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and welcome to al-jazeera life my headquarters in doha but. also ahead the u.s. and russia clash of the un security council of the alleged use of chemical weapons and syria's a rebel enclave of. hundreds of paper feared dead after a missile can pop one of the ports from one of the most remote parts of the world with villages have been for. only way to bring food and medicine people and children have been dying of malnutrition and disease. have stormed the office of the save the children aid agency and. the attack began with a suicide bombing at the front of the compound. from jennifer glass reports. the attack began with a bomb exploding near the. entrance of aid organization save the children in july

security forces were quickly on the scene and gunfire exchanged afghan special forces have been called in to help so far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the taliban has denied involvement. is the capital of the province on the border with pakistan the area has become a stronghold for islamic state of iraq and the levant backed by u.s. airstrikes afghan forces have successfully targeted eisel and taliban fighters but attacks on civilians continue posting heavy casualties the attack in jalalabad comes just days after taliban fighters killed twenty two people at the intercontinental hotel in the capital kabul the afghan intelligence service has blamed the pakistan based taliban affiliated network for that attack relations between the two country are already tense and the u.s. has cut off nine hundred million dollars in aid to pakistan because of its alleged support of armed groups afghan security forces are on high alert attacks like the one into law about show that armed fighters are capable of causing chaos across

afghanistan and jennifer is joining us live from the capital kabul about we've heard from save the children jennifer what are they saying. yes that's right elizabeth they just issued a state i'm going to read it to you it says we are devastated on the at the news our save the children office in jalalabad city afghanistan came under attack this morning as armed men entered the building at about nine am local time today our primary concern is for the safety and security of our staff we're awaiting further information from our team and cannot comment further at this time now what we do know what's going on right now is a bit this is it's twelve thirty local time here so that attacks were going on for more than three hours the third floor of that save the children building which is three stories high is currently on fire we know that afghan security forces are still exchanging fire with the gunman twelve people have been injured so far a nearby school has been evacuated because there's so much so many bullets flying around the children were considered to be in danger we know that cars outside the

building were set alight by the initial bomb afghan security forces on the scene very quickly and the siege continues or jennifer thank you very much for that for now we're going to get more on this we're joined by house without a mostly al jazeera as of godfather analyst why would an aid organization like save the children be attacked there while the afghan government is very much a dependent and often government cannot do without the international support that it gets and part of the strategy of who has been attacking in jos over the years and save the children is to joy if these n.g.o.s are going to dried out very crucial support that is good for the afghan government and afghan society at large and who would then fill that gap of these agencies. well exactly that's the aim of the people of those groups the attacks agencies the aim is to create a void to create chaos to get the government on the back food and get agencies out

of afghanistan if these. afghan government alone cannot support soft. social programs throughout afghanistan especially afghanistan even this peace time had difficulty supporting some of the social service services that are very crucial for societies and villages of in the far away areas from the capital. so i think there are a huge void would be created should these aid agencies leave afghanistan and who would gain from attacking organizations like these what is the security situation and who is operating in this area all of which is the. acute situation is not that great. the organization or a possible of very likely candidate would have been that attack this agency the save the children would be a tolerable although enjoyable the other groups also to the afghan security in saying that operate there and some of them are the common that's what also. forces

that are loyal to isis in afghanistan also known as. possible the billion number of these organizations have been carrying out this attack interesting that the taliban has tweeted not just a short time ago saying that they are not responsible we will of course be keeping a very close eye on this thank you very much but i thank you for now i'm. going to move on to other news for now and please thirty one people have been killed after two car bombs went off in the libyan city of benghazi the first exploded as worshipers left a mosque after evening prayers on tuesday half an hour later the second bomb detonated killing and injuring emergency crews. the u.n. says about five thousand people have been trying to get out of the free invasion in northern syria since turkey began its offensive against kurdish fighters five days ago. the air and ground operation an african has opened

a new front in the nearly seven year war activists say at least twenty three civilians have. free syrian army forces to the east and west and syrian government forces to the self most of those fleeing are traveling through government held territory to an enclave inside. that is controlled by. the syrian observatory for human rights is accusing government forces of blocking them well let's get more on the. stephanie she is live from the turkish syrian border what else is the u.n. report saying about the situation. it's terrible but they are moving away now it is quite a damning report in the sense that they're saying that the civilians call and get out of the province of pretty.

pretty close to the road there is one way out for people because turkey borders it to the west and north and has its forces on the east and even a bit in the south there's a government held areas so they're saying that the authorities the p y d the road reports that the government the syrian government. people have managed to get out just a few have turned them back and this is the same that we've been hearing from our sources over the last couple of days so it's a very difficult situation the borders with turkey remain closed to people even though this is very difficult terrain it's mountainous but will not be able to flee to turkey and i can tell you that it's absolutely freezing elizabeth it's around five degrees were all wearing various layers we have gloves and we're still cold so just imagine for those displaced who have no cover it is also been raining over the last couple of days for the next two days there is no way that you can get draw in this kind of weather so these are kind of the things that you have to remember

these people are facing when we talk about the military operations and the politics surrounding this and of course. just briefly there are no aid agencies inside to be able to help out and literally it sounds like they have nowhere to go if they can leave. it's been five days of the operation all of branch do we know how long this is going to last. it's very difficult to tell the ground offensive is fluid in the sense that you'll have reports that one village area has been taken by the free syrian army of course those are sort of the front line the turkish army supporting those syrian rebels inside and then you know whether it's a couple of hours later or the next day it's retaken by the white it is a difficult fight the white trade they know the terrain very well but of course turkey has the air power they are flying jets that does give them an upper hand and from what we've been hearing over the last couple of days that we've been here

certainly intensive shelling into those border areas and of course the bigger picture than those of his once it finishes whatever the end game might be the rhetoric. is that they will go further east to other areas the white holds and those are under the u.s. influence that gives you an indication of the international dimensions in the complications of this war stephanie thank you very much for that for now that stephanie with the latest from the turkish syrian border. and elsewhere in syria at least twenty one people have suffered breathing problems specked a chemical attack on a rebel held on klav near the capital damascus the syrian observatory for human rights is accused. of using chlorine gas and. the attack prompted warnings from the international community diplomats from twenty nine countries met in paris to push for sanctions and criminal charges against anyone responsible for some of the chemical attacks and the united nations security council has met to discuss the use of chemical weapons in syria as christensen reports from the u.n.

. russia called this last minute security. council meeting on the issue of chemical weapons in syria to defend itself against attacks coming from the united states alleging that russia was ultimately responsible for ongoing chemical attacks in syria because it had failed to authorize ongoing investigations by the u.n. into those attacks the u.s. and russian ambassador were quite friendly on their way into the meeting but once that meeting took off into formal statements they went on the attack the russians said they are all for accountability in syria when it comes to chemical weapons but past investigations they said were unscientific and politically motivated those past investigations found evidence that syria and ice will both have used chemical weapons syria of course denies that they have used chemical weapons russia suggested that the recent attack being talked about and eastern ghouta was actually

being manufactured or somehow exploited by the west start a new company does not seem strange to anybody that this alleged episode the veracity of which is yet to be confirmed or perpetrators yet to be identified for some reason these converges with the meeting in paris in the forthcoming syrian national dialogue in sochi when russia does not like the facts they try and distract the conversation that's because the facts come back over and over again to the truth russia wants to hide that the assad regime continues to use chemical weapons against its own people russia also announced it's putting forward a new proposal to address chemical weapons used in syria but the united kingdom pointed out in its remarks that past proposals undermine the council's intend to hold the government of syria accountable and said focusing on non-state actors like i so clearly this will be a problem going forward something that will have to be negotiated the united states

for its part said that it would not accept any proposal that undermines it's a big. ready to get at the truth. still ahead on the bulletin venezuela's president nicolas mother would also have things ready to freak reelection in a poll that neighboring countries question the timing plans. fantasy drama the shape of water lilies off the rails will tell you what it's all about. by this guy knowing if an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. how i would call more wet some windy weather piling into northwest year a big area cloud here streaming in cross the british isles and sinking its way further south which you can see this area of very disturbed weather now in the

process of politics very likely no stall georgene ever will bring some very strong winds and some very heavy rain into the northwestern corner we already have flooding in paris i'm afraid to say the very heavy rain here over the past few days you can see the river saying once again very high levels very similar to the sort of conditions that we saw a couple of years ago and i'm sorry there is more right in the forecast as we go on through the next couple of days the wet and stay wet weather coming in as we go on through the course of the day thirteen degrees celsius there in london it's mild and it stays mild as we go on through thursday this cloud of rain making its way further south was further flooding problems i suspect and that weather affecting a good part of western france into northern areas of spiders you can see those temperatures holding up to ten celsius in zurich means the ongoing avalanche risk does continue southeast in kona also seeing some more weather we have seen some flooding across possible event i'm afraid it does stay disturbed here as we go on through the next day you'll see that with further rain for thursday. the way

sponsored boycotts on. the scene for us there on line. and in yemen the peace is possible but. not because the situation is. or if you join us on sat. this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who. joined the global conversation at this time.

it's good to have you with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories have stormed the office of save the children and. began with the suicide car bomb explosion and . it's still going on. to car bomb blasts of eastern libya have killed at least thirty one people the first explosion left a mosque in benghazi the second half an hour later as emergency crews help survivors. and the u.n. says about five thousand people have fled the region and northern syria since turkey began its cross border offensive against kurdish fighters five days ago but activists say at least twenty three civilians have been killed. israel has again accused the un human rights council of unfair treatment during a meeting in geneva at a review of the country's rights record many states urged israel to end all betrayer detentions and the torture of palestinian prisoners that involve a has

moved from geneva. well the last time israel's human rights record was under review here that was five years ago these rallies actually boycotted the session well on tuesday there was an israeli delegation here and they pointed out several areas in which they said there had been improvements in the human rights situation in israel for example increasing access to legal aid for the country's bedouin arab population setting up an action plan to combat racism against people of ethiopian origin and fighting human trafficking but what many countries talked about was the country's obligations to protect the human rights of palestinians living in the occupied palestinian territories east jerusalem the west bank and gaza israel is the only state in the world that can be called an apartheid state we remain deeply concerned at the denial of the right of self-determination to the palestinian people in the absence of which no other human right can be exercised or

enjoyed in this regard south africa is of the view that the issue of east jerusalem and the two state solution are fundamental to the right to self-determination of the palestinian people who brought a protest from israel about inappropriate language and after the session israel's ambassador here suggested the delegation hadn't got a fair hearing we came to the u.p.a. are with the hope of having a constructive exchange the many recommendations and comments that have been made by member states will be carefully reviewed. unfortunately is is i've mentioned in my concluding remarks some representatives have decided once again to raise this opportunity to wage a political campaign against israel and if try to do a very good discussion to matters they do not belong to the real human rights agenda with the un report on israel's human rights situation is due to be adopted here later this week but in the past israel has not allowed un reporters to carry

out their own investigations so the mistrust between israel and some of the member states of the human rights council is likely to continue for some time to yemen now where regional governors has one point five billion dollars worth of aid from saudi arabia has not arrived at the al hunt a border as promised the saudi led military coalition launched a new commander terry and program in yemen on monday in response to mountain criticism about the humanitarian crisis the coalition is supporting yemen's government against what the rebels who control much of the country including the capital some are. we only heard announcements on t.v. that the humanitarian aid reached and was distributed that's not true nothing reached. yemen still faces oppression stemming from king solomon circle what is published about yemen is not true it was published. but it did not arrive.

amazing as feared to have killed hundreds of malnourished people in. a province officials say sixty nine children have died but church leaders believe the death toll is much higher. and rare access to some of those forgotten villages in one of the most remote regions they took a commercial flight from the capital jakarta to get to timika province and from timika the team took a small plane to get to us they then travelled through the river and let's and into the jungle to get from our guts to. church and that's being used as an emergency clinic and she told us what she saw there. well we found heartbreaking scenes in the village at the top where many children had died it's one of the hardest hit villages twenty seven children were reported that because of malnutrition of course of their wheat products they were very vulnerable

to disease like measles and chicken pox and likely found is that none of the children had actually had proper vaccinations and also no doctors had visited this area for over a year but people told us they are striking also was not only the among the skinny children and babies but also their mothers are in very bad condition so many of these babies are already born malnourished and then they won't have a good chance to survive to the first try to arrest the people who are really struggling that they will actually loan they were calling on the government especially the central government in charge taxes to help them they have no faith in the regional government they think they don't care about us they never basically are so it's a very very challenging situation and also very remote as you can see in our report . the land of the smart spreads across a vast jungle delta only reachable by boat a challenge in journey most outsiders prefer to avoid. assert that

a settlement in the middle of dense forest we are welcomed by grieving parents dozens of topless died after their malnourished bodies didn't survive a measles outbreak a doctor has yet to visit the remote village. i mean by giving our lives have become so hard we need a doctor to come here the government in jakarta has to help us because the local government has never visited us a government health department spokesman has said stop are working with very limited resources and they're trying very hard to help the people are threatened by a lack of medical care and address to change in lifestyle to find food they used to spend months in the forest. and they used to eat sad go from palm trees and drink natural water but since the government opened district offices here everything is changed instant food and energy drinks entity area but the us people

don't know these things are bad for them. some are smart women go through the long process to put prius psagot we find children eating uncooked instant noodles and the baby drinking instant coffee while the children have been dying these are smart people are left on their own far away from any doctor or government officials who don't make the effort to make the long and difficult journey only a strong government commitment to reach out to these poor papa one can help to prevent another tragedy. to handle the health crisis catholic church workers are handing out food to young children and give how the vice tomatoes many of them are malnourished as well but the us must can't continue to live on donations of food aid forever to survival depends on their ability to revive traditions and the willingness of the government to really help and guide them. well the government has declared

a medical emergency and what's happening now is that they have passports consisting of police and military the military is here now go into the villages also together with how workers from the how become and interact and they go to this village just trying to save children's lives bring the worst patients to this church basically in our gut this is an emergency hospital right now because the rest of the hospital the clinic is already over full so the children are being taken care of right here and we got this very rare access and a lot of people here the powerplant are very worried that if journalists are gone that also these medical emergency things are gong that the us much will be left to themselves again so they will have to go back to their villages still and who will take care of them there and. then israel's neighbors are rejecting plans to hold an early presidential election because most opposition parties a band from taking part and a leading government critic is appealing for humanitarian intervention last america editor listen human reports from santiago. the foreign ministers from latin america

and canada who gathered in chile to discuss the crisis in the news willa totally off guard by caracas is decision to hold snap presidential elections from which most opposition parties have been banned. for this decision by the bin swelling government which really trying to impeach the realization of democratic transparent and credible elections. one of them is wingless best known government opponents is here asking for more two months ago the former mayor of caracas and this man escaped from house arrest and fled the country. this summer is asking latin american nations to follow the example of the united states and the european union by imposing sanctions on high ranking venezuelan government officials but he is going much much further saying here what most opposition leaders who are still inside in israel dare not ask for in public. al-jazeera venezuela needs what he

described as humanitarian intervention which he concedes could mean the use of force. needs to be liberated from this dictatorship. we're already invaded by the cubans venezuela needs a humanitarian intervention by the un or whatever international organization we don't want the world to come later and give us its condolences when democracy is already dead and. regional leaders are increasingly frustrated with efforts to convince phin israel as president. to restore basic democratic freedoms and accept transparent supervised elections which would take at least six months to prepare. venezuela's foreign minister who was in some earlier regional gathering reacted angrily to the meeting of his peers. the same aerialists who instructed the european union to sanction venezuela they instructed. governments to attack

venezuela. some speculate president moved up the election date as a show of force ahead of a new round of negotiations between government and opposition leaders from monday. but if caracas insists on being ahead with what some see as a further power grab some could be persuaded to do more than just shake hands with those who argue that the time for talking is over. you see and human just see that santiago. now an oscar nominations for one and my daughter is being seen as a sign that hollywood is taking kate of recent scandals involving sexual misconduct and diversity rob reynolds reports from los angeles on the frontrunner. and congratulations to all the nominees the academy award nominations inch toward greater racial and gender diversity reflecting the era of the meet to end black lives manner movements they can probably be fairly happy that they've they've come

up with a respectable set of nominees i don't think that's going to be too much shock and horror i think it's been such an incredible year for work for women in film both female director granik gerwig was nominated for lady bird the fifth woman ever nominated in that category which has been won by a woman only once in two thousand and nine my daughter was murdered seven months ago nominated for best female actor in three billboards outside and being missouri frances mcdormand is character epitomizes an indomitable and unstoppable woman demanding the truth and justice i don't think those billboards is very fair to the film focuses on timely issues of violence against women and corrupt abusive policing i have. my own side of this story notably absent from

a best actor nomination was the disaster artist star james franco who was recently accused of sexual harassment and i think that for my son he has cost him a nomination. to do you know in black. nominated for best picture get out is a horror film satirizing race relations its director jordan peele became the fifth black best director nominee in history get out star daniel color is now in the running for best male actor. as is denzel washington for roman j. izrael esquire just come the two african-americans mary j. blige and octavia spencer received best supporting female actor nominations. in other nonce to diversity the gay romance called me by your name was nominated for best picture and mexican director guillermo del toro's the shape of water one

the most nominations with thirteen including best picture and best director i would say now that these nominations have come through a sip of water as for any problem if the show from russia but it's not way ahead of the pack could the story of a tender love affair between a mute cleaning woman and an amphibian humanoid creature really when the film lands top prize. territory stranger things have happened. hollywood's elite will have an opportunity to make war comments on issues of social and cultural importance during the award ceremony itself which this year will take place on march fourth robert oulds al-jazeera lausanne. you know again i mean there's a big problem in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera and an attack on the save

the children aid agency in afghanistan has ended with the death of one policeman government had stormed the office song after a suicide car bombs detonated at the front of the compound in jalalabad. another news two car bomb blasts in eastern libya have killed at least thirty one people before the exploded as worshippers left a mosque in benghazi the second detonated half an hour later as emergency crews help survivors. the u.n. says about five thousand people have been trying to get out of the a free region in northern syria since turkey began its offensive against kurdish fighters five days ago the air and ground operation in a free and has opened a new front in the seventy a war activists say at least twenty three civilians have been killed and elsewhere in syria at least twenty one people suffered breathing problems after a suspected chemical attack on a rebel held on klav near the capital damascus so in observatory for human rights

is accusing government forces of using chlorine gas in duma on one day the attack prompted warnings from the international community diplomats from twenty nine countries met in paris to push for sanctions and criminal charges against anyone responsible for some of the attacks. a regional government and yemen says one point five billion dollars worth of aid from saudi arabia has not arrived at the border as promised the saudi led military coalition launched a new who mattered tarion program and gehman on monday and response to mountain criticism over the humanitarian crisis or the coalition is supporting yemen's government against the rebels. we only heard announcements on t.v. that the humanitarian aid reached and was distributed that's not true nothing reached. yemen still faces oppression stemming from king solomon circle what is published about yemen is not true it was published that it has come but it did not arrive. a missile but it can

a remote food of indonesia's fear to have killed hundreds of malnourished people. the crisis in the eastern province of papa has killed sixty nine children. those are the headlines the stream is coming up next. i'll juicy or. where ever you are. ok and you are in the stream where we are continuing our week of special shows from the sundance film festival today how the syrian refugee settling into the united states in just a few minutes would be crossing over to michaela.