A staunch critic of ousted president robert mugabe. Theres a top stories inside stories next hour of the news hour for your to that. Shifting alliances in Syria Kurdish fighters backed by the us say the syrian armys to help them face turkish troops the border area now an increasingly dangerous jigsaw will filter over by groups who want different outcomes theres russia in all this and whats next for syria this is inside story. Hello again im peter davi welcome to the program after seven years of war the complex mosaic that is the battlefield in syria can still surprise the u. S. Russia iran turkey a myriad of rebel groups and of course the Syrian Regime all involved and they all want to second guess where the conflict is heading next its Northern Syria where there are tensions now focus because it is there that we may be seeing a new front the kurds aligning themselves with the regime ready to take on Turkish Forces game changer last month turkey launched an offensive to seize the syria
Refugees demand a way through to northern europe. Plus. Reporter im in l. A. , a world away from west africa and yet a lot of people here are talking about ebola at the moment. Find out why shortly our top story this our, a ceasefire has been agreed for syria which should come into effect on saturday. They now have three days to finalise the practicalities. It follows a conversation between obama and putin. All sides are standing by their preconditions. Reporter for almost five years the death toll has mounded. Every day there has been blood shet and atrocities. Now the latest attempt to bloodshed end all of that. The two countries have been working on plans for a lull in the violence since a meeting in munich earlier this month. Russian foreign minister lavrov had wanted a ceasefire from march 1. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry argued that will allow russia more time for bombing to change the situation on the ground, but ever since that meeting there has been delay and so in the e
Alert. Folks in louisiana cannot catch a break. We are watching dangerous flooding that has already killed at least two people down there. Hour two of americas election headquarters, also americas news headquarters theres so much going on. Im leland. And im elizabeth. Welcome to americas election headquart headquarters from washington. Flash flood warnings in place throughout the weekend as a nasty front of thunderstorms hangs right there over the gulf course. You can see it centered lower lefthand corner of your screen right by new orleans. This system is capable of du dumping 3 to 3 1 2 inches of rain per hour and it could be there until tuesday making an already dangerous and deadly situation so much worse. Louisiana governor John Bell Edwards declared a state of emergency. A local congressman down there said they simply dont have enough Law Enforcement resources to evacuate everyone who needs to get out. Will carr is following this and more on the response. Hi, will. Hi. This is re
Then nothing and nobody can stop our support the turkish soldiers use it to. Excuse or to go. Syrias war just got more chaotic as alliances shift the country save media says that pro Regime Forces are going to help Kurdish Militia expel turkish troops from the border region of afrin that turkey invaded last month the move pushes turkey a nato ally and syria one step closer to direct conflict possibly even war and so far neither side is backing down turkeys foreign minister responding to the news by saying that if the Syrian Regime moved to protect the kurds the turkish offensive would continue we will hear directly from the former leader of the syrian kurds in just a moment but first this report on the fighting in the territory that his party currently governs. An entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight enough rain in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. Its against this backdrop that s
War just got more chaotic as alliances shift the country save media says that pro Regime Forces are going to help Kurdish Militia expel turkish troops from the border region of afrin that turkey invaded last month the move pushes turkey a nato ally and syria one step closer to direct conflict possibly even war and so far neither side is backing down turkeys foreign minister responding to the news by saying that if the Syrian Regime moved to protect the kurds the turkish offensive would continue we will hear directly from the former leader of the syrian kurds in just a moment but first this report on the fighting in the territory that his party currently governs. An entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight enough rain in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. Its against this backdrop that syrian state t. V. Reported on a move to change the dynamic of the fighting the news anchor of this bu