Streets of damascus. This is obvious from the activities in the markets. From outside the apparent calm of central damascus this is a conflict thats claimed the lives of more than 100,000 seasons and forced 2 million to leave the country while president Bashar Alassads regime may stop using the chemical arsenal most of the dead have been killed by conventional weapons. Lets give you more details on those two proposals, an initial draft resolution gives syria 15 days to give details of the chemical weapons including locations which will be in a binding resolution to be voted on by the United Nations council and backed up with a threat of force if syria doesnt comply. Meanwhile, russia wants something different. It wants syria to place its weapons under International Control, but it will be backed up by a nonbinding statement and would not involve the threat of force. The russian Prime Minister had this to say about the upcoming talks. In geneva we agreed to discuss the initiative with w
Stop members of a tribe from being killed. Shark soup is taken off the menu at official events. Five days after russia proposed a plan to bring syrias chemical weapons under International Control there are signs of diplomatic progress. The white house has said its open to a u. N. Resolution that isnt backed by force. The threat of military action was one of russias main objections. Russia is syrias main ally at the u. N. , but the u. S. Could still take action without u. N. Approval. The report by chemical weapons inspectors into the attack in august could be submitted on monday. The u. N. Secretarygeneral ban kimoon said it would overwhelmingly show that chemical weapons were used. Talks between russia and u. S. Entered a third day in switzerland. U. S. Officials are quoted as saying both sides are coming to an agreement. This was the scene in geneva where we expect to hear from the Russian Foreign minister and u. S. Secretary of state john kerr, and we will, of course, go to that New
Assembly. But first after 300 families in the philippine city of zamboanga are entering the 8th day of violence and we report. Reporter a city paralyzed by Armed Conflict and Government Forces continue to battle National Liberation fighters in zamboanga in the southern philippines and the fate of hose adjusts and those remain trapped are more desperate by the day. Monday is the fighting, the heaviest so far. Human rights watch is urging restraint from both sides. Unknown number of civilians are trapped in 5 coastal villages. Worried about the civilians still trapped in the villages because we have not seen any sort of how do you call this, strategy by the military on how to get them out safely. Reporter the Human Rights Group says the military continue distinguish between civilians and rebels worried that civilians may already have been killed and may have violated the rules of war by turning the largest hospital in the city into a military and where soldiers are based and deployed fro
Im carl kasell and welcome to the program two bombs have exploded at the cathedral in the town of holo in the southern philippines and these twenty people were killed more than one hundred wounded the first blast happened during sunday mass a censure to go were scrambling outside where a second bomb then detonated the attack on the island of holo comes less than a week after voters there were jetted its inclusion in a muslim autonomous area and other parts of the Mindanao Island Group the referendum was overwhelmingly approved. Our South East Asia correspondent boston hartzog joins me now with more boston what else do we know about this attack. Well we know karl that this wasnt the first time that this particular church was targeted we know as you said that there were two bombs one going off as the mass was going on and then the second one about a minute later near the entrance of the church as the people were fleeing the building and security for forces were coming in to secure the pe
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