and islam in america at this time on al-jazeera news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is simplistic you have been saying good logical rational. and misinformation is right dismissal and does not well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. syria's opposition calls for international action to end the bombing campaign in rebel held recently saying it amounts to a bloodbath. and

i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera life and also coming up we are not abandoning our commitment to the peace process and we do that then you're going to have to find a new international alliance palestinians seek a new partner to help mediate the stalled peace talks also. known me to begin by saying how so. i don't want to build a machine oxfam bosses faced tough questions from british politicians about the sexual abuse scandal in haiti. and researches make a disturbing discovery in the marine life in the atlantic ocean. the un envoy to syria is warning that eastern could become a second aleppo government forces supported by. russia have been bombarding the

rebel held area near damascus at least one hundred eighty people have died since sunday reports from beirut. panic in the streets i. didn't see the. fear in people's faces. the neighborhoods flattened the airstrikes are almost continuous. towns across eastern who are coming under intense fire i survivors emerge in shock children traumatized. was was one girl one some four hundred thousand people are trapped in this besieged syrian opposition enclave nowhere is safe. the sound of fighter jets in the skies frightens

the population. and muhammad and her son the same say they can only hope the walls in their home will save them if a shell or an airstrike hit nearby i didn't we have no choice but to stay in our harm's despite be in strikes and shelling out building and those in the street said i don't have underground shelter. the u.n. says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control because of what it calls an extreme escalation of hostilities scores of civilians have been killed since sunday and the number continues to rise. there are hundreds of injuries as well doctors are appealing to the international community to force the government to allow supplies in several cars food we have shortages in medicine and medical supplies because the regime has been hitting this area for weeks we've had to deal with many injuries imagine longer have blood bags the the attic. the un is

demanding an end to the targeting of civilians but for the syrian government and its allies this is a military tactic. they hope that by inflicting suffering on the population they will turn against the rebels and force them to surrender. eastern as the last remaining opposition stronghold around damascus comments made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov what he calls using the experience if. you. are causing the syrian government became focus for all of the city of aleppo like this thousand and sixteen after months of siege and a full blown military assault that ended surrendering. the main opposition body the syrian national coalition is calling the latest wave of violence a war of extermination it is also condemning what it calls the international silence. this is not the first bombing campaign in eastern.

hundreds of civilians were killed in weeks of bombardment earlier this year many believe the renewed bombardment could be the final assault senator. and the head of syria's negotiating committee says that what's going on in eastern amounts to a war crimes he's accused the assad regime of crossing or international red lines a lot of good remains very clear to him that the needless death and destruction in syria now what is this is this this and destruction lot of clear that. while the syrian people seek their basic human rights democracy and the freedom this year again with the daily supports of russia and iran have turned. into a bloodbath in the situation and children. on the just just that bit more than seventy civilians we have killed. the escalation zone and the auspices of russia

what's i've been in is a war crime and there are developments to report from northern syria turkey's president recha type but one is told parliament that his forces will soon capture the syrian region of a free syrian pro-government militia are reported to be heading there but turkey is involved in a military operation against kurdish faces ankara said it will confront syrian forces if they help the kurdish y p g which it considers a terrorist group from al-jazeera as some of been job it has in gaziantep. president read that they are the gun says that after his conversations with the russian and the iranian president he's been able to halt the advance of the syrian government forces which are heading the words the city of the turkish government have been carrying out an operation called olive branch since last month this is an area where we've just been told by the white people's protection units go to fight

if we are backed by the united states very active on also said that the operation in everyone is heading into another phase i need to kill saddam at the same time it takes to make certain perforations in the field the seeding of the effort city will start rapidly in the coming days. but realty sources have been telling us that this is a very difficult area in and taking control of the area it's easier said than done and even the turkish president has been saying that their advance is being cautious and the reason has been to avoid civilian casualties this is a very densely populated city but the free syrian army fighters these are out of fighters which are backed by the turkish government and its military say that they have been able to control war villages around the city of a free and they are hopeful that sooner rather than later they'd be able to completely choke off the supply lines through which of these kurdish fighters have been getting weapons and more reinforcements and they say that they are confident the days not far when they will be able to take complete control of the city of.

the palestinian president wants to set up an international alliance to mediate with israel that's the message that mahmoud abbas will deliver to the united nations later on tuesday it would be a move away from a longstanding policy of accepting the u.s. as the main intermediary let's go live now to u.n. headquarters in new york and a diplomatic editor james space so what's president abbas going to say to the u.n. james what will the response be. well this is a regular monthly meeting that takes place at the united nations looking at the current situation regarding the israelis and palestinians but it's going to be very different when that meeting takes place in about an hour's time because the palestinian place is not being taken by the palestinian ambassador it's being taken by president abbas he's coming here himself i think a showdown with the israelis and the americans because he's so unhappy about recent developments he's particularly unhappy of course about the u.s.

except of jerusalem as the israelis capital that recognition certainly he believes is against international law also very unhappy that the u.s. administration is pulling out a lot of its funding for under the u.n. agency that funds palestinians and helps many palestinians that is the backdrop for this meeting a palestinian president who no longer believes that the u.s. can play a leading role that the u.s. have had that responsibility for many years you remember the peace efforts under the former secretary of state john kerry well the palestinians have given a year of the trumpet ministration and the efforts by jarrad cushion and they believe that things are seriously going backwards not forwards and so now they want to see the security council the members of the security council and particularly the five permanent members listen to them when they say there needs to be

a new way of coming up with some sort of peace settlement a new format james many thanks indeed gerry space there at the u.n. in new york. oxfam says that it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual abuse by of staff but new details came as bosses were questioned in the u.k. parliament about sexual misconduct in haiti in two thousand and eleven some staff members are accused of using prostitutes during an aid mission on the island nation after an earthquake there the charities already apologized to haiti's government but british politicians want more answers i repeat oxfam's brooder apology and my personal apology i am sorry we are sorry for the damage that oxfam has done both to the people of haiti but also to wider efforts for aid and development by possibly undermining public support so i wholeheartedly apologize for those comments and commit to work in that greater public interest so that

oxfam can make a powerful role role in the work that we all believe in. please allow me to begin by seeing her story idea about what. a machine i've spent my life trying to stand up for women's rights and to find for people living in poverty this is painful for me more now from al-jazeera as part of the phillips in london. mark goldring and other heads of oxfam came under a real grilling from british m.p.'s goldring in fairness i only joined the organizations after the haiti scandal and he said that when he joined he was told about what had happened and he was told that it had been dealt with appropriately the matter was closed nonetheless he apologized in particular the m.p.'s want to know why oxfam has not reported those cases to the police in haiti at the

time undoubtedly it is an organization in crisis mr goldring acknowledged that some seven thousand individual donors members of the general public in britain have cancelled their subscriptions to oxfam over the past fortnight but i think there's a feeling that this goes beyond oxfam itself a short time later also giving evidence to the committee kevin what kins the head of save the children he said that this is a systemic problem it goes beyond a few bad apples but he reiterated his belief that britain is a leader in quality aid and in quantity of eight and he described as opportunistic those who have sought to draw a link between the fact that britain is one of the few countries that gives point seven percent of gross national income and these problems he's saying the shouldn't be a link britain does give aid very well but it really needs to deal with these serious moral and ethical problems we're going to weather update next year on al-jazeera

then we'll tell you why the un says the world is failing its most vulnerable plus. i'm wayne hay with a rare look at the second stem being constructed on the lower mekong river as laos pushes ahead with its goal of becoming the battery of southeast asia. however the skies are largely clear across southern parts of china at the moment we will see that cloud think the opposite go on through the next few days to central and southern parts of the wet weather coming in here you see a southerly wind coming up towards a northerly wind also fading is where the northeast is a convergence so the air is forced to rise cool condense forms the cloud forms a heavy right and that rain becomes more expansive as we go through thursday not only celsius there for shanghai on thursday data to the southeastern corner

a little more cloud just coming into hong kong so an increase in the sticky seventeen degrees the top temperature here a fair amount of cloud just making its way across southern parts of the by a bingo but for much of south asia the skies are clear some decent spells of sunshine coming through it's warming up in new delhi temperatures here at around twenty nine degrees celsius much of india started to fill the should we call it pretty monsoon hate thirty four celsius there from that poor over the next few days a little more cloud just coming into pakistan though you'll notice that cloud spilling out of the middle east northern areas of the gulf seeing a little more the way of cloud even here in doha because a little bit of cloud as it go on through wednesday temperatures around twenty six celsius forty back to around twenty four degrees on thursday still a little on the gray side but largely fine and dry. the scene for us when they're on line once is american sign in yemen that peace is

almost possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication and eating they say is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. well again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera syria's opposition is calling for international action to end the bombing campaign in rebel held eastern ghouta saying that it amounts to a bloodbath more than one hundred eighty people have been killed since sunday. the

palestinian president will tell the u.n. later on tuesday that he wants to set up a new international alliance to mediate with the israelis but what about us as abandoning a twenty five year policy of accepting the u.s. as the baited to be cheery at oxfam says it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual abuse by stuff that you data details came as bosses were questioned in the u.k. as parliament about sexual misconduct in haiti in two thousand the charity has already apologized to haiti's government. zimbabwe's for the opposition leader has been laid to rest in his hometown of who had a morgan tsvangirai died of cancer last week politicians from the ruling zanu p.f. party attended the service alongside thousands of opposition supporters jagat i founded the main opposition movement for democratic change which challenge for the president rob. well gobby and his posse how does here is how to metastasize reports

. this was the final farewell and lots of people were very sad the cost it was open briefly and a few friends and family got to see morgan tsvangirai one more time and it was taken to the family homestead where he was buried next to the first wife susan the question now is what happens next for the party nelson chamisa was named acting president by the national council of the m.d.c. tea party but some officials we know on happy with his appointment any talk with any could say an earlier judy nelson's new show saying that he's playing the same scene out across the country to talk to ordinary party supporters and find out what they feel about his appointment is the majority say official congress must be held to elect a new leader he says the navy that's what they will do before now he's saying he is the legitimate leader the concern of course is if senior officials in the party who are unhappy with him decide to leave and split it could weaken the main opposition party just months before elections are held the world is failing newborn babies

according to unicef a new report found that infants born in the world's poorest countries have the lowest chance of survival in test time report. this is one of the busiest maternity wards in the pakistani capital islamabad several davey's are born here every day but the odds of survival for instance across pakistan is some of the worst in the world according to the u.s. children's charity unicef one hundred twenty two die within the first month of life the mothers don't have access to. the hospital bed don't have access to look and birth and then the mothers are malnourished they are an american and it is the lack of awareness among the masses who will become mother to the hospital provider of their time of the delivery the situation globally isn't much better every year more than two and a half million babies die before turning one month old one million of. them take their first and last breaths on the day they are born another two point six million

are stillborn central african republic afghanistan somalia and list so throw around out the top five nations were infants struggle to stay alive more than eighty percent of newborn deaths are the result of premature birth complications during labor and delivery infections poverty conflict and weak institutions are being blamed those with the best chance of survival are babies born in japan iceland and singapore compared with those countries newborns in the riskiest places are fifty times more likely to die there has been some success in reducing child deaths the number of dying before their fifth birthday has halved over the past twenty five years but according to the u.n. millions more could be saved if mothers and babies have access to affordable quality health care good nutrition and clean water some of the governments actually that are worst off spend less than one percent of the gross domestic product on health care in the national recommendation is to spend at least five percent. if

you couple that with training competent health workers giving them a chance to wash their hands as they were stepping in to deliver babies and having basic equipment drugs getting breastfeeding going within an hour and sending girls to school i think it's within within reach of all governments to do that babies born in countries across sub-saharan africa often face the top assad's that's mainly because pregnant women are less likely to receive assistance during delivery n.p.r.'s guy al-jazeera. in brazil they've been demonstrations in rio de janeiro in response to orders by president bush l.t. for the military to take over policing that the government says it's to counteract rising gang violence but many brazilians fear that having soldiers on the streets could worsen what they say is excessive force used by some police i force those are my this hour for some of the armed forces the national force the federal police the highway patrol a called upon by their commander the president of the country for

a fundamental task in the defense of democracy to come but and to defeat organized crime it is not a military intervention far from that we will vote a decree of intervention of the federal government in the state of being additional nearer parts of new zealand of declared states of emergency as former cycling peter makes landfall tens of thousands of homes are without power some towns on the west coast of the south island cut off by flooding the military was deployed to areas expected to be hit hardest the storm caused serious damage to the pacific island nations tong and fiji last week. your research has revealed the extent of plastic in the world's oceans the study published in front is in marine science found seventy five percent of marine life in the atlantic ocean contain plastic particles in their stomachs it says that fish living up to a thousand meters below the surface are absorbing toxic pollutants such as flame retardants paints and ships elance well this isn't the first study to raise the.

more than eight million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the oceans every year that's adding to the estimated eleven billion pieces the rule really is trapped in coral reefs the research group little base estimates that nearly seventy percent of all marine list is plastic based the problem is so widespread that earlier this month a research vessel found micro plastics polluting the most remote and uncharted areas of the ocean and it's not just sea water that's affected one investigation revealed eighty three percent of tap water samples from around the world were contaminated with micro plastics dorothy dunkel from the university of bergen is not surprised by the findings but says the changes in the hands of the consumer. the fish and seafood is routinely sampled all the time and we have found plastic and stomachs. we don't know what this means for for example very human physiology

or what this is going to do to lessen you have a project ongoing now to try to understand that little bit better one big wake up call for us in norway where we don't have a high population density but we had a whale that beach last year and there are thirty plastic bags found in its stomach that was a wake up call for consumers and also other places in the world in the u.s. and other places like france are putting more taxes on plastic bags for example that you using for shopping so slowly but surely this is making its way more in the mainstream that consumers understand that there haven't will in this to you would like to see this kind of bottom up effect that in democratic countries people can say ok this is a problem we want regulations we want polluters to pay the price but we also have to look at our own daily aspects i just went to the store today to buy a yogurt you can't buy yogurt here but that's not in plastic packaging why can't i buy you're going to this in glass probably have to pay more but consumers have to understand that they do have

a role in this and they can talk to regulators archaeologists say the pollution is threatening the world's largest underwater cave system the sucker caves home to some of the oldest human remains in the americas tracing back more than twelve thousand years but there are concerns that runoff from a nearby dump could be damaging skeletal remains more than one hundred sites of my era pottery and bones of the discovered in the caves in the yucatan peninsula we. it's very unlikely that there's another site like this in the world with these characteristics with the amount of archaeological at affects found the and the live of preservation that they have mexico's major political parties have announced their candidates for july's. actions for the leftist andres manuel lopez obrador in the lead he's a two time presidential runner up promising to fight crime and corruption and this year for the first time independent candidates are hoping to shake up the race john holeman reports from mexico city. to some mexican is this

is the sound of long overdue change it's the campaign music for an independent candidate for the first time in history those not linked twenty political party have been allowed to run in the upcoming presidential race the electoral authorities haven't made it easy just to get on the ballot each independent has clicked almost one million pledges via cell phone from voters around the country three out of almost fifty appear to have managed it each has made their name in different ways right leaning margarita zavala is an ex first lady jaime toward the readers who calls himself the wild horse stalls himself as a maverick straight talking rancher and a man the real people a progressive leftist is better known within the senate than to the public despite that he sees this is a chance for independents to clean up politics from the outside wrestling control

from parties who become embroiled in corruption scandals and conflicts of interests . of course there's no worse thing in a democracy than parties like the ones we have now they've got addicted to money we have to send to rehab for a while so that someone else can take on the presidency and provide a transparent public servant administration. but there are questions about the independence ability to do that that's partly because all of the ones that are likely to be on the ballot are themselves career politicians nurtured within the system and partly because none of them are expected to win the presidency the major party candidates so far look much too strong that doesn't mean however that they won't have an impact on the race by taking votes away from those candidates independent candidates may become the king makers of this election. if an independent candy that you know does a good run and gets i don't know between five and ten percent of the vote the question is where are those votes coming from. and where would those votes have

gone if there were no independent can. optimise hope that as time goes by things will change and independents won't just be influences but instead fresh voices outside of a widely discredited political class able to mount a genuine challenge at the highest level that's unlikely to happen this election but it is a start john homan now does it or mexico city the first town on the mekong river may start to generate electricity earlier than expected the controversial say a brewery is in laos and the government there says it needs the project to improve the country's economy but many who rely on the river are concerned about the environmental environmental impact wayne hay was given rare access to the site. this is one of the most unique places on the mekong river just before it flows from laos into cambodia it disperses becoming eleven kilometers wide and creating

thousands of channels and islands to make only the largest inland fishery in the world but in this part of the river those who rely on it for food and income say something is changing because when a number of fish is decreasing each year it seems like they might be staying deep or for some reason i think there is too much noise in the reef or. something part of the answer could lie a short distance from where lugged fish is in one of the channels a dam is being built as the lao government works towards its goal of becoming the battery of southeast asia while china operates six dams on the upper make on the dawn so hong is just the second being built on the lower reaches both are in laos and the government has plans for at least seven more this is a relatively small project but is attracted some of the strongest criticism downstream from laos cambodia and vietnam both of which had been calling for a moratorium on the construction of dams on the main stream of the maker. river

well seeing what laos is doing cambodia has given up on that now and is forging ahead with its own plans to build at least two dams on the make kong one of which will be in the province just across the border from here. neighboring countries had criticized last for not being transparent enough about dawn song and the potential trends boundary impacts it's being built on one of the only channels in the area that fish can migrate up and down stream year around seventy. make their terrific so abstracting my question now would mean. and give up their fish stuck in the whole region. the developers and the government say they're widely and deepening other channels to allow fish to swim through they're also conducting daily surveys of fish stocks in the area which they say aren't being adversely affected. in international because you put

a book company to study and. restyle subsidies that have been she would stake honda. is leading the race to harness the power of the lower mekong and generate income it's a race that opponents now acknowledge they can't stop and can only hope to slow it down wayne hay al-jazeera home district southern laos and finally as they say on all the best news programs something to make you feel warm and fuzzy the world's only panda triplets of been treated to a special chinese new year buffy look at this it was bamboo shoots for starters guangzhou zoo the main meal for the three and a half year old pandas was steamed cornbread in the shape of gold in goats and for dessert special cakes for the two males and a female. it is good tell you when to say free until you get here in doha the top stories on

al-jazeera syria's opposition is calling for international action to end the bombing campaign in rebel held eastern ghouta saying that it amounts to a bloodbath more than one hundred eighty people have been killed since sunday airstrikes by the asad government and russia. a lot of god remains very clear too in the needless death and destruction in syria now what is this is this this and destruction lot of clear then and is still while the syrian people seek their basic human rights democracy and the freedom this year again with the derelicts aborts of russia and iran have turned. into a bloodbath of innocent women and children or only just just that bit more than seventy civilians we have killed a lot of. this collision zone and that of the auspices of russia what's i've been a good thought is a war crime. the palestinian president will tell the un shortly that he wants to

set up a new international alliance to mediate with the israelis mahmoud abbas is abandoning a twenty five year policy of accepting the u.s. as the main intermediary oxfam says that it's investigating twenty six new cases of sexual abuse by the stuff that new details came as bosses were questioned by the u.k. as part of about sexual misconduct in haiti in two thousand and eleven the charity has already apologized to haiti's government. zimbabwe's former opposition leader has been laid to rest in his hometown of the header died of cancer last week politicians from the ruling zanu p.f. party attended the service alongside thousands of oppositions pulls syrian state television is reporting convoys pro-government militia have entered into the african region where turkey is involved in a military operation against kurdish fighters ankara said that it will confront the syrian forces if they help the kurdish y p g which it considers to be

a terrorist group. here with a little over twenty five minutes on al jazeera right after today's edition of the stream next. to this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. hi i'm new in the stream today. we ask what's next i really could be joining us live on your questions and your comments and i'll do my best to bring them into.