ukraine. he told a huge crowd in wall so that u. s. sanctions imposed on russia, the war will be maintained and expanded unofficially as in war. so and as more in j biden's speech, what's the resonance as well as he calls for continued support because he's aware that there are voices of dissent growing in europe and back at home in the united states about at the cost of the war. the loss that it's inflicting, of course, the number of lives that it is claiming. but he said that this is very much a battle between those who support democracy and a future where people can be free or those who want to give in to an a talker say, like russia. meanwhile, russia's president vladimir putin has announced moscow will suspend its role in the new stock, tracy that limits stockpiles of nuclear weapons. the arms control agreement is in last is the last left between russia and the u. s. nice is usually when i would like to repeat that they started this war and we use all of our strength to stop as those who planted new attack in don back with hands on, you know, they were going to strike crimea next and we knew about it and knew about their plans in ki, they now say it openly, we knew their plans any way. we defend our country and our ability to show them at least 6 people have died in turkey, a after another powerful earthquake and off the shops. some is a dime is in some g in turkey, where he says people are desperate for aid. one of the constant requests of help, but we've heard it from people saying we need 10. we need help, please help us. our kids are sleeping and make shift to get wet when it rained. we did see earlier, authorities to show up with products they were delivering time for the need here is just so great in talking with people about the situation they living room. well, it doesn't really need a lot of would just look at the situation a year and delegation has visited sal keen in syria as rebel held note to assess the damage caused by the quakes. the deputy regional humanitarian coordinator says the team hope to establish what the primary needs are in the area local struggling with the aftermath of criticize delays and getting aid to the area. we came to see what the needs were this year's meeting in shelter in hell. i believe for fresh water sanitation, unable to remove debris, the us environmental protection agency has ordered that norfolk southern should pay for the cleanup of a massive train derailment in ohio. there were our companies now legally required to clear toxic contamination of the soil and the waterways in east palestine. if the company veils to do so, the pair will step in and check the charge. norfolk southern triple the coast. this is an important step that will give our communities confidence that they will not be on the hook for the cleanup that was made at the hands of a multi $1000000000.00 companies mash in the face of norfolk southern arrogance and incompetence. i want you to know we are fighting back, we stand with the good people with pennsylvania and ohio, and we stand with them against this corporate greed and incompetence. the daughter of malcolm x plans to suit the cia, the f b i on the n y p t for his death. it's been 58 years since civil rights leader was assassinated. 3 men were convicted in his murder, but in 2021. 2 of the men were exonerated, often investigation, found that law enforcement agencies with held evidence. mexico's former top security chief has been convicted of drug trafficking by a jury in york. gennaro garcia, luna, was found guilty of taking millions of dollars from this in a low a drug called ho, mexico's largest crime group. he is the highest ranking mexican official to stand trial in the us. those headlines nice continues. are off aside massive cale ah ah, the civil war and syria has now been fold for more than a decade. around half a 1000000 series have died in conflict. and more than 12000000 of being forced from their homes. tens of thousands held in government prisons within syria, but by shot on the sun is still pressed. wanting to set down to see a side as the real cause of the problems in syria. who was not, not as hans determination to remain in power has had global consequences. neighboring countries have been overwhelmed by millions of refugees. other countries have been drawn into the conflict and new geopolitical dynamics of developed because of russia support for us. but how did this all come bumped before the war? i said, to developed a reputation over 10 years as a reformer. and this has made his government's actions since 2011. all the more shocking. the best analogy you should a different it into my term. he'd be a good kind of a person you would wanna have a dinner party going back. i did not see any evidence that the cheryl are sad. could become the premier war criminal of the 21st century. ah ah ah fringe tv filmed with us at a few months before government troops attacked demonstrators in the street in march 2011. here he seemed driving to the opera in damascus with his wife asthma. ah you have to put your seat dumps on otherwise believe 5th period class had studied medicine and damascus, and then ophthalmology in london. but when his elder brother basil was killed in a car accident in 1994 basha returned to syria as heir apparent. actually, we'd like to go very much and you call. so i know from french music, of course it was young, of course, very, very old one and nobody can say, but from the university many mateo and g a i would have only go to my world to the fed up i. i only drive myself, but it's very unsecure. no, no, no. it is very secure. copy bulletproof can open the window picket and helping you with otherwise you'd be living in it like living in a cage. nobody wants to live in a cage. when i saw its father, huffines' died in 2000 marshal, inherited one of the most notorious and isolated dictatorships in the outer world. ah ah! in january 2011, the seas of uprisings known as the arab spring, began 1st the gymnasium president, xena al aberdeen. ben ali was toppled then egyptian president hosni mubarak, stepped down. around this time, asa admit the u. s. ambassador to syria. he was a very nice. i asked president martha, are you worried that the winds of change will come here? and he said he was not worried, he said to syrian people strongly supported him, strongly supported his government. 7 ah, just 2 weeks later, there was a large demonstration in damascus. a, in a market called althea, it happened very spontaneously very suddenly, wasn't planned. and it was immediately filmed by syrians with their cell phone. ah, and we sent a message to washington that night and said it's coming in the fire wood is very dry and it's coming. 3 days later on the 18th of march 2011 young people in the southern city of the rock wrote on their school wall. it's your turn next doctor. their arrest and torture provoked a wave of protest which swept the country. syrian security forces attacked unarmed protesters who were colon for more freedom. ah. 4 at the beginning, the classes we met with british ambassador friendship masses of medic and a mass of those. i felt that am the ambassadors in our western ambassadors have a concept and that heads that decide the fit in people and their prices that fit and people under hostile response to the 3rd and people i had a meeting with both anus shobit presidency. and i said, because of the internet because of satellite tv, i'd, people will know the world will know what you do. and if you shoot a lot of people, if you kill a lot of people, every one is going to know every one in syria and every one around the world and you will be condemned. you have to a mister tactics the us offered to help us. i'd engage in talks with opposition leaders while they thought the was still time. what they would say is yes, we welcome that discussion. can you even help us organize it? we said we would try, but every time we got close to a discussion, ah, the syrian secret police would move in and break up meetings or arrest people. mm. internally, assad government was divided between those who favor taking a tough line and others who wanted to adopt a more moderate approach. asada noticed he would make a speech on the 30th of march 2011. 0, you feel that this is speech really willing obese will bring solution because we are fried from where reverbs situation will go. and in the 1st months, surely, i went to the bazaar 2 times. oh, i said it must be renew, hey anaconda, is it minnesota? which is at mon assess, even though still bundled savion had it no, i should be in nor artillery for could that delory sally already said italy was a fee anointment in hell and to lawton law. lunesta admit whereas death, armina, helium, global quit money not for shadow. can nice muscle top subtly wobbly. men of he can know. yeah. any mccarron min? no enough, lee, be like a shot. my thought will be a slide who will be, i'm in a slot than subject up of you sahu about that i don't believe i'd be, i'd gladly out of i woulda, saddest you might be men's in an id. why? bill is jemma. had them are out of luck, not not met him shoot j as her little emmy than the head ashish. ah, by the had that who legal the love, the thing is that now you the finally more american, the policy law to her, the little where the hoodie latina monica young. so i know sal ambia when he finished 8. so remember when in my office it's as they put with as more of them for you, bilson, and it's only the silence and eyes. 3rd believe that the wasp will coming. we are going to the war. wow. for oneself, as i said, man, i thus giddy lad, asia hoodie, it with her while le dictates or happy will that then but that e deb, hey, i don't understand totally the that sort of measure of how a must viola on the symmetric ela web b. well, let us hate for gonna lab. no. oh, he said, the seller east london will more than if you any more nor had for corolla. i mean, i still love who will there be in all? oh, had the shop. oh my be silly swati. oh, assad's 1st move was to crack down the protesters. ah oh. but this simply spurred on his opponents who themselves began to take up arms. their ranks were bolstered by soldiers deserted the syrian army. soon they received international support. that's easy because they open the war all over the country. i mean, it's much easier to fight the war along your border that whenever i so the president, it would say we're going to be here and we're going to fight and we're going to be victorious. we will prevail, no problem, no matter how painful it is. but at the end we will prevent. ah! by the summer of 2011 simeon government forces had lost control of half the country . media images circulated, showing the wide spread killing of any opposition the world watched. in shock on serious acids position, weakened and western governments turned against him. mary lou, i have indicated repeatedly that present alice out as lost legitimacy that he needs to step down. rather than drag his country in a civil war, he should move in the direction of the political transition. the view in the white house was as sad, is essentially finished and he is finished near term. and our concern in the white house is that he may be finished before the president of the united states says he should be finished. therefore, we need to get the president up to make the statement to be on the right side of history before it happens. ah, this was quite a turnaround for a president who had previously managed to project a very positive image to western leaders. he speaks english. he's a handsome man, wedding suit than the thigh, and therefore one was an official used to come to him before the war. they said to him, well, as you are western educated, he was didn't indicate that he stuck in the left for 2 years. and then the west thinks that's why he is good. that's why his flexible, that's why he's enlightened because he is was denied, means he'd like us. you know, it means it will give him the honor to describe him that he is one like us. but he is still in the war caused a massive refugee exodus as hundreds of thousands. and then millions of syrians flagged the fighting. this increasingly drew eastern european and other western countries into the whole crisis. france became one of the louder voices calling on our side to step done with that. we shall not also clue policy to all good, bashar to stuff in order from political book. you'd want buffy, if could have been thought of you. in june 2012, the un organize a conference in june, attended by the us, russia, china, and britain. it agreed to set up a transitional body in damascus, involving the government and the opposition. but when you are secretary of state, hillary clinton suggested that aside should 1st step done. russian fallen mensa loved off, showed concern. it was clear to us by 2012, he would only negotiate under pressure. we hoped we hoped that the russians would apply that pressure. what does he want on the other, you know, like donor debo to go, what i on traditional british cheeks was his show would be, well that was the soft tea along with did it for him. she measured ebby e. her love off. not only do the inference was that russian president vladimir putin chose to protect aside as syrian leader. russia had a naval base there and put and did not support the revolutions of the so called arab spring. all the idea that western countries were champions of human rights was there. oh, i see where you put on because of look over mostly shore still brush our us of need infection was fresh unlocked oil. what quick new orleans kritisha think. what are you at that one? no, sir, but missouri and we will also go golfing east. what's in the zone and kind of us, but i asked them this she lived with and she's thought they actually knew that my lord level bread of diplomacy stalled. so western governments led by the us and france increased their support for the syrian opposition in exile. and it's armed when the free syrian army. what can we do to accelerate that process? the united states and other governments decided that they would try to coalesce the opposition provide it support so that it was strong enough to at a minimum, negotiate a transition in syria. hello, aloha. the west port. hundreds of millions of euros and dollars into weapons and training programs for the soviet position. with this level of support, the opposition succeeded in gaining grant until government forces shown here in red, controlled only a 3rd of the country. by early 2013, i saw it was becoming increasingly isolated. he rarely left the presidential palace and several former allies defected, only the continued support of russia. iran and the armed lebanese group has bhalla, enabled the government to avoid defeat. with what i've been wild thyme when i felt that things are very, very difficult. and when i felt that it could be the last, see it, i live and because we had only let them lay up washburn, well let them said, i will learn live and fight and die. and celia newman. ah, why? this strategy began to pay dividends? i thought supporters rallied around him and he built a firm following among the middle class and the other white and christian minority communities. at the same time, the west also began to lose patience with the syrian opposition. if your own avenue have an opposition strong enough to take on a standing army and i regime with security forces that's backed by russia and iran, then you needed to be powerful in united. and i think one of the challenges we faced was it turned out, the opposition was neither strong nor united. self does any more deploy should or at your keys at the same proportion. you get das jonas, you see da da da in if you, any people, if you will, because she would that bony us from what i mean them all her sit to and i to push out her in the opposition. however, certain armed groups began to gain more info than others getting stronger, they had money, they had ammunition, they had food, they could pay salaries to their fighters. a lot of young syrians are joining them . i recommended and i know colleagues at the cia recommended that we helped those more moderate elements, who were on the one hand, competing with the al qaeda affiliate in syria called the nist her front. and on the other hand, were fighting opposite the moderate opposition was therefore forced to fight on 2 fronts. and asa was present the west with a greater challenge and thoughtful thought on the murat, hooked in a hut that you all level cut them a lot of on the 21st of august 2030 syrian government forces used chemical weapons against opposition held areas. hundreds of people were killed, including many children. i saw had visited troops nearby 20 days before the time. i do show with your monthly bill at the bottom, the one with the u. s. had announced a year before the chemical weapons were a red line not to be crossed. any use they said will be met with an american response. france also said 8 will be prepared to support the us with a or power. ah. president obama has the military to prepare for quite a significant response. some of the senior syrian officials sent their families out of damascus because they were worried. ah, then you might get more fighting in damascus itself. it would have been physically devastating for ah, for physical assets of the syrian regime, the precision that i know it would have reduced to, to almost 0. the potential for non combat to be killed. a few hours before the plant strikes, obama called a white house crisis meeting. it was a long national security council meeting that was focused. it's fair to say more on how to go about military response than whether the turning point moment was when to president came to the conclusion that he changed his mind of streets with jose look, cookers or bar. yes, sure. a good say to play or is almost oh should if you see lou, lou critical choosing to talk life. and you know we're gonna be pure. we don't want to book his job. what i want to do, tell me how to tell it don't do sorts of got sick too, if only showed em all. that bonaparte completed his on his major concern is that the day after an american strike gossip would still be there and might even use chemical weapons again. so then we have to hit again and maybe this time a bit harder. take out some more air defense and then again, the logic would be to escalate into a bigger strike. and i think the president's concern was he would not be in control of that decision. it would be awesome. mm. mm. this wave of sentiment around the world. if you will, she won't accountability from the people who are running their countries, and i think often people's voice is not heard because it's not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover the big stories and we'll report on the big events that are going on. but we'll say, tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice. and then whenever chance, my dad to never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question. and i think that's what obviously we're really does. we ask the question to people who should be accountable. and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. oh, a african story from african perspective, short documentaries, from african filmmakers from zimbabwe. we were pioneers of how economists can change the way we distribute. good, sorry, be happy to go into a physical store so don. ivory copes and had gone with fresh farm fishing woods and the shot it africa direct. on al jazeera lou i'm moline site, and only your top stories on al jazeera. you as president joe biden has stress that the west and nato remain united behind ukraine. he told a huge crowd in warsaw. the us sanctions imposed on rush over the war will be maintained and expanded allen fisheries, and more so and has more on joe biden speech course, the resonance as well as he calls for con