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welcome to our visitor live from doha i'm a teen dennis also coming out. of international pressure mounts on syria to end the bombing of eastern ghouta. on a motor stand while i could still go to store and buy a weapon of war. survivors and the families of victims of the florida school shooting tell the u.s. president of their anger and sadness. pass in nigeria before her rom strikes again abducting dozens of school girls and have the latest updates. the first twenty seventeen was one of the dull christie is fake human rights in recent history that's according to a new rich. by amnesty international it covers the safety of human rights in

a hundred fifty nine countries and in direct criticism of the trump administration the group from veiled its findings in the u.s. for the first time has he called hayden 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 there donald j. trump is calling 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 he calls shocking abuses of refugees in libya it names countries it says are consistently violating human rights such as turkey china russia than israel and 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 of the us does has a massive in a multiplier effect across the world but they want em bored and by the fact that you know trampling on human rights abandoning 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. to poland. then this way or two around. which embassy says gives it some hope that just maybe twenty team won't be quite as bleak in so many places probably calling out zero washington philippines president rodriguez to turkey is one of the leaders who specifically criticize in this year's report his anti drugs campaign has resulted in thousands of extra judicial killings by police officers that's according to the report it says the authorities that report to president the tatty of encourage these summary executions meanwhile relatives of victims live in fear of reprisals if they speak

out at the same time attacks of his human rights defenders have increased since president eternity encouraged police to shoot anyone who was quote obstructing justice but we've been speaking to see the root is a fellow in residence at the social weather stations that's a social research institute in the philippines and he says the president's policy is a controversial but he remains popular. certainly the scope of the killings in the drug war has been accurately reflected in a number of international reports the philippine administration would on the other hand retort that their anti-crime. tactics are working and that's why they are serving the filipino people in that manner the data that social weather stations produces quarterlies shows that in fact president to charity is extremely popular people are very satisfied with the way he is running the government they

might have some quibbles for instance most people in the philippines would prefer that drug suspects not be some merrily executed but rather face trial but in the end the fact that crime is down is the sort of thing that leads to approval for the president there are some voices that are bringing out the church for instance the catholic church is providing refuge to the families who as you say are worried about reprisals there are lawyers movements trying to produce more protection for the victims and so out of so there are people pushing back but the fact of the matter is in a presidential country like the philippines the president has the perp on durance of power the u.n. security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution demanding a cease fire in the rebel held on klav of east and go through in syria more than three hundred people have been killed there in syrian air raids this week alone the un's human rights chief has condemned the violence accusing the syrian government

of carrying out what it calls a moment stressed campaign of annihilation is out diplomatic a visiting spain. the security council met to discuss the un's charter the governing document of the world organization in the 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 and syria as it met once again divided and impotent some of the worst violence of the war as eastern ghouta was once again bombarded. for and a thousand people that believe. in hell on earth and so my appeal to all those involved. is for any immediate suspension of all war a t.v. tease 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 it really had must come to an end it's going to be a seventh in for a come on march tenth even the seventh year appearing daughter seven years 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 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 but in recent days and over the past seven years the u.n. has failed the people of syria james plays al-jazeera of the united nations. tonight harry. police dozens of schoolgirls feared missing after an attack by barker on the village of done that in year they state in the north east of the

country there are conflicting reports about the situation and the number of girls who are unaccounted for but of course everyone will remember in twenty fourteen the attack on the town of chip uk when it had done more than two hundred seventy girls from that let's go live now to our correspondent armitage as he's in my degree which is not a tall far from this village in your base state and take us through the sequence of events this happened we understand on monday evening is that right. exactly it happened late on monday evening when the students were gathering for a late evening meal and then there were gunshots in town then the the the fight is suspected boko haram fighters moved on to their school which is the government goes technical school in and then they were dressed according to eyewitnesses there were

dressed in military uniforms and some trucks they headed straight to the stalls food stores of the school picked up some food items and then abducted some of the girls but that was not the original story what we were told earlier when this incident happened when the news broke on monday evening we were told that the aim for the foodstuff in the store and left most of the goals have scaled the fence and run into the bushes it later emerge after twenty four hours in fact close to forty eight hours later emerged that. some of the girls have indeed been taken by these fighters now i witness is students who escaped the raid told reporters that in fact they saw some of their colleagues being loaded onto trucks and then moved away with now yesterday evening on wednesday evening. the your best of government issued a statement saying that more than fifty of these students have been taken away as

still missing after i had count but they were not sure whether the been taken away i was later the state the same government issued another statement saying that they got information that many of these girls have been rescued by the nigerian army now we're hearing from the involved from the area as well from parents from locals that at least seventy four of the missing girls have been found by the military and they have been taken to a gate down where they were treated for four main minor injuries but also there are reports saying that at least two of the girls have died in the course of this incident all right so the numbers have been disputed ok but what we can say definitively is a book. of finances we believe to be part of boko haram have struck again and have taken some girls. well that is there's a machine for now they have not claimed responsibility yet but that is what people

assume remember in two thousand and fourteen episode two thousand and fourteen we had a similar case in chibok. quote unquote just dressed as military personnel went to the school and took away these goes up to now about one hundred of them are still not accounted for. because issues have been going on some of them have been released but of course this latest incident was sort of traumatic for many people especially in the town of duchy and your base stayed after what happened in two thousand and fourteen in chibok now would be the and zite the the the war he was heightened after front for for twenty four hours for twenty four or forty eight hours when the government did not come forth with any explanation as to what exactly happened in that now we're hearing about this rescue which of course you will agree that is dramatically different from what we saw in two thousand and fourteen when four days this occurred it was this did not act well to to see how

many people how many of these goes goes i mean could be saved so it resulted in this long standoff between the nigerian government and boko haram that of course dovetail into these negotiations all right for now thank you very much indeed clearly this is a story that is developing and ahmed interest will bring us the very latest details as they become clearer thanking. the rest of border crossing to gulzar has closed just a day after it was reopened egypt over the checkpoint into the street on wednesday people who were on waiting lists to leave girls were allowed to pass many who left seeking medical care that's unavailable in the palestinian territory has been under israeli blockade since twenty two thousand and seven it was expected to be open for four days but it was clear certainly unfair to say. israeli media is reporting a former aide of prime minister benjamin netanyahu may be prepared to testify

against him in a corruption case shlomo fulda is a former director of the communications ministry he was arrested on sunday by police looking into government benefits that were offered to a telecoms giant investigators say there's sufficient evidence to indict this in netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of public trust. so to come here at al-jazeera some good news for cape town as the south african city tries to avoid running out of water. from refugee to vo ip we'll tell you the story of one very special korean man. from the points of asia. to the city never sleeps. hell of x.

day or so if you're off to rain it was the place to find it is down here this circulation of cloud around italy and then moving slowly east of the adriatic is going to bring a lot of rain some snow admittedly but the water is fairly warm so it's going to be rain release the adriatic coast and snow up on the hills north of slovenia into western parts of austria or probably done southern germany on the high ground now to the west of that nothing much in the sky in fact if you look over most of europe you see nothing represented here on this forecast model apart from those temperatures and watch them because it's this cold air that's going to march slowly westward of the next two or three days and next week will be a big feature but for the time being we just look size for precipitation usually the wet variety roams eleven degrees and soaking wet in vienna as to just on the edge of it all as you can see now that sort of circulation will have an effect to the south has done already so for our area it's been some right not a lot reported so far so if you tunisia but the the wind will be telling quite

chilly i think eleven degrees on the coast thirty in tunis the whole circulation trying to drift slowly east has been making an awful lot of difference there given the sun's also coming north star of the year we're getting a few more showers showing up now in bits of nigeria. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

here with al-jazeera it's time for us to take a look at the top stories amnesty international's report on global human rights says twenty seventeen was one of the darkest years in recent history the report details conditions in a hundred fifty nine countries it says the authorities in miramar have created the worst human rights crisis in decades in southeast asia. the u.n. security council could be very thing on a draft resolution in the coming days the resolution would demand a ceasefire in the rebel held on flavor of eastern syria all than three hundred people have been killed in syrian government air raids this week alone syria's ally russia has denied involvement in the strikes. nigerian police say dozens of

schoolgirls all feared missing following an attack by boko haram on village and you base state there are conflicting reports about the situation and the number of girls who remain. unaccounted for in twenty fourteen by her on the ducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of. the students from families affected by florida's deadly school shooting has shared their anger sadness and their frustration at a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump hurt their pleas for reform and responded with ideas of his own and they include possibly arming teachers castro reports from washington. 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 fixed everything how many schools how many children have to get shot that stops here

with the said 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 of. if you had

a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well in the attack very quickly 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 listens to what 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 how far trump will go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington

david burnette is the former president of students for concealed carry that's a pro-gun advocacy group and he says it's a right for president 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 state lucian 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. theel 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 burst into my schoolroom. now there's been a suicide attack at the united states embassy in montenegro's capital the attacker

through an explosive device before blowing himself up outside the building in cold goodreads the embassy is warning u.s. citizens to stay away until further notice. severe restrictions do appear to be working in cape town the south african city risks becoming the first major metropolis to run out of water because of years of drought as well as a growing population it's now pushed back the date that it expects the taps to run dry shell of paris 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 days iraq 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 fit in trying to use as little as possible washing up seeing some really really we don't we full 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 wasted water will not be tolerated police officers visited car washes in cape town on wednesday and caught 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 is 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 control. risible i 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 is huge at its worst and often or any of the much evil and extracting water from the well not because. they've also been helped by. farmers releasing ten billion liters of water from private reserves for the public to use cape town's 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 pakistan's highest court has banned the former prime minister now archery from serving as head

of his political party it ruled that anyone disqualified from holding public office can't be a party leader shareef was ousted last year following allegations of corruption the decision could spell the end of his political career has come out hi deborah ports from islamabad. for the second time debuggers county has you ruled that mr and i was sure the flu 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 doors legislation through parliament making amendments through the election act of parliament whereby you know why sheriff would be illegible to go ahead days party despite an earlier ruling by the supreme court that he. saw a major setback for the ruling party the spokesman for the government saying that

they were expecting there were days but it appeared that the ruling party is on a collision course red bugger started your dishy i know why cherie 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 cold spell trouble for pakistan muslim league now watch led by the cherie. at the winter olympics opening ceremony a few special volunteers hand big hand paid by the south korean government sat alongside the president and two of them north korean refugees they were brought to the south during the korean war by american troops in the largest humanitarian sea convoy in u.s. history the trash can name has been speaking to one of them. sonya young occupies a special place in korean history you might say it's his birthright but he wasn't

even aware of the unique circumstances regarding his start in life until his late forty's they were could have peers or not all i knew before then was that i was born on the ship i almost died but was saved. it. as december one thousand nine hundred fifty six months into the korean war there was a refugee catastrophe in the making in hung them north korea after being surrounded american and south korean troops were forced to retreat by sea an estimated one hundred thousand north koreans followed desperate to escape the violence over the next two weeks about ninety ships would transport the refugees on board one of those ships five babies were born in a dark airless standing room only cargo hold so was the first babies would become known as the kimchi five it is the largest amphibious evacuation of

civilians under combat conditions in american history and it's unheard of even a war people can and do listen to their better angelus during the chaos of the escape son's parents left his brother and sister behind to stay with an uncle they never realized the separation would become permanent song says his parents cried every day until their deaths cooper masonic watching down my heart was torn apart i wanted to meet my siblings i used to wonder why this happened to my family when other families could live in. when the south korean olympic committee selected song to become a special volunteer during the olympics this time he would witness history at an arm's length he was in the v.i.p. area during the opening ceremony just

a few meters away was kim jong un sister kim jong the first member of the north korean ruling family to step foot on south korean soil since the war. i was home and when i saw the north korean delegation i felt histology about my home and wonder what it would be like to visit north korea. so one has no idea if his siblings are alive but he hopes he can fulfil his father's dying wish scrawled on his baby photo to travel to the north find his brother and sister and finally unite the family separated so painfully almost sixty eight years ago natasha al-jazeera. these are the top stories here at al-jazeera and the c international's report on global human rights says twenty seventeen was one of the darkest years in recent

history the revolt details conditions in one hundred fifty nine countries it says he'll thor's his emir ma have created the worst human rights crisis in decades in southeast asia the u.n. security council is expected to vote on a draft resolution in the coming days which would demand a ceasefire in the rebel held on crave of eastern goods here in syria more than three hundred people have been killed there in syrian air raids this week alone syria's ally russia has denied involvement in the airstrikes dozens of schoolgirls are reported missing following a bottle her arm attack on their school in northeastern nigeria there are conflicting reports that some girls have been found and rescued after escaping the assault which happened in the bay state students and families affected by school shootings have shared their frustration at a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump the heard their stories and pleas to tighten gun laws he

responded with some ideas of his own including arming teachers. 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. there's been a suicide attack at the united states embassy in montenegro's capital the attacker through an explosive device before blowing himself up outside the building in. the rafah border crossing to girls that has closed just a day after it was reaffirmed egypt open the checkpoint into the gaza strip on wednesday many who left seeking medical care that's not available in.

gaza has been under blockade since two thousand and seven roger and today those are the latest headlines coming up next is the stream. facing the realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place a so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why ease activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. and here in the stream now live on you tube today living with dementia. impacts the efforts to tackle it and the pining developments helping those affect it.