so in fact what they are doing they are being considered twice one as being members of their own blocs the mental blocks and the other time as combining themselves to be as you one unit which is not the case but at this point at this point you can we cannot wake ignore their presence right there in the government united states has rolled out sanctions targeting individuals and organizations doing business with has so what's going to happen to lebanon now that has bollox it's kind of present in the government. well . lebanon is facing quite a number of issues nowadays not only. in this because there are plenty of many things but one of them is the tsunami coming from the sanctions that are being let's say imposed by the united states and this in fact will affect iran will a

one hundred eighty thousand syrian refugee children. have been forced into child labor in the country so a lot more to do i don't know when she goes to work and i stay at home of course i'm not happy with that she's just a small child and has to carry so much weight it could break her back it's hard for her that she should be at least thirteen or fourteen to do work like that. there were many refugee families in lebanon rely on their children to pay the bills and the resources of aid agencies are overstretched it's unlikely that so many will be able to start working anytime soon. and meantime in yemen fighting has again flared between who the rebels and the saudi led coalition despite calls for a truce earlier the two sides had signaled a willingness to halt military operations after more than four years of conflict in a few hours the un security council is due to debate a resolution aimed at bringing about an immediate cease fire if adopted it would set it to meet deadline for both sides to remove all barriers to humanitarian aid more

but the french troops routed the arab nationalists and swept on to the syrian capital. gang faisel fled to london the first independent arab state the kingdom of syria last had less than four months. the french occupation of syria turned into a mandate in one thousand nine hundred twenty two and lasted until nineteen thirty six with all the problems it entailed and which are still felt today. into double frenzy beijing in the us and you know the way that if the reality we go in there is a year. and a year in the midst of a lab whereby there while that sounds like a risk on their own or in the film and the unit here i think. that message being and how bad they did finance and how to handle opera. were not an asset a second a zoo neuroeconomics the needle myself in their own taqiyya. the french mandate also had a big impact on lebanon. that season example if i'm in the. middle i work and basically there ali is that with the spot in the second ship this at the yemen into double fronted with what think it myself in the second one that this will be less it. was. before the t

what what what is afoot is an attempt to draw the syrian government into a trap. draw the syrian government into an attack on it province and bring on their heads heavy military retribution from the west the united states has made it quite clear that any syrian army advance on it live will be net by deadly fire from the united states the united states the big tech to flee put itself in the position of creating a safe haven for al qaeda do you think that assad will take that bait will we see a battle for it live. the history of the conflict to date suggests that. is pretty cautious will not take on necessary risks will not fall into the trap who aided by his enemies nevertheless. there comes a point when the syrian army will want to take revenge it is being harrah's method could even military people will want to strike back so there are going to be a risk of reprisal getting out of hand and this will i'm afraid play into the hands of the united states of. qatar which truth on doing. and this amusing american journalist that you featured. in getting analysis on the

partner force and the syrian democratic forces. they did it a couple of times when i was there in the fall of 2015. they've done it a couple of times since. often, it's just an attempt to strike near or very close in front of the u.s. partner force to deter it from moving forward and the russians don't want it to move. the time thing is the land grab and you see the euphrates and the general agreement with the russian federation is that the euphrates is the deconfliction line so we stay east and north and they stay south and west. in september 2017, they stayed across the euphrates. the deconfliction agreement allowed them to maintain that foothold east of the river, but they had munition from the u.s. and the coalition was stay in that box and they'll come out of that box. they claim they needed to be on that side of the refer to help with the relief. in february of this year is when the wagner group came out of the box and they attempted to strike the u.s. partner force and u.s. forces which is what engendered the u.s. response t

one hundred eighty thousand syrian refugee children. have been forced into child labor in the country so a lot more to do i don't know when she goes to work and i stay at home of course i'm not happy with that she's just a small child and has to carry so much weight it could break her back it's hard for her that she should be at least thirteen or fourteen to do work like that. there were many refugee families in lebanon rely on their children to pay the bills and the resources of aid agencies are overstretched it's unlikely that so many will be able to start working anytime soon. to popper new guinea now where a group of police and security guards have stormed the parliament building breaking windows and smashing furniture the whole thing was over a pay dispute the guards were furious that they had not received the money promised to them after working out last weekend's international summit hosted by this south pacific island. from smashed plates to broken windows but this was more than just a break in it was carried out by the very peo

islamic state terror and now she's forced to work to feed her family a fate shared by thousands of syrian refugee children in lebanon on. a hot thank you so much for your company everyone a judge in the united states has temporarily barred president trump from denying asylum to migrants who enter the country illegally through mexico chong pat issued a proclamation earlier this month that anyone who did not go to official ports of entry would be ineligible for asylum the judge's ruling comes as around three thousand migrants from central america are currently waiting in the mexican city of tijuana to apply for asylum in the u.s. thousands more are still making their way through mexico. well in his ruling the judge said trump's order to block asylum claims represented quote an extreme departure from previous practice. whatever the scope of the president's authority he added he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that congress has expressly forbidden. while the temporary restraining order will remain in place until there is a permanent legal ruling all right this is a

committed by israel all right mr siniora we're going to talk more about the refugee crisis in the syrian war in the second half of the program but now we're going to take a break when we're back we'll continue talking to watch seanie or a former prime minister of lebanon discussing how the situation in the neighboring syria is a fact think the small matter eastern nation stay with us. the financial survival. first is to come because it is cash in this way different from . the good stuff we have our three banks all set up something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands and it will pull these banks are complicit in their tough talk. to do some serious muhlenberg ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury. for stacy oh beautiful jewelry. luxury automobile. hey you know what money laundering is highly illegal if you watch cars record. seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. to shape out these days to come to educate and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. what politicians do something to. put themselves on t

any country in the world, frankly, of syrian refugees. and turkey has said it's not willing to take on more refugees. so it raises this big humanitarian question. the u.n. has termed it herbally the greatest humanitarian cats my of the center, should it happen. >> what do you think the administration, the trump administration is going to continue to oppose it, or do you think at one point that the military this russia is going to overrule and say i can't wait, i've got to win this war and this is necessary to win it? >> listen, i think the trump administration took a very strong position against this and in particular warned the use of chemical weapons which, of course, the regime has used elsewhere. i don't think it's -- i think it's the trump administration, i think it's the international community writ large and and europeans as well who have said that that kind of humanitarian catastrophe is untenable. the big question is what leverage does the international community have, what can the u.s., turkey and others do in the event that thi

is syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government. and it's not a committee but wasn't established national. this is. by. circumstance where. strangely border. control. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s. says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here so they really want to help these people or if you want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not the united states problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves are so very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. from the start al-jazeera. floor of a christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in pakistan has left the country saying his life was longer threat the face of our c. beebies much less so after the pakistani government

is syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government. and the international community but it wasn't established . this is. by. so that's where. strangely border. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s. says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here so they really want to help these people or do you want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not the united states problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves are so very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. the start. of voting has ended in the french territory of new caledonia where people had the chance to decide on whether to seek independence the last referendum thirty years ago ended in violence the territories a strategic

syrian food, it is called the seven countries. it consists of many kinds of vegetables.e doctors, 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. season november 14th to the 18th. only at jared. ♪ [ telephone ringing ] -whoa. [ indistinct talking ] -deductible? -definitely speaking insurance. -additional interest on umbrella policy? -can you translate? -damage minimization of civil commotion. -when insurance needs translating, get answers in plain english at progressiveanswers.com. ♪ -he wants you to sign karen's birthday card. it's a high honor. -he wants you to sign karen's birthday card. [ car honk ] green book is the only movie winning audience's hearts everywhere.

backing the syrian democratic forces the which is largely the kurds the p.k. k. in eastern syria basically occupying eastern syria and of course syria is oil fields and this d.m.z. agreement between russia and turkey essentially with with the with the syrian government and the. jihadi rebels not actually being a party to the talks as far as anyone can tell as we predicted on the show it's completely falling apart for the same reason that every other deals want to part is that nonetheless the rebels are all there now on the layering to. begins the damascus government is preparing some kind of operation to begin liberation of the well just i mean just just in there last week. was warmed by. the koran. you know basically chemical weapons were used most likely by. it did not make big news in the western television but it certainly made big news in syria i saw there not reporting that the rebels are attacking syria this is the reason and there's a reason and the shells came from the area from these supposedly peaceful demitted try to own that they're united states and

agreement between russia and turkey essentially with with the syrian government and the. jihadi rebels not actually being a party to the talks as far as anyone can tell as we predicted on the show it's completely falling apart for the same reason that every other deals want to part is that nonetheless the rebels are all. begins the damascus government is preparing some kind of operation to begin the liberation of the well just. just just in the last week. was warmed by. you know basically chemical weapons were used most likely by. it did not make big news in the western television but it certainly made big news in syria i saw there not reporting that the rebels are. the reason and there's no reason and the shells came from the from the supposedly peaceful demilitarized zone that they're united states and that you were so concerned about my book made me especially angry it was the fact that the united states impulse sanctions on the oil companies so that supplied fuel to see it can you imagine you know post-war europe one thousand nine hundred sixty nine forty seven some w

dozens of people including children have been hospitalized often a chemical attack targeting the syrian city of aleppo that is according to the russian defense ministry these here are images of victims who are being pulled into hospital for treatment medics say they exhibited symptoms consistent with chlorine exposure russian military chemists all working at the scene of the attack of the russian defense ministry says the attack was carried out at night with the shelling coming from an area controlled by al shabab an al qaeda affiliated group in neighboring province of a militant commanders deny any involvement insisting that they don't actually have any chemical weapons well let's get some reaction. ali risk a middle east affairs commentator joining us live here on r.t. international good day to you sir thanks for joining us here on r.c. international experts are at the scene russian military chemists are there collecting data how long do you think until they can fully to determine what actually happened. well i think that you know with the determination should be made very shortly i d

committee rewriting the constitution so far the syrian government has been unbending intransigent not making any compromises even you know disputing the mandate of this committee saying that the it's not supposed to rewrite the constitution it's only supposed to revise a few articles the syrian government also saying that this should not be a un process this should be a process led by the syrians but russia needs some sort of breakthrough it needs to make concessions to the west if the west is to engage with russia's own diplomatic offensive russia wants to move to the post war phase in syria it wants money for post-war reconstruction it wants refugees to return to cement ourselves hold on power so it's not clear how much pressure russia will put on to damascus government to make concessions and as for the opposition who are also present and. with opposition losses on the ground recently what are they hoping to achieve. well yes they have little leverage but they do want that ceasefire the demilitarized zone deal between turkey and russia to hold but we understand is that there is opt

as syrian people on syrian territory so it is the responsibility of the syrian government and the yuan and the international community but wasn't established national. just by. circumstance where. the strangely borders. u.s. forces have a military base nearby policing a fifty five square kilometer so-called deescalation zone you know. russia blames the u.s. for the deteriorating situation the u.s. says russia and syria using rock band as an excuse to question its presence here and say they really want to help these people or do you want to use them as a as a as something to kind of come after us this is not the united states' problem started jordan problem these are syrians these syrians are dying and many of these new graves are so very small the red crescent says despite this delivery the situation remains critical no one perhaps knows that better than those burying their children here. and starting a tayo al-jazeera. we're going to weather update next here on out zero then the legend of el chapo we'll look at the rise and fall of one of the most feared criminals in mexico. and how o

constitutional committee saying that we should be leading this committee this should be a syrian led process not a u.n. led process and that to it shouldn't rewrite the constitution what this committee should do is revise just a few articles because what this committee means is that damascus has to give up some political power yes there's no more talk about a political transition about bashar assad the syrian president leaving power but what the west is insisting is for political concessions on the part of the syrian government and that has so far not happened i've spoken to the head of the opposition delegation he is remaining optimistic he's saying that we're holding talks with the russians and they're promising some sort of an agreement at a later date at the end of the day russia needs to compromise if it is to get the international community on board its own diplomatic initiative which is about moving into the post-war reconstruction phase and on the ground with that fragile cease fire in the last rebel stronghold are they optimistic that it will hold. yes the message from aston

the syrians accidentally shot the plane down. but the russians accused israel of being more reckless into the incursions into syrian airspace. so as a result provided now more sophisticated air defense systems to syria. >> yes. >> exactly. and so and also my understanding from russians is that they are concerned about israeli conduct in syria. now where does this go? i think that is another question. but i think we're at a moment where there's some -- there's some ambiguity and in some ways dangerous ambiguity. >> you think the iranians will pull out? >> no. >> what happens? >> great question. the iranians made quite an investment in syria. the other question is how intertwined are they already into the syrian military and security apparatus? to what extent is this going to be extremely difficult to disentangle? my sense is that it will be very, very difficult to eject iran. >> even after the sactinctions weaken. even as they have the impact as the trump administration hopes they would? >> it's a good question. again, it depends

backed syrian democratic forces stop operations against islamic state. in a moment. in terms of i mean he has never actually been used to nobody has been prosecuted but you are right it was only renewed ten years ago by a previous government and it really shows how out of step. this one time there's been a huge movement of women and young people on days been pushing the political establishment you know relentlessly on the issue of abortion rights because ten women a day leave the country and five others were taking on line illegally. the united states under many threats as a long growing. break in its treaty and other promise. the united states says is going to leave the treaty again. thanks for joining us on this sunday. syrian democratic forces which are mostly made up of kurdish troops have announced a temporary halt to operations against the islamic state that comes several kodesh villages were attacked by turkey near its border with syria and the u.s. has been supporting kodesh forces in the region and washington considers them to be effective fighters against i