>> since 3 civilians killed by air strooikdz in syria. rights groups say russian planes are to blame. al jazeera life in london. also head: thoufrz of anti-government protesters brave freezing temperatures in maldove a to demands early elections. millions of americans start cleaning up after a record-breaking bliblizzarblibl a night of friday why the sundance film festival is giving the fans an experience to rememberzzard.

a night of friday why the sundance film festival is giving the fans an experience to rememb remember. >> we begin in syria where 63 people are believed to have been killed in strikes apparently carried out by russian planes. the syrian observatory for human rights says 9 children are dead. raids have killed scores in the past two days. gerald tan reports. they gather to shirt for bodies, to sift through belongings and what's left of their homes. village arizona here in the countryside say airstrikes on saturday killed relatives and friends. >> this man could only muster a prayer calling on god to help his people. rights groups say russian jets are responsible for the strikes and that this isn't the first time. sdornlingz are reported to have

died. russian launched it's move in september. since then, russian planes have flown an estimated 5,70 omissions may have beening cohen cysts it's campaign is directed at isil and other armed groups it rejected claims that aircraft hit civilians saying it uses planes to drop humanitarian aid to those living in besieged areas. i think there is not a military in the world that will talks about it like russia. it's an act of international terrorism in this region. >> reporter: isil controls most of the province.

it's kept the remaining pockets of government-held areas there under siege for the past year this week, it has been on a mush to capture those areas. the sharningz say they intensru bombardments. the people here say it's all ben at their expense. gerald tan, al jazeera james bays has more. >> reporter: tags were to happen on monday. i think it's pretty certain that won't happen. the best we can get on monday, i think, is the news conference, the u.s. envoy and the fact that he could there confirm that he's finally, sent out the invitations. the controversial behind the scenes has been who will make up the opposition, john kerry, the u.s. secretary of state has been in riyadh meeting his

counterpart. saudi arabia was drawing up a list of opposition. moscow had problems with that list. we understand mr. kerry has also been speaking by telephone to his russian counterpart it will be up to the opposition to it will look like the opposition is the one who doesn't want peace. i think it's more likely than not some sort of talks will take place later in the week. those will be so-called proximity talks with the u.n. envoy shuttling 2003 the two. i am told initially they will look at possible cease-fires in syria and trying to alleviate the humanitarian situation and those areas of syria under si e

siesiege >> at least 20 policemen have been killed by two isil car bombs in a village west of the iraqi city of ramadi. the suicide attacks hits the headquarters of the federal police. isil killed 72 soldiers in separate attacks. the iraqi army says the latest finding was in isil's language stronghold in the area. imran khan reports. >> reporter: iraqi soldiers on the road to what they hope is the last stronghold in ramadi. isil fighters have managed to slow the iraqi forces' assault and the last 22 hours have been battle to go hold their positions the armed group has boobby trapped buildings and used suicide car bombs to devastating effects against the iraqi security forces. heavy shelling, u.s. led airstrikes cannot be used effectively here as the iraqi

say they are trapped inside neighborhood. most have esc aids outside of the city, in particular the touven of habania. children memmic what they have seen while others wait? >> we ask the security forces to remove ieds from central ramadi. we want to get rid of any isil signs in the city. we want to return to our homes some say conditions are some dire they want to leave. others are fet up getting back home will be a long and difficult process. they hope to reopen police stations before people come back. what will they come back to? bombed out buildings and devastated infrastructure before anyone really talked about reconstruction. imran khan, baghdad. >> around 15,000 protesters have rallied in the maldovean capitol after the appointment of a prime minister who they claim is taking orders from business tycoons. robby forestier walker is in the

capitol now. >> many believe a mafia is running their country. so they came on to the streets of the capitol despite the cold. >> there is no democracy. there is one gang in power that stole or rights, our wellbeing, our money. >> opposition parties want the oligarchs out. that's about all they have in common. there is a proceed european fax while two other parties have a different foreign policy objective. >> the position of my party is we should have a closer strategic partnership with the russian federation. >> sunday's rally was a show of unity without politics, just flags of the republic.

>> the people on this stage come from different backgrounds, different political interests he but they stress things in maldovea have been for the people down there, not from moscow, brussels or washingtonae down there, not from moscow, brussels or washington. >> reporter: police were a visible presence on sunday protesters brought flowers but the opposition is threatening a more active phase, acts of civil disobedience unless their demands change robin forestier walker. >> in portugal, electing a new president. 10 candidates are running for the roll largely ceremonial. but can be an influential voice. hoping for more political stability following two months of a shaky left alliance in the lower house. >> iran has announced it will i know vest heavily t the iranian transport said $250 million will

be spent on the project in the next five years 114 new aircraft. iran hopes the first fleet will be ready by the ends of march. iran sanctions not only harmed iranians but those who had to pass through our region and took longer flights or paid higher prices for plane tickets to get to their destination. poor people were harmed. >> egypt's president addressed the nation ahead. 5 year mass protests that led to the overthrow of mubarak. asisi says the government is doing all it can to get its government back on its feet. on ail fronts, launching and executing development and productivity projects including small and medium sized enterprises to meet the needs of youth and their demand for a dignified life. developing public ute 'til ties,

addressing namely electricity and all we can to fight terrorism and establish security arrested order. >> monday will be a public holiday in egypt to mark the anniversary. not everyone is in the mood for celebrating. >> reporter: the army is on the streets. a stepped tup security ahead of the revolution. authorities say they will not allow protests. more activists have been jailed. thousands of homes have been searched. officials say the crackdown is being carried out in the name of security but human rights say it's part of silencing the opposition. >> hope has given away to repress. authorities are terrified of another uprising. the arrest of activists we have seen is a warning shot. >> five years since the protests unse unseated a president who kept an

iron grip for decades. this was the move when mubarak announced he was 12e7ing down. the years that followed brought little change. soon, it was no longer a place where egyptians came together and sell brated taria square where opposing sides of the did i'd raised their grief applications. at first, the chants called for the downfall of the man who had taken over from mubarak. act visits accused the field marshal, a military man, of having hijacked the revolution and having failed to bring about democratic cool. eventually power was transferred to civilian authorities. he leingsz were held. the muslim brother'shood's candidate became egypt's first elected head of state. it didn't take long for protesters to return to the streets. zsz said he was pursuing a

religious agenda and strengthening his grip on power. calls for step down being louder. protests intensified and so did the violence. the military stepped in. civilians interim president was installed. >> the military coup didn't bring about piece. those who had backed the action gathered to urge the man behind it to run for president. he did. his supporters say he saved the nation his opponents accused him. >> you have counterrevolutionary forces who have tried to hijack the revolution. you have major ideological and social clevages in society, an islamic nationalist divide. >> hundreds have bi been killed, thousands including journalists

locked up. authorities say they are committed to democracy. their opponents believe otherwise. protesting in taiz demanding the release of al jazeera journalist. it's believed he and his team have been abducted. al jazeera is demanding their immediate release. city to come on the program: try to reviews violence. a weapons amnesty is set up in a troubled part of nigeria. home is where the heart is. in the center of award winning work

top stories here on al jazeera. the u.k.-based syrian observatory for human rights say russian airstrikes killed at least 63 civilians. moss co says the operations do not target civilians. thousands in the maldovean capital say the governments are failing to carry out reforms. a appropriate test that led to the overthrow of hosni mubarak. >> huge clean-up in the eastern united states after snowfall ended. new york and baltimore have lifted travel bans. the heaviest falls in west

virginia where there are reports of more than one meter of snow in some areas. tom ackerman has more. >> the sun was out again on sunday and so were lots of people looking for help to dig their cars out of mountains of snow. >> anybody tstuck. some have patience. some don't. you see everybody coming outside colabing. appear vehicle ban. new york's second largest blizzard in the past century and a half. baltimore broke its record 75 sentence meters -- -- 75 centimeters. >> road is not passible. the plows can't plow that road. and the situation quickly descends into chaos. >> the snowfall forced more than 11,000 flights across the u.s. to be cancelled since friday. while new york's airports

struggled to resume operations, those serving washington remained closed until monday. so was the capitol's metro train stem. road accidents accounted for most of the casualties. at least six people died from exposure to the cold or heart attacks from shoveling snow. along the new jersey shore, the blizzard whipped up tides that flooded many neighborhoods. some homeowners who suffered losses from the 2012 hurricane sandy find themselves having to rebuild again. despite at a time inconvenience, some were able to make the most of the blizzard of 2016. tom ackerman, al jazeera knox's snow covered streets. will they be able to make it to work on monday? >> they are sure hoping so. the city and the state here of new york officials are trying to get this city back on its feet after this historic snowfall.

you know a lot of times people say that was the storm of the century. this actually really was one of the storms of the century if not the storm of the century. 26.8 inches of snow fell in central park, second biggest snowfall since 1869 the city is starting to get out. you can see some trucks with snow plows trying to clear the roads here 7th avenue and 33rd street, the heart of mid town, penn station, one of the busiest in new york if not anywhere in america. they did lift the travel ban. as you can see right now from this shot, things are getting back to normal in new york taxis and what else? traffic. there was this total travel ban. the subway system is starting to get online again. buses are going as well. officials are looking at two things right now. one is neighboring new jersey, trying to get the trains to

about i tens of thousands of people into the city up and running, getting back up and running over the last few hours or so. and, number 2, airports here in new york still pretty touch closed with an upwards of 10,000 fights already have been cancelled. >> we just saw someone cycle past you on a bike. it's a bit surprising in that weather. do you think the scale took you by surprise? >> it did because on friday most of the forecasters were saying the epicenter was going to hit washington, d.c. washington, d.c. did get hit hard as well as west virginia and those neighboring states around there however when people left in new york, when they left on friday to go home, they were thinking, you know, maybe 15 inches be maybe at the most. well, friday night in to saturday morning is when things changed. we almost got double of what they were expecting 26 to 30 in

some by the airport. it did catch new yorkers by surprise. it wasn't just the snow. it was the wind. a very strong blizzard at times. it came very fast hoping to get the city back up and running. >> thank you. a move designed to stop crime. some say a weapons amnesty in parts of nigeria isn't enough. tribunal and ethnic tensions have been left dead. some people there want the government to do more. >> hundreds of illegally owned rifls and home mailed bombs surrendered to police. owners won't be charged of an offense in the arms amnesty aimed at cutting a crime. fighting started here during last year'see elections. on and off, tribunal and ethnic

taningsz have flat the straigatr years. hundreds have been killed. the husband and son were shot and killed until separate politically motivated attacks. when my husband was murdered, i was in the bedroom. i heard boom, boom twice. i got scared and laid face down. the shots continued for a while. when it went quiet, i ran out screaming. >> she says the amnesty has greatly improved security self confessed criminal or gana as he has known has handed over 84 rifles. >> view lens escalated because people were attacking communities, my community. i was protecting my people. now, i am protecting all people. >> major have come to worry criminals are not being f punished. many say the government needs to

do a lot more than the am nest city program. they say they need help dealing with the impact of crime. defending am nest city. >> the security council we are wying together. we are finding how we can make life more meaningful and better for our people training for anyone who has been given a pardon. they say they can rebuild their lives. al jazeera, benway, algeria.

>> large columns of ash in the air officials say the kalima volcano erupted 12 times in 12 hours on saturday. several e russell were seen in the country's east after the volcan-os threw smoke and ash into the air this year's pritzka prize for a project that could be the architect for social housing. more from santiagao. >> an architect obsessed with the needs of his time. a time when by his calculations, two out of 5 billion people will be living in cities under the poverty line by 230. >> we will have to build a $1 million city. >> i has already started.

here in chile with a revoluti revolutionary social housing design that has made him one of the youngest recipient of the world's most prest i know ouings architecture award >> the scale, speed and means with which we have to respond to the phenomenon has no precedent in human history he came up with a solution. >> instead of producing tiny units, we ask ourselves, why don't we think it's half of a good house? and we thought it was efficient to make the half that a family will never be able to achieve on its own. then oallow families to do thei other half in their own timing according to their own needs. >> it's called participatory expanding design. poor residents moved from this

to this homes that families built on by adding more bedrooms. or a terrace or balcony or a shop and not on the outskirts of the city but right fin one of santiago's wealthiest districts. >> they used to travel for hours to get here. now, they work and live in the same area, which improves their quality of life and, in turn, reduces the inequality gap. >> and that is the point although his multi-million dollar prestige projects have won him critical acclaim the world over, he seals most prout of his social architecture which includes public spaces alongside public housing. >> it's what improves or not the quality of life in cities. architecture he hopes will ultimately stand the test of

time. al jazeera, san diego. since 1978, the sundance film festival h usually quirky, off-beat movies. one loyal following, rob reynolds has been taking a journey into the dark side of sundance. >> midnight is when the horror begins at sundance. horror movies, that is. >> this could be a cult classic and we want to be here first. >> these people lined up ate at night to see jim hoskin's film, "the greasy strangler"? >> it's a mixture of sweetness and tenderness and some quiet sort of depraved weirdness. >> cult film maker rob zomby is back with a feature called "31" about carnival workers kidnapped on halloween nit. >> 5 taken hostage where they

play a game called "31" for 12 hours, it's a fight to the death against this seemingly homicidal mania maniacs. >> this is under the shadow, an iranian film about a young mother slowly going mad amidst the carnage of the iran/iraq war. she is convinced there is an evil spirit in her apparently apartment. >> every has a version of horror myth. from dawn ofmen, people are fascinated with stories that that you arefy them. >> as old as film, itself and throughout the deck aids, an assortment of were wolves, deminted scientists have become stars of the genre? >> that's what i will do, the skin from your body. >> besides frightening generations of movie goers, it is a money maker. >> always a guaranteed profit

for the most part. fans are so dedicated. >> the blair witch project which premiered at sun dance in 1999 went on to become the highest grossing independent film of all times. >> i am so scared. >> en for many serious cinema fans, there is nothing like the guilty pleasure of sitting in a darkened theatre and getting scared out of your wits. >> horror films often reflect under currents running through contemporary culture in society. >> coming out of the last two years of what we have seen in the news, everything from mass shootings to police brutality. these feed the imaginations of film makers, the idea of humans being terrible to humans is far scare year than satan. >> mid nat after midnight, the horror features creep on hoping they would be rewarded with a blood-kurd ling scream.

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