Good morning. Welcome to Middle East Live. Here is a summary of the latest developments.
Syria
• G8 foreign ministers will hold a second round of talks today in the wake of a renewed appeal by the Syrian opposition for arms. Syrian officials led by Ghassan Hitto, the newly elected interim prime minister of the opposition, met US secretary of state John Kerry and UK foreign secretary William Hague yesterday. A US state department official told AFP the Syrian opposition leaders renewed appeals for lethal aid but Kerry "didn't promise anything". Kerry also met Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday and another US official was quoted as saying: "It certainly didn't sound like they have changed their position a lot."
• The Syrian air force has repeatedly carried out indiscriminate, and in some cases deliberate, air strikes against civilians, Human Rights Watch says in a new report. It says it has documented 59 unlawful attacks and at least 152 civilians killed by air strikes, while a network of local Syrian activists claims that more than 4,300 civilians have been killed by air strikes since July 2012. HRW says the exact number of civilian deaths is "difficult to verify". It describes the attacks as "serious violations of international humanitarian law and people who commit such violations with criminal intent are responsible for war crimes".
• Discussions between the United Nations and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government on a possible investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria have reached an impasse, UN diplomats told Reuters. Syria and the UN have been exchanging letters for weeks but the two sides are far from agreement on how the investigation should be run, diplomats said on condition of anonymity. Syria has asked the UN only to investigate what it says was a rebel chemical attack near Aleppo last month. The opposition has blamed President Bashar al-Assad's forces for that strike and also wants the UN team to look into other alleged chemical attacks by the government. So far, the Syrians are refusing to let inspectors go anywhere but Aleppo, while the UN is insisting that the team goes to both Aleppo and Homs.
Egypt
• Egypt's armed forces participated in forced disappearances, torture and killings across the country – including in Cairo's Egyptian Museum – during the 2011 uprising, even as military leaders publicly declared their neutrality, according to a leaked presidential report on revolution-era crimes. The report, submitted to President Mohamed Morsi by his own hand-picked committee in January, has yet to be made public, but a chapter seen by the Guardian implicates the military in a catalogue of crimes against civilians, beginning with their first deployment to the streets. More than 1,000 people, including many prisoners, are said to have gone missing during the 18 days of the revolt. Scores turned up in Egypt's morgues, shot or bearing signs of torture.
Bahrain
• The former world champion Damon Hill has challenged Jean Todt, the president of Formula One's ruling body the FIA, to make his position clear on the controversial Bahrain Grand Prix in April. Hill, who now works as a Sky Sports F1 analyst, was one of the few people in the sport to question the wisdom of the race taking place a year ago there were pro-democracy demonstrations, with stones and petrol bombs being thrown, while riot police fired teargas and birdshot and beat opposition activists. He has voiced his concerns again, saying of Todt:
He's not said anything that has distanced the sport from things that it would find distasteful and upsetting, which I believe everyone in the sport would like to do.
The vast majority of people in the sport would like to say we don't want to come here to make life worse for people. We would like you to enjoy Formula One. It has lots of positive things to offer. But please don't, on our behalf, round people up and brutalise them. I don't see that being political. It's more ethical than political.
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