has with them what do you think of israel's role in syria. israel is the main element in the process of destroying syria it actively supports the armed opposition especially in south syria which is close to the occupied golan heights. the un has provided factual evidence that there were three thousand militants retreated in israeli hospitals also movements have been tracked across the border between syria and york by there is a palestine hundreds of times that's how the militants received supplies i mean another raid. in addition to that the israeli air force delivered a number of strikes on the positions of the syrian army and its allied forces fighting in those areas this is how israel wants to change syria to change its policy but neither israel nor its allies will succeed. this is why recently when the agreements in creating de-escalation zones in southern syria has reached two different russian the united states israel began acting crazy as some of its demands to have hezbollah and iran's presence removed misery a school left unsatisfied

what could be the end of war of syria or the beginning of the end of the war in syria because you know still there are you know adlib which is where the other organization like al qaeda and not sort of are situated there so i believe those. syrian army capture and i believe the preparation for the war. on its way so it could be a matter of weeks maybe days told to recapture again so yes this could be the end of i says islamic state in particular and they lost the mosul which is the biggest city in the arab they lost their also there they lost a lot for now i believe that could be the time to lose actually erica in sealed is the syrian democratic army now in and the art of of. so i'm not surprised if that actually the syrian army will break up and recapture it again liberated and that is that seat in the flag on the top of its building i think it is it is that turning point now and i believe isis in a way to lose its presence and most of eastern syria. it is a major turning point. how do you see the future of syria if we can look just a bit further i mean beyond deisel because you know

we do realize that it's a very special day for syria and the people of syria then a few hours later this is something that happened within the last forty or thirty minutes or so we heard the confirmation from the russian military and now with the actual details of what's been happening on the ground the blockade was being broken are emerging we're getting statements by the russian army getting bits of that information from the defense ministry and it looks like the islamic state terrorists around the errors or were planning to regroup or they were forced to regroup and they couldn't do that. thanks to the cruise missiles that were launched from russia's frag it asin in the mediterranean you can see the pictures of these cruise missiles flying into the air so first of all this strike. essentially. state plans to regroup but then also there were many many things destroyed in that attack there were some high. hideouts underground tunnels many artillery. units depos in the actual. i guess we should call it personnel the fighters of islamic state we cannot call them personnel perhaps terroris

and he believes it could signal the end i saw in syria. first of all it almost destroys ice is present in this area it means that ice is no longer has any big cities to stay in i mean after that as old you've got the town of may deem and then you have a book come out which is on the borders after that there's no real cities left in syria for isis to be held out and so it will naturally go back into a into a into an insurgency there's no longer any big areas where isis controls in syria there is always a huge significant victory not just for syria but also for russia because since it's intervention in two thousand and september two thousand and fifteen the u.s. the worst of all watched and wanted the intervention to be unsuccessful would have wanted these efforts against i still to be undermined but we're looking at this two years on from. syria with russians or ford has absolutely obliterated isis in many of these areas from power mirror to certain to their resort and essentially we're facing now the end of isis in syria and this is been d

now in syria america's goals have changed. they before wanted to get rid of president assad and now especially since trump they say the focus is defeating dark. do you think and this is made hezbollah and iran stronger in syria will america accept this long term you think america for sure that saudi america has suffered a defeat in syria there purty was to remove assad from power and to change the regime but their plans collapsed on many sides. the military presence their support of opposition forces and regional cooperation with the arab countries that wanted regime change in syria to serve israel's interests but now america has changed its policy this policy now avoids direct confrontation with assad because they simply cannot afford it. they understand eisel which they supported is acting against syria and against the us how can the us support a militant group which they cannot control and which does not do what they want that is why president trump decided to focus and fights nicely but this didn't mean he became an assad

in syria jordan realized that it was necessary to open the corridor between syria and jordan as soon as possible in order to gain economic benefits and subsequently political benefit. c.s.c. . also after its unsuccessful participation in the anti syrian project jordan was forced to take steps to ensure its interests of the whole film stuck in the last week we saw that hezbollah defeated darawshe in the mountains of the moon area and they sent them to do as or this caused a big issue doesn't this just move the problem of guards from one area to another. and people say we should never negotiate with. what's the position of has a lot of this as well hostile fee. in towns across syria the infrastructure of our ministry and i saw has been destroyed this deprive them of the opportunity to continue fighting but they surrendered. and we along with the lebanese government wanted to hold negotiations in the means of surrender because eight lebanese soldiers were missing let me out and we did not know where they were alive. we intended to save them and a situation arose where we were able to le

what israel is doing in syria is it another act of aggression. israel occupied the golan heights it would have been right for it to withdraw from the room heights and all other areas in focus instead of claiming that it israel protection by territories bulk buying more territories in syria. i believe that israel as much as shortsighted. major powers must support israel's occupation plans and missions less than israel behaving this way indicates. i expect that the people of the region will not let israel get what it wishes. by more last this has to be stopped and the occupied territories have to be liberated . here's what people have been saying about rejected and this is. the only show i go out of my way to. the really packed them. all over a party america is doing the same we are apparently better than. i see anybody would ever heard of redacted the night president of the world bank very. seriously sent us an e-mail. it's seemed wrong but old rules just don't hold. the world to get to shape out just comes to the ticket and engagement equals betr

a unified iraq is far better for the iraq a unified syria is far better for syria we believe you know this notion of dividing . of countries like this will always serve. will only serve to minimize the capacity of the iraqis as a country or i believe the. arabs in iraq can work together and come to if inclusion where you know the kurds feel they have their own autonomy or one way or the other. we would try sometimes and i think dividing countries is it's only you know a few willing the conflict in the region i believe a unified iraq is the solution. i've heard you say many times that hezbollah is not the main force in lebanon it's certainly not the main player it's not controlling the country and now it's heavily involved in the syrian war is it easier to deal with them now that they're distracted with their. anti isis complain i think i think you know we should understand that. assad regime has tried to survive all these years from the only reason he's did survive and it's because of russia. maybe they are other players playing with their genes but the main force that was able to sta

we do realize that it's a very special day for syria and the people of syria then a few hours later this is something that happened within the last forty or thirty minutes or so we heard the confirmation from the russian military and now.

unity of syria. the syrian government reaffirms its commitment to the geneva process and that the further progress on that track this process has yet to bear fruit in the absence of a genuine national opposition that going to be a partner in syria's future. and as countries with influence over the other party continue to block the meaningful progress progress. it's a truly unfortunate that these countries that block a solution in syria are members of this international organization including permanent members of the security council. of. the syrian government has always insisted that any solution in syria must respect serious and non-negotiable principles. which are a better line for all syrians. and this includes. the complete rejection of terrorism the territorial unity of syria and its people. and their rejection of any external interference in political decisions regarding syria's future. only syrians have the right to make such decisions whether now or in the future. mr president you know. no on

all those who are in syria illegitimately. as regards forces that are there legitimately it's up to the leaders of this syrian state to decide that after the political process of time in your mind when we pull off a place they told us you know. we had a timeframe. think in the year two thousand when the middle east quartet adopted the road map said that we should resolve the palestinian israeli conflict in one year it's been seventeen years since that time so it's better to stay away from artificial deadlines for this kind of process it's a very complex crisis and it will take a long time to resolve it. so in your speech before the general assembly you. praised president trump as you said you know laterally. has defended and will continue to defend principles such as sovereignty my question is about the gulf crisis to what extent do you think that the thought embargo. conforms or violates the principle of sovereignty as you talked about it in your speech and to what extent do you feel that the security council ought to do some

when it comes to syria. can there be common ground between lebanon and russia when it comes to that so. i think you know what's important to see. is almost safe zone areas. where they have less fighting. in. syria i think i think is very. real talks between the americans and the russians different parties or countries like turkey like jordan. iran like. saudi arabia so that if the. this is a serious. political solution that is or this is a part of the solution that will prevail in preparation for the solution to come and i think that these these areas are being developed in all parts of syria we agree on them we courage them because you see less fighting less schooling and this is something that would you know. in the hands or maybe. you know it's set up the rote towards a political solution so you brought up the three branches of your government and you different things but you know you don't take it out in the public you deal with it behind the scenes and strew that you know the political system in lebanon

through to anyone who wants to buy oil inside syria there's very little or that otherwise reaches syria so that's old inside yes it's still an income source yes it's still the most significant income source of eisel but it's no longer a problem whether it's sold across the border as the volumes are simply not there anymore what has happened is with the shrinking of the territory right is of course the budget of isis shrinking. and that is this danger to say ok the budget of isis shrinking the problem getting better what is always left out is of course with a shrinking of the territory you have less spending of isis so yes there is problems but i see house with payments of its fight as yes it's a squeezed budget but as everyone can clearly see it's still enough to put up a quite a sea supply in both countries now in one of your previous interviews you predicted that as the sort of internal sources of financing at being squeezed i still will get increasingly more financing from abroad from other countries do you see those predictions playing out economies dourness rights or what we've set

the coalition was trying to seize rocka the for syria could seized heroes or syria has won that battle and. it speaks well for the future of reuniting syria and re-establishing the entire borders of syria i would hope including the go on heights i would hope that we could eventually have talks that would resolve the occupied golan heights and return those to syria so that the nation can be reconstituted well that's what the people of syria want syria something you've kept at the forefront of course over the years as well you have been speaking about it just to get your thoughts senator briefly on the bigger aspect of this high what is the fate of vital in syria affect the dynamic of the of the entire conflict would the n.b.a. inside or perhaps would would new terror groups emerge. well what what it is done up until now the west and its allies the turks the qataris in the saudi arabian have been able to keep public attention focused on isis meanwhile they have protected and armed and coordinated with al qaida which is the group that brought down the twin towers and attacked the pentagon

as for syria. of course. there are some differences we don't agree on every single step of the process so if you take. every country that participates in this process russia iran members of the u.s. led coalition. we have to admit. the abuse of nasa. to achieve the goals and objectives by the set by the security council. sometimes disagree on. which is why there is the astronaut approach says where russia turned a clear and iran as the ranters of a long process. with the participation of the reservists team and. observers from jordan and of course the syrian regime which is the syrian government and the armed opposition are trying to find a common denominator for how to conduct this process and we've had some progress we've created three deescalation. the first one was in just south. which helped by russian journalism in turkey and then there was. and was only in the north and i hope the. next two will go in. we will define the borders of the discussions of zone in. so i don't. believe that we. lose on the da

in syria. and a range of other issues that we can discuss. missile development too. >> let me just quickly, to follow up, so a crisis between the united states and iran, which would be precipitated by the u.s. walking out of the jcpoa, that's not something they would welcome? they're content with the poor state of relations as they exist now? >> well, i don't -- that's not the right way to put it. but i think their concerns would not be primarily addressed in any constructive way from their point of view, as i understand it, by a walking away from a jcpoa which is being properly implemented. from their point of view, that would be a net negative because what it would mean is that a restriction on iran would be lost. leverage on iran would be surrendered, and iranian hardliners will have pocketed this reality. they will have done away with the international sanctions regime under obama and had their, you know, had their obligations under the jcpoa removed under trump, all for nothing. all gainin

congratulated his troops of course this is a very special day for the syrian army for the whole of syria i should say and then a few hours later came the confirmation from moscow from the russian defense ministry and the bits of information that they were sharing with us from that we could understand how dramatic was this final push by the syrian army towards there as zoar we understand that as the syrian army was making their latest advancements mixtape terrorists had to regroup otherwise no chance to continue locating there as or but that didn't happen thanks to the cruise missiles caliber cruise missiles that were launched from a russian navy vessel in the mediterranean boom and no chances to regroup for islamic state because of that but the very important thing here is of course the damage that's been done to islamic state infrastructure there they've destroyed their hideouts underground tunnels number of old artillery units and the munition depos that are there and this is of. a major reason to celebrate for the syrian troops and the dairies or garrison that's where they had been un

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had strategic interests in iraq when it comes to syria where the u.s. has fewer interests the turks a few more able to disagree with united states. and also with issues of course on the ground there was so much news brought to bear here in britain to try and persuade the british public to war to aerial bombardment of assyria by the royal air force do you think there is a may that alone the enemies of german corbin as they were bloody know who they support in syria today where it seems that pretty much everyone including the united states britain and france has come to an acceptance that the war is winding down and that the regime is winning and that means withdraw support of the saudis the saudi foreign minister told a delegation recently that saudi arabia is losing interest in syria it's concentrating on its conflict with qatar the two again ians are tired situation it's been going nowhere since march of two thousand and eleven the western powers turkey saudi arabia and qatar have all been trying to overthrow us and syria and they clearly favor trump f

[no audio] announcer: turkish president -- focused his remarks on the ongoing conflict in syria. he also called on the you want to do more to help the muslim ninja people in -- that the muslim hangzhou -- muslim ro hingya people in myanmar. >> the assembly will hear an address by his excellency president erdogan, of the republic of turkey. [applause] i request protocol to escort his excellency. on behalf of the general assembly, i have the honor to welcome to the united nations, his excellency, president of the republic of turkey, and invite him to address the assembly. [applause] president erdogan: honorable president, honorable secretary-general, distinguished heads of state and government, iteemed delegates, i agree -- greet you with respect on behalf of my own self and my country. i would like to thank mr. peter thompson for his successful work over the past year as he was the president of the 71st general assembly. -- the 71st session of the un's general assembly. i would also like to congratulate his successor. i hope this year's session of the general assembly convening wi

groups in syria. why have people been able to reach an agreement. in particular when previously everybody had said they wanted peace but it's taken a long time hasn't it to reach this point what has changed. that is that is actually a change in the move. in the area and each has its own. opinion about it or he was stunned of. a clause that was stable since the beginning of the war on syria that states for the. russian law and a lot of. work folks always asking for that international and most will be implemented and for the pragmatic solution. for the war in syria. turkey changed its position on mr o'donnell may be a doctor and believe. in syria i say maybe because they stood reminding us from part of time of oh. maybe the autumn or windy which drains the land the sovereign lands of syria iraq and other place of torment and. occupying so close to us nobody wants. to go in for military or. revenge for the other groups for. the so-called syrian rebels if all this more that has changed. hopefully it will keep on. going to be finding peace in syria on th

the last time i was in syria was in two thousand. another development for guarding syria's province in an incident that happened earlier this year russia says that it's got evidence that terrorists were behind april's chemical attack in can shake to remind you about numbers differ but more than eighty people were told have been killed in that chemical attack on april fourth in the rebel held town of many western powers blamed the incident on the syrian government and resulted in the u.s. launching that air strike some fifty nine missiles on a syrian base where the chemicals were allegedly stored earlier this month the u.n. issued a report blaming the assad government although they never visited the scene of the attack or that base russia's foreign ministry also said that the security situation allowed for experts to inspect those sites months ago yet they still refused to do so. another development meanwhile the russian military is managed to establish a bridge over the euphrates river near the city of deer and thought the battle for

how many left leaning people who are not members of the left party went to northern syria to support the kurds isn't this a contradiction what is the left party think about this situation that. we discussed it within the faction and it was a heated debate this is the situation with facing a pacifist cannot condone the use of force but anti militarists and this is an important distinction recognize the right to self-defense i don't think we can tell people you have to figure out somehow isis is at the gates you might die but it's not our problem because we are pacifists as you not accept this reasoning i've never been a pacifist i am an anti militarists that means that in my opinion military force should be a last resort we have our national right to self-defense that cannot be taken away we should not abuse the idea of defense and self defense so the defense policy of germany and western countries is a misleading concept we don't defend ourselves we advance the interests using military force to the point of breaking international law and anything. so if i got it right you think that

with islamic states territory in syria crumbling the races on to retake oil fields from the terrorists with russian assistance and the u.s. backed forces both closing in. on the u.n. security council adopt new sanctions against north korea after the resolution was watered down from a stronger u.s. draft. you're watching out international live from studio with me in india today welcome to the program protests have turned violent people have taken to the streets in major cities to vent their anger at the president's labor reforms which come into effect in a week projectiles and flares have been thrown by the crowds. so the protests are being held in several major cities like. say demonstrators promised to run for files in separate strikes and almost two hundred rallies across france correspondent joins us live now from paris ali the unions promise a day of disruption have they did. they have in the atmosphere has definitely changed just an hour ago it was pretty jovial i was in amongst the fun fair protesters clowns entertainers and now we've seen projectiles go off flares being thrown a

those that are fighting others in syria and in the region let's speak. to let's speak now about the situation the day after and let's try to minimize the influence in the future because it's going to be problematic not only for you as well i can assure you absolutely and i think there is there is also a keen understanding that in a medium term iran also represents a political and economic competitor for russia in the region but again there is also a realisation that to be iraq without iran you cannot stabilize syria or perhaps the region more generally if you had the away if israel had its way. what exactly would you do i mean is there anything short of wiping iran of the map that would completely. allay iranian israelis concerns what could give you that peace of mind. you know it's a tough region to speak about peace of mind in the return is something which is more than optimism but i will speak about minimizing damages or meeting the challenges so. as i said before let's look at the region form in the kind of satellite perspective and you. in the past

ambassador to syria and bahrain thank you. today police in the german city of leipzig have been facing harsh criticism after they advise women not to go running alone that was in response to a female jogger being raped in a local park peter oliver has the story. been a lot of criticism of the the police force in labor for these comments not least of which coming from the mayor booker young the mare of leipzig there he slammed his own police force it follows on from the rape of a woman in a park on friday and now the woman who said to be in her fifty's was punched and kicked so hard in the face that she required emergency surgery when she was found police then said in response that women shouldn't go out alone to jobs that they should jog in pairs and then followed that on with a quote when you run past someone look around to make sure that you are not about to be attacked well that prompted stern criticism from all across the media from people online in particular they said from the mayor of leipzig who said that women should

syria paradoxically. parties and was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people with told though everybody agrees. is a very serious situation people have been much more than in any other conflicts to day. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are inheriting whatever my my baby says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for a million americans have been killed by phones in the us how to thought. this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw it had to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know this but we are not. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market frequent cause of death at that point

syria paradoxical the. reason was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people without hope although everybody agrees. is a very serious situation people have been much more affected than in any other active conflicts to day. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better knife. and hurting my babies since my book was published in the. thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the u.s. and we had a thought. this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see hill actually got hit by the gun i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not. noisy you are a member of the left party and the spokesman for the defense committee parliamentary electio

pushed chemical weapons to be destroyed in syria but russia came in and protected syria the oversaw the destruction the chemical weapons and when push came to shove russia came in and protected assad from another us mistake and now the u.s. feels regime change so now that syria has been to north korea sitting there and saying ok you see the pattern here obviously it was going to how do we go to learning. you know with all of this years now exists after the international agencies after the u.n. security fight officially certified that syria no longer can no longer possessed chemical weapons the united states kimi and again and at that the syrian air force be saying there were chemical weapons there and you know he wins a little bit of a pretext to think that if north korean propaganda probably the would use the same argument as national rifle association in the united states if the sheriff is inadequate the sheriff attacks the city and soon all of the other people who gave up their weapons then let everyone have weapons and this is the logic which is forward now of course i feel russia a

pushed chemical weapons to be destroyed in syria but russia came in and protected syria the oversaw the destruction the chemical weapons and when push came to shove russia came in and protected assad from another us mistake another us failed regime change so now that syria happened north korea sitting there and saying ok you see the pattern here obviously you see it was good about it we got a learning curve. and you know with all of this years now exists after the international agencies after the u.n. security fight officially certified that syria no longer can no longer possessed chemical weapons the united states kimi and again and that that the syrian air force be seeing there were chemical weapons there and you know he wins a little bit of a pretext right well i think that north korean propaganda probably the would use the same argument as national rifle association in the united states if the sheriff is inadequate the sheriff attacks the city and soon all of the other people who gave up their weapons then let everyone have weapons and there this is the logic. is forward now of cour

backed kurdish units and also other elements of syria's moderate opposition mr love ranty of the envoy that we listen to he praised their efforts in the operation to retake rock up along the euphrates river and in the north of syria moderate kurdish an arab groups that out to some extent under the influence of the us a fighting i saw a noun is written and quite successfully. evident if you look at the partial liberation of iraq as we will this city will be fully liberated from the terrorists in a month or two so you can finally have a steady flow of positive news from syria both when it comes to the peace process and also the fight on terror. will stay in tears or because children there are trying to get back to normal life after the lifting of the c. in the schools there are open but some of the kids have already started classes. however not all syrian children are lucky enough to be receiving an education this year human rights watch reports that millions of dollars pledged to get syrian refugee children back in school just haven't reached them and he says the international community

with islamic states territory in syria crumbling the race to retake oil fields from the terrorists with russian assisted and u.s. bank forces both closing in. r.t. and. north korea says that washington will be fully to blame for the response it decides to give to new u.n. sanctions speaking at a news conference that d.p. r. k. is envoy to russia accused of using the un security council to isolate that's after a new resolution on tougher measures against state was adopted unanimously in new york got more details from our correspondents and the dean of. speaking at a news conference said the north korea shan forty two russia accused the u.s. of using the security council as an instrument to isolate feeling on. the latest sanctions imposed by the u.n. security council a result of the heating this u.s. attempts to isolate and suffocating talk country. place in violation of our sovereignty that's why we totally reject and condemn these sanctions he also added that washington is trying to shift the blame for instigating townshend's on the korean peninsula is sad that so the u.s. is wrong if i

so where do you see the future of syria now then because obviously. when we see events in syria it looks like the defeat of is imminent. but in terms of finding pace price this is just the country have to go three g. think. well there are two different tracks one is food trucks the story from the u.n. is trying to organize getting these sort of bigger opposition groups who are mainly foreign funded to come to the table and unify and make. some sort of power sharing deal with the government in damascus it's not at all clear that the government in damascus really wants to share power but the other track is various local cease fires that are being brokered all over the country in different places where rebels . surrender and give up and leave the area and people can come home who fled the internally displaced people or those who've gone as refugees abroad or in other places rebels who are allowed to remain in their home towns and villages very give up attacking government forces and the government army doesn't go in and try and destroy them sort of the k

two leaders have agreed to push for the escalation zones in syria's labor province. what we're interested in is making sure that the terrorists are finally laid to rest and that we have a stable regime in syria these are principle and fundamental issues for russia and the region and indeed for the entire world what is absolutely fundamental is finding a long term political solution under the aegis of the united nations al-jazeera is under simmons was watching that news conference and he has more for us from ankara . it wasn't a long briefing but judging from what the two presidents had to say there were no major fallouts but no major breakthroughs either they discussed syria they discussed the a start a process for deescalation zones primarily because this involves turkey more than any other country to try to get access to the opposition groups and corp there will be military observers put on the ground there but no real detail was given of any progress on this lot of mir putin said what a difficult situation it was but he believed in the deescalation zones and said

they've been fighting against isis not just here in lebanon but also of course across syria so many topics touched upon but between myself and share what is really a very rare and exclusive interview with one of the most senior members of the hezbollah group. the west wants to see middle east divided into week countries so you can control everything the americans wanted to use islamic state against syria but then this monster turned against america so now they have no choice but to confront. america saudi america wants a regime change in syria was the main goal of the war but when they failed to move us out through military means with the help of other arab countries this shifted to a policy of non-conference of president assad because they know. there's as much of a threat of them as does the syrian people and the world that. there's not an imaginary president which is a real and highly sector and the choice of the syrian people has been lost and the project to move president assad as a not against the whole of syria which we cannot accept. the syrian people reelected president ass

but this won't be easy because of syria, what happened in syria was turkey and iran found themselves at opposite ends of a conflict. but as i said, turkey is concerned to the extent that it's called it iranian expansionism. so it is a serious problem for turkey. but the nuclear deal itself does not -- whether that is canceled is a concern to see how that broader policy is going to develop. as youmer, in 2010, turkey, as you mentioned, actually, turkey was involved as a non-permanent member of the u.n. security council to try to mind a middle ground between the west and iran, even there was this tehran declaration which ended up hurting turkey's relationship with the u.s. in particular because the u.s. wasn't happy about that deal. i won't go into details, but we had whole debate for six to nine months something like that about turkey turning east, leaving the west, et cetera. that ended sharply with turkey's stationing of the nato radars in the eastern part of turkey. that showed, actually, turkey was justed a concerned about iranian capabilities, missiles and others, like the west,

backed kurdish units and also other elements of syria's moderate opposition the envoy that we listen to he praised their efforts and the operation to retake. it's along the euphrates river and in the north of syria moderate kurdish an arab groups that are to some extent under the influence of the us a fighting i saw in our newsroom. and quite successfully that's evident if you look at the partial liberation of raca as we all hope that this city will be fully liberated from the terrorists in a month or two so you know and finally have a steady flow of positive news from syria both when it comes to the peace process and also the fight on terror we can only hope it wholesale eba trying to bring us right up there from those talks in kazakhstan playing. and that is the news for now far more will be here at the top of their with all the latest developments from a busy day of global news stay with our international. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night with you i suspect it is full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really pa

he has been following the latest developments in syria for us. this is of course the long awaited news on the and the dare as sore blockade we were waiting for the confirmation and first we got it from damascus we saw a tweet from the syrian president he congratulated his soldiers of course a very important day for the syrian army and for the whole of syria and just about an hour and a half ago we got the news from the russian defense ministry there saying that it happened and this was the point when we started to realize how dramatic this military operation was as the syrian army was making some rapid advancement towards the war. to regroup somehow and then came the caliber cruise missile launches bother watching army that were launched from the frag admiral in the mediterranean they destroyed a number of things that were crucial for islamic state their hideouts their underground tunnels artillery units and military depos besides this i can tell you that when according to the russian military the syrian troops were advancing in order for this no

syria drew 2—2 to finish third in the group. they broke through the iranian defence for the first in the 13th minute with a close range header. and iran then went ahead 2—1 but syria pushed for an equaliser and it came three minutes into stoppage time. this secured the fairy tale comeback and a play—off for them. you and everyone else in australia were rooting for your team and everybody else for the other‘s?! i don't know! i am being impartial for the bbc! but the 31 qualifiers taking place across the globe on tuesday, there is a full list on the website. a lot is happening across europe as you can appreciate. we don't have time to go through them all but if your country is playing you can get it on the bbc sport website and the app. one more quick line, online ticket sales for the winter olympics next year open in south korea on tuesday and organisers admit far fewer places have been sold up the growing concerns over north korea's nuclear plans. the games take place in the country arguably with a limited winter sports tr

to hopefully the situation in syria. will change we won't iran is a state that supports still as a superpower will and region and as i said before this is almost not only the concern of fees but in the past when we need to the solution seventeen against russia will spot a feat in an understanding that this is that there was the when these asian so even though i know iran these being. those that are fighting others in syria and in the region let's speak. to let's speak now about the situation the day after and let's try to minimize their influence in the future because it's going to leap of logic not only for you as well i can assure you absolutely and i think there is there is also a keen understanding that in the medium term. iran also represents a political and economic competitor for russia in the region but again there is also a realisation that to be iraq without iran you cannot stabilize syria or perhaps the region more generally if you had the away if israel had its way. what exactly would you do i mean is there a