Needed psychiatric treatment and another donald trump rally disrupted after 24 hours in chicago it had to be abandoned. Lets go first to the conflict in syria, the on going efforts to end a conflict that is about to enter its sixth year, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in paris to meet his european counterpart ahead of landmark talks in geneva on monday and want an end to a conflict that displaced 10 million syrians and field an exodus of refugees into europe and diplomatic editor james base is live from geneva and james how difficult are these talks expected to be . They are going to be extremely different, jane. I think they are going to be different from previous talks we have seen on syria, remember we had talks in the last few weeks that collapsed as soon as they started because of russian and syrian bombardment. We had talks two years ago whether to arose the agenda the Syrian Government trying not to talk about the future governments of syria and the role of assad and now
Hong kong a new round of talks to try and end the syrian conflict are due to get underway in geneva in just a few hours. Diplomats are hoping to build on a truce that has been in effect since february. The Syrian Government has agreed to attend but the foreign minister says the post for president is not up for discussion. There will only been an accepting of the government in 12 months. Russia wants ethnic kurds included in the talks but they have not been invited. I. S. I. L. And the armed group alnusra front also been excluded. Syrian i cants syrias Ambassador Says there should not be conditions translation the meeting happened in geneva is an allsyrian meeting without any foreign intervention and without preconditions live to our editor james bays who is there for us. What are we expecting for this first day . Reporter were expecting in one thours time to hear from the man who is the mediator of these talks, Staffan De Mistura. He will be giving a press briefing which we will be car
Thousands of coal minors defy authorities in china to take part in rare protests. A new round of talks to try and end the syrian conflict are due to get underway shortly in geneva, diplomates are hoping to build on a fragile truce which reduced the level of violence in syria since it came into effect at the end of february but not all sides have been invited to the talks and the Syrian Government agreed to attend but foreign minister says it will not discuss the presidency and main opposition representative will there be but only will accept a govern body within six months and the high negotiation community represents the coalition and the free syrian army. Russian wants ethnic kurdz in the talks but not invited and i. S. I. L. And the front el nusra front have also been excluded and we are joined on set by senior political analyst and we are expected arent we to hear from the envoy sef Staffan De Mistura and he is collar of his agenda but the other sides are not so much so. After the
Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im Sheila Macvicar in for ray suarez. Today forces loyal to syrian president Bashar Alassad entered palmyra, which has been under full i. S. I. L. Control for almost a year now. Omar al saleh is there, near the syrian border. Syrian where Officials Say syrian officials are near, they describe the situation as very tense and the fightings is fears. Fierce. People are called to leave palmyra. Earlier in the month they start he the campaign to regain palmyra which fell to i. S. I. L. Last year. The importance of palmyra, aside from the historical aspect and the archaeological side, to the north is raqqa and thats a i. S. I. L. Strong hold. To the east is are deir ez zor, so the road between them, is tremendous key for i. S. I. L. The move the retake palmyra comes days after ar russia pulld its forces out of syria. U. N. Envoy says hes aiming at restarting peace talks next month. But the biggest idea is a political transition from the assad re
Were rapidly approaching five years of civil war in syria. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost many of them innocent women and children. While i. S. I. L. And other rebel groups undoubtedly committed war crimes, syria has blood on its hands as well. Vladimir putin pulling some russian jets out of the region, are we turning a tide on the war torn country . Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im Sheila Macvicar in for ray suarez. Today forces loyal to syrian president Bashar Alassad entered palmyra, which has been under full i. S. I. L. Control for almost a year now. Omar al saleh is there, near the syrian border. Syrian where Officials Say syrian officials are near, they describe the situation as very tense and the fightings is fears. Fierce. People are called to leave palmyra. Earlier in the month they start he the campaign to regain palmyra which fell to i. S. I. L. Last year. The importance of palmyra, aside from the historical aspect and the archaeological side,