[01:09.84]Officials say the mission is no longer tenable.
[01:12.39]Austria provides nearly 400 soldiers about a third of the UN peacekeeping mission.
[01:17.61]A UN spokesman, Kieran Dwyer insisted their work would go on.
[01:21.51]The mission in the Golan was set up 40 years ago to monitor the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria.
[01:29.18]This is no less important today than it was all those years ago.
[01:33.50]And with the fighting becoming more and more intense, this is a really serious risk to regional spillover of the conflict inside Syria.
[01:43.90]So rather than talking about the mission now becoming viable, what we focusing on it is making sure that it remains viable.
[01:50.67]The Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have announced on state television that they have separated and their marriage is over.
[01:59.95]Lyudmila Putin said it was a joint decision and described their parting as a civilized divorce.
[02:05.36]The couple had been married for 30 years and have two daughters.
[02:08.67]The White House has defended a national intelligence program that collected the daily phone records of tens of millions of Americans,
[02:16.09] it follows a British newspaper report that one of America’s largest telephone providers,
[02:20.97] Verizon, is under the government orders to hand over data relating to all its subscribers.