the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships and kept our children sometimes it caught in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call a walking bust to try to protect them from gang violence i lost my. daughter years ago i also lost my there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. i'm the c international issues one of its bleakest reports yet on human rights and singles out me in ma for its treatment of the ranger. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin that is also coming up.

international pressure mounts on syria to end the bombing in a single teacher. and i don't understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. rory mation from survivors of the florida school shooting as they share their anger and grief with president trump we are not going to be like to. leave the country of going to jail the stop choice for these africans in israel. the world leaders including donald trump and paying are undermining human rights that's the warning contained in amnesty international's latest report it claims that they joined

a number of other world leaders last year in rolling out policies that held by crites trump was singled out for his controversial travel ban for people from six muslim majority countries the report also highlights atrocities including mia miles military crackdown on the ranger has eco hain has more from washington. 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 chapter 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 then 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 abandon me human values is something which is acceptable to me 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 to iran. which embassy says gives it some hope that just maybe twenty eighteen won't be quite as bleak in so many places. al-jazeera washington the syrian government as strikes targeting rebel held isn't good or have killed more than three hundred twenty people this week alone with at least thirteen people having been killed in the latest attack on thursday and a warning you may find some of these pictures distressing now the strikes targeted a local market in duma city that's in the on klav east of the capital damascus

russia has denied any involvement in the air raids the kremlin says the situation in syria leaves much to be desired and the german chancellor angela merkel says she will try to influence russia to help end the violence in the center mrs merkel described it as a massacre the u.n. security council meanwhile is expected to vote on a resolution which would demand a ceasefire at diplomatic editor jane spays reports. the security council met to discuss the un's charter the governing document of the world organization a 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. for under thousand people that leaves. 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 it really had must come to an end it's going to be a seventy year in for a come march tenth even the seventh year of doing 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 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 bassett 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 on the mount kurdish fighters a. in the north of the country say hundreds of pro series government fighters have been deployed near afrin but they say it's not enough to stop a turkish advance on the kurdish elder area turkish fighters have been advancing on the city as part of what is called operation olive and that was launched last month the kurds asked the syrian government to send forces to help defend the city being told to us i'm a binge of aid now our correspondent who's in. that storm that's on the turkish side of the border very close to syria let's start with african asama because the saying that the syrian government has sent some forces but not sufficient forces to

stave off the turkish assault so it means that the turkish assault is progressing. absolutely martin and that's what turkish sources have been saying that this figure of hundreds of fighters arriving in africa and it's likely exaggerated the largest convoy which tried to enter and to after voice stopped by turkish shelling and there are these are sporadic because it is a mountainous region with many roads leading to offer in the small pockets of fight a small number of the fighters belonging to pro assad government militias have reached the city and as you've been watching in pro-government media outlets footage is and videos that they have been trying to expose say that they are there to explain that they have not abandoned the kurdish rebels who asked for help from the syrian government but the kurdish rebels the spokesman for the kurdish rebels told the reuters news agency that they are slightly disappointed in the number of

and the help the kind of help that they have received so far because they wanted the syrian government to protect its territorial integrity against what they say is turkish aggression but so far what they have seen is a small number of fighters coming in to try and help them against this advance which the turkish government is not just itself but it's also using the free syrian army fighters as well who say they have made significant gains around the city of a free and going back now to the south of the country further south close to damascus the capital asama and the growing chorus of condemnation of government as strikes against this rebel held don't play that. is great and it seems very much as though we could expect some sort of positive intervention coming from the u.n. security council. well according to one doctor i spoke to this morning he said that it's a war crime every single day in ghouta people in who to say that they have heard

these statements coming from the united nations the u.n. security council aid agencies that there will be some significant movement to words establishing peace there. but all they have received is bombs and empty and hollow words so until there is some sort of intervention which stops this relentless bombardment in which hundreds of people have been killed in the matter of days they don't believe it people have been seeing that everything which can sustain life in voter is under attack bakeries food deposed hospitals even roads which link people and medics to these sites where airstrikes and artillery strikes are happening have been targeted so people are desperate they are living in constant fear they've been sending messages on social media on on mobile phones that anybody who can bring out their message to the rest of the world because they feel that they have been neglected and abandoned by the international community as our binge of aid live from gaza and tap in southern turkey thanking. the police in nigeria say

dozens of schoolgirls are feared missing after an attack by bach or her on a village in your bay state there are conflicting reports about the situation and the number of girls who remain unaccounted for everyone remembers of course twenty fourteen abducted more than two hundred seventy schoolgirls from the town of chip uk the students and families affected by florida's deadly school shooting have been sharing their anger their sadness and their frustration at a meeting with the u.s. president donald trump hurt their pleas for reform and has responded with ideas of his own including arming teachers heidi jocasta 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. it stops here with this administration 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 ork 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 end 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. 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 health far trouble go to bring meaningful reform heidi joe castro al-jazeera

washington. so to come here at al-jazeera venezuela's president nicolas maduro announces a mega election that could have him control of the only branch of government that remains in the hands of the opposition. or on the divided island of cyprus where gas revenue is proving to be a further wedge between greek and turkish communities. hello the real cold start of the winter olympics is going away now although the air is still as you might expect subzero it's not the extremes of recent weeks in fact the temperature in seoul is plus seven you can usually drop of a release photographs given up in the mountains so just about iran's leader much of

the time with some snow to come significant snow isn't in the forecast passing showers seem likely particularly a pinhole card a sun should be out again for the whole korean peninsula by saturday freezing in pyongyang just plus one was still about plus two in beijing that's of course a cooling trend really but the real cold that you might expect to see in siberia i mean mongolia's don't last modest seven so the sun is slowly coming north the thames is slowly rising i know it's all relative it's still obviously very wintry temperature wise though further south but of a bigger contrast shanghai sixty is well above where it should be hong kong nineteen is about right the circulation yes with throwing more moisture into the middle of china there be more cloud building more rain falling in fact this whole area has seen rain for the last week or so and there is more to come in fact temp she was here on the way up in hong kong it will be humid twenty three and probably bright rather than sunny.

five countries. four days. three thousand kilometer ends. two generations. one by. syrian refugees on assume real journey to sweden. on the bright side. a witness documentary at this time on how disease. covers it take a look at the top stories here it out is there i'm the sea international report on

global human rights says twenty seventeen is one of the darkest years in recent history the reports detailed conditions in one hundred fifty nine countries it says authorities in milan have created the worst human rights crisis in decades in southeast asia the un security council is expected to vote on a resolution in the coming days which would demand a ceasefire in the rebel held syrian on clay of eastern ghouta all the three hundred twenty people have been killed in government strikes this week alone. police in nigeria say dozens of schoolgirls a fifth missing after an attack by boko haram on a village in your bay state there are conflicting reports about the situation and the number of people who remain unaccounted for in twenty fourteen boko haram abducted more than two hundred seventy girls from the town of cheap oil. african

refugees and migrants in israel's whole lot detention center have gone on hunger strike in protest against the imprisonment of seven eritreans who refused to leave the country. the man or the first to be jailed under a new deportation scheme many of the thirty seven thousand africans in israel have been given three months to take up a cash offer to leave for rwanda or face indefinite time in jail we can go live now to that detention center the whole lot of dissension sent to our correspondent ben as smith is there and bernard this is a detention center in the negev desert in look straw it looks hot tell us about conditions first. it's dry it's hot marci and it's in the middle of nowhere the protesters mainly eritreans and sudanese they were out here this morning on

a as an essential a spontaneous protest protest that they decided to organize last night and they've gone back to escape the heat and back inside the detention center it's an open tension center so they're free to come and go but as we say it in the middle of nowhere there isn't really anywhere to go from here a more has happened is next to the detention center is a prison of what happened earlier this week is that seven eritreans were sent to prison and this is the government carrying out its threat to go ahead with the arrest of african migrants that the government considers illegal migrants infiltrators they call them to go ahead with arresting them if they refuse this offer of three and a half thousand dollars cash and relocation to a third country in africa perhaps rwanda or uganda so those who refuse the offer they're beginning to arrest them challenge the problem if you like the authorities that there are thirty seven thousand african migrants considered illegal in israel

from the many we've spoken to most of them do not want to leave them out and why is that bernard i mean we're hearing about the seven area transit being knocked up because they didn't accept the offer aid has had many accepted the offer and gone off to everyone general uganda and what if and those who are refusing to take up the offer why is that. well of course it's no secret to anybody but certainly eritrea is a well known very oppressive regime in eritrea men can be forced to perform can be forced into indefinite military service and that's what many of the eritrean men here we tell and we see we've spoken to here fear many of them crossed years ago from over the sinai desert from africa into israel crossing now essentially been closed by israel they built a fence and people it's almost eradicated any illegal crossings with all of these people made it before them and all of them are saying they don't want to be forced

to go back to go to a third country in africa where they're not sure their rights will be guaranteed they're not sure what they're going to meet and in fact they would rather go to jail in israel than be deported and here thirty seven thousand or even if most of them decide that they'd rather go to jail than israel is going to be forced to build jails to accommodate them the one behind only takes two thousand people so israel is sort of hoping that most of them will take up the offer it's only just really started and we know that most of them have not taken up the offer martin and so it's setting up problems much further down the line all right thank you very much ben a smith our correspondent live at the holland detention center in israel and we stay in israel because the media there is reporting a former confidante of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu may testify against him in a corruption case is the same is slow move filled and he's a former director of the communications ministry he was arrested on sunday by police investigating government benefits that were offered to the telecoms giant

investigators say there's sufficient evidence to indict mrs netanyahu for bribery fraud and breach of public trust. now the rougher border crossing between egypt and gaza has closed just a day after it was reopened people who were on waiting lists to leave girls were allowed to pass on wednesday many who left to see he medical care that's unavailable in the palestinian territory there's been under israeli blockade since two thousand and seven it was expected to be open for four days but it was closed again suddenly and there's a philippine delegation is on its way to kuwait to discuss the condition of its workers in the gulf country the body of joanna demo fairless who worked as a maid was found inside a freezer last month hundreds of filipino workers are being repatriated by order of president roderigo detail more than three hundred workers arrived in manila on

wednesday and more than two thousand the thought to have returned this month cyprus has accused turkey of obstructing its offshore gas exploration in the east mediterranean turkish cypriots want a revenue sharing agreement to be finalized before any drilling off the divided island can start this in a holder reports. greek cypriots say it's their sovereign right to explore for natural guys in the eastern mediterranean but in this divided island sovereignty and borders have long been disputed turkey's decision to hold military exercises off the coast of cyprus prevented drilling from proceeding the rig couldn't reach its intended site. turkey is using means not being caught for me with international law is trying to hijack you know where you know the. area over the eastern mediterranean.

turkey sees it differently it says its interests and the rights of turkish cypriots are being violated and corrupt says turkish cypriots should have a say in the decision making process and an equal share of the revenue it's a sentiment shared by the breakaway turkish republic of northern cyprus it believes the resources around the island belong to it to. the greek cypriots kicked us out in one nine hundred sixty three and occupied the republic now they are trying to steal what is ours we want allows us the potential for natural resources further complicate efforts to resolve what is known as the cyprus problem last year the two sides came closer than ever to a deal but talks collapsed the cypriot government says negotiations can't resume until what it called the turkish blockade and the fact that these actions are cupping now is preventing us from resuming the negotiation because you cannot you

know. when you have these kind of threats. experts say the amount of gas in the mediterranean basin is not a game changer it has a lot to do with turkey's role as an energy hub there needs to be a main export route and if this is going to be turkey of course this is strategically very important the international community's reaction has so far been to discourage escalation with the united nations urging a return to the negotiating table. the potential for natural resources has brought back attention to the cyprus problem the hope is it will bring the sides closer together but the fear is it will complicate efforts to find a permanent solution. greek cypriots turkish cypriots turkey they all agree that the island's natural resources belongs to all cypriots apart from that there is little agreement the untapped resources have

become a bargaining chip to further political gains in a decades old problem. on the divided island of cyprus. there's been a suicide attack of the united states embassy montenegro's capital the attack through an explosive devices or blowing himself up outside the building and called go to the embassy is warning us citizens to stay away until further notice that israel is president has called for america election calling on people to come out early to vote not just for the next president but for candidates in congressional elections as well opposition parties have called for a boycott but now they're faced with the threat of losing the national assembly the only branch of government the opposition controls whether on a honda has more. nicolas maduro appeared before an adoring crowd venezuela's beleaguered president looking energized and confident he'd already brought forward to the presidential vote now he called for

a major election proposing state legislative and municipal elections be brought forward by nearly two years to coincide with the presidential poll a move that could concentrate power in his government yes then the amount of quote accomplish this where we have a complete picture legitimate governors legitimate mayors a new legislative national assembly legitimate councillors genuine regional legislators and the president legitimized by the people it is a wonderful idea. just hours earlier and after days of deliberations been as well as opposition democratic unity coalition had stood united saying it would boycott the early presidential race you know we want to compete we want to participate in the elections it's the government that isn't letting us because they're scared of losing but the approach is very simple follow the law and the democratic unity movement is willing to participate contesting it was never going to be easy to do

as main opposition rivals have either been driven a group jailed or bad from running against him. position coalition and some of its main parties had been banned from running under their party names and despite matilda's low approval ratings his party is still popular getting a large share of the vote in last year's regional elections. venezuela has been mired in an economic and political crisis it's all debian into corner me is in tatters and there has been widespread anger of the mcdougal's handling of soaring inflation and recession all of that has been made much worse by crippling sanctions . the impact has been staggering according to a new study conducted by three universities been as well and lost an average of eleven kilograms in body weight last year almost ninety percent live in poverty a jump from forty eight percent in two thousand and fourteen and about

a quarter of the population was eighteen two or fewer meals a day. more than one hundred people were killed last year in weekly demonstrations against due to its government but that's largely quieted down. with the opposition out of april's presidential race is almost guaranteed to be reelected now the opposition must consider how to respond to mcdougal's proposal for a major election if they boycott that they risk losing the national assembly which is the only branch of government mcdougall does not control me down the hall and al jazeera. tavris take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera amnesty international's report on global human rights says twenty seven thousand was one of the darkest years in recent history the report details conditions in one hundred fifty nine countries it

says feel for it is a minimal have created the worst human rights crisis for decades in southeast asia . the u.n. security council is expected to vote on a resolution in the coming days which would demand a ceasefire in the rebel held syrian enclave of eastern more than three hundred twenty people have been killed in government strikes this week alone russia has denied any involvement of some a binge of aid is following developments in the turkish city of ghazi and near the border with syria people have been seeing that everything which can sustain life in who is under attack bakeries food depos hospitals even roads which link people and medics to these sites where airstrikes and artillery strikes are happening have been targeted so people are desperate they are living in constant fear they've been sending messages on social media on on mobile phones that anybody who can

bring out their message to the rest of the world because they feel that they have been neglected and abandoned by the international community. african refugees and migrants in israel's detention center have gone on hunger strike to protest against the imprisonment of seven eritreans who refused to leave the country. the men of the first to be jailed under a new deportation scheme many of the thirty seven thousand african refugees in israel have been given three months to take up a cash offer to leave friday the real wonder or uganda or face indefinite time in jail. shouldn't some families affected by the school shootings have shared their frustration at a meeting with president trump he heard their stories and pleas to tighten gun laws and responded with some ideas of his own including arming teachers stayed inside

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