And i welcome to the aljazeera news hour live from my headquarters in doha with me in a soprano coming up in the next sixty minutes lebanons president calls on saudi arabia to clarify exactly why promise to follow her has yet to return to beirut. Russia says president persian and trump have agreed on how to end the war and syria. They almost lost canada about eleven seven when countries agree on the basis of a free trade deal. With. Gets revenge against south africa. Cup in russia more on that story later this hour. Lebanons president is demanding an explanation from saudi Arabia Michel Aoun wants to know whats prevent. Promise to solve heidi from returning to beirut its been a week since her d. D. Appeared on a cell these Satellite Channel and announced his resignation but it is not being accepted not unless he delivers it on lebanese soil well the u. S. Has joined calls for him to return home and the you went to was calling for stability in lebanon one of the regional powers against using the country for proxy conflicts in lebanon to Political Parties and factions have all asked for the return of the Prime Minister his own party says it hasnt heard from him since saturday and even had a days political adversary hezbollah refused to acknowledge the resignation its leader house in the us that are less is saudi arabia forced to quit and accuse riyadh of holding him against his will they in a hall that has the latest from beirut. Faith is still open to question lebanon has been Holding Contacts with the western as well as arab diplomats to find out and seek information about you know the whereabouts the well being of their Prime Minister yes they believe he is in the saudi capital but lebanese leaders from across the political spectrum including saddam own Political Party believe that he is being held against his will that he is somehow under house arrest and his freedom of movement is her tail and all of the different lebanese factions of course theres a its a deeply divided country with a deep political divide right now theyre putting this aside and they are uniting all of them calling on the need for heidi to return to the country for more than one reason its the ability and to maintain what theyre calling the internal balance lebannon system of government said they balance theres a sectarian system of government the Prime Minister should be a sunday muslim and the Sunni Community here consider saddam how to be their leader the very fact that he is no longer here they feel marginalized even further it is a community who over the years feels that hezbollah of course with its patron iran has a grip on lebanon and it is in control of the country so this will really upset the balance of power so the Senate Community worry that this is this political crisis is not new saudi iranian rivalry has played out in lebanon for many many years now there have been attempts in the past to curb hezbollah but they have all failed so right now all sides are avoiding political escalation because the situation is so tense in the past the political crises like this have led to security incidents so a lot of uncertainty for now there is rare unity where consensus but could this be just short lived it is a question many fear especially since they do not know what further steps saudi arabia intends to take against lebanon. The International Community is all parties to respect lebanon sulphur anti the u. S. State state Department CorrespondentPatty Culhane reports from washington. Its the one question swirling around the world 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 by the french weighed in you know that he should i think you should ask him this we simply note that he resigned that you travel to abu dhabi on the eve of president microns 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 towards the conditions of him being held as he is he in detention well. Im not going to put that word behi im im not going to associate that word with that 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 fleet it 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 hane aljazeera washington. So on to other news for now now russia says it struck a date over the United States that will map out an end to the war and soviet the kremlin says the solution has to be a political one. The russian and u. S. President s met on the sidelines off the apec summit in vietnam where they confirm their commitment to maintaining serious sovereignty trump said and putin reached the agreement very quickly adding that it will save a tremendous number of lives. Just now weve adopted that document with the prism of the United States its a very crucial document because we see it for some principal things firstly we continue the fight against terrorism in syria thats most important for the United States and for us especially in light of recent tragic events which happened there to do with recent terrorist acts as ive said weve been confronting that evil for quite some time now its important for the whole International Community that we continue to apply joint if its of the utmost importance that we reaffirm the sovereignty of syria its territorial integrity that after the fight against terrorism is over well start the political process under the auspices of the United Nations. Or we have lots to talk about with our correspondents osama bin job as and near the turkish Syrian Border and gallegos in washington d. C. Lets start with russia correspondent chalons hes in moscow for us so what is the kremlin text say exactly of henri. Well Vladimir Putin made some statements after this text of being released the text basically went through various commitments that the that the two leaders according to the kremlin have come to reaffirming basically the importance of the deescalation zones in syria that the two leaders are firmly committed to fighting i still that they think that the geneva process is the only way to resolve the conflict ultimately and that as they said in this supposedly jointly released statements that is has recently committed to the geneva process now running a person in a press conference afterwards say that he believes that the fight against what he calls terrorists in syria is coming to an end and therefore the most important thing to do is to finish this job sustain the agreements on the escalation zones the cease fire regime and create the coordinate the create the conditions for the beginning of the political process thats what he says this joint agreement was about but i have to Say Something does not add up for me about all this for for a joint statement where is the u. S. Side in all of this we havent yet heard anything from the state department saying that theyre fully on board with this or not only the barest of of knowledge once from donald trump himself then theres also this meeting which never really happens between donald trump and glad to meet putin now but refuse and says that this is because they just couldnt work out the shed tooling and the protocol and as he joked afterwards someone is going to be punished for that but the fact of the matter is it seems as if it was the u. S. Side that was reluctance to make that meeting go ahead and. Knowledge this when he was asked what the lack of a meeting suggest. Says world it suggests that russian u. S. Relations are still very much in crisis russia he insists is willing to turn the page and commit to a better relationship and why very thank you very much for that challenge with a view from moscow lets bring in Andy Gallagher now hes live for us in washington d. C. So what are we hearing from from President Trump bandy well all we have at the moment is a quote that rory was talking about from air force one where President Trump said will save many many lives but i think rory really nailed it this doesnt feel quite right at the moment because all were getting is official statements from the kremlin in russia about what happened and what agreements may or may not have been made at the moment weve heard absolutely nothing from the state department at all it is a Public Holiday here this weekend its early on a saturday morning and perhaps who wouldnt but given the monumental nature of the agreement that russia says it has made with the u. S. Its pretty quiet here we havent heard any official statements at all and i think thats key to this entire thing because remember i think donald trump really wants russia on his side because hes dealing with north korea at the moment he said to reporters that if he gets a better relationship with russia he can also have a china and russia dealing with north korea which will help him out tremendously but all we have at the moment is this quote from President Trump saying we will save many many lives its very very good he didnt specify what was spoken about in these apparently very short meetings with Vladimir Putin at the apec summit in vietnam so at the moment were kind of in the dark here as to what actually happened what agreements have actually been made and hoping that something may come out the state department in the next few hours all right andy thank you very much for that and a gallon in washington d. C. Lets go to guys in on technology harbinger that is following developments from near the turkish Syrian Border weve heard the first comments from the Syrian Opposition some of what are they saying. Well according to dr reviews the former spokesman and an advisor to the High Negotiations Committee he says when russia talks peace it does war according to the Syrian Opposition agency group they welcome that these sides have agreed upon their own National Interest but according to dr yang here they have ignored the interest of syria and syrians and he went step by step onto the there the commitments that have been made between the United States and russia and if i could go there to read them out to you he says that they refer to syria and they refer to assads commitment to the Geneva Convention and he says thats a blatant lie as history in the last five to six years of proven that assad has not been committed to any Peace Process or any other process at all he further goes on to say that theres been an agreement about elections but what what will be these elections how can they be sure that People Living under the Syrian Regime and under the regimes militias would be able to say no to assad he says that when United States and russia talk about going after iceland which is clearly being wiped out quite rapidly they dont specify what will be the role of their forces in the in the years to come as they can theyre going to continue their presence in the country hes also talking about the unit United NationsSecurity Council resolution two to five four and he says when did you get Security Council resolution is about a constitution in a peaceful country in a country that can actually hear the voices of all of its people and well majority of the syrians are either being displaced or moved out of the country how can that be possible so it raises a lot of questions about the future of assad this when and according to dr you hear this agreement what it says is not as interesting as it what it does not say especially about the future of president Bashar Al Assad who does not mention in this communique and he says United States seems to be toeing the line that is being given to it by russia asama thang. You very much for that thats osama bin java joining us live from gaza to thank you. Now iraqi forces have launched an offensive to capture one of the last remaining areas on the ice and control of the country to infantry divisions and sunni tribal forces are carrying out the operation in a province its believed i still find as a holding ten thousand civilians hostage in the town of daraa iran khan has the latest for us from the capital of baghdad. The operation began early on saturday morning as iraqi forces went in to the town of ramadi is described as a town however its a series of small villages where eisel fighters i have been holed up after they fled operations against them in ramadi and fallujah now this is on the border the Border Crossing with jordan which has been a strategic stranglehold for isolate managed to stop traffic coming in and out of that Border Crossing so this is quite key although were not expecting huge amounts of isis fighters to be in the area the fact that they are still there means that they were controlling that territory and this is all about who gets to control the territory now were not expecting this to be as large an operation as weve seen perhaps say in mosul or against eisel in syria what were expecting is the operation to be concluded fairly swiftly in fact what militia sources are telling us from the ground in amman is that ramana has already been liberated that hasnt been confirmed by the joint Operations Command that also the joint Operations Commander told ill just say that theyre very concerned about civilian casualties and they want to avoid them so theyre going to go in and a step by step basis theyre going to surround romana first take ramana and then likely to move across the Euphrates River and into and do exactly the same as a tactic that weve seen the Iraqi Security forces before take over areas outside of the areas i still control and then use that as a staging post to go in now like i said were not expecting this operation to take months or weeks its going to be likely it is going to take days and we will have a news within the next few days about the operation itself but the Iraqi Security forces very confident that this they can they can route eisel from on their last remaining stronghold in iraq. Yemen state airliners to resume some International Flights to the country a week after saudi arabia shut all access to it Yemeni Airways posted on its Facebook Page that flights to the government held cities of aden and say you would restart on sunday that aid agencies have told al jazeera that this does not mean vital resources will be allowed into yemen the u. N. Is calling for a complete lifting of the blockade warning of imminent famine. News hour including. Tensions. Mistreatment of refugees are. Radical. And sport. Lewis hamilton set the pace and a new bank with brazil has the details ahead of sundays. Of course a very busy day in the middle east were going to get more on all of our top stories the situation in syria lebanon iran by bringing in our senior political analyst. I dont quite know where to start but lets start with syria because of that statement from the u. S. And russian president s eisel is all but defeated in syria you have these deescalation zones that are being sort of administered by foreign powers the next round of geneva talks set to start at the end of the month i mean how do you assess. The sort of possibility of a political solution at this point with all of this happening on the one ha