Rather than waiting assurances, support or back up by foreign sides which will resulting nothing about exacerbating the issue. Over the past five years, the Syrian Government, the syrian authorities, have been extending all what they can to lend a helping hands to the Syrian People, including humanitarian aid. So a great deal of flexibility, the Syrian Government will have insisted on more than one occasion, we had welcomed the general and welcomed the delegation and today we are welcoming mr Staffan De Mistura. On every occasion our cooperation and our will had been put to the test. We have proven our goodwill, we have proven our genuineness and we have demonstrated our bona fides. We have also demonstrated the positive position taken by the Syrian Government in line with International Endeavours based on the u. N. Measures. However, the problem was always with the other party and today as if these talks of the other party who delayed six days before reaching geneva, as if the spokesm
Binding. The u. S. Democratic rivals tangle in their first oneonone debate our top story, tens of thousands of syrians are trying to reach safety in turkey as Government Forces press on with their offensive backed with russian bombardments in aleppo province. As the situation der tear yators. Reporter out in the open they spend the night under the sky with the border of turkey hoping to get in. Over the past few days syrians in their tens of thousands have escaped aleppo since the Syrian Government and the russian allies begin a new offensive. Under pressure like never before Syrian Rebels issue a call for general mobilization to defend their positions in aleppo. The countryside here is the last remaining base in the north for groups allied with the syrian free army. For the past three and a half years aleppo city has been divide. The opposition controls the east, Government Forces the west. The regime is trying to be siege rebel held districts and cut the rebel supply line from turkey
Identify ebola victims, as the nationwide lock down continues. Plus 200,000 forced to flee their homes from a major storm in the philippines. Hello there. 49 turkish citizens held in iraq by the Islamic State of iraq and levant, i. S. I. L. , have been freed. Turkey denied paying a ransom to secure their freedom. They were flown na apping carra from southern flown in to ang carra using the Prime Ministers plane. Imran khan has more from baghdad. Reporter the former hostages arrived in ankara where they left from a Turkish Border town near syria. Also on the plane, the turkish Prime Minister. He said it was a preplanned intelligenceled operation. Many wonder whether a ransom was paid to get the 49 hostages out of i. S. I. L. Held territory. The turkish government claimed they didnt way ransoms. They knew where the host iments were and now they changed locations and said there were a number of rescue attempts to get them out. Companies on the ground didnt allow the rescue attempts to go
The 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. The actual anniversary is on sunday, but celebrations are already under way with thousands pouring onto the streets of the german capital. Berlin is gearing up for anniversary celebrations. Over eight thousand balloons have been placed in areas where the wall once stood. They will be in the minute it over the weekend they will be in human aided they will be illuminated over the weekend. The Speaker Parliament was modest in his commemoration of this historic event. It often seems to us as if germany changed the world at the time, but a huge upheaval was under way in 1989 in many places , with parallel events that cause, promoted, or influenced each other. Without the peaceful protests berlin but across eastern in europe, the wall may never have been breached, and german reunification may never have happened. This veteran musician was also in parliament today. He was expelled from former communist east germany in 1976 for writing antig
To make the race cleaner and greener. A suicide bomber has blown herself up inside of a Police Station in istanbuls hess hess Historic District. Lets go straight to bernard smith. What happened . Reporter jane we have been given a briefing by istanbuls governor who visited the scene. This happened at about half past 5 00 this afternoon this istanbul. This woman walked into a Police Station which serves mainly tourists in the district of istanbul one of the most touristy parts of the city and apparently she said in english that she has lost her wallet all theres no indication that she was british or english, but she said in english that she lost her wallet. And then she detonated herself. And with her, she has also killed a Police Officer who was nearby and another one has been wounded. So we just have confirmation that a Police Officer has been killed in that attack. The area has been sealed off, although the tram that runs by there, that now seems to be running normally but immediatel