Coordinates. They are honored for helping pave the way to a peaceful transition after the revolution. Ill be telling you why the rare oil from these trees is big business for poachers and how it affects indigenous communities that depend on the forrest. The u. S. Says it plans to overhaul its program aimed at training and supporting Syrian Rebels. Ash carter has admitted the Program Needs to change. We have been looking for now several weeks at ways to improve that program. I wasnt satisfied with the early efforts in that regard, so were looking at different ways to achieve, basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one, which is to enable capable motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and reclaim syrian territory from extremisms. Rosiland jordan joins us live from washington, d. C. Ros a stark admission for a program that was doomed from the start. Thats right. The u. S. Wanted to train upwards of 5,000 or so moderate Syrian Rebels per ye
Undercover police admit to calling socalled radical muslims without trial, an al jazeera exclusive. And the simple technique saving the line lives of premate babies in india. We begin with breaking news from the past hour, that palestine status has been upgraded at the criminal court. It effectively opposit opens thr war crimes to be investigated in the territory. This comes on the same day that israel launched its own investigations into eight more alleged crimes by its forces in gaza this summer. We can speak to imtiaz tyab, but james bays is joining us from new york to tell us more about this decision, james. What is going on in new york is a meeting of the all the signatories, what is made up as the assembly of States Parties is all the countries that signed this treaty which sets up the court, doesnt sit here in new york, but in the hague. They also let other countries, other nations from around the world who have not signed the icc treaty, they let them attend the meeting. Now fo
Oil, trying to keep i. S. I. L. Away from key refineries and pipelines. So some break i news now from the International Criminal court where theres been a symbolic victory for palestinians. The court has upgraded palestines status. It comes on the same day that israel launched its own investigations into eight more alleged crimes by its forces in gaza this summer. Lets go live now to u. N. Headquarters in new york and speak to our diplomatic editor james bays. What does this mean for the palestinians james . Well its very important i think symbolically but there may also be legal repercussions from this. Symbolically palestine is now as a stataccepted as a state. Palestine has not signed the rome statute that founded the International Criminal court so what palestine is now is a nonmember state, the same way as quite a number of other countries including the united states. And it is able to take its seat today when the assembly of state parties, part of their own statute, thats the bod
History are has been made at the fifa world cup recommends moving the coup to the winter, why the european football bosses are seeing red. Fighters from the Islamic State of iraq can kidnapped at least 90 people from christian villages in the northeast of syria. The syrian observatory says that the villages were attacked on monday morning. The head of a syrian party in iraq says that they are working to find the missing people but so far have had no luck. Until now we havent been able to contact any of the hostages 90 to 150 people were kidnapped and two people are missing. So we think they have been killed. Hive now to beirut following the story from there, what is the latest. Well, like you mentioned 90 of syrian christians have been captured by the Islamic State of iraq, that is according to human Rights Groups what we understand is there was heavy fighting in the province this is in the northeast of syria fighting between Kurdish Forces and isil isil manages to overrun two villages