The syrian army backed by russian air strikes says its troops have fought their way into a southern rebel held town. The new offensive focuses on a strategic location on the main road connecting the capitol to the Southern City of dara. Syrian rebels say the assault was supported by the heaviest Russian Aerial Bombing Campaign so far in the south. And its part of the governments first major offense nif southern syria since russia joined the fight at the end of september. The syrian observatory for human rights says moscows strikes on syria have killed more than 2,300 so far. 792 of the dead, more than a third, were civilians, 180 were children. Russia has denied that its air campaign in support of assads government is hitting civilians. Hashem ahelbarra has been following the story and sent us this report from turkey. Reporter it all started with intense air strikes by russian fighter jets paving the way for Government Troops to advance towards the town, which is an opposition strong h
With selfies, hashtags an. That coming up. Gunmen hijacked a bus near kenyas northeastern border and killed 28 passengers. The bus was on its way to nairobi. The alshabab claimed responsibility for the passenger shootings. A reporter with the standard newspaper told al jazeera the area is proximity to the border makes it vulnerable to attack. It is along the border. There are reports of heavy fighting between houthies and alqaida in the yemeni city. Houthi rebels deny the claim. We have the latest. Reporter the situation remains tense in the province. Alqaeda has killed 12 houthi fighters. The houthi say theyre determined to expand into al quite. They continue to recruit tribesmen for the quite against the houthi. The houthi has sent reinforcements to the area saying theyre determined to prevent alqaeda from seizing the oil operations. People in bahrain are voting in the first parliamentary election since the crackdown. But opposition says that the government has failed to address any
Government is applying economics to the fight against illegal drugs. 28 passengers on a bus in kenya have been shot dead by al shabab fighters in what they say is a revenge attack for kenyas military involvement in somolia. Reporter witnesses said the victims were forced from the bus at gunpoint. They were ordered to read verses from the koran and then shot in the head at point blank range. Nine women and 19 men were killed. Amomongrel among relatives reporter the attack happened near the kenyon border with somolia. The bus had been traveling towards nairobi when it was ambushed. Its believed there were about ten gunmen. Police say theyre now trying to track them down. We continue to make inroads to make sure that we bring to justice those responsible. Reporter al shabab said it carried out the attack in revenge for attacks on mosques. Theyre the ones who closed the mosques. This is a war between muslims and nonbelievers. Were told to fight nonbelievers. They should withdraw their troo
If you are paying more for generic drugs, what is being done to address spiraling cost. Its been a month since the abduction of 43 students in mexico. Whats been done to stem the violence in the country. We begin tonight fading optimism for reaching a Nuclear Program deal with iran before mondays deadline. Secretary of state john kerry and irans foreign minister remained in vienna at least one day trying to work out an agreement. The tentative deal is expiring with iran on monday. Russian, france, United Kingdom and germany, iran had promised to roll back part of its program in exchange for easing of economic sanction he. The deal expires monday. We get more from jonah hull in vienna. The negotiators have spent the day hunkered down in meetings giving little away to media. Technical teams have been hard at work as well, testing different scenarios so see if one may be better than another. John kerry, the u. S. Secretary of state, mohamed java sarif, finished their fourth trilateral mee
Our lead story, fading hope for a deal with iran over its 23450ush8ing program. A 6month tentative agreement expires in two days. Working on a deal to ease concerns iran could use the Enrichment Lab to produce Nuclear Weapons. Ran insists it only wants fuel reactors for energy and medical applications. Secretary of state john kerry says there is a lot to be done to finalize a deal by monday. We are working hard. We hope we are making careful progress but we have big gaps. We still have some serious gaps which we are working to close. The good thing is that p5 plus 1 are united and working in concert, and we are simply going to not say anything substantive about the discussions while they are going on. The tentative agreement expiring monday is with iran and the p5 plus 1. Includes the u. S. , russia,shine, france, the united king. Com and germany. Iran agreed to rule back parts of the new orleans well for release from some of the sanctions. The interim agreement went into effect on jan