Has pressure grows for him to step down. As the robin youre watching aljazeera life my headquarters here in the heart coming up in the next thirty minutes no food no medical supplies under no help from outside emergency calls to evacuate sick syrians whove been under siege for years also lebanons Prime Minister arrives in paris as the french trying to b. D. A. The crisis in his country. Chile will be holding general elections on sunday amid widespread fears of a very low voter turnout i want to see a new one is coming up ill tell you about a new generation of candidates thats trying to make a difference. Welcome to the program we start in africa where a huge crowd is gathering in zimbabwes capital in opposition to president Robert Mugabe. It was called by the influential War Veterans Association the room. Zanu p. F. Party supporters of the Party Travelled to the running from across the country the president is fast losing support after days after the army seized power. We have it right
Kidnapping and murder by isis militants. Thanks for joining us. We begin with a stunning estimate from the cia on the strength of isis in iraq and syria. The group may now be able to muster more than 31,000 fighters. Thats about triple from last year. And it reflects a recruiting boom driven by battlefield success and the declaration of an islamic state. A cia source says it includes 15,000 foreign fighters. At least 2,000 of them from weste nations. An International Coalition will seek out and destroy isis wherever it is. We have more on that from washington. The fight against isis is the latest chapter in a long american war against islamic extremists. But it brings its own particular challenges. Each of them problems that had kept the president from launching a Broad Campaign until now. With military action inside syria, the u. S. Is plunging itself into a brutal and confusing civil war. Isis is the enemy today, but so is isis chief rival americas allies on the ground, both in syria