that they can get back into competitive sports. you re live with bbc news. the white house has that it will not be normalising relations with the acid regime and sanctions will remain in full effect. foreign ministers from the 22 nation group voted for syria s return on sunday at a meeting in cairo ahead of their upcoming meeting. president bashar al assad will be free to attend for the first time in ten years. some like the uae had been pressing for to end al assad s isolation. for some likejordan, it was more a pragmatic decision, borne out of the need to find a solution to the refugee crisis and the drug smuggling that comes from syria. live now to our middle east analyst, sebastian usher. interesting comments from the white
russia. the two governments, ali, there really are in lockstep with vladimir putin right now, our belarus, and the acid regime in syria. as that rush on this shares the dubious distinction of being the head of a president with sanctions from the united states. most of all, what you described at the un security council last night, the fact that china would not vote against the staff resolution condemning russia s invasion and going pass it s via which left russia exposed. force the cast a veto on its own. that is a big blow. especially given that vladimir putin has been really courting chinese presidents in the last few weeks. a few weeks ago they released the joint statement where they talked about the need to counter nato.
yeah, i think vladimir putin is looking more and more isolated internationally. as you said, kazakh stand one, refusing to send troops to ukraine. and refusing even to given him the diplomatic courtesy of following him. his two circle breakaway republic it s in the eastern ukraine is a and the answer, yasmin, is belarus. and the acid regime in syria. both of whom are international pariah themselves. the dictator of syria, now shares it with president putin, the dubious honor of being one of the very few heads of state who has been personally sanctioned by the united states. another major diplomatic blow to the vladimir putin yesterday, at a security council in new york. when the u.s. and its allies
agreement with their former enemies. the syrian regime of bashar al assad and his russian backed asked. that this was a huge victory for damascus and moscow as it allowed them to start calling the shots in a part of syria that had been out of their reach since the start of the civil war 80 years ago. but it also raises fears of a nightmare scenario a clash between syrian and turkish troops. and analysts say the wider implications of the situation are also worrying it to strengthen the hands not just of the acid regime and russia but also of another us at 1st 3 iran and left a vacuum at the heart of one of the longest running complex in the middle east. for more on the story we can go to our correspondent yury rich chateau he joins us from moscow hi yuri what can we expect from this meeting of presidents everyone and putin. well like turkey russia is directly involved in military activities in syria