Good morning and welcome for your world, im del walters. Im stephanie sy and no response from syria to try to end the fighting there and secretary of state john kerry and counterpart Sergei Fedorov reached a deal late last night. Not take in effect until next week and may not stop the bombing in the country but the temporary plan could have a longterm end to syria civil war and provide much needed humanitarian aid. We are chairing the ceasefire component, the ceasefire ultimately, not at this moment but the objective is to achieve a durable, longterm ceasefire at some point in time. Reporter important Rebel Coalition welcoming the deal this morning and they say if the fighting actually stops it will go back to the negotiating table in geneva. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon this morning and what does this deal do and what does it not do . Well del if you woke up in syria this morning you might not notice much difference and, in fact, just hours after this agre
The Russian Foreign minister lavrov to work out the modalities. The very complex modalities to end the fighting. At the same time he said the u. N. Is ready. It has got trucks loaded up with aid ready to take in to the people, the vast numbers of people within syria who are in desperate need of basic supplies. He said theyre ready to go. So this is the conference that has been taking place over the last couple of days. Syria seems to have dominated it from the very start. They have concentrated somewhat on ukraine as well. He spent a little bit of time talking about the u. S. Commitment to a strong europe. He mentioned that he would that the United States would like to see brilt an in a strong britain in a strong e. U. Im not sure how that went down, but nonetheless europe figured highly in his speech. Ukraine also factored in. He was critical of russian saying that the minsk agreement needs to be implemented fully otherwise sanctions are going to be maintained, robust sanctions are go
Right. Gravitational waves in space do exist. The stand off in oregon, today, the four remaining holdouts at the National Wildlife refuge, with that, the antigovernment protest was over about six weeks after it began on january 2nd. Allen schauffler has been covering it from the start. And he joins us from burns, oregon. And allen, how are the people reacting . They have had meetings about this, and its finally over, and is there a sense of relief . Reporter yeah, a considerable sense of relief, but also considerable anguish in this town. It has been a rough way to start the year for the people who live here in hardin county. When the protesters took over the wildlife refuge, they said that they were doing it in support of ranchers who had served prison terms, and Management Practices and called for the federal government to give back land to private landowners. They wanted that movement to spread to the entire west. It has been very difficult here in burns. The fbi and the town here,
Leaders of two religions. Pope francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox church. Russian air viekrussian aire resumed in syria. Speaking today in an interview with the agents trance press, syrian president Bashar Alassad spoke. Translator we have fully believed in negotiations and in Political Action since the beginning of the crisis. However if we negotiate, it does not mean that we stop fight are terrorism. The two tracks are inevitable in syria first through negotiations and second through fighting terrorism. And the two tracks are separate from each other. And tonight there are many Unanswered Questions about the new deal that is supposed to put a stop to the fighting in syria. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintire reports. Antonio, if you cut through all the diplo speak, the potential for a ceasefire in syria comes down to how the russians define a single word, terrorist. Russia continues to pound targets in syria even hours after the diplomatic meeting was announced. Air cover for forc
Americas longest serving Prisoners Released after 43 years in solitary confinement. Officially declared the winner of ugandas president ial election, one of africas longest serving leaders. The opposition alleges thursdays poll was rigged. They have put the main president under house arrest. Its the fourth time in a week he has been detained, to prevent any further unrest. He is calling for an independent audit of the results. The European Unions chief observer for the elections criticized the actions. The Electoral Commission failed. It was not transparent. It was very badly running things. The fail youre concerning the vote stuffing or rigging they did not confirm. They didnt witness any of these things which you mentioned. I have to speak on the findings which they have in the region there. Mal. Malcolm sent us this update from kampala. The election announced results for the president ial elections. Just over 60 of the vote and the runner up was the main Opposition Leader who they s