From traveling to lebanon. And coming up later in sports. Sepp blatter and Michel Platini have their bans from football reduced from eight years to six. The u. N. Says that it has delivered its first drop of aid to th a besieged syrian town. The trucks were unable to reach the town last week because of isilcontrolled territory. There has been a development in the planned cessation treaty. And the last hour the Syrian Kurdish fighters, the ypg said at a the they will abidely the cessation of hostilities. We have more now on the latest developments. As a meeting of the u. N. Security council to discussed humanitarian situation in syria, the stinging criticism of the Syrian Government of delaying and blocking aid to besieged areas from the u. N. Humanitarian chief stephen obrien, they were putting bureaucratic obstacles in the way. He had a rare bit of good news about the town in syria. Earlier this morning a wef plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tons of items into the city. Weve seen i
Cessation of hostilities in syria. Iran elections. Its important for the future of the country. Iranians get ready to vote in the first major election since the nuclear deal. And growing intolerance. The system to protect human rights is itself under serious threat and needs protection. Amnesty internationals annual report says attacks worldwide are at an all time high. Good evening, im antonio mora. This is al jazeera Americas International news hour. We begin by what might be progress in the effort to end the war in syria. Ready to commit to two week cessation of hostilities. The saudi backed hnc says this will test whether the regime of Bashar Alassad is serious about the truce. The kurdish ypg which operates in syria says it will also abide by the halt in fighting. , Bashar Alassad told Vladimir Putin that he is ready too, to implement the truce. But the suffering caused by the conflict, aid trucks were unable to reach the town of deir ez zor last week because it is surrounded by i
The u. N. Says it has encountered technical difficulties dropping aid to the town of darazar. It has been develops in th developthere has been developments in the planned cessation, in the last hour the Syrian Kurdish fighters, the ypg has said they will abide by the cessation of the hostilities. Theres lots to talk about. Lets go to more what is happening. Lets speak with james bays as the u. N. In new york. So the World Food Program saying theyve had technical difficulties. We have no idea what the difficulties were. There is statements that theyre having meetings on the ground with their partners that they would make a drop. It is clear that they did drop aid in deir alzour, so we have to speck bait what was the problem. Did the aid go to the wrong people, to the wrong place. Remember in is a place surrounded by isil. I dont want to speck bait very further because were getting limited information from the United Nations but earlier on we were told this is a rare success, and then so
Hello, welcome to the program. The u. N. Says its dropped its biggest air drop of aid. Trucks are unable to reach the town last week because it was surrounded by isil territory. But moscow confirming it started negotiations with rebel groups in the country. Meanwhile, the British Government said that there is evidence that the Syrian Kurdish fighters, the ypg, are coordinating with the Syrian Government and russian air force. The group had previously been helped to push isil forces out of territory in northern syria. Our diplomatic editor james bays with the latest developments. As a meeting of the u. N. Security council to discuss the humanitarian situation in syria, there was stinging criticism of the Syrian Government for delaying and blocking aid to we seened areas. From the u. N. s humanitarian chief stephen obrien. They said they were putting bureaucratic obstacles in the way. There was a rare bit of good news about the town in syria. Earlier this morning a plane dropped the firs
Well tell you why. The u. N. Says it has delivered its first air drop of aid to the besieged town of deir alzour. There have also been developed in the planned cessation of hostilities in syria agreed by russia and the u. S. Can moscow confirming that it started negotiations with rebel groups in the country. And there is evidence the ypg are coordinating with the Syrian Government and the russian air force. The group has previously been helped by the u. S. To push isil forces out of northern syria. James bayes is at the United Nations in new york. Tell us a bit more about this first air drop of aid. Reporter well, this is important, because the town of dare deir alzour is effectively cut off by isil. And this is the first time the u. N. Has brought aid in from the air. Any delivery at this point is not just to help the desperately needy people in those areas, it is also to try to encourage the peace process, because they want to get peace talks started again next week in geneva. The an