use a brief lull in the fighting to clear the rubble and hope the next pause brings real relief. let's bring in diana seaman here she's a syria researcher from amnesty international and joins us now from beirut how does the temporary cease fire brought any relief to the people of eastern go to. not yet i mean people who've interviewed her and side of history would have told us that the ceasefire was lighted or breached even before the two pm deadline that was said by russia a doctor told amnesty international that even before two pm ten bombs fed on civilian areas in eastern. including a hospital in one of the neighborhoods and yesterday who died and thankfully nobody was connected but there were some people who were injured in addition none of the humanitarian aid convoys were allowed or even the access by this your government and very stern who. wanted. but as we heard in our report both sides in the conflict blame each other for violating the cease fire why is this truce proving so difficult to implement. i mean we've seen in the past six years how un security council resolutions are being adopted and yet the syrian government and in some cases armed groups have violated or did not implem

he joins us from beirut. good to have you on the show.organization released a statement today saying "it is impossible to bring in a humanitarian convoy in only five hours." what framework needs to be in place if you are able to do your job in eastern ghouta? ralph: absolutely. five hours is definitely not enough to bring in humanitarian aid for over 400,000 people who have been living ther ewith very little, access to medicine food, water, and basic necessities. what is needed is the government of syria and armed groups, that all the parties fighting come to an agreement to allow humanitarian organizations the safe and repeated access into eastern ghouta, first so we are able to assess humanitarian needs and devise our plan accordingly. even if we're allowed once into eastern ghouta, that would definitely not be enough, and we would have to enter again to distribute to the thousands of people who are in need. host: what are you going to do? as it looks right now, the un's cease-fire is not taking place, and the only thing that oculd or m

lives is the highest priority as well ralph el-hage from the international red cross joining us from beirut thanks very much thank you we're turning now to the u.s. where president donald trump's son in law jared kushner has been stripped of his top level security clearance kushner's downgraded status takes him a step away from the president's inner circle especially in terms of access to america's top secrets kushner's not alone many other white house aides who had temporary clearance also seen their privileges blocked by chief of staff john kelly if you have had donald trump here like jarryd krishna. from the early days of the campaign the discreet son in law has been a constant at trumps a advising coaching watching his back doing his best to turn an improbable candid it into a president. of the. air and have a job in the white house on access to the u.s. is most closely held secret but on friday trump said krishna's privileges were in the hands of his chief of staff so that will be up to general kelly general kelly respects general lot and general kelly will make that call i will make t

targeted rather harshly the spokesman for the international committee of the red cross joining us tonight from beirut mr hart thank you very much thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in jerusalem protesters opposed to a proposed tax on the church of the holy sepak or were rewarded with success when the tax plan was suspended today the church on the site where christians believe jesus christ was crucified and buried was closed in protest it will reopen on wednesday in washington d.c. the street outside the russian embassy has been renamed to boris nemtsov plaza after the russian politician and critic of president vladimir putin who was gunned down three years ago at the same time in moscow else supporters placed flowers at the place where he was shot close to the kremlin a former security guard from chechnya was jailed for him solves murder. greece's economy and development minister has resigned demetrius of a dummy trio stepped down just a day after his wife left the government now this followed a public outcry when it was revealed that the weal

sanctions the syrian government has been accused of using chemical weapons and what is live for us from beirut in neighboring lebanon day two what's the expectation today. well like you mentioned the pause in the fighting just an hour ago we were getting reports of heavy bombardment and airstrikes targeting a number of towns and among them so they too in the process of the fighting there is no doubt that this is a welcome or spite for the citizens the residents of eastern who have been spending over a week really many of them at least in underground bunkers they managed to emerge from the bunkers to find food to bury their dead to search their homes for personal belongings that that are left behind so for the people of eastern. it is not enough what they want is a ceasefire because people died during the first the five hours the pause in the fighting yesterday the syrian observatory for human rights says that two people died in this five hour time frame so what the people wanted like you mentioned is a long lasting cease fire and are we getting a sense of the situation there what people have b

failed to stop the onslaught of the least thirteen killed in fighting xenophobia is live for us from beirut in neighboring lebanon so it is in effect now any news coming from there on the developments. well. call we're not getting any reports. or airstrikes so like i mentioned in. pause in the fighting taking effect approximately an hour ago we have to stress that this is a five hour pause in the fighting that is over. and that is what we saw yesterday but during this five hours undoubtedly it is a welcome for the residents the hundreds of thousands of people who are trapped in eastern yesterday we saw them emerge from the bunkers trying to look for food they went back home to check on their belongings and some of them even buried their dead so this is a response but it is not enough the people. want a permanent and lasting cease fire they want the pro-government alliance to implement the u.n. security council decision on saturday calling for a thirty day cease fire. to allow aid to reach the people there and obviously one of the aims of this this is what the russians and the syrians want t

us from beirut in neighboring lebanon so russia is blaming the rebels on the fact that this. as well as it should what is the situation. there is an un easy call in eastern of the fighting taking effect at nine am local time syria time of course is going to last until there is definitely a reduction in violence yesterday we saw little violence according to the syrian observatory for human rights two civilians were killed during the fighting but what the people want is a full ceasefire a lasting and a permanent cease fire of course this is a response for the people who have been living in underground shelters but they are still continuing to live underground shelters because after two pm the bombing just resumes we heard again blaming the rebels for preventing civilians from leaving and preventing aid from entering the rebels are. saying they are not bombing the border in the people do not want to leave because they don't have any security guarantees there are no international monitors where are these people going to go they're going to cross into government territory what gua

on we can continue this question is get some more middle east reaction on this joins us from beirut we know has been laws been speaking out on this one what's the message there. oh yes hezbollah the lebanese armed group allied to iran their media unit issuing a statement but this time around it was not signed by hezbollah but signed by syria's allies so iran you know hezbollah the iranian revolutionary guard all of them issuing this statement saying that any syrian aggression or an aggression against the syrian government or the syrian or syria will be met with course so clearly a very tough response and as iran was mentioning the iranians as well saying there is a message that as of today you know the downing of the jet is a message that you know they can't fly over syria and hit targets in syria without going unpunished so harsh rhetoric really it was a serious incident a serious confrontation but for now it seems both sides have taken a step back they've given each other messages we know what israel's red lines are it said this for some time now it will not allow to iran and its all

let's bring in senior international correspondent ben wedeman, joining us from beirut. tell us about this specific attack, as brutal as it was? >> reporter: i can tell you, wolf, the images you just showed are the sanitized version. we've been looking at videos all day long here and they are disturbing, to say the least. this has been going on for the last few days. the syrian government and russian warplanes bombarding seemingly indiscriminately in this area just outside of damascus. home to almost 400,000 people. before the war, 2 million people lived there. we heard from the united nations humanitarian coordinator for syria today who said that within the last 48 hours, six hospitals in that area have been struck. he said in his written statement that this nightmare in eastern ghouta must end and must end now. it appears that the syrian government and its russian allies do not intend to stop this offensive. today, according to the official syrian news agency, rockets were fired from the eastern ghouta by rebels into damascus, killing at least five civilians, wounding

me he's the director of communications at the carnegie middle east center in beirut and that is where he's joining us from thanks for speaking to us what was the takeaway message for you from tillerson visit to beirut his meetings as well as that press conference that he held with saddam heidi. yes i mean the he calmed down fears in beirut of potential cut down of all u.s. support to the lebanese as you sions and there has been lots of talk about sort of making hezbollah equal or equivalent to lebanon's a students including the army of the body's own forces this has been how these have been happening in white wing circles around the u.s. administration so there are some basically calm down these fears and and now he has we have the u.s. position vis a vis supporting the live in the state as you sions including the especially the lebanese armed forces which united states have been backing. and the past in the past phase so this this is a we are for nation of the u.s. position on on these issues and at the same time it's also a sort of an acknowledgment that. the united states sees these two entities are se

from beirut. panic in the streets i. was using. fear in people's faces. the neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous. towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire i was survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. was was on the floor one of the some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged syrian opposition enclave nowhere is safe. the sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens the population. and muhammad and her son the same say they can only hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hits nearby i didn't we have no choice but to stay in our harm's despite be in strikes and shelling our building and those in the street said i don't have underground shelter. the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. there are hundreds of injuries as well doctors are appealing to the international community to force the go

lives is the highest priority as well ralph el-hage from the international red cross joining us from beirut thanks very much thank you now for some of the other stories making the news this hour u.n. experts say north korea has been supplying items to syria used in the production of ballistic missiles and chemical weapons the panel of experts monitoring sanctions found more than forty previously unreported shipments from pyongyang to syria between two thousand and twelve and two thousand and seventeen. christian leaders have reopened the church of the holy sepulcher in jerusalem one of christianity's holiest sites the church leaders had closed the sacred site for three days to protest proposed legislation in israel taxing church properties so officials suspended the planned measures on tuesday. three astronauts have touched down safely in kazakhstan after almost six months aboard the international space station two americans and one russian were among the crew whose mission included research and equipment maintenance accrued to replace the three man is due to lift off on march the twenty fi

from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran khan is well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come off santa maria thanks for joining us and see you again soon. these explosions were not an act of war. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the kazakh people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little difference rewind silent own news at this time amount to zero. from the blue sky. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city. hello there were some very heavy downpours over parts of south america at the moment the satellite picture showing plenty of clouds plenty of showers again over the parts of bolivia and into the northern parts of argentina this is a region we've seen flooding recently and there's plenty more heavy rains still to come and then also plenty of what with the stretching its way across into the eastern parts of brazil as well so expect some showers if you are in rio to those showers

from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran town as well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series on come off santa maria thanks for joining us and see you again soon. the skies a lost a clerical smuts of a strike we have still got one it's a shop showers around the finals of the country just around the cape york peninsula just towards the top and towards the kimberley cloud and rain that's been making its way through the fos south not see much right on this if the truth be not temperature is still going up to around twenty nine celsius adelaide and from out of the thirty two in brisbane and those temperatures getting high as they go on through the next couple of days perth will see a high of around twenty seven degrees and we want to scattered around eight to w.i. but nothing too much to speak of forty one celsius and alice where the really hot weather will be for the time being time just for the way into the southeast adelaide twenty t

from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran can as well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series i'm come off santa maria thanks for joining us and see you again soon. wow these explosions were not an act of war. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the cause that people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little difference rewind silent. at this time on al-jazeera. hello there we're seeing some rather active weather across parts of north america at the moment well thanks to this weather system here this joining forces with what's going on around the gulf of mexico this is injecting plenty of moisture into that weather system and so we are going to see a lot of heavy rain and a lot of heavy snow as we head through the next few days of course most of the rain is in the south but it's also ahead of that main feature because then you see the cold day begin to dig in and that's where we see this snow so pl

from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran town as well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series on come off santa maria thanks for joining us and see you again soon. these explosions were not. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the kazakh people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little different rewind silent. on noticing. how it is more significant rain likely in eastern iran more especially afghanistan obviously snow some height then a bit of a gap to we pick a little more familiar sight of the clouds been streaming out of east africa for a week or two it's been benign for the most part it's been sort of cloud in the sky not bringing i think now is thickening and it's bringing some rain some rain for egypt and iran maybe with the south or bringing walks up to baghdad but the rain becomes rather more widespread by tommy get to tuesday snow in the caucasus snow in eastern turkey run through syria

than a safe return a decent safety here and for a different well put something out of joining us from beirut thank you so much for your thoughts whilst we're still talking syria here it is happening at the united nations now the focus of this meeting in new york you see the high representative there for disarmament affairs and as i understand this is a regular i think a monthly mazing that they do actually have to report back on the disarmament of syria and its chemical weapons and it just sort of coincides that we have had this news of another potential chemical attack in its labor province i have a quick listen in just for a while we are currently being analyzed by two p.c. wu designated in the board series the executive council will be informed of the results of this inspection by a separate note to the next session of the executive council from the director general mr president distinguished members of the council the o.p.c. w. fact finding mission f.m. continues to look into all of the gay sions of the use of chemical weapons in syria the majority of which involved the use of toxic chem

east and go to that have killed more than two hundred people as friends in a hot issue joins us live from beirut and what do you think they're hoping to achieve by bombing these residential areas the strategy behind all this carnage. well they are bombing the rebels and the people of eastern into submission more than two hundred people killed among them sixty children in three days there was intense bombardment intense airstrikes almost continuous really what they were trying to do is make the rebels say enough is enough fine we will lay down our arms we will leave the area this is what the government wants to do this is a military tactic it has happened in the past it has happened in other areas so far the rebels and the people of eastern who are remaining defiant saying that no we will not leave our homes we don't want to you know to go to live this has happened to people elsewhere they've left their homes they've gone to another rebel held territory and they are not never going to be able to go back to their homes so this is a way of forcing us to render now whether or not you know they'll be

aid to be delivered and for the critically ill to be evacuated its go she joins us live from beirut we hearing about shelling what happened. well yes the russian center for reconciliation and the syrian official news agency blaming rebels for targeting a route that they specified for humanitarian like a humanitarian corridor door for civilians to leave the government controlled territory but what we understand is we haven't got any independent confirmation about this shelling so of course the pro-government alliance is going to blame the rebels for not allowing civilians to leave but we have been talking to civilians in eastern booth as well as activists many people are too afraid to leave because where can they go they're going to go to government controlled territory and most of them have been telling us is that we don't have any security guarantees that once we arrive there we will not be arrested or we will not be killed because in one way or another we are all wanted by the government so reports that rebels are targeting this humanitarian corridor but over all this truce has been

xenophon joins us live from beirut so just hearing that they've obviously been violations wondering what this means for the cease fire. well there was a little violence artillery shells hitting strikes targeting two towns but there were no civilian deaths five hour pause in the fighting is not a permanent lasting cease fire that is what the people of eastern want it is what the people of eastern with are demanding the u.n. security council meeting on saturday approved a resolution calling for a thirty day truce so little violence in an hour from now that five hour temporary lull in the fighting and we're expecting to resume it really has been ten days of hell really for the people of more than five hundred fifty people killed thousands injured in an enclave which is under siege the russian military accusing the rebels of targeting in the vacuum ration for door that they set up so that civilians can leave the enclave the rebels of course denying this saying that that we are not preventing civilians from leaving but we understand from talking to people inside no one wants to leave because

into northern israel one was severely injured while in a few moments in a hot air will join us live from beirut but first let's cross to western talk to. some confusion as to whether or not these rainy operation is finished what more can you tell us about this jet being shot down. well can tell you that the israeli army have confirmed that the operation is still ongoing against what it's calling iranian targets and syrian ed defense systems on the syrian side now what they're saying about the israeli jet is interesting they're very very careful language they won't confirm whether it was actually shot down with it was shot down by syrian air defense systems all even russian defense system that is likely to try and avoid a big escalation of this conflict clearly the syrians are very angry and they've issued a statement saying that they will retaliate against any israeli aggression on the territory the ministry of defense is actually leading this operation they are in meetings right now trying to figure out what they're doing next but yes the operation is still ongoing but no confirmation as to ho

from neighboring lebanon. he joins us live from beirut. ben, another story that we've been focusing on.ear from you the latest information you might have on that russian war plane that was shot down saturday and what has happened since then. >> there was an su-25 russian aircraft that was shot down. it's not clear by what, by whom. but certainly what we've seen as syrian attacks on idlib province in northwestern syria. this is really the last major pocket of anti-regime territory. and it really has been the focus of this intensification, certainly after the shooting down of that su-25 on saturday evening. and really the situation there is desperate in terms of the civilians who are in a sense caught between a rock and a hard place. this intensifying russian-syrian offensive in the area. also we must admit that many of the syrian factions in that part of the country are hardline, to say the least, among them what is known as the al qaeda affiliate even though they deny any connections with al qaeda, it operates in that area. so the continuing plight of the civilians in that part of syria

remain trapped in eastern goods which has been under siege since two thousand and thirteen joins us live from beirut so center there was religious of calm until recently what happened what changed. well yes a relative calm approximately a week or so what we understand is that there were behind the scenes negotiations russian brokered negotiations between the rebels and the government in one way or another the russians wanted some kind of rebel surrender and now those negotiations fell apart and on sunday we saw a renewed intense bombardment really twenty four hours a heavy airstrikes heavy artillery shelling targeting multiple towns across eastern hotel like you mentioned more than one hundred people killed one of the bloodiest days really in syria and in eastern hutto women and children were killed now pro regime and media there beating the drums of war if you like they sent reinforcements to the edges of who they're talking about a decisive battle comments made by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying that the experiment we had in aleppo could be implemented in eastern talking about a

well in a few moments will join us live from beirut but first let's cross to western going to talk to him and. so what's been the reaction so far and side israel to reports of this f. sixteen coming down. well let me give you the details of the large scale military response that took place in the last few hours against targets in side syria fishley what the israeli army have said is that israeli. sorry israeli air force targeted the syrian aerial defense system and iranian targets in syria twelve targets including three aerial defense batteries and four iranian military targets was attacked and the acro missiles were then fired towards israel triggering a lomas in northern israel so this operation a large scale attack against those targets drop in very quickly in the last four or five i was against those targets of the israelis clearly knew what targets they wanted to hit in. in revenge against what happened and now we're also hearing that the cabinet meeting there will be a cabinet meeting a little bit later we do know that the defense ministry of already met they are likely to tryin

fire to allow aid to be delivered and for the critically ill to be evacuated then how to joins us live from beirut zain a how's it playing out what are you hearing. zain i'm just running if you can hear me. just wondering how they yes i can hear you say how the pause in fighting is playing out what you're hearing about how it's going to work. yes sure. but we seem to be having a sound is there polish is for that the u.n. space has a seven jerrick says the truce is better than nothing. we stand ready as soon as the conditions are safe for truck drivers humanitarian workers to roll into these areas. we for that to be effective cease the fighting needs to stop we need to ensure that there are no roadblocks whether physical or administrative. whether or not for five hours is enough not enough it's a difficult question to to answer five hours is better than no hours but we would like to see any sation fosse's be extended. thirty days as the security council said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that we're able to work a believe xenophon i can hear us now is and i'm just wonderin

fire to allow aid to be delivered and for the critically ill to be evacuated senator joins us live from beirut or i'd say it is supposed to start about now i'm just wondering what you're hearing about how it's going to work what the plan is. well very little details well we understand that this will be a daily five hour pause in the fighting like you mentioned this is not the u.n. decision for a ceasefire to last thirty days the people of eastern undoubtedly will welcome even if it's just an hour of a cessation of hostilities many of them hiding underground bunkers that will give them time to emerge from these bunkers and look for food look for water but they are saying this is not enough this is a game they're calling this a game by the russian government they say what they want to do is to d. populate the eastern when they talk about setting up humanitarian corridors what the russians want and this is of course according to the people of eastern good are for people to leave but the people say we don't have the stories this is not a choice for us because if we leave where are we going to go a

goods which has been under siege since twenty thirteen let's go which is in a hurry she joins us live from beirut zain a it's an area that's been experiencing relative calm until recently what happened . well yes a week or so there was a relative call it was shattered on sunday when there was intense bombardment like you mentioned more than a hundred and ten people killed women and children among them since sunday intense bombardment an airstrike what we understand is that there were negotiations russian brokered negotiations to try to bring about some sort of a rebel to render but the rebels on the ground remain defiant saying they will not accept a surrender so this is the government's way really of punishing the people for supporting the rebels they've been targeting residential neighborhoods hospitals civilian infrastructure to try to turn the civilian population against the resolute rebels and force really the rebels to resign and comments recent comments made by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov when he says that the experiments we had in aleppo could be implemented in eastern and

fellow at the european council on foreign relations he's a specialist on yemen he's joining us live now from beirut and adam what should we read into this statement being made by a member of the officially recognized government i mean it's certainly interesting for these comments to be coming out at this time when you look at. the tone and substance is not actually that new before he was named a minister he was frequently saying similar comments it's his position as a commentator that being said i think it does reflect the increasing tensions within the yemeni government for a minister to be saying this and in many ways i think describing the situation in yemen is even worse than it is i was in matter just a few months ago and i would say that the situation in model is actually is actually quite well internationally recognized government has done quite quite a decent job in restoring order there for so to have these comments coming out i think does really underline. many of many of the issues dividing yemen's internationally recognized government even if it does remain united against their wishes a

> sreenivasan: all right, newshour's weekend special correspondent jane ferguson joining us via skype from beirut. thanks so much. thank you. president trump said he would not immediately release a tdemocratic memo fr house intelligence committee and has sent it back for revisions. democrats drted the memo as a rebuttal to the so-called nunes memo that alleged the f.b.i. abused surveillance power during the 2016 campaign. white house counsel donald hemcgahn wrote thatresident is "inclined to declassify" the democratic memo, but ited cont"numerous classified and especially sensitive passages." president trump tweeted this morning that the memo was "very political and long,"nd said it would have to be "heavily redacted." democrats decrd the president's actions as hypocritical. the top democrat on the house intelligence coe representative, adam schiff, who authored the response memo, tweeted at the president "yoou concerns fores and methods would be more convincing if you hadn't decided to release the g.o.p. memo before reading it and over the objections of the f.b.i." democratic senator dianne fein

parachuted into northern israel one was severely injured in a few moments in a hold that will join us live from beirut but first let's cross over to west jerusalem that's where there isn't so emraan first of all this some conflicting signals so clear things up for us from the israeli perspective is this episode over or not. these ready army have confirmed to us within the last ten minutes of the operation is still ongoing that they are targeting iranians hogs within syria and syrian add defense units we're also hearing the one of those targets will have been the command and control center for the iranian drawing that was shot down so this is an on going operation against those targets israel has long been concerned about the iranian presence in the north and has said since the summer that it won't tolerate any kind of presence on its border from iran so this operation is still ongoing it is against iranian and syrian targets but clearly a lot of talking points in the media and what we've been hearing is the language really ratcheted up against iran in fact one commentator was just talking on the media

. >> ben joins us now from beirut. how has the lebanon government responded to this refugee crisis? been struggling with the crisis which began with a trickle of refugees in 2011 which turned into a flood. this is a country with a population of 6 million people. they are dealing with 1 million syrian refugees, hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees and iraqis and yemenis and others. they are struggling. the lebanese have, for instance, begun afternoon shifts in the public schools for syrian students. but it's a huge drain on their resources. much like europe, to a certain extent the united states, refugees have become a political hot potato here. it was the palestinian refugees that set off the lebanese civil war in 1975. the worry is that lebanon's delicate sectarian balance could be thrown out of whack by so many syrians in the country. wolf? >> awful situation indeed. ben, thank you for that report. that's it for me. i will be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room for our international viewers aymanpour is next. newsroom with anderson cooper starts right now. >>>

factions in yemen put civilians last unfortunately out of bear and from the european council on foreign relations joining us this morning from beirut thanks very much if you. we've been hearing the fighting in yemen is raising the prospect of famine there millions of yemenis are dependent right now on food aid many of them children our next report looks at the situation in a rebel held region of yemen as one doctor tries to ease the plight of the children there warning to our viewers that this report does contain some disturbing images. it's the start of a long and busy day for pediatrician a shrug know how to today she'll be making house calls in the countryside. but first a father is waiting anxiously at the central clinic in what data with his emaciated daughter a shrug zaki patient requires her to remain optimistic but she's frustrated during the three years of fighting the number of undernourished children has risen dramatically for her the suffering is unbearable especially when the children are brought to the hospital when it might already be too late. crime idea don't cry don't be afraid. doctors hope to save the child's li

safety and we will keep you updated on that story pretty chilling pages that coming to us right now. at from beirut county in florida up where at school shooting is apparently underway. as we speak missy more students pretty young looking students as well i must say being. we'll try to that school so. he have a system that perhaps as he sees that. all right isn't is issues we have had meetings with this year and educate inflation is the word of the day at invested somewhat taken aback by some data this is today. seventies consumer prices in the united states have risen faster than expected pace at two point one percent inflation. for the month of january that's higher than the nine the one point nine that have been broadly predicted. the federal reserve's target for inflation is two percent so the discrepancy doesn't sound like much but it's all about context sure about sharia explains. the numbers took analysts by surprise. the so called consumer price index that measures the cost of common household goods jumps to point one percent in january as compared to a year ago higher than the one point ni

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claim sovereignty over it already one calm there live for us from west jerusalem let's talk now to say no to she joins us live on the phone from beirut say no israeli air strikes inside syria arms on usual but how could this latest incident escalate tensions in the area between the syrians on the one side and israelis on the other. and utterly barren this is a dramatic development like you mentioned israel has carried airstrikes carried out their strike syria doesn't really have air strikes over the past year a good time to mention the fact that the syrian air defenses have for the first time brought down an israeli plane in past incidents when israel carries out air strikes in syria the syrian government controlled media would say that the air defenses opened fire on what they call. an aggression against their country but this is the first time a plane has been hit and israeli military also confirming that it crashed in that syrian anti-aircraft fire now it is also the first time that israel is saying that its planes carried out an attack inside syria after a rally in drone has infiltrated in to syria and that they brought down this

. >> and ben wedeman is live from beirut. ben, walk usd this morning. >> reporter: what we are hearing from israeli officials is that early in the morning, an iranian-madrone entered israeli air space that was shot down by an israeli helicopter soon afterwards israeli aircraft targeted a position in central syria, called the t-4 air base near palmyra, where they went to take out the launching system that sent this drone toward israeli air space. now, during this air raid apparently some israeli aircraft encountered a good deal of anti-aircraft fire. and one f-16 was damaged it appears. and when it re-entered israeli air space, it crashed. we understand the pilots are still alive, one is in critical condition. now, following that, the israelis launched 12 air raids around damascus in retaliation. and several hours afterwards, another smaller air raid. now, this is hugely significant. it represents a dramatic deterioration in the situation. now, for the last several years, israel has launched dozens of air strikes within syrian territory no

let's get more on this now our correspondents say in the hall there is joining us live from outside the government palace in beirut so what's what's on the agenda on this visit zain at a time of so many tensions in the region including between lebanon and israel. well yes the u.s. secretary of state is on a mediation mission he wants to try to resolve the crisis between israel and lebanon over maritime borders levanon wants exploratory drilling to begin for oil and gas reserves off its coast in the mediterranean sea and the israelis are laying claim to block countries laying claim over this energy bloc and the u.s. trying to mediate now the proposals that the u.s. is putting on the table have been rejected by lebanon in the past and lebanon is clearly not happy because this proposal involves lebanon giving up up to three hundred square kilometers of territorial waters and in fact the way in which the u.s. secretary of state was greeted this morning at the presidential palace was a message from lebanon to the united states so we are not happy the u.s. secretary of state waited for minutes before the foreign ministe

civilian population there are also investigating reports of chlorine gas being used against civilians said holder reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. residential areas are the target buildings flattened civilians killed and injured post syrian government forces have been on the offensive into the opposition held province of it live for weeks now but since fighters from how you have to have a sham shop down a russian aircraft and killed its pilot it has escalated. national aircraft have carried out dozens of air strikes in a number of towns in the past forty eight hours. at least two major hospitals have been hit one of them is now out of service the assault is being described as one of the fiercest yet it includes as you spend more even attack is the town of sockets now the syrian army says it has deployed air defenses and anti-aircraft missiles to the front lines in aleppo to cover the airspace of the norse it says the deployment is a message to everyone. that's four hundred or russian market and they are controlled by the russian intelligence and of the syrian regime so this is russia we need to understand

arab countries let's talk to zain she's been covering the story for us and joins us live from the lebanese capital beirutcena many people must be asking why solder really is going back to riyadh so soon after his abrupt resignation there what's what's behind this move. well his press office is saying that the prime minister did not request this visit he is responding to an invitation given by the saudi authorities clearly toys are strained not just between heidi and the saudi leadership but between saudi arabia and eleven on like you mentioned his sudden resignation from the saudi capital on november four and the bizarre events really the bizarre sequence of events that followed many in lebanon including the president accuse saudi arabia of putting the prime minister under house arrest even you know holding him as a hostage ever since he has revoked his resignation but the relationship has not been on a good foot in one way or the other there has been no visits never visited saudi arabia since then the first time an official saudi delegation visit the beirut was on monday now sources saying that this mee

joining us in moscow dimitri for lawsky political analysts who researches russian affairs in the middle east in beirut he shams a banner a retired lebanese army general and joining us also from our raised in italy joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma gentlemen thank you for being on inside story welcome to the show dimitri in moscow if i can start with you russia was the main guarantor of these yes collation zones and now is leading the onslaught of airstrikes in the early province and civilians are bearing the brunt of the strikes what happened to russia wanting to reach a compromise in syria well i think if we look at what's the russian general policy in syria it's important to look at what's happened in sorts you just recently and this conference that took place is pretty much it's is a pos for all for the single austin associate peace process and by russian standard there has been as a success there has been a right now there is a way for creating a constitution to syria somehow transitional body and so right now russia pretty much feels that it's on the path for bringing this here and reconstruction to syria and the

joins us live now from the lebanese capital beirut the people of eastern must have been hoping for some kind of a spike during this cease fire but the fact is the bombs have kept on falling. yes and civilian deaths continued ten people were killed in an airstrike in the city of seven were killed in artillery shelling in that same city so civilians continue to be killed no letup in the violence of course there has been a drop in the intensity since the u.n. security council meeting on saturday since that resolution calling for a ceasefire because what we saw over the past ten days really was relentless bombardment multiple towns were targeted more than five hundred civilians were killed so a drop in the intensity but the bombing continues and it seems that the government is concentrating these attacks on the edges of eastern huta it helps their forces push further it helps them in the ground offensive it's day two of the ground offensive the government forces they have not been able to take ground in fact the rebels have posted videos of dead government soldiers many of them in the trenc

from beirut. panic in the streets not. to. use you our fear in people's faces. neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous killing towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire i survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. was killed one of them some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged syrian opposition enclave nowhere is safe. the sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens the population. and muhammad and her son the same say they can only hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hit nearby i didn't we have no choice but to stay in our harm's despite be in strikes and shelling out building and those in the street said i don't have underground shelter. in the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. there are hundreds of injuries as well doctors are appealing to the international community to force the government

to how to joins us live now from the lebanese capital beirut say no so what are you hearing there about the russian cease fire is it holding. well it is largely holding yes there is relative calm in eastern huta no airstrikes we have to remember the past ten days really a relentless bombing campaign at this office really summer spite to the civilians who are trapped inside we understand some of them managed to bury the dead some of them emerge from underground bunkers try to search for food for water some of them have been underground for days now the russian military like you mentioned earlier blaming the rebels for targeting an evacuation route that they designated for civilians to leave the rebels denying this saying that they're not preventing civilians from leaving and they are not targeting this evacuation route but what is clear is that the majority of the people inside eastern who do not want to leave not because they want to die it is because they don't know what will happen to them if they cross into government controlled territories they would like security guarantees because

from president trump in the next hour. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is one that lebanon security is being threatened by hezbollah's influence in regional conflicts tell us and was in beirut on the fourth leg of his tours middle east to hold a reports from the lebanese capital things didn't totally to plan. some interpreted it as a message the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson was kept waiting at the presidential palace ahead of talks with lebanese president michel aoun the president he was forced to deny it was a diplomatic snob but not everyone is convinced it was the first time an american official was made to wait till or sin is trying to mediate between lebanon and israel long time and of these who are laying claim to an energy block in the mediterranean sea the lebanese government is not happy with the u.s. proposal to end the dispute it involves giving up hundreds of square kilometers of what lebanon says are its territorial waters what is ours is ours and what's the israel's is israel's and i think this is we're trying to find solutions that will be fair to us and fair to everyone and i think we had some very good discussions on this and some new ideas tillers

from beirut in neighboring lebanon. well. appeals for help coming from the children of. god we are being killed by your silence save us before it is too late mohamed says. opposition activists have launched a campaign on social media to highlight what they describe as the suffering of those trapped in. the intensity of the airstrikes targeting the rebel held area has been unprecedented the bombing relentless. syrian and russian aircraft have stepped up bombardment in recent days in a military operation that began in late december. since then over four hundred people have been killed half in the first week of february alone. according to the syrian observatory for human rights at least one hundred of the casualties were children and. nowhere is safe the united nations says people are under extreme danger calls for a cease fire have been ignored three house facilities have been hit in the past week the u.n. has been trying to evacuate hundreds of critically ill and wounded patients for months now. eastern who has been encircled by government forces for four years as of late the siege has been tightened and no aid has en

joins us live now from outside the presidential palace in beirut says into this visit clearly coincides with so many escalating tensions across the region the in-tray very full mr tillis. well yes no doubt just a few days ago we saw a very serious confrontation between syria israel and iran and lebanon and israel are facing a dispute over its maritime border is eleven on wants to drill for oil and gas and israel is saying well some of the areas that you have tendered to the international consortium well they belong to us so heightening tensions between israel and lebanon what we understand is that the u.s. is trying to mediate in this dispute the u.s. envoy was in lebanon a few days ago but the lebanese are not happy with the american proposal what we understand is that america wants seven on to give up three hundred square kilometers of its waters and what happened this morning at the presidential palace really was a message from lebanon to washington the secretary of state arrived at the presidential palace and he was not greeted by anyone he waited a few minutes before the foreign mi

beirut for more their son joined. us from the white helmet souse in paris and watch how much as a humanitarian organization made up of volunteers you help syrian civilians on the ground thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk to us or can you can you explain to us how serious the situation is in. in one week more than one hundred more than four hundred casualties just in the last week one hundred of them were children you can imagine what the situation there is no reason for the international community or for that we will to keep silent we are in the same in front of the sense you know your of your book or. any and it's really be it in two thousand and eighteen before that it was in a new book in two thousand and seventeen. we will face the same scenario without any areas on but just there is an international humanitarian law and no one cared about it i mean it that you say this they just silent but actually the un has been calling for a cease fire of a month and has pulled what has been happening in some of th

and still with us is anne barnard, from the new york times, a bureau chief from beirut, lebanon.nne, i want to begin again with you to ask you about the role of hezbollah. obviously has below was widely involved in the fighting in syria, has undoubtably grown stronger as a result. can you talk about its role particularly in the conflict and the concerns of israel over the growth of hezbollah? hezbollah entered the war overtly and in a, sort of, in a night for missionary force in 2013, and that was a big surprise because this was a group founded to fight israeli occupation in the south of lebanon, not to help put down uprisings in other countries. nonetheless, because of their close alliance with damascus and toronto, hezbollah entered the war first in areas that made sense for it in a local sense. they first focused on areas near shrineanese border, the near damascus, which is paid -- particularly revered by shiites. gradually, their role expanded. they were a much more effective pound for pound force than the syrian military and they helped in battles steadily across the country