That the founder assange is unlawfully detained in a london embassy. And scuffles in athens as greeks have the pressure of Prime Minister with a nationwide walk out over cuts. Thank you for joining us we begin the program in syria where there have been two developing stories, in the last hour saudi arabia said its ready to send Ground Troops to syria to take part in an operation by the u. S. Led coalition against the Islamic State of iraq and levante as tens of thousands are fleeing aleppo countryside and on the move after a threeday offensive by the Syrian Government which according to turkeys Prime Minister was backed by more than 300 russian air strikes, hundreds of families are screaming to the Turkish Border and urging authorities to let them in. Meanwhile billions of dollars have been pledged to help syrians in need in both inside and outside the war torn country. At a conference in london 60 countries committed to give well over 10 billion for lifesaving aid but also better acce
Victim of arbitrary detention. So, with no end in sight to the fighting in syria, donors are being asked to focus their funding on improving the lives of Syrian Refugees who fled the war. A major Donor Conference is being held here in london and there it is hoped that 9 billion will be raised. The aim is to swift from food and water to jobs and education for syrians living outside of their country. 4. 6 million syrians now live in neighboring countries. The theory is that improving conditions in those nations will stop the refugees wanting to travel on to europe. Syrians account for 43 of more than a million refugees who arrived in europe in the last year. Barnaby phillips reports from that conference. Reporter the u. N. Calls it the worst humanitarian crisis since second world war, and its very difficult to see how it will be end. The failure of talking in geneva made this gathering in london, all the more urgent. The situation is not sustainable. We cannot go on like this. Theres no
Scuffles as greek pile on with a nationwide walk out over cuts. Saudi arabia says it is ready to send Ground Troops to syria to take part in any operation by the u. S. Led Coalition Military spokes man says the kingdom is willing to provide support on the ground in syria, alongside Coalition Air strikes which have been targeting for the past seven teen months. They did not say how many troops would be sent. From the beginning of the operation in september 2014, the saudi kingdom was also committed to the International Coalition and we stays the Court Despite our operations today the kingdom announced its redness to participate with Ground Troops in syria. Within the u. S. Led coalition against isil, because we now have the experience in yemen, and so do our allies in iraq. We all know air strikes alone cant be enough, we need to combine both in order to achieve better results on the ground. Lets get more from our correspondent who joins us from washington, d. C. This is directly aimed
This is real money. You are the most important part of the show so i want to know whats on your mind. Tweet me ali velshi. To extend a three day ceasefire in gaza are down to the wire in cairo. Israel is sticking to its guns that hamas disarm in gaza. Hamas flatly refuses. Meanwhile, the hamas maintains, a palestinian proposal to reopen gazas air and sea ports is being met with absolute silence from the israelis. Now, germany france and britain have presented israel with an initiative to rehabilitate gaza under international supervision. Reports in the Israeli Press say that it includes allowing civilian shipping travel into gazas port but routed through an inspection facility in nearby cypress. That Way Construction materials can get into gaza but weapons can be blocked. European negotiators insist that isolation of gaza needs to end. Mohamed statea is an official with the Palestinian Council for development and reconstruction. There has to be a flow of goods and people between the pa
Money. This is real money. You are the most important part of the show so i want to know whats on your mind. Tweet me ali velshi. To extend a three day ceasefire in gaza are down to the wire in cairo. Israel is sticking to its guns that hamas disarm in gaza. Hamas flatly refuses. Meanwhile, the hamas maintains, a palestinian proposal to reopen gazas air and sea ports is being met with absolute silence from the israelis. Now, germany france and britain have presented israel with an initiative to rehabilitate gaza under international supervision. Reports in the Israeli Press say that it includes allowing civilian shipping travel into gazas port but routed through an inspection facility in nearby cypress. That Way Construction materials can get into gaza but weapons can be blocked. European negotiators insist that isolation of gaza needs to end. Mohamed statea is an official with the Palestinian Council for development and reconstruction. There has to be a flow of goods and people between