discover a willful would winning programming from around the world. come to make it challenge your perception if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better plan than facebook. documenters debates and discussions this country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point alger's real. should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it. and i agree father whose daughter was killed at the florida school shooting speaks out as a meeting with president trump.

hello i'm so ho robert this is al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes. i don't think we can let the scenes go on happening in this horrendous way as the outrage grows over the bloodbath in syria's eastern guta russia calls for an emergency un security council meeting. also dozens of nigerian schoolgirls affair to have been abducted after an attack on their school bible koran. and al jazeera joins green peace signs that launches an expedition to protect the antarctic. the company welcome to al-jazeera there's been an outpouring of anger and frustration at a meeting between the u.s. president and students and families affected by last week's deadly school shooting in florida donald trump pleas for reform and there's responded with his own ideas

including arming teachers castro has more from washington d.c. . a meeting with the president dominated by emotions and raw pain i'm very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fix everything how many schools how many children have to get shot. it stops here with the cid ministration and me this man's daughter was shot nine times at stillman douglas high school in florida last week this student lost his friend i turned eighteen the day after i woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war described as a listening session by the white house trump joined by his vice president and

secretary of education said all ideas to prevent future school shootings are on the table that includes arming teachers an attack has lasted on average about three minutes it takes five to eight minutes for responders for the police to come in so the tack is over if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well in the attack very quickly anybody like the students and parents invited to meet the president were handpicked by the administration some said security and better mental health should be main priority. was but outside the white house students who continued their protest wednesday were united in their opposition to guns we will continue to try to get gun legislation until congress which is why the white house was. trump said during his meeting with shooting survivors that

this was no longer the time for just talk as in the past but elected by a pro-gun base and backed by the powerful gun lobby it remains to be seen just health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington. well in florida where last week's shooting took place deputy sheriffs who patrol school grounds have now been told to carry rifles the state is at the center of a big student mobilization against gun violence on tuesday thousands of them gathered outside the republican controlled legislature joined the state capital tallahassee to demand a change and a gala was also for. the survivors of last week's school shooting in parkland would not alone when they came to florida state capitol chants of no more guns and never again rang out as crowd swells. many of these students have spent the past few days

attending funerals of form and classmates their determination to change u.s. gun laws is a rallying call for activists across the nation you sent thoughts and prayers as your remedy but refused to take action. well members of the legislature i am proud to announce i took your advice i have been praying. i've been praying for you. god. i'd bring you that you look in the mirror and figure out your priorities. i presume that you signed the no n.r.a. money pledge and so many of them out there. now. unless some gun owners and now destroying their assault rifles in videos that have gone viral others a turning them into authorities but on wednesday florida's politicians rejected a bill that would have banned assault rifles an indication of just how challenging

any change will be that person who died because of an iowa fifteen. was. you because you sat yesterday you had a chance to stop them and you took that chance the way i was there i don't like your style of mind. but it. was hard to background checks and better mental health screening a widely supported by the us public service the voices of children may make a difference they have to understand that this is really affected everyone not just us the kids in the school it's affected the whole community and they need to listen to us and we're we're smart we can we can talk ourselves we're not just children we can you know we can make it what you have here is a new generation of voices determined to make themselves heard and right now the

world is listening but any change lays firmly at the doorsteps of politicians the next move is theirs and the expectations are perhaps higher than they've ever been and gallacher al-jazeera tallahassee florida well david bennett is the former president of students for concealed carry a pro-gun advocacy group he says it's right for president trump to consider arming teachers. certainly with the requisite training i think that arming teachers or at least allowing certain teachers to be armed is a solution that should be on the table i mean look our government is one that says they talk about the solution and see something say something and that didn't work in this case because the government did not do anything people reported this guy to the authorities and the government didn't step in the red flags were screaming that this person had a murderous intent those school children had it as a joke amongst themselves that if anyone's going to shoot up the school this guy is going to do it so it's a question of what's the best way to stop it you know if i'm a teacher the system failed me the police failed me the f.b.i.

failed me the parents failed me the system failed me i want to have something more than a pencil to throw back at a madman with a rifle that burst into my school room well despite growing condemnation syrian government bombing continues on the rebel held district of kuta damascus more than three hundred people are being killed since sunday that of the united nations has called the situation in eastern guta hell. diplomatic editor james bays will have more not in a moment but first said it could have looked at what's happening on the ground. there is no frontline in eastern. 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. 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 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 that 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 eastern should be a deescalation zone it is pointing to the presence of the 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 for eastern huta 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 with

a fear they could face the same fate. beirut. the security council met to discuss the un's charter the governing document of the world organization with charter drawn up over seventy years ago gives the council the key role of maintaining peace and security a job it's miserably failed to do over the last seven years in syria as it met once again divided and impotent some of the worst violence of the war as eastern ghouta was once again bombarded four hundred thousand people that believe. in hell on earth and so my appeal to all those involved. it is for any immediate suspension of all war activities in eastern guta there were in fact for one day two secretaries general in new york mr good terrorists his previous

sesa bang ki-moon had also been invited to speak he also expressed concern at the continued bloodshed in the syrian situation and must come to an end it's going to be a seventy yard going through a come march tenth even the seventy year appearing doors are seven yes a sore many civilian population have been killed there is now a new peace effort the ambassador of sweden hopes to bring a new draft resolution to a vote in the council in the coming days we're asking for a cessation of hostilities for thirty days throughout syria throughout syria forty or forty eight hours after that access for weekly u.n. humanitarian and convoys aid aid convoys to. areas in need particularly urgent busy areas russia had blocked previous efforts to get

a resolution on a cease fire in eastern guta facing mounting criticism and bassa vasoline the benzine has now himself called for a security council meeting on the situation on thursday the charter which the un has actually been discussing is in effect the constitution of the world body it begins we the peoples of the united nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war now compare those words to the pictures from eastern guta history is bound to judge that in recent days and over the past seven years the u.n. has failed the people of syria james pays out his era of the united nations well to africa now a nigerian please. dozens of schoolgirls are fed missing following an attack by boko haram fighters on the village of a village in your bay state now there are conflicting reports that some girls have

been found after fleeing the attack and that some may have been rescued by the military in twenty fourteen the armed group abductors more than two hundred seventy girls in the town of chibok this was yesterday around six thirty we were at the school eating some of us were going to prayers between the christie ends and the muslims then heard the shooting of the guards and we don't know where they are going we just moved far away but today they released us and we have gone back home limited to us has more from my degree in northeastern nigeria. well there are differing accounts as to exactly what happened at the government goes school in new york state initial reports say the fight is went into town started fighting sporadically in there and then went to the school raided the school food store but nobody will stick and then a day later after the attack at least one student told local media that you saw some of our colleagues being taken away so when the fighters moved into the institution members of staff of the school and the girls killed the first and ran

into the bushes then reports emerged that more than ninety have been unaccounted for from then there were reports that some of the girls who have found their way back into town and back into the school but to the school now some parents also approached the school authorities telling them that in fact some of their daughters have made. found their way home so the obvious to government issued a statement saying that at least fifty students have been unaccounted for as of the time it will east that statement but said the military and other security services are calming the bushes trying to rescue those who fled and found their way why they actually couldn't get now this is coming at a time when there are still up to one hundred schoolgirls kidnapped in two thousand and fourteen in chibok and now a lot of people are oppressive are strict back to what happened and many people are complaining as to why there was no clear statement more than twenty four hours after the attack. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. they work

on the drafting of some of the darkest chapters in modern history amnesty international takes aim at countries it says are failing to respect human rights. and some good news for cape town as the south african city tries to avoid running you know it's a. lie their weather does remain a little disturbed across parts of the middle east a fair amount of cloud just sliding across iraq and on into iran i would be the case as we go on through the next couple of days and the possible this isn't that weather to say a few spots of rain there perhaps some longer spells of pride some heavy downpours coming into parts of iraq into iran the clouds gathering over kuwait as well the high that looks fine and tried nineteen celsius

a barrier. touch warmest ago wanted to friday should be largely dry but still it's also want to see showers maybe the odd shot creeping into syria easing over towards northern parts of iraq northern areas of iran the cloud then pushing over towards afghanistan that cloud still there across northern parts of the arabian peninsula body to see a little bit of right developing here and cause hours to go on into the weekend first i should be lousy dry friday again largely dry think it's in the sack they and someday we may see a few spots of right developing have ascended to the north of that anyway where you see this cloud you could see a little bit that weather south of that it stays dry warm and sunny so dry woman sunny into the western side of south africa eastern areas still seeing more shop showers with the tempest picking up to thirty three celsius and been more heavy downpours to zimbabwe and zambia.

i am doing this for the benefit of people. so they see the importance of there are guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. but the back to algis their arms a whole rob a reminder of our top news stories people affected by gun violence in the u.s. have urged president donald trump to improve gun laws during

a meeting at the white house truck told them he supports the idea of arming teachers if they receive special training also the head of the u.n. has called for an immediate halt to attacks on syria's eastern puter saying civilians that are living in hell on earth syrian and russian air raids have killed more than three hundred people since sunday. dozens of schoolgirls offered missing following a buck a rubber tire called the school the northeastern nigeria there are conflicting reports of some girls have been found and rescued after escaping the assault in yobe a state. at least forty four people have died when a double decker bus plunged into a ravine in southern peru ran off the road at a caper and fell two hundred meters down the cliff emergency services have to pull bodies up on stretchers around two dozen people were also injured and many have been to hospital in military helicopters. will stay on the continent police had to

declare a curfew in central colombia after writing broke out over revelations about former far the government has revealed a supermarket chain has been used as a front for hiding fark assets that's prompted large protests on the targeting of super can do stalls the connection could mean the fark would be in breach of a peace deal for underreporting their assets the twenty sixty degree would ended fifty years of civil war in colombia. now a special envoy sent to chile by pope francis to investigate cover ups of a sex abuse scandal has been hospitalized has put more pressure on the vatican is already under fire for not being seen to do enough to deal with allegations of abuse by catholic priest we see a new been reports now from the capitol some thiago. hours before he was taken to hospital for an emergency gall bladder operation the vatican's most experienced sex crimes investigator explained the high profile mission that brought him to chile

even. pope francis sent me to collect useful information concerning monsignor one barrel of. he was referring to this bishop accused of covering up sex abuses committed by chile's most notorious pedophile priest the well documented abuses took place in the seminary of the church that you see behind me and it was the pope's stubborn defense of bishop during his recent trip here to chile that unleashed widespread criticism that his promise of zero tolerance of abuses in the church was a mere public relations exercise under pressure to address the worst crisis of his papacy the pope dispatched his team of investigators to hear testimonies from those whom just weeks earlier he had accused of slander. and among them sex abuse survivor one hamilton. it's hard time that the dirt hidden under the rug comes out by meeting with the archbishop was respectful whatever happens the vatican will

know the truth of what goes on in chile over the outcome ultimately depends on the pope a spanish priest to accompany the vatican's chief investigator has taken over the interviews while the archbishop recovers wednesday afternoon he heard testimonies from three parishioners a priest and a deacon from asada know the city where the pope appointed bishop biros despite widespread protests. we want to tell others who also. i want to testify that we are confident that despite the archbishop's illness the investigation will continue with full guarantees of independence from chile's complicit church hierarchy. in chile some eighty priests have been accused of sexual abuse of minors according to the american n.-g. o. bishop accountability the question many are asking now is whether this week's ongoing investigation is simply papal damage control or does it signal a new more convincing chapter in the catholic church's purported fight against

ongoing clerical sex abuse you see in human i'll just see that sente have now two thousand and seventeen was one of the darkest years for human rights in recent history and that's according to a report by amnesty international it covers the state of human rights in one hundred fifty nine countries and then a direct criticism of the trumpet ministration the group unveiled its findings in the u.s. for the first time particle has more from washington d.c. . a bleak assessment on the state of human rights in twenty seventeen they will not look back and draw any lessons from this they will look back and they will see that they will all of the drafting of some of the dockers chapters in modern history the forward of the four hundred page report takes aim at specific countries first and foremost me and mar accusing the government of committing crimes against humanity which forced almost seven hundred thousand rohingya muslims to flee it singles out

saudi arabia's blockade for creating a humanitarian catastrophe in yemen all of the countries fighting eisel in iraq and syria for not protecting civilians and south sudan for crimes which forced thousands of people to flee from their donald j. trump is called it comes out the united states calling president donald trump's plan to ban entry from citizens of several muslim majority countries a transparently hateful move and it blames european leaders for creating the conditions for what it calls shocking abuses of refugees in libya it names countries it says are consistently violating human rights such as turkey china russia venezuela egypt and iran it also pointed the finger at six african countries for stifling public protests this is the very first time that amnesty international has chosen to unveil their annual report here in the united states and they chose the capitol building they say in large part because they believe what they call his nationalistic and sometimes even hateful rhetoric and policies of president donald

trump are spreading across the globe anything that the u.s. does has a massive in a multiplier effect across the world but they want em boredom by the fact that you know playing on human rights abandon me human values is something which is acceptable today we asked the white house for a response but didn't hear back as for amnesty international it says it's not all bad out there it sees the rise of hate being met with the rise of a resistance from the u.s. one. want to poland. that is way lower to iran. which embassy says gives it some hope that just maybe twenty eighteen won't be quite as bleak in so many places patty calling al-jazeera washington severe water restrictions appear to be working in cape town south african city faces becoming the first major metropolis to run out of water because of years of drought

it's now pushed back the date that it expects the taps to run drawing hash on the balance reports. as the sun rises over to vassar's kloof dam cape town's main water resource has never been so low in january south africans were warned today zero would come on april twelfth the day cape town would run dry but that prophecy looks unlikely to come true. water restrictions appear to be working residents are sticking to the daily limit of fifty liters per person per day deemed the minimum needed for survival business owners are changing the way they operate south africans have nudged a zero out another three months to july we've made a mess of a fit in trying to use as little as possible so washing up seeing some really really we don't we for often we use it consciously and mindfully. one entrepreneur has opened an eco friendly car wash swapping water for

a chemical that can remove. the cost of waste of water will not be tolerated police officers visited car washes in cape town a wednesday in court a live and using municipal water they were all slept with two hundred fifty dollars fines others a war about how costly the crisis could be to their bottom line the bad part of it if i might just need to stop i need to think about that very i want to prepare more work for people but if that happens it's going to be out of my hands and. risible haven't been full for more than three years because of an injury and drought now the city is digging into alternative options like the aquifers that lie beneath here vassals kloof table mountain and hundreds of kilometers up the west coast there's huge access that often or any of the market. and expecting water from the well but. they've also been

helped by. pharma is releasing to billion liters of water from private resists to the public to use cape town four million people just need to maintain restrictions until winter when rain will hopefully arrive to avoid becoming the world's first city to turn off the taps charlotte dallas al-jazeera. campaign is underway to turn a vast area of antarctic waters into the largest protected area on earth rich in biodiversity and is currently untouched by human activity nicholas reports from the greenpeace ship sailing into the weddell sleep in on top to go. so we're on board the arctic sunrise heading further and further south we've come through the antarctic sound which bisects the i'm talking the internet now on the web all see but not yet at the border with the water protected the sixty four parallel but to get there we've got to get through all these lies there's

a lot of it around and we're finding these clear passages trying to wade through the ice in the way that is happening is through the scope and the captain. right up there in the crows this is you just. looking for the leaves these passages through the ice which will guide us on the downside. as you can see it's just incredibly spectacular we've seen plenty of water life to the penguins or three around with the met with seals and even the old tail of the whale disappearing into the water because the reason we're on board is to follow a bad attitude to have a large part of the way into the country and then read earlier i spoke to calum here on board the ocean team leader for greening this incredible ecosystem they have this unbelievable walk down that are twelve pieces of whale sometimes it's a modeling to just fourteen thousand species living on the seabed it's an absolute

even when i'm talking current coldest. on the planet and so far. the much i'm talking about human activity so we we think that it should stay that way we don't want to be critical fishing industry to expand into it we don't want any industry to expand into it and most of all this year we have the opportunity to protect it so the scientists in germany have pulled together a proposal which is now being backed by the e.u. and the decision has been since october as to whether it will be put off limits to human activity will be taliban so we'll keep pushing through this ice as best we can trying to reach the sixty fourth parallel and if this guy is remain clear like this we can take this helicopter up and get a great a review of this magnificent i stay here and i thought that in three or four days talk i would back up the east coast of the un talk to begin to achieve these talks to an island which is the area where a lot of cruel fishing is taking place and then will take hold me in for three rough drake passage back to south america.

you're watching all just there i'm so robyn these are all top stories people affected by gun violence in the us of express their anger to be seen with president double trump but the white house trump has been told to take action to change gun ownership laws. i'm very angry that this happened to keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fixed everything many schools how many children have to get shot it stops here with this administration and me i'm not going to i'm not going to sleep until it's fixed well trump says he supports the idea of arming teachers and school staff. this would only be obviously for people that are very adept at handling a gun and it would be it's called concealed carry where a teacher would have

a concealed gun on them they'd go for special training and they would. be there and you would no longer have a gun free zone gun free zone to a maniac because they're all cowards a gun free zone is let's go in and let's attack because bullets aren't coming back at us now the head of the un has called for an immediate halt to a time zone syria's eastern ghouta saying civilians there are living in hell on syrian and russian air raids have killed more than three hundred people since sunday. also dozens of schoolgirls offered missing following a bulk around the time called the school in northeastern nigeria now there are conflicting reports that some of the girls have been found and rescued after escaping the assault in a state in twenty fourteen boko haram abducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the time of. course you can follow all of those stories on our website at

al-jazeera dot com more news in thirty minutes to stay with us. a unique portrait of a small gulf nation living under siege what made this to friends was they targeted sent their pain to be forced to leave would just be awful and their gains by the celeb it has given us the desire to carry on with our lives and be creative maybe ups and downs but it's not a moment barbara business. has become more united. beyond the blockade at this time on al-jazeera. till now.