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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 has been under siege by government forces for almost five years now it comes a syrian opposition members say they will boycott talks that russia is hosting in salt cheap next week that decision announced a u.n. sponsored negotiations in vienna which have been extended for a day there's been no breakthrough meanwhile turkish forces continue their operation against kurdish fighters in africa in northern syria forcing thousands from their homes the violence has increased tension with the u.s. which supports the kurdish y.p. g. forces in that area as they battle i so let's go live now to antakya zero stephanie deca is there so stephanie draw this all together starting with that ceasefire in eastern guta is it holding how many people there are still under siege.

for now it is but it's very early days age and as you know things that are negotiate at the political table many miles away thousands of miles away don't always translate to the ground so we're going to have to see how that unfolds but yes it is a real humanitarian concern when it comes to u.n. estimates around four hundred thousand people there it's been besieged for years it's been under heavier bombardment over the last couple of months dispense despite it being part of the deescalation zones and the fact that it is besieged is why it's such a huge humanitarian concern for the people there the u.n. says the lack of food and medicine is making it one of the worst cases of malnutrition for the people there are so it is again a desperate situation why is it important because it is the last rebel stronghold close to the capital damascus on the other hand this remains an active war agent into its seventh year turkey of course continuing with its offensive now into its eighth day there's been ground fighting on go in we understand the f.s.a.

is taken one more village but again it's a fluid front line ajor and it's very difficult to sort of stay up to date with the fight now the turkish authorities however were keen to take the media inside syria into as as a city that was yesterday we join them myself and camera man to me and we took it opportunity to see how people inside city because it is your access how they are living and how they're coping and this is our report. as we enter syria it is the free syrian army for the lines high here we are on 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 i'm not. one of the f.s.a. fighters why he is involved in turkey. operation it seems it's personal.

because they betrayed us and especially because the. conditions especially now in the winter. what our target escorts are telling us is that the front line with the kurdish fighters is just further along. which is over. but what is clear here on the outskirts of city is how much of a presence they are of course supporting the free syrian army fighters and syrian rebels that are really taking a large part in this operation that turkey has undertaken against. while we were here two bullets whizzed overhead. and we're told. for this. sort of they shot at us and our tire.

was pushed out of here in two thousand and fourteen but life remains difficult her has to provide for thirteen members of her family she tells us she is. war has now become 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 paint on this will be for sale. still dream of moving on from here. in this part of syria is dotted with tents millions of syrians remain homeless in their own country. we've been here for three

years in the tent has never been fixed because of the rhine the tent leaks and there are seven people in one tense situation is 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 for the guns seemingly impossible to silence. so despite the various lines of talk saved in the u.n. sponsored ones the one that we will see next week hosted by russia the war continues and you're really seeing now with i saw pushed out of most of the country the jostling of regional powers for influence for control carving out their their sphere is inside syria so it's still very difficult to see how any political solution will be found at the table at this point stephanie thanks al jazeera stephanie decker there live in and takio there's concerns over the planned return

of some few g.'s from bangladesh to me and ma government leaders in me and on onstott repents ration centers in rakhine states were open and ready to receive some of them as of tuesday but across the border bangladesh officials say the paperwork for the refugees is incomplete it comes as a former u.s. diplomat resigned from an advisory council after a heated exchange with leader aung san suu kyi bill richardson said he feared that the crisis was being whitewashed we had mark uses in pursuing his own agenda with bill richardson told of his era he resigned from the ranger advisory council of his own accord there making it up that they let me go they were begging me to stay the national security adviser you on that last night i was there. what they said was that in public statements that i was pursuing my own agenda yeah my own

agenda was basically follow the kofi annan recommendations do something about the refugees stop the human rights atrocities release the two journalists that were detained because freedom of the press is a bedrock of democracy and a kofi anon recommendation of finding out what's going on yeah i was outspoken and unsung suchi my former friend well i still respect or didn't want to hear that this this commission was a whitewash she doesn't want to show moral leadership because she's afraid of the military the military has enormous power there she says there's a separation of constitutional rights between the military and her she doesn't want to offend them she doesn't want to take them on but she should say to the military we're in a terrible mess stop these atrocities allow these refugees to move forward don't do mass graves find ways to stop the human rights violations she's unwilling to take

on a very powerful entity and that's the military. security is tight in honduras as protests continue ahead of the inauguration of the re-elected president when a lot of honda's the opposition has called for a general strike it says that the vote count following of embers presidential election was not conducted properly since then more than thirty five people have been killed in scuffles with police some are you saying you know there were 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 a zero stronghold 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 is 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 a comment more terrorism 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 the president won and this could result 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 in 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 is 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. 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 on this is invested in infrastructure projects repaired ties with international lending rule denies ations and reduced crime in what was the world's deadliest country outside of a war zone but the issues that helped start the protests remain. with us that had 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 pick a. president and is now has four more years to tackle those problems and unite to divide the country behind him john home and al-jazeera to goose ago. a weather

update next year i was here at then. saudi arabia and the government says several billionaire princes of paid all that one hundred twenty billion dollars to be released from detention plus. one by. trial by theater new play confronts astray as policies on immigration. from one flowing island winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there over the past few weeks we've seen an awful lot of heavy rain and snow over many parts of france and now the cen is struggling to cope with all of that water the river levels there very very high the river has spilled over its banks and forced the closure of some roadways and some of the trains as well now that

system is the latest batch of rain is clearing away and behind it it does look dry if the powers over the next few days still completely dry for all of us in the northwest parts of europe they see this huge area of town here over the british isles that's giving some of us some or all the heavy rain during the day today and gradually it's pushing its way eastwards looks like paris won't get much rain from that system those it works eastwards and here it is as we head through the day on sunday making its way through parts going to navy then down into poland giving some snow and it does say behind it staying mile thirteen degrees there in london and around twelve force in paris for the all the parts of africa we're seeing a fair amount of unsettled weather here as well you can see the showers that are making their way into parts of morocco and then some more prolonged outbreaks of rain stretching their way through parts of our geria this is also giving us some snow over the mountains as well the system still with us on sunday to do expect a few outbreaks of heavy rain. the weather sponsored by cattle and race.

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gone into effect in the rebel held area of eastern ghouta yet syria's capital damascus almost four hundred thousand people live in the region that's been the siege by government faces now for almost five years there's concern over the planned return of summer enjoy refugees from bangladesh to me and government leaders in me and on ounce the perpetuation centers in rakhine state open and ready to receive some of them as of tuesday passed across the border bangladesh officials say the paperwork for the refugees is incomplete. as tight security of honduras is protests continue at of saturday's inauguration of reelected president hope on a lot of other commanders the opposition has called for a general strike it says the vote count after the first presidential election was not conducted properly. all remaining members of the u.s. gymnastics board of agreed to step down after former team doctor larry naso was jailed for sexually abusing female athletes the ascetics director of michigan state

university where nasa worked has also quit the university is now the focus of a federal investigation is dire 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 now sorry 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 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 a michigan state's athletic director announced his retirement i don't want anyone to perceive that i'm walking away i'm walking forward i'm walking forward in

a way that based upon my deep assessment. gives the survivors first and foremost the sephardic department this university in 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 disaster 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 a north korean olympic delegation is inspecting venues ahead of separate skill in china 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. saudi billionaire prince says that he'll be cleared of corruption charges within days he gave an interview to the reuters news agency inside the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh ways been held since november along with many others these are some of the

first images from inside the complex the saudi attorney general says that many people have already been released after paying settlements while one is director of policy analysis of the doha institute he joins us here in the studio so. says that he's going to be cleared of corruption but has he had to pay for his freedom like the other absolutely i think he has to be a good part of his world actually before he's released because this was actually at the case of all these princes and officials who have been detained from the very beginning. i think i think. the whole can be in was controversial from the very beginning because i mean this is something important for anyone to say because it was very selective i mean the. man he went after specific people because if you are talking about the time being against corruption it should actually

include a whole range of of prince's officers former officers because we know actually the whole system in saudi arabia actually is be on an on corruption saw a blast i mean the the prince himself muhammad. there are also questions about about his intentions and also about the credibility of him actually leading this campaign because when you have somebody who has bought in recent months. very active for four hundred fifty million dollars i mean that should actually being very big question marks about about the credibility of the guy who's leading the whole campaign what do you bring in another prominent business figure head of the the n b c broadcaster. as not only have to pay money to secure his freedom but has also had to give up his controlling stake in the business i think the settlement of lead about the plane was very special in fact he will be allowed in fact to

run the group. he will give his share fiercest he's all all or all the shares that he has actually or that within the n.b.c. gold but he will be allowed on the other hand to undergo i think mr mann was thing actually to point to all this very important media organization and i believe he things that this one particular organization will be very important to for him to present him as a modernizer as a reformer as a guy who's actually going to be the future leader of saudi arabia with a very different approach so i think the media here is the media the media group is very important to the whole project of muhammad bin some of this what this is why there has been dispassionate arrangement with what has been a bright hundreds of millions of dollars has been recouped by the government in this crackdown is that what it was all about was it all about raising money and was

this money dirty in the first place i think there are two things here it's about money because the saudi. government is facing financial difficulties because of the collapse of the oil prices over the past few years. and is having very ambitious economic plan actually from the kingdom so he needs the cash money in order to to carry on with this project but this is not the only issue the other issue in my opinion here is that he's trying to create a popular base of support for him because all these people are in fact corrupt so when he goes after these big fish it's this big fish in saudi society and those who have been. pointed out for many many years. as the heads of court option i think he's trying to build this sort of popularity and presenting arms of the saudi be with the outside community as a form of and as an arm of the nizar i think that is the second the second factor

in this in this whole campaign but one always because too many thanks indeed moment to help on. that as well as opposition leaders have condemned the supreme court's decision to block their coalition from registering for upcoming elections the ruling comes just days after the constituent assembly set up by president nicolas maduro announced that the poll would be held in april months ahead of critics say the duras depriving people of a free and fair election. starting tomorrow and on sunday we're going to come up with the move with more will to defend plurality and political policies of venezuela that's what i would personally first just this political party to get the services we 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 catalan president carlos pushed amount pushed him out was chosen earlier this week as the separatist party's candidate to lead catalonia he's been in self-imposed exile in belgium since october after the

spain's constitutional court declared the region's independence referendum illegal but that pushed him on faces arrest if he returns that's been described as a bubble about to burst a way of laundering money but also the future of finance at the world economic forum's meeting in switzerland this week the spotlight fell on digital currencies like bitcoin and the technology on which the bills jonah how as more from doubles. there was something different about the davos prominent this year cryptocurrency said arrived they became household names in two thousand and seventeen now believers say the underlying technology block chain is the future legal suspects are young before any feel like point reform and so forth there is fraud there are scared but i don't think that's the majority of it you're going to build a block train across africa exactly what does that actually mean one person who tried to explain it was jamie smith the former obama deputy press secretary turned

block chain promoter you think about it it's like a train track between you and me the black chain or the rails and then the current time of there is a digital token and i'm attaching any asset to it anything i'm sending it to you and i do that on that car in that car is a digital token of the most famous was public when that clears that up then this week it felt like the only buzz in town is donald trump for the off the high end these doors the trump name is barely mentioned because here they are party like it's ninety ninety four zero in that stage one nine hundred ninety four the beginning of the internet yes let's go get em in the fervor that's happening in the world today the market today is in this room that they're buzzing that there's a new thing that the internet is of information now we have the internet of money with the internet of value and we can do the internet of law in the smart contracts

we can do artificial intelligence so through this side all internet of value exchange is going to be bigger than it's blocked chain enthusiastic tend not to underplay its potential we are creating a new financial infrastructure for the world we're going to see pretty much everything that we do as humans we put on this ledger to that we can prove that we're being trustworthy but there are those willing to sound a note of caution now with becoming the. very speculative so i'm just going to take a step back and. look jane technology's ninety ninety full moment has already seen currencies like bitcoin rise in value by eight hundred percent in twelve months the growth potential of block chain is such that around here they call bitcoin yesterday's news jonah hill al-jazeera davos and american artist is hoping that his latest exhibition will help people see nuclear

weapons in a different way eric the presti grew up in eastern washington state near a site which made plutonium he paints nuclear weapons testing sites and the environment oppressed he says his art explores how our lives are shaped by trauma they are terrifying and yet they are somewhat paradoxical. they've been around for a while but they seem to have the science where they will either destroy the world or they'll never be used so as an artist i find that very interesting i think also they're somewhat misunderstood our image of nuclear weapons is somewhat misunderstood and for an artist you know all i am about is. visualising things that are hard to understand and i kneel arts festival in australia is turning the spotlight on the country's immigration policies among the many shows to entertain crowds at the sydney festival is a play which looks at the government's treatment of refugees andrew thomas reports

. on a stage rather than in a court room is a truth and reconciliation commission that australia has never had. the play cool tribunals delves into the dark side of australia's treatment of asylum seekers refugee activists describe their experiences of the country's immigration system that says also confront the treatment i mean did you know sauce trail and an aboriginal elder place the courts magistrate. truth telling and telling a story and it's about acknowledging and. for the audience being there is about sending a signal as well as enjoying the show it does challenge just so straight is so. what is what has been happening is unacceptable and yet we have been accepting that tribe you know is one of several shows at this year's sydney festival which tackle

social issues jurassic plastic features dinosaurs created from thousands of discarded plastic toys it's a comment on our throw away society exhibits with a social message to all the exception rather than the rule for the most part the sydney festival is simply about showcasing great and accessible culture and the city that's hosting it. january in australia is the middle of summer sydney at its best often the way that we get out of stick out. here's a photograph of where you live and he's a photograph of where we live in january so what if you come down to us. much of the festival takes place outdoors highly sprong is an energetic mix of trampoline ing theatre on the streets arts a park or there's also a karaoke carousel with children and adults encouraged to sing their way around the right it's still culture but a lot less political. al-jazeera sydney. good

to have you with us adrian sitting in here in doha with the headlines on al-jazeera a ceasefire brokered by russia has gone into effect in the rebel held area of eastern syria's capital damascus nearly four hundred thousand people live in the region that's been besieged by government faces for the last five years of the syrian opposition says that it will boycott talks that russia is hosting in sochi next week the decision comes as the latest round of un negotiations in vienna were extended for a day that there's been no major breakthrough they'll be holding a press conference within the next hour. we listen to many good n.t.'s concerning. commitment but none of them will deliver somehow. 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.

they were responsible for saving the city jean-paul a long time and they can bring it to commit itself to international legality as a new shoes and if they won't because there's concern over the planned return of some refugees from bangladesh to me and ma government leaders in b.n. monster relations centers in rakhine state open and ready to receive some of them as of tuesday but across the border bangladesh officials say the paperwork for the refugees is incomplete saudi billionaire prince bin tell our says that he'll be cleared of corruption charges within days gave an interview to the reuters news agency inside the ritz carlton hotel in riyadh where he's been held since november along with many others these are some of the first images from inside that complex the saudi attorney general says that many

businessmen have already been released after paying settlements which run into hundreds of millions of dollars as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera to the listening post next. and monday put it on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to form dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. the popular filipino news website is facing now take a fresh the securities and exchange commission people are going to change the rap rap received the following up on a fight for life a few years after.