class attendance has improved the volunteers also secured. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspectives dominate american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not to let you speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind at this time on al-jazeera. lucky to be alive galliano. children are among at least eighty five fatalities in syrian government airstrikes on rebel held eastern guta.

hello i'm not matheson this is all just here on live from doha also coming up tensions escalate further in syria's north and turkey warns the government against helping the kurds are nothing. but testers take their message to the white house as pressure mounts on politicians over the florida school shooting. you believe it to link is clear we will prosecute don't spam eighty three and threatens action against a british charity of allegations of sexual exploitation by its staff provan. united nations is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held on klav near city the capital damascus at least eighty five people have died during intense syrian government on russian bombing of eastern ghouta local observers believe the a thai. probably would to

a major offensive in the area which has been under a government siege since twenty third seeing reports from beirut in their bring lebanon. rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment of the besieged opposition area of eastern could be the beginning of a large scale military operation. it seems russian broke at the go to bring about. have so far failed and a week of relative calm yet again civilians were the victims since the end of december a stepped up military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one hundred of them were children the fear now is that the numbers will only rise if a wide scale attack begins. the syrian government and its allies are sending military reinforcements to the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus program of the media are promising victory and what they say will be a decisive battle it will be the first time they will try to storm. past ground

offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant. we have men who crashed songs they won't be able to capture one inch of land. this is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and he was all kinds of weapons but they weren't able to do anything. the syrian government and its allies haven't taken ground but over the years they have. residential neighborhood the syrian government. to cease fire. to other controlled areas. in the northwest he says.

the people and. about four hundred thousand people. he is alive to vote the volunteers say it's not usually the case. well two major powers fighting in syria may be heading towards a military confrontation turkey says it's going to fight forces loyal to bashar al assad if they enter fleeing the district is in the hands of the syrian kurdish y p g c a state news agency says pro-government forces will enter within hours to join what it calls a resistance to turkish aggression turkey began a military operation in mid january to try to end the kurdish control of freeing my

b.g. commanders have denied making a deal with the syrian government but they do say syrian troops are responding to their call to protect the borders of our friend stephanie decker reports. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deployed to africa. turkey launch an operation against peoples protection units or y p g who are in control of the province almost a month ago and calls the y.p. g a terrorist organization the united states considers the group its most effective ally in fighting i saw. this new move by damascus in a free and could mean its allied militia directly confronts turkish troops turkey's foreign minister was defiant you know certainly. if the regime is interested to clean k.k. and p.y.t. and there are no problems however if i come in to defend the white p.g. the nothing and nobody can stop us this applies to efren as well as ma'am specious

and to the east of the euphrates river the developments when set behind the scenes negotiations the details of which are unclear if there are going to accept the major conditions of the syrian regime will decide on that of their heavy weapons. rocket launches will they be exiting the city because the syrian regime is syria democratic forces to exit the city and to move it to the east of the euphrates the kurdish y p g holds the areas in yellow which include the region of africa in the green areas land controlled by the syrian opposition supported by turkey and they're advancing on africa and under the turkish operation olive branch president assad's government controls the area to the south and the i.p.g. is territory to the east of the euphrates is where the u.s. has military bases and personnel on the ground syria's seven year war seems to have entered a new phase with

a foreign power is who have long backed different sides trying to solidify their spheres of influence stephanie decker al-jazeera the presidents of turkey and russia have discussed the african operation in a phone call turkey's recep tayyip erdogan warned of putin over the actions of the syrian government which is russia's ally or some other injury and has more from istanbul. the first batch of kurdish fighters has reached the city of free and that's according to s d f which is a u.s. backed force and these kurdish fighters have travelled from the city of aleppo this is a city which is under the control of the syrian government forces so syrian fighters have been saying that this proves their point that kurdish fighters off the by the people's protection units have been allied with the syrian government all along there is expectations that more convenience of pro-government militias not regular syrian government forces will enter the city of against this operation that has

been launched by the turkish forces called all of branch on the diplomatic front we've been hearing from presidential sources that the president has been speaking to his russian counterpart and he's told them that there will be consequences if the syrian government continues on its path this is the part that the foreign minister had also alluded to saying that the turkish government has no problem if the syrian government contains and controls its own territory and borders but it will have a problem and it will confront anyone who allies itself with the with these goodish fighters that turkey sees as terrorists a mass funeral is being held in the iraqi city of basra for sixteen shia fighters killed by. the they were among at least twenty seven pro-government militia ambushed near the northern city of kirkuk on sunday acars disguised themselves in police uniforms pretending to be on duty at a fake checkpoint last week the governor of kut coke want to isolate still poses

a security threat in the area. iranian state television is reporting three police officers have been killed in clashes with protesters in northern tehran the demonstrators were from a sufi religious order that gathered in front of a police station to demand the release of some of their members a number of and were deported have been injured and arrested during the clashes. and reports in iranian state media says rescue teams have found the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in the zagros mountains the assman airlines aircraft went down in foggy weather on sunday killing all sixty five people on board hundreds of climbers with domes and drums have been trying to reach the site among dana in bad conditions. the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases after last week's school shooting in florida trump who is a staunch ally of the u.s. gun lobby will meet with survivors on wednesday he's been speaking to leaders in

congress about a bipartisan bill aimed at improving checks on those wanting to buy a weapon it comes as activists staged a protest outside the white house alan fisher house more and. it started as a social media conversation on friday afternoon and became a mass protest in front of the white house dozens of students from around the washington area backed by the families gathered to mark this spate of school shootings in america and demanded argent action to stop them i don't see this as a republican or democrat issue it's more life or death really shootings happen every day and weapons don't belong on the streets they don't belong in school was a long and war half of the current seven. we read out the names of the victims of school shootings in america since one thousand nine hundred ninety s. they listened and you were caught up in their own thoughts who says in their own emotions that we not shootings in america in the past there have been protests in the past but this type of people think something is different but this time change

can be achieved. then came the mass die and students live in the grown sending a message that the politicians in action was no longer an option it's about the fact that kids are dying american kids are dying and if they're sitting in classrooms in the crowed the school psychologist who trained at the school in parklane florida where the mass shooting took place struggling to contain her emotions and her anger like holiness are providing crisis intervention at this time in over fifteen twenty years that they've been practicing they've never seen such heartache typically we train to provide enter vention support for death of a teacher or a student and the stories that they're hearing it's like a war zone the flag above the white house still flies at half staff in memory of the florida victims the young people here know that many of them are too young to vote. but they insist their voices will be haired and they will not be ignored alan

fischer al jazeera washington. there are reports that yet another member of traumas campaign team is likely to plead guilty as part of the f.b.i.'s investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election u.s. media is reporting that wrecking gates will plead guilty to fraud related charges within the next few days and october gates have pleaded not guilty he is also expected to testify against donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manifold who's facing charges from the investigation if the reports are true and gates would become the third person from donald trump's campaign to plead guilty. thousands of people in zimbabwe have paid tribute to morgan tsvangirai at a rally in the capital city of former opposition leader died from cancer last week and will be laid to rest on tuesday opposition members say they'll try to keep the party united despite divisions over the leadership. has more from harare. when

morgan tsvangirai body arrived at the place opposition parties called freedom square his supporters called him a hero for defending human rights and always calling for free and fair elections this is their last chance to say goodbye mania won't be able to attend the burial and choose to embroider. home two hundred kilometers from the capital they say they'll continue his work and prepare for the election in a few months. they make sure that in this. regard to the residents that. live somewhere you know doesn't hurt the entire leadership of the main opposition party showed up for monday's rally but there is speculation the movement for democratic change could split if some key officials decide to walk away the opposition is one of the party to hold a race to elect. president by the last is illegitimate. at the rally there were calls for the party to stick together. and to

say do. it to post an article for months so if the new do congress. months. and this election is coming all it should. for now opposition supporters say they are united and will deal with whatever problems lie ahead after morgan tsvangirai has been banned. still ahead in all the zero we'll have more news from the african continent rescuers and mozambique scramble to find people trapped on a lobster probably she. promised. fight the establishment and in his words drain the swamp but we find out why critics of us president donald trump claim he's done the opposite. sex in the city of angels. and it was far too early for spring rain in china but he'd be

forgiven for thinking that's where we've got to twenty five degrees in hong kong eight in shanghai the feed is from the sciences moisture is relative warms and we get a lot of rain out of it there is some stay with the real coders residing further north west in china but for the most part we are talking rain in a line from shanghai back to showing the developing more in the west by the time we get to wednesday hong kong still humid but at twenty three degrees cool down a bit in shanghai shanghai by this time still around about the seven marks are not really mid winter weather i wouldn't think and then the sea area is largely free of cloud part from occasional all showers of money even watch they have just hit hong kong or other parts of central time and that should pass through and that was sunshine for india china and a good part of the philippines there also showers around you'll notice but the heavy ones have been falling for the sas and again we focus on java particularly western java and including jakarta some sumatra to nukes whetsel as he has been and

this is where the show should be at the greatest and then they are trying to treat for the doors but they haven't yet got there. asked for the dry bit india and surroundings there's more rain is there to come to afghanistan but not for india. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw him. much want to with the last thing effects of this agreement there is a regional set to sikes because it's at those borders were drawn with consulting the people who have to live with the. psych speak our minds in the sand at this time on al-jazeera.

you're watching i'll just get a reminder of our top stories the united nations is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians and rebel held on klav near syria's capital damascus at least eighty five people have died during the syrian government and russian bombing of eastern guta. turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if they enter the frame as part of an agreement with the kurdish y p g turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area. the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases following last widen state school shooting in florida back to the stage to protest in washington the mounting action to stop future mass shootings. rescuers in mozambique fear there find more dead bodies and of

a collapsed rubbish dump with seventeen people confirmed dead already the garbage pile three stories high came down in houses during a heavy storm in the capital maputo many families have left the area fearing further collapses just one widow as a journalist based in the bhutto he says the garbage dump is located in one of the poorest areas of the capital town. kind of garbage. what will flow even more will take down the street you need responding you know we just crime groups of people only nearby. if you also know what gracefully less fortunate people and those who are poor and watch the region around the rocky glasses talks explains in detail is essential for you much you don't want to be sold or let is also only result of one color control issue and related issue to show you know just what kind of thing we're going to pull out of my body and it's going to go from the people who are very they are still going i am kind it was you should be surely

a former football coach has been jailed for thirty years for abusing eleven young players in the u.k. bonnie bell was found guilty of abusing boys aged between eight and fifteen noble prosecutors called an industrial scale sixty four year old had been a talent spotter for top professional club manchester city and crew alexandra during the one nine hundred eighty s. several victims told the court battle sexually abused them on more than one hundred occasions and in teesdale jersey it is investigative unit looks at the long time sexual abuse of young players in british football that football's wall of silence at only six hundred g.m.t. on tuesday. but a charity oxfam has apologized to haiti's government after its stuff were accused of sexual misconduct it's released an internal report into allegations that aid workers used prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the two thousand and ten quake its former director for haiti admitted to the inquiry that he hired sex

workers despite public denials and the report revealed that three workers threaten witnesses who spoke to investigators. we will establish the link between the humanitarian aid and prostitution and it link is clear we will prosecute but now we will have to file individual criminal responsibility and will investigate the link between those individuals in the institution bought to be philip says more from outside the haitian embassy in london. the report has been presented to the haitian embassy here in london and to the haitian government with apologies from oxfam for what it says are its mistakes it's a revealing insight into a pretty dysfunctional operation of oxfam's in haiti in the immediate aftermath of the terrible twenty ten earthquake bullying intimidation downloading or pornography it says it can't rule out the possibility of sex with under age girls it says that oxfam needs to deal with problem staff in

a better way to ensure that they don't go on to work elsewhere in the aid sector a case in point the country director in oxfam the man at the center of allegations he went on to work for another aid organization in bangladesh of course this is a crisis that goes beyond oxfam itself remember that britain one of the very few countries which actually meets the un recommendations of spending point seven percent of gross national income on aid many people particularly on the right in british politics arguing that that is too much money and when aid organizations are seem to behave in such a morally reprehensible way well the case for spending that much money of course is that much weaker and on tuesday the heads of oxfam save the children and the government's own department for international development summoned to the british parliament for urgent questioning sudan's foreign minister has told of zero that

all political prisoners who were detained last month will be released more than eighty have already been freed including opposition leaders so the un face international pressure to release the detainees that were arrested after anti-government protests about the rising cost of food home involve has more. to release dozens of political prisoners from jails in the sudanese capital of khartoum as a surprise. most were arrested last month after protests about. soaring prices and tough economic conditions turned violent turn our molalla us but we will work hard to get rid of the reasons that have led to demonstrations and detention we will be in contact with all parties concerned we will keep and maintain the human rights and we will put an end to political polarization in the country for the sake of our nation. the families of those released from prison were delighted but concerned for the ones still detained and we are happy we need all the prisoners to

be released we need our country to live in peace we need nothing but peace and security the release is that is ult of the commitment of the government to political freedoms and the rest primarily was very short. as it used up in the past we are all very happy and all the sudanese people are happy can assure you that everybody will be released this is that this is you know of the president and the rest will follow. the freed prisoners included leaders of the opposition who are calling for own political factions to unite in order to find a solution to sudan's problems and they are demanding the release of all prisoners of opinion. we need a full and comprehensive dialogue such a dialogue is the only way to take our country away from this crisis the tension and prisons will never sort out our issues it is now the time to resort to the best

methods to find peaceful solutions to the problems in our country the presidential decree to release that business came after the appointment of a new security chief and it followed calls from representatives of several foreign embassies the arrests were made during a wave of protests in several cities against the rise in bread prices and other economic difficulties facing the sudanese people many now hope the government and opposition parties can get together for talks aimed at resolving the country's. distant crises. are dizzying. one of us president donald trump's key campaign pledges was that he'd fight to the establishment and in his words to drain the swamp however a number of scandals of prompting questions about whether trump and his team are making good on their promise article hain reports. it was a huge selling point for then candidate donald trump they. say he alone could change the system if we win on november eighth we are going to drain

the swamp in washington d.c. he said this time was going to be different gone were the days of the powerful enriching themselves at the expense of the people they were supposed to serve but ethics watchdogs say the swamp is getting swamp here by the day on tuesday his son john jr will head to india he'll give a policy speech and in the same trip offer buyers of trump apartments a chance to sit down and have dinner with him so help me god congratulations mr president. there are also new questions about his inauguration a personal friend of his wife's was reportedly paid twenty six million dollars to help plan events for it her company was set up six weeks before the swearing in and members of his cabinet are facing their own scandals the veterans affairs secretary had the government pay for him in his wife's trip to europe an internal report found his chief of staff lied about the expense and has since left the agency and

the administrator of the environmental protection agency is also under fire all government workers have to fly coach but he spent tens of thousands of dollars flying in first class the e.p.a. says it was a security precaution because in the past regular citizens have told him they don't like what he's doing to the environment ethics observers call all of it unprecedented when the tone said the top is that ethics don't matter you're going to have a number of different ethical violations and you're going to have public officials not particularly care if the rules are being violated trump is facing his own controversies his lawyer recently admitted to pain an adult film star one hundred thirty thousand dollars right before the election to keep quiet about an affair she had with. soon after his wife had given birth and another woman says a tabloid paid her for the story of her past affair with trump in order to bury it bravest wap in washington so i said it three days ago the place went crazy. they

went crazy for a promise so far and kept but it's not clear for his core supporters that this real news really matters. al-jazeera washington and egyptian companies agreed to buy fifteen billion dollars worth of israeli natural gas operators of israel's tamada in love via phone off shore gas fields will supply a private egypt in from around sixty four billion cubic meters of gas over the decade israel hopes the deal will strengthen diplomatic ties. a move to modernize transport in the philippines is threatening to change the way many people get around drivers of small buses known as jeepneys for the changes are going to put their jobs at risk similar alan dorgan reports from manila. when i think of the for the they often have the mind it is an offshoot of the american military jeeps that were left behind after world war two since then filipinos have made it their own.

their unique colorful and have long been called the getting a city been. for decades they've also been the solution to the country's lack of public transport jeepneys are affordable and available but have also been blamed for the city's chaotic traffic. the philippine government wants more control it says it is time to improve the gene industry it wants jeepney operators to start registering as corporations instead of running corporate tips independent. basically are what their station project. it can be the changing of the systems it entails the improvement of the institutions including their operating conditions. it also wants to things out jeepneys their fifteen years or older government officials want you models they say they are safer and edgy efficient and

environmentally friendly. it is unfair the assistance they offer is not even enough there is no other job in the world it can only be found here and it must be preserved. cheaply owners groups oppose the plan to saying the model that the government is demanding is double the price and g.p. operators and workers cannot afford it the majority of g.p. drivers belong to the poorest sector of society they say forcing owners to upgrade we. enough government assistance could mean an end to the g.p. industry all together. they said would. both that target out there and what did he do in the end he told them i don't care about you you can all die in hunger isn't that such a bad day oh there are nearly three hundred thousand jeepneys all across the

country and many of been flying this cheese for decades but majority of commuters prefer jeepneys like this one modern colorful and fast. the government says the plan to improve the g.p. is just part of a broader project to overhaul the chance a point system. these are often seen as a conic moving art pieces that reflect a filipino in. a tremendous here people to become a symbol of the government's neglect jim duggan al-jazeera manila. a robot as an adult with the headlines on all disease of the united nations is calling for an end to the targeting of civilians in a rebel held on klav near syria's capital damascus at least eighty five people have died during the syrian government and russian bombing of eastern ghouta local

observers believe the attacks at a pro-u. to a major offensive in the area which has been under siege by assad government forces since twenty thirteen. turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if they enter our freeness part of an agreement with kurdish y.p. jean turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area. the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases following last wednesday's school shooting in florida activists staged a protest in washington demanding action to stop future mass shootings thousands of people in zimbabwe have paid tribute to morgan tsvangirai at a rally in the capital hadi the former opposition leader died from cancer last week will be laid to rest on tuesday rescuers in mozambique say they fear they'll find more dead bodies under a rubbish dump that's collapsed with seventeen people confirmed dead already parts of the three story high pile of garbage in the capital came down on houses during

a heavy storm many families have left the area feeling further collapses a former football coach has been jailed for thirty years for abusing eleven young players in the u.k. bobby bennell was found guilty of abusing boys aged between eight and fifteen unfold presume prosecutors called an industrial scale the sixty four year old had been a talent spotter for manchester city and crew alexandra during the one nine hundred eighty s. several victims told the court bennell sexually abused them on more than one hundred occasions but a charity oxfam has apologised to haiti's government after its stuffer accused of sexual misconduct it's released an internal report into allegations that aid workers used prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the twenty ten earthquake its former director for haiti admitted to the inquiry that he hired sex workers despite public denials that he workers threatened witnesses who spoke to investigators those are the headlines coming up next it's inside story by for that

. shifting alliances in syria kurdish fights is backed by the us say the syrian army has to help them face turkish troops the border area now an increasingly dangerous jigsaw will filter over by groups who want different outcomes first russia analysts and what's next for syria this is inside story.