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the video sharing sites changed the enterinternet over the last decade. intense fighting continues in eastern ukraine ahead of a deadline for cease-fire. three people were killed when a shell landed in a school in the government held town of aftomisk. there has been fighting in lundqvist. ukraine's president had this to say. >> this is not just anstan of ukraine civilians. this is the results and without any explanation because unfortunately, after the offensive operation of russia intensified significantly. >> at least 25 people have been killed since the deal was signed. there is a fierce battle at the town of debalskaba.

charles stratford. a support position for what are believed to be up to 8,000 soldiers in the town of develtseve. it has become a major flash point, some of the heaviest fighting there. if the separatists take control, it would give them a direct group via railway to russia. >> ukrainian artillery was firing close by. >> everything is destroyed, said this ambulance driver. you can't get into town with the dead bodies on the road. we pushed up further. we are here at a ukrainian army checkpoint. there is a lot of heavy weaponry going towards the front. we are hearing heavy shelling.

these soldiers are nervous. they say they don't like to be filmed because they consider it to be bad luck before they go into battle. >> some solids were returning from develseve and one kneed to speak to us. >> we were in a village close by, he said. we were shelled with mortars and grand rockets. we want peace. we are happy about the coming cease-fire but we don't trust president putin. >> behind me is the last bridge before the town of develseve. the military are saying it is too dangerous to go any further. there are fears the separatists could hit this bridge at any time. there is a lot of heavy military equipment going in that direction. >> the cease-fire is supposed to start at 00100 hours on february 15th. a withdrawal of heavy weapons on both sides is supposed to begin soon after. for now though, the guns and rockets remain. >> behind me in the field, the ukrainian military have set up

tank batteries and rocket positions. see them in the distances. there are grad to see my left now. bear in mind that we were here a few days ago, and these soldiers were not here. there is a big fear that the separatists will try and take full control of develseve between the truce being signed and it being implemented on the 15th. >> the battle for devalseve goes on. charles stratford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine. >> the united nations special envoy to syria says president bashar al assad must be involved in a short-term solution to end the fighting. he said he wasn't talking about a long term political solution and the geneva communique remains the basis of a u.n. plan to end the war. it calls for a transitional government possibly including members of the current

government. >> there is an important dialogue that we need to have. he is still president of syria. there is a government. there is a large part of syria which is under the control of the syrian government and i will continue having very important discussions with him because he is part of the solution. >> people living in the syrian city zuma have called for international help to stop government shelling. some have been protesting a government offensive on therel held areas almost two weeks old. 200 people have reportedly been killed. and talks between the syrian government and opposition fighters have broken down in homs. they say they won't accept government demands to put down their arms -- the rebels that is -- in exchange for civilians.

>> reporter: this has been the scene at the neighborhood in homs for several days. constant bombardment is a clear sign of negotiations with the rebels stand. the government has asked fighters to give up their arms for the northern parts of the city. but they are not leaving. >> we are here to fight. we will stay and defend our people. >> opposition fighters give arms and positions thousands of people trapped in the area for they hope for an agreement this time. why isn't anyone caring for us? we suffer in silence while the whole world watches. >> for the people of homs, the end of that suffering must seem a long way off. al jazeera. >> activists in bahrain are

calling for more demonstrations on the fourth anniversary of their uprising. police fired rubber bullets and tear gas on the eve of the anniversary tree. they called for political reforms by the ruling sunni royal family. they also want the release of the main opposition liter, sheik ali salman who was arrested in december. gunmen who claim affiliation with is ill have reportedly taken over a state-run radio station in the libyan city of sert. residents say the radio has been broadcasting speeches by abu bakr al bag daddy. he said the situation puts italy under threat. the italian coast guard rescued 700 migrants from overcrowded goats near the coast of libya when officials received a distress signal.

100 of the migrants have been send to lampadusa. another 250 are due to arrive in s sicily. 200 died in stormy weather earlier last week. the scandal surrounding argentina's president has deepened. she is now being formally accused of trying to cover up allegations of iranian involvement in a bomb attack on a jewish community center. the allegations were first made by a prosecutor found dead last month. from buenas airies. >> reporter: property cuters are

go away. >> a pistol shot to their head. forensic teams have searched for evidence to help the inquiry how he died. a month later, argentines are still debating whether it was suicide or murder. some are hailing this latest move as a major advance. others are saying it's politically motivated and amounts to nothing. the only certainty is that it has added to the uncertainty and argentines are no closer to discovering who detonated the bomb in 1994 or how oberto

oberto nisman died. president kirschner has flown to her weekend home in the south. she will return next week for a march organized by alberto necessaryman's former colleague. it's only likely to further polar eyes an already divided society. kichnires cabinet chief says the accusations are biased. >>reporter: why is there an active judicial coupe because? because the complaints being put forward are not aiming at an outcome. they are pursuing a political outcome. >> the al jazeerajournalits are with their families. as richard martin reports, their retrial on charges of cluing with the banned islam brotherhood is expected to resume on february the 23rd.

>> after 411 days, after too much time alone in prison, it's like a dream come true. >> al jazeera producer bahar mohammed enjoys his new found freedom, a day to celebrate with his wife and three children. >> i am very proud of every single moment i spent in prison for the sake of freedom of expression. i am really proud about it. as time goes back i would choose the same experience. i know that those still there, i will continue fighting for the freedom of expression and i will not back off. >> baher and his colleague, mohammed fahmy were granted bail on thursday. it has come as a huge relief. they have been imprisoned since december 2013. but the judicial fight will continue until the charges are dropped. baher was initially centsed to

10 years and fahmy to 7 years in prison. >> decision was recently overturned. he script's highest court of appeals has challenged the evidence presented by the prosecution prosecution. it says proceedings were flawed. it ordered a retrial. >> earlier this month, another al jazeera journalist peter greste was deported to australia after 400 days in detention. fahmy was told by the authorities that his way to freedom was to renounce his egyptian citizenship, which he has done. the threeays journalists, bahar, fahmy and greste have been accused of promoting the muslim brotherhood. their trial has been largely condemned. six other colleagues from al jazeera were sentenced in absentia in to 10 years in prison. al jazeera calls on egypt to

have all of its journalits exonerated. richard martin. stay with us. coming up in the next 15 minutes. >> the cyber world is sort of the wild wild west. to some degree we are asked to be the sheriff. >> obama natural summit on cyber security but is everyone's privacy being attacked in the name of production? rescue divers sell their story in a country with one of the worst maritime safety records. >> every sunday, join us for exclusive... revealing... and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time...

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the global headlines this hour fighting intensifying in eastern ukraine hours before a new cease-fire is due. pro- russia separatists are battling near the town of develseve. >> the envoy to syria says president assad must be involved in the short-term ending to find a longer term political solution. argentina's cabinet chief says the latest accusations against the president are biased. christina kirscner has been accused of covering upa iranian involvement on a bomb stack in 1994. a ferry with 200 people on board capsized on the para river 300 kilometers south of the capitol

dhaka. most managed to swim ashore. the police said the boat was overloaded. >> bangladesh has an awe pauling record of maritime accidents. rescue divers are constantly under pressure to find victims quickly and return them to safety. al jazeera met one of these divers who explained. >> no knife. no dive. a diver with the fire department in bank la derb a large part of his job is to recover the bodies of victims who drown in the country's many ferry disasters. >> it's very hard. the water temperature makes it very difficult and you have to be so careful going up no more than two feet a second. if you go up too fast, it's dangerous. you can even get paralyzed. >> the divers are often the target of public anger. families of victims sometimes spend days on shore waiting for

bodies to be recovered. sometimes confront salvage workers wondering whying it's taking so long. >> most passengers you believe go down with the ship. when one one of these major disasters happen divers can spend 5 to 6 days looking for beefs. >> alazin is one of the best diverts. he has recovered over 100 bodies and on one occasion, he saved one woman trapped along inside a capsized boat that had a small pocket. it was a it was a special moment in a career of ups and downs. >> i become dark in a narrow place in a vessel that was under water. i become very scared. i thought of my young son and my mother mother. i thought of taking my oxygen frank ought of taking my oxygen frank

off. >> he says et cetera reminded of his son when he brings up the body of a child victim. psychologically it's hard but it's also the part of of after father like him wondering what happened to his child that allows him to keep going. al jazeera, bangladesh. >> egyptian state media says a bomb in the capitol killed alple. there have been a number of anti-government protests across egypt. security forces using tear gas to discuss demonstratos in geezer. alsham al bira reports. >> this is where a bomb exploded. it happened in a neighborhood in cairo. it's the latest nat string of

recent attacks, targeting security forces in egypt where there has been violence since july 2013 when the army toppled president mohamed morsi. every friday anti-coup protesters take to the streets to deny ounce the military and show support for more syrians in jail. >> in the city of alexandria proceed defendantors raise banners that read al sisi is stealing money from the gulf countries, repairing to the state of al sisi spaifblth demanding money from allies. until giza doesn't of district protests take a violent turn. security forces fire tear gas to disperse the crowds. >> the anti-coup protest movement is obviously meant to

apply pressure to the sisi government. it's probably the most sustained protest movement in modern middle east history. there have been protests every day for the past 19 and a half months. there has been moderate success because media organizations have been intimidated from covering the protest. they haven't had the kind of success that the organizers would like. >> the government accuses the muslim brotherhood of staging attacks targeting the police and the army. the outlawed group continues to demand for its leaders to be released. mohamed morsi reinstated. al jazeera. >> nigeria's boko haram is carrying out it's first. they use can's. houses were set on fire at the border town of ungubua in an early morning raid in a village

in military camp. many continue to live in fear. non-governmental organizations have fled due to boka haram attacks along the border leaving refugees struggling to survive. >> this desolate corner of nijer is home to one of the world's most unforgiving environments. these people fled after boko haram stepped up attacks on boarder areas over the past two months. many have harrowing stories of their escape from the armed group. >> boko haram fighters managed to reach us and took us to shackal's residence. they told us they killed our men, our songs and that they will not let us leave because our men fought them. we stayed for three weeks. finally, we managed to run away at 2:00 o'clock in the morning. all night long we kept hearing

the sound of gunfire. >> they are safer now but many refugees feel they could can targeted. boko haram has carried out attacks. many refugees feel like they have to fend for themselves. >> we havenology to cook no money to buy anything to feed ourselves. we usually go to the market and we borrow money, promise them to pay them later. >> even the little aid that trickles in from governmental organizations is under threat. >> we have many problems with the local residents nearby. they seize aid that is supposed to be ours and they leave us stranded. we don't have medications. we don't have drinking water. we don't have a refugee war. we ran from one war to be trapped in another. >> their struggle is eased in the solace of being together. but with the threat of boko haram ever present, it seems no line in the sand can be drawn to ensure their safety.

random nofle, al jazeera. >> tony abbot has stepped in asking indonesia not to execute two australian citizenship. he issued a plea for drug charges. a plea for lemency in january. barack obama says technology companies must do more to protect us all from cyber attacks. the u.s. president has been at the cyber community summit in california home some of america's biggest computer companies. chief executives 6 facebook, google and yahoo, there is concern of the u.s. government spying on their customers in the name of national security. rob reynolds reports. >> president barack obama came here to the scampus of stanford university the home of many technology break throughs to call for a new partnership between government and the technology industry in

combatting cyber crime and data breaches. he noted that had 100 million accounts belonging to american individuals or business interests have been hacked in the past year. he also referred to the well well-known hack of sony pictures which the government here as linked to the government of north korea. with many companies in the tech field like google yahoo and facebook still outraged over what they see as the u.s. spy agency's penetration of their customer account a lot of the tech industry is we're of such a new partnership. obama, himself, referred to this saying that it's not an easy matter to arrange. >> grappling with how government protects the american people from adverse events while at the same time making sure the government, itself is not abusing it's capabilities is

hard. >> you know the cyber world is sort of the wild wild west. to some degree we are asked to be the sheriff. >> cyber security experts say industry has legitimate concerns about government en truths. >> from the industry perspective, i think, you know, people want to protect their customers. right? if you are a business and you have customers, you are, at the end of the day, your gol is going to be protect them. you are going to try to put in every single measure you can. >> comes back to the discussion of where is the balance between me protecting my customers, all of us collectively protecting the country together. and how do we do that? >> several of the biggest only company are developing encryption so advanced not even government spy act sees could correct it. the government is 12yd to that move but there is little legally they can do to stop it. >> rob reynolds. on this day 10 years ago, three young americans registered a website with the idea of sharing

videosom. youtube. it has more than a billion users, one of the most profitable and influential websites there is. a look at how it all began. >> this is the first video ever uploaded to youtube. the company's co-founder joey carim at the san diego june in 2005. the idea that anyone anywhere col share their videos online caught on fast. just over a year later, 65,000 videos were being uploaded each day and youtube is getting more than 100 million daily views. not surprise then when this happened. >> we have exciting ing news for you. we have been acquired by google. >> seventeen months after going live youtube was bought by google for $165,000,000,000. >> google has this large scale

infrastructure for content delivery. it's something they scaled up after they bought youtube. youtube would not have been able to do it with just a few guys. >> d'hôte backing of google the site's influence and open ax policy made it powerful. >> no longer do people have gate keepers, movie stud yields to get the word out about content that they have created. instead, anyone can create something and distribute it to the world. >> with a billion people visiting the site each month, a new generation of online stars have found their audience. >> hey gins. it's miranda. >> adverts on the site and youtube's revenue sharing system means some are making millions of dollars each of dollars each

year. >> the content is that you can have this huge platform that anybody can upload anything which can have page positive net value but also some negative net value as well. if you have never been doing good at technology we learn. >> as more people connect to the internet and band improves popularity is likely to increase. we will hope they can continue to dominate audiences and the revenue they bring. terrek bazley al jazeera.

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