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and in step with the president. the 106-year-old who has a dance with the president at the white house. you breaking news in the last hour we hear a draft deal has been reached between the united states and russia. they both agree on the date of cessation of hostilities in syria. our diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations in new york. he detailed timeline which will be announced from high levels in the coming hours but the u.s. secretary of state john kerry, we assume that sergei lavrov will also be talking about it. midday, that includes the syrian government. it includes all the other armed groups that are fighting there, but it does not include jabhat al nusra, but all other groups must be ready to say they ll take part of the cease-fire and then 12 hours later will begin the cessation of fighting. the syrian government is fighting on two fronts in the countryside around aleppo. these pictures show government planes dropping barrel bombs on north ....
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 in the past week they had withdrawn from another district.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 ....
uganda s main opposition leader is head after disputed elections. also in step with the president, the 106-year-old who got to have a dance with the obamas the at the white house. al jazeera has learned a draft deal has been reached between the united states and russia which sets a date for a cessation of the fighting in syria. at the moment it s not clear if the warring parties will agree to lay down their weapons. in the last hour the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has released the following statement on the draft deem. he says if complemented and adhered to, the cessation will not only lead to a decline in violence but also continue the expansion of delivery of urgently needed humanitarian supplies. he will work on commitment of the parties to lead to cessation of activities. our diplomatic editor james bays is in the united nations now. take through the terms of the agreement. reporter: well, there is a time line set out now for start of the cessation of hosti ....
fiji and why thousands of afghan refugees are trapped along greece s border with macedonia. i m farah with all the sports, manchester united look to salvage some pride in the fa cup quarter finals. on the one side russia, on the other side, the united states. they have reached an agreement on what they hoped would be a cessation of hostilities inside syria. they have set thi this saturdays the day that hostilities should stop. they have on the ground until noontime on friday. by that time they need to commit to a deal and then 12 hours later at midnight the cessation is supposed to begin. the guns are supposed to go quiet. because the united nations classes i.s.i.l. and el nusra front as terrorist, a political way to end what has been a five-year very, very bloody civil war. diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations, james you were one of the first to get wind of this. the devil s in the detail. what do we need to see in place before this can happen? r ....
people confirmed dead after cyclone winds of more man 300 kilometres per hour hit fiji russia and the u.s. reached an agreement on a cessation of hostility in syria. they have set saturday as a date fighting should stop. for it to work. both sides need to sign up to the agreement. deadtar james bays has more. reporter: for all the five years, the death toll mounted. every day there has been atrocities. now the latest, a document released by the u.s. and russia. they have been working on plans for a lull in the violence meeting in munich this month. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov wanted a ceasefire from the 1s. secretary of state john kerry wanted to challenge the situation on the ground. since that meeting there has been delay. in the end russia got its way. the deal done by the u.s. and russia calls on all the warring syrian parties, with the exception of i.s.i.l. and the al nusra front, both on the security council s terrorism list, to commit to a cessatio ....