isn't it despite four t gets the city ms the militants in northern syria. the cats to my claims they're working with the shia muslim forces loyal to syrian president bashar al assad we should be back to his limits elsewhere since the start the series but the two month long conflict with the overall move on to the federal poll. both through the far away because with that. those two groups in the tree and it reminded him of another colossal. you will a new dimension to the series' main opposition to assad the syrian action coalition a group backed by many western governments has also voiced his opposition to cut short on the main coalition said in a statement that the cuts with separatists stokes the syrian revelation. whether the syrian candidates democrats on corporate elite troops based in historical crevice on the specific impulse to drop turkey and iran to a rookie coach counties and the keys to the song but its proxy has already provided a buttons on monday the coolest the region's twenty five meaning that is said to the world's largest ethnic group or

how it's impacting the kurds and northern syria is home to ethnic kurds and fighting for a state there long before the start of the civil war and many live in turkey and they are concerned about what is happening back home. >> kurds in turkey are marching for their brothers and sisters in syria and they are the region of northern syria where most live and called western kurdistan and it has been broiled in civil war and for decades the kurds fought the assad regime and al-qaeda backed fighters but al-qaeda wants to wipe them out and build an islam state and they warn islamic fighters are the number one threat they now face but kurds hold the government for the region responsible for unleashing them and says to the turkey fighters take your fighters out of here. >> translator: massacres are taking place but you have to see who is now turning a blind eye to it. the turks and the iranians are trying to eliminate our freedoms and autonomy and doing it by allowing a military operation to be siege the region. >> reporter: and turkey parliament and concerns remain in some quarters that the hi

syria so any by products of that if it fell into the wrong hands al qaida and other terrorist. the fact that we have so much of this yellowcake uranium. in libya is a concern especially if it's on guarded and we know and i think you've said you know al qaeda and other terrorist groups have publicly declared their desire to get hold of it and i think deputy prime minister nick clegg ahead of the olympics in twenty twelve suggested there was a concern that there might be an attack or some sort of a radiological device like yellowcake on the olympics so it is a concern and one would expect that security agencies around the world would be looking very closely at this to ensure that. that yellow cake is secured in libya and any potential political ration of it outside libya is looked at very closely indeed it doesn't bode well we think of course the country's prime minister was briefly kidnapped last month and we're talking about the country's security there this stockpile was discovered back in twenty eleven it's now pushing twenty forty why has it taken so long to get some action

they are fighting each other in some places in northern syria, and also in the northeastern city of raka. just to make the battlefield more complicated, there are tactical alliances between the free syrian army and the misra against the islamic state. and he gets more complicated because your kurdish militias fighting alongside arab secular glitches. it becomes quite hodgepodge. in the last month, we have started to see some efforts by non--al qaeda groups to reunite and re-centralize. i don't know where it is going, but it was there two months ago. in fact, in my next trip out to the region, that is a question i will be looking at in some detail. >> it is his desire on behalf of a lot of evil on this committee to have -- it is the desire on behalf of a lot of people on this committee to weigh in to help the non-a stream if -- non- extremist elements when the opposition. how does the extremist wing of the opposition either help or hinder our efforts or other's efforts to win the battle within the opposition for who sits at the negotiating table ultimately? >> in my last trip out to the r

they are fighting each other in some places in northern syria and also in the northeastern city. in some places, just to make the battlefield even more complic e complicated, there are tactical alliances between elements of the free syrian army and the nusra front against the islamic state. in some places, then, senator, it becomes even more complicated because you have kurdish militias fightsing along other secular militias and it becomes a hodgepodge. i would point out one thing if i may, senator. just in the last month we've started to see some efforts by non-al qaeda groups to begin to try to reunite, recentralize. i don't know where that's going to go, exactly, but it wasn't there two months ago. i find it as a phenomena interesting. in fact, my next trip out to the eej, that's a question i'll be looking at in some detail. >> there's a desire on behalf of a lot of people on this committee to have america weigh in with greater force to try to allow the nonextremist elements to essentially win the fight within the opposition. how does the fracturing of the extremist wing of th

they are fighting each other in some places in northern syria and also in the northeastern city. in some places, just to make the battlefield even more complic e complicated, there are tactical alliances between elements of the free syrian army and the nusra front against the islamic state. in some places, then, senator, it becomes even more complicated because you have kurdish militias fightsing along other secular militias and it becomes a hodgepodge. i would point out one thing if i may, senator. just in the last month we've started to see some efforts by non-al qaeda groups to begin to try to reunite, recentralize. i don't know where that's going to go, exactly, but it wasn't there two months ago. i find it as a phenomena interesting. in fact, my next trip out to the eej, that's a question i'll be looking at in some detail. >> there's a desire on behalf of a lot of people on this committee to have america weigh in with greater force to try to allow the nonextremist elements to essentially win the fight within the opposition. how does the fracturing of the extremist wing of th

that's where the syria club and coalition of neighbors the democratic party, affordable housing folks are all in support of a no vote on proposition b and c >> mr. barb any thoughts and a year and a half there's a lot of support for proposition b and c from spur and labor and planning and several other democratic clubs. there are a huge number of people who are not afraid of the scare tactics that are being used to try to compare this with the fontana towers it's on the image of downtown. the reason the planning department that suggested having higher heights is because the proximity felt buildings near by. all the properties have height limits the city plans call fooz 40 feet and the idea this is going to set any precedent is a scar tactic and i'm surprised others are fall for that. you see what you get and you see the benefits to the people of san francisco >> we're talking about a one hundred and thirty luxury condos that on the waterfront. there's a lot of money involved here and only a few people that are able to live in those condos so this is bizarre and it does set a precedent

syria could also have a nuclear weapon. and from there we could be talking about, mr. speaker, al qaeda having a nuclear weapon. with miniaturization. perhaps the al nuss rah front. -- al nusra front. or any of the other myriad terrorist organizations that there are around the world. you see, mr. speaker, the entire paradigm of the world's structure could change. quite literally. and for what? what is it that we would have gotten out of this very bad deal that the united states was about to enter into? it makes no sense. you see, we would have gotten zero centrifuges dismantled. what's a centrifuge? that's what's used by iran to enrich uranium, the fissile material that's required to create a nuclear bomb. we would have gotten zero dismantled. iran would have continued to maintain not only control and ownership of their centrifuges, let's face it, let's not kid ourselves, those centrifuges and have continued to run spun enriched uranium. we would have gotten zero ounces of iran -- of uranium shipped out of iran. that's the whole ballgame, mr. speaker. the estimate toda

they see syria in turmoil on the northern border. the sinai peninsula opened to tear rstzs and smugglers. iran ever closer to nuclear weapons and they wonder why the united states doesn't perceive its own interests or those of its friends and allies. >> the president would say he's acting in the american interests, in our national interests with some of these policie policies. >> there's nobody in this part of the world who agrees with that. what we have seen is a decline in american power that's unprecedented in its speed and amount. we've seen russia and china moving in to fill the gap, and our friends here in the region really shaking their heads, saying what is wrong with the united states? why can't they get their act together? why can't they understand that a declining, withdrawing america, simply contributes to regional chaos or gives opportunists like aron and russia a chance to advance their own interests. >> we had the nsa scandal, the but why is that different?ela >> well, i think what we see is that the potential risk to

. >> now to syria, more than a dozen soldiers have been killed in northern damascus. an improvised explosive device went off in the military headquarters. >> the violence in syria appears to be linked with the bombings in lebanon. a group linked to al qaeda claimed it carried out two suicide bomb attacks near the iranian embassy in beirut and a diplomat was one of 23 killed on tuesday. the attack happened in el janow which is where we find our correspondent. what details have emerged about the bombings? >> al-qaeda claiming responsibility. in fact, the lebanon branch of al qaeda - you can see behind me investigators cysting through the rubble. a bomber approached the main gate on foot. the guards engaged him. he detonated his explosives. the second was in a vehicle. his plan was to distrif the vehicle inside the embassy compound. he was not object do that. there was a pic-up truck blocking his way. it fled the vehicle after the first explosion. it was massive. you could see the damage - up to 23 killed, a lot of people in hospital in critical condition. you talk to su

this will be become more of an issue if the curds set up a zone in northeast syria and in combination with northern iraq which brings me to a question from our former president of the world affairs council and his question has to do with iran's role in the syrian mess. so if you can address that for a second. >> the syrian iranian relationship was always bizarre because if iran is really all about islam and shism to support the assad family is the an tith sis of everything that the islamic rep republic stands for, this was a mine tarne secular non-religious political order but it gave iran an entremendous into the world which it was valued and very important. it puts the idea that the iranians are wild eyes sel lots is under mind by its relationship with syria. it's my view that by not responding quickly to the deployment of chemical weapons by the assad regime and delaying and taking it to congress and making a deal with russia, basically assad should send the united states a thank you note for buying it another six months or year or two or whatever it is. my view of iran and you wou

d more toward syria this week including fresh outbreaks in the capital damascus and the northern city of aleppo according to the world health organization the latest finding his wiring for officials to be racing to vaccinate more than twenty million children on the fight is over the serious and neighboring countries as well as the west bank gaza strip. the organization said via social media that the two new cases are in addition to the fifteen cases in northeastern syria last month the first reported cases of fourteen years. vaccination rates in syria has dropped under the strain of three years of the civil war that has killed more than a hundred twenty thousand people according to today's thousands flee into nearby lebanon everyday on hygiene conditions in refugee camps increase the risk of exclusion and can lead to paralysis and a rare cases death. earlier this month the syrian minister blames pakistani members fight scene has to show how upset the outbreak but yet it is endemic in pakistan afghanistan and nigeria focused on the telly done and plenty of ex nations in two thousand an

as well as the northern city of tripoli links to this two nine year old conflict in neighboring syria. there's been no word on who was behind the blast but silly and rebels have been threatening for some time now to target the president of the callous as allies in the neighboring eleven all. shiite iran has seen then rolling assess fines against the mainly sunni rebels and has given them a free support and it also supports the shiite muslim guerrilla group. so we will bring you more the tiles as soon as we get them but that the mind that that death toll in the embassy attack there be in on the bay ridge has risen already three fifteen the philippine government says that it will divide up the typhoon ravaged central the science region into relief science by country for international aid groups to maximize their relief efforts. eleven guys off to the stall his country's president menino aquino one guy that plays for improving a distribution as helicopters read some of the most remote places on devastated areas are still struggling for iag to the extent of the destruction president aquin

and elsewhere in the middle east and northern africa. so it's very -- that is very much his concern at the moment. and, of course, president putin and the russians have been supporters of the regime in damascus. back in september, pope francis did send a direct messagetom president putin expressing concern over the plight of the christians just before the g-20 meeting in st. petersburg. so they've been having something of a dialogue ever since. and we can expect that dialogue to continue. michael? halah? >> thanks, ben is in rome. as far as phil black in moscow, the pope and the president, very different men. sometimes it's even hard to picture them together. what does this meeting, what could it will tell us about their relationship, phil? >> yeah, hala, so different. image style and substance, the strong man of russia, the famously humble catholic pope. what it shows is what vladimir put putin is famous for when it comes to international policy and that is pragmatism. russia is prepared to talk to anyone where there is a point of speci

now in syria rebels are facing stiff resistance in a northern city of rshg aka and activists say two dozen fighterss were killed in the battle for the military base and it's considered to be rebel held but military kept control over strategic basis. the consequences of the war this syria continues to effect neighboring jordan and it has 100,000 syrian students in the state-run schools and can barely cope and we report some of the schools are having to run double shifts. >> these are syrian children who live in refugee camps in northern jordan and dropped off at the nearby public school where they attend classes in the afternoon. jordan is so overwhelmed by an additional 100,000 syrian students it's been forced to run two shifts and 80 schools across the country and the morning shift is for jordan and the evening for syrians. >> translator: we manage having to attend the afternoon session means we finish later and less team to play but we are doing okay. >> reporter: this is another afternoon school, all the students here are syrians living in the local community. for north the chance

fighting between houthis and sunnis in damaj. >> syria's rebel groups will not go to peace talks in geneva unless a departure date is given for president bashar al-assad. >> the leader says the snc will not take part in negotiations if iran is there. >> we have taken the decision to take part of the geneva ii conference united with honour. in oar for it to be a success it should include a transition of power. there'll be no geneva ii without a time frame and irane occupier. >> detracted negotiations as everybody tries to work out a way of ending syria's conflict. the fighting conditions across the country, particularly in the east. heavy government shelling of a number of neighbourhoods. sholdiers stepped up attacks. violence in the capital damascus. attacked in the air and from the ground. rebel-held parts of the surrounding country side. jordan's kink abdullah said the influx of refugees is placing a burden on water supply, power and housing. there are 600,000 syrian refugees in jordon. kink abdullah called for international help. >> if the international community does not move qu

francis wrote a letter personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so pope francis and president putin are on the scene on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday of course i'll be keeping you updated. ok thank you for that r.t. piece of live from right. the u.k. slowly recovering from one of the deepest and longest financial crises to hit the country but despite moderate growth some key indicators like living standards health and education suggest a few reasons for optimism artie's who are smith reports. say the bank of england's forecasts for economic growth is on the up unemployment down it sounds great but beyond those immediate fake is a darker picture that pretty much all the measures by which we track economic progress are in decline people's real incomes falling more and more of it spent on basic essentials uniquely this generation of young people is worse. educated than their parents and ob

francis wrote a letter personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so pope francis and president putin are on the scene p.j. on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday and of course i'll be keeping you updated. the u.k. slowly recovering from one of the deepest and longest financial crises to hit the country but despite moderate growth some key indicators like living standards health and education suggest few reasons for optimism artie's or smith reports say the bank of england's forecasts for economic growth is on the up unemployment down it sounds great but beyond those immediate fake is a darker picture that pretty much all the measures by which we track economic progress are in decline people's real incomes falling more and more of it spent on basic essentials uniquely this generation of young people is worse educated than their parents and obesity female life expectancy and child mortality amon

russia in the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring softball practice and president putin are on the same page all are sufficiently are set to meet the leader on monday. of course i'll be keeping you updated. what type of presentation or such an unusual poland had displaced the shale gas frankie and his holiness that recently placed an environmental activist reportedly expecting strong concern about us oil giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america at least i can do a formal oilfield executive ten santa tracking campaign and he blames an industry bent on profits for pushing home for technology this is a technology that said basically has been proven not to work as the oil resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of ports s soil andy and analysts say that significant negative health impacts on the populations that live above the gas fields. what a reflex is the fact that we are dealing with a cowboy industry that is driven by greed and little else in fact i would sit me in

francis rolled over to personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so pope francis and president putin are on the same losses issues they are set to meet later on monday and of course i'll be keeping you updated. well the pope and vladimir putin also share an unusual bond their distaste for shale gas fracking his holiness recently posed with environmental activist reportedly expressing strong concern about us all giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america more now with in crane next oil field executive turned campaigner who is against fracking thank you very much for coming on to the program the saffron in now you did give up a career over this why are you against fracking so much. well if we were looking at conventional oil and gas exploration i wouldn't be sitting here talking with you but this is the first attempt really in the u.k. to exploit unconventional gas resources from shale and the track re

francis wrote a letter personally thanking president putin for his efforts to try to restore peace in syria russia and the vatican have been calling to protect the rights of christians in the middle east and northern africa following the arab spring so francis and president putin are on the same page on lots of issues they are set to meet later on monday and of course i'll be keeping you updated. well the pope and president putin also share an unusual bond their distaste for shale gas fracking his holiness recently posed with environmental activists reportedly expressing strong concern about u.s. oil giant chevron exploiting shale gas in south america we spoke to a formal oil field executive turned anti fracking campaigner who blames an industry bent on profits for pushing harmful technology this is a technology that basically has been proven not to work as the oil industry claims and it has resulted in contamination irrefutable evidence of contamination of water soil and the air and also significant negative health impacts on the population that live above the gas fields what it reflects i

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and of course in combination with northern iraq which brings me to a question from our former president of the world affairs council in his question has to do with iran's roll. >> it's always bizarre because if iran is all about islam and the shia to support the outside family is the antithesis of everything that the islamic republic stands for which is an aggressively minority, secular, nonreligious political order that gave to the era of the world but a value by the value s very brilliant. but if it's that the iranians as completely undermined by its relationship with. and then taking into congress making a deal with russia and basically they should send the united states government a thank you note for biting at another six months or a year or two years or whatever it is. my deal with iran and you would know better than i do, i always felt about the role in this area and the influence in lebanon and a serious or somewhat exaggerated i think that they were striving to be influential that of the lebanese and thus urea and are not willing to be dominated by the iranians said it was a ma

they dot the landscape along the border with syria. people here live in miserable conditions, they may be safe. they no longer have to face the violence in syria, but they're all warning of the danger to come, and that is the cold. in this region temperatures drop to below zero. you can see people have barely anything. the grouped is all mud and these plastic sheetings do not provide any shelter when rain starts. just look around just a few weeks ago there was rain and the whole area was flooded. so people here are worried. they're calling on the international community to help them. but the international community can only do so much. and the lebanese government can only do so much. they have to deal with their own economic problems. this is how people live sometimes four to five families just in one tent. people are talking about their children suffering from respiratory problems, pneumonia, and in fact social workers are warning of the possibility of such diseases spreading. so miserable conditions in the next few days and weeks tem

there have been lots of reports in the last week or so of lots of new cases of polio in syria did what can you say about that. whether it can indeed be the end complete set of health infrastructure of series breaking dawn we know that more than hostile phone hospital site either damaged or destroyed so people don't have access and clearly on coverage of health care including vaccination is lacking. and so fall we were able as nominees easy to vaccinate eighty thousand children against measles and polio but sadly that is not enough. are you getting the impression though that there's a dvd on the opposition or the assad regime. al qaeda other terrorists or their forces they are trying to prevent these vaccinations from taking place. more intent on you can say amen to the country's normal practice people have to stop on the road hawks nest on those bonuses of movement inside syria is extremely difficult and took inventory stepped off the street asked him if that's still there. it becomes can create increasingly difficult. so even on said chronically sick patients like hypertension diabete

in northern iraq 50,000 are living in tents with no heat. imran khan visited a camp. >> it's early morning. the women here prepared food. they've been cooking outdoors since the summer. that will have to end. winter has come and with had plunging temperatures and heavy rain. they wonder what they'll do when it's too cold to cook outside. >> i make a special effort to cook every friday. a small treat. with the rain we will not be able to do this. this small treat will be taken away from us. preparations are under way. drainage systems are being put in place to make sure the camp doesn't flood. this man from the u.n. refugee agencies says things are on track, but there's a long way to go. >> there'll be challenges, but we will support the international community. we are ready to support. >> there's a huge difference between a camp being ready for winter and the reality of living there. despite the hard winter conditions around the corner, however, children find a way to style and have fun. these children take advantage of the mild weather befo

we're in jordan, and first let's go to northern iraq. just tell us about the camp where you are, and how worried are people from the on set of people there? >> reporter: well, this is the first winter that many of these people will have faced. they only moved into this camp a few months ago. and let me show you around now. now i have to say as it got dark the temperature plunged considerably. this camp was busy during the day. look at it now, scarcely an anda soul in sight. and we're not even into the peak temperatures yet. apart from the freezing temperatures will be flooding. this is surrounded by three different holes. you'r--three different hills. there is a dip here and the camps have flooded. they're building these drainage systems but things are taking a while. people here, this is their first winter that they faced. i spent friday to find out what their fears were. >> reporter: it's early morning and women in the refugee camp prepare food. they have been cooking outdoors for the summer but that will end soon because winter is com

this will be become more of an issue if the kurds set up a zone in northeast syria and in combination with northern iraq which brings me to a question from our former president of the world affairs council, and his question has to do with iran's role in the syrian mess. so if you can address that for a second. >> the syrian-iranian relationship was always bizarre because if iran is really all about islam and shism to support the assad family is the an tith sis of everything that he i slamic republic stands for, this was a secular non-religious political order but it gave iran an entremendous into the world which it was valued and very important. it puts the idea that the anians are wild eyed zealots is undermined by its relationship with syria. it's my view that by not responding quickly to the deployment of chemical weapons by the assad regime and delaying, delaying, delaying, taking it to congress and making a deal with russia, basically assad should send the united states a thank you note for buying it another six months or year or two or whatever it is. my view of iran and you wou

and first let's go to northern iraq. >> reporter: it's early morning and the women in this refugee camp prepare food. they've been cooking outdoors since the summer. but that will have to end soon bassinet has come and with it plugging temperatures and heavy rain. >> i make a special effort to cook every friday, a small treat to forget where we are. but with the rains we won't be able to do this much longer. even this small treat will be taken away from us. >> reporter: preparations to get this camp ready for winter are well under way. draining systems are put in place to make sure that the carp doesn'thatcamp doesn't flood. even though things are on track, there is still a long way to go. >> of course there will be challenges like any other program, but we're going support the international community with their agencies that will support us getting the refugin refugeesy for winter. >> reporter: despite the hard winter conditions just around the corner, however, children find a way to smile and have fun 37 these children are taking advantage of the relatively mild weather before the sev

this is the northern front of the fight for damascus. rebels are in the mountains area 60km from the capital. it is the only remaining life line for the opposition along the syria-lebanon border. it's an important almostingistics base for the fight in the damascus area. the opposition says it will not lose this territory. >> rebels hold the high ground. terrain makes it difficult to attack. we have thousands of fighters. we'll cut supply lines and take their arms. >> reporter: rebels say they were preparing for law. controlling this area means controlling the highway leading to the regime's heartland along the coast. rebels have seized some arms warehouses. this will be a hard and costly fight for both sides in a fast battle ground and a mountainous region. it could last for a month. the fighting could spill over into lebanon. if hezbollah joins the fight alongside the regime. the lebanese armed group came under attack for participating in battles in syria, thousands of rebel fighters could retreat into the country if they are surrounded