Says that around forty thousand homes were damaged in mosul to suicide he said i am reports from kuwait city. N. G. O. S have got together and theyre pledging three how over three hundred Million Dollars to go towards various humanitarian operations inside iraq and apparently kuwaiti n. G. O. S he said theyll cover a third of that now thats a far cry from the one hundred billion dollars that the iraqi Prime Minister of course has said he needs to get the country rebuilt and the focus of this conference of course is not so much just on getting humanitarian donations in to cover that amount of money but to get investment a degree from the private sector to get the country rebuilt and functioning as a proper functioning country u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the trumpet ministration remains committed to working with the country to defeat i saw hes discussed the issue with egypts foreign minister in cairo at the start of his middle east tour. We agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on Counterterrorism Measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis in egypt has been a very important member of the defeat Isis Coalition from the beginning they egypt deals with the threats of isis themselves and are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai we also discussed the importance of the protection and promotion of human rights in the vital role of Civil Society in egypt with the president ial elections planned for the end of march the United States as it does in all countries supports a transparent and credible electoral process at that. Most of the conversation was based on the bilateral relations there was a deep and genuine interest from mr tillotson with the us to continue to work in support egypt and Work Together to achieve a common interests this is what i reiterated to him egypt is keen on maintaining this positive friendly relationship which will no doubt bring about most ability in security and push forward to achieving lasting peace in the middle east russias government says u. S. Support and diplomatic efforts to stabilize syria have been inadequate only a techies foreign minister announced that relations with washington about a very critical point over its support for the kurds the us defense secretary has admitted that some american backed syrian kodesh fight as a helping fellow cuts battle took if so just near the town of f. E. M. A. Investigators in russia found two flight data recorders as they look for clues to sundays plane crash outside moscow all seventy one people on board were killed when the solid off Airlines Flight crashed into a field shortly after takeoff. Senior leaders of south africas ruling party are meeting to discuss president jacob zuma future they hope to finalize a deal for him to leave office before his term ends in twenty nineteen zuma is under pressure to resign over corruption allegations African NationalCongress Leader several run opposer says that Party Leaders will decide on a swift transfer of power and their leadership goodness now. We have injuries eight hundred eight just cant see. On this month. A new this is the case. And its the big plea. Bargain was this isnt this. Did not the. State of emergency has been declared in tonga as the Pacific Island braces for tropical cyclon gaeta Evacuation Centers have been set up and a curfew imposed he says packing wind gusts of two hundred seventy five kilometers an hour off the coast of the most populous island its expected to make a direct hit as a category five storm. Those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after sykes picot line in the sand. Last. Laugh. In late one thousand nine hundred fifteen one world war one was being fought in the trenches of mainland europe. Britain france and russia were allied against the central powers of germany austriahungary and the ottomans. The war in europe west tag meeting but britain urgently needed a strategy as to how to divide the Ottoman Empire with france should the allies be victorious. The Prime Minister turned to a young british politician called sir mark sykes who had cast himself as the governments advisor on the middle east. The Ottoman Empire is assailed by misfortune crippled by mary advices and the prey of alien greed ambition and timidity one. Englishman may have ideas but they are unable to take any steps to overturn the regime and free the peoples interests power. By the third of january nineteenth sixteen he and the french lawyer turned diplomat. Or speaker would have negotiated the terms of a secret agreement. In two words i foresee a protectorate. Which uses the local traditions and customs to establish different regimes in the four provinces of super. Lebanon a lebanon enlarged by the an extension of beirut to paly to becca and serving as a model of what is necessary to achieve using indigenous or. And. These two men devised a plan that would not only divide the spoils of the declining autumn an empire between the two european powers but would draw lines in the sand that would ultimately influence the shape of the middle east for the next century. Istanbul capital of an Ottoman Empire that had stood for six centuries. Its the fleet. Of asia africa and europe. Its peak had been in the sixteenth century. That the other says i felt that if you knock at. The dock a year will see more score that there was the how well. The better of me from. Iraq. Has many fi. But that. Does. That leave many. No there are many year learn to call a double or a sin i can that there were a year to job. And. The. War othella sid i had to hear from his own poor who are living. For his sorrow. A builder of many a year. There with me if youre a little knocked up so im. From about a very few. Ways of american have fathers monique america. Has a delusion and i can convey your can be a few. Better with many of. The autumn an empire began receding in the nineteenth century. In eight hundred thirty it lost algeria to france. While egypt gradually came under british rule which then expanded into the arabian peninsula. The arabs of mesopotamia greater syria and the hampshire remains part of the Ottoman Empire which was undergoing its own changes. By that address or but that. Democrat or you mention is really at the root of many if you are a well michalis well but as i licked the. Measures thirdly when i mostly. Moderate government i learned a lot of the luck that a lot of the year mostly million nor. In one thousand eight the committee of union and progress the young turks overthrew didnt have me just that. And restored to the eight hundred seventy six constitution. This reduced tension at the top of ottoman politics but also created in fighting among arab groups in the empire and let her hear much more of a new dictatorial. The more we. Can the better home. Can and who knows ill call me to. Them is headed of god but only. If you can sure tell you. And so far a. Recent carefree and remember really. So far i think there will. Be more and that your but it does because it would have been of the aftermath of our. Tours right get tricky and no. More american but lot of be you. Know who work have been who are americas by nineteen fourteen you could really say that for those arabs who were engaged in identity politics what they aspired to was a better deal for the arabs within the ot of them. This brand of politics is known as arab ism and arab ist were really thinking in terms of imitating the austriahungary empire with a kind of arab turkish dual monarchy and the Ottoman Empire but were very concerned not to exit the audubon umbrella for fear that where the arabs edited make a bid for independence they would be immediately at risk of european. The ottomans suffered a major defeat in nineteen i dance a little here priests serbia and montenegro in the first balkan born. In europe in territory but the defeat did initially ease the relationship between the arabs of the Ottoman Empire and the young turks governments. Even folks fifteen maybe even been. On well many a year and a half. I would have it not the men with went to faff im also that would include how it was at the what the really thought roger. Thought food for thought for the i mean what do you mean. I the thought that we should be. The First World War started at the end of july nineteenth fourteen. Britain france and russia the central scholars of germany austriahungary and bulgaria. Shortly after the autumn and opted to supports germany. The daughter of concrete. And homework. So thought it was going to a funny. Little sit when i came as a sikh on the home. That was set for most of them by about an f one how to see by their own law thought through with many sort of show you. Are liberal did the. National heart of. Political. Who are you starlet. I look at remove. My knee i mean. To be a highly. Mean cold mean. Politically really thought that i will a good or i must be really really really brilliant or see youre going to doggy into luckily my mother took me at thirty because i mean the circular buffer the Libyan Government also will put. In ruth doleman head the head of a says he cannot afford it and we had definitely well. One of the robber had there that you know let me up and and methadone look lobo ghana to read woman who wore in ghana auburn then you know for almost half moved down the hall and we had death. In february one thousand nine hundred fifteen frustrated by the stagnating war in europe the british open to an Eastern Front against the ottomans on the dardanelles streets they imagined the ottoman army as weak and easier to defeat as the way of taking on germany and ending the war. Russia however was more concerned about its use of ottoman water which so the russians asked britain and france to find in agreement to guarantee their own share of the spoils after the war. The russians were keen to seize more as Cultural Capital as a sort of restoration of orthodox christianity after. Five centuries of all of the rule and so with the outbreak of the First World War on the eve of the could literally invasion the russians wanted to secure their allies commitment to granting istanbul and the straits to the russian empire and this becomes an exchange of documents known as the constantinople agreement concluded between march and april one nine hundred fifteen. Britain france and russia entered into the constantinople agreement which granted the russians certain ottoman territories and waterways. However this agreement peeved the way for another secret deal as london and paris started to plot exactly what they wanted from a region thats was gaining strategic significance in the coming age of oil. You could really see the britain and to the war without any clear territorial ambitions in their territory they could not at the stage of the constantinople agreement identify one place that they wish to add to their empire but they reserve the right to do so as soon as they worked out what their priorities were and so in a sense the constantinople agreement really is the first of the wartime partition agreements that will begin to shape the way in which the arab provinces will be carved up primarily between britain and france since russias interest lay mostly in turkish territories so very British Fashion the british created a committee called the debunks and committee and its remit was to look in. The sort of the options for britain so that when the time for negotiations with the french came up the british would be well prepared know what they wanted and this is actually something that the british did throughout the war and right to the end of the war. So in april one thousand nine hundred fifteen the british set up a committee headed by the diplomats morris the bunsen to define their interests in the ottoman territories its made certain assumptions about what its ally france would expect from any potential deal. I mean a few who. Are there to see if you could walk and if it is you you really do there and leave front. Man a sort of in the front seat going to be a call on it right now i will certainly be in the most i look at it and the thought that if you have a month with you could be having a month what will really be a month britains interests are most likely to be in completing its imperium in the persian gulf by securing the territories of the province the bus route baghdad linked as they were to persian oil fields and island in the shot that are up. Nicely completing dominion that stretched right around the earth coastline of the persian gulf which it would take since an eight hundred twenty s. Good morning gentlemen are doing so to get on some twenty to set up. And its youngest very steamy. And most carefree. Oxides who was kitcheners military assistant kitchener was the secretary of state for war and he delegated the job of sitting on the committee sykes mark sykes had been born into a wealthy family in yorkshire in the north of england in eight hundred seventy nine. He studied at Cambridge University and was elected as a conservative member of parliament. In one thousand enough. He like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. He presented the Bunsen Committee with his vision of a new near east region as riches and this will be our use ive come up himself with a different plan which is something completely different a much more old fashioned. Was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. And create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. That was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. Way into line one nine hundred fifteen the debunks in Committee Recommended dividing the Ottoman Empire into several provinces over which britain would seek influence rather than exercise direct control. But when sykes was sent to the middle east and india he began to revert to his original idea of a british cordon from the mediterranean to iraq. So so mark from your knowledge of the other question. Where would you say that a legion slot. Between us and the french. Practically all arabs approach. Not exactly anti french but frightened of financial exploitation and they are frightened of French Colonial methods. But there are many christians in syria in the limited particular how do they feel that christians are as afraid at the bottom of their hearts as the muslims and only in syria that feeling sara is prevalent everywhere because they know what the french do that feeling pretty well runs all through. There is the French Nationalist Party which is sentimental still harking back to the crusades. So science returned and as the current sort of started to come together he was called into downing street at the end of the year on the sixteenth of december one nine hundred fifty and then. He must have gone with a map as well because he got into the the meeting with the cabinet the Prime Minister and his chief ministers sitting around the cabinet table in downing street i believe they fear an arab caliphate. Is an independent stage a common language the arabs of tunis algeria and morocco cause they control entirely the french nationalists believe that if the allies when they want syria and palestine im not a mesopotamia likes appeared to be someone who was very knowledgeable and in fact in that Cabinet Meeting that he went to in december one nine hundred fifty in. Order to the result of the Cabinet Meeting was that one of the cabinet ministers he was there believed he could speak arabic and turkish but in fact he could speak neither language so he he dotted his speech with arabic phrases that sort of thing to give himself the appearance of being an expert when in fact he was more of a gifted amateur what do you think we should do some are. I think to counteract the french war aims. We require diplomacy. Do you think diplomacy will achieve with the fridge i dont want to make any suggestions except on very general lines. That i feel we ought to settle with france as soon as possible and get a definite understanding about what sort of arrangement would you like to have with the french what would you say to them i would like to see for ourselves. South of haifa apart from the active tourist. If you have it is just to be very. Good and the who. Youre forgot to bark lisa fuck off. I mean there were funny. Men and with. Guns and no. Idea of how old men would love to mop up a. Few months of the chemical its most important that we should have a bout of english controlled country between the sharif of mecca and the french in syria what would you do the french i should like to draw a line. In even asia. To the last caretaker cook and this must all be settled before we can take military action against the turks in syria. We must find out what the french actually in system having they do multiple syria they can both be merely a military purposes we must make terms with problems. Which means we must make terms. About. Right to. Britain has identified the territories of the Ottoman Empire its wanted in order to protect its interests in just the west canal and the area provinces. But this clan was dependent on fritz and france winning the war which at the start of one thousand and fifteen was almost at a standstill on the western front in europe. The allies decided to open an Eastern Front against the ottomans. The ill fated gillet Police Campaign ran between april nineteenth fifteen and january nineteenth sixteenth. When its finally field the allies including australians and new zealanders suffered a major step. This monument commemorates the ottoman victory in which around eighty thousand allied troops were killed. This defeat at the police and later includes mystically timeo caused the british to enter into more secret deals over the middle east. Coming up how the british conspired with should be the same mechanic to strike back at the ottomans through an arab revolt. Of the british with all the sharifs of the partners that were essential in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side that fight with the ottomans let me explain why we must have and sikes. Negotiate face to face to get what they both want from the middle east well if we cannot have palestinian my government was suddenly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view french polish time would be now. And then we need to find another solution before we come to blows. And so. Now we can draw on. A lifetime of emulation of stroke by stroke copying. Selling reproduction was can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. A pilgrimage to discover his heritage and spy as an awakening that its more rewarding to create than to imitate. Dreaming of vincent a witness documentary at this time on aljazeera the way we communicate is what defines us as it always has been. As innovation and technology continues to shape our lives. I am hearing content creation and distribution utilizing Cloud Technology and ata fisher intelligence. The future thats never seemed closer than it does today. And what lies beyond the horizon. To take us to watch from t. 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Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the trumpet ministration remains committed to working with egypt to defeat eisel hes discussed the issue with egypts foreign minister in cairo at the start of his middle east tool but we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on Counterterrorism Measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis in egypt has been a very important member of the defeat Isis Coalition from the beginning they egypt deals with the threats of viruses themselves or dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai russias government says u. S. Support for diplomatic efforts to stabilize syria have been inadequate early at turkeys foreign minister announced that relations with washington would have a very critical point of washington support for the cuts the us defense secretary has admitted that some american backed Syrian Kurdish fighters are helping fellow kurds battle turkish soldiers near the town of freed. 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As the headlines ill be back with the news out for you in twenty five minutes but now back to sikes peacoat lives in the south. We must retain full control. In late one nine hundred fifteen early one nine hundred sixteen both britain and france were exercised by how they might divide up the ailing Ottoman Empire between them so the allies ultimately win the first war. But when they suffered a serious defeat at belittling britain looked at alternative ways of attacking the ottomans and undermining their support for germany. That now the ottomans on a victory might be able to provoke uprisings in the indian and egyptian muslim populations that so far theyve not been able to effect its at that point that britain begins to really consider how it might turn the tables on the ottomans and force them to fight in their own territory against an internal uprising so to address that challenge they turned to that sharif of mecca who had already made overtures to the british about concluding an alliance to secure their position now all of a sudden the british adopt the sharifs of mecca as the partners that were essential. In the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the muslim world was better off on the allied side that fight with the ottomans. In one thousand nine hundred eight the ottomans had appointed should be first in been highly as the wily the governor of his us the area towards the red sea. He was from the hashemites in a city in mecca of which he was the emir. His sons faisal and op dont know the representatives and Ottoman Parliament but his relationship with istanbul had deteriorated in recent years but that africa was going to show you get serious about how to either me or i was older and no. Poor slob if you stumble all of the time you too many and some you just are here to have a copy or to have the thought of going home at night and not many have the fear. Yeah i mean youre already home. There on the pier got a pretty. Shareef. Yeah me. I will be there all to figure it. Was. What he thought i should offer. Home yeah i saw him out of a jazz canot. And then. Fill it out of me that there were as many. As many yeah kiss. Democracy and as many a problem yeah i guess we should what a crowd what they are all about are they are or whether in their id hope i did and then her does are referred to as many if it will be. Sorely missed her. In the. Lee. At the ottoman ruler of greater syria jamal pascha executed a group of arabs in damascus and beirut in one nine hundred fifteen and nineteen sixteen they were accused of being separatists and of supporting the british and french this hard in the determination of the Arab Nationalist to separate from autumn and rule and to create an independent arab States Hussein didnt have any modern ideas of nationalism but he wanted more autonomy under the ottoman. Empire but its only gradually that he was drawn into what became an Arab National movement a full scale revolt against the ottomans and this wasnt an easy decision for the sharif or make to make because the ottomans were fellow muslims. And he was siding with an infidel. Against fellow sunni muslims. There had been conversations between the british and the hash more its before the war but in july nine hundred fifteen Sharif Christine wrote to the british high commissioner in cairo sir henry mcmahon. He offered his support to against the ottomans in return for british support for an independent kingdom that would include the provinces in the arab peninsula and be ruled by the hashemites. Service they were not a. Third of the. Muscle to hear that but there was a lot of could be a problem how about you see a fella. There with a limb as a lot of you believe. To clean it off and the other one for the whole upper limit as a seal mccoll when associated with the labia tell me that it was a. Key is that there were a lot to be absolutely. Ill most earth early to come. But a source of a similarly to the team a lot of cloth and most but the mom bit badia what the limits of the fish are that of the saudi you were a scary few. Months of. The correspondence continued and mcmahon wrote to sharif posting on the twenty fourth of october one thousand nine hundred fifteen he said that britain would not guarantee support for an independent arab kingdom with all the provinces demanded by the hashemites nevertheless the hashemites went ahead with their revolt against the ottomans in july one nine hundred sixteen. But many still consider mcmahons lesser controversial today because of the air. As the british wanted to exclude from any future arab kingdom in here and let you. Shoot. It does only really need a good occasion of going to see that middle feeling easy no time will it wouldnt. Undo residency in britain. While barack in a suit walking up to go to be demolished homes will have no house. And you call on her to be wrapped up in that. Doesnt mean it is likely then getting money in d. C. Became a few uneasy in districts very moment it clear and the fear doesnt or hasnt you can believe this was an evil mccarran can it get a bit warm and documents. Like that was careful not to promise anything the contravened preexisting treaty arrangements they wish to exclude territories to the west of hong damascus and aleppo and certain areas around the gulf of alexandretta and so this year and that britain was already an occupation of the province a bus ride much of the province of baghdad at this time and so britain was very keen to declare its interest and retaining some degree of control over those territories for the Mutual Benefit of the arabs of the british gathers boundaries that britain would be willing to accept the hash like claim to arab kingdom with british support hussein thought that the british promised to include palestine in his kingdom. And the british later denied that their promise Team Palestine they denied outright but. All the average is is that they have probably seen palestine double if that one had beer or. Money certainly mcmahon lets show you the same i dont mind that level. Of all the thing these miles and so we. Filmed the brutally minimal world in living this way or that i did feel that. Yeah you can leave out also that when rottweiler and we are normal friends or. Significantly in the three months that the british promised parts of greater syria to Sharif Christine they told the french that any agreement relating to the borders of an arab kingdom would not be finalized without their consent. They knew how strong the french interest in syria was. On the first of october nine hundred fifteen the french ambassador to britain Paul Campbell wrote to his Prime Minister we need to be i need to tell him that london had requested a french representative to draw the borders of an arab kingdom with syria. In this document the french ambassador suggested hans want george be called would manage the general consulate in beirut for over a year and knew the syrian issue better than anyone else. Aloft also just because diplomat sit down diplomat here diplomat kamel is a. Hundred years in the game circular debate events. His all clear good also. Offered some bare loss some of the stuff i mean the dishes. Dont miss them. In the diplomatic file said it says on the job he saw the kid also political and yet as yet he kept it consumptive us kind that as yet all you know we are back all the diplomat lessig said that if its a depressed the bus dont bust or even so close good. Evening on the hotel well have some cattle. A few weeks ago or so mr gore very nice to see you again place your joy warm as the french representative pico had his first meeting with the british in london on the twenty third of november one thousand nine hundred fifteen here to buy food to see you again i know everybody this started their negotiations about their respective shares of the Ottoman Empire once the war was over. British come along with a new right of people from all the different ministries to take an interest the war ministry the Foreign Office the colonial office. They are sitting on one side of the table and pico is on the other side of the table happens would define first valeries your government just as we must of course have the whole of syria and palestinian know all of it of course down to the egyptian border but pico you must realize that there are other claims in this area. Perhaps perhaps. Bethlehem and you could form a kind of enclave but certainly nowhere. Despite the numerical advantage p. K. Just sits there with his arms crossed and says im not interested in you or your plan it doesnt we we call possibly accept something along the lines that you were talking about moving further east we must have the land north of this line and across here including most of most of the town not all the villa it the area around twenty years ago the belayer to most of included the baghdad ambassador districts are you suggesting they should be separated now its impossible to consider the situation of twenty years ago affecting the situation now so mature pekoe if you have palestine and syria and half iraq in mosul will you be satisfied i think i can persuade my government then we have reached an impasse. The uncompromising positions of both sides at that first meeting cause the British Army Intelligence officer in cairo to write it is obviously hopeless to attempt to arrive at any reasonable agreement with the french so long this pekoe is their representative. Says mean of some to settle committees up on a serious and see. In a key basque offered something a host of popular shows our bus clearly could top on the roof you know it be us over toward advani goes here. Here left. Here a pleasant look be cool and united with the nikkei it lit deserve an offer to voyager shouted the lable this one that build the big big air he is like our face because typically also on the belt the big do get it that the car the victoire so markedly twelve were larkham also potash relative to our eighty this year not thirteen look after that get it talking exist apart its about that mono kid arm around a dozen more does that exist on their bellies into our nano eat the wrong dissing me off at least with jill d. P. Do. So mark your government has been adopting extreme positions over a territory which you must recognize france has special claims to but in the meetings i attended no one seemed to give a centimeter and yet concessions i feel a censure decisions have to be made so that we both know where we stand when turkey is conquered as inevitably it will be. Mr speaker i feel sure that within these walls we can find a way through the issues and my government has given me the power to make the necessary decisions i too have been given the freedom by my government to make the necessary decisions and you must realize that we have very definite needs in the territory which some of my countrymen consider to be french by rights ever since the crusades do you remember who won the crusades yes but today the ira observes you said i didnt although these talks were secret the russians had already made their demands what we must do now that we have agreed the russians can have the Northern Areas of turkey including the straits is to discuss the southern and eastern areas so that the interests of both nations can be established for the decades that will follow the end of them or the start then with the provinces of syria that center on damascus and the level. Of their own. The year of it are nearly syria could draw. A desert should they have. To food from seed in or out of the authority you couldnt before sukkot new foster home where you know roofs are given for health and how is it was an adult with money you had. No food. So you see its indispensable for the arabs have been in syria to have some direct access to the mediterranean somewhere along the syrian lebanon and the way to total french control that would be impossible but that would mean french positions would be split into between an often a soft of syria. Simply cannot be allowed to happen the political and military a bit strange would be impossible in such a divided territory. Im not convinced but. It is nevertheless trying to meet that object. And my dividing line is here. From. A funny you should be. But the. Point. You have had to do something but you know. A. Little funny its also a miniature should be sent. If it was your. Configured to walk. Funny. Enough. Well a well mandala respect although enough oberstar to get back to you both on that it will not be possible to persuade my colleagues to accept a line as far north as that that would exclude kosovo regions like the whole run from a sphere i see but for france to control territory that far south from make it very difficult for our plans for railway line from the coast to baghdad i must insist on this point so mark. And co cook. We could not possibly let you have cook from my own travels on the air i know that this province contains the only elements of the population which will make it possible to colonize ation of iraq my idea sykes this is hardly in a spirit of conciliation let me explain why we must have the territory we requested in northern misfitting. But only on to mock signs off pico dont believe i suppose this you are the president but he seemed almost something he esteemed because it though do continue it when he put the dog. Because it that who continually double up now must feel shivers and then it dont come so awesome that at that instant lets him apply he still he cant go to his own let alone do much of a descriptive for his own little problems to the point is you who throw in the law you cannot destroy his well if we cannot have palestina my government was certainly not allow britain to control my government would take the same view french press time would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows. And so. Now we can dream up. So when sykes left the Cabinet Meeting. On sixteenth of december nine hundred fifteen to go and meet pico he had a problem because he had to reconcile two conflicting sets of demands the set of demands that pico was making for syria and lebanon and the other set of demands that sheriff of st had already made and which the british had already effectively accepted for both covering the same territory so he in pico came up with a map that made a distinction between two types of land in the middle east land that britain and france would absolutely control which was colored blue for france and red for britain and a hinterland the in a region which was called area a an area b. Where the arabs would have. Some war ptolemy but in which each of the big powers the great powers would have the right to advise or influence with the further complication that the territory of what was to become palestine was designated for an International Zone where basically Russia Britain and france are able to agree who could lay greater claim to the holy lands just to further that decision down the road by painting it all proud. In january one nine hundred sixteen the french and british agreed to ignore the borders of any future arab kingdom. Their new borders were enshrined in the deal we now know as the thought makes people agreement. Sikes to his line from acre to could cook so the south of anatolia eastern turkey the syrian coast and be roots were put under direct french control. Basra and baghdad were put under direct british control. And damascus were put under french protection and were called area a. The rest of mr petain mia and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. Whats palestine including jerusalem was designated as an International Zone in brown. All those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from their local state in this yes. Nasha. Faith six people. While theyre not quite mean. Dont really need. Men. Called from us or wealthy. Mining these. Shall be from the who let it. Be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. Was in keeping with the terms of what theyve agreed with the hash guides because they were still considering the territories if there is an informal british infection floyds as kingdoms to be ruled by arabs and there was even one mention of the sharif of mecca sites because agreement to route things out but ultimately for the arabs sites fico was double dealing and it seemed to be giving territory that had just been conceded to the hashemites by the same man correspondence to the french. Here in St Petersburg in the Russian Foreign ministry the secret psychs pekoe agreements between britain and france was approved by russia. That deal was finalized in correspondence dated the sixteenth of may nineteenth sixteen influencing diffuse church of millions of people in the middle easts. More than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw him. But what were the last thing a facts of disagreement theres a regional six to six because its at those borders were drawn with out consulting the people and after that with the. Psych speak out lines in the sand at this time on aljazeera. From cool brisk nose and few its. To the woman trying his of southeast asia. 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The heavy rain and snow thats in the northeast was east really is drifting off shored us to a big differential in temperatures a frontal so seventy is a full cost in washington back to minus five in chicago but the next significant weather might still be back in colorado or utah. The weather sponsored by cattle and face. A unique portrayed of a small gulf nation living under siege maybe this friend was there targeted. Pain to be forced to leave would be all and then gains by the celebrity has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe other turndowns its not a marriage barbara business. Has become more united. Beyond the blockade at this time on aljazeera. 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