>> in eastern ukraine just hours before the new cease-fire is due to take effect. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, hundreds of protesters take to the streets in bahrain to mark three rains since the start of the up rising calling for political reforms. the u.n. says that syrian president bashar al-assad must be part of the solution to end the fighting in his country. the opposition says he is the problem. and youtube turns ten. we look at how the video-sharing site has changed the internet over the last decade.

>> fighting is intensifying in eastern ukraine hours before a new cease-fire is due to take affect effect. these are pictures of pro-russian separatists on the outskirts of debaltseve. they said, we are confident these are russian military not separatists. >> well, these are the areas currently held by fighters. they've also been reports of shelling and live fire in the town of luhansk.

however, the main battle seems to be control of d debaltseve. they are under intense fire. many are forced to leave their homes in eastern ukraine due to the constant shelling. >> it's been seven months since dmitri and his wife and son left the bombing of ukraine. they are now in a college dormitory, they didn't have a spoon or fork when they arrived. but they don't complain. >> he got work as a builder. a representative from the

company came hear saying that he needed men. i work as a shop assistant. >> the dorm houses 53 ukrainian refugees atet moment down from a peak of 128. since december 1st they've been paying their own way after the russian government shut off financial support. thankfully most have picked up work. home may be thousands of kilometers away but these days the internet keeps friends and family connected. christina will be getting news from luhansk. >> why didn't you leave? >> i didn't get the chance to go. it's because of work. she had a job and a salary. now they can only work half a day. they want to leave but they can't. you need to get a permit to leave the city. >> the winter nights are long here. it's colder, not all the locals are happy with ukrainian refugees taking good jobs and the accommodation is cramped. but as the man overseeing their

building points out all of that is preferable to all of that going on back home. >> the only motivation for them to stay or go is safety. if it's more safe here they'll stay. >> now a third grader at a local school. it's entirely possible he'll graduate. start a job start a family here. ukraine will just be a fading childhood memory. >> hundreds of protesters are rallying in bahrain's capitol to mark four years since the up rising began. activists are up loading videos of battles with police in various suburbs. they say dozens of people have been injured. this appears to be the arrest of a child. demonstrators are mainly shia muslims who are calling for reforms. a prominent activist in bahrain, one of the protests, they say a number of people hurt

is rising. >> there are hundreds of people now, men and women who are facing the police. every five minutes we were shot. we have a lot of people wounded now. unfortunately many are wounded. they are afraid they're going to be arrested many of the protesters--we have hundreds-- thousands of people in the streets they are attacking by

tear gas and shotguns. and for the first time there are hundreds of people. i see a woman who is now facing the police. >> talks are under way between houthi rebels and president ali abdullah saleh in yemen. it comes hours after houthi have stage a coup. >> the shia houthies are in control of parts of the city, but people are worried.

were testers are out on the streets in a crackdown of activists and opponents they kept beating me, torturing me for hours. they wanted false confessions. they wanted me to lie and say that we were paid to protest against them. and american and british organizations were instigateing the youth in yemen against them, that they're paying us monday money to protest against houthies, all lies. >> many gathered in the main scare to express their solidarity with president hadi, who was recently forced to resign last week they said they

would run the country on their own for two years until an election was held. the u.n. is renewing efforts. many countries have evacuated their embassies in the capitol of sanaa. including the u.s. which have been actively engageed in drone attacks against al-qaeda and yemen. but there are growing concerns that the power vacuum could lead to more violence and instability. blank the iraqi government has sent reinforcements after isil storms the town. it comes a day after the local government reported the fall of the area in the anbar province. it occurs where u.s. soldiers

are training iraqi forces. gunmen loyal to isil have taken over a radio station in sirte. italy's foreign minister said that the situation threatens his country, which is only a few hundred nautical miles away from sirte. opposition leader provoking more protests in malaysia. students have called for his immediate release. in india anti-corruption activists have been sworn in as delhi's chief minister. during his inauguration speech, he promised to make delhi the first corruption-free state. the common man party won 67 of the 70 seats in state elections

last week. now, the scan doll surrounding argentina's president has deepened. argentina's president cristina kirchner is implicated in the cover you will of a bombing of a jewish center in buenos aires. a prosecutor looking into the allegations was found dead last month. >> prosecutors are determined that the case against president kirchner will not go away. the allegation is that they covered up iranian involvement in the 1994 attack on the jewish community center in buenos aires, that killed 85 people. the alleged award was cheap oil and trade deals. the government has always vehemently denied those accusations. but this latest move has rocked the latest establishment. >> one hass to distinguish between the judicial and

political aspects. the judicial aspect is highly questionable. while we can't deny it's having an extraordinary political impact. >> the allegations were initially made by prosecuteor alberto nisman. his body was found in his path, a pistol shot to his head. there was investigation into how he died. nearly a month later they're still determining its suicide not murder. >> some say it's politically motivated and amounts to nothing. the only certainty is that the uncertainty, and argentines are into close for discovering who detonated the bomb in 1994, or how alberto nisman died. >> meanwhile president kirchner has flown to the south for

four-day holiday weekend. she'll return for a march organized for nisman colleagues. ben thousand aries. >> the accusations against her research biased. >> you >> they're pursuing a political outcome. >> still ahead on al jazeera. sectarian divisions remain unresolved ten years after after the assassination of hariri. >> we have the story of a palestinian couple and how israel stands in the way of

their romance.

>> on the stream >> 40% of the food produced in the us ends up in landfills at a cost of a 165 billion a year. we look at inovative ways to end the waste. >> the stream, on al jazeera america >> welcome back. the fighting is intensifying in eastern ukraine hours just before a new cease-fire is due to start. separatists and ukrainian army are battling over the town of debaltseve. in bahrain dozen versus been involved in confrontations with police.

and yemen there have been anti-houthi protests. meanwhile, gulf countries are high school diplomaing an emergency meeting even as many close their embassies in sanaa. now an envoy to syria has clarified a remark that bashar al-assad must be part of the solution in syria. he said he was not talking about a long-term political solution but instead efforts to end the fighting. >> the destruction and chaos clear signs that talks had broken down. rebels say they won't accept government demands to lay down their arms in exchange for civilian safety. so the fighting continues. >> you why isn't anyone caring for us. we suffer in silence while the whole world watches. >> they try to negotiate an end

to the four-year war. after meetings in damascus this week the u.n. special envoy made it clear that president bashar al-assad must an part of the solution. >> there is an important. dialogue that we need to have. he is still president of syria. there is a government there. and i will continue having very important discussions with him because he is part of the solution. >> the u.n. envoy has now clarified that he wasn't referring to a long-term political plan, but a way to stop the violence. his office emphasizes that a geneva call for traditional government remains the basis for an u.n. proposal to end the war.

people in various cities are marching in solidarity with douma urging the government to stop its bombing campaign. and the repeated demand that unchanged since march 2011. president bashar al-assad must go. al jazeera. >> former prime minister has made a rare visit after his father's assassination. the case has deeply affected the country. >> it was an assassination that langed lebanon. prime minister hariri killed in a car bomb in the heart of downtown beirut. at the time, a belief that it would lesson lessen its

influence. >> increasing sectarianism that happens, and it's extremely important that at the route of this was not so much the hariri assassination as it was the 2003 invasion of iraq. that's the point that it really began. once the iraq war was over, as far as the military damage and the u.s. damage militarily, that moved to lebanon and syria and it was manifested in what came to be the hariri assassination. >> it a direct impact on the had some identify with radical groups.

there have been street battles between those who support the resolution many will tell you the increasing violence and divisions hear come down to the state, more specifically the politicians. not doing enough to take care of their people. >> we've got a system that is more or less collapsing or degenerating and deteriorating. this is a massive problem but it's been there and building up since the 1990s. the dinners now is the influx of syrian refugees forming one quarter to one-third of the lebanese population. in a system that already was failling to deliver services to its own citizens. >> security has become a huge issue with the army paroling the area.

>> and so ten years off and 21 others were killed right here in downtown beirut. few would have predicted where lebanon finds itself now. foreign countries have too much say as to what happens here. around a quarter of the population are syrian refugees. there is a growing threat of armed groups, and also from within the country itself. so ten years on and despite the establishment of international court to investigate the death no one has been brought to just. justice. >> stephanie dekker, in beirut. >> mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed were released after spending 411 days in detention. they're charged with colluding with the muslim brotherhood and they're trial is expected to resume on february 23rd.

the nigerian government has repealed an attack in the country's northeast. fighters fired heavy guns and issued leaflets calling on residents to boycott next month's elections. the attack nigeria's southern delta region an amnesty offered to local fighters in 2009 hats improved the security situation. but they're concerned that violence could return because of growing poverty. >> back in 2009 the nigerian government granted amnesty to nearly 30,000 fight freers an armed grouped called the movement for the emancipation of the delta. former fighters like her get a basic monthly allowance and they're taught a trade. and an incentive not to attack

oil pipelines and kidnap foreigners. but she said she still can't look after her children. >> desperation may take her back to a life of violence. >> i don't want to go back. i don't want to go back to that. >> these creeks are quieter than they used to be, but armed groups still hang out here. the leaders were paid to keep their fighters away from the oil pipelines. the fighters were well armed and often attacked people living in the niger delta. they would often attack the pipelines and kidnap foreigners. now the warlord lives a comfortable life largely financed by the amnesty program. one he doesn't want to give up.

he knows that could happen if jonathan goodluck jonathan loses the election in march. >> if for any reason people are possess operate for desperate for power. >> the niger delta is 90% where nigeria's oil comes from. but this is how people live. poverty and frustration could make it easier for warlords like pastor reuben to find new recruits. it's only a short-term solution that benefited a few. >> if you didn't carry arms, and you didn't qualify for amnesty the question is the people who have potential to carry arms that have not carried arms, what could you do you do with them? they're the ones who are left out and they're the one who is

would carry arms in the future. >> the struggling single mother say it is getting worse. >> now on this day, three young americans started youtube. this 18 second video was the first "me at the zoo" by its founder. a billion users later 300 hours of video are up loaded to youtube every minute. some are going viral. it has made some people very famous. psi singing gangnam style.is the most viewed video. now with that kind of content

especially when it's violentness, has opened a new debate over regulation. they say that youtube has changed the way people share online. >> youtube has really risen from an idea that nobody really thought would work. it has changed the world of politics culture and businesses around the world. one element of if is that there is a lot more sharing going on. the era that youtube was launched, there were large broadcast organizations who could reach out only. now you don't have to be a pop star. you can up load pictures of your children and you can have a global audience. it has changed the pathway of celebrity. it used to be controlled by gatekeepers, and these gatekeepers would be the one deciding who becomes famous.

what song is played, what video is scene now with youtube you have the audience who decide and you have celebrity who is have engaged relationships with their audiences in the way that movie stars and old-style celebrities never had before. >> one palestinian couple, despite bees engaged they won't allow them to visit. >> it's become something of a routine for rasha and dalia. nearly every morning they log on to their computers and video chat for at least an hour. they've been doing this for almost four years after a meeting at a conference in jordan where they quickly fell in love and soon after decided to get engaged. >> she's so affectionate and

kind. daalia is very loving. that's why i want her to be the mother of my children, so she can teach them to be like her. >> but she lives in the west bank and rashed lives in the gaza strip. they need permission to visit with each other. a request denied. i asked if she ever feels like giving up? >> at times i get depressed. i feel like i don't want to go on. i think to myself why did i throw myself in this tornado. when will it be over, when will the humiliation end. >> the separation of gaza and the west bank effects thousands of families. israel routinely prevents palestinians from passing through whether it's for

weddings funerals or other social reasons. a policy rights groups described as unbearable for families split between the two areas. >> the israeli officials defending this policy say it's for security reasons but of course one cannot accept this argument. it is a very sweeping argument. >> friends of dalia and rashed have started a facebook page of deliver the bride to the group. they hope it will attract the attention of president abbas who they think can help. >> it will make for stronger politics. we will make our dream come true and live together forever. >> but until this happens they'll have to settle for moments like this. al jazeera in the occupied west bank. >> now archeologists in greece

are calling it the holdest hug in the world. they dug up a 5,000-year-old human remains locked in an embraceed. thought to be young adults were excavateed in southern greece. burials where individuals are thought to be hugging each other are rare. >> this week on "talk to al jazeera" danish editor and author flemming rose. in 2005 he commissioned cartoons of the prophet muhammed. >> that cartoon is not targeted muslims it's targeting a .