A virtual certainty. And taiwans president calls for dialogue with china as a National Day Speech but warns it should be on equal terms. A cease fire in the disputed region of a go to karabakh is due to take effect in the next hour the deal between armenia and azerbaijan was announced by russia on friday following 10 hours of talks the exchange of prisoners and the bodies of those whove been killed in the conflict hundreds of people have died since fighting flared up at the end of last month. By black in azerbaijan but 1st lets go over to bernard smithies the town of gori in our new near and burn a 10 hours of talks but after 2 weeks of fierce fighting its still quite a hastily agreed ceasefire one of the armenians saying about. Well clearly 10 hours of talks means there was an awful lot to discuss and clearly these were very difficult talks and we know that armenias Foreign Ministers or of minutes he said this morning after the talks that it was a difficult process he says the priorit
To date, which is difficult, as fast as this situation is moving. This hearing today is intended to assess the geopolitical and humanitarian impact of turkeys crossborder attack on u. S. Interests in the middle east, determined how best to salvage u. S. Interests moving forward and evaluate the state of u. S. turkey relations. Before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, its important to recall the path that brought us here. To begin, the Syrian Civil War is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u. S. , nato allies, and other entities. Over the course of this eightyearlong conflict, syrias brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 Million People displaced. We are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russiabacked assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of
The investigation subcommittee convenes this afternoon to take testimony on the u. S. Strategy on syria. Just weeks ago our nation commemorated a somber anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks and among the many consequences of that strike on the United States was the increased recognition of the dangers posed by a violent ideology targeting our nation and its allies and partners. Those dangers remain. For decades, the Syrian Regime has been known for barbarity and terrorism. Five years ago, Islamic State in iraq and syria arose from the remnants from al qaeda in iraq. Isis killed and pillaged. The goal of isis was to develop syria as a base of operations for the global terrorist network. Isis has some initial success, the group quickly seized territory including Eastern Syria and while the United States continued to speak out against the atrocities of the Syrian Government, they posed a possiblist ruthless antiamerican terrorist Group Controlling a large and important region. Theref
Scandinavia and across towards the east as well now bit further towards the south weve got a fair few showers over parts of the mediterranean at the moment particularly over sicily and into solid india and theres going to pull themselves together as we head through wednesday and push southwards so for cinci newsier thats a risk we could see more flooding out of this and also for western libya. With. Aljazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts folk abene dot. Tossed by the Security Council to mediate between arabs and israelis. His death would prove one of the darkest days in the quest for peace in the middle east. Killing the count on aljazeera. Amano top stories here on ars era russia has announced it will supply the s three hundred surface to air Missile System to syria in two weeks despite strong israeli and u. S. Objections. World leaders are gathering in new york for United Nations General Assembly iran and north korea likely to feature high on the agenda.
That could shift control of congress and the Supreme Court nomination to democrats john Hendren Al Jazeera washington. Still ahead of al jazeera against austerity measures in. Plus. Im wait hey reporting from thailand important exporter and producer waste will tell you what the government is planning to do about its. From dusky sunsets if it springs event. To sunrise atop an asian metropolis. Hello there the showers have been pounding the northern parts of iran recently for a look at the satellite picture we can see them here just along the coast of the caspian sea and spreading a little bit further towards the south well see them gradually work their way eastwards there as we head through choose data more of them in the eastern parts of iran and those will gradually work their way towards afghanistan as we head through choose day and into wednesday meanwhile towards the west look at this in ankara well get to around twenty seven degrees lots of cloud and rain to the north of us for tu