Inside the city stadium which i saw had turned into a huge prison for anyone who oppose their rule. Reports. Kurdish fighters triumphantly into right there celebrating the capture of the city which was a main stronghold in syria but taking. Wasnt easy for. The Syrian Democratic forces a coalition of kurds and arabs backed by the u. S. Began the offensive in june i said fighters held ground for five months but the armed groups defense lines were eventually broken by a continual wave of strikes and shelling but. We control rock up but as you know there are mines that we need to clear and we have to make sure there are laws to fighters hiding in tunnels we are now clearing all the areas we captured civilians continue to flee to safe areas this is a family that has just a refugee camp controlled by the. Tens of thousands of people have been affected by the fighting they mostly live in poorly equipped camps north of the city. I heard the news of a cease fire and took my family but then we c
Face charges and if they did he wants the Security Council to act and across party group of u. S. Politicians have written to the secretary of state calling for meaningful steps to be taken against me and miles military time to challenge the reports now on the latest exodus to head for bangladesh. A list ten to fifteen thousand people are stranded here in no mans land are what is called zero line between myanmar and bangladesh brought out this area. This baby will have fled myanmar within the last two days ive been stranded here and has no safety to go to most of the people are exposed to whether the majority are women and children or elderly people the government has given permission to some of the aid agencies to bring Critical Care medicine and food but the idea theyre still taking shelter in the pedophile in a manmade dike just doesnt make sense are coming under critical review by the un agency and other International Aid agency that why are still kept here we are on the border gua
Secretary of state has criticized the full countries imposing a blockade on gaza Rex Tillerson says the solving the group is on willing to negotiate despite katha bigging ready to engage. Has more from washington d. C. Florences comments in an interview with Bloomberg News marked significant change in tone gone was the optimism we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in personal progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that theyre ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u. S. Policy on the gulf crisis started back in june if you remember thats when u. S. President donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in a shooting this blockade and
President has accused spain of attacking its democracy after spence Prime Minister announced moves to impose direct rule over catalonia it was pretty small and said it was the worst part the government has taken since the dictatorship of Francisco Franco during his address on catalan t. V. He said the people of catalonia cannot accept the measures and said his parliament will be meeting to discuss madrids actions. But i think of this year the cup no Spanish Government going to raise the cattle and the will that will that has enabled us to restore our institutions what we have we have earned it with the power of people and democracy the catalan people cannot accept this attack or these measures the Spanish Government is trying to own all life in catalonia and this is outside the rule of law earlier spains Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy confirmed his government invoked article one five five of the constitution. Ive been you dont get to go but the government has had to trigger article one f
A blockade for nearly five months looks like it will continue u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is in the region but he says the Saudi Arabian live bloc is not ready to negotiate tell us ans held high level talks in qatar and saudi arabia to call him reports from doha. He talked tough on his way over blaming the Saudi Led Coalition for the impasse but in the region the tough talk stopped meetings with the crown Prince Mohammed bin samana asked him to please engage the police and gauge and dialogue. There is not a strong indication that parties are ready to talk yet. And so we cannot force talks on people who are not ready to talk. Still u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson took great pains to compliment the qatari significant progress has been made in a number of important efforts in our counterterrorism joint efforts including sharing of terrorist. List terrorist financing weve participated in a number of counterterrorism technical sessions and training and significant steps ha