Return to beirut. Or without their life and also coming up a red joint statement from the u. S. And russian president on how to end the fighting in syria. There without the United States and they always love canada but eleven pacific rim countries agree on the basis of a free trade pact. Tension flares at a protest in sydney of the Australian Governments treatment of refugees amanda silent. Now the us has joined the un in calling for stability and eleven and warning regional powers against using the country for proxy conflicts Prime Minister saad hariri resigned suddenly while. In riyadh last saturday claiming interference from iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah or u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says theres no legitimate role for what he calls Foreign Forces militias or armed elements in lebanon send a halt to reports now from beirut. Citizens of saudi arabia and its gulf allies visiting or living in lebanon are leaving its not the first time gulf countries tell their citizens it is not safe to stay lebanon has long been entangled in the saudi iranian power struggle across the region but the latest warning heightened tensions after the resignation of lebanons Prime Minister saad howdy but alongside the tensions there are growing signs of lebanese unity in what many see as saudi interference in their country the resignation was sudden raising concerns about the circumstances behind the decision there is also concern about how to ease freedom of movement he may have been seen since he made the announcement in riyadh but the Prime Minister hasnt made any more statements lebanons president michel aoun believes how he is under house arrest he told a saudi arabia the fear in beirut will lead bihari that the circumstances of the resignation are an acceptable and how d. D. Should return immediately. And how did his own Political Party made a similar demand they didnt just suggest the Prime Minister is being held against his will but expressed concern that lebanons son the community could be marginalized even further. From this and from charges and disappoint barred. As controlling their government or controlling their destiny on the other hand today they are concerned about. How do you. So this is why yesterday. To. How do you really should be a priority lebanon is a deeply divided country there is a pro saudi camp led by her which has long accused has been law of imposing irans agenda here there is a pro iran camp led by hezbollah which has long resisted demands to disarm and to withdraw its troops fighting alongside the Syrian Government. But even has below has added its voice to demands for heavy to return we iterate to the belief that the Prime Minister is being held against his will when i know not that. We has. All the lebanese take this as an offense and any offense to the lebanese Prime Minister is an offense to all the lebanese even if he is our political outbursts or it. Has been the secretary general has been a struggle was careful to avoid political escalation instead he accused saudi arabia of wanting to impose a new leadership in lebanon and start a war he called on the lebanese to avoid provocation and to stay away from the streets the political divide hasnt gone away but for now at least politicians are putting it aside there is a rare consensus for the need to unite at what many describe as dangerous times. Beirut lets get more now from our state Department CorrespondentPatty Culhane on International Reaction its the one question swirling around the worlds capitals what is going on with lebanese Prime Minister saad hariri he resigned his post well in saudi arabia does he want to be there or is he being held against his will the french weighed in you know the me should i think you should ask him if he simply note that he resigned that you travel to abu dhabi on the eve of president mccrone the visit so we think he is free in his movements and it is up to him to make his choice at the u. S. State Department Thursday the answer was less clear we have seen him. In terms of the conditions of him being held or the conversations between saudi arabia and the Prime Minister hariri i would have to refer you to the government of saudi arabia and also to mr hariri office for use of the conditions of him being held as he is you know detention well. Im not going to put that word behi im im not going to associate that word with it but where he is right now. She went on to say she couldnt even talk about where they met but her boss is sending a strong statement about what should come next secretary of state Rex Tillerson writing that the u. S. Respects the Prime Minister and sees him as a Strong Partner he went on to warn there is no place in lebanon for Foreign Forces and the u. S. Cautions against any party within or outside lebanon using lebanon as a venue for proxy conflicts an obvious message to saudi arabia but his boss u. S. President donald trump has been more willing in the past to give saudi arabia a green light to do what it wants it remains to be seen if that will apply to lebanon but at the United Nations growing alarm after saudi ordered its citizens to leave that country this is a matter of great concern to us and what we want is for peace to be preserved in lebanon. It is essential that no new call for meet your ups in the region is going to have devastating consequences a critical time for a country wondering whats next for them and their leader political hain aljazeera washington or lets go back to santa holden our correspondent who is in the lebanese capital beirut and zain im just wondering the lebanese various political factions have managed to come up with a certain amount of political consensus for now at least im wondering whether that combined with an overwhelming support for lebanons territorial integrity for itself and the peace in that country is a powerful enough rebuttal of whatever it is that saudi arabia or saudi arabia is alleged to be plotting. Well yes like you mentioned where political consensus lebanese parties from across the political divide are united in the demand side of the lebanese Prime Minister who may be set in the situation to resign a week ago return home immediately but the political differences between the two rival camps well there they still remain there is a camp in lebanon which believes hezbollah should disarm that its armed wing just serves the interests of iran its armed wing is stronger than the National Army that they should disarm according to Un Security Council resolutions and there are also some Political Parties in lebanon who believe hezbollah should not get involved in conflicts outside lebanons borders in syria in iraq they feel that hezbollah is being used by iran as a proxy to strengthen its influence across the region all these political differences remain but right now theyre just putting this aside because they feel you talk to almost any lebanese you talk to today and hell tell you we feel humiliated the way in which our Prime Minister has been treated by saudi arabia even his own constituency the sunday community weve been to send me neighborhoods theyve been telling us that he should return they had no right this is our leader what is going to happen our community is going to be marginalized even further if our leader cannot return then this is a gift for iran that iran will be able to strengthen its grip on lebanon so yes there is this rare unity but like you mentioned how long will it last this country is deeply divided politically and but also the International Consensus that we seem to be witnessing emerge right now is everybody wants to maintain the calm in the peace lebanon has enjoyed for the last couple of years and listens words explicitly warning against interfering with. Yes lebanon saw this rare period of stability there was a compromise deal between saudi arabia and iran last year the appointment of saddle how do you do as Prime Minister and the appointment of president as the president of the country hes seen to be close to hezbollah and by extension in iran and now lebanon finds itself in the center stage the new battleground in the in a regional rivalry between saudi arabia iran the International Community especially europe is worried about the instability here already in syria we saw millions of people making their way to europe because of the war in syria we have one point five million Syrian Refugees in this in this country of course some of them are workers. Manual. Labor here but one point five million syrians where are they going to go the lebanese so they cannot afford to see lebanon explode already the region very turbulent very volatile situation on enjoying a period of instability now finding itself in what many analysts are saying the eye of the storm all right live in beirut thank you. Now the u. S. And russian president s have issued a red joint statement on how to end the fighting in syria the two leaders met on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam where they confirmed their commitment to maintaining syrias and reaffirmed their support of the uns attempts to end the conflict of aids has more from gaza on the syrian border. This joint statement comes after a very interesting meeting which the white house had denied would actually take place because of issues but the both both of these leaders have met on the sidelines off the summit and they have agreed that they will continue their cooperation inside syria to alleviate the suffering of people to continue towards a political solution in the country and also urging all sides to join the geneva process and. Act accordingly it also covers the issue of deescalation zones the four zones which have been established earlier this year and have helped to bring the bring down the civilian suffering but the United Nations and other humanitarian agency is have been warning that despite these agreements the Syrian Government continues to be siege large parts of the country in just one suburb of damascus eastern nearly half a Million People have been under siege and are suffering and are suffering from not just shortages of food but also medicine and patients are not being able to travel outside so this agreement from the United States and russia comes on the backdrop of all of these developments taking place inside syria we do not have a reaction is yet from the white house but it seems that both leaders have met and they are urging all sides that conflict is not the way forward and they need to come back to the negotiating table so that a political solution can be found in syria. Right to iraq now and Government Forces have launched an offensive to capture the last remaining town under Islamic State control to iraqi infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces are carrying out the operation its all happening in Anbar Province thats the Western Province of iraq its believed that i saw mrs a holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of rawa because we track correspondent now whos in the iraqi capital baghdad Imran Khan Imran tell us more about whats going on in Anbar Province. Were just outside of fallujah which was one of the main areas that was held just over a year and a half ago a new operation has began it began in the early hours of sunday morning around eight oclock where iraqi forces backed by sunni militia forces went into the town of Ramallah Romana although its described as a town is actually a series of villages now theres two targets that. They going after one on either side on. The Euphrates River with the other one is now whats going on is that they going into ramona what were hearing from militia sources on the ground via social media is that mana has actually fallen but were not expecting any confirmation on this throughout the day today what the joint Operations Command of told al jazeera that were very concerned about civilian casualties and were going in slowly but surely and were going to take over both of those areas i have to say these are pockets of where i saw fighters had fled to after the operations managed to route them from there so it is one of the last remaining strongholds of fighters but its by no means Something Like mosul you know Something Like raka its a very small place on the border with jordan but a very Strategic Point because that was where the Border Crossing with jordan was and thats been strangled by eisel for a very long time so the iraqis are very confident now we are not expecting this operation to take weeks months were expecting it to be over in a number of days and what about this ten thousand civilians are being held hostage well thats one of the main concerns of the joint operations come on they want to go in they want to be able to rout the eisel fighters but they want to avoid civilian casualties also want to avoid that kind of mass exodus that weve seen in other operations so what they saying to us is that we are going to go in we have gone into yet were going to ramallah but civilian casualties are voiding civilian casualties are a priority in baghdad thank you. 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Hello there weve got lots of showers over the southeastern part of asia at the moment and actually in the far northern part of my map you can just about make out the circulation here as a Tropical Storm is gradually tracking its way towards the west but its doing so very slowly so i dont think its going to reach the coast of vietnam until around choose day or wednesday elsewhere well plenty of sunshine but plenty of showers actually expected this time of year and plenty of them out in the western part of our map as well say for some of us in thailand just pretty soggy there even as we head through into monday for australia a lot of cloud with us covering a lot of thunder and lightning as well and plenty of heavy downpours its all thanks to this area of cloud hair the most just being sucked down from the north so were also seeing a fair few showers across the north coast as well and that works its way down to spring seeing lots of showers as well and down towards South Australia to this system is being blocked by an area of High Pressure thats dominating the weather in the southeast so for many of us here is fine and dry and thats the way its going to stay on sunday and from monday to a bit towards the west all this cloud will be persisting and thats likely to give us more showers as we head through the next few days one or two showers may also reach us in perth as well over towards new zealand here things are improving the cloud of rain is moving away from the north island and things should dry up for us on monday. 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And russian president s if you to read joint statement on how to end the fighting in syria the leaders met at the apec summit in vietnam where they confirmed their commitment to maintaining syrias sovereignty iraqi forces have launched an offensive to capture one of the last remaining areas under eisel control in iraq its believed us all fisons a holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of rawa. Eleven pacific rim countries have managed to reach a deal on the basis of a free trade pact without the United States they struck an agreement to revive the Transpacific Partnership that president trumbull withdrew support from earlier this year the deal was reached on the sidelines of the apec summit in vietnam when hey hey is there. Its been a roller coast