That protesters can take away from. Well. Whats happening as it goes along the lines of the tactics that have been used by the government to diffuse the protests there is stuff theyre trying to buy time theyre trying to distract with Different Things theyre trying to fragment the groups and are trying to you know in negotiate with some of them to treat friction between the different groups on the street from what i got from this speech by president on is that they world tried to break up the protest by any means possible and they do not seem to be open to change they were only the army but they to break up the protests and the army isnt in a difficult position here because. Many many who are in the armed forces see themselves as part of the people yet they have to take authors. Yes i mean weve been seeing a campaign a p. R. Campaign by the army over the last week also to boost its image but. When it comes down to it it doesnt take the army to really we havent seen any use of any tactic
A Turkish Backed fighters went into the southern parts of outside of the ceasefire zones and carried out attacks in the areas south off the lobby and russell and this is being denied by the Turkish Military saying that it was actually the kurds who started incursion into this area and they retaliated at least 5 turkish soldiers have been killed as you have says because of the advanced number of civilians had to flee the area as well and sites this is the 3rd blast that weve seen in the last 24 hours in Northern Syria the 1st when the then then and now into law this is an area controlled by Turkish Backed arab fighters called the Syrian National army and they say that because it happened in the early hours of the morning there werent that many casualties so it goes to show how precarious the situation is on the security front to be seen more patrols by Russian Military police backed by Syrian Forces happening in various towns in kabbani in ras 9 in other parts which is outside of the zo
Lets have a look at how the horizon next to the rest of us. But they mixed bag for some of us today. Showers expected across scotland and Northern Ireland, quite frequent here. Maybe even a crack of thunder and still fairly breezy. The further south and east you are today, the drier and brighter at the weather is going to be. This is what it looks around lunchtime and into the afternoon, sunny skies that amateurs in the low 20s in the south and mid oi in the low 20s in the south and mid or high teens across scotland and Northern Ireland. Clear spells the further showers expected this evening and overnight. Again the most we can showers in the north west of the country. Tonights close will dip down to talk to Greater London and around 10 degrees in aberdeen. More or less the same whether youre in the north of the south. Let us have a look at monday, further showers expected across northern parts of the uk, but to the south they have got lots of sunshine. Hello, this is bbc news. The hea
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Authorities say she contracted a blood infection from the plastic shes eaten. Now its time for a look at the weather with phil avery. Good afternoon. Thank goodness on this occasion, i have. After the misery of yesterday, it was wet and windy for many of us, thankfully, that area of cloud and rain has moved away from any part of the British Isles, leaving behind this sort of scene. It does, as we go too close to the centre up to the north of scotland, and dont discount the southern portion of the weather front either, that may rob you later on this afternoon, on the south of some of the sunshine, not stopping the temperatures get into around 22 having 23, but with more of showers in the north and a blustery afternoon, you will struggle to get to 15 or 16. This belt of cloud and rain at dissolving into showers later on in the night, across scotla nd later on in the night, across scotland and northern ireland, then clear skies could drop the temperatures to single figures, rain for a tim