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plus former australian guantanmo bay detainee welcomes a report striking down his terrorism conviction. ♪ libya's u.n. recognized government has asked the security council to lift an arms embargo to fight against isil as well as other armed group. >> reporter: diplomats address the u.n. during an emergency session. the arms embargo was imposeed by nun in 2011 to protect civilians from libya's former leader muammar qaddafi. libya's foreign minister has appealed for international help to rebuild the army. and egypt is supporting libya's request. it's also asking for a navel blockade to stop weapons shipments to fighters. but the councilmembers seemed cautious about arming libya. our diplomatic he editor james bays

explains. >> reporter: egyptian foreign minister came to the united nations spends two days trying to lobby diplomat on his his country's initiative. first trying to persuade thome prison sisi's idea. that there should be an military i want sense in libya backed my egypt and the united nations. later he backed down on that he said he want addison embargo on all but one group in lake ya. he wanted support for countries for that government. by that he meant authorization for egypt's ongoing air strikes. it doesn't look like the security council will support any of those ideas. but the foreign minister denied his mission has not been a success. >> it's not our success on the table here, it's the success of the security council and the internation community.

we believe it's necessary we are considered the last line of defense against the more violent activity that. the security council also heard from the u.n. saying he needed more time for negotiations between the two rival governments. the security council looks likely to give him that time. one diplomat said this was not the moment to send more arms to libya. well the u.n. emergency session on libya comes days after egypt carried out air strikes in response to beheadings of 21 egyptian christians. now it's alleged that those strikes killed civilians as well. but egypt's president denies

this. abdel reports. >> reporter: it was a visit of support from the egyptian president to his troops on the borders with libya. he said his country wasn't targeting civilians. >> translator: i asked one of the pilots who carried out the air strike, i asked him was there any mistake? the pilot told me not at all. we didn't hit any civilian targets. we were aware of these targets for months. we had strong intelligence. we are 100 percent certain of what we were targeting. >> reporter: in the libyan city it was a different story. witnesses said two children were among the civilians killed in the strikes. there have been suggestion that his egypt has been involved some time already and the battled rival militias. >> translator: we will never forget egypt as huge favor and how they supported us, the our ammunition came from egypt. 400 crates of ammunition came from there. the egyptians understand our situation. >> reporter: egypt carried out air strikes on targets in libya

after the bed be of 21 coptic christiano gypses held in libya by a group linked to isil. what other actions taken may be decided in coming days and weeks. qatar has recalled its ambassador from egypt for consultation after the air strikes in libya. and there are reports of a row at an arab league meeting. where an egyptian delegate accused qatar of backing terrorism. qatar says all arab league members should have been consulted before any military action on a fellow member. the united states has identified a thousand 200 syrian rebels as moderate fighters that it can train to take on isil. it's part of a u.s. military led program that's expected to begin next month. turkey, saudi arabia, and qatar have offered to host the training. well, there is fierce fighting that continues in and around the syrian city of aleppo with at least 70 pro government fighters and more than 80 rebels killed

since tuesday. both side trying to expand their areas of control in that divided city. while the u.n. is trying to broken a ceasefire. paul reports. >> reporter: once a thriving tourist destination this part of aleppo is now a battlefield. the old city they fight street by street. and sniper watch for targets. >> translator: we are here to fight on the front to prevent the regime from moving towards. [ inaudible ] this area is important because it is the regime's lifeline. >> reporter: on the outside skirts of the city in the south every sort of weapon is used on both sides. the most serious fighting on the road that leads to the western parts of the city. which are controlled by regime forces. >> translator: our main duty here is to monitor the movements of the assad fors and how they

mobilize their forces, where they launch attacks, our mission is to liberate the area of the 80th brigade so we can move towards the industrial compound. >> reporter: the fighting in is help owe isn't just on these front, it's a deadly bat on 40 different front and while each of the battling sides tries to make gains the u.n.-backed ceasefire plan looks unlikely. al jazerra. parents of a missing u.s. free-lance journalist are expanding efforts to bring him home. austin tice was abducted in syria more than two years ago. there is an awareness campaign to secure had i release and it's been launched as roxanne i saberi reports. >> raking up and realizing it's not a nightmare is the hardest part of every day. >> reporter: debra and mark tice last spoke to their son austin two and a half years ago. how prepared are you for the possibility that austin might not come back?

>> we don't peck slate. >> no reason to prepare for that. no. >> no. >> we are preparing for him to come home. >> reporter: these are the last images of austin, his parents say they have seen. >> what leads you to believe that austin is still alive? >> we get -- you know, credible messages from credible as far source that his we can never trace back to their origin. you know, that austin is alive. that he's safe. >> people, you know, have no reason to lie to us as far as we can sell. >> reporter: and they give you proof of that? >> no. no. >> we haven't seen any. >> we haven't seen any. >> reporter: frustrated the tiresestireses are launching the free austin tice campaign. asking people to post photos of themselves blind folded. what does this signify? >> when journalists are captive we are all blind folded. >> reporter: they are collecting signatures for this petition

calling on president obama to do more. >> we want him to engage diplomatically in dialogue with the syrian government. because our government has said they will do all they can to find austin and bring him safely home. the syrian government has told us the same thing. so what do we need? we need -- we need the line of communication between the two of them. >> reporter: as the tices wait for news about their son they follow news about four other american hostages killed in syria. journalists james foley and stephen sought love and aid workers peter kassig and kayla mueller. all held by isil. the tices say they don't believe that isil has their son f it did the group would have made threats by now. if you could say anything now to the people who are holding austin. what would it be? >> as long as you are holding him, take care of him. >> reporter: if you could say anything to austin himself right know, what would it be? >> don't give up, boy.

>> yeah, don't give up. we love you austin, we know how strong you are, you should never forget how strong you are and we'll see you soon, we hope. >> reporter: racks an a saberi, al jazerra. thousands of argentinians have braved the rain, and demanding answers over the mysterious shooting death i've prosecutor last month. he was investigating whether the president christina kirschner covered oven iranian involvement in the bomb think of a sue injury center 20 years ago. more now from the capital. >> reporter: not even relent little rain kept 10s of thousands of argentines from marking one month since the suspicious death of prosecutor alberto policeman. many of these colleagues, fellow prosecutors led the march. angry that the government had refuse today honor him.

the sign says god may forgive them. but not the nation. >> translator: for once argentina wants to know the truth. there is too much political interference in the justice system. and on the other hand, it is very suspicious that a prosecutor who precisely was investigating the president end up dead and no one knows what happened. >> reporter: the president has ridiculed discussion that his she may have made a part in the prosecutor's untimely death. this is where his office used to be. the government's handling of his death has been clumsy at best. in fact recovering to this president's chief of staff and spokesman accused the organizers and media of plot plotting a judicial coup and trying toe destabilize the government. further inflaming political passions and divisions in this country. still while organizers insist this march wasn't political the presence of every major opposition leader and presidential hopeful indicated the contemporary. elections are just eight months

away. and while the death may not be clarified by then, if ever. the prosecutor has become the symbol and a martyr for the ruling party's opponents. lucia newman, al jazerra argentina. thailand's former prime minister has been charged with negligence over a rice subsidy scheme. the thai supreme court will decide next month whether she will stand trial. she denies wrongdoing. but she does face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. here is what's coming up on al jazerra. protecting themselves from the taliban. schoolteachers take up the guns in pakistan after december's deadly attack. plus a new initiative in the german capital to cut down on food waste. details coming up.

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alberto's body was found with a bullet wound to the head. security has been stepped up in schools across pakistan following the taliban attack on an army-run school in december. 150 people, mostly students, died at the time. the u.n. global education envoy recently proposed security fences metal detectors armed guards and emergency communication systems to secure schools. as kamal reports snipers can now be seen on rooftops and some teach versus been toting gun to his the classroom. >> reporter: after the deadly attack on army public school on december 16th. the government put in new security mesh nurse order to enable the educational institutions to meet the threat. the taliban, of course, have warned of more such attacks and that has prompted the police to impart basic weapon handling and tactics to the teachers in order for them to be able to meet the

first crucial minutes of any attack. and feel that they have some security. now the police, the quick reaction force will be on stand by. the government has issued emergency numbers to the institutions to call the authorities in case of an any attack. weapons will now be carried by teachers and according to the new good lines the boundary walls will have to be raised by several feet. they, of course, have to be topped off with razor wire and also the fact that everybody will be told to remain vigilant, including the teachers and the public at large to report any suspicious activity. >> by putting these security arrangements now we feel that college teaching learning environments have become more safe. and our students and faculty feel that they can learn in a very conducive learning

environments. >> reporter: these are tense times in pakistan, but the authorities are adamant that they will meet whatever basic security measures are needed to protect their educational institutions. at least four palestinian children in the gaza strip have died of hypothermia in recent months. the region is experiencing one of the worst winters in years and those who lost their homes during israel's 50-day bombardment last year say they are struggling to heat their makeshift shelters. from gaza, we have this report. >> reporter: his family makes their way back home from yet another visit to the hospital. their daughter has had a chronic chest infection for weeks. and doesn't seem to be betting any better. their worry for her is also mixed with grief. in january their two month old daughter died of hypothermia. doctors say the cold weather and a lack of heating in the tent they live in are to blame.

>> translator: look at us. we lived through the war. but we are dieing of cold. it's agonizing. this is the awful irony of our life in gaza. all we want is somewhere prop tore live. >> reporter: nearly 100,000 palestinian families lost their homes during the fighting with israel. many now live in what's left of their damaged houses, or in tents like these families. with the blockaded strip's electricity grid dill badly damaged bite conflict and little fuel available for heating. several infants have tied of hypothermia in recent months. gaza is experiencing one of the harshest winters in recent memories. and with so many families living in conditions like this, aid agencies say more children could die from exposure. she is with ube uncief and tells me the situation is only getting worse. >> children and family as cross

gaza are really living on the edge right now. they have survived a devastating war, it's now been several months of quite cold temperatures and indeed, we have four cases of children who are -- who have died of hypothermia. >> reporter: last month the u.n.'s refugees agency suspended its programs aimed at helping people in gaza repair or rebuild their homes damaged during the fighting. officials say needed at least $720 million to help those without adequate shelter. but that only 135 million has been received from donors. with weather conditions only expected to worsen, so too are the lives of the thousands of vulnerable families. that don't have anywhere warm to stay. al jazerra gaza. al jazerra has discovered that many journalists in cambodia are resort to go blackmail. an investigate has revealed that some rogue reporters are

unearthing evidence of crime then they are demanding bribes to cover it up. from our 101 east team has that story. >> reporter: often in cambodia, what doesn't make the news has become more important than what does. many journalists search the country for stories only to demand cash to bury evidence of crime and corruption. he and his team of free-lance reporters in rural cambodia. often black bail illegal loggers. he receives at least $500 a month from bribes, six times the average wage in cambodia. occasionally, he files a story. >> translator: to be honest, we are all the same in this country. but there are different ways of giving and receiving bribes. sometimes if they are discreet, they pit the money in an nfl envelope. everyone benefits from illegal business. >> reporter: do you think there is anything wrong with what you

are doing? >> we don't bother people who are not involved in illegal business. it's simple. we only come in when people break the law. >> reporter: increasingly his team faces violent retaliation from angry loggers. >> translator: sometimes journal assists and for a little money for food. i'll give them what i can. if they want more, i can't afford it. i can only fight them. >> reporter: last october journalist was shot dead while investigating a logging company. he was accused of extortion. he says they used to work together tonight he is with another colleague whose car has been smashed by illegal loggers. >> translator: they got angry because i saw them loading wood in to a van. i caught them in the act. >> reporter: cam bode's information ministry acknowledges that it's easy to obtain press pass to his work as a journalist. >> journalism has become a business, our laws don't restrict media freedom. anyone with be a journalist.

if you want qualified journalist,s they needs training courses, if you apply that condition, there will be very few of them left. >> reporter: many cross the line between journalist and blackmail blackmail. >> you can watch the full program on 101 ease on thursday. that's at 2230 hours gmt. overturned conviction against an australian who spent five years at a u.s. military prison, he pleaded guilty in 2007. but later he said it was part of ideal to get out of guantanmo bay where he alleges he was tortured. andrew thomas reports from sydney. >> reporter: an innocent man after 14 years labeled a terrorist and held at guantanmo

bay, david hicks has finally cleared his name. >> relieved, i suppose. also exhausted because it's been a long time. >> reporter: the australian was seized in afghanistan in 2001, shortly after al jazerra's 9/11 attacks, he had been getting military training with the taliban. flown for the u.s. government to guantanmo bay hicks spent five years at the notorious prison camp before in 2007 he did ideal to securities deportation. he pleaded get i to providing material support to terrorism and agreed never to appeal his conviction. but back in all a hicks said he was innocent and had only agreed to the deal to get out of guantanmo where he was being tortured. the u.s. government now accepts that what hicks was convicted of wasn't a crime in 2001 and new laws shouldn't have been applied retrospectively. the deal to stop hicks from appealing, too was invalid. his convictions vacated hicks

is i understand vindicated. >> it's unfortunate that i was subject today five years of physical and psychological torture that i will live from always. >> reporter: hicks wants an atoll po*l i didn't from australia's government for their inactivity. but that's likely not to come. >> he was up to no good on his own admission look, i am not in the business of apologizing for the actions that australian governments take to protect their country. not now not ever. >> that is the wrong reaction from the italian prime minister. the australian prime minister should be saying, we, on behalf of the australian government, made an error. the error was we allowed australian citizens to be taken i don't understand the law. we allowed them to be tortured. >> reporter: david hicks says he's not chasing compensation. but he does want australia's government to pay the treatment for health conditions that he has he says caused by five years at guantanmo.

andrew thomas, al jazerra. sydney. thousands took to the streets in the ghanaian capital carrying their fridges sewing machines or even their tv sets on their heads. they are fed up with lengthy power cuts. some lasting 20 24 hours or even long. ghana's main opposition party which led the rail said that power cuts are hurting businesses. food enthusiasts in germany are cutting down on waist waste and putting leftover to his good use, there is now a group of people in the capital berlin who are hoping to share food and trade skills and equal measure. some food for thought from nick surprise irrelevant. >> reporter: riding to the rescue. this berlin student is dropping off fresh bread a bakery couldn't sale before closing and some leftovers from his own fridge. >> translator: i am going way from the holidays and i still have a lot of food left and i can't take it with plea because there is too much.

>> reporter: this tea shop is one of scores of drop off and pick-up points in berlin for food that would otherwise go to waste. rafael is one of the founders of the food sharing website. he says the focus is not primarily on helping poor people but on saving food with volunteers or food savers. >> you don't have to be poor, don't have to be rich. the only thing that you have to be say little bit aware of the normal rules like being punctual being clean with the place where you rescued the food. be nice to the shop owners and to the employees as well to the other food savers. >> reporter: this bakery is one of 270 businesses in berlin using the website. since the site is in german that means businesses in austria switzerland and the rest of germany can also use it. at this points over a thousand have decided to do so. he gets the day's delivery, unsold friend and sandwiches. he open loads a picture to the website which lets hungry users

know when it where to come and get if. it you signed up to help rescue food it tells you what you have to make a pick up and where to leave it or how to get food yourself. he is back at the tea shop for another delivery. he says the actions are local but as germany imports lots of food the effects reach wide. >> every time when we throw something here away. we are contributing to starvation in the world. and by reducing the waste, we can really help also on a global scale. >> reporter: a final food rescue takes place with leftovers from a school cafeteria. anyone can volunteer. the food is free. however, the real satisfaction is not in the eating, but the sharing. nick spicer, al jazerra berlin. well the u.k.'s royal television society has honors al jazerra journalists peter greste mohammed erred fahmy and ba lahr mohamed all three remember falsely accused of supporting egypt's muslim brew

hood and impressed more than a year. greste accepted the award on behalf of his colleagues who remain on bail until the next court hearing. >> we came to understand that this was about something far bigger than three of us alone. it was about the universal principles of freedom of expression. about the public's right to know. and we knew you were there right with us. but i also know that we really had no idea of just how broad that sense of purpose turned out to be. a this matters not just because of the impact on us and our case, right now the very idea of a free press is increase big under attacks from groups who take the heads off journalists who individuals who shoot up a magazine office in paris or a free speech conference in denmark to governments trying to limit the scope of our work withdraw cone vinnie legislation. what you did was serve notice on anyone who would attack those most fundamental principle that his we are united.

you made it clear that these things we are prepared to fight for. as one. and whatever happens from here, we must not lose that extraordinary single singular voice. >> you can always keep up to tate with all the latest news on our website it's aljazerra.com. >> what's in a flame? a lot if you -- a name? a lot, if you ask about america's fight against violent extremists. >> president obama calls it a battle of heart and mind, but roots of radicalism on the ground in a french neighborhood where the seeds of violence are sown. backward when it comes to gender equality. >> my greate