night. buildings that were already weakened have now collapsed. the epicenter was there and took him. mcbride reports from destiny. this one building this was actually still standing after the original earthquake, 2 weeks ago. it's a 5 story building like it says neighboring buildings. but this in the a quake on monday evening i collapsed and 3 people tragically, were inside and were killed in here at, throughout tuesday, people are coming back to this building to other buildings along this whole street . it has left people here who were living a still intented cities throughout attack year and other cities. just wondering what happens next when they can get back inside of what remains of their homes to collect at the possessions that they want to retrieve. but tremors shook neighboring northwest syria, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. more than a 100 people were injured. according to the white helmets aide group. missile said our reports from the hour. her mom crossing near the northwestern syrian city of afrin. they are suffering from the shortage of the clean water. there is no electricity, no heaters year, not pool per blankets, as well, particularly for children. it is quite difficult here. and also the rescue force here has not been a dec weight. so on the turkish side, we have seen that the roaring noise of the escalators, the diggers having lived in machinery and also thousands of the professional rescuers days and nights, relentlessly working to save the lives there. but when you come to the seal, your site is completely silence. brush as president has again railed against the west to accusing it of seeking unlimited power in world affairs. let him have put in accused ukraine of starting the war over conflict in a dumbass region. and warned that moscow will respond if the west continues to supply military aid maybe has been read it that i knew was usually when i would like to repeat that they started this war and we use all of our strength to stop it . you. those who planted new attack and don bassi will hands on yet scholar benya. they were going to strike crimea next, and we knew about it humor and knew about their biases in cave. they now say it openly, but we knew their plans anyway. it doesn't really, we defend our country and our political leadership law muslim president putin also announced in his speech that russia will suspend his participation from the strategic arms treaty that limits stockpiles of nuclear weapons. u. s. president is in poland after monday's unannounced visit to ukraine. joe biden is expected to discuss the possibility of permanently stationing american troops in poland. senior sidney's military commander mohammed hum dan decarlo says he regrets lost his military takeover which paved the way for the return of people loyal to the former government wish. but when i saw young men and women of the glorious december revolution, i did not hesitate to stand with them against the injustice of the regime as tyrant and corruption. i wanted to build sudan. the most recent mistake was october 25 qu at unfortunately, became a getaway for the return of the former regime. i sincerely want to leave political power and handed over to a transitional civilian authority. at least 40 people have been killed off intervention. rains triggered flooding and landslides in coastal areas in brazil, southeast on monday present louis industrial unit. the silver flew over the affected areas. and i'll just, they're a documentary investigating the killing of its correspondent sharing actually has one. a major us gen is in price film, part of the full line series was honored with the for stitches george polk award terrain was shot dead by israeli forces last may. while reporting from the janine refugee camp in occupied westbank for angel had a lincoln religious homily when the world fullest any on them of those she could have been in a measure in this episode of phone lines. we speak to witnesses from that day to her family when a us citizen is killed, the administration has failed to do its bare minimum and search for answers and accountability in the killing of city in a box on a nice continuous heroine. now, just fair after i sat master of chaos, ah ah, the civil war and syria has now been fold for more than a decade. around half a 1000000 series have died in conflict. and more than 12000000 of the force from their homes. tens of thousands held in government prisons within syria, but by shot on the sun is still pressing the sun i down to see a side as the real cause of the problems in syria was not as hands determination to remain in power has had global consequences. neighboring countries have been overwhelmed by millions of refugees. other countries have been drawn in into the conflict and new geopolitical dynamics of developed because of russia support for us. but how did this whole come a bumped before the war, aside to developed a reputation over 10 years as a reformer. and this has made his government's actions since 2011. all the more shocking. the best analogy that you should a different it can be my term. he'd be a good kind of a person. you would wanna have it a dinner party going back. i did not see any evidence that a cheryl are sad, a could become the premier war criminal of the 21st century. ah ah ah, ah french t. v. filmed with us at a few months before government troops attacked demonstrators in the street. in march 2011 here he seemed driving to the opera in damascus with his wife asthma you have to put your seat belts on. otherwise, the police that stop you pass had studied medicine and damascus, and then ophthalmology in london. but when his elder brother basil was killed in a car accident, in 1994 basha returned to syria as heir apparent. actually we'd like to go very much and you called i from french music. of course it was young, of course, very, very old one there nobody can say, but from the university, mary matthew and you're assigned to me. well i would have valley go to my. ready to the fed up i. i only drive myself, but it's very unsecure. no, no, no. it is very secure. copy. bulletproof can open the window. it open your window. yet. otherwise you will be living in it like living in a cage. nobody wants to live in a cage. when i saw its father, hafez died in 2000 mashhad, inherited one of the most notorious isolated dictatorships in the outer world. ah ah! in january 2011, the series of uprisings known as the arab spring began 1st, the tennessean president, xena al aberdeen. ben ali was toppled, then egyptian president hosni mubarak step, done around this time, assad met the u. s. ambassador to syria. he was a very nice i asked president martha, are you worried that the winds of change will come here? and he said he was not worried. he said syrian people strongly supported him, strongly supported his government. 7 ah, just 2 weeks later, there was a large demonstration in damascus. a, in a market called althea, it happened very spontaneously very suddenly, wasn't planned. and it was immediately filmed by syrians with their cell phone. ah, and we sent a message to washington that night and said it's coming the. the firewood is very dry and it's coming. 3 days later on the 18th of march, 2011 young people in the southern city of deborah wrote on their school wall. it's your turn next doctor. their arrest and torture provoked a wave of protest which swept the country. syrian security forces attacked unarmed protesters who were colon for more freedom ah, the big mood, the classes we met with british ambassador friendship masses of medic, on a mass of those, i felt that i am the ambassadors. enum, western ambassadors have a concept and that heads that decide the city and people and that prices that fit. and people under opto respond to the 3rd and people i had a meeting with both ain't shaw band with presidency. and i said, because of the internet, because the satellite, tv eyed people will know the world will know what you do. and if you shoot a lot of people, if you kill a lot of people, every one is going to know every one in syria and every one around the world and you will be condemned. you have to a mister tactics the us offered to help us. i'd engage in talks with opposition leaders while they thought the was still time. what they would say is yes, we welcome that discussion. can you even help us organize it? we said we would try, but every time we got close to a discussion, ah, the syrian secret police would move in and break up meetings or arrest people. mm hm. internally, assad government was divided between those who favor taking a tough line and others who wanted to adult a more moderate approach. asada noticed he would make a speech on the 30th of march 2011. 0, you feel that this is speech really willing obese will bring solution because we are fried from where reverse situation. we go and in the 1st months actually i went to the bazaar 2 times. oh, i said it must be renew hey anaconda, is it minnesota which is at min assess, even austin butler savion had it no, i should be in nor artillery for could that delory sally already said italy was i fear not men in hell and to lawton law lunesta admit will mad at that time in yula will could 20 not for shadow can nice bustle talk sadly. what little men of he can know. yeah. name carol min, no enough alleviate luck was shot. my thought will be a slot. who will be i'm in a slot than subject up of you sahu about that i don't believe i'd be, i'd gladly out of i woulda. saddest you, mab, humans in an id. why? bill is jemma. i them are our luck. never met him. shoot, jack a little emily than the head ashish. ah, ah, by the had that who legal the law, the thing is that now you the finally more american, the policy law to had a little where the hoodie, latina nautica leon for anna was al ambia. when he since 871, but when in my office it's as if would with it is more of them for you bill san. and it's only the silence and eyes. 3rd believe that the wasp will coming. we are going to the war. wow. for oneself, as i said, man, i thus giddy loud, or is your moody it with her? well, le dictates or how quickly will that then? but that e deb, hey, i don't know anything that's already there to learn azure for la must villa on the same matter either? web b? well let us hate for gonna lab no. oh his name is sarah east london. we're more than if you any more, nor has the corolla. i mean, the city of la will more than it be in all. oh, had the shop. oh my be seeley swati. oh. assad's 1st move was to crack down the protestors. ah oh. but this simply spurred on his opponents who themselves began to take up arms. their ranks were bolstered by soldiers deserted the syrian army. soon they received international support. that's not easy because they open the war all over the country. i mean, it's much easier to fight the war along your border. but whenever i, so the president, it would say we're going to be here and we're going to fight and we're going to be victorious. we will prevail, no problem, no matter how painful it is. but at the end, we will prevent ah, by the sum of 2011 syrian government forces had lost control of half the country, media images circulated, showing the widespread killing of any opposition the world watched. in shock. on serious acids position, weakened and western governments turned against him. mary lou, i have indicated repeatedly that present alice out as lost legitimacy that he needs to step down. rather than drag his country in a civil war, he should move in the direction of the political transition. the view in the white house was as sad, is essentially finished and he is finished near term. and our concern in the white house is that he may be finished before the president of the united states says he should be finished. therefore, we need to get the president up to make the statement to be on the right side of history before it happens. ah, this was quite a turnaround for a president who had previously managed to project a very positive image to western leaders. he speaks english. he's a handsome man, wedding suit than the thigh, and therefore one wasn't officials used to come to him before the war. they said to him, well, i do, i wasn't an educated. he what didn't indicated is that in the left for 2 years, and then the west thinks that's why he is good. that's why his flexible, that's why he's enlightened because he is, was denied, means he's like us. you know, it means it will give him the honor to describe him that he is one like us, but he is still in, ah, the war caused a massive refugee exodus as hundreds of thousands and then millions of syrians flagged the fighting. this increasingly drew eastern european and other western countries into the whole crisis. france became one of the louder voices calling on our side to step done with love, we shall not foresee lou policy all good supercharged us up a little bit from political book. you'd want buffy of couldn't read both of you in june 2012, the u. n organizer conference in june, attended by the u. s. russia, china and britain. it agree to set up a transitional body, damascus involving the government and the opposition. but when you are secretary of state, hillary clinton suggested that aside should 1st step done. russian foreign minister loved off showed concern. it was clear to us by 2012, he would only negotiate under pressure. we hoped we hoped that the russians would apply that pressure. what does she put on the loop and you know, like, we don't even know to go on to the show, put cheeks, wanted sure would be. well. that was the soft tea along with did it for him. she was, you know, the key a lot need to know how to do. the inference was that russian president vladimir putin chose to protect aside as syrian leader. russia had a naval base there, and putin did not support the revolutions of the so called arab spring, or the idea that western countries were champions of human rights. was there. oh, i see where, you know, put on because of look over mostly hostile buffer us with need infection was special marked. well, what will you give me credit? thank you and then you, oh sir, but missouri. i mean it was okay. well, i got them is 14 is only going to address them this she lived with and she thought they actually knew my lord well bred of diplomacy stalled. so western governments led by the us and france increased their support for the syrian opposition in exile and its armed wing, the free syrian army. what can we do to accelerate that process? united states and other governments decided that they would try to coalesce, the opposition provide it support so that it was strong enough to at a minimum, negotiate a transition in syria. oh, the west port. hundreds of millions of euro's and dollars into weapons and training programs for the soviet position. with this level of support, the opposition succeeded in gaining ground until government forces shown here in red, controlled only a 3rd of the country. by early 2013 assad was becoming increasingly isolated. he rarely left the presidential palace and several former allies defected, only the continued support of russia. iran and the armed lebanese group has bhalla, enabled the government to avoid defeat with awe. bed where time, when i felt that things are very, very difficult. and when i felt bad, it could be the last see it i live. and because we had only let them in there, you know what, learn what leopard dan said, i would love live and fight and die. and celia ah, why? this strategy began to pay dividends. i saw supporters rallied around him and he built a firm following among the middle class and the other white and christian minority communities. at the same time, the west also began to lose patience with the syrian opposition. mm. if you're not gonna have an opposition strong enough to take on a standing army and i regime with security forces that's backed by russia and iran, then you needed to be powerful and united. and i think one of the challenges we faced was it turned out, the opposition was neither strong nor united self does any more deep reports. should that your keys up as in more proportion? you get down jonas, you see da da da in if you, if you, if you will, because she would that bony as from what i mean, m. o and sit do, and i to push out within the opposition. however, certain armed groups began to gain more influence than others getting stronger, they had money, they had ammunition, they had food, they could pay salaries to their fighters. a lot of young syrians are joining them . i recommended and i know colleagues at the cia recommended that we help those more moderate elements, who were on the one hand, competing with the al qaeda affiliate in syria, called the nurse her front. and on the other hand, we're fighting asa the moderate opposition was therefore forced to fight on 2 fronts. and acid was present the west with a greater challenge and thoughtful thought on the murat. tiffany had that yawn level cut them will not. on the 21st of august 2030 syrian government forces used chemical weapons against opposition held areas. hundreds of people were killed, including many children. i saw had visited troops nearby, 20 days before the time. when do with the, with the u. s. it announced a year before the chemical weapons were a red line not to be crossed. any use they said will be met with an american response. france also said 8 will be prepared to support the us with a or power. ah, president obama has the military to prepare for quite a significant response. some of the senior syrian officials sent their families out of damascus because they were worried. ah, then you might get more fighting in damascus itself. it would have been physically devastating for ah, for physical assets of the syrian regime. the precision that i know it would have reduced to, to almost 0. the potential for non combat to be killed. a few hours before the plant strikes, obama called a white house crisis meeting. there was a long national security council meeting that was focused. it's fair to say more on how to go about military response than whether the turning point moment was when the president came to the conclusion that he changed his mind or sweets, priest america, a pin, the whole say, look, is obama of yes, surely good. say to play or is almost no soon if you see lou, lou for critical choosing to talk. plaintiff and you know, we're gonna be for you. we don't want to book history. what it wants to do. tell me how to tell it don't do substitute to infinitely showed him a mo, that bone a bug completed resume. his major concern is that the day after an american strike goss, i would still be there and might even use chemical weapons again. so then we have to have began and maybe this time a bit harder and take out some more air defense. and then again, the logic would be to escalate into a bigger 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was actually still standing after the original earthquake, 2 weeks ago. it's a 5 story building like it's neighboring buildings, but this and they quite come monday evening collapsed and 3 people tragically were inside and were killed in here and throw out tuesday. people are coming back to this building to other buildings along this whole street. it has left people here who were living a still intented city throughout to and takia and other cities. just wondering what happened next when they can get back inside of what remains of our homes to collect the possessions that they want to which we. the tremors ship, neighboring northwest, syria forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. more than 100 people were injured. that's according to an age group. russia president has again rallied a rail of excuse me, against the west, accusing it of seeking unlimited power and world affairs. fleming fuson also announced that his state of the nation address that russia was suspended participation from the strategic arms treaty that limits stockpiles of nuclear weapons. who could accuse ukraine of starting the war over the conflict in dumbass region. and warned that moscow will respond if the west continues to supply military aids that need receives anyway, i would like to repeat that they started this war and we use all of our strength to stop as those who planted new attack in dawn by hand on the venue they were going to strike crimea next, and we knew about it and knew about their plans in ki, they now say it openly. we knew their plans any way. we defend our country. and our way to the us president is in poland after monday's unannounced visit. to ukraine, joe biden is expected to discuss the possibility of permanently stationing american troops in poland. at least 40 people have been killed after torrential rains triggered flooding and landslides, in coastal areas, in brazil. se on monday, president luis, inoculate. the silver flew over the affected areas. entire neighborhoods have been submerged. the news hour is at the top of the hour right here on al jazeera, but up next it's i said, master off cale the on the 21st of august 2013 syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition held areas, killing hundreds of people, including many children, usaa nasa you before the tamika weapons would have led lion. however, off to the attack, president obama decided not to intervene because it might lead to heavier u. s. involvement in syria. there were some people in the administration who worried that i sent cooking at the end be top alden, extremists would take over. those of us who were following siri more closely, kept telling them, stop worrying about that. the extremists are no stronger than a lot of the modern elements, and they're not going to take over. it might just shift the fighting a little bit, but there will not be an islamic state declared in damascus. this lack of a western response seemed to embolden aside. he realized that some western leaders, we're more concerned about the potential chaos that might result from opposition groups taking over than the were about his staying and power. i saw was quite to exploit this. michelle, i said that if not, is up hooked, hustled lately, poet, kill whole school me law. she had the units them mean bill i showed him how to persuade the challenge. littleton no. xerox. lou secret and she had yield emotional dishes, e, unanticipated men, enough. are we only my food i had begun to mammon habit daily, shout hell healthy ah. 2 said had released many of these members of owned opposition groups from jail since the start of the uprising. some had joined iso. i'm assad realised that this was the group that the west was more concerned about perhaps than any other in 2014 i. so took the tone of rocca, i moved quickly across syria, largely at the expense of other opposition groups. news of on the market and so need almost every, those is more, more talk to you. good. you lose. it's a really oh to the good bush that about the de busha way saw repeated instances where the syrian government basically would not attack the sonic state here. sometimes we signed sentences where the islamic state might attack a free syrian army unit, and the syrian government would come in and bomb them by air, or maybe an hour later or 2 hours later. and i, it looked like tactical, co operational, honest. we saw many instances in that, especially in the area around a laptop for example, a dash 2, obviously with sherry. yeah. you know, dar lubin horton. but oh, pathology or blue or she be or new when the arcs will soon but a keith of until to the door. oh, boy bell. oh the 20 so in so so hobby us, you aid ye bellow, jim, i don't mean that they don't ever fight this long stick. sometimes they fight islamist aid. sometimes they cooperate with islam state. one of the things that come as a professional, i can say i admire about this here in government, is that it is able to do several different contradictory things all at once. and um it, it's harder to understand them. they can confuse you very well that way. ah, the spread of iceland is increasing violence, preoccupied and shocked. much of the world asada used this opportunity to launch a different kind of campaign aimed at the west. a charm offensive thought war anthea is about winning the heart of the people. but i felt made the i was part of the war on syria when we saw that is an opening, you know, and that was, and country it started to die to listen. we started to intensify our communication with the west until in by jen managed until talk to jam manage. the syrian president gave interviews to several major media outlets around the world. nobody should have got that. i'm me. that if the moment give to tom and my little media, let it be, it gives the time and my letter in the army letter b or door acting on a sore on you, lila had a better but any to float mccartney and dylan had it all up michelle, i said send anybody in all his interviews, he insisted, eats me or chaos. you have invasion of terrorist coming from abroad and the government is doing. it's a job in fighting and defending it's her. it's country her saddle, thought it out of the monica jani folder equipment booklet and shuttle and also he alyssa, tom and he, a muffled alderman. thought he over here, let's come, i kind of thought for that and phil and i'm a little b. b, and not all the a thought a shabby long young man. charlotte, she took the day match, the bush auto said did yodeep contributed passa dumpsters to not meet is what's on there. monte approval. deborah key for miss wood young while you know, you know, she will be them all the ship. i think for bashar elisa to present himself to the united states and to europe as the, as the alternative. ah, to crazy sectarian people. i think this has been part of his strategy since day one day one moon ah, by presenting himself as the alternative to what he called terrorists. i felt convinced many to overlook his governance crimes like these camps, where 17000 people, including women and children, were tortured to death lane. ah, ah evening. they took me to the full and yeah, mr. to mom. the 1st question, why you don't like the shuttle is that, oh so should it's not a new and celia, and this is usually a tourist to collect information. after that and the 5th, i'm in 2012 at become the thoughtful, not a toys for collecting conformation. it's a goals tortured for torture, torture for destroyed verb her of the blizzard. meanwhile, our side presented himself as a protector of minorities, including christians. and as a buffer against violent on groups some political leaders visiting damascus and were warmly received with the west prioritize to it's fight against iso. in the autumn of 2015, they decided to launch their 1st air strikes in syria against i saw rather than government forces. they also cut back on their support of opposition groups. this took the military pressure off the salient army. i'm gave asset, precious breathing space. i don't know how in the cylinders long enough guess about i know you had a couple of her and i thought, oh you were of god visual of your idea only alco on it. i don't know. one of the other there are sad situation remained to quite precarious. after 4 years of war, he left the country for the 1st time to visit vladimir putin. he calculated that russian military support would shift the balance of power and the war in his favor. the day that o do in the world could have known in what can be in june. olivia cannot be her one and see us in the day of the month. we ask that our shuttle to come and help us with a air force and that ocean did not ask for anything at from us. by the way, our relation with that ocean, as you know, is very historic. saudi who's in, wanted to stay a step ahead of the west and to revive russian influence in the middle east a while. and he thought that having survived so far, suggested that aside could be relied upon the child and that had been not conformable. at the scottish, oh, with her nationalist now mostly on the withers, lose them at the hospital can national through social, but for most of them. okay. now recorded to still annoy the army on mila earth. would steven our food chicken though in la city was not begun yet. master? yes sir, when you were legal bullshit my dearly or personally, but them was good in the way in the public though won't come on the ocean in a move. the took the west by surprise. russia now intervened in sylvia in a big way. officially, they were fighting eyesore with the fight, suggested otherwise. ah, it's justice, it's loose. city. does that up walk at plenty, these. god, lucy, veto pollution with your a. p d, sir mark or bash get did loom just healthy like ah, through age 2016, russian military support enabled the serial army to regain large parts of the territory. it had previously lost the u. s. and europe did little to counteract this relentless offensive other than make token the protests they failed to react when government forces used chemical weapons. again. in september 2016 us, president obama reached an agreement with putin to divide syria into 2 operational zones. he no longer demanded assets to parcher. the u. s. was much more concerned with defeating iso. ah ah, ah! at the end of 2016 after weeks of bombing, syrian government forces retook a laptop. the country 2nd largest city, had been an opposition stronghold and a symbol of hole. didn't want to look at the paper other than a pool. and although less of a whole before the orders will be replaced, that is on the duty of lithia, followed by the 5th of one of the whole of the money that while us had remained in power, obama's turn ended in 2070. and donald trump became us president from relative inexperience and his perceived closeness to vladimir putin, may have encouraged asset to authorize further chemical attacks in april 2018. and we begin tonight with the horrific attack overseas and a forceful threat here at home. the pictures coming in a warning, they are difficult to look at. children being hosed off, treated after an alleged chemical attack. and duma president trump responding on twitter, vowing a big price will be paid, slamming syrian president bashar al assad, calling him quote, an animal. i believe that the aside regime thought they could get away with it. i think i had seen a year more of donald trump. ah, a disorganized erotic inattentive a president the 1st 5 days sir, i was at the white house in the u. s. had to decide what the response would big this telling us was homeless and bombed several military targets. they were backed by france under president emmanuel, michael considered implemented you present on mom to the finance for may be gone. was of fishy sydney huck. remiss sash, josh or shoe sad c. it's similar foss, natoya called homer. not not quite year ross in damascus, or the truss. do we let it asi? couldn't? demos has shown the fitness. ah, everybody's, you know, that nice political promises. and we're going to end, we're going to get out a war going and these wars. yeah, these are no good. it was a huge mistake. you know, if a sod fell, who was going to take over was going to be a very radicalized component. ah, the west did not make any further military interventions, opting instead to impose sanctions on syria. but sanctions had little impact on the government's military capability. as i saw, it gradually took back control of more and more of the country. his critics claimed that he saw himself as his country's muggy or savior. he thinks he's the maddie thus the one of the problems. and sometimes he act like al maddie, when he speaks with his surroundings and friends, this is what we heard from our friends in damascus, the quinn, nathan nevada, cliche for were you thought of them? could phone me, sheila hump well to thought aloud? ah, what a 3rd of the country still remained beyond docile control the kurtz alongside european and american special forces controlled the ne, turkey controlled the northwest to contain the carts and back the opposition in italy. in the south, a large zone was controlled by us forces. and israel carried out regular air strikes against iranian positions in syria to completely reclaim the rest of his country. aside would ultimately after confront all of these conflicting forces. ah, i don't feel good with the, with the cell, all the unit and again and had it within, within a few minutes, vladimir putin came to visit the russian base in syria. but the war was becoming expensive for him. and the outcome was still uncertain. starting a war was one thing ending it was quite another he had a number that of follow up discussions with po, i believe that the russians were very much interested in reducing the russian true presence in syria. but to do that, to avoid losing their entire investment in the country, they had to have a more stable assad regime. in 5 years, the russians had not only kept the syrian government in power, but it also largely eliminated and marginalized. the moderate opposition articles criticising aside appeared in the russian media suggesting they might have preferred some one with a less checkered history in power. but when i said last, support from one on i, he always seemed to identify another to turn to for help. michelle said the de la, what a lucille ely, ethan danielle, hunt it either by the light looking to full beaten li, cool. always the force will be caught the la he what to leave, putting an on sap shakeela. what's what followed? i'm michelle said zed as to what did he at any auto, landman, iran and norton wish it act out a be a be syria, probiotic a half is elena, have no doubt that they will put out feelers. they already have, we've even had some americans go over our side himself, are very good at understanding how to try to gain leverage against opposition or other countries that are pressing them and apps lulac spect him to reach out. in fact, there were a couple of occasions when we tried to reach out to them and ordered a free american prisoners hostages, that the assad or his surrogates still hadn't in prison. and we had no success. with that, we believe that assad at that point was simply carrying out iranian orders, and that there is really no chance we could reach an accommodation with him. i had no desire to see a side remain in power, but i didn't see a sod as the real cause of the problems in syria. the central threat was iran, and it was the iranian presence and syria that made the u. s. under trump, keep large numbers of troops in ne, syria. but assad has been left walking a tightrope. he has had to tread carefully to avoid provoking major powers, like the us are exhausting the patients of his backers, russia and iran. he also faces serious domestic challenges. his country is in ruins. half of the previous population of syria have been forced from their homes. most of those remaining are destitute with 90 percent living on less than 2 us dollars per day. the coven pandemic, and warren ukraine, have pushed the economy to the brink of total collapse, shortages of fuel and food have spoke fresh protests in cities reclaimed by the government. however, there have also been signs, ferocity of reproachful with some countries. the u. e has restored relations with damascus and firmly supports the syrian government's desire to reestablish sovereignty over the whole of the country. algeria has also voice support for syria rejoined the arab leave. even turkey, a major supporter of the syrian opposition appears to be softening each status on acid remaining in power. acid has also approached the e. u and certain gulf states to help fund reconstruction efforts a when instead of the gulf that that give me the money in order to separate myself from iran and he would go to iran. he said that is your help. because otherwise, i would be fallen under, under russia. you are going to what i shot until then at the you need to help me more because i'm am falling into under a lawn. and he would go into your old telling then it's the unit to help me for that construction. i need your money. i will otherwise would there wouldn't be a new wave if refugees and they would go to u. s. you need to cooperate with me in the security matters because we have a lot of fights for or the status. and i says, this is how we played this game from my, from a lot. okay. ah . 2 what keeps you awake at night? what gets awake at night? mainly a reason that could effect any human life could because or not could be your work. your job could be jones. you could be personal, like any other human ah, [000:00:00;00] with . ready wherever you go in the world, one airline goes to make it feel exceptional. katara always going places to go. african stories from african perspective. short documentary from africa. filmmakers from bab, wait. we 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skies are fine and largely open as is true. right up to was ago in the us, things are a bit different. we still got winter, our hands is dipping down into the upper midwest and back out through eastern canada, still warm in the east and of course in the south. but look at this picture that is a late winter storm. that's a coldly wind bringing snow to low levels. in washington, oregon, northern california beyond northern california, san francisco's temperature keeps going down as the skies become gray. and that's also true. donnelly, ah, ah,

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