Bakinofaso as a new president is elected. Lebanon exchanged rebels in syria and joyful scenes on both sides and 16 captive soldiers released after months in captivity, the lebanon army received a body of a soldier who was killed last year and al jazeera arabic abraham was there when the exchange happened. Translator it was a long and difficult journey to reach this point. We are here in alnusra controlled territory and witnessing the release of the captive lebanese soldiers and it was mediated by qatar and efforts by el nusra front and lebanese government to make this deal happen. This is a convoy of Lebanese Security forces for exchange coming from i. S. I. L. For the prisoners it was a moment of joy and relief. Reporter this is what we can describe, god blessed us when we were released and would like to thank alnusra. Thank you for brokering the deal and thank you el nusra a lot and also thank the lebanese government. Translator im a prisoner here and we thank god for being released
Controversial rhetoric. Also where i. S. I. L. s recruits are coming from. New report paints a worrisome portrait for west. And a powerful message. Voters in venezuela have handed the ruling party a landslide defeat. Good evening im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. The fbi says the suspects a San Bernardino husband and wife had been radicalized for quite some time. Sighed rizwan farooks wife tashfeen malik, from saudi arabia. Have been reportedly monitoring the College Campus where the wife attended Pharmacy School three years ago. The heightened security there followed a Taliban Attack a year ago. And gun control is now taking center stage on capitol hill. Democrats had a aggressive push, also as al jazeeras Jamie Mcintire reports, Homeland Security is about to unveil a new terror alert system. A new color system was introduced by tom ridge with great fanfare in 2002. Currently, the nation stands in the yellow condition an elevated risk. It featured five alert levels, low gua
Than a week plus disappointment for frances far right as the National Front slumps in regional elections. But first we have some news coming from Northern Iraq and within last hour or so we have heard that some turkish troops stationed near mosul have now been withdrawn. Their deployment of course caused diplomatic roe between baghdad and ankara and the latest from irbil in Northern Iraq and what more do you know . Marteen we know the turkish troops who have been here for weeks and causing the rift between ankara and baghdad are out and we have spoken to sources in the peshmerga and forces loyal to the kurds here in Northern Iraq and say they saw multiple trucks, militarygrade trucks arriving into iraqi territory from turkey last night and the trucks are on their way out with troops and heavy military equipment and the amount of troops are not clear and we heard numbers and turks saying 150 troops were sent and iraqis say more than a thousand troops have been stationed there but we kno
Nato is planning to send air defenses to turkey along its southern border with syria. By helping turkey patrol its air space, it is hoped that incidents such as the downing of a russian jet last month could be avoided. As rosiland jordan reports there are major obstacles to overcome. Reporter the civil war in syria is nearly five years old. In new york city, diplomats will try to create a definitive plan to stop the fighting and restore the peace. The russian president said hes on board. Basically support the u. S. In drafting a u. N. Security Council Resolution on syria. It is the blueprint of this resolution that the u. S. Secretary of state arrived in usc mo. Moscow. But putin is a long time supporter of bashar alassad. The u. N. Cant decide who will run the country, he says. Translator it is clear i. S. I. L. And jabad el nusra are terrorist organizations. They cannot be part of the meeting. I hope we can all agree. The opposition which recently met in riyadh, says he has to leave
And hoping to enburundis unrest and talks underway to try to resolve the monthlong violence. Dburundis unrest and talks underway to try to resolve the monthlong violence. We begin with details of a rare deal to evacuate syrians trapped by the fighting in two parts of the country and on syrias border with lebanon a group of rebel fighters and their families have been stuck in this area under siege by Government Forces and now these families are being allowed safe passage to go to idlib where el nusra are strongest and shia families trapped in two towns controlled by rebels and under the u. N. Backed deal will be given safe route to damascus where the government will largely still have control. Now the fighters and their families will be leaving and headed to lebanon and they will continue on to turkey before finally settling in idlib and shia families will go from idlib to turkey and beirut before settling in damascus. This is not the first evacuation agreement of its kind. In fact, in