and the free syrian army is sending reinforcements to that i had. the starting point for the new cross border campaign. thank you but to hail a sham which has thousands of fighters is vowing to fight to the death news of the new campaign is raising concerns for civilians in there. if the turkish army enters back by russian planes that have committed a massacre a few days ago an army is that is for sure and acceptable to me and to any muslim who rejects the presence of occupiers in our country. the russians are the first and last and i mean of the syrian people are backing bashar al assad how can they be supporting the syrian people. the new push by turkey comes after an agreement with russia and iran last month to set up a deescalation zone in. the turkish army will be operating in the city while the russians will be deployed outside the province it is one of four deescalation zones the others are the asker's of the capital damascus or the border with jordan a lot of them parts of homes. zones what established after iran russia and turkey decided to

us because the syrian army is more active in that area major war on terror u.s. backed forces taking over isis is home base and rock in terms of mainstream us media was couched in the language of the terry it's couched in the language of fighting terrorism and there is very little of a wireless of the fact that in the end syria is being destroyed and forces are continuing the destruction that the regime has started. when arsenal captured iraq in january of two thousand and fourteen reporters were banished from the city leaving the story to citizen journalists sites like rock is being slaughtered silently are b.s.s. operated under incredibly dangerous conditions most of our b.s.s. is contributors were forced to flee and continue their work in exile they know the story and their recent posts on the fall of iraq are considerably less celebratory than what has appeared in western media outlets. they're tweeting many of these concerns about you know what happens next who exactly are the s.d.f. and how will they treat the city when many of them don't even speak arabic s

official assad was like an octopus that had spread across the end of cya syrian society. basho was not born to rule it said he hadn't wanted power and would have preferred to become an eye doctor. but i did some photos of the one nine hundred ninety six four years before he was president. and i remember mainly someone you're shy but sometimes embarrassed about what was happening around him you know you're i had a really hope because i always thought that the regime. needed someone to say like gorbachev someone who would and the dictatorship opened a new era. this eerie and people hadn't heard of all seen a first lady at the side of the new president their wedding was held in secret as my side allegedly then traveled around the country anonymously to get to know it later she said she wanted to become an ambassador of the syrians the. direction that made. the president of syria wasn't a democratic one but many syrians believed he would bring democracy to the country what we had only heard good things about him people talked about the young pleasant bashar who would bring ref

the president of syria wasn't a democratic one but many syrians believed he would bring democracy to the country what we had only heard good things about him people talked about the young pleasant bashar who would bring reforms and democracy. we thought he would herald a new beginning a whole new era for syria. was. asked the daughter of a regime opponent jumana saif had lived in constant fear on the half e-zine assad the syrian secret services often silence their critics by threatening members of their family. to manas father riyad saif is to this day one of the best known regime critics in syria the one successful businessman angered by assad's father by speaking out against corruption and oppression but he went to fall for the regime he had crossed the line i thought so i mean it was in one nine hundred ninety six bashar is father was still in power when my brother just appeared without a trace he was twenty one and had gone to the seaside with a friend his friend returned but my brother didn't he was never found but if you live in syria you know what's meant by that few women visi

diplomatic back and forth the relationship between these two nato allies started souring during the syrian civil war turkey upset the us didn't do enough against the assad government even angrier when the u.s. backed kurdish fighters and later armed them. then last year's coup attempt and it got worse blame to cleric for two of the golan who lives in the u.s. they wanted him extradited for his alleged role the obama administration refused and the trump administration hasn't moved on it either that was a big issue when he first met president donald trump but that was overshadowed by what happened when he left the oval office. turkish security officers violently attacked what appeared to be peaceful protesters outside the turkish ambassador's residence fifteen of them were indicted in u.s. courts and as a result the u.s. stopped a planned sale of small arms to turkey turkey further angered the u.s. when it agreed to buy a russian missile defense system equipment that wouldn't work with a nato has indicated he would be willing to trade americans imprisoned in turkey for good lawn but given th

rebel stronghold in the syrian capital damascus. the deal would allow the rebels to get humanitarian aid in their besieged areas but would also allow government troops to shift their focus to the east where they are on the again as i said the military campaign in syria poses many challenges for turkey and qatar as stated goal is to ensure a ceasefire agreement holds in but its real motive might be denying the kurds access to areas like the coastal province of latakia. on turkish border with syria so what was agreed on that the istana talks in kazakstan then you may remember in september turkey russia and iran all agreed to set up deescalation zones in syria for six months the areas in mainly opposition held parts of the country are used in court are. tackier aleppo and hammer zones are aimed at avoiding fighting between the different warring groups syrian army and its allies on the one hand and the us backed rebels during the six rounds of diplomatic talks the government delegation and armed opposition groups have traded barbs staged

forces as government troops battle to push the islamist out syrian army troops successfully reached the outskirts of al my scene early this month effectively trapping isis in this city. and of course russian forces have been actively supporting syrian troops too with a russian naval task force launching cruise missile strikes one terrorist positions in al my scene while dozens of militants have been killed in a series of russian air strikes across the province in recent weeks and all this comes just one day off the russian general staff announced that islamic state now controls less than eight percent of syria you see major successes of the syrian troops but. less than eighty percent of syrian territory. controlled the rear of the russian view or simply will continue its operations against. terrorists with the principles that are completely eliminated the liberation of. that islamic states presence in syria has shrunk further leaving the group wounded and most crucially more vulnerable perhaps the perfect time for government troops to intensify its anti eisel ca

i saw emergence in the cartels a huge blow to the syrian opposition and the free syrian army who had previously controlled the area their fighters were forced to retreat and president bashar assad was able to validate his claim that his troops were fighting what he called terrorists and not legitimate opposition in turn an international coalition was formed to fight the group led by the united states and in coordination with russia whose forces have been sent into syria to help prop up the flailing regime. the coalition and russia launched hundreds of air strikes in a bid to defeat eisel but many civilians were killed in the process on the ground the offensive to expel i so from iraq i was being led by the y.p. g a kurdish faction supported and armed by washington while they managed to make large advances that true was at the expense of the syrian opposition who accuse the group of expelling the indigenous arab residents in order to pave the way for future kurdish states why p.g. has links with the kurdistan workers party or p k k an armed group in truckee which i care considers to be

the syrian army continues to push back islamic state in. the launch is an offensive against terrorists in syria a lot of reaction to that later in the program. but the top stories from the past seven days on right off to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on r.t. international i mean the only our top story they spawn the prime minister has said he will not. to go independent in an interview with a national newspaper last sunday's referendum saw the majority of who voted say yes to leaving spain riot police lonia tactics on the day of the vote that left almost nine hundred people injured. i one video in particular shows the time pixie used by riot police people to vote in barcelona one officer can be seen dropping person in a staircase while others suffered similar fates. people because they were throwing them from. the stairs and throwing them down upon them from the hair and kicking them someone is on the floor and there is a guy that jumps on the person that's down and they were not very it's where they got this girl that w

are still has been accused of carrying out a massacre in the syrian town of aquaria telling what this is say the group conducted a revenge campaign killing at least one hundred twenty eight people before the town's capture by government forces the syrian observatory for human rights says the killings in central homs took place over a three week period i saw the civilians of collaborating with the syrian regime the troops recapture the town from my sil on saturday. they attacked us like animals they came to kill us they killed children and women they broke the arms of the women and burned them before killing them they killed more than one hundred innocent people from the families of both civilians and military. correspondent. turkey's border with syria with the latest. came under the control of i still about a month ago but then a few days ago the syrian government played this season on the city thousands of civilians concerned about their safety decided to leave by then they were barred by i.c.l. from moving of those who were determined to go were executed by ourselves because the tow

well meanwhile the syrian army banks by russian air cover is gradually advancing against islamic state in the province of dara saw but each victory comes at a high price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last wrong holds in the region the village of which has just been liberated witnessed a brutal battle. well following the liberation of cutler the syrian army is now advancing on iso positions to the northwest but before the last r.t.s. what i guess they have followed the troops as they moved into kata well they traveled across the areas only bridge over the freight is river from where he sent us this report. under a bright blue sky through devastated country across the euphrates over the only bridge in the entire province we came to the village of had less than a day ago this was part of the caliphate but no longer from what we were told the syrian army's division did the heavy lifting here much of had has already been swept and cleared but not all it isn't like the movies doors rarely open at the first peek. then came the first warning my interest and you could get

i still has been accused of carrying out a massacre in the syrian town of o r e a ten witnesses say the group conducted a revenge campaign killing at least one hundred twenty eight people before the town's capture by government forces the syrian observatory for human rights says the killings in central homs took place over a three week period i still accuse the civilians of collaborating with the syrian regime troops recaptured the town from i so on saturday. how do we get sorted out in the attack just like animals they came to kill us they killed children and women they broke the arms of the women and burned them before killing them they killed more than a hundred innocent people from the families of those civilians and military. action isn't going on tap on the turkey syria border joins us live now ash and what more of you learned about this massacre. money i spoke with see him embers of the syrian opposition people have relatives in our party attend one of the last. seven members of his family in in the basket and he said basically that the syrian government laid siege on cutting tow

to the syrian regime but. i still has a very limited chance actually to sort of honor because in iraq and other he used brush it lost most of his cities in syria to the but you have been diminished off i saw what you know some say is the word for the extremists that are joining us to an extent but unless we actually give you answers which have led actually in the first place to the emergence of arson in syria then iraq the sixty million policies . of the age of syrian and iraqi societies especially in iraq after the fall of the what iraqi regime and in syria because of the. i thought cities which had been committed during dark syrian civil war i think without dealing with these experiences i think i said cannot be defeated. altogether i just said i said has become an idea is a concept and many actually still believe in the cause of but as a military force i think to a great extent it has been defeated in syria and in iraq and we thank you for joining us on al-jazeera. well kurdish forces in northern iraq have s

regime you have the kurdish so-called syrian democratic forces. you have iraqi militias who are coming in across the border from iraq and these tribes they are in danger because the islamic state forces are going to try to merge into them and they're going to try to hide into them and the alternative would be like a military clint's in against these forces and many people would fall victim to that or they would be left to the mercy of shia militias that are coming from iraq and they're very much afraid of that so i think this area is very much in focus now at the moment and needs to be peddled wise so then looking forward for this group the so-called islamic state looking into the future say you had a crystal ball looking one year ahead perhaps even five years ahead how do you see it evolving over time. look i never i never thought that the territorial project of the so-called islamic state was something tangible insistent substantial. you could see if the opponents and if the states a week in the region then these jihadi groups can always reemerge

a five month battle is over for the syrian kurdish and arab fighters backed by the united states they killed dozens of i asked militants in their final push rocka is now a shell of a city. there's nothing left where near the end we haven't seen any i asked militants we haven't seen any of them near the stadium either i think the city will be fully clear of them in the next two days which once all of the i asked militants are gone from syria i'll go home. i asked took control of rocca in early twenty fourteen and made it the capital of its self-styled caliph that. the militants imposed a strict interpretation of islamic law and used extreme means such as beheadings and torture to quash those who oppose the rule it became home to thousands of jihadists from across the globe after a call by us leader baghdadi to migrate to the syrian city however in recent months the so-called islamic state has steadily lost territory in syria and iraq. the fall of raka is a major blow to the militant group but the extremists still controlled territory in neighboring regions on the iraqi side of the bord

once the pride of the syrian opposition is backed by turkey the u.s. and many european and gulf countries it has paid crucial roles in recent military operations against i sit in northern syria. but it has been weakened by divisions and is outnumbered by rival groups syria's opposition is now turning to commanders like from the brigade to unite all the armed groups and build a new army. we will have a transitional authority a new army that will run the country went to show other side is a victor dog power but we need weapons and logistical support the syrian opposition is expected to appoint a minister of defense and chief. but rebel commanders are yet to overcome differences about the structure of the new army and the groups that will be allowed to join the f.s.a. has disintegrated into disparate factions mohamed commands a free syrian army unit in. an area in homs besieged by government forces. some factions have acted selfishly never cared about the others they still weapons but never share them with those constantly on the front lines this is creat

hiding back before the syrian. with heavier weapons it isn't going to get the game very much but it's a harassing stick in keeping everyone today during the fierce firefight one of the pickup trucks stopped here is one of the jihad ists briefly showing himself while spraying the way on full auto with a clear targets out came the heavy of weapons. it was a miss try again. the scrap isis lost but everything you just saw was shot within the span of a single hour in one village with a small unit these scenes being repeated hourly across the front hundreds of kilometers wide more i guess dia. from hadleigh syria. meanwhile syria's foreign minister has demanded the dissolution of the us led coalition in his country he claims that the operation is nothing but a cover up a serious destruction. love goodman the u.s. led coalition has to be dissolved because it commits crimes against the syrian people fountains of syrian citizens most of them women and children have become victims of these crimes during the past two months th

russians and the syrians to do that if you are such claims and the russians have already acted. when they defused what he knew the. investigative commission as for the united states i believe that they are mounting that pressure they want to direct an attack against syria because they already failed. on various fronts in the middle east and they have their influence. both in syria and iraq ok we'll leave it there. time today professor of history and international relations at lebanese university in beirut thank you. the internet has long had a sinister side which few people ever experience but which should be of concern to anyone who gets online. this is just. well securing information held online is now and endless battle with cyber crime having rocketed in recent years and it's thought the cost of countering it could double over the next five years cyber security expert barry spielman explains some of the dangers. the dark web has become a place where a lot of very bad things are going on over there it wasn't always that way and it wasn't meant to be that way the dark web was

holmes took place over a three week period beisel accused the civilians of kurd liberating with syrian regime forces government forces recapture the town from i saw on saturday. is on the turkey syria border hashim is this now looking like a scorched earth policy if they can't have it nobody can. yes peter we spoke with different sources activists people who has relatives in at in town and also senior members of the syrian opposition and they say that this is what happened so about two days ago the syrian government made a siege on their town of attain and he was determined to retake it back this is one of the towns that changed hands many times in the past it was under the control of i thought the government took it back and then i thought came back again and recover so. when the civilians when they saw this season decided to leave because they were concerned about their safety especially as the fighting intensive why they were blocked from leaving the city by isis fighters and when they said that they were determined to continue their journey out of the town more than one hundred peo

led coalition the syrian foreign minister also accused the alliance of destroying everything and his country except i saw the tears that there meant there to be fighting adding that he believes that washington is using the coalition's actions to actually prolonging the war in the country let's take a listen. i mean that thousands of syrian citizens have become victims of u.s. airstrikes in russia and dear is all provinces not only men but also women and children besides that the american coalition systematically destroys economic infrastructure. that's why we decided we demand the dissolution of the u.s. led coalition and from member states withdraw from it as it's obvious the us is using it as a cover up for the destruction of syria and maximal prolonging it. now those comments from the syrian foreign minister were made during talks with his russian counterpart part sergey lavrov and of course moscow has also in the past question america's intentions and the fact of this in the region let's take a listen. the activities over u.s. led forces raise many questions in some cases the for

the syrian government the. allies the everyone who wanted to get rid of the they knew where to bomb and the fighters within the city couldn't entrenched themselves very much whilst the situation there is or is slightly different and the you know the fighters of know exactly where to hide and you have to be careful because they hide among civilians didn't have to leave areas apparently where you can bomb without having or causing collateral damage so it will take some time but the good news is the syrian army having crossed the euphrates a little bit south of daters or is now heading north back on the other side of the euphrates the eastern bank. is in circling those forces from behind so this would also hope for the speed up the clearing of the resort itself but it would also take some time just on another aspect to get your thoughts and the city of iraq north of we're looking all of them up there in eastern syria that's where the u.s. backed up aeration is ongoing the russian military has said that the coaliti

i was summoned to the foreign office and i was accused of interfering in syrian internal affairs. or the forty's i was to hold the project immediately which i did i narrowly avoided becoming a person non grata was. called. my was sentenced to five years. i was accused of conspiracy and founding an international organization that. the european parliament demanded the syrian authorities immediately release and while boonie and other political activists and ensure they were not abused one in jail. need however to serve all five years of his sentence he was beaten abused and even threatened with death. the e.u. then pursued other avenues and policies it centered on the association agreement with syria to tie the country to europe economically because they needed bashar al assad in the region. india your own. european politicians started visiting damascus again the visitors might have felt like many other diplomats they knew about the human rights violations but they didn't see them the germans signed a financial agreement with syria in two thousand and eight alone twenty six million eu

led coalition in that country is dissolved saying the forces are destroying everything but islamic state. syrian government forces edge. we have an exclusive report for you from the front line. isis is making it. doesn't look. like. that's where the spanish prime minister. clarifies whether he declared the region's independence or not the deadline for this monday. the journalistic standards of the new york times have been called into question after one of its editors was caught on camera bragging about how. you watching international. start this hour with syria where the government backed by russian air cover drug advancing against the islamic state in the province of but each victory is coming at a high price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last strongholds in the region the village of which is just been liberated witnessed a brutal battle. following the liberation of hartley the syrian army is now advancing on eisel positions to the north west but before that artie's right goes the a fall of the troops they moved in to have to travel across the areas only bridge that's ove

people from liberated towns in the syrian province of day as or are trying to get their lives back on track after three years surrounded by islamic state extremists what outgassed the of has the story of two young sisters whose battle for survival isn't over despite the terrorists fleeing the area. meet saturday she survived maybe six or seven she doesn't know and the smog it's the streets. surviving ice is siege of data stored. feet so many perished. as a result of starvation sickness violence. if. sally is a survivor she has a sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves out on land. and home. to one that almost don't want to land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life bit of it was show me when from home to home to live in the streets they beg for money to stay alive inside today sick for sally bags alone for my neighbors who knew their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them but it's not easy mark i was no bathroom i wanted to take

now to our other top story this hour i still has been accused of carrying out a massacre in the syrian town of el correa tain witnesses say the group conducted a revenge campaign killing at least one hundred twenty eight people before the towns captured by government forces the syrian observatory for human rights says the killings in central homs took place over a three week period i still accuse the civilians of collaborating with the syrian regime the troops recapture the town from i said on saturday photo of all that they attacked us like animals they came to kill us they killed children and women they broke the arms of the women and burned them before killing them they killed more than one hundred innocent people from the families of both civilians and military. correspondent national. border with syria. came under the control of i still about a month ago but then a few days ago the syrian government played this season on the city thousands of civilians concerned about their safety decided to leave but then they were barred by i.c.l. from moving of those who were determined to go w

you're here loudly the is from the syrian opposition he says his side has two priorities in the talks. first is the issue of the detainees or the prisoners or the people or almost three hundred thousand people taken hostage actually. and such an issue is beyond negotiations and it has been stated in articles twelve thirteen fourteen in. geneva . solution two to five four and it is really high time for the world to interfere and put an end to such as tragedy of those people the second thing is the creation earlier which are being breached by that is g.m. and iran on almost daily basis and russia is a go into and it's supposed to do something about that lemon can has more details now from those talks and i stand now. there started talks have started and these are closed door talks between all of the major parties now who's in attendance we have the syrian government the syrian opposition delegations from both of those we have the united nations and also the united states but mainly it's of the three guarantors of the deescalation zones and that's russia turkey and iran now there is some

felicity the turkish army is calling for more reinforcement in the area and the free syrian army is also sending more fighters to the bill how are the border crossing in south turkey from there there were start this major but it's an operation to try to take on the head of the shah in the phase one of the operation with the free syrian army leading the fight of the turkish army providing logistics or also intelligence gathering and some may be using its artillery to break the defense lawyers of the to head in a sham phase two is when the turkish army with crossed into it live. to take part in the deescalation agreement that was signed with iran and russia last month in a stand up but that phase is really going to be a crucial one that's where the turkish army is going to be deeply involved in the syrian crisis trying to maintain security and safety and ensure that no armed groups is engaged in any fighting in the near future in the province of idlib which is the last remaining stronghold for the syrian opposition or has some talk us through what the challenges might now be for the techie

we're operating together with the free syrian army while russia is outside. yanker is now supporting the free syrian army against. terrorists in a mission that's being coordinated with moscow turkish troops are poised at the syrian border but have not yet we believe crossed into the country director of a british thing tank on the middle east amar waka believes there is now a tussle agreement between. well the very fact that. this time around when turkish observers and troops are heading into the country and we haven't heard from the syrian government that this has gone into you know a further step previously when turkey went into syria for example in northern syria in general blues to drive out isis or. the syrian state did not endorse the operation on the called it in a in an official statement as an aggression. now adays we've heard or previous like one or two weeks ago we've heard the syrian foreign minister say that this is going to be like a test for turkey so this is a step for which tells you that the cooperation between the countries has taken a step f

launched his size into the air base that was used by syrian warplanes to drop sarin gas on her and she home but the american response fell short of the expectations of millions of syria's her father. should have been a turning point in the syrian conflict and a wake up call for the international community as well but i'll just. let my canister joining us live from the u.n. now what more can you tell us about the report mike. well as thirty three pages that the joint investigative mechanism has presented now to the security council it says said during the period of its research it found numerous allegations of the use of chemical weapons within syria however it focused on two particular incidents that one and harnish i couldn't that we've just seen the report about made very clear its belief that the syrian government must be held accountable for that attack now it looked at that attacked minute plea although it had knitted that its fact finding mission did not actually travel to the site of itself however it use satellite imagery it used interviews with witnesses cell phone footage and

the kurds on a collision course with the syrian military which is moving from the south to word . and the syrian army is saying that it definitely is it is definitely keen on taking over all the territory it lost whether to the rebels or to. the kurds to a certain extent tough control of most of this area how should they will speak about those eisel fighters at bay have escaped all splinter groups that might have crossed into different parts of the country if they haven't already focus their attention on. what we know so far so good is that it was definitely a few days ago between tribesman and i said fighters which paved the way for some of those fighters particular the syrians to hand over themselves to the to the kurds and they say that they will be interrogated about them they will be allowed to stay and live in iraq however we don't know about what happened to the foreign fighters or at a certain stage said that they won't leave and they want to fight to the death but we do understand that some of those firefighters manage to leave. during the last forty eight hours where hav

deescalation zones that are under discussion the syrian opposition want a prisoner exchange but there's been no agreement on that so far u.n. backed talks are scheduled for geneva in late november in iran you just talked there about the u.n. but talks that russia itself is coming. up the idea of another talk another meeting in sochi what do we know about. all i can tell you is at least thirty groups have been invited to these talks but what's different about these talks is they haven't run along the tracks of other talks so far the u.n. backed talks are very political talks here in a start of a very much on the basis of military and stopping a cease fire sorry creating a cease fire these talks seem to be the russians deepening their involvement within syria and asking various different syrian groups now let me just go through some of them these groups include the opposition they include the syrian government but they also include ethnic minorities within syria itself and key religious groups as well to give their opinion on what they see as the future of syria it's l

advances the syrian army is on the move both competing to control more territory the syrian government is determined to recapture areas it lost or i sell the rebels and the kurds a confrontation between the kurds and the syrian army may trigger an exodus of thousands of people towards the border with turkey has. the time. to be a worldwide criticism of a decision by the us president to decertify a deal on iran's nuclear program don trump says tehran hasn't lived up to the two thousand and fifteen agreement which restricts iran's nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of sanctions iran's president hassan rouhani has responded to trump speech he called it a pile of delusional allegations and the leaders of france germany and britain are warning the u.s. against undermining the accord well in a moment we'll have more reaction from there on but first here's our report by white house correspondent kimberly hulk it he's often threatened to tear out the landmark deal with iran but in the end u.s. president donald trump stopped short of pulling out of the twenty fifteen agreement to li

and the chemical weapons watchdog playing the syrian government for a chemical attack in april now over eighty people were killed when the nerve agent sarin was dropped on to the town of current she couldn't and a warning you may find some of the images in hushed report disturbing. this is one of the gasping for moments after government warplanes bombed a hole in the it live neighborhood is a rebel stronghold within minutes hundreds of people were rushed to hospitals suffering asphyxiation and other agonizing symptoms after they were exposed to the nerve agent sarin gas. this is one of more than a year later she survived but more than eighty people mostly children were killed. we are still traumatized by the attack we face the near death experience its impact remains what that gets by nick attacks from time to time and starts banging your head when the walls. the attack triggered an international outcry and growing calls for sanctions against the syrian government. denies using chemical weapons but u.n. war crimes investigators say they gathered evidence to confirm the attack was carrie

reforms promised social reforms and even spoke of democracy it was an encouraging message for the many syrians who dreamed of freedom. in what are they out but in two thousand something finally happened in this country people started to meet and debate there were political events the first ones were called national dialogue and took place in my father's house it was always packed. hundreds came to debate about anything that was on their mind they wanted to talk about syria just like. you could feel how great the longing was to be involved and bring about change at long last. meeting let me tell fals. six months off to he entered office the young president appeared for the first time in public with his wife from england. it was a mystery to say in the first few months because we heard about this lady coming from london. very fashionable. not only beautiful she was clever sentence very good studies in london she was working in a major bank etc. to leave all this to go to syria. why she did that what was behind it who was she. she contributed to this protester profile greatly because she was you

state by the syrian army. and the czech republic is said to be governed by its own donald trump after euro skeptic media mogul billionaire wins the country's parliamentary elections. thank you for watching the headlines he went on to international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate. we start in spain where there have been more protests across the country east following madrid's decision to impose direct rule in catalonia the weight of the region's independence vote while the senate is expected to approve the sacking of the region's leadership on friday and while the council on parliament would be dissolved it will now be stripped of its capacity to elect a president artie's within a question of a report from barcelona. walk alone or staying together in the catalan people had a chance to respond we saw those fully supporting independence and also those who want to be confluence but part of spain. was pro independence leaders sounded better in the beginning than the tone change. the people of won the right t

it live is the only province in syria which is and the control of the syrian opposition particularly under the control of. which is led by. the front now it's a huge area with hundreds of thousands of civilians and thousands of opposition fighters in transit in different areas we need to know first of all what is going to be the detail of this whole military operation and how will the russians the iranians and the turks who have been financing all supporting opposing parties in syria come together and coordinate their mid to operation the biggest question so far is what will be the reaction of the hay at the head of the if they decide to put up a resistance against this whole mid to operation i think in the coming days we are likely to see some of the most intensified fighting in syria. i guess the mandate is to make sure that they can get to a stage where they police these so-called deescalation zones properly not going too far because then they get sucked into the broader conflict and that has not been an easy step for turkey to take before. exactly and they have not been so far ver

bit by bit the syrian army back by russian is advancing against islamic state in the province of dead as or although each victory comes at a heavy price the terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain their last strongholds in the region and the newly liberated very village of hotline that witnessed witnessed a brutal battle. has been able to get first hand experience of the fighting the fall of the syrian army across the only bridge over the euphrates river in the area straight to the front line and from there he sent us this report. under a bright blue sky through devastated country across the euphrates over the only bridge in the entire province we came to the village of hadleigh less than a day ago this was part of the caliphate but no longer from what we were told the syrian army's fifth division did the heavy lifting here much of had has already been swept and cleared but no tool it isn't like the movies do is rarely open at the first peek. then came the first warning. and. he was right it wasn't one of their as. isis back up had arrived reinforce the jihad ists felt confident en

the stigma just mentioned around mental health is just one of many barriers to treating syrian refugees many have experienced or witnessed atrocities during the war in syria now in its seventh year that war has created a staggering number of refugees more than five million many hour risk of psychological trauma and in need of mental health services to cope with off to brutal memories from home and the difficult journey to escape and start life in a new country turkish authorities have estimated that fifty five percent of the three million syrian refugees there need mental health care while half of those families believe they need psychological support in germany which is taken in almost two hundred seventy thousand syrian refugees one study estimates fifty percent have mental health issues and have been victims of violence resources to address mental health scare us but experts say immediate treatment is needed to avoid long term damage is one way a syrian child expressed the trauma he experienced in war have a look. so just how difficult is it to receive treatment well here to help us

now the syrian foreign minister made those comments during talks with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov who of course also has in the past question america's intentions and effectiveness in the region let's take a less know what he's had to say. the activities over u.s. led forces raise many questions in some cases the forces of directly courage to of the terrorists to attack strategic positions rightfully regain but the most well they have deliberately engaged in bloody provocations against the forces which hearing them mean what allegations or what evidence should i say about allegations of war crimes and other well there's been a series of concerns really especially back in the end of september the russian ministry of defense released aerial images which they said showed us army equipment at outpost near there is or that had very shortly just days before been under eisel control and the problem was there was no signs of fighting whatsoever from any of the aerial images everything looked perfectly intact giving meaning that it was clear that the coalition had forcibly taken over