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pop francis gets a warm welcome in mexico soon after an historic meeting in cuba. find out why businesses will be forced to reveal the gap between men and women s pay. plus. reporter: i m in nairobi. this looks like money but it s not. i will tell you how people in this community are using it first, we go to syria where both inside the country and outside there are growing doubts that a proposed pause in the fighting will actually happen. government forces backed by russian air raids are trying to encircle rebels in syria s largest city, aleppo, and cut off their supply lines to turkey. government forces have made another key gain in that offensive and these are pictures from syrian state tv showing soldiers closing in on rebel ground in the al tam oura valley. they ve taken a strategic hill close to many towns. president bashar al-assad said he would defeat his enemies across the country. translation: we have fully believed in negotiations and impolitical action ....
continues to flow. let me under score the syrian regime has a fundamental humanitarian and global responsibility, and so do other parts of the conflict. facility, humanitarian access, is desperately needed now, or at any time that they are in need. this is a fundamental responsibility. and to use understood as an instrument or weapon of war is a war crime. and we put the regime on notice today that we will watch closely for the proper and full compliance, this international objective that has been codified within the international security council, to the vote. that vote says all parties must see the text against civilians. this will not happen. they argued the reason access has been denied, and indiscriminate bombing continued is because bashar al-assad and his allies believe that by the will of the international community in pursuing this policy. they can win the war. let me make it clear. i have been involved in the discussions around this war for 3.5 years now. i ha ....
plus tonight i am suspending my campaign bowing out by jeb bush from the u.s. presidency we re closer to a ceasefire than we have been. that was the message from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and jordan s foreign minister as they spoke earlier about syria. kerry said that the u.s. and russia have reached a provincial agreement about a pause in fighting which could begin in the coming days. what we have agreed on provisionally, i won t go into the details of it, because it needs to be consulted fully with the other parties and, as i said, our hope is that the two presidents will talk as soon as that is appropriate and then we proceed forward to the implementation. why is it important to do this? somebody asked me the other day. why not have the ceasefire tomorrow morning? you know, why wait a week? because a ceasefire requires an understanding of obligations. you have to be specific about who is doing what, about what is required of each, and if you want ....
a rising death toll as news trickle in from ravaged islands: plus. meet the 106-year-old whose visit with the obamas at the white house got her dancing with joy. hello, afghan government forces have pulled out of another district in southern hellman province. in the past week they had withdrawn from another district. helmand has seen some of the fiercest battles since the invasion of 2001. but the afghan army said it s a strategic retreat. we have decided to pull our troops from their defensive role and get them ready for an offensive. the new move is part of the a new strategy. they are still on the ground. they have not gone somewhere else. we re providing them with new training and equipping them in order to get them ready for a spring offensive. crossing over to afghanistan, with more on this decision, reza, for the forces to pull out of the southern district in helmand. yes, in is a development that does not bode well for the afghan security forces in their ....
vegas. iranians head to the polls in key elections. we are live in tehran. all of that, plus i m phil lavelle in los angeles, where we are now days away from the oscars, but it is who and what isn t nominated this year that people are talking about. so we ll start with syria, there is said to be evidence that kurdish forces are coordinating with the assad government and the russian military. the evidence of such coordination is called, quote, very disturbing. paul brennan has more. reporter: syrias complex civil war has become even more complicates by the presence of isil both in syria and iraq, leaving combatants and their backers fighting on multiple fronts. the british foreign secretary has been briefing the parliament. there was extraordinary resellence of kurdish fighters in iraq, but syria is different. what we have seen is very disturbing evidence of coordination between syrian kurdish forces, the syrian regime, and the russian air force, which is m ....