the syrian national coalition which is the main syrian opposition in exile rejected that. they don't believe that any legitimacy should be given to the syrian government. we also know that iran has its a own peace proposal and it has been calling for dialogue saying -- it's about formal a national unity government ceasefire, holding elects under international supervision. and what we understand is that there is no mention of the fate of president bashar al-assad and this has been the sticking point really ever since the start. and it continues to be the sticking point because in none of these proposals are there any clear reference for the fate of bashar al-assad. the opposition doesn't believe that he should have any role in the future of syria. now, we heard lavrov say the syrians should be able to decide for themselves we heard hem say that he hopes peace talks will be resumed without preconditions. what he means by preconditions is that there should not be an agreement on assad now. what we understand is that there are some parties who believe that they can still win t

a syrian fighter jet crashes into a market. 27 people have been killed. rising flood waters force thousands of people from their homes more than 100 have died. and we'll be deep beneath the streets of london to see how the world's most advanced railway system is taking shape. >> john kerry is representing the obama administration at the meeting of morning ministers. concerns over iran's recent nuclear deal has dominated the attacks. they are confident that the region is now safer because of the deal. >> a delicate mission for the u.s. secretary of state. john kerry is trying to convince long-standing allies that the russian nuclear deal will bring peace and prosperity. >> the five other european countries have technology and knowledge in the nuclear field. the countries of the council welcomed it on this basis and on what john kerry demonstrated about iran's development of nuclear weapons and the inspections to stop the development of nuclear weapons. >> today my counterparts and i have discussed the steps that we will take. and how we intend to build an

syrian army. at least one u.s.-trained fighter was killed and two division 30 commanders were captured. the pentagon says the air strikes all conducted by unmanned aircraft made good on a promise to provide defensive fire power if the u.s.-trained forces came under attack on the grown by anyone. but a pentagon spokesman down played the idea that u.s. air power was now broadly backing rebels fighting against the government. >> we're not at war with the assad regime the people are pledged to fight isil and only isil. so this is not something we view as inviting confrontation with assad in anyway. >> r foreign minister called the policy counterproductive. air strikes can be conducted against any forces he pointed out, because it's hard to tell who is fighting who. assad has few troops in the north and is is in control of an ever-smaller part of his country. >> we have cautioned syria in the past not to engage u.s. aircraft and the regime would similarly be advised not to interfere with the counter is

to include the syrian government in one way or another. actually they are trying to legitimize the syrian government and this has been rejected by the opposition as well as the regular backers. and iran is also presenting a four point peace plan that has been rejected and calls for a ceasefire, forming a national unity government and holding elections under international supervision and amending the constitution and both proposals that are presented by the syrian government's main allies there is no mention of the future of the syrian president bashar al-assad and that has been the sticking point from the start. and the very fact that the opposition does not want to start talks until they know what the fate of the bashar al-assad is means there is no progress on the diplomatic front and a surge in violence on the ground and there are those who believe maybe we will see even more fighting or more military operations in the coming days because they feel maybe they can make gains, political gains by gaining the upper hand on the ground. so th

then they say syrians should resolve this? i'm just shocked at the realities just contradict every single word that they say. >> obviously when you take onboard what they've said, they are basically saying we're going to do nothing, but there has been a lot of discussions with the foreign minister lavrov. do you concede that there may be negotiations going on in the background to try and bring a solution to this crise in syria? >> so, the syrian coalition visited moscow, just a few days ago, actually. the delegation just came back three or four days ago. in the discussions with the russians, they made it very clear that they are willing to let go of assad. i think that's a goal that every syrian would free to, however, at the same time, we were meeting with mr. lavrov, every time there's a visit to moscow, the assad regime get scared so the iranians have to assure him that the russian are not letting go of him. we see the response, the horrendous attacks yesterday, one of the worst in 2015, the worst actually air strike since

has not neutralized syrian air defenses. in addition the pentagon announced the first armed drones are flying out of the air base in turkey and in a few weeks man flights will be taking place out of there as well. but the plan now is for those manned flights to hit targets in iraq. >>> jamie mcentire thank you. >>> as we mentioned at the top of the broadcast at least 27 people died today when a syrian war plane crashed into a small town held by rebel forces. >> reporter: this girl is looking f rescued, wounded, and in shock. in the chaos after the destruction, the helpers didn't seem sure where to take them for help. >> translator: it is a popular market that is packed with vendors who you can see are under the debris. the war plane, its pilot and rocket hit the market and damaged it completely. >> reporter: more than a dozen were reportedly killed and many more wounded. when it carried out the air strike the war plane immediately went down. bodiesover people are still under the rubble. at a makeshift hospital nearby the inj

the now the syrian state media did not mention these attacks because a syrian military source was quoted as saying that air strikes were carried out in douma but they said they hit a headquarters of the group -- of the islam i'm. we know a day early the islam army announced's offensives again the government and managed to cap tear base so this could be a message from the syrian government to the opposition and particularly to the civilians telling them they will be punished for the actions of the opposition groups ago. >> even as the humanitarian chief is talking to government trying to alleviate human suffering this still happens. >> reporter: yes, the top u.n. official for leaf is in damascus but we know how the united nations has been ineffective in solveth syrian crisis it hasn't found a political solution, hasn't stopped the fighting because the u.n. is divided the security council is divided and russia which has veto power is a close ally of the syrian government so theup hats been ineffective. but what u.n. officials have tried to do over the years is try to alleviate the sufferin

al jazeera. >> the syrian kurdish fighting force, the ypg has long denied links with the syrian government. but it's forces have called the government troops to clear the northeastern city from isil. syrian kurdish official tells al jazeera that the regime could be a partner if it commits itself to a democratic syria. >> the syrian government is taking credit for pushing out isil but they did not win this fight alone. the syrian fighting force, the ypg, joined the battle with the help of u.s.-led coalition airstrikes. for years the ypg and government controlled separate zones as part of an understanding to prevent the city from becoming yet another battleground. the ypg said that the cooperation was logical under the circumstances but that only fueled accusations from turkey and syrian opposition groups that the kurds are allied to the government. now an official from the ypg political party, the pyp, told us that the threat of terrorism means that it would partner with any group, including the syrian government, if it's militaried to a democratic syria. >> of course, as i mentioned, maybe

more than four million syrian refugees have fled. turkey has the lion's share. more than a million have john to lebanon. jordan has more than 600,000. a quarter million are in iraq, and another 130,000 are in egypt. >>> vice president joe biden considers a run for the top job. what he told fellow democrats about his prospects. and anned a campaign us causing outrage in a suburb. the fliers that many are calling racist. >> in order to save my children, i had to try to save everyone else's. >> chicago mothers, fed up and fighting back. >> what we've essentially done is created an outdoor community center. >> changing the city one block at a time. >> i'm out here to encourage them, to tell them there's a better way. >>> we just showed you those numbers, millions of syrian refugees have now fled to neighboring countries. we want to talk more about this with the spokesperson for the u.n. refugee agency, brian good morning, and thank you for your time. just start by addressing the scale of this crisis at this point. when was the last time we saw four million people fl

. >> we are not giving help to anybody except to the syrian people. the main threat to our mind and in the middle east at a whole is that which emanates from the so-called islamic state. >> intelligence sharing and cooperation. hashem ahelbarra has the story. >> reporter: delicate mission for the u.s. secretary of state. john kerry is trying to convince the allies that the iran deal will bring help and prosperity. >> translator: the countries of the council welcomed it on the this basis and what john kerry demonstrated, on the inspection of nuclear establishments. >> in a bid to allay their fears the u.s. has offered to sell advanced weapons and upgrade the region's defense capabilities. >> today my counterparts and i discussed the steps that we will take and how we intend an even stronger more enduring partnership with a focus on counterterrorism counterinsurgency and also, on our cooperation in countering the destabilizing activities taking place in the region. >> reporter: they accused iran of backing their shia proxies and interfering in the regio

the syrian kurdish fighting force the ypg, joined with u.s. coalition air strikes. for years they controlled separate zones in hasake, ill was part of the understanding of allowing it is to become another stronghold. that only fueled accusations when turkey and syrian opposition groups that the curbed are allied to the government. now officials from the pyd told us that the fear of terrorism it would partner with any group, if it is committed for the democratic ruling of syria. >> accepting the diversity within syrian people, of course we are ready to coordinate with them and now as i mentioned i told you some examples with the opposition and also the syrian -- with the regimes. >> the kurds may be a minority in syria but have become powerful partners in the conflict. allowed them to many enjoy political autonomy. >> in 2004 they rose up against the state but their protesters were violently queld. when the syrian uprising began in 2011 they didn't fully enjoy efforts to overthrow the government. instead they managed to expand into areas where the regime retreated. g

these two syrian teachers in the camp work tirelessly to try to secure scholarships for syrian students through charities and private donors. a recent study concluded that there are 1,200 residents in the camp who are either qualified to enroll in universities or were never able to complete their higher education in syria because of the conflicts. >> we don't want the lack of universities scholarships to force our students to endure more displacements. we don't want desperation to create an obsession to the west for work and education. >> 4,000 syrians applied for zoll land an land andschola scholarships last year. but only 100 were available. many are worry that they won't have a say in their dreams or their future. >> thai police have arrested arrest parents for two more people in a deadly bombing in bangkok two weeks ago. they're searching for a thai woman who is believed to be in turkey and a foreign man whose nationality is unknown. they found bomb-making materials in the apartment of the men they're searching for. >>> peru is the world's biggest producer of cocaine. it has also al

our fighters are syrians fighting i.s.i.l. for security of the syrian people. >> let's go to zeina khodr. zeina, what does this tell us about the dynamics of the rebel groups? >> reporter: from the beginning jane the syrian opposition movement has never been united nationsed. they mayunitedunited.some are secular some have different political positions but what is happening today is the incident involves division 30. this is a group that is ready to fight i.s.i.l. instead of the syrian government and this is a group willing to cooperate with the united states. now, not many are willing. nusra's actions today was really a message to the united states, as well as to the division 13, any other rebel force thinking about cooperating with the united states, nusra saying that they not only targeted the base of the division 30 but it abducted its commander and several of its fighters, accusing them of working for interests of the united states. it is designated as a terrorist organization by the u.s. the coalition fight against i.s.i

for example, seeking to train syrians not to serve any syrian agenda, but rather to serve an exclusively american agenda, of taking on the islamic state movement or not engaging in confriend stations with the government, about the syrian government. which is a priority, or with the kurd, given all the reports and accusations that the kurdz have been engaged in ethnic cleansing. >> i'll jump in here. is it fair that emphasis is put on the united states to try to balance the conflicts and the groups. >> i wouldn't say that the united states is balancing the conflict so much as it's primarily responsible for the emergence of the islamic state movement through its invasion and occupation of iraq in 2003 and subsequent delivered and premeditated dismemberment of the iraqi states and the state's institutions. this is very much a crisis of america's own making. how should is it fix it then. if it's their making, how should they go about fixing it. >> if you create a problem by bombing a country to smith reens, it's probably a reasonable conclusion that throwing more bombs will make it worse rat

more than 24,000 syrians have escaped to north africa. joining us live from geneva is aryian that from the united nations refugee agency. thanks for being with us on the program. is the reality, then, that some of those now arriving at europe's borders have, in fact, spent many months, possibly years in other countries after they fled syria? >>le with, well, we have a mission of people. we hear it at both ends, those in europe and leb nan and jordan, that more people are making the move. we think there's a real link between the increasingly tough conditions that syrians face in neighboring countries as the crisis drags into the fifth year. syrian refugees and there's more than 4 million of them in syria actually sinking into ab jekt poverty. >> if more help was given to those currently living in places like lebanon and jordan, if more help was given to people arriving there, would they be more inclined to stay? >> we think there's a link between the worsening conditions and everyone moving on. not everyone is moving on from lebanon. some

syrian state media did not mention these attacks, but a syrian military source was quoted as saying that air strikes were carried out in douma, but the military source said they hit a headquarters of the group islamic -- the islam armism we know a day earlier the islam army a your honor nod an offensive against the government and they managed to capture a base so this could be a message to the syrian government to the opposition particularly the is ilcivilians telling them they wl be punished for the actions on the ground. >> this message being sent even as the united nations humanitarian chief is in the government talking to the government trying to alleviate human suffering. >> reporter: yes. the top u.n. official for relief is in damascus, but we all know how the united nations has been really ineffective in solving the syrian crisis. it hasn't been able to find a political solution. it hasn't been able to stop the fighting little. simply because the u.n. is divided the security council is divide and russia which has veto power is a ally of the syrian government. so the u.n. has been

our fighters are syrians fighting isil and the syrian regime for the security of the syrian people. >> what is this fighting tell us about the complex dynamics between syria's rebel groups? >> well, they have long been d they are not a united rebel movement. they do have a lot of differences, they may share the same goals to fight the syrian government. but some groups are more secular than others. others are more politically moderate than others. in this incident it involves division 30. little was made public about this group. this group is willing to fight isil and not the syrian government and this group is willing to cooperate and work with the united states. not many groups are ready to do that. and the front clearly sending a message both to the united states this group and others, who are even thinking about joining the u.s. in the fight against isil, warning them not to do so. targeting division 30 just a day after they entered to syria they received training in turkey. we understand that they were with other groups to coordinate a possible offensive against isil when they at

because clearly the ypg wants syrian territory and damascus doesn't want to lose any more syrian territory than it already has. >> well, assal ashraf thank you very much for sharing your perspective. >> pleasure. >> much more to come. life in the jungle we speak to migrants in the calais camps who are desperate to make their journey over to the u.k. >>> south african julius malema calls for his day in court when his corruption are case is adjourned until wednesday. now, the u.s. president has unveiled what he says is an ambitious national plan to tackle climate change. barack obama announced even toughers to power plants than previously are required. it's an important way to deal with global warming. >> the layman's way of saying that taking 166 million cars off the road. by 2030, we will reduce premature deaths from power plant emissions by nearly 90%. and thanks to this plan there will be 90,000 fewer asthma attacks among our children each year. >> al jazeera am patty culhane was listening to the president's announcement and has more details. >> an impassioned speech from u.s. president

these two syrian teachers in the camp work tirelessly to secure scholarships for syrian students through charities and private donors and say a recents enesco study said there are 1200 residents in the camp qualified to enroll in university or not able to compete in syria because of the conflict. >> translator: we don't want the lack of university scholarships to force our students to endure more displacements. we don't want their desperation to have an obsession with migration to the west for work and education. >> reporter: 4,000 syrians students applied for university scholarships last year but only 100 opportunities were provided, the refugees in this camp say they are worried that with every passing year they are less able for dreams and have a say in their future, al jazeera, camp. >>> time for the sport and here is fara. >> thank you so much and five-time grand slam winner has pulled out of the u.s. open that begins on monday because of injury and russian world three who has not placed since wimbledon has a knee injury and needs more time to recover and to play number 37 in her op

and the syrian regime for the security of the syrian people. >> live to zeina khodr. tell us what is going on as far as the fighting is concerned and these groups taking each other on. >> well nusra did attack the headquarters of division 30 in the northern countryside of aleppo. they also abducted its commander as well as several of its fighters. well we understand that the u.s. coalition tried to help their allies division 30. there was an air strike. it has not been confirmed from the u.s. military but what we understand from opposition sources on the ground the air strike killed a number of nusra fighters but they already targeted division 30 and abducted the rebels. like you mentioned, there is a new frontline, there are many front lines in syria, and nusra sending a clear message to the united states and groups who are willing and ready to work with the united states. nusra saying - warning them not to do so. nusra accusing them of carrying out corey washington's interests and plans. division 30 is a group that was trained by the united states to fight i.s.i.l.

winning on the ground against the syrian army or the syrians against bashar al-assad. that's not our responsibility. those that wanted to us get involved a couple of years ago caught to step back and say if we did, we are going after bashar al-assad do you want to fight them at the same time and deal with the p.k.k. iraq is different. you have a chance of prevailing. it's only us and the iranian on the same side there. >> former assistant secretary of defense, good to have you with us. >> the pentagon says suspected i.s.i.l. member has been handed over to the iraqi government. she is the widow of a late i.s.i.l. leader killed in may by u.s. special forces in syria. >> a group affiliated with i.s.i.l. is claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing this morning at a mosque in south-western saudi arabia. authorities say the attack killed at least 15. 12 were members of saudi arabia's special forces. we have a report. >> this is where the attack took place. a suicide bomber getting into this mosque,blowing himself up. the facundo coria visited the injured in a nearby hos

no syrian document and nothing to identify me not a single penny. for five days it was quite disgraceful, humiliating in athens. some young men collected some money to help me come here and here some young men are trying to help me so i can make it and see my own children. it's been 20 days and i haven't washed my clothes. i swear it's humiliating here. what can do i with these young people? to help them? no water to wash them with, no food, no decent water for them to drink. nothing at all. this is their meal. this is what we're supposed to feed our children with. what can keep them alive? is this a meal? is this food? in 24 hours one sandwich. you can eat it all in one bite. it won't satisfy their hunger. this is unfair. very unfair. where is humanity in all of this? we fled a war, now are stuck here in a prison. i'm stuck here, what can i do? what do they want us to do? why can't they free us, why? are we here as prisoners? what are we? tell us, yes you are convicts sentenced to death. why are we detained and locked up, why? what is the reason be

the syrian says all the other nationalities claim to be syrian, because it's the syrians who have the better claim to asylum. they are refugees, fleeing the still war, and others are economic migrants, looking for a life. the syrians are fed up with that. setting up their own group. they are syrians, and expect to be top of the programme. no sign of that at the moment. >> this is a field psychologist with doctors without borders. she says her team does not have enough capacity to help with the influx of people. >> the number of people highly increased lately. thousands of people here with many needs and many levels. we help people fleeing the war. this is something that we need to understand. these are people who have been traumatized in the country. it's been so with bombing attacks, and victims of war. they are here understand these conditions. it's something that can aggravate. these are people who are taken by the police, in a way that is not acceptable. what we see is a pleasant situation here. this is something that is not deserved. we are talking about critical needs. this is s

bernard smith is in turkey near the syrian border. >> reporter: this is now a syrian town that's how one government official has described it. the population of syrian refugees, 110,000. turkish population, 108,000. it's more than double in just four years since the syrian civil war started. and there are another nine or so turkish towns in a similar position. but the minister has warned that his country is at capacity. and if fighting continues and intensifies maybe another million syrian refugees could be headed this way, then he is warning europe to prepare to accept more syrian refugees, and a reminder from turkey's e.u. affairs minister that his country has spent $6 million so far in the last four years looking after the syrians living here. the europeans have offered about $80 million as a contribution towards that cost, but so far turkey hasn't received a penny of that offering of assistance. >>> more than 33,000 people have crossed the aegean sea from turkey in august alone. jonah hull is on the greek island, a major gateway to europe. >> reporter: they emerge in the thin lig

for some syrians, they view other rebel groups. then you have groups, and i think its possible to see an evolution of agreement among the external powers in particular that we need to resume some kind of negotiations between syrian parties, working between some sort of political agreement that would involve the maintenance of syrian state institutions, but bashar al-assad to step down and the political evolution. >> is there any kind of evidence of that? do you see a tangible track leading in that direction? what is your cement o --assessment of the commitment between russi russia's regime. >> russia won't have much choice in the matter if there is current agreement between russia and the united states and other world powers on this point. and it will help, obviously, if the nuclear agreement goes through because iran is going to be pre-occupied elsewhere. and i don't think its interest in syria is going to be sustained at the same level. the important thing, of course, is that there needs to be an agreement amongst some of the syr

we stay with the syrian situation, because there seems to be signs that the syrian government is looking for some kind of diplomatic way to end the war. now it's foreign minister has paid a rare visit to the gulf for the first time in four years. he met his ammonny counterpart. syrian state news agencies said the pair talked about constructive efforts to end the war. he has a history of relations with syria's close ally iran. >>> and activists in syria reporting that isil has kidnapped 230 civilians including 60 christians. they were taken in the town in homs province. isil captured the town overnight from syrian government forces. many of the christians were there seeking refuge after fleeing flighting further north in aleppo province. >>> let's go to iraq now and several protests are planned across the country within this hour we believe as anger mounts against the government. iraqis are demanding action over a lack of basic services including clean water. many say the country's tap water is undrinkable. they are also frustrated by repeated blackouts especially during the current heat

the vast majority are syrians escaping the syrian war. a small town just three kilometers away from the border with greece was the focal point of friday's violence. it's on the main route north. emma hayward reports. >> reporter: they spent a cold night in no man's land waiting to cross the border between greece and macedonia, but their passage was blocked by riot police. rocks were thrown, then this. [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] >> tear gas filling the air with police using stun grenades to try to keep people out. in the ensuing chaos, there was panic. most refugees here have escaped conflict, and few would have expected this. >> [ inaudible ] we was in front of the place. officers shoot the people. >> reporter: tens of thousands of people have crossed through macedonia's borders heading north during the last month. too many say the authorities who have declared a state of emergency in two border regions. the local train station is a transit point for many. most want to try to reach serbia, hungary, and other parts of europe. the internatio

estimated at least 12 million syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance. about 220,000 have been killed since the war started four years ago now. the u.n.'s top humanitarian official steven o'brien updated the council. let's take to gabriel at the u.n. for us now. tell us what the security council heard about the humanitarian situation in syria. >> they heard from steven o'brien, and it was a very, very grim assessment by steven o'brien. he just returned from syria a little over a week ago. he was there when the government air strikes hit a marketplace outside of duma, killing over 100 people, so he has a very fresh and recent perspective on the humanitarian situation there. he said that there are currently 4.6 million syrians living in hard to reach or besieged areas in the country. of those, he said the u.n. has only been able to get food aid to about 12% of those people, and he said the underhas only been able to get medical aid to less than 5% of those 4.6 million living in hard-to-reach places. he said in the past month violence has continued to escal

we're ready to coordinate for anyone fighting for the syrian people. i'm announcing this through your channel right now. we'll fight imor anyone supporting them, iran or hezbollah. >> but that is not what the u.s. trained and equip program is about. it is about creating a force to fight isil not the syrian government. the program has faced many difficulties since it was announced. after months of delay it was launched in may. and the pentagon was planning to train more than 5,000 fighters in a year. but so far it trained 54 in turkey. it was not the first time that al nusra targeted opposition groups have received support from the u.s. there is a movement in the revolutionary front that were forced to disband. news are a actions have been a direct challenge to the u.s. the attack on division 30 is a setback. news are a and division 30 is an enemy of isil, although the u.s. view news are a as a terrorist. the u.s. has hit an al-qaeda group believed to be under news are a's protection. news are a feels it is a target and seems to be taking preemptive mea

al qaeda's syrian win carried out an attack on syrian opposition forces trained by americans. it is the latest attempt by the al nusra front to undermine syrian rebel groups receiving support from the west. zeina khodr is in southern turkey with the latest. >> reporter: across the border in syria opposition groups have taken up release against each other. there has been more infighting threatening the training and equipping of the force to take on the islamic state of iraq and levant. in is thought to be an air strike carried out by the u.s. to support allies in syria, targetting positions of the al qaeda-linked al nusra front in northern aleppo. it came too late. fighters attacked the base of a u.s.-backed syrian group called division 30, and abducted his commander and several of his men. it was a message to the commanders and syrians that battling with it. >> translation: the 30 subdivision is a group chained by the u.s. they entered syria sa few days ago. it's an arm that america is trying to create in syria to fight terrorism. america classified javer as a terrorist group.

reporter: indescribable horror and the syrian desert. a retired archaeologist was publicly beheaded by islamic state group militants and his body hung on display in the city's ancient ruins. to leavear-old refused the city after it fell to the hands of jihadists in may. i victim to come to damascus and he said i was born here. i lived my whole life here. now, palmyra has fallen. palmyra is a unesco world heritage site and is considered one of the world's oldest cities. known as the pearl of the syrian desert, has long been a crossroads between civilization and was occupied by romans, greeks, persians and arabs at various points in its history. islamic state flag was raised above the columns on may 13, 2013, funding international concern over the safety of the city's antiquities with each artist group having destroyed hundreds of historical artifact in the past. andral statues, graves muslims have since been destroyed but so far, the city's most famous sites have largely been spared. hundreds of syrian refugees have been transported from

big they know we are syrians, that is when the trouble starts. they take advantage of you at work just because they know you are syrian. sometimes they don't even pay you. we can't do anything about it. . this family has been left powerless by circumstance. i miss my home, my freedom. it was mine. it was nobody's business. unlike here, where i am ordered around and have to share a bathroom. i can't even take off my headscarf. reporter: the family remembers a life so much better than this. like millions of other syrians across the middle east, there is little hope of seeing it again while the war indoors. -- while the war endures. reporter: for these children it is playtime. but life for refugees in jordan is increasingly precarious. center they tell us they get less money for food and rent in very few can work legally. this new arrival is a mother of two from damascus and says it is far too dangerous to go back. >> there are arrests all the time could you can't let your kids go to school as it is not safe. it is no kind of life. today mohammed is

and doesn't fight the syrian government will be looked upon with suspicion. syrians will see this as a war in islam. there are many groups, but the u.s. won't work with them because they are religious. >> the new syrian forces are supposed to lead the ground assault in aleppo. even before they deployed in the battlefield, some have been killed and captured by syria's al-qaeda linked nusra front. >> nusra is not the only obstacle. the force is not strong enough and many rebels with him not join because it won't fight the syrian regime. >> the activists say it is must not like these who should be given support. syrian supports among them the brigade who consider the government and isil as enemies. >> there won't be any solution if the coalition doesn't focus the fight against the regime, as well. the coalition needs to seriously target isil in raqqa, because it's the main base and from there moves freely to iraq and other areas in syria. >> for now, the focus i also to the northwest. if the campaign succeeds, it would end the armed group's presence along turkey

>> i think the syrian conflict, and i said this many times, the syrian conflict i think it was in 2012, when erdogan, when charlie rose interviewed erdogan. in that interview he said syria is not policy matter for us. it was misinterpreted, thought it was new ottoman way of seeing the region. what he meant was syria is unique place. turkey's domestic politics, mainly because of the kurdish issue. so, yes, syria is not a matter of foreign policy. we have now two million syrian refugees. aside from that the kurdish communities living on different, both sides of the border, they are organic, there are family ties and what every happens, and reportedly 1/3 pkk members are of syrian origin. what happens in syria has direct impact on turkey's domestic politics and turkey's kurdish policy. so that is why when there are reports that in northern iraq there was meeting between iran and the p u.k., taliban anyi parity and pyb leadership in syria that is alarming for turkey because turkey think iran and syria, they have used the pkk cards for a long time and that this destablizes turkey, that chan

an estimated 5,000 of its members have been fighting alongside the syrian army since early 2013. western nations want to see assad removed from power. iran has always urged that he stay, but a recent breakthrough in talks on iran's nuclear program has raised hope of finding some middle ground between the west and iran. in any case, it's built momentum. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and his russian counterpart held recent talks in syria. labrov has also met with the saudi minister this week. like the peace plan approved in 2012, the iranians are also proposing a national unity government followed by democratic elections in syria. but such an accord would have little effect on the syrian battlefield where the most powerful forces against the assad regime are the jijaddist oup, like islamist state organizations. richelle: government air strikes in rebel-held areas of eastern damascus have left at least 27 people dead this wednesday. it also says that central damascus was bombarded by rebel rocket fire, this ahead of the iranian foreign minister's visit to the syrian capital. no

>>> the devastation as 100 people die in syrian government air strikes on a market in the opposition held town of duma. >>> good to have you with us. you're watching al jazeera. i'm david foster. coming up in the next 30 minutes on this program, a taliban-linked group says it carried out a suicide bombing that killed a pakistani politician and ten other people. >>> hundreds of thousands turning out in brazil protesting about the president's government. >>> the remains of this indonesian plane that went missing with 54 on board have been found in papua. >>> syrian activists say over 100 have been killed by government air strikes targeting a rebel-held town. more than 200 were wounded in the attack. this is a crowded market in douma far from the capital of damascus. syria's air force confirmed it did carry out the air strikes in douma and in the nearby area. >>> a deal to move thousands of people out of besieged areas out of syria has collapsed and fighting has resumed. with more on that here's al jazeera's dana hoda. >> reporter: it was in the opposition-controlled northern province o

fighting for the syrian people. i'm renouncing this through your channel right now. we will fight isil or anyone supporting them either state or regime, iran or hezbollah. >> but that's not what the u.s.-trained and equip group is about. it's about creating a force to fight isil not the syrian government. the program has faced many difficulties since it was announced. after months of delay it was launched in may, and the pentagon was planning to train more than 5,000 fighters in a year. but so far it trained 54 in turkey. it wasn't the first time news are a targeted opposition groups that have received support from the u.s. it has a movement in the syrian revolutionary front who were forced to disband. it was a direct challenge to the u.s. and the attack on division 30 is a setback. both are enemies of isil but the u.s. considered news are a a terrorist organization while it is not a target of the u.s.-led coalition against isil, it has hit the group which is believed to be under news are a's protection. news are a

regime. >> syrian rebel groups consider both the government and i.s.i.l. as enemies. >> translator: there won't be any solution unless the coalition can move freely to iraq and other areas in syria. >> reporter: for now the focus is to clear i.s.i.l. from the northwest. if the campaign succeeds, it will stop the flow of foreign fighters but this won't defeat i.s.i.l. in syria and the coalition's choice of partners may create even more inn miss on the ground. zeina khodr, al jazeera, southern turkey. >>> posted troops on syria's southern border. last month a turkish fighter was killed on the southern border, fighting syrian incursions into its territory. >>> another night of violence in a town in southeastern turkey and has been growing in the region since the military stepped autops up attacks on kuh forces. turks have been showing their anger on the government. thousands moved through central paris in the german city of cologne. >>> pro government forces in yemen have taken the city of zinzibar from forces to launch their offensive on the capital of the s

not just syrians. there are also iraqis, bangladeshis, pakistanis as well. there is no precise answer why this came about but it does coincide with the hungarian government contacting the german government to seek clarification ton sawtojtonton the status of n refugees. whether there will be a free running service across the border or not, there is a rash of new measures by the hungarian government to stop the flow of refugees across the border from serbia into hungary. >> german chancellor angela merkel has hilt out on how the other countries have treated the refugees. >> translator: we have a humanitarian responsibility. we need to establish registration centers and talk to african nations. talk to countries that are in civil war and ensure there is a fair distribution of refugees across europe. not like what is currently happening across serbia macedonia and hungary. >> well, as well as germany, the united kingdom is one of the most desired destinations. the french prime minister has visited the city of calais. on a very wet day, manuel valles visitorred,

syria's latest air strikes in damascus are a massacre as they say the crisis can only be solved by syrians. ♪ and i'm jane in doha and coming up, in the program stiffer sentences and fines for journalists, egypt's president has tough new security laws. they go to the polls again with a controversial former president having to make political come back and displaced by civil war we meet the families praying for a peace deal with talks in ethiopia. ♪ conflict in syria has been one of the issues at the top of the agenda between russia and iran ministers and sergei fedorov has been meeting as diplomates during the conflict in the fifth year and talks in moscow comes as the syrian launch more air strikes in the rebel held damascus and zaina reports. >> reporter: the plane dropped the bomb in a crowded marketplace. it is an all-too familiar scene for the people of the rebel stronghold of duma, this town is regularly targeted by syrian air strikes but sunday's attack was the worst yet. civil defense workers and others gathered at the site of the explosion to help move the wounded when more air

one from the syrian government that i show to syrian traffic police and one given to me by kurdish police that i use when they stop me. reporter: the start of the syrian conflict in 2011 has forced kurdish fighters and regime troops into an unofficial alliance to defend parts of the province. the common enemy, jihadist fathers the islamic state group, prompting tens of thousands to flee. after government forces withdrew from kurdish majority areas, local forces stepped in to fill the void. the separate government and kurdish institutions create administrative procedures that includes two separate military services. >> every resident living under kurdish control, whether arab, kurd, syrian, between the ages of 18 and 30, must come to us to get the required papers for the military service. we issue our own military cards and the regime issue theirs. they are two different cards. reporter: shop owners have also been hit hard. some storefront in kurdish controlled areas are exempt from government taxes, but those operating in areas with overlapping authorities, like this pharmacy, have to pay

we're ready to coordinate for anyone fighting for the syrian people. we will fight isil or anyone supporting them either regime or iran or hezbollah. >> but that is not what the u.s. trained and equipped program is about. it is about creating a force to fight isil, not the syrian government. the program has faced many difficulties since it was announced after months of delay it was launched in may. and the pentagon was planning on training more than 5,000 fighters in a year. but so far it has trained 54 in turkey. >> it's not the first time that the opposite groups have received support from the u.s. it has a movement in the syrian revolutionary front who were forced to disband. news are a's challenge on the u.s. has caused a set back. both news are a and division 30 are enemies of isil, but the u.s. considers news are a to be a terrorist group. news are a seems to be taking preemptive measures to protect itself. al jazeera. southern turkey. >> in iraq thousands have taken to the streets in blistering heat to protest against power cuts. the heatwave is

they took 1,000 euros, $200, 200 turkish liras along with my personal syrian identification card. they left me with nothing. nothing. no, sirran documents, nothing to identify me. not a single meny. for five days it was disgraceful, humiliating in athens. some young men collected some money to help me come here. here some young men help me see my young children. it's been 20 days, and i have not washed my clothes. what can i do with these young people? what can i do to help them? there is no water to wash them with. no food, no decent water to drink. there is nothing for them at all. look at this. this is their meal. this is what we're supposed to feed our children with. what can keep them alive? is this a meal? is this food? for 24 hours one sandwich. you can eat it all in one bite. it wouldn't satisfy their hunger. this is unfair. very unfair. where is humanity in all of this? we fled a war and now we're stuck here in prison. i'm stuck here. what can i do? what do they want us to do? why can't they free us? why? are we here as prisoners? what are we? tell us, yes, you're convict

syrian strongholds. activists tell syria that actions to defeat the group is not helping. >> i'm in haiti, where elections are being held. it could be crucial for the future >>> now radioactive unions, now helping to rebuild it >>> the iraqi prime minister is seeking to abolish the post of vice president and deputy prime minister. haider al-abadi's proposal needs to be approved by the cabinet and the parliament, but could upset the sectarian balance. we have more details from the iraqi cap fall in baghdad >>> the iraqi prime minister's decision to rid the government of the positions of vice president and deputy prime minister sent shock waves throughout the government establishment, it's not surprising considering how much pressure the prime minister has been under because of mounting protests growing in cities throughout the countries, activists calling on the government to end rampant corruption. the people have been coming out. all that we have spoken with, saying they are apolitical in nature. they w

the question for us here, why the so-called -- >> they survived because the syrians -- the syrian regime allowed them to establish a redone apt network in syria. >> why isis was grown from 200 fighters in to basically 35,000 fighters, to come back, the sunni-shia divide. this is the social nourishment. these are not my words, consensus in the field. what does mean the sunni-shia divide. the geostrategic struggle. it means sunni dominated saudi arabia. and shia dominated iran. even though it's strategic, it's power oriented, but it's perceived as sectarian. it has allowed isis to, what? to imbed itself. upsetter itself with the local sunni community. >> is their popular support for isil -- [speaking at the same time] >> absolutely not. >> people are forget who question feeted al kicompeted te sunnis. >> no one can tell you the support within the sunni community to ice. i have worked for years, the numbers go and these are basically -- not just rhetoric here, the numbers goes most sunnis, most sunnis implicitly, implicitly the local commune is poor sunni communities view isis as the enemy

the syrian observe store has called it a massacre. douma is regularly targeted by the syrian government 37 the strikes cone aside coincided with the visit of a top u.n. humanitarian affairs leader. >> the plane dropped the bomb in a crowded marketplace. it is an all-too familiar scene for the people of douma. this town is regularly targeted by syrian government airstrikes, but sunday's attack was the worst yet. civil defense workers and others have gathered at the sight of the explosion to help move the wounded when more air raids hit. more than 100 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded. doctors at the field hospital struggled to help those who survived. many of them were critically injured. according to activists on the ground the victims were civilians. women and children were among them. the syrian observe store for human rights called the attacks an official massacre that was carried out deliberately. syrian state media didn't mention the attack, but a military source was quoted as saying the air force carried out s

the ability for us to motivate free syrians to be a credible sunni arab partner in the future. we've taken off one of the principle crossing points for daesh. and that now denied to raaka has increased a lot of pressure on raaka, forces have moved down toward raaka, that has created immediate pressure on daesh. we're beginning to see the capacity ultimately for us to regionally synchronize military activities that can create a more comprehensive pressure strategy across daesh as an entity. not just in one place, not just in ramadi tikrit, or the syrian border it is a unified comprehensive synchronized strategy, or synchronization, that is beginning to take shape that's why i'm optimistic. >> can i squeeze in one more? >> one more. >> the -- thank you. the -- you mentioned commitment for the integrity of syria, politics in iraq is always a major question, and in this report, we come out saying it is important to not give up on the iraqi state, we need to see, as you said about syria and iraq they're able to maintain its territorial integrity, that requires getting the sunnis in,

it is led by the syrian government's make that backers iran and russia. the international community disagree on the need to find an agreement, but forming the basis of negotiations is proving to be difficult. there are many players in this conflict, with diverging interests. >> some opposition leaders believe iran and russia are pushing for a deal because the syrian government is facing military and economic pressures, but assad's backers show no sign of compromise at least not until they achieve what they consider to be their strategic goals. >> an isil linked group in egypt said it killed a croatian they were holding host only. the 30-year-old was kidnapped in cairo last momentum. the announcement of his death was made via social immediate in a with that sinai province threatened to kill him unless muslim prisoners were released from jails. the croatian prime minister spoke a short while ago. >> my duty is to tell the croatian public what we saw. of course it's horrific and at this moment we cannot with 100% certainty confirm it's true. i don't know if

no syrian document to identify me not a single penny. for five days it was quite disgraceful, humiliating in athens. some young men collected some money to help me come here. and here some young men are trying to help me so i can see my own children. it's been 20 days i haven't washed my clothes, i swear it is humiliating here, what can i do with these young people, what can i do to help them? there's no water to wash them with, no food, no decent water to drink, there is nothing for them at all. look at this. this is their meal. this is what we're supposed to feed our children with. what can keep them alive? is this a meal? is this food? in 24 hours one sandwich, you can eat it all in one bite. it won't satisfy their hunger. this is unfair, very unfair. where is humanity in all of this? we fled a war now are stuck here in a prison. i'm stuck here, what can i do? what do they want us to do? why can't they free us, why? are we here as prisoners? what are we? tell us yes you are convicts sentenced to death. why are we detained and locked u