use has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it with every day but the message is a simplistic you have the brain good logical rational people versus crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not hold 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. residents in east and good to say that waiting for that turn to die as the syrian government ignores calls for a cease fire. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. if you

think that's now been are we the future leaders of america went out. to buy those of last week's school shooting in florida that calls for gun reform to the state capital. benjamin netanyahu increasingly vulnerable and that reports a longtime ally has turned state witness against him. i'm brazilian troops deployed across rio de janeiro to fight rising crime in the city. despite growing condemnation syrian government bombs continue to rain down on the rebel held district of eastern boots anea damascus nearly three hundred people have been killed since sunday and all indications are that this is just the beginning the bombardment involves as strikes rockets shelling and barrel bombs a crude unguided device filled with explosives and sometimes shrapnel and oil

according to medical sources eight hospitals were attacked on tuesday alone all the civilian buildings have also been attacked like bakeries targeted to cut off food sources and syria's government seems intent on a bigger operation as in harder reports all indications are that a ground offensive is next. there is no frontline in eastern. oh residential neighborhoods have become battlegrounds the syrian government and its allies are bombing the besieged rebel enclave into submission i look at the suburb of damascus is under attack well look i was. on the we heard a plane overhead the myside landed people were torn into pieces i was with my nephew and we were both injured all i heard was the sound of an ambulance and i found myself here hundreds killed hundreds more injured the united nations says

makeshift hospitals are being hit some are now out of service there is a humanitarian crisis and there is nowhere to hide. you know there is no safe place i tried to convince my parents to say in the first floor of our building thinking it would be safer but they told me there's no difference because buildings are being flattened in the strikes. the government said military reinforcement to the frontlines around the besieged enclave the pro-government newspaper al what don says the bombing campaign comes ahead of what it said will be a vast operation which may start on the ground at any time. the thousands of rebels there are promising to repel any advance a ground offensive will not be easy the government and its allies have repeatedly tried to storm eastern huta in the past the rebels have strong defenses and an underground tunnel network that they use to their advantage. for the syrian government and its allies a victory in history who would remove

a threat to the capital the rebels are able to fire mortars into damascus at times causing casualties russia is now justifying the bombing campaign even though should be a deescalation zone it is that pointing to the presence of fighters belonging to a group previously known as el nostra accusing them of using civilians as human shields and of what it calls armed provocations. many including the un are warning the battle from eastern could turn into a repeat of the battle for aleppo. the battle for aleppo lasted for months there was so much suffering among the civilian population before a ceasefire deal was reached that involved a mass evacuation of the people of eastern to fear they could face the same fate senator i was into beirut. stories of individual tragedies are also emerging from eastern guta but there were dead look. like

this man cradling his dead son who was killed in an airstrike in the village of he's saying his final goodbye elsewhere children have been thrown a party in an underground bomb shelter in an attempt to distract them from the relentless bombing going on above of those civilians killed this week seventeen have been children my had my dean is a civil activist living in east and he says the world has turned its back on syria . seventy two hours the shelling being air it's. not stopping. this moment. there's a lot of people here there's a lot of injuries medical warrants out of service we feel like betrayed really from the international community. that was the.

bart of the escalation zones and saddam there's a bomb being a brutal campaign on on the area it's really we are we feel like it betrayed russia's u.n. envoy has called for a u.n. security council meeting to discuss the situation in eastern guta it comes as top u.n. official step up their condemnation of the bombing as well the u.n. high commissioner for human rights a saying expressed his frustration in a statement saying how much cruelty will it take before the international community can speak with one voice to say enough dead children enough wrecked families enough violence and take resolute concerted action to bring this monstrous campaign of annihilation to an end also the u.n. secretary general and the terrorist call for an immediate cease fire i am deeply saddened by the terrible suffering of the civilian population.

used them good to four hundred thousand people that leave. in hell on earth my appeal to all those involved is ford in immediate suspension of all war activities he needs them good to or in another story we're covering this hour fifteen people have been killed in an air strike by a saudi led coalition in northern yemen this according to local residents the strike hit two cars and a truck traveling along a road south of sada it also damaged the main road from the city to the yemeni capital of sana'a the saudi led coalition is trying to oust toothy rebels who control much of the country's north thousands have been killed in the fighting. hundreds of villages have been destroyed and more than six hundred thirty thousand

people forced to leave their homes after a surge in violence in the democratic republic of congo the un's refugee agency has warned that fighting in southeastern tag and he kept province could lead to a humanitarian disaster of extraordinary proportions a shot at palace explains. the eastern border of the democratic republic of congo isn't who morrow reports of violence to reach one thousand kilometers north to south. clashes between a ugandan rebel group and seize military in the north east has pushed civilians to make the dangerous crossing into again and some are attempting to roll across lake albert one of africa's great lakes and attain a paddle and you know some died of hunger some drowned and the like there's no one to help you there's nothing to eight surviving in the bush like animals. now the south east is reaching

a tipping point where humanitarian disaster extraordinary proportions is about to hit the southeastern part of the democratic republic of the congress the province of plunges further into violence triggering spiralling displacement and human rights abuses the southeast has been plagued by ethnic violence that new armed groups are popping up in congo leads in the area traps fighters don't know who is on whose side so civilians are targeted murders abductions and rape a common good i know they be heated people they can't open this stomachs full moved the guts and left them to die that's how they killing people. in twenty seven tane in eastern mated one hundred twenty thousand people fled into neighboring countries this latest violence has displaced five times that in just two months. the u.n. thinks the number of refugees is probably much higher but they are in areas two or

more years and dangerous to reach those that make it to temporary camps tell stories of their escape while among women oh i know. i had to take all my clothes off and jump into the river i was completely soaked but i didn't have a choice i was running for my life. the head of the norwegian refugee council says aid agencies are overwhelmed and under-funded this situation is worse now because more armed groups are doing more attacks than ever before. just outside of town here in been the where several massacres in recent days and therefore more people have fled into town violence began to increase and eastham do ya see when president joseph kabila refused to step down at the end of his mandate in twenty sixteen now it's reached a new level ballasts al-jazeera nigerian officials say fifty girls remain

missing following an attack by boko haram fighters on a village and you know by state and ninety one students at the girls' school and she were reported as missing but some of the girls were turned off to fleeing into the bush in two thousand and fourteen book abducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of chip. brazil senate has passed a decree which puts the military in charge of security in rio de janeiro the measure allows the army to take command of police forces in the crime plague state by deadly violence despite by eight percent in the last year president michel tema says drug gangs have virtually taken over rio's metropolitan area of twelve million people. so we know the situation is not exclusive to rio de janeiro we know that there is violence high levels of volatile states but with no doubt the situation in rio de janeiro has repercussions internally and internationally seriously so used to be used dropping a hotdog stand with an automatic rifle you're going to shows the situation is

really serious now where that force of our mother probably. it's not the role of the armed forces to act as police where is that written that the armed forces a trifle you all the boys that will go up on the hill have no experience in a war you have the enemy in a definite territory but in public security the enemy is mixed with the population if they shoot to kill innocent people who will be here with a clear conscience because you put the intervention. police have declared a curfew in central colombia after rioting broke out the attorney general revealed fog rebels used a supermarket chain to launder hundreds of millions of dollars. hundreds of people to take to the streets in anger it could put the far in breach of a peace deal or under a forcing assets deal reached in two thousand and sixteen ended hoth a century of civil war in colombia. it out is there much more still to come

and it's revolutionizing the way we live but experts say artificial intelligence is being used for militias purpose is. hollow the stormy weather continues across central parts of the mediterranean to play the cloud swirling away haversine some heavy showers into italy in particular cross the balkans some big downpours here thundery showers as well fair amount of snow on the northern flank of that the snow extends away towards the area a little bit of cloud there up into ukraine cold enough for moscow minus ten celsius the high here so it is not hard amounts for five maybe six degrees for london and paris will get colder as we go on into next week winds coming in from an

easterly direction there's a sleaze really setting in as we go on through saturday and sunday as you can see for friday six celsius in london four degrees in paris just hovering around freezing for zero eight but the showers stormy weather that will continue across central parts of the mediterranean more big downpours coming here at that stage and some of those showers they stretch across the other side of the med so all the passages you could see some lively showers from time to time. and normally when temperatures struggling to get into double figures and not a whole lot better as we go on into friday actually by friday that run really setting in for today's big showers coming through this days twenty two celsius to the east of that inquiry five inch right here and not too bad of a bat with a top temperature of sixty. five countries. four days. three thousand kilometer it's.

two generations. one. syrian refugees on assume real journey to see me. on the bright side. a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. uk i'm back with al jazeera a look at the stories making headlines now syrian government bombs continue to fall on the rebel district of eastern ghouta three hundred people have been killed since sunday. the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has called for the immediate suspension of

attacks saying civilians there are living in hell on us. and a surge in violence in the democratic republic of congo's destroyed hundreds of villages and forced more than six hundred thousand people from their homes. now our other top story this hour students from the florida high school where seventeen people were killed last week have been rallying in the state capital tallahassee a calling for a ban on assault style weapons and stricter controls on firearms. going purpose of an assault weapon like this is to kill and to kill as many people as possible aren't being seen and was hit and i didn't see it is not that's not the band's weapon it is rightly so call it an assault weapon but don't think about this word. i'm not trying to take away your second amendment rights nor am i trying to women a all guns who we cannot protect their guns group or we protect our children was

well a little later president trump will be holding a listening session with survivors from the florida school shooting more about all of this with kimberly help at the white house and it's interesting that we all seeing mounting pressure that shows no signs of letting up on the trumpet ministration to do more towards gun control particularly from students in florida tell us more about the response from the white house. well the white house did issue that surprise announcement by the president on tuesday afternoon here in washington where he said that he was directing his attorney general jeff sessions to in fact look at proposing restrictions on what are known as bump stocks now this is something that was used not in florida but in the shooting that you'll recall many months ago that took place in las vegas where dozens of people were killed this essentially allows for a legal firearm to be boosted in terms of its firepower almost machine gun style if you will so it is this that the president has proposed that this potentially needs

to be restricted this is certainly a big step but certainly one that could backfire for the president politically particularly when it comes to his base of supporters that certainly are very much in support of the second amendment or the right to bear arms and you have to remember too that the president came in saying that he was in support and backing the national rifle association the largest gun rights organization in the united states so the president is walking a very delicate balance you have to remember too that his powers are limited by the executive authority there's also the u.s. congress that has equal amount of power and may not be in favor of some of these proposals that are being put forward by the president having said all of that there is the listening session where the president is bringing in all of these divergent views in order to try and listen to that take some of their advice and perhaps heat it in terms of action moving forward and we've seen many of these students have

been very outspoken very vocal very clear invented demands will a ban on so-called stocks go any way to satisfying those calling for stricter gun control. well it's interesting because we've obviously had a number of mass shootings in the united states in recent years and we often see this very large outpouring of emotion which is a natural human reaction given the nature of what has occurred but often that tends to dissipate now this is certainly different in terms of the emotional response we've seen by young people particularly in tallahassee but also here in washington we had a rally at the u.s. capitol there were several hundred outside of the gates here at the white house it wasn't a particularly large rally but certainly it is loaded with emotion but the problem seems to be is that there is this lack of understanding of how the system of government works here in the united states when it comes to many of these rallies

real change takes place in congress and that involves electing legislators that perhaps support your views and one of the drawbacks of the so called snap chat generation has been that their lack of engagement when it comes to the political process wanting to see instantaneous results when often takes much longer than that when we look at the numbers from the last u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen of those eighteen year olds that could vote just thirty four percent did so in order to try and achieve the change that they're looking for may involve a longer term goal and also more engagement to bring about the change they're looking for thank you very much it was all the latest from the white house. a vatican investigator sent by pope francis to interview chile's sex abuse victims has been hospitalized prior to falling ill archbishop charles. was looking into claims that bishop kwan covered up abuse is carried out by the country's most notorious paedophile priest fernando. he began hearing witness

testimonies on monday and is now being replaced by another priest so for the story d.c. and human joins me from santiago so why has the case of bishop doris led to what has been described as the biggest crisis of pope francis papacy. indeed. right now at least six people from all sort of nowhere archbishop is the bishop he was appointed against the will of most of the people from the parish by the pope three years ago are meeting at the vatican embassy that you see next to me with the person who is filling in now for archbishop shipload now recovering from gallbladder surgery this has turned out to be a major scandal for the pope and for the vatican because when the pope came here to chile not only did he defend the bishop but he also came out and said that there

was no proof against him and of those who were accusing him of covering up such abuses were slanderous this infuriated many people including human rights organizations and the only unprecedented criticism came from even the church the archbishop of boston has shown or merely came out and said that this was an unfortunate statement by the pope that bit did very little to encourage victims of clerical sex abuse to come forward others win a lot of soul searching since then and to try to appease the critics that the pope has sent then his chief and most prestigious sex abuse investigator whom as you just said has suddenly been operated but not before having spoken to a lot of the victims and leaving one of. his main assistants behind to continue to take the testimonies i was just going to ask you who he's met so far and whether his sudden illness is going to affect the investigation. well presumably not very much because these are all the testimony is being recorded there is

a notary in fact that is that is testing that what is being said is being recorded properly and of the people who just came and said that they're very happy with not only archbishop you cluny but also his substitute they say he's a spanish priest will be able to understand them better because he speaks their language and that's the most important thing is that they are both independent of the chilean church hierarchy and also the papal nuncio here which is interesting that is the vatican ambassador who has received a lot of criticism from sex abuse victims here in chile thank you very much lucy and human our latin america editor with the latest from santiago. israeli media is reporting that a former confidant of prime minister benjamin netanyahu will testify against him over corruption allegations shlomo filled a former director of the communications ministry was arrested on sunday it's thought he'll get a lighter sentence in return of his cooperation israeli police say that's

sufficient evidence to indict netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of trust over an investigation into government benefits offered to a telecom giant but it smith is in west jerusalem and has the latest. until now benjamin netanyahu is in a circle of friends confidants and colleagues has kept a tight circle around the prime minister if shlomo filbert gives evidence against netanyahu then this really is the first fish or the first crack in the tight circle filbert was a former head of the communications ministry he was put there by netanyahu he's been arrested along with executives from bezerk telecom the largest telecommunications company in israel and the police suspect that bezerk got regulatory favors from netanyahu is government and in return and then yahoo got favorable coverage on one of the most popular news websites in israel that was controlled by a former chairman of besuch so it is prepared to say this in evidence against

netanyahu then he is in serious trouble there are two other corruption allegations of corruption cases against netanyahu the police believe there's enough evidence to prosecute him on those with israel's attorney general it up to the internally general to make the final decision on whether that will be prosecuted on those cases. pakistan's supreme court has ruled against former prime minister nawaz sharif declaring the anyone disqualified from holding office can't serve as head of the political party their decision is likely to force sheriff to step down as head of the pakistan muslim league n. party and possibly end his career in politics while hiding reports from his alibis . for the second time debugger sunny supreme court has you ruled that mr nawaz sharif who was the country's prime minister and earlier disqualified by the supreme court after corruption allegations against him in the panama papers however

the ruling party was then able to board those legislation through parliament making amendments through the election act of parliament whereby you know why sheriff would be eligible to go ahead days party despite an earlier ruling by the supreme court that he could not do it all so a major setback for the ruling party the spokesman for the government saying that they were expecting this were day but it appears that the ruling party is still on a collision course read bugger started your dishy i know our sheriff who is also facing serious charges of corruption is also facing trial in a national accountability court indeed a landmark war date for the prime minister which could spell trouble for progress on muslim league now watched led by the sherries now zimbabwe's ousted leader of

the company has marked his ninety fourth birthday at a private party in his harare mansion it's a far cry from the lavish ceremonies that mark has nearly four decades rule. has remained quiet since he left office and he hasn't made any public appearances and skipped the funeral of former opposition leader morgan tsvangirai on cheese day sending wishing condolences and stat. the us christian evangelist billy graham has died at the age of ninety nine throughout his career he provided spiritual counsel for every president from harry truman to barack obama graham was also a strong advocate for racial integration throughout the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's according to his ministry he preached to more people than anyone else in history reaching hundreds of millions of people. experts on emerging technologies a warning about the threat posed by artificial intelligence twenty six scientists

say the next decade could see growing misuse of drones for criminal purposes as well as a dramatic increase in cyber crime and the heywood reports from cambridge in the u.k. . it is the stuff of science fiction or at least it used to be a computer able to master an ancient chinese board game without human help to win every time and a truck that drives to itself computers umberto's powered by artificial intelligence now leading a demick so warning not to put the brakes on ai but that the technology is increasingly being used for malicious purposes for political or financial gain to extort and to gain influence cyber attacks on infrastructure as we've seen in ukraine attacks on computers in hospitals manipulation people for example we've seen some. attempts to manipulate political elections in the us and in europe

recently now those have been varying degrees of effectiveness with the techniques we have today but artificial intelligence will allow new types of cyberattacks might be more capable than we had before very safe. from health care to walk their machine based thinking is revolutionizing the way we live exposing us to the benefits and the risks the robot here has been designed to pick up these little bricks and put them back on the green mats now this is just a laboratory setting but in five or ten years time it could be developed to work on a construction site or support in the design or wouldn't want the technology hijacked the report's authors are calling on governments and the industry itself to do more to protect us from all the pitfalls experts warned of the serious consequences it's absolutely right that we issue warnings with ai because the capabilities of the possibilities for it going wrong are absolutely they could be

absolutely tragic we need to be able to get to grips with this now ai is clearly here to stay and staying one step ahead of those who want to abuse it will be a constant challenge and the heywood al-jazeera cambridge. or than one hundred rarely seen fish species have been holed up during a scientific voyage in australia scientists spent a month serving life under the sea with sonar and deep sea cameras of a forty two thousand fish or core including this blobfish cousin of a fish a fish only voted one of the world's ugliest animals. was more never than here out there dot com. so quick look at the stories making headlines this hour syrian government bombs continue to fall on the rebel held district of eastern ghouta nearly three hundred people have been killed since sunday medical sources say eight hospitals were

attacked on tuesday alone other civilian buildings have also been targeted the u.n. chief antonio the terraces made his strongest statement yet on the assault i am deeply saddened by gerry boyle suffering of the civilian population. used and good to four hundred thousand people that leave. in hell on earth my appeal to all those involved is for an immediate suspension of all war activities he needs them good. in our other top stories a surge in violence in the democratic republic of congo has destroyed hundreds of villages and forced more than six hundred thirty thousand people from their homes un's refugee agency has warned that fighting in southeast and. province could lead to a humanitarian disaster of extraordinary proportions elsewhere around fifteen nigerian

schoolgirls a feared missing after book around fighters attacked a village in the north east of the country a roll call at the girls' school in depth on monday night showed that ninety one students were missing and police deny any abductions have taken place. brazil's senate has passed a decree which puts the military in charge of security in rio de janeiro the measure allows the army to take command of police forces in the crime plague state where violence is by eight percent in the last year present shall tame a once drug gangs a virtually taken over rios metropolitan area of twelve million people. and students from the florida high school where seventeen people were killed last week a been rallying in the state capital tallahassee calling for a ban on assault style weapons and stricter controls on firearms president donald trump is meeting parents students and teachers who've been victims of gun violence later at the white house owes the headlines more news coming up in about twenty five minutes time but the stream is coming up next on al-jazeera also

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