And we begin with new developments in the conflict in syria. Syrian president , bashar alassad, met with russian president , Vladimir Putin, during a surprise resist to moscow on tuesday. The trip comes weeks after russia began carrying out airstrikes in syria. And secretary of state john kerry discussed the conflict with his russian counterpart, serg gay lavrov. And the two will meet in moscow on friday to discuss the war. Lav from the pentagon with more, jamie. Reporter well, tony, the United States and russia are not just at odds in the skies over syria, but engaged in a Public Relations war offering vastly different narratives about whats happening on the ground. The video from the cameraman went viral this week, showing a syrian offensive last week in a northeastern sub besh of damascus. It shows the extent of the devastation near the syrian capital after four years of war. Misery, which the pentagon now accuses the russian air power of simply adding to. The russians have been ind
Service, but is he paying the fair price . The nineeria military had a warning of the boko haram attack that led to the abduction of 230 schoolgirls. They were given two hours warning but failed to act. This could have been avoided. A Police Officer and a state mp have told aljazeera that aljazeeras military ignored warnings that boko haram was about to attack this school. It left the Islamic Extremist Group free to kidnap more than 200 girls. And sources said that just 17 soldiers were on duty in the area when boko haram fighters turned up. The number of fighters, they had to flee for their lives. And they fled to the bush. And its as shocking of a revelation. We have been repeatedly calling on the nigerian authorities to provide Adequate Security for the people of nigeria, and especially for schools, because the schools are vulnerable tarts in the last couple of years. The nigerian slow response has led to protests across the country. This was in legas on friday. Nigerias president ,
The United Nations says 5000 syrians are being killed in the country every month. The u. N. Also warns it is getting to be increasingly difficult for people fleeing the conflict to find a safe refuge. This is said to show victims near the capital of damascus. Nine people, including a child, were shot dead. And there is the assistant secretary general for human rights at the u. N. , and he says growing religious intolerance is fueling the violence. Of the great problem with the situation is that we have an escalation of sectarianism, and our data speak about it. We have cases of sectarian massacres, and we have an escalation of the hate speech, but in the sermons and the mosques, on web pages, even in teachers, not only in syria but in the neighboring countries, we are hearing the hate speech, the escalation of sectarian violence. It would be extremely dangerous and would shortly be bad. At the moment, the most important is to prevent sectarian violence from further escalating. Ok, well