rewind returns with new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries. and the moving story of two young turk men girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after years of. occupation. five years on what has become of their dream. rewind pencils and bullets at this time on al-jazeera. a ceasefire goes into effect in the last remaining syrian rebel stronghold near damascus but will it hold. a live adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up security

tight in honduras ahead of saturday's inauguration of reelected president connell on the one hand as a protest to say the vote was a full plus gives the survivors first and foremost the sense but it department this university in my family an opportunity. to heal more fallout from the u.s. olympic sexual abuse scandal the entire gymnastics board resigns. and china's ban on ivory forces craftsmen to find new ways to use their skills. we begin in syria where a cease fire has gone into effect in the besieged area of eastern ghouta there the capital damascus it was brokered by russia the area is the last remaining rebel stronghold near damascus and hundreds of thousands of people have been under siege

by government fighters there for almost five years it comes to syrian opposition members say that they will boycott talks that russia is hosting in sochi next week the decision was announced at the u.n. sponsored negotiations in vienna which have been extended for a day though there's been no breakthrough. we listen to many good n.t.'s concerning . commitment but none of them will deliver somehow and. we are we are tired of that we need real involvement we need real commitment and the ball is in the russian court and the say that they have the upper hand in syria. and they were responsible for saving this region for a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality was aleutians and if they won't they can meanwhile turkish forces continue their operation against kurdish fighters in afrin in northern syria the

violence has increased tension with the us which supports the kurdish y.p. g. forces in the area as they battle eisel let's draw all this together now with stephanie decker who is live for us from and taki a staff starting with the ceasefire at least and good to remind us how many people are trapped there is this cease fire holding. well the u.n. estimates around four hundred thousand people a.j. and why is this important because also the seeds you mentioned almost five years in the u.n. will say that they are most concerned about the lack of food the lack of medicine and the dire conditions in this rebel held area the only one left close to the capital which shows you why it is such importance for damascus and they're saying it's one of the worst cases of malnutrition in the entirety of the syrian war now as you mentioned is it a holding well it's just come into effect it was of course political politically negotiated in vienna and as anything in this war age in the proof really comes to

how to see developments on the ground not all groups apparently are part of this negotiated cease fire others are and so i think we'll have to wait and see also as you mentioned turkey's operation against our footing that is now into its eighth day fighting does continue to for now the first time in a couple of days the weather is cleared somewhat now the turkish authorities organized a media tour into this is a city south of the turkish border it's part of the eastern front. and i joined them on that trip but i think it was also a good opportunity for us to see what life is like for people inside that syrian city. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army the lines high here we were in the media trip into as organized by the turkish authorities they take us close to where there's been fighting with the kurdish armed group turkey calls a terrorist organization turkish forces are trying to push it out of the region

about the front line is just a few kilometers west of here both turkish troops and the free syrian army are taking part but no not particularly one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey's operation for some it seems it's personal. because they betrayed us and especially because they took over my city told me folks. what our target courts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along. what is clear here on the outskirts of how much of a presence they are of course supporting the free syrian army the syrian rebels that are already taking part in this operation that turkey has undertaken. while

we were here two bullets whizzed overhead. and we're told. for this. sort of they shot at us and. we. pushed out of here in two thousand and fourteen. difficult. has to provide for thirteen members of her family she tells us she is. the norm she says. people are used to the shelling and the explosions the young children are still scared but we've been facing this for a few years now we're not afraid anymore. there is hardly any electricity here generators are the only way to get light or heat in the winter rain has left the streets with. the black.

still dream of moving on from here. in this part of syria with. millions of syrians in the country. we've been here for three years in the tent has never been fixed because of the rhine the lakes and there are seven. terrible. this is a country ripped apart by almost seven years of war millions of syrians have had to leave their lives behind. and as the years go by the war simply seems to change its form the guns seemingly impossible to silence. so an ever evolving war adrian despite those negotiations whether it's the un brokered talks and the geneva talks are just held in vienna or the upcoming talks in sochi which some of the opposition have already boycotted the end of the day it

is the gun that remains to do the talking agent seven years into this war and we have to remind our viewers this has an effect on millions of millions of syrians displaced both inside the country and refugees now throughout the entire world stephanie thanks stephanie decker there live in antakya several billionaire saudi princes of reportedly been released from detention they were arrested in the venda after accusations of corruption among those released include the owner of the n.b.c. television network will lead out the abraham the former chief of the royal court and a former head of the environment agency also free arrests were part of a crackdown on corruption initiated by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan. dismissed employees of the saudi construction company demanding that their salaries are paid it's been almost two years since they received any money which was forced to close last summer was owned by the family of lebanon's prime minister saad

hariri. reports now from beirut their employees now become political bargaining chips. but are has lost almost everything he returned home to lebanon from saudi arabia after working for the construction company saudi oshie for twenty two years it was a good life now this attic is his home. his children are all he has left but since he was laid off last summer taking care of them is hard. are in an orphanage didn't just lose his job he is owed around sixty thousand dollars the company was in financial trouble before it closed down last july tens of thousands of saudi employees didn't receive their salaries for two years most even some of us not even my wife left me because of the situation i've had two heart attacks and i haven't been able to afford to buy medicine for five months when i came back from riyadh i only had twenty dollars in my pocket. the construction company employed more than

fifty thousand workers three thousand five hundred of them. and many of them spent . they have been holding protests hoping to receive their pay out eventually. we are demanding our rights but i'm not hopeful because this has become a political issue and not a humanitarian one. was established forty years ago by the father of lebanon's prime minister. the. saudi arabia before he was assassinated the preferential treatment the company enjoyed a few years ago. because of oil prices and reduced saudi government spending. and.

government is believed to over the company billions of dollars government leaders. the company is indebted to. what happens. prime minister could affect his popularity months before the parliamentary election but the stakes are much higher. in honduras security is tight as protests continue ahead of the inauguration of president. the opposition's general strike they say the vote count following november's presidential election was not. since the five people have died in violent clashes with police. tom are you saying you are their best to fifteen

thousand five hundred national police officers that be working so that this inauguration is a peaceful one and that they'll be you know unfortunate incidents from home and who's in tegucigalpa. in honduras the top twenty percent own more than half the country's wealth many of the rest live like neftali and you hania just about surviving in a shack. inequality is an age old problem poverty's on the rise the majority of hondurans don't have a steady job despite a college education neftali can only find work selling ices he makes three cents on each one with that is a commemorative us and sometimes we eat sometimes we don't that's literally how it is the situation with employment is really difficult there are no opportunities. these are the issues that president juan hernandez couldn't resolve in his first

term and will now face again at the start of his second but mr manders also has his own problems there were serious irregularities and suspicions of fraud in the elections which he recently won many hondurans don't support him. two months of protests have left more than thirty people dead. we have come out as united people before the world to tell them that the government stole the election discontents increased again in the run up to now and it's his swearing in how is the president and this administration going to deal with a country in which many people don't recognize him as the legitimate president. of the press the president has called for a national dialogue he sent letters to x. candidates of other parties the church civil society and businesses to sit down so we can build our country and put new ideas on the table. and there are things to build on the president and this is invested in infrastructure project. repaired

ties with international lending rule denies ations and reduced crime in what was the world's deadliest country outside but war zones but the issues that helped stoke the protests remain. there had to these protests are about the needs of the population a population which is dying of hunger a population which doesn't have a quality education a population in which if you are not enrolled in a political party you don't get help the. president and is now has four more years to tackle those problems and unite to divide the country behind him john home and. to goose ago. a weather update next he and i was there and then russian police raid a movie theater and shot down the showing of the film the death of style i will tell you why plus. it is a journey that has left tens of thousands of people dead last year many of them africans find out next why so many continue to take the dangerous journey to your.

place to say we have got dry weather now moving across northern parts of france the heavy rain that is sinking its way further south with with this band of cloud and they go that's where the the main rain band now lies and notice how it does also bring some very lively showers into that western side of the mediterranean this is the same in paris revival is remaining high and it looks like saturday when those waters are expected to pay not as high as they were in nineteen ten but still plenty high enough at around six point one meters we are looking at clear skies and as we go on into sas day there you go nine celsius lossie fine and dry more rain does make its way into the united kingdom down across the low countries as we go on through the weekend. i think the worst of that will avoid the northern parts of

france and that will push its way down to wards the baltic sea further south we have got to clear skies now but some showers there just around that western side of the med thought to draw the showers they have across the eastern side of the med now in the process of proceeding so we've got some better weather to come full of events over the next few days so that eastern side of a tip should be largely fodder dries a different story across the northwest of africa we've got some wet weather making its way through here over the next couple of days.

well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera a ceasefire brokered by russia has gone into effect in the rebel held area of eastern ghouta near syria's capital damascus nearly four hundred thousand people live in the area that's been under siege by government faces for most five years security is tight in honduras as protests continue ahead of the inauguration of reelected president won a lot of. the opposition has called for a general strike they say that the vote count after november's presidential

election was not done properly. and several saudi billionaire princes reportedly been released from detention they were arrested in november after accusations of corruption kept at the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh their arrests were part of a crackdown on corruption initiated by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan. all remaining members of the u.s. gymnastics board have agreed to step down after former team doctor larry nasser was jailed for sexually abusing female athletes the ethics director at michigan state university where nasa works is also quizzed the university is now the focus of a federal investigation dial estabrook reports. one day after the u.s. olympic committee sent this letter demanding the resignation of the full usa gymnastics board all remaining members stepped down the u.s.o.c. threatened to strip the group of its power following wednesday sentence of dr larry nasser i just find you get boring the physician for the u.s.

women's gymnastics team and michigan state university pleaded guilty to sexually abusing seven women athletes to be easy on the campus of michigan university friday evening outrage students demonstrated over nasser and the school's potential complicity in the case just hours earlier michigan state's athletic director announced his retirement i don't want anyone to perceive that i'm walking away i'm walking forward. and walking forward in a way that based upon my deep assessment. gives the survivors first and foremost the sephardic department this university and my family an opportunity. to healing and step forward michigan state already faces more than one hundred thirty lawsuits from women and girls michigan's governor and attorney general say they are launching

separate investigations u.s. education secretary betsy divorce says her department is also investigating i think there's going to be a broader look not just at gymnastics i wouldn't be surprised if the n.c. double a which is the organization that oversees collegiate collegiate sports at large in the united states is under scrutiny as well here by the time it's all over with nearly one hundred fifty women have accused nasser of sexually abusing them including a limpet gold medalist ellie raisman who wants more answers this is bigger than larry nasser we have to get to the bottom of how this is aster happened if we don't figure out how it did we can't be confident that it won't happen again there could also be financial consequences for both michigan state and usa gymnastics the school could lose millions of dollars in donations usa gymnastics could lose millions in sponsorships dion estabrook al-jazeera hails lest his kid is

a senior stuff reisa for roll call he says there will soon be stricter regulations in sports bodies. well i think that the first thing that we're going to see on capitol hill is that is early as the beginning of next week they're going to try and pass it least some legislation that will move in the right direction incrementally in terms of making it so that you're required if you're an organization like usa gymnastics or anything else that falls under the umbrella of the u.s. olympic committee to at least report to the proper authorities when you have allegations of sexual abuse it is a long undertaking if this investigation by the energy and commerce panel where the house of representatives or anything that the senate might do actually goes on it seems like it could be similar to the investigations into steroids use in major

league baseball in the united states which went on for years a north korean olympic delegation is inspecting venues ahead of february's games the group arrived in south korea on thursday for a three day inspection of the facilities that its athletes will use the two koreas will march as one team at the opening ceremony of the winter games african union leaders are gathering in ethiopia ahead of a major summit is set to discuss ways to tackle the flow of refugees and migrants to europe as part of a series leading up to that a use of his serious nicholas hawk reports now from dhaka on why so many people are determined to leave yusuf in the us doesn't want to be here he's tried twice to go to france and failed both times. now he wants to go again he says he deserves a better life. i'm a father my family depend on me i decided to leave senegal because my degrees and

diplomas seemed useless here. as a child he thought he would play professional football in europe instead he went to university and became a near hoping to find work at home but here in senegal he never found a full time job. my parents sold whatever they want to pay for my education they've never asked me to pay them back but i know i owed them because they have suffered for me and i'm ready to suffer for them and so is preparing to travel again by road and see to the shores of europe despite joint efforts by police forces and coast guard from both european and african countries the trafficking of migrants and refugees continues the u.n. estimates the people smuggling trade to be worth more than thirty five billion dollars a year and it's booming. more than three thousand people died last year most of them were africans and. there are no official numbers of migrants that actually

made it to europe some have drowned in the mediterranean others have died of thirst hunger in the desert and then there are those who have been taken as slaves. he was sold by senegalese traffickers not arabs our own brother has sold us to the arabs my family had to pay fifteen hundred dollars to free me. this isn't just his brother a cynical eavesdropper who made it to france he paid for us to be freed and sends money back to his family in this zone he explains why so many want to leave africa he says it's the shame of not being able to support your children your parents is the shame of seeing your loved ones are able to eat the shame of lead unable to provide for their family that pushes them to leave. and i feel like a slave here too and i feel stuck unable to get out of my current situation all i want is to be like my brother to be someone my family can depend on most africans

wanting to go to europe legally get their visa application rejected and so yes his family agreed to pay traffickers for his latest trip through veronica to spain it's a journey worth the risks he says once again he packed his bag ready to go because hawk al-jazeera the car. venezuela's opposition leaders have condemned the supreme court's decision to block that coalition from bridges to ring upcoming elections the ruling comes just days after the constituent assembly that was set up by president nicolas maduro announced that the poll would be held in april months ahead of shuttle critics say that the door is depriving people of a free and fair election. starting tomorrow and on sunday we're going to come out with the move with more will to defend plurality and political policies of venezuela that's why i would listen first just this political party to get the

services we're going to defend this industry and to defend is as an instrument that can rescue democracy and freedom spain's government has begun a legal challenge to block a political comeback by the former capital and president carlos push to mount he was chosen earlier this week as the separatist party's candidate to lead catalonia has been in self-imposed exile in belgium since october after the spanish government and constitutional court declared the region's independence referendum illegal madrid says that bustamante faces arrest if he returns and italian prosecutor says the graduate student a graduate student murdered in cairo two years ago was killed due to his research into egyptian trades unions room's chief prosecutor was speaking publicly for the first time on the case marking two years since jenny disappeared he says the twenty eight year old have been under surveillance by egyptian security services no one's been accused of regimes murder egyptian officials have denied any involvement

police in canada treating the deaths of a billionaire couple as a double murder the bodies of pharmaceutical business men barry sherman and his wife honey were found six weeks ago at the home and toronto police say the couple who were in their seventy's were the victims of a targeted killing. canadian aircraft manufacturer bond body has scored a victory against its u.s. rival boeing that's a u.s. trade commission ruled in its favor in a trade dispute boeing it argued that bond body was benefiting from unfair government subsidies allowing it to on the cut its business decision paves the way for bond body to sell its jets to american customers without high tariffs a cinema in moscow a stop showing a satirical film on joseph stalin after a police raid offices questioned staff and management of the theater after it defied a ban on the movie the death of stalin russia's culture ministry says the british

made comedy mocks soviet era history communist party officials also criticize the cinema. but i don't think we need to introduce censorship but there should be some kind of personal censorship among journalists and people making films for example i would find it unacceptable to have a comedy film called death of christ this is my personal opinion i'm not an expert in culture but i'm extremely bothered by the name of the film a comedy film called death of stalin is only acceptable for me ivory stores across china of closed after a ban on the trade came into force it means that there's a lot less work now for ivory carvers but some of them are trying to find new ways to use their expertise as robot bride reports from beijing. leach encourages one of china's master carvers using skills learned over a lifetime working with a material that he says has no equal ivory. it's the

best material to work with not too hard and the not too soft in spite of the ban he is determined to pass on his skills to his apprentices his workshop like others in china is now using mammoth task from russia. dug out of the ground from animals that died thousands of years ago early human ancestors first learned their carving skills with it. even thirteen thousand years ago humans were using a car so one of their earliest materials were worth with. as the biggest market for ivory in the world china's ban on the trade is seen as vital for the african elephant after years of ivory poaching and smuggling. lease says he never worked with poached ivory and fears his skills may now be lost if carving goes out of

fashion apprentice li yang is determined to learn the craft regardless. i don't make much money my family's support and i really appreciate it i explained to my friends the importance or car wink in chinese culture he's been learning for eight years i do still considered a novice. a basic apprenticeship is ten years it takes at least twenty years to become a professional carver and with more than fifty years experience the chunk reckons he's still learning they'll hide you should some ivory carving techniques have already been lost and it would be very easy to lose their skills altogether and that he says would be not only china's loss but the world's robert pride al-jazeera beijing.

it is good to have you with us adrian today going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera a cease fire brokered by russia has gone into effect in the rebel held area of eastern ghouta near syria's capital damascus nearly four hundred thousand people live in the area that's been besieged by government fighters for almost five years and the syrian opposition says that it will boycott talks that russia is hosting in sochi next week the decision came as the latest round of u.n. negotiations in vienna were extended for a day though there's been no major breakthrough we listen to many. concerning the commitment but none of them will deliver some. we are tired of we need real involvement we need real commitment is in the russian court and the say that they have the upper hand in syria. they were

responsible for saving the city jean-paul a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality to solutions and if they won't make it several billionaire saudi princes have reportedly been released from detention they were arrested in the venda after accusations of corruption among those released include the owner of the n.b.c. television network waleed abraham the former chief of the royal courts and a former head of the environment agency and now also free the arrests were part of a crackdown on corruption initiated by the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma. the u.s. gymnastics board has agreed to resign after a former team doctor was jailed for sexually abusing female gymnasts the u.s. olympic committee told the board to go after it was criticized for the way it handled decades of abuse allegations. has been sentenced to up to one hundred seventy five years in prison for assaulting young gymnasts in his cab. and those

the headlines will have more news. right after inside story next. and the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. the parting shot to me and more as leader from a veteran u.s. diplomat bill richardson says he lacks moral leadership and resigns from an international advisory panel of the organs are crisis while they bicker what about the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees this is inside story.