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This is BBC World News Today with me, Tim Willcox. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A potential breakthrough at the Syrian peace | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
A representative of President Assad is at the UN organised talks | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
in Geneva - and in the last few moments a main Syrian opposition | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
group - which had earlier refused to attend - | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
A mother who took her son to Syria becomes the first British woman | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
to be convicted of joining so-called Islamic State. | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
She denied ever encouraging terrorism. | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
It was never my intention to enter into Syria. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Economic growth slows sharply in the United States as consumers | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
And we'll be covering all the angles on the revelation that | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Ancient Babylonians were the first to use geometry 1400 years | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
We start with what appears to be a potential breakthrough | :00:53. | :01:18. | |
at the first Syria peace talks for two years. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
A main opposition group, the HNC, which had refused to attend now says | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
The "Higher Negotiation Committee" says it has now received assurances | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Representatives of President Assad's regime have arrived. | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
The group, led by Syria's ambassador to the United Nations, | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Bashar al Jaafari is now meeting UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
The aim is to bring peace to a country where at least | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
a quarter of a million people have been killed, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
and more than 11 million forced from their homes. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Here's our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins. | :01:52. | :02:02. | |
Making peace is always most difficult when no side in a war | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Despite all the bombing, even more intense since Russia | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
started massive aerial attacks in support of | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
President Assad last September, the battles for Syrian territory ebb | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
and flow with no one scoring a knockout | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Recently, Syrian government forces have claimed significant | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
advances including in the province of Latakia. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
But the large number of different forces preached against them, | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
both rebel forces backed by Western and some Arab powers, | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
as well as the outlawed extremists including so-called Islamic State, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
make the search for negotiated peace even harder. | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
So, who will be at the Geneva peace talks? | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Well, the Syrian government has promised to send a team, | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
although it still brands or opposition rebels as terrorists. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
The opposition side and its international backers | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Who will appear for them and when exactly? | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
There has been much opposition talk of boycotting | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
Deep disagreements involving Turkey that | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
insists that Kurdish representatives be excluded from the talks, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
and Saudi Arabia, which wants only its | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
nominated list of organisations recognised, as well as Russian | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
and Syrian government demands, mean that | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
face-to-face talks remain a distant prospect. | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Finding a way to move to a ceasefire, political settlement | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
and eventual peace looks even harder than in previous peace talks | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Presumably good news that the HNC are attending. What is the latest? | :03:23. | :03:46. | |
Basically there were expectations that they would take part in | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
negotiations but they were trying to pressure for some guarantees and | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
apparently they got those guarantees. From the US and the UN. | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
They just announced they are taking part, we still don't know who the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
delegation represented are. We do have a negotiation team. We still | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
don't know when they are arriving, when they are going to meet with the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
UN special envoy but it is a good start for an already speculated | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
failed negotiations. Yes, Staffan de Mistura is hoping to speak to them | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
on Sunday. There are other glaring omissions, aren't there? Where are | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
the Kurdish groups, for example? There are Kurds in the high | :04:36. | :04:47. | |
negotiating committee. But some the Turks consider a terrorist group and | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
made it clear they should not take part. They were not included in this | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
negotiation. However, the special envoy considered many members of the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
opposition as consultants since they were not represented in the Riyadh | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
meetings last month. Staffan de Mistura knows it will be the most | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
difficult task but he has put a time frame of six months on this. Hasn't | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
he? Yes, he made it clear this will be proximity talks. They won't be | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
face to face, inside the same room between opposition and government. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
He said it will take a long time. Six months is the announcement, it | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
may be more than that given the difficulty these talks are facing. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
But it is one step on 1000 mile road ahead. Thank you very much. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
A young mother has become the first British woman to be convicted | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
of travelling to Syria to join the Islamic state group. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
26 year old Tareena Shakil, a former health worker, | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
ran away with her toddler in October 2014. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
She was arrested when she returned to the UK four months later. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
The jury at Birmingham Crown Court also found her guilty of encouraging | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Our correspondent Sian Lloyd reports. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Tareena Shakil, a British mother convicted today of being a member | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
of so-called Islamic state, the banned terror group. | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Notorious for its violence and brutality. | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
She took her toddler son to Raqqa in Syria. | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
The court was shown in this picture, her child playing next to a gun. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
She dressed him in IS clothing and wore | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
She urged others to join her in Syria, | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
The court has been really clear, they found her guilty | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
IS are really a dangerous organisation and at the moment | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
she should be treated as a dangerous individual. | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Tareena Shakil was arrested the moment she arrived | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
When interviewed, she lied, telling police she was kidnapped | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
by a man she met on holiday in Turkey. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
It was never my intention to go into Syria. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Whilst being on holiday, I happened to meet a young | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
I liked him and we developed somewhat of a relationship. | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
This image shows the former health worker at East | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
The journey was planned not as a holiday but a route | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
During the summer of 2014, Tareena Shakil | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
became increasingly interested in extremist material, | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
But she went further and began encouraging others | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
on social media to get involved in terrorism. | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Tareena Shakil told the court she went to Syria only to live | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
under the rule of sharia law, she denies joining IS. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
She said she had made a mistake and wanted to come | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
home, describing her escape in a taxi and the dash she made | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
for the Turkish border carrying her son and | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
I threw 9000 Syrian dollars at him, which is $15, | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
wrapped my Pampers, everything, this bag, grabbed the blanket | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
The jury was unanimous in finding Tareena Shakil | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
Fresh data on the health of the US economy is out, | :08:30. | :08:45. | |
Growth is slowing down - and in the 4th quarter of 2015 | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
was at just 0.7%, compared with the same period a year before. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
That's a sharp drop from the 2% growth recorded | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
Tanya Beckett is with me to explain what's going on. | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
A slowdown in the sale of durables. Durable goods, this is one of my | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
favourites. You are right, it's a good indicator of what is going on. | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Sometimes you have to look behind the headlines. Durable goods are | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
purchases of goods which are durable, as the name suggests. It is | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
a sign of investment. It is an indication there is a lack of | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
confidence in the economy but you have to remember there is now a | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
sharp dip in investment in the mining and oil industry in the US | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
because the break even price for oil producers is very much higher in the | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
US and Saudi Arabia producers. Interest rates raised marginally. | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
They don't have the option of putting them back down because it | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
destroys credibility. What you can do is delay the next rise. It has | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
been pushed out the little bits to June. The problem they had as the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
bank to plan, the European Central Bank are both moving in the opposite | :10:09. | :10:18. | |
direction. Dutch Mac bank of Japan. Big companies are being charged to | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
actually leave their money? Yes, a very peculiar situation. The Bank of | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
England is showing no signs at all. That divergences raters questions in | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
investors mind. -- raises. Is there anything positive? Yes, there may be | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
bounced back in the second quarter of this year so it is not all doom | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
and gloom. There are a variety of sciences uncertainties at the | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
moment. One is the Chinese economy, particularly the stock market and | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
how that is indicative of a bumpy transition to domestic consumption | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
led economy. The price of oil, there doesn't seem to be any prediction | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
that that will rebound. Where it represents a sharp fall in | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
investment, that is where it is taking a hit so there are some | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
fallout, even countries which are not oil-producing countries. You | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
mention tank of Japan, -- bank of Japan. The reason the bank of Japan | :11:28. | :11:36. | |
is doing this, is that the rate of reform simply isn't fast enough. It | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
is a economy based on particularly large companies. This has been the | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
case for a long time that Japan, of course, suffering from exactly the | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
same problem that we might find ourselves suffering from, which is | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
they are doing pushing on a piece of string. Lowering interest rates as | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
much as you like that demand is not stimulated. Thank you. | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
Chinese state TV has reported that all four surviving miners trapped | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
after the 25th December mine collapse in Shandong | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
The men had spent 36 days trapped underground. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
The gypsum mine in eastern China's Shandong province collapsed | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
on Christmas Day, killing one and leaving 17 missing, | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
In the days that followed, rescuers detected the four 200 | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
The International Olympic Committee says venues for the Rio Olympics | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
will be inspected daily in the lead-up to the Games | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
to minimise the risk of athletes and visitors contracting | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
It says any puddles of stagnant water, where mosquitos can breed, | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
The mosquito-borne disease has been linked to a surge in brain defects | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
among new-born babies in the Americas, where it's been | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
Little is know about Zika, but it was first discovered | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
The BBC's Catherine Byaruhanga has been there, and sent this report. | :12:58. | :13:09. | |
This is the Zika forest, a quiet, sleepy, much forgotten place. | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
70 years ago, the monkeys here were found to harbour the virus | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
causing today's international health concern. | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
As with so many discoveries, the scientists working in nearly 70 | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
years ago were not actually looking for the Zika virus. | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
They were doing research on yellow fever and that's when they came | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
across the new micro-organism which they named after this forest. | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
He says there have only been two confirmed cases of | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
I asked him why it is proving so dangerous in other parts | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
One of the reasons is because the virus has moved | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
into new territory, and in this territory it's attacking people | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
who have never been affected by viruses which are similar | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
In which case, their bodies are not adapted, or they don't | :14:05. | :14:17. | |
have the immunity they would have if they had been affected. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
These mosquitoes are similar to those | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
But scientists here say mosquitoes in Uganda are not good | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
Nevertheless, they are on the lookout, especially | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
as transmission spreads around the world. | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
We have a surveillance system which is continuous, | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
and it is doing the work of trying to find out which type of mosquitoes | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
We have indigenous type, the forest type or we have also | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
other types which have come into the country. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
This is the only laboratory in Uganda that tests | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
Blood samples are brought here from across the country. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
They are tested, labelled and stored. | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Outbreaks of the disease are not that common. | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
The last confirmed case for several years ago. | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
Another challenge for the scientists here is the fact that people don't | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
often report symptoms of the Zika virus. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
They are either not aware of it, or they assume it's malaria, | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
so a new initiative is going to start in April of this year | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
to try and make better sense of how widespread the disease | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Officials in Saudi Arabia say at least two people have been killed | :15:36. | :15:52. | |
in a gun attack during Friday prayers in a Shia mosque. | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
This footage - that we can't verify - shows the moment of the attack | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
The attack in the eastern town of Mehasin has also left | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
One witness has said that worshippers stopped the attacker | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
A suicide bomber has attacked a market in northeastern Nigeria. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Police say at least three people were confirmed dead in the town | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
of Gombi in Adamawa state - a resident said he saw | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
Eye-witnesses say the bomber was disguised as a woman. | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
Government troops recaptured Gombi from Boko Haram in 2014 | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
but the insurgents have since made several attempts to retake the town. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Police in south-west Germany say a grenade has been thrown | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
The device didn't explode and was found by a security guard | :16:35. | :16:50. | |
near buildings which house 170 people. | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
Last year there were more than one thousand attacks, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
five times the number reported the previous year. | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
Anti-mafia police in Italy say they've captured two | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
of the country's most wanted fugitives at a mountain hideout | :17:00. | :17:01. | |
The two men Giuseppe Ferraro and Giuseppe Crea are high-level | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
members of a crime group that controls much of | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
They'd been on the run for more than a decade, | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
and had been linked with a string of murders. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Let's take you back to Ancient Babylon now. | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
What is now Syria and Iraq, to the year 1800 BC, | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
and what appears to be a far more sophisticated civilisation | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
A new study has been published showing that they were using | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
geometric calculations to track Jupiter across the night sky. | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
It's a surprising revelation as it means, that branch of sophisticated | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
mathematics was being used 1400 years earlier than previously | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Well I am joined by it's author via skype - | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
Professor Mathieu Ossendrivjer, from the Humboldt University of | :17:49. | :17:50. | |
This was a bit of a surprise discovery for you, wasn't it? | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Well, last year I received a new tablet which contained numbers and | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
calculations that reminded me of a bunch of strange thing that deals | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
with figures, and that is quite unusual in Babylonian astronomy. I | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
was able to figure out what was happening with all these weird | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
genetical tablets we're looking at one of these now will stop it looks | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
like a piece of plastic bread. How on earth do you read that? You spent | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
your in Tyre career doing that so it's not easy to explain the can you | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
have a go? Yes. It's writing and its well understood is. There are a list | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
of signs are able to decipher. The language is not a problem that the | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
astronomy on it, that's what I'm really interested in. There are | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
trapezoid is there, aren't there? That's a piece of John retreat. How | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
did they use that to track velocity in movement, of Jupiter, wasn't it? | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
So it turns out that this is like a modern graft. It shows you how the | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
velocity of Jupiter changes over time. On the vertical axis, its | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
velocity. So the velocity decreases with time. It unexpected with | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
antiquity. We don't have it anywhere else there. We were savages compared | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
to this lot, weren't we? Yes will stop we could say that, yes. This | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
kind of raft was only reinvented much later in Europe. 14th century | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
in Oxford. Sorry, Oxford. You didn't invent it for the first time. It was | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
the Babylonians. Debate came -- come up with it from their own research, | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
or do you think they got wind of the Babylonian tablets Rhys I think it | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
was forgotten and invented for the second time. Can you tell us about | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
Babylonian culture? What is now Syria and Iraq in 18th century BC, | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
it's an extraordinary city, even though it's been badly rebuilt by | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Saddam Hussein. The culture was extremely sophisticated, wasn't it? | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
. Extraordinary. They had highly developed mathematics and John | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
retreat, though what we were doing much later in the fourth century was | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
to reapply the dormitory in a totally new way. What did they use | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
it for? Was it linked to their fascination of the planets, or was | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
this... Did they understand the importance of the planets, and the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
earth, and the sun. What was needed for the production of food? They | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
were obsessed with the planets computing emotion and it was because | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
of astrology. They thought that by predicting the position of the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
planets they could predict market prices, river levels, the weather. | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
They thought everything was connected to what happened in the | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
sky. There's an element of truth in that of course. Yes, but it's a kind | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
of astrology, but on these tablets you don't see anything of astrology. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
It's very technical. Astrology, we learned about from other tablets. | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
What a fascinating breakthrough. Thank you for speaking to us. Thank | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
you for having me. British astronaut Tim Peak has asked | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
school children in Britain to help him in one of his | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
scientific experiments. He wants pupils to plant seeds | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
of rocket leaves that have been Their growth will be compared | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
with normal plants to help researchers develop new varieties | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
of crops that could be grown This report by our science | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. Ever since Tim Peake blasted off, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
his adventures in space Now, from the space station, | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
he is doing it again. We are going to get a packet | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
of these space seeds. When Tim Peake comes back down | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
to earth, we're going to do some He is asking schoolchildren | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
to help him with one I am looking after two | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
kilograms of very special space seeds, which is | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
ready for our special Now these seeds have been | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
on the International Space Station, I will be packing them up | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
at the end of their mission, When they arrive, they will be | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
sent out to thousands of schools to grow alongside | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
the seeds that have not been up here in space, | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
as part of our special Once they plant the rocket seeds, | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
instead of the stem going up, the stem will go down and the roots | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
will come up instead. I have watched virtually every | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
broadcast he has done and I'm really I think it is incredible | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
that all our schools all over the country will be | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
involved in something so important The pupils at Walton | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
High School in Stafford are among children from 10,000 | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
schools expected to help him The experiment by pupils | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
here could ultimately help scientists develop a crop that | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
astronauts could grow In the future, it could enable | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
people to grow their own crops Eating on the space station has | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
never been straightforward. But their freeze-dried | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
food could soon It is really cool | :23:51. | :23:51. | |
seeing the Union Jack It has explored all over the world | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
and now it has explored space. Tim's space walk made British | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
schoolchildren realise one day it Even if they don't make it | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
into space, his mission might inspire them to reach | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
for the stars in their own way. Lets show you some pictures from | :24:12. | :24:31. | |
Australia. This is from the sea bed off the coast of Sydney 's. Octopus | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
are normally solitary creature, but you can see them fighting here which | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
means they could possibly have more social interactions than first | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
thought. This one showing a darker colour. The losing one. French film | :24:50. | :25:03. | |
director Jacques Rivette one of the most influential figures in US | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
cinema has died. He was 87. He received a critical acclaim for his | :25:10. | :25:20. | |
challenging and imaginative films, including selenium Julie go boating | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
and out one which lasted about 13 hours. The French president Francois | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
Hollande called him one of the greatest film-makers over several | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
generations. A reminder of our main news. A attentional breakthrough at | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
the first Syria peace talks for two years. The main opposition group | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
behind negotiation committee which had refused to attend now says it | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
will take part. The agency says it's received assurances from the United | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Nations. We hope to speak to them on Sunday. That's it from me and the | :25:57. | :25:59. |