evidence speaking about bringing them back to society it's not a secret that there are now major tasha's between the united states and europe including russia about what has to be done to those 5 areas and the united states wants them to be repatriated many western countries despite their normally very strident stance on human rights are not eager to do that the preferred option is simply to dump them in syria and i think that's partially because of the fear that their legal systems could train them to leave me in plea and that they could present a security challenge in the years to come don't you find that perhaps this is this is a bit ironic that this is what the syrian war has come to after years of lumber asking the syrian government for its choices western governments who now have more resources more advanced legal systems are not really eager to set an example and treat those combatants humanely and subject them to a fair trial well you have probably heard myself and i.c.r.c. institutionally advocating for all the countries who have detainees or have families of detainees in the ca

let's examine some of those bombs with professor tasha lin statter is a political scientist specializing in international relations has a particular interest in african and middle east politics joins us from the university of essex in england to welcome professor can we start with a relatively simple question in this complicated picture is there room for compromise between these 2 sides and their backers or is it all or nothing. it's going to be really difficult to find a compromise what i see is one of the biggest problems is that the u.n. backed government doesn't really control that much territory so i don't see it is having much leverage where you have have to are and is a libyan national army controlling a lot of territory and being supported by other actors in the region and outside the region including russia the u.a.e. and egypt and it's also received some support from france that there is this belief that have tar is best suited to fight against terrorists and to create stability in the region but he's not part of the national government and i think the concern is that he's goin

tasha thanks for joining us why is turkey interested in sending troops to libya. well turkey wants to back up the tripoli government because they have been friendly with them for some time now i mean they have both economic ties with them they had made a maritime agreement where they could carve out rights in the mediterranean so they made that agreement with them they had all kinds of construction agreements and contracts that they had been given and this is dated back even before from gadhafi was in power but this continued with the tripoli based government and as general have tires forces have to team you to gain more and more land this is put a lot of these contracts in jeopardy turkey feels increasingly isolated in the region as an economic zone was created with countries like egypt israel cyprus and greece and to racine that turkey just wants to have more control over the region it seems that if it can prop up the tripoli based government better i mean already been defying the embargo imposed by the u.n. on arms it's been sending in arms and weapons and so f

week but with neither side showing any sign of backing down the talks are unlikely to be made us the tasha butler just 0 paris. can be as president says i'm a barrow has created a new political party that could allow him to run again after his term ends in january barrow has formally registered the national people's party naming himself as its leader members of his previous party have called for him to step down. now in angola court sours frozen the assets of africa's richest woman as part of a corruption investigation isabel dos santos is the daughter of the former president eduardo dos santos assets owned by her husband and say business associates have also been frozen and go and governments has accused them of course and state losses of around $1000000000.00 the center says the freeze is politically motivated. a teenager's in colombia are modifying their traditional bikes to get a bigger thrill from racing down steep pile ways it's the country's more extreme version of gravity biking a sports invented in the u.s. many youngsters say it helps them forget the troubles in their neighborhoo

can tell us what he said the tasha. yes it was a very brief press conference by end stoltenberg the nato secretary general he had convened this emergency meeting of nato 29 passes to discuss the rising tensions between the united states and iran to discuss the situation of course the united states is a nato member and saltimbocca said that there was a briefing by the u.s. ambassador to the other ambassadors to really talk about washington's perspective why it had carried out this action against general sort of mani stoltenberg so he can share the information that the u.s. ambassador had given with of course the press but he said that nato members felt that they had been nato ambassadors i should say felt that they had been adequately briefed he said also that in the past nato allies have been very concerned by iran's or actions in the region which he called destabilizing that in the past nato has condemned some of those actions but he did say that all nato members were really quite united in calling for a deescalation o

well it had our from the tasha butler who's in brussels and who says that the us shared the strategy behind its isolation with nato allies. yes the nato secretary general convened this emergency meeting of nato is 29 and busters here in brussels to discuss the situation the tensions that are really reaching boiling point between the united states and iran now of course united states is a nato member and sultan bugs said in a press briefing off to the meeting that the u.s. ambassador had briefed the other nato ambassadors on the u.s. a strategy on why they had decided to kill general slim however a soldier but said he could share that information with the public or with the press but that other nato ambassadors had been adequately brief did say that all the ambassadors were in agreement over the fact that they felt that all sides must now show restraint there must be a deescalation almost sides because i still to put said you know nobody wants to see this heading towards a conflict he also said that nato had expressed in the post its own concerns about iran and what he said was iran i

week but with neither side showing any sign of backing down the talks are unlikely to be made us the tasha butler to syria paris. tottenham's is one of the world's biggest producers opacic pollution and its oceans retailers' sands authorities say they're trying to clean up the country's acts by banning some single use plastic spots us jessica washington reports they face another challenge changing consumer attitudes. around 45000000000 plastic bags are used every year in thailand but the new deal will bring a change in behavior for consumers all around the country major department stores convenience stores and supermarkets with whole implement a ban on plastic bags from this year signs like this are on display around the country explaining the changes telling consumers don't need to plan ahead for the next time they go shopping there's also a ban on using products with micro beets and plans for a ban on plastic cards within the next 2 years. all it would be i think this is a good idea because it will clean up the environment these days it's so hot as the weather is changing it's hard to do

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all right let's hear now from the tasha butler who's been following events at a summit in france. well at the end of. southwestern france the g 5. leaders the french president agreed to cooperate more closely militarily and politically to fight what they called a growing terrorism in the region the president of bikini said that $29000.00 had been a very difficult year with an increasing number of fatal attacks against the military and against civilians he talks about it being a humanitarian crisis that was unprecedented in the region now what the leaders said they needed to do was basically bolster the region the border region between kenya fast so and mali a particularly volatile region where many of these attacks have taken place france also sending $220.00 extra troops and they also called on the international community to do more to support this region to support the g 5 force in terms of the just sticks and money because they said what happens in that region of course affects the world because many of the armed groups that are working in that region operating that region i sh

acquire a nuclear weapon we shared concern about iran's missile tests i've got a brussels officer tasha butler is there so you have stop saying that the us explained its rationale for targeting so about it now. but couldn't he couldn't tell us why even though they said that those were in agreement about it what else did he say. yes. the nato secretary general convened this emergency meeting of nato is 29 and busters here in brussels to discuss the situation the tensions that are really reaching boiling point between the united states and iran now of course united states is a nato member insult said in a press briefing off to the meeting that the u.s. had briefed the other nato ambassadors or the us a strategy on why they had decided to kill general however sort of bikes that he could share that information with the public or with the press but that other nato ambassadors had been adequately briefed he did say that all the on busters were in agreement over the fact that they felt that all sides must now show restraint there must be a deescalation on all sides because i thought about said

nuclear weapon we shared concern about iran's missile tests let's hear more from our correspondent tasha butler from brussels and he says that the u.s. shared the strategy behind the assassination with nato allies. yes the nato secretary general convened this emergency meeting of nato is 29 and busters here in brussels to discuss the situation the tensions that are really reaching boiling point between the united states and iran now of course united states is a nato member and sultan said in a press briefing after the meeting that the u.s. ambassador had briefed the other nato ambassadors on the u.s. a strategy on why they had decided to kill general however a soldier but said he can share that information with the public or with the press but that other nato ambassadors had been adequately prefer he did say that all the ambassador's were in agreement over the fact that they felt that all sides must now show restraint there must be a deescalation on all sides because i still to put 30 nobody wants to see this heading towards a conflict he also said that nato had expressed in the post its

week but with neither side showing any sign of backing down the talks are unlikely to be made us the tasha butler to syria paris. 2 decades ago let it be a putin was handed the acting presidency on a surprise new year's eve speech by the then president boris yeltsin 20 years later mr putin has brought russia increased influence around the world but it appears to have come at a price mr explains now from some petersburg. unpredictable not making compromises and using swift decisive moves that's how to me a put in slate coach described his young pupils judo skills at an exhibition at his former sports cool in st petersburg but anatoly words could easily describe the president's leadership style and even today in his late sixty's put in likes to be seen throwing judo champions on the mat maintaining his image as a strong fit much old leader. my father said to me when he congratulated him after his inauguration was remember it's like sports when you attack remember your defense when you're on defense. it's a lesson putin seems to have taken seriously during his 2 decades in power and dominated

and what your opinion wants to avoid is in a way britain inspiring other member states to leave that tasha thank you for that matter live for us in brussels. still ahead on this al-jazeera news hour senate republicans say they don't have enough votes to block additional witnesses as the impeachment trial of us present donald trump moves into a new phase plus feeding off whatever they can find we meet people whose lives were devastated by a volcanic eruption in the philippines and the olympic village is unveiled in tokyo but all the eyes is called for immediate action to protect the gains from the spread of the coronavirus. yet more unsettled weather pushing into the eastern side of the mediterranean aid to the levant lots of cloud rolling through here basin places a cloud standing across iraq into iran facing out breaking as it goes through war the west sunshine tucking in but you can see that west the weather and that when she weather that windy weather there spilling out of turkey cyprus seeing some life showers from times time thursday to friday no great improvement actually all the way

the great potential of this country and it starts now back to you jonah thank you very much indeed tasha butler is in brussels for us so natasha over the years the relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. was it at times tumultuous overall what's the mood now as as they leave after 47 years. i have to say listening to those crowds in london watching those pictures is the contrast with what i am in brussels couldn't be ok. great because the mood here in the symbolic heart of the e.u. is very muted it's been very low key all day today i mean the only sign that there is something so mentors that has happened is that a little bit earlier we saw a european union parliamentary officials start taking down removing the british flag from outside the european union parliament replacing it with a european union flag but apart from that there be no special ceremonies no special friends and that's really deliberate move on the part of the european union to try and keep today located because this is a some good day for you lead as we've been hearing that message all week e.u. leaders did not want th

prepared to be arrested so right now it looks like they're standing face to face toe to toe against these tasha cole sheriff's deputies, the ones that came out of the swat car. i've noticed you know a lot of people here feeling very open there's coming a little physical right now. they're trying to make sure that they stay peaceful the people involved in this they always wanted to be peaceful, but looks like we're at any minute now it could get physical between sheriff's deputies and these protesters who again are willing to get arrested their passion about this issue they're fighting for these moms saying they have a right to housing. this man he seems very angry, i'm not sure if he's related to one of the people who have been detained and again we have seen at least 2 to 4 people being detained however it's unclear if those people are being arrested or charged anything it looks like sheriff's deputies are asking them questions like what you want to do with your stuff and where you can go and they said i don't know i don't know where we go with a lot of people just disappointed the sheriff's o

transportation for its citizens to leave the city and in france itself new cases have been reported tasha butler is there. the french health minister and u.s. prison has confirmed there are 3 cases of patients with current virus in the country now we've learned a little bit more about those cases there's one couple a man and a woman who came from china they are tourists we understand who came on holiday to paris when they fell ill they had flown in from. and in fact they've now been hospitalized we understand that their case isn't too serious because they are remaining under strict surveillance there's also a man of 48 year old who also had come from china he had visited will have recently he fell ill and he is in the southwestern city of bordeaux we believe he works in the wine industry now the mayor of bordeaux has said that he had about 10 to 12 people have come forward to say that they have been in contact with this man who works in the wine industry they also work in the wine industry and of course they will have their health checked by the relevant authorities the mayor of bordeaux

. >> jed, joe and tasha, thank you all. >> still ahead, our closer today is draft kings ceo jason robbinsnd out how much money americans are voting on the super bowl on monday later on "closing bell. >>> here is a look at the closing bell big board stocks finished barely in positive territory flat for the nasdaq after no real surprise from the federal reserve leaving interest rates unchanged. some of the after-hours movers, as you can see, facebook down almost 6% after sort of meeting expectations, big expenses there. mandelez up, and tesla soaring after posting strong 2020 guidance of 500,000 deliveries. >> let's get a cnbc news update. >> hello, everyone here's what's happening at this hour pentagon officials have now updated the number of u.s. service members that suffered injuries from this month's iranian missile attack they say a total of 50 suffered traumatic brain injuries and that is up from the previously reported 34. of those 50, 31 were treated in iraq and have returned to duty >>> a woman who described herself as an aspiring actress and a big fan of harvey weinstein's films t