the 1st year, which was completely based syria with tens of south poplar women. so he was that exceptional and i think that was too much for any dictator for any criminal to, to handle so many tried to kill him before. and sadly they succeeded. ah, against those challenges, there are some like shitty as our judy that have proven independent journalism can survive even flourish after the spring. it's not a mustard and inky father. internees you have done the same under different circumstances. they all offer quality reporting expertly presenting. that audience has come to town, given the restrictions and in some cases the dangers, the reporter space. their work is all the more noted as of what he was established on in march 2012. when we realized that something unprecedented was happening in the country, and it was very important for syrians to not only be citizen journalists, simply reporting to basically provide international journalists with the footage and the raw data for, for others to come and sort of edit and analyze we need to have our own place where it w

es, a 12-year-old in syria from she was beaten in i syria from she was beaten in the opening round, considero through coming from syria. dealing with life in a war zone, but she says you have to follow your dreams. hend zaza has spoken about the many challenges that she and her family have had to go through to make it to these games. what i like was speaking afterwards, the confidence that she still had. there in mind that she was the female flag bearer at the olympics opening ceremony, and she said she will be back next time, which will be paris in three years. she is determined to get past the opening round. the la games to come in the brisbane games. she is targeting a long and hopefully medal ridden future at the olympics. lida; hopefully medal ridden future at the gi mics. ., ,., ., , olympics. day two is already in lace in olympics. day two is already in place injapan- _ olympics. day two is already in place in japan. what _ olympics. day two is already in place in japan. what can - olympics. day two is already in place in japan. what can we . olympics. day two is already in i place in

tell us more about that was syria today is much different than it was back then in 2013 and back then the european americans were looking to to start gaining influence in a conflict, especially as it began to kind of spill outside of the region. and so the europeans and americans really didn't have anyone on the ground that they could trust. jason, tom at this moment, was ascending. there were the strongest armed opposition group on the ground. they were also the most organized. so it just made sense that they would bring them into the fold and, you know, bring them into the ceasefire. talk because they had influence and, and you know what? i think the important things to stay there also is that back then, you know, speaking to some of our diplomatic security sources, they said, look back to them. we weren't thinking about human rights. we were thinking about strategy and how to kind of expand our stay in the conflict. you report their focuses on j shot past activities. what can you tell us about the group status today? what their shadow of what, who they once were in their peak, they

she was in close contact with verizon, who was organizing protest across syria. she became a key source. she had this sort of softness, almost frailty, to her when you met her at the beginning and you're like how she's doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her, you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. the assad regime launched in brutal cracks in against protesters and arrested corps of opposition. figures was non forced into hiding, but she continued to speak out while underground, not even over 100000 or harsh age. or the vitriol of the international community can ever defeat the people who had the dream and say in the future. in 2013 resign sled aside tight grip and damascus for neighboring duma. the town was under the control of various on opposition groups. together they fought assad, but also in each other to the hard line militia group, j. islam increasingly had the upper hand. the duma was the last place resigned with the allies. the search for clues brings us to turkey. in is simple, we meet with a c

syria. so i decided he was not just a journalist. he was one of the reasons why for sizing we're able to say that it does not regime against your head is more. they are people who are fighting both parties for their own dignity for their basic. he was threatened by their jam, his house was destroyed, and he kept refusing to stop. he kept resisting all of the facts, but he was facing establish your fresh show last year. the 1st year, which was completely based and had carry out with tens of south poplar women. so he was that exceptional and i think that was too much for any dictator for any criminal to, to handle so many tried to kill him before. and sadly, they succeeded the against those challenges. there are some like hideous algebra that have proven independent journalism. can survive even flourish after the spring, egypt not enough, an inky father into nicea have done the same under different circumstances. they all offer quality reporting expertly presenting. that audience has come to value, given the restrictions, and in some c

and this is really a milestone because this is the 1st resolution on syria in almost 5 years that was adopted unanimously. and that i think is something to, to build on for all of the political solutions that must come in syria. our initial aim was to open to or to have the one we have today. but how open and we open another crossing that was not possible for the council to we on. so we had to work with all council members in order to get a renewal for the next year. which is more or less about keeping 3400000 people alive in syria. and how we see this is as a victory for diplomacy. and we think that it's also a very good way of cooperating with all council members. we also see that it now covers many of the needs that are not only big, but also increasing in that part of syria. and there are no other ways for people in this region to get to mandatory and a because there are no supply lines from regime control, the areas in syria and into the market, syria. while the taliban claims it now controls 85 percent of afghanistan, it's made a major gains this week in the vacuum that's been l

was reached between russia and the us. jean mackenzie reports from turkey—syriasons were killed. as millions fled the syrian regime, they found shelter in this corner of the country, outside the government's control. now they're trapped in makeshift camps, up against the border with turkey, existing on help from outside. just over the border in turkey, trucks are loaded with food, water, and medicine — part of an un agreement to bring crucial aid into a part of the country still controlled by rebels. 1,000 of these trucks go across the border every month carrying vital supplies, and that now includes covid vaccines. this is an absolute lifeline for people in idlib. for many, it's their only lifeline. that lifeline was in danger. russia, syria's key ally, signalled it wanted to close the crossing, preferring aid to come from inside syria instead. but after a last—minute compromise, all members of the security council voted to keep it open for another year. this has proven to be the safest, the most direct, and the most reliable way of getting aid to people. whatev

while syria was a socialist country, it didn't have private banks. it was just beginning to establish private banks, but everybody didn't trust the government and they kept their money in lebanese banks, which they did trust and had been to the dollar for 23 years, meaning that the exchange rates wouldn't fluctuate. so people put their, their money in these dollar accounts, and lebanon went bankrupt. they had been running a ponzi scheme, all the money was gone, and that being syrians, the steering currency, since the bankruptcy and lebanon has fallen from $500.00 to a $1.00, to $4000.00 to a dollar. so people's people's wealth just collapsed and you know, a friend of mine was joking that his pension in syria today can buy him 9 chickens, the local store. and that's, that's really the situation. the syrians are in their, their pensions, their incomes are worth perhaps $20.00 a bond, and it can't live. so people without money from the outside, without private property that they can rent are really in desperate situation. is a bosh at all assad governme

case people are going always not talking about kennedy again, the relevant to joe biden, who was bombing, syria, and iraq. only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. and i think that the relevance is, is the main point we were trying to make in the documentary was at john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed was reaching out to cuba to end this embargo to make a detox with castro look good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. the 1st time the soviets in the us signed the treaty of this nature. and the cold war was, was theoretically coming to an end in 1963. so you can imagine where the world would be now instead we have this retrograde policy where the u. s. is still got an embargo on cuba 60 years later. and the news today is just another one and along concurrent crises, events that happen every few years. i don't, you know, this

was reached between russia and the u.s. it is a last lifeline for 3 million people in syria. >> here was the last resort.re she ran to after two of her sons were killed. they found shelter in this corner of the country. outside the government's control. now, they are trapped in makeshift camps come up against the border with turkey. >> [speaking foreign language] >> just over the border in turkey, trucks are loaded with food, water and medicine, part of the un agreement to bring crucial aid into the part of the country still controlled by rebels. thousands of these trucks go across the border every month, carrying vital supplies. that includes covid vaccines. this is an absolute lifeline for many. for many, it is their only lifeline. that lifeline was in danger. russia signaled it wanted to close the crossing, referring aid to come from inside syria instead. after last-minute compromise, all members of the security council voted to keep it open for another year. >> this is proven to be the safest, most direct and most reliable way of getting aid to people. whatever happens, we must keep this border cross

case people are going always not talking about kennedy again, the relevant to joe biden, who was bombing, syria, and iraq. only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevant is the main point we were trying to make in the documentary was that john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed was reaching out to cuba to and this embargo to make a detox with gastro. it looked good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. the 1st time the soviets, in the u. s. signed the treaty of this nature and the cold war was, was the radically.

case people are going always not talking about kennedy again, the relevant to joe biden, who was bombing, syria, and iraq. only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevant is, is the main point during the make in the document entry was at john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed was reaching out to cuba to end this embargo to make a detox with castro look good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev on the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is amazing documents. first time the soviets, in the u. s. signed a treaty of this nature. and the war, the cold war was, was theoretically coming to an end in 1963. so you can imagine where the world would be now instead we have this retro grade policy where the u. s. is still got an embargo on cuba 60 years later. and renews today is just another one and along concurrent crises, events that happen every few years. i don't, y

that lifeline was in danger. russia, syria'sme from inside syria instead. but after a last—minute compromise, all members of the security council voted to keep it open for another year. this has proven to be the safest, the most direct, and the most reliable way of getting aid to people. whatever happens, we must keep this border crossing open. if we can have more crossing points, we would welcome that. for this hospital, where medicines and supplies were already running low, it's avoided a catastrophe. the us ambassador to the un said after the vote that the security council had made the decision to save lives — that millions of syrians can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. jean mackenzie, bbc news, on the turkey—syria border. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: novak djokovic books his place in the wimbledon final. will he nowjoined federer and nadal in the 20 majors club? central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. police say there have been many casualties and there is growing speculation that al-qa

that lifeline was in danger. russia, syria'serring aid to come from inside syria instead. but after a last—minute compromise, all members of the security council voted to keep it open for another year. this has proven to be the safest, the most direct and the most reliable way of getting aid to people. whatever happens, we must keep this border crossing open. if we can have more crossing points, we would welcome that. for this hospital, where medicines and supplies were already running low, it's avoided a catastrophe. the us ambassador to the un said after the vote that the security council had made the decision to save lives, that millions of syrians can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. jean mackenzie, bbc news, on the turkey—syria border. residents of california are bracing for a weekend of record—setting temperatures as heat continues to build on the west coast. the us national weather service hasissued an excessive heat alert, with meteorologists warning that some of southern california's inland areas could reach tempreatur

was now bombing iso tash positions in libya. so it's reported. did hillary clinton use libya as a conduit to fellows dreyfus dash and syria the u. s. government at the time that hillary clinton was in charge of foreign policy? i did use livia as a conduit to get arms to job as in syria. that's well established. not just by a range of materials, but by investigative workers, sy hersh and a variety of other investigators 49 states, some of some of those even publish the new york times. and any of the emails, i mean, you have mentioned that libya comes up in so many of the emails that you've been reading it as regard audrey in the, in the batch of, of 32000 emails. we released a few months back. there are 1700 in relation to the b s. so it, including, i suppose that the most useful one is which is colloquially referred to as hillary clinton's libya brag sheet. so she was documenting all the ways in which she led the invasion to be in a put in a political and to a degree and organizational sense. so putting it within the u. s. government bringing the european partners, etc, etc. even going, going the south person, anything to add her

syria . i believe it was in 2016. what did you see there? how dire were the conditions and from your perspective is the repatriation of mothers and children the right strategy. thank you. by me. yeah, i just to clarify, i was in, it was during 2018. so that's the more recent period i was in the camp in a nice area which is just north of the day. it was a separate section of the camp dedicated to these foreign mostly foreign mothers. they were also iraqis, considering that by in georgia of suspected i s members to members who will be held in tension. their conditions will bury dia and i didn't see how sustainable to keep holding these women and children in these can indefinitely. i mean, the country do me take them back collectively, not just they take the children back and leave the women die because and because for instance, it is also enjoying the women myself. none of the goals would openly admit to being men having team members of the organization involved. but this is something for their home countries to investigate when they take them

and one of the target, and it's a, it is, this is, this is why in syria i was going to say is that we, we went after their assets and syria where they think the drugs were being produced . well that syria has, doesn't want us forces and in syria either. and assad has an agreement with the p. m. s. forces to allow them to transit, to transit into back and forth between iraq and syria. so this is if you're going to hit periodically, it's going to be, it raises questions about just how sincere are you about retaliation? and why did we do that? do it this, this justice last time. and i don't know the answer to that. the next thing i was going to ask you kinda lead into it a little bit, was about the targeting of the facility. so one of the targeting facilities, the u. s. bombed in the strikes was known to house as well, law and other iran back groups. us secretary of state, anthony blink, and the action was necessary and deliberate to limit the risk of an escalation. is that enough to justify the attack or in your view? is this a violation of international law? well, it gets back big. wel

syria and iraq to join iso. many european governments have been reluctant to allow them to return a pretty schoolgirl some in a big room who joined deisel in 2015 was stripped of her u. k. citizenship. i'm angelic, alto. mimi is a research fellow at the george washington university program on extremism. it says countries cannot make syria a dumping ground for iso suspects. i do think it is a good idea because number one, for example, in regards to women, some of them may have been involved in the islamic, they organizational speaking. and so in that case, they do need to be held accountable and it's difficult to do that in no b, syria where you have a judicial system that's not nice. me recognize the issue though i think relates the plight children and the issue, whether you can really separate them from their mothers. and i think in that case you do need to bring both to women and children and i do understand security. we only get worse over time, the long the leap is problem to faster and i do understand the issue of anger didn't concern. but really, these countries do need to take responsibility for their own citizens and sidney became flu, brit

was supported by our colleagues in the council. we expect this kind of a day would become a turning point, that not only syria would win from this, but the middle east and the world as a whole. so, later the us ambassador linda thomas greenfield was asked about those comments. i certainly see it as an important moment in our relationship, and it shows that what we can do with the russians if we work with them diplomatically on common goals. and this was a common goal that we were able to come to an agreement on to be clear, this won't change life for ordinary syrians. there was one border crossing, delivering aid into syria before there's one border crossing. now. and the un says if it had more border crossing, it could deliver more aid. it's also not clear. well, this really is a breakthrough in relations between the us and russia. but the fact that both countries a talking up this moment is perhaps significant. james phase al jazeera. at the united nations. out there is at russell sa, doris returned to the syria, turkey border crossing baba. how of the meeting displaced? people in italy, which is the last rebel held enclave. he say

syria. the vehicle was attacked in the bab area. the defense ministry says turkish forces immediately 5 bag turkey launched across the border operation in 2016 to drive out iceland. kurdish white, the g fighters, turkey continues to maintain heavy military presence in northwest syria. get more this with the sole thought of the joins us now live from a stumble. so is this a routine operation, or is this being seen as a wider or broader pushed against the turkish military presence in the north of syria? well, some turkish just or lose another thing that seeing that 7 of the white p g members who have targeted turkish military posts yesterday have been neutralized . so this region, the above region has been cleared by turkey in 2016 from iso. it was the 1st major medical inclusion of turkey being to syria and since then took the military post which are scattered across to a north east and north or has been attacked by the y p g. but recently we have, we can see that white p g is using the frequency of attack over attacks over the turki

kurdish y p g fighters. turkey continues to maintain a heavy military presence in northwest and syria was also the house more from a stumble. the turkish officials are confirming that they're coming from the y p g . but when it comes to way pages, distribution is a little bit complicated because y p g is enjoying the support from both russia and the usa was 2 companies are being considered by turkey as allies just the attractive to please if they have been carry those from total funds, which is under the protection under the control of russia and the syrian government, which means that the 2 actors also protecting a white piece by the turkish foot administration for the ministry under department so far didn't national russia because it has concern that any escalation between uncle and moscow called have a negative impact on the delicate st in it live where 4500000 people living there. and that is potentially quickly got anyway, with the refugees over turkey was turkey. hosting already for media theater effigies all the other hand the the attack has been carried out by an anti tank guide t

syria. and he was in the report you just saw, of course, he joins us now from re huntley in turkey. close to that border crossing where aid is going into syria. welcome, more cuts. can you explain to viewers what the decision by the un security council will mean to people on the ground in syria? well, it means that millions of people who are trapped in a war then are going to continue to receive the vital humanitarian aid that they depend on. i mean, we're talking about almost 2000000 displays. people who are living in 10th and make sure show, says in heretic condition, many of them do not have enough food, or they don't have enough clean water and medical supplies and other support. they're entirely reliant on this 8 operation. it would have been a catastrophe if we were not able to continue that. but the fact that the security council has renewed this resolution means that we can continue this aid. operational now would have been at the task, or if you say it strikes me, mark that some at home might be scratching their heads wondering why it was so difficult for countries to agree

was repeated 5 times. doing investigation is through our sources and syria. we identified the author of the threat letter to be in a statement we obtained exclusively. he speaks about how jesus slum associate instructed him to threaten resign. and what one to media told me that this girl, as an agent, could have brought us to court on charges. so i told him if she was an agent in working against the country, why don't you do something? why don't you kidnap or are you afraid of her? he said, no, we are not afraid of her. we will bring her down, but now we want to threaten her. when the dean hoodie learned about the threats he urged, resolved to leave duma. he was worried for her safety. i mean, there's just, she responded the next day saying, i am not going to move. we did not do a revolution, lose 1000 the souls, so that such monsters can come and repeat the same in just history. these people need to be held to account just like the regime. and december 9th 2013 armed men stormed her office late at night, they kidnapped was on, along with her husband, her mud

he was in close contact with verizon, who was organizing protests across syria. she became a key source. she had this sort of softness, almost frailty, to her when you met her at the beginning and you're like how she doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her, you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. the assad regime launched in brutal cracks in against the protesters and arrested corps of opposition. figures with non course into hiding. but she continued to speak out while underground, not even over 100000 board harsh. each part of the big trail of the international communities can ever defeat the people who had the dream and say in the future. in 2013 resign fled a tight grip and damascus for neighboring duma. the town was under the control of various arms opposition groups. together they fought assad, but often each other to the hard line militia group, j, islam increasingly had the upper hand. the duma was the last place. resigned with fema lies. the search for clues brings us to turkey. is simple. we meet

assad regime began in 2011, created involved she was in close contact with verizon was organizing protests across syria. she became a key source. she had the sort of softness, almost frailty to her when you met her at the beginning and you're like how she's doing this very dangerous job. and then as soon as you spoke to her, you immediately discovered the sort of steely courage and principles. the assad regime launched in brutal crack soon against the protesters and arrested corps of opposition. figures resigned with forced into hiding, but she continued to speak out while underground, not even over 100000 or harsh. th are the bakery of the international community can ever defeat the people who had a dream and say in the future. in 2013 resign sled aside tight grip and damascus for neighboring duma. the town was under the control of various arms opposition groups. together they fought assad, but often each other to the hard line militia group, j, islam, increasingly had the upper hand. the duma was the last place resign was seen alive. the search for clues brings us to turkey. is temple we meet with a

was spearheading many of them. the the train and assist program in syria was nothing short of a sham, largely because it inadvertently assisted the enemy taken ideological. you turn by freedom fighters who handed over weapons to al qaeda. all those trained and equipped by the u. s. and i've got us done. the taliban has seemed to do open for an offensive with foreign troops with brewing. some of those trained by the us even retreated cross borders for shelter. and it's not just glaring inefficiency plaguing the program. there were cooper, plots, assassinations, rape accusations, and even claims of genocide. yet washington says that it only trains the good guys will only treat people who have the same human rights values that we have who have the same democratic values that we have. we're not shooting anybody, we're not teaching anybody to go into house and take this folks down. that's just an hour. i live. just an outright lie a blatant lie. but one only needs to take a look at the ongoing military missions in africa to understand that we train troops to carry out you know, urban warfare missions to stack on a door to

syria. the vehicle was a tank on saturday in the back area. the defense ministry says turkish forces immediately 5 back turkey launched across border operation in 2016 to drive out iceland. kurdish, why fi? g fighters? turkey continues to maintain a heavy military presence in northwest syria. get more now with our sol, solved the joins us from a stumble. so is this operation? well, we could call business as usual, part of a big move going on. well, some of the reason has been cleared by the turkish army in 2016, 16 during the, during its 1st major military incursion into syria, a guest ice. since then, there have been several attacks on the turkish military forces. you know that there are many of the turkish military positions gathered across east and north pole. but recently we can see that why did the peach care affiliate group y, p g is increasing the frequency of its attack on the turkish military target. so in that sense, it was a little bit unexpected, i think from on cut out. all right, thanks so much so, so sorry about the security is