thank god we have returned save beyond these mountains, there is rare discontent in latakia. these protesters gathered against president assad's cousin. he reportedly killed a syrian air force colonel over a traffic dispute last week. a syrian war began with a crackdown on protests and opposition. the government's control shrinks over syria, demonstrations are beginning to happen in the past yon support. >> another 1500 migrants have been rescued from boats this monday, tried across the mediterranean from north africa to europe. hundreds more saved by the coast guard over the weekend. they were found north of the libyan coast and brought to sicily. the european commission approved more financial help to cope with the surge in the numbers coming to europe's shores. announcing the release of 2.4 billion in our funding to help deal with the my graduate tory pressures. my. working closely with the member states. >> all of this as greek authorities say they are other whelmed by the thousand or so migrants arriving there every day. my most go through athens and before their

and has over taken most of idlib province and says it's moving to latakia from the north as well and posted videos with victories over towns and iran t.v. says the army backed by hezbollah fighters pushed to the capitol damascus. as opposition tanks roll into areas they have taken signs of the fighting are everywhere and parts of syria have been reduced to syria in the war that is in its fifth year. some of those who came back say the homes in hama have been destroyed. >> translator: they left nothing for us. they have damaged the houses and stolen the belongings. thank god we have returned safely. >> reporter: beyond these mountains there is rare discontent in latakia. these protesters gathered against assad who killed an airforce colonel over a traffic dispute last year and a syrian war began with crack down on opposition as they control over syria demonstrations are beginning to happen in the vast of the support. al jazeera. >>> critical condition in the u.s. city of ferguson after what police are saying was an exchange of gunfire with officers. it happened during demonstrations t

one of which is latakia where this road rage incidents took place. this is the hartland of the hea heart. what will that say about the current president's position? >> as you know, in the last few months, the opposition, the so-called jasa has been making advances and encroaching slowly and gradually, just so close to latvia, the incidents where this is really the base. this is the heart. this is really the key, the nerve center of the assad regime. >> that's why the protests in the last two days unnerved the assad regime, unnerved assad himself. >> these were their real friends. if they were protesting against them -- >> not only that many proefb government. thousands have gone on the social media demanding. he basically killed the officer in cold blood this is not the first time first time assad. i would not be surprised to show ass a ad. he wants to show he is in control the forces against him, because we are seeing forces loyal to the president. the father of his first cousin who killed the officer was killed a few months ago in the area trying t

and has over taken most of idlib province and moving to latakia from the north as well and activists show villages in the town. iran state t.v. says they pushed back fighters in the area close to the capitol damascus. as opposition tanks roll into areas signs of the fighting are everywhere and major parts of syria have been reduced to rubble in the war now in the fifth year. some of those who came back say their homes in hama have been destroyed. >> translator: they left nothing for us. they have damaged the houses and stolen the belongings. thank god we have returned safely. >> reporter: beyond these mountains there is rare discontent in datakia. these protesters gathered against president assad and reportedly killed an airforce colonel over a traffic dispute last week and a crack down on protests and opposition as the assad control shrinks in syria demonstrations are happening in the vast of support, al jazeera. >>> a car bomb exploded outside the airport at afghanistan kabul at the civilian entrance and five killed and 20 wounded and taliban says it was dehind the attack and they

and has over taken most of idlib province and moving to latakia from the north as well. activists posted videos which show victory of towns and iran state t.v. says the army backed by hezbollah are close to the capitol damascus. as opposition tanks roll into areas they have taken signs of the fighting are everywhere and major parts of syria is rubble in the war that is now in the fifth year and some who came back say the homes in hama have been destroyed. >> translator: they left nothing for us. they have damaged the houses and stolen the belongings. thank god we have returned safely. >> reporter: beyond these mountains there is rare discontent in latakia. these protesters gathered against president assad and reportedly killed the airforce colonel over a traffic dispute last week and there was a crack down on protests and opposition and the assad government shrinks demonstrations are beginning to happen in the basque of support, al jazeera. >>> fistfights, report of fraud and plenty of frustration in haiti as people voted in the long delay of parliamentary elections and

also over taken most of idlib province and says it is moving towards latakia as well. activists posted video, iranian state tv says the syrian army has pushed back fighters from zebadani close to the capital damascus. as opposition tanks roll into areas, many parts of syria has reduced to rubble in the war that's in its fifth year. some say their homes in hamaa have been destroyed. >> they left nothing for us. they have damaged the houses and thank god we have returned saferly. >> beyond these mountains there is rare discontent in latakia. killing an affairs colonel in an attack last week. osama ben javad, al jazeera. >> still to come on this newshour. >> i'm nicole johnston in pakistan. coming up we'll be reporting on the biggest case of child sexual abuse in the country. >> also ahead, thousand refugees are arriving in grease every d day. >> dear iwa, we cannot trust you anymore. >> a group of athletes speak out against their governing everyone body. more later. first, man who is in critical condition in u.s. city of ferguson after police say was an exchange of gun f

for example, the rebels are fighting aleppo and they are pushing on latakia and struggling to keep control of the southern border and fighting in damascus suburbs. is he suggesting therefore that the u.s. should work with russia to cross the rebellion. i don't see how it would produce a solution to deal with i.s.i.l. >> let's talk about the training in the last 24-48 hours, training has become a big issue with forces in syria, saying that the u.s. has not been transparent to him, who they were trained to fight. >> this is exactly correct. it seems like the vetting criteria training the programme, you couldn't fight the bashar al-assad regime you had to focus on i.s.i.l. the problem is it had no credibility on the grounds in syria. anyone that could ask the vast majority of rebels would say the fight against bashar al-assad is intertwined. it seems there's a significant intelligence failure calling into question u.s. policy makers. when they inserted the u.s. trained fighters into an area. the district where there was an al qaeda presence. the al qaeda also has been targeted in the air stri