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I'm Lyse Doucet at the United Nations in New York. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The US Secretary of State calls for all planes to be grounded | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
in key areas of Syria to try to save the truce there. | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
There's been dozens more air raids around the city of Aleppo | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
and amid continued recriminations against Russia | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
over the destruction of an aid convoy on Monday. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
He said the damage to the convoy was as a direct result | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Trucks of food and medicine, just spontaneously combusting. | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
We report on how Kurdish Peshmerga forces are getting close | :00:44. | :00:55. | |
to pushing so-called Islamic State out of Iraq once and for all. | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
And I'll also be talking to the Iraqi Prime Minister | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
about the Iraqi armies battle to retake Mosul from IS. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
I hope we can do it, and we are intending on doing it. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
I'm not giving any information - I want to surprise Daesh on this. | :01:07. | :01:25. | |
The outside the headquarters of the United Nations. Again, Syria is | :01:26. | :01:40. | |
dominating the headlines with them not just that, retention and | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
recrimination after Monday's attack on the UN, Terry and convoy heading | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
towards the besieged city of Aleppo. Today, more reports of an attack on | :01:48. | :01:59. | |
a clinic that has left 20 civilians dead. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
John Kerry said that the peace in Syria was hanging by a thread, and | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
they were tense moments with Sergey Lavrov over who is responsible for | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
the attacks on the aid convoy in how to move Syria forward. | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
Monday night's attack on the aid convoy was a shocking part of the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
violent end to the Syrian ceasefire. American led accusations that a | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
Russian air strike was responsible for this, and Russian denials of any | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
involvement now threaten to derail the entire search for a Syria peace. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
At the United Nations, the Security Council met to see if any sort of | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
peace process can be saved. Passions were running extraordinarily high, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
but Russia's Foreign Minister said nobody should drum to conclusions. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
-- jump to conclusions. TRANSLATION: Many said it could have | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
been a rocket or artillery shelling, that was what the initial reports | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
were, then helicopters or warplanes were mentioned. I think we need to | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
refrain from emotional reactions and make comments immediately, but first | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
we must investigate and be professional. That appeal to avoid | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
feelings and Russian denials were simply too much for the Americans. I | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
listened to my colleague from Russia, and I sort of felt a little | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
bit like we were in a parallel universe here. Then a John Kerry let | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
rip in a sustained assault on their credibility, dismissing their | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
accounts, including one that it might have been a simple fire on the | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
ground. They just spontaneously combusted. Anybody here believe | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
that? I mean, this is not a joke. So what do we know about the attack on | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
the aid convoy? It took place on Monday night. The convoy was | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
intending to head on to rebel held areas in Aleppo province. Russia has | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
admitted tracking the convoy with a drone. They showed their footage | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
shows it was accompanied by a rebel convoy. Those at the scene insisted | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
was struck from the air. TRANSLATION: They dropped barrel | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
bombs and then Russian jets bombed us, there was lots of strafing. The | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
United states so they were jets above the convoy at the moment it | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
was hit. Russia denies involvement. It says there are no craters at the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
scene, and suggests that somehow the cargo caught fire. The Foreign | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
Secretary, Boris Johnson, does not buy that. He is convinced the attack | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
was from the air, and that only the Russians had the capability. There | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
are only two possible culprits, only two forces capable of powering | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
carried out that strike, flying in that area. They are the Syrians and | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the Russians. We have our doubts about the Syrian capability to fly | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
at night. So you're left with a pretty strong conclusion, as you | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
will have been hearing. The destruction of the convoy and | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
killing of aid workers has sparked the worst crisis so far in | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
international efforts to end Syria's agony. | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
At the moment here at the United Nations, where the international | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
committee had been looking to end the violence, their argument about | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
who reignited it. You must be disappointed. Is there | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
any hope of moving beyond this now? We cannot give up. There is no | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
alternative. What is the alternative? Going back to a war | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
which will be ongoing without limit. We almost had a ceasefire. We almost | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
had he Medmerry and eight. Foremost is not good enough in Syria. -- | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
almost had humanitarian aid. There are some who do not want it. Today | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
was a tense meeting. But I have a strong feeling that both Russia and | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
America, who have been putting a lot of capital into it, will not give up | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
before Friday. Then we perhaps might get something moving. You know who | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
carried out the attack on the convoy? The United States say it was | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
Russian planes. It was a UN convoy. It was. It was full of food, and | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
fully authorised. Everyone knew where they were going. There was no | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
east is forcing them, there were 31 tracks. I cannot tell you at this | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
stage who did it, but I can tell you one thing, you need a highly | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
sophisticated machine to kill 18 trunks out of 31, and there was no | :07:06. | :07:17. | |
excuse. You have a -- you have relied on Russia and America to move | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
on. If there is hostility between them, how can you move on? In | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
fairness to both of them, they both work hard. I work with both of them, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
and they worked overnight. They got quite a good deal. I want to believe | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
that over what -- those who are trying to spoil this... Who are | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
those? You have two identify them to stop them. We have identified them. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Are they the main parties? They are not. They are people on both sides, | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
and the Government and opposition who do not feel that this is | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
actually fitting into their picture. They have been spoiling both the | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
American and Russian tactics. Russia and America have responsibilities, | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
they have two brain in and convince their own partners that this is | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
serious. The alternative is chaos, it is war. I am still optimistic. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
You will have heard of John Kerry calling for the grading of all | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
planes. They have been trying to achieve that for so long. Any sense | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
that that is possible? It is possible and doable. It was part of | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
the original plan. Which did not work. It did not reach that point. | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
It undermined the second chained of three points. A reduction of our | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
studies is phase one. He manner Terry and aid is phase two. Phase | :08:48. | :08:59. | |
three is around grabbing the Syrian air force. -- humanitarian aid is | :09:00. | :09:13. | |
phase one. Isn't this the brunt of the problem, that those on the | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
ground believe in the military solution? Yes, but they should know | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
by now that there is no military solution. One week, one believes | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
they can bring. The second week, the other one. This is still the best | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
chance. We must wish good luck and energy and responsibility to the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
Russians and the Americans. They told us publicly that they had a | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
deal. They must make it work. We understand that the suspension of | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
aid deliveries has been lifted. Are they now rolling? They are. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
Humanitarian aid must always prevail. You are not losing hope? | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Losing hope would be betraying all of the Syrians that had been waiting | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
for some good things. You have seen the mood inside the Security | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Council, it is hard to see how it can be picked up, despite the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
necessity of it. I have seen the difficult meetings. It was not the | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
most difficult one. I could detect that both the Russians and American, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
while they were being quite tense towards each other, they were still | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
saying that when they looked at each other, they had a chance. They need | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
both of them to make it work. Thank you. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Still chance, he says, to try to save this embattled truce across | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Syria. has been causing growing | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
despair here at the UN, in Iraq, the army is pushing up | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
from the south towards Mosul, the Islamic State group's last major | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
stonghold in the country. At the same time, | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Kurdish Peshmerga forces are closing in on IS | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
from the East. Our correspondent, Orla Guerin, | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
joined them on the frontline, On the front line, a tense moment | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
for Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. They spot a car in the | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
territory controlled They think could be | :11:13. | :11:24. | |
carrying explosives. The commander tells me | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
that IS just a comment ahead. They've tried to attack us 30 or 40 | :11:31. | :11:43. | |
times, says the general. They've tried to attack us 30 or 40 | :11:44. | :12:01. | |
times, says the general. And we will defeat them | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
in Mosul, God willing. We drive over rough terrain, | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
along the front line, which stretches | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
for 1,000 kilometres. a fighter who has been | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
here on the mountain for 18 months. But his uniform | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
separates him from the rest. He's a former British soldier, | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
turned volunteer sniper. He says he has no hesitation | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
pulling the trigger on IS. It's like putting | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
your foot on an ant. For you, personally, | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
what was it that This isn't your country, | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
many would say. For people to say this | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
isn't the West's war, you've got your head | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
stuck in the sand. here, then the next step | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
for them would be Europe. Nice, Paris would be nothing | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
compared to what we would see. The fact of the matter | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
is that the Peshmerga held the line, This mortar landed | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
soon after we arrived. IS were responding to our | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
presence, the Kurds said. Their horizon stretches | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
beyond defeating the insurgents. The Peshmerga have been | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
expanding their territory, They want independence | :13:29. | :13:29. | |
for their autonomous region. But, for now, the focus | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
is on freeing Mosul. This IS defector surrendered | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
to the Kurds, and claims that the extremists have | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
dug in for a long fight. We're not revealing his identity | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
as he has relatives They are trying to convert a cannon | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
to fire mustard gas so that, when the army comes, | :13:52. | :14:03. | |
people use it against them. They have underground | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
tunnels around Mosul, They have bunkers equipped | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
with bathrooms, Back of the front line, | :14:13. | :14:14. | |
a distant glimpse of Mosul, the captive city, where | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
IS proclaimed its caliphate. The UN is warning | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
that if the militants they may want Mosul | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
to die with them. A difficult and dangerous battle for | :14:31. | :14:56. | |
ice lies ahead. -- for Mosul lies ahead. | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
The decision is a political one to be taken by Iraq's Prime Minister. I | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
sat down with him here in New York to ask whether he believed the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
battle will be next month. Well, yes, I hope we can do it, | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
and we are intending on doing it. I'm not going to give | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
any information, I want to surprise | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Daesh on this. Usually, we give many messages, | :15:25. | :15:25. | |
and one of the messages is that we start our offensive today | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
to liberate all of the villages on the River Tigris so that Daesh | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
will not be able to threaten any supply routes | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
to and from Baghdad, to Mosul, I want to make sure | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
that the international coalition is ready to provide help | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
for us when we need it. it is going to be ready | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
in the next couple of days. But most of the things | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
are settled at the moment. And we hope that it will be ready | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
sometime in the next few weeks. What do you fear about the attack | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
on so-called Islamic State, where it is most entrenched | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
amongst civilians? We've been told before that Falluja | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
was more difficult than Mosul. Some advised us at the time to leave | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
Falluja until the end. it took us only three weeks | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
to liberate the city. It was quite a huge | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
casualty for Daesh. President Obama said the battle | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
for Mosul will be hard, challenging, Well, I mean, this is | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
a psychological war. So you're pretending | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
it's going to be easy where, in fact, | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
in your heart hearts, you know this could be the biggest | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
battle, the bloodiest battle but, in preparation, I have | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
to assume it is very difficult. So I'm preparing things | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
for a very difficult fight in Mosul. But, in actual fact, | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
from the messages we are getting from inside the city, from people | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
who are cooperating with us, people are ready to | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
do things in there. So I think people are ready, | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Daesh morale is very low. There are many foreign | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
fighters in Mosul. It's not just a military battle | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
for your forces, it is a very political, | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
sectarian battle. As you know, the arguments | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
are very public about whether the Shia militia will go in, | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
where will the Kurdish forces go? Are you worried | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
that you will not be able to get everyone moving | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
in the same direction? The plan which I have authorised | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
in probably the last two weeks is... I mean, it's very much explained | :17:45. | :17:53. | |
the role of everyone. There will be Sunnis, | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
there will be Kurds, there will be Shia, there will be | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
the other minor Christians, I cannot stop them or prevent | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
them from taking part in liberating their own | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
homes, their own cities. My role is to enable them to do that | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
in a very established way so that their efforts are added up | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
rather than negating each other. At the moment, it looks like it's | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
going in the right direction. The Kurds have said they are worried | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
they're not going be given the role Probably some people think | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
they are not getting a role, Because if one party believe | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
they have taken all of the roles, It's said that President Obama | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
would like to leave the White House with so-called Islamic State | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
no longer holding territory I don't know whether | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
the rest of the world I'm very alarmed by | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
the situation in Syria. The eastern side of Syria | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
is still in the hands of Daesh, We are moving towards holding | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
the border with Syria. But what is next there, | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
on the other side of the border? We're talking to everybody, | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
please solve Syria. It's important to solve | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
the situation in Syria. Iraq's prime and stuff. During his | :19:27. | :19:36. | |
time here in New York, he had two macro meetings with the American | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
president, including a meeting where it was just the two leaders. They | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
were discussing this crucial battle on the city of Mosul. We do know | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
that the White House would like to end this administration by being | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
able to say that the territorial control of Iraq and Syria by the | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
so-called Islamic state has come to an end. So he was looking for | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
financial support here, military support, humanitarian support. One | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
of the things that was not in that interview was that he also asked for | :20:10. | :20:21. | |
President Obama's help in removing Turkish forces. There are many, many | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
issues which are pawns in the side. Let's return to Syria, which has | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
been dominating headlines this week. The two attacks, one on the | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
humanitarian and void the last -- convoy, and the one on the clinic. | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
John Kerry has asked for all of the planes to be grounded in Syria. Is | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
that possible? Our State Department correspondent has been speaking to a | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
member of the artist says government to find out if that would be | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
possible. The whole agreement is hanging by a | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
thread, and is doing so because of this big Regis attack on a convoy | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
that had been planned. There were coming to the aid of innocent | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
civilians. The question before us now is whether Russia has the intent | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
and the capacity to make good on its commitments under the agreement we | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
reached after a lot of hard work. If it does, and if it can, this would | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
be a permit is benefit by renewing a cessation of hostilities, by getting | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
the Syrian air force out of the skies to stop into skimmer at the | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
bombing innocent civilians. Ultimately, it is up to Russia to | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
decide. The deal is this, if this doesn't work, if Russia does not | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
make good on these commitments, then hard as it is to imagine, this will | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
get worse. Rush you will be left holding the bag, propping I that | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
will be under attack, and Russia will be alienating itself. It is up | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
to Russia. All of this is depending on Russia, and the Americans are | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
working closely on Russia. At the same time, you are saying that they | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
are accountable for this strike on the humanitarian convoy. How can you | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
keep that up question of if you believe that, the US will be | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
complicit with those actions. The best way, the best chance we have of | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
stopping the carnage in Syria is through this agreement. The | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
challenge is this. These things and, Sybil was like Syria and in three | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
ways. One side wins. Once one side starts to get power, the patrons of | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
the other side start to in more resources. Or outside powers come in | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
and try to end the violence. Russia has more at stake because if this | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
does not succeed, as I said, they will be left responsible for Syria. | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
Briefly, the military co-operation of it, that must be off the table? | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Russia has said from the start that it is in Syria to go after Isis as | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
well as prop up the Assad regime. We know that, but the point of the | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
ceasefire was that the Russians and the US would co-operate monetarily. | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Since you are accusing them of being committed in this air strike, that | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
must be off the table? What we have said is that if this agreement holds | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
for seven days, we get seven days of a cessation of hostilities, we can | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
look at establishing a mechanism to coordinate in doing what we want to | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
do, which is in the interests of the International committee, to go after | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Daesh. That depends on whether Russia is ready to make good on its | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
commitments. It's as that you do not have much leverage. I think the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
leverage is, what is the alternative? An acceleration of a | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
civil war that will harm Russia's interests were that anyone else's. I | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
want to ask you about Russia. Sorry, refugees. There has been a lot of | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
talk about refugees, a lot of money raised to help them, but no | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
commitment for countries to resettle them. How do you get around that at | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
the moment, in terms of doing something practical for refugees, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
other than just giving them a question much we have put more | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
resources into the international systems to help refugees. We have | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
significantly increased the number of people resettled all around the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
world, including by the United States was up they have to be in | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
fermented, but we make commitments and we have to make sure that we | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
stick to them. We have commitments to make sure that 1 million for | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
refugee children have access to school, and a million more have | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
access to jobs. Ultimately, it comes to Syria and that crisis, the best | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
way to end the crisis is to end the civil war. That is what we're | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
working hard to do. The depth the Secretary of State, | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
speaking to my colleague. ! The alternative to a negotiated end | :25:19. | :25:31. | |
to this war is just more war. It is hanging by a thread, John Kerry | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
said. We had from the special envoy to Syria, saying that both John | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
Kerry and Sergey Lavrov will go back to the negotiating table to get | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
something back on track. If not, look at Aleppo. It has become a | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
symbol of the suffering of Syria. Everyone knows the suffering, the | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
question is what to do to end it? But from me and the rest | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
of the team, goodbye. Plenty of contrast | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
across the country We got over the front crossing | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
the country - it's bringing | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
some outbreaks of rain. It's a pretty wet and to the day, | :26:10. | :26:11. | |
actually, across parts of Northern | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
Ireland and Scotland. It continues to track its way | :26:14. | :26:14. | |
slowly eastwards, | :26:15. | :26:17. |