i can help them with lots of things but news is forward for me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new fear of life it's culture news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is simplistic you have been trained good logical rational crazy and misinformation is rife dismissal and well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. at least a hundred eighty two people killed since monday most of them civilians as syrian and russian planes pound rebel held areas of eastern and.

northern taylor this is al jazeera live from london also coming up dangerous but delicate work the rush to rescue survivors after taiwan earthquake buildings teaching towards collapse. one man sentenced to death and thirty others jailed for lynching a student in pakistan we speak to the victim's family about their quest for justice . and living under a cloud we meet the people in one bulgarian town who say they're being poisoned by pollution. or the death toll has been climbing by the hour in syria since monday asked by president assad's forces and his allies russia have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern guta and province any of them were civilians and the

majority died in eastern goto on the edge of damascus both areas are supposed to be deescalation zones but syria and russia have ramped up their air attacks since a russian plane was shot down on saturday and i had a report from beirut in neighboring lebanon. civil defense volunteers look for survivors but instead they're pulling out the dead from the rubble of what was once homes children women dozens of them have been killed in air strikes that are leveling residential buildings. this man just lost his son. god bless you he says clearly still in a state of shock. it's day three of an intensified military campaign. multiple areas of the rebel held damascus suburb of eastern who are coming under fire people there are saying russian and syrian government aircraft have to carry out one strike after another. people here believe russia is taking

revenge after his plane was shot down by the rebels and it's part it was killed it is intense bombardment at least eight hundred people are wounded some of them very seriously and they can't be treated here. there is a lack of medical supplies and doctors eastern who has been besieged by pro-government forces for years. it is both home and the traffic for some four hundred thousand people doctors have put up makeshift health centers but they too are being hit the top of a center is now out of service it was hit by the plowing and it was the only medical sense in this town and fifteen thousand people in the united nations is calling for the fighting throughout syria to stop for a month to allow aid deliveries and evacuations of the sick and wounded at least five hundred are in. the enclave just outside the capital has been heavily bombarded since mid december but the past few days have been the worst many believe pro-government forces are pushing for

a decisive outcome. they want. not fight them anywhere. really. the northwestern province of idlib which is also under the control of the opposition has been hit by dozens of strikes in recent days there are two residential neighborhoods and hospitals are being targeted pro syrian government forces have taken ground in the southern edges of in recent weeks recapturing the whole province. but many of the immediate goals involved in securing the north to south and lifting the siege on to loyalist towns. in the pro-government forces have been struggling to bring under their control for years and now that russia appears to be holding. syria is once again in the. especially with no progress on the diplomatic site this will bring more suffering.

the question of war crimes in syria. is the deputy director at human rights watch and joins us live from new york thank you being with us you know there's an escalation at the moment in the civilian deaths. provinces what's your take on what's happening. it's incredibly worrying that we're seeing this as a collision in italy where you have over two million people in need of a province who civilians who are under siege we're seeing hospitals being bombed repeatedly not just once or twice but even three times and incredibly troubling that the syrian government and their allies feel like they can continue these tactics because they'll never in their minds be held accountable or put in a court of law because of this and that is something that needs to change what do we mention issue of accountability them what about the role of the u.n.

security council in in protecting human rights or investigating that actual war crimes and even the past russia has repeatedly use its veto to to shield the syrian government with that power in place how likely is that there's ever going to be accountability in syria. you're right the use of the veto and i would say actually the misuse of the veto is what has characterized the security council's inability to respond one really strong and striking example is that the russian government veto killed a joint investigative mechanism which would have looked into chemical weapons attacks in syria and since that happened at the end of last year we've seen escalating use of those same chemical weapons including just in the past week but really escalating numbers then it shows that there was really a green light sentence to those in the syrian government who feel like they can use chlorine against their own people when the russians decided to protect them at the security council there have been many attempts to restrain this veto to say that in

cases like this cases where there are fundamental human rights norms war crimes at risk you should never use the veto but it seems to be falling on deaf ears here of the russian and increasingly him it seems that there's a difficulty in in any way but he and him make it a happen we've had the u.n. humanitarian coordinator on tuesday calling for a one month ceasefire and talking about the dramatic deterioration in the humanitarian situation because they blocked access to areas in an opposition areas given all that what do you think needs to change to try to effect some kind of reality on that in the realities on the ground in syria. well you're right there really is a dire humanitarian situation facing the civilians and unfortunately i think i hear at the security council a degree of complacency a sense that anything we try the russians will block and i think third at this

point in time we need stronger diplomatic initiatives to respond to this escalation and to make it clear that even though it looks distance now and one day in the future all of this evidence will be used to hold those responsible for these abuses accountable and that could come through the i.c.c. the international criminal court in the hague or it could come through universal jurisdiction because actually every country under its own national laws can do things to prosecute those responsible for crimes like these and increasingly in syria i think our for justice for syrian victims that's what's going to be needed. thank you very much indeed for joining us thank you. a five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the taiwanese city of her lean almost twenty four hours after tuesday's earthquake at least seven people and are

known to have died after the original six point four magnitude quake firefighters say several people are trapped in buildings which are on the brink of collapse and rescue workers are still putting survivors from the rubble from there rob mcbride reports the port city of quality and is now the scene of an intensive search and rescue operation after the magnitude six earthquake. rescue teams trained in dealing with earthquakes have been brought in from across taiwan. a resort area some of the hotels were first to feel the effects of the shock waves. the lower floors of the marshall hotel caved in leaving the entire building slanting on its side. rescuers moved in with ropes and cranes to get those trapped in what was left of the hotel back to safety. but at the moment there are still people

trapped inside but there's no way for us to confirm their position or number because the people living there are long term residents. taiwan's fire agency reports three more buildings were damaged as well as several roads leading to the city this earthquake followed another one over the weekend off the coast of folly and in water is an area of high seismic activity today and the sequence for the last few days has been right in one of the hot spots on the northeast coast of taiwan so it's not a surprise oh it's in an area where half the sharks are inevitable you know the question is how many big aftershocks will there be in our usual one in ten or one in twenty chance of a bigger earthquake so they need to be prepared at least for a few days for more action. the rescue effort is now concentrated on this residential and commercial building partly collapsed on its side and held up by metal props it's here that most of the fifty plus people who are unaccounted for

are believed to be this part of folly and has now become the center of this rescue operation as teams work through a second night contending not only with the weather but also with the ever present danger of more on the shops as they do so this building becomes ever more precarious as is the fate of those feared to be still inside rob mcbride al-jazeera quali and taiwan. a court in pakistan has sent us one man to death and thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student they've been falsely accused of blasphemy and april hundreds of students trying. out of his university dorm in the northern city of london he was beaten before being shot dead and his body mutilated come on high has more from islamabad . and and it catered them called heading the high profile marshalls on lynching case has sentenced the shooter to

a dead while five others were sentenced to twenty five years in prison another twenty five to forty years in prison each and twenty six were acquitted redoubt punishment this was indeed a high profile case and rates were shot of han was wrongfully accused of committing blasphemy the people who perpetrated the attack against him on the university campus included political workers to danger and even employees of that university across pakistan are sent shock waves and there of course would be a sigh of relief when people find out that this was indeed a strong word take unnecessary because in the parts the country blasphemy laws have come into controversy some people are saying that they have been abused and therefore the court setting a precedent and sending a strong signal when this ravi met the family of the man in student and found out

more about the struggle for justice. his family has kept his room the same as it was the day he left home for the last time a reminder of the kind of man he was. marshal khan was studying journalism and abdul ali khan university in march done in april last year he was lynched by two hundred fellow students the mob was spurred by rumors that khan had somehow insulted islam. but earlier this year a police investigation found that there was no evidence he ever violated any blasphemy laws. police did find that university officials from her own had publicly criticised for corruption and incompetence conspired to make false allegations against him and rallied the mob that killed him he was just going to sizing the system and you and me and him so i intend to go my toe or diminish when ish these last because if women are these rules and these last promised. and women

not will make these so i think there are more and more michels will be killed in this war more and more michelle as many as this in a good because this is a very easy blame on someone. for his mother losing one child has been so traumatic that she won't let her other children go back to school too afraid of what might happen to them she says when her son's body was brought home he had been so badly beaten she only recognised him from the tips of his fingers and when she kissed him on his toes. in the aftermath police were accused of not responding quickly enough to stop the attack and in some cases even facilitating. police say they're reassessing their approach to blasphemy cases come i think that's for me or not is a separate issue the main thing is we're going to be even in all people to take law in their head again and the person we're coming things any kind of a crisis so my answer is no even not know any one particular on their hands and can

anyone for committing certain acts of crime. even in death mashal son is not safe a police unit guards his grave because of threats from religious hardliners of digging up and burning his body the final resting place of this young man has become a kind of symbol in this community people with a little more liberal a point of view come here to pay their respects to someone who was beaten to death for thinking a little bit differently. despite the fact that shawn was innocent of allegations against him in pakistan facts are often ignored in the court of public opinion. many people here still believe that what happened to him on the day he died was the right thing. same bus ravi al-jazeera murdoch. still to come we look at the devastating effect the war in yemen is having on the country's children. and after

more than four months or wrangling jamey's conservatives and social democrats finally struck a deal to form a new coalition. hello wednesday is a very windy day in the western med is that bowl of cloud the originated as a snow bearing bore of kind of a spade now brings rain rain to italy to sardinia and corsica us running away so eastwards and i think those are the high ground liberty's snow the dinar accounts for all street eventually end up in ukraine to the sas and yes it's been feeding is actually quite warm you got seventy degrees from greece up through turkey not much less in book arrest hours which is well above where it should be but what is left behind is clear skies this is of course thursday date on for italy

and france and spain apart from the occasional snowshoe and other we more snow coming in that northern france look snowy once again and possibly probably including paris during friday at the same time the wants as well as been knocked back a bit for twelve degrees we still snow falling sporadically in ukraine and probably better roofs given what was happening in spain we still got cold feet of air bringing rain once again to morocco and algeria but maybe developing more obviously is what happens in tunisia and libya stormy weather for friday. fight for what is right on the shores of paradise progress for some can create a living hell for others challenging his government and big business one man risks

his life to see the community he cherishes. to be someone. the opposition a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. armando top stories here on our zero intense syrian government and russian astronauts have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern guta and live since the beginning of monday. a five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the taiwanese city hall yeah and the biggest since tuesday's earthquake which is known to have killed at least seven people. and of course in pakistan her sentence one

man to death and thirty others to prison for the lynching of a student you've been falsely accused of blasphemy. the un's health agency says it's releasing more than nine million dollars in emergency funds to provide urgent medical aid to yemen the world health organization says it will help six hundred thirty thousand people in santa and her data the u.n. says more than sixteen million people struggle to access proper health care in yemen more than half of whom are an acute need three years of civil war have devastated health services in the country only hauffe its medical facilities a fully operational cholera and defame reactivates a broken out killing foundations the red cross says thousands more risk dying of kid. and so the most prominent casualties are children the u.n. says around four hundred thousand children under five or suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year as the culprit rages on.

the intensity of the fighting on the ground in yemen is showing no signs of letting up the saudi led coalition targets who the rebels in fighting between yemen's political factions has turned city streets into from ons. after more than three years of war the united nations says the humanitarian crisis here is the worst in the world and its children who are suffering the most at this hospital in western province babies and their mothers are brought here for treatment most suffer from severe malnutrition but with little money and even fewer resources health officials say there isn't much they can do and. most of our patients are suffering from malnourishment especially babies who place feed from their mothers the number of children that are dying is higher than that of mothers as we are able to cases we also are unable to provide proper nutrition to pregnant

women the united nations children's charity says at least five thousand children have been killed or injured since the start of the war that means on average five children lose their lives or are maimed every day the u.n. says more than eleven million children nearly every child in yemen need some form of humanitarian assistance to survive. war has led to despair of war related epidemics such as cholera which broke out in yemen last year this exacerbated the malnutrition crisis and caused the number of cases to double however we'll never know how bad the situation is because many people cannot make it to hospitals or medical centers. saudi arabia says it has sense nearly a billion dollars worth of aid to yemen. and plans to spend another one and a half billion but rights groups accuse the saudi military's air campaign of repeatedly striking civilian targets including markets and medical facilities and the coalition's blockade on port sandor who the control has been

a major factor in pushing yemen into near starvation whatever the case the war and the humanitarian crisis it's caused is likely to continue for some time n.p.r.'s al-jazeera. germany's two main parties have finally struck a deal to form a coalition with in four months after the election the social democrats originally said they wouldn't prop up another government under chancellor angela merkel they now agreed they will go into another coalition with the conservatives if party members approve for britain reports from berlin. the negotiating teams emerged blinking into the bright girl in sunlight clearly relieved it was all over three days after the suppose a deadline for agreement it would take an american twenty four hour session to finally seal the deal it was mid afternoon by the time the party leaders felt ready to speak they face those new york i know that millions of germans have been

watching us very closely i've a recent wakes they had to justify demands of us firstly place for my government at long last and a stable one and second think of people's real needs and interests i'm convinced that the coalition agreement we've come up with together can do precisely that. it's not with us that's what we're doing because it's thought i think that what we've managed to achieve really does bear the stamp of the social democrats the agreements been heavily influenced by us and we're grateful has been able to achieve some concessions that were difficult for the conservatives. for the past five weeks germany's center right c.d.u. and center left s.p.d. have been locked in negotiations over a common position on issues including health care labor reform immigration and housing policy allocating ministerial positions involved more compromise but with a deal now done those compromises have been bitterly criticized by the right wing a.f.d.

party you soft i don't i mean the assignment of the ministry shows that the c.d.u. has totally surrendered out of fear of the s.p.d. members the c.d.u. has given up his ideology and now it's giving up in practical terms too because it has none of the main ministries anymore the cd use just an empty shell. there is one last hurdle to clear though before the new grand coalition government can be confirmed s.p.d. members now get their votes on the deal and their sentiments appears evenly split kevin kernot the leader of the s.p.d. young socialist group use oss has been organizing a strong use campaign against another so called grow co the question lad me though whether his appeal especially his that warning straight is representing carry enough weight to convince all remember which are probably more inclined to be persuaded by the older rort which is going to rally in favor of joining the

coalition the s.p.d. postal vote will take about two weeks to produce a result the coalition is not a done deal yet. al-jazeera. bugg areas facing mounting criticism of its environmental standards its courage taking its turn holding the presidency of the european union but it's the block's poorest member and its reliance on coal is at odds with europe strive to find clean a ways of producing energy largely reports from panic in west garia wilkens opponent europe's most polluted town the coal fired power station dominates it's owned by one of bulgaria's richest men. panic sits in a valley on a still winter's day the smoke a sits over the town it reveals his true color when he wipe it off the stuff it has consequences galina lives here with her family they all have longer chest

problems like others here she assumes life will be short in their family are not. really. looking for a hole in the fingers while kim peoples that i can say i'm big can strong and. is really young people the truth is that the people here in the early people who complain about the dust that blows off the slag heap so the open callous minds which scal the land safely children doesn't want to know that told over and over that there is no problem so the big on their own tests to try to prove they're being poisoned. people don't trust the authorities this is this is the definitely the case in bulgaria and we've seen so many times that basically the authorities are providing. replied to the civil demand for information like sorry you don't have the knowledge to interbred the data that would give you

the mind of restore the colon underground bunkers. elka owns this house above one it's begun to see ground she was refused compensation by the local authority and the mine and is in the last two months this is some kind of move this is the family if you haven't been here be careful. because i mean the whole house could just collapse into the ground. on every level it appears cole is harming the town campaigners say it's a metaphor for a much wider problem as a political bloc the european union is trying to show its unity and commitment to tackling climate change and defending the paris of gods particularly given the hostility of donald trump you do wonder therefore how helpful it is to the e.u. that the current president's is bold garia a country which is in the case that it wants to continue to use coal as its primary

power source into the indefinite future the environment minister who refused to speak to us is a noted meyer of trump the climate change deniers. other voices in government happily defend bulgaria's love of coal. business is shouldn't be any rush to implement restrictions on coal otherwise we will risk the energy balance of europe as it should be discussed at the highest levels of the european council and country should decide for themselves what they want to do. to make things worse for the european union bulgaria has said it will support poland and trying to water down the existing rules and toxic emissions perhaps the biggest irony is that this country enjoys more than three hundred days of sunshine a year they could heat every home with a solar panel but instead is going the other way in time. lawrence lee al-jazeera panic bulgarian. tanks could soon be rolling down the streets of washington d.c. as the pentagon has been asked to start planning

a grand military parade president trump was inspired after attending bestie day celebrations in paris last year u.s. troops joined the commemoration to mark one hundred years since the u.s. and in world war one the president has previously hinted that any perception may be held on july the fourth country's independence day. it was great and to a large extent because it was going to just leave a do something like that on july fourth it was you that. i. talked to. that's been revealed that britain's oldest known resident looked rather different than was originally thought research as have extracted d.n.a. from chad a man britain's oldest complete skeleton which was discovered in cheddar gorge in southwest england in one thousand and three he lived ten thousand years ago and is now known to have had blue eyes dark curly hair and dark black skin scientists say

the evidence suggests that europeans pale skin tones developed much later than previously believed and of course it's very striking for a ten thousand year old human or expectations a few years ago would have been that this individual would have had a might be dark hair but fairly proust good possibly blue eyes and what we've got is a quite unusual combination of this dox rightly curly hair really quite dark skin and quite striking blue eyes and a great amount of it you can catch up anytime with all the stories we reported on by checking out our website address that is al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live on there are clicking on the live icon address again al-jazeera dot com. wait a minute now the main stories making news here now to syria syrian government and

russian air strikes have killed at least one hundred eighty two people in eastern huta and it lives since the beginning of monday both are rebel held areas that are supposed to be deescalation zones the syrian and russian troops of ramped up their attacks since a russian plane was shot down on saturday. people here believe russia is taking revenge after his plane was shot down by the rebels and it's part it was killed it is intense bombardment at least eight hundred people are wounded some of them very seriously and they can't be treated here. five point seven magnitude aftershock has rocked the eastern taiwanese city in the biggest since tuesday's earthquake at least seven people are now known to have died after the original six point four magnitude quake and two hundred fifty others were injured dozens are still missing firefighters say several people are still trapped in buildings which are on the brink of collapse a court in pakistan has sentence one man to death and thirty others to prison for

the lynching of a student would falsely been accused of blasphemy in april hundreds of students dragged out of his university dorm in the northern city of modern he was beaten before being shot dead. united nations health agency says it's releasing more than nine million dollars in emergency funds to provide urgent medical aid to yemen the world health organization says it will help six hundred thirty thousand people the u.n. says more than sixteen million people struggle to access proper health care in yemen with more than half in acute need germany's two main parties are finally agreed to form a coalition one four months after the election it means i'm going to medical will continue as chancellor the social democrats have changed their mind after initially refusing to continue to prop up their host government the pentagon has been asked to start planning a grand u.s. military parade which is likely to be held on the fourth of july donald trump was inspired after attending french bestie day celebrations last year u.s.

troops were invited to mark a hundred years since the u.s. entered world war one that's over now do you stay with us the stream is up next exploring how roman artists are using their work to battle racism sexism and discrimination. i am finding out ok and i'm really could be the roma people are the largest ethnic minority group in europe but they often experience hate and social exclusion however many realm artists especially women are using their work to fight sexism

racism and discrimination today we speak with a few including the co-founder of a feminist theatre group to learn.